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General provisions.
1.1. The Present User Agreement (hereinafter referred to as "Agreement") regulates conditions and procedures for the provision of services by the website http://goldenbirds.biz, hereinafter addressed to as "Facilitating Agent", and is superscribed to a natural person (hereinafter referred to as "Participant") to be accommodated by the mentioned website.
1.2. Before services obtainment begins a Participant accepts all terms of the Present Agreement self-evidently, outright and completely, and in case the Participant disagree to any term of the Agreement, the Facilitating Agent suggests refusing his services provision.
1.3. Both Facilitating Agent and a Participant accept procedures and form of execution of the Present Agreement to be of equal legal force with an agreement executed in written form.
1.4. Administration of GoldenBirds.Ru reserves it's right for any amend and supplement in the User Agreement and the website without Participants' notification.
2. Terms and conditions.
The game is a kind of activity with aim to meet needs of a person in entertainment, pleasure, stress-relief, and also to develop certain skills and abilities, in form of free self-expression of a person, not connected with achieving practical goals, and delivering joy in themselves. The game acting area is a Gaming area of physical devices and computer software, allocated in WAN Internet, intended for leisure-time activities organization.
The game « goldenbirds.biz» , economic game «Virtual online money» - is special and unique name of hardware and software package, owned by the Facilitating Agent and located at Internet URL http://goldenbirds.biz , which is the Facilitating Agent tool for providing Participants with services of their leisure time in the procedures of the Present Agreement and upon its terms.
Gaming inventory — is conditional unit for game participation, entitled "Silver", which storage and discount place is Participants' online accounts in the format of accounting system of the Gaming area « http://goldenbirds.biz».
Game account – is a Participant virtual account, provided by the Facilitating Agent for each Participant in the Gaming area for gaming inventory (Silver) discount.
Agreement Subject
3.1. The subject of the Present Agreement is provision of services by the Facilitating Agent aimed at leisure-time activities within the game « http://goldenbirds.biz» according to terms and conditions of the Present Agreement. By such services, more specifically, the following are: gaming inventory (Silver), relevant information: game account flows, Participants identification and safety measures provision, development of software, integrated in software and hardware package and external applications, information and other services necessary for game organization and Participants support in its course within Gaming area of the Facilitating Agent.
3.2. The game as a general principle, as well as any of its components or any related external gaming application, are designed solely for the purposes of entertainment. A participant acknowledges that all kinds of activities in the game within Gaming area are articles of entertainment for the Participant. A participant agrees to the fact that his gaming activity rate is available to different degree upon the Participant's user account data.
3.3. A Participant agrees to be personally liable for all actions which effected gaming inventory (Silver), such as buys-in, buys-out, investment and withdrawal, and also for actions within the Gaming area: creation, buys-in-out, manipulations with all gaming elements and other attributes and objects being used for gaming process.
3.4. A Participant acknowledges that ability and rate of participation in entertainments at the Game server are substantive properties of services provided with.
4. Parties rights and liabilities
4.1 Participants rights and liabilities
4.1.1. To participate in the game « http://goldenbirds.biz» persons are to be of civil capacity according to the legislation of their domicile. All effects of this condition disregard assert liability against the Participant.
4.1.2. Playing manner and gaming activity rate are governed by a Participant, but can't be not in compliance with the Present Agreement and Gaming area rules.
4.1.2. A Participant is obliged to:
184.108.40.206. Truly inform personal information when signing up and upon the first request of the Facilitating Agent deliver reliable details of his identity, which allow to identify him as gaming user account owner;
22.214.171.124. Refuse using the game for any actions, which are not in compliance with international legislation or the Participant domicile country legislation;
126.96.36.199. Never use undocumented distinctions (bugs) of software and it's errors and immediately inform the Facilitating Agent about them, and also about identities using such errors;
220.127.116.11. Never use external applications of any kind for gaining advantages in the game;
18.104.22.168. Never use his affiliate hyperlink, as well as hyperlinks of the resource containing it, mailouts or any other kinds of messages in aid of advertising to persons, which have never shown desire to receive such ones(spam);
22.214.171.124. Limit no other participants or other persons access to the game, and obliged to treat other participants of the game and the Facilitating Agent, his partners and employees respectfully correctly, produce no clutter for the operation of the latter;
188.8.131.52. Refuse the Facilitating Agent and the game participants mislead;
188.8.131.52. Refuse foul language and obscenities of any kind usage;
220.127.116.11. Refuse to cast a slur on other participants and administration actions;
220.127.116.11. Refuse to pose violence or bodily harm threats to whomsoever;
184.108.40.206. Refuse distribution of materials propagandizing nonacceptance or hatred of any race, religion, culture, nationality, nation, language, policy, community, ideology or social movement;
126.96.36.199. Refuse advertising pornography, drugs and resources containing such information;
220.127.116.11. Refuse taking actions, terminology or jargon for window dressing of participant's liabilities violations;
22.214.171.124. Personal care of necessary computer and other security measures, keep in secret and never deliver personal identification information, such as Login, user account password etc, over third party, allow unauthorized access to mailbox specified in the Participants user account. The whole of risks with unfavorable consequences of such information disclosure is the Participant's responsibility, as the Participant agrees to the fact that Gaming area security system excludes delivery of Login, password and participant's user account identity to third parties;
22.214.171.124. Personal responsibility for financing activities and deals, The Facilitating Agent is not responsible for financing activities, such as gaming inventory and game currency, as well as other game attributes, transfer handled among participants.
220.127.116.11. Be the first to report the participant's complaint's and claims to the Facilitating Agent in written form via "Contacts" page.
22.214.171.124. Gain familiarity with the game news and amendments of the Present Agreement and the game rules within gaming area independently and on a term basis. Users are obliged to READ ATTENTIVELY User Agreement and description of the project functions and services at least once a week (they may be undergone changes and amendments – check out clause 1.5), as poor awareness of the rules does not waive participants responsibility for their violations.
188.8.131.52. Never create additional profiles for increasing referral reward. This actions can encourage account block, or set to zero all accumulations.
188.8.131.52. don\'t pass silver or pay points to another player using \"Auction\" or \"Rock-Pillar-Scissors\".
4.2 Facilitating Agent rights and liabilities
4.2.1. The Facilitating Agent is obliged to:
220.127.116.11. Provide Participants with access to the Gaming area and game participation free of charge. A participant settles network connection and bears other expenses related to the present action.
126.96.36.199. Keep track of gaming inventory (Silvers) for gaming accounts of participants.
126.96.36.199. Develop hardware and software complex on a term basis, but doesn't guarantee that software contains no errors, and hardware components will not fall outside the operational limits and will function faultless.
22.214.171.124. To follow privilege concerning Participants personal data as in clause 6 of the Present Agreement.
22.214.171.124. Bear accounts liability and provide equivalent market value of gaming inventory (Silver) at Participants gaming accounts. Market value of gaming inventory (Silver) is the following: 100 Silvers = 1 Ruble. Participants' withdrawals are limited by payout capacity points' availability of the Participants user accounts. One payout capacity point allows to withdraw one Ruble.
Payout capacity points are generated for:
- Your investments (40% of the investment);
- 1st layer referrals investments (30% of the investment);
- 2nd layer referrals investments (10% of the investment);
- 3rd layer referrals investments (5% of the investment);
- Investment of any Participant divides 5% of the investment among all Participants being active within previous 24 hours;
22.214.171.124. Any person legally having in possession gaming inventory (Silver) is ascertained in settlement of funds amount, defined by market value (of Silver), less and except given operation procedure cost.
5. Warranties and Obligations
5.1. The Facilitating Agent doesn't warrant continuous and permanent access to the gaming area and its services, in case of occurrence of technical malfunctions andor unpredictable circumstances including the following: Internet providers malfunctioning operation or afunction, Information servers, banking systems and payment processors, and unlawful actions of third parties. The Facilitating Agent will exercise best efforts to prevent failures, but is not responsible for ad interim game failures and suspensions regardless of such failures reasons.
5.2 Participants agree that Facilitating Agent is not responsible for the Participants losses, which occurred due to the third parties unlawful actions, aimed at security breach of electronic aids and the game databases, or due to independent of the Facilitating Agent malfunctions, suspension or closedown of connections or networks, used for cooperation with Participants, and also unlawful or meritless actions of payment processors, as well as third parties.
5.3. The facilitating Agent is not responsible for losses, which occurred due to Participants usage or negligence of game descriptive information, game rules or the game itself, and is not responsible for losses and other damage, occurred due to participants unqualified actions and ignorance of the game rules or participants calculations mistakes;
5.4. A participant agrees to use gaming area voluntarily and at the participant's sole risk. The Facilitating Agent doesn't guaranty a Participant will do well out of game participation. Rate of participation is defined by the Participant himself.
5.5. The Facilitating Agent is not responsible before a Participant for other Participants actions.
5.6. In case of disputes and difficulties appearance within the gaming area, the Facilitating Agent's decision is conclusive, and Participants accept it completely. All disputes and difficulties arisen out of or in connection with the Present Agreement are solved through negotiations. In case it is impossible to solve disputes and difficulties arisen out of or in connection with the Present Agreement through negotiations, they are subject to settlement according to the actual legislation of Belize.
5.7. The Facilitating Agent doesn't bear taxation burden for Participants. A participant is obliged to include possible gained profits in his tax statement on his own according to the domicile country legislation.
5.8. The Facilitating Agent is entitled to alter the Present Agreement, gaming area rules and other documentation at his selection. In such case the Facilitating Agent posts the latest versions of documentation at gaming area website. All alterations come into effect since posted. A participant is entitled to rescind the Present Agreement throughout three days, in case he doesn't agree to the alterations. In such case, termination of the agreement is carried out according to clause 5.9 of the Present Agreement. Participants are charged to visit the game official website in order to learn official documentation and news.
5.9. A participant is entitled to terminate the Present Agreement at his selection without conserving of his gaming account. At that all the expenses, connected with participation in the game, are not reimbursed and indemnified for. Game inventory (Silver), allocated at the gaming account of the Participant are the subject to return according to clause 18.104.22.168 of the present Agreement.
5.10. The Facilitating Agent is entitled to terminate the Present Agreement at his decision, and also take other actions to limit facilities in the game, with respect to A participant or a group of Participants, which are partators of detected violations of the Present Agreement terms and conditions. At that all gaming attributes, game inventory (Silver), allocated at the gaming accounts of the Participant or a group of Participants, as well as all expenses are not subjects to be reimbursed and indemnified.
5.11. The Facilitating Agent and the Participant waived responsibility in case of uprisal of circumstances beyond parties' reasonable control (Force-majeure circumstances), which include but are not limited by the list: acts of elements, wars, fire (destructive fires), floods, explosions, terrorism, upheavals, civil disorder, acts and actions of legislative and executive potestas, hacker attacks, absence, afunction or power supply failures, Internet services providers, connection networks and other systems and services. The party, bearing such circumstances, is to inform the other one about such circumstances within reasonable time frame.
Privacy policy
6.1. Confidential clause covers information, which the Facilitating Agent can get, about a Participant during the Participant's lodgment at the game website, and which might be correlated to the certain Participant. The Facilitating Agent automatically receives and records technical information from your browser into server logs: IP address, requested URL etc. The Facilitating Agent may record, «cookies» into Participants computer and use them afterwards. The Facilitating Agent guaranty, that the data provided by Participants in the course of registration in the game are the subject for usage by the Facilitating Agent only within the game.
6.2. The Facilitating Agent is entitled to provide third parties with information about a Participants only in cases if:
6.2.1. A participant wished to volunteer such information;
6.2.2. It is required for a Participant to use a certain necessary product o service, in particular – names information (Nicknames), gaming attributes – accessible to other Participants;
6.2.3. It is required by the international legislation or authorities in compliance with course of law;
6.2.4. A participant violates the Present Agreement and rules of the gaming area.
Final Provisions
7.1. Invalidity of a part or clause (sub clause) of the Present Agreement doesn't suppose invalidity of the rest of clauses (sub clauses).
7.2. The Present agreement is valid through whole period of game area validity, that is unlimited timeframe, and is not expected to become expired.
7.3. When registering and visiting the game area, Participants acknowledge that they have read and accepted the Present Agreement terms and conditions, game rules and other official documentation.
7.4. Before services obtainment begins a Participant completely accepts all terms of the Present Agreement self-evidently, outright and completely. In case the Participant disagrees to any term of the Agreement, the Facilitating Agent suggests refusing his services provision.
In order to exclude to put it across (fraud) a Participant, The facilitating Agent notifies Participants before acceptance of website services exercise by the Participants that offered to the participant services are based on risk, occurring between several Participants of the game according to the established by the facilitating Agent rules of the present game.
Funds of Participants, necessary for game procedures provision (purchasing funds for gaming process, improvement of profits conditions by Participants etc.), accepted the Agreement terms and conditions, are allocated as stock purse of the Participants (players), which determines profits comprising. Therefore, the facilitating Agent notifies you, that the game is partially based on principles of financial pyramid and at any moment you can loose all the investments, and at that will not have any claims to the facilitating Agent of the website.
Withal, accepting the Agreement, a Participant acknowledges his accedence for usage of the game pool by the Facilitating Agent in order to organize and service the game among the Participants.
Final result of risks is gain. In the mean time the Facilitating Agent is obliged to best possibly reduce negative risk effect in the game, with purpose to involve natural persons to the website.
At any one time service provided in the form of the game is aimed at satisfaction of Participants' needs, which he, by means of his acceptance of participation, defines and evaluates independently.
The present terms and conditions of the game and the rest of the website's statements are not the Facilitating Agent's desire to prompt emotions and feelings connected with vision of success (fervor).
7.5. The Agreement comes into force since a Participant has registered in the project.
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e-mail: email@example.com
Owner: Lindsey Kearney
Project: http://goldenbirds.biz


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This page is about the slang term suck | it sucks
be very bad
For example
- This movie really sucks! It's really boring and the story's dumb and the acting sucks big time.
- Sorry to hear that your girl dumped you, man. That sucks!
Quick Quiz
Contributor: Matt Errey

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Since I started using Family Historian software I haven't added to my Google research log as Family Historian has a functional and easy to use inbuilt facility. Prior to using Family Historian I kept my research log on a Google Drive spreadsheet that I could access on my phone, tablet, laptop or a public computer.
For anyone whose genealogy software package doesn't have a great inbuilt research log a Google spreadsheet is a good solution. It took me a while to find a solution that worked for me and Google Drive does an admirable job. The ability to be able to sort the columns in a spreadsheet makes the data so accessible. For those who may be interested the columns I used in my research log spreadsheet were Surname, Given names, Birth date,Task, Details, Location, Result, Result date. These can be modified to suit an individual user.
|Old Research Log
My current problem is that I have not transferred everything from my old research log to what are called "Named Lists" in Family Historian This afternoon's task therefore is to copy my tasks from the Google spreadsheet across to Family Historian. The benefit of using my genealogy software package as a research log is that I can have all my eggs in one basket that is I can consolidate my work in one place.
|NAA Named List (ie list of tasks)
|Sparsely populated NLA List
And now I must away and attend to my geneatasks.


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Treasure Chest Thursday July 22, 2010July 22, 2010 at 02:48 | Posted in Amore di Italia, Carnival of Genealogy, family history, family research, genealogy, Hints and Tips, memories, Treasure Chest Thursday | Leave a comment
Tags: ancestors, Carnival of Genealogy, conservator, contingency plan, famiglia, family, family history, family research, filing, genealogy, Italy, Itri, love of family, memories, organizing, photographs, research
I took off a bit of time from writing to concentrate on family and some changes we are experiencing along with some test of family loyalties through some trying times. Thankfully love for each other has triumphed in every situation we faced. During this time we have each in our own way found what matters most to us. We have each come to the realization that even as we face anger and or disappointment in one another, we can still know overwhelming love and loyalty and even respect for each other. My treasure chest is full of love for all my family and memories of all the special moments we have shared, the tears, laughter, hurts, and joys. This time has made us grow closer and more committed than ever to each other. As a parent I have been touched by the depth of feeling my sons have shown one another as they have grown. Valentino and I are proud parents as we watch each son make the decisions for where their place is to be in life. We can rest assured our sons will never lose their bonds to one another whether we are here to guide them or not. Rather now we can see that even as they may or may not agree with all decisions the others make, they support one another through good and bad ready to offer a lending hand when needed or just an ear to listen.
In the midst of this we also have been enjoying the visit of a family member from overseas. I personally had not seen this person since he was a young boy of about four or five years old. My sons had never met him. When we first met, there was instant love. I was enthralled with his precious smile and his sparkling dark eyes. I just knew our own children (not yet born) would share those same wonderful handsome good looks! Sure enough – they did! And still do! We met our nephew at the airport and immediately we recognized him in the crowd at the same instant he connected with us. The years melted away and once again the smile and dark sparkling eyes dazzled us. Now however that sweet boy is a handsome charming 6 foot plus professor. His personality fit right in to our family mix easily. His quiet strength has been a plus to us as well as his humor. He is an outsider willing to listen and not judge but he is also a beloved family member who is respected and treasured! We are his chance to practice and polish his English as my sons and I practice our broken Italian. For our granddaughters he is the charming gentleman who has captured all of their hearts. I have warned his mother I am going to find it very difficult to return him back home to her! I suspect his uncle is going to find it even more difficult than I will!
One enticing fact is that he shares a deep love of family history. His long term plans include writing about a particular part of the family history. He began to talk about the trials and dead-ends of attempting to find information on the distant relatives. He knew I had already written of more recent family and he also knew I had worked on the family genealogy. What he didn't know was how much more information I had accumulated in the last few years. As I began bringing out workbook after workbook and file after file, he was in amazement over all the information laid out. It covered the entire pool table – and filled many folders on my laptop! But the best part was that suddenly I was being forced to do what should have been done already. And if he wasn't enough encouragement a phone call from another relative in Rhode Island was the final prodding I needed. It was time to actually name and label and date as many of the digital images as possible and fit them to their "proper owners" on the family tree. Every trip to far flung relatives meant I gained more scanned copies of old photos or digital images I made of them with my camera. Needless to say there is not a photo for all of the twelve hundred plus people but it felt like double that number as I have been working on them diligently for over a month using every spare moment. For some family members it meant cropping their face out of a group photo. For still others it meant dating them through many photos showing them as they changed over the years of their lives. It also meant labeling all the digital images of the villages and towns and churches and schools and even the old family homes when possible. There are even photos of the streets where family members lived over 200 years ago. I may not be able to prove which house belonged to them but thanks to information on birth certificates I was able to ascertain streets!
So this brings me to today's treasure chest moment. My treasure chest has become my laptop. Everywhere I go it comes along for the trip. Blessed with a 6 hour battery life, I can steal many moments no matter where I am to work on the photo project. My laptop wallpaper is a replica of an antique print of the family village in Italy. Somehow I find that relaxing as I flip through files and folders saved across my desktop. As I have worked I also made certain to save frequent updates to my portable hard drive. At this point although I am not finished I have also burned CDs to send home to Italy with our nephew and to mail to Rhode Island to another cousin! Let me use this opportunity to once again admonish you all to make backups of all your work. If my laptop crashes, I would be one unhappy woman to have lost all of my hard work! It is not enough to save work only for myself. If a hurricane or other natural disaster were to destroy our home, I would risk losing all of my research. Knowing that copies have been sent to reside with other family members is double insurance against such a loss!
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Rick Klein, Jordyn Phelps and Nick Poppy in Yahoonews.com, June 29, 2013:
For something that happened 150 years ago, the Battle of Gettysburg still generates its share of controversy. And myth, according to historian Allen Guelzo, "grows like weed out of controversy."
Guelzo, a professor of history at – appropriately enough – Gettysburg College, is the author of the recently published "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion." He spoke with ABC News Political Director Rick Klein about the battle and his book – an exhaustively researched and detailed dive into the pivotal fight of the Civil War.
Among the myths of Gettysburg that Guelzo debunks is that the battle was an accident – that Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac merely happened upon each other in the hills of South Central Pennsylvania. "No, it was not really an accident," said Guelzo. "At least not more of an accident than any battle in the Civil War was."
Guelzo's book also restores the reputation of J.E.B. Stuart, cavalry commander of the Confederate Army. "Did he [Stuart] really render Robert E. Lee blind by riding on a joy ride almost entirely out of the campaign?" Guelzo asked. Over the years, Stuart has come in for much criticism for his cavalry's supposed abandonment of Lee's main force. "That also is an exaggeration, if not an outright myth."
"There are a number of other myths," Guelzo offered. "That the 20th Maine volunteers and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain saved the Union at Little Round Top. Well, all honor to Chamberlain and his men, they did do the right thing at Little Round Top on July 2nd," by defending their position with a bayonet charge.
"But actually," according to the historian, "Chamberlain was one of only a series of junior officers who make decisions like that…[to] save the future of the army and the country, at Gettysburg. He is one face in a crowd of people who make those spontaneous right decisions."
Guelzo described the battle as "a galaxy of marvelous stories. It's about people fighting small-scale fights within the big battle, and they're doing it very much on their own initiative, they're doing it without direction from famous-named generals, and…they're making the right decision on their own by just doing it, time after time after time."
Placed next to more recent fighting, like that seen in Iraq or Afghanistan, Guelzo suggested "you won't recognize what combat in Gettysburg looked like. The Battle of Gettysburg was more a species of the old Napoleonic kind of conflict, the old 18th century kind of war, than it was modern warfare. Simply because the weapons technology of the period dictated that."
Communications technology was different as well, of course. In an age when the idea of telecommunications was confined to telegraphs and hand-delivered messages, even President Lincoln had no way of knowing the outcome of Gettysburg until 24 hours after the battle was over. Guelzo likened the president to a "prospective father in the waiting room. Trying to find out about this big event that's occurring that he can't see, or can't be part of, that he just has to wait for."
Lincoln got word of the Union victory at Gettysburg at nearly the same moment he also heard of the surrender of the Confederate citadel at Vicksburg. "Those two victories together give Abraham Lincoln the best weekend that he's had during the war, if not during his life," said Guelzo.
Gettysburg was "a decisive moment in the middle of the decisive moment of the American Civil War…Up to that point, the Confederacy have been putting on quite a good show for its bid for independence. These breakaway Southern states had formed their own government, formed their own armies, they had sustained defeats, but in the East, the main Confederate Army under General Robert E. Lee had gone from victory to victory to victory," said Guelzo.
At Gettysburg, "the opportunity was there for Robert E. Lee to win a major victory over a Union army. And if he did that, then the political fallout for that victory for the Confederates might in fact have forced President Lincoln to the negotiating table."


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National Geographic reports that a new species of night monkey has been discovered in a cloud forest in northern Peru.
The as-yet unnamed species was found by a team of Peruvian and Mexican scientists during a 2009-2011 expedition in Tabaconas Namballe National Sanctuary, which lies east of Huancabamba, near the Euadorian border.
In total, the biologists found eight new species of mammals related to the common shrew opossum, enigmatic porcupine, small-eared shrew, gray fox, olingo (related to raccoons), and four types of rodents. Additionally, three new varieties of frogs were encountered, including Pristimantis bustamante.
The 28,000-hectare (70,000-acre) Santuario Nacional Tabaconas Namballe protects not only cloud forest, but also páramo grasslands. It is home to an estimated 326 species of bird, 85 species of mammals and 23 species of amphibians and reptiles. The threat of deforestation endangers this reserve, which is also habitat for the mountain tapir and the spectacled bear, both endangered species.
The team of researchers will be returning to Tabaconas Namballe National Sanctuary this November to continue their explorations for more new species, including an orange-skinned porcupine that locals report seeing.
To get a look at these new discoveries, check out the photos at Mongabay.
The new edition of V!VA Travel Guides Peru will soon be hitting bookshelves! Be sure to pick up yours – in print of e-book format – before heading out to Peru's great national parks and ruins.


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BNP Led 18-party calls 72 hours Strike and Blockade from Nov 30 to Dec 3
The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance declared a 72-hour countrywide strike/blockade (Hartal/Oborodh) from Saturday November 30 to Tuesday December 3rd, 2013. They demanded immediate suspension of the Election 2014 schedule until all parties reached a consensus over the polls-time interim government. Ruhul Kabir Rijvi read out the declaration in a press briefing at 9:30pm at the party office in Nayapaltan.
This fresh blockade announcement came right after the meeting of Begum Khaleda Zia and Kazi Zafor Ahmed at the Gulshan office. He expressed his solidarity with BNP led 18-party alliance and demanded continuous & strict political enforcement against the AL government.
Rijvi condemned burning out buses and killing innocent peoples as he blamed secret government agencies for the recent incidents. He also demands immediate release of BNP & Jamat leader from jail.
The blockade will start from 6am Saturday morning and continue till 6am Tuesday. This could extend till Thursday as per situation on course.
Meanwhile, Shahbag Thana police have filed two cases against 17 BNP leaders including Fakhrul Islam in allegations of arson and murder, at 3:30pm today.


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Software Helps Plants Integrate Cross-Functional Platforms
Islands of automation are giving way to plant-wide (even enterprise-wide) efforts that yield performance analysis and front-office profit maximization.
It takes 50 million lbs. of milk to churn out a year's worth of Breyers yogurt. But over the past few years of skyrocketing milk prices, Breyers' plant in North Lawrence, N.Y., was going bananas – and strawberries – trying to hold onto its profits.
"Instead of passing on the all of the cost increases to consumers, we looked to manufacturing to make up the difference" and keep prices in check, says Matt Davis, business unit manager. Operating 24/7, the plant seemed to be running at capacity until new management initiatives and a new software system from CDC Software, Atlanta, came online in June 2006. Some of the performance gains uncovered:
- Reduced production line changeover from 25 mins. to 18, for a 250,000 case-a-year bump.
- On-time order fi ll-rate increased from 94 to 99.6 percent.
- Quality-check completion rate hit 98 percent, up from 50 to 60 percent, within two weeks of installing the new software.
- Annual manufacturing costs reduced by $120,000.
- A one-time, $1 million cost avoidance when the system identifi ed a $50,000 repair instead of a fi lling line replacement.
Plantwide integration now enables operational managers to directly identify what parts of an operation are meeting safety, quality, productivity and overall effectiveness targets. In turn, enterprise connectivity to the plant allows executives to know what parts of an operation are making or losing money.
With appropriate cross-functional plant integration, every product, every SKU, can have completely accurate profit profiles based on actual, real-time, KPI-powered plant data. If this sounds like a pipe dream, pinch yourself: Industry leaders are doing it now.
Business demands drive technology
A confluence of factors is driving demand for plant automation – including "slow growth, rising costs, waning pricing power, accelerated regulatory and customer requirements and a growing percentage of sales from a limited number of powerful and demanding retailers," says John Blanchard, research director for tech analyst firm ARC Advisory Group, Dedham, Mass.
"A lot of what's driven us to automate has been consolidation and downsizing. You have to automate to compensate," says Roy Speers, a control specialist with 27 years at the Molson brewery in Vancouver, British Columbia, part of the Molson Coors Brewing Co. merger. "We'll keep running full-out as more plants close – and we'll be looking for ways to lessen downtime," he says of the three-shift operation now expanding as plants close in Edmonton, Alberta, and elsewhere.
Smithfield Foods has standardized on Rockwell Automation hardware and software, from real-time PLC controls (shown) to performance-managing execution systems that communicate with the front office.
"There used to be just water. Today, there's water with nutrients, electrolytes, flavored waters," says Charles Rastle, industry marketing manager in the Boulder, Colo., office of Rockwell Automation. "About 20 percent of the products in any given plant are new. Multiply that by however many SKUs the plant is running, and it's easy to see the need for more, or better, automation."
Federal requirements mandate that companies track products one step forward and back in the supply chain, and trace the cause of an incident within 24 hours. Business demands are more stringent as companies including Wal-Mart conduct mock-recall audits of suppliers and demand that causes be traced any number of steps across the supply chain.
Salmonella in peanut butter, E. coli in spinach, even an animal handling video scandal on YouTube can cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in short-term sales losses, product replenishment costs and legal and investigative costs. The longterm consequences can be far worse.
As the Chinese melamine scare of last year proved, keeping only your house in order is not enough. "As the food processing industry has become dependent on extended supply chains with multiple vendors, risk and quality management has become critical. But most organizations still implement their food safety and quality management system in a paper-based approach," says Nikki Willett, vice president of marketing and regulatory products for Pilgrim Software Inc., Tampa, Fla. Pilgrim provides an enterprise compliance and quality management software platform.
"Companies need to take a look into the same principles of industrial automation and apply it to best practices in quality and safety management automation and think of the system as a whole," she continues. The ideal is "a global program, trained employees, well-documented SOPs and utilizing technology properly to put global practices and procedures in place."
Evolving price/performance
Mike Cole, a veteran engineer and information technology pro, could never have guessed how far technology would advance. Coming from the continuousprocess world where distributed control systems (DCSs) are the norm, he says, "In the mid-1980s, I put in Serial No. 1 of the Rosemount [now Emerson Process Management] RS3 [DCS]. It gave us a full 40-megabytes of hard drive to work with. And it only cost $2 million!"
Today, a single programmable logic controller (PLC) "can do everything we were doing back then," says Cole, director of information systems and plant automated systems and standards for Smithfield Foods, the nation's largest pork processor, based in Smithfield, Va. And the cost of even a high-end PLC is about $500. More impressive: PLCs at Smithfi eld today handle motion, motor and process loop controls that a decade ago required multiple vendors, tools, parts and training that far exceeded the hardware cost.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Fabric Frame Instructions and GIVEAWAY!
First you'll want to gather:
Unfinished Wood Frame (our rim measures about three inches across)
Fabric (enough to completely cover the frame)
Black Paint (spray paint or brush on)
Decoupage Glue (we recommend Mod Podge - Matte finish)
Wide Foam Brush
Sanding Block
Distress Ink
Distress Chalk
Step 1:
Paint all the edges of the frame. We find that spray paint works great, especially when you're painting several frames at the same time. Over-spray typically doesn't affect your final project since you're covering the frame with fabric. Just be careful if you're using a light-colored fabric. Let the paint dry.
Cut your piece of fabric to be slightly larger than the frame.
Step 2:
Use the wide foam brush to apply an even coat of decoupage glue to the front of the frame. Be sure that the coverage is equally applied to all areas of the frame. The trick here is to not use too much glue, though not enough will cause the fabric to lift.
You'll need to work quickly since the glue will start to dry. Once all the glue is applied, pick up the cut piece of fabric and place it over the frame. We typically start in one corner and move in a clockwise position to make sure that fabric properly covers the entire frame. Try not to reposition the fabric more than is necessary. Smooth the fabric into place rubbing out any air bubbles that might appear. Rub your finger along the edges of the frame to ensure proper adherence.
HINT~ Be sure to lay your frame in front of you in its upright hanging position. This will allow you to properly place the fabric.
Step 3:
Let the glue completely dry. Use a razor to cut off the excess fabric around the outer edge of the fabric. It will cut easily if you hold the excess fabric taut while running the razor blade against the wood frame. Cut out the center in a similar fashion. Start in one corner by feeling the edge of the frame with your finger and creating a small incision with the blade. Once the hole is large enough, you'll be able to hold the fabric tight while continuing to cut away the excess fabric.
Step 4:
Sand all the edges of the frame. We like to use a sanding block (it saves the hands). Just wrap a piece of sand paper around the block and your sanding block will last longer. It is helpful to place the frame over a sink or between two tables especially when sanding the center of the frame. Always sand away from the fabric. If you're sanding the outer edge, start with your sanding block on the edge of the fabric. Slide it towards the back of the frame. Don't sand side to side. You'll notice little stray fibers sticking out; keep sanding! The inner corners can be a bit tricky. You might want to use just the sanding block (without any paper) to clean up the inside corners.
Step 5:
Distress the edges. We like to apply a vintage look to everything we make. Our favorite distress ink color for this project is Vintage Photo. You might want to experiment with different colors based on your personal preference and fabric choices. This pad wont fit into the inside corners of the frame. Use a cat-eye (like our favorite Chestnut Roan fluid chalk by Colorbox) to darken the corners.
Hint ~ A Q-tip works great for getting color into the corners of the frame. Rub a little ink color or paint on to the Q-tip and dab on the frame.
Step 6:
All that's left is to apply a a couple coats of decoupage glue and you're ready to enjoy your efforts. Make sure that you let the ink dry before adding glue to the top of the project. If ink streaks into the middle of the frame you can typically pull the brush back to the edge and remove it. As you apply the glue, the distress ink will darken the fabric; this gives instant age to your project and makes the frame look like it's been around for years!
I think I mentioned that I already found a perfect spot for my new frame. Of course, now I want to paint my walls a new shade of teal. Considering that I never finished the paint job that I started two years ago (maybe it was three) I doubt I'll attempt this room!
Now for the important stuff...
Who wants to win one of these beautiful frames? I bought enough fabric to make the winner their own frame. They can pick either size (we offer sizes with a 12x12 and 8x8 opening). Just add a comment (including the size of the frame that you want) to this post and we'll pick a winner late Wednesday night and post the winner's name on Thursday.
Best of luck to you!
8 comments:
- Nancy said...
What a darling frame and great tutorial! Thanks for sharing. If I were to win I would choose the 8x8 opening.
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- September 21, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- Lori said...
I love these!! I thought they were so beautiful at the Time Out in Logan. Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent. I would chose an 8X8 opening. My email is firstname.lastname@example.com
- September 21, 2009 at 3:01 PM
- Louisa said...
I also loved your display at the Time out for Women in Logan. They are beautiful. I would love an 8x8 opening. My email is email@example.com
- September 21, 2009 at 3:07 PM
- lovejoy said...
Everything you come up with is absolutely darling, including this frame! I love the idea! I'd love the 8X8.
- September 21, 2009 at 4:58 PM
- Kelly said...
Super cute! I would like a 12x12 frame. email@example.com
- September 21, 2009 at 6:15 PM
- Curley Family said...
I LOVE this! My sister-in-law told me about you and I am hooked! I would LOVE a 12x12!
- September 22, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- Maegan said...
Such a cute idea! I love it. I would choose to have an 8x8. I'll keep my fingers crossed. My email is email@example.com
- September 23, 2009 at 12:13 PM
- Shawn said...
This is so darling!! I would choose 12x12. Thanks for the chance! My email is firstname.lastname@example.com
- September 23, 2009 at 4:39 PM


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- Jan 16:
- Recall targeting two Peak to Peak Charter School board members fails
- Jan 15:
- Lafayette's Peak to Peak Charter School mum on recall election results
- Jan 6:
- Peak to Peak defends firing of principal, urges parents to vote in recall election
- Nov 20:
- Peak to Peak board breaks silence, calls ex-principal Noelle Roni's allegations 'baseless'
- Nov 19:
- Peak to Peak parents launch petitions to recall 2 of school's directors over principal's ouster
- Nov 14:
- Peak to Peak board meeting unravels as parents demand answers to principal's ouster
- Nov 6:
- Peak to Peak parents say principal's ouster shakes their faith in the school
- Nov 4:
- Peak to Peak elementary principal Noelle Roni no longer with the school
Former Peak to Peak elementary principal Noelle Roni said Sunday she was fired by the Lafayette charter school after she demanded that cafeteria workers stop stamping the hands of children – including those who qualified for the free lunch program – when their lunch accounts were empty.
"As soon as I saw it happening, I was like, 'No, this is not OK,'" she told the Daily Camera. "The students felt so humiliated, like they had done something wrong. They didn't want to go into the lunchroom any more. It's unethical and disrespectful."
Roni's comments, more than two months after her ouster, mark the first time she has addressed the events that she alleges led to her termination. Previously, Roni only had said she was let go in retaliation for "standing up for children's rights and against activities that stigmatized children."
When asked Sunday about Roni's allegations, Peak to Peak's board of directors said in a written statement that they can't comment on personnel issues, but that "Peak to Peak does not condone or tolerate unlawful retaliation."
A memo prepared by Roni's lawyer, Alexander Halpern, also claims her firing wasn't valid because it was done by an administrator instead of a public vote by the school's board as required by the Lafayette charter school's bylaws.
"The violation of the open meetings law is part of an ongoing pattern of conduct by the board to terminate Ms. Roni without the knowledge or participation of the school membership or, indeed, Ms. Roni herself," Halpern wrote in the memo.
School: Roni's claims 'baseless'
Roni, who was a principal at the school for eight years, was fired Nov. 1. Initially, the school's board of directors refused to disclose any details, sparking a firestorm among the school community that led to a recall election of two board members that's now underway.
Several weeks after Roni was fired, the board broke its silence and called her claims of a hostile work environment "baseless" in an email sent to parents.
Peak to Peak board president Thomas Willetto wrote in the email that while the school was advised by legal counsel not to say anything about Roni's departure, the ensuing outcry from parents forced board members to address the decision to fire Roni, which was made by Kelly Reeser, Peak to Peak's executive director of education.
According to the memo from her lawyer, Roni discovered in September that cafeteria workers were stamping the hands of children in the lunch line who didn't have money in their accounts to pay for a school lunch. She asked the food services manager to stop the practice, but the stamping continued.
Roni then met with the food services manager and school leadership, including Reeser, who agreed that the hand stamping should stop, according to the memo. The food services manager immediately resigned.
Three weeks later, a grandparent came to Roni upset that her grandchildren, who qualified for free lunches, were getting their hands stamped and were too embarrassed to go through the lunch line. A staff member also brought up a similar situation with a kindergarten student.
'She will stand by the kids'
The grandmother, Evelyn Bernstein, told the Camera on Sunday that she has two grandchildren at the school, a girl in high school and a boy in elementary school.
She said the boy told her that he tried to get pizza from the school lunch line, only to be given a cheese sandwich and have his hand stamped because there was no money in his account — though he qualifies for free lunches and didn't need actually need money.
He was embarrassed and didn't want to get hot lunch again, Bernstein said
When she contacted the cafeteria staff, Bernstein said, she was told that the school had purchased a new system that couldn't identify the students who qualified for lunch assistance and that her grandson should "just ignore it" if his hand was stamped.
Her granddaughter also had issues with what food she could pick in the hot lunch line, which were resolved, Bernstein said.
She added that, as far as she knows, the hand stamping has stopped and that she was glad Roni stepped in.
"At all odds, she will stand by the kids," Bernstein said.
On Sept. 19, according to the memo, Reeser "demanded" that Roni take responsibility for the food services manager quitting and, when she refused, placed a disciplinary letter in her file citing her handling of the situation as an example of "unprofessional conduct," according to the memo.
"Reeser used this incident and my stance against it as an example of my being unprofessional and insubordinate, which eventually led to me being terminated," Roni said Sunday. "You put kids first. That's more important than whether I'm going to get along with my co-worker."
'They shouldn't be hungry'
While charter schools set their own policies, the Boulder Valley School District policy for non-charter schools is to notify the parents or guardians when there's a negative balance on a lunch account rather than stamp the students' hands. Children also are given a full meal, regardless of the balance.
Ann Cooper, Boulder Valley's food services director, said the district used to stamp hands and serve only toasted cheese sandwiches to children who didn't have money in their accounts before she was hired five years ago. Many other school districts still follow a similar practice, she said, making Boulder Valley something of an anomaly.
"It's really important that we feed kids," Cooper said Sunday. "They shouldn't be hungry because of a parent issue."


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sannebr needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 71 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
Hi, my name is Sanne and I'm working on a career website for students and young professionals. The websiteaddress is http://careerwise.yes2web.nl. Visitors can find articles about career choices and a matching tool that links them to companies that best suit their interests and personality. I need a logo that says 'content' (like a newspaper logo),maar is also bold and different enough to attract the attention of my 20-30 year old audience (not too goofy, not too serious).
Higher educated students in the last year of college and young professionals in their first or second job (20-30 yrs).
I like the look of the logo I created myself (see: http://careerwise.yes2web.nl), but it needs an 'edge'. I like the idea to add a graphic/cartoon to the design. I was thinking of a head of a guy with 'woody allen' glassen. The glasses for 'wise' (in careerwise), but I'm open for other ideas. I'm more a fan of clean cut black-and-white, then of logo's with a lot of colour. You can check out graphic-styles I like on: http://careerwise.yes2web.nl/wp-con…-klein.jpg and http://careerwise.yes2web.nl/wp-con…3_0114.jpg and
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Butler's Lives of the Saints – Saint Amandus, Bishop and Confessor
He was born near Nantes, of pious parents, lords of that territory. At twenty years of age, he retired into a small monastery in the little isle of Oye, near that of Rhé. He had not been there above a year, when his father found him out, and made use of every persuasive argument in his power to prevail with him to quit that state of life. To his threats of disinheriting him, the saint cheerfully answered: "Christ is my only inheritance." The saint went to Tours, and a year after to Bourges, where he lived near fifteen years under the direction of Saint Austregisilus, the bishop, in a cell near the cathedral. His clothing was a single sack-cloth, and his sustenance barley-bread and water. After a pilgrimage to Rome, he was ordained in France a missionary bishop, without any fixed see, in 628, and commissioned to preach the faith to infidels. He preached the gospel in Flanders, and among the Sclavi in Carinthia and other provinces near the Danube: but being banished by King Dagobert, whom he had boldly reproved for his scandalous crimes, he preached to the pagans of Gascony and Navarre. Dagobert soon recalled him, threw himself at his feet to beg his pardon, and caused him to baptize his new-born son, Saint Sigebert, afterwards king. The idolatrous people about Ghent were so savage, that no preacher durst venture himself amongst them. This moved the saint to choose that mission; during the course of which he was often beaten, and sometimes thrown into the river: he continued preaching, though for a long time he saw no fruit, and supported himself by his labour. The miracle of his raising a dead man to life, at last opened the eyes of the barbarians, and the country came in crowds to receive baptism, destroying the temples of their idols with their own hands. In 633, the saint having built them several churches, founded two great monasteries in Ghent, both under the patronage Saint Peter; one was named Blandinberg, from the hill of Blandin on which it stands, now the rich abbey of Saint Peter's; the other took the name of Saint Bavo, from him who gave his estate for its foundation; this became the cathedral in 1559, when the city was created a bishop's see. Besides many pious foundations, both in France and Flanders, in 639, he built the great abbey three leagues from Tournay, called Elnon, from the river on which it stands; but it has long since taken the name of Saint Amand, with its town and warm mineral baths. In 649 he was chosen bishop of Maestricht; but three years after he resigned that see to Saint Remaclus, and returned to his missions, to which his compassion for the blindness of infidels always inclined his heart. He continued his labours amongst them till the age of eighty-six, when, broken with infirmities, he retired to Elnon, which house he governed as abbot four years more, spending that time in preparing his soul for his passage to eternity, which happened in 675. His body is honourably kept in that abbey. The Sarum Breviary honoured Saint Amandus and Saint Vedast with an office of nine lessons.
- Father Alban Butler. "Saint Amandus, Bishop and Confessor". , 1866. CatholicSaints.Info. 5 February 2013. Web. 22 March 2019. <>


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Depleted Wolves Rolled By Thunder Wednesday
The Minnesota Timberwolves fell to the Thunder 106-97 Wednesday night in Oklahoma City. The Wolves played without Kevin Love, Nikola Pekovic and Corey Brewer.
Only three Timberwolves scored in double digits, led by Ricky Rubio with 19 points on 6-12 shooting. Dante Cunningham had 18 points in a rare start and JJ Barea added 11 off the bench for Minnesota.
The Wolves fall to 24-25 on the season and fall 4.5 games behind Dallas in the Western Conference.


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SARASOTA, Fla. — The Orioles' sudden spring training spending spree continued Saturday as the club agreed to terms on a one-year deal with free-agent outfielder Nelson Cruz, according to industry sources.
The deal, which is pending a physical and was first reported by ESPN Deportes, is worth $8 million with $750,000 in incentives, according to a source.
After spending much of the offseason in a holding pattern, the Orioles' acquisition of Cruz would be their third free-agent acquisition in a little more than a week, raising their projected Opening Day payroll to approximately $105 million — the highest in franchise history — and addressing two of their biggest offseason needs.
Over the past week, the Orioles bolstered their starting rotation by signing right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez, one of the top free-agent arms on the market, to a four-year, $50 million deal, giving them a much-needed front-line starter with a history of durability.
With Cruz, the Orioles now have a big middle-of-the order bat to complement a lineup that led the majors with 212 homers last season.
Executive vice president Dan Duquette would not confirm that a deal has been reached with Cruz, saying only that that there's still "some work to be done" before the Orioles succeed in their winter-long bid for an established hitter.
Manager Buck Showalter also wouldn't comment on any pending deal with Cruz, who has averaged just more than 26 homers a season over the past five years.
"There's some things we're talking about and there are some bridges to cross, but like always, things are at a certain stage, some ahead of others," Showalter said. "Let's see where it takes us. … It will be an interesting 24 to 48 hours from here on. The last 24 have been pretty interesting."
Actually, the past week has been a frenzy of activity, especially after a sleepy offseason in which the Orioles largely avoided testing the free-agent waters, traded closer Jim Johnson to the Oakland Athletics for salary relief and endured a public relations disaster when their two-year, $15 million deal with closer Grant Balfour fell through following concerns over his physical.
But with the additions of Cruz, Jimenez and South Korean right-hander Suk-min Yoon, who signed a three-year, $5.575 million deal, all of that seems far in the past.
"It doesn't surprise me the way it plays out," Showalter said. "Sometimes there's the ability to read where things might end up. As painful as it was to lose Jimmy [Johnson], it also allowed us to do some of the things we're doing now. That was hopefully going to be the endgame."
Cruz was slated to arrive in Sarasota on Saturday night from the Dominican Republic to take his club physical either today or Monday morning, a source said.
In signing Cruz, the Orioles would lose their second-round draft pick this season, No. 55 overall, through the qualifying-offer compensation process. They already forfeited their first-round pick, No. 17 overall, in signing Jimenez last week.
The Orioles' pursuit of big-ticket free agents tied to draft pick compensation has landed them two players below market value. Both Jimenez and Cruz both declined one-year, $14.1 million qualifying offers.
"I think it was Dan or Buck or one of them who commented that sometimes the longer you wait, the better deals you get," right fielder Nick Markakis said. "That's the case now. Sometimes, you wait on those guys, and in the long run, it's a good team deal."
It is believed that Cruz turned down better offers elsewhere to sign with the Orioles. In November, Cruz reportedly was seeking a four-year, $75 million deal, but he chose the Orioles over returning to the Texas Rangers or signing with the Seattle Mariners.
Cruz, 33, is coming off a season in which he served a 50-game suspension for violation of baseball's drug policy for his involvement in the Biogenesis scandal. He hit .266/.327/.506 with 27 homers and 76 RBIs last season in 109 games for the Rangers.
"He ain't on [performance-enhancing drugs] anymore, I don't think," Orioles center fielder Adam Jones said. "The past is the past. This is America. We learn to forgive and forget, or forgive — never forget — but we forgive. If he can come here and impact our team, vamanos [Spanish for "Let's go"]."
The Orioles have two players who have been especially vocal about PED use. Orioles first baseman Chris Davis had to fight off PED rumors during his 53-homer season last year and said he believed the true home run record belonged to Roger Maris, who hit 61 in 1961. Markakis came out last year in support of tougher penalties for PED users, who he said were "stealing money."
"I heard," Markakis said of Cruz's reported deal. "I'm well aware of what's going on and what's been going on in baseball. But my opinion doesn't change toward anything. He's part of this team now and he's going to be in this clubhouse and we're going to welcome him just like anybody else."
Showalter, who managed Cruz in 2006 in his final season as Rangers manager, said the Orioles would do their due diligence on Cruz, as they would for any acquisition.
"I know him and I've had him as a manager so he's had a lot of teammates out there," Showalter said. "He's not the only guy we've done a lot of homework on."
Not speaking specifically about Cruz, Duquette indicated Saturday morning that the PED past of a player is something that is taken into consideration when signing a player.
"That's always a concern," he said. "I think it's a concern for the industry, but Major League Baseball has addressed that with the Joint Drug Agreement with the Players Association and that seems to be working."
The Orioles were also in talks last week with designated hitter Kendrys Morales and right-hander Ervin Santana, two other free agents tied to draft pick compensation.
Cruz had been the Rangers' primary starting right fielder over the past five seasons, but also has played left field. He likely would see most of his at-bats as a designated hitter but also could split time in left field with incumbent starter Nolan Reimold and David Lough.
His arrival likely will take at-bats away from Reimold, Steve Pearce and nonroster invite Delmon Young, all of whom are right-handed options at designated hitter and in the outfield.
"There's a lot that can happen between now and the end of March," Showalter said. "They control what happens over here the next five weeks."


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Neither the threat of rain nor heavy traffic prevented the huge throng of enthusiastic participants from attending the 12th Siyum HaShas last Wednesday, August 1 at MetLife Stadium. The event, which attracted more than 90,000 people, was in celebration of the conclusion of the seven-and-a-half year learning cycle of the Babylonian Talmud.
It was 36-year-old Rabbi Meir Shapiro who introduced the learning of Daf Yomi at the first Knessia Gedolah two weeks before Rosh Hashanah 5684 (1923). The Daf Yomi program requires one to learn one daf (a two-sided page) of the Talmud's 2,711 pages each day.
Several speakers heaped accolades on Daf Yomi teachers and students alike, the former for preparing their sessions thoroughly and the latter for balancing their busy schedules to ensure early morning or late night learning. Wives of both teachers and students were commended for supporting their husbands' dedication in this Torah-learning challenge.
Siyum HaShas Chairman Elly Kleinman spoke about Rabbi Shapiro's vision – uniting Klal Yisrael through the learning of Torah. Rabbi Shapiro visualized a scenario whereby a traveler would enter a shul in another village and find fellow Jews studying the same Talmud page that he was learning. Rabbi Shapiro's goal has become reality as thousands of Jews from diverse backgrounds and various locations throughout the world learn the same page of Gemara daily. This unity of purpose and achievement was on display at MetLife Stadium, as Jews from all walks of life joined together to partake in the Siyum HaShas.
Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz of Los Angeles, the evening's MC, mentioned the August 1 date of this Torah-learning accomplishment – 76 years to the day after Adolf Hitler addressed tens of thousands of people at the 1936 Olympics. Rabbi Rechnitz spoke of the sweet revenge the Jewish people could feel on this night with their answer – learning Torah – to Hitler's barbarism.
The Novominsker Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, said that it is Torah that defines the Jewish people as a nation, adding that Torah is the only ingredient that can explain our existence throughout the generations while the world's evil superpowers have perished over time.
Noted author Rabbi Yissocher Frand, the senior lecturer at Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore, urged Jews to formulate a plan that aims higher in their Torah study. He pointed to American-born Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, zt"l, who despite the handicap of Parkinson's disease, grew to become a gadol b'Yisrael. Rabbi Finkel never let his debilitating illness interfere with running the largest yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael. Rabbi Frand said that this should be a reminder that it is never too hard to accomplish great things in life, and what seems to be out of one's reach is in fact in the person's grasp.
Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner, rosh yeshiva of Kaminetz Yeshiva in Jerusalem, withstood his advanced age of 90 to make the trip. Impressed with Rabbi Frand's moving words, Rabbi Scheiner substituted his planned message by taking up Rabbi Frand's suggestion to devise a plan of action to aim higher in Torah study. Rabbi Scheiner's two-fold plan was a call for those who have yet to learn Daf Yomi to begin now, and that everyone should learn the Chofetz Chaim's Sefer Shemiras Halashon. He also spoke briefly about his rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, whose recent passing is still fresh in our minds.
For his part, Tel Aviv Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, a former Ashkenazic chief rabbi of Israel, stressed the importance of chazarah, reviewing what one has learned. Rabbi Lau emphasized that one who learns 100 times cannot be compared to one who has learned 101 times.
Yechiel Eisenstadt, Shrage Goldschmidt and Moshe Hass spearheaded the groundbreaking Masmidei Hasiyum youth program, whereby thousands of elementary and junior high school boys have completed one-and-a-half million mishnayos in memory of the same number of children murdered in the Holocaust, and six million lines of Gemara in memory of the six million martyrs of the Holocaust.


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Yankee Stadium is accessible from the Major Deegan Expressway (Interstate 87) at the following exits:
Northbound I-87: Exit 3 (Grand Concourse and East 138th Street), Exit 4 (East 149th Street) and Exit 5 (East 161st Street)
Southbound I-87: Exit 6 (East 153rd Street and River Avenue) and Exit 5 (East 161st Street)
***Important information ***
Starts July 16th, After Evening Rush Hour
The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is advising motorists that the three northbound travel lanes on the Major Deegan Expressway will be reduced to two travel lanes starting after Exit 3 (East 138th Street/Grand Concourse) to beyond Exit 5 (161st Street/Macombs Dam Bridge) and the Macombs Dam Bridge. This new configuration will begin after the evening rush hour tonight, Thursday, July 16th, weather permitting, and will last for approximately two years. This enables NYSDOT to accelerate its $133 million Major Deegan Reconstruction Project, reducing construction duration by approximately two years.
Drivers are encouraged to plan ahead and seek alternate routes.
Motorists are reminded that fines are doubled for speeding in a work zone. In accordance with the Work Zone Safety Act of 2005, convictions of two or more speeding violations in a work zone could result in the suspension of an individual's driver license. It is imperative that motorists drive carefully through this construction zone, for their own safety and the safety of workers.
From Brooklyn/Queens
From Brooklyn-Queens Expressway: Take Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (I-278) east to Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (formerly the Triboro Bridge). Cross bridge. Follow signs for the Bronx and the Major Deegan Expressway (I-87) north.
From Staten Island
From Verrazano-Narrows Bridge: Take Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (I-278) east to Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (formerly the Triboro Bridge). Cross bridge. Follow signs for the Bronx and the Major Deegan Expressway (I-87) north.
From Goethals Bridge: Follow New Jersey Turnpike (I-95) north to the George Washington Bridge. Continue with the New Jersey directions.
From Long Island
From Throgs Neck or Whitestone Bridge:
- Option 1: Follow signs for I-95 south, which becomes the westbound Cross Bronx Expressway. Proceed to Major Deegan Expressway (I-87) south.
- Option 2: Follow signs for the westbound Bruckner Expressway (I-278). From Bruckner, take exit for Major Deegan Expressway (I-87) north.
From Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (formerly Triboro Bridge): Once over bridge, follow signs for the Bronx and the Major Deegan Expressway (I-87) north.
From Westchester
From New York State Thruway (I-87): I-87 south becomes the Major Deegan Expressway.
From Bronx River Parkway or Hutchinson River Parkway: Take the Cross County Parkway west to I-87 south, which becomes the Major Deegan Expressway.
From New Jersey/George Washington Bridge
- Option 1: Take eastbound Cross Bronx Expressway (I-95 north). Exit for Major Deegan Expressway (I-87) south.
- Option 2: Take eastbound Cross Bronx Expressway (I-95 north). Use Exit 2A (Jerome Avenue). Make right off exit and continue straight on Jerome Avenue to Yankee Stadium.
- Option 3: Take Exit 2 (Harlem River Drive). Once on Harlem River Drive south, take Exit 23 toward West 155th Street. At first light after exit, turn left onto West 155th St. Cross Macombs Dam Bridge. Yankee Stadium ahead.
From Connecticut
From New England Thruway (I-95): See Long Island Throgs Neck/Whitestone Bridge directions.
From Merritt Parkway: Merritt Parkway becomes Hutchinson River Parkway. Proceed to westbound Cross County Parkway, then to I-87 south, which becomes the Major Deegan Expressway.
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Strawberry Reservoir
Plan your fishing trip to Strawberry
In addition to providing year-round fishing opportunities, Strawberry is a popular camping and boating destination.
Background and history
Strawberry Reservoir dates back to 1922 and is Utah's premier cold-water fishery.
Fisheries management program
The Strawberry Valley Fishery Complex is carefully managed to ensure achievement of well-defined objectives.
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Since we're on the subject of climate change here in recent days, herewith Churchill's musings about climate and technology from his essay "Fifty Years Hence," published in the late 1920s and available now in Thoughts and Adventures. Part of this passage is a tolerably good anticipation of "geoengineering," or "solar radiation management."
The discovery and control of such sources of power [such as nuclear] would cause changes in human affairs incomparably greater than those produced by the steam-engine four generations ago. Schemes of cosmic magnitude would become feasible. Geography and climate would obey our orders. . . The amount of rain falling yearly upon the Epsom racecourse would be enough to thaw all of the ice at the Arctic and Antarctic poles. The changing of one element into another by means of temperatures and pressures would be far beyond our present reach, would transform beyond all description our standards and values. Materials thirty times stronger than the best steel would create engines fit to bridle the new forms of power. Communications and transport by land, water, and air would take unimaginable forms, if, as is in principle possible, we could make an engine of 600 horsepower, weighing 20 lbs and carrying fuel for a thousand hours in a tank the size of a fountain pen. Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up with any rom similarly installed, and hear or take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.
P.S. News item just out from MIT's Technology Review: "We Need Nuclear-Powered Airplanes."


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If you've looked up at the corner of Germantown and Highland avenues, you've likely seen the large wind turbine that appeared on the roof of Kilian Hardware, 8450 Germantown Ave., in late December.
The turbine has been operational since Jan. 20, and with its installation, Kilian Hardware joins an increasingly large group of small businesses and homeowners throughout the United States that are turning to wind power as a means of deferring utility costs.
The turbine, manufactured by WindTronics, is 6 feet in diameter and weighs about 241 pounds. Kilian's Hardware hired local contractors to install the equipment. The total cost of the turbine, including installation, was about $15,000.
According to Kilian's owner Russell Goudy Jr., the elevation on the shop's roof is within 10 feet of the Chestnut Hill ridgeline that runs across Summit Avenue – one of the highest points in Philadelphia. Also, there are no significant tall trees or buildings surrounding the store, which makes Kilian Hardware one of the best locations in Philadelphia for a wind turbine.
The location made it attractive for a wind turbine installation, but the practical considerations were not the primary reason for installing the turbine.
"I view it as more of a novelty and as an advertising agent than as something motivated by reducing overhead," Goudy said.
That is not to say that the hardware store does not expect the turbine to eventually pay for itself as an energy supplement.
"I'm not thinking it will pay for itself too soon," Goudy said. "It will probably be close to 15 or 20 years. The maximum amount of cost deferment we could hope to achieve in any given year is about $500."
The turbine is expected to produce roughly 275 kilowatt-hours a month. The management is still in the process of calculating how the wind energy will be distributed across the store's circuit.
"We're still looking for the optimal load for the circuit," Goudy said. "I hope to add a few more things to the circuit in the next few weeks. It will still be a while before we will see what the real benefits are going to be."


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Viewpoint: Education
THESE DAYS, I'M SPENDING A LOT OF TIME THINKING ABOUT EDUCATION. MUCH OF IT HAS TO DO WITH WHAT'S ON THE NEWS. Politicians are talking about "reeducating" American workers, educating voters about economic policy, or educating people on the other side of the world about running a democracy.
Education is never far from my mind, or from the collective minds of the salon industry.
Pretty much any day of the year there is a stylist educational event occurring somewhere. That's because the salon industry understands—and has always understood—the value of education. We understand that education keeps us current, sets us apart, and ultimately makes us successful. And while some people's interest in education is related to licensing requirements and CEU credits, most stylists' interest in education is driven by a personal challenge to be the best they can be.
I AM, HOWEVER, NOTICING A SHIFT IN THE KIND OF EDUCATION BEAUTY PROFESSIONALS ARE PURSUING. There is a defi nite uptick of interest in "the fundamentals." Learning how to expand a client base, price services, build more business with existing clients and market a salon or individual "brand" are all hot topics. Business education is suddenly in style.
This isn't suggesting there is any less interest in the creative cut, color, style side. Step-by-step service education is still the most popular and essential education for licensed professionals, which is why we invest in and cover it heavily in MODERN. Also, the growth of online education platforms, including modernsalonlearning. com, shows just how strong that demand continues to be. It is worth noting that, overall, the trend in beauty education is for it to be broader and more pervasive than ever. Perhaps it's a refl ection of a challenging market—the economy has taught beauty professionals they have to make money to support their "inner artists," and, to do so, they have to focus on business best practices.
Perhaps all the salon exposure on TV—a lot of it highlighting our worst practices—has given salons a wakeup call. Perhaps it's the growing social network that's connected us more closely to our peers. (See our 26,000- plus "professional" friends on facebook.com/modernsalon.)
NO MATTER WHAT THE CAUSE, THE EFFECT IS THE SAME: a growing awareness among beauty professionals that they really are in the "business" of beauty, and need to do everything they can to make their personal and salon businesses successful.
As publishers of SALON TODAY (which focuses on the business side of beauty) we've covered this renewed focus very closely—and plan to give even more attention in the months ahead. I've attended several salon business seminars in the past few months and wasn't surprised that they inspired similar levels of passion and emotion you see at industry fashion, styling and color design events: standing ovations for the instructors and tears from participants are standard, appreciative reactions to getting the resources and knowledge to continue to thrive in the career they love.
This trend will continue, and I expect we'll come out of this economic downturn with more salons and stylists that not only know how to make their clients look and feel great, but know how to run great businesses as well.


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V.L. Wyman: No on lodging tax
November 2, 2010
To the editor:
Points to ponder:
The revenue generated by the 6.9-percent lodging tax comes from the tourism base we supposedly are trying to develop.
The tourists, visitors and potential citizens are being asked to fund our capital projects, our economic development, our beautification programs and our community infrastructure while we residents pat ourselves on the back because the tax burden will be on them, not us.
And, who would oversee the distribution and use of this projected windfall?
Community boards appointed by the Craig City Council — a surefire recipe for bickering and dissension.
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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Federal Agency Charged Black Female Employees Were Segregated in Job Assignments
CHICAGO – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a class race discrimination lawsuit in federal district court here today against Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center. The EEOC charged that the hospital, on Chicago's South Side, subjected a class of black female employees to different terms and conditions of employment and segregation in job assignments because of their race. The suit also alleged that at least one of the women was demoted in retaliation for opposing and complaining about unlawful employment practices.
John Rowe, the director of the EEOC's Chicago District, said the agency's administrative investigation revealed that numerous black female medical technicians at Jackson Park appear to have been required to perform assignments that their male counterparts who were not black were allegedly not required to perform.
Race discrimination and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit, EEOC v Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center, N.D. Ill., No. 11 C 04743, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The suit has been assigned to District Judge Milton Shadur and Magistrate Judge Gilbert. The EEOC's litigation of the case will be led by Trial Attorney June Wallace Calhoun and Supervisory Trial Attorney Diane Smason.
"There's a word for assigning work on the basis of race," said Rowe. "It's segregation—and it has long been prohibited by federal law."
EEOC Chicago District Regional Attorney John Hendrickson added, "This case appears to be one of an increasing number which involve retaliation. That's something we are always on the watch for and always want to challenge. Retaliation damages everyone—individuals, employers, and the public interest—so we are not inclined to let it slide."
The EEOC's Chicago District Office is responsible for processing discrimination charges, administrative enforcement, and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. Further information about the Commission is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Kate Hudson and Matthew Bellamy are already mom and dad – but are they also husband and wife
The couple, who welcomed son named Bingham in July 2011, announced their engagement in April.
And now Hudson"s mother, Oscar winner Goldie Hawn, 66, may have let marriage news slip during an interview with the U.K."s Evening Standard"s ES magazine, reports the Vancouver Sun.
"When my daughter Kate married an English rock star it didn"t worry me," Hawn is quoted as saying. "All that matters is that the relationship is a good one."
Last weekend, the 33-year-old Hudson and Bellamy certainly looked like a happy couple: They were spotted lolling on the beach and cuddling in the surf in Cancun.
Just before their engagement, Hudson told InStyle what she loves about her British beau. "I love that Matthew knows how to express himself," she said. "He shows his love. He communicates."
This would be the second marriage for Hudson, who was previously married to Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson. She and Robinson also have an 8-year-old son, Ryder.


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Modern GPU Programming with CUDA and Thrust
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Today's GPUs are massively parallel devices which provide programmers with TeraFlops supercomputing performance. But programming these devices and exploiting their fantastic potential is not always easy and might discourage application developers. CUDA for example is too often seen as a very low level and complicated language, although its performance it widely recognised. In this lecture, we will present a more modern and higher level approach of GPU computing with CUDA, using the Thrust library. A quick trajectory from a first "hello world" program to usable real-world teraflopic computation will be provided, proving that exploiting all the potential of modern GPUs is far less complicated that it seems.
After completing two Master degrees in Scientific Computing and Mathematics, Gilles joined in February 1998 the R&D team of Électricité de France to develop and maintain nuclear power plant simulation codes. Then he became in 2001 a support scientist at CEA/CCRT, one of the largest HPC centres in Europe, where he was involved in installing, developing, debugging and optimising codes across many scientific fields. Gilles then joined Bull's HPC benchmarking team in 2004, where he contributed to the design and deployment of HPC systems of all scale, including some of the most powerful of the Top500 machines. He joined ICHEC in June 2008 where his first role was to manage all activities in support of users on ICHEC's IBM BlueGene/P machine. In May 2009, Gilles was appointed as Head of the newly created Capability Computing and Novel Architectures group, with an extended remit including the management of ICHEC's rapidly growing GPU Computing activities, and a technology watch report, monitoring any cutting edge hardware and software on the HPC market. As such, Gilles is also Principal Investigator of the NVIDIA CUDA Research Center, title awarded in June 2010.
In his present role, Gilles is particularly involved all aspects related to novel architectures and their programming languages, such as CUDA, OpenCL, HMPP and OpenACC.
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Researchers should cite this work as follows:
New York University, New York, NY
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A Florida woman sustained severe injuries after a 70-pound sturgeon jumped across her boat and knocked her overboard, the Gainesville Sun reported.
Brianne H. Megargel, 31, broke both of her arms, her collarbone and several ribs, and sustained a lacerated liver and facial trauma, after the fish violently knocked her off her husband's moving boat and into the water, the newspaper said.
Her husband's 10-year-old son steered the boat toward her while her husband, Steve Megargel, rescued her.
"I believe if it hadn't been for him that Brianne wouldn't be here today, that she would have drowned," her father Michael Hart was quoted as saying. "My grandson was still in the boat. He stayed composed enough ... to operate that boat and get it into position where he could get his mama back on board."
Brianne Megargel was airlifted to a hospital where she remained on Tuesday, according to the newspaper.
"She is a tough cookie, that's for sure," Hart was quoted as saying. "She's always been an active person. Now she's in bed with two broken arms and realizing she isn't going to be able to do anything for herself."
The Gulf sturgeon can grow to more than six feet in length and are covered in bony plates, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's website. They live in saltwater and travel to freshwater rivers to spawn.
Six people were injured from encounters in 2011, according to Karen Parker of the Fish and Wildlife Service.


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Malcolm's Skyscraper Drawing
Around 1967
Malcolm McLaren was studying
at Croydon School of Art
when he drew this skyscraper.
He went on to manage the Sex Pistols
and shape the look of punk.
Jamie Reid was at the art school
at the same time.
His cut-up graphics
made Sex Pistols record covers
stand out.
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Jamie Reid
Jamie went to John Ruskin School
and Croydon Art College:
"I went to John Ruskin.
and I hated nearly every minute of it,
apart from my mates and the sport.
It was a totally pretentious school.
If I was 16 now,
I wouldn't have a hope in hell.
But then
I was able to go to Croydon Art School. "
"It was a vocational course -
I was able to go there at 16
without any O levels
and receive a grant.
The same applied
to my contemporaries then,
which were people like Malcolm Maclaren
who I went on to work with later
with the Sex Pistols,
Shaun Scully who was nominated
for the Turner prize last year."
"There was a mood afoot.
There was a lot of feeling
of being spontaneous
and spur of the moment.
It all culminated in youth rebellion
against all sorts of things."
Rebelling at Croydon Art School
1968 was a year of student protest.
The most well known revolt
was in France.
Croydon students
also felt the spirit of '68.
Radical politics and imaginative design
came together in the protests.
Jamie Reid took part in
a month long sit in
at Croydon School of Art.
He was thrown out for his actions,
but was still ready to rebel.
Find out more
To find out more about Malcolm McLaren
and the punk scene
a good starting point is:
'England's Dreaming'
by Jon Savage
Publisher: Faber 1991