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December 8, 2015
Former Department of Natural Resources (DNR) employees have told federal regulators that state environmental enforcement has suffered under the Walker administration because the agency is beleaguered by budget cuts and political pressure to please business.
Former DNR Secretary George Meyer, who headed the agency from 1993 to 2001, and ex-administrators said in letters to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that they were particularly concerned about inadequate enforcement of water regulations, and less reliance on science to make decisions about the environment.
Meyer said former DNR staff do not feel the agency is complying with federal laws.
The letters to the EPA followed a request in October by the Midwest Environmental Advocates that the EPA take away the DNR's authority to regulate water pollution if the DNR hasn't made progress on more than six dozen deficiencies the federal agency identified in July 2011 involving the state's enforcement of water regulations.
Charges that the Walker administration caters to special interests have been rife since Republican Gov. Scott Walker was first elected in 2010 and said he wanted a more business-friendly DNR to improve job creation and economic development.
Walker accepted $38.1 million between January 2009 and June 2015 from more than a dozen special interests represented by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, the state's largest business group and, arguably, the state's chief opponent of environmental regulations and enforcement.
The bottom line for many of those special interests – like business, manufacturing, transportation, construction, energy and agriculture – is often at odds with environmental regulations and enforcement. Many of Walker's top individual contributors between January 2009 and June 2015 hail from those same industries, including Diane Hendricks, of Beloit, Wis., owner of ABC Supply, $529,100; Bob and Doylene Perry, of Houston, Tex., owners of Perry Homes, $500,000; and Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, of Lake Forest, Ill., owners of U-Line Corp., $284,500.
In addition to the direct contributions from WMC-represented interests, WMC spent an estimated $9.5 million to help elect Walker in 2010, 2012 and 2014.


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Mixing the latest in valve amp technology with that sought-after vintage tone 65 amps are versatile enough to handle anything, from country to rock, built entirely with high-end components to a simple principle by designer Dan Boul; "no compromises, inside and out." We are proud to stock one of the largest range of 65 heads, cabinets and combos available within the UK, although please feel free to contact us if you are after something not listed on our site or require any further information.

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July 6, 2014 – August 31, 2014 Date # of Blue Whales Spotted Additional Sightings News and Notes 8/31/14 3 Blue Whales Spotted! 500 Common Dolphins AM whale watch had 197 guests and we saw 3 blue whales and 500 common dolphins. It was a great way to finish off the inaugural blue whale season.…
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Whale Watching – August 10, 2014
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Here's some photos from August 10th's dynamite trip! During the journey viewers saw vast amounts of sea life, from different breeds of fish, to dolphins, and of course the infamous BLUE WHALE SIGHTINGS! Courtesy of Diane Cullins
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Beautiful, sunny morning with 6 blue whales spotted within 2 hours, no more than 5 miles offshore.
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Whale & Dolphin Watching Adventures April 18-24 Date Morning Cruise Afternoon Cruise Notes 4/24/14 2 gray whales, common dolphins *whalechecks During a beautiful day guests enjoyed the trip with 2 gray whale sightings and many common and bottle-nose dolphins. 4/23/14 60 common dolphins, mylar mylar, 2 gray whales No afternoon cruise Throughout the day…


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People aren't the only living species wanting to crawl into a warm space on a cold winter day.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has discovered that northern long-eared bats on the East End and on Nantucket in Massachusetts have been riding out the winter in crawl spaces of residences. READ


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Whether you're a personal fan of the hobby or not, cosplay takes more than a bit of talent (to do well), and a whole lot of guts. Not only do you have to spend time and money trying to accurately reproduce a nonexistent article of clothing in real seams and stitches, but you also need to go to a convention with thousands of other people and wear it. That's a special kind of devotion right there.
Two members of The Escapist staff were walking the show floor at PAX Prime 2010 last weekend in Seattle (bonus points if you can guess who!), and we had our trusty cameras on hand. We snapped plenty of pictures of plenty of cool-looking cosplayers, and thought we'd share the talent with you! These might be our favorites, but to see more, check out our gallery of pictures!
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High Court Ruling Protects Funeral Protests
In a test of how far the First Amendment goes in protecting offensive speech, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a fringe religious group's right to protest an Iraq war veteran's funeral. WSJ's Brent Kendall reports.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... tht protesters have taken military funerals have raised the ire of many in the public the court today ruled that a small Kansas church that is protests military funerals with anti gay message is ... protected by the first Amendment ... the court's ruling ... said that the father of the Marine who was killed in Iraq cannot see the church ... for inflection of emotional distress ... to Justice John Roberts in a two one rolling ... so then what spurs speech and it may be offensive to many was still on matters of public concern ... in the first Amendment did not ... allow suppression of that speech ... this Ejustice said that the fact that this protest took place in a funeral did not change the ... legal analysis ... to the fact remains that the church was speaking about matters of public morality ... and that these are matters of public import even if the message was offensive and it cannot be suppressed ... the daughter of the founder of the church you argue the case for the Church ... of said today the group's protests would continue ... she applauded the ruling ... and said the case had in fact given them in a megaphone to spread their message to eye larger national and international audience ... one member of the court decided today that justice annually has said that all of them Marines father wanted to do is very soon in peace ... any other city in time for that and


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Nappy rash is something that all three of my children have had in varying degrees.
My eldest Reuben suffered from nappy rash the most, whether that was because we didn't know the best ways to protect against it yet, being new parents and all, or because he was the world's biggest fan of fruit I'm not sure. I thought nappy cream was something you used AFTER nappy rash, not to prevent it. Wally. By contrast, I had wised up with Toby and knew that a good dosing of nappy cream such as Bepanthen at every nappy change was essential to protect against the causes of nappy rash.
With my experience in mind, I thought perhaps I could share a few of my tips with you. Obviously, it should go without saying that this is 100% what worked for me and in no way is this medical advice, if you're at all really concerned please do get in touch with your GP – I'm not a professional, just a mama who has been through it.
My top tips for protecting against the causes of nappy rash
So those are my tips. What I would say is if your little one does develop nappy rash then you shouldn't feel guilty at all. There is a reason that it is so commonly referenced and dreaded amongst mums. The most important thing that you can do for nappy rash is protect against the causes of it, not try to treat it after the fact.
Harriet is a mama of two little boys called Reuben and Tobias and a daughter called Edith. She founded the popular parenting blog Toby & Roo in recognition that parenting can be hard and we all need some support sometimes!


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Over the next few weeks and in our November webinar, we will be talking about a VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE…multiple generations in the workforce. Never in the history of our nation have we seen so many generations intertwined in the workforce. … Continue reading
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I know everything about you and you are my target (Article by Rake Jeeves 11/12/2013)
I have never met you and don't know your name and up until today I didn't
know where you live.
You passed me on the road and suddenly I knew everything about you.
You are a single mother with teenage daughter, no men in the house.
You are relatively well off and like playing tennis.
You don't have any big dogs, just one small dog that is no threat to me.
Judging by the car you drive you will have flat screen T.V's and because you have a teenage daughter there will be things like computers, tablets and smart phones in your house
I decided to follow you home because you have shown me that you are a soft target. When I invade your home with my gang I know there will be very little resistance, no men and no big dogs but plenty of expensive stuff for us to take.
How did I know all this information about you without having ever met you,
spoken to you or seen your house? By the little pictures of your family set up that you put on the back window of your car. These pictures have made my job so much easier because they tell me nearly everything I need to know without having to drive around the neighborhood spying on houses and sitting watching and gathering all this information.
It used to take me days of surveillance to get this information. Thank you very much; I will be visiting you one of the evenings whilst you
are watching TV. I'm not a violent person but I can't say the same for my gang members. Fortunately I'm not a violent criminal but because of my job I have to think like one and driving around checking out the little pictures on the back window of cars made me realize just how much information they give out about you, your family and to a large extent your wealth. Pictures of a family with golf clubs, children with computers, wives with tennis rackets and pictures of what type of dogs your family have all tell a story about you and whether it's worth making you and your family a target.


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The Good, The Unhealthy And The Ugly
Setiap kali mendengar kata 'SPA', yang ada adi benak Anda pastilah memanjakan diri bak RATU, melemaskan otot-otot tubuh yang tegang, sekaligus menghilangkan stress. As for the price of a Gold Facial, it depends upon the standard of gold and whether or not you do it your self or go to a spa. For those who favor to wash in the mornings, then you will probably get pleasure from your spa within the mornings. It's because once we take steam the pores within the facial skin will likely be opened. Tempat spa kedua ini juga tergolong terkenal banget Malioboro resort and spa yang terletak di Komp.Wisma Niaga Veteran RI, Jalan Gajah Mada no.thirteen Jakarta Pusat.
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MONTREAL — The acid-yellow spheres on the screen don't look anything like the linebackers that the Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan tries to avoid each week. Nor do they resemble an English Premier League soccer player streaking down the field, or a puck hurtling across the ice in a National Hockey League game. If anything, they look like finely sheared tennis balls.
The beauty in the design of NeuroTracker — the video game aimed at heightening cognitive agility the way lifting dumbbells develops muscles — is allegedly its simplicity. Just by asking the eyes to track spheres as they bound around a 3D screen, athletes can prepare their brains to perform in a way that no other film room could replicate.
At least, that was Jocelyn Faubert's goal when he created NeuroTracker out of his optometry research laboratory at the University of Montreal in 2009. He made it in the mold of Lumosity, a wildly successful brain-gaming app. Instead of targeting baby boomers, however, Faubert designed NeuroTracker for the sports arena.
Faubert calls these underappreciated cognitive skills the "gymnastics of the brain." But until NeuroTracker, there had been little evidence of a good way to isolate and enhance those skills away from the practice field.
"It forces you to use certain networks — attention-based networks, memory networks, motion-processing networks," Faubert said of NeuroTracker. "All of this simultaneous demand — that's what you do in real life."
Critics, however, call the program digital snake oil. They believe that sports teams, desperate to gain any edge, might be buying into a gimmick.
"I have to be extremely skeptical of any training program that promotes the development of these generic visual, perceptual, cognitive functions," said A. Mark Williams, chairman of the department of health, kinesiology and recreation at the University of Utah.
Still, the program has spread to more than 550 elite training facilities around the globe, representing a vast and diverse sporting landscape. Ryan, who is second in the N.F.L. in passing yards and touchdowns this season, said he trained with NeuroTracker at least three times a week.
"I use it all year-round," said Ryan, a top contender for the N.F.L.'s most valuable player award this season.
Manchester United quietly spent $80,000 to install a NeuroTracker setup in its facility. U.S. Soccer has tested more than 7,000 youth players on it since 2014. The same program is used by hockey teams including the Vancouver Canucks, and by the IMG Academy, where football prospects train before the N.F.L. draft.
Athletes can play it while dribbling a basketball or standing on a balance board. Scores can be posted, promoting competition. There is nothing invasive or messy. With a pair of 3D glasses, players can practice anywhere: in the locker room, at home, in the car.
"We set ours up right next to the training room," said Leonard Zaichkowsky, the former director of sports science for the Canucks. "Guys would try and sneak in and practice."
As teams and players began to rouse to its potential, NeuroTracker's applications seemed to stretch as far as the imagination could take them. Not only could it be a training tool for athletes in such disparate sports as taekwondo, speedskating and rugby, it was a concussion assessment device; a means to stem the effects of aging; an aid to children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; a rehabilitation exercise for stroke patients. Independent studies piled on the claims. One found that NeuroTracker could be advantageous to doctors performing laparoscopic surgery.
NeuroTracker's parent company, CogniSens, also just started selling a cloud-based, slightly different version of the program, called NuTrain, to regular consumers for $229 a year.
"It's kind of crazy," Faubert said. "We were addressing questions, asking certain things. And now it's all over the world."
But as it grew into a sort of performance panacea, the number of skeptics has grown, too, including those who point out that a carefully executed placebo might produce the same resounding reviews — only to suffer when the effect ultimately wears off.
The critics contend that it is the game's simplicity that allows users to perceive results that might not always be there, filling the void the way a minimalist painting can inspire deep introspection.
They point to the fallibility of a simulation that boasts extraordinary benefits for elite quarterbacks, soccer midfielders and hockey goalies, players in distinct and unrelated sports. The incredulity is tied to the fissures in the foundation of the brain-gaming industry, which has faced mounting scrutiny about what many believe to be dubious claims, scant scientific evidence and deceptive marketing.
In seven years of expansion, NeuroTracker has grown into the most successful brain-training game in sports. But the fundamental question remains as present as ever: Does it really work?
Glowing Colors, Then Motion
One afternoon in October, Faubert pointed out the small room near his office that held the original NeuroTracker: a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment, known simply as the Cave. It was aptly named — the room was cool and dark, except for the lambent glow from a 9-foot by 9-foot projector screen at the distant end of a shadowy three-walled cubicle.
Faubert, who is 57 and bald, with dark, prominent eyebrows and white hair buzzed tightly at the sides, is an evergreen optimist with charismatic energy. His ability to distill expansive concepts into digestible bites is somewhat uncommon in neuroscience circles. So is his attire: bluejeans, suede jacket, thick leather boots.
His approach to answering complex questions about the human brain's unique ability to handle a jumble of stimuli enveloping the senses was also uncommon. In 2001, as a researcher studying the neuroscience of vision, he spent $800,000 building the Cave into an immersive, sense-engrossing environment for analyzing real behavior, incorporating gigantic projection systems and mirrors. Participants could move around, spend time, feel as if they are elsewhere — rudimentary virtual reality.
Faubert's initial investigations involved questions related to peripheral vision, posture or balance. But he added spinoff programs, including a simple exercise featuring eight yellow spheres that was rooted in the multiple-object tracking experiments of the psychologists Zenon W. Pylyshyn and Ron W. Storm in the 1980s. With a few tweaks, and 3D glasses, Faubert thought the program might have some other scientific uses.
Motivated partly by his own curiosity, Faubert started asking athletes to visit the lab to try tracking the spheres. Among the earliest participants were Jennifer Heil, an Olympic skier, and Jean Pascal, a boxer. It turned out they were remarkably adept at following multiple objects at once.
When Faubert started seeing how quickly they improved at the game, he grew more intrigued. "That's really the signature for me," Faubert said. "It's not so much where they start, it's where they go."
Eight numbered spheres bounce randomly around a cube, which the player sees through 3D glasses. At the outset, four of the spheres will glow red, indicating that those are the spheres to keep an eye on. But they will be red for only a second. Momentarily they turn yellow again, only to fall in with the other foils, all of them dispersing and colliding, like billiard balls sent scattering across a table.
After eight seconds, a prompt asks you to recall the numbers of the spheres that had once been red. It is no more intricate than a three-card shuffle performed on a street corner. But the task of following four fast-moving objects simultaneously is a remarkably rigorous test, challenging visual and perceptual capabilities, and such cognitive systems as spatial awareness, concentration and working memory.
Faubert increases the speed incrementally, intensifying how quickly the balls bounce, thus making them harder and more deceptive to follow. He has turned his program into a game: For each correct response, you can advance a level, intensifying the speed. When you respond incorrectly, you are demoted a level: The speed decelerates. At the end of an eight-minute trial, you are given a total score.
Jean Castonguay, a corporate lawyer with a background in managing start-ups, caught wind of it and saw a business opportunity. He offered to move the program out of the laboratory and into the marketplace. He incorporated CogniSens, found nearby office space, lined up customers and helped come up with a catchy name. (NeuroTracker was originally called 3D-MOT, for 3-dimensional multiple-object tracking; players on Manchester United called it "ball-tracker").
Most teams were not willing to discuss their use of NeuroTracker — which has only one paid endorser, Aaron Cook, an Olympic taekwondo athlete — likely out of fear that their competitive advantage would be reduced. But the Atlanta Falcons were an exception, allowing Ryan to respond to questions.
The Pro Bowl quarterback, who personally visited the lab in June 2015, said that NeuroTracker had improved his spatial awareness, the type of vision needed to scan the field for open receivers.
"That's key as a quarterback, to be able to see things and how they relate to each other really quickly," Ryan said. "I think that's exactly what NeuroTracker helps you do."
He considered it as crucial to his performance as lifting weights or training agility.
"We spend a lot of time working on our bodies," Ryan said. "It's equally important to have your mind operating on a high level."
In fact, with a professional setup costing $6,000, NeuroTracker boasts that in only 12 training sessions lasting five minutes, athletes will begin to notice sustainable benefits to their on-field performance.
"They will see it in their play," said Castonguay, who is the lead investor in the company.
These supposed benefits have varied. One of the earliest customers was Zaichkowsky, a longtime sports psychologist at Boston University who was hired by the Vancouver Canucks to introduce a sports science program in July 2010. He persuaded the front office to set up a NeuroTracker cave in the practice facility, at a cost then of around $40,000.
"Conceptually and scientifically, it made a lot of sense," said Zaichkowsky, now a member of CogniSens' science board.
Matt Fast, a professional golfer, was hoping to improve a different type of sustained attention when he began using NeuroTracker on the Web.com tour in 2014. He felt that when he played the chaotic ball-tracking game in the morning, he putted significantly better later in the day.
"Everything would be blacked out except for what your eyes were looking at," Fast said. "The times that I've putted the best were when I was using it. I totally believe in it."
Some were intrigued by NeuroTracker's potential for data collection and as a scouting tool, including Jared Micklos, the director of the U.S. Soccer Development Academy. In the fall of 2014, he signed a three-year agreement with the company to test NeuroTracker on youth players at the Development Academy combine in June and December. He said the data was beginning to generate some interesting revelations about differences among positions.
Now they can begin to track how players progressed from age 14 to 17, particularly those who have gone on to higher levels, like the national team.
"Is there a correlation of the score?" Micklos said. "Are these high scores? If that's the case, then, yeah, continuing to test might make sense."
Caroline Calvé, a Canadian snowboarder, said that if she had not retired last year she would still be using NeuroTracker. Before the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, Calvé started using the program along with other mental-training products to help her concentration, which she said was a mess during the 2010 Games in Vancouver.
"It gave me the time to practice that focus," Calvé said, adding: "It is tough to measure. It's tough to say, 'Is that why I did better? Is it because suddenly I felt I had more control so I gained more confidence?' It's so hard to tell."
Whatever the motivation, however, Calvé could not argue with the results. She jumped from No. 20 in 2010 to No. 6 in the parallel giant slalom in 2014.
"The fact that I was practicing that focus was something that, yes, I feel helped me," she said.
The Myth of the Cave?
When Nintendo started Brain Age in 2005 — a video game built around puzzles, testing nothing as it relates to Mario or Luigi, but rather the speed at which players could complete mental agility tasks like speed-counting, word memory and Sudoku — it was advertised as a method for "flexing your mental muscles." It was based largely on the work of a renowned Japanese neuroscientist, and it sold well. A commercial race to bring cognitive-training applications into the mainstream ensued. By 2013, Lumosity, one of the most successful contenders, had reached 50 million members on the basis that playing its games could increase work or school performance.
But the notion that practice at one task could effectively bolster abilities in another — called transfer — has long been disputed. In 1906, the psychologist Edward L. Thorndike found that rigorous practice helped students' ability to estimate the areas of rectangles, but it did not help them estimate the areas of other shapes. Another century's worth of research has continued to reshape and redefine, expand and restrict this line of thinking. Sir Charles Sherrington, the Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist, also believed that "acquisition of a habit is not transferable beyond its application." K. Anders Ericsson's seminal study on expertise — the so-called 10,000 hours rule — emphasized training that was specific to the skill. This meant that memorizing an extraordinary amount of numbers is not likely to yield improvement in your recall of names. Practicing Tetris can improve your ability to play Tetris, but it probably won't help you get better at juggling.
With NeuroTracker, Faubert has made some effort to rebut this, but not everybody has been persuaded. Williams, at the University of Utah, challenged the notion that tracking bouncing objects in a simulation could train or quantify anything other than a person's ability to track bouncing objects in a simulation.
"I've never seen a soccer player chasing multicolor balloons around on the field," Williams said. "It's just not what soccer players do."
What soccer players do, he said, is read patterns of play, anticipate what might happen next based on movements of teammates and opponents, and identify familiar sequences as they unfold. This "inside" knowledge, built up over time, promotes the effectiveness and efficiency that Ericsson argues are the hallmarks of expertise.
Williams is not alone in his skepticism. In an exhaustive review published in the October issue of the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, researchers criticized the sweeping claims made throughout the $1.3 billion brain-gaming industry related to "cognitive improvement." The researchers concluded that the evidence was "limited and inconsistent" that commercial brain-training software could enhance cognition outside the laboratory in the ways the companies described. (Last January, Lumos Labs, the maker of Lumosity, settled Federal Trade Commission charges of deceptive advertising for $2 million.)
CogniSens was one of 30 companies that the lead author, Daniel J. Simons, used to support the study's analysis, naming it as one of a dozen companies that cited no peer-reviewed evidence from intervention studies. Castonguay said he emailed Simons to explain that they had, in fact, published multiple studies supporting NeuroTracker's work, but did not provide links on their website. (The website now lists 12 supporting papers and studies.)
One of the studies was a paper by Faubert in the January issue of Psychology of Sports and Exercise that described a significant improvement in passing accuracy among players on the University of Montreal's men's soccer team after just 10 sessions of NeuroTracker. Those judging the accuracy of the passes, however, were the coaches — a subjective method of evaluation, even if they were doing their best to be truthful.
Another often-cited study was conducted by researchers at the Institute of Exercise Physiology and Wellness at the University of Central Florida. Working with the Orlando Magic, they tested 12 players using NeuroTracker before the 2012-13 season and compared the results to their basketball statistics at the end of the year. They found that the players who scored better at NeuroTracker wound up with better numbers in assists and steals, and fewer turnovers.
The authors did not mention that the Magic had a new coach that season, Jacque Vaughn, who promoted a more aggressive, up-tempo style of play than his predecessor, Stan Van Gundy, which could have accounted for the statistical uptick.
Castonguay said it could be hard to get the sort of access needed for studies involving professional athletes. But, he said, "one thing is clear: We are the most evidence-based cognitive intervention in the world. No one comes close to us."
Faubert wrote an in email that perceptual-cognitive transfer is one of the "hard questions to answer" in sports, saying it is difficult to form "a broad conclusion on the efficiency or inefficiency of the training." He added that "we and others have been building evidence for the fact that it does play a role, but many scientific questions remain."
Rob Gray, an associate professor in the Perception and Action Lab at Arizona State University, who hosts a popular podcast on sports-science topics, fretted that NeuroTracker removes too much of any sporting context to show the type of drastic transfer needed to go from excelling inside your living room to scoring more goals in the Premier League.
"One of the big problems I have is that NeuroTracker's motion is completely random and unstructured," Gray said. "The whole point of watching a basketball scene if you're a point guard is that it is structured. Picking up that structure that's specific to your sport is highly important."
That so many successful teams and savvy athletes, like Ryan, would swear by NeuroTracker does not come as a total surprise.
"If you practice anything long enough, you will get better at it," Williams said. "If you get better at it, it improves self-confidence, self-esteem, so you feel as if you're improving. This is essentially a placebo effect."
'That Little Sandwich Part'
Some supporters feel that the NeuroTracker's real problem might be that it is ahead of its time.
"There's finally an appreciation of the importance of the mind with the body in high-performance work," said Zaichkowsky, the sports scientist. "We've never had the acceptable methodology to train it."
But that is where opinions about those methodologies diverge.
Daniel M. Laby runs the Sports and Performance Vision Center at the State University of New York's College of Optometry. The center has a small office space with basketballs and soccer balls strewn across the floor, near an indoor putting mat. Laby calls it his playroom.
His job, though, involves testing the cognitive training equipment that is geared to sports. The room appears to be shrinking. It is getting harder to gauge what is useful, what is too early, what is junk. The products keep flowing into his office.
"All the other routes to advantage have basically been exhausted," Laby said. "Teams are looking for an advantage. That advantage is now felt to be in this area of sport science, and specifically in this cognitive-neural-vision realm."
The problem, Laby said, is that a genuine understanding of that realm is still nascent.
Faubert noted this from the seat of his own exploration, his laboratory, as he explained the intuition that led him down the path to NeuroTracker. An athlete's mental processing capability is like "that little sandwich part between all the physical abilities of an athlete, their know-how about the game," he said. l
There is never a play that is exactly the same. For that uncertainty, athletes have to rely on something unpracticed, untrained. It might just be spatial awareness or concentration. It might be something only the eight yellow spheres can determine.
"That capacity seems to be more important than people understand," Faubert said. "I don't know how important. But there's no way these elite athletes would be so much better than the others, even amateur players, if it wasn't important. That means it is critical. But how?"
He let the question linger. One could almost see the balls scattering around his mind.


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The death of Malik Daud Khan, a Pakistani tribal elder, in a C.I.A. drone strike might have remained widely unremarked upon, lost amid thousands of others analysts have tallied in the American drone campaign, had not the British courts been brought into it.
The drone strike, which killed Mr. Khan and dozens of others at a tribal council meeting in North Waziristan in 2011, spawned a lawsuit that accuses British officials of becoming "secondary parties to murder" by passing intelligence to American officials that was later used in drone strikes.
The case has put a spotlight on international intelligence-sharing agreements that have long been praised by officials as vital links in the global fight against terrorist groups, but that rights advocates criticize as a way for Britain and other European countries to reap the benefits of the contentious drone program without its political costs.
Judges in Britain have yet to decide whether to hear the case, brought forward by Mr. Khan's son, Noor Khan, a British citizen. (They initially declined, but are considering an appeal that was lodged in January.) It has caused a particular sensation, though, because it raises the prospect of legal liability for European officials by linking them to an American drone campaign that is widely seen as publicly unpalatable, or simply illegal, in their home countries.
In interviews, current and former British government and intelligence officials, some of whom worked closely with the United States after the drone campaign's inception in 2004, said Britain does provide intelligence to the United States that is almost certainly used to target strikes. Many in Britain's intelligence community, said one person with detailed knowledge of internal discussions, are now distinctly worried they may face prosecution.
"The policy on drones and torture is clear: We don't do any of it," one former British counterterrorism official said. "But if we pick up on some hostile phone chatter, and we pass the number on to the Americans, who then pinpoint the phone and target the person, did we provide intelligence for the killing?" The official, like others interviewed on the issue, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the legal delicacy of the case.
The Central Intelligence Agency declined to comment. But Bruce O. Riedel, a former C.I.A. officer and the author of "Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad," said, "The British are our most important partner in the war against Al Qaeda in all respects."
The British government, according to the response it filed in Mr. Khan's case, now refuses to discuss the matter and "neither confirms nor denies" what it carefully characterizes as "any such alleged activities."
"The inference that can be drawn," said Rehman Chishti, a lawmaker with the governing Conservatives who has campaigned for more information on Britain's role in American drone strikes, "is that intelligence sharing is taking place, because if it wasn't then it could easily say so."
The issue is more complex than drone-strike foes suggest, the current and former officials said, and is based on decades of cooperation rather than a shadowy pact for the United States to do the world's dirty work.
The arrangements for intensive intelligence sharing by Western allies go back to World War II, said Richard Aldrich, professor of international security at the University of Warwick, when the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand agreed to continue to collaborate.
"There's a very high volume of intelligence shared, some of which is collected automatically, so it's impossible to track what every piece is potentially used for," said Mr. Aldrich, who is also the author of a history of the Government Communications Headquarters, the British signal-intelligence agency.
Britain's history and expertise in South Asia means that the intelligence it gathers in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the tribal areas in between is in high demand, Mr. Aldrich said. The arrangement has been focused recently by a chill in relations between the United States and Pakistan, and by the shared war in Afghanistan.
Other nations, too, intercept communications in the region that are shared broadly with the United States, he said. In Afghanistan, for example, German and Dutch forces run aggressive electronic interception operations, he said, because their rules on collaborating with local interpreters are less stringent than those of the United States.
A spokesman for the coalition forces in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Lester Carroll, declined to give details about intelligence sharing, saying agreements were classified. But he confirmed that American military forces "do share information with other U.S. government organizations on a need-to-know basis."
Few argue against the notion that European nations, many of which have been attacked by terrorists, have benefited from the drone killing, however controversial, of many of the most hardened Islamic extremist leaders.
The threat level for international terrorism in Britain was reduced to "substantial," the middle of five ratings, in July 2011. The switch was due largely to the "removal of operational planners" through drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas and Yemen, a former senior intelligence official said. Another former official put it more simply, saying the "strikes have decimated the Al Qaeda senior leadership, and we didn't have to get directly involved."
But in light of Mr. Khan's lawsuit and the potential for others, operatives across the British intelligence agencies are concerned that if they share information, they could be "punished by the judiciary for something the executive ordered them to do," said the person with knowledge of internal discussions.
"They are willing to go the last mile, but they don't want to go to prison for it," the person said. "If the sword of Damocles is hanging over our intelligence officers, they can't do their job."
In an interview, Mr. Khan said that if Britain was involved in the attack that killed his father he would like "the people involved" to be arrested, and compensation to be paid to the families of those who died. The drone strike that killed his father became a point of outrage within Pakistan, criticized by officials there who said more than 40 civilians had been killed when the Americans mistook a tribal council gathering for a meeting of militants.
For the government's part, one senior official said, it "would just like the issue to go away."
A similar issue was raised in 2008, according to classified State Department cables released by WikiLeaks in 2010. British officials demanded to be given full details of intelligence-gathering flights the United States flew from its base in Cyprus, in case they "put the U.K. at risk of being complicit in unlawful acts." The United States responded that such safeguards would "hinder, if not obstruct, our cooperative counterterrorism efforts."


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10 Days Special Mountain Rwanda
D1.Arrival at Kigali Airport. Transfer Kempinski Hotel or Equivalent.
D2.Transfer Kempinski Hotel Kigali-Lac Kivu Lodge Goma
Morning after your breakfast, visit of the genocide memorial centre, after visits, Kigali city tour then proceed to Rwanda-Congo border
D3.Climb to Nyiragongo summit
Mount Nyiragongo is an active stratovolcano with an elevation of 3470 m (11382 ft) in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Albertine Rift. It is located inside Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 20 km (12 mi) north of the town of Goma and Lake Kivu and just west of the border with Rwanda. The main crater is about two kilometres wide and usually contains a lava lake. The crater presently has two distinct cooled lava benches within the crater walls – one at about 3,175 metres (10,417 ft) and a lower one at about 2,975 m (9,760 ft). Nyiragongo's lava lake has at times been the most voluminous known lava lake in recent history. The depth of the lava lake varies considerably. A maximum elevation of the lava lake was recorded at about 3,250 m (10,660 ft) prior to the January 1977 eruption – a lake depth of about 600 m (2,000 ft). A recent very low elevation of the lava lake was recorded at about 2,700 m (8,900 ft). Nyiragongo and nearby Nyamuragira are together responsible for 40% of Africa's historical volcanic eruptions.
Hike will take 5 hours with 4 stops along the path, when at the top, cabins are available for your night, 1 cabin for 2 people.
D4.Descend from Nyiragongo summit.
Morning after your breakfast at the crater rim, you will be overlooking the city of Goma as well as the 2 other older crater lakes.
Not much is known about how long the volcano has been erupting, but since 1882, it has erupted at least 34 times, including many periods where activity was continuous for years at a time, often in the form of a churning lava lake in the crater. The volcano partly overlaps with two older volcanoes, Baratu and Shaheru, and is also surrounded by hundreds of small volcanic cinder cones from flank eruptions.
D5.Resting day at Mikeno Lodge.
The main area and restaurant feel as though they are set high in the trees with fabulous views over the park and the Nyiragongo and Mikeno volcanoes. Some of the bungalows have similar views while others are set in among the trees. There is an abundance of bird life as well as resident blue monkeys, colobus monkeys, and baboons. Chimpanzees are also frequent visitors to the area.
Mikeno Lodge offers a huge range of activities including chimp trekking, nature walks, easy access to the Senkwekwe gorilla orphanage, tours of the park headquarters and visits with the canine anti-poaching unit known as the "Congo Hounds."
D6.Gorilla Trekking Virunga NP
A visit with a mountain gorilla family is a life changing experience. Mountain gorillas are highly intelligent, good natured, and fascinating to observe. The silverback's powerful presence is awe-inspiring, yet his calm clearly earns him the title, "gentle giant". People are equally struck by the tenderness and care that mothers show their young. And then, of course, there are the juveniles who spend most of every waking hour at play and never cease to make visitors smile. We believe your time with Virunga's mountain gorillas will leave you feeling changed for the better.
Duration of the visits is an hour.
D7.Leave Mikeno Lodge next morning and drive back to Rwanda for encountering with Mountain gorilla in Rwanda
Overnight Mountain Gorilla View Lodge or Equivalent
D8.Gorilla Trekking Rwanda
Overnight Mountain Gorilla View Lodge.
D9.Rest day at Mountain Gorilla View Lodge
Visit of twin lakes in the afternoon
There are also known as the twin lakes of Rwanda, Burera and Ruhondo are situated on the borders of Rwanda and Uganda with their own special attractions. It should be noted that, Lake kivu is the largest Rwanda but Burera and Ruhondo are the most beautiful and the canoe sailing on these lakes (Burera and Buhondo) is memorable.
Musanze town is superbly located at the foot of the volcanoes. In the city suburb, you can see the natural bridge of Musanze – solidified lava flow – which signals the volcanoes' activity that shaped the landscape, visiting also the market is a truly memorable things to do while in Musanze.
D10.Transfer to the airport , end of the tour.
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Being an alpha female isn't easy, yet it might be the goal of many women around the world. The alpha woman is strong, self-confident, fierce, independent, powerful and she knows exactly what she wants in life and knows how to get it. The real alpha female is often ambitious, fun, not afraid to speak her mind, and intimidating to those around her. She is dominant – the leader of the pack and other women usually look to the alpha female for leadership. Even though not everyone is alpha material and many women possess beta female traits, anyone can learn how to become an alpha female. Keep reading to discover the common traits of the alpha woman and keep in mind that if you implement some of the following characteristics into your personality, you can be considered an alpha woman, too.
She is Strong-Minded
If the female alpha wants something, she won't quit until she has exactly what she wants. An alpha woman is determined, strong-minded and demands what she wants, so she is unable to accept the fact that she won't always get what she wants in life. She always speaks her mind and is very honest about the things she really desires. She is never embarrassed to ask for what she wants and believes that everyone should negotiate to get their desires and needs met.
She is Confident
In today's society, it's hard to be completely confident in everything you are, but the alpha female has natural confidence about her – she knows exactly who she is and she isn't afraid to be herself. Thanks to that natural self-confidence, it's very easy to spot alpha female behavior because she simply stands apart from the rest of women around her. The alpha woman is bold and confident in her actions and will never doubt them.
She Demands Equality Among Men
The alpha female enjoys being in an equal or even superior position to men. She will work hard to make sure that she is treated equally among men and refuses to accept being treated lesser than her male counterparts. The alpha female doesn't believe in traditional gender roles. Who says that the place of a woman is in the kitchen or that only men have to be the breadwinners? The alpha female believes that a confident and mature man won't feel threatened by a powerful and successful woman.
She is Not Afraid of Being Alone
She knows her own value and understands that happiness comes from within. She is not defined by romantic relationships and she knows what she is capable of accomplishing with or without a partner in her life. Dating an alpha female can be challenging because she is assertive, passionate, independent, demands respect and loyalty, and she doesn't need a man to be happy. After a break-up, she can quickly get back on her feet and take charge of her own life because she is not afraid of being single.
She Lives Life With a Purpose
The alpha female lives with a purpose and has clear goals in all the areas of her life. She is very determined and passionate about what she does and won't stop until she achieves her goals and dreams. The alpha woman has core beliefs and values that influence her decisions and shape her daily actions. She always puts her heart and soul into everything she does and wants to build strong relationships with her friends and family. She is satisfied with what she has and who she is and she seeks to live life without regret.
She is Not Afraid to Voice Her Opinion
The alpha female is not afraid to voice her opinions – she is upfront and will never sugar coat anything to people. She will keep an open mind and listen to other people's opinions and value them, but she will always stick to her own beliefs and opinions and let them be known. The alpha woman wants long intellectual conversations about the things she's passionate about and she isn't afraid of disagreeing with someone.
She Doesn't Shy Away From Responsibility
The alpha female doesn't shy away from responsibility, in fact, she will take on more responsibility and expect others to do the same. She believes that everyone is responsible for their own actions and decisions they make in life. The alpha woman is great when it comes to balancing her responsibilities because she knows just how much she's capable of, so you won't find her making excuses for anything or anyone.
She Doesn't Complain or Whine
The alpha woman will never complain or whine about anything in life because she thinks this is a total waste of time and energy. She knows that instead of whining, it's always better to analyze, challenge, and overcome these obstacles in life. She is mature and will never complain about the things she doesn't like, but she will simply get out there and try to change these things instead of making a big scene.
She Doesn't Believe in Excuses
The alpha female doesn't complain and doesn't make excuses. If she spoils something, she will take responsibility, no matter how bad the situation is. She works hard and is a persistent and reliable person, so you will never see her fussing around about something that didn't go the way it should. The alpha female is able to recognize her mistakes, accept them, and then try to fix them.
She Embraces Change
Most people are afraid of change and new experiences, but the alpha woman is not one of them. She is not afraid to step out of her comfort zone and she is able to embrace change because she believes that there's no growth without change and no change without sacrifice. Even though new experiences can be intimidating for many women, the alpha female knows how to live with uncertainty and is always willing to take risks because they keep her focused on becoming the woman she wants to be.
She Knows How to Charm People
She is the woman who turns heads and fills any room with her presence. She may not be the prettiest or the most popular woman in the room, but she is fun and knows how to charm people. The alpha female is comfortable in her own skin and knows how to use her womanly features to attract people around her. She radiates beauty and confidence and can use her sexuality to her advantage.


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The Ace Theater was located slighty north of the Main Street strip. It was operating from around 1942, and was operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary E.J. Sparks. The Ace Theater was still open in 1950.
The building has some Mediterranean elements to it. Fortunately, the building has been preserved and is presently an art gallery.
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AndyCallahanMajorMajor on October 27, 2010 at 8:09 am
Listed as a colored theater in 1953.
Ret. AKC (NAC) CCC Bob Jensen, Manteno, Illinois on October 31, 2010 at 4:48 am
Open till at least ~1964? Anyone care to verify the exact date?
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Vigier Hockey will break down your technical abilities and look at enhancing your game with new techniques to maximize your ability for game situations. Constant feedback to make sure you are growing your game will take your confidence to new heights. Vigier Hockey will make sure you are ready for the upcoming season!
The NRG off-ice program will be designed for the individual athlete, focusing upon; speed-agility-quickness training, power, conditioning, mobility, activation and recovery tactics.
All sessions within a state-of-the-art facility; Seven Oaks Sportsplex
AAA/Prep players
14 On-Ice sessions
14 Off-Ice NRG training sessions
Includes RISE Sport Test development testing session
Private & Semi-Private on-ice coaching sessions available
Semi-Private and Private NRG Training options available April – June, please inquire
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July 3 – August 26
Mondays & Wednesdays
4:30PM start times
Program cost, $1050 +GST. Full payment option available or payment schedule with non-refundable deposit followed by two payment instalments. All registrations & payments online with credit cards transactions.
Deposit – $350 +GST
June 15 – $350 +GST
July 15 – $350 +GST
Registration Link: https://tms.ezfacility.
About Vigier Hockey:
Personally mentored by Jean-Pierre, the Vigier Hockey staff share a passion to empower players from varying levels to be the best they can be. Vigier Hockey staff come from different playing experiences including Professional, Semi-Pro, NCAA, and Junior hockey. Jean-Pierre Vigier brings his vast professional playing experience with over 200 NHL games, AHL, IHL, NCAA, Swiss-A and incorporates this body of work into high performance training for local players on the ice.
Vigier has supported various Hockey Manitoba development and mentorship programs along with other minor hockey associations. He has also completed the Hockey Canada Skills Coach certification program, which is an application-based program with limited entry annually.
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The key to getting the best home studio rig is to first figure out what is it that you really want to achieve with it. Are looking to only record your music or planning to turn the studio into a business? You also need to know if you'll be using the studio for mixing and mastering as well or not. …Read More »
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5 Best Microphones for Recording Acoustic Guitar
The acoustic guitar still plays a major role in today's music industry especially in country, folk, pop, blues, soul and many other genres. Over the years, pro audio engineers have found that certain mics record the sound of the acoustic guitar better and are well designed for the job. So to save you the research and help you make a …Read More »
Top USB MIDI Keyboard Controller For Home Studio
In our previous blog post we reviewed the best microphones for recording drums, and today we'll be covering some of the best usb midi keyboard controllers for home studio recording. A USB midi keyboard is a great choice for both professional and beginner music producers or musicians alike. Acoustic and digital pianos are limited when it comes to sounds. That's …Read More »
20 Best Microphones for Recording Drums [in 2019]
Depending on the type of home studio you're currently building, you might or not need to record acoustic drums. However, for those who have enough room and don't want to use a digital drum kit or DAW Software samples then in this part of the blog I'll help you choose the best microphone for recording individual drum sounds. You'll need …Read More »
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Today we'll be covering one of the most frequently asked question, which is: What is the best DAW software for both professional and home studio recording. For those who don't already know, a DAW is basically a Digital Audio Workstation which is basically a music making software. A DAW is not only for music producers and audio engineers. Even someone …Read More »
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In this guide, I would like to share my 5 Secrets for getting Pro-Sounding vocals in a home recording studio environment. The vocals are usually the most important part of any song, and that's what most people will sing along to. So they have to be well recorded and sound clear for the listener. The secret is to get the …Read More »


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Viennese Opera Ball – japanese
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One of the most famous annual events in Vienna is the Ball at the Viennese Opera House, the "Opernball"
People all over the world show great interest in this top-event of the Viennese carnival season.
This year, the Japanese TV-station NHK produces a 50-minute documentary about the "Wiener Opernball."
Nana, a young presenter visits Vienna. It is not only that she enjoys a fascinating night at the Opera Ball. Her report also covers the manyfold preparations that make this event possible. She takes her Japanese TV-audience on a backstage trip, shows the metamorphosis to the opera house into an extraordinary ballroom, visits the florists in Salzburg, has a interview about the TV-coverage with the DOP of the Austrian Broadcasting ORF, and tastes "Käsekrainer" , a typical Austrian sausage at the sausage stand next to the opera house.
More than that, the famous Austrian opera singer Birgit Sarata and a young debutee are protagonists in this sophistically produced documentary.
Wolfgang and Sylvia Bachschwell recorded location sound and supported the three camera teams at their work in Vienna and Salzburg.
Additional locations were the Café Landtmann, the (City)Palais Liechtenstein, and the dreamy narrow streets of Vienna's inner district.


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Bellator Returns to Albuquerque as Ben Askren Defends Welterweight World Title Against Russian Phenom Andrey Koreshkov July 31 Live on Spike TV
Press Release – The Summer Series continues for Bellator MMA as the promotion returns to Albuquerque Wednesday, July 31st as the Santa Ana Star Center will play host to reigning Bellator Welterweight World Champion Ben Askren defending his title against Russian phenom Andrey Koreshkov live on Spike TV. The night will also feature the long awaited conclusion to the Bellator Welterweight Tournament Finals as Douglas Lima takes faces Ben Saunders in a second epic battle, while featherweights collide as Patricio Pitbull returns to battle Rob Emerson.
The event has a special early start time and will broadcast LIVE starting at 5:00 p.m. MST on Spike. The preliminary card will be streamed LIVE and FREE on Spike.com starting at 4:00 p.m. MST. Tickets for the event are on sale now and can be purchased at ComcastTix.com or by visiting the Santa Ana Star Center Box Office with tickets starting at just $25 dollars.
Askren comes to Albuquerque sporting a spotless 11-0 record and is regarded as one of the best welterweights in the world. The former US Olympian has continued to impress during his illustrious career with Bellator, and will be looking to add another title defense to his resume with a huge victory on July 31st from the Santa Ana Star Center.
"I'm really looking forward to getting back into that cage and putting on a show," Askren said. "I feel like I've continued to mature and get better in every one of my fights, and July 31st should be no different. I don't think Andrey has any ability to stop my wrestling and ground attack, so this will be another successful title defense."
Only 22, Koreshkov had a 2012 to remember as the Russian knockout artist was 5-0 over the year, including a tournament run that featured victories over Jordan Smith, Marius Zaromskis and Lyman Good.
"I'll be 110% ready for this fight," Koreshkov said. "I'll make sure that Askren's tactics to put everybody in the audience to sleep won't work this time. Instead, I'll keep everybody entertained by putting him to sleep."
After two devastating knockout victories on his way to the Bellator Welterweight Tournament Finals, Douglas Lima is ready to collect his second Tournament Championship with a victory over Ben "Killa B" Saunders July 31st. Originally schedule for March of 2013, Lima suffered a fractured hand that delayed the fight, but is fully healed and ready to capture his $100,000 prize and shot at the Bellator Welterweight Championship.
"It's an honor to fight a fighter like Ben again," Lima said. "With the time off I've been able to fully heal to 100% and like always, will be looking to finish the fight early."
For Saunders, the South Florida native is looking to avenge his 2011 Tournament Finals loss to Lima with a signature finish and finally achieve the title shot that has since evaded him.
"Quite simply, it's about damn time Douglas and I get back into the cage," Saunders said. "July 31st can't get here soon enough. Can't wait."
The night will also feature the return of fan favorite and top featherweight Patrico Pitbull, as the Brazilian striker will battle California native Rob "The Saint" Emerson. After suffering just the second loss in his dominating career to the hands of reigning Bellator Featherweight Champion Pat Curran, Pitbull is eager to get back to his winning ways.
"I'm very motivated to get back in the cage, and I feel that I still haven't left totally removed myself from my fight with Curran, a lot of me is still in the fight," Pitbull said. "But it's gone now and I have a tough opponent ahead, I'll be going stronger for this next challenge and doesn't matter how tough my opponents will be I will be stronger than I was! It's great to know I'm back."
"Our first event in Albuquerque was a huge success," Rebney said. "With a Welterweight Title fight, the conclusion of our Welterweight Tournament, and a stacked fight card top to bottom, we're looking at another huge night of fights July 31st live on Spike."


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Eritrea has accused neighboring Ethiopia of violating an earlier ruling on the exact location of their disputed border.
Eritrea says the Ethiopian government is sending its citizens to live in an area called Badme, which, according to the independent Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, belongs to Eritrea.
Ethiopia last year rejected the boundary commission's ruling that Badme belongs to Eritrea, effectively stopping a demarcation exercise and keeping the exact location of the border in limbo.
An official with Eritrea's foreign ministry, Ghirmai Ghebre Mariam, told VOA Friday the Ethiopian government, and not individual Ethiopians, is behind the settlements in Badme.
"They are putting people there. It's against the resolution of the Eritrean-Ethiopian Boundary Commission. They [Ethiopian citizens] cannot wander [in Badme]without the permission of the government," Mr. Ghirmai said.
Mr. Ghirmai did not say how many Ethiopians were living in Badme. He called for a swift resolution to the dispute.
"The border has to be demarcated if we are going to [be] save[d] from all these problems. Ethiopians have to accept the boundary commission's decision which is final and binding, and eventually Badme remains on the side of Eritrea," he said.
A spokesman for the Ethiopian government, Zemedkun Tekle, told VOA his government was still investigating the situation to get what he said was "the real picture there."
He said his government was committed to a peaceful resolution of the dispute and would not do anything to jeopardize a peaceful outcome.
"We are not going to take any kind of action which provokes the border dispute. We have made clear this, and the theme you are raising now hasn't yet been confirmed - it is simply a rumor, and we have to confirm to say something about that," Mr. Tekle said.
Ethiopia and Eritrea had waged a bitter war over their border from 1998 to 2000, during which some 70,000 people were killed.
Under a peace agreement signed in 2000, the independent Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission was created to mark the 1,000-kilometer border, while more than 4,000 United Nations peacekeepers were dispatched to the region to ensure the stability of the border.


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So you thought my assignment would be right here, eh?
First I want to give you some context – don't worry you'll find out soon enough…
"You have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven," Hebrews 12:22-23
Those words describe the beautiful reality of what takes place every time we go to Mass. We got to hear them yesterday in the first reading. And it was in that context, in the city of the living God, with countless angels present, that I had the opportunity to reveal where the next several years of life will take me.
It was at the end of Mass among our seminary community that I, along with six of my brothers, announced where we would be headed for our theology studies. I received the letter earlier that day, but this was the first time anyone else knew where that would be. It was also in that context that I donned for the first time the clerical collar. I can tell you that those moments were filled with a powerful joy, as was our celebratory dinner afterwards.
There's certainly a lot of trust involved in this great event. Trust in God, trust in the bishop, and certainly trust in myself as well. I knew well before I received that letter that whatever would be on that page is indeed what God's will is for me at this point in my life. And there's a freedom in that. The bishop assigns me to my next step, and I simply obey. What a wonderful gift it is!
"So, get on with it, where are you going to be next year?"
I thought you'd never ask – find below the letter written to me by Bishop Zubik, which contains my assignment.
Dear John-Paul:
Priestly formation is of the utmost importance in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Saint Paul Seminary, an institution which has served this local Church for more than fifty years, is where those discerning the Lord's call come to listen to Him more attentively. It is the task of the seminary to be the space where the Lord makes ever more manifest His call.
You have participated in the formation program for almost two years with a passion and love for the Church, the liturgy, and an ever deeper knowledge of the Divine Mysteries. Your time and commitment to the requirements of seminary living have not only benefited your discernment but undoubtedly the spirit and well-being of the seminary community. Moreover, while you discern the possibility of serving the Church as a priest, the Church too must discern the call determining its authenticity and motivation.
To serve as a priest in the present day can be a venturesome challenge. Priests are asked to undertake significant responsibilities in a most competent yet pastoral manner. In his message for the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, our Holy Father, Pope Francis writes:
"Vocation to the priesthood is a gift that God gives to some for the good of all…Responding to God's call, we become priests to serve our brothers and sisters. The images of Christ we take as priests are clear: He is the "high priest," at the same time close to God and close to man; He is the "servant," who washed the feet and makes himself close to the weakest; and He is the "good shepherd," who washes the feet and makes himself close to the weakest; and He is the "good shepherd," who always cares for his flock." (Pope Francis, Address, 20 November 2015)
Your discernment of priestly ministry has indeed matured since your entrance into the seminary. You have successfully embraced the requirements of priestly formation generously offering yourself by example and leadership.
I am pleased to inform you that I have accepted your request to continue formation to the priesthood by moving to the next stage of priestly formation with studies at a major theologate. I am assigning you for priestly formation at Saint Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, beginning in August 2019.
On behalf of the faculty of Saint Paul Seminary, the members of the Priestly Formation Board, and in my own name, I extend to you my heartfelt congratulations. As you complete your studies and discernment at Saint Paul Seminary, please be assured of my prayers for you.
Grateful for our belief that "Nothing is Impossible with God," I am
Your brother in Christ,
Most Reverend David A. Zubik
Bishop of Pittsburgh
So there it is! I'm excited for this opportunity to continue on the path to priesthood. I am very much aware of the fact that this is not a path for the faint of heart, so knowing that I've been approved to take this next step is certainly a thrill. God will certainly do great things, of this I am confident. As always I ask for your prayers as I continue in my journey. Know that you will be in mine.
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I seem to remember Josh saying that even if your breakfast ADR for BOG is slightly later on (I seem to remember reading 8:45am?) that you can still arrive at 8:00 and get served in time to be out and join the Mine Train line in FantasyLand.
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Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > > > as the first one can be disabled by "Do not run any JS" settings. At least. > > You'd have to do it as a group policy, rather than locally on the browser. However, it is true that scripting in the HTML is more difficult to block at the firewall, although I'm sure there are firewalls that attempt to do it (in practice, you would need to strip it at the firewall, rather than blocking the whole page, as too many sites use scripting). I still don't like the idea of adding additional routes to sneak in scripting. From my point of view, I would rather not have any scripting from untrusted sources, but unfortunately live in a world where many sites are broken without it (most of these only use it for cosmetic purposes). There does seem to be a real problem that the sanctity of CSS has been breached, so any BBS ought to strip out all style attributes from third party content as well as more explicit scripting (they could strip more selectively, but my impression is they tend to use crude parsers, which are probably stretched to find all complete attributes, and, in any case would have to adopt a positive acceptance policy, which would reject innocuous new properties). Blocking scripting doesn't help there because the BBS is likely to rely on scripting for the document matrix. That it has already been breached by vendors isn't a good reason for making breaches part of the official standards. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.Received on Saturday, 27 October 2007 22:01:36 UTC
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Since starting their commercials career, the pair have shot work for Honda, MoreThan, Miller and JC Penney, but it was with the beautiful love story of Match.com that took them to another level. The film picked up Golds at almost all awards shows around the world, including Cannes, AICP, the British Arrows and the One Show.
More excellent work for The Trainline, Durex, Thinkbox and a Christmas campaign for Morrisons lead to Campaign Magazine placing them at number 4 on the Best Directors of 2012 list. They have also shot their 3rd short film 'Indoor' which has gained 'official selection' and won awards at many short film festivals around the world, which has in turn qualified 'Indoor' for Oscar and Bafta selection in 2014.
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Second International Festival of Chamber Music «SILVER LYRE»
The First International Festival of Chamber Music "Silver Lyre" took place in November 2010. It had a great success and, on the whole, accomplished its task of promotion and popularization of the inexhaustible "mine" of chamber instrumental and vocal music of Europe that appeared in the last four centuries.
The Second International festival of chamber music, concerts of which will be held in November 5 — 12 in the Small and Grand Halls of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia named after D.D. Shostakovich, has now the same task.
The specific objective of the eight festival concerts will be two-fold:
— To present the best European chamber ensembles, occupying top positions in the ratings and top lists of the leading concert agencies, to the Petersburg public;
— To return to the repertory of Saint Petersburg the masterpieces of chamber music art, which we hear so seldom in recent years and also "to bring into general use" the works of masters of the twentieth century with sporadic inclusion of works of modern authors to the program, including Russian composers.
The widest range of repertoire of the festival — from Baroque music to the works of the XXI century — is intended for the disclosure to the audience of a vast panorama of the development of chamber music genres, reflecting national manner and performing styles of musicians from different countries, represented by invited ensembles.
Programs of all of the eight concerts of the Second International Festival of Chamber Music "Silver Lyre" will consist of music, created in XVII — XXI centuries. Pieces of music by Beethoven and Schubert, Schumann and Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky and Brahms, Faure and Mahler, Rihm, Kurtag and Huber, Law and Bernstein, as well as Piazzolla and Jobim will be performed by the leading European and Russian top-class ensembles.
Among them will be George Sand Trio from France, Faure Quartet from Germany, the Studio of New Music from Moscow and St.Petersburg Chamber Soloists, as well as two virtuoso duos — piano duo of Richard Hyung-Ki Joo and Yu Horiuchi, and a duet of violin and piano consisting of Mayuko Kamio and Miroslav Kultyshev.
In honor of the Year of Italy in Russia, the Festival «Silver Lyre» will be opened with the concert of Venice Baroque Consort, famous for the authentic tradition of performance of the works by Vivaldi. The festival will be closed by the concert of a famous Austrian ensemble Amarcord Wien, performing in the popular genre of «crossover».
Presentation of the top ensembles, performing masterpieces of chamber music and representing national performing schools, fully responds to the basic concept of the festival. And the noble aspiration for music education is its ideological basis. Which is very natural, because of from the moment of its foundation in 1802 the Philharmonic Society of Saint Petersburg aimed to educate and popularize the classical music heritage.
Nowadays, the Philharmonic Society traditionally carries high the banner of the enlightenment. That is why it was the founder of a new chamber music festival, which has the task of returning of the vast layer of undeservingly forgotten or rarely performed pieces of chamber music to concert life and cultivating the public taste for perception of fine and exquisite ancient and modern chamber music opus.
The organizers hope that the festival «Silver Lyre» will be in tune with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic life and will every year allow the music lovers to get acquainted with the latest achievements in the art of chamber performance.
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It is sometimes the fate of prodigiously talented polymaths to become known for just one thing. And so it is with Edward Lear, whose name has become inseparably linked to his volumes of nonsense verse and their endearingly eccentric illustrations.
It seems strange that the last major exhibition of the work of a figure so firmly lodged in the national psyche should have been in 1985. But now the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is celebrating the bicentenary of Lear's birth with an exhibition of his drawings, watercolours and landscape painting, cheerfully titled Happy Birthday Edward Lear — 200 Years of Nature and Nonsense.
There is more nature than nonsense in the Ashmolean show, which is certainly as Lear would have wished: it was as a landscape artist that he saw himself and longed to be remembered. To a modern eye, his painstaking renditions of scenes from the Holy Land, India and Albania may seem to lack the wild originality of the nonsense work that he produced for his friends' children. But behind the technique lay a restless spirit. The Ashmolean's senior curator, Colin Harrison, points out that Lear's travels took him to places not explored by any other English artist, and he brought back images of scenes that no Western eye had seen.
From Beachy Head to Kinchinjunga to the Coast of Coromandel, haunted by the lovesick Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, Lear's strange, entrancing vision still works its singular magic.
Exhibition running from September 20, 2012 until January 6, 2013.


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Benefit: You only need 3/4 the amount of rest others of your race require to awaken fully refreshed and recovered from fatigue penalties.
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