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Lane Motor Museum is located in the former Sunbeam Bakery. The building, circa 1950, has high ceilings, natural light, and hand-crafted brick and maple wood flooring. The main floor has open space, where the collection of over 150 vehicles resides. The Museum is the perfect setting for your corporate or special occasion and can host up to 350 for a seated dinner and more for an event that requires less space on the museum floor (though additional parking services may be needed for larger groups that are not brought to the museum by bus).
A private, evening rental of the museum starts at $3,500 (daytime hours are sometimes available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays when the museum is closed to the public). We offer a 10% discount for 501(c)3 non-profit organizations. More information about what this price includes is listed below the photos. In addition, we ask for a $500 security deposit. The security deposit will be fully refunded within two weeks after your event if the museum is cleaned properly following the event and there is no damage to the cars or the facility.
Small events for groups of approximately 60 or less can be accommodated for a smaller fee by using our meeting room during normal museum operating hours. The meeting room is not available alone after hours.
- Private, after-hours rental of the museum for you and your guests from approximately 5:30pm-11:00 pm (with clean-up completed by midnight). (Daytime hours are sometimes available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays when we are closed). This includes the ability to hold your event on the main floor of the museum, surrounded by cars. We will work with you to customize a plan for your event.
- If needed, some set-up for the event may begin during business hours and will be determined on a case-by-case basis depending on the start time of the event and how extensive the event set-up is. (*Because the museum closes at 5 pm, we suggest that no event starts earlier than 5:30 pm to allow time to clear museum visitors from the exhibit area.)
- Free use of the meeting room/food prep area before and during your event start time.
- Use of Twelve 6' rectangular plastic folding tables. (We do not have linen tablecloths, however.)
- Use of 60 metal, folding chairs.
- Use of our podium with a built-in microphone/pa. Please note, if you need to project across a large area you may need to rent additional speakers to amplify the sound. We do not have additional a/v equipment but can refer you to local vendors for rental needs.
- Free parking for your guests. The museum has approximately 96 lined parking spaces available as follows: 17 spots, including 2 disabled, are in the front of the building split between the side and front parking areas; the remaining 79 are located behind the museum. However, we have ample unlined areas behind the building that can be utilized to increase available, on-site parking to approximately 200 vehicles with the use of directed parking staff and approximately 250 with valet parking.
- A museum staff person will be at the building during your event to assist as needed.
A few other notes about holding your event with us:
- Set-up and break-down/clean-up of the event is the responsibility of the client/rental company/caterer.
- When contracting rental items you will need to work with your vendor to negotiate a short window of time to deliver and set up tables/chairs for your event. Depending on the size of your set up we generally ask that rental items are not delivered earlier than 2 pm. They can then be picked up at the end of the event or the following morning. If they will be picked up the following morning they must come to pick up between 9:45-10:30 am to avoid as much disruption as possible with museum visitors. If they can not be picked up by the next morning then you will be responsible for removing the items from the museum floor at the end of the event. (They may be required to come earlier or later if your set up includes staging since this is often very loud to assemble)
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- You may have a DJ or band at your event. We will need to know what their set-up needs are. We do not have staging available.
- If there will be dancing, you may need to rent a dance floor. Many of our floors are original to the building and can be badly scratched and damaged from dancing.
- We ask that the client or the caterer provide a Certificate of Insurance for 1,000,000 in coverage, with Lane Motor Museum as an additional insured, for the date of the event.

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http://www.philthompson.net/pages/library/riveroffire.htmlHeresy, or no? If so, what is the correct position?
In the afterlife, there is no 'river of fire'.
Experiencing God's presence and His in-filling transforming Energies in glory or in torment, as Paradise or as Punishment, is the heaven and hell of the Bible. Not something God did to us, but rather something we did to ourselves. God unconditionally pours out His love on all, WHETHER WE WANT IT OR NOT, whether we are ready for it or not, when we enter the afterlife.
That is the River of Fire....
How in Mor's good nameone hundred fifty four postsNo Rachel Weisz picSelam
It is my personal opinion that the article as a whole is doctrinally unsound. In fact, I have read 3 works from the hand of Kalomiros, all of which are respected and popular amongst Orthodox Christians to one degree or another, and all three of which I believe to be (theologically) shaky on at least some points. His works provide great chances to say to yourself, "Wow, we Orthodox are so cool. We're so different than those wrong-headed westerners (whether Catholics, Protestant fundamentalists, or others)".He certainly writes about things in such a way that Orthodox Christians (including some very intelligent ones) find his thoughts very attractive (the same might also be said of certain Russian theologians of the last century). However, eloquence or popularity, or even the ability of an idea to be engaging, does not make an article or belief true.
Vladimir Moss wrote a general refutation of the general theme of the "river of fire" article which can be read at the following link:http://www.romanitas.ru/eng/The%20Mystery%20of%20Redemption.htm+irini nem makarismos
On icons of the Last Judgement, Christ is seated on His throne, surrounded by a brilliant light (His energies?). As you move down the icon, the light turns into a stream (?blue) and lower down into a red river of fire, where the sinners burn with the demons.
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(Photo from September 8, 2011 Cocktails in The Gardens)
Our final Cocktails in The Gardens of the 2011 season will take place on Octover 13, 2011.
To view photos from our September Cocktails in The Gardens, "Green & Serene," click here. To check out photos from 2011's first event, click here.
Music will be provided by Birmingham's own Rollin' in the Hay, while Decor by Kirsti will help create an evening themed "A Haunted Affair." The evening's signature drink is the Caramel Apple Martini.
The menu for the final Cocktails in The Gardens of the 2011 season will look something like this, courtesy of Imperial Catering.
VIP Selections:
Prime Rib Cocktail Sandwiches w/ Sauces
Stuffed New Potatoes w/ a Blend of Cheddars
WarmArtichoke Dip w/ Crostini
Assorted Dessert Tray
General Admission Selections:
Chicken Satay with Honey Mango Glaze
Curried Pumpkin Mousse Canapes
Beef Pepper Lollipops
Pimento Cheese Polenta Cakes topped with Braised Short Ribs
Mini Silver Queen Corn Souffle Cups
Baby Caprese Salad canape
Skewered Curry Chicken
Pumpkin Beignets
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When Susanna Hoffs talks about her love of 1960s pop music, you have to wonder what she even remembers about that era. She was barely knee-high when the Mamas and the Papas, Petula Clark, the Beach Boys, and the Velvet Underground — all of whom inspired the melodious spirit of her new solo album, "Someday" — were making their marks.
"I was born in 1959, so at the very beginning of the '60s I was a baby, but by the time the Beatles hit America in 1964, I was about 5," says Hoffs, who plays a rare solo show at the Center for Arts in Natick on Friday. "I was very tuned in, and my mom claims that I was rocking and rolling in my crib — literally. It was on a wooden floor and I would roll this thing as she played music."
Some of Hoffs's earliest musical memories were courtesy of her mother, who was a big Beatles fan and also used to play Dionne Warwick records around the house. It turns out Hoffs shared a love of that music with Vicki and Debbi Peterson, with whom Hoffs formed the Bangles in Los Angeles in the early '80s and went on to a string of hits, including "Walk Like an Egyptian," "Eternal Flame," "In Your Room," and "Manic Monday."
"When the Bangles started, that was the common bond for Vicki, Debbi, and I. They also had Beatles-loving parents who woke them up to watch Ed Sullivan when the Beatles were on the first time," she says. "I was inundated with melodies, and I think that's always informed everything I've tried to do musically. I always want it be heavy on melody."
There's been evidence of that throughout Hoffs's career, both with the Bangles and on her own. The Bangles revamped Simon & Garfunkel's "A Hazy Shade of Winter," and Hoffs has often covered tunes she grew up loving, including Lulu's "To Sir With Love" and a particularly gorgeous rendition of the Velvet Underground's "I'll Be Your Mirror."
"In the early '80s, when the Bangles were first starting out, I worked in this ceramics factory that my aunt and uncle ran," Hoffs says. "I was stuck alone in this room with no windows, and all I had was the oldies station on the radio. That's when I heard Simon & Garfunkel's version of 'A Hazy Shade of Winter.' I thought, I'm going to rehearsal tonight. This is a perfect song for the Bangles!"
"Someday," which Hoffs released on her own label, Baroque Folk, brims with buoyant melodies and orchestral arrangements. More than a straight homage to the '60s, the album embodies the spirit of that decade, a time Hoffs considers was a melding of pop music with country and soul influences.
"It wasn't a conscious idea: this is the assignment — make a '60s record. It wasn't like that," she says. "It evolved into a more formal concept when Mitchell [Froom, who produced the record] started to play piano and sit in the room with us. We could have done a stripped-down, more folk version of this record. But then we got so excited about the idea of really studying up on what made those '60s records sound so cool: horns, flutes, strings, that kind of architecture."
"Someday" reminds you that Hoffs is perfectly suited to sunny, winsome material. In fact, her voice has hardly changed at all over the years; her performance on "Someday" isn't that removed from how she sounded on, say, "Eternal Flame." What's her secret?
"People have been asking me that," she says. "I don't do anything really special. I feel like I'm learning every time I sing how to sing better. I'm having more fun with it. The truth is I'm just writing to my voice better."
"Someday" is only Hoffs's third solo album and first since her 1996 self-titled release. Given the long lapse between albums, she says part of the new album's success was that it inspired her to write again.
"One thing that surprised me was that it was a lot easier to write at this point in my life," Hoffs says. "There is a good thing about getting older: You have nothing to lose and become a bit more fearless. You can see your life from a different vantage point. You can look back and think, 'OK, I did this and this and this.' And now, what do I want to do?"
"The music business is so turned upside down from the music business I knew when I was in my 20s and running around the world as a Bangle," she adds. "When I think about what my life was like then versus where I am now, it's kind of nice to be in a place where I'm doing it just for the love of it."James Reed can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Choosing the Right Law School / Re: Tier 4 Law Schools« on: November 17, 2010, 02:32:24 PM »
It's dangerous to say avoid all T4 law schools at all costs. The ABA accredited ones give serious people a chance and often lots of sinancial aid to pursue a career they want. If there's some entitlement to a big payday at a white shoe law firm as the goal, then you really better be ready to work your butt off and be a top ten student which means you're motivated and willing to head into the grinder that is Big Law for associates with less job security now than ever before. T4s do a great job of preparing people for solid careers in the law and the good ones make sure well over 90% of their 1st-time bar exam takers pass and can actually go out there and practice or start on a career in the public sector. Many are very good at preparing students for careers in elected office with appropriate stops early on in criminal law on one side or the other. It boils down to knowing what you want and determining if the school you pick will help you get there.


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Shouldi necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 133 diseños de 48 diseñadores freelance.
shouldi is an instant social advice service that allows users to quickly and easily give and get advice from friends, experts, or the world using a mobile phone, instant messaging, email, or the web. We will soon relaunch shouldi with a new logo and web design built around the new logo. The logo should build off the shouldi word and should convey the notion of asking for or giving advice.
This logo will be the corporate and website logo and will be used on all marketing materials. The logo should use the shouldi name. Ideally, it will play off the themes of giving and getting advice. shouldi should be all lower case letters. The logo should be fresh, fun and inviting. Our philosophy is that we all can help each other with life's little day-to-day or big decisions whether it is choosing between pairs of jeans at the store of finding the best oncologist for grandma. A follow up contest for redesigning the http:www.shouldi.com website will follow once we finalize the new logo.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) — Eurpean stocks closed at their highest level this month on Monday as Ukraine and Russia appeared to make progress in easing the tensions between the two countries.
The major European indexes were swept lower on Friday following reports of a confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, but foreign ministers from the two countries met over the weekend to discuss ways to ease the tensions. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after the meeting that some progress had been made, according to Bloomberg, fueling a rally in the stock market from the open on Monday.
Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said on Monday that issues related to deliveries of humanitarian aid in a convoy have been resolved. No progress on reaching a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine had been made, he said.
"However, lower volumes and an ever changing landscape mean that investors are likely to remain exposed to short-term news over the remaining summer weeks," said Rebecca O'Keeffe, head of investment at stockbroker Interactive Investor, in a note.
Market reaction: The pan-European Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +0.22% rallied 1.2% to end at 333.60, marking the highest closing level in August.
Germany's DAX 30 index DAX, +0.30% which is sensitive to developments in the Ukraine-Russia standoff, jumped 1.7% to 9,245.33. France's CAC 40 index PX1, +0.38% climbed 1.4% to 4,230.65, while the U.K.'s FTSE 100 index UKX, +0.16% gained 0.8% to 6,741.25.
Russia's MICEX Index XX:MCX rose 0.5% to 1,425.18, while the ruble USDRUB, -0.3773% gained 0.1% against the dollar, so that the greenback bought 36.0790 rubles. Russia's central bank on Monday widened the range in which the ruble will trade freely, in a move toward completely a free float of the currency by the end of the year.
Also read: United Internet, Roche climb in European trading
Bundesbank concerns: Germany's Bundesbank warned that ongoing global tensions, such as the conflict in Ukraine, are hitting the outlook for Europe's largest economy. The comments come after data last week showed Germany's economy contracted by 0.2% in the second quarter, spurring concerns about the country's economic strength and future growth.
Data: In a bit of brighter news, Eurostat said the euro zone's trade surplus with the rest of the world rose in June, driven by a rise in exports to China, the U.S. and the U.K. However, exports to Russia, which were slowing even before the European Union and U.S. agreed tougher sanctions on Moscow, were lower in the year to May than they were a year earlier.
Pound rally: The U.K. pound staged a solid advance, rising against all other major currencies. Sterling GBPUSD, +0.1150% bought $1.6721, up 0.2%, while climbing 0.5% against the euro GBPEUR, +0.1304% to €1.2517.
The positive moves came after Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper that the central bank could raise interest rates before wages improve. The BOE has previously stressed that salary growth was a key component in assessing when to increase the interest rates.
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Poetry Dispatch No. 28 | November 15, 2005
My November Guest by Robert Frost
My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.
Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She's glad the birds are gone away,
She's glad her simple worsted gray
Is silver now with clinging mist.
The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for reason why.
Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell her so,
For they are better for her praise.
from Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays.© Library of America
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work frequently employed themes from the early 1900s rural life in New England, using the setting to examine complex social and philosophical themes. While Frost's poems continue to be popularly interpreted optimistically within the frame of an idyllic pastoral life, most modern literary criticism is preoccupied with their frequently pessimistic, menacing, and disingenuous undertones. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes.
Although he is commonly associated with New England, Robert Frost was a native of California, born in San Francisco, and lived there until he was 11 years old. His mother, Isabelle Moodie Frost, was of Scottish descent; his father, William Prescott Frost, Jr., was a descendant of colonist Nicholas Frost from Tiverton, Devon, England who had sailed to New Hampshire in 1634 on the Wolfrana.
Frost's father was a good teacher, and later an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin (which was eventually merged into the San Francisco Examiner), and an unsuccessful candidate for the city tax collector. The road not taken for young Robert might have been as a Californian editor rather than a New England poet, but William Frost Jr. died May 5, 1885, debts were settled, and the family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts where William Frost, Sr., was an overseer at a New England mill. Frost's mother joined the Swedenborgian church and had him baptized in it, but he left it as an adult.
Despite his later association with rural life, Frost lived in the city, and published his first poem in the Lawrence high school magazine. He attended Dartmouth College, long enough to be accepted into the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Frost returned home to teach and to work at various jobs including delivering newspapers and factory labor. He did not enjoy these jobs at all, feeling his true calling as a poet.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on" — Robert Frost
In 1894 he sold his first poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy" (published in the November 8, 1894 edition of the New York Independent) for fifteen dollars. Proud of this accomplishment, he proposed marriage to Elinor Miriam White, but she refused, wanting to finish college (at St. Lawrence University) before they married. Frost then went on an excursion to the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia, and asked Elinor again upon his return. Having graduated, she agreed, and they were married in Harvard University, which he attended for two years.
He did well, but left to support his growing family. Grandfather Frost purchased a farm for the young couple in Derry, New Hampshire, shortly before his death. Frost worked on the farm for nine years. He wrote early in the mornings, producing many of the poems that would later become famous. His attempts at farming were not successful, and Frost returned to education as an English teacher at Pinkerton Academy from 1906 to 1911, then at the New Hampshire Normal School (now Plymouth State University) in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
In 1912, Frost sailed with his family to Great Britain, living first in Glasgow, before settling in Beaconsfield, outside London. His first book of poetry, A Boy's Will, was published the next year. In England he made some important acquaintances, including Edward Thomas (a member of the group known as the Dymock Poets), T.E. Hulme, and Ezra Pound. Pound would become the first American to write a (favorable) review of Frost's work. Surrounded by his peers, Frost wrote some of his best work while in England.
As World War I began, Frost returned to America in 1915. He bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he launched a career of writing, teaching, and lecturing. The family homestead at Franconia, which served as his summer home until 1938, is maintained as a museum and poetry conference site. From 1916 to 1938, Frost was an English professor at Amherst College, encouraging his students to account for the sounds of the human voice in their craft. Starting in 1921, and for the next 42 years (with three exceptions), Frost spent his summers and into late fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College in Ripton, Vermont. The college now owns and maintains Robert Frost's farm as a national historic site near the Bread Loaf campus.
Frost was 86 when he spoke at the inauguration of President Kennedy on January 20, 1961. He died a little more than two years later, in Boston, on January 29, 1963. He was buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont.
Harvard's 1965 alumni directory indicates his having received an honorary degree there; Frost also received honorary degrees from Bates College and Oxford and Cambridge universities, and he was the first to receive two honorary degrees from Dartmouth College. During his lifetime, the Robert Frost Middle School in Fairfax, Virginia, as well as the main library of Amherst College, were named after him.
- * After Apple-Picking
- * Acquainted With the Night
- * An Old Man's Winter Night
- * Birches
- * Choose Something Like a Star
- * The Black Cottage
- * Blueberries
- * A Cow in Apple Time
- * The Code
- * Come In
- * The Death of the Hired Man
- * Departmental
- * Desert Places
- * Design
- * Directive
- * Dust of Snow
- * The Fear
- * Fire and Ice (1916)
- * For Once, Then Something
- * The Generations of Men
- * A Girl's Garden
- * Good Hours
- * Good-bye, and Keep Cold
- * Mending Wall
- * The Mountain
- * Neither Out Far Nor in Deep
- * Dedication
- * The Gift Outright
- * Nothing Gold Can Stay
- * Once By The Pacific
- * Out, Out— (1916)
- * The Oven Bird
- * Pan With Us
- * The Pasture
- * Putting in the Seed
- * Range-Finding
- * The Road Not Taken
- * The Rose Family
- * The Runaway
- * The Self-seeker
- * A Servant to Servants
- * Home Burial
- * The Sound Of The Trees
- * Spring Pools
- * The Star-Splitter
- * Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- * To E.T.
- * The Tuft of Flowers
- * Two Tramps in Mud Time
- * The Wood-Pile
- * Stars
- * My November Guest
- * Ghost House
- * Tree At My Window
- * What Fifty Said
- * The Road That Lost its Reason
- * Lure Of The West
- * War Thoughts At Home
Poetry Collections
- *North of Boston (David Nutt, 1914; Holt, 1914)
- o 'Mending Wall'
- * Mountain Interval (Holt, 1916)
- o The Road Not Taken
- * Selected Poems (Holt, 1923)
- o Includes poems from first three volumes and the poem The Runaway
- * New Hampshire (Holt, 1923; Grant Richards, 1924)
- * Several Short Poems (Holt, 1924)
- o Several Short Poems (Holt, 1924)
- * Selected Poems (Holt, 1928)
- o -this seems to be a 2nd edition of the 1923 publication; cannot verify
- * West-Running Brook (Holt, 1928? 1929)
- * The Lovely Shall Be Choosers (Random House, 1929)
- * Collected Poems of Robert Frost (Holt, 1930; Longmans, Green, 1930)
- * The Lone Striker (Knopf, 1933)
- * Selected Poems: Third Edition (Holt, 1934)
- * Three Poems (Baker Library, Dartmouth College, 1935)
- * The Gold Hesperidee (Bibliophile Press, 1935)
- * From Snow to Snow (Holt, 1936)
- * A Further Range (Holt, 1936; Cape, 1937)
- * Collected Poems of Robert Frost (Holt, 1939; Longmans, Green, 1939)
- * A Witness Tree (Holt, 1942; Cape, 1943)
- * Come In, and Other Poems (1943)
- * Steeple Bush (Holt, 1947)
- * Complete Poems of Robert Frost]], 1949 (Holt, 1949; Cape, 1951)
- * Hard Not To Be King (House of Books, 1951)
- * Aforesaid (Holt, 1954)
- * A Remembrance Collection of New Poems (Holt, 1959)
- * You Come Too (Holt, 1959; Bodley Head, 1964)
- * In the Clearing (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1962)
- * The Poetry of Robert Frost (New York, 1969)
- * A Further Range (published as Further Range in 1926, as New Poems by Holt, 1936; Cape, 1937)
- * Nothing Gold Can Stay
- * What Fifty Said
- * Fire And Ice
- * A Drumlin Woodchuck
- * A Way Out: A One Act Play (Harbor Press, 1929).
- * The Cow's in the Corn: A One Act Irish Play in Rhyme (Slide Mountain Press, 1929).
- * A Masque of Reason (Holt, 1945).
- * A Masque of Mercy (Holt, 1947).
- * The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963; Cape, 1964).
- * Robert Frost and John Bartlett: The Record of a Friendship, by Margaret Bartlett Anderson (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963).
- * Selected Letters of Robert Frost (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964).
- * Interviews with Robert Frost (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966; Cape, 1967).
- * Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost (State University of New York Press, 1972).
- * Robert Frost and Sidney Cox: Forty Years of Friendship (University Press of New England, 1981).
- * The Notebooks of Robert Frost, edited by Robert Faggen (Harvard University Press, January 2007)
- Published as
- * Collected Poems, Prose and Plays (Richard Poirier , ed.) (Library of America, 1995) ISBN 978-1-88301106-2.
Pulitzer Prizes
- * 1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes
- * 1931 for Collected Poems
- * 1937 for A Further Range
- * 1943 for A Witness Tree


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What's Your Instinct: Should Parents Be Fined For Raising Bullies (As One Wisconsin City Has Decided)?
The Madison, Wisconsin suburb of Monona has instituted a new city-wide ordinance that has quickly become fodder for parenting blogs around the world. Monona parents of bona fide bullies are to be fined (after a one time warning) if their children intimidate, emotionally abuse, slander, threaten or intimidate another person" without "legitimate purpose."
"Sometimes you'll knock on someone's door and they won't want to talk to you — their kids are perfect, they could never do anything wrong," Monona Police Chief Wally Ostreng told Madison's NBC 15. "This is for those times when we get the door slammed in our faces."
Parents of bullies are given one warning about their children's activities by the city. Subsequent infractions will then result in a citation for parents that includes a fine between $114 and $177.
Oddly enough, the ordinance doesn't impose an age limit on who can be defined as a "bully," though it does specify the law only applies to those over age 12.
What's your Instinct? Should parents be fined if their kids are bullies?


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An estimated 16 million Americans have rosacea, yet only a small fraction are being treated. In addition to raising public awareness and supporting research, the National Rosacea Society provides information that may help rosacea patients better understand their disorder and more effectively manage its signs and symptoms.
To learn more about rosacea, its symptoms and treatment, read All About Rosacea. In Faces of Rosacea, view patient photographs depicting the signs and symptoms of the disorder, while Treatment Photos provide a before-and-after look at some treatment options. You may also want to read the Rosacea FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions in a variety of categories. For information on Medical Therapy and other measures to control rosacea, read Management Options.
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If you are currently not addressing your condition, When to See a Doctor explains the right time to make an appointment — and What to Do Now takes you through next steps once you've started treatment. The Rosacea Triggers charts list lifestyle and environmental factors that may aggravate the condition, while Skin Care & Cosmetics provides guidance on caring for your skin and its appearance, including Makeup Tips. In Seborrheic Dermatitis, a common concurrent condition is also discussed.
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- Understanding Rosacea, an introductory booklet incorporating the new standard classification system for rosacea.
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A lone Canadian Snowbird makes an inverted pass in a CT-114 Tutor jet at the start of the teams aerial demonstration during 2008 San Francisco Fleet Week activities. The Snowbirds are part of the 431 Air Demonstration Squadron and are based out of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.The team has flown the Canadian built CT-114 Tutor jet since 1971.
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Review: Niche appeal in 2 new Android phones
One of the reasons Android phones have become popular is the choice they offer: Want a big screen? There's a phone for you. Want cheap? There's one for you, too.
New phones from Sony and LG continue that trend. Although I personally find their distinctive features unnecessary, consumers looking for those specific attributes will welcome them.
Sony's Xperia Z1s is a waterproof phone with a high-megapixel camera, while LG's G Flex has a curved screen that offers a better fit for phone calls.
Xperia Z1s, Sony Corp. ($528, contract-free, through T-Mobile only):
The 5-inch Z1s stands out in two ways: It's waterproof, meaning you can dunk it in water up to 4.5 feet deep for a half-hour. And the camera's 20.7-megapixel resolution is higher than that of most phones, which means sharper photos when blown up or printed.
Sony also packs the phone with several camera apps that can be useful - when they work.
The waterproofing should give you some comfort using the phone in the rain or taking a selfie in the pool, as long as you keep the ports covered with the attached plastic seals.
Just don't expect extensive operations underwater, as the touch screen doesn't work when wet. You can continue video and music you already have going, but you can't start new ones. Same with voice calls. Sound quality through the external speaker suffers.
Fortunately, you can use headphones. Sony's water-resistant Xperia Z phone last summer had a headphone jack that needed to stay covered. There's no need to cover that in the Z1s, so you're protected even when you use headphones. Your headphones might not survive, though.
The Z1s also fixes a shortcoming with the Z. You can set the volume button to trigger the camera shutter for shots while snorkeling. The Z's touch-only shutter has to stay dry.
The camera's high-megapixel count means more details get stored, which is important for cropping and printing. However, megapixel is just one factor.
At the U.S. figure skating championships in Boston over the weekend, photos of skaters from my nose-bleed seats came out average for a phone. I noticed more details in some of the banners across the arena, but a larger factor was how much my hand was shaking when I snapped. In a few of those shots, colors were completely off.
The camera's Social Live app lets you stream 10-minute video clips live on Facebook. You can choose who can view them, though it doesn't recognize groups you have curated on Facebook, such as "close friends" or "family." If you're willing to click on names one by one, or share with everyone, it's a fun tool for weddings and other shareable moments.
Another app, called Info-eye, gets you more information about a book, wine bottle or landmark after you snap a photo of it.
Results were mixed. It took several tries for the camera to recognize the Empire State Building in New York. Initially, I got weather and nearby restaurants instead. The camera recognized only about half of the books I snapped and needed two tries to recognize my wine label.
The app is also supposed to recognize QR codes, the square patterns that direct you to more information on the Internet. But I got it to work only once out of at least 17 tries at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass. Most of the time, the image came out too blurry, or the phone tried to scan surrounding text instead.
The Z1s catches up to Apple's iPhone 5S in two ways: You can snap up to 10 shots per second in a burst mode, and you can see how an Instagram-like special effect will look before you snap the shot.
There's also a Timeshift Burst app that lets you snap even more shots - 61 in two seconds. It's easy to pick the best shots by scrolling through the images like a flipbook, but the app limits you to two seconds.
There's probably a lot more I haven't discovered yet. The phone hides many of the features in the various settings. Until I started playing with the controls, for instance, the camera was snapping at just 8.3 megapixels. Sony says it uses the extra data to help reduce distortion, but it's not the same as a truly 20.7 megapixel photo.
Most people will stick with the default, automatic settings, meaning the camera's power will be lost to them. Those people will be getting a phone that takes average photos. If you're in that group, it'll come down to whether you want a waterproof phone.
G Flex, LG Electronics Inc. (Price not yet announced, available soon through AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile):
The 6-inch G Flex is much like a bigger version of LG's 5.2-inch G2 phone from last summer. The power button and volume controls are on the back, which LG believes will be easier to access and result in fewer dropped phones.
Where the G Flex differs: The screen has a slight curve inward from top to bottom, giving it a better fit around your head when making calls. It feels a bit like those old flip phones. However, I don't make many calls to begin with, and I haven't noticed much difference in call quality or comfort.
LG hasn't announced U.S. pricing yet, but the phone goes for more than $900 in South Korea. Part of that high price goes toward the display's size: The G Flex is even larger than Samsung's 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 3 and HTC's 5.9-inch One Max. Samsung also has a curved phone, but hasn't announced U.S. plans yet.
I tested a Korean version of the G Flex ahead of its U.S. release. Text and images on the curved screen look odd. Square photos on Instagram aren't so square, for instance. The distortion is more pronounced when the phone is held sideways, with the curve from left to right.
The G Flex is for people who want to show friends they have something new and are willing to pay. Otherwise, wait for further advancements from LG and Samsung. The technology is still in its infancy. A flat phone works fine for me, thank you.
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DUDLEY — A second animal control officer has resigned after less than a year on the job because of what were described as challenging and dangerous working conditions caused by underfunding.
Selectmen appointed Peter M. Preble to the post of animal control officer in July. On Monday, the board accepted his resignation and promoted his assistant, Lauren Pasniewski, to fill the vacancy.
Mr. Preble resigned the day after a Feb. 17 incident with a "rather large, angry dog" in which he was ill-equipped and ill-prepared.
"I was placed in harm's way and also placed the lives of those around me, as well as the animal, at risk," he wrote in the resignation letter.
Mr. Preble was referring to when Christopher Walker of 14 Tanyard Road allegedly assaulted his mother Feb. 17 and then had police in a standoff at his home. Shots were fired before Mr. Walker surrendered and was arrested.
In the letter, Mr. Preble said he was called to the Tanyard Road home around 10:30 that night to remove a dog so police, who had a search warrant, could do the search. Upon entering the home, Mr. Preble said, he was confronted by a pit bull-type dog weighing about 70 pounds and in "a rather nasty mood."
"I have been given neither appropriate training nor the proper equipment to deal with such a situation," Mr. Preble wrote.
The dog was removed with what he called "great risk of harm" to himself and the Webster police officer and state trooper who assisted. Mr. Preble contacted the Southbridge animal control officer for help because he was left alone with the angry dog without means to take it to the Dudley shelter.
After just eight months on the job, Mr. Preble wrote, "This is unacceptable and I can no longer serve in this position without adequate training and equipment."
Selectmen have heard complaints of underfunded animal control services before.
Sheila Donohue resigned as animal control officer in September 2012, one day short of one year on the job.
Ms. Donohue cited "challenging" working conditions that included part-time pay for what turned out to be full-time work and the expectation that she use her personal equipment and her own vehicle to transport animals.
Ten months after Ms. Donahue's departure, Mr. Preble filled the vacancy.
He received a monthly stipend of $398.50 to be on call 24/7, to care for the shelter and its animals, and make veterinarian runs. He wrote that his request to the town administrator for more financial support was denied.
The animal control budget in Dudley is $7,950, with $5,400 for salaries and $2,550 for operating expenses.
A check with neighboring communities found a significant difference between what Dudley invests in hours and wages for animal control officers versus its neighbors.
Charlton budgets $41,186 for animal control. Of that, $37,818 is for salaries and $3,368 is for operating expenses.
In Oxford, the budget is $26,000, with $22,000 for salary and $4,600 for operating expenses. The Southbridge budget is $38,916, with $38,116 for salary and $800 for operating expenses.
Ms. Pasniewski was appointed to the Dudley post at a monthly stipend of $398.50.


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|The information below was taken from a press release "Testing Poe's Hair" from April 9, 2006. A few minor changes have been made to accomodate the changes in formatting necessary for a webpage presentation. Photographs given in black and white in the press release appear in full color here, including the addition of a closeup of the lock of E. A. Poe's hair. The table of results was not included in the original press release.
|For over 150 years,
Poe's death and the general state of his health have been topics of
much interest and discussion. Recognizing advances in science and the
potential of adding specific details to the already well-known
information, the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore agreed to
sacrifice 3 strands each of hair from Virginia and Edgar for heavy
metal analysis. These strands were from locks cut following their
deaths in 1847 and 1849, respectively, in accordance with the 19th
century practice of preserving memento mori. The locks were kept by the
Herring branch of the Poe family until 1936, when Mrs. Ella L. Warden
donated them, along with a number of other relics, to the Poe Society.
(These items are currently on deposit at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
(Photographs of the locks are shown below.)
The study was designed by Albert Donnay, an environmental health engineer in Baltimore, and funded by Alliance Atlantis of Toronto, Ontario (which is producing a program on Poe for a series called "Dead Men's Tales," to be aired on the Discovery Health cable channel in 2003). Testing was performed by Dr. John Ejnik and Dr. Jose Centeno at the Department of Environmental and Toxicologic Pathology, US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington D. C. In 1999, the same laboratory published an analysis of lead and mercury in the hair of President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845).
The purpose of this study was to determine the levels of various toxic heavy metals in the hair of Edgar and Virginia Poe using Inductively Cooled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, which is capable of detecting extremely low concentrations. Possible sources of heavy metal exposure in Poe's era included drinking water, alcohol, food, cosmetics, patent medicines and illuminating gas lighting, which was made from coal. Since the accumulation of metals in hair varies with exposure and over time, the researchers analyzed the two ends of each hair sample separately. Additionally, the length of Virginia's hair sample allowed testing of a third, middle section.
One of the chief difficulties in this study is estimating the time-frame reflected by the samples. Assuming normal hair growth, Edgar's 2" long sample probably represents 2.5 to 5 months in the last year of his life. Virginia's 15" long sample represents 1.6 to 3.2 years, beginning when they lived in New York City and ending when they lived in the Fordham cottage where she died. Although both samples were taken after death, the hair was cut from the free end rather than from the scalp, and the distance from the scalp is unknown. We cannot be sure, therefore, how many months of hair growth leading up to the time of their deaths are not included in this analysis. At least 1 month and perhaps as many as 5 months are presumed. For Edgar, no toxically high levels were found of any of the metals studied, although notable changes were registered in his exposure over time. For Virginia, the levels found were more significant, and she also experienced major changes over time.
These locks of hair are from Virginia Poe (larger) and Edgar A. Poe (smaller), and as shown in Mary Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe, The Man (1926). The hair in both locks is brown. To the far right is a closeup of the lock of E. A. Poe's hair. (Photograph by Jeffrey A. Savoye, Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore)
Arsenic: The levels of arsenic in Edgar's hair were 15 times today's normal level, and about 2/3 the level associated with symptoms of arsenic poisoning. They did not change significantly over time. Virginia's hair started at 45 times the normal level today, and twice the level associated with arsenic symptoms, but fell 66%, ultimately ending at a level almost identical to Edgar's. Since they were in Fordham by this time, and Edgar was still living in the same house two years later, the researchers believe they most likely ingested similar levels of arsenic from environmental sources, such as their drinking water. The much higher level of arsenic collected in the oldest portion of Virginia's hair could have been due to higher levels of arsenic in either their water supply while living elsewhere and/or the coal used to make illuminating gas.
Lead: Edgar's lead level fell 33% over the same period, showing that he dramatically reduced his exposure, which in that era would have been primarily from wine and/or patent medications. Although the levels of lead at both ends of his hair sample are 3 to 4 times higher than today's normal level, they are not high enough to cause symptoms of lead poisoning. But the lead levels in Virginia's hair ranged from 10 to 13 times higher than today's normal level -- higher even than the levels found in President Andrew Jackson's hair after he was shot with two lead bullets -- and are at the low end of levels associated with symptoms of lead poisoning. (Jackson's lead level dropped dramatically after the removal of the bullets.) Since Edgar and Virginia's lead levels in Fordham were so substantially different, the researchers believe they are more likely due to some specific form of exposures (such as cosmetics or medications) rather than environmental sources (such as polluted air or water).
Mercury: Edgar's mercury level increased over a few months by 264%, probably due to the calomel he wrote of taking while in Philadelphia. But even at its highest point, it was still more than 30 times below the level associated with symptoms of mercury poisoning, and only1/2 the level found in President Andrew Jackson's hair, who (like Poe) was known to have taken calomel medication. Virginia's mercury level, however, started at a level about that of President Jackson and gradually increased 22%, suggesting that she and Edgar had very different personal exposures.
Nickel: The oldest nickel level in Edgar's hair was 10 times today's normal level, and fell 66% as he aged. Although it was higher than normal, it was not high enough to produce symptoms of nickel poisoning. Virginia's nickel level also fell but by 98.7%, from a level higher than Edgar's to 20 times lower, suggesting that they had different sources of personal rather than just environmental exposure.
Uranium: The levels of uranium in Edgar's hair were below the detection limit of the instrument for the size of the samples, which means they contained less than about 8 parts per billion (=0.008 ppm). But the level of uranium in Virginia's hair when she lived in gas-lit New York City was very high, similar to that found in uranium miners, and approximately 15 times today's normal level. It was also 100 times the level found in the middle section of her hair. As with Edgar, no uranium was detectable in the end of her hair that grew while living in gas-free Fordham. Since the most likely source of her uranium exposure in New York City was illuminating gas made from coal, to which Edgar also would have been exposed, the researchers conclude that the both she and Edgar were significantly exposed to gas lighting there before they moved to Fordham, where they had no detectable exposure to coal gas or any other sources of uranium.
Vanadium: The levels of vanadium in Edgar and Virginia's hair were both at the high end of the normal range and neither changed significantly, showing that vanadium apparently cannot be used as a biomarker of illuminating gas exposure.
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(CNN) -- The Federal Aviation Administration in December ordered inspections of the type of engine on the US Airways plane that landed in New York's Hudson River because a small number of them had experienced compression stalls, an FAA spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday.
US Airways Flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson River after apparently hitting a flock of birds.
The agency issued an "airworthiness directive" on December 13 mandating that the engines be inspected, said FAA spokeswoman Alison Duquette.
She said all U.S. airlines complied with the directive and all the CFM56-5B engines were inspected.
"Globally, this was addressed before [the January 15] accident," she said.
The compressor stalls "could prevent continued safe flight or landing," according to the FAA directive.
The directive was prompted by six compressor stalls in planes with those engines, said Rick Kennedy, a spokesman for GE Aviation, which co-owns the engine manufacturer, CFM International.
He said 12 of the engines had temperatures above what is considered acceptable. He said it was "exceedingly unlikely" that any of those engines were in the US Airways plane that went down January 15.
"We checked every single engine in the fleet," Kennedy said.
He said six compressor stalls out of 43 million flight hours indicate the engines are "more reliable than an elevator."
Two days before US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River, the same plane had experienced problems, CNN reported on January 19. That plane also was Flight 1549 -- also taking off from LaGuardia to Charlotte, North Carolina, but on January 13.
Four passengers on the January 13 flight said the crew got on the intercom and said the plane was experiencing compression stalls.
Alison Camastra, who was one of those passengers, said she heard four loud bangs on the right side of the plane and that the pilot said the aircraft had "multiple compressor stalls."
Camastra, from New York, said, "It crossed my mind maybe that the plane would crash, but that's a thought you sort of put to the back. I just remember thinking, I wanna be on the ground, I wanna be on the ground."
She said the pilot told passengers that "multiple compressor stalls were 'very rare.' "
Peter Knudson, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, confirmed, "There was an entry in the accident aircraft maintenance log indicating that a compressor stall occurred on January 13. Our investigators plan to interview the pilot of that flight to learn more about the incident."
As far as the accident on January 15, he said, the NTSB has not "found any indications of anomalies or malfunctions with the aircraft from the time it left the gate in LaGuardia to the point at which the pilots reported a bird strike and a loss of engine power."
Camastra said she was worried about what was going to happen on her flight.
"I remember thinking to myself, the wing's gonna fall off, and getting really scared. And then it made the noise again and the engine shook really bad," Camastra said.
She sent her boyfriend an e-mail on her BlackBerry.
"I said, 'I am on the plane and we are experiencing problems or there's a problem with the engine,' " Camastra said. "I said we are turning around and going back to the airport and then I said, 'I love you so much.' I almost didn't want to predict whether or not we were going to make it to the airport or what would happen."
Camastra and three other passengers on the January 13 flight recalled that crew members said they would turn the plane around and head back to New York, but the pilot announced shortly after that the problem had been corrected.
"You know, I can't speculate. And of course it could be birds, as they say. But it's kind of concerning to me, as bad as the noises were and the shaking was on the plane that we were on, that they were still flying that plane two days later definitely concerns me," Camastra said.
Chris Norton, a commercial pilot who also is executive vice president of Indianapolis, Indiana-based Expert Aviation Consulting, said a compressor stall occurs when the airflow is momentarily interrupted. In serious cases, he said, it can cause the engine to shut down.
"There are times you may have a compressor stall that you aren't aware of and there might be other times you may have a compressor stall with catastrophic results," Norton said.
He said, "The loud bang that people are referring to, that they hear, is the actual stall of the compressor section of the engine."
CNN's Jessi Joseph contributed to this report.
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The English version of Quiz Panic is now available!
Following its release within French-speaking countries, the English version of Quiz Panic is now available on Android!
With an average rating of 4.5 on the PlayStore and a horde of enthusiastic players, the Quiz Panic adventure has certainly got off to an extraordinary start!
So what's next? The iOS launch is coming up in just a few weeks... as well as the incredible 'Game with friends' mode!
Wazasound 1st game on the french Appstore !
Wazasound enters his 4th day in first position in the french iPhone games charts!
Waza parades among the greatest, ahead Candy Crush, Clash of Clans and friends, thanks to a loyal community, a great word of mouth and fantastic player evaluations!
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As we are celebrating Superbuzzer 3 million players, we want to share with you a preview of our infamous top secret coming game :) One thing is sure, it's going to make some noise!
Gerwin Software is a game publisher who has the Internet for its playing field, fun as its motto, and respect for its community as its foremost rule. Known as we are, for our revolutionary knowledge-based games that have changed the face of the online quiz format, we work tirelessly to imagine the games that will entertain you in the future, by making the most out of the latest web technology. Independent, autonomous, and passionate: we have complete control of the entire game development chain, from the initial concept to the final game's release on the network.


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Mickey Factz Freestyle On PMS Radio
PMS radio reports: Mickey Factz spits about the future. He also speaks falling asleep on the train, getting lost in Washington Heights, and on his new track "Pick Up the Bass."
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NASCAR racing at Talladega Superspeedway is known for two things.
Wild, crazy, insane racing, with huge packs of traffic racing bumper-to-bumper and door-to-door around the high-banked 2.66-mile oval.
And wrecks.
Big ones.
And spectacular ones.
Some of the most spectacular and frightening wrecks in the history of NASCAR have occurred at Talladega, which is a big drawing card for the track and makes the races there two of the most highly anticipated events of the year.
Here's a look at six of the most worst and most spectacular crashes at Talladega:
1. Bobby Allison, 1987 Winston 500
Bobby Allison's 1987 crash is one of the most memorable in NASCAR history.
And not just because it was frightening and spectacular — it also changed the racing at NASCAR's two biggest and fastest tracks.
Allison blew an engine early in the race, causing him to cut a tire and sending his car spinning wildly down the frontstrech. Allison's car lifted off the track and slammed into the catch fence, tearing a section of the fence apart near the flag stand and nearly sending his car flying into the grandstands.
Allison had qualified on the front row at more than 211 mph and the field was running an average speed of 208 during the race.
As a result of the horrifying crash, NASCAR implemented carburetor restrictor plates to reduce the horsepower of the engines and curb speed. The restrictor plates have been used since then at Daytona and Talladega, creating wild packs of racing and, ironically, leading to even more big crashes.
Allison says, however, that NASCAR did the right thing by implementing restrictor plates after his crash.
"The restrictor plate makes wrecks at 195 (mph) instead of 240," Allison said in a 2007 interview on Speed's NASCAR Race Day. "We would be in the grandstands right now at the speeds they would be running unrestricted."
Allison hates to even think about what might have happened had his car flown into the grandstands.
"I wonder if we would even be racing today," he said.
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2. Carl Edwards, 2009 Aaron's 499
Twenty-two years after Allison's horrifying crash, another spectacular wreck at Talladega was eerily similar.
Carl Edwards was racing Brad Keselowski for the win on the final lap of the Aaron's 499 when their cars made contact.
As Edwards' car spun and began to lift off the ground, it was hit by the car driven by Ryan Newman. That collision launched Edwards' car into the air and sent it flying into the catch fence.
Like Allison's crash, the collision tore up part of the fence and sent car parts and pieces of fencing flying into the grandstands, injuring several fans.
"That is 1987 all over again," Fox analyst Darrell Waltrip said while watching replays of the crash.
Edwards was not injured and climbed from his car and jogged across the finish line.
Nearly a year later, he would get even, retaliating against Keselowski and sending his car flying through the air at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
3. Ricky Craven, 1996 Winston 500
Few drivers have ever taken a scarier ride than Ricky Craven in the 1996 Winston 500.
Craven was the biggest victim in a wild, multicar crash in Turn 2.
The chain-reaction crash started when Mark Martin drifted up the track and hit Jeff Gordon, sending Martin's car spinning down the track, where it hit Craven's.
Craven's green No. 41 flipped over and rolled up the banking, where it lifted off the ground and flew into the catch fence.
But that wasn't the end of it. Craven's car ricocheted back across the track and slammed back onto the pavement on the drivers-side door. As it sailed through the air, five cars raced beneath Craven's flying car.
Craven's impact with the pavement was so violent that it sent car parts flying all around the speedway and the car had asphalt embedded into the roof when it was hauled back to the garage. Ricky Rudd's car, meanwhile, had tire and fender marks on its roof from Craven's car flying over the top of it.
Craven also suffered a severe impact, suffering several minor injuries, including a black eye.
"When I saw (the replay), I thought, 'Man, I feel sorry for whoever that is," Craven said a few days after the crash. "It knocked me out for a bit and I knew that I had gotten beaten up. I'm so lucky it's unbelievable."
PHOTO GALLERY: Wild Talladega wrecks
4. Rusty Wallace, 1993 Winston 500
In April of 1993, former Cup champion Rusty Wallace took the wildest ride of his career on the final lap of the Winston 500 at Talladega.
Wallace was battling for the lead when Dale Earnhardt clipped him from behind, sending Wallace's black No. 2 spinning and pirouetting on its nose.
Wallace's cars flipped and rolled more than a dozen times down the frontstretch as Earnhardt and Ernie Irvan raced to the checkered flag.
The violent crash peeled nearly all the sheet metal off Wallace's car and left him sitting inside an exposed roll cage.
"It looked like a bomb went off near that car," ESPN analyst Benny Parsons said after the crash.
Wallace's car was such a mangled mess and the scene was so horrifying that Earnhardt drove back around the track, stopped near the crash and climbed out of his car to see if Wallace was OK.
Wallace, who broke his wrist and suffered multiple bruises, said later that he was "scared to death" during the crash.
"The car is flipping and rolling, pieces of metal are flying everywhere, and you don't know what you're going to hit," Wallace said.
"I should have been killed."
5. Jimmy Horton, 1993 Diehard 500
It's not unusual to see cars flipping and rolling and flying through the air at Talladega.
It is unusual, though, to see them sail completely out of the racetrack.
That's what happened to Jimmy Horton's car in the 1993 Diehard 500.
When Horton was involved in a six-car crash in Turn 1, his No. 32 Chevrolet got hit in the side by the car driven by Stanley Smith. The collision sent Horton's car rolling up the banking of the track — and right on over the Turn 1 wall.
Horton's car rolled down a grassy embankment and came to rest upright on an access road, the sheet metal ripped from its hood, roof and rear deck lid. The crash was so frightening that it prompted speedway officials to erect a catch fence all the way around the track.
"I can't remember the last time we saw a car out of the speedway," CBS analyst and former driver Ned Jarrett said. "It's been a long, long time."
Horton climbed from his car uninjured, and after several minutes, climbed up the embankment and back over the wall.
Smith was not so fortunate. His car slammed head-on into the wall after making contact with Horton. He suffered a basilar skull fracture — the same injury that killed Dale Earnhardt and Neil Bonnett. Smith spent several months in the hospital, but recovered and is retired from racing.
6. Ryan Newman, Amp Energy 500
Most drivers are simply glad to be alive after climbing out of their demolished cars after a crash at Talladega.
Not Ryan Newman. He was mad, and not at the driver who wrecked him. He was livid at NASCAR officials, whom he blamed for the crash.
Newman was racing in a big pack when he collided with another car, setting off a chain-reaction crash.
Newman's car lifted off the ground, flipped and landed on the hood of Kevin Harvick's car. It then slid up the track on its roof, slamming into the outside retaining wall and sliding back down the asphalt banking.
Newman rolled one more time before his car came to rest on its roof on the frontstretch grass, trapping him inside. Safety workers had to use a tow truck to flip Newman's car upright before cutting off the roof so he could climb out.
Newman, who had been one of the most vocal critics of restrictor-plate racing, went off after exiting the infield care center.
"It's really disappointing," Newman said. "We had a race here in the spring and I complained about cars getting airborne. Now, ironically, I'm the guy who gets upside-down with roll bars on top of my helmet and stuck upside-down inside my car.
"I wish NASCAR would do something. This is not something anybody wants to see. I hope not; if they do, they need to go home because you don't belong here.
"It's just a product of this racing and the box NASCAR has put us in with these restrictor plates. … This is not racing."
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Wow, I wanted to see the tour really bad to begin with, but now Lee Ann Womack has been added to the George Strait / Reba McEntire tour... it is now beyond a required attendance event. Event doesn't even quite come close to the magnitude of talent appearing in one night. This lineup even beats out some of the previous George Strait Country Music Festivals I've attended.
I can't imagine how truly special this show will be.
Once again, here is the tour dates for the 22-city tour:
22-Jan Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner
23-Jan Greensboro, NC Coliseum
29-Jan Knoxville, TN Thompson Boling
30-Jan Charlottesville, VA JPJ Arena
5-Feb Phoenix, AZ US Airways
6-Feb Las Vegas, NV MGM Garden Arena
18-Feb St Louis, MO Scottrade Center
19-Feb Wichita, KS Intrust Bank Arena
20-Feb Tulsa, OK BOK Arena
25-Feb Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
26-Feb Orlando, FL Amway Arena
4-Mar Memphis, TN FedEx Forum
5-Mar New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
6-Mar Little Rock, AR Verizon
26-Mar Portland, OR The Rose Garden
27-Mar Tacoma, WA Tacomadome
8-Apr Omaha, NE Qwest Center
9-Apr Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
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Is it any wonder vendors are touting data dedupe and other storage technologies? More than 50% of the 437 business technology professionals who responded to our survey said they manage more than 10 TB of data, vs. 10% who control less than 1 TB. What's more, 7% manage between 200 TB and 500 TB of data, and 8% are responsible for more than 500 TB.
Learn more about InformationWeek Analytics' Squeeze Play: The Expanding Profile of Data Deduplication.


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DISCOVERY BAY — Ginny Vermillion believes in the adage that it's never to old to start living your dream. After working in the banking industry most of her life, the Discovery Bay resident decided to take a chance to write a book. In November Vermillion will turn 70 and she's finally taken the leap and published her first "sizzling romance."
After moving to Discovery Bay from Alameda in 1991, Vermillion and her husband Doug settled into their new neighborhood, but the commute to work every day became too much.
"In 1994, we struck a deal that I could resign from my high-powered banking job to pursue my love of writing with the goal of getting published. At that point, all I had was an ability to write without a clue about the industry itself," she said.
Looking for a way to learn the craft, Vermillion joined the Romance Writers of America, a national organization of writers with local chapters whose members get together and support each other in their writing goals. The group also offers seminars, workshops and regular monthly speakers meetings to help people learn their craft.
"The members of the chapter, many of whom are multi-published, were a gold mine of information and very willing to share," she said. "I wrote volumes, I got an agent, she peddled my wares to no avail and then dropped off the map."
While Vermillion continued to write and submit her work, she received several rejections, but still didn't want to quit doing what she loved. It wasn't long before she decided to take a job at a local bank and go back to work, but she never stopped writing.
Several years later it was time to retire, but Vermillion kept up her writing. She continued to attend her writers' group meetings and learned that the idea of self-publishing was gaining popularity. She decided to give Amazon.com a try.
"One of the gals in my chapter had surpassed selling 300,000 copies of her books," she said. "Gone were the days of having to sell the books yourself. There are many alternatives."
Finally realizing her dream wasn't as far out-of-reach as she thought, she recently took the chance of self-publishing her first book. "Dare to Dream" has already received several good reviews with a four and a half rating out of five on Amazon.com.
The romance book centers on a poor backwoods girl from West Virginia who goes to work for a top fashion house in New York. The girl then meets a wealthy man who offers her a marriage contract, with enough money to help fit her needs.
"The book features passion, deception, misunderstanding and jealousy as the couple struggles to make their sham marriage into the real thing," Vermillion said.
Last week, Vermillion received a notice that she was able to make some sales in the international market with people purchasing her book in England. She is also working on having her book available through Barnes and Noble and the Nook.
She hadn't thought to make this book into a series, but already her readers are asking whether she plans another book. So she decided that she would write at least one more using these characters, and possibly go for a third book.
Vermillion said that people sometimes give up on their dream, but she thinks they never should.
"I kept telling myself that Grandma Moses was 84 when she sold her first painting," she said.


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Adam Levine Debuts New Blonde Look!
PEOPLE Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive is clearly ready for the summer!
The Voice judge Adam Levine showed off his new bleached blonde locks on Twitter over the weekend!
Apocalypse prep course complete. pic.twitter.com/muvPDrIa59
— Adam Levine (@adamlevine) May 3, 2014
Perhaps it's an homage to new The Voice judge, Gwen Stefani??
What do you think of Adam's new look, Instincters??
Adam Levine is HOT no matter what. But calling heteros ugly, unkempt, etc. is just mean. And it's simply NOT true. There are a lot of hot straight men and women. You demonstrate elitest behavior and it's appalling. We do have a cause. There is still a lot of homophobia out there, and a lot of gay haters. This type of behavior just gives them more fodder. There is as much heterophobia amongst gays as there is homophobia amongst straights. Everyone really just needs to get along. Life is too damn short.
hahahah did you really just say there's much heterophobia (WTF is that? that's not even a thing) as homophobia? Gays are out in full force campaigning in every state to stop heterosexuals from having housing, workplace, and marriage rights? gay kids are bullying straight kids for being straight? gay parents are kicking their hetero children out of the home? I agree with the above comment. If you're hetero, stop pretending to be gay to make your bigoted comments on a gay blog sound more valid. You all end up almost always revealing yourselves in your statements. Just stop.
Don't worry Adam, haters gana hate! BTW i would pick up some Paul Mitchell for Blonde shampoo, the purple kind, it will help with brassiness of the hair as well as tone it to a perfect summer color! And in a pinch for your roots buy some white chalk or baby powder and apply that to them for lightening results.
what makes blonde hair so gay?? and why is that a bad thing!? I'm gay and have blonde hair and i love it! bet my hair looks 1k better than yours does bitch! btw i could prob steal your man away from you in a heartbeat! He def looks better with brown hair. but i wouldn't go as far as you did, all you did was make yourself sound like your a closed minded idiot who needs to think before you speak! and not sure if you know but Adam is a huge LGBT activist and has a Gay brother to boot. Maybe next time you open your tampon you'll shove it in your mouth bc your trash!
Stop trying to dictate the free speech of gays. When heteros come on our venue and spew ignorance at us, they will hear a mouthful in return. The idea that gay folks need to just be good little children is insulting and you should be ashamed for trying to bully us into submission by holding the 'be a good gay or else, no rights for you' argument over our head. Shame on your ignorance.
Cause? there is no "cause"....In life, if you dish it out and disrespect a demographic (which that bitch did above) expect to be disrespected in return. life isn't an episode of "Full House" and the notion that gay people have to take it and be the bigger person is actually drenched in homophobia itself, because you fundementally believe if gays react, we're being uppity. So if you can't take it, don't dish it!
how can you say that! He looks GAY, he doesn't, and how could hair color define some ones sexuality?! your a closed minded idiot! And might i say how "manly" of you to have CUJO as your name, sounds like your trying to compensate for your tiny you know what and i don't mean brain, that was perfectly shown how small it is in your comment!
Wow, not one self absorbed person commented on all the pussy he has on his shirt. All you notice is the importance of his hair, beard and eye brow's. You have sealed this poor guys fate based on a egotistical picture of himself. Oh sorry....a selfie. I mean #selfie. Is life really going to be effected by his hair color...or is it colour. I really don't think he is worried as he laughs all the wayt o the bank while singing about a pay phone when no one uses them anymore.
Aw Josh...you hurt my feelings. You think I am not hot and that I am judgemental, brutal and a hater. I am so sad. I really wanted someone who has never met me to think I am hot. I guess I will have to sing, She Will Be Loved, to myself in the mirror over and over and hope that you will think I am hot, even with purple hair. Well Jizz, opps I mean Josh, you just keep me coming back for more, and I hope in your heart you will become obsessed with me as much as you are with Ellen DeGeneres, opps I mean Adam Lesbian, opps I mean Levine. Good luck to you and your " I Love Menchicks That Look Like Lesbians Fan Club". Oh yeah one favor to ask of you kind person.......can I be the Vice-President of your fan club?


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Are You Exercising too Much
We all know that the best way to lose weight is through a combination of eating healthy and exercising regularly. Therefore, some of us would like to believe that the more we exercise the more weight we will lose. This is not necessarily true. There is a quite sizable line between the right amount of exercise and too much exercise. You never want to take your fitness routine to the extreme. This can have adverse effects on your health and your body. If you are not sure if you have passed over the line and are working out too much, we have collected a few signs you can look out for to see if you may have overdid it on your fitness routine.
You feel short of energy or tired
Workout is becoming harder to perform even though you haven't made any changes
Can not finish your workout
You experience "car wreck" soreness, achy muscles or headaches
Trouble achieving a nice and restful sleep
Lose your motivation and do not look forward to your workout
Your workout performance is not up to par
It may be normal to experience a few of these symptoms every now and then, but if you begin to notice a number of these symptoms popping up more frequently, then it is best to look back on your fitness routine and make sure that you are not pushing yourself too hard. If you are, then it is best to allow yourself some down time. Take a break for a little while and allow your body to recuperate. You should try to get plenty of sleep and eat a well-rounded diet to repair any damage you may have done to your body. After about three to five days you should be ready to slowly ease back into your fitness routine. Take your time and do not rush it. You may need to cut back on the duration and the frequency of your workout. Once you start finding your groove you can gradually increase the duration and the frequency of your workout.
Exercise is a love/hate relationship. While it is TOUGH and yes, technically "painful" at the moment, after it's all said and done, it should make you feel energized, de-stressed and healthier. You should look forward to going to your next workout and never dread it. If you happen to feel as if your fitness routine is torture, then you need to make sure you are not overdoing it. It is easy and more common than you think to overstep the boundary between too much exercise and the right amount. So, be aware of your fitness routine and do not be afraid to change it if you think you are working out too much.


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Just a silly little graphic I made for a friend coordinating a blood drive … with the idea that a sticker might be made for donors:
I also wrote a silly little blurb, though I'm sure the math could be improved upon:
"Some people might be hesitant to donate blood if they haven't done it before, so I just wanted to remind everyone that they have, indeed, donated blood before: to mosquitoes. A typical mosquito (always a female, by the way) flies away with 0.001994 mL per meal, at least according to an article from 1937 on blood loss in horses. Not so much, perhaps, but it adds up when her friends find you, too, and they do. So you'll donate a pint of blood after being visited by 237,212 of the little beasties. Much easier to just sign up and be done with it in 10 minutes. And it won't itch when you are done!"


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Business events for procurement and sales are not tracking any information about the execution times and data composition, thus making it cumbersome to understand when issues happen what is the context.
This hotfix will add instrumentation which will track the info on data composition and execution times for procurement and sales events: confirmation, order invoicing, totals calculation, charge and tax calculation, discount calculation.
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Flavorful ground lamb, minty lebneh, wisps of red onion, and a toasty English muffin. This burger is really simple to make, indoors or out.
Flavorful ground lamb, minty lebneh, wisps of red onion, and a toasty English muffin. This burger is really simple to make, indoors or out.—Cristina Sciarra
Makes: 5 burgers
1 shallot, thinly sliced
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 tablespoon olive oil
2.5 tablespoons fresh, chopped mint, divided
1/2 tablespoons harissa
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 tablespoon sea salt
1 egg
1 pound freshly ground lamb leg
1/2 cup lebneh
1/2 a medium red onion
5 English muffins, toasted
In This Recipe
- Thinly slice the shallot, and mince the garlic. Meanwhile, set a non-stick pan over medium-low heat. Add the olive oil, and let it warm up. Add the shallot and the garlic, and saute until fragrant and translucent, 5 minutes.
- Wash, dry, and chop the mint. Toss 1.5 tablespoons of it into a large bowl (reserve the rest). While you're at it, add the harissa, the ground cinnamon, and the sea salt. When the shallot and garlic is done cooking, add that too. Crack the egg into the bowl, and whisk everything together.
- Add the ground lamb to the bowl. Mix everything together with your hands, just enough so that the meat is evenly wet and seasoned.
- Form the meat into loose patties, about 2.5 inches wide and an inch tall.
- In a small bowl, mix the remaining 1 tablespoon of chopped mint with the lebneh. Cover the bowl with plastic, and let the flavors mellow while you prepare everything else.
- You can grill the burgers, or cook them in a cast iron pan indoors. Either way, you want them to be just cooked through. (I made mine in a seasoned cast iron pan, which I partially covered. It took about 5 minutes per side over medium heat.)
- Using a mandolin (if you have one, otherwise use a knife), cut the red onion into the thinnest possible slices. Set aside.
- Toast the English muffins.
- Assemble the sandwiches: Spoon some of the minty lebneh onto the bottom half of each English muffin. Then add the burgers, then another spoonful of lebneh, and then the onions. Top each sandwich, and then enjoy!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Pub Food
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We have had several quizzes that delve into such "indeterminate" behavior and generally have taken the position that if the actual, day-to-day experience does not seem to be indeterminate (in this case, the variable(s) are populated with the data from the first row fetched), then it is a legitimate topic and answer for a quiz.
Several players raised objections (of course!). One person objected to making a quiz involving undocumented behavior like this an "only one choice correct" quiz. That is too harsh a penalty for getting it "wrong" (which in this case would mean following what the documentation says). I agree with this. We are definitely going to change the question type to "more than one choice might be correct" and rescore. But we will likely also correct the scoring on some of the other choices.
Before I do that, though, I invite players who submitted concerns and code examples to post them on this blog. They've made some very interesting discoveries!


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February 4, 2010
Friday, February 5th, marks the deadline given by the UN General Assembly to Israel and to Hamas to launch independent committees to investigate the findings of the Goldstone Report.
The Goldstone Report has concluded that Israel's offensive against Gaza during Operation Cast Lead was "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population". The fact-finding mission found concrete evidence that Israel committed war crimes such as targeting Palestinian civilian populations, using Palestinians as "human shields", using white phosphorus munitions and direct and intentional targeting of civilian structures – among them a school, a hospital, a market, a mosque and a humanitarian aid warehouse.
Despite these severe findings, Israel has yet to conduct an independent and reliable investigation of the war crimes it has committed. Nor has Israel ended the siege of Gaza, which is intended to isolate and debilitate Gaza and constitutes a collective punishment of a civilian population.
We feel that it is the obligation of the international community to ensure that Israel will comply with international human rights and humanitarian law. We call on our friends in the international community to mark the February 5th deadline by organizing international actions and demonstrations – calling Israel to investigate the war crimes it committed, to punish those who were responsible for the crimes and to end the siege of Gaza.
Ironically, while Israel has not launched an independent committee to investigate war crimes committed in Gaza – the Israeli parliament decided this week to launch a committee to investigate foreign funding of Israeli civil society organizations. This process was sparked by a report published by the Israeli extreme-right organization Im Tirtzu ("if you will it"), citing 16 Israeli human rights organizations that provided evidence for the Goldstone Report and accusing them of collaborating with the enemy.
Among these organizations are the Coalition of Women for Peace, including our project "Who Profits from the Occupation," and two of our member organizations: New Profile and MachsomWatch. Despite the factual inaccuracies and the anti-democratic premise of this right-wing report, the Coalition is proud to be mentioned among the Israeli organizations that struggle against the war crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza.
This McCarthyist parliamentary committee is part of a new wave of assaults on Palestinian and Israeli activists and organizations that are struggling against the occupation. Further examples are the violent quashing of the Palestinian nonviolent resistance by Israeli security forces, the nighttime raids and arrests of Palestinian organizers and activists, as well as attempts to delegitimize Palestinian human rights organizations.
While these constant assaults on Palestinian and Israeli human rights defenders are troubling, we feel that they also represent the growing fear among Israeli officials, who recognize the threat posed by international pressure and by the Palestinian nonviolent struggle. To quote Ben Caspit, a senior Israeli reporter who accused Israeli human rights organizations of destroying Israel from within: "They (Israeli organizations) are winning the war on public opinion, big time. Israel is bleeding, IDF officers are hiding in their headquarters, our leaders are canceling visits overseas, Israeli merchandise is taken off the shelves and this is only the beginning (…) Israel's image is at an all-time low. International pressure is mounting, and with it the calls for boycott."
It is clear that international pressure is currently one of the greatest threats to the continuation of the Israeli occupation. Therefore, we call on our international allies to increase this pressure – despite the growing political persecution – so that together we will bring an end to the occupation and justice to all inhabitants of this region.
In Solidarity,
The Coalition of Women for Peace
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