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Saab is tottering on the brink of collapse - financing falls thru
Saab breathed a sigh of relief a few days ago when it announced a deal with a Chinese automaker that would have Hawtai Automotive Group gobble up 29.9% of Saab and loan it more money, funneling to Saab $216 million.
With the money, Saab was set to pay its suppliers and re-open its closed factory. Then, mirroring what happened when the same Chinese company tried to buy the Hummer brand from GM a few years ago, it all came undone, according to an article from the Detroit Bureau.com.
Apparently Chinese bureaucrats closely regulate the company and Hawtai could not get their approval on the deal. If the deal had gone thru, Saab could have started distributing Chinese-made vehicles in the US and elsewhere.
The European Investment Bank, which also has a stake in what's going on, nixed a prior deal that would have had a Russian banker buying up a big chunk of Saab.
Meanwhile, Saab suppliers have generally been refusing to deliver parts to the Saab plant since March 29 and that stopped production of the two central Saab models, the 9-3 and the 9-5. Saab's chairman said he is still hopeful (that the company can pull a rabbit out of the hat) but things continue to look dimmer for the Swedish company.
Now more than ever - think twice before you buy a Saab product anytime soon. Because soon they may be an orphan.
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Relating her experiences with honesty and candour, she draws us with her as she makes the excruciatingly difficult decision to bring her baby to term, helps her young daughters deal with their own sense of loss and bewilderment and finds mountains of support from family and friends.
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An extended trailer for "Iron Man 3" debuted during Super Bowl XLVII, featuring The Mandarin's savage attack on an airplane mid-flight and a shot of Don Cheadle as James Rhodes in a unique set of armor.
In the newest international TV ad for Iron Man 3, Pepper Potts comes to Tony Stark's rescue while wearing an Iron Man suit. Iron Man will take on the Mandarin on May 3rd when the film hits theaters. via Badass Digest
Kieron Gillen catches CBR up on "Iron Metropolitan," which pits Tony Stark against the Mandarin's sentient rings and upcoming "Iron Man Annual."
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I've been severely neglecting my auditions over the past couple weeks due to the move to Reseda, and I'm still contemplating the logistics of getting all the materials I need for the new studio from the hardware store into my garage. It wouldn't have been a problem at all about two months ago when I still had a Suburban available to haul things, but by upgrading to a small sporty convertible, I've lost any sort of cargo transportation capabilities.
Aside from the usual hassles that go along with moving, I faced one of the most terrifying crises of the last couple years when I booted up my computer again after the move: data loss. Long story short, my big hard drive with all my invaluable information was formatted accidentally either by myself or a confused Windows install disc, and I lost everything it had on it. All my past jobs and auditions are gone, but thankfully, I'm not in the middle of any major projects, and I'm truly grateful now that I finished Nightingale before the move, because that would've been an absolute nightmare.
Most disturbingly, the pet project I've mentioned a few times in the past, the choose-your-own-adventure cartoon I've been working on in my spare time, was on that drive, and aside from the finished scenes I uploaded to YouTube, all of it's gone. That includes all the assets like characters and sets and stuff, so it's kind of hard to pick up where I left off on completed scenes, because I have to redesign everything to match what's already finished. I took the drive to Fry's Electronics on Saturday and I'm still waiting to hear the verdict on what, if anything, can be recovered. My hopes are high, as from what I understand, the data's not actually gone until you write over it with something new. If I can't get it back, though, I honestly question whether or not I'll have the patience to start the whole project over again, as I was more than halfway finished with it. Meanwhile, all I can do at the moment is focus on settling in to the new place and hopefully get going on the build for my sweet new studio.


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TEL AVIV (Oct. 9)
Israeli soldiers, combing Gaza for clues to the knife murder Tuesday of Ashkelon taxi driver Yisrael Kitaro, have detained dozens of suspects for questioning. Three men were found in possession of knives of the type that may have been used in the slaying, security sources said Thursday.
The sources said pressure on Gaza residents will continue. Sources see a link between the stabbing of Kitaro in a Gaza garage and the fatal stabbing on September 27 of another Israeli from Ashkelon, Haim Azran, who was assaulted in the Gaza fruit market not far from where Kitaro was attacked.
The investigators now believe several persons may have been involved rather than a lone killer. But they think the attacks were a local initiative, not connected to outside terrorist gangs. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who visited the scene of Tuesday's crime, noted that the attackers wielded knives, not the more sophisticated weapons often used by terrorists.
Nine Israelis have been attacked with knives in the streets of Gaza over the past 18 months. Most were in town for shopping or to have their cars serviced at prices much lower than in Israel. But except for the ever-present soldiers, Israel were notable by their absence in Gaza.
A senior Army officer said it was the declared policy to encourage Israelis to visit the city. However, he added, they should visit "using their head." His advice was not to walk around alone, to be armed and to avoid any situations in which an attack could take place.
One bored shopkeeper in the marketplace told a reporter: "This murder hasn't done us any good. It's not good for commerce, it's not good for the people who work here, it doesn't do our cause any service." But another local merchant said: "Don't worry. They (the Israelis) will be back in a day or two. Nothing beats the daily routine."
Mahmoud Jaber, an Israeli Arab from Abu Gush village on the outskirts of Jerusalem, said he did not fear driving around Gaza in a truck with Israeli license plates and would continue to come as usual. Only a few months ago, an Arab neighbor was taken for an Israeli Jew and stabbed to death in Gaza. But Jaber is a fatalist. "When you are destined to die, you will die wherever you are," he said.
Meanwhile, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, addressing a memorial meeting for the 1,200 Israeli paratroopers who died in Israel's wars, denounced "The cowardly terrorist knife-wielders who attack their victims from ambush or with a stab in the back, only because they are Jews."
He said "Their beastly and brutal actions are doomed to failure. The hand of Arab terrorism has always been broken against our steadfastness."


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Keepers Of The Fringe, Episode 14-Derrick Doesn't Share food! (Also, Derrick Has A Cold)
Topics discussed this episode:
- Bioware has put the future of "Mass Effect" on hold
- Alan Moore's "Show Pieces" to debut on Shudder in June
- The director of "Turbo Kid" is making a horror movie titled, "Summer of 1984"
- "Dr. Katz" is returning as an audio series on Amazon Prime
- Jackie Chan and Sylvester Stallone to team up for a project called "Ex-Baghdad"
- A fantasy/noir series titled "Carnival Row" is coming to Amazon Prime
- Rob Cohen to make a movie based on the "Razor" comic book series
- A "Judge Dredd" series is coming to television
- An R-rated reboot of "Hellboy" is in the works
- A "Deadpool" animated series is coming to FXX
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CALGARY, Oct. 14, 2015 /CNW/ - Kick off Waste Reduction Week a few days early by recycling all your old electronics at Calgary's Newest drive through Recycling Depot and help feed hungry Calgarians at the same time. Recycle-Logic is hosting a eWaste Recycling & Food Drive on Saturday, October 17th from 9am to 5pm at the Market on Macleod.
"Waste Reduction Week" is a perfect opportunity for Calgarians to clean out their basements and garages of old Electronics for recycling" said Todd Burton, President. "We thought, why not also clean up your pantry and bring donations for the Food bank? We have been collecting non-perishables for the Calgary Food Bank for the past 8 years and have had a really good response"
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Cloud and crowd are changing our way of work and life. The rapid technological progress of cloud computing offers many new opportunities for collaboration and joint ventures among social scientists, universities and research institutions. The SMRE project and in particular its web-application supports and fosters a new broad joint research effort of doing crowd research on an international scale.
For this purpose, our newly designed interactive online web-application (see data entry and data output) has been set up. The SMRE team looks forward to bringing cloud research on religious affiliation with you to life.
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TSA Finding Guns In CVG Carry-Ons; 1,800+ Seized Nationwide
By Mike Perleberg
(Hebron, Ky.) – Transportation Security Administration employees at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport are finding guns in passengers' luggage at an alarming clip.
The Wall Street Journal reports that 1,813 firearms have been found in carry-on baggage at checkpoints at airports across the country where the TSA is responsible for security between January 1 and June 30, 2014.
So far this year, nine guns have been found in carry-on baggage at CVG. Indianapolis International Airport has seen 11 firearms confiscated by the TSA while 10 have been seized from carry-ons at Louisville International Airport. Blue Grass Airport in Lexington was the site of three confiscations while Dayton's James M. Cox International Airport had only one instance.
Which airports had the most instances of guns being found in carry-on bags? Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport each with 46 firearms seized.
Attempting to take a firearm aboard a plane in carry-on luggage can result in an arrest or citation with a fine up to $7,500.
According to the TSA's website, "travelers may only transport unloaded firearms in a locked, hard-sided container as checked baggage. All firearms, ammunition and firearm parts, including firearm frames, receivers, clips and magazines are prohibited in carry-on baggage."


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Big Green Purse at Work gives executives, entrepreneurs and employees tools and tactics to help their companies meet their financial, environmental and sustainability goals at a price they can afford.
We were founded by Diane MacEachern, an award-winning eco entrepreneur and best-selling author with more than three decades experience guiding consumers and businesses in sustainability.
Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, trade associations, government agencies, nonprofit organizations,small and medium-sized businesses and solo entrepreneurs.
- We work closely with human resource managers and a company's offices of diversity, women, and sustainability to develop and implement programs that inspire and engage employees and customers in company initiatives.
- We help trade associations develop initiatives to meet their members' sustainability needs.
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IT IS the Scottish Junior Cup this weekend for the Rose and it does not come any bigger or tougher than an away tie against Arthurlie tomorrow (Saturday).
The Prestonfield side have already disposed of Ardrossan and Fauldhouse in the run up to this fixture but tomorrow's game is one of the top clashes of the fourth round draw.
Both clubs are previous winners of the Scottish Cup, the Rose have lifted the trophy four times while their opponents have won it twice.
The clubs last met competitively in the semi-final of the Scottish Cup in 2007, when the Rose put four past them at the then St Mirren stadium, Love Street.
Six years on, the Rose are on top of their game, while Arthurlie this season languish close in the bottom half of the West Super League with just 11 points from nine games, 18 points behind league leaders Auchinleck Talbot.
But Rose boss Mark Bradley is aware the match is a 'one-off' and that Arthurlie will do their utmost to create an upset in front of their own fans.
He said: "The Scottish Cup is a 'one-off' and form goes out the window. It gives teams a chance to give their fans a lift. Arthurlie are sitting near the foot of their league and have had a bad run but they have played all the top teams in their league.''
While the bookies may make Linlithgow favourites for tomorrow's, Bradley is not predicting a scoreline, although he is confident his side can win on the day.
With an unbeaten run of 27 matches since the starrt of the season, he believes his players have the quality to grind out a result.
He said: "Our aim is to play attractive, attacking football but we can defend when needed as our defence is now more solid than in recent seasons.
''And there have been games this season when we have not played all that well but we have still been able to turn out a result."
The club still remain top of the Super League with a massive 20 point lead after a win over Camelon last week.
The Rose boss was disappointed with his team's first half performance, saying: "Only a couple of players 'turned up' in the first half but their winning mentality ensured that we got the result we needed in the second half."


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On 21.03.2012 01:05, Tom Lane wrote: > Improve the -l (limit) option recently added to contrib/vacuumlo. > > Instead of just stopping after removing an arbitrary subset of orphaned > large objects, commit and start a new transaction after each -l objects. > This is just as effective as the original patch at limiting the number of > locks used, and it doesn't require doing the OID collection process > repeatedly to get everything. Since the option no longer changes the > fundamental behavior of vacuumlo, and it avoids a known server-side > limitation, enable it by default (with a default limit of 1000 LOs per > transaction). > > In passing, be more careful about properly quoting the names of tables > and fields, and do some other cosmetic cleanup. Shouldn't this be backported? Without it, vacuumlo is effectively broken in 9.0 and 9.1. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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Budget: $70.00
Actual: $45.88
Once again, another super under budget week. But I can't take credit for working magic with coupons or sales… the plain truth is we ate out so much over the week that I only made three of the seven meals I'd planned! So, that left four meals for this upcoming week and only three additional to plan for.
It worked out, though, because it enabled us to stock up on snacks and protein bars for when the baby is here.
Here are our meals this week:
Wednesday (03/28) – Ate out, IHOP
Thursday (03/29) – Ate out, BW3s
Friday (03/30) – Breakfast for dinner – pancakes, turkey bacon and hashbrowns
Saturday (03/31) – Spinach Lasagna Rolls
Sunday (04/01) – Sweet Potato, Black Bean, Chicken and Corn Chili
Monday (04/02) – African Peanut Stew
Tuesday (04/03) – Corn, Bacon & Potato Chowder
I am really, really disappointed in how poorly we have done in terms of cooking versus eating out for the month of March. We were on such a good stride through January and February but then I got sick at the start of March, my energy plummeted as the pregnancy has gone on and, honestly, that's still why I haven't cooked much. I am just so tired by the end of the day that the last thing I feel like doing is standing in the kitchen and cooking.
For these last couple weeks before the baby arrives, I'm going to try to make dinner in the morning. I know that sounds weird, but if I can make it earlier in the day then refrigerate it I think we have a better shot of eating at home. I have a ton more energy when I wake up… it peaks around 5pm and after that I just want to go lay down and sleep.
Since this week's grocery shopping trip was the last one for March, it's time for the March recap!
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There is some good news for March – we managed to get our weekly spending under $70/week. Looking at the numbers above, which (obviously) include grocery trips from January to this current one, our average weekly spending is $69.93. When I remove January and February's numbers to just take into account the activity in March, our average weekly spending is actually $60.02. In February, our average weekly spending was $68.10 so we did a great job in reducing it! We've gone from $84.16/week in January down to $60.02. That's nothing to sniff at!
Our year to date grocery spending is now at $909.12, with YTD savings $178.80. In February's recap, we'd saved $137.06, so in March we saved a total of $41.74. Not bad considering grocery trips were pretty unorganized.
In the month-to-month comparison, January had us spending $336.64 total on groceries, February was $272.40 and March's grand total is… $300.08. Bummer. Our budget was $280.00, so we went $20.08 over. That's what happens when you don't plan your grocery trips, though!
In the overall progress of Project: Food Budget as a whole, this week was actually the halfway point for those who started with the project at its beginning (back in October last year). Emily, the organizer of the project, asked us to include some lessons we've learned so far since participating in the project, so here are five lessons I've learned:
- Do not go grocery shopping without a plan! If you do, you will probably overspend. Or, you'll underspend but then realize you forgot a ton of things you needed so you'll have to back for another trip and that trip might put you over budget.
- Coupons are not scary! It's true – they really aren't. They are only as complicated as you make them. I have really enjoyed figuring out how to best use them and attempting to increase the number I use per trip. It's as simple as checking out the sale ads and making sure your coupons match up with what's on sale.
- You don't need as much as you think you do! Since starting this project, we have bought a lot more cleanly. Meaning – mostly produce, meat and that's about it. We do buy some processed foods, but the number we buy of those items is drastically less than what it used to be. It just isn't true that you need to pack your cart with junk in order to keep everyone in the house happy. In fact, I much prefer now to grab some fruit and make myself a smoothie than open up a candy bar as a snack.
- Meal planning is not difficult! And it also isn't very time-consuming. I'm the kind of person who does not like to repeat recipes. I really love using dinner as a time to wow Alex and make him excited about what we're eating. I think this is because I love eating out so much. But even with all the recipes that I look up and buy for, it isn't difficult to keep track of or time-consuming to lay out for the week. Pinterest really helps with this, but so does having a good stock of cookbooks that have a lot of recipes you are excited about. I think the excitement is key. Sometimes I will pick a recipe because I think it's something we should eat, but if I'm not excited to make it I never make it.
- It helps to be held accountable! Blogging weekly about our spending is really good for me because it forces me to keep track of it. If I had started this project on my own, alone, I probably wouldn't have stuck with it…or I would have fudged numbers to make myself feel better. It definitely helps to blog and get feedback, and see how others in the project are doing to. I highly recommend getting involved with a group of like-minded people if you're starting any kind of project that would be a big change from your normal, everyday life/habits.
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If the end is near, what's your plan?
Published 11:30 pm, Tuesday, May 28, 2013
By now you've probably seen the video circulating on social media featuring Zach Sobiech (it has more than 8 million views). The 18-year-old from Minnesota learned he had a rare form of terminal cancer when he was 14.
In late 2012, doctors said he had just a few months to live, so he started making music. Soon millions of people were listening to the songs Sobiech wrote and performed. One — "Clouds" — went viral.
Sobiech died last week. Making music was his last wish. We asked readers to tell us theirs.
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Go to Italy with close friends and family and eat all the food I could possibly handle.
Write everything I could think of about myself, how much I love my daughter, and all the advice I could think of in a journal for my 2-year-old daughter. And make a video for her.
I'd fly to Scotland with 11 others and play the old course at St. Andrews and have the biggest skins game we ever played in!!!
Whatever my kids want me to do.
Stay by the beach with my family.
Take a very long road trip all over the country with my dog, all while documenting it on a blog.
Move to Hawaii.
Spend my final days quietly at the ocean.
Search Clouds by Zach Sobiech on YouTube to hear the song.
Show them the money?
People are sharing the story about Supermodel Heidi Klum paying her kids to eat healthy foods they might not otherwise try. Why are they sharing it? Because every parent has faced this dilemma at one time or another: A kid who wants to eat nothing but Pepperidge Farm Goldfish.
For today's poll we asked "should parents pay their kids to eat healthy foods?"


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Cornelius Snarlington is running for President of the Multiverse! And only one scary owl lawyer can stop him. This week is San Diego Comic-Con! This very well may be my last year exhibiting, so if you're in the neighborhood, be sure to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There are a lot of new readers here this week! Hello new readers! If you're not familiar with everyone's favorite sociopathic business deer, check out these other Cornelius Snarlington comics.
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SBI JA Clerk (Customer Support & Sales) Mains Call Letter 2016 Agriculture Admit Card
The candidates who have applied for the State Bank of India Junior Associate (Customer Support & Sales) and Junior Agricultural Associates Recruitment Notification 2016 can start downloading the admit cards from the official page of SBI. Read these pages for complete details of admit cards and along with other updates of Mains.
Key updates of SBI Junior Associates Clerk Notification 2016:
State Bank of India declared the recruitment notification to fill up Junior Associate (Customer Support & Sales) and Junior Agricultural Associates posts and this time total 18855 vacancies in different branches of State Bank of India was declared. The Candidates who are eligible and interested have applied for Junior Associate and Junior Agricultural Associates notification. The application process was closed on April 25th and applicants are now searching for updates of mains admit cards and exam dates. Below are some more details,
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Greetings, Gav Pauze aka DJ Pauze and staff welcome you to Pauzeradio, home of the Unique Reggae Mix Show. Playing positive, uplifting, new & classic reggae music from the UK, Jamaica, USA, Europe, worldwide.
Listeners/Artists/Producers please feel free to link up, get in touch with us here: contact us.
Whats on this website?
On this website you can find all the reggae radio shows including the reggae playlist for each show featured in the archive on pauzeradio.com as far back as show 150. In the event of the music player stopping just click the forward button to the right of the play/pause button on the music player.


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Since 1987, Indra focussed on fiction and non-fiction books which reflected the cultural diversity of Australia. Here you'll find books written for the general market, which also deserve a place in academic bookshops and university reading lists.
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The actor's last appearance in the role will be a Christmas special, which was emotional for executive producer Steven Moffat.
Matt Smith is exiting the TARDIS, stage left.
The British actor and Doctor Who star has two more episodes left that will serve as his swan song in the role that put him on the pop-culture map: the 50th anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor (BBC America, Saturday, 2:50 p.m. ET/11:50 a.m. PT), in which he shares screen time with his predecessor, David Tennant; and a Christmas special Dec. 25, in which he departs, making way for the 12th Doctor, Peter Capaldi.
Smith's body might not be in the dapper jacket and bow tie anymore, but his heart still is. Seeing a Doctor Who poster outside of a North London movie theater while driving home elicits a "There's us! Woohoo!" from the 31-year-old Northampton native.
"It's really transformed my life for the better," Smith says of the show, which he joined in 2010. "It's one of those jobs you're always going to miss forever, because it's such a wonderful journey, but it felt like it was the right time for me to go."
STORY: The Doctor is still in, 50 years later
Smith's stint — he's the first Doctor to many younger Americans — has provided the show with a major boost in popularity in the USA.
He's "playing a character who can go from A to zed and miss all the other letters in the alphabet, and you don't have to justify why," Smith says. In the Doctor, there is "mad, insane spontaneity, the otherness, the alienness and playing someone who's the cleverest person in the room, who could also be the most stupid person and the silliest and the most naïve."
His co-star Jenna Coleman joined the show in 2012, knowing her time with Smith would be brief. "He feels like my brother in so many ways," she says. "We've spent the last year and a half in each other's pockets traveling together."
Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat says filming Smith's final scene for the Christmas special was emotional. "It's not like losing a friend, but it is like not sharing a flat anymore."
His mind was racing during that last hurrah, Smith concedes. "Part of you feels like you're never going to leave, and it's a really hard job to leave behind because it's so great."
But Smith has moved on to his next adventures. He stars in Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, How to Catch a Monster, in theaters next year. He plays the lead role of serial-killing businessman Patrick Bateman in the musical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, which begins its run in North London next month. And he has fallen in love with New York City, so he might move to America for a while.
With his place cemented in Doctor Who lore, Smith is just glad modern sci-fi kids dig him.
"It's the kind of part that attracts a lot of people's opinions," he says with a laugh. "It's like playing James Bond — people have their favorite James Bond, and people have their favorite Doctor. Some people go for yours, and some people don't.
"All you can do with anything is try your best, and that's what I've done. People can't ask for a lot more."


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Tony Giorgio: actor, magician and gambling expert; he has appeared in more than 100 feature films and television shows. He was also the technical advisor on magic and gambling for Mission Impossible. View his filmography (not complete).
One of his notable performances was as Bruno Tattaglia, in The Godfather.
Tony Giorgio is one of the world's foremost card manipulators. He has written on the subject in the magician's magazine, "Genii". Since 1991 Tony also lectures and writes about con games and gambler's subterfuges.
He has produced and offers for sale several DVDs including a visual treatise on the art of handmucking (holding out) The 2 hour expose which has received international acclaim, is entitled "The Ultimate Work." The work demonstrates in detail the magicians' palm and the applicability of the gamblers' palm and methodology to the art of card magic. Additionally and most recently, Tony has published a pamphlet entitled, "Tossing Broads". Tossing Broads is a copy of Tony's lecture notes originally entitled "Reminiscences and Magic". Nowhere in the literature of magic is "Three Card Monte"--known as "Tossing Broads" in the demi-monde of the America grifter, been accurately described. Actually, there's no game called "Three Card Monte"; it's a total swindle, a con game designed to separate larcenous marks from their money.


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I am feeling so blessed by all of your warm and positive comments. This blog started as a way for me to poke fun at my "habit" and give me a creative outlet. Well imagine my surprise to read all of your comments and realize that I just may be helping someone out along the way. We have this thing we do in my house at dinnertime some nights where each person has to say something nice they did for someone else during the day. How exciting for me to say "well I inspired someone to organize today"! Thank you for that. I'm going to continue to share organizing tips and things that work for me AND at the same time you can bet I'll continue to make fun of myself as well!
Warpie is one such person I've met here in blogland that is feeling inspired and I would like to offer her and others wanting to get organized some encouragement. Start by making a list of all the areas you want to tackle but be specific. Do not say to yourself "today I'm going to organzie the kitchen". Too broad and overwhelming, even for me. It is better to do one area at a time. For instance, you can say "today I'm going to tackle the kitchen drawers" or "today I'm going to tackle the kitchen pantry". Don't let yourselves get overwhelmed. If you do find yourself getting overwhelmed, pull back and make the project smaller yet. As you complete each project and you start to see your progress you will feel a sense of accomplishment that will keep you going. This is why I always tell people to start and finish one project before moving on to the next. It has been my experience that people are really motivated once they start seeing results.
In the next couple of days I hope (bear with me I have a teething baby in the house!) to introduce to you an acronym that I created to help you remember the steps to the organizing process.
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Twigs Dupree was just your average, everyday forgotten townie a few months ago, but things changed for the shaggy headed has-been when he accidentally injected himself with an experimental concoction that gave him the gift of immortality. Now along with his childhood friend Jerry, Twigs wages a war in the suburbs, playing part-time superhero with the help of a police scanner. Things take an unexpected turn however when the sexy Agent Armstrong recruits Twigs for the FBI and asks him to take down a serial killer known as The Animal, a madman who some believe to be a werewolf, but who in reality is the head of a cult that will make David Koresh and his Branch Davidians look like the cast of Sesame Street.
Shoot him in the head and he'll keep walking. Strangle him with a wire and he'll keep talking. Send him up against a killer that views entrails as Christmas tinsel and for the first time since he got his powers, Twigs will wish he were dead.
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JULIANNE Moore will play monstrous mother Margaret in the remake of classic
horror Carrie.
The 51-year-old beauty has signed up to play the abusive Christian tryant who
terrorises her teenage daughter in the Stephen King tale.
Kick-Ass star Chloe Moretz will play the girl, who develops psychic powers
after being bullied at home and at school.
The role was played by Sissy Spacek in the 1976 original, with Piper Laurie as
her fanatical mother.
Chloe, who beat off competition from Dakota Fanning and Saoirse Ronan for the
iconic role, recently revealed the new movie would be "darker and more
She said: "It's darker and much more psychological. More 'Black Swan'.
"You're really looking into her mind and it really looks into the relationship
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500 Greatest Songs of All Time
Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
34. The Righteous Brothers, 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin''
Writers: Phil Spector, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
Producer: Spector
Released: Dec. '64, Philles
16 weeks; No. 1
Spector was conducting the musicians for a Ronettes show in San Francisco when he decided to sign the Righteous Brothers, who were on the bill. He then asked Mann and Weil to come up with a hit for them. Bill Medley's intro sounds impossibly deep. "When Phil played it for me," Mann recalled, "I said, 'Phil, you have it on the wrong speed!'" Bobby Hatfield was puzzled by his partner's opening solo: "What do I do while he's singing the entire first verse?" he asked Spector, who answered, "You can go directly to the bank."
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CMarks - 1.99 USD
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Package name: com.h.chromemarks , Last Update: 2012-09-14 12:11:13
1374 ratings (4.608 average)
10,000-50,000 downloads
What's new in this version (2012.09.09):
MAINT Integrated Dolphin bookmarks can now be sorted the same as in CMarks/Chrome.
MAINT Improved the Dolphin integration performance.
BUGFIX The usual sprinkling of bugfixes.
REMINDER App is also available with PayPal in all countries at www.androidpit.com
Access the bookmarks from your Google Chrome™ browser.
✔ Bookmarks and Folders are synced to this app on your phone and then kept in sync with your Google Chrome™ browser(s). Choose to automatically sync or manually sync.
✔ Create, edit, delete and launch bookmarks/folders.
✔ Changes made on your phone are instantly visible in all your desktop Google Chrome™ Browser(s).
✔ Changes made in Google Chrome™ are visible in this app seconds later, once you perform a sync.
✔ Access your Google Chrome™ bookmarks quickly via this app or long press the search button (if your device has one).
✔ Decrypts all Google Chrome™ encrypted bookmarks. (Uses your Google Chrome™ password or passphrase, Google Chrome™ clearly explains that this is the only way to decrypt them).
✔ Create desktop shortcuts to your bookmarks or folders.
✔ Replace or update any missing Google Chrome™ bookmark icons and see the new icon seconds later in your desktop browser.
✔ Sync your Stock Android browser bookmarks (2.x users only, * see below) to a folder visible and fully update-able in your desktop Google Chrome™ browser. Automatically two-way sync these bookmarks!
✔ One-way integration with Stock Android Browser Bookmark Manager (* see below). You can use any Market Bookmarks widget to view your Google Chrome™ bookmarks.
✔ One-way integration of you Google Chrome™ bookmarks and folders with Dolphin Browser and Dolphin Browser Beta.
✔ Search your Google Chrome™ bookmarks and folders from the app or via the Google Search Widget.
✔ All your bookmarks and folders are stored on your phone and accessible off-line. Launch any bookmark with any browser installed on your device.
✔ Communicates with Google the exact same way as Google Chrome™ - *no* additional software such as Chrome extensions or any third parties such as Google Apps and no access to Google Docs required.
✔ Authenticates using your phone's credentials so is guaranteed secure by Google - can *only* access your Google Chrome™ bookmarks.
Google Chrome™ is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.
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Includes French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Japanese, Turkish, Russian, Finnish translations.
REMINDER: If you have a problem or issues, PLEASE mail me! A one star comment on the Market isn't enough to motivate me or provide the details required to fix it. If no-one ever bothers to mail me with bug reports, how do I find out about the bugs..?
Please ensure you have enabled sync in Google Chrome™ - it's not turned on by default!
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If you use bookmarks on Chrome this is a perfect app. I've waiting for this, works a treat!
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Excellent utility! To be honest, I am glad that I have my desktop bookmarks separate from the browser cos I have different use cases for each.
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I would give it a 10, but the ratings top at 5. Perfect on DroidX.
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Only app I've purchased. Would like to edit multiple bookmarks (change folders, delete, retrieve icons) at the same time. Great job a must have!
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Call of Duty Black Ops Title Update 1.11
July 26, 2011 in Black Ops, NEWS, PC Call of Duty, PS3, Xbox
Just went live today for PS3 and has been out for others already. Listed below is what it entails for the major platforms, per Call of Duty Forums:
**NOTE** PC has a 1.12 Update also listed at bottom.
7/26/11 (Patch 1.11)
• Security updates.
• Support for Annihilation Map Pack (releasing July 28)
• Search and Destroy audio tweaks for planting and defusing.
(Title Update 11)
• Security Updates.
• Search and Destroy audio tweaks for planting and defusing.
(PC Patch 1.11)
• Corrected several issues related to Mod Tools file downloading
• Ninja Pro Perk no longer makes sounds when mantling or diving to prone
• Theater screenshots, films, clips and custom games now display player ratings
• Addressed pathing issues in Call of the Dead
PC Patch 1.12 (Goes live at 5p PST, Servers start rebooting at 4:00).
• Improved screenshot stability
• CTF: You can only score a capture when your flag is at your base, regardless of Touch Return setting.
• Player will no longer appear to be spinning when firing and guiding a Valkyrie rocket
• Addressed issues with watching films through combat record
• Addressed issue with hardcore game settings being erroneously reset in Combat Training menu
• Addressed various exploits
• Modders: increased some asset pool sizes
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A dozen survivors and family members from last year's Tucson shooting that killed six people and injured 13 met this week with Attorney General Eric Holder to urge stricter federal regulations on gun sales.Read More »
Judge sees 'different person' in Arizona gunman
Jared Loughner sat looking relaxed and attentive in a packed courtroom as he pleaded guilty to a deadly shooting rampage in an agreement with prosecutors that will send him to prison for life. He even cracked a smile when a court-appointed psychologist talked about the special bond that he formed with a prison guard.Read More »
Loughner pleads guilty in Tucson shooting trial
Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty Tuesday to going on a shooting rampage at a political gathering, killing six people and wounding 13 others, including his intended target, then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.Read More »
Mark Kelly: Gabby satisfied with Loughner plea
For the legal team defending the suspect in a deadly Tucson mass shooting, reaching a plea deal was just one step. Convincing a judge that Jared Lee Loughner is competent enough to enter a plea depends on how he behaves in court Tuesday.Read More »
Portrait emerges of Loughner's daily prison life
Jared Lee Loughner passes his days alone in a cell at a Missouri prison facility in therapy sessions with psychologists, watching TV, looking at photos of his pets and snacking on junk food.Read More »


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Scott & Education
One rather interesting irony is that folks who claim to be acting in accord with the beliefs of the founders seem to be the same people who are intent on damaging America's education system. The founders, especially Jefferson, were rather big on education. However, an appeal to the founders would be a rather weak argument, so I will merely point to three important facts. First, an educated population is essential to a properly functioning democracy. Second, an educated population is essential to having a thriving economy. Third, America's higher education system is a source of international prestige as well as advances in all fields. As such, education should be treated as a vital national resource, rather than as a target for bashing and a convenient place for budget cuts.
One of the latest attacks on education comes from the Governor of Florida, Rick Scott. He is currently the least popular governor in America (although Ohio's governor did beat him out for a brief span). His latest plan and justification is as follows:
Scott said Monday that he hopes to shift more funding to science, technology, engineering and math departments, the so-called "STEM" disciplines. The big losers: Programs like psychology and anthropology and potentially schools like New College in Sarasota that emphasize a liberal arts curriculum.
"If I'm going to take money from a citizen to put into education then I'm going to take that money to create jobs," Scott said. "So I want that money to go to degrees where people can get jobs in this state. Is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists? I don't think so."
While Scott is clearly appealing to popular stereotypes, there are some rather important issues that need to be addressed.
The first is his view that shifting more funding to these areas will create jobs. On the face of it, this would not seem to be the case. To use an analogy, encouraging more people to go to a buffet does not mean that more food will be created. Graduates will be in need of jobs and creating more graduates in a certain area would not thus automatically create more jobs-it would just mean more people competing for the same number of jobs.
The second is his view that the money should go to certain degrees that he thinks have a better chance of securing jobs. However, as critics have already pointed out, Scott's decision making seems to be fueled (as it so often seems to be) on stereotypes and ignorance. Scott used anthropology as a specific example of an apparently useless degree, but the reality is that 64% of people with graduate degrees in the field find a job within 12 months and Florida has one of the most prestigious departments in the country (at USF) that actually serves to create jobs in Tampa. Scott also seems to be ignorant of the fact that the job prospects of all college graduates are better than those of non college graduates (hence any degree is a decent investment) and the disparity between majors does not seem large enough to warrant his view about the matter. True, some majors have somewhat better employment rates than others, but all majors have rather good employment rates-hence there seems to be no compelling reason to shift funding in this manner.
The third is that his view seems to be that jobs and money should be of utmost concern. As a philosopher, I am all too familiar with the time honored practice of bashing the "non-practical" degrees. This practice is based on a rather limited view of what is valuable-usually casting working a "practical" job as the defining and proper function of a person and money as the highest good. Such a view fails to see the value in things other than "practical" jobs and money. In this matter, I will follow Aristotle: the highest excellence of a person is virtue and money is, at best, a mere means to the proper end of life, which is happiness. This is not to detract from "practical" jobs nor to dismiss money as being unworthy of consideration. It is, however, to put matters in some perspective. After all, we are presumably not just here to work for the corporations and pile up money. Surely we are capable of (and perhaps meant for) so much more.
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Undergraduate enrollment in STEM disciplines is surging–up by something like 40%. These areas need more resources. The only question is where the money comes from.
" . . .we are presumably not just here to work for the corporations and pile up money."
Yes. But as Tonto might have said in a different context: "What you mean 'we', Kimosabe?" It's all too apparent that quite a few of 'us' are here for that sole purpose.
Mike, I'll repeat this and repeat this until the cows come home, if necessary. You don't understand the fundamentals of economics. I've tried to engage you in philosophical discussions on the subject, but you do not seem interested in pursuing them. Yet you continue to write article after article on the subject, almost every time using a conservative and/or libertarian as your straw-man foil. It's like you're avoiding the natural curiosity a philosopher should have. Either that or you've got diarrhea of the mind. The latter would be more flattering in my nsho.
Probably depends on where you are. Not so much in England. How does "mass communication and documentation" compare with "anthropology" in your mind?
"Just 84.7% of recent graduates from full time computer science degrees were in employment in 2009/10, comapred to, say, 86% of graduates from the much-maligned "mass communication and documentation" field – that's "media studies" to the Daily Mail et al.
"In contrast 89.6% of mathematical science, the closest analogue to computer science, graduates (full timers) were in employment."
Not a dead heat, but pretty close.
But, then, that's the English for you. Bad food. Bad teeth. Bad judgment.
But you gotta give them this. They apparently dislike Muslims as much or more than some of us do.
Related material to follow immediately:
I've had problems on here with posting more than two URLs at the same time, so here's the second to go with the Telegraph URL:
Well, if I had been precise I would have written 'soon' instead of 'immediately'.


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They made Gnar go down the ladder first, even though he swore up and down he wasn't going Regimental. He was also the only one without visible luggage. That horrible carpetbag had gone into the fold of his greatkilt and disappeared. Flavus had been reassured it was a pocket dimension, but that didn't stop his brain from presenting him with alternative scenarios.
Con went next, laden with a pack and not feeling it at all. He took a minute or so to just hang there, once he got out, his eyes closed. It was artificial sunlight, but it was bright and warm as anything.
Flavus was the last out, with Alice perched around his shoulders, her wings flapped out for balance. He made the mistake of looking down, and let out a squeak. Realistically, he knew a fall like that wouldn't kill him, but he'd always been uneasy with heights, and not even going roof running with Piress had broken him of it. The creatures of the night, the Basement Men asserted, fell into two categories- the basement-dwellers and the rafter-dwellers. Flavus was very comfortable underground.
"It's beautiful," said Gnar, shading his eye with his hand, looking out over the water. It was a lovely dove gray, a little darker than the sky, which had that diffused quality of light that you get on foggy days sometimes. The rocks below were blue and sharp, possibly slate.
Con looked up at Flavus. "What can you see?" he asked. Flavus frowned, and squinted, peering up the coastline, into the horizon.
There, up the cliffs, to what would be north, if the cardinal directions were still the same- a church spire and the blue of slate roofs. And beyond that, the smooth white column of a tower- a wizard's tower, Flavus thought, although he could not pin down what made him quite so sure of that.
"Civilization that way," Flavus called down, pointing. "We should make it in a couple hours."
"What kind of civilization?" asked Gnar, leaning out from the ladder, as though getting a few inches closer would suddenly bring the town into focus.
"Rural British," said Flavus. "Slate roofs. There's a tower, too. Like in a fairy tale."
Gnar actually squealed, and nearly took his hands off the rope to clap, but remembered himself in the nick of time.
"It must have been Sherringford who put this here," he said, scrambling his way down the ladder twice as fast as before. "He remembered my birthday after all!"
"… Wasn't he born in March?" Flavus whispered to Con.
Alice jumped off Flavus' shoulders when they were still more than ten feet off the ground, spreading her wings to glide down gently. When she touched down at last, she flopped over onto her side in the sand, limp all over. Flavus sympathized.
Gnar scrambled down and had his shoes and socks off in record time. He waded out up to his knees, shouting at the temperature.
"It's WARM!" he said, wheeling around and kicking up a wave. "This is never the North Sea!"
"Are you sure you haven't just gone numb?" asked Flavus, resting his hands on his knees at the bottom of the ladder. He was a bit shaky, to his embarrassment, and shed his pack onto the sand.
"No, here," said Gnar, bending down to cup water in his hands. He splashed up the beach again, and dumped the handful of water onto Flavus' head before he had time to run. Flavus drew breath to yelp, expecting the stinging cold of the ocean, but he gasped instead. It was warm, like bathwater. Flavus wiped his streaming hair out of his eyes, and sputtered at Gnar.
"Why would you do that?" he asked. Gnar shrugged.
"It'll dry fast enough. See, it's extra salty, though," he said, licking his upper lip. Flavus followed suit, and grimaced.
"…Makes sense, I guess," he said. "Put your shoes back on. The town I saw is up the beach quite a ways."
Gnar flapped a hand, and picked up his boots, trotting up the beach in Con's footsteps. Con was quite a ways ahead of them. The water didn't tempt him much. Flavus' face fell, a little, and he trudged after the other two, scooping up Alice as he passed her. She draped over his neck like a fur stole, limp and traumatized.
Flavus trotted to catch up with Con, and fell into step beside him. Gnar hung back though, running zigzag between the rocks at the summit of the beach, and down into the water. He stooped for rocks and bits of weed, muttering to himself all the while.
Flavus looked over. Con's eyes were closed, his face turned up to the light, his direction not wavering despite it.
"… Are you all right?" Flavus asked.
"It doesn't smell right," said Con. Flavus closed his eyes too, and sniffed, deeply. Ocean spray, guano, miscellaneous fish… overlaid it the smell of condensation far overhead, and at the very edge of his senses, the green must of early crops and new grass.
"Which part?" asked Flavus, uneasily. "I don't smell anything wrong."
"The sunlight," said Con. "The smell it makes on your skin."
Flavus' face fell.
"…You still remember it?" he asked, quietly. Con opened his mouth to reply, but a scream from behind made them both turn and sprint back to Gnar.
He was rolling on the ground, flailing his arm wildly.
"THE WHELKS HAVE TEETH!" he shouted at them, bashing his arm against the ground. Something in a pink, whorled shell was latched onto him, blood already sheeting down his arm.
Con was there in an eyeblink, wrenching the thing off as Gnar's scream increased in pitch, and chucking it as hard as he could at the rocks. It shattered in a burst of pink shell, slime, and Gnar's own blood.
Flavus fell down next to Gnar, hauling him upright, and slapping him across the cheek.
"Five minutes!" he shouted. "Five minutes out and you are bleeding!"
"I'm fine!" shouted Gnar back, wrenching himself away, clutching his arm. "I was exploring, do you expect me not to poke about?"
"I expect you not to stick your arm down a shark's throat to see what would happen!" snapped Flavus.
"Are you stupid?" said Gnar. "That was a whelk. In no way a shark."
Flavus clutched his forehead, as Alice jumped off his shoulders, and sauntered over to pick at the lumps of snail-flesh now stuck to the rocks. Con picked her up before she could start eating.
"Noted," said Con. "Sun won't kill us, but the mollusks might."
"Con," said Flavus, waving at Gnar, "TALK to him!"
"Getting upset won't make a difference," said Con.
"Besides," said Gnar, climbing to his feet, tucking his arm into the fold of his kilt, like a loose sling. "I'm fine." The blood that soaked his shirtsleeve and had spattered his vest hadn't landed on his kilt, apparently. Or- Flavus squinted. No, that wasn't possible, from the pattern of the blood, but the kilt was unmarked. Flavus looked away quickly.
"Just- don't pick up any more wildlife," said Flavus, shortly, and turned away. He blinked, and looked up. "… Did it just get a lot darker?"
They all looked around. Where it had been at least late afternoon light only a minute ago, now it was twilit and gloomy.
"sh*t," said Con, turning quickly, discarding his pack. Flavus drew breath to ask what was wrong, but the shadows around them condensed, and out of them rose the forms of a dozen suits of armor.
They were old, and battle-scarred, and held the shape of a man while being demonstrably empty. Flavus couldn't place the era they heralded from, but he guessed late Medieval. They carried long pikes, and one by one, leveled them at the three travelers, hemming them in.
Con snarled, and slapped away the pike pointed at his face. The suit made no move to retaliate, but returned the pike into position.
Gnar stood with his hand on his chin, and a broad, bright grin.
"… Well," he said. "Aren't you lot just lovely. Magic armor! I haven't seen magic armor like that in an age, you know." He said this as an aside to Flavus, who couldn't quite stop being afraid long enough to be flip back.
Gnar pricked a finger on the tip of one of the pikes, and laughed. "So, who's your master, then? Have we trespassed upon your wizard's lands?"
The armor with the tallest helmet shifted, and a hollow, deep voice issued out of it. "Citizens outside after curfew must be retrieved and secured until curfew is lifted."
Gnar clapped his hands, and Con relaxed his posture, although there was still a low growl in his throat.
"Excellent!" said Gnar, grinning with all of his teeth. "Take us away, flopsy. Take us right to where you live."
Flavus stumbled forward, as the constructs formed up around them and started to march. They were the kind of constructs without much insight into interpersonal interaction, then, or else they would have been able to peg that as the threat that it was.
I like Tweed.


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Everyone who pursues game with bow and arrow already knows that to be successful you most practice year round. It's hard to keep focus as shooting the same target time after time can become very boring and soon interest is lost. You're not ready when hunting season does roll around; it's a mad rush to get your gear ready and tuned or worse you go into the woods unprepared which always invites disaster. Here are some new ideas that will recharge your bow shooting batteries. Bow fishing will not only improve your shooting skills and stalking abilities but also add a new aspect to your repertoire. Basic bow fishing kits come with reel, line, and arrow that attach to nearly any bow and cost under $30. All local waterways offer great bow fishing for carp, gar, and suckers. Another way to put some spice in your bow shooting life is shooting at moving targets. Not only is it fun and leads to countless games to play with your shooting partner, it will help your confidence when shooting at non stationary game. Hang one end of a rope in a tree and attach the other to the ground at the length of your rope away from the tree. Using a pulley hang your target from the rope. A close pin with a pull rope works great to hold the target until you are ready to shoot. A back stop is recommended to prevent arrow loss. An old pillow or couch pad can be used as your "running" target. The lighter the target the faster it moves adding more difficulty.
I've heard the complaint of how Ohio doesn't allow the rifle shooter any game to pursuit. This is not true at all. Ohio's laws allow you to take certain game year round with whatever caliber weapon you feel will work best. Both coyotes and wild boar have no limit or closed season here in Ohio. A rifle caliber with heavy load would get the job done for either of these problem critters. If you want to shoot a smaller, cheaper load go after groundhogs. There is no limit and the season is only closed during deer gun season. Before stepping outside to hunt any of these animals consult your Ohio Hunter's Handbook to insure you are in appliance with all Ohio rules and regulations. State ground holds all three of these varmints, yet you may find better numbers on privately owned property. All of them pose problems to farmers and land owners so getting permission should be fairly easy.
This time of year causes several troubled issues for those of us who own dogs. Fleas and ticks can make any dog, hunting or pet, extremely ill if not treated. Fleas have been quite a problem in our area this year. Check your pets and follow the proper steps to eradicate the fleas. Pests are not the only trouble that comes with this time of yea; fat out of shape dogs also are a problem. Hunting dogs are fine tuned athletes. Don't expect your companion to perform at its best if they aren't in proper shape. Our American Olympians don't begin training a week before the games or worse don't train at all; like some owners do to their dogs. East Fork and Indian Creek Wildlife Areas both have designated year-round dog training areas where you can exercise your dogs. There is usually always water close by so you hounds can keep cool, but bring water along to insure your dog won't over heat. Wing shooting goes hand in hand with working dogs to bag game.
Wing shooting has always been a very popular method of hunting. It may be the riches in tradition of all hunting methods dating back to its beginning Europe's royal families. Like most everything else in hunting you can't just start doing it without practice before hand and expect to do well. Trap shooting is probably the best way to tune up your shooting. A box of 90 skeet cost around $10 and shells run under $5, making shooting clay birds relatively cheap. Indian Creek W.A. has a shotgun trap range so you can shoot while you're there with your dogs. If you are planning on taking a first timer out in the woods this coming season this may be the best way to get them familiar with the responsibility of handling a firearm and also improve their capability with one. Beginners aren't the only people who benefit from shooting; even the most seasoned of hunters need to knock the summer rust off before heading into the woods. Crows offer another avenue of shooting in the summer. Calling for crows may be an adequate substitute for you long beard chasers, too.
I've hit on almost every type of hunting except for the one fanatics care the most about; Deer Hunting. The big bucks have dropped their antlers long ago and now are working on growing them back again. Most antler shed seekers have already been in the woods this spring when the bucks first lost their trophies. Now is the time to begin scouting, selection of possible hunting sites, planting and maintaining food plots, and talking to land owners about hunting possibilities. Head to your favorite hunting ground this evening armed only with your camera and binoculars. Take picture so you track the progress of those monster bucks and also prove they are there to your buddies. Leaves on the trees make clearing shooting lanes much easier because the problem limbs are not as hard to identify. Survey flags take away the guessing of distances when they are used to pre-mark the ranges in your shooting paths. If you are a bow hunter take a target out to your stand so you can practice shooting from your stand.
Hopefully this article has given you need ideas or at least lit your fire for hunting season. Even if none of the mentioned passions are shared by you there are still things to keep you occupied in these long humid days. Go through all your gear. Sort out everything that you no longer need and pass it along to someone who can use it. Find the things you need this year and shop around for the best buy. Once you have all your gear together and organize you'll be ready to take to the field at a moment's notice.


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The art of choosing comfortable and aesthetic couches.
Furniture plays an important role in the décor of a home. They should not only be aesthetic, but also comfortable to use and relax. No point in having furniture that looks lovely and goes beautifully with the décor but is not comfortable to use, especially couches. Home is not office or any other work building where uncomfortable couches are kept so that many don't sit there for a long time! Home should be a place where one can sit back and relax and just be themselves.
When choosing couches, choose them primarily for the comforts and then for their aesthetic appeal and not the other way round. While choosing, the mistake that people do is worry about what others will think about their choice rather than seeing if it will suit their purposes, be it furniture or the interior designs. Home should portray one's personal identity and not what others think of them. It gives a very sterile look to a home when the ultra modern and uncomfortable couches are used. It can be made homey at the same time the classy look can be retained. Choosing furniture can be called an art, there are many who can choose one immediately and those who take their own sweet time and go through end number of shops before choosing one.
There are a few mandatory points to keep in mind while choosing couches. The first and foremost is to check on the durability, color and texture of the couch. The couch can be of any budget, from being the most expensive and exclusive one to a nominal couch in a retail store, one should check the material used the thickness of the material and the color used for the couch. If the couch is for a home where there are kids, then it is not advisable to go for light and pastel shades. A drop of paint, a splash of food can be seen clearly on the couch. As for the material used, check on the durability. It is of no use to go for a couch that is cheap and if the material is going to weather in a couple of months. Leather is one of those materials that do not wear and tear easily. The materials get soft and supple as it ages. Nowadays, there are leather couches that are available at all budgets. Choosing a color is also really important, going for a lighter shade and then covering the couch always just because it gets dirty when its left open does not serve its purpose. Go for shades that best go with the décor and the home environment.
The next important thing to check is if the material is water resistant. Be it a home with kids or without kids, there are always the possibility of water getting spilt on the couch. Though the chances of water getting spilt is a remote chance in many houses, it is better to be safe than sorry. A couch cannot be changed just because it gets spoilt over a water spill. The last and the most important thing to check is if the couch is spacious enough and comfortable enough to sit and accommodate whoever sits on it. If the couch is uncomfortable, apart from it bringing about quite a few body aches, the usage of the couch is also reduced and the whole purpose of having a couch at home is lost.
Thus couches are not only decorative for home, but are also things that offer comfort for those who sit on it. There are also quite a lot of tips available on internet like the Xfinity Internet which provides valuable information on buying a good at the same time comfortable couch.
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Riparian Web Sites
See also
Riparian Organizations Contact Information
Riparian, Wetland and Watershed Trainings and Workshop Opportunities
Around the State
CDOW Riparian Mapping Program <http://ndis1.nrel.colostate.edu/riparian/riparian.htm>
CDOW/CSU Natural Diversity Database <http://ndis.nrel.colostate.edu/>
Colorado Water Conservation Board <http://cwcb.state.co.us/>
State Wetlands Programs- Colorado <http://www.aswm.org/swp/colorado9.htm>
Classification of Riparian Wetland Plant Associations of Colorado http://www.cnhp.colostate.edu/documents/1999/UserGuide.PDF
Comprehensive field-based classification of riparian and wetland plants for the state of Colorado
Best Management Practices for Wetlands within Colorado State Parks <http://parks.state.co.us/NaturalResources/CNAP/Publications/>
From the Colorado Department of Natural Resources' Natural Areas Program (CNAP).
Common Wetlands Plants of Colorado <http://waterknowledge.colostate.edu/plants.htm>
From Colorado State University.
Around the Region
Riparian and Wetlands Research Program <http://www.cfc.umt.edu/research/mfces/programs/rwrp/>
From the School of Forestry, at the University of Montana.
The Platte Watershed Program <http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/pwp/>
A database of publications and reports.
Watershed Management Council <http://www.watershed.org/wmc/index.php>
Operated in cooperation with the Humboldt State University Department of Geology.
Riparian Resources Homepage <http://web.unbc.ca/~ackerman/riparian-res.htm>
From UNBC, British Columbia, Canada – Links to other riparian resourses.
Wetlands <http://www.sws.org/wetlands/>
The Journal of the Society of Wetland Scientists.
Federal Agencies
USGS Wetland Restoration Bibliography <http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/wetresto/index.htm>
USGS Riparian Communities and Related Topics Bibliography http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/riparian/index.htm
Constructed Wetlands Bibliography <http://www.nalusda.gov/wqic/Constructed_Wetlands_all/>
Compiled by United States Department of Agriculture Staff.
Wetlands <http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/>
From the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water.
National Wetlands Inventory <http://www.nwi.fws.gov/>
From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
National Wetlands Research Center <http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/>
From the U.S. Geological Survey.
Fundamentals of the Rosgen Stream Classification System <http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/stream_class/>
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…Meeting the Challenge with Strategic Learning
Speaker: Monica Walters (Mastercard)
Topic: Educate the entire workforce on a new company landscape due to converting Mastercard from a private to publicly held company.
Key Point: Mastercard was going public and the entire company culture and landscape was about to change. Every employee (5,000 of them) needed to be educated on what the new company looked like, what was the new financial model, and how they each contributed to the bottom line. They had several large sessions with table coaches that did group discussions and activities based around a "Map" motif. They made maps that illustrated complext concepts like financial revenue streams and dicussed where everything came and went. Then, when quarterly financial results started to be released, groups would post the numbers on these same maps and have discussions on the performance. This helped tie the training to real world work efforts and drive home the new culture.
Speaker Comments: Very good. She worked on the project. She had a lot of enthusiasm for the topic.


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Seeking to attract a younger demographic to its programming, World Wrestling Entertainment recently announced that its upcoming Summerslam pay-per-view will feature a baby-versus-baby match.
WWE has reportedly signed a pair of babies — seven-month-old Bobby "Burp Me" Bishop and eight-month-old "Little Ninja" Tetsuya Noro — who will square off in a Soother-on-a-Pole Match.
The company has been skewing to a younger audience for the past several years, eliminating risque storylines and excessive violence in favor of a more family-friendly product.
WWE is now seeking to lure the coveted 0-3 age demographic, in hopes of selling a new line of WWE merchandise including diapers, bottles, mobiles and spit-up rags.
Members of the "newborn demographic" are known to be a difficult and fickle audience, sometimes entertained by bright colors and cute animals, but prone to frequent crying and general fussiness.


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Testimony is set to end Thursday at a trial aimed at settling allegations over whether Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office racially profiles Latinos in its immigration patrols.
Witnesses at the trial have included Arpaio, Latino motorists who said they were targeted in traffic stops because of their race and deputies who denied using race as a factor in pulling over drivers.
Lawyers will make their closing arguments by filing briefs.
A group of Latinos who brought the civil case against the sheriff's office says Arpaio's deputies pulled over some vehicles only to make immigration status checks.
Arpaio has denies the racial profiling allegations and says deputies only stop people when they think a crime has been committed.
It's unknown when U.S. District Judge Murray Snow will issue his ruling.


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Resources fuelling Top End confidence
Investors see a $30bn reason to be confident in the Northern Territory as the state's massive Ichthys LNG project gets the green light.
T he Top End is the tops when it comes to real estate buyer confidence as the Northern Territory's resource riches appear to be reeling property investors back into the market. The headlines have gone to the $30bn set to flow as a result of Japanese company Inpex green-lighting the Ichthys LNG development, and other good news is on the horizon.
"You've got to remember that the NT has a relatively small population and that any projects of national significance have a larger impact on the territory than they do in Queensland or Western Australia," says Brendan Dunn, NT Director for Property Council Australia. "Inpex is certainly the one that has been identified, and that is probably the largest single catalyst for the boost in confidence."
Over the last quarter of 2011 a Property Council-ANZ survey found confidence in the territory up more than 15%, putting NT's numbers far above any of its larger fellow states even before the deal had the official green light. Dunn says investor appeal will continue to grow given the enormous economic impact of the Ichthys development, which is expected to add as much as 18% to the economy during its 40–year run.
NT buyer's agent Tod Peterson says he sees the investment in the territory already paying off.
"There's been a lot of positive movement in the bottom end of the market from August up until now, especially around the $500,000 mark.
"But in the middle of last year, there was no market. It just wasn't there. There were just no buyers basically. Everybody was sitting on the fence waiting to see what was going to happen."
But Property Council's Brendan Dunn says it is important to note that the Inpex development is just one of the good things that are happening in the territory. "Aside from that, there is quite a number of other resource projects that are in the developmental stage or going through the pre-development stages that will have significant impact on the territory economy.
"The economy's expected to grow at about 8% per annum for the next decade."
In addition to the monstrous LNG plant development in Darwin, the Top End is seeing dozens of new mining projects moving forwards, huge infrastructure investments and the expansion of Australian and US military presence.
Dunn sees significant long-term potential growth for NT's economy and the residential market as supply struggles to keep up with demand spurred by the massive resource and other investments.
"Some of the contractors will be around for three years but some will be around for up to 30 years. So that is the long-term effect, and what happens when you have oil and gas boys co-locating and the synergies that that produces. It makes it more economical for others to enter the market in that area down the line."
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