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|Cheiracanthium sp., Pateros, Washington
|Scientific classification
C. L. Koch, 1839
C. erraticum
|194 species
Cheiracanthium is a genus of spiders in the Eutichuridae family. Certain species are commonly known as the "yellow sac spider".
Cheiracanthium are usually pale in colour, and have an abdomen that can range from yellow to beige. Both sexes range in size from 5 to 10 mm. Of all "common house spiders", they are the only species whose tarsi do not point either outward (like Tegenaria) or inward (like Araneus), and are therefore easy to identify.
Meaning "hand spinelet," referring to the backwardly directed process on the cymbium of the male palp.[1] From Ancient Greek: χείρ, romanized: cheir ("hand"); and Acanthium, a genus of plants that are usually thorny-stemmed.
Cheiracanthium is primarily an Old World genus, with many species found from northern Europe to Japan, from Southern Africa to India and Australia. The only known species in the New World are C. inclusum and C. mildei. While the former also occurs in Africa and Réunion, the latter is found in the Holarctic region and Argentina. They can also be found in the lower mainland of British Columbia, Canada.[2]
The genus is quite diverse in Africa and at least three or four species are known to occur in Egyptian cotton fields alone. Members of Cheiracanthium are documented beneficial predators in agricultural fields and are also known to be mildly venomous to humans. The species Cheiracanthium inclusum has been studied more than the other species in regard to its role in controlling pest insects in the southeastern United States.[citation needed]
Cheiracanthium venom is purportedly necrotic, and can cause pain, swelling and lesions in humans.[3] However, both the necrotic nature and severity of the spider's bite have been disputed. A study of twenty confirmed Cheiracanthium bites in the United States and Australia found that none resulted in necrosis.[4]
Because of the possibly necrotic nature of the wound, MRSA infection is a danger and victims are advised to seek medical treatment.[citation needed] Painful bites may be incurred from species such as C. punctorium in Europe, C. mildei in Europe and North America, C. inclusum in the Americas, C. lawrencei in South Africa and C. japonicum in Japan.[3]
Attraction to vehicle engines[edit]
Some yellow sac spiders are attracted to the smell of volatiles in gasoline.[5] An unspecified Cheiracanthium species is reportedly attracted to the smell of petroleum and has caused problems by weaving webs inside the canister vent of particular models of Mazda vehicles, resulting in blockages and build-up of pressure that could potentially cause fuel leakage from the fuel tank and an increased risk of fire. Mazda issued a voluntary recall of Mazda 6 models built between 2010—2012, to fit them with software which would alert drivers if problems were developing.[6]
See also[edit]
- ^ Ubick, D.; et al. (2005). Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society.
- ^ Platnick 2007
- ^ a b Papini, R (2012). "Documented bites by a yellow sac spider (Cheiracanthium punctorium) in Italy: a case report". Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases. 18 (3): 349–354. doi:10.1590/S1678-91992012000300014.
- ^ Vetter, RS; Isbister, GK; Bush, SP; Boutin, LJ (June 2006). "Verified bites by yellow sac spiders (genus Cheiracanthium) in the United States and Australia: where is the necrosis?". The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 74 (6): 1043–8. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.2006.74.1043. PMID 16760517.
- ^ "Gas-loving spider prompts Mazda recall in U.S." Reuters. March 4, 2011.
- ^ "Spider invasion prompts Mazda software fix". BBC. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
- Howell, W. Mike & Jenkins, Ronald L. (2004): Spiders of the US: A photographic guide. ISBN 0-536-75853-0
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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Former Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Comey, a Republican who gained fame when he refused to sanction a government surveillance initiative in 2004, won Senate confirmation on Monday as President Barack Obama's pick to head the FBI. The vote was 93-1.
Comey, 52, will succeed Robert Mueller, who has led the bureau since shortly before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
The roll-call vote began minutes after Republican Senator Rand Paul lifted a hold on the nomination, which he did when the FBI met his demand by answering questions about the domestic use of drones, unmanned surveillance aircraft.
Paul said in a statement that he disagreed with the FBI's position that it does not have to get a warrant to deploy a drone, but he ended his hold because the agency responded.
Paul cast the lone vote against the confirmation.
Comey served as deputy U.S. attorney general for President George W. Bush, a Republican, from 2003 to 2005. He gained a reputation for being willing to buck authority when he refused in 2004 to certify aspects of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program.
At the time, Comey was acting attorney general while then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was hospitalized with pancreatitis.
Comey's refusal prompted top White House officials to go to the hospital to get Ashcroft to sign the certification. Comey, who was in the room, said Ashcroft refused.
Comey's actions won him the support of Democrats who opposed Bush's domestic surveillance program. Comey left the Justice Department in 2005 and served until 2010 as general counsel to aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.
At his Senate confirmation hearing this month, Comey testified that he believed that the use of waterboarding, or near drowning, as an interrogation technique was torture and thus illegal.
Comey said he had made his views known when he was in the Bush administration but lost battles to stop the CIA from using so-called enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding and sleep deprivation on enemy combatants.
The FBI has nearly 36,000 employees, including 13,785 special agents who investigate cases ranging from domestic and international terrorism to civil rights violations, drug cases, white-collar crime and public corruption.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Democrat who presided over Comey's confirmation hearing, said, "If we learned nothing else since the September 11th attacks, we learned that it matters who leads our nation — at all levels of government.
"James Comey and I do not agree on every issue, but I believe he is committed to the rule of law," Leahy said.

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Congressman Anthony Weiner's pregnant wife Huma Abedin returned to their Washington, DC home early Wednesday. Abedin had been traveling overseas with her boss Secretary of State Hillary Clinton since the disgraced congressman's Twitter scandal broke. The question is now: does her return mean the defiant House member's resignation may be imminent?
On Tuesday, fellow Democrat Rep. Carolyn McCarthy suggested as much.
"It's been what two weeks. It's been a very long two weeks," said McCarthy. "Hopefully, we are hearing he might resign in a couple of days."
The congressman's colleagues on Capitol Hill want him to leave after his embarrassing sexting scandal.
"I think we should send a strong message to him that he should resign," said Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Michigan).
"Our caucus understands our concern for the rights of the individual member but our higher responsibility is to our country to uphold a high ethical standard in the Congress of the United States," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif).
House Speaker John Boehner was the latest to weigh in on the sexting scandal, saying he should step down.
CBS News reported that Weiner has told friends he would make no decision until he spoke with his wife. Weiner was officially on a two week leave of absence, getting professional treatment, according to his office.
President Obama has already suggested Weiner should resign, but some say there may be more he can do to influence the decision.
"Maybe the White House helps him get a job, with no fingerprints, so he can go on making a living, which is what he needs to do as well," said political consultant Hank Sheinkopf.
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It was the movie of last year, and at the center of The Dark Knight was Heath Ledger's compelling Joker. But... who really invented the worryingly sane Clown Prince of Crime? Maybe not Chris Nolan.
Author F. Paul Wilson had a chance to see The Dark Knight recently, and found Ledger's Joker rather... familiar:
Yeah, that's my Joker.
Am I saying they couldn't have come up with that Joker without me? Not at all. As I was watching I got hints of the infusion of anarchic nihilism I'd administered, but nothing to write an email about…until the interrogation room scenes and his scene in the hospital with Harvey Dent. I watched those multiple times, recognized the seductive evil a work, and realized the emailers were right: Somebody somewhere along the line, in researching the character, had read [Wilson's short story from the 1989 prose anthology The Further Adventures of Batman] "Definitive Therapy." He may not even remember. I know I didn't realize that Matheson's "Born of Man and Woman" became my "Faces," and Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep" became Sibs until I reread their stories. It happens.
Am I gonna sue? Hell, no. First off, I can't. The Joker is not my character and the story was work for hire, so what I did with him belongs to DC. (As I've said before, When you play in someone else's sandbox, they get to keep your castle. This is why I don't do work for hire unless the sand is so special I've just gotta play with it. Like the Joker.)
And second, I think it's cool they liked my guy enough to put him to work in their film.
To convince others of his case, Wilson's put "Definitive Therapy" online - and, yes, there are definitely some similarities in the portrayal of the Joker... but both just seem to harken back to the same basic idea of a scary man with a clown's face that came from the Joker's original comic appearances. Go and read for yourself, and make up your own mind, however.
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Now I know I'm not the only one running around doing some last minute New Years Eve shopping today, right? I'm so excited to be ringing in the new year with my closest friends but most importantly to be making some important resolutions. The first – which most of you may say "ditto" to is to live a more healthy lifestyle (with eating and exercise). The next, is to have more significant family time. My grandma is currently struggling for her life in the hospital and it has really made me appreciate my family even more than I already do. I hope you guys can help me pray for her <3 Lastly, I would like to keep growing my blog by becoming a positive influence in other girls lives. Whether it's through my style inspiration or life experiences I always hope to become somewhat of a role model for other young women.
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If you have not yet seen the Wayfarer's Reverie quests in Guild Wars, do yourself a favor and go check them out.
Not because you get a Tormented weapon for completing them all…but because it's a lovely, nostalgic look back at a game that many of us played for years.
I don't think I spent an entire day in GW1 since I completed vanquishing Cantha – it's been well over a year. I've completed the things I want to do, I've bought the items and armors I want, I'm at 45/50 in my Hall of Monuments, and I'm happy with that.
And yet that's what I spent my Saturday evening and all day Sunday doing – playing Guild Wars. And I can't remember the last time I had so much fun doing so.
Several members of my guild for GW2, I Can Outtweet a Centaur!, met up to do the Wayfarer quests. We had fun. We did stupid things while running from point to point. We spent 45 minutes failing at an easy dungeon because we wanted treasure. We sat under the Pale Tree, made jokes about all sorts of inappropriate things, and hung out in Eye of the North dancing while using hero tonics. And thanks to one of our guild members accidentally recording two hours of gameplay (and filling his harddrive in the process), we'll have this on video forever.
We decided to do Fissure of Woe on Sunday afternoon. I had decided that I wanted to send off my oldest GW character, my Ranger and my nickname's namesake with a set of Obsidian armor. I helped finance sets of Obby for three other guildies so that they could get the points for their HoM. This completely wiped out the remainder of the money I had in-game, but it was more than worth it. Almost anything would be worth having so much fun with such an amazing group of people.
But one thing that most of us realized during all of this…this is likely the last time any of us will really play GW1. We'll still log in for events and the like, I'm sure, but the days of playing all the time are over. While this is because of Guild Wars 2 launching in a week and headstart being in just over four days…it's really kind of sad. The GW-EN farewell party refered to it as an end of an era, and really…I can't think of any better way to describe it. There will never be another game like Guild Wars again. It really was a one of a kind thing, a very unique sort of game.
But sometimes it's time to move on. There reaches a point where you've done everything in a game, and it no longer holds the appeal it used to. I will always love GW1, but it will never again hold the same sense of wonder and amazement that it used to. It's time for Guild Wars 2 to prove itself.
And so I say to you, my dear Guild Wars, farewell. And even if I don't log in frequently, I will never stop loving this game. To everyone I have met because of this game – thank you, for so many things. You are all amazing.
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Q&A with Water Polo Player Sarah Lizotte
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Sarah Lizotte has played a huge role in the UC San Diego women's water polo team's 3-1 start to the year. She scored 20 goals over four games, including a career-high eight scores in the Tritons' 15-10 win over Marist on January 29 at the Terrapin Invitational. She shot 58-percent on the week (20-for-34) while adding five assists and eight ejections drawn. The sophomore utility out of Riverside, Calif. stopped by to discuss this year's team, her career to date and the school's potential move to NCAA Division I.
You're off to a pretty solid start at 3-1 so far this season. How has the team looked to you at this point?
Well, I don't think we've had too great of a start. We should have gone 4-0 when we went to the East Coast, but ended up 3-1. It was kind of an eye-opener for us. I think we have a lot to work on. I think everyday we get in here and we see what we have to work on, so we're pushing ourselves to be better at the things we should have done better in Maryland.
11 of the Top 20 teams in the nation are coming into town this weekend for the Triton Invitational. How is the team preparing for the tournament and how do you expect to perform?
I think the East Coast trip a couple of weeks again helped us realize what we need to work on. We're going to come out against Santa Barbara and hopefully kick some butt. They're ranked ahead of us and I'm excited to play them. We should be able to do some damage.
You've averaged five goals per game so far this season and had a career-high eight goals in your last game at Marist. How have you seen your role evolve on your team since last season?
My role is to score, (head coach) Brad (Kreutzkamp) reminds me of that often. But I want my role to be more than just scoring goals. I want to help my team defensively. I think that's our team's biggest priority right now. In order to win games right now we have to score 15 or 16 goals to win a game and that's just not realistic. We can't expect to go into a game against Cal and expect to score 15 goals to win. If I improve my defense, it will help my game offensively as well.
In 2011, the team won the WWPA Championship for the first time since 2000 and made the school's first appearance at the NCAA Championships. How was that experience for you and the team?
We flew out to Michigan as a team and one of our teammate's (Kelsey Schultz) family actually lives in Ann Arbor. We got to visit her family and see her home. A lot of the parents went out to Michigan to watch us and cheer us on in the stands. It was actually really cool. To get to play at that caliber was amazing, an awesome experience. I want to do that for the next three years. Our first game was against Cal... and, I mean, a lot of the teams here won't have the opportunity to play Cal or a UCLA. To be on the same level as those teams was an absolutely awesome experience.
Your team lost a couple of key seniors- Hanalei Crowell and Felicia Orozco- in the spring who were key last year's NCAA Tournament run. What's the biggest difference between this year's team and last year's squad?
I think it's a big difference. I think Hana and Felicia contributed a lot to the team and we relied on them a whole lot. Felicia had an awesome left hand and Hana was our best defensive player. I think by losing them we've struggled a little bit to replace them so far. But we've only played four games and we have so long to go and so many more games to get through before conference.
The team pulled an upset in last year's WWPA championship game, 13-11, over Loyola Marymount, who had won the previous two tournaments. This year, the WWPA Championship Tournament will be here in La Jolla at Canyonview Pool. Does that make you feel a little bit more pressure to repeat as WWPA champs?
I feel pressure. We beat them last year and there's a little bit of a weight on our shoulders to beat them again. I think we will. We have all the motivation in the world. At the same time, we can't get ahead of ourselves and think we're going to blow by them. The games are going to be a struggle and that's something we're going to need to overcome. When we play them next month, we'll see how it goes. It is going to be awesome to have WWPA's here, just playing at home and having the home crowd- our family and our friends- is going to be really cool.
The UCSD men's team currently holds the WWPA title and the women's team currently holds the WWPA title. It is the first time that has happened since 2000. What does that mean to you and what does it say about water polo at UCSD?
We're a growing sport here at UCSD. I joke with Ken (Senior Associate Athletic Director Ken Grosse) about how one cares about us and will come to our games. (laughs) He's like "What are you talking about?!" I think that we're a growing sport and more and more people keep coming out. The men had so many more people out at their games this year and I think that's what is important for our programs. We play better when we have more people watching and supporting us.
You're team is one of the few programs at UCSD to play NCAA Division I teams regularly throughout the season. What are your thoughts on the athletics department possibly moving to the Division I level?
I want this to happen so badly. I probably talk about it every day. I'm really excited and I think it's a great opportunity. I don't know if students here really think that way yet though. When I talk to people about it, I try to put it a more academic sense. When you leave here and go apply for jobs, you're going to want people to say, "Oh you went to UCSD!" Honestly, some people don't even know we exist. But if you say, "I went to UCLA or Stanford," people will recognize those school names. Why do they recognize those schools? Because of their athletics. It has a lot to do with it. I think that UCSD can be that. By the time I graduate and I'm in the workforce, I hope that UCSD is DI. And I hope my potential employer will say, "Hey that's a great school, your basketball team or baseball team is outstanding!" That'd be awesome.
How do you think the higher profile of a Division I athletics program can help the school's academic reputation as well?
If we move to DI, we'll bring in athletes, and most importantly people, that are great. That's not going to lower our academic standards at all; which is what our school is all about. We'll be giving athletes an opportunity to compete here for a school that's academically great. Right now, we can't offer scholarships and it turns so many great people and athletes away. If we move DI, that's not going to happen. We're in a great location- San Diego is beautiful- and we have a great school. Athletically, we have the potential to be great on that level. We're already doing great things in Division II. Making this move is going to make history.
You weren't able to play the first half of your freshman season, but you finished with 46 goals on the season- third-most on the team. How did missing the first half of last season motivate you the rest of the year and into this season?
Missing the first half was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life. I hated knowing I was going to go to practice and not play. The feeling I got when the team traveled without me was terrible- I remember when the team went to Santa Barbara on the first trip of the season last year and I wasn't going. I walked outside and Mel (Melissa Bartow) was getting ice out of the machine, and I was almost crying, saying, "Mel I'm going to miss you so much!" I never want to experience that again and I don't want any of my teammates experiencing that. As far as motivation, it was the most I could possibly ask for. I never wanted something so badly. I went out and got a 3.5 GPA and killed it! I got back and our first game was in Hawaii. That was an awesome experience and I'm lucky I was able to see what I needed to fix.
Since you've been playing, the team has traveled to Hawaii, Michigan, Colorado and Maryland. How have you seen this team grow together on those trips?
We're really, really close outside of the water. We're all friends, no drama. It's really nice, it's a great atmosphere to be around. As a coach, I'm sure that Brad loves hearing that we hang out outside of practice. That's what you want. You want your teammates to get along with and like each other. It's something that definitely applies in the water.
When did you first realize you had an opportunity to play collegiate water polo?
When I was in high school, I had a coach my sophomore year who had never pushed me so much. He kind of opened my eyes to this world of college polo. At that point, I was like I can do this! So I switched clubs and really started pushing myself to get there.
When you're not playing water polo, what do you enjoy the most about being at UCSD?
I think UCSD is a great atmosphere outside of whatever sport you're in. There's a great athletic atmosphere here- all the student-athletes are really close. It's nice to get away from your sport. My roommate, Stephanie Yano, plays basketball. I like getting out to go see her game and get away from the pool because I'm here all the time. Other than that, school is a pain but it is what it is. It's tough playing water polo, traveling and doing well in school but it's okay.
What does the future hold for Sarah Lizotte after college?
I'm a communications major and I want to be a sports reporter. I think women sports reporters are a bit underrated. I think it is something I can work for. I love sports and being a part of them. I think I'd be pretty good.
How would you define this year as successful for you and the team?
For me, I want to improve on the offensive and defensive side of the ball. Defensively, I want to make more steals, block more shots and be a more of a defensive role player for us. For the team in general, our goal is to win conference and go to NCAA's again. We take it one game at a time, but we also look at the big picture and want to improve every game so we're playing our best when we get to the conference championships.
Previous Q & A Articles
Charity Elliott (Women's Basketball) January 31, 2012
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James McCann (Men's Basketball) December 29, 2011
Emily Osga (Women's Basketball) December 19, 2011
John Butler (Men's Water Polo) November 28, 2011
Lauren Demos (Women's Volleyball) November 8, 2011
Cory Wolfrom (Men's Soccer) October 26, 2011
Ellen Wilson (Women's Soccer) October 1, 2011
Brian Donohoe (Men's Water Polo) September 4, 2011
Roxanne Brunsting (Women's Volleyball) August 19, 2011
Jon Pascale (Men's Soccer) August 4, 2011
Jon Pascale (Men's Soccer) August 4, 2011
Vincent Nguyen (Tennis) July 1, 2011
Patti Gerckens (Softball) May 26, 2011
Blake Tagmyer (Baseball) May 11, 2011
Theresa Richards (Women's Track & Field) April 27, 2011
Austin West (Men's Tennis) April 17, 2011
Drew Lawyer (Men's Crew) April 11, 2011
Keith Okasaki (Men's Golf) March 26, 2011
Matt Herman (Men's Swimming & Diving) March 12, 2011
Hanalei Crowell (Women's Water Polo) March 5, 2011
Camille Gaito (Softball) February 23, 2011
Tim Shibuya (Baseball) February 8, 2011
Carl Eberts (Men's Volleyball) January 31, 2011
Neda Nguyen (Women's Swimming & Diving) January 24, 2011
Amy Bianchini (Fencing) January 14, 2011
Lauren Freidenberg (Women's Basketball) January 3, 2011
Christian Hatch (Men's Basketball) December 24, 2010
Blake Langland (Men's Swimming & Diving) November 27, 2010
Sarah McTigue (Women's Soccer) November 8, 2010
Brandon Yee (Men's Soccer) October 11, 2010
Bryce Madsen (Men's Water Polo) September 23, 2010
Annette Ilg (Women's Soccer) September 9, 2010
Ricci Luyties (Women's Volleyball Head Coach) August 24, 2010
Kevin Messey (Head Athletics Trainer) July 7, 2010
Dan O'Brien (Baseball Head Coach) June 18, 2010
Christine Merrill (Women's Track & Field) June 14, 2010
Vance Albitz (Baseball) May 11, 2010
Erik Elliott (Men's Tennis) May 3, 2010
Kelly Fogarty (Women's Track & Field) April 23, 2010
Liz LaPlante (Women's Tennis Head Coach) April 15, 2010
Kirby St. John (Baseball) March 24, 2010
Dan Perdew (Men's Swimming) February 28, 2010
Calvin Ross (Men's Volleyball) February 20, 2010
Nicole Saari (Softball) February 4, 2010
Brad Kreutzkamp (Women's Water Polo Head Coach) January 18, 2010
Tyler Acevedo (Men's Basketball) January 4, 2010
Dr. Cliff Kubiak (UCSD's Faculty Athletic Rep) December 18, 2009
Chelsea Carlisle (Women's Basketball) December 9, 2009
Carianne Cunningham (Women's Swimming) November 23, 2009
Elena Inouye (Cross Country) November 6, 2009
David Morton (Men's Water Polo) October 28, 2009
Juan Pablo Carillo (Men's Swimming) October 19, 2009
Sara Spaventa (Women's Soccer) October 10, 2009
Karen Reis (Women's Volleyball) October 2, 2009
Daniel Pavitt (Men's Soccer) September 23, 2009
Daniel Anderson (Cross Country) September 11, 2009
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Alexia Zatarain (Women's Soccer) August 24, 2009
Elaine Chen (Women's Volleyball) August 12, 2009
Jared Kukura (Men's Soccer) July 30, 2009
Dawn Lee (Former Women's Soccer Standout) July 8, 2009
Rob Mamula (Director of Athletic Performance) June 18, 2009
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Now that we've completed our optional "loyalty" quests for all current party members, it's time to go ahead and recruit the second wave of characters into our party, starting with Tali. To get there, head to your galaxy map. When you reach the nearest Mass Relay from wherever you are, go to the Far Rim, at the farthest edge of the galaxy. Once there, you'll be brought to a small system called Dholen with a gigantic red star, on the verge of going nova. You're seeking out the planet Haestrom, which as you'll find out, is a Geth stronghold. The nearby star's interference cloaks the planet fairly well from probes (et cetera), but what we do know is that Tali has infiltrated the planet, and this is where we're going to find her.
Once you land, you'll see a little planetside critter getting fried in the sunlight. That's a hint to you to stay out of the light when you can, since the star dominating the sky is going nova, and is thus quite hot. Of course, you're not going to be able to stay out of the sun at all times. As you'll learn when moving forward, direct sunlight will whittle away at your shield, giving you precious seconds to get in and out before any damage is done. Therefore, you'll need to run forward through the light to the shadowy area on the other side. Then, continue forward and down the ramp, running in and out of the sunlight again. At the bottom of the ramp, you'll see a huge blast door directly in front of you that, when examined, won't budge. Instead, you'll be forced to use the smaller door on your right to continue.
The door to your right will lead to a small office. A distress signal mentioning Tali is playing on a nearby computer terminal. Once you enter this office, pillage the dead Geth's body for some credits. You can also find a medical kit in here, if you're in want of Medi-Gel. Ultimately, however, you're going to need to hit the switch on your left, which will open the aforementioned blast door. Once this is done, you can then circle around back outside and head through the now-open blast door. On the other side, run forward through the sun and quickly seek cover, as a Geth dropship shows up and lands some Geth baddies for you to deal with. Thankfully, this first wave of foes is easy enough to deal with -- just stay out of the sun (it appears the sun doesn't affect the synthetic Geth), and meticulously whittle down their numbers as you push forward.
As you head forward, the blast doors on the far side of this compound will open up to deposit several separate waves of enemies for you to deal with. These mechanical foes shouldn't be too difficult for you to handle, though you'll need to find safe places from which to spring attacks. At least half of this area is baking in the sunlight of a star about to go nova, and it's easy to get yourself stuck between a rock (an enemy) and a hard place (the sun), being damaged by both. If you find yourself in that situation, it can be a relatively hopeless one, so be aware! As all of the fighting around you is raging, be sure to explore the little crevasses to your right. In the shade of one of these crevasses, near a ramp leading up to a catwalk above, you should be able to find a valuable pistol upgrade. Don't miss it!
Speaking of that ramp leading up, you can take the ramp to explore an extensive catwalk network directly above you, spanning the right side of the courtyard (if your back is facing the way you came). This is a great place to spring attacks from on enemies below, though you should have already killed most of the enemies here (you can access this same catwalk from the beginning of the courtyard should you choose to attack from up here instead). Unfortunately, the only item of interest up here is a medical kit with a Medi-Gel in it. When you find yourself back on ground level, push forward towards the now-closed blast door, killing any remaining enemies around you. A container of Iridium should be sitting on an orange-colored box on your left as you push towards the blast door. When you arrive at the blast door, it will be locked, so push rightward along the wall, and you'll come to a little opening, where some Geth seem to be having target practice. You know what to do -- lay into these thugs before they know what hit 'em, quieting them down real quick.
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Hot on the heels of his knighthood, Olympic cycling champion Sir Bradley Wiggins has landed another title - Britain's wittiest living celebrity.
More than 2,000 British adults were took part in the poll to mark the start of TV channel Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival.
They were asked to choose from a shortlist of 25 celebrities, excluding professional comedians, to select the funniest person.
The Tour de France champion came top for quips such as the one he made to crowds by the Champs-Elysees, who came to see him become the race's first British winner.
"We're just going to draw the raffle numbers now".
After being named the Sports Personality Of The Year, Wiggins said: "Nan, the cheque is in the post, because you pressed redial God knows how many times."
London Mayor Boris Johnson came second in the poll, with jokes such as:
"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
Crystal Palace football manager Ian Holloway was third for the likes of "Right now, everything is going wrong for me - if I fell in a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb!"
The top five was completed by Apprentice star Lord Sugar and Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson.
Robbie Williams was sixth, followed by Noel Gallagher, who said of his estranged brother Liam:
He's the angriest man you'll ever meet, he's like a man with a fork in a world of soup.
Singer Rod Stewart was eighth, who said after a divorce: "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
Ninth and tenth place went to Ant McPartlin, followed by Colin Firth, who quipped: "Colin is the sort of name you give your goldfish for a joke."
No women made the top 10, although Claudia Winkleman was voted funniest woman, followed by Lily Allen.
Top 10 Wittiest (with examples)
1) Sir Bradley Wiggins: Asked about how he's anticipating one of the punishing Tour de France climbs in the Pyrenees - "It goes uphill like all the others, doesn't it?"
2) Boris Johnson: During London 2012: "'Inspire a generation' is our motto. Not necessarily 'Create a generation'...which is what they sometimes get up to in the Olympic village."
3) Ian Holloway : After QPR beat Cardiff: "I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season."
4) Lord Sugar: To Apprentice candidates - "I've read all your CVs and on paper you all look good, but so does fish and chips."
5) Jeremy Clarkson: "I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?"
6) Robbie Williams:"Madonna looked amazing. I can't believe she's 89 and looks like that."
7) Noel Gallagher on Wayne Rooney's hair transplant: "I'm not having it. He looks like a balloon with a Weetabix crushed on top"
8) Rod Stewart: "It's often said that a band is like a family, and that may well be true, depending on how often your family is tired and drunk."
9) Ant McPartlin: "Our first flat, in South West London, was a pig-sty....Peter Andre lived in the flat above us and in the evenings he'd go to the gym while we'd be working on our own six packs - of beer."
10) Colin Firth: Joking about the possibility of his fellow Bridget Jones's Diary star Hugh Grant retiring from acting: "All we can do is hope and pray."
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Jenna Von Oy represents as the original fast-talking dynamo, Six LeMeure*, in the world of Blossom meets Girls. Smallest baggage = dead tooth is my vote for best line. It's not the funniest ever, and I have a feeling that we haven't seen the last of the Girls parodies, but man, it brought me back to dancing along to the Blossom credits. So funky!
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Driving Toward the Next Generation of Steel for the Automotive Industry
A vehicle's body structure is its single largest component, representing 20 to 25 percent of its curb weight. The primary function of the body structure is to serve as a single bracket to which all other vehicle components are attached—in precise alignment—to enable the vehicle to meet performance requirements under the complex loading of the driving environment. Achieving this precision can prove challenging, considering the body structure comprises an assembly of more than 100 individual stamped-steel parts. During the past two decades, this challenge has increased as higher-strength steels have been employed in response to increasing crash-safety requirements, while simultaneously enabling mass reduction to comply with fuel-economy regulations.
Strength Increases at a Quick Pace
The move to high-strength steels has been rapid. A body structure in the early 1980s comprised mainly mild steel with tensile strengths around 270 MPa. The next two decades saw a shift to high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) grades with strength levels around 450 MPa. Use of grades with strength in excess of 450 MPa was extremely limited, since they lacked sufficient ductility to stampers to achieve the required complex shapes. However, automotive designers required higher-strength steels to keep pace with increasing crash-safety and fuel-economy mandates.
To meet this challenge, the steel industry developed the advanced high-strength steels. In particular, United States Steel created its USS Safety Steel family of steels, including Dual-Ten and Trip-Ten grades in strength levels of 590 to 980 MPa. These new steels provide the added strength and ductility necessary to achieve improved crash safety, with thinner gauges that enable mass reduction. They also provide sufficient ductility to allow stamping for high-volume automotive production.
In 1999, United States Steel received the first North American production application of these grades when Dual-Ten 590 was applied to a front upper rail to improve front crash performance, while reducing the weight typically associated with such a part. Since 1999, demand for the high-strength USS Safety Steel family of steels has increased.
"These new grades represent 10 percent of the flat-rolled steel in a typical vehicle," says Mike Juddo, United States Steel's director of product technology, "or 160 lb. per vehicle, with some vehicles reaching well in excess of 300 lb. Looking to the future, our customers expect to increase the use of these high-strength grades to 40 percent, or 590 lb. on a typical vehicle, with some vehicles including as much as 650 lb."
Springback, Die Life and Other Challenges
The application of these high-strength grades initially created significant manufacturing challenges. Metalformers were faced with the difficulty of forming components within the steels' restricted forming envelopes while maintaining part dimensional tolerances challenged by springback. Other challenges revolved around die life, since the strength of the steels being stamped approached that of the die steels. This resulted in die wear and fatigue under the required forming load. Over time, die technology evolved to address these challenges, allowing the use of Dual-Ten 590 to mature to where it is now a regularly used material at many automotive-stamping facilities. Likewise, Dual-Ten 780 and 980 are rapidly progressing down the same path.
Meanwhile, some of the challenges faced when forming these new grades were not anticipated and rarely experienced with conventional mild and high-strength steels. As demand grew for applications of Dual-Ten 780 and 980, stampers began to experience some previously uncommon stamping failures, such as cracking of sheared edges during stretching and shear fracture at tight bend radii. These failures—associated with areas in the stamping that undergo a significant amount of localized deformation—have been termed "local formability" failures. While traditional necking and splitting of stampings has been understood and predicted for several decades using analytical tools available for simulation and for use in the field, no such tools exist for these new failure modes.
As an example, a common failure experienced in production has been at the sheared edge of a stamped blank. An extensive study conducted at the United States Steel Automotive Center found that significant improvements can be achieved with the shear die configuration by optimizing the shear die clearance, cutting angles and shearing speed. When implemented correctly, a blanking die that employs these techniques can provide a 25-percent improvement in edge-fracture strain compared to conventional blanking-die designs.
IBF Steels
United States Steel also is taking a product-development approach to addressing local formability issues, evidenced by the recent development and commercialization of IBF (Improved Bending and Flanging) steel grades. Through microstructure optimization, these grades provide a 50- to 100-percent improvement in local formability properties compared to traditional Dual-Ten 780 and 980 grades. In a recent stamping study conducted by the Auto/Steel Partnership to evaluate several 980-MPa tensile-strength steels on a part prone to local formability failure, an IBF 980 grade provided superior performance and was able to meet the forming requirements. IBF grades have been a game changer, enabling the use of 780- and 980-MPa steels in critical applications that would not otherwise be possible with traditional dual-phase grades.
"With the application of 980-MPa grades already being deployed in current products, our customers are demanding even higher strength as they prepare to meet the fuel-economy requirements of the new CAFE laws implemented for 2012-2016," says Bart DePompolo, technical marketing manager at the United States Steel Automotive Center. "In response, we are developing coated and uncoated products at 1180-MPa tensile strengths, already targeted at 2014 production-vehicle platforms."
Added Capacity for Multiphase Steels
In December 2010, United States Steel and Kobe Steel announced the construction of a new state-of-the-art continuous annealing line at their Pro-Tec Coating Company joint venture in Leipsic, OH. The new line, expected to reach full production by the end of 2013, will have the capacity to produce 500,000 tons annually of Dual-Ten, Trip-Ten and Multi-Ten steels at strength levels to 1200 MPa, as well as tempered Mart-Ten steels to 1500 MPa.
Looking to the future, the full capability of this facility will be leveraged to produce the next generation of high-strength steels to provide grades at strength levels of 800 to 1500 MPa, with formability attributes that will exceed the current range of products, and martensitic steels with strength levels to 2000 MPa. This next generation of USS Safety Steel products will be targeted at providing automotive customers with increased design flexibility in achieving the advanced lightweight designs of the future.
To demonstrate how these new grades can help the automotive industry meet future objectives, an engineering design study recently was conducted to investigate the mass-reduction potential of applying USS Safety Steels family of steels to a current production vehicle. The study demonstrated the potential for a 20-percent mass reduction of the body structure when more than 90 percent of the body structure was comprised of USS Safety Steel with an average strength of 750 MPa. This mass reduction was accomplished while maintaining the predicted high level of crash-safety performance, ride and handling attributes, and durability of the baseline vehicle without increasing the estimated manufacturing cost of the body structure.
The study includes hardware builds and full-scale testing to validate manufacturing and performance of critical structural systems. As an added benefit, studies show that vehicles designed to be produced with these lightweight steels are advantaged, from a vehicle's lifecycle carbon-emissions standpoint, compared to those vehicles that potentially employ competing materials with carbon intensities that can be six to 20 times higher than steel. (Lifecycle analysis considers carbon intensity of materials used in the vehicle, as well as that associated with its build, road life and eventual recycling).
Next-Gen Steels to Realize True Design Optimization
Vehicle makers' desires for higher-strength steels, and the recent advanced steels developed to support those needs, have helped enable mass reduction relative to the grades they replaced, while providing the required performance in crash safety, ride, handling and durability. However, while these new grades provide sufficient formability to allow them to be manufactured into the geometries needed for automotive designs, they still often require significant design concessions that compromise the full structural optimization and utility of the design.The next generation of high-strength and more formable steels are anticipated, to help resolve this conflict in realizing true design optimization. The added formability will enable designers to fully optimize the shape of components and take full advantage of the strength of these steels. This will allow a leap forward in design efficiency and mass reduction while achieving structural performance targets. MF
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A winner was selected from 105 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
Swan Creek Furniture Company
Brand new high end furniture company - utilizing cabinet making techniques that result in a finished product that looks old.(worn) Pieces that are so solid and painstakingly built that they will last forever. Not to be found at your typical furniture store. Colours are typically muted (pastel).
Our companies manufacturing facility is in an old barn. Our main office is in a century old house. Creeky floors etc... The reason for the name Swan Creek... is that the creek running right behind our 'barn' is called Swan Creek. We are mainly cabinet makers (not kitchens) - specializing in stand alone pieces (end tables, coffee tables, wardrobes, desks) We love working with wood.
Our target audience is high-end buyers looking for that 'country' feel to add to the decor of the house. Our market is not new - but it is specialized. The ability to make this attractive furniture is an art and takes years of experience to perfect in order to become a money-making business - not just a hobby.
Interior designers are the ones who most recommend us to their clients -who then come to our showroom/facility to see us at work and see our products.
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the sign will be approximately 2' high x 3' wide - it will be double sided when completed (we are doing some faux cabinet add-ons to the sign posts when completed)
as well see the attached swan graphic we would like to have in the oval located in the sign shape (the oval can be resized or reshaped if necessary)
colours: cream and brown - we would like the finished look to be rustic and leave the sign looking old.
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Hans Hass, a marine biologist and underwater filmmaker from landlocked Austria who was among the first to introduce worldwide audiences to the beauties of coral reefs, stingrays, octopuses and sharks — especially sharks, which he considered the most beautiful and most maligned ocean creatures — died on June 16 in Vienna. He was 94.
The death was confirmed by his wife, Lotte, on his Web site.
Dr. Hass, who had a doctorate in marine biology, considered himself a scientist first and foremost, but he was best known for the 105 commercial films he made between 1948 and 1960, features as well as shorts.
Almost all of them had him and his wife, who was also an expert diver, exploring an underwater frontier largely unknown to audiences of the day: mountains of coral, clouds of fish, cruising rays and barracudas, jellyfish, wrasses, sponges and Precambrian creatures in their alcove habitats, much of it backlighted in filtered sunlight from above.
For dramatic effect, the climax of many of the films involved a close encounter with sharks.
Dr. Hass once claimed to have been in easy-prey range of more than 2,000 sharks in his diving career, and to have been attacked "only five times," never suffering life-threatening injuries. Sharks, he said, were rather cautious, even cowardly, around humans as a rule and easily warded off with a blow to the gills.
"There are more fatalities from wasps and bees than from sharks — that's a fact known to every diver," he said in an interview on German television in the 1990s. "It's no problem to avoid them. The problem is to find them and photograph them."
Dr. Hass was a rival of Jacques Cousteau, the far more famous French underwater filmmaker, who died in 1997. Though their paths diverged, the two men's early careers were similar, and Dr. Hass claimed to have reached several milestones first.
He published his first book of underwater photographs, "Diving to Adventure," in 1939 and released his first underwater film, "Stalking Under Water," a year later. Mr. Cousteau made his first film in 1942 and published his first book, "10 Fathoms Down," in 1946.
Dr. Hass also claimed to have been the first to use oxygen-delivery equipment for underwater exploration, in the early 1950s, while Mr. Cousteau continued using an older technology. Both received international acclaim for their documentary films: Dr. Hass won first prize at the Venice Film Festival for his first feature, "Under the Red Sea," in 1951, and Mr. Cousteau won an Academy Award in 1957 for his first feature, "The Silent World," based on his 1953 book of the same title, which he directed with Louis Malle. By most accounts, Dr. Hass developed one of the first underwater cameras.
Tim Ecott, the author of "Neutral Buoyancy" (2001), a history of underwater exploration, asked Dr. Hass if he resented Mr. Cousteau's greater renown. "No, why should I be bitter? The sea is so big," Dr. Hass replied. He then added sharply: "For Cousteau there existed only Cousteau. He never acknowledged others or corrected the impression that he wasn't the first in diving or in underwater photography."
Hans Hass was born in Vienna on Jan. 23, 1919, to Hans and Meta Hass. His father was a prominent lawyer, and young Hans was studying law when he met Guy Gilpatric, an American writer and skin-diving enthusiast, on a Riviera vacation in 1938. He soon found himself hooked on underwater exploration.
Initially excused from serving in the German military during World War II — because of poor circulation in his feet, he told interviewers — he spent most of the war diving in the waters off the Greek islands, researching his doctoral thesis in marine biology. After receiving his Ph.D. from Berlin University in 1943, Dr. Hass was conscripted into a Wehrmacht frogman unit.
After his marriage to the German movie actress Hannelore Schroth ended in divorce, he married Lotte Baierl in 1950. Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, also named Hans.
Dr. Hass and his wife made a popular BBC television series in 1956 called "Diving to Adventure," based on his book, and another in 1958, "The Undersea World of Adventure."
He gave up diving in 1961 to pursue research in behavioral science and write books, among them "The Human Animal" (1968), "The Shark" (1977) and "How the Fish Turned Into Humans" (1979), most of which have been translated into English. He wrote 28 books in all. In 1999 he founded the International Hans Hass Institute for Energon-Cybernetic Research at the University of Vienna, where he held a professorship.
Dr. Hass distilled his behavioral research into a hypothesis he called the energon theory, which was the focus of his work in later years. It posits that the behaviors of all life-forms — human, nonhuman animal and vegetable — have common origins. The theory emerged from his book "We Come From the Sea" (1957), describing his affinity with sharks.


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NICHOLASVILLE -- A Marine who lost both legs and his eyesight after a 2007 explosion in Iraq began a new chapter of his life Feb. 21 with the groundbreaking of a new house.
Cpl. Matt Bradford, a Purple Heart recipient who grew up in Winchester, will receive one of two houses in Kentucky from a program called Helping a Hero. The organization supports military personnel severely injured during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"I'm very happy," Bradford said before the ceremony. "This is very generous. It's a great thing."
The house in Equestrian Estates in northern Jessamine County will have one story, wider doorways and hallways, a shower that can accommodate a wheelchair, and voice-activated controls to turn on a television, said Meredith Iler, national chairman and founder of Helping a Hero.
"He'll be able to be as independent as possible," Iler said. "We will also bring a lot of our biometric technology where he will be able to open his doors with his thumb instead of having to figure out which key he has."
Each room in the house will have different wall textures "so that if he were ever to fall, he could touch the wall and know which room he's in," Iler said.
Helping a Hero, based in Houston, has awarded 90 homes in 21 states to people who were severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
About $200,000 will be raised for the Bradford house from private donations, Iler said. "The family is responsible for a $50,000 mortgage," she said. "And so it's really great for them, because it gives them an opportunity to participate but at a level where they're able to on a fixed disability salary."
The Bradford house is scheduled to be finished in August by Peterson Homes. Bradford, 26, and his wife, Amanda, 33, commit to remain in the house for 10 years. The couple have three children: Nolan, 9, Emma, 7 and Layla, who turns 1 next week. The family now rents a two-level house in Lexington.
"This is such a blessing," Amanda Bradford said of the planned house. "It's going to give Matt his independence and bring our family together on a really different level that we've yet to experience. ... We're really looking forward to getting rid of the stairs for Matt and getting him on the safe one-level."
Matt Bradford stepped on an improvised explosive device in January 2007. Shrapnel penetrated his left eye and peppered his right. He now wears prosthetic legs and uses a cane.
"Life is a journey of many ups and downs and trials and tribulations," he told the crowd at the groundbreaking. "From now on, on this land right here, Amanda and I are starting on a new journey in life."
Matt Bradford is a big fan of the University of Kentucky men's basketball team, and he received a standing ovation at Rupp Arena when the Cats played Auburn on Feb. 9.
Tom Leach, the voice of the Wildcats, referred to that recognition at the groundbreaking.
"That may have been the biggest ovation we've heard all year, and that's saying something when you're talking about Kentucky basketball," Leach said. "His neighbors and the whole commonwealth of Kentucky know what somebody like this means to our country -- that people are willing to make that kind of sacrifice for all of us. I can't think of anybody that deserves a standing ovation more than that."
Matt Bradford takes public speaking and communications classes at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, and he hopes to become a Wildcats sports analyst.
Another Helping a Hero house in Bowling Green is two weeks from completion. Army Sgt. J.D. Williams, the recipient of that house, attended Thursday's groundbreaking. Willliams lost both legs and an arm in 2010 after an improvised explosive device blew up in Afghanistan.
Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul also spoke at the ceremony.
"I think it's important that we know that not only was Matt heroic in battle, but there's a lot of heroism going on once they get home," Paul said.
Paul said he will join U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth in August to raise money for Help for a Hero to fund a house in Jefferson County.


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Sparrow Records/Capitol Christian Music Group new recording act City Harbor, comprised of singer/songwriters Molly Reed and Robby Earle, announce they will release their debut album on 4th February 2014. City Harbor was produced by Ben Glover (Britt Nicole), David Garcia (Mandisa, Tobymac) and Matt Bronleewee (Jars of Clay, Chris Tomlin).
The moniker City Harbor is quite the fit for this duo's blend of organic and harmonic Pop. With songs sharing about real-life issues, such as living out our faith in such a complex world, the words "City Harbor" represent not only what Earle and Reed hope their music is for the listener, a shelter from the storm, but are also inspired by Jesus's words in Matthew 11:28—"Come to Me all who are weary, and I will give you rest."
Instead of writing songs that center around momentary relief and temporary things, Reed and Earle share a vision for making music that's honest and an invitation to experience God's goodness, offering hope to a world where sorrow, hurt, pain and suffering color so many people's stories. With the songs found on their debut City Harbor, they do just that in a fresh yet personal way. "In the midst of so much darkness, it's so incredible to sing about what's good and true," Earle shares.
The album's first single is 'Come However You Are,' currently at radio. "God wants us to come to Him, not hide," shares Reed. "Rather than hide in shame, Jesus invites us to find our rest in Him, no matter where you are, no matter what you look like." Another track, 'I Still Believe,' was written by Reed during a season when she struggled with depression. The song was a moment of personal catharis that she hopes will resonate with anyone with the same questions she had.
Molly Reed, who is married to Mike Grayson of MIKESCHAIR, has quickly become a go-to songwriter for many of Nashville's most beloved artists such as Wynonna, Amy Grant, Point of Grace, Francesca Battistelli, Mikeschair, as well as NBC's The Voice winner Danielle Bradbery. Her work has also been featured in TV's One Tree Hill and Vampire Diaries.
For Robby Earle, music and ministry have always been intertwined in his life. With a mother who served as a choir director, his earliest contributions were for his local church. Eventually, Earle found his comfortable niche as a singer/songwriter.
"This is an exciting season for City Harbor, and we're excited to share the core of who we are by encouraging people to go to Jesus in whatever shape they're in," Reed exclaims. "Come to God and receive His peace, love, grace and rest. That's the heartbeat of our message, a resounding reminder that God is always there."
Until the album's release, you can currently hear the music of City Harbor on two WOW projects. 'Come However You Are' can be found on the new WOW Hits 2014 compilation CD, while 'It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year' is featured on the 'WOW Christmas 2013, Deluxe Edition'.
City Harbor has already toured with Francesca Battistelli, Amy Grant and appeared at this year's Night Of Joy. This Christmas season, City Harbor will be on the "It's Christmas Tour" with MIKESCHAIR and Finding Favor. Spring 2014 will take the duo on the road opening for Sidewalk Prophets.


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My Sermon of Last Sunday
Those interested in what preaching at St. Vincent's Cathedral is like might find my sermon on the Canaanite woman last Sunday to be useful.
"The Preachers chiefly shall take heed that they teach nothing in their preaching, which they would have the people religiously to observe and believe, but that which is agreeable to the Doctrine of the Old Testament and the New, and that which the Catholick Fathers and Ancient Bishops have gathered out of that Doctrine." A proposed canon of Elizabeth I, 1571
I am a presbyter in the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas (Anglican Church in North America). I serve as Chaplain at St. Vincent's School and as a canon of St. Vincent's Cathedral Church in Bedford, Texas. In addition to my parish duties and teaching Religion classes in the school I am also the Middle School Social Studies teacher.


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- Auteur(s):
- Obradovic, Daniela; Lavranos, Nikos
- Jaartal:
- 2007
- Taal:
- engels
- Afmetingen:
- 16,7x24,7cm
- Pagina's:
- 389
- 9789076871721
- Uitvoering:
- Hardback
- Druk/editie:
- First
Europa Law Publishing
Interface between EU Law and National LawTerug
The book is aimed at examining the interface or interaction between European Union (EU) law and national law, in particular at assessing the delineation of competences between the EU and its member states regarding various policy areas. The book is intended not only to investigate the controversial aspects of the EU-national law relationship, but it should result into the presentation of recommendations for guiding the interface between EU and national rules in specific domains.Consequently, its objective is the production of guidelines for governing not yet clearly defined interactive correlations between EU and national legal norms in particular fields. More specifically, the following questions will be dealt with:Are there some policy areas lacking any interaction between EU and national rules? What are the remaining or residual competences left to the member states/national law? If there are remaining powers for the member states, are they actually exercised and if so in accordance with which principles? The contributions do not intend to take stock of the current doctrine and jurisprudence on those matters, but rather to use them as a starting point for an innovative analysis that will lead to new insights.


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Orchestration: 2 Flutes (2nd db.piccolo), 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons, 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (2 or 3 players: Snare Drum, Glockenspiel, Cymbals (clashed), Tubular Bells), Harp (or Piano), Organ (optional)Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) and Unison Voices (optional).Auld Lang Syne is a poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song. It is well known in many countries, especially in the English-speaking world, its traditional use being to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight. It is also sung at funerals, graduations and as a farewell or ending to other occasions.This new orchestration by Peter Lawson can be used as an accompaniment for "community" singing or for orchestra alone. It uses just two of the original five verses of Burns' poem.Two options for ending are given: end at Bar 56 for a big finish, or for a more reflective ending, continue for the remaining 12 bars.A PACK comprises an A4 sized full score plus a complete set of parts including strings 4/4/3/4/2.Duration 3 minutes
Click the play button below to hear a performance which has been computer-generated from the score.
Bring Back Christmas Cheer
by Peter Lawson
William Boyce Suite (Benoy) Pack
by William Boyce
Apres Un Reve (arr.Harris)
by Gabriel Faure


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Where one woman bears the child, but the other woman is part of a couple, planning for the birth and raising the newborn, the woman who did not give birth is considered one of the child's parents and has rights and support obligations when the couple splits up. It did not matter that the nonbirth parent had not adopted the child.
The NYT provides the predictable "traditional values" quote:
"You've essentially begun to undermine and unravel the family," said Mathew D. Staver of Liberty Counsel, a law firm that submitted briefs arguing against the recognition of two same-sex parents.I'd like to see a quote from a traditionalist who wasn't the lawyer in this case. Do social conservatives really want to privilege the birth mother's relationship but also cut her off from a source of financial support? Lesbians will have babies, whether you like it or not. Why is it worse to preserve that child's relationships and preserve private sources of funds for raising it? Or do we already know social conservatives are total pushovers for slippery slope arguments about the dreaded gay marriage?
"If these cases are any indication," Mr. Staver said, "it makes it look like they're tending toward recognition of gay marriage."
The linked article doesn't talk about how the decision might be used to argue for imposing support obligations on a man who doesn't marry but lives with a woman who is pregnant with someone else's child and who stays with the woman but never adopts the child. That strikes me as a much more likely slope to slip down.
In one of the decisions, the nonbirth mother had donated her egg and signed the sort of form that men sign to cut off their rights when they donate sperm.
Justice Werdegar, dissenting, suggested that treating the donation of sperm differently from the donation of an egg "inappropriately confers rights and imposes disabilities on persons because of their sexual orientation" and so "may well violate equal protection."Unlike the rest of the three cases the state court decided, this ruling presents a federal question and could go to the United States Supreme Court.
UPDATE: I think if there were gay marriage and gay adoption there would be LESS need for decisions like this, which introduce a new set of problems about nonbiological parents asseting rights or finding themselves bound to obligations. The formalities of marriage and adoption create clarity about the relationship between parents and children. If these formalities are available to gay persons, courts will not feel so much of a pull toward solutions like the one the California court devised.


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LYNCHBURG, VA. – Despite goals from Blessing Tahouna and Sachem Wilson, the VMI Keydets broke a 2-2 tie with a marker in the 87th minute, en route to a 3-2 victory over the Liberty Flames, Tuesday night at Osborne Stadium.
Tahouna's goal in the first half was his first of the season, while Wilson, the Flames' leading scorer, netted his fourth goal of the year in the second half.
Liberty drops to 0-2 in Big South Conference play and 3-3 overall. VMI moves to 1-1 in conference play and 1-6-1 overall.
After Flames midfielder Jonathan Torres had a shot turned aside by Keydet goalkeeper Daniel Kitchen during the fourth minute, VMI jumped onto the Osborne Stadium scoreboard during the 10th minute. Midfielder Aaron White lofted a free kick from 30 yards out on the right side of the field into the middle of the 18-yard area, where midfielder Blake McCauley headed the ball into the top of the net for his second goal of the year and a 1-0 advantage.
In the 28th minute, the host Flames knotted the contest. Defender Jaime Foxwell found Tahouna with a long throw-in into the center of the box. The midfielder quickly gathered the pass and scored into the left-hand corner to even the game at 1-1.
During the 37th minute, Torres ripped a shot from the top of the box, hitting the crossbar. The VMI defense quickly controlled the rebound and cleared the ball, as the teams went to intermission tied.
Liberty went in front on Wilson's goal during the 59th minute. The midfielder pounced on a loose ball in the midfield and hooked into the center of the field, ripping a shot into the open right side of the net for a 2-1 advantage.
The Flames had another opportunity to add to their advantage in the 67th minute. Off a corner kick, Tanner Wilcox's header just popped over the crossbar and out of bounds.
VMI tied the contest during the 70th minute. Midfielder Andrew Starnes moved into the right side of the box toward the post and fed a pass into the middle of the penalty area. Forward Kyle Forche shot in stride, scoring his first goal of the year and knotting the contest at 2-2.
The Keydets then went ahead on what proved to be the go-ahead goal during the 87th minute. Off a free kick towards the far post from the left side of the field, Alex Hartman kept the ball alive with a bicycle kick, pushing the ball to left post for Forche, who scored to give VMI a 3-2 lead at 86:44.
Liberty held an 18-8 advantage over VMI in shots and a 7-2 edge in corner kicks.
Goalkeeper Sam Chappell made one save for the Flames' in net. Kitchen recorded five saves for the Keydets.
Liberty returns to the road on Saturday. The Flames travel to Asheville, N.C. for an afternoon contest against Big South opponent UNC Asheville. Match time is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.


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Now that we're all bleaching our vaginas, SkaHimself has volunteered to do the male equivalent, but will his lady appreciate the gesture?
To be fair, if I could dye my wenis to look like a lightsaber AND add sound effects, I would totally be all over it.
Me: Whoosh. Zoom. The force is strong with this one.
The Wife: Shut up, you idiot. I'm going to sleep.
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