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Aug. 22, 1914 – May 26, 2012
Ernest Roy Howe, of Billings, died Saturday, May 26, 2012, at the age of 97.
Born Aug. 22, 1914, in Shell, son of Eddie Claude and Josephine (Milward) Howe, he was one of eight children: having four sisters and three brothers. He was raised on Beaver Creek and attended school in that area (lower Beaver School), located on the family ranch.
On April 2, 1938, he married Shirley Campbell in Red Lodge. They lived and farmed in Deaver, where they had three children.
He worked for the Deaver Irrigation District and on the Japanese relocation center at Heart Mountain, at the Wyoming Highway Department and was a government packer for Yellowstone Park Service, handling a string of 10 mules. He also worked for Weaver Construction and the sugar company in Lovell.
For a number of years he had a country-western band called the Wyoming Wranglers. He played the fiddle and the band was well known in the Deaver/Powell area.
Ernest and Shirley were divorced in 1964 and he moved to Billings. On March 5, 1965, he married Julia E. Johnson in Sheridan.
In Billings he worked for Yellowstone Exhibition (now Metra) as grounds superintendent starting in 1965 until he retired in March 1977. During his tenure as grounds superintendent, he became known for the beautiful flowers, especially petunias and sweet peas, on the grounds as well as at his residence, which was located on the fairgrounds midway. After retiring he returned several summers, assisting on various projects on the grounds, but especially the growing of flowers.
He was baptized at 89 years old in the Sea of Cortes, San Felipe, Baja, Mexico while visiting his daughter. He was a member of Elks, AARP and PERS.
Ernest died at Aspen Meadows nursing home where he had been a resident for four years. There, he was fondly known to the staff as their "singing cowboy." The family wants to extend thanks to the staff for his care at Aspen Meadows.
Survivors include his wife Julia of 47 years; two daughters, Janeen (Sam) Sefren of Apache Junction, Ariz., and Saundra (Curtis) Martin of San Felipe, Baja, Mexico; son Eddie Sam (Judie) of Gillette; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Cremation has taken place. Memorial services will be held at a later date.
Memorials may be sent to the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter, 1735 Monad Rd., Billings, MT 59102, or a charity of your choice.
Arrangements are by Cremation & Funeral Gallery. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.cfgbillings.com through "Our Families."
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Not so fast in Doe v. Reed
I happened to be in the courtroom today for the argument in Doe v. Reed, which was Justice Stevens' last argued case. Early reporting and commentary on the decision "" with which I agree entirely "" has been that the Court will affirm by a wide margin the Ninth Circuit's refusal to grant the particular injunction now before the Court.
But it does not follow, as some have thought, that the courts will in fact allow the lists of petition signatories to be released. In fact, I think there is a significant chance they will not.
The lopsided tone of the argument in favor of the State of Washington today depended very much on two factors: Justice Scalia's strong views that disclosure does not implicate any constitutional interest, and the case's procedural posture. The latter point is critical. As the Justices understood the case, it came to them presenting only a categorical, "facial" question: whether the signatories to an initiative can ever be disclosed consistent with the First Amendment. That issue "" presented by Count I of the plaintiffs' complaint "" was decided below.
The case thus did not present the significantly narrower question whether the signatories to this referendum may be disclosed. That issue "" presented by Count II of the plaintiffs' complaint "" was not resolved by the lower courts.
The argument was heavily oriented towards the State because only one Justice "" Justice Alito "" seemed to favor the view that the First Amendment would broadly prohibit all such disclosures. The other members of the Court seemed quite clear "" and the issue was framed by a very early question by the Chief Justice that this was only a "facial" attack "" that there would be many instances in which disclosure would not implicate the harassment-related concerns of this initiative and for which disclosure of the signatories would not be worrisome.
The analogy repeated a few times in the argument was that it is generally true that the government may require the disclosure of campaign contributions, but it has also held open the possibility that a party may justify nondisclosure based on unique circumstances.
Notably, it was two of the more liberal members of the Court who seemed quite interested in preserving the possibility of an as-applied challenge to disclosure related to this particular referendum. Justice Breyer said almost nothing, but asked a pointed question to the State's Attorney General about whether civil rights advocates in Little Rock, Arkansas could have been forced to disclose their advocacy of a hypothetical referendum to support re-opening a school that had been closed in an effort to maintain segregation. And Justice Ginsburg repeatedly returned to the distinction between the two counts of the complaint.
It's also important to recognize that the Court both granted certiorari and stayed the judgment here, and Justice Thomas cited the prospect of harassment in his opinion in Citizens United. So it would be surprising for them to engage in a complete about-face.
I therefore expect the Court's decision to be unanimous or nearly so in agreeing that the issuance of an injunction on Count I of the complaint was inappropriate and that the case should return to the district court for further proceedings. Beyond that, the Court may break into three separate camps: that as-applied challenges should be easy (Justice Alito); that they should be exceptionally hard or prohibited altogether (Justice Scalia); and that a middle ground is appropriate. Or the Court may finesse the issue of the proper standard by leaving it unresolved.
I think there is a significant chance that a majority of the Court will signal that the district court should on remand consider very seriously the request for an injunction as to this referendum. And so there is a realistic chance that the State of Washington's victory in this case will be short-lived.
In the end, however, I doubt that the opinion which results from today's argument will be the last word on the disclosure of referendum signatories, and there is a significant chance that the case will be back in the Supreme Court in a year or two.


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Humor writing comes naturally to some authors. Others have to work hard to be funny. (Sounds funny, doesn't it. . .working hard to be funny?) I'm one of those who came into the world with an overactive funny bone. Oh, it occasionally gives me trouble. Life's woes kick in and my funny bone gets arthritic. It locks up. Whenever that happens, I trip myself on purpose, just to loosen it back up again. (Hey, a girl can only go so long without laughter!)
Yep, from the time I was a little girl, I was the happy-go-lucky sort. Giggly. Goofy. My mom always called me a ham because of my overly-dramatic style. Not that I minded. Oh no. Drama was my thing. And performing comedy on the stage was the thing that made me happiest.
Then I grew up. . .and life happened. Unfortunately, some of the events of my grown-up life weren't funny. In fact, they were pretty tragic. Still, through my faith and my innate desire to keep on keepin' on, I managed to keep my smile intact much of the time.
So, what does this have to do with writing? Everything!
So, what makes a story funny? Here are a few tips to creating a tale that will tickle the funny bone:
2. Exaggeration: If your character is tall, make him really tall. Chubby? Make her exceptionally chubby. Nervous? Make him overly anxious. Claustrophobic? Carry it a bit further than the norm. Does she like to wear lipstick? Make it Pollyanna Pink or Ruby Red. Give that character an exaggerated "sticking point" that readers will remember. And, exaggerate plotline highs and lows, as well. Is she in a valley? Make it a deep one. Is he on the mountaintop? Give him the experience of a lifetime.
4. Slapstick: Think of Larry, Mo and Curly. Sure, their antics got a little old after awhile, but you get the idea. "Physical" comedy (tripping over things, physical gags, etc.) has always had its place in humor writing. Use these events sparingly, but don't rule them out.
5. Speaking of Larry, Mo and Curly: Work in threes. Three funny characters as a trio. Three funny situations in a row. Threes have always worked in comedy. "Three nuns walked into a bar…" (etc.) See what I mean? Funny people love the number three.
6. Pacing: There's much to be said about the placement of words, phrases and inflections. Pacing it truly everything in comedy. In many respects, it is learned by trial and error. If you aren't sure something is working, run it by your critique partners. See if they're tickled by your words.
7. The Punch Line. If you're writing comedy, make sure you leave the reader anticipating a "Wowza!" punch line. Don't give away too much too soon. Adequately build the story, then. . .bam! Punch line!
Blessed are those who are poor in contracts,
for they will surely reap their reward if they do not give up.
Blessed are those who mourn as a result of rejection slips,
for they can be comforted in the fact that they are not alone.
Blessed are the meek, humbly accepting God's call and recognizing that any accomplishment comes from His Mighty hand,
for they will inherit the respect of fellow authors, as well as the favor of God.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for great-writing,
for their computers will be filled with well-written manuscripts.
Blessed are those who are merciful to editors and agents,
for they will be shown abundant mercy.
Blessed are the pure-hearted authors who seek to serve the Lord with their writing,
for they will see God – both in their work and their worship.
Blessed are the peacemakers, doing all they can to humor cranky critique partners,
for they will be called "godly mentors."
Blessed are those who are persecuted because they wear the name "Christian writer"
for they carry the indisputable call of God on their lives.
Blessed are you when editors insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against your well-loved and beautifully written manuscript. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the many Christian authors who walked before you.
You (writers) are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
You (writers) are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
That's it for now, writers. Go forth and giggle!
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Rene Rodriguez, chef and owner of Navarra on Murray Street, prevailed over two other finalists and took home the $100,000 prize for winning Top Chef Canada on Monday night.
"I'm very happy to have won this not just for me, but for the city," the Ottawa-born Rodriguez, 42, said in an interview. "I think that Ottawa needs a good uplift to be one of the best cities in the country for food, so I'm very happy."
Rodriguez, who has cooked in various high-end Ottawa restaurants since the early 2000s, bested 13 other competitors from across Canada on the fourth season of Food Network Canada's top-rated show.
He said that he will use his winnings to save for his young son's education, to buy a motorcycle that he will take on a cross-Canada trip and to open another restaurant in Ottawa — a small eatery of a dozen or so seats that will be dedicated to the authentic cuisine of Oaxaca, a southeastern state in Mexico.
While Rodriguez was born in Ottawa, he lived in Oaxaca from the ages of five to 19 after his parents returned to their homeland. Much of Rodriguez's innovative and complex cooking at Navarra is grounded in his Mexican heritage, and on the TV show competition, Rodriguez frequently relied on Mexican dishes and ingredients.
"I was able to reconnect with my roots of who I am as a chef," Rodriguez said. "It was one of those things where you can actually go back to your roots and cook with pride."
Rodriguez's multi-course meal that wowed a judge's panel on Monday night's program included versions of two dishes served at Navarra — a signature beef tartare appetizer; and a braised lamb shank in a traditional Mexican mole sauce with parsnip puree, topped with crispy mealworms.
Rodriguez has competed several times in Ottawa's Gold Medal Plates competition over the years, but has never won that event's top prize. The chef said that the comparison was "night and day" between Gold Medal Plates and Top Chef Canada.
"Top Chef Canada is way, way, way more demanding and challenging," Rodriguez said. "Gold Medal Plates is just one day. You just have to cook for one day, you go there for two hours.
"Top Chef is incredibly hard. I'm not just saying this because of the outcome. I'm saying this because every day you have to get up at six in the morning and you go to bed at midnight. For seven weeks. You don't see your family, you don't see your friends. All of a sudden, you're in a bubble, you have to be creative, you have to be excited about food every day. You're tired, you're exhausted. There's no comparison.
"Any chef that really wants to prove themselves, they should do it."
Rodriguez's exposure on the TV show over the last few months has boosted business at his restaurant by about 30 per cent, the chef added. " It's crazy. It's amazing. We're almost turning people away on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, we're so busy."
Rodriguez added that he while he lived fairly anonymously in the past, since the new season of Top Chef Canada began March 10, he is now recognized and approached in public.
The newfound attention does not bother him, he said. "Absolutely not. I'm glad that you support me as a local chef. You want to come to me and say can I have an autograph, I really, really, really appreciate it. I'm a humble guy. To me, that's awesome. That's amazing. It's very special."
As Top Chef Canada's champion, Rodriguez won not only a $100,000 grand prize sponsored by SpongeTowels but also a $30,000 GE Monogram Kitchen, and a $25,000 Caesarstone Quartz Installation.
Two years ago, during the second season of Top Chef Canada, chef Jonathan Korecki of Sidedoor Contemporary Kitchen and Bar on York Street was one of the series' three finalists.


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Venture on.
Porsche Panamera 4 Sport Turismo: Standard consumption 8.8-8.7 (l/100km) ; CO2 emissions combined 201-200 (g/km); CO2 emissions from the fuel and / or the power supply 46 (g/km); gasoline equivalent 8.8 (l/100km); Efficiency category: G*
Panamera 4 Sport Turismo
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Porsche Panamera 4 Sport Turismo: Standard consumption 8.8-8.7 (l/100km) ; CO2 emissions combined 201-200 (g/km); CO2 emissions from the fuel and / or the power supply 46 (g/km); gasoline equivalent 8.8 (l/100km); Efficiency category: G *
Before you stands a sports car. One that puts into action everything you need to get ahead. In your job. In your everyday life. In-tray full of projects? Places you've always wanted to visit? Sporty goals unfulfilled? Let's go.
Accept, implement, perform. That is the principle of the Panamera Sport Turismo. A car characterised by unequivocal sportiness, excellent everyday practicality and a design that sets new standards not only at Porsche. A segment? Doesn't fit in one. And certainly not a niche. It would much rather conquer the road directly.
Driven by a new generation of highpowered engines. The courage to defy conventions drives it forwards. A genuine Porsche? An atypical Panamera? The new Panamera Sport Turismo is defined, primarily, by itself.
Made for those who don't wait to be told what to do next. For all those who have the courage to get up and go. Preferably straight away.
The new Panamera Sport Turismo. Venture on.
The new Sport Turismo models precisely encapsulate the Panamera principle: performance and comfort are not contradictory notions, but a single entity. Neither are dynamics and efficiency – our engineers strive to enhance both in equal measure.
That's all well and good but, in Sport Turismo form, the new Panamera goes one step further, not only in terms of design. Instead of seeking compromises, it manages in unrivalled style to strike a dynamic balance between career, family, leisure time and driving pleasure. 4+1 seating concept. Generous head and legroom. Substantial load capacity – for presentation folders, for the carbon-fibre race bike, for your travel luggage. Or for that meeting with a special VIP: you.
Chassis control systems, such as Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) or rear-axle steering, intensify the driving experience – and safety. Assistance systems, such as Porsche InnoDrive, make it safer and more relaxing. Thanks to Porsche Connect, all Panamera Sport Turismo models are connected to the digital world. Just what you need when you're on a journey to the future.
The most powerful driving force of all time? Dreams. And the courage to make them a reality.
Exterior design
Let's start with the aspect of a Porsche that always attracts the most attention: the back. The rear end displays a wide physique and is clearly contoured, with all lines emphasising the horizontal orientation of the vehicle concept. The newly refined, higher roof line falls away to the rear, the large-size rear side windows narrow to a point. Nevertheless, passengers in the second row still have plenty of room to get in. A sports car: sharp, agile, contemporary.
Extraordinary describes the adaptive roof spoiler above the expansive rear screen. At high speeds, it reduces lift at the rear axle and helps to ensure outstanding driving stability, high performance and greater driving pleasure.
Conspicuous, in the best sense of the word, describes the light strip on the rear end and the three-dimensionally shaped LED taillights with four-point brake lights. Characteristic of the stylish look commanded by the Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo are the imposing Turbo-specific twin tailpipes. The S models are equipped with round twin tailpipes, the Panamera 4 models with a single tailpipe on the right and left.
The fact that stylish design and everyday practicality are not mutually exclusive is demonstrated by the large rear hatch and the low loading edge, which makes it easier to integrate more than just everyday things into the Panamera Sport Turismo – and your life. Above all the sports car has an extraordinary capacity of up to 1,390 litres.
The rear of a sports car boasts sporty attitude. The front and sides, however, reveal a lot about the vehicle concept's elegance and contouring.
From this perspective, the proportions of the new Panamera Sport Turismo models are above all: Porsche. The eye is drawn to clearly perceived rounded transitions, powerful muscles and a sharpened sports car silhouette.
The wheelbase is long. At the front, the overhang is comparatively short, which reinforces the dynamic impression. The side has been intensely sculpted, resulting in the characteristic Porsche waistline and sense of lightness.
An identifying feature of the new Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo: the side air outlets in the front wings are finished in the exterior colour of the car. They underline – along with the distinctive front end featuring characteristic front light units – the dominant position that the Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo maintains.
A hallmark of all Panamera models: LED main headlights with four-point daytime running lights, supplemented on the Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo by the Porsche Dynamic Light System (PDLS).
The Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo is further distinguished by 20-inch Panamera Turbo wheels and brake calipers with a red finish. The power of the Panamera 4S Sport Turismo models is delivered to the road by 19-inch Panamera S wheels. Behind them: brake calipers in Titanium Grey. The Panamera 4 and Panamera 4 E-Hybrid Sport Turismo are equipped with 19-inch Panamera wheels. The brake calipers on the former have a black anodised finish, while those of the E-Hybrid are painted in Acid Green.
Interior design
The interior design leads the way to the future of the sports car – and nevertheless remains faithful to classic Porsche principles. The centre console ascends towards the front, the analogue rev counter is positioned in the middle of the instrument cluster, the dashboard is flat and conspicuously wide.
The control concept is cutting edge with Porsche Advanced Cockpit. In between the compact gear selector is the centre console, which features touch sensitive buttons for direct access to the most important functions.
The dashboard incorporates a highresolution 12-inch touchscreen display.
In conjunction with optional four-zone automatic climate control and individual power seats in the rear, the rear passengers also have a touchscreen display of their own. Two high-resolution screens, one to the right and one to left of the rev counter, display virtual instruments, maps and a range of other information.
Above all, though, there is plenty of space and comfort. Front and rear. Not so typical of a sports car? Absolutely typical of the Panamera model range.
In Sport Turismo form, it now incorporates a 4+1 seating concept as standard so that a fifth person can enjoy the Panamera driving experience. Although not designed as a full-size individual seat, the extra space does provide a neat solution for carrying an additional passenger on short to medium distance trips. And, visually, it maintains the impression of a sporty four-seater – typical of the Panamera. On request, you can revert to the 'classic' four-seat configuration if you choose optional individual power seats for the rear.
Thanks to the higher roof line, passengers seated in the rear of the Sport Turismo also benefit from some extra headroom.
"That's the way we've always done it." Not really a sentence to inspire change. Except at Porsche. That's because we've always made each new generation of engines higher-performing, more dynamic and more efficient than the last.
The turbocharged V6 engine in the Panamera 4 Sport Turismo, the twin-turbo V6 engines in the Panamera 4 E-Hybrid Sport Turismo and Panamera 4S Sport Turismo, and the twin-turbo V8 engine in the Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo are equipped with VarioCam Plus: a system that adjusts the camshafts and valve lift. Their turbochargers are positioned in between the cylinder banks. This reduces the distance that the exhaust stream has to travel to reach the respective turbo – delivering a more rapid response.
The twin-turbo V8 engine of the Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo is equipped with twin-scroll turbines. The exhaust streams arrive at the turbine wheel through physically separate channels – for optimised gas cycles. The result: high torque even in the low rpm range.
The adaptive cylinder control of the twinturbo V8 engine activates cylinders on demand. An example: You're driving in town and have little need for power, so the engine fires only on four cylinders. Once you demand greater power output again, all cylinders will immediately be reactivated.
Direct fuel injection is realised by a central injector inside the combustion chamber. This optimises both mixture injection and combustion – for greater efficiency and increased power delivery.
In the Panamera 4S Diesel Sport Turismo, a twin-turbo V8 diesel engine with direct fuel injection and variable turbine geometry gives you a rapid response and high power output across the entire engine speed range – combined with a very high level of efficiency.
On the subject of high efficiency: all engines are purposefully equipped with electrical system recuperation, thermal management, auto start/stop with coasting function and active air intake flaps. And driving pleasure? Greater than ever.
Whether you're behind the wheel or occupying a passenger seat in the front or rear: in a Porsche, every drive should feel like sport, not transport. With comfort, not cosy cuddles.
The chassis of the new Panamera Sport Turismo models performs this balancing act between sport and comfort effortlessly – and in the most masterful way possible: with further-developed, optional chassis technologies. Examples include the adaptive air suspension with three-chamber technology boasting a 60% greater air capacity than that of the predecessor, new Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) and rear-axle steering. What's also new is the integrated Porsche 4D Chassis Control system, which centrally analyses the driving situation in all three spatial dimensions, e.g. pitch, roll and yaw, computes optimum driving states from this data, and synchronises all chassis systems in real time: the fourth dimension. The objective is to optimise overall performance, and to make the middle ground between sporty driving and comfort as expansive as possible.


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The Merriam-Webster unabridged dictionary has included new words that will have some people saying "WTF."
The company announced Tuesday it has added 1,700 new terms, many of which are influenced by the internet and social media.
Such entries include meme, NSFW, emoji, clickbait, and photobomb.
U.S. & World
Others refer to popular culture, such as jeggings, photobomb, twerk and vocal fry.
For a word to be included, it has to be "used in a substantial number of citations that come from a wide range of publications over a considerable period of time," according to Merriam-Webster. "Specifically, the word must have enough citations to allow accurate judgments about its establishment, currency, and meaning."
Here are some other new entries:
Net Neutrality (Noun)
Definition: the idea, principle or requirement that Internet service providers should or must treat all Internet data as the same regardless of its kind, source or destination.
Clickbait (Noun)
Definition: something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink, especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest.
Sriracha (Noun)
Definition: a pungent sauce that is made from hot peppers pureed with usually garlic, sugar, salt, and vinegar and that is typically used as a condiment.
Slendro (Noun)
Definition: a pentatonic tuning employed for Javanese gamelans that divides the octave into five roughly similar internals.
Dark Money (Noun)
Definition: money contributed to nonprofit organizations that is used to fund political campaigns without disclosure of the donors' identities.


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CSL Customers Could Save £1488 on a New-Collection Sofa This Christmas
05 Dec, 2012, 07:00 GMT
LONDON, December 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
This Christmas, the UK sofa specialists are taking 50% off the prices of their latest collection online and in-store, with a number of sofas by CSL available for delivery within 72 hours or even the next day.
For example, a Waltzer 3-Seater Corner Sofa with built-in iPod docking station now costs just £1488, and is ready for 72-Hour Express Delivery.
It only takes three simple steps to own a CSL sofa like Waltzer: select or create, pay, then just wait for delivery. And with the unique Love It or Exchange It guarantee, CSL gives each buyer the chance to make sure they've made the right choice, without questions and at no extra cost except delivery.
As the first step, CSL's selection process is designed to help anyone quickly find or customize the sofa that suits their home perfectly. Customers can first consult an expert in their nearest store. Or use the CSL iTunes app to download and see what different sofas look like 'in their own room'. While free Inspiration Stations, developed with the guidance of retail expert Mary Portas, let customers create realistic images of their ideal interiors in 20 minutes. The Stations are now available in Rotherham, Brent Cross, Croydon, and Hull branches.
Once they choose their ideal colours, materials, and sofa type, the second step for customers is to pick from a range of payment options. In addition to 50% savings on new-collection sofas by CSL, any customer can have the benefit of paying nothing for the first year. The company also offers easy payment plans of up to 4 years with 0% interest on credit.
And for the third and final step, sofas by CSL that qualify for Express Delivery can be with customers in 72 hours, and sometimes even the day after purchase. They will be brought straight to the right room. Plus the delivery team supplies care tips and clears away all packaging. All of which makes CSL the smart option for anyone looking for the perfect sofa!
For more information on the full range of sofas on offer please visit: http://www.csl-sofas.co.uk/ or walk into one of our sofa stores:
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Nick Harrop is a writer for Cafod (Caritas England and Wales). He has just return from a mission in Niger and give his first impression on the food crisis growing up in the country.
During the last few days, I've had the chance to ask several people in Niger how this year's food crisis compares with previous ones. They've all said the same thing: it's the worst one they can remember.
Mintou, a grandmother living in a village about three hours' drive from the capital, said: "There was one year when it was very bad, which we call 'kantchakalague'. Maybe we can compare this year that that one. But I think this year is worse."
"Does 'kantchakalgue' mean famine?" I asked Tchadi from our partner CADEV (Caritas Niger), who was translating.
"No, not famine," he said. "Literally, it means tiredness, thinness, a time when people are thin and animals are overwhelmed. A time when even if you kill an animal, you will find no meat inside. It's a special word that people here give to 1984. We will have to see if they give this year a name as well."
In a normal year, the harvest in November would produce enough food for the people in the village to last all year. But the harvest last year was disastrous, and people in Mintou's village have already run out of food.
"We have never known a time like this," said Ramatu, one of Mintou's neighbours. "We planted sorghum, millet, groundnuts – and then the rainfall just stopped. There wasn't sufficient water so the crops couldn't grow. Instead of grains and seeds, we have nothing.
"There are some days when I have nothing to give my children. In the morning and the afternoon you can go without eating. But at night you have to go out and find food. You cannot spend a day without eating."
I was struck by how resourceful Mintou and Ramatu were. They work hard collecting firewood or foliage for animals, and make brushes or mattresses out of old millet stalks so they have something to sell for a few francs at the local market. Both women also talked about the amazing solidarity in the village. But the village's food stores are almost empty, and people have little left to share.
"There are times when my grandchildren hold me and say grandma, we need to eat," said Mintou. "I don't have anything. When the children say 'I'm hungry, please give me some food,' my heart will be beating and I will be in trouble. Even when the rain starts falling, it will take another three months before the harvest. I have eight months in the darkness. I am afraid of the future."
There's still time to prevent this crisis becoming a catastrophe. If the world acts now, 2012 doesn't need to be another 'kantchakalague'


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Our FAQ section is updated in last few days with new howtos:
- Linux Network IP Accounting – I need to know how much data are transmitted on my ppp0 network or eth0 Internet links? How do I set IP accounting by address such as 184.108.40.206 and 188.8.131.52? How do I set IP accounting per Apache virtual domain? How do I set accounting by service port (http, smtp) and protocol (tcp, udp, icmp)? How do I record how much traffic each of the clients computer is using?
- Linux / UNIX: DNS Lookup Command – How do I perform dns lookup under Linux or UNIX or OS X operating systems without using 3rd party web sites for troubleshooting DNS usage?
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- Google Apps Domain Create SPF Records For BIND or Djbdns – I work for a small business and outsourced our email hosting to Google. However, I noticed that spammers are using our From: First Last to send their spam messages. All bounced messages come to our catch only account. How do I stop this? How do I validate our domain using SPF? How do I configure a SPF for Google Apps domain using BIND 9 or djbdns?
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Get fast facts about the desperate situation facing children and their families in Gaza.
Caught in the conflict between Israel and Hamas are the families of Gaza. Here is a quick summary of the challenges faced by many Gazan children and their families.
Minute 1: Gaza's History
- The Gaza Strip is a sliver of towns, villages and farmland at the southeast end of the Mediterranean. It's located between Israel to the north and east, and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to the south.
- Gaza city, the region's capital, has been continuously inhabited for more than 3,000 years and was a crossroads of ancient civilizations.
- The Israeli military occupied Gaza from 1967-2005.
- Today, more than 40 per cent of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza are refugees, many of whom live in crowded camps.
- An 18-month blockade by Israel has driven most families in Gaza into dire poverty. Closed borders and restricted movement has hampered aid from reaching those in need.
Minute 2: Socio-economic Conditions
- 49.1 per cent of Gazans are unemployed.
- More than 50 per cent of families in Gaza live below the poverty line.
- Most Gazans live on less than $2 a day
Minute 3: Food and Water
- Socio-economic conditions in Gaza, which is subject to severe restrictions, have deteriorated sharply, causing nearly 80 per cent of Gaza's residents to rely on food aid.
- 46 per cent of all Palestinians are either food insecure or in danger of becoming so.
- In Beit Lahya, North Gaza, most households have access to water, but the quality is so poor that 95 per cent have to buy drinking water.
Minute 4: Gaza's Children
- More than half of Gaza's 1.5 million residents are children.
- 50,000 children in Gaza are malnourished. About half of children under two are anemic and 70 per cent have vitamin A deficiency. Current malnutrition rates rival levels seen in drought-stricken regions of Africa
- Nearly half of all students in the Palestinian territories have seen their school besieged by troops, and more than 10 per cent have witnessed the killing of a teacher in school.
Minute 5: World Vision's Work in Gaza
- There are two World Vision communities in Gaza.
- World Vision supports 23,893 children in the West Bank and Gaza, including 6,000 children sponsored by Canadians.
by World Vision Canada
Please donate now to World Vision's relief efforts in conflict ridden regions.


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The nation's second-largest commuter railroad, Metro-North, let passenger safety lapse, a federal review released Friday says.
The eview began in December after a Metro-North train derailed in the Bronx, N.Y., killing four passengers and injuring 77 passengers and eight employees.
The Federal Railroad Administration says Metro-North's "strong emphasis on on-time performance," combined with increased train activity, "appears to have led managers and supervisors to allow inspections, maintenance and employee training to lapse."
Metro-North trains, which operate in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, carried 81 million passengers last year, according to FRA data.
The federal agency says that Metro-North's focus on on-time performance "led to a deficient safety culture that has manifested itself in increased risk and reduced safety."
Besides the Dec. 1 accident in the Bronx, there were three other "high-profile accidents last year involving Metro-North or its tracks, , the FRA says:
•On May 17, an eastbound train traveling 74 mph derailed in Bridgeport, Conn., and stopped on an adjacent track. About 20 seconds later, a westbound train collided with the derailed train. Metro-North spokesman Aaron Donovan says 120 passengers and 10 employees were injured.
•Eleven days later, the FRA says, a Metro-North train traveling 70 mph in West Haven, Conn., struck and killed a Metro-North employee performing railroad maintenance.
•On July 18, a CSX Transportation freight train derailed while traveling on Metro-North's track. No one was injured, but property damage was significant, the FRA says.
The federal agency directs Metro-North's senior leadership to immediately "prioritize safety above all else." That priority must be immediately implemented and communicated to employees, the FRA says.
The FRA ordered Metro-North to submit within 60 days a plan to improve its safety department's "mission and effectiveness."
The staff of the safety department must conduct safety meetings "at all levels of the organization" and provide "appropriate in-person monitoring of field activities and personnel," the FRA says.
Metro-North must also submit within 60 days a plan to improve its training program, and the railroad was ordered to "take corrective action to ensure that accurate records are created, maintained and readily accessible" to employees.
Metro-North President Joseph Giulietti says the FRA's review is "important," and the agency has recommended "significant improvements."
"Metro-North is taking aggressive actions to affirm that safety is the most important factor in railroad operations," Giulietti says, "and we welcome the FRA's continued involvement to help Metro-North establish a consistent safety-first culture throughout the railroad."
Source Article from http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/14/metro-north-safety-lapses/6415573/


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Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin took to the "Today" show Friday to assure viewers that she was standing by her resignation decision and pageant fixing allegations against the Miss Universe organization.
"What I really want out of this is for the truth to be known," Monnin told NBC's Ann Curry.
The "Today" appearance came two days after Donald Trump called into the morning show and announced a plan to sue the Pennsylvania beauty.
Earlier this week, Monnin announced she was resigning from her position as Miss Pennsylvania USA 2012 because she says Sunday's Miss USA pageant was fixed.
Monnin claims that another contestant saw the list of who made the top 5 before the show started. She said on her Facebook page that she saw the list and that the ladies named were the same as those announced on stage.
The organization dismissed the allegations as false, alleging that Monnin resigned because of the recent decision to allow transgender contestants.
Trump told "Today" he believes Monnin was just mad she didn't make it to the top 15.
"I feel disappointed that (Trump) has made some of the statements that he said about me," Monnin said on "Today" Friday. "I know what I heard, and I know what I in turn witnessed come true based on what I heard the contestant say she saw on the list, so I'm prepared to continue to march forward."
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"There are many reasons that a list could be laying around with the top five names, but when the names were called out in the order that she said she saw them on the list, that's just too coincidental to not be true,'' Monnin said.


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Contemporary Gaming in China 101: Promotional efforts of the "game trucks"
You wanted to know how good Chinese gaming companies are when it comes to promotions? Here is a question brought by my friend during a conversation:
"How could you work for gaming companies? You are not a programmer and you have no computer science background either."
The question revealed my friends' (or perhaps a lot of people's) perception of game. To them, the gaming industry works like a food truck; a direct distribution platform: you make them and you sell them right away. You just need to let the gamers know when your new game is "fresh out of the grill".
It makes sense my friends thought of it that way, because that's close to what we're having in China for games when it comes to promotion "Game trucks"
here are the reasons why Chinese gaming companies are like "game trucks" when it comes to promotion:
1. Limited Media (both old and new) Exposure
If you live in Boston, go to BU, and you take the T for school, You might recall the ads for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Borderlands 2 on the boards of BU central station.
If you live in Beijing, go to pretty much anywhere around the city, choose any kind of transportation, you can hardly find a game advertisement.
Like a food truck, which has every promotional material on the vehicle, Chinese gaming companies put everything on their own websites and their own websites only.
2. Not Proactive Enough
It's not that these companies don't promote their games, they rely on only gaming conferences like ChinaJoy, CGDC andCGBC. These are almost the only chances for the public to see companies promoting their new games. Other than that, nothing.
Of course, a chef on the food truck won't announce his/her intention to make a new grill cheese, but guys you're not making grill cheese. Think about it.
3. "Over-confident"
Let's assume that the Chinese companies are like this is because they are relying on word-of-mouth marketing. but where did they get such confidence to rely on such strategy without even start sending the message? Like gourmets, gamers are glad to share what they like. If you're confident about your games, let your gamers know about it. The food truck owners would at least ask their customers to "tell your friends about us". Well guys you should start from that too.
And back to my friends' question: how could I work in a gaming company.
They need people to sell the games the right way. Hope he will be satisfied with the answer


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Announcing the Stat leaders from the 2012 HS Centrals Championships in Chicago, IL.
The following tables of data are initially sorted by Team and Jersey #. To see leaders by each category, click on the table column header. To sort by more than one column at once, hold the Shift key while selecting the columns.
Note: In the cases where the jersey number was unknown or written incorrectly, the statistic was attributed to unknown. A few of the games had some incomplete tracking of the TO statistic and others, so the actual values may vary slightly from what is listed.
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Every country seems to have its violent lunatics. When they come from Saudi Arabia, they hijack planes and fly them into buildings. In the US, they blow up federal buildings or abortion clinics, but in the UK they prefer to blow up scientists instead. It has always been a land of animal lovers, but sadly some people take the anthropomorphising a little too far and consider that animals are deserving of all the same rights that humans are, despite all the obvious flaws in that contention.
As a result, domestic extremists have conducted a 30 year campaign against those involved in biomedical research over the use of research animals. This is despite the fact that there is not a single drug or therapy on the market or being used in the clinic that has not been tested for efficacy and safety in animals before being tried on humans. Not one. It's not that animals are used for fun, but in the case of drug testing it is mandated by law, and primary research would be utterly useless if the only options were ex vivo tissue from autopsies and surgery.
The methods used by the extremists have ranged from car and letter bombs targeting scientists - one of my undergrad professors has been targeted - wrecking laboratories and releasing animals into the wild, resulting in their almost certain death, and more recently conducting terror campaigns against the families of people involved in the industry, be they breeders, builders or even banks that they feel are supporting animal research. The beginning of last year saw a victory for the militants, when Cambridge cancelled it's plans to build a new, world-class primate research centre. Similar efforts have been directed towards Oxford, who have been building a new research facility to upgrade the housing of most of the animals used by the different departments. Work was stopped in July 2005 following threats to the contractors, but was resumed last week*, signalling a triumph of science over terror.
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Now, it's somewhat ironic that these terrorists are so active in the UK as compared to the rest of the world - the UK has the most stringent rules governing the use of research animals. As someone who has worked in research both in the US and UK, there was real culture shock comparing the regulations each country applies, and I was stunned to discover that federal legislation governing the use of research animals specifically excluded small rodents from regulation.
It seems that violent animal extremists are to join that other terrible UK export, reality TV. According to another report in this week's Nature*, British animal rights extremists are taking their terror campaigns abroad:
"In the first half of 2005, there was an increase in illegal actions in Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany," Matfield says. "Much of it is either organized by British activists, or they have travelled abroad to get involved."
European police forces have detained British activists after illegal
incidents, he says. Research laboratories are targeted indirectly, by
attacks and threats to the property of their staff and those of
companies that work with them.
Even the US is not immune:
The fierceness of US animal-rights activism currently lags about five
years behind the British, says George Goodno, spokesman for the
Foundation for Biomedical Research, a Washington DC-based nonprofit
organization that defends animal research and collects information on
illegal protests (see graph). "It definitely is ramping up," he says.
The United States became aware of the growing extremist activity in the country this September when Huntingdon Life Sciences, a research organization that conducts animal testing, was denied a listing on the New York Stock Exchange at the last minute. It was widely reported that this was owing to threats from SHAC, which proclaimed victory
As long as the public want new drugs and therapies to treat the multitude of illnesses and diseases that afflict them, their pets and their livestock, then research involving the use of animals will be a necessary fact of life. That is not to suggest that researchers enjoy working on animals or take pleasure in causing them discomfort; animals are expensive to house and results have to be filtered through the species gap. Any time there is an alternative that is either cheaper or provides more relevant results, it gets used, but despite the claims of the animal rights brigade, these instances are much fewer and further between than all of us would hope.
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So here's my purchase, the Huskey boot from Mollini in black nubuck. I used to wear a pair like this to school everyday! My new winter staple, my 'Photo-taking' boots.
I was invited to a very cool event last week for Gideon Shoes, Kelly Cutrone made a guest appearance. In my ignorance I actually had no idea who was behind the brand but considering the celebrity support I assumed I was in for something special. What I discovered was a very cool new fashion brand with a conscience.
In 2007 Matt and Naomi Noffs started The Street University – a retreat for marginalised kids in Western Sydney. Two years later Matt and his brother Rupert came up with the idea of a shoe company whose profits would sustain it, and GIDEON SHOES was born.
Their first step was to head to Asia in early 2010 to find a manufacturer, but this research trip led them down a dark, unwelcoming path.
After visiting factories filled with both adults and children working in unacceptable conditions it soon became obvious that having GIDEON SHOES manufactured overseas simply wasn't an option. We're in an age where supporting sweat-shops and outsourced fashion is unforgiveable.
Today, production takes place in Australia under ethical, safe and monitored conditons – a feat for any shoe manufacturer. Even better, the shoes are handmade almost entirely from Australian materials, including cane toad hide and kangaroo leather.
GIDEON SHOES are hand-crafted and anti-sweatshop, meaning you can wear them with pride, and with your beliefs on your feet.
Support Australia. Support Young People. Support the ethics you believe in. Buy GIDEON SHOES.
Word is the brand is bringing out a gorgeous Womens shoes soon so stay tuned.
Its made from Kangaroo and Cane Toad leather! (both animals are pests in Australia)
On another unrelated note I'd really love to own these babies but it won't happen.
All Net-A-Porter - Charlotte Olympia, Marni, Lanvin, Reed Krakoff, Marni. *Sigh*


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NRTI-Sparing Pilot Study
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00143689
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 2, 2005
Last Update Posted : September 26, 2014
- Study Details
- Tabular View
- No Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
This study will compare a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-sparing (NRTI-sparing) regimen (Kaletra + nevirapine) to two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-based regimens (Combivir + nevirapine and Combivir + Kaletra).
Participants will be randomly assigned to receive one of the following drug combinations:
- lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra) and nevirapine (Viramune) twice a day;
- Combivir (Zidovudine (AZT) plus lamivudine (3TC)) and nevirapine twice a day;
- Combivir and lopinavir/ritonavir twice a day.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Mitochondrial Toxicity
|Drug: lopinavir/ritonavir; nevirapine; Zidovudine; Lamivudine
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|13 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Pilot Study of a Nucleoside Analogue Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor Sparing Regimen in Antiretroviral-Naïve, HIV-infected Patients
|Study Start Date :
|April 2002
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2008
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2008
Experimental: Lopinavir/ritonavir, Zidovudine, Lamivudine
Participants will be randomly assigned to receive one of the following drug combinations:
Drug: lopinavir/ritonavir; nevirapine; Zidovudine; Lamivudine
See Detailed Description.
- Changes in mitochondrial DNA/Nuclear DNA (mtDNA/nDNA) ratio at 48 weeks, as a marker of mitochondrial toxicity. [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Changes in mitochondrial DNA/Nuclear DNA (mtDNA/nDNA) ratio at 96 weeks [ Time Frame: 96 weeks ]
- Proportions of patients with viral load below 50 and below 400 copies/mL
- Viral load changes from baseline
- Rates and extent of immune reconstitution (CD4 count increase)
- Rates and severity of dyslipidemia and insuline resistance/diabetes
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Be HIV-positive
- Be at least18 years of age
- Have viral load above 5 000 copies/ml
- Be likely to comply with the study protocol
- Agree not to take, for the duration of the study, any drug that is contraindicated with the study drugs
- Agree not to take any medication, including over-the-counter medicine, alcohol, or street drugs without the knowledge and permission of the principal investigator
Exclusion Criteria:
- Have ever received antiretroviral therapy
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
- Have abnormal laboratory tests (see investigator)
- Have received an investigational drug within 30 days of study drugs administration
- Be receiving systemic chemotherapy
- Have an acute illness
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00143689
|Canada, Ontario
|McMaster University
|Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
|University of Ottawa Health Services
|Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
|Maple Leaf Clinic
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|Canada, Quebec
|Clinique Medicale L'Actuel
|Montreal, Quebec, Canada
|Principal Investigator:
|Julio Montaner, MD
|University of British Columbia/Providence Health Care
|Responsible Party:
|University of British Columbia
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|September 2, 2005 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|September 26, 2014
|Last Verified:
|September 2014
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
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73-year-old charged with selling prescription drugs: His own
A 73-year-old man, already on probation for selling drugs, was charged again Wednesday afternoon with selling his own prescription drugs to others.
Peter A. Mozeleski, of Marlborough Terrace, was stopped after he failed to stop at a stop sign at Old Stratfield Road and Pope Street, police said. His car, which had been impounded previously by police, had no license plate, and the registration expired Feb. 17, according to the report.
Mozeleski told police he had just come from picking up a prescription for alprazolam, a drug sold under the brand names Xanax and Niravam, according to the report. He allegedly admitted he was going to a friend's house to sell the pills, which are used to treat anxiety. The friend lives near a pre-school center and also admitted to officers that he was planning to buy the drugs from Mozeleski, police said.
Mozeleski was charged with sale of a controlled substance, and sale of a controlled substance within 1,500 feet of a school. Bond was set at $25,000 and he is scheduled to appear March 6 in Bridgeport Superior Court.
Judicial records show that Mozeleski was sentenced last November to five years probation on charges of sale of a controlled substance and sale of a hallucinogen that stemmed from an arrest on Jan. 31, 2013.


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Hiking in the Vineyards - June 30
Grab your hiking boots and experience a true "boots on the ground" educational trek through our estate vineyards. Enjoy amazing views of the Livermore Valley while learning about our small lot approach to winegrowing. After the hike, taste through our handcrafted wines and enjoy small bites from our culinary team.
Limited space available. Reservations required.
Closed toed shoes required to participate in hike.
Cost per person: $65.00 (plus tax)
Member discounts will be applied at time of purchase.


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$750,000 McGuffy Park renovation moves forward
At the Board of Architectural Review's February 20 meeting, final plans were approved for renovations to McGuffey Park. "That's an interesting project," says BAR vice-chair Syd Knight. "It's going to be a park unlike anything Charlottesville has seen." Indeed, as reported by the Hook in November 2005, the park will be a kind of "living sculpture," replete with design "footprints" of a Victorian mansion and kiddie equipment named "the Kuma," "the Argo," and "the Spica." Designed by free speech wall architects Pete O'Shea and Robert Winstead[error–sorry], the park project has a determined group of North Downtown residents, called Friends of McGuffey Park, who are continuing to raise money for their vision, which could cost as much as $750,000. Of course, not everyone was happy about changing the old park last time we asked around. Longtime North Downtown resident Frances Walton, 62, thought there were "better uses for the money," like undergrounding utilities, and believed the push for the park was "generational," spear-headed as it is by North Downtown's new crop of residents, many of them young moms. North Downtown resident Steve Murphy worried about the additional traffic the park might generate and, like Walton, wondered if the money could be better spent. "Why not build a new fancy park for poor people?" he quipped. PHOTO RIGHT: A photo illustration of the new park by architects O'Shea/Winstead[error–sorry], with children on Spicas
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I am gonna eat some sushi in that new park!!!
Way to go young moms! That park is used by preschools and many families visiting downtown as well as the folks who live nearby. It has needed upgrading for quite awhile. The improvements will benefit future generations and the parents/grandparents who take joy in taking children to the park.
Excuse, and what you think concerning forthcoming elections?
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What you need to know before you go
Japan, also called the Land of the Rising Sun, is a mix of ancient traditions coexisting with global innovation. Made up of 4 main islands in East Asia, the nation has diverse climates and landscapes – snowy mountains dominate the northern end, while to the south, you'll find Nagano's lakes, Kyoto's temples, and the vibrant capital of Tokyo. Thanks to an extensive rail network, you can ride one of the world's fastest bullet trains from the subtropical beaches in the south to the northernmost mountain ranges.
Japan's well-preserved culture is something you can experience instead of just reading about it from a history book, from sumo wrestling matches and kabuki shows, to woodblock printing and tea ceremonies. Whether you're planning an extravagant shopping trip to Tokyo or want to enjoy a day of visiting Shinto shrines in Kyoto, Japan is a country of vibrancy, depth and beauty.


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I've recently been tasked with the build and deployment of a large Ecommerce site. In the past we've had to use the clients legacy X-cart installation for redevelopment (too far integrated with their existing work flow).
We'd heard good things about Magento, so I've set up a test install to get to grips with it. After a couple of initial issues, there is a live development site which displays categories on the default theme. The problem we've hit now is that products don't display..!
After a lot more in-depth research into this, all I've been able to discover is that quite a number of developers endorse using other solutions entirely, with the other 50% saying after the steep learning curve the platform is as wonderful as we'd initially been led to believe.
Now, my test category is showing, so I know this is configured properly. I've set up three test products and associated them with this (all done following the Magento user guide), checked double checked and thrice checked the products are enabled and visible individually, yet still the front end says the category has no products in it. I've cleared the cache repeatedly, reset everything possible many times in index management - no products show up.
I have to make a call tomorrow morning on whether we're going ahead with Magento. If I can't even get it to show products I'm going to have to go with something with a more established track record and more community support available. Can anybody advise what could possibly be wrong here?


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We are members of the Cosmology group at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii. This site presents our recent findings on the imprints of super-structures on the Cosmic Microwave Background through the effects of Dark Energy. The journal paper can be downloaded.
The background image is an example of a Voronoi tessellation. Each cell represents the volume surrounding a galaxy and gives a good measure of the 3D space density. We use the tessellation scheme to find galaxy clusters and voids.


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Archive for the 'UNSLAVED' Tag
- December 25, 2010 EMMISIONS BY THE SUN MUTATING MATTER…? posted in an Humble Messenger, Musings from the Realms of the Unreal, THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE, VIDEO tagged 2012, ascension, CME, consciousness, consciousness field, cosmos, ET, freedom, gamma rays, great deception, great revealing, hope, human condition, humanity, magnetic field, NASA, new age, photons, radioactive waves, secret, solar storms, solar system, soul, space station, sun, sun changing matter, the sun gods return, truth, UFO, UFO picture, Universe, UNSLAVED
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Welcome to the archives here at Musings from the Realms of the Unreal. Have a look around.


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The Kentucky Derby 2012 trail made a rare stop in New Mexico and Daddy Nose Best wore down local hope Isn't He Clever in an exciting renewal of the Grade 3 Sunland Derby.
G3 Sunland Derby (3-25-12): 100 BSF (Daddy Nose Best)
An unexpected suicidal speed duel between post time favorite Castaway and Ender Knievel set things up for the patient runners and Isn't He Clever got the first run trip under Luis Contreras, who seemingly jumped the gun and moved too soon.
Julien Leparoux and Daddy Nose Best bided their time in 6th place and went after the local hero turning for home.
Isn't He Clever appeared home free for a moment but Asmussen's El Camino Real winner was grinding away and got the job done by 3/4ths of a length, running nine furlongs in a solid 1:48.59.
It was more than seven lengths back to show finisher Stirred Up. No Spin was 4th, followed by Ender Knievel, Tequila Factor, Castaway, and Justanoldsong.
Daddy Nose Best earned $400,000 for the win and has more than enough graded dough for the first Saturday in May. The neat 3-year-old son of Scat Daddy has now won on dirt, synthetic, and turf.
Sunland Derby Grade: B- (83 out of 100)


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May 13, 2003
If you have browsed this blog, you know that in the winter and spring of 2012 my Kosovaran students and I spent many hours talking and writing about hope. We did so in response to William Faulkner's 1950 Stockholm Address, where the Noble Prize winner urged young writers to resist the despair generated by atomic bombs that ended World War II but left us all with one question: "When will I be blown up?" This terrifying question, Faulkner believed, had placed writers under "a curse," one that seduced them to write "not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all without pity or compassion." Such writing, Faulkner claims, no matter how brilliant, comes not from the "heart" but from the "glands."
To free writers from this curse, Faulkner challenged them to write about the "conflicts of the human heart in conflict with itself" because "only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat." Once accepting this "duty," writers would quit spawning more despair over our persistently violent world; instead, writers would hold fast to their truths about our capacities for stupidity and brutality but, at the same time, provide evidence, however limited, of our capacity as mere mortals to think intelligently and to act with "courage and honor," with "compassion and sacrifice." Such writers, Faulkner argued, become "pillars" for readers, supporting them with hope that we might "endure and prevail."
If you will scroll the menu of topics on the homepage of this blog, you will see that we discussed the grounds for hope at the beginning of the course, when we talked and wrote about Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, a play that ends with Linda Loman stunned by her husband's suicide but also with Willy eager to give his life to make his son Biff "magnificent"; and at the end of the course, when we searched for hope in Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut's novel that ends with the fire-bombing of Dresden, with a firing squad executing an innocent man, but with Billy Pilgrim's humane tears and with leaves budding on the trees. We had the same discussion about Gaines's novel A Lesson Before Dying, a story that ends with the execution of Jefferson, another innocent man, but also with his teacher Grant inspired by Jefferson's courage and at one with the community from which he has long felt alienated. We encountered Faulkner's challenge to writers again in discussing his own "Barn-Burning," a Mississippi story that traces the violent and futile history of blood-vengeance but also the possibility of escape from the cycle of violence through compassionate and daring action, a topic central to the current and future Kosova as it struggles to emerge from centuries of violence between Serbs and Albanians.
Remembering these powerful and moving conversations about despair and hope shared with my students at the University of Pristina, I encouraged my students at MSU to measure our philosophers, films, and Western American novels by Faulknerian standards, attending especially to his insistence that writers have a "duty" to 'lift readers' hearts' with hope. You'll find the novels and films described briefly in the last posting, as well as a photo of my co-teacher, Dr. John Bickle. Here, you'll see the essay topics the students took up after extensive discussion and journaling on the grounds for hope in times of violence and injustice. Linked to each assignment, you will also find some of my students' faces as well as their thoughtful responses to these questions. Please read and enjoy!
**Please click on the students' pictures below to be directed to their essay responses.**
Assignment on The Big Sky
Please write a critical essay on A. B. Guthrie's The Big Sky, focusing on the character of Boone Caudill.
Your essay should identify at least three characteristics that best define Caudill's character to clarify why novelist Wallace Stegner calls Boone a "doomed" hero of the frontier. What qualities strike you as heroic? What qualities undercut that heroism? How and why is Caudill doomed? Does his doom result from his heroic virtues, from his flaws, or from both? Does his doom result from forces exterior to his character?
You should support your claims about Caudill with specific examples and relevant quotes from the novel. Your analysis of Boone should also offer illuminating comparisons or contrasts drawn from the films "Shane" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Further, in formulating your thesis (your claims) on Boone, draw on the philosophical ideas from at least two of the following thinkers: Mill, Kant, French ("Ethical Revenge in Westerns"), Vico, Roche and Hösle, French ("The Death of Death"), Appiah, Lind.
We encourage you to review your journaling responses to the novel and/or your notes on the philosophers to gather ideas for your paper.
Assignment on The Man Who Killed the Deer
Please write a critical essay on Frank Water's The Man Who Killed the Deer, focusing on the character of Martiniano.
Your essay should draw on at least two of our readings from Aristotle, Young, Wolf, Sommers, Nietzsche, and Matthew 5-7 to frame your assessment of Martiniano as a morally responsible resister of a corrupt culture. You should support your claims about Martiniano with specific examples and relevant quotes from the novel and with illuminating comparisons or contrasts drawn from the films "Hombre" and "High Plains Drifter."
Once again, we encourage you to review your journaling responses to the novel and/or your notes on the philosophers to gather ideas for your paper.
Assignment on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Please write a critical essay on Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, focusing on the character of McMurphy as a sane Western hero or as a psychopath.
You should support your claims about McMurphy with specific examples and relevant quotes from the novel and with illuminating comparisons or contrasts drawn from the film "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" and from any other film or novel we have discussed.
Drawing on your response to journal question #5 on Part IV of the novel, you should also frame your analysis of McMurphy's motives and actions in definitions of psychopathology and moral heroism.


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After 37 years on the sideline, The Duke is back as the official game ball of the National Football League. So forget the Nerf football the dog has gnawed and forget the dusty, deflated spheriod with the broken lacing that lurks somewhere in the garage. When you line up for this year's Turkey Bowl, throw the pigskin that Johnny Unitas and Bart Starr immortalized, the ball that Tom Brady, Donovan McNabb and the brothers Manning will be firing for touchdowns this season.
Manufactured by Wilson Sporting Goods, The Duke is a throwback, a tribute and a piece of precision engineering packed into one elongated leather orb. The NFL will use it in every game, including the Super Bowl, and it is the first rebranding of the league's official ball since 1969.
The story of The Duke begins in 1940 when George Halas, owner of the Chicago Bears, and Timothy Mara, owner of the New York Giants, chose Wilson to be the NFL's football supplier. A year later, Wilson unveiled a redesigned football and called it The Duke after Mara's son, Wellington, who had become co-owner of the Giants in 1930 at age 14.
The Duke would be the league's game ball for the next 28 years and would help define the NFL's seminal moments. The Duke was discontinued after the 1970 Super Bowl. A new ball was introduced with the start of the next season, which marked inclusion of the American Football League in the NFL, a development that Wellington Mara had spearheaded. The latest incarnation honors its namesake, Wellington "Duke" Mara, who died in 2005 at the age of 89 as one of the most influential owners in NFL history.
Other than the logo, the ball is identical to that used last year and, with the exception of some minor tweaks, is the same ball used for the last 25 years. Wilson's Ada, Ohio, football factory turns out some 700,000 pigskins a year, using the same skill-intensive process, in which top-grade cowhide leather is pressed and shaped, stitched and laced around a synthetic bladder (originally it was a pig bladder, hence the pigskin). Lock-stitching is the key to the ball's durability, integrity of shape and performance in the NFL's bone-crunching conditions. We think it will hold up just fine for your touch football game on Thanksgiving Day.
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How can you coach this?
Soft overpaid one dimensional want-to-be superstars who can't even rank up in the top 30.
When you give up 17 offensive rebounds and get out rebounded the whole game, don't expect to win. Also Lin's man defense is not the best and he will get beat by top guards just like everyone else does, particularly if there is no help defense. He has GREAT defensive instincts otherwise however; Ginobili like, moves into the right spots and gets a lot of steals (2.4 since the first Nets game I believe, would be 2nd in the league). In this possession he defended about as well as you could possibly hope for, but Whack and Jello are liabilities on D. At least someone on the team wants to be a leader and win...thats def not Jello and Whack.
Imagine if the Knicks never traded for Melo
Glen Robinson/Whackimire. The most pathetic "superstar" duo in the history of the NBA.


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Compton's Most Wanted's Tha Chill is no longer affiliated with record label Hoopla Worldwide.
The label made the decision after the rapper was sent to prison over a domestic violence issue.
Hoopla Worldwide has issued the following statement regarding the matter:
In light of serious recent legal matters, Hoopla Worldwide would like to make this important announcement. After a four year relationship working with The Chill of Compton's Most Wanted, we have decided to part ways. We regret to announce that our company can no longer be associated with him professionally, as we do not support acts of domestic violence and his blatant disregard for women. His repeated brushes with the law regarding the delicate nature of these actions make it difficult to overlook the seriousness of this issue. Hoopla Worldwide does not, nor should anyone, condone this type of aggressive behavior towards women.
In support of this month's National Domestic Violence Awareness,Hoopla Worldwide will donate all profits made from the sales of Tha Chill's music to The Center for Women and Families in Louisville, Kentucky.
We have asked our distribution partners to immediately remove all music pertaining to Tha Chill from our catalog, including of over 25 songs. Additionally, music that Tha Chill produced for the upcoming posthumous album by MC Breed will not be released.
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LCG-France Sites meetings / Rencontres des Sites LCG-France
- LCG French Sites 2013, 28-30 May, 2013 at LLR at Palaiseau (Paris region)
- Réunion LCG-France 2012, 18-20 Septembre, SUBATECH (Nantes)
- Seconde réunion LCG-France 2011, 30 Nov-1 Decembre, CC-IN2P3 (Villeurbanne)
- LCG-France 2011 Spring meeting, 30-31 May, IPHC, Strasbourg
- Seconde réunion LCG-France 2010, 22-23 Novembre, CC-IN2P3 (Villeurbanne)
- LCG-France Sites workshop, CPPM, Marseille, June 24-25 2010
- Annecy, 18 - 18 May 2009 - LCG-France team ("La photo de famille")
- Grenoble, 27 - 28 November 2008
2nd LCG-France colloquium / 2ème Colloque LCG-France
LCG-France: steadily ramping-up to get ready for the LHC
In March 2007, more than seventy members of the LCG-France project gathered in order to discuss about the progression of the French part of the global grid infrastructure for LHC accelerator. This meeting which was divided into several sessions highlighted the challenging aspect of the computing grid with respect to the LHC experiments and the progress made during the last several months. It was also the occasion to reinforce communication between the representatives of the experiments and the sites.
At the dawn of the start of the LHC, new members have joined the French part of the LCG grid. Indeed, "the required data processing capacity and the complexity of the installation and management of the computing as well as the effort needed to provide and operate a reliable platform for the needs of the experiments, have led to an important increase in the staff and in the number of French sites" said Fairouz Malek, scientific manager of the LCG France project.
Several Tiers-3 sites have joined the ranks of LCG-France. Today, the project is composed of a Tier-1 and an analysis facility operated by the IN2P3 Computing Center (CNRS/CEA) , 3 Tiers-2, 4 Tiers-3. In addition, several sites are associated to the French Tier-1 located in foreign countries including China, Belgium, Japan, and Romania. The four LHC experiments are supported in any of the sites which also provide computing resources for non-LHC experiments, projects and fields of research, mainly in the EGEE grid context.
In 2006, during the data transfer exercises, the French infrastructure of the LCG grid was tested with success. All the French sites successfully contributed to those exercises and the goals of those exercises were all reached.
On its side, the French Tier-1, whose budget has noticeably risen, has to carry out work to sort out problems of electric installation and air conditioning so as to cope with the planned increase of its computing equipment. In spite of several difficulties faced, all the measures have been taken to maintain the Tier-1 operational while those heavy works are performed.
Finally, this meeting was also the occasion for site representatives and members of ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experiments to exchange views and information, which enabled to strengthen links between the two groups. The needs of the experiments, not only in terms of computing and data storage capacity but also in terms of quality of service and bandwidth requirements, were clearly presented: "the sites had the opportunity to hear about the particular needs of each experiment and to expose in turn their own constraints concerning the operations of the computing resources. These exchanges will certainly allow to further improve the service for the benefit of the experiments" said Fabio HERNANDEZ, technical manager of the project LCG-France and deputy director of CC-IN2P3.
1er Colloque LCG-France (Décembre 2005)
First LCG-France Workshop was held at CC-IN2P3 in Lyon in december 2005.
LCG-France a organisé un colloque de 2 jours sur le campus de La Doua à Villeurbanne les 14 et 15 décembre 2005. Ces journées étaient destinées aux personnes désirant partager, communiquer et échanger les idées autour du calcul LHC dans le cadre du projet LCG et de la collaboration WLCG et de réfléchir ensemble sur la plannification des ressources, des logiciels et la mise en route du calcul en 2007. Des revues sur l'état actuel des centres de ressources, Tier-1, Tier-2, Tier-3 français et du centre d'analyse ont été données. Une réflexion sur l'avenir du calcul dans le cadre des grilles de calcul a eu toute sa places lors de ces journées. La participation record d'environ 70 personnes, physiciens, ingénieurs et techniciens des laboratoires de l'IN2P3 et du Dapnia, en particulier ceux impliqués dans les expériences LHC, a été réalisée.


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Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Unified EFI (UEFI)
The Unified EFI (UEFI) Specification (previously known as the EFI Specification) defines an interface between an operating system and platform firmware.
The interface consists of data tables that contain platform-related information, boot service calls, and runtime service calls that are available to the operating system and its loader. These provide a standard environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications.
The UEFI Specification was primarily intended for the next generation of IA architecture–based computers, and is an outgrowth of the "Intel® Boot Initiative" (IBI) program that began in 1998.
Intel's original version of this specification was publicly named EFI, ending with the EFI 1.10 version.
In 2005, The Unified EFI Forum was formed as an industry-wide organization to promote adoption and continue the development of the EFI Specification. Using the EFI 1.10 Specification as the starting point, this industry group released the following specifications, renamed Unified EFI.
The current version of the UEFI Specification can be found at the UEFI web site.
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I have a found a man who can fill in on the Kotaku podcast tomorrow for a vacationing Brian Crecente. A man who will take your calls live. That man is Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski.
The chief architect of the Gears of War series and a fun guy to chat games with, Cliff will follow in the Kotaku podcast guest-appearance tradition of Ken Levine, Tim Schafer and ... Michael McWhertor (a lucky "get," as they say).
This is your chance to ask Bleszinski about Gears of War, Unreal, his favorite color, Epic Games, Mark Rein, Shadow Complex and whatever else. Don't expect a Gears 3 announcement, but, hey, maybe he'll be in a generous mood!
Look for a reminder post about the podcast at 10:55 AM mountain time (12:55 ET) tomorrow. The post will include call-in info so you can ask your questions. The show will be live at 11am MT, 1pm ET. That's Wednesday. Tomorrow.
If this goes well, maybe we can get Crecente to fill in at Bleszinski's job for a day.


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Self-saucing Jaffa pudding
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal522
- fat21g
- saturates11g
- carbs82g
- sugars54g
- fibre2g
- protein8g
- salt0.86g
- 100g butter, melted, plus a little extra for the dish
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 250g self-raising flour
- 140g caster sugar
- 50g cocoa
- 1 tsp baking powder
Baking powderbay-king pow-dah
Baking powder is a raising agent that is commonly used in cake-making. It is made from an alkali…
- zest and juice 1 orange
One of the best-known citrus fruits, oranges aren't necessarily orange - some varieties are…
- 3 eggs
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 150ml milk
One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a 'complete' food…
- 100g orange milk chocolate or milk chocolate, broken into chunks (we used Divine orange milk chocolate)
Milk chocolatemill-k chok-lit
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- single cream or ice cream, to serve
For the sauce
- 200g light muscovado sugar
- 25g cocoa
Butter a 2-litre baking dish and heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Put the kettle on. Put the flour, caster sugar, 50g cocoa, baking powder, orange zest and a pinch of salt in a large mixing bowl. Whisk together the orange juice and any pulp left in the juicer, the eggs, melted butter and milk, then pour onto the dry ingredients and mix together until smooth. Stir in the chocolate chunks and scrape everything into the baking dish.
Mix 300ml boiling water from the kettle with the sugar and cocoa for the sauce, then pour this all over the pudding batter – don't worry, it will look very strange at this stage! Bake on the middle shelf of the oven for 30 mins until the surface looks firm, risen and crisp. As you scoop spoonfuls into serving bowls, you should find a glossy, rich chocolate sauce underneath the sponge. Eat immediately with vanilla ice cream or single cream.
Recipe Tip
If you want to use a slow cooker...Remove and butter your slow cooker pot. Put flour, caster sugar, cocoa, baking powder, orange zest and a pinch of salt in a mixing bowl. Whisk orange juice, eggs, melted butter and milk, then pour on the dry ingredients and mix until smooth. Stir in the chocolate chunks and scrape it all into the pot. Mix ½ pint boiling water with sugar and cocoa then pour this over the batter. Return the pot to the slow cooker base, cover and cook on High for 3 hours until firm and risen.


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- Jardin des Plantes: oldest public garden full of close to 100 species of deciduous trees and conifers.
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Ski-area operators across the Northeast are dreaming of a white Christmas but seeing red as temperatures hover above optimal snowmaking levels.
Northeast ski resorts generally try to open by Thanksgiving, but warmer-than-usual nighttime temperatures are delaying some openings, setting up less-than-ideal conditions on the few trails that are open, leading to canceled or postponed races and worrying business owners dependent on the shushing of skis and snowboards.
As of Wednesday, 16 of northern New England�s 52 ski areas were open � two in Maine, six in New Hampshire and eight in Vermont.
In Pennsylvania, only one of the state�s 24 ski areas had opened as of Tuesday. In upstate New York, the ski areas that are open have very limited terrain.
A nighttime temperature of 10 degrees is considered optimal for snowmaking, but temperatures mostly have stayed in the 20s, reducing snow guns� effectiveness. Ski-area operators prefer to get a base of manmade snow down before natural snowfall hits because it packs down tighter and tends to be more durable.
�We�re like farmers: We live and die by the weather,� said Bruce McCloy, marketing director at Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire. �This year it�s been a little dry and dusty so far.�
Operators downplayed the late openings and limited terrain and declined to talk about revenue losses.
�The reality is, it�s a crappy season,� said Sean Doll, a professor who oversees the ski resort and snow sports management program at Lyndon State College in Vermont. �I can�t sugar-coat even though I teach the public relations class here.�
Karl Stone, spokesman for the business association Ski-New Hampshire, said the balky start to the season is undesirable, but not unusual. Stone said the early season is tailored more toward die-hard season pass-holders and that ski-area operators are more focused on preparing for the official start of the revenue-making season, which starts in earnest around Christmas.
His counterpart in Vermont, Jen Butson, assured that �the season�s going to be in full swing soon.�
Tony Vazzano, a meteorologist at North Winds Weather who provides forecasts for 18 northern New England ski areas, said it�s not even worth ski areas trying to make snow at, say, 28 degrees.
�Yet, they feel so desperate at this point that some of them are making snow at that temperature just to get a little bit of it down,� he said.
Kevin Rosenberg, general manager at Maine�s Mount Abram, described what has been coming out of a snow gun�s nozzle as �the borderline between snow and water.�
The mountain is reeling from a double weather whammy: Its main lodge was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire in July. He said the resort is targeting Saturday for opening day, �but we�re still in Mother Nature�s hands.�
Doug Holler, general manager of Dartmouth Skiway just north of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., said he�s waiting on colder temperatures before even predicting when his area would open.
�It�s a tough business,� Holler said. �There�s an old adage that the best way to make a small fortune in the ski business is to start with a large one.�
Janice Crawford, president of the Mount Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce says it�s �nerve-racking� waiting on the weather but that business-owners know �this is the cost of doing business in this realm.�
In New York�s Catskills and Adirondacks, operators are hoping a predicted cold snap this weekend lets them ramp up snowmaking.
Windham Mountain spokeswoman Beth Barry said the Hudson Valley ski area opened Sunday, missing its Thanksgiving target for a fourth year. She said Tuesday that 20 percent of the mountain�s terrain was open.
Upstate New York ski areas are faring better than their counterparts to the south, but they, too, have limited skiing. Both Gore Mountain and Whiteface opened on time the day after Thanksgiving, Olympic Regional Development Authority spokesman Jon Lundin said. But only seven of Gore�s 89 trails are open and there�s skiing on only 11 of 86 at Whiteface, he said.
Nordic skiers also have been affected by the warmer-than-usual weather. Ruth Hall, office manager for the Maine-based Northeastern Nordic Ski Association said several cross-country ski races slated for early December were canceled or postponed. �It has been a challenge,� Hall said.
Mount Sunapee�s McCloy said that at 25 degrees, his state-of-the-art snow guns run at about 25 percent of capacity. At 10 degrees, he said, the guns are at peak performance.
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Glenn Greenwaldto Hong Kong to meet Snowden.
If he didn't strike you as much of a movie star, that's ok. MacAskill is a political journalist with a storied career, and was one of the key figures in revealing the NSA's terrible abuses of power to the world.
From editing The Scotsman in his home country, to a stint in Washington DC, to making history at The Guardian, this seasoned journalist has had quite the journey. Here's our biography of Ewen MacAskill, with everything you wanted to know.


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Josh Phegley was one of six selections the team announced it had come to terms with from the 2009 First-Year Player Draft. Right-handed pitchers Matthew Heidenreich (fourth round), Kyle Bellamy (fifth round) and Jimmy Ballinger (11th round) joined Phegley, the 38th overall pick from Indiana University, infielder Jared McDonald (21st round) and first baseman Leighton Pangilinan (40th round) on that list. … Of the six picks, Phegley is the only one targeted for Class-A Kannapolis. The other five will begin at Advanced Rookie Bristol.
BTW, Mark Gonzales reported that "Jared Mitchell, the White Sox's first pick in the June amateur draft, is expected to agree to terms soon."
FutureSox speculates on the possible moves Phegley's assignment will cause.


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Just call him Python Dundee.
A Miami man pulled an 18-foot Burmese python out of roadside brush and wrestled with it for 10 minutes before cutting its head off with a knife.
The 128-pound specimen turned out to be the biggest Burmese python ever captured in Florida, besting the previous record by more than a foot, wildlife officials said.
"I was pretty exhausted and I didn't want to get bit," Jason Leon, 23, said of the decapitation that ended his struggle with the massive constrictor.
For his trouble, Leon got thanks from the the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, which considers Burmese pythons an invasive species that wreaks havoc on the state's ecosystem.
"I would think a snake of that size could kill a very large animal," said Carli Segelson, a commission spokeswoman. "It could kill a deer, so a person would be comparable in size to that."
Leon, a college student studying marine biology, said he was riding ATVs with friends in a rural area on May 11 when one of them spotted about three feet of snake sticking out of some brush.
Leon, who used to keep snakes, had never seen a python in the wild and decided to get up close and personal with this one. It wasn't until he yanked him out that he realized how big it was.
As he held it by the neck, the female wrapped around his leg once, then twice and then headed for his waist. He kept grappling with it until he became worried it might sink its razor-sharp teeth into him.
A friend handed him a nine-inch knife and he sunk it into the snake, he said.
Two days later, Leon called wildlife officials, who took the snake and confirmed it was a record-setter. He agreed to donate the skeleton but has been promised the skin, which he plans to tan and put on his living room wall.
Officials said they are grateful the python is no longer roaming the wild and that Leon was not hurt.
"Anytime people are dealing with wildlife, we recommend they use common sense," Segelson said. "If you're going to approach a Burmese python of this size, you should have an understanding of what it takes to euthanize it."


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José Gonçalves is passionate about gaining the buy-in, energy and commitment from client teams across Sales, Marketing, Technology and Finance to build transformational and implementable roadmaps using co-creation of disruptive scenarios based on service design and analytics. As Digital Sales Lead, José drives the global business vision to re-define sales as a critical part of the omni-channel experience for our top clients.
José is one of the founders of Accenture Interactive and pairs his Digital Sales role with the responsibility of running Accenture Interactive in Latin America. With the mission of creating the LATAM's most relevant Digital Agency, he is leading our acquisition efforts in the region.