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Reno, New Haven Coaches Talk 2012 Football
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The head coaches of the three college football teams in New Haven are gathering to talk about the 2012 season on August 7 at Black Bear Saloon. You can join them for the conversation as the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Sports Council hosts its third annual 'Chalk Talk – College Football in New Haven' event.
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Noah Finz, Sports Director at News 8/MyTV 9, serves as the moderator for the discussion that provides an opportunity for local professionals to network and enjoy an exciting evening of college football chatter.
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DOHCResearch constantly showcases some of the best Japan and Hawaii have to offer and today's post tells the same story.
Peep this gooooooooooorgeous little Nissan Cube that they posted up from their Slammed Society coverage.
I do believe that she is nestled on a set of CCW wheels, that set her off quite nicely. Yes, quite nicely.
The dropability (yes, I just made that word up, deal with it) is supplied by a setup from Bold World Air Suspensions. It looks f**king proper.
Just enough of everything is drizzled over this beauty.
Dat Ass.
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bensontrade needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
2 winners were selected from 203 designs submitted by 48 freelance designers.
BensonTrade (http://www.bensontrade.nl) is a dutch company that sells watches of many famous brands, watchwinders, watchboxes and other watch accessoiries online for the dutch, belgium and german market. In the Netherlands BensonTrade is one of the biggest online webshops with high Google rankings. We need a brand new logo and webdesign and after the job is done also maybe additional button design done by the winning designer. We also need at least 2 page setups/page layouts for the website design, one for the homepage (common) and one for a product or product categories page layout (the rest of the pages structure can be chosen by the developer).
Please be creative and unique in your designs and come up with a professional high quality, unique, WEB 2.0 style designs.
Dutch, Belgium and German consumers who are interested watches and watch accessoiries on our webshop.
Our current website is: http://www.bensontrade.nl.
Current webdesigns we like are:
-www.horlogeloods.nl (also a dutch watch website)
Of course don't copy the structure of those.
-Design both a logo and website or one of both
-Color usage for logo and website should mainly be silver/chrome, white and blue (not too dark), you can use other colors for other details
-Design website for minimal 1024 x 768 resolution, center aligned in browser, and even bigger with dynamic width that can be build by the developer
-Presentation of product (watches and accessoiries) are most important. Take a look at the current website and structure
-Design unique buttons/icons that can be used in the webdesign, like for example an "order now" button
-Properties of a product are almost the same on the current website, so title, description (new), properties, price, offer price..
-Be creative in structure and photo usage and use any photo's from the current product list in your design if needed
-High quality, clear, unique and professional design all in web 2.0 style
-Logo should show relationship to watches
-Website must be clear (not chaotic) and have a good overview
-No inline scrolling, so whole webpage will be scrolled
-Room for effects, web developer will of course build them.
-Optimal usage of space available.
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7/06/2010 10:05am, #571
It is difficult to take TA's word for anything when we already have firm evidence that even as a christian he has the ability to lie :
The links below are to two articles about his hit and run.
He not only lied to police but also the insurance company.
It also mentions "he will be sentenced at a later date after the court heard he faces other charges at another court for unrelated offences."
What where these? Ive not seen them mentioned before?
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/5...allife_mysteryKing without a crown
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That is the icing on the cake for me (after reading the link, thanks Mr P). The guy is scum and needs to get knocked off his pedestal one way or another.
7/06/2010 10:40am, #573
Sorry if I missed this being said before, but that article confirms Tony Anthony is at least his legal name and not just a pen name. Is there any way to confirm if it is his birth name?
7/06/2010 12:26pm, #574
7/06/2010 12:44pm, #575
Now that I think about it, I believe it was said earlier in this thread that his name is listed as Tony Anthony on the Charities Commission records for one of his ministries (or something like that) so I guess the real (legal) name thing isn't news.
Anyway, one some more questions that have probably already been addressed:
Are you sure he's British?
If so is he old enough to have been born in Cyprus and get British citizenship?
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He actually mentions this incident in the book, and I remember the book telling it in the same way as the newspaper. So he wasn't honest about it then, but he has come clean with the incident since(If it looks like I trying to defend him, I can tell you: I am not. I just wanted to state that this incident were clearly described in his book)
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Summary: Ten questions
Ten key questions:
1. There are no traces of the organizations under which Tony became World Kung Fu Champion although he names them. When this was pointed out Tony more recently said it he gave incorrect names to protect his identity from his Chinese family although he is publishing the book in China. He also said the organization was small, illegal and unknown and that is why he calls himself a 3 times World Champion. Is this a World Champion?
2. The Publisher and co-author co-operated with questions admit no facts were checked. The publisher, after consulting Tony, said Tony had promised him that he would post a Q&A on Tonys website www.avantiministries.com with answers to peoples questions. Years later this has not happened.
3. The impressive teaching materials Tony uses and says he wrote appear to have been plagiarised. Their frustrated author appears on the thread.
4. There are multiple discrepancies. Although the book describes Tony as having a Chinese mother and growing up and training in China Tony, when questioned, speaks almost no Chinese. There has never been a Saudi Ambassador to Cyprus while Tony describes being his bodyguard. Tony avoids questions about these and many others. Martial Arts proponents have followed up a surprising number of facts on an international scale. These can be followed on the thread.
5. Martial Arts proponents note the almost exact similarities in the tests Tony passed to the opening sequences of the Kung Fu TV series starring David Caradine.
6. Unusually for a Christian Leader Tony describes his policy to have no contact with his parents for the last fifteen years. This is very unusual. Tony speaks fluent Greek but not Chinese. He was in prison in Cyprus. There is record of an Antonio Anthony, born to a Greek Cypriot mother in North London. No one of his associates gets to meet his mother. This is probably the key place to confirm or disprove Tonys story a polite visit to his roots.
7. The Time Line of Tonys life, which someone on the thread has produced causes major questions copy below.
8. In the UK, in 2000 Tony was sentenced to 15 months in prison for perverting the course of justice. His car had hit a cyclist at night, killing her, but he had not stayed at the scene and later denied it to police.
2002 released from prison. 2004 published Taming the Tiger. This is a newspaper article at the time: http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/5...ut_death_crash. What are the other unrelated charges in another Court that the article mentions?
9. Tony has offered a CD that answers peoples misgivings and a Q&A on his website that responds to the questions from non Christian Martial Artists and concerned Christians. He also says he responds to respectful emailed questions. In practice he is evasive and misleading here. The promised Q&A only has questions about God. Tony told a visitor to his offices that, the decision was taken to focus on Jesus rather than myself. The CD has little on it. You are welcome to see what response you get to emailed questions.
10. Tony describes several incident s where he killed terrorists who attacked the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the UK and Cyprus. These would have been major International scandals of course (related to which Country was behind them) but there is no record of any such attacks and killings is there?
1969 Born
1973 First taken to China aged 4.
1976 Blackbelt in Kung Fu aged 7. [Research shows Chinese Kung Fu did not have a belt system then]
1982 Returned to England aged 13.
1986 Grandfather started testing him in real life combat situations. Fought Nanchang street gangs numerously of next few years aged 17. Despite all these years in China Tony doesnt speak Chinese!
1987 Taught hand to hand combat at the International Kung Fu Federation, then took the Body guard test, which consisted of training in telescopic counter terrorism rifles, semiautomatic carbines, pump action 12 gauge shotguns, protective driving, Para-medicine, international criminal law, anti terrorism, communications, and explosives then there were numerous written assignments and he wasl tutored in the basics of the Worlds major languages.
1987 Bodyguard for Diane, wealthy lady in Switzerland. Over the next few years rose though the ranks in the Close Protection Services
1987 -Worked as body guard for American business man William Black for several months in Saudi Arabia.
1987 Worked as bodyguard for Amin Fahed, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to U.K Italy and Cyprus. By now he was one of the highest paid bodyguards in the IKFF.
1987 Kung Fu World Champion all the above at the age of 18. As noted, the above details appear spurious to the Close Protection Community i.e professional bodyguards.
1988 Kung Fu World Champion aged 19.
1988 Returned to work for Amin. Death of his blind fiancée in an accident which derailed Anthony's life aged 19.
1989 Kung Fu World Champion aged 20.
1989 he was in Nicosia Central Prison in Cyprus - December
1990 became a Christian aged 21.
1992 released from Nicosia Central Prison aged 23.
1992 went to Baptist church in UK.
1995 married to Sara - 22nd July aged 26.
2000 sentenced to 15 months in prison for perverting the course of justice. His car had hit a cyclist at night, killing her, but he had not stayed at the scene and later denied it to police.
2002 release date - Feb 12
2004 published Taming the Tiger
2007 Present. Long running Martial Arts Thread started
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I googled 1973, China, entry to China etc. Mao Tse Tung was still in power (until 1976), the intensity of the Red Guard's time of wide spread killings had faded. Richard Nixon had visited Mao. I just couldn't get any definitive evidence about whether a 4 year old child from the UK could be flown in. I can see the point. It could be substantial. It's a good question. Clear thinking.
Is there clearer evidence out there?


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Circuit courts
The circuit courts were created on April 5, 1977 when Wisconsin voters approved a variety of proposed amendments to Article VII of the Wisconsin Constitution, which pertains to the judicial branch of government. These amendments permitted a reorganization of the Wisconsin courts.
Prior to court reorganization, there were two levels of trial courts in Wisconsin: the county courts and the circuit courts. Although the workload split varied from county to county, in general the judges in the county courts handled probate, juvenile, and traffic matters, and the judges in the circuit courts handled civil and criminal jury trials.
The reorganization created a single level, unified trial court -- the circuit court -- that handles all types of cases.


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What does a fake Russian from the South do before blasting a Jeep stocked with an entire load of watermelons from his World War II-era M5 tank? He drives through White Castle for some chow, much to the delight of his ever-growing YouTube fans.
Kyle Myers, who plays the weapons-crazed Dmitri Potapoff on his YouTube channel FPSRussia, has over 2.3 million subscribers, who log in to watch him fire massively big weapons and blow stuff up. For his latest trick, Myesr drove a tank through a White Castle drive-thru window before heading out to a field to show off the machine's artillery.
(LIST: Top 10 Endurance Competitions)
While Myers has already driven an armored personnel carrier through McDonald's for fans, on his most recent video he says that this time he wants to try out some White Castle. The burgers must have hit the spot, as he then shows off a handful of available weapons on the tank while destroying a cinder-block wall, a jeep and (for the greatest splatter effect) an entire pile of watermelons.
To cap off his video of destruction, Myers demonstrated how the M5 can run over the Jeep's lifeless corpse and then explained that his next tank demonstration will go even bigger: he's upgrading from the M5 to an M18 Hellcat tank. We just wonder where he'll go for lunch first.
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It was Feb. 23, 1865, when the First National Bank of Princeton was established. The bank's president, B.S. Ferris of Princeton, and its shareholders organized with $75,000 of capital as business began on Princeton's South Main Street. At the onset, there were 700 shares of stock and 27 shareholders.
B.S. Ferris served as president of First National Bank until 1874, when he sold his stock in the bank and started the Farmers National Bank of Princeton. At that time, D.H. Ferris (B.S. Ferris' brother) became president and served until 1882, followed by D.H. Smith who was president until 1911. H.C. Roberts was appointed president in 1911 and held the position for 19 years. Roberts became the first president of the board of Citizens First National Bank, after the 1930 merger of First National Bank, Farmers National Bank, and a third bank — Citizens National Bank, which had originally opened in 1879 at 606 S. Main St., Princeton. That location is where Citizens First National Bank still stands today.
That merger came as a result of the events of the Great Depression, when the aforementioned three banks along with First State Bank of Princeton discussed merging as one. All but First State Bank agreed. On Jan. 1, 1930, the three banks — by unanimous votes from their boards and shareholders — became Citizens First National Bank with assets of $3,000,000 and capital of $150,000. The chairman of the board was H.C. Roberts; the president of the board was C.D. Tedrow; officers were Hugh Ferris, Martin Zearing, George F. Zearing and Dwight Miller.
During World War II, Citizens First National Bank flourished, doubling in size between 1941 and 1945. By 1944, the bank had total assets of $8.2 million, and the bank's staff had grown to 18. C.D. Tedrow became chairman of the board and remained in that spot until his death in 1963, when George Zearing was elected chairman, succeeded by his brother, Robert I. Zearing, who took the position when George died in October of that same year. Robert Zearing served as president until 1976, when Gordon Sears was appointed. Robert Zearing continued to serve as chairman of the board.
From 1963 to 1982, the bank's assets grew from nearly $17,000,000 to almost $154,000,000. When Robert Zearing retired from the board after 51 years of service, James P. Monier became the new chairman in 1985.
D.E. Van Ordstrand was appointed president of the bank in December 1982, when Gordon Sears retired. During Sears' tenure, the bank's assets grew from $77,631,000 in 1976 to $153,939,000.
Princeton National Bancorp, Inc. originated in 1982 and bought the stock of Citizens First National Bank. As the holding company of Citizens First National Bank, Princeton National Bancorp made its second acquisition in May 1986 with the purchase of Genoa State Bank. In April 1988, the company acquired First National Bank of Oglesby.
The Annex, situated behind the main bank on Princeton's Main Street, was completed in 1990.
James P. Monier served as chairman of the board until 1994. During this time, with D.E. Van Ordstrand as president/CEO, the merger of the Princeton and Oglesby subsidiaries was completed. The acquisition of Illinois Valley Bankshares, Inc., with subsidiary offices in Peru, Princeton and DePue was completed in 1992, which caused an asset increase of nearly $76 million and growing total assets to $341,666,403. Also in 1992, Princeton National Bancorp became a publicly-traded stock on the NASDAQ exchange.
Thomas R. Lasier became chairman of the board in 1994 and served until 2002. In 1994, the company acquired Heart of Illinois Investment Corp, which included offices in Princeton, Spring Valley, Henry and Plano. Two new offices in Oglesby and Minooka were opened with plans to open another in Hampshire the following year. By the end of 1994, Citizens had 12 offices in nine communities.
D.E. Van Ordstrand retired at the end of 1996. During his tenure, the bank's assets grew from $153,939,000 to $420,407,000. The bank attributes much of the growth to the acquisition of Sandwich office and expansion of offices in Genoa, Oglesby, Peru, Sandwich, Spring Valley, Henry and Princeton.
Tony J. Sorcic was appointed president/CEO of Princeton National Bancorp on Jan. 1, 1997. Citizens was ranked No. 1 out of 124 banks in its geographic region in 1999 for loans made in 1997 and 1998. Commercial development in the Huntley area causes Citizens to move forward with another bank there.
The year 2000 marked the most profitable year in the history of the bank. Assets reached $515,180,000 and a record net income of $8,186,000 was achieved. Total deposits increased in 2001 by $56.4 million.
Thomas R. Lasier retired from the board in 2001. Craig O. Wesner was appointed chairman of the board.
In 2003, Princeton National Bancorp purchased land in Elburn and Aurora. Construction began on the Aurora facility in 2005.
Total deposits reached a record high of $537,800,000 in 2003, as did loans with a record high of $383,100,000.
In 2005, the company acquired Somonauk FSB Bancorp, which caused the Citizens banking family to grow in the towns of Somonauk, Sandwich, Millbrook, Newark and Plano. Assets at the end of 2005 were nearing a billion dollars. On Oct. 11, 2006, the total assets of Princeton National Bancorp surpassed that $1 billion mark.
In 2007, the bank grew again with a location in Plainfield.
Tony J. Sorcic retired from Princeton National Bancorp and Citizens First National Bank on Feb. 1, 2010. Thomas D. Ogaard was appointed president/CEO on Feb. 2, 2010.
In the late 2000s, the bank's loan portfolio began suffering major losses, which stressed the bank's capital to critical levels. The loan losses were deep enough to create a severe shortage of capital and resulted in regulatory intervention. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency filed a formal agreement with the company, demanding it raise its capital to comply with regulatory guidelines.
According to the 8-K filing, Princeton National Bancorp, Inc. reported its tangible equity to total assets ratio at the end of its second quarter (ending June 30, 2012) was 1.92 percent. Because of that percentage, the bank became "critically undercapitalized" within the meaning of the bank's ongoing Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) provisions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations of the OCC. At that time, the company was given 90 days to turn its situation around by raising additional capital or merging with another financial institution.
In June 20, 2012, Princeton National Bancorp was delisted from the NASDAQ Global Market for not meeting the requirements of the exchange. On June 29, 2012, the stock began trading on the OTCQB Marketplace.
Late in the afternoon on Nov. 2, 2012, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency closed Citizens First National Bank and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver.
According to the FDIC, in order to protect the depositors of Citizens, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Heartland Bank and Trust Co. of Bloomington to assume all of the deposits of Citizens First National Bank.
Citizens First National Bank employed more than 300 employees in 21 branches in 17 different communities.
The history of Citizens First National Bank
It was Feb. 23, 1865, when the First National Bank of Princeton was established. The bank's president, B.S. Ferris of Princeton, and its shareholders organized with $75,000 of capital as business began on Princeton's South Main Street. At the onset, there were 700 shares of stock and 27 shareholders.


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LOS ANGELES — The Anderson School at UCLA has appointed Alfred E. Osborne, Jr., associate professor of global economics and management, to the position of senior associate dean. In his new role, Osborne will be responsible for overseeing a variety of key areas and initiatives within the School, including development, alumni relations, career and corporate initiatives, career management and executive education. This newly created position will take effect July 1, 2003.
Osborne's key objective will be to enhance relationships with a number of constituencies within the business community. His aim is to develop more recruitment opportunities for students and support for the companies that hire them; to create and maintain a favorable climate for giving to the School in order to support its faculty, students and research centers; and to facilitate initiatives designed to enhance the relationship between The Anderson School and its alumni.
Previously, Osborne served as director of The Anderson School's highly ranked Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Under his leadership, the Price Center has won significant private sector financial support, established a strong network of alumni active in entrepreneurial companies and venture capital, produced several noteworthy executive training programs, and helped hundreds of students with job opportunities.
"No one is more capable of successfully combining these key efforts than Al Osborne," said Bruce G. Willison, dean of The Anderson School. "I am encouraged by the opportunities this new alignment and Al's leadership offer our School to deepen alumni relations, enhance recruiter relationships, promote executive education and broaden corporate points of contact."
Earlier in his career at The Anderson School, Osborne held other administrative positions, including that of associate dean and director of the MBA Program. Osborne will be transitioning from his faculty director position at The Price Center, although providing important continuity as part of the Center's Board of Advisors. In a related move, Elaine Hagan (MBA '91), who is currently associate director of The Price Center, is being promoted to executive director.
Through his academic endeavors, Osborne has organized faculty research, student activities and curricula related to the study of entrepreneurship and new business development at The Anderson School. He serves as faculty director of the Head Start/Johnson & Johnson Management Fellows Program conducted at UCLA and has led the development of several management-training programs designed to train leaders in the field of early childhood education, as well as the highly successful Management Development Program for Entrepreneurs.
With Osborne's support, the Price Center established a Director Training Institute led by Dr. Duke Bristow, which is designed in part to help officers of private firms prepare for the higher level of scrutiny that comes when they take their companies public. This institute also conducts research on governance and seeks to educate directors and officers of public companies regarding SEC regulations, Nasdaq rules, FASB considerations, and the current best practices in corporate governance.
A corporate governance expert himself, Osborne supports more knowledgeable and independent boards of directors with heightened understanding of their fiduciary duties. He believes that there should be greater corporate accountability, more transparency, and more stringent laws against white-collar crime and that executive compensation should be better aligned with the long-term interests of shareholders.
Dr. Osborne plays an active role on a number of public corporate boards, currently serving as a director on the boards of Nordstrom, Inc., Equity Marketing, Inc., and K2, Inc., and having served previously on the boards of the Times Mirror Company, US Filter Corporation, ReadiCare, Inc., Greyhound Lines, Inc. and First Interstate Bank of California.
Osborne's current research interests include venture capital, restricted securities and market liquidity, and the role of the board of directors in private and public corporations. He remains active in the entrepreneurial and venture development community, has served on the editorial boards of several journals, and consults with growing companies on business and economic matters. He was the first recipient of the Richard J. Riordan Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award and was a recipient of the 3rd annual BridgeGate 20 Awards, which recognizes contributions to the high technology community in Southern California.
Osborne, who was born in the Republic of Panama and speaks fluent Spanish, is a graduate of Stanford University, from which he earned four degrees: a Ph.D. in business and economics, an MBA in finance, an MA in economics and a BS in electrical engineering.
Osborne resides in Sherman Oaks, California with his wife Nancy Rahnasto, a former Disney consumer products executive, and their 16 year old son, Alex.


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BFC co-founder Christopher Redmond will be at the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival to represent his short film Ne pas reculer. If you'll be on La Croisette this year and are interested in teaching a course in Burundi, making a fim, or learning more about the BFC, contact Christopher to set-up a meeting.
The BFC is pleased to announce that a number of our films will make their international television debut on April 8th. The short fiction films Pigfoot, Mission: Montreal, and Knock Knock (Who's Dead?) will air on TV5 Monde Afrique, TV5 Monde FBS and RTBF, while the BFC documentary Home Free aired during the program Reflets Sud. Learn more.
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A few firsts for me that night; curries served in plastic cups, Indian vegetarian fastfood chain in Singapore and two cheerful Chinese staffs greeting me at the collection counter. How fun!
Komala. Komala. Komala. Komala. Komala.
I don't recall repeating a name for the longest time. The last was when I chanted to Kula Shaker's brilliant, psychedelic Govinda. Anyway, Komala's the name of the
babe restaurant that kept running in my mind ever since I saw their signboard as I exited the neighbouring Inle, a Burmese restaurant. Besides Komala, I knew I'll be back again, to the Basement 1 level of Peninsula Plaza for the good selection of interesting food. There's even a little charp farn (mixed rice) restaurant serving Burmese dishes.
At S$7.70 each, the South Indian and Briyani Poori sets were the most expensive items on the menu. Both include a Coke but the real thing here has got to be a cup of masala chai, right? I had it replaced, of course.
It was a wise choice to select two different sets as both came with distinctive dips and curries. With the South Indian set, I got my usual rasam, thairu, chutney and payasam as dessert. The Briyani Poori set came with chickpeas and dhal curries. A mix and match of the sauces with both the white and spiced rice was a complete meal by itself. A flavourful and complementary one at that, although the briyani could do better with a more generous dash of salt and spices. Pooris (yes, they came in twos!) were served hot and fragrant. Colourful, cooked vegetables lined the side of the South Indian set and I found the carrot/pumpkin stir-fry the most interesting as it was mostly sweet. Oh, there was even a cabbage salad which I almost mistaken for a coleslaw! That was good too.
Being fastfood means it is mass produced and that taste will be generic. But it's another story when it's generically good. Ahhh.....
Look at it this way; how many times have we been unhappy with the same favourite burgers from the same favourite fastfood chains? Almost never, right? Ok, let's not get into the shrinkage issue lah.
Komala's cool simply because the food is nice and comforting, especially the South Indian Set. With a menu that boosts a few staple snacks and pulaos, I think I might just be back here again soon.
Ok, right after I try the Burmese charp farn.
Komala's Restaurant
111 North Bridge Road
# B1-07C Peninsula Plaza,
Singapore 179098,
Telephone: (+65) 63335644.
Website: http://www.komalasweb.com/


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Grammatical Transformations in Ukrainian-English Translation of Official Texts
In our globalizedworld, both business and political decisions increasingly depend on translations of official documents.In this paper,the reader will be introduced to the stylistic peculiarities of official documents and the concept of grammatical translational transformations. The text of the Constitution of Ukraine and its official translation into English will be analyzed from the veiwpoint of grammatical transformations; the grounds for using the grammatical transformations will be analyzed and explained.
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- Task Type Feature Request
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- Operating System All
- Severity Low
- Priority Very Low
- Reported Version 3 RC5
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FS#643 - Zooming mode of operation
I just realized, that Zoom-in and Zoom-out (with the mousewheel) works different from graphical editors I know (as soon as drawing is larger than full screen).
Graphical editor (PSP X2 (and other too I think)):
Will make the position of the cursor the center of the drawing area. Thus allowing very fast to reposition the viewable area without changing into a move mode (Hand icon) and without the rulers on the left or down of the drawing area. The reposition is very handsome!
But this solution is only half way practical: If you use the wheel twice to zoom twice in sequence without moving the cursor, it will reposition the image twice - this double reposition is not practical at all, as the second reposition is rather random!
Lets the center unchanged and just zooms-in or Zooms-out.
My proposal:
- Zoom-in or Zoom-out around the current position of the cursor
- move this current position to the center of the screen
- move the cursor itself to the center of the screen (thus avoiding to shift the image again with a subsequent zoom-operation
- if the user uses a second zoom-op the new center remains mostly fixed. This would allow best of both solutions:
- but the user is free to make an other area of the drawing the new center if he actively moves the cursor again.
I think this would be very simple, intuitive and efficient to handle, reducing the need to reposition the drawing manually a lot.
Actually I think earlier version of graphical editors I used worked with were implemented that way.
I'm not an extensive CAD user. Maybe there are special requests for this type of work that are in contradiction to my idea. Maybe it would be practical to activate this type of zooming when used along with <ALT>. Hmmm - no: Allow original QCAD-zooming with <ALT>!
By the way:
Mouse right-click seems never assigned in QCAD. In Windows a user usually expects 'Properties' to be activated with right-click. But I think with the clever way you implemented this, there is no real need to change this. As the standard is already broken: Why not assign permanently a 'Move' (Hand icon) to 'right-click'...
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Reason for closing: Won't implement
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Opportunity knocked for Mepham's Emily Hagerty in the pentathlon at the State Qualifier Track and Field Meet at Freeport High School on May 28-29, and the junior took full advantage, winning the event by 25 points and qualifying for the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Championships in Middletown this Friday and Saturday.
Despite competing in just her third pentathlon, which comprises the 100-meter high hurdles, 800-meter run, long jump, shot put and high jump, the seven-time All-County honoree has already racked up a pair of first-place finishes in the event.
Hagerty's performance was one of many highlights of a banner campaign for the Mepham girls' spring program. Led by a number of young but veteran athletes, the Lady Pirates captured the regular season Division 2-A title for the first time in recent memory and will return the bulk of their top performers next season.
"We had a lot of girls scoring points and doing their jobs," Lady Pirates coach Anthony Serravite said of a roster that numbered 52 competitors. "The whole team has completely come around and knows what it means to work hard and earn everything they've gotten."
Of Hagerty, he said, "She's one of those student-athletes that comes along [rarely].She's very strong at a bunch of different events and [the transition to pentathlon] just made sense.
"She's such a natural athlete, and because of her ability, she was able to push through," Serravite added. "She's a very quick learner, and when she knows how to do something, she becomes really good at it."
Senior Anarita Lynch, a vocal and motivational captain and sprinter, and senior Francesca Ackerman, a jack-of-all trades who can score points in sprints, jumps or even the pole vault, will graduate in June, but there are plenty of key performers ready to keep Mepham moving forward.


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The Cooperative Capital Fund of New England (CCF) is a socially responsible investment fund that invests in cooperative businesses in the form of "patient capital," or equity-like financing. CCF assists the New England cooperative industry to grow and flourish by providing capital that acts like equity without requiring coops to give up control over their own management and destiny, as traditional venture capital might.
CCF is currently inactive.
CCF supports new and existing, cooperative and democratically owned and controlled enterprises, with preference to those that serve low-income communities. CCF shall accomplish its mission through:
• the provision of equity-like capital at reasonable rates and terms, with respect for the democratic owners and managers of the enterprise;
• the development of an investment opportunity that promotes cooperative enterprise;
• the creation of a mechanism through which cooperatives can invest in the development and expansion of cooperative business in our region; and
• the creation of an opportunity to Invest for "social return" in addition to economic return
It is the intent of CCF to build a more just economic system by:
• creating the possibility for systemic change that lifts people out of poverty;
• opening up conventional capital markets for cooperative businesses previously left out; and
• supporting and sustaining cooperative businesses that provide environmental, economic and social benefit.
The central goals of CCF's initial fund are as follows:
• To catalyze and deepen the core mission of CFNE by providing much-needed and currently unavailable capital to new and existing cooperative businesses in New England;
• To create a replicable model that can be learned from and repeated in-house as well as applied in other geographic regions and eventually on a national scale;
• To cultivate continued cross-communication, cross-investment and activism within the Cooperative community;
• To provide cooperatives, and other socially responsible investors with the opportunity to earn fixed-rate financial returns while making direct investments in cooperative businesses, and help realize the development and expansion of a cooperative economy; and
• To increase the exposure of CFNE and cooperative businesses within the financial, charitable and cooperative communities, attracting further investments and grants.
• Investments in the fund come from the coop community and from socially responsible individuals, faith-based and institutional investors, and earn 5% interest annually.
• To meet the capital needs of coops CCF makes investments in $10,000 to $150,000 in the form of preferred stock, subordinated notes or similar instruments and provide a likely exit for the fund in 5 to 8 years. The cost of funds to the coop is significantly less than traditional venture capital and more than collateralized debt. These funds will have the ability to leverage additional debt for the coops.
• The fund is be a separate organization affiliated with CFNE.
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The girls basketball teams at Germantown Friends School and Springside Chestnut Hill Academy were each dealing with some significant changes coming into the 2012-2013 campaign, but both the Tigers and Lions ended the season with reason to be encouraged about their future.
With a new head coach and new supporting staff, GFS significantly improved its regular-season record in the Friends Schools League, going from a team that had not qualified for the league playoffs to an FSL semifinalist. SCH graduated four starters from the previous year, but the Lions surprised many observers by improving their standing in the final Inter-Ac League rankings, and by recording the first victory over Germantown Academy in the history of the Springside School/SCH program.
When she went to work at Germantown Friends at the start of the current school year, even rookie coach Ashley Webster admitted that the basketball culture at the school needed to be revitalized. Under her leadership, that already started to occur this season.
A year ago, the Tigers were not in the running for a berth in their league playoffs, finishing up the FSL regular season with a 3-5 record.
This year GFS went 7-2, falling only to the eventual FSL champion, Shipley School, and the league runner-up, Abington Friends.
Securing the third seed for the Friends League tournament, the Tigers (11-10 overall) were only down by five points at the three-quarter mark in their semifinal against Abington before losing 42-25.
"The girls improved a lot in their confidence out on the floor, and in their overall basketball knowledge and awareness," said Webster, who attended GFS up through 10th grade and is now back on Coulter St. teaching in the lower school. "By the end of the season, they no longer needed me to tell them every little thing. They were more independent and they knew what their responsibilities were on the court."
Two starters, guard Sophie Mercuris and forward Katherine Walden are graduating this year, but that means that Webster will have the majority of this year's varsity returning.
"I'm expecting a lot of growth from the girls who were our bench players this year," she said. "They need to play more in the off-season so that they're ready to take on a larger role on the varsity team."
Two young guards, sophomore Imani Ross and freshman Lizzie Becker, have both been participating in AAU basketball programs for some time, and Webster hopes to see more Tigers with a basketball in-hand outside of the three months or so of the winter school season. She said that younger players will get a chance to compete together in a spring league in Cheltenham Township, and she's also looking for a summer league for her varsity squad.
In addition, there is extra-curricular hoops activity happening right on campus, such as the "Early Risers" program that has middle school students coming in one day a week to train before school starts. There have been some clinics conducted on weekends, as well.
"I've also had a chance to sit in on some eighth-grade practices at school, and I'll catch a game when I can," Webster related. "I want them to know that we're supporting them and that we're aware that they're the future of our varsity program."
Over at Springside Chestnut Hill, the Lions were coming off of a successful 2011-2012 campaign. After coping with injuries to key players in the first round of Girls Inter-Ac League games, the team had regrouped and gone 5-1 in the second round, securing a tie for fourth place in the final standings. In their final game in the Pa. Independent Schools Tournament, the Lions lost by a single point to the eventual champion, Shipley School.
However, a few months later four starters from the squad graduated, three who would go on to play basketball at the next level, and a fourth who is now a collegiate softball player. Some people felt a letdown was inevitable for the SCH squad, but second-year head coach Steve
Purcell didn't want his players to buy into that way of thinking.
He recalled, "I told them that we took a step forward last year and had a nice season, and just because people think you can't do that well again, you can't stop believing in yourselves. You have to go out on the court thinking you can win."
Purcell's squad recently wrapped up the season with a record very similar to the one last year's more experienced team produced. A year ago the Lions finished 14 and 14 overall, and this time around they went 13-14, playing tough non-league games against New Jersey's star-studded Life Center Academy (twice), Shipley, Suburban One American Conference champion Upper Dublin, and Archbishop Ryan and St. Hubert's from the Philadelphia Catholic League.
As Purcell observed, "If you don't play good teams before you get into the league, you're not going to get any better, and you're not going to do well in the Inter-Ac. We had some clunkers, but we had a lot of games where we really played well."
Both this year and last, SCH posted a 7-5 mark within the Girls Inter-Ac, but this year that figure was good enough to earn fourth place outright, while last year the team shared that spot with Penn Charter.
The lone returning starter, Gianna Pownall, was a team co-captain this winter, along with fellow senior guard Maddi Hinchey.
"They were good captains, even though they weren't the rah-rah type," said Purcell. "They practiced hard and played hard and set the example, and the other girls followed."
NOTE: Recently, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy decided that the girls' varsity sports teams would abandon their old Lion mascot and go by the nickname of Blue Devils, used by the boys' teams at SCH and, prior to that, at the former Chestnut Hill Academy. The LOCAL referred to the SCH girls teams as the Lions for the duration of the winter season, but henceforth they will be known here as the Blue Devils. For now, the large "Lions" logo and paw print still appear in the middle of the basketball court in the school's Lois Fernley Gymnasium.


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Meanwhile, K-Fed's lawyer has contacted TMZ, telling us he will subpoena a story we aired about Britney running a red light. Kaplan wants the tape for an unscheduled court appearance on Wednesday.
The story, which ran Friday on TMZ TV, shows Britney -- her kids in the backseat and the court-appointed monitor in the front -- blowing a red light at an extremely dangerous intersection Thursday night on her way home. A close look at the video shows that she held her cell phone up to her face just seconds before running the light -- it appears she's texting.
Kaplan has already asked the judge to prohibit Spears from driving with the kids in the car. Commissioner Scott Gordon is set to rule on that motion on November 26. The latest development could accelerate that decision. The Commish has been troubled by Spears' driving -- the incident Thursday night could jeopardize her visitation.


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Forget Thanksgiving... Black Thursday is the new Black Friday
I mean, c'mon... Target was quoted saying they're opening on Thanksgiving for the stampede of Christmas shoppers because of customer demand. Well, customers are stupid, including me. I need hurdles to keep me from doing dumb sh*t every now and again (sometimes it's a muzzle, sometimes it's limited opening hours). Not that stores are in the business of keeping me away. On the contrary. But... well, whatever. They're open Thanksgiving.
However, I'm so not against fleeng the dysfunctional family fun for a few minutes, locking yourself in the bathroom, to shop online. You're not actually leaving the party because you think Macy's sale is more important than, say, the woman who pushed you through her vaginal canal to give you life, so you look like less of a jerk than if you just pushed your chair away from the table, removed the napkin from your lap and left. Plus, it gives you a much-needed moment of solace to gather the mental fortitude and the zen state needed to go back in there and not tackle and strangle Grandpa while he's on yet another offensie diatribe about some group of people or another.
And if you live in soft clothes, like me (aside from the accidental Mom Jeans purchase every now and then) but maybe you're a teeny bit over everyone and their mom -- and your mom -- wearing the same Lululemon pants you saved for two months to buy, then I recommend Beyond Yoga's online sale.
Sure, the PR emailed me about it.
BUT it looks like quite a tasty sale so I thought, email from the PR or not, you'd appreciate hearing about it.
So build in a little alone time on just another day for shops to take advantage of you Thanksgiving to save your sanity, though we can't comment on saving your waistline.


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The CATV Channelized Audio/Video Modulator, Channel 41, from Blonder Tongue is an all-solid-state audio/video modulator that provides a modulated visual and aural RF carrier output on one specific CATV channel. The unit modulates the audio and video inputs and provides the requested RF CATV channel output for use in a CATV, MATV or SMATV system. The modulator accepts standard (sync negative) polarity video at a 0.7-2.5V peak to peak level from sources such as a TV camera, video tape recorder, TV demodulator or satellite receiver.
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|CATV channel 41
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|-7 dB to -20 dB
|Frequency Tolerance
|±10 kHz standard channels, ±5 kHz FCC 21006 offsets
|Audio Carrier Frequency Setting
|±1 kHz maximum, 4.5 MHz above video carrier
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|1 dB P/V from Fv -0.5 MHz to Fv +4.2 MHz
|Broadband Noise
|-90 dBc
|Spurious Output
|-60 dBc in 50 to 860 MHz Range @ +55 dBmV output
|Output Match (Return Loss)
|12 dBc
|Vestigial Sideband Response
|@ channel edge -20 dB, @ adjacent channel -40 dB
|0.7 to 2.5 V peak to peak for 87.5% modulation
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|18 dB
|Carrier-to-Noise Ratio
|62 dB in 4 MHz bandwidth
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|60 dB peak to peak video to 60 Hz RMS
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|5% at 87.5% modulation
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|10 kΩ, unbalanced
|140 mV RMS for 25 kHz peak deviation
|Frequency Response
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|Intercarrier Stability
|4.5 MHz at ±5.0 kHz
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|105 - 130 VAC, 60 Hz, 10.5 W
|Temperature Range
|0 to +50°C
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|F-type female
|Video In
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|F-type female
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Read some travel tips to help you out before your trip to Greece
American and Canadian citizens must have a passport that is valid for at least 90 days beyond the intended return date in order to enter and depart the country. Tourists must also provide proof of return or onward travel. Each traveler is responsible for ensuring that his/her passport is up to date. Citizens of other nationalities should check with respective authorities before departure.
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• Hydrocortisone tablets or cream for allergic skin reactions and bites
• Anti-nausea tablets if you suffer from motion sickness
• Sunscreen (SPF 30 or higher), after-sun lotion, lip balm, wide brimmed hat, sunglasses, Insect repellent
Even though Greece is small in size, it has a varied climate. A Mediterranean climate of sunshine, moderate temperatures and very little precipitation is enjoyed by most of the country, including its coastal areas. You can usually rely on sun and pleasant temperatures between May and June and September-October with the hottest temperatures from mid-July to mid-August. Beaches in Greece are at their busiest in July and August. For up-to-date forecasts, check weather.com.
Electricity in Greece is 220 volts. Greek sockets are designed to accept two round prongs. A multi-adaptor with different plug configurations can be very useful. We advise not to bring a hair dryer as it could blow a fuse.
Phone: Roaming charges vary between carriers, but tend to be quite costly. Consult your phone provider prior to departure to discuss overseas rates and international package options. It is also possible to purchase a SIM card locally to avoid international charges when calling numbers within Greece. (You should check to see that your cell phone is SIM card compatible.)
Internet: Wireless access is available in most urban areas, airports and hotels. You'll find Internet cafés in both small and large cities throughout Greece.
Be sure to bring lots of small bills for porters, wait staff and housekeeping (not obligatory and based on your satisfaction). Euro paper money comes in different colors and denominations (5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 notes). There are also Eurocent coins: 1 cent, 2 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents, 1 and 2 Euro. Your largest bills should be 50 Euros, with a combination of 5's, 10's and 20's. We recommend that you bring approximately 100 Euros of spare cash in small denominations to have ready for tips and expenses when you first arrive.
We recommend that you get local currency from your bank before you leave home or from a bank machine in-country which is much cheaper than an exchange service at the airport or in tourist areas. Your bank card may work, but Visa or MasterCard are more widely accepted. You will need a 4-digit PIN to be able to use your cards in Europe.
• Capital: Athens
• Language: Greek
• Currency: Euro
• Religion: 98% of the population is Greek Orthodox
• Time Zone: UTC + 2
• Electricity: 220 volts
• Telephone: Country code for calling you from outside Greece is 30
• Calling North America: Dial 001 and your 10 digit number
• Emergency numbers in Greece: General Emergency: 112; Medical: 166; Police: 100; Fire: 199.
You should definitely have with you: your driving license (at all times) and any motorcycle clothing you need. At minimum ensure you have your helmet and raincoats (jacket & trousers set).
Prefer light, summer clothing. However, also have with you one or two warmer shirts or fleece. Also, remember your swimwear and sunglasses!
Do not worry if you forget something. We can help you find anything forgotten and deemed necessary.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 3, 2010) - The ETSU baseball team overcame a nine run deficit to split the doubleheader with North Florida, coming back to win the nightcap 20-19 after dropping the first game 8-4 Saturday at Cardinal Park.
Bo Reeder (Cookeville, Tenn.) went 8.0 innings for the Bucs (17-9, 6-3 A-Sun) in game one suffering the loss after giving up six runs (three earned) on ten hits. Junior Bo Burton (
Michael Kelly earned the win for the Ospreys (16-14, 6-3 A-Sun) in the first game, while Josh Patton was tabbed with the loss in game two.
Offensively, centerfielder Matthew Scruggs (
Hoilman's six RBI on the day moves him into a tie for fourth on the ETSU career RBI list, while his 39th career home run placed him one back of Rod Walker for second place on the Buccaneer career home run list.
In the first game, the Bucs grabbed an early 3-0 lead. After a Scruggs single and a Chas Byrne (
UNF evened the game at 3-all in the top of the third scoring three runs on three hits including RBI doubles by Michael Smith and Andrew Karmeris.
The Ospreys took a 4-3 lead in the fourth as David Eldredge came in to score on a Buccaneer error. UNF would score two more in the inning on a two-run double by Smith to go in front 6-3.
ETSU cut the lead to 6-4 in the seventh as Byrne drew a bases loaded walk to score right fielder Corey Betterson (Atlanta, Ga.).
UNF jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first inning of the second game scoring five runs on five hits highlighted by a two-run double by Corey Bass.
The Ospreys added two runs in the second inning on a RBI ground out to second by Hale and a RBI single by Eldredge to make the score 7-0.
In the UNF fourth, Karmeris led off with a solo home run to left center to extend the Osprey lead to 8-0. Later in the inning, Eldredge singled in a run to give
The Buccaneer bats came alive in the bottom of the fourth scoring eight runs on seven hits to cut the UNF lead to one run, 9-8. ETSU sent 14 batters to the plate in the inning highlighted by two-run singles by Jamie Crawford (
Karmeris increased the
ETSU answered in the bottom half of the inning as Scruggs brought the Bucs within a run singling in Kerry Doane (
North Florida jumped back in front 14-11 in the sixth as the Ospreys scored four runs on five hits highlighted by a two-run single by Smith.
The lead was short lived for UNF as ETSU again answered scoring five runs on five hits in the bottom of the sixth to go ahead 16-14. After a Done RBI single, Scruggs doubled to right center scoring two runs. Hoilman capped off the scoring for the Buccaneers in the inning driving a two-run home run over the fence in right for his 13th home run of the season.
In the seventh, UNF took the lead for third time in the game scoring four runs on four hits to make the score 18-16. Eldredge had a two-run home run for the Ospreys in the inning.
The ETSU seventh saw the Bucs go back in front 19-18 with one swing of the bat as Scruggs hammered a 3-2 pitch over the left field fence for a three-run home run. The homer was the fourth of the season for Scruggs.
After a scoreless eighth for North Florida, the Buccaneers got an insurance run as Andrew Green (
The Ospreys threatened in the ninth as Eldredge led off the inning with his second home run of the game cutting the Buccaneer lead to 20-19. After
The Bucs are back in action Tuesday at 7 p.m. as they host
Game 1: UNF 8, ETSU 4 (April 3, 2010 at
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ETSU............ 300 000 100 - 4 6 3 (16-9, 5-3 A-Sun)
Pitchers: ETSU - Bo Reeder; Bo Burton (9)
UNF - Michael Kelly, Clayton Schulz (7); Casey Medlen (7)
Win - Michael Kelly (3-4) Loss - Bo Reeder (2-1) Save - Casey Medlen (2)
Game 2: ETSU 20, UNF 19 (April 3, 2010 at
UNF............... 520 214 401 - 19 26 0 (16-14, 6-3 A-Sun)
ETSU............ 000 835 31x - 20 23 2 (17-9, 6-3 A-Sun)
Pitchers: ETSU - Ben Booker; Scott McNally (5); Josh Means (6); Bo Burton (7)
UNF - Robbie Collier; Kyle Finch (4); Kris Linster (5); Trey Ferrano (6); Josh Patton (6); Clayton Schulz (7); Kyle Westwood (8)
Win - Bo Burton (2-1) Loss - Josh Patton (0-1)
HR - ETSU - Paul Hoilman (13); Matthew Scruggs (4)
UNF - Andrew Karmeris (5); David Eldredge 2(2)


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App.net, which pivoted to a Twitter-style service when Twitter began choking out third party client developers, has now taken a bold new step towards what just might be a bigger, unbundled future. And, oh yeah, that future comes with 10GB of cloud storage for members. Dalton Caldwell writes on the App.net blog:
Imagine a world in which your social data (e.g. messages, photos, videos) was easier to work with. For instance, imagine you could try out a new photo sharing service without having to move all of your photos and social graph. In this world, your photos are held in a data store controlled by you. If you want to try out a new service, you can seamlessly login and choose to give permission to that service, and the photos that you have granted access to would be immediately available.
And that storage, part of the new Files API:
App.net "member" and "developer" tier accounts now have access to a 10GB bucket of file storage. This storage can be accessed by App.net applications in order to read/write files.
10GB for $36 a year could be compelling, depending on how services tie into it and build on it. Apple's iCloud is free, Dropbox has a ton of buy-in from iOS developers, and Google and Microsoft continue to escalate size and value with Google Drive and SkyDrive.
But none of it is very social, at least not yet. Many of us probably don't need another Twitter. A surprising amount of us might need a better social web service. Something that lets us keep our stuff our stuff while we explore the migration patterns between giant corporations and hungry young upstarts.
This could be interesting.
Source: App.net


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Brigance Forum Lecture to Focus on Bob Dylan• March 19, 2007 Share:
Bob Dylan's music will be the focus of the 2007 Brigance Forum Lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday night. Larry David Smithh has written extensively on the functioning of popular music in society, including two books on Bob Dylan. In previous books, he has written about Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Pete Townshend and Joni Mitchell.
The lecture, "Bob Dylan: Sonds of a Lonesome Traveler," will be based on his most recent book, published in 2005.
The Brigance Forum lecture is an annual public lecture or debate is endowed by the Brigance family, friends and former students in memory of the late William N. Brigance. During his time as a Wabash professor and chairman of the Speech Department (now known as the Rhetoric Department), Professor Brigance fostered a desire in students to be more effective in their speaking. He was also the creator of college's Speaker's Bureau.


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After Allowing Girls to Join Boy Scouts, The Girl Scouts Are Firing Back
By Julio Rosas
October 12, 2017
On Wednesday, the Boy Scouts of America announced girls will be able to join the program and will be allowed to go through the process of obtaining the rank of Eagle Scout. The announcement of the decision was met with heavy criticism.
Now its sister organization, the Girl Scouts of the USA, have weighed in on the decision, and the Boy Scouts are not going to like what they have to say.
"We've had wind that this was in the works and we were somewhat surprised that this was a unanimous decision [by the BSA board]," Chief Customer Officer for Girl Scouts Lisa Margosian told BuzzFeed News. "We've had competitors come and go and this is yet another competitor."
"We're disappointed in the way the BSA handled this," Margosian further stated. "We've enjoyed a strong relationship and partnership with them over the years and we're disappointed that the BSA didn't discuss this with us to say 'we're having trouble with our membership.'"


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[What do typesetters, shepherds, and independent bookstore owners have in common? That's not the setup for a bad joke – just a recognition that many traditional professions are under pressure these days, not the least of them the business of owning and operating your own bookstore. Facing the pressures of heavy competition from chains with deep pockets, a hesitant economy, and – most recently – assault from the likes of Kindle and the iPad, it is perhaps not surprising that membership in the American Booksellers Association has dropped almost 50 percent over the past 10 years (from about 2,700 members in 2000 to about 1,400 today). Over the course of the summer, the Monitor will be checking in with some of America's most beloved neighborhood booksellers to see how they are surviving or – occasionally – even thriving, in difficult times.]
Like hard-core journalists who run into a war zone just when everyone else is struggling to get out, husband-and-wife team Christin Evans and Praveen Madan made an unusual decision three years ago. They left high-paying consulting jobs in the corporate world – and bought an independent bookstore. Now happily ensconced as owners of Booksmith San Francisco, Evans took a few moments to answer questions from Monitor book editor Marjorie Kehe. Here are excerpts of their conversation:
Q. Why, in this day and age, would anyone leave the corporate world to buy an independent bookstore?
A. I can't answer that question for everybody but I can answer that question for us. Praveen and I both had reached a point in our career where we were very successful at what we did, which was help big companies get bigger. And we were very fortunate that we also could take some time off to consider what we wanted to do next.
And getting into independent bookselling for us was not the obvious choice. We did a lot of ideating about what our interests are, what our passions are, what we'd be excited about pursuing together as a couple. Bookselling was not obvious but it was one thing that came up and that we both kept coming back to. We both are readers and we both found ourselves spending a lot of time at bookstores.
We came from a background of helping companies apply technology to their businesses but also we are both MBAs so we both had business training and background. We basically said, what is it that an independent bookstore does? And we started to ideate about all the things that independent bookstores could do to create a sustainable model for their business, and the more that we got into that ideation the more we said there are a lot of things that bookstores should be trying to see if they can survive relative to the chains and Amazon.
I think it's an incredibly exciting time to be in this space right now. I feel like I'm an entrepreneur in the Wild West in a way, on the frontier, because we're seeing some really exciting things. We've built really strong ties with some local authors who are experimenting with self-publishing and promotion; we are working with established authors with new methods of promotion, whether that's live streaming, video, using social media. In some ways technology allows us to enhance and enrich the community which already exists around the bookstore, so where there are opportunities to do that we've been actively experimenting and participating in that.
Q. How do marriage and co-bookstore ownership go together?
A. People that know us describe us as a great team. We're very complementary. Certainly we were workaholics before in our old life, but now we're workaholics and we're working on something that we're very passionate about and enjoy working on together.
Q. How do you keep your staff happy?
A. We look for people that are passionate, excited about what we're trying to do here. They also do a good job of keeping each other motivated. I don't know how much of a role we as owners play in that. Having a great manager is part of that. We do a lot of fun things like celebrating birthdays and being aware of each other's lives and being aware of each person that makes it feel like – it's a little bit cliché – but that makes it feel like a family.
Q. What advice would you give to someone thinking of opening or buying an independent bookstore?
A. You should really do your homework. Talk to people in the community who already patronize that business. Talk to people who would patronize your business. Local authors. Talk to sales reps. Talk to distributor representatives. Really understand what you're getting into. Because a lot of people have a dreamy notion of what running independent bookstore might look like and one of the paradoxical things is that you almost have less time to read than you did before. Think about all the things that need to happen and then triple that number and that's how much you're going to be struggling to get done.
Q. What's the best thing about the job?
A. The best thing about owning an independent bookstore in San Francisco is being part of this community. I was a reader and in some ways I was sort of disconnected from the author. I was disconnected from other readers. And now I've found so many other interesting people. Praveen and I both like to say that we're idea people, we're driven by ideas. And by virtue of being a member of the community that surrounds an independent bookstore you find a lot of other like-minded people, literary-minded people that are interested in ideas, in literary experimentation, in the long written form.
Marjorie Kehe is the Monitor's book editor.


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On this Fourth of July holiday week, we pause to reflect on the 237-year-long American tradition that, despite flaws, failures and often disputed compromise of values and dreams, stands for justice and freedom. As our people debate the issue of marriage equality in what some label the final frontier of the equal rights movement; as we come to terms with the enormous task of finding an equitable and fair solution to illegal immigration affecting upwards of 20 million people living and working in the U.S.; and as our citizens continue to be divided along the emotional lines of pro-choice vs. pro-life, we ask, how far have we come as a people, as a nation with standards?
The answer is certain. We have come very far. America has collectively set the world standard for religious tolerance, women's rights, racial equality, ethnic diversity and acceptance, all in an ever-changing vortex of opportunity growth, discovery and prosperity. Not for all, to be fair, but for so many.
This Fourth of July week in America, we are also subjected to the pervasive media reports focused on the personal failure of words from one of the nation's current celebrity targets — one down-home Southern chef turned media millionaire Paula Deen. It is nothing more than a modern-day Salem witch hunt. Who among us, regardless of our ethnic, religious or otherwise individual background, has not uttered a negative or derogatory expression about another person in a moment of frustration, anger, weakness or plain stupidity?
Ultimately, what separates Americans in the final analysis is not the word but the action. And while we cannot deny our bias, our prejudice and the resulting horrific effects on our nation's history, in the end, by and large, Americans judge and treat one another based on hard work, fair play and respect for individual rights. Thankfully, this standard, perhaps above all else, remains a beacon of hope for the future of this ever-struggling democratic landscape.
In addition, we pay tribute on this Fourth of July holiday to the American spirit of generosity and charity. In Orange County and all across the nation, America is blessed with millions of citizens who would share their last piece of bread with a hungry stranger. We come together to provide education for our youth, to fund scientific research, to heal the sick and suffering, to shelter the homeless, to protect the most innocent and vulnerable among us. The outreach is endless.
Recently in the O.C., 375 citizens joined forces in Newport Beach for the 30th annual Cystic Fibrosis Gala held at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa, raising an impressive $623,000 net to continue the funding battle to help research for a cure. Chaired by Dan and Gayle Demsher working with dedicated Cystic Fibrosis Guild president Sue Hook, the evening honored donors, including Ken and Debbie Johnson receiving the annual "Breath of Life" award. Cystic fibrosis is a fatal, hereditary disease that affects the lungs and digestive system.
Again this season, radio personality Shawn Parr served as master of ceremonies for the evening. The highlight of the presentation was the annual return and emotional address by 26-year-old Stacy Motenko, who is living with the disease.
Major support for the cause came from American Airlines, Lithocraft, BJ's Restaurants, Helene Galen, Ron and Dianne Higgins, Tom and Penny Ling and the evening's honorees, the Johnsons.
Standouts in the crowd included Costa Mesa citizens Jim and Peggy Normandin, Chris and Heather Pullis, Frank and Mel Quattrocchi and Brett and Linnea Rubbico. Newport's Dan and Danni Good joined friends R.J. and Adrienne Brandes, Jack and Mary Norberg, Mike and Mary Zollman and Jack and Barbara Tingley, making a difference for Motenko and so many other young people fighting to prolong their breath of life.
Fourth of July blessings to all Newport-Mesa citizens. May the standards of justice and charity continue to be a hallmark of excellence and a source of pride in this community and this nation.
THE CROWD runs Fridays. B.W. Cook is editor of the Bay Window, the official publication of the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach.


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Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) - Library Edition (Hardcover)
About the Author
Suzanne Collins' debut novel, Gregor the Overlander, the first book in The Underland Chronicles, received wide praise both in the United States and abroad. The series has been a New York Times bestseller and received numerous accolades. Also a writer for children's television, Suzanne lives with her family in Connecticut.


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While engineers and designers feverishly worked overtime on the advancement of a four-passenger cars they code-named the F-car, the Chevy public relations, advertising and marketing team prepared the world for the introduction of a car they called the Panther.
All through the summertime of 1965 virtually every aspect of the car's design and advancement, from preliminary design sketches to clay models, was photographed and carefully documented. Chevy utilized the possessions to create a 30 -minute movie The Camaro for sale in Batesville AR , which was later shown on TV and in cinema. They also introduced ladies's clothes called the Camaro Collection as well as a Camaro roadway race online game.
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In November, Chevy sales executives and imaginative people previewed prototype models at the GM Tech Center. Campbell-Ewald, Chevy's age-old advertising agency, immediately started work on catalogs, direct mail and sales promo products, in addition to print, outdoor and TV/radio advertising. In April 1966, at the New york city Car Program Press Conference, Chevrolet sales executives confessed no name had been picked for the new vehicle, however did announce that prices of 1967 Chevy Camaro for sale in Batesville AR design will remain in the Corvair-Chevy II variety.
Throughout early 1966 Chevy struggled over a name for its Mustang-killer. GM's upper management fidgeted about the aggressive undertones of the Panther name. A comparable bout of cold feet would later on trigger the Pontiac version, code named the Banshee, to be relabelled Firebird. Over its brief life time, the F-car had been called by many names including Wildcat, Chaparral, Leader and Nova. It's likewise rumored that Chevy thought about utilizing the letters "GM" in the name, and came up with G-Mini, which developed into GeMini and lastly Gemini. However, GM's upper management vetoed the concept, fearing the vehicle might be a failure.
Automotive legend has it that somebody at Chevrolet finally proposed the name Camaro and upper management rapidly concurred. Although the name has no real meaning, GM scientists reportedly discovered the word in a French dictionary as a slang term for "friend" or "companion." It's rumored that Ford Motor Business researchers likewise found other definitions, including "a shrimp-like animal" and an arcane term for "loose bowels."
Due to the fact that a number or pre-launch products had actually already been launched utilizing the Panther name, Chevy's a lot of pushing challenge was to now relabel their brand-new Mustang killer, the Camaro. Camaros are found in Batesville AR by looking for classic car dealers.
The sticker price of $2,466 for a Camaro base coupe and $2,704 for a base convertible was fully competitive with Ford's rates of their 1967 Mustang models which was $2,461 for the basic coupe, $2,692 for a standard fastback and $2,898 for a conventional convertible.Taking a page from Mustang's success in earning extra benefit from alternatives and devices, the Camaro could be ordered with nearly 80 factory choices and 40 dealership accessories.
Buyers might also alternative approximately a larger 250-inch variation of the basic straight 6 engine, an option of 327-cubic-inch small-block V8s fed by either a two-barrel or a four-barrel carburetor and two variations of the 396-cubic-inch big-block V8. In order to keep the brand-new Camaro from taking sales away from the Corvette, a corporate edict prohibited equipping it with engines larger than 400 cid. Transmission alternatives consisted of a four-speed handbook, a two-speed "Powerglide" and in late 1967 the brand-new three-speed "Turbo Hydra-Matic 350".


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Police Believe Ottawa County Man Found in Snow Clubbed to Death [Video]
His Park Township family says they can't imagine who would kill Jose Hernandez, our news-gathering partner WZZM-13 reports.
The body of Hernandez, 38, was discovered late Monday night near his Amberwood Apartments residence on 152nd Avenue.
Ottawa County Sheriff's Department detectives believe Hernandez was ambushed and clubbed to death while leaving for his third-shift manufacturing job Sunday night.
Anyone with information should call the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department at (616) 738-4000.


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I've been absent for a few days as I've been working to a deadline for some design work that I need to complete for tomorrow. I'm more relaxed today as I have more or less finished and yes it's really nice to be back :) I miss my routine of gym-breakfast-coffee-blogging; Yep I'm a creature of habit :) So about todays post. I found this amazing apartment over on My Scandinavian Home and I just loved the story behind it. This apartment belongs to Juli and Nicolai, who had the dream to leave their jobs in Denmark to pursue a new life in Cannes! Look at the result, isn't it stunning?
Photography: Mikkel Adsbøl
Styling: Katrine Martensen-Larsen


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Suggestions for Live Coverage pages:
1. A way to turn updates on and off would be helpful. Every update causes the browser to jump back to the top of the page, making it quite tedious to read through the whole thing.
2. In stage races, include a link to the stage description. Either that or include more detail in the stage profile at the top of the Live Coverage page, but presumably a link to the stage description would be easier to implement.


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