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Area golfers Kurstyn Mills of Shawnee and Jordan Humphrey of Bethel have been selected as members of the All-State east team.
Mills earned her All-State slot after finishing ninth at the Class 5A state tournament at the Lincoln Park East course in Oklahoma City.
Mills recorded a two-day total of 160 with rounds of 85 and 75.
Shawnee finished ninth in the team standings. Duncan captured the 5A state championship with McGuinness finishing second.
Humphrey, participating in the Class 3A state tournament, posted rounds of 82 and 79 for a two-day total of 160 at Fountain Creek course in Eufaula.
She finished fourth in the Class 3A competition.
Bethel finished sixth in the tournament, won by Comanche. Idabel was the the runner-up.
The All-State match will be held Monday, July 23 at Cherokee Hills Golf Club in Catoosa.
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These customers want to communicate with their customers (end customer). So, today we send it from our domain: example.com
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Smosh's If It Were Real Saga follows Ian and Anthony (Smosh) as they try to make it to a clip show of their classic "If Were Real" videos. Full, pre-existing "If Were Real" clips are referenced in the narrative and they are interspersed seamlessly throughout the film.
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Yoga and the Earth
As you grow and deepen your conversation with yoga, it becomes quite clear that the yoga practice must stretch far beyond the boundaries of that little sticky mat. Naturally, your practice begins to bleed into every part of your life, saturating your world with concepts like ahimsa (non-violence). Part of that concept is living in a way that is non-harming to the Earth.
Earth Day is the perfect opportunity to explore this mind-set, as we look for ways to give back to our life-sustaining planet. Every moment we are nourished and blessed by the abundant gifts of the Earth, and on this particular day we have the chance to give gratitude back to the source! This is a special chance to develop lasting rituals in your yoga practice and in your life that nurture an eco-centric approach to everyday living and that have the potential to last all year round.
Balancing It All: Fitness, Nutrition and Life
By The FIRM Master Instructor Kelly Branning
I am a Libra. Although I don't read my horoscope, I do identify with those scales that represent my sign. Balance, balance and more balance. It is a daily challenge to keep those scales from tipping over. One side seems overloaded with the things we do for others and the outside world, like family, career, social life and housework. The other side of the scale, including exercise and nutrition, usually threatens to let go at any time.
I think the absolute foundation of a balanced life is good self-care, coupled with good self-awareness. That said … how are you doing? How is your eating? Do you get everything you need from the foods you eat? Hopefully you are eating healthy, life-affirming foods every 3-4 hours. How about exercise? Are you finding a little time to work out and get stronger? If you don't know how you are doing, let's take some time to figure it out.
Play and Learn in Tree Pose
It is a classic scene – you trip and fall, and your first knee-jerk reaction is to see if anyone saw you.
When I teach tree pose in yoga class, most everyone looks as if it is a matter of life or death whether they stay up on one leg for the duration. But fear is not helpful in navigating balance.


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Russian Olive
name: Elaeagnus angustifolia L. (ITIS)
Common names: Russian olive, oleaster
Selected Resources
Native To: Eurasia (Zouhar 2005)
Date of U.S. Introduction: Exact date unknown; was introduced to the central and western U.S. by the early 1900s (Zouhar 2005)
Means of Introduction: Introduced as a horticultural plant (Zouhar 2005)
Impact: Crowds out native species (Zouhar 2005)
Current U.S. Distribution:
Selected Resources:
Invasive Plants of Ohio: Fact Sheet 7 - Autumn-Olive and Russian-Olive (PDF | 213 KB)
Ohio Invasive Plants Council.
Included as one of the worst invasive plant species in Ohio's natural areas; for others see Invasive Plants of Ohio.
Invasive Plants of California's Wildlands - Elaeagnus
California Invasive Plant Council.
Bossard, C.C., J.M. Randall, and M.C. Hoshovsky (Editors). 2000. Invasive Plants of California's Wildlands. University of California Press. Berkeley, CA.
Texas Invasives Database - Elaeagnus angustifolia
Invasive Species Compendium - Elaeagnus angustifolia
CAB International.
Global Invasive Species Database - Elaeagnus angustifolia (shrub, tree)
IUCN. Species Survival Commission. Invasive Species Specialist Group.
Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) - Elaeagnus angustifolia
USDA. ARS. National Genetic Resources Program.
Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) - Elaeagnus angustifolia
USDA. FS. Rocky Mountain Research Station. Fire Sciences Laboratory.
PLANTS Database - Russian Olive
USDA. NRCS. National Plant Data Center.
Noxious Weed Species - Russian Olive
Colorado Department of Agriculture. Conservation Services Division. Noxious Weed Program.
Russian Olive
Missouri Department of Conservation.
Invasive Plants in Pennsylvania: Russian Olive and Autumn Olive (PDF | 223 KB)
Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia)
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Weed Control in Natural Areas in the Western United States: Russian-olive (2013; PDF | 217 KB)
University of California. Weed Research and Information Center.
Invasive Plant Atlas of New England (IPANE) - Russian olive, Oleaster
University of Georgia. Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health.
Maine Invasive Plants Bulletin: Autumn Olive / Russian Olive
University of Maine. Cooperative Extension.
See also: Maine Invasive Plants & Entire Series for entire series of 22 fact sheets and invasive plants brochure (available in HTML/PDF or for purchase)
Russian Olive - Weeds of Nebraska (PDF | 1.51 MB)
University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Cooperative Extension.
Invasive, Exotic Plants of the Southeast - Russian Olive
North Carolina State University. Cooperative Extension. Going Native: Urban Landscaping for Wildlife with Native Plants.
Introduced Species Summary Project - Russian Olive
Columbia University. Center for Environmental Research and Conservation.
Olive and Russian Olive (PDF | 164 KB)
University of Pennsylvania. Morris Arboretum.
The Quiet Invasion: A Guide to Invasive Species of the Galveston Bay Area - Russian Olive
Galveston Bay Estuary Program (Texas).
Noxious Weed Information - Russian Olive (B List)
Colorado Weed Management Association.
Russian Olive
Plant Conservation Alliance. Alien Plant Working Group.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Elaeagnus angustifolia. [Accessed Sep 10, 2014].
Zouhar, K. 2005. Elaeagnus angustifolia. In: Fire Effects Information System. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory.
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The Haenssler Classic recording company, based in the southern German city of Holzgerlingen, is an anomaly: a small independent firm specializing in sacred music that has produced quality recordings and made a profit. Not content to record only the classics in the genre, Haenssler, established in 1919, has offered a fascinating presentation of what sacred music can signify in our own era. It recently released splendid versions of rare oratorios like the Swiss composer Frank Martin's Golgotha, Franz Liszt's Christus, and Franz Schubert's Lazarus. The firm's interest in religious music is admirably ecumenical and includes a fascinating recital of Jewish chamber music by the sublime viola player, Tabea Zimmermann.
Haenssler has also sponsored ambitious attempts to regenerate large-scale sacred music by commissioning anthologies by contemporary composers. This approach received some criticism in 1995 when Haenssler's Requiem of Reconciliation, meant to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II, involved fourteen composers in an unsuccessful attempt to combine highly disparate styles. A more recent effort, Passion 2000, in honor of Bach, narrowed the participating composers to four major names, Wolfgang Rihm, Sofia Gubaidulina, Osvaldo Golijov, and Tan Dun, each setting one of the Gospels. The latter recording is scheduled for release this spring.
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Central Park's Raccoons Are Cute, Maybe Dangerous
And they're taking over playgrounds.
According to the New York Post, Manhattan parents are concerned about the increased (or possibly normal) presence of raccoons in Central Park's snack-laden playgrounds. Apparently, the raccoons don't really mind humans, having been spotted "happily munching at afternoon pizza parties and scampering near the swing set" in the middle of the day. And kids don't mind them either, because raccoons are cute. "It just scares me that my daughter has no fear," said one mother. "Who knows what the animals can do?"
Well, give people rabies, for one thing, though the paper says none of the masked mammals found near the park have tested positive for the disease this year. (145 did in 2010, however.) Despite complaints, the Heath Department won't hunt down non-rabid creatures, giving New York parents yet another reason to move to the suburbs, where there are no raccoons.


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The FBI will tell you timing is everything. It was in the right place at the right time to stop five men accused of planning to blow up a bridge right in our backyard.
Jury selected for trial of bridge bomb plot suspect Joshua Stafford
AKRON, Ohio - The jury has been chosen in the case of Joshua Stafford, the last of five bridge bomb-plotting suspects, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
They said opening statements are expected to begin Tuesday morning.
No bomb went off and no one was injured in the plot last year. The intended target was a highway bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park between Cleveland and Akron.
The other four defendants have pleaded guilty and were given prison terms of six to 11 years.
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Colo. police: Man attacks patrol with hammer, is shot
A man used a hammer to break the window of a car where an officer did paperwork, police said
By PoliceOne Staff
DENVER — A police officer shot a man who reportedly used a hammer to break the window of a patrol car where the officer sat doing paperwork Sunday.
James Bradley, 32, was admitted to Denver Health medical Center for treatment where he is in serious condition, The Denver Post reported. The officer, whose name was not released, suffered minor cuts to his face from shattered glass.
The motive is unknown, but police said the circumstances surrounding the attack suggest a possible suicide-by-cop attempt.
Police spokeswoman Vicki Ferrari said that though not exactly a suicide note, "Suicide-type information" was found on the suspect.
"If it's released, you'll see what I mean," she added.
Bradley appeared to arrive in a rental truck that he parked around the corner from cruiser. Investigators are waiting on a search warrant, but police said a machete was visible inside.
After the shooting, a pile of clothing, a pair of boots and the hammer were found on the ground near the truck.
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"I Have No Right To Be Silent", The Human Rights Legacy of the Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer is a traveling exhibit commemorating the social activism and human rights work of Rabbi Marshall Meyer. Rabbi Marshall Meyer was an ordinary man whose extraordinary convictions, faith, and impetuous personality impelled him to become one of the most important human rights activists during Argentina's Dirty War (1976–1983).
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New Acquisitions Roundup: Robert J. Cox Papers
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This little one agreed to start modeling for my hobby iPhone projects.
A little shopping last night, I think she found the dress she likes... Practise photoshoot with the new outfit.
Kanami new app icon practise shoot. Pose is quite good now, have to work on lightning and expression...
"iTunesArtwork" is a named image in the app bundle which is shown in AppStore as the app icon. This is for Kanami next version... maybe.
Spent two nights setting the dress to fold nicely... This is the splash screen for next Kanami Full Version. Free version has the same basic image, but a bit more pale, and the text is naturally フリー instead of ポケット。
My drawings - I still try that one day I would be able to draw my own games and stuff... The day is still pretty far.
"Girl with Mobile"
My drawings - I still try that one day I would be able to draw my own games and stuff... The day is still pretty far.
Scene from となりのトトロ - the best movie ever.
Testing with shadows, props and her new clothing. And she seemed to have dyed her hair since last shootout.
This is Poser Debut user interface. In the main screen - the little one found the free Vocaloid Hatsune Miku outfit I downloaded from poserclub.net, and now she is playing the tough guy.
As the trainer will appear in Kanami Full one day, this affects to the home screen as well... Renewing idea #1: The 4 blocks would be "menubuttons" for Charts, Trainer, Settings & Other. I wonder if this might work? Would the users get it?
Went to Renderosity to buy an old Chevy pickup for my Bounce Delivery project. Got out with the car AND a new model. Say hello to Jannika!
Kanami v2 new splash screen. http://kanami.jannehansen.com
Kanami V2 official teaser:
1. *** NEW TRAINER *** Perfect for learning those kanas!
2. Newly designed home screen visuals
3. New extras section with links to language websites etc.
4. Improved everyday use animations
5. Requires less memory while running the application
6. New startup screen
I'm happy to switch back to my Bounce Delivery project! This is the the first image published, that will likely to end up into the game - the Splash Screen! Notice the same splash theme than in Kanami...
Found simple tutorial for making walk animations. The things you have to learn... If you are wondering about the pose, he is supposed to carry the bouncer before him when this is finished....
"And now, my young apprentice..."
Lazy weekend, just playing with poser and photoshop.
"Little dreamer"
Draft art for BOUNCE dy. I don't know if she'll appear on the game yet, but the Chevy pickup on the background will surely be there (allthough it will be yellow ;-)
Experimenting for game backgrounds. If the Bounce guys finally end up bouncing stuff in deserted alien city?
Game background design drafts. You can do marvels with San Francisco street photos ;-)
Bkg experiment #3 - Colors!
This is close to the original idea of a city bkg. Again, San Francisco shots from this years #oow11 visit.
A really lazy sunday after xmas shopping. Topped the evening with couple of Space:1999 episodes. And bad art. We are sorry for the inconviniences.
Sneak peek of what's soon coming your way! Today's mission was to get the "Game Paused" panel done to Bounce Inc - my current work in progress. Panel is now nice, soon I'll have to start working on the fonts...
Jessie sent her greetings from BounceVille.
The BOUNCE inc HQ by night.
And the Chevy.
Getting ready for the morning trainings? Your Bounce Trainee certificate awaits.
Sponsors are starting to line up for BOUNCE dy.
A little product placement never hurt anybody, right?
Jessie found another sponsor for BOUNCE dy.
Refreshments sponsored by Poky Cola.
"Slamdunk" for high force impact to chevy, 3waller for hitting all the walls and then chevy with one bounce... What else could there be? Ideas welcomed!
1st experiment on Poser with ye bomb and glass wall. Fine, except the glass part is all wrong. But the bomb looks quite nice, don't you think?
Any Windows Phone owners out there?
Kanami for Windows Phone might be doable...
Visit: http://kanami.jannehansen.com
The crooked building.
Bounce Delivery background art.
Bounce Delivery background art - Batteries
Coming soon - Emoticons
Re-renders for the new iPhone 5 resolution. I just love the extra work that Apple caused with the new 5 screen size.
Bounce Delivery background Art: "Industrial"
... and the Disco Fever @ Yerba Buena
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Nation roundup for July 2
Portable shelters couldn't save 19 firefighters
PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Trapped by a wildfire that exploded tenfold in a matter of hours, a crack team of firefighting "Hotshots" broke out their portable emergency shelters and rushed to climb into the foil-lined, heat-resistant bags before the flames swept over them.
By the time the blaze had passed, 19 men lay dead in the nation's biggest loss of firefighters in a wildfire in 80 years.
The tragedy Sunday evening all but wiped out the 20-member Granite Mountain Hotshots, a unit based at Prescott, authorities said Monday as the last of the bodies were retrieved from the mountain in the town of Yarnell. Only one member survived, and that was because he was moving the unit's truck at the time.
The deaths plunged the two small towns into mourning as the wildfire continued to threaten one of them, Yarnell. Arizona's governor called it "as dark a day as I can remember" and ordered flags flown at half-staff. In a heartbreaking sight, a line of white vans carried the bodies to Phoenix for autopsies.
"I know that it is unbearable for many of you, but it also is unbearable for me. I know the pain that everyone is trying to overcome and deal with today," said Gov. Jan Brewer, her voice catching several times as she addressed reporters and residents at Prescott High School in the town of 40,000.
The lightning-sparked fire — which spread to 13 square miles by Monday morning — destroyed about 50 homes and threatened 250 others in and around Yarnell, a town of 700 people in the mountains about 85 miles northwest of Phoenix, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Department said.
About 200 more firefighters joined the battle Monday, bringing the total to 400. Among them were several other Hotshot teams, elite groups of firefighters sent in from around the country to battle the nation's fiercest wildfires.
Residents huddled in shelters and restaurants, watching their homes burn on TV as flames lit up the night sky in the forest above the town.
It was unclear exactly how the firefighters became trapped, and state officials were investigating.
Brewer said the blaze "exploded into a firestorm" that overran the crew.
Brian Klimowski, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Flagstaff, said there was a sudden increase and shift in wind around the time of the tragedy. The blaze grew from 200 acres to about 2,000 in a matter of hours.
Southwest incident team leader Clay Templin said the crew and its commanders were following safety protocols, and it appears the fire's erratic nature simply overwhelmed them.
The Hotshot team had spent recent weeks fighting fires in New Mexico and Prescott before being called to Yarnell, entering the smoky wilderness over the weekend with backpacks, chainsaws and other heavy gear to remove brush and trees as a heat wave across the Southwest sent temperatures into the triple digits.
Arizona Forestry Division spokesman Mike Reichling said all 19 victims had deployed their emergency shelters as they were trained to do. When there is no way out, firefighters are supposed to step into them, lie face down on the ground and pull the fire-resistant fabric completely over themselves.
"It'll protect you, but only for a short amount of time. If the fire quickly burns over you, you'll probably survive that," said Prescott Fire Capt. Jeff Knotek. But "if it burns intensely for any amount of time while you're in that thing, there's nothing that's going to save you from that."
Autopsies were scheduled to determine exactly how the firefighters died.
President Barack Obama offered his administration's help in investigating the tragedy and predicted it will force government leaders to answer broader questions about how they handle increasingly destructive and deadly wildfires.
"We are heartbroken about what happened," he said while on a visit to Africa.
The U.S. has 110 Hotshot crews, according to the U.S. Forest Service website. They typically have about 20 members each and go through specialized training.
Many of those killed were graduates of Prescott High, including Clayton Whitted, who would work out as firefighter on the same campus where he played football for the Prescott Badgers from 2000 to 2004.
The school's football coach, Lou Beneitone, said Whitted was the type of athlete who "worked his fanny off."
"He wasn't a big kid, and many times in the game, he was overpowered by big men, and he still got after it. He knew, 'This man in front of me is a lot bigger and stronger than me,' but he'd try it and he'd smile trying it," Beneitone said.
He and Whitted had talked a few months ago about how this year's fire season could be a "rough one."
"I shook his hand, gave him a hug, and said, 'Be safe out there,'" Beneitone recalled. "He said, 'I will, Coach.'"
Hundreds of people were evacuated from the Yarnell area. In addition to the flames, downed power lines and exploding propane tanks continued to threaten what was left of the town, said fire information officer Steve Skurja.
"It's a very hazardous situation right now," Skurja said.
Arizona is in the midst of a historic drought that has left large parts of the state highly flammable.
"Until we get a significant showing of the monsoons, it's showtime, and it's dangerous, really dangerous," incident commander Roy Hall said.
The National Fire Protection Association website lists the last wildfire to kill more firefighters as the 1933 Griffith Park blaze in Los Angeles, which killed 29. The biggest loss of firefighters in U.S. history was 343, killed in the 9/11 attack on New York.
In 1994, the Storm King Fire near Glenwood Springs, Colo., killed 14 firefighters who were overtaken by an explosion of flames.
A makeshift memorial of flower bouquets and American flags formed at the Prescott fire station where the crew was based.
Prescott resident Keith Gustafson showed up and placed 19 water bottles in the shape of a heart.
"When I heard about this, it just hit me hard," he said. "It hit me like a ton of bricks."
Death Valley temp may tie June record
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A heat wave smothering the West is rewriting the record books, likely tying a more than century-old record for the U.S. while putting Las Vegas through its hottest June ever.
The National Weather Service says California's Death Valley National Park tentatively recorded a high temperature of 129 degrees on Sunday, which would tie the all-time June record high for the United States. It could take months to verify whether the record set in 1902 at Volcano, a former town near the Salton Sea in southeastern California, was matched.
The reading, however, is short of the all-time, world record 134 degrees set in Death Valley on July 10, 1913.
Triple-digit heat struck again elsewhere in Southern California, while metropolitan Phoenix saw just a slight drop in temperatures after experiencing record-breaking heat Saturday. The 119-degree high in Phoenix on Saturday marked the fourth-hottest day in metro Phoenix since authorities started keeping temperature records more than 110 years ago. The high temperature for the metro area hit 115 on Sunday.
Las Vegas temperatures have been at 115 and above in recent days — including a record-tying 117 on Sunday — helping make June the hottest ever in Sin City.
National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Stachelski (stah-HEL'-skee) says Las Vegas will continue to bake in near-record temperatures at least through Thursday.
June was the third-hottest in Salt Lake City history, highlighted by the record high for the month of 105, set on Friday and Saturday.
The forecast for the first week of July calls for temperatures of 100 degrees or higher Tuesday through Thursday.
That would mark a streak of eight straight days of triple-digit heat, said National Weather Service meteorologist Nanette Hosenfeld. The record is 10 consecutive days, set in 2003.
Tragedy struck north of Phoenix as hot gusty winds fueled an out of control wildfire that overtook and killed 19 firefighters near the town of Yarnell.
Forestry spokesman Art Morrison said the firefighters were forced to deploy their fire shelters, tent-like structures meant to shield firefighters from flames and heat.
Six half-marathon runners in Southern California were hospitalized Sunday for heat-related illnesses. A day earlier, paramedics responding to a Nevada home without air conditioning found an elderly man dead.
Southern California will continue to broil under a massive heat wave, though forecasters say more record-setting temperatures are unlikely.
High-temperature records were shattered across the region over the weekend. The high of 115 at Lancaster's Fox Field on Sunday represented not just a record for a June 30 but an all-time high — surpassing the 114 degrees recorded 53 years ago.
In San Diego County, Campo set a record with a 107-degree mark.
In Oregon, circling buzzards led neighbors to discover sheep with full-grown wool that had dropped dead of the heat in a field in rural Marion County near Turner.
The sheriff's office said Monday that 30 to 40 had died in the 80-acre field covered with green standing grass
Sheriff's spokesman Don Thomson told Statesman Journal deputies responded Sunday and gave remaining sheep water and food. More than 200 survived.
Archdiocese documents show priests paid to leave
MILWAUKEE (AP) — As more victims of clergy sex abuse came forward, then-Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan developed a plan to pay some abusers to leave the priesthood after writing to Vatican officials with increasing frustration and concern, warning them about the potential for scandal if they did not defrock problem priests, according to documents released Monday.
Dolan's correspondence with Vatican officials and priests accused of sexual abuse was included in about 6,000 pages of documents the Archdiocese of Milwaukee released Monday as part of a deal reached in federal bankruptcy court with clergy sex abuse victims suing it for fraud. Victims say the archdiocese transferred problem priests to new churches without warning parishioners and covered up priests' crimes for decades.
The documents have drawn attention in part because of the involvement of Dolan, who is now cardinal of the Archdiocese of New York and the nation's most prominent Roman Catholic official by virtue of his position as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The records provide new details on his plan to pay some abusers to leave the priesthood and the transfer of nearly $57 million for cemetery care into a trust as the archdiocese prepared to file for bankruptcy.
Victims and their attorneys accused Dolan of bankruptcy fraud, pointing to a June 2007 letter in which he told a Vatican office that moving the money into a trust would provide "an improved protection of these funds from any legal claim and liability."
Church law requires bishops to seek Vatican approval for any property sale or asset transfer in the millions of dollars. Dolan wrote in the letter that the transfer had been approved by archdiocese's finance council and college of consultors.
A Vatican office approved the transfer within a month. Jeff Anderson, an attorney for many victims, compared that to the long lag in responses to defrock abusive priests.
"These documents show that if they want to move money to protect it from survivors they can act quick as a fox," Anderson said. "If they want to protect kids, if they have full knowledge of kids in peril, they keep it secret while the Vatican drags its feet and children are kept at peril."
In a statement, Dolan called any suggestion he was trying to shield money from victims an "old and discredited" attack. Jerry Topczewski, chief of staff for current Archbishop Jerome Listecki, said the money was always set aside in a separate fund for cemetery care and moving it to a trust just formalized that.
Peter Isely, Midwest director for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said he would ask the U.S. attorney's office in Milwaukee to look into the possibility of bankruptcy fraud. However, Marquette University law professor Ralph Anzivino, a bankruptcy specialist, said no criminal charges could be filed unless the bankruptcy judge determined the transfer amounts to fraud.
S.F. Bay Area transit more crowded with train strike
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Bay area commuters sweated in crowded buses, shivered on loaded ferries or inched through crowded freeway traffic on Monday after hundreds of train workers demanding higher wages went on strike and the region's heavily used rail system ground to a halt.
The walkout derailed hundreds of thousands of daily riders who use the nation's fifth-largest rail system each day, forcing them to find other means of transportation in the second-most congested region in the country.
However, morning rush hour did not come to a standstill as feared, and some travelers who used carpool lanes and other options added relatively little time to their commutes.
"It's been an absolute nightmare for some commuters, but we didn't see total gridlock," said Stuart Cohen, executive director of TransForm, an Oakland-based nonprofit organization focused on public transportation and walkable communities. "Everybody got so worried about potential congestion they found an alternative,"
Two of the largest unions representing Bay Area Rapid Transit workers went on strike early Monday after their contract expired Sunday night. It was their first strike since a six-day walkout in 1997. No new talks were scheduled.
Theresa Tramble, 23, and Antanisha Thompson, 24, who usually ride BART trains together from Oakland to San Francisco, were upset after their long, hard commute. They usually enjoy a $5.85 round-trip on a line deep beneath the bay on the quiet, cushioned seats of BART trains. Instead, they rode the bus, a noisy, jerking ride that cost $4.20 one way, almost doubling the price of their commute.
How was the ride?
"Super crowded, super hot," groaned Thompson, who works at a drug store in San Francisco.
At her side, Tramble said she had to get up two hours early and spent two hours at an Oakland bus stop. On her last day of college, she was worrying about final exams.
California Highway Patrol spokeswoman Sgt. Diana McDermott said it could have been worse.
"It's summertime and a holiday week, so plenty of people didn't go to work," she said. "Others had prepared for it, or they were able to work from home, and we saw lots of informal carpooling."
Transit authorities also made accommodations, including longer carpool lane hours, additional ferries, and extra buses and bike shuttles over the Bay Bridge.
Caltrans spokesman Bob Hahn said the biggest delay added 25 minutes to a stretch of Highway 80 between the Carquinez Bridge and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The heaviest traffic, he said, was to the south along a stretch of Highway 880, which was twice as heavy as a week ago.
Meanwhile the unions and management reported being far apart on key sticking points including salary, pensions, health care and safety. BART workers picket


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Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today.
Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered "world of feeling" that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes' struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs. Driven by the desire to live seriously and act generously, Gabe meets an impassable test in the person of Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, a formidable woman who, according to critic James Atlas, is masterfully portrayed with "depth and resonance."
The complex liason between Gabe and Martha and Gabe's moral enthusiasm for the trials of others are at the heart of this tragically comic work.
About the Author
Philip Roth was born in New Jersey in 1933. He studied literature at Bucknell University and the University of Chicago. His first book, "Goodbye, Columbus", won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1960. He has lived in Rome, London, Chicago, New York City, Princeton, and New England. Since 1955, he has been on the faculties of the University of Chicago, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he is now Adjunct Professor of English. He is also General Editor of the Penguin Books series "Writers from the Other Europe." Recently he has been spending half of each year in Europe, traveling and writing.
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New Delhi, May 10 (EFE).- A Bangladeshi woman was rescued alive Friday from the rubble of a factory building that collapsed on April 24, a disaster that has thus far left more than 1,000 dead, local media reported.
The woman was discovered at 4:25 p.m. by rescue workers and taken to a hospital an hour later, the Bangladeshi dailies bdnews24 and The Daily Star reported.
The rescue teams immediately halted use of heavy machinery to avoid causing further harm to the survivor, who was identified as Reshmi and reportedly in relatively good condition.
The death toll from the tragedy at the Rana Plaza complex, which housed five garment factories that made clothing for major international brands, has risen to 1,042. An additional 2,437 people are listed as injured.
The collapse occurred in the industrial suburb of Savar, located about 20 miles northwest of Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka.
"The task of removing the rubble will conclude in about seven days," Udin Khandaker, the Bangladeshi Interior Ministry official who is heading the investigation into the collapse, told Efe Friday.
"There are still many bodies amid the debris. There were people who went down to the lower stories to try to get out of the building," Khandaker said.
Four deadly tragedies have occurred at Bangladeshi garment factories over the past six months, the last of which was a fire on Thursday in a Dhaka district that left seven dead.


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GE Healthcare has reached an agreement to acquire PAA Laboratories. The deal expands GE's product and service offerings for cell biology research and for the discovery and manufacture of biopharmaceuticals including recombinant proteins, antibodies, and vaccines.
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Raj Rajaratnam Underling Writing Tell-All Memoir About His Time at Galleon
Maybe Raj will read it in prison.
Raj Rajaratnam, the former Galleon head who was convicted of insider trading, headed off to jail yesterday. But at least he'll eventually have some interesting reading to keep him entertained: Turney Duff, the 42-year-old hemp-necklace-wearing former Galleon and Morgan Stanley employee pictured at left, just inked a deal, reportedly in the quarter-million-dollar range, to write a tell-all memoir about his time on Wall Street.
It's called The Buy Side, and his publisher, Crown, calls it "a journey through the trading underworld as well as a look at after-hours Wall Street, where sex and drugs are the quid pro quo in a culture in which a billion isn't enough." Here's the thing, though: No one knows who Turney Duff is (although! He's got a great name for marketing a finance-jerk persona!) and no one is surprised that sex and drugs are a part of Wall Street culture. So it seems as if Duff is mostly going to write about his two years at Galleon, where he was a health-care trader, but not exactly Rajaratnam's right-hand man. Couldn't we have saved the big advance for Rajaratnam's assistant? His nanny?


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U.S. Stocks May Lag After VIX Plunge, Bespoke Says
The VIX dropping by almost half in the past month is a bearish sign for Standard & Poor's 500 Index returns, according to Bespoke Investment Group LLC.
The VIX, as the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index is known, has tumbled 41 percent since May 20. In the dozen times since 1986 that it slumped 35 percent or more in 20 trading days, the S&P 500 lost 0.72 percent and 1.35 percent on average during the next week and month, respectively, and rose 0.84 percent and 3.78 percent in three and six months, Bespoke said. All four returns trailed the average performance for all days, according to the firm.
The last time the VIX fell this fast was after the crash known as Black Monday in October 1987, according to a report sent to clients yesterday from Harrison, New York-based Bespoke, founded by Paul Hickey and Justin Walters. Since 1986, gains for the S&P 500 during all one-week, one-month, three-month and six-month periods have averaged 0.16 percent, 0.61 percent, 1.89 percent and 4.01 percent, respectively, Bespoke said.
The VIX, which measures the cost of using options as insurance against declines in the S&P 500, surged to 45.79 on May 20 amid concern that some European nations will struggle to repay their debts. It rose to 27.05 today after sinking to 22.87 yesterday, the weakest intraday level since May 4. The gauge has averaged 20.35 during its 20 years of history.
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Because VIX data don't go back past 1990, Bespoke used its precursor, the CBOE S&P 100 Volatility Index, for the data points in the 1980s. The "old VIX," which reflects prices paid for S&P 100 options, closed at a record 150.19 on Oct. 19, 1987, following the stock market crash known as Black Monday.
Birinyi Associates Inc., where Hickey and Walters worked as analysts before leaving to found Bespoke in 2007, said in March that investors looking for clues about the U.S. stock market should probably ignore the VIX.
Speculation that equity returns will be positive after the volatility gauge decreases and negative when it climbs has little basis in fact, according to Laszlo Birinyi's Westport, Connecticut-based firm. The VIX provides a summary of historical price swings and tends to move in lockstep with equities instead of forecasting their direction, Birinyi Associates said.


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Some of your Commercial carrier air handlers you will need metric tools,Also several chillers you will need metric tools also
while viewing your temps,Looks like air to me, When did you last let a pro perform a annual on this chiller ?.
Have you checked with any compressor rebuilders ?
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Your picture looks like a old seasons four unit, They are based out of Georgia.When i lived in South florida, we serviced a bunch of accounts with units that were carbon copys. Good Luck
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You should check out their benifits to your local, Willing to bet 803 will not even come close to your insurance package.
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You should go into the five year program,should you choose the technical school when you finish. Will your employer provide you with a pension ?And with your five year program, your wages are preset....
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Sounds like you need liquid level sensors to control a high and low level
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we have not had any jci controls for about one...
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Working in central Florida ,residential techs are within the MSN posted pay range.Making 70,000-80,000 per year would not be out of range for a good commercial/industrial tech. Take into...
Last year company bought me a new laptop and of course with usb ports and XP. Called out to some older johnson unt controller problems. Tried to upload with usb to rs232 adapter and could not talk to...
Staying steady,not super busy. A lot of our customers budgets are out of money until January.
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Westbrook has a very small residential service dept,Yes they do light commercial also. westbrook also builds central energy plants also. If you can get in with westbrook they are a good company to...
looking for IOM on YCWZ77cco17PA, went to york website and they removed all of their IOM,s and manuals on their chillers.
First tried to commision remotely from chiller plant. This site has a command display at the chiller plant and a second display remotely about 2500 ft away.
command display at chiller plant ok....
went back to site and found broken commuication bus between xl15 controllers and remote command display. Reapired bus and had no problem
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Trying to re commision a command display for a xl15 and recived a message of (Failed in fetch FV selector) Could anybody tell me what this means.
Did you pressure check with water or nitrogen/air.Nitrogen or air will cause pvc to explode.http://www.charlottepipe.com/Documents/PL_Tech_Man/ABS_PVC_pipe_fittings-TM.pdf
the big problem with pvc breaking apart will come down to poor installation practices.Lack of correct drying times,hydraulic moving during curing,Etc. Your pipe Dist should provide your people with a...
what kind of history would the machine have for oil changes ? Shaft seal pressure seems kind of high to me. From york class seems 2-4 psi of pressure ring a bell.
yes they are owned by waldinger, here in florida they are not union. tampa office at one time was union. But they were under the waldinger name.Big time in chain restraunts.
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HVAC career,when you are starting out you will get mistreated and lied to,your more exp workers are fearful for their job and they will likely not want to show you anything. On the otherhand some of...
Think about this, 30 days. most trainning programs take 2 years or five years from the local union hall. How can you learn a broad of knowledge in 30 days.
Talking about degree's, their is a tech around central fl with a mechanical engineering degree. Sitting behind a desk did not suite him.
We have a three year old machine that keeps breaking the roll pin on the arm by the second stage . if you disconnect the linkage you cannot feel any resitance.Machine does not have any leaks, any...
never used anything except york coolant personally.
when you put the shell back on, Your top pipe ,buy a slip coupling with no stops inside. Like what plumbers use. This will make it a little simpler. have not had to take any economisers apart in...
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Airbus shows its latest products at MAKS airshow in Russia
- The A380 to perform flying demos, the C295 to be present at static display
Airbus is showcasing its technology leadership with the largest passenger aircraft in service, the A380 at MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky, Moscow region from August 27th to September 1st.
At the show's exhibition Airbus will be located on EADS stand N°A1 in Hall F3, where visitors will be able to see a model of the A320neo, the A350 XWB as well as the C295. In parallel, the A380 (MSN4) will perform daily flying displays and will be present all day in the static park alongside the multi-purpose transport aircraft C295 of the Spanish Air Force.
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Airbus will also have the Grand Final of its one-year "Airbus Academy" project being run in cooperation with two schools in Zhukovsky. The winners of the competition will be announced at the show and awarded with the main prize; a trip to Airbus' Headquarters in Toulouse.
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Handbrake dumps its stack on me when I try to resize a video file. The original file size is 2.7GB and the Target Size is 700MB. No other settings of the video are being changed (left at default). Pass 1 of the encoding goes through, but HandbrakeCLI dumps on Pass 2.
I am using Handbrake 0.9.3. I get this error no matter what target file format (AVI, MKV, etc.) I choose. Is there anything I can do to get around this error and successfully resize the video file?
The contents of HandBrakeCLI.exe.stackdump:
Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=0091896B
eax=00000000 ebx=01593BB8 ecx=19E6CCA4 edx=19E6CCA0 esi=015F89E0 edi=01591B58
ebp=00000000 esp=19E6CA10 program=C:\Program Files\HandBrake\HandBrakeCLI.exe, pid 1732, thread unknown (0xE14)
cs=001B ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003B gs=0000 ss=0023
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We're a multidisciplinary team of designers, artists, and engineers. Super-Releaser is developing medical device prototypes, collaborating with universities, offering soft robotics manufacturing expertise, and building technologies to make better robots.
Lead Scientist
Matthew Borgatti is the lead scientist at Super-Releaser. He has a degree in Industrial Design from RISD and has built animatronic monsters for half a dozen feature films.
He has developed prototypes and designs for organizations like Google X Labs, NASA, Sols, Bond, Instructables, Makani Power, Adafruit, and MAKE. Matthew provides the design and mechanical engineering for the majority of Super-Releaser's devices.
Soft Goods Engineer
Kari is a versatile designer and stitcher. She has built everything from EVA spacesuit components, to puppet costumes on Sesame Street, to Spider-Man costumes for the Turn Off the Dark on Broadway.
Kari specializes in the human factors engineering necessary to fit designed objects to the body. She also has an extensive knowledge of fabrics and construction methods for soft goods.
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Director of Research
Jim founded Z-Corp (which was the world's largest 3d printer manufacturer), teaches at MIT, owns the powder printing research lab Viridis 3d, and is the human spotlight at the Ig Nobel Awards.
Jim's material science and printing research has been essential to forming the technologies at the core of Super-Releaser.
Super-Releaser is committed to developing strong relationships with organizations that prioritize applying fundamental research in robotics, material science, and medicine to real world problems.
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Touch of Easter by ninazdesignWatch
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Just a macro shot of a droplet on a feather with glitter and a texture layer.
Some people here think that it isn't a picture anymore when a texture is added or a color is changed so that's why I've placed it in darkroom.
Texture made by: =ThePuzzleTeam
In my opinion it's still a photography and it's really wonderful with the golden collors
very cool!
and shineeeh
and shineeeh
I truly think it is stunning!!!
Wow... it looks like it is a dragon´s treasure... well to me.
Beautiful work, Nina! I simply love this, perfect for Easter.
The overall golden tone is very beautiful
Love the golden glow, and of course the texture
Thanx baby, you are the one that inspired me to use textures, i love it....I forgot to add ... I did now
sorry it is not good..
i know you're better than it
love your works
i know you're better than it
love your works
What is not good, as you can see I asked for critiques
okay ..i really loved the logo "nina design" ...butbutbut..lol I am honest with you this does not suit with you love your work shotting people .. please understand me my dear
This is gorgeous Nina!! I really like the lighting... Happy Easter
happy Easter dear Nina to you and your family
beautiful work as always
beautiful work as always
The glitter looks very good a lovely image Nina!
I'm likin!! I like when you do these!!!!!!
Well if you ask me, as long as it's not a total overwork it's still photography, and yours is at a very high level, it's just astonishing
The level of detail, even with the texture added and color change, is amazing and the color is superb, gives it a very tasty tone
The level of detail, even with the texture added and color change, is amazing and the color is superb, gives it a very tasty tone
Thank you, my opinion is also that this is a photography, there is only 2 pictures put together, just like hdr pictures are 3 pictures put together, but hdr is same picture with different exposure and this is 2 different pictures.....but as i was told, this has to be put under this category .... so whocares
Beautiful Work Nina! Lovely! As always!


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Basically a player with 4 years of experience or more, and makes the week 1 53 man roster, there base salary is guaranteed for the season, meaning no cap space saved if cut after week 1.
The following players contracts will vest come week 1 if they make the 53-man roster for opening day.
I'm going from highest to lowest.
ILB Patrick Willis - $5.285M
TE Vernon Davis - $4.7M
OLB Ahmad Brooks - $4.25M
WR Stevie Johnson - $3.65M
DE Ray McDonald - $3.5M
WR Michael Crabtree - $3.5M
RB Frank Gore - $3.3M
DE Justin Smith - $3.15M($2M of it is already guaranateed)
LG Mike Iupati -$2,970,500
LT Joe Staley - $2.7M
NT Glenn Dorsey - $2.3M
RG Alex Boone - $2M
P Andy Lee - $1.9M
RT Anthony Davis - $1,845,600
OLB Dan Skuta - $1.3M
SS Antoine Bethea - $1.25M
SS C.J. Spillman - $1.225M
PK Phil Dawson - $1M
OG Adam Snyder - $1M
WR Anquan Boldin - $955K
WR Brandon Lloyd - $955K
SS Bubba Ventrone - $855K
FS Craig Dahl - $825K
WR David Reed - $730K
WR Kassim Osgood - $570K
CB Chris Cook - $570K
QB Josh Johnson -$570K
ILB Blake Costanzo - $570K
Players who's deals are already guaranteed.
OLB Aldon Smith - $2,336,454(Rookie 1st rd pick guarantee)
QB Blaine Gabbert - $2,011,587(Rookie 1st rd pick guarantee)
FS Eric Reid - $790,489(Rookie 1st rd pick guarantee)
ILB NaVorro Bowman - $730K (Guaranteed when he restructured)
QB Colin Kaepernick - $645K(Guaranteed when he signed his extension)
DE Tank Carradine - $579,895(2nd rd pick from 2013 with first 2 years guaranteed)
TE Vance McDonald - $518,599(2nd rd pick from 2013 with first 2 years guaranteed)
RB Carlos Hyde - $420K(2nd rd pick with 1st 2 seasons guaranteed)
SS Jimmie Ward - $420K(1st rd pick guarantee, 1st 3 seasons)


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"A Manual for Creating Atheists" Dr. Peter Boghossian on Atheists Talk #250, December 29th, 2013
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Thrust on greater autonomy for colleges in UGC 12th Plan
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Stating that there is a major "structural weakness" in the higher education system with the growth of universities in the form of affiliated institutions, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has proposed that autonomous colleges, identified as colleges with potential for excellence (CPE) with a student strength of over 3,000, can be converted into universities during the 12th Plan.
The UGC document, now made public, chalks out possible strategies for 12th Five Year Plan proposals. The overall budget requirement projected to achieve proposed initiatives is Rs 1,84,740 crore.
It calls for lessening the burden of universities and facilitating greater freedom and autonomy to colleges by making amendments to acts of universities. It says no university should have more than 50 affiliated colleges with a total enrollment not exceeding 50,000 students. "Colleges which have received 'A' grade accreditation by the NAAC and have proved their sustainability for two consecutive periods of accreditation, may be upgraded into unitary universities. This may be done for all eligible Central and state government-funded institutions," it says.
To increase intake in higher education, the UGC has proposed evening universities and colleges. It has recommended introduction of shift system of courses to be offered in colleges, and evening postgraduate degrees and diploma programmes in universities for those employed.
While currently, 6,811 colleges are eligible to get developmental funds from UGC under Section 12(B), it proposes major amendment of the UGC Act to make another 20,000 government/government-aided colleges eligible for the grants to enhance intake. "This is needed in the 12th Plan for the 50 per cent increase in the intake proposed to reach the desired gross enrollment ratio," says the document. Further, it plans "college cluster universities" with colleges which receive such grants.
"The 20,000 colleges recommended to be brought under Section 12(B) of the UGC Act may be clustered to create 400 college cluster universities. They will have to be created by the state through an enactment of state legislation based on a model act...together with its own academic and executive bodies (such universities) will have enormous freedom and autonomy to develop their own innovative programmes and ideas," it says. The document adds that the current 6,811 colleges can be clustered with an average of 50 colleges, leading to 140 cluster universities. Establishment of 800 constituent colleges in 40 central universities and creating 20 women universities are among other proposals.
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Earlier this month the Jamaican tourist board unveiled a new brand identity, ditching its previous slogan, ōJamaica ¢ Once you go, you knowö, and replacing it with the far more succinct, albeit grammatically obtuse, ōJamaica ¢ Get All Rightö. The new slogan is currently being launched around the world; last week the tourist board rolled the worldÆs largest stress ball into New YorkÆs Times Square and on Tuesday a twitter campaign ran to the tune of #getallright.
The Korean tourist board is also planning to replace its current slogan, but ¢ in a move possibly designed to avoid having to take too much responsibility should it fail ¢ it ran a public competition for ideas. Those who entered were hopefully inspired by KoreaÆs current slogan: ōBe Inspiredö. The competition has now closed but the new tagline will be unveiled in February 2014. In the meantime, hereÆs a round-up of some past and present travel slogans you may find emblazoned on posters, websites and brochures around the world.
Fiji Me
Latvia ¢ Best enjoyed slowly
I feel SLOVEnia
Naturally Nepal ¢ Once is not enough
New ZealandÆs Hutt Valley ¢ Right Up My Hutt Valley
Israel ¢ Size doesnÆt matter
Indonesia ¢ Admit It You Love It
Lithuania ¢ See It! Feel It! Love It!
Anguilla ¢ Feeling is Believing
Paraguay ¢ You have to feel it
Greece ¢ You in Greece
Grenada ¢ Live the Rhythms of Spice
Slovakia ¢ Little big country
South Africa ¢ Inspiring new ways
Uruguay natural
Serbia ¢ Life in the Rhythm of the Heartbeat
Panama ¢ It stays in you
Colombia ¢ The only risk is wanting to stay
Morocco ¢ The country that travels within you
ThereÆs nothing like Australia
Incredible !ndia
Brazil Sensational!
Smile! You are in Spain!
Jump into Ireland
Visit Bangladesh before tourists come
Dumfries and Galloway ¢ A touch of the exotic
Montenegro ¢ Wild Beauty
The Kingdom of Swaziland ¢ A Royal Experience
Egypt ¢ Where it all begins
Germany ¢ The travel destination
Go to Hungary
Definitely Dubai
Fargo, North Dakota ¢ Always Warm
Ģ This article was amended on 22 November to remove 1 Malaysia, which is a political slogan, not a tourism one
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It's fair season across the Brazos Valley and that means plenty of county fair royalty as well. This gem is from our friends over at KWHI in Brenham.
Taylor Munzy was recently named the Burleson County Fair Queen. Her float finished first in the fair queen floats for the parade.


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Venturia, ND
Venturia is located in a very sparsely populated region of the state, near the South Dakota border and just east of the Missouri river, near Ashley.
When we arrived in Venturia, we were excited by the photo opportunities but we needed a break from the rain. It took us a few minutes of sitting in the car before we realized the neon sign on the bar behind us was lit — OPEN.
Inside, we met Don, the owner of the "Duck Inn," a bar that could also double as his living room. We had a beer and he showed us his 104-year-old pool table. He was born and raised in Venturia, then left to see the world before returning to become the town barkeep. Although we were the only people in the place, he said he was expecting a good crowd of people from surrounding towns since it was Memorial weekend. Rat bought a t-shirt that said "Duck Inn and Waddle Out." According to Don, there are 21 people in Venturia.
According to "North Dakota: Every Town on the Map and More," by Vernell and Louise Johnson, a disagreement over what to name the town was resolved when a pioneer builder proposed the name "Ventura," a moniker he saw on the side of a railroad box car. The villagers added the 'i' and the town became Venturia.
That's the Duck Inn, center in the photo above.
The now abandoned Venturia Lumber Company.
Yes, I'd like a one-way ticket to anywhere, please.
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ACT-I-VATE, the web comics community created by Dean Haspiel, is crossing over into print this Fall with âThe ACT-I-VATE Primer,â published by IDW. The anthology will feature original stories by 18 ACT-I-VATE members and will include an introduction by Warren Ellis. âPrimerâ will debut at Baltimore Comicon October 10-11 and will also be available at the Alternative Press Expo, where Haspiel is a featured guest, the following weekend.
CBR News spoke with Haspiel about the âACT-I-VATE Primer,â the origins of ACT-I-VATE, and his plans for the community. Check back later this week for a talk with several artists featured in the book.
Haspiel's entry for the âACT-I-VATE Primerâ is a new adventure of Billy Dogma, a character he has regularly featured on the web site. The new story finds Billy on the outs with Jane Legit, and their estrangement disrupts the natural order of the universe. âI suffered an incredibly heartbreaking start this year and what I had planned for my primer story was crushed to pieces,â Haspiel told CBR. âHowever, a lot of art is derived from pain and my primer story, 'Bring Me the Heart of Billy Dogma,' will treat my fans and new readers to a sordid tale of what happens when two love titans break up and the impact it makes on their town, their hearts, and their loins. If new readers like this story, they'll surely like Billy Dogma in 'Immortal,' 'Fear, My Dear,' and 'Sex Planet,' all exclusively archived online, for free at ACT-I-VATE.com.â
Haspiel created the ACT-I-VATE community in 2006, first on LiveJournal and then on its own dedicated site. âThe creation of ACT-I-VATE was my gut reaction to going full time freelance and drawing print comics at home alone while parlaying with other comics creators on the LiveJournal blogging platform. We'd share sneak-peeks of our various projects and that would spark unsolicited yet welcome commentary from fans and friends,â Haspiel said. âAfter a while, that got me thinking. See, scoring well-paid gigs in commercial comics is a bitch and I was tired of begging editors and publishers to hire me. So, I adopted a no permissions, no apologies policy and invited an exclusive group of like-minded comics creators to invest in their personal ideas and make a group public display for the world to see.â
That initial group consisted of Dan Goldman, Nick Bertozzi, Michel Fiffe, Leland Purvis, Nikki Cook, Tim Hamilton, and Josh Neufeld.
âMy original directives were that we write and draw stuff we were passionate about and that we post our webcomics on a regular basis,â Haspiel explained. âWhat's great about developing a story in public is that it has the experimental latitude of a community-inclusive beta phase that allows authors to edit and revise their webcomic until the final alpha print version. Dub me old but print is still my favored destination point, but nothing beats the instant commentary a creator can receive within seconds of posting his latest effort. And, now that anyone can publish online, the comics medium has become much more competitive for your readership time and loyalty. Ergo, 'The ACT-I-VATE Primer,' our reaction to the digital age of comics.â
Since the ACT-I-VATE community's founding, additional creators such as Molly Crabapple, Roger Langridge, and Jeff Newelt have come aboard. âNew ACT-I-VATE members are recruited by invitation only,â Haspiel told CBR. âRecruits are invited to submit a proposal for a series for which they are voted on. We often receive unsolicited proposals, which is flattering but which are often rejected. There are no rules to sparking an ACT-I-VATE webcomic except that the creator has to be exceptional and willing to commit to a regular schedule per story arc. We recently added some great cartoonists to the ACT-I-VATE roster which include Nathan Schreiber, Warren & Gary Pleece, Darryl Cunningham, Jennifer Hayden, Kevin Kobasic, and Tim Hall, who is a writer doing text-based comics. Upcoming cartoonists that will debut original webcomics at ACT-I-VATE are Kat Roberts, Scott Morse, Tom Hart, and George O'Connor.â
Haspiel continued, âWhether a rookie or veteran of the comics form, all Act-I-Vators furnish what we deem to be our signature works. And, because we can't guarantee that you, the reader, will like everything ACT-I-VATE has to offer, we make sure that ACT-I-VATE keeps a variety of quality stories rotating weekly and that most all our stories are archived in the comics section of the website.â
Having noted his preference for print despite the success of his web initiative, Haspiel sees the 'ACT-I-VATE Primer' as the first step in promoting the two media as complementary rather than competitive. â'The ACT-I-VATE Primer' is the ultimate bridge between print comics and webcomics,â he said. âThe primer was made for those readers that have not yet been introduced to the ACT-I-VATE party. For pre-existing fans of ACT-I-VATE, the primer only adds to the overall experience. Bottom line, ACT-I-VATE wants to get readers to desire print versions of our digital comics. That means we need a print presence in comic shops and bookstores. We now have empirical evidence that the web serves print with ACT-I-VATE examples like Kevin Colden's Eisner-nominated 'Fishtown,' and Mike Cavallaro's Eisner-nominated 'Parade (with Fireworks).' A unique collective like ACT-I-VATE features successful print cartoonists like Tim Hamilton who recently adapted Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451' from Hill & Wang; Nick Bertozzi, who recently collaborated with âThe Colbert Reportâ writer/producer Glenn Eichler on First Second's upcoming 'Stuffed!â; Roger Langridge, who has enjoyed recent success with Boom! Studios' 'The Muppet Show' comic book; John Leavitt & Molly Crabapple's 'Scarlett Takes Manhattan' from Fugu Press; and my collaborations with Harvey Pekar and Jonathan Ames on 'The Quitter,' 'American Splendor,' and 'The Alcoholic.'
âEver since ACT-I-VATE started in early 2006, it seems that all the major publishers have launched blogs and/or digital archives and new webcomics initiatives but only a handful of webcomics collectives like Zuda and Transmission X have maintained a strong and thriving presence.â
After IDW Publishingâs âPrimer,â Haspiel hopes to push more ACT-I-VATE web comics to print. âI conceived the idea of 'The ACT-I-VATE Primer' over a year ago but I couldn't have realized it without Scott Dunbier at IDW, a wonderful introduction written by Warren Ellis, and the immense help, support, and trust of my fellow Act-I-Vators and studio mates: Mike Cavallaro, Simon Fraser, and Joe Infurnari, who beautifully designed the entire book,â Haspiel said. âOnce folks have purchased multiple copies of 'The ACT-I-VATE Prmer' this Fall and gifted the book to their family and friends, I'd like to get started on a new idea I have, editing together 'ACT-I-VATE Sundays,' a one-shot collection which will, hopefully, include all ACT-I-VATE members.
â'ACT-I-VATE Sundays' is inspired by the Sunday reprint collections of 'Krazy Kat,' 'Flash Gordon,' 'Little Nemo in Slumberland,' Sammy Harkham's 'Kramer's Ergot #7,' those great Marvel Comics Treasury Editions, and, recently, Mark Chiarello's 'Wednesday Comics' at DC Comics. The concept is to produce poster-sized, done-in-one stories under one giant affordable cover. Other than that, the more graphic novel-sized content we create online, the closer we are to considering an official ACT-I-VATE publishing imprint.â
In addition to the online and print ventures, Haspiel told CBR that in the coming years he hopes to develop the culture of ACT-I-VATE by making its virtual presence more âtangibleâ and âsocial.â âWe have plans for an ACT-I-VATE Salon, a live reading of the 'ACT-I-VATE Primer' done in the spirit of R. Sikoryak's incredibly successful Carousel series,â he said. âAnd we hope to have a slick cut of 'The ACT-I-VATE Experience,' an intensive video by photographer/filmmaker Seth Kushner [co-creator of the Graphic NYC blog], and his Culture Pop Productions partner/filmmaker, Carlos Molina.â
Check back later this week for an interview with several ACT-I-VATE creators.


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text: Are any othere mamas out there still taking a daily dose of baby aspirin? My midwife wants me to continue to take it until I hit 35 weeks. I was just reading on the bottle that it is extremely important to discontinue taking it in the last 3 months of pregnancy. I asked my midwife about this and she didn't really give me a good answer. She pretty much just said that the only reason the bottle says that is because aspirin can cause bleeding problems at birth but that I'll be fine since I am stopping it at 35 weeks. Well then, why does the bottle warn that I shouldn't take it the last 3 months???


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Britain's FSA Asks Lawmakers for More Enforcement Powers
The U.K. financial watchdog asked lawmakers for more enforcement powers, including an extension of the statute of limitations on probes and the ability to temporarily ban senior managers from their jobs while they are under investigation.
The three-year limit on investigations can make pursuing cases "more difficult," the Financial Services Authority said in a written submission the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards made public on a government website today. The regulator also requested the ability to "remove incumbent senior managers where they continue to pose a risk" to an investigation.
The FSA is aware it was seeking "a significant extension to our current powers," according to the statement, and "appropriate safeguards would need to be considered."
U.K. lawmakers are reviewing professional standards in the banking industry after Barclays, the U.K.'s second-largest bank by assets, was fined 290 million pounds ($470.8 million) in June for its role in rigging the London interbank offered rate, known as Libor, for profit. Martin Wheatley, the U.K's chief markets regulator, is scheduled to publish a report on a regulatory overhaul of Libor on Sept. 28.
The FSA also asked for powers to review the conduct of lower-ranking financial employees who don't otherwise need FSA approval.
"A banking sector which functions well for consumers and the economy as a whole cannot be achieved unless employees below the level of senior management also act with honesty and integrity," the agency said.
The regulator will be split into the Prudential Regulation Authority, which will become a unit of the Bank of England, and the Financial Conduct Authority, in 2013.