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The Klangvereinigung Vienna orchestra, featuring with conductor Gerald Mair, recorded the orchestra parts for the new album from Austrian female-fronted symphonic metallers EDENBRIDGE last weekend at Home Music Studio in Vienna with Georg Luksch.
Commented EDENBRIDGE guitarist/founder Lanvall: "The result is overwhelming. We have decided to record strings, brass/woodwinds and percussion seperately this time. Everything sounds more voluminous and cleaner. The musicians of the orchestra did a tremendous job. Be prepared for a real blast!"
EDENBRIDGE's seventh album, "Solitaire", entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 95 back in July 2010.
The "Higher" video can be viewed below. The clip was filmed with director Silvan Buege (Blackstage TV).
EDENBRIDGE's live album, "LiveEarthDream", was released in May 2009. The disc was recorded at various concerts in 2008 and was only available through the band's fanshop.

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Ward: Players gave Goodell too much power
Retired Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward said the players gave NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to much control of player discipline in the collective bargaining agreement signed last year.
"So Roger Goodell, even though a lot of players don't like having him in charge, the NFLPA, we signed off on the collective bargaining agreement," Ward told WFNZ radio in Charlotte, per USA Today.
"And it should be noted that we were the only team who voted against it, and that was a major factor because of how we are fined on our team. In order to go to the appeal committee, we had to go right back to Roger Goddell. So that was one of the big things that we voted no against because we just felt like it was going to be unfair.
"But to the rest of the teams that did vote for the CBA, he's in charge, and those are the rules, and that's what you have to abide by because that's what you signed up for."
The NFLPA is currently appealing the suspensions levied by Goodell against four players as part of the Saints' bounty scandal.
"I think it went on through the league, but at the same time I think it's uncalled for," Ward said of bounty programs. "The teams such as the Saints - and it may have been that every team was doing it - but they're the ones who got put on tape in a playoff game, and of course, Brett Favre (Packers quarterback allegedly targeted). You don't need to have an extra incentive to go out and hurt somebody, the game is violent enough as it is. And then to go out there and be proud of collecting money for hurting somebody, take food off someone's table, that's uncalled for."


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Visual arts
Diverse and mobile, Chile can be figurative and abstract, sometimes surrealist, or even hyper-realist; always avant-garde.
All tendencies are manifested in Chilean plastic arts, with creators who have contributed to universal art, as is the case with Roberto Matta, whose poetic vision vitalized the surrealist movement, followed by abstract expressionism. Matta also stands for the social commitment as expressed in Chilean political muralists of the 1970s, in addition to having cooperated in the founding of the Afro-Latino Art Museum.
Another perspective that reflects diversity is in the work by Eugenio Dittborn, which questions traditions and systems and belongs to the so-called advance guard scene of the 1980s and 90s. With his Aeropostal Paintings, Dittborn criticizes traditional society and traditional plastic arts media and takes on the codes of globalization: he stakes his distance out from the origin, both materially and symbolically, and then comes back with his work full of other perspectives. Arturo Duclos, Alfredo Jaar and Juan Castillo are also part of the advance guard scene and there are studies and theoretical publications on them available for those interested.
Chile was recently invited to the Venice Biennale, probably one of the most important in the world. And it was the artist Ivan Navarro, who presented the work Threshold, which considers fluorescent lights.
Claudio Bravo, also internationally known but far from the avant-garde, emerges with a different vision, contributing fundamental procedures to the development of hyperrealism, a trend that stresses the effectiveness of the pictorial trade in esthetic representation.
Currently Chilean plastic artists are resorting to different foundations and have acknowledged the expressive and interactive potential of technology and the use of multimedia.
A bit of history
The most remote art is certainly native rock art, as represented by remarkable figures found in northern Chile in particular. For example, the rocks in the El Encanto Valley or the 86 meter humanoid drawn onto Cerro Unita in the Tarapacá Region, the largest geoglyph in the world called the Giant of Atacama. In addition to the expressions of native people, there is the western tradition brought over by the Europeans with colonial painting and the vestiges of a genuinely Chilean painting.
An unknown facet that the main independence leaders in Chile shared is that they had ties to the plastic arts. Bernardo O'Higgins studied painting and left behind a miniature oil self portrait. José Miguel Carrera was also criticized for his "bloody caricatures."
The most disseminated iconography of the time is the product of the José Gil de Castro's (1785-1841) brush. Arriving from Peru in 1810, the man they called the mulatto Gil portrayed the transition from colony to independence. He made official portraits of the Supreme Director, religious paintings, and registered military campaigns and high society. Other traveling artists have been important in the beginning of professional painting in Chile and in teaching it, such as Mauricio Rugendas, a German who arrived in Chile in 1834 and registered popular scenes and characters; the Frenchman Raymond Monvoisin, who was brought in by the government in 1843 and painted the portraits of the ladies in Santiago society.
The Neapolitan Alessandro Cicarelli was the one to ultimately directed the Painting Academy, the predecessor of the Fine Arts Academy, from which the first generations of painters and sculptures trained in the country were to graduate. The book Chilean Painting from the Colony to 1981, by Gaspar Galaz and Milan Ivelic, provides greater detail on the issue. Since then, Chilean artists have represented academicism, experimentation and irreverent iconography, cryptic imprisonment and collective art in public.
There are playful, political, theoretical and apparently innocent perspectives and there are diverse traditions, from avant-garde easels to contemporary Chilean plastic art, which also has room for religious, political and graffiti muralism, photography and comics.
For its part, since 1944 the state has been awarding a prize to artists for their trajectory through the National Art Prize and it stimulates the creations of young artists with public funds from the National Arts Development Fund, Fondart. For their part, the artists themselves reward their peers with the Altazor Prize.


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High Tech gear keeps UC soccer safe and competitive
New device monitors heart rate, transmits back to coach
On the soccer field, the fine line between success and failure has everything to do with training. University of Cincinnati's Women's Soccer Coach Michelle Salmon is using a new system that monitors player's vital signs.
"When you have real info on how hard you can push them, and when to push them, it makes you a better coach," Salmon said.
Each player wears a heart rate monitor around her chest. The device remotely transmits to a receiver in real time.
The devices will let athletes push themselves, something center midfielder Megan Cravenor hopes to do.
"Now can I push myself and get into the 90th percentile? Because that's where I need to be in order to be at my best," she said.
The device also provides safety for athletes with heart conditions.
"Before we were kind of guessing, 'OK, about this minute we have to take her out.' Now, we have real time data that says, 'yes I can take this player out,'" Salmon said.
But Salmon said overtraining can be a concern.
"We have players that will overtrain," Salmon said "They don't understand that rest is a really important part of being an elite athlete and its getting the proper amount of rest so we're able to really monitor that, and focus on when we have to push hard, and when we have to back off."


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Nate gets caught in the worst "parent trap" ever.
The Detour is a what-in-the-living-hell-is-wrong-with-this-family comedy created by comic super-couple Jason Jones and Samantha Bee and inspired by their own experiences with family trips.
Nate is the unfiltered dad, who hits the road with wife Robin and kids Delilah and Jared. Every leg of their trip is fraught with disaster as they encounter one hellish turn after another. If there's trouble on the road, this family will find it and plow into it.
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Message from TheDriver in Vibrant Diversity #recruiting
@D'Marcus Liebowitz typo in channel name bud
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@everyone I have a list of people I'd like to have join this discord. If you guys know them or are on twitter and can contact them to invite them, please ask me for an invite link so you can copy and paste it and send it to them. Also: If those without twitter accounts listed have new accounts, please inform me so I can add them to the list: (Jim from the Fatherland), Mr.Stone https://twitter.com/exoamericanus (from Exodus Americanus), Jayoh De La Rey https://twitter.com/ObjectToaster, Autolycus https://twitter.com/labrys_1 (of Europa Report fame), Dame https://twitter.com/Regelbau14, Eisenhorn (from The Weekly Narrative), Halberstram (from Fash The Nation), Bulbasaur (from The Daily Shoah), Ghoul (from the Daily Shoah), Andrew Joyce (from Occidental Observer), Richard Spencer https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer, Hannibal Bateman https://twitter.com/PreppyFascism, Jason Jorjani (of Arktos Media), David Goldberg https://twitter.com/DavidGoldberg49, Hershel Lieberman https://twitter.com/nontolerantman, Red Panels https://twitter.com/Red_Panels, The Golden One https://twitter.com/TheGloriousLion, Paul Kersey https://twitter.com/sbpdl, Hillary PR Team https://twitter.com/JBurtonXP, Millennial Woes https://twitter.com/MillennialWoes, Henrik Palmgren https://twitter.com/Henrik_Palmgren, Lana Lokteff https://twitter.com/LanaLokteff, Jared Wyand, John Eden, Sam Hyde https://twitter.com/Night_0f_Fire, Ricky Vaughn, Pax Dickinson, Chuck Johnson (of WeSearchr), Cool AC Bro, Alex McNabb (of The Daily Shoah), Hateful Heretic (formerly of The Daily Shoah), Toilet Law (formerly of The Daily Shoah), White Hot Takes (from Fash The Nation), Neil Turner, Killian (of Identity Europa), Charles Lindbergh, Alt Right Andy (big Alt-Right YouTube account), Shiro (from Red Ice), MicroChip, Franco Sinazi
Jim doesn't discord
Might be able to get in touch with Sammy
More people I want to recruit: Charles Lindbergh, Alt Right Andy (big Alt-Right YouTube account), Shiro (from Red Ice), MicroChip, Heidrich, Franco Sinazi, David Duke, Kevin MacDonald, Horus The Avenger
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I told shiro yesterday and not sure what Heidrich is gonna do. Hope he joins though
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I asked Cool AC and Herschel no response
I've got emails for a bunch of people on that list
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What is "recruit posting"? Like people you wanna recruit to be in here?
@HeliRidesOfPeace There's a list above of people I want to recruit to this server. If you can get in contact with them let me know and I'll give you an invite to copy and paste and send to them on twitter or wherever. Also @everyone, please use this channel only for recruiting matters.
alt-right andy got a strike the other day so it will be easier to contact him on his older youtube channel instead now as that's the main one he uses.
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Finding a way to navigate life in these ever-changing times can be paralyzing. The advent of technology and explosion of 24/7 media means we have more information at our disposal than we can ever really hope to digest.
A simple trip to the supermarket requires the stealth research of a journalist, armed with credible sources.
But what is credible in this day and age, since news—be it in print, online or television is not objective? You know where someone stands immediately whether they watch Fox News or CNN, reads the New York Post or New York Times.
The best advice I can offer is to take a moment and consider the effect our collective purchasing power has on what makes it to supermarket shelves. Perhaps if we truly pondered the big picture—the world beyond our borders, the planet we are leaving to our children, then there would be only one real convenient way of eating.
I find my curiosity piqued as my eyes wander over the ingredients strewn across the conveyor belt just ahead of my own items. Is it fair to cast judgement based solely on one's grocery purchases? I know deep down the answer is no. Food is a complicated ingredient in all of our lives. The decision of what to buy is often compromised by budget and time available.
I sometimes question if I'm over-thinking my own approach to feeding my family. Then as I peruse labels, I realize cooking from scratch is the only way I can peacefully co-exist with the planet.
This article from NPR's Public Radio Kitchen is a glimpse of what is inherently wrong with today's food system. Then I read this piece in the New York Time's and it reminded me I'm not alone in my struggles with decisions when it comes to politics of the plate. I find myself raising many of the same questions as Yoon does in her article.
As those moments creep into my daily life, I stop myself and take a long, deep breath. Rather than feel overcome with helplessness, I retreat to the kitchen and go on with life the only way I know how.


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We've told you all about H2O Audio's Waterproof iPod cases and its improved H3 headphones , but until yesterday we never had the chance to try them out for ourselves. Team player that I am, I hopped in the tub, turned the G-Funk to 11 and took the plunge.
I could hear the tunes clearly underwater, and the case when closed correctly is absolutely watertight down to 10 feet, so I don't owe Wilson a new iPod classic. (Naturally, due to tub limitations, I couldn't go down the full 10 feet, but if you have a deeper tub than me, feel free to dive down.) The sound was good and the earbuds did not fall out of my ears while I was listening. However, I did have some trouble keeping the buds locked into the headband.
The case worked great and the controls were surprisingly responsive, especially given the fact that there's so much case between your thumb and the clickwheel. I did experience a couple of momentary hang-ups, but they could have been from the iPod classic itself. (The classic is known for the occasional lag.)
If you're looking to take an absurd amount of media with you in the water for swimming, snorkeling, surfing or just the weekly bath, I know no better hardware—and the same waterproof system is available for nanos too. Of course, this level of duck-ass watertightness doesn't come cheap: the case and headphones sell for $90 and $50, respectively. [H2O Audio]
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
T206 question
Ok, so I broke down and bought that last T206 pack in the store. Now for the life of me, I don't know what to do with it. The short sighted immature part of me is screaming openitopenitopenit! The rational adult part of me thinks "You'll never see another one of these packs again unless you drop two bills on a box. Store it away for safe keeping". The adult part is right, series one packs are insanely hard to find. They were pretty tough even back in 2002 when they came out. Then again, I still need something like 30 cards for my series one set, so there's a chance I'll get a couple of cards I need. And hey, Auto and relic cards drop at 1:9 packs, not to mention the mini card varieties, so I might get lucky. Decisions, decisions.
What do you guys think? Save it for posterity or rip that sucker?
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NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's decision to remove the ban on women serving in combat deserves both praise and caution, former U.S. military leaders said.
Panetta formally ended the ban on female U.S. soldiers serving in combat units Thursday, opening approximately 230,000 military jobs, including serving on the front lines.
"Women have shown great courage and sacrifice on and off the battlefield, contributed in unprecedented ways to the military's mission and proven their ability to serve in an expanding number of roles," Panetta said at the Pentagon. "The department's goal in rescinding the rule is to ensure that the mission is met with the best-qualified and most capable people, regardless of gender."
President Barack Obama praised Panetta's decision, noting women already serve in non-combat units such as military police or as truck drivers that expose them to danger.
"Today, by moving to open more military positions -- including ground combat units -- to women, our armed forces have taken another historic step toward harnessing the talents and skills of all our citizens," the president said in a statement.
"Earlier today I called Secretary of Defense Panetta to express my strong support for this decision, which will strengthen our military, enhance our readiness, and be another step toward fulfilling our nation's founding ideals of fairness and equality."
Retired Col. Jack Jacobs called the change a "watershed moment."
"When people are trying ardently to kill you, it really doesn't matter to you who is on to the left and on your right as long as they're doing their job," Jacobs said on NBC's "Today" show.
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers, speaking on CBS' "This Morning," cautioned that some things wouldn't change.
"I think the one thing they'll probably look at is not changing training standards to accommodate women," he said. "When we brought women fighter pilots into the Air Force, we didn't change our training standards, and women are totally accepted as part of the crew force in bombers and fighters and so forth."
Some 73,915 women currently are on active duty in the military. More than 150 female soldiers have been killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan.


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I work on my book proposal revision, and Matt works on his homework.
And believe me, it is work. I need to change the entire perspective through which I'd planned to write my book, keeping my authorial voice undamaged while revising according to the constructive criticism that I received ("Talk less about Willow and Sydney" ?!?). Matt, used to years of art done almost entirely on the computer, is having to get used now to the intensive hand-work of his drawing class, and not just the drawing itself, but the tedious and tiresome process of prepping his work surface according to the various requirements of the professor ("Mark your grid with tape cut to 1/8" width" ?!?).
We're working in the mines, my friends, but for a bigger purpose: one of us wants an MFA degree, and the other one of us wants a book deal.
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Touch screens on phones and tablets really have the X factor. Being able to text, phone or film something just by swiping your finger on glass almost makes up for all those other failed sci-fi promises of the 60s.
But considering how futuristic touch screens seem, they rely on a bit of physics that's almost as old as Newton — capacitance — and the fact that your finger is three parts salty water.
If you stick your finger on a regular piece of glass, the most you can hope for is a smudge.
But if there's an electric field on the other side of the glass, some serious rearranging of electric charges goes on in the glass, in your finger and in the field itself. (Read more about electric fields).
And if there are dozens of small electric fields forming and disappearing in a grid formation on the other side of your glass screen, your phone can not only tell when a finger is touching it, it can pinpoint exactly where on the screen that finger is. Here's how.
Journey to the centre of the smartphone
The touch detection part of a smartphone is in the top part of the phone, above the LCD screen and the battery and circuits.
It's made up of two sheets of glass and a bunch of wires that are so skinny they're see-through. The top sheet of glass is the one you touch — it's mostly for protection and to keep your finger away from the business end of things, which happen on the layer of glass below. This second layer has got the skinny wires running over both sides: across it on one side, and up and down on the other. Together they make up a grid pattern.
The wires on one side of the glass are hooked up to the battery's positive terminal, and the ones on the other side are hooked up to the negative terminal. But there's only ever one pair of wires — one above and one below the glass — switched on at any one time. The switching happens really quickly, so every possible pair of wires gets charged up heaps of times in the same order every second.
In every one of these pairs of wires, the one that's hooked up to the battery's positive terminal gets electrons sucked out of it, and the negative terminal pumps electrons into the other wire. So you always have one wire (the one hooked up to the negative terminal) being more negative than the other. That difference in charge causes an electric field between the two wires, and it's strongest where the wires are closest — where they cross over.
These electric fields are really small, but they still affect nearby charges — like the electrons in the layer of glass.
Glass is an insulator — its electrons are held tightly by its atoms, so they're not free to flow as an electric current. But the electric field between the wires pulls the electrons a little bit towards the positive wire. No current flows, but pulling all those electrons closer repels electrons in the positive wire, and attracts more electrons from the battery to the negative wire. So the positive wire gets a bit more positive (fewer electrons) and the negative wire more negative than it would be without the help of the glass. And that means the electric field gets stronger.
Devices that can store charge in conductors separated by an insulator like this are called capacitors. Man-made capacitors first appeared in the 18th century, but nature had the jump on us by a few billion years. Lightning is made by thunderclouds and the ground acting like a giant capacitor, and your cells control what goes in and out of them by keeping an electric field across their insulating membrane.
If a dud conductor like glass can increase the electric field at the intersection of the wires, you can imagine what a bag of salty water like your finger can do to it. Better still, your finger doesn't have to be between the wires — the electric field around intersecting wires pokes up and out of the top layer of glass, right out of your phone. So when you touch your screen you're putting your finger right into an electric field.
The blood and cells in your finger are full of water with heaps of charged atoms dissolved in it — positive ions like sodium (Na+) and potassium (K+), and negative ions like chloride (Cl-). When your finger enters an electric field, the field gets to work organising those charges — sucking negative ions towards the positive wires and pushing positive ions away. And with all that extra charge getting organised in your finger, that particular electric field gets stronger so it can suck more charge from the battery to balance things out.
The turbo-charge your finger gives to the nearest electric field doesn't go unnoticed by the phone. The black border around all touch screens covers up a bunch of sensors that constantly measure how much charge is stored at the intersection of every pair of crossed wires. Once the power to a pair of wires is cut, the electric field disappears, so there's nothing to hold the built-up electrons in place. They leak out from the negative wire into another circuit, causing a small current to flow in it. The hidden sensors measure how long the current flows for — the more charge stored in the grid lines, the longer it takes to leak out, the longer the current lasts.
Stick a finger on your phone and the electric field at the nearest intersecting wires grows, so more charge is stored there. Depower the wires and the sensor notices that while all the other wires are producing the standard amount of current, one pair — the wires that intersect near your finger — are high scorers. It's a tactic straight out of the Battleship playbook, and it works a treat.
It's a stylus ... it's a finger ... it's a banana!
For all its smarts, your phone isn't detecting a finger — it just knows that something that's about the same conductivity as a finger is touching it. Metals will shoot the electric field through the roof, and cause an outflow current that's way too long. Non-conductors, like gloves, won't have nearly enough effect. But anything that's got about a finger's worth of free-moving charge — like a humble banana — will do the trick. Capacitance has a very democratic sense of touch.


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Alexis Cavazos
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Patricia Woodhull
My swimming philosophy capitalizes on the laws of physics to achieve maximum potential and speed. Technique is the number one component to my practices. Drills are used in order to get the students swimming correctly in a very short period of time. Because of stroke similarities, most of my practices are broken up into concentrations on free/ back, breast/ fly, or IM days. Turns and dives are reinforced every single session, as they are what separate the great from the mediocre. I believe that it is important to prevent the faster swimmers from getting bored, and slower swimmers from feeling discouraged. I arrange the lanes according to ability and give extra instructions or faster intervals/ longer distances as needed. We always finish together for dives at the end of practice. I have a work hard/ play hard outlook. Spiderman, dolphins, sharks, and rockets are some of the references used on a daily basis in order to relate to the swimmers. If I am able to get through practice without interruptions, we often play a game for the last 5-10 minutes. All of my dry land exercises are directly related to what we are doing in the pool that day. I often show videos in my teachings. We frequently study world-record races in order to stay abreast of the fastest techniques and look at our own recordings in order to correct certain movements as well. As a USA Swimming coach, I have regularly utilized TeamUnify when registering athletes for meets, emailing weekly updates to parents, editing the schedule, and obtaining swimmers' records. Swimming has been a constant life-long passion of mine. I competed with USA Swimming for eight years and swam with US Masters over the course of three. When I swim, I am constantly thinking about my body movements and how I can get to the other end of the pool with the least amount of energy as possible. I am happy in the Raleigh area, but also excited about the opportunity to relocate. I look forward to hearing from you.
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Calvin Higdon
I am committed to the development of swimmers both in and out of the water. I want my swimmers to become faster, stronger, and smarter. Most importantly, I want them to develop into individuals who will go on to make a positive impact on the world, my athletes are people first. I treat them with the respect that they deserve and build connections that will foster an environment to get better every day.
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Feb 24, 2020
Kathryn Cunningham
I have been a competitive swimmer for the past 12 years and have been competing for my university's Division III swim team, where I currently serve as captain. I have had many accomplishments in the sport during my time in college. Last year, I made second team All-Conference in the AMCC 2019 Championships in the 100-yard Breaststroke, the 200 Individual Medley Relay, and the 400 Individual Medley Relay. At the AMCC 2020 Championships, I made second team All-Conference in the 200 yard Breaststroke and came in 3rd in the conference for the 100 yard Breaststroke, the 200 & 800 Freestyle relay, and the 200 & 400 Individual Medley relay. Alongside this, I also hold six school records for my school. Prior to my time here at Franciscan University, I swam for the Wilton Y Wahoos for 8 years and have served on the CT Swim Board as an Athlete Representative. As a competitive swimmer and captain of my university's swim team, I recognize that in order for a team to strive they must have the following: discipline, responsibility, and teamwork. Individuals should strive to discipline themselves so that when it comes to training, they know the skills they need to improve on. Each is responsible for their own work as well as helping their teammates. With this comes the importance of teamwork. A team is unable to grow if they are not willing to work with each other. Just like I do in swimming, I strive to help others so that they can perform to the best of their abilities. I absolutely love the sport and would love to help others strive in the sport. As a swimmer who is only five feet tall, I recognize how crucial it is to have perfect technique. Perfecting my technique as a swimmer has allowed me to pursue goals of mine that are harder to achieve with lack of height. I believe that I am capable of helping the swimmers perform to the best of their abilities by helping them with their technique, as well as help them with their endurance.
Wilton, CT, USA
Feb 18, 2020
Shelby Langdon
College Assistant Coach
Georgetown, TX, USA
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Luxury Escorted Paris Day Trip - includes guided tour of Le Louvre and Lunch on the Eiffel Tower.
- Cruise on the River Seine
- Fully Escorted
- Seat reservation on Eurostar
- Guided Panoramic coach tour of Paris
- Fast entry access to the Eiffel Tower 1st Level
- Entry to Louvre Museum
- Available to upgrade at extra cost to Standard Premier Option – Includes Breakfast, Light Meal and Refreshments
- 3-course lunch on Eiffel Tower (1st floor)
We connect you with your representative at St. Pancras International who will escort you onboard Eurostar and throughout the day in Paris. Travelling at speeds of up to 186mph, you will be in Paris in just 2 hours 15 minutes.
Upon arrival you will enjoy a panoramic tour of the city taking in all the major sites including Champs Elysees, the Opera House and River Seine before arriving at the Eiffel Tower. What better way to enjoy lunch than on the Eiffel Tower itself, one of the world's most famous monuments? Our fast entry ticket means we have priority access and our reserved seats in the 58 Tour Eiffel restaurant boast fantastic views across the city. Sit back and enjoy a fabulous three course lunch while soaking up the atmosphere of arguably the worlds most beautiful city.
After lunch we take a romantic cruise on the River Seine that boasts spectacular views of Notre Dame, Musee D'Orsay and Place de la Concorde. In the late afternoon join us for a guided tour of Le Louvre the largest art museum in the world, and home to the Mona Lisa.
In the early evening we head back to Gard du Nord for our return journey to London.
- Fully Escorted
- Seat reservation on Eurostar
- Guided Panoramic coach tour of Paris
- Fast entry access to the Eiffel Tower 1st Level
- 3-course lunch on Eiffel Tower (1st floor)
- Cruise on the River Seine
- Entry to Louvre Museum
- Available
to upgrade at extra cost to Standard Premier Option – Includes Breakfast,
Light Meal and Refreshments
- Hotel pick up and drop off
- Gratuities
Please note:
- Tour departs St Pancras International Train
Station at 7.01 am. Check in starts at 6 am
- Returns to London 8.39 pm
- Kindly please note that check-in time on Saturdays is at 06:30am. Train departs at 07:52am.
- Once booked, we are not able
to cancel your booking and as such cannot offer you a refund, cancellation or
- Due To Eurostar requirements,
only children between the ages of 4 - 11 years old inclusive qualify for a child fare.
- You are required to carry a
valid passport with you Please check your visa
requirements before you travel.
- Premium Tours will have no
liability if Eurostar trains are delayed for unforeseen circumstances such
as security alerts, third party action or bad weather as this is beyond
our control. In such cases,please contact
Eurostar directly to discuss any compensation that may be due.
- On
rare occasions the tour itinerary can change.
- Should lunch on the Eiffel Tower not be available, a 3 course lunch on the Bateaux Parisiens with river cruise will be included with a photo stop at Eiffel Tower.
- Please advise us ahead of time of any food allergies or particular needs so that we may cater to you in a safe and pleasant manner
We were 2 couples, from the USA, spending 5 nights in London to attend a wedding and do some site seeing. We decided to try Premium Tours Day Tour of Paris. We could not have been happier! We shelled out for the full deal that included lunch in the Eiffel Tour, a boat ride on the Seine and a tour of the Louvre. What a day!
Our tour guide, Charlotte, was a wonderful, friendly, and fun guide. She met us on the train in London and spent the whole day with us and back on the train to London.
This was long(14 hours), tiring day but, worth every minute.
Visited April 2016
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Shooting suspect James Holmes, in an undated photo released Sept. 20 by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office. Holmes has been shorn of the dyed-red hair he had when first arrested.
Prosecutors in the case against James Holmes gave up their pursuit of the notebook Holmes mailed to his psychiatrist before the July 20 theater massacre in which 12 were killed and at least 58 were wounded, the Denver Post reported Thursday.
In a hearing at the Arapahoe County Courthouse on Thursday morning, prosecutors said they weren't going to pursue the notebook now because the debate could delay proceedings for months and they were likely to gain access to it as the case goes forward.
"There's a high degree of likelihood that whatever privilege exists in the notebook will end up being waived by the defendant" should Holmes' lawyers pursue an insanity defense, prosecutor Rich Orman said during hearing on the issue, Reuters reported.
The notebook purportedly contains descriptions and drawings of a violent attack.
Holmes, a former neuroscience graduate student at the University of Colorado, is accused of opening fire on the audience at a midnight showing of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20 in Aurora, Colo. He is also accused of wiring his apartment with an elaborate system of explosives and tripwires, with apparent intent to kill first responders and other residents in the building.
Appearing in court on Thursday, Holmes' head had been shaved of the garishly colored red hair he had in previous court appearances, the Post reported.
In earlier proceedings, Arapahoe County District Judge William B. Sylvester denied prosecutors access to the notebook, ruling that they could not disprove a doctor-patient relationship between Holmes and Lynne Fenton, a psychiatrist at University of Colorado. Sylvester had scheduled Thursday's hearing to take up the issue again.
Court documents related to James Holmes' case
Attorneys for Holmes argue that their client is mentally ill and was seeking Fenton's help. At the last hearing, the judge rejected prosecutor arguments that a privileged doctor-patient relationship ended June 11, the last time Fenton saw Holmes.
Holmes has been charged with 142 counts, including murder and attempted murder.
Prosecutors are seeking to charge Holmes with 10 more counts, the Denver Port reported, citing a motion filed earlier this week.
They also filed a motion to amend 17 counts against Holmes, the Post reported. Details were not released because a gag order is in place.
In related news, the memorial that sprang up outside the Aurora theater after the bloodshed was disassembled Thursday, the Denver Post reported. The city said it had consulted with families of the victims and that a local museum would be archiving items from the display, the report said.
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At Geist Martial Arts, we strive to provide a safe and friendly atmosphere where you can develop your physical fitness and mental focus through the practice of martial arts. We offer specialized programs for kids, adults, and preschoolers, along with fitness focused kickboxing/self defense classes for teens and adults. We utilize a highly effective, nationally recognized curriculum.
We think you will find us a little different than the average martial arts school. We do not require students of any age to commit to long contracts. We hope you will stay for many years with us just because of the quality of training and service you receive. We offer unlimited classes to all students and other training options like private help, leadership training, and, weapons training for no additional fees. We strive to serve every person that enters our door with the same dignity and appreciation that we ourselves hope to receive. We are completely up-front with our pricing and offer very affordable rates for families.
Specializing in Taekwondo training in the Fishers area since 1997, we are now conveniently located in the heart of Geist on the northeast side of Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Saturday, February 07, 2009
Love Lockdown: The Feel It Edition
Here are a few tracks from a mix tape I made up many years ago that got lots of plays. They acted as a soundtrack (you know what I mean) for me and a certain girl all those years ago. That girl has now been my wife for more than 22 years.
We eventually lost the original mixtape. We had been staying in a hotel and had left it in the car. Went to the car one morning to find it unlocked (I was sure I had locked it the night before). There was no sign of forced entry or damage, but the mixtape had gone (others were still in the car I seem to remember)! Strange but true! I just hope whoever took it appreciated the fine music it contained.
Of course I still have the vinyl, so the tracks are...
Jean Carn - My Love Don't Come Easy
Roy Ayers - Everytime I See You
The Heath Brothers - For The Public
John Handy - Young Enough To Dream
Download Darcy's Valentine's Day Mix (LimeLinx)
Darcy's previous post @ Souled On
Visit Darcy via the amazing Feel It, where he recently posted some lovely joints by the almighty Delfonics...
Word From Your Moms:
"The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it, from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love, because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life." - Thomas Merton
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Nice tribute to your wifey. I haven't heard any John Handy for awhile, so thanks for that.
- Styler said...
Smooth selection my man, no wonder your lady said "Yes!"
I'm thinking that tape should be a feature in a new book, "50 ways to keep your lover"
- Darcy said...
Thanks Scholar for the opportunity to once again be featured in your always excellent blog (I often think we should find another name for these things that we do - the word "blog" sounds so ugly somehow). And once again I take my hat off to you - I know how much admin must be going into compiling this Love Lockdown series.
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New information following the change in COVID-19 alert levels. massey.ac.nz/coronavirus
Unique to Massey University, the Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts encompasses contemporary Māori art, Māori language, Māori culture, and tikanga
Find out more about entry requirements, fees and courses in the planning section.
Massey was the first - and is still the only - University to offer degrees in Māori Visual Arts. All degrees at Toioho ki Apiti are taught with a strong Māori kaupapa, with te reo, tikanga, and manaakitanga at their core.
Toioho ki Apiti faculty recognise that language, culture, tikanga and art are intertwined and inseparable. We cater for all levels of proficiency in te reo whether you have grown up through kohanga and kura or are an absolute beginner.
As a Māori visual arts student you will develop perceptual and conceptual skills in two- and three-dimensional art practice alongside a cultural foundation for verbal and visual communication. Exhibitions and community courses allow you to interact with the broader Māori community to further develop your awareness and understanding of relevant issues. Over time you will develop your own art practice that is deeply grounded in culture. As well as Māori, we have students of Pākehā and international indigenous heritage who want to explore a kaupapa-driven approach to contemporary art.
The Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts (BMVA) will provide you with:
The BMVA experience can be a rewarding and rich cultural encounter.
BMVA students are encouraged to become involved in Māori cultural activities, including noho marae, waiata sessions, kapa haka, participation in pōwhiri, and attendance at hui.
Third and fourth-year students are required to exhibit their work in a professional manner. Their exhibitions are considered to be among the highlights of the year. They are held towards the end of the second semester and are open to whānau, the wider University, and the public.
The standard of work has been uniformly high and attracts very favourable comment from visitors and art critics. Much of the work is sold during the exhibitions, introducing students to the commercial side of visual art and providing experience in marketing and presentation.
When you join Toioho ki Apiti, you become part of the internationally recognised College of Creative Arts - ranked in the top 100 by QS University rankings. The College of Creative Arts is also NASAD approved as Substantially Equivalent.
If you are an international student, please check out how to apply.
The BMVA is offered at Massey's Palmerston North campus., which has many relaxed green spaces. Most BMVA students choose to be part of Manawatahi, the Māori Students' Association on campus, and consider them to be whānau. There is safe student accommodation available on site.
Toioho ki Apiti has a particularly strong, long-standing relationship with Te Manawa in Palmerston North; the gallery regularly hosts exhibitions of work by students, staff and alumni. We also offer opportunities to visit art galleries, museums and cultural events in other centres.
These scholarships are open to New Zealand students enrolling in full-time study in the Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts. Contact Rongomaiaia Te Whaiti for details.
There is more detail under the "Planning" tab at the top right of this page, and at creative.massey.ac.nz.
There are three main ways to apply for the Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts.
You'll also need to submit a short statement of why you want to join the BMVA programme.
The application due date is 1 October each year. Late applications will be considered if space is available. See the College of Creative Arts website for more detail.
It is recommended that international students apply at least three months before the start date to allow for processing.
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If 27 straight batters retired is a perfect game, wouldn't that make 27 straight scoreless innings a PERFECT SERIES ??!!?? Hell yeah!! Does it get any better than this??? I think not. Let's go over some of the details of today's excellent 3-0 victory and all the associated joy, shall we?
1) We are in FIRST PLACE. The season is effectively reset and the ridiculous dogger wonder start is a thing of the past. The doggers are obviously crippled and Arizona lost their ace ( Daniel Hudson ) for the year, so the race is looking very Giants friendly at the moment.
2) Tim Lincecum may very well have refound his "freak." Today was his best start of the season ( game score 75 ) and his second consecutive quality start. The only extra base hit was by Chad Billingsley and
he was stranded at third, which, by the way, was the only smog sucker to get that far all series long. Tim seemed to have all his pitches working. He certainly had movement; sometimes too much. Hector Sanchez, catching Lincecum for the second straight game, took a beating trying to block some crazy pitches in the dirt. Tim unleashed two more more wild pitches, which gives him 9 for the season. One of them lead to a collision at the plate with Timmeh taking the hit but getting a generous call. I sure wish he would quit doing that.
3) We are in FIRST PLACE.
4) Our starters are quietly doing one of those crazy things again. That makes one earned run allowed in the last 31 innings. They all (even Beezy sometimes) seem ready to rip off a brilliant performance. When Tim gets back up to full speed, which may well be right now, our rotation takes on intimidating proprotions.
5) Making history is way cool. Today is not as sweet as Matt's perfection, of course, but doing this beautiful thing, THREE CONSECUTIVE SHUTOUTS OVER THE doggers, is as gratifying as it gets. I mean it warms my heart. We put up with a lot of crap, you know, all that "torture" and Tim's tough spell. We deserved this. I will sleep well tonight.
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Looking forward the Finnish faction!
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In light of our anniversary and in the spirit of the season we have some additional teaser screenshots, showing not only Russian vehicles, but also equipment of an as of yet unannounced faction: Finland! These were made during test sessions and should be regarded as far from finished. However, we thought some of you might get a kick out of seeing some Russian and Finnish tanks in action and the new statics you will soon be able to fight over. Note that not all of the maps shown will be released.


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Hamilton Hawks feature former Lady Flames player at helm
August 23, 2013 | Lynchburg, Va.
There will be a familiar face on the opposing team bench for Liberty University's ACHA Division I women's hockey exhibition opener, set for 4:45 p.m. today at the LaHaye Ice Center.
For the third straight season, the Lady Flames are hosting the Hamilton (Ontario) Hawks, featuring Brooke Harris, a 2011 Liberty graduate, as an assistant coach. The team arrived in Lynchburg on Tuesday and has been using this week as a training camp for their Senior "A" season, which officially starts with a tournament next weekend in Canada.
"Our team's been practicing all summer, but it is fun to get back here and the first time I stepped on the ice, it felt I was home again," Harris said. "Absolutely, I think it always will be. The most important years of my life were here. It's nice to come back once a year and see all of the campus changes in one year and it's good to see a lot of familiar faces that are still here, even though it's been a while, and it's good to see coach (Paul Bloomfield) again."
Today's game will also be the first in a Lady Flames uniform for freshman Courtney Gilmour, who played for Hamilton the past two seasons under Harris, serving as an assistant captain the first year and captain last year.
"I've known her since she was little and now I've coached her for two seasons," Harris said. "She was a center. She was very much a key player, put on in important situations — power plays, penalty kills, last minute of the game, stuff like that. It should be exciting and I'm going to follow her all year, follow her stats and stuff like that, to see how she does. I'm very excited for her. She should do good."
As a player at Liberty, Harris served as an assistant captain as a junior and captain as a senior. She started out at center before shifting to defender.
"I was always a forward, and only played defense when I needed to, but because of injuries and player shortages and stuff, coach put me on defense and I realized I was actually a better defenseman than I was a forward," she said.
Now she works primarily with the Hamilton Hawks' forwards as an assistant coach, but is serving as the team's head coach this week in place of her father, Hub Harris, who wasn't able to make the trip.
"He actually had a heart attack two weeks ago, so he's at home recovering," Harris said. "He's good, though. He missed one practice and he should be back when we get back," in time for next weekend's first tournament.
She said her father, who coached her through high school, taught her more about the game of hockey than anyone else.
"I played for him for four seasons, which were the hardest four seasons of my life," Harris said. "I've always dreamed about coaching with my dad and now that I am, it's pretty cool. I grew up as a Hamilton Hawk, and now I'm giving back to the association I came from."
Bloomfield, meanwhile, gave her life lessons during her college years.
"I have learned a lot from (Bloomfield) from a coaching perspective," Harris said.
"(But) I have learned more from him about real-life situations, patience, character development, than I've ever learned from another teacher, not just on the ice, but off-the-ice."
The experience of traveling back to Liberty as a coach for the team she grew up playing on against the school she played for in college is rewarding for Harris, and eye-opening for the Hawks, who have developed a recruiting relationship.
"This will be our third year playing them," Harris said of the Lady Flames. "Every year that we've come here, we end up sending at least one player here. Catharine Burrell came with us the first year we came and then Courtney Gilmour from last year, so hopefully, one of the girls from this year's team will end up at Liberty next year."
She expects today's match against Liberty to be an extreme challenge for her young team.
"We're rebuilding, but we're getting there," Harris said. "With them being second last year at (ACHA DI) nationals, it should be interesting. It will be a good test for our team and they'll get their legs under them at Liberty."


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The clamor for Justice Clarence Thomas to withdraw from hearing the challenge to President Obama's healthcare reform law appears to have died down for the moment but the pressure on Justice Elena Kagan has been relentless.
The U.S. Supreme Court hears the challenge to the law, brought by 26 states, in late March. Supporters of the law want the conservative Thomas to take a hike. Opponents of the law want Kagan home watching college basketball instead of sitting in the courtroom for the healthcare argument.
The move to pry Thomas from the case centers on his wife, who founded and received income from a group dedicated to the repeal of the healthcare reform law.
Virginia Thomas, who worked for the Heritage Foundation and in Congress for then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey, helped found the conservative group Liberty Central in 2009, but has since left it.
Last year, House Democrats sent a letter to the U.S. Judicial Conference, a body headed by Chief Justice John Roberts that oversees the federal courts, complaining about Thomas' failure to list his wife's activities and income on his financial report. Thomas said the errors were inadvertent, but had to scramble to make corrections going back a decade,
The letter, signed by 53 Democrats, called for an investigation.
Earlier in the year, 74 House Democrats urged Thomas not to participate in the in the healthcare challenge case. Showing how scandal curls around to meet scandal in the nation's capital, that group was led by Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., who himself had to resign after e-mailing graphic pictures of himself to various young ladies.
The move to oust Thomas is beginning to seem like ancient history as the pace picks up and both sides gear up for argument next month. But the pressure on Kagan is much more recent.
In December, Judicial Watch, which describes itself as "the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption," hosted a panel discussion on "whether Justice Elena Kagan should recuse herself from the pending Supreme Court case concerning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."
Interestingly, during the Bush administration, the normally right-wing Judicial Watch sued Vice President Dick Cheney, seeking records of oil companies and other energy producers invited by Cheney for closed-door talks on forming the country's national energy policy.
Cheney lost in the lower courts, which ordered release of the records, and he took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Months before the high court heard the case, Cheney and Justice Antonin Scalia flew down South on a hunting trip, shooting half-tame ducks on a farm.
Though he flew one-way on Air Force Two, Scalia refused to recuse himself, uncharacteristically giving the reasons why. He and the vice president had never been alone together, he was a longtime friend -- and if justices recused themselves, or withdrew, from cases involving friends in government the Supreme Court would come to a standstill.
With Scalia in the majority, Cheney won his Supreme Court case 7-2.
In the most recent move to oust Kagan, Fox News reports, opponents of the Affordable Care Act "point to a 2010 case regarding a San Francisco health measure, in which then-[U.S.] Solicitor General Kagan's office filed [a friend-of-the-court] brief touting the newly passed healthcare law."
The Fox News report said after Kagan had been nominated to the Supreme Court in May 2010, "Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal sent her a memo outlining the cases in which she had 'substantially participated.' Katyal specifically referenced the Golden Gate case, noting it had been 'discussed with Elena several times.'"
That led Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Hans von Spakovsky to call for Kagan's recusal. "I don't see how any ethical lawyer adhering to professional codes of conduct could not consider that they need to recuse themselves from this case," he told Fox News.
But the Fox News report pointed out other scholars scoff at the idea, saying the issues in the Golden Gate case are distinct from those before the Supreme Court.
"Absolutely different cases, absolutely two different sets of issues, and it does not in any way support the idea that Justice Kagan should recuse herself," Elizabeth Wydra, chief counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center, told the broadcaster.
The conservative group Freedom Watch filed a request at the Supreme Court last month asking the high court to let it file a friend-of-the-court brief calling for Kagan's recusal, and asking to participate in the upcoming argument.
The Supreme Court denied the request Jan. 23, but added in its order, "Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion."
Before panic sets in at the White House, Lyle Denniston, the highly respected veteran reporter for SCOTUSBLOG.com, explained the recusal probably came about because the motion "had directly challenged her judicial independence."
He pointed out that she had participated in consideration of all other aspects of the case, and was not signalling she would withdraw from hearing the challenge in court or from voting in a final resolution of the case.
In a Brookings Institution analysis of the dispute, "What's So Hard About Regulating Supreme Court Justices' Ethics? -- A Lot," visiting fellow Russell Wheeler said, "There are no signs that either justice will sit out the case.
"These recusal demands are mostly tactics to try to influence who decides the case or delegitimize the decision, but they reflect a growing debate over whether the justices' ethics need more regulation to avoid conflicts of interest, or their appearance," Wheeler said. "With Gallup reporting the court's approval rating at 46 percent, second lowest since 2000, it's a debate worth having.
"The problem is not that federal judicial ethics provisions only apply to lower federal court judges -- a common but erroneous claim. The problem -- unsolved so far -- is creating mechanisms to regulate the justices' behavior that don't create more problems than they might solve. Some proposals, for example, would suck other federal judges into partisan battles over Supreme Court recusals."
He pointed out the federal statute on judges' disqualification directs any "justice [or] judge . . . [to] disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned," and lists some situations that would apply. They include owning just one share of stock in a party to the litigation.
But what the federal law doesn't take into account is that the statute is usually enforced by the appellate courts. At the U.S. Supreme Court level, there is no higher court for appeal.
Legislation introduced last March would tell the U.S. Judicial Conference to create such a court to hear appeals from unsuccessful recusal motions and to "decide whether the justice ... should be so disqualified."
But such a court, Wheeler said, likely would violate the Constitution's mandate of "one Supreme Court."
The federal Ethics in Government Act requires a "willful" failure to report gifts or income -- remember Thomas' explanation for his missteps? The U.S. Judicial Conference's Code of Conduct applies to judges but doesn't really apply to high court justices.
"The absence of formal review mechanisms for justices' ethical decisions is a necessary imperfection in the system," Wheeler contends. "The frustration behind recent proposals to establish such mechanisms is understandable, but those proposals would likely create more problems than they would solve."
Wheeler suggests several measures to help the high court's credibility.
-- More transparency, citing Scalia's extensive 2004 memorandum on why he wasn't withdrawing from the Cheney case. Almost always, justices withdraw from a case without explanation.
-- The justices themselves could adopt and make public a formal set of standards to guide them on when recusal is warranted.
-- If the justices, behind closed doors, already have adopted resolutions regarding the various ethics acts or the conference's Code of Conduct, they should be made public.
-- The justices should "master the admittedly arcane web of statutes and policies that govern and guide them," so they can answer questions before Congress.


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By Business editor Peter Ryan
European banks could be forced to sell as much as US$4.5 trillion in assets if the sovereign debt crisis escalates.
The International Monetary Fund says time is running out for European policy makers to implement a single supervisory system to firewall the already fragile banking sector.
According to the IMF's Global Financial Stability Report, the US$4.5 trillion asset contraction is up 18 percent on an earlier estimate in April of US$3.8 trillion in a "weak policies scenario".
A failure to introduce fiscal tightening or a single regulatory system for banks could impact 58 banks across the EU from small institutions to giants like Deutsche Bank.
Even without a worst case scenario - a fracturing of the Eurozone that could see the redomination of currencies - the IMF is predicting a reduction of bank assets of US$2.8 trillion as long as governments follow up on their current committments.
The IMF has estimated that in the year to June, European banks deleveraged by more than US$600 billion.
The IMF's financial counsellor and director Jose Vinals warns the forces of financial and economic fragmentation have widened.
|Jose Vinals, IMF Financial Counsellor & Director
"The stakes are high. Confidence is still very fragile and risks have increased when compared to the last report in April," Mr Vinals said.
"Actions taken by the European Central Bank have helped remove investors' worst fears. But these policies will need to be further built upon at both the national and euro area level."
The IMF's warning comes just a day saying the risk of a serious global slowdown was "alarmingly high".
While emerging markets have weathered the fallout from Europe so far, the IMF warned that many countries in eastern Europe were vulnerable.
The IMF says emerging Asia nations also need to be on guard to avoid any European spillover.
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Publication Archive
This archive contains all documents published by cep over the last few years:
cepAdhoc: Incisive comment on current EU policy issues.
cepPolicyBrief: Concise 4-page reviews of EU proposals (Regulations, Directives, Green Papers, White Papers, Communications) – including a brief summary and economic and legal assessments.
cepInput: Impulse to current discussions of EU policies.
cepStudy: Comprehensive examination of EU policy proposals affecting the economy.
The EU Commission wants to revive the securitisation markets which collapsed during the financial crisis. The stakeholders involved in these markets will be subject inter alia to transparency and due diligence obligations. In addition, the EU Commission wants to create a label for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation (STS securitisation).
The current support for electricity generation by way of photovoltaics is failing to meet the European Union's climate and energy policy targets: It is not resulting in a reduction in carbon dioxide or in lower electricity prices. Neither has security of supply increased. In addition, it has not succeeded in developing an internationally competitive industry for the manufacture of photovoltaic modules in the EU.
In the presence of EU-Commission Guenther Oettinger, cep has presented in Brussels its latest study on competition challenges in the consumer internet industry.
The European Commission wants to bring about stricter compliance with the waste hierarchy by way of measurable objectives for recycling and a limit on landfill for municipal waste. A new "early warning system" will detect if Member States are likely to miss the targets.
The cepDefault-Index 2016 shows that for a large number of eurozone countries - Finland, Slovenia, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus and Greece - falling creditworthiness has become firmly established; a development which sooner or later will result in creditworthiness being lost altogether. Another danger is looming in that many eurozone economies are seeing a diminution of capital stock.
The strategic plan to support energy technology (SET Plan) is to be refocussed on the priorities of the Energy Union. The EU Commission criticises the existing SET Plan for the fact that its technology-specific research support is failing to take sufficient account of the synergies between the various energy technologies. It therefore wants to replace this "technology-specific approach" with an "energy system approach".
The Commission wants to strengthen the internal EU market for capital by 2019. It therefore presents a detailed Action Plan to achieve this aim. It is planning to establish criteria for lending by certain investment funds and to reduce the capital requirements for infrastructure investment. It also wants to revive the European securitisation market and streamline prospectus obligations.


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Conn. health exchange reports 7,615 enrolled in plans
HARTFORD -- Connecticut's health insurance marketplace says 7,615 people have been enrolled in insurance plans since open enrollment began Oct. 1.
Access Health CT reported Friday that 4,065 of those people enrolled with one of the private health insurance plans offered on the exchange, and 3,550 enrolled with government-funded Medicaid.
Access Health CT has a goal of enrolling about 100,000 during the open enrollment period, which ends March 31. People have until Dec. 15 to enroll if they want coverage to begin on Jan. 1.
Enrollment in health insurance plans for small businesses has been happening at a slower place. So far, 55 applications have been completed, covering 306 individuals.
Meanwhile, the marketplace reported 224,577 unique website visitors and 26,237 calls to its call center.


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Hot Stove roundup: GMs set table for winter deals
Meetings wrap up in Orlando with A's signing of Punto, agent Boras holding court
The General Managers Meetings in Orlando, Fla., concluded Wednesday with only one signing: infielder Nick Punto and the A's agreeing to a one-year deal with a vesting option.
Though that's not quite an eye-catching move, there's no doubt plenty of groundwork was laid by many teams as the Hot Stove season continues this winter.
Wednesday's highlight was agent Scott Boras holding court with reporters and discussing a variety of topics, including three of his top clients: outfielders Jacoby Ellsbury and Shin-Soo Choo and shortstop Stephen Drew.
Those three don't appear close to signing, instead going through the process like everyone else.
"I think every free agent wants to get their deal done yesterday," Boras said. "There's kind of a tide that works in this process, and every once in a while you have clubs that make quicker decisions than others, and a lot of that has to do with exhausting trade possibilities, along with their plan and design with their owners. Really, it has to do a lot with the math the teams have to do to make the strike. Historically, there's always a few that jump quicker. But for the most part, a lot of teams respond to the pursuit of the player when they know that pursuit of the player has a timetable."
Here's a rundown of Wednesday's rumors and happenings:
AL East
• MLB.com's Brittany Ghiroli breaks down rumors of shortstop J.J. Hardy being on the trading block, which Orioles executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette shot down.
• Boston general manager Ben Cherington said he is reluctant to deal young arms in a potential trade. Cherington also said he believes it's possible Ellsbury returns to Boston next season, though it doesn't seem as if there's been much communication between the two camps.
Also, second baseman Dustin Pedroia underwent successful surgery on his left thumb Wednesday morning. He will be ready for the regular season but may miss time early in Spring Training.
• Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said he believes entertainer Jay-Z, who is affiliated with CAA Sports representing Robinson Cano, will play a role in negotiations with the second baseman -- though most discussions have been with veteran agent Brodie Van Wagenen.
Elsewhere in Yankeeland, managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner expressed confidence in Derek Jeter's return. Also, free-agent reliever Brian Wilson isn't a fit for the Yankees because he won't shave his beard.
• The Rays spent the GM Meetings gathering information.
AL Central
• On the same day Tigers right-hander Max Scherzer was named the 2013 AL Cy Young Award winner, he told reporters on a conference call, including MLB.com's Jason Beck, that he's open to a new deal.
"I love it here in Detroit," Scherzer said. "We're capable of putting out a team that's able to win every single year right now. Who wouldn't want to be a part of that? I'm here to win and win a World Series. I realize I've got a good situation here in Detroit. But it also takes two to dance."
• Free-agent outfielder Carlos Beltran, one of the most sought-after bats this offseason, told MLB.com's Dick Kaegel that it'd be "a great story" if he returned to Kansas City. Beltran was the Royals' second-round pick in the 1995 Draft and played his first six-plus seasons in K.C.
• The Indians hired Matt Quatraro as assistant hitting coach.
AL West
• MLB.com's Barry Bloom sat down with A's general manager Billy Beane for an exclusive Q&A.
• Major League owners are expected to approve Rangers co-chairman Ray Davis as the organization's "control person" at the quarterly Owners Meetings on Thursday.
NL East
• The Mets were busy in Orlando, reportedly meeting with shortstop Jhonny Peralta and setting the groundwork for future moves.
• The Braves avoided arbitration and reached a one-year deal with reliever Jonny Venters, who should return from his second Tommy John surgery next summer.
Also, general manager Frank Wren said the Braves' move to their new stadium in 2017 won't impact their decisions for 2014.
• Although they didn't make any deal at the GM Meetings, the Marlins were encouraged by their work in Orlando.
• Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. says the addition of outfielder Marlon Byrd, whom the club signed Tuesday, improves Philadelphia on offense and defense.
• MLB.com's Bill Ladson answered Nationals fans' questions in his Inbox, including whether the Nats would think about moving Anthony Rendon.
NL Central
• MLB.com's Richard Justice writes that the Reds are trying to shake the feeling of underachievement.
NL West
• The D-backs have two quality shortstops in Chris Owings and Didi Gregorius. If they're both still in Arizona when Spring Training opens, general manager Kevin Towers expects a tight competition.
• Giants general manager Brian Sabean said catcher Buster Posey will not be moving to first base any time soon.
• Teams have inquired about Rockies center fielder Dexter Fowler, writes MLB.com's Thomas Harding. The Rockies also aren't interested in surrendering a first-round Draft pick for those free agents who received qualifying offers. Colorado also had some sticker shock upon hearing catcher Carlos Ruiz received a two-year, $20 million offer, though the Rockies will monitor the situation.
Also, MLB.com's Tracy Ringolsby writes that the Rockies are looking to add players -- not trade them away.
• Dodgers president Stan Kasten expressed support for manager Don Mattingly, and MLB.com's Ken Gurnick breaks down how Punto's signing with Oakland impacts the Dodgers' infield.


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The first banners for WWDC 2009 have appeared at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Social media guru Adam Jackson has posted a series of photos to his Flickr stream showing Moscone West and the banners in question, which feature numerous App Store icons and read, "One year later. Light years ahead."
The banner offers some (but few) clues about what we can expect to be the topic of next Monday's keynote given by Phil Schiller and gang. The App Store was launched almost a year ago, allowing developers to finally sell legit copies of their software to run on the iPhone OS. Since iPhone OS 3.0 is expected to land this summer, Apple will undoubtedly discuss it further at the keynote along with the expected iPhone hardware updates.
There will be other signs and banners popping up at Moscone West before next week's conference that will be covered until after the keynote is over. Those may include more in-depth looks at Snow Leopard, shots of new hardware, or who knows what else. But as the countdown continues, we'll be sure to bring you news of whatever pops up, so stay tuned (and be sure to check out our dedicated WWDC page for WWDC-specific updates!).
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Co2 is Green
Learn more from the Center for Media and Democracy's research on climate change.
CO2 is Green is a "pending 501(C)(4) non-profit organization" that states on its website that it supports "scientifically and economically sound public policy" regarding the environment and issues related to it. The group promotes the idea that carbon dioxide cannot be considered a pollutant, because of "nature's dependence" on it.
Global warming
In 2009, the group launched a website, www.co2isgreen.net to promote its agenda and encourage public participation. The site links to Plants Need CO2[1], a group whose named principal is H. Leighton Steward[2], who is the Chairman of the Board of The Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at Southern Methodist University[3]. The Institute funded by Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, Hunt Oil, Lyco Energy Corporation, and Five States Energy Corporation.[4]
In September 2009, the group began running television advertisements in New Mexico, Montana, Washington, DC to promote its stance on networks in the United States.
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- ↑ CO2 Is Green (2009). Home Page. Retrieved on 2009-09-22.
- ↑ Plants Need CO2 (2009). About Plants Need CO2 - CO2 is Green & Green is Good. Retrieved on 2009-09-22.
- ↑ Institute for the Study of Earth and Man (2009). Institute Trustees. Retrieved on 2009-09-22.
- ↑ ExxonSecretsFactsheet (2009). Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, ISEM. Retrieved on 2009-09-22.


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For fourteen years, Ross-Tech has been helping people use the VAG-COM Diagnostic System to diagnose and repair problems, tweak various settings, and retrofit parts that VW-Audi never envisioned being installed in their particular cars. We've done this over the phone, via e-mail, and in various other forums, but a couple of years ago things got to the point where, despite having three full-time people to answer customers' questions, our phones were literally ringing all the time. So we did two
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CIA 'torture' methods included these 21 songs, artists
PLUS: See some really dang annoying songs they easily could have used, as well.
If hearing Barney the dinosaur sing "I Love You" one more time seems like torture, try it on a loop for the next 24 hours.
According to a new piece on the Huffington Post by Andy Worthington, author of "The Guantanamo files," the children's show song that became the musical earworm of the '90s was one of many songs used by the CIA to enhance interrogation techniques in the War on Terror.
Songs used by the CIA varied wildly from children's songs and popular commercial jingles all the way to American hip-hop and death metal.
The variety often was intentional, intended to jar the senses, Worthington said. Prisoners would spend hours listening to a song like "Take Your Best Shot" by the metal band Dope on a constant loop, only to hear it get replaced unceremoniously by the Meow Mix cat food jingle.
In the moment, the juxtaposition of songs was funny. But eventually, it could grow maddening, Worthington writes.
American music – whether from commercials or actual songs – helped drown out the prisoners' inner thoughts, Worthington said, without providing them a familiar song from their own culture for which to escape into. Genres like heavy metal were particularly effective, because many Muslims had never heard anything like it before.
Interrogators often resorted to musical themes. The "bad Muslim," for example, often played on devout Muslim men's inclination toward sexual purity and/or celibacy by pairing sexually-explicit songs with interrogation by female interviewers.
In another variation of "bad Muslim," interrogators played Arabic music on the first day of Ramadan, which the subject believed was against Islamic law.
Another major aspect of "music torture," Worthington writes, was the seemingly random nature of when music would come on or turn off in order to affect sleep patterns.
Not all of the artists whose music was used were happy with the practice. Singer David Gray is one of many artists to ask for his music to be removed from the CIA's playlist.
"What we're talking about here is people in a darkened room, physically inhibited by handcuffs, bags over their heads and music blaring at them. That is torture. That is nothing but torture. It doesn't matter what the music is - it could be Tchaikovsky's finest or it could be Barney the Dinosaur. It really doesn't matter, it's going to drive you completely nuts."


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With more than 3,100 lane miles of road and street pavement and more than 184 bridges to maintain, Saint Louis County's Department of Transportation is one of Missouri's largest caretakers of public roadways.
In addition to its administrative offices at 1050 North Lindbergh Blvd. in Creve Coeur, the Department maintains five Maintenance Districts located throughout the County; the Operations Division Headquarters on Schaefer Drive; the Division of Construction Headquarters, Materials Testing Lab and Survey Section on Schaefer Drive, and the Traffic Operations Building on Adie Road.
From these locations, under the leadership of Deanna Venker, P.E., Director, the Department's 452 employees perform literally hundreds of duties necessary to ensure the smooth function of its road, bridge, intersection and sidewalk system, which encompasses the entirety of unincorporated Saint Louis County and designated arterial roads in incorporated communities. The Department prepares annual capital improvement and operating budgets, develops projects that address multi-modal needs, oversees multi-million dollar transportation related construction projects, patches potholes, installs traffic signs, plows snow, surveys streets, mows grass, monitors road conditions and assigns repair priority to roads in greatest need, designs and installs electric traffic signals, keeps County Government's fleet of 3,600-plus motor vehicles and pieces of equipment functioning, oversees parking garage operations for more than 2,400 vehicles, repairs bridge decks, constructs new sidewalks and driveway approaches, installs intelligent transportation systems, and restripes pavement for delineation and for bicycle accommodations.
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Rare and Valuable NES Games – Those Games Collecting Dust May Be Worth Cash!
As you're probably well aware, I collect old video game systems and games, especially for the old 8-bit Nintendo (NES). Looking at a pricing guide, I found out that several games have gone up in price dramatically now that retro gaming is becoming kind of popular. Much like the guy on Hollywood Collector can assess how much your movie props are worth, I can tell you how much video game stuff is worth to a collector. If you happen to have some old NES games laying around in a box somewhere in the attic or have some stashed away that you were just planning on putting in a yard sale, see if you have any of these. Putting them on eBay (or, better yet, selling them to me directly) can bring in more than just a buck or two.
Many of these are late releases in the world of Nintendo. Since the Super Nintendo (SNES) was released in 1991, many of the NES games released in 91, 92, 93 or even the small handful in 94 were often passed up and shipped in limited supply. Here are a few Nintendo games that looks like they'd blend in with the rest of them, but are worth big money.
These prices are if they're loose. As in, just the game, no box or instruction manual. If you have those, the prices will go up significantly.
Rescue Rangers 2
Value: $91
The first Rescue Rangers game is easy to get a hold of, but it's sequel is much harder to find. One of them sold in an eBay auction for just over $100 recently.
Duck Tales 2
Value: $98.01
Like Rescue Rangers 2, the sequel to Duck Tales is worth a little more and is still a great game. Congrats if you have fun title!
Bonk's Adventure
Value: $168.51
Bonk's Adventure was also made for the TurboGrafx-16 system to be used as the TurboGrafx mascot, but a version was also released for the Nintendo. The one for the TG-16 can go for about $10-$15 while the Nintendo version can get as high as $250-$300 on eBay.
Zombie Nation
Value: $182.52
This is one game I have in my collection. Such a weird game as you're a floating head shooting bad guys. Glad I still have it - it's a hard one to find!
Panic Restaurant
Value: $201.50
I remember renting this game from Crazy Mike's Video on Nob Hill back in the day. It's your typical, fun platformer-style game where you play a chef using your frying pan as a weapon. Definitely a nice find for any collection and goes to good money to the right buyer.
Bubble Bobble part 2
Value: $209.89
Bubble Bobble is one of my favorite games of all time. They made a much-lesser known sequel called Bubble Bobble part 2. Don't be fooled by Bubble Bobble 2 (without the part) as that's often referred to Rainbow Islands (a Bubble Bobble-type game). Same idea as before. Cute dinosaurs blowing bubble to trap their enemies and collect items. Best when played with two players at the same time. I saw this title once for $50. I wish I would've bought it because now it's worth well over that.
Little Sampson
Value: $348
This is another title I remember renting at Crazy Mike's Video. It's fun, don't get me wrong, but for some reason it's going for well over $300, no matter where you find it! If you have this one, congrats! It's one I wish I could add to my collection, just I'll never pay that price for it.
The Flintstones: Surprise at Dino Peak
Value: $510
Yes, there is a game for the Nintendo that is valued at over $500. That's the price of an Xbox 360 AND PlayStation 3 combined. The reason this one is so rare is because it was made to be a rental, not so much for sale. As many video stores started to sell off their NES games to replace them in favor of new game system releases like Nintendo 64 and PlayStation, a few have gotten their hands on this title and, if they do, they're in good shape. The value of this is rising super-fast.
There are other rare Nintendo games as well, but I thought I'd showcase those ones. If you have any questions on the rarity of any of the games you own or, again, if you have some NES games stashed away somewhere that you're wanting to get rid of, let me know and I can assess what you have. It'd be my pleasure. Just email me.


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Panasonic Lumix FZ100 and Lumix FZ40 introduced with 24x zoom lenses
Panasonic's ultrazoom line gets an update today with the announcement of the Lumix DMC-FZ100 and Lumix DMC-FZ40 24x optical zoom cameras. While they're not at the very front of the pack in terms of raw telephoto power, they offer interesting features like full 1080 HD video recording and reduced-resolution burst shooting at up to 60 fps.
Sharing the same 25-600mm Leica DC Vario-Elmarit lens, the FZ100 and and FZ40 are differentiated by the sensors they use. The FZ100 features a 14.1 megapixel MOS sensor ready for 1080 AVCHD video recording, while the FZ40 features a 14.1 megapixel CCD sensor. Both systems are stabilized by Panasonic's Power O.I.S. optical image stabilization system and offer manual exposure modes in addition to iA intelligent Auto mode.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100
Thanks to that MOS sensor, the FZ100 is capable of full-resolution burst shooting up to 11 fps for a maximum of 15 images. Reducing the resolution to 2.5 megapixels will yield a top continuous shooting speed of 60 fps. Additionally, a new Intelligent Burst shooting mode to automatically determine the appropriate shutter speed based on movement of the camera's subject.
The Lumix FZ100 will also record 1920×1080 AVCHD videos at 60i. Web-friendlier motion JPEG video files can also be recorded at 720p. A port for an optional stereo microphone is also available to FZ100 users.
The FZ100 will also feature a swiveling, rotating 3.0-inch 460k-dot LCD for more flexible image composition. Soft features like face detection, face recognition and the curiously-named Happy Mode (a setting that produces images with brighter and more saturated colors) are also available.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ40
The Lumix FZ40 is built to relatively similar specifications as the FZ100 but won't feature a swiveling LCD. It will offer a fixed 3.0-inch 230k-dot LCD and 720p HD video recording. Video mode can be accessed through a dedicated video record button.
Burst shooting is available in full-resolution at up to 1.8 fps. Both the FZ100 and FZ40 will feature Panasonic's My Color processing options including pin hole, film grain and high dynamic effects.
Pricing and availability
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ40 will be introduced at a price of $399.95 and the Lumix DMC-FZ100 will be offered for $499.95 in late August. Color options are limited to black for both models.


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The orthopedic residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC is a comprehensive and widely respected program with the primary goal of graduating well-rounded, highly competent orthopedic surgeons.
Five residents are admitted annually through a highly selective process administered by the NRMP. The orthopedic residency consists of four full orthopedic clinical years and one multidisciplinary internship year. The residents work with board-certified, fellowship-trained specialists from all orthopedic subspecialties in a one-on-one mentorship training model.
The program's educational philosophy stresses that the best environment for learning clinical medicine is achieved with one patient, one attending and one resident. The CMC offers a large clinical volume with the residents actively participating in 300-500 cases during each clinical year. Graduated responsibility in the operating room and pre- and post-operative planning phases is granted so that at the end of the program each resident is comfortable and competent in all subspecialty areas.