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Talented junior gets an Open invitation
FOR all that Bernard Tomic and those who speak for the world's best 15-year-old tennis player have insisted that for the moment the Gold Coast sensation is interested only in his junior career, yesterday provided some evidence to the contrary.
Tomic has been granted a wildcard into qualifying for next week's Australian Open, where he will attempt to become the youngest male in the tournament's history to play his way into the main draw through the qualifying rounds. Tomic would better the 1997 record of Lleyton Hewitt, who achieved the feat aged 15 years and 11 months.
Hewitt lost to Sergi Bruguera, and 11 months later sensationally won his first tournament title in Adelaide as a 16-year-old. Tomic, who does not turn 16 until October 21, was recently a member of Australia's successful junior Davis Cup team, and at No. 12 is the highest-ranked Australian and the youngest by at least two years in the ITF's junior top 20.
In qualifying, he will be playing against experienced men, as well as such recent graduates from the junior ranks as compatriots Brydan Klein and Greg Jones, but at a level below the big-time.
Tomic said last week that he had grown by five kilograms and seven centimetres in a year that also saw his Tennis Australia funding temporarily withdrawn after an unacceptable effort in a French Open junior match. He has famously boasted of winning a grand slam by the age of 18, and reaching No. 1 soon after.
Tomic's agent, Lawrence Frankopan of IMG, told The Age four weeks ago when contacted about main draw wildcard speculation that Tomic "is still concentrating and firmly committed on his development which he and his team feel is in the junior Australian Open under 18s at this point in time." That, clearly, was then.
"Bernard has earned it," said Australian Open tournament director and player development boss Craig Tiley. "This will be good for his development. Bernard will get the opportunity to test his skills against some of the world's best."
Only one discretionary main draw wildcard now remains to be allocated, after two of the last three places went to former Slovakian Jarmila Gajdosova, 20, and New South Wales teenager Nick Lindahl, a former Australian Open junior finalist who lifted his ranking to a career-high 247 last year.
One men's invitation remains to complete a local list that includes play-off winner Joe Sirianni, Alun Jones and Robert Smeets, while the French and US recipients courtesy of a reciprocal agreement between the grand slams will be announced today.
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Fantasy Football Week Five Rankings: QuarterbacksOctober 7, 2009
We're now entering the second week with teams on byes, and there are big names at the quarterback position that won't be playing in week five.
Jay Cutler of the Chicago Bears, Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers, Philip Rivers of the San Diego Chargers, and Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints are all on byes this week.
There are some players that have favorable matchups this week, but with four of the top quarterbacks out, the projected point totals this week for the position aren't as high as they have been in weeks past.
To find out where the rest rate and to identify potential spot starters in case you own one of the four players mentioned above, then continue reading the Bruno Boys Fantasy Football Week Five Quarterback Rankings.
1. Peyton Manning (Indianapolis Colts) @ Tennessee
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning has had an illustrious career thus far that has been marked by many record-setting performances across the years. But what Manning has done in the first quarter of the season has been quite amazing. Manning has gone over 300 yards in every game and has thrown nine touchdowns with just one interception.
This week he faces a Tennessee Titans defense that hasn't stopped anything and ranks tied for last against the pass. Expect Manning to continue his dominant ways.
Point Projection: 24 points
2. Donovan McNabb (Philadelphia Eagles) vs. Tampa Bay
Donovan McNabb could've played a couple weeks ago had it been an important game, but with it being early in the season, the Philadelphia Eagles knew they had a bye week on the horizon and they decided to rest him. The move paid off as backup Kevin Kolb led the team to a 1-1 record in McNabb's absence and gave them hope for the future.
McNabb returns to play against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who have a defense that is 31st in total yards allowed and 25th in points allowed. It will be a welcome return for McNabb and his fantasy football owners that have been waiting patiently to plug him into their lineup.
Point Projection: 20 points
3. Matt Schaub (Houston Texans) @ Arizona
We expected more out of Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub last week, though his stat line wasn't bad. This week he finds himself in another favorable matchup against the Arizona Cardinals, and the results this time will be much more favorable.
The Cardinals have given up seven passing touchdowns and only had two interceptions before their Week Four bye. With wide receiver Kevin Walter giving Schaub another option in the passing game, it will be tough for a marginal Cardinals secondary to contain a surging Texans offense.
Point Projection: 19 points
4. Ben Roethlisberger (Pittsburgh Steelers) @ Detroit
Are the Pittsburgh Steelers a running team or a passing team? Even though it was running back Rashard Mendenhall that helped lead the Steelers to a win over the San Diego Chargers last week, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger still made a mark through the passing game with 333 yards and two touchdowns.
This week the Steelers will travel to Detroit to take on the Lions, who have allowed a league-high 12 passing touchdowns. Expect Big Ben to put together another game of 300 passing yards and two touchdowns.
Point Projection: 18 points
5. Tony Romo (Dallas Cowboys) @ Kansas City
The Dallas Cowboys offense has been hit and miss this season, as they've played well against the bad teams and poorly against the good ones. It's been a similar case for quarterback Tony Romo as well.
Luckily for Romo and the Cowboys, they travel to Kansas City this week to take on a Chiefs defense that is ranked 28th in the NFL in passing yards allowed and 29th in the league in points allowed. Thus, this should be the week we project Romo to get back on track. If he doesn't, you are going to want to consider him a matchup play moving forward.
Point Projection: 17 points
6. Brett Favre (Minnesota Vikings) @ St. Louis
Coming off a huge win over the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre is off to a great start to the season. It certainly appears there's no slowing down No. 4, and that's perfectly fine with Vikings fans.
The St. Louis Rams enter this game ranked 27th in the league in points allowed, so expect Favre to throw two touchdowns in this game and reach double digits through just five games.
Point Projection: 17 points
7. Eli Manning (New York Giants) vs. Oakland **CHECK INJURY STATUS**
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning has had multiple-touchdown performances in each of the last three weeks, including throwing for three scores in a win over Kansas City last week. However, Manning will enter this game hobbled by what has been labeled as plantar fasciitis on his right foot, which caused him to leave the game last week.
Manning insisted in post-game interviews that he could've stayed in the game had it been necessary, which leads us to believe he will play this week against the Oakland Raiders. However, continue to monitor his status throughout the week because the Giants should have no problem handling the Chiefs with or without Manning's presence.
If he plays expect another 200-plus passing yards and two touchdowns out of Manning.
Point Projection: 16 points
8. Joe Flacco (Baltimore Ravens) vs. Cincinnati
It was expected that Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco would play well this season, though even we admit we're a little shocked by just how well he has performed this year.
Consider that the offensive coordinator in Baltimore, Cam Cameron, is an offensive genius who has also helped develop Philip Rivers of the San Diego Chargers, and it's not too surprising to see why the Ravens have unleashed Flacco this year.
This week Flacco will play at home against the Cincinnati Bengals, a team that is ranked 26th against the pass.
Point Projection: 15 points
9. Tom Brady (New England Patriots) @ Denver
After a subpar performance in Week Two against the New York Jets, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has rebounded well. In each of the last two weeks he's gone over 250 yards and thrown a touchdown without an interception. Wide receiver Wes Welker is back in the lineup as well, and that really helps open up the offense for the Patriots.
The Denver Broncos have been one of the best defenses in the league so far against the pass, but their run will end here as Brady will handle that aggressive defense with poise.
Point Projection: 15 points
10. Kurt Warner (Arizona Cardinals) vs. Houston
The Cardinals are hoping the bye week gave them time to shore up the issues they've been having along the offensive line. Quarterback Kurt Warner is a great player, but when he's under intense pressure from a defense, he's had the tendency to not secure the ball well.
This week he'll face a Houston defense that doesn't give up a lot of passing yards yet still ranks just 22nd in the league in points allowed. Warner may find a couple scores, but don't expect him to have a typical 300-plus-yard game like many of his fantasy football owners have been accustomed to through the years.
Point Projection: 14 points
11. Carson Palmer (Cincinnati Bengals) @ Baltimore
The play of Cincinnati quarterback Carson Palmer, especially late in games, this season has been spectacular and is a big reason why the Bengals are 3-1 right now. However that play hasn't always translated to a ton of fantasy football points.
Outside of a Week Three showdown with the Steelers, the Bengals and Palmer will face their toughest test yet this season by traveling to Baltimore, a team that has more interceptions (six) than passing touchdowns allowed (five). Should Palmer and the Bengals emerge victorious, then perhaps it's time to officially declare them back to their 2005 form.
Consider him a low-end QB1 play this week.
Point Projection: 13 points
12. Matt Ryan (Atlanta Falcons) @ San Francisco
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan was spectacular in the first two weeks of the season before he struggled against the Patriots in week three. Even against a tough San Francisco 49ers defense, you can expect Ryan and the Falcons to execute in this football game.
Even if the Falcons take care of business on the road, you still have to limit your expectations of Ryan this week, as the 49ers rank 10th in passing yards allowed and second in points allowed.
Point Projection: 13 points

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Marmion's fake fair catch beat Wheaton St. Francis' hook and ladder in a Suburban Catholic League showdown Saturday.
Francis Van Wisse returned a punt 90 yards on the last play of the third quarter after a teammate lined up next to him signaled for a fair catch. That gave Marmion (5-1, 2-0) a 20-7 lead on its way to a 26-15 victory.


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The two runner ducks we raised from ducklings this past spring have both started laying! Those first few eggs are always a little goofy looking. I went ahead and cracked them all in a cast iron pan to fry up for breakfast. You can see how the smallest egg doesn't even have a yolk! They get a little bigger with each laying.
Our adopted ducks have been laying since we brought them home, but unfortunately I don't think they had a nesting box at their previous home. They would just lay where ever outside – under shrubs, next to the kiddie pool, right in the middle of the backyard. It was like an Easter egg hunt every night…
After the first mini egg was laid, we kept the ducks in their run instead of letting them free range. We also moved one of Gladys' eggs into the nesting box in their duck house. The next time we checked for eggs, all of the eggs were in the nesting box! I think the girls we raised from ducklings must be easier to train since they are younger.
Everyone is now free-ranging most days, but all are laying only in the nesting box. So happy the nightly egg hunts are over! We're now getting anywhere from 3-6 eggs a day with our two flocks. I'll let you guess what's for dinner around here!


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TED Talk Thursday – Hugh Evans: What does it mean to be a citizen of the world?
According to TED.com: "Hugh Evans started a movement that mobilizes 'global citizens,' people who self-identify first and foremost not as members of a state, nation or tribe but as members of the human race. In this uplifting and personal talk, learn more about how this new understanding of our place in the world is galvanizing people to take action in the fights against extreme poverty, climate change, gender inequality and more. 'These are ultimately global issues,' Evans says, 'and they can only be solved by global citizens demanding global solutions from their leaders.' "
"At 14, Hugh Evans spent the night in a Manila slum. The harsh realities of his hosts' lives motivated Evans to challenge the status quo of extreme poverty. Following a trip to South Africa in 2002 as World Vision's inaugural Youth Ambassador, Evans worked on the Make Poverty History campaign and helped stage the Make Poverty History Concert, fronted by Pearl Jam and Bono."
"In 2012, under the mantle of the Global Poverty Project (launched 2008), Evans co-founded Global Citizen, and with it, the Global Citizen Festival — a free, ticketed event requiring fans to perform anti-poverty actions in exchange for entry, recruiting millions into the war against global poverty. In 2015 alone, Global Citizens took 2.3 million actions, helping to secure commitments from governments around the world that are set to affect more than 210 million lives."
Enjoy this enlightening talk.
Hugh Evans: What does it mean to be a citizen of the world?
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: "TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize"
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Ross Mirkarimi's family court hearing expedited
Published 4:00 am, Saturday, February 4, 2012
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will have to wait until Wednesday at the earliest to find out whether a judge will modify a restraining order and allow him to visit his 2-year-old son, after a request for a hurry-up ruling was denied.
It would have been highly unusual for Judge Ron Albers of the Superior Court's family court division to grant Mirkarimi special permission to see his son right away. But the judge did agree to expedite the hearing to next week.
Mirkarimi said outside the courtroom Friday that the decision was disappointing but not unexpected.
He has been barred from seeing his son, Theo, since he was arrested Jan. 13 on three misdemeanor charges related to an alleged domestic violence incident involving his wife, Eliana Lopez, on New Year's Eve.
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"I miss my son terribly and he misses me," Mirkarimi said, choking back tears.
He said he recently bought Theo two new books, "Sheep on a Ship" and "Curious George Rides," to read to him the next time they see each other.
'Missing his father'
Lopez said she wants Mirkarimi to see his son.
"My son Theo is asking for his father every day," she told the court Friday in a written declaration. "He waits for Ross on the stairs in the morning, hoping Ross will be there to take him to school; he runs to the window in the evenings looking for Ross; and the last few days he has been imagining he sees Ross's car outside.
"He is constantly asking me when daddy is coming home," she added. "He has cried a lot, wondering where his daddy is and when he will see him again. I keep telling him that daddy is traveling and cannot come home yet, but he is really missing his father a lot."
Criminal court Judge Susan Breall twice denied Mirkarimi's request to modify the stay-away order barring contact with his wife or son pending resolution of his trial, which is set to start Feb. 24. But Breall urged him to take his plea for visitation rights to family court.
Mirkarimi pleaded not guilty to the charges of domestic violence battery, child endangerment and dissuading a witness. Lopez has not cooperated with authorities and has made repeated public statements that her husband did not abuse her.
The prosecution alleges that Mirkarimi grabbed his wife's arm hard enough to cause bruising during an argument in front of their son, and that he tried to keep her from talking to police. The prosecution hopes to use a video statement Lopez made to a neighbor and text messages and e-mails exchanged with the neighbor and statements made to another neighbor.
Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Aguilar Tarchi had argued against modifying the protective order, alleging that Lopez told her neighbor that Mirkarimi may have neglected their son while in his care and that there may have been another domestic violence incident last year.
Lopez appeared briefly in court with Mirkarimi on Friday, but sat across the room. They did not speak to each other.
At next week's family court hearing, Mirkarimi and Lopez will attend an orientation session that outlines the effects of domestic violence on children, meet separately with a mediator and try to reach agreement on a visitation plan. The judge then will decide whether to accept the plan or modify it.
Wife's new lawyers
Lopez, who had been represented by an attorney hired by her husband, brought in a new legal team to handle her part of the case: Deborah Wald, a family law specialist, and Paula Canny, who specializes in criminal law. Mirkarimi earlier had replaced his original defense attorney.
With Lopez by her side, Canny said she believes that her client has been "unfairly portrayed in the media" and that the case has been "over-prosecuted."
Mirkarimi, who served as a liberal member of the Board of Supervisors for seven years, was elected sheriff in November and started his four-year term on Jan. 8. He has yet to name his executive team, but said he is close to naming a new undersheriff, having interviewed 17 candidates for the job, and also is readying to fill the jobs of chief of staff, assistant sheriff and legal counsel.
With the domestic violence charges hanging over him, Mirkarimi said he has found solace in his new job and is initiating new training opportunities for his command staff and starting to reshape the department under a new era of realignment in which the state is shifting more responsibility to the county jails and probation.
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it has approved the first test to screen blood, organ and tissue donations for West Nile virus.
The test has been widely used since 2003 at blood banks on an experimental basis. The FDA's action Thursday does not appear to significantly widen the test's availability. But it may improve testing of organ donations for the disease, an FDA spokeswoman said.
The test, the Procleix WNV Assay, was developed by Gen-Probe Inc. and is marketed by Chiron Corporation.
Since it was introduced, U.S. blood banks have detected and removed 1,600 donations infected with West Nile. At least 30 people caught West Nile from infected blood transfusions, and nine died, the FDA said.
The virus, first detected in the United States in 1999, is normally transmitted to humans by mosquito bites. It has caused at least 762 deaths since 2002, when it was discovered it could also be transmitted through blood transfusions.
Most infected people never get sick, but about 20 percent suffer flu-like symptoms. Fewer than 1 percent become severely ill; some people have a potentially fatal inflammation of the brain, membranes of the brain or spinal cord.
The FDA, in a statement, praised the speed in which the test was developed, distributed and approved.
Other laboratory tests are already available for testing if an individual has contracted the virus.
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Energen Healthy Run – Manila Leg on July 20, 2014 at Bonifacio Global City
Time to test your body, mind and soul, and do it with the whole family. Start the day right with Energen, and keep your spirits up with an awesome run and exciting side activities…
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Race/Event Date: Sunday, July 20, 2014
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Poll results
The most recent poll on Vital Saints asked Fans where they thought there club would finish.
Most people voted for 5th or 6th place. Heres how the final results looked.
1st or second = 5%
3rd or 4th = 2%
5th or 6th = 40%
7th or 8th = 33%
9th or lower = 20%
next poll = March player of the month


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Public Meetings Scheduled to Discuss Development of Tennessee State Heritage Areas Program
Nashville, Tenn. – The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation will hold a series of public meetings in July to discuss the development of a State Heritage Areas Program. Modeled on the National Park Service's National Heritage Areas Program, this effort would provide technical assistance to Tennessee's rural communities as they work to preserve their natural, historic and cultural resources.
East Tennessee
- Athens – 6 p.m. on July 8 at the McMinn County Courthouse, located at 6 East Madison Avenue.
- Kingsport – 11 a.m. on July 9 at the Civic Auditorium, located at 1550 Fort Henry Drive.
- Farragut – 6 p.m. on July 9 at City Hall, located at 11408 Municipal Center Drive.
Middle Tennessee
- Shelbyville – 11 a.m. on July 7 at the Shelbyville Parks and Recreation Center, located at 220 Tulip Tree Drive.
- Nashville – 4 p.m. on July 7 at the Oaks Building, located at 1001 Kermit Drive.
- Cookeville – 11 a.m. on July 8 at the city's First Presbyterian Church.
West Tennessee
- Paris – 11 a.m. on July 11 at Krider Performing Arts Center, located at 650 Volunteer Drive.
- Jackson – 6 p.m. on July 11 at the Jackson Environmental Field Office, located at 1625 Hollywood Drive.
The State Heritage Areas Program is intended to increase regional identity and tourism; promote greater local involvement in regional planning; strengthen local commitments to conservation and historic preservation; encourage opportunities for interpretation and education for visitors and residents; and provide economic incentives to protect natural, historic and cultural resources.
For more information about the public meeting schedule, please call (615) 532-0748.


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The use of spices is as old as human cooking, and the use of specific combination of spices and rubs have not been far behind. Throughout history they have helped to define culinary regions, areas and even countries.
Some famous examples of spice rubs include the French Herbes de Provence, which is wonderful for enhancing lamb and poultry; Indian Garam Masala, which is the main seasoning in tandoori cooking (India's skewered barbecue); Jamacian Jerk, which is a fiery scotch bonnet-based rub used to flavor pork, chicken, fish and shrimp; and in the United States, the Memphis rib rub and the ever popular Cajun rub.
Rubs define restaurants as well. Often restaurants have a house rub that they use as the seasoning for the majority of their items. This gives the restaurant a distinct flavor profile and defines it within the marketplace.
In the past, I have used a simple house seasoning that I've affectionately dubbed "Mystery Spice." In its basic form, it has been used to season fried foods, some prepped sauces and precooked foods, in addition to being used as a base for more elaborate rubs such as a Southwest steak rub and a cracked cumin halibut rub.
You should apply the following rubs at least 30 minutes before you grill your foods. Do not substitute granulated for powdered, table grind for cracked, or kosher salt for table salt in these recipes because they will not flavor as planned.
'Mystery Spice'
Put this in a shaker and try on French fries, hash browns, veggies or any savory item.
2 cups table salt
1½ cups onion powder
½ cup garlic powder
½ cup fine grind black pepper
Combine in a large ziplock bag, seal and shake until mixed well. You also can mix in a bowl, but the powders make that a dusty ordeal.
Southwest steak rub
Try this rub on grilled meats such as steak, pork or chicken. If you are not going to grill using this rub, I would suggest toasting the cumin for better flavor.
½ cup "Mystery Spice"
¼ cup dry mustard
¼ cup lemon peel
¼ cup ground cumin
¼ cup ground coriander
¼ cup celery salt
⅛ cup cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon chipotle pepper powder (you may use another smoky chili if you do not want the additional heat of chipotle peppers)
Combine in a large ziplock bag, seal and shake until mixed well.
Memphis rib rub
Rub this on your ribs a good three hours before you begin to grill.
2 tablespoons "Mystery Spice"
1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon celery salt
¼ cup smoked paprika (buy good stuff, inexpensive paprika is grainy and flavorless and will make this rub mediocre. Remember, quality put in means quality comes out)
1 teaspoon dry mustard
2 tablespoons brown sugar
Combine in a large ziplock bag, seal and shake until mixed well.
Rubs are great fun to make. For ideas, make adaptations to your most used rubs by adding your favorite herb or a traditional herb for the meat you are cooking. Always use herbs and spices that are six months old or younger and buy quality. Enjoy, Juneau!
Brady Deal works with Sysco Foods and can be reached at email@example.com.
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My Kindle Fire HDX got 64GB space.
Tablet Showdown: Kindle Fire HDX vs. Google Nexus 7 vs. iPad Mini
Rolling out the new line of Kindle Fire tablets today, Amazon has added two new models into the mix with the 7-inch and 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HDX tablets. Starting at $229, these updated models offer higher resolution, faster processors, longer battery life and increased storage capacity when compared to last year's models. In addition, both of the previous models received a much needed price cut taking the old 7-inch down to $139 and the 8.9-inch down to $269.
But how does this stack up to the range of popular tablet competitors? We break it all down for you in our 7-inch tablet showdown between the 7-inch Amazon Kindle Fire HDX, 7-inch Google Nexus 7 and 7.9-inch iPad Mini.
Display Quality
Both the 7-inch Kindle Fire HDX and Nexus 7 sport a 1080p (1920 x 1200) resolution screen with 323 pixels per inch (PPI). Alternatively, the iPad Mini's 7.9-inch screen isn't even high definition. It's a woeful 1024 x 768 resolution pixels with 163 ppi.
While all three tablets feature an ambient light sensor to adjusting the display, the Nexus 7 is the only tablet to sport Corning Gorilla Glass scratch resistant glass. The Kindle HDX does offer a slightly higher brightness output than the Nexus 7, thus it may be easier to see in the sunlight.
Tie: Kindle Fire HDX / Nexus 7
Processing Power
Amazon is storming out of the gate with a 2.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Quad-Core processor basically blowing away the Nexus 7's 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro and iPad Mini's 1 GHz A5 Dual-Core processor. If I had to guess, the extra processing power is going to make the operating system and applications run smooth as silk. That was a problem with the original Kindle Fire HD, ever-so-slight lag when launching different applications. Regarding RAM, both the Kindle Fire HDX and the Nexus 7 have 2GB of RAM while the iPad Mini has 512MB.
Winner: Kindle Fire HDX
Operating System
While we still need to take Fire OS 3.0 "Mojito" for a test drive, it's likely that it will be just as user friendly as the original Kindle Fire OS (if not a bit limited). One really interesting feature on the HDX is the inclusion of live, 24/7 tech support with Amazon's "Mayday" button (check out the video below). This could help Amazon pull ahead of competitors, especially for older audiences that don't have the same level of tech skills as the younger generation of consumers. The operating system is definitely geared towards media consumption, however there is a greater focus on email and the Web browser in this version of the OS.
I'm not going to launch into the pros and cons of Android versus the latest version of iOS. If you have an Android or iOS smartphone, it's probably best to go with what you are comfortable with. Be aware that Android is typically a more flexible platform for content creation, but Apple seems to be making strides with their core production applications.
Winner: Toss-up (based on your core needs)
Storage Space
If you need a tablet with 64GB of space, you will simply have to go with the Kindle Fire HDX or the iPad Mini. Google maxes out the storage of the Nexus 7 at 32GB and there's no SD card slot to add additional memory. However, be aware that storage space is less of an issue than it was a few years ago due to the growing popularity of cloud storage.
Tie: Kindle HDX / iPad Mini
The base price of the 7-inch Kindle HDX and the Nexus 7 is $229. Alternatively, the iPad Mini is still (and quite astoundingly) $100 more expensive at $329. You should also be aware that the base price of the Kindle Fire HDX includes the "Special Offers" that Amazon is notorious for. To opt out of the advertisements, you will need to pay Amazon an additional $15 raising the price of the 7-inch model to $244.
The Nexus 7 is also the better deal if you want a 32GB version with LTE access, coming in $35 cheaper than the Amazon model without special offers. However, if you want a LTE version with smaller storage space (16GB), that's an option at Amazon for $329. Google doesn't offer that option.
Winner: Ad-free Nexus 7 at $229
At this point, it would be foolish to purchase the 2012 iPad Mini when you can get significantly more value and hardware upgrades with the Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire HDX. How should you approach choosing between the remaining two competitors? Ask yourself what you will be using it for.
If you are looking for a media consumption device, it's tough to beat the Amazon ecosystem, especially when adding the benefits of Amazon Prime into the mix. If you are looking for a device that will support you in the workplace or the home office, the open Android platform of the Nexus 7 is significantly more advantageous for content creation and general business.
While it's likely that Apple will refresh the iPad Mini before the end of the year, the price point is unlikely to change based on Apple's typical launch process. Even with upgraded specs on a new iPad Mini, you really can't go wrong with the Nexus 7 or Kindle HDX right now. The Nexus 7 is currently available for purchase on Google and Amazon. The Kindle Fire HDX can be preordered now with a launch date of October 18.


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Scrimshaw – Quick to Learn, A Lifetime to Master
We are including an excerpt from Chapter 5 of "Scrimshaw? But I Can't Draw!" so you can start learning how to scrimshaw on any hard surface, including mammoth ivory, old piano keys, corian, acrylic – even a light switch cover!
You are going to learn one of several ways to transfer your artwork to your ivory or material of choice:
First things first:
- You need your materials and your tools, including your scribe, a bright light, and some type of magnification
- You need your ink or oil paint and rags
- You need your eye protection and your dust mask (if you're sanding down anything)
- You need your Bees Wax or Renaissance Wax
- You need your computer (or a copier that can reduce your picture/project of choice
- And, Scotch tape
First, measure the piece you're going to scribe, then create an image about ⅛" smaller all around, using your computer and a laser printer or an inkjet printer. Many copiers will reduce images as well. You won't want your image to reach the edge, though you can get close. If you are working with an oval, use your computer to draw an oval around the piece as well, so you will know that it is centered.
With this technique you will be copying the old whaleman's way of creating scrimshaw. .
Cut out a copy of the image you want to scrimshaw and leave ½" to 1" on all of the sides. Carefully secure your material to your work surface, then secure the print over the top of your material, taping it so it will not shift as you move your work surface. Be sure your work is aligned properly!
I worked on a piece in 2010 for the Williamsburg Congregational Church's annual craft fair, and once I'd finished the main work, found that I was about ten degrees off, as shown on the picture above. Looks like it's going down a hill! I kept this old one as a reminder to myself (shown at the beginning of the chapter), re-scrimshawed the church on a new piece of ivory after aligning the work properly. They raffled it off, and it drew quite a bit of interest.
Press the point in as vertically as possible. This will create the most consistent dot, an angled dot's ink will wipe out of the indentation more or less, depending on the angle and the angle you wipe away the excess with, where a vertical dot will remain consistent.
You will want to pierce the paper only along the prominent lines. This will be your "dot-to-dot" for creating your piece. Here, The whale fluke from the previous chapter has been outlined and the actual picture faded using "GIMP 2.8″ (similar to PhotoShop).
Pierce along the lines about every 1/32" (or 1mm) so you can visualize the fluke easily. You may want to add the horizon line as well.
Once you have finished creating the dots, remove the paper and inspect it under a bright light. You should be able to see the indentations and see where you are going to scribe your lines. Using a Q-Tip or a small brush, coat the ivory with ink or black oil paint and quickly wipe it off with a soft cloth (tissue may actually scratch it or leave lint, so the old t-shirt your spouse has been complaining about would be perfect!). The dots should be visible enough that you can now place it under your magnification and begin carefully scribing the lines.
Here, you are lightly scribing from one dot to the next. Scribe enough so you can see the line when you wipe ink or oil paint onto it, then right off again (I am using oil paint, my preference changed to oil paint after an interview with Bob Hergert).
Once you have finished scribing the lines, take a break, take a picture of it! Thanks to digital cameras, you can document your work every step of the way.
Tip – if you are "checking your work" by repeatedly coating your ivory with ink to see where you've been, wipe it off immediately – don't let it dry and then burnish it off. Better yet, use a little bit of oil paint: it stays liquid longer and doesn't dry to a hard finish for at least a week.
Now we come to decision time: Do you want to add the water dripping off the back of the fluke, even if you can't draw? You can make "V" shapes and "\ /" shapes (open bottomed V's), right? Using a very soft lead pencil or colored pencil (as long as it's soft lead), you can draw the water flowing off the tail of the whale by making these shapes across the bottom of the tail, varying the width between them. Don't worry, if you don't like it, you can just wipe it off and start again. Once the open V's are drawn on, you can close them by adding a "U" to the bottom of them, making them bulge slightly in the middle, and adding a drop or two shaped like the letter "o" below them. Use a pencil and see what you come up with either on your scrimshaw or on a separate piece of paper.
This concludes the excerpts from "Scrimshaw? But I Can't Draw! Volume 1 – A Beginner's Guide"
For more images, try "The Scrimshander's Secret Scrapbook of Whaling Era Images" available from Lulu.com!
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|MF (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
|United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales)
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|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Nigeria
|Deportation / Forcible return | Immigration law | Regional instruments
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|[2013] EWCA Civ 1192
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|MF (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, [2013] EWCA Civ 1192, United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales), 8 October 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/cases,GBR_CA_CIV,52723d7b4.html [accessed 20 February 2018]
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What is an Approved Short Sale? No doubt if you have been in the market to purchase a home, you have encountered properties listed as Short Sales. A Short Sale is a property that is selling for less than the amount owed against that property. If your Real Estate Agent claims that any of these properties are Approved Short Sales, I hope to clear up some common misunderstandings.
I created a flow chart that shows the process for the Short Sale. I have been helping Home Sellers with Short Sales since 2008 and in that time we have never had a lender consider or process a Short Sale Approval without a bona fide offer from a real live home buyer. The approval when granted, is granted for the offer written and accepted by the seller and only that offer alone. This does not create a blanket approval for other similar offers. If for some reason the buyer backs out or the offer is cancelled, any new accepted offer will have be approved by the lender as it's own deal.
As a listing Agent, we may tell the buyer's agent that we have obtained Short Sale Approval for the last offer, but this really only indicates that we have a good idea what the seller's lender is willing to accept to gain approval for the next offer. So in reality, there is no such thing as an Approved Short Sale for any property that is not currently under contract.
During the Approval process we obtain enough information from the Seller to know why they value the property at a certain price, what costs they are willing to pay for and how much time they will allow for escrow. Based on the previous approval we have a pretty good idea what backup offers may have a chance of being approved.
Short Sale properties are going to be in the market for a few more years to come. Buyers will encounter these properties and many will provide a good purchase opportunity. Working with a real estate agent that understands the process is critical. Please review my articles related to short sales so you will know what to expect in a Short Sales purchase, then call me to help make this a process you will understand (805) 432-7705; if you are going to write and offer on a Short Sale then you will want to go in someone who knows the complexities of these transactions inside and out.


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Friday, July 04, 2008
Happy Fourth of July to all U.S. readers!
A very Happy 4th July to all American and US-based readers of this blog. And,(despite his views on Nicolas Sarkozy's trade policies), a special 'best wishes' to our regular US-based commenter Roland Hulme, who is to become a father. Many congratulations, Roland.
America's special day gives us a great excuse to celebrate that country's greatest detective: the one and only Ellery Queen. As regular readers will know, I'm a big Ellery Queen fan: the books are among the best mysteries ever written and as for the 1975 tv series.....well, words fail me.
You can hear the great theme music of EQ above (composed by Elmer Bernstein) and if you click here, you can watch a whole nine minutes of a classic EQ episode on You Tube. It was great that the BBC finally brought Ellery Queen back in 2006, but disappointing that the programmes were scheduled on BBC2 on Sunday mornings in the summer, when relatively few people would be watching. So if any BBC programme supremo does happen to wander pass this blog- please, please consider putting on the show on at peak time during the long winter evenings. You'll have a huge hit on your hands if you do.
UPDATE: Roland Hulme has become a father- his son being born on the 4th July!
Many congratulations to you and yours Roland, and I hope your son will eventually carry on the family blogging tradition. Being named after one of Britain'sbest bloggers might help!
4 comments:
- douglasbass said...
Thanks for your kind words...upcoming congrats to Roland Hulme...I didn't know he was American...
I like to consider myself a regular commenter too...
- ematejoca said...
I should like to know
I want the whole Ellery Queen!
Just a little bit is not fair.
I will return to see the end.
You must manage it.
- Neil Clark said...
Hi Douglas, hope all's well. Roland is an expat, not American, though his wife is.
ematejoca: sorry, that's all they have on You tube of that episode. If any more segments appear I'll post them up here straight away. I've seen the episode in full myself but I won't let on as to 'whodunit'!
- Martin Meenagh said...
hahahahahaha. That was a bit naughty there my friend, many thanks.
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We all saw the pictures. Girls gasping for air. Boys convulsing on the floor. Dads weeping over lifeless little bodies. The international outrage at the use of chemical weapons in Damascus in August had not yet subsided when the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons arrived in Syria early this month to oversee the odious task of collecting and destroying sarin and mustard gas. Perhaps the organization was as surprised as anyone to discover Friday morning that it had been awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.
Selection of the winner by the Norwegian Nobel Committee is intentionally secretive in order to reduce popular or political pressure. But secrecy doesn't dampen rampant speculation. This year's winner was on no website "short list," and the surprise surrounding the announcement was met with a collective gasp. Or sigh.
Unlike the controversy over last year's award to the European Union, which was steeped in political overtones, the award this year will not be criticized on the grounds that elimination of chemical weapons is an untimely topic or that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is an unworthy recipient. The criticism, if any, will be that popular favorites for the prize — like the 16-year-old school girl who suffered a Taliban's bullet to the head for her passionate advocacy for girls' education — were passed over in favor of a faceless entity with a long name.
We can be forgiven for being more intrigued when the prize goes to an individual with an earnest face and a compelling personal story. But even young Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan credits the team behind her — her parents and her schoolmates — as the reason for her success.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is a team of another sort. Its work is dangerous, dirty, and usually unheralded. Its membership of 189 nations who ratified the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention is more notable for the short list of countries who do not yet belong: Angola. Burma. Egypt. Israel. North Korea. South Sudan. Syria.
Reading some of the names on this list might cause us to shrug our shoulders in tired resignation, while seeing others might cause us to furrow our brows in consternation. Will the award to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have any impact on them? Likely it will ramp up the pressure on Syria, whose agreement to turn over its chemical weapons is now bathed in an even brighter public spotlight. It may ratchet up the pressure on Egypt and Israel to get off the tracks and get on the train, or it may induce the U.S. and Russia to complete the destruction of their last remaining stockpiles and find new ways to cooperate. Perhaps it will stimulate a serious international conversation about how to effectively prevent the use of chemical weapons by rogue elements whose main objective is to cause mass panic, as occurred in a Tokyo subway almost 20 years ago. We can only hope so.
The scourge of chemical weapons has been with us for generations. Our grandfathers suffered mustard gas attacks during World War I, our fathers and brothers were concerned about exposure in Vietnam, and our young men and women who came back from Iraq still worry that their symptoms are related to residual chemical weapons. Unlike some Nobel Peace Prizes given to people who seem far removed from us, this year's prize is one that hits close to home.
Change may come slowly, but the march toward the complete elimination of chemical weapons now appears inexorable. That day is long in coming, but this award is one that the whole world shares.
Maureen K. Reed is the executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, which is jointly hosted by Augsburg College and the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs.


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I have reviewed the article by Hermann and Herlihy (2006), and imagine that myself supervising a new counselor. The counselor says that she does not want to work with a client who has just stated he wants to come out to his family. She has stated that she has religious concerns about working with the client ethically.
From a supervisor's role, this is how I would respond to the counselor using ethical and legal guidelines? Use legal guidelines specific to your state or use the court's mandate for Mississippi, which was reviewed in this article.
The principle of beneficence is embodied in counselors' commitment to keeping client welfare first and foremost (Hermann & Herlihy 2006).
The text clearly depicts that our obligation is the welfare of our clients first and foremost. Our ethical values or beliefs should not impede our decision of denying or sway our counseling towards the clients based on our personal principles or morals. This will not only lead to the danger of our client's safety or welfare but lawsuits and termination of our job as counselors.
To avoid finding themselves in situations like Bruff's, these counselors might choose to work in settings that are compatible with their values and advertise these values to potential consumers of counseling services. If it is not possible to work in a compatible setting, these counselors have an ethical duty to avoid harm to clients by ensuring that counselors' informed consent procedures provide potential clients with adequate information about the counselors' values (Hermann & Herlihy 2006).
The text is very direct of saying that counseling should not be our profession if we intend to classify our clients based on our moral principles or for example our belief that lesbian is wrong and should not be given the proper counseling. To the contrary, the more we should counsel our clients and our goal should be to treat everyone with dignity and respect whatever belief system or values they have.
As the supervisor, my role will be to coach everyone about equal handling of client's issues and never that sexual orientation will be considered unless it is the issue that the client wants counseling on. My priority is to empower my counselors so that they can empower the clients who need to overcome some of the pervasive coercion of the society. To be bias with the client is a double jeopardy and the unkindest attitude that a counselor can do to the client.
Hermann, M., & Herlihy, B. (2006, Fall2006). Legal and Ethical Implications of Refusing to Counsel Homosexual Clients. Journal of Counseling & Development, 84(4), 414-418. Retrieved June 1, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.
Savage, T., Harley, D., and Nowak T.(2005). Applying social empowerment strategies as tools for self-advocacy in counseling lesbian and gay male clients" Journal of Counseling and Development 83.2 (Spring 2005): 131(7). Academic OneFile. Gale. US Navy General Lib - Bremerton. 1 June 2009
Good evening from USS Nimitz.
Yes, it is a double jeopardy like I mentioned from my discussion and like you've said: imagine the amount of damage done when the client feels rejected by the one person they felt would be impartial and supportive of them. That is why many of the gay community would rather go to a gay counselor or someone they know for sure values their values. Community, or collective, empowerment is one way for lesbians and gay males to support and help each other deal with distress politically as a group (R. E. Perkins, 1996).
Reference:Perkins, D. D., & Zimmerman, M. A. (1995). Empowerment theory: Research and applications. American Journal of Community Psychology, 23, 569-579.
Good evening from USS Nimitz. As graduate students, we learn to open our minds to the difficulties and unkind treatment of societies especially to minorities like the lesbian community. This field is the beginning of preventing another Bruff issue in the field of counseling.
Those interventions aimed at counselors themselves or the type of activities used with gay and lesbian career counseling clients must either be learned during graduate school education or through continuing professional development at conferences or workshops. Interventions directed at institutions or programs and at social/community action have implications for school-based career education programs, career planning texts used in colleges and universities, and occupational information (Pope, et. al., 2004)
Pope, M., Barret, B., Szymanski, D. Chung, B., Singaravelu, H., McLean, R. and Sanabria, S. (Dec. 2004). Culturally appropriate career counseling with gay and lesbian clients. Career Development Quarterly 53.2 (Dec 2004): 158(20). Academic OneFile. Gale. US Navy General Lib - Bremerton. 2 June 2009


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Our review of the Greenworks 25022 20-Inch 12 Amp Electric Bag/Mulch/Side Discharge Lawn Mower. The Twenty inch twelve amp electric lawnmower with side discharge, mulch and bag model 25022 from Greenworks does not require oil, tune ups or gas making it environmentally friendly and free from the need for maintenance. There are no carbon emissions released giving the unit a carbon footprint of zero.
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Consumers can feel secure with the purchase as a result of the four year warranty that covers both labor and parts for the model. The model is easy to store at sixty-five pounds and the ability to fold it up for added convenience.
The mower allows for bagging, mulching or side discharge and has seven height adjustments to make mowing the lawn easier.
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The Greenworks 25022 twenty inch electric lawn mower from Greenworks weighs sixty-five pounds. The 25022 can be shipped to select countries outside of the United States and comes with the following features:
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- The cutting deck is durable and made from steel.
- The height adjustment level has seven positions.
- The warranty on parts and labor is four years.
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The 12 Amp Electric Lawn Mower with side discharge, mulch and bagging features model 25022 from Greenworks has seventeen Amazon reviews.
The model only had three four star reviews and fourteen five star reviews giving it an overall rating of five stars. We will highlight the good and bad points of the unit in order to allow an informed decision for the consumer.
Reviewers were all happy with the mower finding that the twenty inch deck allowed them to cover more of their lawn and moving the cord was easier because of the deck side.
The lawnmower gave satisfactory coverage and the bagging feature managed to pick of the majority of grass that had been cut leaving very little clean up.
The mulching and side discharge features gave reviewers a choice of how to dispose of the grass which made the mower increasingly satisfactory to them.
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The models ease of use and storage was a plus among reviewers, and although this is a new model its already getting lots of attention and rave reviews from its users.
There were no negative reviews and consumers appeared to be completely satisfied with the mowers performance of Greenworks 25022 12 Amp Electric Lawn Mower with bagging, mulching and side discharge, as a result we can highly recommend the unit to consumers.


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by Cliff Rold
The excitement is not palpable. It might be by fight time, but a week out from Manny Pacquiao's latest step to scratch there is a relative lack of buzz outside of hardcore fight fan circles that love the game in general.
We may be getting a look at the gap between those fight followers, mainstream passer's by, and those whose boxing fandom is all about Manny and little else. Pacquiao has one of the toughest assignments of his career coming this Saturday. It's the sort of fight people should be excited about, a genuine challenge from a younger man with proven credentials.
Instead, there is a lot of 'who is that guy' from those who wouldn't have known most of the names on last Saturday's Showtime show much less watched and who have no idea how thrilling Carl Froch-Lucian Bute was for those who knew to care.
There is a very real chance that this will be the first show featuring Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather since Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey not to break the million-buy pay-per-view threshold in the U.S. market.
Those numbers have no bearing here.
These are the picks of the week.
Pick It: #1 at Welter Manny Pacquiao vs. #1 at Jr. Welter (Saturday, HBO PPV, 9 PM EST/6 PM PST)
Count this corner as every bit as excited for this Saturday as for last month's Mayweather-Miguel Cotto tilt. If the two best fighters in the sport won't fight each other, the next best thing they can do is fight some of the next best out there. Both are meeting the call. Bradley (28-0, 12 KO) is one of the most complete fighters in boxing short of a knockout punch. He can box, brawl, and has exceptional hand speed. Add in real desire and proven heart and Pacquiao has a fight on his hands. Fans have a fight, period. Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO) is in the position of having something to prove. Too many believed Juan Manuel Marquez gone before his third clash with Pacquiao last year and he took the Filipino icon to the brink. Following a dreadful, overly friendly affair with Shane Mosley one fight prior, the question can be raised as to whether Pacquiao has seen his best come and go. Bradley is excellent at setting and maintaining a pace. Pacquiao will have to be able to make him uncomfortable and outwork him to win. Add in Jorge Arce on the undercard as well as Guillermo Rigondeaux and this appears enough to merit a buy from anyone who knows what they're getting heading in.
Pick Deuce: Kelly Pavlik vs. Scott Sigmon (Friday, ESPN2, 10 PM EST/PST)
The comeback of former Middleweight king Kelly Pavlik (38-2, 33 KO) takes its next baby step against Scott Sigmon (22-3, 12 KO). He's still rebuilding from alcohol rehab and forming a new trainer relationship with Robert Garcia and already has called out Carl Froch. Pavlik clearly wants to get back to the fights that matter and Friday will be a good gauge for how close he is. With Super Middleweight still red hot, he will be a positive add to the mix. Also, this show will be all full of pre-fight Pacquiao hoopla so it's an easy must.
Pick Solo: McWilliams Arroyo vs. Felipe Rivas (Sunday, Telefutura, 12 AM EST)
If the pay-per-view ends early, this show should just be getting started. If not, it can be a DVR nightcap. Arroyo (11-1, 9 KO) and his brother McJoe (10-0, 5 KO), also in action, are serious comers at 112 and 115 lbs. respectively even if matched with the Willie Standup twins here. Both young Puerto Rican talents could be headed towards title contention.
Back in seven.
For BoxingScene's latest full divisional ratings, log on to: https://www.boxingscene.com/forums/view.php?pg=boxing-ratings
Cliff Rold is a member of the Ring Magazine Ratings Advisory Panel and the Boxing Writers Association of America. He can be reached at [email protected]


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When you stay at Fragrance Hotel - Bugis, you'll be within a 15-minute walk of Raffles City and Esplanade Theatres. You'll have free perks like WiFi and self parking. Also, Peranakan Museum and Asian Civilisations Museum are within a 15-minute walk.
Nearly all rooms are windowless.
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I've often quipped about the "Christianese" that we've developed. The funny thing is that people will speak Christianese with other Christians and then speak like a normal person around everyone else. I've even found myself doing it, even through it irritates me. This video is pretty funny and calls a lot of attention to our religious vernacular.
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text: On 15/11/12 21:06, Francesco Mazzoli wrote: > With `conservative' or `performance' the CPU scales up correctly (well, with > performance it is always scaled up). With `ondemand' it doesn't. > > This has noticeable consequences: compiling is slow, flash videos are sluggish. > So I do have a problem. And I want a governor that scales down my CPU, > especially on battery. I could stick with `conservative' but I'd like to get to > the bottom of this since `ondemand' is usually the best option for modern CPUs. Actually I use 'conservative' over the 'ondemand' governor. It can be tweaked to react more quickly, close to the speed of 'ondemand', but it has the nice feature of providing a "cool-down" period during which if some task comes along and storms the CPU, the CPU is already at maximum speed, so no need to scale up; this helps with minuscule (but noticeable) interruptions in multimedia apps (with video is most noticeable). Give 'conservative' a try, you might like it. Here are the values that I use (install 'sysfsutils' and put them in /etc/sysfs.conf): ---->8-- # by default it's 444, so we have to change permissions to be able to change values #mode devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/conservative = 644 devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/conservative/freq_step = 10 devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/conservative/up_threshold = 45 # no need to set ignore_nice_load here. It's set by laptop-mode #devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/conservative/ignore_nice_load = 1 devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/conservative/sampling_down_factor = 9 devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/conservative/sampling_rate = 120000 ---->8-- Also here are some helpful links that I used when I tweaked my 'conservative': - http://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/CpuFrequencyScaling - http://www.pantz.org/software/cpufreq/usingcpufreqonlinux.html - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CPU_Frequency_Scaling - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/CPU_Frequency_Scaling - http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt;h=c7a2eb8450c226b50e55b28f8c6669c6041cc0e3;hb=HEAD -- Adrian Fita


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Canvas 104 Professional edition comes with a smooth and intelligent user interface. It's highlight is the watercolor tool that competes with its physical counterparts. With the new water colour tool , you can even take colours from the canvas and mix it then and there itself. You can even add gradient to your pictures. It is a full paint program with all the features that you have dreamt of. If you are interested in cartooning ,you can take advantage of the wide sets of tools . Those interested in paintings can even import your other photos and manually smudge with the watercolor tool to make a complete painting. This is really a treasure for art lovers.


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Can somebody help me out with these problems?
1. The comments that appear in comment section in my blog is too small to read it comfortably. How can I increase the size of the font in the comment section of my blog http://www.yourbichar.com
2. How can I put customize instruction to type comments in the top of my comment box. Like If I want to give certain instructions to my readers about writing comments?
3. How can I just display couple of lines of my post in the front page of the blog and rest when they click the headline of that blog? In my case, the whole article gets published in the front page but I only want couple of lines to get published in the front page and rest in the second page when they click it.
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It was not all that long ago that the 'Government Job' was a much sought-after career. It raised visions of a good work-life balance, a predictable career path and a healthy amount of pay, with a pension to look forward to when retirement came around.
Things are rather less simple now. Though the demand for jobs in the public sector and in government continues to be as high as ever, the reality of a life as a public servant is rather less attractive than it would at first appear. At the higher end of the spectrum – the IAS and other Civil services, there is definitely a lot to be said for Government employment. Pay scales and perks are respectable, and these are some of the highest-paid people within the government, though they too, have to please their political masters.
Galloping inflation has been the biggest enemy of all our incomes, not just government employees. After fixed-income earners, they have been the worst hit. Despite successive pay commissions making seemingly-generous payouts to the ranks of government servants, the fact remains that the hikes have not always been in line with the increase in prices. The Pay commissions, besides, are constituted once every five years or so, whereas a private company employee knows that the salary structure is at least eligible for revision at every annual board meeting, sometimes even more frequently.
Moreover, compared to private sector organisations, the increment and promotion cycle in Government jobs is very slow. Even the most conservative Bank or IT company still makes an employee eligible for promotion every three years. For more aggressive companies, it can be as less as one year. A government employee must put in five years at one grade to be eligible for a promotion.
Another negative affecting the average government employee is the simple fact of the pay itself being lower. On an average, even after recent revisions in grade pay, a similarly-qualified person working in a private organisation would expect to make at least one and a half times as much as his counterpart in a government office.
This ties in to another problem, which is rising property prices. While inflation tends to go up and down over a period of time, the housing market has only risen steadily in the past thirty years. Once, a government employee, after living in the staff quarters during his or her working lifetime, could look to buying a pleasant home to spend retirement out of the savings and Provident Fund, while the pension took care of his daily needs. Now, he would be lucky if the Provident Fund pays for the down-payment, and then of course, no Bank gives a home loan to a retiree! Add to that the sword hanging over all our heads right now – the possibility that the government might again impose a tax on the withdrawal of EPF balances (though the proposal was rolled back in this session) which would significantly impact the overall lifestyle of retirees.
To add to all this, is the rising burden of taxes. Income tax affects us all, but as is well-known, it affects the salaried class more than others, since they are unable to set off any expenses whatsoever against the amounts they spend. Deductible allowances have been frozen for over fifteen years now, and a transportation allowance of Rs 800 per month is just laughable. Similarly, the inability of a government employee to structure his salary at all means that there is no scope to reduce his or her tax burden even with effective tax planning. Indirect taxes like service tax and VAT, ever on the increase, continue to take a toll, and leaves the government staff at the bottom of the figurative pyramid of salaried workers.
Is there a solution in sight? As such, beyond bringing about competitiveness in pay scales, the most important thing that the government needs to do is concentrate on reducing inflation as well as keeping the realty market in check. After all, a government whose own employees are in a state of uncertainty and unhappiness is not likely to be a very long-lasting one!


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Rewind or Fastfoward or Pause(play is inherent)
Some time during Jan or Feb 2006.
College annual day celebrations were about to begin and we got an announcement. For the first time in the history of the college, the cultural committee planned for a competition among different specializations. The winner would be felicitated with the title-Czar of College. Myself and my best buddy(Vijay) were choosen to represent Information Technology(one of the many specializations). I was little nervous coz I rarely participated in such competitions but I took this one(may be because Vijay was with me then). Two participants from each specialization were called on to the stage to answer one question from the judges. There is no second question. No second chance. The trick is, the participants were given 10secs each to decide their answer.
The whole college witnessed the event.
It was our turn.
Host: Assuming your life as a music player with rewind, forward and pause buttons, which button would you choose? As a rule, you have 10secs to think before answering and your time starts now.
Vijay to me: Lets say 'play'(tick...tick...tick...)
My response to Vijay: No wait. Pause is a better option(tick...tick...)
Both of us agreed on 'Pause'.
Host: Time up. Your answer is...
Myself: Our answer is "PAUSE".
Host: Why so? Why not 'play'?
Myself: Of all the animals in this creation, humans are the only ones with capability to think before acting. Even the competition has a rule to think for 10secs before answering. Hence the answer. And of course, the second action/answer is 'play'.
The whole college burst out in applause.
This is one of the most memorable moments from my college life(there are too many to share).
The question got engraved in my mind.
If I have a option to rewind and re-experience the events in my life, would I really want to relive them? If yes, which part of my life would I like to relive? It means, not all of'em are worth living again.
Definitely not. I wish to have a fastforward too. Actually fastforward is a better option. We can finish off our lives quickly(both good and bad times) and reach the conclusion faster.
Its actually a matter of huge confusion.
The bitter truth that everybody knows is, there is neither a rewind nor a fastforward button.
Its all a mind game.
I stopped thinking. I am only bothered about today. This moment. I am no saint but...
Thank you Master Oogway!


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ATHENS, Ga. - With one of its stars hurting and its opponent eager for validation, Georgia needed to prove what it had inside.
Steve Thomas stood up to be counted Saturday, scoring 16 points, grabbing 11 rebounds and knocking down four key free throws to lead Georgia to a 85-79 victory over Auburn at Stegeman Coliseum.
"We had an answer in Steve Thomas, who I thought was magnificent," said Georgia coach Jim Harrick. "Without Thomas, we were nowhere to be found."
Thomas, who was ejected for fighting in last year's loss at Auburn, went 4-for-4 from both the floor and the free-throw line in the second half. Post mate Chris Daniels added 12 points, including four big free throws of his own, to help the Bulldogs' inside game break out of a three-game funk.
"I haven't contributed the last three games but I found my rhythm tonight," Thomas said. "You can't take too many days off in the SEC."
For the first time in 165 meetings dating back to 1907, Georgia and Auburn went head-to-head sporting national rankings. The No. 19 Bulldogs had all it could handle from the No. 24 Tigers, who have been the surprise leaders of the SEC West. Georgia (12-4, 4-1) has won of 11 of 12 games while Auburn (15-4, 4-2) dropped its second straight despite shooting 51.7 percent from the floor.
"They're very aggressive and very athletic," said Ezra Williams, who led Georgia with 19 points. "That's probably the most athletic team we'll play all year."
Auburn got a career-high 25 points from Brandon Robinson while Marquis Daniels added 20 and Marco Killingsworth had 16.
With Jarvis Hayes bothered by a sore left hip flexor that he injured in Wednesday night's overtime victory over Tennessee, the Bulldogs needed a balanced effort. Five players scored in double figures and all seven who played made key contributions.
"That's my kind of team," Harrick said. "We're a better basketball team when we have five guys in double figures. That's a much better team than the other day when we got 29 and 23" from Ezra Williams and Hayes.
Hayes said it was comforting to know he could struggle with 3-for-12 shooting and have his teammates pick up the slack.
"We've got a complete team," said Hayes, who scored 12.
Tied at 60-60 with nine minutes left, Georgia's short bench made its mark. Jonas Hayes hit a medium jumper and Damien Wilkins scored twice in 15 seconds to give the Bulldogs a lead they would never relinquish. Wilkins scored 12 points.
"He's gaining my confidence more and more," Harrick said of Wilkins. "That's two games in a row he's played very well for us."
Leading only 76-74 with 1:23 remaining, the Bulldogs did something it was unable to do in regulation against Tennessee and in a narrow loss at Florida - hit free throws. Thomas and Chris Daniels made all four of their attempts each in the closing minutes, including all three one-and-one opportunities. The Bulldogs hit 17 of 18 free throws overall.
"That won the game, hitting those foul shots," said Hayes. "We worked on that a lot this team week. By the end of the season we'll be the best in the conference."
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bdiGDB enhances the GNU debugger (GDB), with Background Debug Mode (BDM) and JTAG debugging via BDI2000 and BDI3000. All users of a processor with a CPU32/32+, PowerPC, ARM, XScale, MIPS32/64 and M-CORE can benefit from this debugging mode. The bdiGDB system supports Linux kernel debugging also when MMU is enabled. The built-in Ethernet interface allows for very fast code download speeds. No target communicataion channel (e.g. serial line) is wasted for debugging purposes. In addition, you can use fast Ethernet debugging with target systems without network capability. The host to BDI communication uses the standard GDB remote protocol. An additional Telnet interface is available for special debug tasks (e.g. force a hardware reset, program flash memory).
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Question: As a Christian, I know I should always be thankful, but in this economy, it\'s so hard to feel grateful. I mean, people are losing jobs, homes and having more health problems than ever. How can I celebrate anything with all that\'s going on?
Answer: You can celebrate, because the Word of God tells us, "in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you†(I Thess. 5:18). This doesn\'t mean that you have to be happy about all that\'s going on, but you can choose to rejoice in spite of the situation.
If you choose to focus on the negative news stories in the media, you will surely be miserable and sad, but if you choose to focus on the goodness of God, your outlook will be brighter. It\'s up to you. Whose report will you believe?
WORLD'S REPORT: The economy is going down… GOD'S REPORT: "Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will de- liver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.†Psa. 91:14
WORLD'S REPORT: It\'s bad and getting worse… GOD'S REPORT: "And my God will supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.†Phil. 4:19
WORLD'S REPORT: The price of every- thing is going up… GOD'S REPORT: "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be know to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all under- standing, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.†Phil. 4:6-7
The Word of God reminds us that God demonstrates His love towards His people. As a Christian, you can and should be part of demonstrating God\'s love.
(1) READ BOOKS OR GO ON-LINE. Bibleverses.com and Biblegateway.com are just two sites among thousands that will put the Word of God at your fingertips and impress the word upon your heart.
(2) TAKE PART IN SHARING GOD\'S LOVE WITH OTHERS. Plan a celebration or join in to help your church or another organization/agency to help others have a wonderful holiday season.


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Now your GPS can be amphibious, with the Garmin GPSMAP 378 and GPSMAP 478, which the company says are the first portable GPS devices loaded with land and sea data. If you spring for the optional antenna ($249.99), each can also be loaded with XM Satellite services, for music and graphic weather capabilities, which would come in handy for boating on the high seas or driving among the snowy mountain tops.
Even if you're not out in the ocean, there are more than 3200 lakes loaded with 10-meter resolution, where you can even see the depth of a lot of those lakes. Each device will ship in May for $1200.
Garmin Launches GPSMAP 378 and GPSMAP 478 [GPSLodge.com]


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Cereal for the easily entertained
If you are still of an age when you want to be entertained by the shape of your breakfast cereal, General Mills has a new one for you: French Toast Crunch. Actually, as the label dutifully mentions, it's a "crispy, sweetened corn cereal": essentially, corn puffs shaped like miniature slices of toast, complete with brown "crust."
Pile a la mode unknown in France
We Americans seem to be the only people who make pie a la mode. Despite the French name, the idea of putting ice cream on pie is unknown in France. The closest you'll find to it in Europe is the sort of nouvelle cuisine dessert plate that includes a little of everything - tart, ice cream, pastry and fruit.
The phrase means "in style," and appropriately, because pie a la mode seems to be a relatively recent, or at least a 20th century, fashion. In the first edition of The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook (1896), Fannie Farmer gave a number of pie and ice cream recipes but never suggested garnishing the one with the other.
Americans were already serving pie-like desserts like cobbler and pandowdy with cream, though, and doing the same to pie was a natural step. The 1923 edition of Fannie Farmer's cookbook acknowledged this by suggesting cream on one pie; by the 1930 edition, it was calling for cream on seven.
`Presidential' cookbook goes to far
This presidential cookbook thing has finally gone too far. The latest, Hail to the Chef! A Taste of Power by Russell Kramer (Time-Life Books, $12.95), is about an imaginary president. "Russell Kramer" is the name of the ex-president Jack Lemmon plays in My Fellow Americans. In the movie (made by Warner Bros., owner of Time-Life), the Kramer character has written a cookbook ... coincidentally titled "Hail to the Chef!"
This book, actually written by two guys named Tom Conner and Jim Downey, is a collection of regional American recipes with a feeble joke in Kramer's style introducing most of them. Time-Warner is really, really counting on people to love the movie.
Fast food vs. health food: the survey
Readers Digest Books interviewed 400 people in fast-food restaurants and outside health food stores about food and health. The results: The fast-food people answered three times as many questions correctly as the health foodies. For instance, almost all burger-eaters knew that apples are relatively low in nutrients, while only about half the health food customers were aware of this. Percentage who knew that a "reduced fat" label doesn't necessarily mean low fat: 68 percent vs. 18 percent.
The health foodies were more knowledgeable in only two areas. One was that tofu can be a source of food poisoning (they took that one 61 percent to 24 percent), which suggests that the two populations tend to be better informed about the dangers of the kind of food they're more likely to eat.
Can't gain weight by looking
You can't gain weight by looking, right? And most of us can't hope ever to achieve the heights of pastry inspiration even when given the recipes.
So that makes Grand Finales: The Art of the Plated Dessert by Tish Boyle and Timothy Moriarty (Van Nostrand Reinhold, $49.95) a safe gift to give yourself or your favorite sweet tooth, even if your New Year's Resolution began with Lose and ended with Weight.
The authors ganging up on our willpower are the food and features editors of Chocolatier and Pastry Art & Design magazines. They present 50 top dessert artistes from around the country - including Emily Luchetti from Stars in San Francisco, Francois Payard from New York City's Restaurant Daniel and Washington, D.C.'s private pastry chef Ann Amernick - and 75 of their fabulous creations.
Fabulous? Well, some are downright silly, goofy, splendid in a crazed kind of way. But what entertainment the photos make! The book is at selected bookstores.
Calendar of fat
How's this for a sobering fact? One chocolate truffle has the same amount of fat as 26 oranges. Or this? Two french fries from a fast-food restaurant are comparable, fat-wise, to two whole baked potatoes.
Through this year you can digest both of these comparisons, plus 10 more, from the "1997 Illustrated Calendar of Fat," a cleverly photographed compendium that juxtaposes pictures of fatty foods with more healthful alternatives.
The calendar, devised by John Flaherty, a Waltham, Mass., commercial photographer (and vegetarian), is available by mail order for $15.95, including postage and handling.
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Do a mother's silicone breast implants pose a risk for her breastfeeding infant?
There have been no recent reports of clinical problems in infants of mothers with silicone breast implants. Therefore, in 2001, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a statement regarding the Transfer of Drugs and Other Chemicals Into Human Milk indicating that the Committee on Drugs felt there was insufficient evidence to justify classifying silicone implants as a contraindication to breastfeeding. Researchers noted that silicon is present in higher concentrations in cow's milk and infant formula than in human milk expressed from mothers with silicone breast implants.
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Wax On, Woot-Off
Blades so sharp you could shave with them. Please don't.
We were giving our warehouse its spring cleaning, its vernal sprucification, its annual zhuzhing - and look at this crazy gunk we scraped off the shelves! This Woot-Off promises to be full of surprises! (And now that we've said that, a complete lack of surprises would, itself, count as a "surprise". Called it.)


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New Output Option - Pressure Transmitter/Switch
Product Announcement from NOSHOK, Inc.
NOSHOK's 800/810 Pressure Switch/Transmitters are now available with two programmable switching points plus an analog output, making them even more versatile for use in a variety of applications. This means that a total of three different output options are available for you to choose from:
· 2 switching outputs
· 1 switching output and 1 analog output (4...20 mA or 0...10 V)
· 2 switching outputs and 1 analog output (4...20 mA)
These pressure switch/transmitters are designed to provide continuous pressure monitoring and allow the programming of set points without pressurizing. Two buttons allow easy adjustment of the set points, contact functions (normally open/normally closed),
reset points, contact types (npn/pnp) and switching function (hysteresis/gate).
Other features include integrated password protection, and a higher maximum pressure than anything comparable on the market (9999 psi). The 800/810's convenient 330 rotatable indicator head and optional turntable process connection provide ease of installation and wiring.
By using proven ceramic or thin film sensors, these indicating pressure switch/transmitters deliver an extremely high level of repeatability and durability, and they also carry NOSHOK's exclusive 3-year warranty.
For more information and technical specifications, contact your local NOSHOK Distributor, or call NOSHOK Customer Service at 440-243-0888.
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Pompeii GraffittiJun 15th, 2009 | By Editor | Category: Anthropology, History
These examples of graffitty in Pompeii give us an insight into what the Romans were like. Not unlike us, seems to me:
Figulus loves Idaia
Vibius Restitutus slept here alone and missed his darling Urbana
Samius to Cornelius: go hang yourself!
We have wet the bed, host. I confess we have done wrong. If you want to [...]


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Three Little Pigs
The classic fable, "The Three Little Pigs", is quite literally world-renowned. It has over 85 different variations coming from numerous countries and in numerous languages. However, no matter the variation with all fables there is one thing that stays the same: the lesson learned is more important than the details.
In the classic version of "The Three Little Pigs", each pig is warned before leaving their mother of the big bad Wolf. When the three pigs set out, each brother constructs his house out of different materials; the first uses straw, the second uses sticks, and the third uses brick. As the Wolf goes to each house respectfully, he threatens each brother to "huff and puff" until he blows his house down. It is when he gets to the third pig's home made of brick that the big bad Wolf is defeated. He is unable to blow the pig's house down because it is made of sturdy brick. Heeding the warning of his mother, the third pig outsmarted the Wolf.
The lesson in this fable is that the smarter and more industrious pig survived, while the others were eaten by the Wolf. While the other pigs took shortcuts to build their houses quickly, the third pig took his time and thought things through.


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This week a man from the suburbs of Chicago has been making headlines for his outsanding honesty. Robert Adams is that man and according to him he was simply doing the right thing by returning something that just was not his.
The story is quite simple but the fact that he was willing to give it all back is the greatest part. Robert was reportedly visiting a local ATM to withdraw some money to pay for his lunch when he happened to stumble upon a box and bag which contained hundreds of receipts and what turned out to be over $17,000 in cash. The money was primarily in $20 and $100 dollar bills but Robert says he immediately realized that there was a large sum of money in the bag.
Immediately after finding the money Robert took the bag into the Chase bank he was visiting. Upon hearing the story the bank employees informed him that the money was not the bank's and promptly called the police and local bank managers in order to sort out the entire ordeal. After some investigation bank managers determined that the money was meant to go to another Chase ATM in the area but it had been left behind by an employee.
In the end Robert says he had absolutely no thoughts of keeping the money because it did not belong to him. The first thing he thought to do was try to find the rightful owner and that is precisely what he did.


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A man seriously injured in the JJ's Restaurant explosion is suing Missouri Gas Energy for negligence.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A man seriously injured in the JJ's Restaurant explosion is suing Missouri Gas Energy for negligence.
The lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of Mike Tanner and his wife, Crystal Tanner, claims MGE should have stopped the flow of gas to the restaurant sooner.
Mike Tanner, who works for Heartland Midwest, the contracting company digging at the site when the gas line broke, suffered burns over 20 percent of his body, in addition to breaking several ribs and his clavicle, the suit claims. Rescuers had to use machinery to free him from the rubble after the explosion.
RELATED | Read the lawsuit
According to the lawsuit, he's incurred more than $1 million in medical bills. Tanner was
released from the hospital Thursday.
An MGE employee and USIC, the company responsible for marking the gas lines, are also named in the lawsuit. The suit alleges that USIC failed to mark the lines properly, which caused the Heartland crew to hit the line.
This is the second lawsuit filed in connection with the Feb. 19 explosion. Attorneys sued on behalf of several JJ's employees last month.
MGE has declined to comment on any issues involving the blast. Phone calls to USIC have not yet been returned.


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