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Rental Property Manager Licensing
Before you review the following steps on how to become licensed as a rental property manager in BC, make sure you also read about Real Estate as a Career, for important information about
- the real estate industry,
- the Council's licensing and education requirements,
- an outline of anticipated expenses and budget items.
Step-by-Step Licensing Guide
Step 1: Register for and Successfully Complete the Licensing Course and Examination
The Rental Property Management Licensing Course is offered by the UBC Sauder School of Business, Real Estate Division. This blended learning course allows you to register at any time.
While the course is flexible in order to meet the needs of busy adult learners, it provides just enough structure to ensure high quality learning. You must complete all course assignments within one year of registration in the course and also pass a final examination.
On average, most individuals complete the course and exam within six months, based on completing one assignment a week and usually spending 10 – 12 hours per assignment.
Effective January 1, 2017, students must obtain a minimum grade of 70% in order to pass the licensing examination.
The course covers a variety of real estate, legal, valuation and rental property management topics and for detailed information you can view the Table of Contents.
The following student support services are included in the course tuition fee:
- Tutorial assistance from course specialists, through a toll-free number and email.
- Online course resources, containing course updates, study materials, schedules, discussion forums, and tutorial information.
Instead of spending additional money on external tutors/lectures, we encourage students to take advantage of the Tutorial Assistance and Lectures provided with their Trading Services Licensing course .
The Real Estate Council and the UBC Sauder School of Business, Real Estate Division have no ties with any external tutorial classes. These services are not monitored and the Real Estate Council and UBC Real Estate Division cannot be responsible for any information provided by these individuals or companies.
External tutorial companies regularly make false claims, such as "only 30% of students pass the exam" or "we'll guarantee that you will pass the exam", so that you will spend your money with them. Remember, there are no guarantees and the UBC Sauder School of Business, Real Estate Division works with all students to provide every opportunity for success.
For more course information and online course registration, please visit the UBC Sauder School of Business, Real Estate Division's Rental Property Management Licensing Course webpage.
If you feel that you have previous education or experience that would exempt you from either the Licensing Course or Examination, please review the Council's Education Exemption Guidelines.
Step 2: Satisfy the Language Proficiency Requirement
Prior to registering for the Rental Property Management Licensing Course examination individuals must satisfy the Language Proficiency Requirement.
Step 3: Obtain a Criminal Record Check
You are required to obtain an original criminal record check from your local police agency and submit it along with your licence application to the Council. Click here for detailed information.
After you have successfully completed the Rental Property Management Licensing Course and examination, you may apply to the Real Estate Council of British Columbia for licensing as a representative licensed to provide rental property management services by completing the Application for Representative, Associate or Managing Broker Licence form.
Click here for licensing fees.
**Please forward all original documents in one package to the Council office via mail or courier. Please do not email or fax your initial application as the original criminal record check is required.**
Section 10(b)(i) of the Real Estate Services Act requires real estate licence applicants to be at least 19 years of age.
When applying for licensing, individuals must have their intended employer sign the application for licensing. It is recommended that while individuals are taking the Rental Property Management Licensing Course they meet with potential employers.
Should more than one year elapse from the time you pass the licensing exam until a licence application is submitted by you, you will be required to pass the exam again. No exceptions.
Once an individual has completed the steps noted above, they will be licensed as a representative licensed to provide rental property management services.
The Relicensing Education Program (REP) requires licensees to complete a course during each two-year licensing period as a condition of continued licensing. For further information, please see the REP page.
Making a commitment to become a licensed rental property manager includes (but is not limited to) the following financial considerations:
LPI examination (if required) – $109 + tax in BC, $135 + tax outside of BC and 160 + tax in Hong Kong
Licensing fees (includes 2 year licensing fee, Errors & Omissions insurance and Compensation Fund Corporation assessment)
Criminal record check – costs vary depending on police agency.
Additional costs for consideration: smart phone, computer, printer, scanner, website, internet access, car lease and business car insurance, business clothing, etc.


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Criminal Justice
Bachelor's and Associate Degrees
In a Criminal Justice career, you do more than just solve the case. You make a difference, each and every day. At Central Penn College, our Criminal Justice Administration bachelor's degree and Criminal Justice associate degree prepare our graduates with a comprehensive understanding of the legal, practical and theoretical aspects of the criminal justice system, as well as specialty subject matter relative to unique career ambitions.
Criminal Justice students will receive hands-on learning in College facilities including trial experience, investigation of a crime scene and managing of a simulated investigation. Students will learn how to develop, organize, and manage various projects concentrating on crime prevention, asset protection, investigative concepts and crisis management.
Students' communication skills will be developed through presentations and writing projects, with their analytical ability tested through hands-on evaluation methods. Studying a Criminal Justice degree at Central Penn College is an interactive experience, taking you beyond the standard classroom lecture, and immersing you in the field.
Want to learn more about studying Criminal Justice or Criminal Justice Administration at Central Penn? Use our 'Request Information' box to the right — you'll hear from us soon! To hear what others have to say, we encourage you to like us on Facebook, or connect with us on Twitter. We love to answer questions and provide additional information in a format that works for you.
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October 14, 2006
When National Association of Wabash Men Board Member Jon Pactor '71 conceived the idea of a nationwide day of community service, the obvious acronym that came to him was "WABASH Day," short for Wabash Alumni Benefiting And Serving Humanity. Now in its second year, WABASH Day weekend involves more than 30 alumni group projects around the country.
Most of the weekend's community service efforts were scheduled for Saturday, though some alumni groups, like Lafayette, Indiana, chose to do projects on Saturday (Habitat for Humanity) and Sunday (blood drive).
In Crawfordsville, the Sugar Creek Association of Wabash Men braved chilly morning temperatures in the high 20s when about a dozen alumni joined Hose Elementary School Principal John Tidd for a PTO project. Crawfordsville Schools employee Clyde Rager managed the bobcat, but alumni did the hard work of spreading, raking, and shaping an 1,100-foot walking trail around the school's playground. Starting with 160,000 pounds of gravel, the Sugar Creek alums made short work of it, finishing the trail in less than three hours.
When there was nothing left to do but sweep up gravel dust, many alumni headed for a local little league field to clean and spruce up the park prior to winter.
On the north side of Chicago Wabash men worked on a habitat restoration project at St. Francis Woods in the Independence Grove Forest Preserve at Libertyville, Il.
In Bloomington, Wabash men worked at the Middle Way House, click here for photo album.
In Colorado, alumnus John Panozzo led a group working at the Karlis Family Center. See Denver photo album here.
Evansville alumni landscaped and laid 20,000 square feet of sod at the memorial park dedicated to the 22 people who died in the 2005 tornado that ripped through southern Indiana. See photo here.
Grand Rapids hoped 25 alumni and family members would help at Camp Blodgett, a summer camp for urban youth. Click here to see photos from Grand Rapids.
To see a complete list of WABASH Day sites and projects, click here.
To see a photo album from the Sugar Creek Alumni Associations' work, click here.
For stories and photo albums from WABASH Day in Indianapolis, click here.
Wabash Day was a two-day event in Indianapolis. A group of alums tackled chores at The Villages Sunday. The site is near Decatur High School. The Villages is an incredible agency that assists abused children. Linda Adams, wife of Skip Adams '71, is its director of development.
In top photos:At lower left: Joe Pfennig '82, Kevin Benefiel '81, Cory (in front) and Grant (in back) - Kevin's sons. Benefiels'oldest son, Ty, is a Wabash junior.


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Denali National Park and Preserve
Called Alaska's most impressive feature, Mount McKinley is North America's highest peak at 20,320 feet. The surrounding six million acre national park is called by its original Athabascan Indian name, Denali, meaning "The High One."
While in the Park, experience activities such as flightseeing, rafting, kayaking, hiking and guided park tours. Shopping and restaurants are available from Healy to Cantwell.
Visitors to the park often spot brown bears, moose, caribou, Dall sheep, wolves, and other wildlife. Many opportunities exist for photographing the wildlife and this awe-inspiring mountain which towers above the Alaska Mountain Range.


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Divorce, like most life challenges, can be very very complicated and it can also be simple. Depends on the way you think about it, your mental state. Easy to say you say. Well I have always loved children's books and found that the truths buried in the simple language - remember Winnie the Pooh - how many Tiggers or Eyore's have you known in your life? Simple. Today, I was looking for a quote and came across one of my all time favorite writers - Dr Seuss - and this quote "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple". Snap. So uif you are going through a breakup or divorce - read and enjoy these words of wisdom from the Doctor!
•I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
•The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
•Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
•You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
•Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
•From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
•Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!
•I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
•You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.
•So you see! There's no end to the thing you might know, depending how far beyond Zebra you go.
•Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.
•Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
•I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I am!
•You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you will be the guy who'll decide where you'll go. Oh the places you'll go.
•When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad… You should do what I do.
And a thought for the day – Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way


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Crown Beach/Neptune point; lawsuit park district
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Re: Crown Beach Lovers FYI
A good example of where advocates of public recreational use / access are strong allies to the environmental considerations if everyone plays collaboratively
Neptune beach rocks
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http://gsaauctions.gov/ATTACHMENT/REGNS ... %20IFB.pdf
Probally will not affect windsurfing or kiteboarding?
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Since the wind comes side-on, houses shouldn't affect us at the launch. But it will affect me not to see all that grass and goose running around.
Plus, with more people living right next to the beach and all the beginners riding there, it's just a matter of time before another big accident happens and we get denied the beach access...
Kites: 2018 F-One Bandit: 8m and 11m.
Board: 2018 F-One Mitu 5'10 Surf/Foil convertible
Harness: Manera Exoharness.
Wetsuit: Manera 5/4/3 X10D
Re: Crown Beach/Neptune point; lawsuit park district
Reminds me of a similar situation in Hood River years ago where the City Council tried to change the zoning along the Columbia to accommodate a Bend developer. Not that I'm against development, but we banded together and ultimately convinced the Port to donate two waterfront lots to the City, and we busted our humps to raise money and developed the public park there today. In the end, the park made the property all that much more attractive, and there are tasteful industrial buildings being built across the street to accommodate growing small industry as well as a new restaurant (in line with the Port's charter to create sustainable employment). As for residential development... with 2008 now in hindsight I imagine more naysayers are happy the developer didn't get to put 65' high condos in.
If the developer plays his cards right here he might play both sides of the fence and give a portion of the waterfront to Parks to develop and manage...
Though looking at this area on Google Maps it seems it's already developed with housing (are we talking about the area bounded by McKay Ave and Crown Drive?). Am I missing something? Does anyone actually launch from that point/peninsula? Looks like it'd be surrounded by dirty wind on the way out and back.
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I'm pretty sure they're referring to Neptune as the area also known as Crab Cove just NW of the shack launch. It is currently a parks / historical pavilion & picnic area but I think with the plan it would put housing in all that waterfront space. The area upwind of the launch that you pass by as you drive in
Can anyone confirm? I am interested to learn a bit more about this as well
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if you drive down central ave hang a left next to foster freez that is mckay ave
i think the land is the parks dept maintenance area and the fed office buldings.
just west of that is a condo city
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=37 ... &tab=ilive tryed to post a picture but im duMb.
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For the latest news and opinions about the Neptune Beach Project (formerly called Neptune Pointe), visit the Friends of Crown Beach website. http://friendsofcrownbeach.com/
While not directly effecting kiteboarding at Crown Beach, kiteboarders who love Crown Beach should support the park district's effort to secure the Neptune - McKay Ave property.
Voters approved money to acquire the property in 2008, and now the GSA (Government Services Administration) is ignoring their own rules about first offering surplus land to other government agencies. The GSA is standing with the developer that has an option (won during a GSA auction) to purchase the parcel, and has been given repeated extensions for closing until easements are secured for state-owned McKay Ave.
Latest rumblings are that the GSA will sue the state in order to add utility easement rights to the deed. Currently the property utility easement rights end when it leaves federal hands. The state parks dept has written to the developer and the city of Alameda explicitly saying they will not grant an easement for private development under a state park street. The drama continues....
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James McClamroch, Jr., senior vice president for individual software, Morningstar, Inc.
James McClamroch, Jr., 42, has been named the senior vice president for individual software at Morningstar, Inc. He will be responsible for the business unit that develops products for individual investors, including Morningstar.com and the company's other global retail websites, mobile applications, investor relations products and newsletters. Prior to joining Morningstar, McClamroch served as general manager of global product partnerships in Microsoft's Online Services Division, where he led the global strategy, development, and management of product partnerships for the Bing and MSN services. McClamroch holds a Bachelor's degree in political science from DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind.
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ARK: Survival Evolved - $10
This one's been on my wishlist for a while, and it's now the cheapest it's ever been... I think I'm gonna pick it up. I see a few of us have it already, so maybe we should set up a server one of these Fridays!
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I've spun up a server in the past for some local friends. I can probably get another going. Although its been a while since I did that so I'll need to review the instructions for servers again.
Let me know if there is interest.
Let me know if there is interest.
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Mirror system as of nov.12, 2012
"mirror.rts-informatique.fr" points to 1 server:
Server uses unmetered 100 Mb/s, located in Roubaix (France). Server runs Ubuntu 12.10 server, Cherokee 1.2 with PHP5.
- europa (OVH KS 2G) - main server
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I've been asked sometimes about the hardware behind mirror.rts-informatique.fr, the server load, the sync process and even the Cherokee theme May this also be a little view into Linux Mint Debian and it's growing.
As of today, mirror.rts-informatique.fr is a DNS round-robin on IPv4 and IPv6 for 2 servers: "ganymede" and "callisto". Yes there will be an "io" server a little before UP6 (even a "jupiter"), but "no europa" (2001 A Space Odyssey and the following books, this quote is from 2010 )
Both servers are 100-megabit OVH dedicated servers, located in Roubaix (France). To preserve bandwidth, ganymede syncs daily with debian.linuxmint.com (download), and then syncs with callisto (upload). The hardware of the two servers is a bit different, but the config is the same: Ubuntu 12.04 servers with autoupgrade and stuff.
When connecting to mirror.rts-informatique.fr, you end up randomly on ganymede or callisto. Between downloads, your computer may swap from one to another. So actually this gives quite accurate logs for unique IPs on both of them.
Here we go:
mirror.rts-informatique is used as APT mirror for at least 2500 IPs resulting in about 2700 sources.list (counting multiple PCs at home or office, virtualboxes,..).
Peak activity is at 17:00 UTC, lowest being at 05:00 UTC (two-third less).
8% of all connections are IPv6
Each server has an average weekly output of ~20 Mb/s
Top countries are:
- France
100% uptime (had to reset the graph since Pingdom had buggy monitors not so long ago)
The average user download speed is at 6 Mb/s, the average user latency is at 110 ms
Average system load of both servers is at around 0.08, quite steady
disk usage: 91 GB for ISO, 13 GB for Packages, 223 GB for Debian latest (that's around 450 GB with the two Debian pools)
Right now the load is low enough to cut down to 1 server, but with UP6, the pack size and the user count, we'll need to set up a third one with same config ("io"), and a 1000-megabit server (which can't be found low-cost at OVH, so we're looking at a Dedibox DC for "jupiter"). 4 servers up and running with over 2 TB traffic expected, this will be stressy
Update pack releases are a great real-world practice for heavy load infrastructures for me, I've learn many things with UP5 and I'm happy to share this so if you want to set up a repository mirror*, feel free to ask me advice
* yes I really don't know how many people are using LMDE right now, but with 3 repository mirrors all located in Europe this isn't good: we really could need mirrors in the US/Canada, somewhere in Asia like South Korea, and in Australia. Yes it takes a lot more disk space than "packages" so there won't be as many mirrors, but please, 1 TB servers can be found nowadays and the project really needs it before UP6 gets out


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A Woman's Legacy: Five Women Who Made a Difference oral history series
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The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.
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The material in this collection may be protected by copyright. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights for permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." Permission must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
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text: Diamond V Dedicates New Global Headquarters August 23, 2012 02:41 PM Tweet Iowa Governor Terry Branstad (center), Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds (left) and John Bloomhall, Diamond V CEO and president, cut the ribbon to Diamond V's new global headquarters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jim Dickrell Dairy Herd Management Dairy Editor Email The new headquarters, high atop a hill in southern Cedar Rapids, is symbolic after record flooding through the city's downtown filled the first floor of Diamond V's offices in 2008. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds cut the ribbon to officially open Diamond V's new global headquarters this afternoon in Cedar Rapids. The company also celebrated its 70th year in business. The new headquarters, high atop a hill in the southern city limits of the city, is significant and symbolic after record flooding of the Cedar River through the city's downtown filled the first floor of Diamond V's offices in 2008. The new 17,000 sq. ft. headquarters is located on a 77-acre campus. The company has been operating a new manufacturing plant at the site since 2009. Ground-breaking for that plant was done soon after the flood, and the company plans to double its footprint this year to increase plant capacity. The company continues to operate its original plant, which was also flooded in 2008. The new headquarters features geo-thermal heating and cooling for even climate control. Offices are located on the perimeter of the building, with large windows, to allow for natural light. The second-story board room has uninterrupted windows that offer views of the rolling Iowa prairie and industrial skyline of southern Cedar Rapids. "Our new global headquarters represents our organization's commitment to address the growing need for safe, abundant and affordable food," says John Bloomhall, Diamond V CEO and president. Bloomhall actually choked up briefly during the ribbon cutting opening ceremony when he thanked Diamond V employees for all they have done through the flood recovery and plant and headquarters expansion. "You make us really, really proud," he told the dozens of blue-shirted Diamond V employees present at the ceremony. "Thank you to all the blue shirts out there." Joel Newman, president of the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), also was on hand for the ribbon cutting ceremony. He notes that high-tech products such as Diamond V's yeast fermentation metabolites are needed to feed a hungry world. Global population growth and rising incomes will mean the world's farmers will have to produce 50% more food with existing land and water resources by 2050. He notes that the U.S. has 1.68 acres of arable land per consumer to meet this need. But other areas of the world are not nearly as fortunate. Europe has only one acre per capita; South America and Africa, three quarters of an acre/capita, and Asia, less than a third of an acre per person. "Agriculture must invest in technology, research, global education, and feed and food security through Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Processes to meet this growing need," he says. "As president of AFIA, I'm very proud that one of our prominent members, as Diamond V, is setting that bar high. Diamond V has an awful lot to be proud of." For more information on Diamond V, click here. Back to news


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The Federal Communications Commission may appeal the ruling by a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday that struck down the agency's so-called net neutrality rules, according to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
"I am committed to maintaining our networks as engines for economic growth, test beds for innovative services and products, and channels for all forms of speech protected by the First Amendment," Wheeler said in a statement.
(Read more: FCC says AT&T sponsored data plans bear watching)
"We will consider all available options, including those for appeal, to ensure that these networks on which the Internet depends continue to provide a free and open platform for innovation and expression, and operate in the interest of all Americans."
The FCC's 2011 open Internet rules require Internet providers to treat all Web traffic equally and give consumers equal access to all lawful content but were challenged by Verizon Communications as excessive.
The FCC did not have the legal authority to enact the regulations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said in its ruling.


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J (J language) is a high-level, general-purpose, high-performance programming language. J is portable and runs on 32/64-bit Windows/Linux/Mac as well as iOS, Android, and other platforms. J source (required only if Jsoftware binaries don't meet your requirements) is available under both commercial and GPL 3 license. J systems can be installed and distributed for free.
Jd (J database) is a high-performance, columnar RDBMS (relational database management system) implemented in J. Learn about Jd here.
J is particularly strong in the mathematical, statistical, and logical analysis of data. It is a powerful tool in building new and better solutions to old problems and even better at finding solutions where the problem is not already well understood.
J systems have:
"If you are interested in programming solutions to challenging data processing problems, then the time you invest in learning J will be well spent."
Jsoftware celebrated 25 years of designing, developing, and distributing J in January 2015.
J is used around the world by individuals, business, and academia. With the forums you can immediately be part of a lively and diverse programming community.
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To be tethered to technology, is the reality of living and working in today's world. More and more studies have confirmed that cutting the cord to our technology gadgets on a regular basis is a healthy choice. So why not ditch the devices and head outdoors. Spending time outdoors has been scientifically proven to reduce stress levels, help you find clarity, and rejuvenate. Natural environments allow us to leave the stress of our everyday lives behind.
From a short walk at lunch or a rigorous hike, combining exercise and being in nature is a perfect combination to reduce stress and promote well-being. So cut the cord and get outdoors to experience Mother Nature today.


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It seems something has gone wrong, the page you were looking for either does not exist or there has been an error in the URL. There's a good chance that this is not something you've done wrong, but an error that we're not yet aware of.
The link you were trying to access may have been for our old website and no longer exists.
Using the menu above you should be able to find your feet and maybe even find the page that you were looking for.


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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Alan Grayson took an interesting approach to simplifying the GOP's ideas on health care.
Congressman Alan Grayson, a Democrat from Florida's 8th district, was allowed to take the floor to speak on the universal health care plan being debated.
He decided to use his time to present his simplified understanding of the GOP's supposed health care plan.
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This quote from the Social Media Examiner interview of Seth Godin got my brain working:
The Domino Project is trying to make ideas easier to spread. I think books are important and book publishers are basically trying to kill books. They're making them too expensive, too long, too slow, too hard to spread and too hard to find. So the public is just ignoring them and moving on to the next thing. (Emphasis mine.)
To be fair, The Domino Project is Mr. Godin's foray into publishing by experimenting with a new system of connecting authors to readers. The first book from the project, Poke the Box (written by Mr. Godin himself), is a self described manifesto on self-starting. He has taken a new approach to spreading ideas by creating packages for people to buy and share books with others. I have not read more than the preview chapter of the book on Amazon; it certainly looks like the kick in the ass that I could use. But my mind keeps coming back to that highlighted sentence and a question.
Is the publishing system itself broken?
Perhaps broken is too harsh a term. Antiquated is maybe a better term. What has changed in the publishing process leading up to the point of sale (or in this case, license)? The new licensing arrangement is mentioned as a revenue stream, but is it supporting an old and inferior system? Could the HarperCollins' 26 eBook checkout limit idea be akin putting giant chrome rims on a jalopy?
In applying Mr. Godin's objections to publishers to the HarperCollins situation, is complying with the "Pretend Its Print" model (too slow, too hard to spread) and making it harder for people to borrow books (too long a wait) just a waste of the library's money (too expensive)?
If so, then why are we doing it?
If not, then what are the limits of external control over your collection? How many conditions should material be subject to that originate from outside the policies and practices of the library?
Last year, Mr. Godin challenged us on the future of the library.
This year, HarperCollins is challenging the future of the library through its new licensing idea.
Perhaps we can challenge the librarian profession to work towards a whole new concept as to what a collection really means now.
This could be our self starter.
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2009 Top Truck Challenge Competitors Introduction - The IncumbentsPosted in Top Truck Challenge on November 1, 2009
Back in the April '09 issue of Four Wheeler, we trotted out 55 Top Truck Challenge 2009 candidates and we asked you to vote for the ones you wished to see compete in this year's TTC thrashfest in Hollister Hills, California. You responded in a big way, and we were deluged with ballots.
Congratulations on selecting a stout, fascinating, wide range of rigs. Over the next several pages, we'll unveil who you elected into TTC 2009. We'll give you the technical details of each vehicle and even show you the driver and co-driver of each rig (after all, these rigs don't drive themselves).
Take a good long look at these rigs, because it's probably the last time you'll see them this clean and undamaged. In next month's issue, we'll detail each competitor's performance in all seven mind- (and metal) bending TTC events. You'll learn what went right and what went wrong for each competitor in each event. Can't wait? Well, head on over to fourwheeler.com for gobs of photos and the final standings from this year's event. Want to compete in next year's event? Turn to page 60 to see how you can enter your rig.
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Kevin Durant scored 23 points, Russell Westbrook added 19 and the Oklahoma City cruised to a 110-87 victory over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night.
Kevin Martin had 15 points for Oklahoma City, which improved to 25-8 at home. The Thunder led 29-19 after one quarter and 50-28 at halftime.
Gordon Hayward scored 20 points to lead Utah, and Enes Kanter had 12. The Jazz lost for the eighth time in 10 games, but remained one-half game behind the Los Angeles Lakers for eighth place in the West.
Durant struggled early, recording more turnovers (6) than points (5) through the first 22 minutes. The NBA's leading scorer didn't convert until 3.8 seconds left in the first quarter and finished the half with eight points.
Durant found his rhythm in the third quarter, scoring nine of Oklahoma City's first 11 points and 15 overall to push the Thunder's lead to 32.
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Efforts to fight pornography have been getting increased attention in recent months. The latest: Churches in the Kansas City area are petitioning six county governments in the region to convene grand jury investigations into sales of pornography. They also are seeking enforcement of Missouri and Kansas obscenity statutes. Stories are in both The Catholic Key in Kansas City, Mo., and The Leaven in Kansas City, Kan.
If you've not been following it, this is only the latest Catholic press coverage of the issue. Some examples:
- A Missouri bishop writes a pastoral letter warning of pornography's assault on dignity.
- In Texas, the Diocese of Austin forms an Anti-Pornography Task Force.
- Denver's archbishop pleas for an urgent end to pornography's poison.
- Another Colorado paper publishes a special section on pornography and sex addiction.
- The Leaven (see above) publishes articles on how pornography's "perfect storm" corrodes marriage, family life and on how a "secret" addiction can carry a not-so-secret price tag.
In addition, Archbishop George H. Niederaur of San Francisco, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Communications and a member of the Pontifical Council on Social Communications, spoke this month in Salt Lake City (his former diocese) and said the Internet has made pornography an "electronic tsunami" that has taken the problem well beyond simply movies and magazines. You can read coverage of the speech in the Intermountain Catholic of Salt Lake City. Subscribers to Origins, the CNS Documentary Service, can read the full text in Origins' May 31 edition.


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It's often said that certain scents can take you back to a specific time and place. For Anima Dulcis, we'll have to go back, way back (like 1695 back). Like all of Arquiste's unisex fragrances, this scent is imbued with historical significance, paying homage to a 17th-century Mexican convent where the nuns were renowned for their spicy hot chocolate recipe. The sweet-yet-savory scent takes you to that bygone era, evoking the complex brew of cocoa infused with assorted chilies.
This cologne is one of the most sensual colognes I've tried. It starts out strong and spicy, but slowly mellows out to the subtler notes, leaving you with something that lingers in a good way -but a different way-hours after you wear it.
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Leemans & van Spil is a Young company which is specialized in livestock houses and its interior. The company is using innovative and sustainable methods to create a healthy and comfortable environment for all kinds of livestock. When we create a good environment, the animals and the farmers perform best. Water quality, in-house climate and living space are most important. As we are already using the logo attached the base should be used. This concerns the Capitals LvS and the use of the blue color.
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The second episode of Showtime's nine-part documentary series "Years of Living Dangerously" featured two stories: "Last Stand," featuring Harrison Ford (continuing from last week's episode) and "Fire Line," featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Check out last week's recap here.
Continued kudos to the series team on a real showstopper - and given that, what a shame that, for the moment, Showtime has not made the program available to non-subscribers via iTunes, Netflix or other avenues. The team has commented on YouTube and other websites indicating that alternative distribution is "in the works" - we'll keep you posted. In the meantime, check out the show's YouTube channel and website.
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Fire Line
"The Governator" (and vegetable-oil powered Hummer driver) himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, joins the Snake River Hot Shots on duty. The Hot Shots are one unit of an elite federal firefighting group who serve as the last line of defense between massive forest fires in the US wildlands and nearby communities. Fire seasons are now two-and-a-half months longer than they were only a few decades ago, running a $1 billion tab for the US Forest Service. They're also far deadlier; 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hot Shots died in an overpowering Arizona blaze last year.
What's fueling these longer, more intense seasons? Higher temperatures and earlier mountain snow melts have led to drier conditions in the Western US. Simultaneously, forests are falling prey to bark beetles, a formerly mid-summer predator attacking briefly each year. Now, warmer temperatures allow the critters to reproduce twice each summer in expanded ranges - and they are infesting trees at astronomical rates. Indeed, the beetles have destroyed more trees than all fires in the US and Canada over the past ten years. Given these twin killers, the prognosis for Western US forests is not good - we could lose as much as 50 percent of them in coming decades.
Last Stand (continued from Episode 1)
This week, Ford first paid a visit to Lone Dröscher Nielson, director of the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue Center, home to some 600 orphaned or homeless orangutans. Orangutans don't only lose their homes to deforestation; they're at risk if they enter plantations, seen as pests for eating shoots from the growing palm trees.
Afterwards, Ford's anticipated meeting with Indonesian Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan gets a bit testy. Hasan argues that Indonesia is still a new democracy, so "too much freedom" is to be expected while everyone adjusts. Ford presses him to agree to protect some of the peat forest we saw in Episode 1 ; the Minister chuckles a bit. "It's not funny," Ford glowers. "There are new roads, forests cut...it's devastating, heartbreaking. You saw it. You pledged resolution. What have you done?"
"Why does a Republican care [about climate change]? It's not about politics."
Their brief meeting last fall made headlines on Indonesian television and there were rumors Ford was to be deported - he wasn't. Deep tensions underlie transnational environmental politics around wealthy powers like the US asking for a higher standard of regulatory conduct in developing nations or (relatively) new democracies than it has itself always observed. Ford's interviews with Indonesian officials and businessmen reflect those tensions.
Hasan has since declared 50 percent of the peat forest would be protected from development and Wilmar, the largest palm oil manufacturer in the world, said it would no longer buy palm oil from recently deforested plantations. When Ford wraps up his story with a tour of Unilever's production facility in Sunnyvale, California, we get to see some American spin on the palm oil situation. Unilever announced plans to sustainably source all of its palm oil by 2015 after it was also continually "attacked" (in their rep's words) by Greenpeace activists wearing orangutan suits. So collective action continues to drive most reform in the trade, and I would have liked to hear more from those activists, particularly in Indonesia.
Voices from Episode 2
- "Why does a Republican care [about climate change]? It's not about politics." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
- "Once you've seen them (the orangutans) sitting behind bars like this, it sort of brings the reality home." - Lone Dröscher Nielsen, wildlife conservationist
- "Today's fires are so big and burn so hot that they burn through the soil; it can take up to 1,000 years for the trees to grow back." - Thomas Swetnam, tree scientist (and former Hotshot)
- "All those dead trees are no longer going to be sequestering carbon. What they're going to be doing is releasing carbon...it warms, the trees become stressed, the beetles do better, they kill a lot of trees, but then that releases more carbon, and that affects everybody." - Diana Six
Take Action and Learn More
On monitoring of Western US drought conditions: For US Water, ''Hotspots,'' Satellites, Monitoring and Obama
On climate change and drought: The Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources
On Palm Oil Action, from the Union of Concerned Scientists: Palm Oil infographic
From Years of Living Dangerously's Years Project: Take Action
To discuss the series on social media, join us in conversation with @YearsofLiving on Instagram, @YEARSofLiving on Twitter or @YearsofLiving on Facebook using #YEARSproject.
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Double-cluthing, heel-toe downshifting, smooth driving. Ever since I got my driver's license a little over a month ago, I've been obsessed with cardriving. This weekend I managed to drive 400km without a single purpose at all, just for fun and relaxation, trying to shift gears better and smoother every turn.
With a fuel price of almost $1.10/liter (yes, that's $4.16/gallon) it's rapidly becoming a very expensive hobby.
Perhaps I should seek help ;) Perhaps I should try and convince the Dutch government to get rid of the excessive (90% of the price) environmental tax. But for now I'll just have to cut down on computer hardware expenses I suppose ;)
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Le Creuset makes this classic kettle with the same good looks and quality craftsmanship that have made its cookware a kitchen staple. The kettle conducts heat efficiently and evenly, boiling water quickly.
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- Conducts heat efficiently and evenly to reach the boiling point quickly.
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- Whistles when the water reaches a rolling boil.
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Rated 3 out of 5 by Drdeez from My new Tea Kettle It looks classy on the stove top. Only difficulty I have is if you are not careful when you first pour, it will spit out over everything. You have to take it to the sink and carefully and slowly pour the boiling water into the cup. Other than this, I like it.Date published: 2015-04-21Rated 4 out of 5 by SFjem from Looks and works great 1. Looks fantastic in my kitchen. The polished chrome sparkles! 2. The handle doesn't get hot. 3. The whistle sounds great. 4. The one challenge is that if you don't keep it filled to the optimal level, it doesn't pour quite right. Thus, one needs to test it out and learn what works. Then it's quite nice.Date published: 2015-02-09Rated 1 out of 5 by Tomabc from Run Away from this one! Nice looking, but it leaks at the spout when you pour and it stains on the side if you splash grease on it and then heat it up. I had my previous kettle for over 10 years-some cheap thing-and it never leaked and it never stained.Date published: 2014-02-17Rated 4 out of 5 by terpski329 from Great tea kettle I really like the le crueset tea kettle. I didn't like this one because it was big and was too shiny in person. I ended up purchasing the small red one and absolutely love it. It works great and add some character to the kitchen.Date published: 2013-08-23Rated 1 out of 5 by Vorster from Weak Product I love Le Creuset products but was extremely disappointed with this one. It is a beautiful looking kettle and I expected a strong robust product. Instead: 1) the knob on the lid broke off after 18 months, which has meant we have filled the kettle through the spout; and 2) the handle broke off on one side, resulting in a very unsafe and totally unusable product. Not what I would expect from Le Creuset.Date published: 2012-03-02Rated 4 out of 5 by KLosh from Pretty on the Stovetop I do really like this teakettle... its very pretty and has a pleasant whistle. I used to have the Zen design by Le Creuset and that got totaled by someone who had it sitting on the burner with no water. This one is harder to pour - not very ergonomic - but it boils well and looks nice!Date published: 2012-02-18


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The University of Hartford's Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies will present Genocide: Israel Charny and the Scourge of the Twentieth Century as the first of what the Greenberg Center hopes will be a series of exhibitions that will challenge the public to examine what genocide is, why it happens, and perhaps help us to prevent genocide before it starts. The new exhibition opening at the University's Museum of Jewish Civilization on Monday, Sept. 23, at 7.m., charts the life and career of Israel W. Charny, a path-breaking scholar, while highlighting photography of three of the most prominent genocides of the twentieth century that he has researched: the Armenian Genocide of 1915, the Holocaust or Shoah of European Jewry (1933-45), and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.
The exhibit opening on Sept. 23 will begin at 7 p.m. in Wilde Auditorium, with a talk by Avinoam Patt, the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History. Patt also will show excerpts from an interview with Charny conducted by Greenberg Center Director Richard Freund, and he will provide a preview of the exhibition. (The entire interview with Charny will be playing during the exhibition.)
After the program in Wilde Auditorium, guests will go to the Museum of Jewish Civilization in Mortensen Library to view the exhibit.
The exhibition emerged as a part of discussions between Patt and Freund, (director of the Greenberg Center), with Israel W. Charny, arguably one of the most distinguished scholars of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and who since 1979 has been the executive director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, which he founded with Elie Wiesel and the late Shamai Davidson, M.D.
The exhibition will feature photographs and artifacts from Rwanda provided by Joe Olzacki, a well-known local educator and alumnus of the University of Hartford. Also included in the exhibition will be the work of University of Hartford professor Mari Firkatian, herself the descendant of survivors of the Armenian Genocide. Firkatian's photos highlight the reconstruction of the Sourp Giragos, Holy George Church in Diyarbakir, Turkey, now being restored thanks to the efforts of the town's mayor and Armenians who fled the city in 1915.
Photographs taken by members of the Greenberg Center's Sobibor Documentation Project in Poland will also feature the Sobibor Extermination Camp, Majdanek Concentration and Extermination Camp, and the beautiful (still intact) synagogue of Wlodawa. A short pamphlet on Charny and explanations of the photographs will also be provided.
The event at the Museum, located inside the Mortensen Library in the University's Harry Jack Gray Center, is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Greenberg Center at 860.768.4964. This world premiere exhibition on the pioneering work of genocide scholar and psychotherapist Israel W. Charny will open at the University of Hartford on Sept. 23, and is scheduled to remain open until April 1, 2014.
The opening will also feature a short segment from an interview of Charny that was conducted in Israel with Freund in December, 2012. In one chilling exchange (that will be shown on September 23), Charny reveals that his search for the meaning of how to prevent genocide and which began his transformation from therapist to activist started with a dream (or rather a nightmare) in 1965. He woke suddenly with the question: "How did they do what they did to our people? How did they kill them the way they did?" Freund hopes that the presence of the exhibition on campus will allow students in psychology, history, philosophy, politics and government, among many other disciplines to ask questions about how genocide happens and realize that every one of us needs to have a "Charny moment."
"It is amazing the transformation," Freund said. Charny "embarked upon a lifetime of trying to use his professional training as a psychiatrist to help unravel one of the great mysteries of human behavior. How we allow people to commit genocide and how to stop it."
Israel W. Charny, born in Brooklyn in 1931 (but a resident of Israel since the 1973) completed his training in clinical psychology in the United States at the University of Rochester in 1957. Fully trained as an expert on human behavior, Charny was troubled by the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann: how was it possible that human beings were capable of perpetrating such unspeakable evil on one another? From that moment, he dedicated himself to finding the answer to this question. In the process, he has become one of the world's leading experts on genocide, one of the founders of the field of genocide studies, the founder of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, all the while remaining a practicing psychotherapist and acknowledged expert on marriage and family therapy in Israel.
The University of Hartford has been a pioneer in Holocaust and Genocide education in the State of Connecticut, offering a training program for middle and high school teachers and awarding prizes for new and innovative curricula that goes back two decades and college coursework that goes back 30 years. In the last six years, with the hiring of professor Patt as the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History, the University's Greenberg Center has made Holocaust and Genocide education a central part of the Judaic Studies program. Patt, who earlier served as Miles Lerman Research Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. is one of a new generation of scholars who are trained in a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The Greenberg Center hosted a visit by the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, to the University in March 2013.
The exhibition, "Genocide: Israel Charny and The Scourge Of The Twentieth Century," is part of a major new initiative by the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies in the field of Genocide and Holocaust Education to preserve the testimonies of second and third generation stories of genocide and the Holocaust for teachers worldwide called In Our Own Words. Students in Professor Patt's Fall 2013 Honors Seminar, "Responses to the Holocaust," will conduct the first series of pilot interviews with children of Holocaust survivors and victims of other genocides.
This new initiative involves an international consortium of universities and the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, founded by Dr. Israel W. Charny, which will be joining the Greenberg Center's Genocide Prevention Now Teaching Website and Educational Workshops. The new initiative will include a series of courses, workshops, public programs, exhibitions and web-based projects organized by the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies that will allow for the wide dissemination and distribution of materials for teaching about the Holocaust and Genocide to educators in the community and around the nation.


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Podsurftv needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 128 designs submitted by 44 freelance designers.
Podsurf.tv : Action Sport Video Channel
Podsurf.tv is the world's most downloaded action sport video podcast. We have achieved this by having the coolest and best quality surf video content in the world for online and podcasting.
We are looking for a professional but not corporate logo. Something that is modern / slick and clean but also relates to the action sport / youth market. Not grunge looking or typical surf stereotype etc. But also needs to be cool.
Male Youth Predominantly 13 - 30
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1.Use your creativity to come up with bold branding which is unique to us and looks like it could be a powerful brand.
2. Wordmark logo: Just the word for the logo Podsurf.tv. And the subtitle "Action Sport Video Channel". Note: We are predominately online and podcasting. Not Television.
3. Needs to work on a black and white background.
4. Needs to be legible.
5. professional but not corporate logo. Something that is modern / slick and clean but also relates to the action sport / youth market. Needs to be cool. ****something special****
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The House approved two separate bills attempting to limit federal conferences, citing recent examples of employees misusing funds.
The Government Spending Accountability Act passed the House unanimously by voice vote. The bill would cap the amount an agency can spend on a single conference at $500,000, unless the agency head determines a more pricey conference is justified. It would also cut spending on travel expenses at each agency by 30 percent of the fiscal 2010 level.
"We're not paying for federal employees to go on vacation," Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, said.
The House passed additional bills in response multiple scandals at the Internal Revenue Service. The Stop Playing on Citizen's Cash Act places a moratorium on all conferences at the IRS until the agency has implemented all the recommendations made by its inspector general in a recent report. In that report, the IRS IG found employees misused hundreds of thousands of dollars in a 2010 conference, including on an infamous Star Trek parody video.
IRS employees also faced bipartisan blowback for their involvement in political targeting while auditing non-profit groups. The Taxpayer Bill of Rights Act would require the IRS commissioner to remind all employees of the rights afforded to the American taxpayer. The Stop Targeting Our Politics IRS Act would enable the agency to fire any employee who takes unfair political action in an official capacity.
Finally, both parties agreed on the Government Customer Service Improvement Act, which the House backed in the last Congress but without enough time for the Senate to take it up. The bill would direct the Office of Management and Budget to create governmentwide standards for customer service, including targets for response times to emails, phone calls and letters, as well as benefits processing and payment allocation.
The House also considered several bills that targeted federal employees across government as part of the Republican-backed "Stop Government Abuse Week." Those bills were expected to clear the lower chamber without any Democratic support.


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I wrote here about a New York Times hit piece on Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, that contained so many errors that if you subtract them all, there is not much left of the story. The article was by Times reporter Eric Lichtblau. The paper has so far issued a single correction, but Issa's office has itemized numerous additional errors that go to the essence of the story, and has requested additional corrections.
I concluded my post by quoting an email that I sent to Mr. Lichtblau and to the paper's Public Editor:
Eric, your article on Darrell Issa appears to be false in almost every material detail. I wrote about it here:
Do you have any evidence that any of Congressman Issa's factual statements are incorrect? Beyond that, do you have anything to say in your own defense? I will be happy to publish any defense that you may wish to offer.
John Hinderaker
So far I have received in response only a form email from the Public Editor saying that "[i]f a further reply is warranted you will be hearing from us in a timely manner." Nothing from Mr. Lichtblau.
We are not the only ones waiting to see whether the Times will correct the egregious errors in its attack on Congressman Issa. Chris Muir comments in today's Day By Day strip:
So far, the Times has said only that it is "not seeing a need for any sort of retraction." Perhaps additional emails directed to Mr. Lichtblau and to Art Brisbane, the Public Editor, will cause the paper to take a more serious look at Congressman Issa's complaints.


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A Queens nursing home resident has been arraigned on murder and weapon possession charges in the beating death of his 71-year-old roommate.
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Friday a witness saw Thomas Yarnavick holding a bloodied metal leg of a wheelchair while standing over the dead body of his roommate, Jailall Singh.
Prosecutors said the 66-year-old Yarnavick then put the metal leg in a hamper where it was later recovered. They said Yarnavick later admitted killing Singh.
Police said the two roommates had argued over a curtain separating the beds before the Wednesday beating.
Yarnavick faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted. He was held without bail and ordered to return to court on Dec. 4. His lawyer declined to comment.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb Lady Bisons put together four singles wins to take a 4-3 win over USC Upstate in Atlantic Sun Conference competition.
The Lady Bisons lost the doubles match, but earned wins at No. 2, No. 3, No. 5 and No. 6 in singles Friday afternoon at Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center.
"Our girls played well, " Lady Bisons coach Jamie Aid said. "We started off a little slow with doubles and reset our girls fast for singles.
"We had a job to do and that was playing for something bigger than ourselves and that's what they did."
The Lady Bisons are 8-5 overall, 2-1 in the conference. Aid credits the team's time together over the break as a plus this week.
"We are so proud of how they have grown over spring break," Aid said. "We won both our matches that were book ending the mission trip. The mission trip gave our team perspective, allowed us to grow together and most importantly be a selfless team."
The Lady Bisons continue A-Sun play at home Saturday at 2 p.m. when ETSU, 7-7, 3-0 visits. ETSU has won four matches in a row, including a 7-0 sweep at Northern Kentucky on Friday.
"We have a great staff and supporters who have bought into our program and who are willing to work just as hard as our girls," Aid said. "This is a group effort.
"Jon Flinn has done a great job preparing our girls physically and mentally. Oliver Strecker has done a good job helping our girls with game plans. Shannon O'Brien and Lacey Printz facilitated an in-season mission trip that changed our mentality."
The Lady Bisons do not have a senior on the team. They have formed a close bond after being tested during the fall.
"We are a cohesive unit thanks to our captains Deahna Welcher and Jenny Borck," Aid said. "We are fighting as hard as we can.
"Every girl fought today. We look forward to a tough match against a strong ETSU team. The process starts over."
Lipscomb 4, USC Upstate 3
1. Isabel von Stryk/Anna Zoske (USC) def. Deahna Welcher/Jenny Borck (LIP), 8-2
2. Taylor Cohen/Talia Rojas (USC) def. Melissa Kromer/Laura Kent (LIP), 8-4
3. Lorena Djuknic/Sierra Troxel (LIP) def. Sarah Vande Berg/Lindsey Buenger (USC) 8-3
1. Isabel von Stryk (USC) def. Deahna Welcher (LIP), 6-3, 6-0
2. Melissa Kromer (LIP) def. Anna Zaske (USC), 6-3, 6-4
3. Laura Kent (LIP) def. Talia Rojas (USC), 6-1, 6-4
4. Taylor Cohen (USC) def. Jenny Borck (LIP), 3-6, 6-3, 10-8
5. Lorena Djuknic (LIP) def. Sarah Vande Berg (USC), 6-3, 6-4
6. Sierra Troxel (LIP) def. Lindsey Buenger (USC), 6-2, 6-0


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As the wine world moves away from barrels–few white wine categories are growing faster than "unoaked Chardonnay"–the beer world moves towards it. Craft beer and bourbon are cut from the same cloth in two senses: Before it's distilled whiskey is essentially a rough beer; and they share a similar ethos that focuses on ingredients, bold flavours, and tradition. Makes sense that when distillers are fielding calls from people looking to buy used bourbon barrels it's often a brewer on the other end.
The ones Nickel Brook's Ryan Morrow uses for his Old Kentucky Bastard beer come from the Buffalo Trace facility in Kentucky. As I mentioned in the original piece on Postcity.com, Ryan's intention is to keep his barrel programme growing at a steady clip. (more…)


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Shanghai GRAND SLAM | 30 April - 5 May 2013
Shanghai, China, May 5, 2013 – Two-time Shanghai Open champion Talita Antunes da Rocha of Brazil and her new partner Taiana de Souza Lima clean swept Austria's Schwaiger sisters in the Shanghai Grand Slam women's final here on Sunday to win their first FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour/Open title together.
Following a well earned 2-0 (21-15, 21-11) victory ove Maria Clara Salgado Rufino/Carolina Solberg Salgado in an all-Brazilian semifinal Sunday morning, Talita/Taiana went on to beat Doris and Stefanie Schwaigers 21-13 and 21-11 in 34 minutes in the full-packed Jinshan Beach Volleyball Stadium.
The 30-year-old Talita, who had teamed up with Renata Ribeiro and Maria Antonelli to reach the top of the podium in 2008 and 2009 respectively, captured her 14th World Tour/Open title while the 28-year-old Taiana was crowned for the first time in 11 seasons.
"I am very happy to win, with the new team, new partner," said Taiana, who was dominating in the semifinal and final match.
It was tied at 7-all in the first set of the final before Taiana had a short dink, two kills and an ace in a 6-1 run that pushed her team to 13-8 and the Brazilian duo went on to clinch the opener at 21-13. In the second set, the Austrians put up no real resistance either.
"She played very well and I am so happy that Taiana won her first gold medal," said Talita. "We changed a lot of things and I feel we are doing good for Brazil."
The Austrians, the bronze medallist in the Shanghai Open in 2011, received their first silver at FIVB Beach Volleyball Grand Slam events.
"Directly after the final we were a little bit sad. We tried to do our best but we couldn't, it didn't really work out what we wanted to do, but things like this happen and we've had a great tournament with either two sets win or two sets loss, so it was fine, said Doris. "It's been our first semifinal at a Grand Slam tournament, we only played Open semifinal and then to reach the final is great."
"It was quite a tough game because there was a lot of strong wind in the court," said Stefanie.
Earlier on Sunday, the Salgado sisters rallied past Madelein Meppelink/Sophie van Gestel of the Netherlands 2-1 (16-21, 21-19, 15-8) in the bronze medal match to repeat their third place finish in the Shanghai Open four years ago.
Dropping the first set and trailing by 14-13 in the second set, the Maria and Carolina combined to work out a 6-1 surge to overtake the lead at 19-15. The Dutch women steadily pulled within 20-19, only to find Maria level one set back for Brazil with a nice spike. In the tiebreaker, the Salgado sisters kept the momentum as they jumped to a 7-4 lead and ended the match with another 6-1 run capped by a solid block by Carolina.
"It's a really tough match and the Netherlands are a very good team and we lost in the first match, so it's really hard for us to get into the game," said Carolina. "But I think we wanted so much to win and I think that made the difference."
"I played really bad in the first match and I wanted so much to be in the podium, and we had good luck to win the game," she added.
"It's really hard for us to play the first set, because we were still feeling about the semifinal, and then we said: the last match here we need to do better, and we can play better, even if we lose, we should lose in some other way. So let's play in other ways, it just happened," said Maria.
The bronze medal was a nice gift to Maria, who is turning 30 on Monday, especially after an unsuccessful tournament for her and Carolina in the season-opening Fuzhou Open, where they failed to qualify for the Main Draw.
"In Fuzhou we arrived late and we had a really tough flight and our body was really heavy. England players played good, but we didn't play well at all. We felt terrible the whole week, practicing hard, thinking about the tournament for the Grand Slam. And I said to Carol, 'I am turning 30, come on, we need to get good results before I am 30 Let's do it and it's worth it."
After the conclusion of the $220,000 Shanghai Grand Slam, the first of this seaons's FIVB-record 10 Grand Slam events, the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour will continue in Corrientes, Argentina on May 22-26.
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024 1930's Handmade Stained Glass - Floral Circle
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Hand Made Stained Glass Panels
Strippadoor are traditional stained glass lead light makers, designing from original traditional images for your door and windows.
We have a great passion for making leaded light, and our aim is to make it just as it was, using stained glass which is identical to how it was made originally. We also make sure it sits comfortably with the character of its surroundings i.e. Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian, and we have a wealth of knowledge in these designs, traditional colours and texture mixes.
A stained glass entrance that looks as it if has always been there.
Initially, it is important to concentrate on design and not too much on glass.
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