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I taught my kids the Apostles Creed when they were little.
During the homeschooling years, we prayed the Apostles Creed after our daily Bible study every morning. We were Protestants at that time and I wanted to prepare them for the marketplace of ideas and ideologies that make up the wide world of many denominations. I told them that if a church did not believe what the Apostles Creed teaches, then it was not a true church and they should not join it.
If I was raising my kids today, I would have to take on a plethora of attacks on the Gospels, many of which are more subtle than simply denying the basic tenets of the faith that the Apostles Creed teaches. However, I think my original way of looking at the subject is still valid. A church — or a person, for that matter — who denies the basics contained in the creeds is missing the essentials of what constitutes Christian belief.
I view the Apostles Creed as the bedrock statement of the faith, the non-negotiable foundation on which everything else the Gospels teach is built.
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Human Rights Council - 19th Regular Session
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Australian statement on the Right to Food
6 March 2012
Australia welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur which highlights the important links between health and malnutrition.
It is unacceptable that malnutrition is an underlying cause of one third of the 7.6 million under-five deaths that occur each year. Australia supports initiatives to improve nutrition and food security through the World Food Programme, UNICEF and the World Health Organization.
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|2005-12-19, 04:14
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Ginban Kaleidoscope
Anime about a girl who is an olympic hopeful in figure skating. Unfortunately, she is also possessed by a Canadian Ghost who shares her body.
Info here
Currently being subbed by Arienai/Conclave and C1anime.
|2005-12-19, 10:23
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Kawasumi Ayako as Tazusa, the Olympic skater, really makes this series. Kawasumi-san may be the top voice actress of all right now, and she is at her best. She really creates a character, transforming this show from something very ordinary to something quite special.
The animation is a bit clunky, but there are some great facial expressions. Tazusa is a real bitch -- proud and aggressive -- but you come to love her over the series, and see her softer side.
Episode 11 was on last Friday night, and next Friday's episode will be the last one.
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|2006-02-11, 00:26
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For those interested, this show is based on a novel that is serialized in Super Dash (Shueisha) with 6 volumes compiled. Story by Kaibara Rei, art by Suzuhira Hiro. Also recently a manga adaption serialized in Magaret with 1 volumes released, story again by Kaibara, art by Hasegawa Jyun.
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Just watched episode 10 and it was so poignant that it made me cry by the end.
I'm really praying that the reason Pete Pumps wasn't allowed to go to heaven is because he's in a coma and won't recover for 100 days. After this episode, I couldn't stand it if he vanished forever.
Spoiler for End of episode 10:
|2006-02-11, 07:47
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...but then again, this is anime.
|2006-02-11, 12:32
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Actually there's something that surprised me in episode 10. I didn't expect it, and MAYBE it has a meaning (or maybe it's just a mistake, or the director of the anime didn't think about it at all and hope for a good ending is making my mind run in circles)
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Sorry NSW, I agree with you on a lot of things, but this time I'm afraid you're looking at things through rose-colored glasses. Throw away all your hopes of a happy ending and look at this logically. There is no way any human could have survived that crash.
|2006-02-12, 07:51
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You are really overthinking the show, all of you. It is a very very simple show, with a simple story and only 2 important characters.
Then again, I've watched the end so maybe I'm biased. Hell, I've translated the end so I'm even more biased.
Arienai and Conclave will be releasing 11 and 12 soon, NO LATER THAN feb 23rd, because that's the actual date on which the final episode takes place (the finals of the Torino women's figure skating). Pretty rare to release on the actual day the anime is supposed to take place, eh? Well, it might be a bit before then, we're waiting on editing now.
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I saw on the news this morning that Michelle Kwan had to withdraw from the Olympics because her injury had not healed completely. On a serious note, I am genuinely sorry for Michelle since this was her last realistic shot at another Olympic medal, and she deserved a better exit. On a much less serious note, this means that Tazusa's chances for a medal just went up!
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I bet it's a very unique experience to watch the last episode on Feb 23rd.
It'll make it even more special and memorable.
Oh a side note, on episode 10, when they showed the flame dieing out, I thought : "OMG ! PETE IS A TORCH !"
Haha, guess I watched too much Shakugan no SHANA. :x
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Back to being serious. Bailing out during such a manouver is outright impossible. As a pilot you notice you don't have enough altitude to complete the loop when you're at the top of it or when it's too late. If he would have noticed when he was at the top he could have interrupted the loop in an Immelman (doing an half tonneaux at the top and continuing straight) and survived, but since he went on with it we can assume he didn't notice until the very last moment. At that time it's too late to bail out. You don't have the time ti physically open the canopy, and even if you do the pure force of the acceleration slams you against the seat, you definately can't bail. Even if by an incredible miracle you manage to do it, you're too low to survive, aerobatics planes like Pete's don't have an ejection seat that can let you hit the silk safely at 0 altitude, so you're simply doomed on your seat and can only pray for your soul.
On the other hand, yes, there could be a thousand ways in wich Pete could have been saved, even just by a "miracle", or by giving him another body. If a ghost can come back and haunt you, i don't see why miracles can't happen. They do in christmas season american movies, why can't they happen in an anime about ice skating? :P
Quarkboy: if i understood you well you practically telegraphed the ending to my brain.... sigh, i SO hate you now :P but again, you translated it, so i forgive you :P
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i mentioned this in another group, but i kind of found it interesting having recently seen the episode Tazusa goes throught e press conference ordeal & watching Michelle Kwans press conference in real life. The reporters weren't antagonistic like the anime, but all us watching it though the reporters were idtiots. How often did they have to basically ask the same question? & the question asked near the end that had Michelle eyes start welling with tears, we were like geeze, that was pretty mean of the reporter. Duh, I think it's pretty obvious how she'd feel about this. I felt the whole affair was pretty unnecessary.
As for Pete surviving, I'd like to say not, but strange freak things have happened.
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|2006-02-13, 19:03
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In my opinion, I think the Japanese mass media is way eviler than the american ones. American media might be rude and stupid and loud, but at least we're nice and straightforward. There's something insidious about the fake politeness about the japanese mass media, especially during controversies.
By the way, there was an interesting story on the news here a while back, where a prominant city politician paid a reporter to print bad press about his opponent. Actually, it turns out that such a thing is entirely legal. It's unethical (especially for the reporter), but it doesn't break any laws.
P.S. Who are the Japanese entries into the women's figure skating this year anyway? Do they have any medal contenders?
|2006-02-13, 21:40
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The three female individual skaters representing Japan are, Miki Ando, Shizuka Arakawa and Fumie Suguri.
|2006-02-13, 23:08
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Hmmmm, if her family owned a dog, I would name him "Carne".... hmm....
|2006-02-14, 05:36
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I think our Tazusa, if there is one, is Miki. She is the only woman in the world ever to land a quad jump in competition. She made a point of wearing gold blades for the World Junior Championship she won a couple of years ago, and said it was because gold is for champions and she wanted to be a champion. She trains part of the time in the US, and some people think she's going to go there to train more of the time. (Shizuka trains in America with a Russian coach.)
Although she may have fallen back a bit this year, Miki has special potential. One article says: "She remains exceptionally popular in Japan, however, and gets a lot of attention from gossip magazines and other Japanese media." It was controversial that she was sent to Torino instead of other skaters who finished ahead of her this year.
There are decent articles about all three of the Japanese skaters that you can get to from here. And here is another good article about Miki Ando.
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Is it proper or ever acceptable to use the word "spelt" as in, "That word is spelt incorrectly." or should it always be, "That word is spelled incorrectly."
Very curious.
Maybe they have some residual use as adjectives:
"She trimmed off the burnt portion of the cake," but not "The cake was burnt on the outside."
Possibly "A long list of ill-spelt words" but not "many words were spelt wrong."
Not so much that it's wrong, just that it's not ever seen any more.


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Romain Grosjean expects to get equal treatment with Kimi Raikkonen at Lotus this season, but admits "the team is surfing on his name".
After Raikkonen returned to the sport in 2012 he enjoyed an impressive season to end the year third in the drivers' championship with one victory, while Grosjean showed flashes of pace but was banned for the Italian Grand Prix for causing a crash at Spa. Despite the contrasting fortunes last year, Grosjean says he's sure he'll get the same opportunities as Raikkonen this year on track, even though he understands why the team uses his team-mate more to gain exposure.
When asked if he felt like he was playing number two to Raikkonen, Grosjean replied: "In terms of communication, yes it is.
"I mean, Kimi had a very good season last year, he's been world champion once; it's normal that the team is surfing on his name. Then we played fair last year with two cars the same and once Kimi was ahead in the championship and trying to go for good results it's normal that he got the best of everything we could. But this year we start again sportingly in the same place and I'm sure that if I'm ahead mid-championship it will be different."
Grosjean also said he hopes to be given a clean slate by his fellow drivers following the numerous incidents that blighted his season last year.
"It will happen if I do my job, I do good races, no incidents and after four or five races I score good results they'll see that I'm OK. I think they know it, they know well that I've been winning championships so I think last year has been a little bit psychological.
"I made some mistakes, sometimes I was a bit unlucky and it turned out that it was a big story. It was lucky that nobody was hurt in the crash in Spa but I wasn't alone on that start. Anyway, I've been working a lot trying to change the risk management and see things a bit differently."


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Skip to comments.Fifth-grader reprimanded for bringing paper gun to school
Posted on 01/23/2013 11:31:39 AM PST by Fiji Hill
Another fake gun has reportedly created problems for a young student.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
"Academics" are often the most narrow-minded, stupidly bureaucratic, and reactionary people I meet.
But........he didn't draw any paper bullets. What are they afraid of?
Oh no, more counseling for this distraught student. He should have brought a paper missile launcher and get expelled from this libtard school.
Careful kid, you'll draw your eye out.
I just read this on foxnews and it demonstrates yet again school officials are completely out of control.
I hope those kids don't watch that Woody Allen movie "Take the money and run" because Allen says "Gub" in it which no doubt would immediately get those kids suspended.
His sentence will be enhanced because he drew the gun using a crayon box with more than 7 crayons.
At some point, parents have to be blamed for not demanding a halt to this insanity. School administrators who have zero common sense or judgment do not belong in their jobs.
Children pointing their fingers at each other and going 'bang!', pencil drawings of guns, inch long toy guns, etc. are only threatening to people who are mentally ill, who should have no say in how schools are run.
Much of this nonsense came into being with radical controlled school boards, which is a problem because such boards really do very little, so focus on minutiae, and the school districts would be better served it they were non-political appointees instead of elected wackos.
Fake Gun?
It is a square piece of paper with one corner ripped out so it looks like a fat letter "L".
We have teachers so brainwashed that they can't make a mature evaluation of the relative danger of a piece of paper. They may be adults "educated" in colleges but they don't have the native intelligence and common sense of a normal 10 year old child who hasn't been brainwashed in government schools.
Not only that - not content to be idiots themselves they are destroying the minds of another generation.
The have the kids they teach so brainwashed that they see a gun when they look at a tree limb, a piece of paper or two fingers at right angles.
These kids will not be able to function in the real world any better than the brainwashed idiots teaching them.
Does this look like"gub" or "gun" to you?
That's the small conceable one, but you got your high capacity 36 inchers and more.
Anybody check the wood shop yet?
Can't these bozos with all their advanced degrees from fancy ed schools get it through their heads that what these children are doing is called playing? Don't they know that playing is what all children naturally do?
Maybe I'm thinking too much but here is what I'm thinking. The kids had homosexuality pushed on them as something normal, something to be embraced and now more kids view homosexuality as somewhat normal.
Today the kids are told guns are bad. Also, drawing guns, using your finger as guns, sticks, paper, whatever in the shape of guns gets kids into trouble.
Are the kids today getting groomed so it will be easier to disarm the country in a few years?
lol! I always wondered if he wrote that scene by accident because if you'll notice the letter B is right next to N on the keyboard. So he was probably typing out a bank robbery scene and when he read it back it said Gub which gave him the idea.
Hysterical idiots are running the schools and the country.
Someone needs to take all these f___tards and put them in front of a firing sqaud and get rid of them!
"pencil drawings of guns, inch long toy guns, etc. are only threatening to people who are mentally ill,"
I could not have said it better. This is a great way to after them. Question their sanity!
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Amateur Hour at Citizens Bank Park
In the post-season, fans are usually subject to high-caliber baseball as the best offenses, pitching staffs, and defenses tend to rise to the top by the end of 162 regular season games. Of the eight playoff teams this year, only the Braves went in with a negative UZR/150 (-5.7) and the Giants had the only wOBA below the league average (.318).
High-level play was not seen at Citizens Bank Park last night in Game Two of the NLDS between the Phillies and Reds. Roy Oswalt was not sharp, allowing a lead-off home run to Brandon Phillips in the first inning. He struggled all night with his control and left after just five innings of work having allowed four runs. Chase Utley made two errors in one inning. Laynce Nix reached safely to lead off the second inning when Utley fielded a routine ground ball but threw the ball wide of the first base bag, pulling Ryan Howard off. A wild pitch and a walk put runners on first and second with one out to bring up catcher Ryan Hanigan. Hanigan hit a dead double play ball, but Utley rushed his throw, causing a tough short-hop that Howard could not pick and that allowed Nix to score the Reds' second run.
Ahead by four runs going into the bottom of the fifth, the Reds would make some miscues of their own to help the Phillies get back in the game. With two outs and a runner on first, Shane Victorino reached on a fielding error by Brandon Phillips. The next hitter, Placido Polanco, reached safely on a fielding error by Scott Rolen bringing Utley to the plate with the bases loaded. Utley waited on a change-up from Bronson Arroyo, hitting a line drive to right field, plating two runs to bring the score to 4-2.
J.C. Romero relieved Oswalt in the sixth and held the Reds in check, retiring the two batters he faced. Chad Durbin was brought in to get the third out of the inning, but Drew Stubbs drew a two-out walk. Durbin erased his mistake by picking Stubbs off at first base.
Things got interesting in the bottom of the sixth. With two outs and a runner on second base, reliever Arthur Rhodes hit Carlos Ruiz in the kneecap with a pitch. Ruiz doubled over in pain but eventually shook it off. Manager Dusty Baker brought in right-hander Logan Ondrusek to the face right-handed pinch-hitter Ben Francisco. Ondrusek promptly hit Francisco in the head with a pitch — it hit him on the bill of his helmet. With the bases loaded, Ondrusek couldn't find the strike zone and walked Shane Victorino on four pitches, forcing in the Phillies' third run.
Aroldis Chapman came in to start the seventh inning and yet another Phillie was hit by a pitch — or so it seemed. Chapman threw a fastball high and inside to Utley, which at first glance appeared to grace his hand. Utley acted as if he was hit and the home plate umpire awarded him first base. Upon closer inspection — as the animation below illustrates — Utley pulled a Derek Jeter and simply acted as if he had been hit.[Click here to view Utley's close call]
Chapman would get two outs and Utley's acting appeared to be in vain. Jimmy Rollins, however, hit a line drive to right field which Jay Bruce — normally a very good defender — lost in the lights. The ball sailed past him, allowing Jayson Werth and Utley to advance to second and third. Second baseman Phillips dropped the relay throw, however, allowing the Phillies' tying and go-ahead runs to score. Two errors were awarded on the play, to Bruce and Phillips — the Reds' third and fourth on the night. The Phillies would score one more run on a ground-out by Ruiz, and tacked on one more in the bottom of the eighth.
The Phillies bullpen held the Reds scoreless for four innings. Jose Contreras pitched a clean seventh, Ryan Madson a clean eighth, and Brad Lidge closed the door in the ninth after working around a lead-off walk. In total, Phillies relievers tossed four innings, allowing a mere three base runners on one hit and two walks.
It wasn't the most impressive win — certainly not after what happened on Wednesday — but the Phillies are happy to go up two games to none any way they can.
. . .
Via Mark Sheldon, who covers the Reds for MLB.com:
"It was in the lights the whole time. I tried to stick with it to see if it would come out. It never did. It's pretty helpless. It's embarrassing. I take a lot of pride in my defense. There's really nothing I can do about it. I wish for my team more than anything that it didn't go into the lights or that it came out and I could have caught it. It didn't happen." — Jay Bruce
The debacle of the seventh inning started when Chase Utley acted his way through a hit-by-pitch from Aroldis Chapman. The pitch was 101 mph, Utley didn't sell it that well but it was enough to be awarded first base.
"I don't think at any time that the ball hit him. I don't think he ever got hit," Chapman said.
"It was pretty close," Utley said. "At first I thought it was going to hit me in my head. Fortunately, it didn't. And he throws so hard. I felt like I thought it hit me, so I put my head down and I ran to first."
Q. Did it hit you? Chase Utley: "I'm not sure."
Red Leg Nation scribe and ESPN SweetSpot member Chad Dotson on the game:
If you had told me that the Reds would commit four errors, and they would be committed by Rolen, Phillips, and Bruce, I never would have believed that in a million years.
Four stupid errors. The only other time the Reds made four errors this season was in that disastrous game in Atlanta back in May, when the bullpen blew that big lead. Heck, the Reds only had 72 regular season errors, and that was tied for the second-fewest in baseball.
More error trivia, from ESPN: The 4 errors by the Reds tie an LDS record, previously done 5 times. The last time the Reds made 2 errors in an inning in a postseason inning– Game 3 of the 1972 World Series. Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan made an error on the same play in the 6th inning.


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The Red Cross in Taiwan must return NT$3.2 million (US$97,300) in government subsidies to the Ministry of the Interior (MOI), the ministry said yesterday, adding that the non-governmental organization (NGO) had spent government subsidies received from 2002 to last year improperly.
The ministry's director of civic affairs, Tseng Chung-ming (曾中明), said in a statement yesterday that his department had sent an official notice, dated Aug. 8, to the Red Cross Society of the Republic of China demanding that NT$3.2 million in government subsidies be returned to the interior ministry.
The announcement yesterday followed a ministry investigation into the local Red Cross' finances that began when two ministry auditors visited the organization's headquarters on April 11 to review how it had spent subsidies earmarked for "disaster relief" and "office operations," the notice states.
How disaster relief and office operations subsidies are to be used, the statement said, "is clearly defined."
"The ministry has discovered that, from 2002 to last year, some portions of the subsidies weren't used according to the relevant regulations," the statement added, without elaborating.
The notice says that some receipts documenting usage of the subsidies had not been properly stamped by local Red Cross authorities, while some money was used to purchase fire insurance, fund business trips to China and offset asset depreciation, among other unauthorized expenses.
The ministry will now require the Red Cross to submit receipts and other documents pertaining to the usage of government subsidies to the ministry for review, the statement said.
Earlier yesterday, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Wang Jung-chang (王榮璋) held a press conference during which he showed a copy of a notice issued by the MOI which requested that the Red Cross return the sum.
"All other non-governmental organizations have to return their leftover subsidiary funds to the government. They are not permitted to save it for future use," Wang said.
Wang said financial statements released by the Red Cross revealed that 30 percent of an annual disaster relief fund had been used for administrative expenses from 2003 until last year.
"But according to the ministry's subsidiary usage guidelines, administrative expenses may not exceed 5 percent of the money," Wang said.
Representatives from other NGOs attending the news conference decried the large subsidy to the Red Cross as being unfair.
"We're always worried when we apply for funding from the government, as our applications are often turned down," said Lin Chin-hsing (
"We're all working for the good of the public, no one should be privileged over others," he said, adding that it was unfair for the Red Cross to be granted more resources than other NGOs.
However, Red Cross spokesman Chen Shi-jen (
"We've been receiving government subsidies for 13 years, and had our financial statements checked by the government every year," Chen said. "We never had any problems."
Chen said that government subsidies for the Red Cross "do not have a designated usage."
The Red Cross does enjoy a special status "because we're the only NGO founded by law and required to collaborate with the government in all disaster relief efforts," Chen said, referring to the Red Cross Act of the Republic of China (


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DSM-CC Object Carousel Protocol
From LinuxTVWiki
The DSM-CC ObjectCarousel protocol is a broadcast protocol on top of MPEG2. It is used for transmission of filesystem hierarchies over a MPEG2 channel.
Like other protocols (NFS, SAMBA etc. via IP), the ObjectCarousel protocol allows mounting of external filesystems that are broadcast within a MPEG2 program.


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Say what you want about Ben "saving" us, which has merit. Nevertheless, we LOSE LEADS with frequency since Cowher has departed DESPITE Ben's abilities to launch comebacks.
Heck we held onto leads BETTER with many of the inferior QBs that preceded Ben thanks to "the turtle".
"The turtle" worked my friend.


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Tanking 10-ride pass purchases led some Metra board directors to wonder if the agency should reconsider a price hike instituted in February.
About 126,642 10-ride passes were sold in February compared to 148,575 in February 2012 -- reflecting a 14.8 percent drop, planner Lynnette Ciavarella told directors.
"It's a trend we will need to watch," she said, noting that at the same time monthly pass sales grew by 4.4 percent with 97,089 sold in February compared to 92,967 in 2012.
Metra raised 10-ride passes by 11 percent this February.
Passenger revenue in February was $24 million, falling short of budget expectations of $25 million.
"It's troubling to see this decline," Director and outgoing Arlington Heights Mayor Arlene Mulder said. "Is there any way we can get more information from former 10-ride users?"
Director Larry Huggins of Chicago said if mistakes had been made, "it might make sense to do a trial and see -- if we go back -- what would be the impact?"
Metra Chairman Brad O'Halloran of Orland Park asked administrators to come back with more data and recommendations on how to reverse the trend at their May meeting.
CEO Alex Clifford pointed out the decline in ridership started in October before the 10-ride increase. He said the agency was working on cost-cutting and marketing strategies to attract more riders.
"It appears to me revenue is down at a greater percentage than ridership," board Director Mike McCoy said. "That's weird when we raised rates."
Metra planners had projected some 10-ride users would fall off because of the increase but also expected the change would generate about $8 million more a year. McCoy asked if the drop matched projections.
"The decline in 10-rides is more than we anticipated," Chief Financial Officer Tom Farmer said.


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Telstra says it could work with Libs NBN FTTN policy
Turnbull fierce on home networking costs
Telstra could work to implement a policy change to the federal opposition's current alternative NBN plan, a fibre-to-the-node network, representatives of the carrier today told a public hearing of the Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network.
Under sustained questioning from Senator Doug Cameron, Telstra's Group Managing Director of Corporate Affairs Tony Warren said he believes Telstra's participation in recent negotiations with government show it can successfully reach agreements that satisfy government, shareholders, employees and customers.
"I think Telstra has shown that it is able to deal with the government policy of the day," Dr Warren told the hearing.
Warren was careful not to offer an opinion such an arrangement, instead repeating it would work to ensure shareholders, customers and employees were "protected" in the event of policy change. Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull later probed Dr Warren regarding a financial analyst's report that opines Telstra will be in a strong position should Australia's government change. Warren and James Shaw, the telco's Director of Government Relations, batted away the question with the same assurance of protection for stakeholders.
Earlier, Malcolm Turnbull asked Warren a series of questions on the effort required to network a home connected to a fibre-to-the-premises network, based on experiences gathered in South Brisbane where the carrier has built such a network for around 20,000 homes.
Warren said Telstra deploys two staff members and suggests a five hour timeframe to install the optical network termination device and then ensure all networked devices in the home operate correctly. He then suggested that that amount of time was needed, in part, because Telstra is using the Brisbane project to learn what it will take to perform similar installations on a larger scale as the NBN rolls out.
Warren added that Telstra believes the experience it offers connecting customers on their premises will be a differentiator in the market, and something it will use to entice customers to remain with Telstra – or churn to it – as the NBN rolls out.
The room went quiet during Turnbull's question. Your correspondent was waiting for the former leader to ask how much householders will have to pay to connect to the NBN, an uncertain figure that has been used to query the network's true cost to homeowners. But the question never came.
Under questioning from another opposition member of the committee, Paul Fletcher MP, Warren said Telstra will remain committed to a voice only product that was affordable to all households. Warren also said Telstra is working on a voice offering for the NBN, but will not reveal it until it is confident its business processes are sufficiently mature to stand up in the competitive environment of the NBN. ®
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A second man suspected of sexually assaulting a Ferndale girl has surrendered to police and is due in court Thursday.
Edward Sherman, 31, of Ferndale was arraigned Monday before Ferndale 43rd District Magistrate J. Patrick Brennan on a charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. He is jailed on $50,000 bond.
Sherman is one of two former boyfriends of a Ferndale woman charged with sexually assaulting the woman�s 15-year-old sister, police said.
The other suspect -- Jeromie Koppen, 31, of Waterford Township -- is charged with three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct involving the same girl. He is free on $50,000 bond and is scheduled for a preliminary examination in court at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.
Police said Koppen lived with the Ferndale woman, her sister and mother last year when he sexually assaulted her. Koppen and the Ferndale woman used heroin and eventually the girl got involved with drugs also, police said.
Sherman, contrary to an earlier report, did not use heroin or live at the Ferndale woman�s house when he had sex with her, said Ferndale Police Detective Ken Denmark.
�The victim became close with Sherman while her older sister was in jail on drug charges,� Denmark said.
Police said Sherman was trying to help the girl get off drugs but ended up having sex with her Oct. 1, 2012.
�At the time he was the former boyfriend of the victim�s sister,� Denmark said.
Koppen is charged with having sex with the girl on New Year�s Day 2012 while he was living at her house with her older sister.
Police said they learned of the incidents after the girl told a counselor at Ferndale High School of the allegations last fall.
The girl was removed from the house and placed with a foster home after the police investigation began, Denmark said.
Third-degree criminal sexual assault in punishable by up to 15 years in prison.


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With the introduction of the C6 Corvette a few years ago, Chevrolet really upped the ante in the world of affordable supercar performance. This is especially true of the ZO6 model, which can hang with the big boys in the upper echelon of performance machines. Additionally, its retail price tag will only make you take out a second mortgage, rather than hawking everything you own, including your first-born child.
For 2007, Chevy didn't exactly reinvent the wheel with the Corvette, but the auto giant definitely refined the rough edges of the previous two model years. As with any new platform, be it automotive or anything else, the first year is usually spent working out the bugs, and trying to make improvements that will give future models better performance over past versions. Improvements can even trickle down from the 24 Hours of LeMans-winning Corvettes, like the decision with the C6 to use non-retractable headlights, something that undoubtedly caused a rusty taste in the back of Corvette purists' mouths (before the C6, the last time a Corvette didn't have the flip-up lights was 1962).
Our first victim in this tale of dueling Vettes is the coupe. It arrived equipped from GM with all the normal things you'd find in a straight-off-the-assembly-line model: the superior LS2 6.0L powerplant (which puts out a claimed 400 hp); GM's active handling system; computer-controlled traction control (which can, thank the gods, be turned off at the touch of a button); and speed-sensitive steering (which applies more force as the speed rises).
Both test cars were also equipped with the optional six-speed automatic, which, since 2006, have had easy-to-operate paddle shifters. However, in most situations, we left the shifting to the auto box, which lets you rev the car to your heart's content. Add to that powertrain the 3LT package, which includes a host of luxury-type items (Bose 7-speaker stereo, XM Satellite Radio, head-up display, and adjustable leather sport seats).
The real amazing part of the powertrain has to be the LS2 364ci V-8, making power that propels the '07 from 0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds. On the Super Chevy-approved dragstrip, Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, the maroon-colored machine turned in a best time of 12.74 at 113 mph in the quarter-mile (that run was made at 3 p.m., with an outside temperature approaching 90 F).
This time was achieved with the transmission doing all the work itself. Attempts to better this e.t. by shifting ourselves with the paddles proved fruitless. On the road course, the paddles work great. They just don't shift quickly enough to make a difference in the quarter-mile. Once in a while you may get lucky and guess the proper shift point and go quicker, but this will be the exception, not the norm. Perhaps for 2008, the engineers will have gotten it perfect.
Also hindering dragstrip performance was Chevy's electronic torque management ninnies. Slapping the throttle to the floor produced nary a hint of wheelspin. You could feel the hesitation as the power came on progressively. This probably cost a few tenths. Our best 60-ft time was a 2.01 (done repeatedly), though our best e.t. came with a 2.03 short time. Still, we remember not too long ago when you needed a limited edition (and horribly expensive) 405-horse ZR-1 to run 12.8 or 12.9. Now the base Corvette coupe will eclipse these times.
Over on the Raceway Park road course, the C6 handled very predictably-with all the traction control assist (we like to refer to them as cheating) mechanisms turned off, the car ran around the track consistently in the 1.26 range, with a best of 1.25.09. (For comparison sake, our 2006 ZO6 test machine ran 1.21.92, with most laps in the low 1.22s.) This is extremely good considering that the car comes from the factory on run-flat tires-skins that are great for cruising, but not the optimal selection for proper corner carving.
That being said, if there's a slight push at corner entry, it's nothing a little trail-braking can't solve. As for a corner exit understeer problem, it's nothing the ample amounts of power-on oversteer can't solve. In reality, this car is just the right balance (for a car that sees mostly street driving) for just about any enthusiast.
Highway cruising is absolutely pure driving nirvana in the Corvette. We had the opportunity to drive the car from the SC headquarters building in Rochelle Park, New Jersey, down to the Super Chevy Show in Richmond, Virginia. For statistical purposes, that's a total distance of about 350 miles-roughly 100 miles of the New Jersey Turnpike, followed by a good stretch of I-95 through the outskirts of Philadelphia, then across the Mason-Dixon line through Baltimore and Washington, D.C. In short, it's not the most, shall we say "friendly" highway driving. However, the Vette made the trek in just 4 hours and 30 minutes, at an average speed of around 75 mph.
Now for the good part of that story. The LS2, which absolutely rockets the Corvette from 70 to 100 mph faster than the speed-sensitive volume of the Bose stereo can catch up (it's probably closer to 1.5 seconds), averaged over 22.5 mpg on the trip. That's carrying a payload of a 175-pound human being, coupled with some luggage in the trunk. Now do the math: 75 mph average (we were going considerably faster than that on some stretches, thanks to our trusty radar detector) + 350 miles = a car that can be driven confidently across long distances and still leave some green in the pocket.
Just a day before the long haul down to Virginia, Editor-in-Chief Campisano saw 32 mpg cruising at 70 mph on the highway. In this day and age where gas mileage is so important to so many, the 2007 Corvette gets such great fuel economy that it doesn't even carry the dreaded Gas Guzzler tax, a levy that people purchasing vehicles such as the Dodge Viper must address at the time of purchase.
(How's this for speed: Another editor left for Newark Airport about an hour before we left the office, and only beat us to Virginia by 30 minutes in an airplane.)
Furthermore, and this is just for music lovers, the Bose 7-speaker stereo is highly recommended. It's like sex coming out of every channel, even with the removable roof panel tucked away in its perfect resting spot under the rear hatch.
Speaking of roofs, the '07 Corvette convertible, which appeared outside the SC offices in spectacular LeMans Blue metallic, is just as exquisite a machine as the coupe. It was equipped with mostly the same adornments as the coupe, but the added sophistication of a mechanical drop-top that goes from fully closed to stow in just under 20 seconds. On more than one occasion, we had enough time to switch from touring monster to cruising convertible in the time we were waiting for the red light to change. One major upgrade that the convertible model we received had was the optional Magnetic Selective Ride Control, which has two settings: Touring or Sport. Each setting adjusts the dampening of the suspension to tackle either the point-and-shoot characteristics of city driving, or the loose-is-fast nature of twisty road negotiation.
While we are typically skeptical about such things, there was a noticeable difference in the ride and handling quality when you switched between the two settings. Most people will never find the limits of the car in the Sport mode, but the Touring setting was remarkably capable as well. Scheduling precluded us from track testing the ragtop, but we hammered it pretty hard on challenging country and mountain roads.
We came away amazed at how little it gave away to the coupe in ultimate road holding. We made a banzai pass or three through our secret undulating mountain pass with the suspension set to Touring and never felt ill at ease (can't say the same for our passenger). Switchbacks, off-camber turns, uphill, downhill-we tried 'em all and came away with a newfound respect for this setting. The car just gripped and split. We'd say that unless you're at an open track event, you'll find the Touring setting plenty entertaining.
For the record, the ride of both '07 Vettes was improved over the similar models we sampled last year. What little harshness there was has been banished.
Again, these cars are definitely improvements on the previous two model years of C6s. The refinements might be subtle, but we can definitely notice them, and look forward to 2008 and beyond, when the reality of the 436hp LS3 and some newer, more powerful version of the ZO6 shows up (Blue Devil, SS, ZO7, whatever you want to call it). We will be waiting with open arms and sweaty palms, chomping at the bit to get behind the wheel of one of Chevrolet's all-time most popular vehicles. And to that end, let's just say that if Zora Arkus-Duntov were still around, he would be very impressed with these two automobiles.
2007 Coupe
Base Price: $44,170
Price as Tested: $55,235
Included:LS2 6.0L V-8, 400hp6-speed manual transmissionTraction controlLimited-slip differentialAnti-lock, 4-wheel disc brakesTheft-deterrent system
3LT Preferred Equipment Group
Bose Premium 7-speaker stereo
Head-up display
Heated seats
Steering wheel with radio controls
Power telescoping/tilt wheel
Transparent roof panel
Chrome aluminum wheels
Premium tintcoat paint
6-speed paddle-shift automatic
2007 Convertible
Base Price: $52,085
Price as Tested: $66,290
Included:LS2 6.0L V-8, 400hp6-speed manual transmissionTraction controlLimited-slip differentialAnti-lock, 4-wheel disc brakesTheft-deterrent systemFull folding top with heated rear window glass
3LT Preferred Equipment Group
Bose Premium 7-speaker stereo
Head-up display
Heated seats
Power telescoping/tilt wheel
Power convertible top
Steering wheel with radio controls
Magnetic selective ride control
(Includes driver-selectable Tour and Sport settings, cross-drilled brake rotors)
6-speed paddle-shift automatic transmission


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NOVA "Four-Winged Dinosaur"
7-8 pm, Tuesday, August 24th
Imagine a moment from the age of dinosaurs frozen in time: primitive birds, bees, insects, early mammals, the first known flowering plants and of course, dinosaurs, all exquisitely preserved in fine-grained fossils from China's Liaoning Province. Volcanic eruptions killed and buried victims quickly in this dinosaur Pompeii, capturing soft, fragile features not normally preserved in fossils – notably the feathers on animals that had never been known to have them before. Now, with state-of-the-art animation to bring this lost world to life, NOVA investigates the mysterious feathered dinosaurs that are challenging old ideas about the origin of bird flight. The central character in this drama is a strange little dinosaur with wings on its legs as well as its arms. The pigeon-sized microraptor is the smallest adult dinosaur ever found, perhaps the first known tree dweller. But could it really fly? Is it the key to understanding the origin of flight or merely an evolutionary dead end unrelated to the ancestry of birds? To help solve the riddle, NOVA assembles a team of top paleontologists, aeronautical engineers and paleo-artists to reconstruct microraptor and build a sophisticated model for a wind tunnel experiment. The results have surprising implications for long-accepted ideas about how winged flight began.
For more information, go to the NOVA website.
1-2 & 4-5 a.m., Wednesday, August 25
3-4 a.m. & 6-7 p.m., Sunday, August 29


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The Taunton Farmer's Market is scheduled to return downtown this summer for its 18th year on a different day and with a more varied group of participants.
During the past decade the city's farmer's market has included a handful of local and regional farmers and amateur growers, their numbers fluctuating from half a dozen to as few as two.
The Taunton Farmer's Market is scheduled to return downtown this summer for its 18th year on a different day and with a more varied group of participants.
During the past decade the city's farmer's market has included a handful of local and regional farmers and amateur growers, their numbers fluctuating from half a dozen to as few as two.
Heart of Taunton, the city's 25-year-old, non-profit downtown booster, has always sponsored and helped organize the event.
But with the dissolution of that group's executive director position last year, there was speculation as to whether the HOT-sponsored market would continue.
Treasurer Jeffrey Silva says once again his group has the full cooperation of First Parish Church leadership, to permit fresh-produce growers to set up on the grounds of the historic church, at 76 Church Green across from the police station.
This year's farmer's market will run from July 7 to Oct. 27. Instead of being open on Thursday, it will operate Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Silva, whose family tree includes relatives in the Azores who were farmers, said he assumed a leadership role after HOT board members realized he was interested.
"They said 'Go right ahead, you take care of this thing,'" he said.
Silva said he has retained the services of past market manager Bob Peasley, a retired Plainville police officer who runs a farm in Rehoboth. Over the past few years, Peasley has become known for his corn.
The 36-year-old Silva, who manages the Winthrop Street branch of First Citizens Bank, has found a willing partner in Christana Wille McKnight, pastor of First Parish's Unitarian Universalist Congregation.
"She told me, 'You're good to go,'" he said.
Silva says the decision to change to a Sunday schedule was due largely to complaints that it was inconvenient for many customers to go downtown on a weekday. He also said Wille McKnight expects some of her congregation leaving Sunday services will be inclined to stop off and shop.
The deadline to apply for a reserved spot has been extended to June 25.
Silva said he's pushing for a larger and more diverse mix of sellers. He said for the first time in the market's history a commercial fish market will be there.
Silva confirmed that Fresh Catch Express of New Bedford has signed on to sell meat as well as seafood.
Eventually, he said, artists and craftspeople might be able to broker an agreement where they can sell their goods inside the church while the market is open.
Silva has also embarked on a marketing campaign: Taunton Farmer's Market now has its own Web site.
He's also tapped into the online resources of Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership and FramFresh.org.
The farmer's market continues to accept food coupons issued through the federal Women, Infants and Children nutritional assistance program. Silva said by 2014 the market could be equipped to accept and process purchases made with state-issued EBT cards.
One longtime participant, and one of the few remaining Taunton farmers, will be missing this year.
Vernon Chace, who has grown berries, apples and vegetables on his Tremont Street family farm for the past 60 years, said he and his wife Marcy can't fathom the idea of working on a Sunday.
More importantly, he said, he's been hit hard during the two past growing seasons by what's known by Bay State farmers as winter moths — small, dark moths that he said descend like locusts and eat through crops.
Chace, 82, said his apple trees, in particular, have been decimated for nearly three seasons. He recalls one tree that used to produce 10 bushels selling for $100 each that is now barren.
"I really don't know," he said, when asked what has attracted the destructive pests and how much longer the problem will persist.
But he said he's certain of one thing, which is that "this is the worst I've seen in my 80 years."
Chace said at one point this year the moths "fell like rain out of the trees" onto his 40 or so blueberry bushes. He said he normally stays away from pesticides but was forced to spray the bushed on two occasion to kill the voracious eaters.
He says judging by the surviving buds on his blueberry bushes, he'll probably harvest about 30 percent of the crop.
"They're on the borderline," Chace said, in terms of survival.


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Nursing Students Present Research Findings
Augustana nursing students presented their research findings on Friday morning inside the Froiland Science Complex as part of their "Perspectives in Professional Nursing" course.
Augustana Senior Named Schwarzman Scholar
Augustana senior Kofi Gunu, a political science and economics double major from Tamale, Ghana, has been named a 2018 Schwarzman Scholar, a prestigious honor that will support his master's degree study at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
In the News: Safety Director Discusses Campus Security
Following Monday's attack at Ohio State University, Augustana Director of Campus Safety Rick Tupper talked with KELO News about campus security measures in place at AU.
In the News: Augustana Professor Reflects on Castro's Death
Dr. Corey Conover, an associate professor of history at Augustana who specializes in Latin American history, spoke with KSFY news about the impact of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro's death.
CBS News Lists Augustana as Best in South Dakota
Augustana University is the best college in the state of South Dakota, according to an article on cbsnews.com using an analysis by Niche, a Pennsylvania-based data analytics website that reviews and ranks schools, colleges and neighborhoods.
Eight Students Inducted to Religion Studies Honor Society
Augustana's chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa (TAK) inducted eight new members this fall. They joined current members and TAK co-presidents Lizzie Davis '17 (Sioux Falls) and Austin Krohnke '18 (Waukee, Iowa) in an induction ceremony and dinner with Rev. Dr. Monica Coleman.
Freshman Places Third in National Ag Communications Competition
Trey Waldrop, a freshman from Miller, South Dakota, took third place in the National FFA Agricultural Communications Career Development Event held in conjunction with the national FFA Convention and Expo last month in Indianapolis, Indiana.
See the Best Social Media Reactions from #AUGIEvDUKE
Augustana men's basketball opened the 2016-17 season with an exhibition game at Duke University on Friday, Nov. 4.
Presidential Search
Learn more about the search for Augustana's 24th president at www.augie.edu/president.
Success Center Director Earns Fulbright to Study International Learning
Billie Streufert, executive director of Augustana's Student Success Center, earned a Fulbright International Education Administrator Seminar Award this fall and recently returned from an intensive, two-week study in Germany where she examined the societal, cultural and higher education systems of other countries.


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The North Tama County Community School Board held a special meeting on Monday, January 14, 2013 to fill the vacancy on the board left by the departure of longtime member Richard Arp.
Doug Dvorak, board member candidate, was present and was nominated to serve the remainder of Arp's term as board member. The motion, made by Dave Stuart and seconded by Judy Robb, passed unanimously. Dvorak was sworn in and will serve out the remainder of the term.
Dvorak will be busy in his new role - he has been appointed as representative for the County Assessor Conference Board.
The board also voted to approve the SBRC Modified Allowable Growth of $10,802 due to increased enrollment and $7,060 due to open enrollment out. The motion passed unanimously.
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the North Tama County Community School Board will be Monday, January 21 at 7 p.m.


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"Safety First Caillou"
Caillou's Cross-Hop: Caillou doesn't want to hold hands and obey safety rules.until he discovers a bunch of tiny frogs that need help crossing the street. Realizing it's hard work helping others to cross the road safely, he has a new appreciation for Mommy and Daddy's rules. D
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Wayne Rooney has helped raise over £43,000 for charity with the sale of a custom motorbike he helped design.
The 2012 Lauge Jensen 'chopper' bike was diamond-encrusted, with 21 black and a single white diamond on a specially created shift rod.
A signed 'Rooney 10' shirt was lacquer-sealed on the petrol tank, with an image of Rooney celebrating his overhead-kick against Manchester City during the 2010/11 season also painted on the rear mudguard.
Additionally, the Manchester United striker's signature is emblazoned in a number of places on the bike – including the seat – to give the vehicle an iconic and original look.
"The bike I designed was auctioned yesterday at Bonham's Auction House in Chester and raised £43,250. I'm delighted that so much money has been raised for the KidsAid Charity," wrote Rooney on his official Facebook page yesterday (Thursday).
As Rooney mentioned, money raised from the sale at Bonham's auction house in Chester goes to KidsAid, a Danish-based children's charity that helps sick youngsters.
Bonham's confirmed that the bike was sold to an anonymous bidder, and other items that raised money on the day included a Brazil shirt worn by Pele and a collection of 22 worn and signed shirts from the inaugural Premier League season in 1992/93.
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NYC – Go Team Venture!
April 9, 2010 by Colin Solan
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The Brothers' Keeper: An Evening with Jackson Publick and The Venture Bros.
Thursday, April 22, 7 PM
Admission: $5
Free for MoCCA Members
Animation journalist Joe Strike sits down with Jackson Publick III, creator of Cartoon Network's hit [adult swim] series The Venture Bros. for the first in a series of "Interview with an Animator" conversations. After screening scenes from the show, Joe and Jackson discuss Venture's creation and evolution, Jackson's career, and his perspective on alternative/adult animation, followed by an audience Q&A session.
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Art and Culture of the Jordaan, Amsterdam The Jordaan was build at the large expansion of Amsterdam in early 17th century, as a district for the working class and emigrants. The population increase during the next centuries was enormously, caused by the stream political refugees like protestant Fleming, Spanish and Portuguese Jews and French Huguenots who mainly settled in the Jordaan. It was a poor district with small houses and slums, every little room stuffed with families and lots of children. The entire area was one ghetto with open sewers, canals served for both transport and sewer, and no running water. Around 1900 there lived about 80 thousand people, nowadays about 20 thousand. RembrandtThe famous 17th century Dutch writer Joost van den Vondel and photographer Breitner lived in the Jordaan. Artists, like the painter Rembrandt van Rijn in his lesser successful period, also came living in the Jordaan because of the low rents. The house of Rembrandt was on the Rozengracht (Rose canal, still a real canal these days). His studio was on the Bloemgracht (Flower canal). The famous painter was buried in a poor mans grave in the Westerkerk (West church). Monument Care During the seventieth of the 20th century the city council had serious plans to mainly demolish big parts of the district and replace them for large ugly blocks of modern buildings. There where many protests against this idea. City protectors, such as Monument Care, where against the loss of the historical town and the people of the Jordaan feared for large rent increases. Thanks to this resistance the plan was modified, there came small-scale projects which would repair the neighborhood, without damaging its original character. Strolling A large renovation was started. By then the district was discovered by a new generation occupants: artists, students, and young entrepreneurs. The old inhabitants moved to other neighborhoods and cities like Almere. Partly by these new inhabitants the Jordaan has changed from a slum area to a district for artist, still living on low rent, and the rich who bought the very expensive renovated houses. Nowadays the Jordaan is compared to the rest of the town an oasis of peace with a labyrinth of narrow streets and little canals, nice for strolling around courtyards, art studios, and monumental buildings with stone tablets, old-fashioned 'brown' pubs, boutiques or galleries. Markets There are also some markets in this area. Saturdays you will find the Lindenmarkt (Lime market), a general market, on the Lindengracht (Lime canal) and a biological food market on the Noordermarkt (North market). Mondays you have a flea market at the Noordermarkt and a market on the Westerstraat (West street) with nice fabrics. On the Noordermarkt you can visit the Noorderkerk (North church), designed by Hendrick de Keyser in the 17th century. NoorderkerkMany people think that the Westerkerk (West church) on the Westermarkt is the main church of the Jordaan. It's true that you can hear its carillon and see the beautiful Westertoren (West tower) everywhere in the neighborhood and that the Jordaanfestival is located on his square, but the church is actually located just outside the Jordaan. So the main church of the Jordaan is the Noorderkerk. The Noorderkerk was built in the northern part in 1620-1623 by Hendrick de Keyser and his son Pieter. The church is still in use as a Protestant church, and like the Westerkerk open to everyone, especially during concerts. Art studiosHundreds of artist discovered the Jordaan in the 70th because of the low rent of houses in these little streets. The lucky ones are renting a studio in one of these beautiful inner courtyards of the neighborhood. Every two years the artist organize a so called 'open studio event'. During these days visitors can have a look in the 'kitchens' of the artist. There is also a permanent ornamental route called 'Jewels in the Jordaan'. Past charming alleyways and picturesque canals it leads to gold- and silversmiths. CourtyardsThe Jordaan has a high concentration of hofjes (inner courtyards), beautiful yards with little houses, many of them with restored houses and peaceful gardens. These courtyards were build by rich people for older women; a kind of charity and protection. Beginning of the 70th most of these courtyards was in a very bad shape, like the rest of the neighborhood. After there restoration they were discovered by artist, students and still some older people with special privileges because of a church membership. Some of the courtyards are closed to the public, and only opened on special days called 'open monuments days'. But if you do come across one of the entrances, and it is unlocked, most residents won't mind if you sneak a quiet peek. During the summer some of these yards are opened on Sundays during free concerts called 'hofjesconcerts'. Stone tabletsMany houses in the Jordaan have a stone tablet, a stone sign that shows the profession or family sign of the inhabitants. For instance a butcher showed a pig and a tailor a pair of scissors, carved in a stone above the entry. During a walk it's a pleasure to observe those beautiful, when renovated colorful, antique signs. The first stone tablets are made in the 16th century, when citizens were ordered to use these tablets instead of big wooden gables that obstructed the traffic in these narrow streets. MuseaMost of the musea in the Jordaan are small. You have the Pianola museum with old mechanical pianos, a literate museum Theo Thijssen, a houseboat museum, and a fluorescent museum called Electric Lady Land. Just on the boarder of the Jordaan you can find the Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht (Prince canal). Virtual visitBecause of its special character it's a pleasure to visit the Jordaan. If you would like to virtually visit the art studios and courtyards or stroll around other cultural aspects of the Jordaan, I recommend the virtual website called Jordaan Web, art and culture of the Jordaan: http://www.jordaanweb.com/
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ARARAT - East Grampians Health Service chief executive, Nick Bush has thanked the Collier Charitable Fund for their donation of $30,000 to the New Nursing Education Centre.
Collier Charitable Fund secretary Geoff Linton visited and toured the facility recently.
"It's nice to see that the funds that the Collier Charitable Fund donates are put to such good use and is reflected in the way this facility has been re-structured and renovated," he said.
" The new facility has a high level of activity with many education and training uses, one of great interest is the University of Ballarat diploma of nursing course."
Mr Linton said that the Charitable Fund liked to support rural communities that have vision and purpose, which East Grampians Health Service has.
"I wish East Grampians Health Service the very best with this new venture and look forward to hearing the positive outcomes from this inspiring project," he said.
Nick Bush said the Pyrenees House Education Centre was now fully operational, training diploma of nursing students, catering for functions and meetings and has a well equipment modern cafe facility.
"I would also like to thank the Collier Charitable Fund for their help and support to improve the delivery on improving Health Service," he said.


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David Oliver was born in Concord, California on January 31, 1962. He was one of 8 children. He died of complications due to AIDS on November 12, 1992 in Los Angeles at age 30.
Another World fans fell in love with the handsome young actor when he debuted as Perry Hutchins in June 1983.
Perry was Carl's son and had a sweet romance with Nancy (Jane Cameron). Perry died in May 1985 when he fell from the Love barn loft after seeing Marley's identical twin, Victoria (Ellen Wheeler). His final words were "You're not getting away with this!"
On August 3, 1983, Donna Love (Anna Stuart) arrived at the double wedding of Blaine & Sandy and Mac & Rachel with the handsome Perry on her arm.
In 1983, Oliver appeared on the game show Go with Another World co-stars Anna Stuart, Mary Page Keller, Laura Malone, and Stephen Yates.
After Another World, Oliver played Sam Gardner in the NBC primetime soap A Year in the Life. Sam was married to Kay, played by Sarah Jessica Parker.
A staunch civil-liberties activist, Oliver was a founding and active member of Young Artists Ltd. His sister is actress Kathleen Ingle.
Oliver's longtime companion was Terry Houlihan.


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Digital Pen Vibrates To Indicate Bad Spelling, Grammar and Penmanship 144
Zothecula writes "Use digital technology long enough and you start to become dependent upon it for such mundane tasks as spell checking. That means when you pick up a garden variety ballpoint pen you're back in dictionary and 'I before E except after C' territory. The creators of the Lernstiftdigital pen hope to bring handwriting into the 21st century by having the pen vibrate to indicate when the writer makes spelling and grammatical errors or exhibits poor penmanship."


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Darksiders 3 is in limbo right now after the demise of THQ and the subsequent purchase of the IP by Nordic Games. But what would have happened if developer Vigil Games could have carried the series forward? Co-op multiplayer for one.
"It was always our hope to do a full four-player co-op game, with all four Horsemen playable," former Vigil creative director Joe Madureira told IGN. "It's possible we could have pulled it off. I would have liked to introduce Fury and Strife. I know many fans feel robbed that they never got to play the last two Horsemen."
Madureira said they had played with different story ideas, including having the four riders take on Lucifer in Hell, or making them mortal after the rebirth of mankind. "neither idea got very far," he said.
PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, however, would have made development a bit easier on the plans, though. "I do think that it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to have four players running around simultaneously and maintain the level of graphic quality we achieved," Madureira said. "So the next one, had we introduced co-op, would have benefited from the power of the next generation of consoles."


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By Ben Levisohn
Ben Bernanke and the U.S. Federal Reserve said they would keep buying bonds but lowered their forecast for unemployment, causing emerging market stocks fall.
The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM) has dropped 1.3% to $39.30 at 2:06 p.m., while the iShares MSCI Indonesia Investable Market Index ETF (EIDO) has plunged 3.6% to $31.36, the Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX) has fallen 2.4% to $25.26 and the iShares FTSE China 25 Index (FXI) has dipped 1.5% to $34.06.
The Wall Street Journal has the details on the Fed statement:
The Federal Reserve projects that the unemployment rate could fall to 6.5% in 2014, a threshold it has conditionally set to begin raising interest rates.
Still, most Fed officials expect to hold off on a rate increase until 2015, according to assessments of monetary policy for the coming years that showed 15 of 19 officials expect the first tightening will come that year.
The latest unemployment and economic-growth forecasts for 2014 are an upgrade from the last set of estimates, made in March. The projections reflect officials' expectations and hint at their next monetary-policy moves.
The change in the unemployment forecast, which the Fed had linked to the end of its unorthodox monetary policy, is seen a s a sign that the U.S. central bank will begin "tapering" its bond purchases sooner rather than later. The potential end of easy money in the U.S. has rattled emerging markets, which have benefited from investors seeking higher yields.
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Maybe now Greg Norman will shut up.
PGA Tour player Vijay Singh had his potential 1-year suspension thrown out yesterday after a governing body on performance-enhancing drugs told us what we already knew — that deer antler spray isn't illegal because there's nothing in it that helps you.
Singh, after the SI.com story last February named him as a user of the product, was eligible for a one-year suspension after admitting he used deer antler spray, which supposedly contains IGF-1, a banned substance in several leagues including the NFL and PGA Tour.
Ray Lewis, of course, was also named in the SI.Com article, which came out on Tuesday of Super Bowl week while the Ravens were in New Orleans preparing to play the 49'ers.
Greg Norman went nuts earlier this week in an article that originated out of Australia, claiming the PGA Tour's current drug testing method (urine test) is disgraceful and calling for blood tests to verify who is clean and who isn't.
He didn't name Singh, specifically, but it's widely known on TOUR that the 3-time major champion isn't among the most popular figures in the locker room and the deer antler spray controversy hasn't helped his image.
Only one problem: Singh didn't really do anything wrong in this situation. Deer antler spray has as much effectiveness as it would if you spread toothpaste under your armpits.
That he came clean from the beginning and said, "I've been talking to this nut job Mitch Ross and I'm using that deer antler spray" should be proof he wasn't trying to actually cheat. Singh, of course, will never live down a cheating incident during the early days of his career in an Asian Tour event in the 1980's when he changed his scorecard after a round.
In this case, though, Singh wasn't cheating.
He was simply fooled by a snake oil salesman.
It happens to the best of 'em.
Just ask Ray Lewis.
LOL at Geno Smith.
The 39th player taken in the draft last week, the former West Virginia QB fired his agent yesterday.
Apparently, Smith thought he should have been the #1 pick in the entire draft and holds his agent accountable for the fact that he was passed up 38 times before finally being selected by the Jets.
I think Smith would have made as much sense if he would have fired his agent BECAUSE he got picked by the Jets.
That would have made as much sense as firing the guy because you weren't selected number one overall.
I have a feeling we're going to get lots of laughs out of Geno during his time in New York.
BTW, for the record, I'm taking Pittsburgh to beat Chicago in the NHL Finals.
That is, if Sydney Crosby returns to the Penguins for these playoffs, which apparently he will.
Without Crosby, they can't win it all.
With him, as much as it pains me to say it, they'll raise the Cup again in June.
Zach Britton is gone after one start.
Who comes up?
My guess is its Freddy Garcia. He'll start Saturday in Anaheim.
I wonder if Britton knew he was on such a short leash? One start, not good, back to the minors.
Anyway, Garcia won't be around for long. He'll have a good start or two, but when the dust settles and he's made ten starts in orange, you'll be clamoring for his release.


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A policy meant to help struggling students has some families at La Vergne High School raising questions.
During the lunch period, students who are making poor grades are separated from their classmates and forced to eat in a separate location.
"Number one, it's cutting their lunch down," said parent Paul Morecraft.
Morecraft's daughter, who has special needs, is in the 10th grade at La Vergne High. He says he's concerned about students being separated during lunch based on academic standing.
"To me, it's considered separation, because you have your special needs kids and the kids getting the good grades on one side, and the kids getting below an 80 on the other side," Morecraft said.
Morecraft contacted the Rutherford County School District about his concerns.
"I call it a civil rights violation and segregation, no doubt," Morecraft said.
School leaders say La Vergne High has a split lunch period, half academic intervention to help students who may be struggling in a subject and half lunch.
"They are not segregating them in the traditional sense. If the kids' scores are low in certain areas, they are getting help in that area. If you want to label that segregation, then that's not the correct way to label it," said Rutherford County Schools spokesman James Evans.
Evans said this has been a practice at La Vergne High for two years as part of a statewide pilot program. It was previously called ESPN - Enrichment, Study Hall, Peer Tutoring, Needs Remediation - and was also held during lunch hours.
Some schools chose to work the intervention program into the regular school day, but La Vergne High has chosen the split-lunch concept with some students going to the auditorium for a learning lab first.
"We all want our kids to be successful, and that's exactly what this school is trying to do," Evans said. "They are giving students additional intervention times in areas they are struggling with, and that's a good thing. I can't see how anyone will be against that."
Ximena Jinenez, an 11th grade student, says she is all for extra intervention help.
"I don't think it's bad, it's good. We all need it. We need that little help in our lives," she said.
But she feels the lunch period should be just for that: lunch.
"We just want to sit with our friends," Jinenez said.
School officials say this concept during lunch has been a proven success. Two years ago, the graduation rate at La Vergne High School was about 77 percent, and it's now almost 90 percent.
La Vergne High has been doing this lunchtime intervention program for the better part of two years. Other schools in the district chose to do it at other times during the school day.
It's all part of the Tennessee Department of Education's program "RTI Squared" - Response to Instruction and Intervention Initiative, which will be rolled out in all high schools in the state in July 2014.
However, it will be left up to the individual schools on how and what time during the day to implement it.
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So, sponsors are calling for FIFA to be investigated for corruption involving the award of the 2022 WC to Qatar.
What about the "cleansing" of the slums in Brazil? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-26809732
How about the removal of entire villages in Sochi for the Olympic games there?
Russia and Brazil can both somehow afford billions to host games, but Brazil can't move their populace out of cardboard shacks, and Russia is still the land of the Tzars, where people have absolutely no protection from the state coming in and taking their land.
Point being, I think it's time to admit that these pan-national sports organizations are hopelessly corrupt, and support and reinforce corrupt governments. Qatar is trying to position itself as a tourist destination in preparation for the inevitable collapse of their oil industry, yet they treat many of those who live within the borders of the country as untermensch.


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NEW YORK - JPMorgan Chase & Co. will pay more than $2.5 billion for ignoring obvious warning signs of Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, authorities said yesterday. The nation's largest bank will forfeit a record $1.7 billion to settle criminal charges, plus pay an additional $543 million to settle civil claims by victims.
NEW YORK - JPMorgan Chase & Co. will pay more than $2.5 billion for ignoring obvious warning signs of Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, authorities said yesterday.
The nation's largest bank will forfeit a record $1.7 billion to settle criminal charges, plus pay an additional $543 million to settle civil claims by victims.
It also will pay a $350 million civil penalty for what the Treasury Department called "critical and widespread deficiencies" in its programs to prevent money laundering and other suspicious activity.
The bank failed to carry out its legal obligations while Madoff "built his massive house of cards," George Venizelos, head of the FBI's New York office, said at a news conference.
"It took until after the arrest of Madoff, one of the worst crooks this office has ever seen, for JPMorgan to alert authorities to what the world already knew," he said.
Madoff banked at JPMorgan through what court papers referred to as the "703 account." In 2008, the bank's London desk circulated a memo describing JPMorgan's inability to validate his trading activity or custody of assets and his "odd choice" of a one-man accounting firm, the government said.
In late October 2008, it filed a suspicious-activity report with British officials. In the weeks that followed, JPMorgan withdrew about $300 million of its own money from Madoff feeder funds. The fraud was revealed when Madoff was arrested in December 2008.
"Despite all these alarm bells, JPMorgan never closed or even seriously questioned Madoff's Ponzi-enabling 703 account," said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. "On the other hand, when it came to its own money, JPMorgan knew how to connect the dots and take action to protect itself against risk."
Prosecutors called the $1.7 billion fine the largest forfeiture by a U.S. bank and the largest Department of Justice penalty for a Bank Secrecy Act violation.
The settlement includes a so-called deferred-prosecution agreement that requires the bank to acknowledge failures in its protections against money laundering but also allows it to avoid criminal charges. No individual executives were accused of wrongdoing.
The agreement resolves two felony violations of the Bank Secrecy Act in connection with the bank's relationship with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, the private-investment arm of Madoff's former business.
The Treasury Department's civil penalty was assessed because the bank failed to pass along to U.S. authorities suspicions about Madoff it had reported to Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency, and because the bank failed to detect and report other suspicious activity, including more than $2 billion in transactions involving the Puerto Rican affiliate of an unidentified Venezuelan bank, authorities said.
Under the agreement, criminal charges will be deferred for two years as JPMorgan admits to its conduct, pays the $1.7 billion into a fund established for victims of Madoff's fraud and reforms its anti-money-laundering policies, prosecutors said.
A statement of facts included in the agreement describes internal communications at JPMorgan expressing concerns about how Madoff was generating his purported returns. As early as 1998, a JPMorgan fund manager wrote that the returns were "possibly too good to be true" and there were "too many red flags."
In more recent years, executives were disturbed that Madoff wouldn't let the bank examine his books, according to the statement of facts.
"How much do we have in Madoff at the moment?" a bank analyst wrote in a 2008 email. "To be honest, the more I think about it, the more concerned I am."
In a statement, JPMorgan said it recognized it "could have done a better job pulling together various pieces of information and concerns about Madoff" but didn't believe any of its employees knowingly assisted the scam.
"Madoff's scheme was an unprecedented and widespread fraud that deceived thousands, including us, and caused many people to suffer substantial losses," the statement said.
Its shares fell 68 cents to $58.32 in trading yesterday.
Madoff, 75, pleaded guilty and is serving a 150-year prison term.
When his scam unraveled, account statements for thousands of his clients showed $60 billion in assets. In reality, the roughly $17.5 billion in principal they gave him was almost gone.
A court-appointed trustee has recovered more than $9.78 billion - including a portion of the JPMorgan civil payout - to redistribute to clients that invested directly with Madoff.


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Frederick police are looking for a robber who shot out a McDonald's restaurant window and forced an employee to open safe early Monday.
The robber was described as a short male of unknown age. He was wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, dark pants, dark shoes,a ski mask and gloves.
The robbery happened at 3:45 a.m. at Highway 52 and Interstate 25, according to a police news release. The doors of the restaurant were locked at the time.
The robber used a hand gun to shoot out the glass front door. He went to the back of the store to an office and ordered an employee at gunpoint to open the safe.
When the female employee opened the safe, the robber grabbed money and fled.
Witnesses did not see a vehicle or what direction the suspect went. Police set up a perimeter and searched the area with a K-9. The suspect was not found.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206, Denverpost.com/coldcases or twitter.com/kmitchelldp


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This Week in Dartmouth Rowing
Sat, Oct. 20 - at Head of the Charles Regatta
Head of the Charles Website Realtime Results Live Webcast
The Dartmouth crew teams will make the short drive to Boston's Charles River for the 49th Annual Head of the Charles regatta. The Big Green men's heavyweight, lightweight and women's squads will be racing in the prestigious event.
This is the first of two fall events on the schedule for all three squads. The teams will also race at the Princeton Chase event on Oct. 27.
Dartmouth at the Head of the Charles
The Big Green will be attending the prestigious Head of the Charles for the seventh time in the last eight seasons. The event draws some of the top collegiate and international competition each year.
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Lightweight Men
Sunday (Oct. 20) 8+-4:38 p.m.
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Sunday (Oct. 20) 8+-2:54 p.m.
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Sunday (Oct. 21) 8+ - 3:06 p.m.
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Acapulco is Mexico's original resort destination. Travelers flock to Acapulco every year to enjoy the fantastic beaches and world-famous nightlife. The city's main street, locally known as "The Costera" and home to most of the action in the city, is lined with hotels that provide easy access to beaches, shopping, restaurants and night clubs. Acapulco visitors shouldn't miss the world famous cliff divers--you can watch the dramatic shows several times a day from a public viewing area.
The hotels and resorts on this page have been divided into two groups. Immediately below are the all-inclusive Acapulco resorts, where lodging, meals, activities and more are rolled into one price. Farther down on this page, traditional hotels and resorts are listed.
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