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Don't be surprised if you learn that my neighbors have sued me for alienation of affection.
I am in love with their dog, and I think he is in love with me too.
A stereotypical Jack Russell, they got him over a year ago, and at first when he ventured into my yard he was hesitant and shy.
I tried to get him close to me but he was skittish.
Then something changed and before I knew it, it seemed he was in my yard more than the neighbors'.
He finally let me pet him and almost overnight, his personality completely changed.
As soon as the neighbors came home in the evening, Jack (could he have any other name?), would make a beeline for our yard.
It's been that way for a few months now and I am completely bowled over by this animal.
A couple weeks ago, he decided to jump in my lap and I let him.
There was no turning back.
Last night I did not see him when I passed the patio door and I was disappointed. But I shouldn't have been.
As soon as I stepped out the door, I saw his little head pop up and literally in seconds he had crossed 100 yards to come greet me.
I sat on the patio and Jack climbed into my lap and was content for over 30 minutes as I stroked his fur, all the while whispering words of love into his funky little ears.
I told Tom I knew he was "at home" with us, because he has taken to leaving his favorite toy in our yard because he knows he will be back.
We don't own dogs, because we don't want the responsibility of their care.
All we have are two fiercely independent cats who really don't care if we're around or not, as long as they have food and water.
But with Jack it's different.
I am like a grandparent: I can love on him, spoil him, give him treats and then send him home for someone else to care for.
That's a deal.
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O'Reilly Falsely Claims No U.S. Employee Of News Corp. Has Been Implicated In Hacking Scandal
Bill O'Reilly claimed that no American employee of News Corp. has been "implicated" in the company's hacking scandal and that "in the United States, there isn't any intrusion of this story thus far on News Corp. properties. None." In fact, Les Hinton, who is an American citizen, was the CEO of News Corp. division Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal until he resigned recently as a result of the scandal.
O'Reilly Claims There Is No "Intrusion" Of The Hacking Story Into U.S. News Corp. Properties
O'Reilly: "There's Not One American Employee Of The News Corporation Implicated In Any Of This." From The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: So, I mentioned to Amy -- and, you know, look, people are exploiting this situation. It is a bad situation. Anybody who broke the law should be held responsible. Everybody knows that. Journalists are citizens, too. We break the law, we should be held responsible for it.
But here in the United States, there isn't any intrusion of this story thus far on News Corp. properties. None. Yet, you have the New York Times absolutely running wild with the story. Front page, front page, front page, column, column, column. Vicious stuff, vicious stuff. And it's all ideological, is it not?
NILE GARDINER (Heritage Foundation senior fellow): You know, I think we are seeing, Bill, the beginnings of a witch hunt against Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation here in the United States. We now have the rumblings of several congressional committees threatening to hold hearings into allegations of phone hacking, into the accounts of the American citizens. I have to say, there's not a shred of--
O'REILLY: But that was -- let me just say, that was allegedly done by the News of the World British people. Not any American people.
GARDINER: Yes. That's the -- yeah. Yeah.
O'REILLY: Correct me if I'm wrong, Doctor. There's not one American employee of the News Corporation implicated in any of this.
GARDINER: Yeah. That's absolutely right. There's not a shred of evidence whatsoever that the U.S. side of News Corporation has been involved in any of these scandals hitting Britain at this time. An allegation has been made by the Daily Mirror that the journalists of the News of the World may have hacked into the phone accounts of some U.S. citizens. Again, that is a claim made against the News of the World. There is no real evidence to back that up, either. [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 7/19/11]
Hinton, Former Head Of News International And An American Citizen, Resigned From Dow Jones As A Result Of Scandal
WSJ: Hinton Resigned In An Attempt To "Contain The Damage From The Company's British Tabloid Scandal, Which Began While He Oversaw The Company's U.K. Newspaper Operations." From The Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones & Co. Chief Executive Les Hinton resigned late Friday, as the top executive at News Corp.'s financial publishing unit sought to contain the damage from the company's British tabloid scandal, which began while he oversaw the company's U.K. newspaper operations.
Mr. Hinton said that he was "ignorant of what apparently happened" at the company's tabloid newspapers earlier in the decade. He characterized his lack of knowledge as "irrelevant" and said it was "proper" for him to step down. [The Wall Street Journal, 7/16/11]
WSJ: Hinton Worked At U.S. Arms Of News Corp. For 20 Years Before Overseeing Its U.K. Newspapers. From The Wall Street Journal's biography page for Hinton:
Before his appointment as Dow Jones CEO in December 2007, Mr. Hinton served for 12 years as executive chairman of News International, the U.K. arm of News Corp. and that country's largest publisher of national newspapers. News International's publications include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The News of the World, The Times Literary Supplement, and thelondonpaper, the metropolitan London free newspaper.
Earlier, Mr. Hinton worked in the U.S. for 20 years, first as correspondent for the company's newspapers in the U.K. and Australia and later in a series of senior management positions in News Corp's publishing and television divisions. He was president and chief executive of News America Publishing, responsible for the company's U.S. publishing operations, and chairman and chief executive of Fox Television Stations. [Les Hinton biography, topics.wsj.com, accessed 7/20/11]
AP: Hinton Has Been An American Citizen Since 1985. From an Associated Press biography of Hinton:
NATIONALITY: Born near Liverpool in the U.K., he became a U.S. citizen in 1985. [The Associated Press, 7/15/11]


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OS user. Creates a server instance and is the only user who has the right to run operating system commands on a server instance by using the dsadm command. DSCC might request the OS user password in some cases. This user must have a password and must be able to create directory server instances.
Directory Manager. The LDAP superuser for a server. The default DN is cn=Directory Manager.
Directory Administrator. Administers a Directory Server. This user has the same rights as the Directory Manager but are subject to access controls, password policies, and authentication requirements. You can create as many Directory Administrators as you need.
Directory Service Manager. Manages server configuration and data on multiple machines through DSCC. This user has the same rights as the Directory Manager for each of the servers registered in DSCC and is a member of the Directory Administrators Group.


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Proposed Consolidation Information
The Legislative Finance Committee of the New Mexico Legislature has suggested a possible consolidation of the Board of Veterinary Medicine and the Animal Sheltering Board. This suggestion was one of several recommendations for board consolidations by a Government Restructuring Blue Ribbon Committee.
The Board of Veterinary Medicine (BVM) is an independent board funded solely from licensing fees. The Animal Sheltering Board (ASB) is currently under the Regulation and Licensing Department which provides all administrative support. The ASB is funded by general funds annually appropriated by the Legislature out of the General Fund. The New Mexico Legislature has appropriated $87,000 for Fiscal Year 2012 from the General Fund for the ASB. Funding for the ASB must be obtained in each future fiscal year from the General Fund. If a consolidation of the two boards occurs and the ASB does not receive funding in the future, the Board of Veterinary Medicine will be responsible for the Animal Sheltering Board and its functions.
The options the Board of Veterinary Medicine is considering are as follows:
- The ASB would become a subcommittee of the BVM. The ASB would make policy recommendations to the BVM; however, the BVM would be responsible for and have the authority over policies of the ASB.
- The ASB would be established as an independent board apart from the Regulation and Licensing Department and retain its authority concerning policy making, enforcement and other accountabilities. The BVM office would provide administrative support to the ASB.
- The BVM would take no action regarding the Legislative Finance Committee's suggestion; the two boards would continue operating as they are currently.


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When I'm not stuffing my face with rich, decadent foods alongside drinking a rich, decadent beer, you can find me enjoying a nice cigar…. and drinking a rich, decadent beer (Let's be honest, I drink every chance I get). As is the case with food, I find beer pairs better with cigars than a nice brandy, porto, or what have you. Beers can be manipulated in ways that liquors and wines can not be. The flavor profiles and varieties of beers are innumerable, and, as much as I enjoy a good bourbon or Bordeaux, there's only so much you can do to change the taste of liquor and wine. The same is the case with cigars, in terms of manipulation of flavor profile. There are so many types of tobaccos that have the ability to have their tastes changed with slight manipulations. The pairing of the two together is just common sense.
That being said, you can not just throw any beer and any cigar together. As is the case with pairing liquors with cigars, match like qualities with like qualities. You do not want to pair a nice robusto with pale ale. Likewise, it would be equally disastrous pairing a big English barleywine with a mild cigar. Match them flavor for flavor. An stout would not serve well when paired with a cigar whose profile is a bit more on the citrusy and light side. As I said, the pairings are common sense, but think before pairing. If you happen to be more knowledgeable about one and less about the other, as a beer connoisseur or cigar aficionado about the flavor profiles of either/or…. or you could just follow Barleydine.com and ask us (hint, hint).
Well finally, onto the pairing. I lucked out at one of my local beer stops when a buddy of mine who works there told me about a shipment of fairly rare Goose Island beers that had just come in. Naturally, after hearing they had the 2008 version of their Bourbon County Brand Stout in said shipment, I bought as many as was allowed. I knew that this would be the perfect beer to pair with a cigar…
… which cigar though? Now, due to the flavor profile and high %ABV of the BCBS, I knew I wanted a robust cigar that had a creamy, sweet yet spicy taste. Nicaraguan tobacco is known to have a flavor profile such as this, so I set out to look for the perfect smoke to match. At my local smoke shop, I came across a fairly inexpensive, yet interesting smelling cigar. The Diamondback Robusto, a cigar made with Nicaraguan tobacco, has the words "Dulce Humo" on the wrapper, which translates to sweet smoke. A whiff gave me just what I was looking for; a bit of a sweet, yet peppery and oaky smell. I knew this would pair well with the BCBS.
Back at home, a pop of the top, a light of the smoke, and I was in heaven. The beer itself was divine. A nice, velvety smooth vanilla flavor came through first. Not a sticky sweet cloying vanilla that you get sometimes from vanilla bean aged stouts, but a subtle, yet powerful vanilla that comes from oak aging. Big chocolate flavors play with a much more subdued, yet perfectly balanced, bourbon sweetness. This beer is rich, smooth, and nearly perfect. I did not want the first sip to end. A puff of the cigar put me in even more of a subliminal state. A nice peppery taste, followed by nutmeg and cinnamon, were the first on the palate. After they subdued, a nice creamy vanilla, akin to the one tasted in the beer, came through. As I pushed the smoke to the the roof of my mouth, a sweet toffee flavor began to rear it's head. Going back and forth between the two enhanced the flavors of each, as well as bringing more subdued notes out. The Bourbon County began giving off slight coffee flavors, not bitter coffee, but a nice, creamy mocha. A bit of a paprika note was tasted in the cigar, as well.
This was a fine pairing, one I did not want to end. When the beer and smoke was done, I was forced back to earth to rejoin reality.


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A Florida Senate committee followed the House lead on Monday and passed legislation to clarify state law to ban on Internet cafes that are operating electronic sweepstakes in strip malls across the state.
The move comes less than a week after a federal and state investigation led to the arrest of 55 individuals in Florida and five other states on racketeering and corruptions charges linked to gaming centers run by the Allied Veterans, a purported charity that gave only 2 percent of their proceeds to veterans.
The fallout also prompted the resignation of Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll who previously represented the Allied Veterans in her consulting company and has led to one of the fastest legislative responses to a gambling probe in decades.
The Senate Select Committee on Gaming voted unanimously to pass the bill, even amid concerns that there may be unintended consquences that could affect penny arcades for children and seniors.
But the committee spent most of the meeting laying the foundation for why the bill is needed this year, when they had planned to wait until next year to clarify the law, when they will attempt a sweeping rewrite of the state's gambling laws. "The events last week made two things very clear," said Sen. Garrett Richter, R-Naples, chairman of the committee. "One, that we could not wait another year to address Internet cafes. Two, instead of a moratorium we need an outright ban."
He said that the bill clarifies that "gambling is illegal in Florida unless it's legal" and there is nothing that makes the electronic sweepstakes games and online slot machine software used by the Internet cafes, adult arcades and maquinitas legal.
Owners of adult arcade operators urged the committee to reconsider the attempt to tighten the rules on them. Under the bill, the so-called adult arcade may only offer games of skill and may not give patrons rewards valued at more than 75 cents.
Jason Fischer of "Play it Again Arcade" in Davie told the committee the bill will discriminate against older people who see their amusement centers as their "home away from home."
He and his brother run two arcades and serve more than 5,000 elderly customers a year. The requirement that people will have to cash in a win and no longer accummulate credits will hurt their customers. "A 90-year-old woman will not understand this concept," he said.
"Their families live out of state. They look forward to escaping the mentally draining effects of aging," he said. "They use their cards to buy their groceries to buy their medicines."
Several members of the American Legion and Veteran's of Foreign Wars, whose organizations have benefitted from the charitable donations from the for-profit gaming operators, urged the committee to leave the loophole that allows the games to escape regulation if they operate on behalf of a charity.
But senators were clear they saw abuses. "We are not attempting to close down any of these legitimate business models," Richter said. "We are attempting to close down illegitmate businesses that operate and sound like a gambling operation. If it's a duck, we're calling it a duck. They are illegal."
Several owners of Internet cafes pleaded with the committee to regulate, not ban them, warning that an estimated 13,000 people employed by the industry could lose their jobs.
Sen. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, said she will attempt to refine the bill when it comes up before another committee to avoid unintended consequences. The House measure is expected to come to a floor vote on Wednesday but the Senate plans to review it for at least another week.
Law enforcement said the crackdown on Allied Veterans of the World is the "first wave" of Operation Reveal the Deal, which targets illicit slot machine operators who exploited a loophole in the state's sweepstakes laws.
Targeted in the crackdown were owners and operators of 49 gambling centers affiliated with Allied Veterans of the World, an organization registered as a charity but which gave only 2 percent of its profits over three years to charitable causes. None were in Broward or Miami-Dade counties; three were in Monroe.
Carroll's consulting company had represented Allied Veterans until she became lieutenant governor in 2011.


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Marion County Lake Chat and Dine Club will have its annual soup supper and business meeting at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 9 in the lake hall.
The Petersons, Iselis, and Bratts will provide soups. Everyone is invited to attend and encouraged to bring a side dish. Business will include election of officers and planning the future of the club.


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We have opened an exhibition to celebrate our 150th anniversary, as well as the significant contribution the surveying profession has made to local communities and the wider built environment over the past 150 years.
The exhibition – known as Shaping the World, Building the Future – was officially opened by RICS President John Hughes FRICS and Sean Tompkins, RICS CEO, on 11 January at RICS headquarters on Parliament Square, London.
The exhibition will run throughout 2018, and highlights include a replica Penfold Post box designed by founding professional of RICS and the organisation's first Honourable Secretary, John Wornham Penfold. The Penfold Post Box was the inspiration for the cartoon series, Danger Mouse and his sidekick Penfold.
Meanwhile, a multi-volume Dutch world atlas – the Blaeu, Atlas Major – dated 1662 is on show comprising 594 maps, which collectively presented the state of geographic knowledge of the world in the mid-17th century.
A model of the Great Theodolite used by surveyor Colonel Sir George Everest around 1830 to measure the height of the highest mountain in the world, which now bears his name (Everest) is also being exhibited, along with a measurement book used by RICS professional Colonel Alan R Mais for his work on the hydrographic survey of the Mulberry Harbours in Normandy. The colonel took the measurement book on shore with him at the D-Day landings in 1944.
A lego model of the RICS headquarters – which took over 150 hours to build and 13,000 miniature bricks to construct – as well as an intricate model of the Olympic Village, are on display, joined by a 3D model of the City of London. Both showcase the integral contribution surveyors have made, and continue to make, to the built environment.
Further displays that demonstrate the role and wide range of projects surveyors often work on include a BIM model of the RICS headquarters to show how surveyors use digital technology to uphold and make necessary improvements to such a large historic building – built in 1899 – over seven floors.
"Our 150th year is the ideal time to celebrate and champion the significant value the surveying profession has on our society and the wider economy. This exhibition will do just that, as it tells a fascinating and inspiring story that really highlights the profession's achievements, thanks to some truly one-off and remarkable exhibits that reveal the vision, innovation and outstanding talent of chartered surveyors across many sectors. A global, mobile version of the exhibition will travel across UK and global regions throughout 2018, which will also help create a better understanding of what surveyors do, the vast range of opportunities available, and inspire the next, more diverse generation into a profession that helps shape the world around us," said Sean Tompkins, RICS CEO.
The Shaping the World, Building the Future exhibition – designed and delivered by Real Studios Ltd – will be refreshed with new updates throughout the year, and is open Monday to Friday 9:00-17.30.
Both professionals and non-members can visit for free (no appointment is necessary) and the exhibition is available to be booked for events by contacting email@example.com
To celebrate our 150th milestone, we've also launched our Pride in the Profession initiative to showcase the significant and positive impact surveyors have made to society. We've already dug into the archives to find some exceptional examples. By promoting these incredible people and projects we want to demonstrate how varied and rewarding a surveying career can be. To make it happen, we need you to nominate the people and projects you admire most.
We've also launched a campaign with property industry charity LandAid to raise over £2 million in the biggest ever fundraising campaign for the charity. The funds will contribute to ending youth homelessness, and will provide safe, secure and affordable bed spaces across all 12 UK regions.


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In my next two columns, I intend to write about two places the next conservatism needs to consider: the countryside and cities. Perhaps because most conservatives, including myself, live in suburbs, we don't think about rural life or cities very often. But there are good reasons why the next conservatism should think about both.
Earlier generations of conservatives were agrarians. They thought that life on a family farm was a good life for many people. It built strong families and communities, communities where faith and morals could flourish. I believe that is still true, and I therefore think that bringing back the family farm as a viable way of life should be an important part of the next conservatism.
Some people may object that such a program is simply not possible. The family farm cannot be made economically viable in today's world. I am not certain on that point. I do know that most of the billions we spend each year for agricultural subsidies go to support big agribusiness, not family farms. What if we changed that? What if instead of subsidizing factory farming, we provided financial support for people who were trying to start new family farms? Such support should not go on forever, but if it were in the form of a revolving fund, it could help them get started.
This is also a situation where we, as conservatives, need to learn from others. One place to start is with the Amish. The Amish are cultural conservatives. They live according to the beliefs most conservatives espouse: Christian faith, strong families, close-knit communities where people depend on each other, communities based on the church.
The Amish are also successful, often prosperous, family farmers. One of my colleagues has a friend who is an Amish farmer. He has a herd of 40 to 50 dairy cows. He recently
told my colleague that he will get about $75,000 worth of product from his cows in a
good year and buy only about $5000 worth of feed for them. $70,000 is a decent income from 50 cows. Mostly, his cows graze. He is also organic, which means he isn't spending lots of money on pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
The next conservatism can also learn from the organic farming movement. Many people, including some conservatives, want organic products and are willing to pay a premium for them. That helps the farmer receive a fair price for his products, one that makes his farm viable. As conservatives, we should not see cheapness as the highest virtue. Russell Kirk wrote, "So America's contribution to the universal 'democratic capitalism' of the future . . . will be just this: cheapness, the cheapest music and the cheapest comic-books and the cheapest morality that can be provided." He might have added the cheapest agricultural products, regardless of what that does to agrarian life. That is not the direction in which the next conservatism should go.
Agrarian life is a whole culture, not just a way to make a living, and we should seek to protect that culture and make it available to more and more families.
A recent article in Farming magazine, "Conversations with the Land" by Jim Van Der Pol, gave insight into that culture:
Recently I sat in a church mourning the passage of another farmer from a world that can ill afford to spare even one. I thought of Leonard's love of farmer talk ... the telling again of stories connected with people and places in a long and well lived human life. ...
"See," he would tell me after naming all the farmers who have exchanged work together in his circle, "nobody every kept track of who spent how much time doing things for which others. Everyone just figured it would work out. It always did."
Leonard was in his farming and his life a maker of art, a husband to his wife and to his farm, a human creating in the context of Creation itself. ...
Beyond the family farm itself, the next conservatism should seek to make the countryside available to as many Americans as possible. The Mennonites have a wonderful program where they bring inner-city children to their farms for part of their summer school vacations. What a tremendous and health-giving change for kids who have never known anything but asphalt and crime! Many cities and towns now have farmers' markets, where people in the city and the suburbs can buy fresh farm product directly from the farmers. Both the farmers and the city-dwellers benefit.
The next conservatism should look toward a world where, as Tolkien put it, there is less noise and more green. Our goal should be to make agrarian life, in all its dimensions, available to as many Americans as possible, both those who work family farms for their living and those who earn their incomes in other ways but want a tie to the countryside.
In this respect, the next conservatism should be like an older conservatism we seem to have forgotten. Conservatives should become agrarians again.
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Summer recruiting camps
Crabs Top Prospect Camps for boys in the classes of 2019 and 2020, Saint James School in Hagerstown, MD. Session 1 will be held Monday, June 22- Thursday, June 25. New for 2015 is the Elite Freshman Camp, from Monday, June 29-Wednesday July 1.
Session II (for 2020 players only) starts Monday July 6th, 7th, 8th and ends Thursday July 9th at noon. (SESSION II only – a bus from Young Guns Tourney to St James will be available Sunday afternoon at an added cost for those families interested in having their son stay Sunday night for camps start Monday afternoon.)
The Top Prospect Camp is for elite players. Applicants must provide a reference as part of the selection process. Successful applicants typically will have been starters for their respective AA/A type travel teams.
The camps will limit to 152 players; 76 players per age group as follows:
2019s – 20 attack, 28 midfielders, 20 defenders and 8 goalies.
2020s – 20 attack, 28 midfielders, 20 defenders, and 8 goalies.
Players will experience an intense, fast-paced teaching environment during the instruction sessions. These sessions will include both team dynamics as well as position specific breakouts. No matter what team you play for you do not want to miss this opportunity to play with and meet some of the best players in the nation.
Tuition:$625. TO GET AN INVITE Go to "Top Prospect Camp 2015" tab on HOME page and enter info or click on this link http://assn.la/Reg/?r=2:123574.
Camp Director: Ryan McClernan – Founder CRABS Lacrosse
Philly Boys Showcase Camps by NXT at Saint Joseph's University, now on two dates: Session I for 2016s and 2017s on June 24-26, and Session II for 2018s and 2019 on July 27-29 at St. Joseph's University. The Philly Boys Showcase Camp was started by coaches who genuinely want to help high school players achieve their college lacrosse goals by educating them on all aspects of the college process. Two coaches who embody this philosophy and the co-directors of the Boys Philly Showcase Camp – Peter Lawrence (University of Hartford), and Taylor Wray (St. Joseph's University). Showcase lacrosse campers leave better educated not just on the lacrosse field, but also better educated about the college recruitment process, NCAA rules, strength training, and nutrition. Campers literally get to experience a couple days in the life of a college lacrosse player. Click here for more info and
Ted Spencer's Blue Chip 225 Recruiting Showcases offer college recruiting and skill training for boys from Rising Freshmen to Rising Seniors on the campus of the University of Massachusetts. There are two sessions: June 29-July 1 for Rising Sophomores, and Rising Juniors and July 6-July 8 for Rising Seniors and Rising Freshmen. The showcase includes a player evaluation session, two college level team practices, and seven games will comprise the schedule. All Stars will play in an 8th game which will be streamed online as a FREE LIVE BROADCAST. Ending on Wednesday afternoon with everyone playing in a Championship Round, this format allows both players and coaches the time necessary to recover for their commitments for other recruiting opportunities. Classes will benefit from increased college coach presence but will have separate housing, training and games. Each class will have its own all-star game. Both player and coach will benefit from 8 fields in one central location providing easy access for coach evaluations and player performance. Combining age groups will draw more coaches than ever, and the new format will allow coaches to maximize their recruiting efforts by attending a session of Blue Chip 225.
Sessions for 2015: Rising Freshmen Grad 2019 July 6 – July 8; Rising Sophomores Grad 2018 June 29 – July 1; Rising Juniors Grad 2017 June 29 – July 1; Rising Seniors Grad 2016 July 6 – July 8, 2015
More information and registration is available at http://www.bluechiplax.com
Summer Skills Camps
Upper River Lacrosse's month-long development camp in the Philly suburbs with twice-daily practices, residential options for players from across the country, skill and position development, as well as tournament play and recruiting exposure and advice. Upper River Sports combines the best of skills camps and club teams, along with the intensive high-level development model from other sports, and mixes that with the fun and friendship of a traditional summer camp. Up to 25 boys from the Class of 2019 will be accepted. Camp will run from June 16-July 20 and includes three tournaments in the region. Out-of-town athletes will be housed at Villanova University; players will practice on turf and grass fields on the Main Line outside of Philadelphia. The head coach will be Brian Scheetz, a three-time All-American and the leading scorer in the history of lacrosse at Mercyhurst University. Scheetz has been coaching at the collegiate level for the past two years and has coached with SweetLax as well as starting an overnight skills camp in his hometown in upstate New York. Goalie instructors will be in several times throughout the summer, as well as professional and Division I defensive players and face-off experts. Each week will feature numerous additional speakers and instructors on topics like basic fitness for young athletes, nutrition, and mental toughness. For more information about and camp and to find out how to register for Upper River Lax's development camp, visit www.upperriverlax.com or e-mail email@example.com.
Black Bear Lacrosse 2015 summer camps. Black Bear Lacrosse has been providing expert instruction and training at camps and clinics for over a decade. Black Bear Camp directors are all current or former high school head coaches with a passion for teaching the game. In addition to its fundamentals program, which is designed to introduce the game to beginning and intermediate players, Black Bear provides advanced technique and training for experienced players, in a fast paced, fun environment. Click here to register.
Boys Camps for 2015
Collegeville – June 22-26
Kennett – June – 22-26
Avalon 1- June 29 – July 3
West Chester – July 6-10
Ocean City 1-July 6-10
Phoenixville- July 13-17
Stone Harbor- July 20-24
Ocean City 2- July 27-31
Avalon 2- Aug. 10-14
John Nostrant youth lacrosse camps, for boys in grades 1 to 8.
Session 1 from June 15-18 at Eastern University
Session 2 from June 22-25 at The Haverford School
Session 3 from July 6-9 at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Session 4 from July 13-16 at The Haverford School.
Others on staff include Mark Petrone, one of Nostratnt's top assistants at Haverford School; Kevin Wallace, Head Lacrosse Coach at Eastern University; and Mike DelGrande, Head Lacrosse Coach at Springside Chestnut Hill.
Visit www.jnlacrosse.com to register. If you would like more information about Nostrant Lacrosse Camps, contact Mark Petrone, firstname.lastname@example.com
QuickStick Day Camp, La Salle College High School, run by La Salle Hall of Fame coach Bill Leahy and his staff, June 22-26, from 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM, boys aged 5 to 16. The original Quickstick Lacrosse Camp location! Since 1993 boys and girls have been enjoying camp at La Salle. This camp highlights stick skills, team concepts, and the much anticipated camp tournament. Campers enjoy live DJ music on the field, lunch for purchase in the school cafeteria, guest speakers in the lecture hall, and a high fidelity action packed video session in the "star trek" room. The last four years this camp has SOLD OUT with over 225 total campers.
HEADstrong Combine at La Salle College High School, June 29-July 1, from 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM, Boys Entering 5th thru 8th Grade, HEADstrong Combine is a specialty lacrosse camp designed to focus on stickwork, shooting, speed and strength run by La Salle Hall of Fame coach Bill leahy and his staff. Campers will experience specific drills and exercises to dramatically improve these key areas. This camp is for boys entering 5th through 8th grade and are considered to be intermediate to advanced players. The HEADstrong North Club Teams (5th/6th, 7th, and 8th grade teams) are organized and run by the HEADstrong Foundation in conjunction with the La Salle College High School lacrosse team coaching staff. This combine will introduce players to both the HEADstrong Foundation and HEADstrong Lacrosse Club. This camp is a great way to improve as a player, serve a great cause, and introduce yourself to the HEADstrong North Lacrosse CLub coaching staff.
Millon camps, Overnight and Day Camps Available, for boys aged 8 to 17, June 22-26, The Perkiomen School. Millon camps have been operating for over 20 years and trained over 20,000 campers. Every camper will receive a free warrior lacrosse stick; Million Lacrosse teaches basics to younger, less experienced players and more challenging skill sets to more accomplished players; for over 20 years Mark Million is on the field and DIRECTS every camp and oversees every aspect of the week; all facets of the game for all positions are covered in creative teaching settings, using both large group lectures and small intimate teaching scenarios; every camper receives a personalized written evaluation detailing detailing strengths and weaknesses and direction on how to become a better player. Click here for more info and registration.
Malvern Prep Lacrosse Camp, July 13-16 for boys in Grades 1 to 8. The camp is player-focused and uses a comprehensive teaching progression to serve the needs of beginning, intermediate and experienced players. Campers progress through daily fundamental station work, individual positional work, competitive position drills, systematic unsettled concepts as well as team play where new skills and concepts are applied. There will also be daily specialized coaching in goalie play and face-offs. Staff: Steve Holmes- Malvern Prep Varsity Assistant Coach; Nick Pison- Malvern Prep Head JV Coach; Todd MacFarlane- Malvern Prep Varsity Assistant Coach; as well as other Malvern Prep Lacrosse Coaching Staff members and current NCAA players.
Cost: $205.00; Times: 9:00 am- 12pm; Registration: www.malvernsummerprograms.com/content/camps/sport-camps_lacrosse
Space is limited and has filled up quickly in the past so please register ASAP if you are planning on attending these programs.
Holy Ghost Prep Lacrosse Camp, July 20-24, for boys aged 8 to 14. Camp Director: HGP Head Coach Ryan Tessler. New England Black Wolves standout/NXT Showcase Director and HGP Alumni Brett Manney will be a guest counselor along with past HGP alums who compete at the collegiate level. They will offer expertise in defense, dodging, shooting, faceoffs, goalie play and stick skills. Campers will get to experience the HGP Varsity Experience learning from counselor demos, video and competition. The camp offers a chance to develop skills, build confidence and become a better player. There will be daily competitions for camp prizes and lacrosse gear. It will also be a great opportunity to see the HGP Campus and Athletic Facilities.
Click here to register.
Contact: email@example.com or 215-639-2102 x220
Girls' skills camps
Navy women's lacrosse camps, are designed to teach and develop the fundamental skills of the game, as well as team concepts in a fun, educational and confidence building environment. It is a chance to learn sportsmanship, leadership and teamwork. It is also a great opportunity to meet other young lacrosse players and experience different coaching techniques from some of the best coaches in the nation.
Dates: Session I: June 15-16; Session II: June 17-18. Times: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Ages: 5 years to 12 years of age. Price: One Session – $160; Both Sessions – $300
Details: This clinic is specifically designed to teach and develop the fundamental skills of the game: throwing, catching, shooting, ground balls, offensive and defensive skills, feeding and confidence level improvement, in a fun and educational atmosphere. Goalie instruction will be offered.
Registration: Click here for more info and to sign up.
Date: June 17-18. Ages: Rising high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. Cost: $400
Details: This is a high intensity, action packed two-day clinic for the Elite player who aspires to compete at the ollegiate level. Sessions will include drills with an emphasis on mastery of individual skills as well as creativity in stickwork and shooting. Players will focus on perfecting offensive strategies and high pressure defensive schemes. The Navy Lacrosse Goalie School will be run by US National Team Player, Meg Huether. The Elite Gold Clinic will include full field scrimmages, an evening program on Wed night and prizes! This clinic allows you the opportunity to learn from some of the best coaches in the country! This is a two-day clinic. Overnight accommodations are not provided. A list of local hotels is available.
Registration: Click here for more info and to sign up
Date: June 23-25. Ages: Rising sixth-, seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders. Cost: $550
Details: This overnight camp is designed for players of all ability levels. There is a strong emphasis on mastering skills as well as moving on to more advanced parts of the game. Sessions will focus on individual skills, team concepts and full field play. Campers will be divided by age and skill level in order to provide the appropriate learning environment. Goalie instruction will be offered.
Registration: Click here for more info and to sign up
Black Bear Lacrosse summer camps. Black Bear Lacrosse has been providing expert instruction and training at camps and clinics for over a decade. Black Bear Camp directors are all current or former high school head coaches with a passion for teaching the game. In addition to its fundamentals program, which is designed to introduce the game to beginning and intermediate players, Black Bear provides advanced technique and training for experienced players, in a fast paced, fun environment.
Click here to register.
Girls Camps for 2015
Avalon 1- June 29 – July 3
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Monday, February 23, 2009
OK Guys, I Still Love Y'All, or: What Happened to My Followers?
In similar fashion, I signed into my blog this P.M. and noticed a precipitous drop in my followers – OK, for my small numbers that means a handful, but still, it was noticeable. I was pretty sure I hadn't stupidly hit the wrong button to block anyone and moderately sure I hadn't said anything to offend any group and besides, some of the "missing in action" were faithful followers. So I went to Blogger Help, selected "Known Issues for Blogger," and put "followers" in the search box, which brought up the following message, dated today:
"You may have noticed that the count of your public Followers has decreased over the last few hours. [Darn tootin', I did.] We are in the process of integrating with Google Friend Connect. [Oh, joy.]
There are a few users that already use both Blogger Following and Google Friend Connect. To avoid linking the profiles of Blogger and Friend Connect users without their permission, we have set these users to "anonymous". They are still following privately and will able to make themselves public again.
After the official launch of the Friend Connect integration, we will communicate with the affected users and instruct them how to reset their relationship to public. To reiterate: the number of Followers has not changed, and we believe that the launch will improve the visibility of your blog and community. We will post more details on Blogger Buzz as the launch approaches."
I think that this "integration" does not affect me as a follower, since I am not on Google Friend Connect, so if your blog is on Blogger and you have the follower function you should still see R.B. Koehl trying to catch that balloon.
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Well, I don't see my name under Followers, even if I click View All. I tried clicking Follow to make sure I was following your blog and it said I was already a follower. I think I should be able to see my own name and picture under Followers. I do on most blogs. I am not a member of Google Friend Connect. Maybe they will get it fixed in a few days.ReplyDelete
At one point I signed into dashboard and it told me that I was not following any blogs. Hah! I'm glad I always add everything onto the "Blogs I Follow" item on the blog page, so I can always follow from there (and often do). From what you say, it appears that they messed things up more than they are claiming. No surprise there (you can see my experience with computers makes me very cynical).ReplyDelete
Thanks for the information. When you only have a few you notice even one missing. Glad I didn't say the wrong thing to someone.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the info! I noticed that I have the same issue as Debbie. I am following your blog, but I am not listed under your followers. When I click to follow you, it says I already am! I also am not a member of Google Friend Connect. I noticed earlier this evening that I couldn't comment on another site. Maybe Blogger is just glitchy tonight???ReplyDelete
Thanks for the investigative sleuthing. I updated my whiny blog post to give you the credit you desrve for solving the mystery.ReplyDelete
My thanks to you, Greta, for solving the mystery. I, too, had the same problems, and now I understand what has happened.ReplyDelete
It appears that Blogger's explanation solves some people's problem but not others. Guess we'll have to wait to see whether this will get sorted out in the next day or two. I also got an e-mail saying that a comment I had posted on another blog yesterday had bounced, though I'm not sure it actually did. So all sorts of crazy things are still happening. And Amy, I didn't think your post was whiny - some of the weird things that happen can make you really paranoid!ReplyDelete
Isn't it great to see you're still loved, Greta? I had all the same problems and figured something was wrong with Blogger, but you did the investigative work for us! Thank you. I've had trouble getting "word verification" to load on some blogs too---so my comments don't get loaded. Maybe there's a connection there too. I'm patient--I'll wait and have confidence it'll get worked out. Blogger has so many wonderful features that make it so easy to blog! This shows how we depend on our "Followers" and how much attention we pay to them and how important they are to us!ReplyDelete
I hadn't even noticed until I just read your post and then checked
my dashboard. I have 8 followers
gone missing.
Ah well, hopefully it will straighten out soon!
This is particularly @Debbie and @Andrea Christman - you were both in the set of 30k users who's following relationships were changed to private.
One thing you can do:
On your dashboard under the reading list there should be a button that says "Manage" that will lead you to the "manage blogs you follow" page. Click that. Do the blogs all say "anonymous"? You can change each relationship back to "public" and your face will re-appear in the gadget, but be aware that when we enable the Blogger/Friend Connect integration (ideally in a few days) the fact that you follow this blog will suddenly be broadcast everywhere that you use Friend Connect.
In this particular case we have a record of both of you having used Friend Connect before. I'd rather not post which site(s) on this blog (it's nothing embarrassing, but we take privacy seriously) but if you want the info just leave a post in our help center http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help and I'll try to mail you the info
This comment has been removed by the author.ReplyDelete
Whew! Thought I had gone crazy. I have 6 gone from Genealogy Traces. Last night I was talking to my cousin at Camp Across Texas w/Skip and Kay and she was panicky too. Her blog is new and she said "I only have 2 followers. The others have deserted me!" Now I'll share your post with her. I know it's made me feel better. Thanks, Greta.ReplyDelete
Hm, it appears as though the process of integration will take a while. I have one follower back, but it seems that each person has to do the fix individually.ReplyDelete
Well, I did as Henry recommended and went to "Manage Blogs" from my Dashboard and sure enough, I was marked as anonymous in following most of my blogs. I had to change EACH one back to "Public" and now my photo shows up in the "Followers" window in the blogs that I follow. I don't remember signing up for Friend Connect and am a little unsure of what that is all about, so that is kind of a mystery to me! I sign up for a lot of web 2.0 stuff and then forget about so it is possible that I got an account in the past....but I don't even know what it is! Oh well...I'll figure it out eventually :-) I also had to disable the word verification on my own blog because I noticed that I wasn't getting any comments. Henry mentioned that they were having issues with that feature on some blogs. I guess I will leave it that way until or if I start getting spam and then I will change it back to word verification again!ReplyDelete
Yes, this looks like a slow and laborious process. Sigh...ReplyDelete


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Work resumes after L.A. port strike ends
LOS ANGELES Work resumed Wednesday at the nation's busiest port complex after a crippling strike was settled, ending an eight-day walk-off that affected thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in cargo.
Gates at the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors reopened, and dockworkers were ready to resume loading and unloading at least 13 ships that had been stuck for days, Los Angeles port spokesman Phillip Sanfield said.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the deal shortly after 10:30 p.m. PT Tuesday night, CBS affiliate KCAL-TV reported.
"I think it's appropriate to say mission accomplished," he said. ""I want to thank the parties. This was a tough negotiation."} }
Ray Familathe, vice president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, noted that the deal still needs to be ratified by the union's Clerical Office, but said that wouldn't be a problem.
"I'm really pleased to tell all of you that my 10,000 longshore workers in the ports of L.A. and Long Beach are going to start moving cargo on these ships," said Familathe. "We're going to get these ships serviced, and we're going to get cargo moved throughout the supply chain and the country, and get everybody those Christmas presents that they're looking for in those stores."
Television reports showed huge cargo vessels moving into port, and a line of trucks waiting to enter a terminal.
Clerical workers who said that shippers were sending their jobs overseas struck on Nov. 27 and thousands of dockworkers in the same union refused to cross picket lines, paralyzing much of the port complex that handles 44 percent of all container cargo that arrives by sea nationwide, including items such as cars from Japan and computers from China.
Negotiators reached a tentative agreement to end the strike late Tuesday, two hours after federal mediators arrived from Washington, D.C. No details about the terms of the deal had been released by early Wednesday, though a statement from the workers' union said it had won new protections preventing jobs from being outsourced.
Port officials estimated that roughly $760 million worth of cargo a day was failing to move through the ports during the walkout. Some 20 ships diverted to other ports in California and Mexico while others scheduled to reach Southern California simply didn't sail.
It wasn't immediately clear specifically which goods were affected; holiday items had arrived weeks ago.
Days of negotiations that included all-night bargaining sessions suddenly went from a stalemate to big leaps of progress by Tuesday. Mayor Villaraigosa said the sides were already prepared to take a vote when the mediators arrived.
At issue during the lengthy negotiations was the union's contention that terminal operators wanted to outsource future clerical jobs out of state and overseas -- an allegation the shippers denied.
Shippers said they wanted the flexibility not to fill jobs that were no longer needed as clerks quit or retired. They said they promised the current clerks lifetime employment.
The strike began when 450 members of the ILWU's local clerical workers unit walked off their jobs. The clerks had been working without a contract for more than two years.
The walkout quickly closed 10 of the ports' 14 terminals when some 10,000 dockworkers, members of different unit of the same union, refused to cross picket lines.
Even though the deal was reached soon after their arrival, the federal mediators said they had little to do with the solution.
"In the final analysis, it worked. The parties reached their own agreement," said George Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. "There is no question in my mind that collective bargaining is the best example of industrial democracy in action."
During the strike, both sides said salaries, vacation, pensions and other benefits were not a major issue.
The clerks, who make an average base salary of $87,000 a year, have some of the best-paying blue-collar jobs in the nation. When vacation, pension and other benefits are factored in, the employers said, their annual compensation package reached $165,000 a year.
"We know we're blessed," one of the strikers, Trinnie Thompson, said during the walkout. "We're very thankful for our jobs. We just want to keep them."
Union leaders said if future jobs were not kept at the ports, the result would be another section of the U.S. economy taking a serious economic hit so that huge corporations could increase their profit margins by exploiting people in other states and countries who would be forced to work for less.
After the deal was reached, the ports' management said they were "delighted that the terminals will be operating again, that the cargo will be flowing."
The clerks handle such tasks as filing invoices and billing notices, arranging dock visits by customs inspectors, and ensuring that cargo moves off the dock quickly and gets where it's supposed to go.
Villaraigosa, who had been calling for the two sides to reach a deal for days, said he was pleased by the resolution.
"I think it's appropriate to say `mission accomplished,"' he said.


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American Muslims Are Moderate and Peaceful… Who Knew?
by: Saadia Faruqi on May 2nd, 2013 | 5 Comments »
The Pew Research Center this week revealed another extensive and newsworthy piece of research: The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society. The results of the survey, which consisted of more than 38,000 interviews of Muslims in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia in approximately 80 languages, reveals many things on many topics. Some revelations are interesting, others curious, and a few even downright alarming. As an American Muslim, though, I was mostly interested in the appendices, which discuss the attitudes of U.S. Muslims and compared them to similar themes among Muslims of other countries. Here's my take:
First and foremost I was happy to read that American Muslims are some of the most moderate and peace loving in the world. For instance, 81% American Muslims say suicide bombings and other forms of violence against civilian targets are never justified. That's not to say Muslims of other countries overwhelmingly agree with violence, in fact most Muslims worldwide also reject this type of violence, but have a lower rate of rejection than Americans. Interestingly, it seems that America Muslims also are more moderate in cultural and societal aspects of their lives. 63% say there is no inherent tension between being devout and living in a modern society; nearly identical proportion of American Christians (64%) agree. On the other hand, fewer worldwide Muslims share the view that modern life and religious devotion are not at odds (global median of 54%).To me, that's a telling comparison, because modern culture is often cited as pulling people of all faiths away from religious practices. That Muslims in the United States are able to balance their American experience with their religious traditions says much about their resilience, flexibility and open minds.
For those curious about the reasons for these differences between Muslims here and abroad, I think the survey itself points out to a critical one: interaction with other faiths. The surveys reports that although almost half of U.S. Muslims say that all (7%) or most (41%) of their close friends are other Muslims, another half say that some (36%) or hardly any (14%) of their close friends are Muslim. I believe that we as American Muslims receive a huge benefit from befriending and ultimately learning from other religious groups. Whether you talk about religion or not, having a friend, neighbor or acquaintance who believes differently from you will factor enormously in your world view. People who have multicultural friendships also have fewer stereotypes and fewer negative feelings about other religious groups. By contrast, the surveys showed that Muslims in other countries nearly universally report that all or most of their close friends are Muslim (global median of 95%). Even Muslims who are religious minorities in their countries are less likely than U.S. Muslims to have friendships with non-Muslims. For example, 78% of Russian Muslims and 96% of Thai Muslims say most or all of their close friends are Muslim.
It's no surprise to interfaith activists such as me that interfaith dialogue and relationship building between groups can pave the way towards peace and prosperity. Americans of all faiths would do well to remember this important fact: ignorance breeds hate, and who wants to be ignorant? Look outside your own social circle, make a new friend, one who looks and prays differently. Join or start an interfaith discussion group, such as a book club or a student's study group. Read a book about another faith, ask questions, understand and celebrate each other's differences. In the long run, we will all be better off with an open mind and an inclusive attitude.


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Oral Health Benefits (& Other Benefits) from Strawberries
By Dr. Harold Katz – Bad Breath Expert
Posted: April 23, 2009
Posted: April 23, 2009
Not only are strawberries tasty, but they also have many health benefits. Its vitamins and minerals help the physical well being. It even has various oral care benefits; for instance, it strengthens the gums and helps heal bleeding gums. One can also remove tartar from their teeth by rubbing strawberry slices on them. When using strawberries to remove tartar, leave the juice on the teeth as long as possible to dissolve the tartar, and then rinse the mouth with warm water. Strawberries also help prevent oral cancer and can even help whiten teeth. It is an anti oxidant and prevents chronic conditions such as heart disease. It improves the circulation of oxygen in the blood and body and improves the memory. It is also skin cleansing, a sluggish liver, gout, rheumatism, constipation, high blood pressure, and even syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease. Nutritive Value : Per 100 gm. * Vitamin A : 60 I.U. * Vitamin B : Thiamine .03 mg.; * Vitamin C : 60 mg. * Calcium : 28 mg. * Phosphorus : 27 mg. * Potassium : 220 mg. * Carbohydrates : 8.3 gm * Calories : 37
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Diablo 3 PlayStation 3 pre-orders get XP helm
It's been almost a year since Diablo 3 was unleashed, but the game has gotten some renewed attention because of the console versions that are in development. Now, you can start pre-ordering the PlayStation 3 version of the game and get an in-game item to make power-leveling easier.
Walmart, Amazon and GameStop have now started taking pre-orders for the game, and dropping $59.99 in advance will get you the Infernal Helm, which will grant your console character more experience points as you progress through the game. The helm will be wearable by all your PS3 characters, but it is not transferable to any PC toons. The redeemable code will be available in the box when you receive your game after it is released.
There are still no release details yet, or any announcement if the game will be coming to Xbox 360. Of course, Blizzard could be biding its time until May 21 to announce its popular dungeon crawler at Microsoft's Next Xbox event, as it did when it revealed the PS3 and PS4 versions of the game for Sony in February.


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Join registered student organizations on campus but searching groups of interest!
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A packed crowd at Helium witnessed the cream-of-the-cream of Philadelphia comedy last night during the finals of the Philly's Phunniest Competition. Beginning almost 2 and a half months ago with 165 comedians, the field had been whittled down to 10 Finalists, who took the stage in order to see who would walk away with the title. The was a true spectacle – each comedian was worthy of raucous laughter, wild applause, and probably a $1,000 prize, but there can only be one winner. Surely those who missed out on this will be kicking themselves for a long time… for those unfortunate souls, here's a taste of what you missed:
Below are the first and last words spoken on stage by each of 2011's Philly's Funniest Finalists:
(Comedian – First Word // Last Word)
Host Dave Smith – Thanks // Night
Pat Barker – Thank // Thanks
John McKeever – Hey // You
Chip Chantry – So // Everybody
Gary Vider – Thanks // Evening
Andy Nolan – Alright // Much
Mike Rainey – Alright // Rainey
Tommy Pope – Hey // Thanks
Gordon Baker-Bone – Yeah // Night
Pat House – Thank // Night
Darryl Charles – Yay // Everybody
Headliner Big Jay Oakerson – Thank // Around
Congratulations to all ten finalists, but a little extra congratulations to Tommy Pope who deservedly was named winner of 2011's Philly's Funniest. And to everyone who missed the show – you're welcome!


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Facebook Ad Rates Hold as Inventory Rises, Easing Price ConcernsBrian Womack
Facebook Ad Rates Hold as Inventory Rises, Easing Price ConcernsBrian Womack
Facebook Inc., the biggest social network, said advertising rates have held up even after it added new ways for marketers to promote products, allaying concern that prices would decline as inventory surged.
Rates for so-called self-serve ads, which are sold through an automated auction system and account for most of sales, are unchanged since March, when the company completed a redesign to add promotions under photos and increase the number of spots on some pages to as many as five from three, Facebook said.
"We have hundreds of thousands of advertisers around the world -- that continues to grow," said David Fischer, vice president, advertising and global operations. Without disclosing rates, he said, "We continue to feel good about where we are."
Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to profit from advertisers trying to reach his company's 714 million users, needs to sustain ad prices amid competition from Google Inc. and Twitter Inc. Facebook must also avoid alienating users with a deluge of promotions, said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at research firm Gartner Inc.
"There's a certain point where you get a backlash, like watching a TV show with too many commercials," Gartenberg said. "Right now we're not seeing any backlash, but it's something they're going to have to keep tweaking in terms of design."
Facebook's Fischer says the company takes steps to ensure that new ad features don't drive users away.
'Constantly Testing'
"We're constantly testing new ad formats," Fischer said. "We've found, frankly, that users are getting value and advertisers getting value in putting more ads in."
Facebook, which gets more of Web users' time than any other site, will more than double global ad revenue to $4.05 billion this year, according to EMarketer Inc., an Internet research firm based in New York.
"Facebook is really offering advertising that can attract companies large and small," said Debra Aho Williamson, an EMarketer analyst. "It's really gunning on all fronts."
About 60 percent of Facebook's advertising revenue comes from self-serve ads, Williamson said. Companies bid for spots on user pages based on those people's demographics or interests. These ads typically show up on profile pages or near photos.
The rest of revenue comes from ads placed on the home pages, where users typically begin sessions on the site. These spots are sold by Facebook's in-house marketing staff.
Price Swings
As Facebook tested new features in recent months, some companies that help businesses buy ads on the site experienced price swings.
The average cost per click for self-serve ads dropped to 95 cents from $1.36 in June, said Hussein Fazal, CEO of AdParlor Inc., a Toronto-based promotion-placement company.
Another Internet advertising service, IgnitionOne Inc., said U.S. spending by repeat Facebook clients surged 22 percent in the second quarter.
Game developer Casual Collective Inc., doing business as Kixeye, has had prices increases of about 20 percent over the past six months as it has used more targeted ads, said CEO Will Harbin. He spends more than $1 million a month of Facebook and credits those promotions with a more than 10-fold increase in customers.
"It's been profitable and we've grown our games, so it's gone quite well," Harbin said. "It's much easier to target the correct demographic on Facebook."


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As you can imagine, this gets confusing and hard to manage. We are wondering whether having all these domains set up in WMT could be doing any damage? Here http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=44231 it says:
"If you see a message that your site is not indexed, it may be because it is indexed under a different domain. For example, if you receive a message that http://example.com is not indexed, make sure that you've also added http://www.example.com to your account (or vice versa), and check the data for that site."
The above quote suggests that there is no harm in having several versions of a site set up in WMT, however the article then goes on to say:
"Once you tell us your preferred domain name, we use that information for all future crawls of your site and indexing refreshes. For instance, if you specify your preferred domain as http://www.example.com and we find a link to your site that is formatted as http://example.com, we follow that link as http://www.example.com instead."
This suggests that having multiple versions of the site loaded in WMT may cause Google to continue crawling multiple versions instead of only crawling the desired versions (https://www.ourdomain.com + .co.nz, .co.uk, .com.au).
However, even if Google does crawl any URLs on the non https versions of the site (ie ourdomain.com or www.ourdomain.com), these 301 to https://www.ourdomain.com anyway... so shouldn't that mean that google effectively can not crawl any non https://www versions (if it tries to they redirect)? If that was the case, you'd expect that the ourdomain.com and www.ourdomain.com versions would show no pages indexed in WMT, however the oposite is true. The ourdomain.com and www.ourdomain.com versions have plenty of pages indexed but the https versions have no data under Index Status section of WMT, but rather have this message instead:
Data for https://www.ourdomain.com/ is not available. Please try a site with http:// protocol: http://www.ourdomain.com/.
This is a problem as it means that we can't delete these profiles from our WMT account.
Any thoughts on the above would be welcome.
As an aside, it seems like WMT is picking up on the 301 redirects from all ourdomain.com or www.ourdomain.com domains at least with links - No ourdomain.com or www.ourdomain.com URLs are registering any links in WMT, suggesting that Google is seeing all links pointing to URLs on these domains as 301ing to https://www.ourdomain.com ... which is good, but again means we now can't delete https://www.ourdomain.com either, so we are stuck with 12 profiles in WMT... what a pain....
Thanks for taking the time to read the above, quite complicated, sorry!! Would love any thoughts...
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REM Cascade Hydraulic Chair - Platin
Product code: 904187S
€357.00 ex VAT (€439.11 inc VAT)
The Cascade Hydraulic Styling chair has been created to match the Cascade Wash Unit. Available in any of the REM colours. Cascade comes with a 5 star base as standard, and a choice of 3 different bases as options
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Product information
Cascade is designed using an efficient one-piece frame. A stylish design with a waterfall front edge for a comfortable leg position. Chrome plated angular arms complete the look. Cascade Wash Unit available.
Multiple colour options are available – You will be contacted after placing your order to confirm your colour choices.
Standard Equipment
- Chrome plated locking hydraulic pump with 5 star base
Main Construction & Finish
- Interior plywood seatboard with foam filling and soft foam topper on seat
- Finished in any colour fabric from the REM range.
- Width 60cm
- Height to Seat Base 52-63cm
- Full Height 83cm
- Depth 64cm
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Money can't buy a new past. For the moment, however, the three Cleveland kidnapping victims have something to be thankful for as they move forward: A fund set up in their name has raised more than $1 million.
Late Monday night, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight made their first spoken statements since the three women -- as well as a 6-year-old girl born to Berry during her captivity -- were rescued May 6.
The women have been carefully shielded from public attention since details of their horrific decadelong captivity came to light. Ariel Castro, 52, was arrested after the women escaped from his home, and faces 300 charges, including kidnapping and rape.
On camera, the women again asked for privacy. The crisis-consulting media firm that helped produce the video -- Hennes-Paynter Communications -- noted on its website that the women had asked the firm and their attorneys not to give follow-up interviews.
So why speak now?
"Amanda, Gina and Michelle wanted to say thank you to people from Cleveland and across the world, now that two months have passed," Kathy Joseph, the attorney for Michelle Knight, said in a written statement.
"People are recognizing them now as they go about in public, so they decided to put voices and faces to their heartfelt messages," Joseph said. "It was their decision to relay their thanks in this way to all of the many people who have offered support to them, for which they are extremely grateful."
Much of that support, monetarily speaking, has come through the Cleveland Courage Fund, which was set up to gather donations for the women and Berry's daughter.
As of July 2, according to the fund's website, the fund had amassed more than $1.05 million from 9,200 donations.
"It's nothing more than giving from the heart," Christopher Kelly, one of the advisors to the fund, told the Los Angeles Times in a phone interview. "That's all it is. No strings attached, no mission, no politics, no agendas. You give money, it's going to go help these girls with their basic day-to-day living expenses, as well as the recovery process."
Kelly said there will be trusts set up for each of the survivors, with the intention of splitting the money four ways. The fund, which was started by three Cleveland City Council members, is not tax-deductible, he said, and trustees are expected to help guide dispersals.
Kelly expected a spike in donations if there were a trial for Castro, though in previous statements hoping for "prompt" legal resolution, the women have hinted that a trial may be personally painful.
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Mount Scoria rises up from the surrounding cultivated plains, a single and spectacular highlight against an otherwise flat landscape. Across its peak, multi-sided rocks are regimented into large vertical and semi-vertical pillars or columns, blunt at the top as if they'd been cropped. Not only odd in shape, the columns are also unique for the sound they make when struck.
Still standing tall after 25 million years, Mount Scoria's exceptional staying power is due to the hard volcanic rock that lay at the core, exposed only after the softer surface had weathered away.
The work of a small volcano, the mountain is actually a basalt plug and the dramatic, angular-shaped rocks the result of the cooling process. The six-sided columns cooled slowly and evenly, while the five, seven, or eight-sided columns cooled much faster and erratically.
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Since Pope Francis, seemingly a warm, likable man, began his papacy with a little self-deprecating joke about how the cardinals had to look "to the ends of the Earth" to find the new Bishop of Rome, it's reasonable to assume that the first non-European to lead the Roman Catholic Church in more than 1,200 years has a decent sense of humor. He'll need it.
Papal humor certainly dominated social-media feeds this week as we witnessed the first selection process of a pontiff to offer so many opportunities for real-time comment. What a fascinating cultural moment: the ancient theatricality and gravitas of the rituals of the Catholic Church combined with real-time contemporary irony popping up alongside.
There were puns: "that popey-changey thing." There was the handicapping of likely names: Earl Grey I, Rusty III and Jonesy all showed up on Facebook. There were numerous laments of being personally, and inexplicably, passed over for the job or of "not having booked the Pope gig," and soothing responses along the lines of "there's always next time." The sheer force of the smoke pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney led some to various versions of "hope cardinals OK in there." Fresh from North Korea and to the delight of those that tweet, the publicity-loving Dennis Rodman showed up in Rome, apparently to help the Ghanaian Peter Turkson, who would have been the first black pope, had the smoke gone in his favor. Reportedly, Rodman, a one-man circus in a city that once fed Christians to the lions, did not know much about his candidate. Self-evidently, he was less than influential.
Later, some wondered if the white smoke "had that new pope smell." Once Francis was revealed to be the choice, look-alikes were immediately posited on msn.com and elsewhere: Jonathan Pryce was one popular doppelganger. Joan Rivers chastened the new pontiff for "wearing white before Memorial Day." "Pope Fran...tastic," tweeted Jimmy Kimmel.
And no sooner had the smoke cleared than The Onion put out the headline "Pope Francis Resigns."
"The Catholic world was rocked today," went the story, "as 76-year-old Pope Francis I announced plans to step down at the end of the month."
But for all that humor — coupled, it must be noted, with delight from those who admired the new pope's reputation for walking among the poor and his symbolic rise as a leader from the Southern Hemisphere, as well as anger and disappointment from those who had hoped for a more reformist candidate — what emerged most powerfully this week was the masterful stagecraft of this selection process, all the more riveting for seeming so archaic. The sheer force of the contrast between how things are done at the Vatican and how things now move elsewhere only added to the huge global fascination with a process that has stood all tests of time and seems only to have gained potency.
Suspense was seemingly artfully built. The rounds of voting may have had a secondary motive: Had that white smoke come pouring out of the chimney on the first go-around, there would have been such disappointment all around. When a decision is made prayerfully and in vowed seclusion — that's enough to stand out these days — it must come with the dignity of time, just as a savvy jury does not return too quickly. But it was also as if the cardinals had sensed that the world moves so much faster nowadays and that constant black smoke now could only sustain so many news cycles. Dithering looks like controversy, which is the enemy of unity and an underminer of power. The white stuff perhaps had to be delayed enough for the appointment to have the requisite gravitas, but not so long that people lost interest. And thus, the show moved strikingly quickly and authoritatively.
"White smoke, white smoke," went the whisper around so many offices and homes, as people gathered to hear who had won favor.
It was a formidable dramatic and mystical symbol. We can't normally control the color of smoke, which seems to operate in our regular lives according to its own billowing rules. But in Rome, it tells of news, like an ancient messenger on a hill above Athens. And just like the fires of Ancient Greece or the cry of a far-away horn, the imminent arrival of the news came before the details thereof. Who was not riveted? Rarely today is information imparted in this way. At the Vatican, they know when to speed things up and they know when to slow things down.
Before long, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio had emerged from the sea of red, staring out at the faithful at dusk in St. Peter's Square, a breathtaking beautiful vista. Since Christianity requires humility of its leaders, it was crucial that this process also had a mechanism for the new pope to show us that the richness of the ritual should not be equated with newly acquired hubris or power. And thus there was a symbolic side door through which the new pope could quietly and briefly return to the real world, outside of the Vatican, paying his own Rome residence bill, picking up his own bags and maybe looking around one last time, before returning to start Act 1 of a very tough show in which to star.


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The last option for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is determined not to back down after 21 months of deadly conflict, is to battle to the end from a fortified Alawite statelet, analysts believe.
Driven from large swathes of territory in the north and east by rebels, the army is now focused on maintaining its grip on the key axis stretching from Damascus to the central province of Homs and on to the coastal Alawite heartland.
The embattled al-Assad will "cling to power until the end, even if it means more massacres," Middle East analyst Agnes Levallois said of the prolonged crackdown and fighting that the UN says has left more than 60,000 dead.
"The longer he hangs on, the more assured he becomes of his ability to stay in power ... not through retaking the whole country, but by holding onto Damascus, the key junction of Homs Province and the route to the Alawite mountains," she said.
"Bashar's [al-Assad's] options are to stay put in Damascus and try to retake areas lost ... or perhaps a reconstituted Alawite-dominated area on the Syrian coast," Washington Institute for Near East Policy analyst Andrew Tabler said.
"The regime will be forced out of the north and east soon, although it seems at a terrible price ... with more artillery and missiles, and the threat of chemical weapons," Tabler said.
The regime has since the middle of last year claimed to be launching its final crackdown on rebels in the Damascus suburbs.
Levallois said al-Assad "still has the ability to control Damascus for months before considering the option of the Alawite region," a coastal stronghold of his co-religionists from the offshoot branch of Shiite Islam.
It is an open secret, Syrians and analysts said, that the army had arsenals throughout the Alawite mountains between the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartus, long before the outbreak of the uprising in mid-March 2011.
These arms depots have not yet been used by the about 120,000 troops still loyal to Damascus, analysts say.
With these strengths, "al-Assad is not considering dialogue because he feels — wrongly of course — that he can win and that he still has the resources to reject negotiations on his departure," Levallois said.
She believes that al-Assad is squandering his chances to leave on his own terms.
"He could have capitalized on [UN and Arab League peace envoy] Lakhdar Brahimi's visit to Damascus and the openings by the Russians to explore the possibility for dialogue. Instead, he resorted to even greater violence," she said.
"If al-Assad refuses the Brahimi initiative, it means he is really living in a total bubble, cut off from the world with zero sense of reality, or thinks that forces on the ground can still ensure his survival," Levallois said.
On the heels of a flurry of diplomacy, including trips to key Damascus ally Moscow, Brahimi announced a proposal to end the conflict in Syria through a ceasefire, the formation of a new government and elections.
However, the plan did not specify the fate of al-Assad, whose departure is a given for the Syrian opposition before any national dialogue can take place.
International Crisis Group Syria specialist Peter Harling, a at the, said the al-Assad regime has stuck to the same logic since the crisis began.
"He believes he is defending himself, and by extension Syria, against an aggression that leaves him no other option," Harling said.


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- Arabic is the official language in Oman, but English is also widely spoken.
- The currency of Oman is the Omani Rial. Major credit and debit cards are widely accepted throughout the country, besides there are plenty of ATMs in Oman.
- Water is considered safe but bottled water is better just in case.
- Don't leave Oman without some frankincense, shisha pipe, a coffee Dallah.
- Oman is a liberal place. However, it is advisable to dress modestly, when entering places of worship (shoulders to knees should be covered).
- It is offensive to take pictures of people without asking them for permission.
- The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque is indeed grand! Explore at the second largest chandelier in the world and the huge prayer rug that took 27 months to weave.
- Take a 4WD jeep tour to discover the multicolored sand of the desert of the Wahiba Sands.
- Cruise your way past the breathtaking mountains and relax on cushions and carpets aboard a traditional Omani dhow.
- Explore the oasis of Al Hamra surrounded by the majestic Hajar Mountains.
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Dino Risi, 91; a director who chronicled and satirized postwar Italy (June 7)
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Charles H. Joffe, 78; co-produced nearly all of Woody Allen's films (July 9)
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Youssef Chahine, 82; one of Egypt's most lauded movie directors (July 27)
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John Michael Hayes, 89; a two-time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter best known for four Alfred Hitchcock films of the 1950s, including "Rear Window" and "To Catch a Thief" (Nov. 19)
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