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Situated on the outskirts of Gandia about halfway down the Mediterranean coast, our bed and breakfast is close to motorway access points from both the north and the south, and are conveniently situated for travellers looking to break their journey. Many of our guests stay with us for a night or two on the way from Barcelona to Granada or Malaga for example – possibly en route to or from holiday homes or just travelling through the country on a tour of Spain.
We were recently pleased to welcome several such guests who found us a convenient stopping-off point to spend a short time and have a rest from travelling. Irma and Andre (originally from South Africa but now living in Switzerland) visited us for a couple of nights, taking the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the area in general. They have in mind that they might want to relocate at some point in the future but are not exactly sure what the various regions of Spain have to offer so stayed with us to see how we had settled in the country and how they liked this area in particular. They were very pleasantly surprised at how much they felt at home in the La Safor region, commenting that it reminded them of parts of their own home country as far as the mountain scenery and proximity to the sea are concerned.
Another couple to stay for a short break recently during their travels were John and Maureen (coincidentally from South Africa again!), who had flown to Barcelona. They live in South Africa but were in Spain for a holiday and were on their way to Malaga, where they were intending to spend more than two weeks exploring the beautiful villages in the mountains there, and also taking trips to Granada and possibly Gibraltar. They had arrived in Barcelona early in the morning, collected their hire car and reached us mid-afternoon in time for some well-earned relaxation in the sunshine, before dinner and a welcome night's sleep. The following day they spent on a trip to the nearby mountains and returned along the coast, so they managed to get a taste of the variety of scenery that this area has to offer. After that, on the next morning it was time to leave and continue their journey to the south and enjoy the rest of their Spanish holiday.
Sue and Bob – an English couple – also over-nighted with us recently, although they were on their way to their holiday home in the south. They had visited us last year also, as well as staying on their return trip too, which is also their intention again this time. They live in France but come to their property in Spain to get some early Spanish sunshine, while the weather in France still has a wintry feel to it. An added attraction from their point of view is that they bring their beautiful cat Sophie with them and know that it is not a problem at all for her to stay with us. She is totally secure in their room, and this year seemed to feel quite at home as soon as they arrived!
All of these guests took advantage of our evening meal service as it offers them a very easy and convenient solution during their journey's break. Finding a suitable restaurant in unfamiliar surroundings can sometimes be difficult, and the fact that most Spanish restaurants only start serving dinner much later than other nationalities are accustomed to can make it an even less attractive proposition after a long day's drive.
Our Bed and Breakfast between Barcelona and Granada is close to the main coastal motorway as well as the trunk road and is the ideal stopping point along the way from one end of the country to the other, and we look forward to welcoming many more such guests during the forthcoming holiday season.


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Scheduled pain: Why it's a go for UTSA
Updated 1:37 am, Friday, September 7, 2012
The Savannah State coach regrets what happened last week. He thinks "the embarrassment" will last longer than the guaranteed cut his school was given to play Oklahoma State.
There are likely some at UTSA who wonder what awaits them, too.
A year from now, after all, Texas A&M-Commerce won't be coming to the Alamodome for the Roadrunners' home opener. The same Oklahoma State that overwhelmed undermanned Savannah State 84-0 will.
It's a challenge, and a scary one. But unlike Savannah State, UTSA will get more than money out of this.
The Roadrunners aren't the same as Savannah State. By next season they will have maxed out their 85-scholarship limit. Savannah State, with 50, ranked at the bottom of nearly every major statistical category last season in the Football Championship Subdivision.
"In retrospect," the Savannah State coach, Steve Davenport, said, "we probably bit off a bit more than we could chew."
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In retrospect, they didn't have any teeth. The betting line was the largest in the history of college football, and OSU coach Mike Gundy might have doubled that had he not played everyone except for Dez Bryant's babysitter.
Given that, the Roadrunners will be in much better shape when they get into the ring next season with the heavyweight. Yes, someone will have shown them how to put on the gloves.
For a start-up program that has been jumping ahead as if in a checkers game, this leap is off the board. In the span of one year, UTSA will go from a home opener against a team that lost last week to Southeastern Oklahoma by 25 points to the 2011 Big 12 champions.
Had the landscape been different when this game was scheduled, maybe UTSA wouldn't have done it. At the time, the Roadrunners thought they would be playing as an independent. They needed all the Division I opponents they could find.
They agreed to their deal with OSU, in part, for the reason Savannah State did. After a severe beating, two kinds of bags will make them feel better: One filled with ice and one filled with T. Boone Pickens' money.
UTSA will get about $500,000 in guarantees, as well as a profitable home game.
But the Roadrunners didn't sign up for one game in Stillwater, Okla., as Savannah State did. They have a three-game contract, and this is telling of a program that plays in a dome in one of America's largest cities. Even top-20 teams see the benefits of a road game in San Antonio.
This has always been the dynamic that makes UTSA think it can be more. The school set a first-game attendance record last year at the Alamodome, and anyone who calls the school and is put on hold will hear the exact figure in a recording.
On a loop, they want you to know the number is 56,743.
The Roadrunners will be lucky to draw 25,000 this Saturday, but a dip should have been expected. Fans came out a year ago no matter who the opponent was. Expectations have changed.
Oklahoma State will address that, and UTSA athletic director Lynn Hickey is already throwing around this possibility. Will there be 60,000 in the dome a year from now?
That's what the Roadrunners want, and that's what they want to sell. While they enjoyed another first last week — beating their first Football Bowl Subdivision school — edging South Alabama was never the goal.
So they needed something to sell besides novelty. They needed to put themselves out there, showing both recruits and local consumers what they eventually want to become. They needed, at the same time, to force themselves to either get better or get crushed.
Scheduling a national power does that.
Scheduling pain at the same time was unavoidable.
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The 14th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2014) will be held 5- 9 May 2014 at the Radisson Park Inn, Krakow, POLAND. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2014 will follow the 26 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on management of information and communication technology focusing on research, development, integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. NOMS 2014 will present recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing with future network and ICT infrastructures, as well as with novel services provided on top of these infrastructures in virtual environments.


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Changes are coming to downtown Stillwater. The long list includes the effects of a new St. Croix River bridge in Oak Park Heights, the closing of the Stillwater Lift Bridge to vehicle traffic and the construction of the Brown's Creek Trail.
Tom Corbett and Ted Kozlowski, the candidates vying to represent Ward 2 on the Stillwater City Council, both said they are the most qualified to help the downtown district maneuver those changes.
Corbett, 37, is an attorney who is in-house counsel at Target Corp. He is on the board of the Stillwater Public Library and is a former member of the Stillwater Charter Commission.
"Stillwater is in the midst of a public-projects boom," Corbett said. "We're going to be getting a new bridge, so what downtown is going to look like in terms of the traffic — car, bikes, etc. — is going to be different. As a city council member, I will support public projects that improve upon Stillwater's status as a destination city and also improve the quality of life for residents."
Redrawn lines mean the Ward 2 winner will represent most of downtown. "That will change the balance of things a bit on the council," Corbett said. Whoever is elected will need to be a "good advocate for Main Street and the neighbors who live nearby."
Kozlowski, 35, owns and operates DemandQuest, a marketing institute in Minneapolis. He is the creator of the "We love Stillwater, Minnesota" Facebook page and is on the board and is vice chairman of Valley Outreach, the food shelf in Stillwater.
Kozlowski said the changes coming to Stillwater will affect the city for the next 50 to 100 years. "I want to be part of the process to ensure that we're making the right decisions now that are going to have this effect for such a long time on our residents and our community," he said.
In the Ward 3 race, attorney Tom Weidner is challenging incumbent Jim Roush.
Weidner, a former member of the Stillwater Planning Commission, said he sees the new bridge as an opportunity to work with surrounding communities on economic growth and business development — both downtown and along Minnesota 36. "These are really exciting times for Stillwater — huge growth is going to be taking place over the next four years, and it has to be done right," Weidner said. "I think I have the skills to do it."
Roush, who was elected in 2008, is an emergency medical technician at Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater. He said he's worked to keep taxes flat and helped make a new St. Croix River bridge and Brown's Creek Trail a reality. He said he also has been instrumental in helping plan a new National Guard Armory and fire station.
Mary Divine can be reached at 651-228-5443. Follow her at twitter.com/MaryEDivine.
Age: 37
Family: Married 12 years; children ages 12, 9 and 6
Education: Juris doctor, University of Minnesota Law School; bachelor's, St. John's University
Occupation: In-house attorney at Target Corp.
Relevant experience: Stillwater Public Library Trustee since 2009; Stillwater Charter Commission, 2006-2009; as a business attorney, experience working with a broad spectrum of individuals and community stakeholders, including nonprofits (including ArtReach St. Croix), community groups (including North Hill Community Garden), small family businesses and major Minnesota corporations
Why should people vote for you? "I am the best qualified candidate. I know how to listen to competing concerns, build consensus and lead to the right outcome. I will champion fiscal responsibility and vote to hold the line on property taxes. Please visit corbettforcouncil.com for where I stand on other Stillwater issues."
How people can reach you: firstname.lastname@example.com, 651-274-3067, campaign corbettforcouncil.com, facebook.com (search "Corbett for Council")
Age: 35
Family: Wife, Rachael; daughters Amelia, 3, and Evelyn, 2
Education: Bachelor's in political science, Edgewood University, Madison, Wis.
Occupation: CEO, DemandQuest, Inc.; Chief Strategist Gruen Marketing, Inc.; vice chairman, board of directors at Valley Outreach
Relevant experience: "I am a data-driven, forward-thinking decision maker. Large companies hire my company to solve incredibly complex problems. I'm trained to look at issues from all sides and work with my colleagues to formulate a plan that will have a positive effect on the present as well as look forward."
Why should people vote for you? "I'm the best qualified candidate. I'm extremely active through my work with Valley Outreach, Stillwater Chamber of Commerce, ArtReach St. Croix as well as serving as a liaison between our residents, council and business community. I feel fortunate to have grown up in Stillwater, and I want to give back."
How people can reach you: TedForStillwater.com, Facebook.com/TedForStillwater, email@example.com, 651.236.7573
Age: 49
Family: Married 21 years to Tracey, two teenage daughters
Education: Juris doctor, William Mitchell College of Law; bachelor's in political science, Augsburg College
Occupation: Attorney
Relevant experience: Attorney 21 years; partner for 17 years, Eckberg Lammers Law Firm; former member, Stillwater Planning Commission; founding chairman, Stillwater Area Community Foundation; former board of governors, Minnesota State Bar Association; volunteer coach of youth football, baseball, basketball, soccer; municipal law and prosecution experience; board of trustees, Washington County Law Library
Why should people vote for you? "I have the leadership skills, business experience, common sense and character necessary to help Stillwater meet the challenges and changes it will face with the new bridge.
"I will help Stillwater develop a sensible fiscal plan and maintain its quality of life. I am forward thinking and fiscally conservative."
How people can reach you: ElectTomWeidner.com; 651-351-2119, work; 651-439-8267, home; email@example.com; email@example.com.
Age: 49
Family: Married 23 years; three children
Education: Biomedical electronics and public safety degrees
Occupation: Emergency medical technician, or EMT, at Lakeview Hospital and Stillwater firefighter; was an international medical equipment sales manager
Relevant experience: Council member; vice mayor; small-business owner; international corporate experience; vice chairman, Stillwater Joint Planning Board; chairman, St. Croix Valley Cable Commission; Fire Fighters Relief Fund trustee
Why should people vote for you? "We've accomplished great things over the past four years: We've held city taxes essentially flat, helped make the St. Croix River Bridge and Brown's Creek Trail a reality, resurfaced streets, funded lake mitigation and planned a new Armory and centralized fire station. Together we can keep that momentum going."
How people can reach you: www.RoushForCouncil.com, 651-439-8885


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Top 10 of 2012, #2: Michael Rafferty's guilty verdict
CTV Kitchener
Published Sunday, December 30, 2012 5:26PM EST
Last Updated Sunday, December 30, 2012 6:07PM EST
From now until Dec. 31, CTV Kitchener is counting down the top 10 local stories of 2012. Catch the countdown every night on CTV News at Six.
It was a story that shocked and captivated an entire country.
On April 8, 2009, eight-year-old Victoria Stafford was abducted on her way home from school.
A massive search and investigation was launched. It was one of the most exhaustive missing-person searches in Canadian history.
Months laters, Tori's body was found in a farmer's field near Mount Forest after Terri-Lynne McClintic confessed her involvement in Tori's abduction and murder.
McClintic eventually pleaded guilty in court and was sentenced to life in prison.
However the Stafford family had to wait almost three years to see Tori's other killer brought to justice.
Michael Rafferty was charged with first-degree murder, sexual assault causing bodily harm and kidnapping. His trial began in March 2012.
Over the next two months the court, and Tori's family, heard graphic details about the last hours and minutes of her life. The jury heard how McClintic lured Tori into Rafferty's car, covered her with a coat, and then sexually assaulted and killed her.
Different versions of what happened April 8th – and why – were debated in that packed courtroom.
More than 60 witnesses took the stand and almost 200 pieces of evidence were introduced.
Inconsistencies from McClintic nearly threatened the Crown's case, but after almost two days of deliberations the jury found Rafferty guilty of murder and sentenced him to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
He was also ordered to concurrently serve 10 years for his convictions on the other two charges.
"The verdict means that the jury has found [that] Michael Rafferty did kidnap, sexually assault, and murder Victoria Stafford," said Crown Attorney Kevin Goudy. "Our thoughts are with Victoria's family. I will close by simply saying that we believe that justice was done."
Tori's family had mixed emotions.
"Happy, excitement… but at the same time there was a sense of loss," said her father Rodney Stafford. "Tori's not coming home. But we got justice."
Her mother Tara McDonald made a public plea. "I urge people not the dwell on the horrific details of her final hours, but instead think of the happy, loving, gorgeous little girl that she was and forever will be."
The conviction gave closure not only to Tori's family, but to the community of Woodstock as well.
Rafferty has since filed an appeal requesting a new trial.
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Topic: Section 33. Duties of insolvent as to discovery and realization of pro
Duties of insolvent as to discovery and realization of property
(1) Every insolvent shall, unless prevented by sickness or other sufficient cause, attend any meeting of his creditors which the official assignee may require him to attend, and shall submit, to such examination and give such information as the meeting may require.
(2) The insolvent shall—
(a) Give such inventory of his property, such list of his creditors and debtors, and of the debts due to and from them respectively,
(b) Submit to such examination in respect of his property or his creditors,
(c) Wait at such times and places on the official assignee or special manager,
(d) Execute such powers-of-attorney, transfers and instruments, and
(e) Generally do all such acts and things in relation to his property and the distribution of the proceeds amongst his creditors.
As may be required by the official assignee or special manager or may be prescribed or be directed by the Court by any special order or orders made in reference to any particular case, or made on the occasion of any special application by the official assignee or special manager, or any creditor or person interested.
(3) The insolvent shall aid, to the utmost of his power, in the realization of his property and the distribution of the proceeds among his creditors.
(4) If the insolvent wilfully fails to perform the duties imposed upon him by this section, or to deliver up possession to the official assignee of any part of his property, which is divisible amongst his creditors under this Act and which is for the time being in his possession or under his control, he shall, in addition to any other punishment to which he may be subject be, guilty of a contempt of Court, and may be punished accordingly.


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Here's where you'll change your ideas of homestays being simple. The understated approach to The Homestead reveals very little about this property's magnificence! The Homestead, where the hosts Bunny and Amu live, is a luxurious, modern home in a beautiful garden with old trees and climbing creepers. It's a spacious abode where your time will disappear. The excellent facilities make it feel more like an intimate resort and it's imposing enough to also take your breath away! But a garden like that and the idea that you have a luxurious accommodation right in Corbett's lap makes this place perfect for pampering yourself. Now if relaxing in luxury is not enough, you can rough it out a bit by opting to spend some time at the farm, milking cows, fishing, camping and come back to an evening of barbeques, bonfires and a night of wide-eyed star gazing! You might find the tariff a little steep, but it'll a;; be okay when you check out the swimming pool and the Turkish steam bath the hosts have decided to offer in their homestay!


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Sharjah cry foul after missing out on Pro League
Dubai: Sharjah Club has cried foul on the clarity of the UAE Football Association [UAE FA] rules governing the Etisalat Pro League play-off competition, which concluded on Friday night.
Going into the third and final round of matches on Friday evening, all four teams involved had a chance of being one of the two that could earn a spot in the expanded Pro League, scheduled to get under way on September 23.
Sharjah did their bit by winning 2-1 against Emirates Club of Ras Al Khaimah. But a 3-2 win for Al Shaab against Al Dhafrah meant three teams finished on six points, with Sharjah the ones who missed out.
"Even if we had scored ten goals we would not have won, merely because the rules adopted were such. Al Shaab won 3-2 and, when the head-to-head was considered, we were automatically eliminated even though we have won two matches and got the same number of points as Al Dhafrah and Al Shaab," lamented Redha Souessi, the assistant coach at Sharjah.
"The rules are really unfair and I guess we are yet to understand it all. I think with the level of play, clubs like Sharjah and Emirates are meant to be in the premier league in the UAE.
"We have made so many sacrifices to get to this stage. Our players gave it their best. The players did not even fast during Ramadan. They made the sacrficies and in the end all this did not matter just because of the rules."
Earlier during the competition, Sharjah beat Al Shaab by a solitary goal and they would have advanced on a better goal difference had they scored another goal against Emirates Club on Friday.
"What we cannot understand is how we have to play in a lower division despite having six points just like the other two teams that have qualified. For example, if Emirates and Al Dhafrah had won tonight, then Al Dhafrah would have been out. This is unbelievable and this does not happen anywhere else in the world. I think the rules need to be thought out in a better way," he said.
However, Souessi insisted that this is not the end of the world for the former five-time league champions. "We are very sad to go down. Hopefully we will work hard and be back in the Pro League next season," he added.


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Well, this topic of desire is one I've been pondering a lot lately. First, I want to look at the motivation (or at least the ideal motivation) behind our desires: happiness.
We're all after happiness. 2 Nephi 2:25 says, joy is what makes life meaningful. It is what we live for. It makes us feel bright and hopeful like the sunshine and butterflies so joyfully illustrated here:
Being married is fun and romantic and all, but more importantly, it exercises our characters to become more selfless people. As Neal A. Maxwell said, "The love and thoughtfulness required in the home are no abstract exercise in love. They are real. It is no mere rhetoric "The Value of Home Life"). This is true with roommates, with friends, but most of all with family. These characteristics that grow out of the standards we must hold to live peaceably together are the traits that make us more like Christ.
concerning some distant human cause; it is an encounter with raw selfishness, with the need for civility and taking turns, of being hurt and yet forgiving, of being at the mercy of others' moods and yet understanding, in part, why we sometimes inflict pain on each other" (
You see the common factor among these things? The true source of happiness is Christ. The closer we are to Him, the more we become like Him, the greater joy we experience! It is important to recognize this truth and to make it the motivator behind all we do. Sometimes I want to write a good sketch so that I'll be deemed a talented contributor to Studio C. Sometimes I want to see my sketch become a favorite of viewers. Sometimes I want to feel like I'm excelling more than my coworkers. These are all the wrong motivators to write a good sketch. I should do it to improve my talents, uplift our viewers, and provide reason for celebration. I should write good sketches ultimately because it can help me, as well as others, come that much closer to Christ.
I suggest we all take inventory of the goals in our lives. What are we after right now? And, the more important question--why? When we realign our motivations to be focused on Christ, we will glean more joy and happiness from our goals.
Now that I've mused for a moment on the source of true happiness, I'll move on to some thoughts I've had regarding our desires and how those affect our actions to reach that joyful state. There is a 1996 conference talk by Neal A. Maxwell (who else, right? (: ) called, "According to the Desire of [Our] Hearts" in which he addresses some very straightforward doctrine regarding our desires.
First, Maxwell clarifies what a true desire is:
Thus, we cannot realign our wills with God's, we cannot achieve the purest happiness, simply with fleeting pangs of guilt or short moments of ambition. We must dig into the doctrine we know until we feel the truth resonate in our hearts so powerfully that we are fueled to chase after truth, to chase after the Spirit, to chase after eternal life where we can feel this truth and joy forever.Desire denotes a real longing or craving. Hence righteous desires are much more than passive preferences or fleeting feelings. Of course our genes, circumstances, and environments matter very much, and they shape us significantly. Yet there remains an inner zone in which we are sovereign, unless we abdicate. In this zone lies the essence of our individuality and our personal accountability. Therefore, what we insistently desire, over time, is what we will eventually become and what we will receive in eternity. "For I [said the Lord] will judge all men according to their works, according to the desire of their hearts" (D&C 137:9). Alma said, "I know that [God] granteth unto men according to their desire, … I know that he allotteth unto men … according to their wills" (Alma 29:4). To reach this equitable end, God's canopy of mercy is stretched out.
Touching on this, Maxwell says, "Brothers and sisters, the scriptures offer us so many doctrinal
After we recognize what is desirable, we can then train our hearts to yearn after those things. Maxwell continues:
So, we must not only study truth, but we must love it. And I feel like this process can snowball very quickly. When we act on true principles, such as studying, service, or worship, we feel the positive effects in our lives and we seek to feel these effects more and more. Thus, we study, serve, and worship more and then feel more light and truth enter into our lives! Isn't it a wonderful cycle?! It just needs to get kickstarted, and then we can live a truly joyful life!Thus educating and training our desires clearly requires understanding the truths of the gospel, yet even more is involved. President Brigham Young confirmed, saying, "It is evident that many who understand the truth do not govern themselves by it; consequently, no matter how true and beautiful truth is, you have to take the passions of the people and mould them to the law of God…. Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not" (in Journal of Discourses, 7:55). Thus knowing gospel truths and doctrines is profoundly important, but we must also come to love them. When we love them, they will move us and help our desires and outward works to become more holy. Each assertion of a righteous desire, each act of service, and each act of worship, however small and incremental, adds to our spiritual momentum. Like Newton's Second Law, there is a transmitting of acceleration as well as a contagiousness associated with even the small acts of goodness.
Something to be wary of, Maxwell stated, is the temptation to be apathetic. He said, "The absence of any keen desire—merely being lukewarm—causes a terrible flattening (see Rev. 3:15). William R. May explained such sloth: 'The soul in this state is beyond mere sadness and melancholy. It has removed itself from the rise and fall of feelings; the very root of its feelings in desire is dead. … To be a man is to desire. The good man desires God and other things in God. The sinful man desires things in the place of God, but he is still recognizably human, inasmuch as he has known desire. The slothful man, however, is a dead man, an arid waste. … His desire itself has dried up.'" This is probably the biggest temptation among us--to be idle in our discipleship. We do not actively hate the gospel, but we do not actively pursue it either. This seems less harmful than any hateful feelings, but in fact, that is what Satan wants us to think! We can estrange ourselves from Heavenly Father through numbness just as well as through hate while not even realizing we're getting further and further away from that source of joy. We must thus remember that "dissolution of wrong desires is only part of it. For instance, what is now only a weak desire to be a better spouse, father, or mother needs to become a stronger desire."
This means we need to keep at it! Every day, we need to feed ourselves spiritually and rededicate our passions to the right places. "Righteous desires need to be relentless, therefore, because, said President Brigham Young, 'the men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle every day' (in Journal of Discourses, 11:14). Therefore, true Christian soldiers are more than weekend warriors... It is up to us. Therein lies life's greatest and most persistent challenge. Thus when people are described as 'having lost their desire for sin,' it is they, and they only, who deliberately decided to lose those wrong desires by being willing to 'give away all [their] sins' in order to know God (Alma 22:18)." This is our battle! This is our challenge! But it is possible to not only withstand fatigue and temptation, we can overcome it altogether!
My brother mentioned the other day that while he was on his mission, he kept two coins under his shoelaces every day of his mission. One stood for diligence, and the other stood for perseverance. He realized that perseverance was a virtue one used during times of trial and difficulty. But diligence was used all the other days when all one needed to do was continue climbing upward. He said he found diligence to be the more difficult of the two because it is required during the flat periods, the times we feel no desperation in our circumstances and so must look to God with no outside provocation.
Thankfully, we have help along the way. Our merciful Heavenly Father has given us the gift of His Son so that we may be encouraged during times of discouragement. As David A. Bednar noted in the Bible Dictionary--
"It is likewise through the grace of the Lord that individuals, through faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ and repentance of their sins, receive strength and assistance to do good works that they otherwise would not be able to maintain if left to their own means. This grace is an enabling power that allows men and women to lay hold on eternal life and exaltation after they have expended their own best efforts" (emphasis added). That is, grace represents that divine assistance or heavenly help each of us will desperately need to qualify for the celestial kingdom. Thus the enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.We can access additional motivation through our Savior. "Our merciful and long-suffering Lord is ever
ready to help. His 'arm is lengthened out all the day long' (2 Ne. 28:32)." Christ will never abandon us in so great a cause! But it is we who must make the plea for his help and continually fuel our passions and desires and love for pursuing divinity.
Maxwell ends his talk by quoting a hymn: "With true desire, we can then really plead:
More holiness give me, …
More patience in suffering,
More sorrow for sin,
More faith in my Savior, …
More tears for his sorrows,
More pain at his grief,
More meekness in trial,
More praise for relief."
As I look at each of these qualities, I feel a spark of desire inside me to better exemplify each one. But these sparks must turn into a resolve which cannot be swayed by laziness, discouragement, or suffering. Instead, we must take time to realign our desires with God's, and then we will feel true happiness that comes not from our circumstances, but from the eternal joy that emanates from our loving Savior and Heavenly Father.


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This venue is a brilliant big space with more tech than you can shake a stick out. Bar on the way in, we only performed here for a week in the middle of the run so it was a tough sell for us. The owner was brilliant.
This is a big space, but not too big to fill, it always felt intimate enough to connect with the audience.
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For such a short run it was difficult to build up a following, we picked up this slot as someone dropped out and we attempted to move the small following we gained at The George Next Door from the first week to here. We found Grassmarket to be the best place to flyer, but only really picked this up about 5 shows in (by which time we only had 2 shows left)
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The place is normally a night club so you can a massive light rig and a brilliant sound board. It seemed odd that it was virtually all comedy here as the stage seems perfect for theatre, free fringe theatre always seems to be held back by limited tech and the tech on offer here seemed too much for most comedians needs.
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The Obama administration says it has not taken a decision to release high-ranking Taliban officials in its custody in return for the Taliban's agreement to open a political office in Qatar for negotiations, as we reported in Wednesday's Guardian.
Tommy Vietor, the National Security Council spokesman said in a statement:
This report is not accurate. The United States has not decided to release any Taliban officials from Guantanamo Bay in return for the Taliban's agreement to open a political office for peace negotiations.
The prisoners named in the report have indeed come up in a series of US meetings with the Taliban in Germany and in the Gulf over the past year, and a senior administration official pointed out that:
The Afghan government and individuals associated with the Taliban have requested the US government release to Afghanistan as far back as 2005 during the Bush administration.
However, the same official made it clear there are a lot of legal hoops to jump through before anyone gets out of Guantanamo.
When the US government considers whether to transfer an individual detainee out of Guantanamo, it does so subject to a complete review and consistent with all relevant US statutes and international law, to include the detainee-related provisions of the just-signed ..National Defence Authorization Act...Further, if any Afghan detainees were under consideration for transfer in this context, then any transfer would be done in full consultation with the Afghan government.
As the Kabul government asked for the transfers in the first place, the latter condition should not be much of a stretch. The same cannot be said of getting the releases through Congress and the NDAA, a defence budget bill reluctantly signed into law by Obama on New Year's eve, which has a provision banning further transfers from Guantanamo for at least another year. It even blocks the transfer of the 88 out of 171 men still there who have already been cleared for release. And it codifies indefinite detention without charge.
It is the latest in a string of reversals for a president who, in one of his first acts on taking office in January 2009, ordered the closure of Guantanamo within a year. The NDAA also ties the administration's hands if there are going to be serious negotiations with the Taliban in their new office in Qatar. Washington and its allies are busy thinking through imaginative solutions, including transferring Taliban figures to house arrest, perhaps in Qatar, while negotiations are underway, but it is clearly going to be an uphill struggle in Congress in an election year.
Any deal that led to the release of Mullah Fazl Akhund, the former Taliban army chief, or Noorulla Noori, the ex-governor of the northern zone, will also enrage human rights activists who say they should stand trial for atrocities committed in the last two years of Taliban rule.
The sources for yesterday's story said that the US administration was prepared "in principle" to release Taliban officials from Guantanamo. But it does look like the gap between principle and reality will be hard to bridge. In that case, it is an open question how long the Taliban will stick around in their new Qatar office with nothing to show for it.


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The White Countess (2006)
Drama, History, Romance2006 Year 135 Mins 6.7 Imdb
Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave
Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd -- and sometimes illicit -- jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
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- Production Co: Merchant Ivory Productions
- Released: 31 March 2006
- Imdb Rating: 6.7
- Runtime: 135 Mins.
- Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Director: James Ivory
- Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave


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An erotic novel by best-selling author of The Business of Pleasure and On Demand, Justine Elyot.
When her jock boyfriend broke up with her, Cherry realized it was her opportunity for more. In the internet age, it should be easy for like-minded fetishists to find and connect with each other. Or so Cherry thought. Her decision to enter the wild and wonderful world of BDSM leads her to some interesting and unexpected places. She soon finds herself on 'the scene' and her insatiable curiosity takes her to orgies, slave auctions and mansion houses full of trainee submissives, but where will she find her perfect dom? Will Cherry ever meet her match?
Justine Elyot is the author of the Black Lace title On Demand as well as a growing body of short fiction published by Black Lace, Xcite and Cleis Press. She likes to explore the dark side of desire in her writing. She lives by the sea.
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"I definitely recommend picking up Meeting Her Match if you enjoy reading about budding desires and interests into the kink filled world of BDSM. This one will keep you guessing what Cherry will encounter next as she figures out her own desires" (BDSM Book Reviews)
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"Recommended if you like BDSM erotic romance"
The story captivates you from the beginning and doesn't let up until the very last page. I did however predict the ending but I think it was still a delicious story. The story was very erotic and kinky, but also has some romantic elements. It tells the story of Cherry, a woman whose submissive side wants to be explored and suppressed no longer. She longs to be spanked, to be dominated, and after a chance meeting with someone that fulfils those longings, she goes online to look for something more permanent. She wants to be owned by someone who shares the same desires & kink. She's quickly pulled into the BDSM 'scene' and ends up taking part in slave auctions, orgies and hardcore submissive training. Cherry's journey was refreshing, emotional, painful, and so very kinky!! This book was a pleasant surprise and I would recommend if you like BDSM erotic romances...
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The actress makes this story. She has a wicked naughtiness to her voice that only adds to the already naughty delightfulness of the story. The character begins to delve deeper into her urge for kink and you get to ride along. Justine Elyot does a great job in keeping the story flowing and fun. She has a great sense of humor and it comes across well.
Jillian Powers has a great cadence that she adds to this story. She keeps it flowing lightly and whimsically. It was a joy to listen to her throughout this adventure.
It made me think I might want to try a spanking. LOL that is soooo not me.
I had a good time with this book.
"I returned this book"
I have a lot of books in my library (over 400) and about a third of the way through I retuned this book. It didn't have romance. It did have some BDSM sex scenes but they weren't sexy. They were kind of silly but not in a make you laugh way, just silly. Not a good book.
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Published by Orbit on June 10, 2014
Genres: Horror, Post-Apocalyptic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
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Sexual Content: Implied sexual situations
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Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her 'our little genius'. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells. She tells her favourite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad.
If you haven't read any spoilers for THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS, it's hard to know what to expect. The bare-bones description doesn't give much away, but though the story starts out a bit vague, told through the eyes of a ten year old girl, it soon becomes an engrossing, mind-blowing and genre defying experience that is nearly impossible to put down.
Besides being a good story, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS also manages to take a construct we're all familiar with and change it up a bit - so if you like your post-apocalyptic walking dead types drooling and mindlessly hungry then this book probably isn't for you. But for any of you who are excited when a genre or trope is focused through a new lens, then this book should definitely be on your "read immediately" list.
The story centers around Melanie, our ten year old heroine and is told very much through the wide eyes and open heart of a child. She becomes attached to Helen Justineau, her teacher and the two are thrust into a set of intense circumstances that have these two at odds with the rest of the characters in the story. The voice is authentic and the pacing of the book is absolutely perfect. Author M. R. Carey masterfully weaves a tale that takes us from confession, to redemption, to rebirth in an exquisite and intense journey that elevates and rehumanizes the classic zombie construct in a bittersweet and beautiful way.
Through it all the story remains engrossing, engagingly scientific and brings a degree of hope and humanity to a post human world. At the end, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS is a story of awakening and accepting a new reality and bears a kinship with classic stories like Planet Of The Apes, A.I., PINOCCHIO and LORD OF THE FLIES - all told through the wonder of a child who comes to discover that she is a beacon of hope for life on earth, just not in a way that any of us might expect. THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS is a mesmerizing and haunting must read this summer.Series Titles:
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In an interview with Susan Arbetter on "The Capitol Pressroom," Gov. Andrew Cuomo reiterated his belief that the Assembly won't bug out of town without taking action on the nine provisions of the Women's Equality Agenda/Act that are expected to pass the Senate later today.
He called the very idea "absurd."
"I can't believe the Assembly would say 'Were not going to let pay equity be the law'" because of legislative gamesmanship, the governor said.
Responding to reports that he had been the target of the Schenectady death-ray duo, Cuomo said that his brother had jokingly asked him to stay off his boat. Cuomo characterized the alleged death-ray innovators as "extreme right-wing nutsies."
He optimistically said that if the abortion plank, currently sponsored by Sen. Diane Savino of the IDC, comes to the floor, it would attract aye votes from every Democrat save Ruben Diaz. (He's looking at you, Sen. Tim Kennedy.)
"The question will be, will the Republicans provide any vote" for the measure, he said, adding that it was a question of whether the GOP's leadership would treat it as a bloc vote or a "conscience" vote like the session-ending 2011 vote on same-sex marriage, where four Republicans broke ranks to vote yes. Three of those four, of course, are no longer in the chamber.
Cuomo also predicted success for his START-UP NY and casino measures, and promised the announcement of a Moreland Act panel looking into campaign finance by the end of next week. The panel would include law enforcement and public-policy figures, he said.
The governor also said he would sign the amendment of the SAFE Act approved last night by the Senate that exempts retired cops from the seven-shot limit.


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Coyote wrote:I never read anything by Dirk. He is hated by Husker fan and bluejay fan alike. And Bo despises him, I am surprised he us still employed in the state.
Dirk does one thing well. Actually, very well. Award-winningly well. He's a great story teller. He's extremely talented at telling people's stories. Read his stuff about Sami Spencer, the UNO track star. Or the story about small town high school football. He just has a knack for those feature stories.
Problem is he fancies himself as a guy who understands the actual sports. Or, even worse, he gets a spreadsheet and pretends to be Nate Silver and a real sabremetrician.
He wins awards for the former. He gets roasted for the later. I think the World-Herald gives him freedom to write whatever he wants because, even though his analysis is horrible, it's written in such a way that it generates clicks and discussion, and that still drives revenue to the W-H.
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Roma's Daniele De Rossi will equal the number of caps won by Inter legend Giacinto Facchetti if he features against Nigeria tonight.
The midfielder has won 93 caps to date in an international career which has seen him lift the 2006 World Cup and finish as a runner up at Euro 2012.
De Rossi is expected to feature in London this evening after recovering from a foot problem he encountered against Sassuolo.
De Rossi, 30, won his first cap under Marcello Lippi in September 2004.
Facchetti is seventh in the all-time appearance list thanks to his 94 caps.
Ahead of him are Gianluca Zambrotta (98), Andrea Pirlo (106), Dino Zoff (112), Paolo Maldini (126), Fabio Cannavaro (136) and Gigi Buffon (138).
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Amy Dorrit, who is better known as Little Dorrit, was born in the Marshalsea debtors' prison. Although her mother died soon after, the little girl and her older brother and sister have continued to live in the prison with their bankrupt father; he is the only member of the family not permitted to leave the prison. As she becomes older, Little Dorrit works as a seamstress. One of her clients is Mrs. Clennam, a widow who is also a businesswoman, although she has been confined to her room by illness for fifteen years. Mrs. Clennam's forty-year-old son, Arthur, had gone to the East twenty years earlier to join his father, who looked after the company's business there. After his father's death, Arthur Clennam returns. He tells his mother that he will take his part of the inheritance and fend for himself; he does not want to remain in the business with his miserly, grasping, and rather inhuman mother. Mrs. Clennam thereupon takes her old clerk, Flintwinch, into partnership with her.
While he is staying at his mother's house, Arthur notices Little Dorrit and is struck by her retiring disposition and sweet appearance. He learns that she lives in the Marshalsea prison, and he goes there and tries to help the Dorrit family. When he raises the possibility of getting Mr. Dorrit out of prison, everyone thinks such a thing is impossible, for Mr. Dorrit's affairs are in hopeless confusion; some of his debts are owed to the Crown through the Circumlocution Office, a place of endless red tape.
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text: On 11/15/10 2:13 PM, Greg KH wrote:> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:39:48PM +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:>> Greg KH, on 11/15/2010 09:44 PM wrote:>> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:45:24PM +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote:>> >> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Greg KH <email@example.com> wrote:>> >>>>> >>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 08:20:18PM +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:>> >>>> So, I decided to reimplement it to be completely synchronous. SYSFS>> >>>> authors did really great job and thanks to the excellent internal SYSFS>> >>>> design and implementation it is absolutely safe. See:>> >>>>>> >>>> [root@tgt ~]# modprobe scst>> >>>> [root@tgt ~]# cd /sys/kernel/scst_tgt/>> >>>>> >>> Sorry, but no, you can't put this in /sys/kernel/ without getting the>> >>> approval of the sysfs maintainer.>> >>>>> >>> I really don't understand why you are using kobjects in the first place,>> >>> why isn't this in the main device tree in the kernel, using 'struct>> >>> device'?>> >>>> >> We might have missed something, but as far as we know it has not yet>> >> been explained in this thread why using 'struct device' would be an>> >> advantage over using 'struct kobject'.>> >>> > It's very simple.>> >>> > You want your device to show up in the global device tree in the kernel,>> > not off to one side, unconnected to anything else.>> >>> > Please use 'struct device', it is what you want to do here.>>>> But we don't have any device to show up in the global device tree!> > Not true at all.> >> We don't have any devices in the struct device's understanding at all!> > Then create them just like you are doing so for your kobject use.> > The first device would be the root one, and then everything trickles> down from there.> > And use configfs for your configuration stuff, that's what it is there> for, and if it doesn't somehow work properly for you, please work with> the configfs developers to fix that up.> > thanks,> > greg k-hI don't have any opinion on the above, but I don't see why sysfs can't beused for configuration as well as its other roles. It seems to me wastefulto require configfs to be used in order to change configuration whensysfs works fine for this.Here are a couple of existing examples where sysfs is used in a role thatwould seem similar to SCST's usage:1) scsi_transport_fc already has an sysfs file, fc_host/vport_create, whichcan be written to create new fc_host and scsi_host instances.2) fcoe.ko uses a write to the sysfs file /sys/module/fcoe/parameters/createto start the protocol on a particular ethernet interface. There's anotherfile for destroy.I'll bet there are other examples in other subsystems, and I don't thinkthere is anything wrong with the above usages of sysfs.I agree with Vladislav's point that configfs doesn't work instead of sysfsbecause configs doesn't make it easy for the kernel side to create nodes fordynamic information like connected initiators and statistics.So, if the above examples are considered a misuse of sysfs,SCST would need to use both sysfs and configfs. It would use configfs todo configuration, and sysfs to display and access the dynamic informationlike connected initiators. That seems a minor role for configfs,which is easily handled in sysfs as SCST currently does.Just my two cents. Joe


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Lucía and Jun-Dai at home on 15 September 2012.
I suppose Unknown was designed for comparison with Taken. For the sort of movie they're aiming to be, Unknown is not quite as good as Taken. But it was still exactly the sort of stupid thriller we were in the mood for. The film's premise is a variation on Total Recall (using bang-on-the-head amnesia in place of a science fiction memory alteration).
Probably the weakest spot on the film is the execution of the actual assassination attempt. It's easy enough to suspend disbelief and be entertained by the rest of the film, but for some reason when Gina decides to go and ineffectually defuse her bomb, risking both the mission and her life for what seems to be a sudden concern about her traceability (since she would have been just as traceable had everything gone according to plan), the WTF? that results in my head is large enough to interrupt the narrative flow. Not much is missed, however, since the film has gone into full-speed wrap-up mode. The film basically ended once the hotel manager sounded the alarm.


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For those of you who like Nomad Papa posts, I have another one for you. This one is about what happens when you let Nomad Mom and Nomad Papa go on the playground without adult supervision. And by adult supervision, I mean having adults that know us around to keep us from exploiting our children for their entertainment value.
Our kids love going to the park. No, scratch that, our kids love going to swing. They get an exhorbitant amount of satisfaction from sitting in a seat and letting us do all the work to propel them forward and backward.
Unfortunately, eventually our arms get tired and we have to dump the kids out of the swings and send them off to explore the other equipment. It was in this way that we learned about the crazy humor value of the spinning wheel.
I actually have no idea what the proper name is for this equipment. Spinning wheel? Spinner? Whirlythingamajig? Vomit Comet? Here is a picture to help you understand what I am talking about:
Basically, the kids sit down in the seat and we do all the work of spinning them around. (Sound familiar?)
Here is how we make our playground trips more entertaining. (Note: we are trained professional morons, so please don't try this at home.)
Load your kid onto the spinner whirlythingamajig and start turning it. Turn it faster and faster and ignore any requests to get off. If they really complain, slow things down and start spinning in the opposite direction.
When you are completely sick of turning the damn thing and your own head is starting to spin, bring the wheel to an abrupt halt. Then rush over, grab your kid and plonk them down on the grass nearby. Now step back and watch the hilarity ensue.
Giorgie did a stumble shuffle dance before falling over into my lap. Addy wobbled a bit on the dismount, seemed to have it under control, and then turned 90 degrees and face-planted into the grass. Nomad Papa and I haven't laughed so hard in years.
And I haven't even told you the best part of it. When your kid does fall over and cry, you can blame them for their pseudo-injury. We like to turn it into a life lesson about why they should play on the slide and let mommy and papa sit in the shade instead of making us push the damn whirlygig. If you are really good, you can turn the tears that are streaming down your face into part of the lesson. PRICELESS!
But anyway, this is all just conceptual, because obviously we would never do that to our kids.


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India is ready for NSG: US
Says it is disappointed with China's tactics of using Pakistan's non-credentials with NSG to settle scores with India
Washington: Amid China and Pakistan's opposition to India's bid to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the US has backed New Delhi's entry into the group.
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US State Department spokesman John Kirby quoted US President Barack Obama as saying during his visit to India in 2015 that "India meets missile technology control regime requirements and is ready for NSG membership".
To reports that China has blocked India's membership to the group, Kirby said, "I'm going to refer you [India] to the governments of China and Pakistan with respect to their positions on India's membership," Kirby said.
China and Pakistan are closely coordinating their strategy against India's admission into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). Sources pointed to the fact that when India requested a session with NSG-participating governments at the recent NSG Consultative Group meeting on April 25 and 26, where it would have made a formal presentation in support of its membership, Pakistan also sought a similar opportunity.
The NSG is scheduled to meet next month. Though aware that its request would not be accepted, Pakistan made it in order for China to look "neutral" and reject both applications on grounds of parity, it said. Sources from the US expressed their disappointment with China's tactics of "using Pakistan's non-credentials with the NSG to settle scores with India." The "either both or none" strategy is not a secret; it was coordinated during the visit of Pakistan's President Mamnoon Hussain to China in November 2015.
The Chinese government told President Hussain that if India is allowed into the NSG, China would ensure that Pakistan also gets its membership in the group. However, "if India is allowed to join the NSG and Pakistan is deprived of an NSG membership, Beijing will veto the move and block the Indian entry."
"India's non-proliferation credentials are not comparable with Pakistan's, as Pakistan has a history of "selling nuclear technology to rogue states like Libya," the sources noted.
Moreover, the West fears that Pakistan's nuclear weapons could easily find their way into the hands of terrorists. China knows that Pakistan does not stand a chance at the NSG, and most of the NSG members will reject its application. Nevertheless, that did not stop Beijing from using Pakistan as a "parity token to stop India, which is fast emerging as China's competitor," added the sources.
Meanwhile, in Beijing the foreign office spokesperson, to a question on India's NSG membership, said that all the multi-lateral non-proliferation export control mechanisms, including the NSG, have been taking the nuclear weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) membership "as a necessary qualification for their accession".
"Our position applies to all non-NPT members. Why we and other like-minded members are committed to this position is because we want to uphold the international nuclear non-proliferation regime based on the NPT," the Chinese official said.


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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
To Stephen G. Burbridge [1]
Officer in command at Executive Mansion,
Lexington, Ky. Washington, Feb. 22. 1865.
Lexington, Ky. Washington, Feb. 22. 1865.
Send forthwith record of the trial of C. K. Johnson.
A. LINCOLNPage 310
[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 352. No reply has been found from Burbridge or any other officer. Burbridge was relieved of his command on February 22 (OR, I, XLIX, I, 756). Burbridge had telegraphed General John C. Breckinridge, Department of West Virginia, on February 14, that C. K. Johnson, claiming to be a Lieutenant Colonel in the Confederate Army, had been tried on charges of being a spy (OR, II, VIII, 223). AGO General Court Martial Orders No. 314, June 19, 1865, confirmed the death sentence in Johnson's case and ordered his execution.


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My workouts were pretty good, but I'm still worried about a potential gain. I didn't do well tracking my food this week. I just need to force myself to do it right before or right after every meal.
I discovered tonight that when I'm feeling frustrated that I can't keep up with the other swimmers in my lane, anything my coach says is just going to register as an annoyance. I know he is only trying to help. I am a bad sport when I'm tired and getting behind. And yes, I know now, as I sit here tired and removed from the situation, that some of these women have been swimming since they were kids and are just better, and others practice more than I do. I did get in an extra swim workout this week, and maybe I can use these to perfect my flip turns, which really slow me down right now.
Monday: Walk/run workout, 15 minutes running/20 minutes of walking
Tuesday: Swam 50 minutes
Wednesday: Spin class, 45 minutes
Thursday: Off
Friday: Walk/run workout, 18 minutes of running and about 20 of walking
Saturday: Pilates Circuit
Sunday: Masters' swim group, 1 hour


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China has seen the best of Destinee Hooker, and the Chinese definitely do not want to see it again Wednesday in a battle of unbeaten squads at the Olympic Games.
The match between China and the United States will is live now on NBC and streaming online.
Last December, Hooker produced a monster performance with 39 points in a five-set victory to pace the USA over China at the FIVB World Cup.
It's a performance that took on added significance because it clinched a berth in the Olympics for Team USA.
The former Southwest High School star hasn't reached that level of dominance in the past few days in London.
But she does rank second in the tournament in scoring with 44 points through two matches. Only South Korea's Yeon-Koung Kim with 63 points has scored more.
USA-China matches the Nos. 1 and 3-ranked teams in the world. It also pairs a couple of teams that are looking to take the upper hand in the race to finish on top of six-team Group B.
The top four teams in each group advance to a knockout round.
With first-time Olympians Hooker, Foluke Akinradewo and Jordan Larson leading the way, the USA has scored victories over South Korea and No. 2 Brazil.
China has beaten Serbia and Turkey.
For China, Ruoqui Hui leads the team with 35 points, good for fourth in the tournament in scoring. Junjing Yang has scored 27 and Yimei Wang 25.
The United States completes Group B play against Serbia on Friday and against Turkey on Sunday (both at 2 p.m.)
Quarterfinals, semifinals and medal rounds are Aug. 7, 9 and 11.


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The Reason(s) For The Long Absence
Well, some of you might know that we're back from a bit of a long absence, the last post was in September 2009! That's a long time away but we do have a good excuse. Really, we do.
The excuse is babies. We've both had a baby each, and those of you who are parents will know and understand our rather tenuous excuse for not posting here. It's Greeny's second and Tannage's first.
First I introduce you to Mackenzie Green, second born of the Greeny and already nearly as tall as Tannage.
Next but not least, is Jin, Tannage's little boy, born New Year's Eve and truly the ruler of his household!


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Let me add ... a solution may be to arm and train the "civilians." Especially in an insurgency situation, the concept of the "armed diplomat" (or "armed agri-specialist, armed construction worker, armed social worker" or whatever) is not inappropriate. In fact, that is often the role the military also plays.
For those concerned about blurring of roles, especially between organizations -- it seems to me that in this type of situation that they are already blurred. We just have to recognize and cope with the reality thereof.


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Zeina, our E-waste campaigner, writes:
Two months ago like today, I was queuing at the entrance of the Moscone north in San Francisco with the rest of the APPLE aficionadas hoping to hear that Steve would be revealing the NEW green APPLE products. Disappointedly that day, we ONLY got this cool new phone BUT nothing on a greener product from the Master of Innovation and Design within the electronics industry.
Today I am on the plane heading north west from Amsterdam across the ocean then going South aiming to land in Austin Texas so I can attend and participate in the South by South West (SXSW) Festival where the grenmyapple.org is a finalist for a web award...
Being a campaigner in Greenpeace, this campaign has been a roller-coast ride for me since we start preparing it. Way before launching the wesbite, i was confronted with new terminology and i started learning from my web team WHAT digging/hugging/tagging mean. I still remember the face of our Chief Web editor when i went to his desk talking about my discovery of technorati. He had these eyes of a teacher whose student had just passed her final exam!
In San Francisco two months ago, i discovered why MacWorld can be easily dubbed in my dictionary as "The HAJJ" of the Mac CLANS/FANS. But I also discovered that the Mac fans and users were as interested in a Greener Mac as much as we in the campaign.
I don't know what to expect for SXSW, reading about the panels and the sessions that will take place at the interactive festival, I am sensing that it will be a real cross learning fora on Communications techniques ...
Communication is a two way road and i believe the green my apple campaign has been an impressive tool of communication. We tried to reach an audience far away from our daily campaign work about something sooo close and so important for them (their macs). Seeing the particpation in the campaign so far and the creative design we are getting for the site and being nominated for the SXSW award means that we have succeeded reaching out to the Mac crowds.
It doesn't matter if we win or not BUT can you imagine that as well...
Well, we will know on Sunday BUT trust me for a woman who few months ago never heard of deli.ci.ous outside the kitchen door in description of a MEAL. Winning at SXSW will be soooooo coooooooooooooool.
Now look at that. A year ago she didn´t know what del.icio.us was, and NOW she even knows how to punctuate it. --Ed.
All the best guys!!
Your campaign is very interesting and you have used very cool "webby" tools... Even I, who still doesnt know what digging/hug...
All the best guys!!
Your campaign is very interesting and you have used very cool "webby" tools... Even I, who still doesnt know what digging/hugging/tagging means think greenmyapple.org is a great site, I am a Mac user and I DO wish it came in Green!!
P.S: You would have won the photo award if there was one!! nice picture :-)
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Hi Nick me again. I just saw a article that has blown me over board. The Artical is from the the fisheries boss, of Talley's Fisheries Managing Director Peter Talley says he backs the killing of Whales and Seals..For full artical go to
I think we should get onto this one quick who else do I need to get in touch with. I wqnt to make a huge stink on Tallys for this. Hope to hear fron you soon.
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For the life of me, I can't understand why teams aren't lining up around the block for Keenan. He's just what Steve Mason needs, am I right?
Apparently Mike Keenan articles are an annual feature here at Thrashing the Blues. Last year I stumbled across some depressing stuff from Sports Illustrated's archives. This year at least the Keenan news isn't depressing. Frankly, I found it quite entertaining. In an interview with NHL.com's Dan Rosen, Keenan looks towards resurgant old farts Ken Hitchcock and Jaques Lemaire as examples of why old school is better.
"There's something to be said about young coaches, but there's also something to be said for experience," Keenan said. "You look at the veteran coaches who had the greatest impact in the last two years. Who were they? Hitchcock in St. Louis, and last year it was (Jacques) Lemaire in (New) Jersey. These are two guys, both in their 60s, that had the most impact on the teams and they came in as replacement coaches.
"I would venture a guess that the New Jersey Devils would have made the playoffs if Jacques was there all season. That's not a negative comment on John (MacLean); he was just very inexperienced. And I have no idea why they got rid of Hitchcock in Columbus."
Fair points all. Where Keenan doesn't make a fair point about is why he is cut from the same cloth as the aforementioned coaches. Sure, he has some words of praise from Jeremy Roenick, who says that Keenan's a different coach than he was five years ago.
"He's an extremely smart guy, an extremely smart coach, and he's a motivator. But I think he's become a player-friendly motivator. I'm with him a lot and he's like a father-figure to me, and I know his passion to try to get back into the game."
Roenick gathers that from being analysts with Keenan on NBC. Which is exactly the same as being a player in his current system… which Keenan doesn't have.
Brian Leech was coached by Keenan when the New York Rangers won the 1994 Stanley Cup.
"They understand a lot about the team and the dynamics. Any smart coach learns from experience, from positive things as well as the negatives. He's got both in his career."
Well, considering the players he's driven away from teams and goaltenders he's chewed up and spat out, one has to wonder where this positive new experience Keenan's been having has been coming from. He's never gotten a chance to show that he's adapted to the new NHL, but Keenan might just be one of those players who is incapable of adaptation. If his players wouldn't do it for him, how can he do it for his players?


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In researching an article I am doing for Tennis Recruiting on Division 3 Tennis I came across a blog written by a former D3 player who spent several years on the pro tour. I found the blog to be the best first hand account I have read by a satellite circuit player. Charlie Cutler's blog covers the period of January – July of 2012. Here are some excerpts from the first ten days of postings.
For a year and a half now I've been training and traveling the world playing professional tennis tournaments. I'd like to say that for the last year and a half I've been a professional tennis player, and I could certainly make an argument that I have, but I've always felt a bit awkward wearing the label…. I've always made travel and planning decisions based on the experience I want to have rather than the most strategic ways to accrue the most points and rise in the ATP ranks.
You constantly hear coaches advise that winning can't be all that's important and it really is true, especially on the professional tour (just for the record my highest ranking so far was 1,420 in the world, although it expired last October).
There are just so many talented and hardworking players that it is too hard to make the results of competing with all of them what are important. I've seen so many guys tear themselves apart over how they're doing—I've certainly been there myself at times—and it does not seem like the way to enjoy the last years and months of your career.
I've traveled far and wide playing the game that I love and to which I have devoted so much of my life. From the hustle and heat of LA, where great players seem to grow on trees, to the ice and snow of a Montreal winter that forces you to adapt to crazy indoor courts, and all the way to small, secluded towns I can't even remember the names of in Laos and Thailand where nobody's even heard of tennis—I've found my way on buses and planes and trains. While I can't say this pursuit has been the most economically lucrative, it has been exciting and definitely important. It's given me a reason to travel and see places I would never have thought to visit, as well as a purpose that has been both empowering and at times a burden.
I also get to revel in the fact that I am experiencing cultures and places that few outsiders get to see. Whether these turn out to be good experiences or bad, and places I liked or for which I didn't particularly care, the important part is that I got to see it and know it and it catalog it away with everything that shapes me and my view of the world.
Life on the court becomes a constant battle to prove oneself. A battle governed by fear. Not just fear of losing but fear of letting down your family and coaches, of looking bad, of being "not as good" as your friends or competition…etc.
I've been offered positions on two European club teams for the spring, one in Steyr, Austria and one in Fulda, Germany. Both teams recruited me to play the top spot for them, and they are providing me with free housing and around 300 euro's per match. Andy Dimke, a German who I competed against in college and thankfully stayed in touch with, helped me find and set up the teams and at this point I think I will head over there in late April and stay through late June when the Austrian league ends and the German league breaks for the summer. I will probably meet up with the Austrian team in Croatia, where they go for a long weekend to train before the start of the season every year. They sound like a bunch of young guys who play for fun but are hoping to do well enough this year to move up a division, which is why they are willing to pay me to play in some of their toughest matches. I don't know how high the level of tennis will be but either way it will be an incredible experience. I'll be traveling back and forth between Germany and Austria, being paid to play the highlight match in weekend dual matches, with the entire week off in between to travel and play tournaments. All on real, Roland Garros, red clay. And the best part is I should be back in time to play most of the PNW summer circuit with Andy and my friends back home. Sounds like a perfect culmination to my professional career, especially after taking the next four months to give the futures circuit one last, ditch effort. The only thing that could mess up my plans is if I picked up some points soon and thought I could really make a run at the ATP rankings with a more sustained effort.
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