text:
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Linda and David Lashley held a tattered copy of the New Testament open to the dedication page, carefully sheltering it from the rain.
Their father, Howard Clifton Lashley, had received the holy book in 1943 at Camp Blanding, Fla., before going off to fight in World War II. He carried it onto Omaha Beach two months after D-Day. It was with him through the Battle of the Bulge, and he probably had it with him when he was wounded in Belgium.
Now, 70 years later, his two children were standing by his grave in Greenlawn Cemetery, holding the little book they'd received two days earlier.
The book had been mailed to them by Ward Dossche of Belgium, who had been trying since 1977 to return it.
The story of that Bible's seven-decade journey is one of courage and sadness, determination and love.
Clifton Lashley was born in 1924 in an eastern North Carolina town so small it doesn't exist anymore. He moved to Wilmington, where he worked with his brother and father for the Atlantic Coast Line railroad.
He was drafted in 1943 and was sent to Camp Blanding, where he was given a pocket-size copy of the New Testament with a note of gratitude from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Lashley landed on Omaha Beach in August 1944 and fought across France and Belgium.
On Jan. 5, 1945, he was standing behind a Sherman tank in Manhay, Belgium, when a German tank fired at the Sherman. The shell missed the turret and landed about 10 feet from him, he said in a letter to his family.
He called it the "Lord's blessing" that he could tell about it.
He described the wound as "a scratch on the right leg," but it kept him in a hospital in Liege, Belgium, for two weeks, and it hurt for the rest of his life.
After leaving the hospital, Lashley spent a month living with civilians in Belgium as his unit was being rested.
Maybe he lost the Bible when he was wounded or at the hospital, his children speculate. Or maybe he left it with that kind family who sheltered a stranger from overseas.
In any case, Lashley returned to the States without it. He went back to his job at the railroad.
Years later, his children remember him rubbing his leg at night. It was scarred and still had shrapnel.
He wouldn't talk about the war. He'd leave the room when the 1960s TV show "Combat" aired. "He seemed to think he didn't need the Hollywood version," David said.
On April 7, 1976, Linda and her mother, Cozette Reid Lashley, were in a store in Longleaf Mall when Clifton Lashley came by. Something seemed a little off. Linda worried about her father as he left the store.
"Something told me to look at him, that I'd never see him again," she said.
Driving home, he suffered a heart attack and hit a utility pole on Carolina Beach Road.
It was a year later that Lashley's long-lost New Testament came into Ward Dossche's possession.
Dossche, now 62, has a deep respect for veterans. He is the son of a World War II veteran and grandson of two World War I veterans.
Those wars are an ever-present memory in Belgium.
"The USA are lucky that they've never been invaded the way that my country has," Dossche said in an email.
Belgium has been crossed by armies since the time of the Romans, Dossche said. In many regions, a traveler will nearly always be in sight of a war cemetery.
In Mortsel, where he lives, a U.S. plane was on a high-altitude bombing mission during World War II. The bombs missed the intended target, an airplane repair facility, and landed in the center of town. The blasts destroyed three schools and killed around 950 people, about half of them children.
But no one blamed the Americans. "It was a tragic accident, a case of friendly fire," he said.
His great-uncle went missing in action during World War I. Dossche believes he is close to finding the grave.
He remembers his great-grandmother's anguish. He discovered a letter she'd written "with a cry for information, anything that she could hold in her hand as a memento of her son," he wrote. "After that war, she was left with nothing."
Dossche's cousin collected old books, and he bought the American serviceman's Bible at an auction in the 1960s. When the cousin died in 1977, Dossche inherited it.
The dedication page listed the book as the property of one Pvt. H.C. Lashley. It had his service number and the Wilmington address of his mother, the next of kin.
Mindful of his great-grandmother's wish for "anything that she could hold in her hand," he resolved to return the Bible.
That was 36 years ago.
Dossche, now retired as a manager of a Belgian telephone company, wrote to embassies and to the Pentagon and even to President Jimmy Carter.
He brought the Bible to America in 2007 when he drove from Washington, D.C., to Key West, Fla., with his daughter. They stopped in Wilmington and tried to find someone who knew Lashley, but they had no success.
Several times a year he visits a grave at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial on behalf of an American woman of his acquaintance whose father rests there.
On a recent visit, he told the cemetery superintendent, Bobby Bell, about Lashley's Bible.
Bell found an entry about Lashley's grave in Greenlawn at FindaGrave.com, thanks to the work Tom Reece of Wilmington and his brother are doing cataloging the graves of U.S. service members.
Bell put Dossche in touch with Reece, who tracked down Linda and David Lashley.
Like Ward Dossche, Linda is in the telephone business, working at AT&T. David is in manufacturing.
David was 20 and Linda 25 when they lost their father. They have a scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings and photos he took during the war.
The palm-size New Testament arrived via registered mail from Belgium on June 4.
"When I had claimed it, I went over to Daddy's gravesite and told him, with a big lump in my throat," she said.
The brother and sister examined the little book. They said it helped to have a tangible reminder of their father.
Across the sea, Ward Dossche was glad to see a picture of Linda and David's hands holding the book open.
"It is good to see this final photo of a friend who finally found the home where he belongs," Dossche said of the Bible he worked so hard to return. "It fills me with pride having been able to do this, and a bit with sadness as I won't see it lying around anymore."


text:
Cannot find your local Phoenix Contact site? Use our selector
Sensor/actuator cable, 4-position, PUR halogen-free, black-gray RAL 7021, Plug straight M12, A-coded, on Socket straight M8 Snap-in, cable length: 5 m
Total : 0.0
Creative solutions for a smart world – ready to experience now.
Push-in connection technology – only from Phoenix Contact.
"$pageName" on

subset: commoncrawl


text:
InBeCon GmbH
InBeCon GmbH offers technical and scientific consulting in packaging for optoelectronics and microsystem technology (MST). Service starts with simulation and design for our clients' projects. We use our expertise to show them how to protect their IP and file strong patents. Our company also provides consulting for the production and assembly processes of products, for low- and high-volume production, along with offering technical analysis of a client's competition.
Areas of Expertise
- Simulation, design, and packaging for MEMS and optoelectronic modules
- High-power laser modules
- Packages for optical communication
Optical sensors
Simulation of multiphysics problems in electronic and optoelectronic packages
- Optical coupling
- Power management
Mechanical stress
Photonics and micro-optics
- Transmission on optical waveguides
Basic RF simulations
Consulting about processing and manufacturing for low and high volume production
- IP consulting and patent management
- Competitive analysis
Our Experience
Our consulting services are based on more than 30 years of experience in the development and production of optoelectronic modules for various applications. The managing director of InBeCon is the inventor of more than 40 patent families, which are owned by various international companies and have been published in a large number of technical papers.
Address & Contact Information
InBeCon GmbH
Att. Dr. Joerg-R. Kropp
Zittauer Str. 60
12355 Berlin
tel: +49 30 2175 80 74
mail: email@example.com


text:
A lively solo theme in the genres of jazz and swing played with an electric piano to provide an invigorating background for diverse multimedia projects, corporate video presentations, and TV shows with a touch of classic vintage flair; facilitates cool, engaging rests, pauses, and transitions between primary visual events. 2 versions of the track (140 BPM) are included: full-length (0:26) and seamless looping (0:21).
The item is included in the following music pack:
For more choice in the same music genre or application, please, see these public collections:
- Intros & Logos: Electric Piano Solos
- All music packs by Garsų menė
- All public collections by Garsų menė


text:
GamesBeat's Jeff Grubb writes: "Nintendo can release 11 Fire Emblems because the gameplay is timeless. It takes time to figure out if something has that quality, but nothing about Skulls of the Shogun immediately disqualifies it. It's hard and unfair in the campaign, but that keeps it challenging. Beyond the gameplay, it's just nice to look at. The battlefields are crisp, and the characters are interesting and colorful."
This is a Win 8 exclusive on PC? I don't think that this'll end well.
Good friend of mine worked on this! It's also mad fun. You should buy it.
I've been interested in turn-based tactical games since XCOM. I might have to give this a shot!


text:
It's predictable, and hokey, to bring up chocolate and romance in one Valentine's Day post, but hang on — this is fascinating.
A study suggests that your preferences in chocolate may help explain how you pick out or judge potential romantic partners.
No, it's not that people who love dark chocolate are simpatico with others who love dark chocolate. That would be far too pat.
Ed O'Brien, a researcher in social psychology at the University of Michigan, authored the paper. His theory is that our preferences are highly influenced by the moment of choice. And one particularly important moment is the end of an experience. O'Brien's hunch is that we fall for endings or last chances.
"I think in everyday life we do have this expectation that we save the best for last," he says. For instance, when we go to a concert, the best song is often at the end, the encore.
Or, if we know the next installment of a favorite book or series is the last, like the last Harry Potter movie, for example, we get a little more jazzed about it.
"When people are given awareness that something is about to end, they're kind of motivated to make the most of that experience," O'Brien says.
But does this hold true even for something as simple as savoring a last piece of chocolate?
To test the theory, O'Brien and his colleagues approached 52 students on the University of Michigan campus and asked them to participate in a taste test.
They tried a bunch of different kinds of Hershey's Kisses — from almond to caramel to dark chocolate. Then the students rated their favorites.
"So we had a big bag of candy that was covered from the outside and you couldn't see what was in it or how many [chocolates were there]," he says.
In some cases, students were never cued that the fifth chocolate was the last chocolate they'd taste. The researchers simply said, "Here's the next one," all the way through the taste test.
Among these students, the last chocolate they tasted was their favorite about 22 percent of the time.
But another group of students was told that the fifth chocolate was their "last" chocolate. And O'Brien says this awareness — that the whole experience was about to come to an end — made them value the chocolate more.
"The majority of people [64 percent] chose it as their favorite even though we'd randomly distributed the flavors," he says. That's nearly three times as many as the group that didn't get the warning.
A number of other studies, including this jellybean study, show that last things are more intense. One explanation? They're most fresh in our minds. After eating a series of jellybeans, people tended to remember the last one most clearly, and so they rate it as most intense.
O'Brien says he thinks the last-is-best bias may extend to the world of romance and dating.
In a similar study, which he hasn't published, he and some colleagues asked people to rate a series of online dating profiles. And here again, he found there was a big advantage when a person's profile was introduced as "the last one" you'll see today.
"All of the sudden, that person seemed more attractive, more compatible," O'Brien says. People were about three times more likely to pick the last profile when it was framed as "the last" instead of "the next one."
Now, if Brad Pitt — or fancy Belgian chocolate — enters the picture, O'Brien says it's likely that the "bias toward last" would disappear.
But all things being equal? "I think it benefits you to be judged at the end."
Maybe you don't need the reminder or maybe you'd like to forget. Either way, it is Valentine's Day and we're going to mark the occasion with some sweet psychology.
NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on how we pick chocolates and what it might say about how we pick partners.
ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: Let's start with chocolate. If you think your likes and dislikes are set in stone, you prefer milk, dark or maybe spiked with espresso, well, researcher Ed O'Brien, he knows your type.
ED O'BRIEN: We think that we do have these kind of ingrained preferences. So, if I'm a dark chocolate person, I think of myself as, you know, I will always like dark chocolate more than others.
AUBREY: O'Brien is a PhD student in psychology at the University of Michigan. He's long suspected, though, that we're more impressionable than we realize. To test his hunch, O'Brien devised a chocolate taste test to see if he could manipulate people's preferences.
O'BRIEN: Once you're in the moment, so once you're in this taste test that we had, you can often kind of push around people's preferences. And even though I see myself as a dark chocolate person, I may pick something else when I'm actually in the moment to choose.
AUBREY: The moment of choice is key and turns out it's all about how you offer the chocolate. I tried a similar taste test on some friends when they came over for book club the other night. Maureen Conley, Karen Schleifer, Cindy Merz, Lauren Dikeman(ph), and Sue Gander(ph), knew I was up to something as I passed around little bowls of chocolate.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Is it all about the color of the wrapper?
AUBREY: Nope, it's not.
Before I go any further, I should tell you the chocolate tasting was set up to taste a particular theory. O'Brien thinks there's something special about ending or last chances.
O'BRIEN: I think in everyday life we do have this general expectation that, yeah, we save the best for last. And, you know, when we go to a concert, we hear the best song at the end of the show.
AUBREY: Or, if we know the next installment of a favorite book or series is the last, say, the last Harry Potter movie, we get a little more jazzed about it.
O'BRIEN: When people are given awareness that something is about to end, they're kind of motivated to make the most of that experience.
AUBREY: Even if it's something as simple as a chocolate?
Do you like it?
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: It's yummy.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Mmm, perfect balance it seems like...
AUBREY: Now, I only had five tasters, but O'Brien and his team had about 50, mostly students they approached on the University of Michigan campus. Each agreed to try a bunch of different kinds of Hershey Kisses from almond to caramel to dark, and then rate their favorites.
O'BRIEN: First, we wanted to make sure that they couldn't see how many we were about to give them. Because if they know there's going to be five, then we can't really surprised that by saying it's about to end. So, we had a big bag of candy that was covered from the outside, so you couldn't really see what was in it or how many were in it.
AUBREY: And O'Brien explained the tasters who were offered the chocolate and then told when they'd come to the last one, more often than not, said the last was the best.
O'BRIEN: The majority of people who all of a sudden ate that last chocolate chose that last chocolate as their favorite, even though we kind of randomly distributed the flavors.
AUBREY: And something similar happened in my living room.
So this is the very last one.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #4: OK. I don't get anymore after this?
AUBREY: No, this is it.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #4: Mmm, dark and rich.
AUBREY: Mine was a very small experiment, but I did find a small bias towards the last chocolate eaten.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #5: I might eat the whole thing.
AUBREY: So, the last is definitely a favorite.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #5: It was definitely my favorite.
AUBREY: Now this is where the romance comes in. O'Brien described to me a similar study he and his colleagues did, asking people to rate online dating profiles. He found that there was a big advantage when a person's profile was introduced as the last one you'll see today.
O'BRIEN: That person all of a sudden became more attractive. They seemed more compatible with you, reaping those similar benefits as you would in the chocolate study.
AUBREY: So the last person you read about it may be the one to decide to reach out to. Now, if Brad Pitt or a fancy Belgian chocolate entered the picture, I bet the bias towards the last falls apart very quickly. But all things being equal, well, it may be beneficial in love or chocolate to be judged last.
Allison Aubrey, NPR News.
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


text:
|Page (1) of 1 - 02/16/12
|email article
|print page
Ohio couple get 8 years each in son's cancer deathOhio couple receive 8-year prison terms in son's cancer death after he begged to see a doctor
CLEVELAND (AP) ' The parents of an 8-year-old boy who died from Hodgkin lymphoma after suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands were sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday following their guilty pleas to denying him medical treatment.
Attorneys for Monica Hussing, 37, and William Robinson Sr., 40, had said the parents had financial problems and tried to get checkups for their son but couldn't afford it.
The couple was given the maximum sentence by Cuyahoga County Judge Michael Astrab, who accepted their guilty pleas last month to attempted involuntary manslaughter in a last-minute plea deal before their trial was about to begin. They were handcuffed and taken into custody immediately. Both plan to appeal the sentence.
"I loved my son," Robinson told the judge, occasionally wiping his eyes with a tissue. He said he was sorry.
"I tried to help my son," Hussing said as family members in the courtroom quietly sobbed.
Hussing's sister, Shelia Slawinski, cried as she stood before the judge and gave voice to her nephew, Willie Robinson: "I am so in pain ... please take me to the doctor ... the last four weeks have been the most painful."
"I told my sister," Slawinski said. "I offered to help my sister."
According to the prosecution's pre-sentencing memo to the judge, at least eight family members noticed Willie's deteriorating health over a period of more than two years and most spoke to the couple about it. One relative described the boy's swollen neck glands as the size of a softball.
"Twenty-nine months he suffered," Slawinski said. "Twenty-nine months they had to do something and they chose not to."
Asked outside court why her sister hadn't taken care of Willie and hadn't enrolled him or three siblings in school, Slawinski said it was easier for Hussing to stay in bed during the day and do drugs. Both parents have abused drugs, their attorneys earlier told the judge.
Hussing's oldest daughter, Lillian, 18, defended her mother in court and said Willie was able to do the same things other 8-year-olds do. "He was able to play, go outside," she said.
The judge looked surprised and asked the teen if she would be willing to repeat her statements under oath and possible penalty of perjury. She did.
The judge compared the autopsy photo of Willie's emaciated body to concentration camp victims. "If anybody, anybody, didn't know this kid was sick, they are seriously, seriously disturbed," Astrab said.
Two doctors told the judge before the sentencing that no sick child would be turned away from a hospital.
Willie Robinson collapsed at his home on March 22, 2008. Prosecutors say he had begged his parents to take him to see a doctor but was rejected. Hodgkin lymphoma is a highly treatable cancer.
Lillian Hussing said earlier the family didn't have money for medical care when they lived in Warren, tried repeatedly to get help from social services and visited a free clinic but left when told they would have to pay $180.
The family soon moved to Cleveland and the boy died within weeks.
Prosecutors say that while the boy was suffering, the parents claimed financial hardship but paid $87 to have a pit bull treated for fleas. Hussing's defense attorney, John Luskin, said the dog belonged to Hussing's parents and her parents paid for the treatment.
Trumbull County Children Services says it had worked with the family to provide Willie health care, getting involved after receiving a phone call in July 2007. Agency officials said a case worker visited the family at least monthly and pushed the parents to have a medical follow-up on his swollen neck but they didn't.
However, Robinson's attorney Thomas Rein said previously that a social worker who visited the family in January 2008 "indicated the kids were healthy and happy." He said no one knew the boy had cancer until he died and an autopsy was performed.
And Lillian Hussing said a case worker had told the family the boy's lump looked like a swollen gland and to hold off until they could secure financial assistance before getting it checked.
About two weeks after they moved to Cleveland, she said, her brother came down with something. Her mother treated him with cold medicine and he died within three days.
She said the boy never complained about his neck.
"He played, he went outside, he wrestled, he played video games," the boy's sister said. "He was the happiest kid you could imagine. It never seemed like he was suffering."
The emotional aftermath from their son's death led the couple to split, according to Luskin.
The couple's four other children under 18 were placed in the custody of a family member. Luskin said Lillian Hussing, upon turning 18, decided to return to live with her mother.
Rein said Robinson agreed to plead guilty so his children could be spared any further grief and wouldn't have to suffer by testifying. Lillian Hussing said her mother took a plea bargain because of the uncertainty of a trial and fear she could be sent to prison for a long time.
As part of the deal, the prosecution agreed to drop four counts each against each parent, including child endangering. Prosecutors didn't agree to a sentence recommendation. Both Luskin and Rein had said they hoped the judge would consider probation.
"There's not a day my client ... starts without shedding a tear for his son," Rein said.
The coroner ruled that the boy was a victim of medical neglect and died from pneumonia due to Hodgkin lymphoma.
Hodgkin lymphoma is a highly treatable cancer, with as many as 95 percent of patients in early stages of the disease surviving for five years or more with treatment. It's one of the most common forms of cancers among children.
Page: 1
Related Keywords:Cancer Death-Plea,Legal proceedings,Crime,Cancer,Law and order,General news,Diseases and conditions,Health,Child and teen health


text:
I don't know about you, but I try to put Citations on all of the data that I put into my file. I routinely review my Facts to make sure that they all have Citations. To review them, go to the People Workspace, Person Tab. On the Right side of the list of Facts are three columns of numbers.
Column 1 is the number of Citations that you have for that fact
Column 2 is the number of Media Files associated with the Fact or Citation
Column 3 is the number of Notes that you have for that Fact
If there is a "0" in that first column, there isn't a Citation for that fact.
Lets say that you know where that information came from (Source) and you already have it entered, but on a different Fact, then the process is simple.
Just to the right of the "new", with Sources selected is the Copy Citation ICON. The citation that is selected will now be Copied.
Returning to the Fact without a Citation, selecting that Pull Down menu, on the right of "new", is the Paste Duplicate Source Citation.
That Citation will now be associated with that Fact.
Copyright © 2011 by H R Worthington


text:
Playing the The Numbers Game lottery can be very exciting especially if from time to time you are a winner. Winning can be accomplished quit often if the correct system is used. There are many so called experts in the market offering winning number secrets and scratch off ticket recommendations that promise to help you win. Most are not legit. However, there are a few systems on the market that has produced some promising results.
When you consider that that there are many different lottery systems available and lots of past winners you remain anonymous or don't talk about their winning strategies how many more winners might there be who have used such systems?
Think about it: is it possible that a huge percentage of lottery winners are actually using mathematical or statistical formulas to help them win? If that is the case then anyone who is not using a system is merely feeding the prize fund and has an almost zero chance of winning.
Would You Like to Win The The Numbers Game lottery?
People who play Megamillions have one question in common and that would be which the best numbers to play Megamillions are? The thing is, there isn't a standard or a formula that one can follow in order to come to a conclusion regarding the best numbers to play Megamillions. There are, however, things that you can keep in mind when you are in the process of picking numbers. You can consider them strategies or systems or you can think of them, simply, as tips. They may not give you a concrete answer towards the best numbers to play Megamillions, but they can help take you a step closer.1. When choosing numbers, do not try and form patterns. Remember to be as random as you can. Think about it, if you decide to go with a pattern such as choosing all the numbers that go a certain way, whether upwards or downwards the sheets then you are already putting yourself at a disadvantage.8. When you ask people who have won jackpots for themselves, it is likely that they'd tell you that the numbers they chose were chosen mostly because of gut feel. A kind of intuition. You may not think much of it but this intuition could potentially win you millions. So go with what you feel and not what you believe to be the best numbers to play Megamillions. Remember, trust your gut and go with your intuition.
Is Playing Hospital Lotteries Your Best Chance at Winning a Million Dollars?
Lottery predictions is quite popular these days. People used to be skeptical with the predictions as they thought that the winning numbers are a matter of luck and fortunes. Not many people believe that lottery can be won by using some kind of a sophisticated science based predictions. It was not until the late 90s when lottery players began using lottery predictions to help them to win lottery or at least get closer to the winning numbers. When Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo, a Spanish man who managed to study and analyze many games in two different countries, Spain and the US and win a lot of money by using different strategies. After him people started to believe that lottery results can be predicted.Lottery players start thinking about how to win the lotteries using predictions. They use many kinds of predictions: from mechanical predictions on mechanical lotteries to technological predictions using computer software. A lot of people use algorithm to analyze and predict lottery results.Analysis of GroupsThere are many kinds of group analysis that lottery predictors use to get into the winning numbers. Lottery players can group the months having the best winning numbers of a certain period or they can group the numbers winning in certain period of time.Analysis of Hot-Cold TrendThis algorithm analysis is one of the most favourite so far as it can record the frequency ranks and use the variations to predict the tendencies of hot and cold numbers in the next drawings.Analysis of Repetition PatternA lot of lottery players share the same opinion that repetition is quite important to predict the winning numbers as most of jackpots will appear again in the future.The analysis mentioned above represents only a part of the strategies that lottery players can use. There are still many other algorithm analysis that can be done by predictors to help them win.
Winning the The Numbers Game lottery is very rewarding. Give this system a spin and watch your winnings grow.


text:
Obama: No act of terror can match strength of US
May 15, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama says no act of terror can match the strength and character of the United States. He says, quote, "Nothing can ever break us."
Obama is speaking at the dedication in New York for the National September 11 Memorial Museum. He says this museum tells the story of 9/11 so that future generations will never forget.
Obama says it's a moment to reflect on the true spirit of 9/11 and enshrine it forever in the nation's heart. He says that spirit encompasses love, compassion and sacrifice.
Obama is praising the men and women who helped save lives in the attack, including those who gave their lives in the effort.
He says the deceased live on in us and in their friends and families.


text:
Fisher Cats' McGuire continues hot streak as NH keeps playoff hopes aliveStaff report
August 25. 2013 8:38PM
The Fisher Cats' Deck McGuire is having a torrid August.
McGuire, 5-9 before the month began, has gone 4-0 since, including Sunday's impressive outing. He retired the first 18 Reading batters he faced, and Kenny Wilson and Jack Murphy collected three hits apiece to lead New Hampshire past the Fightin' Phils, 7-3, at FirstEnergy Stadium.
McGuire's perfect game was ended when the Phils' Albert Cartwright led off the seventh inning with a walk. Zach Collier then broke up the no-hitter and shutout with a run-scoring triple, cutting New Hampshire's lead to 5-1. Collier then scored on Maikel Franco's single to make it 5-2. McGuire was able to finish with seventh inning with no further damage. He fanned seven.
The Fisher Cats' win enabled them to stay within three games of second-place Trenton in the Eastern League's Eastern Division. Trenton beat Portland, 3-2, in 10 innings on Sunday.
New Hampshire scored single runs in the fourth and sixth innings on a pair of sacrifice flies, by Kevin Ahrens and John Tolisano. The Fisher Cats busted it open with a three-spot in the seventh. Ryan Schimpf led off with a double and scored on a triple by Murphy. Lance Zawadzky followed with a sac fly. Wilson followed with a solo homer.
Ahrens added a two-run homer in the eighth.
Alan Farina hurled the final 1 1/3 innings for his seventh save.
The Fishers were initially scheduled to face Roy Halladay, on a rehab assignment, on Sunday. But when the Phillies used 11 pitchers in Saturday night's 18-inning, 12-7 win over Arizona — including Sunday's scheduled starter, Tyler Cloyd — Halladay went to Philly on Sunday and pitched (and won).


text:
On a warm and humid evening last week my two younger brothers, Brad and Joe, conspired to rip my heart out! I was sitting alone in my home while the two of them stepped into a Lake Michigan tributary and began to catch some very nice salmon. Did I mention that they cut my heart out?
On a warm and humid evening last week my two younger brothers, Brad and Joe, conspired to rip my heart out! I was sitting alone in my home while the two of them stepped into a Lake Michigan tributary and began to catch some very nice salmon. Did I mention that they cut my heart out?
I am sure neither one shed a tear for me as they cranked in some very nice fish with several going well into the 30-pound range. I would be willing to bet that they both had a nice little chuckle on the ride home when discussing how I would react to the results of their fishing trip. Brothers!
My brother Brad has perfected a fishing technique that brother Joe apparently managed to master rather quickly since Brad told me that Joe caught the first fish. Joe also managed to hook and land his second while Brad was still putting the first one on a stringer.
Somewhere in the September night, on that little river, my brothers whooped my butt in the game of salmon fishing and I do not like it. How could something this horrific come to be? Did I mention that this was Joe's first time to fish this spot?
I would like to take all the credit for teaching my younger brothers to fish. However, when I think back on my younger years, I seem to recall a lot of yelling, "You're not going with me!" directed toward the two of them when I was headed to the river.
I liked to spend as much time on the water as I could when I was young, but I also enjoyed my privacy. I also didn't want anyone to know what I was catching or how I was catching them. Life for me, back in the day, was all about secrets. But, don't get me wrong, we had our fair share of group fishing time as well.
As I reflect back on those important "learning" years, it comes to me that perhaps they both owe me a great big thank you for much of their fishing success. Like the old saying goes, "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime." I think, in a roundabout way, that some of my actions as a younger man caused the two of them to become better fishermen.
They had to step up their game in spite of me, so they became the successful outdoorsmen they are today. Yeah, I see no reason why I cannot and should not take some – or most or even all – of the credit for their success and outdoor skills! I mean, that was my intention in the first place, to help them out.
What do I get in return, not the big brother of the year award I so deserve, rather, I am forced to see pictures of my brothers hoisting up trophy salmon. I love salmon fishing and just seeing a picture of anyone but me holding up a nice salmon cuts me to the quick. So naturally when I received the call from Brad that he and Joe had tore the salmon up well, that was just about as bad as it could get but it does not stop there. Oh no, Joe had to go and share a picture of his big fish to just rip my guts out and stomp all over them.
That's what I get in return for years of not letting him follow – um, I mean, teaching him how to be a great outdoorsman. Now I am not the kind of brother who would ever hold a grudge or anything like that but, I think Brad and I are going fishing again this week and I plan on catching a fish two maybe even seven times as big as the minnow Joe caught and I will be taking it straight to his house just to rub it ... show him my catch.
Remember to watch for hunters as you fish the rivers in your area as hunting season will open this week. Wear bright colors when possible and avoid any accidents with anxious hunters. Remember to sharpen your hooks and put fresh line on your rod because the salmon are running larger than typical by most accounts and you might just happen to hook a real trophy. Have fun, use care when in the wild and remember, it's a great outdoors.
Jim Kilchermann is an avid outdoorsman who is very happy for the recent success of his brothers. He does however, plan on catching bigger, much bigger fish than they did. I can be reached at email@example.com to share any stories. Until next time, stay out of the snags and keep all of your shots in the ten ring.


text:
Unlike the fancy 3D cut section with all the components modelled in the previous blog, you will generally not model as detailed in a working model, there will be too many custom component and if your design changes it will take hours to update all the specially modelled components. There is however merit for having a separate mock-up file thats purpose is to model a part of your detail to get a great 3D cut section with all the components, it can be a model of only a few feet in length that show exactly what you want and you just take a jpeg image and copy it into your main file once your finished. At the end of the month I'll show you how I modelled the nice 3D view in my first post. For now we'll start off with general working model technique.
First we need to prep the file with a few levels. My preference is 'the more levels the better', but this is not every ones opinion, some people like simpler settings, but this is Revit Detail so we'll go the more detailed route. In effect we will setup 4 levels total, 2 will be Structural Slab Levels(SSL) and 2 will be Floor Finish Levels(FFL).
Normally in new build projects there is an allowance of 3" - 4" of floor finish zone but in this example I'll base it on more of a refurb project where we can only lay down a thin layer of floor finish on an existing slab, this is so that the thresholds with stairs and other parts of the building is kept to a minimum height. Our floor finish is only going to be 1/2" so the distance between our FFL(floor finish level) and SSL(structural slab level) will be pretty small.
The reason why i do the extra levels is because of the following Scenario;
- You only have the main levels (01 Level and 02 Level)
- The top of the main 8" concrete slab is at the '01 level',
- Then you add a 1/2" of floor finish on top of that, ( you must set 'offsets from level' to + 1/2")
- You then enter in your ceiling at 8'-2" in revit.
- Conclusion, The ceiling will be 8'-2" above the main slab but the distance between the floor finish and the ceiling will be only (8'-1 1/2"), is this what you want? or do you want the gap between the floor finish and the ceiling to be the full 8'-2"?
- See below for a diagram to help explain the different options of levels.
- By adding SSL and FFL levels we ease this problem without having to do too many 'offsets from level' instance settings. It also helps to do away with extra height calculations which for me is one of revits strongest features.
- Open your office revit template file,
- Enter into an elevation view to begin.
- You can adjust the existing levels in there or delete them and start fresh
- Make 4 levels and views
(SSL 01 Level) at (-0' - 1/2"),
(FFL 01 Level) at (0' - 0"),
(SSL 02 Level) at (12- 5 1/2"),
(FFL 02 Level) at (12' - 6"),
- You should create ceiling view types for both the FFL levels but not the SSL levels
01 Level Ceiling Plan
02 Level Ceiling Plan
- Go to the 'SSL 01 Level' plan view
- Select the floor tool and enter sketch mode
- Edit the floor properties
- Select '8" Concrete Slab'
- If you do not have this floor type, select Edit/New, then select duplicate, rename to (8" Concrete Slab)
- Edit the buildup and make the floor thickness to 0' - 8" and the material 'concrete cast insitu'
- Select 'ok' until out of the floor properties
- Now sketch a square floor about 40' x 40'
- Select 'finish sketch'
- At this point you should select the floor just drawn and hit ctrl + c to copy it to the clip board.
- Navigate to the 'modify' panel on the ribbon and select the 'paste aligned tool' 'select level by name' pick the 'SSL 02 Level' as the level.
- Enter a 3d view or draw a section and you'll now see 2 floors. This will give you a base to start with, we'll now draw the walls before drawing the floor finish.
There are several combinations in which we could draw the wall configuration(the glass wall, the adjacent walls and the wall above the glass/ceiling) Below diagram explains the different options.
The 3rd option is in my opinion is the best as there is less components. This involves you setting your curtain wall type to 'automatically embed'. To set this
- Select the wall tool, then select a curtain wall type
- Edit the properties of the wall type, enter into type properties
- Under construction, the second option is automatically embed, tick this
- Select ok until out of the wall properties
Now you are ready to draw the walls. First we will place the adjacent wall that will host our glass wall.
- Enter the SSL 01 level
- Select the wall tool, Select a partition type (5/8" gyp. board either side of a 2-1/2" metal stud)
- Set the height to SSL 02 Level
- Draw wall in plan as per your design about 40' long
- Enter into a 3d view that can see the wall you've just drawn and the upper slab, if you need to turn on the section box in the 3d view to see the objects do so.
- Select the wall and then on the ribbon panel select the 'Attach' option, then select 'top' and pick the upper slab in your 3d view. This is so your wall and slab are not clashing, it will also allow you to cut sections with minimal clean up.
- Below is a diagram that shows you a messy model and a clean model. It is important to keep the model clean to keep the amount of post production to a minimum.
- Enter the 'FFL 01 Level' plan view
- Select wall tool, select curtain wall type (the special one that is set to automatically embed)
- Before you draw the wall set the height to unconnected height, enter 8'-2"
- Now draw the wall along the center line of the adjacent wall(inside the wall) about 20'(or 5 panels long), once you finish you'll see that the glass wall is now hosted by the adjacent wall.
- Move the adjacent wall and see how the glass wall moves with it.
Now I'm going to add a 1"x1" mullion to the bottom of the curtain wall.
- Enter into an elevation view facing your wall.
- On the home tab under 'build' select the 'mullion' tool
- Select or create '1" square', you can modify the 'Rectangular Mullion' to create this.
- Place the mouse cursor over the bottom of the curtain wall until the bottom line of the curtain wall highlights. Left click to place
- Now check your section to see that the mullion is sitting in the correct location, sometimes the glass panel and mullions have offsets place in their settings which puts them off centre, play with the mullion, glass panel and curtain wall settings until they align correctly.
Floor Finish
We'll Now draw the floor finish
- Enter the 'FFL 01 Level' plan view
- Select the floor tool from the home tab on the ribbon
- Select or create a 0'-1/2" floor finish type
- Now sketch your floor finish outline as per your design and when you reach the walls, trace the outline tight to the bottom mullion and adjacent partition wall.
- Repeat for floor finish on the other side of the wall
The final part of basic model
- Enter the '01 Level Ceiling Plan' ceiling plan view
- Select the ceiling tool from the home tab on the ribbon
- Select a ceiling type, the type in this case should be a gyp. board ceiling type but it could be another type depending on your design.
- Now sketch your ceiling outline as per your design. in this case unlike the floor finish your ceiling outline should only trace the outline of the adjacent partition wall not the inner glass wall.
- Repeat for ceiling on the other side of the wall
you've now drawn in the elements (1,2,3,4,5,6, 7 and 11) from the original 2D detail (01.1 analysis of glass wall partitions ). These are the main elements that will define your design and use the simplest of the revit tools. They will cover the bulk of the content for your plans, sections and elevation and will act as space holders for all the fine detail components that in theory would be inside some of these bigger objects.
The next blog will be on advanced modelling components and will feature Angled Bracing


text:
Your browser does not support iframes.
I think there should be a J.B. Holmes Day in Campbellsville. There should be a big parade.
Campbellsville should recognize the great talent we have. This needs to be done soon. Mr. Holmes is recognized around the world. His hometown should do the same thing.
LaVada McClain
Congress continues to wrangle on measures to curb the alleged influence of speculators on oil prices. Republicans want to insert provisions on offshore and ANWR drilling, while Democrats prefer to focus on enlarging the regulatory powers of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
However the political maneuvering turns out, cracking down on investors will only harm consumers. There is no hard evidence that speculation is responsible for high oil prices, and the proposed legislation would hamstring the beneficial role that futures markets play in our economy.
Fall is in the air. The evenings are getting chilly, children are planning their Halloween costumes and, before we know it, Christmas decorations will start appearing.
But it's also a time for pride.
October is "Roadside PRIDE Month" in southern and eastern Kentucky. Throughout October, residents will be picking up roadside litter and getting rid of items they no longer need.
When children are told to clean up a mess, often their response is "... but I didn't do it." And, honestly, the rest of us often have a similar response.
We all have it. Cluttering our spare rooms, basements, attics or garages. We accumulate it through the years, amassing massive collections as we make our way through life. Junk.
My obsession began sometime during my high school years, when I started earning a dollar. I'd always been a film buff, and at some point I realized there was a whole world of movie memorabilia out there. And thus began my downward spiral into obsessive collecting of anything related to the films I loved.
Not to be preachy, but folks, God cares. That's all there is to it. Many wrong people get away with a lot against others, putting them in some pretty precarious hardships, but if those victims just turn their heads up and ask for help from God, it'll come over the time it is needed, sometimes in the most surprising ways.
I have found that it is hard to find faith in the fact that God really cares about what goes on down here on earth, but once that faith finally shows itself in me, over time it can be just as hard if not harder to maintain it.
It's more than "water cooler talk" or casual conversation these days.
The price of gas is affecting our everyday lives.
It's hard for most of us to drive past a gas station without at least a casual glance at the price sign. And oftentimes that glance is more than just casual.
Last Friday, stories about increasing gas prices were buzzing about, with projections as high as $4.50 or $5 a gallon.
One common thread in nearly all the stories: Why?
Trey Grayson
Secretary of State
When our founding fathers emerged from the Constitutional Convention in 1789, they gave America the principles that continue to guide us to the present. Not only does the Constitution guide American democracy, but it is the longest lasting constitution in human history and has served as an inspiration for democratic constitutions around the world.
If the national average gas price increased by 12 cents over a two-day period because of Hurricane Ike, then why did the prices in Campbellsville increase an average of 45 cents over the four days prior to Ike's landfall?
This really seems like price gouging to me. They hear something on TV or the radio and up go the prices. How do we go about investigating this problem?
Deane Haggerty
Copyright © 2018
The Central Kentucky News-Journal is your source for local news, sports, events, and information in Campbellsville, KY and the surrounding area.


text:
Trapped inside because of cold weather, rain, or a chicken pox quarantine? Just plain bored? It's probably driving your little ones nuts, and chances are it's draining your sanity as well. You've already tried television and exhausted your supply of toys. Here are some ideas for new activities and changes of scenery to help you stop the indoor insanity. We've included a few out-of-your-house adventures, too, for those whose kids aren't contagious. After reading through the list, you might create an inclement weather emergency kit with a few toys, craft supplies, and books that you can pull out when the weather drops below ten degrees and a case of the stuck inside blues threatens to strike. – Oz Spies
1. Bring the Outside Inside
Snow on the ground? Heap a bunch into pots and pans and sculpt away. Wet, cold, and constantly changing, it's especially interesting to texture-oriented babies and toddlers.
2. Indoor Camping and a Picnic
Pretend the power's out and set up a tent in the living room. Don't have a tent? A rigged-up sheet will do just as well. Surround the tent with stuffed animals, and then eat lunch while sitting on the carpet. If you're feeling especially ambitious, you can also cuddle in front of the fireplace (or stovetop, or microwave) and make s'mores.
3. Homemade Play Dough
If you've got flour, water, and salt in the cupboard, you can make homemade playdough. Food coloring or vanilla extract can spice it up a little. Since the ingredients are all from your pantry, it doesn't matter if a bit ends up in the sculptor's mouth during the creation of a miniature Eiffel Tower.
4. Pretend You're a Tourist
Your town probably has lots of attractions that you've never tried. Even art museums that seem targeted to adults can have hands-on, interactive activities for kids. Planetariums or science museums are always an option, and you can also try obscure museums you've never hit before, like the Captain Kazoo museum. Other cities have museums just for kids filled with hours of indoor fun. Search the American Association of Museum's directory to find more options across the United States. If you're far from museums, many still have online resources, like the Smithsonian Kids site. And hey, even when it's cold outside, there are still animals at the zoo – and some of them, like the reptiles, are roaming around in the warmth of an indoor area. Dash from inside space to inside space and enjoy having the zoo all to yourself. Indoor aquariums are also an option.
5. Go Exploring
Don't want to spend the money on admission to museums? Then explore free or low-cost indoor attractions. Go to the train station and watch people coming and going. Check out an art gallery or the library. Visit the tallest building around and ride the elevator to the top. Request a tour of the local fire station. Get on the bus or subway and see where it takes you. You might find a new grilled cheese hot spot in a part of town you haven't visited in years.
6. Build a Fort
This old school entertainment is still good today. Get out the pillows and blankets and start piling them up. Then, after building the fort, let your kids get out some energy and crash down the walls. Diving onto a few pillows won't hurt, and it'll likely inspire a few giggles. Later, you can use the same supplies to create an obstacle course.
7. Playdate!
Go to someone else's house and use their toys – or, if you don't want to venture out into the cold, invite them over and ask them to bring along a few toys or games to share.
8. Be Crafty
Crafts can be a great distracter, especially when you're stuck inside because someone's under the weather. Get an early start on Valentine's Day Cards by doing a little vegetable stamping – cut a potato in half, cut the flesh into the shape of a heart, then let your child dip it in some paint and stamp the potato on construction paper. Grandparents will love whatever masterpieces are created. Other craft possibilities include fun with stickers, gluing together paper chains, stringing necklaces of dried pasta, or sewing cardboard cards with yarn.
9. The Lava Game
Imagine that the floor is covered in hot lava, and encourage your child to figure out how to get across the house without touching the floor. Note: this is not a good option for homes with a firm "No climbing on the furniture" policy.
10. Hats Off to the Chef
Even kids as young as two can mix up some real – or fake – food. Make English muffin pizzas and let the kids pick their own toppings. Stir a batch of cookie dough. Roll up the little ones' sleeves and let them knead some sticky bread dough. Follow a recipe, or just wing it and see what comes of combining maraschino cherries, oatmeal, almond butter and marshmallows. Best of all, they'll have something delicious – or at least edible – to try afterward. Try http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/cafe/ or www.weelicious.com for recipes.
11. Play Dress Up
Get out the Halloween costumes and the uniform you saved from your first job at a diner. Let your kids dig through a pile of hats and scarves and anything from 1982, and see what sort of things they come up with. Even those too young to get into rhinestone sunglasses and tiaras can have fun putting on and taking of an extra-large hat or stomping around inside wearing rain boots and dragging an umbrella.
12. Dance Machine
Put on some tunes and bust a move. One of the worst parts of being stuck inside is the pent-up energy. Teach your kids to pop and lock, do the running man, or even do-si-do. Note that this can be especially fun when combined with Activity #11.
13. Make an Indoor Winter Wonderland or Carnival
Pull out the cotton balls and have a snowball fight. Afterward, use those same cotton balls and glue to make snowmen. Or, create an entire indoor carnival, complete with beanbag games and stickers for prizes. Toothless carnies optional.
14. Engage in Retail Therapy
No actual purchasing required. Check out the local bookstore, where there might be a story hour. Or, run around inside the warm mall – many malls have a toddler-friendly play area. Since malls often open before the stores open, morning people (or those forced to be awake by an early riser) can hit the mall and just walk around.
15. Mad Scientists
Try hands-on science experiments using stuff you've got in your kitchen. Polish old pennies with lemon juice or watch yeast grow and fizz. Younger kids can see who can blow the biggest bubble out of wands made of homemade pipe cleaners dipped into your own bubble solution.
16. Pull out the Board and Card Games
Candyland, Checkers, Go Fish – these are classics. Even if your children are too young to play by the rules of a given game, you can throw a bunch of cards down on the floor and ask them how many matches they can make. If you'd rather encourage your child to play alone and she's old enough, encourage her to build a house of cards or dominos.
17. Is it Safe? Then It's a Toy.
Go around your house and grab anything that your child doesn't usually play with. Pots and spoons, of course, are a given. But you can also use Kleenex boxes – really, if your one-year-old is happy pulling out all the tissues for fifteen minutes, it might be worth the mess – old yarn, brooms, calculators, magazines, and more. Challenge your daughter to a Tupperware stacking contest and see who can pile up the most plastic. Older kids can make collages out of catalogs and younger ones can just destruct to their heart's content. A big empty cardboard box filled with balled up socks or cotton balls can be fun for a one-year-old, and the same cardboard box can become a custom-made rocket ship for older kids.
18. Beach Party!
Your tub? The pool. Your kitchen? The beach. Make sand castles out of a little flour mixed with water. Hide a plastic crab in a bowl of oats and see who can dig it up. Wear your swimsuits. Get out the goggles and put your head underwater. If your child's not much of a beach person but you're still up for imaginary travels, you can also pull out the atlas, close your eyes, and pick a country. Spain? Well, then, that's your destination. Research the country online, mix up a Spanish tortilla of egg and potato for lunch, and spend a few hours imagining you're visiting the Alhambra or watching a flamenco show, using whatever props you can find or create.
19. Indoor Tumbling
Throw down a few pillows, push aside the coffee table, and teach your child how to do somersaults or cartwheels.
20. Simon Says Sshhh…
Want a little silence? Try a game of Simon Says, or Hide and Go Seek. You can swap off who's Simon. Start with standing on one foot or hopping in a circle, and work up to Simon Says no talking. It might get you three minutes of quiet time.
21. Paper Creations
Draw, color, and paint. Make origami. See whose paper airplane can fly the farthest. Fold paper hats or paper dolls. Spread out an old newspaper and trace around your child, then let him color in the life-size version of himself.
22. Play Places
Many towns have indoor play places, whether they're free ones at fast food joints or elaborate trampoline and bouncy-house-filled heavens that you can access for a fee. Yes, they are germ havens, but if you're desperate, do a lot of hand washing and go out to explore. If your town doesn't have one, consider hitting the local gym and spending some time running around the basketball court.
23. Sense-o-Rama
Sand and water tables are billed as a summertime activity, but you can still engage all five senses in the winter. Experiment with crunching tin foil or squishing Jell-O. Have your child close his eyes and touch something with an interesting texture – corduroy, shaving cream, faux fur – and guess what he's feeling. Fill up a muffin tin with dried oatmeal. Get out an old box and dump in dried beans or pasta, then add a scooper. Just a panful of water on top of a few towels can be fun for little ones, and older children can fill up containers with food coloring-tinted water by using an old medicine dropper or a funnel.
24. Nurture Your Budding Picasso
Mix up some instant pudding or pull out a Snack Pack, and you've got everything you need for pudding finger painting, an especially good sort of painting for those under two who are inclined to taste the art supplies. Older kids can sponge paint with sponges cut into shapes or letters and can make prints by dipping a cookie cutter or kitchen gadget into paint and pressing it on paper. Let your child compare the paint blots from a whisk and a slotted spoon.
25. Get Dramatic
Or, dig out some old, clean socks and a few markers, and make sock puppets. Rig up a sheet between two chairs, and take turns being the puppet master. For those who are more Pink Floyd than The Sound of Music, take out a few flashlights, affix colored plastic or tissue paper over the lights with rubber bands and, voila, you've got all you need to create a homemade light show.
And if all else fails . . . Go Outside!
Bundle up and get a little cold or wet. Unless it's twenty below with thirty mph winds and going outside is truly dangerous, heading out for even for ten minutes can hit a toddler's reset button. Pile on double or triple layers, get one of those plastic covers to toss over the stroller. Go sledding, build a snowman, cover the yard with snow angels, and experience the winter wonderland.


text:
Release date:September 19, 2006
Community Classroom offering various classes for fall
PLAINVIEW – The Community Classroom at Wayland Baptist University has announced new offerings for the late with registration currently underway.
The lineup includes the Linux + Professional Certification course being offered at the Lubbock campus on Saturdays from Oct. 7 – Nov. 4. The class will provide skills and knowledge related to the Linux Operating System in order to work effectively on the Unix command line, to performance maintenance tasks and to install and configure a workstation and connect it to the LAN or stand-alone PC.
Certification is completed at the close of the course by passing a certification exam. Cost for the course is $600 which includes the textbook and online certification test. Meeting from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the class is open to students in grades 10 and higher.
Other classes are as follows:


text:
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama alludes to Syrian war
- Article by: JOSH LEDERMAN
- Associated Press
- September 4, 2013 - 2:00 PM
STOCKHOLM — During President Barack Obama's somber stop at a synagogue to honor a Holocaust-era hero, the allusions to a more modern world crisis were clear.
At the Great Synagogue of Stockholm, Obama joined Jewish leaders and relatives of Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with saving at least 20,000 Jews during the Holocaust. A Swedish diplomat serving in Budapest, Hungary, Wallenberg risked his life to issue protective passports and shelter Jews in Swedish diplomatic buildings.
"Because he refused to stand by, Wallenberg reminds us of our power when we choose not simply to bear witness, but also to act," Obama said. His words invoked the deadly civil war in Syria and Obama's call for a global intervention to stop Syrian President Bashar Assad from using chemical weapons against his people.
In the synagogue's vast, ornate sanctuary, Obama stood under the "eternal flame" that hangs in most Jewish houses of worship above the arc that holds the Torah. The Great Synagogue's flame hasn't been extinguished since 1870, officials said.
Arrayed before Obama were artifacts from Wallenberg's life: his daily calendar, passport and family photos. In quiet tones, he reflected on the artifacts with Wallenberg's half-sister, Nina Lagergren, and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
Obama and Reinfeldt then stepped into the synagogue's sunny courtyard, where an immense, teal-colored menorah stood in front of a memorial wall engraved with the names of more than 8,000 Holocaust victims. The president laid a stone, joining in a custom carried out by Jewish mourners all across the world.
"He's beloved in both our countries. He's one of the links that binds us together," Obama said, noting that Wallenberg had studied in the U.S.
The diplomat mysteriously disappeared after being arrested in the 1945 by Soviet forces. Wallenberg's family has been pressing Obama to seek answers about Wallenberg's fate when he visits Russia later in the week.
Jews around the world on Wednesday were marking the start of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, a day of prayer and celebration that kicks off a 10-day period of meditative introspection in the Jewish faith.
There were all the trappings of a school science fair, with President Barack Obama as the judge.
Professors and university officials from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden's premier technical university, put their cutting-edge projects on display for Obama's inspection at an event highlighting Sweden's focus on cleaner energy and its goal to become the world's first nation to phase out fossil fuels by 2050.
In the sun-splashed atrium of the university's library, Obama moved down the row one by one, examining the elaborate projects and quizzing researchers on their real-world applications.
Standing in front of what looks like a black car battery but actually is used to filter and sterilize water, Obama asked what it would cost to distribute the units in developing areas in Africa and Asia. The answer: About $100 a piece.
At each stop, Obama sought to put himself in the shoes of a typical end-user. He asked one researcher what the product would mean for him economically if he were a small-business owner or a farmer. Surveying new hybrid technology to power buses, he asked whether it would be financially viable if he were operating a fleet of 50 buses. And chatting about electric cars, he inquired about the chicken-and-egg problem with distribution in the U.S.
"If I'm going to go shopping, where am I going to get fuel?" Obama asked.
Obama's visit was history-making for the Swedes. Never before had a sitting American president set foot in their country.
"This is a historic event," Reinfeldt declared at the start of his joint news conference with Obama.
Clusters of waving and picture-taking people lined grassy strips along the highway as Obama's motorcade sped away from the airport. Near the capital, people stood on balconies outside offices and apartment buildings, gathered along Lake Malaren or hung themselves out of windows in hopes of catching a fleeting glimpse of Obama.
But not all Swedes were thrilled by Obama's presence.
Thousands of people, including left-wing activists opposed to U.S. foreign policy and Internet freedom advocates protesting U.S. surveillance programs, gathered for a peaceful demonstration. Protesters from Amnesty International demanded that Obama close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"We want to remind him how utterly he has failed to achieve his own visions," said 22-year-old student Simon Lindgren.
Meanwhile, rival groups of Syrian immigrants, both for and against President Bashar Assad, shouted at each other and were separated by police. Sweden has received nearly 15,000 asylum-seekers from Syria since last year.
Visiting a foreign capital, Obama didn't seem to miss his own capital very much.
He praised Swedish politics, saying the ruling and opposition parties appear to engage in "a respectful and rational debate that's based on facts and issues."
He didn't specify who he was comparing the Swedes to, but the implication was clear.
"You know, I have to say that if I were here in Europe, I'd probably be considered right in the middle, maybe center left, maybe center right, depending on the country," Obama said at the news conference when a Swedish reporter noted that he sometimes is accused of wanting to turn the U.S. into Sweden, a country with a generous welfare system and taxes that account for about half of the economy.
"In the United States sometimes the names I'm called are quite different," he said.
Police were investigating the discovery of a gun at a hotel in central Stockholm.
Spokesman Varg Gyllander said security staff at the Hotel Hilton alerted police Wednesday after finding the Sig Sauer firearm.
As it turned out, the gun belonged to a Swedish police officer on duty as part of the Obama "command."
Gyllander said the officer forgot the weapon at the hotel. He said the incident was under investigation as a potential service irregularity.
Obama was spending the night at a different hotel.
© 2018 Star Tribune


text:
Featured News - Current News - Archived News - News Categories
A record 71 countries, including first-time entrant Kenya, have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 85th Academy Awards.
The 2012 submissions are:
The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, at 8:30 a.m. in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, at The Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.


text:
Portraits of Mediterranean Women
Seventeenth-century Venice. Merchant ships sail all over the Mediterranean. Echoes of the viola da gamba and lute respond to the far-off voices of mysterious Asia. The French ensemble The Baroque Nomade pays tribute to the women of this region by playing traditional Turkish music, improvisations and works by the Italian composers Castello, Cima and Rossi.Le Baroque Nomade Jean-Christophe Frisch, conductor and Baroque flute


text:
May 23, 1933 - April 24, 2013
Youngsville, NY
Claire Allegretta, 79, of Youngsville, NY, a homemaker, died Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at Catskill Regional Medical Center, Harris, NY.
The daughter of Edward and Florene Beauragard Gagnon, she was born May 23, 1933 in Acushnet, MA.
The was married to the late Joseph I. Allegretta who died May 31, 2004.
Claire was a member of St. George-St. Francis Church.
Survivors include one son, Robert Allegretta and his companion, Gail O'Neill of Youngsville, NY; one daughter, Barbara Robinson and her significant other, Kenneth Hillriegel of Bethel, NY; one sister, Constance Fraclaveri of Long island, NY; grandchildren: Chris, Melissa, Robbie, Courtney, Danielle, Brian and Kevin; six great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
Friends may call Sunday, April 28th at Stewart-Murphy Funeral Home, Jeffersonville, NY from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be held Monday, April 29th at St. Georges Church, Jeffersonville at 11 a.m., with Father Ignatius Vu officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Youngsville, NY.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association.
Arrangements are by the Stewart-Murphy Funeral Home, Inc., Jeffersonville, NY 12748. 845-482-4280.


text:
SANCTUARY/NEVERMORE Singer Performs At 'All Star Acoustic Night' In Seattle
SANCTUARY/NEVERMORE vocalist Warrel Dane joined forces with musician Jonny Smokes for a performance at "All Star Acoustic Night" on October 20, 2012 at 7 Studio Seven in Seattle, Washington. Video footage of the concert, which was recorded for CD release, can be viewed below.
SANCTUARY's "comeback" album — tentatively titled "The Year The Sun Died" — is due before the end of this year through Century Media Records. The CD will include the tracks "I Am Low" and "The World Is Wired", which were performed on the band's 2012 European tour.
Drummer Van Williams and guitarist Jeff Loomis announced their departure from NEVERMORE in April 2011 due to personal differences with Dane and the band's bassist, Jim Sheppard. Their replacements have not yet been announced.


text:
A Giant Step Forward for Punctuation¡
Introducing the long-awaited sarcasm point.
The English language must evolve. Not with emoticons or lol or brb or l8r or GRATUITOUS all caps used for emphasis, not with Spanglish or bumbling Bushisms or even cryptic Kerryisms. We don't need more quotation marks that "hedge" or try to make the same "old" thing sound "fresh." What we need is an honest effort to incorporate the way we live today. My fellow Americans, we need to embrace a new punctuation mark—one that embraces the irony and edge of contemporary conversation and clarifies rather than condenses or confuses.
It is time for the adoption of the sarcasm point. Why the sarcasm point? We have a mark that conveys that we mean or know something. We have one that says it with volume and force! We have one that communicates that we don't know something, don't we? We need one more: to do for language what shade did for drawing, what color did for television, and what eyebrows did for expressions—introduce finesse.
The problem is simple. We live in a whiplash, light-speed world in which motion can range, within minutes, from standstill to supersonic, decibel levels range from NPR to Limbaugh, and the range of sincerity can shoot from earnest to irreverent in nanoseconds.
Believe it or not, the world we've landed in is not only more image-obsessed than we've ever seen. It's also more text-based than ever. We finger-type and we thumb-type. We e-mail, we IM, we blog. And the forms cannot contain the content. There's a dastardly disconnect. Among other things, it makes Dave Barry columns somewhat difficult to read. Someone must step into the sarcasm chasm¡
I'm serious¡ See, there are people who are relentlessly sincere. So, what are they supposed to do when they're trying to sound a bit bitter? Suppose you're IM'ing that oft-earnest friend you have, and he writes: "I need to go to church tomorrow and confess the jealousy in my heart." You forget—have you ever heard him say nice things about God or do the opposite? "Wait … do you really?" "Sorry. I mean, I need to go to church tomorrow¡To confess my jealousy¡ And the fact that I just renewed my subscription to Maxim¡" "Oh. Me too. Only as a Jew, I must do these things in synagogue¡"
And then there are people who are relentlessly sarcastic. How do we know when they're being straight? The other day my brother told me he respected Colin Powell. I had no idea what he was trying to say.
The sarcasm point can strengthen our communities and unite our broader culture¡
Sarcasm purists, Norm McDonald, and his acolytes might be troubled by all this talk. Good sarcasm, they'll tell you, is cueless. It trips dishonestly off the tongue. "What I'm looking forward to in prison is the prospect of anal rape." Telegraph your insincerity and the thrill is gone. Announce it and your friends won't experience the same delight in the spasm of sarcasm you use to praise the president.
The other day I told my girlfriend I loved her. I did it on Yahoo! Instant Messenger. And the sarcasm just didn't come across.
I grant that blue states will be at the vanguards in anointing the new sarcasm point. We'll use it in our MoveOn action alerts. We'll teach it our public schools, in those grammar classes they fail to teach. We will type it with excitable hands in Bruckheimer scripts and lace it in our advertising.
Red states will be slower to come along, perhaps. The first sarcasm point won't work its way into the Republican Party platform until 2028, into a Georgia English textbook until 2032, and won't appear in a prayer book until, I'm guessing, 2080. But the spread will be inevitable, kind of like civil unions.
Williams Safire and F. Buckley, chiefs of the language police, are retiring not two moments too soon. Let the organized grammatical crime commence¡
Do yourself a favor. Begin today. Suck in and cough out this little virus of an idea. Beam the meme. Use it at weddings, bar mitzvahs, and funerals¡Try to keep it under wraps at gay coming out parties.
I mean it¡
And since I'm going to copyright this bugger, you'll have to type¡© But don't worry. You can take the copyright symbol ironically.


text:
A former hedge fund portfolio manager was arrested Tuesday in what prosecutors are calling perhaps the most lucrative insider trading scheme of all time � an arrangement to obtain confidential, advance results of tests on an experimental Alzheimer�s drug that helped investment firms make more than $276 million.
Mathew Martoma, 38, was charged in U.S. District Court in Manhattan with using the information to advise a hedge fund owner to buy shares in the companies developing the drug, then later to dump those investments and place financial bets against the companies when the tests returned disappointing results.
Martoma�s trades helped reap a hefty profit from 2006 through July 2008, while he worked for CR Intrinsic Investors LLC of Stamford, Conn., an affiliate of SAC Capital Advisors, a firm owned by Steven A. Cohen, one of the nation�s wealthiest hedge fund managers.
�The charges unsealed today describe cheating coming and going,� U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a news conference. The scheme unfolded �on a scale that has no historical precedent.�
The government has been scrutinizing SAC since at least November 2010, when the FBI subpoenaed SAC and other influential hedge funds. Martoma is the fourth person associated with SAC Capital to be arrested on insider trading charges in the last four years. A request for comment from SAC was not immediately returned.
The FBI said the scheme developed after Martoma met a doctor in Manhattan involved in an Alzheimer�s drug trial in October 2006. According to a criminal complaint, he later obtained confidential information related to the final results of a drug trial.
Martoma�s attorney, Charles Stillman, called his client �an exceptional portfolio manager who succeeded through hard work and the dogged pursuit of information in the public domain. What happened today is only the beginning of a process that we are confident will lead to Mr. Martoma�s full exoneration.�
Martoma was arrested at his home in Boca Raton, Fla., and made an initial appearance in federal court in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he was released on $5 million bail on charges of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud. He was scheduled to return to court Monday in Manhattan.
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil papers in the case against CR Intrinsic Investors, Mathew Martoma and Dr. Sidney Gilman. The civil complaint said the illegal money was earned in July 2008, when various hedge funds traded ahead of a negative public announcement involving the clinical trial results of an Alzheimer drug being jointly developed by Elan Corp. and Wyeth.
The SEC complaint said that Martoma carried out the scheme with Gilman, a professor of neurology at the University of Michigan Medical School who served as chairman of a safety committee overseeing the clinical trial. Gilman was selected by Elan and Wyeth to present the final clinical trial results at a July 29, 2008, medical conference.
Messages left with the University of Michigan Medical School were not immediately returned.
Gilman�s lawyer, Marc Mukasey, said his client is cooperating with the SEC and the U.S. Attorney�s Office, and has entered into a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors.


text:
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military, three years after pulling out of Iraq, launched airstrikes against Islamic State targets in the country's northern region Friday, using drones and fighter jets to stem a Sunni insurgency led by the al-Qaida breakaway group.
Here's a look at how events unfolded Friday:
The U.S. re-engagement in Iraq began when two Navy F/A-18 jets dropped 500-pound bombs on a piece of artillery and the truck towing it near the Kurdish capital of Irbil. Later, unmanned aircraft hit a mortar position, and four F/A-18s destroyed a seven-vehicle convoy, U.S. officials said. The U.S. action was widely welcomed by Iraqi and Kurdish officials fearful of the militants' advance. U.S. forces had left Iraq in late 2011 after more than eight years of war. U.S. personnel in the country now includes about 500 U.S. troops at the Baghdad airport, including six military assessment teams, Apache helicopter crews, security forces and an anti-terrorism team. Dozens more were working with Iraqi and Kurdish forces in Baghdad and Irbil. Despite Friday's intervention, President Barack Obama insists he will not allow the U.S. "to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq."
U.S. military jets dropped food and water to imperiled religious refugees in northwestern Iraq. Around 50,000 followers of the Yazidi religion — half of them children, according to U.N. figures — are believed to have fled to the mountains outside Sinjar where many of them remain, trapped and running out of food and water. An Iraqi official said hundreds of Yazidi women have been taken captive by Sunni militants with "vicious plans." Yazidis, an isolated religious minority, have been persecuted for centuries. They speak Kurdish and are a mix of several traditions, borrowing from Christianity, Islam and the ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism. The International Rescue Committee said it was providing emergency medical care for up to 4,000 dehydrated Yazidis, mostly women and children, who survived without food or water for up to six days before fleeing to a refugee camp in Syria.
Pope Francis was sending a personal envoy to Iraq to show solidarity with Christians forced from their homes. Amid new incursions by Sunni extremists in Christian villages of northern Iraq, Francis tweeted: "Please take a moment to pray for all those who have been forced from their homes in Iraq." U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the Sunni extremists' "campaign of terror against the innocent, including the Yazidi and Christian minorities, and its grotesque and targeted acts of violence bear all the warning signs and hallmarks of genocide." Now-emptied Christian communities in northern Iraq date from the first centuries of Christianity.
Kurdish fighters, known as peshmerga, have been northern Iraq's main line of defense against the Islamic State group's rapid advance, though they are stretched over a long front. Bolstered by U.S. airstrikes, Kurdish fighters said Friday they were prepared to die to defend their mostly autonomous homeland. Armed civilians joined the fight, donning their traditional Kurdish clothing of baggy high-waisted pants, held with wide sash belts. They face a well-armed opponent: Islamic State fighters seized massive amounts of new Iraqi army weapons abandoned by soldiers as the militants swept across northern and western Iraq in their June assault.
The Obama administration ordered U.S. airlines not to fly over Iraq, while carriers from other nations said they were suspending service to Irbil because of the hostilities. Germany's Lufthansa and British Airways have also suspended flights over Iraq. The U.S. State Department warned Americans against all but essential travel to Iraq and said those in the country were at high risk for kidnapping and terrorist violence.


text:
Posted 25 March 2014. PMN Crop News.
Syngenta Announces Acuron as Name for Corn Herbicide Premix With Four Active Ingredients
Source: Syngenta Crop Protection-US Press Release. www.syngentacropprotection.com
Greensboro, North Carolina (February 27, 2014)--Syngenta has announced the name of its new corn herbicide premix with four active ingredients. Currently code-named SYN-A197, the product will be marketed as Acuron™ herbicide upon EPA registration, which is expected for the 2015 growing season.
Syngenta developed Acuron in response to the expanding problem of weed resistance and the resulting increase in demand for residual herbicide products with multiple modes of action. The new herbicide premix combines three complementary modes of action and four active ingredients, including new bicyclopyrone, to deliver a multi-targeted approach to weed control.
"As weeds have evolved and become harder to manage, many current weed control programs have lost effectiveness," said Gordon Vail, Ph.D., technical product lead for herbicides, Syngenta. "Research shows the addition of bicyclopyrone provides better, more consistent weed control than today's standards."
Syngenta anticipates Acuron will control more than 70 broadleaf weeds and annual grasses, including giant ragweed, common ragweed, marestail, kochia, Palmer amaranth, waterhemp, cocklebur and morningglory. The formulation will contain a safener, benoxacor, and its application timing is expected to be from 28 days pre-plant up to 12-inch corn.
"In university and in-house trials, we've seen Acuron bring a new level of control to difficult-to-control weeds, like giant ragweed, morningglory and cocklebur, that other pre-emerge residual herbicides have been missing," said Scott Cully, research and development scientist, Syngenta. "And it continues to provide control of those weeds well into the season."
Growers and retailers will have a chance to see Acuron in 25-30 university trials and 15-20 Syngenta field trials this summer.


text:
Student endeavors shine brightly at 10th annual Mount David Summit
• Click the thumbnails below to view the slide show. Images by Phyllis Graber Jensen, except as noted.
"Mount David allows us to begin a dialogue on something very important to us," sociology major Drew Gallagher '11 said, shortly after his Mount David Summit presentation on the demands placed on family caregivers.
Pausing to chat while people hurried down a Pettengill Hall corridor to their next MDS event, Gallagher continued, "the most important part of my thesis is sharing it with others. The moment you start your thesis, you begin thinking about sharing it."
Hundreds of dialogues filled the air in Pettengill the afternoon of April 1 for Bates' 10th annual summit, a thought-provoking, pride-stirring exposition of student academic work offered in poster talks, exhibitions, film screenings, readings and panel presentations like the one featuring Gallagher and three other sociology students.
More from the Summit:
- Video: Melissa Ducommun's biology senior thesis is a springboard to graduate school
- Students of Russian discuss the sights, sounds and sense of Russian poetry
- Three students explain their Mount David Summit posters
Following music by the college gamelan orchestra, installed on high in a second-story landing overlooking Perry Atrium, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen offered brief remarks welcoming attendees to this gathering that, she said, "reflects the very core of our commitment to the liberal arts."
Hansen paid special thanks to Dean of the Faculty Jill Reich, calling her "a champion of faculty scholarship, pedagogy and learning." Reich, who steps down as dean this summer for a sabbatical and a return to the classroom, first conceived of the summit a decade ago. At her final summit as dean, she called the event her "favorite day of the year" — a gathering that has simply grown and grown, from some 50 student presenters in 2002 to seven times that number this time around.
As always, the summit made a beehive of Pettengill Hall. The Perry Atrium walls were embellished with evocative images taken around the world during study-abroad experiences. The sprawling space was packed with visitors listening to students give research-poster presentations on everything from antibiotic resistance in bacteria to Zimbabwean independent media.
Senior biology major Devon Stetson, for instance, described how the rising public wariness of childhood vaccinations stems, in part, from a widespread ignorance of how vaccines work. He explained how his approach to his project was changed — and his interest in it piqued — when the top two results in a preliminary Google query on the topic were sites advocating against vaccinations.
Meanwhile, in classrooms throughout the building, audiences flocked to presentations of student research, original fiction, translations of Russian poetry and documentary films. Some sessions were standing room only, such as a women and gender studies panel whose topics include birthing practices in the Andes, feminist interventions among sex workers and an examination of the WSG field as practiced at Bates.
A bird's eye view of one of the general poster sessions held in Pettengill Hall's Perry Atrium.
In the sociology panel, the discussion was pithy and the mood buoyant as moderator and sociology professor Francesco Duina challenged, laughed with and encouraged the presenters. Thanks to Hannah Mack '11, about 35 listeners gained insight into why the Tamils of India were able to achieve political agency while those of Sri Lanka, recently defeated in the battlefield by that island's Sinhalese majority after decades of insurgency, were not.
Elsewhere, Gina Crotty '11, an art and visual culture major, was among students outlining their museum and gallery internships, both at the college's own art museum and at off-campus operations ranging from New York's Frick Collection to Lewiston's own Gallery 5.
Crotty, who described herself as one of the last of the old-time slide filers, related how her experiences on campus as a museum intern and visual resources assistant have prepared her for positions at major institutions out of state, such as Boston's Museum of Fine Arts — whose offer for a summer internship had arrived that very morning.
Nice coincidence for her summit debut.
Following three afternoon sessions in Pettengill, where attendance was brisk despite an April Fools snowstorm, the summit continued into the evening with a performance by the Bates College Modern Dance Company.
"It's part of the culture now."
Not only has the summit gotten bigger — much, much bigger — over the years, commented Assistant Dean of the Faculty Kerry O'Brien, but it has found its place in the cycle of the academic year. For seniors, it's one of the milestones of the winter semester: Gala, thesis, Mount David.
"Students are more part of the audience than they were at the beginning," O'Brien said. "It's part of the culture now. There's more of a buzz among students about attending it. And the presenters are more invested in it."


text:
FM12 blogs - licensing
Translations of this material:
- into Russian: ФМ2012 блог - день 15. Лицензирование. Translation complete.
Submitted for translation by noom 30.09.2011
Published 7 years ago.
Every year the licensing team at SEGA trawl the world for official football licenses for the Football Manager series, and this year is no different.
We have a plethora of licenses for the game, and are very grateful to all of our licensors around the world for the information and help that they give to us to make Football Manager as good as it possibly can be.
So today's blog is a rundown of all of the licenses we have in this year's game:
Australia – We again have a license with the Hyundai A-League, this allows us to feature both league and club logos, as well as the proper fixture list for the current season.
Denmark – Our second official license with the Superliga, with league and club logos, as well as player photo's where we've been able to source them.
England – Official licenses from the Football League and Football Conference, with all of their other competitions covered too. Agreement includes logos for all competitions, players photos (where supplied) and real fixtures for the Blue Square Conference, Blue Square North & Blue Square South.
France – League licenses for both Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, with logos for the competitions & real fixtures for both divisions.
Netherlands – Licenses for both the Eredivisie and Juliper League, with competition logos, and player pictures where provided. We also have an official license for Team Holland, the Dutch national team.
Northern Ireland – License for the Carling Premiership, including logos and player photo's where supplied.
Scotland – SPL and associated competitions, including logos, player photo's and real fixtures.
South Korea – Official license for the K-League, including all logos, player photo's where provided and real fixtures.
Spain – Licenses for both Liga BBVA & Liga Adelante. This enables us to feature team & competition logos, player photo's for both divisions and fixtures for the Liga BBVA. Please note that some of these pictures won't make it into the game for the boxed version, but we will deliver any player pictures that are sent to us between the game going into manufacture and the release date via Steam.
USA – MLS license, including player photo's and the real fixture list. League logos too, obviously.
Wales – License for the Corbett Sports Welsh Premier League + Loosemores League Cup, including real fixtures & competition/team logos.
Italy – We have licenses in Italy with the following clubs, in alphabetical order… AC.Milan, Atalanta, Bologna, Cagliari, Catania, Cesena, Chievo Verona, Fiorentina, Genoa, Inter, Juventus, Lazio, Lecce, Palermo, Parma, Roma, Sampdoria, Udinese.
At last count, there are over 4700 player photos in Football Manager 2012.
We hope they add that little bit of extra authenticity to the game.
You can comment on this blog here: http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/276025-*OFFICIAL*-Blog-Feedback-Licensing


text:
Thieves ransack Concord mailboxes in quest for cash and gift cardsStaff Report
December 25. 2013 1:31AM
CONCORD -- Police and federal postal inspectors are investigating a crime spree in which more than 100 mailboxes were looted Monday night and Tuesday.
Police said pieces of mail was removed from the mailboxes, and in some cases the entire mailbox was stolen. After being called by residents upset that the contents of the postal boxes on their streets had been strewn about, police noticed that select pieces of mail had been opened. The opened mail appeared to be gift packages and Christmas cards considered likely to contain gift cards, cash or checks.
Police have asked for help from the public in finding the thieves. Anyone with information is urged to call the Concord Regional Crimeline at (603) 226-3100. Persons in possession of a large number of gift cards, cash or checks are possible suspects, police said.
Among the streets involved were Mountain Road, Oakmont Drive, Pine Crest Circle and Thackeray Road. In all, 15 streets were identified as areas hit by the mail box thieves.
United States Postal Service inspectors have joined the investigation.


text:
With all the holiday parties coming up you will probably be getting all dressed up and when doing your makeup you may be considering using a lip plumper for that fuller, pouty lip look.
Lip plumper's make the lips appear fuller and come either clear or colored and can be applied on their own or under another gloss or lipstick. These may seem like a great idea if you have thin lips but there are some downsides to them.
There are many formulations out there and some do work better than others but tests have shown that none of them last longer than a few hours, so you will need to constantly reapply them in order to maintain the lips plumpness. Some formulas do seem to work well but in others testers report noticing no difference in the plumpness of their lips. There has to be something in the gloss in order to make the lips plump up and these ingredients range from cinnamon and menthol, to chilies. The way these work is that the extra ingredient added to the gloss works to irritate and redden the lips so that they look plumper. Quite often you will feel your lips tingle or in some cases burn quite badly. If you have extremely sensitive or dry lips – this can damage them even further. And lip plumper's are not recommended for anyone who has cold sores or any other wounds on their mouth.
If your lips are in good shape and you are only going to use a lip plumper once in a while this should not be a problem, otherwise stay away. Exfoliating your lips gently either with a toothbrush or a gentle scrub with brown sugar will increase the circulation and make the lips appear plumper without too much irritation.


text:
About GamePoint
Our History
Realtime multiplayer gaming has been the keyword to summarize GamePoint's operations since the company was founded in 1998. In the beginning GamePoint hosted servers for first person shooter games, enabling people to play a game against others in realtime. A few years after this GamePoint set foot in the world of social games with the release of their first webgame, Darts, released in 2001. Darts turned out to be a hit and consequently GamePoint's offer of webgames was expanded. Traffic to GamePoint's games grew quickly and with this growth the challenge of monetization arose.
In 2004 GamePoint launched Bingo, the company's first game in which virtual currency was used. From this day on GamePoint's gaming platform had its very own economy, which today is the main driver for monetization of GamePoint's service.
Mission and vision:
GamePoint aims to entertain a worldwide audience with its real time multiplayer social games. Providing social features in our games and extensive community support GamePoint builds on long term relationships with their users.
The Hague, Netherlands
GamePoint's Global HQ is situated at The Hagues Beach front Scheveningen in The Netherlands. This is where GamePoint's operations are directed. 85 employees are working there on making GamePoint games an even bigger success.
Business Development:
Our Business Development team wakes up every morning to think about GamePoint's growth. New user acquisition, Player Retention, New Business Partnerships and Scalability are a few keywords that describe the departments focus.
Community Operations:
Our Community Operations team is the face of our company at the users end. Working globally in an online environment means that the action never stops. The team engages with the users in five different languages every day to make sure every single one of our players is a happy one!
HR and office makes sure every employee is looked after well. Finance arranges that everything and everybody get's paid on time and looks after the cash flow
Website Development:
Making sure our websites and games are up and running. 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
Game Design & Development:
Our Game design and development teams is where new games are created and the website designs come to life.


text:
2012 NEW ladies Fashion Perfume fragrance
eau de parfum ,man perfume ,male perfume scentseau de parfum fragrance perfumeeau de parfum spray perfumeperfume packing fragrance perfume OEM & ODM is available
women's and men's perfume fragrance
Ladies perfume
PERFUME & fragrance & essence
1. Perfume effection
1) The style of perfume can make women's feeling from low spirits to high spirits. When the lady open the bottle and smell the perfume, let them enter to a new world, and they enjoy that feeling.The smell let women be confident, charming and elegant.
2).It can quickly remove the unpleasing smell, leave the Fragrance on the body for a long time and restrain the growth of bacteria;
3). Deodorant body spray, for men with many fragrance. This nicely perfumed body spray is refreshing for all the body.
2. Fragrance defines
Top notes
Contain the most volatile perfume ingredients, it distributed at the beginning of 10 minutes, the end of two hours.
Heart notes
Appear immediately before the top tone, aroma exudes the perfume of the main after 30 to 40 minutes.
Base notes
Keep enthralling and lasting
Sincere for you
As we are a manufacture, your various needs can be met as per your requirements at our utmost. Welcome..........Customized style and design of perfume Customized colors perfumeCustomized logos perfumeCustomized mixed order & trial order The more customized as you require
3. Best Service
1, your design ,your brand ,your ideas will be made within our cooperation ! (OEM perfume)
2, our high quality and competitive price famous brand perfumes will make well profit for you ! (Brand perfume)
3, we believe good business relationship always relate great service!! ( best service)
4, good suggestions and advise will be appreciated, your ideas must be useful for our further business ( ODM perfumes)
4. How to use
1).Spray the perfume over the whole body evenly not only on the up body,for the smell of perfume goes from down to up according to time and temperature.
2).the smell will be more attractive when using at the part of body which has high temperature.
3).Spray the perfume on the dynamic place, you will get a more effect.
5. Attention:
1) When use make sure the product vertically upward, allowing for product roll will lead to leakage flavor, if leakage, dry with a cloth immediately.
2) To avoid damage to the surface, please stay away from heat and fire, avoid direct sunlight.
3) Do not eat, do not let children touch.
4) This product is only suitable for the adult, do not for the children!
6. Our Advantage:
A: More than 400 kinds of Quality Perfume for you to choose!
B: Most of the brand perfume have stock, and perfume can be sent out within 1 working days after payment confirmed!
C: Safe and fast door-to-door shipment!
D: Good Quality, as the same as the original ones, no matter from Fragrance or Package .
E: Accept wholesale order as well as sample order and small order.
And if you want the perfumes with your label, that is also ok, but the M.O.Q of perfumes for your label must be more than 30000pcs. if with your bottle design, M.O.Q should be 30000pcs.
das mulheres e dos homens fragrância perfume
View of our factory
Certificate of our factory
More details for this product
2012 NEW ladies Fashion Perfume fragrance