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Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when he was 27, with a good idea and scant experience. He is now the CEO of one of the world's most dynamic restaurant organizations that includes eleven unique dining establishments--and each is at the top of its game. How has he done it? How has he consistently beaten the odds in one of the toughest trades around?
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Taxation is theft.
Too true. Fair Tax baby...Fair Tax.
That's an oxymoron. Taxation is theft, so you cannot have a "fair" tax. "Fair" would be not stealing
But OK, I'll indulge. Let's abolish taxes. No more army. No more navy. No more state or local police. Or justice system.
Funny... but you're assuming the only way you can have security, justice, and other services is if you're forced to pay them.
In fact, the only moral way would be to allow people to spend their money however the heck they want. People need security; in a government-less society, it would be provided.
People need to stop calling taxation "taxation" and start calling it what it truly is: theft and extortion on a massive scale. There's no excuse for wanting that.
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If you had to be an official 'something' or licensed...that would stop a lot of criminals I'd think?
Maybe. But more than likely you'll be preventing a lot of people from putting food on the table every night...
I agree with you there. On OSX it looks the same, but when I'm on FreeBSD the menus and the menu toolbar (File, Edit, Help, etc) have weird colors. It's worth it, though.
Then again it looks like it's using QT 3.3 on my system, but the current version is 4.3. That could be the issue.
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My husband and his ex wife share custody of their now 12yr old daughter. They have joint custody, and she sent him a letter stating that she was moving out of state with their daughter. At that time she was living several counties away and was unable to attend the hearing but did try to call the judge to voice his objections. By the time the hearing came, she had already moved to Alabama with their daughter, and he has only seen her once in two years. What would his recourse be? We want to see his daughter. Please help.
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Australia are within touching distance of a victory against South Africa in the Adelaide Test as the visitors, having to chase in excess of 400, were reduced to 77 for four at close of play on Day Four.
Having set a target of 430 for the visitors, Australian bowlers were right on the money as they rocked the South African top-order, picking up four wickets for just 45 runs.
First to fall was Greame Smith. Ben Hilfenhaus came around the wicket and bowled one that was angled into him and had a hint of away movement and Smith ended up edging to Ricky Ponting at second slip.
Off-break bowler Nathan Lyon then made the second and probably the most important breakthrough for the home side when he sent Hashim Amla back into the pavilion. Lyon tossed one up and Amla went for a drive, edging it to Clarke at first slip.
Number four batsman Jacques Rudolph survived an lbw appeal thanks to DRS but just eight overs later he departed, thanks to a good low catch by Ed Cowan at short leg. Lyon tossed one up from around the wicket and Rudolph closed the face of his bat but the ball took the edge and Cowan did well to get his hands under the ball. The umpires checked with the TV umpires if the catch was clean and then ruled Rudolph out.
Wicket keeper AB de Villiers and debutant Faf du Plessis shifted to survival mode and began to pull their side out of a tricky situation. The duo scored at snail's pace, putting on 32 runs in 29 overs and frustrating the tiring Australian bowlers. De Villiers and Faf du Plessis took South Africa to 77 for four at the end of fourth day's play.
Brief Scores: Australia 550 and 269 for 8 dec. (Michael Hussey 54, David Warner 41; Rory Klienveldt 3 for 65) lead South Africa 338 and 77 for 4 (Faf du Plessis 19, AB de Villiers 12; Nathan Lyon 2 for 15 ) by 353 runs.


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Netizens talk about alleged 'proof' that Suzy went via plastic surgery
19kstocksShare on FacebookShare on Twitter Currently a post used to be made on Pann titled, Suzy were given eye surgical treatment 100% with comparison photographs between her pre-debut and existing eyes.
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In Reply to: Re: methatrexate posted by beau on August 15, 2000 at 09:34:18:
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - With backing from independent voters and little sign of damage from his party switching, former Gov. Charlie Crist has a comfortable lead over Gov. Rick Scott amid speculation that they will battle next year for the state's top job, according to a poll released Wednesday.
Crist leads Scott by a margin of 50 percent to 34 percent, as the incumbent Republican continues to have low voter-approval ratings, the Quinnipiac University poll shows. Former state Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, who lost the 2010 gubernatorial race and has been discussed as a potential 2014 Democratic candidate, also leads Scott by 45 percent to 34 percent.
The poll shows, however, that Scott has a healthy lead over Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam in a widely discussed possible Republican primary race. Also, it shows voters overwhelmingly support a Scott proposal to give teachers $2,500 raises.
"There isn't much good news in these numbers for Gov. Rick Scott, but there is some,'' Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a news release about the poll results. "His large lead over Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam in a hypothetical Republican primary gives him some solace that he does not have to worry about an intraparty challenge. Scott's support among Republicans appears pretty solid, although he has a lot of fences to mend with independent voters and he has virtually no crossover appeal to Democrats."
Crist, once a popular figure in the Republican Party, unsuccessfully ran as an independent for the U.S. Senate in 2010. Last year, he campaigned heavily for President Barack Obama and went on to change his registration to Democrat --- fueling speculation that he would try to return to the governor's mansion.
The new poll indicates that 50 percent of voters, including 76 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of independents, think Crist's party switching is a positive thing. It found that 40 percent of voters, including 80 percent of Republicans, viewed Crist's moves negatively.
Scott continues to struggle with his perception among voters, with the poll showing 46 percent have an unfavorable opinion of him and 33 percent have a favorable opinion. By contrast, 49 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of Crist, while 30 percent had an unfavorable opinion.
Similarly, the poll indicates 49 percent of voters disapprove of the way Scott is handling his job, while 36 percent approve.
Voters, however, appear solidly behind the idea of giving teachers $2,500 raises, one of Scott's top legislative priorities. The poll found that 74 percent of voters --- including clear majorities of Republicans, Democrats and independents --- think the raises are a good idea, while 21 percent think they're a bad idea.
Scott drew conservative criticism last month when he announced support for expanding the Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act. But 50 percent of voters in the Quinnipiac poll said they think expanding Medicaid eligibility is a good idea, while 40 percent disagree.
Quinnipiac, which is based in Connecticut, regularly conducts polls in Florida and other states. The poll released Wednesday was conducted from March 13 to March 18 and included 1,000 registered voters. The margin of error was 3.1 percentage points.
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The name gives it away; the primary purpose of BeInSync is to synchronise the contents of several PCs, in a similar manner to Microsoft's Briefcase facility, but in a more comprehensive and easier to use way. Simply download and run the BeInSync front-end from the company's site, on each machine you want to synchronise, then run the BeInSync software and fill in the folder details.
You can sync every file in up to 15 folders on up to five PCs with the BeInSync Pro product and there's BeInSync Business if you need more than this. Most people will limit its use to popular data folders, like My Documents, My Pictures, My Music and My Video, though. The software offers these and some others, like Internet Favourites and the desktop, though not email inbox and contacts. These two are available through a separate Wizard.
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A World Food Programme aid director on the ground in Syria described to CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday the desperate situation of civilians in war-ravaged Homs – something he said he had "never seen" before in his career.
"Nobody is able to actually feed themselves, feed their children, feed their families, with anything but the weed, the grass that they can pick on the side of the curb and what little that they can eke out from what they've saved over time," Matthew Hollingworth, Syria director for the World Food Programme, said on the phone from Homs.
"They're living in tunnels, they're living in basements of apartment buildings which are otherwise destroyed, basements of shopping centers."
"They are barely, and they have been barely, existing," he said. "I've never seen levels of deprivation such as this."
The United Nations is taking advantage of a rare, and very shaky ceasefire to deliver aid to civilians in the war-ravaged Syrian city of Homs.
There were rumors on Tuesday that aid had been suspended, but Hollingworth said that it had merely been paused so that aid workers could regroup and plan for the following day.
"So far we've managed to get enough food and medical assistance into old Homs for around 1,500 people for one month," he said. "We're going back tomorrow."
The UN is assisting civilians who wish to flee Homs, one of the hardest-hit cities in the Syrian war.
"Nobody is living a normal life today," he said.
He and his team spent eight hours in Homs' center, the old city, and he said that there is "not a single building left in the old city of Homs which as a structure hasn't been affected."
Some civilians, who have already withstood nearly three years of war, are refusing to leave, he said.
"There are people who are so attached to their ancestral homes, to what they do have inside, they just don't want to go. And they're in desperate need of our assistance."
There is some fear that once many families, women, and children escape the city that the Syrian government will feel like it has more leeway to bomb what is left of Homs with impunity.
"Sadly I don't think there are any guarantees in that sense," Holingworth said.
Now that this mission has proven how many people have been surviving in Homs all this time and that so many people have been willing to come out of hiding, Hollingworth expressed hope that the mission could be "replicated" elsewhere.
"We're looking at the beginning of something that could be replicated elsewhere in Syria; we're looking at something that actually could be replicated to bring peace to normal people's lives.
But before 2011 there was no such problem. Guess why? 🙂 Good job, Saudi and jihad tourists. Hope you get to eat some grass too in the near future.
It is actually not true to say that Syria was OK before 2011 The father of Bashad wiped out the City of Hama for example in 1982. The Hama massacre occurred in February 1982, when the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies, under the orders of the country's then-president, Hafez al-Assad, besieged the town of Hama for 27 days in order to quell an uprising against al-Assad's government.[1][2] The massacre was carried out by the Syrian Army supposedly under commanding General Rifaat al-Assad, President Assad's younger brother massacring 40,000 civilians according to the Syrian Human Rights Committee). Decades of repression, torture and killings have marked the reign of the Assad family long before 2011–as indicated by many Human Rights Organization, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the UN itself. Who has used chemical weapons, barrel bombs, missiles, tanks, aircraft bombing, shelling, and torture (of almost 11,000 who died as a result)? Bashar Al Assad is a murderous dictator as are all members of his family and those who support him, and they will have to account for their crimes against humanity in front of the ICC.
People eating grass should thank the opposition and their funders in the west and east.They thought toppling a legitimate government was a 1 day job. Now eat grass some more and understand what happens to traitors who used outside support to kill their own people on thier own land.
Thank you notus. The majority of the Syrian People Support Bashar al Assad and his Government. The West just does not accept that and continue to Support the Jihadists but we cannot and will not let those beheading radical Monsters take over our Nation. Only one Country is benefitting from the Syrian crisis, the Nation that is officially at war with Syria: Israel.
syrians are subjected to the most barbaric regime.
we suffered from Assad and his family along with iron fist regime who built loyalty based on ethnicity and corruption. if you have benefited from the regime should not make betray your poeple
Iran is assisting key Al-Qaeda figures to transfer Sunni fighters into Syria, the Obama administration charged Thursday.
UN liars trying to get more free food aid to terrorists, grass? it isnt HALAL so hes a liar!
Grass does not interfere with dietary laws..they have been snacking on it for thousands of years
grass? that LIAR. no grass grows there its either concrete jungle or desert, lieing terrorist paid by the un, THE F U King drones better target this lieing tgerrorist UN spokesman
Why? coz Obama, Kerry, Saudi decided to fund the terrorist to rebel against Assad why did you not include that in your Liberal reporting
The civilians are afraid of the western backed rebels who have invaded their homes in Homs and forced them to eat grass as you pointed out. Say it as it really is, the civilians are happy to go to the govt side. Blame the rebels and their backers who thought the 'Regime Change' game was going to be a matter of days in 2011.
very clear, you can see that the UN is not able to help these people. For these masses of people standing only few Djips for disposal. This is specially made to Tragedie to make matters worse dan and the Assad government to blame. The exterior of the opposition and the West provotieren these states and thus break the international law on the sovereignty of individual states.
CNN propagandized against the will of civilians and exploiting the people for beautiful picture of the west.
Let's blame everyone else and especially the West.
It even rhymes...
grass isnt HALAL so this UN spokesf u k is another terrorist trying to get more free food to terrorists
Sooner or later, the Assad family and all those who committed crimes against humanity in Syria will be called to account either in from of the United Nations International Court of Justice. They will have to answer for their crimes. Those from Hizbollah and Iran who are assisting in terrorizing and exterminating people will have to face the law of man and of God. No tyrant or dictator or terrorist lives for ever: ask Hitler, Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi, Mao, Stalin, etc. They are all gone now and are pushing daisies.
The last two died of old age. As I suspect Assad will before he ever gets near an ICC hearing. And Syria isn't even a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, so that's a slight impediment to them prosecuting Assad for anything.
Does this list include George Bush and Dick Cheney who illegally invaded Iraq and left over 1 million people dead? Or how about Obama for arming Al-Qaeda in Syria?
stupid imbecile idiot
Shame on humanity to leave one dictator do this to people of Syria.
I agree with your sentiment, but serious action really needed to be taken a long time ago. Now it's a quagmire for which there doesn't appear to be any way of creating lasting peace.
Or al-Assad could have let his people have just some moderate degree of democratic reforms. That would have solved everything without a single bullet being fired.
Very clever CNN not explaining the the civilians have to eat grass because they are HOSTAGE of Obama and Kerry Alqaeda moderates.. The Syrian ARmy have plenty of food in the refugees camps inside the country and outside too.. Civilians only suffering because the Terrorist use them as human shields and attack UN convoy trying to feed them.. The Syrian army have a siege on the zone ,so the terrorist can't move to another place.. The Rebels that Refuse to drop their weapons ,refuse civilians to leave their controlled zones.. this is the same issue in other parts of Syria they control.. THe Moderates taking hostage civilians ,and CNN not a single word of the Alqaeda groups taking civilians hostages.
Lets say you're right, the terrorists are taking hostage, and what are you doing? stopping food and medicine for the hostages!?
This has nothing to do with hostage or terrorist, this is about the shiite mullah trying to dominate the middle east by what ever means, this is about the left overs of the Soviet regime trying to hold on to the last frontier.
And you can tell them from me If they think they can bomb people into submission, they you need to get their head checked by a jumbo jet
This has nothing to do with hostage or terrorist? Sorry, the real world is not compatible with your opinion.
The international community should have done more to help the brave Syrian people. Russia's role in the unfolding human tragedy is noteworthy.
President Assad will be remembered as the muslim equivalent of Nero. At least Nero could play the fiddle.
Fiddle was Albert Einstein. Nero played with matches.
He's referring to the common saying: "Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned" ( it would have been a lyre if it happened)
If the AQ 'rebels' are reduced to "eating grass", they will have less energy to go out beheading captrives. It is not all bad news then.
exactly, and the UN spokesf u k is obviously another terrorist trying to B S us all, grass isnt halal so wont be eaten that liar needs to be put on trial as a war crimes supporter, beheading people is a war crime
Not all Americans support what our government is doing in Syria. There are so many videos of war crimes committed by USA/Turkey funded FSA aligned rebels that anyone can easily find on google. They are stupid enough to film themselves shooting and beheading suspected "collaborators". They've fired artillery indiscriminately into civilian areas. Suicide bombing and IEDS are common videos to see. There are videos of Syrian Government war crimes also, like the unguided barrel bombs and abuse of prisoners. It's all very sad.
I just read that the majority of Syrians support al-Assad. I suppose the former majority are mostly dead or displaced.
Hello OXFAM, Helloooooo anyone there??? OXFAM, anyone care?????
Oh wait, they're busy with that Soda Stream issue. But Syrians subjected to muslim on muslim violence and death, that's not important. Syrians starving and eating grass, who cares. But that Soda Stream, now that's a real issue.
Great job OXFAM!!
No reports on the cannibalism?
Liberalism didn't cause this. al-Assad chose genocide over democracy, and only after he made that commitment did al Qaeda gain a foothold. All of this senseless killing could have been avoided if this man had a conscience for a day.
I see some posters claiming that the majority of Syrians support al-Assad. And that might actually be true, now that so many native Syrians have been killed or displaced.
The sick irony is that once this genocide is complete, al-Assad will less to fear from democracy than ever, because no one left will dare to oppose him in any way.
Same old story about ASSAD IN hama,this is a new conflict with INTRUDERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES QATAR.SAUDI TURKEY EUROPE AND AMERICA.ASSAD has the RIGHT TO DEFEND SYRIA AND ITS PEOPLE.KILL ALL
Did you even read the first sentence I wrote before you reached for "caps-lock"?
When humans eat grass, it is called sallad. With a bit if your favorite dressing, I bet most grass would be just fine to eat.
If that malnourished infant survives and grows to become an adult, go tell him that joke to his face.
It wasn't a joke. What do you think chives, lemon grass, etc. are if not various kinds of grass?
Can some body help me........what is really wrong with leaders of third World countries that ,the face it very difficult to hand Power?have they beeenn told that there´s no live after rollx?historically there´s no development without change of Power.so for these reasons Assad should step down since 75% of syrians dont want him .period
This is tragic, sad and urgently needed ... Opposition have failed Syrians.. the world community have failed Syrians. Another Holocaust is taking place right before our eyes.
So what would you have those of us living in the west do about it? Every single last fighter in your benighted nation claims to be in the right. My country is vilified no matter who we support. On a personal level many here are struggling just to feed our own families and certainly don't have the energy or desire to take to the streets to scream for support of whatever side of the war you happen to favor.
Amen to that. Who knows who is in the right, I have no clue.
Tony, you realize that claim is ludicrous. Sunni Al-Qaeda sees Shia Iran as infidels and probably dislikes Iran more than they dislike the West. There's no way they would ever help each other out and to claim otherwise without any evidence is silly.
Assad regime is committing genocide against the Syrian people. Aid agencies have warned that sickening pictures of tortured corpses – allegedly victims of 'systematic killing' in Syrian jails – are just the tip of the iceberg.
There are 55,000 photos which lawyers say are evidence of extreme torture; the shocking images, smuggled out of the country by a military police photographer, were described as 'clear evidence' of crimes against humanity committed by Assad regime and the Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist organization supported by Iranian regime.
Bashar al-Assad created the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) and have infiltrated ISIS. Asaad regime pays ISIS and controls its run. There's allot of evidences out there to back these facts. ISIS, which is a creation of Asaad and Iranian regimes, are of Assad's tools of oppression, alongside the Syrian Arab Army, the National Defense Forces, the "shabiha", the security forces and so on, plus Hezbollah and all the other foreign terrorist organizations fighting on behalf of (Bashar al Assad) to oppress the Syrian people and continue the ongoing genocide against them.
In today's Syria the true hand of Iran is behind Al-Qaeda. Through its ISIS subsidiary, Al-Qaeda is trying to sabotage the Syrian revolution. They assassinated its leaders and attacked their areas. The ISIS won the Syrian war where Assad's forces and Hezbollah's militias, and Iraq's Al-Haqq brigades failed.
Iran and Assad regime are behind all foreign fighters and terrorists in Syrian, whether ISIS or Hezbollah. The Syrian revolution is a democratic and just revolution for suppressed people for over 50 by Assad family and Iranian invaders.
Go on youtube and check out videos on both sides. Don't think either side is the good guy. The videos you will witness is absolutely disgusting. People shooting each other in the face, back of the head, cutting heads off in front of children, torturing people, cutting people into pieces. shall I go on? Both sides are doing this kind of stuff. Keep our country out of it. Keep Obama's hands out of this war. It's evil against evil.
evil against evil doesn't destroy evil, it just grows it exponentially. It's like evil^evil. It's not evil-evil.
Which is pretty much why most of us in the west are sick of seeing our countries send money we need desperately here at home to countries willing to take up arms and slaughter each other with the help of our scares resources. Did none of the posters here screaming for the US to send support to their favorite Syrian faction see the national debt ceiling that was just approved here? We can no longer afford to fund your hatred.
I guess supporting Al Qaeda inusrgents fighting against American troops in Iraq wasn't such a good idea after all, was it Assad? Payback is a b****.
When a leader of a nation uses starvation as a weapon against his own people, it's time for that leader to be removed by whatever means available by the international community. Period.
By the international community? Most of us where I live are just struggling to find and keep work the last few years. We can barely take care of ourselves let alone keep track of all your factions and who is right and who is wrong. There comes a time, and maybe it's now, that you're going to have to find a way to live together or die together on your own. Don't want war? Lay down the weapons, stop fighting and pray that your kids are allowed to live. Personally I don't have any other answers for you. My country is long past being able to make the rest of the world safe and happy.
As I just paid another govt. fee for my business that went up 100% I'm crying my eyes out for these people. Not.
So when are you signing up to join the military?
Go for it major. Take up your arms. Yeah that's what I thought.
Aren't they all vegetarian/vegan anyhow....
Maybe they can pray to that WARLORD BUTCHER they call Allah, and see if he will give them some food.
This is so sad. The terror these people must live in. One man (and his pawns) cause this much misery. No decent country can not want to help these people no matter what you think of the their culture – the are not all to blame. Caring is what makes us human. Lose that and you have lost everything.
Cut the cr@p please. No dictator ever waged a war without help. It takes two to tango. I absolutely care. I care about my nephew who just had to quit school because his financial aid was cut back due to government cuts. I care about his wife who's struggling to find a second job so they both can eat and pay rent. I care that there have been 3 attempted break-ins at my home this year because the local law enforcement can't afford to clear out the neighborhood drug houses. I care that I can't afford new glasses because my medical coverage doesn't cover optical care. Am I here begging your country for money to help solve my problems? NO. It's an old adage but true. Charity begins at home. It's time the warring factions in Syria learned this and did something to STOP their war instead of trying to WIN it. Quit looking to the rest of the world to fix what you broke.
The people of Vicksburg and Atlanta suffered no less. Civil wars do not last forever. One side will gain the upper hand. I just hope it is enough to achieve a decisive and lasting victory. I truly hope that in the end cooler heads prevail. If there are not leaders of the same caliber as Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and Lee on both sides of this conflict, the victors will no doubt barbarically slaughter the defeated after the war is over. The bad blood that will create, will mean unending conflict, hatred, murder and terrorism for the people of Syria. Americans engaged in a bloody and horrific civil war for four years. War was deliberatly made on civilians and massive armies bludgeoned eachother in battle after battle seemingly without end. At the end of it all, after a decisive and firm end to the carnage, cooler heads prevailed and America came out stronger, more united, and with a greater sense of nationalism and a sort of humbed pride than it ever had before. I really hope the Syrians have some of the same grit and same decency that made that possible. The end of the American Civil War is truly one of the most fascinating moments in world history.
Looks like it takes two to fight, Both the Assad's and the rebels are the problem, But all we really need to look at is who is officially in charge to get an accurate measure. It seems to me that even if the west was instigating unrest and rebellion as Syria reports. That if the Syrian Government was even moderately decent and proactive, that problem would've corrected itself quite sometime ago. I'd say that they need to address the situation with a softer hand instead of the hardline intolerance that prevails. Their disdain of dissent and poor decision making has only resulted in the destruction, bloodshed, and increasing resistance to their authority that is going to continue to undermine their effort to stay in power. It doesn't seem to me that they will be able to maintain their positions of power as this continues. If they think they can, They have lost touch with reality. You cannot do the things that are being done and remain as a recognized, legitimate governmental authority on the world stage. Its just to bad you love your country so much, that you want to take it down with you. Now that's some real national pride at work.
After watching a group of Syrian boys kick a donkey off a cliff on youtube, I don't really care much about Syria.
Are there no people anywhere in the world, where there is no armed conflict, where the people are eating grass to survive?
Amanpour and CNN are trying to provoke American to get involved in Syria so they can start reporting how many Syrian's are dying as a result of us being there.
There are no good guys in this war. Both sides fighting have an agenda and their agendas will only bring more of the same suffering that they are now experiencing.


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A real Dutch person normally only eat bread or sandwich for breakfast and lunch. I know, it was so strange for me also, coming from a culture of eating substansial meals 3 times a day! But Dutch people are always so busy and have tight schedule through out the day, that having quick breakfast and lunch just makes things easier. That said, it makes it easier for me as well, since I only have to cook once a day!
The challenge for me is to stick to a budget. While we're not too strict with budget, we're aware that we can't buy the best cut of meat everytime or buy whatever veggie we want regardless of the season. We'd look on the weekly promotions of the local supermarket, try to get some of our produce or meat that are on discount, and work out the week's menu around it. I think this is something that a lot of homemaker out there can relate to.
Another challenge with meal planning is trying to cook different meal every night, with what we have in our fridge. This is good for a Newbie Cook like me, because it kinda 'forces' me to browse for recipes and really expand my cooking horizon ;). And so far I'm happy to say that we haven't had any exact same meal in a month.
It's not like I cook entirely different meal all the time, really. With the simple Chinese inspired cookings, for example, the basic seasoning are usually similar: soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce, sesame oil, garlice, shallot, onion. So I make sure I always have them in stock. All I need to do is to vary the produce and the protein, and there I have a 'different' meal!
What I also try to vary everyday is the carb. Being Indonesian, I'm very much used to eating rice everyday, even 3 times a day! While traditionally Dutch people eat a lot of potato. Good thing that K and I like many kinds of carbs, so I try as much to vary between potato, rice, pasta, noodle, and occasionally some kind of bread such as pita bread. Except for the occasional bread, we also keep good stock of those carbs. And those are my strategy to have variety of meal everyday!
Anyway, I have not made pictures of every meal we've had the past month. Most of the time I just forgot, or the meal was not too successful that I didn't feel like taking picture of it. Being the newbie cook, it happens more than often, hehehe ;). But I wanna show some of the more "succesful" ones here. Sorry for the low quality pics, as I shot some of them with my phone's camera.
- Stir fry Kangkung with ground beef, which was served with rice. This is an example of the easy cooking that can easily be transformed with different veggie (such as Kai Lan or Bok Choy) and protein (chicken or fish). This one is actually one of my first solo cooking in NL!
- Fried noodles, one of my favorite dish of all time. There are so many variations of recipe in the internet, from the Indonesian "mie goreng" to the Chinese "chow mein". I'll never get bored of this dish! :)
- Spaghetti bolognese. Very classic. I'm proud to say that I made the bolognese sauce from scratch! Hihihi :).
- Macaroni with zucchini, tomato, meat and feta cheese. Very easy, and the feta cheese made it taste so good!
- Pasta with kale, carrot, and chicken. This is the first time I cooked and ate Kale. Must say I like it a lot!
- Pasta with tuna, andive, olive and feta cheese. Actually K cooked this dish, I just sat there and be pretty :P.
Allright, back to meal planning!
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It seems that everyone is using GPS tracking technology these days for more than just getting around. GPS data has been used in cases involving spouses suspected of cheating, teens driving the family car, and employees driving company cars. Now, the legality of an employer tracking an employee through a GPS device, placed without consent on the employee's private vehicle, is under consideration.
The Case in Question
An employee was fired from the New York State Department of Labor after twenty years when GPS data proved that the man was not always where he claimed to be or for the time he recorded. Over his two decades of employment, he had been disciplined multiple times for misconduct. Again in 2008, he was suspected of filing false work records, so his employer had him tailed.
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) agency placed a GPS tracking device on the employee's vehicle without his knowledge and tracked him for a month. The OIG then extracted the data relevant to the workday and found significant discrepancies in the man's work log and his actual whereabouts. He was brought up on thirteen charges of misconduct, eleven of which were sustained by the GPS data. The man appealed the charges and claimed that his privacy had been invaded and that an illegal search and seizure had taken place. The case went to court.
The Court's Decision
The court ruled in favor of the state and recommended dismissal of the employee. Two dissenters argued that an illegal search and seizure had indeed taken place since the man in question was tracked even during his off-duty hours, though that data was not brought into evidence. The final brief stated that "to establish a pattern of serious misconduct (i.e., repeatedly submitting false time records and not a mere isolated incident), it was necessary to obtain pertinent and credible information over a period of time. Obtaining such information for one month was not unreasonable in the context of a noncriminal proceeding involving a high-level state employee with a history of discipline problems who had recently thwarted efforts to follow him in his nonwork-related ventures during work hours."
With the outcry over police using GPS tracking devices without a warrant being heard by the Supreme Court, employers would be wise to seek legal advice before pursuing the use of GPS technology when tracking an employee suspected of misconduct.


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Domingo Ayala: Beisbol has been very good to him
PLACENTIA – I'm sitting in a complete stranger's living room a few blocks from El Dorado High, sharing a loveseat with one of the most curious and comical characters in baseball -- check that, beisbol.
And I'm trying not to laugh.
"Hi, how you're doing?" asks Domingo Ayala, his Albert Pujols-styled (or 70's porn star-inspired?) mustache widening around a long grin and his quasi-Latin accent dripping heavier than a Vladimir Guerrero bat.
Domingo Ayala – the self-professed and self-promoting Dominican baseball prodigy, beisbol instructor, aspiring big-leaguer and YouTube sensation, followed by 7,605 on Twitter and "like"-d by 18,973 on Facebook and counting – has dressed for the occasion (but later will say he sleeps in uniform to keep changing in and out of pajamas from cutting into this 20-hour-a-day workout schedule.)
He's wearing his signature white baseball shirt with red sleeves, white baseball pants, two mismatched Nike spikes and a silver neck chain that's garish enough to belong on a motorbike... or around a guard dog.
"I am Domingo Ayala. I've very excited to be here. Do you mind if I have the game on?" he says.
Though Ayala is about as real as Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, the performance artist won't break character to reveal his true identity right now for this real interview.
His hilarious Domingo Beisbol Academy instructional videos on the finer points of home run hitting, base stealing and playing catch for a scout have been downloaded millions of times by everyone from Little to big league. His Domingo-isms – "Pull the chain," "Early worm chases the bird," "Semi-pro," and "It's God-given," among others – have joined contemporary baseball vernacular.
Ayala has crashed local tournaments and surprised high school teams by joining practice. He had tryouts for Cal State Fullerton and the Colorado Rockies ("My people are still talking to their people," he says.) He even landed two homespun Angels rookies, first baseman Mark Trumbo (Villa Park High) and catcher Hank Conger (Huntington Beach), to co-star in videos on DomingoBeisbol.com.
Welcoming visitors to this website, Ayala, in a video segment, hangs upside down in a gym hallway as a post-workout Trumbo and Conger pass and eagerly offers his shortstop services to the Angels.
In other Web videos available at the site, Ayala demonstrates to a straight-faced Trumbo the unorthodox weightlifting techniques he credits for his "215 pounds of muscle on my 180-pound" frame. Ayala also teams with Conger team for a five-minute lesson in catching fundamentals.
Ayala: The pitcher and catcher are like a unit called the bakery.
Conger: You mean the battery.
Ayala: No thank you.
"He's a funny dude and he's pretty big right now," said Conger about his not-really-acting debut with Ayala. "Just to say I was a part of the video was pretty cool."
Ayala is so popular that while Conger was catching during an Angels spring training game against Cleveland, Indians first base coach and former six-time All-Star Sandy Alomar Jr. walked up to Conger and called him, "Hey, Domingo Man, I see your skills!"
Visiting with Ayala a few hours before a local appearance at the National Classic at El Dorado High, he is focused on a Minnesota-Tampa Bay game.
"He don't pay his respects," shouts a disapproving Ayala, critiquing the home run trot of Minnesota's Jason Kubel. He rolls his eyes and shakes his head at how the designated hitter could hit a bomb and cross the plate without looking toward the heavens and pointing to a higher power.
In fact, how Ayala got here, to this cozy sofa, this latest command performance and to his exploding national popularity, seems to have come out of thin air.
He has no ID, no wallet and no birth certificate from his supposed Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic birthplace sometime "between 1978 and 1988."
"My identification is my bat," says the manchild with a bat in Dominican flag colors, a big-league baseball dream and a half-filled bottled water stored where a cup is supposed to provide protection.
"I am 17 years old," he says. "I think I was about 1 ½ when I started swinging the bat."
Ayala spouts his baseball accolades earned in his "homeland," where he gained high school stardom at Collegio Carlos Maria Hernandez: four-time home run champion, five batting titles, five-time stolen base leader, seven-time infielder of the year, six-time outfielder of the year and "two years overlaps because I played two positions at one time," he says.
He has all the answers:
About his baseball beginnings: "When I was young, 7 years old, I stated to have a batting instructor," Ayala offers. "By the time I was 15 years old, I was HIS batting instructor."
About whether he bats lefty or righty: "Switch. I hit both home runs AND base hits."
About his inspiration: "Watching the game on TV and seeing the guys who make all the money, I say, 'I can do that. I'm better than them!"
His homage to Latin players might not be a hit with some – he does have a handful of "dislikes" on some videos – but most understand know it's all in good fun. (Remember "Saturday Night Live" comedian Garrett Morris' Chico Escuela saying "Baseball has been very, very good to me.")
"It's kind of funny to see Hank and Mark with Domingo, and I liked it," said former Angels reliever Francisco Rodriguez in April just after their videos went viral. "It's the first time I heard a Dominican with a Mexican accent in his English. But I still think it's funny."
What's indisputable is that the Ayala tale (of the videotape, at least) begins here in Orange Country, where he trains for his elusive big-league debut and has been know to randomly appear everywhere from local high school and college ballparks to the Angels clubhouse.
In the past five months Ayala was sighted throwing out a first pitch for the Colorado Rockies during spring training game and spotted in the Angels clubhouse at Tempe (Ariz.) Diablo Stadium. He was recently seen filming at Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres.
He also chronicled in a series of YouTube videos his tryout for nationally renowned Cal State Fullerton team and his interview with a visibly skeptical then-Titans skipper Dave Serrano.
"I'm still waiting to see if they give me a scholarship," Ayala says.
He has called play-by-play for the Oklahoma Sooners and joined the Padres' Class-A affiliate Eugene (Ore.) Emeralds for a tryout. He appeared at the El Toro High alumni game and a Chino Hills Pony League tournament. He showed up at Mission Viejo High and took batting practice with the Diablos. He surprised Temecula's Great Oaks High and demonstrated warming up by swinging six bats at once and stretching by doing the advanced yoga crow pose.
More than 7,500 follow his Twitter feed (@DomingoBeisbol) on which he offers baseball commentary in broken English:
About New York Yankee Derek Jeter reaching the 3,000-hit milestone: "I tell jeter congrats when he have 7000 hit like Domingo"
About the MLB Home Run Derby: "theses people call it homerun derby. I jus call it batting practice."
During April's National Classic at El Dorado High, Ayala hopped the outfield fence during the home run derby, his equipment bag -- a well-traveled black trashbag labeled with "Ayala" on masking tape and containing his glove, bat, a baseball and one spare cleat – in tow.
His Mariachi theme music blared on the loud speakers as he ran to join the competition. The 400 players from 16 schools from as far at Florida and Texas immediately recognized the late entry, who saw four pitches. He took a ball, smacked a laser down the third-base line and swatted a pair of back-to-back home runs.
"Every time!" Ayala shouted as he flipped his bat, began his self-aggrandizing trot, pulled his neck chain and searched for and pointed at college scouts.
Then tournament director Marcus Jones, doing his best WWE Vince McMahon competition enforcement, disqualified the ageless superstar out of the derby. Ayala had already stolen the show. In fact, players stopped watching the contest to besiege Ayala for photos and autographs.
"Our whole team watches all your videos," said El Dorado freshman team player Brad Burge, 16, of Placentia.
Brady Lail, a pitcher for the Bingham Miners in Utah, asked Ayala to sign his gamer ball cap. Addison Torossian, an infielder and pitcher for Clovis West in Fresno, handed him a baseball.
"Our kids have made their own videos spoofing Domingo for their video production class," said Eric Gardner, coach of Sunrise Mountain High in Peoria, Ariz. "They watch him all the time."
So do millions as the "Domingo Ayala" show and the laughter continues.
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Daniel Rogov wrote:I am convinced that the most popular sport in the USA is neither football, basketball or baseball. The most popular American sports are talking about obesity and partaking in diets. So….. where do we stand on the issue of our own body weight (body mass or other related issues)
Comments about diets in general, about specific diets that you love or hate, and about today's obsession with obesity are most heartily invited.
Doug Z wrote:(for those of u non metric....tough luck...join the rest of the world.)
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EY Han wrote:I just realized that I'm kind of disappointed in the lack of the option to "add options" in Polls like there used to be at Strat's Place. My doctor warns me that I am nearing being overweight, and I think I probably should be on a weight-loss diet but I'm not.
Daniel Rogov wrote:You guys think you have troubles? Pity me, for it is one thing to be a wine critic (you can spit to avoid getting drunk) but I'm also a restaurant critic and in that I dine out anywhere from 5 - 8 times weekly. And, to make life worse, I enjoy cooking!
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He's worth atleast a look.
Pick up McdClain and Dumervil Draft the 1st 4 rounds offense and make Ben a champ...
Lol ur so silly... but that would be awesome altho as long as mcclain continues to wanna live the hood life i dont really want him.
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This team has made it clear they're not interested in playing too much in the FA market. I'm done getting my hopes up! Now's the time to add a few pcs and really go out and take back the division from the Ravens...
Add picks???? Again....we are talking Kevin Colbert here. Hahahahahaha
The Steeler way...is the only way.
Ill pass. How many time have we had this discussion?
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I'm not sure why you would have your hopes up to begin with. Every Steeler fan knows (or at least should know) that the Steelers are never players in Free agency. This year they were more cap strapped than they've been in a long time... They're not players in FA when they have money, why would they be when they don't?
Fn Colbert got me pumped with his season ending comments.
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This is the story of a fearless girl and her encounter with the wicked cold wind god
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Echoes is an action-strategy game. It's set in an extensive universe on a torn Earth almost three-hundred years in the future. It joins the famous real-time strategy genre with many elements from the third person shooter genre, in a side-scrolling environment.
Please note this game is loaded with action, and may load on your cpu. If you have any slow frame rates try to lower the graphic settings. Also note Echoes is a heavy story-teller, with scenes and dialogues. If you're in only for the action, there's always a skip button in the corner.
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Combat mode:
- Mouse - aim, shoot
- W,A,S,D - movement
- Shift - sprint
- Q - command, drag for select units
- E - action circle
- 1-6 - activate abilities
- Z,X,C,V,B - select weapon
- Space - switch to Strategy mode
P, ESC - Pause game
Strategy mode:
- W,A,S,D - camera movement
- Shift - faster camera movement
- Mouse drag - select units
- Mouse click - order units to move
- Ctrl + Mouse click - order units to attack-move
- Hold shift while selecting units to select additional units.
- Space - switch to Combat mode.
- Ctrl + 1-5 to group a few units together.
P, ESC - Pause game
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wow great great job.
Only downfall is that F@CKING MUSIC.. wow i nearly kille dmyself in that first cutscene it was terrible.. and it kept getting louder for no reason in parts..
ALso the music throughout the game was pretty irritating.
But the game itself.. WOW just WOW
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Worst possible "date" ever...I don't even... FML (serios)
Alright...I don't care if you guys believe me ... it's real. This is the the most embarassing thing that I've ever experienced... it was a horrible night for me.. and I'm sharing it with you guys because I don't want any of my misc brahs to have to go through this.. especially since it all could have been EASILY prevented. I have added MS paint images so that you have a better idea as to what happened. It's very long, but I'll do my best to recount all of the important details. no ****ing cliffs..... read it to save yourself from something like this...
If you've been following my social anxiety thread you would have learned that I got an asian girls number during my last update (the encounter wasn't recorded unfortunetely because my Camera froze). But anyway, it's been over a week and I was feeling like taking a break from exam studying, and I figured that if I didn't call her before exams were done then I wouldn't get a chance to see her until after the break (which would be too long perhaps). So I called her up and asked her if she wanted to take a break from studying and meet me for coffee. Well she said yes, and we met at a campus cafe. We had some small talk, and it went well overall. After that she said "hey my roomate is making some chinese food for dinner because her boyfriend is over, would you like to come by and try some? she usually makes way more than needed". Now at that point I felt like I had to take a sh!t, but there was no way I could turn down this opportunity; it seemed like she was into me and this would be a great opportunity to get to know each other further. So I decided to try and hold my crap as long as possible (I don't crap in public toilets) and accept her invitation.
Well we went back to her place, had some food (very good btw)... and ****... I had to take take a sh!t really badly... and I also had to take a piss really badly (I had been holding that too since I didn't bring my pee bottles with me to the date)... I really didn't want to use her washroom because I didn't want stink the place up... but it became so unbearable to the point where I could feel the turd popping out of my rectum.. to make matters worse I was actually starting to get an erection (I'm not sure why.. but that's what happened). So I rushed to the washroom... and thus begins the worst possible scenario imagineable.
I pull down my pants step up to the toilet and I am then faced with an ominous predicament; I have to extremely badly take BOTH a pee AND a POO.... AND I have an erection.... what the **** do I do? Which do I do first??
So I bend over and try to push my erected penis down a bit to pee into the can... but as I relax my pelvic floor muscles to release the urine.. I feel my turd start to come out at the same time!
So then I'm like "fuk this... I'll just try and hold the pee and let the poo come out"... so I sit on the can... grasp my penis hard to try and "block" it... and I then tried to let the crap come out....that didn't work so well...
As I relaxed my anal sphincters... my pelvic floor muscles relaxed as well and piss started flying all over the floor... I started panicking at this point... so I desperately held my crap again, while I attempted to shove/bend my erect penis into the toilet. Once it was in... I tried take the piss and crap at the same time, but my ass was too far out and this massive turd started flying out missing the bowl, landing partially on the back rim and partially on the floor.
I then closed everything off again (you can't imagine the pain of repeatedly blocking yourself from peeing and pooing when you have go so badly)... wtf was I supposed to do? I either pee on her floor or poo on her floor....then out of sheer desperation and instinct an idea popped into my head:


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The Minister of Chance, the spin off series from Doctor Who: Death Comes To Time, will soon be offering fans across the world the fourth part of the ongoing adventure series. In fact it's so close that they've released a trailer for all of you to get excited about!
Episode four, recently announced as The Tiger, is being furiously cut, mixed and edited as you read this with completion hoped for the end of January 2013. When it's finished, the first people to get a copy will be the Minister Moguls better known as the fans that put some money in to help fund the episode into creation.
While the producers are incredibly grateful, the cost of the production is ongoing for episode five of the series and there is still a crowd funding campaign open for it to help with the post production costs. If you want to get involved, now's your chance (see what we did there?).
Above you can listen to the trailer for episode four and listen to the all star cast that includes Jenny Agutter, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Tamsin Greig, Julian Wadham, Paul Darrow and Phillip Glenister.
There's also a chance for you to see some of the cast and crew up close and personal when they attend the Brit Sci Fi convention on March 9th and 10th at the Space Centre in Leicester. Guests confirmed include Paul McGann, Paul Darrow, Julian Wadham, Lauren Crace, Sophie Aldred as well as Writer, Producer and Director Dan Freedman, Executive Producer Clare Eden and illustrator Lee Sullivan. You can find out more about the exciting weekend by visiting http://www.spacecentre.co.uk/special-events/britscifi3 .
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A second-round pick by the A's in 2010, the 6-foot-4 Cabrera possesses raw power, but has had issues with pitch recognition and consistency. He's struggled at the plate during his first two full seasons, hitting .231/.297/.368 for Class A Burlington in 2011 and .232/.293/.332 in 60 games with Class A Advanced Stockton this year.
His talent, however raw, clearly made an impact on scouts in the Arizona Fall League. Cabrera slugged a two-run homer in his first at-bat against Salt River on Tuesday and added a double, a single and three RBIs on Friday. A day later, he changed organizations twice.
The first transaction sent Cabrera and shortstop Cliff Pennington to Arizona for D-backs outfielder Chris Young. Arizona then flipped the youngster to Miami in return for reliever Heath Bell and cash considerations.
"This should be a positive change for Heath and the Marlins," Marlins president of baseball operations Larry Beinfest said in a statement. "After a disappointing 2012 season, Heath gets a fresh start and this move gives us clarity as we begin our offseason roster improvement."
Cabrera played exclusively at shortstop in his regular season games in the A's organization, but spent his first two AFL contests manning the hot corner for the Desert Dogs. While Cabrera will stay with the Phoenix club, which features both Oakland and Miami prospects, the Marlins may not stress the move to third base.
A native of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Cabrera was selected 60th overall out of Lakeland Senior High School in Florida. He was the second pick of the A's in the Draft, behind outfield prospect Michael Choice, who went 10th overall.
Cabrera was among the infielders who had a chance to start 2012 in Stockton, but he missed the first six weeks of the season after being held back in Arizona.
He reported a back problem during Spring Training and was later diagnosed with a stress fracture in his spine. As a result, he stayed on for extended spring training once the Minor League season began.
The shortstop hit .196 with two extra-base hits during the remainder of the first half of the season. After the break -- and despite being sidelined almost all of July -- Cabrera batted .260 with three homers, 12 extra-base hits and 14 RBIs.
Currently slotted in as the Marlins' No. 20 prospect, Cabrera has the opportunity to immediately impress his new club with a strong showing in the AFL.
He currently ranks as Miami's No. 2 shortstop prospect in the organization behind 19-year-old Florida high school infielder Avery Romero, who could ultimately end up at second base. If the Marlins choose to move Cabrera to third base, Zack Cox -- originally a Cardinals prospect who was traded to Miami at this summer's deadline -- would be his immediate competition on the depth chart.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – ABC has ordered single-camera comedies "Bad Management" and an untitled Andrea Abbate project to pilot, the network said on Wednesday.
20th Century Fox's Andrea Abbate-written half-hour comedy is being executive-produced by Shawn Levy, Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of 21 Laps/Adelstein Productions.
The series will follow the mother of an adopted African-American boy who takes on the responsibility of raising her brother's kids after he is sent to prison.
ABC Studio's "Bad Management," written by Sharon Horgan and Holly Walsh, will be executive-produced by Aaron Kaplan, whose producing credits include "You, Me and Dupree," "Made of Honor" and "Knowing."
Horgan will star as a self-centered boss at a high-end department store whose authority is challenged by her own boss' son, who makes youth and sex the new focus of the company.
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i love dura ace low flange track hubs. with a hot hot passion.
I need some help deciding between a Kilo TT and another bike. Would y'all rather I post my question here or start a new thread? Thanks!
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What's the other bike?
I've been planning on getting a Fuji Classic Track for a while now. Hopefully will be test riding one this weekend. I know everyone here is all "LOL, overpriced" but I'm super short with a very short inseam and the Fuji comes in a 43cm frame with 650c wheels. My options at this size are limited, to say the least. Well lo and behold, the Kilo TT now comes in a 44cm! This must be a new development, because I've looked into it before and the smallest was a 47. I assume it's still 700c wheels because the standover looks to be about 2+cm higher than the Fuji. I like that the Kilo comes with a flip-flop hub; this will be my first ss/fg bike and I've never ridden fixed before. Shhh, don't tell anyone but I'm a bit terrified of riding the Fuji because it only comes fixed. I am so going to eat it on my test ride. But I also like the idea of the 650 wheels, seems more proportional on a tiny frame. Are any of the pics in this thread of the 44cm size, or has anyone seen the 44cm Kilo? Is the top tube sloped (which always seems to happen on these small frames)? I'd love to year y'all's thoughts on the Fuji vs. TT. Or can I just predict the continued chorus of "Get the TT!" from here? |
@misskaz FUJI! j/k they're both great!
Stick with the 650 Fuji. The 44cm Kilo is wacky looking and like TT said, will have insane amounts of toeverlap.
Here is a 44cm Kilo with 700c wheels: http://i52.tinypic.com/2zic5fo.jpg I agree with the others who have said toe overlap will be a significant issue. I ride a 47cm and it is a perfect size for me with 28.75" inseam. Even at 47cm I feel 700c looks a bit big. http://i55.tinypic.com/25hh3iv.jpg (ignored the stem height, I was experimenting) I recommend that you go with the Fuji 650c not only for appearance, but rather performance: - the wheels are sized more proportionately to the frame size yielding a more balanced feel - the wheels will accelerate slightly better - smaller wheels means lower standover height - smaller wheels reduces the severity of toe overlap. |
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Might swing by the shop on the way home from work to see if the Fuji is in yet. They keep saying they'll call me when it comes in but then they don't and then someone else buys it. |
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How tall are you? Just wondering. My girlfriend is about 5'2" and she still has to tip toe over the top tube of the 44cm kilo I just her.
I personally think it looks kinda cool, but the seatpost is a bit slammed and the stem has to be pretty close to the headset. the 700c wheels reminds me of: http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=198751 I'll post pics when it's finished, just need to get the fork cut and install the star nut. |
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Cross posted from the SS/FG thread. I love omniums now, that is all.
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Omnoms on Kilos Club, get into it
http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/..._al_carb_x.htm same thing but cheaper. |
Are you saynig you put 650b wheels onto your track bike, or that your bikes with 650 wheels are better fitted for you? |
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Korn/Ferry International (NYSE:KFY) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street's expectations, AND beat the revenue expectation. The revenue beat is a positive sign to shareholders seeking high growth out of the company. Shares are down 0%.
Korn/Ferry International Earnings Cheat Sheet
Results: Adjusted Earnings Per Share increased 14.29% to $0.32 in the quarter versus EPS of $0.28 in the year-earlier quarter.
Revenue: Rose 14.95% to $238.6 million from the year-earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: Korn/Ferry International reported adjusted EPS income of $0.32 per share. By that measure, the company beat the mean analyst estimate of $0.31. It beat the average revenue estimate of $223.58 million.
Quoting Management: "I am pleased with our strategic progress and operating results for the fourth quarter, which includes accelerating the integration of our recent acquisitions as well as further diversifying and differentiating our Company. In the fourth quarter, Korn/Ferry's broader talent management offerings accounted for 40% of fee revenue which reflects the Company's transformation as a talent management consultancy," said Gary D. Burnison, CEO of Korn/Ferry International. "As global companies fight for growth and relevancy in this decade, talent will be the differentiator – Korn/Ferry is the bridge between a client's business and talent strategy – delivering solutions that help our clients with the design, building and attraction of that talent."
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What is Opposition?
During opposition, Mars and the sun are on directly opposite sides of Earth. From our perspective on our spinning world, Mars rises in the east just as the sun sets in the west. Then, after staying up in the sky the entire night, Mars sets in the west just as the sun rises in the east. Since Mars and the sun appear on opposite sides of the sky, we say that Mars is in "opposition." If Earth and Mars followed perfectly circular orbits, opposition would be as close as the two planets could get.
Of course, nothing about motion in space is quite that simple! Our orbits are actually elliptical (oval-shaped), and we travel a little closer to the sun at one end of our orbits than at the other end.
When Can Opposition Occur?
An opposition can occur anywhere along Mars' orbit. When it happens while the red planet is closest to the sun (called "perihelic opposition"), Mars is particularly close to Earth. If Earth and Mars both had perfectly stable orbits, then each perihelic opposition would bring the two planets as close as they could be. That's almost the way it is.
But once again, nature throws in a few complications. Gravitational tugging by the other planets constantly changes the shape of our orbits a little bit. Giant Jupiter especially influences the orbit of Mars. Also, the orbits of Earth and Mars don't lie in quite the same plane. The paths the planets take around the sun are slightly tilted with respect to each other.
So, with all these added factors, some perihelic oppositions bring us closer together than others. The 2003 opposition was the closest approach in almost 60,000 years!
Mars' orbit is more elliptical than Earth's, so the difference between perihelion and aphelion is greater. Over the past centuries, Mars' orbit has been getting more and more elongated, carrying the planet even nearer to the sun at perihelion and even farther away at aphelion. So future perihelic oppositions will bring Earth and Mars even closer. But we'll still have bragging rights for awhile. Our 2003 record will stand until August 28, 2287!


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Halloween Grows Economic Muscles In San Diego
Monday, October 22, 2012
Aired 10/22/12 on KPBS News.
Halloween is scaring up lots of business at costume shops in San Diego this month.
SAN DIEGO Halloween has mushroomed into a major economic force in recent years, and you just have to go to a costume shop to see the proof.
Erika Williams is hoping to a find costume close to the outfit her son will wear this year.
"I was looking for a ninja costume, but I might have to change what I started with. It might be a Zorro now, I like Zorro," said Williams laughing.
Williams is is preparing to spend $20 or $30, maybe even more at Buffalo Breath Costumes to get into the Halloween spirit. Gil Asprin is scanning the racks looking for just the right wardrobe items for his outfit.
"Scary clown. Yeah. Of course," He chuckles. "I have a fear of clowns so I figured if I dressed as one then it wouldn't be as bad."
Asprin is among the 70 percent of Americans who are helping turn this holiday into an economic juggernaut.
The National Retail Federation says $7 billion will be spent on Halloween related items this month. That's up from about $6 billion just four years ago.
Store manager Molly Muller has worked at Buffalo Breath Costumes for years. She said they do about 60 percent of their business in October. And, the closer it gets to Halloween, the busier the store is. That means she has to be prepared for the rush.
"There's always something," said Muller. "It is not like we ever run out of costumes. Even if they show up five minutes before the party. I've had people come in and put it on and wear it out the door."
This store is open year round and has costumes for sale, and high end costumes for rent. A lot of costume stores pop up in local malls this time of year. They fill up an empty storefront for a month and then pack things up until next year.
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What to see in Brussels
Brussels Attractions
Brussels is packed tight with historic buildings, monuments and
museums making a nearly impossibly long list of worthwhile
attractions. The best way to sightsee in Brussels is to pick
several personal niche interests and follow a tourist map
accordingly. Comic book fans? - there is a museum for you;
chocolate connoisseur (who isn't)? - another for you. In fact,
there are roughly 75 great museums in Brussels alternating between
explaining Belgium's long history, showcasing its art and
architecture, and just plain fun (more often than not, doing all
three at once).
Of course, several city landmarks cannot be missed, the most
important is a visit to Manneken-Pis, which when read carefully
accurately describes the statue of a boy peeing. After that rather
weird tradition, visitors are free to roam Brussels' larger
highlights mostly walkable from the heart of Brussels, the Grand
The ancient Hotel de Ville is Brussels best example of early
architecture and is almost as grand a sight as the Royal Palace.
Several of the best museums in the world include the Museum of
Ancient Art and the Museum of Modern Art, both housing Brussels
best art treasures. For the rest, much like the Belgians, relax,
enjoy and take it all in between pints of the city's best
attraction, Belgium beer.
Grand Place (Central Square)
The Grand Place is the heart of Brussels and has been since the Middle Ages. One of Europe's more beautiful squares,…
Hotel de Ville
Brussels' city hall is rated as the most splendid civic building in Europe. The foundations were laid in 1402 and it…
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Ashmore Group PLC
18 September 2013
Ashmore Group plc
Notification of Transactions by Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial
Responsibility and Connected Persons
Ashmore Group plc (the "Company") has been notified in accordance with DTR 3.1.2R on 18 September 2013 by Graeme Dell, a person discharging managerial responsibility within the Company for the purposes of section 96B(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, of the following transactions relating to his holding of Ordinary Shares of 0.01 pence each in the Company:
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Name of the issuer ASHMORE GROUP PLC |
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State whether the notification relates to (i) a transaction notified in accordance with DTR 3.1.2 R, (ii) a disclosure made in accordance with LR 9.8.6R (1), or (iii) a disclosure made in accordance with section 793 of the Companies Act (2006). DTR 3.1.2(R) |
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Name of director GRAEME JOHN DELL |
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State whether notification relates to a person connected with a person discharging managerial responsibilities/director named in 3 and identify the connected person NO |
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Indicate whether the notification is in respect of a holding of the person referred to in 3 or 4 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest IN RESPECT OF A HOLDING OF GRAEME JOHN DELL |
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Description of shares (including class), debentures or derivatives or financial instruments relating to shares ORDINARY SHARES OF 0.01P |
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Name of registered shareholder(s) and, if more than one, the number of shares held by each of them CAREY PENSIONS AND BENEFITS LTD |
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State the nature of the transaction GRANT OF SHARE AWARDS, SUBJECT TO SATISFACTION OF PERFORMANCE CONDITIONS, UNDER THE ASHMORE EXECUTIVE OMNIBUS INCENTIVE PLAN IN LINE WITH DISCLOSURES IN REMUNERATION REPORT IN THE 2013 REPORT AND ACCOUNTS . |
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Number of shares, debentures or financial instruments relating to shares acquired |
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Percentage of issued class acquired (treasury shares of that class should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) 0.026 % (see Note 1 below) |
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Number of shares, debentures or financial instruments relating to shares disposed N/A |
12. |
Percentage of issued class disposed (treasury shares of that class should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) N/A |
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Price per share or value of transaction 383.40 PENCE |
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Date and place of transaction
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Total holding following notification and total percentage holding following notification (any treasury shares should not be taken into account when calculating percentage) 1,919,066 shares (0.27%) (see Note 1 below) |
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Date issuer informed of transaction 18 SEPTEMBER 2013 |
If a person discharging managerial responsibilities has been granted options by the issuer, complete the following boxes
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Date of grant N/A |
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Period during which or date on which exercisable N/A |
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Total amount paid (if any) for grant of the option N/A |
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Description of shares or debentures involved (class and number) N/A |
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Exercise price (if fixed at time of grant) or indication that price is to be fixed at the time of exercise N/A |
22. |
Total number of shares or debentures over which options held following notification N/A |
23. |
Any additional information N/A |
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Name of contact and telephone number for queries
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Name of authorised official of issuer responsible for making notification MICHAEL PERMAN - COMPANY SECRETARY Date of notification: 18 SEPTEMBER 2013 |
Note 1: Based upon 707,372,473 shares in issue at the date of this notification