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Obama administration: 'We stopped sanctioning Iranian human rights abusers after the nuke deal'snapped back' into place in the event of violations by Iran of the (still unsigned) JCPOA? Well, they're now admitting that in at least one area, the sanctions are gone - permanently. Not one Iranian human rights abuser has been designated as such since the P 5+1 (but not Iran) signed the JCPOA. And Congress is awakening to the reality that it was fooled.
Republicans and Democrats alike are now accusing the administration of misleading Congress about its commitment to sanctions and saying that it has avoided such designations in order to prevent the Iranian regime from walking away from the deal.
"We were told during this process that getting the nuclear issue off the table was so critical and we could actually expect Iran to engage in additional destabilizing activity," Rep. David Cicilline (D., R.I.) said during a House Foreign Affairs Committee examining the administration's promises regarding Iran.
"We were assured that this would give us an opportunity to push back hard in these other areas because the danger of a nuclear Iran would be off the table, and I was very persuaded by that," said Cicilline, a supporter of the nuclear agreement.
Cicilline asked Ambassador Stephen Mull, the administration's lead coordinator for implementing the nuclear deal, what the administration has "done since the signing of the [nuclear deal] with regard to imposing sanctions on human rights violators in Iran." Mull admitted that the U.S. has not taken any action.
"There has not been a specific sanction on human rights cases since the signing" of the deal, Mull said.
Cicilline questioned why, since the administration promised to take action, it had not done so in the face of rising human rights abuses by Iran.
Mull emphasized that the administration is concerned about human rights in Iran and has raised the issue in meetings with regime officials.In case you missed it, Cicilline is a Democrat and supported the deal.
Meanwhile, the White House plans to block any attempt to impose new sanctions on Iran, because... you know... the legacy....
"Congress wants to impose new pressure against Iranian human rights violations, but the Obama administration keeps blocking new action. The administration's excuse is they already have all the tools they need," said one source who works closely with Congress on the Iran issue. "What today's admission shows is that they might have those tools, but they're certainly not using them."Make sure to read the whole thing. The unsaid problem in this whole affair is that reimposing sanctions is like closing the barn door after the cow has escaped. It would take years to new sanctions to begin to have the effect that the old ones had. As one Presidential candidate asked, "What difference does it make?"
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, human rights abuses, Iran Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, Obama's legacy


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Name: Amanda Adams
Age: 24
Residence: Milledgeville, GA
Height: 5″3′
Weight: 112 – 117
Occupation: Bartender – Model
-Atlanta's 2010 Fittest Bodies
-FAP Dixie Bikini 1st place
-Published (Flex Magazine, Status Fitness, World Physique Magazine, Reps Magazine)
-Shooting for Oxygen Magazine at the 2011 Arnold Classic
When did you get started with fitness?
I've always loved working out and staying active, but it wasn't until my second year of college where one of my good friends started training me and informed me of this amazing fitness industry.
I won't lie, it took about a year for me to fully commit, and drag myself out of the unhealthy lifestyle I was living.
As much fun as partying every night and eating fast food 24/7 was, deep down I wasn't happy with how I looked and where I was in my life. Thankfully I climbed out of that hole and started this amazing journey! I started researching and following everyone/everything in the industry. I started following the lifestyle and look of Jamie Eason, Jessica Putnam, Nicole Wilkins Lee, Alicia Marie, etc. I wanted to strive for that type of body and lifestyle. I set up a shoot with Satio Photography, changed my lifestyle, and committed myself to the industry. After attending the Arnold and Olympia, I was hooked.
What drives you to be so fit?
Results! Some days I won't lie I want to stay home and eat ice cream, but I know the next day I won't feel proud of myself and won't be helping my body out! I think the biggest motivation is looking back on my "old ways" or lifestyle. I've witnessed how extreme some girls will go to stay "skinny" and I've also seen the results of girls who just give up. I didn't want to go down either of those tracks.
Once I started eating clean and working out, I realized I could have that "lean" body and still eat too!
What has been the hardest obstacle for you to overcome?
To be honest, the diet! Ha-ha Yes, I love to eat and was raised in a house where tater tots, macaroni and cheese, and Tyson chicken fingers was the perfect meal for me! I think people get the impression that I don't like fast food or candy bars which is far from the truth. For people who really know me, If I could, I would eat desserts and cheeseburgers ever meal! However, I want to feel sexy in my own skin, have energy, and be healthy! The coolest part of this industry is the variety of recipes and support out there that makes eating clean and staying on track so much easier! The biggest thing I have learned is that nutrition is so important to weight loss, seeing changes in your body, and your overall mood. So as much as I like eating all that yummy junk food, I love the way my body feels when eating clean more! Therefore, I save those other meals for special occasions, celebrations, or reward meals- not an every day thing.
Could you tell us about your current training program?
I train 5-6 days a week working different muscle groups and cardio 4 days a week. Circuit training is my favorite with 30-40sec rests in between for a more high intensity workout. This way I keep my heart rate up and can get in and out of the gym quicker as well. I hate cardio, which is another reason why nutrition it so important to me.
When your nutrition is on point, you really don't need to do that much cardio at all!
Therefore, you will never see me running on the treadmill for an hour, or do 45min of cardio twice a day. Instead I incorporate sprint intervals on the elliptical/treadmill for 20-30min 3-4 days a week or take high intensity classes at my gym (Body attack, combat, etc.) for a fun route!
Tell us about the fitness team you are a part of
I'm so honored to be part of the best team out there, Cathy Savage Fitness! At the beginning I didn't want to be part of a team. But after meeting so many hardworking, down to earth savage girls, I knew I wanted to join! I loved everything the girls represented and the fact of having all my nutrition, training, and support coming from the best was awesome! I encourage everyone to join some type of team, gym, support group, anything to really help take you to the next level!
What does your diet look like?
I typically eat 5-6 meals a day every 3 hours consisting of complex carbs, lean protein, fruits, veggies, and good fats!
-First 3 meals consist of 4oz protein, ¼ cup complex carbs, ¼ cup of fruit, ½ cup of veggies
-Last 2 meals I take out my complex carbs and fruit, and have 1 cup of veggies.
-Throughout the day I will have 2 tbs of good fat and have snacks of almonds, cottage cheese, rice cakes, etc.
Meal 1: Oatmeal with blueberries, 4-5 eggs whites, peppers
Meal 2: Spinach Chicken Apple Salad with Ezekiel Bread toasted as croutons and 1tbs of flax oil and homemade dressing
Meal 3: Protein Shake, sweet potatoes or brown rice, veggies, fruit
Meal 4: 4oz Ground Turkey Burritos with Ezekiel Brand
Meal 5: 4oz Baked Tilapia and veggies
Meal 6: 4oz Sautéed chicken and veggie mix, 1tbs flax oil
This is just an example, but I try to switch it up as much as I can! I love to try any recipes in Oxygen Magazine, Tosca Reno's Eat Clean Diet Book, and Lori Harder's "Busy Girl Healthy Life" website (http://www.busygirlhealthylife.com/)
What Is Your Favorite Body Part To Train?
Shoulders! I use to just train biceps or triceps when I first started out. Then I realized that every muscle needs to be worked; shoulders, chest, back, etc. Shoulders really help give my arms that lean definition I like.
If you could start back from the first day you started training would you do anything different?
Drink more water! When I first started training I literally would drink water just at the gym and that was it! I just hated water. My trainer would continue to stress to me how important water is for everybody. Now I drink a gallon a day! The more water you drink, the less your body holds on to it. It's also amazing for your skin, hair, and to rid of any toxins in your body.
Is there anyone in the fitness industry you look up to?
I honestly look up to everyone in the fitness Industry, I love them all! We all have our own story and I think that is so cool. From the beginning though I have always followed Jamie Eason, Jessica Putnam, Nicole Wilkins Lee and Alicia Marie. Now that I'm more involved in the industry I've added Lori Harder, Amanda Latona, Chady Dunmore, Kim Dolan Leto and a ton more to the list for advice and motivation!
Final advice for readers?
Take control of yourself! We have the control to lose weight and get our bodies to the point we are proud of. However, it's a lot easier to tell yourself, "Oh, there is no hope, I can't do it." People like to put blame on other situations in their life to make them feel better for why they are the way they are. It makes it easier. However, when it comes to losing weight, changing your body, and improving your health… starts with you! Which is scary to think about sometimes, but also so amazing. We all live in a world of chaos with things we can't control sometimes with jobs, finances, kids, parents, insecurities, addictions, disabilities, etc. However, you can control what you eat and how hard you train. We all share that. So yes, it's scary because it's all in your hands, but awesome that everyone can relate to the same responsibility. In other words, if you start taking care of your health, it will take off some pressure of all the other chaos going on in your life, I promise.
Love you all!
"Stay Fit- Stay Positive" Amanda Adams
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Igor Santos
Web Developer and Community Leader in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
I am a Software Engineer (and sometimes freelancer) for Toptal. I work remotely and love the nomad lifestyle, although I do like to have a place to set my anchor.
I'm currently living in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.


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Golf Scholarships: An introduction into the sporting scholarship
When you think of golf, you think of legends such as Tiger Woods, Danny Willett (One of ours!), Luke Donald, Paul Casey, or Russell Knox (Another one of ours!). Around 65% of the professionals currently on the USPGA Tour used to play collegiate golf in the States. Did you know collegiate golf is thought to be the best route to a pro golf career because of several factors, including intense competition. Playing week in and week out against some of the best amateur golfers in the world and on world class golf courses such as TPC Sawgrass, Pebble Beach, Augusta National and many more.
If you're looking for a route to develop your golfing abilities and academics, Golf scholarships are ideal for achieving your goals. Golf Scholarships are awarded by universities and colleges to very talented golfers, which allows the athlete to participate in collegiate, intercollegiate matches and national championships. Like most scholarships, both male and female athletes are able to gain golf scholarships.
Golf Scholarships: When should I apply?
One of the best times to go to the USA on a golf scholarship is straight after graduation from high school or up to a few years after. It's worth noting that only athletes aged 18 – 24 can compete within the college leagues, any older and you will be looking at competing in the NAIA. Coaches in the States are increasingly committing to younger athletes as this gives them the opportunity to work with the athletes for a longer period of time. Depending on how long you want to go to the USA for, you can go for one, two, three or four years. The length of time depends on if you wish to seek a bachelor's degree from your time there. It's recommend that you go to America as early as possible because this will give you the best chance of gaining a sports scholarship and turning professional after college.
Golf scholarships: How good do I have to be?
Golf Scholarships can be achieved if you are at the right level. To be considered for a sporting scholarship in America, a golfer should be playing off a handicap of 5 or better by the time they're ready to leave for the states. To be considered for a sporting scholarship to one of the top universities in America an athlete should be pushing themselves to compete in the top national tournaments, this will show college coaches that the athlete/player is ready to compete at a high level in the USA.
Golf Scholarships: How do coaches pick athletes?
Coaches will look at an athlete's potential, which is a vital aspect. Coaches know from experience that even moderate athletic performance can be boosted immensely with their intensive and robust training regimes & methods. A college recruitment coach will look at a sport CV of the athlete, photographs, videos and Be Varsity's advice regarding your ability.
Apply now for a Golf Scholarship with Be Varsity
To find out whether you have what it takes to receive a golf scholarship and be placed in a college team, fill out our application form so the Be Varsity Team can evaluate your potential as a possible future college athlete. If we believe you to be of good standing, you will be invited to join our program. A sports consultant will go through everything you need to know about the sports scholarship process.


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Global Economy- Some Economies Doing Well, Others Facing Severe Problems
If you analyze the global economy in 2015, it is quite a mixed bag. Some countries are doing very well while others are facing some serious problems when it comes to economic progress. For the global economy to move forward towards progress that will ensure better lives for its more than 7 Billion human inhabitants there must be a good progress economically in every region of the planet. A detailed look at the global economy points out regions or countries that are either recovering or looking economically optimistic. It also points out those that are facing challenges. The following is a brief summary of which countries are doing well economically and which are facing problems in 2015.
Global Economy 2015
Countries Doing Well
• The best news for the global economy is that United States of America is definitely on the path of recovery with strong economic data coming out of USA. The jobs numbers are good, unemployment rate is low and the demand in the economy is once again rising. Also the growth forecast of United States is quite good for the near future.
• Countries like India have revised their economic growth forecast to a more optimistic estimate. There are some new ideas for growth in the Indian economy and there is an overall optimistic economic outlook coming out of India which is population wise one of the largest countries on the planet.
Countries not Doing So Well
• China is facing some major economic problem in 2015 after decades of economic progress. There is weak demand in China and the real estate industry is facing severe challenges. Foreign trade numbers have fallen and the country has had to revise its GDP growth estimates to 7% which is very low for Chinese standards over the last few decades. Inflation has also dropped considerably in China and there are genuine fears of deflation in the world's second largest economy.
• Countries like Italy and Japan have been going in and out of recession in the last few months and France is also facing some tough times. Greece is still economically very vulnerable and there are some major economic challenges in European economies.
• Unemployment is high in Europe especially in countries like Spain and Greece. Russia is reeling under low oil prices and sanctions, which have had a negative impact on the Russian economy.
The above mentioned countries are just some of the major economies around the world and as mentioned above the world economy is quite in a mixed bag state at the moment.


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Zgraggen teaches HS math in the Swiss Alps
Franziska Zgraggen '04 teaches high school math at the Gstaad International School in the Swiss Alps after majoring in math, secondary education, and German at Cornell. As an undergrad, she spent a semester studying in Basel, Switzerland.
What is it like working in Switzerland?
Teaching and living in Switzerland is great. I started my teaching career in Colombia, South America, also teaching high school math in an international school. I really enjoyed that experience, but I wanted to be closer to my family (my father was born and raised in Switzerland and I have a large family here), so I came to Switzerland. I live in a small town in the mountains. It is great for walking and hiking in the summer and sledding and skiing in the winter, not to mention it being really beautiful. It is a beautiful little country with lots of different and very interesting places to visit.
Any future plans/goals?
I finished my Masters Degree through the University of Wisconsin-Stout, which was a goal that I wanted to reach for myself. I have an administrative position at school and enjoy the added responsibility and tasks, although I am very happy in the classroom and can't see myself ever leaving the classroom completely. I have yet to decide if I want to work towards a PhD, but I continue learning about the International Baccalaureate Program, as the International School Rheintal has all three programs, PYP, MYP and DP.
Why did you choose to study in Switzerland as an undergrad?
When I started at Cornell, I knew that I wanted to study abroad and because I have Swiss citizenship and friends and family in Switzerland, I chose a school there. I worked for a friend the summer before starting school to use my German more and to get to know the culture and the people even better. Studying in Basel was great! My professors were very helpful, and learning in a different country and culture gives you different views of the issues and the world. Studying in Basel only helped solidify my career plans. I knew that I wanted to teach high school math and I also knew that I wanted to teach in an international school; studying in Basel only made me want to live and teach in Switzerland more.
What was best about studying at Cornell?
I chose to study at Cornell because of One Course At A Time. It intrigued me as a high school student, and as a college student I found it to be an interesting way to learn. My math major was the most difficult area of study for me at Cornell, but I learned so much from all of my professors, and I think that I had the opportunity to get to know them and my classmates better by having only one class at a time.
I was able to have three major areas of study, study for a semester in Switzerland, and do it all in four years. Each month I was able to devote my time and studies to one subject , and when I was student teaching, I had three blocks to devote to learning how to use what I had learned at Cornell in the classroom.


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SAN ANTONIO - The local industrial market ended fourth quarter 2013 with a vacancy rate of 6.2 percent — down over the previous quarter. Net absorption totaled positive 83,747 sf in 4Q 2013, compared to positive 67,302 sf in 3Q 2013.
Vacant sublease space decreased in the quarter, ending the quarter at 329,183 sf. Rental rates ended 4Q 2013 at $5.68, an increase over the previous quarter.
A total of three buildings delivered to the market in the quarter totaling 19,998 sf, with 2,720,674 sf still under construction at the end of the quarter.
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Miller's Ale House occupies a large space at Olentangy River Road and W. 3rd Avenue. The first Ohio location of the Florida-based chain resembles a cross between a family bar and a chain steakhouse, with loud music and plenty of large TV monitors tuned mostly to sports channels.
Miller�s Ale House occupies a large space at Olentangy River Road and W. 3rd Avenue.
The first Ohio location of the Florida-based chain resembles a cross between a family bar and a chain steakhouse, with loud music and plenty of large TV monitors tuned mostly to sports channels.
The huge menu covers a lot of bases � soups, salads, wings, seafood, steaks, pastas, burgers and other sandwiches, fajitas and desserts. The prices are fairly low.
The romaine lettuce in the Caesar salad ($4.79) is fresh and isn�t drowning in the competent Caesar-style dressing.
In fact, your server might even offer to bring more dressing. The croutons taste better than their mass-produced appearance.
The apple-walnut salad is more elaborate and higher in price ($9.49). The same chopped fresh romaine is tossed with dried cranberries, candied walnuts, halved grapes and pieces of fresh apple.
The accompanying vinaigrette works well with the salad; it�s like a celery-seed dressing without the seeds.
Miller�s version of New England clam chowder ($4.99) has a well-seasoned cream broth, with some pieces of clam, some potato and a few slices of celery.
One of the prominent starters is the beer-battered onion rings ($7.99). The thick batter comes out of the deep fryer more like a breading, making for a heavier dish than expected. For some reason, they�re served with a ranch dressing mixed with a bit of spicy heat.
The list of specialties is led by ribs ($9.95 for a half-rack). As promised, they fall off the bone, and they aren�t fatty. But they aren�t particularly interesting and lack much in the way of barbecue flavors � especially anything hinting of spice.
Jambalaya ($12.99) is also listed as a speciality. Spicy sausage slices, medium shrimp, chicken strips, and sweet red and green peppers are all cooked and combined with long-grain rice mixed with Cajun seasoning mix. The heat level is about right, but the flavor isn�t complex.
The fish in the fish and chips ($9.95) is in strips; there are plenty of them, adequately battered and deep-fried in a neutral oil.
The fries are adequate at best, lacking made-here freshness and flavor. On the side is a vinegar-tart tartar sauce of no particular distinction and a coarsely cut, fresh-tasting slaw that is given a traditional creamy dressing.
Seafood offerings begin with mahi piccata ($15.95). The fish fillets, which have a consistency more associated with frozen, are said to be �seared slowly.� They have some browning and benefit from the use of fresh-tasting lemon juice and the bed of spinach.
The burgers are much more successful, especially in the plain version ($7.99). They�re said to be made of ground sirloin and chargrilled � and taste it, with good grilled beef flavor and texture, all on a substantial bun.
The beer list has been smaller than expected for a place that bills itself as an alehouse. It also hasn�t indicated which brews are on tap.
The Columbus Bodhi ale ($5.95) is fragrant, apparently from the prominent use of several different hops, which provide a food-friendly bitterness. The double IPA is seasonal, though, and no longer on the menu.
There�s also a Stella Artois cidre ($5.95), with low alcohol and a tartness that is also food-friendly.
Among desserts, the apple crisp ($5.95) is an extremely sweet mix of oat-based �crisp� over slices of apple and topped by a scoop of ordinary vanilla ice cream and drizzles of an uninteresting caramel sauce.
�Captain Jack�s buried treasure� ($5.99) is a registered trademark. Not a shy dessert, the frozen cake uses two Oreo-crust layers and one of caramel to separate ordinary vanilla ice cream. On top are crushed Heath bars.
It�s served decorated with a maraschino cherry in a whipped topping, and underneath is a bed of thick chocolate sauce. Think of it as providing something for everyone.


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For the Age of Wonders, click here
The age of wonders is over...
"Rasheeda reigned for forty years after Waleed al Din won the contest of Adara the Glorious, securing both her hand and her place on the throne. For a while, Shalazar was still basked in the glow of the Age of Wonders...
--The Histories of Dun al Bookwala, deceased
Shalazar is the society game of the Oxford University Role Playing Game Society for 2002/2003. It is set in a world derived in part from the stories of Arabian nights, and full of Djinn, wizards, grand viziers, magic lamps, golden rings, flying carpets, dragons and other mystical beasties, enormous empires and desolate wastelands. Unlike the Arabia of our world, however, the Empire of Shalazar is ruled by women: a Calipha sits upon her golden throne, and each of the eight great families has an Emira at its head.
Shalazar is the a weekly live-action role-playing game, played over three terms starting in Trinity 2002. If you are new to roleplaying, or new to the Oxford University RPGSoc, it is a good place to start playing, meet other roleplayers, and have a really good Tuesday evening. Gathering of Storms is the second chapter of the story, following on after Age of Wonders, but don't worry if you didn't play in the first game: forty years have passed, it's a different world, and you won't be at a disadvantage.
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This feature-length documentary explores Italian ethnicity in America
from several unique and distinctly personal perspectives. In the
decades preceding WWII, hundreds of thousands of Italians flocked
to these shores in hopes of starting new lives in a land that promised
freedom and opportunity. They immigrated through the Great Hall
of Ellis Island, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, and spilled
out into the streets of New York City and beyond in anticipation
of a kind of renaissance.
Some made their way to the west; others remained close to the eastern
seaboard. And many clung to each other in urban havens, favoring
the familiarity of their customs and language. Their stories are
told by historians and through the diaries, letters, poetry, and
powerful memories of first-, second-, and third-generation Italian-Americans.
They share with us that struggle to embrace one's heritage while
laying hold of an entirely new culture.
With the outbreak of a second world conflict in Europe, an already
tenuous landscape changed. And when Italy joined with Hitler as
an Axis power, Italians in America, quite young in their assimilation
process, were faced with yet another dilemma. Lines of loyalty were
now less clearly drawn; their sense of identity, already in flux,
was thrown into turmoil. Paranoia in this country ran the gamut
from street-side prejudice to formal declarations of war upon non-citizen
This sentiment reached a crescendo in December of 1941 when President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Proclamation Number 2527. This
law branded the 600,000 non-naturalized Italians as potential "enemy
aliens," stripping them of their right to privacy and empowering
the Attorney General "to direct the conduct to be observed toward
the aliens who become so liable." Furthermore, the document allowed
discretion in "the manner and degree of the restraint to which they
shall be subject and in what cases, and upon what security their
residence shall be permitted
The liberties taken by government agents, under the guise of "security,"
is a largely unknown chapter of our history. Through first hand
accounts, the film will reveal the raids on Italian homes, the internment
of some of the male heads of these households and the psychological
rebound suffered by the victims. Remarkably, many sons of these
"enemy aliens" volunteered for service as American soldiers and
sacrificed themselves on the battlefields of Europe and the South
Pacific. In fact, Italian-Americans suffered the highest U.S. casualties
of any ethnic group.
But our story is not confined to this. It is a little-known fact
that about 50,000 Italian POWs were actually encamped on American
soil during WWII. Unlike those immigrants who chose to leave their
shores and live among Americans, these Italians fought under Mussolini
and his fascist policies. Having been captured in action, they were
shipped to camps in the United States. Here they were exposed to
a very different kind of internment than that of the Allies imprisoned
in Europe. Ultimately, the most cooperative enjoyed vacation-like
benefits. It is interesting to note that while some rejected their
captors and retained their fascist loyalties, many decided, following
the war, to return to this country and become naturalized citizens.
We share some of those stories, several as on-camera interviews
with former POWs.
Finally, there is a thread that is drawn through all three aspects
of Italian ethnicity in America (those who immigrated, became citizens
and sought refuge in tiny "Little Italy" enclaves around the country;
those who, because of their ideology, lack of citizen status, or
ignorance, incurred discrimination - some to the point of internment;
and those Italian soldiers who spent WWII in prisoner of war camps
in this country), which displays a kind of irony. In spite of its
bumps along the way, ours is a country of resilience. Without attempting
to over-simplify or categorize the psychology of our nation, we
do, it seems, have the ability to re-think our prejudices and shift
ourselves into a position of tolerance. The remarkable fact is that
many of those who we have suppressed have returned to us volumes
of fortitude, character and culture, which ultimately enriches us
as a nation.
Thus, the assimilation of Italians into our culture, through the
several avenues defined in this film, has, as so many others have,
enriched our nation. Those Italians who have survived the struggles
associated with assimilation, have now been allowed to maintain
as much or as little of their heritage as they are comfortable with.
We, as a country, are benefactors. Our story, overflowing with interviews,
historical detail, photographs, literature, music, poetry and analysis,
will reveal a chapter in history heretofore unknown to most, and
will do so with integrity and sensitivity, in tribute to those who
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The Michelle Jacket
**Listing is for PDF Sewing pattern NOT actual Jacket**
The Michelle Jacket is a fully lined and hooded jacket with curved yoke bodice and pleated detailing for a full and girly look. With front pockets that can show off a pop of color and piping detail across the chest this jacket is not short of little details that make it stand out.
It buttons down the front and is fully lined so it can be made for cooler weather. The jacket could easily be made with laminated cotton for rainy weather as well.
Pattern includes the following sizes:
Size: Childs Chest Measurement
2T 21 inches
3T 22 inches
4T 23 inches
5T 24 inches
6 25 inches
7 26 inches
8 27 inches
10 28.5 inches
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VANCOUVER - A handful of Vancouver-based film and video game company executives are in southern China this week with other Vancouver firms involved in green technology at the five-day Vancouver Green Capital Business Mission, which begins Wednesday.
A total of 22 Vancouver companies and organizations will meet with close to 100 Chinese businesses and institutions in Shanghai, with the aim to foster business deals between the two countries. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson will also attend.
Film and digital entertainment companies Atomic Cartoons, Rainmaker Entertainment, Image Engine Design and Disney Interactive will attend, as will BC Film. Fraser Milner Casgrain, a law firm that works with Vancouver's entertainment firms, is also on the trip. They will meet with at least 37 Chinese companies and organizations with a digital media focus, including China Film Group, Shanghai Media Group, Dragon TV, and Hengdian World Studios.
These companies will participate in the digital media industries sector of the trade forum. Other sectors involve environmental technology, renewable energies and green building products. Some will also attend Shanghai Expo 2010.
"We're looking to send service there, but also to partner with Chinese companies doing animation there," said Trevor Bentley, president and partner of Vancouver animation studio Atomic Cartoons, who has lined up meetings with five Chinese companies.
"We're seeing some fantastic properties and animation coming out of China," Bentley said. "It's a matter of doing our due diligence and making some connections. If we're going to send projects there or ask someone to invest in our projects or partner with us on something, we have to meet face-to-face."
Warren Franklin, CEO of Rainmaker Entertainment, hopes to build on momentum his company created by making a short animation for the Canadian Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, as well as a film shown at the B.C.-Canada Pavilion during the 2010 Winter Olympics here.
"We're hoping to leverage that [pavilion] work for some new projects and business. The opportunities in China are enormous, and there's a lot of potential for co-productions between Canadian and Chinese companies in the animation and digital media area," stated Franklin. "The growth of the Chinese theatrical film market is also a factor. The number of screens being built every year is quite high, and we see this will be an important theatrical market for our content."
Rainmaker has had discussions with Chinese interests about the Vancouver company's work and, Franklin said, "I think our business is expanding into that market in terms of theatrical opportunities that are starting to present themselves for feature films."
Image Engine executive producer Shawn Walsh, who travels to Shanghai with his company's CFO Greg Herbert, has a half-dozen meetings with Chinese companies this week, including China Film Group.
"We do about 80 to 85 per cent of our visual effects work for feature films, so China Film Group is one of the companies we need to know more about," said Walsh. "They have a governmental aspect, which is different from the way film production companies work in North America. They are interested in doing co-productions. Currently the budgets for those co-productions are quite meagre, but that will change over time as the market grows."
Robert Wong, of BC Film, will not participate in the business meetings, but will give a talk outlining the incentives and the working environment in the B.C. digital media industry.
Robertson will be in China a total of 11 days, visiting Beijing and Hubei province, Vancouver's sister city of Guangzhou, and Tianjin, where he will speak at the World Economic Forum.
Individual companies pay for their own transportation and accommodations. The Vancouver Economic Development Commission has contributed $75,000 to the trip, and the mayor's office has put up $45,000.


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The night I began reading Scott Russell Sanders's Secrets of the Universe: Scenes from the Journey Home, our new-born daughter had finally settled back to sleep in her bassinet. My wife and son resumed their rest but in the restored quiet I could not relax my mind, which flexed for solutions to my shortcomings in my work and my home.
I shined my flashlight on Sanders's opening lines, "Often I wake in the night, feeling panicky, not knowing where I am. I reach out to stroke my wife's shoulder. I peer into the dark, searching for the moonlit rectangle of a window...I listen for...the sound of my children's breathing, the drowsy chatter of birds. In the night, as in the day, I locate myself through what I love."
My favorite fatherhood books are a compass at the end of a frenzied day. These seven works of literary nonfiction situate me in the fellowship of other dads pursuing understandings:
1. Ben George's hunger for a "nonfiction book that took fatherhood, in all its permutations, seriously" led him to cultivating the anthology, The Book of Dads, because George wanted "to read the writers" he "admired telling" him "something true about this new experience of fatherhood." These works remind me, as Ben Fountain does in the opening essay "The Night Shift," that "Somewhere in that gray area between the extremities lies the difference between making a good life and making a bad one, and so much of it gets determined when we're tired, when we don't feel well in ourselves, when we're distracted or numbed by the daily grind and too many nights of short sleep."
2. Even on limited rest "every dad has one good bedtime story buried in him, and desperation will bring it out," writes Adam Gopnik, in Paris to the Moon. However, despite the proliferation of the instructional-how-to-be a-real-dad type of books, the evangelical, or the sentimental and often gimmicky celebrity-dad memoir, not every father has a good book in him. Perhaps this is the cause for the dismissive tone in Ben Yagoda's Memoir, a historical overview of the genre, when he writes, "Other popular autobiographical subgenres emerged for reasons similar, presumably, to the simultaneous discovery of calculus by Newton and Leibniz. Something was in the air. How else could one explain the popularity of the dad memoir (being, as opposed to possessing, one)..."
The popularity of Adam Gopnik's bestselling Paris to Moon garnered a lot of praise and is certainly worth picking up if you haven't read it. I'm a real fan of "Barney in Paris," because of the surprising turn the essay takes from lamenting how, even in Paris, the Gopniks cannot escape Barney, to a political commentary on why the purple dinosaur reminds Gopnik of President Clinton.
3. Essayist Phillip Gerard says "The subject has to carry itself and also be an elegant vehicle for larger meanings." Like those in Paris to the Moon, the essays in Gopnik's companion work Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York imply more beyond the obvious transition of moving from Paris. For example, in "Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli," as Gopnik reflects on his daughter's imaginary friend and why she can never play with him, he sees it as an indication of New Yorkers's obsession with being "busy" and "the language of busyness that it dominates their conversation."
4. The apparent subject of those in Chabon's linked collection, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son are also merely the entry point. In "To the Legoland Station," Chabon regrets experiencing how much has changed about "Lego-building" since his youth, which "had once been open-ended and exploratory, it now had far more in common with puzzle-solving, a process of moving incrementally toward an ideal, pre-established, and above all, a provided solution." After a while, though, when the "Lego drawer" becomes a mixture of several kits, for Chabon, playing Legos with his kids has become an avenue for "the inventive mind at work, making something new out of what you have been given by your culture." This is also the essayist's job, to take a "common" and often "pre-established" way of looking at a subject, and regard it from a different angle, to recast the objects from the perspective of "the inventive mind."
Before going on to praise Chabon's work, a New York Times review qualifies, "A lot of Dad Lit makes me cringe," calling the genre a "tricky business, fraught with traps" such as "the tone-deaf presentation of some mundane, schleppy aspect of parenthood." What I wish we could do as a culture is push aside all the noise about the schleppy mundane aspects of parenting, about how children should Go the F**k to Sleep. I wish we could dismiss the alarmists and the prescriptive fix-all guide books and make more room in the publishing landscape for the humble voices confiding wisdom.
What mars literary nonfiction about fatherhood is lumping it with books that are not literary nonfiction. Such as "the cosmic-sentimental essay" which is "in any case, a kind of antimemoir," writes Gopnik, "a nonconfession confession, whose point is not to strip experience bare but to use experience for some other purpose: to draw a moral or construct an argument, make a case or just tell a joke."
5. Like several others discussed here, John T. Price's Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father, begins with a particular pursuit. After experiencing a cardiac event, his cardiologist charges the thirty-nine year old narrator with the warning, that "if he wanted to live," beyond changes in diet and exercising he needed to "take a close look at" his "life."
6. In Great Expectation: A Father's Diary, Roche chronicles the revelations of a dad in arguably his most vulnerable state. In anticipation of their second child, the Roche's seek a new OBGYN, consider a VBAC, all while raising their five-year old daughter, and maintaining careers. There are the two miscarriages to keep in mind, the sudden loss of Roche's mother-in-law, and that they will have a new-born in their forties.
7. Throughout the meditations in Hunting for Hope: A Father's Journeys, Scott Russell Sanders "cannot turn off" his "fathering mind." In the essay "Mountain Music I," Sanders proposes a hiking trip with his teenage son to find the source of their constant quarrels. In anticipation of the trip Sanders is "primed for splendor," but soon into their hiking, the son stalks away. The active "fathering mind" can find itself consumed with his children's well-being. "One of the joys of reading a good essay is watching someone think on the page," says Jerald Walker, author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Redemption. In The Los Angeles Review of Books, Ned Stuckey-French recently talked about the "shared intimacy" between the essayist and reader being like "a fireside chat between two close friends."
Watching Sanders traverse the trails of tension with his son makes me feel much more human after trying to propel my own son to do pretty much anything he doesn't want to, even though he is much younger than the teenage character. The candor and clarity of Sanders's pursuits in the fresh language of his rhythmic prose, make me want to buy Hunting for Hope for all my friends who are dads.
These books are not just a flashlight in the dark uncertainty of fathering children. They are minds hunting for new ways of seeing the role of dad, the role we execute, at times, with painful human inadequacy. Reading insightful reflections can help us adapt, the way our eyes adjust to the slim light creeping through the blinds at night, which is an ability we can forget we have.


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Sheffield United midfielder Louis Reed is poised to make his second international appearance when England under-18's face Switzerland at Walsall's Banks's Stadium this evening, writes James Shield.
Reed impressed when Claude Ryf's side visited St George's Park on Thursday and Nigel Clough, the United manager, revealed last night there was never any question of him being recalled for today's League One encounter with Crewe Alexandra.
"You never turn down a chance to represent your country," Clough said. "It's an honour and one that Louis will benefit hugely from.
"Because Louis will take so much from being there, we'll get the rewards as well."
Adam Armstrong of Newcastle scored the only goal during the first installment of England's double-header with the Swiss.
Reed's involvement comes after his United team mate and fellow Redtooth Academy graduate Callum McFadzean won his first Scotland under-21 cap against Hungary.
McFadzean started the 2-1 victory in Tatabanya, a former mining city 35 miles north of Budapest, before being replaced by Stephen Kingsley after 63 minutes. Ryan Gauld, who commanded a £3m fee when he joined Sporting Lisbon from Dundee United last summer, also featured in Danny Lennon's squad.
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The pending vacancy of Rappahannock County's commissioner of the revenue post — a position filled for the last 30 years by Beverly Atkins, who's retiring — has now attracted three candidates.
Along with Sharon Dodson, the 57-year-old deputy revenue commissioner under Atkins for the last 17 years, 48-year-old Marlina Lee of Castleton, another Rappahannock native who's been the county building office manager for the past 23 years, announced her intentions to seek the post late last week, as did Christa Weeks, 43, a resident of the town of Washington with a background in business and restaurant management.
Lee said she's always had an appreciation and understanding of the revenue commissioner's office, "and I've said that if Beverly ever retired, I would run. So she announced her retirement, and I decided to go for it."
Weeks, an attentive and outspoken participant in town meetings over the last few years, said her youngest daughter starts school in the fall (she and husband Clinton Weeks have two daughters, ages 8 and 4). She has worked part-time in several local eateries over the past few years, and says her business experience "has allowed me the opportunity to meet and work with people of many different backgrounds . . . and develop skills that given the chance I would use to serve the people of this county."
The other three-way race in the Nov. 3 general election is for the Hampton district seat on the county board of supervisors is also the result of the retirement of a long-time officeholder, in this instance Bryant Lee: School board chair John Lesinski, 58, whom Lee endorsed when he announced his plans to retire from the board, is running against Harris Hollow resident (and county sewer and water authority member) Keir Whitson, 45, and 57-year-old real estate agent, farmer and Rappahannock native Jay Miller.
Miller was seen dropping off his signed candidate petitions last Friday — and other candidates have until next Tuesday (June 9) to return petitions with the signatures of 125 registered voters in their district (or any county district for countywide posts) to the registrar of voters office. Registrar Kimberly McKiernan, who said her office has to confirm each signature before a name is placed on the ballot, said the office remains open June 9 until 7 p.m.
On the most recent check, those whose petitions had been certified by the registrar included Sheriff Connie C. Smith and her challenger (for the second time in as many elections), Culpeper police sergeant Anthony E. "Andy" Berry of Sperryville; and so-far-unopposed incumbents Peggy Ralph, the circuit court clerk; county treasurer Debbie Knick; Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District representative Monira Rifaat; and Wakefield district supervisor Roger Welch, the board's current chair and its second-longest-serving member (since 1998).
In the Jackson district, where school board member Amy Hitt has decided to challenge the supervisors' longest-serving member, Ron Frazier, former school board member Wes Mills has said he's running for Hitt's vacant seat. In Hampton district, there is still no announced candidate for the seat Lesinski will give up on Dec. 31.
Commonwealth Attorney Art Goff has said he plans to run again, and is also unopposed, as is Wakefield district school board member Chris Ubben, who has also said he'll seek a second term.


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I expect one day to pass this property, and all I will find will be air and rubble, as it will finally breathe a last sigh as it caves into gravity. All for the lack of repair and maintenance over its sad existence.
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Mei (chinese - 1-美, 2-梅): Chinese name meaning 1) "beautiful" or "2) "plum."
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WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — If you wish to avoid being attacked by a shark this summer, consider following the simple advice of a Tennessee woman: "Stay out them oceans!"
This straightforward demand comes from Veronica-Pooh Nash Poleate in a Facebook video entitled "Summer Safety Tips!" in the wake of a string of shark attacks along the North Carolina coast.
In recent weeks, the southern state's coast—particularly the Outer Banks—has in many ways become a modern-day Amity Island, land of "Jaws." As in 1975, when the film that invented the summer blockbuster was released, people are afraid to go in the water. In less than one month, North Carolina has seen eight shark attacks, most of which occurred in shallow water. Though none have been fatal, several of the attacks resulted in lost limbs.
According to the Associated Press, the Florida Museum of Natural History's International Shark Attack File shows North Carolina's summer 2015 attacks as the highest number ever recorded for the state—a fact that bothered Poleate.
"My spirit was troubled this morning," she told viewers from the driver's seat of her car, on her way to church last Sunday morning. "I had the news on, they was talkin' 'bout somebody else done got ate up by a shark."
With that, Poleate, who according to her Facebook page is a school counselor in Hamilton County, Tenn., shared her best advice for avoiding the great fish while on vacation: "You're goin' to the beach? Do that—go to the beach. Don't go to the ocean. OK? The ocean is the shark's house. OK?"
She continued, "I'm not goin' to the ocean, because that's the shark's house, OK? The shark has the right to eat you up when you in his house. When chickens come in my house, guess what? They get ate. When pigs come in my house, they on the plate. So, when you go in the shark's house, you goin' get ate up … Let's use some common sense."
Poleate posted the video to Facebook the morning of Sunday, June 28. Just over a week later, around noon on Monday, it had been viewed 9,398,697 times, shared 289,128 times and "liked" 58,407 times. It has also received 636 comments.
America has also got sharks on the brain in the entertainment industry, as well. Discovery Channel's Shark Week began on Sunday, and the third installment in Syfy's "Sharknado" series, "Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!" premieres July 22. In that vein, the U.S. president in the film is none other than billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner and star of ABC's "Shark Tank," Mark Cuban.
Given that the summer is still young, the possibility of further attacks looms in the back of beachgoers' minds, who may just wind up following Poleate's advice.
But Poleate has safety tips for more than just the ocean. Later in the same video she said, "And stay out the woods, too. Don't go foolin' around with the bears either. The bears will eat you up. That's what they supposed to do 'cause you in they house."
Oh, and stay away from the bayou, too.
In a separate video on her Facebook page, Poleate warns, "The ocean is the shark's house, and the bayou is the alligator's house … leave these animals alone … please stay out the bayous and the oceans."


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Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë, first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several bourgeois families. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman.
Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in the early Victorian era, as a governess to the children of the wealthy. In working with two different families, the Bloomfields and the Murrays, she comes to learn about the troubles that face a young woman who must try to rein in unruly, spoiled children for a living, and about the ability of wealth and status to destroy social values. After her father's death Agnes opens a small school with her mother and finds happiness with a man who loves her for herself. By the end of the novel they have three children, Edward, Agnes and Mary.
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Create.swf Adventures Reader: Just hit play on the music thingy and open the next command in a new tab, because you're too lazy to download anything.
Marisa and Alice did some epic graze from the bottom part to the top part between yasoras danmaku. Good Job >:3
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there I fixed it :P
And yeah, I need some kinda flash player that can do this on its own ... >.>;
Shadow12000: Download mp3 and use Audacity to just create longer mp3 file with some slight editing, since you're much more use to that.
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How-To: Design a Productive Office Space
Being productive is something that affects everyone in an office. It is also a common goal for everyone in a company from the CEO right down to each worker. Therefore, working together to achieve a productive work environment should be a priority. Management should do what they can to provide the tools for employees to be efficient and also implement policies that work towards the goal of being productive. At the same time, all employees should work towards and self-monitor their own efficiency levels and provide feedback to management in regards to what works and what does not work for them. It is most important for everyone to recognize that productivity and efficiency are very individualized. What works for some people might not work for others. Customized productivity can be achieved using the following principles and techniques.
Clutter Free Work Space
It stands to reason that a clean and organized office space will always make for more productive workers. That is the case in any environment, really whether it is a home office, a business office, a retail location, or even a kitchen. It is most likely (and hopefully) apparent that a work space needs to be clean in order for anyone to be productive. However, what you may not realize is that clutter is hurting your levels of productivity. Psychologists explain that clutter in your work space clogs your mind and is very distracting. Think of it as a clutter free office equals a clutter free mind. Studies have shown that people get more done and retain more information when the area they work in is free of clutter. What is clutter? Clutter can be stacks of papers, an unorganized desk, personal items, electronic equipment and electrical cords; even everyday office supplies can make an office cluttered.
Here are 10 tips to reduce office clutter:
- Keep as little as possible on top of desks
- Do not print anything unless you have to
- File papers away in closed file cabinets while making sure that they are organized for easy access
- Recycle papers that are no longer needed
- Utilize desk organization tools to ensure that desks are uniform, neat, and orderly
- Limit the number of personal items allowed to be on display
- Personal items should be hung on the wall or placed on a small shelf rather than on a desk
- Neatly tie up and label all electronics cords. Twist ties, zip ties, or even bread bag clips can be used to tie off all cords and wires
- Use wireless devices whenever possible
- Set aside a few minutes of time each day to keep your desk in order and throw out any trash
Colors and Productivity
You may have heard of this concept before because it is quite well known – color affects mood. Your mood has an impact on how fast and efficiently you work. Most psychologists agree that a shade of blue is best for office spaces. However, color and productivity are very individualized and depend on what type of work you are doing. An accountant dealing with numbers is very likely to react differently to the same color office than a designer or writer who thrives on creativity. There is a simple way around this that you may not have thought of before and that is to change the color of the top of each employee's desk. Here a few examples of color and job types:
- Blue: As explained earlier, blue is a well-known color for productivity. It represents stability and calm and helps people focus their attention. Blue also conveys trust and loyalty.
- Green: Green also helps employees remain calm and efficient. Green is a good color for anyone who works long hours because the color does not cause eye fatigue when looking at it for long periods of time. Green is also a color that represents health, healing, and earth.
- Yellow: Yellow is the color you would want for those employees whose job requires creativity. However, the shade and intensity of the yellow paint you use should be carefully chosen. Unlike green, yellow can cause eye fatigue, so a lighter shade or just small accents of yellow is recommended. Yellow also instills a sense of optimism, so it is a good accent color to use if you want to add a little burst of sunshine in the office.
- Red: Red represents fire and passion. It is a color that is often used to get people inspired to take action. If the job involves any physical activity, then red will help "light a fire" in someone.
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The credibility of the Optus-led Terria broadband group has been weakened by the sudden withdrawal of its No.2 member, AAPT.
The former group of nine, which earlier in the week conceded there was no guarantee it could secure funding for its part of the Government's $4.7 billion national broadband network tender, has now been left with seven members: Optus, Primus, Soul, iiNet, Internode, Macquarie Telecom and TransACT.
The Telecom New Zealand-owned AAPT has been the most open of the Terria members in admitting it was not committing funds to the build, and was instead just supporting the notion of a jointly owned network, and that it would buy access on the network.
Optus is the only Terria member that has committed funds to the build - up to $2 billion - but favours the network being owned and funded by non-telco investors. The overall cost of a fibre-to-the-node network build to 98% of the population has been estimated at between $10 billion and $15 billion.
AAPT chief executive Paul Broad, who has previously said the constant Telstra-bashing from some industry participants was not constructive, said it was a "timely" opportunity for the telco to withdraw from Terria to instead become an independent voice on the network build.
"Moving out of the 'them and us' argument between Telstra and Terria allows AAPT to continue to share its views and maintain an independent perspective as the process unfolds," Mr Broad said in a statement.
"We've been a keen participant during the past couple of years and our stance on the preferred outcome of the NBN build remains unchanged.
"We believe the conversation must distinguish between two key issues. Firstly, who is best placed to build the network and secondly, a commitment to ensuring the correct regulatory model is in place to encourage competition on the network. The ownership of the network is of secondary importance."
Terria, in response, insisted its bid for the $4.7 billion broadband subsidy would proceed as planned.
''AAPT's owner, Telecom NZ, is undertaking major capital investment in New Zealand and I can understand it wanting to focus on its home turf,'' consortium chairman Michael Egan said.
''However, its decision will not affect terria's bid.''
''Telstra is still adamant that it will not bid unless the Federal Government first rules out the possibility of requiring separation of the new network from retail operations,'' Mr Egan said.
''For Terria, on the other hand, it is full steam ahead.''
Mr Broad said AAPT would now promote the five key issues made in its regulatory submission earlier this year: equivalence of access in price and non-price terms between the network owner and other telcos, a continued role for the ACCC without the need for more regulation, the importance of service-based competition, possible compensation for existing broadband equipment owners whose equipment would be stranded in an NBN, the ability to easily upgrade the NBN in the future.
David Kennedy, research director for telco analyst Ovum, said AAPT's decision "significantly reduces the commercial and lobbying heft of the Terria bid".
"Effectively, AAPT is developing a 'Plan B' in case of a Telstra win. This will certainly be interpreted, fairly or unfairly, as a lack of confidence in Terria's chances of winning the bid process," Mr Kennedy said.
"More fundamentally, it reflects reality. The Terria bid faces significant hurdles, especially raising capital, and it is dangerous for Telstra's competitors to put all of their eggs into the Terria basket. That is why 'Plan B' is necessary.
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Hi everyone, since there aren't many holidays between July 4 and Halloween, it's been three months since we've posted any reviews. But we've been keeping busy...
Back in early August, we attended the Richmond Wizard Con, held just a few miles from our house. We had the opportunity to attend several panel discussions that featured various film and television actors.
The highlight for us was a Q & A with legendary actor William Shatner. Most of the actors that appeared had moderators that helped them answer questions from the audience. But Shatner needed no handler!
The Wizard Con also gave us the opportunity to (briefly) meet actor Billy Boyd, best known as Pippin Took in the Lord Of The Rings movies. He was very nice and we got a picture with him too.
Billie Piper, best known in the U.S. for her role as Doctor Who companion Rose Tyler also appeared at the con.
More recently, we attended the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con (MANC) in Hunt Valley, MD. The main event of this con was the Bionic Reunion. Lee Majors, best known as The Six Million Dollar Man and Lindsay Wagner of Bionic Woman-fame appeared on a panel with Richard Anderson, who played their boss Oscar Goldman. They set a record for the largest audience in MANC history and answered fan questions for an hour.
Majors was also available for photo-ops, so we indulged!
Also appearing at MANC was animation historian Jerry Beck. He spoke about the history of Popeye cartoons. We're big fans of classic cartoons and we've seen Beck on lots of documentaries about animation, so it was cool to see him person. More information about Beck and his work can be found at cartoonresearch.com.
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John Linnell and John Flansburgh pop off another groovy little vaudeville ditty with their fifth recording. The mirthful New York duo, accompanied by a capable five-man band, conjure a demented, riotously engaging "Factory Showroom" brimming with a warehouse of pop-culture references and musical homages. Part of They Might Be Giants' cult appeal is that, like the stage show, you never know which part of the variety act will grab stage next. There's the funky "S-E-X-X-Y," the Casio-style syncopation of "Your Own Worst Enemy," singer Amanda Homi's clanging on the carol "The Bells Are Ringing" and the AC/DC riff kicking off "XTC Vs. Adam Ant." Linnell cops the vocalese of Anthony Kiedis ("Pet Name") and Brian Wilson ("Metal Detector"), which -- to show how nerdy the two truly are -- envisions great times as finding hidden treasure rather than surf, sand and beach bunnies. They weave in their trademark "Schoolhouse Rocks" approach to history with a little lesson by honoring the 11th president on "James K. Polk." Besides allowing for instrumental tricks, such as the use of the "singing saw" (accomplished by dragging a bow across a metal saw) on the aforementioned track, the band uses 1898 technology to record "I Can Hear You" on an Edison wax cylinder phonograph. Irony is the band's stock in trade.


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I take issue when someone tells me, "each day will be easier than the one before it." Because, it's simply not true. In terms of recovery alone, yes, each day it will be a little bit easier to be sober than it was the day before it. But in general, the statement isn't true.
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Life also has natural ups and downs. And we can't stop life from happening, just because we're in recovery. Huge life-altering events are still possible.
We need to teach ourselves how to handle the bad days and the big upsets without turning to our old way of dealing with things: using.
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I used to take everything personally. All big upsets, little upsets, other people's upsets that really didn't even involve me. I took it upon myself to feel way too deeply about it. And I'd send myself into a tailspin of depression, anxiety, and of course, drinking.
I've learned through hundreds of hours of counseling and therapy, and lots of recovery training that this isn't the right way to react to life, and that using won't help the problem either. These days, I'm much better at facing a problem when it knocks on my door, and reacting to it calmly.
I fix the problems I can fix, I seek help for those I cannot. And, as hard as it is, I just deal with the problems that cannot be solved. That doesn't mean I never get sad or angry anymore, or that I don't overreact when I'm having a bad day. I'm still human, all of that still happens.
But, I was using alcohol as a means to dull the pain of everyday life, and pain of past traumas, and it was only making everything worse. If I was to survive, I had to find another way. I needed to learn to let life run over me like a river, and just go with the flow, if I was ever going to get by. I needed to figure out how to handle life without drinking. A bad day does not mean that recovery isn't working or that I'm destined to be sad all the time. It just means I'm having a bad day, and need to deal with it. Simple as that.
It was really hard at first. To imagine navigating any part of my life without the "help" of alcohol felt impossible. But, the longer I stayed sober, the more clearheaded I became. And the more I was able to realize that the alcohol was never helping me. It was only hindering me, even making things worse. And over time I came to realize that life was made to be dealt with. Coped with. Survived. It was not made for me to roll over and pull the covers over my head.
And once you learn how to get through life's ups and downs without using, then you start to get brave enough to take on new tasks. To challenge yourself. I am enrolled in an online school on track to earn a new degree. I also took on a part time job after my second stay in rehab. I've been a stay-at-home mother for 7 years. The idea of a job, any job, made my heart pound in my chest. But, I felt strong enough to accept the challenge, and now I could not be happier.
In recovery, learn to cope with problems rather than dwelling on them or trying to ignore them by using. It's an important coping skill to know how to handle life as it's handed to you. Things won't always happen the way you want them to, and life will throw some real curve balls at you, but you have to learn to live your life in spite of that. And live happy and strong.


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Google Glee Club: Google Execs Announce Release of Covers Album
Surprising news from Mountain View yesterday, as Google execs Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt announced they have teamed up with head of webspam, Matt Cutts, for their musical debut.
The eponymous album, google, is a collection of covers, completely reimagining tunes from artists such as Cat Stevens, David Bowie and Beastie Boys.
The big question on everyone's mind: why?
'We really believe the music industry has become stale and saw an opportunity for innovation. Instead of just changing the way people interact with media, as we've done time and time again, we wanted to change the actual media people are interacting with,' explained Larry Page.
The band's publicist, Esther Wojcicki, promised it's 'not just an album of karaoke covers. The guys at Google have completely re-written the lyrics to the songs, giving listeners an extremely close look into the lives of the gods of Silicon Valley.'
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Sergey Brin went on record, commenting on how personal the lyrics are to the band. 'From the beginning, we set out to create a very personal project. We really had to bare our souls for this album.' The track Brin The Noise apparently explores Google's early struggles in determining which ranking factors should dictate a website's position in SERPs.
'Walking On Google Glass was an extremely difficult song to write as well,' added Google executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. 'It's essentially a song about unrequited love and rejection. It's a horrible feeling to put your heart and soul into something and not have it returned.'
So far, reviewers have been kind to the Googlers' first foray into the music scene. Barry Walters from Rolling Stone got an early listen and is calling the album 'ahead of its time,' despite it being an album of covers.
Editor in Chief of Bilboard Magazine, Keith Girard, had only good things to say about the album. '[The album] is a bit unconventional and rather unexpected, but in no way is that bad. In an industry rife with clichés, autotone and general inauthenticity, it's incredibly refreshing to hear something so intimate and unique.'
google will be released 1 April, exclusively via Google Play. Here's the full track listing:
- Algorithm Is A Dancer
- She Google Drives Me Crazy
- More Than Adwords
- Walking On Google Glass
- Down In The YouTube Station At Midnight
- Hold It Now, Schmidt It (Nikesh Arora remix)
- The First Cutts Is The Deepest
- Brin The Noise
- Kick Out The Spams
- The Man Who Fell To Google Earth
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Tampa Bay Business Journal - by Janet Leiser Staff Writer
TAMPA — Four loans on commercial properties within two miles of each other on Westshore Boulevard have gone into default, and Bank of America is involved in all either as the lender or through its acquisition of LaSalle Bank.
Three of the loans totaling more than $224 million have gone into foreclosure.
Another for $962.5 million is secured by the Westshore Yacht Club, plus numerous other properties. It isn't in foreclosure, but developer WCI Communities, one of Florida's largest homebuilder, has sought bankruptcy court protection while it reorganizes.
The limited liability company that owns The Cove, a 52-building apartment complex at
4003 S. Westshore Blvd. bought in July 2005 for $61 million, sought bankruptcy protection on Dec. 29. LaSalle Bank, trustee for the equity fund that loaned $57.5 million for the property, filed a foreclosure lawsuit in November, alleging payments haven't been made since August.
Westshore Cove Acquisition Group LLC, controlled by M. Steven Sembler and James Chadwick of the St. Petersburg-based Ballast Point Group, owns the development. Neither Sembler, nor his attorney, Amy Denton Harris of Stichter Riedel Blain & Prosser PA, returned calls.
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At the peak of the housing boom in 2005, Westshore Boulevard in South Tampa seemed like a good bet with its easy access to downtown, Florida's largest business district, two popular malls and Tampa International Airport. Property along Tampa Bay offered the type of Florida living portrayed in magazines and television commercials: Amazing bay views complete with stunning sunsets.
Developers scrambled to buy large tracts of waterfront property at record setting prices that surprised longtime brokers. They planned to build and sell luxury condos and homes, some for millions.
Over the past couple years, plans for most of those developments collapsed with the housing market, leaving investors upside down by tens of millions of dollars. Only Westshore Yacht Club has homes and residents
In December, BofA foreclosed the Georgetown Apartments, to the south of The Cove, after an entity controlled by Chicago's Walton Street Capital defaulted on the $97.3 million loan.
The bank is now trying to sell the property for $60 million. Several brokers said it's only worth $25 million to $30 million in today's depressed market.
BofA also is in litigation on the $69 million mortgage on New Port Tampa Bay, a redevelopment south of Gandy that was to include condominiums, stores, restaurants and a marina.
Word in the brokerage community is that a buyer is trying to work out a deal with BofA and the Oppenheimer Fund, which owns most of the $50 million community development district bonds on the vacant 52-acre site. Some commercial real estate insiders contend the property is worth less than what's owed on the bonds.
Lacking geographic diversity
Deeds show that the price per acre for the four boulevard properties increased dramatically between August 2004 and July 2005.
WCI Communities (Pink Sheets: WCIMQ), bought a large parcel for redevelopment and paid $282,000 an acre in 2004. Eleven months later, the Ballast Point Group entity paid $2.4 million an acre for The Cove.
The four properties are within miles of each other — posing a geographic risk banks would refuse to take today, said Owen LaFave, a commercial banker at Mercantile Bank in Tampa.
While Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) appears to be the hardest hit on the Westshore properties, it's not the only one facing losses. Other lenders, including investors in Lehman Brothers commercial mortgage backed securities, will suffer, too.
Large commercial loans typically involve three to four banks as lenders.
"It's widespread," LaFave said of nonperforming loans. "It's systematic. Everybody got caught up with the go-go days. It's not just Bank of America. The market was so good for so long we got away from the fundamentals."
Camille Roberts Lamar of Lamar Investment Properties Inc., which brokered WCI's acquisition of the former Hendry shipyard for Westshore Yacht Club, said banks don't comprehend the losses they're facing. "They can't possibly know the depth of their bad loans or know who's going to go out of business," Lamar said.
Lamar expects more large commercial loans involving Westshore properties to go into default.
As the economy deteriorates, commercial loans, especially those for the development and construction of residential communities, are likely to suffer.
Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan warned bankers a year ago that more than 60 percent of Florida's banks had CRE loans exceeding 300 percent of capital.
"Unfortunately the overall market continues to deteriorate," LaFave said. "We all underestimated just how drastically the market would fall off as well as the duration of the market."


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