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MLB 13 The Show – New Features and Details
Releasing on March 5th, 2013 for both PS Vita and PlayStation 3, MLB 13 The Show from Sony San Diego Studio is once again emerging as the premiere Baseball title on any platform. The follow-up to the "Best Sports – PS3" Golden Minecarts 2012 winner is looking to be more than just a roster update, MUCH more!. There's a lot to digest here, but enough with the babble, let's get rockin'!
The cover athlete this year, after a heated online election, is Andrew McCutchen, outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates. I voted as much as I could for Ryan Braun, and even though he was completely exonerated form the allegations of testing positive for banned substances, people still help a grudge against my boy (don't forget that he's the only player in the Majors to beat allegations of this kind, AND that his numbers were actually BETTER than they were during the year of the false allegations, but I digress.)
• The "Post Season" Mode (PS3 & PS Vita) – MLB 13 The Show will introduce users to Post Season Mode this year as it offers quick entrance directly into the Post Season, fast-tracking your run to the World Series. The mode offers you the choice of selecting to play with one team, or all 10. The format utilizes the newly changed playoff structure, with a single-game Wild Card round leading into the standard Division, Championship, and World Series rounds. The Division Series, Championship Series, and World Series can all be set to varying lengths (Single game, best of 3, best of 5, or best of 7 are all available). Only the Wild Card round is hardwired to a single-game, winner advancing format. Additional options for the mode include selecting the venue for each game. Lastly, all of the game control options you've come to know are available in this mode, including: single player, head-to-head play, co-op play, and PlayStation®Move support.
• Cross Platform Online Home Run Derby (PS3 & PS Vita) – MLB 12 The Show introduced Online Home Run Derby™ to the PS3. MLB 13 The Show brings this experience to the PS Vita with the inclusion of cross platform play. Regardless of whether users are logged into a PS3 or PS Vita, selecting an Online Home Run Derby match will gather users into one game experience. You could be playing against users in a train, plane or their living room!
• Beginner Mode (PS3 & PS Vita) – In an effort to make The Show more accessible and to help users learn the fundamentals of the game Beginner Mode has been added. No matter the age or skill level, the new Beginner Mode offering allows the user the opportunity to succeed when playing The Show. Beginner mode uses an advanced, adaptive AI system that dynamically updates your skill level on the fly. It starts out on the easiest of levels and only advances as the user improves.
• New Push/Pull Hitting Trajectories Engine (PS3 & Vita) – New to MLB 13 The Show is our Push/Pull hitting trajectory tendencies engine. When you hit select during the pitcher-batter matchup, the in-game screen it will show you if the current hitter is Extreme Pull, Pull Hitter, Balanced, Opposite field Hitter, or an Extreme Opposite field hitter. Both A.I. and human hitters will hit more balls to their preferred side according to this attribute. This data is derived from real yearly spray charts provided to us by MLB.com. Despite this shift, very late and very early timing remains unchanged. Rather, within good timing, a larger chunk of the timing window is considered early for pull hitters. This means if you swing too early on a changeup, your timing won't change at all. But if you get good timing on a pitch, it will be biased towards the hitters preferred zone. You will also now see more defensive shifts when Push and Pull hitters are at the plate.
• Franchise and Season Mode Evolution (PS3 & PS Vita) – MLB 13 The Show is set on improving the user's experience in Franchise mode by focusing on player development, while creating a more realistic and dynamic league as time progresses. Additions include a newly implemented team budget that focuses on a reward-penalty system which is solely based on a team's performance on the field. MLB 13 The Show is the most realistic baseball game ever as multiple years' worth of real-life data was used to determine the team-specific correlation between win-loss record and budget size, while also looking at postseason performance. This new budget system results in a more dynamic league, in which a low-budget team can become a big spender after a period of sustained excellence, mirroring real teams in the big leagues. Furthermore, team-specific player valuations were also added in order to add personality to each team. These valuations are based on the team's league, their home stadium and historical tendencies. These changes affect every facet of a team's decision making process, from drafting, to promotions and demotions, to trade decisions and free agent acquisitions. In addition to these changes, the user can expect improved Player Generation and Career Progression, as well as new Scouting and Training systems.
• Road to The Show Evolution (PS3 & PS Vita) – One of the most popular aspects of MLB 13 The Show, Road To The Show, has been reworked this year in an effort to provide players with the most immersive and realistic on-field experience ever in a sports video game. More focus has been made to bring simpler control over a users' player on the field in order to bring an unparalleled experience to the game. Environmental improvements, such as a revamped on-field sound system, enhances hundreds of new sound FX, player yells, and crowd sounds so they are heard prominently and realistically from the player's perspective on the field. Other notable improvements include a new user-controlled catch system, a revamped catcher mode, an improved Performance Evaluator to include baserunning and fielding, new custom batting animation sets, pitch type tip-offs when on defense, position-specific tasks such as calling for a pick-off as a middle infielder, and much more.
• The Show Live (PS3 & PS Vita) – The Show Live provides an exhibition-based mode using data from MLB.com to populate daily match-ups, line-ups and starting pitchers, giving users the opportunity to play in an environment that matches the "real-world." The Show Live presents games in the same way as season-based modes, with up-to-date player and team statistics. Hear commentators reference the previous or next day's events, based on real-world situations and information. Users have the choice to play a game from today, or turn the calendar back and play any game from earlier in the season. The Show Live brings users closer to Major League Baseball action than ever before!
• Diamond Dynasty 2.0 (PS3) – Diamond Dynasty juggles aspects of team management, player progression, and online competition, with more creative freedom than any sports game to date. In order to improve Diamond Dynasty, feedback from The Show Nation was used to expand and fine tune the systems that make up the mode. DD will now be simpler to understand for new users, while also being easier to navigate and manage for previous users. In addition to being more intuitive, visual tutorial walk users through the more complex screens or systems within DD.
Diamond Dynasty introduces the Designated Hitter in MLB '13. Users can choose whether they want to play by American or National League rules at their home park. Are you a baseball tactician who wants to use small-ball tactics and challenge your opponent to make strategic substitutions? Or will you stack nine sluggers and let your bats do the thinking?
The Marketplace gets a haul over as well as users can post and cancel orders with ease. The Marketplace has gotten smarter, minimizing the amount of potential exploits.
The Dynasty card type has also evolved. Dynasty Cards now display more information about the player's abilities. This information gives you an idea of what you are getting right away, but more importantly how good a player can get. Each Dynasty Player has maximum thresholds he can reach in each attribute, so picking which cards to activate to a team has become much more important.
Many core systems have become more versatile to cope with the inherent volatility of multiplayer online play. Overall, Diamond Dynasty in MLB '13 is smarter, deeper, and much more stable.
• TruBroadcast Presentations 2.0 (PS3) – True Broadcast Presentations 2.0 continues to blur the line between reality and The Show. This year focuses on further refinement of game continuity through the restructuring of thousands of presentations but also a heavy emphasis on taking stadium ambiance and big game atmosphere to a new level. The addition of new scenes, new cameras, new OSDs, new music and new audio allows MLB 13 The Show to take a huge step forward in the twofold approach of truly immersing the user in the moment during the pre-game while satisfyingly rewarding the user once the final pitch is thrown. Now more than ever the user will feel the difference between Opening Day, the Regular Season, the All-Star Game and the Postseason, and increasingly strive for a taste of the new Postseason celebrations.
• New Scouting and Training System in Franchise Mode (PS3 & PS Vita) – A "human element" was incorporated into MLB The Show's Scouting system, which affects the user's decision making process when dealing with scouting directives, position changes and, ultimately, drafting a player. This idea originated from Community feedback as The Show continues to strive be the most realistic baseball video game on the market. The goal for the Training system changes is to allow the user selecting individual players to train in areas of their own choice. More variety will be offered as training on a positional level will not be offered which will require the user to make their own choices of how to impact the development of their players.
• Road To The Show Commentary and Presentation Evolution (PS3) – The Road To The Show mode received a major commentary and presentation overhaul in an effort to bring the focus back to the player in the mode. The largest change is the removal of all commentary during the action. This was done to place more emphasis on the enhanced on-field sounds and to give users the sense of what is really like to be on the field as opposed to simply controlling a player on a screen. Commentary and presentations will still be heard before and after a play, but only when something important or notable regarding the user's player is going to be highlighted. In addition, a new pre-game player spotlight will feature the user's player and discuss his recent career progress or performance. Finally, hundreds of new presentation scenes have been created and thousands of new commentary lines have been recorded to give the RTTS player the attention he deserves and to highlight notable single-game, single-season, and career achievements like milestones and records.
• Online Road To The Show Leaderboard (PS3 & PS Vita) – Users can track their Offline Road to the Show careers and compare their player against all players from the community using RttS Leaderboards. Users can compare stats to see who is considered the best at their position, at similar levels. Users and their stats will be grouped by organization level: Double-A, Triple-A, MLB, as well as by position. All this will be tracked, displayed and sortable as long as you are connected online and PlayStation®Network signed in.
• Universal Profile (PS3 & PS Vita) – Universal Profile provides a central hub for any statistics a user records while playing The Show. Regardless of the modes or platform played, stats will be tracked and viewable in a user's profile. In addition, profiles will have levels associated with them. As a user plays, they accumulate experience (xp) towards their profile's level. Users now work towards a universal progression system whenever they play, regardless of the mode or platform they play on.
• Button Accuracy Meter (PS3 & PS Vita) – Users will now have more control over the fielding aspects of the game than ever before. For users who choose the new button accuracy meter they will now have complete control over the fielders arm accuracy and arm strength. No longer will an errant throw be the result of a random dice roll.
• Steve Lyons Joins The Booth (PS3 & PS Vita) – Joining the The Show's Broadcast team for MLB 13 is MLB veteran Steve Lyons. Steve started his Broadcasting Career with Fox in 1996, and has called several Division & League Championship series with the network. Steve currently does Color Commentary for the LA Dodgers.
Steve brings new energy and insight into the game, refreshing the commentary for MLB 13 The Show.
• MLB 13 Online Leagues Overhaul (PS3) – This year with MLB 13 The Show Online Leagues has been given a complete and total overhaul. New features include being able to play the real MLB schedule with all 30 teams, coupled with upgrades and refinements – like being able to manually control the pace of the league. Ultimately, the commissioner of a league will have the tools to be able to create and customize it in order to play with anyone anywhere to have a complete MLB experience in an online environment.
The Best Gets Better! MLB 13 The Show includes over 50 more enhancements, new features, and improvements!
1. Hitting engine improvements deliver more hit variety than ever before
2. Wider timing window across all difficulty levels
3. Improved ball physics (less ground rule doubles etc.)
4. Over 250 new fielding and running animations
5. Over 90 new batting stances
6. Over 130 batting stance re-captures for players who changed their stances
7. Over 50 new pitching motions
8. Over 60 new HR swings
9. New Defensive Positioning screen, view the whole field and watch your players shift on the fly
10. Franchise Mode: Team specific player valuations, which affect drafting, trades, free agency, etc
11. Franchise Mode: Projected team budgets and free agents for the upcoming season
12. Franchise Mode: Previous award winners and each team's Hall of Fame members will now be tracked and displayed
13. Franchise Mode: Ticker in Franchise that displays scores, milestones, trades, etc
14. Franchise Mode: Top 50 Prospect icon, used to indicate the best up-and-coming minor leaguers
15. Franchise Mode: Organizational Depth Chart which displays your starters at each level (AA, AAA and MLB)
16. New CBA "Qualifying Offer" system included
17. 7 New Minor League and Spring Training stadiums
18. On screen Tutorials to help you navigate some of the more complicated screens
19. New silhouette bat when bunting
20. Back picks while a catcher in RttS
21. Ability to assign swing animations when creating or editing a player… follow through, step in, etc
22. Big glove for catcher when a knuckle ball pitcher is on the mound
23. Over 500 new presentations
24. Pitcher Energy/Rotations for Online Play Now
25. Mercy Rule for online games
26. Twitter in The Show
27. Ping indicators in online game rooms
28. New online ranked game Play Now flow with game worth
29. New post-game summary screen for all online ranked games
30. Player photos updating with Roster updates
31. In-game simulator when FF to the end of game
32. PCI Appearance – There are 4 alternate PCI appearances
33. Pitcher Batter Analysis will now display 40 instead of 25 pitches
34. New Throwback uniforms
35. More catcher animations on plays at the plate providing more exciting outcomes
36. Enhanced CPU base running. Less predictable and more human like behavior
37. New base running animations "around the bases". Allows for more control of your base runner
38. New Pulse pitching, Meter pitching, and strike zone art
39. New player accessories
40. New online ticker design, more stats and information
41. RTTS infielder's pickoff request
42. New more interactive user steal system
43. Improved CPU pitcher substitution logic
44. New player card
45. Guess pitch evolution
46. RTTS Removal of the "green-light" system
47. Over 1,000 new RTTS-specific presentations
48. New RTTS user catch option
49. New RTTS On/Off options for ball halo and ball trail
50. Over 15 new batting camera's and 5 new pitching camera views
So, as you can see, the development team definitely listens to the community. SOme of these changes have actually been on "most wanted" lists of many fans for quite a while now. Keep checking back to this site over the next few weeks for in-depth coverage and analysis for MLB 13 The Show.


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Betsey Northrup
The party barge Betsey Northrup is mostly used for our Public Sightseeing Cruises, and has a limited availability for Private Charters in June, July & August. The Betsey Northrup is separately powered by Ugh The Tug or in combination with the Anson Northrup, nearly doubling the capacity. The enclosed main deck is heated and air conditioned and is our largest single room. The open second deck offers tremendous sightseeing. The barge is very quiet with the engines being on the towboat.
Maximum Capacity: 300
Maximum Indoor Dining: 176
The main deck is enclosed, heated and air-conditioned, with seating for 176. The second deck is open-air with a canopy, seating 128.
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Help Your Customers Keep Their Cool With Printed Promotional Cooler Bags
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But, even if you don't have a natural connection with a specific type of insulated cooler, your business can still benefit. Firstly, you give your customer something practical that they can potentially use for years to come. Secondly, the branding you put on to it won't just be seen by them, it'll be seen by everyone that sees the cooler or bag when they are out and about. This could give you valuable extra exposure at no additional cost.
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You may, for example, find that our insulated promotional cooler bags come with useful added pockets and nifty little storage spaces. Their handles may be reinforced, removable or adjustable to maximise 'carry' comfort. These little touches of added quality really will make a good impression on your contacts.
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Most People think they know all about Gmail, and they do everything possible with their Gmail. It's generally used by everyone but not to its optimum. Now let me explain you how you can use Gmail up to its optimum. Gmail the most powerful communication and email pattern to be a networking wonder waiting to be discovered fully. Many users stick to the most conservative chat and email facility provided by Google. What most people don't know is the Google Apps facility which helps you to maximize the full potential of your Gmail account.
If you're large part of the internet time is spent on networking with friends and family on Facebook and Twitter and you don't have time to switch between WebPages, and then maximize your Gmail by adding Facebook and twitter to your Gmail webpage itself. Just go to the settings and Click the Labs option, scroll down and click on the Add any Gadget by URL Option, that all you have to do is add twitter and Facebook, gbook and stay connected with all your loved ones.
Add the Undo send application to Recall Sent Mails.
Now you are quiet undecided about the words you put down on your mail and you think you press the send button quiet so soon, just add the Undo Option on the Google Labs. Now you can retrieve your mail even after you press the Send Button.
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Customize your Gmail: Choose from a Plethora of Applications.
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British Columbia Photography – Art and Archive 2015
September 7, 2015 | Filed Under Architecture, Art, BC Photography Archive, British Columbia, British Columbia Photographic Archive, Canada, Canadian, Cascadia, Documentary Photography, Don Denton, Fine Art, From The Archive, Historical, History, Kamloops, Landscape, Pacific Northwest, Personal Project, Photographers, Photography, Photos, Road Trip, Street photography, Tranquille | 2 Comments
I get asked the question, what do you?, regarding my photography a lot.
It's easy to answer when I talk about the photography that pays my rent. I am an editorial photographer who supplies images to accompany articles, illustrate stories and/or provide news, sports, entertainment coverage for newspapers and magazines. People get that.
It is much harder to explain the project work.
I often use the line (which is altered from an original sentence somewhere else I'm sure) that I am archiving British Columbia one image at a time.
That's part of it but explaining it is kind of like the challenge of crafting an artist's statement that encapsulates everything you do.
I do hope I am creating an archive of images, an archive that will have some sort of visual historical value. An archive that educates viewers about what a certain kind or part of life in this western/coastal part of Canada and North America.
I hope that the images convey something of the idea that I have that our immediate surroundings, be they physical, manufactured or social, shape who we are and save us from the commonality of global culture. I do think that despite the fact both I and a person living in Tokyo and another in Cairo could all be reading the Guardian on our iPhone while sipping a Starbucks coffee we are all fundamentally unique because of our own landscapes that we live and grow up in.
I also hope that the images stand on their own, simply as visual images, striking enough to hold hold your eye.
I hope they exist as both art and as archive.
The image above if from the site of the former Tranquille Institution in Kamloops, BC. It was at different times a home for the mentally challenged and a tuberculosis sanatorium. It has been closed as an institution for many years and now it is home to a small farm and vegetable stand but the many buildings on the site appear to be slowly wearing down. At the start of my career, working for the Kamloops News, I photographed my first photo essay ever at Tranquille, a series on volunteers working with kids with autism. It was the first time I saw the power of photography, having at the stage only read about it in photography textbooks, when the director called after the story had run to tell me about how people, moved by the images were calling up to offer their services as volunteers.


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Lenore Karidian was a female Human civilian in the 23rd century. She was the daughter of Anton Karidian. Lenore was also a Shakespearean actress in the Karidian Company of Players.
Biography Edit
Lenore Karidian was born in 2247. Though Anton took care that his daughter never learned of the fact he had previously been a brutal executioner named Kodos, she not only did so, but also became determined to silence all those who could connect Karidian to that past, by murdering them. Lenore wanted to perform since the first time she saw her father act.
With Leighton's death, only two of the nine original eyewitnesses remained alive, and both of them served aboard the Enterprise. Lenore first attempted to poison Kevin Riley. She failed because Riley was speaking to someone at the time the poison took effect; help was promptly dispatched. She next hid an overloading phaser in Kirk's quarters, in an attempt to blow him up. This, too, failed; Kirk found the phaser and jettisoned it into space before it exploded.
During the Hamlet performance, Lenore played the role of Ophelia. Meanwhile, Kevin Riley sneaked backstage with the intent of murdering Kodos, the man who had murdered his family. Kirk was able to stop him, but Kodos overheard their sotto voce conversation. Backstage, Lenore discussed it with her father – revealing, to his horror, that she had been, over time, murdering all those who could recognize him, and planned to kill the last two after the performance. When Kirk confronted her, she snatched a phaser from a nearby guard and raced on-stage. Clearly insane, she attempted to kill Kirk, instead hitting and killing her father when he jumped in front of Kirk at the last second. This act destroyed what remained of her mind; she was taken into medical custody. (TOS: "The Conscience of the King")
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Lenore Karidian was portrayed by Barbara Anderson. She shares the record (with Ricardo Montalban and Joan Collins) for the most costumes worn in a single TOS episode by a guest star (six). She wears a maroon-colored dress for her Lady Macbeth costume, a blue dress with a veil at the cocktail party thrown by the Leightons, a fur mini-skirt dress when arriving on the Enterprise, a greenish multicolored mantle on the observation deck, a black and red evening dress when Kirk visits the Karidians in their quarters, and, finally, a yellow and lavender Ophelia costume. It could even be argued that a veil she wears while walking with Kirk, just before discovering Tom Leighton's body, could be considered a seventh costume.
In the final revised draft script of "The Conscience of the King", Lenore was simply described thus; "She is beautiful." A later stage direction defined her as "wafting charm and perfume and graceful feminity."
In scripted but ultimately unused dialogue, Lenore said to Kirk, when he asked if she enjoyed her work, "I'm an actress... and I'm acting. But... to play the classics, in these times, when people prefer star-video... it isn't always as rewarding as it could be." In another line of scripted but ultimately dropped dialogue, Kirk secretly told Spock that Lenore, unlike her father, was to be granted the freedom to roam the Enterprise, as much as regulations allowed.
Lenore was also featured in a deleted scene from "The Conscience of the King", while she was on the Enterprise's observation deck with Kirk. In the scene, Lenore related to him that she suspected Yeoman Janice Rand didn't like her, believing Rand was likewise attracted to Kirk, something Lenore said she couldn't blame Rand for. Lenore meanwhile regarded Kirk as naive about women but "an exceptional man." After he complimented her in return by calling her "a very unusual woman," she replied, "Perhaps I am." Lenore then wondered if, with the advent of space travel, people still felt how they had done when they had only had one world, which Kirk confirmed. Lenore said she personally felt it was comforting to know people could still fall in love. She approached him and they shared a small kiss. Though he asked if that was meant as "a rehearsal," she stated, "A performance, dear captain," and they then embraced in a more passionate kiss. ("Swept Up: Snippets from the Cutting Room Floor", Star Trek: The Original Series - The Roddenberry Vault special features) In the final version of the episode, only the second of the two kisses is shown on-screen.
Lenore Karidian also featured in a full scene which was scripted but ultimately omitted, in which she comforted her father "almost maternally" in his quarters, where he had been anxiously pacing, waiting for her to return. She ignored him asking her where she had been, instead simply telling him she was there now. She gently eased him onto his bed, recommending he have a nap.
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Lenore appeared again in the novel Foul Deeds Will Rise, when she encountered Kirk while the USS Enterprise-A was acting as the location of crucial peace talks between two planets on the verge of a major disarmament program. Although officially rehabilitated and now working as part of a group of volunteers helping the planet to rebuild, Lenore came under suspicion when two of the delegates – one from each side – were killed in a manner that implicated her; one was killed by the exploding phaser technique that she had attempted to use against Kirk and another suffered an overdose of zetaproprion (β), the medication that Lenore was using to maintain her sanity. However, despite the accusations of now-Ambassador Kevin Riley and Lenore's own concerns that she had suffered a psychotic break of some sort, Kirk eventually determined that the true killer was one of the delegates attempting to use Lenore as a convenient scapegoat. Although she briefly attempted to hand herself over to the planets' governments to save the conference, Lenore later, once the truth was revealed, redeemed herself of her past crimes by risking her life to destroy a stolen protomatter warhead after the killer attempted to sabotage the Enterprise to prevent it doing so.
External links Edit
- Lenore Karidian at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- Lenore Karidian at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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- Hours of Operation: 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
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228 Federal St.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212
United States
Check In: 3:00 PM
Check Out: 11:00 AM
Check-in Age: 18
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- Daily Parking: 24 USD
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- Hours Of Operation From 7:00 AM-To 11:00 PM
- Complimentary Shuttle to/from Convention Center
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- Guest Rooms
- Registration Desk
- Exercise Facility
- Business Centre
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- Number of Accessible Meeting Rooms: 0
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- Registration Area
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- Business Centre
- Meeting Room
- Exercise Facility
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Hotel Areas with Accessible Routes from Accessible Public Entrance
- Accessible Self Parking
- Van Accessible Self Parking
- Ramp Access
- Portable Bathtub Seats
- Closed Caption TVs
- Communication Kits with Visual Alarms
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- Pet Deposit per Stay: 0 USD
- Pet Fee per Night: 0 USD
- We do not allow pets on our property. Service animals are not included in our no pet policy.
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- Number of Floors: 10
- Total Number of Rooms: 135
- Number of Suites: 38
- Number of Non-Smoking Rooms: 135
- Number of Accessible Rooms: 7
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Psalm 31:21-24
Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was beset as a city under siege. 22 I had said in my alarm, "I am driven far from your sight." But you heard my supplications when I cried out to you for help. 23 Love the LORD, all you his saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but abundantly repays the one who acts haughtily. 24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD.
Luke 19:1-10
He entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2 A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. 5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today." 6 So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him. 7 All who saw it began to grumble and said, "He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner." 8 Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, "Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much." 9 Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost."
Ephesians 2:11-22
So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called "the uncircumcision" by those who are called "the circumcision"-- a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands-- 12 remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. 15 He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, 16 and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. 17 So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; 18 for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, 20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. 21 In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.


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Dalrachney Lodge Hotel
Country House Hotel in Carrbridge in the heart of the Scottish Highlands 15
minutes from Aviemore and is approached via a tree lined riverside driveway.
Dalrachney is a former Edwardian Hunting Lodge
dating from 1845, set in 2 acre grounds within the Cairngorms National Park and
rests directly beside our own stretch of the Dulnain River.
We recognise how precious your relaxation and
holiday time is away from home and we aim to provide a tranquil environment in
which to enjoy our wonderful surroundings. We hope you will come and
enjoy our Scottish hospitality with personal attention from the Proprietors.
We have Double, Twin, King and Super King rooms and our Superior Super King
rooms have handmade Savoir 6ft beds.
A freshly cooked breakfast is included in the room rate which includes such items
as a full Scottish breakfast, Cinnamon Toast and Smoked Salmon & Scrambled Eggs.
Following major renovation we now have very limited facilities for guests wishing
to bring dogs onto the property and this should always be referred to us before
making a reservation. Please see "Dogs at Dalrachney" page of the website.
The property retains its original pitched pine
woodwork and high corniced ceilings and new furnishings are in keeping with the
character of the Lodge. In the cooler months a log fire in the delightful
Drawing Room provides a warm welcome.
Carrbridge was described by Queen Victoria as
"the jewel of the North". In the museum at Fochabers there is a dog
cart used by King George V during his stay at Dalrachney Lodge.
Dalrachney is an ideal base for a memorable break.
Enjoy breathtaking scenery, abundant wildlife, and numerous year-round outdoor
activities including walking, fishing, shooting, golfing, bird-watching,
skiing and mountain biking (The Lochs and Glens Route National Cycle
Network 7, one of the major Sustrans cycle routes passes through Carrbridge).
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- Bar
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- Lounge
- Sichere Fahrradlagerung
- Internetzugang (wireless)
- Terrasse
- Housekeeping - täglich
- Parken auf dem Gelände
- kostenfreies Parken
Einrichtungen für Geschäftsreisende
- Konferenzräume
- Kopiergerät
- Drucker
- Frühstück (Continental)
- Frühstück (vollständig)
- Freies Frühstück
- Englisch / Irisches Frühstück
Aktivitäten und Erlebnisse
- Tierbeobachtung
- Bogenschiessen
- Vogelbeobachtung
- Bootfahren
- Kanufahren
- Tontaubenschießen
- Radfahren
- Angeln
- Fliegenfischen
- Golf
- Golf - Driving Range
- Reiten
- Kayakfahren
- Mountainbikefahren
- Museen/Gallerien
- Floßfahren
- Klettern
- Segeln
- Shopping
- Shopping - Antiquitäten
- Wandern
- Aktivitäten auf dem Wasser
- Jagen
- Wildnis
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11/13 at 8:22 p.m. Gregory Wiley, 55, of Staples Point Road, was arrested by Officer Thomas Gabbard on a charge of operating under the influence.
11/15 at 1:05 a.m. John M. Leeds, 26, of Jacksonville, Fla., was arrested by Officer Paul Chevernet on a charge of operating under the influence.
11/13 at 8:27 a.m. Laura T. Hart-Baumli, 30, was summonsed on a charge of allowing a dog to be at large.
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11/14 at 10:16 a.m. Police were notified of a vehicle dropping roofing shingles along Hedgehog Mountain Road. Police could not locate the vehicle.
Shady situation
11/17 at 1:17 p.m. A person reported that their sunglasses were stolen. Although there were suspects, police were unable to locate them. The glasses were reportedly valued at $550.
Fire calls
11/13 at 11:02 a.m. Lines down, Koehling Drive.
11/13 at 3:42 p.m. Alarm, Main Street.
11/14 at 3:24 a.m. Structure fire, Main Street South Freeport.
11/14 at 10:22 p.m. Water problem, Dennison Avenue.
11/14 at 11:07 p.m. Assist rescue, Partridge Lane.
11/15 at 3:49 a.m. Alarm, Main Street.
11/15 at 11:29 a.m. Alarm, Main Street.
11/15 at 1:09 p.m. Alarm, Woodside Lane.
11/16 at 3:42 p.m. Vehicle accident, I-295.
11/17 at 7:46 a.m. Dumpster fire, Elm and Main streets.
11/18 at 4:06 p.m. Assist rescue, Kendall Lane.
There were 26 calls for emergency medical service from Nov. 13 through Nov. 19.


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JOHANNESBURG - While embattled South Africa President Jacob Zuma came under increased pressure to step down this week, his eldest son, Edward, was fighting to become chairperson of the Msholozi branch in KwaNxamalala Village in Nkandla.
But his bid was thwarted after the general meeting last Sunday to elect a new branch leadership came to a halt after chaos ensued.
This was after Edward's supporters and those backing Doctor Bhengu, an ANC member, also eyeing the position of chairperson, squared off.
No one was injured and no case was opened.
An ANC member who attended the meeting said the skirmish was triggered by an objection that was raised by Edward after one of his backers was barred from being part of the meeting because her name did not appear on the voters' roll.
The faction opposed to Edward started chanting and drowned him out when he wanted to raise his objection.
Edward could not raise his objection with Bongi Simelane, who was deployed by Musa Dladla region (second biggest after eThekwini) to oversee the elections.
"Enraged, Edward's supporters retaliated by singing derogatory songs about Bhengu's supporters.
That's when things got out of control between the factions", said an ANC member.
"People rushed for cover when things got out of hand. I am still wondering how no one got hurt," said another ANC member.
Initially, police were not present at the meeting but when tensions rose they were called to calm things down.
Edward is a member of Msholozi branch and like any ANC member in good standing he qualified to stand for positions.
The meeting, which was attended by more than 300 ANC members, was postponed to April 30.
Former branch chairperson Bongokwakhe Mbambo was elected as ward councillor during last year's local government elections.
Edward was nominated to take over as branch chairperson. But Mbambo lobbied for his own candidate, Bhengu, to take over.
Zuma has 26 children - are they all going to join him in governing the hapless 50 million South Africans ?
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Roman Polanski takes the experience of watching Yasmina Reza's play, God of Carnage, and amplifies the tension, turns anger into absurdity and captures an entire universe in, essentially, two and a half rooms of a Brooklyn apartment in the film, Carnage.
The apartment belongs to Michael and Penelope Longstreet and, as embodied by John C. Reilly and Jodie Foster, they're an aspiring Park Slope couple, living a solidly comfortable but not astonishingly abundant existence, from all evidence.
Their visitors -- and the only other two characters in the film (and play) -- are the Cowans, Alan and Nancy (Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet). They're all making nice over some apple and pear cobbler, while trying to assign (and avoid being assigned) blame in a schoolyard scuffle. The Cowans' son has smacked the Longstreets' son in the face with a stick, loosening teeth and shredding a lip, apparently because the young Longstreet referred to the young Cowan as a snitch.
But niceties are always too nice -- and so attempts to be grown-ups quickly degenerate into a calculation that is part financial and part power-based: Who's supposed to pay for all this and, more importantly, who can be held responsible? Who owns the moral high ground?
The answer pretty quickly becomes obvious: No one will take the high road in this snowballing squabble. They'd all like to, but something keeps getting in their way: their individual self-serving natures.
Some might call it class warfare but that's too simplistic. Alan is a smug attorney, constantly interrupting the conversation (or argument) to monitor a cell-phone-borne disaster in the making: a client, a drug company, which may not have been forthcoming with research about harmful side effects of a popular pharmaceutical. Michael, by contrast, is a merchant of kitchen and bathroom fixtures. Alan looks down his nose at Michael (enhanced by the Bob Hope scope of Waltz's nose) and Michael and Penelope think Alan and Nancy are stuffy snobs.
I've seen this play three times -- twice on Broadway with different casts, once in a regional theater. And even the first time I saw the film, I wasn't convinced that it was about anything deeper than the unexpected consequences of a flat-out argument between seemingly civilized people.
In Reza's (and Polanski's) world, the result is a snarling, shifting set of alliances. It is, to be sure, initially family versus family, each looking for the other to somehow make it all right. But that particular friction eventually gives way to husband-vs.-wife arguments and then husbands-vs.-wives.
By the end, even as they've been trying to discuss what a fair solution would be, they wind up as solo agents, each nurturing anger or bile or both, squared off against a world that seems to be a nonstop assault in one way or the other.
Still, there are a couple of big physical moments -- trademarks from the stage show -- that don't pack the wallop (and really can't be expected to) that they did in the confined space of a theater. But the airless, almost claustrophobic quality of the apartment is enhanced by Polanski's use of wide-angle lenses.
Each of these actors finds new qualities in these characters. Winslet's stodgy Nancy gets an increasingly belligerent buzz on, but makes her drunken anger about the impulses this character has spent suppressing until now. Waltz is her button-pushing mate, with a matching temperament of polished manners barely covering a disdainful impatience. You can read this couple as a team, whether they were married or not.
Foster and Reilly, on the other hand, are a couple that must, at one point, have been a product of a passion that no longer exists -- because there's nothing else that these two people seem to have in common. They're married but they're tense, as though they've forgotten what they had to talk about. So their impulses -- to watch the mate's back, or to stab it -- sometimes get confused.
Carnage refocuses itself in this film. Unlike the play, it is not simply about the breakdown of civilization -- or at least, of civilized behavior. It's about the very untwining of the ties that shelter civilization from the dominance of self-interest.
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Stalwart Welland Valley CC veteran Vic Barnett finished in the medals again at the World Masters Mountain Bike Championships in Andorra.
The defending champion in the over-70 category, Barnett knew he faced a stiff challenge from his close friend and long-standing rival, Frenchman Christian Jupillat who, winner of the
age 65-69 title last year, had come out on top when the
pair last clashed at the Masters Games in New Zealand in
May, and so it proved.
The 4.5-km course, high in the mountain region of Vallnord-Pal Arinsal, featured steep ascents, rocky descents and fast, gravelly burms, and although making up time on the technical sections, Barnett conceded too much ground on the climbs as Jupillat powered his way to the gold medal.
Barnett had a trouble-free ride to take silver by a wide margin over bronze medallist, Spain's Miguel Paera Butjosa.
Hosts Rockingham Forest Wheelers claimed the top two individual places, but it wasn't enough to deny Welland Valley CC aggregate victory as the visitors retained the bragging rights in their annual inter-club 25-mile time trial.
Paul Beattie (1L00.04)
and Nathan Joyce (1:01.22) – the latter on a road bike – were fastest on a warm
and sticky evening, but the home side had to go down to Paul Furnell (1:08.05) in ninth place to add to their points tally as Welland Valley, led by Matt Plews (1:03.2) in third place, packed well to secure a 31-21 win on points awarded to the top ten finishers.
Rivalry was all very amicable, and the evening was rounded off with a barbecue.
Other times: Matt Crabtree 1:03.24, Peter Bentley 1:04.00, Lawrence Cox 1:04.40, Pete Bradshaw 1:07.02. Bill Barrie 1:07.38, Dan High (all WVCC) 1:08.22, David McDade (RFW) 1:08.55, Linda Hubbard 1:08.56, David Sweetman (both WVCC) 1:10.02, Steve Wickham 1:10.03, Chris Fowler (both RFW) 1:10.06, Steven Welch (WVCC) 1:10.29, Michael Church 1:11.36, Peter Rowbotham 1:13.57, Will Gell (all RFW) 1:15.08, John Ridgway 1:21.47, Stewart Holland 1:22.48, Andrew Weatherby (all WVCC) 1:25.02. Guests: Matt Gell 1:11.53, Tom Wright 1:12.45, Nigel Tomlinson 1:12.54, Lucy Gell (all Numplumz Mountainbikers) 1:20.09, Will Daly 1:25.08, Mike Daly (both C&D Cycles) 1:27.02.
Marston Lodge was the venue for round eight of the Friday Night Summer Series, with almost 100 competitors taking to the course.
There was a strong turn out for Welland Valley with Dom Switzer and Will Perkins making their first starts of the season.
Matt Barratt (Renvale RT) enjoyed a trouble-free ride to victory in the over-40 veterans where Neil Doherty (Welland Valley CC) battled to fifth place. Roy Chamberlin (Corley Cycles) was never headed once he hit the front of the over-50s field.
Finn Mansfield (MI Racing Academy) took the honours in the youth race with a two-minute margin over second-placed Louis Jakobson (WVCC).


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* To drive sales of Forex Borderless Prepaid Card & One Currency Card with goal of achieving 70% sales on the cards
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Jessica Fortner – Eine Kleine Krampusnachtmusik
The Krampus is a demonic creature who accompanies St. Nicholas during Christmas to punish bad children. Feared by the children of Eastern Europe, Krampus is known to thrash the bad ones with birch branches, and is liable to scoop them into his basket for a short trip to the underworld!
His grim legend was is the theme for the Krampusnacht 2010 show at Resistor gallery in Toronto. Shown here is Jessica Fortner's Krampus illustration titled "Eine Kleine Krampusnachtmusik".
For process pics and photos of the Krampusnacht 2010 opening night check Jessica's blog


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Fiesta gets the most out of every corner, thanks to the technical precision only a Ford-tuned suspension can offer. Taking on straightaways is a smooth affair, too, when you combine electric power-assisted steering with the proprietary Ford invention, active nibble control. Covert aerodynamic design and critical technology such as the class-exclusive PowerShift six-speed automatic and 1.6L Ti-VCT Duratec® I4 engine with twin-independent variable cam timing make it a responsive and fuel-responsible driving experience.
Fiesta is designed to amplify the anticipation of the drive and physically engage your senses. Thoughtful design cues like the class-exclusive* 4″ multifunctional LCD display screen and cell phone-inspired center console with cascading buttons are pleasing to the eyes and the touch. Available features such as front heated leather-trimmed seats, SYNC® in-car connectivity system and Intelligent Access with push-button start reinforce that Fiesta is a choice, not a compromise.
The safety advancements in the 2011 Fiesta give you the peace of mind to enjoy the quick and nimble performance that makes Fiesta so much fun to drive. Fiesta provides seven standard air bags-more standard airbags than any other compact cars in its class*- and includes side curtain airbags. There's even an airbag at the driver's knees. And here's another way Fiesta raises the bar on safety: a protective "safety cage" made of boron - an element so strong it's used in the aerospace industry- surrounds both driver and passengers.
Fiesta has no qualms about standing out, starting at the front end with a three-bar grille and distinctive dragon's-eye headlamps. A razor-slash side panel highlights the car's cut-and-run stance, while the upswept rear end makes it look like it's ready to launch. Available ambient lighting and available bright metallic accents create a radiant glow that surrounds the interior, and unique exterior colors emphasize Fiesta's effervescent personality bubbling to the surface.


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By: Nancy G. Milburn
12th April 2010
In the fall of 2009, the Second Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in Connecticut v. American Electric Power Company,[1] a case alleging a federal common law nuisance claim based on the effects of greenhouse gases. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court dismissal of the case. In a lengthy opinion, the Second Circuit held that plaintiffs-eight states, the City of New York, and three nonprofit entities-had standing to seek an injunction against six electrical utility companies to restrict their greenhouse gas emissions based on a public nuisance claim. The Court also held that the claims were not barred by the political question doctrine, which forecloses courts from deciding questions that have been committed for decision to the executive and legislative branches. Finally, the Court held that plaintiffs had stated a viable federal common law nuisance claim, which had not been displaced by congressional or regulatory action.[2]
The AEP decision represents a significant departure for climate-change-related tort litigation. Courts have traditionally dismissed at the pleadings stage suits by private or governmental litigants alleging nuisance or other common law claims based on global climate change. Courts have held that these suits present national and international policy issues that are more properly addressed by the legislative or executive branch and that courts are therefore foreclosed from exercising jurisdiction. Courts have also held that plaintiffs are not constitutionally entitled to sue when they allege generalized injuries from global warming where the conduct at issue-emission of carbon dioxide-is not limited to the named defendants but is engaged in by every emitting entity in the world.[3] The AEP Court, however, took a fundamentally different view. It found that the issues presented, including what level of emissions was allegedly "unreasonable" and whether contributions to a worldwide phenomenon satisfy causation, did not present obstacles to the adjudication of plaintiffs' claims.[4] It found that the case presented "discrete domestic nuisance issues" that courts were well equipped to decide.[5]
I. Background
In 2004, two sets of plaintiffs filed companion suits in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against electric utility companies, which plaintiffs claimed were "the five largest emitters of carbon dioxide in the United States."[6] Plaintiffs alleged that greenhouse gas emissions from the utilities' operations were causing harm to human health and the environment by contributing to global warming and therefore constituted a public nuisance for which plaintiffs sought abatement. The harms that plaintiffs alleged included melting California snowpacks, which in turn caused increased flooding and a reduction in the state's water supply. Plaintiffs asserted that global warming will increase heat waves and smog, cause more droughts and wildfires which will damage property, and contribute to lower water levels in the Great Lakes, which will impair shipping and other commercial and recreational activities.[7] According to plaintiffs' complaints, the defendant companies contribute approximately one quarter of the U.S. electric power sector's carbon dioxide emissions, and U.S. electric power plants constitute "ten percent of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions from human activities."[8]
In 2005, District Judge Loretta Preska granted defendants' motion to dismiss the complaints, finding that the cases presented non-justiciable political questions.[9] The District Court found that it could not enjoin defendants' emissions because the cases touched on areas of national and international policy.[10] Judge Preska found that resolving the issues would require the "identification and balancing of economic, environmental, foreign policy, and national security interests",[11] and she was therefore faced with the "impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion."[12]
Plaintiffs appealed. After reviewing the case for more than three years, on September 21, 2009 the Second Circuit vacated the District Court's decision, finding that the case did not present non-justiciable political questions beyond the jurisdiction of the federal courts.[13] The Second Circuit then decided issues the district court had not reached, namely that all of the plaintiffs had standing to sue and that federal common law nuisance applied to plaintiffs' claims.[14]
II. Discussion
A. Plaintiffs' Claims Can Be Heard and Decided by the Court
The Second Circuit addressed the political question doctrine first and held that plaintiffs' claims did not present non-justiciable political questions over which federal courts could not assert jurisdiction. The Court analyzed the political question issue under the test set forth by the United States Supreme Court in Baker v. Carr[15] and concluded that the district court was incorrect in finding that the abatement of the defendants' emissions presented a non-justiciable political question. The Second Circuit found that the scope of the suit was limited to the parties involved, such that any injunction would be limited to restricting the emissions of the five named utility companies, and that the relief requested by plaintiffs "applie[d] in only the most tangential and attenuated way to the expansive domestic and foreign policy issues raised by Defendants."[16] The Court suggested that defendants' characterization of the suit as involving "complex, inter-related and far-reaching policy questions about the causes of global climate change," was an exaggeration and found instead that the suit more appropriately presented "discrete domestic nuisance issues."[17] The Court took the view that the case fell squarely within the pattern of air and water pollution cases that courts have long successfully adjudicated. The Court stated, "[a] decision by a single federal court concerning a common law of nuisance cause of action, brought by domestic plaintiffs against domestic companies for domestic conduct, does not establish a national or international emissions policy."[18] Finding that existing tort law principles provided workable standards for resolving the discrete nuisance claim at issue, the court accepted plaintiffs' contention that the fact "[t]hat Plaintiffs' injuries are part of a worldwide problem does not mean Defendants' contribution to that problem cannot be addressed through principled adjudication."[19] The court's finding in this regard is significant because under its analysis any common law tort claim would arguably be found to be justiciable. Such an overbroad reading of the Baker test would vitiate the political question doctrine for common law claims.
The Second Circuit also rejected Judge Preska's finding that a court would be unable to adjudicate plaintiffs' nuisance claim without making an initial policy determination of a type that should be made by one of the other branches of government.[20] Citing the absence of a unified federal policy on greenhouse gas emissions, the Court rejected the notion that a finding of justiciability would in some way contravene Congress' intent only to "study" the issue of domestic emissions, demonstrate a "lack of respect" for the political branches, or create the potential for "embarrassment from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question."[21]
B. Plaintiffs Have Standing
After holding that the case did not present a non-justiciable political question, the Second Circuit next addressed standing, which it measured against a lower standard since the case was only at the pleading stage.[22] The court found that the states had parens patriae[23] standing to sue, based on the notion that "a state's interests in protecting both its natural resources and the health of its citizens have been recognized as legitimate quasi-sovereign interests."[24] The states met the test for parens patriae standing, since they articulated an interest apart from the interests of particular private parties, expressed a quasi-sovereign interest in protecting the health and well-being of their residents, and alleged an injury to virtually their entire population that would not likely be resolved by individuals in private suits.[25]
The Court also found that plaintiffs met the three-part test for Article III standing set forth in Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife.[26] First, plaintiffs had sufficiently demonstrated "injury in fact" by alleging that global warming was causing current and imminent future injury. Second, plaintiffs satisfied the causation requirement, as the injury was "fairly traceable" to defendants' actions. Plaintiffs asserted that defendants' carbon dioxide emissions contribute to global warming, which in turn causes them harm in specific ways. The court found this allegation to be sufficient, stating that plaintiffs are not required to "pinpoint" which harms are caused by particular defendants, nor are they required to show that defendants' emissions alone cause their injuries; rather, it was enough that plaintiffs allege that defendants' emissions "contributed" to their harm.[27] The court's relaxed traceability standard based on "contribution" alone has potentially significant implications for climate change suits because every entity on the planet is a "contributor" of greenhouse gases and thus potentially subject to suit by these or other plaintiffs allegedly injured by global warming. Third, citing Massachusetts v. EPA,[28] the Second Circuit found that plaintiffs had shown that their requested remedy of restricting defendants' emissions would slow or reduce the injury, which was sufficient to establish "redressability."[29]
C. Federal Common Law Nuisance Is a Valid Tort
In a significant departure from settled case law, the Second Circuit broadened the scope of federal common law by finding that federal nuisance claims apply to global climate change. Courts have traditionally been unwilling to apply federal common law nuisance concepts except in the narrowest circumstances, such as disputes between sovereign states. In other instances, courts have taken the view that federal causes of action should be created by statute and not by common law. The Second Circuit, however, allowed the federal common law of nuisance to fill the "gap" left by what it viewed as Congress' and EPA's failure to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.[30] Thus, the Second Circuit adopted the Restatement's definition of public nuisance: "an unreasonable interference with a right common to the general public."[31] The court then addressed the question of whether plaintiffs stated a claim under the federal common law of nuisance, addressing the states and non-states separately.
The court found that the states, "in their parens patriae and proprietary capacities," properly alleged a public nuisance under section 821B of the Restatement (Second) of Torts.[32] The states alleged that defendants' emissions constitute a "substantial and unreasonable interference with public rights in the plaintiffs' jurisdictions, including . . . the right to public comfort and safety, the right to protection of vital natural resources and public property, and the right to use, enjoy, and preserve the aesthetic and ecological values of the natural world."[33]
Defendants argued that "constitutional necessity" limits the scope of the interstate nuisance cause of action to disputes between states and that the federal common law of nuisance is available only for simple nuisances that are "immediately and severely harmful" and "readily traced to an out-of-state source."[34] The Second Circuit disagreed, finding that a state raising a claim based on "quasi-sovereign interests" is "somewhat more certainly entitled to specific relief than a private party might be."[35] The court rejected defendants' attempt to limit the definition of public nuisance and asserted that the existence of other contributors does not eliminate one contributor's liability.[36] It clarified that the Supreme Court's only qualification on a nuisance action between two states is that "the case should be of serious magnitude, clearly and fully proved."[37] The Court thus stated that the alleged nuisance caused by climate change is of "serious magnitude" and held that the states properly asserted parens patriae standing for a public nuisance.[38]
With regard to the non-state plaintiffs, the Court rejected defendants' argument that "private plaintiffs cannot invoke any federal common law cause of action to abate interstate nuisances" because it is an action reserved only for the states. Looking to the Restatement and federal nuisance cases, the Court determined that non-state entities may bring federal common law nuisance claims.[39]
The court also concluded that the City and trusts demonstrated "an unreasonable interference with a right common to the general public," pursuant to the requirements under Section 821B(2) of the Restatement (Second) of Torts.[40] New York City pleaded an unreasonable interference with public health, safety, and comfort and convenience. The court found that the trusts were correct that "significant interference with the public right to be free from widespread environmental harm caused by the effects of global warming satisfies §821B(2)(a)'s requirement."[41] The allegations that defendants knew or should have known that their emissions contribute to global warming and thus injure the public were sufficient to establish a claim for public nuisance under Section 821B(2)(c).[42]
D. Federal Common Law Nuisance Is Not Displaced
The Second Circuit next turned to the issue of whether the federal common law nuisance claim had been displaced by federal legislation. In order to determine whether a federal statute has displaced federal common law, the court must determine whether the federal law "speaks directly to the question."[43] Concluding that "Congress has not acted to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in any real way," the Second Circuit rejected defendants' argument that a federal common law nuisance claim had been displaced by the Clean Air Act or other statutes that address greenhouse gas emissions.[44] Since EPA has only issued proposed findings regarding greenhouse gases and has not yet regulated greenhouse gases from stationary sources, the Court found that the Clean Air Act does not address plaintiffs' problem.[45] The Court left open the possibility that the actual regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act by EPA would displace plaintiffs' federal nuisance claim.[46]
The Court found that the other statutes cited by the defendants were all research-oriented and fell short of meaningful regulation. The Court concluded that it is not enough for Congress merely to touch on greenhouse gas emissions in legislation; rather, the question is whether Congress has "spoken to a particular issue"-here, whether Congress had regulated greenhouse gas emissions and legislated a remedy for the injuries that the emissions cause.[47] The Court found that displacement occurs only when Congress "actually regulates" the nuisance at issue, and Congress has not yet done so.[48]
III. Conclusion
The Second Circuit stands alone among federal district courts and appellate courts in allowing a climate change tort suit to proceed beyond the pleadings stage.[49] Every district court that has considered plaintiffs' injury claims based on greenhouse gas emissions has dismissed them as constitutionally defective. In addition, the Fifth Circuit in Comer has now vacated a decision of a panel of that Court which had reversed a dismissal and allowed a purported class of Mississippi homeowners to go forward on trespass, nuisance and negligence claims against various energy companies; the Fifth Circuit will rehear the case en banc in May 2010.[50] The Second Circuit has thus taken a fundamentally different view of climate change nuisance cases than that of other federal courts.
Rather than recognizing that emissions and energy policy disputes lie at the heart of these cases, the Second Circuit instead viewed the AEP case as an ordinary nuisance action that the judicial branch could readily handle. In the absence of EPA regulation, the Second Circuit took on the expanded role of determining such fundamental policy questions as what is the "proper" or "reasonable" level of emissions for each defendant in the face of emissions from every other entity in the world, how reductions in defendants' emission levels should be implemented, what is the allocation of fault among emitters, and which entities will bear the costs associated with global warming. Unlike other courts that have adjudicated similar claims, the Second Circuit declined to find that the complex, policy-laden issues associated with climate change were more appropriately addressed by the political branches.
Nancy G. Milburn is a partner in Arnold & Porter LLP's New York office. Katherine E. Ghilain, an associate at the firm, assisted in the preparation of this article. Arnold & Porter represents a defendant in the Comer and Kivalina climate change tort suits which are discussed in note 2 infra.
[1] 582 F.3d 309 (2d Cir. 2009).
[2] In addition to Connecticut v AEP, last fall, in the space of less than a month, a federal appeals court and a federal district court issued two other significant climate change decisions. In Comer v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., 585 F.3d 855 (5th Cir. 2009), in a decision that was subsequently vacated by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' grant of en banc review, a panel of that Court allowed a suit by an alleged class of Mississippi homeowners to proceed under state common law trespass, nuisance and negligence theories against coal, energy, petroleum and chemical company defendants. Plaintiffs claimed that defendants' greenhouse gas emissions worsened the effects of Hurricane Katrina and increased the damage to their homes. Defendants filed a petition for rehearing en banc in the Fifth Circuit requesting that the full Court rehear the cases, and on February 26, 2010, the Fifth Circuit granted the petition. 585 F.3d 855, reh'g en banc granted, No. 07-60756, 2010 WL 685796 (5th Cir. Feb. 26, 2010). The case will now be re-briefed and reargued before the full Court.
In Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp., No. C 08-1138 SBA, 2009 WL 3326113 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 30, 2009), a district court in the Northern District of California dismissed a state and federal common law nuisance suit by an Alaskan village against energy and oil companies alleging that defendants' emissions caused a loss of sea ice which threatened the stability of land on which the Village was located. The court held that plaintiffs lacked standing and the case presented a non-justiciable political question. Plaintiffs have appealed the dismissal to the Ninth Circuit.
[3] See Kivalina, 2009 WL 3326113, at *8 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 15, 2009), appeal pending, No. 09-17490 (9th Cir.); California v. General Motors Corp., 2007 WL 2726871, at *8 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 17, 2007), appeal dismissed voluntarily, No. 07-16908 (June 24, 2008 9th Cir. 2008); Comer v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., No. CIVA 1:05-CV436LGRHW, 2007 WL 6942285 (S.D.Miss. Aug. 30, 2007).
[4] Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., 582 F.3d at 328-29, 345-57.
[5] Id. at 325.
[6] The first set of plaintiffs consisted of eight states (Connecticut, New York, California, Iowa, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin) and the City of New York. The second set of plaintiffs consisted of the Open Space Institute, Inc., the Open Space Conservancy, Inc., and the Audubon Society of New Hampshire. Defendants were American Electric Power Company, Inc., American Electric Power Service Corporation, Southern Company, Tennessee Valley Authority, Xcel Energy, Inc., and Cinergy Corporation.
[7] Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., 582 F.3d at 317-18.
[8] Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., 406 F. Supp. 2d 265, 268 (S.D.N.Y. 2005).
[9] Id. at 274.
[10] Id. at 272.
[11] Id. at 274.
[12] Id. at 272.
[13] Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., 582 F.3d 309, 315, 332 (2d Cir. 2009).
[14] Id. at 349, 364-66.
[16] Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., 582 F.3d at 325.
[17] Id.
[18] Id.
[19] Id. at 329.
[20] Id. at 331.
[21] Id. at 331-32.
[22] Id. at 333.
[23] Parens patriae refers to a state's standing to sue on behalf of its people.
[24] Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., 582 F.3d 309, 334-35 (2d Cir. 2009).
[25] Id. at 335-36, 38.
[27] Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., 582 F.3d at 340-49.
[29] Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., 582 F.3d at 348.
[30] Id. at 374, 379-80, 385, 387-88.
[31] Restatement (Second) of Torts §821B (1979).
[32] Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., 582 F.3d at 352-53.
[33] Id. at 352.
[34] Id. at 353.
[35] Id. at 354-55 (quoting Georgia v. Tenn. Cooper Co., 206 U.S. 230, 237 (1907)).
[36] Id. at 356-57.
[37] Id. at 357 (quoting Missouri v. Illinois, 200 U.S. 496, 521 (1906)).
[38] Id. at 358.
[39] Id. at 358-59.
[40] Restatement (Second) of Torts §821B (1979).
[41] Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., F.3d 309, 370 (2d Cir. 2009).
[42] Id.
[43] Id. at 374 (citing County of Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y. State, 470 U.S. 226, 236-37 (1985)).
[44] Id. at 375, 385.
[45] Id. at 379, 381. The Clean Air Act does not require that EPA regulate greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources unless it finds that the emissions "cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare", 42 U.S.C. § 7521(a)(1) (2006), and that "the presence of [greenhouse gases] in the ambient air results from numerous or diverse mobile or stationary sources", 42 U.S.C. § 7408(a)(1)(B) (2006). Because EPA has only made a proposed finding that has no effect in law, it does not "speak directly" to plaintiffs' problems. 582 F.3d at 379.
[46] Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., 582 F.3d at 381.
[47] Id. at 386.
[48] Id. at 386-87. The court also found that federal common law nuisance had not been displaced by the President's conduct of foreign affairs, based on similar reasoning to that applied in its political question analysis. Id. at 388.
[49] On November 5, 2009, defendants in AEP filed a petition for rehearing en banc in the Second Circuit requesting that the full Court rehear the cases. The Court denied the petition for rehearing en banc on March 5, 2010.
[50] 585 F.3d 855, reh'g en banc granted, No. 07-60756, 2010 WL 685796 (5th Cir. Feb. 26, 2010).


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International offers are coming from Google, Facebook, Works Application and Schlumberger . Also there are new recruiters shown in the campus this year. The final placement will be on December.
Most of the E Commerce , Start-ups and Venture capitalists are betting on the high talents of the IIT Kharagpur students this year.
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I have written about the Fuji 18-55 in the past. However, on New Years Day i was shooting up in Old Orchard Beach in Maine using this wonderful little lens. It's lightweight, solidly built, and oh so darn sharp!
As proof how sharp this this little puppy is, check out this screenshot of my lightroom image of Old Orchard Beach at 200% — Yes. 200% !! This is the raw file, Sharpened with 100% details, 41 pts of sharpening. Then below it is the full screen! Now, look at that sharpness and clarity!! I can read the Shipyard Beer sign out on the pier and that isn't even dead center; more like top center!
Would the 16-55 2.8 be sharper? Meh. Maybe. But this is pretty darn freakin' sharp for me, and the weight/size savings alone are, to me, worth the tiny loss of sharpness. I'd rather be more light and mobile. Your mileage may vary.


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Shane Del Rosario headed into his Strikeforce Challengers 9 encounter with Lolohae Mahe knowing that a win would secure him a promotion to the bigger stage next time out.
He wasted no time in ensuring that was going to be the case, showing his superior speed and striking early on with a fluid selection of punches, kicks and knees with Mahe offering little in return.
During an exchange in the center of the cage Del Rosario connects with a left hand to the chin of Mahe that appears to hurt him, forcing him to retreat backwards.
Del Rosario pursues and presses him up against the cage and starts landing knees to the body. Mahe is still somewhat dazed, and pays the price for hanging his head a little too low as Del Rosario crashes a knee into it. He follows up with more knees to the body but the damage has already been done and the Hawaiian sinks down to the canvas, forcing the referee to call a halt to the fight.
In just 2.48mins of the first round Del Rosario claimed the tenth win of his undefeated MMA career and proved beyond any doubt that he's ready for a step up in competition.
After the fight commentator Andrei Arlovski's name cropped up as a potential next opponent for him.
"He's a great fighter. I've always been a fan of him," Del Rosario stated. "That would be the ultimate test for me. I'm down for it."
I'm not so sure Arlovski will relish a fight with Strikeforce's rising heavyweight star though given that he's currently on a three fight losing streak.


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Brimming with artifacts, maps, drawings, and interactive exhibits about the history of the Middlesex Canal and the Billerica and Bedford railroad, The Middlesex Canal Museum and Visitor Center in North Billerica may soon have a new home. But first that new home needs to be gutted and given a new roof.
The Middlesex Canal Association (MCA) is looking to move their museum and visitor center out of the Faulkner Mills, where they pay monthly rent, and into an unused 40-foot by 60-foot building across the street which is owned by the association and will give them 50 percent more space than they have now.
The building was used during the late 1800s and 1900s by the Talbot Mill as a finished cloth warehouse and it�s located alongside the Billerica Falls at the dam in Summit Mill Pond, right next to the spot where the first shovel full of dirt was dug in 1794 to start building the canal.
It is believed the warehouse roof, which brandishes a giant gaping hole, may have been damaged when a flywheel shattered inside the Talbot Mill in 1944, spraying debris in all directions. Initial repair costs are estimated at about $100,000 and would include hiring an architect to develop a plan, constructing a bridge to access the building, and rebuilding the roof. With community support, the MCA hopes to be able to start work this summer. Future plans also include the creation of a Middlesex Canal Heritage Park on a section of land across the street from the warehouse.
"The Middlesex Canal had such a great influence on the country," said Middlesex Canal Association President Jeremiah Breen, a retired engineer who joined the association about six years ago. "In those days water transportation was very efficient versus horse and wagon."
Breen explained that with the development of the 27-mile long canal, which took�10 years to build and ran between Boston Harbor and Lowell connecting the Charles River and Merrimack River, 9-foot-wide boats were able to haul up to 20 tons of cargo between the manufacturing mills and the city. It took about eight hours for the boats to travel from Lowell to Boston and about 12 hours from Boston to Lowell, whereas the same size load taken by land would have taken thousands of teams several days. As a result of this efficiency, money was saved; allowing goods to be sold to consumers at more affordable prices and a profitable market began to flourish. The canal served as a commercial network for Lowell, Chelmsford, Billerica, Wilmington, Woburn, Winchester, Medford, Somerville, and Charlestown and was largely responsible for the development of many major cities and towns during the Industrial Revolution.
The dam at Summit Mill Pond was the high point of the canal, supplying water to operate the locks of the canal, of which there were 20 total. The locks controlled the water levels to allow boats to pass through the canal at different elevation points.
In 1967 the canal was designated a national historic engineering landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers and it remained operational until 1853 when the development of the railroad slowly took over transportation.
In Billerica, there are nine acres of land owned by the Middlesex Canal Association, much of it accessible to the public. In several areas throughout town, people can walk the towpaths - the path running alongside the canal that allowed workers and horses to tow boats by pulling them with ropes. Many of these areas are marked with signage and are rich with historical significance. For instance, even though it is now on dry land, the large stone structures of the Shawsheen Aqueduct, built in 1801, can be viewed from just off Rte. 129 near the Wilmington line, and the towpath that Henry David Thoreau and his brother traveled with a rowboat in 1839 can be walked by nature enthusiasts who enjoy a scenic hike on a woodsy path.
"I do think history is interesting. It�s vitally important to know your roots. Billerica has a lot of history. It�s really nice to know the early roots of America started here," said Marlies Henderson, a member of the Middlesex Canal Association who is originally from the Netherlands and has lived in Billerica with her family for 17 years. "There are a lot of trails."
A few weeks ago, Henderson, her husband, and Breen all worked together to clear brush away from the warehouse that will be the future home of the museum and Henderson is currently in the process of hand delivering letters and making phone calls to local businesses seeking donations to help pay for the renovation of the building. There are no state or federal museum construction grants available but there are some town grants they can apply for in the fall and the fundraising committee is also working on other ideas such as a banner on the new building, informational postcards to hand out, and possibly a kids� history contest to help raise awareness.
Once the renovations are completed Breen hopes to have two large watercolor murals painted on the sides of the new building, one of which depicts a boat being pulled by a horse and man who are walking along the floating towpath that stretched across the canal in that very location.
Breen quoted a report by the US Secretary of the Treasury to Congress in 1808 that said, "The Middlesex canal, uniting the waters of [the Merrimack River] with the harbor of Boston, is however the greatest work of the kind that has been completed in the United States."
Breen added, "The greatest work had its groundbreaking in Billerica and was not surpassed until the Erie Canal, the commissioners for which examined the Middlesex as the prototype for the Erie."
The Middlesex Canal Museum, which has existed for 13 years and is completely volunteer-run, is located at 71 Faulkner Street and is opened Saturday and Sunday noon to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free. Group tours are given by appointment and meeting rooms are available to rent. The Middlesex Canal Association hosts guided walking and bike tours of the canal and other events throughout the year. Visit www.middlesexcanal.org or call 978-670-2740 for more information or to make a donation to help pay for renovations of the new location.
Donation checks made out to The Middlesex Canal Association/New Museum may be mailed to: Howard B. Winkler, Treasurer MCA, 1010 Waltham St., Apt. 205, Lexington, MA 02421.
Restoration of Canal Museum seeks to preserve a part of history
Brimming with artifacts, maps, drawings, and interactive exhibits about the history of the Middlesex Canal and the Billerica and Bedford railroad, The Middlesex Canal Museum and Visitor Center in North Billerica may soon have a new home. But first that new home needs to be gutted and given a new roof.


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Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office John Williams speaking at the official opening of the 2004 Congaline festival at Dover Playing Field said "There have been a number of queries and rumours with respect to the festival – where it is going and what is likely to happen. As I said to you, it will continue to change and we will continue to develop it.
"But I can assure you one thing, and that is, the festival will live on. What name it will be given in the future, I really couldn't say, but with certainty there will be a festival and the Congaline Festival will develop and grow,"
Friday night was 'Reggae Night' during Congaline 2004 and there was an impressive lineup of entertainers.
The young band 'Tribal Roots' opened the proceedings to a small but appreciative audience.
A lissome dancer set the stage for the entrance of…
Dwayne Morgan, the popular Canadian rhythm poet,
who made his well-received presentations to a reggae beat.
Third Stone, Barbados' hottest new reggae band, then took the stage to provide backing for several artistes.
Third Stone's resident singer, Melody Man, was next on stage, his incredible voice complemented by vibrant energy and flying locks.
Listen to the live recording of the band's presentation of their original composition 'Living in Corruption'
Brimstone gave a strong performance and his great smile is an uplifting asset to his performance.
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Shakey Ranks followed, treating the audience to all their favourite tracks.
Last but not least, Biggie Irie was a big crowd pleaser, performing his hits from over the years.
All of the artistes that were backed by Third Stone also had the benefit of the excellent backing vocals of one of Barbados' leading singers, Tamara Marshall.
Next to take the stage was Luciano's band, featuring
Dean Frazer on sax
and on clarinet.
Mikey General was next, performing to a crowd that was able to sing along with their favourites
And then came the star of the show Luciano,
a powerhouse performer who definitely gave the capacity crowd good value for money.
His set was long, he performed all of his hits and the crowd received him ecstatically.
year marks the tenth anniversary of the inaugural Congaline Street Festival.
Back in 1994, it was a week-long "mini-Carnival" with a jump
up along the South Coast of the island featuring T-shirt bands, free concerts
on Dover Playing Field each night, calypso releases and a beauty show
among its attractions. That was then. Ten years later, the "Congaline
Street Festival" has evolved into the "Congaline Music Festival",
a three-day series of concerts on Dover Playing Field whose profile has
become so low that this year rumours were circulating about its demise.
While the music festival idea is not a bad one, the increasingly low profile
has made me wonder whether Congaline has much longer to live. <
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