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The Botwins — if we can still call them that — said farewell Sunday, with a Weeds series finale that a stoner might describe as... a total bummer, man.
For those who have stayed with Weeds over its eight ever-morphing seasons, it was a nice nugget of nostalgia to hear the original version of "Little Boxes" before the final hour. From there, we flashed eight-odd years into the future, as noted by Stevie's impending Bar Mitzvah. The finale featured several fun, but too-brief cameos from former cast members who breezed in and out as we stumbled toward the main question we hoped this finale might answer: Has Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) learned from her mistakes? And if so, where does she go from here?
Read on to find out where Nancy — and everyone else — ended up:
Stevie: The littlest Botwin was adopted by his stepfather, Rabbi David Bloom (David Julian Hirsh), who subsequently died in a tragic car accident. Stevie grew up, under Nancy's tender guidance — she even joined the PTA! — to be a respectable kid. But Mom wasn't exactly forthcoming about Stevie's birth father. Unfortunately, the night before his Bar Mitzvah, Guillermo (Guillermo Diaz) tells him the truth about Esteban Reyes (Demian Bichir), aka the drug kingpin of Mexico. After getting this unsettling news, right after reading the Torah, Stevie calls "bullsh--" on all religion until he can figure out who he really is. A guilt-ridden Nancy has no choice at that point but to grant his wish to go away to boarding school. It's a bittersweet decision for Nancy: She wants what's best for him, but he's yet another man in her life (see below) who is abandoning her.
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Silas (Hunter Parrish): Happily married Megan (Shoshanna Stern) and Silas and baby Flora (because he's a grower, get it?) live in California, where Silas still works for the family business — which is legal now, by the way. (Only eight more years, folks, to see if Jenji Kohan is a pot prophet!) Megan hates Nancy since she made Silas resent his childhood and as a result, Nancy's relationship with her granddaughter is strained. Silas, on the other hand, has matured in his dealings with his mother. When Nancy asks Silas to intervene on her behalf, a zen-like Silas tells her he doesn't resent her, but that he's happy in his new life. "It's not about you," he says carefully but nonetheless harshly.
Shane (Alexander Gould): The kid has seen better days, including those when he was commiting homicide-by-croquet-mallet. He's still working on the force, alongside bad influence Detective Ouellette (Michael Harney). He's also now a short-tempered brat, whose only comforts are booze and trashy women (hey, what's up, Natasha Lyonne?). In her one act of philanthropy this hour, Nancy has a mini-intervention with her troubled son and forces him to agree to rehab and get therapy.
Andy (Justin Kirk): We're to assume that Andy hasn't spoken with Nancy since that night they had sex in Regrestic. He moved back to Ren Mar, where he lives in the house once occupied by his late father Lenny (Albert Brooks). He shares custody of his 3-year-old daughter, Leni, with a waitress named Anika. He runs a successful restaurant and, like Silas, is very happy. He also, sadly, makes it very clear to Nancy that she can no longer be part of his life.
Doug (Kevin Nealon): The burgeoning cult we saw last week has made Doug a very happy guru. He's rich, has loyal followers (and concubines) and a big shiny tour bus he parks in front of Nancy's house. The one thing missing in Doug's life? He never reconciled with his son, Josh (Justin Chatwin), whom he threw out of the house as a teen for being gay. It's not easy, but two kidnappings later, the pair bury the hatchet.
Other familiar faces: Among the other alums who took a final spin around the Weeds dance floor: Marvin (Fatso-Fasano); Clinique (Julanne Chidi Hill) and Sanjay (Maulik Pancholy), who are still married with a bunch of kids; Dean Hodes (Andy Milder), who hits on Nancy and reports that his daughter Isabelle (Allie Grant) is now his son Bruce who, according to Andy, is a genius at installing drywall! Conspicuously absent: Conrad (Romany Malco), whose wife, it is explained, is expecting another child; Jill (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who has apparently moved to India; and Celia (the always game Elizabeth Perkins), of whom no mention is made.
Nancy: The four times-widowed Nancy presumably buried her grief in her work, and once marijuana is legalized, her business really takes off. She owns 51 percent of the corporation that runs more than 50 marijuana cafés, cleverly called The Good Seed. It's so successful that Starbucks would like to buy Nancy out, which, with Andy's encouragement, she eventually agrees is the best next step for her.
But so now what? Andy tells her that she's now free and that her job is done. She answers to no one and can become the person she's always wanted to be. It's up to her to figure out who that is. "It's time for you to face yourself," he says. Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of this hour as a series finale is that we don't get to see that. Sure, Nancy ends up utterly alone, but there's no sense of growth or self-awareness or — God forbid — redemption.
Instead, the episode's final scene is of Nancy sitting alone on the front steps as a light snow falls. Just when it appears that this might be a real downer of an ending, Doug, Silas, Shane and Andy join her, and together they spark up a joint. In one long extended take, the actors pass the joint and alternate between meaningful deep stares and casual laughter, with perhaps even a touch of melancholy. It's not exactly a happy ending, but maybe it's the only one that Nancy deserves.
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WILMINGTON, Mass. – Maybe Bruins forwards Brad Marchand, Gregory Campbell and Shawn Thornton should've just stuck with the name "Energy Line" or accepted their status as the club's fourth line.
It seems that neither the officials nor the hockey gods have much of a taste for the "Merlot Line."
That trio, dubbed the "Merlot Line" because of the usual color of their practice jerseys and the color of their newly purchased jackets, has combined for a plus rating all season long. But the last two nights, in losses at Buffalo and Montreal, the threesome was on the ice for one even-strength goal each. Marchand and Campbell were even out there for a second even-strength goal by the Canadiens last night.
"I think I can speak for the three of us, that's not acceptable for us," said Campbell today after the Bruins held meetings and off-ice workouts at Ristuccia Arena. "We don't want to be on for goals, important goals, especially late in the game like in Buffalo. I thought we played a really strong game in Buffalo, actually. Sometimes that happens. Things go either way.
"And then the second shift last night. I thought we had a pretty good opening shift in Montreal and then the second shift they got one. I don't think we can get discouraged. I know I watched the game and I know Marchy and Thornty watched our shifts, and I think we just have to keep working and keep improving and keep getting better and keep expecting more of ourselves."
Prior to this two-game slump, none of the three brothers in Merlot had ever registered more than a minus-1 in a game. Marchand and Campbell hadn't even suffered a minus since Nov. 28 (six games), while Thornton hadn't been a minus since Nov. 3 (19 games). As a model of consistency, Thornton has never been more than minus-1 or plus-1 in a game, while Marchand and Campbell both have one plus-2 this season. I'm not one to drool over plus/minus rating, but when you're getting the type of even-strength ice time Marchand, Campbell and Thornton get, it can be a telling stat.
It's a stat that possibly might not have turned negative lately for Boston's rugged trio had a couple breaks gone their way.
In Buffalo, all three logged around 12 minutes of ice time and fired four shots on net apiece. All they had to show for it when the night was a Drew Stafford even-strength goal against after Thornton lost Derek Roy crossing the blue line – a mistake Thornton owned up to. But then there was also the controversial goaltender-interference call on Thornton, who was in the box for Stafford's game-winning goal. The call not only put the Bruins on the penalty kill, but negated a Marchand goal.
Against the Habs, it was a different story for Boston's lunch-pail line. All three players admitted today they just couldn't rev their motors enough against the Habs. It didn't help that the linesman chased Campbell away from the faceoff dot leading up to the goal Maxim Lapierre scored with the "Merlot Line" all on the ice. Nor were Boston's fourth-liners' efforts aided when Campbell was docked two minutes for roughing after he went to the defense of Marchand for a hit by P.K. Subban.
"I'm not usually one to criticize the referees. Usually it is what it is," said Campbell. "But that one, I could've dropped my gloves right away and jumped him. I intentionally didn't do that. It was a clean hit, but it was something where you want to send a message as a teammate. And so I went and asked him to fight. I felt I got the short end of the stick there, and I didn't really do much to deserve a two-minute roughing. At the end of the day, maybe I should've taken an instigator. It would've been the same result."
Thornton was rankled by that call as well.
"I thought [Campbell] got elbowed and slew-footed and ended up with a two-minute roughing penalty out of it," said Thornton. "Last time I checked, you're able to ask people to fight. That's not against the rules. But whatever."
With the officiating the only thing Marchand, Campbell and Thornton cant' control, it's refreshing to hear them take responsibility for their rough outing and talk about working even harder to avoid down nights the morning after a difficult loss. Head coach Claude Julien plans to have the "Merlot Line" continue to make its presence felt.
"I guess over the course of a season, you can't expect perfection," said Julien. "But they've been a good line for us and maybe it's been a little bit of a struggle for them the last couple games. But I still have a lot of confidence in them and they're still a line that when you need some energy and you need some momentum changes that go into your favor, they're a line that you can count on a lot."
From the sound of it, a couple nights filled with bad breaks and minus ratings won't get Marchand, Campbell and Thornton down, so there should be some evening filled with the on-ice equivalent of wine and roses in the "Merlot Line's" future.

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Asus Triton 77 Review
So you have gotten that new rig put together and are looking for an after-market heatsink to keep the temperature demons at bay. Just what do you do? There are so many on the market, it makes your head swim. Fan sizes ranging from 80mm to 140mm, heatpipes in all manner of configurations, copper, aluminum and hybrids. So, what is best for you? It all really comes down to performance and/or noise for most people. If you are staying with a stock (choke, cough, spit) system and need some piece of mind, a quiet replacement would be just fine. How about the all-out overclocker that pushes the limits? Noise falls to the wayside as just another item that does not matter in the quest for those last few MHz. So where does the Asus Triton 77 fall between these two extremes? Let's see if it belongs with the stock replacement crowd, or whether it can meet the demands of the enthusiast.
Closer Look:
The Asus Triton 77 comes in a standard retail package. The front panel shows the heatsink rushing to the forefront. The rear panel lists the specifications. The left panel highlight the facts that the Triton 77 helps reduce VRM temperatures by ten to fifteen degrees Celsius. The right hand side discusses the additional features, such as the updraft design and push pin mounting.
Going into the box, the first thing you get to is the mounting hardware. Underneath this is the instruction manual. The Triton 77 is packaged in a plastic clamshell to keep the movement during transit to a minimum. This method appeared to work, since no damage occurred.
Once pulled from the confines of the packaging, the Asus Triton 77 includes a user manual, as well as the mounting hardware. Included are a means to attach the cooler using stock methods, so no modification is needed to complete the installation. Intel as well as AMD are covered.
Let's look a little closer at the Triton 77 to see whats included with this CPU cooler, as well as look into its parts.


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[Those curious about the history of the Victorian Web (which began before the WWW in another hypermedia environment) might be interested to learn that this document was one of the very first written specifically for what became this site by someone outside Brown University. (The materials on public health that Professor Wohl also contributed came from his previously published book [GPL].]
By Victorian definition, savages have no true religion but only superstition. Thus Charles Mackay could generalize that Blacks practice fetishes and "mumbo jumbo." Contemporaries similarly remarked on the irreligion of the working classes, particularly what Mayhew termed their "rude idea of the Creator."
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Blind Items Revealed
August 8, 2013
This USA show B- list mostly television actor who is on a big hit for that network as a lead was indeed who did a header and gashed his forehead after falling from a bar stool at the place across from the E! building this week. About ten too many drinks because after the first ten, any are too many. Unless you are at home and in a low center of gravity. The paramedics came and treated him on the scene. Wisely he chose to not drive home.
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Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun stirred up some emotion and national pride when he premiered his new movie "Grigris," at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
The filmmaker, who was born in the troubled Central African republic of Chad, said the film received a 20-minute standing ovation from the festival audience, which included some Chad politicians.
"And I had the official delegation from the government, I had the ministry of culture crying, it was his first time in Cannes, I had also the ambassador of Chad in Paris and he was also crying," Haroun said.
He hopes that the recognition the film is receiving will give a much-needed boost to the African film industry.
"I think this is a kind of new step for the cultural policy in Chad," said Haroun.
"We need to be visible because Africa and African cinema is so invisible in a way and if you don't have cinema theatre in your own country, if you can't show your own production," he added. "It is very important to be in a place like (Cannes) because you can show images of your country to the whole world. And African cinema needs to exist you know."
Set in Chad, the film tells the story of a disabled dancer who clashes with a deadly gangster.
Souleymane Deme takes the lead role of a photographer who is paralyzed in one leg.
Despite his disability he knows how to dance and he entertains.
Deme said his dazzling dancers weren't too hard to devise.
"It was very easy. Haroun simply asked me to dance and I danced. It was I who created the scenes, I developed them, everything that you see on screen is what I brought to the role," he said. "There wasn't any rehearsal, we simply started shooting and I performed. It comes easily to me as well because I have been dancing professionally since I was a young man and I developed all my choreographies for the film."
The film also co-stars Anais Monory, who co-stars in the film as his love interest. The model and actress, who is French, said she was proud to represent her African roots at the festival with the film.
"Chad is a country that people don't think of and when they do it's often in correspondence with war. And so with something like this, something that we can be proud of, it's a victory."
— Louise Dixon and Adam Egan, http://www.twitter.com/loudixon and http://www.twitter.com/adamegan
The film world can be intoxicating to some people, but Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich isn't one of them —even after spending time at the Cannes Film Festival.
"Sometimes there could be a . shallowness to the film world," Ulrich during an interview at the festival. "There's a pretty high level of that, and so you have to kind of be aware of that as you wade through the film world."
He added: "I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but I'm sure I'm stating the obvious, but it's a little bit different from the rock and roll world in that way, so you've got to keep your antennas up.
Ulrich was on the French Riviera to promote the band's upcoming film "Through the Never," a 3-D film that blends concert footage of the band with a dramatic plot.
Ulrich said he felt like a "fish out of water" at Cannes: "(It's) is good because you should be out of your comfort zone."
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The Harry Potter books are getting a makeover.
Scholastic Inc. announced Wednesday that new covers have been commissioned for U.S. trade paperback editions of J.K. Rowling's blockbuster series. The first new cover, for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," replaces Mary GrandPre's iconic sandy-colored design of Harry in flight with a purplish-blue street setting by graphic novelist Kazu Kibuishi. The GrandPre illustrations will still be used for hardcovers and mass market paperbacks.
The new edition of "Sorcerer's Stone" is scheduled for September, the 15th anniversary of Potter's debut in the U.S. The British editions are published by Bloomsbury. They have long had separate designs from the U.S. versions.
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After the Civil War, Warrenton became a mecca for horse lovers. In 1883 the Warrenton Hunt was established and in 1900 the Warrenton Horse Show, which has achieved fame as the "Hunter Show of America," began. In 1922 the first Virginia Gold Cup Race was run. Other hunts, such as the Cassanova and the Old Dominion, are located within a few miles of town.
The quaintness, tradition and charm of bygone eras are apparent along Old Town Warrenton streets lined with historic houses and brick sidewalks. Townsfolk gather on the steps of the post office or at a coffee shop to pass the time of day, perhaps pausing to listen as the old courthouse clock strikes the hour. A blend of old and new businesses offer antiques, furniture, rugs, toys, books, artwork, clothing, jewelry, equestrian supplies and gifts. Specialty shops and a variety of fine restaurants satisfy the most discriminating palates. A thriving farmer's market offers home grown vegetables, preserves, baked goods, flowers and crafts. Located at 5th and Lee Streets, one block off Main Street, the market is open Wednesday and Saturday mornings from April through November.
Civil War History
The area is steeped with tradition of the Civil War. For a personal tour please contact one of the area's experts or visit one of our famous museums or battlefields. Personal Tours by Dave Goetz, president of Mosby's Confederacy, Inc.
The Old Jail Museum
Two buildings, 1808 and 1823, house Civil War revolutionary era Indian artifacts and Col. John S. Mosby exhibits. One of the oldest remaining jails in Virginia. Free.
Battlefield Tours
Manassas, Bull Run, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Battlefields and Parks are nearby. Ask the innkeeper for more information.
Horseback Riding, Fox Hunting and Equine Spectator Sports:
Great Meadow Gold Cup Races, Friday/Saturdaynight polo and other special events
Horseback riding in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Rides at 10 am, 12 noon, and 2 pm
Fox Hunting
Arrangements can be made through your innkeeper for fox-hunting six days per week. Hunt in Virginia's finest hunt country. Exquisite, made hunters are available for hire, or bring your own hunter and stay at the Black Horse Inn, where stalls are available for $55 per night.
Steeplechase Racing
Warrenton and the surrounding area has become the center of steeplechase racing in America. Twenty four race meets and point-to-points provide participants and spectators with opportunities to enjoy the color of the sport at scenic locations. Horses that are trained and ridden by professionals competed for purses that totaled over $700,000 dollars last year. Bring a tailgate picnic and enjoy beautiful spring or fall days at the races. (Spring: February-May, Fall: September-November)
Warrenton, Middleburg Classic and Upperville Colt and Horse Show
Participate or be a spectator at some of the finest horseshows in the area. Warrenton (A-rated) Labor Day weekend; Middleburg Classic (May); Upperville (June).
Virginia Gold Cup Association Races
Great Meadow Race Course, Routes 17 and 245--only 10 minutes from the Inn Advance tickets required. (May and October)
Vineyards & Wineries
There are over 50 farm wineries tucked away in valleys or nestled on the slopes of Virginia's rolling hills. Virginia ranks seventh nationally among commercial wine producing states behind California, New York, Oregon, Washington, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Virginia's wine tradition dates back to 1609 when Jamestown settlers fermented native American grapes and made the first wine in the New world. However, it was Thomas Jefferson, Virginia's original wine pioneer, whose travels as ambassador to France led him to recognize the similarity of Virginia's soil and climate to the great winemaking regions of Europe. Most recently, Virginia was named as the "nation's most promising emerging wine region" by the Wine Spectator. Virginia Wines consistently grab the national and international spotlight from their competitors.
Wine tours are featured in the Virginia Wineries Festival and Tour guide. The guide includes detailed regional maps that make it easy to locate not only individual wineries, but also to plan trips which will include several wineries in close proximity, such as those prominently featured in the Blue Ridge Wine Way. The guide also lists numerous wine festivals and special events which feature craft shows, live bands, grape stomping and more.
Bleu Rock Vineyard
Farfelu Winery
Gray Ghost Winery
Oasis Vineyards & Winery Inc
Pearmund Cellars Winery
Rappahannock Cellars
Unicorn Wineries
Chrysalis Vineyards
Horton Cellars Winery
Linden Vineyards
Naked Mountain Winery
Oakencroft Vineyard and Winery
Piedmont Vineyards & Winery
Prince Michel Winery
Rogers Ford Farm Winery
Shenandoah Vineyards
Swedenburg Estate Vineyards
Tarara Winery and Vineyard
Albermarle Wine Excursions
Reston Limousine
Guests can now indulge in Luxury tours to Virginia Wineries, restaurants, historic and tourist destinations. What a perfect way to view the majesty, history and tradition of Virginia and Washington, D.C. Oasis Limousine offers a diverse selection of vehicles ranging from sedans, stretch limousines and motor coaches to transport you in luxury safety and style.
Winery Tours
Fall foliage Tours
Washington D.C. Monuments
Skyline Drive Tours
Corporate Outings
Airport Transfers
Hiking and Boating
C.M. Crockett Park and Germantown Lake
County park with lake, great walking trails, picnic sites with grills, concessions, fishing boat rentals, pedal boats, Ropes Course for Corporate Teambuilding
Warrenton Greenway Trail System
Located only 1 mile from the Black Horse Inn.
Sky Meadows State Park
Hiking trails, riding trails, picnicing
Lake Brittle
Electric motor boats, row boats and canoes
Shenandoah Trail System
Please ask your innkeeper for a map and description of over 50 hiking trails in the Shenandoah Mountains, featuring Old Rag Mountain, Devils Staircase and White River Canyon.
Massage and Spa Services
Treat yourself to a day of beauty and relaxation while staying at the Black Horse Inn. Masseuses are available on an on-call basis. Please call our innkeeper for further details and information, as appointments are recommended well in advance of your stay. Full service spas are located only minutes away from the Inn, where a full range of services are provided including:
Deep Pore Cleansing Facial
Salt Glow Scrubs
Body Masques
Hair Design
Make-up Consultation and Application
There are a variety of interesting and challenging golf courses only a short drive away. Championship golf courses and practice facilities including driving ranges, practice greens and sand traps are available in the immediate area.
Bristow Manor
Fairview Golf Center
Kastle Greens
Prince William
Robert Trent Jones
South Wales
Stone Wall Golf Club
Virginia Oaks
The Flying Circus Air Show
Precision aerobatic flying, wing-walking antique open cockpit airplanes, hot-air ballooning, skydiving, rides available.
Monroe Park and Gold Mining Museum
Fourteen acre park with museum housing artifacts and gold mining history of the area.
The Black Horse Inn is a beautiful hunt-country estate, located less than one hour from Washington D.C. in Warrenton, the heart of Virginia's finest horse country. Enjoy the comforts of country living set in the elegance of the pre-Civil War era.
The Inn has ample porches, landscaped grounds, boxwood gardens and spectacular views. Many guests enjoy simply relaxing in the Inn's comfortable rooms and public areas, or strolling the grounds. Wildlife abounds, and white-tailed deer and red fox can be spotted in the fields.
The lovely boxwood garden, with its' white gazebo, offers a serene setting for afternoon tea or a pre-dinner cocktail...or choose the library, or one of the Inn's comfortable porches.
Tempting breakfasts are served in the main dining room, or on the sunny dining porch, and afternoon tea and sherry are provided. The library is stocked with an eclectic assortment of reading material and many classic films on video.
Take I-66 West to Exit 43A Lee Hwy/US-29 S toward Gainesville/Warrenton Continue on US-29 S for 10.5 miles and bear left toward Culpeper/Fredericksburg Take the next exit VA-643/Meetze Rd exit toward Warrenton/Lee St. Turn left on VA-643/Meetze Rd. The Black Horse Inn is located 1.6 miles on the left hand side of the road, just past Virginia Power and John Deere.
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Recent company layoffs - Panasonic Corp.
Panasonic Corp. Announced: Feb. 4 Number of layoffs: 15,000 jobs Reason for the cuts: The world's largest maker of plasma display TVs also announced a net loss for the October-December quarter and lowered its forecast for the fiscal year through March to a net loss of 380 billion yen ($4.2 billion), its first annual loss in six years. Panasonic blamed the dismal results on the global slowdown set off by the U.S. financial crisis, the rapid surge of the yen and sudden price drops. Sales slid in a wide range of products, including flat-panel TVs, DVD recorders, microwaves, lamps and semiconductors, it said.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Practice makes perfect, in theory, but not for Maria Sharapova.
The second-seeded Russian walloped Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium 6-1 6-0 on Sunday to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open in record time.
Sharapova, the champion in Melbourne in 2008, has dropped just five games in her opening four matches, an Australian Open best.
Only France's Mary Pierce, who dropped just four games on her way to the French Open quarter-finals in 1994, has been more ruthless.
Sharapova has spent just 249 minutes on court in four matches but said she did not feel any need to step up her practice as a result.
"The work that you put in before the tournament is the most important," Sharapova told reporters. "What you do in the offâseason, you're not going to put this work in during the tournaments.
"I actually love coming to tournaments. You practice less and just go and play matches. It's like the bestâcase scenario."
World number two Sharapova arrived in Melbourne without any match practice after pulling out of two warm-up events because of a sore neck.
Right from the off, the Russian has shown no sign of rustiness but she said there was often no way of telling how well she is going to play.
"The leadâup to the tournament, sometimes if you're playing really good in practice I get a little bit worried," she said.
"But I never do. I'm horrible in practice most of the time.
"(When that happens), I'm like, 'that's a great sign', because I come to the matches and my expectations are quite low.
"But it depends. Every grand slam that I've won or done well at, I've always felt different actually. Sometimes I feel like I'm not playing my best tennis in the beginning, but I start playing better.
"And then a couple that I've won, I felt like I was playing great from the beginning and I was able to carry that through the whole tournament."
In the quarter-finals, Sharapova will play another Russian, Ekaterina Makarova, for the second successive year and said she was aware that maintaining her barn-storming run was not going to be simple.
"It's always much easier said than done to keep that focus, especially when you have a (good) first set," she said.
"Maybe in the end of the second your opponent can start going for it a little bit more.
"All of a sudden, especially in women's tennis, things can change really quickly. It's really about sticking to your game-plan, being consistent, but playing your game.
"My next match is against Makarova. I have to do the right things to beat her.
"If I win that, it's moving on to the next one. That's how I go about a tournament, a grand slam. Obviously I want to be playing my best tennis towards the end of the second week."
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ROCHESTER — The following items are based on 983 entries on the Rochester Police Log from March 26 to 31:
Tuesday, March 26
12:32 a.m. — A loose brown horse is clumping around Hansonville Road.
8:47 a.m. — A nine-year-old has gotten into his dad's car and driven into the garage door. Oops!
10:51 a.m. — A chain saw stolen in Barrington has been pawned in Rochester.
11:59 a.m. — Two cases of fraud are reported at the station.
12:39 p.m. — A couple fight down by the pool at Hanson Pines nearby the school.
1:24 p.m. — Cumberland Farms on Knight Street has a dud $20 and a video of the young suspects.
2:34 p.m. — A Wellsweep Acres resident has been yelling, screaming and pounding walls in the night.
2:36 p.m. — A computer delivered inside a building on Pleasant Street by Fed Ex has been stolen.
3:54 p.m. — A Northgate apartment has been burgled and $60 stolen.
4:11 p.m. — Natasha A. Roberson, 32, of 123C North Main St., is arrested on a warrant.
4:41 p.m. — A hit-and-run has occurred at the Washington Street Shell.
8:12 p.m. — At Hannaford on North Main Street, an employee's cell phone is taken. Management resolves things internally.
6:48 p.m. — Meaghan Rice, 28, of 5 Lilac Drive, Apt. 26, is charged with theft by unauthorized taking.
8:10 p.m. — Vehicles race on Salmon Falls Road after one cuts the other off.
Wednesday, March 27
1:49 a.m. — Neighbors thump on a Pine Street floor.
9:36 a.m. — A Portland Street property manager reports criminal mischief.
9:53 a.m. — It's begun — toter one from a Lafayette home has gone.
10:24 a.m. — Shear Wonders reports a bounced check.
12:39 p.m. — Leo Grondin, 46, of 10 Sunrise Drive, is charged with issuing bad checks.
1:40 p.m. — Ashley Gosselin, 20, of 44A Pleasant St., Somersworth, is charged with willful concealment at Walmart.
2:40 p.m. — A Daffodil Hill Lane resident is asked not to play his music so loudly but "won't listen." Probably can't hear for all that darned music.
3:59 p.m. — A King Street woman reports a lantern has been stolen off the wall.
4:39 p.m. — Walmart spots a woman with a bunch of DVDs and thinks she is going to make a run for it.
Thursday, March 28
6:26 a.m. — A man breaks into a Northgate apartment, assaults the resident and steals cash.
9:23 a.m. — Tri-City Energy on South Main Street is the victim of a bad check.
10:44 a.m. — Brannigan Murphy, 26, of 2 Wellington Road, Dover, is charged with driving after suspension.
10:49 a.m. — A Willow Brook Drive woman is having boyfriend issues.
11:03 a.m. — A man begs for money on Columbus Avenue.
11:16 a.m. — Jacob Marchacos, 20, of 19 Ayers Court Drive, Barrington, is arrested on a bench warrant.
12:37 p.m. — Garbage toter number two, is stolen by a thieving crew, from an upright man and true. (Hi Dick.)
2:11 p.m. — A bicyclist wins a warning on Pine Street.
2:31 p.m. — A Kohl's shopper says two rugs were stolen from her cart in the parking lot. She believes the thief returned to the store for cash.
2:35 p.m. — Donald Andrew Libby, 46, of 16 Springfield Court, is arrested on a warrant.
4:19 p.m. — A lady slumbers suspiciously in a car on Chapman Drive.
4:46 p.m. — A Citizens Bank teller is sworn at by a non-customer hoping to cash a check.
5:32 p.m. — Chickens make a dash for freedom on Winter Street.
6:18 p.m. — Peter Lanciano, 23, of 363D Portland St., is charged with driving after suspension.
7:24 p.m. — Gerard L. Bergeron, 57, of 95 North Main St., is charged with two counts of simple assault.
8:24 p.m. — A Portland Street resident has been getting threatening texts.
8:50 p.m. — Joshua Wiederhold, 29, of 198 Exeter Road, Epping, is charged with receiving stolen property.
10:43 p.m. — Donald Edward Brooks, 46, of 17 McKinley St., is taken into protective custody.
Friday, March 29
1:00 a.m. — Megan C. Budaj, 21, of 9 Roseberry Lane, is charged with transportation of alcoholic beverages.
3:17 a.m. — A Wellsweep Acres man fears someone is tampering with his food and shampoo. Police investigate.
5:26 a.m. — A couple scream at each other at Colonnade Apartments.
10:34 a.m. — ID is found in an embankment at Rochester Crossing.
11:55 a.m. — Two bike complaints from near the court house are logged.
12:07 p.m. — A Winter Street woman filing her taxes finds her ID has been stolen.
12:47 p.m. — A North Main Street woman says her son has stolen and pawned her Play Station and carved things into the side of the building about her.
1:03 p.m. — Kyle M. Forest, 20, of 11 Olde Farm Lane, Apt. 1, is charged with receiving stolen property.
1:38 p.m. — A lady in the station lobby says someone stole a check from her this morning and cashed it.
2:05 p.m. — Garbage Toter number three, on Tebbetts they no longer see.
3:03 p.m. — A cell phone has been stolen from a Franklin Heights home.
4:59 p.m. — Jessica Whitcomb, 24, of 479 Main St., Farmington, is charged with conduct after an accident.
5:13 p.m. — Pamela J. Sirois, 51, of 16 Pine St., Apt. 14, is charged with disorderly conduct.
7:06 p.m. — Joshua Morrison, 31, of 10D Academy St., is charged with simple assault.
Saturday, March 30
12:16 a.m. — On Signal Street, a lady is heard to say, "Why don't you try and hit me again?" She got into an argument with her boyfriend because he was allegedly flirting with another lady. She was then "hit in the face with a beer can."
1:15 a.m. — Neighbors scream at each other on Glen Street.
1:15 a.m. — Frank's Taxi conveys a man from Somersworth to the Greenwood Motel. The passenger then pays $10 instead of $25 and disappears into Room 6. Police arrive and the fare is paid in full.
6:03 a.m. — Toters and mailboxes have been damaged in the Cross Road area.
7:47 a.m. — Petty cash has been stolen from Suite 1 on Airport Drive.
9:23 a.m. — Grammy and Grampy's Gift Baskets are pestered by a panhandler who then throws trash at the window.
10:56 a.m. — A car window is smashed with a rock on Ledgeview Drive.
12:05 p.m. — Police are asked to check on kayakers behind Moores Court.
12:33 p.m. — A man on South Main Street says someone in a passing car pointed a gun at him.
3:40 p.m. — Kohl's pursues a shoplifter and gets back some of the merchandise. Then the thief calls the store and says she would like to bring the rest back on Monday.
3:48 p.m. — Heather Ryder, 23, of 11 Day Lily Lane, is charged with willful concealment at Walmart.
3:56 p.m. — An injured hawk on Airport Drive will be taken care of by the caller.
7:38 p.m. — Nicholas Mitchell, 29, of 13 Moores Court, is charged with two counts of simple assault.
9:40 p.m. — Erick Whitney, 44, of 173C North Main St., is charged with obstructing the report of a crime or injury and with resisting arrest.
9:51 p.m. — A Chestnut Street man is destroying his own apartment and screaming at himself. Yup.
10:06 p.m. — There's more screaming on Silver Street. They're told to keep it down.
10:30 p.m. — Music is cranked on Richardson Street.
Sunday, March 31
12:00 p.m. — A boy, brought by his dad to skate in Holy Rosary parking lot, nigh meets with an unpleasant fate, a lady "crazed", or just a clot, drives in and nearly takes him out, then circles round and round about, her passengers all demonstrate a fine command of English — not!
3:26 p.m. — A raccoon raises an alarm on Cove Court.
3:56 p.m. — Chickens in a coop on Friendship Street are scattered by a big brown pit bull. The owner gets them all back eventually.
4:21 p.m. — David Cormier, 19, of 8 Elm St., Milton, is arrested on two warrants and charged with stalking.
6:45 p.m. — People have been getting into a woman's apartment at Northgate.
8:46 p.m. — A neighbor of the 103 Restaurant can't hear her TV for the loud music. She feels she should get a break on Easter Sunday.


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- VMware vSphere 5.x
- A power failure on the SAN causes one datastore to no longer be visible on all ESX hosts.
- Prior to the outage, the LUN was presented and visible to all ESX hosts.
|Article Summary:
This article provides information on how to troubleshoot when a Datastore is missing after SAN power failure but LUN is presented and visible on ESX..
To resolve this issue:
To identify the devices presented to the ESX Server, run the command:
esxcfg-vmhbadevs -q
To identify datastores and the associated devices, run the command:
esxcfg-vmhbadevs -m
For the datastore that is missing, you see a message similar to:
cannot open volume /vmfs/volumes/4569-08764-eb45-2347a/
Compare the list from the output of step 1 with the output of step 2 to identify the device which is missing.
For example, if you see
/dev/sdl in the output of step 1, but it does not appear in the output of step 2,
/dev/sdl is the missing device.
To verify the disk is set to VMFS, run the command:
fdisk -lu device
For example:
fdisk -lu /dev/sdl
If this is correct, verify that the magic number is correct by running the command:
hexdump -c /dev/sdl
After verifying that it is correct, run a rescan by running the command:
esxcfg-rescan vmhbaX
Where X is the appropriate number in your environment.
Check the /var/log/vmkernel log for a Failed to reserve volume error. If the error exists, perform a LUN reset.
For example:
vmkfstools -L lunreset /vmfs/devices/disks/vmhba1\:1\:0\:0
Check the /var/log/vmkernel log to verify that the LUN reset succeeded by searching for the device reset message.
Mount the datastore by running the command:
vmkfstools -V
If the datastore still does not mount, this indicates that there is a lock on the Storage Processor, as none of the ESX hosts have the datastore presented. Since the lock will not be from another ESX host at this point, try trespassing the LUN from one storage processor to another, and then rescan the HBA on the host. The datastore mounts successfully after the rescan.
These steps are only valid if one device is missing after an event.
Identificación del artículo: SLN288151
Última fecha de modificación: 11/08/2013 12:00 AM
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- 1/2 pound ground veal
- 1/2 pound ground beef chuck
- 1/2 pound ground pork
- 1/2 cup finely chopped yellow onion
- 1/2 teaspoon finely chopped garlic
- 1/4 cup finely chopped green onions or scallions (green part only)
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup fine dried bread crumbs
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 3/4 teaspoon cayenne
- 16 small cloves garlic, peeled
- 1/4 cup bleached all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon Emeril's Creole Seasoning
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups thinly sliced yellow onions
- 1 (12-ounce) bottle Abita amber beer or other amber beer
- 1 cup water
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
- 1 large (26 to 28 inches long) loaf French bread
- 6 tablespoons Creole or whole grain mustard
- 6 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1/2 pound provolone cheese, thinly sliced
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the ground meats, chopped yellow onion, chopped garlic, green onions, egg, bread crumbs, Worcestershire, 1 teaspoon of the salt, and 1/2 teaspoon of the cayenne. Mix well with your hands and form into 16 meatballs. Insert a garlic clove in the center of each meatball and pinch the meat around it. Combine the flour and Creole seasoning in a shallow plate. Roll the meatballs evenly in the flour mixture, tapping off any excess. Reserve any remaining flour. In a large skillet, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the meatballs and brown evenly, using a spoon to turn them.
- Remove the meatballs from the pan and set aside. With a wooden spoon, scrape the bottom of the pan to loosen any brown bits. Stir in the reserved seasoned flour. Stir constantly for 3 to 4 minutes to make a dark brown roux. Add the sliced onions and season with the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon cayenne. Cook, stirring constantly, until the onions are slightly soft, about 2 minutes. Slowly pour in the beer and water and mix well. Bring to a boil and return the meatballs to the skillet. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, for about 1 hour, until the gravy is thick, turning and basting the meatballs with the pan gravy about every 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and skim off any fat that has risen to the surface. Add the parsley. Cut the loaf of bread lengthwise in half. Spread one half with the mustard and the other half with the mayonnaise. Arrange the provolone on the bottom half of the bread, overlapping the slices, then arrange the meatballs on top of the cheese. Spoon the gravy over the meatballs. Top with the remaining bread half, cut into 6 equal portions, and serve immediately.
Recipe Details
- Source: Emeril Live EM1C75
- Dish Type: Sandwiches


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David Pollak presents Lift's design and how the same design decisions were applied to Clojure/ClojureScript/AngularJS. Lift is a web framework with support for server-push.
David Pollak founded Visi.Pro, Cloud Computing for the Rest of Us along with the Visi Language open source project. David founded the Lift Web Framework and continuously contributes to Lift. David wrote Beginning Scala and ran the first Scala-focused conferences. In the past David wrote software for NextStep (which has morphed into iOS) including Mesa, the world's first real-time spreadsheet.
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Heavener wins scrimmage, but host Spiro dominates game-situation phase
SPIRO — This year, the opposing teams of Heavener and Spiro squared off in football purely on a scrimmage basis. Heavener is in Class 2A and Spiro is in 3A. Next year, they will be in the same district, and will face each other later in year when the stakes will be considerably larger.Friday night's scrimmage at McClain Stadium started off with the junior varsity going on the field. Heavener started off on offense and the Wolves could not move the ball against the Bulldogs. In the first series of plays downs, the Heavener "11" staggered out of the blocks as they were only able to gain 25 yards on 12 plays.


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—IEBlog Editor, 21 August 2012
Hi my name is Markus Mielke and I am a Program Manager working with Chris Wilson on CSS and platform support. Today, I would like to talk about DOM Inspectors for IE.
For analyzing web pages and drilling down into problems on a page it becomes more and more important to have a DOM Inspector handy. Not a full fledged debugger but something quick that allows a user to explore their HTML document and understand everything going on with a specific element. For example, a window will display a tree view of the document. As the user clicks in the tree view, the corresponding element in the document will be outlined. Next to the tree view will be detailed information about the element – attributes set, styles etc. FireFox, for example, enables a DOM inspector at install time. Since IE does not have an inspector natively integrated I hear a lot of rumblings in the community expressing a need for a DOM inspector in IE.
The truth is that there already are a wide variety of DOM Inspectors out for IE. One of our best kept secrets is our extensibility story that enables 3rd parties to build rich add-ons on top of IE (go check out marketplace). One of the obvious drawbacks is that these add-ons are harder to discover than if they would come in the box. On the other hand they provide the freedom to choose the one that fits your needs best. Go test them out for yourselves and be the judge!
- DOM Inspector http://www.download.com/IE-DOM-Inspector/3000-2378_4-10366322.html?tag=lst-0-1
- DOM SPY http://www.download.com/DOMSpy/3000-2048_4-10374297.html?tag=lst-0-2
- Web Accessibility toolbar http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar/
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The VanEck Emerging Markets Fund (the "Fund") seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing in equity securities in emerging markets around the world.
*Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio is the price of a stock divided by its earnings per share. Price-to-Book (P/B) ratio is the ratio of a stock's price to its book value.
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*Returns less than one year are not annualized.
The tables present past performance which is no guarantee of future results and which may be lower or higher than current performance. Returns reflect temporary contractual fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements. Had the Fund incurred all expenses and fees1, investment returns would have been reduced. Expenses: Class Y: Gross 1.15% and Net 1.10%. Expenses are capped contractually through 05/01/19 at 1.10% for Class Y. Investment returns and Fund share values will fluctuate so that investors' shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Fund returns assume that dividends and capital gains distributions have been reinvested in the Fund at NAV.
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1Van Eck Associates Corporation (the "Adviser") has agreed to waive fees and/or pay Fund expenses to the extent necessary to prevent the operating expenses of the Fund (excluding acquired fund fees and expenses, interest expense, trading expenses, dividends and interest payments on securities sold short, taxes and extraordinary expenses) from exceeding 1.60% for Class A, 2.50% for Class C, 1.00% for Class I, and 1.10% for Class Y of the Fund's average daily net assets per year until May 1, 2019. During such time, the
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The goal of the WaterART Certification programs is to provide the highest standard of theoretical, practical and leadership skills to become an excellent Instructor, Trainer, Specialist or Fitness Consultant. Certification Programs are divided into 2 categories:
1) Comprehensive Certification
2) Specialty Certification
Comprehensive Examination Certification requires that each candidate complete both a theory exam and a practical assessment to become fully Certified.
Specialty Examination Certification requires that candidates who are currently WaterART Certified, only need to complete the theory component of the exam process to renew and achieve another level of qualification. Any candidate NEW to WaterART Fitness or expired in their qualifications will be required to complete BOTH the theory and practical assessment to become fully Certified. Note that if an Instructor is only Water Certified and wish to become Land Certified - they will be required to do complete a Land Practical Assessment. The same applies to Land Certified Instructors if they wish to become Water Certified will have to complete both parts of the exam process. All
candidates have up to six months from the purchase date or the onsite
training date to complete the examination process without penalty,
except the Instructor Certification onsite, which must be
completed within 4 months after the training. Exams submitted after deadline, will be subjected to a $35.00 late for each exam.Those candidates completing a Speciality certification for renewal and have expired, will be required to pay a late renewal fee and be required to complete the practical assessment.
If a candidate has multiple Certifications, all Certifications will have the same common renewal date (which is two years from the passing date of the newest exam). When successfully completing another level of Certification before the candidates expiration date, there will be no fee will be required and candidates will automatically be issued electronic Certification Diplomas from the passing date. If hard copies of the Certification Diploma are required (shipped) candidates will be charged shipping fees. See options.
All candidates will need to maintain their own Emergency Safety Qualifications such as either a CURRENT Life-guard Qualification OR a valid CPR/FIRST AID/AED. This is written on the Certification Diploma that the qualification is only valid when Emergency Safety Qualifications are current (as dates typically do not coincide with your WaterART Certification). Comprehensive Certification Programs that require both theory & practical assessment to complete examination process are:
Shallow H2O Instructor Certification (Group Exercise),
Senior H2O Instructor Certification (Group Exercise),
Aquatic Personal Trainer Specialist Certification (One on one) ,
Aquatic Rehabilitation Specialist Certification (Athletic Populations)
Aquatic Rehabilitation Specialist Certification (General Populations)
Weight Management Consultant Certification (Group Exercise or One on One),
Aquatic Sports Conditioning Instructor Certification (Group Exercise or One on One),
Land Instructor Certification
Land Senior Instructor Certification
Land Senior Sit & Stand Instructor Certification
Additional Candidates who will also require Practical Assessments
Anyone new to WaterART Fitness
Anyone without a Comprehensive Certification (completing a Specialty Certification)
Your first Land Fitness Certification with WaterART
Your first Water Fitness Certification with WaterART
Additionally, anyone may request a practical assessment for any level of qualification that they feel they would be better served to have their practical skills reviewed
Speciality Certification Programs (require only a theory examination if your WaterART Certification is currently valid. Completing another level of Certification automatically upgrades your existing qualifications as well as gives you more qualifications for 2 years from passing date. )
Aquatic Arthritis Instructor Certification
Land Arthritis Instructor Certification
Aquatic Mind-Body Instructor Certification
Aquatic Kids Instructor Certification
Aquatic Parent & Tot/Toddler Instructor Certification
Aquatic Pre & Post Natal Instructor Certification
Managing a Healthy Weight Instructor Certification
Aquatic Common Movement Disorders Instructor Certification
Land Common Movement Disorders Instructor Certification
Aquatic Shape Up & Water Train Instructor Certification
Water Walking Instructor Certification
Aquatic Running Instructor Certification
Aquatic Deep Instructor Certification
Additionally, all candidates will need to maintain their own Emergency Safety Qualifications such as either a current Life-guard Qualification OR basic CPR/First Aid/AED prior to becoming full qualified and certified to meet industry standards. Please note that some employers may require more advanced emergency safety qualifications so we recommend that you check with your employer prior taking your emergency safety qualifications. Each organization for emergency safety has unique standards. Candidates are required to keep their own emergency safety qualifications up to date. Each Certification Diploma has this stated on the diploma that emergency safety must be valid for full Certification and Qualifications. Please email us any questions.
Completing 5 levels of WaterART Certification to be listed as a Gold Certified and have a website page on www.waterart.org. If you are a WP member, your discount will increase to 25% level.
How to submit the THEORY portion of the exam
1) Emailing the answers Click Here to Email Answers
2) Snail mailing the hard copy of the exam (address below)
When emailing the Theory Exam: Candidates simply type the question number and then their answer (no need to retype the questions). Be sure to include candidates name, address and current email. WaterART confirms all exams via email or phone (if the candidate doesn't have a working email address). WaterART confirm all emails.
*Please note we cannot read faxed or scanned documents for theory exams so please mail or email. Additionally, WaterART cannot download from video websites or other websites because of viruses and cannot risk nor compromise our system. OR when Mailing hard copy of exam (keep a copy and we suggest getting a tracking number but no signature required on package details) If you live in USA, please mail to: WaterART Fitness International Inc, 210 South 8th Street, Lewiston NY 14092
If you live in CANADA, please mail to: WaterART Fitness International Inc, 83 Galaxy Blvd Unit 19, Toronto, ON M9W 5X6
You have two options to complete your practical assessments:
1) Book onsite Practical Assessment directly with a Certified WaterART Master Trainer(MT)/Assessors (please make the time mutually convenient with the Master Trainer)or
2) Submit a Video via a DVD or USB stick flash drive of your program. (45-60 minutes depending on program). We recommend .AVI, MT., MOV, MP4 or VLC format. The video should follow the lesson plan as written out in your theory examination. WaterART
recommends keeping the video program simple (without too many people in
the video). In fact, you may even pretend to teach someone (we call
that ghost teaching). The goal is the practical assessment is to see YOU
(the candidate) demonstrate skills, competencies, and the specific
exercise design applications understanding exercise safety. The
examiner must be able to see and hear the candidate teaching a safe,
effective & enjoyable exercise program to evaluate the program.
Realize filming doesn't have to be professionally filmed - but we do
review entire session and cross reference with your theory so review
prior to mailing final copy. The marking guidelines are in the back of each manual for your reference.
We do not allow emailing or dropboxing a video file because of
liability and copyright laws. Should you like the USB stick
returned - please send a self addressed stamped envelope with the
original package.
3) Please note that All candidates for Aquatic Personal Training, Aquatic Rehabilitation, Weight Management Consultant are required to submit a practical video because the onsite training takes far too long case study (via USB stick or DVD submission only). We do evaluate these programs very carefully so we make sure you have completed the entire case study properly which involves cross referencing your theory case study with your practical teaching methodology.
The Onsite Practical Assessment involves with Certified Master Trainer: teaching other instructors who attend the assessment session or the Master Trainer if this is an individual assessment. When there are several people in a group- the group acts as the class for the person being assessed (as they can learn from each others performances). The goal is to assess how each instructor completes the competencies required for the practical (see below). Each Instructor planning on-site assessment must attend the pre-arranged group session or work with the MT at a convenient time & location, once you are scheduled to do so. If you cannot attend you MUST give 24 hours notice and re-schedule.
Each Candidate will put together a 30 minute abbreviated class ( with or without music) The session may be done either on land (as if you are teaching on deck OR in the water) Be sure to have your lesson plan written out and be prepared to modify or progress a lesson plan to suit both swimmers and non swimmers.
Candidates should be able to demonstrate the ability to show a variety of basic moves though working positions. The 30 minute lesson plan should include:
a) teaching a 5-10 minute warm up (be sure to introduce yourself and include safety and basic skills)
b) teaching a 3-5 minute Cardiovascular segment (intensity depends on program). Be sure to monitor and regulate intensity and provide modifications and progressions.
c) teaching two 3-5 minute Muscular Strength /functional fitness segments or sets (be sure to perform enough sets & repetitions)
d) teach a 5-10 minute Warm Down/Cool Down to help with relaxation and stretching of the tight musculature. Add proper closure to the program.
You are evaluated based on:
1) Do you understand the exercise objective?
2) Can we see, hear and understand your coaching and teaching tips ?
3) Is the exercise safe and effective? ( we do deduct 5 marks for any dangerous exercises)
4) Are the client(s) enjoying the program? Did you show how to modify and/or progress the exercises?
WaterART is Exercise with a Purpose - become Qualified & Competent!
Certification Report and Diploma: When all parts of the certification are completed (as specified above), report cards are written and emailed to you. Once you are successful - you will receive an official WaterART Certified Diploma, Certified status and an online profile.
For a better understanding of where a practical assessment is required please check the chart below.
**If you are required to complete a practical
Comprehensive Exam Process for Certifications
Shallow & Deep H20 Instructor Certification via Onsite Training (Land or Water)
4 months for onsite 6 months home study
Onsite Assessment orVideo or DVD/USB stick
Shallow & Deep H20 Instructor Certification via Home Study (Land or Water)
6 months
Seniors Instructor Certification via Onsite Training or Home Study (Land or Water or Sit & Stand)
Personal Trainer Certification via Onsite Training or Home Study (Water)
Submit 5 Personal training assessments and suggested programs for weeks 1 4 & 8 Must submit Video or DVD/USB stickof one program card.
Rehabilitation Instructor (General Populations or Athletic Populations) Certification via Onsite Training or Home Study (Water)
Submit Video or DVD/USB stick demonstrating 3 stages of a case study with a client
Weight Management Consultant Certification via Onsite Training or Home Study (Land or Water)
Onsite Assessment of one week of presentation or Video or DVD/USB stick
Sports Conditioning Instructor Certification
Onsite Assessment or Video or DVD/USB stick
Specialty Certification Exam Process for the following programs: (Note: Candidates do not require practical assessment if WaterART qualifications are current)
Shallow H20 Instructor Certification via Onsite Training or Home Study (Land or Water)
No, unless it is your first water certification with us OR Cert is expired
Deep H20 Instructor Certification via Onsite Training or Home Study (Land or Water)
Arthritis Instructor Certification via Onsite Training or Home Study (Land or Water)
Kids Instructor Certification via Onsite Training or Home Study(Water)
Onsite Assessment or Video or DVD/USB stick
Pre & Post Natal Instructor Certification via Onsite Training or Home Study (Water)
Managing a Healthy Weight InstructorCertification via Onsite Training or Home Study (Land or Water)
No, unless it is your first water certification withus OR Cert is expired Yes
Mind Body Instructor Certification via Onsite Training or Home Study (Water)
No unless it is your first water certification with us OR Cert is expired
Shape Up and WaterTraining Certificationvia Onsite Training or Home Study (Water)
No unless it is your first water certification with us OR Cert is expired
Water Walking Instructor Certification
Parent & Tot/Toddler Instructor Certification via Onsite Training or Home Study
Common Movement Disorders Instructor Certification via Onsite Training or Home Study (Land or Water)
Aquatic Running Instructor Certification
Onsite Assessment or Video or DVD/USB stick stick
Onsite Assessment or VHS Video/DVD submission/USB stick
In order to maintain the certified status see Re-Certification process CLICK HERE.
If you are having difficulty with any exam you may email us your questions at any time.
The Candidate must score a grade of 75% on all exams to become certified.
All re-write of theory exams or re-takes of practical assessments are $35.00 / exam per attempt.
After a year without completion you will be required to forfeit the program or exam and re-do the program.
Note: Certified Instructors or Trainers are eligible for Liability Insurance coverage through OFC in Canada or Sport & Fitness USA.
How to Complete WaterART Certification Process
Renewal Procedures
Certification Renewal Procedures (PDF)
Certification Standards
Refund & Cancellation Policies
Gold Certified Instructors - a Professional has completed 5 levels of Certification
Should you have any questions - please email us


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114 Dead in Clashes, Blast as Protesters Tell Assad 'You'll Die in Syria'
[An Nahar] At least 114 people were killed in violence across Syria on Friday as thousands of anti-regime protesters
erupted into the streets
, monitors said.
The Local Coordination Committees, a network of activists on the ground, said regime forces killed at least 90 people in several regions.
Thirty people were killed in Deir Ezzor in the east, 16 in
...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy...
and its countryside, 13 in
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
in the north, eight in Daraa in the south, eight in the central province of Hama, six in the central province of Homs, six in the northwestern Idlib, one in al-Raqqa in the northeast, one in the neighboring al-Hasakeh and one in Quneitra which is located in the small part of the Golan Heights that is not occupied by Israel, the LCC said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 12
non-combatants were killed
in shelling of a village in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, with a video released by activists showing bloodied corpses, including at least one of a child, lying in the middle of a road.
Warplanes were meanwhile flying over Damascus to bomb targets in rebel-held suburbs, an Agence
La Belle France
Presse correspondent said, and heavy
s could be heard around the capital in the early morning.
Some of the heaviest fighting saw at least 20 Syrian soldiers killed over the Ras al-Ain border post, one of only two crossings on the Turkish border still in regime hands, the Observatory said.
Fighting over the post left at least 16 Syrian soldiers and 10 rebels dead on Thursday, the Observatory said, and forced thousands to flee.
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
car boom
outside a mayor's office in the town of Muadamiyat al-Sham south of Damascus killed four civilians, according to the
-based rights group.
A woman was among those killed in the town, about 10 kilometers (six miles) south of the Syrian capital.
Despite the raging violence, thousands of protesters rallied on Friday, with many mocking Assad's "live and die" remarks.
"Bashar, you will die in Syria, but you won't be buried in the ground, you will be thrown in the dustbin of history!" read one sign held by protesters in the central city of Hama.
On Thursday, 142 people were killed in violence across the country, including 56 civilians, said the
-based Observatory, which relies on a network of activists and medics on the ground.
Among the heaviest
on Thursday were battles for control of the mainly Kurdish northeastern town of Ras al-Ain on the Turkish border that killed 16 soldiers and 10 rebels, according to the Observatory.
A Turkish foreign ministry official told AFP that 8,000 refugees had fled to Turkey from the area overnight and that six Turkish civilians had been
by shots from across the border.
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2 fires, 63 minutes
Newton Fire Department's resources were strained Monday night after firefighters were called to two structure fires in slightly more than an hour.
Monday's two structure fires in 63 minutes are part of a larger trend this year for Newton Fire Department. Fire Chief Kevin Yoder said structure fires are more common in the winter, but the department has recently noticed more fires occurring on the same day at about the same time.
"When it rains, it pours," Yoder said.
Newton firefighters were called at 8:39 p.m. to a possible structure fire at Family Coin Laundry at 1820 N. Main Ave. in Newton. They arrived on the scene to find smoke coming from one of the business' industrial-size, front-loading dryers and a vent at the top of the building, Yoder said.
The fire started from debris trapped inside the dryer filter.
"Even if those filters are changed at the rate they're supposed to be, a certain amount of debris is still inside," Yoder said, adding that the heat of the industrial dryer caused the debris to catch fire.
He said the fire wasn't caused by the laundromat failing to change its filters regularly.
Three engines, a ladder company and 22 firefighters responded to the Family Coin Laundry fire. Responders were still on the scene when the emergency communications center received a call for a second structure fire at 848 Meadow Lane Drive in Newton off Southwest Boulevard.
Because of Newton's resources, the department "pretty much has to send out everything" when responding to a reported structure fire, Yoder said.
Two engines and one ladder company left Family Coin Laundry to respond to Meadow Lane, and Newton firefighters also called Maiden Fire Department for mutual aid.
Newton Fire Department arrived at Meadow Lane Drive at 9:42 p.m. and discovered a fully involved fire in a outbuilding behind a residence.
Yoder said Newton's firefighters realized they had enough personnel to handle the outbuilding fire, and Maiden Fire Department was re-routed as its men traveled to the scene. Instead of returning to their station, however, Maiden's firefighters stayed at Newton's fire station in case another fire broke out.
The fire at Meadow Lane Drive was under control in about 7 minutes, but the building and its contents were destroyed. The 144-square-foot building was valued at $3,000, and its contents were valued at $1,000.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Yoder said there were no power sources to the building. Newton fire investigators are conducting interviews to determine possible causes.
No one was injured in the fires Newton responded to Monday night. Yoder said the fires, although they happened about the same time, are unrelated.
In another incident
One person was sent to the hospital late Monday night after a fire caused by a faulty clothes dryer.
Hickory Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire at 2266 Ninth Ave. Drive NE in Hickory and discovered flames coming from the house.
Firefighters responded initially with two engines, one ladder truck and a command vehicle. Because of the size of the fire, however, an additional engine and rescue truck were also called to the scene.
Damage to the house was estimated at $60,000, and one of the home's occupants was transported to the hospital for observation.
Investigators later determined the fire was caused by a clothes dryer equipment failure.


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Small businesses seeking powerful, cutting-edge technology that can expand as their businesses grow.
Next-Generation Intel® Technology
With next-generation Intel® Core™ i5 processors under its hood, the Dell Vostro 430 lets you work—and keep working—beyond the limits of ordinary small-business desktops
Visually Stunning Performance
From features like built-in discrete graphics to support for next-generation Windows® 7 multi-touch technology, the Vostro 430 lets you see, share and collaborate at work like never before.
Expandable and Future-Ready
While the Vostro™ 430 offers ample technology out of the box, you can choose the extra features you need to ensure you stay on budget and on task.
Support That Stands Behind YouWhen your business demands time, your technology shouldn't. The Vostro 430 offers a suite of customisable service and support solutions designed specifically for small business
- Extend your basic limited hardware warranty* from 1-3 years to enable protection into the future
- Get help when you need it with DellConnect™ *, which allows tech-support agents to troubleshoot and help repair system issues remotely
- Choose your own level of 24x7 IT support with optional Dell ProSupport™ services*
- Get additional protection for your valuable data with optional Dell DataSafe™ Online Backup. (DataSafe not available in all regions.)
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All drives include Cyberlink PowerDVD DX
All write drives include Roxio Creator 10 DE. Options available in single and dual drive configurations.
- Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services (up to 3 year subscription)
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Vostro™ Services and Support
You asked for a complete package. We listened.
Vostro was created with your small business in mind, which is why Dell offers comprehensive services and support specifically designed for your business.
From business hardware and accidental damage protection, to installation, trouble-shooting and online PC training options. You can be confident of the right support - to help keep your business running smoothly.
Standard with Every Vostro Desktop
- Easy to set up systems tailored with pre-selected software based on your business needs
- One-year Next-Business-Day On-Site Service after Remote Diagnosis* and Limited Hardware Warranty Support
- Convenient telephone support and time-saving service for hardware
- Peace of mind with dedicated small business support technicians ready to help you with troubleshooting and repair tools like DellConnect™ *
Optional Support ServicesDell ProSupport for End-Users – Dell ProSupport goes beyond the hardware protection of your basic limited hardware warranty, and can give your business things like fast access to highly trained technicians, and help with more than just your Dell hardware.
Dell understands you don't have time to worry about your IT problems. That's why with Dell ProSupport we let you choose the level of service that is right for you. If you don't have a full time IT professional on staff, then we recommend Dell ProSupport for End-Users for your business. It provides you and your employees with the business support you need, including:
- Fast Access to a certified technician in an average of two minutes or less support.
- More of the "how-to-help" you need, which includes help with popular small business software applications like Microsoft® Office, Quickbooks® , Adobe® Acrobat® and Photoshop® , as well as help configuring simple wired or wireless networks.
- A single point of contact when something goes wrong with collaborative support. If the cause of your problem is due to software, or your non Dell hardware, we'll utilize our relationship with select third-party vendors and act as your single point of contact for issue resolution.
Keep Your Hard Drive – In the event of a hard drive failure while your hard drive is under warranty, we won't ask you to send us your old hard drive in order to send you a new one. We recognize your hard drive contains sensitive data that is crucial to you business, so we let you decide how and when to dispose of it.
Hard Drive Data Recovery – Can help recover data for customers who have a failed hard drive and have not backed up their data. We'll arrange to pick up your failed hard drive and our data protection team will work to recover your data. You can even track the status of your recovery project online.
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Optional Installation and Maintenance ServicesDell's installation and maintenance services give you the help you need to get your systems up and running as quickly as possible so you can focus on more important business matters.
- On-Site System Setup - Choose custom hardware, software and peripherals for your new PCs, and let Dell professionals install them for you.
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Optional Repair ServicesDell makes it easy to get help fast when your business needs it. All Vostro systems include a standard 1-year parts and labor Limited Hardware Warranty*, with the option to extend it for up to 3 years.
- Optional Extended Limited Hardware Warranty - Extend your limited hardware warranty up to 4 years to help protect your systems from costly downtime, lost productivity, or high cost of out-of-warranty repairs.
- CompleteCover™ Accidental Damage Protection* – Provides an easy and flexible repair and replacement service for most accidental damage. Helps you save time, money and resources in the event of an unplanned event such as spills, drops, breakages, or electrical surges for up to 4 years.


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Dolphins ink DL Martin
Davie, FL – The Miami Dolphins signed free-agent defensive lineman Vaughn Martin on Thursday.
Over the course of his four-year career, all with the San Diego Chargers, the University of Western Ontario product has registered 78 tackles and three sacks.
"We are excited that Vaughn is a member of the Dolphins," Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland said. "He is an athletic player that we feel will make a positive impact and bring depth to the defensive side of the ball."
Martin is the 12th player Miami has signed since free agency began two weeks ago, including five who were with the Dolphins last year.


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This is the 32nd in a series on the Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company.
Continuing on with our series on Booby Traps in the hospital, today I'm writing about the newborn bath, and how its timing can pose a barrier to breastfeeding.
Remember the first video you ever saw of a birth? For moms of my generation that was probably in a school health class. For you younger moms it might have been online. But either way, one of your first impressions might have been: "Wow, that baby is kinda goopy."
Yes, our little guys can make a pretty messy entrance into the world, but some gentle toweling off (ideally while on the mom's chest) can go a long way to removing the goop. What the evidence strongly suggests, however, is that dealing with it by whisking a baby away to its first bath is dangerous in several ways. It's clearly bad for maintaining the baby's temperature, and – you guessed it – it's harmful to breastfeeding, too.
Why? Because a baby's instincts to crawl to the breast – the whole sequence of newborn behaviors, in fact – is in part connected to the baby's sense of smell. In the Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding, Linda Smith explains:
The senses of smell and touch are especially powerful triggers of infant and maternal behavior, because the nerve fibers lead directly to the amygdala, the seat of emotional memory and fear conditioning. The newborn's sense of smell is especially acute in the first hours, triggering breast-seeking behaviors and movements. Washing or bathing the mother or baby removes olfactory cues that support breastfeeding and attachment, and thus should be avoided.
Nowhere is this more evident that in the "breast crawl" (also referred to as "self attachment"): the instinctual movements of the newborn toward the breast in the first hour or so after birth. The groundbreaking research by Righard in 1990, showed a marked difference in "breast crawl" behaviors between babies who were removed for bathing and measurements than babies who weren't.
The sense of smell, and particularly the smell of amniotic fluid on the baby and a similar smell at the mother's breast, appears to be one factor unlocking this sequence of instinctive behaviors. This is also borne out by the fact that when a baby's hands are washed, she is less likely to do the instinctual hand-to-mouth movements typically seen in the first hour after birth.
(And you probably won't be surprised to hear that babies will turn toward pads which contain their mothers' breast scent, but not toward an unscented pad.)
For these reasons, the first California Department of Public Health (to name one of many health authorities) recommends in its Model Hospital Toolkit:
Babies are usually most ready to breastfeed during the first hour following birth. For the normal newborn this should occur prior to such interventions as: the newborn bath, glucose sticks, foot printing, and eye treatments.
During the first day of life, skin-to-skin time and breastfeeding should take priority over other routine events such as infant bathing, pictures, and visitors. [my emphasis]
It's also for these reasons that the WHO recommends, in an international context: "Ensure warmth by delaying the baby's first bath to after the first 24 hours."
My husband and I didn't bathe either of our babies for a while, because – in spite of my 16 year old-self's reaction in health class years ago – it was really the furthest thing from my mind. My husband's attitude was: "They have the rest of their lives to get clean. They won't have this time again."
But not all moms feel as if they have this option. Unfortunately, some moms are still pressured to have their babies bathed early on. If you're concerned that your baby might be bathed in the first hour, or that it might interrupt your skin-to-skin experience on your first day, you can specify your wishes in your birth plan, and discuss this with your providers.
As with many other potential Booby Traps in the hospital, if enough moms make noise about it, this policy may change.
Was your baby taken away for a bath in the first hour, or before you wanted it? Did you want your baby bathed because of the 'goop?' How did these things relate to your breastfeeding experience?


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Dustin Yager/ Danny Nash (CC) def. AJ Flores/ Frank Pouchet (PU) 9-8 (2)
Tim Morton/ Tyson Thompson (CC) def. Cody Simpson/ Chris Knowles (PU) 8-1
Tim Morton (CC) def. TJ Mauer 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
Guilherme Chiarmont (PU) def. Esteban Terran 6-4, 6-0
James Schroeder (CC) def. Frank Pouchet (PU) 6-3, 7-6 (1)
Danny Nash (CC) def. Chris Knowles (PU) 6-3, 6-0
Cody Simpson (PU) def. Dustin Yager (CC) 5-7, 7-5 (11-9)


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You voted, We listened.
We are proud to announce the 2004 PDX-POP Now! Music Festival!
Friday July 9 through Sunday July 11
Meow Meow: All Ages!
Free Admission
Local bands
Voter Registration
Featuring more than forty bands chosen by local musicians and fans, the first annual PDX-POP NOW! festival will showcase the astonishing breadth and depth of Portland's local music scene.
As the national music press glows over Portland's diverse & experimental music community, we've decided to celebrate here at home. Who are we? A group of local musicians, writers, and fans from the
PDX-POP mailing list
who've coalesced around the idea of organizing a free local summer festival. Our mission? Celebrate the achievements of bands who've achieved "success" - while promoting the no-less talented but often lesser-known bands around town.
With the Meow Meow generously donating its space for two days and three nights worth of shows, PDX-POP NOW! is a local music event meant for EVERYONE. No matter what age you are, or what type of music you listen to, our goal is to provide you one place to catch some of Portland's finest, in a safe & fun atmosphere. And if you're eighteen years old or over, and you haven't yet registered to vote, we're bringing voter registration volunteers to help get you involved. Who knows? Maybe next year, you'll start your own music festival!
About Us
PDX-POP Now! is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting music made in Portland, Oregon. Through efforts like the 2004 festival and the soon-to-be-released compilation
(with tracks from The Shins, M. Ward, Quasi, The Thermals, The Joggers, Davies vs. Dresch, and more!), we strive to expand Portland's music audience, and to enhance the sense of unity and purpose within our community.
This year we launch the first annual PDX-POP Now! Festival -- a free event showcasing over 40 of Portland's best and upcoming artists. The show will happen over three days, July 9-11, at the all-ages venue the
Meow Meow
. Our first annual compilation CD will be released to coincide with the Festival. This low-priced, double CD contains 36 songs by a wide array of Portland artists. Look for it at your local independent record store in late June.
We hope you will enjoy this celebration of local music - we've worked hard to bring it to you. The nation has turned its ear towards Portland, and we hope to help our diverse musical community make a loud roar!
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Brad Meltzer's new books teach kids real heroics
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Novelist and comics writer Brad Meltzer is no stranger to heroes, having written about the likes of the Justice League, Batman and Buffy the Vampire slayer.
Now, his latest work, "Ordinary People Change the World," focuses on real-world role models like Amelia Earhart and Abraham Lincoln to help younger readers learn about and from authentic trailblazers.
The books, along with others in his planned series for Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), are about famous Americans and the challenges they faced and overcame, he says.
"If I told my daughter that Amelia Earhart flew across the Atlantic Ocean, she's not impressed. Everyone does that these days," Meltzer said.
But tell the story of how Earhart built a homemade roller coaster at the age of seven, took a wooden box with roller skating wheels on it and came flying down the rails?
"Now, Amelia Earhart is just like my daughter. She reads that and says 'Oh my gosh! Amelia Earhart is just like me!'" Meltzer said.
The first two of a planned six books, "I Am Amelia Earhart" and "I Am Abraham Lincoln," are out Tuesday and illustrated by artist Chris Eliopoulos
In the story about Lincoln, Meltzer recounts how the future president, just 10 years old stood up to a crowd of older kids putting hot coals atop live turtles.
"He could have easily backed down, but he stands up to that injustice," said Meltzer. "There is a moment of the greatness that will one day come."
Meltzer said four more titles are planned with Rosa Parks, Lucille Ball and Albert Einstein as subjects.
"When you look around, we're starving for heroes," he said of his decision to write the stories. "These aren't just the stories of famous people, this is what we're all capable of on our best days."
Meltzer's novels include "The Book of Fate" and "The Fifth Assassin."
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