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Finally we are ready to announce the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for March 2008 edition. They are really cool photos among them. The sponsor ATP will contact the winners during the next days in order to send the prizes.
First Prize of Scenery category
taken in the FYRM by Neim Sejfuli ♦
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taken in Sicily (Italy) by Gibrail
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Criminal investigations could be launched on foot of new evidence revealed in the Anglo Irish Bank tapes.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is understood to be close to making a decision as to whether U.S.-based former Anglo Irish Bank boss David Drumm will face criminal charges in Ireland.
The DPP's decision on Drumm will be made following a thorough study of a file first sent to
the Gardai (police) 18 months ago.
However, to date Gardai have been powerless to take action against Drumm, who now lives in
the U.S., because legislation in Ireland dictates that authorities cannot seek his extradition from another jurisdiction to face questioning about a suspected crime.
However, pressure is mounting by the day on Drumm to return to Ireland from his U.S. hideaway.
On Monday, Finance Minister Michael Noonan called on Drumm to come back to Ireland to cooperate with a proposed parliamentary inquiry which is based upon new legislation currently passing through the Dail (Irish Parliament).
The latest revelations follow an exclusive interview Drumm gave to Irish Voice /IrishCentral publisher Niall O'Dowd in which he said he accepted the "tone and language" used in the tapes were inappropriate.
But he said he expected the media focus to shift from the recordings, which were first published in the Irish Independent, to the events surrounding the disastrous government guarantee which he insists must be explained if people are to learn the whole truth about that
He said he sees the selective leaking of the tapes as a clear attempt to link the shamed financial institution to the creation of the guarantee.
But he stressed he wants everyone involved in the disastrous sequence of events at the time, including other banks, to receive the same scrutiny as he and his bank already have.
It has since emerged that the U.S. firm set up by Drumm has been dissolved after he failed to file any company records over the past two years.
The shamed former bank chief established the company, Delta Corporate Finance LLC, in 2009 as part of his bid to get a visa that would allow him to work and live in the U.S.
However, it has been revealed that the company, which he set up a month after departing Anglo, has now been shut down by authorities in Massachusetts.
Meanwhile, in his first public comments on the damning revelations in the tapes, IrishCentral
Bank Governor Patrick Honohan said the regulator was examining whether Anglo Irish Bank "deliberately misrepresented" the position of the bank when it sought taxpayer support in 2008.
"There is one element in what has been disclosed in these tapes which alerts us at the Central Bank to the dimension which we had not been aware of and which we think needs further scrutiny," he said.
"That is the indications that Anglo Irish Bank was deliberately misrepresenting the position of the bank with a view to accessing financial support from the Central Bank.
"So this is worse in the sense that we knew they were looking for support, but we did not know they felt their situation was much worse than when they communicating to the bank."


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Springtime Sangria
February 20, 2011
A friend texted me yesterday for a white sangria recipe to take to Piedmont Park. This recipe was a hit — the perfect accompaniment to a day in the park!
White Sangria
- Assorted fruit (crushed pineapple, strawberries, peaches, slices of lemon, lime, oranges)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 bottle of dry white wine (such as sauvignon blanc or pino grigio)
- 1 bottle of sparkling wine/champagne
Layer the fruit in a large jug and sprinkle each layer with sugar. Let the fruit and sugar sit for about 15 minutes and then pour the wines on top. Refridgerate for a few hours or overnight. Head to the park and serve!
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Here is an idea for the Big H...just release Han as Stormtrooper with removable helmet.
Quote from: Paul on October 23, 2006, 09:55 AMHere is an idea for the Big H...just release Han as Stormtrooper with removable helmet. That's a good idea. Provided the basic figure stormtrooper is the same body as the comic book Hantrooper, I'll just swap the heads.
I would be surprised if we got 2 Biggs. I prefer to get one and have it be the Toshe station version.
If they are giving us a removable helmet Stormtrooper, I wish they would actually release him as a Davin Felth figure.
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Yeah, the way I look at the ANH tin Sandtrooper converted to a Stormtrooper is that it's better than the CT mold but not as good as the VOTC mold. The one I have has replaced a CT Stormie on the shelf for now.
Pics? I want to see the comparison of the body to see what they are using. My 5 OT Tin Stormies are nice, I am just not sure about the chest armor being a bit small-ish.
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Terrence Howard: 'Ex-wife's betrayal has put me off dating'
The Iron Man star split from Ghent in February, 2011, just days after their first wedding anniversary and two months after she won a restraining order against the 43 year old amid claims he had hurt her.
He denied the allegations and requested his own protective order against his ex, accusing her of transforming from a "loving, gentle person... into a monster".
Howard, who settled the ugly divorce last year (12), was distraught over the allegations because he was constantly portrayed as the "bad guy" in the media - and the film roles he was being offered quickly reflected his reputation - although he didn't mind that aspect of the fall out.
He explains, "Well, look at all the crap that's gone on with me on the personal level. It fit my life. You know, I guess they (casting directors) see me as a bad guy. So it's back to back.
"When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most... As an actor, you look for something that's going to let you express your inner emotions and anger."
But Howard has been left with several regrets about the way he handled his marriage breakdown, telling GQ magazine, "I should have never fought with her publicly. I should never have said anything bad about her, I don't care what was the cause. You just love your family."
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By Paul Dobleman:
Assholes happen as always, here is the asshole of the month for July! Once again, thanks to everyone who participated!
Dear Paul,
My name is Paul too, and here is my story!
This one night, my friend, my girlfriend and I were all drinking heavily, we ended up in my room somehow spilling and messy. My friend and girlfriend passed out, and I was up wasted! My other friend and roommate came home and we all decided to play a trick on my passed out girlfriend and friend. We took off most of their clothes, then took a condom and filled it with conditioner, tied it off and threw it by their heads, this all thinking my friend would wake up first thinking he boned my chick, an hour and a half goes by and we had forgotten what we even did, all of a sudden, my girlfriend comes into the living room sobbing saying, "Paul, I think I did something really bad" over and over again, it took us all by surprise that we started laughing, but it wasn't even funny, she was so devastated and honest about it, I just felt like a complete asshole! My friend woke up a minute after and was like, "What's all the commotion about, and what's with the condom by my head you dick," and my girlfriend just says, "Nothing! Paul's just a fucking asshole!!!"
Paul chose the simple silhouette donkey a little modified for his collection!
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The 3 Degrees
Liz blahh 6/2/2012 1:33:53 PMSuperb! #1466762
Marijana Fajgl 6/2/2012 1:56:21 PMAmazing capture and great title, Lee! #10166100
Christine Lobsinger 6/2/2012 3:21:21 PMOutstanding shot!!!
Joannie Bertucci 6/3/2012 11:13:09 AMNow this is what I call a "hairy" trio! They rock! :-) #10166868
Ann Coates 6/3/2012 11:15:46 AMFabulous capture, three in a row, all looking at you, perfect. #10166874
Linda S. Smith 6/5/2012 4:42:04 PMGreat capture! #10169860
Lee Canham 6/7/2012 10:58:15 AMThank You everyone.. kind of cute aren´t they.. it was a very cold day as I remember..and I wasn´t so well dressed as this bunch.
Christopher Budny 6/10/2012 5:18:55 AMFantastic capture, Lee! #10174728
Michelle L. Frick 6/10/2012 8:38:57 PMThey look so intelligent and intent! Beautiful clarity and composition Lee!!! #10175627
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 6/11/2012 3:27:01 AMThis is so awesome Lee. Personality plus. Congratulations on your POTD!!! #10175811
Tammy M. Anderson 6/11/2012 3:41:00 AMOutstanding details and capture. Congrats on a great POTD. #10175829
Usman M. Bajwa 6/11/2012 3:54:43 AMA wonderful exposure, Lee. Well worth the POTD award and hopefully one more Gold later ;)
Linda S. Smith 6/11/2012 3:54:54 AMCongrats Lee on your POTD!!! Well deserved! #10175837
Chris Ebben 6/11/2012 3:56:56 AMNow that is one great image!!! Just shows how good a wool coat is in the cold weather. Congratulations on the EP & POTD, very well done. A very interesting, photographic trio=^..^= #10175838
Kerry Penn 6/11/2012 4:03:39 AMThis just made me smile! Great shot. :) #10175842
Dennis Gay 6/11/2012 4:04:58 AMG'day LEE!
The first words which popped into my head when I frst saw this wonderful winter photograph were, "Hello girls!" 8-)
A remarkably good photograph, the quality of which lifts it head and shoulders above the usual "sheepy" fare.
Excellent snow exposure, incredibly crisp detail and three gorgeous models giving you their full attention hold the viewer's attention very well indeed.
My heartiest Aussiecon gratz for the most deserving EP & POTD awads.
Dennis #10175844
Kate Jackson 6/11/2012 4:08:11 AMBrightened up my morning - thanks! #10175848
Joy Rector 6/11/2012 4:09:44 AMcongrats on the POTD #10175849
Gloria Matyszyk 6/11/2012 4:15:20 AMWhat a super shot! Congrats on the PTOD! #10175851
Marilyn Cornwell 6/11/2012 4:28:51 AMEverything marvellous! Congratulations on POTD! #10175870
Michelle Alton 6/11/2012 4:35:36 AMWhat a GEM! Looks like they've just come from "makeup" and are about to start their line dance!
Congratulations on POTD! I think this image has a long, happy journey ahead. #10175884
Susan M. Smith 6/11/2012 4:54:37 AMHi Lee, you told me many years ago that things in 3's are magic and this image certainly furthers that theory! This is such a great capture of the perfect moment. Did you bribe these guys with treats or maKe funny faces at them? That's what I have to do to get the attention of my tragically indifferent four legged in-house models...lol. Whatever you did was certainly right on! Congratulations on your POTD :) #10175912
Sharon King 6/11/2012 5:22:56 AMLove it!! #10175937
Terry Cervi 6/11/2012 5:31:23 AMCongrats on your terrific POTD, Lee!! #10175940
Betty Ann Kelly 6/11/2012 5:34:26 AMDitto on everything and FUN! :) Congrats!!! #10175942
Linda Sandbo 6/11/2012 5:39:38 AMWow.. what a cute pic to wake up to.. congrats on the POTD!!! #10175945
Susan D. Royce 6/11/2012 5:41:54 AMWhat a group! They are very stylishly turned out. Congratulations on a wonderful POTD! #10175946
Kathy Radford 6/11/2012 5:47:52 AMLOVE IT!!! This shot deserves to be the 1st place winner. Good luck with it. #10175950
Gail Sullivan 6/11/2012 6:08:25 AMFantastic work, Lee and congrats on POTD! And what a great gallery you have. #10175969
Richard M. Waas 6/11/2012 6:10:09 AMCongrats on a well deserved POTD!! #10175974
Bob Cournoyer 6/11/2012 6:18:06 AMCongrats on your POTD, Lee.... :-) #10175985
Cathy Barrows 6/11/2012 6:21:28 AMCongrats on your awesome POTD...do they know Kevin Bacon...lol #10175992
Daniella Puente 6/11/2012 6:21:43 AMFantastic Lee, congrats! :) #10175993
jorge scott 6/11/2012 6:44:54 AMGreat catch. Love it! #10176023
Rita K. Connell 6/11/2012 6:45:55 AMcongrats on the POTD this is exceptional capture. I visited your gallery and enjoyed it very much. #10176025
Christine Pentecost 6/11/2012 6:47:44 AMI absolutely LOVE this! Congrats on POTD! #10176027
Nikki McDonald 6/11/2012 6:48:16 AMWonderful capture and title - bet they are very glad to have those wool coats. Congratulations on the POTD, Lee - expect to see another award in the future. #10176028
Kathryn Wesserling 6/11/2012 7:17:11 AMThis is a truly wonderful POTD. I'm betting on it going Gold! Congratulations, Lee. #10176053
Thomas A. Statas 6/11/2012 7:33:54 AMLee,
One of the best in a long while... NICE IMAGE!
Tom #10176067
Mary K. Robison 6/11/2012 7:34:29 AMCongratulations on your POTD, Lee! #10176069
Karen E. Baumann 6/11/2012 7:35:40 AMOh, the fun possibilities with this one... so many captions, so little time!! Congratulations on this great capture Lee! Happy POTD!
Songbird Cline 6/11/2012 7:37:24 AMHahahahaa, this is adorable!! Cute, funny, charming, great clarity.. wonderful!! #10176072
Mary Beth Aiello 6/11/2012 8:04:10 AMOh, this is beyond wonderful, Lee. Huge congrats on this simply outstanding POTD. #10176100
Katarina Mansson 6/11/2012 8:21:34 AMSuch an extraordinary and fun capture. Congratulations Lee on your outstanding POTD! #10176110
Michele Peterson 6/11/2012 8:34:41 AMThis just made my morning, all fluffy and scraggly, but cute as well! Congratulations on this fantastic POTD! #10176120
Elsa Gary 6/11/2012 9:19:22 AMFamtastic image, Lee. So unusual,wonderfully done. Congrats on your POTD! #10176181
Lee Canham 6/11/2012 11:02:59 AMWOW...WOW...WOW...!!!
Thanks again to you all..those of you I know (it has been 2 or 3 years) and to those of you I don´t..or didn´t but do now and I am HAPPY for that.
My Best Wishes to everyone.. Leee and The 3 degrees #10176263
Ellen Hodges 6/11/2012 11:06:40 AMHuge congrats on a fabulous POTD, Lee!! Love the title, too! #10176267
Nancy L. Green 6/11/2012 11:13:32 AMThis is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME Lee, CONGRATULATIONS on your POTD!!! <>< #10176275
Raymond Pauly 6/11/2012 12:53:52 PMCongratulations on this unique capture! #10176342
Amanda D. Austwick 6/11/2012 1:07:11 PMWOw, I just love it! At least they were dressed for the cold even thought you were not. I have a question, was this taken out west in the high mountains of the US, or in foreign lands? #10176353
Dr Silly 6/11/2012 2:36:46 PMCongrats Lee on your POTD. Miss you at 101. :O)
Cindy Hamilton 6/11/2012 4:45:31 PMThis is my all time fav POD. Awesome. Sure wish it was my shot.
Jean E. Hildebrant 6/12/2012 9:26:09 AMWonderful image, Lee! Congrat's! I echo Doc's sentiments...miss you at 101. I can't spend much time there but try to keep up when I can. Glad you are still shooting :)
Jeffrey R. Bange 6/12/2012 7:15:45 PMCongratulations Lee on a well deserved POTD. #10178170
Lisa B. North 6/13/2012 12:03:30 PMThat's great! Very unique! I forwarded this to my cousin who raises sheep! She'll love it! Congrats! #10178894
Patricia A. Casey 6/19/2012 12:54:20 PMWow...what a lovely capture...so reminds me of Robert Bateman's "Salt Spring Sheep" painting....also very lovely.....A belated congratulations on the POTD & ep.....Have a wonderful day Lee.... #10189544
Richard D. Love 7/14/2012 10:12:43 AMCongratulations, Lee. Perfect timing for a beautiful image!
Rick #10229078
Shawn Jennings 7/30/2012 11:45:18 AMFantastic! Congratulations on your finalist! #10250491
Tammy M. Anderson 7/30/2012 12:19:47 PMOutstanding finalist, Lee. A winner! #10250716
Ann Coates 7/30/2012 12:55:54 PMCongratulations on your finalist and I hope this goes Gold. #10250895
Jeffrey R. Bange 7/30/2012 1:08:42 PMCongratulations Lee on your finalist photo and best of luck in the next round. #10250951
Linda Sandbo 7/30/2012 2:24:26 PMDitto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #10251537
Susan M. Smith 7/30/2012 2:36:22 PMNo surprise to see this one again! Should I just go ahead and congratulate you on a Gold? Lol Love these guys, keep up the great work Lee! #10251669
Agnes Fegan 7/30/2012 3:09:37 PMWhat a super shot ... just love this! Congrats! #10251915
The Judges at BetterPhoto.com 7/30/2012 4:10:01 PMIncredible. #10252272
Christine Lobsinger 7/30/2012 7:00:47 PMA BIG CONGRATS Lee...
Christopher Budny 7/31/2012 10:07:57 AMSo happy to see this again--here's hoping we see it one more time, too! Congratulations again. #10255056
Cindy Bendush 7/31/2012 1:11:59 PMHow funny! What a supurb capture and finalist! Be-lated congrats on your POTD - I missed it, being in the hospital. #10255546
Joannie Bertucci 7/31/2012 4:36:45 PMI had a strong feeling the "hairy" trio would go far and they did! :-) Congrats on both gold badges Lee! #10255972
Tammy M. Anderson 7/31/2012 4:58:18 PMNo surpruse here. I knew we would see this a winner. Congrats! #10256071
Christopher Budny 7/31/2012 4:58:47 PMMe too, with Joanie---had to have gold ;) Congratulations! #10256072
Kathryn Wesserling 7/31/2012 5:09:38 PMThe wooly ride was worth it all! It's such a superb Gold. #10256131
Gail Vitikacs 7/31/2012 5:36:22 PMT E R R I F I C! Congrats! #10256220
Susan M. Smith 7/31/2012 6:21:13 PMThis awesome image had to get a Gold, Lee! It's entertaining every time I see it :) Congratulations! #10256354
Linda Sandbo 7/31/2012 6:21:24 PMWell Done.. Congrats and much Deserved!! #10256355
Christine Lobsinger 7/31/2012 7:48:38 PMCongrats to you Lee...
Cindy Bendush 7/31/2012 7:49:57 PMI laugh every time I see this - and so happy its a winner! Huge congratulations! #10256715
Jeffrey R. Bange 7/31/2012 9:01:34 PMCongratulations Lee on a well deserved win. #10256843
Ann Coates 8/1/2012 3:31:26 AMCongratulations on your stunning Gold. #10257246
David M. Montero 8/1/2012 1:44:49 PMRemarkable capture Lee! Congratulations on a very deserving win! #10258270
Usman M. Bajwa 8/2/2012 3:14:49 AM"Hopefully one more Gold" that's what I commented above. Happy to see you getting it. HUGE CONGRATZ on landing the Gold Medal!!!
JO ANN CLEVELAND 8/2/2012 10:06:35 AMFannnn...tastic Lee!
Congratulations on this wonderful 2nd Place Winner! Sooo well deserved too!
jo ann c. #10259920
Mary Beth Aiello 8/4/2012 7:14:50 AMI have to say, this is one of my favorite photos of all time on BP, Lee. I just love this. Huge congrats on this spectacular-- and well deserved -- GOLD win. #10262272
Lee Canham 8/4/2012 9:49:07 AMThank You Mary and all and everyone and BP.. for every single word above.. I have to say that I am so glad that these sheep have bought so much joy to you all and myself..I never expected them to do so well and have been so surprised all along with ever great comment and I am honoured to receive these 2 gold badges..Thank you all..
Special word to Susan.. I am happy and flattered that my beleif in 3 being a magic number was something you would remember..I am so glad you did and I hope your life is filled with magic magic too..or three..
Lee #10262382
Shawn Jennings 8/14/2012 7:14:50 AMCongratulations on your win, Lee! #10275407
Bill Houghton 8/22/2012 11:52:28 AMLee, this is such a great photo. No wonder it's a winner. Congratulations, Bill #10285739
Patricia A. Casey 8/28/2012 6:33:26 AMI am so delighted that this won! Yes indeed it is a beauty....catching up on my BetterPhoto comments after being gone for five weeks....lots to see..A very huge Congratulations Lee! #10293665
Melanie Charles 9/13/2014 1:42:55 PMHi Lee, I love this image, I am an animal artist, I don't suppose there is any chance you would let me use this image to do a painting? #11133518
Jesa Naquines 4/21/2015 12:45:45 PMIts very nice. #11289975
Amanda D. Austwick 4/21/2015 1:56:57 PMCongratulations on your Gold Winner! #11289994
Mary-Ella Bowles 5/2/2016 7:05:54 PMPerfection!!! #11469605
Betty Ann Kelly 5/2/2016 7:33:58 PMWowza! A super capture...kind of comical too...lovely. Big congrats to you!!!
These lovely three curiosly came to see a Goat eating my lunch from my hand along with getting a good scratch..they watched for a while and then came to join in while there was still something left for them..I think they were actually more wary of the goat than of me.
Thanks all for all your amazingness and wonderfullfilling comments.
Best Wishes Leee
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Seattle Parks and Recreation is installing a new energy efficient boiler and upgrading the electrical system at Loyal Heights Community Center. The work to replace the existing heating system begins on Monday, October 15, 2012 and extends to the end of the year. A temporary heat system will be installed to keep the building warm during operating hours. Upgrades to the existing electrical system will also occur during the last part of the year, and will include replacement of old fuse panels, new wiring, and circuits as necessary.
Parks will remove the 1940's era boiler, provide access improvements and do some additional architectural improvements throughout the building.
Programs will remain in progress during this time, however, some minor amount of disruption from noise and construction personnel in the building may occur.
The funding for the project was allocated from the Parks and Green Spaces Levy the Levy established an inflation adjustment for development projects intended to ensure that, should there be inflation in the construction industry, projects built in the later years of the levy would have sufficient funding. To date, levy projects have not experienced inflation and have benefited from a competitive bid climate.
Based upon the absence of construction industry inflation, the Parks and Green Spaces Levy Oversight Committee recommended re-allocating these funds to a specific list of high priority major maintenance projects at Seattle Parks and Recreation such as the Loyal Heights Community Center project.
For additional information about the project, please contact Project Manager, Gary Gibbons at firstname.lastname@example.com or 206-385-1511. To reach the Loyal Heights Community Center please call 684-4052.


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Posted on May 14, 2010
Have I mentioned I get to talk to lots of different kinds of people in this job? LOTS of different kinds? Lots of DIFFERENT kinds? Here are a few memorable quotations from Book Fair donors and volunteers this spring.
When it makes me throw up, the price isn't very high.
(The Cookbook Lady, about certain of her treasures for 2010. The recipe involving a packaged cake mix, a canned frosting, and a bag of M&Ms particularly tugged at her heartstrings..or some other internal organ.)
When in June is your Book Fair?
(I get this one a lot. Nowadays I just say "June fifty-ninth".
It's a bad sign when your John Waynes sag.
(We had just received a boxed set of John Wayne videos in which several of the cases were empty, so if picked up at the empty end, the whole box sort of wilts. I think, though, that this speaker may well have stumbled onto one of the basic rules of life.)
You have to do this all year, don't you?
(Well, of course, dear: otherwise my John Waynes start to sag. I hear this from donors who see the pile of book boxes.)
When do you start sorting them?
(This is what they generally say next. "July thirty-fourth" is the answer.)
Where do you have the Book Fair?
(The usual answer is "All over the first floor, making us one of the few air-conditioned Book Fairs". My favorite response to that was "The first floor where?" See, we call it the Newberry Library Book Fair because we hold it somewhere else.)
Oh, no, sir, please. They're heavy. I'll carry them.
(I get this a lot from donors with boxes of books. I already know about this; I lift boxes of books at least once a year. I don't mind so much when I hear it from some healthy thirty-one year-old marathon running type. It's when I get it from people with white hair that I start to worry that I look older than my twenty-some summers.)
My daughter had these, so they're fifty years old now.
(Get thee hence, sir. I had some of those books as a child so they could hardly be…oh dear.)
You must really enjoy your work.
(Sure, these are all laugh lines. My hair is this color from the stress of constant joy. And you can get used to sagging John Waynes.)


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Dunkin' Donuts announced that it has signed agreements with two franchise groups to begin developing Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in the United Kingdom. The two agreements call for the development of 50 Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in Greater London over the next five years, with an initial focus on North London and East London.
The chain is also in advanced discussions with additional franchise partners to help develop a total of 150 Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in the U.K. over the next five years, which includes the two signed agreements.
The Court Group, chaired by U.K. businessman David Sheepshanks, CBE, has signed a franchise agreement with Dunkin' Donuts to open 25 restaurants in East London over the next five years. DDMG Ltd., a partnership formed by three experienced U.S. Dunkin' Donuts franchisees from the Baltimore/Philadelphia area and two local U.K. operators, has signed an agreement to develop 25 Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in North London over the next five years.
"We feel there is significant opportunity for Dunkin' Donuts in the U.K., and we have had a tremendous response from potential franchisees interested in developing the brand across the country," says Giorgio Minardi, president, Dunkin' Brands International. "We are especially excited to begin the expansion of Dunkin' Donuts into the U.K. with The Court Group and DDMG Ltd., two experienced franchisees who have a deep passion for the brand and a solid understanding of the local market. We look forward to working with them to make Dunkin' Donuts' high-quality beverages, baked goods, and sandwiches part of the way of life in the U.K."
Sheepshanks adds, "Dunkin' Donuts is one of the world's most iconic brands, with a long history of offering high-quality beverages and baked goods at a great value for its guests around the world. We have significant experience in the U.K. across a number of businesses, and we look forward to leveraging that experience as we develop the Dunkin' Donuts brand in East London with the goal of becoming a destination of choice for the local communities around our stores."
Neil Patel, director of DDMG, says, "The U.K. is a dynamic market, and we believe that Dunkin' Donuts' innovative combination of great-tasting food and beverages served in a fast, friendly, and fun environment will appeal to the people of Great Britain. We are excited about the opportunity to bring Dunkin' Donuts to North London, and we look forward to serving our guests Dunkin' Donuts' famous coffee and snacks to get them going in the morning and throughout the day."
Dunkin' Donuts has more than 10,500 restaurants in 31 countries around the world, including more than 100 locations across Europe in Bulgaria, Germany, Russia, and Spain.
Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in the U.K. will feature the brand's wide range of coffees, teas, espresso-based beverages, Coolatta frozen drinks, donuts, muffins, croissants, and sandwiches. The brand will also offer regional menu items specific to the U.K. to cater to local tastes and options from its DDSMART lineup.
"As we develop the Dunkin' Donuts brand in the U.K., we continue to look for qualified, multiunit franchisee candidates who have a strong financial background, a deep knowledge of the local market, a proven track record of success in the restaurant industry, and a desire to develop a minimum of 25 Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in their market over the coming years," says Jim Johnstone, general manager, U.K., for Dunkin' Brands.
Dunkin' Donuts' sister brand, Baskin-Robbins, has 100 locations in the U.K., including freestanding restaurants, as well as concession locations in other shops and cinemas.
The shops offer Baskin-Robbins' famous selection of ice cream flavors, including Mint Chocolate Chip, Pralines 'n Cream, and Jamoca Almond Fudge, as well as a wide array of frozen treats, including ice cream cakes, frozen beverages, and ice cream sundaes.
"Over the last 18 months, we have opened more than 10 new Baskin-Robbins locations with both existing and new franchisees," Johnstone says. "We are keen to continue the expansion of the Baskin-Robbins brand across the U.K. with multiple operators."
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That's right . . . almost a year ago. I'm a little behind.
He wanted a super hero birthday, and I was happy to oblige. Though, as we were planning, it morphed into a superhero/comic book themed party.
You can see a few of the items from this party available in the shop here. Admittedly, the photos aren't the best. I snapped most of them with my phone as guests were arriving.
All of the kids made their own capes . . . I purchased kits from an etsy seller who is no longer in business. Each kit came with a satin cape, their initial, an initial backer and lots of felt stickies to decorate with. Once they were done decorating, we didn't really see much of the kids until it was time to open gifts. They ran in circles playing "super hero" and were thoroughly entertained!
This particular seller also sent pre-assembled capes for our littlest guests!
I think my favorite parts of the entire party were the speech and action bubble cupcake toppers. They were super easy to print and cut out. They're available for purchase in the shop. The three speech bubble designs are editable and can be customized by you with your desired names/text.
The large speech bubbles and cityscape background are also available for purchase. They're so easy to print and display and they look so great!
Besides the capes, we had ring POPS and sour PUNCH straws for guests to take home.
We used the cityscape and speech bubbles over the lunch buffet, too.
I was struggling to come up with an idea for the tables and the night before the party, I had the idea to make each table look like a "cape" with a different colored table cloth. I printed out different super hero logos (enlarged from my super hero valentine graphics) to put in the center We were really happy with how it turned out and how cheap and easy it was!
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Modern Classics: The Bertoia Diamond Chair
The Bertoia diamond chair, another offering from the line of wire mesh furniture Harry Bertoia created for Knoll, is the Bertoia side chair's loungey cousin. Its namesake diamond form and wire mesh construction make it one of the most recognizable of midcentury designs.
The chair's popularity isn't hard to understand; it's beautiful, comfortable, and works indoors and out, in pretty much any kind of space.
These chairs can be a bit pricey — the 'small' size (the one you see in most interiors) will set you back $900, and that's without a cover — and on sale. Fortunately, vintage ones are pretty easy to come by on Ebay, especially if you don't mind rehabbing a bit.
1. Bedside Bertoia, from Lily.
2. Cozified with a sheepskin in this interior from Design*Sponge.
3. In a modern interior from Yatzer.
4. Well-behaved in grey, in a more tailored interior from Glitter Guide.
5. One more with the furs. And how. From Emmas Designblogg.
6. Could I be more in love with this perfect apartment in the Swedish town of Malmö? Probably not. The diamond chairs are the perfect complement to the airiness of the space. Emmas Designblogg via Apartment Therapy.
7. I spy a diamond chair in this design-packed Barcelona apartment from Miss Design. This particular chair is the 'large' size, with matching ottoman.
8. A lovely little pop of cobalt blue in a bedroom from Jean & Don's Mix of Modern Classics.
9. In the living room of Tim Campbell's California home.
10. Perfect on the rooftop terrace of this Melbourne home from The Design Files.
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Alessandra Ambrosio & Doutzen Kroes: St. Barts Beach Shoot!
Alessandra Ambrosio strikes a sexy pose on the beach in a bikini during a photo shoot on Saturday (December 15) in St. Barts.
"Love this place!!! #paradise" the 31-year-old model tweeted about her shoot.
The day before, fellow Victoria's Secret angel Doutzen Kroes hit the beach for her individual photo shoot.
The day before, Doutzen sent out her prayers for those affected by the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting tragedy.
"My heart goes out to all the families who lost their little ones today! It's unacceptable to fear school! We have to change this world!!" she wrote.
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States crack down on puppy mills
NATIONAL REPORT — At last count, in 2006, 287,000 dogs crossed the United States' borders, and veterinary officials fear the problem is getting worse.
Consumer demand for pure-bred and cross-bred puppies coupled with strict new domestic breeding laws is believed to be driving importation numbers even higher than four years ago. To exacerbate the problem, federal regulators have no real way of tracking exactly how many dogs are brought in the country, where they come from, where they are going and whether importers are following up on vaccination requirements for underage puppies.
"One thing that really concerns veterinarians is, underage puppies come in and not only are they at greater risk of zoonotic diseases, but also other canine diseases," says Nina Marano, DVM, of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. "It is a concern. It's a consumer issue; it's a public health issue; it's a veterinary issue. Really, it's a moral and ethical issue."CDC has a rough idea of how many puppies are crossing United States borders, but only anecdotally, Marano says.
"The fact is that we have a very big country and many, many ports of entry to monitor," she explains. "We've been looking at this closely over the last five to six years and ... the takeaway message is that, anecdotally, we do believe there has been an increase in imported animals."
No definitive data is available on the number of dogs and puppies imported to the United States each year since no single agency is required to keep track of those numbers. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) monitors only commercial breeders who sell animals through pet stores, brokers and research facilities. The CDC monitors rabies vaccinations in imported pets, but its regulations neither require a health screen for dogs prior to arrival to the United States, nor an evaluation for specific zoonoses of concern. Enforcement of regulations are "problematic, because there is no federal requirement mechanism, or capacity for documenting compliance," according to a 2008 article in the journal Zoonosis and Public Health by Marano and fellow CDC veterinarian G. Gale Galland, DVM.
Plus, CDC can't man all the nation's ports of entry, leaving Customs and Border Protection, whose officers have no veterinary training, as the first line of defense to ensure all imported animals meet federal agency requirements.
CDC has taken "snapshots" of data to gauge dog import trends and found that 287,000 dogs were imported in 2006. About a quarter of them were too young to have rabies vaccinations. Their importers were required to sign agreements stating the dogs would be confined until the vaccine was administered, but enforcement is passed on to local animal-control agencies once the dogs are in the country. And critics contend most imported dogs are sold as soon as the dogs are brought home from the airport, not after the agreement is fulfilled.
More than 5,100 confine agreements were signed between January 2006 and September 2007 at just 15 of the 20 quarantine stations monitored by the CDC, but about 4,000 of those agreements were violated in 2006 alone, with the puppies being sold before the confinement period ended. There's no telling if any had been vaccinated at all.
"Based on import trends suggesting that the annual number of unvaccinated puppies being imported into the United States increased substantially from 2001 to 2006, imported dogs pose a risk for introducing zoonotic pathogens such as rabies into the United States," Galland and Marano wrote.
At John F. Kennedy International Airport, reports of unvaccinated dog imports doubled from 2003 to 2006. Reports of unvaccinated dogs imported into California increased by more than 500 percent from 2001 to 2006, the article adds.
But dogs aren't the only imports on the rise. According to another article co-authored by Galland that appeared in a May 2009 edition of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, the volume of live animal imports to the United States has roughly doubled since 1991.
"From 2003 through 2006, annual increases in wildlife trade ranged from 6 percent to 11 percent. From 2000 through 2004, approximately 588,000 animals were imported into the United States each day," the article states, adding those are just the animals that border agents find. "Interpol estimates that wildlife smuggling ranks third on the contraband list of items of value, behind drugs and firearms."
Some blame falls on federal regulators, who lack the time and resources to follow up on every animal import.
"In 2000, most imported dogs were single import," Galland wrote in the 2009 article. "In 2003, the number of imports of multiple puppies per shipment began to increase. The number of puppies imported into California through airports increased from 110 multi-dog imports in 2003 to 365 in 2004. Each shipment contained as many as 40 puppies. A similar increase was seen nationally ... As the number of shipments containing more than one dog increased, tracking puppies became increasingly difficult."
But the problem also can be attributed to market demand, uneducated consumers and puppy millers turned irresponsible importers.


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FEATURE | spring 2002
Body Politic: The Growth of the Women's Health Movement (1984)
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Some people owe their lives to the medical profession; I owe it my feminist consciousness. I might have said I was a feminist before 1970, which is when I became pregnant and developed a long-term relationship with one of New York City's outpatient clinics, but secretly I was a premature "postfeminist," convinced that sexism was a problem chiefly for the oversensitive and underassertive. But six months of prenatal "care," capped off with a hair-raising labor (induced at 11 p.m. by a doctor who wanted to go home), cured all that. When the whole experience was over, there were two more feminists in the world-the other one being my daughter.
When I think of the beginnings of the women's health movement, I think, above all, of the stories women told. Stories, like my own, of humiliation and helplessness: for example, of being diagnosed as "difficult" for asking questions or "neurotic" for possessing a symptom for which the doctors did not yet have a disease. Stories of terrible insult: like that of the teenage black woman who had been subjected to a dozen serial pelvic exams for teaching purposes because she was a "charity case." Stories of unbearable loss: like that of a Missouri woman who told me she had been sterilized, at her doctor's discretion, just after delivering her first baby-stillborn. And some stories told in the third person, because the protagonists had not survived to tell them: stories of wombs perforated by unsafe-actually, experimental-IUDs; stories of sleazy back-alley abortionists who left women hemorrhaging or fatally infected.
The stories had always been there, but it took the Women's Movement to break down the barriers of secrecy and shame that had kept us from telling them. I remember the relief in the room when a group of women, meeting in the old Cleveland Women's Liberation Center, discovered that every one of us had been told, at one time or another, that her uterus was undersized, misshapen, or misplaced. How could every woman's body be somehow abnormal and pathological? And I remember our excitement at hearing that a group of women in Boston were studying the medical literature by themselves to prepare a feminist guide to women's health (this became Our Bodies, Ourselves). That two Los Angeles women, Carol Downer and Lorraine Rothman, had taught themselves to do cervical self examinations (Downer soon founded the first Feminist Women's Health Center). That a group of Chicago women collectively called "Jane" had set up an underground, but scrupulously safe, abortion service that would operate until abortion was legal. It began to seem possible that, with enough organizing, studying, and-especially-sharing, we might just achieve "the right to control our own bodies."
To an extent that I find almost awesome in retrospect, we did succeed. We created women-run health centers where there were no "patients," only participants. We learned to lobby the FDA and take drug companies to court. We produced our own generation of feminist experts-women like Barbara Seaman, coauthor of Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones; Helen Rodriguez-Trias, a leading activist against sterilization abuse; Doris Haire, an early critic of conventional childbirth practices. A group whose names should strike fear in the hearts of the self proclaimed "M.D.-eities," as someone aptly labeled them. And through all these efforts, we engendered a minor cultural revolution: detailed information on women's health issues is no longer a kind of contraband, spread through the underground press or by word of mouth. Abortion is not only legal, but it is understood by most Americans to be a morally valid choice. Fitness and physical strength are no longer seen as exclusively masculine, and women's sports are moving into the mainstream of American culture. Perhaps most important, the women's health movement legitimized the notion that we have the right to know and to decide about procedures-from sterilization to hormone treatments-that affect our bodies and our lives. As a disconcerted male doctor observed in the American Medical Association's newsletter in 1974, when the movement was just beginning to have a national impact, "Even my docile patients are asking questions."
But for most of our successes, there has been a bitter disappointment. No sooner had the Supreme Court made abortion legal than the Hyde Amendment (first passed in 1977) made it inaccessible to millions of poor women by cutting off Medicaid funding for this and other procedures. We had pressured hospitals to "humanize" childbirth only to see new technologies-particularly fetal monitoring and the associated upsurge in cesarean sections-make it more alienating and potentially dangerous than ever. And we found, to our horror, that when we succeeded in pushing a hazardous product off the market-like high-estrogen birth-control pills or the Dalkon Shield-the manufacturers would turn around and "dump" it on unsuspecting women in the Third World. For every two steps forward, there was one long, and sickening, lurch backward.
Then, in the last four years, it seemed as if the ground gave way beneath our feet. We had assumed that, if sufficiently badgered and lobbied, government would come down on our side in the fight against private medical interests and for a more health-giving society: a safe enough assumption to make in a democracy, especially since previous administrations had even talked of a "right to health care." But the current [Reagan] Administration seems to make another assumption: that the function of government is military, otherwise it's every man, woman, and child for themselves. In a short four years, government regulatory functions-which are the bugaboo of conservatives and also the absolute cornerstone of health protection-were abandoned or undermined in dozens of areas, from drug and product safety, to occupational health and safety and environmental protection.
The Administration has ransacked health-related social programs to finance its unprecedented peacetime military expansion. The list of programs that have been sacrificed for MX missiles or "Star Wars" weaponry includes food stamps, school lunches, childhood immunization programs, Medicaid, and a host of smaller programs aiding disabled children, pregnant teenagers, victims of lead poisoning, and others. These cutbacks, and the increasingly desperate condition of America's poor (who are not only disproportionately minorities, but disproportionately women of all races), cast a grim new perspective on feminist health priorities: how important is it to improve the quality of the birth experience when, for women threatened with malnutrition, the issue is whether their babies will survive at all? How important a target is medical sexism when a growing number of women simply cannot afford medical care, sexist or otherwise? Or, ultimately, how do we weigh any issue against the nuclear holocaust that the superpowers seem to be so busily preparing for?
Of course, we have to do it all: protest the insults as well as the injuries, confront the emergencies of life in this era as well as the gathering prospect of death. We had started, over a decade ago, with issues that seemed intensely personal (some said "trivial"). We discovered that these issues were also "political,"that is, that they involved power and required us to pool our strength and exert our collective pressure. Now we find that those issues which were always "political"-war and peace, the philosophy and direction of government-are, in their impact, also intensely personal: health is not a concept that ends at the boundary of the individual body.
I feel discouraged only when I think we might drift apart-each pursuing her solitary vision of health and letting silence, once more, fill the space between us. The lesson of our victories, and they are minor, is that we can win when we work together.
In a society that seems more committed to death than to health, sisterhood could save our lives.


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"No man with any sense of humor ever founded a religion." ~ Bob Ingersoll
Quote from: screwtape on January 26, 2011, 11:14:12 AM"No man with any sense of humor ever founded a religion." ~ Bob IngersollExcept for L. Ron Hubbard. Scientology? Really?
JT812, I see you popped into the forum today. Hope you can answer some of the outstanding questions.
I don't know if this is hearsay or factual but I heard once that he was trying to think of a way to get one of his fiction books into the non-fiction section like some other fictitious works (in addition to bringing in $$). Accordingly Dianetics and Scientology is the result of said process.
I would think that with all of "tens of thousands of documented samples and proven striations........." (post #602) that you would have at least come up with something convincing by now. Still, you have failed to demonstrate that there is proof (by your own definition) for any of the events in the timeline you presented.Instead, you continue to try and defend your position by turning the conversation in a completely different direction towards the failing of Christianity.....when I've never even ONCE implied that it was without faults.
Yes, I know. It took us thirteen pages to pin him down. But we did it.
So why does a Biblestudent bother?
You got nailed harder than Paris Hilton on Ecstasy, son.--J.D.
Quote from: Doctor X on February 01, 2011, 05:15:25 PMYou got nailed harder than Paris Hilton on Ecstasy, son.That was an image I did not need in my brain. Yech.
You got nailed harder than Paris Hilton on Ecstasy, son.
Quote from: Doctor X on January 25, 2011, 08:58:09 PMSo why does a Biblestudent bother? http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/god-devoted.htm
Quote from: BibleStudent on February 01, 2011, 05:11:53 PMQuote from: Doctor X on January 25, 2011, 08:58:09 PMSo why does a Biblestudent bother? http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/god-devoted.htmI think the question is: why do you bother after you've been demonstrated as wrong in so many ways? That fascinates me too, why after being shown facts, do Christians persist? Especially when they leave for months after being shown their fallibility and then return with the same baseless claims? Do you think we'll have forgotten you and those claims, suddenly not asking you for evidence? It seems so, but why you think this, I have no idea.
QuoteYes, I know. It took us thirteen pages to pin him down. But we did it.Really ?
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MeinKampfStudent:QuoteQuoteYes, I know. It took us thirteen pages to pin him down. But we did it.Really ?Yes.QuoteYou did ?Yes.We established after many pages of you wriggling and squirming that given the choice between informing on Jews to the Nazis or telling a lie, you would inform on the Jews - and you would regard such behaviour as neither criminal nor sinful.Thus demonstrating the problem with your objective inflexible Christian morality, which logically led to you (hypothetically) collaborating with obvious evil.
He would rather it that they worship Him, instead of spending their time on family.
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Flagler College-St Augustine
Statement of Purpose The aim of Flagler College is to provide a supportive and challenging environment in which students acquire knowledge exercise good citizenship and adhere to high ethical standards. The principal focus of the College's academic program is undergraduate education in selected liberal and pre-professional studies; thus the role of teaching is central to the College's mission. The purposes of the academic program are to provide opportunities for general and specialized learning; to assist students in preparing for careers; and to aid qualified students in pursuing graduate and professional studies. The objectives of the student life program at Flagler are to establish appropriate standards of conduct and to promote activities that will contribute to the development of self discipline integrity and leadership. Flagler College was established as a memorial to Henry M. Flagler. The Hotel Ponce de Leon built by Mr. Flagler serves as a reminder of his enterprise diligence and commitment to high standards. The College is pledged to the preservation and use of this facility and other historic and architecturally unique campus structures.
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law yesterday a bill that gives options to cities and school districts for dealing with severe financial problems, including bankruptcy.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law yesterday a bill that gives options to cities and school districts for dealing with severe financial problems, including bankruptcy.
The law, passed by the Republican-controlled legislature this month, allows local elected officials to choose between Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy if the move is approved by the governor; an emergency manager; arbitration with a neutral party; or a consent agreement laying out terms for fixing the government�s finances.
It replaces a controversial law repealed by voters on Nov. 6 that made it easier for the state to intervene in fiscally troubled cities and schools and gave state-appointed emergency managers running the governments the power to suspend collective-bargaining agreements with workers.
That law, known as Public Act 4, was suspended in August pending the outcome of the vote and the state has been relying on a former, weaker law since then.
Snyder, a Republican, defended the new law against criticism that it is too similar to Public Act 4.
�This legislation demonstrates that we clearly heard, recognized and respected the will of the voters,� the governor said in a statement. �It builds in local control and options while also ensuring the tools to protect communities and schools districts� residents, students and taxpayers."
The law includes appropriations for administrative expenses, making it ineligible for a petition drive that could result in its repeal by voters.
Because the new law will not take effect for 90 days, it will have no immediate effect on eight cities and school districts currently operating with emergency financial managers, and three cities, including Detroit, operating under consent agreements.
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Esperanza Díaz M.D. provides teaching and supervision for Yale medical students, psychiatry residents, and trainees from other disciplines such as psychology, nursing and social work. Dr. Diaz received her M.D. degree from the Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia. She finished Psychiatry residency at Yale University School of Medicine. She is a board Certified Psychiatrist and Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She is a psychoanalyst. Her research concentrates on adherence to medications, development of culturally sensitive mental health services to Hispanics with persistent mental disorders, development of teaching methods of cultural sensitive care. She has received research awards from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) and from National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Dr. Diaz's professional interests are focused on improving mental health services to Hispanics and education focusing on interviewing, cultural sensitive services and mental health disparities. She is a member of the American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry. She is a leadership member of the APA Hispanic Caucus. She is the recipient of the 2012 inaugural American Psychiatric Association Assembly Member in Training Mentor Award, and the Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents. She served on the SAMHSA Advisory Committee for Women Services. She serves on NIMH and NIH scientific reviews. She is reviewer for numerous scientific journals.
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Stephen Fleck MD Faculty Award, as exemplary Physician and Clinician TeacherDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine (2012)
American Psychiatric Association Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Resident 2012American Psychiatric Association (2012)
American Psychiatric Association, Assembly Member-in-Training (MIT) Mentor Award. 2012American Psychiatric Association Assembly (2012)
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Pep Guardiola has been backed to succeed at Bayern Munich by a number of his former colleagues and team-mates in the week that he begins work at the European champions.
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The German media has gone into overdrive as it awaits Guardiola's arrival, with several interviews and lengthy features about the former Barcelona coach appearing in Monday's newspapers.
The Spaniard, who will be presented to the media on Monday, has been hailed as the Bundesliga's biggest signing of the summer, while the Treble-winners' expectations for next season have reached new heights.
"It's about turning a memorable year into an era," Bayern captain Philipp Lahm told Bild. "Our best years are yet to come as strange as it might sound after a treble-winning year."
Michael Reiziger, a former team-mate of Guardiola's at Barcelona, however, feels there may be a few difficulties for the new coach at first.
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Reiziger, though, is sure that Guardiola will ultimately be able to adjust to life at Bayern.
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Juan Manuel Lillo, the coach that Guardiola calls his biggest influence besides Johan Cruyff, told Sueddeutsche Zeitung: "He is lucky enough to join a club, where the players have the quality to stand way above the ideas a coach could have. We're talking about a Champions League winner, who has dominated all the matches.
"Bayern did not only attack the opposing players but they also made sure that they arrived in a bad shape, once they reached their penalty area. Bayern have already achieved the things that are characteristic for the position-play Guardiola stands for."
In Zeit, Ronald Reng, the renowned author of 'Dream Keeper', cites a meeting between Catalan chef Ferran Adria, inventor of molecular cuisine and founder of the erstwhile world-famous restaurant elBulli, and Guardiola.
Adria told Guardiola that he "should write a book about his methods, because a lot of people could learn from [him]". The coach replied: "Are you kidding me? All I do is watch a video of the opponent and focus my team's tactic on the weak point of this team."
Reng concludes that Guardiola does not see himself as an innovator but only as someone insatiably curious about football.
The author also spoke to Joan Laporta, the former Barcelona president, who installed Guardiola as coach. Laporta explained why Guardiola chose Bayern over offers from other top clubs.
"The Germans are a benchmark for us Catalans and we admire the Bavarians even a bit more than the Germans. They are also very proud of their own identity," he said, before referring to the Bavarians as "Latino-Germans".
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- "The inability of human society to recognise
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a vigorous exhortation to "governments, civil
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an international gathering of some 1800 in the presence
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LIZ SIDOTI,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans have always been conflicted on what role government should have in their private lives. The scale tilts wildly depending on the issue and the era.
Each day, people, courts and lawmakers wrestle with this constant tension: Where does government's duty to protect its people end and an individual's right to choose begin? And when someone's choice impacts society, how far is too far?
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Clear answers about the right private vs. public balance, as with so many things, will never exist. But the ways Americans prefer to tackle this public-health crisis offer clues about where the nation stands today. And as ambiguous as those views are, they may give our leaders guidance about how to constructively address other issues where the line blurs — education, guns, energy, gay marriage, marijuana use and the environment, among others.
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To what extent is debatable.
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Americans, polls suggest, want government to pave the way for them to make better health, fitness and nutrition choices by giving them tools, resources and access — without forcing them to do anything. Ultimately, they want to choose whether to use bike paths, shop farmers markets or select meals based on calorie counts.
Like in so many other areas of our lives, Americans want the benefits of government help but not the restrictions — give me the tools, then back off.
Even that isn't always a smooth road. First Lady Michelle Obama faced ribbing from critics and comics alike in 2010 when she rolled out her "Let's Move!" campaign to instill healthy habits in the nation's youngest generation.
Yet there was no serious controversy because the campaign focused on marshaling federal resources — and partnering with communities, businesses and schools as well as the entertainment and sports industries — to create awareness and provide information about healthy choices for children. "Let's Move!" is funded by government, but it doesn't force anyone to do anything.
But the Obama administration faced heat from critics, including congressional Republicans and parts of the food industry, over changes to the decades-old food pyramid nutrition guidelines. Same story when the Agriculture Department told schools to cut sodium in subsidized meals for low-income children by more than half, use more whole grains, serve low-fat milk and limit kids to one cup of starchy vegetables a week.
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Soda makers, restaurateurs and other businesses sued to block the effort by the Bloomberg-appointed health board. Ten City Council members called on the health board to scrap the rule, and a New York Times poll showed that six in 10 people opposed it in New York — a bastion of liberals who tend to tilt toward bigger government.
Bloomberg's health department has already banned artificial trans fats in restaurant meals and compelled chain eateries to post calorie counts on menus. Now he is trying to banish sugary and fatty foods from public and private hospitals, also stirring controversy.
Critics usually accuse governments that tell people what to do of running a "nanny state." It's nothing new; American history is filled with government efforts to shape personal behavior.
Among the most notable: Prohibition, which from 1920 to 1933 barred making and selling alcohol. Congress repealed the law after it became clear that banning booze didn't curb many social problems.
—Four decades ago, the federal government required states to enact laws requiring motorcycle helmets in order to get highway construction funds. Much griping ensued. The government also started requiring seatbelts in vehicles around that time. Two decades later, New York became the first state to pass a law requiring people to wear them. The hue and cry over that, too, eventually passed.
—By the 1990s, state and local governments had started to rein in public smoking. Controversy flared, but eventually largely fizzled.
—The most contentious debate between public v. private — abortion — rages on, but it's different in one fundamental way: Many contend that issue is about someone else's health, not only your own.
What does this all teach us, other than what we already know — that Americans are generally suspicious of being told what to do?
Those who would regulate more could take refuge in the fact that, for the most part, the outcry fades after a law becomes common practice.
And the regulation-wary can learn, from the obesity debate, that government can, at times, adeptly balance the instinct to control with the ability to facilitate solutions. What might that look like when applied to today's most contentious topics — to education, to energy, to the environment, to gun control?
In the public's mixed attitudes about the obesity epidemic, we find a signal to our leaders: Government can stake out effective territory when it provides individuals with what they need to make their own choices.
Whether this model works to lower obesity rates remains to be seen. Consider that 65 percent of people in the AP-NORC poll identified a major reason for the obesity problem as a straightforward one: People don't want to change. Americans have to make the personal decision to live healthier lives or they'll simply ignore the resources available.
In the end, if government goes for the nudge rather than the outright shove, and we choose poorly, the only people to blame will be ourselves. Which, conveniently, is what many Americans say they want — the ability to rise and fall on their own, without the people who represent them getting in the way.
EDITOR'S NOTE — Liz Sidoti is the national politics editor for The Associated Press.


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