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Minnie Kavanaugh, 92, of Covington, died Wednesday April 4, 2018 at Bethesda North Hospital, Cincinnati. She was a homemaker and enjoyed crocheting and painting.
Minnie was preceded in death by her husband of 43 years, Luke E. Kavanaugh; parents, Gilbert and Lucille Ewing Clubb; and granddaughter, Tiffany Greenlaw.
Survivors include son, Gary W. Kavanaugh of Cincinnati; daughters, Deborah A. Kavanaugh of Park Hills and Karen S. (David) Mikel of Sparta; six grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; and one great great grandchild.
Funeral Service will be at 12:00 Noon Monday, April 9, 2018 at Middendorf-Bullock Funeral Home, Covington, with the visitation beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Monday. Interment at Highland Cemetery, Fort Mitchell.
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Vandals destroyed about 100 plants in a garden located at the Arthur Lesow Community Center.
Vandals destroyed about 100 plants in a gar- den located at the Arthur Lesow Community Center.
Monroe police responded to the property destruction incident that took place late Tuesday or early Wednesday.
A worker at the center at 120 Eastchester St. said that the plants were pulled up from their roots and thrown into the grass nearby.
No vegetables were picked for food, so the damage appears to be in- tentional, Monroe police reports said.
Although no suspects were identified, a group of young people were asked to leave the center Tuesday because of ?improper behavior,? police said.


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The TPEs are the teaching standards that guide preparation programs in their instruction and assessment of candidates earning a California teaching credential.
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The World Language framework can be downloaded at http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/documents/foreign-language.pdf. See the instructions in the Teaching Event Handbook for which part of the Framework to use.


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Torontonians hoping to relive the Queen's rainy 1977 visit to Ottawa or the Blue Jays' 1992 World Series win, soon won't have to look further than their local library.
A donation from the Toronto Star to the Toronto Public Library, announced Wednesday morning, has made over one million images taken between 1900 and 1999 available to the public.
The collection features images of wartime, political events, social revolutions, historical moments and cultural icons and includes work by various agencies and freelancers such as portrait photographers Yousuf Karsh and André de Dienes.
Outgoing city librarian Jane Pyper said she is thrilled by the opportunity to house and share the images at the Marilyn and Charles Baillie Special Collections Centre at the Toronto Reference Library.
She said the collection is the only complete archive of Canadian news photographs spanning the 20th
"Every one of them tells a unique story in a way that only a photograph can," she said.
According to Pyper, by July 7, library users will be able to browse most of the collection by searching a catalog featuring detailed descriptions of each photo.
If the image is part of the 100,000 digitized by the library so far, it will be accessible through the search database.
If a photo is not part of the scanned collection, users can visit the reference library's fifth floor to view and use physical copies of the photo.
Many of the donated copies, most of which are gelatin or resin-coated silver prints, bear wire agency and photographer stamps, editorial markups and original captions.
"Part of ensuring the future of Toronto is shoring up our past and our memories of this city as it once was," said John Cruickshank, publisher of the Toronto Star. "This is especially important for newer residents, who have come from across the country and around the world and didn't know Toronto in its earlier days. We believe this collection will help all Torontonians better understand our past and appreciate our future."
Star community relations and communications director Bob Hepburn, who joined Pyper at the announcement, called the collection an "interactive library."
John Honderich, chair of Torstar Corp. and a former publisher of the Star, lauded the announcement as a great opportunity to share "some of the most iconic photographs of the city."
"They capture both the times of triumphs and the times of despair over a century in the life of Toronto," said Honderich. "The donation is part of the deepening ways that the Star is working with other great institutions in the city to create a lasting legacy for the people of Toronto."


text: Super Mario Run is a massive success for Nintendo, but it appears that the success is fading at a much faster rate than originally anticipated. The game is no longer the highest grossing app in any country. However, it still holds the top spot as the most downloaded game in almost 70 countries around the world, and recently surpassed the 50 million downloads mark. It's the most downloaded app in 68 countries, which is a considerable decline from 138 countries 10 days ago. Naturally, this has caused Nintendo shares to decline — shares are down 1.5 percent so far today. The biggest reason for the decline in revenue is no doubt that the game costs $10, which is a hard pill to swallow for mobile gamers who usually pay 3 to 5 bucks for a game (or get it for free and spend money on micro-transactions). Via Bloomberg local_offer Super Mario run stars Further Reading Super Mario Run has 20 million monthly active Super Mario Run was the most downloaded game


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Brooklyn Girl Film Festival seeks to empower women filmmakers from around the globe, and honor their unique and relevant interpretation of the world around them. We strive to strengthen the community of women in the film industry.
The 4th Annual Brooklyn Girl Film Festival will take place in Brooklyn New York, March 26-28, 2015. We are an intimate festival that puts our filmmakers first. The thriving artist community in Brooklyn is very supportive of us.
Women Filmmakers whose films completed post production after June 1, 2013 are welcome to submit. A woman must serve in the role of Writer, Director, or Lead Animator in the film.
All screenings include a Q&A with the filmmakers. Past festivals have included discussions, workshops, catered opening reception, filmmaker brunches and dinners, raffles, and an awards ceremony. We present an Audience Choice Award to the best feature film and the best short film as voted on by the audience.
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I just wanted to thank you again for the wonderful weekend! It was such an honor to have our world premiere at the BGFF. It was so great meeting you and so many other talented, intelligent and fun women in the industry. Looking forward to next year! – Bianca Jamotte, Writer, Twinkle
Brooklyn Girl Film Festival is by far the best organized and well run festival I've experienced. Great communication, great exposure for the filmmakers involved, and quality work represented. Such a positive experience. I applaud your efforts to promote women in the industry – it's important that our voices are heard. Thank you Brooklyn Girl! I will definitely enter again next year! – Lisa Jay, Writer/Director, An Alien Fairytale
Thank you for selecting "A Cool Dark Place" for the festival. We had a great time last night meeting the filmmakers and experiencing the screening in Brooklyn. The BKGFF team was top notch and the films were very entertaining. It's a great thing you are doing not only for women in film but for film in general. Keep it up!- James Howell, Executive Producer, Peregrine Films
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TV VIEW:REMEMBER THAT 5,000m race last century when Steve Ovett began celebrating down the home straight and John Treacy snuck up and caught him on the line? "I think he said 'oh ****'," Treacy recalled later.
You can, of course, be overly fearful about these things, about Ireland becoming the Steve Ovett of international football and 50,000 Irish supporters left with unneeded flights to Warsaw. But still, as Giovanni Trapattoni warned the nation, "the cat is in the sack, but the sack is not closed . . . and it's a wild cat."
So, would the wild cat be let out of the bag, so to speak?
"We're not being previous, are we?" Tony O'Donoghue asked Ronnie Whelan on the Six O'Clock News, fretting that all this talk about qualification being signed, sealed and delivered was taking fate-tempting to previously uncharted territories.
"No, not at all," Ronnie reassured him. "These lads are famous now in Ireland for qualifying – or, nearly qualifying – but if they don't qualify they'll be more famous if they lose 5-0 tonight."
"Heaven forbid," Tony gasped, but there was no such negativity among the fans outside the stadium, one of them telling RTÉ that qualification would "definitely get us out of recession".
Maybe not quite, but it wouldn't do us any harm at all. "One economist said it would make us €100 million," Bill O'Herlihy told his panel, not one of John Giles, Liam Brady or Eamon Dunphy having the heart to reply: "God be with the days when €100 million was a lot of money, Bill."
But the mood was good, Liam relieved that there'd be "no tension tonight", Bill revealing that the panel are normally quite "sweaty". "But I don't expect us to be doing keepie-uppies or flicks," said Eamon, referring to the team, not the panel.
A quick word with Trapattoni who, you might have noted, pronounced 'won' "wun". He's becoming more Irish than the Irish themselves, that fella. He half promised a song if Estonia didn't do a John Treacy, and honestly, what you wouldn't pay to hear him duet with his translator Manuela Spinelli on, say, The Fields of Athenry.
Out in the stadium there was a legend in every shot, Ronnie, Ray Houghton, Mick McCarthy, Packie Bonner and Paul McGrath, all we needed was Roy, Jack and Charlie O'Leary to complete the set. And out came President Michael D, not a wet week in the job and already having to congratulate the team on (possibly) qualifying for a major tournament. Mary McAleese only experienced that pleasure once in 14 years. Just the one dampener on the occasion, the state of Glenn Whelan's moustache. "Jeez, I hope that's for charity," went up the cry. It is, so all's forgiven.
Anthems. Damien Duff? Up for it. Game on. Stephen Ward. Goal. Lovely. "I think they can get on the plane now," said Ronnie.
Come half-time the panel didn't want to be party poopers, but they weren't entirely riveted. "We have the Mexican wave, Bill," Gilesie pointed out, which was him intimating that the game was a snooze-fest. He didn't say it, though, it wasn't the night for carping.
"We're not Barcelona, we're never going to be, Bill," Liam pointed out, "we haven't got Messi or Iniesta or Xavi playing for us." ("We sure haven't," Gilesie mumbled, but he left it there).
Second half. Time ticking on. "Think how famous these players would become if they lost six goals in the last half hour," said Ronnie. And then Estonia scored. Darragh Moloney didn't give him a slap, but he should have.
No worries though, home and hosed. The cat was in the sack.
"After 24 years, we're back," said Ronnie, sounding for all the world like the cat who got the cream.
Sweet. Hats off. Good times.


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At Least Three House GOP Offices Burgled
Hmmm… crimes of opportunity, or deliberately targeting Republicans (emphasis in original)?
"The evidence points to someone with access to my office, and other offices in the Capitol complex, as the perpetrator," freshman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., surmised in a letter to the House's Office of the Chief Administrative Officer.
Other offices hit—many of which handle information dealing with issues of national security, though nothing of a sensitive nature was reportedly taken—include those of Reps. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., and Jon Runyan, R-N.J.; the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security; and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Those looking for some common link might note that Lewis serves on Appropriations; Gowdy sits on Oversight; and Runyan is a member of the Armed Services Committee. Also, staffers on the House Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census, and the National Archives, which Gowdy chairs, reported that $200 of their money went missing during business hours.
Boehner On Jobs, Debt Limit, And The Economy
Earlier today, Speaker John Boehner spoke to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's 2012 Fiscal Summit. Here's a few of the highlights of his plan from the Speaker's website, along with commentary, of course (emphasis in original):
In remarks this afternoon to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Annual Fiscal Summit, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will renew his commitment to the principle he set forth at the Economic Club of New York one year ago – noting that the debt limit exists to force Washington to deal with its fiscal problems, and that any increase in the nation's debt limit must be accompanied by spending cuts and reforms larger than the amount of the debt limit hike.
Democrats Getting Training In Playing The Race Card
All I can say is wow:
House Democrats received training this week on how to address the issue of race to defend government programs, according to training materials obtained by The Washington Examiner.
The prepared content of a Tuesday presentation to the House Democratic Caucus and staff indicates that Democrats will seek to portray apparently neutral free-market rhetoric as being charged with racial bias, conscious or unconscious.
House Strips DOJ Funding For Immigration Lawsuits Against States
That's one way of standing up for states' rights:
The House voted early Wednesday morning to stop the Obama administration's lawsuits against state immigration laws.
The amendment, which strips funding so that the Justice Department cannot pursue the lawsuits, passed 238-173. Twelve Democrats voted for it, while six Republicans voted against it.
The amendment specifically applies to laws in Arizona, Oklahoma, Missouri, Utah, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Indiana. The Obama administration and immigrant-rights groups have sued to block laws in each of those states.
Contempt Citation Against Holder Moving Forward
Issa's not sitting on his hands:
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee were to take the first formal step Thursday toward contempt proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder over the Fast and Furious "gunwalking" operation, CBS News has learned.
The case for a citation declaring Holder in contempt will be laid out in a briefing paper and 48-page draft citation distributed to Democrats and Republicans on the committee. CBS News has obtained copies of both documents. In them, Republican members use strong language to accuse Holder of obstructing the committee's investigation, which is now in its second year.
The documents allege that the Justice Department has issued, "false denials, given answers intended to misdirect investigators, sought to intimidate witnesses, unlawfully withheld subpoenaed documents, and waited to be confronted with indisputable evidence before acknowledging uncomfortable facts."
Report: Pelosi Lied About Waterboarding Briefing
The CIA counterterrorism chief who delivered the briefing regarding waterboarding to Nancy Pelosi has come forward:
In his new book, "Hard Measures," [former CIA counterterrorism chief Jose] Rodriguez reveals that he led a CIA briefing of Pelosi, where the techniques being used in the interrogation of senior al-Qaeda facilitator Abu Zubaida were described in detail. Her claim that she was not told about waterboarding at that briefing, he writes, "is untrue."
House Republicans Preparing Contempt Citation For Holder
They're seriously considering bringing out the big guns (no pun intended):
House Republicans investigating the Fast and Furious scandal plan to pursue a contempt citation against Attorney General Eric Holder, senior congressional aides told CBS News.
The resolution will accuse Holder and his Justice Department of obstructing the congressional probe into the allegations that the government let thousands of weapons fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
The citation would attempt to force Holder to turn over tens of thousands of pages documents related to the probe, which has entered its second year.


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Bridges, Philosophy, Pope, the world around us, thinking, true nature of man, Trump, understanding, Walls
He who Trumps the Pope! Indeed! One man who hopes to be head of one of the richest nations in the world and the other who is head of Spiritual richness in the world. Had this line of thought when I heard build a bridge vs. build a wall:
The finer things in life; most regard gold and silver as the finer things in life but why is this? Gold or silver thread can be spun extremely fine, almost to the point where they become invisible. It is only this quality that makes them valuable :- quite like diamonds and their light reflecting qualities See the light
In the hierarchy of all that makes up life, that which is invisible is chased after and becomes more important than that which is visible.
Thoughts(invisible) and actions(visible): Men(visible) and God(invisible)
Looking at the world at the moment: else where in the world, I think, the Islamic State realises the importance of this; ideas and God; hence why it makes such an effort to enforce the following of only its ideals. Tolerance is an ideal that it doesn't allow to exist. – Walls (Trump) ensure that there is no tolerance : Bridges(Pope) ensure that tolerance must be allowed.
Tolerance is a higher, more expansive ideal and it should always be aimed for.
He, who is the ultimate bridge builder has my vote. And his bridges, no surprise, are invisible too!


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(Or: "How to build your own Oracle Cloud in 25 minutes"... ! )
After downloading the recently released Oracle Express Edition for 64-bit Windows, I decided to test it out on a Windows Server 2008 R2 running in the Azure cloud (recently renamed from "Windows Azure" to "Microsoft Azure", I guess because you can run Linux on it, as well).
Here are the high-level steps needed to get this up and running:
- Sign up for Azure and login to the management portal.
- Create a new Virtual Machine, select Windows Server 2008 R2. The provisioning of the VM takes around 5 minutes. (I chose to use an A1 instance type, which costs around USD 50 per month, and has 1 core and 1,75GB of memory. Note that XE is limited to use only 1GB of memory, leaving some extra memory for the OS itself and for IIS).
- When you create the VM, you specify a DNS name for it, for example "myxetest". This becomes the subdomain of Microsoft's "cloudapp.net" domain, for example "myxetest.cloudapp.net". If you want, you can use your own domain name by adding a CNAME record to your domain and pointing it towards the cloudapp.net subdomain.
- Use Remote Desktop to login to the new server.
- Download Oracle XE for 64-bit Windows. The file is around 300MB, so this takes less than a minute to download.
- Unzip the XE file and run setup.exe. Specify a password for the SYS and SYSTEM users, and let the installer do its work. The whole setup process took about 10-15 minutes on my server.
- Check that the database is running using sqlplus on the command line on the server.
- Oracle XE 11g comes with Apex 4.0 preinstalled, and running via the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (DBMS_EPG) on port 8080 (localhost only). You can verify that it's up and running by going to http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex/apex on the server. If you want EPG to work for remote hosts, you have to execute the dbms_xdb.setlistenerlocalaccess procedure and pass FALSE to enable non-local access. (You can also change the port used by EPG via the dbms_xdb.sethttpport procedure.)
- You need to modify the Windows Firewall settings on the server to allow outbound traffic on port 8080. Finally, you also need to open up port 8080 for the VM in the Azure management portal (you'll find this setting under "Endpoints" for the VM.)
Here's a screenshot after the database has been installed:
The Apex homepage on localhost:
The Apex builder in action, accessed via the default cloudapp.net domain:
A note on production deployments
The Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (DBMS_EPG) is intended for development environments, and is not recommended for production. Since you are running on a Windows server, you probably want to leverage the excellent built-in Internet Information Server (IIS), with the Thoth Gateway which is an open source ASP.NET implementation of the OWA interface which is what the EPG, mod_plsql and the Apex Listener (now called Oracle REST Data Services, or ORDS) use to communicate with the database. You'll need to enable/install IIS first, as this is not enabled by default on a Windows 2008 server. Then download the Thoth Gateway and follow the installation instructions in the downloaded zip file.


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Oh this day four years ago was one of the happiest day's of our lives, our wedding day. It's sounds so cliche to say I love this man more now that I did then, but it's so true. Over our (almost) 12 years of being together Wes has become the person I never knew I needed. I am so thankful to have a husband that is right by my side.
It wasn't long after we got married we decided to grow our family, but that was not the plan God had for us. These last four years have been the most amazing years, but also the most difficult. We never dreamed we would become 1 of the 8 to struggle with infertility. I swear everyday I am turning into my mother, but I'm realizing that isn't that bad of a thing. I was always taught "if you want something bad enough, you must work hard at it" and that has stuck with me. However infertility is well for a lack of a better word an evil bitch. It doesn't care how hard you work or how much you study, it just starts to take over . The one thing I have learned is to never give up and we are so glad we didn't. We have prayed for over 1,350 days for this moment when I finally saw the words pregnant on that little blue stick. Baby Odom (or as Karina's boys likes to call it Baby Darth Vader ) is growing well and is coming in November. I can't thank each and everyone who has helped or prayed for us during our struggle, it means the world to us and we are so excited!
I have briefly talked about our infertility journey, but never in full detail. This week is Infertility Awareness Week and there are so many couples that struggle with this everyday and my heart will always break for those couples and know I will always be praying for you.
I honestly used to be so embarrassed, so ashamed to even say the words infertility. We are healthy people and honestly the thought of going to the doctor scared the crap out of me. After the first couple months of trying, it was eh maybe we are just stressed and our timing is off? We didn't really tell too many people because well we just didn't want to. It seemed like every way we turned that same question "sooo when are y'all having kids?" came up and at first it was easy to answer . As the months kept pilling on, the the questions got harder to answer. We finally had to say we were trying. I don't know why I felt so ashamed, maybe because we were the first to have difficulty? We got it all , "your too stressed", "just stop trying and it will happen", "it will happen when it is suppose to happen". And yes for some that is all they need, but it was different for us. I even had a few people ask "when are you due?", REALLY? That really boosted my confidence. As the second and part of the 3rd year rolled in, we took that "stop trying" advice since I was currently starting up a small business, it seemed like the right thing to do. I actually had a friend give me some advice I didn't know at the time would make so much sense now, but she had told me "maybe this is God's way of having you take care of your business baby before he gives you a real baby".
At this point I knew the natural way was just not in the cards for us. We had tried ovulation tests , old wives tales, you name it we tried it, but still no baby. One night I went out with some of my friends for drinks and the talk of babies came up and how some of them were having a hard time. I have talked a little bit about it, but again nothing about how I really felt. I just remember sitting there telling them it doesn't get any easier and finally admitted how scared I was to even see a doctor. Yes I know it could have been an easy fix , but just the idea of having a doctor tell me you can't have kids scared me. I was in denial and if you are at this stage I am here to tell you it's ok. It's ok to be scared and it's ok to be sad for yourself. Around the end of August of last year, Wes and I talked about it and I finally got the nerve to call the doctor. I made the appointment and the first thing we did was draw some blood for some tests, and then was told Wes needed to get checked as well. Yes it is exactly as awkward as you can imagine, but we just laughed at it because at this point that is all you can do. Everything came back normal on both sides and a sigh of relief came over us, but then the question why, why can't we get pregnant, tormented us. My Ob wrote a prescription for Clomid 50mg, and for those of you that don't know Clomid is a fertility drug that basically causes you to ovulate. There are some crazy side effects and the worst was the hot flashes, I was a hormonal hot mess ( literally ). During the projected time of ovulation I went in for a ultrasound to check to see if we had any good folicals to produce and egg, and from what we saw everything looked great. Well we were wrong, our first round failed and it sucked. We tried for round two and went through the same process, but this time was different . As we were looking for a folical, one was kinda small miss shaped . My Ob was quiet and just said huh guess we missed it and we'll just try again next time, the Clomid didn't work. About a week goes by and all of a sudden around Midnight I woke up to this AWFUL pain in my lower abdomen. I thought maybe I ate something bad and I'll just go back to sleep, haha yeah no . I laid in bed for awhile just praying the pain would go away until around 1:30ish I couldn't take it anymore and was hovering over the door frame with the bathroom light on. Wes jumped out of a dead sleep and said "DO WE NEED TO GO TO THE ER?" with tears in my eyes, all I could do was shake my head, he knew at that point something was really wrong . I am stubborn like my momma , again I'm turning into her, and do not like to go to doctors. We rush over to the ER and at this point I could barely sit down and my stomach was so tight. We get to a room and the nurse drew some blood and got me prepped in case I needed fluids. They fist did X-rays and waited till the doctor came in to talk with us, she started to listen to my belly as said "good lord you have a volcano in your belly and from what she saw in the X-ray I had a lot of gas." Now yes I looked at Wes and said "are you kidding me I came to the ER for gas??" She laughed with us and said she would have the radiologist take a closer look and if they find something they would come in and get prepped for a CT scan. We waited for awhile and at this point ( 5AM ish) I was so tired, and as soon as I tried to shut my eyes in comes this other nurse with a wheelchair to take me to get the CT scan. They hook me up to the IV with the iodine that acts like a dye so they can see what's going on in this body of mine. He didn't have much of a sense of humor which is too bad, and said your going to feel kinda warm here in a few seconds and just try to stay still. Warm? No more like I felt the stuff go in every vein and just heat up, I felt it in my eye lids and then down my legs . It was the weirdest feeling ever and then the feeling of oh good lord did I just pee on the table?? Luckily it just feels like you did, but you really didn't ( and yes I checked). After we were all done he wheeled me back to our room and told Wes about the "warmth" incident again we have to laugh. Our doctor came in and was like well there was something wrong with you, you had an ovarian cyst rupture. Yes another lovely side effect to the Clomid, but it was also a good thing because the cyst took care of itself with no surgery. So after two failed rounds of Clomid I said one more and we need to try something else. We started round 3 and good lord it was the worst of them all , one minute I was hot then I was cold , and then back to hot. My mom laughed and said "now you know what your future will be like during menopause", the woman has jokes , only sometimes. We went through the same process, but this time felt different. I was getting close to the time I was suppose to start ( sorry boys) and I felt funny. I was later than normal, but trying to not get my hopes up I said I will wait one more day. I had my tests ready for that first morning "testing" and almost couldn't sleep. I hoped out of bed and all of a sudden that feeling of hope turned into devastation . I cried and cried, until there were no more tears to cry. My heart was shattered into a million pieces of our bathroom floor and all I could do was crawl back into bed. I have been disappointed before, but nothing like this. I texted Wes because words just couldn't come out and told him how I couldn't do this by myself and that I needed him. I wanted to be strong, but I couldn't anymore. The texts he wrote back we not his usual "ok love" , but a side of him that he doesn't show very often. Of course that made me cry even harder to know he is right beside me and that my friends is the husband I never knew I needed.
I called the office of a local fertility specialist and told them our story and normally they would need a referral, but because we had been trying so long they decided to take us. There is usually a 3 month waiting list, but there was a cancelation and they were able to get us in with in a couple of weeks (beginning of January ). I was so scared, but at this point I knew we needed to go another route. We had our first meeting with our specialist and we talked about options, he said more than likely this is unexplained infertility and you just might need a little help. I felt good about the decision to start seeing a specialist, until we got a phone call saying our insurance doesn't cover infertility . Lovely, I was on such a high and then got kicked in the stomach again. We talked it over and we couldn't just give up. He talked about a less invasive procedure called a natural IUI (intrauterine insemination) and we decided to start there. More blood tests and more ultrasounds, at this point I have become a pro at this and needles no longer scare me. The nurses y'all have seriously become part of our family and was there for us each step of the way. I promise not to get to graphic haha, about the next few steps. We work off of my normal cycle and estimate a time of when I should ovulate. That is where drawing the blood comes into play, and they can tell exactly where I am in my cycle through my levels. We get a timeframe set and I go in for blood work and an ultrasound to check how my folicals were doing, one got pretty big but not where they wanted it. I was told to take an ovulation test the next morning and if it was positive we would go ahead with the procedure that day, if not then I would need to give myself a shot to trigger ovulation and have the procedure . Of course it was negative and the idea of giving myself a shot was well just not going to happen. So husband comes to the rescue and he might have actually enjoyed it. With the shot you will ovulate within 36 hours so it was all very timed out. IUI day comes and poor Wes had to go into a little room and well use your imagination and then we came back in about 2 hours. For this one we followed the instructions to a T and one note was to have a full bladder, yeah so mine was way full . We go into our room and they come in with a little vial and said "are you Wes Odom?" Yup so now it was go time. Yes it was super weird, but it only took about 10 minutes, and then you just had to sit back and wait 2 more, longest 2 minutes of my life when you have to pee that bad. Now the hard part…the 2 week wait. It was all becoming so real, like this could be it ! We had our trip to Savannah, GA right when we would know something whether it was good or bad. In my mind I'm thinking this is perfect we are relaxed and it will be the best news for our trip. Yeah nope, our first day there right as we sat down for lunch I needed to use the restroom, and instant heart break once again. Only this time I couldn't curl into a ball or let it out, I had to keep it together and just needed a drink a big tall drink. We got back to our little house and Wes kissed my forehead and said we will just try again. I was ok oddly enough and maybe it was because my mind was so busy looking at the history of Savannah or the baby goats I wanted to bring home with us, but I was ok. It wasn't until our ride home that Monday where I couldn't hold it in any longer. It was like a Hallmark movie, we were trapped in a car and it was pouring rain outside and my mind had nowhere to wander. I tried my best to hold it in, but the tears still rolled down my cheek.
I was angry, I was sad, and all the doubt ran through my mind and asked God, why us? Will we not make good parents? It was hard not to think like that, but I finally was able to push it aside and we went for a second round. We went through the same process and still needed the trigger shot, in a way it helped me plan a little better. We go in and this time Wes brought his "sample" , so we dropped it off and went for breakfast. We had some time to kill still so we went for a short walk at the Greenway, and it was the best thing we ever did. We were so calm and I knew no matter what I had my best friend right by my side. We went in with a less full bladder haha and it seemed to go much smoother than before and she was in and out in no time. Also during this month, my mom convinced me to start going to their chiropractor to see if he could help. With cakes my lower back is all kinds of twisted and he said that those muscles could be constricting nerves to your ovaries. It actually makes sense and again we would try anything. The two week wait went by really fast this time, and it was time to take the test. It was first thing in the morning and I paced the whole house like a crazy person, until I read the words I have longed for for so long "Pregnant". I screamed and then tears and then more pacing of OMG OMG , our poor dogs had no idea what was going on. I was in so disbelief and called our specialist right away, like get me in today! I rushed over there and they confirmed with the blood test, I was actually pregnant. I had to tell someone, but I really wanted to surprise Wes when he got home. I called my best friend, Ashley, and before the words came out of my mouth she said "Your pregnant!!!" Ah, I finally get to say those words! As much as I wanted to "surprise" Wes he pretty much knew and because of our situation we had to tell our families pretty quickly. Lots of happy tears and every day since we have prayed to just say thank you and to pray over this little baby.
After weekly blood check ups to make sure our levels kept rising , we got news that we get to have our first ultrasound to see the baby. We was so excited, and once we were trying to find the baby we just saw a "grain of rice" as they described it, and then when and got one of the other nurses. At this point, I could see in their eyes something was wrong. They told us we should be at 6 wks-2, but the baby is measuring 5wks-2 and there was no heartbeat. I can't even remember what the nurse said after that, I just had this instant wave of heat rush over my body and couldn't hold back tears. We were at that point we didn't know if we had lost our baby or not and we would need to come back that coming Monday. I was a wreck that whole day, but having a wedding that Friday I knew I had to stay focused. I prayed and prayed for this little baby and after talking with a few friends they said it's just too early. I had doubt, but then I did some research that actually calmed my nerves a little bit. As we were walking up to the building, Wes grabbed my hand and I just knew we were going to be ok. We started the ultrasound and all of a sudden in this little grain of rice there was a tiny little flicker of a heartbeat. I thought I saw it , but I didn't want to fool myself. Still holding on to me, Wes popped up and said I see it, and then so did our doctor. Since then we have been watching very closely, and this past Tuesday we had our last appointment with our specialist. It was such a bittersweet moment, our baby has grown and has a beautiful strong heartbeat, but we were leaving the people that helped us get to where we are now. I don't know if it was the IUI , the Chiropractor, or a whole lot of Jesus , but we have a baby and I couldn't be thankful for everyone who has prayed over us and has walked this journey with us.
Everyone is different and some have it harder than others, but never give up . The pain you have been feeling can't compare to the joy that's coming | Romans 8:18
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On Monday, Israeli-based SimilarWeb, a digital measurement company has acquired another Israeli-based startup Swayy, a platform for content curation for amount reported to be around $5 million.
Founded in 2013, Swayy helps in discovering the brands and sharing user-generated content through social media. The startup had been backed up by Elevator Fund, Star FarmVentures and RSL. . Further to the acquisition, Swayy's employees along with the company's founders Ohad Frankfurt, Oz Katz, Shlomi Babluki and Lior Degani, will join SimilarWeb and the Swayy app will be shutdown.
Founder and CEO of SimilarWeb Or Offer said the company's growth can be well understood by looking at the increase in the number of employees from 70 to 200 in one year. In the press release he said, "The Swayy team are super talented and we have been tracking their progress for a while. When the opportunity came to bring them into the SimilarWeb fold we didn't hesitate for a second. We have great ambitions at SimilarWeb, having grown from 70 to close to 200 employees over the last 12 months. The Swayy team will help us improve the quality and depth of our products right from the start."
The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. SimilarWeb's main aim of acquisition is to acquire the team talent and expertise to develop its own content recognition algorithms. SimilarWeb plans to recruit more than 100 employees by the end of 2016.
The negotiation for the acquisition began around a year ago, but the talks closed only recently.


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New York City Ballet: French Cuisine
Onstage with the Dancers
New York City Ballet
French Cuisine
(NYC Ballet Website)
Founders, George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein
Founding Choreographers: George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins
Ballet Master in Chief, Peter Martins
Ballet Mistress, Rosemary Dunleavy
Childrens Ballet Mistress, Garielle Whittle
Orchestra, Music Director, Fayçal Karoui
Managing Director, Communications, Robert Daniels
Assoc. Director, Communications, Siobhan Burns
Manager, Press Relations, Joe Guttridge
New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
Dr. Roberta E. ZlokowerMay 15, 2008
(Read More NYC Ballet Reviews).
Conductor: Fayçal Karoui
Mother Goose (Fairy Tales for Dancers, 1975): Music and Scenario by Maurice Ravel, Choreography by Jerome Robbins, Costumes by Stanley Simmons, Lighting by Jennifer Tipton, Performed by The Company. This ballet premiered in 1912 with Ravel's score for "Ma Mère L'Oye" (Mother Goose). Ravel detailed scenes for Sleeping Beauty to dream about other fairy tales, all conceived by Perrault. (NYCB Notes).
In yet another of the Jerome Robbins repertoire of ballets, the first, Mother Goose, features the Corps in casual attire, with scenic and costume props from Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, Beauty and the Beast, and more. Students from School of American Ballet join in, to toss little trails of sponge balls like confetti, in one re-enacted scene. Dorothy Cummings, a Storyteller, sits and reads to the dancers, from a large book of fairy tales, and the names of the tales are unfurled on long cloths. Tiler Peck is a splendid Princess Florine, who pricks her finger and falls asleep on the rolling white bed used for The Nutcracker. The Good Fairy (Gwyneth Muller) saves the Princess from the Bad Fairys (Justin Peck) spell. The Company takes on roles of a Green Serpent (Jason Fowler), Beauty (Kathryn Morgan) and the Beast (Adrian Danchig-Waring), and Hop of My Thumb (Jonathan Alexander). Ravels Mother Goose Suite is surreal and soothing.
Afternoon of a Faun (1953): Music by Claude Debussy, Choreography by Jerome Robbins, Scenery and Lighting by Jean Rosenthal, Costumes by Irene Sharaff, Performed by Janie Taylor and Damian Woetzel. Debussy is known for "musical impressionism" and wrote a large repertoire of works for piano and for orchestra, including "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune", 1892-94. (NYCB Notes).
Jerome Robbins version of Afternoon of a Faun, set to Debussys intoxicating score, is always wondrous, and, today, more wondrous than ever, with Damian Woetzel as the Dancer-Faun and Janie Taylor as the Dancer-Nymph. Mr. Woetzel, to retire on June 18, 2008, unfolds his torso in extra-slow motion, looking into a dance studio mirror (the audience), totally self-absorbed. When Ms. Taylor walks in, en pointe, also self-absorbed, with long blond tussles of hair, the chemistry is palpable. The seamless motion against the dim scrim, opening onto a sunny interior box of a practice room, is hypnotic. Both dancers use the mirror in quasi-self-adulation and practiced poses. Their pas de deux was physically bound, while emotionally detached. Truly, the ballet is a masterpiece of imagination, so in contrast to the classical 1912 Nijinsky original, based on Mallarmés poem.
Antique Epigraphs (1984): Music by Claude Debussy, Choreography by Jerome Robbins, Costumes by Florence Klotz, Lighting by Jennifer Tipton, Flute Solo: Paul Dunkel, Performed by Rachel Rutherford, Rebecca Krohn, Sara Mearns, Teresa Reichlen, Saskia Beskow, Savannah Lowery, Gwyneth Muller, and Ellen Ostrom. Choreographed in seven sections, the first six are danced to an orchestrated version of "Six Epigraphes Antiques" and the seventh to "Syrinx", with unaccompanied flute. (NYCB Notes).
With yet again a Debussy score, Antique Epigraphs uses the eight female dancers in similar Greek tableaux that Nijinsky created for his Faun. A deep blue backdrop frames Jennifer Tiptons illumination of eight Grecian nymphs, in Florence Klotz chiffony gowns, over white tights. Robbins was again inspired by French poetry that evoked the Grecian mythical genre, and this work nicely book-ended the previous ballet, with its mesmerizing momentum and artistic grace. Among the Grecian dancers, who, together, were the image of iconic friezes, Sara Mearns, Rachel Rutherford, and Teresa Reichlen caught my eye. Paul Dunkel played an enchanting flute solo.
In G Major (1975): Music by Maurice Ravel, Choreography by Jerome Robbins, Scenery and Costumes by Erté, Lighting by Ronald Bates, Pianist: Cameron Grant, Performed by Wendy Whelan, Philip Neal, and the Company. Exactly thirty-three years ago, to the day, Jerome Robbins premiered this ballet in this same theater, to Ravels jazzy Piano Concerto in G major. Tonight Cameron Grant performed the piano solos with pizzazz. The setting is designed by Erté, with retro sun-bathing suits, striped and full, and a backdrop of blue water, with just a hint of waves. This is fanciful, fun, and bubbly ballet. Wendy Whelan and Philip Neals pas de deux shifts the mood to romance, but with soft energy that befits the sunny milieu. Mr. Neals partnering was well suited to the muscular imagery, and Ms. Whelans nuanced elongations, especially in the lifts, magnetized the mood.
Kudos to Fayçal Karoui.
For more information, contact Dr. Roberta E. Zlokower at firstname.lastname@example.com


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After a while, Ralf Rangnick looked about as comfortable as a Parisian feline on a date with Pepé Le Pew: the Prof from Hoff just couldn't take this outpouring of adulation anymore. "Enough!" insisted the man who can never quite shake off his geography teacher persona. "This is a press conference, not a manager symposium."
Hoffenheim's manager had just been asked - over and over again - about the secrets of his team's incredible season. Top of the Bundesliga after nine games. Most goals scored. Most chances created. Hamburg humiliated. Best football played. The establishment unnerved. Few would have predicted that Martin Jol's team would have met the upstarts from the middle of nowhere in a title summit in the Carl-Benz-Stadion on Sunday. Fewer still would have thought they'd ever read the line "there was a gulf in class between the traditional power-house and new boys" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) as a tribute to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim's supremacy.
Rangnick's ultra-attacking team, with five forward-thinking players, had been much too quick, skilful and crafty for the visitors. "It was 3-0 after 36 minutes," lamented HSV defender Joris Mathijsen. "That simply can't happen. I don't know what these guys ate before [the match], they were so much better than us." Sunday roast with potatoes, pasta, broccoli and rice, actually, but the real reasons for Hoffenheim's fantastic ascent to the top are to be found in the minds of the management, not in the stomachs of their players.
"Hoffenheim are distinguished by a strong belief in the success of a convincing plan and the smart employment of resources," gushed Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. While Rangnick is increasingly wary of giving too many of his training secrets away, general manager Jan Schindelmeiser was happy to explain the basic tenet of their thinking. "Our player selection process is subordinate to our style of football," he said. "We don't buy 30-year-old-players who can't handle our pace."
In other words, the mythical "leadership" figure that many in German football still long for wouldn't be fit to tie Demba Ba's laces. "Rangnick doesn't need rugged veterans who bring down the tempo to their level," noted Süddeutsche.
Against Hamburg, the players' average age was a shade under 23. "The Bundesliga has never seen such cool, collected novices before," wrote Berliner Zeitung. In fact, the only time a club have enjoyed similar success in their first ever season was 43 years ago when FC Bayern, Munich's smaller team, had come up with talents such as Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Müller.
The general unease about the "test-tube club" bankrolled by software billionaire Dietmar Hopp has (mostly) given way to amazement and joy in the face of beautiful performances by "Circus Hoffenheim" (Der Stern). Attempts to dismiss their success as something that was simply bought with lots of money are, in any case, futile in face of the facts.
Half of "Germany's new football heroes" (Bild), men such as future German international Marvin Compper, were bargain basement cast-offs from other Bundesliga clubs. The others - Vedad Ibisevic, Chinedu Obasi, Ba, Eduardo - are moderately expensive unknowns that any half-decent team could have easily bought themselves. But they were looking elsewhere, or worse, only at the roster of their favourite player agencies (we'll mention no names, Schalke 04).
What's more, Hopp has spent most of his 200m euros on infrastructure and the new stadium: the very things that more established clubs have naturally enjoyed for years, often at the expense of the German tax-payer. Hoffenheim's naked ambition, hunger for fast, sustainable progress and high-concept methods (some of their attacking moves are adapted from hockey) amount to a slap in the face for sides such as Frankfurt, Hannover or Bielefeld, who have been far too comfortable with their inoffensive irrelevance over the years. Hoffenheim "show that mediocrity is not decreed by law," wrote FAZ.
The best news is that those who want German football to modernise now have a second champion; they no longer need to pin all their hopes on Jürgen Klinsmann in Bayern's hyper-pressurised environment of super-sized egos.
"They will go far with that team, meticulousness and strategic work in the background," said Klinsmann of the men who have taken up his revolutionary mantle. "They will be among the top five at the end of the season, and based on their recent performances genuine title contenders, too."
Rangnick was quick to distance himself from such talk. "I don't care what happens in May, I care about the next game," he said. Hoffenheim play Bochum on Wednesday and anything but an emphatic win would be a surprise. Their reassuringly austere manager - "Do you want me to dance on the table now?" he asked on Sunday - will continue to act the kill-joy but that won't stop the music. This season, nobody parties like 1899.
Results: Leverkusen 2-0 Cologne, Schalke 0-0 Bielefeld, Hannover 1-1 Bremen, Cottbus 2-3 Frankfurt, Bayern 4-2 Wolfsburg, Gladbach 1-0 Karlsruhe, Dortmund 1-1 Hertha, Hoffenheim 3-0 Hamburg, Stuttgart 2-0 Bochum
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The Subway brand, with its innovative service approach, crafty pricing strategy and delicious meals, has in the last years grown massively; not only in reputation but the chain has also surpassed McDonald's in having more restaurants worldwide. The chain works with the discipline of operational excellence and has a creative and extraordinary business idea that just amazes me and has really changed my perception of the fast food industry. There are so many fast food chains out there today that are incredible in the way they do business; being innovative seeking to get their customers to buy more and more from them; but Subway, according to many, takes the standard of the fast food industry to other levels and is in a class of its own.
If you think about it, the Subway sandwiches and menu's are not particularly cheap, and the restaurants does not provide an upscale, chic environment that could please a huge crowd like many of the other popular fast food chains. Yet they always somehow provide a sense of personalisation, belonging and a feeling that they listen and indeed, actually care about what you have to say; all this while being very productive with handling customer requests at the same time.
Building Relationships and Gaining Customer Loyalty
Subway identify and recognise their customers in many ways, both through their loyalty card program at each Point of Sale (POS), through the social media feedback, but also through their extensive CRM software program which tracks every intervention between the customer and Subway gathered through the different "customer touch points" such as online, phone or in store feedback. By identifying their customers, it helps Subway to enhance the internal service quality, monitor sales and predict the purchasing behavior. To be able to gain the most out of the created relationship data it is crucial that the information is up to date and correct. Subway manages this well through extensive employee training in, not only how to make sandwiches, but also through thoroughly going through the software and sales process. By keeping their information up to date, the customers actually benefit from it by getting direct discounts and special offers at each POS or online contact and the customers themselves actually see the advantage in giving Subway their information. Subway also manages their social media websites in a great way too with many fun events and promotional offers; and somehow, their customers seem to actually want to give them relevant feedback.
The loyalty card program and the software by Microsoft Dynamics helps Subway to value their different customers differently and they do so by offering them instant loyalty awards and price reductions in accordance to their historical, actual and future potential value. It has also helped Subway be able to tailor communications according to different customer needs which builds trust by showing that they are credible, reliable and true to their loyal customers. With their extensive training in how to handle the software, the Subway management can easily use different models to calculate and differentiate their customers according to their specific value. To predict their customers' behavior they are to have a look at their recent activity, how frequently they buy something from Subway and what price they usually pay. All this puts them into value categories and makes them more easily for Subway to predict and handle.
With all the information that they record, Subway has been able to anticipate and act to customer changes and they have constantly and efficiently improved over the years. The interaction feedback that they receive through their statistics and through the social media has also been very helpful. Subway takes all this information into account when they customize and make new promotions and offers. Subway has earned a lot of awards due to their innovativeness, loyalty programs and CRM management systems with the help of the IPC.
Something that Subway should think about to further develop their customer relationship management system worldwide is to implement the stored-value cash SubCard in all the countries where they operate instead of the current "collect stamp" cards that they have in many European countries still. This will at first bring high costs to the Subway franchisees but in the end it will gain them tremendously since it would enable Subway to facilitate the customer information flow, reduce fake stamps and learn more about how much money these customers spend in comparison to the already recorded customers as well as how frequently they visit the restaurants and implement changes accordingly. All this would help Subway to really embrace the CRM strategy in all their branches and be able to really control their costs, improve their customer interaction by customization and personalisation and finally grow stronger globally in a less stagnated market.


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Residents living a Meden Vale street have been left counting the cost after a river of slurry flowed from a former pit site into their streets and gardens during a downpour.
A deluge of slurry contaminated water nearly a foot deep flowed from the site of the former Wellbeck colliery and drenched properties on Portland Crescent and Elkesley Place on Thursday night.
Now as they deal with the muddy aftermath residents want to know who is responsible for the flooding which they say is the first to occur since the pit closed in 2010.
Ex miner Victor Jennings, of Portland Crescent said: "All hell broke loose on Thursday night - the water was running like a river down the street and round the back of our houses.
"The water was so deep I couldn't open my back door and it left a coating of grey mud which covered my entire garden.
"My lawn is completely ruined and there is mud all over the house from when we had to clean it all up.
"I will be putting in a claim to replace my lawn - I want to know who is responsible for the site now."
His home is just a few hundred yards from the spit site and he has lived in the former pit house for 20 years.
He added: "When the pit was going they used to have pumping stations for when the old slurry ponds over flowed.
"But it has never been as bad as this."
On Elkesley Place, Michelle Burridge was contemplating a six inch thick coating of the slurry in the street and garden.
She said: "We were sat eating our tea when it started raining and our neighbour shouted for us to come outside.
"It was just like standing in the middle of a fast flowing river.
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I have a copy of Acronis partion expert 2003 which i loaded quite easily on my my windows vista 64bit system, being given no warnings about compatability issues, i had used this prog succesfully on my previous XP based computer to partition drives.
after installing recently on my new system i had tryed to use it to create a partition on my C:\ Drive which is Huge, and i wished to create some free space, i know exactly how to use the product having used it successfully several times with my XP system.
when i tryed to use it on Vista...it kept telling me it was "unable to gain singular acces to my hardrive so was unable to continue and would shut down"....i had planned to uninstall, but had not yet got round to it.
the problems started when I tryed to upgrade to Windows 7 and was told by the wizard that upgrade would not take place until the Acronis product was removed as it is not compatable with Windows 7
(the only prog on my computer that Windows 7 is incompatable with)
I duly uninstalled it by the prescribed and correct method, only to find that the system wouldnt boot back into windows.....after a system repair....i tryed using safe mode to uninstall the Acronis product....exactly the same thing happened again.
I would like to point out that my operationg system has been very reliable and has never locked up or crashed...until today.
it seems like the Acronis prog has locked itself it the operating system and is using files that Windows relies on tho function.....im not an expert under the hood so dont really know how to start editing registry entries....does anyone have any idea how i can safely uninstall this Prog without wrecking my operating system...and then i can upgrade to Windows 7 if i choose to.
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Law School Students Defend Title in Regional Negotiation Competition
November 23, 2009
Liberty University School of Law successfully defended its title for the third consecutive year at the American Bar Association's (ABA) Regional Negotiation Competition. The competition took place at William and Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia.
The team of Brian Locker and Cherie Washburn claimed first place for the law school marking the third consecutive year the law school achieved this remarkable result. The team of Jackson Walsh and Hannah Reichel took third place in the competition and the team of Alonzo Davis and Jordan Van Matre secured the fifth place position.
"Winning the Regional Negotiation Competition three years in a row is an astounding accomplishment. We sent three teams this year and all achieved immense success," added Mathew Staver, Dean of Liberty University School of Law.
Professor Joel Hesch, who is the negotiation faculty advisor for the School of Law, also commented "I could not be more proud of our law students. The depth of talent at LU is unbelievable. We have successfully defended our title as the regional champion for three years in a row."
With their success at the regional level, Liberty University School of Law is assured a spot to compete for the national title at the ABA National Negotiation Competition that will be held in the spring. Last year, two teams from Liberty traveled to Boston for the ABA Negotiation Competition National Finals after placing first and third in the region competition. The team of Kari Ostendorf-Coble and Jordan Van Matre (at that time third-year and second-year law students) finished tenth in the nation. In 2007, Liberty sent two teams to the ABA National Finals in Los Angeles. Subsequently, Liberty University School of Law is the only school in the nation having 4 teams finish in the top 20 in the nation over the last two years.
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Life has become more fast-paced than ever before. We're constantly looking for ways to squeeze just a bit more time out of the day, whether it means juggling far too many simultaneous tasks at work, inserting lots of superfluous adjectives to achieve the required length for a college term paper, or driving way too fast on those morning and evening commutes. This compulsion to do things faster and make things easier actually puts us under more stress, making us feel an even greater need to condense our schedules by utilizing any shortcuts available to us.
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Dear Friends of EXI, As EXI specification entered last call working draft stage in September and is moving steadfastly toward further advancement, there has been a growing amount of curiosity heard from both inside and outside of the working group to know how many and what kind of projects have already started working on EXI implementation. Although EXI has not yet become Candidate Recommendation which officially should represent formal Call for Implementations, we would like to make an early survey of on-going implementation efforts that are out there. We would like to ask EXI implementors who are presumably be on this list to share the following data pertinent to each project. - Software / Project Name - URL - Organization Name - Platform, Language - License - Concise, short maturity-level statement We intend to make a list of collected implementation data, and make it available on the EXI WG public page [1]. Please share your data by sending it to this list. We appreciate your interest, help and support. [1] http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/ Sincerely, Michael Cokus and Takuki Kamiya for the EXI Working GroupReceived on Wednesday, 5 November 2008 01:22:31 UTC
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Ok, I've downloaded a lot of stuff, but so far, NONE of it seems to do this simple request I have.
In 98-2000, you could turn of the Favourites menu in Windows Explorer (along with some other crap) by turning off the "Shell Enhancements" in TweakUI 1.33. For some reason, MS removed this option for the "XP" version of Tweak UI. The only option that comes close is under the "Group Policy Editor", and is called "Turn on Classic Shell". This does indeed turn off the Favourites menu in Windows Explorer, but it also removes the Desktop tab in Display Properties for no reason. There is also another option under the "Internet Explorer settings" in GPedit, but this turns off the Favourites menu in IE as well.
Does anyone know of a program that will simply turn off the Favourites menu in W.E. with no ill-effect?
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Sometimes there are times when people are exceptionally hard on themselves.
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It's always cause for celebration when there's new music from The Seshen, the Oakland-based future-soul septet. Their latest single, "Distant Heart," trades out their trademark massively complex polyrhythmic instrumental section for an equally massively complex synth suite. Singer Lalin St. Juste, as always, delivers her winding melodies somehow both…Continue
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I'm really baffled at the outrage people have on Colin Kaepernick but not the underlying issues we have in America. Racial injustices are a real issue but something else is also real key to add to this story. A lot of people are so angry because they feel not standing up for the flag means you're disrespecting veterans. Well America hasn't exactly been taking care of them. 22 veterans commit suicide every day. EVERY SINGLE DAY.
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After a 94-80 loss last night to the Chicago Bulls the Celtics "tank" season is evident and they are in one last final push for as many losses as possible. The Celtics are now 23-51 and rank 5th in the "tank" standings. In other words they have the 5th worst record in the league. This has every Celtic's fan across the country asking themselves, who should the Celtics take with their early draft pick in a very deep draft? Experts have the Celtics drafting Julius Randle out of Kentucky. But does move really make sense with the Celtics current roster?
The Celitcs already have Jared Sullinger who has been nothing short of magnificent this year. Not only has he been a beast on the boards with 8.2 rebounds per game, he has also contributed on the offensive end with nearly 13 points a game. Sullinger is nearly averaging a double-double per game, which is very impressive for a second year player on a struggling team. The Celtics also have rookie 7-0 center Kelly Olynyk on their roster. In many eyes Olynyk is in the running for Rookie of the Year. He averages nearly 8 points per game and 5 rebounds. Now do I believe Olynyk is the best rookie in the NBA this year? Of course not. Michael Carter-Williams is the best rookie in the NBA this year.
I am not saying Randle is not a great player in college, but I do not believe he has a high of ceiling as Jared Sullinger and I do not think he will be the offensive weapon Olynyk has the chance of being.
Now this leaves the question, who should the Celtics take with their draft pick? I have it narrowed down to three players, Dante Exum who plays in Australia, Doug McDermot from Creighton, and TJ Warren from NC State.
Exum is a 6'6 shooting guard out of Australia. He is a versatile player who can get to the rim according to NBA scouts.
Most basketball fans know about Doug McDermott, the pure scorer out of Creighton. Many knock McDermott for his lack of athleticism and the level of competition he played against during his college basketball career (excluding his senior year). I just don't buy it. McDermott finished fifth all time in scoring in college with 3,150 points. He is first team all American for the third time in his career. He averaged 21 points per game throughout his career and shot over 50 percent from the field. People say he cannot match up with the physicality of the NBA and it will be hard for him to adjust? Well that runs true with every player coming out of college. The NBA is a whole different monster than the NCAA. But McDermott has size, he is 6'8 and 225 pounds.
TJ Warren may be the opposite of Doug McDermott. He can score, but only by getting to the rim as he struggles with his outside shot. He is a very athletic small forward who is a high energy defender. But with the Celtics wanting to stick with Rondo (who is not a score first point guard) it may be tough for them to put points on the board with another player whose main talent is not scoring the basketball. TJ Warren reminds me of Michael Kidd-Gilchrest of the Charlotte Bobcats.
If I had to choose one player to draft in the upcoming NBA draft I am going with Doug McDermott. Sure he will not be the most athletic of physically gifted player on the court but he can score. And with Rondo setting him up for open shots there is no telling how effective McDermott could be at putting the ball in the basket.


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The first time I heard about tapas, a friend had just returned from Spain. He spoke for weeks about these extraordinary small plates that he'd experienced, as he dined across Spain in its restaurants and bars. He'd enjoyed the experience immensely, and described sampling tiny mouthfuls of smoked octopus, chicken covered in garlic and chiles and shrimp paella, each dish served in bite-sized proportions atop tiny plates. The first thing I thought then was, how would one get enough to eat? Yet today, after decades of sampling the "small plates" now so prevalent in our food culture, I'm a convert to the concept. I don't think I've ordered a main course intended for just myself in over a decade. No meal is complete without shared plates.
The tradition of tapas itself hails from a time between the middle ages and modern Europe, when bad roads and difficult travels forced weary travelers to rest often. Hungry and exhausted, they'd find succor at many a roadside inn. The innkeepers of these establishments, often were unable to read or write, and so had no menus to offer their patrons. Wanting to be as hospitable as possible, they would offer their guests a sample of the dishes available, on a "tapa" (Spanish for pot cover), instead. The first tasting menu, if you will, and thus, tapas were born.
Chefs Emily Sarlatte and Sergio Monleón have partnered to bring their version of tapas to Berkeley, opening the brick and mortar version of their
wildly popular food truck "Ñora Cocina Española" in mid-October. The restaurant interior harkens back to that tradition of bar-hopping and bites that is uniquely Spanish. The overall effect is welcoming, and the effort itself clearly a collaboration, as the large expressive and colorful paintings of what appear to be colorful arches adorning the walls, are the product of Chef Sarlatte's artist father.
La Marcha offers more than sustenance, it's food reflecting the great pride in the art of combining flavor and providing a variety of tastes, that is at the heart of shared dining. It is clear that Chefs Monleón and Sarlatte understand that a well-prepared dish can have the power to envelop your senses, warming the heart like a grandmother's hug. The idea that hungry travelers will cross their threshold and find not simply a meal, but a dining experience worthy of a memory, seems to be the thrust of their undertaking here in Berkeley.
At the recent soft-opening gala, I was able to sample many of their food offerings. There were thoughtful little amuse bouche of anchovy and peppers
to whet the palate, the tart acid of the peppers a lovely foil for the oily fish. The Albóndigas (wild boar meatballs) were juicy and plump, lightly acidic from the tomato cream sauce, and melted in the mouth, leaving a lingering blend of meat and cheese caressing the tastebuds. The bite-sized morsels of Tortilla de Patatas, a creamy egg and potato concoction that reminded me of my grandfather's fritatta (no small compliment) were delicious. But the house special, Paella, was definitely the show stopper everyone came to taste, and it was splendid, chock full of seafood and well-developed flavors.
There was such pride in the house, both chefs clearly possessing a deep passion for the art of feeding people. It means something to them. The foods they serve brighten up a plate with the natural resonance on the tongue that is the joy found when food comes from the heart. The menu reflects that passion. Dish after dish offering the tang of tomato, fatty fish, well seasoned proteins, crafted together with peppers, and cheeses, each conjured nicely to be presented to their diners in the classic style that is "tapas." It makes perfect sense. I'm heading back to have a full meal. I'll bring some friends and make a memory. How about you?
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