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-- India's order book for Sukhoi jets swells to 222
NEW DELHI--India will buy 113 fighter jets and helicopters worth billions of dollars from Russia in a major boost to the longstanding defense ties between the two countries.
Under agreements signed Monday, India will acquire kits for 42 Sukhoi Su-30 MKI fighter jets for licensed production by state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. It will also purchase 71 Mi-17 V-5 helicopters that are produced by Russian Helicopters (HELI.LN).
The value of the two military contracts weren't disclosed formally.
The agreements were signed during Russian President Vladimir Putin's day-long visit to New Delhi to attend the 13th Russia-India summit.
A separate agreement was signed between India's Elcom Systems Pvt. Ltd. and Russian Helicopters to set up a joint-venture facility to manufacture the Ka and Mi brand of helicopters in India.
"Russia is a key partner in our efforts to modernize our armed forces and enhance our defense preparedness," Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. "A number of joint design, development and production projects are underway in high technology areas," he said.
India, the biggest customer for Russian weapons, has been diversifying its defense purchases in recent years, especially toward the U.S., Israel, France and the U.K., due to commercial disagreements with Moscow, and late delivery of some weapons and spare parts by Russia.
Russia's ambassador to India, Alexander Kadakin, said Friday that the delay in the supply of spare parts was caused partly because some of the weapons used by India are of the Soviet-era and have already been discontinued in Russia.
Earlier in December, Indian Defense Minister A. K. Antony said Boeing Co.'s Chinook and Apache helicopters have been selected to supply 37 helicopters to the Indian air force. The U.S. defense contractor got the orders after competing with Russian companies.
In recent years, Boeing has also won contracts to supply its C-17 Globemaster airlifters and P8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and antisubmarine aircraft to India. U.S.-based Lockheed Martin Corp. supplies its Super Hercules C-130J military-transport planes to India.
India has also chosen the Rafale combat plane made by France's Dassault Aviation as a preferred bidder for a potential contract for 126 fighter jets to replace its aging fleet of Russia-made MiG-21 jets. Russia's MiG-35 jet was among the initial contenders for the contract.
Although India has increased its arms purchases from the U.S. and Europe, Russia remains its biggest weapons supplier, making up to 70% of the total weapons used by Indian armed forces.
India continues to buy hundreds of tanks, fighter jets, missiles, frigates and helicopters from Russia. The two countries have jointly developed the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile, and they are also jointly working on a project to develop a fifth-generation fighter jet.
New Delhi plans to spend about 1.93 trillion rupees ($35 billion) on defense in the financial year through March 2013, an increase of 13% from last year. It has earmarked 795.79 billion rupees to buy new weapons.
India is buying new weapons as neighbors Pakistan and China expand their military capabilities.
Hindustan Aeronautics, in a statement, said the latest contract for the Su-30 MKI fighter jet has increased the company's total order book for the twin-seater aircraft to 222. It has already delivered 119 of the total to the Indian air force, Chairman R. K. Tyagi said.
The agreement for the Sukhoi jets were signed between Hindustan Aeronautics, India's defense ministry and Russia's state-controlled arms exporter, Rosoboronexport.
The order for the 71 Mi-17 helicopters is an increase from a February 2010 agreement to procure 59 such helicopters, according to a government statement. India is one of the world's largest Mi-8 and Mi-17 operators with more than 100 rotorcraft in service.
The proposed manufacturing facility in India between Elcom Systems and Russian Helicopters will serve as a base to manufacture rotorcraft products, and also implement offset projects under various defense contracts in India, according to the statement.
Under the Indian government's so-called offset policy, the winning bidder in a military tender in excess of 3.0 billion rupees requires to either locally manufacture products or parts worth 30% of the contract's value or make an equivalent investment in the country.
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Those who feel that musical theatre's greatest moments occur when old and new clash head on won't want to miss 4th Interval's productions of two short musicals currently providing the theatrical equivalent of nuclear fusion.
Both The Diary of Adam and Eve (by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick) and Marry Me a Little (with songs by Stephen Sondheim, conceived and developed into a show by Craig Lucas and Norman Rene) are standalone productions playing at the 45th Street Theatre. They share two common cast members, a few set pieces, and a creative team (their musical director is Joshua Clayton), but little else. What makes these shows - especially when seen together, though they may be viewed separately - uniquely affecting is the shocking juxtaposition between Old and New Broadway.
Of course, few would consider The Diary of Adam and Eve - originally the first act of the 1966 musical The Apple Tree - in any way Old Broadway. Certainly, the show's superimposing the modern battle of the sexes - complete with all the joys and pains, both complex and simple - onto one of history's most famous stories is an idea of shimmeringly contemporary audacity. The language of the first man (J. Brandon Savage) and the first woman (Lauren Gruet) is modern, and their feelings are defined with a precision more befitting the age of psychoanalysis than the Book of Genesis.
Still, the two are discovering the world - and everything in it - for the first time; this imbues the work with a simplicity so beguiling and so heartfelt that, even in a modest production like this one, the story's charms ring through with crystalline clarity. The performers' optimistic youthfulness only enhances the work's latent appeal, resulting in a show both epic and intimate, a full, moving lifetime of story told in under an hour. It's the type of show filled with songs given away entirely by their titles (such as "Beautiful, Beautiful World," "Feelings," and "Friends"), but that so acutely deliver on primal and explorative human emotions they, like the rest of the show, are irresistible.
This innocent liveliness stands in stark contrast to Marry Me a Little, simultaneously an ironic counterpoint to the Adam and Eve saga and a corruption of it. Gruet and Savage now appear as two single city dwellers, incapable of finding anything better to do on a Saturday night than sitting around in their apartments (in the same apartment building) and singing Sondheim songs to themselves. They're alienated from the social whirl of the city around them much as Adam and Eve were after tasting of the Forbidden Fruit.
Yet this is all inference on the part of Lucas, Rene, and director Michael Klimzak; Marry Me a Little can mean as much or as little as you like because it has no real meaning. The show, originally produced in 1981, is composed entirely of lesser-known Sondheim songs, also-rans or never-quite-weres, many of which were cast-offs, from Follies ("Can That Boy Foxtrot," "All Things Bright and Beautiful"), A Little Night Music ("Bang!," "Silly People"), Company ("Marry Me a Little," "Happily Ever After"), and so on. Why would these two young people be singing these songs? The answer's easy: they wouldn't.
Sondheim is revered because of his status as a preeminent musical dramatist who weds songs so tightly their surroundings - whether book, direction, or even sets and costumes - that the elements defy separation. But in Marry Me a Little discordant moments abound - reasons just cannot be found for, say, Savage singing the original 11 o'clock number for Follies's Phyllis, "Uptown, Downtown." No characterizations can occur, no dramatic momentum can be achieved. At least Savage and Gruet are game, wrapping their voices and personalities around the songs with even more gusto than they do the Bock and Harnick tunes, but they can't successfully sell these songs. There's just nothing to sell.
The reason is a straightforward one, but one that requires constant repeating in the age of Mamma Mia!, David Henry Hwang's Flower Drum Song, and other blood enemies of the integrated musical: Well-composed theatrical songs removed from their dramatic situations simply will not make sense. To take in The Diary of Adam and Eve in the same evening as Marry Me a Little is to receive an object lesson in the value of writing - as opposed to assembly - that every Broadway director, composer, and many audience members would do well to consider.
Gruet and Savage are both attractive and energetic, injecting plenty of life into both shows, and they're joined in The Diary of Adam and Eve by a delightfully campy Sol Baird as the Snake. Klimzak's staging for the two shows is incisive, direct, and honest - just right. The sets (Christine Peters), costumes (Philip Heckman), and lights (Aaron David Blank) are engaging examples of spendthrift craft that do exactly what they should: enhance the shows while not calling attention to themselves.
This allows you to focus your energy fully on the shows, but only The Diary of Adam and Eve pays dividends; that's because it's chock full of characters, conflict, and solid craftsmanship. Marry Me a Little is more enjoyable for the opportunity to hear fine interpretations of second-drawer Sondheim than for anything that actually happens; musicals these days certainly can thrive on far less.
But The Diary of Adam and Eve calls attention to the days when musicals not only required but delivered more. Basking in the rapture of this show, which was but one third of a relatively minor 1960s title, might seem a strange way to spend an hour, but as delivered by 4th Interval, it's one of the more captivating theatrical experiences of recent memory. They're reminding us - at a time when such reminders can never be heard too frequently - of what true musical theatre can really be.
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Review by Emilie Rae
The now two-day festival took place in Chester, PA September 17th and 18th. It was so much fun! Mother nature was kind to all of us and kept the rain away, so everyone could enjoy every band they wanted to see. Set up on three different stages (two on the main field and one side stage), it was extremely easy to navigate and get to where you wanted to go. Complete with full service bars and all the Gourmet Man Food you could ask for, this festival was one for the fans, from the setup, to the lineup, to all the merch, food and drinks.
So let's go over day one. Kicking things off on the River (main) stage, was The Word Alive. They set the bar high with their high-energy performance. Even though it was HOT, they really woke up the crowd and got things going. One of my favorite performances of the day was by Swedish metal band, Avatar. They never hold back on the theatrics and they sounded amazing, as always. Rounding out the day were huge bands like Motionless in White, Trivium, Buckcherry, The Cult, and Taylor Hawkins band, Chevy Metal. After it got dark, we closed out the day with The Offspring, Breaking Benjamin, and the one and only Alice In Chains. There was something for every rock and metal fan to enjoy. And this was only day one!
Moving on to day two, nothing like starting things out heavy with Death Angel, then moving on to some smaller but amazing bands like Devour the Day and Crobot. Crobot always bring the funk and the fun. Yet another day of jumping from stage to stage to catch bands like Sevendust, Hellyeah, Of Mice & Men, The Amity Affliction, and the list goes on. Pierce the Veil brought a huge crowd out to the Liberty (side) stage to close out that spot for the night. Then on to the day's big names we had Chevelle, Volbeat, Slayer, and our headliner, Avenged Sevenfold. It was a great close of a festival to end with Avenged. They always impress with the vocals, guitars, fire and every other part that makes them so great.
This was really a cool festival. I was very impressed with everything. Danny Wimmer Presents sure has a knack for making people have a good time. You may have heard of some of the other festivals put on by them like Rock on the Range, Chicago Open Air, and Louder than Life. Be sure to get yourself to one of these festivals next year. I can only imagine they continue to be even better than the year before.
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Console gaming has become all the rage of late, and games for just about everyone have come out over the past several years. There are the well known FPS games -- first-person shooters -- and RPGs, or role playing games, and, with increasing frequency, there are higher and higher quality sports games on the market. This starting with racing games, such as Midnight Club and Forza Motorsport, but gradually broadened in scope to include football, soccer, and even baseball games. A handful of these games can be found on the Xbox or Playstation platforms, and a lot can be found on the Wii. Let's start with a look at the former.
Ever since the turn of the millenium, ESPN has co-produced a series of games -- the Major League Baseball series. Each year, a new game has come out, with updated rosters and new scenery, as well as updated graphics and improved gameplay. This is a historically important gaming series, but, unfortunately, it has been cancelled as of 2014. Still, the last installment in the series -- 2k13 -- is an awesome game, and it is still widely sold for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 consoles. It's a bit more difficult these days than it once was to find a huge group of people to play with, but that doesn't mean it's not more than worth checking out for those of you interested in MLB games in general.
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The Bigs 2 is one of the more realistic, best-developed baseball games on the market. It features "heroic gameplay", a variety of realistic rosters, updated team information, and a host of playing locations. It has an advanced gameplay system, allowing players to progress from, effectively, a nobody, to a hall of famer, and features a variety of fun mini-games as well, to break up the more serious aspects of the gameplay and provide players with some relief from their attempts to conquer the MLB in the virtual world of The Bigs 2. This is another best-selling title, popular with fans even to this day, and is definitely a staple in every baseball game enthusiast's gaming cabinet. You can also check one of the greatest American Football flash games in the world called
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Amy Stuart in her reply to my response to President Obama's speech on the deficit pointed out the need to clarify what the political left, right and center mean. I think she's right. The terms have been used loosely and quite imprecisely. But on the other hand, their continued use suggests that there may be good reasons for the continued use of the schema.
I, myself, became convinced, after the fall of the Soviet Union, that the terms left and right were obsolete. I thought (it turns out incorrectly) that since it was becoming clear to just about everyone that there was no systemic alternative to capitalism, to the modern market economy, and since there really were simply alternative capitalisms, that we might best abandon the terms. Then we would pragmatically address the practical problems of the day, and express, identify and pursue various specific political commitments, e.g. individual freedom and social justice, and not put them in the large baskets of the left and the right. I thought that the terms hid more than they revealed, that it was too hard to find and consider specific commitments in these very large bins.
Yet, given the systematic polarization of our political world, I am convinced that I was wrong. These old categories still have life, helping illuminate distinctions and commonalities in the political landscape. And there is an additional benefit as it applies to the present American scene. The distinction between left, right and center provides a way to understand the creative political action of Barack Obama, who in this regard is a leader.
The notion of the political left and right has a history, dating back to the French Revolution: Monarchists, right; revolutionaries, left. It was used to understand the Manichean battles of the Twentieth Century: Communists and their sympathizers, left; Fascists and their sympathizers, right. And it also has been used to understand ordinary domestic politics: Republicans, right; Democrats, left, very conservative Republicans, far right, very progressive Democrats, far left (though I think this is a small group at best).
The notion of center is less sharp. Vaguely, it means in between left and right, but I think it can be more than this. It's not only in between, but also what happens in between, in a meeting ground. In the sense of reading Elzbieta Matynia's reading of bridges with kapias, it is a principled commitment to kapias. Obama is a centrist of this sort, and I don't think he can be understood without keeping this in mind.
American rightists believe in the market. They follow Reagan. Government is the problem. American leftists believe in the power of the state. They follow Roosevelt and his descendants: government is a primary means to establish a sound economy and social justice. Centrists are agnostics, believing neither in the government nor in the market, pragmatically committed to one or to the other on instrumental grounds, whether or not they work to achieve given goals. Center-right then includes those who tend to think that on controversial issues the market is likely to work to the exclusion of the government, center-left tends to think that the government can play a significant role. Obama then on pragmatic grounds is center-left.
But he is, more creatively, primarily a principled centrist. He is not just in between, leaning left (or leaning right according to his leftist critics). He wants people with different convictions to come together, discuss their differences, find a way to agree to some common position and act on it. His desire for open debate and open negotiations is not instrumental. It is a fundamental commitment, very difficult to execute in these polarized times. He is more than willing to compromise on practical matters. He judges that on the grounds of social justice and pragmatic economic performance Republican policies advantage the rich, do not adequately address the needs of the middle class (this is the political mantra), but crucially the needs of the poor and disadvantaged. The state is needed for this. The market doesn't do the trick. But he seeks engagement with his opponents.
His project, which I fully support, is to move the center left. I am torn between the judgment that he is sometimes not tough enough in executing this project, and an appreciation that he balances the most desirable with the possible and succeeds in the long run. I am not sure.
But I am sure that in order to make sense of Obama as a political leader, it is absolutely necessary to understand his principled commitment to the creative center, which is, as he puts it, not in the blue (on the left) states or the red (on the right) states, but in the United States, in the center.


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In an unbelievable incident, a Muslim teen from Princeton, New Jersey successfully made a place in Stanford University with his unusual response to his job application. He simply wrote BlackLivesMatter for 100 times on his job application and got selected.
Interestingly, when Ziad Ahmed was asked to answer, "What matters to you, and why?" in his job application, he simply wrote #BlackLivesMatter for at least 100 times and successfully grabbed a position in the prestigious American University.
The boy himself was stunned after receiving an acceptance letter from Stanford University and he took no time express his excitement with the world through his social networking site.
He immediately posted his acceptance letter on his Twitter handle. He wrote, "I didn't think I would get admitted to Stanford at all, but it's quite refreshing to see that they view my unapologetic activism as an asset rather than a liability."
I submitted this answer in my @Stanford application, & yesterday, I was admitted...#BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/R5YxM77bWL— Ziad Ahmed (@ziadtheactivist) April 1, 2017
As an ally, it is certainly not my place to speak for the movement, but I hope to use this opportunity to direct attention to it. #BLM— Ziad Ahmed (@ziadtheactivist) April 4, 2017
Ahmed further stated, "To me, to be Muslim is to be a BLM ally, and I honestly can't imagine it being any other way for me."
According to the reports, later he was invited to the White House Iftar dinner, worked for the presidential campaigns of Democrats Martin O'Malley and Hillary Clinton, and gave a TEDx Talk about youth activism.
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Kendall Jenner: I Hate the Paparazzi!by Hilton Hater at . Comments
Kendall Jenner took to Twitter this week and made her feelings on the paparazzi very well-known:
She ain't a fan.
"there's nothing that irritates me more than when people take pics of me/my family/ or anyone in this industry and do not ask," wrote the half-sister of Kim Kardashian.
Of course, Kendall failed to mention that this rarely occurs, as the Kardashians have deals in place with most agencies in which they alert photographers to their impending presence at various locations.
But we'll ignore that detail for now.
Continued Jenner:
"don't sit there taking pics of me as if I'm a statue, or an artifact in a museum. I can see you and it makes me uncomfortable. I'm a human being and it's very rude not to ask. you wouldn't appreciate it either."
Possibly true. But they may accept the trade-off of this irritation if it means millions of dollars for very little work.
Something to think about, Kendall.


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Welcome to our Colorado-based walking event calendar. Please use the search features below to find walks located near you.
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An event every week that begins at 10:00am on Tuesday, repeating until April 24, 2018
TYPE: STSP Weekly | PACE: Conversational |TERRAIN: Paved, Park Path, Gravel, Broken Sidewalk | DISTANCE: Approx. 1.5-2 miles
Walk Description: This is a fun and engaging community walk through Mestizo-Curtis Park and surrounding neighborhoods happening every week on Tuesday morning from 10:00-11:00 am. We will enjoy one another's company, talk about community events and look for opportunities to connect with community members along the way. This walk is in partnership with Groundwork Denver's Park RX program, GirlTrek and the Walk2Connect Cooperative. We invite you to join us!
Walking Movement Leader: Sandy Douglas, Karina Nieto, Nancy Lamb and Michelle Scott. Contact Sandy (details below) for more information and for questions.
Meeting Location & Nearby Transit: We'll start gathering up near the fitness zone on the SouthEast side of the pool (on the north end of the park). Please call Sandy below if you cannot find the group. Nearby transit options: Light Rail D, 43 and 44 busses.
Trip Notes:
-Bring seasonal gear for the weather and cameras for sharing photos! Use @Walk2Connect and #Lifeat3MPH.
-Kids OK if accompanied by adult.
-Restrooms are nearby at the park.
-Cancellation Policy: We'll walk rain or shine. If in doubt about weather, call or email Sandy.
Welcome Waivers: If you have not completed a Welcome Waiver this year please fill out the online Welcome Waiver or download, print, sign, and bring the waiver with you to the walk. You only need to complete one Welcome Waiver per year.
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Population compliance with national dietary recommendations and its determinants: findings from the ORISCAV-LUX study.
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The objective of the present study was to determine the proportion of adults meeting national recommendations for food and nutrient intake and to identify the demographic, socio-economic and behavioural factors that may contribute to weaken dietary compliance. ORISCAV-LUX is a cross-sectional study that took place in Luxembourg (2007-8). A representative stratified random sample of 1352 adults aged 18-69 years participated in the nationwide cardiovascular health survey. A FFQ was used to estimate food intake. Radar charts were built to compare graphically the compliance of the participants with different key dietary guidelines on the same set of axes. The thirteen food- and nutrient-based recommendations were scored and summed to create a recommendation compliance index (range - 0.5 to 14). Ordinal logistic regression analyses were performed to determine the factors contributing to poor dietary compliance. Several food- and nutrient-based guidelines were insufficiently respected compared with others. The greatest gaps occurred in the adherence to grain and dairy product consumption guidelines, as well as to total fat and notably to SFA recommendations. Age, country of birth, economic status, smoking status and subject's awareness of the importance of balanced meals emerged as independently associated with weak dietary compliance. Obese subjects conformed more to dietary recommendations compared with normal-weight subjects. The findings underscore the need for specific nutrition education messages along with targeted interventions. Efforts should be continued to increase population awareness of the importance of a healthy lifestyle and a balanced diet. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 47 (19 ULiège)
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Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Luxembourg according to the Joint Interim Statement definition estimated from the ORISCAV-LUX study
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Evaluation of saliva as an alternative matrix for monitoring plasma Zidovudine, Lamivudine and nevirapine concentrations in Rwanda
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Saliva may provide interesting advantages as matrix for compliance measurements, pharmacokinetic studies and therapeutic drug monitoring in resource limited countries. We investigated the feasibility of using saliva for compliance monitoring of zidovudine (ZDV), lamivudine (3TC) and nevirapine (NVP) in 29 HIV-1 infected patients from Rwanda. ZDV, 3TC and NVP drug levels were quantified by an LC/MS-MS method in plasma and stimulated saliva samples and compared using Bland-Altman analysis. Seven patients demonstrated undetectable saliva ZDV levels while five out of these seven also showed no 3TC salivary concentrations. For the other samples, we observed a good agreement between salivary and plasma concentrations of each antiretroviral drug. A significant relation between the difference in saliva and plasma ZDV concentrations and the average ZDV concentration in the two matrices was deduced as follow: y = -380.15 + 1.79 x. The log saliva and plasma concentration difference of both 3TC and NVP was consistent across the range of average log concentration. Overall, we showed large agreement limits suggesting a wide inter patient variability that may result to non-reliable plasma level predictions from saliva drug measurements. Therefore, our results indicate that saliva may serve as a valuable tool only for NVP compliance testing because of its high salivary concentration. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 46 (14 ULiège)
First nationwide survey on cardiovascular risk factors in Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (ORISCAV-LUX)
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Comparison of participants and non-participants to the ORISCAV-LUX population-based study on cardiovascular risk factors in Luxembourg
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Get a room with a refrigerator (or have one put in there).
If possible, stay at hotels that offer kitchenettes or suites, but even traditional hotels can accommodate you. Even if there isn't a refrigerator in your room, ask for one. For a fee – anywhere from $10-$35 – most hotels will equip you with a small fridge. Some will even do it for free (especially if you sign up for their loyalty program). A fridge can open up a whole world of possibilities, and makes grazing considerably easier when you have fresh fruit and vegetables at your disposal. And having access to fresh food whenever you need it reduces the odds of you being stranded and dependent on nearby fast- or junk-food. I usually stop by a grocery store before I get to my hotel and stock up on fresh produce.Back to top


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CASTRO AT PANAMA.; Said to Have Registered Under False Name -- Venezuelan Refugees There.
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PANAMA, April 9. -- Gen. Castro has been here for several days and registered at the Central Hotel under an assumed name, according to men who know him well. He could not be located there, and it was said that he had left for Colon this morning.
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You know the story back in 1973.
Michigan and Ohio State tie 10-10 in The Game and each team finishes the season 10-0-1. The trip to the Rose Bowl is determined by a vote of the conference athletic directors, who, influenced by the injury to U-M QB Dennis Franklin, favor the Buckeyes 6-4.
Bo tells reporters it's tragic and the darkest day of his career (left). Ann Arbor is stunned.
Students on campus were shocked as well. At least one student, Jeff Silvestrini, met the news head on with some early 70s snark in his letter to the Daily (right).
I tracked down Silvestrini via email who wrote me, "I can still recall the mood on campus when that vote was announced and how stunned everyone was. I went to the UGLI that day and people could not believe that a broken collar bone could keep Michigan out, particularly as OSU had gone the year before."
I think that echoed the sentiment of most folks that followed the Wolverines back then (and now, I suppose, given that Ufer, U-M fans and elephants never forget).
And to make sure that folks wouldn't forget either, someone was inspired to get the message out on the cars and file cabinets across the land. Once again tapping into the Sapardanis archives from the 1970s, check out this purely awesome bumper sticker produced in the aftermath of the vote. And yes, it's that finger:
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Dating someone doesn't mean keeping constant tabs on his whereabouts. If you have plans with him and he doesn't show up, you have a reason for legitimate concern. Freaking out because he hasn't called or texted today to tell you where he is or what he's up to isn't healthy.
Wanting to be with the person you love whenever you can is understandable, but give your guy some space. Being in a relationship doesn't mean being attached at the hip and doing everything together. Having separate friends and interests is not only OK -- it's perfectly natural and healthy.
Missing him while he's gone or wishing you were with him is normal, but feeling completely lost without him is not a good sign. Refocus some of your energy on yourself. Make plans with your friends, hit the gym or start a book you've been meaning to read -- anything to remind yourself you have a life beyond your guy.
A few cute messages here and there are fine, but if you're sending him a daily deluge of texts asking what he's doing, where he is and when he's going to see you, you're acting too needy. Limit yourself to only a few texts a day, and make sure you actually have something to tell him; don't send texts just for the sake of it.
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Salesforce.com updates contact center apps
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The combination of technologies from Echopass, Salt Lake City, Genesys, Daly City, Calif., and San Francisco's salesforce.com creates an affordable, enterprise-strength contact center solution for telemarketing, telesales and customer service organizations, company officials said.
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Small- and mid-market companies now have access to features such as: autodialing, one click outbound calls from salesforce.com's CRM service; screen pops, incoming or outgoing calls automatically include detailed customer data; automatic pop up call scripts for agents; rule-based routing, where incoming contacts, whether via telephone, e-mail or the Web, are automatically routed to agents based on defined criteria; and scheduled call back, with event tasks immediately placed in call queue and delivered to agents at a pre-defined time, officials said.
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AUGUSTA - At first look, the start of the 69th Masters was just as would have been imagined.
It was everything you see on the PGA Tour today: players passing a rain delay in conversations as idle as their time, caddies minding golf bags outside a crowded clubhouse, an empty course in the middle of a game day.
What else would anyone have expected by now? This season, if we're not waiting, it's not golf.
But that couldn't last, the rain or the normalcy.
Remember, this was the first round of the Masters, which usually generates as many peculiar looks as a plaid jacket at the champions' dinner.
Thursday brought as many as ever before:
*A Palmer on top of the leaderboard again. That's where Tour winner Ryan Palmer was for a good chunk of the afternoon before falling two shots off of Chris DiMarco's overnight lead of 4-under par.
*Asterisks next to names on the leaderboard indicating the players started their rounds on the back nine, once a Masters rarity that has now been necessary twice in the last three years because of bad weather.
* Ian Poulter's pants. Let's just say part prison-issue, part Princeton warm-ups.
*Tiger Woods bogeying a par 5. All right, he's done it before. But by putting off the green and into a creek after reaching in two?
*The Masters merchandise center quieter than Amen Corner. It's not supposed to be that way until next week, but was Thursday with spectators being held outside the Augusta National gates for five hours in the morning.
*A hand-operated scoreboard with almost as much yellow as red on it. That's what happens when the field makes 52 scores of double bogey or worse (marked with yellow boxes) and 166 birdies (red numbers).
*A new kind of Big Four. That's what Woods and Ernie Els equaled when they were both plus-2 midway through their rounds.
But, for pure oddity, nothing could beat the back-nine scoring of the first threesome off No. 10. That's where Charles Coody had a quintuple bogey, but still beat the highest score in his group by five shots.
It helped that he was playing with 73-year-old Billy Casper, who made a 14 on the par-3 16th, hitting five balls into the water and then three-putting. That put him well on his way to a 106, which was 11 shots worse than the previous high round in a Masters but will not be a tournament record because Casper did not turn in his scorecard.
His first nine might not have been much of a linescore. But he did have the line of the day after turning in 21 over and being told there would be a 30-minute wait until he teed off on No. 1.
"Well,'' said Casper, "that's going to kill my momentum.''
Come to think of it, that might not have been so strange.
After all, isn't that what any eternally hopeful golfer would say coming off of consecutive bogeys to save 57?
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After his great crisis and conversion in 1878, Tolstoy came to believe that lovewas the most important value by which people should live their lives. Moments like this, however, show that the seed of this idea was within him for far longer.
His belief in the importance of love led to a theory of nonviolence which in turn had an enormous impact on Mahatma Gandhi, whose idea of Satyagraha (non-violent protest) was inspired by his reading of Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You. Gandhi and Tolstoy exchanged letters during the last year of Tolstoy's life.
At the time of the invasion of Moscow Miloradovich negotiated with Murat to ensure the safe retreat of two Russian regiments that were in danger of being trapped by the French army. Murat's general Sebastiani pulled his cavalry back in order to let them escape to the south, but Murat then lost contact with Miloradovich's rear guard, allowing the Russians to make a sudden turn to the west whilst fooling Murat into chasing them towards the south-east. Through these actions Kutuzov's army was well placed, come the French retreat from Moscow, to force Napoleon's army to withdraw along the same route they had recently advanced, which was largely devastated, rather than moving to other roads that would have refreshed their provisions.
It took Napoleon five weeks to decide what to do after the invasion of Moscow did not prove to be the decisive blow he thought it would be. By the time the Grand Army was on the move again in mid-October, the Russian winter was underway. The weather was not wholly responsible for the disastrous nature of Napoleon's retreat, as is often said, but it certainly exacerbated the woes of the poorly supplied, depleted army.
Strangely enough, the French Army was clad in British-made greatcoats. Napoleon ordered a million woollen greatcoats from a company in West Riding, Yorkshire, which provided a tremendous, if somewhat treacherous, boost to the economy at a time when Britain was fighting both against Napoleon and against America.
As the French retreated they were harassed by smalls groups of Russian guerillas, either working independently or under orders from Kutuzov's army, which aimed to force the Grand Army back down the same burnt-out route through which they had already passed. Reacting to the invasion of their motherland, groups of Russian peasants and independent-minded mounted Cossacks spontaneously formed into disparate, disorganised groups that were nevertheless an effective means of undermining the French army.
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which weekend?!bbq for a b-b-beer, fair trade right?
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from where are you coming from? no matter, awesome dude ill see you thursday!
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Brockton Area Arc's Family Support Center offers services that benefit children and adults with disabilities and the people who love and support them: parents, sisters and brothers, grandparents, educators, and others.
We speak your language!
Family Support Coordinators are fluent in Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole, French, and Haitian Creole. We also speak Spanish! As needed, we arrange for translation and interpretation other languages.
Most of our Family Support services are available to everyone! Our primary service area is:
Abington, Avon, Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Easton, Holbrook, Rockland,
Stoughton, West Bridgewater, and Whitman
Contact Us for any issue or concern you may have.
Funding for the Family Support Center comes from the Department of Developmental Services, United Way of Greater Plymouth County, All Aboard the Arc!, and other grants.
Information, Education & Referral
Information, Education and Referral Services are available to all people of the Greater Brockton area by telephone, email, or individual or group meetings.
We regularly host workshops for caregivers on disability-related topics: Special education; legal and financial planning; transition planning; public benefits; and related topics. Some programs are presented in Haitian Creole, Cape Verdean Creole and Spanish.
All upcoming workshops will be posted on our Calendar, on Facebook, and you may receive an email notice if you provide us with your email address.
Support Groups
Support Groups are open to all interested people. The offerings may change, reflecting the interests and support needs of our families.
Contact Us for more information and help.
Haitian Family Support
3rd Sunday of every month, from 5 pm to 7 pm. We meet at the Brockton Area Arc. The whole family is welcome! For more information, download this flyer.
Bienvenue Parents Haitiens!
Avez-vous une personne handicapee mentale dans votre famille ?
Voulez-vous avoir des informations qui peuvent vous aider avec votre enfant ?
Aimeriez-vous de parler avec d'autres parents qui ont des enfants avec des deficiences physiques ou mentales ?
S'il vous plait, voulez-vous nous rejoindre chaque troisieme dimanche du mois @5pm et rencontrer d'autres parents pour partager des experiences et y trouver de supports? Brockton Area Arc, 1250 West Chestnut St.
Pour plus d'information: téléchargez ce dépliant
Spanish Support Group for Parents
We meet every other month to learn about resources, share support, and hear presentations from disability experts in Spanish. For more information, download this flyer.
Nos reunimos cada dos meses para aprender acerca de los recursos, compartir apoyo y escuchar las presentaciones de los expertos en discapacidad en español. Para obtener más información, descargar este folleto.
Cape Verdean Support
Periodically throughout the year, parents meet for information and support. Learn about resources available to your family, and find help to access them.
Periodicamente ao longo do ano, os pais encontram para informação e apoio. Saiba mais sobre os recursos disponíveis para a sua família, e encontrar apoio para acessá-los.
Transition Support Group
Is your child between the ages of 14 and 21? What is your vision for his or her future? What can you be doing now to help your child prepare for the transition from school to Adult Services? These questions and more are discussed at our monthly parent meeting. We share information, voice concerns and questions, and get expert guidance from disability professionals. The group meets one evening a month at the Brockton Area Arc.
Sibling Support
Brothers and sister ages 8 to 12 who have siblings with special needs are invited to participate in Sibshops, a recreationally-based program that provides opportunities for friendship and FUN! We meet during school vacation weeks and summer vacation.
We offer a range of social and recreation activities throughout the year for children, teens, and adults with disabilities, and their families. Cooking classes for children and adults, dance lessons, Zumba, Friday night socials for adults, after-school programs, movies, bowling, community activities for the whole family, Vacation Camps for kids, play group for young children...These are just some of the activities that we offer throughout the year.
The Sunday Recreation Program for students ages 8 to 21 meets from September to May: Drumming, dance, swimming, games and other activities for children and teens. The program is designed to enhance abilities and to provide opportunities for friendship in a recreational setting. This program is for Brockton Area Arc members ($20 annual membership fee), and has a weekly tuition of $20. For more information, contact us.
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Adults flyer
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Here are other services for people referred by DDS:
Service Navigation
For families referred to us by their service coordinator: we can provide 1:1 assistance to identify needed supports and to access resources for which they are eligible. We meet with families wherever it is convenient for you: your home, our office, your child's school, or the corner coffee shop!
Social Groups
For adults living with their families who are referred to us by their service coordinator: we help you to connect with other people for some fun and friendship. BAArc staff help people make plans and then provide transportation and support in the community.
DESE/DDS Initiative
For students referred to us by DDS. This program supports eligible children in their home and community by means of skills training, respite care, and the purchase of goods and services that strengthen their independent and community living skills. This is a closed referral program. For more information, please contact your DDS service coordinator for eligibility requirements and application.
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ARLINGTON - Justin Grimm got called into his Double-A manager's office Thursday and congratulated on being named starting pitcher for the Texas League All-Star game. Then came the news that made the right-hander's knees shake - his next start will be for the AL West-leading Texas Rangers.
The Rangers will purchase Grimm's contract from Frisco on Saturday before his major league debut that night against the Houston Astros.
"I was very overwhelmed. It was kind of unexpected," Grimm said after arriving at Rangers Ballpark before Thursday night's game against Arizona.
Only two years after being a fifth-round pick and without ever pitching above Double-A, the 23-year-old Grimm is moving up to take a spot in the major league club's injury-riddled rotation.
"He's gotten a lot more consistent with his fastball command, and his changeup has really improved," general manager Jon Daniels said. "I think the developmental staff has done a real nice job with him. ... I think the feeling was he was just a blank slate. He hadn't had the type of instruction that we could offer him. Our scouts saw an unfinished product and our developmental staff has done a good job of getting him to this point."
When the Rangers officially promote Grimm before Saturday's game, they plan to put right-handed reliever Koji Uehara on the 15-day disabled list to clear a spot on the 25-man roster. That move will be retroactive to Sunday, the day after Uehara last pitched and he strained a back muscle at San Francisco.
To clear a spot on their 40-man roster, the Rangers will transfer Neftali Feliz (sprained right elbow) from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day DL. The earliest the hard-throwing starter will be able to return is July 18, though Daniels emphasized that there have been no setbacks in his expected recovery.
Grimm will take the starting spot of Alexi Ogando, who is out four to six weeks after straining his groin running out a bunt single Sunday in San Francisco. Ogando, a 13-game winner and an All-Star as a starter last season, threw three perfect innings in his first start this year before he got hurt. The righty was pitching in place of Derek Holland, who is also on the disabled list.
Holland could be eligible to return next Thursday, but he also has to rebuild his strength. The lefty was put on the disabled list because of shoulder fatigue after losing about 15 pounds over a two-week period because of stomach virus.
Three-time All-Star Roy Oswalt, who signed a minor league deal with the Rangers last month, is scheduled to start Sunday for Triple-A Round Rock and Daniels said he is expected to throw about 100 pitches. That will be the right-hander's fourth minor league start, but it was unclear if Oswalt would be ready to join the Rangers rotation after that.
In three starts so far with Round Rock and Double-A Frisco, Oswalt is 0-1 with a 7.71 ERA, allowing eight runs in 9 1-3 innings.
Grimm was 8-3 with a 1.87 ERA in 13 starts for Frisco. He had 67 strikeouts and 14 walks in 77 innings.
"I wouldn't say I was a pitcher coming out of college. I was a guy who could throw hard," he said. "Once I got into professional ball, I just showed up with the attitude `What can I do today?" ... I'm a power pitcher. I have a good fastball; that's my go-to. I've been able to command it really well. I throw a slurve and I'm continuing to develop my changeup."
Grimm has been working on his changeup with four-time Cy Young winner Greg Maddux, now a special assistant in the Texas organization and the brother of Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux.
"At the start of the season, I didn't see myself reaching the majors this year," Grimm said. "In spring training, I just wanted to show that I continued my process during the offseason, and I was hoping to make the team in Frisco."
Now he's headed to the big leagues.
AP freelance writer Lary Bump contributed to this report.


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The first sign of the apocalypse has arrived and it's not a pregnant Paris Hilton.
Amazon.com is down.
The first sign of the apocalypse has arrived and it's not a pregnant Paris Hilton.
Amazon.com is down.
I hate reading newspaper and magazine articles about venture capitalists, such as the one today on SFGate (which BTW I am not liking their site redesign) on Steve Jurvetson. As an aside, It's too bad he essentially gave up the J Curve blog.
Almost invariably these puff pieces feature the same template:
The problem with these profiles is that they obscure the brilliance of the person by focusing on the person. Jurvetson is alpha and a super smart guy, no question about it, but this article should have been written as a piece on the intersection of electrical engineering, organic chemistry, and biology with an emphasis on the significant footprint that Jurvetson has developed for himself in these fields rather than "Jurvetson as the seer".
The mythical god-like personification of venture capitalists is tired, time for a new template that portrays people like Jurvetson for what they are, really smart people who see connections and trend lines that most will miss and couple that with access to capital and high comfort levels with risk.


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In an attempt to open up her audience to the gay community, country singer Martina McBride did an interview with Out magazine recently, saying that her small Kansas hometown of 180 people didn't have any gays, so "it just sort of wasn't an issue." Now that McBride lives in Nashville, however, she's aware of country music's discomfort with embracing homosexuality and she sure can't imagine seeing an openly gay person on CMT any time soon.
When asked if President Obama's election as the first black president could influence country music into accepting an openly gay star, McBride said, "For a country star? Honestly, that's a tough one. [Sighs] Our core audience, like you said, is very conservative, is very Middle America, very Bible belt. I don't know. That might be a hard sell. I mean, I would be fine with it. But that's — I don't know if we're ready for that."


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A Very Popular Penalty
The Death Penalty: An American History
Not all Americans approve of the death penalty, but apparently most of them do. Prosecuting attorneys, state and federal, score points by showing their zeal for it, as they did when it was announced that the two alleged snipers who terrorized the Washington area—John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo—had been apprehended. In the tussle for jurisdiction that followed between Virginia and Maryland, a Justice Department official assured the public that getting the death penalty would be "a major factor in deciding where to hold the trial." When a Maryland prosecutor was the first to file charges, Virginians asserted their claim for jurisdiction on the ground that Maryland did not execute minors, the suspect Malvo being only seventeen. In Virginia, by contrast, Muhammad and Malvo "would both be eligible for the death penalty."
Moreover, while Maryland had conducted a mere three executions since 1976, Virginia could boast of eighty-seven. Maryland countered by sending agents as far as Jamaica to turn up evidence that Malvo was actually eighteen, in which case "Maryland could seek the death penalty against him as well." The United States Department of Justice got into the act by proposing to try the case as a violation of a federal statute against extortion, but relinquished control in favor of Virginia where, John Ashcroft was pleased to say, "the likelihood of obtaining death sentences was greatest."
If anyone has ever deserved to die for his crimes, Muhammad and Malvo do. But in the words of Clint Eastwood as he shot Gene Hackman to death in Unforgiven, "deserve's got nuthin' to do with it." Politics and culture have everything to do with it. And as Stuart Banner points out in this remarkable book, support for capital punishment has become an identifying tag for zeal against criminals. To oppose executing murderers and other hard-core felons is to be soft on crime. That sentiment has not been checked by the many recent instances where credible new confessions and DNA testing have proved that persons already sentenced to death were innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted.
In Banner's careful assessment of various polls it is apparent "that a large majority of Americans still supported capital punishment even on the assumption that a tenth of those condemned had committed no crime." The scramble of state prosecutors for jurisdiction in the sniper case was a race to scoop the credit for general toughness on crime that death sentences would confer. Toughness on crime wins votes in a political system where prosecutors and judges, not to mention senators, congressmen, governors, and presidents, have to run for office. As the presidential primaries approach, Democratic aspirants hasten to assure the public that they, too, believe in killing killers, as if presidents of the United States could play any significant role in the outcomes of state criminal proceedings.
It was not always so, as Banner demonstrates. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Americans led the way against capital punishment. Before the Civil War…
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Happy Friday!
by Jennifer Cooper, posted on October 18th, 2013 in Features
What a week. No, I'm not talking about Marthagate, or that the government shut down is over, I'm talking about a girl who turned eleven. Eleven! Can you believe it? The years go by so fast.
Tonight, the family is coming over to celebrate. We're having pizza and a special dessert at the birthday girl's request. Can't wait!
Hope you have a lovely weekend! Here are some things that caught my eye this week…
LOVING this board – so much good stuff on it
Just purchased a print from this artist. Can't wait to hang it up!
The animated gif at the end is worth the click over
And here are some things I wrote elsewhere…
-Pumpkin Patch Pop
-Ghoulish Games for Halloween
-A Taste of Simpler Times: Old Fashioned Popcorn
Have a great weekend everyone! Don't forget to check in on Monday for an all new episode of Adventures in Learning.


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The fireplace looks lovely, the home warm and inviting. I wish we'd had a place to flee to over New Year's.
Across a late-summer bonfire a friend once unraveled an interesting theory. "Television has replaced the fire as a central point of social contact and meditation in our culture," he said. "People are attracted to the flickering lights of television because they are instinctually reminded of the flickering light of the bonfires that humans have sat around for centuries."
Sitting in front of an open wood stove fire in a half-timber house in middle-of-nowhere southern Germany, the flames framed in a black metal square not unlike that of many of the televisions I have known, I think that he might have had a point.
I can stare at a flickering fire for hours, and it offers a meditation not unlike dreaming. Looking into the fire my mind flits from one thought to another: from a memory of last week to what I'd like to do this evening to the meaning of a particularly interesting sentence in a book I've just read. Like a long nap (filled with dreams that flit from one image to the next), this brings me a feeling of having rested. I have read that "the mind needs boredom," and I think this is what is meant. Not boredom, but rest. Not monotony, but time to organize things within itself while the eyes, too, are kept occupied and entertained.
Television, if replacement it is, replaces this experience with one, for the most part, designed to allow the brain to completely shut down. Of course you can occasionally learn something from a television program or a movie, but the most prominent factor in television (and, I'd argue, probably part of its wide appeal) is that it allows us not to think at all. Instead of taking the time to let our minds wander and to process our thoughts during our down time, we confront it with more colors and pictures and information. My instinct tells me the replacement has not been an adequate one.
Now, think of those flat screen tvs you've seen at the store merrily playing a tape of a recorded fire and—behold!—a combination of the worst of both worlds. It is television without a hint of intellectual stimulation and fire without its heat. Watching fire on a television screen is one of those things that send a feeling of hopelessness for the human race plummeting deep into the pit of my stomach.
But I digress. This weekend I was not confronted with one single television as the Beard and I fled to the German countryside in order to hide from the battlefield that is an urban German New Year's Eve. Though some local inhabitants celebrated with firecrackers on the neighboring castle ruins, the attempt to ignore the holiday entirely was largely successful, and we spent three days in a place I might consider calling my dream house if only it were about one sixteenth its current size.
A restored half-timber beauty that sleeps away the time between the owners' visits in a old, tiny village; heated by two beautiful, gargantuan wood stoves; and embellished with beds and mattresses to sleep at least 25, it's a dreamy place to spend a winter week. Sitting in front of the fire, I daydream about living somewhere like it, though I would be quite satisfied to just have the living room with the open-fronted wood stove and the basement where the wood and the sauna live.
So, without further ado, some purdy country house porno for your enjoyment. Oo la la.
The house as we arrived. I'd be happy with a place about the size of the shed across the street.
An extension of the kitchen. Apparently some kind of food prep/serving prep room. I heart kitchen utensils hung on walls. Decoration meets practicality. Everyday objects as art.
The gorgeous, gargantuan wood stove in the great room/dining room.
The back of the gargantuan wood stove, which is accessible from the hallway behind the great room. Swoon.
The second living room with its open-faced wood stove. (Also pictured blazing at the top of this post.)
View down into the great room from the loft above it. Warmest place in the house.
View from the living room window of the neighboring castle ruins.
Castle ruins and previously mentioned shed from the road.
Someday I will live on a wild bit of land in a building as charming as this half-timber (or perhaps in my already charming wagon) and as small as that shed. A house that big—unless you're planning on filling it with 10 children and your entire extended family—is a waste of resources and money that, if you didn't need it to pay the heating and maintenance bills, you wouldn't have to bother working to earn in the first place. Amazing a place as that house was to spend a couple of days with 10 people, who wants to clean a place that size on a regular basis? But ooh-wee were those wood stoves purdy.
The fireplace looks lovely, the home warm and inviting. I wish we'd had a place to flee to over New Year's.
Gorilla, you rock and you're my blog hero. I tried to reply to your last post, but apparently it didn't work because of the browser or something.
Some day, sufficiently fed up with my consumerist surroundings, I'll come knocking on the door of your wagon and ask you for advice on building my own.
And I'm not even half joking.
Looking forward to reading your book and more of your blog posts.
Cheers, Jan
Ian: So you sat it out in the city then? Everyone make it through the night with all their limbs?
Jan: Wow. *Blush.* What a lovely comment to find here. I'd love to show people how to fix up a wagon. Actually, that's a lot of what this blog is about I guess. Or was about, during that year. (Now it's all gloating from here on out, har de har har.) Thanks for stopping in and leaving that comment!
i love reading your blog. what you're doing with your life is inpiring!! rock on lady
Thanks Sheena! xx
I thought I had commented on this and then I realized I had been planning on emailing you about it instead, and didn't do that yet either. Hm. The funny thing is, I have a post set to publish on Friday I think that is about nearly this same thing- my sudden realization that I've known how to relax all along, and it has nothing to do with television. That for me, watching the ripples in water for hours and hours is the best form of relaxation there is, and that people probably used to do this all the time, but now we have those horrible black boxes… at any rate I've now updated it with a link to this post. I'll post a link to mine when its up.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Jurors reached a split verdict Tuesday in the trial of two men charged in a killing at the Chad Brown housing complex two years ago.
Attorney General Peter Kilmartin's office said the jury found 27-year-old Bruce Moten guilty of Terry Robinson's murder. Jurors convicted Moten of several other charges, including assault with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy.
Jurors found Moten's co-defendant, 26-year-old Antonio Fortes, not guilty of all charges.
Two other defendants, Tevin Briggs and Henry Lopez, previously pleaded guilty to their roles in the October 2014 shooting. They, along with Moten, are awaiting sentencing.
Fortes is currently serving a federal prison sentence on drug and gun charges.


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Deadline for nominations is 15 June 2012.
Achieving success in protected areas takes stamina, dedication, hard work, knowledge, passion and a commitment that often goes beyond a mere 9 to 5 work day. The Fred Packard Award acknowledges those who have dedicated their full energies to protected areas, who go above and beyond the simple call to conservation to build and maintain protected area successes. I f you would like to recognize an exemplary individual achieving success in protected area excellence, the call for Fred Packard Award nominations is now open.
WCPA members, as well as other protected area professionals, are invited to nominate individuals or organizations who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to protected areas conservation, resulting in impact far beyond their agency or country. Contributions to conservation efforts that have impact on other sectors beyond protected areas can also be recognized under the criteria of the Award.
Previous laureates include Muslih Al-Juaid, a Saudi-Arabian ranger, who has demonstrated exceptional bravery in facing poachers; Maria Tereza Jorde Padua, who was vigorously involved in putting large areas in Brazil under protection; and Ernesto Enkerlin-Hoeflich, now Vice-Chair of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), who has been vital in profiling conservation in the national political agenda of Mexico.
This year's laureate will be honored at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, Korea.
For more information, or to advance a nomination for 2012, please visit the IUCN WCPA Website or contact Delwyn Dupuis.


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Good morning everyone,
How was your holiday? We ate with local family members and had a nice relaxing evening. I went to work on Friday (it's the best day to work) and only ran into one other person the whole time. I finally completed some background tasks but it definitely wasn't a photo day since I just wore jeans and a shirt.
Speaking of photos, I still haven't found a good time or place to take outfit pics. It's (usually) dark in the morning and evening by the time I leave and the apartment is still very white (we have to hang stuff up on the walls), which doesn't make for a good photo. :)
Last night I decided to get "creative" with my nail polish. After reading tons of good reviews about a particular top coat that dries nails quickly, I decided to buy it and try my luck. I have zero patience when it comes to painting my nails and if I screw one up I end up scrapping the whole thing. So I had already painted them with a dark purple and I had a crazy purple glitter one that I wanted to try out. I freehanded it and covered the tips with the glitter. I think I like how it turned out, but my right hand looks a lot worse since I'm not left-handed.
Well, I don't have much else to say. I hope your week is starting out nicely!
Cardi: Talbots
Shirt: Ann Taylor Loft
Skirt: Lane Bryant
Boots: Piperlime
Necklace: Gifted
Drape cardi: Fashion Bug
Dress: Lane Bryant via Ebay
Boots: Steve Madden via 6pm
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Nov 25, 2011
Panasonic to Build New Solar Manufacturing Base in Malaysia to Produce Wafers, Cells and Modules
Osaka, Japan - Panasonic Corporation today announced its plan to establish a company in Malaysia that will serve as Panasonic's new solar manufacturing base. Panasonic Energy Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., to be set up in December 2011, will operate a vertically-integrated solar manufacturing facility producing from wafers to cells and modules. Panasonic will invest 45 billion yen in the facility, which will start operation in December 2012 with an annual production capacity of 300 MW.
With environmental awareness increasing globally and introduction of subsidy systems and Feed-in Tariff schemes in Japan as well as other countries, etc., the solar cell market is predicted to grow further. Robust demand is expected particularly in the residential sector, the main target of the Panasonic HIT® (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin-layer) solar modules. The new factory, to be built in the Kulim Hi-Tech Park in Kedah, will not only help Panasonic meet this growing demand, but also strengthen the HIT module's cost-competitiveness with the vertically-integrated production.
Panasonic will sell its solar modules as an individual product as well as part of a system combined with storage batteries. Further, as part of its comprehensive solutions business, which is built on capacities brought together across the Panasonic group companies, Panasonic will accelerate its solar business development globally.
Outline of the New Company
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|Panasonic Energy Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
|Kulim Hi-Tech Park, Kedah, Malaysia
December 2011 (production scheduled to start in December 2012)
|22.5 billion yen
|Capital Subscription:
|Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. 100%
|Outline of Business:
|Production of HIT® solar modules
(integrated production of wafers, cells and modules)
|Building Area:
Number of Employees:
|Approx. 70,000 m2
Approx. 1,500
Annual Production Capacity:
About Panasonic
Panasonic Corporation is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of electronic products for a wide range of consumer, business, and industrial needs. Based in Osaka, Japan, the company recorded consolidated net sales of 8.69 trillion yen (US$105 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2011. The company's shares are listed on the Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and New York (NYSE:PC) stock exchanges. For more information on the company and the Panasonic brand, visit the company's website at http://panasonic.net/
Media Contacts:
- Global Public Relations Office
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- Tel: 03-6403-3040 Fax: 03-3436-6766
- Panasonic News Bureau
- Tel: 03-3542-6205 Fax: 03-3542-9018
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