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Frequently Asked Questions
Vindurance Kick Gels are a new and revolutionary approach to sports nutrition. Have a question? Check out our FAQs (or use our contact form to ask your own questions) and learn more about how grapes can power your race plan.
Nutritional Questions
Why are Vindurance Kick Gels different from other sports gels on the market?
Vindurance Kick Gels are made from real Australian wine grape juice. Grapes contain natural antioxidants and amino acids, which a good for athletes participating in lengthy or strenuous sports and recreational activities.
Our sports gels are the brainchild of premium winemaker and high performance triathlete and marathon runner Kathrin Puff. Kathrin used her technical expertise in winemaking to create her own grape-based sport juices and condensed gels to improve her race performance.
Also our sports gels taste natural, like real fruit. We don't use artificial flavours to make them taste like chocolate, toasted marshmallow or salted caramel.
What type of carbohydrates are used in Vindurance Kick Gels?
Grape juice naturally contains fructose and glucose, so the main sugars come from these natural sources. We've also added maltodextrin as well as some extra fructose for nutritional balance.
To be broken down and able to release energy into your body, each sugar has a different path of metabolism. This is why you have a longer sustained energy if you use three different sugars. If you focused on only one (like glucose which is absorbed immediately) your body will overload and the sugar won't be completely absorbed.
Another way to explain it is to think of a highway with many, many cars. If you have only one lane you'll end up with a traffic jam, but with multiple lanes the traffic flows freely and overload can be avoided.
What is ingredient list and nutritional information for each Vindurance Kick Gel flavour?
Ingredients : Grape Juice Concentrate 54% (Grape Juice, Oak Extract Murray River Pink Salt), Water, Maltodextrin, Fructose, Rice Malt Syrup (Organic Brown Rice), Strawberry Puree, Pomegranate Juice, Lemon Juice, Xanthan Gum, Salt, Mineral Salt (508), Natural Flavour, Preservatives (202, 211), Sweeteners(960, 957).
Ingredients : Grape Juice Concentrate 55% (Grape Juice, Oak Extract Murray River Pink salt), Water, Maltodextrin, Fructose, Rice Malt Syrup (Organic Brown Rice), Apple Puree, Xanthan Gum, Salt, Mineral Salt (508), Natural Flavour, Preservatives (202, 211), Antioxidant (224), Sweeteners (960, 957).
Why do your gels contain less than 100K calories?
Our energy gels and sports foods strike a healthy balance between providing concentrated sugars at rate that the body can safely absorb and digest. We use a balance of simple and complex sugars.
Why are Vindurance Kick Gels more expensive than other sports gels?
We have sourced only the finest quality ingredients to make our gels as natural and nutritious as possible. We are also committed to ensuring all our ingredients are grown and produced in Australia. Of course this does increase our production costs, but we are confident once you try our gels and immediately notice the difference in taste and performance, you will agree that the quality is worth the little extra.
Food Safety Questions
Do Vindurance Kick Gels gels contain alcohol?
No! Our gels are made from natural, unfermented wine grape juice.
Do the sports gels contain caffeine?
Do your sports gels contain Gluten?
No! Our Vindurance Kick Gels have been tested and certified Gluten Free.
Are Vindurance Kick Gels ASADA (Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency) safe?
All Vindurance product labels accurately describe the ingredients used to make the gels. Vindurance Kick Gels are not supplements, they are made from natural foods and none of our ingredients are listed on the https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/science-medicine/prohibited-list-documents.
All our products are manufactured in Australia using reputable suppliers and quality assurance methods.
Where are Vindurance Kick Gels made?
Vindurance Kick Gels are made in Australia. Our grape juice is sourced from high quality vineyards in South Australia, and the products are manufactured and packaged in Brisbane.
Do your sports gels contain any animal derived nutrients?
No! We only use fruit and non-animal based ingredients in our products and are suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
Are your Vindurance gels Kosher?
We have not yet registered our products for Kosher certification.
What is the shelf-life of Vindurance Kick Gels?
Our products have a 12 month shelf life to ensure you enjoy it at its best, however we are continuing to test and evaluate the products performance over time and hope to extend this in future.
Race Questions
How many Vindurance Kick Gels should I consume, and when?
Easy to digest, fast absorbing, with a fantastic natural taste, take one Vindurance Kick Gel pack every 30-45 minutes of racing or heavy exercise.
Do I need to drink water with the Vindurance Kick Gels?
We recommend you always drink water with your energy gels, this helps to dilute the concentration and absorption of the energy.
We also recommend you consume electrolytical drinks offered at race aid stations to replenish your mineral levels. Sweating during extended exercising and racing depletes our blood's sodium and potassium levels.
How much does the pack weigh and what are the dimensions?
The sports gel packs are compact, easy to carry and open while racing or training. Each pack weighs just 34 grams and 15cm x 5½cm x ½cm.
- Customer Service Questions
Where can I buy Vindurance Sports Foods?Buy Vindurance Kick Gels right here online. Click here to visit our online store today.My package hasn't arrived what do I need to do?
We ship with Australia Post and each delivery is tracked.The tracking status 'in transit' means that your order has left our warehouse is already on its way to you.If your item hasn't been delivered as expected and you're concerned it's missing or lost, you can check Australia Post delivery times to see when it should be received.
We've never lost a package yet so please make sure you check your front door area, pot plants, fences and yard (even with the neighbours) if you can't locate your package. If you're still concerned contact us so we can lodge a missing or late item enquiry form with Australia Post.
How do I email you with feedback and / or questions I may have?
Click here to contact customer service. We treat our customers with courtesy and respect, please treat our customer service team the same way.


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We would like to welcome you to Lostock Gralam Church of England Primary School
Cherish every child that they may love God, serve others and enjoy "life in all its fullness" (John 10:10)
Children are at the heart of everything we do and Christ is the light that guides us. John 8:12 "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." We are committed to ensuring children encounter and achieve the highest possible standards through partnership with our entire school community. We provide a happy, stimulating environment rooted in Christian values. Our aim is to equip individuals with the Christian Values (courage, love, friendship, hope, forgiveness, and respect ) and life skills needed to "Live in peace with each other" (Romans 12:16-18), to take their place in the wider world and to make a contribution to it. Mark 9:37 "Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me."
Whilst this website provides a lot of useful information, it is no substitute for a visit to our wonderful school. We warmly welcome you to talk with our pupils and to the staff, to walk around our school to get a feeling of what it would be like to be a part of our Lostock family.
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Exmouth Amateurs ladies' good value for draw at Tedburn
PUBLISHED: 19:24 06 March 2013 | UPDATED: 19:24 06 March 2013
Tedburn Rangers 0, Exmouth Amateurs 0
Ammies extended their unbeaten run to three games after a hard fought engagement in Mid Devon.
On the balance of play Ammies will feel they did enough to warrant all three points.
The hosts were the better of the two sides in the first half, enjoying the majority of the possession as Ammies looked a little disjointed and were struggling to find any rhythm or tempo in their game.
It was a good job for Ammies that the back four of Rowe, Jones, Hillman and Dunn looked in commanding form as Tedburn piled on the pressure, but despite this, keeper Rose only had a couple of routine saves to make.
When Ammies did manage to break forward they created the clearer chances. Hawkins hurried the defender into a error, but hit her shot wide before Wills hit a snap-shot that the keeper saved well and Rowe had a header well saved.
At half time Ammies were encouraged to pick up the pace and tempo in their game and this they achieved as they dominated the second period.
Cordwell had a shot blocked, Wills, now playing through the middle, tested the keeper and Worsley was denied a number of times by the home keeper.
With the Ammies looking solid at the back they pressed forward seeking a winner.
Beck slid a fine ball through to Worsley who clipped it past the keeper, but it landed agonisingly wide with what proved to be the final chance at either end.
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Community Solutions is a comprehensive non-profit human services agency serving Santa Clara County and San Benito County. Since 1972, we have responded to the growing and changing needs of our community, serving several thousand people from young children to older adults each year.
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Justice Robin Camp has resigned following a report to the Minister of Justice from the Canadian Judicial Council recommending he be removed from office.
|Justice Robin Camp has resigned as a member of the Federal Court of Canada.
"I have advised Chief Justice Crampton that effective March 10, 2017 I will resign as a member of the Federal Court of Canada," Camp said in a statement released by his lawyer.
"I would like to express my sincere apology to everyone who was hurt by my comments during the Wagar trial. I thank everyone who was generous and kind to me and my family in the last 15 months, particularly my legal team. I will not be answering any media inquiries today. If you have questions I ask you to direct them to my lawyer, Frank Addario."
He signed the statement Robin Camp.
Camp is the judge who asked a sexual assault complainant in a trial why she couldn't "keep her knees together." Transcripts from a 2014 trial showed he called the complainant "the accused" several times and told her "pain and sex sometimes go together."
The CJC recommendation, dated March 8, follows a public inquiry conducted under the Judges Act.
"From the time they are considered for appointment to the Bench, and every day thereafter, superior court judges in Canada are expected to be knowledgeable jurists," reads the report's introduction.
"They are also expected to demonstrate a number of personal attributes including knowledge of social issues, an awareness of changes in social values, humility, fairness, empathy, tolerance, consideration and respect for others."
The council found Camp failed to meet these high standards and "seriously undermined" public confidence in the judiciary.
"We applaud the CJC majority report to the minister that properly confirms that the question here was not whether the judge was apologetic, but rather whether the conduct under review is of such a nature that a reasonable person would lose confidence in the judiciary," says Kim Stanton, legal director at the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, which was an intervener in the case.
"Here, the CJC determined that Justice Camp's disrespectful treatment of the complainant was so antithetical to the values of the judicial system that his removal was the only manner in which to maintain public confidence in the system."
Four of the 23 members who deliberated disagreed with the decision. In the reasons for voting against the recommendation for removal the dissenting members argued Camp's request to appear before the council should have been honoured and that, while his comments do amount to judicial misconduct as the majority found, they wanted a sanction short of removal.
The dissenters noted in their reasons that "the full record of proceedings before the Inquiry Committee quite clearly leads to the inference that the Judge's words reflected an unconscious bias, which is remediable, and do not reflect animus or antipathy toward the complainant, women, or the law. The record demonstrates that the Judge was fully apologetic and apologized promptly, sincerely and appropriately."
The majority disagreed, however, and in their recommendation said:
In our view, the statements made by Justice Camp during the trial and in his decision, the values implicit in those statements and the way in which he conducted himself are so antithetical to the contemporary values of our judicial system with respect to the manner in which complainants in sexual assault case should be treated that, in our view, confidence in the system cannot be maintained unless the system disassociates itself from the image which the Judge, by his statements and approach, represents in the mind of a reasonable member of the public. In this case, that can only be accomplished by his removal from the system which, if he were not removed, he would continue to represent.
"In this instance, the Judge's misconduct was evidenced over a continued period during the trial," the report states.
"Some of the Judge's most egregious comments were repeated in his reasons for decision, issued much later. The reasonable person's confidence in the Judge's ability to discharge the duties of office is seriously undermined."
The recommendation was reached following the unanimous decision the inquiry committee tasked with reviewing Camp's conduct arrived at on Nov. 29, as Legal Feeds previously reported.
In the inquiry committee's report Camp's misconduct in R. v. Wagar, a 2014 sexual assault case in which Camp acquitted the accused but not before making questionable comments to the 19-year-old complainant.
The committee concluded "that Justice Camp's conduct in the Wagar Trial was so manifestly and profoundly destructive of the concept of the impartiality, integrity and independence of the judicial role that public confidence is sufficiently undermined to render the Judge incapable of executing the judicial office. Accordingly, the Inquiry Committee expresses the unanimous view that a recommendation by Council for Justice Camp's removal is warranted."
A judge may be removed from office only through a joint resolution of Parliament. Because Camp has resigned, it will no longer have to vote on his removal.


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with Roy Williams, University of North Carolina Head Coach;2017 NCAA Champions! 3x National Championship Coach (2005, 2009, 2017); 2019 USA Today National Coach of the Year; 9 Final Fours;Back-to-Back ACC Regular Season Champions (2016-17) - 9x ACC Regular Season and 3x ACC Tournament Champions;800 career NCAA wins; 2x AP Coach of the Year; member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2007)
In this incredibly comprehensive video, Coach Williams presents the five points of emphasis of his man-to-man defense. In breaking down the most critical areas of strong-side and weak-side man defense, Williams teaches how to deny penetration on the baseline, close traps on help-side, techniques for ball denial, close outs, fronting the post and denial of screens and back screens. Williams teaches the 20, 30 and 40 defensive numbering system that will create fits for teams at any level! He places special focus on pressuring the ball, proper on-ball and help-side stances, forcing the ball to the sideline, weakside defense, preventing ball reversals and stopping transition offense on every possession. His drills, ranging from one-on-one drills to five-on-five drills, will reinforce proper responsibilities and rotations within the defense. A must for all coaches who play tough man defense!
55 minutes. 2004.
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Deborah Parra-Medina
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego/San Diego State University
Institute Director and Professor
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- Phone: (512) 475-9315
- Office: GWB 2.320
- Campus Mail Code: F9200
Dr. Deborah Parra-Medina is the inaugural director of the Latino Research Institute. She holds an appointment as Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Parra-Medina has extensive expertise in developing culturally competent public health, chronic disease, and healthy lifestyle interventions with underserved communities, including women, Latinos, financially disadvantaged, and immigrant populations. She uses a mixed-methods, community-based participatory approach, often designing and implementing interventions that utilize the promotora model and involve multimedia, text messaging, and other technological communications.
Professor Parra-Medina comes to Austin from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio's Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR), where she was a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics from 2008 to 2016. From 1998 to 2008, she served on the faculty of the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health.
In 2016, Professor Parra-Medina was named a Fellow by the American Academy of Health Behavior, a national group of researchers who apply study results to improve public health. She has served as Co-Director of the South Texas Area Health Education Centers Program and as a member of the Cancer Prevention and Population Science research program at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She serves on the editorial board of several scholarly journals and has been recognized for her work in public health and health disparities research by the American Public Health Association, receiving the Mayhew Derryberry Award in 2013.
Professor Parra-Medina received her Ph.D. in public health epidemiology from the University of California, San Diego/San Diego State University joint doctoral program and her master's in public health in health promotion and education from San Diego State University. She is a native of San Diego.
Research Interests:
Community-based health promotion, underserved communities, participatory research methods, Latino health disparities, and chronic disease prevention.
MAS 374 • Latina Sexuality And Health
40395 • Spring 2019
Meets MW 2:30PM-4:00PM CMA 5.190
(also listed as WGS 340)
This course provides an overview of Latinas' health issues presented in the context of a woman's life, beginning in childhood and moving through adolescence, reproductive years, and aging. The approach to Latinas' health is broad, taking into account economic, social, and human rights factors and particularly the importance of women's capacities to have good health and manage their lives in the face of societal pressures and obstacles. Particular attention will be given to critical issues of Latinas' health such as: poverty; unequal access to education, food, and health care; caregiving; and violence. Such issues as maternal mortality, sexually transmitted diseases, teen-pregnancy, body image, gender-based violence, the effects of traditional practices and the effective solutions being forged to combat them. Central to the course materials and discussions will be consideration of how race, ethnicity, class, culture, and gender shape Latinas' health outcomes. The course will provide a mixture of lecture, media viewing, in-class critical thinking assignments, and out-of-class readings. The class will be interactive. After a general overview the first week, each week will be devoted to a particular phase of a Latinas' life and/or a health issue related to that phase, with one session being introductory (occasionally involving guest resource people) and the other being primarily discussion based, with students leading parts of the discussions. A couple of texts will be required and a Course Reader (CR) will be available on the web (in Canvas). Additional materials may be posted on the class website or handed out in class.
READINGS (selected)
- Connell R. Gender, "Health and Theory: conceptualizing the issue, in local and world perspective." Soc Sci Med 2012;74(11):1675–83.
- Davidson P, McGrath S, Meleis A, et al. "The health of women and girls determines the health and wellbeing of our modern world: A white paper from the International Council on Women's Health Issues." Health Care Women International 2012;32(August):870–886
- Ann Zuvekas, Barbara L. Wells, Bonnie Lefkowitz. "Mexican American Infant Mortality Rate: Implications for Public Policy." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2000;11(2) pp. 231-24
- Velia Leybas-Amedia, Thomas Nuno, Francisco Garcia. "Effect of acculturation and income on Hispanic women's health." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2005;16(4) pp. 128-141.
MAS 392 • Latinx Health Disparities
35734 • Spring 2018
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM GWB 1.138
This course will introduce students to the concept of health equity and will provide a broad overview of health disparities in the United States with a specific focus on Latinx populations. The course will explore key social determinants of health, including: socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, neighborhood environments, social relationships, and political economy. Mechanisms through which these factors are hypothesized to influence health, such as stress and access to health resources and constraints, will be discussed, as well as the ways in which these mechanisms can operate across the lifecourse. An overarching theme of the course will be how social factors that adversely affect health are inequitably distributed, contributing to marked health disparities. Students will gain a better understanding of research on health disparities and interventions to promote health equity through a combination of readings, lectures, reflection papers, in-class exercises, and research assignments.


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New 'Active' Invisibility Cloak Shields Across Light Frequencies
Back in 2006, scientists developed the first invisibility cloak, but it wasn't yet able to make an object appear invisible to human vision. Now, a new type of invisibility cloak takes us one step closer to that goal.
So far, scientists have developed more than 10 cloaking devices, and the latest invisibility cloak is thinner model using "active" technology or electric power. Invented by University of Texas at Austin scientists, the new cloak enables more effective shielding of an object at a wider variety of light frequencies.
For example, an object invisible in red light would also be invisible in blue light; with previous cloaks, an object would disappear in red light, but appear in blue light, as explained in the team's recent research paper on The Physical Review X.
During experimentation, scientists made a cylindrical rod invisible, and determined this with the aid of machines and systems tracking microwave or radio frequencies, which are outside of what humans can see in the visible light spectrum. Light frequencies are all in the electromagnetic spectrum, where visible light wavelengths are a very small part of the spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
Made from a thin layer of metamaterials or synthetic textiles with properties not found in nature, the cloak bends and scatters light around the rod. The cloak then makes the rod disappear at the microwave or radio frequency level.
Led by University of Austin professor Andrea Alù, the research uses electronic amplifiers in the ultra-thin cloak — known as "active" technology — which relies on electrical currents to make an object disappear over a broader light-frequency range. Previous invisibility cloaks were not as physically thin and failed to fully shield an object since the "passive" technology required no power source and used limited bandwidths.
The passive cloaks "scattered more waves than the bare object they were trying to hide - when tested over the whole range of the electromagnetic spectrum," as reported by the BBC. Therefore, passive cloaks only made an object invisible in a specific light frequency range and not across different ranges.
Research team member Jason Soric says electronically powered cloaks change the functionality of previous "passive" cloaking devices. "The active cloaking works over a much larger bandwidth than any other passive cloak, especially considering, that it cloaks at all angles, and not just in one direction.
"Embedding electronics into passive cloaking covers has been shown to allow great control over the surface current needed to cancel the scattering of bare objects," Soric told Mashable in an email.
Currently, the University of Texas scientists are working on a cloak prototype that should be available in the next few years.
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How To Beat A DUI Charge In Court
Ways How To Fight To Beat A DUI Case.
A DUI charge does not automatically mean you will be convicted, because there are new methods that can help show you how to beat a DUI case. Getting arrested for DUI or DWI charges, is just the first step in the legal process, and the state has to provide sufficient evidence in order for you to be found guilty.
If you have been recently charged with a DUI, and are looking for help on beating the charges, you must learn how to suppress the state's evidence against you. This article will explain how your DUI case is not hopeless, regardless of how "guilty" the arresting police thought you were. It doesn't matter if you've blew over the legal limit on the breathalyzer or were pulled from your car after driving the wrong way down the street. You always have a chance of winning in court when when you have the right information on how to beat your DUI case.
When Hiring a DUI lawyer
There is no substitute for official legal advice, so find yourself a good lawyer, preferably a DUI attorney that specializes in DUI cases. A DUI attorney specialist will greatly increase your chances to beat a DUI case, than a general practice lawyer that takes on all kinds of legal cases.
How do you know if a DUI lawyer is good enough to win your case? Most towns have websites where clients can rank their experiences, and an internet search is the best place to start. If that doesn't work, you can always can always find a referral from an attorney that you are already familiar with. DUI specialist lawyers are not cheap, but they exclusively practice DUI, and are most likey to know all the legal loopholes that can show how to beat DUI charges effectively. Luckily, there are cost-effective alternatives you can use online through organizations created by these attorneys, that is explained further in this article.
Always remember that searching for a lawyer is no different than searching for any type of professional consultant. They all have advantages and disadvantages, but they also have unique personalities and defense methods. Just because someone has a great record in court doesn't mean you should put up with any lack of respect for full attention to your case. Speaking of which, don't forget that it is alright to search around. For example, if you were building an addition to your house, would you automatically hire the first carpenter you talked to? Of course not, you would speak with several of them, then evaluate their experience, fees, and finally you would make your choice. You can just as easily do this with DUI lawyers also.
Be Careful During Your Case
Don't do anything that could jeopardize your pending DUI case, and increase the consequences. Especially if your driver's license is suspended while you are fighting the charges. If this is the case, never push your luck by driving. If you get pulled over with a suspended license with outstanding DUI charges pending, you've basically guaranteed a guilty verdict in hopes of ever dropping your DUI charges.
You always want to keep your record as clean as possible, especially during your DUI case. You want your defense attorney to portray you as a law-abiding, rule-adhering citizen.
Adhering to not driving without a license is a struggle. Knowing that you can't drive to work or the nearest store, is very difficult to handle. However you must resist violating the rules of the license suspension, because the consequences will be will be severe to your case. Instead, learn to plan ahead, and consolidate your trips as much as possible. You might even find yourself thinking creatively, like learning your local bus or train routes and having friends available for giving rides.
You can even try to make the best out of this bad situation by walking, jogging or riding your bike as much as possible. This can be an easy opportunity to lose weight and increase your fitness levels as a result of the current circumstances.
Take Action Of Your DUI Situation
By doing research online, you can find out the penalties in your state for DUI offenses and the newest laws. For instance, there are organizations that can help show you how to beat a DUI case using a variety of tactics to get any field sobriety test results suppressed from being used against you in court. Without these test results, and usually the prosecution's best evidence aganst you to rely on, the DUI charges are commonly dismissed due to lack of evidence to proceed. These methods can be used either with or without the assistance of a lawyer if you choose.
Never Plead Guilty
It may seem obvious, especially considering any evidence that the police may have gained at the time of arrest, but pleading guilty will ruin any chance to beat a DUI case successfully. This is because you won't have an opportunity to make any challenges to the prosecution's evidence against you.
Pleading guilty will only ensure you will be facing a minimum of severe fines and quite possibly a license suspension. Always speak with your attorney before making any decision, but by taking a guilty plea, you won't even have a chance to win your case and avoid the costly penalties. That means you won't be able to plea bargain down or even beat DUI charges entirely.
Listen To Advice Of Your DUI Attorney - But Do Your Research
Remember that only a skilled DUI attorney, and DUI organizations are the best authority for help on how to fight to beat DUI charges. They might have other suggestions or defenses that you aren't aware of, and in those circumstances you should take them up on their options. Taking advantage of every available resource you can on your own, will give you the best chances when learning how to beat a DUI case. Just as you would do research on a serious health issue and not rely entirely on only a doctor for information, never rely soley on a lawyer to defend your case. You should always research on your own as much as you can on DUI defense, just as you would for any other important personal matter in your life.


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Cottage for Rent
UPDATE: Currently closed for summer of 2020 due to Covid-19 travel restrictions.
For rent, Darlene's Vintage Cottage, a three bedroom rustic cottage nestled on a country road in Blackville in the Miramichi Region of New Brunswick. Open seasonally, June to September.
The cottage can be rented by the night or you can choose to just rent a room. There is a large eat-in kitchen with stove, dishwasher and all dishes & utensils provided, and a dining area, living area, 2 double rooms, 1 single rooms. See more details on room rates here.
This cottage rental is perfect if you're looking for a vacation place to stay that feels like home. It is a quiet location for people working in the area and needing comfortable accommodations. Also makes a great place for hunters or fishermen wanting to rent a cabin for the weekend. Gather your friends together for a girls get-away weekend, or an artists retreat.
There is a lot of history in this building which started out as a general store in the early 1900's and later became a Tea House.
Located in the Miramichi region of New Brunswick just outside the Village of Blackville, you'll find this quaint cottage makes the perfect retreat.


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The reveal of the Pantone color of the year is an annual event that the design and fashion industries eagerly anticipate. With the release of the top color of the year, companies within these industries come out with textiles, papers, vectors, and all sort of materials reflecting these shades. This year Pantone has done something different…read more


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Obama Backs Down on State Secrets
President Obama last night described a much more modest role for the state secrets privilege than his own administration has recently argued for in court, acknowledging that it is taking time to fully think through how to reverse some Bush administration policies.
Justice Department lawyers have made extraordinarily broad assertions of the state secrets privilege in three cases since Obama took office, continuing to make Bush-era arguments that the executive branch has the right to avoid even modest judicial scrutiny simply by citing national security concerns.
Previously, senior administration officials, including Obama's own White House counsel and his attorney general, had insisted that the administration's decision to maintain the Bush stand in these cases was proper and necessary to protect national security.
But at last night's press conference, when asked about what had widely been seen as abandonment of his devotion to civil liberties and government transparency, Obama suggested that inertia, rather than intent, was to blame. Here's the exchange between Obama and Time Magazine reporter Michael Scherer:
Q: "Thank you, Mr. President. During the campaign, you criticized President Bush's use of the state secrets privilege, but U.S. attorneys have continued to argue the Bush position in three cases in court. How exactly does your view of state secrets differ from President Bush's? And do you believe presidents should be able to derail entire lawsuits about warrantless wiretapping or rendition if classified information is involved?"
Obama: "I actually think that the state secret doctrine should be modified. I think right now it's over broad.
"But keep in mind what happens, is we come in to office. We're in for a week, and suddenly we've got a court filing that's coming up. And so we don't have the time to effectively think through, what exactly should an overarching reform of that doctrine take? We've got to respond to the immediate case in front of us.
"There -- I think it is appropriate to say that there are going to be cases in which national security interests are genuinely at stake and that you can't litigate without revealing covert activities or classified information that would genuinely compromise our safety.
"But searching for ways to redact, to carve out certain cases, to see what can be done so that a judge in chambers can review information without it being in open court, you know, there should be some additional tools so that it's not such a blunt instrument.
"And we're interested in pursuing that. I know that Eric Holder and Greg Craig, my White House counsel, and others are working on that as we speak."
There's no dispute that there must be some mechanism whereby the government can prevent breaches of national security in court cases. But the way the state secrets privilege has typically worked is that the government can refuse to publicly disclose a specific item of information -- if it can persuasively explain why to a judge. The idea is not that government officials get to tell a judge to dismiss an entire case because they don't want to answer any questions at all.
Just this Tuesday, a federal appeals court reinstated one of the cases the Justice Department had sought to dismiss.
During oral arguments on the case in February, several judges were plainly startled to hear that the Obama administration wasn't abandoning the Bush position. But Justice Department lawyer Douglas N. Letter, who had been assigned to the case under the Bush regime, said the Obama administration's position was "exactly" the same.
John Schwartz of the New York Times related the following exchange:
"Is there anything material that has happened' that might have caused the Justice Department to shift its views, asked Judge Mary M. Schroeder, an appointee of President Jimmy Carter, coyly referring to the recent election.
"No, your honor, Mr. Letter replied.
Judge Schroeder asked, "The change in administration has no bearing?"
Once more, he said, "No, Your Honor." The position he was taking in court on behalf of the government had been "thoroughly vetted with the appropriate officials within the new administration," and "these are the authorized positions," he said.
Some Obama supporters had held out the hope that his Justice Department was still just getting up to speed, and would eventually pull back from the Bush-era position -- much as Obama is now indicating will happen. But Obama's two top legal officials had clearly indicated otherwise in previous interviews.
Attorney General Eric Holder, in an interview earlier this month with CBS News's Katie Couric, said he has ordered a review of the state secrets doctrine. But asked if he felt the doctrine was abused by the Bush administration, he replied: "On the basis of the two, three cases that we've had to review so far - I think that the invocation of the doctrine was correct."
And as Charlie Savage reported in the New York Times in February, after the Obama administration's first invocation of the privilege, White House Counsel Greg Craig said, "Holder and others reviewed the case and 'came to the conclusion that it was justified and necessary for national security' to maintain their predecessor's stance."
It seems clear that Obama last night was telegraphing a reversal in the three ongoing cases as well as in the general application of the privilege going forward.
But Kevin Poulsen writes on Wired's Web site that "Obama's explanation has a nice ring to it, but ultimately falls flat" because the Justice Department didn't just make these arguments in the first few weeks of the administration, but has continued to do so "unrelentingly" since then.
So stay tuned.
Dan Froomkin
April 30, 2009; 9:35 AM ET
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Big ships do turn slowly, so let's hope this is the beginning of a new trend on state secrets.
Posted by: mobedda | April 30, 2009 10:13 AM | Report abuse
Obama did not "back down" - his rhetoric has always been against secret powers. The Justice Department has simply acted contrary to this rhetoric and it remains to be seen if it will continue to do so.
Posted by: skeptonomist | April 30, 2009 10:24 AM | Report abuse
I don't know that I agree with Dan on this, I would wait until the Justice Department starts to prosecute before I would offer ANY speculation or hope, but I might be wrong, and I hope I am.
Any TRUE state secret, intelligently reasoned, is safe; stupid kooks, whether they be terrorists, Dick Cheney, Oliver North, or John Brennan CIA types, just can't figure it out. They huff and they puff, but yet they keep losing -- and they don't know why.
The reasoning behind American law is beyond their ability to grasp.
I'm not kidding, they're THAT dumb.
And we have 2 lost wars and a STILL faltering economy to prove it, the use of torture and fear their only solution to threat.
Posted by: thegreatpotatospamof2003 | April 30, 2009 10:39 AM | Report abuse
Seems to me that in this case, and in the case of the release of the torture memos, that Obama is trying to arrange things so that the systems meant to be in place to address situations like this have a chance to proceed with corrective action, while keeping executive branch fingerprints, and accusations of partisan activity, to a minimum. This has started, as Dan points out, with the Jeppesen case being reinstated this week.
I also believe that, in time, we will see the Justice Department act on the torture memos.
Patience is more than a virtue in these instances, it's an absolute necessity.
Posted by: tennesseemoonshiner | April 30, 2009 11:06 AM | Report abuse
The invocation of state secrets to hide embarrassing or politically damaging information ran rife during the Bush administration. I would hope in a democracy of the people state secrets would be kept to a bare minimum. There are some specific details that must be shielded, but blacking out the budgets of entire departments is going too far.
These particular cases reveal the shortcuts that seem to be used more and more in Washington. Rather than invoking state secrets at discovery they are used to dismiss cases before they even begin. Rather than invoking executive privilege in Congress, administration officials simply refuse to show up. Rather than filibustering in Congress the mere threat of filibuster shelves legislation.
Posted by: fletc3her | April 30, 2009 11:10 AM | Report abuse
I also believe that, in time, we will see the Justice Department act on the torture memos.
Patience is more than a virtue in these instances, it's an absolute necessity.
I agree, but I never call it a done deal, even when it's done. ; )>
Cheney and Bush were famous for the bait and switch, the rendering loophole is still open, it's not a good sign Brennan is still on staff, the little press type ops are SO easy to read, laughable, actually.
OTOH, he might be serious, the problem is vast, so, one step at a time.
This is only the torture issue, too...
Posted by: thegreatpotatospamof2003 | April 30, 2009 11:26 AM | Report abuse
It is funny how Obama now sees that the State Secrets position his administration has taken is "over broad" only AFTER his position had its ass kicked in court!
For those of you who assume that Obama will do the right thing--Don't. It is not just Obama calling the shots. The bureaucracy is too large for that. There has to be sustained pressure from the AG and Justice to undo the abuses over the last decade. That means at least another decade of vigilance.
Posted by: marthaler | April 30, 2009 11:43 AM | Report abuse
It is no shock that Dan is not a reporter, at least in the sense that reporters neutrally presents relevant facts. His description of "a federal appeals court" - without identifying the particular court of appeals - implied that the court must be right. When you follow the links, it's the Ninth Circuit, the most reversed of all the federal circuit courts. I don't know who's right on this issue, but a little honesty in reporting would seem to be part of your job description, Dan.
Posted by: willdd | April 30, 2009 11:48 AM | Report abuse
@marthaler: "It is funny how Obama now sees that the State Secrets position his administration has taken is "over broad" only AFTER his position had its ass kicked in court!"
Isn't it possible that this was his plan - to save political capital by setting up the court to force his hand so he can blame them?
I give no President the benefit of the doubt and I'm certainly not an Obama cheerleader, but I do think he's intelligent and savvy enough to do something like that.
Posted by: BigTunaTim | April 30, 2009 11:54 AM | Report abuse
@willdd: "It is no shock that Dan is not a reporter, at least in the sense that reporters neutrally presents relevant facts."
By that definition we haven't had reporters in decades. Kudos on your truth in media crusade though. How do you find the time to come here? I'd think debunking FOX would take up most of your day.
P.S. google "opinion column"
Posted by: BigTunaTim | April 30, 2009 11:59 AM | Report abuse
This is such an obvious lie by Obama that I can't believe that someone won't call his administration on it. The courts and the plaintiffs would BOTH have given the Obama administration as much time as they wanted to think/rethink their position. The Obama administration CHOSE to reach for more power than even the Bush administration claimed. Obama's statement is not tenable.
Posted by: dickdata | April 30, 2009 12:16 PM | Report abuse
Hey, at least the question was asked in full view of the public by a reporter from a major news outlet, and answered if not with perfect candor at least without a bunch of stupid bafflegab and then dropped. This is the real progress!
Posted by: sm11 | April 30, 2009 12:30 PM | Report abuse
i doubt there is a judge that would not have given the state more time to review the cases, so i dont believe obama when he said they had to move so fast.
Posted by: donaldtucker | April 30, 2009 12:52 PM | Report abuse
"Seems to me that in this case, and in the case of the release of the torture memos, that Obama is trying to arrange things so that the systems meant to be in place to address situations like this have a chance to proceed with corrective action, while keeping executive branch fingerprints, and accusations of partisan activity, to a minimum. This has started, as Dan points out, with the Jeppesen case being reinstated this week.
I also believe that, in time, we will see the Justice Department act on the torture memos.
Patience is more than a virtue in these instances, it's an absolute necessity.
Posted by: tennesseemoonshiner | April 30, 2009 11:06 AM | Report abuse "
Yes, this is exactly what I'd posted the other week. There is such a tangled mess going on, I imagine that it's going to take some time to rewrite the laws the way they should have been in the first place.
Posted by: owl1 | April 30, 2009 1:40 PM | Report abuse
I have good feelings about our president. I think he's a good man and a just man. What more could you want?
I'm just SO happy that he is in the White House.
Things are SO much better now.
Posted by: TOMHERE | April 30, 2009 2:44 PM | Report abuse
Wow Froomkin, you are a brave man even mentioning state secrets in public domain. You too could end up in the nutward or gulag for being so "foolish". If you take this any further "they" may decide to "repatriate" you son and not soon enough.
Posted by: truthhurts | April 30, 2009 2:49 PM | Report abuse
You are right to keep pushing on this issue Dan, and I respect you for doing so. But it IS too early to draw any conclusions. I believe the Obama administration genuinely wants more transparancy, but a coherent policy on how to safely do it hasn't yet emerged.
Posted by: gposner | April 30, 2009 3:19 PM | Report abuse
Evil permeates all Washington institutions: the Courts, the Congress, and the Executive. It will be extremely difficult for one person, President Obama or anyone else, to disinfect the whole system, particularly since he has been a part of that evil. I wish I could live in lala land like so many of President Obama's supporters but reality prevails. I can remember so well that just a few short years ago a majority of Americans believed in another liar: George W. Bush.
The hiding of governmental actions (state secrets) is no more nor no less than the hiding of evil deeds. What other reason could there be? If these people were doing good, wouldn't they shout it from the rooftops? I'm not talking about technological information (atomic bomb plans) or troop movements. I am talking about spying on our own citizens, torturing prisoners, overthrowing governments, and whatever other evils these low-lifes can concoct.
Posted by: frazeysburger | April 30, 2009 4:02 PM | Report abuse
And you wondered what you'd have to do after the election!
See, we still need your watchdog eyes.
Posted by: patriot16 | April 30, 2009 5:04 PM | Report abuse
I'm not allowed to keep any secrets from the state, so why does the state get to keep secrets from me and all the rest of the people who fund it with our taxes?
Posted by: bdunn1 | April 30, 2009 5:24 PM | Report abuse
Obama can prove he is not a hypocrite on the state secrets issue by publicly and zealously backing the State Secrets Protection Act now languishing in the Senate.
Posted by: winoohno | April 30, 2009 7:14 PM | Report abuse
@BigTunaTim: Sorry Charley. I'm no fan of the spin dryer that's O'Reilly and I shake my head just as I assume you do at Hannity's nerve in claiming "America" for himself. (Who knows what to make of the third part of the Fox trinity.) That said, what is the value of this "column," if that's what it is? Doesn't Howard Kurtz do the same thing - but better. Even if Froomkin's not going to surprise people every once in a while by taking a not-wholly-predictable position, he should at least try to be not misleading.
Posted by: willdd | April 30, 2009 7:35 PM | Report abuse
"We're in for a week, and suddenly we've got a court filing that's coming up. And so we don't have the time to effectively think through, what exactly should an overarching reform of that doctrine take? We've got to respond to the immediate case in front of us."
That's not good enough. Cases set precedents. If Obama oversees cases that set over-broad definitions of the national security pleading, he is building more secretive government, for himself and his successors.
Posted by: kevrobb | April 30, 2009 9:34 PM | Report abuse
Wow Froomkin, you are a brave man even mentioning state secrets in public domain. You too could end up in the nutward or gulag for being so "foolish". If you take this any further "they" may decide to "repatriate" you son and not soon enoug
You mean the ones who can't win a war or manage a country or an economy?
Dr. and Secret Agent Nottoobright?
Somehow, I don't think anyone has to really worry, once the shock of their treason has worn off...
Posted by: thegreatpotatospamof2003 | April 30, 2009 9:49 PM | Report abuse
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Advocates for science education said that the report included the pieces needed to change the status quo, but they added that they were waiting to see how those pieces would be put in place.
"One of the biggest things that people want to see is: How are you going to make it happen?" said Ann Korando, the director of development and public relations for Science Service, a Washington-based group that runs prestigious high school science competitions. "How are you going to pay the teachers, and where's the $5 billion going to come from?"
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But the commission's charge to "articulat[e] the steps needed to strengthen the classroom practice of math and science teachers" is broad enough to include curriculum, one mathematician said.
"It's a serious problem, and they could have at least discussed it," said Jerome Dancis, an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland College Park. "You have to make an effort to exclude curriculum."
Mr. Dancis is a critic of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' standards, which have been at the center of curriculum changes in recent years. Though revised recently to incorporate more basic skills, those standards emphasize mathematical theories, critical-thinking skills, and problem-solving. Relying on those standards, as Mr. Glenn suggested, will lead to a "major dumbing down of the curriculum," Mr. Dancis argued.
Other commission members said a federal panel would have no place making curriculum recommendations because the nation historically has left such decisions to local school boards.
"You can't tell 16,000 school districts what they should be teaching," said Paul L. Kimmelman, the superintendent of the West Northfield district in suburban Chicago. "It would have been a daunting task."
Supply and Demand
While sidestepping the curriculum debate, the Glenn Commission was not shy about recommending ways to increase the number and quality of teachers.
Math and science professionals can be lured into teaching by one-year paid fellowships enabling them to study what they need for the classroom, the panel says. Moreover, when all new teachers begin their jobs, it says, they need induction programs to help them through the first year.
The proposals will be helpful, according to one chemistry teacher, but schools need to go beyond them to ensure midcareer professionals who switch jobs stick to their second careers in the classroom.
"Many of them—before they even finish teacher training—decide they don't want to do it," said Caryn I. Galatis, the chairwoman of the science department at Thomas A. Edison High School in Alexandria, Va. "It's not as easy as they thought it would be.."
Increasing pay is one step in the right direction, the commission says. Teachers earn 29 percent less than other college graduates, the panel writes, citing Department of Education statistics. What's worse, the earnings gap between teachers and other college graduates has "nearly quadrupled" since the early 1990s.
"It is hard to escape the conclusion that without better pay for mathematics and science teachers, the high-quality teaching needed in these fields will be very difficult to sustain," the report says.
Vol. 20, Issue 5, Pages 1, 16Published in Print: October 4, 2000, as Effort To Recruit Math, Science Teachers Urged
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Access to dental care can be difficult to come by for low-income families in our community, and MICA's Story County Dental Clinic (SCDC) was created to meet that need.
The SCDC is a full-service clinic offering affordable care to patients with Medicaid or who are uninsured. While the clinic serves emergency needs by performing extractions, crowns or fillings, it also provides routine exams and cleanings.
Through the United Way of Story County, MICA is able to provide services at the clinic, fluoride varnishes and child dental services as well as food through the Story County Emergency Food Pantry, and family development services via the Steps to Success program.
None of this would be possible without the community's support through their donations to the LIVE UNITED Campaign. Even small donations can ease our neighbors' burdens, so please consider making a gift this year to support wellness and health in our community.
Chuck Glatz, MICA Board chair


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How to Jump Start Your Harleyby James Melzer
Like car batteries, motorcycle batteries can need a charge from time to time when they are drained of power. You can jump start a Harley Davidson motorcycle battery with a battery from a car in 5 to 10 minutes with a set of jumper cables. This will provide enough power to the Harley to start it and get back on the road.
Step 1
Turn the engine to the car and the Harley off.
Step 2
Remove the seat of the Harley with a Phillips screwdriver, and unsnap the battery cover on the left side of the motorcycle.
Step 3
Connect the red positive ("+") clamps to the positive terminals of the Harley battery and the car battery.
Step 4
Connect one end of the black negative ("-") cable to the negative terminal on the Harley battery. Connect the other end of the black negative cable to an unpainted metal surface on the car engine. Do not connect it to the negative terminal on the car battery.
Step 5
Keep the cables in place for several minutes then start the Harley. Try again after a few more minutes if it does not start the first time.
Remove the cables, and snap the battery cover on the Harley back into place. Replace the seat with the Phillips screwdriver.
- Run the motorcycle's engine for at least 30 minutes to ensure the battery is fully recharged.
Items you will need
- Phillips screwdriver
- motor bike image by Matt K from Fotolia.com


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Finn Helmer appointed CEO of LiqTech International
Denmark's LiqTech International Inc, manufacturer of silicon carbide membrane filtration technologies, announced the appointment of Finn Helmer as its new CEO on 27 March 2013.Aldo Petersen, chairman of LiqTech, stated, "Helmer's record of success includes some notable transactions including, in particular, his role as CEO of GIGA A/S, a small company in the NKT Group. When he joined GIGA as its seventh employee, it had limited capital, was not profitable and had revenue of less than US$ 1 million. In less than 5 years, GIGA employed 100 people, was generating revenues and pre-tax profit of US$ 135 million and US$ 73 million respectively. In 2000 Intel (USA) acquired GIGA for US$ 1.25 billion."
Petersen concluded, "Finn's ability to grow small technologically advanced companies is going to be invaluable to LiqTech, particularly as we enter into a very important period for our silicon carbide membrane technology. I look forward to Finn's leadership and enthusiastically support his addition to the management team."
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Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom has championed innovative public policies since entering office in 1997. As a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, then as mayor of San Francisco and now as Lieutenant Governor of California, Newsom has been a political visionary on issues of equality, the environment, homelessness and healthcare. Policies he has initiated and implemented have been duplicated in cities across the nation.
Shortly after being elected Lt. Gov. in 2010, Newsom gathered the ideas of key stakeholders around the state to develop an economic growth and job creation strategy. This comprehensive economic blueprint, a top priority of his administration, ensures that California remains one of the top 10 economies in the world.
As mayor of San Francisco, Newsom's administration led the nation on environmental policies such as mandatory composting, plastic bag and Styrofoam bans and a prohibition on city-purchased bottled water. Shortly after establishing the most stringent green building standards in America, San Francisco then achieved the highest rate of recycling and waste diversion in the U.S. For launching these groundbreaking programs, Newsom was selected in 2010 as the greenest mayor for a second year.
An early technology adopter who values innovation, Newsom was ranked #1 mayor for his use of social media by the leading search engine for finding and tracking consumer-generated opinions, Samepoint. He has more than 1.2 million Twitter followers and in 2010, he announced his run for Lt. Gov. via Twitter, making him one of the first politicians to do so.
He is dedicated to shifting the principles of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship to the public sector and launched "The Gavin Newsom Show" on Current TV to help shape the conversation. The show featured such guests as Sergey Brinn, Oliver Stone, Lance Armstrong and Marissa Mayer. He has also been featured on "Meet the Press," "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," "Real Time with Bill Maher," "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," and "Charlie Rose."
An avid reader, despite being dyslexic, Newsom authored "Citizenville" exploring the intersection of democracy and technology in this ever-connected world. Newsom has graced the cover of The New York Times Magazine and has been featured in Time, the New Yorker, the Economist, GQ, and Wired, among others. A much sought after public speaker, he often discusses topics across a wide spectrum, including economics, technology, civil rights, entrepreneurship and government reform. He was featured at the World Economic Forum, Harvard School of Business, Stanford University and the Clinton Global Initiative, among others.


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Amazon Cultural Experience
We have recently just come back from an extraordinary tour to the Amazon region of Ecuador. We were the guests of the Huaorani people and stayed at a new ecolodge they own. There is really too much to absorb to write a complete description the of this experience at this moment but this was one of the best travel experiences that we have ever encountered.


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While we are busy watching Indian Athletes at London Olympics with a hope of getting Gold, Google is busy playing their own Olympic with the entire world. They are changing their doodle and have been implementing a new sport every day and this had helped them gaining a lot in terms for the visit time as I have seen people at home and work playing it for hours.
It is not one of the best games that we have but still it is a good time pass. I even saw most of my friends sharing the screenshots of their highest score on Facebook and Google plus.
So here is an awesome trick/hack for you to get a score which is more than your friend (this can be anything). All you need to do is just follow the below steps clearly.
- First of all, go to Google.com in Google Chrome Web browser. It can also work in Firefox but it will take some extra time. I would advise you not to use Internet Explorer as it anyways don't work for most of the tricks.
- Now play the doodle game just for the sake of playing it. (Yes, you can even give it your worst shot!
- Now when you have the score screen in front of you, just get you mouse cursor over the score and right click it.
- After right clicking, just select the 'Inspect Element' option and it will open a code window at the bottom of the browser.
- Now you will notice that it has the score mentioned in the code. Just double click on the score in code and it will be editable.
- And, you can add any score that you would like.
In this way you can hack the doodle and edit score. You can also post the screenshots on Facebook. I hope that this was interesting.


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I love videos. I spend a lot of time on YouTube. Sadly YouTube never serves me juggling videos. This place was born out of a couple of my frustrations, in an attempt to make a solution for them. I hope this site will help you as much as it helps me!
The frustrations:
- YouTube does not recommend me good juggling videos. In the past month I've watched over 1000 videos to build this site's database, yet still, right now out of 18 videos on the front page there are a bunch of random clickbait videos, some DIY and political videos (I watch some, but not even close to the amount of juggling I watch) and one, just one single video from Luke Burrage's classroom. A juggling instruction video which I'm not interested in right now.
Why do they always get it wrong? Whilst making this database I discovered loads and loads of videos which I had not seen before and where worth my time. Hopefully posting them here makes them easier to find
- I like to save videos. I make playlists on YouTube, before this project started I had over 700 videos stored in 70 playlists. But when I find something on Vimeo or jTV I can't store it in the same playlist. With this site, at least for my juggling stuff, I can collect all of my favorites and playlists in one place.
- Facebook is terrible for finding new videos. You have to sift through a lot of irrelevant posts and crappy videos before you find that one cool thing. I want to see the latest and the greatest videos, but there is no longer a Ministry of Manipulation to pop into my feed. With the 'Featured videos' on the front page I hope I can help others find the great videos, and already some editors have joined this site to help find the newest stuff for you.
- Instagram is wonderful and has changed the world of juggling videos. But after 2 years of watching single tricks, which get buried in the timeline, I am no longer interested in short clips. I want to see real cohesive videos in which the creator put some effort beyond the juggling itself. By promoting quality content I hope to see more quality content.
I hope Manipeo can address these problems, and will help you to watch the best stuff.
Manipeo has only just started out, but already now it's gotten incredible help from:
Rob van Heijst
Lukas Reichenbach
Thank you!
– Daniel Simu


text: Ever get the feeling that the Web moves two step forward and one step back? Blogs are the new personal home pages, RSS is the new push, and now Webaroo is the new Freeloader, one of the first "offline browsers" from the days before flat-rate Internet. Webaroo offers to suck down gigabytes of the Web for perusal offline. I could see some usefulness for this. It even works on PDAs via sideloading, although it seems less compelling than even Freeloader was back in the day. Still, it may be a decent way to spur hard disk upgrades.


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An indispensable part of a successful holiday on Curaçao is a car to be able to discover the beautiful island. Unlike many other holiday destinations where the attractions and entertainment are concentrated in one place, is on Curaçao and experience.
From North to South and from East to west. That means that you are a reliable means of transport, all the more so because public transport is not in all places and time consuming and warm activity is at this tropical temperatures.
We work together with in principle Verwoerd car rental, a good and reliable rental company with (almost) new cars and a good personal service. He delivers the car to us and persuades him to the end of your holiday.
Would you prefer a car from the airport have settled or are you looking for a different model car then we can also be of service to you. Make your wishes known to us and we will be happy to help you to make the right choice.
When we have a car for you at Verwoerd arrange car rental we will be happy to pick up from the airport for 50 euro (return).
The taxi fare for a single ride to us, you will be charged a minimum of $50.
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Types of tariffs
Air Moldova offers to its passengers a wide range of tariffs divided into Business and Economy. Economy tariffs are subdivided into 3 groups of tariffs: Economy Basic, Economy Regular, and Economy Premium.
The division of tariffs was done depending on the tariff rules, from the most restrictive (Economy Basic) to the less restrictive (Business). Each of these three groups of tariffs correspond separate rules regarding booking validity, penalties in case of modification of the flight date/reimbursement of the ticket, discounts for families, young people, free of charge allowed baggage etc.
Frequently, Air Moldova offers proportional tariffs and special offers that give to the passengers the possibility to travel by air, taking advantage of the offered tariff.
Tickets issued on the base of these tariffs are characterized, usually, by limitations during the flight and sales.
On certain flights, the air company offers discounts in the amount of 5% for young people (aged 12-24) and up to 50% for family traveling.
On all flights, the air company offers to the infants (aged 0-2 years) a 90% discount from the applicable tariff. Children (aged 2-12 years) are offered a discount in the amount of 25% from the applicable tariff.
Detailed information regarding prices and options for your trip can be obtained on the following phone number + 373 22 830 830, and at Air Moldova representations abroad.


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UAE Cards & Payments Sector Analysed & Forecast in New Timetric Research Report Published at MarketPublishers.com
22 Jul 2014 • by Natalie Aster
LONDON – The UAE card payments market expanded in terms of both volume and value during 2009−2013. The predominant growth drivers include the surging popularity of payment cards based on Islamic principles, the government's incentives to promote noncash transactions, the introduction of contactless payments technology, and the growth in the e-commerce, retailing, and tourism industries. The total number of cards in circulation in the UAE reached 18.2 million as of 2013, growing at a CAGR of just over 15.3% during 2009−2013. From 2014 and through to end-2018, the national card payments channel is projected to post a CAGR of around 8.6% and reach 28.4 million cards by the end of the forecast period. In terms of transaction value, the card payments channel is expected to increase from USD 132.8 billion in 2013 to USD 144.1 billion in 2014 and further to USD 183.5 billion by 2018, at a forecast-period CAGR of 6.23%.
The UAE's highly developed telecommunications infrastructure allowed it to report one of the highest rates of mobile penetration in the MENA region in 2013. M-payments are anticipated to grow, reaching USD 3 billion in 2018, posting a CAGR of just over 38% during the forecast period. E-commerce is also on the rise due to enhancements in payment and security systems, telecommunication infrastructure and consumers' increased willingness to buy online.
New report "The United Arab Emirates' Cards and Payments Industry: Emerging Opportunities, Trends, Size, Drivers, Strategies, Products and Competitive Landscape" developed by Timetric offers a granular analysis of the UAE cards and payments industry. It provides actual valuations for the country's cards and payments sector for 2013 plus forecasts to 2018, canvasses the drivers having a bearing on the industry, offers comprehensive insights into major regulations governing the domestic cards and payments marketplace. The research report gives an unbiased assessment of the competitive dynamics in the market along with profiling the top industry players. Furthermore, key marketing strategies utilised by different banks and other institutions for selling various types of cards in the UAE are addressed in the report.
Report Details:
The United Arab Emirates' Cards and Payments Industry: Emerging Opportunities, Trends, Size, Drivers, Strategies, Products and Competitive Landscape
Published: July, 2014
Pages: 105
Price: US$ 3,995.00
More new studies by the publisher can be found at Timetric page.
The Market Publishers, Ltd.
Natalie Aster
Tel: +44 208 144 6009
Fax: +44 207 900 3970
[email protected]


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THE huge number of unoccupied dwellings in South Belfast could begin to blight local neighbourhoods unless they are inhabited, a leading academic has warned.
Professor Paddy Gray, a University of Ulster academic who specialises in the study of housing was speaking after Stormont Assembly members were given a breakdown on the mammoth total of homes lying empty across the city.
South Belfast has by far the highest amount of empty dwellings with a whopping figure of 2,818.
This eclipses runner-up North Belfast, which has 1,981 empty residential properties, and dwarves West Belfast, which has the lowest at 986.
In the Botanic area alone there are 664 empty homes, the highest for all the city's electoral wards. In the Castlereagh Borough there are 82 unoccupied buildings in the Carryduff area alone.
Professor Gray said that the huge number of vacant homes in the south was the city was "very surprising" considering high demand in certain sectors. He also warned of the continuing negative effects of such a scenario.
"South Belfast actually has a fairly buoyant rental market at the minute and these figures are indeed surprising," he said.
"Of course, there are all sorts of reasons as to why a property can lie empty, including new homes that were built as the property bubble burst, with no-one there to fill them.
"The results are particularly stark when you consider that across Northern Ireland over 40,000 people are waiting on social housing."
Areas usually considered as attractive and affluent places to live, including Malone and Stranmillis now have a high proportion of dwellings with no residents. Professor Gray warned that if more homes were not occupied then further problems could arise for locals.
"Unfortunately, a high number of unoccupied dwellings can blight an area significantly," he added.
"These houses can become magnets for anti-social behaviour, while people living alongside them don't feel as secure in their own homes. They can also become run down and blight an otherwise pleasant street."


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Caleb Morris '15 of Army and Navy Academy has officially signed a National Letter of Intent to attend the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO, and to play on its Division I Men's Basketball team. He joins numerous other athletes from the school who have gone on to compete at the collegiate level, including former teammate 7'0" Cheikh N'diaye who currently plays basketball for the Oregon State University Beavers.
The 6'4" team captain for the Army and Navy Academy Warriors has been a 4-year varsity player on the team. This year, he led the Warriors in one of the team's most successful seasons to date, making it all the way to the semi-finals of the Division V California State Tournament.
"Caleb Morris is a young man who is prepared for the Division I journey," says Tim Cook, Athletic Director and Assistant Basketball Coach at Army and Navy Academy. "He has progressed throughout his career into a highly efficient shooter, passer, rebounder and overall player. His mental and physical preparation the Academy has developed his skills for the collegiate level. I am so excited to see what the Air Force Academy will bring for Caleb on and off the floor. He will continue his life lessons and build on what is already a strong foundation."


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Most Northwest Arkansans live within 20 minutes of Beaver Lake, which is just to the east of Rogers. The lake is a popular day trip destination for boating, fishing, and water skiing.
The Buffalo National River is known for its natural beauty as well as its challenging kayaking in the spring, and lazy, family-friendly floating in the summer. There are great camping and hiking trails to take advantage of as well. The Buffalo is approximately an hour and a half away from NWA.


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Political contests are, above all, great entertainment—this year's presidential race alone has seen every emotion flit across the faces of the candidates (tears, bitterness, wrinkles…). Like sports, the dramatic conflict is built in and the outcome is pleasingly binary: you win or you lose. Yet there have only been a handful of good films about elections. Tomorrow, Disney releases the satire Swing Vote, a reductio ad absurdum of close races and political pandering, where the result hinges on one undecided shlub: Kevin Costner. Here are our choices for the best American election movies, along with their real-life parallels in the beltway.
Primary Colors (1998): a magnetic, husky voiced Southern governor (John Travolta) defies the polls to become the Democratic presidential nominee, thanks to an expertly run upstart campaign. Beltway parallel: based on Joe Klein's "anonymous" roman-a-clef, the film's inspiration is not even veiled.
Bob Roberts (1992): a mockumentary about the underhanded Senate bid of a popular right-wing folksinger (Tim Robbins, who also wrote and directed). Beltway parallel: Mike "Ace of Bass" Huckabee. Wag the Dog (1997): To distract the public from the incumbent president's latest dalliances, a political spin doctor (Robert DeNiro) and a Robert-Evansish Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) engineer a phony war in Eastern Europe. Beltway parallel: Monicagate + Kosovo. (The book was about Bush Sr. and Desert Storm.)
Election(1999): Waxen-faced, falsely exuberant, overachieving high-school senior and closet whore Tracy Flick aims to become student-council president by any means necessary. Beltway parallel: Slate said it first…
The Manchurian Candidate (1962): A Korean War veteran is brainwashed by his Communist agent mother to carry out political assassinations. Beltway parallel: We're not making any accusations but the Olympics did go to Beijing over New York. Thanks Barbara Bush.
Bulworth (1998): A weathered incumbent Senatorial candidate (Warren Beatty, who also wrote and directed), regretful over having compromised his liberal hippie values for political gain, plots his own assassination. Freed of any attachment, he begins to speak his mind freely and galvanizes the public and the media, if not the special interests… Beltway parallel: RFK.
The Candidate (1972): Bill McKay (Robert Redford), an honest, liberal lawyer with no political ambition despite being the son of a governor, is persuaded to challenge the popular Republican Senatorial candidate. His nothing-to-lose honesty (or is it naivete?) raises eyebrows, but he can only win when learns to play the game. Beltway parallel: John McCain 2000 minus John McCain 2008.