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Top 10 Underhyped bikes of 2015
1. KTM 390 Duke
The 390 Duke is KTM's littlest sibling (in this country, at least) to our bike of the year, the 1290 Super Duke R, and the roadster boils down the essence of the 1290 into a much smaller package. With its 373cc Single pumping out 44 (claimed) horsepower, mini-Streetfighter styling, and the sharp handling characteristics KTM is known for, I bet the 390 Duke would be a fun toy to embarrass lesser riders with in the twisties. And at $4,999, it seems to be an incredible value for a bargain-rate exotic.
2015 KTM 390 Duke Announced For US With $4999 Price Tag
KTM has a lot to be excited about in the street segment with the new 1290 Super Adventure, 390 Duke and RC390, especially as the latter, in the form of the KTM RC Cup, was recently announced as being a MotoAmerica feeder series for aspiring young racers in the U.S. That attention has understandably taken some of the spotlight away from the 390 Duke, making it one of the most underhyped bikes of 2015.

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Frankie is really looking forward to coming back to work
Hey everyone
Did you catch the rugby at the weekend? Even though they were beaten by the All Blacks, England put up a really good fight. I loved watching Ben playing and seeing the Haka was great too. I caught up with some of Ben's teammates' partners too. Watching Ben at Twickenham over the past three weeks has been amazing. I can't wait for Aoife to get a bit older so she can enjoy it too.
The Sats are going on tour next year which is very exciting. We haven't done one since the All Fired Up tour in 2011 so we can't wait to get started. We didn't want to do it without Frankie but she'll be back for it and she's really looking forward to getting back with us.
Frankie will be fine slotting back in because she didn't really miss a lot. She'll just have to pick up the routine for Disco Love and everything else she already knows. She'll slot straight back in because she's such an amazing dancer – she can literally pick up a routine in five minutes. She's in regular contact and sends very cute pics of baby Parker. She's doing so well, motherhood really suits her.
You might have seen the adorable photo of Ben and Aoife on my Instagram page. They were doing 'nosies' which is when they get together for a little Eskimo kiss. Ben says to her 'nosies' and she knows exactly what to do. I took the photo last week when Ben and I both had a day off so we went for a family day out. We went for a pub lunch then we took Aoife to the park. It was a gorgeous sunny autumn day and all the colours and crunchy leaves made it picture-perfect.
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'Star Wars: Episode 7′ Reveals First Official Look at the New X-Wing
The 'Star Wars: Episode 7' plot leaked online over the weekend, but if that wasn't enough of a 'Star Wars' reveal for you, we've got a little something else, direct from J.J. Abrams.
The 'Star Wars: Episode 7' director posted another video update from the set this morning, revealing a first look at the new X-Wing Starfighter (and a rogue droid) from the film. The video was part of the "Force for Change" campaign in support of the United Nations Children's Fund's (UNICEF) Innovation Labs and programs. Said Abrams:
As we close this final week, we've added an additional prize that allows the fans the opportunity to see the movie early as a thank you for supporting such a great cause as UNICEF's innovative, lifesaving work for children.
So, in addition to the grand prize - which includes visiting the closed set of 'Star Wars: Episode 7' and making an appearance in the film - a new prize has been announced that includes a special, private screening of the film before it hits theaters. All you have to do is contribute here --> http://omaze.com/StarWars to be entered to win.
Now, as for that X-Wing... If it looks familiar, it's because we previously showed you some construction photos from the set, which included this ship being built. It also appears to be based on original 'Star Wars' concept art by Ralph McQuarrie for the original trilogy.
Some had speculated that this ship was actually the Z-95 Headhunter from the expanded universe, but the official 'Star Wars' Twitter confirmed this is an X-Wing.
When 'Star Wars: Episode 7' began filming, we had hoped that J.J. Abrams would keep us updated from the set, bucking his "mystery box" trend. It's a nice twist to see some of these bigger, official reveals be done in a way that also supports a really great charity. Here's hoping there's more of these in the future (maybe even our first look at the cast?).
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Seattle, Washington -- Seeking a fellowship trained Pediatric Urologist for per diem call coverage 1 to 2 weekends per month. Competitive compensation. Join an established team of Pediatric Urologists at Swedish First Hill in Seattle and Swedish Issaquah. Enjoy great quality of life in the heart of the Pacific Northwest.
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Seattle is the Pacific Northwest's largest urban center, with a metro population of 3.25 million, and is home to world-class arts and entertainment, a robust economy and an outstanding school system. The city hugs Puget Sound and offers magnificent mountain views to the north, east and south. Home to the world's biggest tech giants, Seattle offers some of the highest minimum wages in the country, along with a notable music and arts scene, outdoor lifestyle and amazing coffee.
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Swedish Health Services, a not-for-profit health system based in Seattle, Washington, operates five renowned hospitals and more than 100 medical clinics offering primary and specialty care. Swedish is committed to creating a culture that values patient safety above all else, as evidenced by our error-prevention tools and techniques for clear communication. Swedish is a partner organization of the Providence St. Joseph Health family, and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity organization.
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Few things sum up American culture and the decline of the west as well as something like this. America isn't really a country. Most people aren't aware of that. It's a time sensitive experiment, having a material experience. There is no real tradition. Everybody came from everywhere else and brought their traditions with them. Of course, there was a tradition already in place, which needed to be destroyed, so that something crass, creepy and crepuscular, could eventually morph into the Twilight series of sexy, sanitized vampires, with a really high fuckability index, in a public humping offer on Dow Jones. Of course, they're not the vampires that sucked the life, love and liberty out of this failed experiment, they only play them on TV. The real vampires slink through the marketplace, with their bendable flavor straws in hand, looking for the necks of opportunity, in a no neck paradise of stunted proles and Easter Bunny, Jesus Jerky for communion wafers.
We're here in the land of the free, on bended knee, in the First Church of the Dual Nationals, where routine mass murder is 100% kosher. Well tan my noahide, pilgrim. It's looks like you are the Thanksgiving turkey.
I can feel the bottled outrage over my telepathic landlines, picking my way through the politically correct landmines, in search of one temporary piece of sane and sober Earth to stand on. Tiny nano-tech gerbils are having a rave in my colon, which leads to that uneasy, wish to be pleasing feeling that Richard Gere probably gets when he's standing in front of the Daily Lama and trying to figure out the punch line to one hand clapping. Yes, I can feel the outrage of all the patriotic, Tweedle Dees and Tweedle Dums, sucking on their thumbs and spanking their monkeys to a red, white and blue, nightmare vagina, violated by mutants with farm implements, that makes Last Exit to Brooklyn read like a child's bedtime story by comparison. What right do I have to trash this great nation under Zog? Well, I have no right. Actually, lets say I have no rights, left. Bush and Obama have taken care of that; political Siamese twins in a hot oil, mud wrestling match; I can't believe it's not mud! They're wrestling in the flatulent winds of their diseased imaginations. They have no shame and they have no sorrow and karmically speaking they have no tomorrow. They are the conductor and engineer on a gone dead train and Hell follows after. The definition of stupid is anyone who still thinks Obama has anything in common with anything he said, during his hope and change redundancy moments, prior to all the new wars and relentless economic violence he's unleashed on the public at the behest of his Wall Street masters.
Lloyd Blankfein is now the "national corporate spokesman for same-sex marriage". If a picture is worth a thousand words, then his face is a looping stream of endless invective; a phrenological masterpiece of ad hominem, directed at everyone and everything. He's been granted complete latitude. Actually, the literal definition of Blankfein's idea of gay marriage is, "Go fuck yourself" and I think you're supposed to do it in front of a mirror if you are so inclined and I believe I can confidently declare that an unfortunate number of you are ready, willing and able, I'm going to suggest you blow up that photo of Blankswine, as a romantic enhancement for your private interludes. Think of it as a kind of creative visualization of a literal truth because Blankswine is already doing it to you. According to some forms of math, one might compute that you've got at least a threesome going on already.
There is no country called America, or the United States. There is no such place. There are no laws. There is no constitution and no bill of rights. There is only prostitution and a bill of goods. The organ harvesters own the asylum and the next stage is where you begin to eat each other for the amusement of the ones who led you to this Meek's Cutoff; this Donner's Pass. You followed the loss leader and now you've got bar codes on your ass. You're surrounded by scanners and scumbags. Welcome to your dumpster diving future. Welcome to the time of the tattooed gangs, with chapters in every city. They're just waiting for their moment to storm the gated communities and bazooka the banks. ♫Send in the tanks, don't bother, they're here♫
Oh, am I being negative? Have I missed the whole point of this sea to shining senility diorama? Surely I am a heretic and damned for all time, singing like a canary in a goldmine. I should get a job, probably a hand job would do. Why don't I take a pass and just buy one for you? It's a handjob, blowjob, snowjob world. No job too big or too small and despite the fact that Blankswine has to hire a circus midget or a nine year old boy from Isfahan to do the honors, I'm not going to say that size matters when you're looking for motive to become what he is. Let's just say there's a connection.
You could, I suppose, put the entire country in an orgone box built by Geppetto, cause someone has to sit on Pinocchio's nose and all we need is a little help from Escher and the whole country could groove at the same time. There are all kinds of ways and means, that even now, could turn this figment of a bankrupt imagination, into the country it never was. Were the dead and disorderly to suddenly rise in spirit from their graves and inhabit all of the empty minds, presently wandering like Thorazine queens up and down the corridors of the world's biggest open air mental institution; when they're not just standing around like foreclosed and abandoned houses, then maybe, just maybe, a humming, insect resonance of serendipitous awareness might fortuitously sweep through the collective consciousness and all over the world, these temporary zombies could march on the Central Banks and deliver some what for, right now. I'm dreaming, I know but... ah, a conflagration devoutly to be wished.
Or... suddenly it might occur to enough of 'them' to just step away from the consumer machines and whatever desks and workbenches they're stationed at and just wait, just wait until the whole nasty apparatus comes to a silent halt. Or then again, possibly, all those deluded soldiers, tumescent with guns, could just lay down those guns and walk away and wait. The entire nation needs to turn into a flash mob but that's as likely as people ceasing to eat at The Heart Attack Grill, just cause someone got a little gas. That's all it was, there in the most foreclosed and empty abandoned lot in the entire country and deservedly so. Or, you could just shit in one hand and wish in the other. Or, magically, some electro-magnetic wave of awakening could sweep across the land, leaving no mind unchanged and the people could gather at their polling places and shout out their votes on the way into the booth and shout out their votes, after leaving the booth and wait around, with everyone waiting around, until the voter fraud army has to hightail it into the high, wide and lonesome, where the rattlesnake politicians and Gila Monster bankers would then be having their potluck, rubber chicken dinners for the foreseeable future.
Yeah, there could be all kinds of 'or's, if not for the 'ifs', 'ands' and 'buts'. Coulda, woulda and shoulda also play their parts in this horrific and depraved circle jerk. In a sane and reasonable world, the Blankswines of this world would no longer be in this world, 'or' marooned on a nuclear atoll somewhere that nobody goes. In a sane and reasonable world, none of the things that are happening would be happening and America might even be a country there, instead of a failed laboratory experiment, sitting in the back of Jeffrey Dalmer's icebox in a covered dish, waiting for Dalmer to get the late night munchies after smoking a PCP laden joint made out of lint and human hair. America is a serial killer's wet dream. It's a star spangled torture chamber, where the sane and sensible are hunted for sport.
It's been my pleasure to ring your bell, run off down the sidewalk and leave you with this flaming paper bag, outside your doorstep this afternoon. It is my fond hope that you will stomp on it to put it out and then enjoy the fruits of your efforts at your leisure. I didn't need to write this. I could have just gone down to the Heart Attack Grill and hooked into the pacemaker wireless, for some internet surfing, while I waited for my order to arrive but Las Vegas is a long way from here; though not far enough to suit me.
As the sun sinks into the Fukushima charged waters of the once blue Pacific, we bid you adieu from those lands that sent the first hungry conquistadors and sexually iced up religious nuts to populate the formerly beautiful with the presently ugly. As the ship of state also sinks and the passengers drown in their gins and tonics, let us offer a closing prayer that nothing like this ever happens again but... that would be wishful thinking, wouldn't it?
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Carmel Rectangle Fire Pit w/ 54" x 28" Gray Travertine Mosaic Top
A city in California, Carmel's population is primarily devoted to the aesthetic arts and considered by many to be a cultural Mecca. We designed the Carmel Series with well tailored legs on a clean aluminum torso to echo that scheme. The Carmel will be at home in stylish and sophisticated outdoor venues. The Carmel will be shown in lustrous tones of brown. Crowned with your choice of 9 different top styles, it will truly offer that aesthetic look where soft sand meets cypress covered cliffs. Pick the Carmel to garnish your backyard! It will be the perfect compliment to your backyard cocktail!
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Gunther makes models for all condition from 1 to 100 foot. Give him a call to talk one on one about your next board. All locally made in Ballina, NSW.
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Check Out This Exclusive Deleted Scene from 'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues'
Good news for you classy fans itching to watch Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues in the comfort of your sexy living rooms: your exhaustively long wait is just about over. While last year's funniest sequel won't arrive on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD until April 1, both the theatrical version and the unrated version will be available via digital on iTunes and Xbox beginning today, March 11.
To celebrate, Ron Burgundy sent us over this exclusive deleted scene from the movie, which is featured on its digital release.
What's that? Now you want to know what else is featured on the digital release? Man, you're demanding. Okay, fine. Here's what else you get:
Anchorman iTunes Extras:
Get over an hour of all-new, outrageously funny special features with iTunes Extras! Join the cast and crew as they go behind the scenes of the newsroom and get an inside look at the making of the "RV Tumble." Plus laugh till it hurts at the hilarious gag reel, 10 never-before-seen deleted and alternate scenes, outtakes and more!
Anchorman SmartGlass
The wait is over, America -- Ron Burgundy is back and in an all-new unrated cut, too outrageous for theaters! Purchase the new unrated cut and connect with Xbox SmartGlass to get even more hilarious newsroom hijinks with outtakes, alternate scenes and on-set photography, all time-synched with the film. Plus get over an hour of additional content including an inside look at creating the 24-Hour News Network, the making of the "RV Tumble," a hilarious gag reel and more!
And here's info on what that Blu-ray combo pack includes, which hits shelves on April 1.
ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES Blu-ray Combo Pack
The ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES Blu-ray Disc™ 1 is presented in 1080p high definition with English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, French 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and English Audio Description and English, English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles. The Blu-ray Disc 2 is presented in 1080p high definition with English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and English, English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles. The DVD in the combo pack is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs with English 5.1 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and English Audio Description and English, French and Spanish subtitles. The combo pack includes access to a Digital copy of the film as well as the following:
Blu-ray Disc 1
· Feature film in high definition (Unrated Version)
o Commentary by Adam McKay, Judd Apatow, Will Ferrell, Steve Carell,
Paul Rudd & David Koechner
· Feature film in high definition (Theatrical Version)
· Behind-the-Scenes: Newsroom—Inside the making of the film
· Gag Reel, Parts 1 & 2
· Line-O-Rama, Parts 1 & 2—Non-stop alternate lines from the film
· Welcome to the Dolphin Show—Ron Burgundy takes on the crowd
· Catfight—Christina Applegate vs. Meagan Good with hilarious one-liners
· News-O-Rama—Ron and the News Team bring you the headlines
· Kench-O-Rama—Mashup of Kench Allenby's most Australian moments
· Cast Table Read
Blu-ray Disc 2
· Feature film in high definition (Super-Sized R-Rated Version)
· Behind-the-Scenes
o Anchorman 2: The Musical—A look at the musical sequel that almost was
o RV—Dissecting the RV tumble
o Baxter & Doby—The lovable animals of Anchorman 2
o News Fight—Inside the biggest, baddest all-star celebrity brawl
· Deleted Scenes
· Extended & Alternate Scenes
· Previsualizations—RV, Shark Attack and News Fight sequences
· Auditions—Featuring Meagan Good, Dylan Baker and Amy Poehler
· Benefit for 826LA: "Spoiler Alert"—A special tribute to Anchorman 2
· Trailers
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Looking for some advice before I get overly excited here: my father was injured in early June 2016, and was initially classified as C5 B before progressing to C7 B, with some voluntary C8 function. Notably, while touch sensation was preserved right down as far as S5, pin prick sensation was initially limited to C7 and subsequently returned as far as T3.
Just an hour ago, he regained voluntary movement the toes of his left foot. They only move a couple of centimetres - it's not like he can fully clench them or anything - but he can move them entirely voluntarily, on command, as many times as you ask him to. He's actually having a bit of fun showing off to us
This is the first time since his injury that he has displayed ANY voluntary movement below C8, and as you can imagine myself along with the rest of our family are ecstatic.
Just wondering, what can this mean? Does it mean that he's not as final a case as his doctors have led us to believe, or is there - as I've sadly come to expect, particularly with so pessimistic a consultant - an explanation for this which means that it's nothing significant? What about the rather strange aspect that he doesn't (that ice yet heard, he's just gone to sleep now so we'll ask in the morning) have any new movement ABOVE this level and below his injury? Should we investigate getting FES or other therapies below his injury level, which had previously been written off by his medical team on the grounds that recovery is impossible?
Essentially, is this a game changer for us of any kind or is it just an insignificant thing? I'm very conscious that the movement is only slight, nowhere near full ROM - but then again, so was his finger movement the first time he moved his fingers after injury and now he more or less has fully functional use of his left hand back, with his right hand catching up slowly as the weeks go by.
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Photo Challenge: A Vigil to Photography
People bust out candles when they want to set a certain mood, and there's a good reason why! The lighting candles provide is very particular, and certainly beautiful.
For this photo challenge, crank up your ISO, and show us your best shot that's lit by candlelight.
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The Great Christmas Light Show is a park-wide lighted celebration that is sure to capture the true spirit of the season! The drive through light show will feature over 1.7 million lights festively displayed along a 1.5 mile drive throughout the North Myrtle Beach Park & Sports Complex. Over 400 magical light displays, some up […]Find out more »


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Enjoy the thrill of classic arcade-style racing with GTS World Racing. Race against the CPU opponents, or against a friend using the NEW 'Head to Head' mode over your local wi-fi connection!Accelerate, brake and steer using the accelerometer around 64 track layouts, across 16 worldwide locations, and choose from 3 car types and 4 difficulty levels!4 play modes:- Single Race - check out the tracks and practice your skills before heading for the main event - Challenge Cup - race at all 16 locations and achieve the required finishing position for your chosen difficulty - Grand Tour - complete all 64 tracks in 16 locations and achieve the required finishing position in each race- Championship - complete the full 16 race season and score the most points to win!Choose from the exhilarating music soundtrack, or create your own using the music on your iPod! GTS World Racing also includes an auto save function when you exit the game so you can save your progress."An impressive addition to the limited iPhone driving canon" - Pocket Gamer"An easy to learn fun game that is enjoyable to play" - The GadgeteerView a video demo at www.youtube.com/astraware


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Rowen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 122 diseños de 47 diseñadores freelance.
Logo required by consulting group. I operate 2 other businesses Recruit Smart and Smart Industrial Relations (SmartIR) and also provide management consulting services.
Smart Advantage will encompass the management consulting services and overarch over the other 2 names.
Smart Advantage
We are a South Australian business and have been establised 5 years offering a range of HR, IR and managment consulting services to a corporate and SME client base. Recruit Smart was the initial business and SmartIR was created as a separate division about 18 months ago. Smart Advantage is a new vehicle for management consulting services incorporating strategic planning , financial advisory, legal and insurance services.
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I could feel the tears welling up as I stood—hand on heart—for the Star Spangled Banner. My daughter Helen and I were watching the feature movie at Fort McHenry's new visitor center. A convincing reenactment of the culmination of the Battle of 1812—fought on the grounds where we stood—had ended. Francis Scott Key, aboard a British ship in Baltimore's Harbor, was straining to see whose flag was flying above the fort. When our stars and stripes were finally visible: magic! Behind the movie screen, a window was slowly revealed, perfectly framing the fort and flag flying outside. Our anthem played in victory.
Baltimore's Battle for Clean Water
Baltimore fights another battle today—a battle for clean water. Leading the army with a goal of a fishable and swimmable harbor by the year 2020 is the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore.
The partnership, which includes Blue Water Baltimore, the National Aquarium, the Maryland Science Center, and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, has gained substantial support from the businesses surrounding the harbor since forming in 2005. Founding member and Chair Michael Hankin is also President and CEO of Brown Advisory, an investment firm that set up waterfront offices in Fells Point in 2002. Hankin remembers the trash, the lack of green, and the ugly water. He now expects a triathlon in Baltimore's future and promises to be the first entry.
The Waterfront Partnership's plan to reach its goal will be finalized this fall. Components of the plan will include increasing the city's ability to correct sewer leaks, establishing standards for stormwater outfalls, stabilizing eroding stream channels, piloting innovative pollution control practices like floating wetlands, and tracking progress with regular water-quality monitoring. In the meantime, "Green Teams" that concentrate on removing trash, planting green spaces, keeping visitors safe, and informing the public are already making a difference.
Baltimore's battle is part of a war for clean water that requires reducing pollution across the Bay watershed. On this front, Baltimore is fortunate to have clean water champions at the federal level: Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski in the Senate; and Elijah Cummings, Dutch Ruppersberger, and John Sarbanes in Congress.
Locally, the partnership's 2020 goal is impressive, especially given that Baltimore Harbor has been polluted for a very long time.
A History of Reinvention
Baltimore Harbor became a point of entry for Maryland's tobacco industry in 1706, 23 years before the town was officially founded. Population growth and a desire for self governance led to the city's incorporation in 1796.
At that time, the Port of Baltimore was a center for commerce and local tradesmen led the nation's shipbuilding industry. The Baltimore-built USS Constellation—the first Navy ship ever launched—rests at the Inner Harbor in tribute.
In the 1800s, Baltimore became a hub for oyster canning, peaking with more than 100 packing houses by 1870.
In 1893, an even more powerful economic engine arrived when Pennsylvania Steel built a mill at nearby Sparrows Point. Acquired by Bethlehem Steel in 1916, the mill attracted workers from rural Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the South looking for decent pay and housing in the company town.
Industrial Baltimore's steel mills, shipyards, and factories reached extraordinary output during World War II. Fueled by jobs and immigration, the population peaked at just under one million in 1950.
After World War II, with better transportation and suburbanization, many Baltimore residents spread into the surrounding counties causing economic decline in the city.
By the 1970s, the Inner Harbor area had become a neglected tangle of empty warehouses. But, in 1976, a bicentennial celebration featuring visiting tall ships helped kick off a renewed Inner Harbor. The first major attraction to come was the Convention Center in 1979. In 1980, Harborplace opened restaurants and retail shops. Maryland's largest tourist destination—the National Aquarium—followed, opening in 1981. Baltimore's Inner Harbor quickly became a center of tourism and model for waterfront revitalization.
CBF started laying a green foundation in Baltimore in 1979, expanding its environmental education program into the harbor with a 44-foot work boat (Osprey) as a classroom. To this day, CBF educators take school, community, and other groups into the Port of Baltimore and Patapsco River to study an environment "under stress." The message focuses on pollution and pollution controls in an intensively used environment.
Thanks to teachers like Myrtha Allen, who spent decades teaching science to inner city kids, that message made its way back to Baltimore's classrooms. Ms. Allen became interested in environmentalism at the beginning of her career when she attended CBF teacher trips to Meredith Creek and Fox Island. Ms. Allen started getting her students outside studying the environment and giving some their first glimpse of the Bay. She returned to CBF programs several times before she retired and later served on CBF's Board.
Baltimore Today
Recent revitalization has brought mixed-use development to downtown waterfront neighborhoods like Fell's Point and Canton, attracting new residents and prominent national and regional employers like Hankin's Brown Advisory. Today, tourism is a top employer, and the Inner Harbor is one of the most visited areas of the city.
Baltimore's most popular landmark, the National Aquarium, is a mesmerizing facility that features more than 16,000 creatures, from sharks to jellyfish, in naturalistic exhibits that include a walkthrough rain forest.
Across the harbor, the Maryland Science Center stimulates the senses with curious exhibits, hands-on activities, and IMAX theater presentations.
Baltimore abounds with quality restaurants. To the northeast on Canton's waterfront, indulge in the iconic Baltimore tradition of picking steamed crabs at Bo Brooks Restaurant. Environmentally conscious owner Chris Hannan has actively supported crab regulations and legislation to upgrade all Bay-area sewage treatment plants.
To the south on Locust Point, Fort McHenry, a national park since 1925, is accessible by car or water taxi. The visitor center, fort, and grounds will inspire you today as they inspired Francis Scott Key almost 200 years ago.
Baltimore Tomorrow
Moving forward, Baltimore's reliance on tourism will require continued revitalization by local government and groups like the Waterfront Partnership.
In addition to the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, others are also fostering the environmental movement. Living Classrooms Foundation provides students opportunities to "learn by doing" through activities like hands-on environmental experiences.
The Green School, a public-charter elementary school formed in 2003, follows an educational approach that uses the environment, the school's surroundings, and the community as the context for reading, writing, math, science, and social studies.
Green Street Academy is a new public middle-high school in Baltimore that embraces the green movement and inspires students to succeed in new career paths.
Success for the Waterfront Partnership is Baltimore Harbor becoming a venue for even more outdoor opportunities: bike paths along the waterfront promenade, sailing regattas, and fishing from boats and piers.
The Partnership's battle is part of a war for clean water across the Bay watershed. Reaching the goal of a fishable, swimmable harbor would position Baltimore as a symbol of victory and pride, much like our flag.
Take pride in Baltimore and your own backyard, and join the army that achieves victory here and across the watershed.
Loren Anne Barnett


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When viewers first met Richard Castle, a famous mystery novelist, he was creatively blocked. But when the NYPD questioned him in connection with a series of murders staged to imitate crime scenes from his books, Castle found inspiration in NYPD Detective Kate Beckett. Once that initial case was solved, Castle and Beckett continued to investigate strange homicides in New York, combining Castle's writer intuition and Beckett's creative detective work. In the Season 7 finale, Beckett was faced with a choice about her future. Now that she's been promoted to Captain, how will New York's famous couple adapt in Season 8?
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While investigating the brutal murder of a plastic surgeon, Castle and Beckett threaten to upend a federal case in order to find the killer.
Castle contends with Beckett's ex-boyfriend, a handsome FBI agent investigating the disappearance of a little girl.
A murdered woman found drowned in a tub of motor oil leads to a maze of lies and revenge for a horrendous crime committed years earlier.
To catch a home invasion thief, Beckett must enter Castle's glamorous world as his date to a charity ball.
When a strange murder scene points to a ritualistic killing, Castle and Beckett search for the killer.
A frozen woman found at a construction site leads Castle and Beckett to a years-old mystery.
When the dead body of a City Councilman rolls out of a rug, Beckett and Castle are thrown into the world of dirty politics.
Castle and Beckett uncover the dark side of prep school teen culture when a body turns up in Central Park.
Castle and Beckett take a peek under the sheets of a Manhattan couple when a young nanny is found dead.
Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic star in the new midseason series CASTLE, premiering March 9, on ABC!


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In President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, his technical team did something very bold: They broke down data silos by moving all the data into a single cloud repository. On top of Amazon's services, the team built Narwhal, a set of services that acted as an interface to a single shared data store for all of the campaign's applications, making it possible to quickly develop new applications and to integrate existing ones into the campaign's system. Those apps include sophisticated analytics programs like Dreamcatcher, a tool developed to "microtarget voters based on sentiments within text."
In February of that year, Slate called this technology, "Obama's White Whale," and it is a fitting description for technology that is almost mythical in federal agencies that have talked about "breaking down data silos" for years.
Fortunately, migrating agency data to the cloud offers IT managers another opportunity to break down those silos, integrate their data and develop a unified data layer for all applications. In this article, I want to examine how to design metadata in the cloud to enable the description, discovery and reuse of data assets in the cloud. Here are the basic metadata description methods (what I like to think of as the "Magnificent Seven" of metadata!) and how to apply them to data in the cloud:
Once security and privacy concerns are alleviated by cloud providers who certifying their compliance with security and privacy controls (like FedRAMP), the push will be on to integrate and centralize data stores to provide agencies a 360-degree view of key customers or end-users.
Migrating agency data to the cloud is the perfect time to finally smash those data silos!
Michael C. Daconta (firstname.lastname@example.com) is the Vice President of Advanced Technology at InCadence Strategic Solutions and the former Metadata Program Manager for the Homeland Security Department. His new book is entitled, The Great Cloud Migration: Your Roadmap to Cloud Computing, Big Data and Linked Data.
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As chairman of of the Intelligence and Emerging Threats and Capabilities subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committe and a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rhode Island Democrat Jim Langevin is one of the most influential voices on cybersecurity in Congress.
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- Requirement 1. Make an appointment with your doctor for a complete physical. Explain to your doctor you are preparing to undertake an eight-week physical fitness improvement program.
- Requirement 2. Explain at least six principles that guide you in developing a physical fitness program.
- Requirement 3. Four components of physical fitness are endurance, strength, flexibility, and body composition.
- a. Explain why these components arc important to your physical fitness.
- b. Find a physical fitness professional to administer a fitness test based on these four components. Set physical fitness goals with the help of this professional that can be accomplished in eight weeks. The physical education teachers at school should be able to do this test.
- Requirement 4. Develop an eight-week program to accomplish your goals. Use the principles of warm-up, cross-training, cool-down, and regularity.
- Requirement 5. Explain the six elements of a good diet.
- Requirement 6. Using the USDA Food Guide Pyramid, list six foods from each group.
- Requirement 7. Learn to calculate the number of calories you need if you are sedentary, moderately active, or active.
- Requirement 8. Explain the common eating disorders anorexia and bulimia and why they are harmful to athletes.
- Requirement 9. Explain the hazards of performance-enhancing drugs, including the dangers of using each of the following groups of drugs: stimulants, painkillers, anabolic steroids, beta blockers, diuretics, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine.
- Requirement 10. Prevention of injury is important to achieving peak physical performance. Pain is not a normal part of physical development. Soreness and discomfort may be expected, but not pain. Explain how to prevent injury in your fitness program.
- Requirement 11. Using what you have learned about physical fitness, teach your crew, a Cub or Boy Scout group, or another group about setting up a physical fitness program.


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Maybe it is the nature of summer that hardly a week goes by without finding an excuse to celebrate! Birthdays, engagements, baby showers, weddings… so many joyous occasions. During these balmy months, my favorite way to fete is with a Garden Party, be it at dusk with men in linen suits or at noon with ladies in gloves. Okay, well that might be a bit exaggerated, but I do adore a good gathering al fresco.
Nani Iro's new Double Gauze Bias Tape screams Garden Party. With watercolor washes of color and whimsical patterns, these prints are right at home alongside the beautifully unruly gardens that inspired them. Pretty wildflower colors edging a crisp linen fabric make the perfect napkin for an outdoor table setting. And when setting the table, don't forget the libations!
Our dear friends at Bellocq recently shared with us the perfect Garden Party cocktail recipe: Sparkling Le Hammeau. A refreshing and lightly bubbly treat, it will surprise your guests with its complex flavors and pretty rose color.
Both the napkins and the cocktail are a cinch to make and pack a punch of color and flavor. Whip up a set of napkins for a last minute get together or give them as a house warming gift paired with some delicious Bellocq Tea. Below you'll find the Sparkling Le Hammeau recipe, as well as a list of materials for making a set of Garden Party Napkins. And for the free and easy sewing pattern, just visit Molly's Handmade Napkin project journal right here!
Sparkling Le Hammeau
To make one cocktail:
- 1 raw sugar cube
- 2-3 drops orange bitters
- 1-2 teaspoons (or to taste) rose syrup (mymoune is our favorite)
- 1/3 cup Bellocq Le Hammeau (brewed), chilled
- 1/2 cup Prosecco, chilled
- Cocktail Ice
- Orange peel, garnish ( or unsprayed rose petals, or a thin slice of orange…)
Put sugar cube, bitters, and rose syrup in a cocktail shaker; muddle to infuse. Fill shaker with ice, add tea and shake until cold, about 20 seconds. Put cocktail ice in a tumbler, strain tea mixture over ice. Top with prosecco. Garnish with orange rind.
Napkin Materials
To make eight 16-inch square napkins:
- 2 yards of Robert Kaufman's Essex. I used the color Bleached White.
- 8 packs of Nani Iro's Bias Tape. I used two packs of Little Letters in Aqua and in White and Melody Sketch in Aqua and in White.
- Cotton thread to match the bias tape. I used Gutermann's color 1040.
As another option, with just 2 packs of bias tape and 1/4 yard of fabric you can make a set of six 4-inch cocktail napkins!


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I remember Ghosts 'N Goblins being about two things: underpants and skeletons. Mostly about underpants. It's easy to forget amidst all the cheesy humour of the game, then, that it had a fairly brutal premise.
I mean, it's not like destroying Satan himself and then escaping the netherworld of Hades is tough enough. No, there is a time limit as well.
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OTTAWA — Making cents made no sense, but getting rid of the penny is only the beginning, says NDP MP Pat Martin.
As the Royal Canadian Mint stops distributing pennies Monday, Martin's eye is turning to the nickel and, eventually, the quarter.
The MP for Winnipeg Centre plans to launch a private member's motion by the end of the week to eliminate the five-cent coin and re-jig the rest of Canada's currency. His "master plan" is to have a coin currency in multiples of 10s – 10, 20 and 50-cent coins, and $1, $2 and $5 coins.
"One down, one to go," Martin told Postmedia News on Sunday.
"You keep it all at multiples of 10 and Bob's your uncle – you've got a functioning currency system. There's just no good argument for keeping the nickel except for as a place to put the beaver."
The Conservative government announced in last March's federal budget it was ending production of the penny because — due to rising metal, labour and other manufacturing costs — it actually costs 1.6 cents to mint each of the one-cent coins.
Starting Monday, businesses are encouraged to begin rounding cash transactions to the nearest five-cent increment. So, a transaction totalling $1.02 would round down to $1, but a purchase of $1.03 would round up to $1.05, while $1.07 would round down to $1.05 and a purchase of $1.08 would round up to $1.10.
The rounding system after eliminating the nickel would be similar, Martin said. Total figures ending in one, two, three, four or five cents would round down, and those ending in six, seven, eight or nine cents would round up.
And, just as it applies to the penny's elimination, only cash transactions would be affected, Martin said.
Ottawa says that stamping out the penny will save taxpayers around $11 million a year.
While the business case for killing the nickel isn't quite as strong as it is for eliminating the penny, the nickel still does cost more to produce than it's worth, Martin said.
And it would mean savings for the economy in terms of lost time and productivity – people would go through check-out lines faster, clerks would spend less time making change, and businesses wouldn't have to deal with as much coinage, Martin said.
"If you're a reasonable-sized business, you're moving wheelbarrows full of nickels and pennies back and forth to the bank every month," Martin said.
"It's just a drain on the economy as well as an unnecessary cost to the mint."
Re-jigging Canada's currency to keep it current, relevant and economic is an argument Martin's been making since 2008, when he first introduced a private member's bill to get rid of the penny.
It's been a surprisingly difficult sell, he said, but "now that the dust has settled on the penny," it's time to urge Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty to consider the nickel, Martin said.
"It shouldn't be as tough as a slog now because the case has been made that life as we know it isn't going to end if we eliminate the lowly penny," Martin said.


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This post brings to a close my week-long posts on my recent photo safari to Kenya's wonderful Masai Mara. The adventure was organized by &Beyond - a leader in Africa travel and tours.
It was truly an amazing experience - made even more amazing by the entire staff at our base camp, Bateleur, and the adjacent camp, Kichwa Tembo.
Scroll down to see my other six posts about the trip.
I am currently planning a 2012 photo workshop/tour to Tanzania. Shoot me an email if you are interested.
A few special "thank you" notes are in order - in addition to thanking YOU for following along here on my blog.
Above: Thank you Moses Kibet. Moses was our guide/drive/naturalist for six to seven hours each day. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge.
Above: Moses was also was our on-safari chef. Great yogurt/honey, coffee, buns, fruit, eggs and sausage! And, what a location . . right next to the Mara river that's filled with hungry crocks. :-)
Above left: Thank you Jackson Tunai. Jackson was our expert walking safari guide, who, along with Francis Nkulet, made our on-foot adventures a real, well, adventure. Click here to see Jackson and Francis in action. Don't worry, we out-ran the lions! Thanks guys for keeping us safe. In the photo on the right, Jackson, and his friend Johnston, pose for a photograph.
Above: Thanks to Milka Kerubo, operations manager at Bateleur Camp, and Joseph Masibo, Camp Manager, for keeping on the lights for us after a long day on safari. And, thanks for the room/tent service.
Above: Thanks to the band/staff who gave us a special pre-dinner performance on the Mara. Even the chef joined the fun.
Below: One more thank you goes to Boniface Oduor (left) who made each and every meal a real treat. Boniface now knows all my best magic tricks, which is why they now call him the "Magic Man." Yes, that's Moses on the right.
Again, thanks to everyone at &Beyond, especially Tarryn Gibson, Market Manger at &Beyond in South Africa, for making our stay so very special.
If you'd like to join me on my 2012 photo safari to Tanzania, shoot me an email.
Explore the light,
P.S. One more tip, illustrated with a photograph from a previous trip to the Mara: Remember that "Composition is the Strongest Way of Seeing." Compose carefully.
More on composition on my next Kelby Training class, coming December 4th, called: "Composition is the Strongest Way of Seeing." Stay tuned.


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Sneaky leaked screengrabs of BBM 6.0 have arisen, showing a questionable user's photo and "personal message," but more importantly what we can expect in the next OS 6.1 update.
Color-coding contacts and chats for easier reference seem to be one of the changes in the messaging app, but unfortunately there's no reference to the service being opened up for other platforms. We can but hope... [BlackBerry Base via CrackBerry via BusinessInsider]


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The Life of Buddha, by A. Ferdinand Herold, tr. by Paul C Blum [1922], at sacred-texts.com
p. 151
WHEN Vimbasara heard that the Master was leaving the Bamboo Grove, to be gone for some time, he went to see him with his son, Prince Ajatasatru.
The Master looked at the young prince; then turning to the king, he said:
"May Ajatasatru be worthy of your love, O king."
Again he looked at the prince, and he said to him:
"Now listen well, Ajatasatru, and ponder my words. Cunning does not always succeed; wickedness does not always prevail. A story will prove this, the story of something that happened long ago, something I saw with my own eyes. I was then living in a forest; I was a tree-God. This tree grew between two pools, one small and unattractive, the other wide and beautiful. The little pool was full of fish; in the larger one, lotuses grew in great profusion. During a certain summer of oppressive heat, the little pool almost completely dried up; while the large pool, sheltered from the sun as
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it was by the lotuses, always had plenty of water and remained pleasantly cool. A crane, passing between these two pools, saw the fish and stopped. Standing on one leg, he began to think: 'These fish would be a lawful prize. But they are quick; they are likely to escape if I attack them too hastily. I must use cunning Poor fish! They are so uncomfortable in this dried-up pool! And over there is that other pool, full of deep, cool water, where they could swim about to their heart's content!' A fish saw the crane deep in thought and looking as solemn as a hermit, and he asked, 'What are you doing there, venerable bird? You seem immersed in thought.' 'I am meditating, O fish,' said the crane, 'yes, indeed, I am meditating. I am wondering how you and your friends can escape your sad fate.' 'Our sad fate! What do you mean?' 'You suffer in that shallow water, O unhappy fish! And each day, as the heat becomes more intense, the water will fall still further, and then what will become of you? For presently the pool will be completely dry, and you will all perish! Poor, poor fish! I weep for you.' All the fish had heard what the crane said. They were filled with dismay. 'What will become of us,' they cried, 'when the heat will have dried up the pool?' They turned to the crane. 'Bird, O venerable bird, can you not save us?' The crane again pretended to be lost in thought; finally, he
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replied, 'I believe I see a way out of your misery.' The fish listened eagerly. The crane said, 'There is a marvellous pool quite near here. It is considerably larger than the one in which you live, and the lotuses that cover the surface have protected the water from the summer's thirst. Take my word for it, go live in that pool. I can pick you up in my bill, one at a time, and carry you there. In that way, you will all be saved.' The fish were happy. They were about to accept the crane's suggestion when a crayfish spoke up. 'I have never heard anything quite so strange,' he exclaimed. The fish asked him, 'What is there to astonish you about that?' 'Never,' said the crayfish, 'never, since the beginning of the world, did I know a crane to take an interest in fish, unless it was perhaps to eat them.' The crane assumed an offended air and said, 'What, you wicked crayfish, you suspect me of trying to deceive these poor fish who are in imminent danger of death! O fish, I only want to save you; it is your welfare I seek. Put my good faith to a test if you wish. Choose one of your number, and I shall carry him in my bill to the lotus pool. He will see it; he can even swim around a few times; then I shall pick him up and bring him back here. He will tell you what to think of me.' 'That seems quite fair,' said the fish. To make this trip to the pool, they chose one of the older fish who, although half blind, was
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considered quite a sage. The crane carried him to the pool, dropped him in, and let him swim about as much as he pleased. The old fish was delighted, and when he returned to his friends, he had only words of praise for the crane. The fish were now convinced that they would owe their lives to him. 'Take us,' they cried, 'take us and carry us to the lotus pool.' 'Just as you wish,' said the crane, and with his bill he again picked up the old, half-blind fish. But this time he did not carry him to the pool. Instead, he dropped him on the ground and stabbed him with his bill; then he ate him and left the bones at the foot of a tree, the tree of which I was the God. This done, the crane returned to the small pool and said, 'Who will come with me now?' The fish were eager to see their new home, and the crane had only to make a choice that would satisfy his appetite. Presently, he had eaten them all, one after another. Only the crayfish remained. The crayfish had already shown that he distrusted the bird, and he was now saying to himself, 'I doubt very much that the fish are in the lotus pool. I am afraid the crane has taken advantage of their faith in him. Still, it would be well for me to leave this miserable pool and go to the other one which is so much larger and more comfortable. The crane must carry me, but I must run no risk. And if he has deceived the others, I must avenge them.' The bird
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approached the crayfish. 'It is your turn, now,' said the crane. 'How will you carry me?' asked the crayfish. 'In my bill, like the others,' replied the crane. 'No, no,' said the crayfish; 'my shell is slippery; I might fall out of your bill. Rather, let me hold on to your neck with my claws; I shall be careful not to hurt you.' The crane agreed. He stopped at the foot of the tree. 'What are you doing?' asked the crayfish. 'We are only half-way. Are you tired? Yet the distance is not great between the two pools!' The crane was at a loss for an answer. Besides, the crayfish was beginning to tighten the hold on his neck. 'And what have we here!' exclaimed the crayfish. 'This pile of fish-bones at the foot of the tree is evidence of your treachery. But you will not deceive me as you deceived the others. I shall kill you, if I must die in the attempt.' The crayfish tightened his claws. The crane was in great pain; with tears in his eyes, he cried, 'Dear crayfish, do not hurt me. I shall not eat you. I shall carry you to the pool.' 'Then go,' said the crayfish. The crane walked to the edge of the pool and extended his neck over the water. The crayfish had only to drop into the pool. Instead, he tightened his grip, and so powerful were his claws that the crane's neck was severed. And the tree-God could not help exclaiming, 'Well done, crayfish!' " The Master added: "Cunning does not
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always succeed. Wickedness does not always prevail. Sooner or later the treacherous crane meets a crayfish. Always remember that, Prince Ajatasatru!"
Vimbasara thanked the Master for the valuable lesson he had taught his son. Then he said:
"Blessed One, I have a request to make."
"Speak," said the Buddha.
"When you are gone, O Blessed One, I shall be unable to do you honor, I shall be unable to make you the customary offerings, and it will grieve me. Give me a lock of your hair, give me the parings of your finger-nails; I shall place them in a temple in the midst of my palace. Thus, I shall retain something that is a part of you, and, each day, I shall decorate the temple with fresh garlands, and I shall burn rare incense."
The Blessed One gave the king these things for which he had asked, and he said:
"Take my hair and take these parings; keep them in a temple, but, in your mind, keep what I have taught you."
And as Vimbasara joyfully returned to his palace, the Master left for Kapilavastu.