text:
The 7 Most Impossible Rock Stars to Deal With
Being a musician requires at least a few years spent starving to death in a van. Once a rock star reaches a certain level of success, he tends to take advantage of all the things suddenly available to him, particularly the liquor, drugs and ability to destroy inanimate objects. From the point of view of the fans, this is perfectly cool. We expect these guys to live the life of excess that we can't.
"Dude, I would love to do $3,000 worth of drugs and then crash our motorcycles into a trampoline store, but I'm going to IKEA with my girlfriend this afternoon."
The problem is that reaching the hotel destruction stage in a rock career means a lot of people are depending on you. Agents, record companies and concert promoters all have an interest in getting their man to the next concert, or to the next recording session, or out of the children's ball pit and into some pants. And as the latest Apatow movie Get Him to the Greek demonstrates, that's not always going to be easy.
Below, we've listed some of the rock stars who were the most difficult to handle, along with some hypothetical scenarios illustrating why it might suck to be their personal assistant.
#7. Liam and Noel Gallagher
Liam and Noel Gallagher are the immensely talented brothers responsible for Oasis, the most successful band that everyone wants to punch in the face. Brash and outspoken, they're known for spouting off about Blur, AIDS and how they hope everyone in Blur gets AIDS--comments which have predictably not gone over well with Blur, AIDS sufferers or anybody else.
Rock stars saying stupid things isn't that remarkable. What really makes the Gallagher boys so difficult to deal with is the ridiculous amount of fistfights they manage to get into between themselves. A typical example: Following a canceled show in Barcelona, during a friendly conversation Liam raised his doubts about the fidelity of Noel's wife and legitimacy of his daughter. (We will assume that Liam did so as delicately as he knew how.) This ended unsurprisingly when Noel headbutted his brother and then punched him in the face.
Who could hate a face like that?
Our favorite story, though, is the one where Liam decided to bring a bunch of people he'd met at the pub back to the recording studio where Noel was working, which understandably irritated Noel somewhat. Noel's role as the reasonable person in this story ends when he reacts to this interruption by attacking Liam with a cricket bat, breaking his foot.
Given that their creative partnership is based on barely contained homicidal rage, getting both Gallagher brothers on the stage at the same time has proven to be a bit like refereeing a slap fight between two chimpanzees--only with less poo throwing (probably) and more shrieking of the UK's favorite C-word (definitely).
A Typical Day If You Were Oasis' Personal Assistant:
You: Liam, don't. Don't throw that poo. Don't throw that poo, Liam. Listen to me, Liam. Do not throw that poo at Noel. He is your brother and you love him.
Noel: You fookin love me, man. Don't you throw that poo at me.
Liam: Fook! -he throws the poo at you instead-
You: AGHR! Ahh! What the hell have you been eating? Is this... is this a battery?
Musicians often put on an exaggerated persona when on stage to make themselves seem more legitimate to the audience. Whether it's bragging about the number of women they lay or the fineness of the Maseratis they drive, this kind of casual exaggeration is perhaps most common in hip-hop artists, but can also be found in nearly every other musical genre. For example, despite repeated claims to the contrary, Elton John is not, nor has he ever been, a rocket man.
DMX on the other hand is not in any way exaggerating when he describes being a bad, bad man in his songs. The man collects criminal charges like they're Pokemon. These include:
Possession of Illegal Substances
Possession of an Illegal Weapon
Animal Cruelty
Driving Without a License
Possession of Illegal Substances
Possession of False Identification
Possession of Illegal Substances
Impersonating a Federal Agent
Hijacking a Car
Possession of Illegal Substances
and finally, Possession of Illegal Substances.
Every seven seconds, somewhere in America, DMX is committing a crime.
One does not handle DMX so much as one aids and abets DMX. The rapper doesn't need you to get a fresh towel and a bottle of water, he needs you to put your fingerprints on something for him.
Our favorite DMX story relates to a mysterious incident in a New Jersey hotel in which his uncle/manager was accidentally shot in the foot. That's right, the poor guy with the impossible job of making sure stuff like this doesn't happen around DMX, has it happen right in his foot.
A Typical Day If You Were DMX's Personal Assistant:
You: -entering room- Hey dude, I got you the ski masks and 50 yards of rope you asked for, and OH GOD MY FOOT! OH NO! I NEED THAT TO WALK! AND THE BLOOD! YOU ASS! THAT'S SUPPOSED TO STAY INSIDE OF ME!
#5. Keith Moon
Keith Moon was the drummer for The Who, and if he didn't invent insane rock star behavior, he did his best to popularize it. What are now common rock star cliches, were daring and original back when Moon was doing them. Trashing hotel rooms, consuming horse tranquilizers, engaging in naked cake fights--Moon did it all, with vigor, passion and creativity. The best Keith Moon story is the time when shortly after leaving a hotel, he sat up in a panic and told the driver to stop and turn around. "I forgot something! We've got to go back!" Upon returning to the hotel, he ran to his room, grabbed the television and threw it out the window and into the pool. Returning to the car, he said with a great sigh of relief, "I nearly forgot."
His signature stunt was ruining toilets, and not in the way Kevin Smith ruins toilets. Moon actually demolished them. He went on the road with an enormous supply of cherry bombs, M-80s and dynamite, exploding toilets wherever he went. Moon was ultimately banned from every Holiday Inn, Sheraton and Hilton in the country for his trouble--though he was heralded Man of The Year by several plumbing supply industry associations.
A Typical Day If You Were Keith Moon's Personal Assistant:
You: Keith? Please come out of there, Keith. Please don't flush that down the toilet, Keith. I could see why you'd think it's funny the first 60 times, but this is too much. Exploding Toilet 61 is going to be no different than any of the rest. We're just gathering redundant data now. There is no logical, scientific or statistical need for this.
Keith Moon: -Opens bathroom door, runs past, cackling-
You: -Rolls for cover-
#4. Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne, front man for Black Sabbath, and later day marble-mouthed father figure, was the central figure in one of the most legendary rock star stories of all time: He ate the head off a bat. He has since claimed that he thought the bat was fake, it having been thrown on stage during a concert. That actually sounds like a pretty reasonable assumption to make--though the decision to rip even a fake bat apart with his teeth ratchets the reasonableness meter back a bit. One assumes he had his reasons. Were his "reasons" a garbage bag full of drugs? The answer is lost in the seas of time.
Somewhat less gloriously, Ozzy also once drunkenly took a leak on the Alamo, or more precisely, on the memorial across the street. As would be expected, this action pissed off Texans, a car rental company and dead soldiers everywhere. He was actually banned from San Antonio for a decade, and suffered repeated nighttime visits by the ghost of Davy Crockett. To his credit, Ozzy did later apologize profusely for the incident, although the whole thing makes us wonder what other sacred artifacts Ozzy peed on in his day.
A Typical Day If You Were Ozzy Osbourne's Personal Assistant:
You: Wow, this tour of the eyewash solution factory is a great way to take our minds off all the lawsuits we currently have pending against us, right Ozzy? Ozzy? OH JESUS NO.


text:
10 Baffling Safety Products Clearly Aimed at Paranoid People
To some people, life seems to be teetering on the brink of disaster at every moment. Their fate is just a matter of whether the worldwide natural disaster strikes before the gangs of roving bandits can stab them to death. Fortunately, what this particular demographic may lack in reason they make up for in income, and there's no shortage of products designed to prey on their irrational fears for a few extra (thousand) bucks.
#10. Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket
Yes, for a little less than $500 with shipping, you can dress your pet up like a baked potato to keep it safe from disasters both man-made and natural. The Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket boasts a handle to carry your little friend to safety, as well as several built-in storage pouches, because if you're going to be carrying Admiral Whiskers through a subway collapse while he thrashes around like a panic-frenzied suitcase with rabies, the least he could do is hold your Kindle for you.
The vest is flame-retardant, a feature the website manages to point out several times without mentioning the situational disadvantage of dressing your pet in fireproof clothing that doesn't cover its legs or face.
Via Japantrendshop.com
"Kill me, I beg of you."
#9. Pepper Spray iPhone Case
Via Spraytect.com
We dare you to find just one flaw in the above invention! It's a device that makes your phone shoot out a face-melting spray -- we refuse to even entertain the idea that such a thing could go wrong.
It's real, by the way -- the Spraytect Pepper Spray iPhone Case is a hard protective shell for your smartphone capable of firing cartridges of law-enforcement-grade pepper spray. It does have several complicated safety mechanisms to prevent accidental firing (and, we suppose, to give the muggers extra time to blind you with a switchblade and make good their escape). It also unlocks endless practical joke potential, to be unleashed any time your friends insist on you taking a picture of them standing in front of some restaurant that was in an episode of Sex and the City.
Via Spraytect.com
"Oooh, I love your pretty new phone c- OH DEAR GOD, THERE IS HELL IN MY FUCKING EYES!"
Additionally, the website takes great care to point out that the pepper spray cartridge is detachable, which seems to suggest that the manufacturers are aware of how little an advantage is actually gained by gluing it to your phone. The whole "ease of access in an emergency" base was pretty well covered by the pepper spray key chain -- Spraytect seems to just be combining self-defense equipment with random things on your person, so we assume they're only a few months from unveiling a pocket light tied to a hand grenade and a wallet that shoots fire.
#8. Personal Airbag
Via Telegraph
If you're an octogenarian burdened with osteoporosis and an inner ear infection, the Personal Airbag offers protection against bone-shattering confrontations with the floor and/or staircase.
For $1,400, you can strap a harness of two-and-a-half-pound self-inflating cushions to your back that will instantly swell up in response to any sudden movements. The obvious drawback is that the Personal Airbag can really only help you if you topple over backward. If your ancient knees buckle and send you falling face-first into the concrete floor of Costco, the airbag can do nothing but add its extra weight to your journey. Well, we suppose the other drawback is that once you own this, there is no way you wouldn't be constantly flinging yourself backward just to make it inflate and bounce you off the floor. Even if you can resist it sober, it'll be the very first thing you try once you've got a few beers in you.
Via Transer.com
"... ladies."
#7. CheckMate Infidelity Semen Testing Kit
The CheckMate Infidelity Test allows nervous and insecure husbands to strengthen the bonds of their marriage by dumping chemicals into their wives' panties to test for rogue semen. Because clearly, the best way to resolve serious communication breakdowns in your relationship is to buy a box on the Internet to dust your wife's vagina for fingerprints.
The CheckMate test is equal parts paranoia and utter despair, because nothing good can possibly come from its purchase -- you'll either waste $50 or find out your wife is cheating on you. Regardless, you're going to spend your evening trying to swab dried ropes of brogurt from your wife's dirty underwear pile while she's asleep in the next room.
CheckMate maintains a permanent buy-one-get-one-free promotion, presumably anticipating that the saline content of your bitter tears will contaminate the results of at least one test.
Via Getcheckmate.com
"Buy 714, get 714 free!"
#6. LaserScan Deterrent (i.e., Fake) Security System
Via Sdsmarket.com
The most important thing to note about the LaserScan Deterrent Security System is that it is not actually a security system. It doesn't have an alarm and it won't dial 911 during a home invasion ("Carry Your Ass to ADT if You Want Something Practical" is presumably the LaserScan slogan). What it will do is throw two beams of light in a continuous motion across the floor of your home or office to make it look as though you're steeling the joint against Danny Ocean.
The reasoning here is that any would-be burglar would take one look at the high-tech wizardry of those dancing laser beams and assume they're attached to the most advanced security system imaginable outside of hiring Megatron as a night watchman.
Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images
"Fuck. I don't do lasers, Chad Thiefman, you know that."
Globallink Security Solutions dubs their LaserScan system a "theft deterrent," essentially an expensive visual ruse meant to trick criminals. This would be like spending several hundred dollars on a stuffed gorilla and keeping it in the back of your car to scare thieves.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Clinical Aspects of Buprenorphine Therapy
Clinical Aspects of Buprenorphine Therapy
Event Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm EDT
2:00pm-3:00pm EDT
Toll-free number and passcode:
Passcode: 9901308#
Presenters will explain what buprenorphine is, how it works, what opioids do to the brain, how buprenorphine differs from methadone, important drug-drug interactions, the concept of precipitated withdrawal and how to recognize it, how to determine patient eligibility, and clinical aspects of this work.
Learn from Dr. Vergara-Rodriguez, CORE Center in Chicago, and Dr. Tulsky, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), about the challenges and successes of the SPNS buprenorphine projects at their institutions.
Both the CORE and UCSF projects are also featured in the SPNS buprenorphine monograph.
Visit the Integrating HIV Innovative Practices webpage to learn more about integrating buprenorphine into HIV primary care settings and to access additional training materials.


text:
Italy slideshow
La Liga: Ronaldo wants Real Madrid contract renewal
Real Madrid attacker Cristiano Ronaldo is ready to commit his long-term future to the Santiago Bernabeu side. More »Omnisport - 1 hour 47 minutes ago
Tour de France: Chris Froome on brink of third Tour win as Ion Izaguirre wins sodden stage 20
Chris Froome crossed the finish line with a huge grin on his face after all but sealing his third Tour de France crown on a day Ion Izaguirre won stage 20. More »Eurosport - 4 hours ago
Premier League: Riyad Mahrez 'agrees €50m Arsenal move'
Reports in France claim that Riyad Mahrez has agreed a move to Arsenal this summer, just days after Claudio Ranieri had told the press that the Algerian would be going nowhere this summer. More »90Min - 5 hours ago
Cricket: England in command after Root epic
Four evening-session wickets left Pakistan in a hole after Joe Root's masterful 254 had enabled England to rack up 589-8 at Old Trafford. More »Omnisport - 55 minutes ago
La Liga Leaks: James 'wants to stay' but Real 'reactivate Pogba talks'
Senor Rumor Andrew Gaffney on the latest possible comings and goings in the Spanish top flight More »Andrew Gaffney - 9 hours ago


text:
Hi all,
I'm experiencing issues with customer service, precisely cs[at]nodalninja[dot]com as you can see on the about us page, who's also a reseller and drove me to buy from him the NN4 with EZ leveler and other stuff I wanted.
I submitted the customer satisfaction form, but I'm having issues with the customer service manager... who also claimed to be responsible for the website. I can't reach him by phone, and can't manage to get a tracking ID of the purchase I made on 5th april. Yesterday he said me he shipped another package, that I would get it today, and he would send me the tracking ID. None of them arrived, and no answer from him. Is he also a moderator on the forum? I trusted him as he answered my first questions on behalf of nodalninja and through an official email. At the phone yesterday he strongly apologized, but today he disappeared and "forgot" to send me the tracking ID I've been asking forever, again.
I didn't want to post this publicly, but I can't find a way to have a direct contact with the board, and this fact looks to me so weird, as reading the www I thought this was one of the best customer services available, that I thought it needs to be fixed before another weekend comes. And all of that strongly differs from what states the "about us" page.
I apologize for posting it here, and hope this thread won't be deleted before I get an answer.
Whoever moderator wants proofs of what I'm saying, I have emails and copy of payment available. Maybe try reaching him by phone if you can.


text:
On October 19, 2011, New Hampshire Governor John H. Lynch was joined by members of the New Hampshire Credit Union League (NHCUL), representatives of the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of New Hampshire (Make-A-Wish®), credit union employees from throughout New Hampshire and local guests, to launch the sales season of the Make-A-Wish® 2012 Calendar Raffle. The event to launch the 2012 Calendar Raffle, which is limited to 2,500 calendars, featured speeches from representatives of both the NHCUL and Make-A-Wish®, and Governor John. H. Lynch. Governor Lynch purchased the first 2012 Calendar, and Wish Children, Raymond and Tommy were on hand to autograph the Governor's calendar. Governor Lynch commended New Hampshire credit unions for assisting New Hampshire residents in the event of disasters, community based needs, and for meeting the needs of their members when called upon.
"I am proud of the dedication and contributions made by members of the New Hampshire Credit Union League in supporting the benevolent work of Make-A-Wish® to meet the needs of ill children and their families during some of their darkest times," said NHCUL President, Daniel F. Egan, Jr. "New Hampshire credit unions have enjoyed a 15 year partnership with Make-A-Wish® and, in fact, we are their largest corporate partner in the state. During this time, we've raised $1.48 million dollars, supporting the hundreds of wishes for New Hampshire kids with serious medical challenges," added Egan. "Starting this month and throughout the year, the credit unions of the NHCUL are joining forces to raise funds for Make-A-Wish®. The Make-A-Wish® Calendar Raffle is in its fourth year and a fundraising goal of $140,000 has been set to support Make-A-Wish®. The NHCUL is grateful for the support of 460,000 New Hampshire residents who are credit union members, and for Governor Lynch's support today," added Egan.
Julie P. Baron, CEO of the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of New Hampshire, praised the philanthropic spirit and philosophy of New Hampshire's credit unions. "The Make-A-Wish Foundation® is so appreciative of the amazing partnership we share with the NHCUL. New Hampshire credit unions "live" and exemplify their sense of corporate social responsibility -"people helping people" - throughout the year. Their impact has reached every corner of the state – and is key in assisting Make-A-Wish® reach a significant milestone: the granting of our 1000th Wish in December of 2011," said Baron.
The cost of the Make-A-Wish® Calendar Raffle is $25 and grants 368 prize drawings, throughout the year. All sales proceeds will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of New Hampshire. To purchase a Make-A-Wish Calendar, please visit a local credit union in your community.


text:
Fact Sheets
Fact Sheets
Press Releases
Public Statements
Recent News
Arab World
Council of Ministers
Foreign Aid
Foreign Relations
Saudi US Relations
Prior Years
Saudi Arabia In Focus
no Crown Prince chairs Cabinet session Crown Prince Sultan holds Cabinet meeting in Riyadh
Crown Prince chairs Cabinet session
January 17, 2011
Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz began the Cabinet meeting in Riyadh today with a briefing on the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz's recent contacts with foreign leaders. These included meetings in New York with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, phone calls from U.S. President Barack Obama; German Chancellor Angela Merkel; Spanish King Juan Carlos; Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak; Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa; Turkish President Abdullah Gul; Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan; Kuwaiti Emir Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, and a message from Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir.
Next, the Cabinet discussed developments in the Arab world, particularly recent events in Tunisia, Lebanon, the Sudan and the Palestinian territories. The ministers wished for the spread of security and stability in Tunisia, called on Lebanese politicians to work together to preserve their country's unity and stability, and expressed hope that the final results of the referendum in Sudan will lead to the achievement of security and prosperity in that country. In addition, they called upon the international community to put an end to Israel's illegal actions in the Occupied Territories and praised the growing international support for recognizing an independent Palestinian state.
On the domestic front, the Cabinet hailed the laying of the foundation stone for the expansion of King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. It also noted that the Kingdom was ranked first in the world in terms of the speedy registration of real estate property, according to the Business Environment Report 2009, issued by the World Bank. Furthermore, the Cabinet praised the Kingdom for being among the top 10 countries able to meet their financial obligations and sovereign debt, according to a CMA Datavision report for the fourth quarter of 2010.
Turning to its weekly agenda, the Cabinet clarified the meaning of the phrase "Medical Disability" mentioned in paragraph (A) of Article (122) of the Officers Service Regulation; approved both an extradition agreement and a prisoner transfer agreement with India; approved a number of procedures pertaining to the extension of the Board of Directors of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) as well as the appointment of government representatives from relevant agencies by the Board of Directors of the Public Investment Fund; approved a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the industrial field with Qatar; and assigned the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance and the Ministry of Higher Education to hold the membership of the National Tobacco Control Committee.
« Return
print this page
send this page
Copyright © 2016 Information Office of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, DC |
Site Map


text:
News and Events Archives
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) - Columbia College-Jacksonville will confer nine associate and 55 bachelor's degrees to students at a commencement ceremony at 6:00 p.m. Friday, May 19 at the All Saints Chapel on Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
Dr. Anthony Alioto, Columbia College professor of history and Althea W. and John A. Schiffman chair in ethics, religious studies and philosophy, will be the featured speaker.
"For 16 years, Columbia College-Jacksonville has helped working adults and military personnel pursue college degrees," said Mike Randerson, Columbia College vice president for Adult Higher Education. "Commencement is an opportunity for faculty, staff, friends and family to celebrate each student's accomplishment."
Columbia College-Jacksonville, located onboard Naval Air Station Jacksonville, was established in 1990 to serve military personnel and their dependents, as well as working adults in the Jacksonville area.
Columbia College serves nearly 25,000 students each year at its Day Campus, Evening Campus, Online Campus, Graduate Studies Program and its more than 30 Nationwide Campuses.


text:
20 Sep 2012 12:17 PM #1
Create sencha project with js files
This is my first post and I searched for answers to my questions, but I decided
to post here in the forum because maybe the answer is another.
My client has a application that was done using the sencha 1.1 (sencha-touch-1.1.1) and I would like to reuse existing js files (views, stores, controllers, components, models, resources, services) but the only way I found to do this was by adding file like resources, but I think I can´t use Sencha Architect facilities.
There are no project files (xds or xda) and I like to create one using existing js files. Its possible ?
20 Sep 2012 12:39 PM #2
I do not believe this is possible.
24 Sep 2012 8:02 AM #3
No, it's not possible.
Also, Sencha Touch 1.1.1 has a plethora of issues that 2.0 fixed, including performance issues as well as rendering issues like: http://moduscreate.com/orientation-c...e-android-bug/
I highly suggest upgrading to 2.1+.https://moduscreate.com/wp-content/t...es/favicon.png
Jay Garcia @ModusJesus || Modus Create co-founder
Ext JS in Action author
Sencha Touch in Action author
Get in touch for Ext JS & Sencha Touch Touch Training
24 Sep 2012 6:38 PM #4


text:
I've been making small improvements to a public ASP.NET site that I have and have ran it through Google's online Page Speed several times. I have a specific problem, but something that really threw me off was that even if I didn't make any changes and just kept running it time after time (5 minutes intervals) I'd keep getting different scores by +-1 or 2 points. That is just weird in itself. Anyways,
The only medium priority item that I have left is that PageSpeed says that some of the images do not have an expiration date (or have the expiration date in a very near feature), which I cannot see how it's possible, since they are static resources (images), and I setup the expires to 60 days after the initial request. It's not even a week from now, and they are in the exact same location that the rest of my images are (and about 95% of them are not being marked as not having an expiration date)
So, how could it be that for Page SPeed, some of my images have an expiration date and others dont?
I also ran HttpWatch against my site, and I analyze the specific request of one of those images, and it does have the max-age=5184000 header.
any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks.


text:
Showing 1-24 of 62 items found in Shopping
- Sort by:
The Wood Loft
The Woodloft works directly with the local Amish craftsmen here in the Illinois Amish Country to ensure that we can offer the finest heirloom quality pieces of custom furniture. The Wood Loft prides itself on being the best store in the Illinois Amish area with the ability to create custom furniture made right here by the Arthur Amish. We have a great staff who stand ready to help you create your heirloom today. Visit our showroom in Arthur, Illinois, or browse our on-line catalog for ideas or to select items that fit your needs.
Arthur Flower Shop
Floral items.
Four Acre Wood Products
We are the largest custom furniture and cabinet manufacturer in the area. If the item you want is not currently available, we will be happy to custom make it.
Yoder's Lamps & Antiques
A shop full of antiques and 30+ dealers, plus a large inventory of antique oil and gas lamps. Repair and parts are available for antique and modern oil and gas lamps. Authorized Aladdin Lamp dealer and repair.
Villa Galleries
Fine art located in the heart of the Illinois Amish country. The Villa Galleries has dedicated its gallery to local artists who have ties to the central Illinois area either through living situation or artwork subject. Photography, watercolors, colored pencil, oil and acrylic, stained glass, and pottery are just a few of the mediums featured in the gallery.
The Pewter Spoon
Many gift ideas, from miniatures to decorative and functional items. Mementos of the Arthur area, in pewter and brass.
Calico Workshop and Oak Furniture
Along with Amish Oak furniture, the Calico Workshop offer a lot of, you guessed it, calicos and fabric. Pre-made quilts, patterns, and quilting supplies.
The Homestead Bakery
We are very pleased to continue bringing all our valued customers the freshest, made-from-scratch delights such as caramel-iced cinnamon rolls, dinner rolls, honey white and wheat breads, sweet and specialty breads, a variety of cookies, iced cut-out cookies and classic angel food cakes of various flavors. And we feature specialty pumpkin items in the fall. Load up on baked goodies, as well as all the other scrumptious items that we stock on our shelves. These include a substantial assortment of mustard's, pickled vegetables, relishes, salsas, jams, jellies, butter spreads, noodles and a generous selection of fine candies and fudge.
Melrose Quilts & Sewforth
Seasonal retail store offers heirloom quilts & homespun accessories. Occasionally the Mennonite shop owner may be seen working on her quilts.
Shady Crest Farm Market
Come visit this working Amish farm and apple orchard. They have a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables for sale, plus fresh honey, apple butter and maple syrup. A Deli filled with 15 different Country-Cured Meats & 24 different Cheeses is also available Monday - Saturday. While you're there, enjoy a hand-dipped ice cream cone. You can also find Fresh Baked Goods every Thursday - Saturday. Open year round.
The Great Pumpkin Patch
Located in the heart of Illinois' Amish country, The Great Pumpkin Patch is a working farm that features beautiful gardens, including a spectacular collection of more than 5,000 mums, and offers its heirloom seeds for sale. Known for its more than 300 varieties of rare pumpkins, squash and gourds from around the globe that are grown right on the farm and displayed in its Great Pumpkin Patch from mid-September through October 31 every year. The on-site Homestead Bakery sells made-from-scratch goodies such as pies and angel food cake during spring, summer and fall.
Atwood Visitor & Information Center
Early trains made an "at-the-woods" stop, and in 1873 the town of Atwood was formed. Main Street today features split-rail fences, benches, grassy areas and country crafts, collectibles and antiques.
Village Craftsman
This charming Amish wood shop and store features locally made Amish goods. Toys, treats, quilts, crafts and baked goods can also be purchased here.
Martha's House of Florals
Beautiful flowers, gifts, candy and cards. While away a few minutes in this treasure trove.
Cisco Farms
Stop by this roadside market for in-season fresh strawberries, tomatoes, beets, broccoli, cucumbers, eggplant and peppers.
Clinton Antique Mall
15,000 square feet with over 100 dealers. Quality antiques, furniture, primitives, glass, china, coins, quilts, trunks, toys, books, granite ware, crocks, crystal, and more. Everything on ground level, no stairs. Open seven days, layaway, gift wrapping, spring shows. Open house in June. Fall festival in September and a Christmas show in November.
Grimsley's Flower Store
A tradition in Clinton since 1918, it remains today as a symbol of the way things used to be -- tin ceiling and walls, wood floor, quality service.
Country Junction
You are invited to shop the ever-changing collection of traditional crafts, folk art, candles, furniture, home accents, decorative accessories, and much more. Displayed in room design design settings. Country Junction treats you to an enjoyable shopping experience.
Encore Thrift Store
Find secondhand items here, including new and gently used clothing of all sizes, housewares, furniture, athletic items, toys, home decor, craft items, purses, shoes and so much more. All proceeds raised by Encore Thrift Store got to support services for adults with disabilities.
Flower Corner & Country Church Craft Mall
A full-service florist specializing in weddings. The Flower Corner invites you to call and set up an appointment to speak with one of their designers for your special day! They also carry a large assortment of crafts, candles, quilts, pictures, wooden signs, and furniture.
Four Paws Salon
Pet supplies and treats for your furry little friends. Stop in at this shop that celebrates our four-pawed friends.
Graves' Stationers
This retail location offers Hallmark cards and products, gifts, office supplies, office equipment and furniture. Stop in to shop their quality merchandise and receive exceptional customer service.
LaTeaDa Tea Room & Gift Shop
You won't want to miss the ever-changing collection of must-have items offered at LaTeaDa. Their gift shop features gourmet foods, teas, teapots and tea sets, home decor, jewelry, purses and accessories, books, ornaments, and more. Stay for lunch, or just come to shop!
The Laughing Kat
Located in the residence of local artist Frannie Thompson, this shop features all types of handmade creations. Her fine assortment of fused glass and beads, paintings, jewelry, sewing and purses awaits you.


text:
Tour de France-Individual Stage Points
Updated: December 28, 2012, 1:15 AM ETAssociated Press
20th Stage
Rambouillet to Paris Champs-Elysees
74.52 miles
74.52 miles
1. Mark Cavendish, England, Sky Pro Cycling, 45 pts.
2. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Liquigas -- Cannondale, 35 pts.
3. Matthew Harley Goss, Australia, Orica Greenedge, 30 pts.
4. Juan Jose Haedo, Argentina, Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank, 26 pts.
5. Kris Boeckmans, Belgium, Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team, 22 pts.
6. Gregory Henderson, New Zealand, Lotto -- Belisol ...
Read full story
You must be signed in to post a comment
You are fully responsible for the content you post. Content that includes profanity, personal attacks or antisocial behavior (such as "spamming" or "trolling"), or other inappropriate content or material will be removed. We reserve the right to block any user who violates our terms of use, including removing all content posted by that user.


text:
While I feel quite confident that I've inferred the correct meaning of "In the sequel" from context, I've never heard anyone explicitly tell me, so first off, to remove my niggling doubts: What does this phrase mean?
(Someone recently argued to me that "sequel" was actually supposed to refer to a forthcoming second part of a paper, which I found highly unlikely, but I'd just like to make sure. )
My main questions:
At what points in the text, and for what kinds of X, is it appropriate to use the phrase "In the sequel, X" in a paper? In a book? Is it ever acceptable to introduce definitions via
"In the sequel, we introduce the concept of a "blah", which is a thing satisfying ..."
at the start of a paper or book without a formal
"Definition. A "blah" is a thing, satsifying ..."
in the main text of the paper or book? Finally, out of curiosity, I'm wondering how long this phrase has been around, if it's considered out of date or if it's still a popular phrase, and what some good alternatives are.


text:
"Cindy Cooper and Words of Choice are presenting their acclaimed 1-hour performance program on reproductive justice and women's rights this Fri. March 1 at 7 pm (Eastern) and Sat. March 2 at 3 pm (Eastern) in NY. Can't make it? The play will be live streamed using an online broadcast with high production values and social media … [Read more...]
Cindy Cooper on her Play, "Words of Choice", Reproductive Justice and Body Image
February 28, 2013 By


text:
Inspired from Macro to access a specific member of a list.
I want to have a macro implementing the lisp functions
(member item list) and
(assoc id alist). The first checks if an item is contained in a list, the second accesses the value with the given
id in an associative list.
The macro should be able to take a litteral list, or a macro.
Usage should be like:
\ifassoc{b}{a/1,b/2,c/3}{\assocresult equals 2}{if-not-found}
\ifassoc{b}{\otherlist}{\assocresult can be used here}{if-not-found}


text:
On Thursday February 7, two Guston men entered a plea of guilty in Meade County Circuit Court relating to charges of arson and insurance fraud.
Kentucky State Police say Joseph D. Ross, 51, pled to ten years and Joshua D. Fuqua, 31, pled to seven years for their involvement in a staged accident to collect money from an insurance policy on a motor home that was owned by Ross.
Ross hired Fuqua back in June of 2011 to drive a pickup truck into his motor home that was parked on Charlie Pyle Road.
The Meade County Sheriff's Department initially worked the case as a motor vehicle accident, but had some concerns about the fire.
An investigation was conducted with the help of the State Fire Marshal's Office which resulted in the arrest and indictment of Ross and Fuqua.
Final sentencing is set for March 21.


text:
I am looking for an open source firewall with country based ip blocking feature for Linux OS.
closed as not constructive by AviD♦ Oct 3 '12 at 18:57
As it currently stands, this question is not a good fit for our Q&A format. We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion. If you feel that this question can be improved and possibly reopened, visit the help center for guidance.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
ipinfodb.com has a free geolocation database that can be used to get IP addresses per country. There's a bash script for using this database with iptables on this page.


text:
Animal Hall of Fame: Biggest
5 of 7
The saltwater crocodile can grow to 23 feet long and weigh up to 2,200 pounds. Often called "salties," the ferocious reptiles are found in India, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.
Next: Insect
Provided by Infoplease—an authoritative, comprehensive reference website that offers an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs. Visit Infoplease.com to find more resources endorsed by teachers and librarians.


text:
Anne Barnard
Fred Conrad/The New York Times
Anne Barnard is The Times's Beirut bureau chief covering Syria, Lebanon and other parts of the Middle East region. Her recent overseas work includes coverage of Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Haiti and Russia. Earlier, Ms. Barnard served as Baghdad bureau chief and Middle East bureau chief for The Boston Globe, before joining the Times in 2007.
In 2010, Ms. Barnard wrote a year-long series about the Haitian earthquake, exploring how the disaster affected Haiti's diaspora, through the lens of a single Catholic parish in New York. The series received Columbia University's Meyer "Mike" Berger Award for in-depth reporting on the lives of ordinary people.
Ms. Barnard, a native New Yorker, studied Russian at Yale University and began her reporting career at The Moscow Times, covering post-Soviet turmoil from 1993 to 1995. She worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1996 to 2000, then joined the Boston Globe.
After the 9/11 attacks, Ms. Barnard covered the aftermath in New York and Pakistan. In 2003, she covered the invasion of Iraq, then moved to Baghdad full time. She documented the troubled American occupation; its impact on Iraqis; the military experience; and the evolution of cities like Fallujah and Ramadi from early protests to urban warfare. She also reported from Afghanistan. Later, she covered the broader Middle East, including frequent trips to Iran, where she explored Iranians' scientific ambitions, their diverse views of America and the country's charm for war-weary Iraqi tourists and pilgrims.
In 2007, Ms. Barnard joined the Times' Metropolitan Desk. Her work provided context during a controversy over a proposed Muslim community center near the World Trade Center site and a campaign to demonize Islam; illuminated how a murder case slipped through the cracks; documented attacks on Latino immigrants in Long Island; chronicled black New Yorkers inspired to shake up local politics after Barack Obama's election; and explored a neighborhood transformed after 9/11.
She also covered a stranger-than-fiction murder trial that transfixed New York's Bukharian Jewish community, the locavore appeal of urban slaughterhouses, the Fellini of Rockaway, and the unlikely love affair between President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and the South Bronx. She is married with two young children.
Highlights From the Archives
Libya's War-Tested Women Hope to Keep New Power
The Libyan rebels' unlikely victory over Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has propelled women in a traditional society into roles they never imagined.September 13, 2011 worldNews
The 9/11 Decade
Hit Hard by 9/11, a Piece of Queens Struggles to Let Go
The terrorist attacks scythed through generations of firefighters and Wall Street traders in the largely Irish-Catholic neighborhoods on the Rockaway peninsula. Also, the neighborhood's Muslim bagel man; and the connection between the 9/11 families and wounded American soldiers.September 11, 2011 usNews
For Imam in Muslim Center Furor, a Hard Balancing Act
For much of his life, Feisal Abdul Rauf, who led the proposal for a Muslim center downtown, has found distrust as he tried to reconcile Islam with America and modernism.August 22, 2010 nyregionNews
A Parish Tested
A Bond in Devotion to Haiti Is Left Shattered
A tug of war between country and family ran like a fault line through the marriage of Rose Carline and Jean Arsène Constant. The Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti ruptured it.June 9, 2010 nyregionSeries
A Son's Killing, and a Queens Mother's Crusade
The 2008 stabbing death of Keron Agard in Queens attracted little attention, but his mother is ensuring that the police keep searching for his killer.May 29, 2010 nyregionNews
A Stirring in St. Albans
Emboldened by '08 Race to Roil Waters at Home
Residents of southeast Queens are using their newfound sense of power to challenge the political establishment.September 4, 2009 nyregionNews
Syria Outlines Plans for Conquest of Aleppo, Backed by Russian Power
The plan includes providing corridors for civilians to flee and amnesty to insurgents who lay down their arms — offers that were met with deep skepticism.
July 29, 2016, Friday
MORE ON: Aleppo (Syria) , Syrian Army , Syria , Russia , Assad, Bashar al- , Defense and Military Forces
Group Backed by U.S. Gives ISIS 48 Hours to Leave Syrian City
The ultimatum comes after reports that dozens of civilians were killed this week near the city of Manbij in airstrikes by the United States-led coalition.
July 22, 2016, Friday
Pro-Government Forces Advance in Syria Amid Talk of U.S.-Russia Cooperation
Civilians are dying from lack of food and medical care as the Syrian government tightens sieges and increases airstrikes in Aleppo and outside Damascus.
July 16, 2016, Saturday
MORE ON: Syria , Civilian Casualties , Physicians for Human Rights , Assad, Bashar al- , Daraya (Syria) , Aleppo (Syria)
John Kerry Meets Vladimir Putin to Discuss New Syria Plan
The proposed agreement would create a joint Russia-U.S. command center to share intelligence and targeting information for "integrated operations."
July 15, 2016, Friday
MORE ON: Defense and Military Forces , Obama, Barack , Al Qaeda , Terrorism , International Relations , Kerry, John , Putin, Vladimir V , Syria , Russia , United States International Relations , United States Defense and Military Forces , Assad, Bashar al- , Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) , Al Nusra Front
Family of Marie Colvin, Slain U.S. Journalist, Sues Syria
The complaint contends that Syrian officials worked in concert to locate, track and target journalists like Ms. Colvin, who was killed in an artillery strike in 2012.
July 10, 2016, Sunday
After Attacks on Muslims, Many Ask: Where Is the Outpouring?
In recent days, jihadists have killed more than 300 people in Turkey, Bangladesh, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and many Westerners have responded with relative indifference.
July 6, 2016, Wednesday
11 Syrian Refugees Reported Killed by Turkish Border Guards
Most, including at least three children, were from the same extended family and were shot near the crossing at the town of Jisr al-Shoughour, Syrian activists and a monitoring group said.
June 20, 2016, Monday
MORE ON: Refugees and Displaced Persons , Istanbul (Turkey) , Aleppo (Syria) , Middle East and Africa Migrant Crisis , Civilian Casualties , Smuggling , Human Rights and Human Rights Violations , European Union , Human Rights Watch , Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) , Syrian Observatory for Human Rights , Syria
Syria Violence Leads U.N. Envoy to Push Back Date for Peace Talks
Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations' special envoy for Syria, said the time was not right for negotiations but emphasized that they must resume by early August.
June 10, 2016, Friday
Syria, Facing Deadline, Allows Limited Aid to Besieged Town of Daraya
Aid groups and opposition figures said the delivery was minimal and appeared intended to forestall a United Nations commitment to begin airdrops of food.
June 2, 2016, Thursday
Airstrikes in Syria Killed and Hurt Dozens Near Hospital, Rescuers Say
Rescuers and antigovernment activists said that over 20 people were killed in the attacks, for which they blamed the government or its Russian allies.
June 1, 2016, Wednesday
Ten Months On: Haiti's New Normal
In the wake of the devastating earthquake, Haitians are experiencing new guilt, new expenses, new worries, new opportunities, new risks. And enduring grief.
Series: A Parish Tested
Aftershocks rumble through Haitian New York. This series witnesses the earthquake transform schools, prayer, relationships and finances in a Haitian church community in Queens.
Wounded Warriors Weekend
Each summer, Rockaway, Queens, remembers 9/11, honoring veterans who served since the attack.
What Russia Accomplished in Syria
An analysis of which groups gained and lost ground during Russia's air campaign.
Signs of Hope Five Years After Start of Syria's War
The partial cease-fire in Syria, which began Feb. 27, has proved more effective and durable than expected, significantly reducing the level of violence.
A Strike Kills 25 Family Members
In one of the deadliest strikes in Gaza, Israel said it was targeting a Hamas operative. But the strike killed 25 other people, including 19 children. Anne Barnard reports.
Daily Life in Damascus
New York Times Beirut correspondent Anne Barnard visits the city as its residents go about their lives in the shadow of Syria's civil war, which is in its third year.
Rss Feeds On Anne Barnard
Subscribe to an RSS feed on this topic. What is RSS?


text:
Quiz Hub
The Fun Online Interactive Learning Center .
Home Education Magazine
Homeschooling Information
and Resource Pages! Home Education Magazine presents a unique homeschool perspective based on years
of experience.
HomeSchool World
The official site of "Practical
Homeschooling" magazine and "The Big Book of Home Learning". Great resources!
Homeschool Legal Defense Association
Legal concerns
for homeschooling parents are answered here.
Jon's Homeschooling Resource Page
A source of neutral, non-commercial homeschooling information for over eight years.
Learning in Freedom
Even though this site has older information, some may be useful to you, such as the "which universities
take homeschooled children".
Teaching Home Magazine


text:
ANKARA, Turkey (February 3, 2013)--Police in Turkey were reportedly questioning 11 people Sunday in connection with the death of a New York City woman who disappeared while vacationing alone in Istanbul.
Turkey's state-run news agency said Sarai Sierra's body was discovered Saturday evening near the remnants of ancient city walls.
The agency says she was found with a head wound and a blanket near her body.
She was wearing jeans, a jumper and a jacket, and still had her earrings and a bracelet.
Sierra, a mother of two children ages 9 and 11, left for Istanbul on Jan. 7 to explore her photography hobby and made a side trip to Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Munich, Germany.
She originally planned to travel with a friend, but ended up traveling alone when her friend canceled.
She was in regular contact with friends and relatives, and was last in touch with her family on Jan. 21, the day she was due back in New York.
She told them she would visit Galata Bridge, which spans Istanbul's Golden Horn waterway, to take photos.
The body was found not far from the bridge.


text:
Phoenix Rising
The Arizona Republic reported today that Bishop Thomas Olmsted is reversing his earlier decision to limit Communion under both forms in the diocese of Phoenix.
[I]n his letter to priests dated Monday, the bishop cited as the reason for his change of mind "two primary changes in my understanding" of three church documents that govern the new Mass translation and distribution of Communion.He said he had misunderstood that the church was not denying permission for laypeople to distribute Communion, only that it had withdrawn permission for them to officially prepare the cups used to offer wine to the congregation.A specific paragraph of the new General Instruction of the Roman Missal governing Communion under both forms should be interpreted far more broadly than he had done."The bishop could permit Holy Communion under both kinds, and I am exercising this faculty to do so," Olmsted wrote.
Diocesan officials have promised to release full details on their website on Monday.
[Those who missed theearlier decision limiting Communion from the cup might want to read my post discussing the reasons that were put forwardby the Archdiocese of Phoenix at the time.]
Because the move to limit Communion under both forms was linked to supposed changes being introduced with the third edition of the Roman Missal,some priests andparishionershave been requesting policy clarifications from their bishops and from the Liturgy Secretariate of the Bishops' Conference.Among the bishops, support for sharingCommunion from the cup has not been lacking.Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati and Bishop McGrath of San Jose sent outletters clearlyreaffirming the practice fortheir dioceses.Many American dioceses are happy with the practice. The Archdiocese ofBaltimore and the DioceseSioux City, to name two that werecalled to my attention, have recent guidelines posted on theirwebsites thatshow apositive stance towardsharing Communion under both forms. The Baltimore guidelines even go so far as to say:
In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Holy Communion under both kinds is to be considered normative. Parishes that do not currently offer Communion under the species of wine should implement this practice.
On October 26, Bishop Gregory Aymond, head of the USCCB Bishops Committee on the Liturgy, sent a letter to all the American bishops with information clarifying legislation on the subject -- no doubt in response to the volume of questions arising from what happened in Phoenix. This documentation explained that the"expired indult"did not concern Communion from the cup, but rather the permission for Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion to purify the vessels.On the Phoenix website, reference to the expired indult was removed on October 27, though the rest of the FAQs document remained.
The latest news from Phoenix, however, suggests that a more direct explanation and change of course is going to be made public on Monday. (The FAQs document has beenremoved.)
It takes humility to admit to having made a mistake, and it takes courage to reassess a situation that has gone astray and take appropriate steps to change things. It's too bad things went as far as they did before a mistake of such importance was caught and corrected, but I am happy for the church of Phoenix and for Bishop Olmsted himself that things will be set right again.
OK. Now how about those altar girls?
About the Author
Rita Ferrone is the author of several books about liturgy, including Liturgy: Sacrosanctum Concilium (Paulist Press).
18 comments
- All
- Editor Featured
It's wonderful news. The memo from Bishop Aymond is very well composed and corrects the mistaken interpretations that have been circulating in the past month or so. I recommend reading it (it's linked in the article above).
The new Norms for Phoenx have been published - also a newspaper article by Bishop Olmstead explaining them:Norms: http://www.diocesephoenix.org/onenewsstory.php?themonth=201111&story=100... http://www.catholicsun.org/bishop/2011/111711.html
This is heartening news--not only about the reversal in Phoenix but also about Bishop Olmsted's humble admission of misunderstanding the norms. The cynic in me wonders what kind of pressure his brother bishops exerted that he should be so forthright about this issue. After all, the issue with Sister Margaret McBride seemed to be equally ill-informed, but he got a pass on that one. But I may be too jaded for my own good. Maybe it's best just to take the gift for what it is and celebrate it as such.
Mark Jameson,Good observation. I, too, am pleased with the bishop's reversal, and I applaud his humility. Something, however, that I have a hard time getting by is how a bishop could have misread three Vatican documents. Now is that just a face saving explanation? Or did he willfully misinterpret those documents because he does not himself favor Communion under two species? Can he really be sincere in saying that he misinterpreted the documents? I would prefer the explanation where he willfully misread the documents to the one which says he did not understand them. If indeed he did not comprehend these three documents, how much else has he missed? Moreover, how many other bishops are there out there who cannot read? Is this the real side of the great legacy of John Paul the Great?
Alan, I really hope it was an honest mistake. Because if he willfully misread the documents or just plain ignored them, it shows how little regard he has for the intelligence of lay people in the church. I can handle a bishop who may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer. What I can't handle is a bishop who thinks he can rule by divine fiat. Somehow, the message got through to Bishop Olmsted that he is accountable, and he changed course. So is this a minor blip in an otherwise autocratic ruling style? Or dare we hope it's the beginning of a new way of shepherding his people?
Wish I could be as optimistic as you both. This liturgical decision (his second in two months) and his handling of the McBride affair points out a troubling pattern. Sorry, but how can a responsible bishop so mis-read the new GIRM and communion under both kinds unless there is an agenda to start with. You would think that a call to the USCCB office to clarify would have been one logical step; you would think that asking his pastors would have been a responsible step.Rather, what you see is a top down, old style, bishop is the TEACHER (incorrectly understood) model. His track record is a series of these types of decisions which refute the very principles of Vatican II. In a broader context, Olmsted politically grabs very any type of USCCB position or headline. Why? Is that the role of a bishop? Now he is on Dolan's committee for religious liberty - and what qualifies him for that role? Because no one else wanted it?The lack of careful thought; lack of basic knowledge; lack of trustful authority (vs. authoritarianism) are all very concerning. You can take joy in this retraction but what we need to really see is Olmsted never making the headlines again and learning how to focus on Phoenix and listening to his pastors and people. Not much hope of that.
Whatever his motive, we should be grateful that he has done the right thing.Bishops have advisors. It's entirely possible that, rather than personally immersing himself in the documents, he was relying on advice that turned out to be bad.Hasn't Bishop Morlino in Madison, WI, initiated similar restrictions, with the same rationale? Will another mea culpa be forthcoming?
Bill, you may be right. There doesn't seem much room for optimism, but I'll take every bit I can get. Also, I like to give people the benefit of the doubt--even when it's hard to do so. I'd like to think that's how Jesus acted as well.I did find it heartening, as Rita reported, that so many bishops responded in a way that publicly corrected Bishop Olmsted's pronouncements. I'm sure there were a number of phone calls and e-mails between these guys and Olmsted--and likely not all were as measured as the norms sound. I also suspect that Bishop Olmsted is not the most popular boy in the class right now. And that's a good thing, I think. There's a greater chance, now, that he'll be on his best behavior for a while, paying more attention to the people of Phoenix.
I'm with Bill deHaas and, to a slightly lesser extent, with Alan Mitchell on this one. I don't see humility in Olmsted's reversal. I see, rather, his de facto acknowledgement that he was way out of step with other bishops. It's too bad that Olmsted accepted Sister McBride's apology/confession/whatever over the St. Joseph Hospital tragedy: Talk about episcopal arrogance! I think I speak for most Catholics who believe that this good sister was never actually "lataed" out of the Church of Rome. On the other hand, regarding Olmsted's actual standing among his local Catholics, I can only wonder......Olmsted is a rigid, narrowly focused, doctrinaire fella. I'd be very surprised if he's really changed his stripes --- or has even taken the real first steps toward doing so.Good news about communion for Phoenix Catholics.As for his orthotoxy, Olmsted is not going to change.I hope he proves me wrong, but I'm not optimistic.
I'm not sure what Olmstead meant regarding lay people can no longer officially prepare the cupsI do know that they can no longer purify them after communion. Would someone have an idea?
Another mis-read - he hasn't a clue about that specific line/section of his "de facto" acknowlegement.Jim - all I can say is that (with Harry S. Truman), the buck stops here. Olmsted can throw his people under the bus if he wants to but the final decision and explanation is his no matter how much he dances around it.
"Hasnt Bishop Morlino in Madison, WI, initiated similar restrictions, with the same rationale? Will another mea culpa be forthcoming?"You obviously don't know Morlino, do you?This man got it right without having to be corrected in the first place: http://www.dsj.org/about-us/bishops/bishops-statements/clarification-on-..."Im not sure what Olmstead meant regarding lay people can no longer officially prepare the cupsI do know that they can no longer purify them after communion. Would someone have an idea?" The idea is simply rampant nonsensical clericalism.
Bill - of course.
Jim P, you asked about Madison. It's not a mea culpa by a long shot, but the bishop there gave a signal that he isn't going to move in on anybody who continues the practice for the time being.Bishop Morlino released this letter:http://www.madisondiocese.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=PpigRo3O-pM%3d&t... emphasizes the need for catechesis. He says he would never eliminate communion under both forms completely (something no one said he would do), and then he argues that Vatican II didn't want or expect it to be offered every Sunday. He reiterates the passages of the GIRM that say it should not be offered when there is inadequate preparation and reverence. And he says this:"I have been told of, and have personally experienced, the reality that the provision both that the faithful be well instructed and that there be no danger of profanation of the Sacrament, is not being met. As such, while recognizing the need for patient, prudent and practical steps according to your individual parishes, Ive asked you to move in this direction." What "this direction" is however remains unsaid. Is it reverence? Is it more adequate catechesis? Is it more infrequent use, eliminating Sundays? The rector of his cathedral certainly thought he had used the same rationale as Phoenix and asked for its restriction to limited occasions. In the Bishop's subsequent memo, I think he still leaves it a bit unclear. Saying "no deadine" is nice, but no deadline on what?His diocesan liturgy director, Pat Gorman, subsequently sent out this memo. http://www.madisondiocese.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=ItZ3yFHbbDM%3d&t... again, but he prefaces his remarks by saying he hasn't talked to Bishop Morlino about it recently. So what weight this memo has is also unclear. What it looks like to me is that Bishop Morlino said some strong words at the meeting, and then when it got so much negative publicity he was alarmed and decided to take a softer approach. Maybe somebody pointed out to him in the meantime that the "expiring indult" was a red herring. On the other hand, maybe the rector of the cathedral made it all up. But I rather doubt that.
Michael and Nancy, I suspect the part about "preparation" was misstated by the reporter of the news story. Purification of the vessels takes place after communion, as you know, but he might not have understood that.
Regarding preparing the cups: if, as is common, a number of cups will be used to distribute the precious blood during communion, wine is poured into the cups during the preparation of the bread and wine. I took the newspaper article to indicate that laypersons are not supposed to pour the wine into the vessels - a priest or a deacon is supposed to do this.
Rita Ferrone said "How about those altar girls?"Today's Washington Post has an article about a parish doing away with female altar servers. Girls who are already serving can continue to do so, but no new ones will be accepted. The ones who continue will have to wear white robes while the boys will wear black robes (modelling the priest, I guess). "Taylor [the pastor], who did not return phone calls for comment, wrote in the parish bulletin that he hoped the church would create opportunities, and perhaps clubs for girls as a way to help them find ways to serve the church, rather than serving at the altar. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/protests-of-va-parishs-move-away-fro...
... [Trackback] ... [...] Informations on that Topic: commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=15893 [...] ...


text:
No comments posted. |E-mail|Print | Text Size | Bookmark
Torrington outguns St. Paul
BRISTOL — With a combined 92 points on the board, you might have thought neither Torrington High or St. Paul stressed defense at any point in Saturday afternoon's football game.
On one hand, you had Torrington junior Devone Thomas barreling for 315 yards and five touchdowns in a Brendan Lytton-type of effort that was earned on 39 carries.
The home team, which has arguably the best throwing quarterback in the Naugatuck Valley League in Winsted's Logan Marchi, got a 21-of-32 passing effort for 245 yards and four touchdowns from their star.
It was a strong third quarter by the visitors that made the difference in the Raiders' 59-33 win.
First, there was a 12-play, 66-yard drive that culminated with the fourth touchdown by Thomas. That put Torrington up, 36-21.
On the ensuing kickoff, the Raiders (2-2) recovered their third on-side kick of the day (each led to touchdowns) and put together another nine-play drive topped off by a perfectly thrown 10-yard touchdown pass from freshman Connor Finn to junior Desmond Langs.
The best way to defend Marchi? Keep him on the sidelines.
"He has my vote for All-NVL," Raiders coach Dan Dunaj said. "Coach (Jude) Kelly is a great offensive coach and has a special quarterback. We told the kids at the half that we just needed to keep him off the field and they did a great job."
For the second week in a row after tough losses to Ansonia and Wolcott to start, the Raiders responded behind a young quarterback and a running back who saw more time at linebacker and tight end in the first two games.
At least three starters have missed the past two games for an unspecified reason that Torrington officials will not discuss. Dunaj would only say Saturday that the players in question, who have not been named, are expected to be back next week when the Raiders host Naugatuck in a key NVL Brass Division game.
Considering three freshmen started on defense and two on offense Saturday, Dunaj was impressed with how the team has responded.
The Falcons (0-4) have been giving up massive amounts of points this season (240 in four games), but with Marchi they can also scored a mountain of points. A talented junior with a bullet of an arm, Marchi threw for scores of 10, 39, 10 and 25 yards.
The Falcons ate up five minutes of clock on the game's first drive with an 11-play, 78-yard drive that ended with a 1-yard dive by Eli Park.
As time-consuming and methodical as the St. Paul drive was, the Raiders struck like a bolt of lightning in a two-play, 45-yard drive in which Thomas carried both times, the second a 27-yard run to paydirt.
The Raiders resorted to their on-side trickery on consecutive kickoffs and translated both of them into scores and a 22-7 lead after one period.
St. Paul and Marchi came back in the second quarter with two scores that made it a game at the half at 30-21.
This year's star running back for the Raiders, Joan Toribio (sore ankle), ran for just a yard and played mostly on defense. That left the workload for Thomas, who was simply dominant in his first game as the showcase back.
While the last two weeks may have been challenging for the Raiders, they have handled their on-field business just fine and at 2-0 in the division put themselves back into the NVL Brass race.
Timothy W. Gaffney is a freelance sportswriter and founder of Litchfield County Sports.com. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Reader Comments
The following are comments from online readers like you. In no way do they represent the view of The Republican-American.
Submit a Comment
We encourage your feedback and dialog.
Please be civil and respectful.
Registered users comments will be posted automatically.
All other comments will be reviewed by our staff before appearing on the Web site.
If you're witty, to the point and quotable, your reader comments may also be included on the Around the Towns page of The Sunday Republican.
Redzone News
Redzone Videos
Redzone Blog
XML_Parser: undefined entity at XML input line 8:18
Photo Galleries


text:
If someone quotes e.g. Leviticus 6:7, will this be the correct position no matter the language or translation?
Sign up
- Anybody can ask a question
- Anybody can answer
- The best answers are voted up and rise to the top
In general, yes...
As Affable Geek answered, the divisions predate the printing press but were not part of the original texts. There aren't that many publishers of Bibles and most of them use the same system that English translations have used since Langton. So if you go to a Spanish-language service anywhere around the world, you can find your place in the text. (Assuming you understand Spanish, of course.)
It seems likely that this is for convenience and because of the network effect. Since most tools of interpretation (dictionaries, commentaries, concordances, etc.) use the standard system, most people who purchase a Bible will expect to find it to be compatible to that system. A publisher would quickly go out of business if they tried to introduce a novel system.
with two exceptions.
As it turns out, Leviticus 6:7 is not the same between the Christian system and the Jewish system:
It turns out the Jewish system puts what we call Leviticus 6:1-7 into the end of chapter 5 as verses 20 to 26.
For example:
Psalms 88:5 in King James Version:
Psalms 88:5 in Jewish Publication Society (based on versification in Masoretic text):
Even some verses differ in NT according to which Greek manuscript you are reading from.
Yes, generally, though not universally.
The most common versing scheme in use today goes back to Stephen Langton in the 1200s. Other popular schemes include one by Hugo of Saint Cher.
While definitely a respected theologian (he was an Archbishop!), his "sense"-based structure is by no means universal agreed upon. Indeed, there is an apocryphal tale underlying the seeming lack of any rhyme or reason in the structure that suggests Langton was riding his horse as he inserted the numbers. The story goes that when his horse's feet touched the ground, he inserted a verse, and when he fell off the horse, he inserted a chapter!
Other versification schemes exist, but his is the most common. Manuscripts that predate this convention are sometimes back-versed, and some translations have reversed the scripts, but most popular translations, such as the KJV, NIV, NASB, RSV, ESV, NLT, etc... all use Langton's schemes.
Indeed, the versification is so well received that as modern manuscripts cast doubt on the authenticity of some verses (see 1 John 5:7), many modern translations will omit the verse altogether, going directly from 6 to 8.
Internationally, those that choose to follow this pretty well received convention tend to follow it as well.


text:
Seorim Hong '13: SEC internship provides inimitable opportunity
Prior to matriculating at Rutgers School of Law–Newark last fall, I worked at Citigroup Inc., Corporate and Investment Banking in New York, and Millennium Partners, L.P., a multi-strategy hedge fund. With over four years of work experience in the industry, the opportunity to work at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Investment Management's Office of Chief Counsel in Washington, D.C. as a Summer Honors Law Program intern was truly an inimitable opportunity.
As a first-year law student with an interest in securities enforcement and regulation generally, and Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Act specifically, to be at the SEC this summer was an unrivaled experience and a tremendous learning opportunity.
In addition, the 10-week internship this summer has reinforced my passion for and commitment to pursue opportunities during the academic year, and perhaps post-graduation, in investment management practices. Starting this fall, I will be joining SEC Division of Enforcement's Asset Management Unit in its New York regional office. Having been exposed to the rule-making side at the SEC's home office this summer, I am very much looking forward to gaining exposure to the enforcement side of things.
Craig Dashiell '13: A high caliber of work and welcoming environment
I spent my summer working as a summer associate at Lowenstein Sandler PC in Roseland, NJ. I was put in contact with Lowenstein through Rutgers' Minority Student Program, and had the opportunity to experience life at a major New Jersey law firm. Lowenstein provided me with a lot of freedom to choose work that I was interested in, and offered a support network of associates to aid in my professional development.
I used this summer to gain exposure to as many different practice areas as possible. Among other things, I drafted a brief point for a copyright infringement case, wrote a memo about the liability of subsequent land owners under toxic tort laws, and researched whether certain claims made insurance contracts violate New Jersey's public policy. In addition, Lowenstein provided "lunch and learns" throughout the summer where the heads of different departments would meet with us to break down how their respective groups actually operated.
Lowenstein truly goes out of its way to create a welcoming environment and provides a caliber of work that will make you a better lawyer. From day one I was assigned a buddy, mentor, and senior contact to ease my transition and periodically check in on me throughout the summer. Everyone, from the partners on down, was genuinely interested in getting to know me, and I enjoyed interacting with them during social events. Working at Lowenstein was definitely a rewarding experience and I am thankful to Rutgers and MSP for preparing me for it.
Jessica Selecky '12: Diverse practice areas experienced on two continents
My 12 weeks as a summer associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton were a fantastic opportunity and learning experience. Both the diversity of work assignments available to summer associates and Cleary's great international reach made this summer an amazing experience.
Over the summer, I had the chance to work in every practice area that interested me. I worked on a securities deal, an estate planning project, a contract litigation, two international arbitration assignments, and a large white-collar enforcement case. I was also lucky enough to be part of a pro bono civil rights litigation team throughout the entire summer.
There was no make-work at Cleary. I received real, substantive work — including attending and drafting summaries of witness interviews and drafting portions of a brief for a case in a federal court of appeals. The people I worked with were extraordinary without exception and I received meaningful, thoughtful feedback on my contributions.
In addition to my time at Cleary's New York City office in lower Manhattan, I also spent four weeks of my summer at Cleary's office in Paris, France. I saw what life was like as an American associate in Paris and I was able to evaluate whether I would be interested in doing a longer term overseas office rotation as an associate at Cleary.
I really enjoyed my experience in both the Paris and NYC offices and look forward to returning to Cleary as an associate next fall.
Lauren Garcia '13: Challenging assignments and helpful feedback as intern to federal judge
This summer, I served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Jose L. Linares, a Federal District Judge here in Newark, New Jersey. While there, I was fortunate enough to observe a high-publicity criminal trial involving a New Jersey public official who had been arrested in 2009 as part of a federal public corruption investigation. I watched the trial from jury selection to verdict, and researched and prepared a bench memo for the Judge relating to a discrete issue of the law.
In addition to observing a wide variety of several other civil and criminal proceedings before Judge Linares, I also observed oral arguments before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. However, my internship also involved a great deal of legal research and writing. One of my most exciting assignments was the bench memo that I prepared for Judge Linares relating to the appropriate sanctions for persons who violate a condition of their release prior to a bail revocation hearing.
Another valuable aspect of my judicial internship was being able to work closely with the Judge's clerks and receive valuable guidance and feedback on all of my assignments. I would have never anticipated being asked to draft an opinion for the Judge, but with the clerk's guidance, I completed my most substantive, challenging assignment. Overall, my summer experience has been extremely exciting and has sparked my interest in applying for a federal clerkship in the future.
Jeffrey Chang, '12: Historic time at Lambda Legal Fair Courts Project
As an intern with Lambda Legal, the nation's oldest legal organization dedicated to advancing the rights of the LGBT and HIV-affected community, I was thrilled to be working during such an historic time in our movement — exemplified by the landmark passage of marriage equality in New York in June. Lambda's Fair Courts Project fosters an impartial and independent judiciary, paving the way for successful litigation and policy efforts and combating anti-court backlash.
I worked with advocates and judges from across the country on issues such as judicial retention threats, increasing LGBT diversity on the bench, and judicial recusal issues. This experience empowered me to examine all aspects of the legal and policy work that goes into modern-day civil rights movements.
Much of my time at Lambda involved working with advocates in Iowa on anti-court backlash following the Iowan Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage. After that decision, three Supreme Court justices were voted off the bench and accused of "legislating from the bench." Another case I worked on extensively involved the attempt to recuse federal judge Vaughn Walker, who ruled in the California Prop-8 trial, because of his sexual orientation. One of my favorite projects involved developing a pilot program that creates a "pipeline" to the judiciary for openly-LGBT attorneys.
Throughout the summer I worked on amicus briefs, conducted legal and legislative research, and organized communities to develop strategies to ensure that everyday people understand the role and importance of the court system in safeguarding our rights.
John Burzynski '12: Appellate work in the Bergen County Prosecutor's office
I had the privilege of working at the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office this summer. As a member of the Appellate Section, I researched the criminal code and case law, authored briefs, and argued motions in court. I dealt with a number of issues, including motions to dismiss charges, suppress evidence, appeal convictions, and expunge records in matters ranging from driving while intoxicated to sexual assault and official misconduct.
I worked with an exceptional team of prosecutors and interns, each committed to protecting the public and bringing criminals to justice. I enjoyed my work and learned a great deal while putting the theory and skills I have developed at Rutgers into practice.
Nicole Johnson '12: Legal Services fellowship reinforces public interest law commitment
This summer I was a Deborah T. Poritz Public Interest Law Fellow at Legal Services of New Jersey at their office in Edison. LSNJ provides civil legal services to low-income residents of New Jersey. They also do major impact advocacy as well as policy analysis addressing poverty and its causes.
As a fellow, I did work in many of the different practice areas, such as family law, housing, immigration, consumer protection, worker's rights and prisoner re-entry. Not only was I able to hone my research, writing and advocacy skills in each of these projects, but it also gave me the opportunity to explore new areas of law.
Learning about so many different areas of law this summer was an amazing experience. It was also a very eye-opening one. There is tremendous need out there, which is only exacerbated by the difficult economic times we are living in right now.
Working at Legal Services this summer has strengthened my resolve to become a public interest lawyer so that I can be an advocate for people in times when they need one the most.
Nari Wang '13: Two Different Jobs Equal One Very Valuable Summer
This summer, I spent six weeks as a judicial intern for the Honorable Julio M. Fuentes of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals where I was able to observe the entire appellate process, from day one when the briefs were dropped off in chambers, to the writing of the final opinion. I also had the opportunity to draft several non-precedential opinions on both civil and criminal matters. Since Judge Fuentes' chambers were in the Martin Luther King federal courthouse here in Newark, I attended a number of court proceedings in the district court, including sentencing and various civil motions. I was also invited to a sitting in Philadelphia where I had the chance to observe oral arguments on a number of cases, and participate in discussion with Judge Fuentes in chambers.
In the second half of my summer, I worked as a summer law clerk at Sills Cummis & Gross as the recipient of their Charles Walsh Scholarship. I assisted in a number of projects, from researching and drafting articles for publication to preparing a memo for the Anti-Defamation League discussing a cutting edge constitutional issue. I also participated in several in-house seminars on various practice areas and even had the chance to accompany a top partner to court for oral arguments on a Motion to Dismiss.
These experiences offered very different yet valuable insight into the practice of law. It was a tremendous learning experience and I was grateful to have had both opportunities.
Daniella Fischetti '12: Researching issues in art and cultural heritage law
I spent the past summer interning at the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), an educational research organization dedicated to integrity in the visual arts. IFAR, a collaboration of attorneys and art historians, provides resources that help the public make informed decisions about the legal, ethical, and scholarly issues concerning the collection and exhibition of art. The resources provided include a catalogue raisonné, a provenance guide, an international cultural property law database, and a case summary collection.
I helped to continue IFAR's mission by researching and publishing summaries of recent cases related to art law and tracking updates in legal proceedings relevant to the art world. The cases include disputes over collection management, forfeiture and seizure of imported works, improper artist attribution, and moral rights of artists. Additionally, I contacted cultural embassies to secure legislation related to cultural property and provided legislative analysis for our online database.
I learned about IFAR while completing my Masters in International Art Crimes and Museum Security last summer in Italy. While interning at IFAR, an important resource in the art and cultural heritage law context, I experienced firsthand that the trend of law protecting artists, art works, and owners — whether individuals, organizations, or countries — indicates an increased appreciation for cultural and artistic traditions.
Erin Phalon '12: Learning environmental law and nonprofit administration
As an intern at the Sierra Club Environmental Law Program in Washington, D.C., I had the opportunity to perform legal research and draft memoranda, comments and motions associated with the organization's Clean Air Act litigation. I worked on a variety of matters in areas included regulatory development and proceedings governing energy company mergers. This internship enabled me to develop valuable skills and experience in environmental litigation and to learn a great deal about energy law, energy generation, administrative law and the Clean Air Act. In addition, it enabled me to learn more about the practice of public interest law and nonprofit administration. My internship at the Sierra Club Environmental Law Program also allowed me to improve my research practices and writing skills.
Finally, my experience this summer enabled me to receive direction, guidance and mentorship from experienced attorneys in the field of environmental law. I am thankful to have received a Public Interest Law Foundation grant in support of my work at the Sierra Club. The skills and knowledge that I developed this summer will be a great asset as I pursue a career as an attorney.
Tim D'Arduini '12: Corporate and pro bono client work at international firm
As a summer associate at Baker & McKenzie LLP in Washington, D.C., I learned an incredible amount about what life as a full-time lawyer was like at a huge, international law firm. The partners and associates I worked with really trusted me to complete dynamic, complex work for their corporate and pro bono clients, including drafting a federal district court complaint, administrative agency appeals, and memos on changes in other countries' immigration laws and on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Most notably, I assisted with the drafting of a pre-trial brief, as well as the trial preparation of the attorneys arguing a defensive asylum case for a Congolese national in front of an immigration judge in Baltimore, Maryland. That pro bono matter, as well as brainstorming, researching, and writing about potential rules of evidence for an international piracy court really made my summer an awesome experience.
In addition to work, I spent a lot time preparing for and training new staff, as well as editing articles as the new senior managing editor of the Rutgers Law Review.
I was also one of the main organizers of one of DC's largest young professional political fundraisers of the summer. We helped raise nearly $20,000 for Congresswoman and likely Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin (D-WI). If elected, she'd be the first female senator in the state's history and the first openly LGBTQ senator in our nation's history!


text:
European call options with strikes 90, 100 and 110 on the same underlying asset and with the same maturity are trading for 22.50, 18.84 and 13.97 respectively. show that the convexity of the call price as a function of the strike is violated, hence leading to an arbitrage opportunity. Describe in detail a trading strategy that makes a riskless profit.
closed as off topic by SRKX♦, Joshua Ulrich, Jase, michaelv2, olaker♦ Nov 4 '12 at 13:52
Questions on Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange are expected to relate to quantitative finance within the scope defined by the community. Consider editing the question or leaving comments for improvement if you believe the question can be reworded to fit within the scope. Read more about reopening questions here.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
The price of payoff is convex if for every $0\le\lambda\le 1$:
$V(\lambda K_1 + (1-\lambda)K_3 )\le \lambda V(K_1) + (1-\lambda)V(K3)$
, where $V(K)$ is the price of an option with strike $K$.
We want that $\lambda K_1 + (1-\lambda)K_3 = K_2$. Solving it for $\lambda$ we get $\lambda=0.5$. Substituting $\lambda$ back to our inequality, we see that the convexity property doesn't hold.
We see that the portfolio of options with strike $K_1$ and $K_3$ is too cheap. Therefore, we can form an arbitrage portfolio by purchasing 0.5 of $K_1$-strike options and 0.5 of $K_3$-strike options. To finance this purchase we sell one option with strike $K_2$. By checking the payouts of our portfolio for stock prices $S$ in intervals $S<K_1,K_1\le S < K_2, K_2 \le S< K_3$ and $S \ge K_3$ we convince ourselves that this is indeed an arbitrage opportunity.


text:
For example,
when I copy a code snippet from someone's answer on StackOverflow and then paste it into Excel or Notepad there are all these extra spaces at the end of each line.
Is there anyway to stop this happening? Or a quick way to remove this annoying spaces - I need them gone otherwise the VBScript compiler complains.


text:
Most Amazons are predominantly green with accenting colors, such as red, blue, yellow orange, or purple. Each species has its own striking coloration. Medium-sized parrots, Amazons range in size from 10"-19". Their bodies are short and stout, with short, slightly rounded tails and round, broad wings.
Amazons are among the most personable of parrots. Affectionate, sociable, and loyal, they can make wonderful companions. Due to their high intelligence, however, Amazons require a devoted owner who is willing to provide significant attention, an interesting environment, meaningful activity and a variety of stimuli, such as chewing and foraging toys, to keep them from being bored and destructive to themselves or their surroundings.
Amazons can also become bored when being stuck with the same food day after day, so it's crucial to vary their diet regularly. To provide a balanced diet, offer a wide variety of fresh foods, like fruits and vegetables, in addition to a staple pellet diet. Make sure to watch portions and avoid high-fat foods as Amazons have a tendency toward obesity. Another necessity for Amazons is regular baths. As rain forest animals, they thrive on being bathed.
Though many people find the Amazon's playfulness and outgoing, entertaining personality irresistible, it's critical to take other factors into consideration when deciding whether or not an Amazon is right for you. For example, the average life span of an Amazon is 50 years, with some living up to 70 years! So, make sure you do plenty of research on the specific species of Amazon you're interested in before making a possible lifelong commitment.
Start here:
Vaccinate your pet at Home and SAVE!
Watch 100s of expert How to's & reviews.
Browse our library of pet care articles.
Sign up for FREE pet care emails.
Request your FREE pet supply catalogs.
Fun games & pet info just for kids!
+Details: Use Promo Code 15FAMILY during Checkout to see savings. Promo valid through Saturday, July 30, 2016 @ 11:59 pm [CST]. Excludes items already on sale, certain manufacturer items not eligible for promo offers and coupons (as indicated on product pages), horse supplies, all dog and cat foods, and Prescription Foods.
*FREE economy ground shipping to 48 connecting states only on orders $19 or more. No promo code needed. See full shipping rates here.
Copyright © 1997-2016, Petco Wellness, LLC. All rights reserved. 2253 Air Park Road, P.O. Box 100, Rhinelander, Wisconsin 54501
Terms of Use|
Privacy Policy|
Your CA Privacy Rights|
Copyright Claims|
Pet Medical Records Policy|
Social Media Policy


text:
If Only Hunters Could Sell Venison
Could loosening rules on deer meat help combat a suburban scourge?
What explains the fact that we have a glut of white-tailed deer in this country, yet an estimated 85% of the venison sold in restaurants and at meat counters is imported from farms in New Zealand?
The Kiwis tout the high quality of their meat. But the main reason is that, unlike hunters in other countries, Americans are not allowed to sell their own wild game meat. The "wild game" on our restaurant menus isn't wild—it's farm-raised, or else the chef is breaking laws that ban such sales. The laws were passed as part of a campaign in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to end the devastation of wild populations by commercial hunters.
But times have changed. On Oct. 7, scientists at the Wildlife Society's annual meeting in Milwaukee broached the idea—heretical to many—of allowing the limited sale of wild venison again as an incentive to reduce deer numbers and damage.
The white-tailed deer population of the U.S. is now estimated at somewhere between 30 million and 45 million. Proponents of allowing wild venison sales say the six million whitetails that licensed hunters will kill this season aren't nearly enough to contain, let alone to reduce, this population.
Inducements to increase the harvest—such as allowing more kills per hunter, setting up donation programs for the hungry and lengthening hunting seasons—have not worked well. This is especially true in our suburbs and growing exurbs, where deer increasingly concentrate. Hunting with guns is widely prohibited in these areas, and hunting with bows and arrows hasn't proven effective.
The new incentive would involve targeting overabundant whitetails in specific places—neighborhoods, parks, greenbelts, townships—for tightly controlled culls by specially qualified shooters. Hired sharpshooters already perform this task in many places, at taxpayer expense. The difference is that, instead of being donated to food pantries or sent to landfills, the venison and byproducts could be sold, perhaps as a locavore delicacy, to recoup some costs.
The costs of deer damage in the U.S. continue to mount—from collisions with motor vehicles, overgrazing in forests, habitat loss for smaller animals, and damage to crops, gardens and landscaping—as does concern about Lyme disease. In August, three ecologists with the Nature Conservancy, the habitat-protection group, asserted in an online article that, over the short to medium term, deer are now more destructive to forests than climate change.
"Sadly, I spend much of my time in ecological disaster zones—forests devastated by too many deer," says Thomas J. Rawinski, a U.S. Forest Service scientist in Durham, N.H. "I truly believe that this has become the single greatest conservation challenge of our time."
The Wildlife Society, a conservation group made up of nearly 10,000 scientists, wildlife managers and academics, put the idea of selling wild venison on its national convention agenda after a previous effort to bring it up at another national forum was squelched. Organizers of the four-hour panel on wild venison sales were so apprehensive that they hired a professional facilitator to maintain decorum—which was unnecessary, as it turned out. Most of the 70 people in the room were open to the idea, with reservations, said several attendees.
By the end of the 19th century, the populations of many wild species in the U.S. had collapsed as a result of unregulated hunting: Professionals had killed any wild animals and birds they could sell for food, feathers, fur and other byproducts. That included deer, whose numbers fell from an estimated 30 million when Columbus arrived to 350,000 by 1900. Jurisdictions across the country responded by banning venison sales.
At the same time, conservationists adopted the so-called "North American model" of wildlife conservation. Wildlife would belong to all people to enjoy under rules enforced by governments—mainly state wildlife agencies—specifying when they could hunt or trap and what kind and how many creatures they could kill.
It worked—too well. Deer hunting became the foundation of a multi-billion-dollar industry, or what author Al Cambronne, in his book "Deerland," calls "the deer-industrial complex." Deer hunters account for about 80% of the $34 billion spent annually on equipment, licenses, travel and other sport hunting expenses. But in many places, the scourge posed by the growing deer population has spurred revisionist thinking.
Allowing the sale of wild venison strikes many wildlife managers and deer-hunting groups as a return to the dark old days. "I find it repulsive to even consider the idea of demoting game wildlife species to the status of domestic livestock to be exploited, sold or bartered for personal gain," wrote James E. Miller, a retired deer expert from Mississippi State University, in a statement for the Wildlife Society panel.
The idea gained some traction two years ago when the Wildlife Society Bulletin, a peer-reviewed scientific quarterly, published an article titled: "Regulated Commercial Harvest to Manage Overabundant White-Tailed Deer: An Idea to Consider?" Its authors were seven government and academic wildlife ecologists.
They noted that the vaunted North American model already has loopholes. Trapping and selling wild fur-bearers is allowed. Catching and selling both freshwater and saltwater fish is, too. Cutting and selling trees for lumber in publicly owned forests has been sanctioned.
David Drake, a University of Wisconsin wildlife ecologist who introduced the panel, emphasized that commercial harvest wouldn't replace any current management tools but "would simply add another tool to our toolbox." It would not push out sport hunting or even take place in the same areas.
The next step, he said, is to seek a state government's approval for a pilot project to test the idea's effectiveness. A state wildlife agency might issue a commercial deer harvesters license, allowing a qualified group to cull a predetermined number of deer in a specific location and to sell the harvest, perhaps at local farmers markets.
Meanwhile, restaurants will continue to use meat from New Zealand, which first exported frozen venison to the U.S. in 1975. Now marketed as Cervena, half of it arrives fresh. The animals are mainly domesticated hybrids of red stag, a cousin of elk. Grass-fed on large farms, they are slaughtered before they are 3 years old.
The U.S. has an estimated 7,800 deer farms. Some sell venison and bottled deer urine, which hunters use as an attractant. Most concentrate on selective breeding to produce bucks with big antlers for high-priced hunts on fenced preserves—a practice decried as "junk hunting" by traditionalists, who insist on a "fair chase."
—Mr. Sterba is the author of "Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds," available in paperback next month.


text:
Define a Chebotarëv datum over a number field $K$ to be a finite group $G$ together with a map $\mathfrak{p}\mapsto\gamma_{\mathfrak{p}}$ from a cofinite set of primes of $K$ into the set of conjugacy classes of $G$ such that for every conjugacy class $c\subset G$, the proportion of $\mathfrak{p}$ with $\gamma_{\mathfrak{p}}=c$ is $\operatorname{Card}c/\operatorname{Card}G$.
Two Chebotarëv data $(G,\gamma)$, $(G',\gamma')$ over the same number field are said to be equivalent if there is an isomorphism $\varphi:G\to G'$ such that $\varphi(\gamma_{\mathfrak{p}})=\gamma'_{\mathfrak{p}}$ for almost all $\mathfrak{p}$. If so, we identify the two.
Every finite galoisian extension $L$ of $K$ gives rise to a Chebotarëv datum $(\operatorname{Gal}(L|K),\gamma_{L|K})$ (Chebotarëv's density theorem).
Moreover, if $L_1$ and $L_2$ are two finite galoisian extensions of $K$ for which the associated Chebotarëv data $(\operatorname{Gal}(L_i|K),\gamma_{L_i|K})$ are equivalent, then $L_1=L_2$ (see Lemma 1, p. 174, of Mazur's recent article).
Question. Does every Chebotarëv datum over a given number field $K$ arise from some finite galoisian extension $L$ of $K$ ?


text:
need investigators
addme im juan enrique fernandez del angel ineed team
need a new friend for csi: crime city
Last edited by Weylith; 03-14-2012 at 04:03 PM.
please add me.I need more friends
I started the game now and I need help add me
I am in need of lots of CSI: Crime City friends. Can you reply to my message with your FB links so i can add you as my profile is set to private and people cannot get access to it unless i add them.
Last edited by HamishMacbeth; 03-31-2012 at 01:12 PM. Reason: typos