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Annals of Internal Medicine is published by the American College of Physicians on the first and third Tuesday of every month. These highlights are not intended to substitute for articles as sources of information.
The CHADS2 score is a clinical prediction rule for estimating stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation, but the usefulness of the score in predicting risk of bleeding on anticoagulants is unknown. One point is assigned for a history of congestive heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, or being older than 75. Two points are assigned for a history of stroke or transient ischemic attack. Current patient treatment guidelines recommend warfarin for patients with a CHADS2 score of two or higher, but bleeding risk is a concern. Researchers recruited 18,113 patients to determine bleeding and survival rates in relations to CHADS2 score among A-fib patients at risk for stroke taking anticoagulants. Patients were assigned one of two blinded doses of dabigatran (150 mg and 110 mg twice daily) or open-label warfarin. The researchers found that higher CHADS2 scores were associated with increased risks for not only stroke or systemic embolism but also major and intracranial bleeding and vascular death in patients treated with oral anticoagulants. Rates of stroke or systemic embolism were lower with dabigatran, 150 mg twice daily, and rates of intracranial bleeding were lower with both dabigatran doses than with warfarin treatment, regardless of CHADS2 score.
Current guidelines recommend that patients on warfarin have a dose assessment every four weeks. Undergoing international normalized ratio (INR) monitoring every month can be a burden for patients and the health care system. Researchers studied 250 patients on long-term warfarin therapy whose dose had been unchanged for at least 6 months to determine if patients could safely extend monitoring intervals to 12 weeks. Patients were divided into two groups: assessment every 12 weeks (n=124) or assessment every four weeks (n=126). After 12 months, researchers found that a 12-week assessment interval was non-inferior to a four-week assessment interval, as the proportion of time that patients were within the target INR range did not statistically significantly differ between groups. The researchers recommend further study before widespread adoption of extended monitoring intervals in clinical practice.
Whole-body vibration (WBV), which involves standing on an oscillating platform, has been introduced as a promising new therapy for osteoporosis. In animal studies, WBV showed significant improvements in bone formation rate, bone mineral density (BMD), trabecular structure, and cortical thickness. However, these benefits have not been proven in postmenopausal women. Researchers studied 202 healthy postmenopausal women with BMD T-scores between -1.0 and -2.5 who were not taking prescription bone medications to determine whether WBV would improve bone density and structure. Participants were randomly assigned to either stand on a low-magnitude (0.3g) 90-Hz or 30-Hz WBV platform for 20 minutes daily or to serve as control participants. All participants received calcium and vitamin D. After 12 months, patients were assessed for trabecular volumetric BMD and other bone measurements. The researchers concluded that WBV at 0.3g and 90- or 30-Hz had no affect on BMD or bone structure. Therefore, WBV does not seem beneficial for preventing bone loss in postmenopausal women who receive calcium and vitamin D. supplements.


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-This is an excellent parody of Toddlers & Tiaras (aka my favorite train wreck on TV). Like she says, it helps to watch the video to which she's included a link. A dolla makes me holla, honey boo boo.
–Alex Reads Twilight.
This is the closest I will ever come to reading Twilight. If you've ever read the books and have any kind of appreciation for good literature, you'll understand why. However, you can bypass the read the books step (sparing yourself the agony/torture/degradation of being caught reading Twilight) by watching this series of videos. And don't worry, he doesn't read them in their entirety to the camera. He summarizes and gives his feedback (which is spot on), reading excerpts on occasion to support his opinion. Watch them in order, starting with chapter one (which I've linked to above).
–Fast Food Ads vs. The Real Thing
–You slept naked in my bed. Unfortunately, you were in the wrong apt.
Laying down in my bed meant risking waking you up. Which would have ended in one of two ways, 1) the worst horror movie ever or 2) possibly the greatest porno ever. I didn't like my odds. Couch it was.
–Still Life: Bent Objects. I'm not sure if these qualify as NSFW, but I'd say they're NSFW just in case.
-Marcus Bachmann spent what would have been a great day of campaigning buying puppy sunglasses. And his wife outs him on it. Then he reacts.
–How to Put on a Sports Bra. Saw this moments after publishing. Enjoy the mental imagery.


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Brothers bike to help raise money for Doctors Without Borders
By kbender
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm in Uncategorized.
So, you think you're a weekend warrior? Two 16-year-old twin brothers, Nick and Kyle Hodder-Hastrof, are in the process of completing a 200-mile bicycle trek from their home in Berkeley to northern Napa County and back to raise money for Doctors Without Borders.
The international organization has sent their older brother Christophe Hodder on assignments to Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the past two years.
Christophe Hodder returned in July from a six-month assignment as a project coordinator in Kitchanga, in the North Kivu province of the DRC. Intense fighting between different armed groups in the Kivu region has caused thousands of people to flee their homes since August 2007.
A team of people is working to provide basic health care, medical care for children with malnutrition, and surgical care.
The team also supports a Kitchanga centre providing assistance to victims of sexual violence.
Last year, the U.S. component of the group raised about $152 million, representing about 20 percent of the network's private funding, according to information from the group's Web site. So even charity bike rides like the one Nick and Kyle are doing help raise funds for the nonprofit.
The Hodder brothers were on the road on Friday, on the third day of their four-day bike trip and could not be reached for comment. But Outtakes will check back with them to find out how much money they raised and how they are feeling after 200 miles on the road.
Doctors Without Borders is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. The organization provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect or catastrophe, primarily due to wars, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care or natural disasters.
Meanwhile, I'm off on a bike trip of my own _ to New Mexico. I'll be back after Labor Day. Keep sending in those news tips and blog ideas. KB
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- The Big Picture: What's AAP
- A year later, the tweak: Desh to Dilli
- Bus from Burari laden with volunteers and hope
- Rare day out for AAP families
- Riot of support for AAP in communal hot spots
- Hunt on for CM house, will not accept Z-plus security
- No word from high command, Delhi Congress in a paralysis
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- Second time at Ramlila Maidan: Hope overrides their doubts
- Kejriwal has no portfolio, will keep an eye on others
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- MP, MLA see Punjab as the next AAP stop
- A year later, the tweak: Desh to Dilli
- Arvind Kejriwal repeats his advice to sting the corrupt, asks police to act against 'goondagardi'
- Proud that one of our volunteers has become Delhi CM: Anna Hazare
- Arvind Kejriwal not to keep any portfolio
- Now an Aam Aadmi Party Cola by beverage-maker inspired by Arvind Kejriwal's party
- New chief minister Arvind Kejriwal holds meetings at Delhi Secretariat
- Cong's Ajay Maken blames Sheila Dikshit for Delhi polls debacle
- Left, right, AAP
Election Results 2014 – North: Powered by Modi, BJP sweeps Delhi, Himachal and Uttarakhand
In Punjab, AAP and SAD win four seats each while Congress won three seats followed by BJP winning two seats. In Haryana, BJP won seven seats while Congress won one seat and INLD won one seat. BJP decimated Congress in Delhi as it registered landslide victory on all seven seats. BJP painted Uttarakhand and Himachal saffron by winning all five and four seats in the respective states. In J&K, BJP registered victory on three seats; JKPDP was successful too in winning three seats.
# INLD candidate, Dushyant Chautala, defeats HJC chief Kuldeep Bishnoi in Hisar by a thin margin of over 31,000 votes. Congress Sampat Singh finished third.
# BJP candidate from Faridabad, Krishan Pal heading for a record victory margin in Haryana. Krishan Pal is leading by over 4.34 lakh votes from Congress candidate Avtar Singh Bhadana in Faridabad parliamentary constituency.
# Congress Haryana Chief Ashok Tanwar loses from Sirsa to INLD's Charanjeet Singh Rori by a 1.1 lakh margin.
# Deepender Hooda wins Rohtak with 1.7 lakh margin. Likely to be the only Congress MP from Haryana.
# BJP candidate Ashwini Kumar wins Karnal parliamentary constituency defeating Congress nominee Arvind Kumar Sharma by a margin of over 3.6 lakh votes. INLD's Jaswinder Singh Sandhu finished third.
# Congress rebel, Dharambir, who contested on BJP ticket from Bhiwani-Mahendergarh leading by a margin of over 1.04 lakh votes. Incumbent Congress MP from Bhiwani, Shruti Choudhary struggling on a third place, while INLD candidate Bahadur Singh is ahead of her on the second place.
# INLD candidate Dushyant Chautala leading in Hisar by a margin of over 22,000 votes. Incumbent MP, Kuldeep Bishnoi of HJC trailing in Hisar parliamentary constituency.
# Haryana Pradesh Congress committee, HPCC, chief Ashok Tanwar looses Sirsa parliamentary constituency to INLD's candidate Charanjit Singh Rohri by a margin of over 1.15 lakh votes.
# BJP candidate RL Kataria wins Ambala parliamentary seat. Kataria has defeated Congress candidate Raj Kumar Balmiki by a margin of over 3.4 lakh votes. INLD's Dr. Kusum Sherwal finished third.
# BJP candidate Raj Kumar Saini wins Kurukshetra parliamentary seat. Saini defeated INLd candidate Balbir Singh Saini by a margin of over 1.3 lakh votes. Congress candidate Naveen Jindal finished third.
# Congress candidate Deepender Singh Hooda wins Rohtak parliamentary seat. Hooda defeated BJP's candidate Om Prakash Dhankar by a margin of over 1.6 lakh votes.
# BJP candidate Vinod Khanna wins Gurdaspur seat. # Congress candidate Capt Amarinder Singh wins from Amritsar constituency defeating BJP's Arun Jaitley. # AAP's Yogendra …continued »


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The static volume growth recorded in ready meals in 2012 was an improvement on the -1% volume CAGR recorded over the entire review period, while the 48% volume growth recorded in 2012 was much higher than current value CAGR of 4% recorded over the entire review period. Ready is a category which is only just beginning to recover following two years of strong volume decline caused by economic recession and the ongoing decline in the disposable income levels of Bosnian consumers.
This Ready Meals in Bosnia-Herzegovina report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data 2008-2012, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies
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Written by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Jibril Rajoub, Member of Fatah Central Committee, Chairman of the Palestinian Football Association and head of the Palestinian Olympic Committee, said this week that all of Israel is "occupied" Palestine. In response to a question during an interview on an Arabic sports channel if Barcelona's football team would be visiting the "occupied lands," Rajoub responded:
"They are coming to the occupied lands. All of Palestine - from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea - it's all occupied."
The area mentioned by Rajoub includes all of Israel.
Rajoub subsequently posted the interview on his Facebook page.
Click to view Palestinian Media Watch's report on more statements by Rajoub inciting against Israel.
The following is the transcript of the interview with Jibril Rajoub:
TV host: "Mr. Jibril, does the visit of Barcelona's [football] team include a visit to the occupied lands?"
Rajoub: "They are coming to the occupied lands. All of Palestine - from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea (i.e., all of Israel) - it's all occupied."
TV host: "I mean the Israeli occupied lands."
Rajoub: "You mean [occupied in] 1948 (i.e., Israel's establishment)?"
TV host: "Yes."
Rajoub: "On August 3 [2013] they are coming to us. Where they go after that - I'm not responsible for them... There was a stupid Israeli attempt to do something (a sports activity) together. Of course, they try to use Barcelona as a fig leaf to hide their crimes against the Palestinian sports. "
[Al-Kass Sports Channel (Qatar), June 2, 2013]
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Public Address System
Exhibited at the Henry Peacock Gallery London, February 2003 and at GraficEurope Berlin, October 2004
Public Address System was an exhibition of Poster Speeches created by 38 of the world's leading typographers and explores the role of typography representing speech. Contributors range from Derek Birdstall, Professor Eric Spiekermann, Angus Hyland to Experimental Jetset and The Designers Republic. The variety of speeches ranged from Winston Churchill to Charles Manson. We were invited to exhibit a poster, subsequently we designed and took an editorial role in the catalogue and the book.
The exhibition was awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the ISTD International Typographic Awards 2004
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Split (feed) Lip
For those who are interested in the details, here they are: I keep my magazines fully loaded, bullets down, in my Sneaky Bag. This bag always accompanies our family whenever we leave the house. This means that the bag (and consequently, the magazines) is frequently picked up and set down—sometimes none too gently. This has been standard since I bought and reviewed these magazines last year. Considering that level of impact alone over this period of time, I'm impressed that one slightly cracked feed lip is all I've sustained.
After taking this picture, I sent it to US PALM and let them know what had happened. Within 24 hours, I received a reply from Mark Goss, who asked how many of the old style (pre-locking tabs) mags I owned. Mind you, he did not ask how many had cracked, how many had given me issues, or how many I had bought in that particular batch of magazines. He asked how many I owned that were the older-issue total; he wanted to replace them all.
Since we had already left for vacation (we were actually in New Orleans by then. It was just as miserably hot and humid there as it has been here in Indianapolis, if you're curious), it took me until Friday (6/22) to verify that I only had five of the older-issue mags. Yesterday, I received a box from US PALM with five brand-spanking new US PALM AK-30's. Had I gotten back with Mark sooner, it's entirely possible that these magazines would have been waiting on the doorstep when we returned.
I said in my previous review that I was looking forward to seeing how the AK30's would perform over time. Apart from one split lip, I have had no issues whatsoever. In fact, if I were a betting man, I'd wager that the damaged magazine would continue to perform flawlessly. I've seen how the magazines perform, and now I have seen how US PALM performs under pressure as well. I continue to be impressed.


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The contest is over but the hits keep coming at Teahupo'o!
Top 5 waves of the day at Teahupo'o + photo and video highlights
Kerrzy talks Alley Oops and The Flight To The Flats finale
A Teahupo'o wipeout marks the end of TransWorld SURF magazine
An All-American photo gallery with the USA's best tearing it up around the globe
Parko adjusts to changing conditions; wins his first event of 2013
Restaurants serves up the goods on day 2 of the Volcom Fiji Pro!
Powerful South African tops Deivid Silva at Cloudbreak
The carnage continues with a mixed bag of sketchy paddle in surfing and tow ins
Taken at a beach break in La Serena, Chile during sunset. Taken by me, Sean Benik on a FUJIFILM s2000hd.


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Myrrh Essential Oil
Myrrh is a tree resin that has been used and valued since ancient times for its medicinal, cosmetic, aromatic and spiritual applications. In Christianity, Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh were the gifts given to the baby Jesus by the three wise men.
Myrrh Essential Oil is used most often for spiritual and incense /room fragrancing applications, and it is heralded for its contribution to oral health. You can find toothpastes, mouth rinses and other natural oral care products that contain Myrrh Essential Oil and/or the powderized resin.
Myrrh Oil is steam distilled directly from myrrh resin. Myrrh Essential Oil smells more pleasant than the resin, but I still find the aroma of the oil to be a bit harsh on its own. The aroma of Frankincense Oil helps to round out and freshen the aroma Myrrh Essential Oil. The aroma is woody, earthy and a bit balsmic. It is a wonderful base note to include in blends intended for spiritual, meditative and Christmas room fragrancing applications.
Emotionally, Myrrh Oil is grounding and helps to mellow out the emotions.
Read below for more information and for important safety information.
Aromatic Description: Warm, earthy, woody, balsamic.
Myrrh Oil Uses: Amenorrhea, athlete's foot, bronchitis, chapped skin, dysmenorrhea, gums, halitosis, hemorrhoids, itching, mouth, ringworm, toothache. [Julia Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: Element Books, 1995), 56-65.]
Constituents: Heerabolene, limonene, dipentene, pinene, eugenol, cinnamaldehyde, cuminaldehyde, cadinene. [Julia Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: Element Books, 1995), 125.]
Safety Information: Myrrh Oil is mildly toxic when taken internally (no essential oil should be taken internally without the guidance of a qualified aromatherapy practitioner). [Robert Tisserand, Essential Oil Safety (United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone, 1995), 208.]
Lawless reports that Myrrh Oil may be toxic in high concentration and that it should be avoided during pregnancy. [Julia Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: Element Books, 1995), 125.]
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From a supernova in 1572 to the discovery of Jupiter's four biggest moons – astronomical discoveries of Shakespeare's time may pop up in his work
IT IS the middle of the night when the ghost of King Hamlet comes to Elsinore castle. As Bernardo, one of the guards, tells Prince Hamlet's friend Horatio, the ghost's arrival is heralded by a bright light in the heavens. "When yond same star that's westward from the pole / Had made his course to illume that part of Heaven / Where now it burns", he says, before he is cut off by the arrival of the ghost himself.
Shakespeare's output is full of astronomical allusions, but they were traditionally seen as narrative devices or else viewed in the light of medieval thinking. Heavenly bodies, after all, were often considered as portents. But recently, musings about Shakespeare's stargazing have taken ...
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Samsung Galaxy Note II (Sprint, US Cellular)
Info Photos Reviews 6 News Forum
Top message: Due for an Upgrade soon - This or the LG Optimus G? by sunilsonia
Replying to: Re: Due for an Upgrade soon - This or the LG Optimus G? by MadFatMan
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Hands Down the Note 2 over the Optimus G
5 5 " Display Super AMOLED
2 GB RAM + a TRUE quad cord processor
Fully integrated S Pen Stylus
3100 mAmp Battery 1.5 days moderate to heavy usage on single charge
If you are not scared of a big phone this is the obe to get. Its akward at 1st but after a week it becomes completely natrual
its not a phobe for everyone but if you use your device for primarily web, text and emails like me its a perfect fit.
I picked mine up on Wednesday! Sweet device if I may say so!
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We offer preschool (with full-time child care options), art lessons for children, Parents night out, birthday parties, and special art events.
We hope to foster childrens natural sense of wonder about the world and cultivate their curiosity for learning. We provide children with meaningful experiences for play and exploration while nourishing their potential as individuals. Our environment is carefully set up so that children may be in charge of their own learning.
Little Bird Preschool values each child as an individual. We are heavily influenced by the philosophy of Reggio Emilia and play based learning. We wish to engage the mind of the young child through providing an attractive, child focused, creative, art focused and welcoming environment.
We believe that play is essential in the lives of young children and believe that we provide a unique experience to Amarillo, Texas
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|Traffic delays on Lakeshore Road between Dehart and McClure roads
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|June 29, 2015
|Campfire Ban in Central Okanagan Regional District
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|Public Service Announcement
|Stuart Park walkways open for Canada Day
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|Grant deadline is midnight July 2
|Council Highlights
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|Parking and road closures for Canada Day
|Traffic Advisory
|Upper portion of Knox Mountain Drive closed for fire risk
|Call 9-1-1 to report smoke or fire
|Upper portion of Knox Mountain Park closed
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|Knox Mountain Fire: News Release No. 3
|Evacuation alert rescinded
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|Knox Mountain Fire: News Release No. 1
|Evacuation alert issued due to brush fire
|Play On! Hockey road and parking lot closures
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|City of Kelowna 2014 Annual Report released
|Annual Report provides highlights from the year
|Council Highlights
|June 15
|Long-term agreement for Kelowna Firefighters
|Seven-year agreement ratified
|Quilchena Waterpark temporary closure
|Public Service Announcement
|Celebration takes place for Our Rutland
|Roxby Square new gateway to the Rutland Town Centre
|Father's Day Car Show lane and parking restrictions
|Traffic Advisory
|Road closure for National Aboriginal Day
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|Lakeshore Road upgrades begin – Dehart to McClure
|Motorists can expect delays as of Monday June 15
|Rose/Richter intersection re-alignment and area utility upgrades information session
|Learn about the improvements
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|Taxes due July 2, 2015
|City of Kelowna 2014 Annual Report online
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|Traffic Advisory
|City welcomes special guests from Kasugai, Japan
|Delegates visit from June 6 to 8
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|Approx 18 kms on 17 road segments to be re-surfaced
|Increased pedestrian traffic on Abbott for race
|Traffic Advisory
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|June 1
|City Park basketball court open
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|Traffic Advisory
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|City Park parking lot closed for Relay for Life
|Traffic Advisory
|KLO Road improvements
|Traffic on KLO Road may be impacted as crews complete paving
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|Final paving on Lakeshore, Lexington to bridge
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|2133 BTWW cyclists were out Monday
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|Refurbished City Park tennis courts open
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|Lane restrictions on Lakeshore Road
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|Cook Road Boat Launch
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|May 11, 2015
|Contract awarded for Kelowna Police Service Building
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|Glenmore Footprint Days pedestrian traffic
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|May 4, 2015
|Public information session for Lakeshore Rd upgrades
|Dehart to McClure Roads
|Kelowna sets final tax rate at 3.2%
|Average $55.42 property tax increase
|Fire Department annual report now available
|Report outlines department's activities, operations
|Park closure for Great Okanagan Beer Festival
|Traffic Advisory
|2014 Civic and Community Award recipients announced
|40th annual awards
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|April 27, 2015
|Full Steam ahead for the Okanagan Rail Corridor
|Funds committed to advance agreement with CN
|Council to affirm Oath of Office at meetings
|Bylaw amendment to be brought forward
|It's time to drain winter pool water
|Use the proper procedure to protect the environment
|Freedom of City for influential council members
|Walter Gray, Robert Hobson and Andre Blanleil honoured
|Engagement for Civic Block kicks off
|Community participation invited for workshops
|Council Highlights
|April 22, 2015
|Water services available at Mission Recreation Park
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|Temporary water shut off at Mission Recreation Park
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|Civic and Community Awards Gala tickets available
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|RackForce first to join City dark fibre network
|Kelowna is among a handful of cities in B.C. that offer service
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All you need is two t-shirts (and cutting/sewing supplies).
Step 1: Cut out rectangles
The dimensions between the two shirts' rectangles should be the same on three sides, but the rectangles from one of the shirts should be a little taller (my gray one was about an inch taller).
The taller fabric, which I will henceforth refer to as the gray fabric, will be the outside for the drawstring pouch.
The shorter fabric, which I will henceforth refer to as the red fabric, will be the outside for the backpack.
Step 2: Cut strings
You will be turning these into your strings/backpack straps.
Divide each color type in half- the six cut stripes below all belong to one strap.
Cut the loops on one side to make them long strips.
Sew the ends together such that you'll end up with one red and two gray equally really long strips per strap.
Braid straps.
Sew across the ends of the braids; cut loose ends.
Step 3: Sew rectangles
BUT WAIT! Leave a gap on each one:
Red fabric: leave a little (1"?) gap at the bottom corners of the bag.
Gray fabric: Remember how this was taller than the red one? Leave the bit that's taller unsewn at the top of the bag.
Step 4: Put it together
Roll the unsewn part of the gray bag over the top.
Sew along both sides, but leave both of the ends open (see pictures).
(Also, don't tell anyone, but you can do the same 'ible with regular fabric.)


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Monkey Island is the collective name given to a series of four graphical adventure games produced and published by LucasArts, originally known as LucasFilm Games through the development of the first two games in the series. The games follow the misadventures of the hapless Guybrush Threepwood as he struggles to become the most notorious pirate in the Caribbean, defeat the plans of the evil undead pirate LeChuck and win the heart of governor Elaine Marley. Each game's plot usually involves the mysterious Monkey Island and its impenetrable secrets.
The games were created as a collaborative effort between Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman. Gilbert worked on the first two games before leaving LucasArts. Grossman and Schafer, who also worked on the first two games, would enjoy success on other titles before both of them also left. The rights to Monkey Island remained with LucasArts, and the third and fourth games were created without the input of the original writing crew.
The series has a somewhat loose notion of continuity. Since the creative team changed dramatically between most installments of the game, there is little consistency not only between the graphical appearance of the games, but their basic plot points and backstories. (A few examples of this include the events leading up to LeChuck's death and the circumstances surrounding Herman Toothrot's original arrival on Monkey Island.) As such, it is rather difficult to describe the series as a whole since specific details vary from game to game and there is little consensus on which version constitutes canon.
Much of the soundtracks of the games is composed by Michael Land. The score largely consists of dub and reggae-inspired music. In keeping with the reggae influence, Elaine Marley's name may be a reference to Bob Marley.
Each of the games takes place on Fictional islands in the Caribbean. The time period in which they take place is around the Golden Age of Piracy but deliberately vague (although in the third game, the date of a coin reads 1687). The islands teem with pirates dressed in outfits that seem to come from movies and comic books rather than history, and there are many deliberate anachronisms and references to modern-day popular culture.
The main setting of the Monkey Island games is the "Tri-Island Area", a fictional archipelago in the Caribbean. Since the first game in the series, The Secret of Monkey Island, each game has visited the titular island of Monkey Island while introducing its own set of islands to explore. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge features four new islands, The Curse of Monkey Island introduces three, and The Escape from Monkey Island, which revisits some of the older islands, features three new islands as well.
The main islands of the Tri-Island Area are Mêlée Island, Booty Island, and Plunder Island, which are all ruled by Governor Elaine Marley in place of her long lost grandfather, Horatio Torquemada Marley. Elaine moves from island to island at her convenience, though she considers her governor's mansion on Mêlée Island, the capital island of the area, as home.
Other islands in the region are considered under the umbrella of Tri-Island Area as well, even though Elaine does not rule them.
Additional islands seen in maps of the area but never visited include Spittle and Pinchpenny.
Many "supporting" characters have recurring roles in the games, including:
The series debuted in 1990 with The Secret of Monkey Island on the Atari ST, Macintosh and IBM PC platforms, and it was later ported to Amiga, Sega CD and FM Towns.
The game starts off with the main character Guybrush Threepwood stating "I want to be a pirate!", and he is soon off to prove himself to the old pirate captains. During the perilous pirate trials, he meets the beautiful governor Elaine Marley, with whom he falls in love, unaware that the ghost pirate LeChuck also has his eyes on her. When Elaine is kidnapped, Guybrush procures crew and ship to track LeChuck down, defeat him and rescue his love.
Islands visited:
The second game, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge from 1991, was available for fewer platforms; it was only released for the Amiga, MS DOS, Macintosh, and later for FM Towns.
As Guybrush, with a treasure chest in hand, and Elaine hang onto ropes in a void, he tells her the story of the game. He has decided to find the greatest of all treasures, that of Big Whoop. Unwittingly, he helps revive LeChuck, who is now in zombie form. Guybrush is eventually captured by his arch-nemesis, but escapes with help from Wally and finds the treasure only to find himself dangling from a rope, the situation from the beginning of the game. As Guybrush concludes his story, his rope breaks and he finds himself facing LeChuck, who he finally defeats using voodoo. The ending is very surrealistic and is open to a number of interpretations. In the manual of The Curse of Monkey Island, it is stated that Guybrush falls victim to a hex implemented by LeChuck. However, it should be noted that while LeChuck's Revenge was designed by Ron Gilbert, The Curse Of Monkey Island wasn't, so once again the continuity between the episodes is very loose.
Islands visited:
The Curse of Monkey Island, the third in the series, was exclusively available for Windows in 1997.
Guybrush unwittingly turns Elaine into a gold statue with a cursed ring and she is soon stolen by pirates. He tracks her down before searching for a ring that can lift the curse. LeChuck appears in a fiery demon form, and is on the heels of Guybrush until a standoff in LeChuck's amusement park ride, the Rollercoaster of Doom.
Islands visited:
The last game to date, Escape from Monkey Island, was released in 2000 for Windows, PlayStation 2 and Macintosh.
When Guybrush Threepwood and Elaine Marley return from their honeymoon, they find that Elaine has been declared officially dead, her mansion is under destruction order, and her position as governor is up for election. Guybrush investigates and unearths a conspiracy by LeChuck and evil real estate developer Ozzie Mandrill to use a voodoo talisman, "The Ultimate Insult," to make all pirates docile in order to turn the Caribbean into a center of tourism.
Islands visited:
Running gags include lines such as "Look behind you, a three-headed monkey!", the introduction "My name is Guybrush Threepwood and I'm a mighty pirate", "How appropriate, you fight like a cow", "I'm selling these fine leather jackets" (a reference to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure), and "That's the second biggest [object] I've ever seen", a catchphrase from the TV series Get Smart (and in EMI "That's the second bigg... No, that's the biggest conch shell I've ever seen!"), and the astounding fact that Guybrush can hold his breath for ten minutes.
Many parallels have been drawn between the series and the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. This would be very appropriate since Ron Gilbert has openly admitted that sections of Monkey Island 2 borrowed extensively from the original Disneyland ride, such as the famous "dog holding the keys to the jail-cell". However, he has also said that he thought the second movie (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest) may have 'borrowed' from the Monkey Island series too, due to many similarities (e.g. the cannibals, the coffin Jack Sparrow uses as a boat, akin to that used by Guybrush to find the Voodoo Lady, as well as Tia Dalma's hut built on the bog, very reminiscent of the Voodoo Lady's hut in the second game, and Jack Sparrow's line "Look! An Undead Monkey!" is reminiscent of the line "Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!" from all four Monkey Island games).
Each game in the series features cameo appearances by Steve Purcell's characters Sam & Max (who were featured in their own LucasArts adventure game, Sam & Max Hit the Road). The pair appear as voodoo idols in the first game, as costumes in a costume shop on Booty Island in the second, as toys in LeChuck's demonic carnival and as light-formations at the theatre (in Mega-Monkey mode) in the third and as one of the possible aliases for Pegnose Pete in the World of Prosthesis puzzle in the fourth scene from EMI.
There are many hypotheses popular among players, and at least one case can be made from each game in the series. One of these hypotheses states that the bizarre revelation at the end of MI2 is the true secret of Monkey Island (again, Ron Gilbert has confirmed that the secret is yet to be discovered, in an interview with GameSpot). The fact that it was debunked in CMI, the hypothesis states, is merely a retcon by the new development team after Ron Gilbert's departure. Elements in the closing scenes of MI2 seem to support this hypothesis, as do certain comments of pirates in the insult swordfighting section of the first game, asking Guybrush to "play along". Members of the CMI team (many of whom were also part of the MI2 team) claimed at one point that they knew what the original secret was: that the storyline of the games was simply the fantasy of a child. Gilbert, however, has contradicted this in various interviews, saying that he never told anyone what the true secret of Monkey Island is. A large article about the subject can be found here
Gilbert stated in a 2004 interview that when the game was originally conceived it was considered "too big", so they split it into three parts. He added that he "knows what the third [part] is" and "how the story's supposed to end," indicating that he had a definite concept of the secret and a conclusive third game.
The team behind Escape from Monkey Island attempted to resolve the issue by showing that the Giant Monkey Head was actually the control room of a Giant Monkey Robot. The cut-scene in which the revelation was made is called The Real Secret of Monkey Island. This however seemed to confuse the issue.
A fifth Monkey Island game has been rumored (and is the source of jokes in the fourth game), although no official word has been released from LucasArts. One significant hint at this is in the fourth game, when both the Voodoo Lady character and Guybrush make claims about involvement in "an unbreakable five game contract.", similar to references made by the Voodoo Lady throughout the series. The company's cancellation of the planned sequels Full Throttle: Hell on Wheels and Sam & Max 2: Freelance Police may indicate a strong reluctance to produce new graphic adventures.
In a 2006 Gamespot interview, Gilbert claims the true secret of Monkey Island has yet to be revealed, and that he wishes to make a fifth Monkey Island game to conclude the series.
During television network G4's coverage of the 2006 E3 Convention, a LucasArts executive was asked about the return of popular franchises such as Monkey Island. The executive responded that the company was currently focusing on new franchises, and that LucasArts may return to the "classic franchises" in 2015, though it was unclear as to whether the date was put forwards as an actual projection, or hyperbole.


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Joe Clift, of Terrell County, displays an ever-red lorepatieum in his garden. Clift, a Southwest Georgia Master Gardener, has been working with bonsai growing art for three decades.
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Holmen Prez Speaks About Administrator Firing
Administrator Mary Willett was fired last night after only about a year on the job. She didn't show up at the village board meeting to defend herself. Other village leaders were unhappy about Willett's job performance, and about the apparent padding of her resume to show more administrative experience than she really had. Village president Nancy Proctor says it's sad that the situation came to this, because staffers at the village hall liked Willett. Proctor says no decision has been made yet on finding a new administrator...or on using the same employee search firm that recommended Willett for the Holmen job.


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components, so after a few requests I have decided to create a guide on
how to take the phone apart.
These are all new pictures which include the never seen before keyboard stripped down to expose the circuit layout.
To open the main body of the phone you need a T5 Torx screwdriver
(I have posted in the past saying a T4 but later found out that was due to my old driver being worn out :oops:)
Remove the four screws, then you need a small flat bladed screwdriver to
unclip the two retaining clips in the middle sides of the body see below pointing to one of the clips, the other one is on the oppersite side.
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Once you have uncliped the cover, lift back from the battery cover release end to remove the cover out of the way.
Now you can see the SD card socket
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After removing the screen connector strip, can be lifted out of the way
to expose the Keypad buttons and keypad membrane side of the circuitboard. You can also see the internal battery.
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The metal keypad membrane support plate can be carefully lifted to show the components underneath.
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This next part I do not recommend anyone to try unless you want to risk destroying the keypad. I removed the membrane from the backing plate
and then proceded to seperate the top memberane from the circuitboard.
As you can see this is the matix layout of the keypad.
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I went this far in my testing to find the actual cause of the DownLeft problem on the main controller.
Now to move on to the Flip section of the phone.
On the display side there are four rubber plugs, remove these and then the T5 Tork srews underneath them.
Now the hard part, there are two clips either side of the case which have to be lifted very carefully with a small thin blade. You have to be carefull
otherwise you will mark the case as the top cover is plastic.
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Once you have done this on the hinge is another clip, lift the cover from the top (speaker end) and carefully slide the cover towards the hinge.
Failure to do this will result in the clip being broken off.
You can also see in this picture the vibrate motor and the magnet used for activating the main screen on and off.
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Once you have the cover removed unclip the connector cable then you
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NEW YORK (AP) — NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said Friday that he is out of ideas how to get negotiations back on track to save the hockey season.
No contact between sides in hockey fight
Talks fell apart on Thursday night amid back-and-forth accusations, and the fallout was still being felt Friday. The two sides had no contact with each other on the 83rd day of the owners' lockout of players.
"I have no reason, nor any intention, of reaching out to the union right now," Daly said in an email to The Associated Press. "I have no new ideas. Maybe they do. We are happy to listen."
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That has left the NHL's labor situation in limbo.
All games have been canceled through Dec. 14, which is only a week away, so more games will surely be wiped off the schedule soon. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Thursday that he won't allow a season to be played that contains fewer than 48 games per team — the length of the season that was played after a lockout ended in January 1995.
If there isn't a resolution soon, Sidney Crosby appears ready to find a place to play elsewhere.
The Pittsburgh Penguins star wants to get back to work. He said Friday the prospect of lacing up his skates in Europe is growing more appealing as the lockout nears the three-month mark. The breakdown in negotiations left Crosby "disappointed" and considering other opportunities.
"I just want to play hockey," Crosby told reporters after an informal workout with some of his teammates on Friday morning. "As far as whatever option is best there, I'll start thinking of it a lot more because this stuff is getting ridiculous."
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The policies of Section 32-10 describe the structure of the University's advising program.
Oversight of the University's academic advising program rests with the University Advising Council. This Council will be appointed by the Vice President and Dean for Undergraduate Education and will consist of two faculty who are members of the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Education, two students, two academic advisers, and two administrators. One representative from each of the following units will be appointed as an ex-officio member: Office of the University Registrar, World Campus, and Continuing Education. The Council will have sufficient authority to aid all academic units in improving the delivery of their advising programs in accordance with the criteria for effective advising listed below. The Council will guide the following policies and assess the quality of the University's advising program.
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About TapeCloud
TapeCloud was created by Henrik Berggren & Eric Wahlforss during a weekend of code. It's built using the open SoundCloud API, Google Appengine, Python, jQuery and SoundManager 2.
It's heavily inspired by the excellent Muxtape but uses the SoundCloud API to access tracks by artists on SoundCloud instead.
After a conversation with the founder of Muxtape we decided it would be a much better idea to integrate SoundCloud directly with Muxtape, and take down TapeCloud for now. So unfortunately the service is not up and running anymore.
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"Better Access with NextGen"
J. Randolph Babbitt, Atlanta, Georgia
May 17, 2011
American Association of Airport Executives
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery
Thank you, Jim (Bennett) for that kind introduction. It's great to be in Atlanta, home to the world's busiest airport and to Delta Air Lines, UPS and several corporate flight departments. The business of Atlanta is business. So this is a great place to talk about the business of airports.
As Norm Crabtree, a longtime proponent of aviation in Ohio used to say, "The airport runway is the most important Main Street in any town."
That's the case across the United States. It's in our best interest for airports to maintain their runways and terminals, enhance safety and plan for the future.
Atlanta has shown tremendous leadership and foresight in preparing to meet future demand. In the last five years, Hartsfield-Jackson has opened its fifth runway, which increased capacity by 30 percent. And the airport opened an end-around taxiway that eliminated more than 600 runway crossings per day, thus enhancing safety. Atlanta is now looking ahead to handle the coming growth.
The way we are all going to support growth across the system is to embrace NextGen. We are charting the transformation of our air traffic control system from the ground-based radar system of the last century to the satellite-based system of this century.
When people hear NextGen, they may think of the far-off future. But NextGen is happening now.
NextGen means better access to airports across the country.
Many general aviation airports are already seeing the benefits of greater access thanks to GPS-based approaches. The FAA has already published more than 2,400 approaches nationwide known as WAAS-LPV. As many of you know, that's Wide Area Augmentation System and Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance. We have hundreds more in the works. Approaches, that is, not acronyms.
These GPS-based approaches act just like Instrument Landing System, or "ILS," approaches, yet there's no airport equipment to buy, install or maintain. More airports all over the country can now have very precise, low cost approaches that open them up to general aviation aircraft in all kinds of weather.
Let's look at another example of what NextGen can do for us.
GPS-based area navigation and required navigation performance – known as RNAV-RNP—increase throughput and efficiency at an airport.
Use of RNAV departure and arrival procedures here in Atlanta at Hartsfield-Jackson International, and many other airports across the country, has dramatically improved efficiency and saved operators such as Delta Air Lines millions of dollars.
Alaska Airlines has been a leader in using RNP approach procedures at Juneau International Airport. They can fly precisely through mountainous terrain in low visibility conditions thanks to the higher accuracy of GPS.
The airline estimates it would have cancelled 729 flights last year into Juneau alone due to bad weather if it were not for the GPS-based RNP approaches. Those were passengers who got in. No diversions. No ground holds.
More than 250 of these "RNP" procedures are now published in the U.S. and available for use by nearly 2,000 airline and business aviation aircraft.
We are working with Alaska Airlines, the Port of Seattle and Boeing to further develop RNAV-RNP procedures at Seattle Tacoma International Airport. That is part of our "Greener Skies over Seattle" initiative. That project should save literally millions of gallons of fuel annually and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. The procedure will also cut noise because the aircraft will remain over Puget Sound and away from neighborhoods during most of the final approach.
We estimate that airlines using GPS-based arrival and approach procedures at SeaTac will save a total of about $6.8 million per year at today's fuel prices. And that number is only going to increase as more airlines equip. With the "Greener Skies over Seattle" initiative, aircraft will emit less carbon dioxide – about 22,400 metric tons less per year. Let's look at it this way, that's like taking 4,100 cars off the streets of the Seattle region.
We want to see this safety, efficiency and smaller carbon footprint system-wide.
So we are building on our experience and taking a coordinated approach to getting the most out of our airspace in busy metropolitan areas. We've identified 21 such areas. Rather than develop a procedure for one airport, we are bringing stakeholders to the table to talk about what we can do to improve airports in an entire metro area.
Maybe we need RNAV or RNP procedures, or Optimized Profile Descents, or rerouting of flights or further FAA coordination with local governments. We are looking at the big picture to improve throughput at airports in a metro area as a whole.
We've already completed prototypes for the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area and Washington, D.C. And we're finishing studies at Charlotte and Northern California. Next up: Houston, Atlanta and Southern California.
NextGen is a marriage of our runways, new satellite-based procedures, our airlines and flight crews. Together they will expand the capacity and efficiency of our system.
We are working to improve collaborative departure queue management to have safer, more efficient airports.
We're already going in this direction at JFK and we have a pilot project in Memphis using NextGen software and algorithms to manage the queue for departure.
At JFK we have been working with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to improve airfield surface management.
What we've been able to do is collaborate on push-backs and deliver aircraft to the runway in a more timely fashion. We have reduced idling time and therefore reduced emissions.
We're using ASDE-X with multi-lateration sensors that have been placed strategically all over the airport. The bottom line is that it has given us greater situational awareness of aircraft on the airfield.
ASDE-X, coupled with a surface movement system, provides a virtual queue on a computer screen that projects the departure line-up for the next two to three hours. Our target is to have – at most – a line of between six to 10 aircraft waiting by the runway to takeoff.
Limiting the number of aircraft in the departure queue has been very helpful. When weather comes in and we need to turn the airport around and fly in the other direction, we have fewer aircraft to move – less than a dozen as opposed to several dozen.
It all adds up to a safer, more efficient operation.
Safety is the FAA's number one priority and we are taking steps to build on the professionalism of our industry and enhance our safety culture.
Safety Management Systems, or SMS, will play a key role.
Last fall, the FAA proposed that most commercial airlines in the United States use SMS. We at the FAA are using safety management systems too. We also proposed that Part 139 certificated airports adopt SMS for airfield and ramp areas.
Here in Atlanta, Hartsfield-Jackson International was part of the first round of about 20 airports to start pilot programs for SMS.
This is good progress.
We are working to make the shift from a safety system that relies on forensics, to a more forward-looking approach where we use computer analyses to show us trends and help us make safety decisions.
I want to encourage reporting of risks and errors throughout the system because this issue is bigger than any one of us. We want to take a holistic approach to the safety of our aviation system.
We are already working with pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, dispatchers and air traffic controllers to do this.
No company or organization is too small for SMS. The key is, it doesn't have to look the same everywhere.
If you have one airplane, you already have an SMS. It's called a logbook. You write down your observations. You find risks and trends. You prioritize and mitigate them.
An SMS is scalable. You can tailor it to the size and complexity of your organization. It can be a series of databases, or it can be a yellow note pad.
More important, though, is that SMS is simply the right thing to do. We need to step above and beyond where we are today, and just complying with the letter of the regulations is not enough to get us there.
The cost of SMS is far less than the cost of an accident and I think we can all agree on that point.
We have a lot of work on our plate to enhance safety, transform our aviation system to the Next Generation and improve efficiency. I want to close today with some thoughts about funding.
In order to accomplish all of our goals, the Federal Aviation Administration needs a multi-year reauthorization bill. And we need a stable, predictable level of Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airport grants.
Reauthorization would allow us to help airports move forward with important infrastructure improvements that have been put on hold because of uncertainty about long-term funding.
It's difficult to manage large-scale, long-term programs when there's only enough money to pour 50 feet of concrete at a time. And it costs a lot more that way, meaning we get less bang for the buck.
The FAA has not had a steady source of funding for three-and-a-half-years, relying instead on 18 short-term extensions of its spending authority. Some extensions have kept the agency authorized just a few weeks at a time.
We are pleased that both the House and the Senate have passed reauthorization bills for the FAA. It is an important step forward. This is critical to the safety of the traveling public. It will improve our transportation infrastructure, generate new jobs and spur economic growth.
However, the authorized funding levels in the House bill are well below what the President proposed in his 2012 budget. Funding at these levels would degrade the safe and efficient movement of air traffic today and in the future. Additionally, the funding cuts in the House bill, combined with the revised entitlement formulas, could greatly affect discretionary funding and limit money available for phased projects and new starts.
The President's 2012 budget proposal called for a balanced and integrated approach to AIP funding. The reduction in AIP spending for larger airports would be offset by an up-front boost in supplemental airport infrastructure funding and an increase in the passenger facility charge from the current $4.50 to $7.00.
It is imperative that any reduction in AIP is balanced by an increase in the passenger facility charge.
Delaying infrastructure investments means that the long term cost to our nation – to our passengers and our environment – will far exceed the cost of going forward with the technology today.
We appreciate your support and engagement in this issue. Working together, we can plan, engineer, build and preserve the airport infrastructure that is so vital to our national economy.
I want to thank you for your time today and I'll open it up to questions.


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I pride myself on being pretty thrifty. I shop around for good deals before making most purchases. I detest paying full price for anything. To me, bargain hunting is like a fine art. I love finding awesome deals and spending less than others for the exact same item. Today, I want to share with you one of the ways I save money at the grocery sure- even if I don't have any coupons!
There are a few ways to save money on groceries, coupons are one of the most popular. I do not cut out as many coupons as I used to (bad mommy!), but I try to as often as I can. Remember to use your coupons when the item is on sale-and stock up on that item if you are able to. Rebates are another way to save, although they are not always available. Store rewards are very useful, many markets have a card that you swipe for extra savings. Of course, sales are a great way to save too. But I'm not talking about any of these ways to save, I'm talking about Red Tags!
Every store has an area devoted to items the store is trying to get rid of. Maybe they have too much of an item, maybe it's a seasonal product, or close to the expiration date; whatever the reason-the price has been drastically reduced! Here's a few items I picked up yesterday, at Safeway:
All of these products were marked 50% off! I'm talking name brand items here. Some are even organic! Brands like, Quaker, Kellogg's, Del Monte, Glory Foods, Muir Glen Organic & Nature's Path Organic. None of these items were anywhere near their expiration dates. The cereal boxes were a little bent up, SO WHAT?! The product inside is still intact. I don't think the turnip greens were selling very well, so they were marked down to move them. The can of corn was bent, some people won't buy bent cans- I'm not some people! There were tons of Quaker Chewy's marked down and they were all chocolate chip flavored… maybe it's not a very good seller? For whatever reason-all these items were marked down and I took full advantage of it & stocked up. Imagine if I'd had coupons for this stuff too? I did have one for the Quaker products ($1 off of 2). I visit the 50% off racks every time I shop at Safeway, without fail. If you have been walking past the 50% off rack at your grocery store, you have been passing up huge savings!
But what about other items, like dairy & meat? It's not often that you find coupons for these two products, although they are out there from time to time. Never fear, Mommy Powers is here! You can find milk marked down too! I find it all the time, it is usually close to the "buy by" date. "Buy by" is not the same as "Use by"… so don't get the two confused. If it says "Buy by" and the date is 5 days away, by all means, snatch it up! I am a milk freak! I buy four gallons a week- 2 fat-free, for me & 2 whole, for the rest of the family. I love milk and have no problem drinking it all down before the "buy by" date! Milk is usually marked 25% off. That brings us to meat and my next photo:
Yes, you are seeing that correctly, 30% & 50% off on meat! There is a clearance section in the meat department, did you know that? Lots of times I will not buy any meat unless it's in the clearance section, it's just so expensive! Most of the marked down meat is a couple days shy of the "Sell by" date. As long as the meat is still nice and red, and looks good, I buy it! It usually goes right into the freezer when I get home, unless I am going to prepare it that night. Keep it in the freezer, until you are ready to cook it.
This is the good stuff! Do you know how expensive lamb is? They had three of these available and you know what? I bought all three! Here's the original sticker price:
You see that price? $17.14… I paid half of that! On all three! So you see, there are ways to save at the grocery store, without coupons! I hope I have helped you- what ways do you save money at the store? I'd love to hear your tips!


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If your a current Galaxy Nexus owner, that's fine, stick with that. But I'm a current Droid Charge owner, SIII would be a big leap for me.
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Following the sack of four ministers - Stella Oduah (aviation), Godsday Orubebe (Niger Delta), Yerima Ngama(state, finance) and Caleb Olubolade (police affairs) - yesterday in what appears to be a re-organisation of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and the Presidency, surviving ministers and presidential aides have intensified lobby to retain their jobs.
The sack of the ministers by President Goodluck Jonathan came barely 48 hours after Mike Oghiadomhe was relieved of his position as chief of staff and five months after the sack of nine ministers.
More heads may roll as the exercise appears to be unending.
LEADERSHIP gathered that as soon as the announcement of the ministers' sack became public knowledge, allies of some serving ministers and presidential aides took spontaneous steps by rushing to the residences of power brokers.
Similarly, others who were currently out of the country were said to have started making contingency arrangements to cut short their stay and return home for the lobby game.
According to a source close to one of the president's close associates, immediately after yesterday's FEC meeting, three ministers and two special advisers to the president attempted to know if his principal was at home or not.
This is even as LEADERSHIP gathered that a close aide of the president who was abroad when the ministers' sack was announced put a call through to the same person, promising to cut short his stay in the United States. He is billed to return today.
The source said, "We never knew of the sack of ministers before we started receiving some government officials; at first, we thought it was a meeting they came for, and because Papa was not around, we were not too sure of their mission.
"It was a few minutes after these people, three serving ministers - one is a woman, and the two SAs - left that we got to know that the president had sacked Orubebe and others from the cabinet."
The source said, shortly afterwards, there was an instruction from their principal who was away in his village in a state in the south-south that details of his movement should not be disclosed to anyone.
The president's action was akin to bowing to pressure as two of the sacked ministers - Oduah and Orubebe - have been most controversial owing to allegations of corruption.
For Oduah, her continued stay in his cabinet has been generating public disaffection against the current administration following corruption allegations dangling on her neck.
Minister of information Mr Labaran Maku, who confirmed the sack of the four ministers shortly after the FEC meeting at the presidential villa, Abuja, said the four ministers had indicated their interest to pursue further political ambitions in the country and were asked by the president to go and do so.
But the government's explanation is regarded as evasive of the real reasons, as there are other ministers with governorship ambitions who are still in the cabinet.
Following the allegations of fraud involving the purchase of bulletproof BMW cars at an alleged inflated price of N255million last year for Oduah by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), coupled with criticisms from organised private sector and the general public, President Jonathan had constituted a presidential committee which investigated the matter.
On arrival from London where he was treated for severe abdominal pains, Jonathan told journalists at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, that he had already received the report from the presidential committee on the bulletproof cars scandal.
Even though the House of Representatives committee which investigated the matter had also indicted the minister, the presidential report was kept secret until yesterday when the president sacked her alongside three of her colleagues.
Oduah's subsequent sack by the president, LEADERSHIP gathered, is a subtle way by Jonathan to succumb to the wishes of Nigerians and save his government from a series of corruption allegations heaped on it ahead of the 2015 general allegation.
Sources at the presidency told our correspondent that the removal of the other three ministers was part of plans by the president to streamline his cabinet in a manner that would enable him boast of ministers with the political clout to push for his re-election bid in 2015.
In the case of police affairs minister Olubolade who is a close friend of the president, it was learnt that although he had since commenced his politicking for the governorship slot in Ekiti State, the president considered him as not well-grounded in the grassroots politics of his state to trust him enough in terms of mobilising the electorate in the favour of the ruling party.
That apart, Olubolade has been having it rough with major stakeholders in the Ekiti chapter of the PDP.
For Orubebe, LEADERSHIP learnt that his removal may not be unconnected with the feud between the former minister and elder statesman from his home state Chief Edwin Clark which has to do with the former's ambition to contest for the Delta State governorship poll in 2015.
Owing to the disagreement between the duo, the president was said to have advised Orubebe to tarry a while in his quest for the governorship.
LEADERSHIP gathered that Jonathan made up his mind to weed out Orubebe two weeks ago when he (Jonathan) learnt that the former minister had already opened a campaign office in the state against his advice.
It was also gathered that Orubebe's role leading to the exit of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as national chairman of the PDP did not go down well with the president.
The most glaring of the president's resolve to streamline his cabinet along political calculation in a way that would enable him mobilise support in 2015 is the sack of minister of state for finance Yerima Ngama.
Ngama, who stands alone in the political wilderness of his home state Yobe, LEADERSHIP gathered, is considered in Jonathan's political camp as lacking the political clout and stamina to withstand political hawks in the All Progressives Congress-dominated state like Yobe.
But far more important is the controversial statement credited to Ngama that the 2013 national budget was not implementable because of the over-bloated revenue estimates by the National Assembly.
But Maku noted yesterday that the former ministers were only asked by the president to step down to pursue further political and private interests.
Maku told newsmen: "Also today, the president announced further changes in the Federal Executive Council. He said a number of ministers have been asked to step out of the Federal Executive Council to further their own interests -- some in politics, others in their own private-focused.
"Clearly, what the president did today was to allow ministers who have indicated interest in pursuing further goals in the polity, in the economy and in the life of the country to be allowed to go. Those asked by the president to go include the following: the minister of state for finance, Dr Yerima Ngama; minister of police affairs Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade (rtd), minister of Niger Delta affairs Elder Godsday Orubebe and minister of aviation Mrs Stella Oduah."
On those who will oversee the affairs in the portfolios of the sacked ministers, Maku said: "Today, the president asked the following ministers to take charge of the ministries. The Ministry of Aviation -- the minister of state for trade, industry and investment, Samuel Ortom, to supervise until the substantive appointment of a minister of aviation.
"The Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs already has a minister of state, Darius Ishaku; in the Ministry of Finance, of course, the CME is already in charge. For the Ministry of Police Affairs, the president asked the minister of state for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Olajumoke Akinjide, to take charge of the ministry."
Asked whether the ministers would be asked to go in batches since many others in the cabinet have political ambitions, Maku said, "That is left for the president to decide. I am not the president but I believe sincerely that it depends on what they have communicated to Mr President. He does not just take those decisions in isolation."
Asked to clarify if the ministers resigned or were asked to step down, he said, "The president said he has asked them to go because of their interests. They have indicated interest in pursuing higher and deeper interest in the polity and so he has decided to allow them to go and pursue those interests. You have to get that correctly so that you won't go and say something like it was said in the case of the former chief of staff."
On whether the president asked Oduah to go based on the report on the N255 million car scam of the committee he set up to investigate or not, Maku said, "I have just reported exactly what the president said. Also, don't forget that allegations don't necessarily mean guilty, and I think the press should always take some time to be patient. But the truth of the matter is that they left because they indicated interest in playing deeper roles in the politics of the country and the president has decided to let them go."
Senate Screens Gusau, Obanikoro, four other ministerial nominees
The Senate yesterday began the screening of President Goodluck Jonathan's ministerial nominees after attempts by some APC senators to stall the screening hit a brick wall.
Senate president David Mark said no matter how long it would take, the Senate would eventually screen the nominees and there was therefore no need for delay tactics.
Senator Babafemi Ojudu, (APC, Ekiti Central) through a point of order called for more time on the grounds that the Senate had been flooded by petitions from the nominees' states and their former places of work.
The APC lawmaker appealed to the Senate president for extension of the screening time to enable them study the reports on the nominees.
However, Senator David Mark said: "There is enough time for you to read the ones you can read today but if I know you well, I am sure that in a few minutes, you can read it and if there is any question that you will want to ask, you should also be free to ask. There is nothing in our rule to say that you must be given two days ahead of time. So it is not clearly your privilege. Again, I rule you out of order."
Another APC senator, Anthony Adeniyi (APC, Ekiti), referred to point of order 118,119,120 and 121 of the Senate Standing Rule which reads: " When nominations have been made by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the nominations shall be referred to appropriate committees or committee of the whole for consideration."
He cited Section 120 (a) of the constitution which requires that nominees must not only declare their assets but undergo security screening with the nation's relevant security agencies, but said such were not attached in the documents distributed to senators to prove they had done that and therefore demanded that the exercise be put on hold, but he could not succeed in his argument as the Senate president, again, ruled him out of order.
The Senate screened six out of the 12 ministerial nominees. Those screened were Senator Musiliu Obanikoro (Lagos), Hon. Mohammed Wakil (Borno), Amb. Aminu Wali (Kano), Mrs Akon Etim Eyakenyi (Akwa Ibom), Mrs Lawrencia Labaran Mallam (Kano), and Gen. Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (rtd) from Zamfara State.
As is the Senate's tradition, Senator Obanikoro and Hon. Mohammed Wakili were not asked questions because they were former lawmakers. Also, former NSA Chief Aliyu Mohammed Gusau was asked to take a bow and go.
Fielding questions from the senators, former Nigerian ambassador to China Aminu Wali said tackling corruption in the country was a collective responsibility of all Nigerians, insisting that they were all guilty of the menace that has eaten deep into the fabric of the nation at present.
The remaining six nominees -- Boni Haruna (Adamawa), Dr Khaliru Alhassan (Sokoto), Hajiya Jamilla Salik (Kano), Alhaji Abduljelili Oyewale Adesiyan (Osun), Dr T.W. Dangogo (Rivers) as well as Asabe Asmau Ahmed (Niger) -- will be screened today and confirmed by the Senate.


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Following a rapidfire rise through the Reading Football League, which saw the side secure five successive promotions, the Faraday Road club have taken the next step up into Division One (East) of the Hellenic League.
And the start of the new campaign holds plenty of potential for the club's stalwart chairman Keith Moss.
He said: "It's a big step up, but something that everyone at the club is very much looking forward to.
"It's a level of football we haven't been involved in for a few years, but this has been the aim ever since we joined the Reading Football League and we have never looked back.
"We've come straight through the league from Division Four and we're hoping we can keep that momentum going and be up there towards the top end of things this season.
"It will be good for the town because a place the size of Newbury really deserves a decent football club.
"Hopefully we can provide that for them this season and the seasons to come."
Moss oversaw the revitalisation of the club as manager for more than a decade, before taking on the role of chairman after guiding the side to second place in the Senior Division of the Reading League last season.
Joint managers Darren Angell and David Ingram have been brought in over the close season from West Berkshire neighbours, and fellow Hellenic League side Kintbury Rangers, to oversee the first team.
And Angell was quick to pay tribute to the efforts of Moss, who will still be involved around the first team squad this campaign.
He explained: "It's a very exciting time and really all this is down to Keith Moss. He has done so much for the club to get it up to this level.
"Hopefully we can combine everything he knows about the club and combine it with some of the experience we have picked up over the years at Kintbury."
Angell intends to give the players who brought Newbury through the leagues their chance to shine at the next level.
But he has also brought four players with him from Kintbury - including last year's top scorer in the division Shaun Thorp.
Newbury get their campaign underway against one of the title favourites Ascot United on Tuesday, August 12 and follow that up with two more home clashes against Prestwood (August 16) and Finchampstead (August 19).
And Angell admits he can't wait for things to get going.
He added: "It will be a big test, but if we can handle it and get off to a good start then we will certainly be looking to finish up in the top six.
"Those first four or five games are important because if you can settle in the league early on, it will really stand you in good stead."