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mesh is Canada's Web conference, being held in Toronto on May 30/31.
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The cost for the two-day conference is C$399 (plus GST). We are offering 30 student tickets for C$25 each (plus GST; post-secondary student ID must be shown at the door). Our GST# is #83753 7125 RT0001.
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The man responsible for ultimately overseeing the building of needed infrastructure – Public Works Director Mark Houghton – noted that in doing so who is going to pick up the tab?
In a nutshell that provides the framework of what has the potential to become one of the most politically contentious issues to come before the City Council harkening back to the mid 1980s when a deeply divided community pushed for a 1.9 percent growth cap since new homes were overwhelming the city's ability to pay for necessary services. The council at the time sidetracked a ballot initiative by imposing a 3.9 percent growth rate just a year after growth was blamed for almost bankrupting the city because inadequate growth impact fees were being collected from developers.
The council subcommittee of Vince Hernandez and Debby Moorhead Monday continued to gather input from developers and city staff alike on trying to indentify ways to strengthen the local economy by finding ways to stimulate more home building. The goal is to send a package of possible ways to jump start housing construction to the full council in March.
Manteca in 2009 – for the second straight year – by far led all of San Joaquin County with the most housing starts with 304 single family homes being built. And as job generator, the actual physical building of the homes may not have much impact on Manteca's 15 percent unemployment rate as a city survey last month showed most subcontractors are not based in Manteca. There is little dispute, though, that the nearly 1,000 new residents who are positioned enough financially to buy a new home in the current economy based on 300 homes being built annually would have a significant positive impact on other jobs in Manteca from health care and services to retail.
Building Industry Association of the Delta Executive Director John Beckman is advocating a temporary 50 percent cut in growth fees. Under the direction of the council subcommittee, municipal staff will run a number of scenarios on how either keeping growth fees intact or reducing the fees by 75, 50 or 25 percent will do in terms of generating home construction plus the dollar impact on the Manteca economy as well as the city.
The subcommittee will then hear input from developers and the city on the various economic models and then make a recommendation for the council on whether to slash the fees or keep them intact.
Manteca hasn't raised fees to keep pace with actual building costsBeckman points to other California cities that have temporarily reduced their growth fees by 50 percent in a bid to encourage home building. City Manager Steve Pinkerton cautioned that almost all of those cities, unlike Manteca, regularly updated their growth-related fees. As an example, Manteca's government facilities fee was set at $350 in 1989 and stayed their until two years ago and jumped them up to nearly $4,000 per home after an exhaustive study showed that was the true cost of growth's share of the actual cost of building facilities such as a police station and library. The BIA objected to the fee increase and sued. They ended up losing in court.
Other steps the subcommittee does appear ready to recommend to the full council to consider include:
•suspending the collection of development agreement fees – or bonus bucks – that can run as high as $17,500 per home depending upon the individual agreements between the city and builders for a period of five years.
•dropping the city's requirement that new homes be 15 percent better in terms of energy efficiency than the state's Title IX requirements. Manteca's requirement adds $1,500 to the cost of a typical home.
•delaying the collection of growth-related fees until such time as a final inspection is granted. Municipal staff noted this will have no impact on the city since the services aren't needed until a home is occupied.
Pinkerton made it clear the city needs to make sure that they cover close to 100 percent of the actual cost of staff time processing development plans through user fees.
The five-year suspension of the bonus bucks payments appeared to have the support of both Hernandez and Moorhead.
In advocating for a longer period than a three-year suspension of the non-restricted bonus bucks that was discussed previously, developers noted without the longer time frame builders would simply "get their money out of the ground by building homes on the 957 finished lots and then walk away until the market becomes robust once again. A finished lot represents typically $65,964 in stranded costs ranging from fees to infrastructure and land costs that can only be reclaimed when a home is built and sold.
The five-year period advocated would open a financial feasibility window for developers who have eight single family home subdivisions approved with 3,252 paper lots to go ahead and plow money into infrascture by providing an incentive which is avoiding payment of the bonus bucks.
If not, as some developers pointed out, Manteca would merely clear up the backlog of 957 finished lots so the money invested could be retrieved and would not break ground on new projects, That, in effect, would bring new home construction grinding to a halt in three to four years.
It costs $121,079 to just finish a typical lotThe model that Houghton devised illustrates to the council subcommittee the cost of building a typical home in Manteca had land acquisition, financing, and closing costs at $18,200 per home. Project approval costs such as environmental studies and various city fees add another $1,800 per home. Offsite construction improvements – everything from streets to landscaping and sound walls – add another $11,920. On-site improvements that are basically the infrastructure within the subdivision's boundaries from street lights, pipes, sidewalks to installing utilities and then turning them over ready to go to PG&E, Verizon and Comcast – add $23,826.
The building fees and growth fees add another $48,464.
That brings the cost to finish a lot to prepare it for building to $121,079. The house construction at $75 per square foot is a $150,000 cost plus there is a $30,000 cost for sales and marketing to bring the final tally in at $301,079.
If builders can secure $300,000 net for the home after selling costs are covered they will still lose money, roughly $1,079. In many cases homes are indeed selling below the cost of the finished lots as a way to keep developers ahead of the loans and to retrieve in-ground investments.
How developers are doing it is by essentially writing off the cost of the land – and $18,200 per home cost per home. There are tax consequences that can help somewhat but the real advantage is it significantly reduces losses per lot. If a developer can reduce losses significantly they can stay afloat.
On the flip side, the city factored in a certain growth rate to project their ability to pay back bonds for things such as the wastewater treatment plant and surface water treatment plant. The city traditionally has taken the historic growth rate and used a number that's anywhere from 25 percent to 50 percent lower to build in cushion on top of a reserve for debt repayment when it involves financing growth-related projects.
The entire exercise was started when Mayor Willie Weatherford suggested that the city look at ways to find ways to step up home building – the biggest source of private sector jobs in Manteca – to try and chip away at the city's 15 percent unemployment rate. The secondary impact – jobs created after people move into the new homes – is even bigger and can be attributed directly to new home building.


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STEVE Bernard was a young man who lived for sport.
Since his death at the age of just 18, his family and friends have campaigned tirelessly to ensure something positive comes from the tragedy.
So everyone at the Observer was delighted when we heard the Steve Bernard Foundation, in partnership with Chichester University Student Union, was going to sponsor one of our Community Awards.
And what better category to get behind than the Sports Team of the Year award, as his dad Tony explained.
"Steve was one of those people who was annoyingly good at whatever sport he tried," he said.
"It was his passion, he played in the FA County Youth Finals at Portman Road and had had trials for England School Boys when he died."
Steve was training to be a PE teacher at the University of Chichester when his life was cut short in an accident on the A27 in 2005.
Such was his popularity, the university's student union has picked the Steve Bernard Foundation as its chosen charity for the year.
Tony and five others are about to reach the £200,000 mark through their fundraising, money that goes straight to sporting projects, like sending old kits to third world countries, supporting disability sports people and elite teams.
"What we are trying to do is something really positive out of what happened," Tony said.
"So we're very happy to be sponsoring the Sports Team of the Year award alongside the University."
Help the foundation reach its £200,000 mark by visiting the The Steve Bernard Foundation or visiting Facebook
If you want to nominate your sports team as the best around, simply Email us or going to our Facebook page
The awards
LEGENDARY TV personality and news reader Fred Dinenage will again be the host at our Community Awards night at the end of the year.
We couldn't think of anyone better to meet and congratulate the people who make a difference in our community than ITV Meridian presenter Fred, who was awarded an
MBE in 2010.
News editor Kelly Brown said: "Fred is universally loved by everyone in the south east and his bubbly and warm personality really lights up the awards evening."
For the second year running, the evening will be held at Butlin's, a venue which proved a real hit at last year's glitzy awards night.
But there's a long way to go before our awards night in December – first we need you to vote for the people, schools and sports teams that deserve recognition.
The awards have just been launched so if you think it's about time a person who does a lot of good in their local community gets rewarded, get in touch!


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Forums → Games → gaming president
what person from any video game would you like to be king, president of all video games . please add a picture with and put their name in [b]bold look in some bb code
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and a reason why they should be president a small sentence at least somebody can only be used once keep it pg 13
master chief
if you don't vote for him you will never awake
if you dont vote
"Vote For Me And Die!"
Master Chief For President 08
I am not good with HTML images and such, but here is a link.
I vote for this guy, else I be crushed.
i'll help you
I agree with the picture Sting posted because so far out of the people posted here, Link from OoT is defiantly the best. That game was just so good and the picture actaully moves, so it's cooler. That's two votes for Link so far. Link for President!
Haha how did that make sense nick_coolhaha? You 'agreed with the picture I posted because so far Link OoT is the best?'
Come on people Ofcorse you did not forget HIM!!!
Wait what do you mean Sting. I just decided to pick that Link because that Link was from OoT, and that's one of my favorite games. Also, I just like Link so I also would choose Link for president. Now, how doesn't that make sense?
The Link that I posted showed a picture of Giga Bowser, but you compared that to the picture of Link.
And that moving picture of the dancing Mario is a good one Switchfoot.
Thar all for world of warcraft for president http://22.214.171.124/ts?t=5829047404286028769
Ohhh, so you didn't post that Link. I thought that that guy said he will help you, as in he will post the picture for you. Sorry it wasn't really my fault, but at least I get it now. Also, Giga Bowser is really awesome too, but I still prefer Link. Oh, and just some advice, used the link to the "Some BB Code allowed" right above the post box because that shows you how to post html stuff.
oops sorry i thought you meant link from LoZ
Ganon for president
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Not essential; unessential.
- adj. Without essence.
- n. Something that is not essential.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. not essential
- adj. lacking essence or being
- n. Something that is not essential
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Having no essence or being.
- adj. Not essential; not required to achieve a given purpose; unessential; unnecessary.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not essential; unessential.
- Immaterial.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. not absolutely necessary
- n. anything that is not essential
- adj. not basic or fundamental
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Only the art of tragedy - which, unlike Iyrics, that "art of solitude," refines our ability to discriminate between that which is essential and that which is inessential from a societal viewpoint - only the art of tragedy teaches us to see victories in defeats and defeats in victories.
But these last few months of eliminating the inessential has been a wonderful exercise for me and my honey.
In politics, people would rather lose than compromise their supposedly "inessential" weirdness.
"Inessential Weirdness": Nothing Is More Essential, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The benefits of her failure was to strip away the "inessential" and free her to create.
Patricia Benesh: Oprah and J.K. Rowling: Two Game Changers Go Heart-To-Heart
If you truly believe that the director is "inessential" then you must believe Uwe Boll should be hired to replace every director in the entertainment industry.
Jon Favreau Might Not Direct Iron Man 2 - It Can't Be?! « FirstShowing.net
Former Floetry member Marsha Ambrosius delivers a debut of pleasing if inessential neo soul.
Album review: Marsha Ambrosius, "Late Nights & Early Mornings"
The great Jewish thinker Maimonides distinguished between a contingent, inessential existence and a necessary existence.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Excerpt: 10 Conversations You Need to Have With Yourself: A Powerful Plan for Spiritual Growth and Self-Improvement
Combine it with the fact that there are dozens of lower-tier DC characters who deserve a showcase far more than we need yet another Justice League story, and this looks completely inessential.
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths Introductory Clip » DVDs Worth Watching
They are slogans--and the purpose of a slogan most often to hype inessential over-priced products.
Larry Strauss: State of the Union -- What Will I Tell My Students?
I turn on the TV ... and I hear J.K. Rowling say, ´Failure meant the stripping away of the inessential.
Patricia Benesh: Oprah and J.K. Rowling: Two Game Changers Go Heart-To-Heart


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1 16 oz can of chickpeas or garbanzo beans
1/4 cup liquid from can of chickpeas
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 1/2 tablespoons tahini
4 cloves garlic
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 medium red peppers
1. Cut the peppers in half and take out the seeds. Lay the pepper halves on a baking sheet and bake at 375 for about 10 minutes. Turn on the oven to broil, move the peppers to a lower grate and roast the peppers for about a minute. Please be on the lookout and don't burn the peppers. Let the peppers cool.
2. Combine all the ingredients in the blender or food processor and blend until completely smooth.
3. Serve with pita or veggies.
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Hello people, is anyone still out there? I have been terribly neglectful of my blog, which means I must have been highly productive in other areas of life, right?
Life is busy, but I am hoping to get my blogging mojo back again. I was well advised by my sister yesterday that it's better to blog briefly, than not at all. So here we are.
A lot of photographs have happened since my last post, it was hard to know where to start with the image for this one. Rather than being overwhelmed by the task of choosing a series of images, I am going to start things slowly, with just one. This is one of my favorite pictures from a recent family portrait session. Meet Evie, a most doll-like subject. Twirling, twirling, carefree. How beautiful.
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SMART'S app aids in Operation Smile's mega mission-A A +A
Monday, July 7, 2014
OPERATION Smile Philippines (OSP) has healed the smiles of over 750 children by way of free reconstructive surgery during a nationwide mission dubbed as the "Gift of Smiles." This year, the worldwide charity organization is providing free surgeries among children with cleft deformities that has undergone a patient screening process using a mobile application that was developed by Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) and Ateneo Java Wireless Competency Center (AJWCC).
SMART and AJWCC codeveloped the mobile application for Operation Smile in 2011 to help conduct the nationwide screening of patients more efficiently.
"We are happy to be able to help Operation Smile prepare and form strategies before conducting medical missions through the reports generated from the OpSmile mobile app," said Smart Public Affairs Group Head Ramon Isberto. "Patients are also able to prepare early for surgery since Operation Smile doctors can send immediate feedback to the health workers on ground via the OpSmile website."
With the app, volunteers can take photos of patients using a mobile phone camera, key in their profile information, and send the data to an online database via Internet that OSP doctors can access real time.
The week-long mega mission, which mobilized around 300 volunteers from 18 countries, was simultaneously held in Angeles City, Pampanga; Dasmarinas, Cavite; Borongan, Eastern Samar; Cebu City; Bacolod City; and Davao City.
Development of mobile apps for health is part of Smart's mHealth program, which hopes to transform healthcare delivery in the country through the use of mobile technologies. As early as 2008, the leading telco has been developing technology solutions for health, in partnership with the government and industry experts.
Published in the Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro newspaper on July 07, 2014.
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Chicago Cubs GM Jim Hendry Must GoApril 19, 2010
New Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts essentially gets a pass in his first season. Even if he had been inclined to replace under-achieving general manager Jim Hendry and Hendry's cohorts, he lacked the time. Ricketts and his family endured a nightmarish process to purchase the Cubs and related properties for $845 million from the complicated ownership of crusty real estate magnate Sam Zell.
Offseason baseball business already had begun when Ricketts officially took over last Halloween. Someone had to assemble the 2010 Cubs, and Hendry the incumbent was the only practical choice. When you're attempting to close a difficult deal of that magnitude, finances precede overhauling the operation's infrastructure.
No one really knows how Ricketts views Hendry. So far, he has sent mixed signals. Initially, Ricketts said it would take time to make the Cubs a championship club and that the key was a more fruitful farm system Observers inferred that the new owner was less than thrilled with what he was inheriting--a ballclub composed of aging veterans on huge, heavily backloaded contracts. Ricketts has been more complimentary of Hendry since then.
This is where I come in. It is my duty as a lifelong Cubs fan, 30-year season ticketholder, sportswriter-author and arrogantly self-appointed baseball expert to implore Ricketts to can Hendry and his associates after this season.
The replacement process must start now. Behind the scenes, Ricketts needs to hire baseball experts as consultants to identify his next general manager.
Ricketts will need to eat at least one contract. Hendry will have two years remaining on his 4-year pact after the 2010 campaign. No big deal. Pay the man, wish him well and upgrade the most important position in your entire business.
I like Jim Hendry the person. So does everyone in baseball. Hendry is an earnest, honest straight shooter who cares about his people. He's a baseball lifer and a 365/24/7 workaholic.
He's not a terrible general manager either. In his seven full seasons at the helm, Hendry has produced three NL Central titles and a 587-545 record. This is actually a less than impressive body of work given the high payrolls at his disposal, but Hendry will have no trouble getting another job in baseball.
The bottom line is that the Cubs desperately need to take a new direction. Hendry's baseball mindset is stuck in around 1995. He is 100% old school. The Cubs are arguably the least sabermetrically savvy of the 30 franchises.
Seven full years since all the "Moneyball" furor, it is clear that the most successful baseball operations have taken what's known as a hybrid approach. They incorporate the best of the old and new schools. They still value subjective observational input from their scouts, but they invest heavily in statistically minded experts. The Cubs' brass has not only been resistant but often disdainful of newer-wave data.
It's difficult for any team to win and harder still when you're the Cubs fighting 101 years of ongoing futility and the pressures that go with that. But it's downright foolish to evaluate players in this era without factoring in useful numbers.
Hendry began his GM run in 2003 by hiring the ultimate anti-stathead manager in Dusty Baker. They got off to a deceivingly great start. Hendry's first big move was among his very best. He pawned catcher Todd Hundley, a colossal free-agent failure, on the Dodgers and got back serviceable players in Mark Grudzielanek and Eric Karros.
In midseason, Hendry exhibited one of his skills, that of plundering small-market teams in sell mode. He snatched up-and-coming third baseman Aramis Ramirez from the Pirates and also landed temporary leadoff man Kenny Lofton. After the season, he grabbed stud first baseman Derrek Lee from the Marlins, who were conducting a white sale after winning the World Series.
The '03 Cubs won their division behind the dominant starting pitching of Mark Prior, Kerry Wood, Carlos Zambrano and Matt Clement. After beating the Braves in the first round of the playoffs, the Cubs were routing the Marlins 10-0 after five innings of Game 2 of the NLCS. Hoisting a white flag, Florida manager Jack McKeon began subbing.
Dusty Baker, the dumbest manager I've witnessed in 55 years of closely following baseball, kept Prior in the game for 116 pitches and seven-plus innings. Baker had ridden the 21-year-old Prior hard in September. Here was an obvious chance, in a 12-3 blow-out, to rest him up for a possible Game 6. Asked about it after the game, Dusty said he wanted to keep Prior on the same workload. Say what?
Prior tired in the infamous top of the eighth inning of Game 6. Cubs fan Steve Bartman reached out for a catchable foul fly, shortstop Alex Gonzalez booted a routine double-play ball and the Cubs fell apart. Kerry Wood had nothing in Game 7, and Chicago lost again.
As is his wont, Dusty kept abusing pitchers' arms in 2004 and continued to favor outmakers in his lineups, including the 1-2 spots. Meanwhile, the players whined about everything. Neither Hendry nor Dusty ever interceded while the inmates ran the asylum. Dusty feuded the whole season with TV announcer Steve Stone. The players picked up on that and began to complain about Stone's comments. The Cubs, a very talented team and finally healthy the final week, had the wild-card lead and a favorable schedule but choked. Sammy Sosa, the antithesis of a team leader for a decade, left early and without permission on the final day.
In 2004, the Red Sox won the World Series to end their 86-year drought. To pour more salt in Cubs fans' wounds, the opponent was the NL Central arch-rival Cardinals. Chicago's crosstown White Sox won the next year to halt an 88-year dry spell. The NL representative was another Cubbie division foe, the Astros. In 2006, the Cardinals went all the way. It was harder than usual to be a Cubs fan.
The Cubs fell to 79-83 in '05. They plummeted to 66-96 the next year, finishing last behind the Pirates. For inexplicable reasons, Hendry let Dusty complete his 4-year contract.
I permanently lost faith in Hendry when he launched the 2004-05 offseason by signing Neifi Perez and Glendon Rusch to 2-year contracts. The Neifinator was well on his way to cementing his legacy as one of the worst offensive performers in the game's history. Hendry had picked him up after he had been cut by both the Royals and Giants. The flailing Neifi was past his prime and remarkably inept at reaching base , but he could still pick it at shortstop. His optimal market value was a backup at slightly more than a minimum 1-year salary Rusch was a roly-poly but decent lefty swingman with a checkered history. Another marginal type worth only a year at modest bucks. No one was shocked when both players reverted to suckdom.
The Tribune ownership promoted the aggressive John McDonough from marketing director to president after the embarrassingly futile '06 season. McDonough handed a virtually blank check to Hendry to go on a $300 million "win now" spending spree.
The big signing was Alfonso Soriano for eight years and $136 million, which brought howls from baseball's establishment, including Padres' CEO Sandy Alderson. Soriano's assets were home-run power and stolen-base speed. He was a hacker who wasn't very good at reaching base. He had been a horrible second baseman who was moved to left field, where he threw pretty well but tracked batted balls as if he were allergic to them. He wasn't a great player, and he figured to lose almost all his speed and a lot of his power through his age-31-through-38 seasons.
Soriano has aged even faster than expected due to leg injuries. But that doesn't excuse Hendry. In my opinion, he committed a fire-able offense. And Chicago will be hampered long after Hendry is gone. Fonzie is due $18 million this year and each of the next four.
The Cubs won division titles in 2007 and 2008 but looked terrible and tight while getting swept both years in the first round of the playoffs. But every GM inherently brings mixed results. Hendry's haul before '07 brought in a solid lefty starting pitcher in Ted Lilly. He got a season for the ages from super utilityman Mark DeRosa in '08.
Conversely, Hendry's first Japanese import has been a semi-bust. He signed Kosuke Fukudome to a 4-year, $48 million contract. Fuku is a skilled right fielder and a patient, high-OBP hitter, but he lacks power, doesn't hit lefties well and falls into lengthy slumps while cork-screwing his front leg and swinging around it weakly and prematurely.
After the 2008 season, Milton Bradley reportedly charmed Hendry over dinner, and the Cubs' GM decided to commit three years and $30 million to baseball's pre-eminent nutcase. Another transgression that easily could cost a general manager his job. If you insist on taking a risk on a player who'd shown the emotional stability of an infant for nine years, you do not commit for more than a year. Bradley didn't play well and alienated everyone in Chicago except Oprah until he was suspended the last two weeks. Hendry shipped him to Seattle for rotund finesse pitcher Carlos Silva in a swap of brutal contracts.
One can learn a general manager's tendencies by analyzing his lesser moves as well as his higher-profile transactions. Hendry tends to "buy high" in the marketplace, and he also has a Dustyish fetish for scrappy, little guys who don't do much except to produce too many outs. He signed utilityman Aaron Miles to a 2-year, $4.5 million contract before 2009. But why? Miles, a marginal talent, was coming off an aberrational career year with the Cardinals. He predictably stank with the Cubs and was dispatched to Oakland in another Hendry bail-out maneuver.
Most of Hendry's moves clicked in 2008 as the Cubs won 97 games. The worm turned in '09. The Cubs struggled to 83 wins, and their core players started to show their age with declining performances and more frequent injuries.
Chicago continues to promote Carlos Zambrano as an ace-caliber pitcher, and they'll certainly keep paying him as one (nearly $18 mil per for the next three years) He also has a no-trade clause, a perk Hendry has handed out like candy. But Big Z is now an inconsistent No. 3 type whose arm and stuff have deteriorated steadily after Dusty rode him hard early in his career.
The statistical experts peg the 2010 Cubs to win about 79 or 80 games. As I write this, the Cubbies stand at 5-7 against a relatively soft schedule. Because of all his backloaded contracts, Hendry could not afford to fortify a thin bullpen despite a $146 million payroll that ranks third in the majors.
Ryan Theriot is back for a third year as a starting shortstop who lacks shortstop skills and ought to be at second. Hendry signed a decent corner outfielder in 245-pound Marlon Byrd to patrol center field. It appears Hendry didn't get the memo that defensive range and speed are more important as run-scoring has declined markedly since the 1998-2001 height of the steroid era. He made a slow team even slower.
The most basic method to assess a general manager's performance is to compare how his teams rank in won-lost percentage and payroll. Hendry scored a +2 in 2003 with the ninth best record and 11th highest payroll among the 30 teams. He graded –4 in 2004, tying for 11th best record while spending the seventh-most sum. Hendry fell to –9 in '05 and –21 in '06. From –4 in '07, he got back in the black with a +6 in '08. The Cubs' '09 payroll jumped to third at $135 million while the team's record ranked 16th for a –13.
It's a simple but imperfect system. The Yankees perennially rank No. 1 in payroll, but baseball is too unpredictable for the Yanks to post the best record every year. On the other end, it's much easier for a poor team to outperform its tiny payroll.
But there's no escaping that Hendry's teams outperformed payroll rank only twice in seven years or that his aggregate tally is an ugly –43. We also are doing him a favor by measuring only regular-season games. Hendry's postseason record is 6-12, including 0 for his last 8.
Mr. Ricketts says he's committed to winning the World Series. Given Hendry's track record and old-school limitations, he's extremely unlikely to bring home the bacon. Seven years without even a World Series appearance was more than enough. His eighth season should be his last.
The new owner has the luxury of six months to make his most important decision. It's not just about firing Hendry and his regime, but identifying and hiring the sharpest baseball people available. We Cubs fans deserve that.
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Updated August 7, 9:30 Central.
In the second quarter Chesapeake Energy reported net income of $929 million on revenue of $3.4 billion. The profits included nearly $600 million in gains from the sale of its Chesapeake Midstream Partners pipeline division, $490 million in unrealized hedging gains and $148 million in charges for asset impairments.
Excluding all the stuff that the company says "are typically not included" by securities analysts, and the "adjusted" net income on the quarter is just $3 million, or 6 cents per share. That's some difference.
More interesting to me is that the company wiped off its books a massive amount of oil and gas reserves that it says are not economically recoverable at current commodities prices. The writedowns amounted to 4.6 trillion feet of natural gas.
How big is this? Well Chesapeake started the second quarter with 18.8 trillion cubic feet of reserves. That makes the write down equivalent to 24% of total reserves.
The reserves in question were primarily in the Barnett and Haynesville shale plays of Louisiana and Texas. These are two of the biggest "dry" gas fields, meaning that there's very little in the way of higher-value liquids like propane or crude oil that gets produced along with the gas.
That the hits were taken in these plays are not surprising. When I interviewed CEO Aubrey McClendon and COO Steve Dixon last year they said they were in the process of pulling all their rigs out of the Haynesville and were unlikely to drill there again for five years or more. Gas prices, at $2.81 per thousand cubic feet, far below the break even price in those plays, which is more like $6 per mcf.
The market doesn't seem to care that much about the reserve write down. Chesapeake shares were up almost 9% in Tuesday morning trading on relief that Chesapeake appears to have buyers lined up for a few billions dollars of asset sales.
But I think the loss of these proven reserves is a big deal. It's as if Ford Motor Company were to spend billions building a car factory only to later inform investors that it was mothballing the factory and writing off the investment because it couldn't make the car economically after all. Chesapeake, likewise, spent billions drilling up the Haynesville and Barnett and touted to investors the decades worth of drilling that they could do in the plays.
How much? Well Chesapeake in its filings so far hasn't indicated that it's taking any charge related to this write down. But consider that its current drilling campaign has been finding and completing oil and gas reserves at a cost of $1.14 per mcf. That equates to $1.14 billion in drilling costs to prove up 1 trillion cubic feet of reserves. If that's a good benchmark, then this write down of reserves has cost investors more than $4 billion.
Now it looks like all those billions were invested for naught. And don't expect Chesapeake to come back to the Haynesville and Barnett if and when gas prices go back up to $6 per mcf. The company breathlessly touts its leading positions in 10 other more promising unconventional plays like the Mississippi Lime and Hogshooter and Utica, which feature wetter gas and even crude oil. When you have a fleet full of Ferraris to drive there's no reason to take a spin in your old Taurus.


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Overcome and Empowered
Disclaimer: I own none of these characters in this story. They all belong to Takahashi Hiroshi.
When someone says they have overcome have they really? Or is it all a lie? Is it just a way for them to reassure themselves that they can no longer be
hurt? When they speak the words is it for them or for you? They thought they could win, they thought they were on top of the world. That is until he
knocked them off their battle horse. He punched, he kicked, he broke, and he bled; he even shed tears. Not once did he brag or bask in his glory. He was
always striving to become even better; even stronger. That is what it means to overcome. If someone overcomes their difficulties and says to hell with
everyone else then what have they really accomplished? When you can defeat everyone standing in the way of your goal and drag those you broke
down with you on your path to greatness then you have truly overcome. Not many people can do something like this; it takes someone extremely
special. It takes a leader. This boy, no this man, has done just that. He has overcome and dragged many through the dirt with him. He has empowered
them and by doing so empowered himself. The very first punch he threw sealed his fate. He may not have known, but Bouya did, Chiaki knew. So did
Maruyama and Kadozumi. Hell pretty much everyone knew and that's why so many people looked up to him (many of which were too stubborn to ever
admit to it). They knew he would one of the strongest men in Japan. He'd go on to become head of one of the Four Powers. Bulldog would become leader
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NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – Bethel College will host the 2016 Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) Cheerleading Invitational Feb. 12 in Thresher Gym.
Doors open at 4 p.m. and competition begins at 5 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and non-Bethel students, available at the door. Bethel students and children age 5 and under are free.
All KCAC schools are eligible to compete in the invitational. In addition to Bethel, those scheduled to participate are Kansas Wesleyan University, Sterling College, Tabor College and University of St. Mary.
The Bethel students involved will be seniors Sondra Buller, Will Chao, Erin Doerksen, Mikayla Hiebert, Jennifer Schrag, Renae Stucky and Amy Wedel, junior Justin Haflich, sophomores Kendra Gonzales, Garrett Lindley and Veronica Ziegler, and freshmen Whitney Danbury, Lily Funk, SkyLa O'Neal, Nathaniel Ortega-Torres and Bailey Strausz.
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"In cheer, the score is based on a 100-point scale, with a six-part rubric that scores skills in stunting, pyramids, basket tosses, jumps, standing tumbling and running tumbling.
"In dance, the score is also based on a 100-point scale and [the] skill rubric includes leaps, turns, technical skill and technique of various dance styles."
The Bethel cheerleaders have been training since August. They practice Monday through Friday, about 2 1/2 hours a day.
So far, the competition team has put more than 100 hours into the choreography for a performance that lasts two minutes and 15 seconds.
They will have put in more than 400 hours of practice time on the routine by the time they go to regional competition, Feb. 19 at Oklahoma City University.
"These students put a lot of time and effort into these performances and are very supportive of each other," Gogus said. "They cheer for each other even though they are competing against each other. This usually stems from a mutual respect of the sport."
Gogus anticipates that the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) will complete the process of recognizing cheer as an intercollegiate sport in the upcoming season.
Some of Bethel's cheer student-athletes will try out for KCAC All-Star status – the equivalent of conference All-America recognition in other sports.
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Ken - www.1dustytrack.comKenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7891341104960753282.post-58482833812659347442012-02-29T10:37:55.457-05:002012-02-29T10:37:55.457-05:00Nancy, great idea about including the link! I hope...Nancy, great idea about including the link! I hope that kind of habit catches on to keep the copyright hounds at bay! I'm intrigued as to how this will evolve and how it might be used. I was not a big fan of Twitter until I noticed how much it was being used to share great stories or recent developments in the industry. This is just one idea, but I can't wait to see in what directions others take this!

Kathy,
Well, as fun as it is, I'm really just wanting to point out one use I see in family history, but I am totally on board about not wanting to get sucked in to another platform out there. Right now it's really fun and I use it more like a game on my iPhone. I rarely even pin new things from the internet because I'm rarely using it when I'm on the regular pc....but I noticed how a few comapnies are on there and if you follow their pins, you suddenly see product ads....not so fun...but it will be interesting to see where it goes!Cheri Danielshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7891341104960753282.post-66194367453571142812012-02-26T21:53:59.676-05:002012-02-26T21:53:59.676-05:00Cheri, I've tried to not get sucked into one m...Cheri,
I've tried to not get sucked into one more thing, but your post has me intrigued. The one seemed to be Cincinnati all the way with the images of the Delta Queen and Union Terminal. I'll have to give pinterest a second look.Kathy Reedhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7891341104960753282.post-33098587907175300122012-02-26T19:14:59.679-05:002012-02-26T19:14:59.679-05:00I'm fairly new to pinterest, have many boards ...I'm fairly new to pinterest, have many boards with few pins. I've been thinking about how easily this can be incorporated with family history, too, but hadn't thought of your idea of pinning to remember people. I think it's a great idea.

Usually when I see an image pinned on pinterest I try to go back to the original source so I can pin it directly and lately I've been adding the link as part of the description. I hope others on the internet can see the positive value of having images from their websites in a place where others will want to visit their site.Nancyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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No blues singer can escape the influence of Bessie Smith, "The Empress of the Blues." She gave the music its raw, regal poignancy -- and marketability. Her feverish growls and testifying delivery has informed nearly every facet of African-American music, from Mahalia Jackson to Mary J. Blige.
Listen to composer Gunther Schuller, trumpeter Doc Cheatham, singers Koko Taylor and Susannah McCorkle, and writer Chris Albertson talk about Bessie Smith's legacy
Born on April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, Tenn., Bessie took to the stage early in life. As a young girl, she would audition in local amateur vaudeville competitions and by the time she reached 18, she was touring as a dancer. Incorporating a full arsenal of talent -- singing, dancing, and slapstick comedy -- Bessie was a consummate entertainer.
Smith often toured the T.O.B.A. (Theatres Owner's Booking Association) circuit, theatres that catered exclusively to African Americans during the days of legal segregation. In 1929, she starred in the 17-minute movie, St. Louis Blues.
As a recording artist, Smith made her first sides in 1922, but the tapes were lost. A year later, she recorded "Down Hearted Blues" for Columbia Records, and it became her first hit. She was soon the highest paid black entertainer in the country. Her celebrity status afforded opportunities to play with top jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, and Coleman Hawkins.
Listen to writer Albert Murray and Schuller describe Bessie's rise to fame
Smith thrived in jazz's golden age, but fell on hard times during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The stock market crash of 1929 greatly affected her income. She also had a few other troubles that affected her career: heavy drinking, a failed marriage, and severe emotional problems.
Listen to record producer John Hammond recall working with Bessie during the Great Depression
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Taranto is always good. Sometimes, though, he's great. That's the case for his column today, which discusses (a) the difference between public and private sector unions and (b) the difference between Tea Party and union protests. He's not saying anything you haven't heard before or figured out for yourself; it's just that he says it so well.
One of the things the Left likes to do is accuse us of being anti-government. But then they try to justify their government jobs unions by saying that they need unions to collectively bargain against… the government.
They like to claim that collective bargaining is "democracy". So in a battle of democracy vs the government's democratically elected representatives, whose democracy is being funded here?
People keep saying Leftists are misguided or ignorant. They don't know the evil they do. It's more like they don't want to know. Cause they can't even understand this simple point on public sector unions.
Karl Denniger on Wisconsin.
I understand that the Wisconsin legislature is moving on a number of items that have been "stuck" due to Dems…photo ID required to vote, for example.
Michelle Malkin (and others) has come up with some great lines – she's calling them "Fleebaggers"…among other names. Alinsky pointed out the benefits of ridiculing your opponents – and Progressives have been using it for years. It's good to see the tables turned!
Off topic (warning to Zach. Wouldn't want him to get distracted by reading anything other than Taranto or Wisconsin!)
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Even as India is celebrating the success of those who migrated to foreign countries, some Goans are complaining that foreigners are eating into their businesses.
Foreigners who operate/own shacks and restaurants along the Baga-Anjuna coastline say they are being victimised by locals jealous of their success.
A visit to the coast, however, reveals that not all locals have a problem with foreigners owning businesses.
"We have our own regular customers and we don't have to depend on the foreign tourists who come during the peak season. If any foreigner wants to try his hand at Goan cuisine, he is free to do so," says Vivendra Karekar, manager of a beachside restaurant.
Some foreign nationals, who came to Goa with the intention of settling down, however, say there is nothing wrong with their setting up businesses on the coast.
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He was surrounded by tons of contaminated soil atop a North Lawrence boat ramp, and the rain that could wash it over the bank or down the ramp into the Kaw River was starting to fall.
But despite making repeated pleas to state officials since Friday, it appeared the illegally dumped soil contaminated with gasoline and diesel fuel at the city's fuel depot was not going to be cleaned up.
"I was trying not to get this in front of the public because generally the city of Lawrence is (environmentally) responsible," an exasperated Murphy, Friends of the Kaw riverkeeper, told the Journal-World. "But I just couldn't sit by and wait for the good-old-boy network to run its course until everything's contaminated."
Contacted Saturday morning by the Journal-World, officials said the city's dumping of the stinking, contaminated soil below the Kaw River levee just west of the Oak Street boat ramp was an oversight.
By early Saturday afternoon, city crews had begun moving an estimated 15 dump truck loads of the soil from where it had been spread Friday. City Manager Mike Wildgen said it was being hauled to a city-owned site near 21st Street and Wakarusa Drive. He hadn't learned of the situation until Saturday afternoon, he said.
Daniel Kellerman, district geologist with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, called the dumping an oversight, but said it was a violation of state law.
It happened while the city was excavating underground fuel storage tanks from its Public Works fueling station at 11th Street and Haskell Avenue. According to Kellerman, who was supervising the operation, city workers thought the soil was clean because it was taken from an excavation for the new tanks, separate from where the old tanks were being removed. City workers and Kellerman didn't realize contamination had spread so far.
"When you work around these sites, your nose becomes desensitized a little bit," he said. "If they'd been aware it had an odor like that, they would have handled it differently."
Murphy said he was notified of dumping by a Lawrence resident who saw city crews hauling it Friday.
"He told me he got behind a truck and it was so bad it made his eyes water," Murphy said. After seeing where the soil was being dumped, the concerned resident found the telephone number for Friends of the Kaw and got in touch with Murphy. He started making inquiries.
After hearing from Murphy on Friday, Kellerman said, he conducted tests on the dumped soil and found petroleum concentrations of less than 100 parts per million, a level he said was used to guide how contaminated soil should be handled.
But soil with any amount of petroleum contamination is designated "special waste," and requires special handling, he said.
"So this would be in violation of disposing of a special waste," Kellerman said. Though fines are possible, he said the state preferred to work with violators to get such soil picked up and moved to a proper disposal location.
But despite determining Friday the contamination was "an issue," Kellerman decided it was not an emergency and planned to have the soil moved Monday.
That wasn't good enough for Murphy, whose job is safeguarding the river. When he checked on it Saturday, he found the petroleum-smelling soil spread over a broad area. The contamination was obvious to several visitors' noses even after a mid-morning rain shower.
Murphy said he could understand a mistake, but that it should be corrected.
He got angry after being unable to get KDHE or Lawrence Police to do anything about the illegal dumping.
"The point is, nothing would have been done here unless I pushed it," he said after city crews started working about 1:30 p.m. "It just pisses me off because I'm trying to cooperate."
Murphy is calling for a city investigation into why the Police Department wouldn't investigate a report of a law being broken. He also wants KDHE to investigate why, when Kellerman acknowledged Friday there was a problem, nothing was done.
"Maybe you have to make a big deal out of it to make sure it doesn't happen again," Murphy said. "It shouldn't be so hard to get people to do what they're supposed to do, and what they're being paid to do."
As for Lawrence Police, Wildgen said the force was charged with enforcing city ordinances and state statutes, not state environmental law.
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The Government Legal Service (GLS) has had to introduce equal opportunity measures, having been found guilty of racial and sex discrimination against a black woman job applicant.
An industrial tribunal found the GLS guilty of undermarking Chineme Nwoke in her application for a post as a solicitor in the Treasury Solicitors Department in February.
The tribunal was forced to reintervene in November to award £3,000 damages when the two parties failed to agree upon a figure. Nwoke's case was backed by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE).
A GLS statement said the tribunal had not found any discrimination in the rejection of Nwoke as even if her application had not been undermarked she would not have scored sufficient marks for the post.
But it said that the service took the tribunal decision "very seriously" and had taken steps to improve its recruitment procedures, including implementing training courses for interviewers.
Chris Myant, of the CRE, said the undermarking had occurred through complacency, which was widespread throughout British institutions, rather than prejudice.


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PVA, a maker of robotic dispensing and coating systems, is moving from Halfmoon to Colonie.
Previously known as Precision Valve & Automation, PVA was a start-up of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate Tony Hynes (right) in 1992. Now the company employs 105 people worldwide, including 70 locally.
PVA will expand from 27,000 square feet of space in Halfmoon to 115,000 square feet on Mustang Drive in Colonie.
The company plans to add 50 jobs at the new location over the next three years. PVA's systems are used in manufacturing of circuit boards, cellphones and bulldozers.
The company says it is seeing increased demand from manufacturers of solar panels and construction equipment.


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A gardening project in Kirkcaldy, aimed at helping people overcome mental health problems, was visited this week by members of the Scottish Government's health and sport committee.
The Scottish Association for Mental Health's Evergreen plant nursery initiative in Barnet Crescent gives opportunities in horticulture for people with mental health problems, helping them to rebuild their confidence while learning valuable skills in programmes specially tailored to meet their needs.
It was visited by committee members on Monday, when they saw first hand the kind of work the service's clients are engaged in.
The MSPs also heard about SAMH's wider work in relation to supporting mental health and saw its pantry in action – giving trainees practical experience in the catering industry.
The committee's visit was part of pre-scrutiny process of a Mental Health Bill that is expected to be introduced later on this year, and is being seen as an example of good practice.
Duncan McNeil MSP, convener, said: "It is extremely important for members of the committee to get out of the Parliament and into communities across Scotland.
''This helps inform our work when we come to look at legislation which will affect people who are supported through this project and groups like SAMH."
Bob Doris MSP, deputy convener of the Health and Sport Committee, added: "We were delighted to visit this innovative project in Kirkcaldy that is supporting people with mental health problems.
"To be out and about in different parts of the country allows the committee to see on the ground how the policy we discuss in the Parliament has an impact on them."
David Ross, senior instructor at Evergreen Training and Employment Service, said: "We always welcome the opportunity to give insight in to the sorts of issues people experiencing mental health problems are faced with every day."
The committee also took a wide range of evidence on the issue of mental health at its meeting on Tuesday from a number of witnesses including the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
The project:
Established in the town in 1995, the evergreen project has helped hundreds of people with mental health difficulties over the years through tailor-made training structured around their own needs. It allows participants to progress and develop at their own pace in a therapeutic and calming environment, gaining useful skills and building their self confidence.


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The pretty patrol was on full force for this Maryland wedding. With the help of Pineapple Productions, this bride and groom put together quite the garden wedding. Patricia Lyons shared some great images of the day... fresh florals, charming paper products (from the adorable Just Paper and Tea), and refreshingly yummy Mint Julep's made for a day this darling couple will never forget. And the same goes for us - weddings like this are a good reminder as to why we're called Style Me Pretty. The loveliness does not stop here, either - check out the gallery for more!
How much do you LOVE the Carolina Herrera dress from Carine's Bridal Atelier?
From Allison with Pineapple Productions ... Jessie and Louis met while working in London, and they have spent a lot of time traveling together through England and beyond. Jessie wanted a wedding look that mixed natural garden elements with formal styling. I started visualizing lovely English country homes with old walled gardens, boxwood hedges, brick paths, climbing roses and terraced lawns. We started talking about these sorts of details and suddenly we realized we had landed on the idea of a Secret Garden inspired wedding.
The ceremony was held at All Saints Episcopal Church, an intimate stone church where Jessie's parents had also been married. We introduced natural garden elements at the church by adorning candlestands with touches of cream, white, and green flowers and boxwood accents. Garlands of greenery were placed on wrought iron stair rails, and altar arrangements rested on stone columns.
The reception took place at the nearby Chevy Chase Club. Guests sipped Pimm's cups and Mint Juleps, while deer were seen grazing on the horizon as the sun set, during the outdoor cocktail hour. Calligrapher Arney Walker used natural magnolia leaves, picked and collected by Jessie's mother, as the escort cards.
The ballroom was styled in such a way that guests would feel as though they were dining in a garden under the stars. The tables were covered in stone grey linens, and the centerpieces incorporated four different garden looks. Some tables had ball and cone topiaries covered in boxwood, others had miniature greenhouses. Other designs featured grey wrought iron stands covered with flowers at the base and the top, and the final design – my personal favorite – used wire obelisks with sweet peas climbing through them. For a starry night look, we projected swirling celestial patterns on the ceiling.
After guests had danced the night away, they were invited outside the club to say their goodbyes to Jessie and Louis. When they made their way through the crowd toward a vintage getaway car, guests tossed cones of petals as a surprise. Jessie, in turn, surprised everyone else by handing her peony bouquet to an adorable, thrilled young cousin, ending the special night with a perfect family memory.
Event Planning: Allison Jackson, Pineapple Productions / Floral Design: Jack Lucky Floral Design / Caterer & Venue: Chevy Chase Club / Photographer: Patricia Lyons Photography / Band: Free Spirit through Entertainment Exchange / Linens and Rentals: DC Rental / Wedding Cake: Chevy Chase Club / Cupcakes: Georgetown Cupcakes / Invitations: Just Paper and Tea / Calligraphers: Written by Esther and Arney Walker Calligraphy / Transportation: Reston Limousine / Stage and Flooring: All Stage and Sound / Wedding Gown: Carolina Herrera through Carine's Bridal Atelier / Bridesmaids Dresses: Vera Wang / Ceremony Venue: All Saints Episcopal Church


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I am a single 23 year female from Wakefield West Yorkshire planning on going travelling for 6 months possibily longer if i decide to work. Departing end of Oct, early Nov 2011.
The order i am thinking about doing it is New Zealand first, then onto Australia, and end in Asia.
Spending approximatley -
4 weeks in New Zealand (late oct, early nov 2011)
6 weeks in Oz (mid dec 2011)
30 day tour in Asia ( bangkok, malaysia, loas, cambodia, vietnam) not 100% sure of the order. (jan 2012)
and then the rest of the time (3 and half months around the islands of thailand, reason been i want to be make my money last as long as possible.
Cost -
Each month i have budgeted approx £1000 GBP for NZ and OZ
Approx £600-£700 for Asia a month
Would this be about right?
I am goin to take a credit card out with me just incase for other things i do such as a sky dive, bungee jump etc how much approx would activities like this cost me?
I have been told the order in which im doing it in will work out well as it will be summer in Oz and the best weather in thailand is around the time i will be going. Is this correct?
In Oz im not sure whether to travel the east coast up or down? what are your suggestions? i was going to spend xmas and new year in sydney, would that be a good idea?
I was against working as i mainly want to travel and have fun, but i have been told working in Australia is really beneficial as you can make a lot of money there and then possibly extend the amount of time i am able to travel. Im just worried about wasting a working visa as i have been told you are only entitled to one in your lifetime? and didne know whether to save it and come back from travelling and then think about working somewhere for a full year.
Sorry for wittering on im just majorly stressed at the moment as im thinking about getting my flights booked at the end of this month, and really need to know more info before i tie myself into anything.
If you have any advice or information to give me it would be much appriciated
Rachael x


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Mr. Bear, hittin' the sauce
This is what happens when you leave Mr. Bear by himself in the office over Memorial Day weekend. Oh dear.
Packing burgers
Food Lab intern Luke Davin is portioning out beef for a test involving the cooking temperature of hamburgers. All of the patties are going to be bagged with no pressure and cooked in a water bath to monitor their changes with temperature and time.
Italian combo tasting
Lazy dogs
Hambone and Yuba were pretty pooped out from an action-packed Memorial Day weekend, so they spent most of their time in the office resting.
Yuba's tongue, just because
Open wide!
Yuba: "Where's mah cheese curd nub?"
Cheese curd, defeated
Yuba: "But I still want cheese curd nub..."
Yuba's turn
Cheese curd acquired!
"Why did he leave us?"
For a few moments after Kenji popped out of the office, Hambone and Yuba just stared towards the main door, hoping for his return.


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An Old Charlotte Road house in Statesville was broken-into yesterday afternoon with someone inside at the time.
The victim told police that the man started yelling, cursing and asking about a book bag when confronted. Police arrested a David Simpson next door in their investigation, also charging him with assault on a handicapped person – accused of shoving the victim's daughter.


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VICTORIA, April 29, 2016 /CNW/ - The Canadian Coast Guard is not budging from its plans to close Marine Communication and Traffic Services (MCTS) center Comox despite a massive radio outage that began Thursday evening affecting the entire west coast of Vancouver Island.
"Minister Hunter Tootoo must intervene now before a mariner pays the ultimate price for the coast guard leadership's incompetence," said Jerry Dias, Unifor National President. "Frontline officers have been warning MPs and bureaucrats about serious operational problems for months, but our warnings are being ignored and outages continue."
The ongoing outage originated in the MCTS centre in Prince Rupert, which is responsible for monitoring marine communications from Alaska to Washington State. During the outage, eight remote control radio transmitters on the west coast of Vancouver Island could only operate intermittently. If the Comox centre's closure is allowed to proceed on May 10 despite the protest of frontline coast guard officers, there will be fewer back ups in cases of emergency.
By monitoring traffic, MCTS centres are the first line of defense for mariners in distress or when an ecological disaster strikes. Over the last two years 9 of the 22 MCTS Centres were closed without consulting industry, mariners, the public, or coast guard officers.
"It shouldn't take a tanker spill or a missed mayday call before Minister Tootoo wakes up to the implications of cuts to the marine safety network," said Joie Warnock, Unifor's Western Director.
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Ferry terminals, bus and rail station as well as Oban town centre are a short ten minute walk away.


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Don't get too worked up over those talks between the NFL owners and players and the threat of a locked-out season. The National Football League is one of the most sucessful monopolies in history, on a par with OPEC in oil and DeBeers in diamonds.
The various participants in the football cartel - and in that, I include the players - now seem to have some disagreements over how their monopoly profits are to be divided. My guess, however, is that none is stupid enough to jeopardize $9 billion in annual income over a percentage point or two.
The secret to the NFL's success is its ability to maintain the legal structure of 32 supposedly independent teams while operating with most of the advantages of a single business entity. As with many successful monopolists, its focus has been on expanding its market without having to lower its prices. In a very disciplined way, it has added teams, extended the length of the season and increased the number of nationally televised games each week of the season. It has been so skillful in playing one city off another that it squeezed taxpayers for $500 million a year in stadium subsidies for many years. And it has so cleverly structured the sale of television rights that networks routinely wind up overbidding, allowing the league to capture virtually the full value of its monopoly.
Equally impressive is the way the NFL has avoided unproductive competition among members of its cartel. This includes an agreement in which 80 percent of league and team revenue is pooled and shared equally among the 32 franchises. It also includes a salary cap and salary floor for all teams, along with some limits on free agency, which ensure that all clubs can retain "franchise players" and field a competitive team. Even the players are incentivized to focus on "growing the pie," with a unique collective-bargaining agreement that guarantees them 60 percent of all revenue beyond the first $1 billion.
"Socialism with cheerleaders," is how the Chicago Tribune once described it.
During the recent recession, however, the NFL has hit something of a wall, as revenue growth has slowed, profits have declined and some of the air has come out of inflated team values.
Financially pressed cities and states are no longer willing to subsidize new stadiums or stadium upgrades.
A number of teams have encountered price resistance from ticket holders, particularly season ticket holders, whose overall number is declining.
Perverse competition has developed around the signing of draft picks, resulting in pay for untested rookies that exceeds that of star veterans.
Meanwhile, some of the more aggressive and innovative owners, who have found ways to increase their teams' revenue, are starting to resent how much of that revenue they are forced to share with other teams.
It is against that backdrop that the current contract negotiations are playing out.
To justify future increases in ticket prices and television rights, the owners want to extend the regular season by converting two preseason outings into games that count. The players moan and groan about the additional injuries that might result but, in the end, will allow themselves to be bought off with more money for post-retirement medical care. Nor will they offer much resistance to a proposal to cap rookie salaries, which would benefit lower draft picks and veterans near the bottom of the pay scale.
The real bargaining will come over the owners' demand to reduce the share of revenue going to players under the existing contract. The owners cite the need to stem the recent decline in profits and to provide funds necessary for stadium construction and upgrades.
On the former, the owners are likely to find little sympathy, either from the public or the players. The recession is ending. Tough it out.
On the latter, it is certainly reasonable that if the players are to share in any increase in revenue, they ought to share in the cost and risk of the investments that will produce such revenue. The same might be said for the league's growing investment in the NFL Network, a cable venture that over the long term is meant to capture from the broadcast networks more of the profit from video distribution of its games. One way for the owners to achieve that risk-sharing with the players would be to subtract half the value of those investments from the revenue pool, while keeping the players' share of that pool (59.5 percent) the same. That would give negotiators for each side the chance to declare victory. Getting a new agreement with the players may turn out to be easier than resolving some of the tensions among the owners themselves over how much teams must share their locally generated revenue. The current collectivist setup protects not only smaller market teams but poorly run teams as well, according to Stephen Ross, who studies the economics of professional sports leagues at Penn State. Ross thinks the fans, the players and the league would all be better off if owners had more incentive to find more innovative ways to "grow the pie" than simply raising ticket and concession prices and adding more skyboxes.
In the market for other goods and services, of course, there's no need to incentivize innovation. Old-fashioned competition does the trick. But if there is to be only one professional football league that matters - and that is clearly what the public prefers - then the next-best arrangement is one that keeps the teams competing on the field but collaborating in the marketplace. Each professional sport strikes that balance somewhat differently, but none more effectively than the National Football League.


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City Environment and Parks Management Office - Citizen's Charter
City Ordinance Number 61, series of 2008, otherwise known as the Clean Air Ordinance (CAO), provides for the creation of the Clean Air Monitoring Unit (CAMU) primarily tasked to oversee the implementation of the Clean Air Ordinance. The Roadside Inspection Testing and Monitoring Team (RITMT) conducts roadside testing and apprehension of smoke belching vehicles. The CAO is the localized policy that is supporting the provisions of the Clean Air Act (RA 8749) aimed at sustaining good air quality in the City and protect the health of the people.


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Troll is a dumb fuck.
Troll is a dumb fuck.
Yeah. I know right? It's obvious why he took off. Schtick sells.
I can't stop listening to this song.
St.Vincent-Florence-BrandNew-Desaparecidos-OFF-ChicanoBatman-MØ-NightTerrorsOf1927-Drake... nah, just kidding, Fuck Drake
fuckin' with the lights on
Autographed by Jack. Let's guess how much this will go for....$1025!
Can't make it to the Saturday Shrine show anymore.
Saturday Aug 11
2 Seats, Orchestra Center, Row 13
I'm more than willing to take a loss on the $188 that was face value for the pair
That sucks! I wish that I could make it.
fuckin' with the lights on
Such a bummer, Wes.
I miss talking to TomAz.
We all do. I live in the same city as him (unless he relocated) and rumor has it that at 3:15am if you listen closely and its really really quiet you can hear him telling you to go fuck yourself.
It's OK, I'm still able to go on Friday.
oh my god, Jack fucking killed it tonight. best show i've seen of the three i've been to on this tour.
Sixteen Saltines
Black Math (The White Stripes song)
Missing Pieces
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (The White Stripes song)
Hypocritical Kiss
Cannon/ Nitro/ John the Revelator (The White Stripes Song)
Two Against One (Danger Mouse cover)
The Same Boy You've Always Known (The White Stripes song)
Take Me With You When You Go
Love Interruption
Weep Themselves to Sleep
Hotel Yorba (The White Stripes song)
Top Yourself (The Raconteurs song)
Blue Blood Blues (The Dead Weather song)
Ball and Biscuit (The White Stripes song)
Steady, As She Goes (The Raconteurs song)
The Hardest Button to Button (The White Stripes song)
Freedom At 21
Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes song)
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December 16-17 - Day For Night
January 23 - Marilyn Manson
January 25 - Sleep
February 23 - St. Vincent
April 24 - Queens of the Stone Age
April 26-28 - Levitation
so stoked to catch him at OSL.
Can't wait for Friday!
He sold his soul for a shot at fame
Catchphrase and wigs and the jokes are lame...
I can't wait for OSL.
I miss talking to TomAz.
We all do. I live in the same city as him (unless he relocated) and rumor has it that at 3:15am if you listen closely and its really really quiet you can hear him telling you to go fuck yourself.
Tonight! RedRocks!!
Good Job Jack! You tell those people with their shitphones to stop taking shitty pictures/videos!
Renee Zellweger's former paramour got into a heap of e-trouble, and all that jazz (we're rooting for you, Renee!), after reportedly suggesting that neither Twitter nor Instagram fanatics are welcome at his shows specifically at Outside Lands. What was reported was that White took a fancy to posting signs at his shows stating that the use of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and the like are "strictly prohibited" during his performance. But. According to Third Man Records, the label founded by White, that's not exactly the case. Turns out he just hates it when everybody blocks the show with their iPhones.
Noting their love of technology and smartphone-wall-free shows while throwing some shade to those spreading misinformation on the interwebs Third Man Records declares:
We here at Third Man would like to clear up a couple of misunderstood notions floating around out there on the internet of late. Regarding Jack Whites live performances; Let us just say that there has never been a sign posted by our touring crew or team at one of Jack's shows telling people to not use Facebook or Twitter during the performance. We really encourage fans to talk about the show however they please, but just ask that they be respectful to the other concert attendees. Third Man uses Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr every day to communicate directly with our fans. All of these are important tools that are great to open up lines of communication for us and for you, the fans. We are not luddites who hate technology.
The only thing that we've ever asked of the audience is to not take pictures or videos while holding up their cameras, phones, etc that block other peoples view or otherwise hinder other fans concert experiences. Along with that, the bigger idea is for people to experience the event with their own eyes and not watch an entire show through a tiny screen in their hand. We have every show photographed professionally and the pictures are available from Jack Whites website shortly after to download for FREE. This way, not only do you get free professional photos of the show you were at, you dont have to stand there holding something up in the air the entire concert.
We think that is fair and a positive thing for everyone involved and weve received tons of compliments and encouragement for this practice. We intend to continue in this fashion for the benefit of all involved.
Now, on a side note, the all male band on Jack Whites tour has never been called Los Buzzardos but are called The Buzzards (the female group is called The Peacocks). We think this is a good example that shows nowadays it's very easy for incorrect information to spread around the internet. Be it about banning Twitter at concerts, or the actual name of the band people are watching play on stage.
Thanks to all of the fans for their enormous support, and thanks for letting us clear a couple of these tiny things up.
Jack White has not dated Renee in years, dude.
I miss talking to TomAz.
We all do. I live in the same city as him (unless he relocated) and rumor has it that at 3:15am if you listen closely and its really really quiet you can hear him telling you to go fuck yourself.
It was awesome last night to actually see people not yapping or on their phones the entire show.
As signs state everywhere "we record the show so you can enjoy it and see it online for free later"
Looks like "Fell in Love with a Girl" was on the setlist last night.
If anyone's up for drinks, we'll be at Mas Malo early before taking the expo line over.
I would call it a mix of the two jazzy/album cut. Even encouraged the audience to do the ahhh ahhh part. It was fast.
7pm Doors
8PM -8:40 Luke Winslow-King
Sweet, just pulled up a pit ticket for the show tomorrow night!
just checked again and 4 pit tickets came up, seems like quite a few available for any last minute people like me. buy, buy, buy!
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Jack White reportedly playing Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights at 3:30pm.


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