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Here we are again! The freevend snack machine is now empty, so it's back to news duties until such time as the machine is refilled… or Kopic earns enough K points to spend them in the refectory on a soggy cheese sandwich! So, ever onwards with the latest Doctor Who news from the wibbly wobbly interweb!
According to the esteemed organ Outpost Gallifrey there is good news for collectors of soundtracks based on particular series of Doctor Who – The Series Four soundtrack is due for release sometime in mid-November by Silva Screen. The "Song of Freedom" (choral piece that marked the Daleks' defeat in Journey's End) will be included. I hope they also include the Ood song and/or the choral version of that used in Journey's End when towing the Earth home. Unless they are the same thing? We'll find out soon enough! See also Doctor Who Series 4 soundtrack coming in November! – Discover Magazine
There's a wonderful Lis Sladen interview in the latest SFX magazine where she reveals some spoilers about the Jackson family in the upcoming series of Sarah Jane Adventures (starting soon!) and reveals that she has finally become a Doctor Who fan after all these years, thanks to RTD's efforts.
The CBC (Canadian channel that co-produces Doctor Who) finally started showing series 4 on Friday 19th September, giving the author a chance to perpetuate a certain rumour…
Tate got herself in a spot of bother last year by blurting out on radio that co-star David Tennant might be leaving the show along with departing producer Russell T. Davies. After vehement denials all around, the rumour persists that Tennant, after his award-winning turn in the Royal Shakepeare's Hamlet, may indeed end up handing the regenerating role over to The History Boys' Russell Tovey, who appeared in the show's "Titanic" episode as an ill-fated sailor. But not before filming a series of season-substitute Who TV movies, two of which are scheduled to be shot in the U.S.
Sylvester McCoy is a busy chap, playing the title role in the Carl Rosa production of The Mikado at Birmingham's Alexandra Theatre, according to the Birmingham Mail. This is his second outing in the role having played it earlier this year to popular acclaim leading to another run from 23rd to 27th September (Tickets: 0844 847 2293). Did you know our Sylv almost played Bilbo Baggins?!?!
"When they were making Lord of the Rings they kept me on hold for six months as a possible Bilbo Baggins," he says. "In the end the role went to Ian Holm so I guess they were just keeping me in case Ian couldn't do it.
"But I met its director Peter Jackson because when we were touring New Zealand with King Lear he invited Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf in the films, and myself to dinner. Peter Jackson's home in Wellington is a real fantasy land with secret passages and all that.
"In his garden he actually has Bilbo Baggins' hobbit hole and that is where we had dinner. So there I was having dinner with Gandalf in Bilbo Baggins' house."
This Christmas Sylvester McCoy is also going to be starring in Snow White as "'Orrible Herman" at the Derby.


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Legendary alt-rockers The Replacements are set to return to the stage for the first time in more than two decades. Core members Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson will headline Riot Fest in three locales – Chicago, Toronto and Denver – beginning in late August. The rest of the band's lineup will be announced at a later date; word is original drummer Chris Mars is not participating.
Last fall, Westerberg and Stinson reconvened for a covers EP, Songs for Slim, to raise money for former Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap, who suffered a stroke earlier that year. "After two or three hours my voice was shot, but we were rocking like murder for a while," Westerberg told Rolling Stone, about the sessions.
The Replacements never officially broke up, but the last time they took the stage was in 1991, at Chicago's Grant Park. The Toronto Riot Fest will take place August 24-25 at Fort York, with the Chicago festival slated for September 13-15 in Humboldt Park. The Denver Riot Fest is set for September 21-22 at May Farms. Full listings and ticket information are available at the Riot Fest website.

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By Mark Carpenter
The 2015 Brown County Fair, known by many as "The Little State Fair,"will begin on Monday, Sept. 28 and be in full swing through Saturday, Oct. 3.
Once again, the highlight of the social calendar for many countians and beyond will begin with the annual Opening Parade at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, led by this year's Grand Marshal, Mr. Orville Whalen. That first night of fair activity concluded with the crowning of the 2015 King and Queen.
One of the highlights of the 2015 Fair will undoubtedly be a performance by award-winning country artists Sawyer Brown and there will be musical entertainment throughout the week that will please all ages. If music doesn't sooth your ears, then you will be delighted with the sounds all week from the arena hosting the truck and tractor pulls, or perhaps you are just waiting to hear the sound of "Walk your horses please" emanating from the center ring.
If your ears aren't full enough, then you will have no trouble filling your stomach as again the fair will offer those delicacies known simply as "fair food." Take a guess at how many pork tenderloins and french fries will be consumed during fair week. If Mom and Dad want to eat, then their children will certainly be entertained in the Midway, with games and rides galore.
Thursday is a special day at the fair as it is Senior Citizens Day and also the day of the always moving and powerful POW-MIA Memorial Service, held in the main ring at 6 p.m. Another popular event takes place on Thursday and Saturday in the Danny Gray Activity Center, the Brown County Fair Talent Show, where the competition will be tough and entertaining at the same time.
Of course,the fair is all about the 4-H kids and the culmination of another year of hard work with livestock and many other projects. Their work culminates with the sales taking place on Friday and Saturday.
Make sure to pick up a copy of the Sept. 27 weekend edition of The News Democrat which will contain the annual Fair Preview Special Section, where you can get schedules and much more and be sure to stop by the newspaper's booth and say hello. See you all at the Little State Fair!
Reach Mark Carpenter at 937-378-6161.


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RIPLEY – A new year means a new organization for the Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Board of Education. They held their organizational meeting on Jan. 6 at RULH High School.
The new board president is Barry Sims. He replaced Jeff Cluxton, who served during the last school year. Jeff Wilson was named the vice president of the Board of Education.
Wilson enters a new term as a Board of Education member and was joined by Cluxton during their swearing in on Jan. 6.
The board also approved Superintendent Dr. Linda Naylor and Treasurer Jeff Rowley to keep their assigned roles for paying of bills and modifications of expenditures for the RULH District.
The organizational meeting also called for the assignment of roles to be selected by the Board of Education. These roles include appointing OSBA Conference Delegate, Legislative Liaison and a Public Records Trainee Designee.
Jeff Wilson was named the delegate for the OSBA with Jeff White to serve as the alternate. Cluxton was named legislative liaison. Sims was named the designee for Public Records Training.
The Board of Education named their time and place for scheduled business for the new year. All RULH Board of Education meetings will be held at RULH High School 7 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month.
On the list of topics for the evening was the status of the softball field at RULH Middle School. The wet weather conditions had prevented any further building to the fence surrounding the field but the Board was hopeful to have it opened by the first part of the spring to play games.
Also on the agenda, the baseball field at RULH Elementary school could be looking differently in the near future. The Board of Education is waiting to proceed with building a shelter for the community. The shelter had been planned for sometime as an agreement with the Village of Ripley to use the facility for high school baseball. The topic was once again tabled while other bids for constructions were sought by the Board of Education.


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The Texas Open has become the top PGA Tour event for raising funds for local charities, contributing a record total of $9 million in 2011 and donating at least $8 million each of the past five years.
One of those events is Birdies for Charity, which is similar to a walk-a-thon in that participants are asked to solicit pledges from individuals or businesses based on the number of birdies recorded by the players in the four-day Texas Open. One-time, flat donations may also be made and all donations are tax deductible.
Golf San Antonio runs the program and 100 percent of the funds are donated to the participating non-profit organizations.
The 2011 Valero Texas Open had 1,950 birdies made, so a pledge of 1 cent yielded a donation of $19.50.
"To add excitement and encourage participation, donors can participate in the 'Guess the Birdies' contest," according to a news release from Golf San Antonio. "Participants simply guess how many birdies will be made Wednesday-Sunday of tournament week. The individual with the correct guess wins the grand prize, a brand new Ford vehicle. Ties are determined through a tiebreaker event. And if no one guesses correctly, a computer will randomly select the grand prize winner."
You can donate online to your favorite participating school or charity.


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Pardew defends Toon's transfer policy
Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has defended his club's close-season transfer policy, which saw just one arrival at St James' Park.
While Loic Remy was brought in on loan, Newcastle were the only Premier League side not to make a single permanent signing of a senior player during the recent transfer window.
However, Pardew feels the club's dealings in January, coupled with Remy's loan signing and various youth prospects, will stand his side in good stead.
"It's important sometimes to understand that we have a very good team," said the 52-year-old.
"We invested £30-odd million in the last window, we have brought Remy in.
"We have brought a lot of young players here who I think, will hopefully, blossom. That's why they were brought here. The likes of Sammy Ameobi and Paul Dummett, part of my management is to develop players."
Pardew was linked with forwards such as Bafetimbi Gomis and Darren Bent over the close-season but to no avail.
Despite this, Pardew has urged fans to be patient and stick with the side he has assembled on Tyneside.
"Our fans wanted a marquee signing, probably, and that's what we were looking at, somebody that would really threaten the first team," he continued.
"But we couldn't get it over the line in terms of what we wanted and unfortunately that's the position we are in.
"Having said all of that, I still think we have got a very, very strong side."
Newcastle have gained a draw and a win against West Ham and Fulham respectively since their opening-day defeat to Manchester City.
Pardew's men, who sit in 12th place, face Aston Villa on Saturday.


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On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:42:29 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > :Perhaps in the days before X11 and screen when one instance of the > shell:was in more or less constant use, this was marginally > acceptable... but:surely in an asynchronous-friendly OS like > DragonFlyBSD there should be:a way to be notified right when it > happens...? It can't be too hard to:have a background process write > to the terminal - kind of messy, though.: > :-Chris > > 'man biff' and 'man comsat'. These are very, very old utilities > and could have security issues (like with escape codes on the > terminal screen). I don't run them myself. Yeah, I was actually thinking more along the lines of 'screen' when I trailed off - but I haven't played with it much. Consider: split the terminal into two panes, one 24 or so lines, and the other a 1-line "status bar". The program running in the status bar pane would display some pertinent information, say, date/time, how much new mail you have, disk free space, mbmon stats, whatever. (One thing I always wanted was a progress bar for long 'make' jobs...) That status bar program could poll other programs and reformat their output to produce its display - but polling is just damned inelegant. It would be so much nicer for it to be event-oriented somehow - to receive messages whenever state that it's interested in changes. Anyway, at this point I'm just rambling. -Chris


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England batsman Eoin Morgan is convinced that batsmen with the ability to bat with both right hand and left hand, like teammate Kevin Pietersen, are going to rule the world of cricket in coming times.
Morgan is a global pioneer of unorthodox stroke play with his array of reverse sweeps, ramps, scoops and dabs, and as the tourists prepare for Saturday's opening Twenty20 clash with New Zealand, teammate Jos Buttler has emerged as another incredible inventor of shots, the Sun reports.
However, Morgan believes it will go even further with batsmen actually taking guard the other way round. The left-handed batsman said he reckons the new thing will be to bat left and right-handed, adding if a batsman is facing a spinner, it is easier when the ball is turning in to you so it makes sense to bat that way round.
Morgan believes it is feasible. Though he has tried batting right-handed but has not been very successfully yet. So people won't be seeing it from him any time soon.
The middle-order batsman said that, right-handed Pietersen, hits the ball further than any left-hander he knows.
Morgan said Pietersen hits it miles and it is definitely possible he or somebody will take guard the other way round in a match, adding it would only happen against spin bowling, not fast bowling and it is something he has discussed with the coaching staff.
Former Australian coach John Buchanan once claimed that many cricketers would be ambidextrous and able to bowl and throw with either arm.
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China's polar ice-breaker Xue Long has arrived in the southern Indian Ocean to participate in the recovery of debris from Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.
Only a few months ago it was involved in the dramatic rescue of 52 international scientists from the Russian vessel Akademik Shokalskiy after it became stuck in sea ice.
China's decision to send Xue Long to search for MH370, when it was already on its way home after an arduous seven months in Antarctica, gives an insight into the new foreign policy developing under the leadership of the Chinese Communist party general secretary, Xi Jinping.
Xue Long, which means "snow dragon", is the flagship vessel of China's rapidly expanding polar programme. China has four Antarctic research stations, and is planning a fifth. In the Arctic it has a station on Svalbard Island, an observatory in Iceland and semi-permanent facilities in the Arctic Ocean using buoys and weather stations.
In 2015, China will launch a state-of-the art ice vessel that will be used exclusively for oceanic research. The country will also have its own ice-capable plane enabling it to set up an intra-continental flight network for its scientists in Antarctica, and it may also be used in the Arctic.
Xue Long's drawn-out rescue of the passengers of the Akademik Shokalskiy resulted in a rush of positive publicity for China's polar programme. Unlike Australia, which co-ordinated the Akademik Shokalskiy rescue and had been highly critical of the expedition, China has not released information about the cost of its assistance nor asked the scientists to repay the costs.
China's activities in the Arctic and Antarctic suffer from an image problem in the international media, amid questions about China's long-term polar agenda and how it may affect the interests of other established players.
The glowing coverage Xue Long's efforts garnered was given a very high profile in the mainland Chinese media. It was noted as a successful antidote to what Chinese scholars dismiss as "China threat" rhetoric on China's intentions in the Arctic and Antarctic. It also showcased China as Xi Jinping would like it to be seen: a proactive, responsible, constructive, and peaceful contributor to the global order.
As it happened, not long after Xue Long's rescue of the Akademik Shokalskiy, Xi announced his new foreign policy strategy for China: fenfa you wei, or "be proactive".
On board Xue Long is useful equipment for conducting marine surveys in deep waters, such as remote-controlled submersibles, which will assist in attempts to recover the airliner. Its assistance is another propaganda coup for the Chinese polar programme, as well as a subtle reminder of China's will to demonstrate its growing international role and presence.
• Professor Anne-Marie Brady is a specialist in Chinese and polar politics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and the Wilson Center, Washington, DC


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2005, Simmons Records / Sanctuary Records
Rating: 3.5/5
The first release on Gene Simmons? newly re-activated label which is distributed by Sanctuary records. Bag is a one man group. He does everything himself on this fine debut, from vocals and drums to mixing and producing. This is a true solo cd.
This is one recording that cannot easily be put into a category or summed up easily. The quirky and sometimes tongue in cheek lyrics are mixed with great melodies that deliver a fresh sound to the listeners mind. At first you may not get what he?s trying to accomplish with this release where it appears to be all over the place. Songs like ?Pavement? are somewhat reminiscent of Bowie while a track like ?I Hate You Baby? is your typical acoustic ballad. There are heavy Talking Heads influences throughout the disc and some small hints of Beck. The music itself tends to get a bit funky in places while getting a good groove going. Songs like like ? I Can?t Stand Your Face? and ? I Can?t Shut My Mouth? are very catchy with their humourous and nonsense lyrics. It is refreshing these days to have a record come along and serves up some refreshing tunes when allot of stuff in the world is all doom and gloom.
If you are looking for something slightly different to feed your mind then put this on your shopping list.
1. Uh Uh Uh Uh
2. I Can't Stand Your Face
3. Pavement
4. I Hate You Baby
5. Blown Away
6. Aye Mi Amore (I'm So F***in' Horny)
7. Wasted
8. Afterlife
9. I Can't Shut My Mouth
10. Starlight
11. Love Is What You Make It
12. There's a Hole in My Heart
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NEW YORK --Police in the Bronx are looking for a man who tried to rob a bank on June 28.
Authorities say the man walked into a Chase Bank on Jerome Avenue around 10:30 a.m. and handed a note to the teller demanding cash.
He left without any money.
The suspect is described as a Hispanic male in his 50s, approximately 5-foot-6 and weighing 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black waist-length windbreaker jacket and white sneakers, with a navy blue Yankee baseball cap.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call Crime stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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Flexible Curved Phablet from LG
LG, one of the leaders in the technology field has introduced a curved and flexible Phablet, LG G Flex: 6-inch display with curved phablet. The great aspect is it comes with Android OS.
It was believed that LG who announced about launch of curvy tablet was something fake. However, in this technologically inclined world, we can simply do anything to make a miracle or dream happen. Many thought and fought that it is almost impossible to build a curvy and flexible tablet.
After weeks of rumors, it is far, LG has presented this morning its first smartphone with curved display. The LG G Flex is a 6-inch phablet with a curved OLED display and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. Although the tablet is a 6 inch device, it has all the features of Android tablet. Simply, a brand new version to the popular Android OS tablets.
Unlike the Galaxy Round, Samsung's first smartphone with curved display, the display is curved from top to bottom. This, according to the manufacturers to ensure that the unit fits better in the back pocket and connect the speaker and microphone better on it.
In addition, the G Flex with a plastic OLED display with a resolution of 1280 by 720 pixels, much lower than the resolution of Samsung's device. According to LG Full HD resolution with such bulging was not yet possible.
As regards the other specifications are both phablet however matched. Thus the G Flex includes a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage memory, a battery 3.500mAh, 4G support, a 13 megapixel camera on the back and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system.
Besides the curved display, the G Flex about yet another unique feature. The casing is equipped with a special, self-healing coating that scratches and scuffs automatically disappear. To what extent this is possible and how it works, LG has not benchmark. What concerns the design, LG has once again chosen to the volume buttons and the process and on / off button on the back.
The LG G Flex is only initially launched in Korea for an undisclosed price. Unfortunately, the price of the brand new flex tablet is yet to be revealed. It is believed that, very soon the tablet may hit the market. Also, many expects that the price of the tablet is not so high and resonable.


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Dow Falls 1,000, Then Rebounds, Shaking Market
By GRAHAM BOWLEY; Eric Dash, Christine Hauser, Nelson D. Schwartz, Jackie Calmes and Binyamin Appelbaum contributed reporting.
Published: May 7, 2010
A bad day in the stock market turned into one of the most terrifying moments in Wall Street history on Thursday with a brief 1,000-point plunge that recalled the panic of 2008.
It lasted just 16 minutes but left Wall Street experts and ordinary investors alike struggling to come to grips with what had happened -- and fearful of where the markets might go from here.
At least part of the sell-off appeared to be linked to trader error, perhaps an incorrect order routed through one of the nation's exchanges. Many of those trades may be reversed so investors do not lose money on questionable transactions.
But the speed and scale of the plunge -- the largest intraday decline on record -- seemed to feed fears that the financial troubles gripping Europe were at last reaching across the Atlantic. Amid the rout, new signs of stress emerged in the credit markets. European banks seemed to be growing wary of lending to each other, suggesting the debt crisis was entering a more dangerous phase.
Traders and Washington policy makers struggled to keep up as the Dow Jones industrial average fell 1,000 points shortly after 2:30 p.m. and then mostly rebounded in a matter of minutes. For a moment, the sell-off seemed to overwhelm computer and human systems alike, and some traders began referring grimly to the day as ''Black Thursday.''
But in the end, Thursday was not as black as it had seemed. After briefly sinking below 10,000, the Dow ended down 347.80, or 3.2 percent, at 10,520.32. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index dropped 37.75 points, or 3.24 percent, to close at 1,128.15, and the Nasdaq was down 82.65 points, or 3.44 percent, at 2,319.64.
But up and down Wall Street, and across the nation, many investors were dumbstruck. Experts groped for explanations as blue-chip stocks like Procter & Gamble, Philip Morris and Accenture plunged. At one point, Accenture fell more than 90 percent to a penny. P.& G. plunged to $39.37 from more than $60 within minutes.
The crisis in Greece, high-speed computer program trading, the debate over regulatory reform in Washington, talk of errant trades -- all were pointed to as possible catalysts. But most agreed the plunge would not have been as bad had the markets not already been on edge over the debt crisis in Europe.
''There is a recognition that the Greek crisis has morphed into not only a European crisis but is going global,'' said Mohamed A. El-Erian, chief executive of Pimco, the money manager.
On the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, traders shouted or watched open-mouthed as the screens lighted up with plummeting prices and as phones rang off the hook. ''It was almost like 'The Twilight Zone.' '' said Theodore R. Aronson of Aronson, Johnson & Ortiz, a money management firm in Philadelphia.
Wall Street managers wandered their trading floors, trying to calm their people and figure out what was going on. They began to notice wild movements in stocks like P.& G. and Philip Morris. Many traders said computer program trades accelerated the slide as market indexes fell through crucial levels.
In Washington, Treasury officials began combing market tapes for answers. By the evening they still had not gotten to the bottom of it, but they discovered some aberrations -- market blips -- in trading coming out of Chicago.
The Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, was returning to the Treasury about 2 p.m. from the Capitol when he saw on his BlackBerry that the market was down 3 percent. He called the Treasury's market room, which constantly monitors financial exchanges; officials there theorized that the cause was Greece's and Europe's financial woes.
Minutes later in the Treasury hallway, Mr. Geithner looked again at his BlackBerry and saw that the market was down nearly 9 percent. He told colleagues it had to be a mistake.
Mr. Geithner immediately called the market room and then the Federal Reserve. He held a conference call with Fed officials and Mary L. Schapiro, the chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. About 3:15, Mr. Geithner walked to the Oval Office to brief President Obama.
Next Mr. Geithner spoke with European central bankers. After the markets closed, at 4:15 and again at 5:45, he joined conference calls with the heads of the Fed, the New York Fed, the S.E.C. and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; the calls were expected to continue into the evening.
The Group of 7 industrial nations' ministers and governors, including Mr. Geithner, plan a conference call at 7:30 a.m. Friday Eastern time.
As of about 6 p.m., all the officials knew was that there had been what one called ''a huge, anomalous, unexplained surge in selling, it looks like in Chicago, at about 2:45.'' The source remained unknown, but it had apparently set off algorithmic trading strategies, which in turn rippled across everything, pushing trading out of whack and feeding on itself -- until it started to reverse.
Federal officials fielded rumors that the culprit was a single stock, a single institution or execution system, a $16 billion trade that should have been $16 million. But they did not know the truth.
What happens to the day's market losers will depend on the nature of the cause and whether it can be identified. That is a question for the S.E.C. The Nasdaq market said in the evening that it would cancel all trades in hundreds of stocks whose prices had swung wildly between 2:40 p.m. and 3 p.m.
As Wall Street reeled, anchors on CNBC, Bloomberg and the Fox Business Network turned their attention to the Dow.
When the Dow was down more than 900 points and the CNBC anchor Erin Burnett observed that the P.& G. stock had dropped 25 percent, Jim Cramer, the former hedge fund trader and the host of ''Mad Money,'' seemed to calm the conversation a bit by basically saying, ''Buy, buy, buy.''
''If that stock is there, you just go and buy it,'' he said of P.& G. ''That is not a real price. Just go buy Procter & Gamble.''
The day's uncertainty pushed the euro to its lowest level against the dollar in 14 months. It slipped to $1.2529 at one point before closing at $1.2602. The dollar's rise, and the mounting fear of a slowdown in global growth, sent commodities prices lower. Crude oil fell $2.86 to settle at $77.16 a barrel.
By the close, when calm was restored, the focus was on working out what had happened.
The S.E.C. and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said they were reviewing ''unusual trading activity.'' But already markets were turning attention back to Europe -- whether German lawmakers would approve the Greek bailout on Friday, whether warning signals would flash brighter, whether the euro zone would stay together, or whether this was a precursor of more gyrations to come.
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Java Stencil Report 0.3.1
Java Stencil Report is designed to write school reports in a fast way by a set of user-inserted sentences. It has a small vector graphics editor to create a full customizable print model. Java Stencil Report is designed for schools, but can be used to write any kind of judgement. It does not require any installation.
Lines in the print model editor (VectorGraphicsLine) can now be mouse-selected with a more accurate mask. VectorGraphicsElement z-depth is now displayed in the status bar. A new user friendly dialog for changing the form period was added. The placement of VectorGraphicsElement was randomized. Transparency was added to the selection border. The generic name "Indicator" is now substituted with a more appropriate "Evaluation Wizard" and "Stencil" in all label and the jstecilreport folder. A new set of icons was provided in the print model editor. Some code was optimized.
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Hypermarcas to Acquire Skin-Care Manufacturer Mantecorp for $1.5 Billion
Hypermarcas SA, the Brazilian consumer-goods company that made more than 10 acquisitions this year, fell the most in seven months after saying it will pay about 2.5 billion reais ($1.5 billion) for drugmaker Mantecorp Industria Quimica & Farmaceutica SA.
Hypermarcas slid 6.3 percent to 23.10 reais in Sao Paulo trading, the biggest decline since May 20. The stock is up 16 percent this year, beating the 1.9 percent drop in Brazil's benchmark Bovespa index.
The company, based in Sao Paulo, will pay 600 million reais in cash for 24 percent of closely held Mantecorp and issue 78 million shares to its owners, the Mantegazza family, for the remaining 76 percent, according to a regulatory filing yesterday. The new stock would be valued at 1.92 billion reais, based on the Dec. 17 Hypermarcas closing price of 24.65 reais.
The acquisition is "negative because it causes dilution for shareholders," Caue Pinheiro, an analyst at SLW Corretora in Sao Paulo, said in a telephone interview today. "However, in general, it's positive in the long term."
This year Hypermarcas has acquired companies including generic-drug manufacturer Laboratorio Neo Quimica, diaper-maker Sapeka and Colgate-Palmolive Co.'s soap brand. Hypermarcas wants to boost sales by an average of 65 percent in the next five years, Chief Executive Officer Claudio Bergamo said in an Aug. 11 interview.
The company will focus on integration and organic growth in 2011, and expects operational savings of more than 148 million reais after the full integration with Mantecorp, Bergamo said in a conference call with investors and analysts today.
'Like a Boa'
"It is like a boa after eating a cow," Bergamo said. "It needs some time to digest. We will go through this digestion phase in 2011."
Mantecorp, the Rio de Janeiro-based owner of the Episol sun-protection brand and Epidrat moisturizers, will report net sales this year of 572 million reais and gross profit of 375 million reais, according to a presentation by Hypermarcas. About 46 percent of Mantecorp's sales come from prescription drugs, 30 percent from over-the-counter medicines, 16 percent from skin- care products and 8 percent from generic drugs, it said.
The acquisition could create savings of at least 750 million reais as well as tax savings, compensating for the share dilution, according to Daniela Bretthauer, an analyst at Raymond James & Associates Inc. in Sao Paulo.
The deal is positive even with the dilution and the "somewhat rich price paid for Mantecorp," Bretthauer wrote in a report sent to clients today.
Hypermarcas expects its margin on earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization -- a measure of profitability -- to reach 47 percent in the first half of 2013, from 21 percent now, Bergamo said today.
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At Data By The Bay in May, we saw a great talk by Netflix's Justin Basilico: Recommendations for Building Machine Learning Software. Justin describes some principles for effectively developing machine learning algorithms and integrating them into software products. We found ourselves nodding violently in agreement, and we wanted to recapitulate a few of his points that resonated most strongly with us, based on our experience working with data science teams in other organizations. Machine learning is iterative (slides 15-17) Justin emphasizes that "developing models is iterative" and experimentation is important. He also suggests "avoiding dual implementations" so it's easy to use a model in production once it's been built, without a re-implementation step. Domino enables experimentation and productionization in the same platform, so you can iteratively develop your models and…
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Sinn Féin has published new legislation seeking to establish a special holiday to commemorate the men and women who died in pursuit of an independent Irish Republic.
The party said there should be a bank holiday on April 24, the anniversary of the reading of the proclamation outside the GPO by Padraig Pearse in 1916.
Sinn Féin's Aengus O'Snodaigh said the Bill was about remembering freedom fighters.
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Service-learning is an important part of the Environmental Studies Program at Middlebury. Students in a range of levels of ES courses engage in projects from studying chemical compounds in local maple syrup to assessments of activity by Vermont's religious communities in the face of climate change. Follow the link above to read more about what ES students have been doing in the larger Middlebury and Vermont communities.


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Ray-Bans aren't the only piece of the past worth revisiting.
There are also old-school photos, discreetly boozy drinks and Judy Garland. Let's go ahead and combine all three: It's Retro Christmas.
This year, we're planning to enjoy what we call "Retro Christmas": A return to holidays past, when the season was about togetherness rather than excess gifts, affection rather than perfection.
Although scaling down our celebrations means spending less money, that's not the point.
We've put together our plan for making this year special ... and focused on elegance, simplicity and genuine holiday spirit. In the end, our goal is to spend time with the people we care about. Of course, while we call this "Retro Christmas," you can adjust most of our tips for whatever winter holidays you celebrate (except maybe for our advice on ornamenting your tree).
Here's to Christmas in sepia!
Gift as a Group
To make gift-giving as meaningful as possible, concentrate on quality rather than quantity. So, instead of buying something just because you need to get a gift, get one that you know will be cherished, even if that means going in with a group of family or friends.
One easy aid is Share a Gift, a website that allows people to make donations toward a communal gift. It uses PayPal and organizes money better than the usual cash collection.
For a retro twist, we love the idea of wrapping a package in brown paper (butcher block paper from your local craft store works well, as do paper bags from the grocery store turned inside out), with a red ribbon tied around it and garnished with a sprig of holly—real or fake. As an added perk, this eliminates the need for a gift tag or card, as you can just write your message on the wrapping.
A Retro Tree
Dress your tree in décor that has history and meaning. One easy rule of thumb: Only hang ornaments from years past that have true sentimental value. Then invite your craftiest friends to help you make these decorations and enjoy some festive togetherness.
This year, we're making vintage-looking cork ornaments. They're simple but elegant, made out of found objects that may or may not have memories of their own.
Here's what you'll need:
- Red ribbon to use as hangers
- As many wine corks as you can get (eBay is brilliant for this)
- Sewing pins
- Glue (optional)
- White tree lights
For each wine cork, cut a length of of red ribbon and make it into a loop. Secure the ribbon loop to the end of your cork by running a pin or tack straight through the overlapped ends and into the cork. Hang the ornament up on the tree from the looped end. If you want, cut another length of ribbon and tie in a bow. To keep it from unraveling, dab some glue in the knot, then glue or pin the bow to the cork. Adorn the rest of your tree with simple white lights to highlight the red ribbons.
New Life to Old Treats
Though it's in the lyrics of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," most people we know have never actually tried figgy pudding. To regain the lost wisdom of past chefs, we're planning our dessert table around the classics.
First, fruitcake—we've found a delicious twist that will regain its good name. Martha Stewart's recipe for mini fruitcakes with a honey glaze is palatable to even the most stubborn Grinch.
Next, traditional figgy pudding (not actually a pudding; that's how Brits say "dessert") is steamed, but we're planning to make this cake-like version, which uses the taste of figs in a more familiar form. Opt in or out of the rum sauce!
Old-Fashioned Drinks
Few winter festivities are complete without adult beverages. And we don't mean Uncle Burt's glass of straight whiskey. We're sticking to drinks as old as Uncle Burt himself: mulled cider and eggnog.
- Mulled cider: This drink is delicious with or without the rum, so feel free to eliminate the liquor if you'd prefer. We like Nigella Lawson's recipe, which takes an hour to prepare, or Rachael Ray's ten-minute version if you're under more of a time crunch.
- Eggnog: One of our holiday favorites! We like this recipe, which can handily be scaled to serving size, or the liquor-free version.
Make It a Party
Nat King Cole is on repeat and "Meet Me in St. Louis" is playing on mute, but the best part of your gathering is your guests. We suggest you keep it to ten people or fewer, which leaves enough space to lead some party activities ... and keeps your soiree demure enough to actually hear each other.
We're going to level with you ... Victorian party games were terrible. Think old-timers blowing balls of wool around a table or Simon Says with a really complicated script. To bring you the retro spirit of fun party games without making you whip out the wool, here are our favorite ways to engage your guests. And they don't require any materials other than a sharp wit.
This is a surefire way to create new memories—how can a bunch of people miming celebrity personalities not lead to ridiculousness?
- Split into two teams.
- Every person in a circle writes the name of a celeb on a slip of paper, puts it in a hat and everyone draws a slip.
- Go around the circle three times: The first time, a person can use entire sentences to describe the celeb, and members of her team guess. A point for each correct guess.
- On the second round, guests draw a different slip and may only use one word to describe the paper.
- Third round: actions only.
- For a retro twist, limit yourselves to celebrities from past decades. Quick: His song "White Christmas" came from the 1942 movie "Holiday Inn," in which he starred with Fred Astaire. (Guesses in the comments!)
"How's Yours?"
It's a game that we could easily imagine Uncle Burt playing. Cover the children's ears.
- One person leaves the room, and while she is absent, the rest of the group settles on a body part.
- When she returns, she asks each person "How's yours?" They reply with cryptic adjectives. (For example, the body part is earlobe and replies include "flexible," "useless" and "detached.")
- Once the guesser gets it, she sends another person out in her stead. And the rest of the guests keep knocking back that mulled cider …
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As you play, break out that decidedly non-retro iPhone and document the night in Instagram. Designate a photographer, or take turns shooting the tree and posing in front of it. Think how fabulous it will look on Facebook! (Potential album title: Old School Christmas, 12/24/46.)
A New Twist on Old-School Caroling
Rather than waking the neighbors with a pitchy rendition of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," try combining caroling and karaoke (and liberal amounts of mulled wine). Whip out the aforementioned iPhone and use a karaoke app such as Karaoke Anywhere for your favorite Christmas songs!
No matter which holiday you celebrate, we hope that this will be one for the history books. If you have kids, check out these Retro Christmas ideas for the whole family, including popcorn garlands, roasted chestnuts and more.
For More Holiday Cheer...
Don't forget the old-fashioned value of giving back. Here's our guide to holiday giving.
Homemade cards are budget-friendly, and also just friendly. Find a memorable one in our guide to holiday cards.
Keep the craftiness coming by making a chic DIY gift for your loved ones. These are our eight favorites.


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Hello. I've been trying to get back into shape and get back to looking good. But I need some help.
Im currently in the U.S Army and I have alot of free time. The PT thats mandatory is just simply not enough to get what I want.
So im trying to add to it, do my own thang if you will.
Goal = http://www.theswimmersbody.com/wp-co...dy_Shape_1.jpg ( that pic pretty much sums it up.
Currently here are my workouts
Swim wk 1
100 warmup
2 X 500 free
1 min Pushup
4 X 250 free
1 min crunch
5 x 200 free
1min plank
10 x 100 free
1 min crunch
20 x 50 free
1 X 200 free sprint
500 cooldown
total 6700 yards
wk 2
1000 warmup
1 min pushup
4 X 250 breaststroke
1 min crunch
4 X 250 backstroke
1 min plank
4 X 250 fly
1 min crunch
4 X 250 free
1 X 200 free sprint
500 cd
total 6700
Wk 3
1000 warmup
5 X 200 freestyle pull
1 min pushup
500 kick
500 choice
1 min crunch
4 X 250 free
1 X 200 free sprint
total 6700 yards
From what I feel at the end of the workouts, im sore as heck. but I dont want to get one of those bodys where your disproportioned. so if you have any advice on workout feel free to add it.
Biggest thing is food. I've never eaten healthy or used any supplements so im really not sure where to begin. and while army food is a option I know its not the greatest of choices so id like to avoid it.
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Poet and editor Chris Campanioni interviewed our Editor-in-chief Ralph Hamilton about Ralph's book, his approach to writing, and reflections on RHINO, our process, and accomplishments. The interview posted May 2016. An excerpt appears below; for the full interview, click here.
Chris Companion (Rail): How has your writing been shaped by your role as editor of one of the most celebrated contemporary poetry journals?
Ralph Hamilton: I read about two-thirds of the 15,000 poems submitted to RHINOeach year. Some are wonderful, some are not; regardless, the writers have given us a piece of their heart. The sheer diversity of the poems we receive shapes me in ways I can neither control nor fully explain. It's humbling to see how much we all need to grapple with ultimate questions of meaning and loss—to come to terms with suffering and cruelty, how we still dare to love others, how we are able to find and take sustenance from the beauty all around us, how we maintain the capacity to wonder, to make joy—how poets have the courage and audacity to speak the truth the best we know how. Maybe all poetry is about loneliness in some sense, even as it's about reaching beyond the echo chamber of our own skulls in order to be heard and understood, to connect with people and the natural world. RHINOhas also definitely taught me about the role of form in expressing the content of a poem. And it's definitely taught me that most poems need less, not more. The best poems take me out of myself, out of what I know and expect; they stretch me to hear and understand a poem in its own terms, to enter the world it creates.
My fellow editors have also been critical to my growth as a poet. They provide me with a continuing lesson in how to read poetry. Many of us have critiqued each other's work for years now—we've watched it grow in depth and ambition. Their skill and insight continues to challenge, frighten, and inspire me.
Rail:Can you talk a bit about the emergence and success of RHINO in the last few years?
Hamilton: RHINO is a collaborative venture, but there is a set of core values that hold it together. We're committed to publishing the best poetry in English annually (including flash fiction and translations), regardless of style, and whether the author is established or an emerging poet. With an ever-changing group of twelve to fourteen volunteer poet/editors, we embrace being a work in progress. The journal fosters a diverse and changing cadre of editors who love poetry, cover the demographic spectrum, and represent varied tastes. From its earliest days, the respect and gratitude that the editors have for each other and for the poets who share their work with us, is the very heart of our endurance and growth. Every bit of our progress—a new website, better submissions, use of Facebook and Twitter, our Big Horn blog, grants, our layout, etc.—has happened because different editors have stepped forward to take leadership, and the rest of us have backed them up.
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The range of wonderful poems in the issue stuns me. As I was proofing them I kept thinking that I hope to write a couple of poems half as good as many of those.


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I don't know where to start with this story.
It seems that every so often you hear about some "martial arts expert" going a little too far with his/her/its martial arts hobby/lifestyle with their family.
Please do not assume that this person (whom I suspect is in the SCA due to the badge of a large, multi-kingdom household) is typical of fighter in the SCA. I suppose every martial art has the occasional oddball like this. Should this guy be investigated to be the latest "douchebag of the month"?


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Caring for this amazing but endangered planet is the challenge of our lifetime. Every one of earth's systems is in trouble: the climate continues to warm, half of all the earth's wetlands are gone, extinctions are epidemic, only half of tropical forests remain, even the seas are in jeopardy due to threats from many angles. Earth Overshoot Day—the symbolic day every year that humanity has exhausted nature's budget for the year—now arrives in August. For the rest of the year, we're borrowing against the future.
Here are some of the key areas of human impact. Pick the issues that energize and/or concern you and get to work healing this planet!
Water - Where would we be without it? Not here!!
Earth isn't called the Water Planet for nothing—an abundance of water and the right temperatures to make it available separate us from any other place we know of in the universe. Yet, the oceanic ecosystem is struggling, droughts are looming, groundwater is being depleted, and along with fueling our lives, our energy addictions fuels water pollution from the Gulf to the Amazon.
Go here for all kinds of water-related info and ways to cut water consumption.
In-danger-ed species: here today...
Forests - here today...
Climate Change - Act now, or we get a world we don't really want!
We need some greenhouse gases surrounding the earth—otherwise the average global temperature would drop from 56 degrees F to around zero—and we'd be popsicles. But like anything,too much of a good thing can be ruinous—the earth could warm by as much as 4-6 degrees by the end of the century. That would be very bad news for everything from coral reefs to polar bears to food supplies for us humans.
Check out our climate change info and action page —and get to work turning down the heat!
Our planet's atmosphere makes the sky blue, wards off meteors and the sun's UV rays, is our supply of breathable air, and keeps the earth warm by trapping the sun's energy. It also will be a cause of death for 1 out of 1000 people. Find out why….
Stuff - "Innovation is the mother of necessity"—in other words: if they create it, we think we have to have it.
And it's getting us in trouble. The average American requires 27 tractor trailer loads of stuff from the earth every year to maintain their lifestyles—for household consumption as well as everything we need for roads, food production, buildings, commerce, etc. Aluminum cans are one part of the story—read the rest of the story here.
Food - It's looking more and more like we are—morally—what we eat.
Strange as it seems, something as mundane and necessary as eating has big consequences for our planet—perhaps more impact than any other human activity. Pollution, water use, climate change, habitat destruction—agriculture can do it all! Read all about it here.
Yes, they're related! We just have to turn a bad relationship into a good one!
Often we make bad eco-behavior profitable, while making it more expensive to do the right thing. Find out what we're doing wrong and should be doing better to bring economy and ecology into harmony. Read all about it here.
Cheap Clothing: High Price
We'll spend $350 billion on clothing this year in the USA—but that's not the only cost of our shirts, socks and jeans—there's a big environmental price to be paid as well.
Clothing isn't the first thing on our minds when we think of the eco-impact of our daily routines—but the shirt on our backs can create quite a load for Mother Earth. Think water, chemicals, petroleum, disposal and more. Find out more here.


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Braised Runner Beans
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Author Notes: When we lived in London, I discovered runner beans. They have a wonderful flavor and somehow a small looking bunch seems to turn into a good-sized side dish. this is a simple preperation, with a few varriations. I sometimes add tomatoes, but not always. The dish does need a touch of acid, which teh tomatoes will give it, but a splash of vinegar is good. —innoabrd
Serves four
- 1 bunch runner beans
- 3 thick slices of pancetta or good quality bacon
- 1 onion
- 1 can of chopped Italian tomatoes (optional)
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- Salt and Pepper
- Slice the beans thinly along the bias.
- In a saute pan, cook the pancetta/bacon over medium/high heat to render the fat, but not crisp.
- Add the onion and saute until translucent.
- Add the beans and turn a few times to coat. Add the tomatoes as well, if using.
- Add the water, vinegar and salt and pepper, quickly cover and turn the heat to low.
- Cook, covered, for 7-10 minutes, until the beans are cooked through, but still have some crunch. Adjust the seasoning and serve.
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Season Preview: Open Letter to United DefendersJuly 28, 2009
Hello lads,
You're back in training now and the preseason seems to be going well. Like most fans, I suppose you've been reflecting on the past year. Did it all seem flat after the Roman anti-climax?
It's strange really that a football season should be like a pop concert—you only remember the first and last notes! That logic pays scant regard to what was quite obviously a highly successful campaign. If United can bag three trophies next term, you'll be dancing on the ceiling like all of the Red faithful.
Edwin, you in particular will want to focus attention on the record-breaking run at the turn of the 2009 which became the platform upon which the team's third successive title was constructed.
The media snipers said you were at least a season past your sell-by date but they looked foolish as the iron shutters went down and United built up a head of steam after the return from the World Champions tournament.
We all came crashing down to earth when Liverpool came to town and I have to say Nemanja, you didn't quite carry the same authority again. It was said thereafter that you don't fancy the quick striker who can make you look something of a plodder.
That image was cemented when you fell over as you tangled with a nobody from Wigan who gleefully stole in to score in a late-season heart-quickner.
Reputations are everything, Nemanja. Although all good judges rate you among the world's top 10 defenders, you will want to kill off the whispers that Torres has you in his pocket when United next run out against Liverpool.
I'm pleased that you'll be staying with the team, at least for another year and I'm praying that your wife gets enough vitamin D despite the gloomy weather in Cheshire.
As for you Rio, you'll just want to complete a full season without your back giving out, especially in World Cup year. Everyone appreciates you these days and United are not quite the same when you are on the sidelines.
Your forays into the media suggest a manager in waiting and with some five years of top class football ahead of you, you'll want to continue the winning run of the past three campaigns.
You've spoken highly of young Jonny. Is he in your nightmares too, as the youngster who could eventually take out the old retainer? Not for a couple of seasons yet, you'll wager and with the doubts surrounding £30 million-rated Nemanja, maybe the Irishman is destined to be your partner rather than your replacement.
No need for you to play the role of innocent freshman these days Master Jonny. You were United's Young Player of the Year by a country mile, a worthy tribute to some outstanding performances.
It should not easily be forgotten that Lord Ferg chopped and changed his defensive lineup all season and but for some shoddiness at the beginning and the end, you all played a blinder.
Keeping it going next season is your No. 1 assignment, Jonny. The manager has been true to his word when dismissing Sunderland's £10 million bid for your services last year. He said that you would have a big future at the club. Provided you negotiate safely the team's Christmas knees-ups and maintain your form, he should be proved right.
I hope the same can be said about you Rafael. United and Brazilians in the same sentence just feels right and everyone is hoping that you can out-perform your countryman, the excellent Barcelona fullback Daniel Alves. Coaches are beginning to see your position as perhaps the most important in a football team.
I don't quite get the theory myself but apparently, fullbacks have more freedom than team mates further up the field to get forward and exploit opponents' positional weaknesses.
That's why Liverpool have paid a king's ransom for the good but not great Glenn Johnson. Goodness, he's gone from being a £4 million young waster to an £18 million star in the making. Like the United bean-counters, I'm crossing my fingers that your value will sky-rocket in similar fashion.
I have to say though that I'm concerned that the rigours of English football might be too much for you, given last season's injury record. My neighbour speaks highly of a strange blend of eggs, sugar, Guinness, and condensed milk, as a way to fill out the frame, but I suppose that won't do in these days of expert nutrition.
Still, get to work with the physical conditioner who put kilos of muscle on Ronaldo's spindly frame and you'll reap the reward of making the United right back spot your own.
No one is challenging you Patrice over on the left flank and to my mind, more's the pity. It's been well documented that you went from crap to colossus in 18 months but are you satisfied with your work last term? Have you been watching too many of the 'How To' videos marketed by Team-Alves? If so, remember that defenders are there to defend also.
Like Nemanja allowing Torres to get the better of him and letting Eto'o make him look like a rank amateur on talent night at the Apollo Theatre, you also have a demon to slay next season.
He's short, has a peculiar damage to his eye-brow, answers to the name of Lennon, plays in London and has run rings around you for two years. Let him know whose boss next time, Paddy.
Wesley, you'll want to forget last year. You probably hope that with South Africa 2010 on the horizon, your body can hold firm for a year or so before you take another nine month break in 2011. Just as well the new contract was sorted out last year!
Gary, I fear the end is near, after more than a decade at the very top. You've already cried off from taking part in the preseason tour because of injury and frankly, you've spent more time with the doctor than with your wife and team mates these past two years.
Sometimes, the body wont do what the mind wants and so, I encourage you to finish the coaching badges and heed the call of destiny by taking your place in the dug-out - sheepskin, moustache, anti-Scouse vitriol, the works!
As for you Ben, the sole question, now that you have trousered the new deal, is can you make it at United? You look like a 'Sure Thing' but then so did Hilary Clinton before everyone went Obarmy.
That's the thing with predictions. No-one knows nothing! You have all the attributes to make it as a top keeper. The manager says you should be keeping goal for the national team, if not for the nation's top side. All you have to do now is displace EVDS and that is no easy task.
Media leaks say the Dutchman is retiring. Is that the work of Team Foster, hoping to nudge him towards tending his rose-buds, so that you can have a clear path to the first 11?
After all, Kus is no real competition, is he. Shouldn't he have been sold already? Yes, the Pole looks like a decent shot-stopper but it's all about confidence and he inspires little.
When it comes to inspiration, I take my hat off to you, John O'Shea. Never has so little gone so far! I remember Sheasy, when you were nutmegging Figo. It looked like you would be a world-beater.
Those days have long gone but you are still there, putting in shifts for United, scoring the winner in the Champions League semi-final and filling-in whenever and wherever you are asked to play. Fullback, centre half, centre midfield, striker or keeper—it's all the same to you.
A team is only as good as it's substitutes, so I know United will be alright this year. Nice one.
Best of luck for the new season


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Houston Jews' Cuban journey a sobering look at hard livingFebruary 28, 2014 Updated: February 28, 2014 10:11pm
For the tiny Jewish community in Havana, the chartered flight arriving with the Houstonians and their bulging cargo of medicines, clothing, religious supplies and hundreds of tubes of toothpaste must have seemed like a glorious winged emblem of American plenty. Life in Cuba, after all, was nothing if not hard.
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For the Houstonians, members of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston, the journey was a sobering eye-opener of just how hard life in the socialist island paradise could be. But beyond the harshness, they found a comforting reality: Judaism still was flourishing.
The 25-member delegation made their journey earlier this year under the auspices of the Joint Distribution Committee, a Jewish humanitarian organization dedicated to aiding Jews wherever they are in need.
When the group returned to Houston, said Suzanne Jacobson, the local federation's senior vice president of development, members left much of their personal clothing in Cuba as well.
To read this article in one of Houston's most-spoken languages, click on the button below.
"Most of us," she said, "went home with an empty suitcase."
Before Fidel Castro's 1959 revolutionary victory, Cuba traditionally had been seen as a predominantly Catholic society with an overlay of syncretic African religions. But, said Jacobson, the island nation has had a Jewish presence for 500 years. That population grew to approximately 15,000 with Nazism's rise in Europe.
To those fleeing the European horror, a group that included many affluent refugees, Cuba was a beautiful sanctuary just 90 miles from the United States.
With Castro's victory, the island's Jewish population dropped precipitously as thousands fled northward. Left behind was an economic mix of workers, professionals and those in between. "Some didn't have the money to get out," Jacobson said. "Others were well-to-do, but stayed for ideological reasons."
1,500 Jews in Cuba
Today, approximately 1,500 Spanish-speaking Jews live in Cuba, most scattered throughout Havana, a sprawling city of about 2 million people. Increasingly, like other Cubans, Jewish residents have launched barbershops, sandwich shops, and other small businesses - often out of their homes - as Marxist overlords look the other way.
"I think the people who came expected a wonderful trip to Havana," Jacobson said. "They ended up with a very immersive Jewish experience. The Jewish community was very welcoming."
The Cuban group and their Houston visitors in some ways couldn't have been more dissimilar. Houston's Jewish population is approximately 48,000, with at least one population hub on the city's southwest side and more than 20 synagogues.
The Cuban community was so small that services at Havana's three synagogues often are conducted by visiting rabbis from Argentina and Venezuela. Intermarriage with non-Jews is common, and the tiny group has recorded as many as 27 conversions to the faith in a single week.
Still, said Jacobson, "we found that we have a lot of similarities - celebrating the Sabbath and our religious identity."
"What I found," added Andy Bursten, mission chairman for the trip, "was a group of people who, through the course of their time living in Cuba, have never lost faith."
Cuba today seems free of anti-Semitism, Jacobson and Bursten said.
"I think I would have expected anti-Semitism," Bursten said. "... Going back to the Soviet Union, people had a rough go in Russia and I would have expected that to flow to Cuba."
In 2010, Castro, who had handed the Cuban presidency to his brother, Raul, two years earlier, vehemently denounced anti-Semitism in a five-hour-long interview with The Atlantic. During the session he chastised Iran-ian leaders for denying the Holocaust.
"This went on maybe two thousand years," Castro told the magazine. "I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. ... The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust."
Castro's remarks drew a written response from Shimon Peres in which the Israeli president lauded his comments, which were "rife with unique intellectual depth."
About eight years ago, Jacobson said, Castro met with Havana's Jewish community to express solidarity. "I will never deny the Holocaust," he told them.
Regardless of the communist regime's tolerance, life in Cuba, the Houston delegation found, still is hard.
"The average Cuban," Jacobson said, "still lives on $35 a month. Most work for the government. There's not that much to buy. ... They get rations of food - a small amount of beans, rice, oil, a little sugar and a quarter of a chicken a month."
Cuba 'worn down'
Jacobson, who visited Cuba 15 years ago, said she was dismayed by how the island had changed. "Most of the buildings had no paint," she said. "Everything was crumbling. You could see what beauty had been there. This was a tropical paradise. Today, it's worn down. I was saddened by it. It's so worn down, wherever you go."
"All-around," Bursten said, "people are well-educated, relatively healthy. Socialism provides those services, but they don't make a lot of money."
Everybody, he said, "was a socialist."
Among them was the Jewish community's president, an octogenarian female doctor.
Once, she glowingly related, she was kissed by Castro.
She didn't wash her face for two weeks.


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This underwater science lab and habitat began its tour of duty in the US Virgin Islands in 1988. It was refurbished in 1990 and redeployed in the Florida Keys. In 1996 after 22 missions it was once again refurbished with more state of the art equipment and placed back into service in 1997 at the same location and that's where it is today. The 51' x 102' life support barge was also replaced with a semi-autonomous life support buoy.
The lab module itself is an 82-ton double-lock pressure vessel. It's nine feet wide and forty-five feet long. Each of the four legs is filled with twenty-five tons of lead and can extend to a length of seven feet. They connect to a 116-ton baseplate. This keeps it stable and level. It's weathered many hurricanes during its time of the ocean floor.
Here's a great video of the lab.
Where do people go to live and work on the ocean floor? Aquarius Underwater Laboratory. It has six bunks, a hot water heater, hot showers, an instant hot water dispenser, air conditioning, bathroom, microwave over, refrigerator, sink, trash compactor, computer work station, power equipment, life support controls, link to surface, an open moon pool, dive equipment storage area, a hookah, two large view ports and two smaller view ports. Several talk bubbles have been placed at specific research sites on the ocean floor. They're a metal frame that houses a Plexiglas dome. The dome is filled with air allowing the divers to communicate on site.
The life support buoy is tethered to the lab below. It's 30' in diameter and houses computers, generators, air compressors and advanced telemetry and control systems that keep the occupants in real time video and audio communication with the land base located on Key Largo.
The lab is owned by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and funded by the National Underwater Research Program. A variety of missions utilize the unique location of the lab. Studies by scientists of corals and marine plant and animal life and how currents, pollution and ultra violet light effect them. Astronauts become Aquanauts to help them learn how to work as a team in Innerspace, which is a lot like outerspace. It helps them to better prepare for the physical and mental demands of working and living in space. It's also used to study saturation diving and the effects on the human body caused by the two weeks spent at this depth. Through the saturation dives preformed here they've learned how to skip what would have been a 16-hour decompression time in order to return to the surface.
If you want to read more about the going on's down under, here's the link.
On a trip to Conch Reef in the Florida Keys you're able to dive pretty close to this thing. Just don't get any wild idea about swimming over and entering into it. That's highly illegal. Back at the surface your friendly cop on the water will be waiting and willing to give you a ticket for $1000. Anyone entering Aquarius Underwater Laboratory has to have a special research permit.
Return from Aquarius Underwater Laboratory to Dive Site List
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Some interesting statistics for today's game:
-Packers leading receiver Jordy Nelson gets half of his targets from the slot, and with injuries to Carlos Rogers and Eric Wright, that could be an advantageous match-up for Green Bay.
-The Packers Aaron Rodgers turns into a bad quarterback when pressured. Blitzing him would seem to make sense, however, with an injured secondary if a blitz does not get to him, he could make big plays down the field. The 49ers blitz only 23 percent of the time and when they do opposing quarterbacks have a passer rating of 64.
What to expect on offense:
-Anquan Boldin got free releases against the Packers in the 49ers' opening day win. Boldin caught 13 passes for over 203 yards in that game. If the Packers press him, the 49ers could respond with bunch formations and motion to get Boldin a free release.
-Because of injury, the Packers defense is subpar. In fact nearly all of their starters are below average players. Because of that, Green Bay struggles containing outside runs. Expect the 49ers to attack the edges with reverses and possibly the read-option.
What to expect on defense:
-In contrast to the Packers, all of the 49ers defensive starters are above average, with some – like linebackers Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman – considered elite. Expect the 49ers to see if their front four can get pressure on Aaron Rodgers early. If they don't, defensive coordinator Vic Fangio could salt in some blitzes later in the game.
-The 49ers have been undisciplined in pass coverage in the last two games. At times defensive backs have run into each other and the safeties have been unable to help the cornerbacks. In this game it will be essential for the safeties to make the right choices on pass-route combinations and help out their corners.


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"Q20 is the kind of product that every household and business should have," said Ahmed Al Hussaini, Managing Director of O2ProFormance KSA. "It has thousands of applications and uses that make it a necessary part of any home, office, workshop or factory."
Triton-Leo Group, the manufacturing company of Q20, chose O2ProFormance to launch its products regionally due to the company's reputation as the provider of innovative, multi-purpose products and its already avid existence in KSA, Egypt, Kuwait and UAE. Simon Smith, Marketing Director of Triton-Leo Group South Africa, commented on this partnership saying that O2ProFormance has avid experience and existence in MENA markets and that launching Q20 through the company was an obvious and simple choice. He further comments that this decision was based on O2ProFormance's global expansion plans and active marketing, which will facilitate the product's launch across its respective markets.
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Working on getting NVIDIA drivers on it should be done by this weekend. I am having problems with the mouse not showing up any ideas?
Hey guys is it ok if I change from ubuntu to linux mint which is based on Ubuntu.
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1. Is the buffet any good (just came off Grandeur which had a horrible buffet)
Food is always subjective, but in my opinion the Lido Buffet on HAL ships is excellent. The variety is usually sufficient for most people, and on the Eurodam they have multiple stations with several different nationalities of food available (Asian, Italian, American, etc). Their burgers and pizza are excellent, and it's hard to beat a good sandwich or wrap and they have those made to order. The lay out of the Lido may take a little getting used to, so when you first go there wander around a bit and see what the various stations have to offer.
Originally Posted by
Queen of Oakville
2. Is the MDR open for lunch on port days? I like to avoid the buffet at all costs.
The MDR is open on port days where there is a late arrival. If it's an early arrival, it's usually NOT open. In other words, it varies from port to port.
Originally Posted by
Queen of Oakville
3. I think I understand how the soda card works, but is there an unlimitted package, like on other lines?
I wish there were, but there's not. At least, there hasn't been when I've been aboard, and I was last aboard a HAL ship in July/August 2010.
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Queen of Oakville
4. Is the kid's club any good? My kids are 3 and 4.
I'm told that it varies from cruise to cruise. On the Eurodam, however, you DO have an excellent Club HAL facility, and if the itinerary is anywhere near spring break the chances are there will be a lot of kids onboard. I don't know about your age of children, though. Someone else with kids will have to remark on that.
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5. According to the HAL website, it appears that you can bring wine on board, and there are no limitations. I certainly don't want to carry 7 bottles of wine on board, but is that allowed? Is there a good wine store near port everglades to stop at? Or at FLL?
Yes, you can bring your own wine aboard ship. If you want to drink it in the MDR you'll have to pay a corkage fee (I think it's $18 per bottle). As for wine stores in FLL, I'm sure there are some ... I've never done the "buy wine and bring it aboard" thing, though, so I can't say.
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6. What time is the early dining? I havent finalized my preference yet. We generally like to eat around 6:30, but I am thinking of trying AYWD. With two young kids though, i don't want long waits. The travel agent seem to think that the early seating was at 5:30 which seems to early.
I think early fixed seating is 6 pm. I prefer 8:30 pm of second seating. With kids, I think the best dining choice would be the Open Seating ... if you go before 6:30 I think you'll be fine. I know sometimes there's a short wait. At least, that's what I've been able to discern from what people have said, but that will vary from cruise to cruise depending upon the likes and dislikes of your fellow passengers.
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7. Are the shows any good?
Well ... that depends upon what you like in a show. Some people really enjoy the song-and-dance routines and the acts by the entertainers who are brought aboard ship. Others don't like that kind of entertainment at all. Some consider it sub-standard relative to other cruise lines, while others like it nevertheless. Personally, I enjoy seeing how the ship's cast interprets a show I've seen a dozen times on prior cruises, so that's not an issue for me. However, Broadway it isn't. The entertainers DO try very hard, and some of them are very talented.
I hope the above helps. I've not answered your last question because I really don't know.
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So, I've gained a few new followers in the past months and I realize there's a bunch of folks who don't really know me. So here's a little blast from the past from a photo essay exercise I did last year….
January 4, 2011
Post a picture of yourself with 10 facts
1. I have the ability to memorize the most inane shit, but have real trouble doing math in my head. My mother says I memorized Green Eggs & Ham very young, and I remember reciting Jabberwocky (Alice in Wonderland) early on. But DO NOT ask me to estimate the price of the collective items in my cart.
2. I have two bachelor's degrees (History & Religious Studies) and a CA teaching credential. I taught for 7 years in South Central Los Angeles. After being professionally burned out, I am now a SAHM, a seamstress, amateur tarot card reader, jill of a few trades, and wedding officiant.
3. I will dye my hair until I am dead (or get preggers again). My natural hair color is the color of boredom. (look close in the picture–my roots are getting bad–but dont' look too long, you might just fall asleep out of sheer boredom)
4. I've been trying to get pregnant for over a year now, and am getting discouraged. I turned 40 this year (well, last year, technically) and it's like the warning light lit up my dash, and I've got a gut feeling that my body isn't going to cooperate any time soon. And yes, I've tried a myriad of "remedies" and have no desire to try anything artificial.
5. I realize it isn't the thing to say, but I'm not in the "I can recover my child" bastion of Autism moms. I am not part of the Jenny McCarthy mother-warrior crowd. That doesn't mean I sit around and bemoan the fact that my son has autism. Nor does it mean that I doubt that the tactics that these moms are using aren't having effects on their child. It doesn't mean I don't try some of the same methods/diets/voodoo to help my son. I realize he's got a struggle ahead of him, and I strive to give him the best tools he needs. But I also recognize that what works for one kid on the spectrum doesn't necessarily work for another. I realize that makes me a bad mom in the eyes of some. And all I can say is–if it does, then maybe those eyes need to be pointed elsewhere? I respect your GFCFSFcornF life. I'm not saying you're wrong. But what works for your boy hasn't really worked for mine, so imma skip the DAN! doctor for now, and would like it if you'd roll your eyes at someone else.
6. I've got this weird ability to read people really well. I think I am reading micro-expressions, but couldn't tell you exactly. I just know 99% of the time when I am being lied to. Doesn't mean I act on it, but I am aware. Its kind-of a bummer, really. I think I'd rather be ignorant.
7. I get really annoyed with people trying to push their agenda on me or others. (see #5) I get that sometimes you find a lifestyle choice that really works for you, but I have no desire to be a vegan or go on a mission. Thank you.
8. I am a certified officiant of the Church of Light, and can perform weddings. I have only performed one to date–and it was one of the most awesome spiritual experiences of my life. I really hope gay marriage is legalized, because I would love to help anyone create a ritual that enriches their lives.
9. I have NOT lost the baby weight. Ok–I've lost half of it, but the rest is killing me. Not that I'm trying real hard. I have a love affair with pastries and baked goods that is seemingly compulsory and horribly addicting. Quitting smoking was easier. (not)
10. Internally I am a hypochondriac. I don't express it much–but I work out the worst case scenario in my head ALL THE TIME. Chest pain? I'll have a heart attack on the freeway. Constipation? A blockage that will make my intestines explode. Headache? tumor. This is my internal dialogue, and I'd like it to shut up.
I hope this has given you some insight into my insanity. And maybe now you'll understand why I am such a hermit. That and I just dislike people. Except you. I like you.