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NPR | Mark Memmott | Postal Service Moves To Halt Saturday Mail[0] Every other cost saving reform and capital investment they've launched has failed to cut labor costs. They've never been able to get their union to accept lower labor costs before, and I'd wager this time is no different. I bet their estimated cost savings are off by a binary magnitude.
"Beginning the week of Aug. 5 this year," [Postmaster General Patrick] Donahoe said, USPS will provide "six days of package delivery and five days of mail delivery. ... We will not deliver or collect mail on Saturdays."
Its decision could, however, run into challenges from Congress and from unions that represent the Postal Service's employees. Donahoe made the case, though, that USPS has no choice. The Postal Service, which lost nearly $16 billion last year, will save about $2 billion a year with this change, Donahoe said.
[1] If they were serious about cutting costs wouldn't they cut out delivery on their lowest volume day? (Which, IIRC, is Wednesday.) Choosing Saturday already makes me think they don't have the cards for a real showdown with their union.
[2] Out of curiosity, what's the plan for the other $14 billion dollar in losses?

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I have run a quiet, grassroots campaign this year-emphasis on grass, nice green grass.
I have traveled and talked to the local critters, listening carefully to what they had to say.
I probably won't be voted in as president, that is okay. I am proud that I did not engage in mud slinging, okay there was some rolling in the mud, but no slinging.
I encourage those of you that are allowed to vote to do so. When you vote please keep us fur and feathered citizens in mind. Select a candidate who understands that we are important and to be valued also.
Until there is a horse in the White House we will just have to keep muddling through with the best human that we can-to bad the DOR didn't run for president.
Enjoy your day and don't forget to hug your DOR!


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{gluten, dairy, soy, egg, nut and seed-free}
1 cup of finely gournd GF oat flour (or buckwheat flour)
1/2 cup of white rice flour
1/2 cup of tapioca flour
1/4 cup of millet flour
1/4 cup of coconut flour
1 ts. of baking soda
1 ts. of sea salt
1 1/2 ts. of baking powder
2/3 cup of maple syrup or pure honey or a mix of both*
1/2 cup of soft or melted coconut oil
1/2 cup of coconut milk beverage or other non-dairy milk
1 TB of apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup of applesauce
1 organic lemon--- use the 1/3 cup of fresh lemon juice + the zest from the whole lemon (1 TB)
1/2 ts. of pure lemon flavoring (or use food-grade lemon essential oil 10-12 drops [I used Young Living Lemon Oil])
1/2-1 cup of chopped fresh strawberries
1/4 cup of frozen or fresh blueberries
*I used a mixture of honey and maple syrup to keep the muffins a lighter color as well,plus their flavors with the lemon is amazing- but if for some reason you want to use coconut sugar instead or regular sugar you can add in 1/2 cup of sugar of choice 1/4 or so cup of either honey or maple syrup.
First, mix all the GF flours and dry ingredients together in a bowl, then add in the wet ingreidents and whisk together well. Then you can use an oiled 1/4 cup scoop and pour batter into the mufin tins. Then I distribute the fresh and frozen berries on the tops of all the muffins... you can squish them in and cover each top generously. You could also pour all the berries into the batter and fold in bfore you scoop into muffin tins- I put the berries on top this time around so that they would look pretty and bake right on top. Either way is great or do a little of both too. You just have to be carefut to not over stuff each muffin with too many berries.
These muffins could be made into minis too- just maybe make sure your berries are cut smaller and do not domintae the smaller size.
I must say, lemon and berries is one of my most favorite flavor combos. So for me, these are a comfort muffin - but I hope they offer you some color and fresh flavor to your spring steps.
Much love and happy baking, xoxo


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Top 5 Songs That Randy Rogers Ever Released
The Randy Rogers Band is one of the most popular bands ever to hit the Texas Music Scene. No matter when you became a part of the Texas Music revolution you have heard one of his songs, attended at least one of his shows, or bought one of his albums.
The Randy Rogers Band doesn't have any problems ringing out music to please Texas music lovers, which makes picking the top 5 songs a very hard task. But here we go.......
5. Better Off Wrong- From the "Just A Matter of Time" album this song takes the ever so cliche stand point of a break up and everyone's opinion how you never did enough to make it work. But the twist comes when he tells the story lyrically on everything that was wrong and how it wasn't going to work things were just "Better Off Wrong"
4.Tonight's Not The Night- A classic RRB song that puts all the lovers and prospectors of the evening looking to seal the deal on the dance floor. The lyrics depict that story we have all lived at one point where you were don't want to leave her standing under the porch light and have to drive off with out making it the perfect night. A true story and a perfect song to fall in love to on the dance floor. It comes off of the" Rollercoaster" album from 2004.
3. In My Arms Instead- From the self titled album this song is what goes through any guys mind when they fall in love and loose it all. No matter where you go you can't get away from the memories or the mental triggers that you developed with that person. A true crowd favorite at any show will bring all the single people to the floor and put them to two stepping.
2. Interstate- From the latest album "Burning The Day". This is a fun song that if taken from the perspective of the artist puts a real feel to what life on the road is like and the balancing act that it requires between loving and working. The tune was a instant hit in the radio world when it was released as the RRB single. The music video also drew lots of attention because it was shot at the shows and caused fans to go wild and crazy.
1. Kiss Me In The Dark- This is the staple song that everyone knows when the first chord rings out. It doesn't matter if you are new to Texas music or a life long fan you know this song word for word. Every person in the venue will crowd the dance floor until its so packed you can't move then sing every word of the song at the top of their lungs. This is the ultimate ladies song and one that the guys don't mind dancing to with the hopes of stealing that kiss in the dark!


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The $68 billion high-speed rail project was approved for the sale of bonds by an appellate court ruling this week, overturning the rulings of two lower courts, officials said Friday.
The move clears a path for the High-Speed Passenger Train Finance Committee to sell $10 million in bonds as part of the 2008 Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act.
"What it does is give a green light to the (sales) of the bonds, which is the state portion approved by the voters," said Michael Murphy, intergovernmental relations officer for the city of Santa Clarita. "It is a significant boost for the Rail Authority to start construction."
Contrary to the trial court's determination, the Finance Committee properly found that issuance of bonds for the project was necessary or desirable, according to a court ruling.
The court overturned a Sacramento Superior Court judge's rulings siding with Central Valley landowners, according to an NBC Bay Area report. The judge invalidated a state bond sale because the project didn't meet promises for cost and speed outlined in the proposition.
At the local level, Santa Clarita officials have focused on the trains path away from the valley.
"There have been a couple of changes -- two years ago the High-Speed Rail Authority board had two surface alignments in the Santa Clarita Valley," Murphy said. "In June of 2012, the City Council asked the board to look at adding a third alignment to be considered an extension of the tunnel that was being proposed as the alignment comes out of the San Fernando Valley and goes into 6- or 7-mile tunnel."
What the Santa Clarita City Council asked for was an additional two miles that would take it away from Sand Canyon to avoid homes in Sand Canyon, Sulfur Springs Elementary, Pinecrest Elementary and Vista Canyon, Murphy said. The board staff and city officials wanted to look at a more direct alignment through Burbank and Palmdale to bypass Santa Clarita altogether.
The three-judge appeals panel acknowledged there are legal questions about whether the project complies with the measure's language, according to the NBC Bay Area report. They said their ruling is narrowly focused on whether the state followed the law for selling bonds.
While the Finance Committee may begin to sell bonds, the ruling states that no more than $950 million of bond proceeds may be used for non-high-speed rail connectivity with high-speed rail line.
Officials are going to meet in September to continue to discuss the High-Speed Passenger Train's path through the state, Murphy said.
The California high-speed rail expected to connect major cities across the state including Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area, the Central Valley, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, Orange County and San Diego.
"We welcome the court's ruling. The High-Speed Rail Authority has always been committed to building a modern high-speed rail system that will connect the state, precisely as the voters called for when they passed Proposition 1A," said Board Chairman Dan Richard. "This system will be a clean, fast, non-subsidized service, and will create jobs and enable smart, sustainable growth while preserving farmland and habitat."
The California High-Speed Rail Authority is responsible for planning, designing, building and operation of the first high-speed rail system in the nation.
The High-Speed Train will feature electric trains capable of operating at speeds of 200 miles per hour or greater, guaranteed maximum travel times between major destinations, and achievable operating headway, the time between successive trains, of five minutes or less.
By 2029, the system is planned to run from San Francisco to the Los Angeles basin in under three hours.
NBC Bay Area contributed to this story.


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text: MILFORD - Barbara A. Henson, 67, died at 11:30 a.m. Monday in her home of natural causes. Survivors include two daughters, Carla S. Patrick of Claypool and Andrea Henson of Warsaw; three sons, Brian of Plainfield, Ind., and David and Robert A., both of Milford; four sisters, Mariam Orten of Leesburg, Delores Wheeler of Millersburg, and Avis Gross and Bonnie Johnson, both of Syracuse; and two brothers, Dennis Graff of Millersburg and Robert Graff of Syracuse. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Mishler-Eastlund Funeral Home, where friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today.


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Name: Park Yoochun (믹키유천 or 秘奇有天/ 秘奇有仟)
Stage Name: Micky Yoochun
Birthday: 4 June 1986
Height: 180cm
Weight: 64kg
Blood Type: O
Family: Mom, Dad, & Younger Brother
Hobbies: Composing, playing piano, basketball
Education: Kyunghee University
Vocal Position: Mid-Low
Special Ability: Singing, writing lyrics and composing music
Awards: 2001 American Singing Competition (Virginia) – Best Artist of the Competition | 2003 KBN Teens Singing Competition Special Award
Extra Information About Micky Yoochun
A gemini born in 1986, has the middle-low vocal part of the group. Along with Xiah, he is the middle voice of the group. Is an important figure that brightens up the mood and atmosphere with his funny personality. Perhaps he couldn't hide his talent even when he was little, for he won the highest award at the Korean/American Music Contest and the KBN Music Contest for young adults. Is very interested in composing and wrote over 100 songs, and the members personally like his song the best out of the ones the members composed. Joined the team last year and left his family in America, and he admits that he sometimes misses driving around Virginia. But he says that this moment, right now, is the happiest of his life.
Called as Junsu's Half, Yoochun is the perfect mate for playing and doing dorky things together. He, together with Junsu and his soulmate, Jaejoong, always find right time to doing dorky things, even in a serious event or concert. He really loves compose music, and produce many songs, collaborate with Jaejoong (Kiss Shita Mama, 3rd album) and Evergreen (3rd album) with Changmin, also his solo project : Runaway/My Girlfriend. Yoochun loves to read comics, watch dramas, eat mid-night snacks with Changmin, and play games with Yunho. And do you know? He reads Fullmetal Alchemist and plays Bleach game during concert rehearsal!!!
• He will cry every time he thinks of his family in US when he is alone.
• Don't let him feel alone and give him more love.
• He is afraid of screaming voice and horror movie, yea, but he also love to watch it!
• He likes girl who know how to dance.
• He will get mad if people left him alone. Once, he is in hospital, Xiah didn't visit him, he get mad at Xiah, so remember to visit him when he's in hospital.
• He has sexy collar bones so he likes to wear v-neck cloths but don't let him wear it during cold days.
• He can eat many snacks but better let him eat rice more! He is too skinny, you know?
• Micky's and Yunho's favorite drink is Tok-tok. They can drink 5 packets per day.
• He have a killer smile, causing blood loss, people that have weak heart could be killed by it.
• His favorite things are piano and coffee.
• Jaejoong and Hyunjoong are his great friends. They never bring other people along when having a get together.
• He's not a night person, nor is he a morning person.
• He loves playing games and he believes he's good at them. Therefore, he never has any rules.
• When he sees an attractive girl, he's unable to take his eyes off of her.
• He likes to roll his pants up. It's a new style he's trying to endorse.
• He (as well as the rest of the members) are very supportive of SHINee. Before their debut, Yoochun would always buy food for them and supported them by fiving them advice.
Who is Micky Yoochun?
Park Umma (Micky's mother and that's what we call her here) dreamed of two golden bananas and thought she was going to give birth to twins. It was in her dream that her children would become musicians or artisically inclined. She didn't have twins but was instead blessed with two wonderful sons, one of which would become a songwriter and a performer. She named her firstborn Yoochun who eventually became fond of Mickey Mouse, hence, the name Micky. ^^
Born on June 4, 1986, Park Yoochun had his formative years in Korea but later moved with his family to Virginia in the United States in 1998. When his parents divorced, Yoochun and his younger brother, Yoohwan, lived with their mother and as a responsible young lad at that time, Yoochun ended up taking all the part time jobs he could get to support his family. A natural born musician, his talent in singing got recognized when he joined the 2001 American Singing Competition in Virginia and won the Best Artist Award. He was then given the opportunity to go back to Korea to audition for SM Entertainment in Korea where he eventually became a trainee. Yoochun also joined the KBN Teens Singing Competition in 2003 and received the Special Award for the said competition.
On December 26, 2003, the group Dong Bang Shin Gi was introduced in Korea and Yoochun became part of it since, along with his four co-members, namely Xiah Junsu, Youngwoong Jaejoong, Choikang Changmin and U-know Yunho. His stage name became Micky Yoochun, combining the name he was called in the US and his first name. Micky eventually had his US citizenship canceled due to problems of having to go back to the US every now and then. He mentioned that he would join the Korean military at the age of 30, along with his co-members.
Little stuff we ought to know about MYC
○ He is left-handed but writes using his right hand.
○ He learned the piano all by himself. Even he didn't know how to read notes, he was wise enough to imitate other people's hand movements.
○ He does not want to get married. (He often stresses this during interviews but Yunho said that the person who usually says something like this will end up getting married first.)
○ He enjoys eating ramen while in Japan and would nag the other members to join him eat even during late at night. If they didn't join him, he would blackmail them by saying stuff like, "If it was you who asked me, would I refuse?"
○ He dreams of buying a boat and wants his band to perform in that boat.
○ He had experienced getting lost in translation a couple of times. First was when his family moved to the US and he didn't know any English then. Another one was when he came back to Korea that he had to adjust to speaking the Korean language again. And lastly, when the band started out in Japan, none of them knew Japanese.
○ On his 21st birthday, he was given 1000 CDs of different genre by his fans.
○ He considers Dong Bang Shin Gi as his most valuable treasure.
○ He was inspired by the song "Tears in Heaven" and that made him pursue a career in music.
○ He plans to go on vacation in Europe with his family, particularly in Switzerland and France (Provence).
○ He always sleeps with the aircon on even during winter.
○ He was once labeled as a 'Homme Fatale' (Dangerous Male) by his Korean fans.
○ The first big thing he got for himself was a piano. He bought it after saving all the money he got from working six part time jobs back in the US
○ Because of his natural charm and good looks, he already had a fan club at the tender age of 12 (and he wasn't a member of TVXQ yet!). A former classmate once revealed this truth on the show called Happy Together Friends.
Micky's contributions to popular media
○ Wrote Space, Between the Sky and the Ocean 공간, 하늘과 바다사이, a narration for the third Korean single Hi Ya Ya
○ Composed Fox Rain/Like Weather 여우비
○ Wrote the lyrics for Holding Back The Tears which was included in the original soundtrack for Vacation
○ Composed and wrote lyrics for My Girlfriend, featured in the Runaway/My Girlfriend Japanese single
○ Appeared in Magolpy's debut music video Girl in Flight 비행소녀
○ Vocals featured in DJ Makai's song Tokyo Lovelight
○ Composed Kiss shita mama, sayonara Kissしたまま、さよなら with Jaejoong
○ Composed Evergreen with Changmin for the 2007 Winter Album of SM Town
○ Composed Kiss The Baby Sky, the theme song for the Japanese program Zoom In
○ Composed and wrote lyrics for Love Bye Love 사랑 안녕 사랑 Sarang Annyeong Sarang
○ Wrote the rap lyrics for the song Señorita, a track from SHINee's latest album Romeo
○ Co-wrote Colors: Melody and Harmony with Jaejoong, the theme song for Hello Kitty's 35th anniversary and the carrier track for their upcoming single with the same title.
Micky en vogue
Micky's fashion sense is mostly recognized when he's out in public, like walking on a street or at the airport, and people would notice how he mixes and matches the stuff he wears. In fact, a poll was conducted by Channel V Thailand last 2008 and he was voted as their Asian Favorite Style. Even his mother admitted that as a young boy, Micky loved to dress up. When he was in his teenage years, he was conscious of his hair that when it got messed up even when he was already in school, he would go back home to fix it.
Micky's fears
Micky is scared of little crawling creatures and spiders give him the most dread. When he sees one, he would usually ask Yoohwan to get rid of it because he's too afraid to even look at it. Also, he admitted that he has fear of heights or being lifted up in the air. We would notice that during offshots or when he's being lifted up because he shows a very wary look on his face. He also gets easily scared of horror movies, just like Yunho. But they still watch horror movies anyway.
Micky the songwriter
Being musically inclined since childhood, Micky has written over 100 songs up to date, 5 or so of which have been published, performed live and included in the albums and singles TVXQ released. Kiss the Baby Sky, a track included in Tohoshinki's 25th single "Bolero/Kiss the Baby Sky/Wasurenaide", became the theme song for the Japanese show called Zoom In. Micky never tires of writing songs that it's the first thing he does when he wakes up in the morning.
According to Park Umma, Micky likes to drink and he usually drinks a glass of wine when he composes. There was even one time when umma joined him drinking. Micky asked for her advice when he was writing Love Bye Love, but later he was still the one who picked the title and called it Love Bye Love. Micky performed this song at their 3rd Asia Tour-Mirotic solo. He made some little changes on the lyrics and the arrangement of the song and it only made the song sound more emotional and heart breaking. Micky admitted once that the break up songs he wrote were 50% based from experience and 50% fictional.
Micky's sexy clavicles
Early in 2009, Micky was voted in Korea to have the sexiest clavicles/collarbones. His collarbone and neck are sexy indeed, not to mention his broad shoulders which are to die for! And I swear once you see them bare, you will get distracted and it will make you look at his neck more often than necessary, especially when that Adam's apple is moving up and down! *giggles*
Micky adores Harang
Micky had always been fond of dogs since he was young and had always wanted one. However, he was prone to allergies, especially to animal fur. Miraculously, after ten years, when Micky tried to play with a dog, he never had any allergic reaction. So then he decided to get himself a dog and named him Harang, meaning, gift from God. Harang has been Micky's baby since and is a loyal friend to Micky. In fact, Micky even mentioned Harang a couple of times in his thank you notes for their 4th album Mirotic. In the spring of 2008, the pair were invited by Vogue Korea to attend their Fashion Pet event and the pair strutted their way to the event with poise and grace.
Micky's lucrative mind
Micky was interviewed earlier this year in a Japanese magazine on what 2009 will be like. He replied, "The best year". Quite right since on the first half of the year, not only was he able to get a new ride, he also started to venture in the business world. He first opened CreBeau-Kiss, a Chinese franchise of cosmetic products from the Creating Beauty chain, very similar to that of Korea's The Face Shop. His second shop, that opened last May 2009, is a gelato franchise called Timeout Gelato. His mother is managing both shops and Micky also checks up on his business each time he goes back home in Korea.
Micky's mane
Since TVXQ's debut in 2003, Micky had sported all the possible hairstyles one could ever think of or imagine. His hair has tried dreadlocks, extensions, clip-ons, getting permed, been dyed to different colors several times and Micky even accidentally ended up having a sort of military look because of his desire to copy a certain actor's hairstyle. His co-members would tease him often because his wide forehead was emphasized in that hairstyle. Still, he never gave up in trying different sorts of hairstyles. In fact, his hair is one of the mostly searched topics on Korean websites. See his different hairstyles here.
Micky's tattoos
Micky has three tattoos in total. One is found on the lower portion of his back that says "TVFXQ MYC". This tattoo is very similar to the one his 'soulmate' Jaejoong has on his upper back that reads "TVfXQ SOUL". The second one is on his right leg, a Native American symbol that resembles a feather that means something along the lines of brotherhood and unity. His brother Yoohwan is said to have the same tattoo. And recently MYC got a new tattoo which brought attention to the fandom where a big letter A was seen etched on his left chest. Turns out that the tattoo says "Always keep the faith", a line which Micky himself popularized and this is the message he would usually give out to fans giving them encouragement and the strength to hold on. Even on his minihompy on Cyworld (BlueFaith), a photo of this famous line turned tattoo is posted.
What they say about him~~
"He has that leadership where he knows what atmosphere to create and how to tidy everyone up. It's amazing that he gets everything he puts his mind to be done. He is action over words." -Xiah Junsu on Pinky Magazine, March 2009
"He is a thoughtful person. He has a big heart. He has a sense of manliness that is different from Yunho's sense of manliness." -Choikang Changmin on Pinky Magazine, March 2009
"Among the sunbaes (seniors), the one we remember the most is Micky Yoochun from Dong Bang Shin Gi. We're so thankful. Before our debut, he would bring us snacks and supported us. We're so moved. He gave us really good advice. We won't forget it." -SHINee on Channel V
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MUSIC REVIEWS: The Coral Sea and Goldfrapp
Patti Smith/Kevin Shields
The Coral Sea
If someone said that punk poet laureate, Patti Smith, would be pairing up with My Bloody Valentine's, Kevin Shields, for a live performance, I would have told them to stop using drugs. The two paired up to do a live performance a few years back and the live album, The Coral Sea, is the result. The album is a musical memorial dedicated to Robert Mapplethorpe, a friend of Smith. The live disc includes excerpts from Smith's epic poem of the same title.
Smith, a legend in her own right, comes through with a heartbreaking record and Shields is brilliant as always, accompanying Smith on guitar throughout her spoken word performance. If you're a Smith fan or looking for an original kind of music, this is the album for you.
Dance party people, alert. Goldfrapp's latest release may not be on your playlist. If you've got the patience, and if you liked her earlier material, still give this a listen.
It's fitting that Alison Goldfrapp looks like a grown-up Goldilocks. Her latest, Seventh Tree, evokes images of riding through a forest, in the middle of a kind of offbeat fairy tale. Though not as energetic or glamorous as recent releases, this album seems to be a return to her debut Felt Mountain. Beautifully arranged, Seventh Tree offers plenty of sensual, soothing songs, both contemplative and healing.
"Little Bird," the second track, is practically symphonic. The way the music sways and builds until it's all around you, with Alison's angelic voice, backed by drums and atmospherics, is absolutely blissful. "Happiness," is like a tiny, cheerful circus with its playful rhythm and catchy introduction. "Road to Somewhere" gently pulsates and guides the soul. "Cologne Cerrone Houdini" is sultry but sophisticated.
Seventh Tree brings us into the summer soothing and gently edging the soul forward.
—Christine Thelen


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Please like my new FaceBook page. MS State Baseball Fan. I will use FB more next year.
Friday, January 4, 2013
News from coaches convention
The ABCA (American Baseball Coaches Association) is having their annual meeting in Chicago. Some big news has come out that will affect Miss State baseball. 1) NCAA Regional host sites will now be announced Sunday night following the end of conference tournaments. This means, for instance, Miss State would have hosted a Regional in 2012 because they won the SEC Tournament. Obviously, this is big news for those teams "on the fence" of hosting a Regional. 2) More Regional games will be televised via ESPN platform. This is great news. There are some great post season baseball being played and it should be on TV. When Miss State is not hosting a Regional, they can be seen on TV throughtout the post season. SEC Tournament, Regional, Super and CWS are all on TV. 3) NCAA will not seed the top 16 instead stick with the top 8 National Seeds. They had doubts about seeding the 16, I guess. 4) NCAA is seriously thinking of letting HS/JC players be represented by an agent during MLB negotiations. I supposed, if it doesn't work out they can still go to college. They need to do this for Jr/elgible roster players too. I believe basketball and football players can "test the waters" of pro sports and yet still be elgible if it doesn't work out. 5) And lastly, the coaches are thinking of changing the ball in college baseball, height of seams, size, etc. I suppose this will work. They did take a survey and the new BBCOR bats are very popular.
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The Cannae Miss List: March 3 – 9
Photo - Colin Hattersley
Dennis the Dog and his new best friend, artist Henry Jabbour, would like you to have a look at the Scots Magazine's website. There's a tremendous photo of Dennis there, and something about a great new exhibition. But the photo of Dennis is just the bestest thing ever!
While we admit we're a little biased, we have to agree with the Scots magazine (and Dennis) - this is a great exhibition of exquisite works by Henry Jabbour, and you really shouldn't miss it!
Read the full article at the Scots Magazine website


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No Hate Penn State will host MLK Today from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at Webster's Bookstore Cafe to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and bring the State College community together. The event will feature a diversity expo, performances, and a co-created art piece to which attendees will have the opportunity to contribute.
The diversity expo at the event gives civic organizations a platform to introduce themselves to people in the community interested in getting more involved in local activism. Organizations represented include Eco Action, State of State, Students for Better Politics, and the Gender Equity Center.
For the co-created art piece, attendees will be able to quite literally leave their own marks on a dinner table using paint.
"This is to represent that everyone has a spot at the table, and we are all a part of what makes both Penn State and State College so great," event organizer Elijah Armstrong said.
Local musicians Rashmit Arora and Eric Ian Farmer will perform at the event, in addition to stand-up comedian Joe Esch, who just finished a state-wide tour. R.A.M. Squad student dance crew will also make an appearance.
No Hate Penn State was founded in fall 2017 and seeks to find constructive ways to combat discrimination on college campuses and to celebrate the diversity State College offers. The group hopes to continue planning events to unify the community and speak out against discrimination.


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I saw you sneak up behind the pulpit and lay an envelope on my Bible.
Then, more of you snuck up too.
I knew what you were doing—but couldn't believe it was true.
It should've been me, sneaking envelopes to you.
I didn't look until I got home—or the rest of the service, I'd have been a wreck.
You see, I receive more from you showing up each week, than anything I could ever give.
If I had the nerve I'd tell you, that behind the scenes, behind the man that stands behind the pulpit; is a child.
You'd never take me serious, if I told you how weak and scared and unworthy I am.
If I let you know how much I've failed, you'd never have listened to a word I said.
If I revealed my shadowy past, surely you'd walk away.
But…somehow, I did.
And, somehow, you didn't.
And every time we meet, and every time you fill an empty seat, and every time I see your glowing face, I stand in awe more and more every day at God's amazing grace that shines through each and every one of you…especially when you reached out to say thanks, to such a wretch like me.
There are no words to write, or say, but with tears of gratitude, overwhelmed with love…I thank God, for you and pray His very best saturates you and yours in body, soul and spirit.
I love and pray for you every.single.day.
A tribute to Whispering Pines Bible Thumpers Group


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2012: the year we abandoned the natural world
2012: the year we did our best to abandon the natural world
Emissions are rising, ice is melting and yet the response of governments is simply to pretend that none of it is happening
George Monbiot
The Guardian, Monday 31 December 2012 18.30 GMT
'The indifference of those charged with protecting us and the world in which we live was distilled into a great collective shrug at the Rio+20 Earth Summit in June.'
It was the year of living dangerously. In 2012 governments turned their backs on the living planet, demonstrating that no chronic problem, however grave, will take priority over an immediate concern, however trivial. I believe there has been no worse year for the natural world in the past half-century.
Three weeks before the minimum occurred, the melting of the Arctic's sea ice broke the previous record. Remnants of the global megafauna – such as rhinos and bluefin tuna – were shoved violently towards extinction. Novel tree diseases raged across continents. Bird and insect numbers continued to plummet, coral reefs retreated, marine life dwindled. And those charged with protecting us and the world in which we live pretended that none of it was happening.
Their indifference was distilled into a great collective shrug at the Earth Summit in June. The first summit, 20 years before, was supposed to have heralded a new age of environmental responsibility. During that time, thanks largely to the empowerment of corporations and the ultra-rich, the square root of nothing has been achieved. Far from mobilising to address this, in 2012 the leaders of some of the world's most powerful governments – the US, the UK, Germany and Russia – didn't even bother to turn up.
But they did send their representatives to sabotage it. The Obama administration even sought to reverse commitments made by George Bush Sr in 1992. The final declaration was a parody of inaction. While the 190 countries that signed it expressed "deep concern" about the world's escalating crises, they agreed no new targets, dates or commitments, with one exception. Sixteen times they committed themselves to "sustained growth", a term they used interchangeably with its polar opposite, "sustainability".
The climate meeting in Doha at the end of the year produced a similar combination of inanity and contradiction. Governments have now begun to concede, without evincing any great concern, that they will miss their target of no more than 2C of global warming this century. Instead we're on track for between four and six degrees. To prevent climate breakdown, coal burning should be in steep decline. Far from it: the International Energy Agency reports that global use of the most carbon-dense fossil fuel is climbing by about 200m tonnes a year. This helps to explain why global emissions are rising so fast.
Our leaders now treat climate change as a guilty secret. Even after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy and the record droughts and wildfires that savaged the US, the two main presidential contenders refused to mention the subject, except for one throwaway sentence each. Has an issue this big ever received as little attention in a presidential race?
The same failures surround the other forces of destruction. In 2012 European governments flunked their proposed reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, which is perfectly designed to maximise environmental damage. The farm subsidies it provides are conditional on farmers destroying the vegetation (which also means the other wildlife) on their land. We pay €55bn a year to trash the natural world.
This contributes to what I have come to see as a great global polishing: a rubbing away of ecosystems and natural structures by the intensification of farming, fishing, mining and other industries. Looking back on this year a few decades hence, this destruction will seem vastly more significant than any of the stories with which the media is obsessed. Like governments, media companies have abandoned the living world.
In the UK in 2012, the vandals were given the keys to the art gallery. Environmental policy is now in the hands of people – such as George Osborne, Owen Paterson, Richard Benyon and Eric Pickles – who have no more feeling for the natural world than the Puritans had for fine art. They are busy defacing the old masters and smashing the ancient sculptures.
They have lit a bonfire of environmental regulations, hobbled bodies such as Natural England and the Environment Agency and ensured that the countryside becomes even more of an exclusive playground for the ultra-rich, unhampered by effective restraints on the burning of grouse moors, the use of lead shot, the killing of birds of prey and the spraying of pesticides that are wiping out our bees and other invertebrates.
In the same spirit, the government has reduced the list of possible marine conservation zones from 127 to 31. Even these 31 will be protected in name only: the fishing industry will still be allowed to rampage through them. A fortnight ago, the UK lobbied successfully for quotas of several overexploited fish species to be raised, while pouring scorn on the scientific evidence that shows this is madness.
George Osborne has done the same thing to the UK's climate change policies. Though even the big power companies oppose him, he is seeking to scrap or delay our targets for cutting carbon emissions and to ensure that we remain hooked on natural gas as our primary source of power. The green investment bank which was supposed to have funded the transition to new technologies is the only state bank in Europe that is forbidden to borrow. It might as well not be there at all.
If there is hope, it lies with the people. Opinion polls show that voters do not support their governments' inaction. Even a majority of Conservatives believe that the UK should generate most of its electricity from renewables by 2030. In the US, 80% of people polled now say that climate change will be a serious problem for their country if nothing is done about it: a substantial rise since 2009. The problem is that most people are not prepared to act on these beliefs. Citizens, as well as governments and the media, have turned their faces away from humanity's greatest problem.
To avoid another terrible year like 2012, we must translate these passive concerns into a mass mobilisation. Groups such as 350.org show how it might be done. If this annus horribilis tells us anything, it is that action, in the absence of such mobilisation, is simply not going to happen. Governments care only as much as their citizens force them to care. Nothing changes unless we change.
• A fully referenced version of this article can be found at www.monbiot.com
Unfortunately, George Monbiot is devastatingly correct.
The next subject for consideration will be adaptation to the terrifying new world, including flooding of most major cities and agricultural lands, world wide starvation and die-off.
Happy new year, hope you are proud of yourself because in the final analysis it is your and mine fault.
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The natural world and the whole planet is a resource for rapacious cpaitalism at it globalised and corporate best.
A limited planet? Sod you they say.
Finite resources? Who cares , we'll extract every last drop from everywhere, they say.
They will not be stopped, because they cannot be stopped.
They are in control, and they will go on and on raping the planet and toxifying it, until there's nothing left.
Live now, profit now, and fuck tomorrow - not my problem, is their motto.
never underestinate what bastards they are and how much globalised power they have.
I will add one thing though that groups like 350.org are using very depressing strategies that while scientifically accurate, do nothing to motivate people. Heck. I'm a Biologist and even I can barely stand to read the grim news. New strategies are needed based on studies of motivation. Of course biology is vital, but humans are the problem and only human behavior change can fix this. Need to find a new method, old ones clearly did not work.
I understand your anger and you are right on the money with respect to people not caring. We abandoned nature a long time ago and much of that has coincided with the social network craze. We are a social species and the internet and mobile communication systems have overtaken our consciousness and replaced our desire to connect with nature with full time addicted mind-warping consumerism. There are many ecological problems in front of our species, the largest which is undoubtedly our own population and our fascination with longevity and wealth.
13,950 peer-reviewed climate change papers were published between 1991 and 2012. Only 24 reject that it's human-induced. (Study by James Lawrence Powell of the National Physical Science Consortium).
To the posters on here who reject that climate change is human-induced, where do you get your information from? Is it from these 24 papers? Why do you ignore the other 13,926?
If coal is cheaper to get out of the ground than wind is to power a turbine we will dig it up and burn it. At the end of every story is money and power, the rest is a light show, small victories in a march larger battle that we are just not winning.
Perhaps this is the year we all realise that no one in 'government' is prepared to take responsibility – to make the really tough decisions that will affect us all. It is beyond any single person, department or government. Yes continue to tinker around the edges and continue with the fudge policies. Generations from now the world will be a very different place.
6 C is Armageddon.
0.8 C (current) is unbearable.
Billions of humans will die.
Let's document genocide and prosecute it aggressively.
In an honest court, the lies of denier-skeptics are perjury motivated by greed.


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Rick Santorum jolted the Republican presidential race Tuesday with a three-state sweep of contests in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota, puncturing Mitt Romney's claim to be the unstoppable front-runner. Patrick O'Connor has details on Lunch Break.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Original Publication Date: 03/19/2014
This release note documents the version 4.3.0 release of BIG-IQ Network Security.
For a comprehensive list of documentation that is relevant to this release, refer to the BIG-IQ Security 4.3.0 Documentation page.
BIG-IQ Network Security supports the following browsers and browser versions:
BIG-IQ Network Security runs as a virtual machine in specifically-supported hypervisors. After you set up your virtual environment, you can incorporate BIG-IQ Network Security into your network as you would any other F5 Networks device.
For procedures about specifying network options and performing initial configuration, refer to the BIG-IQ System: Licensing and Initial Configuration guide.
For details about BIG-IQ Network Security support for BIG-IP devices at various version levels, see the BIG-IQ Compatibility Matrix solution note:
Currently, an upgrade path from BIG-IQ Security 4.2 to BIG-IQ Network Security 4.3 is not supported. To upgrade from BIG-IQ Security 4.2 to BIG-IQ Network Security 4.3, users must reinstall the BIG-IQ systems and rediscover the previously-managed devices.
$ bigstart stop restjavad
$ bigstart stop msgbusd
mount -o remount,rw /usr
rpm -qa | grep f5-rest-java | xargs rpm -e --nodeps
rpm -qa | grep msgbusd | xargs rpm -e --nodeps
mount -o remount,ro /usr
This removes the BIG-IQ system components from the BIG-IP device.
BIG-IQ Network Security provides central firewall management for multiple BIG-IP systems that have Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) installed and provisioned. The following features are new to release 4.3.0.
BIG-IQ Network Security also provides automatic failback, which means that if the active node goes down, the standby node takes over and when the active node comes back up, it resumes control automatically.
|ID number
|Address object comparisons did not distinguish between masks using CIDR notation on BIG-IP devices and non-CIDR notation on BIG-IQ systems. Any mask of an IP address entered on the BIG-IQ system in non-CIDR notation is converted to a mask in CIDR form on the BIG-IP device.
|The BIG-IQ system was unable to search for IPv6 addresses within a subnet. Queries for addresses contained within a subnet would return incomplete results.
The BIG-IQ system can now search for IPv6 addresses within a subnet.
|Errors in logs when two BIG-IQ Security systems manage the same BIG-IP device.
If two BIG-IQ systems attempt to simultaneously manage the same BIG-IP device, only the BIG-IQ system that is the last to establish trust with the BIG-IP device can communicate with it. The original BIG-IQ system will display SEVERE messages in its restjavad.0.log for the BIG-IP device.
|Pairing BIG-IQ HA devices may fail with no indication why the failure occurred.
When adding a BIG-IQ device to the System/HA panel, the addition may fail without an error message indicating why. Frequently, this was due to clocks on the individual devices being more than 60 seconds out of synchronization. Errors of this type are now displayed in the GUI and in the logs if they occur.
|The guide published in support of 4.3.0 contained references to the Monitoring panel, which was removed for 4.3.0. Those references have been removed.
|ID number
|If a user was created on one BIG-IQ device, but is not found on the second BIG-IQ device, that user will be removed during the operation to create a BIG-IQ HA pair. This issue may occur if users were added prior to forming an HA pair or if one of the devices in the cluster is being replaced.
|To avoid the system removing users that do not exist on both devices prior to HA pairing, merge the user list between devices. The following procedure illustrates how to merge the list of users from one device to another.
1. On the primary device, copy and rename /config/bigip_user.conf file to a temporary location on the secondary device. Example: copy_bigip_user.conf
2. On the secondary device, remove the root user stanza from the copied user configuration file (copy_bigip_user.conf) and save your edits. Do this because the process of restoring users does not allow the root user to be modified.
3. Load the user file onto the secondary device:
tmsh load sys config merge file copy_bigip_user.conf
4. Save your changes to the loaded users:
tmsh save sys config
5. Pair the BIG-IQ devices to form the cluster.
|After dragging a role onto a user and confirming the change, the role is listed in the user's flyout, but the user is not listed in the role's flyout.
|If you remove a user from a role in the Roles panel, the user might unexpectedly continue to display in the Roles panel.
|Remove users from the Users panel rather than the Roles panel.
|When you create a new user and then drag it from the User panel, but do not immediately drop it on to another panel, the screen may become unstable.
This issue can be triggered only after creating a new user and before a normal page update (roughly every 10 seconds) and before refreshing the browser.
|Refresh the browser.
|Default auth-token-role has to be created again (if existent) when recreating a user with the same name.
|When removing the user, remove the associated auth-token-role. For example, for user 'joe', remove the role 'auth-token-joe'.
|Unable to add BIG-IQ to cm-shared-all-big-iqs device group with the error message that the device needs to run update_bigip.sh. This message is confusing when the device is BIG-IQ.
|User roles are not replicated to the standby device.
|The method of removing a rule from a firewall, rule list or policy by clicking the "x" is no longer available.
|To remove a rule from a firewall, policy or a rule list, lock the rule for editing, hover over the rule, right-click, and select Delete rule from the listed options. This method of deletion also applies to removal of a reference to a rule list within a policy or a firewall.
|The combined search feature is not available for any user other than the admin user.
|User creation/deletion is not logged in the BIG-IQ Network Security audit log.
|The BIG-IP clustering feature does not work properly in a BIG-IQ HA configuration; changes to a firewall may fail being replicated to the matching firewalls of the BIG-IP cluster.
|When you use the search field to locate a particular entry, related objects do not properly display.
|Remove the storage and index and then rediscover managed devices. To remove the storage and index: Log in to the command line as the root user and type the following commands:
bigstart stop restjavad
rm -rf /var/config/rest/storage
rm -rf /var/config/rest/index
bigstart start restjavad
|After you log in to the BIG-IP system, you might see a yellow banner with a licensing message and then receive an "Access Denied" error message, after which, the system logs you out.
|Log back in to the BIG-IQ system.
|Lock is not seen on the primary node after failback if the secondary node has a lock on a firewall. Assume the scenario of a lock on an object on your active(primary) node. This node goes down and the standby node takes over. You continue to edit on the standy (secondary) node, and when finished, Save and Close. Then, you start an editing session on the secondary and do a Save on the secondary. Then, the primary node comes back online. In this scenario, the primary does not know about the lock on the secondary.
|In the restjavad log on the active (primary) search for global:: (if you were editing a global firewall on the secondary) and get the global id. It will look something like: global::2ca165bb-3df0-3f2f-98d8-6b3ee6528394
Copy and paste the id only (not the "global::" part) in the search bar on both the primary and secondary nodes. The object appears locked on one node and not locked on the other. Unlock the locked object to fix the issue.
|When the source port and destination port are the same, traffic initiated from the host, such as NTP, may have the response directed to the wrong tmm, resulting in the response being dropped.
|After upgrading or restarting the BIG-IQ device, the login screen is displayed but it states that the user credentials are invalid and does not allow login.
|Wait until the login page properly displays the hostname of the BIG-IP server. In addition, clear the browser cache and refresh the page before attempting successive login attempts.
|When you attempt to discover a device that has the Update Automatically check box selected for the Auto Update Framework setting, the discovery process may result in an HTTP 503 "Service Unavailable" error, which could possibly disrupt the user experience.
|Log out and back into the BIG-IQ system or manually update the REST framework. For more information, refer to the BIG-IQ Device: Device Management guide.
|Login is temporarily unavailable on active BIG-IQ systems after failback. While toggling the active state in a BIG-IQ HA pair, the login to the peer becoming active may be temporarily unavailable for approximately 15-30 seconds.
|Wait 15 to 30 seconds after changing the active HA peer and then attempt to log in again.
|Missing internal VLAN/self-IP. If you do not discover devices using a self IP address on the VLAN named: internal, on the BIG-IQ system and the managed BIG-IP device, you receive this message while logged in to the BIG-IP system restjavad.0.log every minute for each system and device.
[8100/shared/identified-devices IdentifiedDevicesWorker][failed] java.net.ProtocolException: Status code:401
The REST framework will not work properly if the internal VLAN/self-IP is not configured on the device.
|Configure an internal VLAN and self IP address for the BIG-IQ system and all managed devices.
|When discovering a BIG-IP device that requires a REST framework update, the first discovery attempt may timeout and fail.
|Discover the device again and the discovery will succeed as expected. If it does not succeed, then follow the directions for the manual update of the REST framework.
|Java workers not responding after upgrade from BIG-IQ 4.2 to 4.3. After rebuilding or upgrading a BIG-IQ system, REST Java workers may become unresponsive. When this occurs, the following error displays in the /var/log/restjavad.0.log file: [WARNING][50438][20 Feb 2014 17:34:58 UTC][8100/shared/authz/tokens AuthTokenWorker][dispatchOrQueueSynchronized] Queue limit exceeded for worker
|Log back in to the BIG-IQ system's command line with your root user name and password and type the command: bigstart restart restjavad, to restart the required Java workers.
|Asynchronous replication may fall behind under heavy change load on BIG-IQ VE clusters. During repetitive discovery of BIG-IP devices and configuration snapshots, replication of changes from the primary device to the secondary device may experience queuing delays in a VE cluster.
|To maximize synchronization performance and cluster health, configure the BIG-IQ HA communication addresses on a low-latency network connection separate from your discovery data traffic.
|A BIG-IQ system cannot manage BIG-IP devices that are in appliance mode. The update_bigip.sh script fails to copy the REST framework to BIG-IP devices if they are in appliance mode. To manage these devices, you must copy the REST framework to them using the update_bigip.sh script from the BIG-IQ device. This script requires the user to enter the root password of the BIG-IP system box. Appliance mode does not allow root access to the BIG-IP system boxes.
|Specifying a VLAN in a rule fails deployment. If a user specifies a VLAN in a rule without also specifying the VLAN's partition, deploying that rule to a firewall will fail.
|When specifying a VLAN, specify both the partition, as well as the VLAN. For example: Common/External.
|You cannot use a hostname to add a device.
|When you discover a new device, you must use its IP address.
|If a query times out, the BIG-IQ GUI may become unresponsive.
|Refresh the browser.
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|During import or reimport, when a conflict comes up for a nested port list or nested address list, and the difference is in the description for the one of the list references, the difference is neither highlighted nor even displayed. Two identical descriptions are displayed. This will make it appear as if the object has been falsely flagged as being different.
|414746-3 (415535)
|The discovery credentials for a BIG-IP device cannot be changed from the BIG-IQ Network Security module. If the BIG-IP device credentials have changed, subsequent rediscoveries of that device may fail.
|The BIG-IQ Device module allows for the changing of the password for a device after it has been imported. Since BIG-IQ Device comes with all modules, you can import the device and change the password there.
|Discovery fails to import an address list that contains an address of 0.0.0.0%32300/15. This address list is accepted on BIG-IP devices (running 11.4.1) but not in the BIG-IQ system.
|Discovery of shared objects contained in folders is not supported in BIG-IQ Security.
|If clustered BIG-IP devices are at different versions, BIG-IQ may not be able to complete discovery successfully because the firewall capabilities will likely be different on different versions. During an upgrade procedure, sometimes clustered BIG-IP devices are left in a mixed state. In such cases, BIG-IQ discovery will identify the BIG-IP devices as being out-of-sync.
|Complete upgrade for all BIG-IP devices in a cluster before attempting discovery by BIG-IQ of multiple, clustered BIG-IP devices.
|During deployment, the BIG-IQ system reports errors attempting to delete a shared object that is in use. Shared objects (on BIG-IP devices) that refer to other shared objects but are not referred to by a firewall can interfere with distribution tasks once imported in the BIG-IQ system.
|Remove such shared objects from BIG-IP devices prior to discovery.
|Incomplete tasks stay pending on the secondary device when HA failover occurs. In a BIG-IQ HA environment, the primary node is responsible for executing tasks. If a task is running on the primary node and that node fails, the secondary node takes over. However, the pending tasks remain (in a pending state) and are not removed.
|Auto Framework Update does not work with BIG-IP versions 11.3.0/11.4.x. The BIG-IQ GUI offers users an option (check box) during discovery to automatically update the framework on newly-discovered devices. Due to missing credentials, this feature does not work with BIG-IP versions 11.3.0/11.4.x.
|Manually upgrade the framework using the update_bigip.sh script. For more information, see the specific BIG-IQ guide about managing BIG-IP devices.
|BIG-IQ Security supports only a basic route domain configuration, whereas BIG-IP devices support fairly complex configurations. Therefore, customers who require complex route domain configurations on BIG-IP devices cannot use BIG-IQ Security.
|The BIG-IQ system allows a management firewall rule to contain an address list or an address with a route domain when the BIG-IP system does not allow it.
|Follow the instructions provided in the deployment error message for locating the source of the deployment failure.
|Deployment fails if the Management IP firewall configuration contains both IPv4-formatted addresses and IPv6-formatted addresses. IPv4-formatted or IPv6-formatted addresses are each allowed, but both are not allowed at the same time.
|Follow the instructions provided in the deployment error message for locating the source of the deployment failure.
|No warning is provided to the user when the nested address list or port list is assigned to the rule.
Deployment failures are caused by nested lists used in BIG-IP versions that do not support the feature. A configuration containing a nested address list or port list assigned to a rule (which is part of a device that does not support the feature when deployed to devices) will fail.
|1. Make sure all the managed devices are version 11.5 or later.
2. Do not add any rules/objects to devices that do not support them.
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Hello, I want to make a Rocket league (Steam Game) crate opening website and i am searching experienced professionals in the field. The website can be based on this one ([login to view URL]) but responsive and more interactive.
Hello, I want to have a vIRL case opening site. What do i need * Login with opskins * Custom chat / With Mod, Staff, Support, Market Manager, Sponsor, Youtuber, and Twitch ranks. / Mute people, Ban people, unmute, unban, delete chat massage, block worth with *** if someone say bad things. * Affiliates program. * Inventory. * Casebattles where you
Thesis Title-DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FOR FREE PISTON STIRLING COOLER I have already write a opening report and thesis literature review but my professor not happy with that. So,I need someone who can help me with this.
Web Designer (SSE/Specialist): 4-7 Yrs of exp Responsible for designing Web and Mobile App Technical: Primary HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Themes, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, Bootstrap, Secondary Mobile App, coral, Flash Animation Duties and Responsibilities Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering Conceptualize original website design ideas that bring simp...
Need posters design for a store opening. (like coming soon..etc) I have the logo, and pictures already. I need to arrange and make it looks great. 1) A poster on the door 2) A long poster that will be probably cut into 3 pieces to stick on 3 windows 3) A very larger poster that will put on a wall. - Best if you know a little bit of Chinese character
Please read carefully before bidding I' m looking for someone with accounting, and SAP B1 experience to help me solve this issue: I have duplicated my live database for 2018, I would like to do a couple of journal entries and do the year-end closing and print the reports for a government agency. Then I will do the year close on the live database and continue working as usual on LIVE databa...
Opening A New Poke Restaurant (Logo Attached) Need a banner to plaster on the window, based on the dimensions provided in the file named" Window Dimensions. See Example for example. Also need to include: "JOIN OUR TEAM" and for "CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES CONTACT INFO@[login to view URL]"
I need you to build my personal website.
My website is not opening in few computer and working in few of them. The moment when its not working it give error message as "this site can't be reached server ip address could not be found.". my website details are given below Domain [login to view URL] Domain provider- 101 DOMAIN VPS provider namecheap CMS -wp Please help me
I need a logo designed. We are opening a Nature Play inspired family Day care scheme called 'Forest Family Day Care'. We need a logo that is simple, natural, reflects the great outdoors, highlights families/children of diverse cultures. Has primary colours but not too much, promotes a sense of belonging, playful and adventure as well as inclusion and
...and am reopening it under the new management. I need a leaflet that will be distributed to the local community. It needs to show the offer of: 25% off Everything on the opening Weekend! What needs to be on the leaflet: Name: Lahori Tawa Address: 8-10 Highfield Street, Leicester, LE2 1AB Phone Number: 0116 319 2475 Under New Management Relaunching
This project is simple for the right developer, I need you to allow these links: [login to view URL] to open in a new tab without triggering the popup blocker mainly on firefox, IE, Safari and major browsers.
Office Assistant We are a concrete manufacture company in Sun Valley, CA looking to hire a capable office front receptionist who can multi-task and has good organization skills. You will be required to keep track of company records/client projects, type out ledgers, proposals, contracts, as well as other tasks. A background in Quickbooks, accounting and office experience is preferred. Must be a q...
Full Time Front Office Receptionist. Must have a high level of customer service experience with professional appearance, and excellent communication skills. • Answers all incoming calls in a professional, caring manner • Ability to interact with public in an appropriate manner • Communicates both verbal and written messages clearly, transfers call smoothly • Greets guests i...
Looking for a high class invitation card to celebrate the grand opening of our latest location - See attached for details
Hi, I need get my company profile with small project report for opening a bank account in Hong Kong, if you can do, pls come to personal chatting. thanks
We're working on creating an opening video for EOFF, a medical conference that takes place in the UAE for Medical Specialists specialized in the field of fertility and gynaecology. The narration needs to be at moderate speed and tone of voice formal and corporate. V/O artist: Adult- American/British English Duration of the narration: should be a
Updating my podcast. Opening and closing.
I'm the owner/manager of an upstart in the marine electronics business. We have a product in the market where the operator panel (machined aluminum) does not have the desired sound pressure. The speaker within the enclosure has very high sound pressure, but we, nor the contract manufacturer, have not been able to get enough of this sound out. The problem is the different water-proof materials...
looking for pre-made templates or custom built lootbox / case opening website
Want to Work from home? Are you an EXPERT in all these following areas: • PHP; • HTML; • CSS; • Javascript; • Wordpress Development & Configuration; • Web Design; • Photoshop/photo Editing • Video Editing • eCommerce with [login to view URL]; We are looking to hire an expert in the above areas of work, on a Full Time basis working 40...
I need to add opening balance to a account in Ofbiz, should be 5-10 mins of work for those who have used it before
...secure and fun gambling service based around the use of crypto collectables, more specific VGO collectables. We aim to provide three main game modes, Jackpot, Coinflip and Case opening. The site will use 4 main API's, these 4 API's will be for users access and for the sites functions, the 4 API's are: • VGO Vcase • OPSkins Login • WAX ExpressTrade •...
I need leders and team , my new business plan will launch after 1 month so as soon as possible contact me.
...secure and fun gambling service based around the use of crypto collectables, more specific VGO collectables. We aim to provide three main game modes, Jackpot, Coinflip and Case opening. The site will use 4 main API's, these 4 API's will be for users access and for the sites functions, the 4 API's are: • VGO Vcase • OPSkins Login • WAX ExpressTrade •...
I need some emotion, graphic, for my Iptv boxes.
The Face Paris is in need of 2 Male Junior Public Relations Officers for the opening of a branch in the Philippines . He will be responsible for driving, processing permits, and assisting senior officers on field while getting ready for the studio's opening. Requirements: - 20 to 30 years old - Can speak and write in Tagalog and English - Knows government
I need some help with finding an accountant in order to open a Ltd in Malta
i am having a grand opening for my motorcycle buisness and want to include the following date 15/12/2018 10% all floor stock BBQ and drinks provided prizes to be won on the day special deals available on the day 12pm add photos included somewhere in aswell
Hi! I'm looking for someone who could design me a beautiful simple yet elegant logo for my dessert cafe that I'm opening up in a few months. i wanted it mostly in black colour and maybe just some light gold colour or with just a few different colours. its a dessert cafe ( cakes and pastries, coffee and teas) wanted something that would look good wen
Please if dont know what vgo and you have never done anything with vgo please dont dm me. i need a professional design for my Vgo Case Opening site. The site its self is done.
Responsibilities 1. Working with the team to develop a concept 2. Process images until best results are attained 3. Seek out suitable photographic subjects and opportunities 4. Using an extensive range of technical equipment, including cameras, lenses, lighting and specialist software. 5. Arrange still objects, scenes, background and products to the required specifications. 6. Maintain an...
Great designer to design a 5x7 grand opening postcard for specialty retail store. Immediate need I'd like the psd file at completion I do have some inspiration designs Please do not apply if you can't start this immediately. Work detail:-- Size/Dimensions: 5*7 Model attached Colors: Black & White with Red TEXT: (front) NOW Open! Queen Virgin Remy
Established business has an immediate opening for an experienced Administrative Assistant. Position is full-time (Monday through Friday, 7am to 3:30pm) and involves office administration duties. Compensation - $15.00 per hour plus benefits. Must have: -Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and database management. -Proficiency with QuickBooks
update the oswad theme and optimyze the wbesite for a more quick opening (moving all the changes in the child theme and if needed I will renew theme support for the oswad theme too): this is the website to update and optymize [login to view URL] here a time opening analysis [login to view URL] theme website:
I have a list box in a form which is populated by different user selections. i need to pass all the values in the list box to a report to print it. need help!
We are Jewelry Manufacturer (New Startup). We Deal in American Diamond (AD) and Cubic Zircon (CZ) Artificial Jewelry. Name Is "Tanvee" Or "Tanvee Art" It Should Original as it needs to be registered
You will assist our job recruiter on a daily basis find resumes or job opening and match them weekend work is required
Hey, I need a lightbox for my website. It is a prebuild marketplace and the only thing I can edit is between the <head></head> tags. - the lightbox needs to open itself when the user visits the website - the rest of the screen should become a background. - it should only open itself once per session (cookie) - it should contain an image which is defined by an URL in the code - the ...
I want opening one or two images to start my video on youtube based on the video (conceptually ) attached link
I want to open a business bank account in Hong Kong, that bank asked me a detailed project report and business profile, pls contact me if you are expert in this field
There is a job opening for Filipino writers in my team. Requirements: 1. Hardworking 2. Can follow instructions 3. Free time 4. Internet connection. 5. can meet deadlines. We are accepting newbies. However, we need someone who is trainable and is eager to learn more about the business. We don't want late slakers here.
I need help having some match resumes from our database to job advertisements
Hi. I need to open special image files, most of them have dds extension. I know how to open ordinary dds file, but these are special files. So need specialist to open special dds file. IT WILL BE LONG TERM BUSINESS, PLEASE APPLY Thank you.
Witam, mam do zlecenia stworzenie projektu strony ze skrzynkami miałoby to być losowanie skinów csgo/vgo oczekuję aby osoba która chce się podjąć tego projektu znała język polski i tematykę związaną z gamblingiem csgo/vgo. Ma to być strona na podobę [login to view URL] lecz zamiast kluczy będą tam losowane skiny do gier csgo/vgo. Po więcej informacji proszę o kontakt prywatny.
hi need good little experience web developer and more opening see description for my company As we are startup so looking on campus drive for our startups with good salary at varanasi based besides IIT BHU for profile : 1: web developer 2. react native or good android or ios developer 3. management role ( preferred girls with good communication) This
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Hi, I'm I thinking to open a small business in India in the next 3 months,I read a lot about the laws in India and it seems some buisbusi options are limited for a foreigner, I'm looking for a business lawyer to valdite my research and explain me the option of a business partner, so I can consider my options.


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The Rascal Ultra Lite 4mph mobility scooter
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The Ultra Lite 480 4mph scooter, that is easy to disassemble, good for being transportable and stored. This scooter is approved used comes fully serviced. Included in the price: Engineer Delivery & Set Up 1 Year Insurance. 1 Year Warrantee. (Price Displayed VAT Exempt)
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The Rascal Ultra Lite is a 4 mph scooter, that is lightweight and tranportable. This model of scooter is versatile and adaptable as it can be easily disassembled and stored into the back of your car. It can also carry and support a weight of 18 stone and can travel a distance of up to 8 miles. Another versatile feature is that the batteries can be charged on and off board, allowing you to charge the scooter while it is stored. The scooter also offers a good ground clearance of 2" with with puncture proof solid tyres. Overall the Rascal Ultra Lite is a compact scooter that is a good solution for adaptability.
Max speed 4 mph
User weight 18 stone
Driving range 18 miles
Length 102 cm
Width 51 cm
Compact and lightweight design
On and off board charging


text: I'm curious of others experiences with using the gps droid x overseas (specifically non cdma networks). currently i am in barcelona. before i left for my trip, i set up many offline maps using maverick pro and atlas creator. for those of you who don't know, barcelona is 100% gsm network.... no cdma at all. my original thought was that i could take my phone, turn on gps and everything would be okay (since it's supposed to have "true" gps). that turns out not the case. for the first day, i could not get a lock to any gps satellite with maverick pro. only after fiddling around with some stuff was i able to make gps work. i downloaded an app called gpstest. turned it on, no locks on satellites. turned on wifi put the droid x near the window of the hotel room and all of the sudden gps test found a bunch of satellites. Turned on maverick pro and it found my location. Hmm.... I guess there needs to be an initial lock via wifi or cdma (if you are in a country like japan). once i got this initial lock, maverick pro and gps test worked like a charm. heck, i could even turn my phone off and then back on and both apps still worked great. once i swapped my battery, only then i lost my satellite locks. i can walk around the city all day and open and close both apps numerous times, and i can still find satellite locks. again, if i swap my battery, that is when i lose my gps capabilities. i have to connect to wifi again, and then run gps test to find a lock and then disconnect from wifi. luckily in barcelona, there are enough free public wifi networks. i guess i have muliple questions. first off why do i have to get an initial lock for gps to work? do you think this is a mis-representation of being able to call your product of having gps (more like assisted gps)? why do i keep my gps connection when i restart my phone, but lose it when i swap out the battery? thanks.


text: With over 32 years of experience in the jewellery industry, Roberto Marroni is an esteemed Italian fine jeweler creating exquisite wearable art. He sums up his style in three words: essential, traditional and colourful. Glittering diamonds and vibrant gemstones are set in clean, elegant settings to create a glamorous aesthetic while maintaining irresistible wearability. Pair ensembles with Roberto Marroni earrings for instant added glamour. Studs, hoops and drop pieces are adorned with quartz, diamonds and striking stones.


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Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.
What: Shares of Astex Pharmaceuticals (UNKNOWN:ASTX.DL), a developer of small-molecule therapies focused on treating various types of cancer, soared as much as 26% after reporting positive top-line data for SGI-110 in a mid-stage trial for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia, or AML.
So what: According to Astex's press release, 67 patients with AML -- 50 with refractory/relapsed AML, and 17 treatment-naive patients -- were treated in this study and had a minimum follow-up of three months. The primary endpoint of the study was overall remission rate, of which Astex reported eight remission among refractory/relapsed patients and nine among treatment-naive patients for an overall complete remission rate of 25%. Astex plans to release detailed results of its study in December at the American Society of Hematology's annual meeting.
Now what: Astex may be a small-cap biopharmaceutical company, but it has been cranking out fantastic results over the past year. Astex currently has seven ongoing clinical trials (including SGI-110) and an FDA-approved drug in Dacogen, as well as numerous clinical and preclinical partnerships with some of the pharmaceutical sectors' largest companies. With $133 million in cash and no debt, I'd say Astex certainly deserves a spot on your watchlist moving forward.
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Stafford Hospital plans 'on weak foundations', says council report
Plans to downgrade services at Stafford Hospital are "poorly judged" and "based on weak foundations", a report for Stafford Borough Council has said.
Trust Special Administrators (TSA) have said Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust should be dissolved, with some of its services being taken on by nearby hospitals.
Research by consultants Durrow for the council claims the TSA had not properly considered the plans' costs.
The TSA said all responses will be considered for a final recommendation.
In a statement, it said: "All responses, providing that they are received before the deadline of midnight on 1 October, will be taken into account in the drafting of the TSAs' final recommendations, which will be submitted to the Secretary of State."
The council said the report would be debated before being sent to the TSA.
Administrators announced plans on 31 July for Stafford Hospital to become part of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent.
Births, child inpatient admission and hip fracture treatment would be among services which would be moved.
The 22-page report said the TSAs' "recommendations for maternity sit on weak foundations".
'Sold off'
It said because there were no safety or quality issues with the department it made no sense to close it.
The report also claims the TSA proposals would need "major additional investment" which could end with Stafford Hospital being "sold off".
It said: "This can only lead to greater financial difficulties in the future and the risk that any acquiring trust will seek to reduce further or cease services in Stafford and sell off the site for capital gain."
The report will be discussed by the borough council health scrutiny committee on Thursday.
Recommendations will be put before the full council on 24 September before being forwarded to the TSA as part of its consultation.
Leader of Stafford Borough Council, Mike Heenan, said he agreed with "everything in the report".
He said: "The TSA plans will cost many, many millions which could take more than 25 years to claw back... we suggest the best solution is to invest in Stafford.
"Investment will help our hospital attract patients back, who may have been put off by its past reputation, and therefore generate income.
"This will give it a better chance of balancing its books than the TSA proposals to reduce services; which will obviously reduce income and cost millions to be spent on providing the services elsewhere."
The consultation period finishes on 1 October.


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Read in: October, 2012
Format: Hardback, 215 pages
Source: Public Library
Star Rating: ★★★★Synopsis:
Ashley Hannigan is a new kind of character. She's tough, bold, and that Irish temper flames through her personality. But her caring heart has her help out her best friend, Nat. Nat is short for Natalia, a little Russian girl with a crazy sewing Grandma and a struggling single father. She's head of the Prom committee is a lot soft around the edges while Ashley is a fighter.
In Ashley's viewpoint, the school is split not between popular kids and dorks, but instead by the normal kids, read: at-risk, and the smart kids. The smart kids will make it somewhere. The normal kids will stay stuck in this poverty ridden, drug pumping, low income neighborhood. But Prom is the one event where all kids come together- even if Ashley will refuse to go. But she's not above helping out..if only a little.
TJ is a POS. Ashley is ungrateful through a lot of the story, which really grated on my nerves.
Her mother, though well intention, is a little much, in a cute overly pregnant kind of way. Her family is so adorable. The writing is humorous and I loved her attitude throughout it all. But most of all, her sense of direction changed and it was heartfelt. Before, she as content with living with TJ, getting knocked up young, and struggling the rest of her life. But at the end, she was really working towards a goal.. besides getting excited for a new and air conditioned costume at the EZ-CHEEZ-E.
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PocketGamer.biz on Wednesday published an analysis of 97 games that have been announced for Apple's iPad, which will be available on April 3, and found that 26 percent of them are puzzle titles. Ports of existing App Store games make up 65 percent of the titles planned so far for the iPad, and indie publishers lead the types of studios with iPad games in the works, at 44 percent.
The action and sports genres were second and third at 12 and 10 percent, respectively, on PocketGamer's list, followed by strategy and card/board at 7 percent each and shooters at 6 percent. New games are 16 percent of the titles in the works, followed by ports of console games at 10 percent and sequels to iPhone games at 4 percent.
Major publishers follow indie studios at 31 percent of the developers, followed by mid-tier developers (large indies) at 23 percent. Nearly half, 48 percent, of the developers are based in the US.
Existing App Store games will work on the iPad, of course, and the steady stream of those titles continue, including the holiday-themed puzzler Easter Eggs and the logic game Disacol, both released on Wednesday. In addition, long-time developer Freeverse announced that sometime in April it will release Pride, Prejudice and Zombies, which is based on the New York Times-bestselling book that mashes Jane Austen's classic novel with George Romero's sensibilities.
The popularity of App Store games has been a boon to publishers large and small: Paris-based Gameloft, for example, said on Wednesday that its 2009 revenue showed 11 percent year-over-year growth, with a sharp increase in net profit. Mobile games accounted for 94 percent of its 2009 sales, and its 60 App Store titles released since July 2008 accounted for 14 percent of its revenue last year.


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Lt. Col. Brian Moles, a 1982 graduate of Nebraska City High School, is leading a newly activated Air Force squadron to integrate remotely piloted aircraft.
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Lt. Col. Brian Moles, a 1982 graduate of Nebraska City High School and commander of the 44th Fighter Group at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, is leading a newly activated remotely piloted aircraft squadron.
The 429th Air Combat Training Squadron, which provided flight training beginning in 1917, was assigned to anti-submarine duty after the bombing at Pearl Harbor and operated out of Italy during the final days of World War II.
It was deactivated under the Kennedy Administration in 1962 and re-activated in 2010 to provide combat ready airmen for (RPA) drone aircraft.
Moles, the son of Carline Moles of Nebraska City, commissioned into the Air Force in 1988. He is a command pilot with experience flying F15 jets and other military aircraft.
He earned a bachelor of journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and was named commander of the fighter group at Holloman in 2011.
He has earned the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Small Arms Expert Marksman ribbon and Kuwait Liberation medals from both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
"I'm humbled to lead a such a talented group of airmen," said Lt. Col. Moles during an activation ceremony Nov 19. "They are experts and what they do, and will no doubt continue to forge the way for RPA operations here," he said.


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Definition of the noun Aega vigilans
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Aega vigilans is a species of Aegiochus, described by Haswell in 1881.
- synonym: species Aega vigilans
- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Arthropoda
- class: Malacostraca
- order: Isopoda
- family: Aegidae
- genus: Aegiochus
- species: Aegiochus vigilans
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text: Impact on water resources and water protection Water is a crucial resource for Vattenfall's operations. Water usage and the impact on water are one of the focus areas where Vattenfall strives to improve efficient usage and minimizing its impact. In combustion power plants and nuclear power plants water is necessary for operating the facilities. And in hydro power, water is the power source. Water protection is crucial throughout our operations. Our water use and impact Most of the Vattenfall's water use is linked to cooling purposes. The largest quantity of water is taken from the sea and rivers and then returned. Quick facts: The largest amount of cooling water is used in our nuclear power plants in Sweden and to a smaller extent in our Dutch heat and power. Water use in hydro power In hydro power water is at core. Water is the resource and it is also the location of the operation. The construction of hydropower dams has a significant impact on the water flow of the rivers where they are built and on animal and plant life in the river. The construction affects the hydro morphology of rivers. Water protection Water protection has been a priority for the general public, governments and our company for many years. Several of our power plants and electricity network transformers are located close to important water areas, which make it necessary for us to have a high level of preparedness and to take preventive actions. Some examples of our approach: We take a water balance perspective for our management of water use, considering impacts of water withdrawal as well as discharge. We conduct thorough analysis to assess possibilities to increase efficiency of water use. Water parameters from discharges of cooling water are monitored and kept within specific limits for each respective plant. All wastewater generated in our operations is delivered directly to municipal sewage treatment plants or cleaned on-site before being discharged to water bodies. Within hydro power we work actively to reduce environmental risks by reducing the amounts of mineral oil used in the hydro power plant fleet. We are striving to reduce the impact connected to large reservoirs and rivers in Sweden through our a Hydropower-Biodiversity programme.


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How to Remove Freckles from Skin in Photoshop Tutorial
In this photoshop retouching tutorial shows you how to remove freckles from skin in Photoshop. Complete removal of freckles from face will be a tedious job and takes ample amount of time, and that's why first of all we lighten the freckles using native filters like surface blur and dust and scratches. Later we remove any visible spots with spot healing brush.
Remove Freckles on face Tutorial :
00:14 How to Remove Freckles in Photoshop
00:22 Duplicate background layer
00:28 apply surface blur
00:47 keep radius : 40 pixels and threshold : 30 levels
01:09 Duplicate background layer again
01:18 Apply Dust & Scratches filter.
01:35 Keep radius: 18 pixels & Threshold: 2 levels
01:45 Add Gaussian blur to layer with radius of 9-10 pixels
02:00 reduce opacity of the layer
02:16 Group both layers
02:25 Double click the group layer to open the blending options window.
02:36 select underlying layer.
02:49 Hold the Alt key and drag the white slider
03:04 this we will partially hide the gray portions and achieve a better blending with skintones & skin texture
03:16 now hide the effect using layer mask.
03:24 with layer mask selected, take soft white brush and paint on skin to reveal the effect.
03:34 This will reduce the freckles and lighten the spots
04:33 Almost freckles are gone, now take spot healing brush and remove any visible spots
05:57 That's it. We're done.


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Lil' Sluggers program offered to youth
Lifeletics Baseball Instruction in Huntington Beach is offering the Lil' Sluggers Beginning Baseball Workout for local youth ages 4 to 7. The session begins Monday.
The five-week training program runs through Nov. 1 and is designed as introductory instruction to build fundamentals. The cost is $99 per player for five workouts. The Lifeletics training facility is at 16702 Burke Lane, Huntington Beach. For more information, call (714) 843-1989.


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Scotland Study Abroad Programs
Study abroad amid beauty, history and friendliness by making Scotland your home for a semester, year or summer. The country is an impressive mixture of fertile farmland, rugged cliffs and mountains, yet it also has its share of sophisticated cities and friendly towns. Scotland's long history shows in the architecture and preserved ruins throughout the country, but Scots of all ages are also enjoying a cultural and artistic renaissance. The Gaelic language is experiencing a comeback, and both Edinburgh and Glasgow have some of the best arts scenes in the United Kingdom.
Bustling Glasgow and Edinburgh are the centers of business and culture in the country, while Stirling and St. Andrews offer a quieter and more authentically Scottish location for study abroad. Regardless of location, the Scottish universities enjoy an excellent reputation in the U.K. and around the world and offer study abroad students a great academic experience.