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When Jane Comer attended Gloria Steinem's 75th birthday party, she was challenged to accomplish an �outrageous act.�
The following January, seven women gathered in Comer's living room to discuss gender equity and the power of women supporting women.
The support was overwhelming.
The women set out with an objective to provide a support system and mentoring program for girls and young women, and to set up a network for women and women's organizations at local and national levels.
The group wanted to make a difference. They wanted to ignite change, and they realized the key to empowering girls and young women was to begin at an early age.
That was in 2009.
Comer recruited a board of directors and with their help started the program for girls ages 9 to adult.
In 2010, GirlSpring was officially founded in Birmingham, Ala. Today, the organization is over 1,000 women strong, with a master plan to replicate GirlSpring nationally.
GirlSpring's mission is to provide access to reliable information, inspiring events, and positive role models so girls and young women are empowered to reach their full potential.
Their vision is to invest in girls and young women, which can build better societies, better communities, better relationships, better family lives, better political systems, better businesses, and a better world.
GirlSpring offers information via its mobile website and online community with reliable information, relevant news and social interaction in a safe environment, so girls have independent resources to help them make sound choices and wise decisions. GirlSpring also hosts gatherings, or events, that feature messages of empowerment with speakers, films and forums.
They also have a mentoring program where positive role models are provided to give girls and young women �Dream Days� with one-on-one mentors.
Taking the next step in their master plan, Alys Beach hosted a meeting Monday night for women interested in being part of establishing GirlSpring in South Walton, the site of Comer's second home. About two dozen women gathered to hear about the organization and its mission and to meet the founder.
"I saw a big need for awareness among women and them knowing how to deal with everyday issues," Comer told The Sun. "I saw women who didn't know or understand about issues such as their cars, wages, the workplace, their health, and discrimination. Women have power over their bodies but are being dictated to.�
South Walton's chapter will be headed by Christine Tarpley, who works at Alys Beach. Tarpley grew up in South Walton with a single mom who had to work multiple jobs. She approached Comer about starting the chapter of GirlSpring in South Walton.
"There are not a lot of things to do here," said Tarpley. "I want to help girls who don't have things they need and a lot of resources. I want to give back."
Tarpley says the local chapter is still forming from the ground up and they are still surveying venues for events and gatherings, looking for volunteers, sponsors, and mentors. She said a gathering and fundraiser is in the process of being planned for the fall with more information forthcoming.
"We want to also have events for girls and their moms that will help make them stronger women," she said. "Empower a girl and change the world. We will endeavor to bring equality and social justice through love, support and mentoring. We will offer bullying and self-defense classes, gatherings and events, and educational material."
Another thing that is needed is an interactive website for these aged girls where they can find out about events and have access to information about abuse, abortion, pregnancy, and other topics such as the mentoring program.
"We want an international website and reach girls all over the world where girls all over the world can chat in forums," said Comer.
They hope to have that up within six months, as soon as they can raise $200,000.
In GirlSpring's mentoring program, girls can spend four to six hours with professional women who are mentors. They will also learn about confidence building and basics such as how to change a tire.
"Basically, it's empowerment of young girls," said Comer. "We want to encourage girls to complete their education, get a good job, and have babies when they are ready.�
Comer emphasizes that GirlSpring is for every girl.
"I know the stats on poverty, teen pregnancy, and bullying. I've worked with women's rights for years. This is for girls from everywhere needing support, whether from educated or uneducated homes, not just for undereducated," she said.
Comer is a native of Birmingham and ran her own business for 15 years. She started coming here in 1949.
"We are probably the oldest residents in Seagrove," she said. "We bought when my father was a young man."
For more information on how become involved, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
�It's tribal. Girls need mentors to help make them strong. The goal is to focus and strengthen the community of girls so we can build strong women in the community and create a model," said Anne Hunter, who has sat on the GirlSpring board.


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Pop superstar Cher has offered to give her injured son Chaz Bono a medical boost as he competes on the television show Dancing With The Stars – she's sending him her top doctors.
The transgender star has been showing off his fancy footwork with professional partner Lacey Schwimmer on the tv contest, but revealed last week that he had been struggling with injuries to his knees and ankles during rehearsals for the quickstep.
Bono now reveals the difficulties stem from one particularly complicated step.
He tells UsMagazine.com, "There's a step here that's very easy to miss, and several times I've landed on it. That, combined with dancing every day… It's a lot of pounding!"
The injuries continued to hamper his performance on the dancefloor when he displayed the routine on Monday night's show, and Bono admits his famous mother is worried sick he'll do more damage to the joints the longer he stays on the program.
He says, "(My mom) was stressed (on Monday night) to say the least! She called me up and she's sending her doctors to help. She's just trying to be as supportive as possible."
Despite his injuries, Bono has survived another week on Dancing with the Stars – George Clooney's ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis became the second celebrity to be voted off the season on Tuesday, following basketball star Ron Artest's exit last week.
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The American Mathematical Society has a bicameral governance structure consisting of the Council (created when the Society's constitution was ratified in December 1889) and the Board of Trustees (created when the Society was incorporated in May 1923). These bodies have the ultimate responsibility and authority for representing the AMS membership and the broader mathematical community, determining how the AMS can best serve their collective needs, and formulating and approving policies to address these needs. The governing bodies determine what the Society does and the general framework for how it utilizes its volunteer, staff, and financial resources.
The Governance Leadership consists of the Officers (President, President Elect or Immediate Past President, three Vice Presidents, Secretary, four Associate Secretaries, Treasurer, and Associate Treasurer), the Council, Executive Committee of the Council, and Board of Trustees.
The Council formulates and administers the scientific policies of the Society and acts in an advisory capacity to the Board of Trustees. Council Meetings are held twice a year (January and the spring).
The Board of Trustees receives and administers the funds of the Society, has full legal control of its investments and properties, and conducts all business affairs of the Society. The Trustees meet jointly with the Executive Committee of the Council twice a year (May and November) at ECBT Meetings.
The Council and Board of Trustees are advised by nearly 100 Committees, including five Policy Committees (Education, Meetings and Conferences, Profession, Publications, and Science Policy) and over 20 Editorial Committees for the various Journals and Books it publishes.
The Council and Board of Trustees are also advised by the Executive Director and the Executive Staff, who are responsible for seeing that governance decisions are implemented by the Society's 210 staff members.
Here are some sources of historical information about Society Governance:
Past Officers
AMS Presidents: A timeline (biographies of AMS Presidents 1888-present)
A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society, 1888-1938, by Raymond Clare Archibald
History of the Second Fifty Years, American Mathematical Society, 1939-1988, by Everett Pitcher
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Stop it! Everyone stop it right now!
Lululemon puns are totally out of control.
For those still unfamiliar with what happened with the apparel retailer, Lululemon has pulled from its shelves a large number of black luon yoga pants, which had been deemed too see-through.
Granted, it was bound to happen, considering the nature of the story at hand.
But we're seeing a deluge of yoga pants puns, the likes of which mankind has never seen.
Look at all these headlines:
"Lululemon stock drops as yoga pants expose problems" — Reuters
"Yoga-Pants Supplier Says Lululemon Stretches Truth" — The Wall Street Journal
"Sheer Lululemon pants would sell, say cheeky observers" — CBC
"Yoga Pants Reveal Lululemon Shortcomings" — The Financial Times
"See-through pants? How Lululemon became the butt of the Internet's jokes" — The Globe and Mail
"It's clear to see: Yoga pants were too sheer" — The Columbus Dispatch
"I See London, I See France: Lululemon Wears Crisis Well" — MarketingDaily
"Lululemon yoga pant recall sheer comfort for cheaper brands" — The Lantern
Yuk yuk! Once you delve into those articles and many others, you realize how rampant the puns are:
"Another problem like this could leave the company with a lasting (ahem) bum rap." — Jena McGregor at The Washington Post
"It is clear from the disclosed information that [Lululemon] has not yet gotten to the bottom of the problem (pun intended)." — Faye Landes, analyst at Cowen & Co, to The Financial Times
"Are these see-through pants a cover-up for falling revenue? — Amanda Holpuch at The Guardian
"The company's profits are going downward, dog." — Robin Abcarian at the Los Angeles Times
"Investors usually like transparency. But not in this case." — Anne D'Innocenzio and Michelle Chapman at the Associated Press
"And just like that, shareholders ran to cover their own bottom (lines, that is)" — Lydia Dishman at Forbes
Of course, the Twitter-folk would never have allowed themselves to be left behind for yoga-punmageddon:
See-through #Lululemon pants headline suggestion: Sheer Madness! — Steve Adams (@SteveAdamsWpg) March 19, 2013
No company has embraced transparency quite like Lulumon. — Adam L. Penenberg (@Penenberg) March 19, 2013
I "recall" when Lululemon was nonexistent and the Italian Stallion ate raw eggs and jogged the Philly dawn in thick baggy cotton MAN sweats! — Robert Buscemi (@RobertBuscemi) March 20, 2013
Flaw or transparent marketing genius? >> See-through yoga pants a pain for Lululemon bo.st/11fhoQG via @bostondotcom— John R. Dykstra (@John_R_Dykstra) March 20, 2013
Yoga outfitter Lululemon has found itself in a compromising position. ow.ly/jfONifb.me/1BWFJB9gE— The PR Verdict (@ThePRVerdict) March 20, 2013
Yes, we see right through your silly puns.


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- We released a tool: https://lastpass.com/udid to check if your UDID was on the list. Note that yours could still be one of the alleged 11 million not publicly released, so caution is still recommended.
- The leaked UDIDs in and of themselves do not pose a serious risk to users. However, there's cause for concern when UDIDs are paired with personally-identifiable information, which the hackers indicate they have in the original data set, although there's no proof at this time. Combined with your name, address, mobile number, and the types of Apple devices you own, identity theft and social engineering are potential threats.
- Apple has moved away from allowing apps to utilize the UDID for their own purposes, but has only recently enforced this on updates. Services could still be utilizing the UDID as their entire authentication, which means you enable a certain device (UDID) to have access to the service. An attacker who has your UDID could gain access to those accounts, it's likely not highly sensitive data but could still pose a risk to tracing a UDID to a specific individual.
- The leak is not a threat to LastPass user accounts. LastPass used to utilize the UDID as a secondary factor for logging in on iOS, instead of your standard secondary factor (ie your YubiKey), but late last year we switched to a random identifier that we store on the device that is independent of the UDID, and all old UDIDs were disabled.
- Although passwords were not on the list of data supposedly compromised, it's never a bad time to check that your passwords are strong and unique. Run the LastPass Security Check (in the LastPass icon's Tools menu) to identify any weak and duplicate passwords, and prioritize updating them.
- Consider enabling the free credit monitoring service to monitor for any signs of identity theft.
- Enable multifactor authentication for added protection of your LastPass account.
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|2007-07-02, 13:36
|Link #81
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Princeton University
^I'm not really sure either how they're going to fit the game into 4 ep, seems like the 1st ep only touched the edge of the story, but I still loved it lol
ToS was the first Tales game I ever had so I have high expectations for this
|2007-07-02, 13:40
|Link #82
With the OVA only having 4 episodes and the first one being no more than decent I can't really say my expectations for the anime are all that high though.
|2007-07-02, 14:32
|Link #83
阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv173
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Belgium, Brussels
Age: 33
technically, it isn't even the prologue per se, considering it is simply the introduction of the given world and characters.
But truthfully, i would suggest you to play the game itself : the plot itself is rather bland on paper, but the development, the twists and other factors make TOS pretty unique, despite the "cliché" vibes you can get at first.
I'm satisfied with the first OAV, though the differences are either good or bad, depending of the situations :
Spoiler for game spoilers, basing on the start:
Plot wise, i liked some changes, but there were lots of points which were extremely weird...
i'm waiting for the OAV2... i hope they won't screw colette's angel transformation (and the drama around), or else, i think i will be vulgar...
|2007-07-02, 14:52
|Link #84
Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 33
Thanks for the rundown As expected, quite a lot of changes, though it might be them trying to alter the story a bit, in order to cram it in to 4 episodes, ne ? Play the game? Hm ... i would, but as i understand it is not available on PC, and there is only a japanese version for PS2, right ? *sigh*
|2007-07-02, 14:56
|Link #85
阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv173
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Belgium, Brussels
Age: 33
No, the Game was originally released on Nintendo Gamecube.
it had been translated in various language and is available in US and Europe.
(however, don't expect a Grade A english dub... it is decent though)
The PS2 version is indeed only for Japan : it is the same game, with some change (basically : extended dungeon, new moves/Hi-Ougi, new costumes, etc).
for obvious exclusivity and right issues (since the translation rights belong to nintendo, and not Namco for the American and European version of TOS GC), this version won't be adapted outside of Japan
As for the content itself, it is absolutely impossible to squeeze the plot into 4, even butchering it won't be enough. (the story itself worth like 2 season of 26 episodes to say the least). While Tales of Phantasia was quite cut like mad, TOS would have a pretty much worse demise if they try to do the same thing.
i think they will simply stay on the first "arc" of the journey.
|2007-07-03, 13:21
|Link #86
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Princeton University
Oww man I kinda want to see
Spoiler for game:
|2007-07-03, 14:20
|Link #87
阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv173
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Belgium, Brussels
Age: 33
well... you should put the spoiler title as "end game spoiler ^^"
there is however no chance for any of the 2 points you mentionned, especially the last point : this is really a sub quest, which is really irrelevant to the main plot, sadly.
but i understand this part would be an epic animated battle.
Spoiler for end game:
sometimes, I just wish to got the PS2 version, for his Mania Mode. (the amount of Hi-Ougi in this fight is just indecent )
|2007-07-04, 10:00
|Link #89
Sexy Tornado
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The European Bunion
Age: 40
Klashikari - this game has an english version, so please use english names when talking about it. I haven't got a frickin' clue what you're on about with some of those names, and I've played this game some 8 or 9 times.
Spoiler for Genis:
|2007-07-04, 23:25
|Link #90
Join Date: Oct 2006
Lol same here radiosity...Granted its been a while since I beat the thing but yea.
As for the episode count and whats gonna happen...
At the very least id like to see presea smack something with her axe a few times dangit...But yea...
|2007-07-05, 06:15
|Link #91
阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv173
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Belgium, Brussels
Age: 33
actually, i used some original terms, since i don't have any english version, but the french one, and it ISN'T really a faifthul translation. (example : Victory Light Spear became "Super Lance de Lumière", which is translated in EN as "Super Victory Light Spear", and so forth). also this was an habit used on a TOS forum ^^"
Spoiler for Skills Names:
did i forgot a term?
@Kimichi : what i can imagine here : they will probably set a seal for each next OVA, and will show an open end, where the party will goes to the Tower of Salvation.
ho well... more possible/fancy theorycraft when the OV2 is aired.
|2007-07-05, 09:21
|Link #92
Sexy Tornado
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The European Bunion
Age: 40
Thanks for clearing those up I play with voices off (erg, horrible dubbing...) so I don't hear anything bad guys say when fighting them. I prefer silence when fighting though.
And in fact, it kinda looks more like Tiger Rage than Tiger Blade. Tiger Blade is a simple up down attack, but Lloyd attacks midway as well, turning it into something more like Tiger Rage. Guess it was simply to look more impressive.
|2007-07-05, 09:40
|Link #93
阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv173
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Belgium, Brussels
Age: 33
Many "baddy" voices are just too sexy (abyssions is one of these pure "sexy" voice. lots of angst and rage unlike the... half ass distorded and funny US voice...)
Tiger Rage woud be Lloyd spinning, dealing like 5-6 attacks while mid-air
Hope he will use someday Akuzamene (Swords Rain Alpha) and Renkuuzan (Tempest)
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|2007-07-05, 10:02
|Link #94
Sexy Tornado
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The European Bunion
Age: 40
If the voices were Japanese I'd leave them on. It's precisely because they're horrible dubs that I leave them off. Though hearing attack names screamed out constantly gets on my tits anyway, so I'd be unlikely to leave them on permanently. And i've already seen plenty of PS2 youtube videos thanks, it just reinforces my opinion that europe always gets the shaft.
|2007-07-05, 13:20
|Link #95
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Princeton University
Talking about skills in ToS now lol
Iono, I guess seeing the spells would be really awesome, but how about some UNISON ATTACKS????
Fiery Beast would probably look cool
and also any of the Hi-ougi's would be great visually
|2007-07-06, 00:00
|Link #98
Flame of the Dragonslayer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Age: 35
Episode was pretty cool, although the changed stuff really makes the fact that it's non-canon stand out. However, I preferred the anime version of a few things:
- Lloyd pwning the Desian with Tiger Blade, even though it did look like Tiger Rage.
- Lloyd vs. Forcystus, and the fact that he didn't look like a chump (both Lloyd and Forcystus, particularly the latter who got owned by a single slash).
- Nixing Marble and making the reason the Desians attacked being the "Exsphere" (you who played the game know the reason for the parenthesis )
- Lloyd leaving the village on his own accord instead of the entire town losing their "grapefruits" and bitching. Bugged me in the game that he'd take guff for saving their asses, just like it bugged me in Secret of Mana when the same thing happened.
|2007-08-10, 14:04
|Link #100
阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv173
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Belgium, Brussels
Age: 33
Episode 2 of the OVA is now available. (Raw is currently floating around on usual places)
i didn't get my hands on it yet, but 2 confirmed characters are there : Sheena and Zelos!
i don't have any clue how they were able to go so batshit in timejump, but it looks like it will be hell confusing like TOP OVA.
let's wait for the subs.
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Max McCaffrey, former Duke WR, to work out with Broncos
Former Duke receiver and the oldest son of Ed McCaffrey, Max McCaffrey, has pre-draft workout scheduled with the Broncos.
Max recently impressed at Duke's Pro Day, recording a 4.4-second 40-yard dash that would have ranked third among receivers and 10th overall at the NFL scouting combine in February.
A former Valor Christian standout, Max had 52 catches for 643 yards and five touchdowns his senior season at Duke. In his four seasons total with the Blue Devils, he had 117 catches for 1,341 yards and 12 touchdowns.
USA Today's Tom Pelissero was the first to report of Max's pending workout with the Broncos.
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The Festival of Arts Third Floor Gallery at Wells Fargo Bank celebrates the autumn season with selections from the Festival of Arts Permanent Art Collection. Fall Favorites features a variety of photographs and painting that highlights the vibrant colors and feelings associated with fall. Artwork on display includes "The Gates – NYC" by Tom Lamb, "Evening at Lucia" by Scott Anthony, "Arizona Desert" by Roy Ropp and "Sculptured Sand" by Stillman Sawyer.


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CLASSiC Project
Computational Learning in Adaptive Systems for Spoken Conversation
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NEW: annotated data archive released : archive link
Details: Project Number 216594 funded under EC FP7, Call 1. Start date: 1 March 2008, Duration : 36 months
EC Information Society Technologies
IEEE Signal Processing Society Web article on The CLASSiC Project (february 2011)
News: All France Telecom 1013+ customer service calls are now handled by a CLASSiC system for automatic appointment scheduling (March 2010)
Public deliverables available (updated august 2011)
YouTube Video demonstrations, updated february 2009
CLASSiC researchers ran a Special Session "Machine Learning for Adaptivity in Spoken Dialogue Systems" at Interspeech 2009
CLASSiC researchers ran a Tutorial on "Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Dialogue Systems" at EACL 2009
Project Abstract
The overall goal of the CLASSiC project is to facilitate the rapid deployment of accurate and robust spoken dialogue systems that can learn from experience. The approach is based on statistical learning methods with a unified treatment of uncertainty across the entire system (speech recognition, spoken language understanding, dialogue management, natural language generation, and speech synthesis). This will result in a modular processing framework with an explicit representation of uncertainty connecting the various sources of uncertainty (understanding errors, ambiguity, etc) to the constraints to be exploited (task, dialogue, and user contexts). The architecture supports a layered hierarchy of supervised learning and reinforcement learning in order to facilitate mathematically principled optimisation and adaptation techniques. It is being developed in close cooperation with our industrial partner in order to ensure a practical deployment platform as well as a flexible research test-bed.
Screen shot of CLASSiC System 1
For the People involved at each site, please see PeopleThe CLASSIC project Wiki (members only)
final results
The CLASSIC project aims at a qualitative leap in the robustness, flexibility, efficiency and naturalness of spoken dialogue systems, through new technologies based on the paradigm of computational learning and statistical modelling.
The project is expected to produce new mathematical models and computational techniques for spoken language understanding, dialogue management, and natural language generation. It will produce 4 different "showcase" spoken dialogue systems illustrating these advances, and it will provide new software and corpora for the future development of statistical spoken dialogue systems. Computational learning techniques will also be integrated with industry standard dialogue system development tools used by our industry partner, France Telecom/Orange Labs.
Potential Impact and Use
For end users (i.e. members of the general public and professionals who will use spoken dialogue systems in the future) the impact of CLASSiC will ultimately be more useable, robust, and efficient human-computer spoken dialogue interfaces, which are context-aware and adaptive.
CLASSiC therefore develops key technology and tools which will help meet some of the general goals of the ICT programme in FP7 – tools for the delivery of information technology to different individuals in a natural, user-tailored, adaptive, and intuitive manner. Speech interfaces are inherently inclusive in their support for non-expert (and even illiterate) users, who are only required to have basic spoken conversational skills in order to interact with IT services and devices.
One potential impact of CLASSIC is the development of a new paradigm for generic technology which will enable human-computer interaction in a conversational, user- adaptive manner, based on the user and their situation. This type of technology contributes to the EU's objectives of providing European citizens with more efficient, robust access to IT services, and removing educational and linguistic barriers.
Industry events/Technology Transfer
CLASSiC System demonstrations:
- "Lifting the Lid": Scottish Informatics Research for SMEs, 2008.
- Interactive Technology Festival, Cambridge, Sept 2009.
- Disney, Technical Team, December 2009 .
- Cambridge Science Festival, March 2010.
- ICT, Brussels, September 2010.
CLASSiC researchers took part in Google's 2010 Faculty Summit , Zurich on 8-10 February 2010.
Nhumi Technologies (Electronic Healthcare records: http://nhumi.com/): CLASSiC methods for semantic annotation transfer, feb 2010.
Related Projects
The TALK project (European Commission, FP6)
The Companions Project (European Commission, FP6)
The PARLANCE project (European Commission, FP7, starting November 2011)


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Nordman fir trees from Canadian forests are in huge demand among Christmas tree shoppers this year.
Hundreds of these trees imported from a winter wonderland halfway across the world are on display on Hudaiba Road in Satwa, turning one stretch into a mini Christmas tree bazaar.
There has been a rising demand among expatriates, mostly Westerners, for fresh Christmas trees.
"We love them fresh because they make your living room smell wonderful," said Jacqueline, a British mum, who snapped up an eight-foot blue-green fir on Monday night for Dh600. "It's like having a natural freshener at home for up to two months," said her 12-year-old son Sam.
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"My shipment of 700 trees arrived in Jebel Ali from Quebec on December 8. We sell whatever we bring in," said Vicky V., owner of Fresh Flowers, for whom importing fir trees is an annual rite.
He shipped 400 pieces last year, and only 200 pieces the first time he ventured into the business eight years ago.
Sulaiman, an Indian trader in Satwa, said he sells an average of 15 deep green Noble fir trees daily. "This year, the quality of our trees is much better," said Sulaiman.
Online expat forums are abuzz with talk on where to pick the best festive tree.
A staff from Spinneys' Al Wasl branch said that since their shipment went on sale on November 23, more than 200 trees had been sold from their branch alone.
"These are the last few remaining trees from our stock," an Asian staff said on Monday night. "They are already booked, ready for pick up by buyers."
Reliving a tradition
Donald, a Canadian manager who bought an eight-foot fresh tree for Dh400 (a six-footer costs Dh350) at Spinneys, said: "It's great to re-live a family tradition right here in a desert country, with fresh trees from home."
Locally grown live pine trees in a pot are also available for Dh300 and up from nurseries in Al Aweer. Nursery staff there, however, are an unhappy lot. "Sales have been so slow this year. I just wanted to make a sale for the day," said Mohammad, an Urdu-speaking shopkeeper at one of the Al Aweer nurseries.
For those in no mood for fresh trees, artificial ones from China could do the trick for between Dh100 and Dh300 - which come aplenty at DragonMart. The most expensive festive tree — made of fireproof fabric, plastic and steel — comes decked with led lights and stands 2.4 metres tall. The price: Dh4,195 at THE One. The "tree" itself comes with a 10-year guarantee, and two years for the led lights.
But nothing beats the giant Christmas trees put up in malls and hotels as each of them try to upstage each other in height and novelty.
Last year, the Emirates Palace Hotel decked out a 43-foot-high Christmas tree with $11 million (Dh40 million) worth of semi-precious stones and gold, setting a world record.
By Jay B. Hilotin, XPRESS Chief Reporter
Via SyndiGate.info
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Blitzen Trapper On World Cafe
Set List
- "American Goldwing"
- "Love The Way You Walk Away"
- "Girl In A Coat"
- "Might Find It Cheap"
Blitzen Trapper's rise to fame has been nontraditional, to say the least. According to frontman Eric Earley, who writes most of its music, the band was homeless up through the 2008 tour for its breakout fourth album, Furr. This was a year after the "reluctant success," as Earley called it, of Wild Mountain Nation. The band's albums aren't so much folk-rock as experimental country, and coming out of the folk-revival hotspot that is Portland, Ore., this young quintet has had plenty of chances to experiment.
The group's newest album, American Goldwing, spans emotions, sounds and entire genres, but despite the range of styles it encompasses, it's consistent in its lyrical complexity. Earley is a talented songwriter and — with the help of bandmates Erik Menteer, Brian Adrian Koch, Michael VanPelt and Marty Marquis — he's created a powerful, elegant, eclectic album.
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Suppose that $E/F$ is a unramified extension of local fields of characteristic zero. Let $G = GL_n$. Then it is well-known (due to Clozel?) that base change of tempered representations from $G(F)$ to $G(E)$ holds.
Question: does the same result hold in the case of characteristic $p > 0$?
EDIT: As Olivier says, this actually seems to follow immediately from LLC for function fields. Thanks!


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The common perception of the Paralympics is that they provide the international competition of the Olympics without any of the messy corporate overtones or attempted cheating. For the most part, that first aspect is largely true. But the idea that Paralympians never cheat couldn't be further from the truth.
That became clear just days before the Aug. 29 opening of the Games after the publication of a BBC report which cited a series of experts who claimed the practice of "boosting," or hurting oneself to increase blood pressure and performance, is rampant among elite Paralympic athletes. According to the BBC, a study conducted during the Beijing Paralympic Games found that approximately 17 percent of the athletes on hand admitted to using boosting in the past to gain a competitive advantage. More troublingly, one scientist estimated that a more accurate account of Paralympians might find as many as 30 percent have boosted, despite serious side effects.
The tactics used to bring the pain that leads to increased blood pressure are startling, too. According to BBC sources, they run the gamut from not releasing urine to cracking or breaking toes with a hammer. In between, athletes have tried sitting on a drawing pin, using tightened leg straps and sitting on their own scrotum.
At least one athlete has even stepped forward to admit that he used electrical currents attached to his body to jump start his boosting.
While the concept might seem strange, the results are backed up by simple science. Athletes with spinal chord injuries do not get the blood pressure and heart rate increases that come from vigorous aerobic exercise as able-bodied athletes typically do. To make up that difference — and allow the body to train harder, thereby increasing fitness and results — paraplegics will intentionally cause their bodies harm, which increases their blood pressure and allows them to compete more vigorously.
The ways these athletes hurt themselves are both everyday and much more elaborate, as one competitive climber attested to the BBC.
"I tried several different ways of doing it. You can allow your bladder to fill, basically don't go to the bathroom for a few hours and let that pain from your bladder do it," Canadian quadriplegic climber Brad Zdanivsky told the BBC. "Some people do that in sports by clipping off a catheter to let the bladder fill — that's the easiest and the most common — and you can quickly get rid of that pain stimulus by letting the urine drain out.
"I took it a notch further by using an electrical stimulus on my leg, my toe and even my testicles."
That's right, a paralyzed athlete was using electrical stimuli on his testicles to help him perform better. That certainly seems about as sinister as some of the more traditional methods of cheating endorsed by able-bodied athletes.
Fittingly, just as blood doping and steroids come with serious side effects, so does boosting. According to Zdanivsky, boosting brings a significant risk of stroke. For those health risks and in the interest of fair competition, the International Paralympic Committee officially banned boosting in 1994. The enforcement behind enforcing that ban focuses on blood pressure checks for athletes before events begin, yet in limited use during the Beijing Games — only 20 blood pressure checks were performed — no athletes were found to be afoul of traditional blood pressure levels.
Those statistics aren't convincing for academics and medical professionals like the University of British Columbia's Dr. Andrei Krassioukov, who said the practice of boosting was a legitimate threat to the Paralympic community.
"As a physician I totally understand why these Olympians are doing this, but as a scientist I am horrified with these events," Krassioukov told the BBC.
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Survey of Existing CHP Installations
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Whenever I join a random queue for a dungeon, the people I party with tell me that I'm lagging in their screens, when everything is completely fine to me and I'm not lagging in my screen. A lot of people leave because of this and I'm wondering if there's a solution to it..


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Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer said Monday that the new delay in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate is "the stuff you do in a banana republic."
"I mean this is stuff that that you do in a banana republic," Krauthammer said Monday on Fox News' "Special Report."
"It's as if the law is simply a blackboard on which Obama writes any number he wants, any delay he wants, and any provision. It' s now reached a point where it is so endemic that nobody even notices or complains."
The Obama administration announced on Monday that it will delay the mandate's penalty for small businesses with 50-99 workers. It will also adjust some of the requirements for larger employers.
Under the new Treasury Department rules, businesses with 100 employees or more must offer coverage to at least 70% of full-time workers in 2015 and 95% in 2016, or face a penalty.
It's the second consecutive year the Obama administration has delayed part of the employer mandate, amid concerns from the small-business community about the health-care law's effect on business. Krauthammer's "banana republic" comment stemmed from the notion that it was meant to assuage business concerns ahead of the 2014 midterm elections.
"It's changing a law in the way that you are not allowed to do," Krauthammer said.
The administration took pains to emphasize that the change will not affect many people, as about 96% of employers are not currently subject to the mandate.
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Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 15 June 1965
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith
Released: 6 August 1965 (UK), 6 December 1965 (US)
John Lennon: vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar, electric guitar
Paul McCartney: bass
George Harrison: lead guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar
Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine
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Anthology 2
Written primarily by John Lennon, It's Only Love first appeared on the second side of the Help! album. It originally had the working title That's A Nice Hat.
Lennon later spoke of his embarrassment at the triteness of the lyrics. He told Hit Parader magazine: "That's the one song I really hate of mine. Terrible lyric." In another interview he named It's Only Love and Rubber Soul's Run For Your Life as his least favourite Beatles songs.
It's Only Love is mine. I always thought it was a lousy song. The lyrics were abysmal. I always hated that song.
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
Sometimes we didn't fight it if the lyric came out rather bland on some of those filler songs like It's Only Love. If a lyric was really bad we'd edit it, but we weren't that fussy about it, because it's only a rock 'n' roll song. I mean, this is not literature.
Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
In his book Revolution In The Head, Ian MacDonald explained how Lennon's melodies tended to be 'horizontal' in nature, often based around a single repeated note, whereas McCartney's would climb up and down the scales 'vertically'.
It's Only Love, however, is more melodically 'vertical' than many of Lennon's compositions of the time. If Lennon was later ashamed by the lyrics, the winding tune and explorative chord sequence showed that he wasn't simply going through the motions of songwriting.
In the studio
The Beatles recorded It's Only Love during an afternoon session on 15 June 1965. It took six takes to get right, though only four of those were complete.
Lennon double-tracked his vocals onto take six, and five guitars were recorded: two acoustic, including a 12-string; and three electric guitars, with a tremolo effect applied to Harrison's 12-string Rickenbacker.
Take two of It's Only Love was included on Anthology 2 in 1996, along with the aborted take three from the session. Interestingly, Ringo Starr's drum part on take two was very similar to that later heard on another Lennon song, Rubber Soul's In My Life.


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Summer is soon! Do you feel it? This beautifull sunny weather and amazing sunsets. The smell of summer is in the air... Hope this summer will be great!
I want to apologize. I have no time to write new posts! But I've gotta a lot of good news and I'll tell you about it later. Also I've got a lot of new clothes and acessouries (my fav are sunglesses). :)) I'm waiting for my friend to come from China, cause we'll make a lot of photos and post everything everyday. :)
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As the iPhone launch draws ever closer, we're seeing a bit more information about it, including some AT&T memos. There are also a number of (more important) things that need to happen to the iPhone before launch, including FCC approval of the device and its emissions, which is required before any cellphone can be sold.
According to FCC documents and AppleInsider's sources, the iPhone has now received FCC approval, so Apple is free to start selling it whenever they want. Not that anyone was really expecting otherwise, but hey, news is news.
FCC approval documents are usually a pretty good source of information about phone specs, since many carriers don't publicize new phone launches like Apple does. But in the case of the iPhone, the features of the device have been dissected to the point of near-pointlessness. The iPhone is officially the "Apple A1203," which makes me wonder where A1200-A1202 are, but I suspect the choice of number is somewhat arbitrary.
Photos of the iPhone, the manual, and information on the test were apparently left out of the report due to a confidentiality request from Apple, but presumably they'll be made available sometime near the launch date. There's also a good amount of material that will be kept confidential permanently, but much of that is proprietary information, like the iPhone's block diagram. Like I said, there's not too much information available, but the FCC approval is an important step for the iPhone, and probably also means that Apple is on time to meet the June launch date.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of RadioShack Corp. sank on the heels of disappointing earnings Tuesday while J.C. Penney Co. rose after Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised the outlook on its credit rating.
RadioShack US:RSH tumbled 17% to $2.25 after the struggling electronics retailer fell well short of Wall Street expectations for earnings and said it would close about a fifth of its stores, raising fears that it may not survive. The company said lower store traffic, intense discounting, and operational issues were responsible for the drop, but that the company's turnaround is still moving forward.
J.C. Penney JCP, +14.59% shares climbed 4.2%. Standard & Poor's late Monday hiked its outlook on the retailer's rating to stable from negative. "The outlook revision reflects our view that performance has begun to stabilize and we forecast further modest gains over the next year," said S&P credit analyst David Kuntz.
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. CMG, +0.12% shares rose 5.5%. The gourmet burrito chain said Monday that it reached a deal to be the official fast-casual restaurant for Major League Soccer.
Shares of E-Trade Financial Corp. ETFC, +1.08% advanced 5.4% after Chief Financial Officer Matthew Audette spoke at an investors conference earlier Tuesday.
Delta Air Lines Inc. DAL, +0.68% surged 5.7%. The airline on Tuesday said its consolidated passenger unit revenue in February increased 4% year over year on strong domestic demand.
TripAdvisor Inc. TRIP, -2.51% shares climbed 6.3%. Seeking Alpha suggested TripAdvisor should consider taking over OpenTable Inc. US:OPEN as part of its growth plan. Shares of OpenTable rallied 5.1%.
Zynga Inc. ZNGA, -0.41% leapt 7.8%. Chief Executive Don Mattrick said the online-gaming company plans to launch pilot programs for a real-money poker game in various parts of the world later this year and announced new mobile versions of "Words With Friends," "Zynga Poker" and "FarmVille" titles at a tech conference.
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Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. CLF, -0.75% shares fell 2.1%, the biggest loser in the S&P 500. The stock was downgraded to underperform from market perform at Wells Fargo on a challenging macro environment, Seeking Alpha reported.
Symantec Corp. SYMC, +0.00% shares lost 1.8%. The software company on Monday said it appointed Thomas Seifert as chief financial officer, effective March 17.
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TSLA: Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA, -1.89% shares rose 2.4%. The electric-car company on Tuesday announced expansion plans in Europe. In addition, Adam Jonas, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, said Tesla could disrupt the energy industry if its Gigafactory can produce batteries at a cost that is low enough. Morgan Stanley has an overweight rating and a price target of $320 on Tesla shares. Shares have surged nearly 67% this year through Monday's close.
AAPL: Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.37% shares climbed 0.7%. The iPhone maker said Tuesday that Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer will retire at the end of September. He will be replaced by Luca Maestri, currently vice president of finance and corporate controller.
LO: Lorillard Inc. US:LO rose 3.1% in the wake of a Financial Times report that Reynolds American Inc. US:RAI, maker of Camel brand cigarettes, is exploring a possible buyout of Lorillard in a deal that could value Lorillard at more than $20 billion. Shares of Reynolds were up 5.7%.
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Nate Chapnick | Photo: Courtesy Images | May 10, 2013
Men's Book Chicago steps into the driver's seat of the 2014 Range Rover Sport Supercharged.
Born from the desire to create an SUV that's as capable on the road as it is refined, the Range Rover Sport became an instant hit when it debuted in the United States some seven years ago. Today, Land Rover readies the next generation of its high-performance SUV with the completely redesigned 2014 Range Rover Sport. For the first time the RRS is available with a V-6 engine—though you can't go wrong with the supercharged 510 horsepower V-8 screamer that comes standard on the $79,995 Range Rover Sport Supercharged. Coupled with a new eight-speed automatic transmission, 0 to 60 mph takes just 5.0 seconds. Another first is the addition of an optional third row seat, expanding total seating capacity to seven. Read on for a closer look at the remarkable 2014 Range Rover Sport Supercharged and see why RR has set an industry benchmark for interior design.
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- This new small-diameter, yet thick-rimmed, wheel makes for easier handling, and is also a marked aesthetic improvement over the last model.
- Rather than skimp with a simple plastic airbag cover, Range Rover has gone all out with this gorgeous stitched leather centerpiece.
- Come winter, drivers will love the fully heated steering wheel.
- What's that? You'll feel a slight vibration in the steering wheel when you accidentally drift out of your lane, physically reminding you to pay attention. It's very Jetsons-esque, and very cool.
- Easy-access menu buttons, which remain blacked out until you use them, flank a handsome 8-inch touch screen.
Gauge Cluster
- A 12.3-inch fully customizable screen displays a variety of vehicle data, from navigation instructions to off-roading stats.
- An optional color Head-Up Display projects important vehicle information and directional cues directly onto the windshield.
- A noble metal finished trim piece outlines the otherwise high-tech instrument cluster, lending it a dash of old-world charm.
Door Panel
- Metal surrounds are just the tip of the iceberg in the optional $6,300 Meridian Signature reference audio system, which incorporates 23 speakers to disburse 1,700 watts of crystal-clear sound throughout the cabin.
- Notice the clever placement of the window switches just inches from the steering wheel. It's one more advantage of Range Rover's Command Driving Position.
Center Stack
- Land Rover took a less-is-more approach to the cabin, reducing the number of switches on the Sport by 50 percent. The result is a modern, clean design, but it also means you'll have to enter a menu via the touch screen to change the air flow or adjust the seat temperature. Still, it's not a bad trade-off.
- We love the LCD displays inside each of the three round climate control dials.
- Range Rover offers loyalists unprecedented levels of interior customization with 11 interior color themes, four aluminum finishes, three wood trims and three headliner colors.
Lower Console
- Does something look familiar, Jag aficionados? The Sport and the beautiful new Jaguar F-Type share this handsome gearshift selector, seen here housed in a glistening aluminum surround.
- A rotary dial allows drivers to manually select a variety of off-road settings.
- Two aluminum trim pieces flank the center console and gracefully curve down toward the lower console in a sophisticated yet rugged design statement that's perfectly in sync with the character of the Sport itself.


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Forget Paris. All you need to do is grab your overnight bag, a map – and your beloved – and hop in the car. Within 90 minutes, you can be sipping a vintage Chardonnay in front of a fire, hiking or snowshoeing in a forest of silence, and later sleeping in 300-thread count Egyptian cotton sheets.
These hotels and inns are some of the finest romantic escapes within 90 minutes of Toronto, selected for their great meals, luxurious guestrooms, access to spa services and atmospheres that are friendly, inviting and, although sometimes pricey, never pretentious.
Langdon Hall
From the moment you walk through the stately pillars framing the entrance of this hotel in Cambridge, you'll find Old World charm and high-end treatment.
One of only 14 Relais & Château properties in Canada, Langdon Hall was voted the number-one hotel in Canada by Condé Naste Traveler readers. And for good reason. This place is a haven for foodies, and an ideal place for indulgence.
Take in a massage at the spa, cuddle up by a fireplace, and eat: executive chef Jonathan Gushue serves an exquisite six-course tasting menu with items such as squid and fennel with bacon. Wine pairings are expertly selected from more than 1,600 bottles.
The desserts, by pastry chef Sarah Villamere, are as satisfying as they are unusual. I loved the aged gouda with pickled cherry peppers and fennel sorbet, and her white chocolate and peanut butter macaroons.
Then retreat to your king-sized feather bed, until tomorrow, when freshly squeezed orange juice awaits, with fabulous homemade scones, maple granola, and dishes such as the delectable baked sourdough egg and cheese, with caramelized onion and wilted arugula.
Overnight guests can enjoy a free wine tasting Saturday afternoon and a cooking demonstration the following morning. The Wilks' Bar is a cozy alternative to the more formal dining room.
The St. Jacobs Farmers' Market is a 25-minute drive from Langdon Hall; a visit to Stratford, about 50 minutes.
Room-only rates for Friday and Saturday nights start at $359. From Dec. 16 to 22, there's a special rate of $229. 1 Langdon Dr., Cambridge. 1-800-268-1898, langdonhall.ca.
Millcroft Inn
This Caledon member of the Vintage Hotels group is always our first choice for a quick escape. The main stone building (originally a knitting mill) is fully dressed for Christmas, with twinkling red and white lights and a massive tree as you enter the front lobby.
With the air of festivity in a rural woodland, you can nestle up to a roaring fire, or reserve a seat in the "pod" at the fabulous Headwaters Restaurant, with a three-sided view of the Shaw's Creek Falls below.
Executive Chef James Buder offers an interesting array of handmade pastas, fresh fish and steaks. The beef short ribs and seared ahi tuna were both delicious appetizers, as was the pan-seared halibut main and "broken down" or reconstructed banana split for dessert.
Of the 52 rooms, those in the Main Mill and Manor House are furnished in antiques, while the two-storey chalets or Croft Units next to the spa have more of a contemporary and rustic feel. All Crofts have wood-burning fireplaces and some have their own private hot tubs outside.
The 9,000-square-foot spa includes a lovely glassed-in swimming pool, a private infra-red sauna and 17 treatment rooms off a bright, open-air lounge with fireplace.
Visit the nearby Alton Mill Arts Centre to explore the artists' studios, buy original work or book workshops in everything from pottery to encaustic painting. Or enjoy a meal at the town's bistro bakery, R3.
Weekend rooms at the Millcroft start at $209. 55 John Street, Alton. 1-800-383-3976, vintage-hotels.com/millcroft
Harbour House
When you enter the front door of this stunning Cape Cod-style property in Niagara-on-the-Lake you feel more like you're walking into a cozy lounge than a hotel lobby — there's a roaring fireplace, bookshelves, comfortable sofas, homemade cookies, and a small corner table for a front desk.
This three-storey boutique hotel has 31 luxurious rooms and suites (two are dog-friendly). There is no restaurant or spa at Harbour House, enhancing the feel of a private home. Although European-style breakfast buffets are served in the conservatory, for lunch and dinner, guests are directed to two nearby properties, also owned by Sue and Wayne Murray: the Charles Inn restaurant or Zee's Grill at the Shaw Club Hotel & Spa.
We dined at the Charles Inn, a Georgian-style manor built in 1832, with fabulous French-style cuisine. We enjoyed a buttery foie gras, hand-rolled potato gnocchi and caramelized diver scallops and pork belly.
Every afternoon, Harbour House offers a free wine tasting, focusing on a different winery each month. The Niagara Ice Wine Festival runs Jan. 11 to 27.
Ask about the $285 "Friday on My Mind" package, which includes spa and restaurant credits. Saturday night stays also start at $285 but without the extras. All prices include breakfast. 85 Melville St., Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-866-277-6677. niagarasfinest.com/properties/harbourhouse
Taboo Resort
With its stunning location overlooking Lake Muskoka, Taboo Resort is an ideal setting for couples who, like me, long to see and be near water, even when it's too cold to take a plunge.
Torontonian Thuy Nguyen, 50, describes Taboo as "Toronto in Muskoka." A Bollywood-style wedding was going on while they were there, and the resort's Elements Restaurant was "as good an any place in Toronto, in the category of Scaramouche," she says.
But be forewarned, "you have to dress." When they turned up in shorts and jeans, staff had to find them some clothes or they wouldn't have gotten in.
Elements has a six-course tasting menu (with wine pairings) at what it calls "Culinary Theatre": two chefs entertain 18 guests with a cooking demo. The guests sit around a U-shaped counter, watching the demo as they would a performance.
At Taboo's newly renovated 5,000-square-foot spa, treatments include the Suite Serenity package, in which couples begin with a soak in an in-room tub, and then enjoy 2.5 hours together being massaged, scrubbed and wrapped on parallel tables next to a fire.
This is the first year Taboo is open in winter: the weekend schedule includes an introductory snowshoeing and cross-country skiing class, or the option of exploring 10 kms of trails independently.
Rooms start at $199 on the weekend. A Romantic Escape Package starts at $335. 1209 Muskoka Beach Rd., Gravenhurst. 1-800-461-0236. tabooresort.com
Ste. Anne's Country Inn
This rambling fieldstone estate on more than 400 rolling acres in the Northumberland Hills east of Toronto is a haven from urban stress. Voted Canada's favourite spa by SpaFinder readers for six consecutive years, Ste. Anne's attracts many girlfriends, but couples as well.
You can don a white spa terry cloth bathrobe after your couple's massage, sip cucumber water in the spa lounge, play backgammon together in front of a fire in the original 1800s fieldstone castle, and even take a meal in the dining room (no fancy dress necessary).
With 21 treatment rooms, a stunning outdoor fieldstone grotto with hot tub, cold plunge and lap pool, and an indoor eucalyptus steam room, there are plenty of opportunities for pampering.
As psychotherapist Lynda Ceresne says, "You can't help but be relaxed." Her day started with a run just after the sun rose, with "nothing but cows and horses in sight." She then moved on to a yoga class, one of many group activities offered.
The vibe here is about disconnecting from your normal life and concentrating on each other — TVs are available only upon request and cell phones are frowned upon.
Menus list gluten- and dairy-free items, and carry vegetarian and fish options, although hormone-free beef raised onsite and desserts are also offered.
You can stay in rooms in the main inn or in cottages. In December, men stay and eat for free with another guest. On weekends, rates are $435 per person per night, based on double occupancy and a two-night minimum. Prices include meals, afternoon tea and a wellness class. 1009 Massey Rd., Grafton. 1-888-346-6772. steannes.com
Diana Ballon is a freelance writer based in Toronto. Her trip was subsidized by Ste. Anne's, Harbour House, the Millcroft and Langdon Hall.


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Bridal Tears
It's time again to see why the brides are crying - or, as I like to call it, "Reminders that your day could always be worse."
Yep, it's everyone's favorite, "What They Ordered vs What They Got!"
Kimberly P. asked her baker for this scrolly beauty, only in red and with icing flowers instead of real ones:
Instead, she got...this:
Or, as I like to call it, "The Dance of the Earth Worms. With Fresh Beets."
Katie Leigh asked for this classic black and white number:
But ended up with all sixes and sevens*:
(*That's a little British slang for you English folk. You're welcome, guv'na!)
Olivia G. wanted her cake to be black and white all over, too, in this pretty damask pattern:
And in case you were wondering if it's possible to pipe a damask pattern by hand...
It's not.
(I literally stared at these two photos for five minutes, trying to figure out where those shapes came from. I'm still at a loss. Do you think they flashed the pink picture at the baker for thirty seconds, and then told her to go recreate it from memory?)
Let's take a break from all that black and white and take a walk on the wild side:
Awesome, right? Mary M. ordered this fun mad hatter style for her wedding.
Unfortunately, I suspect what she GOT just made her mad-as-a-hatter
Only not in the "Wheedle-a-doo! Lemme dip my watch in my tea!" kind of mad. More like the, "Lemme go, so I can whoop someone's ASCOT," kind of mad. I guess this might pass for a three-year-old's birthday, but c'mon: a wedding?
(Side tangent: Don't you wish people would yell ridiculous things like "Wheedle-a-doo!" when they're ticked off? That would be sooo cool. If anything would make me watch reality TV, it'd be Gordan Ramsey yelling, "Boopin' Flibberty Gibbets, you Stronkin' Honk-Nobbit!" Right? Right?? I can't be the only one.)
This next couple wanted something simple and understated for their wedding, so they ordered this:
What they got, however, reduced our poor blushing bride to tears - and I'm pretty sure the groom is preparing to vent some frustration, going by the way he's brandishing that serving knife:
Holy plastic meltdown, Batman! Swans and cherubs and pillars, oh my! Looks like the only thing this couple and their baker had in common was they both ended up seeing red. Yeesh.
And finally, it's time to get back in black (and white) with this sweet little creation Kelly L. ordered for her big day:
Now, as pretty as this is, there's nothing terribly complicated here, so I can see why Kelly thought her baker could manage it.
[shaking head]
Kelly, Kelly, Kelly....
Er....Is your cake erupting?
Oh! That's just the topper at an odd angle. Sorry. Anyway, that cake is just...sad. Really, I can't think of any other word for it. Like it's shuffling dejectedly down the sidewalk and sighing a lot, and you just want to give it a hug. Or throw a towel over it.
Thanks again to all of today's brides for letting us laugh along with them - assuming, of course, that you're laughing by now, ladies. If not, then thanks for letting us gasp in horror and yell things like "Doofin' FINKEL Shmirtz!!" at the screen.
(Why, yes, I have started watching Phineas and Ferb recently. Why do you ask?)


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Sweeney General Hospital is the Portland hospital in the 3D rendition of Liberty City.
The hospital is located in the Portland View district of Portland Island, Liberty City. The hospital was opened in 1847 according to its sign and it is the only hospital on Portland Island. The hospital was partly founded by Trans-Plant, the organ retrieving specialists. The slogan of the hospital is Because HEALTH is LIBERTY.
The hospital is located next to the Liberty City Police Department's Portland headquarters. Two health icons and an Ambulance appear at the hospital in all three games the hospital appears in. In GTA III, an Adrenaline Pill is also available on hospital grounds and in GTA Liberty City Stories a hidden package is located at the back of the hospital. If the player activates the Perfect Traction cheat in GTA LCS, at the front of the hospital there is a place where an Esperanto and an Angel spawn. If the player uses a car to jump to the taller roof (just beside the place where the Angel spawns) and continues to drive or walk, you will fall into blue hell for three to five seconds and respawn at either Portland View or Chinatown.


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It seems as if just about everyone has questions these days about the missing WMD. Did U.S. intelligence officialsor their civilian bossesoverstate the evidence of weapons before the war? And if some intelligence officials expressed skepticism about WMD, who ignored them? For the past several weeks, the usually lockstep Bush Administration has done its best to maintain a unified front in the face of these queries. Whenever asked, Administration officials have replied that the weapons will turn up eventually. But as the search drags on through its third largely futile month, the blame game in Washington has gone into high gear. And as Bush's allies and enemies alike on Capitol Hill begin to pick apart some 19 volumes of prewar intelligence and examine them one document at a time, the cohesive Bush team is starting to come apart. "This is a cloud hanging over their credibility, their word," Republican Senate Intelligence Committee member Chuck Hagel told abc News. Here are key questions Congress wants answered:
What Was Cheney's Role?
Lawmakers who once saluted every Bush claim and command are beginning to express doubts. Two congressional panels are opening new rounds of investigations into the Administration's prewar claims about WMD. One of their immediate inquiries, sources tell Time, involves Vice President Dick Cheney's role in reviewing the intelligence before the bombing started. Cheney made repeated visits to the CIA in the prelude to the war, going over intelligence assessments with the analysts who produced them. Some Democrats say Cheney's visits may have amounted to pressure on the normally cautious agency. Cheney's defenders insist that his visits merely showed the importance of the issue and that an honest analyst wouldn't feel pressure to twist intelligence. The House intelligence committee (and possibly its Senate counterpart, sources say) plans to question the CIA analysts who briefed Cheney, and that could lead to calling Cheney's hard-line aides and perhaps the Veep himself to testify.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell, who staked his reputation on his February declaration at the U.N. about Saddam Hussein's arms program, is also feeling the heat. Powell's aides fanned out after that performance to say the Secretary had gone to the CIA and scrubbed every piece of intelligence to make certain it was solid. But since then, little of Powell's presentation has been proved by evidence on the ground, and last week his aides were on the defensive over a memo from the State Department's intelligence bureau that questioned whether two Iraqi trailers discovered in April were mobile bioweapons labs, as Powell has asserted. Questionable intelligence that made it into Powell's February speech leaves him particularly vulnerable. Expect a push by Democrats, and perhaps some Republicans, to seek Powell's testimony too.
Will Tenet Be Left Holding the Bag?
CIA Director George Tenet is faring a bit better. The House committee's top Democrat, Jane Harman, noted last week that "caveats and qualifiers" Tenet raised in prewar intelligence about Iraq's weapons were "rarely included" in Administration arguments for war. After the awkward Q&A in Doha, Bush put Tenet in charge of the WMD hunt. Tenet in turn hired a former U.N. weapons inspector, David Kay, to run the search, but Tenet and Kay have a lot of ground to make up fast. Tenet, sources say, recently conceded to the House panel that the CIA should have done more to warn that finding WMD could be a drawn-out process. Tenet got a reprieve last week when an Iraqi scientist who had hidden parts and documents for nuclear-weapons production in his backyard for 12 years came forward. Tenet's usually behind-the-scenes CIA suddenly became very public in trumpeting the importance of the discovery, if only to remind people how hard illicit weapons would be to find. But Tenet's hot zone isn't Baghdad; it's Capitol Hill. He canceled testimony before the Senate committee last week, citing a schedule conflict. If he doesn't find any weapons, he needs to find a way not to be blamed.
Bush officials believe that time and history are on their side. They argue that now that Saddam is gone, Americans don't care very much about finding WMD. They also say it is only a matter of time before more evidence of weapons materials and programs emerges. And when that occurs, they contend, all their opponents will look as silly as they did when they argued that the war was going badly in its second week. "The Dems are looking for an issue, but I think they're making a mistake," says a senior Administration official.
Democrats do sense a possibly potent campaign theme, but they run the risk of appearing to politicize a sensitive national-security issue as they try to prove the Administration has a credibility gap. But Democrats are not alone in feeling as though they may have been sandbagged on the evidence before the war began. Sources say g.o.p. Senate Intelligence Committee members Olympia Snowe and Hagel have privately questioned the Administration's handling of prewar intelligence. The Republican-held House voted last week to order the CIA to report back on "lessons learned" from the buildup to war in Iraq. The House and Senate intelligence-committee leaders have agreed to coordinate their probes loosely to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort. In a rare move, the House panel quietly voted on June 12 to grant all 435 Representatives access to the Iraq intelligence, although a Capitol Hill source said fewer than 10 members outside the committee had reviewed the material.
Administration officials have a further concern about where all these questions are leading. They fear that any problem with the prewar intelligence could undermine Bush's ability to continue his muscular campaign against terrorism overseas. The Administration has argued that to counter new kinds of threats posed by terrorists, rogue states and WMD, it has to be able to act pre-emptively. But pre-emption requires excellent intelligence, and the whole doctrine is undermined if the intelligence is wrongor confected. "Intelligence takes on an even more important role than in the past because you can't wait until you see an enemy army massing anymore," says former Clinton Deputy National Security Adviser James Steinberg. But if WMD don't turn up and the Administration wants to act elsewhere, it may find that the enemy massing against it is public opinion at home.


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It is shocking. Think of all the times you've read an article about a groundbreaking NASA satellite and someone always responds "Guys we are BROKE! No more playing around with learning stuff about the universe! We need to stop spending blah blah". 60 Billion is TEN James Webb telescopes (and that's the most expensive, state-of-the-art ever). It's 60 Chandra X-ray observatories (one of the 'great observatories' which is surpassed only by Hubble in revolutionizing our understanding of the Universe). It's funding for Hubble scientists (the thousands of people who use the instrument) for another six hundred years.
Technically, Spain is in a death spiral because they elected a right-wing government that is pushing More Austerity!(TM) as the answer to a shrinking GDP because... because suffering is good? Honestly I don't know but it's an idiotic choice.
Fascism yes, the others, it depends. You can have a "Communist" regime that is fascist in nature (in which case the communism is usually window dressing), or you could have one that is not. Same with socialism. I wish people would understand this. YES Stalin, etc. were horrible times but it doesn't mean that e.g., a socialist democracy (where people vote for socialist policies) will be horribly fascist by rule.
Yes, the two points you mention have been repeatedly made, and at this point an airport or plane is in no more danger (arguably less) than any other collection of 100 - 300 individuals you might find anywhere.
There's money to be made in security theater though!
At this point, the troubling thing is that they're not even trying to claim this will prevent another 9/11. So by extension, any group of 100 - 300 people is open for TSA treatment: bus terminals, trains, stadiums, etc. Welcome to the police state. I put the over/under of looking like Brazil (the movie) at 2020.
shorter bendy: Gays are liars and sick!
Thanks for letting us know you're a bigot.
You don't have the right to self-defense in the UK? I guess no guns makes that difficult.
Their schools are also amazing, and worth reading about:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/ravitch-why-finlands-schools-are-gre at-by-doing-what-we-dont/2011/10/12/gIQAmTyLgL_blog.html
If it weren't so damned cold, I'd be wanting to move there!!
Last I checked, we're actually doing approximately zero about that, so no, I don't think it qualifies. Constructive efforts against real threats is definitely not the idea. It needs to be nebulous, ill-defined, and never ending, by design.
Hey there poptech, you've got, what, 20 posts on this topic? Still wanna stick to that story that you're just a random joe who's upset about poor underdog Heartland out of the goodness of your truth-seeking heart?
I have no idea what that refers to and if you want to present evidence, "google it" is not such.
Also, I don't consider your authority as a paid shill as a good one that the document is fake. Sources please.
Who's making up facts now? The Stolen Emails actually did not reveal any such thing.
Here's a good write-up:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/11/22/climategate-2-more-ado-about-no thing-again/
Only idiots who don't have the brain-power to do academic science think there is anything removely scandalous about the content of those emails.
The "really damaging document" might be a fake, or might not. I'm interested to see the proof one way or the other.
You saw it on google news... after searching for Heartland References? Ain't exactly front-page news, kid. No one here believes that you aren't a shill for this company, and there ain't shit you can do about it. Whine away.
Do you every lie awake at night wondering why you sold your soul? Probably not. Go away.
And this is a problem... why?
I had this problem last week. Latest firefox update seems to have fixed it. Try a different browser? I don't actually know if that was the problem.
Yeah, clearly it's a breeding ground for terrorism. I mean, just think of all the attacks in the last ten years as the internet has grown! The lives lost! The damage!
Wait, what? There's been no attacks and all arrests have been textbook entrapment cases of mentally ill people that were no credible threat before the FBI got to them? whaaat? CRAZY. I guess they're just lying then.
I certainly think the next administration will (Obama or not). They will say they are "temporarily taking it down to work on how to make it better" or some other lie and then it will never be seen again...
PS, I signed and posted to facebook. Come on, annoy all your friends!
It's so nice to see the hollywood trolls out in full force! I was worried they might have lost their jobs over the death SOPA and been replaced with more able competition. Have no fear, internet! Bumbling shills are still the norm!
Marilyn Monroe is buried in a mausoleum.
I regularly thrown in a "death to America" joke when on the phone with my boyfriend. I don't think the NSA is as stupid as the TSA.
I will only note that I am a long-time reader of CNN, mostly for the comments which I consider a barometer of the US public (sad as that sometimes reveals itself to be).
This was the one story where the most recent 25 comments were ALL UNANIMOUS, and against the government action taken today. I find that to be an interesting trend. I think the administration will find this was a serious mistake going forward.
Amen! It might actually work if CNN, Fox, and MSN, as well as most newspapers were shut up for a year before the election. It's big media more than any one else that is to blame for the lesser-of-two-evils paradigm. Bleh.


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I can solve it analytically, but I need some school-like elementary-geometry solution for this.
Let w = width and h = height of the rectangle ABCD. For any point E inside rectangle, except its boundary, let $f(E)=|AE| \cdot |EC| + |BE| \cdot |ED|$, question is: how to find point E inside this rectangle, except the points on the sides of this rectangle such that f(E) will be minimum. And find this minimum.


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Great Britain. Inter-departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services, Baron William Henry Beveridge Beveridge
The Macmillan Co., 1942 - Great Britain - 299 pages
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Introduction and Summary
The Way to Freedom from Want 1116
Summary of Plan for Social Security 1719
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