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Paul Ratson and his partner Pam O'Leary are hardy. And, not just because they live on the shores of Hudson Bay "just out of town." That town is Churchill. Here, phrases like "the frozen north" and "land of the midnight sun" spring to mind and reflect challenging growing conditions.
Ratson came here in 1975; Pam in 1992. They operate Nature 1st Tours, where they conduct hiking and bus tours of the area. Adds O'Leary: "We also provide polar bear security for companies." (Hang on to that thought…)
Ratson and O'Leary built a small greenhouse where carrots, tomatoes, peas and lettuce thrive. I was impressed when I first visited them five years ago and, when I returned to Churchill last summer, I wondered whether it was still operational.
It was. Their experiment continues. While standing in the warmth of the greenhouse, I ask why they built it in the first place. "We both love gardening, and store-bought vegetables are expensive and not necessarily fresh," explains Ratson. "We began with a few tomatoes in the house, then built the greenhouse."
Building the greenhouse
Seeing as materials are difficult to get in the North, I wonder about construction issues. "Actually, we have no fresh water here, so a truck delivers it (at $.12/gallon) and fills an old water tank," says O'Leary. "An electric pump enables us to water plants with a hose."
"Our greenhouse is about 10x30 feet—enough room to walk around the beds," continues Ratson. "We erected a 2x4 frame and covered the walls with old windows we found at the dump. On the internet we found a company selling greenhouse fabric—supposedly good for northern greenhouses—and covered the roof with it. We put a huge, old heater fan in one wall to ventilate heat. The greenhouse faces south and a large shop to the north protects it from Arctic winds. Now we have three round beds, about five feet wide."
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With construction complete, I figure there must have been additional challenges. I wasn't prepared for what would be obvious to a northerner.
It's not simply the -50°C temperatures that pose problems. As O'Leary explains, there is no soil either. "We filled the beds with dried seaweed, lake bottom and fermented grain screenings," she explains. "We mixed them together, adding peat moss, and hoped for the best. Every year we add two or three bags of topsoil plus sheep manure we transport from the south."
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List of recipe websites and cooking resources and recipes online. Tired of the same old thing for dinner? Try out some of these recipe websites for new ideas for any occasion. Whether you are making a dessert or need a main course this list of top recipe websites can help you find just what you are looking for.
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Live Cricket is televised nowadays and a lot of people want to watch the cricket game but do not understand it as they feel that it is too technical. Yes it is a technical game but to make a start I have tried to put the game into as simple an explanation as I can. I have been playing and watching cricket now for over 35 years so I do have an excellent grasp of the game. I have put in a page on Cricket Terminology which are words that you will come across when reading this website so I hope this will help.
This site is just to explain the game of cricket with some of the Cricket game rules. Cricket has been played since 1787 going under the name of Maryleborne Cricket Club whose headquarters are at Lord's Cricket Ground in North LondonEngland.
Cricket can now be watched almost every day due to Online Cricket and Satellite.
There are now different types of the cricket game but for this site I will take as the example the five day test series (most series either five or three test matches). I will be using the male game as my example and although females have finally been recognized and have their own test series I will stick with the male game for this site so my apologies to the ladies.
Below are some of the individual parts of the cricket game which together form the game of cricket.
Cricket Pitch and Field
The pitch and field are two areas which make up the playing area of the game. The Pitch or strip or wicket as it is known is an area of ground 12 meters or 22 yards in length from stumps to stumps and 3.05 meters or 10 feet wide. The field, this is the rest of the area of land which makes up the pitch and field. This area measures 68 meters or 75 yards either side of the pitch.
People in charge
There are three people in charge of the game, they are called umpires. Two stand in the center of the pitch at either end or at the side of the pitch, another umpire will remain in the pavilion to oversee disputes which may arise in the game. The third umpire has a monitor to oversee disputes that arise in the game.
Cricket Players
There are two sets of players known as either sides or teams, consisting of eleven players on either side. Each side has a captain who is responsible for the behavior of his players. The sides consist of players with different skills, these are batsmen, these players are picked for their skill of batting i.e. getting runs. There is one wicket keeper, this player fields behind the wicket. His job is to prevent runs behind the wicket and to either catch or stump the batsman out, he can also run him out. Then there are the bowlers. Their skill is to bowl the opposite side out. They can either be fast bowlers, medium pace or spin bowlers. All the fielding side can be moved around the area of the field into any given position by the captain or bowler, apart from the wicket keeper who stays static behind the wickets.


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Continuing on with my previous post, civil registration and census records are usually the place I turn first when starting my research in the UK. These records can be used together to create an accurate snapshot of a family group in the mid-19th century to late 20th century. Before 1837, parish registers are most commonly used to find the baptisms, marriages, and burials of ancestors.
We will be specifically talking about parish registers created in England, but this information applies to Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Parish registers were first created in England in 1538 when Henry VIII established the Church of England. By 1597, during Queen Elizabeth's reign, the earliest parish registers were rewritten on vellum, or animal skin, from 1558. This helped protect parish registers and make them available for research today. Many registers before 1558 are lost; they were often written on paper, rather than more durable materials.
Early parish registers were often written in chronological order, including baptisms, marriages, and burials in the same volume. As time went by, many parishes recorded these events in separate books, but it depended on the person writing the registers.
The types of information written in a parish registers varied from scribe to scribe. Usually more information is included on later parish registers. Baptism entries usually listed the name of the child baptized, baptism date, and father's name. Other information could be recorded, including date of birth, mother's name, witnesses' names, or godparents.
Rose's Act was passed in 1812, which required parish baptisms to be recorded on pre-printed forms. These forms included the parish of birth, county of birth, date of baptism, the child's name, parents' names (sometimes maiden name of mother), residence of the family, father's occupation, and the name of the person who performed the ceremony. Sometimes the date of birth was written in the margins; especially if the child was baptized years after the birth.
Early marriage entries usually only included the groom's name, the bride's name, and the date of marriage. By 1754, Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act required all individuals (excluding Jews and Quakers) to be married through the Church of England. Before this, some ancestors may not be listed in the parish registers due a clandestine marriage (think Fleet Prison).
A lot more information is recorded on marriage entries after 1754, including the couples' names, date of marriage, residences of both parties, marital status, how the marriage was performed (banns or licence), signatures of the bride and groom, as well as two witnesses of the marriage.
In 1837, printed forms were institutionalized, which new information: ages of the couple, and names of the bride and groom's fathers.
Burial records usually do not have as much information as baptism and marriage entries. Sometimes only the name and date of burial are listed. If a young child died, you may find a father's name. Because of Rose's Act in 1813, the name date of burial, name of deceased, and age were required in the register.
How to Use Parish Registers
As parish registers are a very useful genealogical resource, many of them have been indexed, digitized, or transcribed. The originals can be found in county record offices across the UK. To know what records are available for each parish and where they are stored, you can use The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers.
From the census and civil registration, you will most likely know at least a good idea which parish and county an event took place for your ancestor. You can use the International Genealogical Index, or IGI, which is a large database of indexed parish baptisms and burials in the UK, created by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Ancestry.com also has many parish registers indexed available for research. Most notably, the England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Collection is a great place to start, similar to the IGI. Ancestry also has large collections of parish registers for London, Yorkshire, Dorset, and Warwickshire, just to name a few.
If you can't find your ancestor in the parish registers, you can look in the bishop's transcripts, which are records first started in 1598, which required annual copies of parish registers to be created and sent to the bishop of the parish. These records can usually be found from 1598-1837. When used in conjunction with parish registers, an ancestor could be found, as well as extra information written on either of the documents.
Now that you have found census records and have ordered civil registration documents for your ancestors, start looking through parish registers to see what you find!
Happy hunting!
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This is generally good information about England and Wales, but there are really significant differences for Irish and Scottish church records, in terms of date, format, data included, survival, and accessibility.
I think it would be helpful to people researching ancestors from those countries if you were more explicit about the differences.
We are a cranky bunch, eh? I am a long time member with a probably-silly-comment/question re. surnames spelling in parish registers. Most of the time, we can make a pretty good guess at the original family name, but I ALWAYS waffle on how to indicate and carry that original name through the generations. I use altername names, AKA facts, comments, facts description notes, sources notes and comments, (etc.), but… it drives me batty. I wonder how the pros indicate and format surname spellings and changes across the board, trees, graphs, charts and if there might be a tidy rule of thumb.
I continue to hope that I will find something that proves my 2x g'gma (Marguerette King – father John mother Catherine (Katherine?) Dunn both from Ireland alledgedly) was born where she claims in her husbands obituary (Reading, Berkshire, England – all estimated records found put her at birth year of MAR 1836)
If the family I found IS her parents (and of course, her siblings too) than they were in Hutton Cranswick, Yorkshire during 1841 census and I found a birth record for her sister. But all guesswork at this point!
[…] Use England Parish Registers to Research Ancestors Pre-1837 by Abbie Lee Black […]
Hooray, very clear instructions you laid down and NOW and I can use it to tell my many many relatives where to locate the facts (as I did using the Parish Registers)and they can correct all their erroneous trees…wrong kids, wrong counties, wrong centuries. Thank you
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Vagal maneuvers are used to try to slow an episode of fast heart rate. These simple maneuvers stimulate the vagus nerve, sometimes resulting in slowed conduction of electrical impulses through the atrioventricular (AV) node of the heart. Be sure to talk to your doctor before trying these.
Vagal maneuvers that you can try to slow your fast heart rate include:
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In addition to these, your doctor may sometimes try another vagal maneuver (called carotid sinus massage) in the emergency room to help slow your heart rate. This technique should only be performed by a doctor.
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A New Direction, But Will It Lead To A Better Destination?
Details are still coming out in bits and pieces, but it is increasingly clear that Brocade's (relatively) new CEO wants to streamline this company's operations. First, management intends to strip out $100 million in annual costs by early calendar 2014, largely through narrowing the product portfolio and refining its marketing approach.
That leads to a bigger, vaguer, new direction as well. It looks like Brocade is going to intensify its focus on a smaller number of markets that management believes hold higher potential. On the surface, this makes a great deal of sense – continuing to compete in markets where the company holds only scant market share costs money and doesn't generate particularly attractive revenue growth or economic return prospects.
The key, though, is what markets the company picks. Management specifically mentioned data centers and federal markets in its earnings press release. This is not really surprising, given that the company has been focusing on opportunities like fibre channel over ethernet and virtual cluster switching for data centers for some time now.
While this is a popular (not to mention large and growing) market, it's also a market that companies like Cisco and Juniper (Nasdaq:JNPR) have explicitly targeted. Perhaps Brocade can piggyback on the efforts of its SAN partners like EMC (NYSE:EMC), but Cisco's recent success in this market (at a time when so many rivals are struggling) is not encouraging for Brocade, particularly as recent head-to-head battles between Cisco and Brocade have not gone in Brocade's favor.
Tough Times Likely To Continue A Bit Longer
Consistent with what storage companies like IBM (NYSE:IBM), EMC, Dell (Nasdaq:DELL), and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) have been saying recently (not to mention networking companies like Juniper), the near-term outlook is not very good at Brocade. Against an average Wall Street estimate of $556 million for the July quarter, the midpoint of management's guidance falls at $520 million. That sort of revision (even in a weak market) is going to do nothing to change the minds of Brocade skeptics. I also do wonder how much Cisco may impact Brocade in the near-term with its long-awaited 16G storage switching product.
Along similar lines, the apparent opportunities at Brocade have to be set against some real risks. The company has struggled in the ethernet switching business for so long now, and holds little overall market share. While a narrower focus on particular markets that could benefit from (and embrace) Brocade's technology could help, it's hard to be all that optimistic. Likewise, while Brocade through its hat into the software-defined networking (SDN) ring, it's tough to see them shoving aside the likes of Cisco and VMware (NYSE:VMware), particularly when Cisco can leverage its huge product line into bundled deals.
The Bottom Line
The saving grace to Brocade has long been the company's relative strength in storage networking and the rock-bottom expectations built into its valuation. Still, the long-term charts are pretty ugly, so those positives only go so far.
Projecting just 2% long-term revenue growth and 2% annual long-term free cash flow *contraction* points to a fair value in the $7 range, against a going price of about $5.50. It's not too often that you see a company where the stock seems to incorporate free cash flow contraction, but that's how poor the sentiment is here (while the trailing EV/EBITDA below 6x and trailing EV/revenue of nearly 1 also point to significant bearishness).
SEE: 5 Must-Have Metrics For Value Investors
Is Brocade a value or a value-trap? Absent a clearer presentation of the company's new long-term strategy, I'm leaning toward the latter. I do believe that Brocade has nearly been written off and that any real growth upside could ignite the shares, but I could also see a very frustrating (if not infinite) wait for that to occur.
At the time of writing, Stephen D. Simpson owned shares of EMC.


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National | Liberalism defeated, SBC messengers enjoy their harmony
DALLAS--If there is any doctrine that all Baptists would agree on, it's the priesthood of the individual believer. Pack 12,000 autonomous believer-priests into a single convention hall, and what do you get? A surprisingly peaceful meeting. The blood-letting in the Southern Baptist Convention ended in 1990, the last year that so-called moderates challenged for the presidency of America's largest Protestant denomination. This year's convention in Dallas-the SBC's 140th-was a virtual love feast for doctrinal orthodoxy and denominational unity. The 12,000 attendees who flocked to Dallas didn't come to fight but to celebrate-in a restrained Baptist fashion, of course. Not that the convention was entirely free of controversy. The vote to urge 15 million Southern Baptists to "refrain from patronizing" Disney (see sidebar) elicited outrage from both journalists and homosexual-rights groups. Filmmaker Steve Lipscomb called a press conference to express shock and outrage over the SBC's policies against ordaining women (and more immediately to promote his film on the travails of women in Southern Baptist seminaries), but fewer than a dozen reporters showed up. While Mr. Lipscomb tried to assure the media that "Jesus was a feminist" and that the SBC's Resolutions Committee is nothing but a Protestant version of the College of Cardinals, the walls of the room shook as 12,000 people in the adjoining convention hall sang "How Great Thou Art." The symbolism was apt: Liberal voices within the SBC are being drowned out by newly confident conservatives who see worship and watchfulness as inextricably linked. That watchfulness was evidenced by the 56 resolutions submitted for consideration by the convention. One of those, a five-paragraph Resolution on Bible Translation, passed on the final morning of the convention without a single dissenting comment. The resolution urged all publishers to "continue to use time-honored, historic principles of biblical translation and refrain from any deviation to seek to accommodate contemporary cultural pressures" including, among other things, "so-called gender inclusive language." The only comment on the resolution came from a Florida pastor who wanted to give it some teeth, urging an amendment requiring "the agencies, boards, and publications of the Southern Baptist Convention to refrain from using such translations." The amendment passed easily. Five minutes later, the importance of holding the SBC's far-flung agencies to a strict standard of biblical accuracy became evident. In a report from the American Bible Society, Fred Allen noted with pride that the agency is currently recording the New Testament on cassette in an effort to reach inner-city youths, in particular. The translation being committed to tape is the Contemporary English Version, Thomas Nelson's gender-inclusive effort. The convention contributed $268,000 to this and other projects of the American Bible Society last year. But for all their significance, such resolutions aren't really the focus of the convention nowadays. "The whole convention is like a revival service," says Glynn Little, a Houston pastor who has been attending national conventions since 1971. "There's not a divisive spirit like there was before." Mr. Little recognizes that the lack of divisiveness results from a lack of liberals, who are scarce in Dallas. "[The liberals] pulled out when they lost by their rules. We won fair and square," he says as he unpacks a cooler for lunch on the nearly abandoned convention floor. He doesn't miss the liberals (or moderates as they prefer to be called), but he does think they've made a mistake by staying home. "As long as they were in leadership, we followed them. We came, voted our convictions, and left, a lot of times knowing that we'd lost. But we kept coming." Now that the battles are over, Mr. Little and others like him keep coming-but not primarily to vote on things like Disney boycotts and biblical translation. Carl Simmons, a pastor from Knoxville, Tenn., believes "most of the guys come for the fellowship and the preaching. We enjoy getting to see our preacher buddies that we haven't seen since school." Indeed, the convention often looks like a seminary reunion on a grand scale. Messengers frequently greet each other not by shaking hands, but by hugging. ("Let me hug your neck" seems to be the Southern equivalent of the more distant "How've you been?") Most pastors come with their wives, who may or may not be voting messengers, and many also bring children. In the dining room overlooking downtown Dallas, they gather at long tables with gingham-checked plastic tablecloths to swap stories and compare notes. Such unanimity of opinion is almost inconceivable to old-timers who remember the rowdy conventions of the 1970s and '80s. Perhaps no one is enjoying the peace more than Paul Pressler, a retired state judge from Houston who did as much as anyone to open the can of doctrinal worms that eventually led to the conservative takeover. Mr. Pressler dates his activism to the mid-1970s, when he realized that the same kind of liberalism he had encountered as a student at Princeton was being taught at Baylor, the Baptists' flagship university. "Our own young people were being hurt very badly by our Baptist colleges," he recalls. After examining the textbooks used by five of his students at Baylor, "I promised the Lord that I wouldn't wait any longer to get involved." The key to success, Mr. Pressler believes, was the SBC's unique ecclesiology. No church, regardless of its size, may send more than 10 messengers to the national convention. This meant that a small-town church with 200 members could have as much voting clout as a big-city church of 5,000. Mr. Pressler realized that if he could mobilize these smaller, more conservative churches, he could easily muster the votes to oust the liberal elites who controlled the denomination. "The premise that I started on in 1978 was that 95 percent of Southern Baptist people were Bible-believing conservatives. I still hold to that. The trouble was that the 5 percent were running the convention." To wake the slumbering giant, Mr. Pressler turned to his opponents' own writings. "We didn't stand up and say 'So and so is a liberal.' We stood up and said, 'So and so said this. Is this what you want taught in your colleges?' They couldn't say we were attacking them; we were just reading what they had published." The tactic worked. Twenty years after realizing that Baptist higher education had succumbed to liberalism, Paul Pressler watched from the convention floor as the presidents of the SBC's six seminaries signed a first-ever covenant with the denomination to maintain "theological integrity and biblical fidelity." Specifically, each president affirmed his school's commitment to "the authority, inspiration, inerrancy, and infallibility of the Bible." It was the defining moment of the 140th convention, and a moment that Mr. Pressler hopes will continue to define the denomination for at least a generation. "All six of our seminary presidents are now solid conservatives. Almost all of our faculty are solidly conservative. They will educate our young people coming out of school as to what the problem was and why not to repeat it. So I feel very good about the future." If all the neck-hugging after the signing ceremony is any indication, 12,000 people here in Dallas agree. Liberal Baptists can still claim to be priests, but the conservatives have effectively barred them from the temple.


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I know what I said before the season started in previous post's.
And it was that we should see Rossi win a few races this year, however we did'nt see the domination coming from Honda, so now unless we see some big improvements from Ducati & rossi can get himself dialed into the bike we may not see it.


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Blue Cheese Burgers Recipe
Instead of topping your burgers with the usual cheddar or Swiss cheeses, stuff them with blue cheese. We've been serving these for many years.
- 1 pound ground beef
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 ounces crumbled blue cheese
- 2 hamburger buns, split and toasted
- 2 slices red onion
- Tomato slices and lettuce leaves, optional
- 1. Shape beef into four thin patties. Grill, covered, over medium heat for 3 minutes on each side or until meat is no longer pink. Season with salt and pepper.
- 2. Press blue cheese into the center of two patties; top with remaining patties. Serve on buns with onion, tomato and lettuce if desired. Yield: 2 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving (1 each) equals 580 calories, 31 g fat (15 g saturated fat), 132 mg cholesterol, 786 mg sodium, 23 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 50 g protein.
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Time's Arrow
Johan Kromrich
Zealous Templar
A massive, crew-cut, square-jawed man with a non-nonsense air about him.
Johann Kromrich is a Templar, member of the Cabal of Pure Thought and knight of Peter Culliford. He was based at an unknown German Preceptory. Along with his colleague Dieter von Hinkel, Kromrich pursued Jean-Baptiste de la Croix in search of the Turases Papyri. He tracked him to Salzburg, where he burned Giacomo of Brindisium's house to the ground.
Following this, Kromrich and von Hinkel came to Constantinople chasing rumours of corruption in templar ranks and in the Cabal of Pure Thought. Mahmoulian von Hildesheim ordered Caldric Tytalus to subtly direct their attention away from himself towards other targets. They recruited Jacopo d'Anjou to their cause.
Despite their best attempts, Kromrich and von Hinkel were initially unable to directly locate any supernatural activity in the city, despite evidence of it being everywhere. Tytalus deftly deflected them from a number of potential successes, always keeping them one step behind their quarry.


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Sept. 4, 2009
Utah won its 15th-straight game. The streak currently leads the nation.
Utah won its 12th-straight game against Utah State. The two schools will take a two-year hiatus after this season.
Attendance was 45,333, the ninth-largest crowd in school history and the largest for a Utah-Utah State game.
Six Utah players made their first career starts - Terrance Cain, David Reed, Aiona Key, Walter Watts, Brandon Burton and Kepa Gaison.
David Reed totaled a career-high 172 yards on 10 catches in the game. Utah has not had a player with more than 170 receiving yards in a game since Travis LaTendresse in 2005 (he had two games of over 190 yards receiving that year). Reed's previous career high was 87 yards, done against San Diego State in 2008.
Reed had 98 yards on four catches in the first quarter, and 111 yards on five catches in the first half.
Reed caught a 65-yard pass from Terrance Cain for Utah's first touchdown of the game. The play was Cain's career-long pass and Reed's career-long catch.
Cain made his first start at quarterback for Utah. He was 6-for-6 with 133 yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter. He went 7-for-7 before his first incomplete pass.
Cain was 11-for-15 for 198 yards and one interception in first half. He finished 20-for-30 for 286 yards, two touchdowns and one pick.
Asiata's 36 carries ties for fourth-most in a game by a Ute, equaling Carl Monroe and Brandon Warfield.
John Peel caught his first career touchdown in the first quarter, a 22-yard pass from Terrance Cain.
Peel recorded career highs in catches (4) and yards (58). He also had a career-long 23-yard reception.
Luke Matthews recorded his first career punt return for Utah, a 38-yard return in the first quarter. He finished with two returns for 39 yards.
Matt Martinez blocked his first career punt in the second quarter, which went out of the back of the end zone for a safety. Utah last had a safety against Air Force in 2008. The Utes then recorded a second safety in the fourth quarter with a sack in the endzone.
Ben Vroman made his first career field goal in his first attempt, a 44 yard field goal. He was 4-for-4 in PAT's. Vroman also totaled three touchbacks on kickoffs.
Sean Sellwood made his first career punt for Utah in the third quarter. He averaged 46.8 yards on 4 punts.
Utah held Utah State to 16 yards passing in the second quarter and 20 yards passing in the third quarter.
Utah's defense had six pass breakups. Christian Cox tallied three breakups.
Justin Jones made his second career interception in the fourth quarter. He also had a pick against Wyoming in 2007.
Stevenson Sylvester led the defense with nine tackles. Joe Dale had a team-high 2.5 tackles for loss.


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Why didn't Byrne go out in Q2 ? Or did he and crashed ?(or the bike blew up more likely - piece of cr4p) His Q1 time was 1.50.512 and his recorded Q2 time was 1.50.512.
Looks to me like he didn't go out ?


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Linkin Park have been added to Hollywood's Rock Walk.
Singer Chester Bennington and his bandmates placed their hands in cement outside the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Benington told fans at the ceremony that he was looking forward to bringing his children back to his slice of Hollywood real estate, stating, "I definitely think it would be fun to bring my kids down and show them this kind of thing, because it's an interesting thing that not everybody gets to be a part of and it's fun for them to see me in a different way."
He added, "For me in particular this spot in L.A., this strip, really means a lot to me personally. It was the very first place I met these guys (bandmates), it was the place I sat outside of Zomba music publishing at eight o'clock in the morning, because I thought that's when businesses open."
The Grammy Award-winning group joins the likes of Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith and KISS among the acts who have been inducted into the Rock Walk.


text: organic Harvest Blog: Certified Organic Food Sector Growing By Peter Gray • Mar 20, 2014 ams.usda.gov The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday announced new data on certified organic food, showing the industry grew just over four percent in 2013, with a record breaking 18,513 farms and businesses in the United States. Certified organic food has seen a 245 percent increase since 2002, according to the Agricultural Marketing Service's National Organic Program. Last year the federal government certified 763 producers. The following is from USDA: Aisle of Opportunity: Consumers will gain options as superstores enter the organic food market By Bethany Carson • Jul 1, 2006 Grocery aisles offer something for everyone these days: low-sodium soup for adults with high blood pressure, gluten-free pasta for children with wheat allergies and "Certified Humane Raised and Handled" meats for animal lovers of all ages. Editor's Notebook: It's dinner time. Do you know where your food came from? By Peggy Boyer Long • Jul 1, 2006 WUIS/Illinois Issues My grandmother could kill half a dozen chickens in a matter of minutes. Bessie Revelle Dragoo had the strong arms of an Illinois farm woman, the ample waist of a good cook and the unsentimental manner that comes from being an old hand at getting the main course to the table. She could grab a hen by the head with one hand, swing the bird aloft in a wide arc, slam it onto a stump and bring an ax down with the other hand.


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vPolitical scientists supporting the moderation thesis argue that democratic regimes which incorporate exclusivist parties (including those which claim to represent a religious group) in electoral games usually transform them into more moderate political actors. First, when an exclusivist party contests elections, it is bound to dilute its ideology to attract voters outside its core constituency. Second, an exclusivist party generally emerges from an ideological movement displaying a deep sense of doctrinal purity, but it gradually emancipates itself from this matrix. Third, in their quest for power in a democratic arena, exclusivist parties are more likely to form coalitions with parties which do not share their views.
This theory applies to the Hindutva forces up to a point. In the 1960s and 70s, the Jana Sangh diluted its all-Hindi policy in order to attract voters beyond north India. It even accepted the redrawing of the Indian map according to the linguistic criterion, in spite of the fact that the RSS had originally wanted to abolish linguistic states because of their dangerous potential for secession (The Organiser, January 24, 1956). Simultaneously, the Jana Sangh developed a new interest in socio-economic issues in order to speak to the common man a formula that party president Atal Bihari Vajpayee used systematically in the early 1970s.
But the Jana Sangh continued to mobilise voters by deploying Hindu symbols, as evident from the anti-cow slaughter movement of 1966-67, intended to help the party in the 1967 elections. The party joined hands with the VHP and thousands of demonstrators gathered around Parliament to persuade the MPs to pass a law prohibiting cow slaughter. As determined activists stormed Parliament, the police intervened and killed eight of them, who then became the martyrs of the cause.
The BJP repeated the same strategy during the Ayodhya agitation of the late-1980s and early-1990s, with the pre-election Ram Shila movement of 1989 and L.K. Advanis Rath Yatra in 1990. This agitation, which had been unleashed, once again in conjunction with the VHP, resulted in an unprecedented number of communal riots across the country. It polarised Indian society along religious lines and consolidated the Hindu vote, which Balasaheb Deoras, RSS chief from 1973-94, had decided to promote in 1979, after the split in the Janata Party and the formation of the BJP. Deoras had then declared: Hindus must now awaken themselves to such an extent that even from the elections point of view the