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Five Ways to Save Gas Moneyby Stacy Rapacon
Thursday, April 10, 2008
provided by YahooFinance from Kiplinger
It seems every day, gas pump prices hit another record high. The latest record national average for regular unleaded, as of April 9, was $3.34 per gallon, up 20% (or 55 cents) over the past year.
Prices are expected to top the $4 mark this summer. But don't let $80.00 fill-ups pump the fun out of your warm, sunny days. Here are five ways to score solid savings when you pull into the service station.
1. Find the Lowest Gas Prices
Search GasBuddy.com or GasPriceWatch.com by zip code or city and state to get the lowest prices in your area.
GasBuddy links you to 181 local websites, each focused on a U.S. state, metro area, Canadian province or city. For example, search for Piscataway, N.J. on GasBuddy.com and get sent to NewJerseyGasPrices.com, where results reveal a price range from $3.01 to $3.23 within that area. (The Garden State sports the lowest prices on average, coming in at $3.07 versus the national high in California at $3.75.)
Prices are updated constantly and are dropped from the site after 72 hours -- it's assumed spotters will have updated information by then. And with the site's 124 million registered users keeping an eye out for you, you're bound to benefit.
GasPriceWatch.com hosts data from only about 162,000 volunteer tipsters. But it collects pricing info directly from fuel providers and gas station companies. By Memorial Day weekend, the site plans to roll out a Certified Pricing Program, which will guarantee you a specific price if you get to the station within one hour of seeing it on the site. Additionally, it offers a tool called MyPage that allows you to track prices at specific stations along your regular routes.
Both sites include prices from Costco and other big-box retailers that sell gasoline to customers at discounted prices. Brad Proctor, founder of GasPriceWatch.com, says Midwest retail supercenter Meijer is particularly "proactive about gas."
It provides text message alerts to customers' cell phones when gas prices are expected to rise -- promising to not raise Meijer prices until after 1:30pm. Proctor recently received one such alert when prices jumped one morning in Dayton, Ohio, to $3.25 from $3.03. He drove the extra block to Meijer and saved 22 cents per gallon.
2. Target the Best Time of Day to Buy Gas
The best time of day to fill up your tank is before dawn or late at night, when the sun and traffic volume are both down. Stations usually will raise prices during the day, especially for rush hour.
In some cities -- like Detroit, Minneapolis, and Toledo -- "Wednesdays are the best day of the week for cheap gas prices," says Jason Toews, co-founder of GasBuddy.com. "Stations tend to raise prices on the weekends and especially during the summer."
Also, don't wait until your gas gauge drops down to "E." Toews says it's not good for your car's fuel injection system. Better to fill 'er up when the gauge indicates a quarter-full tank. Thinking about a refill at that point leaves you some time to shop around for the best gas price. Proctor figures: "You'll see that cheaper price a day after you had to fill up, and it's like watching the ball rolling just off your pick on the roulette wheel."
Finally, check that the price on the pump matches what is on the sign. And be sure that the gas pump starts at the $0 mark.
3. Improve Your Car's Gas Mileage
High speeds, quick starts, and squealing stops burn more gas and money. In his own test, Toews found that he could save 15% by driving 62 mph on the open highway rather than 75 mph. Using cruise control can save you even more. Smoother rides, with less pedal pushing, can save up to 37% in fuel economy, according to Edmunds.com.
Idling cars are the devil's Big Gulp... One minute of idling burns the same amount of gas it takes to start the engine. Also, consider a GPS system: It'll provide the fastest, most efficient route to your destination, which can save you money. It beats getting lost.
And why drive if you don't have to? When your destination is too far to just walk, try public transportation or find a carpool. Many employers offer subsidies for train or bus fares. And websites like ERideShare.com or CarPoolConnect.com make it easy to find wheels.
4. Keep Your Car in Healthy Shape
Toews says that proper maintenance of air filters, spark plugs, and fluid levels is best for your car and wallet.
Proper tire pressure is very important for good fuel economy, according to Proctor. Every pound-per-inch under the manufacturer's recommendation for your tires loses you one mile per gallon per fill-up. He suggests implementing your car's trip computer to track your mpg. "If there's a drop in mpg and you've kept the same driving habits," he says, "the first thing to look at is your tires."
Large loads impact cars much like mules or horses -- weighing the vehicle down and making it harder to speed up. Trim the excess luggage from your car, like those golf clubs in the winter and those snow tires in the summer.
5. Get a Gas Rewards Card
Carrying the right credit card can earn you rebates on gas purchases. One of the most popular rewards cards found using our credit card tool is the Citi Dividend Platinum Select MasterCard. Swiping this card at your gas station earns you 5% cash back, as well as 1% on all other purchases.
Summer vacation? Check out BedandBreakfast.com for free gas promotions. For example, you can stay at the Brewster House Bed & Breakfast in Freeport, Maine and get $25 in gas money for a two-night stay, or $50 for three nights. If you'd prefer the opposite coast, you can park it at Cliff Crest Bed and Breakfast in Santa Cruz, Calif. For a two night stay, get $25 knocked off your final bill—then walk to the many nearby attractions. Both deals are restricted to Sunday through Thursday and expire in August 2008.


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The Galaxy S4 is Samsung's flagship device for 2013. The S4 ups the ante of its predecessor thanks to a 5″ 1080p Super AMOLED display (441 ppi), a pseudo octa-core Samsung Exynos 5410 or quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 (depending on region), 2 GB RAM, up to 64 GB storage, LTE connectivity, and a 2600 mAh battery. Furthermore, the device features additional features such as floating touch and a 13 MP shooter featuring a revamped camera interface.
Galaxy S4 runs on Android 4.2.2. Jelly Bean 4.3 was recently released by Google. Samsung is yet to push the Android 4.3 update to the Galaxy S4. However, you can manually do it via the CyanogenMod 10.2 custom ROM. This tutorial must be followed only for Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 and not other variants or carriers. Follow the instructions given below.
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5 Deck Design Ideas For Men
Whether you want a manly deck design that allows you to barbecue and entertain outdoors, or you want a simple platform for your hot tub, learn about 5 deck design ideas for men. Decks can range in size from a one story patio design to an elaborate outdoor room. Decks can also be made from rustic wood or snapped together parquet. Here are 5 deck designs for men that will help you get started.
- Railed Deck Design. You can add a railing around your manly deck, which displays your personal style. You can choose from an aluminum style railing or traditional wood. You can also install a stainless steel railing if you have kids who like to hang on the rails or an elderly person who needs railing to be accessible. Adding a railing to your deck design can also enable you to add more options to your deck design, like lighting.
- Storage deck design. In designing your deck, you might find it useful to allow some space underneath. This space can be a small storage area for things like extra lawn furniture or tools. The space could also be large enough to serve as a "balcony" in inclement weather.
- Wood Alternative Deck Designs. Aluminum, stainless steel or composite deck designs will give you an alternative to natural wood decks. You might find an aluminum deck design more appealing if you live in an area where the risk of fire is high. You might find a composite style decking to be your favorite deck design i or if you don't want to worry about repainting the natural wood or if you plan on having a hot tub. Composite decking design won't rot.
- Wood Parquet Patterned Decks. If you have a smaller deck area, you might consider a manly and modern textured wood. Wood parquet patterned decks are ideal for an urban balcony setting. Wood parquet is smooth texture, much like a basketball court. Bamboo can also be made into a parquet style as well.
- Multi-level deck design. A multi-level deck design has many options. You can create a multi-leveled patio or you could create an entire outdoor living space. You could make one level for cooking and another level for relaxing. You could create an entrance to the deck from the second story of your house, or you could make the deck accessible only through the backyard. There are endless possibilities with multi-leveled deck designs.
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|Nedbank Challenge final leaderboard
|-11 B Grace (SA); -10 S Jamieson (Sco); -9 V Dubuisson (Fra); -7, H Li (Chi); -6 M Kaymer (Ger)
|Selected others: -5 L Westwood (Eng); -4 M Fitzpatrick (Eng); -3 T Fleetwood (Eng); -1 T Hatton (Eng)
South Africa's Branden Grace shot a closing six-under 66 to win the Nedbank Golf Challenge by one shot from Scotsman Scott Jamieson at Sun City.
France's Victor Dubuisson, Jamieson and Grace were all locked on 10 under in the final group after 14 holes.
A 40-foot birdie putt by Grace, 29, on the 16th gave him the lead outright and proved the decisive move.
He hit all 18 greens in regulation in a bogey-free round, as Jamieson struggled to a 70 with a double bogey on the 8th.
It is Grace's eighth European Tour victory and the world number 44 becomes the first South African winner in 10 years, following Trevor Immelman's win in 2007.
"This is awesome," said Grace, who had good birdie chances on four successive holes from the 13th as he hit form on the back nine.
"This is the one event as a South African you want to win. It's Africa's Major for a reason and what a special place it is.
"There's a lot of history and a lot of great winners on the trophy and I'm very glad to be able to put my name on the trophy as well.
"It's a very special week, we found out on Wednesday we're having a boy.
"I knew I had to stay patient and take the chances when they came my way, but the key one was 16."
Grace, who announced himself on the world scene with four European Tour titles in 2012, started the day three behind Glaswegian Jamieson and two adrift of Dubuisson.
But Jamieson, 33, who was seeking to become the first Scotsman to win the competition in 21 years, could not find the form that saw him shoot a bogey-free, five-birdie 67 in the third round.
Race to Dubai leader Tommy Fleetwood finished on three under and heads to next week's DP World Tour Championship in Dubai knowing only Justin Rose and Sergio Garcia can deny him the crown.
Fleetwood extended his lead at the top after rounds of 67 and 71 over the weekend saw him get into the top 10 at Sun City and give him a 256,737-point lead over second-placed Rose.
"I've played brilliantly all year. I think to be in with a chance of winning the Race to Dubai, it's pretty special," said the player from Southport.
"It's not a burden. I don't feel stressed about it, I don't feel anxious. I just think it's great that I've got the chance to win it and a good chance."
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"Kreos" taken from the greek, Eos, a figure of Greek mythology, goddess of the dawn, sister of Helios (the sun) and of Selene (the moon). As the story goes; every morning the goddess weeps inconsolably for the death of her son, killed by Achilles during the siege of Troy, and her tears form the morning dew. Homer called her the goddess with the rosy finger because of the effect seen in the sky at dawn.
Terroir: The Castello Monaci Kreos Rosato comes from the heart of Italy's rosé production region of Apulia. The vineyards of this hot, arid region are made up of dry gravelly soils of limestone and clay forcing the vines deep for nourishment and leading to very low yields and concentrated wines.
Vinification: This 100% Negroamaro is made in the "saignée method" which removes the juice from the skins after just a enough contact to impart a rich pink color and clean berry flavor. 45,000 bottles produced.
This delicious rosé is dry and elegant with bright fruit and floral notes on the nose and palate.
The wine shows floral, fruity aromas before dry, full, elegant and clean flavours on the palate, with light fruit traces which linger in the mouth.


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A set of 36 questions created by psychologist Dr. Arthur Aron were found to foster intimacy among couples in various stages of their relationship. In 2015, Aron's questions that lead to love became viral after The New York Times published this article about his study. This Valentine's day, The Boola recreated his love experiment with a twist.
Read Dean Li's "36 Questions To Not Fall In Love" here.
Happy Valentine's day from The Boola!


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The Centre was inaugurated by Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Governor ESL Narasimhan and Telangana IT Minister K T Rama Rao.
In his welcome address , LVPEI Founder Chairman Dr Gullapalli N Rao said We are proud of our long standing history and global reputation in the area of ophthalmology. We have spent over 27 years working with leading specialists in their given field, to deliver the best possible outcomes for our patients. This is a vital opportunity to extend this work as new technologies can be implemented to help in reducing corneal blindness. L V Prasad Eye Institute has created history in the field of Corneal Transplantation by becoming the first single Institute ever in the world to achieve 20,000 corneal transplants across its network. Through the new Tej Kohli Cornea Institute, and with Dr May Griffith and her team, we are now able to go beyond this and explore the use of synthetic lenses. With this new Institute, we hope to enhance our activities significantly both directly and indirectly as well as developing a Global Resource Centre for corneal blindness. This means being able to increase the number of surgeries we can undertake and work towards our own goal of eliminating avoidable blindness. This philanthropic gesture of Mr Kohli opens up all these possibilities.
This is a seminal moment for myself and my team as we take the world of ophthalmology into the future. I have tirelessly sought to find new ways that will alleviate the simple forms of blindness, whilst looking at the wider possibilities. With the Tej Kohli Foundations long-term financial commitment, we are now in a position to strategically plan for the future, both in terms of the necessary time line research it takes and the evolution of new products and techniques, Dr May Griffith, Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Linkping University, Sweden said.MORE UNI VV RJ 2329
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text: I want to start a new feature where I add new drills and plays on a regular basis. Today's drill of the day is a 1 on 2 zig zag dribbling drill that was featured in yesterday's new blog post on disadvantage drills for building your team. Many teams use 1 on 1 zig zag as a drill, so this is a nice simple complement to work on both double teams, but more importantly working on breaking double teams with the dribble. Essentially you have an extra defender waiting at half court and there are some variations you can put in to work on other aspects of the game as well. Click on the image to see it full screen to read the descriptions below the diagrams.


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I've been using DigiPortal's ChoiceMail challenge/response anti-spam product for several months and it works perfectly. See my reviews of it here
Qurb Inc. another of many anti-spam software vendors announced the general availability of Qurb 3.0 and new features include anti-fraud/anti-phishing protection, anti-spam enhancements and integrated e-mail search. DigiPortal works with any email system, Qurb integrates with Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express.
Qurb includes an email search engine which appears to be better than the default one built into Outlook. Qurb 3.0 now searches all information in Outlook and Outlook Express to instantly find important e-mail messages, attachments, appointments, contacts, journal entries and other information. Unlike generalized desktop search tools that periodically rescan all files to bring the search index back up-to-date (and which display inaccurate or incomplete results in the interim), Qurb efficiently builds a comprehensive index of the complete contents of Outlook and Outlook Express and keeps the index continuously up-to-date at all times. Qurb claims that this approach conserves computing resources and provides the fastest, most reliable, fully-integrated search capability for Outlook and Outlook Express.
About Challenge/Response Systems
Challenge/response systems blocks all email messages except for those you approve are who you have sent email to. It is VERY feature rich and enables a lot of control over what email can get it by enabling you to create rules. For example, if you want email that contains the subject line, "I Love Coca-Cola" to get to you just create a rule. For all email that ChoiceMail blocks it sends a response to the sender asking them to click on a link to verify that they are a human and not a machine generated spam.
Most spam comes from phony or forged addresses, so the spammer never receives the challenge message. Those that do receive it almost never take the time to respond.
While this methodology is widely understood to be the only way to stop 100% of spam, there has been a perception that it places a large burden on legitimate senders. DigiPortal?s analysis of traffic across servers that process mail for the 90,000 individuals and 300 companies that use its ChoiceMail software demonstrates that this is a fallacy.
The findings show that the average ChoiceMail user receives only two such responses per month. This is because the overwhelming majority of email comes from senders who are already on the user?s list of approved correspondents and are therefore not asked to verify their identity.
?The perception is that people receive email from new correspondents all the time,? said Dr. David Jameson, founder and CTO of DigiPortal. ?Our users are pretty typical, and it turns out that on average they hear from someone they don?t already know about once every two weeks. If everyone used this approach, we could turn off all the other forms of spam protection, the burden of email management would shift from recipients to senders, and senders would spend less than one minute a month to ensure that their legitimate messages get through. That?s a small price to pay to conquer spam once and for all.?
The ChoiceMail identity verification message contains a link to a web page where the sender is asked to enter his or her name and a short message, and then to type in a code that appears on the page in order to prevent spammers from automating the response. Responding to DigiPortal?s challenge message takes 10 to 15 seconds.
If every mailbox in the world were protected by challenge/response system, that would translate into just 30 seconds of reply time per month for the average email user. The result is that spam would simply disappear. Marketers would instead have to turn to opt-in lists consisting of people who have specifically expressed interest in receiving their email solicitations. No other form of spam filtering or email protection would be necessary.
?If challenge/response were universal, the only people who would spend more than a minute or so a month dealing with spam would be people who send an unusual amount of unsolicited mail. That would be completely appropriate,? Jameson said. ?It?s like paying for postage. The sender pays, not the recipient. In this case, you pay with a few seconds of your time instead of with a stamp. And you only pay when you contact someone who doesn?t already know you.?
Filtering by Identity Instead of Content
Instead of using complex rules to spot spam by return address and/or message content, challenge/response systems screen incoming emails primarily on the basis of sender identity. Users create a list of approved senders, usually by importing their existing address book. Messages from individuals on this ?whitelist? are accepted. Senders not on the list receive an automated message asking them to verify their identity. Users can decide which correspondents they trust and add them to their whitelists to ensure that future emails from those senders will be accepted.
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This is an excerpt from a larger Asra Nomani piece on honor killings in the Wall Street Journal. It's quite a dark look at what life under Islamic mores is like for women.
In one particularly poignant chapter, Ms. Zoepf steps through the doors of a girls' prison in Syria, where 16-year-old Zahra al-Azzo was jailed for being raped. (That's right, they jailed her.)
The prison is a sort of holding facility for girls like Zahra who are at risk of being murdered by their families in a so-called honor killing. Yet there is little to protect the young women once they leave.
"One of the girls came to me, crying, the other day," the head social worker tells Ms. Zoepf. "She wanted to go home and it's an honor crime situation. I told her, 'Try to relax here for a while because they're going to kill you anyway when you're released.' It sounds cruel, but I needed to calm her down, to get her to behave sensibly.'"
Zahra was eventually freed from the prison in order to marry a cousin. Shortly thereafter, she was hacked to death in her apartment by her own brother—with the blessing of their parents. Zahra's crime: "losing her virginity out of wedlock." Her brother believed he was "washing away the shame" to the family.
The day of her murder, Ms. Zoepf chronicles, the girl's family threw a party.
When you consider the problem of terrorism, it's important to remember that we are dealing with societies where dehumanization and murder of even one's own closest relatives is not an aberration. Expecting a culture where you throw a party for murdering your own daughter who had been raped to treat us better than they have, let alone to understand that killing is wrong, is just unrealistic.
Ms. Zoepf gingerly traces the roots of twisted practices, such as honor killings, to Islamic concepts such as fitna, or the "chaos" that is often connected to "temptation of a sexual nature."
That accusation, incidentally, has also been directed from the Muslim world at the entire West.Daniel Greenfield


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Though Andrew Scheer hasn't made it official, if and when he throws his hat into the ring for the Conservative Party leadership he could go a long way.
Jim Farney is a political scientist at the University of Regina. Speaking to the CJME Morning Show, he said there are quite a few people in the race right now, and it could work in the Regina-Qu'Appelle M.P.'s favour.
"It's going to come down to are you second, third, and fourth choice of a lot of people, and I think Scheer's going to likely build a coalition that's got room to grow like that."
Maxime Bernier, Michael Chong, Tony Clement, Deepak Obhrai, and Kellie Leitch have all put their names into the race.
Earlier this summer Scheer said he was considering a bid for the leadership. On Tuesday, Scheer announced he was stepping down as Opposition house leader in the House of Commons and is expected to make an announcement putting himself in the leadership race soon.
"My consultations about a possible run for the Conservative Leadership have been very encouraging and I would like to continue to explore the feasibility of such an endeavor," Scheer said in a written statement to media.
Farney said Scheer's almost four years as Speaker of the House of Commons could help him in the race.
"It's going to be the first time ever a speaker really gets back into partisan politics this way, and he's going to have to figure out how to talk about that … He'll be able to say 'listen, we've decided it's time for a change as a party,' and I'm practically speaking of a fresh, but experienced face."
Though, Farney said if businessman and commentator, Kevin O'Leary, gets into the race it would blow all the predictions out of the water.
The Conservative Party will vote for its new leader in May 2017.


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Waiting on Wednesday: The One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
Waiting on Wednesday #30.
"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
Title: The One Plus One
Author: Jojo Moyes
Genre: Romance
Publication Date: 27th February 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books UK
Goodreads Summary: One single mum
With two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best day after day. But it's hard on your own. And sometimes you take risks you shouldn't. Because you have to . . .
One chaotic family
Jess's gifted, quirky daughter Tanzie is brilliant with numbers, but without a helping hand she'll never get the chance to shine. And Nicky, Jess's teenage stepson, can't fight the bullies alone.
Sometimes Jess feels like they're sinking . . .
One handsome stranger
Into their lives comes Ed Nicholls, a man whose life is in chaos, and who is running from a deeply uncertain future. But he has time on his hands. He knows what it's like to be lonely. And he wants to help . . .
One unexpected love story
The One Plus One is a captivating and unconventional romance from Jojo Moyes about two lost souls meeting in the most unlikely circumstances.
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If you've read my review of Me Before You (by the same author), you'll know that I am a big, big Jojo Moyes fan. Me Before You had me in floods of tears and affected me in a way that very few books have. I am so excited about Jojo Moyes' new release, The One Plus One, and I hope that it will be just as good, if not better, than Me Before You. I usually stick to YA when reading, probably just out of habit, but its the occasional book, such as this, that has the power to draw me away from the teenage drama to more serious stories. Anyone else read Jojo Moyes' work? I've only read Me Before You but I've heard her other stories are excellent too.
Check out my review of Me Before You HERE.
What's everyone else waiting on this week? Let me know in the comments below! :)


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Alan Pardew has no regrets about selling his top scorer Demba Ba to Chelsea thanks to Papiss Cisse's scintillating return to form, writes Brian McNally.
Cisse has been a revelation in recent games, scoring last-gasp winners to beat Anzhi Makhachkala and secure a Europa League quarter-final place and easing Newcastle out of relegation trouble by securing a home success over Stoke.
Magpies boss Pardew said: "Papiss Cisse is in tremendous form. Goals definitely change a striker's mentality. His effort and work rate for us has been first class all year. But when you get those special goals at those crucial times, it's got to give you a lift. He is definitely playing against Wigan on Sunday, that's for sure.
"We were a different team when Demba Ba was here. We had different players. For me, this is a more modern team, a more intelligent team and hopefully we can take that forward.
"We had a fantastic run last year with both Demba and Papiss in team – seven wins in a row – it's just that it didn't work so well this season. But the team behind Papiss and Demba was weaker. We had no Yohan Cabaye for long spells, there was no Hatem Ben Arfa. We didn't have Moussa Sissoko either or Mathieu Debuchy's delivery from right back. So a lot of things were against us then – it's a little unfair to just look at Demba and Papiss for our poor start. I just think Papiss is in the zone now. People get in the zone, you hear about this, and I think he's in a goal-scoring zone. Some of his build up play this season, which he did so well last season in the wide area, hasn't been so good, but he's focused on goals.
"He has strong confidence in his ability. But the goals have definitely given him a lift. It would be massive if we could get a win today. It's a strange game to predict. We have some consistency in our form, Wigan have inconsistency, but they can definitely play at our level."
Meanwhile, Newcastle's Dutch star Vurnon Anita is hoping for a return trip to his home city of Amsterdam in May.
The former Ajax midfielder has his sights set on a return to the Amsterdam ArenA on May 15 in the Europa League Final.
The Magpies face Benfica in the quarter-finals and Anita said: "It would be great to get to the final, but we must take it step by step. It would be very nice if we make it and I get the chance to go home.
"Everything is positive now and we're happy with that. We deserve that because we've worked hard."
Blonde ambition: Kone desperate to tackle poverty in hometown
Arouna Kone really is playing on his field of dreams, writes Simon Mullock.
The Latic's DW Stadium may not be the most glamorous ground in the Premier League, but for a player whose footballing education began on the streets of the Ivory Coast, it is paved with pure gold.
Like most African footballers, Kone has used the talent he's been blessed with to support the family he left behind.
Now the 29-year-old wants to tackle the poverty that sickens him every time he returns to his hometown of Anyama, a suburb of the capital Abidjan.
Kone may bleach his hair blonde in homage to basketball wildman Dennis Rodman. But the foundation he has established shows a substance that puts many in his profession to shame.
Kone explained: "I set up the foundation in 2007 when I was playing in Belgium.
"Up to now it has been limited to things like vaccinations and buying school books.
"But now I want to develop it further. I want to build a school and a hospital, if that is possible.
"I feel a responsibility to do what I can. Guilt is perhaps the wrong word to use. But my whole ethos and desire is about giving something back to the Ivory Coast.
"There is a whole underclass where I come from. There are kids in the streets who have to fend for themselves at a very young age.
"They aren't orphans as such, but their families can't look after them properly and so they basically live on the streets.
"It's those people I want to help. It is too much to think that I can make everyone's life a happy life, but I want to create some kind of framework that just gives these kids a chance to succeed.
"When I go back home you see these big groups of kids on street corners. Sometimes I may stop in my car at the traffic lights and I am surrounded by kids who are begging for money. It breaks my heart. Of course, I hand out money to them. I have to. But I know that just giving out cash like that is not a long-term solution.
"That money might feed them for a day, but they need more."
Kone has always felt a sense of responsibility.
He added: "I have 15 brothers and sisters and my main motivation when I became a footballer was to provide for them. I am happy to do it. I am one of the lucky ones because even though we only had modest means, my family background was solid.
"When I got the chance to move to Europe I knew how I would use the money."
Kone thinks it is ironic that while the debate goes on in Britain about the lack of facilities for wannabe footballers, his humble origins have made him the player he is.
Knoe said: "We started with nothing but we have worked hard to make good lives. The places we played, the equipment we had, was all very basic. If a person from Britain saw how we lived they wouldn't believe their eyes.
"I didn't get my first pair of boots until I graduated into the first team of our club at the age of 12 or 13. We played on mud pitches, full of potholes, with big rocks and stones strewn across the place.
"You played on these surfaces in bare feet, so controlling the ball would seem impossible to people from Europe. But that's how we learned to play football.
"You had to have a very good technique to play in those conditions. It is ironic that something that was a disadvantage has become a reason why so many players come from Africa."
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For the girls' lacrosse teams from Cheverus and Massabesic, the season will end like it began, with a game against each other.
The Stags and Mustangs play for the Class A state championship at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Fitzpatrick Stadium.
In the season opener April 23, it took Massabesic four overtimes to eke out a 7-6 win against the Stags in the cold and drizzle at Boulos Stadium in Portland.
"We're two evenly matched teams, we know that, and it's always a good game when we play Cheverus," said Brooks Bowen, in his 10th season as coach of the Mustangs.
"We're different, I think, in what we do, but it's always even in the end."
"Whenever we play, it always seems to come down to the wire with our two teams," Cheverus Coach Jamie Chamberlain said.
Massabesic (12-3) has relied primarily on its defense to advance to the state final, while Cheverus (12-3) rode an extremely potent offense to its first Eastern Maine title.
"We stress the defense as well," Chamberlain said, "but it seems like they have a more veteran presence on defense and we have a more veteran presence on offense."
The Stags averaged more than 15 goals in their three regional tournament games while allowing just six per game.
In the Western Maine regional, Massabesic pulled out a 7-5 win against Marshwood in the semifinals and a 7-6 victory against Kennebunk in the final.
Massabesic is making its first appearance in the state final since 2007, when it beat Brunswick in a 9-7 thriller.
The Class A girls' game is one of the four state finals that will be played Saturday at Fitzpatrick Stadium.
CLASS A BOYS: Cheverus (13-2) has waited a year to get another crack at Scarborough (13-1).
The teams didn't play each other in the regular season but the Red Storm rolled to a 9-4 win over the Stags in last June's state final.
Scarborough is seeking an unprecedented fourth consecutive state championship. No team, boys or girls, has won more than three state titles in a row since the Maine Principals' Association began sponsoring the state lacrosse tournament in 1999.
Against common SMAA opponents during the regular season, Scarborough went 6-0 and the Stags were 5-1.
CLASS B BOYS: Cape Elizabeth (12-2) must beat Yarmouth (11-3) for the third time this season in order to claim its first state title since 2010.
On May 4, the Capers pulled out a 7-5 win against the Clippers in Cape Elizabeth. On May 30, Cape finished the regular season with a 13-7 victory at Yarmouth.
"They're a very solid team all-around," Cape Elizabeth Coach Ben Raymond said. "They don't make a lot of mistakes. It should be a good game."
In 2009, the last time the teams met in the state final, Yarmouth pulled out a 12-9 win to capture its second consecutive state title.
CLASS B GIRLS: Waynflete (15-0) must beat Yarmouth (7-7) for the third time this season to claim its second consecutive state title and finish the season as the state's lone unbeaten team.
Waynflete rolled to a 17-5 win over the Clippers on April 23 on the turf field at Yarmouth and a 16-10 victory on its grass field in Portland on May 22.
This game features two of the state's most potent offenses.
In the Eastern Maine regional, the Clippers scored a total of 38 goals in two games. Waynflete has been held to less than 10 goals in just one game this season.
These teams last met to decide the state championship in 2011. Yarmouth won 9-8 to capture its third Class B title in six seasons.
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I met Amna at a Barbara Sher WriteSpeak retreat in Saluda, N.C. - and was impressed by her beauty and depth!
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some might be tangential, but thematically tie in - it's boring to go to somebody's blog where they're an expert all the time.
My central organizing concept for The Pragmatic Hybrid is the idea that we have all these different parts we have to incorporate in some meaningful, sensible way (instead of sticking to some ideology or dogma we inherit or that we latch onto)...
And there are practical concerns (rather than ideological) that feed into how we do this...
See what I mean about her depth!?! Meet the lovely Amna Ahmad...
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How Do You See Yourself as a Square-Peg?
How do I not see myself a Square-Peg? Until recently (in my grown-up life) I felt like I was never in any circumstance where I was like everyone else.
I was always weird and standing out in some way.
Growing up - the most obvious ways were racial and religious. I didn't even understand it. Growing up I felt weird, not right: "One of these things is not like the others."
But I didn't understand, I didn't have the vocabulary for really understanding what the weirdness was about. And of course everybody, when you're an adolescent, feels weird in some way.
It wasn't until I left home, got some perspective (moved to New York and was among people who didn't think I was strange) - then I got that it was being different from everyone else that was the big formative thing for me - what one of my friends calls "the formative wound" - the defining thing.
And it's the hugest thing that makes me who I am.
How Do You Maintain Your Square-Pegness (in a round-hole world)?
I honestly don't know the answer to that question. I don't feel like it's an effort. If anything - at different times of my life I've made more of an effort to not fit in.
And then not succeeding because, you know, you never really do.
I feel like the Square-Pegness is central to my psyche...
The trouble is more how to put it aside sometimes...When I'm in a situation where I'm not a Square-Peg, where I seem to fit in with everything around me, it makes me kind of uncomfortable.
I feel weird then. It's not bad - just an unusual feeling. It disrupts my equilibrium: "I'm not strange here, I don't like it." Unique is special!
This happens to me when I go to Karachi. Apparently - superficially - you would look at me there and you wouldn't know I was visiting from America. I speak the language.
Of course, if you talked to me for awhile it would come out - maybe I'd say something or there'd be some weird body language that would out me as foreign. But on the surface level I'm blending in. Nobody looks twice at me and I find it very annoying.
The thing that's been your disability becomes your signature.
I find myself looking at people constantly there - trying to see who's trying to figure me out - and they're not. "What's the matter with you (because you're not trying to figure me out)?" {Laughing} ...it's an ego thing.
What Has Been the Hardest For You as a Square-Peg?
I think the hardest thing is accepting, right? It's sort of like accepting that what I have and what I am is a gift - and something to cultivate - instead of trying to treat it as a disability that has to be worked around or compensated for.
If, in the moment, you're not accepting how you are - how do you switch into that - what's your process?
There are a couple ways: one is by putting on a cool face. The idea behind it is: {Laughing} if I'm going to think that I'm the shit, then everyone has no choice but to get behind that.
The other way is: I look at everyone else and kind of grow under that superficial: "we're trying to be part of this crowd" thing. And I realize that every single person is having the same conversation with themselves - that comparison thing:
"How do I stack up with other people?" It's part of being a community animal. Remembering that helps me soften up to everyone and myself too. We're all doing that - a lot!
What Is Your Favorite Square-Peg Trait?
I'm kind of relentless, really. I want to say stubborn, but it's not the right word...
I can't be put off of seeking out information - clues and knowledge. I'm always seeking that stuff.
And it's not a choice, it's not like I do it because I like it or because I want to. It's not really optional - it's part of how I'm made.
I feel like so much of what I am and have come to is because of that - because of my relentlessly seeking knowledge. I wish knowledge was a less corny thing to seek...
I never know enough about myself or about the world. The downside of that is chronic low-level dissatisfaction - because I never know enough!
It's never: "Oh, I learned a lot today, I can rest." It doesn't happen that way for me.
Did you have that trait even as a kid?
Yeah, when I was a kid it manifested in talking a lot, asking lots of questions. I read like a fiend - reading nonstop. I think that was the little kid way of reaching out to get a handle on the world...
What Are Your Favorite Books?
It's funny because I have fewer and fewer favorites.
As you learn more your tastes grow. You get more discerning and harder to please. And I'm a writer, so the more I learn about how things work backstage, the harder it is to pull something over on me.
It's kind of sad, you know? With great knowledge comes great sorrow. You don't enjoy stuff as much - it has to be really excellent.
One of my favorite books of all time is Mating by Norman Rush. He was in his 60's before that novel came out - and it made a big splash. It's a fantastic story.
A love story, basically - but it just changed my life. My heart was broken when it ended. I bought his other book immediately - but it's been sitting on my shelf ever since because I don't have the nerve to read it.
It's amazing. Obviously the writer is a guy - his protagonist is a female grad student in anthropology. She has this obsessive love thing with another anthropologist and they live in this utopian community in the middle of the desert.
It's just this fabulous all-over-the-place love story. I've never seen a male writer do a female character - her point of view - like he did.
I also like almost everything by Barbara Kingsolver.
And right now I just finished reading - {laughing} I'm a little embarrassed...I shouldn't say this, it might go on record forever...I'm reading...do you know True Blood, the vampire show on HBO? I'm not a consumer of vampire stuff in general, but this is a really hot vampire show with fine-ass men...
And I read the novels that they're based on. There are nine of them so far, and I'm completely hooked on these corny novels.
I read them in a flash - they're in a little town in Louisiana, with a super charming main character...really entertaining stuff.
I'm wondering what it is that hooked me, because I can't remember the last time I had so much pleasure. I think it's that the author has a firm grasp on story - interesting things happen - you're like: "Ooh, what happens next?"
Character and story - it's making me, from a writerly perspective, think a lot about story and what makes something compelling.
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Check out Amna's brilliant blog, The Pragmatic Hybrid.
Amna also coaches - she works with people "who are not content to follow an unexamined path" (sounds like Square-Peg material, yes?). Follow the link to find out more about Amna's coaching for hybrids.
*photo credit: Anjali Bhargava
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Read more Square-Peg Interviews here!
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Lyin' Ryan Randazzo has gone unchallenged long enough.
In today's Arizona Republic, Randazzo:
- Again, fails to challenge Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce about his brazen conflict of interest.
- Again, in his write up (I'm hesitant to call it either reporting or journalism) of this week's Corp Comm decision to institute fees for solar customers, frames it entirely as if he is an employee of Arizona Public Service, not the Arizona Republic.
- Betrays some key facts that shed light on APS's true intentions.
Randazzo wrote:
The new fees will not add to APS' profits. Instead, they will offset a fee paid by non-solar users to limit the cost shifting from solar to non-solar customers.
Because there are so few solar customers, the reduction in fees to non-solar customers will be negligible.NEGLIGIBLE. If this is true, WHY did APS dump millions of dollars of ratepayer money into a media propaganda campaign attacking solar and claiming they have been harmed by net metering?
Did Lyin' Ryan not have to take any business classes when he was working on his journalism degree? He (falsely) claims the new fee will not add to APS' profit. Maybe the Arizona Republic's business editor can give Ryan a refresher course on the equation Revenue - Expenses = Profit. This fee will increase revenue for APS. Therefore, it will increase profit.
The fact of this matter is that APS wanted to get its foot in the door. The concept is incrementalism. They fully expect to go after more money from solar customers in the future. They view, as revealed by industry sources who claim to have had conversations with APS, the solar industry as a "disruptive challenge."
In my email inbox today, I received information from the Oregon Solar Energy Industries Association:
A critical new front in the fight to slow climate change is the one shaping up between the present coal-, nuclear-, and gas-based monopoly utilities and solar energy. Early this year the utilities' think tank, the Edison Electric Institute, issued a major report on the "disruptive challenges" posed by the onslaught of low-priced solar. Others have described the threat as a potential "death spiral" for those utilities that fail to adapt. The utilities are fighting back in Arizona, Colorado, and elsewhere.
APS cannot truthfully deny that it has been fighting back. But instead of focusing on a business model that will enable them to adapt to emerging technologies, they attack those techologies and the businesses that advance them.
Think DINOSAURS. Dinosaurs, of course, are extinct. They couldn't adapt to an environmental catastrophe, so they died out. Quickly. That's what APS faces. But they have had more than a decade to adapt to the coming disruptive technological innovation. APS's executive management has known about those challenges for a LONG time.
EEI is an industry association (union) that likes to masquerade as a think tank. IF it's any kind of tank, it's a STINK tank. (h/t to the Center for Media and Democracy for the term "stink tank"). It says of itself,
EEI's mission is to ensure members' success by advocating public policy, expanding market opportunities, and providing strategic business information.
In other words, it represents Investor Owned Utilities and advocates for THEM, NOT for the PUBLIC served by the IOUs.
In the same email with the blurb from the Oregon group, Portland General Electric lobbyist Brendan McCarthy said,
I... want to exhort you to not lump all utilities into this same category and to be mindful of the loaded language used in the message from the Climate Reality Check Coalition. First off, EEI is not a "think tank" but a trade association. Second, the "disruptive challenges" report referred to was more about the financial implications of disruptive forces and the strategic considerations that utilities must begin to integrate into their long-term planning, than it was about an attack against such disruptive challenges. Third, the fact that coalition refers to utilities "fighting back" indicates more about their own feelings on the topic than it does the utilities. (emphasis mine)This is lobbyist speak for trying to deny the plain truth. APS has been attacking solar. The utility told its faithful lapdog, Lyin' Ryan Randazzo that the financial harm the company has suffered because of solar customers is NEGLIGIBLE. But APS tells its industry buddies that they have been harmed substantially. McCarthy continues:
I have had lengthy conversations with people at APS, SDG+E [San Diego Gas & Electric] and Xcel. I would hesitate to call anything that they are doing as "fighting back." EEI and utilities are pointing to the real issues posed by the increased penetration of distributed generation and have been, in some cases ham-handedly, attempting to "fix" the problem through the regulatory model. While some of these attempts have been poorly constructed, that does not mean that the underlying problems do not need correction. APS now has 19,000 net metered customers out of 1.1 million. They are seeing about 500 customers a month install systems and they estimate that each residential solar customers is costing the utility $1000 a year. They have no cap on net metering and they have a rate structure that, with TOU rates, exacerbates the cross-subsidies seen. Even their rate payer advocate, RUCA [sic], recognizes the problem and agrees with APS that there should be a grid fee imposed in order to limit the cross subsidy and lost revenue problem. It is only natural that APS would "fight back" against a program that was designed as an incentive program and now has grown large enough to cause difficulties to the local utility. (again, emphasis mine)In one breath, McCarthy claims APS has not been attacking solar; in the next, he says, oh, by the way, those attacks are justified. He would hesitate to call anything they are doing as "fighting back;" 'it is only natural that APS would "fight back."' By the way, APS is now telling other EEI member utilities that EACH residential solar customer is costing it $1000.00/year. How does that jive with what Lyin' Ryan has been reporting? Of course, McCarthy probably just took some exaggerating executive or public relations person's word for it.
Dear reader, nothing about APS's recent misadventures with Dark Money propaganda campaigns is at all innocuous.
All five members of the Corporation Commission, clearly a wholly owned subsidiary of ALEC, either voted to impose the new fees or opposed doing so because they wanted to penalize solar customers even more. That action validates what this blog and others have predicted since before the 2012 general election.
I'm encouraged that, as Channel 12's Mark Curtis noted (see the video clip), nearly a thousand people showed up to tell the Corporation Commission not to penalize the solar energy industry. But neither Mark Curtis nor Brahm Resnik (who reported, on camera from the ACC) wrote the stories for the print or online editions of the Arizona Republic on this issue.
It is high time that the Republic sent Lyin' Ryan packing. He's got a promising future in fossil fuel industry public relations, but he is most certainly NOT a credible journalist.


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FRESH HERB: BURDOCK (Arctium lappa)
PLANT CYCLE: Biennial
SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Prefers loam but will tolerate most soil conditions
LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Full sun, partial shade, or shade
PARTS USED: Roots
OF HISTORICAL NOTE: Burdock root, also known as gobo, is considered a vegetable in Asian cultures. Burdock arrived on the North American colonists. Burdock's infamous burrs inspired the creation of Velcro.
MEDICINAL USES: Burdock has incredible blood-cleansing capabilities and offers excellent support to the liver, urinary, tract, and skin. By enhancing kidney function and cleansing the liver, it helps felines clear their systems of waste and toxins, It is especially helpful in easing the symptoms of arthritis and improving skin conditions.
The easiest method of giving burdock to your cat is to grind the root into a powder and sprinkle it on your cat's food. You can also give your cat burdock tea or tincture.
GROWING YOUR OWN: Because of its sticky burrs , not many gardeners enjoy having burdock around. But burdock root is harvested after its first year of growth, and in that first year, burdock produces only a rosette of leaves – no big plant, no flowers, no seeds, and no sticky burrs.
To grow this biennial after spring Burdock grows in just about any location; the plant prefers loam but tolerates most soil conditions. Burdock seeds germinate quickly, and seedlings should be thinned to about 18 inches apart.
HARVESTING AND STORING: Harvest burdock's deep taproot in the full of the year or the spring of the second year.
CAUTIONS: In rare cases, burdock leaves cause contact dermatitis. Some felines experience diarrhea with extended use of burdock; if this happens, simply stop giving the herb to your cat.
(Adapted from 10 Herbs for Happy Healthy Dogs, by Kathleen Brown (Storey Books, 2000)
This daily supplement will help clear your cat's system of toxins. Burdock, nettle, and red clover are great tonic herbs, supporting and strengthening the body's systems. Calendula aids in liver function and gives the immune system a boost.
1 teaspoon dried burdock root
2 cups water
1 teaspoon dried calandula blossoms
1 teaspoon dried nettle leaves
1 teaspoon dried red clover blossoms
TO MAKE A TEA: Add the burdock root to the water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and let it simmer for 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from the heat, add the remaining herbs, and steep, covered, 10 minutes. Strain and allow the tea to cool.
TO MAKE CAPSULES: You can also make capsules with this formula, following these instructions:
CAPSULES: These supplements are a handy way for your cat to benefit from herbs without too much effort on a daily basis. Capsules are handy if your cat snubs her food with any foreign additives but tolerates taking pills. Most herb shops and natural foods stores sell herbal capsules.
You can also custom-blend capsules to fit your cat's needs. Buy some small, empty pull-apart capsules at your local health food store.Use a clean coffee grinder or pestle and mortar to reduce the herbs to a fine powder. Fill each capsule halfway, and close. Since you will not want to do this on a daily basis, be sure to store extras in a well-sealed, dark-coloured glass jar, preferably in the refrigerator or freezer.
The quickest method of administering a capsule is to insert the pill into a ball of moist cat food and serve it up as a treat. Be sure to follow this up with another soft treat to make sure that your cat swallowed the pill.
If your cat keeps spitting out the pill, here's another option: Hold the cat's head with one hand, applying light upward pressure on the upper jaw with your thumb and fingers. Use your other hand to open the cat's mouth and pop the pill on it's tongue as far back as possible. Then hold the cats jaws closed and massage its throat to induce swallowing . Try blowing a quick puff of air into its face. When the cat blimks, he swallows – it's an automatic reflex (similar to the way we close our eyes when we sneeze).
TO USE: Administer burdock orally, following the dosage guidelines page 10/11: (Storey Book 10 Herbs for Happy Healthy Cats)
In our case Daisy May is a 10-20lbs body weight (approx 12lbs. So General Rules for Administering Herbs to Cats Approved from Dr. Kidd's Guide to Herbal Cat Care by Randy Kidd, D.V.M. (Storey Books, 2000).
Sprinkles (put on the cat's food once daily): A bigger pinch.
Teas (poured over food or into the cat's water): 1/4 cup one or two times daily.
Capsules/Tablets (administered orally): 1/4 to 1 capsules or tablet one to three daily.
Tinctures (in the cat's water or food or given directly by mouth): 3 to 5 drops one to three times daily.
BURDOCK ROOT: This common Japanese vegetable is found in sushi bars, health food stores, Japanese markets, and many herbal formulas. Reports of its toxicity stem from a single instance in which a batch of burdock was contaminated with belladonna root, which contains three toxic alkaloids, including atropine. Some medical authorities continue to list burdock as toxic. Burdock is a category 1 herb.


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CI International launches a channel on YouTube
4 April 2011
Today, the Christopher Inn International launched a new YouTube channel:
Currently, the channel features not only a video from 2009 that explains the vision and mission of CI International, but also a new video entitled The Growing Need to Support Our Priests. After sharing some statistics, this video goes on to describe some key features of both the Christopher Inn International and its associated web resource, CI Online.
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Welcome to Volvo Cars
North Dublin
Enjoy €4000* towards a new Volvo S90 with pilot assist
The future of driving is now
Make it unique with the New Volvo V40
It's your journey
The new Volvo V40 is the compact hatchback that's perfectly suited for life in the city. With agile handling, interior versatility and smart technology to make your life easier, the V40 is the perfect companion as you start your journey.
David Matthews - General Manager
From the moment you step into our newly designed Joe Duffy dealership until the time you leave, our loyal and knowledgeable team are able to offer the very best service when it comes to you and your Volvo. Thank you for visiting our website today and we look forward to seeing you soon.
Welcome to Joe Duffy
From our premium, newly designed facility at Exit 3, M1, Airside Motor Retail Park, Swords, Co. Dublin offers a comprehensive range of products and services. The quality of service we provide to individual customers continues to be key to our success and is fundamental in our commitment to Volvo Ireland and each and every Volvo Customer that walks through our doors.
Whether you're looking for a Brand New top of the range Volvo or Volvo Selekt Approved Used Car we have the largest range of Volvo's to choose from. If professional excellence matters to you, come and talk to the experts.
We look forward to seeing you soon, if you would like any further information or would like to make a booking please contact us on firstname.lastname@example.com or call us on +353 1 8701400.


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The Virgin Australia Supercars Championship is back to having two manufacturers providing factory funding in 2017, five years into the Car of the Future era and in the first year of Gen2.
They are the two Holden-backed Red Bull Racing Australia entries of Triple Eight Race Engineering, now with the Holden Racing Team name, and four Nissan Motorsport entries.
So what's the future of manufacturers in the series? V8X Supercar Magazine issue #95 takes an in-depth examination into that question by delving into the past, present and future of global and Australian trends and speaking to series, team and manufacturer representatives to make sense of the landscape.
Issue #95 is on sale now in stores with the digital edition available in the official V8X app (in the App Store and Google Play), online at DigitalEdition.V8XMagazine.com.au and in the Magzter app store.
CLICK HERE for more information on V8X Supercar Magazine issue #95.
The cover story for issue #95 features interviews with Holden motorsport boss Simon McNamara, Nissan Australia CEO Richard Emery and Supercars team bosses Brad Jones and Rod Nash, who have previously had factory backing in the past but now operate independently.
The feature looks at the following topics:
- Current trends amongst manufacturers within international and Australian motorsport.
- The changes within the Australian automotive sector post-Ford and Holden local production.
- Supercars' place within the Australian market.
- The move away from V8 engines and Falcons and Commodores.
- Market relevance versus branding for manufacturers racing in Supercars.
- Whether teams and the series can survive without manufacturer backing.
- The Gen2 regulations and whether the move towards GT-type cars will entice more manufacturers.
- How teams are diversifying to cope with the absence of manufacturer backing.
Also, issue #95 features an in-depth one-on-one interview with McNamara regarding Holden's future in the series and the move of factory backing from Walkinshaw Racing to Triple Eight in addition to a feature on the future of the engine formula into Gen2.
CLICK HERE to purchase the print edition of issue #95 to read the features.


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Negotiations have broken down on a 72-acre Frederick Road site that the county school board hoped to buy for a western middle school and northern elementary school.
The impasse means school officials will have to take a second look at other sites on the list for the middle school and check properties in the area they had not previously considered.
The middle school is scheduled to open in September 1993; the northern elementary school, in September 1994.
School officials are also looking for land for seven other schools: a northeastern elementary, to open in September 1993; western high and elementary schools opening in September 1995; a northeastern middle, a second northeasternelementary school, a third western elementary school and a second high school, all opening in September 1996.


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BME 148 Microimplants (2013-2014)
BME 148 Microimplants
BME 148 Microimplants (Credit Units: 4) Essential concepts of biomedical implants at the micro scale. Design, fabrication, and applications of several microimplantable devices including cochlear, retinal, neural, and muscular implants. Prerequisite: BME111 and EECS179. Biomedical Engineering majors have first consideration for enrollment. Concurrent with BME 248. (Design units: 1)
- Class notes
- IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Sept/Oct 2005 Issue.
1. Describe the essentials of applying MEMS technology for implantable devices (EAC a)
2. Describe the state-of-research in cochlear, retinal, neural, and muscle implants (EAC j)
3. Develop the knowledge base in designing MEMS-based implants (EAC k)
MEMS design tools, fabrication, packaging, and testing techniques; common implant materials, biocompatibility, and foreign body responses
- Introduction: the purpose and limitation of implants
- Review MEMS background
- Physiology of hearing
- Cochlear implants
- Physiology of vision
- Retinal implants
- Physiology of the nervous system
- Neural implants
- Physiology of the musculoskeletal system
- Muscle implants
- Future implantable devices
Meets for 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion each week for 10 weeks.
Students will use word processors and drawing programs to do homework assignments.
Contributes toward the Biomedical Engineering Topics and Major Design experience.
Specific discussions on system and device designs (50%). Students will use learned skills to design systems and devices for microimplants (50%).
- Homework: 30%
- Midterm: 30%
- Final: 40%
- Total: 100%
Mathematics and Basic Science: 0.0 credit units
Computing: 0.0 credit units
Engineering Topics: 4.0 credit units
Engineering Science: 3.0 credit units
Engineering Design: 1.0 credit units


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30. Juni 2013
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altes haus
Last week i did a photoshoot in an old house which will be sold in a few weeks. The Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf is having an Art Project at the moment where they suggest this location to all sorts of photographers and in the end they will make an Book/Exhibitions of all collected pictures.... (Great heirs to make this possible) ...The house is amazing, still full of old furniture, personal items as letters, clothes and instruments and the outside facilities are just beautifully overgrown from nature... So as i was acting as a model for this shoot i just took these few photos from the house myself. But i hope i'm gonna get the pictures soon so i can share some with you!
10. Juni 2013
9. Juni 2013
About a week ago i went to a flea market which is organized from an animal home where all it's sale objects come from people as donations. The whole takings are going straight to this home of animals. Amongst other things i've bought this camera from 1954 and two old loudspeakers - both together - for 12,- Euros. The sound of the speakers is great and what i am looking for next is a record player.... But i've got to be a little patient with the camera. I'm excitingly taking picture with it at the moment but if it's really intact i will just know when i've got the first film developed! Fingers crossed!
kleid in grau
I really like this simple dress i am wearing here, because as i see it the cut at the bottom and the high-neck work great together. It's just not to much as it might be with a cut at the bottom and a revealingly low neckline... Like this, it's pretty balanced! (Bought at H&M)
vergangenes heim
This is my old room where i had lived before my asiatravel and also afterwards for a few months. I share these old pictures with you (more will follow), because i think this room is just beautiful and shouldn't be withholded from you!
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In January 2013, C&B Advertising became the agency of record for Calgary's Heritage Park.
Heading into its 50th year, this important and longstanding tourism attraction saw the potential of defining their brand story, and rolling out a new campaign and updated brand look to reignite interest in visiting Canada's largest living history museum.
Our work began in creating their brand story. Progress Relived was born as a reminder of why Heritage Park exists: to celebrate the pioneers, places, and achievements that have defined the progress of Western Canada.
Along with a strong, new brand statement, C&B Advertising evolved Heritage Park's brand identity to capture the 50th anniversary and beyond.


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Obama Moves to Block Lobbyists from Serving on Advisory Boards, A Hollywood Lobbying Success and More in Capital Eye Opener: June 22
Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics:
OBAMA TAKES AIM AT REVOLVING DOOR: In a memorandum last Friday, President Barack Obama made official his proposed policy to keep federally registered lobbyists off the advisory boards of executive branch agencies. In the memorandum, he directed the heads of all executive departments and agencies to not reappoint any lobbyists already serving on their advisory boards. Director of the Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag will be tasked with implementing the policy.
Obama announced the plan to keep lobbyists off of advisory boards in September. Now the rule becomes one step closer to official policy, as Orszag has 90 days to issue guidance designed to implement this new policy.
LOBBYING HOME RUN FOR HOLLYWOOD: Wall Street and members of the New York delegation may be fuming over language restricting the lucrative derivatives trade in pending financial regulation legislation. But this week, another interest group — Hollywood — is just fine with more financial regulation. The film industry pushed for — and got — additional language in the legislation that bars investors from speculating on movies' ticket sales.
The issue surfaced in May as Hollywood battled Wall Street at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over the potential sale of futures contracts based on a film's ticket sales. Studios were alarmed by the possible perception that they would be betting against the success of their own films.
The CFTC approved the futures contracts over the industry objections, but Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) overrode that decision by inserting the language into the Senate's version of financial reform. Now, the Motion Picture Association of America "is furiously lobbying members of the House-Senate conference committee to ensure the ban is written into the final bill," Politico reports.
OBAMA WANTS CHEMICAL COMPANIES TO PAY FOR CLEANUPS TOO: The Obama administration is holding BP financially accountable for the cleanup of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, the president and the EPA are pushing for the renewal of a tax that would place some of the burden of cleaning up hazardous industrial sites on chemical and oil companies.
The so-called Superfund, which was established 30 years ago, put the taxes into a cleanup trust fund. But 15 years ago, Congress allowed the tax to lapse. Since then, the federal government has used taxpayer money to pay for the cleanup of "orphaned" sites, where no one takes responsibility for the cleanup. Some Democrats have been pushing for a renewal of the tax for years and are hoping the Gulf oil spill could finally force fellow lawmakers to act.
But both the chemical and oil industries have a significant presence on Capitol Hill and aren't expected to accept another tax silently.
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Acute Rehabilitation Center
Acute Rehabilitation Center
The only hospital-based inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) Serving Lynchburg and surrounding counties
Centra's Acute Rehabilitation Center, an inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) provides a clinical team that coordinates medical treatment, specialized services, rehabilitation treatments and patient-assistance services; all while providing the emotional support and encouragement that patients need to make great strides in recovery. Patients must be able to participate in a minimum of three hours of therapy per day.
The center has been providing comprehensive rehab services since 1985. The program's medical director, Angel Medina-Bravo, MD, board certified physiatrist, is a specialist that focuses on rehabilitation. Physiatrists are trained to naturally facilitate an interdisciplinary process, to use contributing information from many team members to help navigate the course of a patient's recovery. The physicians on our team are "big picture" thinkers, who focus on function and who understand how underlying pathology affects clinical outcomes.


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Girl, 15, arrested over Rose Farley's death
A 15-year-old girl has been arrested in connection with the death of a Liverpool teenager who died after becoming unwell at a party.
Police are awaiting toxicology test results on Rose Farley, 15, from West Derby, who died on 2 June.
Her funeral service was held on Thursday.
The girl in custody, from Kirkdale, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and possession of a controlled substance with intent to supply.
Rose was attending a birthday party at the Silvestrian Social Club in Vauxhall when she became ill. She died in Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
Two boys aged 17 and 16 were arrested on suspicion of supplying controlled drugs and then released on police bail.


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BackUp and Restore creates empty folders?
I had to use the Dell Back up and Restore to rebuild my OS and , except for all my email history, address book, profile and bookmarks, I seem to be up and running again. I want to back up to a WD MY Book 1tb external on a regular basis so I don't loose all my programs and profile.
I followed the easy instructions I found here on the Forum for a full system backup and watched the green bar progress to 10-15% complete and left the room. When I returned hours later the screen said "improper shut down" or something similar. When I rebooted there was a backup folder on my external but folder properties indicated it was completely empty.
The next day I tried to create a System Image Bup (Shadow Copy?) and the green bar progressed normally but, when I returned to the PC, the black dos screen said unable to find some file to boot. Again, folders were created but they were empty.
Sorry I am not more explicit but I am really a novice at understanding how computers work and my sons all claim ignorance when I ask them for help.
Does win7 BU and restore normally restart the computer after creating a backup file? If so, can I prevent this so I can see where the program is breaking down?
I did create a System Repair disk on a DVD and it seems to have created that okay. The file is almost 300mb so I hope that means it will work if I ever need it.
I do know this new MY Book is a lot more complicated than my other Seagate external and seems to want to format and name files for me?
Thank you for any suggestions.
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|09 Nov 2011
What are you trying to "back up"??
Windows only?? Your data only? Both? C drive only?
Is your personal data on the C drive or do you have it separated onto a D drive?
I seriously doubt Windows Backup is supposed to reboot when finished.
I'd consider two things:
1: Using something other than Windows built-in backup to make an image file of the C partition--something like Acronis or Macrium Reflect. That would "back up" the C drive and anything it might contain.
2: Backing up personal data folders (as opposed to Windows itself) separately, without using an image. There are many apps for this, many of them free. Again, the built-in Windows tool is not particularly well-suited for this.
Windows Backup "works", but is cranky, non-intuitive, and not the leading application for the required tasks.
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|09 Nov 2011
Thanks for the input, if Win Backup is "cranky" I don't want anything to do with it because the frustration will just make me crazy.
Years ago I created "Dad's files" on the 'C' drive and that is the only file that I work in. everything I do is in a subfolder to that folder but, of course, none of my program or OS files, and , evidently, not my profile and email data,etc. Win 7 wants me to save and work in Libraries but that is just confusion to me as I am highly organized and everything is exactly where I want it to be saved. I do not need Windows to think for me. (I wish I could have stayed with Win2K)
I occassionally cut and paste this entire, very large, folder to my external drive. It takes over night to complete this but then I have a complete and easily accessible copy of all my data. The next time I remember to do this I create another file with the then current date and eventually delete the older file to free up some space. Of course, that means the data, photos, genealogy files, etc are only safe up until the date of my last cut and paste backup. The other drawback is that it takes many hours to completely save such a large folder.
I think I should be using a regular back up program so I can connect my external and back up more regularly. I assume a regular program would then only overwrite any files that were recently modified and not have to save everthing resulting in a much quicker backup?
yes, it would be nice to have all my programs saved as well but that may be too much to ask of me. I do not "game" and only spend a few minutes a day on my computer unless I am researching something specific so I rarely get a virus and have only had to resort to my backup twice in ten years. But, of course, my photos and data are irreplaceable so I must plan accordingly.
I will glady look into the programs you suggest as I just want one that will work that one time when I need it to restore a compromised computer and I do not trust Win 7 Back up at the moment.
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|09 Nov 2011
You don't need to use libraries. Like you, I am highly organized and don't use them. I have even used the tutorials on this site to make "libraries" largely disappear from Windows Explorer. I save my stuff directly to the desired folder, never mind libraries.
You are correct. A bona fide backup program will overwrite ONLY new or recently modified files. Therefore---the first backup takes a long time. All subsequent backups rarely take more than a minute.
The way to "save" all of your (installed) programs is to make an image of the C drive. Windows backup can do that, but I prefer Acronis or Macrium. You can get at least one of those two without paying. Such an image would also contain your "Dad's Files" user folder if it is on the C drive, but I urge you to do separate and distinct "file by file" backup using a dedicated backup program such as Cobian, Karen's Replicator, Second Copy, or Sync Toy. Any of these applications can also back up your email. The location of your email varies depending on what email application you use.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Card Swap & Pollycraft Challenge #26 Teal, Chocolate & Tangerine
I did this little card (actually 7 of them. lol) for a Dustin Pike card swap on the Cricut board. The paper is from DCWV, of course Dustin Pike Snowman image. I colored the image with Bic pens using the "Copic" blending technique. Inside stamp from House Mouse and Teal stickles to make it glitter. I used Martha Stewarts all around snowflake punch. The inside snowflakes are the leftovers from the front.
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The monthly meeting of the South Kildare Active Retirement takes place in Moone Hall on Thursday November 29th at 7.30pm. Please note change of time, due to facilitating Eddie Hennessy of Kildare Sports Partnership to give a demonstration on the "Go for Life Games" - Lobbers, Skittles, and Disc Toss.
A good attendance is expected on the night, and new members most welcome, especially those interested in these games. For further information contact Tony Donoghue 087 2645882.
South Kildare Active Retirement are organising a holiday in Breaffy House Hotel, Castlebar, Co. Mayo on Sunday March 10th next - four nights Dinner Bed and Breakfastall for €199pp and fifth night free. Enquiries to Tony Donoghue 087 2645882.
Suncroft GFC will host their Annual General Meeting on Sunday 25th November at 4:00 in Suncroft National School.
All members welcome and new members also welcome to attend the meeting.
All queries contact Club Secretary Shane Kavanagh 087 4187051.
Phena Birmingham reminds us that "Miscellany on Sunday will take place on Sunday 2nd December at 2pm, at Bermingham's, in aid of Fr.John Bermingham's missionary work in Mozambique.
Mulled wine prepared by Paul Carey of The Good Food Kitchen, Kilcullen can be enjoyed with mince pies and lots of entertainment. (tea/coffee/soft drinks are available).
The venue is on the Kilcullen/Athy road three miles from Kilcullen. Balloons and signs will mark the spot.
Parking inside and there is no admission charge.
Donations appreciated and box available for same. 'Every little contribution will mean a lot'.
Everyone is welcome. If we haven't met already, this is our chance.
We would love to meet you. Please come and tell your friends.
You can drop in for 10 minutes or stay all evening, whatever suits you. Enquiries Phena,087 9767531 or 045-485232 Roy Thompson 086-3270780 Eilis/Siobhan at Eilis' Salon, Kilcullen."
Christmas Craft Fair at Community Centre on the Sunday 25th November.
Anyone interested in booking a table please contact the number below.
Ongoing classes in the Community Centre are Book Club, Craft Class & Arthritis Exercise Class.
Garden Allotments for rent for the year. If you fancy your own home grown fresh veggies. Please contact the number below. Bookings or information requests can be made to Owen - 045 456813 9am - 1pm.
Barry McGovern reminds us "Charity Bingo in aid of Kildare Mental Health continues at The Hunting Ground, Dublin Road, Athy at 8.30pm on monday evenings.
The Jackpots €700 and €400, books only €4.
Last week's lucky line paid out €100. Please come along and support this worthy cause and have a fund nights entertainment. Everyone welcome."
The Scouts meet in Ballyshannon hall on the following nights:- Beavers on Monday nights for ages 6 - 9 years, Cubs 9 to 11 year olds on Monday nights, Scouts 12 year olds plus on Friday nights. For further information contact Jennifer at 087 6817273.
Suncroft Martial Arts Karate classes continue each Monday in Suncroft National School. Junior classes at 5.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. €3 per class.
Senior classes 7 to 8pm €5 per class. Ladies Self Defence class continue Suncroft from 8.15 p.m. to 9.15 p.m. €5 per class. Contact Dave on 087 9433235.