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Microchipping is included in the adoption fee. The shelter no longer offers microchipping as a stand-alone service.
Lloyd Arnold
District 74
In addition to passing legislation to lead Indiana forward, it is a privilege to be able to honor the accomplishments and impact of some of Indiana's greatest leaders.
Phil Junker
Outdoor Tales
With warmer weather this March, reports of morel mushroom finds are coming in early this year. Hopefully, it will be a good morel hunting season.
One Indiana hunter posted on the internet that he already found more black morels than he had all of last year, and called the 2015 season "pitiful". In a few Midwest locations, hunters had limited success last spring, but in most areas, it was a poor year.
While home on leave in February 2016, I requested to file an absentee ballot application at the Perry County Clerks office. This was necessary to be able to cast my vote in the upcoming election.
Editor's Note: The Quality of Life Committee, sponsored by the Perry County Development Corp., continues to partner with the News to present the stories of people who have chosen to live in Perry County.
I am a life-long resident of Perry County, except for the years that I lived away during college. During my teenage and early adult years, I was not 100 percent sure that I wanted to come back to Perry County upon graduation.
Thank goodness for local efforts to provide fresh commodities through the farmer's markets. Spring is upon us and that means supplies of garden goods will soon be available to consumers.
We see many benefits to shopping with local producers, be it health, economic or environmental or simply a way to hold onto family traditions. Not to mention, today's on-the-go lifestyles are making the once-routine, home from-scratch cooking almost a lost art. Too often, families are bypassing the kitchen table in favor of restaurants, or, sadly, a paper sack and the car seat.
My favorite comic strip growing up was Calvin and Hobbes, the story of a 6-year-old boy and his best friend, a stuffed tiger.
There's an early Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strip in which Hobbes asks, "How come we play war and not peace?" Calvin, dressed in a military helmet and holding a dart gun, responds after a moment, "Too few role models."
Jeneen Wiche
Weekend Gardener
What can we do to impact the environment less? Be a green consumer. Walk or ride a bike, when you can; reuse things and if you can't at least recycle them. Buy less stuff that you don't need? All are easily done, really. But what about in our gardens, as we struggle to keep things beautiful during the growing season?
Jim Adkins
Guest Columnist
Natural disasters have been a part of man's existence since the beginning. Earthquakes, hurricanes, lightning strikes, volcanoes and floods are all a part of human history. While they are all horrific, man has learned to live with them as part of his reality.
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I love the Olympics. I still consider them the pinnacle of athletic achievement. Athletes train for years and years for one moment, one performance, one chance to put it all together and attempt to win gold... to be the best in the world. I am more of a Summer Olympics fan but I still find myself drawn to the Winter Games this week. Being raised in the South and not at all comfortable on slippery surfaces I am not familiar with most of the events. I can appreciate, however, the amazing athletes and their pursuit of Olympic glory.
I have met a few Olympic champions over the years and hold them in high esteem. As a child of the 70s, they are on my hero list just below astronauts and well above Evel Knievel.
Read about my encounter with an Olympian in this post: Dave Wottle, 800m Gold)
When I see the Olympic torch on TV I am reminded of my only personal encounter with the Olympic Games.
In 1996, when the Olympic torch made it's way across the country headed towards the Summer Games in Atlanta, I was fortunate enough to be chosen to carry the torch when it came through my town. The US Olympic Committee sent us "official gear" and uniforms. It was very cool. The Torch Cauldron would arrive by rail on a special train car.
A few days before it's arrival I was informed that I would be the torch bearer who would get to stand on the stage with the VIPs, light my torch from the Cauldron and run the first leg down Main Street and up the courthouse steps. When I arrived to meet the train it seemed that the entire town was out to cheer on the torch. I remember being excited and having pre-race butterflies even though i would only carry the torch about a 1/4 mile. The train arrived, speeches were made and the last thing i remember was getting the signal to light my torch from the 7' tall cauldron as the Olympic theme music began playing. It was all a blur until I got to the top of the courthouse steps and lit the next runners torch.
The torch is now a great show-and-tell item that will always remind me of that amazing day.

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Irreligion in Australia
Atheism, agnosticism, deism, scepticism, freethought, secular humanism or general secularism are increasing in Australia.[2] Post-war Australia has become a highly secularised country.[3] Religion does not play a major role in the lives of much of the population.[4]
In the 2011 Australian census, 22.3% of Australians (or 4,796,787 people) described themselves as having "no religion". This was more than three percent higher (and 1,090,232 people more) than in the 2006 census and was the second largest category.[5] Another 2.014 million (9.4%) were in the "not-stated or inadequately-defined" category: so more than 31% of Australians did not state a religious affiliation in the 2011 census.[6]
In the 2006 Australian census, 18.7% of Australians (or 3,706,555 people) had described themselves as having "no religion". This was three percent higher than in the 2001 census and was the largest growth in total number of any religious option in that census (800,557 people).[2] A further 2.4 million (11.9%) did not state a religion (or inadequately described it).[7] So just over 30% of Australians did not state a religious affiliation in the 2006 census.
According to a 2004 study by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart, 25% of Australians do not believe in any gods.[8]
The first systematic recording of the religious affiliation of non-aboriginal Australians took place in the 1901 census. Since the 1901 census, the percentage of the population unaligned with a religion has grown from 0.4% to just over 30% of the population. This census question about religion has been clearly labelled as "optional" since 1933. In 1971 the census has instructed, "If no religion, write none." This was followed by "a seven-fold increase" in the figures from previous years for those declaring lack of religious beliefs.[9]
Melbourne hosted the 2010 Global Atheist Convention (branded as the largest event of its kind in the world,[10]) sponsored by the Atheist Foundation of Australia and Atheist Alliance International. It took place at the Melbourne Convention Centre from 12 to 14 March 2010. Over 2,000 delegates attended, with all available tickets selling out more than five weeks prior to the event.[11]
In 2010 The Australian Book of Atheism[12] was published as "the first collection to explore atheism from an Australian viewpoint".[13] The book was prompted by the disparity between Australia's increasing secularism and the increasing political and educational influence and funding of religion in Australia and contains essays by 33 authors (including Leslie Cannold, Robyn Williams, Tim Minchin, Graham Oppy, Philip Nitschke, Ian Hunter, Lyn Allison, Russell Blackford and Ian Robinson) on atheism-related topics in areas including history, law, education, philosophy and neurobiology.
Irreligion in politics[edit]
Section 116 of the Constitution of Australia established Freedom of religion in 1901.
Australians tend to be very suspicious of religion being intertwined with politics. Critic and commentator Robert Hughes stated "Any Australian political candidate who declared God was on his side would be laughed off the podium as an idiot or a wowser (prude, intrusive bluenose)."[14] Conversely, Australia has had many openly atheist or agnostic political figures elected to high positions, including prime ministers Gough Whitlam (whose philosophical position has been called "post-Christian",[15]) John Curtin, John Gorton, Bob Hawke and Julia Gillard. Governor-general Bill Hayden was voted as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies. Politicians Gareth Evans, Olive Zakharov and Lionel Murphy have also received this award.
A 2010 survey by The Sunday Age asked all 30 members of the First Rudd Ministry about their religious beliefs. Fifteen declined to comment, ten said they were "Christian" and three stated that they were atheists: health minister Nicola Roxon, defence personnel minister Greg Combet and financial services minister Chris Bowen. The remaining two, finance minister Lindsay Tanner and treasurer Wayne Swan, both described themselves as agnostic Christians, with Swan believing that "values, rather than religion, are important in public life". Tanner added, "I doubt whether it would make much difference to a political career for someone to describe themselves as atheist."[16]
According to a 2009 Nielsen survey, 84% of 1000 respondents agree that religion and politics should be separate.[17]
Irreligion in popular culture[edit]
Many of Australia's most famous satirists and comedians have criticised religion, including Tim Minchin, who has written several songs about religion and creationism; Wil Anderson, whose 2006 stand-up comedy tour "Wil of God" dealt with intelligent design; The Chaser, who are highly popular in Australia for their irreverent larrikin humour; John Safran, whose television show John Safran vs. God won the 2005 Australian Film Institute award for best comedy series.
Polls, surveys and statistics[edit]
Although many Australians identify themselves as religious, the majority consider religion the least important aspect of their lives when compared with family, partners, work and career, leisure time and politics.[18] This is reflected in Australia's church attendance rates, which are among the lowest in the world and in continuing decline.[19][20] In explaining this phenomenon, writer and broadcaster Paul Collins said "Australians are quietly spiritual rather than explicitly religious" and the prominent historian Manning Clark defined Australian spirituality as "a shy hope in the heart .... understated, wary of enthusiasm, anti-authoritarian, optimistic, open to others, self-deprecating and ultimately characterized by a serious quiet reverence, a deliberate silence, an inarticulate awe and a serious distaste for glib wordiness."[21]
Donald Horne, one of Australia's well-known public intellectuals, believed rising prosperity in post-war Australia influenced the decline in church-going and general lack of interest in religion. "Churches no longer matter very much to most Australians. If there is a happy eternal life it's for everyone ... For many Australians the pleasures of this life are sufficiently satisfying that religion offers nothing of great appeal", said Horne in his landmark work The Lucky Country.[3]
The Australian Census in 2011 found that 24.5% of Australian-born Australians claim no religion.[22] In 2011 adults aged 18–34 were more than twice as likely as those in 1976 to have no religion (29% compared with 12%). The highest proportion of people who had no religion were young adults.[23] The ABS has revealed that in 2011, the number of males claiming no religion was higher than females, that women claiming no religion were more likely to have no children, and that marriages were mostly performed by civil celebrants.[24][25] Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory had the highest rates of citizens reporting no religion, at 29% while the rate was lowest in New South Wales (18%).[26][27]
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Secular marriages in Australia accounted for 74.1 per cent of marriages in 2014,[29] somewhat more than in England and Wales.[30] This is up from 41.3% of marriages in 1988 and just over 50% in 1999.[31] Secular funerals have also risen in popularity. In 2014 the Sydney Morning Herald surveyed 104 funeral directors and 514 people over 50, finding that 6 in 10 funerals were conducted by civil celebrants.[32]
A Roy Morgan survey of 4,840 Australians between October and December 2013 found that 52.6% of Australians were Christian, while 37.6% had no religion.[34] Norman Morris, the company's communications director, noted that the change in religious affiliation could indicate a growth of atheism and agnosticism, or a move away from identification with organised Christianity by theistic believers. He identified possible causes for the change, including "morally conservative religious doctrines" contrasting with progressive attitudes on abortion, same-sex marriage, the use of condoms in the global fight against the HIV pandemic. He also noted the drop coincided with public media attention around alleged religious cover-ups of child sexual abuse in the Child Abuse Royal Commission.
A 2006 study by Monash University, the Australian Catholic University and the Christian Research Association found that 52 per cent of Australians born between 1976 and 1990 had no belief in a god.[35]
A 2008 global Gallup poll found nearly 70% of Australians stated religion as having no importance,[36] much higher than their American counterparts and on par with similarly secular countries such as Japan, the Netherlands, Finland and France. Only a few Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) and post-Soviet states (Estonia) are markedly less religious. A 2008 Christian Science Monitor survey of 17 countries reported that youth from Australia and the United Kingdom were the least likely to observe religious practice or see any "spiritual dimension" to life.[37]
A 2002 study by Gregory Paul, found that 24% of Australians are atheist or agnostic.[38] A 2009 Nielsen survey of 1,000 respondents, found 68% of Australians believe in god and/or a "universal spirit", while 24% believe in neither. The survey found that 49% of respondents claimed religion was not important in their lives.[17] A 2009 survey of 1,718 Australians conducted by NCLS research found that 61.5% say that "religious faith or spirituality" was of little or no importance to career and lifestyle decisions.[39]
In 2011, an Ipsos MORI survey found that 32% claimed no religion,[40] while a Galaxy poll found 43% claimed no religion.[41] A 2011 report by the American Physical Society claimed that religion may die out in Australia and eight other Western world countries.[42][43]
According to NORC of Chicago, 20.6% of Australians don't believe in God and never have, while 9.7% are "strong atheists". Of those aged under 28, 26.8% have never believed in God and just 14.7% are certain God exists.[44] A 2012 poll by Win-Gallup International found that 48% of Australians claimed no religion; 37% were religious; 10% declared themselves "convinced atheists". Australia placed in the bottom 14 for religiosity and in the top 11 for atheism.[45]
An October 2011 McCrindle survey polled 1,094 respondents on attitudes Christianity, finding 50% of the respondents did not identify with a religion, and 17% claimed Jesus did not exist.[46] A follow-up survey that 30% claimed no religion, 64% identified with Christianity and 6% belonged to other religions. 9% of the Christians were actively practising and regularly attending.[47]
A 2011 survey by McCrindle Research found that for Australians, Christmas is predominantly secular. 46% of respondents said the highlights of Christmas were celebrations with family and friends, 36% said gift giving, Christmas trees and the general Christmas spirit; and 15% said attending religious services, carol singing and nativity plays. 19% said they would "definitely" attend a religious service, while 38% have never attended. 87% of people who are not religious celebrated Christmas to some extent.[48]
Religious attendance[edit]
According to the National Church Life Survey, between 1950 and 2007 monthly church attendance declined from 44% to 17%.[49]
A 2009 Christian Research Association survey of 1,718 Australians found that 16% attended a religious service at least once a month, down from 23% in 1993. More than 40% of those brought up as Anglicans or Lutherans, 36% of those brought up in the Uniting Church and 28% of those brought up as Roman Catholics now described themselves as having no religion. 33% of 15- to 29-year-olds identified with a Christian denomination in 2009, down from 60% in 1993.[4]
In 1996, 17.9% of Roman Catholics attended Mass on a typical Sunday,[50] falling to 12.2% in 2011.[51][52] In 2006, the median age of all Catholics aged 15 years and over was 44 years.[53][54] In 1996, 27% of Roman Catholics aged 50 to 54 years regularly attended Mass, falling to 15% in 2006.[53] while 30% aged 55–59 years regularly attended in 1996, but only 19% in 2006.[53] From 1996 to 2006 Mass attendance for Roman Catholics aged between 15 and 34 declined by just over 38%, going from 136,000 to 83,760 attendees.[53]
A study in 2011 by the Christian Research Association discovered that the attendance of Uniting Churches has declined by 30% over the past 10 years. President Philip Hughes predicts the decline in church attendance will continue "at least for the next 20 years". The study also found that the average age of people attending Catholic and Anglican churches is around 60 years.[55]
A 2013 survey by McCrindle Research, just 8% of Christians attend at least once per month. The survey also discovered that 47% of respondents do not go to church because it is "irrelevant to my life", 26% "don't accept how it's taught", while 19% "don't believe in the bible".[56]
Informal polls[edit]
A 2008 an Intelligence Squared debate on the topic "We Would Be Better Off Without Religion" ended with 54% of the audience for the motion,[57][58] and a follow up poll in The Sydney Morning Herald found 81% for a similar motion.[59] A 2012 TV poll on Q&A found 76% of viewers say that religious belief does not "make the world a better place".[60]
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- ^ "Australian Communities Report" (PDF). McCrindle Research. October 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ^ "Spirituality and Christianity in Australia today". McCrindle Research. April 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
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- ^ "Why Innovation is Needed in Church Life" (PDF). National Church Life Survey (NCLS). 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
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- ^ "Religion and Atheism". ABC. April 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.


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Depression Health Center
Coming to Terms With Depression
What Depression Feels Like
"There is nothing worse than depression," says Anthony Rothschild, MD, professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Psychopharmacologic Research and Treatment at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. "I've had patients who were cancer survivors tell me that they would take a recurrence of cancer over a relapse of depression."
Yet, unless someone has experienced depression, it's difficult to understand just how profoundly it can affect your life. Serious depression affects your thoughts, moods, behavior, and body. It saps your energy and makes life seem hopeless and empty.
Once those feelings build up and you start to slip into depression, it becomes more difficult to function, and a downward spiral begins. "As depression becomes more severe and long-lasting, the risk of suicide increases," says David Brendel, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
If you have any thoughts about suicide, tell your mental health provider right away. He can work with you to help keep you safe.
The First Step: Facing Your Depression
In order to get relief and reduce the risk of worsening depression, you need to face it squarely and acknowledge that you need help. "The first step toward recovery is to accept that you have a serious medical illness that will require major effort and treatment over an extended period of time," Allen says.
"Depression is easier to treat the earlier it is caught," Brendel tells WebMD. "Treatment can reduce the frequency and severity of major depression."
Depression Relief: Finding the Right Treatment
Talk with your mental health provider about your diagnosis and treatment options. "With mild depression, studies have shown that therapy or medication are equally effective," Rothschild says. "People with moderate or severe symptoms should usually receive medication. Treatment with therapy alone usually isn't effective, as people are often too depressed to really do the work of therapy."
Many people respond well to both medication and therapy, especially if they have an underlying problem that they need to resolve in their personal or work life. "Therapy and medications work on different things," Rothschild says. "Medication works on the depression itself, and therapy can help a patient deal with a particular stressor in his or her life, such as the loss of a job or relationship troubles."


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I installed the patch for the recent vulnerability, had the silly notion I was safe (when are we ever? -- understood) and almost immediately was hit with a series of attempts to breach the sites on my server as well as suspicious activity in WPTouch folders and related files. Rather than go through it all again, I removed almost all instances and disabled the others. Perhaps time to go responsive anyway.


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Ferguson Letter from Black Clergy Becomes Interracial Call for Justice
As the Rev. Barbara Williams-Skinner collected signatures for a statement by leaders of African-American church groups about the Ferguson, Mo., police shooting of Michael Brown, she found more people wanted to join in.
The general secretary of the National Council of Churches wanted to add his name; an Asian-American evangelical leader, too.
What started out as a "Joint Statement of Heads of Historic African American Church Denominations" has become an interracial cry for justice.
"It's touching hearts of people who have sons and who know that their sons would not be treated this way," said Williams-Skinner, co-chair of the National African-American Clergy Network, on Thursday. "They know it's wrong. They know it's wrong before God. And they are responding on a human level."


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The building where Baltschug Kempinski Moscow makes its home dates back to 1898.The hotel has 227 elegant rooms, including 36 suites and unique Design Suites. Hotel Baltschug Kempinski Moscow boasts restaurant The Baltschug Grill, as well as the refined Cafe Kranzler, Lobby Lounge bar, Beauty Centre Baltschug, and a Health Club. In addition, there are 12 modern meeting rooms, and most offer great views over Red Square.
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Balboa Bay Club has expanded and improved over the years to fit the needs of the members and community. The club now includes the adjacent and waterfront Balboa Bay Resort, as well as long-term residences, one of the largest and most comprehensive marinas in Newport Beach, and a wide array of magnificent amenities.
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The Westview Wolverines girls basketball team won Wednesday's home conference game against Rancho Bernardo by a score of 46-26.
(January 26, 2011: San Diego, CA 92129) Westview Wolverines (San Diego, CA) backers were in high spirits Wednesday as they witnessed their basketball squad thwart the visiting Rancho Bernardo Broncos (San Diego, CA), 46-26 in a league bout.
With the win, Westview upgrades its record to 18-2 on the season. The Wolverines travel to Mt. Carmel (San Diego, CA) to encounter the Sundevils in a Palomar bout on Friday, January 28. The Sundevils go into the bout with a record of 15-5. Mt. Carmel won 66-54 in their recent league bout against Torrey Pines (San Diego, CA)
Next up, the Broncos encounter the Poway Titans (Poway, CA) in a Palomar bout, on Friday, January 28. Rancho Bernardo will attempt to upgrade on its 9-9 season record. The Titans go into the bout with a 18-2 record after their 62-48 league win over Ramona (Ramona, CA).


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Beer Can Chicken
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 1 hr
Never thought beer can chicken would taste so good! First time I've tried it. My whole family was really impressed. We couldn't stop eating it untill it was completly gone! lol. I didn't have any actual beer cans so I just emptied out a soup tin and used that instead.
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- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped rosemary
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1⁄2 teaspoon lemon zest
- 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 1 roasting chicken, about 4 pounds
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 12 ounces beer (room temperature)
- 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
- 1 -2 garlic clove, crushed
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- Mix rub ingredients in a small bowl. lightly rub the chicken all over with the oil. Season the chicken inside and out with the rub.
- Open your beer can and drink about half of it. Put the rosemary, thyme, garlic, and lemon juice into the beer. Make a few more holes in the top of the beer can with a can opener. Shove the chicken cavity over the beer can. You can actually get special beer can chicken holders for this that make it a bit easier.
- Grill over indirect medium heat(350-450 degrees F) until juices run clear and internal temperature reaches 180 degrees F in the breast, about 1 1/4 -1 1/2 hours. Let the chicken rest for about 10 minutes before removing from beer can and cutting up. Enjoy!
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MAKE THIS CHICKEN. If you are like I was, looking at the simple instructions and the short ingredients list thinking "This isn't what I'm looking for, I need something FANCY-SCHMANCY"...stop that. This is IT. It really is that simple, and it really is THAT good. I used a 4.75lb Chicken and a can of Tecate. 375 in the oven for 1 1/2 hours (next time i'll do 400). BING. Sadly, all those tasty little morsels that fell of the bone during the carving process ended up in my mouth and not on any of my guests plates... well, sad for the guests that is...it is good to be the king, I mean the cook. ;-)
Carcus and skin just went into a stock pot with the usual soup veggies for what I expect to be a wonderful soup for lunch tomorrow.
Excellent! Have done it both at cottage and home. Turnes out perfect every time. Very moist!
Yum! I rubbed the chicken with the rub recipe, and let it sit in the fridge for a few hours. This was super easy and delicious! Thanks for posting!


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Definition of optical path in English:
optical path
The distance which in a vacuum would contain the same number of wavelengths as the actual path taken by a ray of light.
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CSS fullscreen grid layout (with some scrolling sections)
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Works great, however I am now attempting to model the same/similar layout in Zurb Foundation 4 but having trouble with two things:
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Lloyds Bank to Take Back More Than $1 Million From Executive Bonuses
Lloyds will exercise a "claw back" provision to reach the executive compensation.
But not just any executives: five current and former directors who were involved in selling questionable insurance in a scandal that will cost the partly state-owned bank about $5 billion. But don't worry too much — Lloyds will "claw back" only 25 percent of the five executives' 2010 bonuses. The rest is theirs to keep and bathe in.


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Traducción de mandate en español:
- 1 (authority)Oraciones de ejemplo
- Newly elected ministers invariably choose to regard an election victory as conferring a mandate on their policies.
- Perhaps politicians should seek a new mandate from the electorate if they are unable to fulfil their promises.
- The ones who win and form the next government would thus have the mandate to pursue their policies and programmes.
- 2 (trusteeship) (History) under UN mandatebajo mandato de la ONUthe British mandate in Palestineel protectorado or mandato británico de PalestinaOraciones de ejemplo
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- A forged cheque is not a valid mandate, and the bank cannot debit the customer's account.
- If that were right one would expect to see wives being independently advised before signing a typical mandate for a joint account.
- He showed his value pretty quickly, pointing out that banks must have a legal mandate to debit someone's account.
- For the next 25 years, Syria was governed by French colonial administrators under a mandate from the League of Nations.
- Another category of dependent imperial territory was formed by League of Nations mandates.
- After the war, Japan continued to rule the islands under a mandate from the League of Nations.
transitive verb
- 1 (delegate) (instruct)dar instrucciones a(authorize) autorizarthe delegates were mandated to …los delegados recibieron instrucciones or recibieron el mandato de …Oraciones de ejemplo
- Having made this judgment, the Security Council may then mandate the US and its allies to use force in order to remove him.
- With the money, it will acquire and restructure more mills, as mandated by the State Council.
- Well, the problem here is, the ballot initiatives mandate something like 70 percent of the spending in the budget.
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- Current Army requirements mandate change in order to move into the future.
- For such patients, it may be unrealistic to mandate abstinence as a requirement for treatment.
- The federal government has begun mandating it, and they insist that their architects earn at least a bronze rating.
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The heavy rain just the past west end. I was leaving the grocery store in the Alderwood Plaza, and the dark clouds and low setting sun created this image.
I shop at 'Top', if you really want to know...
No shortage of water here! I would give you some, if I could.
I have 2 barrels in the backyard, almost full, so my garden is prospering.
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Tony Gibson has finalized a deal to become the crew chief for Ryan Newman at Stewart-Haas Racing in 2009 and he hopes to bring with him the rest of his No. 8 crew from Dale Earnhardt Inc.
"This week we're going to work hard on finalizing my guys," Gibson said Friday from Homestead-Miami Speedway. "I think it's all going to work out just fine."
Also, DEI competition director Bobby Hutchens has been named to the same position at Stewart-Haas.
"That'll be a huge asset for us," Gibson said. "I've known Bobby for about 22 years. He's the perfect guy to organize it and orchestrate it, so financially they're secure if the business is run the right way. That was a huge catch for Stewart-Haas."
Gibson said he wanted to stay at DEI, but because the No. 8 car did not have full sponsorship for next season, the company was not able to offer him a long-term deal.
He said Richard Childress Racing and several other teams also contacted him about positions.
"I put it off as long as I could, just giving DEI a chance to put something together," he said. "I just felt it was in my best interest to look for something different."
Gibson said he had made up his mind to leave long before Wednesday's announcement that DEI and Chip Ganassi Racing were merging to form a four-car team next season.
He said the mood has been like a "morgue" at DEI because more than 100 people will be let go, with two of its current four cars being eliminated.
"It's scary right now," he said. "It's real scary. Nobody is really talking. I know last week it was real quiet in that shop. A lot of guys have uncertainty about what their future is. Some people aren't going to want to merge. They're confused and not sure of really how all of this is going to work."
To add to the confusion, there has been no final decision on whether DEI will continue its engine program partnership with RCR or whether the organization will be Chevrolet (DEI), or Dodge (Ganassi), or a combination.
"I really hope they survive this," Gibson said. "I hope two or three years from now they can split back and do their own deal."
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Sound Therapy and Music for Health and Well-being
At some point in our lives we have all been moved by sound or music.
Whether it is the sound of the dawn chorus, a breeze through the trees on a summer's day or your favourite music track that always brings you to tears, the ability that sound and music has to move us is well recognised. There is increasing interest in the transformative power of sound and music, Daniel Levitin and Oliver Sacks have contributed to this with their best-selling publications and the amount of research being done in the field of music and emotion, music psychology and music therapy is growing rapidly, which is extremely exciting for us!
At The British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST) we are at the forefront of research and development in therapeutic sound and are dedicated to improving health and wellbeing through this versatile and accessible modality. Over a span of more than 20 years our founder, Lyz Cooper and the team have created a range of sound therapy training courses and voice therapy training courses that are among the most comprehensive in the world today. We include 1-2-1 sound therapy courses as well as community music making, arts in health – which incorporates sonic art, soundscapes, drum circles, vocal improvisation and harmonic choirs, to name a few. Our approach is different from but complementary to music therapy. We are based in Chichester, West Sussex, U.K, and also run sound therapy courses in Australia and New Zealand.
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Base Area, Steamboat, Colorado, USA
Cornertstone Townhomes offer spacious, well-appointed three and four-bedroom units. Only minutes away from the Steamboat Ski Area, Steamboat Nordic Center, and the Rollingstone Ranch Golf Course, Cornerstone Townhomes are conveniently located for any vacation. Each Cornerstone Townhome features modern furnishings, a gas fireplace, washer/dryer, and a private garage. There is an outdoor swimming pool during the summer and two outdoor hot tubs. A private shuttle service makes transportation from Cornerstone Townhomes to the mountain and downtown a breeze.
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As the state where the Boston Tea Party, Battle of Bunker Hill, and first shots of the American Revolution happened, Massachusetts is a special place to celebrate the 4th of July. Whether you're looking for a free event for the family or a way to give back to America's …Continue Reading Celebrate Independence Day in Massachusetts
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Finger Rolls - Perfect for Soup and Sandwich
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 15 mins
These are tender soft and a good choice to serve with a hot bowl of soup. I made these rolls to hold Ham Salad Sweet and Spicy. I served with soup so didn't want to filling of a sandwich.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 egg
- 1⁄2 cup milk
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- 2 cups bread flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon fast rising yeast
- milk
- salt
- Place ingredients in bread machine keeping the salt, sugar and yeast separate. (According to your bread machine directions).
- Set on dough cycle. Start.
- When machine stops remove dough and place on floured surface.
- Oil sheet pan.
- Divide into 12 pieces.
- Shape each into an oblong roll and then place end to end so almost touching. making 2 rows.Cover with plastic wrap and rise for 30 minutes in a warm spot.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Brush with milk and sprinkle with a touch of salt.
- bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove from pan and separate.
- Enjoy warm.
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Awesome...just changed the yeast to 2 and milk part. Made 6 fabulous buns we had with homemade Turkey Soup.....
These rolls have a nice flavour but I found them to be heavy rather than light. It took an hour for the rolls to rise and only 11 minutes to bake. I chose to make 8 rolls as I wanted them a bit larger. As you can see in the photo, they look lovely too.
Thanks Rita!
Delightful little rolls! Using the bread machine dough cycle makes them a breeze too. They are tender inside, but hold up to sandwich fillings. Thank you for sharing this recipe!


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Comments about 'House says no to tapping into alcohol revenue to fund schools'
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Too many legislators talk a good game when it comes to funding eductation. These was a concept that doesn't raise any taxes and comes from growth in revenue yet they wouldn't vote for it. Many of these same lawmakers overturned the Governor's veto and earmarked hundreds of millions of dollars for roads but couldn't muster the courage to vote for 7 million dollars for schools.
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So once again, when it comes time to put OUR money where THEIR mouths are, our state legislators balk. It's hard to believe the priority is on education when we avoid common sense solutions to help fund it.
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Of course, last year they had no problem with earmarking highway funds with alcohol sales. I don't think the problem is with earmarking funds to aspects of the state budget. The problem is that we have a group of anti-public education legislators who desire to deprives schools of needed funding. If earmarking funds is a problem, then they should prove it by undoing past earmarking laws tied to alcohol sales.
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What percent of school funding actually filters to the classroom?
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To "Kings Court" and "Claudio" and what are you going to use the
funding for? Unless you are specific with what the funding is to go towards,
you will end up with more district or non-teaching staff positions or more
funding for online testing.
If you want more teachers, why not cut the number of non-teaching administrative staff at the schools and the district specialists that are paid a lot for not teaching.
To "worf" the national average for funding that actually makes it to the classroom is about 60%.
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Kings Court,
Just like in our personal budgets we spend money on what we value. The majority of our republican legislators value roads much more than they value education.
The reason they don't want to tie this money to education is to keep it available for their own little pet projects. Which again they value more than the education of the children of this state.
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Daenerys' handmaiden Irri talks Dothraki, off-screen romance and more
Amrita Acharia's Twitter profile describes her as a "Ukrainian-Nepalese actress with a dash of Norwegian-ness sprinkled on top," while her IMDB profile boasts of her aptitude with a slew of languages.
Of course, TV audiences know Acharia primarily for a fictional nationality and for her proficiency in a language that never existed.
On HBO's "Game of Thrones," Acharia plays Irri, Dothraki handmaiden to Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen. Irri has generally been paired with Roxanne McKee's Doreah. While Doreah has been largely entrusted with coaching Dany on carnal arts, Irri has taught Dany about Dothraki culture and the Dothraki language.
In scenes that we weren't privy to, Irri also was apparently carrying on a love affair with a Dothraki bloodrider named Rakharo, which left her mighty unhappy a couple weeks back when Rakharo's horse returned from a scouting mission with his head, but without the rest of his body.
As Acharia's Twitter followers know, she was in Los Angeles last week and I sat down with the young actress to discuss her language skills, her appreciation of the Dothraki mentality and her early dreams of being a vampire.
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HitFix: Do you get recognized at all out in the world?
Amrita Acharia: I did get recognized in the gym. Some bloke came up to me and was like, "Aren't you on that show, that 'Game of Thrones' show?" [Looks around uncomfortably.] I was like, "Yeah... I'm busy." Yeah, I don't get recognized. I'm lighter in real life, because I get darkened up for that and usually we're in a hot country, so I tan really fast and then I get back to England and go white.
HitFix: So how is your Dothraki?
Amrita Acharia: My Dothraki rocks. I'm joking. My Dothraki's alright. I get by.
HitFix: When you have to communicate with actual Dothrakis, get by?
Amrita Acharia: I'd be able to ask people for directions probably. Get food. I was gonna say something rude, but I'm not gonna say it. I think I could get by if I got stuck in a Dothraki horde.
HitFix: What is the learning curve like with an entirely fictional language?
Amrita Acharia: It was really interesting to learn. I've had to learn languages. I learned Norwegian from scratch when I moved to Norway, so I know how to learn a language, but then learning a language that's kinda totally made up and sounds like nothing you've ever heard before... People are like, "It's like Arabic" and I'm like, "It doesn't sound anything like Arabic, shut up." They were like, "Can you do an Arabic accent?" I was like, "I'm gonna do my General Foreign and I think that's gonna work." That's my thing for everything that's a bit foreign: Do your General Foreign Accent.
HitFix: And what's the basis for the General Foreign Accent?
Amrita Acharia: It's now Dothraki. So now it's like, "Can you do Arabic?" "No, I'll do Dothraki if that's alright with you." So yeah, learning it was interesting, because obviously you don't know the language, you're just learning your lines, but then obviously once you see that some words repeat themselves, you pick out what they mean. I translate it, so I know exactly what I'm saying. I make up my own translations for myself. Hopefully they're right. It was great, because we got audiotapes so we'd know what it sounded like, but then sometimes I'd be like, "I want it to sound a little bit different," so I'd do my own thing, which I think kinda worked. But it was fun. I liked that and thought that was a really good part of being a Dothraki character is that we got to speak this awesome language that nobody knew.
HitFix: Is there a master of Dothraki on set monitoring? Does somebody watch out on set to make sure the Dothraki works?
Amrita Acharia: I suppose it's Bryan [Cogman]? He used to send stuff over. I think somebody was watching out. There must have been. We were lucky in terms that it was not a language that had been spoken before, so it wasn't like people could call in and go, "Hey. That word was wrong. It was so wrong." We had a bit more freedom to make it sound how we did. I think because we were so small, our little group of Dothraki speakers, we could hear each other, so all we had to do was make sure that it added up. I listened to Iain [Glen] and Jason [Momoa] because I thought they sounded so amazing. It's because they have that deep voice. That whole manly thing really works for the Dothrakis.
HitFix: Did it come particularly easy for anybody? Or did it come particularly hard for anybody? Does anybody keep mangling their Dothraki dialogue?
Amrita Acharia: I'm sure I had a few blips. I'm pretty sure I did. No, I thought everybody did really well. It's a hard thing to learn. I thought that for Emilia [Clarke] with everything else she had to do and then all this speaking Dothraki on top of it? It's like, "Really? You want me to do this too?" No, I thought everyone was great. I was surprised how natural it sounded for most of the people who did it and everybody had their own way of doing that.
HitFix: But you have language skills? You have a general aptitude with that?
Amrita Acharia: Yeah. Or at least I pretend I do. I don't really have a choice. My parents, I'm basically a mongrel, so I have to be good at that to get by.
HitFix: How did the shift from Malta to Croatia for production in the second season change things?
Amrita Acharia: Well, it meant my tan was a lot darker in the second season, which was great. I didn't have to have so much makeup on. No, I really, really enjoyed the second season. It was great, because I think we were a lot more settled in. We had more grasp about what was going on. And Croatia was just wonderful. The people were fantastic. It wasn't a place that I'd been to before, so I was just like, "Wow. This is amazing. The seafood is amazing. The ice cream is amazing. Everybody is amazing. This is great. I want to live here." So it was great and we got all of these new locations as well. I think in the second series you get all these deserts and all these castles and water and Qarth as well, which is amazing to see come alive on-screen.
HitFix: How much of Qarth was actually there and how much was added later?
Amrita Acharia: Well, just the gates were there. Just the gates.
HitFix: How good are you at this point with acting with green screen?
Amrita Acharia: I haven't had that much experience with it, to be honest, but I think if you don't have an imagination, you can't really be an actor. So I'd be in trouble if I couldn't imagine something.
HitFix: What do you have on-set for the dragon scenes?
Amrita Acharia: It's a little toy sometimes? A little dragon toy? Irri doesn't get to play with the dragons so much, which she's very upset about. Doreah's the one who's good with animals and that stuff. Irri's the practical one, the one who sorts s*** out.
HitFix: The practical one, you say?
Amrita Acharia: The one who gets the rabbits killed and gets the food done, gets things mended, sews everything up. So yeah, we're got the little dragon toys, because they're quite small right now. Then you get balls or that's-where-the-dragon-is points. I don't have to deal with it much. I'm glad.
HitFix: How much do you understand what Irri's backstory is, who she is beyond just what we've seen?
Amrita Acharia: Irri's quite young, really. I think people forget that all these girls are actually supposed to be quite young in terms of the book. Irri's a Dothraki to the core. She's proud of being a Dothraki and she has, in my mind, all the traits that Dothraki women should have, apart from not being too submissive to the men. She's a little bit of a firecracker. She can get annoyed quite quickly. Her backstory? I don't think she has any family, so I think that's why, to her, it's quite important to have Daenerys and she takes that very seriously and is very loyal to her queen. In terms of my grasp on her, I relate to her as a young woman.
HitFix: Well how much do you relate? How foreign does she seem?
Amrita Acharia: She doesn't seem so foreign. I don't think the Dothraki are as foreign as everybody thinks they are. I think they're just very basic. They're people without filters. In my head, that's what they are. They'll say what they think and they'll do what they think and if something's wrong, they'll kill them. They're like, "This is right. This is wrong. What're you gonna do about it?"
HitFix: So other than the killing part, that's pretty familiar.
Amrita Acharia: Yeah. I think everybody's got a little bit of Dothraki in them. Yeah.
HitFix: And your character apparently had this very passionate love story that we didn't get to see. Suddenly she was very sad a couple episodes back.
Amrita Acharia: Yeah. That was a surprise for us. I thought it was nice. I think it's great that even when you do have a minor character, they still have a backstory and David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] are so good at making that come alive as well. That was really fun to play around with and I think it really gave Irri a different dimension as well. It's kinda like a schoolgirl mentality, that you have to be horrible to the boy that you really, really like, because that's how you play the game. I think people enjoyed it. I enjoyed it.
HitFix: Is there a challenge to playing that level of emotional investment in a relationship that hadn't be previously developed?
Amrita Acharia: Not really! It's my job, right? I think the words get you worked up anyway and then you try and remember it in Dothraki, which just gets me worked up all by itself. So that wasn't hard.
HitFix: Are you a reader of the books?
Amrita Acharia: I am a reader of the books.
HitFix: What has your pace been?
Amrita Acharia: I go along with the seasons.
HitFix: Why was that your approach?
Amrita Acharia: I don't know. In the past, and this wouldn't have happened here because they're brilliant, but I've read books and been really disappointed with the film or whatever. It's a bit different with this, because it's kinda different from the books. I don't know. I think it's a nice way to follow it and there's so much going on. It's interesting, because in your head, you imagine things a certain way and it's amazing how much of the time it's been so right in the screen version on HBO. A lot of time, I'll read a book and I'll be like, "That's not what she's supposed to look like" and I get really annoyed about it, whereas everybody here looks and acts the way they should.
HitFix: Obviously for some of the actors, reading the book provides a wealth of additional knowledge about their characters, but it's not like Irri has huge arcs in the books that we're missing. How much have you been able to glean from the books?
Amrita Acharia: A lot. In terms of Dothraki, Dothraki characters, Dothraki lifestyle, I'm biased but that's like my favorite parts of the books. That and Joffrey. He's great. It's amazing writing. I love descriptions and [Martin] describes everything. Everything, everything, everything. Everything is so textured and I think you get the full body of the worlds, so in terms of that, for all of the actors, especially the bigger ones, it's a great wealth of material to delve into and really do the books justice and the characters justice.
HitFix: How big does the "Game of Thrones" production feel when you're in the middle of it?
Amrita Acharia: Massive. Massive, massive. I never realized how big it was going to be. When I got the role, I was like, "Oh yeah. I'm doing this thing called 'Game of Thrones.'" And people were like, "What?!?" I was like, "Yeah, yeah. It's gonna be great." I'd just come out of drama school and I was like, "Yeah. This is fun. It's wonderful. I get to go to Malta again. Yay." I think I was completely unaware. I can be so in the clouds sometimes.
HitFix: And what's it like landing this kind of role fresh out of drama school?
Amrita Acharia: I didn't expect it to be so big. It's strange. I'd done a few pieces for TV, but my very very first job out of drama school was "The Devil's Double." That was a small role, but it was a big movie. It's a bit surreal. It's a really strange industry to be in, I think. I think you really need to want it.
HitFix: Why strange?
Amrita Acharia: Anything can happen. You don't know what's gonna happen. You're just walking around and one day you get a role in "Game of Thrones." That's crazy. I'm sitting on reception and I get this call. It's a bit weird.
HitFix: Does part of you want to backtrack and do some smaller stuff after this? Theater or something?
Amrita Acharia: I'd do anything. I love theater. I always thought I was going to be a theater actress. I always thought that, but it's kinda gone the other way, really, which is fine, because to me they're different mediums and I enjoy both for different reasons. But in terms of would I go back? I'd do whatever. I'm an actor. If I'm working, I'm happy, right? As long as it's an interesting role and good project and you believe in it...
HitFix: Why did you anticipate theater was going to be the place for you?
Amrita Acharia: I think that's what I was interested in. I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, "Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor."
HitFix: Well that's not a totally overnight decision, is it?
Amrita Acharia: I think I was was just like, "I want to be this and this and this and this. And I want to be this and this." When I was nine, I wanted to be a vampire and then I got a bit more realistic after that, like normal jobs. And then I think it was like, "OK. Well, I can be all of these normal people, but then I can be like superheroes and vampires and supervillains and things like that as well." So being an actor seemed like a really good job, because you wouldn't get bored, which I do get, easily.
HitFix: It sounds like you're just waiting for "True Blood" to call?
Amrita Acharia: Exactly. Get those fangs out. Yeah, I was a bit obsessed with vampires when I was younger. But yeah, in terms of theater, I think it's because that's where my training started. I went to college and that's when I first started to do theater stuff. I'd never really done it before. I liked pretending. When I was kid, I had all sorts of crazy clubs with my sister. We had crazy clubs. I don't think we had a Vampire Club, but we did have an Ancient Egyptian one, which was fun. We had one where we had to stop people from smoking, as well, which I feel really bad about, because we used to just steal cigarettes and just throw them away, because it was bad for people. I never realized how expensive cigarettes were.
HitFix: Just from random strangers?
Amrita Acharia: Not so much random strangers. More like friends of friends or my parents or people that would come over and have dinner with us. I should really not be saying this.
HitFix: Did they know it was you two?
Amrita Acharia: They will now! But no, I love doing that and then we got to direct and do stuff like that. It was a toss-up between going towards directing or going towards acting once I decided that that was the root I wanted to go down, but I think I just like being different people.
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