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This 2019 Mazda CX5's dynamic handling and responsive steering stand out in a class that largely favors practicality over performance.
This Mazda CX5 is a real class leader with exceptional performance, agile handling and a versatile and highly intuitive interior. Thanks to its elegant yet aggressive styling and impeccable on road capabilities, there aren't many that can rival the quality and premium performance this modern, beautiful crossover SUV offers.
This snowflake white SUV has an automatic transmission and is powered by a 187HP 2.5L 4 Cylinder Engine.
Our CX-5's trim level is GT. This GT CX-5 has just about everything you could imagine with a power moonroof, navigation, head-up display, air cooled leather seats, wood and metal trim, premium Bose sound, driver seat memory settings, proximity entry, SiriusXM, adaptive front lighting, HomeLink remote system, automatic climate control, and LED lighting with fog lights. This trim also adds traffic sign recognition to the driver assistance features like stop and go adaptive cruise, full range active braking assist, pedestrian detection, forward obstruction warning, lane keep assist with departure warning, and high beam control help make every drive more safe and less fatiguing. For even more comfort, you get heated seats, heated steering wheel, power liftgate, advanced blind spot monitoring, 7 inch Mazda Connect enabled touchscreen, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, USB and aux jacks, texting assistant, and internet radio capability. This vehicle has been upgraded with the following features: Head-up Display, Navigation, Cooled Seats, Sunroof, Woodgrain Trim, Leather Seats, Memory Seats.
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On the fourth day of a nationally watched trial over toxic fumes in trailers provided to those displaced by Hurricane Katrina, an owner of a firm that made many of the trailers was questioned over apparently misleading answers provided to a newspaper reporter pursuing a story about high formaldehyde levels in the FEMA-provided trailers.
Gulf Stream Coach Inc. co-President Dan Shea appeared in the courtroom on Thursday (Sept. 17) via video testimony, answering questions from plaintiff attorney Tony Buzbee who accused the company of knowingly deceiving the public over the quality of materials used in more than 50,000 trailers, according to the Courthouse News Service.
The trial began Sept. 14 in New Orleans over allegations of sickness caused by high levels of formaldehyde in Gulf Stream Coach trailers distributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. FEMA-issued trailers were distributed by the thousands for emergency temporary housing following the 2005 devastation of the Gulf Coast.
Along with the maker of the trailers, the distributor, Fluor Corp., is also on trial. Fluor hauled and installed the trailers through contracts with FEMA. Fluor is accused in the ongoing civil trial of negligence in the installation of the trailers, causing damage to the frames of the trailers which in turn is alleged to have exacerbated the formaldehyde problems.
"Who is Steve Lidy?" plaintiff attorney Tony Buzbee asked Dan Shea during testimony yesterday.
"He is a person who was in Gulf Stream's marketing department."
"Did you tell Steve Lidy not to lie to the press when you read his e-mail and saw what he wrote to the press? Did you call and correct him?" asked Buzbee.
The e-mail in question was written by Lidy to Laura Halleman from the "Madison Courier." Lidy references his email to Halleman in a July 2007 e-mail to Dan Shea, saying Halleman, "wanted to know what steps" had been taken by Gulf Stream "to fix the FEMA formaldehyde problem."
Steve Lidy goes on to tell Dan Shea, "I told her we are ahead of the curve, that for years we have been using (low formaldehyde) building products to meet & exceed the manufactured housing standards. She got snippy at me saying our trailers are showing high levels. I asked her to be sure they are our trailers since there are trailers from many manufacturers in that region and then I referred her back to FEMA for any further questions and answers."
In earlier testimony, Dan Shea said that in spring 2006 he became aware that possibly 15% of the interior wood products, supplied through Adorn, that were used in Gulf Stream trailers were not the LFE (low formaldehyde emitting) quality he and his brother Jim Shea Jr. insisted Gulf Stream Coach exclusively used in construction of its FEMA-supply travel trailers. Due to the nature of manufacture and the glues used in processing, woods used in travel trailers and manufactured homes tend to have high formaldehyde levels.
Almost every component inside the Gulf Stream Coach FEMA trailers is made from wood. The walls, cabinets, kitchen table, master bed and bunk beds are made of wood or wood components. Dan Shea additionally testified that somewhere around the same time, he and his brother Jim Jr. also realized that two-thirds of the wood they were supplied from Weyerhaeuser and Samling, used in the flooring and the roof of the trailers, was not certified LFE.
After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, FEMA awarded Gulf Stream Coach more than $500 million in contracts for more than 50,000 travel trailers. Gulf Stream's was among the few no-bid contracts for travel trailers that FEMA awarded directly to a trailer manufacturer.
Jim Shea Jr. testified earlier in the trial that formaldehyde complaints were surfacing even before all of Gulf Stream Coach's 50,000 trailers had been delivered to hurricane victims.
In March 2006, CNN picked up a story about formaldehyde poisoning from a Biloxi TV station and soon the formaldehyde issue was national news.
Soon after, Dan Shea wrote in an oft-cited letter to FEMA Logistics Management Specialist Supervisor Stephen Miller: "We remain ready, willing, and able to work with FEMA with regard to any complaint, including sending representatives within 24 hours to work with your contractors to inspect, test, or do whatever is reasonably necessary to address any complaint."
Referring to that letter during Shea's video testimony on Thursday, plaintiff counsel told Shea, "The e-mail you sent to Mr. Miller is not true. … Can you admit to me that it is not true so we can move on?"
After a back and forth for a few moments, Shea said, "It's my understanding at this point, some three years later… that one of the key points here … there had been some question about the material specs requirement … and I told (Steve Miller) that we knew FEMA had a big task and that we would be willing to do whatever we needed to do to assist them."
Shea continued: "I certainly think we had a proactive approach with FEMA. … We contacted them and told them then that we would like to advise any customers who had a complaint."
Referring to FEMA's letter to Shea, plaintiff lawyer Buzbee asked Shea: "Steve Miller wanted to know, `Does your field staff have the capability to put this issue to bed.' What did that mean to you?"
"I thought he was asking if our field staff could test the trailers."
"And you told him you would have someone down (to Louisiana) to test trailers on Friday."
"But you didn't do that, did you?"
"No. We didn't have the capability in three days."
According to Buzbee, following the e-mail in which Dan Shea says he will have someone in Louisiana on Friday, there were no further e-mails from Gulf Steam to FEMA.


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The first mistake many students and families make is assuming they can't afford college. Don't be discouraged by the sticker price of college until you know how much financial aid may be available to you. Financial aid can significantly reduce the cost of college, but it can be tricky to estimate how much student aid you will get. Two factors are generally used to determine who gets student aid and how much they get: need and merit.
Some student aid programs use a combination of need and merit to determine eligibility.
It all starts with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). With this one application, you can apply for financial aid at multiple colleges and from multiple funding sources (federal, state, institutional and private providers of assistance). Mistakes can delay your application, potentially limiting the amount of aid your are eligible to receive. As you prepare to fill out your FAFSA, keep this list of FAFSA Tips and Common Mistakes To Avoid handy.
Right now! You will need to fill out the FAFSA once for each academic year that you will attend school. The farther in advance you do it, the better!
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The FAFSA for next academic year (July 1, 2015- June 30, 2016) is available online now. This worksheet gives you a preview of the questions asked, and will help you gather the information you need before starting the online application. You may also want to print off this FAFSA checklist, which tells you what information and forms you need to have on-hand to help you fill out the FAFSA.
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2009 Polaris Ranger RZR S - Backcountry Machine
The Side-By-Side Continues To Impress
Our Polaris Ranger RZR S loaner is an absolute blast to drive. We've done nothing to it except put gas in it, and the performance of the RZR S is stunning. Sixty-three mph is the claimed top speed, and ours goes exactly 63 mph on a level graded road. Sixty-Three mph is fast off-road and the RZR S's long-travel suspension and Fox podium shocks soak up the bumps easily. With the 800 twin's fuel injection, throttle response is right on and the Polaris runs at any altitude or attitude.
We've had it in some wild attitudes, too. As we mentioned in the first feature, the RZR S's high-speed performance didn't surprise us, but its low-speed rock-crawling prowess did. The long-travel suspension continues to impress us by allowing the RZR S to pick its way over the rocks and ledges of southern Utah. The front limited slip and rear spool keep all the wheels turning, even if one or more are in the air. Stop to go (0 to 2 mph) can still be a bit lurchy, but by modulating the brake pedal and accelerator pedal, this isn't a problem.
We've run all day on one 7.25-gallon tank of gas, so fuel economy is surprisingly good. This is great for those days we use the RZR S (almost every day we drive it) for exploring new areas. Our RZR S isn't perfect, though. When completely off the throttle and going downhill, we're getting a squeak from the clutch/belt. When on the throttle at all, or in low range, there's no squeak. We've heard that all RZR S models do this.
UPDATE: The squeak has now stopped. Maybe it's a break-in deal?
That's the only issue we've had with the Polaris Ranger RZR S. It's a wonderful backcountry machine with room for two, some gear, and performance that's so good it brings smiles to the faces of jaded off-roaders with decades of experience.
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Criminal justice students take part in law enforcement seminar
Liberty University's Criminal Justice Department — part of the Helms School of Government — hosted a seminar at Williams Stadium on Thursday, March 27 for 100 criminal justice students and close to 200 local, state, and federal criminal justice professionals.
The event featured law enforcement expert Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, who shared his practical insight into the situations agencies face every day.
|Law enforcement expert Lt. Col. Dave Grossman shared practical insight during a seminar hosted by the Liberty University Helms School of Government's Criminal Justice Department in Williams Stadium.
Grossman is a highly respected veteran of the United States Army, a former professor of psychology at West Point, and an expert in military and police tactics. He focused the seminar on the importance of maintaining a "bullet-proof mindset" that enables officers to retain their tactical prowess while running toward threatening situations.
He addressed the risks in a world where violence is glorified in video games and other forms of media that are easily accessible to children, and warned that staying up late to view violent material is a recipe for disaster that can lead to devastating outcomes in the lives of American youth.
"When we have media intoxication and sleep deprivation, we get a toxic cocktail that, for many kids, turns into suicide," Grossman said.
Grossman also discussed the importance of understanding the new generation of crime and how to handle and prevent threats to the schools and towns the officers have sworn to protect. He urged officers and students to remain active in their daily lifestyles so they are always prepared for the worst.
Michele Gay, founder of the nonprofit foundation Safe and Sound and the mother of a Sandy Hook victim, attended the seminar to learn how schools can improve safety conditions before tragedies occur.
"It's our responsibility to make sure (school) is safe," she said. "We want to have the parents, the students, the administrators, and staff all involved in our (safety) plan. For us it is very much a collaborative effort."
While the seminar was a great opportunity for students to learn from a renowned leader in law enforcement education, they also had the opportunity to network with staff from local and state law enforcement agencies.
Michael Milnor, a professor of criminal justice with 30 years of experience in law enforcement, said that the department puts students in the same room with professionals to allow them to gather as much real-world experience as possible.
"We are trying to infuse local, state, and federal ranking officers into the program to instruct," Milnor said.
The department's strategy is unique in that it provides students practical knowledge beyond simply the theoretical approach to criminal justice.
On April 3, 40 criminal justice students will have the opportunity to conduct a mock crime scene investigation on Liberty Mountain with the aid of forensic teams from six different agencies. The event is a prelude to an advanced investigations class that will begin this summer. The criminal justice department will then partner with other departments within the university to replicate a complete investigation process from initial forensics tests to the final trial; information from the initial investigation will make its way into a forensics class in the biology department, and eventually to an evidence file that pre-law students can use in a mock court case.


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Male Organ Pain – Avoiding the Failure of Fracture Failure
Aggressive sensual activity can be pleasurable, but it also carries the risks of moderately common male organ pain as well as the risk of unusual graceless fractures. This is a situation everyone wants to avoid. Taking proper precautions is part of basic male organ care, and it is invaluable when one considers the suffering that occurs in holding a member. Male Organ Pain – Avoiding the Failure of Fracture Failure
Did his member break up?
Men often talk about the fear of "breaking" their members, but the members are fractured differently than broken arms or legs. In the latter case, fractures occur in the bones of the limbs. The male organ actually has no bones (although there is a bone-based nickname that is popular because of its uproar), but that does not mean it can not crack.
When a person talks about a male organ fracture, a person refers to the tears in tunica albuginea, a tough fibrous tissue layer that surrounds the sponge tissue in the member. The tunica albuginea plays a role in the maturation upheaval, so it's something that a man wants to keep in good condition.
When a male organ fractures, there is usually a cracking sound and a lot of pain. This was immediately followed by bleeding and loss of tumor. (Fractures only occur when maturity is in a firm state.)
How did it happen?
Male organ fractures generally occur when sensation, aggression or acrobatics are present; They occur most often during sensual partner-based activities, but it is surely possible to break down maturity when performing solo sensual activities.
The outbreak occurs when company members hit objects that are more difficult than members and lack flexibility. During a pair-based sensual activity, this is most likely to occur when a person passionately thrusts his organs into a woman's organ and approaches from such a angle that her maturity enters the woman's pelvis.
Male organ fracture occurs when the pleasure of self usually occurs when a person is simulating a clutch. For example, many men love fun by thrusting their maturity between pillows and other objects, like mattresses. Doing so at an improper angle can cause fractures.
Interestingly, a small study in 2001 showed that male organ fracture is more likely to occur when someone engages in sensual activity outside of marriage and / or when hooking in unusual places or positions.
If a fracture occurs, a man should immediately see a doctor to determine the appropriate course of action.
Preventive measure
There are several things a man can do to help prevent a male organ fracture.
– Take a little slower. In the heat, this may be easier said than done. But men need to make sure that they thrust at the right angles as they enter the power-drive mode.
– Choose a position carefully. Exploring new sensual positions can be a wonderful experience; However, the unfamiliarity of that position means that a person may need to be a little more careful until he is comfortable enough to do the full throttle. This may be especially the case with the inverted cowgirl position (where a person is lying and the woman is sitting in his organs, facing away from the man), which by a recent study may be more likely to be involved in a male fracture situation.
– Pleasure yourself carefully. Moreover, when simulating the clutch, make sure the objects used are not too hard and not flexible.
Male organ pain can occur not only from fractures but also from many sensual, aggressive or overly sensual activities. An excellent method for treating common male organ pain is the application of first class male health creme (a health expert recommends Man1 Man Oil). The soothing effects of natural moisturizers such as Shea butter and vitamin E, found in the best crèmes, help ease the pain while restoring vitality to the skin. Fracture caused by a broken bone can also benefit from crème with vitamin C. Most of the tunica albuginea consists of collagen, and vitamin C aids in the production of collagen. Recovery from a male organ fracture may take some time, so taking steps to relieve pain during recovery periods during recovery is very important. Male Organ Pain – Avoiding the Failure of Fracture Failure


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Low snowpack in Colorado mountains begins worry season for spring runoff
If springtime arrived tomorrow, rafters, anglers and farmers would not be happy.
With about six weeks to go before the bellwether April 1 snowpack measurement, things aren't looking good, according to the National Weather Service. The most recent streamflow forecast for this year's snowmelt predicts volumes as low as 68 percent of their 30-year averages, because of lagging snowpack so far this season. The vital and iconic Colorado River is expected to flow at 71 percent of average this spring.
"It should be noted that it is still early in the snow accumulation season and conditions could change before the runoff begins," according to the report.
Indeed, March is historically Colorado's snowiest month, and the flakes can fall well into May in most places and to July at higher elevations.
Snowpack and snowmelt are critical to Colorado. They tell people who depend on the rivers — and that includes almost all of us in Colorado — how much water they can expect for recreation, reservoirs and irrigation in the months ahead. More than 80 percent of the state's year-round water supply arrives as snow. High country snow also feeds downriver states, including Las Vegas, San Diego and Los Angeles, plus California's Imperial Valley, one of the most productive farming regions the country with only only 3 inches of annual rain fall.
Water bills might not reflect the pinch this year, however. Because of last year's abundant snow, reservoir storage remains well above average. Combined reservoir storage in the Colorado River basins in the state was 113 percent of average at the end of January, according to the National Weather Service.
The silver lining behind this cloud of snowpack doubt is flood risks, as of now, remain low risk this year.
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Cartoons of the day: Justin Bieber arrest
Justin Bieber, the 19-year-old pop star with a growing list of troubling incidents, was arrested in Miami this week on charges of drunken driving and resisting arrest. He later admitted to drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana and taking prescription drugs before the incident. Here's what several editorial cartoonists say about Bieber's arrest.


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London, 1861. Each day Grace must find a new way of earning enough money to pay the rent for the bleak, cold room that she and her sister live in, and to buy them enough - just - to eat.
But there is a different danger threatening Grace, a danger linked to an event in her past that she is desperate to forget. Grace has caught the eye of the Unwins, an unscrupulous family whose shady business dealings are those of death and mourning, and who will stop at nothing to defraud two young women of what is rightfully theirs...A gripping, fast-paced novel for older children about two poverty-stricken sisters and their struggle to survive in Victorian London.
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- Ilana
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A wonderful homage to Dickens
When we first meet Grace Parks, she is a fifteen-year-old girl living in 1861 London who is just about to deliver her first child out of wedlock. Grace is orphaned, and has had to look after her sister Lily since their mother passed away. They are both poor and living in the slums, often going without food when they can't manage to make enough money selling watercress on the streets. Given she hasn't gotten enough money to feed and clothe herself and her sister, let alone a newborn baby, it is possibly an act of mercy when the midwife informs Grace that her baby was stillborn. The young girl is of course devastated, and feeling sorry for her, the midwife tells her about a way in which her baby can find proper burial in a beautiful cemetery just outside London, instead of being thrown into a communal pauper's grave. While at the cemetery, Grace will meet two individuals who will play large roles in the Parks sisters' fortunes, in the persons of the kindly James Solent, a law clerk, and Mrs Unwin, the wife of one of London's most successful undertakers, who suggests to her she has the perfect face, solemn and tragic, to be employed as a "mute", or a professional mourner, though Grace, quite put off, doesn't intend to take her up on the offer. Directly inspired by Dickens' tales—the great writer even plays a small role in the novel—and therefore peopled with wonderfully wicked characters, the novel follows the sisters as they are forced onto the London streets and have no choice but to turn to the villainous Unwins for sustenance, much as Grace dislikes the idea of making a living from the funeral industry. This line of business is about to get an incredible boost upon the death of Prince Consort Albert in December 1861, when Queen Victoria declares the nation to be in a state mourning. Probably written for a young adult readership, but who cares? it's a great yarn and worth the detour.
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- Mary Hollinger
- 11-01-14
Stunning Performance, wonderful story
Where does Fallen Grace rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
This is at the top of my list. I have heard some fabulous audiobooks this year. This one has seriously struck a chord with me. Kate Byers does a fantastic, truly remarkable job doing the voices of the various characters.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Lily, the "simple" sister, is extremely compelling. But her sister Grace is just as powerful, a young woman of such wisdom, bravery and moral/psychological fortitude.
Have you listened to any of Kate Byers's other performances before? How does this one compare?
No, I have not. I'll be looking out for more of her work.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
When Grace goes to see Lily at the Unman's(?) to see how Lily is holding up, it is just so heartbreakingly powerful. It reminded me of times when I was crushed and full of despair over something, and my big sister's efforts were to make me feel more brave, help me to endure. This moment was so totally poignant and unforgettable. As are others in the story!
Any additional comments?
I want to find this performance on a CD so I can send it to my sister!


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Paramount's Star Trek Into Darkness opened in first place this weekend with $70.17 million. However, the second installment of the re-launched sci-fi series opened significantly below wide-spread expectations, including those of the studio. Star Trek Into Darkness also failed to match the $75.20 million opening weekend take of 2009's Star Trek (which bumps up to $79.20 million when including the $4 million that film earned from late night Thursday screenings). While a sequel opening slightly below its predecessor isn't the end of the world, it is especially underwhelming in this case given that Star Trek Into Darkness had the added advantage of higher priced 3D admissions this time around and was following in the footsteps of a very well received previous film.
With an additional $13.54 million on Thursday (which included $2 million from Wednesday night IMAX showings), Star Trek Into Darkness has grossed $83.70 million through four days of release. The last minute release date change clearly hurt the film's Thursday performance, which made the film's weekend performance even that more important. Through four days of release, Star Trek Into Darkness is running 3.5 percent behind the $86.71 million take of Star Trek, 33 percent behind the $125.18 million four-day start of 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and 50 percent stronger than the $55.93 million four-day take of 2009's Terminator Salvation.
Within the softer than expected start, there were some promising signs for Star Trek Into Darkness this weekend. On the heels of Friday's $21.62 million performance, the film did increase a healthy 25 percent on Saturday to gross $26.95 million and generated an opening weekend to Friday ratio of 3.24 to 1. The film's A rating on CinemaScore was also an encouraging early sign. With that said, holding up well going forward will be no easy task for the film given the upcoming competition it will soon be facing from Universal's Fast & Furious 6, Warner's The Hangover Part III and to a lesser extent Sony's After Earth. The upcoming competition from Fast & Furious 6 and The Hangover Part III likely had an effect on Star Trek Into Darkness already this weekend, as moviegoers anticipating either or both of those films may have simply decided to pass on Star Trek Into Darkness. The continued strength of Disney's Iron Man 3 certainly isn't helping matters for Star Trek Into Darkness either.
It should be noted that Star Trek Into Darkness is performing stronger than its predecessor overseas. After grossing $40 million this weekend, Star Trek Into Darkness has grossed $80.5 million to date overseas. That places the early global total for Star Trek Into Darkness at $164.2 million.
Iron Man 3 fell 51 percent to place in second this weekend with $35.77 million. Given the new competition Iron Man 3 faced from Star Trek Into Darkness, this weekend's hold was quite respectable. It could also be a sign of the blockbuster superhero sequel being able to display solid holding power going forward, even in the face of increased competition. In comparison, 2010's Iron Man 2 fell 49 percent in its third weekend to gross $26.36 million, while last year's Marvel's The Avengers fell 46 percent to take in $55.64 million. Iron Man 3 has grossed a terrific $337.66 million through 17 days of release. That places the film 34.5 percent ahead of the $251.03 million 17-day take of Iron Man 3 and 26 percent behind the $457.67 million 17-day gross of The Avengers.
Iron Man 3 added $40.2 million to its overseas haul this weekend. That brings the film's overseas total to $736.2 million and current global haul to a mighty $1.074 billion.
Warner's The Great Gatsby displayed respectable holding power as well this weekend. The Baz Luhrmann directed film starring Leonardo DiCaprio fell 52 percent to place in third with $23.94 million. The Great Gatsby continues to exceed expectations with a ten-day start of $90.68 million. That places The Great Gatsby 20 percent ahead of the $75.54 million ten-day take of 2010's Shutter Island (which fell 45 percent in its second weekend to gross $22.67 million). Going forward, The Great Gatsby will hope to continue to serve as an alternative to the early summer's action fare.
The Great Gatsby launched overseas this weekend; grossing $43.0 million from 49 foreign territories. That places the film's current global haul at $133.7 million.


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The Lady Bisons soccer team lost to Tennessee Tech 2-1 in Cookeville Sunday afternoon after being outshot 23-7.
Tennessee Tech (3-6-1) struck first with a goal by Ellie Iaciofano in the 17th minute but an unassisted goal by Lipscomb sophomore midfielder Alex Wagner tied the game thirty seconds into the second period.
In the 59th minute, Tech's Andrea Meloff scored on a free kick giving the Golden Eagles the 2-1 lead and the eventual victory.
Lipscomb was only able to get two shots off in the second half and was outshot 14-2 in the final 45 minutes.
Freshman goalkeeper Allison Brown was credited with six saves for the Lady Bisons.many key athletes; as a result, only 13 players saw action against Tennessee Tech, with seven playing the full 90 minutes.
It was the third straight loss for the Lady Bisons (2-6-1) who open their Atlantic Sun Conference schedule next weekend with games at Mercer and Kennesaw State.
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A defiant Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. was sentenced to 28 years in prison and ordered to pay $965,000 in restitution this morning after reading a statement to the court in which he denied trading "kids for cash."
"Those three words made me the personification of evil. They made me the devil. They made me the anti-Christ. They made me toxic," Ciavarella told U.S. District Judge Edwin M. Kosik.
Ciavarella, 61, was taken into federal custody following the sentencing.
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Ciavarella, while admitting to tax charges and fraud for taking nearly $1 million from the builder of a for-profit detention center, forcefully denied taking money from Robert J. Powell, a former co-owner of the center, arguing a jury acquitted him of taking money from Powell to sentence juveniles to the center.
"Bob Powell is a liar and self-centered individual who would do anything and say anything to protect himself," Ciavarella said in reference to Powell's testimony at the trial.
Ciavarella also lashed out at federal prosecutors, saying they continued to use the "kids for cash" phrase to describe his case, without proving it at trial.
He also apologized to his family, the people of Luzerne County and the county bench and bar.
"To all the juveniles who appeared before me, I would like to apologize for being a hypocrite and not practicing what I preached," Ciavarella said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Zubrod argued for a sentence that would send Ciavarella to prison "for the remainder of his natural life."
"The defendant argues he didn't sell juveniles retail. We agree with that. He was selling them wholesale," said Zubrod, maintaining that the jury found Ciavarella guilty of a racketeering conspiracy for being part of a scheme to extract cash from the construction and operation of the two for-profit centers.
Kosik's courtroom was filled this morning with more than 90 people, including Ciavarella's friends and family and former defendants in Ciavarella's court and their supporters, who wore white T-shirts with slogans referring to the kids-for-cash case and a picture of Edward Kenzakoski III, who committed suicide several years after being incarcerated by Ciavarella
Kenzakoski's mother, Sandy Fonzo, who has been a vocal critic of Ciavarella, said she was pleased by the verdict.
"I believe it was just," Fonzo said. "I believe it was right."
After the hearing, attorneys from both sides stood on the courthouse steps to address the media.
Defense attorney Al Flora Jr. said he intends to appeal several of Ciavarella's convictions and the length of his sentence in the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
When prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office emerged from the courthouse, they were cheered loudly by the former defendants who had appeared before Ciavarella and their supporters.


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Here is a recipe for Finnish Apple Cake, by Beatrice Ojakangas, the Queen of Scandinavian Cooking
FINNISH APPLE SUGAR CAKE (Omenasokerikakku)
Makes 12 servings
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) softened butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
dash salt
3/4 cup light cream or undiluted evaporated milk
2 medium apples, peeled, cored and sliced about 1/2 inch
Cinnamon sugar: 2 tablespoons sugar mixed with 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9 by 13-inch cake pan.
In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar together; add the eggs and beat until light. Stir the flour, baking powder and salt together and add to the cream mixture alternately with the cream. Mix until batter is smooth and spread into the prepared pan.
Insert the apple slices so that the outer edges of the apple slices are up. Sprinkle evenly with the cinnamon sugar and bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean and dry. Serve warm.
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What happened to Week 5? I didn't do my homework. 😦 The load was light, anyway, because of Thanksgiving in the U.S.
Instead, I started working on my alpha prototype in Week 5, because I knew I wouldn't be able to do it all in just the one week of Week 6. I have a new job (tell you about it when I take some photos!), but haven't managed to slough off the old one, yet…I'm giving my old boss till the Christmas holidays to find a replacement for me. So I worked 6 days last week, will work 6 days every week for the next 3 or so. Not so terrible, I'll survive, but I haven't had time to do any groceries or blogging or even laundry…it's just a big grey block of work and, when I get home at night, The Prototype is waiting. So then I make a coffee and sew pockets until 1 or 2 in the morning, because I am not going to drop out in the last quarter, I've done way too much to just let it all go.
Anyway, the idea is still to make both a journal "jacket" and a specially bound travel journal, and for these two to work together. I have run out of time to make the bound book for this week, so I will present that as part of the Beta model, next week. Here are just pictures, and some notes, about the journal jacket part, which was a lot harder to put together than I thought it would be, though I have to say that I am thrilled to have learned SO MUCH about stitching all sorts of pockets, zips, even an expandable three-part pocket that fans out to a 90-degree angle. Go, me! (Hey, I can pat myself on the back…I have been living on rice with soy sauce and an occasional tomato, from the plant on the back deck, for 5 days…)
The photos with annotations were the ones I submitted to the course, but I'm throwing in a few more for this post, to give you all a better idea of what's been included, changed, etcetera…
By the way, the photo at the very start of this post is shows pages of our old marbling experiments journal. For a few years in the Philippines Kris and I marbled our own papers and fabrics for the journals we made; we weren't using any of the proper stuff—there was no carrageenan, or special marbling paints, or ox gall. We used rain water, cheap local acrylic house paints, and manioc starch for the size. Still, we managed to get our patterns to a pretty good standard, amazingly. The green marbled fabric on the cover of the journal, in some of the photos below, is one of ours.
TRAVEL JOURNAL (jacket only) ALPHA MODEL
I envision a travel journal (book), together with a sturdy "jacket" that I can put the journal into. The jacket has multiple pockets to hold not only the maps and paraphernalia of traveling, but also the art materials he/she might use to create a more personalised and artistic journal. Unlike the journal—which I imagine will become an inactive but cherished receptacle for the traveler's memories and impressions when it is filled—the jacket is re-usable.
I work 6 days a week, so I didn't have time to hand bind the travel journal (book) itself…sorry! But I've done so much work on this thing, already, that perhaps I should be viewing this "Travel Journal Jacket" as a separate design from the actual "Travel Journal"! Maybe I'll just finish off the book part for the beta prototype next week.
NOTE: The rubber stamps are a heart, a star, and an unhappy face, representing "Like this" (or "Love this"), "Important" and "Dislike this". The stamps are meant to be used to flag entries where the traveller wants to rate an experience. I found this solution preferable to Moleskine's use of symbol stickers which, of course, always get used unevenly, and run out too soon.
NOTE: There are three of these large pockets with zippers that run along the edge of the journal jacket…see first illustration for placement of all three.
Just a final photo showing where everything is, from left to right: a green journal has been strapped in, some maps and papers are in the expanding pockets, pens and brushes fit snugly into elastic loops, and there is a stamp pad and a glue tape gizmo in the tool pockets at the right. Also, yes, those are my feet, spread very far apart! 🙂
Related articles
- Designing a creative travel journal, part 1 (smallestforest.net)


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Monday starts Sew Mama Sew's Spring Giveaway week. Come back here because I'm participating!
The following week is Amy's Quilt Festival. This is always an amazing collection of quilts. I'm in the process of binding the one I'm going to share. It's one that's been in the works for a L O N G time, but I'm finally finishing! Hurrah.


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EANS-Adhoc: Century Casinos Announces Racing Entertainment Centre and Race Track Project in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Century Casinos Announces Racing Entertainment Centre and Race Track Project in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, December 3, 2012 - Century Casinos, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market® and Vienna Stock Exchange: CNTY) announced today that its subsidiary Century Casinos Europe GmbH ("CCE") signed credit and management agreements with United Horsemen of Alberta Inc. ("UHA") in connection with the development of a proposed race track and entertainment center in Balzac, north metropolitan area of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The proposed project would be the only horse race track in the Calgary area and would consist of a 5.5 furlongs (0.7 miles) race track and a Racing Entertainment Centre, including a gaming floor proposing 625 gaming machines, a bar, a lounge, restaurant facilities, an off-track-betting area and an entertainment area. This Racing Entertainment Centre license is the only license still available in any metropolitan area of Alberta. This particular license application pre-dates the AGLC recently approved three-year moratorium on new Casinos and Racing Entertainment Centers, with an option to extend the moratorium for an additional two years.
CCE has agreed to loan to UHA up to CAD 13 million (approximately USD 13 million based on the exchange rate in effect on December 3, 2012) for the exclusive use of developing the proposed project. The loan has an interest rate of LIBOR plus 800 bps, a term of five years and is convertible by CCE into a 60% ownership position in UHA. The Company intends to provide the loan to UHA with borrowings under the Company's Bank of Montreal Credit Agreement.
Once the project is developed and operational and for as long as CCE has not converted the loan into a majority ownership position in UHA, CCE will receive 60% of UHA's net profit before tax as a management fee.
Both the credit and management agreements are subject to development approvals and licensing from the AGLC. UHA and CCE have submitted the relevant applications already, but there is no assurance that the needed approvals will be obtained or as to the timing of such approvals. Horse Racing Alberta, the governing authority for horse racing in Alberta, has already approved the project and issued a license.
The proposed project would be located less than one mile north of the city limits of Calgary and 4.5 miles from the Calgary International Airport. The location is ideally positioned exiting off the Queen Elizabeth II Highway, which is the main corridor between Calgary and Edmonton and one of the most heavily used highways in Western Canada, next to the CrossIron Mills shopping mall, a major regional attraction, and would capture both the north and the northwest Calgary markets, which do not currently have a casino. The Company anticipates that the race track and entertainment center would be completed 12 to 18 months following completion of the approval process.
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Century Casinos, Inc. is an international casino entertainment company that owns and operates Century Casino & Hotels in Cripple Creek and Central City, Colorado, and in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and the Century Casino in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Company also operates casinos aboard twelve luxury cruise vessels (Regatta, Nautica, Marina, Riviera, Mein Schiff 1, Mein Schiff 2, Wind Surf, Wind Star, Wind Spirit, Seven Seas Voyager, Seven Seas Mariner and Seven Seas Navigator). Through its Austrian subsidiary, Century Casinos Europe GmbH, the Company holds a 33.3% ownership interest in Casinos Poland Ltd., the owner and operator of eight casinos in Poland. The Company also manages the operations of the casino at the Radisson Aruba Resort, Casino & Spa in Aruba, Caribbean. Century Casinos, Inc. continues to pursue other international projects in various stages of development.
For more information about Century Casinos, visit our website at www.centurycasinos.com. Century Casinos' common stock trades on The NASDAQ Capital Market® and the Vienna Stock Exchange under the symbol CNTY.
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Perils and pluses of a single-vendor shop
Does IBM rule your shop? Some IT pros are standardizing on one vendor for hardware or software across the IT infrastructure. Who's doing it? More importantly, should you be?
The tech industry has reached the point where shops can standardize on a single vendor for hardware or software needs. But, while the getting looks good, there can be drawback to a single-vendor shop.
Experts say opportunities exist, but buyers beware.
There are several benefits to standardizing to a single vendor:
"There certainly are some benefits to standardizing. You basically have one set of owner manuals for your IT staff to learn," said Charles King, principal analyst at Hayward, Calif.-based Pund-IT Research. "It's like doing business in a small town. You develop a good personal relationship and get premium service. You tend to be at the top of the repair list."
According to Mark Feverston, director of the ES7000 platform, Unisys' Intel-based box, standardization is the macro-trend of this decade.
"Everybody tells you that they want to do more with less. Reducing the number of technologies in your infrastructure can do that," Feverston said. "[Standardization] gives clients more agility with equal or greater capability."
One of the areas that has embraced single-vendor data centers is the airline industry. Many of those in the plane trade are bleeding money, and see uniformity as a way to cut costs.
Bob Edwards, staff vice president of IT operations at Houston-based Continental Airlines, standardized his operation on HP's Proliant servers to minimize investment in training, tools, parts, maintenance and resources.
And on the software side, New York-based JetBlue Airways, runs strictly Windows.
"There continues to be interest in standardization. There is a fascination with consolidating down to smaller numbers of variables, said Tony Iams, vice president and lead analyst, system software and virtualization for Port Chester, N.Y.-based Ideas International.
Except for JetBlue's customer reservation system, which is outsourced, all other significant programs use solely Microsoft. Iams sees JetBlue's strategy as an indication of the benefits of going single-vendor.
"They claim standardization on one system has helped them gain on the competition. If the airline industry is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and one of them is thriving, you have to pay attention to that," Iams said.
But if you decide to move toward a single platform, make sure it's reliable. Extremely reliable.
Watch for the pitfalls of single-vendor reliance:
Dick Hamann, vice president of information technology and resources for Sanford, Fla.-based Seminole Community College, faced the decision to standardize on Unisys hardware and Windows. Hamann has a long rapport with Unisys as a mainframe customer, but when it came time to upgrade, Hamann thought he needed to add Unix to his environment. But that wasn't the case.
Standardizing Windows on a new Unisys ES7000 prevented him from having to train new staff. He said the system is as good as a mainframe at a fraction of the cost -- around $500,000 for 16 active Intel processors.
"Unisys demonstrated the reliability of Windows as a more cost-efficient alternative to Unix, and we were sold," Hamann said. "The biggest advantage of running Windows and SQL is that I didn't have to spend $100,000 in salary for an Oracle/Unix DBA."
Still, despite apparent costs and operational benefits, King warns, if a vendor starts in a direction you don't care for and you're locked in, there's not much you can do, unless you're a very large customer.
"You're more or less buying wholly into the company line. Most people go into these agreements with their eyes opened. You just pray that you don't get your eyes blackened," King said.
Ben Weinberger, director of IT, for Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based law firm of Ruden McClosky, understands the limitations of single-vendor reliance. He runs a Dell shop, workstations to servers.
Weinberger said his predecessor as IT director had tried to implement a disaster recovery plan for the firm, and Dell encouraged the organization into going with EMC's Replistor product.
When Weinberger took over the project, he found EMC's Automated Availability Manager (AAM) feature unmanageable, and went to Dell for a better option.
"AAM was absolutely impossible. We went to Dell several times and asked them to implement a disaster recovery program exactly the way we wanted it. But the quotes they came back with were way beyond our budget," Weinberger said. "We gave them every chance we could and then decided to go with an outside vendor."
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El Saler golf course, Valencia
Mediterráneo Country Club. Borriol (Castellón)
Play golf on courses located in attractive tourist destinations, looking out over the Mediterranean Sea, and with spring temperatures and succulent cuisine. This is what the Valencia region offers for golf lovers. We invite you to discover it for yourself.
The Valencia region offers the opportunity to enjoy this sport all year round thanks to its privileged climate and nearly 25 golf courses for all levels. It is a very attractive region for tourism with three especially well-known areas: Costa Blanca, Costa Azahar and Costa de Valencia. Nearness to the big cities In the Valencia region you will have the advantage of being able to practise your swing very close to the cities. This is the case with Valencia, the capital, Alicante and Castellón de la Plana. The first has up to four clubs within half an hour. They are the El Bosque Golf Club (in Chiva), the Manises Golf Club (in Manises), Foressos Golf (in Picassent), and the El Saler Golf Course (in El Saler). Very close to the city of Alicante there are four other courses: Alicante Golf (next to the San Juan de Alicante beach), the El Plantío Golf Club (three kilometres towards Elche), the Bonalba Golf Club (in Mutxamel, 10 kilometres away) and the Alenda Golf Club (in Monforte de Cid, 30 minutes away). Meanwhile, close to Costellón de la Plana you will find the Costa Azahar Golf Club (15 minutes from the city centre) and the Campo del Mediterráneo Club (in Borriol, 15 kilometres from Castellón de la Plana)
In major tourist destinations Another advantage offered by the Valencia region is the possibility to play golf in destinations full of tourist attractions: beaches, natural surroundings, a wide array of leisure activities, restaurants and accommodations... A good example is Benidorm (in Alicante province), where you can enjoy the Las Rejas Benidorm Western Golf, Villaitana Golf Club and Pith & Putt Sierra Cortina courses. In other close-by tourist destination municipalities, the Don Cayo Golf Club (in Altea, 10 kilometres away) and the Ifach Golf Club (30 kilometres away in Benissa) can be found. Other tourist destinations with golf courses are Jávea (Jávea Golf Club), Denia (La Sella Golf), Oliva (Oliva Nova Golf Course, 15 kilometres from Gandía) and, above all, Orihuela. In Orihuela and its surroundings there are up to five clubs: Campoamor Royal Golf Club and the Villamartín Golf Course in the same municipality; Golf La Finca (in Algorfa, 15 kilometres from Orihuela); Golf & Country La Marquesa (in Rojales, around 20 Kilometres away); and Lo Romero Golf (in Pilar de Horalada, very close to the tourist destination of Torrevieja). Things to remember: These are a few of the most notable clubs to choose from in the Valencia region. To get more information about these and the rest of the clubs in the area, visit their official websites and contact the tourist offices. If you want to locate the golf courses of Spain, consult our golf channel.


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Nick Cave to recreate his "Heard" performance art piece in Denver's Civic Center
Things are looking up for Denver's Biennial of the Americas with the announcement that artist Nick Cave will recreate his recent and successful "Heard" performance in Civic Center park.
Cave has a massive show at the Denver Art Museum currently and it comes on the heels of "HEARD•NEW YORK," which won over crowds at New York's Grand Central Terminal in March. The piece, in the station's historic Vanderbilt Hall, featured 30 dancers in horse-like costumes for two performances a day over two weeks.


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T. Khodadoust UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN Paul Frishkoff UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ON MERCANTILE ACCOUNTING IN PRE-INDUSTRIAL IRAN Abstract: Iranian village accounting, which we studied by translating and analyzing the records of a trading house in the early twentieth century, was relatively un-affected by Western contact. The records were kept on a slightly modified cash basis, single-entry, with little distinction between business and personal transac-tions; this mirrors accounting practices in many "developing" societies. What was indeed unique was a distinctive set of numerical symbols, comprehensible to but a few initiates in each community, and whose primary goal was secrecy and privacy of the records. The system was used well before 1900 and is still in use in some rural areas today. Although the study of the history of accounting has recently achieved a new height in popularity, research into non-Western accounting history has been slight. To be sure, acknowledgment is given to the Mesopotamians and other contributors to the "ancient" development of accounting, as well as to the Arabs for their numeri-cal system. But later developments, particularly in that very "cradle of civilization" tend to be ignored. One can only speculate on the reasons: Few Western researchers are conversants with the lan-guages used in the "third world." The preservation of accounting records through libraries and other means has been haphazard. Perhaps, too, there simply hasn't been that much interest in this sub-ject, or at least it has been easier to channel research energy into more "obvious" developments in the corporate, industrial, Western world. In this article, we examine a system of bookkeeping which evolved among the merchants of Iran (Persia) and which is still in use in some of the more remote villages. Its unique features merely drama-tize what many of us already accept: that accounting systems arise to meet the needs of the particular situation. The trading houses of Iran were primarily family-owned or at least very closely held enterprises. There was little distinction between


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Therapies for the five senses
Therapies for all the five senses
Aromas and colours to make you feel good; laughter to improve your mood; age-old techniques and oriental massages that will give you balance and well-being... Are you up for trying them? They are all available at Spain's spa resorts and thermal centres. Traditional treatments are being renewed with the latest trends in health and beauty therapies. Why not try them out for yourself?
Spain is a well known destination for thermal spa treatments, thanks to its quality facilities and excellent waters. Now you will also find a renewed "menu" of treatments in traditional spa resorts. They include the latest therapies and innovative techniques, although the aim remains the same: to improve the condition of the body, inside and out. This trend is also giving rise to another type of centre, which is getting more and more popular - the spa and hydrotherapy centre. Would you like to discover new experiences? These programmes open up a world of sensations.
It has been proven that heat, essential oils and music all have a beneficial effect on our state of health, both physical and psychic. Baths with flowers and citrus fruits, aromatherapy, and music and colour therapies complement and reinforce the results of traditional thermal spa treatments. The Puente Viesgo Spa Resort, 28 kilometres from Santander (Cantabria), is one of many locations where you can try for yourself.
Age-old alternative techniques
We are discovering age old techniques from the Far East that look for balance between body and mind. They do this eliminating disturbances in the flow of vital energy, returning the body to a state of physical well-being and harmony. You can opt for sessions of reiki, shiatsu, reflexology or a geo-thermal therapy massage, at places such as theTalasoterapia Zelai Centre, in Zumaia (Guipúzcoa); Blancafort Spa Resort (38 kilometres from Barcelona); or in Tarragona, at the Ra Beach Thalasso-Spa hotel, and Montbrió Thermal Centre.
Would you like to try something more unusual? The Mondariz Spa Resort (58 kilometres from Pontevedra) has a Celtic circuit, based on the therapeutic heritage and know-how of this ancient people. You could also try a session of laughter therapy at the active well-being centre at Paradise Park Resort, in Tenerife, or improve your memory and attention span through the spa-therapy programme and braining treatments offered at the Marina d'Or complex, in Oropesa del Mar (Castellón). If you want to discover the latest in health and beauty, come and stay a few days in Spain. You will go home good as new.
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Ben Affleck visited CIA for Argo research
- Bang Showbiz
- 22 February 2013
Ben Affleck visited the CIA as research for his thriller film 'Argo' to ensure accuracy in his dramatisation of the real-life story about US diplomats taken hostage in Iran
Ben Affleck visited the CIA as research for 'Argo'.
The 40-year-old actor and director undertook extensive investigations for his Academy Award-nominated film - which follows the real-life story of US diplomats taken hostage in 1979 Iran - and wanted to ensure his dramatisation remained accurate to true accounts by meeting the CIA agent he plays in the film.
He explained: "I really liked the idea that it was a true story. I did a ton of reading and a ton of interviewing. I went to the CIA, I read all the books.
"I spent time with [CIA agent] Tony Mendez and for the first-person accounts of this, then I did a lot of researching with hostages."
Ben - who scooped Best Director at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs earlier this month, where he also took home Best Picture - altered the facts slightly and made it so the hostages headed for the Canadian embassy instead of America.
However, Ben had no intentions of insulting the New Zealand and British diplomats involved and wanted viewers to see it as the victims having no choice as to where they went.
He continued to The Sun newspaper: "That touches on one of the things that I struggled with long and hard, because it cast Britain and New Zealand in a way that was probably not totally fair.
"But I was trying to set up a situation where you got the sense that they had nowhere else to go, rather than get into the complication that they wanted to go here or there."
'Argo' is the hotly tipped favourite to win Best Picture at the Oscars on Sunday (24.02.13).


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Exsonvaldes – A Day Like Today from Thien Nguyen on Vimeo.
Exsonvaldes – Take On Me (cover A-HA) from Thien Nguyen on Vimeo.
Exsonvaldes blogs You tour, Paris 2009, a day like today.
The band rocked my apartment, with some happy-few bloggers :p like Greg, Jade, Cristian, Angie, SO', and of course Thien.
A great way to promote and share the music between their communities and new people.
Well done, thanks again for coming by.
International bloggers: you MUST discover this band.


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Multicultural Pattaya (เมืองพัทยา) is a city on Thailand's eastern Gulf coast known for its beaches. Pattaya boasts some excellent places to stay and eat, and the area is also a family-friendly resort coast.The biggest benefit of becoming an Eagle Manager is what it does for your business. Eagle Managers earn more, build larger teams, have a higher retail income and are more likely to go on and unlock greater incentives in the Forever marketing plan and grow their businesses. In fact, 67% of those that qualify as Eagle Managers go on to qualify for Chairman's Bonus, our most generous incentive.
And this amazing incentive just got 2x better. Starting in 2019, Eagles will be able to choose their EMR destination. Eagles can choose to travel to Dallas, TX and tour Aloe Vera of America, the manufacturing hub for Forever all over the world. We believe it's important for our business builders to learn more about Forever's vertical integration at one of the homes of Forever.
Our Eagles will also have the option to visit Pattaya, Thailand. A resort city on the east coast of Thailand, Pattaya boasts beautiful beaches and traditional cultural experiences nestled in a bustling city.
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Download December 2013 Advent Calendar Template
Another great décor idea is an advent calendar. Like Amy Mallory, you can create a digital template that leaves spaces for important events you already know will be happening throughout the month-or that can be rearranged as unexpected fun pops up! After your pictures are in place, rearrange the decorated slots so they complement your photographs.
Want to try your own advent calendar? Download this free blank template from Amy Mallory. Click image to download PSD version. Or click here for the JPG file.
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virginieraux needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 40 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
To be used on website and stationary - format in PSD, EPS and PNG
Femmes Leaders (http://www.femmesleaders.eu)
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Fresh, Dynamic, Contemporary
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FEMMES LEADERSÂ (name of association)Â is a new francophone association/network of senior business women - based in Luxembourg.
We need a FRESH and DYNAMIC logo for FEMMES LEADERS that communicates WOMEN IN BUSINESS, INTERNATIONAL, NETWORKING, COMMUNICATION, and COLLABORATION. Logo should be fresh and dynamic.
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Posted: Mar 18, 2012
Akash Mirchandani and the Crimson will resume action at the Princeton Invitational April 14 (Harvard Athletic Communications).
by Antonio Grillo '12
HOBE SOUND, Fla. -- On the final day of their spring training trip, the men in crimson headed to Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Florida to take on the Cornell Big Red. Medalist is a challenging 7150-yard, Par 72 Greg Norman design where many PGA Tour pros hone their games including recent addition Tiger Woods.
Arriving at the course early, the team was reminded of the presence of great players at Medalist, as PGA Touring Professional Rickie Fowler greeted both teams at the first tee.
Harvard had been practicing for a full week and Cornell had arrived in Florida to start their spring training trip two days before the match. As expected based upon their strong week of preparation, Harvard got off to a hot start in most of their matches and maintained strong leads. Harvard won handily, posting a 7-1 match play record. The Crimson was able to outplay the Big Red through consistent ball striking in fierce winds. Most impressive was sophomore Kevin McCarthy who played two players from Cornell due to uneven teams, besting both opponents 5&4.
When the team came off the 18th green they were treated to a spectacular barbecue lunch set up by the Medalist staff. It was a truly spectacular day that the men will never forget. A special thanks to Cornell graduate and Professor Mike Troy for hosting both teams!
Reflecting back on the trip, it can be said that this was one of the most productive Spring Training trips in recent history. Thank you to all of our Friends for making the experience possible. We look forward to bringing you an Ivy League Championship in April!


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The representation of unrestrained appetite as inappropriate for women, the depiction of female eating as a private, transgressive act, make restriction and denial of hunger central features of the construction of femininity and set up the compensatory binge as a virtual inevitability. Such restrictions on appetite, moreover, are not merely about food intake. Rather, the social control of female hunger operates as a practical 'discipline' (to use Foucault's term) that trains female bodies in the knowledge of their limits and their possibilities. Denying oneself food becomes the central micro-practice in the education of feminine self-restraint and containment of impulse.
–Susan Bordo, "Hunger as Ideology" (from Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body)
I first encountered Susan Bordo's work during my first stint in grad school, when I was 23 and teaching composition to first-year undergrads. Her essay "Hunger as Ideology" was included in the composition reader I used, and I assigned it to my students. Bordo, a feminist philosopher, analyzes numerous food advertisements in close detail (reproducing the print ads in the essay) to show the cultural messages that underpin the selling of food. Given that ads rely on pre-existing cultural tropes to get their messages across, they can tell us about the ideological underpinnings of our culture. Some of Bordo's findings:
-Voracious hunger is considered a sign of manliness.
-Hunger for food and desire for sexuality are constructed as analogous, but this is a gendered analogy. When women are targeted, "their hunger for food is employed solely as a metaphor for their sexual appetite." When men are targeted, the metaphor goes in reverse: eating delicious food is depicted as a sexual conquest. (The examples for this include hilariously awful ads of men whispering sweet nothings to their Betty Crocker desserts.)
-Female hunger is represented in terms of misogynistic fear: sex is imagined as a form of eating in which the woman consumes and destroys a male object of desire.
-The only acceptable female desire in ads is the desire to provide food for others.
-Women are depicted eating in private, secretly, and this act is explicitly represented as a "substitute for human love."
I can't speak for my undergraduate students, but this essay blew my fucking mind the first time I read it. The reason it was so affecting was that these messages were so obvious once Bordo pointed them out, glaring even, but I had not even seen them as "messages" until then. That's just what ads do! Even as a committed feminist who had been through periods of fat and thin throughout my life, and who had experienced both self-loathing and self-acceptance to some extent, I hadn't yet taken the blinkers off. The connection between hunger and desire, especially, can be subterranean: the ideal of thinness, of course, depends on you having the goal of a certain kind of fuckability — but even eating itself is depicted as an act of sensual abandon instead of a necessity for every living thing on earth. As such, men are commended for having hearty appetites — boys will be boys — and women are told to keep their mouths (and their knees) shut.
The quote I highlighted above is the one that was most illuminating to me, because it says (in my non-theory translation) that dieting is the ultimate act of repressive femininity. Essentially, what Bordo argues is that not eating when your body needs food is participating in your own marginalization — but it's marginalization dressed up as a sexual ideal. This, I think, is why trolls and anti-FA jerkwads are so obsessed with the idea that we want them all to have sex with fatties: fat is, on some unacknowledged level, about sex in our culture.
Not incidentally, this is one of the reasons I suggested on the stop dieting thread that buying a new dress is one way to keep yourself from dieting. As I said there: because part of "feeling fat" for me is really about feeling unfeminine, it often helps me to remember that femininity is an act — and it's an act I can access in ways that don't require me to be thinner… even though you don't have to be pretty, it's okay to want to be pretty. If part of wanting to diet is feeling like you're ugly and unfeminine, then putting on a dress and heels and a bright red lipstick can remind you that femininity is an act that you choose whether to perform, and not an intrinsic quality that you desperately lack.
I didn't know it at the time, but teaching "Hunger as Ideology" was my first step toward FA. It hasn't always been a smooth road between that moment and this, and I needed to examine a lot more of my own assumptions and start paying a hell of a lot more attention to the rhetoric of beauty culture and the obesity epidemic, but that essay is what got me started. To borrow from Liss borrowing from The Matrix, it's when I took the red pill. It's when I started to see "the social control of female hunger" as something that was more than just personal, about more than just my one unshrinkable body. It made me angry. And it made me hungry.


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The Holiday Inn Rock Island-Quad Cities is located downtown in The Rock Island Arts and Entertainment District off I-280 / IL Highway 92 and minutes away from the Quad City International Airport. We are a short drive from the Rock Island Arsenal home to the U.S. Army, Army Sustainment Command, and U.S. Navy, Modern Woodmen, Deere and Company, Royal Neighbors, MidAmerican Energy, UnityPoint Health-Trinity, Augustana College, St. Ambrose University, Circa 21 Dinner Playhouse, TaxSlayer Center, and Adler Theatre.
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