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OSLO -- A total of 231 nominees are up for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the Nobel Institute said Monday, with Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, the EU and WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning known to be on the list.
"As always, there are the usual 'nominees' and some newcomers, some famous and some unknowns, hailing from the four corners of the world," the head of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad, told AFP.
With 188 individuals and 43 organizations, the number of candidates comes close to last year's record of 241, when the prestigious award went to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni "Arab Spring" activist Tawakkol Karman.
Thousands of people are eligible to submit nominations, including members of parliament and governments worldwide, university professors, past laureates and members of several international institutes, who had until February 1 to propose candidates.
The Nobel Institute keeps the names of nominees secret for 50 years, but those who are entitled to nominate are allowed to reveal the name of the person or organization they have proposed.
Among those known to have been nominated for this year's prize are former US president Clinton, ex-German chancellor Kohl, who led his country's reunification process, and Ukraine's ex-premier and now jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.
Also on the list is jailed soldier Manning, who has been charged with 22 counts in a US military court for turning over a massive cache of classified US documents to the WikiLeaks site.
Despite its current crisis, the European Union is also among the candidates, as are Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege, Cuban dissidents Oswaldo Paya and Yoani Sanchez, and Russian rights group Memorial and its founder Svetlana Gannushkina.
Others include US political scientist Gene Sharp, known for his theory of non-violent resistance which inspired some of the key figures behind the Arab Spring; Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, who was brought to power in 2011 by the revolution in his country; and television news channel Al-Jazeera.
The winner or winners will be announced in October.
The prize generates a media frenzy every year and occasionally sparks controversy -- as in 2009 when President Barack Obama was honored just a few months after taking office.
Copyright 2012 AFP. All rights reserved.
Bill Clinton, Bradley Manning among 231 nominees for Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO -- A total of 231 nominees are up for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the Nobel Institute said Monday, with Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, the EU and WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning known to be on the list.


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Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - Jan, Tomas and Mirek RAW - FULL CONTACT
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With Tomas Friedel, Jan Faust and Mirek Ceslar coming together we were sure of a great scene. We find the buff Tomas oiling his body and being joined, and helped by Mirek. Both are only wearing towels and Tomas starts groping Mirek as his buddy rubs his body. Tomas loses his towel and his cock is already rock hard. Mirek's towel comes off too and his big dick is fully hard too. Tomas grabs it and starts wanking it. The cocks rub against each other and Tomas wanks them a little. Mirek sits and begins to suck on Tomas' rock hard cock, working his mouth up and down the shaft. Jan then arrives too, and his towel drops to the floor as he sucks Tomas nipples. Tomas and Jan then kiss as Mirek continues sucking that cock. Jan's big dick is good and hard too and Tomas wanks it. Mirek stands and he and Tomas slap their cocks against Jan's beauty. Jan then goes down on his knees and takes, first, Tomas' cock in his mouth. Mirek pushes his cock in too, so Jan sucks them both. Then he takes turns on each of the throbbing cocks. They move Jan to the couch and lay him down so each Tomas and Mirek can takes turns on his big, fat cock. They are loving Jan's enormous dick and it's not long before Tomas is bent over, sucking Mirek and feeling Jan's dick deep in his ass. Jan fucks that big, hot ass nice and deep as Mirek feeds Tomas' mouth as well. Mirek needs some ass too and Jan obligingly sits down on his rock hard cock. As he rides that cock Jan's dick is sucked by Tomas as well. Mirek fucks Jan nice and deep, really pounding his cock into that hole. Then Jan lays on the couch, legs up, so that Tomas can fuck him. He takes that cock so deep and feels Tomas ramming it into his hot hole. Mirek slaps his hard cock on Jan's mouth, making him open it to taste the cock. Tomas moans so loudly as he works Jan's hole, his dick going in all the way. Jan grabs his cock and wanks himself to a mighty cumshot as Tomas fucks him deep. Mirek also wanks as Tomas pulls out and shoots his cum over Jan's ass. He slides his cock back into that ass and fucks some more as Mirek squirts his cum all over Jan's face. What a great scene, just as we knew it would be.
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The gorgeous Milan Neoral agreed to try out with another guy, so we set up a Screentest for him with the very studly Felix Ryha. Things start off with Felix doing a brief interview with Milan and then leaning over to kiss him. As they sit on the bed, in just their underwear Felix kisses Milan and feels his hot chest. He licks on Milan's nipples as well and returns to kissing him. Milan responds by rubbing Felix. Then, under direction from Felix, Milan lays on his back. Felix straddles him and kisses him some more. Then Felix starts feeling Milan's groin, his hand sliding inside the underwear. He helps Milan off with the underwear and begins to suck on his cock. It is soon good and hard from Felix's hot mouth, with the balls getting good and tight. Felix then kisses Milan again, wanking on his hard cock. Felix removes his underwear, showing that he is hard too. As he is being sucked Milan grabs Felix's cocka nd wanks on it. Milan then pulls his legs up in the air and Felix gently fingers his hole as he sucks him. When his hole is nicely opened by that finger Milan gets on his knees, with Felix behind him. Felix slides his rock hard cock into Milan's tight ass and fucks him nice and deep. Milan takes that cock so well. HIs first time being fucked is going so well. Felix sits on the bed and has Milan take a ride on his cock. Milan's ass slides up and down on Felix's throbbing cock, his own dick staying solidly hard. Moving to missionary position Milan wanks himself as Felix fucks his ass some more. He wanks that cock as his hole is full of Felix's dick and soon shoots a big, creamy load of cum. Felix continues to fuck that hot ass until he is ready to cum too and pulls out. Wanking hard and fast he quickly shoots his cum too, all over Milan's hot body. What a great screentest which finishes with a final kiss.
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We finally have a new coalition government agreement in the Czech Republic.
It will be a center left government. It promises to spend more money to combat the recession and loosen the austerity policies of the previous government. Now, we'll see if Mr. President will approve the agreement. He has previously stated he wants to put his stamp on the composition of the cabinet. If he interferes, we'll see more fireworks. Most of my Czech friends predict any new government will operate in turmoil and probably be short lived.
Meanwhile, we're enjoying some really fine weather in the Czech Republic, while most of the USA suffers from the cold. It's hard to figure out, but Aida and I are enjoying it while we can.
We have a very good line-up today, starting with a lovely trio, Jan Faust, Tomas Friedel and Mirek Ceslar. Then we have a wrestling match with Ondra Krahul and Nicklas Boris, followed by Mato Havran's erotic video and Jan Obora's session stills.
Our castings today are very good too, they are Igor Malek, Simon Stonek, Alan Mestec and Petr Malas. They all look good but my pick for today will be Simon Stonek.
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Denmark is facing its "Nokia moment"; drugmaker Novo Nordisk has ballooned into a $100 billion giant, dominating its home stock market just as the Finnish firm did at the height of the 1990s tech boom.
While the mobile phone maker's market value eventually slumped, there is a reason for thinking that Novo can remain a growth engine for the Danish economy for years to come - even though it has created a lopsided bourse that a new stock index aims to rectify from next week.
Novo is the biggest producer of insulin and as the world suffers from an epidemic of type 2 diabetes, demand for its products has propelled double-digit sales growth for a decade. That epidemic, linked to over-eating and lack of exercise, is expected to last for decades.
The drugmaker has overtaken Norway's Statoil as the Nordic region's biggest company by market capitalization, after a near 40 percent surge in its share price last year.
Denmark is increasingly reliant on the biomedical sector as its shipping and financial industries stall, and the winning streak in medicine has eased the pain for a $333 billion economy that has been on the brink of recession for several quarters.
"Norway has its oil, Sweden its industry, the Finns have basic materials and we have pharma," said Morten Kongshaug, a strategist at Danske Bank.
Denmark's biomedical industry is thriving in the wake of Novo's success, although the soaring share price is a headache for the Copenhagen bourse which wants a balanced market.
With Novo making up nearly half the top 20 Copenhagen benchmark index - eclipsing shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk's 11 percent - the stock exchange will change the benchmark from next week to a new index that caps Novo's weighting at 20 percent.
Similar changes were made in 1995 when Nokia's weighting reached 47 percent of the Helsinki index, and again in 2001, as well as for Sweden's Ericsson in 2000.
Pigs and Beer
Novo's success in insulin can be traced back to two things which have long been abundant in Denmark: beer and pigs.
The group was formed in 1989 by the merger of Novo and Nordisk which had been separate companies since the 1920s.
Denmark's brewing industry, made famous by Carlsberg , helped Novo's technical expertise in production and fermentation, while an ample supply of pig pancreases made the country an ideal place to study insulin.
In the 1980s the world's first insulin preparation which is structurally identical to human insulin was launched in the United States. It is extracted from the pancreas of pigs and converted to human insulin chemically for treating diabetes.
Denmark has long been a major bacon producer, meaning there was no shortage of pigs - today there are almost 20 million, far outnumbering the human population of 5.6 million.
The biomedical sector now accounts for the biggest chunk of Danish exports - 10 percent - and numbers employed in the highly skilled industry almost match those in shipping, making it one of the country's top employers, counting related industries.
"When Novo does well, Denmark does well," Novo's chief executive, Lars Rebien Sorensen, said this week.
It is often said that anyone in Denmark's biomedical sector has either worked at Novo or has some kind of link to the firm, and the knock-on effect has helped give the country the third-largest new drug pipeline in Europe, according to Ernst & Young.
"Novo Nordisk is actually feeding the life science engine in Denmark," said Anders Hinsby, chief executive of Orphazyme, which is hunting for new drugs for rare genetic diseases.
Hinsby works in Copenhagen's Bio Science Park, a cluster of biotech firms that will double in size this year, helped by start-up funds and tax incentives to attract foreign scientists.
Today Novo stands out in a global drugs industry that is struggling with falling sales, thanks to its focus on diabetes.
Its shares trade on 22 times expected earnings, nearly double the multiple of other European drugmakers, and its market value puts it among the top eight drugmakers worldwide.
The company's performance has raised some eyebrows. "It is a small country, a small market, with a very successful company," Kongshaug said. "That's a recipe for something that could potentially go wrong and Nokia went wrong."
Nokia's market value has slumped from $300 billion to just $15 billion today as many buyers look elsewhere for smartphones, but Novo seems to be keeping its grip on the insulin market.
Investors are banking on U.S. approval for Novo's new insulin Tresiba and a rejection, while unlikely, would be a serious blow.
Still, Kongshaug thinks a major setback is unlikely and Novo faces no immediate threats to its main products. Goldman Sachs added the stock this week to its "Conviction Buy List".
Very Danish
Sorensen predicted last year that Novo could become one of the world's largest drugmakers by market value, although it still has a way to go to catch Pfizer on $200 billion.
Nonetheless, Novo plans to stick close to its Danish roots, rather than having corporate centres around the world.
"We see ourselves more like BMW or Apple, in that we have a strong core location in a centralised governance centre, in our case Copenhagen," he told Reuters. "We are also skewed in leadership to one nationality, in the same way that BMW is very German and Apple is quite American."
While rivals such as Novartis, Sanofi and AstraZeneca have brought in outsiders as chief executives, Sorensen and all four members of his top executive team are Danish.
As the Novo Foundation controls about 73 percent of votes - despite owning only 26 percent of capital - Novo can get on with its business without worrying about takeover threats.
Expanding the business will get more difficult as annual sales approach $15 billion, but the need for diabetes care shows no sign of waning. The International Diabetes Federation says 371 million people have the disease worldwide and predicts the figure will reach 552 million by 2030.
"It is getting more difficult, I have to say, (but) the fundamentals are there on the demand side," Sorensen said.


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The top Republican tax writer in Congress is being pulled toward a more extensive rewrite of the U.S. code, with more than half of his party's members in the House backing proposals to rip up the rules.
More than 125 House Republicans have supported proposals that include ending the income tax and terminating the entire code in 2018 to force Congress to create a simpler system. Sixty-eight of them favor what they call a "fair tax" replacing the income, payroll and estate levies with a national sales tax. Dozens back estate-tax repeal proposals. A flat-tax bill has 10 Republicans on board.
Rank-and-file Republicans' support for bold changes may move Representative Dave Camp of Michigan, the party's top tax writer, in their direction even as he tries in coming months to draft a plan that could attract some Democratic support. Camp must try to satisfy Republicans eager for a major shakeup while leaving a path to a bipartisan agreement with the Democratic- controlled Senate and President Barack Obama.
"We'll have our share of boldness," Camp, 60, said in an interview last week. "Tax reform will be bold. There's no other way to do it, so we'll just see how bold everybody wants to be."
Camp, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has been meeting with all 34 first-term House Republicans to hear their ideas on taxes. There are no first-term members on the Ways and Means panel, and 44 percent of the party's members have been in the House for fewer than four years.
Flat Tax
"I love the flat tax, and I'm not afraid of getting rid of every deduction," said Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who became a House member in November 2012 after winning a special election to fill a vacant seat.
Camp's attempt to balance his party's preferences with his desire to make lasting law is challenged by the dynamics of the House, which has 234 Republicans and 201 Democrats. The party's proposals on the budget, agriculture programs and prioritizing U.S. debt payments were written to appeal to the Republican base, which has resisted bipartisan approaches. All three measures were passed without a single Democratic vote.
House Republicans haven't yet grappled as a group with the details of tax policy, making it hard to tell whether or how the party will coalesce on one of its top priorities.
Furthermore, a decision by lawmakers to co-sponsor a bill to enact a sales tax or terminate the tax code would still allow them to support something Camp proposes. Instead, those expressions of support send signals about their priorities to their home-district supporters and to Republican leaders.
Two Levels
Proposals like the national sales tax and flat tax probably aren't in the cards. Camp has said he wants a two-level income tax for individuals and said he would keep the system about as progressive as it is now.
He also opposes capping breaks for charitable contributions and has said the mortgage interest deduction should be approached "carefully."
Consumption taxes such as a national sales levy could make the system less progressive, or even regressive, by rewarding people who don't have to spend all their money each year on living expenses.
Representative Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican and fair tax cosponsor, said he's met with Camp three or four times already.
Before Meadows entered Congress this year, he was a North Carolina real-estate developer, in an industry reliant on tax breaks like the mortgage interest deduction. Now, he's working to reduce those advantages.
Dramatic Rewrite
Meadows and other junior Republican House members are among the most eager supporters of a dramatic rewrite of the U.S. tax code that could sweep away many tax breaks to pay for lower marginal rates. Meadows said he's telling his home state's real- estate industry that a big change is the best approach, even if it looks like it would cause harm to some.
"We can't do it onesie, twosie," he said, acknowledging that some taxpayers might lose cherished breaks along the way. "We'll make up for all of it with a faster-growing economy."
Camp wants to reduce the top corporate tax rate to 25 percent from 35 percent and set the top individual rate, now 39.6 percent, as close to 25 percent as possible. He would do that while raising the same amount of money for the government.
Republicans' interest in tax policy prompted House Speaker John Boehner to set aside the symbolic designation of H.R. 1 for Camp's eventual bill, signaling its priority to the party.
Attracting Democrats
The more Camp tries to satisfy the right, the harder it will be to attract Democrats in his committee or on the House floor.
"You can't doubt his sincerity," said Representative Richard Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat and a senior Ways and Means member. "But that in and of itself doesn't get you there."
Democrats aren't sure what to expect from Camp, who has held individual meetings with Democrats on his committee. He has set a goal of committee approval by the end of the year, meaning that he will need to release what's known in Congress as a chairman's mark, or complete bill, with enough time to get input from members and schedule a vote.
"The need now is to see a chairman's mark," Neal said. "At least that will crystallize the thinking."
Some Republicans may be wary of Camp's details, too.
Steve Womack, an Arkansas Republican, said there are good reasons why Congress enacted tax breaks for education and health care.
Country's Priorities
"I would like to be able to protect some of those interests but, at the same time, to what extent would we protect them?" he said. "So I'm kind of anxious to see, as it unfolds, what does the committee establish as being priorities for our country that we need to encourage through tax provisions?"
Womack, first elected in 2010, also said he wants a reduction in the total amount of taxes collected, which Camp isn't proposing.
"It's really, really important that tax relief is part of that process," Womack said.
Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, a senior Republican on Ways and Means, said committee members have been "diligent" in spelling out the tradeoffs that lawmakers will have to make.
"The freshmen and sophomores are going to be a big part of driving tax reform forward," Brady said. He said he hoped Republicans would be excited by lowering individual tax rates to about the levels they reached under President Ronald Reagan.
"The House has to pass its very best idea, hopefully bipartisan," Brady said. "But if not, we know the ultimate product with this Senate and this president will be bipartisan, at least if we're going to do tax reform in the next three years."
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Hope family
Hope was a Dutch family. A number of members of this family of bankers and wholesale dealers, which came from England to the Netherlands and settled at Rotterdam, belonged to the Mennonite Church. The first member of the Hope family in Rotterdam was Archibald Hope (died ca. 1743), who was married to Anna Claus. He may have moved to Rotterdam about 1680. He soon became very prosperous; in 1716 he built the country seat Lindenhof at Kralingen near Rotterdam. By the last decade of the seventeenth century he was conducting an important trade to England, Ireland, and America. Both he and his wife were members of the Mennonite congregation. His son Isaac Hope (died 1767) was baptized in 1729 and was a deacon of the Rotterdam congregation 1735-1739; his brother Zachary (died 1770) was baptized in 1733, and served 1739-1743, and another brother, James, was deacon 1751-1755. In 1735 Archibald Hope and his son Isaac transported 180 Swiss emigrants (probably Mennonites) to Pennsylvania, and again and again they carried emigrants to the English colonies in America, e.g., 3000 persons in 1753, and 4000 emigrants from the Palatinate in 1765. Among those there may also have been a number of Mennonites. The Hopes were friends of the Bisschop family of Rotterdam; after the death of Jan Bisschop in 1771, Jan Hope inherited the painted portraits of the Bisschop brothers, Archibald Hope, Jr., the rich collection of coins, while Adriaan and Jan Hope bought the considerable collection of paintings gathered by the Bisschops. During the eighteenth century some of the Hopes moved to Amsterdam. They were—in contrast to most Mennonites, who were Patriots—at the close of the eighteenth century nearly all convinced followers of the Prince of Orange.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Hope family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 19 Dec 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hope_family&oldid=119928.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1956). Hope family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 19 December 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hope_family&oldid=119928.
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Queensland-based fencing product company, Factory Direct Fencing (FDF), has used a combined ERP and CRM system to automate functions and help with expansion into Australian sales markets.
FDF managing director Glenn Hosking told Computerworld Australia that since it deployed the Sage ERP X3 system in early 2012, warehousing, manufacturing and distribution admin functions had been automated.
"We were doing a lot of transactions between our own companies and all of that is automated now in Sage. We no longer need to double up on that data entry which has been a big benefit," he said.
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Hosking added that FDF staff can now do searches within the one warehousing system across the three different entities of the business.
"The previous ERP system we were running before didn't integrate with each warehouse," he said.
"It gives us a lot more transparency of fencing stock movements coming in or out of the warehouse."
Automation of admin functions has also meant the company was able to re-assign three internal admin jobs into sales and operations roles.
"The benefits have been two-fold. We're saving wages and because these admin functions are automated nobody sends out the incorrect orders," he said.
This has been important as while the company has an annual turnover of approximately $35 million, Hosking said that the fencing market is still "extremely tough" at the moment.
"We're linked to the building industry and feel the same pain as they do. Our market has shrunk by about 25 per cent over the past 18 months which means we have to work a lot harder and expand our markets," Hosking said.
Expanding markets and attracting new customers is where the CRM module of the Sage system comes into play.
According to Hosking, the company uses CRM in two ways. The first is for automated email campaigns which it sends out to both new and existing customers.
The second use of CRM is for the input of sales data which includes prospective customers and state/territory performance across Australia.
"At present, we have distribution centres in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. We haven't got a massive presence in the Sydney market at the moment so that is something we are working on for 2013."
In addition, FDF is looking to increases its presence in South Australia and the Northern Territory by targeting large station owners who require many kilometres of fencing.
"We also have a distributor in New Zealand and we're looking to expand with their help over there next year," Hosking said.
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STAUFFER STUFF: Oilers take on U of Aby Bob Stauffer / Edmonton Oilers
The two teams met every fall starting in 1988 thru to 2009. I have seen 20 of the 22 games played (the Bears hold a 12-10 series lead) here is look at some of the games along the way.
1988 - Bears win 5-2 in Clare Drake's last season as Head Coach at Alberta. Martin Gelinas, acquired a month earlier in the Wayne Gretzky trade, suits up for the Oilers Rookies.
1989 - Bears win 7-6 in Bill Moores first season as Head Coach of Alberta's program. Adam Morrison a 50-goal scorer with Victoria in the WHL snipes a hat-trick for the Golden Bears.
1990 - Oilers Rookies win 6-4. Shjon Podein scores twice for the Oilers Rookies.
1992 - Oilers Rookies win 7-5. Former Golden Bear, Ian Herbers sets up two goals for the Oilers Rookies against a Golden Bears team he captained to the University Cup Championship the previous March.
1994 - Oilers Rookies win an 11-4 blow-out. David Oliver scored four goals. Oilers first-round picks Ryan Smyth (6th overall) and Jason Bonsignore (4th overall) did not score goals, but they were all over the scoresheet. Smyth had an assist and 12 PIMs and Bonsignore had 34 penalty minutes.
1997 - Oilers Rookies win 7-2. Michel Riesen the Oilers first-round pick in 1997, scores a goal.
2000 - Oilers Rookies win 5-2. Mike Comrie puts on a show and picks up a goal and two assists and Shawn Horcoff scored. As a freshman Jeff Zorn scores twice for Alberta. Zorn would go on to be named a four-time All-Canadian. Zorn is now a Doctor.
2001 - Bears win 7-2 and in the process start a five-year run in the head-to-head series. Former Hartford draft choice, Kevin Marsh, scores an electrifying goal on an end to end rush walking around hulking defenceman Alexei Semenov in the process.
2002 - Bears win 4-0. Alberta defenceman and Medical Student, Blair St. Martin scored twice and then pummeled minor league tough guy Shawn "Let's Go" Legault in a one-sided scrap. St. Martin was no shrinking violet in the WHL. He road shotgun with Rocky Thompson in Medicine Hat and had 366 PIM's in 1997-98. St. Martin is now a Doctor in Edmonton.
2004 - Bears win 8-2. With the lock-out looming, Alberta lights up Oilers' goaltending prospects Jeff Deslauriers and 2004 first-round pick Devan Dunbyk. Oilers had a pretty good, albeit young team. With 2003 first-round pick Marc-Antoine Pouliot, 2004 first rounder' Rob Schremp, Kyle Brodziak, JF Jacques and Zach Storini in the line-up.
2006 - Oilers Rookies win 6-3. After winning back-to-back National titles in 2004 and 2005 the Golden Bears have only eight returning player in the line-up. Dubnyk makes 27 saves for the win.
2008 - Oilers Rookies win 3-2. Jordan Eberle drafted 22nd overall that June, picks up an assist in the win.
2009 - Golden Bears wins 4-3. Alberta rallies from 3-1 deficit to take a 12-10 lead in the head-to-head series.
As the Edmonton Oilers Rookies wrapped up what became a very difficult Vancouver Canucks Young Stars tournament a good news/bad news scenario presented itself for players as they get ready to take on the Alberta Golden Bears Tuesday night at Clare Drake Arena (7:00 PM, 630 CHED / edmontonoilers.com).
The good news for the players is that they get another opportunity to impress Oilers management and coaches; the bad news is that the Golden Bears are an experienced veteran-laden squad with high end skill.
As we all know the Oilers went 0-3 in Penticton as the team lost 5-2 to Calgary, 7-2 to Winnipeg and 5-2 to Vancouver.
Despite, the record there were some bright spots, especially on the back end where the majority of the Oilers top prospects can be found.
Darnell Nurse, the 7th-overall pick in the 2013 NHL Draft, elevated and took charge for the Oilers every time he was on the ice in a 5-2 loss against Vancouver on Sunday. Though still raw, Nurse's athleticism, skating and puck-handling ability came to the forefront and illustrated why he has the potential to be a top-2 NHL defenceman.
After looking like a guy who hadn't played a game in 11 months in the Oilers 5-2 loss to Flames Rookies on Thursday night, Oscar Klefbom had a strong final two periods against Winnipeg on Saturday. Klefbom, the 19th-overall pick in 2011, might lack top-end offensive instincts but he looks like the type of guy who could spend a decade-plus as a top four NHL "D".
The "chaotic" nature of a thrown-together rookie squad also works against a steady defenceman like a Klefbom.
Brandon Davidson and Ben Betker also had solid performances, with Davidson working his way into the mix as a possible depth defenceman for the Oilers down the road.
The Oilers Rookies, though, were short of skill up front with the combinations of Jujhar Khaira and Andrew Miller and then Marco Roy and Kyle Platzer providing the only consistent threats on 5v5 situations.
The Oilers Rookies younger, bigger, less-skilled squad up front will be contrasted by an older Golden Bears team with several legitimate scorers out of the WHL.
The Bears have four forwards who had at least one 70+ point season in the WHL and three forwards who had at least one 30-goal season in the WHL as well.
The Oilers Rookies will not have a forward playing Tuesday night who has had a 30-goal or 70-point season in Major Junior.
The Bears also have scoring depth with 10 50+ point scorers out of the WHL, and 10 forwards who have registered at least one 20+ goal season in the WHL.
The Oilers will have four 50+ point scorers and five 20+ goal scorers from the CHL in their line-up.
Former Oiler Ian Herbers is in his second year as Head Coach with the Golden Bears and trying to build upon a solid 2012-13 campaign.
The Bears won the 2012-13 Canada West title but were upset by Waterloo 2-1 in their opening game at the University Cup last March. Alberta outshot Waterloo 43-13 yielding just TWO shots against at even strength in the loss in a game in which the Golden Bears hit four posts.
Herbers has his top two offensive lines and all three of his defensive pairings back from last year's team.
The lone freshman added up front for Alberta is Jamie Crooks who scored 70 goals over the last two seasons for Victoria in the WHL.
Kurtis Mucha, who shined in 2009 in Oilers camp and was offered an opportunity down in Springfield of the AHL, is Alberta's number one goalie. Mucha was a First-Team All-Canadian last season.
Bottom line, the Oilers Rookies need to make sure they don't take the Bears lightly are it could be a long night.
Bob Stauffer is Radio Analyst of the Oilers Broadcasts on the Oilers Radio Network and Host of "Oilers Now" Monday thru Friday Noon to 2:00PM on 630 CHED. You can follow him on Twitter at @Bob_Stauffer


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I totally agree - the question is though, which two cakes two buy?orguz wrote:stay away from the 1998 lincang green wrapped. i have it and it's nothing special for the price. my advice is to spend the money on one top premium grade green raw cake , and one aged raw that's at least 15 yrs old stored in a humid hotter climate. You'll enjoy your tea more and saved yourself alot of money.
I'm basically "throwing mud against a wall" with my selection. I am hoping, at least that I'll come out of this spend a lot more educated in pu than I am now.


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On April 30, representatives from San Diego Coastkeeper, WiLDCOAST and the Department of Fish and Wildlife's Law Enforcement Division held a public forum at Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Sumner Auditorium highlighting a year-in-review of the MPAs and to unveil Coastkeeper's latest addition to its MPA Watch program.
Situated along the coast from Point Conception in Santa Barbara County to the Tijuana River mouth at the Mexican border, the state's network of 50 MPAs encompasses 11 in San Diego County, including the San Diego-Scripps state marine conservation area and the south La Jolla state marine reserve. Restrictions in the areas vary, from limitations on types of fishing to measures prohibiting taking of any marine resources.
Success of the MPAs has depended on the monitoring of activities in the areas, for which Coastkeeper developed the MPA Watch program, calling on volunteers to record the recreational uses they witness at the MPAs.
The collection of such data, however, has proven to be time consuming and tedious. So, Coastkeeper teamed up with a group of engineering students at UCSD and launched an app designed to make data collection by MPA Watch volunteers streamlined and simple by allowing them to enter data from their phones. The increased ease in monitoring, in turn, will hopefully contribute to the overall effectiveness of the MPAs — once public awareness becomes more wide-spread, that is, said Mike McNair, a central San Diego game warden for Department of Fish and Wildlife,
"The new marine reserves are still relatively new, so we're still in the education phase," said McNair, who said a fishing violation in a marine reserve is a misdemeanor. "Most of the people I talk to don't even know that they are in a marine reserve."
The challenge, he said, is that many people fishing in the reserves are people from different areas of the state, who aren't in tune with what's happening at the coast.
"It takes time," he said.
Mallory Watson, community engagement coordinator at Coastkeeper, encouraged visitors to continue enjoying the MPAs, but she urged them to also take ownership in the underwater parks by helping preserve them.
"You should go out in the MPAs, re-create in them and enjoy them, but it's also part of your responsibility to protect them," said Watson. "Our MPA Watch program aims to work with people who are already there playing in the MPAs to help us gather data about them. Monitoring a small segment of an MPA on a regular basis can make a huge difference."
For more information about the MPAs, the MPA Watch program or to get trained to use the MPA web-based app, visit www.sdcoastkeeper.org.


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Free bus rides from campus for students going to football gameUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Office of the Chancellor
A limited number of reserved Aloha Stadium seats for students are available for football games. For additional details on how to obtain these seats as well as admission to the general student section, visit: http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/sports/2010/12/7/GEN_1207100846.aspx.
For the Lamar game, buses will depart from Dole Street in front of Frear Hall and Gateway House promptly at 4:00 p.m, with the last bus departing at 4:10 p.m. All buses will return to campus 30 minutes after the conclusion of the game. Seat availability will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Validated UHM identification cards are required to board the bus. Students may enter Aloha Stadium through Gates 1, 7 and 8.
As a reminder, the Student Conduct Code is applicable because this is a University-sponsored event. All alcohol containers/beverages are prohibited on the buses. The bus company and its drivers reserve the right to refuse service. For information, visit http://studentaffairs.manoa.hawaii.edu/policies/conduct_code/.
Students, come with your friends and cheer on our Warriors - but please do it safely! Visit www.ManoaAlcoholProject.org for tips on low-risk drinking.
For information on Aloha Stadium's Tailgate Policies, visit http://alohastadium.hawaii.gov/events/tailgate-information.


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ARV Pipeline: Long-Acting Formulations of Rilpivirine, GSK-744 and Nanoformulations
March/April 2013
A useful poster discussion focused on long-acting (LA) formulations that are in early stages of development, some of which appear to be prioritised for use for prevention rather than treatment.1
This session included an introduction by Marta Boffito from the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.2
Current ARVs with long acting formulations include a monthly intramuscular (IM) injection of rilpivirine LA and injectable formulations of the integrase inhibitor GSK744 (both IM and sub-cutaneous) where therapeutic drug levels are sustained for well over a month. The monoclonal antibody ibalizumab that has been in development for many years as a potential entry inhibitor to overcome drug resistant HIV is based on intravenous delivery every 2-4 weeks.
Understanding the pharmacokinetics of these formulations in plasma and tissue and interpatient variability are essential when they are being developed for PrEP. When used as treatment, potential advantages include improved adherence (from dramatically fewer doses linked to long half-lives), reduced potential for drug interactions related to first-pass metabolism, reduced GI toxicity, reduced renal, hepatic and other toxicity due to lower doses. Many nanoformulations also require lower formulation doses, resulting in higher target cell concentrations and the potential to reduce costs in resource limited settings where the active pharmaceutical compound accounts for a significantly greater proportion of the total production costs.3
Pharmacokinetic profiles of long acting compared to oral formulations often include a longer time to maximum concentration (Tmax can be several days rather than hours) and a longer time with concentrations close to the Tmax (days or weeks rather than hours). This may raise different toxicity concerns to oral dosing but also suggests efficacy targets may relate to Cmax rather than Cmin levels. Drug levels are steadier, with fewer fluctuating peaks and troughs associated with most oral drugs and this may also alter drug target levels, and whether these will be in plasma or tissue.
Unless an antidote is available to enable rapid clearance, oral lead in periods and strategies for treatment discontinuation are likely to important. As long as ART remains dependent on combination therapy, long acting individual drugs have the greatest potential as part of a long-acting combination, ideally co-formulated in a single injection.
In the first poster in this session, Pavan Puliguji form University of Nebraska presented results on an nanoformulation of atazanavir/ritonavir that in a mouse study resulted in ten-fold higher concentrations in plasma and tissue (ling, liver, kidney, spleen, lymph nodes and brain) and sustained for two weeks following a single intramuscular injection.4
A second poster from the same research group reported on properties of more advanced "small magnetite" (super-SMART) nanoformulation of atazanavir/ritonavir developed to target monocyte and macrophage cells.5
Early in vitro and rat results using a solid drug nanoformulation of efavirenz developed using a freeze-dry technique at Liverpool University was presented by Neill Liptrott.6 This formulation produced a four-fold higher absorption, with a lower Cmax and similar Cmin, but using a two-fold lower dose compared to the standard oral formulation. The Liverpool group also has nanoformulations of lopinavir/ritonavir and both molecules have the potential for parenteral formulations. Production costs for this freeze-dry technique is minimal at $4-16 per kilo and pharmacokinetic and safety studies in HIV negative human volunteers are expected to start later in 2013.
Matching the PK exposures for long-acting ARVs are more complex than bioequivilence studies that are normally used for new formulations and the session was concluded by Kimberly Strumble from the U.S. FDA with a summary of regulatory issues related to new nanoformulations of currently licensed ARVs.
Additional data on a very long acting formulation of an analogue of the integrase inhibitor dolutegravir (compound name GSK744) was presented in an oral late breaker.7 Although this was in the setting of PrEP the compound is also in development for use in treatment. Viral load reductions of 2.0-2.5 log copies/mL were seen following ten days monotherapy using 5 mg and 30 mg doses of the oral formulation. Parenteral formulations are nanoparticle suspensions (both subcutaneous and intramuscular injections) that support monthly or possibly quarterly injections.
Importantly, for PrEP, two intramuscular doses one month apart protected all 8/8 rhesus macaques from multiple rectal exposure to SHIV compared 0/8 animals receiving placebo injections. These early results should drive fast-track research into whether this offers a similar protection in human studies, with the potential to overcome many of the practical difficulties associated with daily oral PrEP. See the later report in this issue of HTB for details of the PrEP study.8
Unless stated otherwise, references are to the Programme and Abstracts for the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), 3-6 March 2013, Atlanta.
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A search is underway for a fisherman missing at a central NSW dam.
About 7pm on Wednesday police began searching for a 54-year-old man who had not returned from a fishing trip at Carcoar Dam.
His capsized dinghy was found shortly after police arrived.
The Sydney man, who was holidaying with his wife, set out alone in the small vessel about 2pm. It is believed he did not have a life-jacket.
When the man failed to return, his wife raised the alarm.
Police, with the help of the State Emergency Service, are continuing to scour the area.
The dam has been closed until further notice.


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Beckman Scholars Jumpstart Research Careers
By Matt Windsor
Tim Fernandez has been fighting killers throughout his college career. As a UAB freshman, Fernandez began tracing the cell signaling pathways that allow the HIV virus to replicate. He eventually moved on to cancer, targeting the interactions of the cell death receptor known as Fas and the protein Calmodulin, which play a major role in cancer. By his senior year, Fernandez's research journey produced more than a dozen conference presentations, four papers in professional journals, an acceptance letter from the UAB School of Medicine—and more than $19,000 in funding.
In 2012, Fernandez, Dhruv Patel, and Michael Longmire became UAB's first ever Beckman Scholars. The prestigious award program is highly competitive, offering three-year grants to U.S. universities and four-year colleges that allow six high-achieving students to conduct research mentored by top investigators at the institutions. The awards are open to undergraduate majors in biology, biomedical engineering, and chemistry, and provide each student with $19,300 in support for two summers and one academic year of research work. In addition to UAB, only 10 other institutions received Beckman awards in 2012.
Two additional UAB Beckman scholars, Roxanne Lockhart and Bliss Chang, were chosen in spring 2013. Chang says it was Fernandez who first introduced him to the Beckman program—and to his research project. Like Fernandez before him, Chang is now studying Fas in the lab of UAB microbiologist Jamil Saad, Ph.D. "Tim has been an exceptional mentor for me in research and elsewhere," Chang says.
UAB Magazine asked the university's five current Beckman scholars to talk about their work and their future plans.
Tim Fernandez
First-year student, UAB School of Medicine
Graduated with a double major in biology and chemistry, Spring 2013
Mentor: Jamil Saad, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology
Research project: Investigating the structural basis for Fas-mediated apoptosis (programmed cell death) and the interactions between Fas and calmodulin, a protein thought to impede apoptosis
Real-world application: New types of cancer treatment
Career goal: "Researching, teaching, and practicing medicine—I cannot envision doing anything less than the combination of all three. Hopefully, 20 years from now, I will have my own research group and have the opportunity to train my own students. Besides simply teaching science in a lecture setting, I aspire to educate medical students to be more effective communicators with their patients and colleagues."
Rising up: "My Beckman project honestly was the result of wanting to be challenged. By the time I started my junior year, I felt that I was already proficient in the techniques and skills that we performed in my lab, and I also felt that I had a good understanding of experimental design due to my HIV-1 work. I saw this Fas/calmodulin project as my chance to be an independent scientist and to perform the experiments on my own since I knew that I already had the experience and tools to get the job done. Thanks to the Beckman Foundation, I was able to finish this project knowing that I had the resources to produce solid science."
Michael Longmire
Senior, chemistry and biology double major (concentrations in biochemistry and molecular biology)
Mentor: David Graves, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry
Research project: Developing a method of permanently attaching the drug ethidium bromide to DNA and identifying the structure of this complex
Real-world application: "Understanding how DNA is affected in the presence of drugs, or how a particular protein manages to break the double helix at one specific point out of millions, opens the doors to so many different fields, including medicine, drug discovery, and evolutionary biology."
Career goal: "I've always been interested in finding answers, and DNA and life in general have so many questions left to be answered. I plan to be a researcher, working at the interface between science and medicine as closely as possible. I feel that one of the most valuable traits a physician or a scientist in the field can have is the ability to approach a problem with the mindset of the other."
Meaningful conversations: "The Beckman program has given me the ability to not only perform research, but to present it as well. In my time as a Beckman scholar, I will have attended eight scientific meetings and presented at five of them. I have had some of the best opportunities to meet scientists from many different backgrounds, all while working on something unique and meaningful to the field. The Beckman program has given us a chance to showcase our work and develop as scientists, but, perhaps more important, it has reminded us that even though the world of science may be vast, the nature of science and research is able to bring together anyone asking the questions of what, how, and why."
Dhruv Patel
Senior, biomedical engineering major
Mentor: Ho-Wook Jun, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research project: Studying bone tissue regeneration using mesenchymal stem cells
Real-world application: "Tissue engineering methods will eventually be used to allow us to live longer and more productive lives—and I wanted to join a laboratory that was trying to accomplish just that."
Career goal: "While I have enjoyed my research these past couple of years, I want to be involved in more clinical projects, and I believe an M.D. will help me with the proper training I will need. I would like to remain in a hospital system and conduct my own research."
What the Beckman award means: "The stipends have allowed me to stay at UAB in the summers without worrying about my expenses. There also was a generous fund that I was able to use to purchase laboratory supplies. This fund allowed me to complete many of my expensive experiments."
Roxanne Lockhart
Junior, biology major (concentration in molecular biology)
Mentor: Farah Lubin, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology
Research project: Studying the effect of the drug thiamet-G on NF-KB (nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells) after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Real-world application: Thiamet-G could hold promise as a therapy to reduce damaging inflammation after TBI.
Career goal: "Once graduating UAB, I plan to receive an M.D./Ph.D. degree and continue clinically relevant research."
Research evolution: As a senior in the Math and Science Department at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, Lockhart needed to present a senior research project. Because spinal cord injury has affected her family, she was drawn to the research of UAB's Candace Floyd, Ph.D., who specializes in the field. "I was able to spend my senior year of high school working with Dr. Floyd and immediately loved conducting research," Lockhart says. "When Dr. Floyd found out that I was going to come to UAB she said I could keep working in her lab." In Lockhart's sophomore year, Dr. Floyd assigned her a project that involved thiamet-G. Now, "with the Beckman award, I'm pursuing that work in TBI in Dr. Lubin's lab."
Bliss Chang
Junior, chemistry and biology double major (concentrations in biochemistry and molecular biology)
Mentor: Jamil Saad, Ph.D.
Research project: Further elucidating the structural basis for Fas-mediated apoptosis and investigating the role of a point mutation in the Fas protein that may reveal the mechanism of inhibition for the Fas pathway.
Real-world application: Understanding how Fas controls apoptosis could lead to identification of new therapeutic targets that active or deactivate the mechanism in order to treat many different diseases, including cancer.
Career goal: "I am planning on pursuing an M.D./Ph.D. that will allow me to enter academic medicine and teach at a leading medical research university."
Fantastic voyage: "Research is a voyage into uncharted waters. I have truly enjoyed the intellectual challenge posed by the various steps of a project. One of the key elements of a qualified researcher is the ability to troubleshoot a problem—and these problems do not always come with a straightforward troubleshooting guide. This requires one to think critically regarding an experiment and what minute detail may be causing a deviation from the desired result. Sometimes the problems keep piling on top of one another, but the desire to succeed and obtain tangible results always motivates me forward."


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WILLIAMSTOWN, MA –Despite a tremendous overall effort and a pair of hard fought doubles victories, UMass Boston fell just short in their NCAA Tournament debut, falling 5-2 to regionally ranked Skidmore College in the First Round of the NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Tournament.
The Beacons and Thoroughbreds split their match into two parts; with the Beacons owning a 2-1 advantage at the outdoor Torrence M. Hunt '44 Tournament Courts, before the rain forced the two teams inside. Skidmore took over from there, winning all four singles matches on the much faster Lansing Chapman Rink Indoor Courts.
With the loss, UMass Boston finishes their season with an overall record of 14-4. The Beacons set program records for wins (14), wins in a row (12) and won their first ever Little East Conference Regular Season Title and second Little East Conference Tournament Championship.
Skidmore, the seventh-ranked team in the Northeast, moved to 12-8 on the year, as they improved to 3-5 all-time in the NCAA Tournament. The Thoroughbreds will take on MIT Friday morning at 9:30 A.M.
Skidmore opened the match by claiming the first point, recording an 8-0 win at three doubles that was authored by Gabe Steerman and Miles Ransom over Eglis Bizhoti (Dorchester, Mass.) and Seth Shavers (Boston, Mass.).
The Beacons responded, however, by capturing dramatic wins at one and two doubles behind a pair of comebacks to fashion a 2-1 lead heading into singles play.
UMass Boston tied the match at one all when Sean Cullen (Medway, Mass.) and David Hernandez (Bogota, Colombia) registered an 8-6 win at one doubles. After falling behind 5-3, Cullen and Hernandez earned a pair of breaks and dominated their hard-hitting opponents.
The Beacons took their only lead of the day at 2-1, when Alex Loyer (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Charles Lai (Boston, Mass.) held on for a tiebreaker win at number two doubles. After jumping out to 5-2 and 7-3 leads, the Beacons let Skidmore's Kit Green-Sanderson and Nick Tong come all the way back to tie the match at 8-8.
After the two pairs split the first two four points of the first to seven tiebreaker, Lai and Loyer ripped off four straight points to take a 6-2 lead. An ace by Skidmore's Kit Green-Sanderson narrowed the score to 6-3, before Loyer ended the match with a drop shot from his right to the left side of the court to cap off a 7-3 UMB tiebreaker victory.
With the win, Alex Loyer extended his personal winning streak to 26 in a row and the number two doubles pair capped off the season with a perfect 12-0 mark.
Trailing 2-1 after doubles the Thoroughbreds got down to business in singles play, winning four matches in straight sets to move into the Second Round.
Skidmore evened the match up at 2-2, when Ransom outlasted Hernandez 6-1, 6-0 at number two doubles.
The Thoroughbreds went ahead for good at 3-2, as Jimmy Sherpa wore down Cullen with a 6-0, 6-2 victory at number one singles.
Third and fourth singles proved to be much closer, as Steerman won a hard-fought 6-3, 6-0 win at number four singles over Lai, to put Skidmore within a point of the victory.
Loyer put up a tremendous effort at number three singles holding several leads throughout both sets, before falling 6-2, 7-6. The Beacons captain forced a second-set tiebreaker against Danny Knight, but couldn't keep his momentum going from doubles play.
In the two matches still out on the court, Jonah Epstein led Shavers 6-0, 2-0 at number five singles and Green-Sanderson owned a 6-0, 1-1 lead over Bizhoti at sixth-flight singles.


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Outfitting Your Entryway for Cold Weather
Winter is a wonderful season with the holidays and warm tidings. However, those of you who live in colder climates have to take extra steps to ensure a warm home environment. I remember living in New York and San Francisco during some of the coldest seasons where even just few extra preparations at your door step and foyer make a huge difference.
1. First things first: Keep the the dirt, rain and snow outside. Having a doormat is not only a necessity in the winter, but it also adds a decorative touch to the outside of your door step. I loved this colorful mat as seen on Manolo Home, with its Autumnal colors and nature motif.
2. Having a coat rack in the entry way allows us to hang our hats, jackets, heavy coats and even umbrellas leaving the cold weather layers at our door. It's also quite handy when you need to run out for just a moment whether it's for the morning paper or to the corner store. I loved this multi-functional rack as seen on B Gallery's website.
3. Nothing is more cozy and warms up your toes faster than fuzzy slippers. These sheepskin and suede slippers are designed for indoor and outdoor wear with a full treaded sole on the bottoms. Again, keeping these close to the door at your entry way, will make for a nice transition at the end of the day.
4. Most entry ways depending if you're living in a full house or apartment, are floored with hardwood or linoleum. You can easily warm up with a runner or entryway floor rug. Thus adding another color or pattern to your home for fun decoration.
5. If you have a formal entry way foyer, a bench like the Hemnes Ikea bench would come in handy every day. Not only does the seat lift up for incredible storage, but it makes a great quick seating option for putting on your shoes or even an extra place to put down your bags and purse when you walk in the door.
6. If you make room for entry way seating or a bench, why not make it even more comfy (and colorful) with some fun bench cushions. I loved these striped ones from Ikea.
7. Whether you're in a cosmopolitan city or a small farm town, if it snows or pours rain you want to invest in some good rain boots. I know, I know, this is more of a fashion accessory- however when I lived in SF, my rain boots were also a staple at the foot of my doorway. Taking out the trash, running to the market, walking the dog or even going out for the afternoon- all can be daunting on your feet in cold wet weather. Why not have a fun and comfy option to slip into and out of it in seconds. Love these red wellington boots by J.Crew!
8. One feature I love in formal entryway spaces are mounted shelves like this one from Target. Not only do you have the advantage of shelving and hooks, but it's a great alternative to a formal coat rack. This could be an easier option for those with limited space.
9. You may not have central heat, but investing in a good (and safe) space heater is always smart. I have this radiator inspired heater that cooks the room slowly and is insulated with oil in the piping. It's a lot safer than the ones that spin out hot air from a red electric flame. Having a heater close to your entryway will help you warm up faster.
10. If you have the space, keeping a blanket in the entryway could come in useful. Why not? Who doesn't want to come home to warm fleece after they've ridden the subway for thirty minutes and walked in the snow?
Images in top gallery: 1. Crate and Barrel, 2. Tell Your Interior Decorator, 3. Sandy's Cozy Nook via Apartment Therapy, 4. Betty Browser , 5. Pottery Barn; All other images as linked above.


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In his letter to the editor (Sept. 22), Lee Cook says the 47 percent who Mitt Romney insultingly and incorrectly called freeloaders are "always Democrats."
He is incorrect: They are all of us.
Many who pay no federal income taxes are seniors, in the military or part of the super-rich - all traditionally Republican voters. Note that "blue states" typically pay more in federal taxes than they receive in federal benefits, and "red states" typically take more federal money then they contribute in taxes.
Also note that Mr. Romney pays virtually no income tax, only a 15 percent capital gains tax which he is able to further reduce through manipulation of the tax code and its many "loophole" deductions.
Those deductions were created by Republicans to encourage behavior that they like, such as home ownership, charitable giving, drilling for oil and growing corn.
One can debate the merits of such social engineering tax policies - and I think on balance they have been helpful - but they have some undeserving beneficiaries such as Mr. Romney and many large corporations.
Republicans condemn Democrats for liking to "tax and spend," but that is just being responsible. Republicans, on the other hand, prefer to (selectively) cut taxes and spend more, which is irresponsible and created the deficits and lead to the weak economy that Mr. Obama inherited.
Former Savannahian glad to be in Effingham
I spent the first 59 years of my life in Savannah and Chatham County and was always proud of my community.
However, I count my blessings on a daily basis, since my family and I have been able to relocate to Effingham County. Even though we live in an unincorporated area, we have excellent garbage and recycling pickup as well as great law enforcement, EMS and fire services.
I am really saddened by the current situation in Savannah, which has been implemented by governmental inadequacy and what I believe to be blatant reverse racism. As an honors graduate of Savannah State University, I am even more disconcerted by the negative attitude and actions of the previous mayor and current mayor, both of whom have previous affiliations with SSU.
I sincerely hope that there are brighter days ahead for metropolitan Savannah, but I have serious doubts considering the incompetence and prejudices of the current city and county administrations.
Fed digging an economic grave for America
Quantitative easing, or QE3, is printing new money with nothing to back it - except for maybe the taxpayers' willingness to pay higher taxes. When do you say enough is enough?
It was recently announced that the Federal Reserve System will start buying $40 billion (with a "B") of mortgage-backed securities on the open market for its own portfolio each month. This move by the Fed has been labeled by the press as QE3. The reason given for this new round of bond buying was to stimulate the economy and specifically to bring down the unemployment rate.
Sounds like a bailout of Wall Street and not Main Street to me. The administration wants to inflate our way out of this economic mess. When you're in a hole what is the first rule? Stop digging. Ben Bernanke apparently wants to please his overlord, President Obama, so he can be re-elected and he can thus remain chairman of the Fed.
Remember what Margaret Thatcher once said: "Sooner or later, you run out of other people's money."
The problem is that inflating the price of gold, silver, oil and stocks doesn't create jobs.
I know I'm not a lot smarter than all the king's horses and all the king's men. But am I missing something here?
Something amiss with Romney's tax returns
Is Mitt Romney not quite being honest with his tax returns?
He has released the 2010 and, finally, the 2011 returns. The consensus is Mr. and Mrs. Romney did not take the full deduction for charitable contribution to maintain an effective tax rate above 14 percent.
That reveals the following considerations.
Since that adjustment was not on the 2010 return, it is apparent criticism of the low 13 percent rate for 2010 had an effect. Could the reason no earlier returns have been released is because the rates would have been lower?
A second concern is the failure to take advantage of a deduction which is legal and available. Would financial decisions if elected president be based on what is to his advantage rather than beneficial to all?
A minor observation is the decision to reduce the deduction did increase the tax payment and, therefore, the revenue to the government by not using all of the deduction. Maybe that was to help the 47 percent?
Obama's fundraising emails: Enough already
My email inbox has been inundated lately with solicitations from President Obama or Joe Biden to enter a contest for dinner with Obama.
When I try to delete it, another box comes up stating something to the effect of, "No I don't want to enter this contest, but I will be voting for the Obama ticket."
Isn't this an invasion of my privacy?
I will add, my privacy has not been invaded by any solicitations from Mitt Romney. I have spammed all of the Obama emails, but they continue under another name.
Gay marriage to bring divine punishment
The president of the United States recently stated that those that practice homosexuality should be able to "marry" one another, and that this marriage should be accepted by our society.
By making such a statement, he is denying the beauty of the created order and with it the Creator Himself.
The stage is set for further divine judgment upon America. Don't take my word for it - read the second half of Romans 1 for yourself.


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6 million savvy travellers have booked their airport parking with us in the past three years. 361,604 customer reviews rated our airport parking 88% for satisfaction provided.
Or you can refer to our airport parking sitemap for further information.
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There are 3 main parking options you can choose when pre-booking your Airport Parking with Holiday Extras:
Secured airport parking
You can park your car at the airport or close to the airport depending on your budget. All airport car parks include transfers to the airport and then back to your car park.
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Simply drive to the terminal, meet your driver, let them park your car for you, and the driver will drop your car back at the terminal ready for your return. A great option when travelling with a family.
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Our airport hotel with parking deals are the most convenient package and a money-saver too. Have a leisurely journey the day before your flight and enjoy a good night's sleep, a decent breakfast and a relaxed, comfortable start to your holiday.
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Removes the need for you to park your car - Instead, everything operates from one arrivals/departures area. When you arrive here a driver will park your car for you while you catch the transfer bus to the airport. When you return to the car park your car will be brought to you at the arrivals/departure area.
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Is parking that is within the airport boundary - Despite being within the airport it is sensible to check the transfer times and distance to the terminals, as airports can be deceptively big. In general the closer you are to the terminal the more you pay for the convenience.
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Is parking that is located outside the airport boundary - Despite being outside the airport boundaries it is worth checking the transfer times from these car parks as, very occasionally, they are closer than on-airport facilities.
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Is for our customers travelling during the busy holiday periods - Usually defined by the period of peak holiday time from March until October, holiday parking caters for anybody flying from a UK airport for their vacation.
We are the biggest airport parking booking company in the UK dealing with over 1.2 million parking bookings every year, and have been in the business for 30 years. We offer you the best choice of airport car parks anywhere in the UK. When it comes to airport parking, Holiday Extras have the best deals, guaranteed spaces and a super efficient service. Cheap airport parking doesn't mean you need to scrimp on quality.
Check out some of the awards Holiday Extras won in 2010 Holiday Extras Awards
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Just by pre-booking your airport parking with Holiday Extras you are saving up to 60% off the gate price. We have been looking at other ways in which we can help you save money: take a look at the advice below to help shave off even more pounds from the cost of airport parking fees.
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Warwick Sewer Authority Industrial Pretreatment Program of Warwick, RI Recognized for Excellence
Release Date: 03/01/2010
Contact Information: Paula Ballentine, 617-918-1027
(Boston—March 1, 2010) The Warwick Sewer Authority (WSA) in Warwick, RI was recently selected by EPA for a 2009 Regional Industrial Pretreatment Program Excellence Award.
The staff of WSA, led by BettyAnne Rossi, Pretreatment Coordinator and Lab Director, was recognized by EPA's New England Office for exceptional work in inspecting, permitting, and monitoring its industrial users. The plant was among two facilities in New England acknowledged for exemplary performance during 2009. The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management was instrumental in nominating this facility.
Beside BettyAnne Rossi, WSA staff include: Steven Miller, Pretreatment Inspector/Laboratory Technician and Matthew Gosselin , Pretreatment Inspector/Laboratory Specialist.
"The professionals operating these wastewater treatment plants, as well as the municipalities and the state environmental agencies that support them, are essential to keeping our environment healthy," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA's New England Office. "I am proud to give them the credit they deserve."
The EPA Regional Industrial Pretreatment Program Excellence Award was established to recognize and honor the employees of publicly owned wastewater treatment plants for their commitment to improving water quality with outstanding oversight of its industrial users discharging to the municipal sewer system. More often than not and particularly with the smaller facilities, conscientious pretreatment coordinators and staff continue to perform exceptionally with limited resources.
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Monday, 05 November 2012 09:24 AM
* Sandy within range of modelled scenarios - CEO
* To make final decision on capital in early 2013
* Shares down 2 percent (Adds CEO, analyst, detail)
By Myles Neligan
LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Superstorm Sandy won't put insurers' finances under severe strain, and may allow them to push through a profit-boosting rise in prices next year, Hiscox , the biggest London-listed reinsurer, said on Monday.
Sandy killed at least 113 and caused severe damage across a swathe of the north-eastern United States including New York last week. According to early estimates, insurers face a claims bill of up to $20 billion, potentially making Sandy the U.S.'s fourth-costliest natural catastrophe ever.
But the industry should be able to cope, as the storm falls well within the range of catastrophe scenarios insurers use to test their balance sheets, Hiscox Chief Executive Bronek Masojada said.
"It's within the zone of what we model for this sort of thing, which is why it's going to be manageable for us and for the rest of the industry as well," Masojada told Reuters.
Insurers are well equipped to absorb claims from Sandy because a relative absence of big natural disasters over the first ten months of the year has left them with abundant cash reserves.
"We see the UK stocks making good profits this year despite Sandy," said Numis Securities analyst Nick Johnson.
"I'd be very surprised if it caused trading losses."
However, Sandy could still jeopardize plans by some insurers to return spare cash to shareholders in the form of special dividends or share buybacks, Johnson and other analysts say.
Hiscox, among those expected to hand back cash to investors, said it would make a final decision early next year once it had a clearer idea of Sandy's financial impact. It did not provide an estimate of its exposure.
Bermuda-based Hiscox is the first of five London-listed insurers and reinsurers operating in the Lloyd's of London market to give a trading update since Sandy struck on Oct. 30. Rival Beazley follows on Nov. 7.
Masojada said Sandy could push up the price insurers pay to protect themselves against unexpected claims for damage to homes or businesses by up to 5 percent next year, reversing a decline in 2012.
The price paid by households and businesses to insure their property i s also likely to resume an upward trend which faltered earlier this year, he said.
Insurance prices have traditionally risen in the wake of big natural catastrophes as a surge of claims prompts weaker players to withdraw, freeing those still in the market to charge more.
However, catastrophes have had less of an impact on pricing in recent years because the industry's big reserves of spare capital allow it to absorb losses more comfortably.
Hiscox had sales of 1.2 billion pounds ($1.9 billion) in the nine months to Sept. 30, an increase of 6.4 percent, it said in a trading statement.
Hiscox shares were down 2 percent at 1325 GMT, making them the second-steepest faller in the FTSE non-life insurance index . The stock is still up 27 percent since the start of the year, outperforming the index's 18 percent rise.
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Natalie Wood's Home: Organized Clutter
Natalie Wood is a clothing designer and an artist. She is based in Sydney Australia. Her house feels like a constant work in progress, but things seem to naturally find their place. We call it artful clutter. Even her overstuffed shelves or randomly placed objects create beautiful vignettes. More photos after the jump...
We fell in love with Natalie's jewelry display and her amazing collection of art. Her home really feels like the place where the creative process happens. It is very inspiring. We first stumbled across Natalie's home on the Adair's Lolly Jar blog. Check out more beautiful pictures of her home on The Selby.
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Highlights of March 2013
Today is the last day of March and I can't see much happening in the next 24 hours so I'd like to ask what is your musical highlight of the month?
I guess mine is the Hookworms album given that Buke & Gase officially came out in February. I was expecting it to be the John Grant record but every time I put it on I seem to end up playing Queen of Denmark instead.
I'm feeling that March was a poor month after January and February started the year off so well. Or maybe it's just me running out steam. What do you think?
For me this month is about releases from earlier and later
Finally came to appreciate Holy Fire properly recently, it reminds me (in terms of quality) of Two Dancers. And I've been listening to the new Flaming Lips LP a lot, though it's effect has worn off a little. Enjoyed the phosphorescent album though.
I've said enough about The John Grant album elsewhere. Pretty much hate it.
totally agree with you about Foals there
Holy Fire is a monumental album. Not sure if I'll hold it in as high regard as I do Two Dancers, but it is an equally immense record in many ways - and I appreciate it all the more for how slowly and steadily it is revealing itself. Just the same as Two Dancers did.
Phosphorescent album is also wonderful. Good calls those two.
Devendra Banhart's Mala is pretty nice, much better than I was expecting .
Hookworms is good, but not consistently so, and the bits that should get the hairs on my neck standing up the way White Hills or The Psychic Paramount do, just don't. Never quite goes into synapse frying overdrive for me.
Laish - Obituaries. Utterly beautiful folk-rock/pop band from Brighton, part of the Wilkommen Collective. Wonderful stuff.
Black Pus - All My relations. Is hella rad.
I've been thinking
That the only reason I hold Two Dancers in higher regard than Holy Fire is because for me Foals have more blemishes as a band overall. If I listen to Antidotes it annoys me in a way Limbo, Panto never could. Beyond that I find it hard to choose between the two, though I will still look forward to WBs new album than whatever foals do next.
(N.B just thought that I guess Two Dancers is the better record, because although Yannis has improved a lot, Foals don't have anywhere near the. vocal depth Thorpe and Fleming provide.)
Phosphorescent album - magical!
Listened to it non-stop over the last few days, brilliant stuff.
That's what I was looking for in this thread, any more good recommendations from the last month?
I'm not sure which good albums I missed in March. I think the new
Suede album was pretty good. I've downloaded but haven't heard the new Low album yet except a few tracks. Gig highlights for March were two very good Shepherds Bush Beach House gigs, Suede last night and an excellent final gig by Shrag.
The Daughter album is wondeful
Although it does sag a little in the middle and there's a couple of really cringey lyrics.
Bowie and Steve Mason both had great albums out.
Only other albums I got from March were Deptford Goth (okay, nothing special) and Stornaway (couple of decent moments but overall disappointing and forgettable).
Pearl Mystic
Comedown Machine and The Next Day have all made March very enjoyable for me.
that Blue Hawaii record too...
...'Untogether'. haven't heard much tell of it upon these boards, but its rather lovely...like a watery breeze on a scorching afternoon.
Autre ne veut - anxiety
It's incredible.
It came out right at the end of Feb, but I've only just heard it. Absolutely love it.
Colleen Green's Sock it to Me
is probs my favourite. manages to take what she did with her earlier releases and BAM, KNOCK IT UP A NOTCH. better songwriting, better arrangements, better atmosphere.