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|Jim Rose's
|Kanji Café 「漢字カフェ」
|Embrace the Gaijin Within! 「無知の知は漢字カフェから始まる」
|Home | ICE MOCHA | Expresso Ristretto | Using Expresso | The Day I Met King Olav
|Downloads: 1,654 SODs & SODAs | kradfile-u | Katakana Tutorial | Katakana Chart | Hiragana Chart
"Why don't you act like a human being and sit up front with the rest of us."
- Nobel Laureate Herb Simon's first words to Jim Rose at a Carnegie Mellon lecture on learning foreign languages.
Features the hit single
Its a Japanese language learning tool from a higher plain of spiritual existence. Create & drill Japanese vocabulary lists while reading from over 160,000 real Japanese sentences: each with its own translation and glossary! On-the-fly Kanji look-up, yomigana on-off toggle, automated... over 1,600 Stroke Order Diagrams! Choose words from the built in 116,000 word dictionary, the Yomiuri Shinbun, by priority, from the Japanese Language Proficiency Test... and search kanji by multi-radical technique.
Expresso Ristretto
AKA the Kanji Cross-Reference Tool which allows you to simultaneously look-up kanji in multiple reference texts. A great time saver for studying the same character in multiple ways and really digging in deep.
How to Use Expresso
I think it explains the obvious, but sometimes its late at night, you're bills are late, the boss is threatening to fire you and replace you with his Russian mail order bride, and there just isn't time to grasp the obvious. You need someone to spell it out for you. I've tried to explain how one uses the Kanji Cross-Reference Tool, Expresso Ristretto as best one can from an HTML editor.
SOD and SODA License Agreement
(Note: If you are speaking a British variant of English, "license" is the American spelling of "licence".) Download and use any of 1,654 kanji stroke order animations or diagrams on your web page with this simple license.
kradfile-u (Unicode)
A file containing the radical decomposition of 13,108 Japanese characters created via a merger of kradfile, kradfile2, and 952 new decompositions. In 2007 Jim Rose published the EUC-JP encoded "kradfile2", the 5,801 JIS x 0212 kanji companion to Professor Jim Breen's kradfile, itself a 6,355 JIS x 0208 kanji file of radical decompositions used by the world's "search by multi-radical" programs and websites. KanjiCafe.com's release of the new 13,108 Unicode encoded kanji radical decomposition file greatly enhances the power of kanji search tools around the world.
Katakana Tutorial (PDF) | Katakana Chart (PDF) | Hiragana Chart (PDF)
Downlowad a chart of the katakana syllabary with romaji readings, and a chart of the hiragana syllabary, both in PDF format.
© 2003-2012 James Linden Rose, Kingdom of Hawai'i


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How can I offer my content on iTunes?
To offer your content on iTunes, complete the application.
Can I work directly with Apple or should I use an aggregator?
Aggregators are experts in delivering content to iTunes. For a fee, they can correctly format and deliver your content to Apple's specifications. View Apple-approved aggregators.
If you meet all the application requirements, you can sign up to offer your content by working directly with Apple. If you don't meet the requirements or if you have other operational or financial needs, it may be best to work with an aggregator.
What is the difference between an aggregator and an encoding house?
Aggregators are experts in delivering content to iTunes. They can also provide you with Universal Product Codes (UPC) and International Standard Recording Codes (ISRC) and distribute your music across multiple channels. Apple pays the aggregator for sales, and the aggregator then pays the content owner.
An encoding house can format music videos or concert films and deliver your content directly to your account on your behalf. Payments for content delivered by encoding houses are made from Apple to the content owner.
Do I need an Apple ID to offer my music on iTunes?
Yes, you must have an Apple ID and a current credit card on file with the iTunes Store. If you don't have an Apple ID, you will need to create one using iTunes.
How much does it cost to sign up to offer my content on iTunes?
Signing up to offer your music on iTunes is free. Additional details on the sales terms are available during the sign-up process.
Do I need Universal Product Code (UPC) and International Standard Recording Code (ISRC)?
Yes, both identifiers are required for all audio delivered to iTunes. The Universal Product Code (UPC) uniquely identifies an album and helps to ensure that you are marketing the right album. The International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) uniquely identifies individual songs.
Do I need a US Tax ID?
Yes, a US Tax ID is required as part of the iTunes Connect sign-up and authentication process. This requirement also applies to providers not based in the US. Request a US Tax ID.
Make sure you enter your US Tax ID correctly when applying. If you are prompted to complete US tax forms on iTunes Connect, you must use the same US Tax ID.
I get an error message that my name does not match the name for the Apple ID. What do I do?
Make sure that you have entered the correct Apple ID. To edit the name associated with your Apple ID, go to appleid.apple.com.
I already have an iTunes Connect account for another media type (such as apps, books, TV content or movies). Can I use it to offer music content?
If you currently have an iTunes Connect account to offer apps or books, you must create a new iTunes Connect account with a different Apple ID.
If you currently have an iTunes Connect account to offer TV content or movies, or if you have an Apple ID that you used to apply to offer TV content or movies on iTunes and the application is pending approval, you can use that Apple ID to complete the music application.
Who should apply to offer content on iTunes on behalf of my company?
Someone with the legal authority to sign documents on behalf of your company should apply to offer content on iTunes. Only that individual can accept the standard iTunes contract on iTunes Connect.
Should I use my own name or my company's name as the legal name?
If you're registered as a company, enter the legal entity name. If you're signing up as an individual, enter your first and last name. The legal name you enter should match the name associated with your US Tax ID and Tax ID type that you provide with your application.
What is iTunes Connect?
iTunes Connect is a website for iTunes content providers to manage content on the iTunes store, including access to iTunes Producer (Apple's app to prepare and submit content), hardware discounts, financial reports, sales and trends reports, and more.
How will I be notified of my application status?
You will be notified via email. Make sure your account is set up to receive email from email@example.com and check any spam filters on your email account.
If my application is accepted, in what countries will my content be available?
After your application has been accepted, you can request contracts for all regions in which the iTunes Store offers music. When a contract for a specific region has been finalised and all other requirements have been met, music that has been delivered with territory rights cleared in that region may be made available there.
Will a music contract allow me to offer music videos, ringtones, concert films and iTunes LPs?
Yes, you will be able to offer music videos, ringtones, concert films and iTunes LPs.
How do I deliver content to iTunes after my contract has been approved?
After you contract has been approved, you will have access to iTunes Producer, Apple's tool to prepare and deliver your content. Note that music videos and concert films cannot currently be delivered using iTunes Producer. You will need to work with an Apple-approved encoding house to deliver music videos and concert films.
How do I get more information about submitting music to the iTunes Store?
For questions about submitting music to the iTunes Store, email firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Information on each recalled product, and the steps you should take if you own such a product, are also set forth in more detail below. You may also visit the CPSC Web site at www.cpsc.gov for additional information or call their 24 hour Toll-Free Consumer Hotline at 1-800-638-2772.
Advisory: Portable Generator Hazards
Portable generators are useful when temporary or remote electric power is needed, but they can also be hazardous. The primary hazards to avoid when using a generator are carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning from the toxic engine exhaust, electric shock or electrocution, and fire. Every year, people die in incidents related to portable generator use. Most of the incidents associated with portable generators reported to CPSC involve CO poisoning from generators used indoors or in partially-enclosed spaces.
*Never run a portable generator indoors, including garages, basements and crawl spaces *Get to fresh air right away if you start to feel dizzy or weak
Visit the CPSC Web site
Recalls in Corded Window Treatments Due To Strangulation Hazard
The recall involves millions of window blinds with pull cords and inner cords that can form a loop and cause strangulation. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the Window Covering Safety Council are announcing a recall to repair horizontal window blinds to prevent the risk of strangulation to young children. About 85 million window blinds are sold each year.
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Recent News
August 29, 2013
Amport Foods Recalls Milk Chocolate Raisins
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of one lot of Amport Milk Chocolate Raisins because they may contain undeclared peanuts.
This product was distributed to Albertsons, Farm Fresh/Supervalu, Hy-Vee and The Kroger Co. stores in the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and West.
The affected product is as follows:
12oz Clear Tub (UPC: 0 71725 71190 8)
Lot Code: 078X344
Best Buy: 12-19-13
Lot number can be found printed on the bottom of the tub in black ink. A picture is enclosed to aid in product identification attached to this press release.
The full recall can be found at www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm366620.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery.


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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man." Mark Twain
"His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears." Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." Robert Louis Stevenson
"They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell." Emily Dickinson
"A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him!" Unknown
"Channeling the stamina, intelligence and exuberance of the dynamic Portuguese Water Dog is a highly rewarding, although noteworthy challenge for any dog fancier." Karen Miller-Stebbings
"To err is human, to forgive, canine." Unknown
"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of is tail." Unknown
"Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolance, Courage without Ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices." John Cam Hobhouse
"His name is not the wild dog anymore, but the first friend, Because he will be our friend for always and always and always." Rudyard Kipling
"If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also." Russian Proverb
"Make a special point everyday, of teaching your dog how to sit and stay. He will share your laughter and your tears, and always be faithful through the years." Unknown
"The Portuguese Water Dog is an animal of spirited disposition: self-willed, brave and very resistant to fatigue. He is a dog of exceptional intelligence and a loyal companion, who obeys his master with facility and apparent pleasure." Kathryn Braund
"The joy, the solace, and aid of man..." George Crabbe
"From his impressive head with piercing gaze through a rugged body to his powerful tail carried up in a ring with its characteristic flowing flag, he presents an indelible impression of strength, spirit and soundness" CKC
"Never be mean, Don't ever be cruel. He'll always be happy to play the fool. Remember he loves you, with all of his might. So stroke and caress him every night." Unknown
"One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why." Unknown
"My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am." Unknown
"If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience." Woodrow Wilson
"Love me, love my dog." George Chapman
"I am a breeder, and there will be more dogs at my funeral than people. I hope!" Joanna Kimball
"Every puppy should have a boy." Erma Bombeck
"Every dog must have his day." Jonathan Swift
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." Andy Rooney
"A dog is better than I am, for he has love and does not judge." Saint Xanthais
"Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really." Agnes Sligh Turnbull
"Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made." Roger Caras
"When you tire of puppies ... you tire of life!" Unknown
"The robustness and high spirit of this fisherman's dog must be understood as natural exuberance." Karen Miller-Stebbings
"The Portuguese Water Dog is defined by his job" CKC
"Once known to a Portuguese Water Dog, expect a raucous welcome, with an offering of a favourite toy, accompanied by a cacophony of extraordinary sounds." Karen Miller-Stebbings
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." Roger Caras
"A dog is not 'almost human' and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such." John Holmes
"An animal of spirited disposition, he is self-willed, brave and very resistant to fatigue" CKC
"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog treats in your pocket and then giving your Portuguese Water Dog only two of them." Unknown
"The greatest love is a mother's, Then comes a dog's..." Polish Proverb
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." Unknown
"He has a hard, penetrating and attentive expression, splendid sight and a fair nose." CKC
"The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be." Konrad Lorenz
"A dog can express more with his eyes in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours." Unknown
"He displays a proud carriage, and a light happy attitude." CKC
"The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog." George Graham Vest
"He bonds readily and is loyal to his crewmates." Karen Miller-Stebbings
"If your dog is too fat, you are not getting enough exercise." Unknown
"The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them." Stanley Coren
"Here, gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity." Napoleon Bonaparte
"The dog has the soul of a philosopher." Plato
"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails." Max Eastman
"A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied." Irish Proverb
"The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end." George Crabbe
"Exceptionally intelligent and a loyal companion, he does his job with facility and obvious pleasure" CKC
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|OwnerCarolynne Issa, LunaNova
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|SireCH Magnolia's Apollo Sir
|DamMount Olympus Venus Mudlushes
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- Cleaning, Polishing & Grinding
- Clinical Analysis & Diagnostics
- Coating & Surface Treatment
- Controlled & Modified Atmospheres
- Cutting, Joining & Heating
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- Fumigation & Pestcontrol
- Inerting, purging, sparging
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As the sulphur content in crude oil rises, many refineries are increasingly relying on Claus plants to increase flexibility in handling feed gas composition variations. Claus plants convert concentrated hydrogen sulphide (H2S) fractions into elemental sulphur. They can also remove pollutants, particularly by decomposing ammonia.
However, environmental regulations continue to tighten, putting growing pressure on Claus sulphur recovery processes and this step can become a bottleneck within the refinery.
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DEMO 2009: cc:Betty Organizes Your Overflowing Inbox
I'm a fan of the "inbox zero" philosophy and try to keep my mailbox as empty as possible, but I know people who have thousands of messages in their inbox at any given time. For those people, there's cc:Betty, a new service announced at DEMO, that can help you organize your mail and all the content you get in your inbox without you having to lift a finger.
Betty organizes your mail by discussion or topic and collects your attachments by type to help you get to the bottom of your inbox faster without having to read every single message you've received. All you have to do is sign up for an account and add Betty to the CC list when you send a message.
Cc:Betty is pretty simple to use. Once you've signed up, simply include the cc:Betty e-mail address in your initial outgoing message and as long as she is on the cc list, she'll continue organizing your discussions and conversations. While you work, Betty is busy building out your profile and organizing your messages and attachments into what the developers call your "mailspace," where you can see what active e-mail conversations you have going, what calendar appointments you have, and even a gallery of images, videos, or audio that you've received.
The service reminds me a lot of the now-closed I Want Sandy, another virtual "assistant" which had a similar intent. Betty only works with your inbox however, where Sandy helped organize your entire life with to-do lists and reminders. Cc:Betty is designed to help you get to the bottom of your mailbox without sifting through each message to see where you have to get involved.
You can send cc:Betty multiple types of documents and files, and she'll store them in your account and keep them close to the discussion to which they're related. For example, cc:Betty supports calendar appointments in .ics format and will add your appointments to a built-in calendar. You can send cc:Betty most video files and you can play them inside your account, and if you send cc:Betty images, she'll automatically create an image gallery of those photos and present them to you in a slideshow. You can e-mail Betty messages up to 20MB, and if you use the Web site you can upload files up to 100MB.
As much as cc:Betty allows you to organize your files, the service's real benefit is in how easy it is to follow discussions and easily look up who said what or who sent which file when. If your inbox is out of control and you could use a little order, cc:Betty is in beta, but is free and available now. The service is still new so expect bugs, but expect more features in the future.


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This article describes the processes for licensing your dog and clearing citations (both BAMC and City of Berkeley).
Every dog living in the City of Berkeley and over the age of 6 months must be licensed. You can purchase your Berkeley dog license at the Animal Shelter, 1 Bolivar Drive during regular business hours or at the License and Collections Department, 1947 Center Street, which is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
You may also access information regarding dog licenses online at: Animal Licenses
You must provide proof of current rabies vaccination and, if applicable, a veterinarian certificate of spay or neuter. Spayed or neutered dog licenses are half price.
The Berkeley Animal Care & Services Division issues two types of citations.
1. Berkeley/Albany Municipal Court Citations (BAMC)Purchase your dog license as described above.
Take the citation and proof of current dog license to either:
The Traffic Window, 2120 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, 1st floor (Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.), orThe Animal Shelter, 1 Bolivar Drive -- Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat -- 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. , Wed. -- 10:00 to 7:00 and Sun. -- 11:00 to 3:00.Failure to complete this process within 14 working days from the date of violation will result in a fine.
2. City of Berkeley /Administrative Citations
The role of the administrative citation is give violators a strong financial incentive to cure their violations.
The process of obtaining a dog license remains the same. Along with the purchase of the dog license is a $100.00 fine that is processed as a penalty for violation of a City ordinance.


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BSNL's IPTV service to roll out by July in KolkataSaturday, April 28th, 2007
Mr. Raman Agarwal - the Jadavpur Area Manager of Calcutta Telephones is going to watch today's Cricket World Cup final on BSNL's yet to be launched IPTV service. As I sat in his office at the Ranikuthi Exchange, a 21″ Panasonic TV was unpacked, a DataOne connection was installed and tested, next came the IPTV set-top box. It was smaller than an ADSL modem, it's shape strangely resembled the Nivo from Ndiyo. Must be a coincidence!
The Set-top box had a power-in socket, a RJ-45 socket, an USB 2.0 socket and a pair of A/V cable sockets, of which only one was being used. The box was silk-screened "Digital Dolby". A remote completed the ensemble. The connection for the TV setup was like phone_line -> splitter -> ADSL modem with 4 10/100Mbit port -> IPTV-to-PAL converter->TV set.
BSNL is converting the digital transmissions from both pay services as well as free-to-air ones into MPEG4 format and streaming them. The proposed service would offer about 110 channels, I watched some 10 - 12 channels today. Plus I tried the VoD (Video-on-Demand) service, currently there are only 4 movies in their library, I tried the first one… it was Arjun Pandit … unfortunately, i was never a fan of Sunny Deol
The picture and sound quality was consistent and sharp, but I did notice a few glitches now and then. This was apparently due to some new network switch being tested at the CalTel HO. The good news is that IPTV can be actually watched on the PC/Laptop without even the STB. What do we need of the computer… just VLC and the IP address and port numbers of the streaming server(s)


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|10000 Piece/Pieces per Day coffee mug gift box
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|Guangdong China
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|24 hours printing
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|Embossing,Glossy Lamination,Matt Lamination,Stamping,UV Coating,Varnishing,Customized
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|CMYK, Pantone color, As customer's request
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|Custom cardboard paper coffee beer mug packaging gift box
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|Custom cardboard paper coffee beer mug packaging gift box: PP bag for each product; Cardboard for division; Corrugated carton box
Custom cardboard paper coffee beer mug packaging gift box
Body: Corrugated paper+coated paper, Customized
CMYK or Pantone color as your request
Rectangular box, customized
Surface Finishing
Hot stamping, Embossing, varnishing, matte lamination, Customized
Coffee mug packaging box, etc.
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With independent R&D team, we have our owe brand. Meanwhile, we can customize any packing boxes based on your requirements.
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2.All gift boxes can be printed, foil stamped, debossed or embossed with your own brand logo.
3.MOQ : 1000 pcs.
4.Custom sample for check is acceptable.
5.China cardboard box manufacturers with over 10 years experience.
The cardboard packaging boxes are custom spot color printing .And we accept any size and any design of cardboard boxes for packing.
Also we can send you some customized samples for you confirm before you place an order.
Besides, you can choose other surface treatment like hot stamping, vanishing, glossy lamination, embossing/debossing on all customized gift boxes.
Kindly free to CONTACT US for more information, up to 50% Discount can be given.
Established in 2008, 24 Hours Printing (Shenzhen) Co., ltd. has professional team with comprehensive techniques. All-round capabilities include research and design, mold development, appurtenances production, marketing strategy and export trading, our target of operation to be the leader of packing industry.
We manufacture over 5,000 products in 8 series, selecting high-quality materials from local or overseas, such as delicate wrapping paper, leather/PU, PVC, flannel, cardboard, wooden material, in which our gift boxes are tailor-made for deluxe watches, perfume. cosmetics, premium gift, jewelry, medal, etc…
WELCOME any enquiries from worldwide customers, 24 Hours Printing will satisfy your need and offer you better services , to reach the win-win situation.
Our company attend trade shows each year. And our factory located in Shenzhen, China.Welcome to visit our factory and we will show samples as well provide more information about the product you're interested in .
Are you a manufacturer?
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Do you have stock products to sell?
No, we only accept OEM/ODM order .
All the paper boxes are customized with your own design artwork printing, and if you do not have the design, we have professional designer to design for you.
What is the common delivery time?
Normally 25 days after confirmation of order.
Can I get some samples?
After price confirmation, you can require samples to check our quality. We provide blank sample and digital printed sample free of charge.
What is your minimum order quantity?
Usually, our Minimum order quantity is 1000 pieces per size and color, and for flower boxes, the MOQ can be 500pcs.
What is the price?
Please provide us the following details of the paper box you want ,then will can quote you exactly .
Box size with shape, Paper material, Order quantity, Printing color and design, surface treatment or any other order request.
How to control the products' quality?
We have always placed great emphasis on quality control to ensure that excellent quality level is maintained. Moreover, the principle we always maintain is " to provide customers with better quality, better price and better service " .
How Can I arrange shipment ?
1) You can either use your required shipping forwarder, give me the contact so that I can arrange the shipment for you.
2) If you don't have required shipping forwarder, just give me the airport or sea port so that I can give you quotation and then I will arrange shipment, you will not have headache even you have no experience in it, and our marketing team will give you professional advice in shipping , we can give you air freight cost with delivery time and sea freight cost with delivery time.


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511358 New Mens Natural Mahogany Mink Fur Sections Vest Jacket Coat Stroller L
Size- Large
Overall length- 28
Sweep at Bottom- 46 "
Shoulder to Shoulder- 17.5"
Sleeve Length from Neck Seam- N/A
Across Back from Armpit to Armpit- 23.5"
Chest at fullest with coat closed- 47"
Closure type- Zipper
Fur garment sizing is not always accurate. Although a size may be provided, to ensure a proper fit, measure one of your own garments and compare the measurements to those provided above. All measurements provided above are in INCHES.
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Blower Motor Resistor Replacement Cost
Know what price you should pay to get your vehicle fixed.
What is a blower motor resistor?
The blower motor is a fan housed in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) ducts, normally located behind the glove box. It uses a resistor to change the speed at which the fan operates.
How does the heater blower motor resistor work?
The air conditioning and heating controls allow you to switch fan speeds — and the blower motor resistor controls that speed once you select it. The resistor is between the power source and the fan, and allows only the desired amount of power to go to the fan. When the fan receives less power, it turns slowly, and when it receives more power, it will speed up.
What are the symptoms related to a bad heater blower motor resistor?
When the blower motor resistor fails, the air conditioner and heater may still work, but air may blow from the vents at only some of the fan speed settings.
If the resistor isn't replaced for some time after starting to act up, it may fail completely, leaving the entire system useless.
Can I drive with a heater blower motor resistor problem?
Driving with a defective blower motor resistor can be inconvenient, but there's no safety risk. If it has failed completely, you won't be able to use the heat, A/C or even the fan, so that won't be fun during extreme heat or cold.
How often do heater blower motor resistors need to be replaced?
Blower motor resistors aren't a maintenance item — they don't have a set replacement schedule. They can last the life of a vehicle, and age can be a factor as the plastic can become brittle over time, or heat may cause electronic failure. The amount of use a blower motor receives may also be a factor.
How are blower motor resistor issues diagnosed?
The mechanic will perform a series of tests that can lead to the blower motor resistor. This includes checking fuses and making sure the resistor is receiving power. If power reaches the blower motor resistor, but the blower motor does not receive that power, the resistor is probably faulty. It will be removed, inspected and bench tested to make sure it's the culprit.
Blower Motor Resistor Replacement Cost Estimates
The average cost for a Blower Motor Resistor Replacement is between $118 and $160 but can vary from car to car.
How is a blower motor resistor replaced?
Either the glove box or lower cover will be removed from the dashboard to grant access to the blower motor service cover. The cover is removed, and the blower motor resistor is disconnected from its electronic connectors. Finally, the blower motor retaining screws will be removed, and the blower motor will be taken out.
The new resistor will be installed into the blower motor, and then the unit will be put back in the reverse of the order listed above.
RepairPal recommendations for blower motor resistor issues
Testing is imperative to making a proper diagnosis. We recommend disconnecting the battery any time there is an open electrical circuit.
Can I replace the heater blower motor resistor myself?
A skilled DIYer can accomplish this diagnosis and repair. A basic understanding of a series electrical circuit, a few basic tools, and a digital voltage meter are all that is required.
It's important that the DIYer understand the testing procedures for the blower motor circuit, as failing to properly test the blower motor may lead to unnecessary costs.
If you feel uncertain about this repair, take it to a certified mechanic instead.
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The Aviation and Commercial Business Department functions as the landlord for the Airport
and other Authority-owned and operated facilities and leaseholds. It also serves
as the Authority's representative in acquiring off-airport property rights
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-An NPC merchant selling insects and other creepy crawlies-
"You want horseflies? Giant wasp? Gigmucc has them all on his cart, Gigmucc has a discount just for you..."
Tilde is a charismatic hume who works as a fixer for the hume commune on the dark side of the moon, setting up contracts between the commune and freelancers or mercenary agencies.
Captain Aubrey surveyed the deck of the captured sloop. He was amazed that such well run ship could crewed by such a motley gang of men. He turned to the doctor and wondered, "No man is born into piracy. What were these many fellows before they took up the black flag? Surely they can not all share the same story."
Human Interaction and Relations Robot, female appearance
Behind every great man is an astonished woman. Or the woman who did it for him.
Man, machine, ghost, myth, legend, hero, and villain. No one is really sure who, or even what the Iron Ghost is.
Thirty wenches to pour the beer and feed hungry customers. And do other things as well...
'You can't just run around killing goblins and looting temples, this isn't the old days my boy. To make it today you've got to be part of the guild, and you need a team, and a look, and most importantly you need a manager. Like me.'
Marla (Fight Club) - as the salesperson whose species reproduces by cloning or similar technology.
PC generated by random generator
28- Captain's Wench
This is an upscale dockside working girl (oxymoron?). She will only "be with" a Captain or Officer. She is prettier, cleaner, and more refined than what one would expect. She is more of an escort, making the captain buy her drinks and food (as well as others). She actually works for the house to promote people to spend.
A wanderer of sorts, Brelan is one of the few Kel'Regar men who have chosen to mix freely with the greater galactic society, having found his calling at last behing the bar.
Being a picky eater as a vampire can be quite troublesome.
Some people have neither good nor bad luck; they instead have a certain whimsy of fate attached to them, placing them at the center of bizarre events whether they wish it or not. Joseph Random is one such individual…
"One for you," He mumbled, pouring some rum onto his boots, "And a few gulps for me, and we're off."
He took a large gulp from the bottle, put his boots on, and was out the door in a flash.
"Looking for something?, a nice little suprise for the wife?; No. Or perhaps you are looking for that which you cannot buy on the open market.. Yes.. well whatever it is, we no doubt have it."
What if the innkeeper knew what you wanted before you did?
Why did you buy all those Iron Spikes?
"You may have wondered what lead me down this path? It was the simple observation I made while escavating the tomb of an ancient chieftan If only these bones could talk…"
From the personal account of Meridah Onware, in discussion with Professor Siana Tamar.
First, you get the gold. Then you get the power. I could care about the women, I've had the men in the palm of my hand since I was 17.
Memoirs of Wealth, excerpt
30 Mostly Maddening Merchants
As you emerge from the shop in the alleyway, not-too-distant clanging and stamping makes you wary. Further investigation reveals a massive Balgrian protest march flooding the main street, banners roaring about the inhuman conditions in which this ethnic group is forced to live. City guards stand helplessly by, beating up the odd protestor, but unable to hold back the flow. Onlookers throw vegetables at the Balgrians, and shout abuse.


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Why Cite?
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Whenever you include a word, phrase, or idea from a source. That source can include a web page, classroom lecture, an interview with your Uncle Pete, a quote or summary from a book, magazine, etc.
Even a single word from someone else, when included in your own essay, needs to be set off with quotation marks and then cited.
There are several options....ask your professor what they prefer!
MLA - Modern Language Association
- Usually used when writing about humanities--philosophy, history, literature, rhetoric and communication
- 2 parts of MLA citation: in the body of your document and in the works cited list
In the body of your paper:
The first gambling Web site appeared in 1995, and online gambling has since become the most lucrative Internet business (Will 92).
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Gray Whale
Gray whale
IUCN: Critically endangered (western subpopulation)Read more
Scientific Name
Eschrichtius robustus
Over 26,000 but only about 150 western gray whales
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Physical DescriptionThe gray whale appears very different from any other whales and indeed is contained in its own taxonomic family. Instead of a dorsal fin, gray whales have a dorsal hump followed by nine to 13 bumps along their dorsal ridges. They produce a range of sounds including moans, rumbles and growls. The most prevalent call is a series of knocking sounds. Gray whales were known by whalers as "devilfish" because they defended themselves and their calves so fiercely.
Gray whales in the Baja California region are known as being "friendly" – they have an unusual tendency to approach whale-watching boats and even let whale-watchers touch them and scratch their tongues.
These whales grow to between 12.2 and 15.2 m, with females about 1 m longer than the males.
They are mottled gray, while whale lice and parasitic barnacles create light coloured patches on their bodies.
Ecology & Habitat
Can still fall prey to killer whalesAs shallow-water feeders, gray whales stay close to coasts.
Life Cycle
Gray whales become sexually mature at around eight-years old. Calves can swim as soon as they are born and can double their weight in about three months, and double their length in about two years. Mother and calf form a very close attachment, with the calf spending the majority of its time swimming close to its mother.
It's difficult to tell how old gray whales are because they have no teeth (which can be used to estimate age in other mammals). They may die of natural causes but sometimes fall prey to killer whales.
During the summer, gray whales are found alone or in small groups. It has been suggested that mating occurs in the winter, and some mating activity has been witnessed in the breeding lagoons. Pregnant females return to the feeding grounds for the summer, returning to breeding areas to calve the following winter. The gestation period lasts for about 13 months, and they breed every two to four years.
Gray whales, like other baleen whales, strain their food from the water through baleen plates. However, they are different from other shallow feeding great whales in that they prefer prey that lives near or on the sea floor. They are the only large whale that feeds primarily on the ocean floor, rolling in the mud to suck benthic organisms from the sea bottom.
Priority species
Whales and dolphins are a priority species. WWF treats priority species as one of the most ecologically, economically and/or culturally important species on our planet. And so we are working to ensure such species can live and thrive in their natural habitats.
Population & Distribution
Highly organized migratory systemPrevious population and distribution
The species was decimated in the North Atlantic during the last 300-400 years. Very little is known regarding its disappearance. Whaling records show no evidence that the Atlantic gray whale was hunted in huge numbers that would have caused its extinction. If it relied on shallow breeding lagoons, it is possible that its habitat disappeared and whaling simply hastened its extinction.
Current population and distribution
The eastern North Pacific stock of gray whales prefer shallow, coastal waters and feed over the oceanic continental shelves of the Bering and Chukchi seas between Alaska and Russia during the summer. In the winter, many migrate along the west coast of the US, Canada, and Mexico, a distance of several thousand miles.
Gray whales have one of the longest annual migrations of any species - only humpback whales have been known to occasionally travel longer distances between their feeding and breeding grounds.
There are encouraging signs of population recovery of the eastern stock, which numbers approximately 26,000 individuals. This is occurring despite an annual hunt in Russia, regulated by an International Whaling Commission quota.
A cause for concern recently is the mortality sustained by the species on its migration route and in the winter breeding areas, and the decline in newborn calves. This could herald a potential decline in abundance of the eastern Pacific stock, or may be the result of natural mortalities indicating that the population has reached its carrying capacity.
Western gray whales migrate into their summer feeding grounds near Sahkalin Island, Russia, in late May or early June, returning to their winter feeding grounds in the South China Sea in late autumn.
Some scientists have suggested there may be a breeding ground for this population along the coast of southern China, but to date no breeding area has been located. It is not known whether the western population relies on shallow coastal lagoons for breeding, as is the case for the eastern Pacific population.
What are the threats to the gray whale?
Shipping and whale lanes: deadly crossings for cetaceansLike other large whales, gray whales are now threatened by environmental change, including habitat loss and toxics, and are also harmed by ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear, especially during their annual migrations through the coastal waters of Japan, Korea, and China.
The Eastern North Pacific population of gray whales, numbering more than 20,000 whales, is a great conservation success story and was removed from the United States Endangered Species List in 1994. Today they are subject to a small aboriginal hunt off the coast of the northwestern US.
The Western North Pacific gray whale population is currently most severely threatened. Seismic activity from a major oil and gas field in its principal summer feeding area off Sakhalin Island in Russia's Okhotsk Sea posed a significant threat to the population.
Oil and gas
Sakhalin II is an extensive multinational project in eastern Russia that includes platform dredging, an undersea pipeline to be trenched through the benthic feeding habitat of the north-west Pacific gray whale population, and the dumping of drilling wastes into the sea. Operating in difficult climate and seismic conditions, including high earthquake activity, heavy ice pack, frequent storms and fog, the project presents risks of a catastrophic oil spill not unlike that of the Exxon Valdez.
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What is WWF doing?
Other activities include pushing for stricter environmental standards for offshore oil and gas projects, engaging a local energy company regarding their operations, and running a public campaign to raise awareness regarding the threats posed by the Sakhalin offshore oil and gas projects pose to whales.
How you can help
- Support efforts to improve fishing gear by only buying seafood that is MSC certified. This can help to reduce the incidence of marine bycatch, which kills whales and other marine life like turtles, dolphins, and seabirds.
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Antihistamine pills are included in allergy kits to stop or reduce itching, hives,
sneezing and wheezing, and other symptoms caused by an
allergic reaction. Examples of antihistamines include diphenhydramine (such as Benadryl) and chlorpheniramine (such as Chlorphen and Chlor-Trimeton). The antihistamine pills are not a substitute for an
epinephrine shot.
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wheezing, occur when a chemical called histamine is released as part of the
allergic reaction to an
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Antihistamines can make people sleepy or make it harder
for them to concentrate. These medicines should be used carefully by people who
need to drive or operate heavy machinery. Other side effects include dry mouth,
nausea and vomiting, restlessness or irritability (especially in children),
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When melanoma spreads (metastasizes), it usually spreads first into
lymph nodes. It can also spread through the
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If the melanoma is on a leg or arm,
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You may notice changes in a new or existing mole, such as:
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When melanoma has spread only to nearby tissues or lymph nodes, treatments such as immunotherapy can sometimes work. But after melanoma has spread to other places in the body, cure is very rare. In these cases, treatment to manage symptoms may help a person live longer.
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How to Lock a PowerPoint 2007 Presentation with a Password
If you don't want just any Tom, Dick, or Harry to look at your PowerPoint presentation, lock your presentation with a password and give out the password only to people whose opinions you trust. Follow these steps to clamp a password on a PowerPoint presentation:
2Click the Tools button and choose General Options on the pop-up menu.
The General Options dialog box appears.
3Enter a password in the Password to Open text box.
Others will need the password you enter to open the presentation. Passwords are case sensitive. In other words, you have to enter the correct combination of upper- and lowercase letters to successfully enter the password. If the password is Valparaiso (with an uppercase V), entering valparaiso (with a lowercase v) is deemed the wrong password and doesn't open the presentation.
4Enter a password in the Password to Modify text box if you want others to supply a password not to edit the presentation.
Unless they have this password, others can't edit this presentation or save it under a different name. The presentation will open as a read-only file. It can be viewed, but not altered.
5Click OK.
The Reenter Password to Open dialog box appears.
6Enter the Open password you gave in Step 3 and click OK.
If you entered a Modify password, enter it as well and click OK.
7Click the Save button in the Save As dialog box.
PowerPoint informs you that the presentation already exists and asks whether you want to replace the existing file.
8Click Yes in the message box.
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Obama cabinet could mean musical chairs for Virginia
As President-elect Barack Obama begins to announce personnel decisions for his White House, the speculation runs wild that Virginia's turning blue for the first time since 1964 could mean that a few prominent Old Dominion Democrats would land new gigs in Washington. Those rumors are particularly loud for one of Obama's earliest supporters, Gov. Tim Kaine. Kaine still has one year left before he is term-limited out of the governor's mansion, and despite the fact that he's said he will serve out his term, many believe that just as Kaine was a finalist to be Obama's running mate, he's being eyed for a cabinet post. Should that come to pass, it would set into motion a chain of events unprecedented in the history of the Commonwealth.
Since the General Assembly instituted the one-term limit in 1852, no governor has ever voluntarily left office before the end of his term. (The Union army forced William Smith, governor during the days of the Confederacy, out of office in 1865.) Should Kaine become, say, Attorney General as Politico posited Monday, that would make Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling the Commonwealth's new chief executive, thus handing over the office from a Democrat to a Republican. That means, for one year, Republicans would get to set the General Assembly's legislative agenda and make political appointments.
Such a development would also throw a monkey-wrench into Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell's plans to be the Republican nominee for governor in next year's election. He and Bolling have already reached an agreement that should Kaine vacate Richmond, McDonnell would step aside and let Bolling run to keep the state's top job. Bolling and McDonnell each tested the waters to decide who between the two of them would run for governor, and the state party eventually annointed McDonnell their de facto nominee over Bolling. Should Bolling run to keep the governorship, conventional wisdom has it that he would be a weaker candidate than McDonnell against either State Senators Creigh Deeds (D-Bath), Brian Moran (D-Fairfax), who have already announced their candidacies, or former Democratic National Committee chair and Clinton advisor Terry McAuliffe, who is reported to be contemplating a run.
But Kaine isn't the only Virginia Dem in the Obama cabinet mix. Sen. Jim Webb, having already served as Secretary of the Navy under President Reagan, is widely considered to be a candidate for Secretary of Defense, as Politico also reported. Webb still has four more years to his Senate term, and it would fall to Gov. Kaine to appoint someone to fill out the term. But whom might Kaine appoint?
Well, the top ranking Dems in the state after Kaine, Webb, and Senator-elect Mark Warner, are the state's recently re-elected congressmen Bobby Scott (D-Newport News, who would be Virginia's first African American senator), Jim Moran (D-Alexandria, and brother of aforementioned Brian), and Rick Boucher (D-Abingdon). Then there are rising stars Glenn Nye (D-Norfolk), and Gerry Connolly (D-Fairfax) who just flipped two of Virginia's seats in the House of Representatives from red to blue, a category to which Tom Perriello (D-Ivy) might be added come December after the imminent recount of a tight vote he currently leads. Kaine might also try to alleviate some intraparty tension and choose either Deeds, Brian Moran, or McAuliffe in order to have one fewer Dem running for the gubernatorial nomination.
However, all of the above (save McAuliffe) would require additional appointments to fill these elected officials' positions. Kaine may just simplify things and choose someone who doesn't currently hold elective office such as former congressman L.F. Payne (D-Nelson), former Lt. Gov. Don Beyer (D-Falls Church), or former governor and director of UVA's Miller Center of Public Affairs Gerald Baliles (D-Charlottesville).
But this is inside-the-box thinking. We've got a few local Democratic supporters right here in our backyard who might fit the bill. What about best-selling author John Grisham (after all, he did serve in the Mississippi House of Representatives before writing novels), venture capitalist and Mark Warner's former business partner Jim Murray (he was largely responsible for the big Obama fundraiser at the Charlottesville Pavilion last October). Or, if you want to talk about real change, even Dave Matthews Band manager and Democratic donor Coran Capshaw (though we suspect a U.S. Senator's annual salary of $169,300 is slightly less than what Capshaw is currently pulling in per year).
But, of course, we're getting ahead of ourselves.
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There has been one Governor since 1852 who did not server his full term. William Smith was removed from office in 1865 by an invading army.
I don't care what position President Obama gives me, as long as a 3/4 ton black Secret Service Suburban with a Dillon Aero gun turret is part of the benefits package. :)
Kaine resigning his office would be a very, very bad thing for Virginia Democrats. Giving the GOP complete control next year has "potential disaster" written all over it. Can anybody remember the last time that happened? Gilmore threw the state into a financial hole like the state had never seen before.
When you consider that Virginia's Republican's are among the most wingnuttiest of the wingnuts, abdicating power to them would be a major surrender - particularly in a state that went from red to purple to blue in just 4 short years.
FYI - Virginia doesn't have term limits. The constitution doesn't allow the governor to serve consecutive terms, but as far as I know they can win every other election.
I think John Grisham would make a good Governor. after all, he cares for distressed drivers!
Sick, that Vehicle was quite possibly the most badass thing i've ever seen. But this man can only dream....
It's a good article and it's much discussed among my political buddies in Virginia.
Welcome to CHANGE. Rahm Emanuel is the first hint of what CHANGE looks like. Not that different from the past it seems.
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Thanks for the kind words and thanks for reading.
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can i tell you that if i had that gun turret out of my suv, i would be the most happenin-est man in town!
I would love to have one too. But I'm not sure they're available to the public even through a Class 3 firearms transaction. And most civilians can't afford to fire a Dillon Aero very often anyway! :)
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Dillon Guns are reliable. The M134D has system life in excess of one million rounds and an average time between stoppage of 30,000 rounds. In the unlikely event of a stoppage the weapon can be serviced and made operational again in under a minute. The multi barrel design means that each barrel only experiences a 500 round per minute rate of fire. This allows for repeated long bursts of fire and a barrel group life of 100,000 rounds.
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To what exact purpose would one put such a weapon on the top of a SUV? Seems like even in Baghdad one could not fire such a thing indiscriminately. Life is not a video game, but is that the fantasy? I guess I don't get it.
The SUV it is installed in is part of the Presidential Protection fleet, a/k/a Secret Service. An ordinary citizen would have no practical use for it unless the dead were to rise as blood sucking zombies one night.
Now of course if you surf the Internet much you wll find quite a few people who would like to have one handy the day ATF starts going door to door confiscating firearms from honest law abiding citizens. I have seen some pretty radical foolishness floating around the Internet for the last week about the gun control President Elect Obama has on his agenda. We all know one of the first things he will do once in office is work on reinstating the Assault Weapon Ban -- permanently. Sad part about it is most of the weapons on the Assault Weapon Ban bill aren't even true assault weapons. Trust me, it's already on his agenda. See link.... scroll down to the Justice segment....
Before anybody goes off the deep end, I too believe in strict gun control. Being a criminal is pretty dangerous when citizens are allowed to have firearms in their homes to defend themselves.
Why is he driving a Kia not a Volvo?
Where is Ivy?
The whole house truss system invented by the U.S. Forest Service about 30 years ago, patent #4,005,556 is the most capable of becoming factory made with panels not relying on skin bonds. Other panels in this category require extra studs for fastening them together.
How can I get in touch with PER S.?
Per, Would you be interested in building an "L" shaped 800 sq.ft. house to be placed on the 6th floor roof of my building in NYC. Could be a challenge and lots of customers would follow - penhouses on roofs of city buildings are proliferating. Thanks for your reply.
How can Iget in touch with Per Sjolinder in order to consider the introduction of this building system in Portugal?
Luis M
Is there such thing as a pre-fab portical roof for a front door?
Dont know if he is still in business....
This is our future....
Per is still working hard at lifting eurohomes off the ground. There is very much interest surrouning his operations and shows signs of expanding exponentially. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have further questions for him or ask me.
I am looking for triple pane windows.


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Pope tells mafia, Pope Francis spoke out against mafia organizations exploiting and enslaving people, calling on mafiosi on Sunday to repent in words that recalled an impassioned plea by Pope John Paul II 20 years ago.
Speaking off the cuff after his weekly Angelus blessing in St. Peter's Square, Francis spoke about the mafia for the first time since he became pontiff two months ago.
High profile killings by the Italian mafia have declined since the 1990s, but through activities such as prostitution, extortion and drug trafficking they still wield a heavy influence over the country and its economy.
Italy's main crime groups - the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta and the Camorra from around the southern city of Naples - have a joint annual turnover of 116 billion euros ($150 billion), according to the United Nations.That is more than the annual sales of Italy's biggest company, oil giant Eni.
Francis recalled the example of the Sicilian anti-mafia priest Giuseppe Puglisi, who was killed by gunmen in 1993 outside his home in the island's capital of Palermo, and was beatified on Saturday ."My thoughts are with the suffering of women, men and also children who are exploited by the many mafias who make them slaves, through prostitution, through many social pressures," he said.
"They cannot do this, they cannot make our brothers slaves, we must pray to the Lord to make these mafiosi convert to God."
In one of his most famous addresses in Agrigento, Sicily, in May 1993, John Paul angrily called on mafiosi to "repent, because one day you will face the judgment of God".
Earlier, Francis made his first visit to a Rome parish when he said Mass outside a church in the northern fringe of the city, joking with local children during the service.
"You can understand reality better from the outskirts than the center," he said in front of the modern, red brick church of Saints Elisabeth and Zachariah, a far cry from the vast 16th century Basilica of St. Peters in the Vatican.
During the service the pope, who is bishop of Rome, held a light-hearted question and answer session with children about the roles of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
"Whoever gets it right will win the derby," he said, in a reference to the Italian soccer cup final to be played later between Rome's two rival teams, AS Roma and Lazio. ($1 = 0.7734 euros)
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SCRANTON, Pa. -- What exactly does it mean to hit 400 minor league home runs?
The career of Mike Hessman, 36-year-old slugger for the Toledo Mud Hens, forces us to consider this for the first time. He hit his 400th home run in the minor leagues back on May 20 against Scott Diamond, and added three more for good measure since.
"I've never followed the numbers, I've never paid attention to it," Hessman told me when we chatted about his career on Tuesday afternoon. Appropriately, we were on a baseball field, the place Hessman seems created to inhabit, leaning against the backstop at PNC Field. "I've enjoyed the time this year-the moments that come after it. I'm trying not to think about it too much, but I'm enjoying the process of going out there, and seeing what happens ... I don't play the game to hit a certain number of home runs, or to break a certain record. I go out there because I love it."
And really, no one has done this. Officially, seven other men have hit 400 or more home runs in the minor leagues. But four did so in the Mexican League, and three others did so in the pre-World War II minors. Both environments were very different places from the highly structured and regulated current minor league system.
Hessman's manager, Larry Parrish, is no stranger to long careers filled with home runs, thanks to his 15 major league seasons and 256 long balls. Many observers would discount Hessman's numbers, given that Parrish hit his home runs against the best baseball had to offer, while Hessman did so mostly against Triple-A pitching.
But the equation is more complicated than that.
"For me, it was a little easier than for Mike," Parrish told me behind home plate at PNC Field Tuesday afternoon, as his Mud Hens took batting practice. "I did it at the major league level. And he's done it, instead of charter flights, he's gotten on buses like he will tonight, back to Toledo." (That's an eight-hour bus ride.) "I don't care where you do it. That's a lot of homers ... And he's been doing it for a long time. The little kid in him is still alive."
I asked Parrish if he'd have done the same thing Hessman is doing now, if given the chance.
"You never know the answer to that unless you're in his shoes," Parrish said. "But it says a lot about the tenacity of the person."
This is about more than simple will, though: Plenty of people would play baseball forever, if given the opportunity.
"There's a lot of guys that would've played that long, if they could've," as Parrish put it.
Hessman's record also required continued productivity, teams wanting to sign him, and the chance to get into lineups regularly on teams built to develop young talent, not foster the careers of veterans.
But after returning from a year playing in Japan in 2011, he earned nearly 500 plate appearances with Oklahoma City in 2012, Louisville in 2013, and has 221 thus far as a regular third baseman for Toledo in 2014. There's a simple explanation: The very existence of Mike Hessman serves as a teaching tool for managers like Parrish.
"To have a guy like him, that's been through it, he knows the difference between pain and injury," Parrish said of Hessman. "The preparation before the game, getting ready to play, that's very valuable when you've got young guys sitting around, looking at him as he goes through it."
On Tuesday, those young guys got a different look at Hessman: He was the batting practice pitcher. A home plate collision had sidelined him for a few days. But as Hessman explained it to me, he used BP as a chance to give the coaches some time off, and keep his arm in shape for when he returns to the lineup. Anything to get on the field.
Maybe 18 years anywhere will do this to you, but Mike Hessman looks as comfortable on a baseball field as anyone I've seen. He moves like he talks, calm cadences in tandem with his easy motion delivering the baseball, or calmly reclining on the backstop behind home plate while we chatted.
There's some gray in his facial hair now. He's years older than his Mud Hens teammates, and he looks the part. But he doesn't wear the nearly two decades as if he's old -- rather, it's as if you can see the experience, the more than 1900 minor league games and incalculable hours on buses, on his face.
He laughed when I asked him if he had any fallback career, if not for baseball.
"No, no, honestly no," Hessman said. "That's all I've known since high school. I kind of roll it off, like what else would I do? And I always come back to the same thing: the game. I love the camaraderie, I love coming out here in BP, and taking ground balls all day long, and hitting, and messing with the guys in the clubhouse, and having a good time out on the field."
There's this cliché, that a love for this game begins young, passed down from parent to child. Or as Parrish put it: "It's the little boy in you, that never leaves. You grew up, playing catch with dad, when you were, you know, four, five years old. And that love you have for the game never leaves. And I guess when it does, it's time to hang it up." I asked Parrish, 60, if he still has that feeling. "Yep, every day!"
That's precisely how the game took root for Hessman, too, growing up in Fountain Valley, Calif.
"I love playing this game since I was a little kid," Hessman said. "Coach-pitch, coach was my dad. So playing Little League, I always enjoyed it. I played other sports, but baseball was always my true passion."
But Hessman is no baseball-playing automaton. He and his wife, Sabrina, have a four-year-old daughter of their own, Madalyn. He relishes the offseason time he gets with both of them, just outside Myrtle Beach, S.C., and acknowledges the presence of his daughter has mitigated the frustrations of the baseball field.
"She's awesome," Hessman said. "And I love having her, when she can come into town, and run the bases, and watch the fireworks. It's just -- there's nothing like it ... Especially after becoming a father, there's days in this game where it just wears on you. You go 0-for-10, 0-for-12, you go 0-for-4 and have a couple strikeouts. You come out of the clubhouse, and that little girl's smiling at you, man, you can't have a care in the world except hanging out with her, and taking care of her. I'm definitely serious with the game, but I also know that there's more to it all than just this game."
Sabrina and Madalyn have joined Hessman roughly half the time of each minor league season since they all returned from Japan. Still, that doesn't make the separation any easier, as was the case in 2013, when Hessman spent spring training with the Cincinnati Reds in Arizona.
"They usually come to Florida, because they can travel there pretty easily," Hessman said. "And that was the hardest part. Because she knew Daddy was leaving, you know, breaks your heart leaving them there, seeing them. There's some good and bad to [the baseball schedule]."
So Hessman has some different numbers than 400 in mind. Like five, Madalyn's age next year, and her schedule gets less flexible. Eventually, there is another job, one that would allow Hessman some stability and daily access to a baseball field.
"I look at him this way: he's not done," Parrish said, smiling. "Because his next career's going to have him doing the same thing, only at the front of the bus."
Parrish has taken seriously the need to mentor Hessman, the way Hessman is passing on his daily regimen to younger Mud Hens teammates. But while Hessman does this mainly by example, Parrish has begun to involve Hessman in his in-game decisions.
"I'm talking to him, now constantly, during the game: what do you think right here? What would you have done right here?", Parrish said. "And after I've made the move: I'd say -- what would you have done there?
"And he's asked me: how do you know when to take out a pitcher? And, you know, you don't," Parrish said, laughing. "One game in particular, we were in Lehigh Valley, talking. I said, we have plenty of bullpen tonight. I'm going to ask you about my decision about when to take the pitcher out. And we had a lead, we'd scored a bunch early, but they kept coming back, tacking on, getting closer. So it's a feel. I asked Mike, did you feel like if that pitcher would've stayed out there for another inning and two-thirds, we were gonna have the lead? And he went, no. I said well, then you make the move. That's what I mean, feel."
All those discussions with Parrish have changed the way Hessman looks at baseball dramatically.
"I look at the game through extremely different eyes now," Hessman said. "I pick out little things that happen early on in games, that maybe add up, that maybe you don't quite realize, later in the game. Big plays early, when to pitch to a guy, bring the infield in, different things, the game within the game. I've been around some tremendous people in the game, see how they go about their business. I was extremely fortunate last year to spend some time with Jim Riggleman. Obviously, my whole career in Toledo has been here with Larry Parrish. He's top notch, too ... it's great to see someone with that much experience in the game give me a little different take on the game."
But Hessman isn't ready to stop playing, and really, why would he? His season line for Toledo this year is .269/.357/.543, with 14 home runs. His walks are up, his strikeouts are down.
"He doesn't seem like he slowed down this year," Parrish said. "It's 2014, and he's the same player that I had here, basically, in 2005, 6, 7, he's almost the same hitter. If anything, he might be a little bit better, because he does use the middle of the field more. Maybe not quite as quick as he was, defensively. But plenty good enough."
Hessman and his family did live through a scare earlier this season, however. During his spring training physical, doctors noted several spots, one on his head, another on his nose, that they urged him to get checked out.
"Of course, to try to get to something in spring training, and you're so busy, it just never happened."
Eventually, doctors in Toledo told him the spot on his nose should be removed, in case it was cancerous. Thankfully, it wasn't, but the experience served notice to Hessman that circumstances can change so quickly.
"I try not to stress to much about things," Hessman said. "But it does make you think. I have a family at home, and to have a medical issue, it always makes you step back and you realize -- baseball players, athletes, you think you're invincible. You're out there, running around on the field every day in the sun, doing things where you're real active. And all of the sudden, they're telling you, there's something wrong. And you're like, what do you mean?"
While Hessman's avoided those big pitfalls, both he and Sabrina are aware of all the smaller injuries he's managed, is managing, from the accumulated overnights on highways and games logged. Hessman may be a name in the box score to most people, logging 403 home runs, but Mike and Sabrina are still figuring out how to raise Madalyn "the way we want to raise her", as Hessman put it, while accommodating his immensely pleasurable, yet deeply complicated calling.
"She kind of knows that's where I want to head with it, as far as coaching," Hessman said of how the conversations go every winter with Sabrina, trying to figure out how to make it all work. "There are times where she's looking forward to that as well, because she knows what a grind it is. She knows what I go through as far as trying to stay healthy, being able to get out there, the wear and tear it takes on you. So there's times where she'll say, I'm kind of ready for that next chapter, to see where it takes us.
"It takes a special woman to be a baseball wife. You know, with the travel, all the time we're gone, being able to take care of the home while I'm gone, it takes a real special woman to do that."
The sacrifice is usually made with a major league dream in mind. That's not how it went for Mike Hessman, other than 250 plate appearances spread over five years and three different teams. Getting one more shot at the big leagues is driving him, even now, as unlikely as it may seem, given his age and the imperatives of a farm system.
But if this isn't exactly the career, the life Mike Hessman had in mind when he signed with the Atlanta Braves half his lifetime ago, he doesn't sound like he's particularly upset about how it all played out.
"It's kind of what keeps you playing," Hessman said of another major league shot. "It's getting back to the highest level there is. But either way, I'm okay with my career. I understand how the game works, and how they have to push guys through the system. I understand that. But if someone were to get hurt, and I was playing well, I would definitely hope to have an opportunity to get back up there."
And if not, when he's finished playing, he doesn't plan to spend any time away from the game he's loved since he was his daughter's age.
"Yeah, I think it would be hard," Hessman said. "I've heard stories from guys who have played, got out of the game, and then they want back in, and it's extremely hard to get back in. So I think I would be fine, just fine, staying in the game as long as I could. Coaching, managing, whatever opportunities presented themselves, I would think I'd need to take it right away."
I asked Hessman whether, when he signed with the Braves back in 1996, if he'd pictured a career like the one he's had.
"Maybe a little bit," Hessman said. "Obviously, in life, things don't always pan out exactly the way you want it to. So, to be able to stay positive, to stay strong through the tough times, it's tough in this game. It wears on you, you know? To be able to come out here and play for five, six months of the year, no days off. Your family's at home, you can't take two, three days off to go see your family. It's definitely not as glamorous as a lot of people think it is. But again, we're extremely fortunate and blessed to be able to do what we love for a living. And again, during the offseason, you can go and have some good quality time with your family, and do the other things you love to do."


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ATLANTA — Jerry Tarkanian arrived here at the Final Four with his family on Friday, three days before he will be named to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
A person with direct knowledge of the announcement confirmed the news to USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because it has yet to be announced. The news was first reported by CBSSports.com.
Being named to the Hall of Fame is a crowning achievement for 82-year-old Tarkanian, the architect of some of the sport's greatest teams who was also shadowed by NCAA investigators for decades. In the weeks leading up to the announcement, Tarkanian, whose health has been failing, had been optimistic that this would finally be the year he would be elected and had said in a phone interview earlier this season that it would be a special honor.
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"He is as good a coach as we have ever had in our sport," Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown told USA TODAY Sports during a recent interview. "Tark, his teams played hard as hell. They played exactly the way he wanted them to play. They were so much better defensively than anyone ever gave them credit for. He influenced a lot of coaches."
Tarkanian reached four Final Fours – 1977, 1987, 1990 and 1991 – and won the national title in 1990 with UNLV. His 1991 UNLV team, which lost to Duke in the national semifinals, is regarded by many as one of the sport's most dominant teams.
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said by phone recently that he has been a proponent of Tarkanian being in the Hall of Fame, adding that Tarkanian "certainly has the résumé to be selected. I hope it happens. Jerry's career has been a sensational one."
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From the start of his Division I coaching career at Long Beach State in 1968 to his final season at his alma mater, Fresno State, in 2002, Tarkanian was incessantly dogged by suspicions of cheating.
He was also a charming, colorful figure with that U-shaped smile who grew so stressed during games that he would gnaw on a white towel. Off the court, he used to hang with luminaries such as Frank Sinatra and offer quotes that echoed through history, like this memorable one: "The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky that it put Cleveland State on two years' probation."
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History is laden with other memorable, influential Final Four teams, but few as dominant as Tarkanian's UNLV teams in the early 1990s. The starting lineup in 1991 consisted of players with a combined 23 years of college experience.
"That's the scary part," said UNLV coach Dave Rice, a role player on those teams. "Can it ever happen to that degree again? Will we ever have a situation where that many guys stay in college where they are good enough until junior or senior year? Times have changed."
But UNLV's significance transcended the sport. They exuded an us-against-the-world mentality, thriving in 1990 in spite of a string of player suspensions. And they possessed the glitzy aura of showtime basketball.
"In the '90s the town just embraced it," former UNLV star Stacey Augmon said. "Everywhere we went we were like the NBA guys."
George Lynch, who played for North Carolina in the 1991 Final Four, says no national champion since -- not 1996 Kentucky, not 2009 North Carolina -- has come close to matching UNLV. "When Vegas was good, all the kids idolized them," Lynch says. "Seeing how those guys played, expressed themselves, to most youth, they were the Fab Five before Michigan's Fab Five."
Eric Snow, the former Michigan State player in the early 1990s, was a senior in high school when UNLV completed an undefeated regular season in 1990-91. And he said: "I don't think there has been a team close since. They had a style of play and being out in Vegas, it was a place a lot of people wanted to go to. It was a place where players from anywhere in the country would have gone. Most of the top players when I came out, if UNLV came to talk, they all would have wanted to go."
Tarkanian's players played hard for him, almost without exception. And they were unflinchingly loyal. When the NCAA was closing in on Tarkanian after he won the 1990 national title, Augmon was the first player to say he would not play if Tarkanian were not permitted by the NCAA or UNLV to be his coach the following season.
"Coach Tark gave us the freedom on the court," Augmon said. "We called it organized chaos."
He gave players second and third chances and was criticized almost every step of the way while being deemed a Father Flanagan figure.
Wherever Tarkanian was, the NCAA seemingly was never far away. He was investigated several times during his career, and he always fought for due process, a trailblazer on that front.
"Tarkanian told me he decided to wire the room where the investigators were talking to the players, just to make sure the tape they got was the same one the NCAA got," former longtime coach Tom Penders said. "Before that, that never happened. You didn't even have the right to have a copy of your own interview."
In a phone interview last month, Tarkanian's son, Danny, said the recent issues with the NCAA enforcement unit that have become public -- including the firing of two investigators for ethical missteps -- have illuminated problems within the association that Tarkanian had been talking about for decades.
In 1992, Tarkanian and wife Lois filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, claiming the association manufactured evidence against him and his programs in attempts to run him out of coaching. In 1998, six weeks before it was due to go to trial, Tarkanian and the NCAA reached a settlement, with the association paying him $2.5 million.
After Tarkanian's departure from UNLV, many former players distanced themselves from the program, harboring bitter feelings about how the university and NCAA treated Tarkanian. He had been the subject of several NCAA investigations and was ultimately forced by the school to resign after the 1991-92 season. And then the program that reached four Final Fours between 1977 and '91 spiraled into irrelevance.
"You had an administration for many years that was anti-Tarkanian," former UNLV point guard Greg Anthony said.
The late Charlie Spoonhour, UNLV's coach from 2001 to '04, took steps to reconnect the program with its past. His successor, Lon Kruger, went further, extending a hand to former players. The court was named after Tarkanian in 2005.
"The only person hurt during that president (Robert Maxson)-Coach Tark situation was the university," Augmon says. "That is the only thing hurt. It hurt UNLV. The president is gone, Coach Tark is gone. The university is still here trying to recover. It has taken two decades to do it. And that's just two people, two people who could not get along, could not see eye to eye. It brought down the whole fortress."
After two decades, UNLV is now fully embracing the success of Tarkanian's teams. With two former players -- Rice and assistant Augmon -- on staff from the 1990 national title team and with a push to illuminate positive memories of those glory years, one of history's most unique programs has finally rediscovered its roots.
"The most important thing is you are starting to see the identification of all that was positive about what we were able to accomplish as a group," says Anthony, the point guard on UNLV's Final Four teams of 1990 and '91. "I am just happy that Coach Tarkanian, his legacy, particularly in Nevada, has been embraced by both generations."
Throughout his tenure, Tarkanian also added fuel to heated West Coast rivalries.
Tarkanian would be quick to point the finger at UCLA players who showed up in airports in alligator boots and were never far from one Sam Gilbert. He said rival Jim Harrick was ethically "as straight as the letter 'S'." And he called Arizona's Lute Olson "Midnight Lute" for what Tarkanian said was Olson's penchant for swooping in to steal a recruit at the 11th hour.
And even in recent months, anytime Tarkanian ventured to the Thomas & Mack Center to watch UNLV, he would always receive the loudest ovation.
"Always got to remember who started the whole thing," UNLV player Mike Moser said. "It definitely was Tarkanian. Man, he is still a celebrity out here."
Tarkanian has long had tremendous respect for several current coaches, most notably Bill Self, the Kansas coach who still talks to him by phone. Self recalled late this season that after Tarkanian's Fresno State team beat Self's 32-5 Tulsa team for the third time in the 1999-2000 season in the final of the WAC tournament, Tarkanian entered the Tulsa locker room to speak to the team.
"He said, 'Just so you know, you guys are better than us,' " Self said. " 'I don't know why we have your number. You guys have a chance to go far in the NCAAs. You guys deserve this more than we do. I just want to tell you how much I love watching you play.'
"The thing about Tark that amazes me, obviously he won a ton of games, obviously he recruited unbelievable players, obviously he got them to play together and to play hard," Self added. "The players that play for him, the ones that I know, all sing his praises. They say he was a tough, tough guy. He loved the game. He had great respect for the game and for other coaches. I love Tark."
And now he finds a home among the sport's all-time greats.


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The Climate Group is holding a series of similar EV events worldwide, with sessions being held in the US, China, and Europe. The events form part of the wider activities of the EV20 Working Group, an international 'coalition of the willing', convened by The Climate Group, to rapidly advance the commercial deployment of EVs around the world. Both Queensland and South Australia announced their membership of the EV20 Working Group at The Climate Leaders Summit held alongside COP15 in Copenhagen in December 2009.
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Australian State Governments are putting an increasing focus on EV technology. In Queensland, The Office of Climate Change recently published an issues paper for public discussion, "An Electric Vehicle Roadmap for Queensland" on key actions that Queensland will need to consider in preparing for EV technologies. The Queensland Government is consulting on Roadmap actions to develop a comprehensive policy position on electric vehicles over the course of 2010. The New South Wales Government has established the Electric Vehicle Taskforce to provide advice to the government on developing further EV policy.
The South Australian Government is currently funding electric vehicle research, supporting the demonstration of electric vehicles and recharging infrastructure, and developing its low emission vehicle policy with the assistance of the Premier's Climate Change Council. South Australian Premier Mike Rann, who attended the Adelaide event, spoke of the potential for EVs to reduce emissions, improve air quality and complement the state's growing network of wind generation as part of a more advanced energy grid.
Global EV development has also received a significant boost through a series of recent announcements: In May the US House and Senate introduced bi-partisan legislation which, if adopted, would electrify half of US cars and trucks by 2030; EU ministers have called for a European standard for EVs and supported the European Commission's recent strategy for clean and energy-efficient vehicles; China has also announced a new EV pilot program that is to run across five cities: Shanghai, Changchun, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Hefei, where subsidies of up to ¥60,000 ($8,783) will be available for EV buyers.


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