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Oz Anniversary
On Friday, Oct. 16, the Lomas Tramway Library (908 Eastridge NE) will host a Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Celebration. Dress up as your favorite Oz character (the L. Frank Baum fantasy novel, not the HBO prison series) and show up to the library at 6 p.m. There will be "Emerald City" refreshments and a screening of the 70th anniversary edition of the classic Hollywood film. This is an all-ages family event, but seating is limited. Call in advance to reserve your space: 291-6295.
Film Review
Where the Wild Things Are
Fearless fantasy captures the imagination as well as the emotion of being a child
Where the Wild Things Are is the first kid-oriented film to come out of Hollywood in a great while that doesn't begin with a voice-over narration. That might not seem like a very big deal, but I assure you it is. Almost every film aimed anywhere under the 18-to-49 demographic begins with a voice-over explaining the entire upcoming situation to kids. Where the Wild Things Are doesn't. It just starts.
Film Review
Earth Days
Inspirational documentary gives us a history of the environmental movement and cleans up after itself
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Robert Stone (Radio Bikini, American Babylon, Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army, Oswald's Ghost) takes a contemplative look at the birth of the modern environmental movement here in America with his optimistic, easy-to-watch new eco-doc Earth Days.
Idiot Box
P.O.V. or P.O.S.?
"Secret Girlfriend" on Comedy Central
On the list of lame network executive ideas for new shows—hovering just below "How about a rip-off of some other network's reality show?" and "Can't we just do another 'CSI' spinoff?"—comes this increasingly popular suggestion: "What if we buy some cheap web series and broadcast that?" While Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block has milked a few weeks' laughs out of stuff like "Fat Guy Stuck in Internet," most Internet-to-network translations have gone the way of NBC's notorious 2006 outing "quarterlife." One airing and that's the last anyone ever heard of that particular meme.
Week in Sloth
The Week in Sloth
"30 Rock" (KOB-4 8:30 p.m.) In tonight's fourth season premiere, Kenneth leads an NBC page strike, but guest star Steve Buscemi gets called in as a strike breaker.
"Mall Cops" (TLC 8 p.m.) A mere—what?—six months after the Paul Blart: Mall Cop / Observe and Report brouhaha, TLC unveils a reality show about shopping mall cops. At least they're starting at the top: Minnesota's Mall of America.
"13 Scarier Movie Moments" (Bravo 7 p.m.) If these are, in fact, scarier, doesn't that mean Bravo's "100 Scariest Movie Moments" was bunk?


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When the Major League Soccer schedule was released in January, fans took to analyzing the Dynamo's matchups, both home and away. But it was the Dynamo's bye weekend that might prove to be the most valuable for the club.
Following Tuesday's 1-0 win over Santos Laguna in the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal series, the Dynamo will have the weekend off before traveling to Mexico for the second leg.
Houston is not the only team in MLS with such an advantage. Both the Seattle Sounders and LA Galaxy, who are also competing in the CCL quartefinals, will have this coming weekend off from league play. It's another design by the executives at MLS to give their teams an advantage in the region's premier tournament.
On the flip side, schedule makers for LigaMX did not do Santos Laguna any favors. Santos played last Friday night against Jaguares de Chiapas before Tuesday's first leg at BBVA Compass Stadium. Los Guerreros will host Atlante on Friday, March 9 before hosting the Dynamo in the second leg on Wednesday, March 13.
Will the Dynamo's off weekend give them a leg up in game two? Is Santos a deep enough team to overcome four games in 13 days? Give us your thoughts in the comment section below.

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Preparation Of Lithium-Intercalated Cobalt Vanadates
Sally Smith* and John Chemical (Mentor), Department of Chemistry
We are interested in improving the lithium ion batteries used in portable devices by preparing a bimetallic oxide cathode material, which allows more efficient charge transfer than current cathode materials. We have prepared samples of cobalt vanadates through coprecipitation under basic conditions and ultrasound under acidic conditions. Two new compounds were produced: a cobalt hydroxy pyrovanadate and a layered polyoxyvanadate intercalated with cobalt ions. The samples were characterized through elemental analysis, infrared spectroscopy, and powder X-ray diffraction. We have also investigated the thermal decomposition patterns of the samples. We have explored several chemical routes (LiI, nBuLi, LiOH, various pH and thermal programs) for intercalating lithium ions into these materials. The resulting lithium-inclusion compounds were structurally compared with commercial and prepared lithium cobaltate. We are currently working to increase the lithium ion storage capacity of the cobalt vanadates.


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This beautiful art showcase book from Adobe Press features 30 established and emerging Photoshop artists, their masterful work, and tutorials demonstrating their techniques for using Adobe Photoshop.
Curated by renowned photographer and educator Ibarionex Perello, this book features an inspiring collection of innovative Photoshop artists and their amazing artwork. The images represent a mix of techniques and styles and are field-defining works that demonstrate technical excellence and awe-inspiring aesthetics.
Jaclyn Corrado
I am never looking to create the 'perfect image.' I enjoy producing pieces that appear destructed and manipulated.
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LPL Financial (LPLA) said early Thursday that the Ingham Retirement Group was now affiliated with its broker-dealer and RIA custodial platforms.
According to LPL, the national retirement plan consulting and investment advisory firm has some $1.5 billion in assets under administration ($1.1 billion of which it manages).
It is based in Miami and includes 12 financial advisors and about 38 other financial profession staff members.
"We are delighted to welcome such a large and successful retirement plan-focused organization as Ingham Retirement Group to the LPL Financial broker-dealer and RIA custodial platforms," said Bill Morrissey (left), LPL's executive vice president of business development, in a press release. "Over the years, Ingham has steadily built itself into a multifaceted industry leader, and we are pleased to provide our partnership and support to expand their areas of expertise."
Ingham has done work on more than 7,600 benefit plans in 40 states. Also, it is a member of the Alliance Benefit Group, a network of firms that do retirement plan, investment advisory, health, welfare and benefits administration consulting work.
"We are extremely enthusiastic about joining the LPL Financial broker-dealer and RIA custodial platforms. Their extensive technological, research and support capabilities provide tremendous operational efficiencies," said Ingham President and CEO Kenneth Ingham, in a statement.
"Additionally, we believe that the networking and best-practices learning opportunities that come from an affiliation with LPL Financial are enormously valuable. As a leader in the independent advisory space, with its deep understanding of retirement plan advisors and sponsors, and with its other specialties in areas such as high-net-worth services, LPL Financial really understands our particular needs," Ingham said.
In its latest quarterly results, LPL Financial said the number of affiliated advisors rose by about 3% year over year to 13,377 from 12,962; it also added 25 reps since Jan. 1. The broker-dealer's level of total advisory and brokerage assets jumped 11% to $394 billion, while the level of assets on its fee-based platforms grew close to 18% to $130.2 billion.
Net new advisory assets, excluding market movement, were $3 billion for the first quarter, driven by "strong advisor productivity and the growth in independent RIA assets," according to the company.
Assets under custody on LPL's independent RIA platform grew 72.3% to $46.7 billion as of March 31. These operations now include 199 RIA firms, compared with $27.1 billion and 152 RIA firms a year ago.
"This is a significant level of outperformance," said CFO Dan Arnold in an interview with AdvisorOne. "While the hybrid RIA platform is growing from a smaller base [than the corporate RIA platform], it's proving very popular with RIAs run by advisors. It's another way for advisors to plug into LPL's models and should continue to outpace other areas' growth rates."
Arnold noted that he expects about 20% to 25% of LPL's net new assets to come from the hybrid RIA channel in 2013.
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From September 16th, the 2nd International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition will begin in Vienna, in which all participants are required to perform Korngold's Lieder. The Final round on September 21st will be live-streamed by mdw.
by Michael Haas
Korngold, both in his background and singular personality, rejected this analysis. He was abundantly gifted and precocious- to a degree that frequently left his more experimental and inquisitive contemporaries behind. Colleagues who took the high-minded route of 'originality', in preference to tonal convention, found it easy to accuse Korngold of opting for the 'lazy' path of least resistance. For them, it was inconceivable that music could ever move 'forward' while tethered to the existing relationships between listener and composer. For experimenters, music needed abrasiveness in order to challenge, threaten and galvanise. An age in which mass murderers had become national leaders demanded that art be aggressively provocative. Korngold remained a child of his time, and his opera, 'Das Wunder der Heliane', can be understood as a powerful metaphor for light shining through a land of savagery. Korngold was also a victim of his time. As a naturally gifted composer who wrote music that avoided the abrasive, atonal experimentation of the day, he would have to deal with accusations of 'juvenile triviality' for nearly his entire professional life. Colleagues of his who had begun their careers as composers of 'serious' music often found that writing hit-songs and operetta was the only remaining outlet for their tastes and talent. Korngold himself would establish a parallel existence adapting and updating operettas for mass audiences. Yet within Korngold's creative energy there was a thriving musical vision that demanded both a voice which was contemporary, yet exhilarating. His gifts for melody and harmony were obvious, and he was not always prepared to subject his listeners to the alarming state of the world they inhabited and the horrors that they were soon to face. Like many great works, 'Das Wunder der Heliane' would be unintentionally prophetic. With so many of his colleagues either abandoning serious music or abandoning tonality, to remain true to one's inner musical voice was the bravest of all options.
Condemning the body of Korngold's work based on his relatively short period in Hollywood would be a grave injustice. It would be a misunderstanding of both the nature of Korngold's inner voice and the nature of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s. In 'Das Wunder der Heliane', premiered in 1927, Korngold used cinematic elements that would eventually come to define the 'Hollywood Sound'. Yet these devices, such as angelic off-stage choruses; sweeping cascades of harps and celestas or the deafening crescendo of pealing bells would rarely, if ever, make an explicit appearance into an actual film score of Korngold. 'Heliane' came years before Korngold's start as a film composer and therefore coincided with the first successful fusion of sound with image. When 'Heliane' was composed, music for cinema consisted of recycling and adapting popular classics. The idea that the musical world Korngold created for 'Heliane' would become the sound of Hollywood would have seemed incomprehensibly abstract in 1927.
As Korngold's music came to define the sound of Hollywood, it became far too easy to dismiss all of Korngold's output as 'Hollywood' – an implication that was meant to cheapen both Korngold and Hollywood at the same time. Cinema and its use of music, or its equally creative and frequent non-use of music, have now grown well beyond the restrictive populist confines of its earliest days. Today, only the most rarefied musical snobs would condemn a composer who writes music for the many new media platforms available. Korngold's turn to the new-media of sound-cinema should be judged in a similar context. It is, however, impossible to detail Korngold's output without taking into account the historic turbulence that catapulted him into his 12-year existence at Warner Brothers. The expulsion, persecution and murder of composers and musicians who were incompatible with the draconian 'race' laws of Hitler's dictatorship forced most into undertaking existential rather than artistic survival strategies. Composing for film in pre-Hitler Europe was a legitimate area of musical experimentation. Prominent avant-garde composers landed in Hollywood based on their often scant dalliances with film and music in such new-music festivals as Baden-Baden in 1928. The first original Hollywood film score was composed by the Viennese Max Steiner in 1933 for 'King Kong'. Film music was still developing, and it was consistent with this developmental phase that Korngold came to Hollywood initially as an arranger. His arrival in Hollywood must be seen in the context of other cinema composers who were coming out of Vaudeville as former bandleaders, or music-arrangers for silent films. None came with Korngold's legacy of performances by Europe's great orchestras and the endorsements of Gustav Mahler, Artur Nikitsch or Richard Strauss. To the existing musical establishment in Hollywood, it looked as if a sledgehammer had been brought in to crack a nut. Korngold's innate skill and personality, however, were able to create a team that brought film scoring up to the same standards of modern film-production technology. His ability to orchestrate, play the piano, conduct and calculate mentally the length of music needed for any pre-determined timeframe placed him well above the abilities of his colleagues. It saved both money and time, and contributed enormously to the profitability of the studios. It also soon became apparent that a strong score could mask weaknesses within other aspects of the production.
Korngold's studio work consisted of just some sixteen dedicated soundtracks composed between 1935 and 1947. By comparison, his colleague Max Steiner would dash off a dozen or so within a single year. Korngold's contractual fee with Warner Brothers was $12,000 per movie. Even when multiplying this sum by a factor of 15 in order to come close to today's values it would be inadequate to cover the flamboyant Hollywood lifestyle detractors accused him of leading. As he composed only slightly more than one film-score per year and supported an extended refugee family, the income could hardly be seen as compensation for his losses in Austria, where he owned both an Alpine estate near Salzburg and a Villa in Vienna's most expensive residential district. The disparaging commentary from former colleagues, both those who remained in Austria and fellow émigrés in the United States, who alleged that he defected to Hollywood in order 'to get rich' was very far from reality.
Korngold lived from 1897 – 1957, which places his dozen or so years with Warner Brothers into perspective. By the end of this period, a number of other factors had dulled his initial optimism for the new medium. It was difficult for even the most naturally gifted composer to create on demand. In this respect, Korngold had it easier than many of his less illustrious colleagues, confined to the lower ranks with endless orchestrations and in-fill links using pre-existing material already written by someone else. Korngold never had to work on the musical production line that wore down the spirits of many of his fellow émigrés. That music was being used to compensate for other weaknesses was already accepted, but Korngold became increasingly aware that films were diminishing in social and intellectual value. The cheapening of Hollywood's output from the mid-1940s onwards would have a detrimental effect on his music and on his creative energies. The end of the war in Europe combined with the reality of the day-to-day existence far from home in America caused enormous emotional stress, and in common with Ernst Toch and Erich Zeisl, Korngold suffered a debilitating, though non-fatal heart attack. It was a warning shot that followed his departure from the studios and kept him from an immediate return to Europe. What awaited Korngold upon his return to Austria would eventually result in far greater creative debilitation. He was met with a combination of incomprehension, jealousy and contempt. He was accused of living out the war in luxury while others suffered the horrors of Hitler and defeat; he had sold out his natural gifts to the gods of money and the tawdriness of Hollywood; and even with his departure from Warner Brothers, he stubbornly refused to conform to the dictates of the Zeitgeist. His post-war compositions were dismissed when the slightest snippets of film music were quoted either directly or indirectly, yet his film music had often been elevated when he incorporated quotes from his earlier concert works or operas. Some of his cinematic themes and motifs can even be found amongst his earliest sketches. Upon his return from Europe, Korngold retreated into an inner world of reassuring nostalgia, with his last dramatic work carrying the unintentionally symbolic title 'The Silent Serenade'.
Before the opprobrium of Korngold's enforced refuge in Hollywood, he was arguably one of new music's bravest voices. In the noisy world of musical Modernism that emerged after the First World War, Korngold pursued neither anti-diatonic elitism, nor the abandonment of serious music altogether in order to compose his best loved works. Korngold maintained a style that was appealing without being populist, yet demanding without being esoteric. Unlike Kurt Weill, Wilhelm Grosz, Werner Richard Heymann, Friedrich Holländer or Mischa Spoliansky, he did not pen a single 'hit' song prior to his departure to Hollywood. Though many of his works could be abrasive, he never abandoned tonality in an attempt to reach the more rarefied zones of a yet unknown musical region. This was a position that was unique amongst composers born within the first half-decade of the 20th century. His most popular works kept their place in opera houses and concert halls at the same time that his chamber works would be performed by the Schoenbergian Kolisch Quartet during the International Society for Contemporary Music's festival in Venice in 1924.
During the course of the 1920's, the two sides of the musical debate would become more fractious and antagonistic. Korngold was very much the figurehead for the organic continuation of music along its historic diatonic path. His slightly older colleague and friend Hans Gál could have been speaking for Korngold when he explained that tonality was as firmly set within his musical language as the laws of gravity: "I am told that people can exist freed from the laws of gravity, but for myself, I cannot imagine it." By the time Hitler's followers had muzzled the music they regarded as 'degenerate', artistic poles had indeed become extreme. If Korngold's last European opera 'Die Kathrin' sounds populist and gratuitously appealing, one needs to see it in the context of the extremes of Jaromir Weinberger's enormously successful 'Schwanda the Bagpiper' and Ernst Krenek's abrasive 12-tone opera 'Charles V'. Schoenberg maintained that the most important thing a composer can do is to listen to his inner voice. Few composers followed this instruction with greater perseverance than Korngold. The price he paid was high, and only today can we recognise that the cost was not carried by him, but by a public who for years were demeaned for responding to works that spoke so resoundingly to their inner needs.
Michael Haas
From September 16th, the 2nd International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition will begin in Vienna, in which all participants are required to perform Korngold's Lieder. The Final round on September 21st will be live-streamed by mdw.
Complete Works
Gerold W. Gruber
University of Music
and Performing Arts Vienna
Kompositionsjahr: 1907-1909
Uraufführung: ?
Besetzung: Klaviersolo
Aufführungsdauer: 13' 0''
Verlag: Schott Music
Kompositionsjahr: 1908-1909
Uraufführung: (unvollständig)
3. April [August?] 1910 Salzburg (A)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Klavier
Besetzung: Klaviersolo
Aufführungsdauer: 14' 0''
Verlag: Universal Edition
Kompositionsjahr: 1909
Uraufführung: 1. Juni 1997, Kiel, Thorsten Schmid-Kapfenburg
Besetzung: Klaviersolo
Aufführungsdauer: 5' 0''
Verlag: Schott Music
(Alexander von Zemlinsky gewidmet)
Kompositionsjahr: 1910
Uraufführung: Oktober 1911 Berlin (D)
Artur Schnabel, Klavier
Besetzung: Klaviersolo
Aufführungsdauer: 25' 0''
Verlag: Schott Music
(Seiner K. u. K. Hoheit dem Herrn Erzherzog Eugen gewidmet)
Kompositionsjahr: 1910
Uraufführung: März 1912 Berlin (D)
Marta Malatesta, Klavier
Besetzung: Klaviersolo
Aufführungsdauer: 22' 0''
Verlag: Schott Music
(Seiner K. u. K. Hoheit dem Herrn Erzherzog Eugen gewidmet)
Kompositionsjahr: 1911
Uraufführung: Juni 1911 Karlsbad (CZ)
Robert Manzer, Dirigent; Kurkapelle
Besetzung: 3 (3. auch Picc.) · 2 · 2 · 2 – 4 · 2 · 3 · 0 – P. S. (Trgl. · Beck. · Tamt. · Schellentr. · kl. Tr. · gr. Tr. · Xyl. · Glsp.) (3 Spieler) – Hfe. – Str.
Aufführungsdauer: 18' 0''
Verlag: Schott Music
Kompositionsjahr: 1912
Uraufführung: ?
Besetzung: Klaviersolo
Aufführungsdauer: 10' 0''
Verlag: Schott Music
Kompositionsjahr: 1926
Uraufführung: Mai 1978 Liverpool (GB)
Michael Young, Klavier
Besetzung: Klaviersolo
Aufführungsdauer: 2' 0''
Verlag: Schott Music, in: Neue Klavierstücke für Kinder
Themen von Johann Strauß (Vater und Sohn) und Eduard Strauß, in der Tradition ähnlicher Werke von Rosenthal, Schulz-Eweler, Léhvinne, Moscheles und Godowsky
(Hubert Marischka gewidmet)
Kompositionsjahr: 1927
Uraufführung: ?
Besetzung: Klaviersolo
Aufführungsdauer: 9' 0''
Verlag: Schott Music
(Julius Bittner in Freundschaft gewidmet)
Kompositionsjahr: 1931
Uraufführung: März 1932 Wien (A)
Paul Weingarten, Klavier
Besetzung: Klaviersolo
Aufführungsdauer: 25' 0''
Verlag: Schott Music
(Ein Geschenk zum Silbernen Hochzeitstag für Luzi Korngold von E. W. Korngold)
Kompositionsjahr: 1948 – 1949
Uraufführung: Mai 1995 Kiel (D)
Thorsten Schmid-Kapfenburg, Klavier
Besetzung: Klaviersolo
Aufführungsdauer: 2' 0''
Verlag: Schott Music (in preparation)
Verläge / Publishers
Schott Music, Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Universal Edition, Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Josef Weinberger LTD.
Sonstiges / Others
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Unofficial Website
exil.arte Zentrum der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Contact Imprint
Univ. Prof. Dr. Gerold Gruber
University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna
+43 1 711 55 35 10
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Without further ado, here is my story. The genre is romance, and it is set in WWII. 🙂
"Stay safe, okay?" I choked on my words. "Please."
He brushed a tear from my cheek. "Don't you worry, Lily," he whispered. "Wait for me. It will be sooner than you think. I'm gonna come home to you. Just you wait."
I nodded vigorously, the rest of my body as stiff as a pole. A gust of wind blew my dress lightly.
"I know." I tried to smile. "No matter how long it takes."
Jack gave a half smile. Reaching down, he dug his hand in his pocket, pulling something out.
My hand flew to my mouth, and I could feel the tears sticky against my cheeks. It was a ring. A silver band with a tiny jewel on the top. I bit my lip softly, feeling the heat rise to my cheeks. The jewel wasn't a diamond, but it was beautiful.
Jack fingered it nervously. I could almost feel his knees knocking against mine. "This," he said, "Is a promise ring. M-may I?"
I nodded. Scrambled words in my head didn't come out.
He lifted my left hand and slid it onto my ring finger. He straightened, searching for the right words. "No matter how far war takes me, or how long I have to be away, I'm comin' home. And I'm gonna marry you, Lillian Elizabeth Markas."
A tear made its way down his cheek and it was my turn to wipe it away. My chest heaved as I drew in a breath. Clasping my hand, I felt the cool of it around my finger. I would cherish it forever.
"Thank you." I whispered.
"I'll write to you every time I get pen and paper." He already wore his uniform, and the greenish brownish hat sat atop his mop of brown hair. "And I'll pray for you everyday."
"And I, you." I held his hands, never wanting to let go. "I love you, Jack."
"I love you too, Lily." He pulled away and boarded the train, just as it chugged down the track. I watched him wave goodbye through the little train window. I lifted my arm and waved back, the ring glinting in the sun as the clouds gave way.
"See you later!" he called. See you later. I bit my lip, gazing again at the ring. A promise ring. He would came back to me. I just knew it.
Dearest Lily,
I'm coming home. It's strange to say those words. I have been waiting to say them for a long time. Lily…
I thought I saw a teardrop stain on the paper.
I'm not the same man I was when I left. I've seen things my mind can't erase. I've lost countless men, fighting by my side. But I'm coming home, Lily. I cannot write much, but I will see you soon. I love you with all of my heart.
May God bless you, and keep you. May his face shine upon you and give you peace.
Love, Jack.
I waited. And waited. Finally, the train pulled into the station. I leaped off my seat, the wind blowing my hair. Men, women, and children filed out. But no Jack.
"Lily-" he breathed. I rushed towards him, throwing my arms around him. "Jack!" I nearly screamed the name.
Everything around us seemed to disappear; the reunions of loved ones, the fathers returning from the war. It was just us. "Oh, I missed you!" he kissed my forehead. "I missed you so much."
He wrapped his arm around me, and I immediately pulled back. Something was wrong. His left sleeve hung limp at his side. I stared at the empty sleeve, trying to form even a breath.
He opened his mouth to say something, but I stopped him.
"Jack-" I searched his eyes. "Y- you're alive. W…w-when I got that telegram…I thought-"
His eyes twinkled as he gave one of his famous half grins. "I told you I would come home. I never break my promises."
I laughed. "I love you!"
The next few days were the happiest days of my life. Jack was home. But he was going to leave again and I couldn't bring myself to ask him when.
One night, he brought me up our favorite hill. Clouds dotted the sky, but it was a beautiful night. The moon was full. The stars shone bright. Rose petals lined their way up the hill, surrounding a checkered picnic blanket at the very top. A single candle burned cherry blossom and apple, my favorite scents.
He took me by my hand, and breathing heavily, dropped to one knee.
I slowly shook my head. No. Not now…please. Not when you're leaving again.
"I love you, Lillian," he said, pulling from his suit pocket a tiny box. He opened it, gazing into my tear-filled eyes with his sky-blue ones. A diamond ring lay inside, sparkling in the night. Three diamonds stood proud atop the silver loop.
"Three years ago, I made a promise to you. But-" He choked on his words. "I'm not the same man as I was when I left." He stared at the stump of his arm.
He looked down then up at me again, blushing furiously. "Will you marry me?"
I broke down, my body shaking with uncontrollable crying. I shook my head. "No. No. No."
"No?" disappointment flooded his eyes and he stood up, his hand slipping from mine. "Why?"
"Oh! I mean yes." I said quickly, a flicker of a smile on my lips. It disappeared as soon as it came. "But…you'll have to leave again, Jack." My words came out hard, the tears falling with every syllable, and I gasped for breath. "We won't be together."
"Lily," He smiled, stroking my hair. "I'm not leaving."
I buried my head in his shoulder, unaware of what he was saying. "Lily." He repeated, tilting my chin gently to look at him. "The war is over."
He laughed, grasping my hand in his. "It's over. I'm sorry for not telling you before. I wanted to surprise you."
I flung my arms around him. This time I knew he would never leave me. "Jack!" I pulled back. "It's over?" I laughed.
I felt a drop of rain on my forehead and looked up. The rain drizzled down on us, our hair sparkling with the dew drops. The candle puffed out and it was just us on the hill.
"It's raining!" he laughed. Sticking his tongue out like a little child, he caught a drop on his tongue. Yes, he was different. Physically and emotionally. I knew that. War does that to you. But this was the same man I fell in love with. The man who would be the father of our children. The man I wanted to grow old with.
And there you have it folks! *wipes tear* A mushy romantic love war story. 😉
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Elbra Wedgeworth, Paul Mesard to be honored by Metro Volunteers
On Wednesday, at the annual Heart of Volunteerism celebration, Elbra Wedgeworth and Paul Mesard each will receive Metro Volunteers' highest honor, the Community Impact Award. The award recognizes individuals who have a demonstrated passion for volunteerism and the ability to foster civic engagement throughout a broad array of sectors and organizations.
Wedgeworth, a Denver native who grew up in the Curtis Park neighborhood, is the chief government and community relations officer for Denver Health. She is in her third term as president of the Denver Union Station Project Authority board and her second term as president of Denver Civic Ventures, Inc.
A past president of the Denver Council and former clerk and recorder for the City and County of Denver, Wedgeworth served as president/chair of the Denver 2008 Democratic National Convention Host Committee, and was the first first African-American woman to serve in that capacity for either political party.
Mesard, a certified public accountant with 25 years of community leadership, has chaired the Colorado AIDS Project, College Summit and Title I Planning Council boards and served on the Mayor's Gay & Lesbian Advisory Committee. He enjoys involving young people with meaningful volunteer experiences, and volunteers his own skill as an accountant to do the books for such nonprofits as Orlando's Way, Metro Volunteers, and Mental Health America of Colorado.
The Heart of Volunteerism celebration is from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Cable Center, 2000 Buchtel Blvd. Tickets are $100 and can be purchased at blacktie-colorado.com.
Metro Volunteers hosts this event annually to highlight the impact volunteers have in addressing community needs. The money that is raised enables Metro Volunteers to recruit, train and deploy highly skilled volunteers and to train and support nonprofit agencies in engaging volunteers effectively.
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Heather Dietel necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 61 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
One Hour Finance is owned by Horizon Digital Finance. HDF owns many websites including myAutoloan.com and myMotorcycleloan.com. We offer online auto loans to consumers with a wide range of credit qualifications. we've been in business since 2003. OHF was a lonely page sitting out there earning adsense dollars and not doing a good job at it. We've decided to change it's purpose to generating auto loan leads. We are a fun company with a small staff. Easy for us to make decisions and move forward with projects. We work very flexible schedules and still get the job done.
Consumers looking for an auto loan online. Typically bad credit. Looking for an approval or an answer while sitting at home instead of being denied at the dealership. Looking for something fast. Most applications occur mid week and mid day while the consumers are at work. They want a quick, secure and easy option for auto finance.
210x98 is preferred. Something close to that size. 2 to 3 colors.
Color preference combinations:
1)blue, orange and white
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Would like to see ".com" in the logo.
Tag line is "Simple finance in about an hour." Not necessary to have in the logo. If it doesn't look good or is too small we'd rather leave it out.
We are open to designs that get the point across of One Hour Finance. Any capitalization is okay if it makes the design look better. Main point is we want to see the logo and be able to read the name and not have to stare at it for 5 minutes to figure out that it is a picture of car that spells out the name of the company.
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SKF S2M Magnetic Bearings to be used in Martin Linge offshore gas project
2013 November 28, 14:00 CET
Gothenburg, November 28: SKF announces that SKF S2M Magnetic Bearing have been selected to be used in offshore upstream centrifugal compressors for the Total Martin Linge development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea gas field. Total's project is the development of the former Hild field, and comprises a fixed production platform with an associated floating storage and offloading unit (FSO), a 24'' gas export pipe and an offshore control centre in Stavanger. SKF S2M magnetic bearings will equip five stand-alone compressors and four high speed motors.
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Here are just a few. Rules The most prominent reason someone has to give a deposition is because a lawyer is not allowed to simply call up a witness for the other side and start asking questions. In fact, Bankruptcy Lawyers Near Me they are not allowed to speak to them about the case when that person has been designated as a witness for another party. Instead, it must be done in a formal setting. The witness is usually subpoenaed and the lawyer that has designated that person as a witness will usually be present.Information When an attorney believes someone has information that will lead to discoverable evidence in a civil case, they are allowed to take their deposition.
The witness is required by law to cooperate and answer fully and honestly any of the proper questions asked by the lawyers. Oftentimes, the lawyer may not know all of the important facts of the case. There may be people, objective third parties, who witnessed a car accident or that have factual information that is crucial to the case. Learning what they know about it may shed light on the case before it goes to court. This prevents one side from springing surprises on the other during trial.Intimidation On rare occasions, an attorney will take the deposition of a witness for the other side to intimidate or make the person nervous.
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This is more common in domestic dispute matters, such as child custody or divorce cases. It also happens more often to the plaintiff, How To Find A Good Lawyer the party bringing the lawsuit. This is sometimes done to make sure the witness knows the lawyer means business. Playing hardball in a deposition is what happens when the attorney is purposefully trying to make the witness uncomfortable. This may be done to make sure they tell the truth and to find out if the person will drop the case, rather than have to go through similar questioning in court, as well if the case goes to trial.
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Interleague Break
As interleague continues for everyone else, the Phillies are in St. Louis for a National League three-game series that begins Tuesday night. Wednesday night's game is on ESPN; Thursday afternoon, the MLB Network.
Seattle improved to 7-2 against the Phillies by taking two of three over the weekend. Hopefully, we won't be playing them again for a few years. Matter of fact, it would be alright if we stayed out of ballparks from the AL West. Why? 6-12 record.
Nine more interleague games out of the next 12, three each in Citizens Bank Park (Red Sox and A's) and three in Toronto. We're 7-5 in Rogers Centre.
Since interleague play began in 1997, the Phillies haven't fared too well. It doesn't matter if it is at home (55-67) or the road (54-65).
Phillies are now 17-16 on the road this season, one of our teams to have a winning record at home and away. The others: Red Sox, Yankees and Braves.
Down On The Farm
Lehigh Valley lost two of three at Pawtucket but remains in first place . . . Reading was swept in three games by New Britain . . . Clearwater hosted the Florida State League All-Star Game on Saturday night . . . Lakewood dropped three at West Virginia despite three home runs by 1B Jim Murphy (#15-16-17) . . . Mickey Morandini made his debut as a manager as Williamsport won two home games against State College before losing in State College on Sunday.
All-Star Notes
The North won the FSL All-Star Game, 5-3. Four of Clearwater's starters pitched a scoreless inning, Jonathan Pettibone, Jarred Cosart, Trevor May and Julio Rodriguez. May picked up the win.
South Atlantic League All-Star Game will be played Tuesday night in Salisbury, MD. Five Lakewood players are on the North team: 1B Jim Murphy, OF Anthony Hewitt, RHS David Buchanan, RHS Garet Claypool and RHS Lisalverto Bonilla. Murphy and Hewitt will participate in the home run derby prior to the game.


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Face of Defense: Brothers Devote 50 Years to Iowa Guard
By Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Matson
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LAGHMAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan, July 5, 2011 – Army Sgt. 1st Class Tim Fiedler Jr., and his younger brother, Army Staff Sgt. Rich Fiedler, have put in more than 50 years of combined service in the Iowa National Guard's Company A, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment.
Army Staff Sgt. Rich Fiedler, left, and his brother, Army Sgt. 1st Class Tim Fiedler, right, sit together June 14, 2011, on Combat Outpost Najil in Afghanistan's Laghman province. The Fiedler brothers have more than 50 years of combined service in the Iowa National Guard's Company A, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment. U.S. Army photo by Capt. Jason Beck
Tim said he joined the Guard 29 years ago for the college money. But regardless of their initial motivation, the brothers said, a sense of family has kept them in Company A.
Like Rich Fiedler, Army Sgt. David Tielbar, the company's senior radio telephone operator, has served in Company A for 22 years. "I met the Fiedlers through the Guard," he said. "I've had them both as team and squad leaders, but we're family – this company is a family. We've watched the company grow and shrink, but we always stuck together. They'll tell me like it is, and I respect their honesty. But above it all, they care about the company's soldiers."
Tim said he sold cars briefly after college. Rich said that aside from a few part-time jobs, he never has worked outside Company A and the Iowa National Guard.
The brothers said they never expected to serve for decades when they joined the Guard.
"I hated Camp Ripley," Tim said, referring to a military training center in Minnesota. "We went to our annual training there every year, and it rains, and it's horrible. In fact, when I re-enlisted, they offered a nice little bonus of $5,000 for six years.
"I wasn't going to re-enlist, and the recruiter asked why," he continued. "I told him, 'I don't want to go to Camp Ripley.' So they made me a deal – for two years I didn't have to go to Camp Ripley. One year I went to the primary leadership course, and one year I did recruiting duty instead."
Now Company A's acting first sergeant, Tim said he still wound up going back to Camp Ripley about 25 more times anyway.
A third Fiedler brother, Kenny, also served in Company A, but he left the National Guard after nine years of service.
Younger brother Rich said he has followed Tim's lead in the Iowa National Guard in many ways.
"I joined because Tim and Kenny joined, and they went to college, and I wanted to do the same things," he said. Both brothers enlisted as infantrymen and held some of the same positions within the unit.
"The Fiedler brothers have been the company's supply sergeants for the past 16 years," Rich noted.
Since 1988, Tim has served as a full-time active Guard/Reserve-component soldier, and Rich has served full-time since 2002. Tim served six years as the administrative clerk, then as the company's supply sergeant for the following 12 years. After Tim went on to become the readiness noncommissioned officer platoon sergeant, Rich stepped in to fill his brother's vacated position as supply sergeant, a role he has filled since 2007.
Before then, Rich served as an intelligence analyst for the state's counterdrug task force, an assignment he said he looks upon as the highlight of his military career thus far.
"It's a federally funded project; every state has one," Rich explained. "That was probably the most fun I've had in the Guard. I didn't have to wear a uniform or shave, and got to do a lot of neat operations," working with different agencies like the Drug Enforcement Agency and FBI.
Tim said he is living the highlight of his career now, serving as the company's first sergeant while on a combat deployment to Afghanistan. It is also the first time he has deployed with his brother.
"It's always been a dream to be the first sergeant, but my full-time AGR job prevented me from doing that," Tim said. "But being the acting first sergeant of an infantry company at Combat Outpost Najil is a pretty big accomplishment for me. With all the things we accomplished here, it was really rewarding.
"The guys all kid me a lot, and call me 'Dad,'" he added, "but in the two and a half years we spent training up to being here, I've seen a lot of them change and become more mature. It's been challenging, and also rewarding."
A big consideration in spending their service in the same company is the brother's love of their hometown, Dubuque, Iowa, Tim said.
"We were born and raised there, [and] went to high school there," he said. "In fact my oldest son, Tim Fielder III, goes there now, and my youngest son, Tyler, will be a freshman."
Tim still lives in Dubuque, and Rich lives in nearby Epworth, Iowa.
"You're limited in the jobs you can do once you get in the full-time system," Rich explained. "I could have gotten promoted and moved, but I don't want to move, I don't want to live anywhere else."
Tim said that although he could have also been promoted 15 years ago and would be at least a master sergeant by now, you can't put a price on living where you want to live and working with the people you want to work with.
"Staying and living in Dubuque is the tradeoff," he said. "But it's where I've always wanted to live and raise my family. That's where our family lives – my two brothers and sisters and in-laws."
Through more than 50 years and five combined deployments, the Fielders have been a staple of Company A, and they're still going strong.
"I've got a little over three more years I can still do to get 26 years full-time," Tim said.
With Rich still having some full-time service left, the Fiedlers are approaching six decades of combined service before both have finished their careers.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 830 diseños de 184 diseñadores freelance.
LandART is a new landscape contracting service. Our goal is to service upper class residential homes. We want to have a bold, yet classy and professional appearance. We would eventually do a vehicle design with black vehicles. We really want to have a modern yet professional feeling as my clientele is made up of professional and wealthy people, and our look has to fit in with their culture. Our business is service oriented, starting out as mainly a lawn care company, but working into full scale landscape construction; which includes pools, gazebos, patios, etc...
The income bracket of the prototypical customer is around $200,000. The lifestyle trends of this customer are white-collared individuals or professionals. Since the age that is being targeted is 40-65, they generally will not have children at home. The customers are high quality and high service oriented. The targeted audience are professionals themselves so they will expect professional service and appearance.
Our requirements are fairly open-ended. We are open to different ideas. We like the color green, but nothing bright or metallic, but again we are open to other colour suggestions as long as they are tasteful. We would really like to have an icon, as opposed to just word art. The icons can be a variety of images related to the landscaping industry as we are very open to creative suggestions as we are looking for something different than the competition. Our vision is having landART printed as one word, with the "land" being all in lower case, and the "ART" all in uppercase lettering. The "L" may be capitalized or lowercase - but we do not want an emphasis on it or else it looks like "L" "and" "art". We are also thinking of including the words "Landscape Contractors" in smaller print under/beside the "LandART" to give our customers a clear idea of our business. So if we could see some logos with "Landscape Contractors" in it as well, that would be great. We want to stay away from anything cheap, and we also would not like the logo to have anything to do with a paintbrush, or anything directly related to art. We would like the logo to be artistic, but remain professional. We would also like to say a word of caution about copyrights as we would appreciate your checking your work and respecting copyright laws.
The logo would be used on stationary, truck stickering, road signage, business cards and company uniforms. We have attached a few logo ideas that we liked just for your assistance - but feel free to be creative and post completely different ideas and we will be sure to provide feedback!
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deal (one) into (something)
To include one in something. Often used in the imperative "deal me in." The phrase likely originated from card games, in which cards are distributed among the players by "dealing" them. If you guys are playing poker in there, deal me into the game! Bobby really wants to be involved, so deal him into this project too.
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1. Lit. to pass out cards to someone, making that person a player in a card game. Can you deal me into this hand? Deal in anyone who wants to play. Deal me in!
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Date: December 12, 1855
This muster roll listed men who served in the Wakarusa War from November 27 to December 12, 1855. The fifth regiment was commanded by Col. George W. Smith. This company was recruited from the area around Osawatomie, Kansas Territory. The information provided included name, title if an officer, and age. Officers, in addition to Captain John Brown, were William Updegraff, Henry H. Williams, James J. Holbrook, Ephraim Reynolds, R. W. Wood, Frederick Brown, John Yelton, Henry Alderman, H. Harrison Updegraff, Daniel W. Collis, and William Partridge. William Partridge furnished one keg of powder and 8 pounds of lead that were used by the company. Ages of the company ranged from 19 to 55 years old. This was a small company and the other members were Amos D. Alderman, Francis Brennon, William W. Caine, Benjamin L. Cochran, Jeremiah Harrison and John Brown's sons John, Jr., Owen, and Sallmon
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Keywords: Brown, Frederick; Brown, John, 1800-1859; Brown, John, Jr.; Brown, Owen; Brown, Salmon; Free state activities; Free state militia; Kansas Volunteers; Lykins County, Kansas Territory (see also Miami County, Kansas); Miami County, Kansas (see also Lykins County, Kansas Territory); Militia; Osawatomie, Kansas Territory; Partridge, William; Smith, George W.; Updegraff, W. W.; Wakarusa War, November-December 1855; Williams, Henry H.
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Apple's new Maps may be a horror show, but at least they haven't fully permeated your iOS existence. As one redditor discovered recently, iCloud.com still uses Google Maps when you use its Find My Phone feature. It's a sweet oasis, in your time of greatest need.
There's no good time to have your maps fail you; in fact, the poor guidance in iOS 6 has already led to more than a few sticky situations. But considering you spent at least $200 on that fancy new iPhone 5, it would be particularly frustrating to be sent on a wild goose chase trying to track it down.
That's not to say that this is a permanent reprieve; Apple hasn't commented yet, but it could just be an oversight, or just a temporary solution until the company can port its navigation software to the desktop. Either way, let's all agree not to make too much noise about it, right? Our little secret. Otherwise we all might end up looking for our lost iPhones in the middle of an airport that's actually a farm. [Reddit via CultofMac]


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Ridgecrest's Chamber of Commerce, in a joint bid with the Ridgecrest Area Association of Realtors and the California Unmanned Aircraft Systems Portal team, launched a letter writing campaign in an effort to drum up support to have Inyokern be selected as a coveted national test site.
Ridgecrest's Chamber of Commerce, in a joint bid with the Ridgecrest Area Association of Realtors and the California Unmanned Aircraft Systems Portal team, launched a letter writing campaign in an effort to drum up support to have Inyokern be selected as a coveted national test site.
Nathan Ahle, CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, issued a letter Thursday, calling the potential unmanned systems industry a prime opportunity for economic growth for the Indian Wells Valley.
"As our community continues to work to find new ways to diversify its economic base, a golden opportunity has presented itself in the form of unmanned aerial systems," Ahle wrote. "The Cal UAS Portal at Inyokern Airport provides the opportunity for our area to be selected by the FAA as one of six sites from around the country to be a hub for this important work."
Ahle said the purpose of the letter campaign is to show state and federal leaders the value of having Inyokern as one of the six designated test sites and was "a win-win for both the community and the scientists and engineers looking to do this critical work."
The FAA released its request for proposal requirements on Feb. 14, with airports and teams across the country scrambling to put in their notice of intent to seek one of six designations in an effort to integrate UAVs into the national airspace by the end of 2015.
The Cal UAS Portal team, including Inyokern Airport and Mojave Space and Airport and numerous other team mates are among at least 50 different groups from 37 states vying for the coveted designation.
A report released by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International forecasts the industry could spur as much as $82.1 billion in national economic stimulus over 10 years and yield as many as 100,000 high-paying jobs if the FAA meets its 2015 integration deadline. For California, that translates into $14 billion in economic impact and 14,000 jobs over a decade.
Ahle encouraged people to either write their own short letters of support or use a modified one available on the Chamber's website, www.ridgecrestchamber.com, or at its office on 128 East California Ave, Suite B.
After letters are collected, the Chamber and the Association of Realtors will forward them to Sacramento and Washington D.C.
The deadline to drop off signed letters to either the Chamber office or Association of Realtors office at 995 North Norma St. is Thursday, April 11.
"This is a tremendous opportunity to have your voice heard by the legislators and their staff, so we encourage you to tell your friends and neighbors," Ahle wrote.


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One of the most annoying things when mining alternative crypto currencies in a pool with automatic switching algorithm based on the current coin profitability is that you end up with a lot of different coins that you need to move and trade on an exchange. The pool ScryptGuild has just added an easy solution to this problem, by introducing a function for automatic conversion of the mined alternative coins. Previously the pool had an option for you to manually trade the mined coins directly through the pool's interface for BTC with an extra fee of 1% fee on top of the exchange rate of 0.3%. Now, the automatic conversion to BTC has replaced that functionality and the fees remain the same, and the coins are apparently still traded on Cryptsy. However you don't need to move them there and trade them, the trade is automatically executed every hour if you decide use this function and the BTCs get credited directly in your pool's account. The pool offers a coin reserve function that gives you the ability to set an amount of coins that should stay in your account and not be sold automatically for BTC… good for example if you want to keep some LTC (the autoconversion does not support LTC at the moment) or DOGE. ScryptGuild is still a relatively new pool, but they are doing a great job in making it an attractive alternative to other pools that have been around for a while already sch as Multipool for example. So if you still haven't checked them out, then we would suggest to give them a try.
– For more information and to check out the ScryptGuild mining pool…
Earlier this month we have mentioned the announcement of the ScryptGuild pool in their Alfa stage with invite only access and now the pool has moved to Beta stage and is open for free registrations. ScryptGuild is a pool with multiple alternative crypto currencies and an automatic switching algorithm that allows you to mine the most profitable crypto at the moment. It is similar to Multipool and the likes of it, however ScryptGuild offer some extra features that make it more attractive. For example you can set only one mining pool and switch to different cryptos to be mined on per worker basis directly from the web interface, there is also an option to directly sell your alternative coins that you have mined for BTC. Not to mention that the list of alternative cryptos is more up to date based on the more profitable coins at the moment and not keeping coins that you will probably not want to mine anymore like in Multipool for example.
ScryptGuild uses PPLNS system for distributing miners earnings or Pay per Last N Shares. This is a payment method which does not allow for pool hopping because it pays for work done previously, rather than paying for work based on the concept of "rounds". ScryptGuild applies payments to the 5 most recent shifts: The active shift, and 4 recently finished ("open") shifts. Payments are applied on a per coin basis, using your score on that coin vs the total pool score on that coin. Shifts are closed every hour, one minute after the hour. The pool fee is 2% and the current hashrate of the pool is already about 2150 MHS. You can set the minimum difficulty level starting from 16 and going up for each worker independently, so it is also a goo d place for low hashrate miners such as Nvidia-based GPUs or small Scrypt ASICs like the USD DualMiners.
We have been using the pool for a few days already and like the stability and ease of use, along with the useful extra features that it offers, including the direct sell for BTC from the pool with a slightly higher fee than if you move your coins to an exchange and sell them there (you can still do that if you wish). So we have said good-bye to Multipool and have switched to ScryptGuild completely for our main alternative profit based mining pool. And our backup pool for a while already is LTC Rabbit, though at the moment the extra altcoin bonus that this pool offers is rarely seen and most of the time we are mining LTC directly there instead of alt coins. Still good for a backup pool though as it is stable and runs reliably, so we would still recommend it as a good backup option. The combination between the two pools works like a charm for us, so we do recommend to try it out yourself if you still hasn't done so.
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Amid controversies over a Justice Department subpoena of Associated Press phone records and the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of conservative groups, Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that he doubted it would be "wise policy" to prosecute news media organizations for publishing classified information in the national security leaks case.
In a hearing that stretched well over four hours, Holder indicated that leakers inside the Obama administration, and not reporters, were the people his department was trying to find.
Holder said, "The focus should be on those people who break their oaths and put the American people at risk, not reporters who gather this information."
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder tells the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill Wednesday that he recused himself from involvement in a subpoena of AP phone records.
On the criminal probe into IRS scrutiny of conservative groups who'd applied for nonprofit status, he vowed a far-reaching national investigation which would not be limited to the Cincinnati IRS office that examines groups' applications for nonprofit status.
"The facts will take us wherever they take us," he pledged to Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas.
About an hour after Holder finished his testimony, President Barack Obama announced at the White House that Steve Miller, the acting IRS Commissioner, would resign at the request of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.
Obama pledged to work "hand in hand with Congress to get this thing fixed" and to "do everything in my power to make sure nothing like this happens again."
The controversies over the IRS and the AP subpoenas threaten to become the most serious political crises of the Obama presidency.
The marathon hearing with Holder brought both Democratic and Republican members together in accord that the IRS scrutiny of conservative groups was alarming and that the broad scope of the Justice Department subpoena of Associated Press phone records threatened First Amendment rights.
But Holder repeatedly told members he could not shed much light on either controversy because he has recused himself from the leaks probe and because the criminal investigation of the IRS which he ordered last Friday has only just begun.
When House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., asked why it was necessary for the Justice Department to subpoena AP phone records if the AP was willing to cooperate with the investigation, Holder said, "I just don't know…I don't have the factual basis to answer."
Holder said in a press conference Tuesday that decisions in the leak investigation were being made by Deputy Attorney General James Cole and that he, not Holder, "would have been the one who ultimately had to authorize the subpoena that went to the AP."
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder testifies during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill May 15, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told Holder, "I think we're going to have to talk to him (Cole) about this," and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and Goodlatte both called for Cole to come before the committee as a witness.
But Holder cautioned later in the hearing that Cole would be very constrained in what he could tell members of Congress about an ongoing investigation.
Sensenbrenner also used his time to berate Obama administration officials for not taking responsibility for what he saw as errors or misguided policies. He urged Holder, Cole and other Justice Department officials to go to the Truman library in Missouri and learn from the famous sign the former president had on his desk, which said "the buck stops here."
In his grilling of Holder, Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama seemed skeptical about how, why and when Holder had recused himself in the national security leaks probe and why Holder had not put the recusal in writing and dated it. Lofgren also seemed skeptical about whether Holder acted in line with federal regulations in recusing himself.
But Holder explained that he had recused himself since he was one of a small number of top officials who'd had access to the national security secrets that had been leaked to the news media.
The House Ways and Means Committee has scheduled a hearing Friday to examine the IRS scrutiny of conservative groups.
The witnesses will be Miller and J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. George issued a report Tuesday which was highly critical of how the IRS scrutinized applications for nonprofit status.
But the IRS officials directly involved in the scrutiny of political groups are not slated to appear at Friday's hearing.
In a letter to Obama on Wednesday, all 45 Republican senators said, "We demand that your Administration comply with all requests related to Congressional inquiries without any delay, including making available all IRS employees involved in designing and implementing these [sic] prohibited political screening, so that the public has a full accounting of these actions."
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Yesterday Microsoft announced the official roll-out of its Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade for the first generation Windows Phones. As Microsoft unveiled earlier, Windows Phone 7 devices won't receive Windows Phone 8 but 7.8 instead, which at least mimics some Windows Phone 8 elements and also introducing further enhancements. Just to recap: The focus of the 7.8 upgrade is pretty much the new Home screen screen which adds the ability to create live tiles in three different sizes. Furthermore, 7.8 brings ten new accent colors for the surface and the daily Bing image can be used to add more individuality to the lock screen.
Other features and enhancements of Windows Phone 7.8 include:
Unlike Windows Phone 8 updates, the Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade also comes as a side-load update and it still requires Microsoft' retired Zune software. As always, this is a staged upgrade which means not all devices are receiving the update the same time. If you haven't received it now, it should be only a question of time until it also hits your Windows Phone.
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I don't know about your family ,but when I was growing up, whenever someone unwrapped a present and found a box of some sort inside they'd say, "OH MY GOSH a box! Just what I always wanted!" and no one ever really laughed but we kept saying it year after year anyway just because why not. Well with the Rolobox kit - a set of four plastic wheels that can turn any old box into a little vehicle - your kid might actually end up enjoying those boxes after all!
Expanding their play potential beyond the standbys of "fort" and "hat" (size depending), the Rolobox wheels attach to a box's corners with plastic nuts and bolts, and a little tail lets tikes tug their new toy around behind them. OK, yes, there's a chance your precocious tater tot will see what you're doing, trying to turn something that used to contain a real toy into some sort of plaything itself with a $US14 plastic kit, but just take that as your cue for explaining recession economics. [Amazon via Wired]


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Nate Berg is a freelance reporter and a former staff writer for CityLab. He lives in Los Angeles.
Wandering Google Maps can reveal magical geographies. When preparing for a recent first-time trip to Vancouver, I started zooming in and out and around the area to see what the surroundings are like. That was how I first learned of the existence of Point Roberts, Washington.
The town sits about 20 miles directly south of Vancouver, on a little peninsular tip of land, jutting just below the 49th parallel. That's the line, as you probably know, that generally demarcates the separation between Canada and the United States, at least from the middle of Minnesota westward. This borderline cuts between Blaine, Washington, and White Rock, British Columbia, the two counterpoint cities of this west coast end of the U.S.-Canada border. But through the waters of Boundary Bay, the line keeps heading west, true along the 49th and directly through the peninsula at this tip of British Columbia. To the south of the line sits Point Roberts, a 5-square mile fingernail of B.C. that is actually part of the United States.
Known as an exclave, Point Roberts is a bit of an oddity in that it's not an island and yet it's completely separated from the rest of the U.S. The only way to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of Washington and the U.S. is by passing through one international border crossing into Canada, driving 25 miles, and passing through another international border crossing into the U.S., which is a daily trek for schoolkids above third grade. Cars—a fair amount, but not a crush—regularly line up at either side of the border crossing at Point Roberts. Another 20 miles past the border at Blaine is Bellingham, Washington, the seat of Whatcom County, which oversees this unincorporated town in a strange bit of almost international bureaucracy.
To deploy a somewhat crude simile, Point Roberts is like the foreskin of America; cutting it off probably would have been more convenient, but keeping it has some benefits.
The border crossing is probably the biggest inconvenience, but it's also the source of much of the town's economic power.
Resident Kathryn Booth says the border tends to dominate outsiders' perception of the town. As the operator of pointrobertstourism.com, she's the self-appointed public relations face of Point Roberts, and she's heard her share of incredulous visitors since moving here in 2009. "They'll say 'Oh my god, how do people live here? It's like a police state.' And in some ways it kind of feels that way."
"On the one hand, it's been rated the safest community because it's like having a really, really, really strict security guard gate," Booth says.
This is the sort of quiet small town where the 1,100 full-time residents keep to themselves and retirees bask in the natural beauty. Eagles nest, whales commute past daily, and there's a killer view of Mt. Baker* from the beaches at the south end.
Beautiful and sparsely developed, Point Roberts is the kind of town that has an off-season, which is now. Summertime brings a few thousand more people in to relax in the many vacation homes sprinkled throughout town. Most of the visitors are Canadian, and many homes have both the maple leaf and the stars and stripes on display. The town's harbor is also an attraction, especially for boaters and yachters in the warm months.
But even year-round, Point Roberts is a popular place to visit, especially among Canadians. The town's charm and amenities, though, are not what makes people sit in line at a border crossing. Groceries are 30 percent cheaper in Point Roberts. Gas is a dollar cheaper. Without the 12 percent value added tax Canada has, buying goods in the U.S.—even this very small part of the U.S.—is significantly less expensive than in Canada. Also, many online retailers don't ship to Canada, and if they do it's really expensive, so a lot of the traffic crossing the border ends up at one of the five shipping and receiving businesses in town.
Point Roberts is also a good place to get away—or to hide out. Thanks to Canada's fairly strict border crossing rules, it's difficult for people with criminal records to cross over, so even ex-felons who can move freely about in the U.S. wouldn't easily be able to find their way into Point Roberts. This is part of the reason the town is, unofficially, home to about 50 people in the U.S. Marshals Service's Witness Security Program, or Witness Protection. Other residents have come here seeking their own protection.
"That border works like a charm," says Booth. "Restraining orders and things don't hold up. But if they can't get a passport, the border works real good."
But the border also causes headaches. Booth says that it's not so much a crossing issue for locals, most of whom don't have to cross every day, but more of a logistical one. For example, she says it took a year of wrangling to get the border rules altered to allow Canadian tomatoes and peppers to cross over—so long as they're pre-sliced.
More pressing, Booth says, is the disjointed relationship between Point Roberts and governing Whatcom County. She says the town has a few committees of volunteers who try to steer county officials to meet the town's needs. But the process can be slow.
"They've been working for two years to get a streetlight put in on one of the corners," Booth says.
Locals clamor for their own elected officials, but fall below a population threshold. Booth is hoping enough people will move to town permanently to give locals a louder voice.
And though the town does fine with its shipping and gas sales and grocery store, there's not much of an economy to speak of.
"It's difficult to make a living here," says Steve O'Neill, a 12-year resident. "We don't really promote a lot of our businesses because there's no real businesses to promote. People that are going into the grocery store and buying gasoline and shipping packages, they already know about this place."
He says the town needs to develop more reasons for people to come into town, and to stay. But he says change is not high on many people's list in Point Roberts.
"I don't think a lot of people want growth. But I think we need enough to provide some jobs for the people and a future for kids," says O'Neill, who's third child is nearly done with high school. "Kids really have to leave, unless they stay and do some construction work or … well, that's about it."
He's hoping to kick off some of that development with a 30-room eco resort and restaurant he's trying to build. He wants it to be an attraction that will pull more tourists into town and to help drive business to other local shops and restaurants. But the process hasn't been easy. He said it took more than 6 years to get the permits he needs, mainly because his shoreline site falls under some state restrictions.
"When I started on this I had no permit and the money to do it. Now I've got the permit and no money to do it," says O'Neill. "Talk about a barrier to growth and employment, to make someone spend huge sums of money and go for six years to try and do something."
He's currently in talks with potential investors
"Hopefully this will spurn a growth and a cottage industry here. And hopefully we'll get known as an area that's a cool artisan community," O'Neill says.
What's it known as now?
"Um," O'Neill pauses. "A witness relocation program?"
Photo credit: Nate Berg
*A previous version of this article mistakenly referred to a view of Mt. Rainier. The view is actually of Mt. Baker.
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I respect your opinion, hon, and if you go back and read my post I think you'll see that I do feel Leah's pain. I understand perfectly why she reacted the way that she did, because I think Stephenie has drawn her well enough that we can all get into her head and feel as she's feeling, think as she's thinking. I'm just recognising in advance that she is a flawed character, because I know failing to do that can sometimes annoy people ... there's no need to make it personal, okay? We're both fans of the same books and characters here. I'd appreciate if you didn't tell me what I do or don't need to do, and how I would or wouldn't react in a given situation. I don't want to argue with you, and I'm pretty sure you don't want to argue with anyone either, so let's just leave it at that. No hard feelings or arguments here ... =]emmett_<3 wrote:Wow, can you really blame Leah? Why is she so bitter? Think about it. I'm the same way, its a bad thing, taking things out on other people, but many people do it. Sometimes for good reasons...sometimes...not. Leah had a reason, and a really good one. Something like that is bound to leave a huge mark...her lashing out was just in result of that. She can't really blame anyone so what else is there to do? She still loves Sam, but he doesn't even want her around. I'd act the same way.
Saffron Sunset: You need to give Leah a bit more credit. I highly doubt you would act in a more civilized way if you were placed in the situation. You'd either act the same way, or act some way equivilent.
(I'm sorry to bring this back up, but I didn't want to leave you thinking I was being unfair or mean or whatever ...)
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Hum-de-dum ... I think I agree with you that Bella needed to face her faults, and I definitely agree that Edward and Jake try to make her feel better about things that are her fault ... I'm not sure that Leah picked the best time, though, to let this all out at her. I mean, Bella was nearing the end of her pregnancy and most women don't feel too great at that point, let alone women carrying bone-breaking babypires who will as likely kill their mothers as be born safely. But I agree with you that Leah's real-world view of everything is a great aspect about her. In the midst of a fantasy novel, it's nice to see someone who cuts straight through all of that, if you see what I mean. I definitely see where you're coming from.niski wrote:That whole protecting Bella from feeling bad was getting on my nerves. Someone needed to tell her how it is and what she is doing and the consequences of her actions. Edward and Jacob always try to make her feel better even when she did something wrong and she got way too used to that. Leah was able to bring her back to reality. Yes Bella you are human and not everyone loves you and you hurt the people around you often now wake up and face it.


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The Lonely Graves, located at the Horseshoe Bend Diggings on the banks of the Clutha River south of Roxburgh, consist of the graves of 'Somebody's Darling'; and William Rigney.
The story goes that in 1865 William Rigney discovered the body of a young man on the riverbank following a flood. He arranged an inquest and burial for the unknown miner, erecting a headstone with the words 'Somebody's Darling Lies Buried Here.' Upon his death in January 1912, he was buried as requested beside 'Somebody's Darling'.