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Kris Jenner knows how to make an entrance — and an entrance hall. The controversial reality star and momager will debut her daytime talk show Kris for a six-week test run on Fox-owned stations starting July 15 — and her set is sure to look mighty familiar to any fan of E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians. It's a near duplicate of the Art Deco foyer in Jenner's Calabasas, Cal., mansion, complete with a double grand staircase, checkered floor and lavish chandeliers.
"All that's missing is Fred Astaire," cracks Jenner, who joined forces with production designer Anton Goss (The Voice) to recreate her home away from home. "I know other talk-show sets are intimate and conservative, but I dream big." And she swears that's perfect for small talk on a couch. "We need energy and glamour in the afternoon," says Jenner, who intends to kick off each day of her talk show by sweeping down those stairs. "I make a grand entrance down my own staircase at least once a day only there's nobody there to enjoy it. I'm like, 'Where is everybody?' That's why I needed a talk show!"

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Investors are getting out of U.S. stocksMay 22, 2014: 6:37 AM ET
Stocks may be near record highs, but investors are getting out.
New data released Wednesday show investors have slashed their exposure to U.S. stocks in recent weeks, choosing instead to pile into bonds or simply hold cash.
Many are still fearful of another major drop in the stock market, and they aren't sure how to read the current conditions. It's a peculiar period in the market with tumbling small-cap stocks, diminished volatility and low interest rates for the foreseeable future.
"Investors' fear over the equity market has not faded from the crisis. That may need a generation to pass," said Brian Rehling, chief fixed income strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors, which manages about $1.4 trillion in assets.
It's clear that trepidation is leading at least some investors to back off -- even as many strategists stress the need to stay exposed to stocks as the economy improves.
Related: Why are bond yields so low?
Investors yanked about $8.2 billion from U.S. long-term equity mutual funds during the three weeks ending May 14, according to the Investment Company Institute. These funds were hit by $2.3 billion in net outflows in the final week alone.
By comparison, domestic stock funds experienced net inflows of $4.1 billion during the prior three-week period that ended April 23, according to ICI stats.
The money coming out of stocks is increasingly flowing into bonds, helping to drive interest rates unexpectedly lower. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury plunged below 2.5% last week for the first time since Halloween.
ICI said bond funds generated $4 billion of inflows during the week ended May 14, contributing to a three-week influx of $10.4 billion. In fact, bond funds have enjoyed positive flows every month this year except January.
The CNNMoney Fear & Greed Index stood at 25 on Wednesday, indicating "extreme fear." That's down from 89 a year ago, which signaled "extreme greed."
Related: 3 tech stocks worth buying now
Wells Fargo Advisors has only experienced "some modest outflows" from equity funds, Rehling said, adding that it's been "nothing that is moving the needle."
He said that disparity could be due to the fact that Wells Fargo, like many brokerages, has far less exposure to the small-cap stocks that have been under assault in recent months. Most of its investors stick with large cap stocks.
Last week, the Russell 2000 index of small-cap stocks fell into correction territory (market jargon for a 10% fall from a prior high).
While Wells Fargo isn't necessarily seeing a rush out of stocks, Rehling said many clients continue to hold "exceptionally large" amounts of cash in their portfolios. He's advised them to have the courage to deploy that cash into the stock market when opportunities arise.
"Stay the course. Stay well diversified. When you do get pullbacks, take advantage and move cash off the sidelines," Rehling said.


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Iowa Assist. Director of DCI is leaving
An assistant director of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation is leaving after a 28-year career with the state to become the police chief in Indianola.
David Button said Monday that his last day with DCI will be Thursday, and he will start his new job July 29.
Button is currently serving as assistant director of support operations, overseeing the sex offender registry unit, the fingerprint identification system, criminal history checks and other areas. Before that, he oversaw DCI's gaming division, which regulates state casinos.
Button started as a trooper in 1985 before joining DCI, where he worked most of his career investigating major crimes.
He says he's lived in Indianola 26 years, and is excited to become its police chief. He says he will miss his longtime state colleagues.


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Pippa's Song and Other Publications
Pippa's Song
Pippa's Song, the official newsletter of Alice Lloyd College and The June Buchanan School, is published three times a year (April, August, and December) and contains news articles featuring current students, alumni, faculty and staff. A publication of the offices of Marketing and Communications, Development, and Alumni Relations, it seeks to inform Alice Lloyd College alumni and friends about student achievements, campus activities, general updates, alumni accomplishments, and opportunities to connect with each other and the College, as well as to give special recognition to the College's supporters.
Download the Spring 2020 issue of Pippa's Song! (pdf)
Annual Report
Alice Lloyd College is proud of its record of fiscal responsibility. A special Annual Report issue of Pippa's Song is published each spring to inform alumni, friends, and supporters of where our funds originate as well as how we use them in our educational endeavors. The publication is made available online, or you may request that we send a copy of the Annual Report or our latest audit to you by mail.
Miracle on Caney Creek
"When I saw it with my own eyes, I knew I had to stay," remembers June Buchanan, co-founder of Alice Lloyd College. This book written by former ALC president Jerry C. Davis is the inspiring story of how one of America's unique institutions came to be.
A College for Appalachia
In this first full-scale study of Lloyd's life and work and the institution she founded, David Searles shows how this courageous and complex woman struggled throughout her long life against seemingly insurmountable odds to create an institution dedicated to improving life in Appalachia.
Stay On, Stranger!
Stay On, Stranger! (pdf) is a Reader's Digest condensed version of the 1954 book by William S. Dutton. The story is a colorful history of Caney Junior College (renamed Alice Lloyd College in 1962) and its founders, Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd and June Buchanan.
Purpose Road Philosophy
This is the ethics teaching manual (pdf) used by Alice Lloyd and June Buchanan to teach the Purpose Road philosophy.
Mountain Spirit Article
"Two Women, A Few Poems, and God" (pdf) — a news article that appeared in a 1983 printing of the Mountain Spirit magazine, which was produced by the Christian Appalachian Project.


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Tithes and Offerings
Get answers to questions about the standards of the Church. Choose a topic above to see more.
What should I fast for?
"You can fast for many purposes. Fasting is one way of worshiping God and expressing gratitude to Him (see Luke 2:37; Alma 45:1). You can fast as you ask Heavenly Father to bless the sick or afflicted (see Matthew 17:14–21). Fasting may help you and those you love receive personal revelation and become converted to the truth (see Alma 5:46; 6:6). Through fasting you can gain strength to resist temptation (see Isaiah 58:6). You can fast as you strive to humble yourself before God and exercise faith in Jesus Christ (see Omni 1:26; Helaman 3:35). You may fast to receive guidance in sharing the gospel and magnifying Church callings (see Acts 13:2–3; Alma 17:3, 9; 3 Nephi 27:1–2). Fasting may accompany righteous sorrow or mourning (see Alma 28:4–6; 30:1–2)" (True to the Faith, 67).Close
What is tithing?
"To pay a full tithe, you give one-tenth of your income to the Lord through His Church" (True to the Faith, 181).Close
How much should I pay in fast offerings?
"Proper observance of fast Sunday includes going without food and drink for two consecutive meals, attending fast and testimony meeting, and giving a fast offering to help care for those in need.
"Your fast offering should be at least the value of the two meals you do not eat. When possible, be generous and give much more than this amount" (True to the Faith, 67–68).Close
Why should I pay tithing?
"The law of tithing requires sacrifice, but your obedience to the law brings blessings that are far greater than anything you ever give up. The prophet Malachi taught:
"'Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it' (Malachi 3:10).
"These blessings come to all who pay a full ten percent of their income, even if that amount is very small. As you obey this law, the Lord will bless you both spiritually and temporally" (True to the Faith, 181).Close
Why should I fast?
"Fasting combined with sincere prayer can help you prepare yourself and others to receive God's blessings. On one occasion, the Savior cast a devil out from a child and used this experience to teach His disciples about the power of prayer and fasting. His disciples asked Him, 'Why could not we cast him out?' Jesus answered: 'Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.' (See Matthew 17:14–21.)
"This account teaches that prayer and fasting can give added strength to those giving and receiving priesthood blessings. The account can also be applied to your personal efforts to live the gospel. If you have a weakness or sin that you have struggled to overcome, you may need to fast and pray in order to receive the help or forgiveness you desire. Like the demon that Christ cast out, your difficulty may be the kind that will go out only through prayer and fasting" (True to the Faith, 66–67).Close
What does it mean to fast?
"To fast is to go without food and drink voluntarily for a certain period of time" (True to the Faith, 66).Close
What should I do if I'm having a hard time paying tithing?
"Your attitude is important in paying tithing. Pay it because you love the Lord and have faith in Him. Pay it willingly with a thankful heart. Pay it first, even when you think you do not have enough money to meet your other needs. Doing so will help you develop greater faith, overcome selfishness, and be more receptive to the Spirit" (For the Strength of Youth, 38).
"If you have not yet established a pattern of consistent tithe paying, you may have difficulty believing that you can afford to give up one-tenth of your income. But faithful tithe payers learn that they cannot afford not to pay tithing. In a very literal and wonderful way, the windows of heaven are opened and blessings are poured out upon them.
"Remember that paying tithing is not as much a matter of money as it is a matter of faith. Trust in the Lord. He gave the commandment for our benefit, and He made the accompanying promise. Seek strength in the faith of Nephi, who said, 'Let us be faithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord; for behold he is mightier than all the earth' (1 Nephi 4:1)" (True to the Faith, 181–82).Close
What does a proper fast include?
"A proper fast day observance includes not eating or drinking for two consecutive meals and giving a generous fast offering to help care for those in need. Fast with a purpose. Begin and end your fast with prayer, expressing gratitude and asking for help with special needs you or others may have. Fasting will strengthen your self-discipline, fortify you against temptations, and bring the Lord's blessings into your life" (For the Strength of Youth, 39).Close
What should I do if I am struggling to fast?
"In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught the true form of fasting. He spoke against hypocrites who, when they fast, 'disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.' Rather than putting on an outward show of righteousness, you should fast 'unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly' (Matthew 6:16–18).
"The prophet Isaiah also taught of the true spirit of the fast: 'Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?' (Isaiah 58:6–7).
"Isaiah also testified of the blessings that come when we obey the law of the fast: 'Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. . . . If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: and the Lord shall guide thee continually' . . . (Isaiah 58:8–11)" (True to the Faith, 68).Close
What happens to the tithing I pay?
"You submit your tithing to a member of your bishopric or branch presidency. Local leaders transmit tithing funds directly to the headquarters of the Church, where a council determines specific ways to use the sacred funds. This council is comprised of the First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and the Presiding Bishopric. Acting according to revelation, they make decisions as they are directed by the Lord. (See D&C 120:1.)
"Tithing funds are always used for the Lord's purposes—to build and maintain temples and meetinghouses, to sustain missionary work, and to carry on the work of the Church throughout the world" (True to the Faith, 181).Close


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So I've started getting my toolchain together for working on WinMerge + Qt. For anyone interested, I have Kimmo's test project built and running on my MacBook. I initially started using Netbeans, which has Qt support, but ended up using Xcode.
Come to find out that qmake on mac outputs a .xcodeproj file by default, so that seemed like the easier option. Indeed it was pretty easy to build the project, and QScintilla built easily also. The one thing I had problems with was getting the final app to find libqscintilla2. I'm currently just copying it to the app directory, I'll post here when I figure out where to specify this in the project settings, because the obvious search path settings didn't seem to work.
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Torrington community leaders to be 'locked up for good' at MDA event
TORRINGTON >> Torrington leaders are turning themselves in to the authorities Friday, for charity.
The Muscular Dystrophy Association is running a local "lock-up" at Bachi's Bar & Grill, located at 46 E. Main St., from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
"It is our premiere networking fundraising event of the year," said Susan Christiano, fundraising coordinator of the Torrington lock-up.
The MDA Jailbirds have been fundraising for several weeks already. They asked their family and friends to donate towards their "bail."
Christiano said the MDA tasked each jailbird with raising $2,400 in "bail" money.
According to the MDA's website where people can track how much money the jailbirds are raising, Scott Jensen of Jensen Mechanical Equipment is currently the leader with $1,980 raised as of Thursday afternoon.
Amy Wynn of the Northwest Connecticut Arts Council was in second place with $1,288 raised.
Ellen Ebbs of the Center for Cancer Care Fund, Inc. came in third with $1,275 raised.
Holly Hart of Brandywine Senior Living and Michael Lassaro of BB Manufacturing rounded out the top five with $927 and $690 raised, respectively.
Collectively, the event has raised $14,298. Christiano said they are half way to their ultimate goal of $25,000.
On Thursday, each jailbird will be picked up at work by either a police car, limo or car service and taken to Bachi's, said Christiano.
The jailbirds' phones will be confiscated, they will be given jail smocks and a lunch provided by Bachi's. The lock up is a fundraiser for MDA but it is also a networking event for local business owners. After lunch, their phones are returned and they make calls to people they haven't previously contacted for donations.
The money collected at this event supports the MDA in providing research for neuromuscular diseases and funds muscular dystrophy clinics at the Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain, said Christiano.
Additionally, the money raised for "bail" helps fund their MDA summer camp at Easter Seals Camp Hemlocks in Hebron, CT.
Christiano said that about 60 kids go to the summer camp each year. They get a real camp experience complete with swimming and archery but the counselor to camper ratio is one to one, so they receive constant attention.
The money also helps the MDA provide assistance to families affected by neuromuscular diseases. Christiano said that MDA provides $500 to families each year for repairs on durable medical equipment like wheelchairs.
MDA runs seven lock ups around Connecticut, said Christiano. According to their website, "These high-profile events occur all across the country at various times throughout the year."
Local businesses including the Torrington Petco, P.Sam's and Sanctuary Power Yoga, donated gift cards to be given away at the lock-up.
"Some people really get into it," said Christiano. "They dress up. I love working with people like that."
Reach Kate Hartman at 860-489-3121, ext. 343.


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BlackBerry: Not dead yet! SeriouslyDecember 10, 2013: 4:04 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
BlackBerry, the smartphone maker formerly known as (Prince?) Research in Motion, is having a terrible 2013.
Okay. I'm sugarcoating the situation by merely referring to this year as terrible. It's been horrific. Deplorable. Ghastly. Apocalyptic even.
Shares of BlackBerry (BBRY) are down more than 50% this year. They fell as much as 4% at one point Tuesday and hit their lowest level since September 2003 in the process. But the stock somewhat mysteriously rallied as the day progressed and finished 4% higher.
You probably know the BlackBerry story by now. But here are the highlights (or shall I say lowlights?) of the year.
BlackBerry finally launched its Z10 touchscreen smartphone in January. The phone ran on the company's long-delayed new BlackBerry 10 operating system. Sales were not particularly good. Once again, a massive understatement.
Consumers had moved on from QWERTY keyboard phones that were great for e-mailing (but not much else) to fancier, PCs in a pocket such as Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and devices running on the Google (GOOG) Android operating system -- most notably Samsung's Galaxy.
Heck, even Microsoft (MSFT) and Nokia did a better job of catering to the shifting tides in the mobile landscape with the Lumia brand of phones that run on Mister Softee's Windows Phone OS.
Related: Another bleak day for BlackBerry
Due to the poor Z10 sales, BlackBerry was forced to take a nearly $1 billion writedown to reflect for the cost of unsold inventory. The company also announced plans to cut 4,500 jobs in September.
There were some brief hopes this fall that BlackBerry would be saved by its largest shareholder -- investing and insurance firm Fairfax Financial. Fairfax's founder Prem Watsa has often been described as Canada's Warren Buffett.
But Watsa's plan to take the company private collapsed after no other firms were willing to actually buy BlackBerry.
Last month, the company abandoned its plan to review any strategic alternatives, ousted CEO Thorsten Heins after a brief tenure that began in January 2012, and is now focusing on the so-called "prosumer" market of professional consumers that actually may still prefer BlackBerry phones to those running on iOS, Android or Windows.
Now with BlackBerry stock trading at its lowest point in more than a decade, it's tempting to declare that the company may not survive for much longer. After all, analysts expect the company's sales to continue plunging in 2014 and that BlackBerry will keep bleeding red ink.
Related: Where Thorsten Heins went wrong
Yet here's the thing. I honestly believe that BlackBerry's stock may finally have bottomed. Don't laugh. Okay. You can chuckle a little. But hear me out.
Investors appear to be pricing in the imminent demise of BlackBerry. That seems premature. The company had $2.6 billion in cash as of the end of August.
Yes, that's down from $3.1 billion a quarter earlier. But even if BlackBerry ran through $500 million in cash a quarter for the foreseeable future, it has enough cash to get it through early 2015. And that $2.6 billion figure doesn't include a $1 billion investment it got from Fairfax in early November.
BlackBerry will release its next quarterly results (can't call them earnings, I am afraid) on December 20. So we'll soon get more clarity about the company's balance sheet.
But the biggest thing I think investors are missing with regards to BlackBerry (at least from a stock perspective) is that it won't take much for shares to rebound.
Expectations are for the company to continue its slow fade into tech obsolescence. With that in mind, the company should be able to easily ooze over Wall Street's low bar. And if that happens, the company could go from dog of 2013 to hero of 2014.
Just look at how two of this year's biggest winners on Wall Street have turned their fortunes around after a brutal 2012.
Best Buy 's (BBY) stock is up 250%. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) has gained 90%. Neither company is financially healthy per se. Sales for both are expected to be merely flat in their next fiscal year compared to this year.
But they are less worse off now than they were a year ago. And that's in large part due to new-ish management teams taking a cold, hard look at the companies and making changes to get them on the right track.
In the case of Best Buy, CEO Hubert Joly and CFO Sharon McCollam deserve a huge amount of praise for making Best Buy more competitive with the likes of Wal-Mart (WMT) and Amazon (AMZN) again. Best Buy's revamped web site is really helping.
And HP CEO Meg Whitman, the former chief of eBay (EBAY), is saying all the right things about how it's going to take HP a long time to completely turn its fortunes around.
Related: HP stock pops on better-than-expected earnings
She's also been wise enough to focus more on organic growth in software and services as opposed to doing more deals. After all, it was the acquisitive sins of Whitman's predecessors (Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd and Leo Apotheker) that made HP such a bloated mess in the first place. (Hopefully she doesn't now prove me wrong by going out and overpaying for a 3-D printer maker.)
And guess what? BlackBerry has a new leader too. John Chen is the interim CEO. And if there's anyone that can turn the company around, Chen seems like the right person.
For one, he's not a RIMM/BlackBerry lifer. He will be less emotionally wedded to the company's legacy and more likely to make rational decisions about how the company needs to change its ways in order to survive -- such as possibly ditching devices and focusing more on software and patents.
Plus, Chen has already been the architect of a miraculous tech turnaround. He took Sybase, a struggling database software developer, and made it into a mobile powerhouse. Chen became CEO of Sybase in 1998, returned the company to profitability in a few years and ultimately wound up selling the company to SAP (SAP) in 2010 for nearly $6 billion.
Related: Corporate daredevil John Chen might just turn BlackBerry around
Now, I know what you're thinking. Chen doesn't have a dozen years to turn around BlackBerry. But all Chen has to do is talk a good game and stem the bleeding. If he does that, the enterprise and government customers that have yet to abandon BlackBerry will likely stick around.
And if Chen can find a way to make more money from existing customers as opposed to worrying about grabbing market share from Apple and Google, then the stock could easily bounce back.
Don't get me wrong. BlackBerry will never be dominant again. But it doesn't have to be for investors buying the stock now to be rewarded. All the company has to do is prove that the rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated. Chen should be able to accomplish that.


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Re^2: The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part II)by eyepopslikeamosquito (Bishop)
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Though I'll give a more detailed analysis in my next article, I just did a quick count of the last ten codegolf games. Ruby and Perl always finished first and second in code length: Perl won 6 times, Ruby 4 times. As for the longest solutions, it was: PHP 7 times, Python 3 times. That agrees with my impression when playing these games: Perl and Ruby are (often quite excitingly) vieing for the Silver Cup, while Python and PHP are battling for the wooden spoon. What surprised me enormously is popularity, measured by number of entries: Python 5, Ruby 4, Perl 1. It seems that golf is more popular in Python than Perl nowadays. That shocked me, because four years ago the top google hit for "Python golf" was a lovely pair of Python skin ladies golf shoes. :)
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Kangana croons for 'Krrish 3'Aug 6, 2013 IANS
Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Bollywood actress Kangna Ranaut is following in the footsteps of stars like Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Juhi Chawla. The curly haired beauty will be seen singing a romantic number in the Rakesh Roshan-directed movie "Krrish 3".
Composer Rajesh Roshan is full of praise of Kangna for hitting the right notes in the movie, in which she plays a negative chracter.
"Kangna is a born artist. There are praises for her from me. She has sung such a tough song in the film... to sing such a song, a full-fledged romantic song, it is a big thing," Rajesh told IANS.
Talking about the music of the supehero film, which stars Hrithik Roshan in the lead role, he said that it was tough as his director-brother Rakesh had set high standards.
"It is an action film, Rakeshji is Roshan blood, if you give him only commercial, he does not take it. He has fixed standards. They make me work till I raise my bar," he said.
The composer also added that one song took about a month to be made and five to six days to mix.
In addition to the romantic track, one can even groove to an item song, which Rajesh says is sans vulgar lyrics.
"Sameer has written the songs. This is a commercial film and there has to be a balance in the lyrics... There is an item song, but it does not have bad words. Rakesh doesn't like to put words just so that it works," he said.
"Krrish 3" also stars Priyanka Chopra, Vivek Oberoi. It is scheduled for a Nov 4 release.
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Quincy, MA, January 31, 2013 – Icelandair is pleased to announce year-round service from Canada with the return of flights from Toronto this spring.
Icelandair will resume operations from Pearson International Airport on March 8, 2013 with four flights per week.
"We have been eagerly awaiting this day for quite some time," said Thorsteinn Egilsson, Icelandair's General Manager – The Americas. "Our year-round service will offer Canadian travelers more choices and a refreshing alternative when flying to more than 20 destinations in Europe. Plus we offer three classes of service and great fares."
Toronto will become Icelandair's fifth year-round North American gateway which is testament to the popularity of the service. The Toronto flights are part of a 2013 route expansion that will be the largest in Icelandair's 76-year history. The ambitious growth plan includes a new North American gateway, Anchorage and the addition of two new European destinations, St. Petersburg and Zurich.
Icelandair operates year-round service to Iceland and more than 20 European destinations from Boston, Denver, New York (JFK), Seattle and Toronto. In addition, it offers seasonal service from Halifax, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Orlando (SFB) and Washington, DC (IAD). Only Icelandair allows passengers to stopover in Iceland for up to seven nights at no additional airfare.
Additional information about Icelandair scheduled flights, fares and packages is available at www.icelandair.com.


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A judicial review is being held at the High Court on Thursday to look into the decision by the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) to award sole tenancy to the Hammers, who will move into the site in 2016.
A decision is not expected for a couple of weeks and Hearn believes his club has a good chance of winning.
Hearn told Press Association Sport: "I am looking for a ground-share, I don't want compensation. Compensation gets spent - I am looking for the future and a ground-share at the Olympic Stadium which makes sense from the taxpayers' point of view.
"They have spent £600million of taxpayers' money on the stadium and they must have full use for that money and I think with Leyton Orient can make a meaningful contribution to the financial burden of that stadium.
"We hope the outcome of the judicial review will mean Leyton Orient having the opportunity, which they should have had before, to meaningfully discuss a ground-share arrangement with West Ham."
Hearn claims the LLDC did not follow bidding rules properly when it accorded the stadium to West Ham.
He added: "The review can say that they believe the bidding process was not carried out in accordance with the rules and this stopped us having the discussion on ground-sharing we wanted to have.
"We are asking for that process to be re-opened and full disclosure of all the dealings between West Ham and LLDC.
"I think it's 50-50, my lawyers are hopeful we are going to win.
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Weather Blog: Reason for extended cold snap
Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 Blog! March 2013 has resembled the heart of winter, versus a transitional month to spring. In today's Weather Watch 12 Blog we discuss why much below average temperatures continue to linger, and when a change in the overall pattern may occur.
One of the key components driving our cold weather right now in southeast Wisconsin is the Arctic Oscillation(AO). The AO refers to an opposing pattern of pressure between the Arctic and areas like North America and northern Europe. If the air pressure is high in the Arctic, it tends to be low in areas such as northern Europe and North America. If the air pressure is low in northern Europe or North America it is often high in the Arctic.
The pressure differences can lead to a positive or negative AO index.
Negative AO
- High pressure in the Arctic and low pressure in northern Europe and North America
Positive AO
- Low pressure in the Arctic and high pressure in northern Europe and North America
Air moves around the globe because of differences in air pressure. Air or wind flows from areas of high pressure to areas of lower pressure. When the AO is negative the air flow from high pressure to low pressure will result in cold air flowing south. In this negative phase cold air can spill into the United States.
When the AO is positive the air flow from high pressure to low pressure pushes warmer air north and keeps the cold air in the arctic.
The image below is courtesy of NASA and shows the two phases of the AO.
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The AO has been in a negative phase since early February leading to surges of cold arctic air and also several stretches of active weather. The AO index is currently at it's lowest observed point on the chart below. The red line is a forecast for the AO index which has it nearing positive territory by around April 1. If this occurs temperatures may finally begin to moderate as arctic air retreats.
Another factor adding to our cold is the snow pack that exists from the Midwest to the North Pole. Cold air drifting south moves above a cold, snow packed surface preventing the airmass from moderating much as it tracks into the northern U.S.
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Now that we have discussed the AO, let's look at the 500mb or mid-level flow of our current weather pattern. The 500mb chart below is from Tuesday, March 19 at 7am. Notice the huge blocking high near Greenland and the trough of low pressure over the Midwest. Remember above we mentioned that air flows from areas of high pressure to low pressure. In this case, very cold air is allowed to spill into the central U.S.
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Now let's use the AO and combine it with our knowledge of the LRC, or Lezak's Recurring Cycle. With a cycle duration around 51-53 days we can look back to late January. Comparing March 19 with the pattern around January 25 shows the troughs moving through the pattern in the favored long term long wave position. Each part of the pattern delivered cold weather to southeast Wisconsin.
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Expect more below average temperatures in our area until we move into a different part of the pattern and the AO trends a little closer to neutral(0). Along with the cold temperatures an active weather pattern will likely continue into the start of April.
Fast forwarding to the next cycle in May, we will need to watch for a late season frost/freeze as this part of the pattern returns around May 10.
For the latest weather information watch WISN 12 News, and for updates throughout the day follow me on Twitter @jnelsonweather
Have a great day!
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I was holding small hope he'd be an assistant on the Knicks :'(
I was holding small hope he'd be an assistant on the Knicks :'(
Nice big city, money to spend, Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah are really good and they can trade Luol Deng and Kirk Hinrich for more cap space.
Now they have the most wanted coach in Tom Thibodeu a defensive genius who stopped Lebron James, you don't think James is thinking of playing with the man that stopped his team on offense? Think again.
The Bulls are moved up a notch now wit this move.
are prob Lebron's top choices by order at the end of the day.
"The Knicks are back" - Amare
the truth of the matter is.... our coaching staff sucks.... if we switched coaching staff with the celtics. we would have made the playoffs and the celtics would have lost in the first round.... cold hard truth....if O'antoni cant get us top free agents i say he is on the hot seat.
Please post the lineup of our "playoff" team, vs the teams we woulda beat out...
I don't know if this is enough to swing Lebron to the Bullies, but it definetely hurts our chances to get Lebron. The Bullies have a better core right now than we do with D. Rose and the "Scarecrow" on the roster and Chicago is a world class city with many opportunities as well. Cats are still sporting Air Jordans around here like its still 1985, so Lebron/Nike know they will have no problem selling his shoes here. D. Lee is a free agent and only second tier guys will be lining up to play with D'antoni/Gallo, so be prepared for our Knicks to be left without a dance partner. Might wanna grab who we can and try to make a run at Melo next year.


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Ace status cemented, Lester has priorities in place
Entering final year of deal, Red Sox lefty won't let contract talk be a distraction
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- When the ace comes to camp in a contract year, it is always a bit of a conversational piece. But Jon Lester will let other people talk about it.
As the unquestioned ace of the Red Sox, a title it took the power lefty a few years to build up to, Lester is only focused on getting ready for another season -- his ninth in the Majors.
"I've got a year left on my contract," said Lester. "I'm going to play it out. As far as us talking to the front office or anything, we haven't sat down. I think there's going to be a time and a place for that. That's not really something I'm concerned about right now. I've got to be worried about getting ready for the season -- physically and mentally getting ready for the season."
If his agents want to get those talks started with Boston's front office sometime during Spring Training, Lester has no problem with that. But he is on a strictly need-to-know basis.
"There are guys I pay to do that, handle that and think about that," Lester said. "When things start happening, then I can make a decision from there. If it's something that we do get done during Spring Training, great. If it's not, I think you have to take everything as it comes. If that involves going through the season and still talking or getting it done early, we'll just kind of play it by ear and see what happens."
What happened in 2013 is that Lester proved emphatically the previous season was just that one down year that even All-Stars have at some point in their career.
And what happened in October was that Lester had one of the finest postseasons by a pitcher in Red Sox history, culminating his 4-1, 1.56 ERA run by outdueling Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright in Game 5 of the World Series.
"I think Jon has proven that not only is he a frontline starting pitcher, but he's done it in a place that can be difficult at times. He's starting to assemble or amass a postseason resume that's very strong," said manager John Farrell. "I think guys look up to his work ethic and young guys that come to the big leagues, they take note of the way he goes about his work."
Lester's 2013 postseason was the type of month that put him on another stratosphere, and perhaps even increased his confidence heading into 2014.
"You're playing on the biggest stage at the biggest time of the year," said Lester. "To go out there and perform and be successful … that can boost you. When you can pitch and maneuver through lineups and do it on that stage, absolutely it boosts your confidence going into the next year."
After turning 30 last month, Lester is still very much in his prime. A two-time All-Star, there's a chance Lester hasn't put together his best season yet. Perhaps he is due for one of those Cy Young Award-type of years.
"Obviously each year you look to improve and get better," Lester said. "Obviously with last year I had some ups and downs. I came out like gangbusters and I think I peaked a little too early. Throwing perfect games in Spring Training, I kind of wasted my bullets a little bit. The biggest thing for me is how I finished -- hopefully I can take that same point and carry it over to this year."
The only disappointment Lester has in his 2013 season is the slump he had just before the All-Star break. Looking back on it, Lester knows that it lasted too long and he blames himself for letting it linger.
"As a pitcher, you're going to physically go up and down and as a team you're going to up and down," Lester said. "You just have to minimize those. That's where I got myself into trouble last year is that I didn't minimize the bad starts. I think I had four, five, six in a row where it wasn't good. And if you minimize those to two or three or four in an entire year, you're looking at a different season."
Lester is no longer just one man in a five-man staff. He is the guy teammates depend on and the one that the top prospects will follow around.
"It's a different chapter of my life right now, a different chapter of my career," Lester said. "Hopefully, like I said, I can be that guy and I can help the guys make that transition and feel comfortable with it. We're going to need them at some point. We're going to need those young guys to come up and perform and help your big league team out."
It seems like such a short time ago that Lester was the one observing veterans like Curt Schilling and Josh Beckett.
It is [strange]," Lester said. "When we pulled into Fort Myers two weeks ago, I told my wife, I think this is my 14th Spring Training down here or 13th Spring Training down here."
In actuality, this is the 12th Spring Training Lester has had with the Red Sox since being drafted in June of 2002.
But it seems doubtful it will be his last. Just like he said at the Baseball Writers Dinner in January, Lester's top priority is to stay in Boston for the long term. If has to leave a few dollars on the table to do that, he will.
"I'm not going to go back on what I said. I mean, I said what I said was from the heart and I mean it," said Lester. "We'll see where it goes from there. We still have a long way to go. It's going to be a tough process. Like I said earlier, that's why I let those guys [handle it]. 'Call me when you got something.' I don't want to hear about the day to day of it, when it starts, when it happens. But I have to worry myself about the field. I can't worry about the other stuff -- it'll take care of itself."


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Here is what our customer had to say.........
Hi Alison!
I just wanted to say a massive thank you for the absolutely delicious cake that was delivered yesterday! All the staff commented on how well presented and tasty it was and the event was a success. The customer service was always helpful and friendly and responsive and delivery was on time.
Just wanted to pass on my positive feedback and thank you very much for your time and effort. We will be sure to order from you guys for future office events.
Thanks again and I hope you have a lovely week.
Thanks, Stephanie
Regards,Stephanie Snead
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Hi Alison and Catherine,
I ordered a cupcake tower from you for my sisters 50th birthday party. When I came to your store, I found your customer service refreshing. You were accommodating and fulfilled all my requests. You made it possible for me to present my sister with a gift that was absolutely beautiful. The tower made a perfect centre piece. The colours matched my sister's dress and decor perfectly. Each cake was decorated beautifully and they were tantalizingly delicious. The guests could not stop talking about the cupcakes. I could feel, see and taste the immense passion that you have for your business. I will recommend ''LUSHCUPS" to whoever says the word ''CUPCAKES".
Thank you very much.
Regards and best wishes,
Hi allJust wanted to say a big thank you for the delicious cupcakes! We had the mini Xmas tree decorated ones and they were such a treat. Everyone loved them. I've ordered different cupcakes with other suppliers and I have to say (hand on heart) these were the tastiest!Awesome work and have a merry Xmas!ThanksLeanne
Dear Catherine and Alison,Thank you so much for the most magnificent cupcakes we have ever seen or had the pleasure to eat.From the bottom of my heart, thank you for rescuing our party with your fabulous creations (as you know the ones I had ordered from another company were a disaster. Yet when I rang you in tears, you couldn't have been more kind, supportive and ready to do whatever it took to help me get what I had promised my sister for her husband's surprise party, FABULOUS CAKES!!!). To be able to do what you did for us (mini cupcakes with edible photos of the birthday person) at ridiculously short notice is nothing short of miraculous.As you know, I took these to a party 8 hours away and they arrived picture perfect and totally scrumptious. The whole of the small town where I took these for the party are abuzz with talks of your cupcakes and how special and unique they were. My sister and brother-in-law were quite chuffed to be the talk of the town because of your creations!!Thank you again so much, I will be forever grateful to you both and will never ever go anywhere else for cupcakes!!You are both angels!!Regards,Bernadette
I just wanted to give you some (belated) feedback about your service.
Where do I start???
Well, I guess the beginning is a good place. Early last December I got a call from one of my closest friends late on a Wednesday night before her upcoming wedding the following Saturday. I love my friend (who happens to be my step-sons mother- i.e. my husband's ex-wife) however I know she can be a bit forgetful at times. Anyway, she had just realised that she didn't have a cake for her wedding. She had a fantastic dress, great shoes, make-up etc. but no cake. She'd forgotten to organise one. I spent the next day, Thursday, calling around, emailing and googling frantically trying to find a cake- most companies calling anything less then a month short notice, what was 2 days notice then?
Then, the light at the end of the tunnel appeared, www.lushcups.com.au. I couldn't believe it when I saw the fantastic cake/cupcake assemblies on offer, the price and the turn around time and delivery options. I thought I was hallucinating. Especially as there was a cake that matched her dress and theme, perfectly.
On top of that, the order process couldn't have been easier, the staff could not have been more helpful, the cake/cupcakes couldn't have been better presented or tasted better. My friend (the loveable yet forgetful Bride) had the following response: "Thank you sooooo much. I love you!!!! You couldn't have chosen anything more perfect". My Mother in Law cried because it was so beautiful and the overwhelming response from the guests was "Deeeelicious- I'm so getting this for my wedding one day!"
Thank you for saving my friend's wedding.
With thanks,
Hi. Just wanted to say a big thank you for the gorgeous Dora cake & mini cupcakes for my daughters 2nd birthday. They looked fantastic and tasted just as good. Can't wait to use you guys again & will be recommending you to my friends. xxx Kristy
A big hello Lushcups,I just wanted to say a huge "Thank you" for the FANTASTIC Maxi cakes and mini cupcakes that you made for my two sons birthdays. The kids were blown away, along with the adults. There is only one word to describe Lushcups. "Outstanding", in every way. Not only is the taste and artistic design of your cakes absolutely brilliant, but your overall customer service with your friendly helpful staff taking my order over the phone to the delivery the next morning.You made my day so easy and care free with the cakes off my check list.I am positive plenty of my friends will use Lushcups in the future. I can guarantee I will be a repeat customer. Thanks againCarolyn Tonkli
Thank you very much for the birthday cake which was delivered on Saturday. It was even more beautiful than we thought it would be ... and delicious too.Nicci
Hi there,
We ordered the Pretty Flower cake for last weekend and we can't be happier! Firstly, it was SO easy to order. Then you guys were SO nice and accommodating to my requests. Delivery was on time and without hassles. The cake is SOOO BEAUTIFUL! The best part is, the cake it SOOOO YUMMY! All our guests were so impressed and we can't be more pleased. (As a matter of fact, I tried not to offer anyone any of the leftovers to take home :p)
Will definitely recommend you guys to everyone and order again in future :)
Thank you for the gorgeous cakes for Lauren's 21st birthday on Saturday.They looked amazing and tasted fantastic, as a sign of their success...there was not 1 cake left over on the night!!!!!Thanks for a brilliant job, I will be sure to recommend you and to all our friends.Wendi
I just wanted to say thank you for the beautiful cupcakes that you delivered for my dads birthday. We all loved them and I will be using your services again without a doubt.
Thanks again
Tracey oct 2010
Hi Alison and Catherine
I just wanted to say thank you for the beautiful cupcakes that were made and delivered for our wedding. We truly appreciate all the effort to make them look spectacular. We were so happy with them and they tasted wonderful too!!
Thank you again and we've definitely recommended and passed along the details to our friends for cupcakes!
Warmest regards
Sandi and Mike oct 2010
Hi Alison,
Just wanting to say thank you very much for our wedding cupcakes, they were a big hit with the guests.
Kel & I thought you might like a photo from the wedding, I thought it looked good with a few items from our table decorations.
Kind Regards,
Bron & Kel (Kangaroo Valley) sept 2010
Dear Alison and Catherine, I just wanted to write to let you know what an outstanding hit the Cup Cake was, as an add on to their romantic evening in Sydney Neil was surprising Jenni with a vacation in Fiji, so in keeping the surprise Neil had spun a yarn they they were flying to the Hunter Valley for a few relaxing days......... Jenni INSISTED on taking the cake!!! She rang me from the airport to impart her wonderul news and told me she still had hold of the cake in the box and it was going to Fiji with them!!!! So many thanks for making ther romantic evening in Sydney and their belated anniversary extra specially sweet..... haha. Cheers J sept 2010
Hi there,Thank you so much for the impressive cup cakes. The pictures on the Internet are really pretty but nothing like what they are like in real life. They were outstanding. They basically made the party. Family and friends commented on how beautiful and tasty the cup cakes were.Thank you once again and I will definately order future cupcakes from Lushcups.Regards,Linda
may 2010
(Please feel free to use this on your website as a testimonial. We don't mind if you use our names either!)
My Testimonial -
Just wanted to say thank you so much for our beautiful wedding cupcake cake! It looked amazing!! All our guests loved it and asked where I got it! I have told them all to go you for cakes from now on! All the flavours were yummy and the icing was too! Thank you for taking the time to listen to what I wanted.
It was better than I could have imagined! We just love it!!
Thank you again!!!
Alicia and Brendan march 2010
Just wanted to say thank you for the delicious cup cakes you delivered to Nancy Restifo in North Sydney last week.
To say they were a hit would be an understatement!! Nancy was truly impressed and all her visitors enjoyed them just the same. Rodney and I managed to taste one each and we were quite pleased they tasted as delicious as they looked.
Petra Beshara NRMA MotorServe dec 2009
I wanted to drop a quick note to thank you so much for the Airplane cake for my son's birthday. Not only was the theme perfect, but both the cake and cupcakes were DELICIOUS! Everyone commented and NOBODY left anything on their plate. I can't wait for the next occasion to order again as I think that white cake may be my new craving.
Many, many thanks.
With regards,
Lara Latham august 2009
Hi Alison, Your cakes were so tasty and they looked beautiful!Thank you so much for making the day very special to Gracelyn.I will also forward you the bday photos in my next email. Best regards,Sheau Yee aug 2009
Dear Alison, I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for your wonderful cupcakes which my friend received on her birthday. She arrived home to find them and was certainly very surprised - they looked wonderful and she tells me that they were very tasty indeed! I was wondering what to get here as a birthday surprise and I am so pleased that I found your website. As I am in Germany, you certainly made things easy and smooth in organising this birthday delivery for me. Again, thank you so much and as soon as I am back in Australia, I must order your delicious cupcakes all for myself!Kindest regards, Nina Zepinic june 2009
Hi Alison... I just wanted to thank you SO much for cupcakes.. THEY WERE PERFECT and ALL my friends LOVED It.. I thought it was awesome.. I will definitely order more from you in future..
ps. you will laugh.. I actually tipped over the cupckakes on the table while trying to carry into room..!! :(
I have been meaning to email you all week, but I have not been online as both girls have been keeping me very busy and poor Mia was actually sick on the evening of her birthday.
I just wanted to thank you very much for the beautiful butterfly cake you made for my daughters birthday. Not only did it look beautiful, but it was delicious and everyone was asking where I got it from!! You did an amazing job and even though it wasn't what I originally ordered, it was still very special - so thank you.
You were also very kind to reimburse me for the delivery. It was not expected, however it was much appreciated.
Thank you again and I will definitely be in touch again for any of my cupcake needs!!
Kindest regards,
Hi Alison, The cup cakes were a huge hit and looked delish. will be in contact for next event. Thanks Tanya 25/11/08
Hello Alison,
Just a quick note to say that we really enjoyed the cupcakes and will order again from you for our next party.
The caramel mud cake was a particular favourite.
Kind regards,
Alison, I just had to write and say thank you. The cakes you made for my little girl's first birthday exceeded all my expectations. From the moment I first emailed you to the scoffing of the last crumb I am so grateful. You have a wonderful business and product and you should be extremely proud of how you run it and produce your cakes. They are true pieces of art (and taste just as amazing). Everyone at our party loved how the cakes looked and were 'mmmming' through each piece. I've handed out several of your brochures, so you may pick up some extra business. I've attached a picture of how the cakes looked on Sunday. Thank you ever so much, I couldn't have been happier (especially given the occasional risk of organising such important things over the internet!). Rebecca Santos
Rosalie Batistoni
Hi Alison,
Thank you very much for the time and effort you put into my little's girl's 1st Bithday cake and cupcakes on 28th June.
They were just Beautiful and was the perfect finishing touch to such a special day
Many Thanks again and look forward in ordering more cakes from you in the future!!
Alex Whale - Jannali
I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU for the cake!
My daughter loved it – it was just what I had hoped for – and it tasted great!
Many thanks again
DOMESTIC Engineer
Thank you for the gorgeous cakes for Lauren's 21st birthday on Saturday.They looked amazing and tasted fantastic, as a sign of their success...there was not 1 cake left over on the night!!!!!Thanks for a brilliant job, I will be sure to recommend you and to all our friends.WendiHi Alison and Catherine, just a quick thank you for the beautiful cakes we enjoyed yesterday at our baby daughter Ava's Christening day, they were a huge hit all eaten of course! The Maxi cake was so beautiful no one would let me cut into it, evn my 4 year old son said it was too nice to cut. So we're having that for my 40th birthday tomorrow. Thank you again, I will recommend Lushcups to my family and friends, you were a pleasure to deal with and I wish you all the best for the business. I'll be back soon for Ava's first birthday and my sons 5th, he's weighing up a Toy Story theme or an Octonauts theme either way I know I'll get something really special from Lushcups. Kindest Regards, Kylie Kennedy Hi Lushcups, I just wanted to thank you for delivering cupcakes to our afternoon tea last Friday. They arrived right when you said they would in perfect condition.They looked beautiful and tasted amazing, we'll definitely be ordering from you again.Thanks again! Megan
Hey Alison & CathThank u so much for the cake. It looked spectacular and tasted amazing!!!Our friend was so touched with it.You are both very talented.Thank u againRos
hi guys, im not computer savy and couldn't find where to write to you. thankyou very much for making me FAT!!!!! seriously thankyou so much for my two maxi cup cakes that you kindly delivered to sydney tower on saturday. they were a big it visually but a bigger it to the hips . wow! i have never tasted anything sooo good. my sister took her cake back home to newcastle and whilst i was working sunday she was making me salivate with the text messages she was sending, while eating her cake. the mermaids were cute. from a very happy customer thanks again. can you open more stores preferably macarthur area. cheers lynda
Hi CatherineJust wanted to say thank you for the beautiful cupcake tower you did for my 30th Wedding Anniversary. It was fantastic.Everyone loved it and the cake was so moist and delicious. It was the feature of the table.Thank you so muchKerrieCath I just wanted to send you a short note to say a big thank you for the amazing cake and cupcakes... They were such a hit! The cake was amazing... Everyone commented on it and I gave out your flyers to people at work and at the party. Thank you again for brilliant and efficient service - we'll be back again for sure! Thanks, Pip
Dear Alison and Catherine, The pastel cupcakes and the cutting cake was amazing it looked exactly like it is on your website and tasted wonderful;, you made my sons Daniel and Biancas engagment a huge success our guests commented on how gorgeous it looked and how great they tasted, Thank you so much I have no hesitation in recommending you to everyone.thank you once again Best RegardsJasmine Cakmak
I placed an order on Thurs for some cupcakes to be delivered on Saturday morning- being my sisters wedding day. all i can say is WOW!!!! THANK YOU SOOOO SOOOO MUCH!!! I was told that i could not request a delivery time as i understand that you have many and mine was quite a distance- however you came through and managed to pull it off, having the goods arrive at 7am!!! JUST PERFECT... thank you again, i will definately recommend you to everyone i know and will be using your services in the future! Kind Regards Tenille Perceval
Hello! I just wanted to thank you for the beautiful Elmo and Froggy cakes for Ella and Leyla's 3rd birthday. The girls were so excited that they got what they had imagined! They were the talk of the party and tasted great too! Thanks for the great work. Kind Regards, Kelly
Guys, just wanted to send you a very big thank-you for Benjamin's baptism cupcakes and maxicake. Everyone LOVED them, they were so delicious that I'm still dreaming of them 10 days down the track!!Thanks so much,SusannahIP: 184.108.40.206
Hi lushcups
Thank you for my cup cakes and thank your driver for delivering them to me at short notice! Really appreciate it!
Picture attached!
Sandi and Mike
Bron & Kel (Kangaroo Valley)
Dear Alison and Catherine, I just wanted to write to let you know what an outstanding hit the Cup Cake was, as an add on to their romantic evening in Sydney Neil was surprising Jenni with a vacation in Fiji, so in keeping the surprise Neil had spun a yarn they they were flying to the Hunter Valley for a few relaxing days......... Jenni INSISTED on taking the cake!!! She rang me from the airport to impart her wonderul news and told me she still had hold of the cake in the box and it was going to Fiji with them!!!! So many thanks for making ther romantic evening in Sydney and their belated anniversary extra specially sweet..... haha. Cheers
Alicia and Brendan
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For Release Worldwide: September 2012
Release Number: 316PR12
Caterpillar announces the MT5300D AC 320-ton-capacity (290-tonne-capacity) mining truck as part of its ongoing investment in the Unit Rig™ products acquired through the acquisition of Bucyrus International. The new truck integrates a Cat® C175-16 engine and Cat 360T AC electric drive system with the proven Unit Rig MT Series trucks. The MT5300D AC takes its place in Caterpillar's large mining truck product line between the 250-ton-capacity (227-tonne-capacity) 793F and the 360-ton-capacity (327-tonne-capacity) 795F AC.
The new truck builds on Unit Rig's 50 years of electric-drive mining truck experience and the thousands of units currently working in mines around the world. The strength of the Cat engine and drive system combine with Cat dealer support and Unit Rig designs to deliver high performance and efficiency to mining customers. The MT5300D will be commercially available in the near future.
The MT5300D AC leverages Unit Rig's millions of hours of field experience with the MT Series truck chassis, hydraulics, electrical system and suspension and integrates those systems with a proven Cat engine, AC drive and vehicle information management system. The Cat AC electric drive train is state-of-the-art, efficient and reliable, and has logged hundreds of thousands of hours in the lab and field, most notably in the 795F AC. The Cat electric drive truck program also leverages Electro-Motive Diesel's (EMD) locomotive experience in design and manufacturing. EMD is a Caterpillar company, and the highly efficient system is Caterpillar designed, integrated and supported.
The MT5300D AC is designed to offer strong performance, safety, ease of operation and maintenance, and superior reliability. The Cat C175-16 is proven in Cat large mining trucks, and the Cat AC drive system features industry-leading dynamic retarding capacity combined with four-corner wet disc brakes. The system creates operator confidence that leads to productive and safe operation.
The ROPS cab, wide access stairways, traction control, and quiet radial retarder grid with wide right-side visibility enhance safety and further benefit the operator. Simple hydraulic systems, modular components, hydraulic gauge cabinet, grouped service locations, engine bay service walkways and more ground accessible maintenance points translate into less downtime and enhance safety for maintenance technicians.
Currently an MT5300D AC is being tested at the Caterpillar proving grounds in Arizona, USA.
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Dartmouth Energy Symposium
Energy—A Defining Challenge of Our Time
The Dartmouth Energy Symposium took place in October, 2007.
Quicktime videos of the event are available on the program page.
See also the article in The Dartmouth:
Thayer hosts two-day energy symposium
10/15/07 by Conor Galligan
The symposium was sponsored by Thayer School in collaboration with the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center, and the Environmental Studies Program.
Keynote speakers included Lisa Margonelli, whose book "Oil on the Brain" was summer reading for the class of 2011, as well as Jason Grumet, Director of the National Commission on Energy Policy, and Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives at Google.
Panel discussions addressed energy and environment, energy and science/technology, energy and policy/government, and energy and business. The symposium closed with a discussion and workshop on energy and Dartmouth. Panelists included Senator Tom Daschle, Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader.
Thank you to the organizing committee and all others who assisted in making the first Dartmouth Energy Symposium a resounding success: Carol Folt (Dean of Faculty), Andrew Friedland (Chair, Environmental Studies Program), Robert Hansen (Senior Associate Dean, Tuck School), Joe Helble (Dean, Thayer School), Rich Howarth (Professor, Environmental Studies Program), Andrew Samwick (Director, Rockefeller Center), and Charles Sullivan (Associate Professor, Thayer School).
Lee R. Lynd, Professor and Energy Symposium Chair


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Part of the MIT OpenCourseWare site, this page supports a 2004 course on economics and psychology. The course integrates psychological insights into economic models of behaviour. It discusses the limitations of standard economic models and surveys the ways in which psychological experiments have been used to learn about preferences, cognition, and behaviour. It includes a syllabus, list of readings, lectures slides / handouts, details of assignments and problem sets.
PowerPoint presentation depicting decision-making under risk, showing how risk attitudes can be examined using choices among lotteries or willingness to pay for insurances. Shows how risk attitudes can be captured in convexity of the indifference curve or strict concavity of the utility function; and how risk aversion can be quantified by the ratio of second and first derivatives of the utility function, implying that it falls as wealth increases.


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EU approves military mission to Mali
BRUSSELS (AFP) - European Union foreign ministers on Monday formally approved the launch of a 500-strong EU military mission to train the Malian army, which has already begun work on the ground.
A first group of 70 EU military arrived in the west African nation 10 days ago, and Monday's ministerial greenlight was the final phase in setting up the European Union Training Mission (EUTM), which has a 15-month mandate to shape up the ramshackle Malian army.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the mission "is going to be of enormous importance in support of the Malian army," a poorly equipped and trained force without the capacity to maintain the country's territorial integrity.
The 27 EU nations first approved the notion of a training mission in December to boost the army's ability to fight Islamist rebels who last year seized control of the country's vast arid north.
But its launch was accelerated after the surprise intervention of France in its former colony on January 11, to stop the insurgents marching south on the capital.
Some 16 countries from the EU as well as Norway have agreed to take part in the EUTM, which will have a 12.3-million-euro budget, with each contributor nation financing its own troops.
Around half of the troops will be trainers, the remainder providing protection and administrative and medical backup.


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Robert H. Schuller Hospitalized After Fall, Said to Be Doing Well
Robert H. Schuller Hospitalized After Fall, Said to Be Doing Well
A noted pioneering televangelist, once known for having a broadcast program that millions watched on a weekly basis, has been hospitalized after a fall.
Reverend Robert H. Schuller, founder of Crystal Cathedral Ministries and former host of the "Hour of Power," was sent to the hospital last weekend after experiencing a fall.
Douglas Morino of The Orange County Register reported that Rev. Schuller fell sometime late Friday evening and was taken to the hospital Saturday morning.
Carol Schuller Milner, daughter of Schuller and spokeswoman for the family, said in a statement Wednesday that it was likely nothing serious.
"He just lost his balance. We took him in to make sure, because you just never know…They're just being extra cautious and taking their time," said Milner.
Doctors are performing tests to make sure nothing serious is wrong with the 86-year-old preacher.
This is not the first time Schuller has had a major health scare. Schuller had a heart attack back in 1997 and initially it was assumed that the recent fall was connected to this issue.
Once known for his "Hour of Power" program and head of Crystal Cathedral Ministries, Schuller became a major televangelist icon in postwar America.
As part of the growing evangelical and fundamentalist movement of the 1970s and 1980s, Schuller founded the Crystal Cathedral, a megachurch whose large glass-walled sanctuary became a symbol of evangelical Protestant America.
In 2010, decades after its founding, Crystal Cathedral Ministries would file for bankruptcy. Two years later Schuller stepped down from the church's board.
Afterwards, legal issues would abound between CCM and the Schuller family, especially regarding the amount of annual monetary benefits the Schullers were expecting upon retirement.
To resolve its financial woes, CCM ended up selling its famed glass sanctuary to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County, which recently converted it into "Christ Cathedral."
For its part, CCM proceeded to move into a smaller sanctuary that once belonged to the Orange County Diocese.


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momo3boys wrote:Thank you Theodore and knobren, This is fun, I don't always get a chance to debate anymore!
Open debate is healthy.
As far as science goes. this is a subject dear to my heart. Mostly because of my father. Creationists are scientists, and they truly do use science on a daily basis. They have faith in God, but evolutionists have faith in Evolution. Here is an example of evolutionists not telling the whole truth.
Creationists are not scientists. Supernatural explanations cannot be tested (falsified); therefore, they cannot be addressed by scientific methods.
from www.icr.org regarding human footprints, found to be 3.5 million year old according to conventional testing.
"As far as the footprints go, her data are not questioned, but the interpretation of the data illustrates the lengths to which evolutionists will go to avoid questioning man's supposedly evolutionary ancestry.
The prints themselves are quite human-like "indistinguishable from those of modem humans" (Anderson, New Scientist 98:373, 1983). Following extensive research it was concluded that the footprints "resemble those of habitually unshod modem humans.... (If the) footprints were not known to be so old, we would readily conclude that they were made by a member of our genus" (Tuttle, Natural History March 1990).
Because of the dates, the prints have been assigned to Australopithecus afarensis, i.e., Lucy's kind. But is this valid? Lucy was essentially a chimp. Even discoverer Donald Johansson only claims that Lucy was a chimp that walked somewhat more erect than other chimps. The Australopithecus foot was an ape's foot, with an opposing thumb, and long curved toes just right for climbing in trees, but most unlike a human's foot. According to researcher Dr. Charles Oxnard in a 1996 interview: "If you examine (Australopithecus foot bones) more closely, and especially if you examine it using the computer multivariate statistical analysis that allows you to assess parts that the eye doesn't easily see, it turns out that big toe was divergent."
Why do evolutionists continue to maintain that the chimp-like Lucy made the Laetoli human-like footprints, and that both represent our ancestors? Well, it's certainly not for scientific reasons. The drive to prove man's animal ancestry is great, for it frees one from accountability to a creator-God."
I'm not sure what footprints you are referring to. The footprints next to the dinosaur tracts are actually dinosaur footprints, not human footprints. http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC/CC101.html
As far as other religions being shown as well, most religions start with Genesis and God creating the world in seven days, Jewish, Muslims, Christians,,, I know theres more but I'm not a religion major. [/quote]There are many proofs like this that secular science has ignored. Trees standing in layers of strata, whale fossilized in millions of years of strata, and human prints next to dinosaur prints. Why can't children in High school see the evidence of this debate.
Why do creationists primarily argue about fossils and geology? There is a ton of evidence for common descent that are found in the biological sciences rather than just palentology or geology. Evolution is after all a topic of BIOLOGY. I'm not really familiar with what you and Theodore are saying about trees and so forth. Please send a link, so I can see what you are talking about. I don't understand the problem. I would assume that a geologist would realize what events could cause this tree thing. I just don't know anything about it.
Theodore talks about freshly laid rock that appears old. I assume that he is talking about lava flows. Some lava flows carry unmelted rock in them. These rocks would register as old because they are being carried up from deeper depths. The melted rock wouldn't appear old. http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CD/CD013.html
Adult laypersons don't believe scientists when they answer creationists arguments with scientific data; how would kids be able to understand it? I sent an excerpt before that discussed how science views commen descent to be a "fact" in as much certainty as anything can be proven. Scientists argue about the mechanisms of evolution and those are the theories of evolution. These theories also are "highly-probable" based on the available evidence. Science can never prove anything with 100% certainty, but all of the available evidence supports the predictions that one would expect to see if these theories are correct. That is why evolution is not a religion. It is not based on faith. It is based on tests and observations. Creationism is not.
One thing that creationists argue about is that common descent could not be observed. Chemists can't see subatomic particles, but they have deduced their parts and functions based on tests and predicted outcomes. http://www.krysstal.com/subatomic.html
Biologists can't see sodium pumps embedded in cell membranes, but they can make predictions about what will happen in an experiment if their models are correct. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagere ... ageindex=1
Gravity cannot be seen directly, but we can observe how it acts on apples, etc. (By the way, before the theory of gravity, I think that people thought that apples were attracted to the "earth" element of earth, fire, air, and water.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity
I don't see anyone calling for teachers to show the evidence for these topics and letting children try to interpret the data to reach a conclusion!
Knobren, I also wanted to ask you if you knew that one of the number one damaging effects of abortion in psychological not physical. Many anti-abortion projects are turning into abortion counseling. I don't know of any non-religious companies doing this.
And yet, we have Theodore perpetuating the myths of increased rates of sterility and cancer in women who have had abortions. Personally, I would find it more emotionally damaging to carry a child to term and then give her/him up for adoption, never knowing what had become of her/him. People are also know to neglect or abuse kids that they didn't want or couldn't afford.
If you want to have fewer abortions, then you need to make contraception easily available and affordable and teach people how to use it. Dear Abby had a letter recently about some girl who got pregnant because she believed the myth that you can't be pregnant if you have sex in a swimming pool. Lots of kids also believe the myth that you can't get pregnant the first time or that withdrawl before -CENSORED- is sufficient protection against pregnancy. Sex ed. is essential to dispelling these myths.
As far as contradiction goes, How can someone be okay with killing an innocent child, but want to keep a criminal, murderer rapist alive? I don't think we should kill anyone. God is the judge, as I've said before. If we believe in survival of the fittest than why do we support gays and lesbians, they wouldn't survive in a natural world with out science to help them conceive, and we wouldn't help those people with debilitating genetic diseases. Just some contradictions I've seen that I can't seem to get an answer for.
Human technology has advanced faster than human evolution. People survive injuries, infections, congenital defects, etc who would not have survived in the past. I'm certainly not against that. Homosexuals have had kids in the past and continue to do so today because they often marry and procreate in order to try to fit in or they may have been forced to do so by their families and in order to produce heirs. What's the difference in helping them conceive by artificial means - they don't cause emotional harm to their deceived spouses or bring home diseases contracted from extra-marrital affairs. Are you also against aiding heterosexuals to reproduce?
As far as other religions being shown as well, most religions start with Genesis and God creating the world in seven days, Jewish, Muslims, Christians,,, I know theres more but I'm not a religion major.
I wouldn't call that "most" religions. What about Buddism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Shinto, Candoble, Paganism, Zoroastrianism, various Native American beliefs, etc.? http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/
Thank you again for this debating opportunity. I haven't had this much fun since high School.


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Danny Frawley has stepped down as chief executive of the AFL Coaches' Association (AFLCA), saying he was unable to commit to the growing demands of the job.
The former St Kilda captain and Richmond coach said he was proud of the AFLCA's achievements under his leadership "in particular the establishment of the many programs designed to assist with the professional development of coaches and career transition within and outside the game".
Former West Coast premiership coach John Worsfold has helped conduct an ongoing review of the AFLCA.
"It is likely that the demands of the CEO role will broaden and that expectations of the role will grow, and I don't feel that I will be in a position to dedicate more time to the role given my other commitments and, in particular, my media responsibilities," said Frawley.


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After a brief foot pursuit Sunday afternoon, officers arrested Tony Angulo Jr., 32, of Riverside on suspicion of auto theft, multiple thefts from vehicles and a residential burglary, Irvine police Lt. Julia Engen said.
Police were called to a church parking lot about 9:30 a.m. Sunday, when a man was seen walking around vehicles parked at a church.
About an hour later, officers responded to the Turtle Ridge Apartments after money was reportedly stolen from an unlocked vehicle. While officers were taking a report, another person approached them and said his cellphone had been stolen from his car and that he had tracked it using a "find my Droid" application, Engen said.
While the cellphone theft victim was providing a description of the person who took the phone, officers reportedly saw a man matching the description standing nearby.
The officers chased the man, who authorities later identified as Angulo, into a nearby marsh, where they took him into custody, Engen said. After the arrest, the officers reportedly recovered cash, a purse and an iPad believed to have been stolen from a third vehicle.
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Of course, BrowerUK, you are absolutely correct.
I was simply expressing my opinion -- just as you were expressing yours. I see nothing wrong in that. Unless you consider that your opinion is unassailable?
That dripping sarcasm might stand up if your follow-on discussion was logical. Or even if you demonstrated a deep(er) understanding of the issues involved.
And copyright law doesn't say "well, a work has to be at least N words large". Yet, noone has to worry that if they write down a short phrase they are infringing a copyright, even if someone else has written down the same phrase before them. Yet, they aren't free to copy an entire book.
But would the law be broken if I wrote a book that had the same chapter titles and ordering as a previously published work?
How about if the book contains similar plot lines and characters; albeit with different names?
Now, if APIs were copyrightable (...), why should they be treated differently? That is, one shouldn't have to worry about int add( int, int ), but from that, it doesn't imply you can copy a large API like Java.
Where do you draw that line? What constistutes "the Java API"?
Besides which, the case does not revolve around "the API", but rather about "bits of the API". Ie. A certain, defined, specific, named, subset of, the entrypoints within "The API".
Informed opinion has it that specific implementation ("the source code") of a program or other software entity is copyrightable; but the step-wise description ("algorithm"); and the interface specification ("API") are not.
My opinion is founded upon my understanding of these and other references going back over the long term of my particular interest in this subject.
Disagree by all means; counter-argue please; but do save up the distraction of 'dismissal through ridicule' for those occasions where you can back it up with some ammunition worthy of the name.
With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa spent more than $3 billion on the 2010 World Cup, and in return gained an "intangible legacy" from the first world soccer showpiece in Africa, the country's government said Friday in its final report on the tournament.
In the "2010 FIFA World Cup Country Report," released nearly 2½ years after the event, South Africa's government said it spent $1.1 billion on building and upgrading stadiums alone.
Transport was the biggest cost, with $1.3 billion dedicated to improving road, rail and air links and a further $392 million on the country's main ports of entry.
In the absence of any final definitive figures on how much South Africa earned in total from being the host, the report said the World Cup had left an intangible legacy of pride and unity among South Africans and had changed the country's image as undeveloped, crime-ridden and dangerous in the eyes of the rest of the world.
"To top it all, we didn't have lions roaming the streets and we did have ATMs," the report, published by the ministry of sport, added light-heartedly.
It did predict a $6 billion boost to South Africa's economy as a result of the monthlong World Cup, according to a study by risk analysis and finance company Grant Thornton, but that was a mid to long-term projection.
FIFA reported it made a $631 million profit from the 2007-10 World Cup cycle and earned income of $3.65 billion from 2010 World Cup contracts. FIFA said it spent $1.298 billion on the World Cup in South Africa and also gave $100 million to the World Cup Legacy Trust, a fund that supports grassroots soccer projects.
"The World Cup in South Africa was a huge, huge financial success for Africa, for South Africa and for FIFA," FIFA president Sepp Blatter said in 2011 as the world body published its own financial report.
While critics have said that such a huge outlay on a 30-day sports event was impractical for South Africa — and the final word on whether it was an economic success was still pending — the government could argue that it had already earned over $400 million from the more than 300,000 tourists that visited for the World Cup.
The upgrade to much of South Africa's transport infrastructure was a long-term investment, the government said.
The expensive World Cup stadiums are still underused, however, and some are losing money. The Cape Town Stadium — reportedly the most expensive of the seven new venues at $600 million — is in the most trouble.
"This report will also serve as a reference guide and benchmark for planning other major sporting events," South Africa's government said in a statement to introduce the publication, which featured the 2010 World Cup logo and was embossed with shiny gold letters.
South Africa has said it is considering a bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.