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n the aftermath of September 11, there has been a renewed interest in what it means to be an American and what there may be about our society that distinguishes it from other countries. How do Americans differ from Algerians, Albanians, Australians or Azerbaijanis? How do we distinguish our nation? By geography? Ethnicity? Religion? Economic systems? A distinctive culture? Material possessions? Or even unique hedonistic pursuits?
While many answers may be offered in response to these questions, it strikes me, as a "recovering" political scientist, that the answer must in good part revolve around the nation's Constitution and especially its distinctive and pervasive Bill of Rights. If the educational system has a social responsibility, and I believe it does, to prepare our students for citizenship in our democracy, we need to focus far greater attention not only on democratic principles but also on the meaning and personal responsibilities attendant being an American citizen.
The American Association of State Colleges and Universities has a deep commitment to civic engagement and to strengthening higher education's pursuit of that commitment. The premise of our work is that the nation's educational system is capable of better preparing students to fulfill their civic responsibilities.
Society's neglect of civic education is appallingly manifest. Citizen participation in community and public affairs has markedly declined--a trend noted by several observers, most notably Robert Putnam in his work, Bowling Alone.
Secondly, participation of the electorate has declined to a point that fewer than a fourth of the nation's eligible voters actually select our elected officials. And among youth aged 18-25--the age group most directly impacted by educational institutions--voting participation is the lowest of all age cohorts.
Thirdly, and in many ways most perplexing, is the disengagement of most Americans from social and political decision-making. This growing disdain for "politics" and the governing process has facilitated a pervasive corruption of that process, resulting in the immense and pernicious influence of money in executive and legislative halls. The noted commentator, Bill Moyers, described these trends as heralding a new era of the "Robber Barons."
While higher education has a rich heritage of political observation and analysis, we recognize that it is beyond our power and influence to effect political change. On the other hand, we shortchange our capabilities if we fail to recognize our potential impact on our primary constituency--18 to 24 year-olds. We can influence them to be responsible citizens--and we can also have influence on a smaller, but growing number of older adults who enroll in our programs.
Before further commentary on what higher education leaders can do, we should acknowledge that there are several bright spots in the rather dismal picture of civic engagement. First is the growing and significant movement toward service learning and the gratifying engagement of college youth in volunteer efforts--not only through established programs, but through innumerable community programs in schools, hospitals, neighborhood centers, and through groups such as Boys and Girls Clubs.
We should also note the remarkable expansion of American Humanics programs on college campuses and the large number of students seeking careers in youth and family service organizations.
The silver lining in the tragic clouds spawn by September 11 is the renewed sense of patriotism and a greater willingness of Americans to serve and sacrifice for their country.
These positive developments, nevertheless, have not improved the inexcusably poor engagement of Americans in the electoral and policy making processes. Illustrative of this point is the fact that last year the typical graduate of a public university walked across the stage with approximately $17,000 in educational debts. When I graduated from college, student debt was rare.
What happened between the '60s and the '90s? The answer is easy to understand. Two major events occurred. In state after state, appropriations for higher education remained stable or declined, and tuition was raised to make up the loss. And in Washington, the federal government adopted policies to promote student borrowing in lieu of funding Pell and other need-based grants. Students have been the big losers. You might ask why did these events come to pass. The answer is fairly clear. Students do not vote in large numbers. And people in public office know that. The law of politics is the same as the law of the jungle: The strong prey on the weak.
In contrast, look at issues affecting the elderly. No politician dares to reduce Medicare or to eliminate the cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security. Few in political office will risk the electoral wrath of the age group with the highest voting percentage--the elderly. One of the most important lessons in Civics 101 is that even if your candidate loses, you win when you vote. And when you don't vote, you and your kind lose!
To distill these reflections into a plea for voter registration and enfranchisement would be overly simplistic. We cannot ignore our fundamental responsibility as educators--to construct programs and experiences that truly educate, enlighten and inspire students to be informed, caring and engaged citizens.
Lee Dreyfus, former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and Governor of Wisconsin was once asked why state legislators were not as supportive of higher education as their counterparts from earlier years. He quickly replied: "Today legislators are primarily our graduates."
In these difficult economic times on campuses, I reflect on then-Governor Dreyfus' observation and note the inverse relationship between the growing percentage of legislators with college degrees and the declining percentage (and in many states actual dollars) of the state budget going to higher education.
Reflecting upon the education received by policy makers, I focus on the core curriculum required of all graduates--a core curriculum built around the liberal arts, whose virtues have become a virtual mantra of the Academy.
I once read and recorded a statement detailing the purpose of liberal education, a statement to which I subscribe. The Liberal Arts, as expressed by Paul Hurd, noted science educator, "should help students distinguish probability from certainty, rational beliefs from superstitions, data from assertions, and theory from dogma."
As I look at what our nation's decision-makers have decided over the past twelve months, I find little evidence that policy making comports to the functioning of a liberally educated society.
My point is that the manipulation of public opinion, the obfuscation of political agendas, the substitution of rhetoric for logical reasoning, can and do succeed when a citizenry cannot distinguish probability from certainty, data from assertions, facts from opinions, and theories from dogma.
In short, I have come to the conclusion that our efforts to provide a truly liberalizing education have failed. Allow me to repeat the Academy's "F" word. Our efforts to provide through general education or the core curriculum, a liberal education for our graduates, in the main, have been a failure.
The time has come to rethink not the value but the content of liberal education. We need to reconstruct that core on the basis of outcomes, not imputed inputs. The American Democracy Project provides a sterling opportunity to redefine and reconstruct a liberalizing core based upon the goal of achieving an engaged, enlightened and productive citizenry.
This task will not be easy. Discarding a curriculum sustained by interdepartmental politics, graduate student recruitment, textbook availability, and credit-hour generation will truly require a Herculean effort, but the task is worth doing.
I recently ran across the words of Edward Gibbon, the renowned classical historian, who penned his thoughts about the collapse of the Athenian democracy. "In the end," Gibbon wrote, "the Athenians more than they wanted freedom, wanted security and a comfortable life. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most, was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."
AASCU is proud to be partners with the New York Times and with you, representing over 150 public colleges and universities, in this wonderful undertaking better to prepare our students--and ourselves--for citizenship. And in the process to help sustain and strengthen our democracy.
Constantine W. Curris is the president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.


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Disabled List Position Strategy
Most fantasy leagues allow owners a few DL spots and now it is time to begin to use those positions productively. For the past few weeks, several players were known to be injured for 2011 season (ex. Adam Wainwright), but they have not yet been placed on the official DL. In the last few days, teams have begun to officially place players on the DL and the list looks to expand a ton in the next few days as the regular season begins. Now is the time to exploit these extra roster spots. Here are a few suggestions for roster management as the DL list expands.
I will be looking at individual names as the DL expands later in the week.
1. If you are in a non-keeper league and the player is out for the year, drop the player. There is absolutely no reason to have these players even taking of DL spots.
2. Move your players to the DL before looking at the available players. Hopefully the players on your team were better than those readily available.
3. If you have available DL spots on your roster, go pick up available free agents on the DL. Just looking at ESPN, Stephen Strasburg is only owned in 4.5% of all leagues. There is an OK chance that he may pitch this year, so why not pick him up with an available spot; there is nothing to lose. If you are in a keeper league, anyone near Strasburg's or Wainwright's ability should immediately be picked up and placed in an DL spot for next season.
4. Watch for players being released into the free agent pool. Some owners may have their DL positions filled with players that are expected to be back relatively soon and have to release less talented players. On the other hand, they may just be wishing to have the player be gone off their roster. Over the first couple of weeks of the season is when most waiver wire mistakes are made, so be on the look out for opportunities, DL related or not.
5. Now if you are an owner with two many players on the DL and too few of spots to put them in, possibly look to trade the player to someone that has a DL opening. You may have to down grade in the long run, but at least you didn't let the player go for nothing. Another option is to just carry the player a while thereby removing an extra bench player. For a player that is expected to be back within a couple of weeks, this may be a reasonable option.
Not all owners will be in the same predicament with players on the DL, but be ready for action in the next few days. Between now and Thursday (and continuing on for a few days after then), the DL list will definitely grow and you should be looking to expand and improve your roster during this time.
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CRUDE Oil: CRUDE Oil: Weakening Within Rising Channel..
Crude Oil futures may be weakening as seen on the daily chart but while that weakness remains within its established rising channel, we see risk of higher prices. However, a break and hold below the mentioned channel bottom will annul the above scenario and bring bear pressure towards its intra day low at 73.81 with a violation of there driving Crude Oil further lower towards the 71.16 level, its July 06'10 low followed by its Jun 07'10 low at 69.62 and then the 67.14 level, its May 25'10 low. Alternatively, on a recovery higher from its current price levels, the commodity should target the 77.94 level, its Aug 12'10 high. Further out, resistance is located at the 80.30 level, its Aug 11'10 high and then the 82.94 level, its Aug 04'10 high. All in all, though under bear pressure, as long as it holds within its established rising channel, upside risks are envisaged.


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Christine Hampson is a Principal of Hampson/Roberts Solutions Group Inc., a boutique consulting firm providing not-for-profit management and strategic counsel to a number of select clients. In this capacity, Christine currently serves as the President & CEO of The Sandbox Project. Christine holds an MA and Ph.D. in Health Geography from McMaster University. She has served as Executive Lead, Strategic Operations in the Office of Ontario's Minister of Health and Long-Term Care as well as Executive Lead, Human Resources in the Office of the Premier of Ontario. Christine has served as President & CEO of the Asthma Society of Canada, an Instructor in the Department of Geography at Brock University, Executive Director of the Ontario Liberal Party and President & CEO of the Ontario Liberal Fund. Christine currently serves on the Board of AllerGen NCE, The Company Theatre and the 60 Minute Kids' Club.
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Eva Mah Borsato - President, Intellectual Capital Corp. Inc.
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Dr. Leitch was selected as one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 for her work in both medicine and business in 2005. She has published in the clinical and best practice model areas of the health care field. In 2010, Dr. Leitch received the Order of Ontario for her work advocating for children and youth. Since her election to the House of Commons in 2011, she has entrusted the stewardship of the organization to the Board of Directors and President & CEO.


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Meh I came, I ate, I left! People think I'm weird sitting alone but hey! That's the price i pay
Meh I came, I ate, I left! People think I'm weird sitting alone but hey! That's the price i pay
I'll only be out if it's nice enough to be outside. Can't afford wings lol.
just put the mk2 in summer mode...will swing by on my way back from another G-town Benz painting session.
in depending on weather ....
gotta fix my lower resevior hose when i get home... stupid plastic Y pipe decided to take a crap.
i hate 1.8ts
Actually scratch what I said earlier... Just fixed Alex's car (it was running stupid rich due to a silly broken ground wire off the cold start valve ), so we're gonna put it through its paces and take it for a test drive to the meet tonight!
Ditto ^
it'll be raining.... so inside will be....
Av keep in mind that i go to wings and never get wings...!! (dont like them...)
i always get a drink and chat..!
Yeah, what Dan said. I'll be too tempted to buy something. I think you're the only one that wants to go now Mao... Lol sorry.
i guess it'll happen next week..!
It stopped raining............
it hasnt stopped...
Anyone going?
*Edit* Going home
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^^^^^stop the fuel waste.....!!!!
It's supposed to rain tonight, but anyone down for wings? I'd like to have a beer and celebrate my new job at Pickering Volkswagen!!!
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Congrats! Enjoy the dealership life. I know I do vs. Crappy Tire.
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By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY
NEW YORK Jeremy Piven's character in the new Broadway revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow may seem to have a lot in common with the guy Piven has played for five seasons on a popular HBO series. They have similar jobs and even similar names: Entourage's Ari Gold is a Hollywood agent, while Plow's Bobby Gould is head of production at a Hollywood studio.
But Piven, 43, insists the two men are "very different. Ari is a volatile, abrasive, passionate wrecking ball. Bobby got to his position, I think, by being incredibly diplomatic. If they were friends, Bobby would continuously have to calm Ari down."
Listening to Van Morrison in his dressing room at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where Plow opens Thursday, Piven seems more like a Bobby type. "I should be taking a break right now," he says softly. "My pattern has been to do TV, then get in as many movies as I can when I have time off." He wrapped two recently: Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla, opening wide on Halloween, and The Goods: The Don Ready Story, due in the spring.
"It's a very funny script about a group of salesmen, and I'm the leader of the pack," Piven says of the latter film. "I just saw it, and I'm very proud of it. But I haven't stopped working in 20 years, and to be honest, I feel like I really need to be somewhere reading a book. But you don't say no to Mamet."
Certainly not when you consider yourself a stage actor first, as Piven does, and grew up around Chicago, Mamet's theater-rich hometown, which has continued to nurture and inspire the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. Piven's parents ran a theater workshop near the Windy City, where students included not only their son but also John and Joan Cusack, Lili Taylor and Aidan Quinn.
Piven's classical training drew attention on the Entourage set. "In the first season, I would walk around doing exercises to warm my voice up and making faces. I got a lot of strange looks. People were like, 'Who is this alien who's landed on our set?' But by Season 2, I started noticing other people attempting to warm up their voices."
A young Piven first saw Plow in its "original Chicago production, with all these great Chicago actors."
When the play premiered in New York 20 years ago, it starred another Chi-town native, Joe Mantegna, as Bobby, alongside Ron Silver and, in her Broadway debut, Madonna.
"The rep on her was that she was incredibly professional and hardworking," Piven says of the singer/actress, whom he saw at the RocknRolla premiere shortly before she and Ritchie, the director, announced their split. "She can still remember her lines" from Plow, Piven says.
In the new production, directed by Mamet's longtime colleague Neil Pepe, the role played by Madonna, a somewhat mysterious temporary secretary named Karen, is inherited by Elisabeth Moss, best known for AMC's Mad Men. Tony nominee Raúl Esparza steps into Silver's shoes as Charlie Fox, the close but competitive colleague who goads Bobby into seducing Karen on a bet.
Piven was initially reluctant "to go from Entourage to a show in which Hollywood is also the backdrop. But the guys in this play could be doing anything. They're self-proclaimed whores in their profession, yet in the games they play, they're also searching for the truth. I think Bobby is at a point in his life where he really is available to figuring out who he is and what matters most to him."
New York Drama Critics Circle president Adam Feldman believes Piven "has carved out a very specific niche" that could serve him well in the role. "He can convincingly play a real jerk while keeping you interested in watching him and even rooting for him. You get the sense that there's something hidden underneath all that aggression, something you could respect and maybe like."
Piven says rehearsing Plow "was one of the hardest processes I've ever been part of. There's a saying that the wide receiver lives in fear of the perfectly thrown pass, because then if you drop it, it's your fault. The characters in this play are verbal stunt pilots. The language in it is so thought-out and intricate.
"What you have to do," Piven concludes, "is figure out a way to climb in there and own it and just be present. It can take a while, but if you hang in there, you're in such good hands."
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Eye involvement is identified in more than 30% of sarcoidosis patients. Uveitis, retinitis, and optic neuritis are often associated with chronic sarcoidosis. Although corticosteroids can be effective therapy, long term usage can create several toxicities, including glaucoma and cataracts. To evaluate methotrexate as a corticosteroid-sparing agent for ocular sarcoidosis, we report our current experience with methotrexate in patients with ocular sarcoidosis.
A retrospective review was performed of sarcoidosis patients treated at one institution from 2002–2009. Data was collected and analyzed from all ocular sarcoidosis patients who had received methotrexate at any time during their disease course.
We identified a total of 335 sarcoidosis patients with ocular disease who had received methotrexate. Of these, 48 (14%) patients were successfully treated with methotrexate, and they remained in remission off therapy during the six years of study follow-up. Of the remaining patients, 109 (32%) received single agent methotrexate, and 39 (11%) patients received methotrexate plus 10 mg or less of daily prednisone. Forty (12%) patients discontinued methotrexate either because of lack of response (26 patients) or toxicity (14 patients). In 41 (12%) of the remaining patients, methotrexate was used in combination with other immunosuppressive agents or tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha inhibitors. Methotrexate was administered with leflunomide in 14 (4%) patients or azathioprine in 18 (5%) patients. The remaining patients received methotrexate with TNF inhibitors, including nine (3%) patients on infliximab (7 patients) or adalimumab (2 patients). At the last patient visit, 58 patients (20%) still required more than 10 mg prednisone daily.
Methotrexate was an effective corticosteroid lowering agent in over half of patients with ocular sarcoidosis. In 80% of cases, usage of methotrexate as a single agent or in combination with other immunosuppressive drugs reduced the daily dosage of prednisone to 10 mg or less. This agent was well tolerated with less than 5% of sarcoidosis patients discontinuing drug due to toxicity.
Methotrexate is an effective corticosteroid sparing agent for ocular sarcoidosis.
Robert Baughman, Grant monies (from sources other than industry) Appleby Research; Product/procedure/technique that is considered research and is NOT yet approved for any purpose. Methotrexate, prednisone, azathioprine, leflunomide, infliximab, adalimumab are not FDA approved for treatment of sarcoidosis
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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I saw that you did tell the person that it wasn't an option and that they were better than that but you still also used it to undermine them. That was cold, plain and simple.
And yes, it was the flippant and irreverent tone of your next post that bothered me. Making light of everything isn't always a good thing. Sometimes it's just inappropriate. I agree, normally we don't bash against each other so much but these ARE things that would have always grated on me. Maybe you've just been a little too flippant and insensitive to others today?
No, we all have our own personalities, mine hasn't changed in the past bit at all. If you read undermine in it, that was your own projection, not my intention. We've talked about that before, how "triggers" pop up to inject despair. If I see someone mention that one, it bugs me, makes me suspicious of their true intentions. We're better than that. We're better than lots of things we do. And I think we touched on this earlier, I told you something that explains why I said it. My friend, he was one of us. So forgive me if I'm flippant, the alternative is wallowing in it on the anniversary.
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Yep, you did but you're not personally one who has attempted suicide in the past, have you? Do you know what depths of despair and no hope of escape one feels when they are at that point? I do, personally. It's horrendous. That's why I NEVER use someone's suicide attempts against them in any kind of argument. And you did undermine. You said this:
And if you're focusing on suicide, then you're cold, as in not warm, not hot.
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If you didn't mean to undermine, then perhaps you could better illuminate your meaning and intention because it reads very cold in itself.
And the scooby doo remark--I'm sorry, I take offense. I agree, you are normally a pretty free spirit and I respect you for that as well as I generally respect and appreciate your humor. However, equating what people have been trying to do here for the past 2 years to a cheesy 70's cartoon? Come on, Bea. You're better than that, yourself.
No, Scooby Doo is slang for solving a mystery. If I'm guilty of anything, it's hanging out with people much younger than me and taking up their quirks of language.
Cold, meaning on the wrong track. Like you're getting warmer, warmer. We're better than ingrained programming.
And while I haven't tried directly, I'll admit it was sheer cowardice that prevented it. I've attempted it indirectly too many times to count. I just don't talk about my self-destructive times out loud, but there have been many, many, too many. Not lately, but I've been there. But no, I don't want to talk about it. I'm not ashamed, but I'm not proud.
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"My position coach is still there at Florida and Tennessee, but Coach Gran was my recruiting coach for Tennessee. I knew him the best, but Coach Martinez was both my recruiting coach and position coach for Georgia. I had a strong relationship with him, so now I don't really know who I would be playing for if I went to Georgia and that is kind of difficult."
Florida is scheduled to have a couple of coaches in Riggs' home on Thursday, but Tennessee and Georgia had in-home visits on Tuesday.
The first school to visit with the four-star corner was Tennessee and he spent time with the father-son duo out of Knoxville.
"Lane Kiffin and Monte Kiffin came down to the school and then into my home. They are similar, but different and it is cool. Lane is the sharp one and he is the young one while Monte is more loose and about having fun. They were both cool and fun to talk to. They told me they love my style, they want me there, and things like that."
Georgia only had one coach in there after that family connection departed. Coach Martinez was in there last week, but since then John Lilly has now taken over Riggs recruitment.
"Coach Martinez was actually here the night before Coach Richt made the changes, so I might have been the last recruit he saw," said the Fort Lauderdale (FL) native. "We had a good visit, but Coach Lilly is a nice guy too. He wasn't able to talk a lot about things with me that Coach Martinez could, but he told me that I am still brought up in their meetings and still wanted by them. He made it clear that they still want me up there."
A day after Lilly visited the number eight corner in the country, Georgia's head coach gave him a call.
"I talked to Mark Richt today (Wednesday) and it was a good conversation. He talked to me about the future and how they were going to bring in a coach that really fit my style of play and that I would fit right in. I like Coach Richt and that is one reason Georgia is still in it."
So what type of defense is Riggs looking to play in? He knows his strengths and he wants to go into a system that will utilize those.
"I am not looking to go into a base cover two defense that sits back and doesn't play man a lot. I want to play in an aggressive defense, one that plays a lot of man coverage, and one that will fit me the best. I am looking at the defenses closely."
Even though the Gators and Bulldogs are searching for a new defensive coordinator and the Vols have to replace the coach that was recruiting Riggs, he still is looking at all three.
"Those are my three finalists and they are the only schools I am looking at now," he revealed. "The changes are not really affecting me as a whole because I know I can go to any of those schools for more than football."
"I would still say Florida is number one, then Georgia and Tennessee. Florida is on top right now because of the way I felt during my visit there, but I like a lot of things about Georgia and Tennessee too."
The St. Thomas Aquinas senior has a leader, but is still not quite ready to announce his decision. He wants to make a decision relatively soon, but he could actually wait until 2010 if the timing isn't right in the near future.
"I am thinking about committing at the Under Armour game (January 2, 2010) on ESPN, but I am not sure yet. If it gets close to that and I haven't committed yet, then I will probably just tell the coaches and then commit publicly during the game."
All of his visits are behind him, he is down to three finalists, and he has a leader, so many think he could commit any day now. He is not ruling that out, but he does not have anything planned either.
"I want to see what Georgia does and just see how I feel about everything. I just have to have that feeling to commit and I do not have that yet. I could wake up with it one day and pull the trigger, but I am not ready yet. I hope to do it soon, but I am just not sure when."
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11. Record the following in concerned subsidiary books. October 1 Purchased goods from Madhu at a price of Rs.75,000 less trade discount 10% 2 Sold Goods to Prasanna worth Rs.20,000 5 Purchased goods from T.A. Swamy Rs.28,000 7 Returned goods to Madhu at Rs.8,000 8 Goods returned by Prasanna Rs.5,000 10 Sold goods to Pradeep Rs.38,000 12 Goods returned by Pradeep Rs.4,000
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(1) The Cash Book showed a credit balance of Rs.18,500
(2) Out of the cheques worth Rs.30,000 issued prior to this date, it was found that the Bank had paid only cheques worth Rs.14,500
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Leaders of all 28 European Union member states are meeting in Brussels. Meanwhile Britain's finance minister has warned that tax hikes and spending cuts may be needed to deal with what he called the 'shock' to the UK economy caused by Britain leaving the EU. We discuss whether that's really the case with Jonathan Portes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, and Roger Bootle from Capital Economics. Also in the programme, we hear from Greek farmers who are worried trade barriers may mean they'll sell less to the UK in future. The BBC's Samira Hussein in New York brings us the latest in the Volkswagen emissions scandal, as VW agrees a multi-billion dollar settlement. And we go to Iceland, where the nation is celebrating a phenomenal footballing victory over England. Inga Lund Karlsdottir fills us in on the mood.
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A last-ditch Conservative attempt to delay ratification until the autumn was voted down in the House of Lords by a margin of 93, and peers later gave the Bill its third reading without a vote. Royal Assent is expected to follow within 24 hours.
Parliamentary ratification came on the eve of an EU summit in Brussels expected to be dominated by Ireland's rejection of the Treaty in last week's referendum.
Irish PM Brian Cowen is expected to ask for more time to consider his country's response to the 'No' vote, which threatens to prevent next year's planned implementation of the Treaty's reforms, including a full-time EU president and foreign minister.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that the Treaty cannot come into force unless it is ratified in all 27 EU states.
On his way to the Brussels summit, he will hold talks in Paris with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who will inherit the headache over how to deal with the Irish vote when he takes over the EU's six-month rotating presidency in July.
At Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons, Mr Brown brushed off a demand from Conservative leader David Cameron to accept that Ireland's verdict has killed off the Treaty, which replaces the constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005.
"We respect the decision of the Irish. They have asked to have more time to discuss what their proposals will be to deal with this situation," Mr Brown told MPs.
"They have not suggested either that they wish to postpone the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty for other countries or that they wish to stall the whole process."
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Hannity calls Trump's false threat of Comey tapes one of the "most brilliant … tweets in the history of mankind"
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Conservatives have repeatedly slammed lawmakers "politicizing" tragedy by merely talking about gun violence in the wake of a shooting
Right-wing media have been quick to criticize politicians and activists for "politicizing" mass shootings by talking about gun violence prevention in their wake. But after a GOP official in Georgia suggested that the June 14 shooting in Alexandria, VA, which critically injured House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and four others, "is going to win this election for us," will conservatives care enough to call out the clear exploitation and politicization of the shooting?
The Washington Post reported that ahead of the June 20 special election for a congressional seat in Georgia's sixth district, Brad Carver, the chairman of the Republican party in a neighboring district, said, "I'll tell you what: I think the shooting is going to win this election for us," adding, "moderates and independents in this district are tired of left-wing extremism."
In the past, Fox News and others in conservative media have derided officials for "politicizing" tragedies because they spoke out about gun violence prevention in the wake of shootings. After the June 12, 2016, shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL, then-Fox News contributor Stacey Dash lambasted former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for "politicizing" the shooting in order to "advance an anti-gun agenda." After an August 2015, shooting in Virginia, Sean Hannity called out Obama, saying he "tried to politicize" the shooting by talking about gun violence. And after an October 2015 mass shooting in Oregon, Fox's Kevin Corke criticized Obama for "politicizing" gun violence, saying, "Politicizing gun violence usually is a terrible decision."
Carver isn't advocating for a solution to gun violence, but rather he is celebrating the potential political advantage the shooting could bring. Despite Carver's blunt politicization of the shooting, it seems unlikely that right-wing media will break from their campaign against Democrat Jon Ossoff to speak out against it.
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Right-wing media show no self-awareness of their role in influencing violent incidents
James T. Hodgkinson, a man with a record of domestic violence, a legally purchased assault rifle, and a valid concealed carry permit, on June 14 opened fire on Republican congressmen and staffers practicing for the congressional baseball game.
The FBI is still investigating the incident, but one thing is already clear about this latest example of unhinged gun violence. The overwhelming evidence of conservative media's influence on a significant number of deadly incidents makes their attempt to deflect attention from their role in creating a toxic political culture both cynical and exploitative.
According to reports, the gunman had shared anti-Republican sentiments publicly online and had been critical of the president. Reports of the shooter's political background immediately prompted unscrupulous right-wing hacks to pounce on the tragedy, looking to exploit the terrifying gun violence incident as a way to score cheap political points by blaming the left. In a new display of audacious defiance of reality, conservative voices have put the blame of the shooting not only on the left, but also on the press and various celebrities as well. But, blaming the left or the media for Hodgkinson's actions is equivalent to blaming Jodie Foster for the attempted assassination of former President Ronald Reagan.
The gimmick, however, is deplorable not just for its cynical exploitation of fear, pain and human tragedy; it's also a hollow attempt to distract from the conservative right's own responsibility in creating a political culture that inspires violence by fanning the flames of hatred. It's a red herring aimed at avoiding the obvious, and very concrete, policy-centered conversation that needs to happen around gun violence.
Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, two of the loudest conservative voices, immediately blamed the shooting on "the left" and "left-wing news media."
Additionally, the NRA, an organization that customarily deflects conversations about gun violence by blaming fatal shooting incidents on video games, political correctness, and strict gun laws, skirted its own precedent to also blame the left at large for the shooting.
Right-wing figures' opportunistic attempt to draw direct correlation from out-of-context phrases from progressive politicians to the actions of a violent man with easy access to assault weapons also points to a critical lack of self-awareness when it comes to their own role in influencing violent incidents.
Take Byron Williams and his failed plot to shoot people at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU. Williams explicitly pointed to Glenn Beck's now-defunct TV show and Alex Jones' websites as the information sources that prompted his violent actions on the Tides Foundation, a relatively unknown organization that Beck repeatedly vilified on his program. Or the assassination of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, which followed continuous vitriol from former right-wing star Bill O'Reilly, who told his "audience of millions over and over again" that Tiller was "an executioner." Or the murder of three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, CO, at the hands of Robert Dear, a man whose "paranoid delusions, misogynist beliefs, and violent fantasies" matched "perfectly" the usual narratives that come out of "Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones and Bill O'Reilly and countless far-right web sites."
Or the racially motivated massacre that ended nine black lives in Charleston, SC, perpetrated by a habitual commenter at the Trump-supporting, neo-Nazi outlet The Daily Stormer. After a man opened fire at a Washington, D.C., family pizzeria, it was hard to forget Alex Jones asking his audience to investigate the conspiracy theory that alleged the restaurant was hiding a child sex-trafficking ring. In the same way, Jones also exhorted Trump to use force against his opponents and threatened violence against supporters of "parasitical maggot" Bernie Sanders.
So no, right-wingers don't get to exploit this tragedy. They should not be able to get away with using pain and fear to avoid important policy conversations about gun access in American society. Not when the evidence of their role in promoting violence over politics is so overwhelming.
After five people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), were wounded during a baseball practice in Alexandria, VA, right-wing media figures blamed comedian Kathy Griffin, a New York theater, the investigation into President Donald Trump's ties to Russia, and several others for the shooting.
President Donald Trump's most loyal conservative and "alt-right" media allies are blaming the mainstream press's Trump coverage for Wednesday's attack on a Republican congressional baseball practice, with one close ally to the president even calling for banning some critical journalists from the airwaves in response. This cynical campaign is the next step in their ongoing effort to delegitimize any source of unfavorable information about the president.
The shooter has been identified as James T. Hodgkinson, a home inspector and critic of the president with a history of domestic violence.
Paul Joseph Watson, an editor at Alex Jones' Infowars site, was among the first to blame media coverage for the gunman's attack, writing on Twitter just minutes after news broke that the culprit was "Trump derangement syndrome, radicalised by mainstream media hysterics." He later added of journalists and the left, "The blood is on their hands."
This cynical effort to curtail critical journalism spread from the "alt-right" fringe, through the right-wing press, to Trump's chief propagandist at Fox News. Several of the theory's proponents specifically pointed to the media's coverage of the investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
"The fake news media finally got what it wanted," Mike Cernovich said on Periscope. "They're getting their mass murderers. They're getting the mass shooters. This is what they've attempted to incite for the past 18 months." Cernovich, an "alt-right" provocateur and noted misogynist, spent the 2016 election cycle promoting "Pizzagate" smears, and now he has close ties to Trump's White House and family.
"I have foreseen this coming," Rush Limbaugh told his millions-strong radio audience soon after the shooting. "You can't continue to enrage people the way the left and predominantly the mainstream media has been doing."
Michael Savage, a right-wing radio host with a close relationship with Trump who regularly hosts the administration's top officials, not only blamed the media for the shooting but also suggested that in response, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and other critical journalists should be removed from the airwaves by the federal government due to their "constant drumbeat of their hatred against Trump and Republicans." Maddow's program is notable for its intense focus on the Trump-Russia story.
At Fox, Sean Hannity declared that "the biggest issue we need to address as a country is what is a record level of vicious left-wing hate that is being spewed day after day, hour after hour, by a left-wing news media that wants to destroy the president."
Notably, the critique these pro-Trump media figures are pushing is largely bereft of concrete examples of journalists using extreme or inciting rhetoric about the president. After making his broad indictment against the press, for example, Hannity highlighted the actions of artists and celebrities, not reporters. In other instances, the claims are simply fabricated, as with Alex Jones' declaration that a host of newspapers have called for Trump's death.
Instead, the president's allies are claiming that negative coverage in general -- and negative coverage about the Russia investigation in particular -- led to violence. This is a patently cynical ploy aimed at bolstering a political strategy that the pro-Trump media have pushed for months.
Trump has been castigating the press and seeking to delegitimize journalists since the presidential campaign. He's declared the media the "enemy of the American people." His allies have been bolstering that effort every step of the way.
And now they're using an attack on U.S. members of Congress as a new way to promote that argument.
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As President Trump's executive orders banning immigration from first seven, then six, majority-Muslim nations have moved through the U.S. court system, they've been met with a series of legal setbacks and direct action and have drawn extensive media coverage. What follows is a timeline of events surrounding the ban, with a focus on right-wing media hypocrisy, denial, and defense of the president's increasingly indefensible policy. This post will be updated.
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President Donald Trump appears to be listening to right-wing media's calls to fire Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who was appointed as special counsel in the investigation of Trump's campaign and Russian officials.
The same day that Newsmax CEO and Trump ally Chris Ruddy was seen leaving the West Wing, he appeared on PBS Newshour saying that the president is "considering perhaps terminating the special counsel."
Ruddy's announcement comes after conservative media figures called for Trump to end the investigation and fire special counsel Mueller. On Fox News Sunday, Fox contributor Newt Gingrich attacked Mueller, claiming his investigation will "be a witch hunt" and saying Congress should "abolish" the special counsel. Other conservatives argued that the president has the legal authority to fire Mueller, citing his close friendship with ousted former FBI Director James Comey.
Fox News host Sean Hannity devoted an entire segment of his show to attempting to "expose" Mueller's friendship with Comey, arguing that their friendship shows not only that the special counsel should be fired, but also that the entire investigation into the Trump campaign's possible collusion with Russia should be shut down immediately:
UPDATE: On the June 13 edition of CBS This Morning, Gingrich announced that Trump had called him the night before to discuss Mueller, saying, Trump "called me because I have been very clear about the fact that Mueller, hiring four Democrats, -- his first four attorneys are all Democrats, one of them worked for the Clinton Foundation. He apparently couldn't find a single pro-Trump attorney to hire, and I just think that that's a rigged game. And I think it's a mistake to pretend this is going to be a neutral investigation." Gingrich added, "In this kind of environment, I don't give the benefit of the doubt to somebody who can only hire Democrats who claims that we ought to trust him."


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Ready References. A compilation of Scripture texts, arranged in subjective order, with numerous annotations from eminent writers
Place Published: Liverpool
Publisher: The Millennial Star
Date Published: Circa 1900
Edition: Later editions
Binding: Hardcover
Book Id: 5042
Two separate volumes being sold together. [9]-105pp. and [9]-118pp. Sextodecimo [15 cm] Good condition. One volume contains a chapter on "Patriarchal Marriage" and the other volume does not contain this chapter. The volume containing the patriarchal marriage chapter has a black cloth spine with black leather flexible card boards. It has a section of Bible scriptures bound at the front. The Ready References are bound at the back of this volume and the title page is missing. Approximately half of page 990-991 from Galatians in the scriptures section of the leather bound volume is torn and missing. Occasional underlining, highlighting and soiling. The corners of the pages are occasionally dog eared. There are short closed tears in the edges of some of the pages. The second Ready References volume without the section on patriarchal marriage is bound in original, black cloth; text complete. Both show wear to extremities with creases and cracking to the boards of the leather bound volume. Both volumes gently rubbed. The cloth bound volume is cracked at the beginning. Pages browned. The books highlight a transitional period in Mormon history when patriarchal marriage was officially banned, but still practiced among a small group of church members. In 1890, LDS President Wilford Woodruff issued a Manifesto officially ending the practice of plural marriage among Mormons. Woodruff's Manifesto was considered by many Mormons to be only a public announcement to ease governmental pressures against plural marriage. It took several more years before the practice subsided, when in 1906, a more definitive ban on plural marriage was issued. The book of Ready References with the chapter on "Patriarchal Marriage" clearly shows that ten years after Woodruff's Manifesto, the doctrine of plural marriage was not deleted from the text.
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[Fix] Can't Convert Basic Disk into Dynamic Disk in Windows
Many Windows users have faced a strange problem while converting a basic disk into dynamic disk. Whenever they try to convert, they receive following error message:
The pack name is invalid.
Microsoft has acknowledged this issue and has posted a working solution for this problem. Actually this problem occurs when you are using Windows in a country such as China, Japan or Korea. When you install Windows, it asks you to provide a name to your computer and if you used one or more double-byte characters such as hanzi (Chinese), kanji (Japanese) or hanja (Korean) while giving name to your PC, you might face this problem.
This problem can be faced by Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 users. If you are also facing this problem, you can follow these simple steps to fix it:
1. Open RUN dialog box by pressing Win+R keys together and type sysdm.cpl and press Enter.
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If the sun shines on Oxleas Wood in south-east London, it will be a good opportunity to view Britain's new culture of protest. Alongside the folk of Eltham and Greenwich, disenchanted Tories and worthies from the mainstream environmental movement will be an assortment of student activists, deep greens, New Agers, travellers and pagans. Most are young and radical, some are out of work. All are angry. Good weather could bring out more than 5,000.
The Oxleas festival, now in its third year, mixes nature celebration with political statement. 'We try to hold it as close to the summer solstice (tomorrow) as possible,' Jessica Currie, one of the organisers, said last week. 'There is a kind of magical feel about the woods at this time of year.'
Among the bouncy castles and green theatricals you might spot Dragon, a group which for the past two years has been circle- dancing and drum-banging 'to create a ring of protective magic around the woods'.
Dragon's magic, and the festival, are aimed at the Department of Transport, which wants to build a dual carriageway through Oxleas, a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) and one of the largest surviving ancient woodlands in London. If the plans go ahead - construction was due to start early next year, although court action and appeals to the European Commission may delay it - many people are predicting the biggest environmental protest Britain has seen.
To understand why, you must go to a hillside outside Winchester - or what remains of it. Twyford Down contained two scheduled ancient monuments and two SSSIs; it was part of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). In theory, it was about as safe from the road-builders as a landscape can be. But last year, while the European Commission was considering a complaint that the UK had broken EC planning law, the Department of Transport sent in the bulldozers, to complete the 'missing link' of the M3.
There is disbelief in many people's voices when they speak of the destruction of Twyford Down. The water meadows and ancient trackways have gone. So have the orchids, the butterflies and the Celtic field systems. In their place is a vast chalky scar filled with yellow earth-moving vehicles and figures in black from Group 4 security. Neville Simms, Tarmac's chief executive, did not endear himself to protesters last week when he told them that the company had received many compliments on the 'excellent tidiness' of the site.
Guerrilla warfare has become endemic at Twyford. Since 23 February, when work began on the cutting, scarcely a week has passed without demonstrators chaining themselves to dumper trucks and bulldozers, squatting in front of earth-moving machines. Work has been halted on about 15 days: some 30 demonstrations have taken place. More than 50 people were arrested over one weekend last month. Protesters put the cost in damaged machinery and lost contract time at more than pounds 1.75m. Tarmac says no figure is available. In the High Court this week the department will seek to create an 'exclusion zone' banning more than 70 people from the vicinity of the down.
The campaigners' anger rests on two factors: the apparent failure of lawful protest to save one of Britain's most protected landscapes, and the alleged 'desertion' of Twyford by the environmental movement. David Croker, chairman of the Twyford Down Association, last year resigned after 13 years as a Conservative councillor, saying that the Government would 'stop at nothing to get their way'. Britain, he said, had turned into a Stalinist state. A few months later the association abandoned its fight. Friends of the Earth, the one national environmental body involved in the campaign, was threatened by court action and backed off.
Only the Dongas tribe was left. The Dongas - naming themselves after the ancient trackways at Twyford - are a group of travellers who built a teepee camp to defend the down. On 9 December, 20 were evicted by Group 4 guards. David Bellamy, the conservationist, was bitter at the absence of groups such as FoE and Greenpeace. 'Two thousand people can turn out to defend the rainforest in Tasmania for two months,' he complained. 'Why can't they here?'
At Oxleas, they may. Around the Dongas has formed an alliance of green activists and eco- saboteurs - from Pagan Link, Earth First] and Reclaim the Streets to the newly established Friends of Twyford Down. Via the Oxleas Alliance, formed last month, these have made common cause with the wider green movement.
The alliance, which includes organisations such as FoE, the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Royal Society for Nature Conservation, has a million members, all of whom are being asked to 'beat the bulldozer' - to pledge themselves to resist the road by non-violent direct action: the aim is for 10,000 pledges. Next month a national rally at Oxleas will see assorted celebrities and eco-luminaries - Dr Bellamy, Jonathon Porritt, Sir David Attenborough - sign up.
According to Jonathan Bray, of Alarm UK, which represents 150 local anti-roads groups, Oxleas has become 'the line in the sand they shall not pass'. He adds: 'Twyford Down has become a symbol for the environmental movement. People are determined that it won't happen again. We have all got better things to do with our time than stand in front of bulldozers, but if the Department of Transport wants television and newspaper pictures of private security guards dragging away the respectable people of Eltham and bulldozers knocking down an ancient woodland, that's their funeral.'
The prospect fills the road lobby with alarm. Last month the British Road Federation abandoned its support for the destruction of Oxleas and called on the department to compromise. According to Paul Everitt, its assistant director, local opposition has spread 'virtually countrywide. . . . Politicians would find the levels of protest unacceptable'.
For environmentalists, Oxleas has another advantage over Twyford - its proximity to London and the media. But Mr Bray sees signs of a national direct-action network emerging - a kind of mobile strike force (some of those arrested on Skye protesting at work on the bridge from Kyle of Lochalsh were from Manchester, Oxford, the South Coast). 'Roads and traffic have become the focus of wider environmental concerns. It is not a distant issue, like the rainforest. It impacts on people's daily lives. People can get directly involved in campaigning.'
With the much-expanded pounds 20bn roads programme threatening 160 SSSIs and 800 ancient monuments, more battles of the earth seem inevitable. Behind the new mood of militancy is the conviction that, whatever the rights and wrongs, the Government will build the roads it wants.
Back at Twyford, Emma, 27, one of the protest leaders, said: 'What they have done is a crime against the environment. A year ago I would never have dreamt of being arrested, but now I'm perfectly happy about it.
'For me, Twyford Down has opened lots of question about the rights of individuals in this country. When it comes down to it, the only action you have the power to take is physical - throwing your body in front of a digger. That's why so many people are starting to take it.'
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A huge fire at a waste recycling plant is billowing thick black smoke across east London.
Twelve fire engines and 81 firefighters have been battling the blaze at the recycling centre in Creek Way, Rainham, since 9.30am this morning.
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It is estimated about 100 tonnes of household waste is alight.
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SESSION TITLE: Critical Care Posters II
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PRESENTED ON: Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM
PURPOSE: Analysis of ventilator graphics is a tool used to optimize ventilator parameters and to recognize and treat patient-ventilator dyssynchrony. Although proficiency on these interpretative skills may have a tremendous impact on the outcome of patients undergoing mechanical ventilation, critical care physicians (CCP) often times do not receive structured training through educational sessions. Instead, they learn to interpret ventilator graphics by constantly managing patients in the ICU and by attending sporadic presentations at academic meetings. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of an educational program on ventilator graphics in a group of critical care physicians with different levels of expertise.
METHODS: The department of respiratory care designed a series of modules to train RT students and critical care physicians on the interpretation of ventilator graphics. Six 1-hour sessions were administered every two weeks to physicians in the division of pulmonary and critical care at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The course covered basic interpretation of scalar and loops and included short videos, lecture, and simulated ventilator scenarios. Participants included critical care physicians (CCP; n=3) and fellows of pulmonary and critical care during their first (PGY4; n=4) and third year (PGY6; n=3) of training. Prior to administration of the course participants were asked to score on a scale of 1 to 10 their perceived knowledge of ventilator graphics. A 26-item assessment tool was used before and after the course to evaluate impact of the program.
RESULTS: There was a 40.7% overall increase in the scores after the course (p < 0.01). The most significant change occurred in the PGY4 group (56.15%; p= 0.007) followed by the CCP (38.23%; p= 0.07), and the PGY6 (28.71%; p= 0.006). Their perceived level knowledge improved by a mean of 259% after the course. The most significant change occurred in PGY6 (350%) followed by PGY4 (333%) and the CCP (94%).
CONCLUSIONS: The implementation of a short course on ventilator graphics designed by a department of respiratory care significantly changed the perceived confidence and knowledge scores on the interpretation of ventilator graphics of critical care physicians.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Implementation of formal education on mechanical ventilation and ventilator graphics with participation of respiratory therapy can improve understanding of critical care montring and potentially improve clinical outcomes.
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Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA) is a widely used measurement technique capable of non-intrusively measuring a droplet diameter and up to three components of its velocity, simultaneously. PDA systems are frequently used to characterize spray nozzles and suppressant transport phenomena, which may be further used in model validation. It has been shown that the optical configuration can have a considerable effect on PDA diameter measurements. The current paper is part of an ongoing effort toward the development of a procedure to properly configure a PDA system for the best drop size measurement accuracy and reports on backscatter diameter measurements of glass microspheres using four separate measurement volume sizes. The presented data covers approximate particle to measurement volume diameter ratios from 1/25 to 1/3 which will be useful in providing guidance for the minimum ratio required to acquire backscatter diameter measurements free of errors due to measurement volume effects.
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Nature Day Camp is an exciting and unique opportunity for children and teens to get outside and experience nature first hand. Programs are designed for specific age groups and groups sizes are kept small to ensure an excellent learning opportunity for everyone. Campers ages 3-16 will make new friends, gain confidence in outdoor skills and get dirty as they explore Chippewa Nature Center and beyond.
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Vredestein/Carlsson: An explosive duo!
The Vredestein brand in its search for respectability has joined with the tuner Carlsson in a collaboration that risks making sparks fly.
To summarize Carlsson in a few words, it is a true institution in Germany, specialized in optimizing Mercedes. Its latest achievement based on the SL65 AMG, known as the C25 (753 hp) confirms its intact reputation.
This partnership results from the desire of Vredestein to conquer the high-performance tyre segment for luxury cars. Not a very interesting niche market in terms of sales volumes, but conveying a very strong image: elistist Verdestein tyres such as the Ultrac Sessanta should thus serve as the driving force for other products in the catalogue.
This collaboration results in the presence of these tyres on all Carlsson creations, not forgetting joint technical development.
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text: 25 Worst Original Names of Famous Bands…. Toronto, ON, Canada / 102.1 the Edge Lana Pavlovic August 01, 2015 09:26 am Don't even get me started…wrong…so very wrong! Although…I will say that Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem is a pretty sweet name for a band…but clearly this band were a little high when they came up with it. Find out who is below… 25 Worst Original Names of Famous Bands


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Scotland's World Cup 2014 Group A qualifying campaign will begin with a home double header, the Scottish Football Association have announced.
Scotland manager Craig Levein's side will play Serbia at Hampden Park on September 8, 2012 and Macedonia three days later in Glasgow as they begin their bid to reach the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil.
The first away match is set to come against Wales on Friday, October 12, with a trip to Belgium following on October 16.
Scotland's campaign is set to continue at home to Wales on Friday, March 22, 2013.
The return match with Serbia is poised to take place on March 26 and the first contest with Croatia away on June 7.
Belgium at home is scheduled for September 6, Macedonia away September 10 and Croatia at home completes the fixture programme on October 15.
Strathclyde Police announced they were happy to allow Scotland's home match with Wales to take place on a Friday evening.
Assistant chief constable Campbell Corrigan said: "Like everyone in Scotland we want Craig and the boys to qualify for the World Cup.
"In general we can't support big, high-profile matches on a Friday night. However, in these exceptional circumstances we are happy to cooperate."
Scotland last qualified for a major tournament in 1998, reaching the World Cup finals in France where they lost to Brazil and Morocco and drew with Norway.


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A timeline of moments from the game's Golden Age and beyond, illustrated with lots from our sale, The Golden Age of Baseball
A selection of classic images offered in our The Golden Age of Baseball sale on 19 October at Christie's New York
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In this week's installment: An Elvis-inspired Mr. Potato Head, how a minor league baseball team is protesting BP and meat vending machines.
Curses, Foiled Again
Police identified Anthony Brandon Gonzalez, 20, as their suspect in a home invasion after the victim, an Elvis impersonator in Pueblo County, Colo., said that one of the invaders had "East Side" tattooed on his upper lip. Gonzalez also has a "13" tattooed on his chin. According to an affidavit, the tattoos were visible even though Gonzalez was wearing a mask. "It's hard to miss him," Sgt. Eric Bravo said.
Three Australian men who attacked a 27-year-old German exchange student in a Sydney alley found out they were next to the Ninja Senshi Ryu warrior school when four students and their teacher came to the victim's rescue. "We just ran outside and started running at them, yelling and everything," said ninja master Kaylan Soto, who instructed his students to take action. "These guys have turned around and seen five ninjas in black ninja uniforms running towards them. They just bolted." Police arrested two of the attackers and were looking for the third.
Second-Amendment Follies
A 41-year-old man shot himself in the testicles while shopping at a Lowe's Home Improvement store in Lynnwood, Wash. Paramedic Jim Fischer said the victim, who was wearing black sweatpants, told him the gun "was in my waistband, and I felt it starting to slip, reached for it, and I must have positioned my finger so the trigger went off."
Not-So-Sweet Revenge
After her car was repossessed, Haleigh Boland, 26, tracked down the repo woman and tried to set the woman's car on fire. According to Etowah County, Ala., Sheriff Todd Entrekin, Boland poured gasoline on the vehicle but had trouble starting the fire. When it finally did ignite, the flash set her clothes on fire. The repo woman's surveillance video shows Boland tearing off her clothes and running to a waiting get-away car driven by her father. She suffered first and second degree burns to her upper body.
Spy Games
Indian police reported they were holding a pigeon under armed guard after it was caught on a "special mission of spying" for archenemy Pakistan. The pigeon had a ring around its foot and a Pakistani phone number and address stamped on its body in red ink. Police officer Ramdas Jagjit Singh Chahal said the bird was being held in an air-conditioned room under police guard, and senior officers asked for updates on the situation three times a day. Chahal added that Pakistani pigeons are easy to spot because they look different from Indian ones.
Carnivore's Digest
A man was hospitalized after being sucked into a sausage-making machine in Danver, Mass. Police Lt. Carole Germano said the worker at DiLuigi Sausage Co. was cleaning inside "a vacuum-type cylinder" that draws marinade into the meat when it somehow was activated, and his head and shoulders got stuck in the machine. The man was helped out of the machine with no obvious injuries but taken to the hospital as a precaution.
Scientists in mostly Muslim Kazakhstan have come up with a simple test to detect pork in food. "It's no secret that some chefs cheat and put pork to beef to make the dish cheaper," the newspaper Megapolis observed in announcing the test, which uses a plastic stick to detect pork molecules. "When you get your beef patty, cut off a couple of small pieces and drop them in a glass of water. Stir, shake, put the test stick in. In a minute or two you will see the result."
The Spanish butcher shop Izarzugaza has installed a meat vending machine outside its Mundaka location so customers can buy meat, sausages and sandwiches 24 hours a day. "We had to provide a service when the shop closes," fourth-generation butcher Izarzugaza Mikel, 31, explained.
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Minor league baseball's Brevard County Manatees announced they are protesting British Petroleum's Gulf of Mexico oil spill by changing the name of batting practice, commonly referred to as "B.P.," to "hitting rehearsal." The Manatees, an affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, play home games near Florida's Atlantic coast.
Potato Head Blues
Hasbro and PPW Toys announced they've signed a deal with the Elvis Presley estate to release an Elvis version of Mr. Potato Head. The first model, wearing a jumpsuit, will be introduced for Elvis Tribute Week in August. A second model, dressed in black leather, will be out in time for Christmas.
Bad Samaritan of the Week
A man whose car overheated in Naples, Fla., called his friend, Robert Matthew Garland, 20, to give him a ride. Instead, according to a Collier County Sheriff's Office report, Garland robbed him at gunpoint of his wallet and shoes and then kicked him out of the car.
Circumstantial Evidence
After Chicago police charged Lapolean Colbert, 19, with beating a high school student to death, prosecutors told the judge that the assault was captured on videotape and that Colbert identified himself in the video and admitted to beating the victim. Despite the evidence against him, Colbert's lawyer, Michael Clancy, declared he would fight the charges tooth and nail, explaining his client has no criminal background, is a good student and was planning to go to college.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
While arguing at a tavern in Winneconne, Wis., a 30-year-old man asked his 24-year-old fiancée to return her engagement ring. When she refused, he tried to pull it off her finger, according to the police report, which said she punched him in the faced four times, bloodying his nose.
After fleecing an American woman of $60,000 in a 419 scam, the scammers notified her that she had won $1.06 million and had to come to South Africa and bring $2,000 with her to claim her prize in person. "She duly came, and on arrival on April 15 they took her hostage from the airport and kept her in a house in Albertsdal, Alberton, for well over a month," said Musa Zondi of South Africa's Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation. "She was fed once a day while in captivity." She managed to escape on May 22 by breaking a window and notified police, who arrested three Nigerians and a South African woman.


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The Better Payment Practice Group, set up to promote awareness of the new laws, says small businesses are owed £17bn at any one time, £6.8bn of which is paid late.
Small businesses have had the right to claim interest and compensation from other small businesses since November 2000, although few are believed to have taken advantage of it because of uncertainty about which companies can use it and how. But Better Payment spokesman Peter Rowe, whose group has members such as the CBI and the Institute of Directors, believes that with the right being extended to big businesses today, companies will be less concerned about potential damage to client relationships.
'If big businesses start to apply interest on all overdue debts as a matter of course, we could see the move become an accepted standard practice in the UK like it is in some other countries,' Rowe said. 'If that happens we could see everyone taking it up.'
Interest can be charged on overdue debts at the rate of 8% above the Bank of England's official dealing rate. Costs incurred in recovering the money can be compensated at rates ranging from £40 for debts of less than £1,000 up to £100 for debts of more than £10,000.
Michael Frisby, a commercial lawyer with Stevens & Bolton, said the time allowed for payment will be either as stated in a contract or, in the absence of such stipulation, 30 days from the receipt of an invoice. He said the legislation also allowed a claim for late payment to be pursued for up to six years after it was due.
'Commercial considerations may dictate that organisations will wait until their business relationships come to an end, at which point the persistent late payer may face backdated interest claims going back some years.'
Frisby said the new powers could prove popular among liquidators as they attempted to maximise returns to creditors. But he warned the laws would also mean small businesses would have to ensure their payment procedures were effective if they were to avoid incurring the extra costs.
He said it may be possible to alter the terms of the penalties through a contract, although this could be difficult to draft. 'Any variation will have to provide a substantial contractual remedy for the late payment,' he said.
The legislation - the Late Payment of Commercial Debt (Interest) Act - was due to be introduced in November but was brought forward at the direction of the European Commission, which has set today as a deadline for achieving consistent debt repayment penalties across the Continent.
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USB Audio Player PRO v2.7.1 Final | 18.2 MB
High quality media player supporting USB audio DACs up to 32-bit resolution and any sample rate! Will play any popular format including wav, flac, mp3 and DSD files. This app is a must have for every HiFi enthusiast, bypassing all audio limits of Android. Without a USB DAC, the app is still one of the highest quality media players around. Note that you need a USB OTG cable to connect your DAC, any class compliant USB audio device should work.
* Plays wav/flac/ogg/mp3/DSD/aiff/aac/m4a/ape/cue/etc. files (even 24-bit or 32-bit).
* Supports a USB audio DAC connected by a OTG cable (if your Android device supports USB host)
* Plays natively up to 32-bit/384kHz or any other rate/resolution your DAC supports by completely bypassing the Android audio system. Other Android players are limited to 16-bit/48kHz, even on Android 5.
* DSD-over-PCM support for native DSD playback and DSD-to-PCM conversion if the DAC does not support DSD (.dff/.dsf files)
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* Stream audio directly from Tidal
* Android media database playback with playlists. Play albums or create your own play lists from a list of songs
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Warning: this is not a generic driver, you can only playback from within this app. It is not possible to use your USB audio device using this software with other apps!
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Great cruise
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Pros: Quality of food and entertainment was excellent
Cons: There was not enough of activities, a lot of dead time
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