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It's not every day we have a Guinness Book of World Records champion in our community gearing up for another record, and that's what Mike Mosley will be doing on Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Hard 90 Baseball Academy in El Dorado Hills.
Known as Mr. 9,000 for his world-record feat of accurately and rapidly pitching 9,000 baseballs in an eight-hour batting practice session, Mosley will attempt to break his own record and throw 10,000 pitches in an eight-hour session.
Come see regional area youth of all ages be part of history as they take 20 swings each against Mr. 9,000 at the Clubhouse, 1235 Glen Haven Court in El Dorado Hills, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Enterprise Restructuring and Embeddedness: A Policy and Systems Perspective
This paper presents a dynamic analysis of technological (and industrial) policies directed to business sector restructuring in increasingly knowledge-based economies. It simultaneously considers policies which are aimed at promoting restructuring directly and policies aimed at influencing the facilitating structure of (largely) non-business institutions and organizations. This paper also offers an explicit analysis of the changing portfolio of policies, recognizing the complementarity of both incentives and institutional development, and the likelihood of having to adopt, under a broad set of circumstances, a changing portfolio of horizontal and target "incentives" policies/programs. Copyright 2000 by Oxford University Press.
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Irritated by the criticism of Sidney Crosby for not playing in the World Championships, U.S. Olympic general manager Brian Burke suggests that the Worlds not be played during Olympic years.
Calling it "greed" on the part of the International Ice Hockey Federation, Burke pointed to the grueling schedule that has sapped a lot of players, although the Russians don't seem to be hampered by it.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police say they will investigate allegations that Vasco da Gama midfielder Bernardo was tortured by drug traffickers in a Rio de Janeiro slum. Authorities say the player apparently was held by traffickers earlier this week after he was seen with the girlfriend of one of the drug leaders in the Mare shantytown in Rio's north side. Police already interrogated the girlfriend, who was abducted along with Bernardo and was shot in the leg by the traffickers. Her leg wounds were not serious and Bernardo also was not gravely hurt. Authorities said Friday that two other players were with Bernardo and pleaded with the traffickers to release him. Police investigator Jose Pedro da Costa told the O Globo newspaper and other media that he will interrogate all players involved. © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. |


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Rockstar Games and Sony on L.A. Noire and PS3's Overheating
Shortly following the PS3 Firmware 3.61 update, reports came in that users running L.A. Noire may be causing PS3 consoles to be overheating.
Today Senior Director of Corporate Communications & Social Media Patrick Seybold has addressed concerns on the issue below with an official statement on behalf of Sony and Rockstar Games, as follows:
We have received a very small number of customer support questions about PS3s overheating or shutting down while playing L.A. Noire. At this time, Rockstar Games and Sony can confirm that neither L.A. Noire or firmware update 3.61 are causing the PS3 hardware to overheat.
We are both committed to working hard to find solutions to this and any issues that may arise. If you are experiencing any issues with L.A. Noire or your PS3 hardware, please contact technical support using any of the means provided below:
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05-19-2011 #2
I think God wants Sony destroyed lol
05-19-2011 #3
Na it's just Sony not taking blame once again and planning to overheat out of Warranty PS3's to make up for lost revenue while PSN was down. Sony will charge you good money for repair.
05-19-2011 #4
Well not really apparently there really is a problem with the game, it's even happening on some 360s too. It doesn't actually cause the PS3 to overheat though just crash and shutdown.
05-19-2011 #5
great work sony.. i'll stop playing it for now then i guess.. may return the game.. it's good but its not that good, it's a little boring too.. if i wanna know when someones lying, as per the game, i can just compare it to sony videos... CAN THESE IDIOTS GET ANYTHING CORRECT??
05-19-2011 #6
The hardware is designed and tested to run continuously at 100% load, so given the manufacturing process was good, no software can cause overheating.
05-19-2011 #7
a change for FW 3.55 ^^
05-19-2011 #8
mines kept freezing but it wasn't just LA NOIR it was mw2 as well and black ops after the update.
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1. no consumer hardware is made to run at a continuous 100% load.
2. what are your sources of the information regarding the design and testing of the ps3?
3. software controls the cooling system in the ps3. therefore software can cause overheating.
05-20-2011 #10
how would game software affect system software? does it alter it some way or does the game use too much of the ps3s resources in running it.. thus not leaving enough for the system software to work.. if true then this is bad.. maybe the ps3 is simply outdated?


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From Texas, I cover the energy sector and the tycoons who control it.
Last week the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection shut down some operations of natural gas driller
More than 80% of all wells drilled in the U.S. today use some kind of "fracking." And in the Marcellus basin, a shale rock formation that stretches across Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and West Virginia, usage is more like 100%. Without the high flow rates created by the frack, the gas wouldn't be economical to go after. With the fracks, geologists figure the Marcellus has more than 50 trillion cubic feet of gas, enough to meet all of U.S. needs for two years.
But can hydraulic fracturing be trusted? This wasn't Cabot's first fracking fracas. Pennsylvania's DEP cited the company last February for contaminating wells used for drinking near drill sites.
In a 2007 case unrelated to Cabot, an Ohio house exploded from what state regulators determined was a buildup of methane bubbling up water pipes from wells polluted by drilling operations. Nineteen neighboring homes were evacuated. Last April at least 10 cows died in Louisiana after drinking fracking chemicals collected at a drilling site operated by
So what's in this stuff? Hydrochloric acid, solvents, surfactants, petroleum-based lubricants, corrosion inhibitors, microbe killers. Basically, it's a lot of the same carcinogenic chemicals found in household cleaners like Formula 409 and Drano.
Most of the fracking fluids are recovered from the gas wells, stored in ponds, transferred to tanks and trucked to processing plants. Most wells are drilled away from and much deeper than drinking water sources. But it only takes a few mishaps to destroy public faith.
It's vital that the oil and gas industry voluntarily implement tougher standards on the implementation of hydraulic fracturing, the recovery of chemicals from wells and the safeguards to avoid contaminating groundwater with chemicals of any kind. Or politicians will let the Environmental Protection Agency do it for them.
In June, the FRAC Act (Fracking Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals) was introduced simultaneously in the U.S. House and Senate. The act would call for hydro-fracking to be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Thus fracking would be subject to EPA's permitting process governing the underground injection of other chemicals.
This doesn't sound outlandish except to the oil and gas lobby, which points out that the EPA has none of the bureaucracy in place to accept or evaluate applications for FRAC permits, let alone issue one. If the act were to pass, the effect would be at least a temporary halt to all well fracking nationwide. In a study paid for by the American Petroleum Institute, researchers at IHS Global Insight figured that if well fracturing were halted today, U.S. natural gas production would fall 45% by 2014 and 57% by 2018. A ban would likewise cost 2.9 million jobs and decimate the business of leading frack-jobbers like
But that's the worst-case scenario. Assuming there's a (slightly less efficient) frack method that can pass muster with the EPA, the result would be just 10% less gas by 2014. The added cost to the industry would not be too much to bear. The IHS Global study figures that complying with existing rules for underground injections would cost less than $100,000 per well in shale zones. That's not a lot. Analysts at Tudor, Pickering & Holt in Houston figure that Cabot's current drilling costs are running $3 million a well. At $4 per thousand cubic feet Cabot's recent wells can pay that back in six months.
Even the biggest users of hydrofracking, like Aubrey McClendon, chief executive of leading shale driller Chesapeake Energy, concede that the industry needs to "demystify" the practice. Speaking at a conference last week, McClendon, according to Reuters, said, "We need to disclose the chemicals that we are using and search for alternatives to the chemicals we are using."
Chesapeake is keen to tap northern reaches of the Marcellus in the Catskills and Finger Lakes regions of New York State. This area, however, serves as the source of drinking water for New York City. Because of its pristine quality, New York City has been able to forego building a $6 billion water filtration system. Last year, City Comptroller William Thompson said that if water pollution from fracking in the watershed necessitated filtration, it could mean 30% higher water rates for New Yorkers. State politicians' likely revenue source for such a system: a special tax on energy companies.
Last week, nine U.S. senators–a mix of Democrats and Republicans from gas-rich states–sent a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who, with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is cobbling together the Senate's version of climate change legislation passed by the House earlier this year. In the letter, they reminded Boxer that natural gas, which has roughly half the carbon emissions of coal and 30% less than oil, should be treated as "a vital bridge fuel as we transition to the new energy economy." In exchange for legislation incentivizing expanded gas usage, the senators proposed funding an EPA study of the dangers of hydraulic fracturing to drinking water–the better to help Congress regulate it.
This move might sideline the FRAC Act for now, but should indicate to the likes of Halliburton that they'd better get to work on some new ways to get at all that gas.


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GT Advance Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:GTAT) had a loss and missed Wall Street's expectations, AND came up short on beating the revenue expectation. The revenue miss is a negative sign to shareholders seeking high growth out of the company. Shares are up 0.65%.
GT Advance Technologies Inc. Earnings Cheat Sheet
Results: Adjusted Earnings Per Share decreased to $-0.15 in the quarter versus EPS of $0.12 in the year-earlier quarter.
Revenue: Decreased 33.15% to $102.3 million from the year-earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: GT Advance Technologies Inc. reported adjusted EPS loss of $0.15 per share. By that measure, the company missed the mean analyst estimate of $-0.08. It missed the average revenue estimate of $271.25 million.
Quoting Management: "Our Q4 results came in largely as expected as we continue to face challenging conditions in the solar and LED markets," said Tom Gutierrez, president and chief executive officer. "We have taken steps to resize the business and manage our balance sheet and believe 2013 will be a year during which we continue to strengthen our foundation and further diversify the business."
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A new poll shows that President Barack Obama is favored by at least 50 percent of likely voters in the key battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
A Quinnipiac University survey shows the president with a lead of 11 percentage points, 53-42 percent, over presumed Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania.
The president leads his GOP challenger by a margin of 51 percent to 45 percent in Florida, and 50 percent to 44 percent in Ohio.
No one has won the White House since 1960 without winning at least two of the states.
Quinnipiac surveyed 1,177 like voters July 24-30 in Florida, 1,193 in Ohio and 1,168 in Pennsylvania.
The margin of error in the Florida and Pennsylvania surveys was 2.9 percentage points and 2.8 percentage points in Ohio.
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Fox Sports 1 Still Seeks Half the Subscribers It Pledged
Alex ShermanTwenty-First Century Fox Inc. has yet to strike deals to get Fox Sports 1 in the channel lineup of three of the biggest U.S. pay-TV companies, days before the challenger to ESPN is scheduled to debut.
DirecTV, Dish Network Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. have a total of about 46 million subscribers -- about half the number Fox has promised investors it will reach with the new channel. Negotiations, confirmed by spokesmen for the pay-TV companies, are over fee increases Fox is seeking in exchange for replacing motor-sports channel Speed with the new network.
The talks continue even as the top executives of the pay-TV carriers publicly lament the rising cost of sports programming. Cable and satellite operators pay about 31 cents a month per subscriber for Speed, according to research firm SNL Kagan. Fox Sports 1 will probably earn about 80 cents per subscriber per month in 2014, Kagan estimates.
"Somebody, sometime may decide that sports isn't something they have to have," Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen said last week. "They can have a materially lower price per customer. While they'll lose customers initially, they will gain customers long term."
Darris Gringeri, a DirecTV spokesman; Bob Toevs, a Dish spokesman; and Maureen Huff, a Time Warner Cable spokeswoman, all said negotiations for a carriage deal are in progress.
The new 24-hour sports channel "will be available in up to 90 million homes at launch," Fox Sports co-President and co-Chief Operating Officer Randy Freer said at last week's Investor Day.
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If the pay-TV operators don't strike a deal for Fox Sports 1 by Aug. 17, New York-based Fox will continue to air previously recorded Speed programming until an agreement is reached or the distributor's contract with Speed runs out.
"We are working to have wide distribution at launch," Lou D'Ermilio, a Fox Sports spokesman, said in an interview. He declined to comment on specific negotiations.
Comcast Corp., Cox Communications Inc., Verizon Communications Inc.'s FiOS, AT&T Inc.'s U-verse, Cablevision Systems Corp., Charter Communications Inc. and Suddenlink Communications have reached deals to carry Fox Sports 1, representing about 45 million subscribers.
Fox Sports 1 will include sports-centric shows, including one hosted by Regis Philbin, and will show live sports including college football, college basketball, Major League Baseball and soccer's 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
ESPN, owned by Walt Disney Co., has distribution in 98 million households. The network charges pay-TV operators about $5.50 a month per subscriber, according to Kagan.
Time Warner Cable is engaged in a separate standoff with CBS Corp. over fees to carry its affiliates in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas. The cable company, based in New York, began blacking out CBS in those markets on Aug. 2.


text: Massachusetts Orders Light Gun Video Games Pulled From State-Operated Rest StopsOwen Good1/11/13 12:00pmFiled to: violent video gamesNewtown shootingsMassachusettsGettypicTime CrisisArcadeKotakucore182EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Massachusetts' Department of Transportation pulled a Time Crisis cabinet and seven other light-gun video games from rest-stop arcades along the Massachusetts Turnpike, after the parents of a 12-year-old complained they were inappropriate, reports The Boston Globe. The removal was attributed to the Dec. 14 gun massacre in Newtown, Conn. Advertisement The move will strike most gamers as completely tone deaf considering that arcades have been in steep decline across North America for many years, and how much more objectionable content than Time Crisis or Lethal Enforcers is available on home consoles. Still, it happened.The Globe says Andrew and Tracy Hyams visited a rest stop in Charlton, Mass. heard gunfire rattling off the walls, and wrote the state DOT commissioner. Being a no-lose political position, not to mention a game like Time Crisis can pull in, what, seven dollars a day at a Mass Pike rest stop, he ordered them removed. Advertisement "We were struck by walking into a [state-owned] rest stop within an hour's drive of Newtown and seeing and hearing a life-sized, mounted machine gun on a video game," said Andrew Hyams. Considering it's New England, six states which would be a collection of counties in most any western U.S. state, practically everything is within an hour of Newtown, Conn."Bottom line is I think there isn't a person who doesn't believe that there isn't too much violence in our society, and games can glorify that," said Richard Davey, the state secretary of transportation. "A video game in a public space could be used by anybody of any age."At the end of the day, those games are there to entertain kids, probably for a few minutes, while their parents are resting from a long trip. I just think it makes all the sense in the world to have it be a more passive game." Sponsored The Globe visited a rest stop for reaction, and found only Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, and Cruis'n Exotica. Of the arcade games removed, Time Crisis and Beach Head 2000 were the only ones mentioned by name. As the Hyams were offended by the plastic machine gun control mounted on the game they saw, it's safe to assume the nine titles removed were of the light-gun variety, one of the last genres to have any substantial presence in the remaining American arcades.The state can do this because the rest stops are on the Mass Pike and therefore operated under state contract; they're there so travelers can gas up and eat without exiting the road, which would require them to pay a toll. Advertisement State removes violent games from rest stops [The Boston Globe](Image by Getty)Reply182 repliesLeave a reply


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by Lindsey Ungar / Detroit Red WingsFr. Casey stands with the St. Thomas a'Becket statue dressed in a Red Wings vestment. Casey is a lifelong Red Wings' fan, who often uses sports analogies in his homilies. |
It was late in the afternoon and the Red Wings were set to host Colorado in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinal. Father Patrick Casey had tickets — bought in advance — to the game at Joe Louis Arena. But he also had three other commitments – presiding over a wedding, hearing confessions and celebrating Mass.
Fr. Casey, pastor of St. Thomas a'Becket Catholic Church, couldn't make it downtown. But this diehard Wings' fan still managed to catch the game — sort of.
"So I'm hearing confessions, and I rush (into my office) and turn on the radio, and oh, it's 1-0," Casey said.
Before Mass began, he listened to the Wings go up 4-0 on the Avalanche. During his homily, he talked about obedience to the Lord, whom the parishioners should love above all things. But he didn't ignore his love for the Wings, asking those in attendance, "Who here is a Red Wings' fan?"
From the back of church, a voice boomed, 'It's 5-1!'.
Casey, a native of Waterford Township, Mich., says there's a fine line between religion and his favorite hometown team. He's never prayed for a Wings' victory. He doesn't don jerseys around the Parish — just a pair of Red Wings cufflinks. And he won't honor requests to wear his infamous Red Wings vestment at weddings, either.
"I tread this fine line because it's the eternal realities that I'm supposed to be drawing people to, not staying in the mundane things of this earth," Casey said. "So it's a fine line. But you still gotta connect to people's experiences.
"It's not all about sports, but sports are always a great analogy. In Paul's Letter to Timothy, (he wrote) 'I fought the good fight, I have finished the race.' St. Paul uses all these athletic images. So you try and use things that people can hunker down to."
Casey first got noticed for his fandom back in 2002. At the time, Casey was pastor at St. Dominic on Detroit's west side. One of his parishioners, who had made vestments for him in the past, asked him to lead a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina. His response?
"I just kind of flippantly said, 'Well yeah, I'll lead a group if you make this vestment for me.' She was not happy about it because she's very conservative. But she decided going to Medjugorje was more important than the vestment so she made the vestment for me. She just told me, 'Don't tell anyone where you got it from.' "
Newspapers across the country ran a photo of him at Mass draped in the cream-colored vestment painted with a Red Wings' logo. Detroit went on to hoist its 10th Stanley Cup that spring.
That same vestment is now draped over the statue of St. Thomas a'Becket at his current parish, where he became pastor in 2004.
But Casey isn't the only Wingnut in his congregation. Joan Kijek, Cathy Piasta and Anne Truax, who work in the religious education department, are known as the Grind Line.
"Because we do all the hard work," Kijek joked.
Kijek always wears red on game days, and switches to jerseys for playoff games. She drives a red van with a huge Wings' logo on the back window. She also named her dog, Ozzie, as a tribute to Wings goalie Chris Osgood. And during the playoffs, the picture that hangs outside her office no longer shows the holy family — it's swapped for a panorama of Joe Louis Arena, with her name glowing on the Jumbotron.
But it doesn't look out of place in a church office decked with Red Wings posters, clippings, and yes, even a Wingnuts hat.
"The day I came to meet the staff, probably half of them all had Red Wings jerseys on," Casey said. "I felt very much at home when I got here."
Casey never played hockey, but he fell in love with the Wings while attending Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, and became a full-fledged citizen of Hockeytown when he was ordained in 1997 -- the year the Wings snapped a 42-year Stanley Cup drought. He attended a dozen games that season, many at the thanks of area funeral directors, which are constantly vying for his affection.
Although he missed most of Game 2 against Colorado, he didn't miss Game 3. And as he watched, Casey had just one thought, one shared by many Red Wings' fans this postseason: "I saw a team going all the way to the Stanley Cup this year."


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We're on the road this week, with four days of annual meetings in NC followed by a family wedding in Memphis. We'll be back to the college football Top 25 next week upon returning to Virginia, but I'll pass along whatever I find interesting while on the road. Today, it's EA Sports' rankings for Home Field Advantage in NCAA08:
10. Notre Dame Stadium - Notre Dame
09. Michigan Stadium - Michigan
08. DKR Memorial Stadium - Texas
07. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - Southern Cal
06. Neyland Stadium - Tennessee
05. Lane Stadium - Virginia Tech
04. Beaver Stadium - Penn State
03. Tiger Stadium - LSU
02. Ohio Stadium - Ohio State
01. Ben Hill Griffin Stadium - Florida
Let me be the first to say that it's ridiculous, though understandable from a marketing standpoint, that Southern Cal cracked the top ten on this list. Playing the Trojans is intimidating. Playing at the Coliseum is not. There are a dozen SEC/ACC/Big 12/Big 10 schools who are cussing EA Sports over this right now, and rightfully so.
I've been to The Swamp, and it's impressive. I've also been to Lane Stadium, and while it's not as loud based on sheer attendance size, it is very, very intimidating. My experience is that once you get to a certain point, it's all just loud - playing at Auburn, Florida, LSU or Tennessee is intimidating in the SEC, and I don't think one of them is any moreso than the others. It's just loud. There have been moments at Neyland - Collins Cooper's missed FG in overtime in the TN/Florida game in 98, Travis Stephens scoring on the screen pass against Georgia in 01, Cedric Houston breaking loose on the second play from scrimmage against Miami in 02, James Wilhoit from 50 yards at the end of the TN/Florida game in 04 - where it got so loud, you literally couldn't hear your own voice coming out of your mouth. And it's no different at other schools on this list. So while everybody's got a beef over who's number one, I'd say that for most of these schools, it's just flat out intimidating for the opposition, period. The teams at the top of this list have difference making crowds. And that's what Home Field Advantage is all about.
Don't tell the folks in Ceres that Virginia Tech was ranked higher than Tennessee.
Monday, June 11, 2007
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- rmarsh said...
WILL! I changed email a few months ago, so I'm definitely going to need you to go ahead and contact me for that information before 'the' season begins...
Don't care what you say, no justification whatsoever for The Coliseum to be on the list.
#1 Tiger Stadium - LSU
#2 Neyland Stadium - UT
#3 The Swamp - UF
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A mother of four and grandmother of four, I'm committed to improving education for all children regardless of where they live in our state. I will fight to make sure our tax dollars reach classrooms. I will make it my goal in the Legislature to ensure that the availability of a top-notch education for all of South Dakota's children remains a top priority for all lawmakers. I also know that quality higher education in South Dakota is essential to helping our children get tomorrow's good-paying jobs and keeping our state competitive in today's economy. A large part of ensuring that our children get a top notch education is ensuring that we have top-notch teachers. I believe that South Dakota's teachers' pay being 50th out of 50 states is simply unacceptable. In order to retain the best and brightest teachers, it's imperative that improving teacher salaries becomes a priority in South Dakota.
The United States was founded on the fundamental principle that all are created equal and fair treatment must be distributed evenly among men and women.
I believe in equality. Period. South Dakota's legislators appear determined to become the poster children for intolerance on transgender and lgbt issues, making it a priority to peer into our schools' bathrooms, our personal bedrooms and suggesting that we turn the clock back over 50 years to bring back Jim Crow laws, this time targeted at those who love differently than they do. I will fight tirelessly to ensure that all South Dakotans, not those who are deemed worthy by the religious right, have the right to liberty and privacy that our constitution guarantees.
I believe in equal pay for work. We need to push hard to close the gender gap and level the playing field in businesses and corporations. There is a lot of work that remains in order to get women to the pay equality they deserve. Women deserve the effort of those in public office to achieve this equality pay and end this discussion once and for all.
I will fight endlessly against those who wish to reduce access to reproductive health services. I strongly believe that a woman's medical decisions should always be made between her, her family and her doctor. These are decisions that should never be made by politicians. I feel strongly about protecting and defending access for all women to a full range of reproductive health care services. I will also work to help ease the process of adoptions in South Dakota and ensure that those that wish to adopt who meet the requirements of safety and stability, can do so.
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Putting Your Company On The Block
When Kathy Knight decided to call it quits after nearly 30 years doing market research for large corporations, she had no idea how agonizing the process would be. As owner of BAIGlobal in Tarrytown, N.Y., Knight, 57, couldn't just pack up her office and start collecting pension checks. She had to sell her business first. After six months of bad counsel from ill-informed advisers, she finally hired a mergers-and-acquisitions specialist. He engineered the sale of BAIGlobal last July to a large, publicly held market research firm, Market Facts, for $11 million.
Knight is one of thousands whose business changed hands last year. J.P. Morgan Securities estimates that a record $110 billion in U.S. private company sales were announced in 1997, up 42% from $80 billion in 1996. A booming stock market has pumped up company valuations and prompted owners to sell. Also contributing are the strong economy, low financing costs, a cut in the capital gains tax to 20%, and consolidation pressures. Fortunately for all those aging entrepreneurs ready to retire, many professionals are searching for new business opportunities.
RIGHT ADVISER. But you don't just stand in front of your office or factory with a "for sale" sign to get a deal done. As Knight quickly learned, the first thing you need to do is to pick the right adviser. A good one, for example, can help you decide whether your company should remain independent, be merged, or liquidated. That, in turn, will dictate to whom you sell--insiders, another company, investors, or the public.
In addition to guiding you, a professional adviser can help negotiate the deal--a task most entrepreneurs aren't trained to do. "People think they can negotiate alone, but it's hard, and often a mistake," says Bob Weisman, vice-president for operations at Hillside (N.J.)-based May Tag & Label, a maker of adhesive computer labels. Because of growing competition, he sold out in October to Fortune Brands with the aid of DAK Corp., a Rochelle Park (N.J.) firm that helps sell businesses.
The type of adviser you hire depends on the size and nature of your enterprise. Smaller deals--say, under $5 million--can be handled by business brokers. They act as listing services, broadly advertising your company for sale. They forward bids, but typically don't do any hand-holding. A business broker would be the best choice if you owned a deli or a dry cleaning store. Brokers generally charge 3% of the sale price, but the fee can go as high as 10%.
Deals involving closely held, midsize companies get trickier. Transactions ranging from $5 million to $200 million are often handled by regional investment or commercial banks, attorneys, or accounting firms. Independent M&A specialists may also play a role, serving as consultants and even investing in the company for sale.
Middle-market sellers can even go to a big investment bank. But since experienced bankers tend to focus on transactions above $200 million, you'll likely deal with a less-seasoned associate. "Make sure the adviser you hire has done transactions in your field and your size," says Robert Paglia, a partner with Coopers & Lybrand.
As a rule, middle-market advisers charge about 2.5% of the sale proceeds, payable at the deal's close. Usually, the seller must pay an upfront fee of up to $50,000 that gets credited against closing costs. You must also face a monthly retainer fee of $5,000 to $10,000, which goes toward closing costs as well.
Ask your most trusted business confidant for referrals to advisers. Once you have prospects, ask for names and numbers of their last three clients. Call them and discuss how satisfied they were. When you've made your choice, be prepared for a thorough going-over.
Most advisers go through a similar process. First they help assess what the company is worth. Most often, a middle-market company will sell for a multiple of operating cash flow, as measured by earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. John Jellinek, owner of Jelco Ventures, a Chicago-based private equity investor, estimates that middle-market private companies with niche businesses sell for five to seven times operating cash flow. Larger companies command higher multiples because they have stronger market positions and greater management depth.
After the valuation comes an intensive marketing period. Your adviser should create a glossy book to be distributed to potential buyers, describing your company in detail. It should feature management details, at least three years of financial statements, and other confidential information such as customer and supplier lists. If the book lures prospects, a due diligence process ensues. Not only will a potential buyer want to know more about your company, you will have to start gathering data on the buyer's financial standing.
If you don't want it widely known in your industry that your business is for sale, it's best to do a "quiet deal." This "is a very targeted in-depth search using databases and personally telephoning a select number of potential buyers to pitch the company," says Jeffrey Schneiders, a managing director at Mesirow Financial, a Chicago-based investment bank.
If you're not so concerned with keeping your plans quiet, you may want to consider a campaign targeting thousands of potential buyers via direct mail. Wellesley (Mass.)-based New England Business Exchange, the M&A specialist that sold Knight's business, sends out up to 10,000 letters to investors and CFOs in related industries, among others, describing the company for sale in generic terms. A mailing typically gets 50 to 250 responses. After interested parties sign a confidentiality agreement and send a preliminary letter, marketing books get sent out. Ultimately, five or so prospects end up bidding against one another. "This auction process will get you a higher price than a quiet deal," says Stephen Madden, president of the New England Business Exchange. Since it will also likely turn up rivals as buyers, it may not be best for companies with patents, trade secrets, and other confidential information to protect.
TAX-FREE SALE. In deciding to sell out, you must also consider what your role will be after the transfer. Do you want to retire or stay on as a manager? If you stay on, who will be in control? And don't forget estate and tax planning considerations. For example, you should transfer stock to your heirs before you sell, says Dick May, president of VM Equity Partners, a New York-based regional investment bank. Instead of selling out for cash, a move that could trigger a 20% capital gains tax, you might want to arrange a tax-free sale by merging your business with a public company in exchange for stock or by doing a management leveraged buyout. Whichever way you go, however, be sure to start with someone who can give you the best counsel all along the way.


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With Apple finding itself deserted by its bulls over the past few months, predictions for the stock market's once-darling have turned darker by consensus. But even those who choose to remain bullish on the stock in the near-term keep decreasing their targets, a fact that's worrisome. And it may only be a matter of time until those targets catch up with Apple's selling price, rather than the other way around.
According to a survey of several analysts by Fortune, the average price target for Apple's stock has fallen to $740. According to the survey, 11 of the 48 analysts polled lowered their Apple targets in the final weeks of the company's first fiscal quarter of 2013. Some of the key cuts include that by Peter Misek of Jefferies, who dropped his price target from $900 to $800, and Michael Walkley of Canaccord Genuity, who trimmed it from $800 to $750. Misek said in a note to investors earlier this month that he believed the average selling prices for smartphones had peaked.
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When I first discovered Spanx in 2005, I wanted to run right up to Sarah Blakely and give her an uncomfortably long awkward bear hug of immense gratitude. We would then have an instant connection and become best friends. I imagine our meeting would be just like this:
I had just had my first child and was pretty tired of hearing complete strangers exclaim, "you must be due any day now!" What? I didn't fool you into thinking I was thin underneath this loose-fitting button up denim maternity shirt? Or perhaps the 3 month old I'm carrying might have been an indication that it would be physically impossible for me to be "due any day now?" There was no escaping it.
Now granted, I probably consumed somewhere in the neighborhood of 68,000 calories a day, packing on an astonishing 96 pounds. How was it possible to have an 8 1/2 pound baby and only lose 8 1/2 pounds? Wasn't it all supposed to disappear magically once you delivered? No one told me that I would have to go through 2 years of self-loathing and hard work to come back to what was to be nothing at all like what I had before. If they had, my food pyramid might have looked a little different from this: (the placement of The Sara Lee Cheesecake on top is intentional, because I could eat an entire one in a day, and by could, I mean did.)
Ah, I remember it like it was yesterday. When FedEx arrived with my first pair of $38 Higher Power Body Shapers I was as excited as a retard with a new cupcake. I decided it would be a good idea to size down to an XL for maximum benefit! I was so smart!
I tore the package open excitedly, and unwrapped the Spanx from around the cardboard. I was puzzled by the fact that once unfolded, they looked like they may possibly fit over a banana, albeit snugly. I was baffled, but I was going to look ahhhmazing!
I'm not exaggerating when I say that it took me no less than 20 agonizing and utterly degrading minutes to get my fat ass into them. It was like trying to fit a hippopotamus into a tube sock, but I was determined.
This particular pair extended from directly under the breasts to mid-thigh. There was a sensation of my ribs being compressed to a point that I could only take in very tiny breaths of air. After wearing them for any more than 20 minutes, I would be struck with gut-wrenching stomach pains which were typically followed by a sweaty upper lip and a mean bout of diarrhea. But so what, my fat was so tightly contained, and I was aerodynamic and not jiggly. What a blessing.
Now let's not forget to thank Sarah Blakely in all of her visionary genius for having the foresight to put in the split crotch feature (also known as a cotton double gusset.) If you've ever tried them on, you know first hand that once you get them on you are not taking them off until the party's over. Then, in the privacy of your own home, behind a locked door, alone in the dark with all mirrors covered, you can at last begin the demoralizing process of peeling them off. I don't know who's happier to breathe, you or your vagina. Farts just fly out, your belly flops back to its normal happy shape and finally can fill your lungs to capacity.
My only suggestion to my BFF Sara would be this : please make a pair with an anus gusset, because what if someone* went to the bathroom fully anticipating a good old-fashioned pee, only to be surprised by a poop halfway out with other plans for your evening.
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Adam Lee Tencate, 32, of Pullman, has been arraigned on a charge of reckless driving causing serious injury in a crash that occurred March 31 in Valley Township near the intersection of 43rd Street and 118th Avenue.
Upon arrival at the scene,�Allegan County Sheriff�s Office deputies found that a pickup truck and a car had been involved in a crash.
The driver of the car, Benjamin Woodward, of Portage, suffered serious injuries as a result of the crash and had to be extricated from his vehicle.
Woodward was transported from the scene to Allegan General Hospital and later to a Kalamazoo-based hospital. He is still hospitalized.
Woodward was working for Child Protective Services at the time of the crash and was operating a state-owned vehicle.
Investigation into the crash found that Tencate failed to yield the right of way as he entered the intersection and hit Woodward�s vehicle on the front driver�s side.
Tencate was driving at speeds higher than the 55 mph speed limit on 43rd Street. The sheriff�s department also noted there were "multiple vehicle defects that inhibited his pickup truck from stopping safely at the higher speeds."
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As "Lovelace" started filming in Los Angeles Tuesday, directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman announced their full cast on the official biopic, starring Amanda Seyfried as "Deep Throat" porn star Linda Lovelace and Peter Sarsgaard as her husband Chuck Traynor. New to the cast are Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth and Robert Patrick, who join Wes Bentley, Sharon Stone and Juno Temple.
Documentary filmmakers Epstein and Friedman ("HOWL," "The Celluloid Closet") are directing an original screenplay by Andy Bellin ("Trust"). Heidi Jo Markel (Electric Pictures), Laura Rister and Jason Weinberg (Untitled Entertainment) and Jim Young (Animus Films) are producing the Millennium Films Production, with exec producers Boaz Davidson, Danny Dimbort, Mark Gill, W. Merritt Johnson, Avi Lerner, Trevor Short and John Thompson for Nu Image/Millennium Films.
"Love and Other Drugs" star Azaria will play "Deep Throat" director Jerry Damiano; "Win Win"'s Bobby Cannavale and "The Good Wife" star Chris Noth will be "Deep Throat" financiers Butchie Peraino and Anthony Romano, respectively, and Robert Patrick ("Terminator 2") will portray Linda's father, John.


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March 29th, 2010, 09:57 AM | #1 |
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Gm parts direct order
i ordered 2 front dana 60 hubs from these guys 2 weeks ago, and just received notice the parts are on back order.
anyone have expierence with these guys? wait them out or start looking elsewhere? (340.00 for hubs and rotors is a sweet price) I sent a email to their customer service asking the same, i'm fearful of a response "we'll let you know when we get them, ETA TBD" |
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yeah , called rpm today
apples and oranges, rpm is hubs only, I'm sure they machine them, but 180ea is excessive. parts direct is rotor and hub for 130ea. (maybe even bearings) many companys are buying them up and price gouging. parts direct is on a national back order along with many other vendors i have called. Its good to know so many vendors order these up and mark them way up. gm part number is 15635530, thank you any help would be appreciated. |
April 8th, 2010, 07:00 AM | #6 |
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I don't know what you are talking about. I just got mine a month ago and mine was hubs rotors and studs assembled and shipped to my door. All new parts. I told them I was a member of pirate 4x4. Maybe that is why I got a better deal
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Hacksaw, I assume your being sarcastic. what i find funny are those who use "free market terms" are also those who feed off uneducated or less informed peeps. (which tells me you probably make your living off such) since i'm aware of the actual values of these parts, and the vendors who supply them, wouldn't it be nice of me to pass the info on?? If i'm reading into your statement, then disregard. Or just stay out of it. |
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The Finkbeiner administration was unable to provide simple financial documents concerning the city-owned Erie Street Market requested last week, Toledo City Councilman D. Michael Collins said Monday morning. As a result, Mr. Collins said he would instruct the councils clerk to draft legislation rescinding a previous ordinance that allows the administration to run the Erie Street Market business.
Suicide bombers struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300, police said. Three female suicide bombers blew their explosive vests in the middle of pilgrims in Baghdad, moments after a roadside bomb attack, killing at least 32 people and wounding 102, Iraqi officials said. In the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, 25 people were killed and 185 wounded when a blast tore through a crowd of Kurds protesting a draft provincial elections law, officials said.


text: EA Says It Was Valve Who 'Expelled' Crysis 2 from SteamMichael McWhertor6/15/11 3:40pmFiled to: Steam vs. originEacrysis 2ValvePCDigital DistributionOriginElectronic Arts449EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink EA and Crytek's Crysis 2 was available on Valve's Steam service until this week. Now it's available "only on Origin," Electronic Arts' new digital store (and a few others, actually). Despite the change and conjecture about the motivations behind it, EA says it was not behind the decision to pull Crysis 2 from Steam. Instead, EA reps tell Kotaku that it was Steam's "business terms" that resulted in Crysis 2 being removed from Valve's platform. Advertisement Advertisement "It's unfortunate that Steam has removed Crysis II from their service," reads a statement from the publisher. "This was not an EA decision or the result of any action by EA.""Steam has imposed a set of business terms for developers hoping to sell content on that service – many of which are not imposed by other online game services. Unfortunately, Crytek has an agreement with another download service which violates the new rules from Steam and resulted in its expulsion of Crysis II from Steam. ""Crysis II continues to be available on several other download services including Origin.com." Sponsored Kotaku has contacted Valve seeking clarification on Steam's business terms and the future availability of EA games through Steam.Reply449 repliesLeave a reply


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Great book on Meissonier vs. Manet: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
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Great book on Meissonier vs. Manet: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
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- Janet Oliver said...
I love this painting. I look at it with different eyes after reading your description of a Rembrandt windmill painting, a reproduction of which you had hanging in your studio. Now I notice the light-on-light (Napoleon's horse against the winter sky) and dark-on-light (Napoleon's hat against the same sky, and his horse's nose against the dark line of soldiers in the back right)scheme. There is not much dark-on-dark, unless you consider the mounted soldiers grouped together, but they really serve as a counterpoint to Napoleon.
- January 27, 2012 at 1:17 PM
- Nick Jainschigg said...
If you haven't read it yet, check out "the Judgement of Paris" by Ross King. Ostensibly the story of the Impressionists, it's actually hung together by the story of Meissonier, a much more interesting and complex character than he's usually portrayed.
http://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Paris-Revolutionary-Decade-Impressionism/dp/0802714668 - January 28, 2012 at 1:43 PM
- James Gurney said...
Nick, thanks for mentioning it. I love that book, which compares the fates and fortunes of Manet and Meissonier. I have added a link to it at the end of the post.
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RIM has released a new BlackBerry Style 9670 which it claims is the first to have a Full-QWERTY keyboard in a flip design.
The phone will be shipping with BlackBerry 6, the Style's WebKit browser, and is being targeted at those who want integrated social feeds and enhanced multimedia features. In short, RIM wants to get into the youth market, who are power users of text messaging, with the full keyboard and design.
The BlackBerry Style includes a 5MP camera with flash, autofocus and video, external high resolution display (240 x 320), internal high resolution display (360 x 400), built in GPS and Wi-Fi, 512 MB Flash and micro SDHC memory card slot expandable to 32GB.
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"Miracle Fat" To Get Slimmer?
What is this new miracle fat? Is it really new and how does it help you lose weight. Read more about the miracle this fat can produce on your waste line.
Water, Water Everywhere…
Water, this tasteless, colorless, and nutrient free is almost magical in what it does for us and our planet. I could fill a book with its strange properties and how they are integral to life they are. But for this article I will stick to the things it does for our bodies and for weight loss.
Controlling Creeping Weight Gain After 30
Getting fat seems to be part of life after 30, what with kids, work, and not having enough energy. Then there are the hormone changes that take place, especially with us women.
Vitamin X, Part Of The 7 Minute Diet
The 7 Minute Diet And Vitamin X? Find Out The Truth About The 7 Minute Diet! The 7 Minute Diet Switch: Vitamin X There is a vitamin that when taken everyday will make your body burn up to 220 extra calories each day. Even if you don't do anything else. It is also good for your heart and your skin. It is also one of the secret "switches" of The 7 Minute Diet. Check out The 7 Minute Diet's other switches OK, so you can quit looking for Vitamin x because I'll tell you what it is. It's Vitamin D3 and researchers at the University of Minnesota discovered that people who took 1,000 mg of Vitamin D3 burned an average of 220 extra calories a day and like I said before, that is with out doing anything else. Do The Math Just think, if it take you 20 seconds to take the Vitamin D3 then you'll lose about 5 pounds of fat in about 10 weeks using up only 20 seconds a day and nothing else. Wow! Why not start taking it now and do it the rest of your life! Sunshine Doesn't Work The Same Way Yes, you can get Vitamin D3 from sunshine but for some reason it doesn't cause the extra weight loss like taking it orally does. This and 20 more "switches" are discussed in The 7 Minute Diet a weight loss manual that, even though it is called The 7 Minute Diet isn't really a diet at all. 7 Minutes a day is all it takes to throw these switches. You don't have to...Introducing The 7 Minute Diet
Jon Benson creator of the wildly successful Every Other Day Diet has done it again. He has just released his next best seller The 7 Minute Diet. If you think you are to busy to lose weight or weight loss just doesn't fit into your schedule, think AGAIN!
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With recent statistics revealing that by 2050, 90% of children will be obese, trying to ensure that your children do not fall into this statistic is no easy task. Not when the market is filled with quick fix meals and distractions to prevent you all from exercising properly. Luckily Proactol's new Concerned Mother's campaign can offer you an alternative solution to this dilemma that will make caring for you and your family all the more easier. Aware of the rising number of studies that suggest there is a direct connection between our eating habits and the genetics we pass onto our children, Proactol have researched further into this field and have produced a range of tips and methods to help boost your health, plus offer you and your children the best possible future. Focusing primarily on the need to reduce saturated fats from your diet, Proactol have come up with a range of exciting natural food alternatives that will make the transition to a achieving a healthier lifestyle, a task that your whole family can enjoy. From introducing weekly outings of swimming, bike riding and sports to your schedule to adding low fat food alternatives to your diet; their tips are designed in such a way that they can be gradually introduced into your diet, without running the risk of throwing temptation in your way. And we have to admit we were impressed by the thoroughness of their research. By following their easy to do tips your entire family can benefit from the health boost of having an improved nutritious diet whilst feeling revitalised all day long. And for...A Low Carb, Protein Diet or A Low Carb, Vegetable Based Diet?
We all wish we could shift those excess lbs safely and naturally, so of course being able to discover the right diet, balance is pivotal. Of all the weight loss plans out there, health experts have recommended that incorporating smaller sums of carbohydrates into your meal plans can help you to get in shape – but which low carb diet is best?
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Syria clashes cut off Damascus airport
Beirut , November 29, 2012
Syrian rebels battled forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad just outside Damascus on Thursday, forcing the closure of the main airport road, and the Dubai-based Emirates airline suspended flights to the Syrian capital.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that fighting along the road to the airport, southeast of Damascus, was heavier than at any other time in the 20-month-old uprising against Assad.
"As of 20 minutes ago, there was heavy fighting along all the areas along the road," the British-based Observatory's director Rami Abdelrahman told Reuters by telephone. He said clashes were particularly intense in Babbila, a southern suburb bordering the insurgent stronghold of Tadamon.
Residents said Internet connections in the capital went down in the early afternoon and mobile and land telephone lines were only working intermittently, in what they said was the worst disruption to communication since conflict erupted last year.
Emirates said it was suspending daily flights to Damascus "until further notice", but other airlines continued operations.
Airport sources in Cairo said an Egypt Air flight that left at 1:30 pm (1130 GMT) had landed in Damascus as scheduled.
"The Egypt Air plane has arrived ... and passengers are all safe but the pilot was instructed to take off back to Cairo without passengers if he felt that the situation there is not good to stay for longer," an official at Cairo airport said.
Elsewhere in the capital, warplanes bombed Kafr Souseh and Daraya, two neighbourhoods that fringe the centre of the city where rebels have managed to hide out and ambush army units, opposition activists said.
The past two weeks have seen military gains by rebels who have stormed and taken army bases across Syria, exposing Assad's loss of control in northern and eastern regions despite the devastating air power which he has used to bombard opposition strongholds.
A senior European Union official said that Assad appeared to be preparing for a military showdown around Damascus, possibly by isolating the city with a network of checkpoints.
"The rebels are gaining ground but it is still rather slow. We are not witnessing the last days yet," the official said on condition of anonymity.
"On the outskirts of Damascus, there are mortars and more attacks. The regime is thinking of protecting itself ... with checkpoints in the next few days ... (It) seems the regime is preparing for major battle on Damascus."
In the north of the country, rebel units launched an offensive to seize an army base close to the main north-south highway that would allow them to block troop movements and cut Assad's main supply route to Aleppo, Syria's biggest city.
The Observatory's Abdelrahman said that rebel units from around Idlib province massed early on Thursday morning to attack Wadi al-Deif, a large base east of the rebel-held town of Maarat al-Numan.
Wadi al-Deif has been a thorn in the side of rebel units who first besieged the station in October but have met fierce resistance from government forces, backed up by air strikes.
If Wadi al-Deif fell to rebels, who already control northern border crossings to Turkey, Assad would be dependent on a single land route - from the Mediterranean port of Latakia - to supply his forces fighting to win back Aleppo.
Assad is fighting an insurgency that grew out of peaceful protests 20 months ago and has escalated, after a crackdown, into a civil war in which 40,000 people have been killed.
Most foreign powers have condemned Assad but have said they will stop short of providing arms to rebel fighters as they fear heavy weapons could make their way into the hands of radical Islamist units, who have grown increasingly prominent. -Reuters


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Marija planned our vacaction at Ohrid Lake, so in the car we rode. She had fascinating stops along the way. First stop we made was a place to eat breakfast. There I had a speciality of Macedonian villages called Bakrdan. Bakrdan is made up of cornmeal from corn flower and I had "sour milk" from sheep. I did not like it very well!! I was told that homemade, from her and her mom is better and they only use sour milk from cows. Yeah, that's what they are feeding me here!!! Help! - No really it really wasn't all that bad, just not to my liking. From breakfast we headed ourselves up to a monastery. St. Jovan Bigorski ( John the Baptist) is the name of the monastery. I came prepared with a skirt to cover my knees, because Marija told me that they would not let me in unless it was so. They would've provided a skirt if I had none, but I seen them and they were not fashionable at the least! As we walked in we were surrounded by the beautiful scenery of the luscious landscaping and what looked like little apartments. Upon entering the monastery, you came upon the icons of John the Baptist on the right and the Mother Mary on the left. Moving forward through the archway, you became mesmerized by the chandelier hanging from the painted ceilings. Approaching the alter you noticed that it was carvings made of solid wood, representing the life of John the Baptist. Every detail was amazing! I could describe it all I want and would not even come close to doing it justice. Now, an alter here is different than I know. Here in the churches an alter is like a wall that separates you from the monarchs or priests. It usually tells the life story of the Saint the church is named after. I was blessed enough for one of the monarchs to explain to me about the monastery. I can not explain the whole experience, just being there, it made me want to cry.
Back on the road again, we headed to a town called Debar. We were stopped and told that the bridge to Debar was under construction and we could not pass. So, instead we just headed to Mavrovo Lake. Marija wanted to show me this lake and the uniqueness of it. This particular lake is man made, but there is a small church in the middle of it. They say because it was not washed away, that it is "Holy"!! The site of this lake and seeing the church was spectacular. Leaving Mavrovo, we passed a famous actor in Macedonia, but we didn't stop. On our way to Struga, where our hotel is, we stopped at a half way point town called Strazha. There we stopped to give Marija time to stretch and for her to buy me something called Mekica. It was good and reminded me of a funnel cake. She told me that it is usually made when a baby is born. Instead of guests bringing gifts they are given Mekica, usually with sugar or cheese on it. I didn't have anything on it because I was in Marija's car and she probably didn't want me to make a mess in it. I also learned that I tend to be rough with her car, by slamming the door too hard??!! She says it makes her sad when I do it.... So I think I will do it some more!!! Only kidding.
We kept on heading to Struga! Along the way I noticed that they have "cow crossing" signs here. She mentioned that we have "deer crossing" signs- but really cow??!!!
I thought this funny til just a little later we were paused by a cow in the road. Yes a cow!!! Now I am told that it is my cow. "It is Brandie's krava(cow)!!" A few more treacherous curves and we finally arrived at our hotel in a little village called Kalishta in Struga.
Hotel Makpetrol is really nice, but they have no lifts(elevators). Of course we are on the 3rd floor too! The view is beautiful, off of our balcony we can see the pool area and leading down to the beach. We decided to head down to the pool area for some relaxation before Sashe and Suzana arrived. At first Marija didn't want to get into the pool, but she felt sorry for me because I didn't want to go in there by myself. We quickly dipped into the pool, laid out in the sun to dry and then we headed back to our room to shower and change. Just a little later, Sashe and Suzana arrived and I met Sashe for the first time! I had seen him pictures prior, so I already knew what he looked like.
After greeting for a bit, we headed to a little village called Vevchani. Quaint little village, famous for it's carnival. The village provides the best drinking water supply around. We went to a restaurant at Vevchani Springs. This restaurant had the little creek running under the foundation, like many of the houses built on the this hill. They ordered for me things to try, which I don't mind, because I wouldn't now what to order without them. This time I ate Kebapi, which looks like sausage links only made from hamburger. Something called Komad, which I don't really know how to describe it.. it had onions! I also tried some of Marija's drink called Ouzo, which is Greek. It's something like a Brandy. It tasted like black liquorish. Not my style, but it was warm on the way down. Afterwards we walked up the hill some more to take in the site of the springs. Upon coming down from the hill someone noticed that on the very treetop was a Macedonian flag. I wondered how it got there?! Back in the car we headed to our hotel to just visit some more, but we stopped at one more place to have coffee, well they had coffee, me and Sasa had Coke.
I like watching people and observing them, this is what I noticed of Marija's mother tonight. She is very quiet, maybe that's just the language barrier. She organizes her money in her pocket book, it's cute! She also has a beautiful smile. She knows some English, but I am told that she knows all the bad words of the English language.... Tsk tsk. I blame Marija for that!
Sashe: What can I say? He is very quiet also. He is extremely nice and considerate. For what I have noticed of him, he takes good care of Marija. That is very important, because then he will have to answer to me if he didn't and I am not afraid that he is a cop. I learned when traveling to other countries and wanting to buy shoes to bring back.. always check inside the box to make sure the you have a left AND a right. I have also learned that he is afraid of spiders!!! Spiders --- heebie jeebies!!! But, despite his fear, he would kill not only 1 for you, but all 6 of them that are on the ceiling above your head. That ladies and gentlemen is a real Man!!!! And very sweet too!!
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Unknown Sickness... any thoughts?? First of all I would like to say Hi and thanks for taking the time to read... I'm in college and had to leave my horse at home. When i went home a week ago (Sept. 3rd) I noticed my horse acting strange-didnt eat his grain, wasn't acting like his usual hungry self. Generally we assumed colic so we put him in a nearby pasture ( i board my horse) to keep an eye out. By the next day we realized it wasn't colic and seemed to be some kind of virus. The vet found a somewhat high temp and gave him some meds, pulled bloodwork and found it was viral. To speed ahead a little, he didn't ever get rid of the fever and stopped drinking so I got a call on the 8th saying that my parents were bringing him up to the vet school. (conveniently the NC State vet school 5 minutes from my dorm). By this point he was wobbly on his feet and started stumbling a little, as well as grinding his teeth. (signs of laminitis). They did ultrasounds to check for ulcers and packed his feet (radiology wasn't available until the next day). The x-rays found nothing, including no laminitis or founder. Next step- nervous system. They did a check yesterday and found no problems there. So now we are having to do research to find out what this could be... have any of you had a similar unexplained experience of this kind???? Any ideas or suggestions would be MUCH appreciated! |
:? Sorry I've not experienced anything like that, hopefully some of the other members will have. I genuinely hope he gets better soon. Keep us posted wont you. |
I had a mare who got very sick. I went to feed in the morning and she was standing off, covered in sweat, ears drooping, staggering, and looked weird. I called the vet and he said it probably wasn't as bad as I was making it out to be. I made him come anyway. Long story short. She had a temp, her heart rate was very high. I asked him to check the field for anything she could have eaten and he said there was nothing. HA!! I drove her to my moms house and we picked every unidentified plant in the field. took it to the local weed control and they told me I had lupine. Which is highly toxic and addictive to livestock. I causes neurological problems and can lead to permanent brain and nervous system disorders. She made it thank god. we picked and sprayed every lupine plant I could find. Point is did you check your pasture?? my vet was clueless, he did blood work and everything. I am not saying that is it but it is a possibility. I sure hope you find out what the problem is and please keep us updated!! |
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I sure hope it helps!! It would be great if it was something that simple! |
Yea, they checked the pastures... They found from the blood work that it was something viral and his white cell count in elevated so he has infection somewhere, it's just a matter of where... Mom called today and said they needed a release for $2000 more in (some kind of) procedures. My parents are not horse people, so we may end up bringing him home with some antibiotics and hoping it solves itself... this is a pretty bad morning for me :-( |
If it is viral antibiotics are useless - they only work for bacterial infections. The only thing that came to my mind was some kind of metabolic issue, did they do a blood workup? How old is the horse and what breed? |
Im sorry, after re reading that it was worded wrong... I know that the first vet found that it was something viral a week and a half ago, according to the current blood tests it isn't. It's bacterial and he's not contagious, which is another reason he may be able to come home. He is an 11yo Appaloosa Gelding |
Did they say what organism it was, or is that the testing they wanted to do? Sorry but I am a microbiology nerd! Sounds like it might be EPM, but I dunno. You can google EPM + Horse and get alot of good info on that. Good luck, I'll be thinking good thoughts you and your horse. |
Thats ok! ...im kindof a nerd myself 8) I'm kindof working through my mom here so you'll have to excuse the dalays and lack of info lol... I just talked to her and a vet student (lower on the totem pole) said they couldn't guarantee he was 100% not contagious. They didn't say exactly what the organism was.. it may be that the results are not back yet for that, but I did tell her to ask if they considered EPM. The (actual, non-student) vet is going to call later and discuss some options, so I'll know more then. thanks so much for the support guys :) |
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Nuno Brandão Costa really surprises us with this amazing structure. Two concrete structures lined against the granite rock containment wall: one housing the garage and the other, the kitchen and bedrooms in one large, open space. By placing the master bedroom upstairs, the roof now becomes habitable space with a wood lined terrace. What I really like is the use of stainless steel on the sliding doors outside. That and the use of dark wood make it look like a big appliance. A big, modern appliance that you can live in. We like it!
Architects: Nuno Brandão Costa
Location: Afife, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
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