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2014 Austin MotoGP Thursday Round Up: Edwards Retires, Blandspeak Returns, And The Dearth Of US Racers
It was fitting – some might say inevitable – that Colin Edwards chose the Grand Prix of the Americas in his home state of Texas to announce his retirement. He had just spent the last couple of weeks at home, with his growing kids, doing dad stuff like taking them to gymnastics and baseball and motocross, then hosted a group, including current GP riders and a couple of journos, at his Bootcamp dirt track school. He had had time to mull over his future, then talk it over with his wife Ally, and come to a decision. There wasn't really a much better setting for the double World Superbike champion to announce he was calling it quits than sitting next to former teammate Valentino Rossi, the American he fought so memorably with in 2006, Nicky Hayden, the latest US addition to the Grand Prix paddock Josh Herrin, and with Marc Marquez, prodigy and 2013 MotoGP champion. It felt right. Sad, but right.
You can read the full story of Edwards' retirement here, but his announcement highlighted two different problems for motorcycle racing. One local, one global, and neither particularly easy to fix. The loss of Colin Edwards sees the MotoGP paddock, indeed all of international motorcycle racing, robbed of its most outspoken and colorful character. Edwards was a straight talker, with a colorful turn of phrase and uninhibited manner of speech. His interviews were five parts home truths, five parts witticisms and a handful of obscenities thrown in for good measure. He livened up press conferences, racing dinners, and casual conversations alike.
The Courtship Ritual Begins: Prelude To MotoGP's Silly Season, Part 2
This is the second part of our two-part series on how the silly season for next year's MotoGP rider line up may play out. If you missed the first part, you can catch up with the situation in the Honda and Yamaha factory teams here.
Up until late in the 2013 season, change in the rider line up for Yamaha and Honda's MotoGP squads looked to be limited. Though all four riders will technically be on the open market at the end of 2014, the most likely scenarios for 2015 and beyond looked fairly settled. Either the line ups of the Repsol Honda and Movistar Yamaha teams would remain identical, or Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa might swap seats. The biggest question mark, it appeared, hung over whether Valentino Rossi would continue racing after 2014.
Two major shake ups changed all that. For Valentino Rossi, the replacement of Jeremy Burgess with Silvano Galbusera – and the increased role for electronics engineer Matteo Flamigni – has helped him find at least some of the time he was losing to the three Spaniards who dominated MotoGP last year, making it more likely he will stay on at Yamaha for another couple of seasons. That leaves the situation at Yamaha look more stable than before.
The Courtship Ritual Begins: Prelude To MotoGP's Silly Season, Part 1
It is going to be a busy – and lucrative – year for the managers of MotoGP riders. With almost everyone out of contract at the end of 2014, and with Suzuki coming back in 2015, top riders will be in high demand. The signs that competition will be intense for both riders and teams are already there, with the first shots already being fired.
Silly season for the 2015 championship kicked off very early. At the end of last year, HRC Vice President Shuhei Nakamoto made a few casual remarks expressing an interesting in persuading Jorge Lorenzo to come to Honda. He repeated those comments at the Sepang tests, making no secret of his desire to see Lorenzo signed to an HRC contract.
Lorenzo has so far been cautious, ruling nothing out while reiterating his commitment to Yamaha. He is aware of the role Yamaha have played in his career, signing the Spaniard up while he was still in 250s, and bringing him straight into the factory team alongside Valentino Rossi in 2008, against some very vigorous protests from the multiple world champion. Yamaha have stuck with Lorenzo since then, refusing to bow to pressure to the extent of letting Rossi leave for Ducati, and in turn, Lorenzo has repaid their support by bringing them two world titles, 31 victories and 43 other podium finishes.
Looking Ahead: MotoGP Grids Filling Up With Aprilia Working On 2016 Return
Towards the end of the 800cc era, MotoGP looked to be in dire condition. Grids were dwindling, factories were reducing their participation, and teams were in difficult financial straits indeed. By the end of 2011, there were just 17 full time entries, Suzuki was down to a single rider, and were about to pull out entirely for 2012.
How different the situation looks today. The CRTs have served their purpose - to persuade the factories to help fill the grid, and supply the teams with (relatively) affordable equipment - and the reduction in costs brought about in part by the spec electronics is enticing factories back to MotoGP. Suzuki is in full testing mode, and getting ready to return to racing full time in 2015, and Aprilia is working towards a full-time return in 2016.
Fuel Or Electronics? Where Are Hayden And Redding Losing Out On The Honda RCV1000R?
The news that Honda would be building a production racer to compete in MotoGP aroused much excitement among fans. There was quickly much speculation over just how quick it would be, and whether it would be possible for a talented rider to beat the satellite bikes on some tracks. Expectations received a boost when former world champion Casey Stoner tested the RCV1000R, praising its performance. Speculation reached fever pitch when HRC vice president Shuhei Nakamoto told the press at the launch of the bike that the RCV1000R was just 0.3 seconds a lap slower than the factory RC213V in the hands of a test rider. Was that in the hands of Casey Stoner, the press asked? Nakamoto was deliberately vague. 'Casey Stoner is a Honda test rider,' he said cryptically.
Once the bike hit the track in the hands of active MotoGP riders Nicky Hayden, Hiroshi Aoyama and Scott Redding at the Valencia test, it became apparent that the bike was a long way off the pace. At Sepang in February, the situation was the same. Nakamoto clarified his earlier statements: no, the times originally quoted were not set by Casey Stoner, who had only done a handful of laps in tricky conditions on the bike. They had been set by one of Honda's test riders. And yes, the biggest problem was the straights, as times at Sepang demonstrated. Test riders were losing around half a second along the two long straights at Sepang, Nakamoto said.
In the hands of active MotoGP riders, the gap was around 2 seconds at the Sepang tests. Nicky Hayden - of whom much had been expected, not least by himself - had made significant improvements, especially on corner entry. Turning in and braking was much improved, something which did not come as a surprise after the American's time on the Ducati. Once the bikes arrived at Qatar, the Honda made another step forward, Hayden cutting the deficit to 1.4 seconds from the fastest man Aleix Espargaro.
2014 Qatar MotoGP Sunday Round Up: Of Deserving Winners, Old Champions, And The Correct Way To Celebrate Victory
There's an old racing adage: when the flag drops, the talking stops, though the word 'talking' is rarely used. It's a cliche, but like all cliches, it is a cliche because it reflects such a basic truth. Without bikes circulating on track in anger, fans and press have nothing to do but engage in idle speculation, and pick over the minutiae of rules, rumors and races long past. As soon as the racing starts again, all is forgotten, and we all lose ourselves in the now. It is the zen which all racing fans aspire to.
So after spending months going round in circles over the 2014 regulations, speculating about who they favor, and expressing outrage at either the perceived injustice of the rules, or the supposed incompetence of those involved in drawing them up at the last minute, the talk stopped at Qatar on Sunday night. The fans filled their bellies on three outstanding races, all of which went down to the wire. With something once again at stake, all talk of rules was forgotten.
And to be honest, the 2014 rules had none of the negative effects which so many people had feared. The best riders on the day still ended up on the podium, while the gap between the winner and the rest of the pack was much reduced. The gap from the winner to the first Ducati was cut from 22 seconds in 2013 to 12 seconds this year. The gap from the winner to Aleix Espargaro – first CRT in 2013, first Open class rider in 2014 – was cut from 49 seconds to just 11 seconds. And even ignoring Espargaro's Yamaha M1, the gap to the first Honda production racer – an outstanding performance by Scott Redding on the Gresini RCV1000R – was slashed to 32 seconds.
2014 MotoGP Rule Cheat Sheet: The Open, Factory And Ducati Regulations At A Glance
One of the main complaints aimed at the last-minute rule changes in MotoGP is that they made it impossible to explain to the casual viewer exactly who is riding what, and why. How many categories are there exactly in MotoGP? Who has more fuel and who doesn't? And who loses what privileges if they win or podium? To clear up some of the confusion, here is our simple guide to the categories in MotoGP.
There are two categories of bike entered into MotoGP:
- Open
- Factory Option
All MotoGP bikes, Open or Factory Option, are 1000cc four strokes with a maximum capacity of 1000cc, a maximum bore of 81mm, and a minimum weight of 160kg. They all use the standard Magneti Marelli ECU* and datalogger. They all have a choice of 2 different compounds of tires at each race. Each team has to decided whether to enter as Open or Factory Option team before the start of the season (28th February). Once the season is underway, they cannot switch until the following season.
The differences between the two classes are as follows:
2014 Qatar MotoGP Saturday Round Up - Marquez' Miracle, Espargaro Under Pressure, And Honda Back In Moto3 Business
On Thursday night, it looked like a revolution had been unleashed in MotoGP. After qualifying on Saturday, that revolution has been postponed. Three Spaniards on pole, two Spaniards on the front row for both MotoGP and Moto3. No prizes for guessing the names of any of the polesitters, all three were hotly tipped favorites at the beginning of the year.
So what has changed to restore order to the proceedings? In a word, track time. When the riders took to the track on Thursday, the factory riders had a lot of catching up to do. They had been down at Phillip Island, a track which has lots of grip and puts plenty of load into the tires. The heat resistant layer added to the 2013 tires really comes into its own, the track imbuing the riders with confidence. Qatar is a low grip track, thanks in part to the cooler temperatures at night, but the sand which continuously blows onto the track also makes it extremely abrasive, posing a double challenge to tire makers. Use rubber which is too soft, and the tire is gone in a couple of laps. Make it hard enough to withstand the abrasion, and it's hard to get the tire up to temperature.
Coming to Qatar is always tricky, riders needing time to build confidence and learn to trust the tires. Coming to Qatar from Phillip Island is a culture shock, and takes a while to get your head around. Riders need to throw away everything they have just learned, and start again. That, Bradley Smith explained, was one of the reasons he was on the front row – his first in MotoGP, a significant achievement for the young Briton – and the factory Movistar Yamaha riders weren't. 'Australia wasn't great for the factory guys, because they got to ride a tire which isn't this one,' he told the press conference. Smith and the other satellite riders had come from Sepang, another low-grip track, and spent three more days on the same tire and in similar grip conditions. 'Testing here ten days ago has helped a lot,' Smith concluded.
2014 Qatar MotoGP Friday Round Up - The Myth Of Fairness, And Aleix Espargaro's One-Man Revolution
When was the last time a non-factory rider won a MotoGP race? Any MotoGP fan worth their salt will be able to give you year, track and rider: 2006, Estoril, Toni Elias. Ask them why he won and they will give you all sorts of answers – Dani Pedrosa taking out Nicky Hayden in the early laps, Colin Edwards not being able to maintain his pace to the end of the race, Kenny Roberts Jr misjudging the number of laps left in the race, or, as Valentino Rossi put it, because 'Toni ride like the devil' – but none they can be sure of.
There is a less well-known explanation for Elias' performance, though. Ahead of the Estoril race, Elias was given a set of the overnight special tires shipped in especially for Michelin factory riders. In this case, Elias was handed a set of 'Saturday night specials' destined for Dani Pedrosa, but which Pedrosa had elected not to use, and so were going spare. Elias liked the same kind of soft carcass tire which Pedrosa was being offered, and went on to exploit the advantage it offered.
What does that have to do with Friday at Qatar? Two things. Firstly, it highlights exactly how important tires are in motorcycle racing. Tires dictate a huge amount of the performance of a motorcycle. They are the connection between the bike and the track, but that is a very full and complex function. Tires determine how far a bike can be leaned, how much drive the bikes can get out of a corner, how well the power delivery of an engine transfers to the tarmac, how hard the bike can brake, they provide a certain amount of suspension, and they pass information about track surface, grip conditions and where the limits of braking and turning are for a motorcycle. And that's just the beginning. Tires are (quite literally) a black art. Their complexity cannot be underestimated.
2014 Qatar MotoGP Thursday Round Up - The Open Revolution, Bridgestone's 2014 Tires, And Moto3's Mixed Bag
The old adage about not judging a book by its cover seems particularly apt after the first day at Qatar. Fans and followers were hoping the changes made over the winter might shake things up a little, but they weren't expecting a revolution. At the top of the timesheets in MotoGP sits Aleix Espargaro on the Open class Forward Yamaha, nearly half a second ahead of the rest. In second place was Alvaro Bautista, not on an Open bike, but on a satellite Honda. Bautista, in turn, was ahead of three other satellite machines, Tech 3's Bradley Smith leading Pramac Ducati rider Andrea Iannone, with the other Tech 3 bike of Pol Espargaro behind.
The first factory rider (that's factory rider, not Factory Option) was Dani Pedrosa in 6th, over a second behind the Open class bike of Aleix. Valentino Rossi in 7th, on the factory Movistar Yamaha, could only just hold off former teammate Colin Edwards on the other Forward Yamaha. Even Nicky Hayden was just a tenth off the pace of Rossi, despite the Drive M7 Aspar rider being on the production RCV1000R Honda, a bike which was giving away over 12 km/h to the M1 of Rossi.


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Jeffrey A. Lockwood, an entomologist and professor at the University of Wyoming, argues in The Boston Globe our counterterrorism efforts gloss over a potentially devastating weapon in the terrorist arsenal: insects.
One of the cheapest and most destructive weapons available to terrorists today is also one of the most widely ignored: insects. These biological warfare agents are easy to sneak across borders, reproduce quickly, spread disease, and devastate crops in an indefatigable march. Our stores of grain could be ravaged by the khapra beetle, cotton and soybean fields decimated by the Egyptian cottonworm, citrus and cotton crops stripped by the false codling moth, and vegetable fields pummeled by the cabbage moth. The costs could easily escalate into the billions of dollars, and the resulting disruption of our food supply - and our sense of well-being - could be devastating. Yet the government focuses on shoe bombs and anthrax while virtually ignoring insect insurgents.
Indeed, a great strategic lesson of 9/11 has been overlooked. Terrorists need only a little ingenuity, not sophisticated weapons, to cause enormous damage. Armed only with box cutters, terrorists hijacked planes and brought down the towers of the World Trade Center. Insects are the box cutters of biological warfare - cheap, simple, and wickedly effective.
While Lockwood's argument may initially make eyes roll, he takes the reader on a quick historical tour of how insects have been used in warfare. Prime example: While many know the Black Death was caused by the louse, not many know if began because the Mongols catapulted lice-infested dead bodies into the port city of Kaffa. When the denizens evacuated, they spread the disease throughout the Mediterranean to horrific effect.
And as Lockwood notes, many of the major players in World War II either used or experimented with various forms of insect warfare. As many as 440,000 Chinese died when Japan unleashed plague-carrying fleas and "cholera-coated flies" on the population.
Besides, insects don't only kill humans, they kill crops and other agricultural products. Two insects, according to Lockwood, hold the potential to cause $700 billion in economic damage if they infested American forests. They are the Asian long-horned beetle and the emerald ash borer. For perspective, the 9-11 attacks cost the U.S. economy $27.2 billion in direct losses.
Lockwood argues the United States needs to build an effective pest management system. The upside is it will pay for itself.
Even without help from terrorists, new pests will infiltrate our borders. In the last century, an estimated 553 nonnative organisms settled in the United States, and two-thirds were insects. The 43 insect species for which economic analyses have been conducted account for $93 billion in losses.
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Cleanliness Rules Germaphobes' Lives
When Is Cleanliness a Problem? continued...
Guardino says a clinician looks for these signs of OCD:
The obsession with contamination is gradually taking over the person's life and actions.
The individual engages in ritual cleaning or washing at least one hour a day.
Acting out the rituals is done to relieve anxiety.
The person knows the obsession with germs is foolish but feels compelled to wash or clean over and over.
"People who have OCD really don't want to be that way," Guardino tells WebMD. On the other hand, people who have obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), which is less serious than OCD, pride themselves on being neat freaks. Felix Unger, of The Odd Couple, for example. "It didn't bother Felix that he ran around with a paper towel and Windex. It bothered Oscar. Also Felix probably didn't clean a surface over and over. He thought his behavior was appropriate because he needed to have things perfect. He didn't want to change."
Treatment With Medication and Therapy
The most effective treatment combines medication, usually one of several antidepressants, and a form of cognitive behavioral therapy called "response prevention" or "exposure and response therapy."
"The object of response prevention therapy is to delay implementation of the ritual," says Guardino, whose expertise and advocacy grew out of her own 25-year battle with anxiety and depression. "The longer you delay it, you will get slowly over time a decrease in the anxiety to enact the ritual."
For example, the therapist might tell a patient that after washing her hands once, she must wait 15 minutes before washing them again. Gradually the length of time is increased until the patient can wash just once without feeling compelled to wash again. Successful treatment produces a change in brain activity and, for most patients, at least partial remission of the disease.
The Role of Family Members
Families often make the mistake of enabling loved ones with OCD. "A man who sees his wife cleaning the house three or four hours a day may at first think he's got the world's greatest wife," says Guardino. "But over time he sees her energy level go down, she's irritable, and there's something bizarre about her cleaning. So he reads about OCD on WebMD and gets her into treatment."
Family members can play an important role in carrying out response prevention treatment prescribed by a therapist. "After dinner, the wife jumps up to clear the table and get the bleach, but the husband tells her, 'Sit down for half an hour, we're listening to Mozart,'" says Guardino. "In the morning he says, 'I'm throwing my pajamas on the floor and I want them there when I get home tonight."


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Cambridge is known across the country as the UK's capital of cycling and the county as a whole has a high usage of bikes for sport, leisure and commuting.
Next July, the third stage of the Tour de France will start in Cambridge on Monday 7 July. Competitors will leave Parkers Piece to cycle through the City streets before travelling to London via the beautiful countryside of South Cambridgeshire.
This will be an exciting time for the County with many groups and organisations hosting cycling linked events throughout the summer.
Helping you celebrate the race coming to Cambridgeshire in 2014
To celebrate one of the biggest annual sports events in the world coming to the county in 2014, Cambridgeshire County Council has agreed to provide small grants to assist local groups and organisations create linked activities or events.
Your celebration event must be inspired by cycling or the race.
We would like you to design and deliver activities within your community that involve and inspire people to help create a lasting and positive legacy.
Each grant will be up to a maximum of £500 and additional funding or support in kind will be expected.
Events and activities could be inspired by:
- The history of the race
- The changing design of bicycles over the years
- The use of bikes in everyday life
- The design of the modern racing bike and the materials used
- The diversity and range of different cycle competitions
- The culture of France
We want you to generate your own ideas, but here are a few examples that may inspire your thinking:
- Organise a community event e.g. annual village cycle ride, a family cycling relay, a cycling tour around local places of interest
- Organise a display of bikes and riding gear from an historical period.
- Arrange an inter village or inter club cycle event/race
- Screen a cycle related film
- Create a cycling related dance and perform it locally
- Host a cycle coaching/training session
- Assistance to make a cultural event cycle themed
- Arts, sports clubs and societies joining together to celebrate hosting Stage 3 in a unique way.
- Organising activities at existing community events e.g. a family cycle race, a parade of historical cycles with appropriate clothing, host a cycling demonstration e.g. BMX
- Cycling related art, education or learning project, for example using old bikes to create a sculpture, fence or gate; using the French language imaginatively; making a film or exhibition linked to France, the race or cycling
- Arrange arts workshops to make cycle themed banners, bunting or flags to dress your village on the 7th July or at the village feast or fete
- Use plants to create a cycling themed flowerbed on the village green, traffic island or care facility.
There are three application deadlines for the Cycle Legacy Small Grant Fund:
17 January
7 March
11th April
A small selection panel will make the final decision on awarding grants and applicants will be notified within 10 working days of the three deadline dates.
Events or activities can take place anytime from 1 May to 30 September 2014
You must demonstrate a clear link to cycling coming to Cambridgeshire in 2014.
If successful, 80% of your award will be paid in advance of the event/activity.
A final payment of 20% of the grant total will be paid on receipt of the final report.
Only one award can be made per event/activity.
Proposals must benefit local communities in Cambridgeshire and the awards panel will be looking for legacy and sustainability.
A short illustrated report on the funded activity with full financial breakdown, participation figures and any pictures or films capturing the activity will be required after the event.
The Cambridgeshire County Council logo must be used on all publicity materials in acknowledgement of the funding.
Important Note:
Schools are not able to apply.
We are not able to fund events for commercial gain.
We are not able to support events which are solely arranged for fundraising purposes.
Please complete the application form below and return by email or post prior to any of the three deadline dates with the subject line: Cycle Legacy Grant 2014
The Official 'Tour de France' website: www.letour.com
Route details the Cambridge to London Stage 3: www.letour.2014stage3.com
Local information: www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/letourstage


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Monday Sep 8 @ 04:25pm
Autumn maple leaves frame the Charlotte, NC skyline
Photo by Patrick Schneider
A vintage look at the state fair!Monday Oct 28 @ 08:55pm
Maf Maddix - "Squaring Circle" (Teaser) from Camilo Perdomo on Vimeo.
Just a little taste of the full length video that is dropping July 31st @ Midnight!
Maf Maddix hails from the heart of North Carolina, the video is shot in Greensboro/Winston Salem/Kernersville/Charlotte
We appreciate the support and the reblog if you dig it!
(submitted by http://camiloperdomo.tumblr.com)Monday Aug 5 @ 02:24pm
obscureblog said: I'm a North Carolinian living in Canada too! Seems weird because there is such a large Canadian population in North Carolina too. Is there some kind of exchange program that i got involved in that I didn't know about?
Ha, maybe! Are there any other North Carolinians on here who live in Canada, or Canadians living in North Carolina? Y'all are coming out of the woodwork.Sunday Jun 9 @ 10:19am
novascotiatarheel said: Found your site...love it. I am from New Bern, but since 1999, I live in Nove Scotia, Canada. I now live at the top of the Bay of Fundy. Sites like yours keep me connected to home. Thanks....
Nova Scotia is so beautiful! I'm glad this blog helps you to stay connected any way it can.Saturday Jun 8 @ 11:26am
Friday May 31 @ 12:04pm
Just another day at the office.
obscureblog said: Oh, in-north-carolina, Where have you been? I've missed you on my dashboard.
I've missed it too!Saturday May 11 @ 02:05pm
Hello, I just wanted to tell you about an exciting interactive ceramics project taking place in North Carolina in the coming weeks: http://carolinamudlark.tumblr.com/
"Mudlark Highway" is a site-specific art project by Baltimore-based multimedia artist A-B Moore. This project takes two forms- that of an expedition in reverse archeology, and that of a mudlarker's scavenger hunt.
The expedition loops through the southern states of North and South Carolina, where the artist will be revisiting places from their childhood that have been distorted into dreamscapes by lapse of time and by memory's fiction. Along the route, eleven specific sites will be chosen for the placement of new artifacts, their discrete locations designated by a painted wooden signpost issuing an omniscient reminder, advisory, or warning. These artifacts, an assortment of hand-built red earthenware objects, are symbolic of the artist's idea of the South as they remember it today, their forms shaped from folklore, personal experience, and literature. By planting these artifacts in the landscape, the artist reinstates the power and undeniable presence of mythos in a region she has left behind, to negate the symbols and ideas imposed on the region by popular entertainment media. The artifacts and their signposts will be left in their sites as tributes to the Carolina landscape, to its myths, and to its people.
There is no predesigned assignment of artifact to site, so as objects are placed, information will be leaked about how and where to find them. Each site will be photographed, recorded by GPS, and described in writing by the artist. At the expedition's end, information will continue to leak, along with photographs and maps, to encourage mudlarkers to seek out the artifacts. These artifacts are considered a gift to finders as much as to the landscape; mudlarkers are encouraged to take the artifacts they find, but are encouraged to send in photographs and/or writings about their own expedition and discovery, and perhaps their own relationship to the landscape and its myths.
Tuesday Mar 5 @ 12:03pm
Main Street - Durham, North Carolina
"A creative interpretation of the Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-in of 1960, SERVICE is the first in a series of murals that will commemorate the contributions of African Americans and Native Americans to the state.
The mural, a single 5' x 50' painting, visually consists of eight panels, each representing an event, place, or particular accomplishment in the history of North Carolina." Mural by Colin Quashie.Friday Feb 22 @ 11:59am
Independent North Carolina musician Carly Taich performing a live version of her song L'Chaim, off her debut album entitled Beginners. Filmed in Boone, North Carolina.(submitted by davidkay) Friday Feb 1 @ 04:21pm
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"On February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South. In Greensboro, hundreds of students, civil rights organizations, churches, and members of the community joined in a six-month-long protest. Their commitment ultimately led to the desegregation of the F. W. Woolworth lunch counter on July 25, 1960."
Tonight.Saturday Jan 26 @ 07:04pm
I don't know many people who went to UNC Charlotte for some reason. One person I know has said that her professors never showed up to class, but that might have just been her experience.
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Brazil's coffee growers are enjoying the best of times—almost.
With the country's economy among the fastest-growing in the world and with demand for its agricultural crops on a tear, Brazilian coffee farmers could see further happy times, especially as global demand for their beans remains strong and world-wide weather woes are encouraging non-traditional buyers of premium coffee to turn to the South Americans to meet their supply needs. Soaring internal demand is also helping the country's farmers, who can either sell to local industries or abroad, with foreign demand coming from other exporting countries as well as consuming nations.
However, not all growers are benefitting from the coffee price boom and there are labor and currency challenges confronting the sector.
According to local analysts, producers who improved the quality of their coffees over the last few years are enjoying the bonanza, but many are not, as the country's high quality beans remains limited to about 8–10 percent of the total production. With 24-hour news and information available, farmers are savvy and know when to sell and when to hold back.
"Producers now know what's happening in the market…they know the prices, they know the premiums, the contests," says Celso Vegro, professor and researcher at the Sao Paulo-based Institute of Agricultural Economics, IEA.
Events like the Cup of Excellence competition and other local cupping challenges have enabled local producers and buyers to come together, allowing for a more transparent price- discovery mechanism, exposing many growers to the premium sector of the market.
This has put the South American giant in an enviable spot, one where farmers can't get products to markets fast enough to satisfy the world's appetite for its crops. Prices are rising and land values are increasing as well, a reflection of a global trend of shrinking arable land and population growth. The rising price of arable land might be one of the biggest factors, as Brazil is the world's leading producer of sugarcane, orange juice and coffee, and ranks amongst top producers of cotton and soybeans, corn and other raw materials, all of which compete for land.
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Happy Day Frappé
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I love coffee. Some of you may already know that about me. Coffee has been a vital part of my existence since I was eight years old. Yes, I said eight years old. I had always adored the smell of coffee. And from the time I was a younger nipper I delighted in sneaking sips [...]
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Last weekend we had a tailgate with friends. We all enjoyed a day filled with food, fun & football. I got busy setting the scene for the festivities and My Yanni who doubles as My Grill Master was in charge of the grill and cooked up a delicious storm. I've already shared our fun & [...]
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Katy let me fuck her in the ass for $15. What a pumpernickel!
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Intercourse that consists of five pumps only
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بواسطة Who's NOW? اغسطس 17, 2009
Used to describe someone of a dark brown or black skin tone. Originated from pumpernickel, a dark bread. Abbreviated version is 'pumps'.
That pumpernickel Wesley Snipes was sent to jail for tax evasion.
5 pumps tried to jack me last night.
5 pumps tried to jack me last night.
بواسطة El Deee ديسمبر 21, 2010
A word describing great shock and surprise registered by the speaker of the word.
Second definition could also mean prostitutes.
Second definition could also mean prostitutes.
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Pumpernickels is an expletive on Buddypic.com. It substitutes the word "nude(s)" for "pumpernicke(s)"
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a cheap ho, slut, hooker, prostitute, etc...
that bitch was a pumpernickel. as in i didn't have nothin but change in my pocket, but she let me pump her for a nickel
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That's one question that has been asked ever since the New Orleans Saints were set to go to the playoffs. The chances aren't slim, but not easy either.
I guess Jim Carrey said it best in the movie "Dumb & Dumber" when the woman of his dreams said they had a one in a million chance of being together: "So you're telling me there's a chance?" Yes my Who Dat's there is, but the "wild cards" (pun intended) will need to fall just right.
Starting off is the first Wild Card round of the playoffs. The Saints(#3 seed) will host the Detroit Lions(#5 seed) at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome this Saturday at 7:00 p.m. CT. The first domino to fall would be for the Saints to defeat the Lions. If that doesn't happen, conversation is over.
If the Saints do win on Saturday, then they will advance to the NFC Divisional round and travel to face the San Francisco 49ers(#2 seed). This is where the formula can come together or fall apart. Once again, the Saints lose to the 49ers and they're done.
With a victory over the 49ers, the Saints could possibly host the NFC Championship. But before that happens, more dominos need to tumble. One big one is the Green Bay Packers, but more on them in just a second. Let's start with the other "wild cards" first.
Playing one day after the Saints and Lions will be the Atlanta Falcons(#6 seed) and New York Giants(#4 seed). The Falcons will travel to New York and face the Giants on their home turf at 12:00 p.m. CT. Whoever wins will travel to face the Green Bay Packers(#1 seed).


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A new study identifies locations that would be suitable for various types of power plants, weighing considerations like population density, the availability of water and vulnerability to quakes. Red color indicates more obstacles to development.
"As part of the fiscal year 2013 budget [PDF] released on Feb. 13, President Obama proposed to eliminate $40 billion in tax breaks for oil and gas producers over the next 10 years. Yesterday, theYale Project on Climate Change reiterated its recent finding that Americans of all political stripes oppose subsidies for "coal, oil, and natural gas companies." They oppose these subsidies by 70 percent to 30 percent — better than two to one." (Courtesy of Grist/Climate Progress)
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"To reach a low-cost, low-carbon electricity system in the West, UC Berkeley energy researchers propose this combo of power sources as one possible solution. A carbon tax (placing CO2 at about $70/ton) could help the West reach a goal of 54 percent of 1990 emissions by 2030, according to their models. (Credit: UCB/James Nelson.)"
U.S. approves first new nuclear power plant in a generation
There are plans to build the first new nuclear plant in 30 years in spite of safety concerns stemming from Japan's Fukushima disaster.
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Oct. 26--Theater LaB Houston is back in business, with a new venue -- resuming productions in November with a season at Obsidian Art Space, 3522 White Oak.
Founder and producing director Gerald LaBita's 65-seat theater presented more than 120 Houston premieres of plays and musicals from 1993 to 2012 in the tiny venue that was once a grocery store operated by LaBita's parents in Houston's First Ward.
Last year, however, LaBita sold the building on Alamo and announced Theater LaB would take a hiatus before resuming production. No doubt some feared that was whistling in the dark, as sometimes proves the case when a company ceasing operations promises to return. Yet somehow, I figured when the LaB closed its last show in the old space in December, that LaBita meant what he said.
"The Alamo Street venue had served us well for 20 years," LaBita says. "But I had a chance to sell the space, and we were planning to become one of the resident companies at the new Midtown Arts and Theatre Complex -- which is going to happen. But that won't be completed for another two years, so we needed an interim venue."
LaBita says he looked at several possibilities to rent as the LaB's own space but -- long story short -- they were either too small or beyond his means financially. So he went to Obsidian's management with the list of shows he wanted to do and they found the openings in the facility's calendar.
"All we missed doing was a spring 2013 series," LaBita says. "There's no change in programming philosophy. We'll still do the best in contemporary theater -- meaning theater happening now, not four years ago. These are things I caught in New York or Los Angeles or fringe festivals within the past year."
While the company specializes in quirky, off-Broadway fare, before its hiatus, LaBita managed to snag the rights to do Houston premieres of such prominent mainstream works as the Stephen Sondheim musicals "Assassins" and "Passion," Kander and Ebb's "The Rink" and Willy Russell's long-running London success "Blood Brothers." Its long list of notable plays, including Brad Fraser's "Unidentified Human Remains," Maria Irene Fornes' "The Conduct of Life," Athol Fugard's "My Children! My Africa!," Tracy Letts' "Killer Joe" and David Hare's "The Blue Room."
The lineup of 2013-14 shows is in the characteristic Theater LaB groove, with a couple of talked-about off-Broadway plays, as well as solo shows that LaBita liked when he saw them at fringe festivals, and a home-grown piece showcasing Houston talents.
Here's what the LaB has on tap
"Man 1, Bank 0," created and performed by Patrick Combs, Nov. 13-17. This is Combs' true story relating how he deposited a $95,000 junk-mail check into his bank as a joke -- and the ensuing craziness when the bank cashed it. This modern David-and-Goliath tale shows the clash between humanity and corporate culture. It has played in New York; London; Edinburgh, Scotland; Dublin, Ireland; Montreal; and San Francisco. In the view of Time Out New York, "Combs has storytelling down to an art."
"Burnt at the Steak," created and performed by Carolann Valentino, Nov. 20-24. Valentino's solo musical comedy also is her own story: aspiring female artist of Italian descent leaves Texas for New York to pursue a theatrical career -- and immediately lands a day job managing an infamous multimillion-dollar steakhouse in the heart of Manhattan. The writer/performer morphs through 18 characters in the story's course. The show won the "best of fringe" award at recent festivals in Calgary, Alberta; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Boulder, Colo.; and has played sold-out runs in Orlando, Fla.; Dallas; Denver; and Fresno, Calif. "Valentino's hilarious memoir wowed audiences with its high energy and uproarious storytelling," the Calgary Sun said.
"Sixty Miles to Silver Lake," by Dan LeFranc, March 26-30. LeFranc's two-person play depicts the relationship of Denny and his divorced father, Ky. Denny lives with his mother during the week, with his father on weekends. So every Saturday morning, Ky picks up Denny after soccer practice and drives him the 60 miles to Ky's home -- creating a weekly ritual of uninterrupted time together. Though the play initially appears to be about one such ride, it develops into a composite of all the rides the father and son have taken, jumping back and forth across some dozen years. Variety wrote: "This painfully honest drama about the fragile relationship between a divorced dad and his son is one endless ritual of loving and hating and hurting."
"Husband Fixin' 101," created and performed by Julia Kay Laskowski and Patti Rabazza, April 2-6. Houston entertainers Laskowski and Rabazza have developed a following for their down-home musical shows in which they portray Mavis (Laskowski) and Myrtle (Rabaza), two dysfunctional "love advisers" who dispense therapy meant to solve problems but more likely to make matters worse. After their first two shows, "Country Gravy and Other Obsessions" and "Home for the Dysfunctional Family Holidays," they return with another outrageous original program of comedy and song offering their helpful hints on relationships.
"The Cockfight Play," by Mike Bartlett, April 16-May 11. A tempestuous triangle develops when a man takes a break from his relationship with his boyfriend of several years, and falls into an unexpected relationship with a woman. And both male and female lovers are prepared to fight for indecisive hero John. This edgy, explicit play takes a candid look at sexuality, with both bitingly funny and wrenchingly dramatic scenes. It premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in 2009, winning an Olivier Award, then played to sold-out houses off-Broadway in 2012. "Bartlett's keen and dispassionate evocation of the will to control, to consume, to possess (is) what gives the work its punch and its invigorating lifeblood," wrote Ben Brantley in the New York Times." The New Yorker said "Bartlett's dialogue crackles and pops with the rhetoric of vituperation."
"Prodigal Dad," written and performed by Steven Fales, dates to be announced. Following sold-out Houston runs in his widely traveled solo shows, "Confessions of a Mormon Boy" and "Missionary Position," Fales returns for the conclusion of his "Mormon Boy Trilogy" -- this one about shattering family myths and fighting for his rights as a father.
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By Tom Carrier
WorthPoint Worthologist
Throughout the 19th century, supporters for American presidential candidates were able to advertise their loyalty by buying some rather unusual items, or at least considered unusual in the era of bumper stickers and pinback buttons. Prior to the 1896 election, the torch light parade through town in honor of your candidate was commonplace. But you were also able to tip a hat, wear a ribbon, hold an umbrella, wear a vest, or drink from a mug to advertise your support, too.
Christopher Kent, a WorthPoint Worthologist, was fascinated by another typical political item that played a large role in elections in the late 19th century, the tin tray. He talked with Mark Evans of Collector's Archives at the American Presidential Experience in Denver, Colo., during the Democratic National Convention in late summer 2008 about the significance and the collectability of these historic presidential items.
During the presidential campaign of 1896 between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, individual companies would produce these large, oval tin trays featuring the likenesses of both candidates for resale to gift shops and stores. "Supporters would just buy them as a souvenir of the election or to show their support," Evans says.
These tin trays were intended to be used every day, both as a piece of decoration for the wall and also as a serving tray. Condition, therefore, plays a rather significant role in assessing value after scarcity. A 1900 tin tray featuring William Jennings Bryan and Adlai Stevenson is a rare piece, for example, but there is a lot of normal crazing and rust pits throughout bringing down its value. "Much of this can be repaired, and when you have a quality piece, it's worth the investment," Evans says. He paid $400 to $500 for the tin tray, but in mint condition, it would be worth 3 to 4 times that value. A tin tray featuring McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt from the 1900 presidential campaign sold at auction for about $1,100 in 2004, for example, according to WorthPoint's Worthopedia.
For many of these trays, a blank space was deliberately added along the top and bottom borders and on the sides, according to Evans. "I've seen these for various businesses with the name printed in black and then these businesses would distribute them to their better customers, who would then hang them on the wall, which would give them advertising. The ones with advertising tend to have more value because they're limited to one business in one city and it adds interest," Evans says. This could be considered a double investment because the tray is scarce, but the addition of an advertising company is even rarer.
By 1896, the acetate political button with a pin attached to the back became the most common way for individuals to show their support for their candidates. They were easier to manufacture at a much lower cost and the distribution was more universal. Items such as the tin tray, the umbrella, the top hat, and other more flamboyant displays of support began to become less important during the presidential campaigns. Of course, that just makes them even more valuable as collectibles.
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Definition of autofill in English:
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CHARLES TOWN – New commercial and residential developments would be required to control the runoff of nitrogen, phosphorous and sediment under a stormwater management ordinance that is the subject of a Jefferson County Commission public hearing this week.
The ordinance, which is meant to respond to "pollution diets" imposed by the Chesapeake Bay Initiative, has been in development for two years and led by the county's engineering department. It attempts, using "best management practices" established by the state, to begin controlling not only the quantity but the quality of runoff from new developments.
"We already have stormwater regulations but they were all in the subdivision ordinance," said Chief Engineer Roger Goodwin. "What you've had so far was quantity control. So you were controlling the peak-flow runoff from the site so that neighboring properties wouldn't get flooded."
The new quality control requirements are aimed at getting 90 percent of the first inch of rain in a storm to be retained on the property.
Goodwin said the vast majority of pollutants are swept out in the first inch of rain, making it critical to prevent early runoff.
"When we had to implement quality control, or pollution reduction, under the Chesapeake Bay Initiative, we had to put in the techniques that were required to meet it."
If the ordinance is enacted, it will be the first time that Jefferson County has had a separate, defined stormwater ordinance. There are already stormwater regulations on the books, but they are dispersed throughout the county's subdivision ordinance.
"We decided to pull out the regulations into a separate ordinance," Goodwin says. "If somewhere down the road we have to make changes to it, it makes it easier to amend it as a standalone ordinance."
New developers already have to submit stormwater management plans and studies for most kinds of major development, like a new housing subdivision or a new commercial building. The proposed ordinance leaves this system essentially unchanged, but adds new requirements.
"They already have to submit a stormwater management plan and report, but it is only for quantity control," Goodwin says. "They will be adding new quality control measures in their designs."
The ordinance asks developers to implement measures like rain gardens, grass swales and infiltration basins to help reduce the nitrogen, phosphorous and sediment content of runoff.
"You're giving it a chance to get absorbed into the site, stay on site and infiltrate into the ground rather than running off," Goodwin explains. "Plants uptake the pollutants from the water."
The measure is meant to fend off the possibility that the Department of Environmental Protection may eventually push for Jefferson County to be classified as an MS4 community, a designation that comes with much more rigorous requirements for municipal sewer and water treatment systems, Goodwin said.
The MS4 is a special designation given to many urban stormwater systems that causes those systems to be more tightly regulated by the EPA's National Pollution Discharge Elimination System and often requires water treatment plant upgrades.
"It is voluntary for Jefferson County to do this," he said. "We are not an MS4 community like Martinsburg or Berkeley County. My understanding is that, if EPA needs to, they were going to pass additional rules and regulations that would have given the state DEP power to classify us as an MS4. Then we would have to do all the things that requires, which is pretty stringent.
"By implementing voluntary quality controls, we get out of some of the other things, which is a lot of record keeping and public outreach – stuff that costs you a lot of money administratively."
Goodwin said the ordinance will not require any new fees or new spending in the engineering department.
"We're trying to keep this hassle-free to the applicants and low cost to the taxpayers," he says. "There is no separate stormwater permit fee. There is no ongoing periodic post-construction inspections by us. Once the project is done, it is up to the commercial project or the HOA to maintain those stormwater facilities."
Rhonda Lehman, president of the Blue Ridge Watershed Coalition, said that many of the measures contained in the ordinance will help the county meet its Chesapeake Bay Initiative pollution diet.
"It is a great step for the county to take," Lehman said. "In light of the Chesapeake Bay Initiative implementation, it is very important."
The Watershed Coalition has constructed a major demonstration project to limit runoff from a large building in the Blue Ridge Mountains using measures similar to those required under the new ordinance.
"That is what we did on our project on the Mountain Community Center on Mission Road," Lehman said. "A large amount of water came off the roof of that building, so we implemented the rain barrel system and put in a rain garden, and we completely eliminated that hydroplaning issue that was always there at the intersection of (W.Va.) 9 and Mission Road."
Lehman said the county could benefit from more support for educational measures aimed at teaching homeowners how to implement inexpensive runoff reduction measures.
"I hope that there will be some focus on teaching best management practices to the public, because all of us can do little things on our properties to affect the quality of the runoff or to keep the runoff on our properties," she said.
The Watershed Coalition has recently begun a systematic water quality monitoring program, which is meant to uncover the major contributors to nitrogen, phosphorous and sediment runoff.
Lehman said it is too early for her to draw conclusions based on the four months of data they have collected, but noted that the data is available for the public to review at blueridgewatershed.org.


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But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.John Harvey Kellogg
These days are the hard times. Some residents depend on the forest for their survival.Marcos Malubay
Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.Richard G. Scott
Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alightAfrican Proverb
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.Goethe
I awake each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savour the world. This makes it hard to plan my day.E. B. White
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.Ralph Bunche
Jujitsu is blood, sweat and tears. It takes hard work, perseverance and tenacity to be successful.Jose Ortiz
Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.Unknown
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.Bill Cosby
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.Helen Keller
I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.Gabriela Sabatini
Water flows humbly to the lowest level.Nothing is weaker than water,Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong,Nothing surpasses it.Lao-Tzu
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.Henry Ward Beecher
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
How fast we learn in a day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.H. Bonar
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreicate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as this is all there is.Mary Ann Radmacher
And while the law of 'competition' may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.Andrew Carnegie
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.Unknown
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.Francis Bacon
When you buy Fairtrade products you can guarantee that the farmers who have worked hard to grow them get a minimum price. Fairtrade is a way of giving regular support and enjoying delicious high quality foods at the same time.Emma Thompson


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Okay, so my mom has come to the conclusion that I need to get rid of all my extra Glee stuff once and for all. Since it's a lot I was debating between making this a start of 2013 giveaway or a giveaway if I reach my follower goal. (372 more). So I decided to kind of do both. The winner will be chosen on the New Year, but There will only be a winner if I reach my goal. If I don't I'll split this into smaller giveaway's throughout the year or resell it.
This is also an expansion of this giveaway, so anyone who has participated in that will also be entered in this.
- Giveaways are to thank my followers, so you do need to be following me
- I also want to try and keep this as fair as possible, so no contest only blogs
- Likes DO count
- You can reblog as many times as you want, but with the new notes on Tumblr it may not help you.
- I will ship anywhere.
- Keep your ask box open because the winner will be messaged there with 42 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen.
- And good luck :)
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Passport to Adaptive Living (PAL) is an organization that supports individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities acquire the necessary skills to succeed in the inclusive home, school, and community environments. By teaching individuals with develop- mental disabilities to build positive community and peer relationships and build skills to adapt, communicate, and socialize they may develop the necessary skills to live and function success- fully, independently, and safely within their home, school, and community environments.
Passport to Adaptive Living (PAL) was founded in 2011 on the basis to provide quality care for individuals with developmental disabilities. PAL provides adaptive skills training and individual/group social skills training to individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities ages 3 years old throughout the lifespan. PAL utilizes the principles of applied behavior analysis as a means to teach skills and emphasizing the use of a collaborative team approach. PAL is proud to say that our staff is very dedicated to assisting the families we support. PAL is a certified nonpublic agency with the California Department of Education, and is contracted with the Ventura County SELPA to provide school support. PAL is a vendor of the Tri-Counties Regional Center and North Los Angeles County Regional Center.
We currently serve San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties. PAL has two locations. Our Main Headquarters is located in Ventura, CA. The satellite office location is in Van Nuys, CA
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Cal ABA www.calaba.org
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Camden National Corporation (the "Company") announced that on September 24, 2013, the board of directors authorized a common stock repurchase program of up to 250,000 shares of the Company's outstanding common stock.
The Company issued a press release on September 24, 2013, declaring a quarterly dividend of $0.27 per share payable on October 31, 2013 for shareholders of record on October 17, 2013.
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Providing a much-needed accessible overview of the complex philosophical and ethical underpinnings of dementia care, this book explores current thinking around the concepts of ageing, personhood, capacity, liberty, best interests and the nature of palliative care, shedding new light on their implications for the caring professions. more »2014, Paperback: £19.99/ $39.95
An essential text for practitioners and students wishing to stay abreast of the latest developments in the field, this book brings together the latest international research and evidence-based practice in the field of dementia and intellectual disabilities, describing clearly the relevance and implications for support and services. more »2014, Paperback: £29.99/ $49.95
There is a rapidly emerging and developing area of music therapy practice that uses electronic music technologies in a range of therapeutic and clinical settings to help clients with complex needs. With contributions from leading experts in the field, this edited volume explains cutting edge technologies and how to apply these tools in practice. more »2013, Paperback: £27.99/ $45.00
This accessible guide to near-death experience (NDE) provides an overview of the nature of the phenomenon and the theory and evidence underlying it. With contributions from eminent experts, it provides any professional who may come into contact with someone who has experienced an NDE with the knowledge they need to understand and help. more »2011, Paperback: £18.99/ $29.95
This is an accessible book that introduces the relationship between spirituality and psychology. The author sets out what spirituality is, the values it represents and how it contributes to mental health and wellbeing. He then illustrates how knowledge of spirituality can provide deeper understanding of people's problems and can help aid recovery. more »2010, Paperback: £14.99/ $24.95
This book provides a guide to promoting the psychological well-being of children with chronic illnesses and medical conditions, covering support within health, social services and education. It discusses issues such as the impact of diagnosis and the experiences of children and their families in managing their medical condition and treatment. more »2010, Paperback: £19.99/ $34.95
This volume explains how health care professions and their values have changed over the last forty years, charting where they have come from, where they are now, and how they might develop in the future. There is coverage of a wide range of professions within healthcare. Chapters are followed by critical responses from senior practitioners. more »2010, Paperback: £39.99/ $64.95
This book describes a range of successful programmes pioneered by artists, writers, nurses, musicians, therapists, social workers, and chaplains in palliative care settings. These range from simple painting and writing activities to organized communal activities like writing and performing a play. more »2007, Paperback: £19.99/ $34.95
This book is a practical introduction to PTSD and psychological debriefing, and offers an enhanced model of PD which the author terms `Emotional Decompression'. Structured like a deep-sea dive, this model provides time frames for how long to spend at various stages of the PD process, and when to stop for discussions and explanations. more »2007, Paperback: £18.99/ $29.95
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"Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two. It has only one good. That of the Beloved, which is, at the same time, my own…For love does not seek a joy that follows from its effect: its joy is in the effect itself, which is the good of the beloved. Consequently, if my love be pure I do not even have to seek for myself the satisfaction of loving. love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward."
-Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island
Crank: Eng. (Kr-ānk)
1. A cup of well-crafted and strongly brewed coffee
2. Plural; A series of cups of coffee
3. Referring or pertaining to a period of time in which several cups of coffee are consumed in succession
1. The act of consuming unhealthy amounts of coffee,
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The Alleged Danger From the Powers of the Union to the State Governments Considered
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."
James Madison, Federalist No. 45
Suck it Obama.
It's pretty profound what comfort a human face can do for the soul. We love photographs because they shelve the people we miss over time. In one cathartic instant those who we long for can come back to us. If it's even just a glimpse of the familiar, the comfortable, the recognizable love in our life—without which I might just feel like a stranger in this world.
But it's also funny that a framed photograph, at our bedside, on our desks, or lining our empty walls can lose their novelty after a while. It's not unlike what we do with the relationships in our lives. We love and cherish it at first, not a day goes by without taking a good hard look at it and reconnecting with something. But then over time it becomes an accessory to overlook. A relationship that becomes stagnant. O save me from that.
Distance will remind me everyday the ways I will never take things for granted. Laying here in my bed on a cool Pt Loma morning—the lonely gray kind where the birds don't seem half as excited for the day to begin as they usually do—I know I have promises to keep. I have a life I'm meant to live and people I'm never meant to take for granted.
The faces of people I love are sacred to me.
My hands mean nothing to me unless I can serve people with them. Or hold the hands of the girl I love. My eyes mean nothing unless I can be reminded of the faces that look back at me—waiting for my life to be something more than what it is. My words mean nothing without that life to be for others, or the words to whisper. My heart means nothing unless it beats with the Sacred Heart for compassion in this bent and crippled world.
I rarely feel at home. But still I can't wait for you to come back to it.
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Combining rustic charm with functional facilities, Casa da Geada offers 10 unique and comfortable rooms. Enjoy traditional food of the region or simply relax in the reading room. Next to a guest house, the Casa is also used as a venue for pottery, literature and music events.
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A recent column on Vox.com may have inadvertently highlighted the gap between the nation's political elites and the rest of the nation. Vox is an "explanatory journalism" site founded by former Washington Post columnist and blogger Ezra Klein.
Can it be? Is it September already? One of my favorite tunes, "September Song," was written by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson for a Broadway musical in 1938 called "Knickerbocker Holiday. The lyrics could apply today to the current political season in Georgia - "For it's a long, long time from May to December, but the days grow short when you reach September."
America rarely does time capsules anymore, but the ones it does should include videos from February 2011 of American TV reporters exulting in the triumph of the Arab Spring. "This is the sound of a people rising," ABC's Terry Moran told us from Cairo. For Egyptians, it was a day "when a people rose and made themselves a new country, a new world, a new life."
Though racial discrimination exists, it is nowhere near the barrier it once was. The relevant question is: How much of what we see today can be explained by racial discrimination? This is an important question because if we conclude that racial discrimination is the major cause of black problems when it isn't, then effective solutions will be elusive forever. To begin to get a handle on the answer, let's pull up a few historical facts about black Americans.
As the character Cecily said to Miss Fairfax in a play written by Oscar Wilde entitled "The Importance of being Earnest": "When I see a spade I call it a spade."
The news from Ferguson, Missouri, has brought back unpleasant memories from the long-ago riots in Asbury Park, New Jersey. It was the summer of 1970, and I was a young teenager close enough to the action to be appropriately frightened.
My first paying job was cleaning the bathrooms at the First Baptist Church of Carrollton, Georgia, where I was a member. I was 14, the minimum age for "children" to work. This was neither glamorous nor exciting work, but useful and needed work. On Sundays I often over heard the "little old ladies" of the church commenting on the cleanliness of the bathroom. I remember my subsequent feeling of pride. While not a glamorous work, my actions were helpful and appreciated by those who used the facilities. For providing this useful service I earned minimum wage in 1981, ($3.35 ...
It is a potential killer whose numbers rival the deadly Ebola virus and it doesn't get near the attention it should. Unlike the dreaded illness currently ravaging West Africa this is one with a quick cure.
As Hannah Arendt foresaw, we are once again up against the question of evil. An American photojournalist, James Foley, was presented to the camera and methodically decapitated. The instrument was not the ax reserved for royalty or the whooshing blade prompted by that reformer Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, but an ordinary looking knife. Death would be neither swift nor painless. This, somewhere in the bleached desert, was pure evil.
In innocent days of youth, I met the first fellow who might have been considered a "boyfriend" at the FFA-FHA Camp just south of town. He lived in Bethlehem, so when camp ended, we went our separate ways with pledges to write often until our paths would cross again. On Rural Free Delivery Route Four, the mail came about 11 a.m., so I'd sneak away from home about then and hang on the front fence line waiting for the mail carrier. The boy's letters were consumed voraciously as I trudged up that long driveway home, relishing every ...
I hope Barry Manilow didn't really change his mind.
Everybody needs a guru. Someone you can go to whenever you find yourself stuck on the horns of a moral dilemma. Some climb the mountain tops of Nepal to sit before an old guy wrapped in a bed sheet and listen to him prattle about inner beauty.
My sister called me the other day. You remember her. She is the one who wrote the orange juice company about less calories. She had been watching television and saw an advertisement for a car. I am paraphrasing, but the car had more power, more electronics and less doors.
I have a big problem with the truth. No, it's not what you think. I'm too honest. If you ask me if you "look like a whale" in that new dress, you'd better get back in the tank and swim to the other side. Because, if you do look plump in pink, I'll hem and haw, and I'll comment on your hair, shoes, or nail polish, but if you push me, I'm going to say something about your excess weight. So, it's best to stop as soon as I mention your lovely new ...
It is one of those moments in life when you are jolted by the reality that the train is moving down the track.
While counseling a young friend about a title loan, I was reminded of Ezekiel 18:13 "If he has exacted usury or taken increase - Shall he then live?" I think Ezekiel is still preached in Georgia.
Are you frustrated with the American government? If so, then you are not alone. According to Gallup's annual governance survey, you have more company than usual. "A record-high 81 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed," said the poll, which was released Monday.
SKC opened their new solar film plant in Covington on Tuesday. Our local elected officials and officials from the company participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony and factory tour.
More than any other season, fall traditionally sends me on a hunt for two or three new items to flesh out the wardrobe for a change in weather. Summer clothes are notoriously short-lived, but winter clothes seem to last forever and just a few additions can revitalize the woolen wear and turtlenecks.
With modern media, know this: you can run off at the mouth, but you can't hide.
In case you were rearranging your sock drawer and missed the big announcement, filmmaker Michael Moore, who is about as relevant as a female appendage on a boar hog, is asking "all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia." I can hear the shudders from Aragon to Zebulon.
I wrote a column about my husband's love of kitchen gadgets and he reminded me of other fiascos he has had in the kitchen. In fact, for probably over a decade I did not allow him to cook in the house.
To the editor: This may be a dumb idea, as I have no idea how the old Newton County Jail is being used, but Fulton County is under a court order to purchase another jail. If our old one still has functional cells, let's sell/lease it to Fulton for $1.00 and bring a couple hundred jobs to the Newton County (and consumers to the city of Covington).
I'm finally beginning to tackle the playroom in our home. For years, it's been a large space for toys, toys and more toys. Once or twice a year, when toys threaten to take over, the purging begins. The quantity of toys builds again, and the cycle continues.