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Sen. Mike Lee said Thursday that if the incoming president told him he was needed more on the U.S. Supreme Court than in the Senate he would accept the nomination.
"If he asked me that question, I would not say no," the Utah Republican said.
President-elect Donald Trump included Lee on a list of 10 potential Supreme Court nominees in September during his run for the White House. Trump also released a list of 11 names last May, including the senator's brother, Utah Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Tom Lee.
Lee reiterated Thursday that he's content in the Senate where he just won a second term in a landslide.
"This was the job I wanted, the job that I sought twice now, and a job I was elected to twice," he told KSL Newsradio's "The Doug Wright Show."
Lee, who did not vote for Trump, met with the Republican president-elect last month. Trump asked Lee his opinion of possible Supreme Court nominees, and the two also discussed repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.
Lee and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, are focused on dismantling President Barack Obama's signature health care law as the new Congress opened this week.
Hatch, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, joined Senate Republicans in making the case for repealing Obamacare in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday.
"While our friends on the other side of the aisle have been trying to convince the American people that there's nothing to see here and this poorly named law is working to plan, the vast majority of our citizens know the truth: Obamacare just doesn't work," he said.
Congress needs to act quickly so families no longer have to choose between paying their mortgages or paying for health insurance, Hatch said.
"In fact, I think it's safe to say if we fail to act, the worst is yet to come," the senator said.
Hatch said the plan calls for Obamacare to repealed by the end of January. Coming up with a replacement package will be a more difficult and methodical process, he said.
"We don't want to be reckless, and we don't want to inflict more harm on the American people or our health care system," Hatch said.
Legislation must include a stable transition period to give Congress time and space to provide "sensible" reforms, he said.
Lee said repealing Obamacare's subsidies and taxes could be done through the budget reconciliation process, but it's unclear whether insurance regulations could be rolled back that way.
"We've got to repeal what we can. We've got to do it right away," he said.
Congress would then have to move with "deliberate speed" to replace the law, though it could take a few steps to accomplish that, Lee said.
"We don't have all the details of what a replacement plan might look like right now," he said.
Republicans expect opposition from Democrats to repealing the law, but Hatch said he hopes Congress can come up with bipartisan solutions free of "petty, cheap politics."


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"Fringe" has piled one big episode on top of another since its return on April 1, culminating last week with Peter (Joshua Jackson) finally learning the truth about where he comes from.
So naturally, it's following that huge development with an episode Thursday (April 29) that owes a big debt to 1940s noir and features a musical interlude.
Say what now? Executive producer Jeff Pinkner explains:
"The last episode that aired, Peter learned he wasn't from our universe … and turned his back on Walter [John Noble]," Pinkner says. "So we knew we wanted to tell an episode that really explored — we have this phenomenal actor in John Noble and this great character in Walter — how that affects Walter before we plunge forward into the end of the season. We came up with a narrative device to really explore Walter's feelings."
That device is Walter relating a story, "Princess Bride"-style, that casts Olivia (Anna Torv) as a hard-boiled detective and Peter as the tough guy for whom she's searching. "We felt it was a way to get across Walter's [frame of mind] and where his head is right now with his son missing," fellow exec producer J.H. Wyman says. "There's a very good reason why it's noir. It's because of [Walter's] own history and things like that, which you'll see."
As for the musical portion, it's part of a sweeps stunt called "FOX Rocks," with a number of the network's shows featuring sort of musical element (Thursday's "Bones" murder, for instance, involves a rock 'n' roll fantasy camp, for instance). Pinkner says that although music wasn't in their initial plans, they were able to incorporate it into the episode fairly easily.
"It really deepened and blew the episode out even further in the direction we were already taking," he says. "… This episode provided an opportunity to hold a mirror up to Walter's perspective of the world and these individuals — Olivia, Peter and Astrid [Jasika Nicole] — that he interacts with. We get his fractured take on the world and his condition now that Peter has left. The music really supports the storytelling."
Here's a sneak peek at "Fringe's" noirish episode, "Brown Betty," which airs at 9 p.m. ET Thursday.
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The National health care reform law through the department of Labor is now requiring that all group health plans (fully and self insured) and applicable Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRA's) provide consumers with "simple and straight forward" information on plan coverage in a uniform format.
Beginning on the first day of the renewal or plan change on or after September 23, 2012, all eligible employees (whether enrolling or waiving) MUST receive a compliant summary of benefits coverage (SBC) 30 days prior to the plan renewal, initial enrollment, or at a qualifying event or plan change.
The insurance plan and HRA administrator along with the employer share in the responsibility of providing and distributing the SBC's. The distribution can take the form of an e-based file or hard copy printout. Spring will work with you during the renewal/open enrollment timeframe or with new clients and relationships to make sure that the appropriate SBC is distributed appropriately so as to adhere to this federal requirement.
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Greetings and Welcome to Native Educational Endeavors, Inc. Blog!
We hope to engage our visitors in a spirited, candid and most importantly constructive dialog about concerns, issues and controversies involving American Indian education and cross-cultural respect. WE WANT TO KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS, FEELINGS AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, IDEAS.
Our first question seeks to create a constructive discussion about the nature of the Native American high school dropout crisis and what you are aware has been done to attempt to address it.
"American Indian and Alaska Native students have a dropout rate twice the national average; the highest dropout rate of any United States ethnic or racial group. About three out of every ten Native students drop out of school before graduating from high school both on reservations and in cities." American Indian Education, Northern Arizona University, http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/AIE/Dropouts.html (2010),
Do you agree there is an ongoing crisis with American Indians dropping out of high school? (Is this just a statistical inaccuracy involving actual Indians, tending to be a very mobile group?)
If there is a problem, how should it be addressed? (Will one solution work for all Tribal peoples, whereever they are found?)
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Kokkedal, Denmark – June 8, 2007 – Commercial vessel owners and operators recognize the value of premium entertainment when it comes to increasing crew morale and ensuring passenger satisfaction. While at sea, there's only one way to enjoy home theatre-quality television wherever commercial vessels operate – satellite TV; and for the captain who insists on quality and reliability, there's only one way to get it – the HDTV-compatible, professional-grade TracVision® M-series from KVH, the world's leading mobile satellite TV antenna systems. Presenting at the Nor-Shipping International Shipping and Maritime Exhibition in Oslo, Norway, from June 12-15, 2007, KVH enters the commercial maritime market with powerful new marine satellite TV systems that offer KVH's exclusive new RingFire™ antenna technology for the best coverage and reception available in the marine industry today. And thanks to the most rigorous testing regimen in the industry, commercial operators may rest easy knowing they can depend on their TracVision systems to bring true "home theatre" quality satellite TV onboard, in even the harshest conditions.
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In 2020, BMW can launch the second generation 4 Series. Designed beneath the codename G23, the 4 Series auto can be a part of the G20 three Series that launches simply 2 years before. rather like the new three Series, successive 4 Series are going to be designed atop a replacement, extremely versatile matrix referred to as CLAR — short for cluster design — that's set to be the backbone of all future rear-drive BMWs.
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All the recent technical school previewed by BMW may build its manner into the G23 4 Series, together with active lane-keeping assist, automatic braking, self-parking via remote, automatic reordering beneath bound conditions, and semi-autonomous driving each on the road and in stop-and-go traffic at hurries up to forty mph.
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conservative necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 12 design presentati da 8 designer.
We are in the midst of redesigning some aspects of this web site and need some revisions on the logo. The same general color scheme should be used, but we need something more flexible for appearing either over white or black backgrounds.
The Conservative Voice
Be Heard
Desired Color Scheme:
red, white, blue and/or grayscale
Accepted File Formats:
vector Illustator file
This is for a web site that aggregates a lot of different news pieces and has people posting original commentary.
Colors: red,white, blue and/or grayscale
Current web site:
Development web site link:
The typeface should change and the text used can either be "The Conservative Voice" or "TCV Daily"
The slogan is "Be Heard"
We would like to maintain the shield ... either as it currently is or with a different take on the shield idea. The Shield can either appear in color or grayscale.
We probably want something web 2.0-ish ... whatever that means... :-)
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The Full Service package is a start to finish job with a packaged set of pre-purchased hours or flat fee depending on the project. This is typically for clients looking to do more than one room, either as full house decor or renovation work. We specialize in furnishing large homes as well as start to finish renovation management and execution. From build to design, we've got you covered.
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Last episode recap: colour studies, something something, painted faces, something something, painted clothes and nearly flipped out on cloak but then it was okay...
This episode: landscape stuff and finishing! First up is the apple tree. The gritty and impastoed surface was applied with a combination of drybrush scumbling for the darks and palette knife impastoes for the lights, with the intention of going back into it all before wrap up to glaze and scumble into it further.
And then, with all the fun stuff used up, I'm now left with a whole lotta background to fill. Yes, I am a dessert first kind of person.
In real life, there are no mountains behind my models, and there is no barn, or cedar trees, or house. That thing that dazzled your eyes just now is my artistic license, baby.
I find landscape very challenging. I did do the Hudson River Fellowship years ago, and without that, I'd be really lost. And yet, I know I approach landscape painting like a still life painter. I like to paint each little tree and each little blade of grass, approaching the whole scene object by object instead of treating the whole thing as one big abstract visual impression which cannot be reduced to components, but exists as a gestalt. I had to keep reminding myself while painting the landscape above to paint the landscape, and not the parts. In Dad Joke language, you gotta paint the forest and not the trees! GET IT.
And now for another pass on the hands. Loving those little knuckle dimples.
Below I start to do the final pass on Paul's face. You can see me start off by laying down broad areas of colour. I darken his whole face in this final stage.
And finally, hair! You know how weird it is to have to request that your models don't have their hair cut for the month leading up to their photo shoot? I've done it more than once. I just hate super short hair on little boys. It needs to have some Pantene commercial oomph to it. What really makes strawberry coloured hair like this work in a painting is purple. Purple purple purple. I dump a little ultramarine blue plus alizarin crimson into the half light and reflected light areas. It makes the coppery highlights really pop.
Emily's hair and face also get a final pass. I had to be careful to keep her face darker than Paul's, since she is lurking behind that tree trunk. It's that little bluish highlight on her temple that really makes her face work.
And it's finally time for some foliage. I had a lot of fun with these leaves. I mixed up some massive quantities of about five shades of green and I then trowled them on with a broad, sharp flat. In person they do come across as quite brushstroke-y.
By now the painting was mostly done, but I still was having trouble with the foreground. The grass looked like it was painted by someone who had had grass described to them once, so I betook myself the outdoors and set up my painting in front of a tree that had some overgrown grass and wildflowers at it's base. The results were predictably better. I also took an evil looking red apple outside with me and painted it with the outdoor like hitting it just right. Below is the painting at the end of my outdoor session.
And for your viewing pleasure, here are some close up pictures of the finished painting:
Remember how I foreshadowed that I would go back into that tree bark? I ended up doing some nifty glazing and scumbling over top of the impastoing.
And, because it's all a bunch of art nerds reading this, here are the head studies I did as prep work back when I was developing the idea for this painting:
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's Hermes on Wednesday said operating margins reached a first-half record at the start of 2018 as resilient demand in key markets like China also helped the luxury handbag maker and most of its major rivals lift profits.
Top luxury labels from Louis Vuitton owner LVMH to Gucci-parent Kering are basking in a favorable sales environment thanks to buoyant appetite from Chinese shoppers, who account for about a third of the global sector's revenue.
This momentum has yet to slow in spite of the trade spat between Beijing and Washington, and Hermes had reported robust revenue growth for the second quarter in July thanks to strong Chinese demand.
That remained the case, Hermes Chief Executive Axel Dumas told journalists on Wednesday, as the company posted a 6 percent rise in recurring operating income to 985 million euros ($1.14 billion) between January and June.
"There has not been any change in trend so far," Dumas told journalists.
Recurring operating margins, which strip out the effect of one-off items such as the disposal of shops in Hong Kong, reached a first-half record at 34.5 percent of sales, up from 34.3 percent in the first six months of 2017 as it kept a lid on costs, including in communications.
Hermes has long had one of the highest profit margins in the luxury sector and its wares, including its famed Birkin bags, can sell for well over $10,000.
Like peers, the firm is now vying for attention from young shoppers and expanding e-commerce operations as well as gradually increasing production to meet demand.
Fears of a slowdown in Chinese had rattled shares across the sector in recent months.
Shares in Hermes, one of the most highly-valued stocks among luxury players, are up 20 percent since the start of the year, and were up 2.25 percent at 1021 GMT.
Luxury brands drew unwanted attention over their environmental credentials after Burberry disclosed that the value of products it destroyed reached a new high last year.
The British brand has since said it would no longer burn unsold goods - a practice long associated with premium brands keen to keep discounting to a minimum, though few give details.
Dumas said Hermes products were occasionally destroyed, though he added that the group avoided this as much as possible by recycling, organising sales for employees, and controlling stocks and production very tightly.
"In terms of quantity, it's very little," he said.
Hermes' hand-stitched handbags are known for generating long waiting lists and stocks of these are often scarce. The group also makes silk scarves, perfumes and clothing.
Asked whether Hermes would follow Burberry, Gucci or Italy's Versace in dropping the use of animal fur in its collections, Dumas said the firm had not yet decided but that it was a "small player" in this field.
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Another week, another chapter of Karate! We're back and on a roll! I know some of you are wondering about our other mangas. We're not trying to neglect them, but you know, sometimes real life gets in the way. We've got some stuff in the pipeline, nothing is abandoned, so don't fret. For now, enjoy some Karate!
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November 17, 2011
By the end of December all 30,000 US soldiers must leave Iraq
As the 31 December deadline for the pullout of all the American troops from Iraq approaches, the BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Baghdad asks what kind of a country Washington leaves behind.
"I've been here for over six years," said John, a mulletted, moustachioed civilian contractor, driving a pickup truck through the dusty lanes of Camp Kalsu.
"I'm helping to do whatever needs to be done. Take it easy, see ya!" and with that he cranked up the volume on his iPod, plugged into the pickup's stereo, and drove off in a blast of country and western.
John is just one of tens of thousands of Americans - civilian and military - getting out of Iraq.
Camp Kalsu, 50km (31 miles) south of Baghdad, is a glorified military truck-stop. And these days, it's busy.
Every day convoys of military trucks and tanks snake their way onto this base, as they head south towards Kuwait.
There are still some 30,000 US soldiers in Iraq. By the end of December, they must all be gone.High price
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They (Americans) said Iraq would become paradise. Where is it?"
This war has cost America close to $1tn (£635bn). Nearly 4,500 soldiers have lost their lives.
And so, as they pack up, some are inevitably asking the question: was it all worth it?
Jason Kidder, the camp's executive officer, said he and his men were proud of what they had achieved.
"I see the neighbourhoods now, with the markets open, and they have running water, they have electricity. Co-operation between the US military and the Iraqi government really brought civilization back to a tolerable level here.
"And so I'm very proud to say that I was here and I was part of this."
That pride was not shared in the nearby town of Iskenderiyah.
"We still have no water, no electricity, no reconstruction, no nothing." That was the verdict of Hussein Matar, a taxi driver from the Shia shrine-city of Karbala, as he tucked into a kebab and pickles at a roadside eatery.
"The Americans invaded Iraq to liberate us from Saddam Hussein. But things got even worse. They said Iraq would become paradise. Where is it?"
The cost of the war to the Unites States is dwarfed by the price paid by Iraqis. Conservative estimates of the number of people killed since 2003 exceed 100,000.
Last month, 258 people lost their lives in shootings and explosions - not an unusually high figure.
Iraqis still live with the daily fear of violence. The country's infrastructure is still in tatters.Old habits die hard
Rightly or wrongly, many Iraqis now blame the departing Americans for all of this, and more.
"Many countries have benefited from what happened here, including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and even Iran," Hussein Matar continued, echoing a widely held sentiment.Some protesters on Tahrir Square allege intimidation by security services
"Because the US is busy in Iraq and in Afghanistan, Iran can do whatever it wants. Our country has become a place where other nations settle their scores."
So what is left then for Iraqis asking what the US has ever done for them.
There is democracy, and freedom of speech.
On 25 February 2011, as protest swept across the Arab world, Iraqis too came out onto the streets.
On Baghdad's Tahrir Square people gathered to demand better public services and an end to corruption.
A year earlier, they had voted in a messy coalition government. Now those same voters were voicing their displeasure.
These were scenes that would have been unimaginable under Saddam Hussein's rule. But in Iraq, old habits die hard. After most of the local media had left, the security forces were sent in.
"Within a couple of minutes, they had cleared the entire square," says Daniel Smith, an independent journalist and researcher.
The eyes of the world were focused elsewhere in the Middle East. But Mr Smith was there and saw everything.
"For 40 minutes they chased us, shooting. People fell down, it looked like they were shot but it was tough to tell. Then people would catch up with them and be beating them with sticks. These were security forces."
Since that day, Daniel Smith has been back to Tahrir Square almost every Friday. The intimidation, he says, has become less visible - but no less effective.
"After the demonstration, four journalists were picked up in a cafe at the other end of town, arrested and threatened with rape and other violence. They were told: 'Don't go back to Tahrir'."
"In the months that followed there was a big public smear campaign on state TV, talking about (the protesters) being Ba'athist (Saddam Hussein's political party) supporters who wanted to bring down the government."
When the BBC visited Tahrir Square one Friday this month, uniformed security forces outnumbered the small crowd of demonstrators. There was a lively debate between pro- and anti-government protesters.
But there were also members of the intelligence services in plain clothes. Many activists said they had been arrested in the past. Their mood was defiant, but also nervous.'Moqtada's victory'
In recent weeks, about 800 people have been arrested across the country, accused of being part of a Baathist-terrorist conspiracy.
There are clearly still people in Iraq who are bent on a path of violence and terror. But it's hard to avoid the conclusion that in some cases at least, the Baathist-al-Qaeda label is used to silence awkward critics.
After the invasion in 2003, the process of de-baathification removed a largely Sunni elite from power and replaced it with leaders from Iraq's Shiite majority.
It is these people who have, on paper, gained the most from the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
But it is in Shia neighbourhoods, like Sadr City, that people are most vocal in their opposition to the American presence.
Every Friday, hundreds of men gather in the street to hear the imam deliver the sermon. Every Friday they chant: "No, no America! No, no America!"
Moqtada al-Sadr, the cleric who leads these people, also controls a sizable block in the Iraqi parliament. He himself is mostly resident in Iran.
His men once fought the US occupying forces in Iraq, and America's withdrawal at the end of December will be seen by many as Mr Moqtada's victory.


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Top Reasons Why Commercial Tree Pruning is Important
Tree pruning can bring numerous benefits to any place. A well-maintained tree enhances a place's overall aesthetic feature. Commercial tree pruning on establishments like shopping centers and schools must be done regularly not only to enhance its landscape but to keep the people around it safe. Moreover, there are more reasons why maintaining trees and regular pruning is important.
To Spice-up one's Yard
Pruning enhances a tree's appearance; giving it a better shape and a whole new character by cutting off dead branches and limbs that grew longer than the other.
Grooming the trees also benefits a place's overall landscape. Well-groomed trees bring better vibes and enhance the overallambiance. Hence why shopping centre tree pruning is done regularly as it keeps the place's appearance pleasing to customers.
For Safety
Safety must be on top of the reasons why people should prune trees. Commercial tree pruning must be done frequently to ensure there are no hazardous branches which may cause accidents.
Dead limbs and branches fall easily during heavy rains and strong winds. Shopping center and school tree removal should be done if the tree is not suitable to the area's weather condition as it can be highly dangerous for these crowded places.
Increase Fruit Production
For fruit-bearing trees, pruning is highly essential. Dead branches make a tree more prone to diseases and insect infestation. Moreover, tree pruning encourages spurs' growth which will later produce fruits.
Treat Diseases and Boost the Tree's Growth
A tree's health and growth can be affected by a disease. Pruning helps in treating and preventing diseases from spreading by cutting off affected limbs. Trimming off those dead branches also allows the tree to have more resources, therefore, boosting its overall health and growth.
Few Tree Pruning Tips:
1. Come up with a plan – you can't just go around trimming those trees without having a comprehensive plan. Know which trees and what branches need pruning and decide how you are going to prune it.
2. The tools – after coming with a plan, your next step is to choose the right tools to use. You will need hand pruners to remove dead limbs and pruning saws or loppers for large branches. You will also need safety tools to keep you safe in doing the task such as goggles, ear protectors, and gloves.
3. Safety first – with your desire to give the tree a whole new look, your safety should not be neglected. Check for any hazards which may cause accidents such as live electric wires or broken branches that may easily fall off. Be sure to wear a hard hat if you are pruning above-head-height trees.
4. Seek help – there can be cases where you are going to need professional help. For tasks like Strata tree lopping or tree pruning on more difficult areas, calling for backup is the best idea. You can visit www.skylinelandscape.com.au if you need help with tree pruning.
Final Thoughts
Commercial tree pruning, if done regularly, can bring a handful of benefits to every lawn. Establishments such as schools, shopping malls, and parks should not neglect the importance ofproper tree maintenance. It does not only enhance the place's aesthetic features, it also keeps the people around away from possible casualty.


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This article was enough to wake me out of my blogging slumber. In it, Chris McClosky states that the Pistons don't consider the Pacers rivals anymore. Well, of course they don't. And it has nothing to do with Ben Wallace and Ron Artest not being there. It has to do with the Pistons doing quite well since the Brawl and the Pacers . . . pretty much sucking.
What I take issue with in McClosky's article is this:
Still, the Pistons know they will be stepping into a hostile environment tonight. They know they have been scapegoated by Pacer Nation. Everything that's gone wrong the past couple of years, in their eyes, has been directly attributable to the Pistons.
He just doesn't get it. If Pacer fans hate the Pistons, it must be scapegoating, right? There couldn't be, you know, like a real reason. Is there some scapegoating? Sure. Do some Pacer fans blame the Pistons for everything that's gone wrong with the team. Probably. But this makes it seem like the Pacer fans are have no reason for their hate for the Piston organization. Oh, we have one big reason to hate them.
Let's review the Brawl. Clearly mutual responsibility . I'm not saying the Pacers players weren't stupid for doing what they did. I'm not saying it was OK for Artest to go in the stands or Jackson to follow him, etc., etc.. But, the Piston fans and organization share a very large share of the blame. And, it wasn't just a few "bad apples." It was a whole bunch of them that turned this into a riot. We had the initial cup thrower. The guy throwing cheap shots at the back of a players head after Artest went in the stands. A guy throwing a chair. Guys running on the court to attack the players (guys who got what they deserved, by the way). And lots and lots of beer thrown at the players as they left the stands. Go listen to John Saunders and the rest of the ESPN crew's comments immediately after the incident. They sure knew who should bear the brunt of the blame
Again, the Pacers were not innocent bystanders. The leage can't punish the fans and refused to punish the Piston organization. So they punished the only people they could punish, the Pacer players, and they came down hard. Recall who won that game on 11/19/04: the Pacers. In my opinion, we were the best team in the league that year. The Brawl absolutely destroyed our team and it devastated our fans.
What price did the Pistons pay for the Brawl? Hardly anything. In fact, their fans and organization actually benefited from the Brawl, didn't they? It sure resulted in a knock out blow to the Pacers, their main rival. So much so, that, according to McClosky, this isn't even a rivalry anymore.
The Brawl should have been a bad outcome for both teams. Instead the Pacers were the big losers and Detroit benefited. And that, Mr. McClosky, explains why we are still bitter.


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Just days after announcing it was being acquired by India's Reliance for $67.82 million, system integrator Radisys debuted a new program called Open Business Accelerator that is intended to make it easier for service providers to launch open source solutions in their networks.
What's interesting is that Radisys' accelerator program is targeting specific areas that it believes will make 5G deployment easier and faster. Areas ripe for partnerships, according to Radisys, include RAN decomposition and the evolution of the open RAN.
The company said it is looking for partners that are working with open source initiatives such as members of the Telecom Infra Project's (TIP) OpenRAN group, the xRAN Forum, the ORAN Alliance, and the Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD). Radisys is a big proponent of CORD; the company in 2016 contributed its evolved packet core (EPC) framework to the CORD project to create a virtual EPC (vEPC).
The company also is a member of xRAN and has been working with TIP to disaggregate the eNodeB into functional components aligned around the LTE protocol layers. "We've made several contributions of our IP to the community to build the ecosystem for open source solutions, and we are actively involved in several TIP projects such as OpenCellular, OpenRAN, vRAN fronthaul, and solutions integration," said Natasha Tamaskar, vice president, global marketing, channels, and sales strategy for Radisys.
But Radisys' Accelerator program is different from these standards groups because it isn't setting open standards. Instead it is supporting the work of these groups and building solutions based upon those open reference frameworks. According to Tamaskar, this Accelerator program is about "solution integration and hardening," and speed to market for service providers.
Besides open RAN, the company is looking for partners involved in multi-access edge computing (MEC) and software-defined networking enabled broadband access evolution (SEBA).
Other areas of interest include media intelligence, which Radisys describes as the enabling of real-time voice and video services that leverage flexible media services and will reduce CapEx and OpEx. And SDN and NFV cloud networking, which are products that enable service providers to have more network visibility, monitoring, and network control in the 5G environment and will also reduce costs.
Tamaskar says that one example of a current Radisys partnership that is already working on a go-to-market solution is its work with Intel on 5G reference designs for trials with service providers. In this program, Radisys is leveraging its 3GPP Release 15 compliant 5G software suite.
Marketing Partnership
Nevertheless, much of the program sounds like a marketing partnership in which Accelerator members will work together on joint sales and marketing campaigns and share their product roadmaps. The members also will offer training workshops.
Radisys is hoping to include partners from around the globe and therefore help companies expand and sell their products in new geographic regions and markets.
Not surprisingly, Radisys is tapping some existing partnerships to support its accelerator program. For example, Radisys is a partner-level member of the Open Networking Forum and ONF is supporting this accelerator. ONF Executive Director Guru Parulkar said that Radisys brings deep expertise to various open source initiatives like CORD and Stratum that enable operators to minimize vendor lock-in.
Other partners include Modulo, which makes VoLTE and IP multimedia systems (IMS) solutions for telecom operators; Adlink, which makes gateways and edge computing devices; test equipment firm Rohde & Schwarz; and Microtel, which makes network monitoring products.


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It's up to you to decide how much public liability insurance you need, although it's sensible to check with your potential clients to see if they expect a particular level of cover.
In particular, government or local authority contracts usually ask for suppliers to have between £5 million and £10 million of public liability insurance.
You should also think about the scale of the work you do and the possible extent of compensation claims if something went wrong. Remember that compensation figures can be very high because they can take into account things like lost income and medical costs.
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I bought the device in 2008. It was the first model in the fit-PC line, pictured at the bottom of this page from the manufacturer. At the time it was the smallest, cheapest x86 I could find. I had a 1 GB compact flash card from some earlier hacking, and I bought an adapter to use this card as an ATA/IDE hard drive. I had the makings of an embedded server with no moving parts, which I never did anything interesting with for three years.
Anyhow, having not booted the thing in a year or so, I set out to get it working again.
PXE Boot
The last time I set up this system, I used a DD-WRT router to PXE boot from the TFTP server on my Macbook. Did you know that Mac OSX ships with a TFTP server installed? Magical. Unfortunately my current router uses the stock firmware.
While the TFTP server works great, the built-in Mac DHCP/BOOTP server leaves much to be desired. Long story short, I found lots of people on the internet trying to make PXE boot work with it, and none succeeding. I spun my wheels for a few hours, and there's not much else to report on that, except my advice not to try it. This was OSX 10.4 Snow Leopard.
In this age of VirtualBox and high-speed internet, I was able to quickly set up a VM with tftpd-hpa and dhcp3-server. I added and configured a bridged network adapter on eth0, then connected my laptop and the fit-PC to an ethernet switch. Total time: less than 1 hour.
Netboot Installation
I thought I remembered having trouble with newer kernels on this hardware, so my first attempts were with an ancient 8.04 hardy netboot image. This was just about unsupported, and was the oldest release still available from the public mirrors. After a few failed attempts I abandoned it in favor of a command-line install of 11.04 natty, which I was able to get working. Later, after I found that I needed a newer version of the webcam package, I also tried installing 11.10 oneiric. The 3.0 linux kernel would not boot on this hardware, so I recommend staying with natty and linux 2.6.
Natty seemed to install well enough, but I got a "No installable Kernel was found in the defined APT sources" error. I manually installed linux-image-generic as suggested by a forum post.
The first time I tried that, the system wouldn't boot. Not having many other options, I tried it again, and realized that it was running out of disk space. I would never have noticed this without checking the debug screen with Alt+F4 at the end. Apparently 1 GB is not enough for an install of the Ubuntu base system anymore. In any case, it's pretty abysmal that the installer doesn't give you any feedback when you're in this state.
I drove to the closest electronics store for a bigger CF card; there was a single 4 GB model tucked away amidst the SDs and MicroSDs. That installed and booted fine, with linux-image-generic.
I did have to tweak the boot options to skip the splash screen. Press shift to get to the Grub menu on boot.
$ emacs /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nosplash --verbose text"
$ update-grub
Between the kernel incompatibilities and mysterious problems, I ran the netboot installer about ten times. I kept thinking of the old quote, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
The installer hung occasionally on all three distro versions that I tried. Oneiric segfaulted and somehow corrupted the boot partition after an ill-advised do-release-upgrade from natty. These issues raise the possibility of a hardware problem, but I don't really want to think about that now that it's working. In any case, memtest86 passed, and the CF card is fresh.
Wireless was a nightmare when I first started using Linux on my laptop in 2004. I was very happy to see that it has improved enormously since then. For my hardware, it "just worked".
This is my wireless card:
$ hwinfo
34: USB 00.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at usb.122]
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.5/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0
SysFS BusID: 1-4:1.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Ralink 802.11 bg WLAN"
Hotplug: USB
Vendor: usb 0x18e8 "Ralink"
Device: usb 0x6238 "802.11 bg WLAN"
Revision: "0.01"
Driver: "rt73usb"
Driver Modules: "rt73usb"
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Speed: 480 Mbps
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472 2.484
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: "usb:v18E8p6238d0001dc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFF"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: rt73usb is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rt73usb"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #32 (Hub)
I installed wireless-tools:
$ iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on
I was also able to find my wireless network without any issues:
$ sudo ip link set wlan0 up
$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
Cell 04 - Address: {redacted}
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=70/70 Signal level=-40 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra: Last beacon: 456ms ago
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
The wpasupplicant package is required to connect to my WPA2 network.
$ emacs /etc/network/interfaces
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid 975B
pre-up wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant
$ sudo dhclient wlan0
$ ifconfig
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr {redacted}
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: {redacted}/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:21576 (21.5 KB) TX bytes:2476 (2.4 KB)
I used a midrange webcam, the Logitec c310 HD Webcam. Its chief virtue was that it was available at the Staples down the street, and Google seemed to suggest that it worked under Linux. As with my wireless card, I was cautiously optimistic and ultimately pleased. It also "just worked".
$ hwinfo
35: USB 00.0: 0000 Unclassified device
[Created at usb.122]
Unique ID: ADDn.0XCWhgf+Sk0
Parent ID: k4bc.G_ipYBRd0t3
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.5/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0
SysFS BusID: 1-1:1.0
Hardware Class: unknown
Model: "Logitech Unclassified device"
Hotplug: USB
Vendor: usb 0x046d "Logitech, Inc."
Device: usb 0x081b
Revision: "0.10"
Serial ID: "41EDC8E0"
Driver: "uvcvideo"
Driver Modules: "uvcvideo"
Device File: /dev/input/event4
Device Files: /dev/input/event4, /dev/input/by-id/usb-046d_081b_41EDC8E0-event-if00, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:0f.5-usb-0:1:1.0-event
Device Number: char 13:68
Speed: 480 Mbps
Module Alias: "usb:v046Dp081Bd0010dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc01ip00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: uvcvideo is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe uvcvideo"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #32 (Hub)
The streamer package is all you need to grab a screenshot from the command line.Conclusion
However, I discovered that streamer is broken in 11.04 due to a simple compilation bug. LTS my ass. The package maintainer didn't even test that binary before packaging it up and publishing it to the Canonical repository?
Ultimately, I just downloaded the oneiric version of the package, along with its dependency xawtv-plugins, and manually installed them with dpkg.
In order to use the /dev/video0 device, your user needs to be a member of the video group.
$ sudo gpasswd --add username video
However, I discovered that streamer is broken in 11.04 due to a simple compilation bug. LTS my ass. The package maintainer didn't even test that binary before packaging it up and publishing it to the Canonical repository?
Ultimately, I just downloaded the oneiric version of the package, along with its dependency xawtv-plugins, and manually installed them with dpkg.
In order to use the /dev/video0 device, your user needs to be a member of the video group.
$ sudo gpasswd --add username video
Linux: Still awesome. Still fucked up when you stray from the beaten path.
I love that little fit-PC, and I'm glad it's being put to better use than gathering dust in my closet. Their new models look great too.
On the other hand, if I were starting this project today without a load of old hardware to dispose of, I would probably opt for a used cell phone rather than a semi-embedded x86. The integrated battery, camera, and wireless make for quite a platform. Although I suspect that phone hacking makes for an even more frustrating experience than the one related above.


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Mayo North offers a vast selection of outdoor activities and the area is often referred to as a destination for the outdoors adventurer. In Mayo North, there is something for everyone, its renown amongst hill walkers, climbers and adventure seekers, but with that being said, the first point of call for all adventure enthusiasts is Nephin.
Nephin is the second highest mountain in Connaught and to climb Nephin is also one of the top 12 things to do in Crossmolina!
Access and starting point
Nephin can be accessed by different routes. Although there is no 'one way' to climb the mountain, it is advisable to seek advice before the ascent.
– One point of access to the Nephin ridge is from the R312. There is off-road parking near here.
– Another point of access is from the north. Again there is a layby nearby, cross the fence and follow the stream uphill.
– There is also another route from the east. The route starts up a private road which is access for a pump house. The pump house is in a locked compound at the end. When you get to the end you go through a gate directly in front of you then straight away the gate to your right, walk another 150m and you are at the start of the climb just over the small stream. Do not block the gate into the access road. Many locals use this route but as with all private land be prepared to ask should you encounter the landowner. (walkingroutes.ie)
More information and guide access can be obtained by contacting Crossmolina Tourist Office ( 096 30935) or visiting Crossmolina.ie.
The Route
The total distance of the route is approx. six miles (10km) and the walking time is about 4 hours. The mountain is contained in the Ordinance Survey Map Discovery Series Sheets 23 or 31.
The Summit
A cairn marks the summit which sets itself an amazing view of the surrounding countryside. You will encounter the vast blankets of bog in the Erris regions.
The mountain overlooks Lough Conn and on a clear day, but legend has it you can see the mountains of Donegal and Connemara – the locals say you can see seven counties on a clear day!
It is recommend that you descend the mountain by the same route. Although there are other routes, its highly recommended you return via the route you came.


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CADRI governance
The CADRI Programme oversight structure is composed of a Programme Board and a Programme Assurance Group.
The Programme Board provides a mechanism for consultation and consensus to inform management decisions for programme implementation. It is composed of senior representatives of CADRI Partner Agencies. The Programme Board has one permanent Chair (UNDP) and one rotating Chair elected annually.
The Programme Assurance Group is tasked to ensure efficient programme management and implementation, and reports regularly to the Programme Board. The Programme Assurance Group consists of senior technical representatives of CADRI Partner Agencies and CADRI Coordinator.


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Debate Drama may be inconsequential this election cycleSeptember 27th, 2016 by Mike Vasilinda
Donald Trump's first campaign stop after last night's debate is Florida. He will be speaking in Melbourne tonight at 7. Florida is a must win for Trump, while electoral math suggests Clinton can win without the Sunshine state. Still, Clinton and husband Bill will be here in Florida on Friday. As Mike Vasilinda tells us, the unusual dynamics of this election may make the winner or loser of the debates irrelevant.
She called him inexperienced.
"I know how to win" responded Donald Trump.
He called her a Washington insider.
"Whooo" is how Hillary Clinton responded
And It's not surprising that supporters think their candidate won.
Evan Power supports Trump.
"I think he held his own and was able to exposer as part of the problem having been in Government so long" says the Leon County GOP Chair.
Steve Schale ran Obama's Florida re-election in 2012,
"I thought she did a great job o baiting him into some bad answers, and frankly, I was surprised at how poorly he pivoted back to what he wanted to talk about" says Schale, who worked to draft Joe Biden to run.
While debates can sometimes help pick a winner or a loser, one political scientist says this year is so strange, the debates may not matter that much.
USF Political scientist Susan MacManus says that people are so fed up with Washington that many have already made their minds up.
"Fear is a big motivating factor in politics and when you are afraid about the economy, and you are afraid about your personal security and you see a Washington leaning Congress doing nothing on either front, you are at a desperation stage and you just say, I don't care who it is. No matter what they are, it's my last chance to change something in Washington.And that's where we're at" says MacManus
Schale disagrees.
Q:"They just want somebody new?" we asked.
"Yeah, but they also want somebody who is competent somebody who;s got the temperament on the nuclear button to make the good decisions when he needs to" says Schale.
The reality is that Trump must win Florida to win and right now the race is a dead heat.
No Republican has won the White House with winning Florida since Calvin Coolidge did it in 1924. Back then Florida had six electoral votes. Today it has 29.
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The birds are on their way to Appeltern. There is a nice exhibition next week in the gardens of Appeltern. You can make this nice paper-pieced birdhouse during the show at the Orangerie. You will find us there.
The appliqué birds will be there too, I promiss you!
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Sunday Salon - A busy week
A small part of my week was taken up with a conference that was held at my church on Friday evening and all day Saturday and yes, I attended the whole thing. If you are wondering, it was an apologetics conference. There were two sessions that were quite fascinating, but of those two, it was the final group session on Saturday afternoon on C. S. Lewis. Being a reader and a person that enjoys intellectual endevours, I really enjoyed the talk; it also helped that the speaker, Dr. Louis Markos, was an engaging speaker (the speakers that I heard were all were good speakers, but felt that Dr. Markos was probably the most engaging speaker of the weekend).
As for Sunday, I am planning on resting and catching up on my reading and getting some cleaning done (my PVR and by taking things down to the garbage and doing some other chores and cleaning out my email boxes a bit) and if the weather cooperates, go for a short walk in my neighbourhood; I don't really feel like driving tomorrow. I might work on some book reviews. After being around people basically since Monday, I need a break and some quiet.
Hope you all have a pleasant day, doing whatever you end up doing.


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Pas aussi atroce que ça !
La maîtrise de M. Kerry, candidat démocrate à la présidence des Etats-Unis, de la langue française, je veux dire. Vous êtes probablement en désaccord si vous vous attendez à des prouesses, mais personnellement, je suis habituée à pire.
On Language Log, Geoffrey Pullum links to an mp3 audio clip from Slate Magazine, in which John Kerry, visiting Haiti while campaigning, speaks a few words of French. According to Prof. Pullum, Kerry's French is "atrocious". Well, I have to disagree respectfully. Sure, the Mr Kerry on this clip doesn't come up to the ankles of, say, Jean Jaurès, but first of all there are extenuating circumstances, and second, there's more data available than just four seconds out of a 25-sec recording.
- Mr Kerry seems to be struggling not to drown in the crowd. Before switching to French, his English isn't a shining example of fluency either. He keeps repeating "we should be doing more" before abandoning all attempts to get across another snippet of whatever he wants to say.
- Mr Kerry is not giving a speech in French but is just switching over from English to address some unknown person (probably the man whose voice, but not words, can be made out on the recording). Perfect fluency is difficult to maintain when jumping back and forth between languages. This is something I do all the time. My French is pretty good for a non-native speaker, my German still quite fluent (I'd say, still at native-speaker competency, but I'm a bit worried that I might not be using it enough), and as for my English, you are the judge. I don't think I'm stretching things when I think of none of the three as "atrocious". And yet, my brain can get confused when I have to switch extemporaneously. Sometimes I pull up an inappropriate language and don't even realize until a few words later. Sometimes I get stuck and have to take a deep breath and reorganize my internal language access protocol.
- What Mr Kerry says — I agree with Prof. Pullum and disagree with the Slate Magazine — is "Vous êtes d'Haïti? [pause] D'accord. [pause] Bonne journée !", and then maybe something else that gets drowned out by the crowd, or maybe the microphone picked up someone else speaking, well, I don't know what, but not English. Now this doesn't sound like the pinnacle of rhetoric, but politicians rarely do when figuratively patting a member of the public on the back. More to the point, it's quite precisely what French politicians would do and say en faisant les marchés, ie when hanging out on open-air markets to "meet" the voters. Acknowledging some piece of information one's interlocutor provides (maybe the town he is from, maybe he's not precisely from Haiti, but travelled there for the campaign meeting) by saying "d'accord" (I agree / I'm okay with that) is particularly idiomatic. It may not prove all by itself Kerry's grasp on French — very good French classes might address the point early on — but it's exactly what French people would say. The expression used to amuse me quite a bit. Imagine you announce to your lover that you're tired and are going to bed now ("je suis crevée, je vais aller me coucher"), and she replies by giving her permission. Which is what "d'accord" sounds like to someone not yet used to idiomatic French. On the other hand, the strange fricative at the end of "Haïti" is just weird. Maybe he hesitated between Haïti and Haïtien, maybe it's an artifact, maybe he's overdoing the pronunciation habit of the more bourgeois French to add an (affected-sounding) [x] at the end of words that end in vowels. This would fit with the social class of the French speakers he supposedly has been most exposed to.
- I have to admit, I am basing my judgement on more than just on this clip. On the TV news, I have heard Mr Kerry say a few sentences, two or three, in French to a French journalist. They were obviously unprepared, but a bit more complex than the exchange above. Mr. Kerry's accent is a strong American English one (vowels too open and too much to the front; too many nasalized sounds etc.), by far not as good as, say, Dave's. But his grammar was quite acceptable, and I would certainly call him fluent. Which is more than I'm used to from many of our politicians' grasp on foreign languages. But not more than what I'd expect from someone who as a teenager regularly spent summers in France speaking French with his relatives.
Not that I want to negatively influence Mr. Kerry's electoral prospects; apparently, the ability to speak French is a shameful defect he better hide. But let's not (mis)overestimate the influence this modest site might conceivably have.
Edit: Right after publishing this post, I saw that Bill Poser (still on Language Log) has some additional remarks on the recording. He comments on the atrocious sound quality (as opposed to foreign language skills) the recording exhibits, and provides a noise-reduced version. My ears still hear "bonne journée" and not "je vais aider les Haïtiens", but so be it.
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Iran, 6 Nations Begin Nuke Talks
It's been a year since the last conversation, but Iran, you've got some explaining to do. The nation begins a round of talks with six nations in Istanbul on Saturday to explain its nuclear enrichment program. The nations—five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany—are expected to ask the nation to let nuclear inspectors into all sites. The looming threat of military intervention, by the U.S. or Israel, remains.


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First published in May 31, 2008 Armenian Reporter.
Washington Briefing
by Emil Sanamyan
Congressional delegation in Armenia, region
Reps. Adam Schiff (D.-Calif.), Allyson Schwartz (D.-Penn.) and Wayne Gilchrest (R.-Md.) visited Baku on May 24–25 and Yerevan on May 26–27, meeting with Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents and other officials, their offices reported. The trip was the first visit to Armenia by members of Congress since 2005 and was organized through the ad hoc House Democracy Assistance Commission.
Rep. Schiff, who represents the cities of Glendale and Pasadena, with the largest proportion of Armenian-American voters in the United States, told President Serge Sargsian, "We consider Armenia an important partner and ally. Consequently, we wish to as far as possible assist its political and economic progress."
In an interview with RFE/RL Armenian Service, Rep. Schiff said that he and other members were "concerned with the problems that occurred during the election [in Armenia], the violence that occurred after the election."
"We are here to try to assess the situation and talk with the Armenian government about how we can help move the government further in the direction of democracy," Rep. Schiff added.
Rep. Schiff's delegation also met with aides to Levon Ter-Petrossian, the opposition figure and former president, who focused on the recent election campaign and its outcome.
While in Baku, the members of Congress heard criticisms of Armenia and the Armenian diaspora, with few details reported.
From Armenia the delegation flew on to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Georgian ruling party election sweep welcomed, protested
The National Movement Party led by President Mikheil Saakashvili swept the May 21 parliamentary election winning more than 110 seats in the 150-seat legislature, according to preliminary results made available via the Civil.ge news portal.
The remaining seats were won by the Nine-party Opposition Alliance (about 16 seats) led by David Gamkrelidze, the Christian Democratic Party of former TV anchor Giorgi Targamadze (8 seats), the Labor Party of populist politician Shalva Natelashvili (6 seats), and the opposition Republican Party led by David Berdzenishvili (2 seats).
Three of the seats in parliament went to ethnic Armenians, as the Armenian Reporter reported last week.
The opposition alliance quickly called for annulment of results, pointing to electoral violations. It also launched several well-attended protest rallies and vowed it would prevent the new parliament from convening.
Western observers suggested that the government's efforts to meet democratic standards for elections were "uneven and incomplete."
(The observers gave a more upbeat assessment of the presidential election last January calling it "democratic." See this page in the January 12, 2008 Armenian Reporter.)
According to the observers there were problems with vote count in 16 percent of precincts inspected – about the same number as in Georgian, as well as Armenian, presidential polls earlier this year.
Nevertheless, the U.S. State Department was "encouraged" by what it thought were "improvements" in election conduct compared to the previous poll.
Georgia has been possibly the most eager ally of the United State in recent years, sending one of the largest military contingents in support of U.S.-led Iraq operations.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Briefly on Schiff delegation in Baku and Yerevan, Georgian election
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Clemson University's Prof. John Ballato Named IEEE Fellow
Piscataway, New Jersey, November 2016 – John Ballato, professor at Clemson University, has been named a 2017 IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for his contributions to optical fibers and optoelectronic materials. IEEE is the world's largest technical professional association. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person… Read more
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Monday, August 21 will be unlike any other usual August day. While temperatures may be pleasantly warm, the afternoon sun lit sky in Orangeburg will turn dark for more than two minutes, starting at 2:43 p.m. The solar eclipse will be the first in nearly a century to occur in the United States, along a… Read more


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First Treasures Baby Hand and Foot Casting in Essex: A Review
It's always lovely to have a keepsake of your baby from when they were tiny, but it can be hard to decide what to do! A newborn photo shoot maybe, or a memory frame of their first outfit perhaps? Well, how about a casting of their tiny hands and feet?! We were invited along by … [Read more…]


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So often, we are conditioned to be bronze, bronze and more bronzed in the summertime. I know I'm all about it, but I've also got appreciation for the porcelain goddess who rocks her pale all year long. I imagine her to be like the model shown above wearing Face Stockholm's Summer Overture collection. I mean, it makes sense. Pale is the new (and old) bronze in Sweden! I love the model's sculpted cheek and the glassy lip. She looks fresh, and almost makes me want to give up the self-tanner. Almost.
The good news is, that this collection brings out the porcelain bronzed goddess in me even though I'm not so porcelain. The two new items, Sun Kissed Blush and Nypon Ros Nektar gloss give the perfect dusty pink cheek and the glassy lip I covet so much. The Nektar gloss is a sleeper hit for me. It's a sheer peach that gives lips a perfectly dewy, multi-dimensional look. It's the perfect complement to the Sun Kissed cheek.
I'm also really admiring the highlight shown on the model. Face Stockholm used the Creme Highlighter in Dignity to achieve the look. Because we are highlighter-phenes up in this blog, we will be investigating Dignity in the near future. Stay tuned, but in the meantime, you can see more on the Summer Overture look here!


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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Things I've said to my kids
DO NOT eat poo
Don't sit on your brother's head.
If you spit in his face one more time, I will have to put you in time out.
That's it! The toy is going over the hill (we live on a ridge, and over the hill to the side of our house is nothing but brush and bramble)
Please stop putting dirt down Max's shirt (diaper subsequently filled with a mixture of soil, urine and poo.)
Don't eat off the floor! And if you're gonna eat of the floor, don't lick the floor
Off the Television set!
Put the scissors down! .... (To the 2 year old – he robbed kitchen shears from the dishwasher tray next to me and ran)
It is NOT ninja time
Don't wipe your nose on the sofa cushion
Don't eat paper clips
Don't feed him play-doh
No, you can't drive
I'd like a laugh - Tell me some of yours!
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Please don't climb all over me; I'm not a jungle gym! (usually when I'm watching TV or am on the phone).ReplyDelete
Stop licking the cat!
Don't staple your lips.ReplyDelete
Stop licking the floor (lots of licking, I see)!
You can't fly.
Stop poking yourself in the eye.
One more time, and I'm throwing the Batcave in the snow! (I see we have similar parenting techinques- you have the hill. We have 6 feet of snow). Forever.
Re: "Don't staple your lips" - I hope that ended well Re: "batman cave over the hill" - I'm glad I'm not the only one threaten to launch toys over hedges, etc. Everyone comments on the tiger mother book like, ooo isn't she vicious threatening to throw the dollhouse away if the girl doesn't practice and I'm like, big deal.ReplyDelete
I have also told my toddler to put the scissors down.ReplyDelete
Also, don't sit on the dogs head and bounce up and down.
Don't throw your breakfast ON the dogs at least throw it on the floor so they can eat it.
Don't dance ON the table.
Don't put your hands in the toilet.
I could probably go on for a while but I think I'll stop here.
You can't poo at the same time. there is only one toilet.ReplyDelete
Right, i'm giving it to the chickens, then (no snow or ditches here)
chewing and spitting it is NOT eating.
Duvets are not stair sledges.
How do you know what feathers taste like?
Right, that's it, i'm DELETING TOY STORY!
Leave your willy alone.
Leave your willy alone.
Leave your willy alone.
Please pull up your pantsReplyDelete
Please pull up your trousers
Leave your willy alone
Leave your willy alone
Is that snot you just wiped on me?
there are definitely some these emerging here...ReplyDelete
If you fall off that wall and break a leg, dont come running to me...ReplyDelete
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1. thoroughbred - noun
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2. thoroughbred - noun
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Hypernym(s): racehorse, race_horse, bangtail
3. thoroughbred - noun
· a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses
Synonym(s): purebred, pureblood
Hypernym(s): animal, animate_being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
4. thoroughbred - adjective
· having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal
Synonym(s): pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded
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Your living room with a carpet on the floor and without one isn't the same. Carpets are decorative elements of every house and in order to "do their job", they have to be clean. Maintaining a carpet isn't easy as it sounds. It doesn't matter if you have an oriental rug or some other kind of carpet, cleaning is a hard work that has to be done carefully and slowly. There are people that call themselves professional carpet cleaners and oriental rug cleaners. My opinion is that they just have more experience than you and nothing else. Therefore, carpet cleaning can be learned. This "manual" will cover some of the basics when it comes to carpet cleaning.
Vacuuming is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about cleaning carpets and it's definitely the easiest one. Vacuuming should be done once or twice a week no matter if your carpet looks dirty or not. If you own a pet, even more often. Before vacuuming, make sure that there aren't any coins or toys that could be vacuumed. If it's possible, move the furniture so you can reach every part of carpet easily. In order to get nice and clean carpet after vacuuming, try to vacuum not just vertically or horizontally, but in both directions.
Although vacuuming is quite decent cleaning technique, it cannot remove stains or some kinds of deeper dirt. In order to clean stains from your carpet, you'll have to perform "spot cleaning". You know those kinds of ads where a guy tests some kind of cleaning product on carpets or oriental rugs? That's exactly what you have to do here. Grab a clean cloth, get a carpet cleaning product and get to work. Although water will do the job in many cases, if the stain on your carpet is older age you'll have to buy some chemical product. There are a vast number of detergents and many of them are eco-friendly, so go and pick one to get the job done easier. After you "treat" the stain with detergent, you should do the same thing with water so the detergent doesn't stay at the carpet and possibly poison your pet.
There is a kind of a myth out there that shaving cream is the best for any kind of stain on your carpet. If you don't have anything else, give it a shot. It may work.
Some kind of dirt cannot be removed from carpet easily. That's the case with gums. In this case, professionals recommend that you take an ice cube and try to freeze it. That helps with removing the gum, since it cannot be removed by rubbing or even with detergents.
Even if you take care of your carpet and clean it regularly, you have to "deep clean" it every once in a while. There are people out there who do this for money, so contacting them isn't such a bad idea. If you have an oriental rug in your house, some of the methods mentioned here shouldn't be applied, but oriental rugs aren't the topic here.


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Lori's A.M. Buzz: Get ready for TGIBF
Good morning. It's always good to take those rainboots out for a spin every once in awhile and if it keeps us from having to take the snow shovels out for a spin, I'm all for it. There's plenty happening today. Will there be more arrests in the sprawling corruption probe in Prince George's County? Stay with us and we'll keep you informed.
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A soggy start. Well, it was good while it lasted. Those picture-perfect fall days give way to rain for most of the day and evening Tuesday. The Capital Weather Gang says we could get as much as a half-inch. Temperatures will be in the mid-to-high 50's. The sunshine should return on Wednesday.
TGI(Black)Friday. OK, so we're 10 days early. But you need a head start on holiday shopping and we're going to help. See our ongoing Black Friday coverage with tips and news about the latest deals and predictions.
Close to the end. Closing statements in the case against the man accused of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy are scheduled for today. Yesterday, the prosecution dropped two charges -- attempted kidnapping and attempted robbery -- against Ingmar Guandique because the statute of limitations had run out. Guandique did not take the stand; however, a cellmate took the stand Monday and contradicted the prosecution's star witness -- another fellow inmate -- saying he'd never heard Guandique speak about Levy.
Plug ins? Mayor Adrian Fenty is scheduled to unveil D.C.'s first electric vehicle charging station today. It will be located at the Franklin D. Reeves Center on 14th St. NW.
Today's headlines:
Corruption probe in Prince George's. Monday was a busy day in Prince George's County where nine people, including three police officers, were arrested in a sprawling corruption probe in the county. On Friday, County Executive Jack B. Johnson and his wife Leslie Johnson were arrested at their home and charged with evidence tampering related to land deals in the county. On Monday, federal officials conducted numerous searches and made numerous arrests around the county on charges involving drugs, guns, black market alcohol and cigarettes.
Reaction in Prince George's. Residents around the county have been shocked and troubled by the arrests. Incoming County Executive Rushern Baker, set to be sworn in Dec. 3, has remained mum, saying only that his focus is on education, economic development and ending the county's reputation of "pay for play."
Work permits not acceptable in Va. Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles does not have to accept federal work permit cards as proof of lawful presence in the United States for the purpose of issuing a driver's license, permit or special identification card, according to an opinion issued Monday by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.
Planning for the 'Big One.' Federal officials have unveiled a $9 million plan to protect the Mall from flooding. The project will create a levee that would be erected across 17th Street below Constitution Avenue in the event of a huge flood. Once built, however, it will alter the landscape of the Mall west of the Washington Monument.
In short. Authorities are seeking the public's help in identifying a baby girl who was found Sunday in a church parking lot. (Post); officials are offering a $20,000 reward to anyone who can identify the unknown person who shot at military buildings in Northern Virginia five times between Oct. 16 and Nov. 2. (Post); two people were injured in an early morning crash in Alexandria. (TBD.com)
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Finally. After months -- years -- of speculation, Royal officials announced today that Prince William is engaged to longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton. The palace says they got engaged last month during a vacation in Kenya. They are due to marry next spring or summer in London. Both are 28 and met while students at the University of St. Andrews.
That's it for now. Thanks for reading and have a great day -- despite the rain. Be sure to check back with PostLocal for the latest updates on news related to the corruption probe in Prince George's County, closing arguments in the Chandra Levy case and other news and headlines. On Facebook? Think about becoming a fan of PostLocal. You can also get updates and headlines by following Post Local on Twitter.
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Greater Wellington monitors terrestrial ecosystem health in high value biodiversity sites in the region, such as those in Greater Wellington's parks and forests. We measure bird distribution and abundance, forest regeneration and tree health, as well as pest abundance and impacts.
We investigate bird nesting success and effectiveness of pest plant controls and are involved in surveys of a range of ecosystems and species, including lizards, snails and invertebrates. One major collaborative project is Project Kaka, where we are working with the Department of Conservation to measure the ecological outcomes of wide-scale possum control.
We are part of the Regional Council biodiversity indicators program that is being developed for use nation-wide. These indicators are to be used to quantify regional changes in indigenous ecosystem quantity and quality over time. Our team also run a permit system for the collection of plant material in the regional parks and forests and carry out impact assessments for activities in those areas.
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Although the color order of the stripes in these towels looks randomly placed, they actually follow a clever plan.
The weft of each towel is one solid color making your weaving quick and easy.
You will receive two weft colors in the two towel kit producing two towels that have the same warp colors but have completely different weft. You will receive four weft colors in the 4 towel kit making towels that each have its own weft color.
Woven on any 2 shaft loom with at least 23" weaving width. (you can make towels with less weaving width by decreasing the warp threads)
Fabric Description: Plain Weave With Warp Striping
Finished Dimensions: 20.5 x 31
EPI: 20 (2/dent in 10 dent reed)
Width in Reed: 23
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