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Dual Digital BTSC Encoder with Integrated DAC
Replacement Parts
Rochester Electronics is the only authorized source of Analog Devices' products that have previously been discontinued or have become obsolete. Product availability should be checked directly with Rochester Electronics.
Key Specifications
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The AD71028 dual digital BTSC encoder provides two complete digital BTSC encoder channels, including the pilot-tone generation and subcarrier mixing functions. Two built-in high performance DACs are provided to output the BTSC baseband composite signal. The output of the AD71028 can be connected with minimal external circuitry to the input of a 4.5 MHz aural FM modulator.
In addition to the BTSC encoders, the AD71028 also includes a stereo image enhancement function, Phat Stereo, to increase the sense of spaciousness available from closely spaced TV loudspeakers. A dialog enhancement algorithm is also included to solve the problem of playing wide dynamic range sources over limited-performance TV speakers and amplifiers. An extensive SPI port allows click-free parameter updates. The AD71028 also includes ADI's patented multibit Σ-Δ DAC architecture. This architecture provides 92 dB SNR and THD+N of -92 dB.


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A successful area round of playoff action for girls basketball teams in the Pronews 7 viewing area. The ball is still bouncing for a host of the squads as they head to regional quarterfinal action. Here's a look
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Where it all began
by Toby Shea
A lot of people ask how I got into real BBQ, and the simple answer is by accident. We had our kitchen ripped out about 7 years ago and I needed a way to cook for the family. It was September so the BBQ season was coming to a close, I had always been one of the "New BBQ every year" person up until then.
Killing time in a DIY store I noticed a Brinkman Smoke and Grill reduced to £100. It had the capacity to cook for everyone and more so took "another BBQ" (to quote the wife) home.
The Brinkman was barrel shaped and I soon realised that if I put the coals to one side and the food on the other I could cook an entire meal with minimal effort.
Like a lot of people we love entertaining and I realised the added benefit of this style of BBQ was, cooking over several hours, a joint of meat with sweet corn and potatoes I could actually socialise when guests arrived rather than standing over the BBQ flipping burgers and sausages.
The food always went down well and I decided to enter the British BBQ Championships in ilminster to see whether my food would hold up in a competition. Out of four categories I won the Pork, the Brisket and came second in chicken, I don't talk about the dire ribs which is why I ended up as reserve grand champion.
As there was not a regular competition circuit in the UK I decided to withdraw from competition and set up the British BBQ Society. This has become a great social circuit, we currently compete twice a year and get together for social weekends throughout the year.
We are currently looking for a hotel with central courtyard so that we can get together for Christmas cook the meal and have a bit of a party.
The British BBQ Society prides itself in being a social, family orientated group of people, everyone is welcome and hints and tips are always shared.
This year we have teams competing and the American Royal BBQ Competition in Kansas City and the Jack Daniels Invitational in Lynchburg Tennessee. We wish them all the best.
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He'll play a hipster who works the hotel owner's last nerve, according to a report.
He'll play a hipster who works the hotel owner's last nerve, according to a report.
Broadway fans just got their first look at Darren Criss in his upcoming role as the lead in 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'!
Glee took its final bow on Friday night (March 20) with a two-hour series finale that not only felt like a sweet ending to a six-year chapter of television but also left everyone, including the cast, in tears by the end. And as we were reaching for the tissue box and live tweeting the event, some of the show's stars did the same and share their memories during the last episode's broadcast.
The cast of Glee has been all over the place. Whether it's making their press rounds to attending awards shows, the TV series' stars have been busy. And their latest stop? PaleyFest Los Angeles 2015.
'Glee may have finished filming the final season of the show a few days ago. However, some of the show's stars reunited for a special performance at the Family Equality Council's 2015 Los Angeles Awards on Saturday night (Feb. 28).
Darren Criss will be returning to Broadway to play Hedwig Robinson in the revival of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch.'
Anyone who has ever felt the pain of being in a long-distance relationship will probably bawl their eyes out while watching the music video for A Great Big World's 'Already Home.' The moving video centers on two bi-coastal lovers, played by 'Glee's' Darren Criss and former 'Gossip Girl' star Jessica Szohr, as they go about their days, participating in the same activities as each other in order to feel close despite the distance...
Demi Lovato and 'Glee' star Darren Criss collaborated on a duet of 'Skyscraper' for We Day 2013 -- and it was beautiful!
Cory Monteith's death is beyond fresh in the minds of his 'Glee' castmates, who've been paying tribute to him in different ways. Darren Criss, who plays Blaine on the show, memorialized Monteith by wearing a black ribbon pinned to his gray suit at the premiere of his film 'Girl Most Likely' in NYC on July 15.
'Glee' hunk Darren Criss aka Blaine is going on his first solo tour, dubbed Listen Up. The tour is comprised of 16 dates, which Criss says will take him "all over the place" in the announcement video above.


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This weekend's "We Are What We Are," an English-language remake we liked almost as much as the original, deals with a family that has a certain taste that's frowned upon in most polite circles. Simply put: they're cannibals. And cannibalism, in the long and colorful line of cinematic taboos, is certainly one of the more outrageous. But it can also provide the backdrop for seriously twisted, enjoyable, over-the-top films with the ability to scare and make you laugh, sometimes all at once. And with "We Are What We Are" on its way to theaters, it got us thinking about the best movies in which people don't just need people, they eat people.
We decided, in whittling down the surprisingly long and varied list of movies that deal with cannibalism, to focus on the movies in which cannibalism is one of the film's main concerns, instead of a weird flourish or plot thread. This is a list of movies where the act of consuming another person's flesh is mainly what the movie is about. (And no, vampires don't count; that's blood, not flesh.) We also tried to steer away from the mainstream, looking at more of the oddities of the field, instead of the tried and true obvious choices. So sit back, relax, clear your plate, and enjoy our list of the ten best cannibal films. They're lip-smackingly good.
"Cannibal Holocaust" (1980)
In spite of its grindhouse reputation, Ruggero Deodato's horror masterpiece was, in fact, one of the most influential films ever made. The first half depicts the usual group (of poorly dubbed) ugly Americans/westerners, this time documentary filmmakers, who condescendingly fool around with the primitive locals while shooting indifferent indigenous footage. There's no tip-toeing around the fact that these people are disgusting, and after they gang-rape a villager, it's hard to not hope for the title to come true. And it certainly comes true, but in a way most unexpected, as the crew doesn't make it back to the States, but the footage does. There are several implicit jokes in having the executives settle into a cozy room to watch what was brought back from the jungles, as if they're being dared to find a moment to finally declare what is essentially snuff unairable. Watching people watch the footage, which comprises nearly the entirety of the second half of the movie, complicates the issue of morality: we're watching the reactions to this atrocity through the reactions of first world citizens, allowing the audience to implicitly judge the misplacement of audiences' sympathies by casting a mirror onto the viewer. It's not at all an easy viewing, but within "Cannibal Holocaust" there is the germ of every single found footage movie that currently populates mainstream horror filmmaking, from the shock of seeing violence through multiple lenses, to the uneasy audience commentary that allows viewers an eerie, forced introspection.
"Cannibal: The Musical!" (1993)
Before "South Park," Trey Parker and Matt Stone made a name for themselves with this twisted musical, one that provides a gleefully anarchic retelling of the legend of famous cannibal Alfred Packer. The duo, who also star in this ramshackle low budget effort later purchased by Troma, don't skimp on detailing the many ways the homicidal Packer gorged on his innocent victims. And that famous Parker-Stone sensibility is here as well. Both "Team America: World Police" and "South Park" featured moments that comment on their own cheapness, and so too does this film, which likely comes from the skimpy chump change they had to make a period-specific film with a minimal cast and crew. The self-referential attitude carries on to the casting of Japanese actors as Native Americans, a shortcut repurposed to serve as political commentary. But where "Cannibal: The Musical!" shines is through the lyrics and melodies of the film's songs, which boast distinctly hummable tunes that foreshadowed Parker and Stone's reputation as naughty transgressors who knew their way through a toe-tapper or two. Everyone who sees "Cannibal!" comes away with a different favorite tune, from the madcap "Let's Build A Snowman" to the call-and-response of "That's All We're Askin' For"—Parker and Stone would become so fond of "Shpadoinkle" that the opening bars became the soundtrack to their company logo.
"Ravenous" (1999)
"Eat to live," opines Robert Carlyle, quoting Benjamin Franklin, "Don't live to eat." Those words prove to have a cruel irony in Antonia Bird's peculiar western saga, one that connects the dots between the tragedy of the Donner Party and the recklessness of the country's embrace of Manifest Destiny. Guy Pearce plays a coward soldier who somehow survives a massive battle by hiding, and ends up tagging along on a mission to explore uncharted areas of the west. His meekness soon attracts the mysterious Carlyle, possibly a flesh-eating survivor of the Donner Party who has managed to reawaken the spirit of the ancient wendigo beast by dining on human flesh. "Ravenous" was mis-marketed as some savagely violent action western when it fact it's something of a genre-mixed comedy, one that features arch performances from a supporting cast that includes Jeffrey Jones, Jeremy Davies and Neal McDonough, all of them collectively raising their eyebrows with the material, not at it. "Ravenous" was apparently tinkered with heavily in post-production, though the finished result is great fun, featuring a punchy period score by Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman and the sort of irreverent spirit that comes from a pre-millennial western genre piece starring actors from "L.A. Confidential" and "Trainspotting."


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The Greenville City Council is meeting tonight to discuss the search for a new city manager, a new police chief and a new public works director.
Public Works director Wes Anderson announced his resignation Friday. Police Chief William Anderson and City Manager Wayne Bowers had announced their resignations in the previous weeks.
Greenville City Council members will meet with a representative from the North Carolina League of Municipalities tonight.
According to officials, the purpose of the meeting is how to move forward with the search to fill these three positions, as the city manager is responsible for hiring the police chief and the public works director and managing them.
WITN will be at the meeting and provide updates here on witn.com and on WITN News at 11 p.m.
A source confirmed for WITN that Wes Anderson has resigned as director of Greenville's public works department.
A release indicates his last day is February 24. He has been with the city since 2007.
Greenville's public works department has come under fire in recent months as sanitation workers staged a one-day strike and submitted complaints about working conditions.
Anderson is the third high-ranking Greenville official to step down this month. Greenville police chief William Anderson announced his resignation, and Greenville City Manager Wayne Bowers announced his retirement.
According to a news release from Calvin Mercer, Greenville city council members will meet with a representative from the North Carolina League of Municipalities on Monday. According to Mercer, the purpose of that meeting is how to move forward with the search to fill these three positions, as the city manager is responsible for hiring the police chief and the public works director and managing them.
Mercer stated he was sorry to report Anderson's resignation.
"Mr. Anderson is a seasoned professional whose department played a big role in the city's effective handling of Hurricane Irene last year," said Mercer's release.
Below is a press release from the City of Greenville about Anderson's departure:
"Greenville Public Works Director Wes Anderson has submitted his resignation to City Manager Wayne Bowers. In order to allow for a smooth transition, Anderson's last day will be Friday, February 24, 2012. The City Manager intends to announce management plans for the Public Works Department next week.
City Manager Wayne Bowers said, "Wes is a seasoned Public Works veteran whose skills and experience will be missed. He has been a dedicated and hard-working department leader. As an example, he performed outstanding service directing the City's recovery from Hurricane Irene last fall."
Public Works Department encompasses Street Maintenance, Sanitation and Recycling, Traffic control (signals and signs), Buildings and Grounds for City facilities, Engineering, Building Inspections, Stormwater, City cemeteries, and Public Transit (the GREAT bus system). During his tenure with the City, Anderson has also been responsible for overseeing numerous capital projects.
Anderson came to the City in 2007 from a similar post in the Village of Lombard, Illinois after his retirement from the Army."


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Fruit-based salsas, sauces offer refreshing options for the grill
There's nothing forbidden about fruit when it comes to spicy summer grilling.
Think rich chutneys, tangy citrus marinades, berry-sweet barbecue sauces and colorful fruit salsas, all kicked up with the heat of chiles, served with your favorite grilled fare.
"Sweet with the heat," is the phrase coined by culinary experts who say summer's the season to add a fruity touch to grilled fish, chicken or pork -- or even a burger.
"In the summer, a lot of people enjoy this sort of lightness to their food," said Tom Budinger, a teacher at Sur la Table, a kitchen supply store and cooking school in Carlsbad. "A lot of fruits are in season. It's a good way to go."
In fact, switching to a mango- or raspberry-based topping for grilled fare is not all that different from using ketchup or regular barbecue sauce, he said. Tomatoes are, after all, members of the fruit family.
Once reserved for fine dining and innovative gourmet cooking, the fusion of fruit and barbecue has become increasingly popular. More and more grocery stores are jumping on the trend, offering customers choices ranging from gourmet jars of raspberry chipotle toppers and the classic lemon pepper marinade to house-brand peach and pineapple salsas.
Among Budinger's top choices for grilled meats are a fruit salsa with mango, pineapple and papaya, spiked with minced jalapeno, and an apple chutney that gets its punch from red pepper flakes. For those who want something smoother, he often serves up a sweet coulis -- a pureed fruit- or veggie-based sauce -- as a topping to chicken, fish or pork.
He said poultry, lighter meats and fish make the best partners for fruit sauces and salsas. Beef, however, works well with cherries, he added.
An experienced chef who teaches grilling classes each summer, Budinger said not all of his fruit-based creations come with the hot stuff. But for those who enjoy a little extra kick, combining fruit with heat is a worthwhile detour from the common tomato-based barbecue sauces often doused over grilled chicken, he said.
Budinger advised topping meats and poultry with fruit-based additions after the food has been grilled so flavors and textures don't get lost in the smoke. Plus, putting anything with sugar -- even the natural kind found in fruit -- on a grill will guarantee a crispy, charred mess before the meat is cooked, he added.
Besides the salsas and sauces, fruit-based barbecue sauces are a popular grilling option. They also can be prepared by the cook in advance or purchased ready-made at many natural food stores and specialty shops.
Russ Bruhn, creator of Carlsbad Gourmet, sells products made from locally picked strawberries. This time of year, he said, his barbecue sauces and hot sauces are big sellers because they combine two summer must-haves: in-season fruit and barbecue.
Bruhn said he breaks the rules when he tops classic lettuce, tomato and onion-dressed burgers with his award-winning strawberry hot sauce in lieu of ketchup.
"Right at the beginning it tastes like strawberries, and then the heat from the chiles take over," he said. "I like that on burgers."
If strawberry isn't exotic enough for you, other outlets sell similar products. Michigan-based American Spoon Foods offers barbecue sauces in such combinations as mango with curry spice and chile with lime. The New England-based Lollipop Tree, www.lollipoptree.com, sells grilling sauces and glazes that offer the sweetness of apple with the punch of chipotle chiles, or the tanginess of tangerine with the eye-watering flavor of wasabi.
As with any barbecue sauce, when it comes to using fruit-based sauces, it's best to brush them on in the last five minutes or so of grilling, since the sugars in the fruit will caramelize under the grill's heat, leaving behind a charred piece of meat that might not be fully cooked.


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Model Adirondack Guideboat
and Display Case
Boathouse Woodworks is pleased to offer this 26-inch accurate scale model Adirondack
guideboat from David Kavner of Pisces Paddles. Each model guideboat is many weeks in the
making, utilizing the same time-honored materials and methods that Jim Cameron uses in
building Boathouse Woodworks' full-sized traditional guideboats.
Each signed and numbered model guideboat has caned seats, a pair of working oars, a
paddle, and a tiny carrying yoke. Also included are the mahogany and glass custom-designed
case with solid Cherry resting cradle and base.
The identifying brass plaque can be personalized to your request. Please phone (518) 327-3470
for delivery date.
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Hand-Crafted Traditional Adirondack Guideboats
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Not only generating private keys using an untrusted third-party, but sending them in the clear over http? Nice. I wonder where all these people are who are clever enough to need an SSH key, but too stupid to type ssh-keygen -t dsa?
I wouldn't be surprised if this was some minor social engineering attempt; the server owner has access to the IPs as well as SSH keys, so it would be simple for h(im|er) to attack that IP by trying to log in with the SSH key he generated from it.
Next up: enter all your personal information to create 1 unique hash to identify yourself anywhere in the world.
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National Security interests in the Internet Infrastructure
- From: Neil <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 18:56:32 -0400
I'm trying to write a paper on possible National Security interests in
the internet infrastructure. I know that's a little vague, but anything
you have that might be interesting/remotely relevant to that topic would
be a great help.
Examples might be:
- Any technological weaknesses in the current system that a nation-state
or hostile organization might try to exploit.
- How hostile elements are currently making use of the internet to
communicate (terrorists?).
Anything you have would be a great help. Official-ish documents
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In our August issue, retired Marine Corps Major General Matthew Caulfield told us about a program started by the Corps to find jobs for transitioning Marines. This month, Dr. Nathan Ainspan, a civilian psychologist for the Army, expands on the importance of employment. He says that among veterans returning to civilian life, psychological injuries present more of a barrier than physical disabilities when it comes to finding work—usually because of unspoken fears and biases on the part of employers. But getting a job can be a key to treatment: studies show that employment can have almost the same effects as medication but without the negative side effects. Dr. Ainspan also provides valuable information on employment and educational resources available to wounded veterans.
Finally, Dr. Jaine Darwin focuses on the sometimes invisible victims of war: the families. As one of the founders of Strategic Outreach to Families of All Reservists, she believes that spouses and children of deployed reservists and National Guard members are an underserved population. Families living far from a large military installation may lack access to the available assistance programs. Family members can also sometimes feel a sense of isolation if they are the only ones in the community with a loved one overseas. Multiple deployments affect the resilience of many families in negative ways. Dr. Darwin outlines programs that can help these citizen soldiers reintegrate into their homes and society.
The Center for Naval Analyses caused quite a stir last year with its study "The Navy at a Tipping Point: Maritime Dominance at Stake?" In fact, longtime Proceedings contributors Captain George Galdorisi and Scott Truver analyzed the study in the October issue, choosing a "Two-Hub" Navy as its most viable strategic alternative. This month, Dr. Dan Whiteneck, one of the study's architects, teams with retired Navy Commander Bryan Clark, head of the Strategy Branch in the Naval Warfare Integration Group, to go a step further in sounding the alarm for the U.S. Navy to chart a sound course or lose its role in exerting global sea power in the future. Bolstering their analysis are four more sea power swamis—Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, Dr. Thomas Hone, retired Rear Admiral Michael McDevitt, and Captain Henry J. Hendrix—who paint a vivid picture of the future global strategic and economic landscape, and what the Navy can do to meet the formidable challenges ahead—without tipping. The options they present provide much to like—but also much to debate in light of the coming budget battles.


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Writer David Goyer is known for his work in comic book movies, specifically helping director Christopher Nolan come up with the story for his three Batman movies — Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises — as well as writing the script for the Nolan-produced, Zack Snyder-directed Man of Steel and the Ghost Rider sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Now he'll be tackling a different kind of comic book character: Godzilla.
First featured in the 1954 Godzilla, the character has been a fixture in Japanese comics (manga) ever since, eventually making his way to the United States with a 24 issue series from Marvel Comics that began in 1977, where the giant monster even faced off against several comic book heroes, including the Avengers and Spider-Man. It isn't likely that the latest movie adaptation will follow much of the characters comic book history, however.
In January, Legendary Pictures hired director Gareth Edwards (Monsters) to helm their adaptation of Godzilla, which had an initial draft from Dave Callaham (The Expendables). Deadline reports that Goyer will write a new draft of the screenplay.
Goyer certainly has experience creating franchises, but the character of Godzilla has had a difficult time translating to box office success in the U.S. Sony Pictures and TriStar tried to bring the creature to American audiences in 1998's Godzilla, but the movie wasn't successful enough (or watchable enough) to elicit sequels. Legendary has promised a "modern epic" that "we, as fans, would like to see."


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Dec 17
Spotlight Issue 11
Words of wonder from a forgotten figure
Simeon is not as well-known as the shepherds or the wise men, but he tells us far more about the meaning of Jesus' birth.
Whenever we think of the people who saw the Lord Jesus Christ as a newborn infant or as a young child, our minds instinctively turn to the shepherds and the wise men. Both feature in nativity scenes, on Christmas cards and in carols such as While shepherds watched their flocks by night and As with gladness men of old, and we are familiar with their stories.
The shepherds were local Jews, ordinary working men, attending to the needs of their flocks in the fields of Bethlehem when an angel appeared to them during the night and announced the birth of the Saviour, Christ the Lord. By way of contrast, the wise men were not Jews, not local, and not ordinary working men either. Intrigued by the appearance of a distinctive star in the sky, they travelled a considerable distance, convinced that this unusual stellar phenomenon signified the birth of a king.
Shepherds and wise men
By different means, these two very different groups of people, were led to the Saviour-King. Both the shepherds and the wise men went in great anticipation and expectation, and having seen the one to whom both the angel and the star had directed them, they returned with great joy and praise to God. The words they spoke during their visits are not recorded. The conversations that they doubtless had with Mary and Joseph are shrouded in mystery. All we are told about the words of the shepherds is that Mary pondered them in her heart. And all we know about the visit of the wise men is that they presented gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to Jesus.
Of all the people who saw Jesus as an infant, only one man's words are recorded. We don't know what the shepherds said; we don't know what the wise men said; and we don't even know what Mary and Joseph said. But we do know the words uttered by a frequently overlooked resident of Jerusalem when he saw the infant Jesus.
The Bible tells us that a man named Simeon had spent his life longing for and looking forward to the day when God would send the promised Saviour, and the Lord had shown him that he would fulfil his promise during Simeon's lifetime. Simeon would not die until he had seen the promised Christ in the flesh. True to his word, God made sure Simeon was in the temple when Mary and Joseph brought theirsix-week-old son to Jerusalem and made it plain to him that this child was the promised Saviour. The Bible tells us that Simeon took Jesus in his arms and praised God, saying: 'Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, According to your word; For my eyes have seen your salvation Which you have prepared before the face of all peoples, A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of your people Israel.' (Luke 2:29-32)
Seeing the Saviour
Imagine how Simeon must have felt to be holding in his arms the very infant through whom God was going to fulfil his promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and to all the Old Testament prophets! With his own eyes, he was gazing into the face of the Saviour himself – the one who was going to deal decisively with sin and restore men, women and children to a right relationship with God.
Simeon tells us that not only was Jesus born to be the climax of God's revelation to his chosen people, but he was born to bring a true understanding and knowledge of God to the Gentiles as well – to people who hadn't enjoyed the privileges that the Jews had known for two millennia.
One Saviour for all
The Lord Jesus Christ is the one Saviour for the whole world. He came to save both unenlightened Gentles like the wise men from the East, as well as faithful Jews like the shepherds of Bethlehem. But Simeon gave advance warning that Jesus would not receive universal acclaim. Even among the Jewish people, there would be conflict over him. 'This child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against,' Simeon declared. In remarkable words foreshadowing the bitter anguish that Mary would suffer as she witnessed her son die on the cross, Simeon forewarned her, 'a sword will pierce through your own soul also'. Thirty-three years later, as Mary saw Jesus die that cruel death, Simeon's words may well have reassured her that this was no mistake, but all part of God's plan.
Without Jesus' sacrificial death, none of us could ever be saved from our sins and put right with God. In order to save sinners and bring the light of the knowledge of God to every nation under heaven, Jesus needed to die and then to rise again. Simeon didn't know all the details, but he knew and rejoiced in the fact that the baby he held in his arms was the promised Saviour and the only Saviour – the Saviour that every one of us needs.
Norman Wells
Friday Clubs
Friday Club
Friday Club is for children in school years 3 to 6 (Junior school age) and is a mix of quizzes and competitions, games and crafts as well as a Bible-based talk. We meet in the back hall of Amyand Park Chapel from 6.15pm to 7.45pm every Friday evening during term time. It's a fun and friendly club where new children are always welcome!
Escape Club
Escape is a club for young people in school years 7 to 9 which runs during term-time. We meet at the Brunswick Centre in Twickenham between 6:30-8.00pm. Escape is an opportunity for young people to learn what the Bible says about their relationship with God, as well as a time of excitement and fun. Why not come along and join us? If you are looking for something to do on your Friday evenings we would love to have you with us.
Amyand Park Chapel runs fun, safe and well-organised clubs for children aged 5 and over. Activities are organised to suit each age group and can include games in local parks, swimming, bowling, skating and days out. The clubs also include a short talk either before or after the activity so that children can learn something about the Bible.
Friday Kids: Reception to Year 2 (5.00pm)
Friday Club: Year 3 to Year 6 (6.15pm)
These clubs are held at the chapel, Amyand Park Road, St. Margarets.
Escape: Year 7 to Year 9 (6.30pm) Held at the Brunswick Centre, Twickenham.
Friday Nighters: Year 10 to Year 12 (8.00pm) held at the chapel.
If you would like more information please speak to Paul Fountain on 020 8891 3938 or email email@example.com


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We stayed here for 3 nights while visiting family nearby. The staff was very friendly and accommodating to our needs. Mostly long term residents who are friendly and invited us to join them in their activities. Sites were level and wide enough to easily accommodate our big rig. We would stay here again. - Laura from Florida
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This Pseudo-RV campground is located at the Mt. Dora Renninger's Antique Market. They have 3 antique extravaganzas during the year as well as other special events. I am not sure if they offer RV sites during other events, but they do during the extravaganzas. The have electric hook-up and "Shared" water, which means you need to bring a splitter, but they do have some if you need or your neighbor might already have one in use. They have a campground manager who is not too bad at making sure that everyone finds their way to their site and fixes problems should they arise. Some of the sites are close, but they seem to have plenty of room in some of the other areas in the back. Most of the sites are shaded with large oak trees. There are no regular bathrooms in the RV area, but they did have trash cans and porta-potties. There is no sewage hook-ups but they do have a free dump station. The sites are close walking distance to the event grounds and was very nice to stay and go all three days to the antique extravaganza. When I made reservations they said that it was a three night minimum and since it was about $60 for Thursday, Friday & Saturday night and could stay in place until Sunday evening, I didn't mind the 3 day min..it is a good deal even if you only needed 2 nights. Again I don't know what other times of the year that they allow camping, but you can call the main office to find out. - MPD334
5802 Trimble Park Rd. Mount Dora, Florida 32757 (map) | (352) 383-1993
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A really special experience. Great walking trails, very much a nature park. Arrived without reservations but lucked out...a space.
Really nice trails for walking, wooden walkways through the park.....great place. Space was ample for even large motor homes, strictly back-in though; no pull through that I could see. Water and electric at site, dump station on the way out.
A rural small park that may not suit all, but was a nice change for us. Thoroughly enjoyed the stay. - Moose42
Aug 2015 - $23.00
Very small 15 site county park campground. Sites are all under dense tree cover and the park is very lush and beautiful. Many sites are right on the water, but none of them are far from the water. First come, first served site reservation. Water and 50 amp electric hookups with an on-site dump station. Site was level and well maintained. It's a county park, so you're dealing with park rangers, not RV park owners. I would definitely go back again, but I'll take more mosquito defense. - Tri14Multisport
Feb 2015 - $23.00
This is a small county park, but located between two lakes. We had to pay the no-discount price of $23 for not being seniors or county residents. It is a secure area with the park staff making rounds every hour, and coded keypad gates after hours. You can get 25 pieces of firewood for $10, a great deal. Most of the campsites have a waterfront view. The pads are concrete and flat. All sites have a patio with picnic table, BBQ grill, and fire pit with benches. The sites themselves have guardrails with reflective dots on the ends so you could even park at night. The bathhouse was clean and they even put up a rack of magazines and book exchange station. The shower stalls were clean. Pets are allowed here on a leash. The tall trees provide a lot of shade. We had no problem receiving Verizon LTE data coverage, which is a must for us to work online. This is a well-taken care of park and we loved it. The reservation system is to book your date of stay only, then it's first-come first-serve when you arrive, whatever site is available. We were able to take our pick arriving on Sunday after the weekend campers left. Check-out is comfortably at 2pm. We will definitely come back. - Sara C.
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Very tidy and well maintained RV park in Belen Eustis and the lovely Mount Dora. Extremely welcoming and friendly manager and owners too - who dropped off local newspapers daily to me (unasked) as they knew I was a 'Brit' looking to buy a home/business in the US. The only tiny criticisms I have are that the Wi-Fi is very weak even in the recreation room and camp office - and the access was never on in the recreation room although I expect it is during the snowbird season when the campground is close to full occupancy by travelers and snowbirds. Would definitely stay here again! - Leo Millward
May 2013 - $30.00
We have already said in January that we will come back. Now we are here-and it is even better than in January. Many snowbirds have left the area and it's wonderfully quiet here. What remains is the friendliness of the managers to us - have received a friendly welcome - as before. Finally, we have forgotten to mention that the entire campground is very clean and well maintained, as well as the the pool and shower rooms -and access to the lake. We will definitely come back in the winter. There is no beautiful and better place where everything is all around: nature, peace, shopping and the price. - usa
Jan 2013 - $30.00
In this RV park there are 95% of permanent residents, half are full timer. Very nice people. It's quiet. Trees provide shade. There is access to the lake. Canoe free. In the club house, there are various activities: bingo, card games, sometimes with live music, dance, and other entertainment. There are two computers with internet access. You can borrow books and videos. Wi-Fi on the plots without problems and free. Heated pool. Full hook up with other words, it is all there. Walmart and other big stores 2 miles. We have for a week paid the weekly rate of $ 30. The owner is very nice and totally helpful. One should inquire prior to arrival by phone, whether sites are available. We have already booked May again. - usa


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So my mother passed away before my children were born, but now the only person that was like my mother aka their grandmother was my grandmother they were VERY close with her and she just recently passed and im having a hard time figure out what to tell them. how do i explain it? im not very religious and i dont think they understand religion yet either for they are only 3 and 18 months come april. but i got my oldest asking to go to "moms" thats what he called her, and my youngest will get real naughty and through his "na nana na" fits, which means he wants to go see her, and i dont know how to get them to understand that unfortunately we cannot, its hard on me i wanna cry every time they do these things, but i need advice on what to say to them. thanks!
There is a good book, I think it is called "lifetimes". It is hard to talk to kids about this type of thing but I think simple explanations are best. I'm sorry for your loss.
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Are their any illegal cycling behaviors you engage in regularly which you believe make you safer than operating your bicycle within the strictures of your local laws? (Let's leave out behaviors that occur on the last Friday of the month, please. ;))
I'll start, I guess. I (carefully) filter up through stopped cars, jump or run reds and roll through stops b/c I believe I'm safer in front of same-direction traffic than behind, beside or amongst it. And we have a mandatory BL/"far to the right as practicable" law here in NYC that I flaunt regularly based on my specific needs as I ride. (Best example of this is the BL which starts just north of Canal on the left side of Hudson street which would require a swooping four lane right to left power merge across the main point of access to the Holland tunnel in order to transition from "as far to the right as practicable" south of Canal to mandatory BL use north of Canal.)
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Squeezed into a row of cafes at the top of Little Collins Street is this project by the Cafenatics crew to bring specialty coffee to the white-collar masses. The Veneziano house blend drips from a custom La Marzocco Mistral into a nice, chocolate-fruity espresso ($3) but goes nowhere near exhausting the caffeination possibilities here. A wall-sized blackboard lists cold-drip, filter and espresso choices from some of Melbourne's finest roasters, which might run all the way up to a $9 pourover of a Colombia Santuario Cup of Excellence #3. Food is the requisite sweet bites. Set-ups for cold-drip, filter and a custom La Marzocco Mistral are bringing specialty coffee to the masses at the business end of Little Collins Street. The beans come from all of Melbourne's best roasters. Naturally.
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Anyone Remember Columbia House?
Posted By Jim On 05/31/2007 @ 5:19 pm In Shopping | 12 Comments
I remember reading magazines and always seeing Columbia House and BMG advertisements all the time. All those offers for like 10 CDs for a penny each or 5 DVDs for a quarter each and I wondered, naively, how those companies made any of their money. Now, many many years older and quite a bit wiser, I quickly realized that the profit margins of many products that we see is significantly higher than what we would originally anticipate and that the whole instant gratification concept was roaring strong even back in the 80s.
Take for example, the standard offer from Columbia House these days (who is still around, much to my surprise). You get 5 DVDs for $0.49 each with free shipping with an obligation of 5 DVDs over the next two years. The DVDs at regular price are $19.95 a pop plus shipping and "processing." That puts the total price at $102.20 plus S&P, which makes the price around $10.22 a DVD plus shipping and handling. There are special offers and stuff but ultimately you're paying about twelve bucks I bet after all is said and done for each DVD at the minimum. How much do you think those DVDs cost Columbia House? Probably a few dollars at most considering you can get them at bargain basement Wal-Mart for a few bucks too and they have skinny profit margins.
The big thing here isn't so much how much they make, but how little they make it seem that you'll be spending. Five DVDs at $0.49 cents… you get five DVDs now with the obligation of only five more over the next two years. Does this sound like anything else? Yeah, it sounds like every other consumeristic thing out there getting you to obligate your money now for a great deal that turns into an average deal later on. Credit cards? Check. Payday loans? Check.
Considering Columbia House celebrated their 50th anniversay in 2005, I guess the whole instant gratification thing isn't an entirely new concept. (And BMG, the one with the 50 CDs for five duckets ads way back when, now actually owns Columbia House)
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IBM buys Vivisimo for Big Data analysis
Last week IBM (NYSE: IBM) bought enterprise search vendor Vivisimo, taking yet another independent search tool off the market. On its face at least, the purchase appeared to be about providing a search tool for IBM's Big Data product line.
In a statement, Arvind Krishna, general manager for Information Management at the IBM Software Group, left little doubt about the purpose of this purchase. "The winners in the era of big data will be those who unlock their information assets to drive innovation, make real-time decisions, and gain actionable insights to be more competitive," Krishna said.
Louis Tetu, CEO of Coveo, one of the few remaining independent search tools sees this deal as further validation of the importance of search tools in the age of Big Data.
"The ongoing string of acquisitions in this space shows just how important the marketplace views solutions that generate insight from the vast streams of structured and unstructured data stored in enterprises, in social media, and more and more often, in the cloud," he said.
He added, "Vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft, HP and IBM all see these solutions as critical to their ability to help organizations with big data."
But Tetu warns that too often these solutions tend to focus on the parent company's technology and he says (somewhat self-serving, for sure) that there remains a high value for technology-agnostic solutions.
Analyst Matt Mullen, who covers search for the Real Story Group isn't sure what IBM is trying to do with this purchase. He says, on the surface it appears to be about Big Data, but when you read the release carefully, there is something else.
"On the face of it, what IBM has done is acquire a nice bit of technology that has proven to be pretty good at federated search. This is in itself not really that big a news story, until you factor in the bracketing of this as being related to buzzword du jour: 'Big Data,'" Mullen said.
But Mullen later says he sees IBM using the technology to cull smaller data sets, which is a bit confusing.
"While I understand this process, it leads me to still have a couple of questions about this strategy; Isn't the point of Big Data that it purports to allow you to analyze data sets at a magnitude that wasn't previously possible? [Yet] Vivisimo is to be employed to build reduced data sets prior to Big Data analysis? Has IBM just invented 'Slightly Smaller (and maybe better quality) Data'?" Mullen asked.
And further, Mullen wonders why buy a straight search tool to deal with data analysis at all, when content analytics tools might be more appropriate.
While it seems like a good buy for IBM at first glance, there are many open questions here, not the least of which is how well IBM will be able to take this tool and make it work across the IBM family of solutions. But for better or worse, Vivisimo is now part of the IBM family and we'll have to see how well this works over the next year or so.
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- see the IBM press release
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The Angel's Wing Hiking Trail bordering Golden Gate Highlands National Park is a spectacular privately run trail for hikers wanting a little creature comfort in the Clarens area.
Two-day hiking options with a total hiking distance of 20 km leave from the cosy base camp called Ouma's Kraal. The trail follows the old paths of eland herds, through indigenous forest and awesome sandstone gorges areas with tinkling waterfalls and crystal clear pools, perfect for a swim.
Difficulty: Moderate
Distance: 20 km
The short routes around Kloof Dam form part of the Kloof Mountain Trail and are perfect for joggers and walkers with dogs. Nesting waterbirds can be seen around the dam and from spring into late summer the wildflowers are abundant. Pack a picnic and head from the dam to the Kloof, a shady pine forest and ravine where there a waterfall cascades during summer.
Start at either the Kloof gate in Hill Street or the tennis courts in Berg Street. The route contains 160 m of climbing until you reach a contour path overlooking the village. Alternative routes are indicated with arrows on the summit. Enjoy stunning views of Clarens, Mount Horeb and the Maluti Mountains in the distance.
Difficulty: Moderate
Distance: 4.5 km
Duration: 2.5 hours
The Leucosidea Trail is an easy 2 km hike via the Kloof Dam and along its streams and kloofs. Aim to do this walk is springtime when the wildflowers are prolific. The trail is named for Leucosidea sericea, the oldwood or cheche tree that are found on the mountain slopes and ravines around Clarens.
Duration: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Distance: 2 km
Start the Mallen Walk near the tennis courts in Berg Street and follow the signs and arrows. This moderate trail entails an ascent to a contour path with amazing views of Clarens and the distant Maloti and Red Mountains. You'll pass some intriguing rock formations and crags.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Difficulty: Moderate
Distance: 1 – 3 km
Time this walk for late afternoon to view the sunset over the magnificent mountains surrounding Clarens. The Maluti View Walk forms part of the Scilla Walking Trail. Start at the Hill Street farm gate and continue up the slope to your left. Pretty fynbos, lichen, ferns and interesting succulents line the footpath.
Duration: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Distance: 300 m
Start the Scilla Walk at the reservoir on Ridge Estate or at the T-junction on Hill Street and follow the signs. Aim to do this walk from late September to November when masses of blue Scilla flowers cover the sandstone cliffs. The mountain views are magnificent.
Duration: 1 hour
Difficulty: Moderate
Distance: 2.5 km
The Spruit Walking Trail is a quick and easy route along a stream and into a ravine. Along the way it passes through a patch of indigenous Oldwood forest and a small poplar and cedar plantation.
Duration: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Distance: 1 km
*Distances are shown as the crow flies and are not necessarily the actual travelling
Located in the Royal Natal National Park, the Devils Hoek Valley hiking trail takes you from the Tugela River car park, all along the Tugela Valley and then up the Devil's Hoek tributary. A fantastic hike that gradually elevates with amazing views.
Duration: 4 Hours;
Distance: 15 km;
Grade: E.
This trail comprises two day trails suitable for the fit and unfit. One is 11.2 km and the other 10.5 km, with an optional 2 km walk up Pyramid Mountain. There are overnight facilities for 24 people in an old farmhouse, with outbuildings that houses the ablution facilities, as well as a youth centre that can cater for groups of up to 150 people. There is also a campsite for 4x4 roof- or surface tents.
This 15 km hike starts on the Cathedral Peak route and then descends to the right down into the Nxwaye valley. It's a tough trail, with an ascent up the Ganabu Ridge and another descent down to Baboon Rock.
Duration: 6 hours
Difficulty: Tough
Distance: 15 km
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A working solution is quite simple (iOS 5 + ARC). Before the block declare:
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Kitchen Nightmares — Gordon Battles Chef Michel at Secret Garden
December 12, 2007 09:03 PM by Jennifer_Brown
If you think chef Gordon Ramsay comes off as a little arrogant from time to time, wait till you see Secret Garden's chef/owner, Michel. As his own waitress, Sammy, says, "He's French. That's his biggest problem. He's French." Well, from where we're standing, there are more problems than just that, and Gordon's about to walk headlong into them.
Sure, Michel's arrogant (or as his assistant chef, Devon, is apt to say, "…he's got an ego the size of France."), but he's also short-tempered and resistant. And not all too big on cleaning up his kitchen either. Oh, and did I mention he'sabout $300,000 in debt? Yikes! Sounds like a job meant for SuperChef Ramsay!
Gordon arrives and can't figure out how to even get into the restaurant. The doors are all locked. When he finally gets into one, there's nobody — and I mean nobody — in the dining room. Gordon has to go into the kitchen and find the staff in order to get any attention.
Right away he's not impressed. The decor is "funeral parlor," in his words (too cluttered and frilly and fancy-schmancy to the rest of us), and the food is not to Gordon's liking. He immediately goes to the kitchen for a face-off with Michel, where he rightawaygives us our…
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"Don't take this personally…I thought your food was crap."
Michel isn't interested in Chef Ramsay's opinion,to which Gordon assesses, "[Michel's] so far up his own **ah-ooga!!** he can't even breathe anymore."
So Gordon decides to beat Michel to work in the morning, to give the kitchen an inspection. What he finds is disgusting. Black, filthy oil traps, moldy rotten food sitting so long even the refrigerator itself has begun to mold. It's so bad even Gordon has to race to the restroom to vomit. When Michel arrives, he tries to tell Gordon that the fridge had just been organized the day before. Gordon doesn't believe Michel is serious about this change and doesn't believe Michel is honest. Michel tries to defend himself by saying he's worked with Thomas Keller and Gary Clauson, but Gordon doesn't believe for a minute that those guys would be thrilled with the moldy state of that fridge. Again, Gordon questions whether or not Michel really wants his help. Again, Michel's arrogance shines through, saying, "Yeah, I want help, but I want good help."
Later, Gordon further angers Michel when he boards up the restaurant and hangs signs all around that say "Foreclosure" and "Closed for Business." "I don't see anything constructive here," Michel complains. But Gordon's made his point.
Gordon hits the kitchen next and creates new menu items — some specials for Secret Garden. It's the weekend and the restaurant fills up. The specials are a hit, but unfortunately communication breaks down and the food backs up. Customers are angry and the wait staff is in tears. Finally, Jane, sick of catching all the yelling from both the customers in the dining room and Michel in the kitchen, walks out. Gordon blames the problem on communication, but still Michel defends, saying he sees nothing wrong with the communication in his restaurant.
Gordon's design team works over the restaurant — tossing all the china cups and lace doilies and making the place more modern and spacious. Everyone loves it…except Michel. The new menu is a hit with everyone, too…except Michel. "It's not The Secret Garden anymore," he complains.
But despite Miche's misgivings, the restaurant re-launches to a packed dining room, including local celebrities (Miss California) and dignitaries, and even a local food critic. Now the pressure's really on Michel and he doesn't like it. "If Gordon gets in my way I promise I'll make him suffer," he warns.
Bad news — the critic bursts into a fit of coughing when she gets her food. She says the tuna is overseasoned. Michel, of course, blames this on Gordon, and goes back to one of his old standbys that Gordon had eliminated from the menu.
Gordon sees this and has had enough. He shrugs off his chef uniform and dresses in street clothes and, after a good, old-fashioned, shouting brawl between him and Michel (and the rest of the restaurant…and everyone else in hearing distance), Gordon storms out of the restaurant. "I don't want him in my kitchen," Michel says, smugly.
After cooling off, however, Gordon returns and they manage to push out the dinner service (which is a success, although Michel won't believe it until he's heard it from every customer in the place).
After the dinner service, Michel gives Gordon an apology of sorts about his recalcitrance, and says he was wrong.He gives Jane a promotion to Manager, and says that, while he still hates Gordon, he's happy.
"If we can't be successful now then we're all idiots," Jane says.
Gordon says Michel learned the Cardinal Rule of the restaurant business: "You serve your customers, not yourself."
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Two schools of thought -- sometimes working in unison and sometimes at odds with each other -- have driven much of the environmental movement in the United States over the past 100+ years.
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University Convocation 2015
The University Convocation is the official welcome and start to the academic year. Some elements of convocation resemble commencement (graduation), which marks the culmination of education at the University of Idaho. In academia, the word "convocation" refers to a ceremonial assembly of the members of a college or university.
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Date: Friday, August 21, 2015
Time: 8:30 a.m.
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Lansing Township Police are searching for two suspects that robbed Babe's Party Depot.
It happened around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at the party store on Lake Lansing Road.
Two men walked in demanding money.
One of the suspects was wearing a bandanna over his face and had a handgun.
The clerk was hit with the gun but is going to be ok.
The two got away with an unknown amount of cash and other items.
A K9 unit attempted a track but lost the scent.
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- Location: multiple locations and online
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- Founded: 2008
- Headquarters: New York
About ARTBOOK ARTBOOK is a progressive small company run by and for people who know, love and believe in art books. Founded in 2008 by members of the internationally respected art book distributor, D.A.P., ARTBOOK sells books by the world's most important museum and independent art, photography, architecture and design publishers through the website ARTBOOK.com; at curated pop-up stores in museums, specialty retail outlets and other cultural venues; and in permanent locations such as MoMA PS1. ARTBOOK operates ARTBOOK @ Paper Chase, a West Coast trade showroom and event space on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles. And ARTBOOK also partners with cultural and creative institutions - such as the Guggenheim Museum, The Standard Culture Site, ArtTable and Metropolis Magazine - that wish to sell books on or through their own websites. ARTBOOK builds specialized libraries for private collectors, businesses and cultural institutions. And it publishes an eclectic, deeply affectionate Blog about a wide variety of extraordinary books on art and culture, past and present.
This store is a fantastic resource for arts-related coffee table books that come from the best museum and independent publishers, all in one place.
You may have seen the store's presence at MoMA or your favorite trade events, or perhaps you've come across some of the private institutional libraries that the organization has created for its clients. Check out the ARTBOOK Blog if you'd like to stay up-to-date on the latest releases and happenings associated with this tastemaking force in publishing.


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The vote will allow gay youth to join the Scouts, but will not allow gay adults to lead the troops. The decision was approved by more than 60 percent of the vote. The ban was lifted at the organization's headquarter in Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, during the group's annual meeting.
Approximately 1,400 members of the organization's national council voted on this decision. The Boy Scouts President, Wayne Perry, announced the decision a little after 5 p.m. Central Time.
The Boy Scouts of America—with over 2.6 million members—is one of the nation's largest youth groups and its decision was surrounded with intrigue by both supporters and critics of the lift. The 103-year-old-group was at the center of controversy due to its ban on homosexual members, and groups such as Scouts for Equality pushed for the Scouts to move towards a more inclusive approach.
While the ban's lift has received a great amount of praise and relief from many people, some felt that the decision didn't go far enough, and have vowed to continue fighting for greater equality within the organizations. Meanwhile, opponents of the lift viewed the decision as tragic and vowed to fight the inclusive policy.
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Minor League Games Start Today
As the descriptive headline clearly indicates, minor league spring training games start today. Today, the Lehigh Valley and Reading clubs will play at the Carpenter Complex in Clearwater, while the Clearwater and Lakewood clubs will make the 6.1 mile drive to Dunedin to play the Blue Jays squad.
We plan on having coverage of these games right here.
As Larry Shenk notes in Phillies Insider, there will be two games each day at the Carpenter Complex, either the AAA/AA combo or the A/A+ combo.
It appears this is the only game until Friday. This is the schedule that Lehigh Valley has for their games. For the most part, if Lehigh Valley is at Dunedin, then Lakewood will be at home to face the Blue Jays Low-A club. Obviously most of the games will be played against teams from the Blue Jays, Yankees, Tigers, and Pirates.
Jiwan James, a 2010 BlueClaw, is excited to get the games going.
Showing up to the field, under the lights!!! #GoodStuff! pic.twitter.com/MoHJSPOD
(Insert name of famous photographer here) he is not, but obviously these guys have been itching to face some real opponents, not future teammates, and that is certainly a good thing.
Good article here on 2010 BlueClaws manager (managed Jiwan James when he was here) Mark Parent, now the bench coach with the White Sox.
That bond — a friendship developed over the years at a number of charity golf tournaments — put Parent at the top of Ventura's list of needs when the White Sox came calling last winter after Ozzie Guillen resigned.
"Robin called and asked me if I thought he should take the White Sox job. I said 'Yeah.'" Then he says 'I'm not taking it unless you come with me.' I thought he was having fun with me. He said he was dead serious."
We'll have a new podcast later today and some cool stuff related to the upcoming 5-millionth fan milestone.


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Stan Shih Explores "Wangdaoist" Culture at CEIBS
June 05, 2012
June 5, 2012. Shanghai Campus – Mr. Stan Shih Chairman of iD SoftCapital Group, Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Acer Group, and Chairman of National Culture and Arts Foundation, today paid his first visit to CEIBS since joining the school's International Advisory Board (see related story). It was Mr. Shih's fourth visit to CEIBS, over the years, and he delivered a well-received lecture entitled "Promote 'Wangdaoist' Culture for Sustainability". His lecture was part of the popular CEIBS Executive Forum series.
Chairman of iD SoftCapital Group, Stan Shih speaking on "Wangdaoist" Culture
The evening event attracted an audience more than 200, including CEIBS faculty, MBA and EMBA students, alumni and staff, as well as members of the business community.
CEIBS Dean John Quelch delivering the welcome address
In delivering the welcome address, CEIBS Vice President and Dean John Quelch spoke of Mr. Shih's longstanding friendship with the school, dating back to the establishment of the Shanghai Campus. He also spoke of Mr. Shih's successful career at Acer – "Taiwan's first true, multi-national enterprise" – and the new venture he established after retiring from Acer Group in 2004, iD SoftCapital Group.
"How can we apply the Confucian idea of Wangdao, which was created by Mencius more than 2500 years ago, to use our ancestors' legacy to promote the sustainability of enterprises?" asked Mr. Shih as he began his lecture. He pointed out that every enterprise desires sustainability. Instilling Wangdaoism as part of the corporate culture, he said, would ensure prosperity and sustainability. The key, he said, was in getting all staff members to buy into the concept.
Providing specifics, Mr. Shih presented three key elements of Wangdao in terms of running a business: "value creation", "balance of interests" and "sustainable business". Six factors that need to be balanced in the search for value creation, he explained, include both the tangible and intangible, direct and indirect, the present and future. Turning his attention to the challenging act of balancing interests, Mr. Shih told the audience that social values are jointly created by all stakeholders and interests and its is a leader's job to find the right balance.
In the bid to illustrate his argument more forcefully, Mr. Shih shared his personal motto with the audience: "Challenge difficulties, break through bottlenecks and create value". His approach, he added has always been to avoid the "me too" approach. "I'm going to be different from others," he said, adding that this approach has served him well in breaking through bottlenecks that block the creation of value. Innovation, which comes from reverse thinking, he explained, was the key to overcoming bottlenecks.
Attentive audience
Mr. Shih then shared how his motto and approach had helped Acer become a success: the company had seized the opportunity of the second industrial revolution to break through traditional cultural bottlenecks. He also spoke about how Wangdao, which he defined as "an all-pervading unity", had been implemented at Acer. Employees benefitted from profit sharing and a stake ownership plan; an employment termination plan was implemented that cushions the blow of job loss by offering above-industry severance pay and a letter to employee's families expressing regret at the termination; a professional manager training programme to cultivate 100 CEOs; and more.
During his speech, Mr. Shih also explored the respective linkages between Wangdao and innovation, competition, branding, reform and globalization. The key, he stressed, is for both company executives and their employees to fully grasp the concept and then act on implementation.
Audience members posed challenging questions during the Q&A that followed. Topics included: Acer's globalization plan for the future and whether Apple's operational strategy is Wangdao or not. In responding, Mr. Shih said that the Wangdao concept will help Acer's global development and its ability to attract more international talent. In terms of Apple, he stressed that Wangdao is a dynamic activity, one which the company is currently implementing and one which he hopes it will continue to pursue.
Mr Shih accepts a gift, to commemorate the event, from Prof. Terrence Tsai
Mr. Shih's lecture was the culmination of an afternoon of activities on the CEIBS Campus. He was received by CEIBS President Prof. Zhu Xiaoming and Co-Dean and Vice President Prof. Zhang Weijiong, and during the day had meetings with Dean John Quelch as well as other CEIBS faculty.
Writer: June Zhu
Editor: Charmaine N. Clarke
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TOKYO, JAPAN - JANUARY 31: Actress Rooney Mara attends the 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' press conference at Tokyo Midtown on January 31, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan. The film will open on February 10 in Japan. (Photo by Koki Nagahama/Getty Images)


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Our total quality control system tracks a product through the entire production process and beyond. From laboratory tests of each batch of resin to tank testing to customer satisfaction questionnaires and frequent supplier reviews, we continually seek ways to improve our boats.
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In 1957, Henri Jeanneau, already passionate about aeroplanes and automobiles, had just discovered a brand new passion for powerboating, one that began as he watched a boat pass by his window. Soon afterward, in Les Herbiers, France, home to a rich heritage of artisan work, he began building a wooden hull with which he participated in the 6-hour Paris race, the largest national race at the time. He was first to cross the line, and this galvanized him. So, a past time became a trade. In 1959, he hired canoe builders as apprentices in his new business, "the Nautical Hall of the West," which would become, a few years later, the Jeanneau shipyards. France was seeing unprecedented economic growth, and the new company executive quickly understood that the appearance of new electric appliances designed to ease household chores would allow families to devote more time to leisure activities – to the sun, to the sea, and to boating!
In 1961, Jeanneau's first fibreglass powerboat made its début. It was the Calanque. It retained the wooden deck and featured the lines of a frigate, which made perfect sense because it was moulded onto a wooden hull. That same year, a dream became a reality: Jeanneau created the first all-fibreglass boat. This new material, a petrochemical product, created an unprecedented technological advantage. From a single mould, hundreds of hulls could be created. The fibreglass was applied to the mould and impregnated with resin, spread on by a roller. Afterward, workers had only to wait for the new hull to cure, and then they moved on to the next one.
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The Jeanneau experience is unique. No other builder can offer the same level of cutting-edge design, superior finish, performance and customer satisfaction - all in a competitively priced package.


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Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" is such a beautiful movie to look at that you wish it had a less-overwrought story, one that might draw us into it. Photographed in glorious black-and-white (with rich, inky blacks anchoring a carefully modulated grayscale), and punctuated with splashes of eye-popping color, the picture is a riveting visual experience. But the tale it tells — of two brothers in flight from their imperious father — grows tedious, and in the end collapses into startling preposterousness.
Vincent Gallo plays Angelo Tetroncini, a man racked by obscure torment. Ten years ago, Angelo moved to Buenos Aires (where the film was shot) in order to write — a vocation his father Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a celebrated opera director, had derided. ("There's only room for one genius in this family," he told his son.) Was Carlo right? So far, all that Angelo has accomplished in the Argentine capital is to pare down his name to Tetro and to wallow in what seems a terminal case of writer's block, unable to come up with an ending for his attempted masterpiece, a play about a family that turns out to be most familiar.
One day, Tetro's half-brother Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich) shows up at the apartment Tetro shares with his devoted girlfriend, Miranda (Maribel Verdú). Bennie is a waiter on a cruise ship that has pulled into port for repairs. He hopes to learn why his brother ran off from the family all those years ago. But Tetro refuses to talk about the past; he's hostile and abusive to Bennie, but reluctantly agrees to take him in until his ship is ready to return to sea. Weathering his brother's mystifying, nonstop insults, Bennie undertakes to help Tetro finish his play, and to enter it in an upcoming theatrical competition, the Festival Patagonia, which is run by a distinguished critic called Alone (yes, Alone), who's played by the usually formidable (but here indifferently used) Carmen Maura.
The movie dawdles on and on; and while the 19-year-old Ehrenreich, in his first feature role, is clearly a newcomer to watch, Gallo's overbearing intensity is wearying. (Or maybe it's just the way that Coppola has written his character: Tetro's inscrutable agony is baffling; and when its cause is finally revealed, after what seems like a very long time, we're baffled anew by its thudding soap-opera triteness.)
The other actors are exceptionally skilful. Brandauer could nail the puffed-up paterfamilias in his sleep, but Verdú turns Tetro's ancillary girlfriend into one of the picture's most appealing characters. And some of the color sequences are breathtaking — especially the one in which two ballerinas are joined onstage by an orchestra conductor as seawater comes magically lapping in from the shadows. (The picture was shot by Mihai Malaimare Jr., and edited by Coppola's longtime collaborator, Walter Murch.)
But Coppola's script can't hold us, however tightly our eyes may be glued to the screen. In interviews, the 70-year-old director- a musician's son himself- has said that "Tetro" is his most personal film — the sort of art-house movie that early fame and fortune prevented him from making in his youth. But as was demonstrated by the first two "Godfather" films, and especially by his 1974 masterwork, "The Conversation," he thrives on meatier material. However deeply he may have plumbed his own heart for this movie, it's unlikely to pulse for many people beyond himself.
Don't miss Kurt Loder's reviews of "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," "Moon" and "Away We Go," also new in theaters this week.
Check out everything we've got on "Tetro."
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The biggest issue to confront the next governor and legislature is going to be the state's dangerous financial situation. Come January, a decision is going to have to be made about whether to close the state's remaining fiscal shortfall of some 30+ million by robbing federal education dollars meant to fund teacher positions. We can figure that since that is the easiest route to take, despite howls of protest from the teacher unions, it will indeed be how the money gets shuffled. Our legislators to date greatly prefer one-time band-aid fixes to fiscal problems.
Then the issue will be how to close the next budget gap of more than $300 million. Adding a one-percent sales tax to everyday purchase items, as advocated by new Governor Lincoln Chafee, is not going to close the gap, so something further (and painful) will have to be done. Remember, federal stimulus money is running out. (Critics of the federal stimulus program may howl at the alleged waste and ineffectiveness of the effort, but they should be reminded that it has propped up the financially ailing states, like RI, for the past two years.) Absent a further infusion of bailout money from the feds, RI is going to have to either curt spending further or raise taxes.
Speaking of Chafee's sales tax initiative, raising taxes is absolutely anathema in the current political and economic environment. Chafee's call for a one-percent sales tax expansion is going to be hard to swallow, and legislators who pass such legislation are not going to be able pin blame entirely on Chafee for it, because they are the ones, after all, who control budget and spending matters. They will own that turkey together, and they, unlike the governor, will be up for reelection in 2012.
It's easy to call for cutting state spending but much more difficult to achieve it. Much of what can be accomplished has already been achieved by outgoing Governor Carcieri. Further reducing personnel will inevitably result in a deterioration in services – you think time spent at the DMV is bad now? There is a solid case to be made that the state spends too much, and it does, but much of what it spends is not on its current staffing across all state departments, it's on retirement obligations – pension and healthcare costs, which are enormous and seriously underfunded. Reducing those costs needs to be the bulls-eye target.
Reducing those entitlement obligations, however, is almost as difficult as choosing to raise taxes. Take the pension system, for example. All the gubernatorial candidates pledged to reform it, but things get vague when it comes to just how to do it. The idea of taking benefits away from retirees already enjoying them, or reducing them to vested employees counting on them, is a herculean political task. Our legislature has handled the pension issue to date as if it is radioactive, which, politically for its members, it is.
The pension and healthcare obligations that the state has, coupled with its Medicaid entitlement costs, are the real culprits behind the state's chronic financial problem. These are the so-called "structural" problems causing the state's year-to-year deficits. And by the way, this deficit hole just keeps getting larger in the years ahead: $416 million in fiscal 2013, $457 million in 2014, and over $500 million in 2015. How we are going to cut spending in entitlement obligations sufficiently to reduce those deficits one year to the next is anyone's guess. On the other side of the fiscal coin, raising revenue sans new taxes would take an economy that it booming a la China, and no one is predicting that.
Moody's Investor Service is watching Rhode Island with noted concern. Unless we can somehow tackle our structural deficits in a meaningful way, we can expect to see our bond rating drop at some point, which will make selling state bonds to finance growth that much more difficult. The next governor and legislature will need to put aside partisanship and stalemate to make sure that doesn't happen. Every Rhode Islander with a stake in the state and its future should support a new era of cooperation and reform.
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Astronomers may have not yet found Cybertron but this "transforming" pulsar definitely has a shape-shifting double personality.
Using NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has observed a peculiar type of binary star system named AY Sextantis that consists of a rapidly-spinning millisecond pulsar — that is, a bright radio-beaming neutron star, the compacted corpse of a dead star that's since gone supernova — with a larger, low-mass star.
ANALYSIS: The Pulsar That Munched a Billion Ton Asteroid
The dense neutron star periodically slurps up material from its swollen companion as the two whirl around each other every 4.8 hours, but when too much material from the low-mass star crowds the accretion disk surrounding the neutron star it gets hot enough to glow in x-ray wavelengths.
At this point turbulence in the disk at a mere 50 miles above the surface of the spinning neutron star gets the superheated material caught up in powerful magnetic fields. The radio beacons are snuffed out as jets blast from the star's poles, crackling with gamma rays… AY Sextantis has transformed from a low-mass X-ray binary to a transient, compact, low-mass gamma-ray binary.
"It's almost as if someone flipped a switch, morphing the system from a lower-energy state to a higher-energy one," said Benjamin Stappers, astrophysicist at the University of Manchester, England, and lead on the research team. "The change appears to reflect an erratic interaction between the pulsar and its companion, one that allows us an opportunity to explore a rare transitional phase in the life of this binary."
ANALYSIS: Pulsar Reveals Clues to Black Hole's Light Appetite
With such close proximity and rapid orbital period, the pulsar will soon completely dismantle its larger companion through its intermittent but energetic feeding periods.
Watch the video for an illustration of how this complex process is thought to occur:
Named PSR J1023+0038 (J1023 for short) the pulsar was first discovered in 2007 by Anne Archibald, a postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. It's located about 4,400 light-years away in the southern constellation Sextans.
ANALYSIS: Lost In Space? Use the Pulsar Positioning System
J1023 is helping astronomers determine how other, more distant pulsars shift from x-ray to gamma ray emissions, as well as how millisecond pulsars develop their incredible rates of rotation.
The findings were published in the July 20 edition of The Astrophysical Journal.
Video credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Source: NASA


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