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The earliest Paris Saint Germain logo was introduced in 1970, when the club was founded and remained its primary symbol for two playing seasons. The emblem was built around a stylized depiction of a football, which was given in blue with white seams. There was also a red vessel, which was used as a symbol of Paris. The same logo was adopted by Paris FC, as they were one club at the time.
Meaning and history
Following the split from Paris FC, Paris Saint Germain introduced its own, absolutely new crest, which was later nicknamed the Eiffel Tower logo. The Eiffel Tower here is red with a white outline, while the background is dark blue. If you take a closer look, you'll notice a white cradle under the Eiffel Tower. Quite an unusual element for a soccer club, isn't it? The reason why the cradle appeared on the PSG logo was that it symbolized the birth of King Louis XIV in Saint-Germain. There was also another Saint-Germain-en-Laye symbol – a fleur de Lys.
The person who suggested making the Eiffel Tower the main part of the logo was Daniel Hechter, who was PSG president back then. At least, this is what Robert Vicot, the club's ex-manager claimed. As for the cradle, it was a draftsman called Mr. Vallot who suggested the idea to place it on the logo.
Old logo
The logo went through a subtle modification in 1982, which brought about a new shade of blue. However, eight years later the club brought back the previous emblem, with a darker shade of blue.
Symbol in 1994-2012
In 1994, another PSG symbol was adopted. It had virtually nothing in common with its predecessors. The author of the crest (or, at least, the author of the idea) was former Paris SG shareholder Canal+. The new emblem featured the bold white letters "P," "S," and "G" inside blue and red rectangles (blue for the "P" and "G," red for the "S").
The new crest caused severe criticism from the club's loyal fans. Because of the pressure, PSG returned to the iconic Eiffel Tower crest in 1996. This fact didn't mean, though, that they gave up the idea to update it. So, this time the roundel emblem was encircled by the text "Paris Saint-Germain" with the date 1970 beneath. The lettering was given in dark blue on the white background.
The 2002 modification resulted in an updated color palette: the blue grew darker while the red grew brighter. The lettering was now white on the dark blue background.
In 2010, an anniversary crest was introduced. It was an almost replica of the 2002 PSG logo, but now there was a gold ring around the logo with the text "40 ans" (40 years) and the date 2010. The anniversary logo was used only for one season, so in 2011 the club returned to the previous version, the one without the gold ring.
The 2013 emblem
Probably the most controversial update after the 1994 logo took place in 2013.
The main difference is that the word "Paris" now dominates the PSG emblem. This idea belonged to the club's shareholder Oryx Qatar Sports Investments – they wanted to attract more attention to the global appeal of the French capital. The lettering "Saint-Germain," which was now impossible to squeeze into the space on the top, was moved below the emblem, where it took the space previously occupied by the date 1970. Also, the cradle emblem disappeared making the fleur de Lys more obvious.
If you're looking for the PSG logo 512×512, which can be used in the Dream League soccer app, you've come to the right place.
According to some sources, the club uses a custom font, which was developed by an international typographic studio Babel Font. Bill Corporate or Sweet Sans can be mentioned among similar-looking types.
The choice of colors has remained basically the same since the club was incepted in 1970. Blue and red have always dominated the logo, with white as a secondary color. However, the shade of blue hasn't stayed the same, it varied from the clean, bright color of the original logo to the dark, almost black shade of the following version. The current PSG logo features a rather neutral and pleasant for the eye shade, which is neither too light nor too dark. In addition to blue, red, and white, there's also gold color.

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Clonmel Town FC
FAI Cup tie
We have a very big FAI Cup tie at home on this Saturday against Athenry to look forward to. The 7th Round game kicks off at 2pm and we hope to see a large crowd at the game. The game will be played on Saturday because the U-17s play Belvedere in Dublin in the FAI Cup on Sunday.
Munster Junior Cup 5th Round
College Corinthinans 2 1 Clonmel Town FC
We made our exit from this season's Munster Junior Cup with a defeat in Cork on Sunday last. As the old saying goes - If you don't take your chances in a game, you could end up regretting it. This was the story on Sunday last. We dominated the first half, missed numerous chances and only went in one goal ahead at half time, after Adrian Cleere headed home a corner in the 18th minute. Corinthians scored twice in the second half, and while Ted O'Connor went close on two occasions in the closing minutes it wasn't to be our day. Well done College Corinthians and best of luck in the next round. Hard luck to Jamie, John and the players.
Killusty 1 6 Clonmel Town FC B
Jamie Waters put Town ahead after 10 minutes. Wayne Cullen made it 2-0 in th 48th minute. A Carl Maher penalty reduced the deficit in the 62nd minute. An excelllent Shane Flynn volley put us 3-1 ahead in the 75th minute. Three minutes later a Mickey Kennedy header made it 4-1. Two goals in two minutes from David Askins (81st minute) and Shane Flynn(83rd) completed the scoring. Well done to Paddy, David and the lads.
Under 13 League - Cashel Town 1 6 Clonmel Town FC
Under 10 League - Clerihan A 1 2 Clonmel Town FC A
We had a hard-fought win against a very solid Clerihan side who took an early lead. We didn't equalise until midway through the second half after a brilliant Diarmuid Mulcahy goal. Jack O'Donnell sealed the victory five minutes from the end. It was a great team performance from all the boys especially man of the match John Furlong.
Team - B Quirke, L O'Donnell, D Murphy, B Lacey, D Mulcahy, M Fannon, J Furlong, J O'Donnell, P O'Dowd, D McCabe, S Farrell, B Norris.
Under 15 Tipperary Cup Quarter Final
Cahir Park 1 4 Clonmel Town FC
Town were two up after 15 minutes through Eoin Kehoe and Padraig Looram. Cahir pulled one back ten minutes into the second half. Five minutes later Cahir got a penalty which resulted in Michael Connolly being sent off. However Michael Boland saved the spot kick. Town pushed on and scored two more goals through Kevin Fahey and Kevin Kirwan. The man of the match was Michael Boland.


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It's been a while since the MacBook Pro was redesigned, and if you only buy a new laptop every few years, ideally each new laptop should offer something new, and be a lot faster too. In late October, the new MacBook Pro was finally announced, with its new Touch Bar as the centerpiece. It took about five minutes for the internet to erupt in an echo-chamber of ill-considered rants, but what's the real story? Were the outcries justified?
Here's another five word review to help the decision along: Touch, Vivid, Controversial, Pricey, Forward-thinking.
The Touch Bar is Apple's answer to "why don't you make a touchscreen Mac?", and it's actually a pretty good one. Yes, adding a touchscreen to a regular Mac seems like an obvious choice, but Apple have apparently tried it, and it doesn't work.
As an aside, I have tried Microsoft's new folding Surface PC, and it's nice enough, but definitely a niche product. While drafting or animation professionals would probably love it, the dial is not great, the pen has issues, and the UI is compromised due to being neither truly touch nor truly pointer-driven. The Windows way, including touch as part of the regular Windows experience, means that few apps have actually been adapted for touch, and it shows.
For Apple, the two worlds will remain separate for at least the foreseeable future. The Touch Bar, as a bridge between the direct world of touch on iOS and the indirect pointer-driven world of macOS, provides something unique that complements the pointer pretty well. It's direct and predictable, letting you use your finger to tap a button that says what it's going to do. It's context-driven, meaning that you're offered different controls in different contexts. It's flexible, so you can drag on sliders as well as push on buttons—and that's something really new.
FCP X provides some great examples of how you can use the touch bar well—you can tap a single key to perform a useful trim operation that normally needs a two-finger operation. You can see a view of your whole timeline, even in full-screen mode. You can use a slider to control audio levels by dragging, and even drag on the trackpad while you drag on the touch bar to get mixer-style keyframe controls.
Other apps aren't as advanced just yet, but some apps let you customize the touch bar, and the system-wide Control Strip is configurable and removable too. F-keys can still be shown, by holding Fn or on a per-app basis. We haven't seen everything that the Touch Bar can do just yet, and once we see more third-party developers really get into it, we'll see it put to much wider use. It's good, but this is version 1.
Regarding the other main thing you touch—the keyboard is great. I use an Apple Extended Keyboard on my iMac, and I like this keyboard just as much. To my fingers, it feels much nicer than the MacBook's similar-looking keyboard, and typing is as fast and error-free as ever. For hardcore Escape key users, though the F-keys have been demoted, you can turn caps lock into a hardware Escape key if you really need it.
The new P3-capable screen is great. It's sharp, and can display wide-gamut colors like 2015's Retina iMac. If you don't have a wide-gamut screen, it's impossible to show you the difference, but it's like the difference between CMYK and RGB, or between a regular process color and a neon spot color. You can crank up the vibrancy and saturation all the way to 11, and it still looks great. Like taking blinkers off.
There's system-wide support for wide-gamut images from the iPhone 7, and of course you can use an image editor to push a standard image beyond the sRGB color space. FCP X 10.3 supports wide gamut color for video, and third parties are on board in the video space too. True, many viewers of your work won't able to see those vibrant colors, but that's the nature of progressive enhancement—it leaves users of older devices no worse off, while enhancing the experience on newer devices.
Oh, and speaking of vivid—the sound is loud and clear. The speakers in this Mac are the first I've actually wanted to listen to music on.
Though we'd heard rumors that the Touch Bar was coming, and that TB3 and/or USB-C was likely to be the only port type, I don't think a prolonged burst of negative feedback was quite what Apple had expected. Was all that ranty noise justified? Mostly, at least to me, no.
Firstly: the demand for 32 GB of RAM. Since no Apple laptop has ever let you install 32 GB of RAM, and Intel's current lower-power chipset doesn't support that much low-power RAM, this one's just not possible yet. Next time?
Second: that professionals need ports. Yes, we do, but we don't all need the same ones, and these new ports support just about all our old gear with cheap adapters. It turns out that a fast SD card reader can be had for under $10, an HDMI or VGA adapter for under $20, and tiny USB-3.0/USB-C adapters for just a few dollars, easy to leave permanently attached to older cables. There's huge variability in price—I've seen the same products at double or triple those prices—but even Apple have dropped the prices of their USB dongles until at least the end of the year.
Third: they aren't fast enough. Sadly, Moore's Law seems to have broken down, and CPU speed isn't accelerating the way it used to—these Macs use the fastest chips Intel makes in this category. Apple have been making thinner and lighter laptops for years now, so I'm not sure why some people suddenly expect Apple to make a larger, heavier one so they can use slightly faster chips. Plus, the hard drive is insanely fast. The 512 GB SSD in mine reads and writes at over 2000 MB/s (two gigabytes a second!) or twenty times the speed of a typical portable spinning hard drive.
Fourth: the Touch Bar is a gimmick. To write off a new interface concept that you've never even used would be a mistake. It's useful already and getting better.
Fifth: MagSafe was awesome, and it's gone? Yeah, that's a bit of a shame, though Griffin offer a replacement magnetic cable if it's a big deal for you.
Sixth: too expensive. Well, I've got a whole section about price.
These Macs are, indeed, more expensive than the previous generation, and that's a shame too. Apple are on record as "not designing to a price point" and it would seem that the Touch Bar and other new tech in these laptops didn't come cheap. As a working professional, I'm spreading the cost of this Mac out over 4–5 years, but the sticker shock is real.
This is especially true in many foreign markets. Just a few years ago, the Australian dollar was at parity with the US dollar, but it's now worth around 73¢. Because Apple price their Macs based on US$, Macs are now 30% more expensive here than they were just a few years back. The added expense of this generation will push the cost of the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar just too high for many price-conscious customers. That could be a problem for the Mac in the long run, but it's a decision for Apple.
The port change to the new Thunderbolt 3/USB-C combo ports means that not only can we use the fastest port available (TB3) for fancy new boxes like external GPUs, we can also use generic USB devices made for a wider PC audience. There's no need to worry about which port to plug into, or even which way is up. Sure, devices using the new standard are not widely available yet, but this is a classic chicken-and-egg problem. Stores won't carry new devices until there's demand, and there need to be machines out there for the demand to exist. As the first iMac made USB popular, this Mac will make USB-C popular—and it's a great port.
USB-C is reversible, fast, and can do everything from display adapters to card readers to power. There's no need to buy an Apple power adapter, HDMI adapter, or anything else; a no-name eBay special does the job just fine. As all ports are now equal, you can power the device through any port, or from an external USB-friendly battery, or from a connected monitor. There are definite benefits to this transition, and I'm interested in seeing what an external GPU can do for these new Macs too.
This MacBook Pro continues exactly what Apple have been doing for years—making fast, thin, beautiful laptops for a wide audience. They aren't for everyone, and never have been, but they're extremely useful machines for many professionals and amateurs, with very fast storage, fast performance, and plenty of versatile ports. By moving wholeheartedly to USB-C, we'll see more USB-C devices more quickly; by including the Touch Bar, we'll be able to work with our apps in new ways. But it's all new, and while it's good now, it will improve with time.
If you're in the market for a new MacBook Pro, go for it. If your Mac is only a year or two old, wait out the USB-C transition and enjoy your current Mac in the meantime.
Price: MacBook Pro with Touch Bar: 13" with 512 GB SSD, AU$2999 / USD$1,999
Web: http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/
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DescriptionA curious mash-up, this game is what you get when you take Angry Birds' cartoony cast and feature them in a title whose gameplay is a series of Final Fantasy-style battles with touch controls, totally abandoning the series' earlier physics/ballistics themes. The plot is irrelevant, as usual -- some boilerplate business about revenge on pigs having stolen the birds' eggs, now dressed up in medieval fantasy trappings with pirates and undead in the mix -- but the presentation is lush, with a lively overworld map, a crafting system, and robust combinatorial complexity ensuring that sometimes a particular boss is only beatable if the player's party is composed of just the right mix of birds, equipped with specific pieces of weapons and armour. Juggling three different kinds of Rovio currencies, there are plenty of opportunities for in-game microtransactions -- so many so that the game is not playable offline -- and despite deterministic elements in its combat strategy, the game also introduces elements of randomness into play.
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Today, Join Hands Ministry is supported by and partnered jointly with over 80 Perry County church entities, the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church, 33 businesses, 22 civic groups, 6 foundations, hundreds of clients, and 187+ individuals.
Originally, many persons in Perry County sought help from the religious community with a myriad of needs. The faith community was being confronted by:
Therefore, the Perry County United Methodist Cluster accepted the challenge of responding to the needs in this rural community. Join Hands Ministry was formed by the Cluster to be a central point of contact and services with the purpose of making these needs known among the area churches, filling in the "gaps" for persons in need, and creating a standardization of qualifying true poverty needs while establishing lines of accountability for responsible management of funds and goods donated to the cause.
The Perry County Food Bank:
The Perry County Food Bank was started in 1992 by a local church in Duncannon to respond to hunger in rural Perry County. In 1996, the local Community Action Commission operated the Perry County Food Bank for three years. In 1999, the County of Perry assumed the operations and maintenance of the food bank. The Perry County Food Bank thrived under the management of the local government and sustained services. The Perry County Commissioners maintained their ongoing commitment to ensure this program continued, but actively researched local non-profits to eventually assume the management of the Perry County Food Bank. Join Hands was approached by the County of Perry to operate the food bank, which began on September 1, 2008.
Join Hands Ministry is a collaborative community outreach program providing direction, intervention and support to persons facing a variety of daily living challenges in Perry County. Referrals are accepted from all sources with no referral restrictions beyond Perry County residence. The mission of Join Hands Ministry is to serve as a contact and support center for persons living in Perry County who are seeking assistance with daily living concerns. Our team loves to provide these Services that include yet are not limited to:
Join Hands Ministry is a collaborative community outreach program providing direction, intervention and support to persons facing a variety of daily living challenges in Perry County. Since 2002, Join Hands has received funding from private foundations and has received awards from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
In 2018 Join Hand Ministry supporters and partners included, 208 Individuals & Families and,
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Since 2003, Michael has served Central Pennsylvania as a youth/student pastor, college lacrosse coach, event speaker and organizer through burnedbyGod, Drug & Alcohol Counselor while mentoring and training adults who work with youth.
He is originally from the eastern shore of Maryland. His wife Lauri Burns whose maiden name was Lauri Long grew up in Millerstown, Perry County. Michael and Lauri have two children, Addison and Thaddeus.
Michael graduated from High School in Maryland, received his Eagle Scout through the Boy Scouts of America in 1998 and than graduated from Whittier College in Whittier, California with a B.A. in Psychology and Child Development. He too holds a Masters in Theology from Liberty Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia.
In addition to serving as the Executive Director at Join Hands Ministry, Michael co-vocationally serves as the senior pastor at Watts Wesleyan Church in Watts Township/Duncannon, PA.
Sheree has worked with Join Hands since May 2013. As the Assistant Director, she oversees Internal Programs. Prior to that, she was a stay-at-home mom busy with her church, the PTO, and volunteering at Newport Elementary School.
In her life before motherhood, she worked with children with behavioral problems for Keystone Family Services and Catholic Charities.
Sheree is a Juniata County original but moved to Perry County with her husband Steve in Oct. 1998. They reside with their 2 children, Taylor and Jimmy along with a beloved mutt, Daisy.
Sheree graduated from Lock Haven University in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Journalism and a Masters in Counseling from Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland.
She is a life time member of Hope Eternal UMC in Newport, PA.
Brooke came onto staff in July 2020. As the Assistant to the Director, she oversees and coordinates External Programs, which includes our warehouse. She has served on the administrative board of Join Hands Ministry since 2016 and with Join Hands Ministry since 2013 collaborating efforts for a Christmas program called Christmas Treasures to help Perry County residents.
Brooke is a 2003 High School Graduate of West Perry High School and 2005 Graduate from Central Penn College. She started working in the private sector of Law after graduating and has spent the last 10 years working for Cumberland County. She was an employee with the Cumberland County District Attorney's Office for the last 5 years.
Brooke is also her husband's secretary with Haas Creative Carpentry. She is happily married with no children but has two fur babies at home. She currently attends Cornerstone Church in Duncannon.
Join Hands was created to serve the needs of "our" Perry County neighbors. You are our greatest resource!
In addition to staff, in 2019 Join Hands Ministry operated with the guidance of more than 3,612 volunteer hours. These volunteers are a core asset to aiding staff operations, service activities, programs, building management, special projects and keeping overhead costs at a minimum.
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Hot damn, I love cauliflower. It's a good thing that cauliflower is cheap because I go through it like crazy. If 2015 was the year of kale, 2018 is all about the old time favorite…cauliflower. Once old and forgotten, this giant flower has become cool again. Cauliflower doesn't need much to be delicious on its […]Meatless Monday, recipe
Meatless Monday is Here to Stay
I've discovered a secret to a stress free week…Meatless Mondays and Meal Planning! With that, meatless Mondays are here to stay! Choosing meat-free meals on Monday is a great way to look and feel better, it kind of goes along with that new week, new beginning theory. I am definitely not a vegetarian (after all, […]flexitarian, meal plan, Meatless Monday, vegetarian
I Dream of Gnocchi
A few nights ago I had a dream…about pasta, more specifically about gnocchi! I have always been fascinated by gnocchi…it's almost like a love affair…soft, delicate, pillowy, flavorful little Italian dumplings made from flour and/or potato. They seem so simple, and yet so intimidating. I know I don't feel comfortable making them from scratch and I […]easy recipes, Kiki approved, Meatless Monday, pasta
Meatless Mondays and then some…
Oh Monday…I can't really complain, you were good…. But today I let something get to me…something that never in million years would I have ever cared about, but this new sensitive me suddenly cares, urgh. I wish I didn't, but I guess I do! Go figure! So instead of bottling up all the negative feelings, […]Meatless Monday, Meatless Mondays, meatless recipe, tofu
weekly menu: make it today, enjoy all week
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After a week of spent in bed, fighting respiratory infection, earache, headache, and the list goes on, I'm back and my head is spinning with a gigantic to-do list for work and normal life things. But in the craziness of life, I like the gigantic to-do list …it makes me feel alive! If you've been […]brown butter, gnocchi, Meatless Monday, Parmesan cheese, peas
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Meatless Monday:Green Mac + Cheese
Believe it or not, but I always look forward to meatless mondays. I don't think I can go completely vegetarian, but one day a week, it's easy peasy – anyone can do it. Meatless Mondays are easy – they are a simple and effective way to help animals, go green and become healthier. And who […]broccoli, dinner, dinner time, Meatless, Meatless Monday, Meatless Mondays, peas, spinach, toddler, vegetarian, weelicious
Sniffles and Catalogs
Don't be scared because there is no weekly menu, but I am feeling a little bit under the weather so my appetite is not all that great. Actually I've been feeling crapy since Friday – terrible congestion and I can't get rid of sneezing. You would think I was allergic to something how many times […]IKEA, Meatless Monday


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Clips include lengthy remarks about the Supreme Court nominee's experiences as an "affirmative action baby" whose lower test scores were overlooked by admissions committees.
WASHINGTON — Judge Sonia Sotomayor once described herself as "a product of affirmative action" who was admitted to two Ivy League schools despite scoring lower on standardized tests than many classmates, which she attributed to "cultural biases" that are "built into testing."
On another occasion, she aligned with conservatives who take a limited view of when international law can be enforced in American courts. But she criticized conservative objections to recent Supreme Court rulings that mention foreign law as being based on a "misunderstanding."
Those comments were among a trove of videos dating back nearly 25 years that shed new light on Judge Sotomayor's views. She provided the videos to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week as it prepares for her Supreme Court confirmation hearing next month.
The clips include lengthy remarks about her experiences as an "affirmative action baby" whose lower test scores were overlooked by admissions committees at Princeton University and Yale Law School because, she said, she is Hispanic and had grown up in poor circumstances.
"If we had gone through the traditional numbers route of those institutions, it would have been highly questionable if I would have been accepted," she said on a panel of three female judges from New York who were discussing women in the judiciary. The video is dated "early 1990s" in Senate records.
Her comments came in the context of explaining why she thought it was "critical that we promote diversity" by appointing more women and members of minorities as judges, and they provoked objections among other panelists who pointed out that she had graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and been an editor on Yale's law journal.
But Judge Sotomayor insisted that her test scores were sub-par — "though not so far off the mark that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions." Her scores have not been made public.
"With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates," she said. "And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that. There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects."
Judge Sotomayor's approach to affirmative action has been the subject of intense scrutiny. Conservatives have criticized her remarks in speeches that her personal experiences will influence her judging, and they have focused on her vote to uphold a decision by New Haven to throw out results from a firefighters' exam because not enough members of minorities scored well.
In the program, Judge Sotomayor also rejected the proposition that minorities must become advocates of "selection by merit alone." She said diversity improved the legal system — like having a Hispanic judge in a case where a litigant and his family is Hispanic, and who can translate what is happening into Spanish.
"Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means, and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise, I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system," she said, adding, "I think it brings to the system more of a sense of fairness when these litigants see people like myself on the bench."
Judge Sotomayor also mentioned her personal involvement in challenging testing in a 1994 interview. Reflecting on her 12 years on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund before she became a judge, she recalled helping change its policy focus from voting rights and bilingual education to economic issues, like "cases attacking civil service testing and issues of union admissions."
If she is confirmed, Judge Sotomayor would fill the seat being vacated by Justice David H. Souter, who has voted to uphold affirmative-action programs.
But in April 2009, Judge Sotomayor delivered a speech on how federal judges look at foreign and international law that suggested she might take a more conservative position on that topic than Justice Souter.
She said that individuals had no right to file a lawsuit to enforce a treaty and that ratified treaties were not legally binding unless Congress separately passed a statute to do so. Treaties usually have effect, she said, only if the president and Congress choose to respect such obligations as a matter of politics, not law.
"Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law," she said.
That principle, she said, explained the outcome of a high-profile 2008 Supreme Court ruling, Medellin v. Texas, which involved an International Court of Justice ruling that some Mexican inmates on death row in Texas should get new sentencing hearings because the authorities failed to help them get help from the Mexican Consulate, contrary to a treaty the United States had ratified.
But the Supreme Court ruled that the international court's decision had no legal force and that the treaty was not binding, because Congress never passed a statute explicitly making it domestic law.
The ruling, Judge Sotomayor said, "surprised many human rights groups and civil liberties groups" but was "premised on very traditional American law principles."
Her remarks aligned her with the Supreme Court's majority; among the three dissenting votes in that case was Justice Souter.
Still, Judge Sotomayor also criticized conservative attacks on Supreme Court decisions in recent terms that mentioned foreign law — including decisions striking down the death penalty for juveniles and striking down a Texas law barring sodomy.
"In both those cases the courts were very, very careful to note that they weren't using that law to decide the American question," she said. "They were just using that law to help us understand what the concepts meant to other countries, and to help us understand whether our understanding of our own constitutional rights fell into the mainstream of human thinking."


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If you have an inch or maybe a bit more sticking out still, a bolt extractor is the tool - one type fits over the bolt like a socket and grips it with internal spiral cutting edges as you turn it out with a socket wrench, another type has a hole through it and a cam that grabs the bolt from the outside and pinches it tight and you turn it out with a socket wrench handle. Both types available at tool and auto supply stores - some auto parts stores rent or loan tools like that too if you buy the replacement parts for the repair form them.
Many times, if enough bolt is sticking out, rethreading with a die and double-nutting the bolt to turn it out, or welding a new nut on the bolt and turning it out with that works well.
If already drilled out, then using a left-handed thread drill bit to extract it is likely out of the question, so that leaves an internal tap-type bolt remover or "easy-out" - come both square (meaning hole in bolt can't be near to full diameter of thread or it will ruin the threads in the block) that you drive in tight and then turn to remove the bolt, and also comes threaded like a tap which you turn in counterclockwise and it grips the inside of the bolt and turns it out.
With all those, a good day or more soak with a penetrating oil will certainly help the situation.
If those fail, you can try chilling the bolt with canned air or refrigerant injected into the drillhole - though there is the risk of brittle fracture doing that, so it is nearing a last resort. Heating the heat also works, but getting it hot enough to make a significant difference without scorching gaskets and adjacent wires and hoses and fuel lines is tough on modern vehicles if you cannot remove the head to a workbench.
Last normal resort - drill the bolt out entirely (of course, means hole has to be pretty well centered, and use a helicoil insert to replace the threads and to hold the new bolt. Of course you have to be careful not to drill too deep and go through into an oil or coolant passage or thin spot, and works well in cast iron and steel but tends to split aluminum.
Last, last resort - torching it out with a microtip removal torch (designed to go down into a hole to torch out a bolt without melting the tip in the process) - then helicoil for the fix. All the above tools you can look at on Amazon or other tool site - search for bolt removers and easy-outs.
Obviously, all these incur at least some risk of damaging the head - so taking it to a professional automotive shop might be your best bet overall - probably about $100-250 charge depending on local labor costs and how resistant it is - plus maybe about $50-100 towing charge if car is not driveable. Or if head is off vehicle, take to a performance or custom auto shop to have them remove and replace the bolt.
Part of that decision would depend on whether you are up to replacing a head if you damage it or not, and what a new (or used if up for that) head costs couple to few hundred for the head, $1400 it looks like for a new cylinder block if into that.
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When you have a problem, where is the first place you look for a solution?
If your answer is that you look for the opposite of the problem, then you're probably looking in the wrong place.
It's a popular saying that a problem always contains the seeds of its solution. This is true. However it also contains the opposite of the problem, which is frequently mistaken for the solution.
This 'polarity thinking' is flawed. The opposite isn't often the solution – frequently, it has the same structure as the problem itself.
For example, take someone who is shy – "I'm not going to talk to anyone because I'm scared to". Compare that to the brash overconfidence created by polarity thinking – "I'm going to make a point of talking to everyone because I'm scared to".
The problem hasn't gone away. It's still there in the "because I'm scared to", so the solution isn't in either the problem or its opposite. It is to be found beyond both of those.
Often people can only see beyond the polarities when they collide them and they cancel each other out. This collision of opposites is a mode of though employed by the philosophers of old and is the fundamental mental practice in yoga. (all of the physical stretching in modern yoga is somewhat peripheral to this aim, however)
Additionally, polarity thinking leads to overcompensation – the opposite of 'not enough' is actually 'too much' and the system in question will swing wildly from one extreme to the other until it eventually balances itself out.
Another example is the way that focus and feedback combine to create a spiral:
If you focus on noticing all of the things that are going wrong, you will notice them and as a result, you'll feel worse. This will lead you to notice more of those things and will often reduce your performance, creating more negative signs. This is the start of a downward spiral.
If you instead focus on noticing all of the things that are going well, you will notice them and as a result, you'll feel better. This will lead you to notice more of those things and will often pick up your performance, creating more positive signs. This leads into an upward spiral.
Notice how they're both structured identically but are fuelled by different content. If you tend to spiral, good state control and a positive focus is a must if you want to stay on the up. This is often easier said than done. We all have bad days occasionally.
There are many things you can do to make it easier (a good NLP training will give you this info) or you can think a bit smarter and ask a better question instead.
Do you have to spiral at all? What if you could find a way to do something different instead? If you think that's impossible then you're stuck in the game, just like a gambler who continues to play "in order to win my money back".
So just pretend you could stop and do something else? What is beyond the polarity?
I know that if you take the time to think this through, the answer you get will be both individual and interesting.
In Part 2, I'll share an NLP technique that you can use to collapse polarities that are limiting you.The Problem with Polarity Thinking - Part 1 by firstname.lastname@example.com


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CHICAGO – Simply by filing into a church pew on Chicago's South Side on Saturday and mourning the killing of a smiling 15-year-old girl whom she had never met, first lady Michelle Obama spotlighted the everyday gun and gang violence plaguing U.S. cities.
"Genocide," one eulogist called it, lamenting that guns had "become part of our wardrobe."
Since being gunned down in Chicago a week after performing with the King College Prep High School's majorette team during President Barack Obama's second inaugural festivities, Hadiya Pendleton has become a symbol for the innocence lost to senseless shootings.
The first lady, who met privately with Pendleton's family and around 30 of her classmates, did not speak at the funeral, which lasted four hours. But her appearance carried heavy political overtones, coming as the president is pressuring Congress to enact tougher gun laws.


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|Patterson Companies, Inc.
|NeighborWorks America
|BPV Capital Management (BPV)
|Solstice Biologics LLC
|Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc.
|GroGenesis, Inc.
|Inventergy Global, Inc.
|Innocent Inc.
|CorVel Corporation
|Cardinal Health
|Mentor Capital, Inc.
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Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) announced the appointment of David W. Meline as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), effective July 21, 2014. Meline will succeed Michael A. Kelly, who served as acting CFO since January 2014. Meline joins Amgen from 3M Company, where he most recently served as senior vice president and CFO. Previously, Meline held numerous leadership positions at General Motors.
3M announced that Nicholas C. Gangestad has been appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer. Nick replaces David W. Meline, who is leaving to become chief financial officer with another large publicly traded company. Gangestad served as corporate controller and chief accounting officer for the past three years. Gangestad's 27-year 3M career encompasses financial leadership positions across several businesses in multiple geographic regions, including the United States, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Canada.
PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) and Riverstone Holdings LLC announced an agreement to combine their merchant power generation businesses into a new stand-alone, publicly traded Independent Power Producer called Talen Energy Corporation. Paul A. Farr, PPL's executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer, will be Talen Energy's president and Chief Executive Officer and a director of the new corporation. Vincent Sorgi, currently vice president and controller for PPL, is being named a senior vice president of PPL and its Chief Financial Officer.
The Hartford (NYSE: HIG) announced that Christopher J. Swift has been appointed chief executive officer of The Hartford and a member of the company's Board of Directors. The company also appointed Beth A. Bombara to succeed Swift in the chief financial officer role. The appointments are effective July 1, 2014. Swift joined The Hartford in March 2010 and is currently executive vice president and chief financial officer. Previously he held various senior leadership and finance roles at American International Group (AIG). Swift began his career in public accounting at KPMG LLP focused on financial services and was eventually appointed head of the Global Insurance Industry Practice. Bombara has been president of Talcott Resolution since July 2012 and prior to that served as senior vice president and controller for the company. She joined The Hartford in April 2004. Prior to that, Bombara was a senior manager in Deloitte & Touche LLP's audit practice and was a partner at Arthur Andersen LLP.
B/E Aerospace (NASDAQ: BEAV) announced the appointment of David J. Anderson to its Board of Directors. Mr. Anderson recently retired from Honeywell International Inc. where he was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2003 until his retirement in April 2014. Prior to joining Honeywell, Mr. Anderson had senior financial roles at ITT Industries, Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding and RJR Nabisco Holding Corporation.
Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BASI) announced the appointment of Jeffrey Potrzebowski as Chief Financial Officer. Jeffrey Potrzebowski joins BASi after serving since 2006 in various positions of increasing responsibility with Oerlikon Drive Systems, most recently as Chief Financial Officer. Earlier, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Remy International. Previously, Mr. Potrzebowski was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Great Lakes Chemical.
Rent-A-Center, Inc. (NASDAQ: RCII) announced the appointment of Guy J. Constant as Executive Vice President – Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Constant was previously employed by Brinker International, Inc. and held several key financial positions over his 10-year tenure, most recently serving as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and President of Global Business Development, from January 2013 until March 2014; Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, from September 2010 to January 2013; Senior Vice President of Finance, from May 2008 to September 2010; Vice President of Strategic Planning, Analysis and Investor Relations, from September 2005 to May 2008; and Senior Director of Compensation, from November 2004 to September 2005. Prior to Brinker, Mr. Constant spent nine years at AMR Corporation, the parent of American Airlines, in various finance positions of increasing scope and responsibility.
Syros Pharmaceuticals announced that Jorge Conde has joined Syros' executive leadership team as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Product Officer. Prior to joining Syros, Mr. Conde co-founded Knome with George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Mr. Conde was most recently CFO at Knome. Prior to Knome, Mr. Conde worked in marketing and operations at MedImmune, the global biologics arm of AstraZeneca. He has worked in the life sciences group at Flagship Ventures and managed the business development function at Helicos Biosciences. Previously, he was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.
Mattress Firm Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: MFRM) announced the promotion of Alex Weiss to executive vice president and chief financial officer of the Company, effective July 30, 2014. Jim Black will continue to serve as executive vice president and chief financial officer until July 30, 2014, at which point he will transition into the role of senior corporate advisor to Mattress Firm through the end of the current fiscal year. Mr. Weiss joined Mattress Firm in 2013 and is currently serving as the senior vice president of finance. Prior to joining Mattress Firm in 2013, he held positions at Barclays Bank PLC and Lehman Brothers Inc., last serving as Vice President.
Cinedigm (NASDAQ: CIDM) appointed Jeffrey Edell as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this appointment, Edell was CEO of Edell Ventures. Prior to that, he was CEO of Inferno Entertainment. Previously, Edell was President of DIC Entertainment. Edell has served on the boards of numerous public companies, including MySpace/Intermix Media, Soundelux Entertainment Group and IVC Industries, Inc. He is a member of both The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence and Professor at Florida State University's College of Motion picture Arts.
Patterson Companies, Inc. (NASDAQ: PDCO) announced that R. Stephen Armstrong, executive vice president and CFO, will step down at the end of October 2014, after more than 15 years with the company. Ann B. Gugino, Patterson's vice president of strategy and planning, has been appointed vice president and CFO effective November 1, 2014. Armstrong will serve as a senior advisor to the company through fiscal year 2016. Gugino has been with Patterson Companies since 2000, serving as the company's vice president, strategy and planning since 2012. In addition, Gugino has served in several financial and operational management leadership roles within Patterson Dental, including vice president, finance and operations and controller. Before joining Patterson, Gugino was an audit manager with Ernst & Young LLP. She currently serves on the board of directors of Oral Health America and Washburn Children's Center.
NeighborWorks America announced that it named Thomas Bloom acting Chief Financial Officer. Bloom is currently senior deputy controller for management and chief financial officer for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). He's held that position since December 2003. The OCC holds a statutory seat on the NeighborWorks America Board of Directors. Prior to being named senior Deputy Controller at the OCC, Bloom was among the senior leadership at the agency and in the U.S. Treasury department, including interim CFO for the Office of Financial Stability. Bloom has decades of experience in financial administration and management, having been assistant secretary for administration and CFO at the U.S. Department of Commerce, CFO at the General Services Administration, and Director of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service.
BPV Capital Management (BPV) announced that it has named Craig Davis to the newly created position of Chief Financial Officer. Prior to BPV, Mr. Davis held a number of senior positions at Proctor & Gamble, including Manager of Global Commodity Risk Management. In addition to P&G, he served in the CFO position at Broyhill Furniture Company and at the MasterCraft Boat Company. Prior to joining BPV, Mr. Davis served as CEO and Managing Principal of GSD Growth Partners.
Solstice Biologics LLC announced that John Borgeson joined as Chief Financial Officer. John Borgeson served as a financial advisor to Solstice since its inception. Mr. Borgeson spent 20 years at Pfizer where he was a member of Pfizer's Financial Leadership Team and held several financial positions of increasing responsibility. John's most recent role at Pfizer was Vice President, Finance for Pfizer's Biotherapeutic and Bioinnovation Center. Since leaving Pfizer in 2010, Mr. Borgeson has helped oversee finance for a variety of private companies, including venBio portfolio companies Labrys Biologics (recently acquired by Teva Pharmaceuticals) and Heart Metabolics Limited. John has also helped oversee finance at venBio.
Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. announced the promotion of Brian Steenhard to the position of chief financial officer. Steenhard joined the company in January 2013. He began his professional career in 1999 as an audit associate with Arthur Andersen. In 2002 Steenhard moved to a management position in financial reporting at Aquila Inc. In 2006 Steenhard joined Hawkeye Energy Holdings LLC as vice president of finance/controller.
GroGenesis, Inc. (OTC: GROG) announced the appointment of Ron Evinou to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Evinou was most recently CFO for a highly successful John Deere dealer group. Previously (1990 – 2002), he was CEO/CFO of GeoLogistics. Prior to this, he was CFO/GM of National Carpet and he began his career as Chief Accountant of the Reynolds Aluminum Building Materials Division.
Inventergy Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVT) announced the appointment of Stephen B. Huang as Chief Financial Officer of Inventergy. Mr. Huang previously served as the CFO for publicly-traded Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. Prior to his work with Altair, he served as the CFO at Unigen Corporation and Penguin Computing, Inc.
Innocent Inc. (OTC: INCT) announced that it has appointed James Kerr as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Kerr started his career with a U.S. Bank before moving into mutual funds as a financial analyst and later joined boutique advisory firms in Toronto specializing in forestry, energy, resources and technology. Mr. Kerr has also been a consultant to the Government of Canada, and has held senior positions with publicly traded companies.
CorVel Corporation announced that Scott R. McCloud tendered his resignation as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. McCloud had been with the Company for 19 years, starting in May 1995. Richard Schweppe, the Company's Director of Finance, will be promoted to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Schweppe has been with the Company for 26 years, joining the Company as Director of Finance in March 1988. He was promoted to Chief Financial Officer when the Company completed its initial public offering in June 1991. He served in that position until August 2005 when he resigned from that position to become Director of Finance and was replaced by Scott R. McCloud.
Cardinal Health announced that Chief Financial Officer Jeff Henderson will retire following the completion of fiscal year 2015, after a decade in the role.
Mentor Capital, Inc. (OTC: MNTR) announced the appointment of Lori J. Stansfield as company CFO.
Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN) announced that James Evans, chief financial officer of Myriad, has notified the Company of his intent to retire in order to attend to family health issues. Evans joined Myriad in 1995 as corporate controller and was promoted to vice president of Finance in July of 2005. In November of 2007, he was named chief financial officer, a position he has held for the last seven years.
Truett-Hurst Inc. (NASDAQ: THST) announced the appointment of Paul A. Forgue as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Before joining the Company, Mr. Forgue was a Senior Director of Alvarez & Marsal, where he provided financial and operational leadership including serving as interim CFO in a number of assignments. Prior to Alvarez & Marsal, Mr. Forgue worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Forgue succeeds James D. Bielenberg who resigned as Chief Financial Officer of the Company to pursue other interests.
GNC Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GNC) announced that Michael M. Nuzzo – Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer – has tendered his resignation in order to accept an executive position at a private equity funded consumer products company. Mr. Nuzzo will remain with the Company at least through July 18, 2014.
Paragon Technologies, Inc. (OTC: PGNT) announced that effective June 30, 2014, Deborah Mertz will also join the Company as Interim CFO of Paragon Technologies. From 2006 to 2013 Ms. Mertz held the position of Assistant Controller of ASSA ABLOY Inc. Americas Division. From 1999 to 2006 Ms. Mertz was the Controller/CFO of Sargent Manufacturing Company.


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Juan Pablo: maybe he needs to talk with Richard Petty about some of the finer points of NASCAR fan etiquette (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
DOVER, Del.
Juan Pablo Montoya. Just when you think you're starting to under him, he changes on you.
Now, three years into this part of his career, the Formula One star is not only a full-fledged real stock car racer, but he's bidding for the NASCAR championship.
And he's racing for wins. Indianapolis. Loudon….
On the front row for Sunday's Dover 400, Montoya says this high-grip concrete track – though it's a bear for many drivers – "has probably been one of the easiest tracks for me, because it actually has a lot of grip….so you can actually feel like you are driving the car like what I was used to. This is the closest feeling I get."
Remember last week's TV blowoff, that faux pas, when Montoya, after an hour's worth of satellite TV interviews with various stations around the country to help NASCAR promote the championship race?
Well, Montoya is expressing no remorse.
He – and NASCAR itself – was roundly criticized by the Fox affiliate station in Sacramento, Calif., for the short-shrift, which the broadcaster said was part of the reason for NASCAR's general decline over the past two years.
Montoya's side:
"It was simple. It was a deal we did with NASCAR from four to five and I told them this was the last interview and it was five minutes until five o'clock and I finished the interview and they plugged somebody else without telling them I was done and that was it. NASCAR made an honest mistake and it was a misunderstanding. That was it."
Any remorse about being portrayed in such a bad light, and the sport too? Is he bothered by it all?
"Not really," Montoya said. "It really doesn't.
"NASCAR knows what happened. I know what happened. The team knows what happened.
"I don't care. If they like me, good. If they don't, I can't help that everybody here likes me, can I?
"Come on, like they say, stuff happens I guess."
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Tahoe Mountain Trail is a great trail that was completed in the fall of 2013. While there has been a trail in that general area for quite some time, the new Tahoe Mountain trail is a fun piece of single track with a hard but rewarding climb, incredible views, and a speedy downhill. In the fall of 2015, an off-road bike path was completed in that area, so you can ride to the trailhead from Meyers or South Lake Tahoe on a really nice, off-road paved bike path, making for a perfect warm up. If you drive, you'll want to park at the Sawmill Pond parking lot, just a little ways up Sawmill Road, which is across from the trail head.
The trail is accessed via the trail head at the intersection of Lake Tahoe Boulevard and Sawmill Road in South Lake Tahoe, California.
There's a nice map of the trail system at the trailhead. I'd recommend checking it out, as there are a bunch of social trails spurring off the main Tahoe Mountain trail, and it can be easy to head off on one of them. Most of them quickly dump you off on a road, so don't worry too much about them, just follow the main trail and head in an uphill direction.
After about 100 yards on a single track trail, you'll come to a gravel fire road. Turn right to go to the new trail. Going left will take you to the old trail, which I DO NOT recommend. The old trail is no longer maintained and fairly overgrown, and I thought that the climb up was much more difficult.
After you've turned right onto the fire road and ridden about a quarter mile, start looking for the trail off to the left and uphill. Get ready to work hard on the climb! You end up climbing almost 900 feet over three miles, which requires some hard work, but isn't so difficult that you can't enjoy the amazing views!
The Tahoe Mountain trail takes you through the Angora Fire burn area, and the burned out trees result in eerie but stunning views.
The 880 foot climb up is mostly on fairly smooth dirt single track, but because this is South Lake Tahoe, there are some sandy spots of decomposed granite. A couple switchbacks were sandy enough that I had to push through in June, and it gets worse throughout the summer. The only really technically challenging spot is about halfway up the climb, with a tight rocky turn through some close together boulders. Speaking of boulders, there are dozens of huge boulders scattered alongside the lower sections of the trail, making for striking and unique scenery.
The last third of the trail is much rockier than the rest of the trail, but still very rideable. I've ridden it on a hardtail bike with no problem at all, and technical, rocky climbing is my weakest area. It just feels jarring after two miles on such smooth dirt and sand. Once you've finally climbed to the top you'll be rewarded with a 360 degree view of Tahoe and beyond. Lake Tahoe is visible from one side and you'll see Desolation Wilderness off to the other. You'll know you've reached the "true" top when a tall striped tower comes into view.
At the top, I recommend that you take a break from your ride and explore the area. The views are amazing and, depending on the time of year, the wildflowers may be going crazy!
After you've soaked in the view and rested a little, it's time to enjoy the most fun (downhill!) portion of the ride. The well designed Tahoe Mountain trail is a dream to descend, just watch out for those sandy corners and the one tricky boulder section. Once you get towards the bottom, pay attention and stay on the main trail to avoid the social trails! You'll eventually get where you're going (the fire road) but unplanned detours aren't very much fun. In practically no time at all, you'll be back to the trailhead with a huge smile on your face!
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Location: Sawmill Road and Lake Tahoe Boulevard, South Lake Tahoe, California
Mileage: 6.3 miles
Elevation gain: 881 feet
Difficulty: Moderate
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It's that time again. Festivals are announcing line-ups left right and centre, summer plans are hatching and it feels like the year is kicking in for real.
Let It Roll is no exception. Kicking off between August 2-4 at their well established home of Milovice, 2018 is a significant year for the Czech mega-fest. Marking a decade since they held their first open air party in 2008, this one is extra special. Even crazier other-planet production standards, even more DJs, even more vibes.
The dust from their epic Let It Roll Winter event not even beginning to settle, earlier this week they released their second line-up phase. All bases covered, all styles celebrated, it's looking like another turbo whirlwind at 170bpm. Fixate to Forbidden Society, dBridge to Dimension, Pendulum to Pola & Bryson, A.M.C to TC to Andy C…. This is already shaping up to be an immensely heavy one. And there are still 200 more acts to announce!
Below is the full list of all DJs signed up for the event so far. Grab your tickets here. Basic passes start from £72 (plus booking fee) Soak up the line-up so far while listening to GLXY and Changing Face's mixes from Let It Roll Winter and start hatching your own plans…
Andy C, Camo & Krooked, Noisia, Pendulum, Wilkinson, 1991, A.M.C, Benny L, Bensley, Black Sun Empire, Calyx & TeeBee, Culture Shock, Danny Byrd, dBridge, Dimension, Dirtyphonics, DJ Marky, Donny, Dope Ammo, Dub Phizix & Strategy, Emperor,, Enei, Etherwood, Fixate, Forbidden Society, Frankee, Fred V & Grafix, Friction, Gydra, Halluncinator, Hedex, Hybrid Minds, Hype & Hazard, Icicle, Joe Ford, Jubei, Kasra, Katharsys, Keeno, Klax, Lady V Duz, Loadstar, London Elektricity, Maduk, Maztek, Mefjus, Metrik, Mind Vortex, Misanthrop, Neonlight, Phace, Pola & Bryson, Prolix, Pythius, Ragga Twins, Rene LaVice, Rido, Rockwell, S.P.Y, SASASAS, Shimon, Shyn, Skeptical, SpectraSoul, Strategy, Sub Zero, TC, Technimatic, The Prototypes, The Upbeats, Tsuki, Twisted Individual, Upgrade, Whiney, Zardonic.


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After weeks of debate and conversation surrounding a potential change to Honor's by-laws with respect to the Informed Retraction, the Honor Committee unanimously passed an amendment to the by-laws at its March 26th, 2017 meeting.
The by-law change expands the language of "a single nexus of events", which determines whether or not multiple alleged honor offenses might be considered linked such that they could be grouped together under a single Informed Retraction.
You can read the amended by-law attachment HERE.
The new by-laws will apply to cases reported on or after April 10, 2017.


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Sleep apnea was practically unheard of not all that long ago. But as better diagnostics developed, awareness spread. And now, we have learned that this condition effects many more people than we thought, and that its effects can be devastating. While we are known as the Boca Raton TMJ clinic, we are also experts at treating sleep disordered breathing. If you believe that you are suffering from sleep apnea, turn to us.
Sleep Apnea Is More than Just Snoring
Snoring is a loud, rasping noise that is made when the soft palate, uvula, and other airway structures vibrate during sleep. It may not be the most pleasant thing in the world, but it does not have the same health impact that sleep apnea does. However, excessive and loud snoring is often the first sign of sleep apnea that people notice.What separates sleep apnea from snoring? With obstructive sleep apnea, you actually stop breathing while sleeping. Those suffering from sleep apnea will wake from this disturbance, gasping for air and even choking. When sleep apnea is severe, it can prevent your body from getting the rest it needs to stay healthy.
Signs of Sleep Apnea
If you or your loved ones notice any of the following signs, you should schedule an appointment with us.
- Loud, frequent snoring
- Gasping, choking, or snorting during sleep
- Feeling sluggish throughout your day despite feeling like you slept the entire night
- Waking up with a headache
- Falling asleep unintentionally
- Struggling with memory issues
- Difficulty concentrating
- Changes in behavior, especially irritability
sleep Apnea can Impact Your Overall Health
Obstructive sleep apnea is a problem on its own, but it can lead to greater problems with your health. In recent years, it has been associated with stroke, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and more. And since it causes drowsiness, it has also been linked to jobsite and traffic accidents. All of this means that sleep apnea is a much bigger deal than many have thought, and that is why our Boca Raton dentists have made it their mission to treat this condition.
Diagnosing Sleep Apnea
The process will start with a detailed health history, as well as some questions that target your sleep habits, lifestyle, and work issues. Once the health history has been completed, we will complete a examination of the inside of your mouth, teeth, jaw joints, and facial muscles. Depending on what is found, we may order radiographs, CBCT scans, or MRIs to give us a better understanding of the condition of your jaws and airway.
If we feel that you have sleep apnea, we will begin working with other specialists. You will be referred to an ear, nose, and throat specialist and a sleep study will be ordered. Together, we will come to a firm diagnosis and start your treatment.
What Are Treatments Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
There are many treatments for sleep apnea, and the treatments we recommend will depend on the severity of your condition. CPAP machines are recommended in moderate to severe cases; these machines pump air into your nose, using the air pressure to hold your airway open. Oral appliance therapy can be used as a CPAP alternative if the sleep apnea is mild to moderate; these custom-made appliances adjust the jaw and tongue to keep the airway open. Surgery is a possibility, but we consider it a last resort.
Other treatments include uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, radiofrequency ablation, and mandibular advancement surgery. In addition to these treatments, losing weight, living a healthy lifestyle, and sleeping on your side can reduce or eliminate the effects of sleep apnea.
Are you conserved about sleep apnea? Schedule your appointment with our Boca Raton dentists today.


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Sock Monkey Purse Set
You receive 2 sizes of our Sock Monkey Purse in this set.
These purses are made 'in the hoop' of your embroidery machine.
They're fully lined and have no exposed seams or visible stitching inside.
The monkeys have fringed eyelashes.
The ears are made first, then get attached while the purse is constructed in the hoop.
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5x7 Purse ~ 5.10" x 7.00" (fits Brother 5x7 hoop)
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No deathbed confession expected in Gardner Museum art heist
HARTFORD >> The lawyer for a Connecticut mobster suspected to have ties to the notorious 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist says he doesn't expect a deathbed confession from his client.
Hartford attorney A. Ryan McGuigan tells the Boston Globe he visited the hospital where 80-year-old Robert Gentile is in failing health on Friday to see if he'd talk about the artwork.
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Gentile is in federal custody for unrelated weapons charges. He's been identified by the FBI as the last surviving person of interest in the theft.
Thirteen paintings and other artwork by Rembrandt van Rijn, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Johannes Vermeer worth an estimated $500 million were stolen in the brazen heist.


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A large (taller than me) modern African-style mask work, made from
copper, brass and aluminium, with a mouth constructed from 56 spent
shell cases. This and its title hint at an Africa that has greatly
changed since the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria and Benin started
constructing art from brass.
This piece looks great mounted on the side of a brick or timber building, but goes equally well indoors in a large hall or atrium, perhaps.
Materials: brass, copper, aluminium, shell cases
Dimensions: 71" x 29" x 5" (180cm x 74cm x 13cm)
Weight: 20lb (9Kg)
This piece was shown at Sculpture on the Farm at Stewkley, and at the Savill Garden. It has also been seen at Sculpture Heaven and Rodmarton Manor, and this year will be shown at Altered States. Read a detailed article about the background and construction of this piece, published in the Surrey Sculpture Society magazine "Limited Edition", here.
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