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The "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise got a big shot in the arm with the addition of Ian McShane as the dreaded pirate Blackbeard.
"On Stranger Tides," the fourth installment in the "Pirates" saga, will feature McShane and Johnny Depp in a race to find the fountain of youth, reports Variety.
Few do "evil villain" like McShane, who has honed his monstrosity to razor-sharp precision in "Deadwood" and "Sexy Beast." Sadly, he'll have to clean up his language a bit when he's on board this Disney cruise, but he is still sure to be as menacing as you can hope.
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McShane could be just what "Pirates" needs. The first film was a surprisingly entertaining ride -- particularly when you consider it's based on an amusement park ride -- but the fun has been flagging since, which is pretty much what happens after too many runs on any ride.
McShane most recently starred in "44 Inch Chest," a British gangster film from the writing team responsible for "Beast." "44" was a near-great film that sadly lost the plot in the third act.
Penelope Cruz had earlier signed on to join "Pirates 4," which is being directed by Oscar winner Rob Marshall. With movies like "Nine" and "Chicago" on his resume, one wonders if this next film will be a musical. Please don't.


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The Houston Dynamo fell to a 2-0 loss to the Seattle Sounders Sunday night at Qwest Field in Seattle, extending Houston's winless streak in MLS play to a club-worst nine games (0-5-4). The Dynamo return to action Saturday night with another road game, this time facing the New England Revolution in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall, who is from nearby Gig Harbor, Washington, made seven saves in defeat, a season high in MLS play and tying a season high in all competitions. Hall's best stop came in the 47th minute, when he denied Seattle's Steve Zakuani on a breakaway.
In a physical, tightly contested game in a venue hostile to the Dynamo, the Sounders broke through with a moment of individual skill in the 64th minute, when goalkeeper Kasey Keller punted a long ball upfield. Seattle's Fredy Montero, the MLS Player of the Month in July, outbattled Houston's Eddie Robinson for the ball and fired a low, left-footed shot inside the left post for his eighth goal of the season. It marked the ninth consecutive game with a goal or assist for Montero.
With Houston pushing forward in an attempt to tie the game, the Sounders put the contest away in the 88th minute when Montero slotted a pass through for Uruguayan signing Alvaro Fernandez, who slotted the ball past Tally Hall for his first MLS goal and the final margin of 2-0.
For Houston, veteran midfielder Brian Mullan came on as a substitute, making the record 180th appearance in all competitions of his Dynamo career. Midfielder Corey Ashe played 58 minutes to reach the 1,000-minute mark in league play for the second consecutive season. Midfielder Geoff Cameron came on as a second-half substitute, his first league appearance since rupturing his PCL against the Chicago Fire on April 24.
Houston defender Mike Chabala picked up his fifth yellow card of the MLS season and will be suspended for Saturday's match against the New England Revolution.
The Dynamo played without goalkeeper Pat Onstad (abdominal strain), defenders Ryan Cochrane (adductor strain) and Adrian Serioux (hamstring); and midfielder Lovel Palmer (red card).
Next Game: Saturday, August 14, 7 p.m. CT, Dynamo at New England Revolution, Gillette Stadium, Foxborough MA
Next Home Game: Saturday, August 21, 7:30 p.m., Dynamo vs. Chicago Fire, Robertson Stadium

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Wine Tourism Goes Local!
California wineries have thrown open their doors this harvest season. Make that wide open. Wineries are getting creative. They are offering new attractions such as wine education, a behind-the-scenes access to the winemaking process and the kind of TLC normally reserved for relatives and rock stars.


text: I am Australian, and my Microsoft Word dictionary is set to Australian. I do a lot of writing, and to speed it up, I have hundreds and hundreds of auto-correct entries. For example, if I want to write the word "Nebuchadnezzar" I just have to type "nebu" and it auto corrects. Here is my problem. Every time I copy a passage onto the clipboard in BW and then paste it into my Word document, it immediately resets my Word dictionary to American. As a result, my Auto Correct no longer works. I have to constantly reset the dictionary to Australian. It's very annoying. I cannot find anything in BW Help to help. Any thoughts would be appreciated.


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If you're worried about overeating today, and need a good appetite suppressant, check out our video compilation of the scariest food moments from science fiction. Behold: The nastiest stuff that science fiction has ever cooked up, or regurgitated back out.
Please add your favorite food-related gross-out in the comments too!
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The ThinkPHP blog has posted about the official Call of Papers for this year's International PHP Conference happening November 4th through the 7th.
Recently, we experienced a great conference in Ludwigsburg. The attendees' feedback on the conference was incredible and I hope you had as much fun as I had. Although the PHP Spring Edition has just ended, we are already starting to plan the next conference and I herewith send you the Call for Papers for International PHP Conference 2007 in Moerfelden, Frankfurt.
The conference this year will include a "Management Day" and some "Power Workshops" to go along with the usual talks. The deadline to get your talk in is July 10th, 2007 and should be about 30 minutes if it's a short talk, 75 minutes long if it's a normal talk and around 5 hours if it's a workshop. Head over here to submit your proposals.


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This is one of my summer favorites. It travels well, is safe for serving at picnics, and it's just great to have a big bowl of this salad in the refrigerator ready for weekend guests and for family lunches.
8 ounces rotini or rotelle (corkscrew pasta)
2 cups broccoli florets
One 8-ounce can tomato sauce
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon minced fresh basil, or 1 teaspoon dried basil
1 tablespoon minced fresh oregano, or 1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 clove garlic, minced
½ teaspoon freshly ground pepper, or to taste
To complete the recipe
1 cup frozen baby peas, thawed
1 red bell pepper, coarsely chopped
2 plum tomatoes, coarsely chopped
2 scallions, coarsely chopped
Freshly ground pepper, freshly grated Parmesan cheese, toasted pine nuts, and sprigs of fresh basil for garnish
Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to medium-high, add the pasta, and cook until al dente, 10 to 12 minutes, or according to package instructions.
While the pasta is cooking, put the broccoli into a small microwave-proof dish; add about ¼ cup water. Cover and microwave on high for about 4 minutes or until crisp-tender. (see Tip)
To make the sauce, stir together the sauce ingredients in a medium bowl. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
When the pasta is done, drain, rinse under cold water, then drain again.
Toss together the pasta, broccoli, peas, bell pepper, tomatoes, and scallions in a large bowl. Add the sauce and toss again.
Advance preparation
This salad will keep for up to 2 days in the refrigerator. Because the dressing tends to become absorbed into the pasta, refrigerate the sauce separately; add just before serving.


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Can you make lines of Cuisenaire rods that differ by 1?
Follow this recipe for sieving numbers and see what interesting patterns emerge.
Can you find a relationship between the number of dots on the circle and the number of steps that will ensure that all points are hit?
Using your knowledge of the properties of numbers, can you fill all the squares on the board?
Take any prime number greater than 3 , square it and subtract one. Working on the building blocks will help you to explain what is special about your results.
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.
A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?
Factors and Multiples game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you win this game?
All strange numbers are prime. Every one digit prime number is strange and a number of two or more digits is strange if and only if so are the two numbers obtained from it by omitting either. . . .
A man has 5 coins in his pocket. Given the clues, can you work out what the coins are?
An introduction to proof by contradiction, a powerful method of mathematical proof.


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Story highlights
- Minhee Cho's receipt goes viral online after she posts it on Twitter
- "just FYI my name isn't 'lady chinky eyes,'" Cho tweets
- "This act goes against our company values," Papa John's says
- Cho wants the controversy "to blow over," her employer says
Papa John's Pizza fired a cashier at one of its New York restaurants and apologized to an Asian-American customer for a receipt that identified her as "lady chinky eyes."
"We were extremely concerned to learn of the receipt issued in New York," the company said in a statement posted on its Facebook page Saturday.
Minhee Cho, a communications manager at nonprofit investigative journalism group ProPublica, posted a photo of the receipt on her Twitter account Saturday morning and by the afternoon it was picked up by a local newspaper.
Along with the receipt, Cho tweeted "just FYI my name isn't 'lady chinky eyes.'"
The receipt had been viewed online almost 200,000 times by Sunday afternoon, according to the counter on the Twitpic page.
Cho did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment, but her boss did.
"This blew up far beyond Minhee's expectations," ProPublica spokesman Mike Webb said in an e-mail. "She has reporters coming to her apartment, and that's annoying. So she wants it to blow over and she has nothing more to say."
Cho was a customer Friday night at the Papa John's on Broadway in Manhattan's Hamilton Heights neighborhood, according to the receipt.
"This act goes against our company values, and we've confirmed with the franchisee that this matter was addressed immediately and that the employee is being terminated," the pizza company said. "We are truly sorry for this customer's experience."


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Exclusive: Military to Designate U.S. Citizens as Enemy During Collapse
FEMA Continuity of Government Plans Prep Total Takeover of Society, Dispatching Military Domestically Under Economic Collapse Emergency
Aaron Dykes and Alex Jones
December 22, 2011
UPDATE: Government censors document revealing plans to wage war on Americans. READ HERE.
NOTE: Within an hour of posting this article and linking to the pertinent document, the feds at FBO.gov have pulled the link and implied that it was a classified posting. We believe this was public and of interest to American citizens, taxpayers and peoples of the world and are in the process re-establishing an archive link of the material. Obviously, however, this information is revealing and certain parties do not wish it to be widely known. If you believe this material is important, please archive it and share it with your contacts. In the meantime, here are links to many of the pages: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9, Page 10, Page 11
Infowars has discovered new FEMA documents that confirm information received from DoD sources that show military involvement in a FEMA-led takeover within the United States under partially-classified Continuity of Government (COG) plans. It involves not only operations for the relocation of COG personnel and key officials, population management, emergency communications and alerts but the designation of the American people as 'enemies' under a live military tracking system known as Blue Force Situational Awareness (BFSA).
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Release Date: 2009 |
Album Rating: 4.5I can't really decide on a rating. 4.5 feels too high but a 4 doesn't sit right either.
4 for me so far but i still need to listen to it more
its still really fuckin good tho
Time we started rating things in .25 decibels.
yeah i've always thought that .5 is too broad
excellent review, care to name anything off the top of the head that sounds like these guys?
Album Rating: 4.5There isn't much that comes to mind immediately, actually. They've got a pretty unique sound. I'd just say go listen to their MySpace.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffVery well written review, most of the points you touched on I completely agree with.
And I'm glad you gave it the benefit of the doubt and bumped it to a 4.5 as well. I'd say it more than deserves it.
really really looking forward to getting this album.
Album Rating: 4.0I've settled on a high 4. They definitely sound much tighter than they ever have. Hour of Rats is definitely one of my metal songs of the year.
So very, very good. October 27th is a fantastic day for music.
Digging: Westerman - Your Hero Is Not Dead
Stuffs pretty great. You're right about them being unique for death metal(core?)
Album Rating: 4.0On a busy October 27th release day, The Red Chord take top honours. A fitting end to the month we've come to call 'Rocktober'.
It's actually retarded how many metal albums I have to sift through because of this month alone. Excellent conclusion/ point.
Damn fine review to boot. Listening to this and BTBAM now.
Digging: Xazraug - Unsympathetic Empyrean
i cant see myself liking this but if tyler gave it a 4.5 then i need to at least hear it once
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffThis is better than Fused Together. Whoever says otherwise can suck it.
on a side note this album's title is retarded
awesome review cocaine, i also have the 4-4.5 problem although i decided to stick with a 4.
Damn fine review to boot. Listening to this and BTBAM now.
Album Rating: 4.0He's the_wizard. He has magical powers.
He's the_wizard. He has magical powers.
Album Rating: 4.5Hour of Rats is so awesome.
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Strike (Russian: "Стачка") is a 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein. It was Eisenstein's first full-length feature film, and it is the story of a strike by factory workers in the Tsarist Russia of 1912 and its brutal suppression. It was shot almost entirely on location so that it seems like a reconstruction of genuine events. It was acted by the Proletcult Theatre, and composed of six parts. It was in turn, intended to be one part of a seven-part series, entitled Towards Dictatorship (of the proletariat), and the project was left unfinished. Most probably The Battleship of Potemkin,- his mature work and more enduring as a film classic, was released later that year and it made such prepraratory work unnecessary. Like Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, Strike reveals the creative energy of an artist given its wings without pulling back.- and it is the liberty of a young film-maker to test the boundaries of film-making, and in Eisenstein it is shown in the way he has tested every rule in the book and rewrote it by adding some of his own. This is evident in Battleship Potemkin and October.
Most of the characteristics of Eisenstein's film style can be seen in part derived from his early influences. Before he came into filmmaking he was attached to a military construction unit, and also note-worthy is that his father was an architect. He is probably the most architectural of directors, evidenced by his film sets in which architectural elements add to the dramatic tension. In part his style is derived from masters like Griffith and Chaplin. But with Strike he enlarged the vocabulary of cinema especially in the area of montage. His influential essay, Montage of Attractions was written between Strike's production and premiere. (See also quote from Metalluk's review -epinions.com)
The film opens with a quote from Vladimir Lenin.
На заводе всё спокойно / At the factory all is quiet
Using typography, the word "но" (but) is added to the title of the chapter, which then animates and disolves into an image of machinery in motion. The facory bosses have set their sights on the workers and they are seen reviewing a list of agents with vivid code names such as as The Monkey, The Fox, The Owl, Bulldog, and Fly-by-Night. The job of the spies is to infiltrate the union and ferret out the identities of the ringleaders.
Vignettes are shown of them. Conditions are tense with agitators and Bolsheviks planing a strike.
Повод к стачке / Reason to strike
A micrometer is stolen, with a value of 25 rubles or 3 weeks pay. A worker, Yakov, is accused of the theft and subsequently hangs himself. Fighting ensues and work stops. The workers leave the milling room running and resistance is met at the foundry. The strikers throw rocks and loose metal through the foundry windows. Then locked within the gates of the complex, the crowd confronts the office. They force open the gates and sieze a manager.
Завод замер / The factory dies down
The chapter begins with footage of ducklings, kittens, piglets, and geese. A child then wakes his father who is out of work and they have funtime. The factory is shown vacant and still with birds moving in. The children act out what their fathers had done, wheelbarrowing a goat in a mob. The shareholders discuss with the director and read the demands. They are dismissive on the workers demands. Meanwhile the police raid the workers, and they sit down to protest. At their meeting the shareholders use the demand letter as a rag to clean up a spill, and a lemon squeezer. It expresses howfar the shareholders are willing go.
Стачка затягивается / The strike draws out
Scenes are shown of a lines forming at a store, which is closed, and a baby needing food. A fight occurs at a home between a man and a woman, subsequently she leaves. Another man rummages through his home for goods to sell at a flea market, upsetting his family. A posted letter publicly shows the administrators rejection of the demands.
Провокация на разгром / Provocation and debacle
The scene opens with dead cats dangling from a structure. A new character is introduced, "King" whose throne is made of a derelict automobile amidst rubbish and he is instructed by Tsarist police to set fire, raze, and loot a liquor store. A crowd gathers at the fire and the alarm is sounded. The crowd leaves to avoid being provoked but are set upon by the firemen with their hoses regardless.
Ликвидация / Liquidation
The governor sends in the military. A child walks under the soldiers' horses and his mother goes under to get him and is struck. Rioting commences, and the crowd is chased off through a series of gates and barriers heading to the forge, then their apartments. The crowd is chased and whipped on the balconies. A policeman raises and drops a child from the balcony, killing it. The workers are driven into a field by the army and shot en masse. This bloody scene is shown with alternating footage of the slaughtering of a cow. (ack:wikipedia)
Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein
Produced by Boris Mikhin
Written by Grigori Aleksandrov
Ilya Kravchunovsky
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Valeryan Pletnyov
Cinematography Eduard Tisse
Release date: April 28, 1925
Running time 82 min.
Language Silent film
'Strike is a veritable catalog of technical innovations and wizardry. There are double exposures, an upside down puddle reflection, shots through windows, reflections in mirrors, fades and melds, side by side panels that then merge, shots of distorted reflections in a glass ball, low angle shots, film reversals, silhouette shots, and much, much more. There are some surreal elements introduced, such as a pair of midgets dancing on a table behind two policemen who are in the process of turning one of the strikers into a snitch. There are a host of out-of-context images, such as nervous eyes turned to the side, juxtaposed to add a sense of paranoia to the main sequences. There are back and forth cuts between a manager squeezing juice from an orange while the Cossacks, who have surrounded a group of workers in a wooded area, tighten the ring around them.
Eisenstein was most fortunate to acquire the services of Edward Tissé as his cameraman for Strike. Eisenstein, though teeming with brilliant ideas, was raw and inexperienced as a filmmaker in 1925, while Tissé was both experienced and talented as a cinematographer. Tissé was able to capture effectively Eisenstein's conceptions on film. The professional relationship between the two men lasted through most of Eisenstein's career.
While making Strike, Eisenstein effectively developed his notion of "intellectual montage." He typically spent many more hours in the editing of a film than in the shooting. Eisenstein's idea was to create a rapid succession of quick shots (which might be relatively meaningless taken alone) that would acquire meaning through the intellectual process of association. The secondary benefit is that rapid cuts can also add tempo and excitement to a film. To the Soviet authorities, Eisenstein's editing techniques became known as "formalism," which they railed against incessantly.
Many of the film's frames are notable for the intricate detail of the mise-en-scene. Especially impressive are the shots in the factory interior (a labyrinth of wheels, ropes, aisles, and machinery) and the worker's multistory tenement maze'.
"Eisenstein was supremely the master of film rhetoric." – Orson Welles
'The films do lack a certain humanity. Battleship Potemkin and October were masterpieces of technique, to which film-makers still bow today. Alexander Nevsky and the two parts of Ivan the Terrible were operatic and often grotesque, but classics too. Only Strike, his first feature, showed his basic humanity, and it is arguably his best because of it'.( Derek Malcolm-The Guardian, Oct 12, 2000)
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Animal Kingdom Finale
Posted by Unknown | | Posted On Monday, July 16, 2012 at 10:08 AM
This was our final weekend of using our annual pass to Disney.
We went to Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom on Saturday.
Eli had asked to do the Safari and both boys asked to do the Primeval Whirl.
Maggie Beth wanted to do the Triceratops Spin.
We have been blessed to spend our year at Disney! It really has been a lot of fun.
The lingo of Disney has also rubbed off. Eli the other day while we were stopped at a red light talking to a cricket that was hitching a ride, said, "This ride has momentarily stopped, it will resume in one minute. For your safety, please stay seated."


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MWC 15 Special
one of my very personal hot topics is
Microsoft's SideShow
technology for
Windows Vista which is a technology for distributing interactive content to
connected small-screen devices, such as Windows Mobile smartphones. The content
is created and managed by small software applications called SideShow gadgets.
And while Microsoft finally released the long awaited
SideShow application for Windows Mobile a while ago, even if yet available
as an early Beta only, one of the most anticipated SideShow gadget wasn't
available so far - a Windows Vista Media Center gadget to remote control the
Media Center from mobile devices like smartphones.
Nevertheless, Microsoft finally released an early preview which is now
available from Microsoft's Connect website (free account required) and the 4 new
Media Center Gadgets allows you to interact with your Media Center enabled
Windows Vista PC by providing following functionalities:
Since the new gadgets are available from Microsoft Connect, it means they are
not yet ready for a mass-market wide use but early development builds Microsoft
wants to share with the community. Therefore the gadgets have some known bugs
like it's not yet possible to enabled the gadgets on more than one SideShow
device to control the Media Center PC. Furthermore it's not yet possible to
enable the gadgets for more than one user session on your PC.
Anyway, after Microsoft gave some SideShow love to Windows Mobile owners, it
finally starts to release some useful gadgets on its own since there is no wide
gadget development out there yet.
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More than 90% of individuals in the gang database are people of color, according to Chicago Inspector General Joe Ferguson, who says that puts a strain on police-community relations. "There's an extraordinary adverse effect on certain communities."
Dr. Julie Morita is moving on after two decades at the Chicago Department of Public Health. She tells us about her future plans, and discusses current threats to the city's health.
A $9.1 million gift will help the University of Chicago expand its efforts to treat the social, psychological and medical needs of young trauma patients and their families.
A groundbreaking study concludes that human health can be "mostly sustained" for a year in space, a key finding that figures to help NASA with its mission of sending humans to Mars within two decades.
In all the attempts to dissect the Leopold and Loeb story, one mystery remains unsolved: What happened to the vast bird collection that Nathan Leopold had in his Chicago home when he went to prison?
They play a key role in court proceedings, but industry experts say there aren't enough of them. What it takes to become a court reporter – and why some say it's a good alternative to a four-year degree.
Author James Forman Jr. talks about his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America."
City officials have made good on their threat of legal action against Jussie Smollett, filing a civil lawsuit that seeks to recoup the cost of a police investigation into what they believe was a staged attack the actor orchestrated on himself.
We get up close and personal with some cold-blooded creatures ahead of the nation's largest educational reptile show.
Watch the April 11, 2019 full episode of "Chicago Tonight."


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Business Customer Online Safeguards
Commercial Accounts and Government Accounts are not covered under Regulation E
In most circumstances you will be responsible for assuming the loss on fraudulent transactions. It is vital that you follow best practices for conducting online transactions.
What you can do:
- Employ all account controls made available by your financial institution. Certain products may allow you to choose from different features and set-up options that can reduce the risk of unauthorized activity. You should make sure you understand the choices you are offered. We urge you to make the choices that are safest in your circumstances, even if there may be some loss of convenience or additional expense. The choices you make can increase or decrease your risk of loss.
- Establish a separate account for the origination of each type of transaction. ACH origination / Wire Transfer etc.
- Only fund those accounts with enough funds to cover the planned transactions on a daily basis.
- Establish dual control over the setup and creation of new user accounts on the system, the setup of new payees on the system, and the initiation of ACH and wire transfer payments.
- Run summary reports of all transactions to ensure they are accurate.
- Review your transactions daily to determine if fraudulent activity has occurred.
- Maintain up-to-date anti-virus on your computer systems at all times.
- Stay up-to-date on patching your operating system, and all third party applications. Vulnerabilities in these applications are utilized by criminals for malicious and fraudulent purposes.
- Maintain an up-to-date spyware detection program and disable pop-ups.
- Install a dedicated firewall and actively manage and monitor it. A firewall limits the potential for unauthorized access to your system.
- Ideally, dedicate a single PC for online financial transactions and prohibit any other form of web surfing on this PC including email.
- Have the firewall specifically restrict access for the workstation to only the IP addresses of the financial institutions' systems that your company utilizes. This will prevent individuals from surfing the internet on the PC and accidentally downloading malware that may compromise your account credentials.
- Utilize a unique, complex password (upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters where available) at least 8 characters long.
- DO NOT USE THE SAME PASSWORD ON MULTIPLE WEBSITES! When websites are compromised, criminals often try the compromised passwords on other websites due to people frequently using one password across multiple sites.
- Change your passwords frequently.
- Do not utilize dictionary words as part of your passwords.
- Prohibit user name and password sharing.
- Never use automatic login features that save your usernames and passwords.
- Verify you have a secure session with any transactional site by checking the browser line for "https."
- Never leave a computer unattended while logged into a financial transaction site such as your online banking site.
- Never provide your account number or username / password in any written communication. This is especially true of email. We will never ask you to verify or provide any personal or financial information within an email.
- Always use your pre-established links to access web sites. Never click on a link contained in an email.
- Be suspicious of e-mails requesting account information, account verification or access credentials such as usernames, passwords, PIN codes and similar information. If you are not certain of the source, do not click any links or open any attachments!
- Do not let your employees perform online banking, payroll, or other company financial transactions from their home PC or from Internet cafes, public libraries, etc.
- Clear your browser cache in order to eliminate copies of web pages that have been stored on your hard drive.
- Report fraud immediately to us and see Recommendations for Corporate Account Takeover Victims.


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DWTS Season 16 – William Shatner Figuring Out The Schedules For DWTS?
As you know from a previous posting, Dancing With The Stars host Tom Bergeron has been on a quest to get William Shatner to dance on Dancing With The Stars. Tom told The View ladies last week that he saw William at a recent event and William looked at him strangely when Tom mentioned it. Well, the saga continues. Last night, William Shatner posted this tweet (look below) about "figuring out the schedules for DWTS" which makes one wonder if Tom's quest is working? Then again, maybe they are just trying to figure out when to have dinner. I also love the mention on Jeri Ryan who, by the way, tweeted "we're in!" back to William. Wouldn't she be a great candidate for Dancing With The Stars as well? Tom is communicating with William at his twitter too. Before William tweeted him, Tom extended an invite while taping America's Funniest Videos. Anyway, what an interesting tweet from William Shatner. Yes, taking things out of context or grasping at straws most likely, but, it's fun to speculate on and talk about none the less.
Heidi: Odds are good that they're all just screwing around – I seem to recall a lot of back and forth joking with Tom about Shatner and Jeri being on DWTS. What I find most funny is how Tom is now doing casting. I believe he also tried to get Bill on AFV this past week. 🙂 Really, though, the dude is funny. I would love to see him on DWTS. I came to appreciate him on Boston Legal. 🙂 By the way: pretty sure that Tom could do a better job at casting DWTS than the current crew. 😀


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Court of Appeal upholds earlier ruling that legal business tussle should not be heard in secret
Two Saudi princes will not be able to keep details of an international commercial dispute a secret, a British court ruled on Thursday, despite lawyers arguing that the case could damage Saudi relations with Britain and the United States.
The appeal was made by Prince Mishal bin Abdulaziz al Saud, a former defence minister, and his son Prince Abdulaziz bin Mishal, who are locked in a legal business tussle with Jordanian businessman Faisal Almhairat.
The Court of Appeal in London upheld an earlier ruling by a lower court that the case should not be heard in secret.
The sides accuse each other of misappropriating the proceeds of shares, sold in 2010 and 2011, in London-registered Fi Call Ltd which they jointly owned. Few details on the company are publicly available.
Almhairat also alleges the young prince was guilty of wrongoing in what have been only been referred to as the "Beirut" and "Nairobi" transactions, while he says Prince Mishal is involved in some matters relevant to the dispute.
But if details of the deals were made public in open court, lawyers for the princes argued, Prince Abdulaziz would be "at risk of serious personal injury or death from reprisals", while diplomatic damage could also be done.
The princes, who reject the allegations against them as "scandalous and outrageous", had sought sovereign immunity from being sued as members of the Saudi king's household - Prince Mishal is one of King Abdullah's many brothers.
The Court of Appeal dismissed that argument on Wednesday.
Two newspapers, the Financial Times and the Guardian, went to court in December arguing there was no reason why a case initiated by the princes should not be heard in public according to Britain's fundamental principle of open justice.
High Court Judge Paul Morgan agreed with the newspapers in a February 13 ruling, although his judgment gave little information into what the dispute was actually about.
The princes then challenged in the Court of Appeal, but with that appeal now dismissed, documents that have previously been restricted are expected to come to light.
The case could test relations between Britain and Saudi Arabia some seven years after a corruption investigation into a huge arms deal with the kingdom was dropped because of concerns that it could harm Britain's security interests.
There was widespread criticism at the time that the real motivation for shelving the case was to protect Britain's commercial prospects in Saudi Arabia.


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Why don't you sit down with a lovely Cafe au Lait, Latte or Cappuchino (or whatever comfort drink you like) and enjoy this new issue of Dabble Magazine? I am sure you will enjoy their travel section - I did - and their food section made me seriously hungry!!
My favorite feature was this article on Masterful Mixing where "nothing matches but it all goes together", which is my kind of decorating anyhow.
I pulled this image (above) as my favorite, not just because of the wonderful blues, but the layering of colors, textures and objects, makes for an interesting tableau. I like the leaning framed poster, against the mirror, makes everything a little less formal!
GREAT use of a small balcony, what more do you need?? A comfy chair, a plush pillow, somewhere to put up you feet. I like the stripe fabric; Not to cabana-ish, more in the direction of men's inspired fabric.
The framed artwork made me take a second look, perhaps they are Kerrie's? If you would like something similar for your walls, check out Driftwood Interior's Etsy shop.
I find all the blue and all the texture in this article just yummy, keeping the eye moving from item to item. One might argue not to use all these different shades, but for me it works, and it's exactly what makes it interesting; Masterful Mixing indeed.
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I am really grieving the loss of Aaron Swartz, who killed himself the other day.
His family attributes his suicide in part to depression triggered by the federal CFAA prosecution for his JSTOR hack. JSTOR had withdrawn their charges long ago — but the federal government continued to prosecute. Who knows why — maybe the prosecutor(s) were hoping to expand the reach of CFAA (a bad idea for an already too-vague statute — twitter#reformCFAA), or maybe they were simply pissy because of previous run-ins with Swartz for liberating court records.
What really breaks my heart is that he was only 26 years old. He had spent his whole life since he was 14 years old trying to figure out how to make a more just world. He was largely focused on OUR ISSUES — access to information. He worked with Carl Malamud on PACER and access to court records. He worked on OpenLibrary. He organized, for christ's sake, against SOPA and PIPA. He contributed to Wikipedia, and on the LawfulUse mailing list, and in scores of ways that I had heard of but wasn't personally familiar with, and no doubt in scores of ways I never even heard of.
Any loss of a young person is a grievous one, and a loss of potential. Any loss of an activist hurts the movement, and takes positive energy out of the world. Any loss to suicide is a fucking waste that makes all the other losses so bitter.
* Larry Lessig, Prosecutor as Bully, at lessig blog
* Wikimedia Foundation, Remembering Aaron Swartz 1986-2013, wikimedia blog
* NYT, Internet Activist Is Dead at 26, NYT obit


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A key part of the reform will introduce a new support system for renewables.
The new incentive system is aimed at promoting growth in low-carbon energy. Under the system, known as contracts for difference (CfD), generators will receive a top-up payment when the wholesale electricity price is below a pre-agreed "strike price", and pay money back when the price rises above it. This mechanism will be introduced in 2014, although generators will be able to choose between the current system of the renewable obligation (RO) and the CfD until 2017.
The industry is still waiting for clarification on key parts of the legislation, including how the strike price will be set and what the transitional arrangements between the RO and the CfD will be.
"We're rapidly getting close to 2014, we're not sure how the transition is going to work, we're not sure how the market mechanism is going to work, we don't know what level of support we're going to get and we don't know how we can monetise these support mechanisms even if they're sufficient because of lack of liquidity in the market," says Gordon MacDougall, chief operating officer of developer RES in the UK and Ireland.
Political infighting
The reform has faced significant delays due to political infighting, particularly over onshore wind. The official line of the coalition Conservative-Liberal Democrat government is to support wind and renewables, but several high-profile Conservative ministers have argued against more onshore wind, including the chancellor George Osborne and energy junior minister John Hayes.
Liberal Democrat energy minister Ed Davey supports wind and last year protected the industry from a possible 25% cut in the RO motivated by Osborne. The RO will instead be reduced by 10% to 0.9 Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) per MWh from April.
However, it was only a partial victory as a further review of the RO level was announced at the same time. The government says that if there is a "significant" change in the costs of electricity generation from onshore wind after that, the government can change the ROC level from April 2014.
Last year, the UK installed 1.19GW of onshore wind. Despite the political infighting, there was an improvement in permitting approvals, bucking the trend of the past few years of worsening performance. Approval rates for onshore wind farms below 50MW, which are decided at a local level, increased by 15% from 2011 levels. But several Conservative councils have proposed minimum separation distances between homes and wind farms, despite this being against national policy. The industry is awaiting the outcome of a judicial review by developer RWE against Milton Keynes council, in the south of England, on this issue.
The Scottish industry has also been under heavy criticism from the Conservative Party. Last year, some Scottish politicians called for a temporary moratorium on wind farm applications, complaining that councils were being swamped. But the Scottish government, which is a staunch supporter of renewables, refused these requests. It launched a £673,000 (EUR fund at the end of last year to help councils cope with the volume and detail of applications for renewable energy.
Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland, the industry is facing a race against time to upgrade its grid. Around 600MW of wind projects have consent, but construction will not start until grid connection is possible. Some of the project consents will reach their five-year expiry date this year.
The UK offshore wind sector is also being affected by the lack of clarity over electricity market reform. The strike price and mechanism for CfDs will be particularly important for Round 2 projects that may not come into operation under the ROC regime, including utility RWE's 1.2GW Triton Knoll, utility Centrica's 580MW Race Bank and developer Statoil and Statkraft's 560MW Dudgeon, all off England's east coast in the North Sea - and for the majority of Round 3 projects which are scheduled to come online around 2020.
Risk of delay
Chris Morgan, chief executive of developer RES offshore, says that the uncertainty risks delaying projects. Under the ROC regime, developers could take decisions to carry out expensive pre-construction work in parallel with securing project consents.
"EMR uncertainty risks putting the consenting and pre-construction activities back on to a sequential path and so project construction and delivery dates may therefore be delayed," he says.
In any case, offshore developers are facing cuts in the ROCs. For agreements signed between now and 2014/15, projects will receive 2 ROCs/MWh as a top-up in addition to the price at which they sell their electricity. In 2015/16, support will fall to 1.9 ROCs/MWh and in 2016/17 it will drop to 1.8 ROCs/MWh. However, this is more generous than the 1.5 ROCs/MWh that had been proposed by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) for 2014/15 onward.
The sector is under pressure from the government to cut costs from £150/MWh to £100/MWh by 2020. Offshore wind developers, turbine manufacturers and component suppliers are among the companies that will be represented on the UK government's new offshore wind programme board, which aims to guide the industry toward substantial cost reductions. The board is co-chaired by Adam Bruce, head of corporate affairs at developer Mainstream Renewable Power, and Hannah Brown, head of industry and investment in the Decc's office of renewable energy deployment.
Despite these uncertainties, the year ahead is set to be a productive one, with an additional 1.28GW predicted to be installed by the end of the year, including the 630MW first phase of London Array wind farm in the outer Thames Estuary, as well as more than half of the 504MW Greater Gabbard project off the coast of Suffolk in the East of England.
Offshore leader
The UK is still leading Europe in terms of installed capacity offshore. Last year it installed 1.15GW, which was around 73% of that installed in the whole of Europe. The total UK offshore wind capacity is now 2.68GW. While this met expectations for 2012, it falls short of what is needed in order to reach the UK's 2020 renewable energy targets. The pace of installation will need to increase to an average of 1.5GW a year to reach the 2020 target of 15GW.
Permitting is also an issue for offshore wind. Medic welcomes the fact that the government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has set up a unit to resolve issues relating to EU regulations on habitats and birds before applications are submitted.
Medic adds: "Finally, we are seeing a number of initiatives promoting co-existence and working to integrate offshore wind within a wider framework of industries operating in the marine environment. It is a sign that offshore wind is coming of age!"


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Without alike cerebration about it, we collaborate with bogus intelligence every day.
Siri finds adjacent pizza places or dry cleaners. Alexa turns on lights and gives the day's forecast.
So it may appear as no abruptness that AI is now a abysmal but concealed allotment of your job hunting.
Just as spellcheck alerts you to a typo, added algorithms pore over your electronically submitted resume for misspellings, grammar and advice about your assignment history.
With bags of antecedent versions of a job that can be scanned, the algorithm uses the accessible abstracts on resumes to acquisition the best candidates for a aptitude recruiter, according to Ian Siegel, CEO of ZipRecruiter, an online job marketplace.
"Machine acquirements can cherry-pick and rapidly apprentice from the employer how to do a lookalike search," Siegel said. "That turns out to be by far the best adjustment you can use to match."
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I was a bit bored tonight, so I thought I'd make some signature lines with our favorite drivers... Feel free to use any of them you want here or elsewhere...
I was a bit bored tonight, so I thought I'd make some signature lines with our favorite drivers... Feel free to use any of them you want here or elsewhere...
Many thanks mm154 these are great For anyone not sure how to use a signature picture:
Save the signature image you wish to use from those above.
Click on settings in the top right hand corner of any page.
On he left hand side in my settings, click edit signature.
In the upload signature section, click on browse and select the picture you saved previously then hit upload, once it is done click on insert signature picture and then you can preview the signature and save.
Remember the signature rules in the FAQ.
Forza Ferrari
Thankyou mm154 .
They are really good. Mega chuffed with Mika & Gino but the others are excellent too. Love the way you managed to get some girls in with Eddie too
"Luna faccia schiaffo testa"
Thank you very much mm154
Thank you very much mm154 ! i will pick the Fernando Alonso one
Thank you
Thanks again mm154, and thanks Greig for putting this up as a sticky.
The future is RED
They are great! Love the Enzo one.
yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, today is a gift
that's why its called the present
You're welcome everyone
It was a fun little project
Thanks so much!!!
Forza Ferrari 16/15
Totus Tuus
Thank you mm154! Fantastic work, greatly appreciated.
These are fantastic. Thank you so much mm154.
And thanks for the Save the signature image instructions Greig.
I like how the Eddie one is full of chicks.
Forza Jules
wonderful signatures !!!!
" It is a team that is born to win and in the DNA of every single person in the team is a sense of competition, a passion for motor racing " Fernando Alonso.
thankyou, great work..
Well done!!
May I ask...how do you do it...?
Die Perd se naam is pegasus abdel kader schrikt der woestijnen van bagdad tot dakar, seun van benedictus ernius quintus magnus van nassay en irma vor schimmelpernning von appeldoorn van tahiti in die heilige eg verbind kragtens die ewige edik uitgevaardig deur keiser tertius tillius theorodus en biskop merkenzein de mont saint allegonde van die vatikan.
great job!!! Thanks!!
I choose this!!! Very special...
Thank You so much. I chose this one
"Michael showed that he is the greatest. He stole the show today. And he did that without even winning the race." comments from Willi Weber
As you can see, I couldn't make up my mind!!
So, I didn't!! I'm using all three, with a little editing!
Thank you, so very much, mm154!!!
Very nice work and they appear to be popular, a lot of people using them
I somehow mananged to insert it twice, so it wont let me use it..do you know how I can fix? Thx.
How about John Surtees and Perdro Rodriguez?
thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much mm154.
Now I'll see how I can mess up Greig's excellent instructions @ 2!
Would anyone know why "My Signature" doesn't appear under "My Settings"?
Thank you from my side also! They are great. I was dwelling between Jean Alesi and Michael Schumacher, and finally I've picked MS. He was to guy that brought so many joy and happy moments for Ferrari in his career with them, that I had to pick him!


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CORKERY, James. Reflection on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). Acta theol. [online]. 2012, vol.32, n.2, suppl., pp.17-34. ISSN 2309-9089.
This essay looks at ways in which the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, shows affinities with Reformation theological thought. Following a brief look at the background to my own interest in Ratzinger, I present some important features of his theology, shedding light on it particularly through drawing attention to those theological figures in the Christian tradition, Augustine and Bonaventure, who have influenced him the most. A brief treatment is then offered of how these theological forefathers are reflected in his work and, following this, Reformation "flavours" shown to have been present in his writings are traced, briefly, through examining three areas of his thought: ethics, his theology of political life, and ecumenism. The purpose of the article is to indicate, in an incipient way for an audience largely of the Reformed tradition, that Ratzinger is not as distant from their theological concerns as might easily be imagined.
Keywords : Joseph Ratzinger; Reformation/Reformed; Faith and works; Catholicism/Catholic; Theology.


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Pakistani police arrested a Muslim cleric who allegedly tampered with evidence submitted in the case against a Christian girl accused of desecrating a Quran, an investigating officer said Sunday, the latest twist in a religiously charged affair that has focused attention on the country's harsh blasphemy laws.
The case against the Christian girl accused of burning pages of a Quran has sparked controversy at home and abroad in large part because of her age and questions about her mental capacity. It also has triggered an exodus of hundreds of Christians from the neighborhood where the girl lived, fearful of retribution by their Muslim neighbors outraged by the alleged desecration of Islam's holy book.
The cleric, Khalid Chishti, was arrested late Saturday for allegedly planting pages of a Quran in a shopping bag containing burned papers and ash that had been carried by the Christian girl, said Munir Jaffery, an investigating officer in the case. The bag was then submitted as evidence to the police.
Jaffery said a member of the mosque where the cleric works came forward Saturday and said man said the imam had placed the evidence in the bag. According to police, the man claimed Chishti said it was a way to get rid of the Christians.
The man's testimony only surfaced more than two weeks after the girl was originally arrested, raising questions about why he did not come forward sooner.
The girl was later accused of desecrating the Quran, a serious offense in Pakistan that can result in life in prison.
The Associated Press is withholding the girl's name; the AP does not generally identify juveniles under 18 who are accused of crimes.
Chishti appeared in court Sunday with a white blindfold covering his eyes and shackles around his hands. He was surrounded by a large contingent of police as he was ushered into the courtroom.
"I have not done anything wrong. This is all fabrication," he defiantly told reporters.
A lawyer for the girl said her legal team was meeting to discuss what to do and would likely move to have the case thrown out.
"These things prove that we are definitely on the right way," the lawyer, Tahir Naveed Chaudhry, said.
He said the imam's arrest shows his client is innocent. "Definitely she will be released."
A lawyer for the man who brought the complaint against the girl, Rao Abdur Raheem, claimed police were under pressure from higher-ups to soften the case.
"This deliberate twist in the case is aimed at discouraging complaints under the blasphemy law," he said in court Sunday.
The case has provoked an outcry from international human rights activists and shone an uncomfortable spotlight on Pakistan's blasphemy laws. Critics of the laws say they can be used to settle vendettas or seek retribution. Many of Pakistan's minorities, including Christians, live in fear of being accused of the offense.
The girl's lawyer, Chaudhry, said this case might lead to changes in the blasphemy law to prevent its misuse, but made clear that he had no problem with the law itself.
"Our concern is not about the law. The law is made for the betterment of society," he said. "The misuse and abuse of the law must be stopped."
People accused of the crime, even those who aren't convicted, often face vigilante justice by outraged Pakistanis. A Pakistani man accused of blasphemy in July was dragged from a police station and beaten to death before his body was set on fire.
Few are willing to tackle the highly contentious issue after two prominent politicians who criticized the law were murdered last year. One was killed by his own bodyguard, who then attracted adoring crowds.
The Pakistani government has been largely silent on the girl's case.
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Besides Downtown Baltimore Child Care / Park Avenue in the County of ( Baltimore (city) ) there are the following places of kind School . These are reported in what follows in alphabetical order:
A Child`s Place / College of Notre Dame - Abbottston Elementary School - Academy for College and Career Exploration - Academy of Languages - Academy of Purpose and Potential - Academy of Success - Acceleration Academy at Gwynn Oak - Alexander Hamilton Elementary School - Alicia Crossland Public School (historical) - All Saints School - Alternative Learning Center - Alternative Learning Center Southeast - Alternative Learning Center Southwest - Alternative Learning Center West - American Beauty Academy - Archbishop Curley High School - Archbishop Keough High School (historical) - Arlington Elementary School - Armistead Public School (historical) - Armstead Gardens Elementary School - Arnett J Brown Middle School - Arundel Elementary School - Ashburton Elementary School - Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts - Avara`s Academy of Hair Design - Bais Yaakov School for Girls - Baltimore Academy of Excellence - Baltimore Academy of Visitation - Baltimore Ballet Center - Baltimore Christian Academy - Baltimore Christian School - Baltimore City College - Baltimore City Community College Business Education Center - Baltimore City Detention Center - Baltimore Freedom Academy - Baltimore Hebrew University - Baltimore International College - Baltimore Junior Academy - Baltimore Polytechnic Institute - Baltimore School For The Arts - Baltimore School of the Bible - Baltimore Urban League - Barclay Elementary School - Barrister Charles Carroll Elementary School - Bay-Brook Elementary School - Beechfield Elementary School - Belmont Elementary School - Benjamin Banneker Public School (historical) - Benjamin Franklin Middle School - Bentalou Elementary School - Beth Jacob School - Bethel Christian School - Bethlehem Christian Day School - Betsy Ross Public School (historical) - Binah Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies - Blessed Sacrament School - Bloomberg School of Public Health - Bolton Hill Public School (historical) - Booker T Washington Middle School - Boykin`s Karate Academy - Brehms Lane Elementary School - Bryn Mawr School - Callaway Elementary School - Calvary Christian Day School - Calvert School - Calverton Middle School - Calvin Rodwell Elementary School - Canton Middle School - Cardinal Gibbons High School - Cardinal Shehan Elementary School - Career Academy - Carroll Park School - Carver Vocational-Technical High School - Catholic Community School - Catonsville Education Center - Cecil Elementary School - Cedarcroft School - Center for Creative Learning - Central Career Center at Briscoe - Charles Carroll of Carrollton Elementary School - Cherry Hill Elementary School - Cherry Hill Middle School - Chesapeake Center Alternative - Childrens Hospital School - Childtime Learning Center - Chimes School - Chinese Boxing Academy - Chinquapin Middle School - Church of the Redeemer Day School - City Neighbors Center Charter School - City Spring Elementary School - Claremont Trainable School - Clifton Park Junior High School (historical) - Coldstream Park Elementary School - College of Notre Dame of Maryland - Collington Square Elementary School - Columbus School - Commodore John Rodgers Elementary School - Community College of Baltimore - Community College of Baltimore Harbor Campus - Community Initiatives Academy - Connexions Leadership Academy - Coppin Academy High School - Coppin Demonstration School (historical) - Coppin State University - Cross Country Elementary School - Curtis Bay Elementary School - Dallas F Nicholas Sr Elementary School - Daniel A Payne Public School (historical) - David E Weglein Elementary School (historical) - Dickey Hill Elementary School - Digital Harbor High School - Doctor Bernard Harris Senior Elementary School - Doctor Carter G Woodson Elementary/Middle School - Doctor Lillie M Jackson Alternative Elementary School - Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Elementary School - Doctor Roland N Patterson Middle School - Doris M Johnson High School - Douglas Frederick Early Learning Center - Douglass High School - Dr Rayner Browne Elementary School - Eager Street Academy - Eastern High School (historical) - Edgar Allan Poe Public School (historical) - Edgecombe Circle Elementary School - Edgewood Elementary School - Edmondson-Westside High School - Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington Primary School - Elementary School 59A - Elementary School Number 136 (historical) - Elmer A Henderson Elementary School - Elmhurst Nursery School - Empowerment Academy - Entrepreneurial Academy - Eutaw-Marshburn Elementary School - Fairmount Hill Junior-Senior High School (historical) - Fallstaff Road Elementary School - Fannie L Barbour Public School (historical) - Father Charles Hall Catholic Elementary School - Father Charles Hall Middle School - Federal Hill Elementary School - Fell School - First English Evangelical Lutheran School - Forest Park School - Fort Worthington Elementary School - Frances Ellen Harper Public School (historical) - Francis M Wood Alternative School - Francis Scott Key Middle School - Frankford Elementary School - Franklin Square Elementary School - Frederick Elementary School - Friends School - Furley Elementary School - Furman L Templeton Elementary School - Gardenville Elementary School - Garrett Heights Elementary School - Garrison Middle School - Gateway School - General Wolfe Elementary School - George G Kelson Elementary School - George W McMechen Middle/High School - George Washington Elementary School - Gilman Country School - Gilmor Elementary School - Glenmount Elementary School - Goerge Street Elementary School - Gompers Vocational School - Govans Elementary School - Govans Presbyterian Preschool - Grace and Saint Peters School - Grace United Methodist Preschool - Graceland Park-O`Donnell Heights Elementary School - Greater Baltimore Academy - Greater Grace Christian Academy - Green Spring Valley School - Grove Park Elementary School - Guilford Elementary School - Gwynns Falls Elementary School - Hamilton Assembly of God Christian School - Hamilton Business School - Hamilton Elementary School - Hamilton Middle School - Hampden Elementary School - Hampstead Hill Elementary School - Hampstead Hill Middle School - Harbor City High School - Harbor City Learning Center - Harbor View Elementary School - Harford Heights Elementary School - Harford Heights Middle School - Harford Heights Nursery Center - Harlem Park Elementary School - Harlem Park Middle School - Harriet Beecher Stowe Public School (historical) - Harriet Tubman Elementary School - Harvey Johnson Junior High School (historical) - Hattie Sams Learning Center - Hazelwood Elementary School - Henry Fleet Primary School (historical) - Herring Run Junior High School (historical) - Highlandtown Elementary School - Hillside School for Handicapped Children - Hilton Elementary School - Holabird Elementary School - Holy Cross School - Holy Rosary School - Homeland Security School - Homewood School - Hope Academy - Howard Park Public School (historical) - Immanuel Lutheran Elementary School - Independence School - Industrial School for Girls (historical) - Institute of Notre Dame - International Academy of Hair - Irvington Public School (historical) - Islamic Community School - Ivey League Learning Center - James McHenry Elementary School - James Monroe Public School (historical) - James Mosher Elementary School - Jane Addams Vocational School - John Eager Howard Elementary School - John Ruhrah Elementary School - Johns Hopkins University - Johnston Square Elementary School - Joseph C Briscoe School - Joseph Harrison Lockerman Public School (historical) - Kennedy Krieger School - Kiddie Castle Child Development - Kipp Ujima Village Academy - Lafayette Elementary School - Lake Clifton-Eastern High School (historical) - Lakeland Elementary-Middle School - Lakewood Elementary School - Langston Hughes Elementary School - Laurence G Paquin Junior-Senior High School - Learning Co-op - Leith Walk Elementary School - Lexington Terrace Elementary School - Liberty Elementary School - Lockerman-Bundy Elementary School - Lois T Murray Elementary School - Lombard Middle School - Loyola College in Maryland - Luther Craven Mitchell Primary School - Lyndhurst Elementary School - Maarifa Children S Center - Madison Square Elementary School - Malcolm X Elementary School - Maree Garnett Farring Elementary School - Margaret Brent Elementary School - Maritime Academy High School - Mary E Rodman Elementary School - Maryland Academy of Technology and Math - Maryland Institute College of Art - Maryland School for the Blind - Matthew A Henson Elementary School - McKims School (historical) - Medfield Heights Elementary School - Mercy High School - Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School - Midtown Academy - Mildred Monroe Elementary School - Montebello School - Moravia Park Primary School - Mordecai Gist Public School (historical) - Morgan State University - Morrell Park Elementary School - Mother Seton Academy - Mount Royal Elementary-Middle School - Mount Saint Agnes College - Mount Saint Josephs College - Mount Washington Elementary School - Mount Zion Baptist Christian School - Mountain Manor - Baltimore - National Academy Foundation School - Ner Israel Rabbinical College - Ner Tamid Montessori Preschool - New Creation Christian Academy - New Era Academy - New Era Education / Theresa Boyd Preschool - New Foundations Mansef School - New Madenah Academy - New Psalmist Christian School - New Song Academy - North Bend Elementary School - Northeast Christian School - Northeast Middle School - Northern High School - Northern Parkway Junior High School - Northwestern High School - Northwood Appolo Community Academy - Northwood Elementary School - Old Goucher College Buildings - Oliver Cromwell School - Oliver Perry Public School (historical) - Open Bible Day School - Our Lady of Fatima School - Our Lady of Good Counsel School - Our Lady of Lourdes School - Our Lady of Pompeis School - Our Saviour Lutheran Church Child Development - Park Heights Avenue Academy - Park Heights Elementary School - Park School - Patapsco Elementary School - Patrick Henry School - Patterson High School - Patterson Park Public Charter School - Patterson School - Paul Laurence Dunbar High School - Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle School - Peabody Institute (historical) - Phyllis Wheatley Educational Center - Pimlico Elementary School - Pimlico Middle School - Public School 126 (historical) - Public School 128 (historical) - Public School 140 (historical) - Public School Number 109 - Ralph Young Boys School - Reginald F Lewis High School - Renaissance Academy - Robert Brown Elliott Public School (historical) - Robert Coleman Elementary School - Robert E Lee Junior High School (historical) - Robert Eden Public School (historical) - Robert Poole Middle School - Robert W Coleman Elementary School - Rock Glen Elementary School - Rognel Heights Elementary School - Roland Park Country School - Roland Park Elementary School - Roland Park Middle School - Rosemont Elementary School - Rutland Elementary School (historical) - S C Taylor Elementary School - Sacred Heart of Mary School - Sacred Heart School - Sacred Heart Schools - Saint Alphonsus School - Saint Ambrose School - Saint Anns School - Saint Anthonys School - Saint Benedicts School (historical) - Saint Bernardines School - Saint Bernards School - Saint Brigids School - Saint Casimirs School - Saint Cecilia School - Saint Davids Day School - Saint Dominics School (historical) - Saint Edwards School - Saint Elizabeth School - Saint Elizabeths School for Special Education - Saint Frances Academy High School - Saint Francis Academy - Saint Francis of Assisi School - Saint Helena School - Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy - Saint James School - Saint Jerome School - Saint John`s Christian Day School - Saint Josephs School - Saint Katherines School - Saint Leos School - Saint Martins Academy - Saint Marys Industrial School (historical) - Saint Marys School - Saint Marys Seminary - Saint Marys Seminary - Saint Marys Star of the Sea School - Saint Matthews School - Saint Michaels School - Saint Patricks School - Saint Pauls School (historical) - Saint Pauls School (historical) - Saint Peter Clavers School - Saint Peters College - Saint Peters School - Saint Rose of Lima School - Saint Stanislaus School (historical) - Saint Thomas Aquinas School - Saint Wenceslaus School - Saint William of York School - Saints Philip and James School (historical) - Samuel F B Morse Elementary School - Samuel L Banks High School - Samuel Ready School - Sarah M Roach Elementary School - Saratoga Junior High School (historical) - School of Mary Our Queen - School of the Chimes - School of the Most Precious Blood - Searchlight Training Center for Retarded Children - Sellinger School of Business and Management - Seton High School - Sharp-Leadenhall School - Shrine of the Little Flower School - Sinclair Lane Elementary School - Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate School - Sojourner Douglas College - Sought Out Redeemed Christian School - South Side Academy - Southeast Baltimore Catholic Academy Father Kolbe Campus - Southeast Middle School - Southeast Youth Academy - Southern High School - Southwest Academy - Southwest Charter School - Southwestern High School - Stadium School - Steuart Hill Elementary School - Tae Kwon Do Academy - Talent Development High School - Tench Tilghman Elementary School - Tesst College of Technology - Baltimore - The Bryn Mawr Little School - The Catholic High School of Baltimore - The Childrens Guild - The Crossroads School - The Green School - The Greenmount School - The Maryland Church of God in Christ School - The Mill School - The Oak Ridge Academy - The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins - The Salvation Army Day Care Center - The Upton School- Home and Hospital Services - Thomas G Hayes Elementary School - Thomas Jefferson Elementary School - Thomas Johnson Elementary School - Thurgood Marshall High School - Torah Institute of Baltimore - Umoja Head Start Academy - University of Baltimore - University of Maryland School of Medicine - Universtiy of Maryland - Baltimore - Unselds Elementary School - Upton School - Upton School - Venable High School - Veterans Trade School - Victory Elementary School - Villa Maria School at Seton Keough - Violetville Elementary School - Virginia Kelly Rice Hall - Vivien T Thomas Medical Arts Academy - W P Carter Memorial Day Care - Walbrook High School - Waldorf School of Baltimore - Walter P Carter Elementary School - Waverly Career Center - Waverly Elementary School - West Baltimore Potomac Community School - Western High School - Westport Elementary School - Westside Elementary School - Westside Skill Center - William A Alexander Public School (historical) - William H Lemmel Middle School - William Paca Elementary School - William Pinderhughes Elementary School - William S Baer School - Windsor Hills Elementary School - Winston Middle School - Womens Institute of Torah Seminary - Woodbourne Center - Woodbourne Center For Special Education - Woodbourne Day School - Woodhome Elementary School - Woodrow Wilson Junior High School (historical) - Yeshivat Rambam Maimonides Academy - Yorkwood Elementary School - Youth Education Academy at Woodbourne - Youth Opportunity School .
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- State's Motto : Fatti maschi, parole femmine
- English translation : Manly deeds, womanly words (Italian)
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2-alarm fire damages Anne Arundel County townhome
No injuries reported, firefighters say
Firefighters battled a fire that razed a townhome in Anne Arundel County on Friday.
Anne Arundel County fire officials said firefighters were called to a two-alarm fire that hit a three-story townhome in the 7800 block of Crystal Brook Way at about 9:30 p.m.
Fire officials said arriving crews encountered flames coming from the home, and fire commanders summoned a second-alarm worth of manpower and equipment to respond to the scene.
The fire was declared under control at about 10:07 p.m.
No injuries were reported, fire officials said.
Firefighters said people were inside the home when the fire started, but they managed to escape after being alerted by functioning smoke alarms.
Fire officials said a sprinkler assisted in halting the fire's progress.
A total 70 firefighters responded, officials said.
Fire officials said it was too early to say what caused the blaze.
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So you think atheism is worthwhile, do you? You'd like to see more people abandon religious delusion and embrace reality, huh? You'd even like to see atheism become the norm in your country, wouldn't you? Okay, prove it.
What if I told you that you could promote the atheist meme (i.e., there probably aren't any gods) without even having to leave your home? What if you could do it from where you are sitting right now, without having to spend a dime, and with almost no effort whatsoever?
Whenever you run across atheist-oriented content on the Internet that you like, give it a thumbs up in StumbleUpon, submit it to Reddit, re-tweet it in Twitter, or promote it in whatever way you usually promote content you like. Simple, isn't it? But many of us are not even doing this on a regular basis.
Here's how I look at it: I am not paying for most of the stellar atheist content I enjoy each and every day on the Internet, so the least I can do is to promote it. Why is this important?
- Promoting good atheist content helps the author of the content by bringing more visitors to his/her page.
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- Promoting good atheist content helps the atheist meme by showing advertisers that we are worth their attention.
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yeah, i looked on the back and was rather disappointed in all the extras and features. i want more. I haven't watched the DVD yet, but there just seems to be so little that I'm not in the mood.
and the first person's right. no more sex scenes were necessary other than the extra ones.


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Polychlorinated biphenyls
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Chemical Name: Polychlorinated biphenyls
Type of Toxicity: cancer
Listing Mechanism: Labor Code (LC)
Date Listed: 1-Oct-89
NSRL (No Significant Risk Level) or MADL (Maximum Allowable Dose Level): 0.09 µg/day
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The Gunners lost top spot in the Barclays Premier League after a 5-1 hammering by fourth-placed Liverpool, who blitzed their visitors with four unanswered goals in the opening 20 minutes.
Arsene Wenger's side have slipped to second, a point behind Chelsea, but host Manchester United on Wednesday looking to recover both lost ground and pride.
"We are very disappointed, especially with the first half," Oxlade-Chamberlain told arsenal.com.
"We know we are better than that so in that sense we are gutted.
"But these things happen in football and it is our responsibility to turn that around and we have a great opportunity on Wednesday night.
"When the first goal went early (in the first minute) you have to respond and 'see out' the next 10 or 15 minutes.
"We failed to do that and, credit to Liverpool, I thought they were brilliant and we were not up to scratch.
"In the second half we knew we had to improve and I believe that we did that.
"So there are some mental positives but we have to put it right on Wednesday."
Defender Martin Skrtel scored from two set-pieces before Raheem Sterling and Daniel Sturridge put the game out of sight well before half-time.
Sterling added a second just after the break before Mikel Arteta scored a consolation for Arsenal after Steven Gerrard brought down Oxlade-Chamberlain in the penalty area.
Gunners boss Wenger admits his side have put themselves under pressure with the performance as their title credentials are now being doubted.
"It raises questions that we have to answer on Wednesday night," said the Frenchman.
"But it is not what people say it is how we respond what matters.
"People of course raise questions but we have only one way to answer that and it is on Wednesday night."
Asked whether they were still title contenders, Wenger added: "Of course, because no matter what happens it will be mathematically possible.
"It is always what you make of a defeat which decides your future and we have a lot to answer for and a lot of answers to find.
"It was a similar situation after Manchester City (where they lost 6-3 in December).
"It was a Saturday 12.45pm kick-off and we similarly conceded early goals.
"We have to analyse well what happened and why it happened but we didn't look sharp physically as well."
After the City defeat, Arsenal went on an eight-match unbeaten run which saw them garner 20 points, and Wenger sees no reason why they cannot repeat the feat.
"If we do that in the next few games that will be okay," he said.
"We are very disappointed but we will not lose our confidence and belief that we can still do it."
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Election of one TIRExB replacement member
1 December 2011
At its fifty-first session (Geneva, 3 February 2011) the TIR Administrative Committee (AC.2) elected nine (9) members of the TIR Executive Board (TIRExB) for the term of office 2011–2012. However, one TIRExB member (Mr. V. Luhovets from Ukraine) informed the TIR Secretary on 28 November 2011 that he can no longer continue his functions as a TIRExB member. In accordance with the Rules of Procedure of TIRExB, in case a member of the TIRExB resigns before the completion of his/her mandated term of office, a replacement member shall be elected by AC.2 as soon as possible. The replacement member shall only hold office for the remainder of the term of office of the current TIRExB composition (viz. until the next elections in February 2013). In line with the mandate given by AC.2 at its fifty-second session (Geneva, 6 October 2011), the UNECE secretariat is soliciting herewith candidates willing to stand for election for one vacant seat in the TIRExB. The election will take place on Thursday, 9 February 2012, in the course of the fifty-third session of AC.2, in accordance with the established procedure (TRANS/WP.30/AC.2/59, paras. 24-27).
The name and present function of the candidate your Government may wish to nominate, together with a detailed curriculum vitae of the nominated candidate, should be received by the UNECE secretariat at the latest on 6 January 2012 (Attention: Mr. Konstantin Glukhenkiy, Office 401-3, Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10; e-mail: email@example.com; fax: +41-22-917-0039). Following receipt of the names of candidates, the UNECE secretariat will circulate, on 9 January 2012, a list of all nominated candidates to the Contracting Parties to the Convention. No further candidates may be nominated following the issuance of this list by the UNECE secretariat.
Please make sure that the nomination letter includes the phrase confirming that your government agrees to finance the work of your member of the TIR Executive Board (if elected), in accordance with the provisions of Explanatory Note 8.13.1-2 of the Convention.


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Although X-rated videos used to be OK for Vine users, the video-sharing app has decided to ban all sexually explicit content.
In a blog post, Vine wrote that it was changing its rules and Terms of Service to exclude the sexually explicit material. "As we've watched the community and your creativity grow and evolve, we've found that there's a very small percentage of videos that are not a good fit for our community," the post read. "For more than 99 percent of our users, this doesn't really change anything."
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Vine also stated that it has "no problem with explicit sexual content on the Internet" but that it didn't want to be the source of it, according to The Verge. Only images that feature partial nudity and have some "documentary, educational or artistic" value will be allowed. Earlier, Vine deleted hashtags and "easy routes" to porn, the report said.
While not having a problem with sexual content, it's a different story when your company has become known or synonymous with porn, such as Vine Porn. For whatever reason, possibly because editors accidentally chose sexual explicit "Editor's Choice" vines, or six-second video clips, sexually explicit content seemed to have dogged Vine. The only way to rid yourself of that reputation is by ridding itself of the content altogether.