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DOUGIE Freedman has lifted the lid on his reasons for selling Martin Petrov.
The veteran Bulgarian winger should finalise his move to Espanyol early this week after two-and-a-half years at the Reebok.
Some fans have been left disappointed at the enigmatic star's exit but Freedman insists the decision was made for the good of the football club, and is now looking to recruit younger replacements.
"We've got to face the facts that Martin is in the latter years of his career, earns a lot of money at this football club, and I think the best thing right at this minute is to try to bring in some new, young blood, and try to bring them on," he said.
"That is where we are and, hopefully, everyone understands that decision."
Wanderers drew 1-1 with Millwall on Saturday to fall 10 points behind the play-offs. Keith Andrews and Andy Keogh traded penalties in the first half and despite creating several second-half opportunities, the Whites could not find a winner.
Youngsters Tom Eaves and Josh Vela were named on the bench but there was no place for new signing Craig Davies, who had joined the club in midweek from Barnsley.
Freedman explained his absence as a fitness issue.
"He's not quite there in terms of intensity," he said. "He will possibly be there in a week.
"He had missed a couple of games for Barnsley and I wouldn't like to throw him in if he's not where I want him to be. I'd like his testing – speed, endurance – to be at a better level."
Freedman will continue his recruitment drive alongside preparations for tomorrow night's FA Cup third round replay against Sunderland.
The Whites boss wants to bolster his defence but is determined to make the most out of the limited finances at his disposal for signings.
"We haven't got loads of money to spend in terms of going and just buying who we want to," he said. "I have got to make good decisions. I don't want to put this great club into financial difficulty over three or four years, I want to make sure that we do it correctly. The buys that are coming in have to be value for money.
"We are looking around and seeing what we can do. There are one or two things possibly this week but I will not be rushed into buying players just because of the situation we find ourselves in at the moment."


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Trace Adkins named 'All-Star Celebrity Apprentice' winner
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Trace Adkins is coming out on top this time. After finishing in the runner-up spot the first time he competed on NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice," he got the nod on the all-star edition of the series Sunday night. Just prior to the announcement, the country star expressed a great deal of confidence in his performance on the show's final task.
Adkins was up against Penn Jillette. They were each tasked with creating a new ice cream flavor for Walgreens, as well as creating packaging and a promotional video. They also had to raise money by hosting an event for the product.
Adkins performed at his gala for his Maple Macadamia Mash-Up, which also featured Gary Busey slipping on his Buddy Holly glasses to sing "Not Fade Away." And while he actually raised $664,000 he was only credited with $554,000, because a $100,000 contribution from NFL star Tim Tebow came in late.
For the win Akins received a total of $350,000 for the American Red Cross. In addition to the show's $250,000 grand prize, Walgreens added another $100,000 to the donation.
Trace has played for two different charities on "Celebrity Apprentice." The first time he competed he raised money for the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, and this time he supported the American Red Cross. The country star says his wife played a role in selecting both organizations.
Adkins finished the runner up to Piers Morgan when he first took part in the NBC reality series back in 2008. He made it to the final again on "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice," and this time he won.
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LONG BEACH - When a child is sick, having that child within reach can be a parent's greatest desire - especially if the child is hospital-bound miles away from home.
The Long Beach Ronald McDonald House helps to make this desire a reality.
Only a few feet away from Long Beach Memorial and Miller Children's Hospital, the 23-room "house" serves as a home away from home, with low-cost and often free temporary housing for families who travel great distances for the specialized care of their seriously ill or hospitalized children being treated at Miller Children's or other nearby facilities.
The Long Beach program kicked off its annual Walk for Kids fundraiser event Friday. The walk, which takes place April 7, helps to raise funds for the Long Beach location and other Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California programs, said Cheri Bazley, executive director of the local house.
"The need for our houses rose many, many years ago," she said. "We are providing comfort and care and support to the families, not only in our immediate community, but our surrounding communities and beyond, with critically ill children receiving care."
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California was founded in 1977 and now has six houses.
The Long Beach House, which can house up to 23 families, or about 70 people, was filled to capacity this week, Bazley said.
"I have a lot of personal experience working with terminally ill children," said Damon Dunn, a former NFL player and honorary chairman of the Long Beach Walk for Kids event. "I understand the role and the need that the Ronald McDonald House meets."
Living in a community without the needed medical care for your child can be devastating, said Dunn, who announced his candidacy for Long Beach Mayor this week.
"People going through such a critical time - the most important thing is to care for their child, but housing can be a major issue because of the cost associated with it," he said. "That's the need of the LBRMH, so parents, who otherwise can't afford to be near their child, and who otherwise live too far away and can't drive to the facility back and forth, have somewhere close by to stay."
Bazley said that with an annual operating budget of $1.1 million for the Long Beach house, this year's fundraising goal for the walk is $275,000.
Since its December 2011 opening, the Long Beach House has served more than 450 families, she said.
"That being our start-up year, we know those numbers will increase. It will probably double. It might even more than double," Bazley said. "We feel that this is a really important event for us and it is instrumental in helping us do what we do for kids and families."
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Want to help?
What: The Long Beach Walk for Kids, a benefit fundraiser for the Miller Children's Hospital Ronald McDonald House.
When: 7 a.m. April 7
Where: Starting line will be at Shoreline Aquatic Park, 200 Aquarium Way, Long Beach.
Info: Call 562-285-4300 or visit www.walkforkids.org


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Our Dearest Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Bless! The Lord!
Each year we have a lively interaction by email and/or by regular mail with all of our active donors and many of the other names on our active mailing list. It is a way to keep in direct contact with all of you who have been such a direct and meaningful part of our lives here at the Skete, Convent, and Mission. As a part of that interaction, this is the fourth time that we have direct mailed to you this year. Traditionally December has also been a major part of our donations received each year. We hope that this December will at least be the same.
The reality of recent economic constrictions has affected almost everyone here in North America at this time as it has for over a year since the economic melt down that began last October, 2008. What has happened increasingly since then is a more realistic attention to how people buy and sell, and how people give and receive. We still do it, but it is more thoughtful and it is more restrained.
Overall using good sense and conscious reflection on using our resources wisely is a good lesson at any time, although most forms of advertising have been focused in other years to get people to spend their resources freely, and often beyond their means. So we all need to be careful that our resources really help with our necessities, and to prioritize after that what is the most needful next. Yet prudence does not eliminate doing what is good or helpful in our lives. Supporting good works is an important part of giving and receiving.
Since the Skete, Convent, and Mission's beginnings there has been a conscious effort to outreach in our time and resources to help others whom God brings into our life. This is done through active prayers offered each day in our monastic round of services and private prayers, which includes praying for you and those who have been brought into our lives through various forms of contact. Today there are even more means for contact than when this monastic effort and mission work began 23 years ago. This active prayer is a most important part of our ministry – prayers and supplications for all of our friends and our many brothers and sisters in Christ, and you are also included. We also still have visitors who come to visit us, and they are most welcome. You are welcome too if you are ever in our neighborhood or wish to come for a retreat.
Another active part of our outreach has been to make available at reasonable prices many of the great icon treasures of the world in high quality mounted icon reproductions, and most recently also in laminated print only form. We have also found many other devotional gifts and spiritual books to help others with the tools for growth in their Christian spiritual life. Although we have spent now 21 years doing this with intense efforts, the reality is that it has taken more assets of time and money than it has received. Since this is also a conscious part of our calling to ministry, we are glad to do so as we have been able all of these years. Yet without active donations and prayerful support, it is not possible for the monastics to always do so within our restricted means. As in our other donation appeals, we are now asking your active help.
We here at the Skete live a relatively poor material life style. The monks live in small 12' x 16' cells with a small wood heater in the wooded secluded back valley. We spend most of our days working on what will here support our daily needs and on our outreach to bring the wonderful visual treasures of Orthodox Christian theology into our dear friends daily lives by finding, indexing, and then producing and making available these icon treasures and by also hand-painting icons. Our food is relatively simple yet healthy, our clothes mostly well-worn but still warm in winter, and we walk the third of a mile up and back from the back Skete valley to the Mission Center and icon production workplace each day. Mother Elizabeth, in the Convent of St. Silouan nearby, lives in an older mobile home with limited space and amenities. Her's is a simple life too with limited resources, and she helps with book selections for the bookstore and educational work for later publication of Orthodox Christian grade school materials. She has more health needs because of her diabetes and the winters are hard on her mobility.
Our monastic life, both for the Skete and for the Convent, even if lived in a simple way, still costs money to live each month and each year. By careful budgeting this year we have been able to do with less but we cannot do it with this much less. We still have to buy groceries, household goods, pay for heat, electricity, gas, medicines and doctor's visits and buy eyeglasses when needed. We have never been able to afford any health insurance. We have lived on the edge of real poverty for many, many years, and this is voluntary. Our donations in other years have barely covered these basic needs, and this year they are down substantially by 37%. November and December donations have been down too from last year over 20%. Although many, many non-profits have experienced such substantial drops in income since this economic downturn, so we are not alone, it is still very difficult to just make simple ends meet. Please help us if you can.
These last two years have also seen many small and some extensive repairs of buildings and roofs at both the Mission Center and in the back Skete valley that could not be put off and were done relatively quite inexpensively by ourselves contracting the work or doing it ourselves, but this still drained available funds from other daily needs.
It is hard for us to ask when we see clearly that everyone has their own economic restrictions, but we are not asking much, just what you can give right now, and as you can give throughout next year. It is soon the end of this year, and this decade is passing away too. Your donations are tax-deductible. Please, please, help us keep going.
We have had in the past special donations for capital campaigns that built much of the Common Monastic Building for the monks, and St. Nicholas Orthodox Church at the Mission Center. Your generosity helped build those buildings and continue to help those who live and worship within them each day. We deeply thank you for your gifts in these regards.
We have not asked for much related to these or other capital funded projects this last year. Our requests have been mostly for just the means to live simply and pay our bills. We are asking now again, but even more earnestly for help yet this month to finish out this year with the means to continue our work of inward and outward prayer and of our outward ministry in the production of icons. Please pray and see if your hearts are moved to give whatever you can with a good and thankful heart. Please also remember Mother Elizabeth and the Convent of St. Silouan. We all here give too even in our limitations as God sends us even poorer people as He sees is good. Everyone can afford at least a small gift.
Thank you for your time to listen to news from the Skete, Convent, and Mission this whole year. We pray that God will give us all thankful and generous hearts at this time and season of Christ's Nativity. He gave us the best and most perfect gift of every season – Himself – as the living and precious icon of God now made manifest and tangible in our presence. May Jesus Christ, incarnate and both fully human and fully Divine, hear our prayers and meet our needs, and give us all the patience and love to thank Him for this wonderful and fruitful season of generosity and love. He is the very meaning of this holy season of the year.
You are in our prayers and thoughts. Please keep us in your prayers as He draws near.
God bless your good hearts,
The Brotherhood of St. Isaac of Syria and the Sisterhood of St. Silouan's Convent and the Community of St. Nicholas Church
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Here are some of my latest thrifted things:
I don't often see Wedgewood in a op shop, so I grabbed this sweet little bowl as soon as I laid my eyes on it. Also, I needed the doily for a cake decorating idea. It worked a treat and I can't wait to show you what I did!
A creamer jug. Not that I needed another one, but seriously, I couldn't say no. Anything with gold and a rose and decorative swirls of the fine china variety absolutely calls out to me.
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hello i have windows Xp and 7 installed in my laptop..now i want to install backtrack 5 in place of XP in C drive what should i do? please give me step by step guide i m new linux user[IMG]D:\Users\p\Desktop[/IMG]
Your answer lies here: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dual+boot+backtrack+and+windows+7
See the tab at the top of this very web site that says "How To"?? Yea, it's like the second how to. http://www.backtrack-linux.org/tutor...-boot-install/
Of course, if you really wanted to have some fun, go to Wal-Mart late at night and ask the greeter if they could help you find trashbags, roll of carpet, rope, quicklime, clorox and a shovel. See if they give you any strange looks. --Streaker69
BackTrack Dual Boot Install with Windows (Tested on Win 7)
This method of installation is the simplest available. The assumption is that the you have a Windows installation taking up all the space on your drive, and you would like to resize and repartition your drive to allow a BackTrack install alongside your Windows. BACK UP YOUR WINDOWS INSTALLATION FIRST.
- Boot BackTrack on the machine to be installed. Once booted, type in startx to get to the KDE graphical interface.
- Double click the install.sh script on the desktop, or run the command ubiquity in console.
- Select your geographical location and click forward. Same for the Keyboard layout.
- The next screen allows you to configure the partitioning layout. The assumption is that we are resizing the Windows 7 partition and installing BackTrack on the newly made space.
- Accept the installation summary and client Install. Allow the installation to run and complete. Restart when done.
- Grub should allow you to boot both into BackTrack and Windows.
- Log into BackTrack with the default username and password root / toor. Change root password.
- Fix the framebuffer splash by typing fix-splash ( or fix-splash800″ if you wish a 800×600 framebuffer), reboot.
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If you are looking for the Application for Graduation (Fall 2011), it is not yet available. In conjunction with the new SIS, we will be unveiling a new Application for Graduation - Hooray! It is currently in the testing phase and is set to be available to students in the next week or two. Please check back around mid- to late-September. In the mean time, please do not file a paper application, as they will not be accepted nor processed. Your patience and understanding is appreciated.
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Despite a hike in exports, overall shipments passing through the Port of Los Angeles declined in February, officials announced Wednesday.
The Port of Los Angeles handled 525,653 cargo containers last month, a 5.3 percent drop from February 2011, officials said.
Exports increased 9.5 percent from a year earlier, the 21st month of growth at the nation's busiest port.
However, imports were down 7.8percent, while the number of empty containers passing through the port dropped nearly 17.2 percent.
Port officials attributed the decline in imports to the fact that Asian shippers sent most of their goods to Los Angeles in January in anticipation of plant closures during the Chinese New Year last month, said Phillip Sanfield, a spokesman for the Port of Los Angeles.
The number of empty containers passing through Los Angeles sharply declined due to the rise in exports, Sanfield said.
"As we move more exports through here, there's not as much room for empty containers on vessels, especially when you are shipping heavy loads of grain and scrap metal."
Overall, shipments were up a slim seven-tenths of one percent during the first two months of 2012, compared with the same period last year.
The neighboring Port of Long Beach also attributed a sharp 15.2percent drop in shipments last month to the Chinese New Year.
The nation's second-busiest port handled 388,589 shipments last month, down from 458,336 shipments in February 2011, officials said.
Imports were down 18.1 percent, while exports dipped 1.6 percent, officials said. The number of empty containers passing through Long Beach declined 25 percent last month.
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APPLE VALLEY - A 55-year-old Apple Valley resident died after her 2004 Yamaha motorcycle crashed into a parked car.
Catherine Masterson was pronounced dead at 12:21 a.m. Sunday after being airlifted to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, said San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner's Department officials.
Masterson wrecked about 7:50 p.m. Saturday while driving the motorcycle northbound on Navajo Road just north of Navajo Place in Apple Valley.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Traffic Unit is investigating the collision.
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Washington : Government Printing Office
|Public Law 86-722
|Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1961.
|Public Law 86-722
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|Public Law 86-722
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations (this Act may be cited as the "Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1961") for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for other purposes, namely:
For the purpose of obtaining a suitable site for construction of a Coast and Geodetic Survey Seismological Laboratory, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized, on behalf of the United States, to lease from the Isleta Indian Tribe, and the Isleta Indian Tribe, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to lease to the Secretary of Commerce, for a minimum term of 25 years with provisions for renewal, approximately seven hundred and fifty acres, more or less, of tribal land on the Isleta Indian Reservation; such land being situated in sections 5, 6, 7, and 8, township 8 north, range 5 east, New Mexico principal meridian, county of Bernalillo, State of New Mexico. Any lease entered into hereunder shall provide for an annual rental not in excess of $1,200, and shall prescribe the terms and conditions under which the tribe may jointly use that portion of the leased area not specifically needed for the Laboratory.
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For an additional amount for "Construction", $2,050,000, to remain available until expended, of which $250,000 shall be available for payment to the Parshall, North Dakota Special School District Numbered 3 for the construction of school facilities which shall be available to Indian children.
Section 20(b) of the Indian Claims Commission Act of August 13, 1946 (25 U. S. C. 70s), is hereby amended by adding at the end of the second sentence thereof a new sentence as follows:
"In similar manner and with like effect either party may appeal to the Court of Claims from any interlocutory determination by the Commission establishing the liability of the United States notwithstanding such determination is not for any reason whatever final as to the amount of recovery; and any such interlocutory appeal shall be taken on or before January 1, 1961, or three months from such interlocutory determination, whichever is later: Provided, That the failure of either party to appeal from any such interlocutory determination shall not constitute a waiver of its right to challenge such interlocutory determination in any appeal from any final determination subsequently made in the case."
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Q Who is eligible to participate in the City's curbside recycling program?
A Currently, only City residential solid waste customers (those that receive garbage
services provided by the City) are eligible to receive curbside recycling services.
Q When is curbside recycling collected in my area and at what time should
I place it out for collection?
A Your recycling is collected on the same day as your garbage and should be placed
out the night before collection or no later than 6 a.m. on your scheduled collection
day. See http://webgis.auburnalabama.org/PublicService/ to view the City's Public
Service Map or contact our office at 501-3080 to ascertain your scheduled
collection day.
Q What types of recyclables are collected at curbside?
A Aluminum cans only
Cardboard (no larger than 4 ft. x 2 ft. - flattened)
Glass-ONLY brown and clear (frosted beverage bottles, but not Pyrex,
Corning Ware, etc.) glass accepted.
Plastic bearing recycling codes #1 & #2 are accepted (no plastic bags please).
Steel and tin cans
Q Are there any special instructions for placing recyclables out for collection?
A Recyclables should be placed a few feet away from the trash and garbage and at least
three (3) feet from the roadway. The City utilizes a source-separated program,
meaning recycling materials should be separated by type and placed in containers
(e.g., recycling bins, milk crates, boxes) prior to collection as follows:
Aluminum cans - crushing helps, but is not necessary
Cardboard - should be flattened/broken down
Glass - containers should be separated by color
Newspaper - should be bundled and neatly stacked
Plastic - when possible, rinse clean
Steel cans - should be separated from aluminum cans
Q Is there a drop-off site for those of us who are not eligible not receive
City curbside recycling collection service?
A Yes. The RecycleAuburn drop-off center is located at 365-A North Donahue Drive
(Environmental Services facility) and is open 24 hours a day year round. All recyclables
collected as a part of the curbside program may be recycled at the drop-off center, in
addition to the following items:
Batteries (transistor only (up to size D) - no automobile, marine batteries, etc.)
Cellular phones
Cooking grease/oil (pick up an empty container at the center and return it when full)
Green glass
Magazines/telephone books
Mixed office paper
Q Can I recycle computers, or other electronics? [NO TVs and MONITORS]
A Yes. Computer equipment generated by the City's residential customers is also
recycled, but an appointment must be made as these items require special
handling. Please contact Environmental Services at 501-3080 for an appointment
to drop off your computer equipment.
Q Where are the recyclables disposed of?
A General recycling materials are transported to Waste Recycling, Inc. which is located in
Opelika, AL. Waste Recycling packages the materials and typically ships them to
various locations around the southeastern United States for final processing.
Electronics are submitted to CompuPoint, USA, LLC located in Norcross, GA for
processing. CompuPoint is R2 certified as recognized by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and has indicated it processes all electronic material it receives
through companies located within the United States.
Q How often is litter collected along City right-of-way areas?
A The litter detail crew is scheduled to patrol the City's streets on a rotating
schedule. Please contact our office for further information regarding scheduling,
or if you would like to participate in Keep Auburn Beautiful (affiliate of Keep
America Beautiful) events geared towards litter reduction and prevention efforts
within the City.
Q When does the street sweeper service our area?
A Barring uncontrollable circumstances that may affect the schedule, the street
sweeper is scheduled to sweep most areas on a 4-week rotating basis. For
further information, please contact our office.
Q What should I do if I have a problem with mosquitoes around my home?
A Residents should contact our office for further information. NOTE: The City's
integrated mosquito program is coordinated with assistance from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture and the Auburn University Department of Entomology
and Plant Pathology.
Q What can I do to help minimize mosquito activity on my property?
A Reducing the sources of water, a primary source for mosquito breeding sites is
helpful. A few steps that can be taken to minimize mosquito populations are
as follows:
Dispose of unused containers that collect water in your yard such as old buckets,
cans, bottles, or jars.
Repair leaky pipes and outside faucets, and keep drains and gutters unclogged so
that standing water does not collect in these areas.
Change the water and scrub the sides of birdbaths, animal troughs and pet watering
dishes frequently to eliminate mosquito eggs.
Properly discard unused tires, make holes in them, or store them in a covered area
so that standing water does collect in them.
Turn wheelbarrows, tubs, children's wading pools, and boats upside down or store
them under cover when not in use.
Keep weeds, vines and grass trimmed since mosquitoes use these shady areas
as resting places during warm daylight hours.
Fill tree holes with sand or mortar so that water does not collect in them.
Change water in vases and pots that hold flowers or cuttings at least twice weekly.
Code City of Auburn - Chapter 4 "Animals" can be found at: https://library.municode.com/al/auburn/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CO_CH4AN
Q How often does Animal Control patrol my neighborhood?
A Animal Control officers patrol the City on a frequent basis. If you notice dogs
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Hi guys, this is the follow-up from the introducton thread
Its one of the 350 Euro GT cars, mine is number 111.
Engine is the S50B30 ITB Single vanos, with S50B32 upgraded intake manifold and lubrication system.
Here is part nr 1
By this stage the suspention was sorted, the ceramic brakes and various other stuff.. but I wanted more power..
Early 2008 I started with the install of the Twin Turbo system on stock internals. As I said the system was not a perfect design, but it was designed to run at 8psi, i ran it at 11psi. The exhaust manifolds were terrible, and made a strange engine sound, but they did the job for the time beeing.
I was using 440cc injectors and I flew in a expert tuner to tune the original BOSCH DME. The car drove reliable but soon I started to see pressure in the coolant so I upgraded to a MLS 0.140 plus ARP's.
0-200 run on this setup
There was still room for improvement.. and actually the engine (piston rings) were starting to show some wear.. so... why not do a fully built bottom end. Engine went out..
bought a set of CP Pistons (8.5:1), some custom made Forged connecting rods, the Walbro 255 and NGK-R 2525-9 plugs. I also got a set of VAC main and rod bearings (coated) and ARP's for the rods.
I also got in contact with a tuner in Sweden where I bought the rods and he had his friend make me a set of Tubular exhaust manifolds.
Somewhere in between I had also bought a SuperSprint De-cat midsection and the OEM X-Brace for the frunt suspention from the Cabrio
The rebuild..
Block with pistons, rods and bearings installed, mirror surface on the block ready for the stock thickness MLS.
Head re-mashined, some porting and plolishing along with new copper valve guides.
The JBRacing lightweight flywheel installed. I did not have the block painted or any of the parts specially cleaned. My car is for driving so it does not really bother me.
Engine almost done. Canio (my Italian mechanic) and my Tuner (also a pretty good engineer/mechanic) working on the engine.
Almost done.. This airbox would later explode on the welds..
Exploded intake manifold... gread build quality.:hihi
So I did like the guys in Sweden do. I modified the OEM intake for Turbo. Much better quality.
The car was tuned with the old airbox. It made 470hp/560nm at Mantehy Racing in Nurburgring. Manthey is one of the best Porsche racing specialists around. The dyno was made using the old airbox.
The car was running 12psi, there were some problems with boost leakage after I installed the OEM airbox, forgot to put the O-rings on the runners...
Still, I went to SPA Francorchamps in May 2009 where the car performed well, lapping a 2:50 which is respectable for a road car. I also had installed a S2.65 differential from a 325TDS and that made the gears very tall. Potential top speed of 340km/h doing 280 in 4th. Surely not optimal for track driving... Still, I had some CSL for Lunch. (min 2:40)
In the lates rebuild I had installed a Gizzmo electronic boostcontroler... that made me a bit greedy so I started pushing up the boost. Going up to 22psi. The AFR's looked ok, and so did the EGT, but something went wrong. The coolant started to pressurise in summer of 2010 so the only option was to rebuild the engine again. This time around I decided to do all the work myself. Keep in mind that I have no mechanical training or experience. I work in Private Banking..
When the engine came apart it was quite obvious that the headgasket was blown... quite badly actually for an MLS. I along with some of my friends started speculating what had gone wrong. Most likely it was due to detonation, which resulted in me beeing to agressive on the boost and the car probably running out fo fuel at the top end since the injectors were only 440cc. Still I was running almost 4.5Bar of fuel pressure.
HG badness...
This time around I decided to go with a STOCK HeadGasket from BMW and I also upgraded to ARP2000 bolts.
Head off and pistons cleaned
It was a strugle to get the head on since I was doing the job alone, I bought an engine crane and that helped.
Head on.
I also put some thermal insulation on the engine bay.
I also thermal wrapped the downpipes.
Since I had no previous experience the timing of the cams and valve adjustments were a pain in the neck. But I managed.
Almost done.. again
The RC750 injectors went in along with the Moristech Piggyback (installed it myself) and the Knock link Knock detector.
The car started up ! I was pretty happy. Drove it for 3 days and then no boost, and a terrible sound coming from the turbo area. I inspected the engine, found a busted hose from the airbox to the ICV and also I had made a small mistake when installing the Airbox. I had actually managed to clamp the oil feed line to one of the turbos which resulted in oil starvation to it and it was gone....
Pretty depressing, since its not that easy to access a bottom mount twin turbo system. Still, I bought two new GT2252's and re-designed the oil feed system. Intstalled and I had power again.
I re-designed the oil-feed lines and installed two new Garrett's
The car ran great, power was plenty at 14psi (minimum PSI)
I also installed a new water pump, fan-clutch, oil catch can, Denso Iridium plugs, painted the RC's white, and am currently installing a 2.93 Differential which will get the LSD unit from the S2.65.
Other mods I have done/am doing include the seats which I changed to Recaro Pole Position with some custom stiching and painted the
RC wheels white.
White RC's
Engine bay, looking OEM as I want it to look. No fancy stuff showing.
Its been a labour of love and some hate, frustration and enjoyment but it has cost me alot of money. At this stage I was happy with the car. I have something a bit special, its fast and reliable and I have rebuilt the engine (top end) myself so that gives me more pleasure when I drive it. But while beeing tuned in the UK the engine blew (on or after the dyno session) and now I need to rebuild the engine.
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Someone killed me unprovoked from behind and THEN asked if I was friendly in both Russian AND relatively good English. His voice sounded 10 years old at best. My co-op buddy ran away because it was way too surreal. Then he lost all hist stuff because of the server glitch. We're broke now.
29-05-2014, 12:49 AM #21642I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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Just tried some Story About My Uncle. And I am...torn.
On the one hand its not what I expected. From the previews and such I expected speed and momentum and blazing through levels. Didn't read deeply enough about the game, however, and that's on me.
Its really a puzzle platformer in first person. Levels consist of a series of puzzles, so, you're constantly stopping and starting, as you try and puzzle out the (so far only) correct approach to each puzzle jump.
All of which is vaguely disappointing, really. The movement system itself is fantastic and I can picture it being a feature in a great many games. With the right level design, a game using this system could really be a thrill to play. But this one is more about 3D puzzling than speed, momentum and excitement.
Still intend to go back to it and give it another try, but I wouldn't actually recommend it to anyone except diehard platformer-puzzle fans.
EDIT: To be fair to ME, much as I hate it - and this game, I guess, even though I haven't played it - I'm not sure it's really possible to make a game like this where you're guaranteed lightning-fast sprinting from the off, regardless of what the levels throw at you. Unless it's some sort of endless runner. But still, your description pretty much mirrors my experience of ME.
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29-05-2014, 04:56 AM #21645So exactly like Mirror's Edge, then. Ohohohohoh I went there.
The same with Endless Runners, really. Until you've seen everything it can throw at you and thus enter into endurance mode? Every new mechanic will break your flow. It's a matter of different focuses and different scales but it's a similar idea. Heck, same with racing games.I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardusts Music Sounds Better With You. Theres lots of fog. --tomeoftom
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The all white and strikes of colour visual style from Mirror's Edge is meant to make some elements to stand out to help you work out the middle. The goals are shown to players and all that is left to do is to find the subversive zig-zag path as opposed to blues who go for the straight main route. It's all puzzle:P
Ofc this is going to screw with momentum
First M.E. is probably a game that is better enjoyed on paper rather than in the flesh, looking at semiotics and the whole "living on the edge" of control, roofs, city clouds mirroring the sky the shard is the only link to etc. Next one might be more forgiving at providing shortcuts due to a different level design
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Still, I am done with dismissing a game after the first negative impression. I will give it a day or three and go back to it. Give it another try. Might just be some tiny nuance of the movement or mechanics i am missing.
Like i said, i want to like it. and it is nice to play a game that does not involve killing a whole bunch of things for a change.
This is weird.
I've been playing Dark Souls II, but also varying things up with X3: TC and -wait for it- Black Ops 2.
DS2 is great, obviously, but I wanted something more accessible and fun for short bursts so I caved in and got BO2 for 15 bucks. I hate COD and its marketing and its huge budget and all the American propaganda etc...but dangit, the multiplayer is great, for a game that's casual-oriented. I've been having a blast with it, with decent bots to boot; the maps are very nice and colourful, something that's lacking in that travesty of a game that MW3 is. I think the problem with COD arises when people take it as the only videogame in existence, and as serious business.
I also wasn't expecting to get into X3. It just clicked. I know it's a complex game, but I somewhat got immersed into it at the first sitting.
And I'm aware that speedrunners found a bunch more shortcuts and ways to keep getting faster and so on. I stopped paying any attention to those when I saw the sort of thing they were doing - stand on this sofa here, stare at the wall, leap up to this lamp you shouldn't be able to stand on and over the railing thus shaving thirty seconds off the fastest route... that's just breaking the game, to me, not playing creatively with the environment.
I just hated it. Terrible level design. Dull visuals - you heard: I don't think the aesthetic works in practice like 90% of the time, beyond a couple of areas everyone posts screenshots of (the white trees in particular just make me cringe). Horrible sense of flow until you've played the levels a hundred times and worked out the right way to do it. And that's not even touching on the awful, awful story, or the terrible "game-y" bits (anything involving guns, or boss fights, or supercops)...
I didn't find it empowering - quite the opposite, to be honest. I know failure's usually an inevitable part of that sort of game, but the best endless runners mean you barely even notice when you've screwed up, and the basic play is fun enough you don't care. Crackdown I was "failing" to traverse the city almost constantly but while I knew I could always progress quicker, more efficiently, just playing the game was so joyously, gloriously entertaining I didn't really care I was doing it wrong. (I enjoyed getting better, but I enjoyed just playing, too.) Mirror's Edge I felt every screwup like a god damned kick in the teeth, and half the time even when things were going okay simply being in that world and playing the way DICE wanted me to play just wasn't enough.
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Kinda interesting interview with Mr Briscoe
I remember people blaming development hell after the first Mirror's Edge pre something video about a guy gunning people around. That's likely the case since the only progression in the final game comes from the weapons carried from the cops, the game was past a point it was too expensive to redesign. Different level designs kicked in.
Eventually people saw the beauty of M.E. through the most authentic "virtual reality" moments, like in valve games, spiced up with clear visuals and full body experience. Your ideal kind of oculus rift game
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Seemingly if he get beheaded in a quest line he'll keep walking around the house headless.I am once again writing a blog, vaguely about playing games the wrong way
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Skyrim keeps getting better and better.
Ugh. Scratch everything complimentary I said about The First Templar, it's shit after all. The levels resort to way too much padding, the script descends into mediocrity and "Chicks, huh?" lowest-common-denominator comedy nonsense, and now it's thrown in insta-fail stealth sections - or to be fair they're not technically insta-fail but really, they'd be less annoying if they were. You have somehow crossed some guard's arbitrary line of sight somewhere, and now you must beat all the enemies in the area if you don't want to fail - only we've thrown in multiple shielded enemies and ones with massive melee range in tight, cramped levels with shitty bounding boxes, so you'll effectively be stunlocked over and over until you've got about five seconds left to kill the lot of them! Yeah, no thanks, Haemimont. Uninstalled, and if that's your approach to game design I'm not too eager to check out Tropico, either. Oh, well, not the first time I've chucked $2 down the drain.
Also you're doing that thing again where you're judging the motivations of the people who enjoy the game rather than simply disagreeing with them. Stop that, it's insufferable nonsense.
Iterative play always has a frustrating lead-up. The question is how well it balances frustration and elation. For you, it did not do so well. That doesn't give you license to act like everyone else was drinking the kool-aid.I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardusts Music Sounds Better With You. Theres lots of fog. --tomeoftom
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Roaming Fortress is.... Ace but far too grindy. Units need coins, more coins than I can comfortably acquire without multiple passes. And it's often a hurried flurry of clicking. You get into a rhythm, but why can't I click and hold to fire?
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If you take the people who cheerlead for ME - they defend it on internet forums, call it terribly under-rated, rhapsodise about their favourite playthroughs, burn effigies of whoever was running EA back then :) - presumably they enjoy or enjoyed each iteration of trying to find that path and then get through it. I didn't. I did not find it at all easy to just play ME - to get the experience the trailers promised, lengthy periods of sprinting uninterrupted by any danger close or sudden, jarring obstacles. Every iteration where I did not finish the level was a painful, frustrating grind. I was not supposed to be fighting people, I was not supposed to be falling off rooftops, I was not supposed to be mis-timing slides or leaps, I was supposed to be running forever until I ran out of city. And when I finally managed to play the game the way DICE wanted, I was constantly reminded I was still too bloody slow to really satisfy them. Every time I got shot, every time I fell off the roof, every time I turned a second too late, I knew - I was utterly convinced - that I'd failed, that the rest of that run was essentially pointless. Because hell, playing the game the way DICE wanted was no fun, so presumably the only "point" was to run that critical path, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred I couldn't do it.
Also you're doing that thing again where you're judging the motivations of the people who enjoy the game rather than simply disagreeing with them. Stop that, it's insufferable nonsense.
Seriously, though, what were your motivations, then? How could anyone enjoy that seemingly endless succession of fatal plunges and getting shot in the back? Did you just rocket straight through to godhood or something? Because to me, the idea anyone could be doing that and having fun is... well, maybe not insufferable nonsense, but something uncomfortably near.
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It's so cute and fun. Full of jokes and little things which made me smile. and good fights. Really worth whatever I paid for it.
30-05-2014, 05:25 AM #21660Tee hee.
Seriously, though, what were your motivations, then? How could anyone enjoy that seemingly endless succession of fatal plunges and getting shot in the back? Did you just rocket straight through to godhood or something? Because to me, the idea anyone could be doing that and having fun is... well, maybe not insufferable nonsense, but something uncomfortably near.
Besides that, If you can't have fun in games that arrest play when you fail to meet a relatively narrow path to success, you don't enjoy one of the most common forms of iterative gameplay. You might enjoy iterative games, but you don't enjoy the stop-start-stop-start-one-more-inch-this-time play ... because that's kinda predicated on failure and restarting. I get the impression you need game-arresting failure to be infrequent even if success is difficult to attain; that makes you (if correct) nicely suited to games that take place in a fixed time period during which you must accomplish a certain goal but are difficult to out-right lose before that time period. It's potentially iterative, but in a roundabout sort of way that takes some of the stressful edge off by reducing the frequency of failure. I'd be curious to know how you feel about Super Hexagon--does the rapid reset make it more palatable? What about VVVVVV with it's challenge-by-challenge check-pointing? What about Bit.Trip Runner and Bit.Trip beat?
Bit.Trip games? You have to be WAY more precisely accurate than in Mirror's Edge. DDR? Your path is, again, even more linear than in Mirror's Edge (though not all versions fail you if you miss too many whats-its). I'm confused as to how someone with functional empathic capacity would be unable to understand how someone else could have fun with that kind of system. Mirror's Edge is, I'm guessing, in that weird place for you where it's too slow (longish refractory period on failure (both because of drawn out falling deaths and load times), combat challenges which potentially halt your momentum if you aren't good at disarming (and really, who IS good at disarming? it's ridiculously precise :P) or haven't gotten the hang of stuff like wall-run-kicks and similar tactics that can speed up a combat encounter, not a lot happening in between obstacles and a fair amount of time and space between obstacles, frequent failures that result in dead momentum rather than death) to function as an iterative game; too much space between failures for them to be properly interesting and constructive as opposed to stiffing. For me, the pacing isn't too drawn out so it works pretty much on the same principles as Bit.Trip and company.
Again, I totally get why you might not like it, even if it's not the slowness I delineated about. What disarms me is the idea that you wouldn't understand why people enjoy it. That doesn't speak to the poor quality of the game, as you seem to imply, but merely to the narrowness of your vision.
I enjoy the failure-reset paradigm given three conditions: 1) I feel like I make appreciable progress in either understanding or in a more literal sense at least every couple of tries. 2) I enjoy the flow of the game when I get it right. 3) Failure feels sufficiently predictable and avoidable.
An example of a game that meets these conditions absolutely perfectly is VVVVVV. An example of a game that doesn't meet them for me is Risk of Rain. Mirror's Edge had moments I found uninteresting. It's not perfect. But I think it's very good. I think it feels fun to move in it and I felt like there was a lot of room to expand between baseline finishing the level and going back over it to get faster times.
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A YOUNG woman who slammed a brick into the face of a charity worker, scarring her for life, has escaped prison, and been reluctantly freed by a top judge who described it as a 'wholly exceptional' case.
Jade Daniels 20, who suffers from high functioning autism, was told she had already served the equivalent of a 30-month jail sentence because of the time she has spent on remand in custody following the vicious attack almost two years ago.
Judge Peter Lakin said he was bound by sentencing guidelines, which meant had he imposed a jail term, she would have had only a short period left to serve on licence which he said was 'grossly insufficient'.
He told her: "I must take account of my duty to the public to ensure that nobody else is subjected to this type of violence by you."
He told her after careful and anxious thought, he was imposing a community order for the maximum period the law would allow - three years during which she would be under constant supervision by the Probation Service.
He said he was doing so however, on the understanding that the service liaised urgently with a consultant psychologist and the Autism Society, to ensure a structure was put in place for care and medical treatment.
He also took the unusual step of ordering regular up-date reports on what treatment she was receiving, and her progress.
He warned her: "If you fail to co-operate in any way, you will come straight back to this court before me, and I will have no hesitation in sending you to custody."
The court had heard that Daniels, who has previous convictions for harassment and criminal damage, had attacked charity worker Angela Gray 44, with a housebrick, slamming it into her face, after she caught her lighting a fire in a park area at Duttons Pond in Flixton on March 21 last year.
Mrs Gray and her daughter Danielle, who had been out for a late afternoon walk, stamped out the flames, and she then picked up a box of matches from the ground.
Mrs Gray, a fundraising manager for a charity, said later that she could tell there was something wrong with Daniels, who spoke without any tone to her voice, showed no emotion, and appeared quite 'quite blank'.
The court was told Daniels who was 18 at the time, became agitated, and her younger brother who was with her, began goading her to get the matches back.
Daniels tried to pull down a branch from a tree, then picked up a full house brick, and followed Mrs Gray as she and her daughter walked away.
She sensed there was going to be a problem and asked her daughter to call the police.
She tried to reason with the girl, telling her to put the brick down, but as she walked on, she heard her running up behind her.
She turned to see Daniels with the brick raised in the air, her eyes were blazing, and she gave a 'sick' laugh before slamming the brick into her face. She then ran off laughing as Mrs Gray collapsed in agony on the ground.
Mrs Gray was left with lacerations to her top lip which later required stitches, leaving a permanent scar; a chipped tooth, and injuries to her nose, wrist and hand.
When later interviewed by police officers, her interpretation of events was that she had felt under threat after the matches were taken from her.
Richard Littler defending, said Daniels' condition, which was not treatable, meant she had fixed behaviour patterns and lacked flexibility of thought.
He said it was accepted that she had been a public nuisance, but doctors considered her to be immature, and her behaviour could have been due to her medical condition.
Just weeks after the attack, Daniels of Arundel Avenue, Urmston, had carried out a campaign of harassment against pensioner Fred Ryan.
It included sending 13 deliveries of pizzas, Indian and Chinese food to his home in Flixton in just an hour.
Daniels, who had pleaded guilty to an offence of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Mrs Gray, was told by Judge Lakin at Manchster's Minshull Street Crown Court that the attack had had a "significant and enduring" impact on both her and her family.
He told her: "She was being simply public spirited in trying to stamp out the fire you started, and removing the matches. Your response was to pick up a brick.
"It has had both a psychological and physical impact, and I suspect she will live with the memory of what happened for the rest of her life."
He said normally, an offence of such seriousness would be met by a lengthy period of prison, but her case was 'wholly exceptional'.
He said: "On the basis of medical advice, it is quite clear you suffer from high functioning autism, which was the driving force behind what happened.
"Your liability is considerably reduced, as your perception of what happened, was distorted by your medical condition."
Daniels had pleaded guilty to a charge of causing grievous bodily harm.
In the late 1990s, Mrs Gray spearheaded the Oliver's Army group to campaign against service cuts at Trafford General Hospital.


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Bridgwater & Albion 40, Wadebridge Camels 29
BRIDGWATER & Albion scored six tries on their way to a 40-29 victory over Wadebridge Camels on Saturday, writes Tony Pomeroy.
Rob Allen crossed twice, while Nick Spellissy, Roger Drabble, Matt Hastie and a penalty try accounted for the rest - Tayler Buller added five conversions.
This was a game that Bridgwater should have had tightly sewn up in the first half.
A first half lead of 21-0 was reduced to 21-12 whilst home hooker Matt Hastie spent time in the bin either side of half time and in the final ten minutes, with Bridgwater's Garryn Basson in the bin, the score slipped from 40-17 to 40-29.
After six minutes, a good forward drive took Bridgwater close to the visitors line, before a lovely inside pass from Ash Pippard wrong-footed the defence leaving Rob Allen an easy run to score the opening try.
In the absence of regular kicker, Stu Heal, Tayler Buller took over the kicking duties and landed the easy conversion.
Bridgwater were in control and after 18 minutes a loose kick out of defence by the visitors was fielded on half-way by Bryan Webb.
He handed on to Nick Francis who wriggled his way down the touchline before passing inside to Nick Spellissy who scored easily. Buller again converted.
After 26 minutes, Bridgwater appeared to lose the ball forward in the visitors 22 - Camels cleared their lines to halfway where the kick was gathered by Webb again.
He again made good ground and the ball eventually finished in the hands of Allen who scored his second try, converted by Buller.
Then came the yellow card for Hastie followed immediately by a score for the visitors when skipper, Mark Grubb, crashed over from a driving maul. The try was unconverted leaving the score 21-5 at the interval.
After the restart, Wadebridge prop Jack Scott scored to reduce the deficit further, but Bridgwater bounced back and with Wadebridge apparently waiting for a whistle that did not come, Roger Drabble darted over from seven yards.
Bridgwater continued to attack and a long period of pressure led to a penalty try, Albion's fifth score of the afternoon.
Wadebridge hit back immediately when Pengelly again sliced through the home defence but this time reached the line for a deserved try.
Hastie won the ball from the kick off and following concerted pressure and a number of penalties, he was at the bottom when a driving maul crossed the line.
But the final ten minutes belonged to the visitors - Basson was binned for slapping the ball away as it emerged from a ruck in the Bridgwater 22 and almost immediately, Scott got his second try, and his side a four-try bonus point, converted by Grubb.
With five minutes to go, replacement Lee Betts got the fifth try for the visitors to make the final score 40-29.
Bridgwater face Bideford next weekend (April 12), in their final league game of the season.
Scorers: Bridgwater & Albion Tries: Allen (2), Spellissy, Drabble, Hastie, Penalty Try Cons: Buller (5)
Wadebridge Camels Tries: Scott (2), Mark Grubb, Pengelly, Betts Cons: James Grubb (2)
Bridgwater Team Nick Francis, Steve Ward, Rob Allen, Garryn Basson, Bryan Webb, Ash Pippard, Roger Drabble, James Bryant, matt Hastie, Joe Bussell, Ali Blundell, Dan Kemmish, Nick Spellissy, Ollie Dunn, Tayler Buller.
Replacements used: Scott Woolford, Rhys Satchell not used : Simon Martin Referee: Paul Box (Somerset Society)


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CJP Lunch Forum with Fr. Richard K. Baawobr
When Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 12:00 PM (1605 days ago)
Where Northlawn, West Dining Room
Duration 1 hour
In 1888, Charles Martial Lavigerie, first elected Cardinal in the African continent and founder of the Missionaries of Africa, played a crucial role in the beginning of the Catholic Church's involvement in the movement for the abolition of the Slave Trade. He did not limit his audience and appeal to Catholics and believers only, but he extended it to all people of good will: "Slavery, as it is practiced in Africa, is not only, indeed, contrary to the Gospel, it is contrary to natural law. Natural laws do not concern Christians only, they involve all humanity. That is why I am appealing to everyone, without distinction of nationality, party or religious creed. I do not address myself simply to faith, but to reason, to justice, to respect, to love of liberty.â€
This year, 2013, we celebrate the 125th Anniversary of this Anti-Slavery campaign. But we also use this year's celebration to raise awareness of today's forms of slavery: human rights violations, poverty, land grabbing, human trafficking and child labor. Knowing what is happening to so many of our fellow human beings leads us to become indignant and to decide on some concrete action in order to fight today's unjust systems.
Born in Ghana in 1959, Richard Baawobr is a priest member of the Society of Missionaries of Africa. He studied Philosophy in Ghana, Spirituality in Switzerland, Theology at the Missionary Institute of London.
After his priestly ordination, he worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo then studied Bible at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome) before teaching in Tanzania and in the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic Institute of Toulouse (France). He obtained a Doctorate in Biblical Theology from the latter with a Thesis entitled "Quand Jésus prend la parole. Identité du Maître et naissance du disciple en Luc 4,16-30†(2004). He has published commentaries on the Sunday Gospels and on the Second Reading of Sundays for Christian Communities. He has also published articles in other scientific journals.
Since 2004 he has been serving on the general Council of the Missionaries of Africa, first as Vicar General and since 2010 as Superior General.
Today there are 1,450 men from 37 different nationalities, serving as Missionaries of Africa in 23 countries throughout the African Continent.
The Missionaries of Africa were founded by Cardinal Charles Lavigerie when he was Archbishop of Algiers, Algeria, over 145 years ago for the Evangelization of Africa. They continue today to remain faithful to their call to share the life and mission of Jesus, and to give witness to the Gospel in Africa and among Africans wherever they may be. In a spirit of solidarity and co-responsibility with the African churches, the Missionaries of Africa are committed to:
- Helping to alleviate the poverty and deprivation that are still widespread in Africa by funding projects that foster self-reliance.
- Raising the awareness of the plight of the African people through Mission education and various publications.
- Providing up-to-date information relating to justice and peace issues that concern the countries in Africa where we live and work.
- Working with Africans on structural changes that will help build the Reign of God and thereby helping them to become agents of their own liberation.
- Helping to bring about healing and reconciliation.
- Being bridge-builders to help promote inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue.
Intended Audience General Public
Contact Information
Name CJP - Center for Justice & Peacebuilding
Phone # 540.432.4490


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A combination of the above options may be used, if desired. A monthly finance charge of 1½ % will be added to student accounts with outstanding balances. Students receiving verified financial aid or employer assistance will be exempt from finance charges until eight weeks after the end of your program. A monthly statement of account will be mailed to you.
Policy Statement: The EMU catalog states, "Failure to meet financial obligations is cause for denying the student the privilege of registering for or attending subsequent classes, receiving a degree, or releasing a transcript of credit."
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Students in the RN to Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing adult degree completion program are eligible to apply for federal financial aid. Federal aid applicants will be considered for two types of federal aid, the Federal Pell Grant and Federal Direct Student Loans. Eligibility is based on financial need (FAFSA results), prior awards and repayment history, current enrollment status and undergraduate annual and aggregate maximums. The total amount of federal aid awarded each term may not exceed the direct ADCP costs associated with that term.
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Marios Schwab Spring 2014
It tends to be clear what a Marios Schwab show can deliver; a highly constructed and intelligently conceived look that is pure eroticism, minus the nastier/sleazier/trashier connotations that would plague the same look if it was in the hands of a lesser talent. If you're on the hunt for a body-enhancing, figure-hugging, curve-loving evening dress, or something for day that could switch for cocktail hour with nary a blink of the eye, then Marios is your man. (And given that he's not as exposed as a Real Housewife on Bravo when it comes to his red carpet presence, it's always surprising that more actresses don't head his way when they need to turn it out and turn it up.) That's usually what you hope to see . . . and what you get. Somehow, that was less evident in his spring collection, which felt like it veered into too many different territories, explored too many trains of thought.
Schwab is no stranger to thinking originally about the 1980s and 1990s in his work, harvesting all manner of references to flavor his collections. We were nineties-bound with this one, it seemed, alighting on everything from grunge (long sheer skirts worn with great Birkenstock-esque flat sandals) to rave culture (distressed and frayed denim, worked into short dresses, or as a decorative motif stitched in formations on slim-but-soft skirts) to minimalism (backpacks with long, lean dresses; a white shirt, monastic almost, or a white dress, cut to above the knee, each piece decorated, rather chicly, it has to be said, with golden staples). Then some honey-hued suede put in an appearance too, cut into a malleable but molded dress, and a nifty biker jacket over a tank, plus a lace skirt worked in with that denim. Still, what was good aside, a tighter edit would likely have helped here, focusing his presentation with the kind of sharpness that's usually on show.


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"If you had been flies on the wall in the dressing room at halftime, it would have been interesting, the paint was stripping off. It's probably the most violent, animated I'd ever been because I was so disappointed."
-- Toronto coach John Carver, whose suspension after being ejected last weekend didn't prevent him from giving his players a halftime talk that inspired
them to a 1-1 tie at home against Houston. (Canadian Press)


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Hot Links! Adventures in Terrible Red Carpet Fashion with 'Step Up Revolution'
Plus: The girls of Gotham, the best moments in life, and more!
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You know, our standards for red carpet fashion at premieres for movies like Step Up Revolution aren't that high… but this is bad. Really, really bad. Sooooooo bad, you have to see it to believe it. (TheGloss)
The best moments of your life aren't always big, momentous occasions. Sometimes, it's about the little things: That first sip of iced coffee or being greeted by your pets when you walk in the door. Live it up! (The Frisky)
This? Sweetest marriage proposal EVER. Get ready to get your "awwww!" on! (The Berry)
Do you find yourself splurging, then regretting? Here's how to stop those spending sprees before they get out of hand. Your wallet will thank you! (YouBeauty)
Uh oh: He's got a temper. How do you manage it when you're in a relationship with him? Hint: It's simpler than you think. (YourTango)
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The boys get the girls to scream like crazy and shoot their first music video. Randy would rather have Stan watch TV, or sleep or try marijuana than be in this band.
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U.S. officials joining search for missing Nigerian girls
U.S. military officials are arriving in Nigeria today to help in the search for hundreds of kidnapped schoolgirls. Islamist militants who abducted nearly 300 girls have said they'll sell them as slaves. The Americans working out of the U.S. Embassy in Abuja will provide expertise in intelligence, investigations, and hostage negotiations. Members of the Boko Haram militant group kidnapped the girls from a school in northeastern Nigeria more than three weeks ago.
First Lady Michelle Obama took to Twitter to show her support for the missing girls.
Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It's time to #BringBackOurGirls. -mo pic.twitter.com/glDKDotJRt
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LOS ANGELES - Two embattled Los Angeles County sheriff's captains have retired, including one suspected of funneling secret information to an alleged drug trafficker and another who allegedly protected brutal and dishonest jailers, it was reported today.
Suspicions were sparked about Bernice Abram, who ran the sheriff's Carson station, after she was overheard on a federal narcotics wiretap talking to an alleged Compton drug trafficker, the Los Angeles Times reported. Abram, who had more than 150 deputies under her command, was overheard alerting a gang member to planned sheriff's operations in his area.
The district attorney's office chose not to file charges against her, saying prosecutors couldn't prove she knew the man was involved in illegal activities, but a prosecutor's memo showed Abram was using her post to help the gang member avoid law enforcement scrutiny, according to an article on the Times website.
Though local prosecutors declined to file charges against her, an FBI spokeswoman told The Times last year that a federal probe is ongoing.
Daniel Cruz, the former captain at Men's Central Jail, also has retired, The Times reported. He was running the downtown Los Angeles lockup when sheriff's officials said there were problems with deputy cliques and inmate abuse, the newspaper reported.
Internal memos obtained by The Times found that Cruz's jailers crafted narratives "dramatized to justify" force. Other documents showed the department had some of its least experienced deputies guarding its most dangerous inmates, The Times reported.


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Sweet Potato Pudding Recipe
2 1/2 cups baked sweet potatoes peeled, boiled and mashed ( you can use canned if preferred)
1/2 cup packed light or dark brown sugar
4 large eggs
1/3 cup half and half or evaporated milk
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 tablespoons pure vanilla extract
1 tablespoon corn syrup, preferably dark
4 tablespoon light or dark rum
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
Praline topping, recipe follows
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 1 1/2-quart baking dish.
With an electric mixer, beat together all the pudding ingredients until smooth and light. Pour the pudding into the baking dish. Transfer to the oven and bake for 25 minutes.
Sprinkle the praline mixture over the pudding and bake for an additional 20 to 25 minutes, until the pudding is set and slightly puffed. Last 10 minutes add the cherries and marshmallows if desired. Splash with more rum if desired. The top will sink as the pudding cools. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Praline Topping:
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup packed light or dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
Optional(more dark rum to drizzle over the top when cooked)
Optional Maraschino Cherries and Minature marshmallows ( place marshmallows around edge last 10 minutes) for holiday decorating.
In a small bowl, combine the ingredients and reserve to use as topping for the sweet potato pudding.
27 comments:
- Priyanka said...
Its a new recipe for me....I have never had it....I will be trying it soon....Thanks for the recipe :)
- February 28, 2011 at 12:12 AM
- Su said...
Fabulous recipe :)
- February 28, 2011 at 3:43 AM
- My Little Space said...
What a sweet sweet treat! I have not had anything like this before. Thanks for sharing. Hope you're having a great week ahead.
Blessings, Kristy
- February 28, 2011 at 4:10 AM
- Lizzy said...
Oh, fabulous!!! This might be my new favorite way to eat sweet potatoes :)
- February 28, 2011 at 7:19 AM
- Elisabeth said...
What a wonderful sweet treat. This would be absolutely perfect for Thanksgiving too!
- February 28, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- 5 Star Foodie said...
Sounds delightful, love the pecans and marshmallows on top!
- February 28, 2011 at 8:49 AM
- Emily Malloy said...
I have never seen such a fabulous recipe for this!
Perfection, Claudia!
- February 28, 2011 at 9:44 AM
- Swathi said...
Sweet potato pudding awesome. i love sweet potato. nice recipe.
- February 28, 2011 at 12:28 PM
- Drick said...
sweet potatoes are always a hit on a southern table esp with a praline topping... this dessert just beats all....
- February 28, 2011 at 3:15 PM
- redkathy said...
The south is infiltrating your eating habits I see lol Love the dessert. Perfect for a fall holiday!
- March 1, 2011 at 12:30 AM
- Kathy Gori said...
looks great Claudia. I've never made or eaten one of these though I've heard about them.
- March 1, 2011 at 2:22 AM
- Claudia said...
So welcoming! And fun recipe - sweet with health benefits!
- March 1, 2011 at 6:38 PM
- Sandra said...
I love this..I have some sweet potatoes, will try it soon! They are also so healthy! Looks fantastic Claudia!
- March 1, 2011 at 6:43 PM
- Belinda said...
Those marshmallows are a perfect accompaniment!
- March 1, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- OliveOil said...
Another recipe that I will follow.
- March 1, 2011 at 8:56 PM
- Angie's Recipes said...
This is really a rich and sweet treat!
- March 2, 2011 at 12:32 AM
- Peggy said...
This sweet potato recipe is reminding me of Thanksgiving, but I'm sure it's great any time of the year!
- March 2, 2011 at 5:38 AM
- Joy said...
I love love sweet potatoes. Those look great.
- March 2, 2011 at 10:17 AM
- Diethood.com said...
I have never had sweet potato pudding and now I am wondering why?!? That sounds incredible! I love the way you served it with the pecans and the marshmallows... that looks delicious!
- March 2, 2011 at 10:25 AM
- briarrose said...
Mmm....sweet potato pudding....what a great flavor choice.
- March 2, 2011 at 10:38 AM
- mywanderingspoon said...
- March 2, 2011 at 11:45 AM
- Stella said...
Yum!!! This is so old school, and I know it's delicious. I can just tell. Plus, we make something similar sometimes...;-)
- March 2, 2011 at 2:47 PM
- Torviewtoronto said...
this looks delicious I haven't had like this
- March 2, 2011 at 4:20 PM
- Reeni said...
What a heavenly treat Claudia! Love the topping too!
- March 2, 2011 at 9:19 PM
- Lana @ Never Enough Thyme said...
This is very much like what we call "Sweet Potato Souffle" in the South. We serve it as a side dish, usually at Thanksgiving, with the turkey and dressing. Divine!
- March 3, 2011 at 9:48 AM
- Magic of Spice said...
Sweet potato pie has always been a favorite, love your topping :)
- March 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM
- Cindy Waffles said...
i love sweet potato!
- March 17, 2011 at 11:37 PM