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A company hoping to develop a tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay has issued a £10m share offer to help finance the project through the early planning and research stages.
Tidal Lagoon (Swansea Bay) (TLSB) says the investment offer provides private investors with "a tax efficient opportunity to back the development" of the UK's second-largest tidal range project, after the proposed Severn barrage.
The company also says it will launch a local community share offer later in the year.
The proposed lagoon will have an installed capacity of 250 megawatts (MW) and will produce 450 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity, enough to supply the needs of 107,000 homes.
This is equivalent to the annual domestic electricity use of the Swansea and Neath Port Talbot area.
The initial share offer includes £5m of qualifying Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) shares, which require a minimum investment of £24,000, alongside £5m of non-EIS qualifying shares at £800 per share.
The initial £5m EIS round, which has already won HMRC advance assurance, is to further support the research and development and optimisation required to adapt existing hydro technology, breakwater construction and design to construct the lagoon, which is the first of its kind.
The other £5m of shares will be allocated in parallel to the development activities required to deliver the necessary planning permissions, TLSB says.
The lagoon will generate on both ebb and flow tides using bi-directional turbines, allowing it to produce electricity for 16 hours each day.
Mark Shorrock, chief executive of TLSB, said: "The UK imports 65% of its energy needs from sources such as Qatari LPG, French nuclear electricity, Australian coal and Saudi oil.
"The UK has a political imperative to assure security of supply and has a legally binding commitment to deliver 15% of its energy from renewables by 2020.
"It currently achieves just 5% from renewable sources.
"We are creating the world's first bi-directional hydro power plant and the lagoon will produce carbon savings in excess of 200,000 tonnes CO2 per annum.
"Outside of the attractive projected return on this investment, by backing this project investors will be providing a key role in helping the UK to change its energy mix to home grown low carbon energy."
TLSB says it has consulted more than 110 "local and statutory stakeholders" and has carried out "substantive research into means of materially reducing costs of construction to make the project economically viable."
It is in ongoing discussions with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) regarding a strike price for the electricity produced and anticipates a contract for difference model "at least equivalent to offshore wind".
Formal consultation is due to begin in June with a decision on consent expected in October 2014.
The lagoon could begin supplying electricity to the National Grid in 2017 and has an expected lifespan of 120 years.
The next phase of funding is estimated at £650m and is expected to be provided by pension funds and banks, who will be able to lend against export credit guarantees provided by turbine manufacturers according to TLSB.
The expected return to investors once the lagoon is operational in summer 2017 is targeted to be "in excess of four and a half times the initial principle invested", the company says.
Mr Shorrock added: "The project represents an investment of £650m, and is a significant opportunity for Wales to take the lead in the tidal industry for the UK.
"The plans have been welcomed by the local community and we have a vision for the Swansea Bay project to mark the first in a network of lagoons around the UK coastline."
TLSB is a special-purpose vehicle set up to develop the Swansea Bay lagoon.
Parent company, Tidal Lagoon Power has also had discussions with Cardiff City Council about building a larger £1bn tidal lagoon at Cardiff, and further schemes have been mooted at Newport and Bridgewater Bay.
However, each project will be separately funded and have its own special purpose vehicle.
Mr Shorrock has several years experience in the renewables sector, having founded the Scottish wind farm developer Wind Energy, and the Low Carbon Accelerator, a £44m AIM-listed early stage investment fund in low carbon technologies.
He also founded Low Carbon Solar Holdings, a 200m fund investing in Spanish solar plants, and Low Carbon Group, which developed 28MW of solar farms in the UK in 2011.
TLSB's development partners include Atkins, Costain, Van Oord and ABP Mer.

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Indians Minor League Magazine 8/17 (Ep. 17)
The show recaps the week that was in the system and also features interviews with High-A Kinston infielder Jeremie Tice as well as an interview with Indians' Farm Director Ross Atkins.
This year I am writing the "Diamond In the Rough" feature which focuses on some guys who slip through the cracks because they are not considered a high level prospect or have kind of been overlooked. This week the "Diamond In the Rough" was Low-A Lake County right-handed pitcher Preston Guilmet.
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Fatima Ptacek Speaks At The UN For International Women's Day
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[Fatima Ptacek Speaks At The UN For International Women's Day]
Fátima Ptacek
United Nations Speech
In Celebration of
International Women's Day
march 8th, 2016
[Fatima Ptacek:] Source: LYBIO.net
Woooo…. President of the General Assembly, Executive Director of UN Women, distinguished ladies and gentlemen and mom and dad.
I am incredibly honored to be here today to commemorate International Women's Day and celebrate women and their contributions to the world.
My name is Fatima Ptacek and I had a pretty decent introduction. I am probably best known as the Voice of Dora the Explorer. However, there is a lot more to me and probably one of the essential aspects of my identity is my passion for making a positive change in the world.
Fortunately, I'm pursuing that passion and working with UN Women to create a gender equal world of all my personal and professional endeavors. This is definitely the one that makes me proudest.
The fact that I can help make a small contribution to this world all because I met the incredible Phumzile and Elizabeth and told them about my dream to encourage a partnership between men and women to work together to uplift women and liberate men in that shared equality.
I wrote a letter to UN Women, explaining that I really wanted to be involved with HeforShe.
I told them that I am a 15-year-old actor volunteering with a few different philanthropic organizations, but that I was truly in love with the message put forth by fellow actor and one of my biggest inspirations Emma Watson.
I met Elizabeth. And she asked why I was passionate about the fight for global gender equality. I guess she liked what I said because here I am today.
I am so excited to talk about what I have been working UN Women and HeforShe, but today I want to talk about this very special day.
I am the daughter of a man. I am the sister of three brothers and I'm not against them.
My work for gender equality is not an attempt to disparage them and it's not to disparage my father or my brothers or any other men in the world. It's simply my belief that I am of equal value. At home, I was told that I could do anything. I was told that I can be anything that contrasted with the adversity that I faced at school and in my case at work as well.
Where people challenged what I had been taught from birth that I was just as valuable as anyone else. It was a confusing time for me at school. I spoke with my classmates with openness about my opportunities for the future and some of my classmates, the girls, said that their parents would never let them pursue those dreams because they are girls and other classmates, the boys, challenged me by saying, you are a girl, that isn't possible.
I didn't know what to believe and I doubted my own worth. And now as I stand here in front of you all, a woman, a girl, an advocate for equality I realized that I'm just as capable as anyone else. I am valuable and I can make a difference.
Thank you. Six months ago, I started my journey with UN Women. The more I have read and researched and analyzed, the more I have realized the complexities of gender equality, but also I realized how fortunate I am.
I've learned that the ability to attend school every day that I have, it's an opportunity that most girls do not have.
Yet, we all know that education is not only a right, it's a solution. The fact that girls might have the chance of a healthier and happier life in my belief should be reason enough for promoting girls' education, but there are also important and undeniable benefits for society as a whole.
[Fatima Ptacek:] Source: L Y B I O . N E T
An educated girl has the skills, information and self-confidence that she needs to connect with and impact the world around her. It is because of education that I stand here today with a passion and a determination to change the world around me.
HeforShe has helped me realize that we cannot solve our challenges with the same old thinking.
If girls and boys, women and men team up and work together, we can build a future to be proud of. I am so excited to be part of this powerful movement and I can't wait to have the rest of the world on board. Thank you.
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Fishing? Call Me Irving…
Well, Irving has landed himself in a whole mess as of the latest Fitz filing, hasn't he? It seems the more that his legal team tries to push the boundaries of acceptable discovery to go on a fishing expedition, the more Fitz and his team have to explain – in very clear, unambiguous terms – that Irving had better start thinking about manning the lifeboats.
Jeralyn has some great analysis on the latest Fitz filing at TalkLeft – and is hosting a PDF of the Fitz Response there as well, so everyone can have a read. Tom Maguire has the exhibits that were attached as well – which are snippets of Scooter Libby's testimony to the Grand Jury and Fitz's questions.
A very interesting read overall – and one that merits more analysis than I've had time to give it today, so I'm going to sketch things out as I see them at the moment, reserving some time to go back over the transcripts and the filing again to be certain I have gotten all the juicy bits. There are several issues that are niggling at me in the transcript – but I'm going to have to think about them for a bit and do another post.
In any case, the response itself provides some intriguing information. Fitzgerald and his team begin with a smack at the last Libby filing for having only one real argument in it that had not already been rebutted – that Cheney's handwritten notes on the top of the Wilson op-ed had opened the door to the defendant being able to tra la through whatever discovery he felt was necessary to ascertain the mental state of any and all witnesses the government might call. (p. 1)
In other words, Team Irving is arguing that because Dick gave Scooter marching orders, that gives them carte blanche to go on a big ole fishing expedition to find dirt on everyone else to try and muddy the waters for the jury or to dig up a convenient scapegoat or whatever else Scooter might need to make himself look less guilty.
But smoke screen ammunition is priced dearly, I'm afraid, and Fitz says "nuh uh." On pp. 2-3, Fitz walks through the government's position that Cheney, as Libby's immediate superior, directed Libby's actions with respect to the Wilson op-ed. That Fitz and his team lay this out via an indirect assertion saying that Grossman was not in a position to do this is genius in terms of strategic writing – well done, indeed.
Here's a question that keeps popping up in my mind: Libby consulted David Addington prior to his first meeting with Judy Miller regarding the legal propriety of the selective NIE and other disclosures he'd been ordered to make by Cheney. Was Addington also in on the discussions and meetings with Cheney on how to handle the Wilson Op-Ed? Did he see the "news clipping" on Cheney's desk as a mere curiosity as well – or did the Veep hand out marching orders like this with every news article that pissed him off?
If there's a pattern of behavior that Fitz can show in Cheney's actions through the years, we could have a helluva ballgame in terms of inference here. But I digress…
On p. 4, Fitz goes into the specifics of Libby's grand jury testimony and how it contradicts the very things that his legal team is trying to argue. Libby's testimony (you can read it in the exhibits) is painful to read at times – punctilious does not begin to describe the tortured parsing of language that Irving goes through on the stand to carefully walk through the minefield of testimony. And you can tell by the questioning in parts that Fitz isn't buying his act.
Here's a good example from the response brief on p. 5:
Defendant further testified that the Wilson Op-Ed was discussed in the White House on a daily basis and on multiple occasions each day during the week following July 6, 2003. Ex. A, at 81.
First of all, hello WHIG – and does this sound like a coordinated response at the highest levels to anyone else or what? This was a full frontal assault on the attack on their credibility – oh wait, excuse me, on Cheney's personal credibility (p. 7).
The resources of the top oppo political types were kicked into high gear on this one. And there is a copy of the Wilson op-ed with the marching orders written right there at the top – including the sorts of phrases that were repeated to media types, whether or not Valerie Wilson's name was used: who sent Wilson on the trip – look into it – wife sent him on a junket.
On p. 6, Fitz brings up a potential discussion of Valerie Plame Wilson along with her husband's op-ed on the Air Force II flight on July 12, 2003. This raised my radar with regard to all those credibility questions that Team Irving was jumping up and down about Cathie Martin. One wonders what really was discussed on that flight – including what calls were made and what sorts of phone records Fitz has in his pocketses.
One thread that runs through the whole of the Fitz filing is that Libby discussed – on multiple occasions – the Wilson op-ed with Dick Cheney, including the fact that Valerie Plame Wilson worked for the CIA – and that this is corroborated by other evidence including the Cheney handwriting on the Wilson op-ed piece itself. That "Scooter's Swiss Cheese Memory" defense sure does have a whole lotta holes in it at this point, doesn't it?
And it's especially painful that those holes have been carved out from apparent testimony and evidence given to Fitz by his former boss and former co-workers. From page 6:
Therefore, the annotations corroborate the government's other evidence indicating that these issues were communicated to defendant by his immediate superior, who also directed defendant during the critical week after July 6 to get out into the public "all" the facts in response to the Wilson Op Ed." (emphasis mine)
That "all" in quotes is quite a teaser, isn't it? And Fitz does that again on p. 9 as well – when he says "all," you have to wonder exactly how much he has at this point, don't you? I know I do. And I'm sure that Team Irving is having fits over that as well. (Let alone the Rove and Cheney and who knows who else camps…that's a serious ass teaser.)
There has been much ado made over the fact that Fitz may or may not call Dick Cheney to the stand. Jeralyn has some great discussion on that point at TalkLeft — and I agree that simply to introduce the annotated Wilson Op-Ed, Fitz wouldn't have to call Cheney at all — he could get the evidence in via other witnesses. But there are a whole lot of other issues at play here that we can't know from outside — and I'm wondering how much the "will he or won't he call him" question will weigh on Irving's mind in terms of strategy going forward — and on his loyalty versus saving his ass considerations after the hints that his former co-workers may have been spilling a lot more beans than he did.
Seems to me that Irving may not get a chance to be much of a fisherman. But Fitz sure does know how to keep some serious tension on the line, doesn't he? (For a city boy, that's pretty damned impressive…)
PS — Huge thank you to Jeralyn who sent me the docs yesterday when she downloaded them for herself. Much appreciated. 🙂


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ANCHORAGE - A memorial has been planned in Virginia for the wife of Alaska's lone congressman, Don Young.
Lu Young died Sunday of natural causes at the couple's home in Great Falls, Va. She was 67.
The memorial for family and friends will be held Saturday morning at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Great Falls.
Young's office said a memorial also is planned in Alaska, but details have not yet been confirmed.
The couple met in Fort Yukon, where he was a teacher and she was a bookkeeper. They were married for 46 years, and have two daughters and 14 grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the Young family asked that donations be made to the Lu Young Fund for Children of Families Fighting Cancer or the Doyon Foundation.
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The Primacy of the Gospel
For my daily Greek reading I was in 1 Corinthians 15 this morning. The opening paragraph is very helpful in orienting us to the primacy of the gospel:
"[1] Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, [2] by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. [3] For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, [4] and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, [5] and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. [6] After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; [7] then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles; [8] and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also. [9] For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. [10] But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me. [11] Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed. [12] Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? [13] But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; [14] and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. [15] Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. [16] For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; [17] and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. [18] Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. [19] If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied." (NASB)
Several things stand out:
First, Paul makes it clear that the gospel is "of first importance," literally, "among the first (i.e., most important) things" (ἐν πρώτοις, cp. BDAG). This implies that there are many other important issues in the Christian faith and life — perhaps some of the topics Paul has addressed in the foregoing parts of his first letter to the Corinthians, e.g., church unity, church discipline, the dangers of immorality, lawsuits, marriage and divorce, food sacrificed to idols, and spiritual gifts — but none of these stands on the same level as the gospel itself.
Second, this begs the question, "What is the gospel?" Paul answers the question by pointing to the central reality of substitutionary atonement ("that Christ died for our sins"), as well as his burial and resurrection on the third day, confirming that his sacrifice of atonement had been accepted. The prepositional phrase in the death-formula, "for our sins" (ὑπὲρ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν), is critical, because it identifies the death of Christ as a penal substitution. That is, he died the death that we deserved for our sins. [See Wallace, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, pp. 383-89, on the substitutionary meaning of the preposition ὑπέρ in Koine Greek.]
Third, the death of Christ for our sins and his resurrection on the third day is also the content of a message that is proclaimed. Paul uses several different verbs to refer to the proclamation of the gospel message concerning the death and resurrection of Christ: twice, the verb εὐαγγελίζομαι ("to preach the gospel," vv 1-2); twice, the language of "handing on" and "receiving" a tradition (vv 1, 3); twice, the verb κηρύσσω ("to herald, proclaim," vv 11, 12); once, its cognate noun τὸ κήρυγμα (v 14); and once, the verb μαρτυρέω ("to bear witness," v 15). The gospel, then, is the apostolic preaching of the saving message of the cross of Christ. Now that the apostles have died, we merely preach what the apostles preached, but we do so in their name and authority.
Fourth, the message is not only proclaimed, it is also believed, and when it is believed, received, and held fast, it leads to salvation. This is stated at the beginning of the passage: "Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain" (vv 1-2). What it means to be "saved" is fleshed out a bit later: "For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied." The point of believing that Jesus died for our sins and rose again is that we will not perish or die in our sins, but will have the hope of attaining to the resurrection from the dead, of which Christ's resurrection is the pledge.
Note the tie between the message and faith: "So we preached and so you believed" (v 11). Thus the message is preached, then it is received in faith, and the result is that when we die, we do not perish, but are destined to attain resurrection life with Jesus at his coming. This is why Paul mentions the fact that some of the witnesses of the resurrection of Jesus have fallen asleep (v 6) — they did not merely hope in Christ in this life only (v 19). Their hope is that, through the death of Christ for their sins, they will be raised up with Christ in the age to come.
So what's the point?
This, I believe, is a most helpful passage in orienting us to what is primary for Paul, and by implication, what ought to be primary for us as well. When people read our books and blogs, or listen to our sermons, or attend our worship services, what do they perceive is "of primary importance" to us? I hope it is not that we are "Reformed," or that we subscribe to "the Reformed Confessions," or that we are "Presbyterian" in our church government. I hope it is that we love, preach, and live out of the apostolic gospel of Christ's death for our sins.
This is also relevant for us in helping us to decide what our relationship ought to be with broader evangelicalism, and indeed with all professing Christians. They may be confused about many matters. They may have a low view of the church and the sacraments. They may be too quick to reject the traditions and creeds of the church. They may hold to something less than a purely monergistic soteriology. They may think baptism must be preceded by a profession of faith. But if they have received, stand firm in, and preach this gospel, then they are to be received as brothers in Christ and to be encouraged to continue in the gospel, even as we also discuss other matters with them (just as Paul does in his letters to the Corinthians). This is why I am much more concerned about those so-called evangelicals who are denying penal substitution, than I am about evangelicals who disagree with me on infant baptism, for example.
Of course, I realize that there are other essentials not addressed by Paul in this immediate paragraph, such as Christology and justification by faith alone, that must also be taken into account. These should also be understood as presupposed and can be fleshed out by other NT passages. My point is that the saving work of Christ on the cross was central to Paul's preaching and that this ought to inform our priorities today as well.


text: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 04:56:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:> > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:> > > > Well, in my picture, 'only if you block' is a pure thread utilization > > decision: bounce a piece of work to another thread if this thread cannot > > complete it. (if the kernel is lucky enough that the user context told > > it "it's fine to do that".)> > Sure, you can do it that way too. But at that point, your argument that we > shouldn't do it with fibrils is wrong: you'd still need basically the > exact same setup that Zach does in his fibril stuff, and the exact same > hook in the scheduler, testing the exact same value ("do we have a pending > queue of work").> > So at that point, you really are arguing about a rather small detail in > the implementation, I think.> > Which is fair enough. > > But I actually think the *bigger* argument and problems are elsewhere, > namely in the interface details. Notably, I think the *real* issues end up > how we handle synchronization, and how we handle signalling. Those are in > many ways (I think) more important than whether we actually can schedule > these trivial things on multiple CPU's concurrently or not.> > For example, I think serialization is potentially a much more expensive > issue. Could we, for example, allow users to serialize with these things > *without* having to go through the expense of doing a system call? Again, > I'm thinking of the case of no IO happening, in which case there also > won't be any actual threading taking place, in which case it's a total > waste of time to do a system call at all.> > And trying to do that actually has implications for the interfaces (like > possibly returning a zero cookie for the async() system call if it was > doable totally synchronously?)This would be useful - the application wouldn't have to set up stateto remember for handling completions for operations that complete synchronouslyI know Samba folks would like that.The laio_syscall implementation (Lazy asynchronous IO) seems to haveexperimented with such an interfacehttp://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/general/elmeleegy.htmlRegardsSuparna> > Signal handling is similar: I actually think that a "async()" system call > should be interruptible within the context of the caller, since we would > want to *try* to execute it synchronously. That automatically means that > we have semantic meaning for fibrils and signal handling.> > Finally, can we actually get POSIX aio semantics with this? Can we > implement the current aio_xyzzy() system calls using this same feature? > And most importantly - does it perform well enough that we really can do > that?> > THOSE are to me bigger questions than what happens inside the kernel, and > whether we actually end up using another thread if we end up doing it > non-synchronously.> > Linus> > --> To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-aio' in> the body to email@example.com. For more info on Linux AIO,> see: http://www.kvack.org/aio/> Don't email: firstname.lastname@example.com-- Suparna Bhattacharya (email@example.com)Linux Technology CenterIBM Software Lab, India-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to firstname.lastname@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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Flashdance What A Feeling Irene Cara
That your fear s[D]eems to [A]hide dee[G]p inside your mi[E4]nd [E]
A E hm F#m
All alone I have cried silent tears full of pride
[D]In a world made [A]of steel[G], made o[G]f stone [E] [E]
A E hm F#m
Well I hear the music, close my eyes, feel the rhythm
Wrap aroun[D]d, take a hold[A] of my h[G]eart [E]
F#m E4 E D E F#m E4 E D E A hm A D E4/3
What a feeling, bein's believin'. I can't have it all, now I'm dancin' for my life
F#m E4 E D E F#m E4 E D E A hm
Take your passion, and make it happen. Pictures come alive,
you can dance ri[A]ght thro[D]ugh your[E] life
Solo: A, E, hm, F#m, D, A, G, E
Töne dazu: C#, D, H, H, C#, D, E, C#, H, A, F#, A, F#, E, C#, E, D, C#, H, A, H
A E hm F#m
Now I hear the music, close my eyes, I am rhythm
In a fla[D]sh it takes hold[A] of my h[G]eart [E]
Chorus: (mit: "now I'm dancing through my life")
[G]What a f[E]eeling [G] [E] [G] [E]
[F#m]What [E4]a fe[E]eli[D]ng [E](I am music now), bein's believin' (I am rhythm now)
Pictures come alive, you can dance right through your life
What a feeling (I can really have it all)
What a feeling (Pictures come alive when I call)
I can have it all (I can really have it all)
Have it all (Pictures come alive when I call)
(call, call, call, call, what a feeling) I can have it all
(Bein's believin') bein's believin'
(Take your passion, make it happen) make it happen
(What a feeling) what a feeling...
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"Did you hear that Meg? Guys can marry other guys now. So...this is awkward, but I mean, if they can do that, that is pretty much it for you, isn't it? I mean you as well pack it in. Game over."
Stewie from "Family Guy" offering his thoughts on gay marriage.


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Sweet Potato Soup
The humble sweet potato delivers on so many levels - it's a wonder veg that's perfect for blending up in a warming sweet potato soup
500g/1lb 2oz sweet potatoes, peeled and roughly chopped
1 red onion, chopped
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp ground cumin
1litre/1¾ pints vegetable stock
1 tbsp tomato purée
4 tbsp natural yogurt, to serve
1. Preheat oven to gas mark 7/220°C (200°C) in a fan oven. Put potatoes and red onion in a roasting tin and drizzle over olive oil. Sprinkle with cumin and plenty of salt and freshly ground black pepper. Roast potatoes and onion for 20 mins, till tender and golden.
2. Blend potatoes and onion with hot stock and tomato purée in batches till smooth. Put in a pan and warm through to serve. Add a dollop of yogurt on top.


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To charge something with your energies, simply hold the item in your hand, and imagine your energies flowing from your hands into the object. Visualize what purpose charging it is for.
Hexen Feuer gave a nice tip. What I personally do is I go outside at sunset. I meditate under the sun and I hold my amulet in my hand. I image the rays of the sun giving me energy from the sun that represents the God. The God is more like a protecting father like figure. The sun to me represents the God, and the moon the godess. To me the sun rays turn into energy and I imagine it following through my body into the amulet. When I feel that the amulet can't take any more energy, I stop. I clean then wash it with my little prayer. I DO NOT let anyone touch it, it will mess up the energy.


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|Reviews for Wiccan
| Fabian Cortez chapter 1 . 10/14/2005
Atmospheric and described perfectly, so I could picture each scene described.
Well Done
| Relayer chapter 1 . 10/5/2005
Wow. I love the way this is written, and the vivid descriptions are great.
| Haberdasher chapter 1 . 10/5/2005
so powerful, it's like i could feel it too. eloquent (though im not sure about the fog from your fog machine line, seems chunky.) fantastic last line. Think into you. very sensual. well done- the Lady Elaine


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Having problems with your Dyson DC33 Animal Bagless Upright Vacuum ?
My new, 2 week old, Dyson makes a very high pitched whistle when I use the hand held brush.
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I'm sorry to hear you're having difficulty with your DC33. If you haven't already contacted our Helpline, I'd encourage you to do so as we may be able to resolve this issue with some troubleshooting over the phone.
You can reach us on 0800 298 0298 (UK), or 1-866-693-9766 (US) - please have the machine to hand when you call.
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I'm sorry to hear you're having difficulty with your DC33. If you haven't already contacted our Helpline, I'd encourage you to do so as we may be able to resolve this issue with some troubleshooting over the phone.
You can reach us on 0800 298 0298 (UK), or 1-866-693-9766 (US) - please have the machine to hand when you call.
We'll look forward to hearing from you.
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With the 2013 college football season a week away (the Times-Union's college and NFL special sections appear on Sunday), it's time for our annual look at the teams with worst and best non-conference schedules this season.
Louisville: Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, at Western Kentucky, Florida International. No wonder the Cardinals will be favored in every game they play. Feasting on cream puffs won't get Cards to title game.
Baylor: Wofford, Buffalo, Louisiana-Monroe. What? Savannah State wasn't available?
Arizona: Northern Arizona, at UNLV, Texas-San Antonio. Three gimmes to start the season. The Wildcats don't play Stanford, either.
Tie: Kansas State: North Dakota State, Louisiana-Lafayette, UMass; and Kansas: South Dakota, at Rice, Louisiana Tech. Murderer's Row coming to the Sunflower State this year.
Southern Miss: Texas State, at Nebraska, at Arkansas, at Boise State. That's a challenging three-game road trip for the Golden Eagles.
Notre Dame: at Michigan, at Arizona State, at Stanford, Oklahoma, Michigan State, BYU. The Irish will have to earn a return trip to the title game.
Nevada: at UCLA, UC Davis, at Florida State, BYU. Also Boise State on the road.
Clemson: Georgia, South Carolina State, South Carolina. Two tough SEC teams open and close the season.
Florida: Toledo, at Miami, Georgia Southern, Florida State. At least the two toughest games are in Gators' home state.
Expensive tournament
Price-gouging is commonplace at big-time sports events, but hotels in Brazil are taking it to a new level for the 2014 World Cup.
Some hotels listed on FIFA's website are raising prices more than 500 percent during tournament dates, according to an AP report.
A hotel in the Northeastern city of Salvador will charge $509 per night during the World Cup, a 538 percent increase from the $75 it charged last month. In the capital city of Brasilia, at least one hotel is charging $639 per night, a nearly 400 percent increase from the current price.
MATCH, the FIFA-appointed agency in charge of accommodations during the international soccer competition, said it's incorrect to suggest that the hotels are overcharging.
Hotels are "acting in a fair and reasonable manner taking into account the market forces and the investment made by them," MATCH said.
BYU gets dubious honor
"Brigham Young University was named the most Stone Cold Sober college campus in America Friday by the Princeton Review,'' says comedian Argus Hamilton. "Mormons aren't known for wild celebrations. Every time BYU wins the college football championship, they turn off the Play Station Three.''


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Will You Get "hooked" on Jewish Text Study?
Posted on 06/20/2013 @ 12:08 PM
So often with our teens (like ourselves), Jewish text study fails to elicit the positive responses that social events, sports, or anything...well, fun can produce. Many texts don't even explain why they deserve our attention in the first place, let alone provide a set of instructions on how to read them or what questions to ask. The task of any educator, and in our case, informal Jewish educators, is to make content and subject matter accessible, engaging, and radically relevant to students. What methods can we employ to make Jewish text study purposeful for ourselves and our teens?
One method excellent teachers use to excite their students about learning is called a 'hook.' As in journalism or pop music, a hook is used to quickly grab a student's attention, inspiring and exciting them about what they are about to learn. Teachers use hooks from all kinds of media--stories, pictures, video, songs, riddles—to cleverly draw in their audience and set the stage for the learning about to take place. A math teacher might ask students to find all of the kosher restaurants in the Upper West Side of New York on a Google map before teaching her students how to plot points on a grid. When students are given creative, practical applications for content, they are more likely to consistently engage with the subject matter that follows.
Jewish texts are like any other subject matter: some people are naturally excited by them, and some are not. Wherever you might fall personally, BBYO professionals should develop the skills to inspire teens to feel confident questioning and integrating Jewish principles about God, Torah, history, traditions, and culture into their Jewish lives. Are you up to the task?
Let's try it. I propose a challenge to all of our professionals in the field. The BBYO employee with the best hook for the text below will win a book of your choice to add to your Jewish library. Please submit your hooks to email@example.com by Tuesday night!
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The following story comes from the Babylonian Talmud in a volume called Bava Metzia (the Middle Gate), in a series of stories about various rabbinic figures and their relationships with their families, communities, and each other. Two figures, Rabbi Hanina and Rabbi Hiyya, both living in the 3rd Century in Israel, are frequently engaged in debate with one another. Rebbi, the voice at the end of the story, lived a century later and is recognized as the redactor of the entire Mishna.
Whenever Rabbi Hanina and Rabbi Hiyya were in a dispute, Rabbi Hanina said to Rabbi Hiyya: 'Would you dispute with me? If, Heaven forbid!, the Torah were forgotten in Israel, I would restore it by my deductive powers.' To which Rabbi Hiyya rejoined: 'Would you dispute with me, who has already achieved that the Torah should not be forgotten in Israel? What did I do? I went and sowed flax, made nets [from the flax cords], trapped deer, whose flesh I gave to orphans, and prepared scrolls [from their skins], upon which I wrote the five books [of Moses]. Then I went to a town [which contained no teachers] and taught the five books to five children, and the six orders [of the Talmud] to six children. And I commanded them: "Until I return, teach each other the Pentateuch and the Mishnah," and thus I preserved the Torah from being forgotten in Israel.' This is what Rebbi [meant when he] said, 'How great are the works of Hiyya!'
This Shabbat Message was written by Rabbi Zac Johnson, Director of Jewish Enrichment, Western States Hub.


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The Maharashtra government likes to believe and likes others to believe that it is a progressive state, but if one takes a look at the state's expenditure on three important areas that help improve the human development index -- public health, education and water supply and sanitation, it presents a very different picture.
The United Nations Development Programme 1990 guidelines require that countries and their provinces spend at least 5 per cent of the budgetary outlay on education, public health and drinking water and sanitation facilities.
In 2002-03, the state made a provision for Rs 264 crore (Rs 2.64 billion) expenditure on education, but only Rs 86 crore (Rs 860 million) was spent.
In the same year, on health and water supply and sanitation, the outlay was Rs 438 crore and Rs 445 crore respectively. However, only Rs 216 crore (Rs 2.16 billion) was spent on health. But the expenditure on water supply and sanitation has exceeded the outlay by Rs 213 crore (Rs 2.13 billion).
But even this figure falls miserably short of the UNDP target of Rs 15,000 crore (Rs 150 billion). Even if one adds up the expenditure made on sports, cultural affairs, housing and urban development as part contributing to the improvement of HDI, the state still fails to meet the target by Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) since all these number add up to only Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion).
This year, interestingly, Rs 414 crore (Rs 4.14 billion) was allocated for giving budgetary support to the Maharashtra State Electricity Board under the head of power development, but in reality almost Rs 2,747 crore (Rs 27.47 billion) was handed over to the MSEB. And a major part of the amount was not spent on capital investment but for buying expensive power, as the state has been facing a huge power deficit.
In 2003-04, the provision for education, health, water supply and sanitation was Rs 375 crore (Rs 3.75 billion), Rs 210 crore (Rs 2.1 billion), Rs 730 crore (Rs 7.3 billion) respectively. But the amounts that were actually spent were Rs 175, Rs 152 crore (Rs 1.52 billion) and Rs 332 respectively.
This year again, there was a provision of Rs 414 crore (Rs 4.14 billion) for the development of power, but in reality, Rs 1,334 crore (Rs 13.34 billion) was spent. The expenditure of the irrigation department, too, jumped to Rs 2,070 crore (Rs 20.7 billion), against a provision of Rs 518 crore (Rs 5.18 billion).
The year 2004-05 shows the same pattern. The provision for education, health and water supply and sanitation was Rs 192 crore (Rs 1.92 billion), Rs 528 crore (Rs 5.28 billion) and Rs 425 crore (Rs 4.25 billion) respectively, but actual spendings were Rs 295 crore (Rs 2.95 billion), Rs 311 crore (Rs 3.11 billion) and Rs 263 crore (Rs 2.63 billion)respectively. Once again, funds were diverted to the power department and irrigation. These ministries spent Rs 778 crore (Rs 7.78 billion) and Rs 3,173 crore (Rs 31.73 billion) against provision of merely Rs 215 crore (Rs 2.15 billion) and Rs 831 crore (Rs 8.31 billion) respectively.
The BJP state unit general secretary and MLC Vinod Tavde said, "This shows how the government is being callous about the development of its own people. For the last four-five years, the expenditure on the factors that improve HDI has always fallen short by 1.5 to 2 per cent of the ideal."
Tavde further said, "Not only actual budgetary allocations are short of desired mark of 5 per cent, but whatever allocations have been made that, too, have been diverted for other purposes. In the tenth five-year plan of the state, which began in 2002, outlay of Rs 2,538 crore (Rs 25.38 billion) was made for education, but in the first three financial years of the plan, only Rs 550 crore (Rs 5.5 billion) was spent on education. Then there was provision of Rs 4,000 crore (Rs 40 billion) for water supply and sanitation facilities in the plan, but in the first three years, only Rs 1,200 (Rs 12 billion) was spent. Amounts of nearly Rs 2,150 crore (Rs 21.5 billion) from these two ministries and another Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) from other ministries were diverted for irrigation projects and power ministry."
No one is going to object if the state government wants to spend money on irrigation projects, but in that case it should make allocations for the same in the Budget itself, why the government is indulging in this financial jugular is beyond comprehension, Tavde said.
Every department is responsible for preparing the plan and executing it, while the finance department only grants administrative sanction to the expenditure. Unless any department surrenders the funds allocated to it, it is not possible to divert to any other ministry, said finance secretary (expenditure) V K Kanade.
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Juan de Fuca Provincial Park on the west coast of southern Vancouver Island offers scenic beauty, spectacular hiking, marine and wildlife viewing and roaring surf in its course along the Pacific coastline of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A major feature of this park, the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail, is approximately 42 kilometres of wilderness trekking along the rugged shoreline. Although most of the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail is designed for strenuous day or multi-day hiking/camping in this rugged and isolated area, some easy to moderate day hiking opportunities to the beach or along the trail are available starting from the trailheads.
The hike normally takes 3-4 days. There are no services along the route - travellers should come prepared for the remote experience. Backcountry passes for camping must be purchased from BC Parks. A shuttle service to/from Port Renfrew and China Beach (as well as Victoria) is available.
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At the west end of Juan de Fuca Park is Botanical Beach, one of the richest tidal areas along the west coast. Botanical Beach also has a unique shoreline framed by ridges of shale and quartz, which jut up through the black basalt to form huge tableaus. Botanical Beach is the western terminus for the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail and a popular day trip destination for visitors wishing to observe this sensitive and unique ecosystem. Wildlife viewing is best done at low tide, when visitors can walk out across the flat sandstone and granite outcroppings to view tide pools filled with brightly coloured marine life.
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Ed Japhet gives a skillful performance of magic at the school prom. After the prom, Ed and his girlfriend are beset by Urek, the leader of a school gang that extracts extortion money by "renting" kids their own lockers. Ed is the only student who refuses to pay extortion money. Urek's fury at Japhet's defiance results in an attempted murder, a criminal trial, and death, with a shocker of an ending.
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U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said that Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc managers who oversaw the money-markets business should be held accountable for the alleged manipulation of interest rates.
"Those who were doing the supervising must also bear their share of the responsibility," Osborne said in Bournemouth, southern England today. "The RBS board and the RBS senior management are well aware of that and decisions are in hand."
RBS may pay as much as 500 million pounds ($786 million) in fines to U.K. and U.S. regulators as early as this week to settle allegations traders tried to rig the London interbank offered rate, two people with knowledge of the matter said last month. Investment banking chief John Hourican is expected to resign because he had responsibility for the parts of the company where the alleged wrongdoing occurred, even though he didn't have direct knowledge of the behavior, the people said.
The bank, which started an internal probe in 2010, has so far dismissed four bankers and suspended at least three others, including Jezri Mohideen, head of rates trading for Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Osborne gave his backing to Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hester.
Osborne also said that RBS should pay the U.S. portion of the fine by cutting investment-banker bonuses and clawing back discretionary awards from previous years.
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RBS will reduce its bonus pool by as much as 150 million pounds to offset the fines, a person familiar with the plan said last month. RBS paid staff at its securities unit about 390 million pounds in bonuses for 2011, the bank has said.
RBS traders and their managers routinely sought to influence the firm's Libor submissions between 2007 and 2010 to profit from derivatives bets, according to transcripts of internal conversations seen by Bloomberg News and interviews with employees and lawyers. Traders also communicated with counterparts at other firms to discuss where rates should be set, the people said.
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December 8
It's about to go down. 8 dancers remain
in the competition, and it's getting tighter. Let's find out who's the
best routine makers of the evening as our performance show starts.
First of all, we have to say hello to Ashleigh, who popped her shoulder
and won't dance tonight. But shoulder or not, they'll still need her
votes. It's better than dropping out, I guess. Now to the dancing. Our
first couple goes to Kathryn & Ryan doing a disco to "Last Dance" by
Donna Summer, which is remixed by Lindsay Lohan's gal pal Samantha
Ronson. As it turned out, it was a disco love story. What's next? A
techno wedding?
What Nigel said: The style suited Kathryn.
What I said: Kathryn took it like a girl.
Up next is Mollee & Ryan doing a Viennese Waltz to "Ordinary Day" by
Vanessa Carlton. This time, they had to take it to a higher level, and
delivered it.
What Mary said: There's nothing ordinary about these 2.
What I said: It was breathtaking!
What's with Ashleigh on stage? Oh, she's telling everyone to vote, but
she's not doing a solo tonight. Remember the top of the show we told you
On to Ellenore & Legacy doing contemporary to "Machine Gun" by
Portishead. It had many dance moves and incredible stunts for this
What Nigel said: It was so, so dangerous.
What I said: It was insane!
Jakob came in for a solo to "When You say My Name," and we got 2 more
names to round out the half, they are Ashleigh & Russell, but Shane's
assist comes to dance for her as they dance hip-hop to "Too Much Booty"
by Soundmaster. As you can tell, Russell hit it way hard!
What Nigel said: It was great.
What I said: Russell knocked that one out the park.
We begin with Mollee doing "Heartburn" by Alicia Keys, and soon after, a
cha-cha is done thanks to Kathryn & Ryan doing "Put Your Hands On Me" by
Joss Stone. It had to be on fire from teh minute this latin dance began.
What Mary said: That was just on fire.
What I said: They smoked it up!
It's a trio of solos starting with Legacy doing "Fancy Footwork" by
Chromeo, Ellenore doing "I got The Feeling" by James Brown and Russell
doing "Holiday Buckness." That of course, is him in the Santa suit.
Next up is Mollee & Jakob doing Broadway to "Easy Street" from "Annie."
In it, they play 2 con-artists to find a way to get rich. Guess the cops
weren't around.
What Adam said: So strong!
What I said: They've seemed to put it in.
Here's another solo from Kathryn doing "Shadowfeet" by Brooke Frasier.
We run into a TabNap routine from Ellenore & Legacy doing "People Are
Strange" by The Doors. In it, it had a good comparison to choreography,
but it was weak on terms.
What Nigel said: The dancing we got wasn't really together.
What I said: That didn't work.
After Ryan did the last solo of the night, He asked everyone to support
his injured wife. Now isn't that something. The last routine goes to
Ashleigh & Russell doing Bollywood. Nakul's assist pinch hits in this
routine, and it was like a story.
What Nigel said: My eyes went to you.
What I said: All eyes were watching on the routine.
Time to close our eyes and go to bed. Tomorrow, only one couple will be
resting in peace. You'll see why tomorrow. Good night.
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September 21, 2005 - All it took was a sneer and some incidental contact to ignite the flames of competitive fire. Once the all-or-nothing battle for inside positioning was on between Stephen Thomas and Connor Pyle, someone was going to come out in the lead, regardless of car damage, personal injury or the flailing arms of frantic parents urging them, if not demanding them, to return to the pit.
And this was just during warmups.
Hidden on a dusty swatch of land in Marana just off I-10, one of Arizona's biggest roadways, lies one of the state's smallest: the Tucson Quarter Midget Racetrack. It's home to every kid who dreams of one day becoming the next Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty or, to a lesser extent, Jeff Gordon.
It is here in Marana where racing careers are started and the thirst for speed is quenched.
Quarter Midget racing has less to do with little people than it has to do with big dreams. The first step for almost any future racer, quarter midget racing engages the maniacal passions of grease-elbowed fathers who build something for their sons while at the same time satiating the overwhelming desire for an 8-year-old boy to be bad with a blessing from Mom. In laymen's terms, they make tiny race cars for kids.
The track in Marana is just one of two in the state and is one among four that comprise the Southwest circuit. If they're not headed to Marana, then the trailers of fathers and sons, mothers, daughters and close family friends may be hauling their mini racers to Phoenix, Albuquerque or the recently added El Paso. That's thousands of miles just to drive a little bit more.
Starting at the age of 5, racers are eligible to compete on the quarter midget circuit until the age of 15. Many on the NASCAR circuit have gotten their start on the quarter midget level, including NASCAR's Gordon.
Just as in NASCAR, each quarter midget course isn't without its own idiosyncrasies.
"This is like the Talladega of quarter midget racing," said Ken Janzen of Scottsdale, comparing the Marana track to that of NASCAR's Alabama holy race yard. Both are the longest and widest in their respective genres.
Janzen and his son Derek are regulars in the Southwest as are so many of the families that gathered in the parking lot of the Marana quarter midget track Sept. 10 to both close out the summer series and start up the winter schedule.
"It's just like a big family out here," said Diane Saltsman of Marana, whose son Chris, 10, was racing in the day's heats. On that day, Saltsman was in charge of concessions in the RV-riddled parking lot that resembled a NASCAR tailgate party more than a youth sporting event. "The best friends we have are in racing."
In Marana, racing families are welcomed with open arms. Every member of the Southwest Quarter Midget family is given a key to the track and can practice there at any time.
In the Southwest region, 237 drivers are broken down into a dozen categories by weight and experience.
At the Sept. 10 race in Marana, 40 racers donned helmets and floored it around the track.
On a weekend during which NFL and NCAA football often reign supreme, the only pigskin found here was in a parking lot game of two-hand touch played by bored youngsters while the dads fine-tuned the cars.
These pint-sized cars are basically built in the same fashion as NASCAR racers, except the midgets run on what is the equivalent of a lawn mower engine.
With five-point harnesses and hydraulic brakes, safety is the No. 1 concern for everyone involved on the quarter midget circuit. For an added safety measure, the suits the kids wear are made of Nomex, a fireproof polymer also used by the drivers in NASCAR.
"It's extremely safe," said Curtis Stacy, Tucson Quarter Midget race director who added that a car could be held completely upside-down and the driver still would not fall out. "There's never been a (major) accident in 70 years of quarter midget racing."
The biggest expense in maintaining the cars is for tires. A pair of right tires can cost upward of $100 and needs to be replaced roughly every six to eight heat cycles, which means six to eight races or practice rounds. Because the cars only make left-handed turns, the right tires are about twice the width and price of the left ones.
Despite the maddening rise of petroleum prices, fuel-efficiency on the quarter midget circuit is surprisingly excellent. Stacy and his son are still on the same five gallons he bought last year. Other components, such as oil and valve springs, need regular tweaking, an activity embraced by the fathers.
"That's the fun of it," Stacy said. "For a dad, we get to play with (the car)."
Used cars start at about $900 and can be found in specialty shops or even online at sites such as eBay. A new racer, however, can cost as much as $7,000.
But cost doesn't matter to the kids. For them it's speed, speed and more speed.
"It's pretty cool going around that track and getting that feeling that you're going to win," said the gap-toothed Chris Saltsman with a devious smile peaking out from underneath the weathered Houston Astros ball cap he wears to honor a friend who died this summer.
It may not be breakneck speed, but these tiny speed racers do burn rubber faster than most people drive home from work in the evening. A typical car will top out at about 45 mph and do a lap in about seven seconds. Quick laps are made possible because a quarter midget track is .05 miles long.
As the night wears on at the Marana track, the course gets faster as rubber from the tires fills in the nooks and crannies of the asphalt.
And although the cracks fill, other amenities still are needed to fix up the track and its surroundings. Through donations, Tucson Quarter Midget officials are hoping to one day be able to add permanent lights to the track.
Races are held in Marana twice a season and twice at the Phoenix and Albuquerque tracks. Racers can, and often do, stray outside the region to California, Colorado, New Mexico and as far as Indianapolis. Both Janzen and Stacy estimate they will spend 20 to 25 weekends out of the year on the road with their kids and their cars.
This is what brings them together and how they bond, said Stacy, who said he is often on the road during the week and away from the family.
On the road, just like dad. That's where every kid in quarter midget racing longs to be.
As for the rivalry between Pyle and Thomas, that died the instant they decided to heed the threats of their parents and finally pulled off about 20 extra laps later.


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ANCHORAGE - So you think your gasoline is expensive? Some rural Alaskans are paying as much as $5 per gallon, with $6 a gallon on the horizon.
"We don't even want to talk about that," said Joyce John, a clerk at Midnight Sun Native Store in Arctic Village, in far northeastern Alaska. "Might as well raise a dog team."
The high prices in isolated villages stem from the cost of delivering fuel by airplane.
One of the major fuel carriers, Fairbanks-based Everts Air Fuel, uses cargo planes to transport as much as 4,500 gallons at a time, corporate administrator Karen Wing said. Other companies deliver fuel in 55-gallon drums, landing on airstrips too short for bigger planes.
The cost may force subsistence hunters and fishermen to pare back their trips. Electric bills will rise because most power comes from diesel generators. And some villages may struggle to buy a year's worth of heating oil, because of the high price and because state financial aid has expired.
Although rural Alaska is not likely to collapse under the weight of higher fuel costs, "it creates a snowball effect out there," said Jim McMillan of the Alaska Energy Authority.
In communities such as Arctic Village, Nikolai, Togiak and Tok, residents say there's no use in complaining.
"It's really going to hurt us," said Brenda Gilbert of Arctic Village. "But we've survived this long; we'll survive."
The Energy Department reported Wednesday that the average gasoline price nationwide was almost $2.02 per gallon. Anchorage-area stations straddled that mark, according to the price-tracking Web site GasBuddy.com, with prices ranging from $1.93 to $2.09.
But an informal survey of rural Alaska communities shows prices well above that and climbing. Arctic Village shared honors with the Kuskokwim River community of Nikolai for peak prices at $5 a gallon. In Shungnak, on the Kobuk River east of Kotzebue, gasoline jumped from $3.25 to $4.45 overnight.
Residents of the northwest Arctic village of Noatak are paying $4.25 a gallon, tribal administrator Herbert Walton said, "but it looks like it's probably going to go over $5 next month."
Subsistence hunters have no choice but to pay the higher price, said Jim Magdanz of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Kotzebue. For species such as bearded seal, typically harvested 30 to 40 miles offshore, "you've just got to put a drum of gas in the boat and go," he said. "I think people will pay the price, because that food is important to them."
In Nikolai, Winchell Ticknor said expensive gas may curtail his hunting and fishing, perhaps keeping him closer to home. But there's no question he will go out, even at $5 a gallon.
"You've got to have moose, and you've got to have fish," he said. "You've got to do that if you want to survive the winter."
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What does azurite mean?
Definitions for azuriteˈæʒ əˌraɪt
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A blue vitreous mineral; a basic copper carbonate, with the chemical formula Cu(CO)(OH).
Webster Dictionary
blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite
Azurite is a soft, deep blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. It is also known as Chessylite after the type locality at Chessy-les-Mines near Lyon, France. The mineral, a carbonate, has been known since ancient times, and was mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History under the Greek name kuanos and the Latin name caeruleum. The blue of azurite is exceptionally deep and clear, and for that reason the mineral has tended to be associated since antiquity with the deep blue color of low-humidity desert and winter skies. The modern English name of the mineral reflects this association, since both azurite and azure are derived via Arabic from the Persian lazhward, an area known for its deposits of another deep blue stone, lapis lazuli.
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The numerical value of azurite in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
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The numerical value of azurite in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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