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Linda McMahon released the following statement on President Obama's proposal to extend current tax rates for the middle class:
"President Obama and I agree that Congress must extend the current tax rates for the middle class. Last week's jobs numbers reminded us that no matter what career politicians may say, our economy is still sluggish and middle-class families are hurting. We should not be raising taxes on anyone right now. This is why I made a middle-class tax cut the centerpiece of my jobs plan. I am the only candidate with a plan to cut taxes for the middle class, while Congressman Murphy has a long record of raising taxes on the middle class. Working families are doing their best to make ends meet, and the best thing Washington can do to help them out is to let them keep more of their hard-earned money."
Source: http://www.lindaforsenate2012.com/news/2012/07/09/linda-mcmahon-statement-on-president-obamas-proposal-to-extend-current-tax-rates/

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Your Spiritual Checkup
Many spiritual disciplines encourage periodic spiritual check-ups. These are times of introspection, of self-examination, of trying to discern whether the soul is well or ill, whether it requires any particular treatment, whether some spiritual illness is waiting in line ready to become manifest.
The components of a spiritual examination are similar to those of a physical examination. What does the scale say about you? The stethoscope? Is your heart hardened? Here are nine common experiences of a physical medical exam, transposed for a spiritual exam:
Standing Naked
Standing naked before a mirror in an examining room, there are no garments to hide behind. Similarly, a spiritual examination begins with a confrontation with the naked truth of who we really are, with what our spiritual profile looks like, with how the results of our deeds have shaped and altered the contours of our spiritual physique. A spiritual checkup begins with seeing ourselves stripped of our pretensions, of our vanities, of the accoutrements we tactically employ to look good to others.
The Scale
Toward the beginning of most physical check-ups, we stand on a scale to record our weight. But there is another scale, and that is the scale of our deeds. On one side are the deeds of which we are proud, deeds of virtue, deeds that help make our life a work of art. On the other side of the scale are those deeds of which we are not proud, the memory of which makes us queasy, the recollection of which leads us to reconsider how we have behaved at certain times, to certain people, in certain circumstances. Awareness of our faults, recognition of our having missed the mark, is a critical step in the process of spiritual healing.
Blood Pressure
In a spiritual examination, one should ask oneself: Is my pressure too high-not only the pressure in me, but the pressure on me? Or is my pressure too low? Am I listless due to lack of adequate stimulation, because I am not challenged enough by the tasks with which I am confronted? Is what I am doing important; is it meaningful; does it matter?
The Examining Table
Here, the first question often asked is: Do you have pains anywhere? Like physical pain, so emotional pain, psychological pain, spiritual discomfort may be a signal, a warning that something is really wrong with us or is about the become really wrong with us, and that it must be treated before it worsens and causes lasting damage.
Exam of the Mouth, Ears, and Tongue
In a spiritual examination, we should illuminate and reflect upon what we have done with our ears, our mouths, our tongues. We are encouraged to recall the times we refused to hear, to listen, as well as the times we only allowed ourselves to her what we wanted to hear.
Testing Your Reflexes
It is important to learn better how to control some of our responses to people and to situations-for instance, how to control our anger, especially when losing our temper hurts those whom we love; when speaking without without first thinking inflicts a wound on one whom we hold dear.
The Stethoscope
We worry a lot about hardening arteries, but not enough about hardening hearts. We worry little about arterial sclerosis of the mind, about a hardened mind, closed to new ideas, new experiences, new learning, new joys, new relationships, new possibilities.
Fasting Tests
Are you hungry for love, friendship, justice, beauty, and meaning?
Blood Tests
Are we spiritually anemic? Is our love and compassion too low, and our hate and hostility too high?
Adapted from Crafting the Soul, by Rabbi Byron L. Sherwin, Ph.D. (Park Street Press, 1998). Copyright (c) 1998 by Byron L. Sherwin. Reprinted by permission of Inner Traditions.
Adapted from Crafting the Soul, by Rabbi Byron L. Sherwin, Ph.D. (Park Street Press, 1998).


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Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man in the northern West Bank village of Silat al-Dahar near Nablus on Tuesday, hospital officials told AFP.
Abdel Hamid Khanfar, 28, had been standing with a group of Palestinians throwing stones at Israeli soldiers when he received a bullet to the head, hospital sources said, adding that another person was injured.
In the meantime, the Jerusalem Post newspaper reported that armed Palestinians opened fire at an Israeli army base near Bethlehem.
The paper added that Israeli soldiers returned fire at the attackers, but it said that there were no injuries -- (Several Sources)
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Ryan's Hero Ayn Rand Sneered at Disabled Children: Commentary
With the ascent of Paul Ryan, the chain-smoking, Russian-accented, flinty-hearted figure of Ayn Rand has once again elbowed her way into the American conversation. Will her name come up during the debate between the vice-presidential candidates on Thursday?
So far, most of the talk has focused on her 1957 doorstop of a political novel, "Atlas Shrugged." But it's sent me back to an earlier book, "The Fountainhead," which (like most of her work) has never been out of print since it was published in 1943.
Like Ryan, I read Rand as a teenager: I was 13, and my mother, who adored the book, passed it on to me. It was a bizarre introduction to the world of adult fiction.
"The Fountainhead" follows the struggles of a modern architect named Howard Roark. Its theme is the individual versus the collective. In Rand's world, a few almost godlike individuals walk the earth among the dirty mob.
They recognize one another at once and communicate in gnomic (though by no means brief) utterances. You can spot the inferiors, typified by the ambitious, incompetent architect Peter Keating, by their obtuseness.
"I don't know what you mean," they'll say, even when they've just been brutally insulted.
Slimy Critic
Between them stands a third group: the socialists, represented by the slimy architecture critic Ellsworth M. Toohey. They recognize the genius of Roark and his ilk and do everything they can to thwart them.
"The Fountainhead" was Rand's response to the New Deal, and it expresses not only her hatred of the left but her conviction that it knew just how evil it was.
Her paranoia was rooted in her background: She was born in St. Petersburg in 1905, saw the Bolsheviks rise to power, and made it out of the Soviet Union only in 1926, when she was 21. Free at last, she headed for Hollywood.
The place nourished her overheated imagination. Though "The Fountainhead" is a novel of ideas, my mother loved it for the same reason she loved "The Carpetbaggers" and "Valley of the Dolls": Its story of high-rolling architects and a Hearst-like newspaper magnate drips glamour. Every page feels like it's written in leopard print.
Sexual Politics
The sexual politics of the book are ghastly even for 1943. The heroine, Dominique Francon, has no interest in sex until Roark rapes her:
"He did it as an act of scorn. Not as love, but as defilement. And this made her lie still and submit. One gesture of tenderness from him -- and she would have remained cold, untouched by the thing done to her body. But the act of a master taking shameful, contemptuous possession of her was the kind of rapture she had wanted."
Even granting that Rand rejected the "concrete-bound, journalistic Naturalism" of her contemporaries, that is terrible writing. And it presents a paradox.
In "The Fountainhead," bad taste is an ethical failing. Roark's detractors aren't just knaves and fools but moral idiots. But Rand had terrible taste in prose.
She had no feeling for motivation, either -- psychology wasn't her thing. Since the characters have to illustrate concepts, they don't move freely on the page.
She's always bullying them around to get her points across, and as a result their behavior ranges from the perverse to the truly weird.
Thwarting Roark
For example, Dominique considers the world too mean a place for Roark's magnificent buildings, and so, in collusion with the nefarious Toohey, she uses the influence of her newspaper column to stop him from getting commissions -- even though he's her lover.
When I was 13, the only character I felt any kinship with at all was Peter Keating -- the weasel. That familiarity made me wonder about myself; now I understand. Keating may be envious, conniving, malicious and dim, but all those qualities make him recognizably human.
Roark is a cold ascetic whose confidence in his judgment never wavers, who barely notices the hysterical hatred his work provokes, "a man totally innocent," as Rand writes, "of fear." In other words, a monster.
Probably no actor could have played him convincingly. Saddled with Rand's hectoring lectures in King Vidor's 1949 film version of the novel, Gary Cooper gave what was even for him a wooden performance, and he was 10 years too old.
'Vicious Mouth'
Patricia Neal at least looked like Dominique, with her "air of cold serenity" and her "exquisitely vicious mouth." Rand wrote the screenplay under a contract that stipulated, much like one of Roark's ("I don't consult, I don't cooperate, I don't collaborate"), that not a single word be changed.
Her control was probably a good thing, since if other writers had been allowed to tone down her batty speeches, the picture would have come down to us as merely terrible, rather than as one of the purest examples of camp in the history of cinema.
There's irony in its having been made at Warner Bros., the most socially conscious of the old studios. The movie isn't as confrontational in its disdain for social programs as the book, though. It leaves out the episode containing the worst insult to her hero Rand can think of.
'Subnormal Children'
One of Roark's splendid buildings is remodeled into "The Hopton Stoddard Home for Subnormal Children," whose administrators -- "zealous ladies who were full of kindness" (a word Rand almost always invokes with contempt) -- admit "only the hopeless cases":
"There was a 15-year-old boy who had never learned to speak; a grinning child who could not be taught to read or write; a girl born without a nose, whose father was also her grandfather; a person called 'Jackie' of whose age or sex nobody could be certain. They marched into their new home, their eyes staring vacantly."
Even if you agree with those conservative Republicans who think a helping hand will only encourage the poor in their lack of initiative ... disabled children?
Absolutely, Rand would argue. Although she hated the Bolsheviks, you can feel in every one of her pulpy sentences the fanaticism she shared with them.
Worshipping Reason
She worshipped no god but reason (a continuing problem for Ryan and other Christians inspired by her ideas) and maintained that the only philosopher she really owed was Aristotle, the apotheosis of reason.
I'm not so sure. A statement like "One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name" sounds more like the world-denying idealism of Plato. One of Roark's admirers looks from a sketch of the architect's to the view from his window and protests, "Not this -- and that." Rand describes the vista:
"There was a poolroom on the corner of the street below; a rooming house with a Corinthian portico; a billboard advertising a Broadway musical; a line of pink- gray underwear fluttering on a roof."
Her repulsion is clear. But is that laundry line really such a terrible condemnation? To me it seems more like a simple fact of life. Beauty would be meaningless without the everyday banality that sets it off.
It's easy enough to see how an artist besotted with ideals of perfection might want to reject the ordinary in her work. But politicians ply their trade in the only world we have -- the one that, presumably, they want to improve.
When a novelist who despises the world and the people in it becomes their guiding star, we sneer at our own risk.
(Craig Seligman is a critic for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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He's fat and she's thin, he's gorgeous and she's ugly... do you judge?
Do you judge couples where one is pretty and the other isn't, or where one is very heavy and the other thin?
I do look and wonder and say if it works for them thats great, who am i to say.
I don't really notice. I think I noticed more when I was single because I was more likely to observe.
I know without his shirt on he is ripped, at 43 and does nothing to look that way lol
I am young and considered attractive and thicker gal ,
We get looks , particularly from guys my age, especially if they were looking at me when so walks up to me...
It is obvious after only a couple minutes why we are together though ...
As for me doing it, I don't notice the differences, I notice the body language and interaction between couple, and occasionally it is an odd couple that draws my attention, I don't feel I judge, but I do observe
Wrapping paper get ripped pretty quickly, the gift is inside.
The only time I even question it, is when she is21 and is 75! Then I go hmmm, yeah!
I never used to judge, and honestly still don't, however there is one instance where I do. It's out of jealousy, though, and I know that, but that doesn't make it any less wrong I suppose.
There is this guy that I like VERY much and we were starting to get close, then he ran into a girl he went to college with. They hooked up and now I am back to just "some girl he knows", kwim? Now to why I judge....she is almost 4 inches taller than him & I think they look silly together. He's already pretty short for a guy, then to have his girlfriend tower over him, well, it just makes him look shorter. I am almost the same height as him and we look good together ;D


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In this Japanese melodrama, set during WW II, a student falls for a naval officer's widow. Unfortunately, the widow is devoted to her husband's memory. The determined student then joins the navel academy. There he discovers that his beloved is marrying her husbands best friend. Unfortunately, he has been assigned to a Kamikaze unit. The war ends, and the young man later tells the woman that her second husband was made a Kamikaze because he married her. The despondent woman then kills herself.
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Special thanks to Geoff of The Hoover Street Rag for this guest post. Geoff took in a tasting event at Hopcat in Grand Rapids, and was kind enough to pass along notes.
Shorts Huma Lupa Licious
IPA – Pint glass.
Love the Huma. Always a favorite of mine. And $6 for a pint plus the house burger and crack fries is a fantastic bargain. The first taste is of crashing hops bitterness with citrus. It mellows briefly before a second wave hits, then the long finish.
Hopcat Kodial Killer
American Barleywine – Tulip glass
Dark, near-black appearance with an aroma of whisky and dark fruits. Drink slowly to keep from being overwhelmed by the alcohol and pronounced fruit notes and ruining the flavor, which is refined by aging for four months in spend Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout barrels.
Shorts Bourbon Barrel Huma Lupa Licious
IPA – Globe-shaped sampler glass
I wanted to be able to directly compare the bourbon barrel version to the standard, and it's almost unnecessary. The whisky smell is huge off of it, obscuring the grapefruit notes of the original, and the bourbon taste is even bigger, almost obliterating the regular Huma, though it's there underneath everything. I'll defer to the Hopcat description: "Think creamy vanilla-laced hop cones, soaked in bourbon."
Shorts Bourbon Barrel Sustenance
Schwartzbier – Tulip
Oh, this is delicious. Full of the toasty schwartzbier maltiness with the bourbon coming in around the edges. I could drink this all night
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout
Globe-shaped sampler glass
I had the Bourbon County Stout before, in a 4-pack of 12-ounce bottles, and it was something of a disappointment. I'd had the Founders KBS before (on tap at the brewery) and hoped that Goose Island would be able to compete with that. What I tasted was very good, but not in the same class as the KBS. I'm extremely happy to report that I was totally off base on that. On tap, Bourbon County Stout is a revelation. It's huge, thick; viscous as motor oil and full of chocolate, bourbon, and coffee. The clear winner on the night. I still prefer the KBS overall (I think the flavors are a little more complex), but this is ever so close.
Dark Horse Plead the 5th
Russian Imperial Stout – Globe-shaped sampler glass
The lightest RIS I've ever encountered. It pours brown and translucent with no real head by the time it was served. A whiff of alcohol on the nose, not much more in terms of scent, it has a smooth mouthfeel with tastes of dark chocolate and a strong whisky finish.
Goose Island Imperial Brown Goose
Old Ale – Globe-shaped sampler glass
Pours dark brown with a persistent, thin off-white head. Goose Island blended their 2004 and 2005 Christmas ales and aged them in 4-year-old Jim Beam and 12-year-old Heaven Hill bourbon barrels, and I can detect cinnamon and nutmeg among other spices alongside a mellow bourbon flavor.
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
Russian Imperial Stout – Globe-shaped sampler glass
It smells like a beer, but tastes STRONGLY of charcoal smoke. Must be the oak chips it's been aged with, giving it a burnt flavor that lingers for a long time after the vanilla flavors fade away.
Avery Samael's Ale
English Barleywine – Globe-shaped sampler glass
It tastes sweet and light, but packs a 14.5% ABV wallop and finishes with cinnamon and nutmeg.
Founders Backwoods Bastard
We Heavy Scotch Ale – Globe-shaped sampler glass
You can taste the Dirty Bastard under it all, but to me it tastes more like Devil Dancer than anything else. It has that same way about it where it hits like a sledgehammer and lingers.
Founders Black Biscuit
Old Ale – Tulip glass
The pour overflowed the glass on the way over and now my hands smell like beer and chocolate. Black Biscuit has a thin but persistently full head and pours thick and black. This is a black old ale aged in bourbon barrels, and the chocolate, bourbon, and roasted malt flavors dominate. It's not quite as huge or complex as a bourbon stout, but the tradeoff is that it's more drinkable. Definitely give this one a try if you have the chance.
Atwater Barrel Aged Cherry Stout Firkin
Stout – Globe-shaped sampler glass
Tastes like black cherries soaked in bourbon and dropped into a stout, but not overpowering the stout base. I'm not a big fan of fruit beers, but I can see myself ordering this as a a full pour.


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Valentine's Day at the Museum
February 14 (Sunday)
Valentine's Day at the Museum
Noon-4 p.m.
Celebrate the day with friends and family! Enjoy performances and discussions about how the arts, from throughout the ages and in all cultures, have discussed, presented, and advocated for expressions of the heart.
Admission to the Museum is free every Sunday thanks to our generous sponsors CrossAmerica Partners and the Gadomski Foundation, and all activities today are free.
12:30–3:30 p.m.
The Symbols of Love and Romance
Love is everywhere at the Museum! Bring the kids to learn how different artists use symbols of love and romance in their artwork, such as hearts, doves, roses, and swans. You can create your own "Vintage Valentines" in 2D or 3D, too. Top it off with a Treasure Hunt through the galleries to find the symbols of love and romance together.
1–3 p.m.
Arts Alive!!
Five different works. Five different approaches to a definition of love. Five creative expressions that will astonish you. All brought to life by five of our most creative actors and volunteers in costume portraying a work of art from our collection and presenting their themes of love, both sacred and profane. The choice of artwork will surprise you, the stories of love and desire will amaze you, the discussion may make you blush but it will intrigue you! Hosted by the Society of the Arts.
Studio of Frans Snyders (1579-1657), Game Stall at Market (detail), 1625/37, oil on canvas. Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961


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Liverpool continue their EFL Cup campaign with a trip to Derby County this Tuesday and Jurgen Klopp's side should be able to progress to the next round with relative ease. The Anfield club cruised through the previous round with a 5-0 win against Championship club Burton, have been in giant killing mood in the Premier League and they'll be looking for more of the same at the iPro Stadium on Tuesday night. With Coral enhanced odds you can get a huge price of 8/1 on Liverpool to quality. Max bet £5, winnings paid in free bet tokens.


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An Unorthodox Approach to PR
A well-written manuscript that I'm having the pleasure of reading came across my desk the other day from a very successful businessman. The manuscript contains this stirring poem that I thought appropriate to share:
"Anyway" The Paradoxical Commandments by Kent M. Keith
People are often illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you have anyway.
Copyright 1968, 2008 Kent M. Keith
An adapted form of this poem hung on the wall of Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta. Mother Teresa was successful in her message, call, and purpose; people knew who she was by how she lived.
People hire Public Relations firms for many reasons including increase in visibility, business/product growth and sales, brand awareness, crisis communications, etc. And this is necessary. But I also encourage you personally that maybe, just maybe, if you follow even a few of these principles, your public relations efforts (as well as you individually) will grow further.


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This video premiered near the start of the month, but I haven't been able to get a download link until now, so here it is:
Title: Dancing With Myself Remastered
Song: Boomtang Boys - Dancing With Myself
Footage: Final Fantasy 8, Final Fantasy 10
Filesize: 35 MB
Link: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/ ... hp?v=10124
Even if you didn't like the original video, you might like the new version because I changed a lot of the editing (as in, I did hardly any editing before but now there's tons of editing). And I know lots of people avoid FF videos like the plague, but this is not a typical FF video, seriously. It's heavy with the effects, and warning: stay away if you're prone to epileptic seisures, there's lots of flashing lights.
Comments are appreciated
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Practical guidelines for infection control in health care facilities
The guidelines jointly prepared by the WHO Regional Offices for South-East Asia and the Western Pacific have been prepared specifically to assist infection control practitioners in the integrated management of hospital-associated infections prevention and control (for both curative and preventive activities such as good environmental practices like proper administration of health care wastes, water quality control, etc.) and to ensure that health care administrators understand the significance of infection control programmes.
Chapter 4: Environmental management practices
A clean environment plays an important role in the prevention of hospital associated infections (HAI). Many factors, including the design of patient care areas, operating rooms, air quality, water supply and the laundry, can significantly influence the transmission of HAI.


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Kampala – As the race to capture African skies by several regional airlines moves into higher gear, Fly540, a promising East African airline, is positioning itself to take on the continent's established airlines.
Fly540 is a Kenya-based airline which became the third operator on the Entebbe-Nairobi route in February.
The carrier kicked off with low-cost flights compared to Kenya Airways and Air Uganda, which plied the route prior to its entry.
Now, Fly 540 is promising to extend services, to other African regions with an ambition to become Africa's first budget airline.
Ms Jackie Arkle, the marketing manager, told Business Power in interview recently that Fly540 under the 530 Aviation trade mark is working towards becoming the first low-cost airline serving Africa.
The airline has started off by spreading its wings to cover Uganda, after establishing a nationwide presence in Kenya and will spread them further, to Tanzania. The Northern town of Mwanza will be its first destination, in Tanzania opening a low-cost carrier for tourists and businesspeople travelling between Kenya and Tanzania.
"Mwanza first because there is a lot of business travel there. The traffic is very heavy and because people are flying quite frequently, and for them to do so, they also need to save."
According to Ms Arkle, the plan is to move into Tanzania in October and subsequently add Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar, Moshi, and Kilimanjaro before going to Angola. "For now we know, it will be Nairobi-Mwanza, but if there is market and demand for Entebbe- Mwanza, we will defiantly consider it."
"Then, we will open up Kigali and then head to West Africa. Ghana will be the hub for West African region. In Southern Africa, we shall use Angola as our hub, so it will become a pan African low cost airline," Ms Arkle said at the airline's office in Kampala, adding that their Angola offices are almost ready.
The company is aiming at becoming the first African airline, with hubs in three quadrants in Africa. "We want to go to these markets, because there is no Pan-African airline and a low cost one, yet people want to have an alternative airline that is not going to chip into their budget but offer them the services they require. So, we taking the bold step and going to do that," she said.
Fly540 projects that it could achieve this ambitious dream in about eight years with the full backing of Lonrho Africa.
Lonrho is a pan-African company with a diverse portfolio ranging from primary infrastructure to transportation, support services, hotels and natural resources.
In 2006, Lonrho acquired a 49 per cent stake of the issued share capital of the airline for US$1.5 million (Shs2.4 billion).
The company is listed on both the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges and has market capitalisation and assets worth of £140 million, (Shs450 billion) and £240 million (about Shs772 billion) respectively.
It is this robust financial muscle that the airline is banking on to spread it wings across Sub-Saharan Africa. Commenting on the airline's Uganda operations, Ms Arkle said, demand for the low cost airline service was heading for the sky after picking up slowly between February and March.
"We have picked up on sales and so far, have flown 7,000 passengers since we started operations on this route and it's growing on a monthly basis," she said.
The growth is attributed to the teams doubled efforts in marketing the airlines concept of low cost fares, to more Ugandan travellers in Kampala and Jinja districts.


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In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is mRabindranath Tagore
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveresAlexander Pope
Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreementLope de Vega
My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseqGeorge Washington
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.Plato
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her textRalph Waldo Emerson
Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.Georges Seurat
Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.John Dryden
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.Marshall McLuhan
Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.Paramahansa Yogananda
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.Theodor W. Adorno


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Taking a break from my non-existent test prep, I wanted to post a review of site that I've ordered from before - and it is T-errific!!! (sorry, couldn't resist :-o )
Last year for his birthday, I got VC this fun T:
Not necessarily the most PC, but it is a BIG hit at school :D
[unrelated: Have you seen Weird Al Yankovic's video for "Amish Paradise?" Check youtube. Got that song running through my head after VC played it the other day again...]
If you are not familiar with Crazy Dog T-shirts, it is the number one source online for funny t shirts and vintage shirts that help you stand out and get noticed. Founded in 2004 the t-shirt empire offers custom shirts in Rochester, NY. They provide customers with a variety of cool t-shirts and crazy shirts.
Here's one of VC's current faves:
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It looks like the folks at Crazy Dog iron about as much as I do ;-) Kidding!! I can attest that these shirts are seriously soft and hang so well ironing is not necessary (at least not for me).
At their sister site, Nacho Mama Tee's, you can find some of the best offensive t shirts around. But if offensive is not your thing, there are many other awesome shirts, like this awesome shirt:
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Founded in 2004 the t-shirt giant offers funny shirts which include chuck norris shirts, hangover t shirts and zombie tshirts. And everybody loves a chuck norris shirt!!
Oh, I should also mention that each site offers a $6.99 daily T-shirt special - can't beat that price!!
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These cool vintage earrings feature three rows of frosted clear lucite beads suspended from a lucite triangle with a clip back. These earrings are in excellent condition and measure 1 1/4" X 3".
The necklace and bracelet shown in the last photo are NOT included but may be purchased separately from my shop.
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Personally, I'm not into it – maybe if he was rockin' the whole guyliner thing, but when your man is wearing more MU than you are… there is reason for concern, is there not?
Which is not to say that I like my guys to be all butch and manly – hair gel is a godsend, and a boy with skincare routine gets bonus points in my books! But I'm drawing the line at liner, maybe a bit of concealer for acne (NOT undereye circles!) – call me sexist or whatnot, but any more and I'm hitting the hills.
Side story: There's an SA at our Sephora that a friend and I have nicknamed DiorBoy. Asian, gorgeously high cheekbones… wears so much makeup babies may cry. It's all applied fabulously and meticulously, though – not a pore in sight, though that thick but creaseless layer of foundation. He even does blush – always peach! The reason for the nickname? He's their Dior boy. If you ask him for help with a product, he will recommend Dior, and nothing else. His station is littered with it – I think he used to work at the Dior counter in the Bay before Sephora nabbed him (they used to have a very made-up Asian boy right up until Sephora hit the city. Logic says it's the same one.) (Either that or he's the creepiest fanboy ever)
DiorBoy is very bad for my friend's wallet. Not mine, because I have self-restraint, but he once talked her into a $40 blusher when she was in for mascara. Loves him to bits!
So? What are your thoughts on men who wear makeup?
(Alternate question: your favourite celeb eye candy + a full face of makeup, including blush and lipstick. Still love 'em?*)
*Jensen Ackles, I would have your babies even if you wore lipgloss**.
**Even if it was blue***.
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The Inman Aligner is very much like a clear gum shield. The clear properties of the aligner play a pivotal role in the functionality of the brace. One of the main concerns of those opting to straighten their teeth is how the braces look and what people will think of them. The acrylic properties of this particular brace help to make them invisible and very barly noticeable.
This fast straightening brace is gaining more and more fans as people begin to increasingly turn to the revolutionary aligner for the results, speed and discreetness of the brace.
The Inman Aligner uses a lingual coil spring which places the pressure on the teeth required to reposition the teeth. There is a very thin plastic bar called the labial bar which runs across the front of the teeth and it pushes against the lingual coil spring. The effect as a result of the positioning between the coil and labial bar creates a squeezing effect which leads to the straightening of the teeth.
The reason the aligner works so well is the good balance of pressure compared to other braces, this can reduce the resistance of the tooth's movement as a result of the gentle pressure. This right level of force is what actually allows the Inman Aligner to straighten teeth so quickly.
The Inman Aligner is all about fast results achieved as discreetly as possible. Nickel Titanium is used in the springs because it can hold the correct level of pressure at a constant rate were other materials such as clear plastic would not have allowed this. Again, this gives faster results allowing the user to get back to normal as fast as possible.
Inman Aligner is usually far cheaper than many other orthodontic treatments but the great results they can give will only work for certain teeth. The 121 Dental Clinic on Harley Street will analyse your mouth to discuss what we think would be the best option for you. After we discuss all available treatment plans with you, you can then decide whether you wish to go ahead.
We have 0% Finance on all of our braces so just let us know what suits you best, we are based on Harley Street, London.
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Canoe Wild
Grove Ferry,
Canoe Wild is a local company based on the River Stour, providing a clean scenic river to take part in canoe and kayak adventures. We provide a range of fantastically fun activities aimed at team work, learning and outdoors enjoyment, with all the equipment provided. Over the last year we have worked with many local schools and colleges such as; Christchurch University, Simon Langton Boys School, Canterbury College and several local primary schools. Helping students achieve accreditations in their subjects and gaining British Canoe Union BCU awards, below are some of the activities we provide:
- Pool sessions
- The new U Canoe Wired program
- Canoe and Kayak school days
- Combined Canoe and Nature days
- Taster Sessions
- BCU 1 & 2 star courses (Canoe and Kayak)
- Wild Life Tours
- Guided Trips
- Duke of Edinburgh Expeditions (Bronze and Silver) and training
- Team Building Days
- Fantastic Birthday parties in pool or outdoors
- Canoe hire to the public
And of course our Kayak club on Saturdays at 1pm at the Langton Boys Pool...
Both on road car parking and pay and display car parking available.
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Up To Half Price Sale Now Online @ Sainsburys Tu
I love Tu Clothing for myself and my family, I love it even more when it's half price!
I will definitely be stocking up in the Up To Half Price Sale that is now online over at Sainsburys.
There's some gorgeous items available in the Women's* sale. I love this Navy Stripe Belted Maxi Dress* it is perfect for the Summer and is now half price at just £9. These Multicoloured Seagrass Flip Flops* are also half price at £4 and are great for the beach.
There's plenty to choose from in the Kid's Sale*. This Boys Red Superman Sun Safe Suit* is now just £5-£5.50 half price. It is great for splashing about this Summer. These Baby Girls Guess How Much I Love You Vests* are just so pretty, they are now £3.50, half price. What a gorgeous gift they would make for a newborn.
There are some half price dressing up outfits too, they are all £7.50. They include The Little Mermaid*, Kylo Ren* and Iron Man*. They are great for keeping by as Christmas presents!
You can Click and Collect your items for FREE to your local store if you spend £15 or more or you can pay £3.95 to have them delivered to your door.
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- Khadra D.
littl mermiad one is amazing!
- Teresa D.
Oooohhhhhh xx
- Sarah M.
Instore to or just online?
- Tracey T.
Thanks x
- Ally C.
Love it x
- Kirsty N.
Sorted! x
- Charlotte M.
Good idea!
- Holster A.
Hahaha I'm buying it!!!! X
- Karen M.
Just bloody paid £20 for the Kylo Ren costume on amazon its £8 at Tu but the size is out of stock luckily or i would of been more annoyed lol.
- Jemma I.
half price fancy dress x
- Charlotte S.
Might have to go to sainsburies on the weekend xx
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2005 Chevrolet Blazer - Consumer Review
Build Quality
Reliability Value
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Reliability Value
Love a Chevy Blazer
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Vehicle2005 Chevrolet Blazer LS Rwd 2dr SUV (4.3L 6cyl 5M)
ReviewI traded a brand new 500 mile Toyota Celica on a used Blazer... its the xtreme package, I haven't ever regreted it, comfortable... very reliable, and honestly very safe. I have been rear ended twice once at around 10 mph the second time at around 25 mph, not significant damage to my Blazer. The motor like all of Chevy's are easily fixed, and most people can do it themselves with a good manual (unlike Toyota)... Overall they are not the fastest SUV's but they ride nice, few problems, no recalls on them! I think they are good vehicles for young adults who need something safe that looks nice, and they can dabble with... worked for me!
Best FeaturesI have an Xtreme I would have to say my favorite part would have to be the ground effects, they are not over done like many of the Japanese cars, they add a certain flare to the truck, while not making it look like a Fast a Furious Knock off...
Worst FeaturesMore horsepower, I believe that they need to bring back the motor and such from the GMC Typhoon, which was the fastest production SUV, be economical about it keep the special stuff to a minimum so as to keep price down, for the entry level consumer base... and fix the window seals, on my Tahoe!
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The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed that it is to pilot a scheme where it will trial 1,000 open source desktops.
News of the scheme was revealed by Mike Truran, customer delivery director at DWP, speaking at the Datacenter Dynamics Convergence conference. "If the pilot works we will take it forward," Truran reportedly said.
DWP Confirmation
Speaking to eWEEK Europe UK, a DWP spokesperson confirmed the plans for an open source pilot scheme.
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I am finally back home and have a chance to sit down and do a full race report from the marathon last weekend. Enjoy!
Pre Race
I love me a local race. No hotel to worry about. No getting up extremely early. No parking umpteen miles away from the race start. And most importantly, no stress.
We got up around 6:00 and were out the door by 6:30. Parking was a breeze. We were about 100 yards from the start/finish line. Can't beat that. It was pretty cold out though – in the low 30's – so getting out of the car was less than pleasant. We immediately headed into the YMCA where most of the runners were hanging out. I found a spot where I could stretch, lay down, and take a quick nap.
Ready to Go
As race time approached, I headed over to the starting line and found my position between the 3:29 Billy Baldwin Racers and the 3:44 Dubya Running Mates. One of the cool things about this race is that rather than having regular 3:30, 3:45, 4:00, etc. pace groups, each pace group is based on a celebrity's marathon finish time. So instead of shooting for a sub 4 hour marathon, you shoot for a Will Ferrel's sub 4 (3:56). We had the requisite National Anthem along with the national anthem of Canada. Again, the race director gets clever. He makes a wager that if he gets more registrations from Canada than he does from Indiana (which are essentially equidistant from Grand Rapids), he will play their anthem at the race start. I guess Canada won.
The First Miles (1 – 10)
I felt great for the beginning of the race. I really felt like I settled into a good pace. I ran with different groups here and there while trying to keep an even pace. Nothing really exciting happened, which I suppose is a good thing. I really don't want too many surprises in the first part of a long race.
Approaching the 11 mile mark. Still feeling fairly good at this point.
The Second 10 (11 – 20)
The second 10 miles went fairly well also. At about the 13 mile mark, I started to hurt a bit. My left knee ached a bit, and I worried that I was relapsing to the knee problems I had 4 years ago. Thankfully though, the pain wasn't consistent and by adjusting my pace a bit, I was able to keep it in check. I kept plugging along knowing that I was over half done and it was all downhill from there. In my last marathon, the Sunburst Marathon in June, I hit the wall at the 18 mile mark. I was determined to push further than that before walking this time. I kept making deals with myself. "Run until 18, then you can walk a bit." "Run until 19, then you can walk a bit." And then it was, "Run until 20, and THEN you can walk." I ended up making it through to the 20 mile mark without having to walk.
Can you see where the wall was?
The Final Stretch (21 – 26.2)
By the time I got to the 21 mile mark, I needed a break. I was mentally and physically defeated at this point. It was mentally the hardest part of the course, a short out and back that took us further away from the finish when there was an obvious shorter path to get to the finish. I ended up walking for about a quarter mile before plugging along again.
My dad ended up catching up to me at the 22 mile mark on his bike. He rode next to me from about 22 – 24 mile mark and then again from 25 – 26. It really kept me going as much as I could when all I wanted to do was walk. It was a huge help to get me to the finish line.
The Finish
I ended up finishing in 3:47:02 (8:40 pace), a PR of almost 2 minutes from my Sunburst time. I ended up 39/80 in my age group and 497/1555 overall. I really can't complain about how it went. With as little training as I did for the race, I did surprising well. My longest run prior to the race was a 17 mile run about a month ago. Other than that, I had been doing mainly 12 – 14 mile runs coupled with bike rides and swims. Probably not the ideal training regimen, but with all the triathlons this summer, I didn't have enough time to focus purely on running.
Mustering all my strength to have a strong finish.
Post Race
After the race, I grabbed some ice cream and snacks from the finisher's food. They had the traditional chili and New Holland beer at the finish, but my stomach was too upset to even think about enjoying it. While it was warmer than the start of the race, once I stopped moving I cooled off pretty quickly and wanted to get home and showered.
Relaxing and enjoying my ice cream.
Look at all this delicious beer… and to think, I wasn't feeling up to enjoying it!
We stopped on the way home to buy a bag of ice for my post race ice bath.
As uncomfortable as it was to jump on a plane hours after the race, having the work meetings allowed me to have an excuse to take a couple days off. In the airport, waiting for my flight, I ran into three guys who had also run the race. They were brothers from Philadelphia and New York and all three qualified for Boston (one by only 20 seconds). We chatted about the race for a bit and they gave me some pointers on how to improve my training and bring my time down in the future.
Any ways, after two days of recovery, I was itching to get some exercise in. So, despite a head cold I picked up in Connecticut, I went out for a short bike ride today. It felt pretty good and actually helped clear out my stuffed up head a bit as well. I think my legs are pretty much recovered, but I will still take it fairly easily the rest of the week to make sure they fully heal and to fight this darn cold.
Thanks for sticking around till the bitter end! As always, stay tuned for more of my adventures.
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The kids at n+1 have created a neat little ad campaign. They've taken old photos of famous dead authors and given them copies of n+1 in Photoshop. The famous dead authors—Honore de Balzac, Leon Trotsky, and Susan Sontag—are supposedly telling you to visit the n+1 store and buy stuff.
Balzac died in 1850. Trotsky died in 1940. Sontag died in 2004, a few months after n+1 published its first issue. As far as we know, Sontag never interacted with the magazine.
We're not immune to the humor of these ads. They're a smart critique of consumer culture, with its ubiquitous product spokespeople. At the same time, the ads serve the useful purpose of naming n+1's favorite authors, which gives you an idea of how to understand n+1.
Two articles about Jonathan Lethem's new book, Chronic City, compare Lethem to at least a dozen other writers in order to describe his work. They reference Philip K. Dick, Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, William Gibson, Anna Kavan, William S. Burroughs, Raymond Chandler, John Barth, J.G. Ballard, Franz Kafka, Woody Allen, and Marvel Comics. That's a lot of names to drop for one book.
Lethem has self-consciously styled his work on some of his favorite authors. He wants you to recognize their direct influence on him, even if it's just (as with Pynchon) in the names he chooses for his characters. Critics who write about Lethem want to show you they've spotted all his influences.
Clarice Lispector was described by Gregory Rabassa as "that rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf."
Clarice resented the comparison—understandably—because she had never read anything by Virginia Woolf.
In Harold Bloom's famous thesis, all great authors are compelled to create something new because they are intimdiated by the work of their literary forebears, and afraid to simply repeat what's already been done. Bloom's criticism describes a kind of literary netherworld, where famous authors, living and dead, exchange techniques and actively develop one another's ideas, like a pantheon of immortal gods. There may be anxiety on the part of livings authors who contend with the huge influence of their predecessors, but there is also a fantasy, on the part of Bloom and his readers, that all our dearly beloved writers are trading recipes in heaven.
Who benefits when an author is described as a combination of other authors?
When people reference a famous dead author, do you felt like they're saying, "God is totally on my side?"
Are books just a mix tape of other books?
Should we be anxious about how much good stuff has already been written, or should we brag about how we stole it for our own writing?
Is Leon Trotsky going to rise from his Mexican grave and pulverize the offices of n+1?


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If you played MadWorld or God Hand, then you have a good idea how the camera works: it's a third-person perspective, zoomed in over the shoulder of your character. It's functional, sure, but with so much action going on at once, it's hard to keep it all in scope.
You can target an opponent by hitting a shoulder button, but the inherent issue with that is the second you focus on one character, the other two are probably going to pounce on you. I mean, they're going to come after you anyway, because that's the whole point, but it's really the only way to focus on anybody.
But everything else is simply gravy. The action is over-the-top and accessible -- each character has a light and hard attack that can be chained together into combos pretty easily, plus a grab move and their own special weapon. Black Baron, my choice, seemed a good mix of power and speed. His ground smash move was particularly effective when everyone was bunched up and a spin move, which knocks any enemy unfortunate enough to be in its way once unleashed way back, proved incredibly effective when surrounded.
The multiplayer deathmatch mode in Anarchy Reigns was pretty much everything I expected. It was fast, it was fun, but that camera was a tad bit too frustrating. If it was zoomed out more, giving me a better look at the action, I might have been able to assess where my opponents were and where the danger was. As it was on the show floor of E3, the lack of threat indication and my general inability to see beyond what was right in front of me put a damper on an otherwise frenetic experience set to be one of 2012's most unique.


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Earlier this week, the Leafs director of amateur scouting, Dave Morrison, took some time out of his schedule to talk to me.
We ended up speaking for nearly an hour and we went over so much that I decided to break it down by section and quote him where appropriate. So with that, please do not misconstrue anything said below and contact me for clarification if you are unsure about anything.
With all that out of the way, here are the highlights from our chat:
On the Leafs scouting system:
I asked Morrison about the Leafs 13 listed amateur scouts on their website, and he said it's more along the lines of 13-16.
The Leafs scouts are regionalized. There are five regions and they are what you'd expect them to be: OHL, WHL, QMJHL, USA, Europe. Each region has at least one full-time scout, and one part-time scout. There are also crossover region scouts. For some of the scouts, you can reasonably guess who's region is who's. For example, I was told that Mike Palmateer scouts in Ontario.
In Europe, the five listed scouts are broken down to be two full-time, two part-time, and a crossover scout.
The Leafs also have two scouts mainly responsible for following elite and/or priority players. I was told those two gentlemen are Garth Malarchuk and John McMorrow.
As for Morrison's role, he told me, "I live in London, so I start out in western Ontario and work my way from there."
He said when they scout a player, the introduction will usually be done by one of the full-time or part-time scouts, then they are listed into their system, then they are combed over.
On when the GM gets involved:
"When you've identified your first round pick, that's when your GM comes to take a look."
Morrison said the GM does get to see games throughout the year, but it's sporadic and based on the schedule. Events like the World Juniors and prospect tournaments were mentioned hypothetically as games a GM is likely to attend.
For example, when the Leafs drafted Biggs and Percy in 2011, Burke was present at the U18 when Biggs scored this goal, and he was also at the Memorial Cup to take in Percy. This is my observation by the way, Morrison didn't tell me this.
However, I was told, "This year is different due to the lockout. Dave [Nonis] has seen a bunch of games."
For the record, I asked if changing from Burke to Nonis as GM made any difference for him and what they look for, and was flatly told "no."
If you weren't aware, Morrison was hired by the Vancouver Canucks as an amateur scout in 1999. As he said to me, he has a history with Nonis, as well as Burke too obviously, and they are on the same page.
On interviewing draft-eligible players:
Brian Burke has been quoted a few times saying he likes his scouts to interview draft eligible players early in the season because, by the time the draft rolls around, players have been trained to give good interviews.
I asked Morrison about this and he said, "Our scouts are responsible for talking to players as soon as they can. A rule we go by is to have them interviewed by our January meetings. Now, it's not always possible because of bad luck things such as injuries, sickness, bad timing, etc. but we try."
In light of this, I asked if that meant interviews closer to the draft were meaningless and could potentially be considered "smoke and mirrors." Morrison said this was not the case because, as stated above, he said it's "very difficult" to meet everybody throughout the year and that they will sometimes "meet guys at the draft." To be clear, a scout will have usually met the prospect during the season, it could just be that Morrison has trouble meeting every single player throughout the year.
One example? Dominic Toninato. Morrison said he met him at the draft last year for the first time and he matched the description provided to him by his scout.
Morrison also said they like to interview players early because it allows them to build a rapport and the player is more comfortable with them during events like the combine and interviews later in the process.
On how much time Leaf scouts spend tracking their own prospects versus draft-eligible players:
Morrison made it clear that the monitoring of prospects falls squarely on the director of player development, Jimmy Hughes. He also mentioned Steve Staios as a guy who is involved in that side of the work.
"Obviously our scouts are at games that intersect with players we've already drafted." He stated that their scouts will go down and talk to their own players after games such as that, but that it's very important for there to be communication with Jimmy Hughes beforehand to make sure that a consistent message is being sent to particular players. In essence, they don't want to overload these kids.
So, the takeaway is that when you read Leafs scouts are, for example, at an Oshawa Generals game, they are there to scout draft eligible players, not Tyler Biggs.
On the discrepancy between the OHL, WHL and QMJHL, if any:
The Leafs generally don't account for a discrepancy in leagues that are of the same grouping. Meaning, there is an obvious difference between a Jr. A league and the OHL, but not so much between the OHL and WHL, for example.
"It's about how good a player is relative to the competition in his league." So, and I'm paraphrasing here, he said if a player is in the top 10 in one league, he should be in and around the top 10 in another league.
I brought up that they haven't drafted anyone from the QMJHL since Mikhail Stefanovich in 2008, and he said it was just because of the "luck of the draw; it depends on how the ball bounces really." He also added that he thought the QMJHL was strong this year.
On drafting goalies:
I mentioned drafting goalies to Morrison for a few reasons. The first is that there is a possibility the Leafs won't own any goalies playing junior hockey next season if Garret Sparks goes pro. The second is that teams in the NHL, like the Sharks, pick goalies the way NFL teams pick QBs – They get one each year to add to the system. Goalies can be a bit of a crap shoot – my wording, not his — so it's nice to increase your odds and hope to get lucky by picking at least one each draft.
"Very few goalies make it after a certain point in the draft. You draft the goalie if you like the goalie and you ideally draft a goalie every draft." Morrison also said, "We treat the goalie position with high regard."
The Leafs, he told me, go into each draft with a list of goalies they like and they'll only select from that list. As he stated, "There's only so many we like every year," so it just depends how the draft is going and if they get the opportunity to pick a guy on their list at a time that makes sense.
He said they'd be willing to go out of their way for a goalie.
My words, not his: It's nice when you have two young goalies currently on your NHL team playing well.
On drafting for positional need (in the Leaf case, forwards over defence – where they're well stocked), and a bit about the upcoming draft:
"I guess that would be the ideal."
"We still stick to our list though. If we're drafting next and there's a good forward available, but we have a defenseman ranked higher, we'll more than likely take the defenseman."
Morrison spoke at length about not deviating from their board, especially at the top of the draft. He said, as the draft progresses, maybe they can slide players around and such to pick for positional need.
He did mention that he thought there were better forwards for the upcoming draft, but that there were also some very good defensemen.
Basically, the Leafs will stick with the best player available approach.
A year after giving big money to Paul Martin and Zybnek Michalek, some people were confused as to why the Pens went out and drafted two defencemen with their top two picks the next draft. Those two defencemen are WJC player Scott Harrington and Joseph Morrow, who just got swapped for Brenden Morrow.
"At the end of the day, you want to build your asset base," said Morrison.
On drafting players that are high potential but less likely to make it at all, versus safe players:
"Whatever other people think you got, we get the guy we want."
I brought up Biggs as a possible example. Specific to this player, he said, "he is what he is, he's not flashy. He's a big guy who does the dirty work. I think his physicality at his age is what leaps out as a kid who is only in junior. There are many NHLers that aren't even that physical and he's still a kid."
We both briefly discussed how a Biggs-type rarely hits UFA, and when one does he hits it big. Clarkson and possibly Clowe are guys to watch this summer in terms of how much they make if they even end up hitting the free market.
Biggs played a shutdown role for USA this year, and he was matched up against Ryan Strome in the one playoff game I saw him play so far this season. Obviously, the Leafs have been trying all year to build a shutdown line and it's been an experiment for most of the season to say the least.
On trading up in the draft to get a higher pick:
"There are a lot of variables you have to account for. You have to truly believe that he's at least as good as the other guy in another position, and then you have to start accounting for the cost."
The upcoming draft is chalk full of talent, but there are some very high-end players not only the top 3, but also the 3-7 tier, so this is why I asked.
Morrison stressed how hard it is to actually trade up in the draft with all the variables present.
He did say it's something that he likes to do and does/has pushed for, but for many reasons it doesn't always happen. It could be as simple as teams not wanting to move down the draft.
I brought up that they traded up to get Schenn.
Really, it sounds like the Leafs are always open to deals and willing to kick tires on anything, but it's all about what the price is.
This kind of falls in line with Nonis's quote earlier this week, "nobody is untouchable." Every player has a price. It's just a matter of whether or not a team is willing to pay that price.
On players already drafted that leapt out to him this year:
Morrison said 'Dominic Toninato' before I finished asking the question.
"I would say he's on a very good development track coming out of high school. He's one of the top scorers in the USHL and hopefully that continues when he goes to Minnesota Duluth next year."
He also mentioned a current Minnesota Duluth player, Tony Cameranesi. Cameranesi is one of the top scoring freshmen in the league with 34 points in 38 games.
Another player he mentioned was Josh Leivo. We spoke about whether or not he thinks Leivo could play in the AHL next year, and he said he should be able to if he has a good summer of training.
Regarding Morgan Rielly, he said "Morgan is Morgan, sometimes I don't even include him in our talks." To be clear, he didn't say that because he doesn't consider him a prospect, he said that because his success doesn't leap out to him. This kid did go fifth overall for a reason.
Conversely, he mentioned Matt Finn having a rough, hard-luck year. Finn has had mono this year and he's currently out hurt, missing the playoff games. I asked if he thought that this was a setback in his development, and Morrison downplayed it. "Matt's a high character kid, so I know he's going to work as hard as he possibly can to give himself the best chance to succeed."
For the record, he noted that whenever Finn has played, he's played well. He's just missed a lot of time, which is obviously disappointing.
I asked him about Marlies players and he said that isn't his department. Morrison said he does watch as many Leafs and Marlies games as he possibly can, though.
We did briefly discuss Jesse Blacker and Brad Ross as guys who have been looking good lately, if you're interested. For the record, he brought up Blacker and I brought up Ross.
And that more or less concludes my chat with Dave Morrison. If you have questions or are unsure about anything, please ask instead of assuming something. My email is below, or you can tweet me or leave a comment below.
I also wanted to take a second and point out that Dave's a really nice guy. He called me by name during the entire conversation and didn't dismiss me as just some blogger, something I really appreciate. At no point did he talk down to me as if he knew way more about hockey than I do. So with that, I just wanted to thank Dave for giving me the time.


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Spare a thought for some of the people most affected by last week's storm: the workers who pick up our garbage.
"You're dealing with a higher tonnage of trash," Jerald Boyd, chief operating officer of Unity Disposal and Recycling in Laurel, told me. "Not only that, but what you are actually collecting isn't the typical household trash. It is now completely spoiled food that in most instances has been sitting outside in 100-degree temperatures."
"You're dealing with many, many other issues," Jerald continued. "One: smell. Two: rotting food and plastic trash bags. If a bag breaks, now you have liquid and juices that are either in a driveway or on a street. Those liquids start to ferment. I don't have to give you the gory details, I'm sure."
Too late, Jerald.
"You have crows, blackbirds and raccoons that are attracted to those smells. . . . When the trash is located somewhere other than the curb — by the garage or at the rear of the home — we've seen lots of examples where raccoons have torn into bags, or blackbirds or different rodents. That makes for a not-so-pleasant experience for the work crews involved."
Not-so-pleasant experience? I think this qualifies as unpleasant.
"There are health hazards as well. We have to make sure crews have their PPE — personal protection equipment, like gloves and safety goggles — so things aren't splattering in their face or on their hands."
Just getting to the trash was sometimes a challenge. One of Jerald's crews in Chevy Chase couldn't reach a house that had been bisected by a fallen oak. There was police tape everywhere. In the end, the crew parked the truck nearby and collected the bins and yard debris by hand.
Speaking of trees, area jurisdictions have been buried under a blizzard of tree waste.
"We've basically been operating almost 24 hours a day, in terms of receiving, grinding and shipping out [mulch]," said Peter Karasik, manager of Montgomery County's transfer station. On a typical summer day, about 700 customers will drop off yard waste. One day last week, there were 4,000.
The county's three big wood-grinding machines have been augmented by a fourth borrowed from a contractor. "We're also also trying to get a fifth unit," Peter said.
All those fallen trees means there's enough mulch for area homeowners to start mulching their gardens to a height of about three feet rather than two or three inches.
Alexandria's Spencer Annear was lucky: Spencer, who lives next to a hospital, was without electricity for only 12 hours. But he was without cable TV for 24 hours and Internet for six days. In a way, he said, the experience was like time travel.
"I figure the loss of electricity put our house back to the 1890s because we had no electric lights, our garage door became manual and our refrigerator became an icebox," Spencer wrote.
The loss of cable TV put him back into the late 1940s: They listened to a (battery-powered) radio.
"I did get a lot of reading done, in paper books," he said. "Internet loss probably put us back into the 1980s, before computers were user-friendly and Internet was in most houses."
Thanks to the U.S. Postal Service, the mail came every day, right on schedule.
Spencer wrote: "Maybe those who long for the good old days should use periods of outages, like the one just ending, to count the blessings of modern life."
At Camp Moss Hollow, lightning hit one of the transformers behind the dining hall, leaving the camp without electricity temporarily. But the power is back on now, and once again, "lights out" means something to the campers.
It costs Family Matters of Greater Washington $700 to send a child to Moss Hollow for one week. No family pays that much. The admission fee is based on family income; some families pay nothing.
To make a tax-deductible donation, go to washingtonpost.com/camp. Click where it says, "Give Now," and designate "Send a Kid to Camp" in the gift information. Or mail a check payable to "Send a Kid to Camp" to Send a Kid to Camp, P.O. Box 96237, Washington, D.C. 20090-6237.
Or why not treat yourself to a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich Wednesday at any Clyde's restaurant. Proceeds from the BLT — ordered at the Hamilton, Old Ebbitt Grill or any Clyde's — will benefit Send a Kid to Camp.
To read previous columns, go to washingtonpost.com/johnkelly.


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MINNEAPOLIS -- Kevin Garnett scored 12 fourth-quarter points, including a one-handed putback dunk with 18.3 seconds left, as the Minnesota Timberwolves beat Seattle, handing the SuperSonics their fourth straight loss.
Garnett had 22 points and 16 rebounds, including a season-high eight on the offensive end. Joe Smith added 10 points and 11 rebounds.
Detlef Schrempf, playing in his 1,000th game, scored 18 points as a reserve for the Sonics, who hadn't lost four in a row since January 1992.
After Hersey Hawkins' 3-pointer gave Seattle an 84-83 lead with 27.6 seconds left, Stephon Marbury drove the right side for a layup. But Marbury put it up too hard and Garnett went way above the rim to dunk the follow.
The Sonics never got a shot off in the final 18 seconds, as the Wolves smothered Gary Payton in the post and knocked the ball away.
The game was tied 45-45 at the half and the Wolves went into the fourth period with a 64-62 lead in a game that had 10 lead changes. Minnesota improved to 9-0 when leading into the fourth quarter.
Garnett had two tip-ins at the start of the fourth period. And, after a Seattle 24-second violation, Bobby Jackson scored on a layup to give Minnesota a 72-71 lead with 7:55 left. Garnett had two more jumpers in a 9-4 run as the Wolves extended to an 81-75 lead with 2:27 remaining.
But Dale Ellis responded with two 3-pointers in a span of 33 seconds to tie it. After Garnett's 10-footer, Hawkins hit a 3-pointer to set up the go-ahead dunk.
Marbury hit a 20-foot jumper to start the second half, and with 9:13 left in the third quarter, he made a behind-the-back pass on the break for Garnett's dunk that gave the Wolves a 51-46 lead.
The Sonics battled back behind Schrempf's seven points to pull to 66-64 going into the fourth quarter.
The Wolves made six of their first eight shots and jumped to a 12-5 lead 4:23 into the game behind Garnett's six points. Minnesota increased the lead to 25-13, but the Sonics stormed back with a 12-0 run to end the quarter.
Seattle extended its lead to 38-30 with 7:14 left in the second as Schrempf had seven points and Payton six during a 21-5 run.
Smith's offensive rebound and dunk with 6:38 left seemed to ignite the Wolves, who went on a 14-6 run to tie the game at 44.
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Finally a decent night's sleep. I have decided I just cannot take the Hydrocodone. Makes me crazier than a junkyard dog. And sleep elusive.
Last night I took a muscle relaxer and slept. Oh, heavenly sleep.
Sleep. Such a simple thing to ask for. But sometimes it is elusive.
We are promised nothing in this world. We are here right now, but in a flash it can all be gone. No matter how strong your moorings, the concrete of your foundation can shift and crack at any time.
Which is why all the little moments in life are so important to enjoy. That first sip of coffee in the morning. The spring bulbs pushing up through the dirt at winter's end.
From trees budding, to the changing of seasons.
Enjoy them all. Sit and stare out your window and take time to reflect on what you have this very minute. What you cherish and hold dearest.
Knowing nothing is permanent. But everything in between is precious.


text: Organized by Center for Business and Development Studies in collaboration with the CBS Competitiveness Platform CBS, 10/12 2013 The importance of innovation for Danish competitiveness The Danish innovation system is challenged o The internationalization of production and markets o The internationalization of innovation o The growing innovation strenght of emerging markets o SUM: The smile of value creation challenged? Key questions for seminar o How can Danish MNCs tap into global innovation potentials of emerging markets ? o Are emerging market innovation activities complements or substitutes? o When production and markets move, will innovation also move? o How can we provide the right conditions for keeping innovation in Denmark? Purpose of seminar o Identifying emerging trends and issues related to MNCs, innovation and emerging markets o Inspire research agendas on innovation in Danish MNCs in emerging markets 14.00-14.15: Introduction by Michael W. Hansen & Peter Wad, CBS Center for Business and Development Studies 14.15-15.00: Global innovation policy, bundling and competitiveness Key note by Lars Goldschmidt, Director, Danish Industry Plenum discussion chaired by Michael W. Hansen. 15.00-15.15: Coffee break 15.15-16.00: Opportunities and challenges in having innovative activities in many countries Key note by Lisbeth Bech, Organizational Development Director, Novozymes. Plenum discussion chaired by Peter Wad 16.00-16.15: Break 16.15-17.00: Re-building a global innovation culture in Vestas Key note by Anders Nyborg, Director of Innovation Management, Vestas A/S Plenum discussion chaired by Peter Wad 17.00-17.15: Winding up: Implications for research by Michael W. Hansen & Peter Wad Lars Goldschmidt, Director, Danish Industry. He is a prolific debater and has worked extensively with issues related to competence development, management, energy and environment and competitiveness. In his speech he will focus on the necessity of maintaining production activities in Denmark if the high value added research and innovation activities are to remain in Denmark. Lisbeth Bech, Organizational Development Director, Novozymes A/S. She is currently preparing Novozymes' global research and development site strategy and will in her speech talk about the challenges and opportunities of creating a global R&D organization and how to turn global diversity into a competitive advantage. Anders Nyborg, Director of Innovation Management, Vestas Technology and Service Solutions, Vestas A/S. He is heading Vestas' process of re-establishing an innovation management process rebuilding an innovation culture after Vestas had to reduce their R&D efforts and Global R&D Footprint as a consequence of the financial crisis. Novozymes: o Since 2000 an independent company within the Novo Nordic group with high growth on all financial dimensions. o A green frontrunner specialized in enzyme development , production and sales worldwide. o A biotech business-to-business oriented corporation. o Turnover above 11 billion DKK, export share around 95% and employing around 6,000 employees of which 58% are located abroad. Vestas A/S: o Established in 1898, baptized 'Vestas' in 1945 and specializing in wind turbine development, manufacturing and sales since the oil-crises of the 1970s. o Near bankruptcy 1986, turnaround and achieving global market leadership during the next 25 years. o Global financial crisis 2008-09 forces Vestas to restructure designing a new operating business model and a new organization. o Turnover 53 billion DKK (2012), employing 21,000 (year average) with above 75% employed abroad, and having delivered wind turbines to 73 countries. The themes Future research agendas 9.00-9.30: Introduction/practicalities (MWH/PW, CBS) 9.30-10.45: Globalizing innovation for corporate competitiveness? chaired by MWH o o 9.30-10.15: 10.15-10.45: Key note by John Cantwell, Rutgers University. Plenum discussion 10.45-11.15: Coffee break 11.15-12.15: Drivers of bundling/unbundling of innovation activities, chaired by PØJ o o 11.15-11.45: 11.45-12.15: Key note by Stine Haakonsson, CBS & Rasmus Lema, AAU Cph. Plenum discussion 12.15-13.15: Lunch 13.15-14.30: Internationalization of innovation by Nordic MNCs, chaired by ML o o o o 13.15-13.45: 13.45-14.00: 14.00-14.15: 14.15-14.30: 14.30-15.45 o o o o 14.30-15.00: 15.00-15.15: 15.15-15.30: 15.30-15.45: Key note by Torben Pedersen, CBS, on Danish MNCs. Plenum discussion. Abstract presentation: Inge Ivarsson, Göteborg University, on Swedish MNCs. Plenum discussion. Innovating through technology transfer, chaired by SR. Key note by Poul Houman Andersen, AAU, on technology transfer/translation. Plenum discussion. Abstract presentation: Jason Li-Ying, DTU, on technology licensing in China. Plenum discussion. 15.45-16.15: Coffee break 16.15-17.15: Innovation across Global North-Global South, chaired by BÅL. o o o o 16.15-16.30: 16.30-16.45: 16.45-17.00: 17.00-17.15: Abstract presentation: Marcus M. Larsen, CBS on EMNEs' innovation catch-up. Plenum discussion. Abstract presentation: MWH & PW, CBS, on corporate innovation for EMs. Plenum. 17.15-17.30: Winding-up the workshop: MWH/PW. 18.30-21.00 Dinner.


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March 16, 2011 EditionAlso in this issue...
News | Sports Scene | Education | Viewpoints | Records |
Zebras are state runners-upA memorable season for the Black Rock Zebras ended one victory shy of a state championship. The Zebras lost to the Bay Yellowjackets 67-40 in the finals of the boys Class 1A State Basketball Tournament on Thursday at Summit Arena in Hot Springs.
It was the fourth meeting of the season for the 1A-3 East conference rivals. The teams split their regular-season matchups, with each team winning on its home court. Black Rock defeated Bay 74-70 in the finals of the district tournament on the Zebras' home court.
Black Rock became the first boys basketball team from Lawrence County to reach the state finals. The Sloan-Hendrix senior high girls were state runners-up in 1993.
"Our ball team worked extremely hard for the opportunity to win a state championship," said head coach Jeff Womack. "We put ourselves in the position to do it, but unfortunately came up one game short."
WR sweeps S-HWalnut Ridge and Sloan-Hendrix met in high school baseball and softball action on Friday at Stewart Park.
Hillcrest softball team competes in ClassicThe Hillcrest Lady Screamin' Eagles opened the 2011 softball season on Friday by playing three games in the Timberwolves Classic hosted by Cedar Ridge High School.
Hoxie ladies beat OsceolaThe Hoxie Lady Mustangs opened the softball season with a 28-2 rout of Osceola on March 7 at Hoxie.
Cats beat PocahontasA three-run first inning propelled the Walnut Ridge Bobcats to a 6-3 victory over the Pocahontas Redskins in high school baseball action on Saturday at Stewart Park.
Mustangs open with two winsThe Hoxie Mustangs earned their second victory of the baseball season with a 14-2 win over Ridgefield Christian on Friday at Hoxie.
Lady Cats beat PiggottThe Walnut Ridge Lady Bobcats opened the 2011 softball season with a 15-5 rout of Piggott on March 7 at Stewart Park.
Lady Mustangs honoredSix members of the Hoxie Lady Mustangs basketball team have been recognized for their play during the 2010-2011 season.
Mustangs honoredHoxie senior high basketball players Coy Yasler and Zach Crisler have been named to the 3A-3 All-Conference team for their play during the 2010-2011 season.


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Review by pantazis5
May, 01 2013
Pros: -wonderful series, filled with history, love, loyalty.
Cons: -Too long to wait for season four! Please hurry!
Review by knoydart
February, 09 2013
Pros: Perfectly filmed, lavish & deeply involving.
Cons: Occasional slight historical innacuracies, Bates is a wuss.
Review by stacyb
July, 31 2012
Pros: A wonderful Masterpiece Classic, as always.
Cons: Not enough episodes in the year.
Review by skbreese
April, 07 2012
Pros: Acting, Production values, Writing
Cons: Sophisticated, albeit, juicy soap