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BROOKINGS, S.D. No. 21 Iowa State (14-7, 7-3 Big 12) finished its non-conference schedule with a sweep of South Dakota State by the score of 25-22, 25-19, 25-22 at the Frost Center.
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Tourist Permit: As a Canadian or American, when you arrive into Mexico you are given a Tourist Permit which allows you to remain in Mexico for up to six months (180 days) without working.
FM-3 Non-Immigrant Visa: There are many different types of FM-3 (officially known as no inmigrante visitante) visas, including designations necessary to conduct business and work in Mexico.
For a rentista visa, the most common type of FM-3 among Canadians and Americans is designed for those who wish to live at least part-time in Mexico, but do not necessarily intend to make it their permanent home. To qualify for this type of FM-3, you have to demonstrate the financial ability to support yourself while in Mexico on funds you've earned (or are earning) elsewhere. The requirement is to prove you have a monthly income of $1,300 for an individual, plus about $500 for each dependent.
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ASUS uses a modified American Megatrends AMIBIOS on their Crosshair IV Formula motherboard. The top menu is split into Extreme Tweaker, Main, Advanced, Power, Boot, and Tools menus. The Main menu has the system date, language, time, storage configuration, and system information submenus. The Storage configuration is where the RAID is set.
The Extreme Tweaker menu is where the overclocking of the board is done. As a ROG board it has several manual and automatic overclocking abilities. CPU Level Up allows the CPU to be set at settings for a higher CPU than is installed. This is dependent on the specific CPU installed at the time. The OC Tuner utility automatically overclocks the frequency and voltage of the CPU and DRAM. It takes about five minutes. Ai Overclock gives you a slew of choices for overclocking including Manual, Auto, DOCP which changes the settings based upon the DRAM O.C. profile and CPU Level Up. Heres a chart with the various settings available:
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What is all this nonsense about not showing ID at the polls? When I came to the USA, I was told I would have to carry an ID card with picture (a green card). I was happy to do this for the privilege to stay in this great land of ours. I was glad to show it to any official who asked to see it. Also, I had to register once a year at the post office. I considered this a small price to pay to be able to stay here. Since then, I have become a U.S. citizen. I would be happy to show any ID at the polls to keep our electoral system above suspicion. If there is nothing to hide, why is there such an uproar? It seems that all Americans would want their votes to be protected. When I first came here, I heard the old joke, �I want to be buried in Chicago so I can keep voting.� I thought it was just a joke, but am now beginning to wonder.
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This traditional Victorian town house is an ideal alternative to a hotel, built in circa 1874, it offers a degree of luxury and elegance that will make your visit to Lincoln both pleasurable and memorable.
Anna and Iain believe in the old fashioned values of courtesy and consideration. We invite you to make Creston Villa Guest House your B&B accommodation of choice for your next visit to the beautiful city of Lincoln.
Creston Villa Guest House is the ideal base for your stay when visiting Lincoln's many attractions. It overlooks the attractive South Common, yet is only a fourteen minute walk to the train station in the city centre. The six bed-roomed, bed and breakfast accommodation has historical interest too – This beautiful Victorian house was built on the site of the medieval Priory of St Catherine's and is adjacent to the site of the first cross erected in memory of Eleanor, Queen of Edward the First, as she started her final journey to London to be laid to rest in Westminster Abbey.
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Lincoln is a busy, vibrant, cultural and commercial centre providing plenty of entertainment and places of interest to visit. Why not leave the car behind in our guest house hotel car park and enjoy the fifteen minute walk into town, where you will find a wide variety of shops and restaurants to satisfy even the most diverse taste? Enjoy the famous Lincoln Christmas Market, an annual event well worth experiencing. All in all, we think you will enjoy your stay with us.
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Most major approach roads to Lincoln link up with the
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The car park entrance is narrow and should be approached carefully.
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Complete Gundlach Presentation
Earlier today, thousands listened to Jeff Gundlach live (if with the occasional flash crash) lay out his latest views on the economy and markets. For those who missed it, as well as for those who may want a refresher on why Gundlach is slowly building up a natgas position, or why he is buying gold on dips, here is the full slidedeck used by the DoubleLine manager.
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Just blame the weather on everything... now, move along like good little sheep. go right or left to the slaughterhouse.
Gundlach said of natural gas: "It's like investing in gold in 1997"
(Of course gold didn't bottom until 1999)
He sounds like an idiot.
Gold is much much much more scarce and there's a glut of NG out there and lots more producers itching to bring more to market to stay in business.
NG is energy's version of silver; I'd rather own silver.
Natural gas is going to replace crude oil as our main energy source at some point. The main question for investors is how do you board the train? Natural gas suppliers are getting demolished right now. And there's no way of really knowing who's going to survive until the point where natural gas goes mainstream. Natural gas has been intentionally sidelined as an alternate energy source by the crude oil suppliers. But I think that as people continue to find more and more natural gas deposits, innovation will follow natural gas discovery. Eventually, we'll have commercially available vehicles powered by natural gas. Eventually, you'll have a natural gas pump right next to the regular unleaded pump. Hell, we already have clean natural gas pumps at my local naval station exchange. But again, the central question is how do you jump onboard that train. I think that if you can find a reliable entry point, the natural gas trade is going to be immensely profitable over the next couple of decades.
Average food miles could plunge from 1,500 to 200, military, petrochemical & other artificial govternment demand could fall off a cliff & a decentralized story of hydrogen, hudro, oil, coal, biomass & natural gas could very well emerge.
It may not even be energy supply & use that drives the boat. It may very well be supply & use of water.
I would only own nat gas if they ban fracking. I would buy gold if it goes below $ 1,600 oz and silver below $ 30.00 oz. Central banks want inflation. If they want deflation then I would get out of precious metals. Precious metals are so oversold they could bottom at anytime.
Once Obama and his EPA get involved, the supply of NG will be severely and the price should skyrocket. Not that we'll be able to get any ourselves, because what's available will be sent to keep Obama warm when he's in his palace. Cheap energy for the masses does not fit into his master plan. In fact, the masses themselves probably don't either.


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Starting with an opening welcome at Noon on Saturday, July 12 by co-hosts State Senator Marty Golden and US Army Garrison Fort Hamilton, the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team will make its first-ever appearance in New York City.
The free two-game event will take place at Shore Road Park, at 79th Street and Shore Road in Bay Ridge.
Play begins at 1 PM, when the the Warriors take on the Bay Ridge All-Star Sluggers. A second game, against the Celebrity/ First Responder Stars, begins at 3:30 PM.
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Discrete modelling of pedestrian dynamics often defines the system geometry on a two-dimensional regular grid. In the simulation, we must consider that the individual pedestrians are associated with an exclusive personal space. In the traditional two-dimensional cellular automaton model (CA) and its various extensions (see [1], [4], [10], [5], [7], [6], [8] etc.) this personal space is described by the cell size of the underlying regular grid. Hence, the state change on the grid can be applied to describe the system dynamics. This leads inevitably to a fixed personal space of the pedestrians. However, empirical data (e.g. [9]) show that in low density range, the size of this personal space varies significantly. In high density range, the size is clearly restricted by the physical size of the pedestrians. The purpose of this paper is to present a new modelling technique of pedestrian dynamics with consideration of advanced step calculation and density control on a two-dimensional regular grid.
The main contribution of the paper will be explained in the following parts.
1. In [3] we proposed a new method for the step calculation on a regular grid for the generalized case of local velocity larger than one grid cell size in one dimension per simulation cycle (sometimes also called multicell-step), which is necessitated by the representation of heterogeneous pedestrians. The local step choice on the underlying grid is more than a simple position change from a start position to a destination calculated by a "hardware" method, e.g. of the shortest distance, without taking into consideration the actual system dynamics. Instead, we allow small deviations on route within a local step, but with the restriction that the mathematical expectation of the possible step choices should reflect the original position transition exactly.
2. We introduce a projection mechanism to compute the intermediate steps for the position transition with consideration of local (cell) position availabilities. In the simulation cycle, we further introduce a balancing mechanism to decide the execution sequence of the simulation participants. This improvement, along with the first, enables a drastic reduction of the possible "deadlock" among the participants and at the same time gives a very reasonable explanation for the step calculation.
3. In reality, however, pedestrians' personal space sometimes appears to be "compressible" to a certain extent in a way similar to gas particles. To our knowledge, in the CA model and its extensions, due to the nature of homogeneous rectangles (or squares) on the two-dimensional regular grid, the pedestrians' exclusive personal space is fixed in the system construction, e.g. as 0.4m * 0.4m in [1]. We proposed in [2] a solution for a flexible personal space. We observe that this exclusive personal space
varies roughly in the range of 0.3m * 0.3m (which represents the "incompressible" physical size of a pedestrian) to 1m * 1m (which corresponds to the normal, unstressed state of an average pedestrian)
in reality. Hence in the current paper, the grid cell of the regular grid is defined to be of size
0.3m * 0.3m, and the modifiable personal space for the pedestrian can be considered as a composition of exactly one grid cell to a neighbourhood of 3*3 grid cells on the regular grid. We consider two cases.
(a) Firstly, the space requirement of a single pedestrian varies empirically in correlation with local speed. That is, a higher overall speed in the system results in a lower density. This is sometimes referred
to as fundamental diagram. The fundamental diagram enables us to estimate the empirical density via the local pedestrian velocity, which can be acquired from the last simulation cycle. According to this
information, some of the eight grid cells (apart from the origin) in the corresponding 3*3-neighbourhood are to be declared as "inaccessible" for the rest of the simulation participants. This inaccessibility will be described by a transition function.
(b) Secondly, the former case considers the situation that a pedestrian behaves on his or her own behalf. In an extension of this, we distinguish the notion of "inaccessibility" under various contexts: Independent pedestrians tend to show greater "repulsive" effect to each other, whereas pedestrians which belong to the same group in the simulation environment tend to be "friendly" to each other, hence, the inaccessibility function is of a lower value.
Overall, the inaccessibility at an arbitrary cell position is always dependent on the behavioural context in the system. The density control on a local level can be achieved in this way.
We present two experimental cases to demonstrate our model. In the first experiment we simulate the group behaviours of the pedestrians, i.e. how some of these tend to stay close to each other (but the distance among them may still vary over a small range in the local step calculation), distinguishing them from other "foreign" pedestrians which exist in the simulation environment at the same time. A second experiment considers the intersection of multiple pedestrians groups with a simplification that all the participants are given pre-configured moving directions. The objective of this experiment is to demonstrate the density evolution, especially in certain critical regions (e.g. the intersection point where bottleneck phenomenom is more likely to take place), in correlation with local speed.


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Heard Deace on Miller's radio show today say that Mac has a conference winning percentage worse than what Walden had, something like .320 to .280. Obviously that is affected by the bad years when he first started, but even the "good" years are barely mediocre.
It's .278 to .313....pretty bad.
Can anyone provide a list of the times/days for the best post-game radio to listen to for Cyclone sports? I've never really payed much attention to anything but Sound Off.
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Still millennial man
The year 2000 marked not merely the end of a century but the end of a millennium, a thousand years of history. The media's desire to fill empty space with naming "the Person of the Millennium" became all the rage.
George Will, the unfailingly smug conservative columnist, made Thomas Jefferson his top dog of the last millennium. According to Will, Jefferson was our version of a Renaissance man. It was he who articulated the ideals of his country, awakening minds throughout the world to the possibilities of freedom and equality.
I didn't consider it a good choice. I said (silently) "Gee George, you'd think with 1,000 years to choose from you could have picked someone who didn't own slaves."
If America had a Renaissance man in the colonial era, it was Benjamin Franklin. The best-selling author and hugely popular philosopher was one of the colonies' most successful businessmen, an accomplished diplomat, a skillful politician, and a self-made man. He had a wonderful sense of humor, a vice of which Jefferson was innocent.
I was about to nominate Franklin when I learned that he too owned a slave. And, when you think about it, he never did have much to say about slavery. That was a deal-breaker for me.
I finally came up with Martin Luther, the father of the Reformation, who broke with the corrupt Catholic church of the time and began the process of letting light flood into the intellectual life of Western civilization. It floods yet.
Then someone pointed out that I had chosen one of history's great anti-Semites as my person of the millennium. His vicious diatribes against Jews formed the template that Hitler was later to trace in his "final solution" to the "Jewish problem."
Finally, I chose Nelson Mandela, whose greatness lay not only in his willingness to stand up to apartheid. It was the much rarer ability to forgive his enemies.
In the early years of his struggles, which included 27 years in prison, he was not the universally respected figure he was to become. Margaret Thatcher, for one, considered him to be a communist terrorist. Mandela made no secret of his Marxist leanings or his feelings that the banks and gold mines of his country should be nationalized.
But when he became president, he realized that retributive policies were a dead end, so he didn't nationalize the mines or banks. Mandela took no revenge on his enemies. He instead worked with them on issues like land reform, poverty, and health.
If that isn't unique it's exceedingly rare. And for that Mandela deserves whatever honor we can give him.
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Just loving music, more and more Papa Roach ! \,,/ I found the music of my life
**music-taste: rock, hardrock, metal, poprock, etc..
**bands I like ! Papa Roach, HIM, Disturped, Stam1na, Mokoma, Three Days Grace, Green Day, Avenged Sevenfold, Aiden, Sonic Syndicate, Escape The Fate, Haste The Day, Atreyu, Red Hot Chili Peppers... etc
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**hobbies: drawing, listening music, travelling, hanging out with friends, movies
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I take my Mom to the hair dresser on Wed's. Yesterday there was
a lady there that told me she thinks a lot of the older men riding
bike are child molesters looking for victims.
How do people get these ideas? Fact is, real facts BTW, the vast
majority of this type person drive vans.
Think about grabbing a fifty, sixty pound struggling kid and riding off
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i have to show running total with the total column in my application ... so i have used the following queries for finding the running total... and i find that both are working as per my need . in one i used the left join with group by and in another one i used the sub query .
and now my question is which one is faster when my data grow in thousands daily and if data will be in limit of 1000 or 2000 rows then which one is better ... and any other method by which is more faster then these two ????
declare @tmp table(ind int identity(1,1),col1 int)
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8. "Inequality For All"
Towards the end of "Inequality For All," the documentary featuring current Berkeley professor and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, he recounts a heartbreaking story about the childhood bullying he suffered as a result of his Fairbanks disease. The older kids who protected him instilled a sense of fairness and standing up for the little guy in the future Rhodes' scholar, and this concept permeates his work as an economist, policy maker and public intellectual. "Inequality For All," based on Reich's book, "Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future," posits a deceptively simple solution to the host of economic woes in America: stand up for the little guy—the middle class that is. Part Reich biopic and part Reich lecture, the film weaves lecture materials from his Wealth and Poverty class at Berkeley with the story of his life, and an explanation of just how we got here (hint: Reagan) and just what we can do to fix it. Though "commie" and "socialist" are thrown around by the likes of Bill O'Reilly, Reich really believes in properly regulated capitalism. His reasonable nature, easy charm, and determination to stand up for what's right are a winning and inspiring combination and the film perfectly captures this. Incredibly educating, and surprisingly emotional, "Inequality For All" helps us to understand the world just a little bit more through Reich's lens.
7. "Let The Fire Burn"
Surely the mayor of an American city wouldn't firebomb his own people, right? Wrong, as the rigorous and gripping "Let The Fire Burn" demonstrated. Using only archival footage, which gives it the drive and propulsion of a thriller, director Jason Osder relates the story of the MOVE organization, a controversial group in 1970s and '80s Philadelphia of mostly black membership, which to some was a harmless hippie-type commune, and to others was a sinister cult-like terrorist group. Either way (and Osder is careful to show the positive and negative side of the group), there's no excusing the events on Osage Avenue on May 13, 1985, when during an armed standoff between the Philadelphia Police and the group, a police helicopter dropped a small explosive device on the MOVE house, designed to drive them out, but which instead ignited a blaze that destroyed 60 homes and killed eleven MOVE members, including five children. It's a series of events that defies belief, and Osder's razor-sharp assembly of the archival footage does a beautiful job of establishing the players and telling the story. By eschewing reflective present-day interviews or voiceover, the film does occasionally feel a little lacking in context, but it makes up for it with an immediacy that makes it feel closer to a Paul Greengrass docudrama than a talking-heads non-fiction film. Required viewing.
6. "The Trials of Muhammad Ali"
As New York Times writer Robert Lipsyte points out in Bill Siegel's deeply fascinating, and often surprisingly moving "The Trials Of Muhammad Ali," the boxer was one of the most recognizable faces on the planet in the '60s and '70s. It's a fact that bears repeating, particularly for an icon who is so often categorized simply as a boxer who had activist leanings, and a deep connection to his faith. But it's the way those identities intersected, with the responsibility the pugilist took on his shoulders for an entire people, and the manner in which Muhammad Ali used his celebrity to further the causes he cared about and spur a very public discussion about race and class, that made him a very complicated legend. And in "The Trials Of Muhammed Ali"—which tracks in detail Ali's life during the years he was barred from boxing following his legal battle after declaring conscientious objector status to the Vietnam draft—Siegel puts together a powerful and honest look at Ali during that period. A masterful assembly of vintage footage and news reports combined with contemporary interviews manages to shine a whole new light on Ali, one we don't often experience. Here is a man who risked his very livelihood and the facet of his life that defined who he was in the public eye, to take an initially very unpopular stand, one that put both himself and the Muslim faith on the line. 'Trials' doesn't shy away from the mistakes Ali made, or the more outrageous statements that escaped his lips and it's for the better. The result is a deeper appreciation and understanding of a man who swung just as hard outside the ring as inside it and who grappled very openly with his own shifting persona, helping to inspire not just a new generation of athletes, but young black men looking for a role model during a tumultuous time in American history.
5. "Cutie and the Boxer"
Ostensibly "Cutie and the Boxer" is about the somewhat tumultuous, decades-long relationship between Japanese painter Ushio Shinohara, known for his giant papier-mâché motorcycles, and his wife, Noriko, an artist in her own right (primarily for her autobiographical, cartoonish doodles). But like any good documentary, the Zachary Heinzerling-directed picture is about so much more. Structured around a joint art show, the movie reveals layers upon layers exploring the dynamic of artistic relationships, the hidden ego of even the most supposedly "grounded" artist, and the inner mechanisms of the art world—how, even after being proclaimed an underground sensation in the late '60s (dramatized via authentic, historic news footage of Ushio that aired during a special on Japanese artists), you can still live in the same crummy, overstuffed studio, getting the runaround from gallery owners and museum curators. (Their agent is as cartoonish as anything Noriko draws.) But ultimately, "Cutie and the Boxer" (its name taken from Noriko's cartoon alter ego and Ushio's paintings where he dons boxing gloves and pummels the canvas) is a story of enduring love. Illustrated, quite literally, through animated versions of Noriko's autobiographical drawings, their relationship has been more than rocky, with Ushio spending much of his earnings on alcohol and basically manipulating Noriko into bankrolling his work. It may have been a relationship that was founded out of necessity (and, given their huge age difference, a strain of sexually predatory behavior), but it's blossomed into something both bizarre and healthily relatable. Some of the most riveting moments in the movie involve the couple bickering over the dinner table at one another. It's a sight anyone who has ever been in a relationship can identify with and it becomes perfectly understandable where both artists' tormented output comes from. And the amazingly powerful score by Yasuaki Shimizu adds even more to the almost operatic weight of the movie's central love story. Shimizu's music has the rare distinction of being one of the best scores of the near, nestled inside one of the year's best documentaries.
4. "After Tiller"
In 2009, George Tiller, one of the last remaining doctors in the United States willing to perform valuable, oftentimes life-saving late-term abortions, was shot and killed by a pro-life zealot while serving as an usher at his church in Wichita, Kansas. His death was a tragedy, of course, and reignited the endless debate over women's reproductive rights in the United States. It also meant that the number of doctors qualified to perform these risky late-term abortions was whittled down to four, and those doctors are at the center of this gripping documentary. What's so great about "After Tiller" is that it's structured like a workplace drama. These are doctors just doing their job, which happens to be highly controversial, specific, and dangerous. Fearless young filmmakers Martha Shane and Lana Wilson take us into the clinics, offering fly-on-the-wall documentation of what these women and girls are faced with (and what the doctors deal with too). Many times we get dense biographical background on the doctors through their own words; they're all very humble people who, even after violent threats against their lives (including one doctor whose stable full of beloved horses was burned down, with the horses still inside) are committed to their job and to carrying on the legacy of Dr. Tiller. It's not an outwardly confrontational film, and encourages discussion rather than heated debate, and is all the more powerful because of it. Sometimes it's easier to change hearts and minds with a reasoned whisper rather than a furious scream.


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Does the Emblem that is on the clan page show up on the tank or is there another place the clan emblem has to be put on to put it on the tanks? i'm not seeing it on my tank.
Is the clan Emblem in the discription the same as on the tanks?
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affirmative, it is just keep looking
#3 Posted Feb 08 2013 - 12:53
I believe you have to pay a small gold fee to display the emblem on the tanks of clanmembers (and this option is only available for commanders)
#4 Posted Feb 08 2013 - 12:58
The one with the steel grey background is the one for tanks. the other 64x64 is used on your clans home page and in garage, 32x32 is used in battle window for clan wars, 24x24 is used as your map icon, 500 gold to change 1 of them or 500 gold to change all at once.
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The Stables of Como
Lechlade Avenue, South Yarra, VIC
- 03 9827 6886
- Contemporary
The tuna niscoise. Photo: Simon Schluter
Honey joys, lamingtons, Belgian chocolate crackles, tea-cakes, pastries, lemon-coconut slice, musk sticks, chocolate freckles, giant clouds of meringue swirled with Valrhona chocolate.
On a rustic, six-metre-long counter sits an eye-poppingly artful extravaganza, almost all of it made here.
''I wanted to create those old tearoom days, when you couldn't wait to finish the mains so you could eat dessert,'' says the flamboyant Jason M Jones, who, with Theo Tsapepas, leads hospitality management group Icke & Igby.
The Stables of Como. Photo: Simon Schluter
How many cafes is that now by Jones and Tsapepas? There are Porgie & Mr Jones, Snow Pony and Friends of Mine (all cash only), and Mazzitelli - eastern suburbs strongholds known for their design smarts, quirky menus and instantly atmospheric spaces.
The same sure-fire template has been applied to the Stables, housed in - you guessed it - the former stables of Como Historic House. Its rambling grounds, open again to the public after 18 months, are leafy with garden tracks that wind past old-growth evergreens and tremendous Moreton Bay figs.
The ''country kitchen'' aesthetic is warm and hospitable, with unforced rusticity. Everything is impeccably presented and ''gorgeous'', in a home-interiors way, the fresh flowers arranged just so, the glossy white tiles framing the semi-open kitchen, and the shiny green coffee machine matching the lights.
The staff are an efficient, well-trained squad, with a manager overseeing the floor - pencils and paper for the toddler over here, more cutlery for table 14 over there.
''The chickens arrive this week,'' Jones says of the laying hens that are due any day. There's a 500-square-metre kitchen garden under way, and the Como's 1847 oven, unused for 50 years, will be fired up again soon to make ''Aggie's lemonade scones''.
Executive chef Jason Flygenring's menu has the hallmarks of its siblings, the same broad approach that suits all ages - non-threatening, mainstream classics, such as quiche lorraine; ploughman's plates; croissants with off-the-bone ham, emmenthal and tomato; ''happy chicken'' and white wine pies; and, of course, a Berocca for breakfast.
Certain dishes are based only on produce from the property, such as the silky three-egg omelet, rich with French goat's cheese that cuts through the creaminess, and with herbs, in this case marjoram and parsley. It's made with Green Eggs at present, but once the hens are settled, the idea is the number of eggs they lay will determine the number of omelets made that day. It's the same deal with the bruschetta, which is ''inspired by what's in season from our garden''.
Crumpet lovers, keep reading the menu, there are no amazing crumpets here - no Dr Marty's home-made beauties, for example. Parents of toddlers: these are ''normal'', supermarket Golden Crumpets, nothing fancy, so your child may actually eat them. Teeny tiny lidded jars of butter and spreads are a cute touch.
Milkshakes are served in tin cups, the strawberry flavoured with real fruit and the syrups made in house. The organic OJ comes in glass bottles with a straw, and the coffees are well made, although not overly strong.
There's a ''kid-friendly'' vibe, but perhaps dress them in ''going out'' gear, and make sure they are well behaved - this is South Yarra, and grooming counts.
At only three weeks old, the Stables is already off at a gallop. Welcome back, Como.
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Dish … three-egg omelet.
Vibe … fancy country kitchen.
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With the White House closer to launching a surgical military strike on Syria, questions swirl over the extent to which such an attack could trigger a wave of terrorism directed at the U.S. and Israel.
Some analysts say that Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia fighting in support of embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad, likely would be inspired to ramp up operations in Iran's "shadow war" with the U.S. and its allies.
Tensions between the West and Iran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program have fueled the protracted and secretive war — a tit-for-tat exchange marked most often by operations and attacks carried out from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Asia by Hezbollah and Israel's lead intelligence agency, the Mossad.
"These are groups that have long memories," Matthew Levitt, who heads the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Monday.
"I think that the type of asymmetric activities that we've been seeing already in the context of the shadow war over Iran's nuclear program would continue with [an American military strike in Syria] serving as yet another factor motivating Hezbollah."
Iran's government, which most in the U.S. intelligence community think exerts heavy influence over the activities of Hezbollah, sought Monday to downplay the likelihood of a U.S. strike. But some officials in Tehran said that if a strike occurs, Israel would be targeted in response.
The Associated Press quoted Hossein Sheikholeslam, a member of Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly, as saying that "the Zionist regime" — a reference to Israel — "will be the first victim of a military attack on Syria."
The remark seemed to dovetail with what has for months been a claim by some lawmakers in Washington — Republican and Democrat — that Iran's proxy presence in the Syrian war presents all the more reason for the Obama administration to get the U.S. military more deeply involved.
"Addressing the crisis in Syria at this stage will be extremely difficult, but every day that Assad remains in power helps Iran and Hezbollah and threatens stability across the region," Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr., Pennsylvania Democrat, said Monday. "Iran and terrorist organizations, like Hezbollah, are plotting against the United States and its allies every day."
Some Middle East analysts, meanwhile, said a U.S. strike likely would inspire the cadre of military and intelligence officials running Syria to commission their own terrorist activities with the goal of disrupting the existing U.S. military presence in the region and deepening instability surrounding Israel.
Joshua Landis, who heads the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, suggested that the Assad government in Syria already has backed terrorist activities in Lebanon.
"Assad is not powerless," Mr. Landis said. "We just saw car bombs go off in Tripoli that killed many Sunni Muslims. So he can do things like that to destabilize things and inflame sectarian tensions in Lebanon."
"The reaction of the Assad regime will depend on how hard the strike is," said Mr. Landis, who added that the Assad government might respond by hiring Palestinian groups to target U.S. military officials believed to be in Jordan.
Citing rumors that American special forces officers are presently "camped out" at hotels in Jordan's capital of Amman, Mr. Landis said the Assad government might aim to commission terrorists to try and "blow up a hotel" in the city.
Away from the region, there were signs Monday that Mr. Assad continues to enjoy rhetorical support but likely would struggle to draw another international power into the conflict in the event of an American military strike.
Russia remains a key ally to Mr. Assad and one of the main weapon suppliers to Syrian military forces.
But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov signaled Monday that Moscow has no plans to be drawn into a deeper military conflict over Syria's civil war.
Reuters quoted Mr. Lavrov as warning Western powers against intervening in the war on grounds that doing so would violate international law.
"The use of force without the approval of the United Nations Security Council is a very grave violation of international law," Mr. Lavrov said at a news conference. He said the use of chemical weapons in Syria was likely the work of rebels who wanted to derail plans by Washington and Moscow to hold peace talks on Syria's future.
"If anybody thinks that bombing and destroying the Syrian military infrastructure, and leaving the battlefield for the opponents of the regime to win, would end everything — that is an illusion," Mr. Lavrov said.
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July 6, 2013
A Look At The Fluff Of Scion
The Scion RPG series has incredible fluff, mostly due to being based on various mythological figures and tales. A lot of it comes from the popular Greek and Norse pantheons; Titans, the Underworld, Tartarus, Ragnarok, and so forth, but elements of all the various pantheons shine through. While the crunch of this role-playing game can take a good deal of work to make playable long-term, the fluff makes all that worthwhile. I adore the Scion series, as I have yet to find any other game like it.
The game does devote a lot of page-space to its own cannon, concerning its pre-generated heroes (though players are welcomed/encouraged to develop their own), antagonists, and story. While I enjoy reading about these characters and what adventures they go through, I feel that some of this could have been toned back to make more room for more general information regarding the various pantheons, their connections to one another, addition creatures and figures of myth, and maybe even a few other pantheons. The story is well written and the existing characters are enjoyable, but I found some players turned off by them. It feels a bit unoriginal to create a Scion of the Norse god Thor when one of the existing characters in the game already has Thor as their divine parent.
Speaking of the Scion of Thor, I must also bring up the opening story of Scion: Hero as it, more so than any other, sets the theme for what Scion is about. The story, which is rather long but incredibly well written, focuses on the mortal child of Thor as he comes to realize that there is more to him than he knew, as well as takes us through his first real adventure, the discovery of his Perviews and Birthrights, and introduces him to his antagonist, the Scion of (not surprisingly) Loki. While the stories in Scion: Demigod and Scion: God are both good, none of them have the same impact that the story out of Hero did for me.
My greatest complaint with the fluff of Scion comes from the Scion Companion. While I loved the additions of the Tuatha De Danann (Gaelic), the Celestial Bureaucracy (Chinese), and the Deva (India) Pantheons, the World War II campaign option, with the addition of the "Yankee" and "Allied" Pantheons, consisting of "gods" such as Betty Ross, Paul Bunyan, Uncle Sam, Britannia, John Bull, and Robin Hood, was a bit much. While presented as purely optional, it felt like a completely wasted section of the book. Playing in the World War II setting is an interesting take on the game, but I never felt that the addition of these conceptual pantheons was necessary, especially since the Axis Powers got the Norse and Japanese Pantheons on their side, two of my favorite of the lot. In short, not a fan of that part of the book.
Overall, I highly recommend the Scion series. While admittedly far from perfect (what game isn't?), it is really good. While it isn't being made anymore, there are only five books to the set. If you every come across them, especially Scion: Hero, I suggest giving it a look. You won't be disappointed.
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Although this advice might seem obvious, legal writers constantly overlook it. The result is a diffuse, aimless style. And even with your point well in mind, if you take too long to get there, you might as well have no point at all. Only the most highly motivated readers will work to grasp your meaning.
That's where law school comes in. Every law student reads plenty of diffuse writing and is expected to distill the main points from them. You'll read old cases that take forever to make a fairly straightforward point. You'll read law-review articles that take 50 pages to say what might be said more powerfully in three. And as you read these things, your incentive for gleaning their main points will be high: your future in law depends on it. In other words, you will work as hard as any experienced legal reader to break through opaque prose. You'll simply have to.


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Column by John Lohn, Swimming World senior writer
SHANGHAI, China, July 27. SADNESS. That's what I'm sensing right now, in the early-morning hours here in Shanghai. Last night, based on video evidence that is difficult to dispute, Swimming World's Jeff Commings – an elite breaststroker himself – called out 50-meter breast champion Felipe Silva for performing an illegal dolphin kick at the finish of his championship race.
The point of Commings' commentary was to suggest that video replay is needed in the sport, as a way to ensure that fairness rules. He noted past examples of infractions that took place on the international stage and in which video replay could have played a key role in rendering a disqualification. One was Kosuke Kitajima at the 2004 Olympics in the 100 breaststroke. The other was Otylia Jedrzejczak in the 200 butterfly at the 2005 World Championships in Montreal.
What has taken off from Commings' article? Basically, an anti-American sentiment that has taken the focus away from the article and the issue at hand, and raised a target that has nothing to do with the equation. Yes, the statement just made will almost certainly lead to further instances of individuals – especially pro-Brazilian – citing the United States for a "crybaby attitude."
Those who take the "you guys are crybabies route," however, are missing the whole point of this situation. Really, you're in denial over what is at hand. The bottom line, and this is what Mr. Commings emphasized, is that FINA has a chance to eliminate these controversial back-and-forth battles by implementing a video-replay system. By watching the footage of a race, officials can measure – without the difficulty of seeing through waves – whether an athlete cheated or not.
The sad part of where this topic has gone is that many Brazilian fans are upset over what they feel was unfair criticism toward Cesar Cielo concerning his positive doping test back at the Maria Lenk Trophy. Because of this positive test, FINA took the Cielo case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, seeking a ban. It was the right move, as athletes must be responsible for what they ingest. Jessica Hardy paid the price. Why not Cielo?
Again, I don't believe Cielo knowingly took a banned substance to help him with his performance or to mask another substance he was taking. Still, I called for a suspension because a positive test is a positive test. Obviously, many Cielo fans were not thrilled. And now many Brazilian supporters are going with the old stanby – that the United States is crying. Nope. Look at the finishers behind Silva, an Italian and a South African.
The focus of this topic is on the opportunity FINA has to utilize technology in a positive manner, and in order to eliminate question marks. If a swimmer seems to perform a dolphin kick on the finish, go to the video. If he's innocent, the footage will show it. If he violates the rules, as Silva clearly did, the right to disqualify is accessible.
Swimming World has reached out to FINA for a comment on the Silva situation and is awaiting reply.
As much as people want to make this an American topic, try to focus on the real crux of the issue. Maybe the crying needs to stop elsewhere.
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- Adjust the angle of the 3′ line until the tape measure aligns with it.
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ORONO, Maine -- University of Maine punter Jeff Ondish (Elkton, Md.) has been named to the 2014 College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) FCS Awards Watch List announced on Wednesday, July 16.
In 2013, Ondish punted 57 times with an average of 40.4 yards per punt, including a 66-yard season-long against Stony Brook. The senior punter pinned opponents inside their own 20 yardline 20 times and kicked 10 punts of 50+ yards throughout the season.
"Congratulations to Jeff Ondish on earning a spot on this year's watch list," said CFPA Executive Director Brad Smith. "Ondish will be one of the top specialists to watch this season."
The goal of College Football Performance Awards is to provide the most scientifically rigorous conferment in college football. Recipients are selected exclusively based upon objective scientific rankings of the extent to which individual players increase the overall effectiveness of their teams. Twenty-eight CFPA winners have been first-round NFL Draft selections.
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Baker is now 20-5 overall and dropped Culver-Stockton to 4-18 overall and 1-13 in the HAAC standings.
Macy Wallisch had a double-double in the contest with 10 points and 16 rebounds and the sophomore had five blocks.
BriAnna Garza again led the team in scoring with her 14 points. She also had four rebounds and four assists.
Shea Shoemaker added eight points and Rashida Simpson had six points and three boards.
Culver-Stockton posted three double-digit scorers with Brianna Marzette scoring 12 and Randi Lee Plunkett and Louise Young had 10 apiece.
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I had a lovely chat with The X-Factor UK's 2009 runner-up Olly Murs ahead of his private concert at The Sayers Club in Hollywood last night (June 19th). We talked about his upcoming album, In Case You Didn't Know (out September 25th) and his take on The X-Factor in American so far. Murs is currently on tour with One Direction, but we're hoping he joins forces with Michael Buble at some point. Find out why below.
First thing's first, I said to Murs. Why isn't The X-Factor US as popular with its audience as its UK counterpart? "I'm going to make a bet with you right now," Murs told me. "American X-Factor is gonna blow your mind. It's going to be the best this year. It's going to beat everything."
Fine, I'll take your word for it, only because your accent is so dreamy.
I brought up Steve Jones and Cheryl Cole, because I truly like both of them and was sad to see them go.
"I thought Steve did a decent job [despite it being] his first year," Murs said. "You could tell he was nervous, and he was just finding his feet near the end. He did get some flack, but he's a good guy." And what about Cheryl?
Cheryl, on the hand – it was a shame to see her go. It didn't work for some reason, I don't know why. But the show did come on the air, and I think the judges were good, but it could better. This year you have [new judges] Britney Spears and Demi Lovato. I mean, come on. That's pretty big."
Yeah…I guess. But I miss Steve Jones.
"I think everyone is excited [about the new season] in the UK. I think in the states it's buzzing everywhere that Britney's doing the show. Just to see what she's like, you know? She's a huge star."
Murs hosts The Xtra Factor, an aftershow immediately following each episode of The X-Factor. "We talk about how the contestants did, and we talk about how what happened behind the scenes that week," Murs told me. "We talk to the judges and to special guests; last year we had Katy Perry and Nicole Scherzinger."
Murs has big dreams for the show. "I'm hoping that one day The X-Factor does really, really well [stateside] and then Simon will say to me, 'We want to do Xtra Factor in America.' Then I can come over from the UK to do it with a really, really hot, sexy American presenter," Murs joked. Then, he backtracked and gave his co-host a boost. "Unless Caroline [Flack] from the UK comes with me. We'll see."
Right now, Murs is working on his third album after finding success on the first two. "The second album was perfect, and the first album was great. I've been writing recently and am really, really excited. There are some good songs, songs I didn't think I could write. New vibe, new sort of direction. I like to experiment with my songs. On my album, the tracks are different from 1 to 10, so I'm hoping when people get it, they enjoy it.
Who would Murs love to duet with? "James Brown, if he was still alive," Murs said. I love [English ska band] Madness, and I really love Michael Buble as well."
That's exactly who we were reminded of when Murs performed later on. His voice was entrancing and his mood on stage was infectious. I found myself swaying along to "Oh My Goodness" and "I'm OK."
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Whilst the Man City game came too early for him, Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed that Nemanja Vidic will be back for Manchester United's game against Sunderland.
Vidic has been out since September after undergoing surgery on a torn meniscus in his knee, but it was thought the Serb would be back for United's final Champions League tie against Cluj. Unfortunately the defender declared himself unready for the game thus meaning he missed out on Sunday's derby.
Sir Alex claimed that Vidic wouldn't have been thrown in at the deep end against the Premier League champions anyway, but now his captain is fully fit and raring to get his season underway albeit a couple of months late:
"It would have been crazy to play him against City, but against Sunderland – definitely. It's a big bonus.
"In the last 18 months he has only had ten games or something – it is not many games that he has had.
"He is a battler, a real competitor. That uncompromising way of his … he likes defending, that's what it is."
Its great to have him back but we must continue with Ferdinand and Evans. We cannot mess around, especially not in defence. If we play properly and get control of the match then maybe bring Vidic off the bench. Sunderland is not an easy game, in fact there are no easy games. We must learn from last season and not get complacent.
That good new for united fan and hope we beat sunderland and far away like dormund does and win the title because city now will concentrate on the title only after being knock out in champion league.
When the january transfer window will open i hope sir alex buy 3 more defender 1 central defender,2 central midfielder because we will need central midfielder because on that position we get to many injuries and we want to win champion league and the league title so we will midfielder to beat the best european team like real madrid,barcelona ,dormund,bayern munich and as for central defender it good to have a replace for rio ferdinand in defence


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The Transportation Van is a VOLUNTEERED shuttle that runs from York Out Patient Clinic to Lebanon Hospital. The van is a 7-8 passenger van and operates Monday thru Friday 8:00 AM-12:00 PM. The van leaves normally one hour and a half to an hour and fifteen minutes prior to the first appointment (i.e. appt in Lebanon is at 8:00A.M. departure time is 6:45 AM) and leaves Lebanon VA to come back to York at 12:00 PM. Any appointments after 11:30 AM, is the Patients responsibility to obtain return transportation to York. The DRIVER is NOT responsible for patients return trip to York if appointment runs past 12:00 P.M.
When scheduling appointment(s), patients must inform the scheduling clerk that they are passengers on the York Shuttle Van and request appointment(s) between 8:00 A.M. and 11:00 A.M. to accommodate the vans normal operation schedule. Once the appointment in Lebanon is scheduled the veteran needs to call 771-9218 five (5) working days prior to the appointment to make arrangements to get onto the van. We take the first 8 Veterans and can take stand by names but cannot guarantee a ride. The van driver will get the list of veteran's names 2-3 days prior to the date and will call the veterans with a departure time. The veterans are responsible for providing their own transportation to York Clinic for departure to Lebanon.
* A veterans spouse or family member may accompany the veteran if it is deemed by a doctor that the veteran needs assistance and a note is to be faxed to the York County Department of Veteran Affairs Office (771-4617) that they need assistance from the doctor who deemed they need assistance prior to the appointment. Veterans Patients have Priority.
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Dream a Little Dream of B&BBy Posted: Oct 27, 2010
Adam Gregory (Thomas) may be new to BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL, but he's already turned into a big fan. He chats with Weekly about why the sky's the limit on daytime.Soap Opera Weekly: How are you adjusting to all the crazy stuff that happens on daytime?
Adam Gregory: I'm getting used to it! I used to be very much like, "Is this really what would happen? Is this really what somebody would do? Is this real? What's the consistency on this?" Now, it's like life really has no consistency! The more I watch the news, it's just...[I've learned] life is life and don't be afraid to dream. It's weird, because being on B&B has kind of opened my eyes a little bit, with my ability to dream farther and think about things a little differently — like what could happen, rather than what did happen. It brings back the folklore and the fun, easygoing stories that Grandma and Grandpa used to tell us when we were little kids. Things have become very serious these days on network sitcoms; it almost makes me uncomfortable. So why not laugh a little, why not dream a little, and just watch B&B?
Weekly: That's a lot of why I tell people to watch it! Because it has all these universal themes, but it's also really fun and over-the-top.
Gregory: When people start watching, it's hard to stop watching. My wife and I, we reluctantly started watching it [before I was cast], and now my wife can't stop. Even the episodes I'm not in, she's like, "Oh, it's okay; I'm gonna watch it anyway." I'm like, "You really want to know what's happening with Stephanie, if she's really gonna die or not, don't you?" [laughs] She said, "Yeah, kinda. Don't tell me!"
Weekly: It's like the TV version of a Lay's potato chip. You can't have just one; you have to keep watching.
Gregory: Exactly. The sky's the limit. And we can explore as much as we want, or we can have a storyline end in a week-and-a-half. We can just drop it if we want, because the story is ongoing. We don't have to stop — ever. That's what's exciting: It's a movie that never ends.
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Orioles (Rose Tree Fire Company) 13
Royals (Gregory Hillyard, DMD) 0
It was the first game of the season where wearing shorts was the right call.
The Royals came to bat first. The lead-off batter battled through 8 pitches. The second batter got solid wood on the ball, however, Quin at first caught it in the air. Then Matt and Jack who both went 2 for 2 on the night got solid hits. The inning ended when Quin scooped a grounder at first and made the play to end the inning.
The Orioles came to bat. Matt, Will, Jakob and Jenna lead off with 4 hits. After a 9 pitch strike out, Nico and Flynn singled and doubled respectively and then Quin drove in Nico with a sacrifice grounder to first to end the frame.
In the second inning, the Royals did not score. The Orioles started with a strike out and then hit three singles by Chase, Beppe and Codie. Matt sacrificed in a run and then Will (Power) hit his second triple of the season.
The Royals sure handed Matt Kane snagged the next batters grounder and stepped on first to end the inning.
In the third, the Royal's Julian hit a single and went 1 for 1 on the day. Manny then hit a ball sharply to third. Jake V fielded it cleanly and threw to Matt at second base for the final out.
The Orioles third had Jenna, Bennett, Nico, Flynn, Quin, Jake V. and Chase hit single and Beppe sacrifice to score the final run.
In the fourth, the Royals bats heated up. Will got his second hit. Matt (Royals) hit a ball cleanly up the middle, however, Matt (Orioles) was able to corral the grounder as he stepped on second for the force out. Jack got another hit before the inning ended.
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You don't say which hotel this was, but I would write directly to their home office. If it is a reputable chain, like Hilton, Ramada or Marriott, I'm sure they will do the right thing by you.
If push came to shove, the hotel could insist that you pay just the correct rate. They could say that a mistake in billing, even if intentional, should not entitle you to a free stay in the hotel. That kind of position of course would be bad customer service, but not illegal.
No, of course forgery is illegal. But there are two issues here: the first issue is that your signature was forged and that you were billed a higher rate. The second issue is, do you owe Marriott for a stay at the correct rate?
Since you documented the incident with the police, I think that if you were to bring this entire incident to the attention of Marriott's home office, they would do the right thing by you.
It depends on what you want Marriott to do about it. Forgery is a crime. The appropriate action would be for the police to investigate, and arrest the desk clerk if they determine that there is probable cause to believe he committed a crime. If they choose not to arrest the desk clerk because they find no probable cause to make an arrest, then the forgery is simply a civil matter.
You could sue Marriott over the forgery, but you would have to show that you were damaged somehow. If no money was taken from you because of the forgery, then you have no damages. If, however, you were charged a higher amount because of the forgery, then you do have damages, and maybe even a claim for punitive damages, but only if you could show somehow that Marriott should have known that this employee had a criminal history or had done this before.
I would see, first, what Marriott Corp. is willing to do for you.
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