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The prime minister and minister for the Cabinet Office have repeatedly stated that they want to be "the most open and transparent government in the world". On 8 October, a group of UK civil society organisations published an open letter to David Cameron calling on him to put this ambition into action by making a series of significant commitments towards greater openness.
While the government has made positive progress on some aspects of open government, civil society organisations are concerned by its inaction and regressive plans in other key areas. The signatories of the letter – 18 organisations working for more open government in the UK – call on the PM to commit to:
1. Make public who owns and controls companies and trusts, by publishing a public register of beneficial ownership. This would support good corporate governance and lift the veil of secrecy that the corrupt and the criminal use to hide their identity.
2. Enable public scrutiny of all organisations in receipt of public money, by opening up public sector contracts and extending transparency standards and legislation, including Freedom of Information, to all information held by a contractor in connection with a public service contract. This would enable proper scrutiny of outsourced public services to ensure they are run efficiently, effectively and properly.
3. Bring lobbying out into the open in the UK, by developing a robust, compulsory register of lobbyists. An open and comprehensive register, unlike that currently planned by the government, would allow public scrutiny of who is lobbying whom, what they are seeking to influence and how much is being spent in the process.
The end of October will see representatives from governments and civil society from over 50 countries come together in London for the annual summit of the Open Government Partnership. The Open Government Partnership (OGP) – launched in 2011 in New York by eight governments, including the UK – is a global effort to make governments more transparent, accountable and responsive to their citizens. Each member country (now 60 in total) must endorse a high level open government declaration and develop in partnership with civil society organisations an OGP national action plan setting out concrete commitments to open government.
Now is a critical moment for the prime minister to move from statements of ambition to action - sending a clear message about the UK's commitment to open government. As well as announcing the UK's second national action plan, which has been developed by teams from the government and the UK OGP civil society network, the OGP Summit will mark the end of the UK's time as lead co-chair of the OGP.
The Open Government Partnership has been very successful in building significant political capital and growing its membership over the past two years, but the challenge now is to maintain that momentum and to turn it into ambitious commitments and action from governments. The success or failure of the OGP will ultimately be judged on this.
As we set out in the letter, the UK must take this opportunity to "lead by example and demonstrate the level of ambition expected of other countries as they draft their own national action plans over the coming months".
Simon Burall and Tim Hughes are UK OGP civil society network coordinators.
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I have been looking for sill guards for my Patriot since I 1st got it. Unfortunately, common accessories people put on vehicles like sill guards are just not offered. Man, I have never seen anything like it to be honest. I can see not having some of this stuff available, like handheld performance tuners, but sill guards? Very common item that some aftermarket mfg should be offering.
Anyway, I really was not interested in the expensive stainless MOPAR ones or the cheaper E-Bay knock off's. I picked up a set of universal trim to fit ones from AVS but where they had to be trimmed so they fit right went right through areas that would show and look awful so I took them back.
So I started scouring the internet looking for other universal options. Didn't like what I saw until I found this stuff. Read some reviews and decided I would give it a shot.
It is a heavy duty pvc that comes in a roll that you cut to length and then apply to the sill. I was dubious about durability but figured for $20 it was worth a shot as it can be removed. It actually feels like hard plastic once installed. Looks like it as well. Comes in clear and black. Mfg is Xpel.
Thought I would post the info for anyone who may be interested. If you prefer black plastic sill guards to stainless/polished ones, or don't want to spend a fortune on the MOPAR ones, this is another option for you. I can't vouch for long term durability yet as I just installed it today but it feels like it will be pretty tough and the reviews are all very good. I got mine at Summit Racing but it is available at Amazon and on E-Bay plus the mfg sells it direct too.
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JRSC just installed....car will turn over but won't idle
Hey Everyone,
I have just finished up installing a JRSC kit on my car.
I went to start the car for the first time this morning and have run into a problem.
When I start the car it turns over as usual with the indicated revs jumping to 1500 rpm or so and then they quickly drop down as used to be the case when starting the car. My problem is the revs continue to drop quickly until the car stalls. It is not as if the car is spluttering and the revs are slowly dropping until it stalls, they drop quickly.
I tried to correct the problem by applying some throttle when I start the car. This made no difference. While I could get the revs to climb a little higher at start up by applying about 10% throttle, no amount of throttle will stop the rpm dropping - if anything applying the throttle seems to make the car stall more quickly.
Can anyone offer their thoughts on what they think may be the problem?
I will do the usual checks for vacuum leaks once I am home tonight however given how quickly it is stalling this seems like it may not be the problem. Most people seem to just have a really rough idle with vac leaks. Could be a massive leak somewhere
Is it possible it could be the tune? I have an Xcal 3 and only have a base tune loaded on their which the tuning will be adjusting once the car is running. I've heard mention of custom tunes not supplying enough fuel for start?
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text: The Thick of It's Chris Addison to reunite with Peter Capaldi in Doctor Who finale Capaldi's debut series will end with a The Thick of it reunion. Meanwhile, Addison is the bookies' second favourite to take over as a full-time companion should Jenna Coleman leave the show ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW By Stephen Kelly Tuesday 19 August 2014 at 8:05AM Chris Addison will once again share the screen with his former The Thick of it co-star Peter Capaldi, but this time in a Doctor Who guest role. The comedian, who appeared alongside Capaldi in political comedies The Thick of It and its big-screen spin-off In The Loop, has a role in the series eight two-part finale, Dark Water / Death In Heaven. Addison himself is keeping tight-lipped on the size or nature of his role, but told RadioTimes.com: "'Would you like to be in Doctor Who?' is the easiest question I've ever been asked. It's a 35-year dream come true. Seven-year old me would be going off his nut and I'm not far behind. "It's a great way to spend a couple of weeks, working with people I've always wanted to work with on a show I've loved all my life. My bucket list is quite a lot shorter now." Addison and Capaldi last clashed on television in their respective Thick of It roles as the wily special advisor Ollie Reeder and foul-mouthed spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker. Addison joins a long list of guest stars in Capaldi's debut run as the 12th Doctor, including Keeley Hawes, Frank Skinner and pop star Foxes. Following tabloid speculation that companion Jenna Coleman is leaving the show this year, Addison has also found himself the bookies' second favourite – behind Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie – to succeed Coleman. Doctor Who returns to BBC1 with feature-length series eight opener Deep Breath on Saturday 23rd August at 7:50pm. continue reading


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Beyonce is one of America's top entertainers after hitting the big time as part of Destinys Child. Beyonce is married to fellow performer Jay-Z. Both Beyonce's career continue to soar with her next single If I Were a Boy soon to be released.
Prior to embarking on her European On the Run Tour with hubby Jay Z, Beyonce Knowles enjoyed some downtime during an Italian holiday.
The "Run the World" singer just posted a few snapshots of her family getaway via social media and while she appears to be having fun in her skimpy bikini, Knowles likely had the images doctored up before uploading them.
She's no stranger to using pre-recorded vocal tracks (remember Obama's second Inauguration?) and Beyoncé Knowles has once again been caught faking it onstage.
During her On The Run tour stop in Paris, France, the "Single Ladies" singer was videotaped with her microphone away from her face while her voice kept going.
The world can't seem to get enough of Beyoncé Knowles and Jay Z and the latest rumors dictate that they're not pregnant after all.
Following a slew of reports that the "Bootylicious" mama is expecting baby #2 (and stealing Kate Middleton's thunder), Queen Bey was observed holding a glass of champagne.
It's almost time for another dose of live musical craziness, and MTV just announced the nominees for the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards.
With a total of seven nods Katy Perry is the pack leader, followed closely by Ariana Grande with an impressive six chances for glory.
They're in the middle of their European On the Run Tour these days and Beyoncé Knowles and Jay Z are totally on top of their game.
In addition to their live concerts, the "Crazy in Love" singer (who is rumored to be pregnant) and her "Picasso Baby" rapper hubby worked together on a short film trilogy directed by Dikayl Rimmasch called "Bang Bang."
Making the most of their final moments in France, Beyonce Knowles and Jay Z took their daughter Blue Ivy on a boat ride in Paris on Wednesday (September 10).
As they enjoyed the leisurely afternoon, the "Run the World" songstress kept a close eye on the paparazzi and shielded her daughter's face from being photographed.
Never one for conventional methods, Jay Z put together a lovely video clip to show Beyoncé Knowles some love on her 33rd birthday.
The "Hard Knock Life" rapper made sure the clip was 33 seconds long and included footage of their On The Run concert tour.
There's something special about the connection between sisters, and over the weekend Beyoncé Knowles caught up with her little sibling Solange Knowles at the Made in America music festival in Los Angeles.
The "Crazy in Love" songstress smiled for photos with her outspoken sister, enjoying a few beers as they chatted away.
Putting an end to the divorce rumors, Jay Z and Beyonce Knowles showed up at Kanye West's performance at the Budweiser Made in America music festival on Sunday (August 31) looking pretty loved-up.
The "99 Problems" rapper put his arm around his lovely "Single Ladies" songstress as they rode on a golf cart towards the stage area where 35,000 fans waited for Mr. West to kick things off.
It's no secret that Jay Z and Beyoncé Knowles have been a constant target of divorce rumors, however Matthew Knowles is convinced it was all a show.
During his interview with 104.1 in Houston on Thursday (August 28), the "Crazy in Love" singer's father called his daughter and son-in-law's antics a "Jedi mind trick."
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Join us for a fun and exciting afternoon, to experience 106th street in a new way! For 106 Fest, we want you to walk or bike and explore what's available on the 106th street corridor from the river to the Whitemud.
106 Fest is a collaboration of the communities along 106th street with support from a number of business and organizations. There will be a number of things to see and do along the route as you explore and we'll be piloting some things in areas along 106 to make it more walkable and bikeable for everyone.
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Wow! This summer has been a whirlwind for this hard-working and dedicated committee of the Queen Alexandra Community League!
QA Crossroads is made up of a group of residents who want to work with the city to make improvements to the way that 106 Street and 76 Avenue are used as part of our neighbourhood renewal process. (In case you didn't know, the City is going to re-do all our neighbourhood's streets, lights, sidewalks, etc. starting next year. More info).
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As part of the Queen Alexandra neighbourhood renewal process, the Community League has launched QA Crossroads. This group's purpose is to work with the city to improve the way that 106 Street and 76 Avenue are used!
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Hey guys, Just wanted to share pics on my new EDC knife. SOG Aegis in TiNi finished 3.5" blade, black handle. I try not to pay, for say, more than $60-75 range for EDC knives, and this one, at MSRP is I think $110. I got it online, for $65 shipped.
I opted for the black handle, thinking its more practical, but debated on the Digi Camo, that is sweet! The knife is my first SOG and first experience with the SAT.. it deploys pretty fast, the arc-lock is kinda the same as Benchmade's Axis lock (or do I have it backwards?) The lock-up on the blade is good, there was SLIGHT movement, which I don't like but was easily fixed by 1/4-1/2 turn of the Allen. Blade is sharp, and is GORGEOUS, although AUS-8 blade could be better.
My ONLY complaints about the knife, which aren't really legitimate. ONE. that this knife is designed to be carried tip-up, which is opposite of what I naturally like (note; opinions vary, but I PREFER tip-down.) TWO: the clip on this thing sits deep in the pocket, which is good, but this clip is serious, may need to really work on pulling from pocket, it REALLY hugs the pocket, may just need to loosen up after use.)
One main thing I LOVE about this knife, is how LIGHT it is, can't remember specs, but You can't feel it in your pocket, yet you still have 3.5" of blade.. This replaces, or will get working into rotation, my similarly light Spyderco Centofante III.
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WCIA-3's Megan Brilley has the story.
''I thought I was just gonna go in there and probably not come back out.''
Sheila Yager first spotted this home on fire. She immediately screamed to her husband, Daniel. ''I'm the one that noticed the fire, I just felt responsible. I just thought I'd have to go in the house and die.''
Before she could think any more about it, Daniel was kicking in the back door.
''I went to that room and I was reaching because I couldn't see anything and I felt a body and grabbed her and said come on! Let's go! Get out! And she goes why? I said because the house is on fire!''
His neighbor, Tina, had just taken sleeping pills and had no idea what was going on.
''At first it didn't register, then I smelled the smoke and you couldn't see an inch in front of your face. Dan grabs my arms and pulls me out of the house. It was a relief.''
When she thinks back, she can't believe she made it out alive.
''My kids, being without a mom. That's what went through my mind. It'd be horrible for them. They're my world. I'm theirs. It's like wow, that could've been the end for me.''
She calls this man her guardian angel and hero. But Daniel doesn't like that term. To him, he was just being a good friend and neighbor.
"Pardon my French, but I think it's a bunch of bull. That's what's wrong. People need to help other people. Don't be afraid to help somebody."
''I'd hope someone would do that for us if our house was on fire. We're not heroes.''
But to this woman, they always will be.
''Thank you. You're my hero. You saved my life.''
Tina lost everything in the fire. The Yagers have offered to let her live with them until she gets back on her feet.
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>Desert Peaks approved as new name for what was Links at Madras
Resuming Daylight Savings time this weekend is also bringing forth new days and times for the men's and women' groups which gather at the city-run, nine-hole golf course which was recently renamed Desert Peaks at a city council meeting.
The Women's Club at the course, once the Links at Madras, will be gathering on Wednesdays.
The Men's Club groups will be competing on Thursdays. A tee time of 10 a.m. is going into effect as of April 2 and 3.
There is going to be a variety of special events coming up at the course. Among them will be a competition for Madras High golf teams. The Madras teams did not compete at what had been the 18-hole course in Madras last spring after it was split up as a privately run nine-hole Nine Peaks, which has since closed, and the city's nine-hole, par 36, layout.
More information on what events are coming to the course are listed on a calendar posted there. The clubhouse is located near the airport on Adler Street.


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James Beard Award Outstanding Wine Program Nominees
Raise a glass to these two Southern James Beard Award nominees in the Outstanding Wine Program category. We've asked them to make pairing recommendations for some of our favorite Southern dishes.
(Go to jamesbeard.org to purchase tickets to the awards event on Monday, May 7th in NYC. If you can't attend, check in on the live stream, broadcast from the website, or follow announcements on twitter @beardfounation or from our own Features Editor, Jennifer Cole @jennifervcole.)
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Shrimp and Grits: While it may seem simple to answer this with a white wine, I am hard pressed to keep my hands off of the dry rosé wines in our cellar to pair with this dish this time of year. Particularly a rosé wine from Southern France, where you might just see similar dishes focused on fresh Shellfish. This year, I've loved pouring and tasting the rosés from Domaine Ott. They are very light in color, dry, refreshing and simply enjoyable.
BBQ: My favorite pairing with BBQ (and it's great with all styles – North Carolina through Texas) is a Kabinett Level German Riesling. It has the high levels of acidity needed to refresh the palate. It is low in alcohol, giving it a more quaffable quality than other wines which seems to always be important when enjoying BBQ and the slight sweetness of the wine is both immediately enjoyable and a balance to the rich smoky and meaty qualities of BBQ.
Fried Chicken: Champagne is the simple answer here. Particularly a great, Chardonnay dominated Champagne. This can be fun because you can really put a top champagne on the table if your budget allows for it and pair it with something that brings it down off of its pedestal and pairs well with it. A Chardonnay dominated Champagne is important to me because it has more brightness and acidity to balance the salty, crunchy and rich chicken and to lighten up the entire experience. There's something incredibly pleasing about Champagne and fried food. It's as unexpected as it is great together.
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Gumbo: BEER! That is a frequently asked question, especially here in New Orleans and a good cold beer is the obvious answer. However, wine can also match very well with gumbo, despite what people may think. I usually suggest a slightly sweet old world wine, with high acidity and low alcohol to ensure that the heat will be cut with the wines acidity and not made spicier with alcohol content. Also, sweet and spicy always work well together. I think the 2009 Pierre Spaar Riesling from Alsace would work great.
Fried Soft Shell Crab: This is a dish that would pair well with a few different wines, but I think above all else a Champagne would be the best. Preferably Chardonnay based. The high acidity in the wine would cut through the fattiness of the fried crab, while not overwhelming the sweet and delicate crab meat. Awesome Match! The Taittinger "La Française" Reims Brut would be also be a delicious and elegant match.
Peach Cobbler: I think that a simple and floral Moscato d'Asti from Piedmont would work magically. The peach notes in the nose and palate of this slightly sparkling white would complement the peach in the dish, and still be light and fresh considering that it is at the end of the meal and a syrupy desert wine may be a little much.The 2010 Saracco Moscato d'Asti is an affordable favorite of mine that everyone always falls in love with.


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I chose SJC because of the Core Program.
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Band, Student Senate, Track, Big Brothers, Radio, CCD program in town, CYO program in town.
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I am a philosopher, attorney, author, scholar, and Catholic lay missionary. I am currently setting up exchange programs to Tanzania, East Africa, consulting Catholic colleges on their Catholic identity, practicing law, and teaching philosophy.
How did SJC prepare you for the "real world?"
Core made me a better critical thinker and enhanced my global perspective and commitment to Gospel values.
Who was your favorite SJC professor?
Don Brinley and Don Kreilkamp.
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When race leader Cadel Evans resumes his quest to try to win the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday on a stage that should instead best suit the sprinters, foremost on his mind will be saving as much energy for Thursday's first time trial.
The 46.4km stage 12 race of truth from Barbaresco to Barolo includes a fourth category climb plus several undulations, and offers Evans another prime opportunity to gain more time on his rivals.
"The Barolo time trial is certainly a place where I'd like to take time but I'll just do the best time trial I can and then look at the results afterwards," Evans said. "I hope that a course suited to me should be to my advantage but we'll see."
After Monday's rest day, the Giro resumes on Tuesday for the 184km 10th stage from Modena to Salsomaggiore Terme, followed by Wednesday's 249km 11th stage from Collecchio to Savona that includes two second category climbs.
Notwithstanding the dangers from crashes, mechanical mishaps, tactical upsets or illness, the next major hot spot in the race for the Giro's overall leader's pink jersey Evans defended in Sunday's ninth stage should be Thursday's time trial.
After Sunday's ninth stage, 174km from Lugo to the mountain finish at Sestola, Evans (BMC) was happy about his form and standing, even if his claim to the overall lead had come earlier than expected on Saturday's eighth stage to Montecopiolo.
That lead was 57 seconds on Colombian Rigoberto Uran (Omega Pharma-QuickStep), 1min 10secs on Poland's Rafal Majka (Tinkoff-Saxo), 1min 20secs on Italian Domenico Pozzovivo (Ag2r) and 1mim 45secs on 10th placed Colombian Nairo Quintana (Movistar).
Little wonder Evans said he and his team "have to be satisfied with our work so far" for the Giro in which he was third last year, fifth in 2010 when he won a stage and wore pink for a day, and 14th in his 2002 grand tour debut after leading until the last mountain.
Little wonder also Evans said of his teammates, looking ahead to Monday's rest day: "I think the guys will rest very happily tomorrow."
For Australian cycling fans, the respite provided time to absorb Australian success in men's professional road cycling this last 10 days.
With Evans on course for a serious tilt at the Giro, a major talking point has been the success of Orica-GreenEDGE in the race that includes a stage 1 team time trial win that saw the Australian team hold the pink jersey until Evans claimed it on stage 8 on Saturday.
First to wear it was Orica-GreenEDGE's Canadian teammate Svein Tuft – for one day. Then Australian Michael Matthews took the jersey on stage 2 for six days until Evans took it, in which time Matthews also superbly won stage 6 on a second category mountain finish.
Not that losing the lead stifled Orica-GreenEDGE's plans, as Dutch teammate Pieter Weening's stage 9 win on Sunday showed.
And their success did not come only in Italy. At the Tour of California that finished on Sunday, Orica-GreenEDGE's Colombian recruit Esteban Chaves won stage 6 and British signing Adam Yates, who won a stage and was overall winner at the recent Tour of Turkey, was fifth overall. .
And it was not just Orica-GreenEDGE milking wins for Australia. South Australian Rohan Dennis (Garmin-Sharp) also raced superbly in the Tour of California, finishing second overall at 30 seconds to the British winner, 2012 Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins (Sky).
Probably even better was the sight of Dennis also winning stage 3 and finishing alone on top of Mount Diablo with his arms aloft.
Rupert Guinness will be covering the last 10 days of the Giro d'Italia a guest of Eurosport. Eurosport are covering the Giro live.


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Tiger Woods and his ex-wife Elin Nordegren have finalised their divorce, and it seems they've stayed true to their assurances that their primary focus will be the "future well-being" of their children.
Elin spent last weekend looking for houses in Florida's Palm Beach, near to Tiger's Jupiter Island home.
Friends say she wants to live close to Tiger so that they can share custody of their children, Charlie, one, and Sam, three.
Elin, who told her story to HELLO! in an exclusive interview, appears to be moving on well, following the divorce.
According to a friend, "She had a fun weekend. [She] was really able to relax more than she has in a long time."
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10/6/15 Then and Now from the Director of Mill Pond Library
In January of 2003 the Mill Pond Library opened its new doors at 140 N. South Street in Kingston, which previously had been Siewerts Grocery Store. I have a hard time believing that 15 years have already gone by. It seems like only yesterday we were painting and putting down the last of the tile, and moving shelves in to get ready for our open house. The lay-out of those shelves worked very well for many years, but lately things have seemed a bit crowded. So out came paper and pen to see how we could re-arrange and better use the space we have. First area to attack was the children's section. We didn't have electric door openers when we first moved in to the building. The addition of those a few years ago made it quite easy for 3 and 4 year olds to become great escape artists. Get rid of the electric doors? Not an option as moms with strollers and customers with arms full of books have gotten quite used to pushing a button to come inside. So, we moved the children's section over to the far corner of the library, with the public computer coral in between them and the door, and escape artists no more! The young adult section was then moved up into the old children's section. And rather than just move the books in we made a comfy sitting area too. Moving the young adult section then allowed us to expand in the adult fiction section. Slowly but surely we are getting used to going to a different area to put the books back away when they are returned. If you haven't been in the library in a while, stop by and check out the new arrangements.
The Markesan District School is once again doing the Battle of the Books. The statewide Battle of the Books program is designed to promote a love of reading among our students. It encourages them to read a variety of books and remember information about the plots, characters, and settings of the books. Every question asked in a battle is answered by the title and author of the book and takes the form of: Name the book in which a horse and a boy are stranded on an island. It is a fun, academic-based competition that has been very successful in school districts throughout the state in encouraging students to read. The library has set a table up by the circulation desk with the books that are being used this year in the Battle. If you can't find one at school, or forgot your book and need to read it over the weekend, stop in and check one out.
If you are thinking ahead to the holidays mark your calendar for our annual Cookie Walk. This year it will be held on Saturday, Dec. 12th. Besides cookies and Santa we will be trying something new this year. More details to follow in the coming months.
09/15/2015 American Girl Club
The American Girl Club is starting back up after having the summer off. The group meets once a month and the next meeting will be Saturday, September 26, starting at 9:30am, in the library reading room. There will be storytime, a craft, and snacks. Bring your favorite American Girl doll along also. The sign up sheet is on the front desk. Cost is $10.00 for the next 3 sessions. Other meeting dates are Oct. 24th and Nov. 21. If you have any questions please contact Amanda Rose at 920-767-1479 or email email@example.com. Hope to see you there!


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Legal experts agree that it is unlikely that Italy would seek extradition until there is a final verdict. Still, Markus Witig, a trial lawyer in Milan with expertise in extraditions, said Italy could — but probably would not — seek immediate extradition on grounds of urgency, which could include the risk a defendant would disappear.
Dershowitz believes double jeopardy would not be an issue because Knox's acquittal was not a final judgment. He also doubts that the United States would want to set a precedent by refusing to extradite her if she is convicted, given that the United States makes frequent extradition requests for defendants sought by U.S. courts.


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Pleasing response - typical I hope of the majority. I have wondered how all my local LE folks feel, tho know one or two are pretty good.
Main feedback I have had was from my son's BIL, who has been a cop some time and he is not only an excellent cop in attitude and balance but feels very happy with CCW holders. He too, while PA does not mandate disclosure of carry to an LE, reckons also it is the way to go - better for all concerned.


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New Funding May Push Fairground Location Decision
As the community gathers at the Alachua County Fairgrounds for rides and fun, city and county officials are trying to figure out where to move the property. So far, the options are to transfer to a nearby location the county owns in East Gainesville or the Canterbury Equestrian Facility in Newberry. Gainesville City Commissioner Scherwin Henry is not a fan of the latter proposal: "As it stands now, the county commission is talking about taking dollars from one community and giving it to another."
The difference is the pricetag. It would cost the county about $22 million to develop the Waldo Road location, while a donor has come forward already to pay $4 million of the $10 million it would cost for a move to Newberry. But the Newberry plan has its opponents-- including Scherwin Henry's constituents. Henry says "the opinion was overwhelmingly in favor of the fairgrounds. They recognized the importance of keeping the fairgrounds in East Gainesville. It was explained to them the economic impact."
This is an impact some say goes beyond one community fair because of the other events hosted at the fairgrounds, including roller derby practices and the medieval fair in February. The Alachua County Fair's coordinator, Stephen White, has a different stance:
"I really don't have any opinion on whether or not it moves because it really isn't my decision. I think that both the East side and Newberry have their own facets about them."
Right now, the fairgrounds are surrounded by woodlands, a prison and an airport. Those who want to keep the grounds in East Gainesville say it's important for the areas redevelopment and economic growth.
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It is estimated that in 2006, an average of 1 in 100 children in the United States of America (USA) were born with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In addition to impairments in social interaction, those with ASD are reported to demonstrate poor social competence and a lowered self-esteem. Currently, there is no cure for ASD. However, early intervention can improve academic and social development.
Alternative therapy interventions, such as hippotherapy, dolphin therapy, aquatic therapy, and surfing therapy have previously reported increased success and independence. However, these results are mainly through anecdotal evidence and small sample sizes. There is a need to determine the effectiveness of alternative therapies on ASD impairments through standardized instruments, in addition to instruments specific to the curriculum being implemented. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the benefits and outcomes of a two-day surf camp curriculum on social competence, social skills, and self-concept changes of campers with ASD.
The sample for this study consisted of 11 campers, 18 parents, and 26 volunteer staff from a combination of two surf camps. Campers took part in a surf camp curriculum entitled "Learning Through Sun Sand and SURF". The curriculum included four components: the surf camp family social, a classroom camper orientation during which campers learned the "SURF Camp Social Skills for Group Activities", the two-day surf camp that consisted of surfing and group activities, and a follow-up surf camp family social.
Data were collected one week prior to surf camp (pre), at the completion of surf camp (post), then again two weeks following surf camp (retention). The study employed a quasi-experimental design using various instruments. These instruments were used to address social competence, social skills, self-concept, parent demographics and perceptions of the surf camp curriculum, and curriculum activity implementation.
Findings from the study indicated that through quantitative analysis in the area of social competence, camper results revealed significance in assertion, responsibility, and engagement. In general, both campers and parents perceived that the curriculum improved the camper's social competence. "Positive interaction" and "positive friendship" were the two major themes in quantitative analysis of social competence. Quantitatively, campers felt they improved in their overall social skills from the first to the last activity at surf camp. Volunteers of the campers; however, did not agree with the overall improvement of social skills from one activity to the next. Rather than seeing an improvement in each activity, social skill usage fluctuated. One explanation for this could be the level of self-awareness of the campers, and their physical and mental states after two days of surfing.
Parents perceptions on the quantitative portion of the questionnaire revealed out of the five activities presented at surf camp, those with significance included the paddle relay and sandcastle activities. Qualitatively, parent perceptions responses indicated: "positive interactions" as the most common theme emerging in the social competence question, "positive interaction" as the social skills question, and "positive confidence" in the self-concept question.
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YOU just maturing youth! You male or female!
Remember the organic compact of These States,
Remember the pledge of the Old Thirteen thenceforward to the rights, life, liberty,
equality of
Remember what was promulged by the founders, ratified by The States, signed in black and
by the Commissioners, and read by Washington at the head of the army,
Remember the purposes of the founders,Remember Washington;
Remember the copious humanity streaming from every direction toward America;
Remember the hospitality that belongs to nations and men; (Cursed be nation, woman, man,
without hospitality!)
Remember, government is to subserve individuals,
Not any, not the President, is to have one jot more than you or me,
Not any habitan of America is to have one jot less than you or me.
Anticipate when the thirty or fifty millions, are to become the hundred, or two hundred
millions, of equal freemen and freewomen, amicably joined.
Recall agesOne age is but a partages are but a part;
Recall the angers, bickerings, delusions, superstitions, of the idea of caste,
Recall the bloody cruelties and crimes.
Anticipate the best women;
I say an unnumbered new race of hardy and well-defined women are to spread through all
I say a girl fit for These States must be free, capable, dauntless, just the same as a
Anticipate your own liferetract with merciless power,
Shirk nothingretract in timeDo you see those errors, diseases, weaknesses,
Do you see that lost character?Do you see decay, consumption, rum-drinking, dropsy,
fever, mortal cancer or inflammation?
Do you see death, and the approach of death?
Poet: Walt Whitman
Poem: 25.
Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy.
Volume: Leaves of Grass
- 22. Gathered Leaves
Year: Published/Written in 1900
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A family of five was rescued from the Great Salt Lake after their boat started taking on water.
The family ran aground on the west side of Antelope Island around noon Saturday, said Dave Shearer, harbor master for the Great Salt Lake State Marina. Their rudder broke and the boat started taking on water, Shearer said.
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Volume 3895 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 88-110
Fair Bandwidth Allocation Without Per-Flow State
- Richard M. KarpAffiliated withInternational Computer Science Institute and University of California at Berkeley
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A fundamental goal of Internet congestion control is to allocate limited bandwidth fairly to competing flows. Such flow control involves an interplay between the behavior of routers and the behavior of end hosts. Routers must decide which packets to drop when their output links become congested. End hosts must decide how to moderate their packet transmissions in response to feedback in the form of acknowledgements of packet delivery (acks). Typically this is done according to the TCP protocol, in which a host maintains a window (the number of packets that have been sent but not yet acknowledged) that is increased when an ack is received and decreased when a drop is detected.
Often the selection of packets to be dropped at a router depends on the order of their arrivals at the router but not on the flows to which the packets belong. An exception occurs when packets are stratified according to their quality of service guarantee; in this case packets at higher strata are given priority, but within a stratum the packets from different flows receive the same treatment. A number of methods have been proposed to ensure fairness by selectively dropping packets from flows that are receiving more than their fair share of bandwidth. The most effective known algorithms for detecting and selectively dropping high-rate flows at a router are based on random hashing or random sampling of packets and give only probabilistic guarantees. The known deterministic algorithms either require excessive storage, require packets to carry accurate estimates of the rates of their flows, assume some special properties of the stream of arriving packets, or fail to guarantee fairness. In a simplified theoretical setting we show that the detection and selective dropping of high-rate flows can be accomplished deterministically without any of these defects. This result belies the conventional wisdom that per-flow state is required to guarantee fairness.
Given an arriving stream of packets, each labeled with the name of its flow, our algorithm drops packets selectively upon arrival so as to guarantee that, in every consecutive subsequence of the stream of surviving packets, no flow has significantly more than its fair share of the packets. The main results of the paper are tight bounds on the worst-case storage requirement of this algorithm. The bounds demonstrate that the storage and computation required to guarantee fairness are easily within the capabilites of conventional routers.
It is important to acknowedge the limitations of this work. We have formulated the achievement of fairness at a router in terms of local information on the stream of arriving packets at that router. The implications of such a locally optimal policy on the global stability of the Internet would require analyzing the Internet as a complex dynamical system involving interactions among routers and end hosts, of which some will be TCP-compliant and some will not. In work not reported here we have made an initial simulation study of this complex process, but such a study is outside the scope of the present paper.
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I just inherited a Winchester Model-12
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that I want to restore to a reliable skeet/trap/bird gun for a young man. It has a bad stock and needs some metal refinishing, so there's no question of keeping it original. I want to get rid of the polychoke.
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At 6-foot-4 with elite floor vision, Lyle is one of the top playmakers in the class of 2014. His impressive junior season finished up on Saturday afternoon and after talking things over with his coaches and his family he has decided to cut his list down to six schools.
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The decision to cut down his list was a hard one for Lyle, and now the intention is for the No. 12 prospect in the country to visit all of his finalists before he comes to a decision.
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Tough Abortion Measures Pass Texas House--At 3 AM!
At 3 this morning, and following 15 hours of emotional and noisy debate, the Texas House voted 97 to 33 to approve a series of bills which will vastly restrict access to abortion in the state, 1200 WOAI news reports.
Hundreds of pro choice activists, many bussed in by Democratic and progressive groups, stormed the State Capitol in an attempt to stage what has been called a 'people's filibuster.' They hope to delay final consideration of the bill long enough that the Special Session will adjourn before it can be completed.
State Rep Jessica Farrar (D-Houston), one of the leaders of the Pro Choice Caucus, told chanting opponents of the abortion measures that they made a difference, and urged them to continue their fight.
"So bought us 12 more hours in a very limited time," she said. "Stay tuned, this is going to go to the Senate, and who knows what is going to happen over there, but this is not over."
The abortion bills would require that all abortion clinics be staffed by a physician who has admitting authority at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic, requires that abortion clinics be classified as mobile surgical centers and, unlike the Senate version, includes a provision limiting abortions to earlier than 20 weeks gestation, on the argument that after that point the fetus can feel pain in the womb.
Opponents say the restrictions, which would be among the toughest in the nation, woudl result in the permanent cllosing of 37 of the state's 42 abortion clinics.
"On a day in which hundreds and hundreds of citizens converged on the Capitol from across the state and remained in the House gallery well into the late house of the night, it is disappointing that the Republican majority would make a motion to cut off discussion on a bill that would have such far reaching implications," said State Rep. Donna Howard (D- Austin), who is also a leader of the Pro Choice Caucus.
The measure still has to face another final vote in the House today, and then it must go to the Senate, which approved it without the so called 'fetal pain provision.'
The Special Session ends at midnight Tuesday, and if it has not passed both chambers by then, the bill will be dead. Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst says if that happens, Gov. Rick Perry will call a second Special Session to begin immediately, but all bills would have to be reintroduced.
The debate over abortion has overshadowed the key reason why this Special Session was called. Lawmakers have still not approved a measure to fund transportation projects for the coming two years.


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Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York's cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor.
The full range of Wasserstein's mid-life obsessions are covered in this eclectic collection: everything from Chekhov, politics, and celebrity, to family, fashion, and real estate. Whether fretting over her figure, discovering her gentile roots, proclaiming her love for ordered-in breakfasts, lobbying for affordable theater, or writing tenderly about her very Jewish mother and her own daughter, born when she was forty-eight and single, Wasserstein reveals the full, dizzying life of a shiksa goddess with unabashed candor and inimitable style.
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Wendy Wasserstein is the author of the the plays Uncommon Women and Others, Isn t It Romantic, The Sisters Rosensweig, An American Daughter, and The Heidi Chronicles, for which she received a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and of the books, Bachelor Girls and Shiksa Goddess. She was admired both for the warmth and the satirical cool of her writing; each of her plays and books captures an essence of the time, makes us laugh and leaves us wiser. Wendy Wasserstein was born in 1950 in Brooklyn and died at the age of 55. Her daughter, Lucy Jane, lives in New York."
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Senior and eight-time All-American Angela Bizzarri was named the winner of the 2010 Honda Sports Award in cross country, the Collegiate Women Sports Awards announced Wednesday. Bizzarri beat out Florida State senior Susan Kuijken, Washington sophomore Kendra Schaaf, and Virginia junior Catherine White in a national ballot among 1,000 NCAA member schools to capture the honor of the nation's top collegiate female athlete in cross country. Along with this award, the senior is now automatically nominated for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year.
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Melanoma is a cancer that usually occurs on the skin. It develops from the cells that produce the dark-colored pigment melanin, which is responsible for our skin's coloring.
These cells, called melanocytes, are also found in other places in our bodies, such as our hair, the lining of our internal organs, and our eyes. So while most melanomas do begin to grow in the skin, it is possible for a melanoma to begin in other parts, including the eye. When melanoma does occur in the eye it is called ocular melanoma.
Ocular melanoma is often lethal , but thankfully very rare disease. Many people die from it, especially when it spreads to the liver, a common complication. There are other types of eye cancers, but melanoma is the most common. Choroidal melanomas are the most common site comprising 85% of cases. Other sites include: ciliary body, iris, and conjunctiva
Current research is also showing that ocular melanoma is very different from normal skin melanoma.
Around 2,500 people are diagnosed every year in the United States. In both the U.S. and Europe, this equates to about 5 - 7.5 per million people per year; for people over 50 years old the incidence rate is increased to around 21 per million per year.
A tumor is simply a mass or tissue swelling. The term applies to benign (noncancerous) tumors, such as a mole on the skin, as well as malignant tumors, also called cancers, that occur when cells grow abnormally and possibly spread to other parts of the body.
A benign tumor does not have the ability to invade or spread to other organs. Benign tumors are not cancers.
A malignant tumor, however, does have the ability to invade and spread to other organs. A malignant tumor is a "cancer
Choroidal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular (occurring inside the eye) tumor in adults. It arises from the pigmented cells of the choroid of the eye and is not a tumor that started somewhere else and spread to the eye.
A choroidal melanoma is malignant. It is a cancer that may metastasize and spread to other parts of the body. Because choroidal melanoma is intraocular and not usually visible, patients with this disease often do not recognize its presence until the tumor grows to a size that impairs vision by obstruction, retinal detachment, hemorrhage, or other complication. Pain is unusual, except with large tumors.
Periodic retinal examination is the best means of early detection. Few people realize that your eye doctor can save your life by detecting this problem in its early stages.
The treatment for intraocular melanoma depends on the size and location of the tumor, whether the cancer has spread, and the person's overall health. The main reasons for treating intraocular melanoma are to reduce the risk of the tumor spreading and maintain the health and vision of the eye, if possible. In many cases, a team of doctors may work with the patient to determine the best treatment plan.
This approach may be used to manage small or slow-growing tumors, or for people without any symptoms, older or seriously ill people, or people with a tumor in their only useful eye. If the tumor grows bigger than 10 mm in diameter or 2 mm to 3 mm in height (thickness), then the doctor and the patient may decide to proceed with treatment.
Surgery to the eye is quite common in the treatment of intraocular melanoma. During surgery, the ophthalmologist will remove parts of the affected eye or even the entire eye, depending on the size and spread of the tumor.
Surgery is also used to place the radioactive plaque for internal radiation therapy (brachytherapy). (More information about radiation therapy is below.)The potential side effects of eye surgery are similar to that of any surgery, including a risk of infection, problems from the anesthesia (the medication that puts you "to sleep" during surgery), and pain. With total removal of the eye, there is a slight risk that the tumor could come back around the edges of the eye area.
Sometimes the only choice a doctor has in treating intraocular melanoma is to remove the eye. This means that the person will lose all of their vision in that eye. Because of this vision loss, a person with one eye may have trouble with depth perception and may not be able to see as well when looking straight ahead. Most people adjust to these differences within a year after having the surgery.Many people worry about what they will look like when they have an eye removed. The cosmetic surgery available today usually yields good cosmetic results. To fill the area left by the missing eye, the person is fitted for an artificial plastic eye (prosthesis). The prosthesis will look and behave almost the same as a natural eye. For example, the plastic eye will move along with the person's remaining eye, just not as much as a natural eye moves. Family members may be able to tell that the eye is not real, but it is unlikely that strangers will know. It may take many weeks for patients to receive the prosthesis.
Radiation therapy uses radiation to kill or damage cancer cells. There are different types of radiotherapy.
Radiation therapy can result in a variety of side effects, so it is important to talk to your ophthalmologist about what to expect. The extent of side effects depends on the type and dose of radiation the patient receives, where the tumor is located, and the patient's general health. The side effects may not show up right away.
These side effects are much less common and can cause a loss of vision.
If there is significant damage to the eye from radiation, the eye may need to be removed.
This procedure uses heat in the form of a laser to shrink smaller tumors. It may also be called thermotherapy or transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT). This treatment potentially has fewer side effects than surgery or radiation.
Doctors are always looking for better ways to treat patients with eye cancer. A clinical trial is a way to test a new treatment in order to prove that it is safe, effective, and possibly better than a standard treatment. Patients who participate in clinical trials are among the first to receive new treatments before they are widely available. However, there is no guarantee that the new treatment will be safe, effective, or better than a standard treatment. Patients decide to participate in clinical trials for many reasons. For some patients, a clinical trial is the best treatment option available. Because standard treatments are not perfect, patients are often willing to face the added uncertainty of a clinical trial in the hope of a better result. Other patients volunteer for clinical trials because they know that this is the only way to make progress in treating eye cancer, such as finding new therapies. Even if they do not benefit directly from the clinical trial, their participation may benefit future eye cancer patients.In order to join a clinical trial, patients must complete a learning process known as informed consent. During informed consent, the doctor should list all of the patient's options, so that the person understands the standard treatments, and how the new treatment differs from the standard treatment. The doctor must also list all of the risks of the new treatment, which may or may not be different than the risks of standard treatment. Finally, the doctor must explain what will be required of each patient in order to participate in the clinical trial, including the number of doctor visits, tests, and the schedule of treatment.
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Cast announced for TUF: Australia vs. UK
FX and the Ultimate Fighting Championship® organisation today unveiled the identities of the sixteen Australian and British mixed martial artists set to represent their nations in The Ultimate Fighter: Australia vs UK – The Smashes™.
The Ultimate Fighter (TUF™) finalists are among the top fighters in both nations' lightweight and welterweight divisions, with the Australian team comprised of representatives from NSW, QLD and WA, while the UK team features fighters from all over England as well as Northern Ireland.
"These guys have definitely made the second international TUF show 'can't miss' TV," said UFC President Dana White. "Going into this thing, I had no idea just how much the Aussies and the Brits can't stand losing to each other. Now I know."
Premiering Wednesdays at 7:30pm AEST on FX in Australia from September 19, the 13-episode, Australian-produced series follows the selected fighters as they live together in The Ultimate Fighter® house, training and competing against eachother for a prized contract with the UFC®, culminating with a live three-hour finale in December.
Guided by Australian coach George Sotiropoulos, Team Australia comprises of:
Grant Blackler, 23, Sunshine Coast
Patrick Iodice, 19, GoldCoast
Richie Vaculik, 29, Sydney
Ben Wall, 23, Brisbane
Ben Alloway, 31, GoldCoast
Xavier Lucas, 31, Perth
Manuel Rodriguez, 27, Sydney
Robert Whitaker, 21, Sydney
English coach Ross "The Real Deal" Pearson takes charge of Team UK:
Colin Fletcher, 29, Sunderland
Norman Parke, 25, Bushmills, Nth Ireland Michael Pastou, 30, Essex
Mike Wilkinson, 24, Leigh
Luke Newman, 22, London
Bola Omoyele, 30, London
Valentino Petrescu, 30, Essex
Brad Scott, 23, Melksham
The two lightweight coaches – both alumni of The Ultimate Fighter television series in the Unites States – will also go head-to-head in the Octagon® at the live finale.
Of mentoring his charges, Australian coach George Sotiropoulos said: "It's a really diverse group of guys on the team, but the thing that's uniting them is that everyone's motivated and focused. There's a lot of personal and national pride at stake but they're going into the competition with a positive attitude and are really pulling together as a team. I'm very impressed by their maturity."
British coach Ross Pearson is confident about Team UK's chances: "Having been where they are, I know exactly what the guys are facing. They're taking it all in their stride and, despite being so far from home, they're eager to prove themselves, so morale is high. They each bring unique strengths to the team so the sparks are really going to fly when they meet the Aussies in the Octagon."
This is only the second time in TUF's seven-year history that teams will represent their country of origin, the first taking place in 2009 when Team USA took on Team UK.
Viewers outside of Australia will be able to tune-in and watch the series on TUF.tv.
Join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag: #TUFSmashes #TeamAUS #TeamUK
About The Ultimate Fighter®
Now in its 16th season in the US, and second international edition, The Ultimate Fighter®, an integral property of the Ultimate Fighting Championship®, remainsthe longest running cable 'non-scripted sports competition' series on TV, drawing millions of viewers on a weekly basis.
The show stars undiscovered professional MMA fighters living together in The Ultimate Fighter house, and follows them as they train and compete against each other for a prized contract with the UFC®. Many current and past UFC fighters are alumni of the show, with some competitors going on to become coaches in future seasons.
About FX
FX is a new entertainment channel that launched exclusively on FOXTEL in 2012. Featuring quality, character-driven and often unconventional stories, FX's contemporary and sharp style resonates particularly with the male audience. FX is FOX International Channels' first entertainment channel to launch in Australia. Beyond these shores, international versions of the channel reach 47 countries including the US and UK. For more information visit www.fxtv.com.au, follow @fxtvau on Twitter or watch channel 123 on FOXTEL.
About Ultimate Fighting Championship®
Universally recognized for its action-packed, can't-miss events that have sold out some of the biggest arenas and stadiums across the globe, the UFC® is the world's premier mixed martial arts organization. Owned and operated by Zuffa, LLC, headquartered in Las Vegas and with offices in London, Toronto and Beijing, UFC produces more than 30 live events annually and is the largest Pay-Per-View event provider in the world.
UFC programming is broadcast in over 149 countries and territories, to nearly one billion homes worldwide, in 20 different languages. The UFC also connects with tens of millions of fans through its website, UFC.com, as well as social media sites Facebook and Twitter. UFC President Dana White is considered one of the most accessible and followed executives in sports, with over two million followers on Twitter. Ancillary UFC businesses include best-selling DVDs, an internationally distributed magazine, UFC.TV offering live event broadcasts and video on demand around the world, the best-selling UFC Undisputed® video game franchise distributed by THQ, and a new franchise indevelopment with EA, UFC GYM®, UFC Fight Club affinity program, UFC Fan Expo® festivals, branded apparel and trading cards.
For more information or Australian UFC fight news visit au.ufc.com or follow @UFC_Australia on Twitter and to catch up on British UFC fight news visit uk.ufc.com or follow @UFC_UK on Twitter.
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Information on Harmonic Damper -Crankshaft Pulley
I recently ordered a harmonic Damper / Crankshaft Pulley and found a few interesting things that I want to share between OE (genuine BMW), OEM and an aftermaket dampers.
OE (Original BMW)
key points:
It has the drill balancing pits on the top of the pulley (three dots)
It has a few markings on the cast metal such as "MO XX" (XX=some number) and a few other marks that were stamped into the metal. Lets just call this marking the "stamps" for the duration of this thread.
On the rubber piece, damper material has the BMW part number and a few specification such as:
275-305Hz this is the frequency that the damper is design to dampen harmonics)
BMW 1123-7513862 (this is the BMW part number)
WPM and a few other digits (don't know what this mean)
Shot at 2012-07-30
Alright...lets move on to OEM (Corteco)
Corteco is the Original Equipment Supplier that makes the BMW Dampers.
On the Corteco there are the same markings found on the orginal factor/OE damper. The only two difference are:
1) there is a Corteco logo printed on the cast metal
2) the rubber damper material had the BMW part number scratched off
However...when you turn the damper around you can see the same exact marking as the Original BMW. Again, this is no surprise because Corteco makes the harmonic damper for BMW.
In this picture you can see the "MO XX" marking and the stamp marking and of course the red corteco logo.
The OEM damper has the same alignment/balancing pits on top of the pulley. the number of pits would depend how unblance the pulley came off the assembly line. the pits just makes the pulley spin in a perfect/balance circle (just like balancing a wheel)
In this picture you can see the BMW part number being scratched off from the rubber damping material
Shot at 2012-07-30
FEBI (aftermarket)
Febi is an extremely high quality/reputable aftermarket brand. Pelican Parts and other online part store stock Febi and highly recommend them.
The only differences between the Febi vs OE/OEM are:
1)balancing pits is on the side of the pulley and not on the top
2)no marking on the rubber dampening material
this picture shows the same "MO XX" marking as the OE and OEM and also the stamp marking. you can also see the balancing pits on the side and the lack of any markings on the rubber dampening material.
just like the Corteco damper, when you flipped the harmonic damper around you will see the same marking as the OE one such as the operating frequency (275-305Hz, the BMW Part Number and the WPM/other marking)
so what does this all mean?
1) I am no expert but I am guessing Febi either distribute the Corteco Harmonic Damper and brand/claim it as their own or Febi uses the same components as Corteco to make their damper.
2) You can save your money and go with the Corteco ($277) or Febi ($175). The cheapest OE/Geniune BMW Harmonic Damper can be found at $410. They usually go up to $600 at the dealership.
I hope this helps. If anyone wants to photoshop my pictures to highlight the differences/similarities then feel free.
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Slavery is often described as something that occurred in the past, but during the past decades thousands of poor Asian immigrants have obtained jobs as maids and servants under conditions that virtually reduce their lives to that of slaves. A Malaysian court sentenced a m an to death for murdering his Indonesian maid in a landmark verdict which, hopefully, will send shock waves to those who daily abuse their servants. Muntik Bani was killed last October by her employer, A. Murugan, who best, starved and locked the woman in a bathroom. He supposedly became angry because she was "slow"in carrying out his wishes, and where he comes from that means as the employer I have the right to beat the hell out of someone who works for me. Ironically, Bani's death came several months after Indonesia ceased allowing maids to go to Malaysia due to constant reports of abuse.
But, Malaysia is only one country, similar abuse is rampant in Arab nations throughout the Middle East. It is time for a United Nations investigation that will make public how those with wealth abuse those without.


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Submitted to: Journal of Animal Science
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/23/1994
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Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Today's consumers are demanding leaner meat products because of perceptions that fat consumption leads to health problems. The type of finishing (feed) system used for ruminant animals has been shown to affect the time required for finishing the animal as well as the efficiency of feed utilization by the animal. This study evaluated grain versus pasture-finishing systems on carcass composition and growth efficiency. Finishing lambs on forages leads to leaner carcasses. The increases in carcass leanness with forage finishing were not due to increased lean accretion but rather due to decreased fat production. One of the biggest benefits to forage-based finishing systems for ruminants may be the improved efficiency of production and reduced waste for end product processing.
Technical Abstract: The effects of finishing system on performance and carcass composition were determined in an experiment utilizing 40 crossbred, early weaned lambs (28 kg BW). Finishing systems were 1) grazed alfalfa, 2) 100 percent concentrate diet fed in drylot, and 3) grazed ryegrass for 42 d followed by an all concentrate diet fed in drylot. All lambs were fed to similar final weights (48 kg). Average daily gain was greatest for lambs placed directly in the feedlot compared with the other two finishing systems. Differences in ADG led to an increase of 33 and 50 d on feed for the lambs finished with alfalfa and those initially grazing ryegrass, respectively, compared with placement directly in the feedlot. Although all lambs were fed to a similar final weight, carcass side weight was approximately 1 kg less for alfalfa-finished lambs compared with the other two finishing systems. The quantity of separable lean tissue and bone were not affected by finishing system. However, quantity of total fat and each of the three major fat depot sites (subcutaneous, seam and mesenteric) were reduced in alfalfa-finished lambs compared with finishing systems involving concentrate feeding at some time during the finishing system. Composition of individual primal cuts revealed reductions in total separable fat with alfalfa finishing compared with the other two systems. However, chemical composition of the lean tissue within the primal cuts was not affected by finishing system, with the exception of the loin and breast. Finishing systems based on grazed forage can lead to the production of leaner carcasses but consumers may not see a major difference in the composition of consumable product.


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The jury commended this dormitory building for its "beautiful integration into the hillside and rugged terrain." Steve DeRochi was thrilled to hear the comment, because he eschewed the path of least resistance on this project: the flat, easily buildable area close to a busy highway. Instead, the eight-story structure cuts into a narrow incline that descends to protected wetlands below. "It would have been easier to put the building on top of the hill," says DeRochi, "but it meant making half the rooms look out over the highway and making the kids walk up a pretty steep hill to get there."
Now all rooms have bucolic views of wetlands or the campus and the valley beyond. Switching the axis also solved ADA issues because lower levels are accessible at grade. In addition, heating and cooling costs are reduced thanks to the sun-gathering north-south orientation, which helps combat cold Jersey winters. And, in another move praised by the judges, student lounges are stacked along the west facade to face a large, contemplative pond.
principal in charge: Steven DeRochi, Paulus Sokolowski & Sartor
project designer: Frank E. Sabouri, Paulus Sokolowski & Sartor
project manager: Jack Fitzpatrick, Paulus Sokolowski & Sartor
general contractor: Century 21 Construction, Clinton, N.J.
landscape architect: Claudia Murkowski, Paulus Sokolowski & Sartor
interior designer: Kathy Goldman, Paulus Sokolowski & Sartor
project size: 99,000 square feet; site size: 5 acres
construction cost: $200 per square foot
rental price: $1000 per year per bed
units in project: 72 suites, 295 beds
photographer: Bill Taylor


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FedEx owns 700 planes and tens of thousands of trucks, which is why CEO Fred Smith is crazy for energy efficiency.
You know brominated and chlorinated flame retardants are bad when when even Walmart bans them from its products. Unfortunately, some fire codes require them.
The only thing better than a Velomobile is an electric Velomobile, which is the exact same thing, but with the addition of a kit to electrify the bike.
Loren Amelang is a pioneer in C++ programming, and his homebrewed live/work space is a monument to sustainable geekery.
The sheer number of vehicles being added in Asia means a whole new level of competition for oil. It's a competition that Asia will almost surely win, and will probably do more to drive the adoption of electric cars in …
See also: Solar-powered tanning salon.
Every year fossil fuels get six times as much money in subsidies from the U.S. government — i.e. you, the taxpayer — than renewable energy.
NASA released satellite images showing that the Saudis are irrigating the desert in order to grow food — with fossil water that accumulated during the last Ice Age and will be gone completely in 50 years.
The president whose State Department thanked Exxon executives for their "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy is watching the town in which he grew up squirm in the grip of Texas' epic, climate change-enhanced drought.


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Osamu Sato-Chris John Reunion in Tokyo
By Jeff Panungkas
Former WBA featherweight Chris John met his former foe, Osamu Sato, the former WBA super featherweight at Suidobashi Gloves Boxing Bar, Tokyo, June 22, celebrating the 10th anniversary of their stunning match at Ariake Colosseum, Tokyo, June 4, 2004. At that time John defeated the handsome champion Sato, who is now a popular TV star in Japan. Chris John himself is now also a TV commercial star and a business man in Indonesia during his retirement from the square ring following to his loss from South Africa's Simpewe Vetyeka on December 2013.
Another of John's former foes, Shoji Kimura, also attended the reunion. John defeated Kimura by unanimous decision in 2012 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore retaining his WBA featherweight belt. Respected boxing writer Makoto Okaniwa initiated and hosted this happy reunion which was also attended by several former champions from Japan, boxing writers and more than 30 hard core boxing fans in Tokyo. Chris John came to Tokyo with his wife and 2 daughters.


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(Science Daily) Insulin resistance in the brain precedes and contributes to cognitive decline above and beyond other known causes of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study… The team identified extensive abnormalities in the activity of two major signaling pathways for insulin and insulin-like growth factor in non-diabetic people with Alzheimer's disease. These pathways could be targeted with new or existing medicines to potentially help resensitize the brain to insulin and possibly slow down or even improve cognitive decline…
The risk of developing Alzheimer's disease is increased by 50 percent in people with diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is due to insulin resistance and accounts for 90 percent of all diabetes. The defining clinical feature of Type 2 diabetes (and Type 1 "juvenile" diabetes) is hyperglycemia -- high levels of sugar in the blood -- but there is no evidence that the brain in Alzheimer's is hyperglycemic. Insulin acts differently in the brain than in the rest of the body. Researchers found that insulin resistance of the brain occurs in Alzheimer's disease independent of whether someone has diabetes, by excluding people with a history of diabetes from this study.
Community: There are a number of practical things we can do to reduce insulin resistance.
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Who would ever think Antarctica would look as good—and even as a backdrop. Well, you can credit that to the beautiful and curvaceous Kate Upton, who has landed her second consecutive Sports Illustrated cover for 2013 (the mag's 50th anniversary issue), beating out Derek Jeter's 22 year old girlfriend, Hannah Davis, who'd been in the front running as being this year's selector for the cover. Upton, now 20 years old, becomes the first model since Elle Macpherson to grab the coveted honor two years in a row, with the latter receiving cover placement from 1986-88.
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Employment fell in Cambodia's garment sector despite a 7.2 percent increase in exports in 2016, the study found.
The incident occurred at Europe's largest indoor arena on Monday night.
During his two-day visit to the Italian capital, the U.S. president, along with his wife and daughter, will meet with Pope Francis.
The industry has been boosted by the weak peso.
The associations told newly minted trade representative Robert Lighthizer to keep NAFTA intact ahead of expected renegotiations.
During a closed meeting with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, industry leaders discussed support for tax reform and their continued resistance to a proposed BAT tax.
Retailers and brands are beginning to use the teachings from the Accord and Alliance in Bangladesh in their worldwide supply chains.
The Japanese Prime Minister spoke about his Women-omics policy in Tokyo. One Japanese female entrepreneur attests to its success.
The former president of the U.S. is working on his third book and on training the next generation of activists.
Fake products were labeled as Pantene, Head & Shoulders and Schwarzkopf.
The former President of the United States will also receive the keys of the city from Milan's mayor Giuseppe Sala.
The center-left politician garnered 65.8 percent of the votes, defeating opponent Marine Le Pen.
A U.N. study forecasts continued strong economic growth in the three countries over the next few years.
The Italian tax authority investigated the web company from 2002 to 2015.
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For a budget printer, the Canon i450 is a substantial machine, not least because of its height. Standing over 200mm off the desk, the rear paper tray makes it even taller when filled with up to 100 sheets of A4 paper. Paper feeds through the printer to a telescopic paper tray at the front, though both trays can be folded out of the way when you're not printing.
There are only two controls on the printer itself: a power button and one for paper feed. Between these a single green LED shows when the printer is on and, by flashing, when it's receiving data. Power comes from a single mains cable and thankfully doesn't require a separate power brick. Two more sockets, one at the back and one at the side, take a USB cable (not supplied) for connection to a PC and a proprietary lead for a Canon digital still or video camera.
Cameras that can print directly to the i450 have to be Bubble Jet Direct compliant, which restricts the feature to recent Canon devices. However, the printers that accept memory cards are compatible with virtually any camera you choose.
The i450 uses a replaceable head with two separate ink tanks, one black and the other three-colour. The front and top panel of the printer hinges down so you can fit head and ink tanks making the machine is easy to set up. That said, print head alignment is a manual process, where you have to select the best examples from a series of calibration prints.
The software is easy to install and consists of a comprehensive printer driver and two small applications called Easy-PhotoPrint and Easy-WebPrint. The printer driver includes features like watermark, stamps and multi-page per sheet and even offers advice on the correct settings for particular types of print. The maintenance tab within the driver offers a wide range of options, including those to set the low-ink warning level and reset the print counter.
Easy-PhotoPrint enables you to select images to print, choose the media and quality of that print and pick a layout to make best use of your paper. One interesting option here is to select borderless prints up to A4, so you can easily produce output that looks like the photos you'd get back from a same-day bureau. Easy-WebPrint adds an extra toolbar to Internet Explorer 5 and above, enabling quick and correctly formatted prints of any Web page.
This printer undergoes more cleaning cycles than some of its predecessors, perhaps because of its separate head and ink tank design. In this type of system, as with Epson's piezo-electric technology, it's important to keep the ink tubes free of any air bubbles.
Cleaning cycles take time, particularly if they occur while printing and must be allowed for by the manufacturer when assessing the ink usage of the machine – extra ink should be allowed for wastage during each cleaning cycle.
Print quality from the samples we produced was good for a printer in this sub-£100 category. Black text print was clean and sharp and to the untrained eye could be mistaken for laser print. Under a magnifying glass, there was some ink-spread into the fibres of the paper but this was kept to a minimum.
The mixed text and graphics print sample showed visible dot patterns in several areas of solid colour and the shadow of the heading banner was mis-coloured – a driver fault. There was no noticeable banding in this test sample, nor in the top quality photo print, where the hard-to-reproduce graduation in the sky colour was handled well and fine detail in the various shades of green and yellow of the foreground trees was of a high-quality.
There are two top-quality settings available on this printer. The first is to set best quality print in the driver, while the second is to use Canon's print Wizard and tell it you want a high-quality photo print. The two sets of settings are different, with the manual best quality print taking around 45 seconds longer than that from the Wizard. We used the Wizard setting in our timing results, as it was hard to see any difference between the two resulting prints.
We ran usage tests on both mono and colour prints and produced 161 5% cover black pages and 147 20% colour pages before receiving warnings that printing any more could result in damage to the print heads. Although, at that stage, there was no noticeable drop off in the print outs, we stopped printing, reasoning that most people wouldn't ignore a message of that type.
Using our test figures and typical street prices for ink cartridges and paper, we arrived at a cost of 4.3p for a 5% colour page and 40.5p for an 20% colour page on glossy photo paper. These were the lowest costs among the sub-£100 printers, by a substantial margin.


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hello everybody, i dont mean to yell at u guys for criticizing Rappelz, but please take time and think about it.
- Rappelz is so far the best 3D Free onrpg game so far i've seen, what else do u expect from a free game? if u dont like it, go play a p2p game
- The graphic is amazing comparing to those of Last Chaos, i dont even what the hell is that game, and just look at how worse the graphic of last chaos, u know who u are for comparing Last Chaos to Rappelz
- Rappelz Epic 4 is coming out most likely next week, they will add a complete list of skills for every character as well as fixing some of the lag and more quests, also a 2nd Job transfer, check the website, but it's down now for maintenance
- dont even compare silkroad to Rappelz please
- the gameplay of Rappelz is comparable to other 3D Free onrp game
- just to point out one thing, the graphic is better than WOW, yes better, set it to Max mode if ur computer can handle it
- referring to the person who's lvl 16 with a Strider, u r lvl 16, u just come out of the trainee island not long ago, what do u expect with the skills, if you want more skills and better looking animation, go for Caster!
- again to mention, it's a FREE game