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Eat for Eight Bucks: Farro Salad Recipe
Dinner recipes that will keep your stomach and wallet happy from Cara and Phoebe of Big Girls, Small Kitchen
This will not look like much of a meal to some of you, but for me a bowl of simply dressed grains and vegetables is about as good as it gets, at least when I can't devote much thought and energy to satisfying my stomach. This farro salad is wonderful to have around, since it can serve as a healthy snack or emergency provisions if a big dinner is taking longer to prepare than you had anticipated. (I ate the bowl pictured at my floury counter in between kneading bread dough and continuing to chop vegetables for a giant poule au pot.) You can pack it in Mason jars and take it on a picnic. But it also makes a fine meal all on its own, especially if you add a bit of cheese and perhaps some olives.
Farro can be rather expensive. If you can't find a decent price, you can make a different but still-lovely (and definitely budget-friendly) version with wheatberries or bulgur wheat instead. Farro is often confused with spelt and other grains (see comments on this post), so be sure you know what you have in order to cook the grain properly, pre-soaking if necessary. I do not soak the farro I buy and find that I still have to be vigilant toward the end of cooking to make sure it doesn't get mushy.
- Yield:3 to 4
- Shopping list: 1 cup (7 ounces) farro, $1.50; 1 bunch Swiss chard, $2.00; 1 carrot, $0.25; 4 ounces feta, $3.00; olives, $1.00
- Pantry items: olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt, pepper, garlic.
- Total cost (for 3 hearty portions): $7.75
- 1 cup farro
- Salt
- Red wine vinegar
- 1 bunch Swiss chard, cleaned, stems removed and chopped into 1/4 inch dice, leaves roughly chopped
- 1 carrot, peeled and cut into 1/4 inch dice
- Olive oil
- 1 clove garlic, peeled and smashed
- Salt
- Pepper
- 4 ounces feta
- A small handful of good black olives
Cook the farro according to package instructions. The brand I use calls for a 25 minute simmer in a quart of salted water. Drain the farro, dump it into a big bowl, and toss with 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar while it is still warm.
Steam the chard leaves. Put them, still wet from rinsing, into a saucepan and add an extra splash of water. Cover, turn the heat to medium, and cook until they are tender enough to eat but not mushy. Peek in every once in a while to toss the leaves with a spoon and taste for doneness; it usually takes around 5 minutes. Drain in a colander. When cool enough to handle, chop.
Cook the carrot and chard stems. Put them in the saucepan you used for the chard leaves with a glug of olive oil and the garlic. If there is still chard-cooking liquid in the saucepan, that's fine. Turn the heat to medium-low and saute gently, adjusting the heat if necessary, until the vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Toss the farro, chopped chard leaves, chard stems, and carrots together in a big bowl. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar and 2 tablespoons olive oil. Season with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper; toss again and taste. Add more oil or salt and pepper if necessary. Serve warmish, room temperature, or cold with about an ounce of feta cheese and a few olives per person.
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I might be going about this in totally the wrong way but this is what I'm doing:
I have 2 custom web parts: a company calendar and an appointment list. Both are visual webparts and both contain an UpdatePanel control. The calendar provides a date and the appointment list consumes a date. When the selected date in the calendar part changes the appointment list is notified. The UpdatePanel is intended to prevent the whole page from being refreshed.
This works fine when the page is loaded. However, when the calendar date is changed, a postback is raised. The appointment part is refreshed but the provider link is null. (i.e. the connection is not explicitly reinitialised) Therefore it is not possible to fetch the date from the provider (Calendar).
I tried to save the provider in the ViewState but I get an error saying that the calendar part is not marked as serialisable. At this point I start to wonder if I'm doing this wrong :-/
How should this be done?


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So I went to Best Buy today because of the Zelda MM / New 3DS promotion they were having. I didn't tryout the New 3DS but I did get a bunch of free stuff from the Nintendo display. The most prized item I got was a cardboard display for Majora's Mask. There probably wasn't many of them to give away, the Nintendo rep had some under the display table. I also got 2 MM posters that are static sticker style. And some other items too, like a map of the world in Pokemon AS/OR, MK8 stickers, Mario Sticker
Since I haven't seen this posted anywhere yet, here it is, a collection of homebrew applications and the like for a softmodded vWii (virtual Wii of the Wii U). Some of this stuff will only work on a vWii, so don't be a noob. I will always be adding to the list, and maybe even organize it someday. Only use these applications if you can afford to brick your Wii U, nobody here is responsible for what what you do to your Wii/Wii U.
If you have not softmodded your vWii, then look here
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Well, I have a TV in the shop for repairs. It's a 42" Insignia. I figure it'd be cheaper than replacing it, and it's only been used for about 2 years, and sitting in the basement for 2 years. Besides, I think I'm buying another anyways, then I'll have 2 digital TV's. Before I took it in, I talked to the tech and described the problem, and he said about $150 to get it fixed. So, a week ago (monday) I dropped it off, he said 2 days and he'd look at it. Come Saturday no word from the TV tech, so I


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|quilting UFOs
I recently took out all my ufos and decided to get them into quilts once and for all, no matter how long and tedious the process. Both kids are suddenly more independent, and there are large swaths of time that I haven't had since they were small. I counted: there are at least ten quilts' worth of blocks stacked up. Among them is C's baby quilt.
C turns 18 in a few months, so this has really gone on too long.
I'm sewing on a singer 301, which is my very favorite machine for this kind of work. I'll never forget arriving at my friend Diana's years ago to sew together for the first time. Stepping inside, I could hear the soft rattle of her machine running the living room, and a sudden Proustian rush caused me to blurt out, "That's the machine my mom had when I was little!"
Of course, I had no way of knowing whether it was true or not; I'd learned to sew on a Touch and Sew. But somehow the distinctive chug of the 301 made me think of sitting under a table, or of drifting off to sleep. When I found one for sale nearby, I bought it immediately, even though it seemed expensive at $100. I just wanted to hear that sound when I sewed.
And as it turns out, the machine has been well worth it. The 301 makes a reliable straight stitch, needs almost no adjusting and, at 17 lbs, is light enough to move easily while also sitting solidly on the table.
It's also beautiful. I believe it's the last black-and-gold sewing machine Singer made, although it also came in tan and tan/white versions. Someone once said it looks like an old locomotive engine, and I think that's pretty good description.
More recently, S remarked that it reminds him of Christopher, the alien in the movie District 9. It's...possible, I suppose, depending on your point of view. Can you see it?
In any case, this has been my go-to portable for years; and I have been using it to finish up these old blocks, particularly the blocks that will make up C's quilt.
(Please bear with me a minute while I shift gears.)
When Dad died 3 years ago, my sisters and I discovered how much and how thoroughly he had saved. It wasn't quite an episode of Hoarders, but let's say it made my fabric stash seem tame. In spare bedrooms and up in the garage rafters were boxes full of ledgers, receipts, photos, letters—50+ years of a family's minutiae. I wish I'd been able to go through everything at leisure, but we were focused on getting the house ready to sell so instead buzzed through it all quickly, glancing and shredding over and over again. Because there were three of us tossing these papers in succession for hours each day, I considered it sheer luck that one piece which ended up in my hands was a receipt dated a month after Mom and Dad married. It was for a sewing machine.
A Singer 301.
The machine had cost $175, which I'd learned a few minutes earlier was Dad's entire monthly salary at the time. It was their first major purchase together.
Mom's 301 was clearly an indispensable tool, an investment in keeping household costs down. I'm sure the reason its sound was so recognizable to me is that she used it daily when I was young, making clothes and toys for three growing children. She even made us quilts from the leftover fabric. Mom's sewing skills far surpassed mine, but the quilt she made for my bed was not a pastime she could afford to spend years on. It was made without the luxury of choosing prints and colors, pieced simply, and batted with a wool army blanket.
I remember looking at this quilt knowing which garments each of the fabrics had come from. At night, its weight was warm and comforting and helped me sleep. I suppose that is the reward all quiltmakers want, to know that someone is sleeping peacefully under their work.
With that in mind, I'd better get back to the quilt I've been making C for the past 17 years.
I wonder if he'll remember the sound of it being sewn.


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The capital asset pricing model has suffered a few indignities of late. The most recent comes from a series of academic articles questioning whether beta—or the one moving part of the model that determines the expected return of risky assets—is doing a good job of predicting subsequent returns. These studies find that high-beta stocks don't perform as well as they should, and that low-beta stocks do better than the model would predict. In other words, the slope of the security market line, or the tradeoff between risk and return, isn't a straight line.
This is a problem for efficient-market types because it suggests that high-beta securities are overpriced and low-beta securities are too cheap. If cheap and expensive securities exist within a free and open market, there should be an opportunity for sophisticated investors to earn riskless profits by selling expensive securities to buy the cheap ones.
It's tempting to conclude that CAPM and beta may be of limited use if the data don't match the theoretical relationship between risk and return according to the model. However, Andrea Frazzini and Cliff Asness of AQR Capital Management and Harrison Hong and David Sraer of Princeton University believe that the problem is not with the theory, but with the limitations of capital markets. These limitations explain why high-beta stocks become overpriced and why their prices don't fall, even when sophisticated investors are aware that a mispricing exists.
In an article just published in the Financial Analysts Journal, Frazzini, Asness and Lasse Pedersen of New York University attribute the beta anomaly to investors' unwillingness to leverage their investment portfolios. Assets may be seen as existing on a continuum of risk based on covariance with the market for risky assets (beta). The market portfolio, which according to the authors consists of 42% stocks, 48% bonds and a few other assets, provides a beta of one.
According to modern portfolio theory, this value-weighted market portfolio provides the highest return per unit of investment risk, or Sharpe ratio. Except it doesn't.
Bonds consistently have higher Sharpe ratios than stocks. This fact isn't of much use to most investment advisors because their clients want a higher expected return than they can get from bonds alone. So an advisor selects a portfolio that consists of a mix of stocks and bonds that provides a higher expected return with more risk. But the authors point out that you don't have to increase your stock allocation to get a higher expected return. You can just borrow money and invest more in bonds. As you increase your leverage, your risk goes up but so does your expected return.
Theoretically, you can create a portfolio of bonds that has the same risk as a balanced equity/bond portfolio through leverage. The problem is that many investors can't easily create a leveraged portfolio.
This "leverage aversion" increases demand for riskier assets among investors who are willing to accept greater risk for greater return but are not willing or able to do so through a leveraged portfolio. Mutual funds and pension managers may also be restricted from increasing leverage to generate greater returns. So investors demand more risky assets, which drive down their risk-adjusted performance. Safer assets become less popular, resulting in a higher Sharpe ratio. Aversion to leverage or institutional barriers to creating leveraged portfolios among investors creates the price pressures that allow less risky investments to outperform in an otherwise efficient market.
Frazzini and his co-authors provide convincing evidence that the outperformance of low-beta investments isn't just the result of mining data from a brief period of U.S. asset returns. Between 1926 and 2010, stocks had a Sharpe ratio of 0.35 while bonds achieved a much higher 0.47. A portfolio that maximized Sharpe ratio consisted of 88% bonds and 12% stocks—much more heavily weighted toward bonds than the theoretically optimal value-weighted market portfolio from modern portfolio theory.
While stocks indeed outperform bonds historically by beating the risk-free rate by 6.71% versus 1.56% for bonds, the authors remind us that this is theoretically irrelevant. They insist that an investor focus not on asset allocation but on risk parity; that it to say, compare portfolios that have the same amount of risk in order to judge their performance. By leveraging the most efficient 88% bond portfolio to match the risk of a traditional 60/40 portfolio, it was possible to achieve an annual return that is 3.34% higher.
Thus, one could create a portfolio that is as risky as a 60/40 portfolio by using a leveraged portfolio heavily weighted toward bonds and achieve a 334 basis point performance improvement. This surprisingly robust performance by a leveraged low-risk portfolio also outpaced a sample of global markets and within different time periods.
Investor Impulses
Leverage aversion is one explanation for the underperformance of high-beta securities. Hong and Sraer present a convincing argument that market sentiment, or the time-varying whims of investors who become emotionally attached to certain investments, leads to high prices for speculative stocks that more sophisticated investors are powerless to correct. Impulsive investors become enamored of stocks whose value may be very high—for example an Internet company that sells pet food using an amusing sock as a company spokespuppet—and are willing to pay high prices for the shares.
Sophisticated investors may try to short sell the stock if the price increases beyond fundamental value. But their ability to do so is limited by well-known short sale constraints, most notably limits on short sales by institutions like mutual funds and the possibility of going broke waiting for the price to correct while option contracts expire. With a limited number of stock shares, the price gets set by the most optimistic investors while the pessimists are left on the sidelines.
Hong and Sraer look at stocks for which there is a lot of disagreement among analysts about expected earnings. When there is a broad range of estimated earnings for a firm, subsequent excess returns actually decline with beta. This implies that uncertainty about earnings leads to high prices and poor returns for higher beta equities. The authors find that this relationship doesn't exist among higher beta stocks where there is little analyst disagreement about expected earnings.
However, disagreement is much more common among higher beta stocks. Higher beta stocks suffer more when the fortunes of the company are more speculative, and the authors find that many higher beta stocks have uncertain future prospects. Think of speculative earnings as a cancer that infects many high-beta stocks as a result of overoptimistic investors and short sale constraints.
Practical Implications
To an advisor who isn't willing or practically able to recommend a leveraged portfolio, an easy solution is to forget about focusing on the allocation of stocks and bonds within an investment portfolio and instead focus on the risk of the portfolio. In an unpublished paper co-authored with Texas Tech University doctoral student Shaun Pfeiffer, I find that a portfolio constructed of equity mutual funds within the lowest beta decile (bottom 10%) allows an investor to achieve a higher risk-adjusted performance than a traditional 60/40 portfolio consisting of S&P 500 funds and bonds if they are willing to increase total equity allocation.
A portfolio consisting of 82% low-beta mutual funds and 18% low-risk bonds has the same standard deviation as a portfolio with 37% high-beta mutual funds and 63% bonds. However, because the low-beta funds have a higher Sharpe ratio (0.73 versus 0.56) than the high-beta funds, the mean total portfolio return much higher at the same level of risk. Between January 1994 and January 2012, the annual return of a low-beta portfolio at risk parity with a high-beta portfolio outperformed by 160 basis points (6.86% for low-beta versus 5.26% for high-beta).
Taking advantage of lower-risk investments means either increasing one's equity exposure within a portfolio or increasing portfolio leverage in order to align portfolio risk with a client's risk tolerance. Both of these can be difficult. In the example above, a low-beta equity strategy requires more than an 80% equity allocation in order to provide the same risk as a traditional 60/40 portfolio. Is it possible to defend such a high equity allocation as suitable for an average client? Although technically appropriate, it flies in the face of a long-held paradigm among investors. In order to take advantage of low-beta investing strategies, it may be necessary to move beyond seeing a portfolio as a percentage of stocks and bonds.
Are there ways to practically increase portfolio leverage? One easy and inexpensive way to increase leverage is by borrowing against home equity by refinancing a mortgage and investing the proceeds in a high Sharpe ratio asset portfolio. Home equity is a relatively inexpensive source of long-run leverage that avoids some of the pitfalls of margin investing as well as being a tax-advantaged form of borrowing.
Like value and small-cap investing, evidence is mounting that a low-beta strategy provides a potential source of alpha for investors. While CAPM may not officially be dead, its cracks provide an opportunity for investors to gain an edge.
Michael Finke is a professor and coordinator of the doctoral program in personal financial planning at Texas Tech University.


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.eu registration changes and Brexit
Due to the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, the European Commission has decided how .eu domains will be managed for UK residents. Based on the European Commission's decision, effective immediately, GoDaddy will stop selling .eu domain names to customers with a UK registrant contact on their domain name. As Brexit negotiations continue, we will be learning more details about how these changes will affect you.
Note: Due to ongoing uncertainties over the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, EURid has placed on hold any plan regarding domain names registered to individuals and undertakings located in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar. All dates are subject to change at any time, and we will continue to provide information as we receive it. You can follow updates on EURid's official update page. Thank you for your patience.
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Nvidia today announced a new addition to its Tegra family of mobile processors – the Tegra 4i. The Tegra 4i uses the same 4-plus-1 architecture that Nvidia used on the Tegra 3 and Tegra 4. However, the company has replaced the Cortex-A15 cores on the Tegra 4i with four Cortex-A9 cores clocked at 2.3GHz.
"NVIDIA is delivering for the first time a single, integrated processor that powers all the major functions of a smartphone," said Phil Carmack, senior vice president of the Mobile business at NVIDIA. "Tegra 4i phones will provide amazing computing power, world-class phone capabilities, and exceptionally long battery life."
On the GPU side, Nvidia has bumped the numbers of "cores" from 12 to a whopping 60. The T4i also boasts of the same Chimera camera technology that the Tegra 4 has. This allows the Tegra 4i to shoot and record videos in HDR in less than a second, and even capture HDR panoramas.
One advantage that the Tegra 4i will have over its faster sibling, Tegra 4, is an inbuilt i500 LTE modem. Nvidia showed off the Tegra 4i in its reference Android platform, the Phoenix, that sports a 5-inch 1080p display, 2GB of RAM and an 8/13MP camera sensor from Sony or Aptina.
Nvidia Tegra 4i powered Android smartphones and tablets should hit the retail shelves sometime in the second half of Q2, 2013.


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FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. — The heavy snow stopped falling Tuesday evening, but Danbury resident Scott Clifford was still out plowing the snow on Wednesday morning.
Clifford, who operates a local snow-plowing business, was shoveling out the Peachwave in Brookfield, which is owned by his family.
It will take a long time to clean up from Tuesday's blizzard -- which dumped 7 to 20 inches of snow across Fairfield County.
"We put down salt [Tuesday] night and got two hours of sleep, and got back out this morning," he said between cleanup jobs. "We are waiting for the sun to work with the salt to melt the hard-pack layer on top of the asphalt. Then we have to go back and scrape all the slush off the parking lot so they will be finally done."
Clifford's company has plowing jobs in Brookfield, Bethel, Redding and Danbury.
Plowing snow is a never-ending job.
"As long as there is water in the parking lot, it will freeze again at night," he said. "We have five or six condo complexes to do. We have to be vigilant and check on them when they're wet because you don't know when they're going to be a sheet of ice."
Any snow and slush left on roads and sidewalks will remain frozen Wednesday, as temperatures struggle to reach the mid-20s by the afternoon, the National Weather Service said.
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Looks like a nice one. I've never thought of Citra in an English Pale Ale, but I do think a restrained US hop fruitiness compliments the style when done right. My personal preference is hops with a stone fruit flavor (like Caliente or Meridian) to compliment the esters coming from the British yeast, but I bet Centennial or Amarillo would be nice as well.
Interesting. My guess would have been that the Citra would totally overwhelm the Goldings.
No such thing as Citra in an English Pale Ale IMHO. You've Americanized it now.
Quote from: dmtaylor on December 20, 2013, 08:29:24 PMNo such thing as Citra in an English Pale Ale IMHO. You've Americanized it now.A couple years ago I saw Citra, Galaxy, and Simcoe on handpump clips - in London! They are playing with hops too. I can't remember which one I had, it was not over the top, but different than the usual Fuggles Goldings ales.
You crazy beer style maverick!


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Everything we once knew about American energy seems to be changing," writes Michael A. Levi, CFR senior fellow and director of the program on energy security and climate change, in The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future. "The United States can strengthen its economy, improve national security, and confront climate change if it intelligently embraces the historic gains unfolding all across the energy landscape."
In his new book, Levi offers an intricate portrayal of the rapidly evolving American energy landscape—one defined by surging oil and gas production, a thriving renewable energy industry, and falling oil consumption—and illuminates the consequences of these changes for the economy, national security, and the environment.
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The book includes on-the-ground reporting and eye-opening analysis of the country's energy choices, cutting through heated claims made by all sides in America's energy fights. On natural gas, Levi writes: "People who claim that natural gas can propel the U.S. economy in the twenty-first century, if only pesky environmentalists and other concerned citizens lay off, are exaggerating the benefits of the shale gas bonanza. But one needn't exaggerate on this front to conclude that shale gas is a big deal. Indeed the potential consequences go well beyond economics."
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The other morning he asked me if I wanted to go outside and take a shower.
I would love to have a talking bird. For about a week.
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The manufacturer of BlackBerry is investigating after an 11-year-old boy suffered burns to his legs when a mobile phone "exploded" in his bedroom.
Kian McCreath, from Coventry, was taken to hospital after his brother Mason's BlackBerry Curve 9320 reportedly erupted in flames and set his duvet alight.
The family is now calling for the mobile to be recalled from shops.
His mother Sarah, 39, said she unplugged the phone, which had been on charge, and put it on Kian's bed.
She said: "I thought nothing of it, made a cup of tea, then I heard a really loud 'pop' sound. Kian started screaming at the top of his voice, shouting 'My bed's on fire!'."
Research In Motion (RIM), which produces BlackBerry phones, said it has spoken to the family and is waiting for them to provide the products so they can investigate the incident further.
In a statement, RIM said: "RIM takes claims of this nature very seriously and a senior member of our team met with the family today to initiate a full investigation into this matter. In order to proceed with this investigation, we require the products that were involved in this incident to be made available for a full technical review.
"At this point in time, the family has not provided RIM with the battery or charger for analysis and have said they are unable to locate the device itself. We have a team on standby to conduct this investigation as a priority as soon as the family makes these products available to us.
"RIM is committed to ensuring our products are safe and we invest significantly in R&D and testing to ensure we meet or exceed all regulatory standards here in the UK and around the world."
The phone was bought from a Vodafone store in Birmingham. Vodafone declined to comment on whether they would continue to offer the model for sale, but a spokeswoman said they would also be speaking to the boy's family and a replacement phone has been offered.


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I've created a program that runs externally from GRASS v6.4.1, using python 2.6. It imports an ESRI shapefile, and exports a seperate KML for every polygon in this vector file.
Polygons with islands produce a warning message using "v.out.ogr" saying that features without a category were skipped. Looking into this further, these "skipped" features (islands) are processed later. So the program does what it was designed to do, but I would like it so that this warning message is not printed in the terminal.
VERBOSITY setting were set to "0" using:
os.environ['GRASS_VERBOSE']='0' #runs modules silently
But this doesn't take care of warning messages. I found that there is a gisenv variable called DEBUG, can be set to "0" as well so that all warning messages are silenced too. Problem is, I can't seem to get the proper syntax for my GRASS-python script. I've tried:
grass.gisenv() ['set']='DEBUG=0'
Using this line of code atleast allows the program to run, but warning messages are still printed. Other options I've tried terminate the program.
Has anyone successfully set the DEBUG level to "0" in a GRASS-Python script?


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No visit to the Whitsundays is complete without seeing a few islands and Hook Island offers spectacular natural surroundings and excellent snorkelling and diving sites. The second largest island in the Cumberland group, it is 58 square kilometres in size and includes sheltered, picturesque bays, deep fjord-like inlets, ideal sailing and kayaking conditions, multiple moorings and safe anchorages, pristine fringing reefs, secluded beach campsites and the opportunity to see abundant wildlife including sea eagles, kites and ospreys, turtles, reef fish, dolphins, manta rays and humpback whales frolicking in Whitsunday Passage (between June to September).
Many of the local tours will bring you to Hook Island to experience the quality snorkelling at Maureen's Cove and Luncheon Bay or stay overnight at picturesque Stonehaven beach. Macona and Nara inlets offer gorgeous, sheltered overnight anchorages. At the very bottom end of Nara inlet you will find a magic fresh-water rock pool and stunning waterfall after season rains. Walk up the short rocky path to the Ngaro cultural site where you will see ancient rock wall paintings and an interactive display on the history of the Ngaro Aboriginal people.
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The process also focuses on helping countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia and of South-Eastern Europe to improve their environmental standards.
The current structure of the process follows the provisions of the Reform Plan of the "Environment for Europe" process, adopted in 2009 (En/En, Fr/Fr, Ru/Ru). The UNECE Committee on Environmental Policy is the convening body for the preparatory process.
Partner organizations play an important role in the preparatory process and in the Conference. Depending on the identified themes for a Conference, relevant organizations join the process. Among partner organizations for the Seventh Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe", Astana, 21-23 September 2011, are: the European Environment Agency (EEA), the European Commission, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), the World Health Organization (WHO), the OECD Task Force for the Implementation of the Environmental Action Programme for Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia countries (EAP Task Force), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (Forest Europe), the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention), Regional Environmental Centres (REC-CEE, CAREC, REC-Caucasus, REC-Moldova, and REC-Russia), the Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS), and the European ECO-Forum.
To maintain the open nature of the preparatory process and the engagement of all stakeholders, representatives of major groups are invited to participate in meetings of the Committee in preparation of the Conference, as appropriate, in accordance with the existing UN rules and procedures.
The Astana Ministerial Conference is being prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Reform Plan. The preceding six Conferences were prepared by an ad hoc preparatory Working Group of Senior Officials, its Executive Committee in close cooperation with partner organizations in the "Environment for Europe" process.
Ad Hoc Preparatory Working Group of Senior Officials
The Working Group of Senior Officials (WGSO) was an intergovernmental group created for the express purpose of preparing the Ministerial Conferences "Environment for Europe" and for coordinating the follow-up response. Each Working Group of Senior Officials was established by the UNECE Committee on Environmental Policy upon the recommendations of the Ministerial Conferences.
The Working Group of Senior Officials was open to participation of all member States of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. In addition, the Chairpersons of the following were invited as observers:
The Chair of the WGSO had traditionally been chosen from the host country of the next Conference.
The UNECE served as secretariat to the WGSO.
On the recommendation of the Ministers at the Second Ministerial Conference, in Lucerne, Switzerland, the first WGSO was established in 1993, and, on the recommendation of the Ministers at the Third Ministerial Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, the second was established in 1996. The third WGSO was established in 1999, on the recommendation of the Ministers at the Fourth Ministerial Conference, in Aarhus, Denmark. The fourth WGSO was established in 2004 on the recommendation of the Ministers at their Fifth Ministerial Conference, in Kiev, Ukraine, to prepare the Belgrade Ministerial Conference.
Executive Committee of the Working Group of Senior Officials
Terms of reference of the Ad Hoc Preparatory Working Group of Senior Officials called for the establishment of an Executive Committee which would serve as the Bureau of the Working Group. The Executive Committee was composed of representatives of eight UNECE member States, including one from South-Eastern Europe; two from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, one from North America and four from other UNECE member States.
The Working Group also invited participation in the Executive Committee from: the Chair of the UNECE Committee on Environmental Policy, one of the co-Chairs of the OECD Task Force for the Implementation of the Environmental Action Programme (EAP Task Force), the Chair of the Project Preparation Committee (PPC), and the Chair of the Council for the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy; a representative of the Presidency of the European Union, a senior representative of the European Commission, a senior representative of EcoForum and one senior representative from the regional environmental centres.
The Executive Committee was chaired by the host country and the secretariat services were provided by UNECE. The Executive Committee could invite other organizations to participate in the preparations pending a decision on the theme of an upcoming Conference.
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Was Ruth a member of the visible covenant (God's covenant people) when she was married to Naomi's son? Or, if she was not, when (at what point) did she become a member of the visible covenant?
Your question touches on proselytes. The O.T. frequently mentions proselytes, as does the N.T. See for example, the account of Pentecost in Acts 2:
And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes. (Acts 2:8-10, New American Standard Bible)
The NASB footnote on Acts 2:10 defines "proselytes" as "Gentile converts to Judaism ."
At least one of the church's first "deacons" was a proselyte:
Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word. And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. (Acts 6:3-5, English Standard Version)
Acts 13:43 refers to "devout converts to Judaism," ESV.
By circumcision a non-Jew was to be treated as a full Israelite (Ex. 12:48f).
And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. (Ex. 12:43-44, ESV)
Male aliens, though uncircumcised, were to be treated well, even with love:
When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God. (Lev. 19:33-34, ESV)
Ruth became a proselyte, a member of God's covenant people. We are simply not told when—the Book of Ruth is not interested in such a detail. For such questions we are shut up to surmise. To say this is not to yield to complete uncertainty, however.
About ten years after the family left to go to Moab Naomi's two sons died, perhaps close to the same time. Probably early in that ten-year period Ruth married into the family. The perfectly good surmise is that during the time Ruth was married to Naomi's son (a span of years) she heard much about Israel's God from her husband and from Naomi. Then, in God's providence, this came to full conscious faith in Yahweh. Was there at any time in the history of God's people to this day a more deep-seated and moving profession of faith than Ruth's: "your people will be my people and your God my God"?
Later, Boaz could speak to her as one who had come to take refuge under the wings of the God of Israel. Ruth had burned her bridges behind her! All because she had "wholeheartedly accepted the God of Israel and gladly became a member of His chosen people" (from the Korte Verklaring commentary on the Book of Ruth).
Finally, note Ruth's solemn oath:
Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me. (Ruth 1:17, ESV.)
This was a self-maledictory oath, of which the O.T. records several (e.g., 1 Sam. 3:17; 25:22; 1 Kings 2:23).
Ruth didn't become a member of God's people via some religious ceremony. We're not told of such, nor should we expect to find such in the book. She certainly did not become a member of God's people by virtue of her marriage! In Scripture marriage is not the gateway into the kingdom! It is enough that Ruth came to acknowledgement of the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Thank you for writing. I hope that my comments are of help.
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The Arts Are Essential
Caught between the demands of testing and an uncertain economy, arts programs occupy a vulnerable and shrinking niche in the school curriculum. Despite research showing the benefits of exposure to the arts, art programs are frequently the first to go when budgets are stripped and standardized testing takes center stage.
With the arts go fine arts specialists, whose expertise enables them to guide students to a deeper experience of appreciating and creating art. We cannot let the arts disappear from public education. Every student deserves the benefits of a comprehensive fine arts program and instructors uniquely qualified to deliver it.
One way to preseve the arts is to integrate them across the curriculum.
Articles from NEA Today
Educators Who Change Lives: Marching to a New Beat
How one North Carolina teacher got his at-risk boys singing a song of success. (Jan-Feb 2011)
- As Art Goes, So Go Our Schools
A Maryland teacher's passionate plea to keep the arts in schools. (March 2011)
- Discipline Tips from Drama Teachers
[Enter, stage left]: The discipline pro! That would be your school's drama teacher, who shares her strategies for classroom management and student engagement. Ta-da! (August 2009)
- Yo! From Tupac to the Bard
Educators are stepping to a new beat, making use of hip-hop music to engage their students. (November 2008)
- Dance of the Trapezoid
Educators use the power of the arts to teach math and science (May 2008)
- State of the Arts
When tap shoes are silenced and paintbrush bristles left to harden, student achievement suffers—often at the schools where the arts are needed the most. (January 2007)
Watch Wynton Marsalis deliver the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His text: The Ballad of American Arts.
Watch NEA Executive Director John Wilson affirm NEA's commitment to keeping the arts at the forefront of education for the 21st century. (National Press Club, 2008)


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Snap: Raise high the goalpost (and grease it)
Members of UVA's intramural sports department raise a repaired goal post in Madison Bowl, or Mad Bowl, at 8:23am of March 4. One member of the morning bar-raising team said the work came in the wake of damage caused by people hanging on the cross bar. They hope, he said, to prevent a repeat performance by applying an industrial lubricant. (The sogginess in Mad Bowl thanks to nearly three inches of rain in the past two days would have been even soggier had UVA not embarked on a mammoth drainage project in January 2006.)
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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
Lauren Alaina is gunning for Brad Paisley as a judge on American Idol.
"I think that would be really cool. He has a great personality and every time I've talked with him he's been super nice. He is really cool. I think that would be a good move for the show," the former Idol contestant turned country singer told CMT Radio.
So far, no other artists that I know of have spoken up about Paisley's possible invitation to sit at the judges table with Randy Jackson and Mariah Carey. I wonder what American Idol winner Scotty McCreery would think. He's been touring with Paisley all summer and would probably have some great insight into how he would fit into that panel.
There's still no official word on all this talk, but if it does happen, I think it would make a whole bunch of country fans extremely happy, proud and feeling very well-represented.
In other American Idol judge recruitment news, Toby Keith was reportedly offered the job. He turned down the offer due to scheduling conflicts.


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by Angie Patrick
Strange question, Angie! How on Earth can SAVING money actually COST you money? As improbable and counter intuitive as that statement may seem, there is some truth in there that can be easily overlooked, and cost you big bucks on your bottom line. There are smart ways to save, and there are ways that are not so smart. Let's start with the not so smart ways first.
If, for the sake of saving a few shekels, you have backed off of your service level, needed staffing, benefit programs, multiple visit discounts or any other program you had in place to differentiate your business from your competition, you have cost yourself money. Why, you ask? Well, you have built your business on the backs of all of those things you are now looking to cut. Without them, will customers perceive you as the same company, or will they search elsewhere for the service, perks, and discounts you used to offer? Yes, you may save cash in the short term, but if you calculate the cost of obtaining a customer, plus the cost of keeping them, you will find that cutting in the wrong places has cost you far more than you may have thought you saved! Customers are golden, and losing one hurts not only for the moment, but for the long haul. If you ever want to reclaim that customer, it will now cost you twice what it did to gain them in the first place as now you need to incentivize them to return, which leads to surrendering your profit margin to correct an error on your part for giving them a reason to look elsewhere.
Consider even the smallest cuts and how they will be percieved. If your clients are accustomed to a lovely cup of herb tea or bottled water after their treatment, they consider it part of the experience you provide. Cutting this is tantamount to cutting service level in the eyes of your client, as they have now become accustomed to the perk. Without it, they may perceive your business as failing, and have a small excuse to look elsewhere. Once they do, and are successful, you have now lost a client over a cup of tea /bottle of water. You saved 20 bucks at the store, but you lost a client and therefore revenue totaling far more than tea for 100 people. Sounds small, I know, but EVERYTHING is about perception. You may well be the most magical and amazing therapist on the planet. You could even make people levitate with your skills, but if you begin to let your client see you tightening the belt on their experience, you will lose them. It is that simple.
Find other ways to save without sacrificing anything to do with the client perception of your business. Smarter ways to cut back are ways that impact your personal knowledge of the business, not cutting in the eyes of the client. One way may be to look at your expenses, and see if you can consolidate some of them. Let's take a look at how you might be able to do this without much upheaval in your daily life.
Take a long look at your vendors. Is it possible to combine your purchases and consolidate 3 vendors to one? In our hometown, you can get special incentives and discounts when you bundle all of your utilities into one package. I save about 20% when I utilize this service, and while I did have to pay a set up fee, I can lessen my monthly bill and therefore free up regular cash flow.
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There's still time to enjoy Ireland's The Gathering 2013, the hugely successful celebration of Irish history and culture, not least for the many special events running through September and October as part of Dublin's festival season.
Dublin has a long history of nurturing actors, writers, and musicians and festival season is time for this vibrant city to showcase its culture. This year's festival is more ambitious than ever this year because Dublin is a key city in The Gathering.
Through Sept. 22, the Dublin Fringe Festival hosts about 1,000 artists in over 600 events. The Fringe provides a platform for new companies as well as more established artists to perform in all manner of venues. Expect innovative performances from Irish and international artists in an eclectic lineup.
On Sept. 15, thousands will be looking to the skies during FlightFest. The Irish Aviation Authority has invited 30 commercial and historic aircraft from Ireland and abroad for a two-hour fly past through the downtown core. The Irish Air Corps and the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force are also scheduled to participate.
Oktoberfest Dublin will be a treat for lovers of international beers. From Sept. 19 to Oct. 6, a traditional German market will feature over 30 food producers and traders selling the best of Bavarian delicacies, beer and wine. You might find yourself learning to yodel and polka with a decidedly Irish twist.
Dublin's museums, churches, cathedrals and art galleries throw open their doors for Culture Night on Sept. 20. From 5 p.m. until 11 p.m. all ages are invited to travel the city enjoying Irish culture. There are even free performances on all Dublin buses and trams. The evening culminates with a specially commissioned piece performed by the RTE Concert Orchestra in Meeting House Square.
A special day for merrymaking is Arthur's Day on Sept. 26, when Ireland raises a pint to celebrate Arthur Guinness, who founded Dublin's most famous brewery in 1759. More than 1,000 musicians will be on hand to entertain in the pubs across Ireland. Arthur's Day is famous for its surprise participants but this year's confirmed lineup includes homegrown talents as well as internationally acclaimed artists Manic Street Preachers, Emeli Sandé, Janelle Monae and the legendary Bobby Womack.
The Dublin Theatre Festival (Sept. 26 to Oct. 13) never fails to confirm why Ireland is such a powerhouse in theatre. This is the time to see the best of Irish and world theatre. To mark the 60th anniversary of Waiting for Godot, the festival is mounting a new production of Samuel Beckett's masterpiece. Playwright Frank McGuinness unveils The Hanging Gardens, his first play for the Abbey Theatre in 14 years, and Gate Theatre presents Mark O'Rowe's new translation of The Threepenny Opera.
Other festival highlights include the premiere of The Event by Scottish playwright David Greig, a staging of Eugene O'Neill's Desire under the Elms and a public lecture by the award-winning actress Fiona Shaw.
Hard Working Class Heroes swings into its eleventh year with new Irish voices performing in various city-centre venues from Oct. 3 to 5. The popular festival features 100 bands in six venues and gets Dublin rocking. Audiences have a chance to hear some of the most original music being created in Ireland today.
The Irish Architecture Foundation hosts Open House Dublin 2013 from Oct. 4 to 6. Explore the city's diverse architecture as close to 100 buildings open their doors to the public. Hundreds of local experts will give lectures and tours of Dublin's most iconic buildings as well as some of the beautiful hidden gems. You can experience ancient cathedrals and medieval castles as well as explore Victorian offices and the splendour of Dublin's Georgian homes.
Since 1979, the Dublin City Marathon has attracted runners from around the world. The 34th marathon takes place on Oct. 28 with a 42-kilometre course starting and finishing on O'Connell Street, Dublin's main thoroughfare. There is no qualifying time required and the course is also open to walkers. Those not keen to participate can join the street parties to cheer the runners along before heading to one of the pubs along Temple Street.
Finally, visitors can celebrate the changing seasons with Dublin's Samhain Festival, the traditional Halloween event signalling the end of the Celtic summer. Spooky celebrations start with the three-day Bram Stoker Festival from Oct. 25 to 27 and continue through the end of the month. There are literary workshops celebrating the Dublin novelist who created Dracula, walks through haunted streets and a ghoulish spectacle at Dublin Castle. On Oct. 31, the Samhain nighttime parade winds its way through the Parnell Square to Temple Bar and Wood Quay finishing with fireworks.
Discover Ireland: ireland.com
Dublin Fringe Festival: www.fringefest.com
FlightFest — The Irish Aviation Gathering: www.flightfest.ie
Oktoberfest Dublin: oktoberfest-dublin.de
Culture Night: www.culturenight.ie
Arthur's Day: www.guinness.com/en-ie/arthursday/
Dublin Theatre Festival: www.dublintheatrefestival.com
Hard Working Class Heroes: www.visitdublin.com/event/Hard_Working_Class_Heroes_2013
Open House Dublin: http://www.openhousedublin.com
Dublin City Marathon: http://dublinmarathon.ie
Bram Stoker Festival: www.visitdublin.com/event/Bram_Stoker_Festival


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Austrian Pine - Pinus nigra Bare Root Plants 20-40cms
Pinus Nigra is a very tough, large pine tree with a dense covering of stiff dark green needles. This tree is evergreen and much used as a screen and wind break even in coastal areas. Austrian Pine have very bushy growth and a conical shape which is held long into maturity.
The bark is dark brown to almost black and fissured. Grows on most soils and is less fussy than our native Scots Pine.
Growing to 15-20m tall Pinus nigra is ideal for large gardens and parks either grown as a specimen or used as a wind break.
These plants are bare root, available to plant when dormant in winter, we supply from November – April.
Please select the size and quantity of your Pine tree below.
Bare Root plants are available from early November to late March We can take Pre-orders before this time and dispatch the plants as soon as they are available.
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Pinus nigra - Austrian Pine Bare Root plant
Plant Information
- Size: 20/40cm
- Botanical name/s: Pinus nigra
- Common name/s: Austrian Pine
- Flower / Foliage: Produces 6-8cm long brown cones. The leaves are very tough, dark green needles 8-15cm long
- Plant type: Evergreen
- Flowering period: N/A
- Mature height: 15-20 metres
- Mature spread: Up to 6 metres
- Growth Rate: Fast when young, slowing with age.
- Recommended usage: Can be grown in larger gardens and parks as a specimen tree or used as a screen or wind break.
- Nursery grown: Yes
After Care / Plant Maintenance
- Pinus nigra plants must be heeled-in firmly around the base of the plants. Bare root plants will benefit from watering in the early stages of establishment.
- Check tree tie / stake isn't rubbing and / or too tight or too loose on the trunk.
- Check for and remove any dead, decaying, diseased or crossing branch.
- Remove any weeds from around the base of the Austrian Pine (including grass).
- Position/Aspect: Full sun to partial shade
- Soil: Does well in clay, loamy and sandy soils.
- Hardiness: Pinus nigra is fully hardy in the UK
- Plant maintenance: Low maintenance
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Summertime is often thought of as a chance for students to rest and enjoy a little time off.
But for athletes trying to rise to the top of their sport, summer becomes a time to fine-tune their skills. Sometimes that means competing with, not against, high school rivals. Subsequently, the rivals often become friends.
"Any athlete tends to go all-out hard against the best, so when you put the best with the best, they're going to push each other," said Kevin Obee, a former Rockford Raptors coach who now leads the Rockford Christian soccer teams. "For us, it always works out well when you bring some former rivals together to be teammates. It's about getting better, and they understand that."
Obee's Rockford Christian girls' team won its first sectional title last season and went on to place fourth in the state. His star player, Haley Kittle, battled all season with Stillman Valley's Abby Timm for the area's scoring lead. This summer, the pair play together in the Raptors program.
"I've played together with a lot of the girls that were on other teams in high school, and it's fun," said Kittle, who has a scholarship to play on the first women's soccer team at the University of Illinois-Chicago this fall. "It doesn't matter to any of us once we're out there. When you're playing together on the same team, the rivalries are gone."
The region boasts plenty of summer sports teams, including soccer, basketball, baseball, softball and volleyball, with rosters containing high school rivals.
The Raptors may have the most, though. All of their teenage teams have at least two NIC-10 players who battle each other during the high school season.
Monica Armendariz and Karley Draheim grew up playing soccer at Harlem and the Rockford Raptors, but they will be on opposite sides of the field in a couple of months when they play for different Mid-West Athletic Conference community college teams.
Then there are the Raptor players like Belvidere's Adrienne Giglio who played against Boylan's Loren Campbell and Emma Krahmer in high school. The trio played together at just about every level of Raptors club soccer. Next year, they will all play for Robert Morris University. There they will play against Raptor teammates, and former high school rivals, Haley Swords (Roosevelt), Julia Leucke (Olivet Nazarene) and Meghan Blackburn (Trinity).
The Rockford Ambassadors basketball organization is filled with former opponents who have become teammates, according to program coordinator Reggie Biffle.
"It's a good thing all the way around," Biffle said. "Not only does it give the players a chance to go up against the rest of the best in practice every day, but I think it helps build respect between the star players, too."
Biffle compared it to the Dream Team from the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, when the biggest NBA stars of that era came together on one team. According to Michael Jordan and the rest of the team's leaders, the practices were more competitive than any game.
The same is true for Club Fusion's powerhouse volleyball program. Head coach Tammi Haverly insists her girls improve immensely just from going up against each other in workouts.
"It always adds a little something extra to it when your peers are out there with you," Haverly said. "There's no doubt that rivals bring out the best in one another, especially when they are going head to head, or when they have to work together to get a win."
Boylan's Bryanna Weiskircher and Hononegah's Katie Kniep came together as Fusion teammates on and off for the past five years, and next year they will face each other on the big stage: Weiskircher at Penn State and Kniep at Northwestern.
Brianna Cullen plays for Oregon and Makenzie Zanello for Rockford Lutheran during the prep season, but they recently teamed up to place third in the nation for their Fusion squad. The same held true for Belvidere's Julia O'Malley and four Hononegah standouts who play for the Raptors U-16 squad.
"In volleyball, it's way more of a friendly-rivalry thing, and after they get to know each other, they really look forward to playing against one another," Haverly said. "They become friends — close friends a lot of times. The kids learn to respect each other when they play on the same team, too. It's good for all of them in the end."
AAU basketball brings high school opponents together as do American Legion and youth baseball and softball programs in the area.
"A lot of it goes back to middle school and before," Auburn's boys basketball Coach Bryan Ott said. "Some of these guys are playing together in the summer before they're ever rivals in high school. It helps because they really know how the other one plays, and they feed off each other in a lot of ways."
No matter when it happens, it seems to be beneficial.
There's the old adage, "You have to beat the best to be the best." And Ott says that may still hold true, but it could be adapted to, "You can also play with the best to be the best," he said.
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The Stop Stoning Forever Campaign: A Report
This report details the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign, an Iranian campaign that since 2006 has strived to outlaw stoning from the Iranian Penal Code. It outlines the goals, strategies, and outcomes associated with the Campaign as well as stoning more broadly in Iran.
Terman, Rochelle
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The Holy Guardian Angels – 02 Oct
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The term guardian angels refers to the belief that each person has an angel who is available to shepherd their soul through life, and help bring them to God.
Belief in the reality of angels, their mission as messengers of God, and man's interaction with them, goes back to the earliest times. Cherubim kept Adam and Eve from slipping back into Eden; angels saved Lot and helped destroy the cities of the plains; in Exodus Moses follows an angel, and at one point an angel is appointed leader of Israel. Michael is mentioned at several points, Raphael figures large in the story of Tobit, and Gabriel delivered the Annunciation of the coming of Christ.
The concept of each soul having a personal guardian angel, is also an ancient one, and long accepted by the Church
See that you despise not one of these little ones [children]: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. – Jesus, Matthew 18:10
How great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from his birth an angel commissioned to guard it. – Saint Jerome in his commentary on Matthew
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for them, who shall receive the inheritance of salvation? – Hebrews 1:14
The feast celebrating the angels who helped bring us to God began in many local calendars centuries ago, and was widely known by the 16th century. Pope Paul V placed a feast venerating the angels on the general calendar on 27 September 1608. Ferdinand of Austria requested that it be extended to all areas in the Holy Roman Empire. Initially placed after the feast of Michael the Archangel, it was seen as a kind of supplement to that date. Pope Clement X elevated the feast, celebrated 2 October, to an obligatory double for the whole Church. On 5 April 1883, Pope Leo XIII raised the feast to the rank of a double major.
Angel of God, my Guardian dear,
to whom His love commits me here,
ever this day be at my side,
to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.


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Ok, so I am a Grizzlies fan. I am proud to be a fan of my home town team. Memphis has been the "Susan Lucci" of pro sports cities for a long time, so when the Grizzlies moved in 2001, I was hooked instantly. The franchise has had some success since moving, making the playoffs twice. But when the team has been bad, it's been horrible. I would hope those of you still reading this post (if you didn't move on after reading this was a post about a sorry NBA franchise) would allow me to vent. After all, Thomas created this blog to show "how ALL sports teams suck"…
Today, the Grizzlies traded star forward Pau Gasol to the Los Angeles Lakers for (drumroll please) center Kwame Brown, guard Javaris Crittenton, guard Aaron McKie, the rights to Pau's younger brother Marc, and first round picks in the 2008 and 2010 draft. According to reports, the Grizzlies traded an unhappy star while in his prime and got cap relief in the process.
Let me translate what the Grizzlies got in return: the poster child of broken confidence and draft busts (Brown), another guard that they did not need (Crittenton), a guard who is old and on the inactive list (McKie), Gasol's younger brother (who couldn't even do squat against private school competition while going to school in Memphis), and 2 draft picks with a franchise that has been more miss than hit when it comes to draft picks. What the hell??? The Grizz might as well have just asked the Lakers for some bags of rice with all the magic beans they just got from LA. The team has been shopping Gasol for a while now and was rumored to go to the Bulls for a few actually good players (Gordon, Deng) but the best we could get back was Kwame Brown??? I think Woody Paige would have been a better fit for the team's up tempo style, plus he is just as much of a stiff as Kwame Brown.
This is a franchise that doesn't know what the hell they are doing right now. It is at best no more of an unmitigated disaster than post WWII Dresden. The team plays in a brand new arena with decent sight lines, you can get a $5 ticket to watch a game, and yet the team struggles to draw 10,000. When did the team become the Atlanta Hawks???
So what now??? I say they trade guard Mike Miller, build around Rudy Gay and Mike Conley and go from there. I am calling for owner Mike Heisley to sell the franchise to someone locally who will give a damn about the team. The team cannot relocate because of a city-franchise agreement, so sell to FedEx Founder/CEO Fred Smith, rename the team the Express or something related to package delivery, and call it a day. Or they could name the team the Bullets, since there's millions of those flying around the city (though the Wizards may have an issue with that). The point being is that crap rolls downhill, and even though I said in the About the Wirters section that there are 547 Grizzlies fans worldwide, at this rate by this season's end there will be 329. I will still be one, if only because my blood pressure is already high enough, so what the hell would a few more points matter???
As for what to do with the Pau Gasol jersey that I bought a few years ago (caught it on sale from Marshall's when the NBA switched from Reebok to adidas apparel), I do have a solution, because we are a solutions-oriented blog:
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Findings Glossary
Enjoy our glossary of findings. There are so many different kinds to learn about and use.
A bail enables you to turn a bead into a pendant and hang it from a chain or cord when the bead has a hole going across the top (instead of through the center). A click bail has a hinge mechanism that allows the bail to open and close around the bead. Other bails have prongs that are squeezed together to secure the bead. Another type has a simple coiled shape that goes through the bead.
Bead Cone
Cones conceal knots, crimp beads, or chain ends and connect the beadwork to the clasp or other finding. Cones are especially useful when you are merging multiple strands toward a single clasp.
Bead Tip
Bead tips (also called knot cups) conceal and secure knots tied with silk cord or other stringing materials and connect the cord to the clasp. In addition to hiding the knot, bead tips protect the cord from friction, making the connection between the cord and the clasp stronger.
Box Clasp
Box clasps are a beautiful way to finish necklaces or bracelets. The smaller side of a box clasp slides into the larger and locks into place. Available in single- or multi-strand designs, this clasp will bring a delicate, classic look to any of your pieces.
Cord End
Cord ends are used to fasten leather and fabric cords or beading chain. To attach, slip the end of the cord or chain into the hollow cord end, then crimp firmly with chain nose pliers.
Crimp Bead
Crimp beads are small tubular or round beads that are used to secure a clasp to flexible beading wire or other stringing material that cannot be knotted. Crimp beads can also be used on each side of a "floating" bead to hold it in place on flexible beading wire (such as Soft Flex or Beadalon), transparent beading thread or cord. When crimped with a crimping tool, a crimp bead will have smooth, rounded edges and will be most securely attached.
Crimp Bead Cover
Crimp bead covers conceal crimp beads, adding a polished, professional touch to your jewelry. Use pliers to gently squeeze the two sides of a cover together over a crimp bead. Check out our Beading Technique page for step-by-step instructions.
End Bar Link
End bar links serve as a transitional finding for single- and multi-strand designs. They can also connect multi-strand pieces to other findings. These links usually have one loop on one side and multiple loops on the other.
Eye Pin
Eye pins are similar to head pins except the wire ends with a small loop instead of a head. The loop can be attached to another eye pin, head pin, clasp or other finding. Links can then be connected to form chains or long dangles. Eye pins come in different gauges (usually 20-26 gauge) and lengths.
Head Pin
Head pins are straight pieces of wire with a flat, round or decorative end. Slide one or more beads onto a head pin and form a wrapped or simple loop on the open end. The head keeps the beads from sliding off. You can connect these dangles to other findings or chain to create earrings, necklaces or bracelets. Head pins come in different gauges (usually 20-26 gauge) and lengths.
Hook and Eye Clasp
A hook and eye clasp looks like its name. Attach the hook to one end of your jewelry and the eye to the other. To fasten, catch the eye with the hook. This clasp can be simple, ornate or even hidden by a decorative piece. Hook and eye clasps are available for single- or multi-strand designs. This clasp style is best used with heavier necklaces so that gravity will keep the clasp from releasing unintentionally.
Jump Ring
Jump rings are small rings of wire used to attach wire elements or charms to other elements. They can also be used as a catch for clasps such as lobster claw and S clasps. Open jump rings can be opened and re-closed with pliers. Closed jump rings are stronger because they have been soldered, forming a continuous circle.
Lobster Claw Clasp
Lobster claw clasps are among the most popular clasp choices. Available in many sizes, styles and materials, lobster claw clasps use tension from a spring-loaded mechanism to keep the clasp securely closed. The claw catches a jump ring, loop or piece of chain on the other end of a bracelet or necklace.
Multi-Strand Clasp
Multi-strand clasps are available as toggles, hook and eyes, slide bars and box clasps. These clasps work the same way as single-strand clasps except that they have multiple loops available to attach to more than one strand of wire or thread.
S Clasp
S clasps are similar to hook and eye clasps except that an eye catches each side of the S clasp. Chain links can also be used as a catch for the S clasp.
Spacers separate the strands of a multi-strand design so that they drape elegantly. Spacer bars have multiple holes along the length. Spacer beads, many of which are embellished with decorative designs, have multiple holes going through them.
Split Ring
Split rings, which resemble tiny key rings, have a double loop of wire, which makes them more secure than jump rings. You will want to be careful not to spread the two rings too far apart when attaching a split ring; a split ring plier can be very helpful.
Spring Ring Clasp
Similar in function to a lobster claw clasp, a spring ring clasp is round with a spring-loaded mechanism that closes around a loop or jump ring.
Toggle Clasp
Another popular choice, toggle clasps are an easy-to-fasten, secure way to finish a necklace or bracelet. Attach the toggle bar to one end of your jewelry and the toggle ring to the other. To fasten, simply pivot the bar so that it can slip inside the ring, then pivot the bar again to secure it. The bar is longer than the diameter of the ring to keep the clasp secured. Toggles are available for both single- or multi-strand designs.
Tube Bar Clasp
Tube bar clasps are ideal for multi-strand necklaces and bracelets. One side of the tube bar is grooved and the other is slotted. Slide the two pieces together, and they lock into place. Some tube bar clasp styles include a magnetic feature, making closure even more secure.
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Luke Perry (born Coy Luther Perry III; October 11, 1966) is an American actor. Perry starred as Dylan McKay on the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role he played from 1990–95, and then from 1998–2000. Much publicity was garnered over the fact that even though he was playing a sixteen year old when 90210 began, Perry was actually in his early twenties (24) at that time. Perry returned to 90210 in 1998 (this time billed as a permanent "Special Guest Star") and remained with the series until its conclusion in 2000.
After appearing in the music video "Be Chrool To Your Scuel" for the band Twisted Sister alongside Alice Cooper, Perry's earliest roles were in the daytime soap operas Loving (1987–88) and Another World (1988–89).
Following this, he then won the role of brooding millionaire's son Dylan McKay on Fox's appealing teen drama, Beverly Hills, 90210. He had auditioned for the role of Steve Sanders, a role that went to actor Ian Ziering before being cast as Dylan McKay. While starring on 90210, Perry then won a supporting role in the original film version of the Joss Whedon-written Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992). Perry had already become a very popular teen idol in the early 1990s. Perry also starred in Terminal Bliss in 1992.


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Willie Taggart traveled less than two miles from his parents' home to greet a couple of hundred family members, friends and University of South Florida football fans.
"I could have ridden my bike over here," Taggart said before addressing the adoring crowd.
The hometown faithful provided a homecoming for their returning hero Monday night at the Bradenton Area Convention Center.
The former state champion quarterback for Manatee High, who went on to star at the same position at Western Kentucky University, was hired as the new USF football coach last December, following a three-year stint with the same job at his college alma mater.
"I am so proud of him," said Gloria Taggart, the mother of the new USF coach. "I'm glad he's here in Florida now. I'll get to see him more than I have in the past. It's wonderful."
When asked if she ever dreamed of a day like this for her son when he was playing quarterback at Manatee, Gloria Taggart said, "I was always nervous and praying because he was so small."
"It was always exciting for me to know that my son was out there. He never gave up. He just kept at it. He was always determined. I loved that about him.
"That's my baby, so you know I'm going to be there."
Willie Taggart hadn't seen some of his high school teammates, like linebacker Chris Smith, for several years before Monday.
"I thought he was going to tackle me again," he said of renewing his friendship with Smith. "The hardest I ever got hit was by him during practice. When I got up I was looking out my ear-hole.
"It was good to see those guys. It's been a while since I've seen some of my teammates at Manatee, as well as some friends I grew up with. Their support means a lot to me."
Taggart signed a five-year contract with USF for $1.5 million per season.
"It's always fun to come back here and see all the support I have," he said. "It's always gratifying and keeps me motivated to keep doing what I'm doing."
Taggart also had his family, wife Taneshia and their two sons Willie Jr. and Jackson, on hand for the friendly festivities.
Taggart and his future wife met while students at WKU. Taggart's family realizes that the new USF coach will be extremely busy embarking on his first season building a program.
"My mom knows there is a lot of work to be done," Taggart said. "She won't get to see me as much as she would like.
"This lets you know that hard work pays off. I'm living the dream right now. To get that chance to do that this close to home is an opportunity that doesn't come along very often."
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Willie Taggart traveled less than two miles from his parents' home to greet a couple of hundred family members, friends and University of South Florida football fans.


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5-year-old drummer rocks Station Square
Avery Molek plays with Code Whiskey at Hard Rock Cafe
When it comes to the school of rock, Avery Molek is at the head of the class.
The 5-year-old drummer from Washington, Pa., with a love for KISS music took the stage Thursday night with Pittsburgh rock group Code Whiskey to play some of their favorite Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen and AC/DC songs.
The performance was part of Mosites Bike Nights at the Hard Rock Cafe at Station Square.
But Molek, who's been drumming since the age of 2 and already has his own website, told Channel 4 Action News anchor Sally Wiggin he doesn't sweat playing with band mates old enough to be his parents.
"I don't care about the grownups. I don't worry about the grownups. I just do it," said Molek.
Although he admitted they don't always treat him like a kid, especially when it comes to watching their language around him.
"No, they're not careful. They are not. They say too many bad words," he said with a laugh.
Molek told Wiggin the biggest challenge when playing a live show is to stay focused on his drumming, rather than look at the audience.
When asked what would happen if he did, Molek replied, without missing a beat, "You'll mess up."