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Finland is a candidate for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council during 2013–2014. It is likely that the election will take place in New York City on 18 October 2012. The Council is a main body of the UN and is responsible for maintaining international peace and security. It has five permanent members (the UK, China, France, Russia and the United States) and ten non-permanent members.
Finland's advantages are its long-term commitment to the operations of the UN, independent foreign policy and an operating capacity which relies on competent administration of foreign affairs. Finland has a steady profile in the UN: During its membership of more than 50 years, Finland's impact on the UN has been more significant than Finland's size as a country. Finland has a profile as an active, diverse and reliable operator.
Comprehensive and long-term operations are a particular asset of Finland. Finland is a reliable supporter of UN peace keeping. Finland has know-how in military and civilian crisis control. Finland is famous for its committed action on human rights and development questions, different sectors of gun control, as well as work which intends to strengthen international law. Finland's focus areas for international peace and security are peace mediation and improving the position of women.
The candidacy, Finland's third attempt at joining the council, represents the nation's desire to take on more responsibility as a member of the international community. Finland's candidacy to the Security Council is a national project to which the leaders of the entire nation are committed. The Government already decided on the candidacy in 2002.


text: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:26:43PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > definitely not in general. a vendor could certainly provide IPMI > extensions that manipulate bios settings. but the market doesn't seem to > find this kind of HPC-mostly concern worthwhile :( Well, it's not just for HPC anymore, all the warehouse computing guys (cloud) want this, too. I believe someone explained to me a long time ago that there is a standard way to read and write (but not interpret) the BIOS flash saved state, but the state is now too large to fit into the standard-sized area. > I wonder though, whether it would kill vendors just to publish the source > for their bios. Yes, it would. Not only is the source owned by AMI & Phoenix, and not mobo vendors, but it includes licensed stuff, and also secret workarounds to hardware bugs in lots of devices. Even IBM's BIOS (still used in a few high-end IBM x86 servers) is probably polluted that way. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf

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BALTIMORE – The UMBC women's tennis match versus Temple, scheduled for Friday, April 4, has been postponed due to weather conditions. Both teams will face the Xavier Musketeers on Saturday at 11:00 a.m at the UMBC Tennis Complex.
The Retrievers will have to shake some of the rust off after last weekend's cancellations. The women's last match was on Thursday, March 20 at Sacramento State. On the men's side, the Retrievers last played on Sunday, March 23 against No. 54 George Washington.
For the women, senior Josefin Stange-Jonsson (Vasteras, Sweden) leads the squad with a 9-4 singles mark. On the men's side, junior Daniel Gray (Bowie, Md./The Bullis School) and sophomore Melker Svard (Gothenburg, Sweden) share the team lead with singles marks of 9-5.
The Xavier women's team saw their four match win streak come to an end against Big East conference opponent Marquette this weekend. After splitting the singles points 3-3, the Musketeers lost twice in doubles, sealing their defeat. The loss put Xavier at 13-4 for the season. Before they play the Retrievers, the Musketeers have a scheduled match at George Washington on Friday.
Xavier's men's team (10-9) had the same result, a 4-3 loss to Marquette this weekend. After picking up the doubles point, the Musketeers only won matches at the three and six positions. The team blanked Wright State, 7-0, on Wednesday to complete its home slate at 4-0. Xavier is scheduled to play at Georgetown on Friday, April 4 as they make their way to Baltimore.
UMBC's men's team will travel to William & Mary on Sunday, April 6 for their next match. Both teams will host Georgetown on Wednesday, April 9.


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Hello everyone1. I saw a orthodox akathist for the Mother of God, in Spanish, where was written: ,,¡Salve, Esposa Virgen!" I thought that ,,Esposa" means ,,wife" not ,,Bride". It is correct to use the word ,,Esposa "? It means something else than ,,wife"2. ,, ¡Salve " is the imperative for the verb ,,salvar", ,,salvation" in english?It is correct to say Salve instead of Alégrate3 Can someone recommend me good-translated (online) prayers in spanish. I need (most important) the Morning Prayers, the Prayers Before Sleep, the 3rd and the 6rd hours, Typica.Thank you.
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The fifth set of maps for redistricting Craven County�s Board of Commissioners is on the table
The fifth set of maps for redistricting Craven County�s Board of Commissioners is on the table with voter demographics that would probably get Justice Department approval.
Commissioners passed a resolution in favor of the new lines 5-2 down party lines earlier this month, but a public hearing has yet to be set.
That�s because Republican members of the board are suggesting minor tweaks to keep at least one neighborhood more intact. Accomplishing that will require another resolution before asking for public input on the first new lines to be drawn for the county since those based on the 1990 Census.
Republican Chairman Lee K. Allen and Democrat Commissioner Johnnie Sampson are the only two current members on the board who went through the last attempt to redraw lines in 2001. That attempt failed because the board could not agree on new lines that would have passed Justice Department standards under the Voting Rights Act.
As a result, the board decided to change the way commissioners were elected from countywide for all districts except minority District 3 and District 5, to election by district only.
The decision was never challenged despite a population increase of 12 percent from 81,613 to 91,463, which compromised the �one-man, one vote� requirement for voting districts.
Craven County posted a 13 percent population gain to 103,000 in the 2010 Census, creating even more population disparity in several districts, and county leaders are now trying to rectify that.
New electronic tools make redrawing the lines while preserving the integrity of neighborhoods and protecting the required minority districts considerably easier. So far, five maps have been created in the process.
Democratic commissioners Johnnie Sampson representing District 3 and Theron McCabe representing District 5 preferred the districts makeup in the fourth map, although map five is not significantly different and does not dilute their districts� minority population.
Map 5 does, however, leave a neighborhood divided down the middle of the street in Trent Woods that was not divided in an earlier version accepted by Commissioner Scott Dacey.
He is requesting that oversight be rectified in a map version 5A and that will require another resolution to be approved by the board before a public hearing date is set.
Attempts are being made to consider changes Sampson and McCabe wish to include so the board can present a unanimous plan to county residents for their consideration.
There is no firm timetable on completing the process.


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A new Facebook plug-in to be released this weekend will allow users to monitor and delete cookies created by the Facebook Beacon advertising system. The cookies are used by Facebook to inform a user's friends about his or her purchases.
The free MyDataIsMyData plug-in developed by social network Flugpo will provide multiple options for monitoring and deleting cookies, offline content and visits to Beacon's partner companies, Flugpo said.
The toolbar now works with Internet Explorer, but Flugpo said that it plans to add support for the Firefox and Safari browsers as well.
Flugpo said that users can decide what cookies to delete. Users can choose to delete Facebook cookies, specific Facebook partner company cookies or all cookies. The toolbar also provides an updated list of Beacon retailers and sites to help users choose which sites they want to block.
"Selling private information for profit unbeknownst to the users is an abuse of trust," Flugpo noted in a blog post. "[Flugpo aims] to empower users by allowing them to control the amount of personal information that they make visible."
Flugpo said it created the plug-in as a direct response to the uproar from users and privacy advocates that followed Facebook's unveiling of Beacon late last year. The groundswell of criticism began when a security researcher said that the ad system tracks user activities on third-party partner sites -- including the activities of people who never signed up with Facebook, who deactivated their accounts or who were not signed on to the site.
Beacon captures data on what users do and buy on the external sites and sends it back to Facebook. Facebook in December announced a feature that allows users to completely turn off Beacon.
Kristen Nicole, a blogger at Mashable, noted that while the initial backlash over Beacon has died down, "there are still a good number of folks out there that would rather not see their faces on other people's feeds as part of an advertisement."
While the social network does offer privacy options for Beacon, "Facebook Beacon's mainstream press presence in itself may help [the plug-in] gain a good amount of users based on principle alone," she added
"Given Facebook's restrictions to curb newsfeed abuse, and the limited growth of Beacon, there will surely be more tweaking on Facebook's end in order to ensure that end users are more or less happy, whether this is through voluntary manipulation or oblivious bliss, with the Beacon's implementation," she said.
But TechCrunch blogger Jason Kincaid said that while the plug-in offers some value in terms of a sense of security, it is fairly easy to monitor cookies with other Firefox extensions.
"Furthermore, by installing the free toolbar, the users will be placing their trust in MyDataIsMyData - the same type of users who presumably would be put off by installing any sort of monitoring software on their computers."


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Having spent way more of Naperville Norths game at West Aurora Thursday night on the bench in foul trouble than she wanted, senior guard Zoe Swift made the most of her minutes when she finally got back in.
After the Blackhawks had erased Naperville Norths 13-point first half lead to go ahead for the first time midway through the fourth quarter, Swift re-entered.
Over the final 4:48 Swift scored all 6 of her points and assisted on two other baskets, helping her team turn a 42-39 deficit into a 52-48 victory.
Zoe is a gamer, Naperville North coach Jacquie Discipio said. We were really struggling without her. Shes a state champion (in soccer), she knows how to win, so it is nice to have that composure down the home stretch.
Naperville North (10-12, 3-7 in the DuPage Valley Conference) reversed a 73-68 loss to West Aurora (9-14, 4-8) as the Blackhawks continue to miss junior Liz Skaggs sidelined for the year with a broken hand. Skaggs, who had 19 points and 11 rebounds in the first meeting with the Huskies, suffered the injury seven games ago, and West Aurora is 1-6 without her.
Swifts foul trouble started early and lasted all night. She was on the court igniting an up-tempo attack that saw the Huskies put 20 points on the scoreboard in the first quarter to grab a 20-11 lead.
But Swift was whistled for her third foul early in the second quarter and missed the final 7:10 of the first half. Naperville North scored just 5 points in the quarter as the Blackhawks trimmed the Huskies 24-11 lead to 25-21 at halftime.
Swift was called for a reach-in and her fourth foul with 4:11 left in the third quarter forcing her to sit out nearly another full quarter before she returned to spearhead Naperville Norths comeback.
I was really upset about all the fouls especially the ones I didnt think were fouls, Swift said. After I had the four fouls I had to be smart on defense and couldnt play as intense as I would like to. My team won so I dont really care about not scoring that many points.
West Aurora took its first lead of the game 38-36 with 4:41 left on a second-chance basket from sophomore call-up Joslyn Noel.
Swift pocketed a steal and fed Kayla Sharples for a layup, but a baseline drive by Taylor Jacobsen left the Blackhawks ahead 42-39 with three minutes remaining.
Swift sank a leaner and drew a foul. She completed the three-point play to tie the game at 42.
Swift assisted Sharples for a 3-point basket from the top of the key on the Huskies next possession putting them ahead to stay 45-42.
After a jumper from Jenny Smith, Swift again found an open teammate, this time Cece Pope underneath to put the Huskies up 49-46 with a minute left.
Abriya Zeitz brought the Blackhawks back within 49-48. Swift hit a free throw, and then the Blackhawks turned the ball over with 14 seconds to go and a chance to tie down 50-48. Swift swished two more free throws with 10 seconds left to make it a two-posession game.
Discipio praised her entire team for its improvement from its earlier loss to the Blackhawks including the freshman Popes breakout game.
In the beginning (of the season) I started out a little shaky because I was nervous playing varsity as a freshman, Pope said. But then I got better and today was just an outstanding game for me, I cant deny that.
Pope led all scorers with 16 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. Sharples scored 15 and Jenny Smith came off the bench with 8.
Ive been preaching to the girls that each player has to get better, Discipio said. That was evident tonight. Cece had her breakout game tonight. I think thats a testament to our practices. Everyone got better from the second time around. We were a stronger unit than we were when we saw them a couple weeks ago.
West Aurora coach Connie Siljendahl praised her teams comeback from the first-half hole and their effort but is still looking for a better execution late.
They (Naperville North) are just very fast, Siljendahl said. We were pushing the ball also and got caught up in that a little and threw it away and lost it sometimes.
Too many fouls the last quarter. We werent moving our feet and getting in position, and we didnt get the ball in Zeitzs hands enough.
Zeitz finished with a double-double (14 points, 13 rebounds) while sophomore point guard Alexis Wiggins also scored 14 points and had 5 assists and 2 steals.
She (Wiggins) played her heart out today, Siljendahl said.
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Williams High School grabbed a six-goal halftime lead and held off visiting Western Alamance as the Bulldogs claimed a 10-6 Conference 6 boys� lacrosse victory Tuesday night at Burlington Memorial Stadium.
Kevin Haverstrom paced the Bulldog, scoring with three goals. Robert Bates, David Siegel and Jack Ellington added two goals apiece. David Gollnick scored a single goal for Williams (6-7 overall, 6-5 Conference 6).
Max Coleman had two goals while Alex Hazelwood, Gabe Miller, Adam Ray and Nick Lowe added a goal apiece for the Warriors (10-4, 8-4).
Western Alamance took 31 shots to 23 by Williams.
Donald Kernodle registered nine saves for the Bulldogs and William Bejos had five saves for Western Alamance.
-- NORTHERN GUILFORD 13, EASTERN ALAMANCE 4: At Mebane, visiting Northern Guilford scored seven fourth-quarter goals to break away from Eastern Alamance in the Conference 6 game.
Ian Brady scored two goals and Jonah Turcotte and Dillon Albright added a goal apiece for the Eagles (12-3, 9-2).
At Mt. Hermon, Alex Durham and Dylan Isley combined for eight strikeouts, and Southern Alamance shut out visiting Greensboro Grimsley 9-0 in a Metro Conference game. Durham recorded five, and Isley had the other three.
Austin Hunnicutt tallied two hits for the Patriots (19-3, 10-1). Chase Massey was 1-for-1 and had three walks.
Greensboro Grimsley fell to 4-7 in the conference.
-- EASTERN ALAMANCE 2, EASTERN GUILFORD 0: At Mebane, Ridge Eaton went 2-for-2 with a sacrifice fly and one RBI and Zack Littell pitched a complete game with 14 strikeouts to lead the Eagles past Eastern Guilford in a Mid-State 3-A Conference game.
CJ Watson had a hit and McCray Williams slapped a double for Eastern Alamance (11-8, 9-4).
-- WESTERN ALAMANCE 8, EDEN MOREHEAD 0: At Elon, the Warriors clinched a share of the Mid-State 3-A Conference regular season with a victory against Eden Morehead.
Michael Olenoski scattered four hits and struck out 11 in six innings pitched and added a home run for the Warriors (18-4, 10-3).
Brock Deatherage went 3-for-3 with a solo home run, two RBI and three runs scored for Western Alamance.
-- MCMICHAEL 8, WILLIAMS 5: McMichael rallied with four runs in the seventh inning to defeat Williams High School in a Mid-State 3-A Conference game.
Scott Ellington hit a three run home run for the Bulldogs in the third inning to tie the game at 3-3.
Brandon Riley added two hits and an RBI for Williams (12-10, 6-7).
-- GRAHAM 10-11, CUMMINGS 0-1: At Graham, the Red Devils swept a doubleheader in Mid-State 2-A Conference action behind pitching that allowed a combined five hits in 11 innings.
Griffin Staley picked up the victory in the first game, which ended after the fifth inning. Staley improved to 3-1 this season with a two-hit shutout. He also went a combined 3-for-5 with three RBI at the plate.
Jacob Briggs and Maurisio Mendoza combined on a three-hitter in six innings in the second game.
Mendoza doubled in each game, going 4-for-7 across the doubleheader. Other combined efforts included Josh Beam�s 4-for-6, four RBI performance. Beam roped a triple in the second game. Taylor Perry went a combined 4-for-4 with a pair of doubles in the second game.
-- TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM / CHAPEL HILL 15, BURLINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 0: Brendon Camons and Noah Zaiser had the only hits for the Royals as BCA fell in the Triad Athletic Conference game.
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Alanie Welch scored in the 16th minute off an Amanda Barrett assist for the lone goal in the game and Burlington Christian Academy defeated The Elon School 1-0 in the Triad Athletic Conference game.
BCA (10-3-3, 5-2-2) outshot The Elon School 17-4.
-- ALAMANCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 6, UNION GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 0: At Graham, Morgan Cook scored three goals and ACS claimed the non-conference victory.
Savannah Congdon, Erica Smith and Mary Madison Butler added goals for the Warriors (4-4-1).
Breanna Garrow had nine saves for Union Grove (0-9).
On Senior Night, seniors Allyson Lee, Colleen Bailey, Rachel Crowder, and Cassidy Jordan all had at least one hit, and the Bulldogs earned a Mid-State 3-A victory, defeating visiting McMichael 6-0. Lee rapped two hits and drove in two RBI, and Bailey added two hits, as well, for Williams (8-5, 8-5).
Sarah Davis recorded nine strikeouts.
-- EASTERN ALAMANCE 9, EASTERN GUILFORD 1: At Mebane, Gracyn Allen-Ingle recorded 10 strikeouts and limited Eastern Guilford to only two hits in a Mid-State 3-A game, leading the Eagles to a victory. Alex Huffman had three hits, and Sierra Long added two more for the Eagles (16-4, 10-3). Mandi Ballard drove in three RBI.
-- GRAHAM 16-19, CUMMINGS 0-2: At Graham, the Red Devils opened both games with 11 run first innings and cruised to victory in the Mid-State 2-A Conference doubleheader.
Macy Winston, Macy Williams, Destiny Snipes and Sydney McCann combined for 10 hits and 12 RBI to lead Graham in Game 1.
In the second game, Aliyah Daye, Snipes and McCann had two RBI apiece for the Red Devils. Snipes had a home run for the games only extra base hit.
-- SOUTHERN ALAMANCE 16, GREENSBORO GRIMSLEY 0, 3 innings: At Mt. Hermon, Kelsey Durham struck out eight of the nine batters she faced, and allowed no hits as Southern Alamance drubbed Greensboro Grimsley in a Metro Conference game.
Tessa Faucette, Haley Rumley, and Emma Patterson tallied two hits and scored two runs apiece. Rumley and Patterson had two RBI. Kayla Allison smacked a three-run home run, while Katelyn Gallagher added one hit and two RBI.
-- RIVER MILL 14, VOYAGER ACADEMY 2, 5 innings: Hannah Nolan hit a two-run home run and River Mill blasted Voyager Academy in a Carolina 12 Conference game.
Paige Kirby (3-3) was the winning pitcher and helped at the plate with a double, triple and an RBI while Chelsea Rudd doubled and drove in two for the Jaguars (6-8, 2-8).


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Granting tax breaks to married couples "is a manifesto committment" that must be honoured, says one Conservative MP.
David Burrowes, the member for Enfield-Southgate, expects the tax breaks to be implemented soon, saying "the clock is ticking."
Mr Burrowes also questions why the Government is delaying a move which would support the "important social institution" of marriage, at the same time as pushing through legislation to legalise same-sex unions, something that he says would undermine traditional marriage.


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"Chronic (>8 weeks) cough is one of the most common symptoms for which a person seeks medical attention. Unfortunately, many patients fail to receive an accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. That's because people with chronic cough often have a non-pulmonary cough, that is, a problem in the lungs is not the cause of the cough. Regrettably, few physicians know much about silent reflux and neurogenic cough, the most common causes of non-pulmonary chronic cough. Those diagnoses are the focus of my work."
I am not a pulmonologist (lung doctor) but I do know about non-pulmonary chronic cough; many of my patients have it. (Non-pulmonary means that a problem in the lungs is NOT the underlying cause of the cough.) The table below shows what I find to be the most common diagnoses.
1. Airway reflux, aka laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR), extraesophageal reflux
2. Neurogenic cough (e.g., post-viral vagal neuropathy)
3. Asthma / Allergy / Sinusitis / Post-nasal drip
4. Aspiration due to glottal insufficiency (paralysis)
5. Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors
6. Zenker's or distal esophageal diverticulum
7. Esophageal achalasia
8. Tracheoesophageal fistula
9. Occult bronchial foreign body
10. Trachebronchial (e.g., carcinoid) tumor
Reflux-related and neurogenic cough are the most common causes of non-pulmonary chronic cough. CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE QUIZ . If the R:N ratio is 10:0, 9:1, or 8:2, you have reflux-related cough. If your R:N ratio is 0:10. 1:9, or 2:8, you have a neurogenic cough. Other scores, 7:3, 6:4, 5:5, 4:6, or 3:7 indicate that you have both reflux-related and neurogenic cough. See THE CHRONIC COUGH ENIGMA.


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Happy New Year Cowboys Fans!
It's been a heck of a ride this year at Lone Star Struck, and though we're sad to see 2009 go, we are absolutely pumped for a new year in 2010.
On behalf of everybody at LSS, I want to thank all of our amazing readers for their tremendous support this past year.
I am so honored and privileged to be part of a Cowboys fan site that have some of the most passionate, knowledgeable and articulate fans in the Dallas Cowboys Blogosphere. You have helped transform a simple fan site into a thriving Cowboys community that continues to grow each day.


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Monday October 15, 2012
Veteran broadcaster Rolf Harris has spoken of his amazement at watching horses being operated on in his new programme Rolf's Animal Clinic.
The star presented the hit series Animal Hospital for ten years until 2004, and is excited about his new Channel 5 venture at the University of Liverpool's Veterinary school, where the presenter watches domestic and exotic animals being treated.
Rolf said: "The thing that fascinated me was to see all the big operations on horses. In Animal Hospital it was mainly domestic pets, so to see these big animals and the problems that occur when you have a huge animal like a horse."
"It's incredible to see what they have to do anaesthetise the horse, turn it over on its back with its four legs in the air and support those legs. They've got the horse on the operating table and then after the operation get the horse back on its feet."
"And that's some task as well, because when a horse comes round from being unconscious and it doesn't know what the hell is happening to it it will lash out with every portion of its being to protect itself- so you've got to be sure you're out of the way of the feet!"
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LIB encourages employees to continue their education
Lions Industries for the Blind, Inc. recently endowed a scholarship through the Lenoir Community College Foundation.
�We are excited about the Lions Industries for the Blind scholarship and the opportunities it provides to our students,� LCC Director of Institutional Advancement Jeanne Kennedy said. �The scholarship demonstrates the Lions Industries for the Blind�s commitment to education and to its employees,� she said.
�Our board strongly believes in education, providing training opportunities for the visually impaired and providing dignified employment opportunities,� LIB Board Chairman Rick Landis said. �We have been blessed with good business success and we wish to share it in the form of this scholarship.�
LIB Executive Director Ray Amyette said LIB has always encouraged its employees to continue their education by providing an education reimbursement program. �With the technology available today, visually impaired students are able to participate better than in the past,� he said. �We have success stories of our employees such as my assistant, Teresa Harper. She wanted to take a class and so I took a computer class with her. We then enrolled in a second class and after that she continued, transferred from LCC to ECU where she took her classes online and graduated,� he said.
An eligible scholarship applicant must have a 3.0 grade-point average, be a full-time student, reside in Lenoir County or county east of Interstate 95, must be visually impaired and demonstrate financial need. First consideration will be given to LIB employees.
�Our success has allowed expansion of employment opportunities and facilities offered to the blind and visually impaired,� Amyette said. �We have also been able to provide employment for those with other serious disabilities such as deafness, retardation, diabetes and orthopedic problems. LIB will continue to offer its clients the employment opportunities and experience they need to take their place as a productive member of society.�
Since October 2002, LIB has made its home at 4126 Berkeley Ave. The move to this site increased the space for LIB to carry out its operation to 40,500 square feet. Through the work and cooperation of its Board of Directors, many Lions Club members, and its employees, LIB has achieved a reputation for providing viable jobs to blind and visually impaired residents in Eastern North Carolina.


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The award recognizes afterschool staff, programs and leaders throughout the state of Utah for their "exemplary work in delivering quality youth development programs in afterschool settings," according to a news release from the BEACON program.
"Michele Onderko... comes to BEACON with over 20 years of diverse experience in life, teaching/training, supervision, customer service and volunteer mentoring... It is clear that Michele is passionate about Grand County's students – it shows in the high quality of work she delivers," BEACON Director Stephanie Dahlstrom said. "Her dedication to helping all students is also revealed in all the volunteer work she does with numerous programs and activities outside of BEACON.
"Michele has worked for the BEACON program for four years and has been the academic site coordinator for two of those years. During the last two years, she has more than tripled the number of students attending academic assistance while solidly integrating the program with the school day. She leads by example and consistently strives for program improvement while advocating for students."


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This is going to be long but I'm trying to figure out what the problem is.
I started using a hand pump when DS was about a month old to build a stash. I would pump on one breast in the morning but it would take about 45 min just to get 2 oz. I did this every morning for about a month.
By the time DS was about 2 months old he was super fussy and looked to be in pain. He was arching his back, spitting up a lot, was gassy, crying and had green watery/mucusy poos. A few times when he was BFing he would choke on my milk and when he let go I would spray him. We took him to the doctor and she said that he probably had reflux and to cut out dairy. We had also started giving him Colic Calm for a week. I stopped pumping because I didn't want to give him any "tainted" cow's milk protein BM. I also did block feeding because we thought it might also be oversupply due to the long pumping sessions with the hand pump.
It has been 3 weeks since I stopped eating dairy (and pumping) and DS stopped spitting up as much, his poos were back to a mustard yellow color and normal looking and was happy again.
I went back to work last week and work in the office twice a week and pump 3 times while I am there (about 15 oz total in those 3 sessions each day). I also pumped once at night to make up for an ounce+ that he ate will at my MILs last Thursday.
This past weekend he started spitting up a lot again, his poos are a dark yellowish color and kind of syrupy and drippy, his belly is making a lot of gurgling sounds and he is gassy again. I gave him a dose of Colic Calm last night and it seemed to make him feel a little better.
I am pumping as I type this and so far it's been 22 min and I'm still going strong, about 2.5 oz in the left bottle and close to 3 in the right bottle with no second letdown button feature (Medela Pump In Style) or massage/compressions. I usually wait until the last drop to stop pumping.
I don't know if this is an allergy or an oversupply issue. At first I thought it had to be dairy but now I'm not so sure since I've only had butter or cheese maybe 4 times in the last 3 weeks. Is this oversupply? The symptoms of both are so similar that it's hard to tell what the problem could be. Has a return to pumping caused this problem?
If he's spitting up so much is he going to loose weight or not gain weight? I just want him to be happy and healthy and to continue BFing.
TIA for any advice or suggestions.


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By Mike Barrett
Mercury found in dental amalgam fillings has been an issue within the dental community and beyond for many years. These fillings, used since the American Civil War, contain an estimated 50 percent mercury. Whenever friction meets these fillings, toxic mercury gases are emitted. This means that with each chew and dental drill comes an emission of mercury gases, leading to numerous health problems. While nearly half of dentists have stopped using amalgam fillings due to health dangers, the Food and Drug Administration has yet to act on these issues.
FDA Ignoring Own Scientists Warnings on Amalgam Fillings
In December 2010, the Food and Drug Administration convened its second scientific advisory panel on dental amalgams. Scientists yet again told the FDA that amalgam use in children, pregnant women, and hypersensitive adults must come to a halt. The toxic vapors emitted are harmful to everyone, but these groups of individuals especially suffer.
According to Campaign for Mercury Free Dentistry:
Dr. Kotagal said there is "no place for mercury in children," Dr. Ismail said "children less than 6 years of age, I would restrict it significantly," Dr. Thompson said "definitely not in pregnant women and definitely not in those below 6 years of age," Dr. Fleming said we need contraindications for pregnant women, and Dr. Burbacher said, "why put amalgams in children if we know they're going to live with that for the rest of their lives? And we don't know what that's going to do."
In 2009, no one on the FDA's panel agreed to the FDA's ruling – unrestricted amalgam use in children and in pregnant women. Then, in 2011, FDA Center Director Jeff Shuren – the person in charge of amalgam issues – was put in the hot seat after being confronted by dentists, consumers, and scientists. In response to the concerns voiced by the dentists, consumers, and scientists, Shuren said that the FDA would make 'an announcement by the end of the year'.
Needless to say, no such announcement has been made. Until the FDA listens to its scientists, children will continue to develop neurological system complications, and the toxic vapors will continue to toxify the environment.


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1 record(s) were found:TRIAL #3262
Date: 1920/10/04; Reels(s): 407.
Defendant(s): Isaac E. Ferguson, Sex: M; Charles E. Ruthenberg, Sex: M; James J. Larkin, Sex: M; Benjamin Gitlow, Sex: M;
Charge(s): Anarchy, criminal;
Judge: Bartow S. Weeks;
Defense Attorney(s): Murray C. Bernays; Isacc E. Ferguson; Walter Nelles;
Prosecuting Attorney(s): Alexander I. Rorke; Edward Swann;
Note(s): Indicted with James J. Larkin, Benjamin Gitlow, and others. Case concerns Socialist Party of America. See case 3260 for trial of James J. Larkin. See cases 3258 and 3259 for related trials.
Stenographer Number: 3421; Page(s): 2 v.
Court: New York Supreme Court
The Crime in New York 1850-1950 digitization project was supported in part by funds from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) through the New York State Regional Bibliographic Databases Program.


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Milestones: 1981
- In County of Washington v. Gunther, the Supreme Court holds that the Bennett Amendment, which incorporates the four affirmative defenses of the Equal Pay Act (EPA) into Title VII, does not limit Title VII pay discrimination claims to EPA claims. Title VII wage claims can be broader than EPA claims because Title VII, unlike the EPA, is "intended to strike at the entire spectrum of disparate treatment of men and women resulting from sex stereotypes."
- The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) becomes the fastest growing area of EEOC responsibility. The agency resolves its first ADEA lawsuit. The Leo Burnett Company agrees to pay 17 former employees $375,000 in back pay and $10,000 per year in pension adjustments because it forced employees to retire at age 62.
- EEOC has a reduction in force of approximately 280 positions. Just a few months earlier, many employees transferred from the Civil Service Commission and the Department of Labor to EEOC pursuant to the President's Reorganization Plan No. 1.
- Through the use of Rapid Charge Processing techniques, the charge inventory is at approximately 20,000 at the end of the year-down from 100,000 three years earlier.
- President Ronald Reagan appoints J. Clay Smith, Jr. Acting Chairman. The Commission votes to delegate its authority to Acting Chairman Smith so that agency business can be conducted. This is the first time in the agency's history that the Commission delegates its authority to the Chairman because the Commission, due to resignations, lacks a quorum. Smith later becomes Dean of Howard University Law School.


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Various liturgical objects are used in the course of the divine services.
List of liturgical objects
- Aer
- Altar
- Antimension
- Asterisk
- Blessing cross (also called a hand cross)
- Candles
- Cathedra (Bishop's throne)
- Censer
- Chalice
- Crozier
- Curtain behind the royal doors
- Deacon's doors (also called angelic doors)
- Dikirion and Trikirion
- Diskos (or paten)
- Eileton
- Endyton
- Exapteriga, meaning six-winged (also called fans, ripidia)
- Iconostasis
- Icons
- Orlets
- Prosphora
- Prothesis
- Royal doors
- Spear (or lance)
- Spoon
- Tabernacle
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See also
External Links
- Welcome to the Orthodox Church: A Guided Tour by Deacon Daniel Swires
- Royal Doors and Sanctuary and The Holy Altar from the website of the Blessed Virgin of Vladimir Parish (ROCA), in Brisbane, Australia


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Share Your Orders Thread
Did an order with Den's Tea using my $3 coupon that come with my Green tea sampler.
Yuzu Kukicha – this one is seasonal and near the end of the season, snag it while you can!
Houji Genmaicha
Yuzu Kukicha –will look this up next year then!
my first verdant order :)
lots of samples and lots of opportunity to learn.
Mt. Banzhang Farmer's Cooperative '03 Sheng 7 g.
Tea Trail 2004: Willow Grove Workshop 7 g.
Autumn Harvest Laoshan Green 7 g.
Chocolate Chamomile Curiosity Brew 7 g.
Mi Lan Xiang Phoenix Mountain Dancong 7 g.
Xingyang 2007 Shu Pu'er 7 g.
Master Han's Wild Picked Yunnan Black 7 g.
Earl of Anxi 7 g.
Aged Yunnan Silver Needle White Cake 7 g.
Anxi Fo Shou Black Tea 5 g.
Fuhai 2007 Sheng Pu'er 7 g.
Laoshan Black 1 oz.
Ooh this looks very good! I love the Phoenix Dancong oolong, devoted my Yixing to it, the Earl of Anxi is delicious, and Laoshan Green is too! I have many of the black teas as samples that I have yet to try or are on there way in my order, which should be here tomorrow I hope!! You will love Verdant :)
Death Star teaball for a friend who has mastered the art of how to properly fill and use one of those difficult but all to common pieces of teaware.
Coooooool! I love the teeny tie fighter with it!
I know, I'm almost tempted to get one for myself. already got her a yellow submarine tea ball :P
I want the Tea rex too http://www.amazon.com/DCI-Tea-Rex-Infuser/dp/B004XWGSIE
Love those tea gadgets, but I'd probably only use it for fun or photos.
Well, I decided to give in and ordered a 2007 Yong De cake from Mandala before they run out, and added an ounce of their Wild Monk maocha to go with it.
Well, due to running far too low on Jasmine and Mint teas, I caved and made my first order at Della Terra primarily for a sample of the Jazzmint!
used the custom try me pack option, with the following 5: Jasmint,Shaolin Jasmine,Tiger Sencha,Papa Bears Hibernation Blend,and Captivating Crimson Orange
added to this: Oolong crème de la crème, and Organic Makaibari Darjelling
and with that, I have headed my way all I need to see what to keep on hand from that company…now back to lurking at Persimmon Tree!
52 teas Brandied Apricot Upside Down Cake Honeybush
Had to try Cuppa Crew especially with a coupon, Irish Breakfast, and Tim Finnegans
And thank you for doing so!
Finally picked out my teas from Butiki from black friday:
Organic Guranse
Premium Taiwanese Assam
Royal Golden Safari
2003 Reserve Four Season Oolong
Gui Fei Oolong
Wild Purple Buds Puerh
Organic Sparrow Tongue
Kamba Berry
Mi Xian Black
Creamy Eggnog
Glenburn Darjeeling Moonlight
AND…finally picked up my first gaiwan from Stacy cause she rocks!
surrendered to my first love, and ordered huang xi dancong
oolong from verdant teas,
also a flowering jasmin teapellet
Again, I'm breaking in the new and first gaiwan from miller at Montea
Did an small order with SteepCityTeas, with the 15% promo code they posted here on Steepster
1x Coconut Grove – 2 oz (25-30 servings) for $7.75 each
1x Yaya Strawberry – 2 oz (25-30 servings) for $4.75 each
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Subtotal : $10.62 USD
Shipping : $3.95 USD
Total : $14.57 USD
Della Terra Yummmm!!!! I just ordered some of their new teas with the 30% off code NEWTEA30:
Love in a Cup 2oz
Hearts and Roses 2oz
Professor Grey 2oz
With shipping and the discount:
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He Made Muppets Sing
By: Legacy Staff
5 years ago
Jeff Moss, born on this date in 1942, was the first head writer for "Sesame Street," helping to bring to life characters like Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch, and winning hearts (and 15 Emmys) with classics like "I Love Trash," "The People in Your Neighborhood" and "Rubber Duckie." His music is memorable and so was he, as guest blogger Steve Reed makes clear in this touching tribute to his friend and fellow Princeton alum who died nearly 15 years ago.
I have many quiet impressions of Jeff Moss and am aware of the ways in which he and his music have influenced my life. But I have two small but vivid memories of him.
I first met Jeff when I was an undergraduate at Princeton. Jeff was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Princeton Triangle Club, and at the annual Triangle reunion Jeff would always wind up at the piano playing some of his favorite songs – Triangle and otherwise. I remember sitting cross-legged on the ground with a group of friends, completely captivated by Jeff's talent and subtle showmanship. It was the performance of a songwriter, not of a cabaret performer, and his rendition of "I Love Trash" was as joyful and gross as his "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" was personal and moving. "Rubber Duckie" was nostalgic for me then, and I still hear Jeff's voice when my kids and I watch Ernie sing it on Sesame Street.
After graduating I had the privilege of attending several meetings of the Princeton Triangle Club board of trustees with Jeff. He was not shy; indeed he was an occasionally grumpy protector of the club's artistic integrity. At one meeting I sat next to Jeff, and after I (and perhaps he as well) had imbibed a few, our joking and running commentary on the meeting were cause for rebuke by the Chairman. I was embarrassed, but Jeff was not – he just gave a short laugh, and continued on the same course.
Shortly before he died in 1998, Jeff wrote The Song Goes On, which was a centerpiece of the Triangle Club's revue in celebration of Princeton's 250th anniversary and has become a staple in the club's canon. Although I never heard Jeff perform "The Song Goes On," I hear him every time I hear undergraduate voices singing the song. And every time I sing "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" to my children.
Princeton Triangle Club alum Steve Reed is a Clinical Professor of Law at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois, where his wife is employed by Legacy.com.


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Two changes supposedly coming to the next version of Windows, according to veteran Paul Thurrott:
Metro apps running in windows on the desktop. As you can today with third-party utilities such as ModernMix, the next version of Windows will let users optionally run Metro apps in floating windows on the desktop.
Start menu. After bringing back the Start button in Windows 8.1, Microsoft will take the next logical step in the next Windows version and make the Start menu available as an option. It's possible this will appear only on those product versions that support the desktop.
This would be Microsoft admitting they got Windows 8 all wrong.
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I feel your pain.
We had it in 1998, but we got rid to it. In 2008 we merged with another company and we got it back. We were all very upset. I used the Mac and Linux versions, but they were even worse than the Windows one.
The Mac version kept crashing and the Linux version, which also crashed a lot, kept breaking with each update despite me using Ubuntu and Notes on Ubuntu being "supported".


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It was a harrowing bus ride home for 36 students of Charter Tech High School for the Performing Arts in Somer Point, New Jersey on Monday. The school bus was taking the three dozen students home when a tire became loose on the Garden State Parkway and detached from the vehicle. Not wanting to veer into oncoming traffic, the bus driver drove off-road into a series of trees to bring the bus to a stop.
Miraculously, no one was seriously injured, but man, can you say nightmare?
Only four children were reported to have anything other than minor injuries, and all have been released from the hospital.
No official cause has been given for the reason the tire fell off the damn bus, but most parents News 10 talked to are just happy the bus driver knew how to handle the situation. Things could've been a hell of a lot worse, but thankfully, the driver remained calm, kept control, and drove the bus into trees she knew would stop the bus, but not go through the bus.
Many of us sends our kids off on those iconic yellow school buses every day, even waving peacefully as it rolls on down the road. We put a lot of faith in those big ole things to transport our children safely to and from home and school, so to hear that a tire freaking fell off on the highway is disconcerting, to say the least.
But, the silver lining here is the professionalism of the bus driver. If the school's gonna put kids on buses with faulty tires and axles, it's good to know they've hired safety-conscious drivers. Not that they knew the tire was going to come loose or anything, and yes, it was an accident, but you kind of have to wonder how old or ignored the bus had to be that such a major thing could go wrong.
So glad everyone's safe.
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Special Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll-inspired Halloween costume set by the mad genius at Heavy Red.
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"A Brush with Teeth"
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Move to wing gives Ennis a needed lift
When the season started, Tyler Ennis was the Buffalo Sabres' No. 2 center and there were point-a-game visions of him dancing in the heads of the team's most optimistic fans.
After all, Ennis between Marcus Foligno and Drew Stafford was perhaps the NHL's top line for the final month of last season. The hope when the lockout ended was that they could simply pick up where they left off.
Hasn't happened. Stafford, the subject of numerous rumors at the trade deadline, and Foligno, a former healthy scratch now being tried at center, have just five goals apiece. And Ennis is out of the middle entirely, sent to left wing with Cody Hodgson and Thomas Vanek.
Ennis endured a minus-4 game last week in Winnipeg and Saturday's 1-0 win over Philadelphia was his 11th straight game without a goal. He finally snapped his drought on a tap-in during Sunday's 3-1 win over Tampa Bay.
Ennis has played wing before and is comfortable there, but the 23-year-old was supposed to be making big strides on becoming an elite center. Nevertheless, the numbers made it hard for him to argue interim coach Ron Rolston's move.
"I understood," Ennis said. "Sometimes you need to make some changes to spark some offense. I'm comfortable in both spots. I like the wing too. I've played it the last few years. It's just about working hard all over the ice, just trying to win battles. When it's not going well, you've just got to simplify."
Ennis has 10 goals and 17 assists for 27 points in 42 games. But he's gone from a plus-11 last year to a minus-9 this year as his defensive game has suffered dramatically. The Winnipeg game was obviously a low point, filled with a combination of bad luck and bad backchecking.
"Minus-4 was pretty embarrassing," he said. "I thought I worked hard in that game and some things just didn't go right. Those things are going to happen unfortunately and it was a nightmare. Minus-4. It's something that can't happen and it did. It's something you have to look at, bounce back from and do everything you can to not let it happen again."
"He's actually lately been doing some real good things, attacking the net and using his speed the last couple games," said Rolston. "It's just mostly for him getting his feet moving because when he's skating he's one of the toughest guys in the league to handle. He uses his edges, darts in and out. He's just got to every night concentate on making things happen out there."
Rolston wouldn't commit Sunday to keeping Ennis on the wing for the final five games of the season. The team was off Monday and will return to practice today, with another tour at center feasible. Ennis said he's not concerned about playing for next season, as the Sabres continue to play for this one.
"That's not something you want to focus on. You want to focus on getting points as a team. You can worry on those things in the summer time. Right now it's all about getting wins as a team. We did a good job battling [against Tampa Bay]."
Whether they want to admit it or not, however, the back-to-back losses last week against Winnipeg and Montreal basically ended this club's playoff hopes.
According to sportsclubstats.com, the Sabres entered Monday with just a 29.5 percent chance of making the playoffs if they won their last five games of the season. Dropping just one point sinks the chances under 10 percent and dropping two points sinks them under 3 percent.
The Sabres haven't won more than three in a row in nearly 13 months, so it's pretty apparent where this is all heading.
So their words of idle hope aside, this set of seven games has really become a referendum on several players looking toward next season. After Sunday's game, most players held on to the working-to-the-playoffs theme. Prior to the game, Rolston provided the necessary reality and perspective.
"They understand where the team is at but also where they're at individually and what they have on the line in terms of proving their spots," Rolston said. "Especially for our young players for next year, just building that consistency, playing well and finishing strong. It's a key motivation for them."
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Thai Pachyderms Ambush Food Trucks
KHAO-ANG RUE-NI, Thailand (AP) _ These pachyderms aren't just going after peanuts.
Elephants in a wildlife sanctuary in eastern Thailand are using their oversize bodies as road blocks, ambushing vehicles transporting sugar cane, tapioca and fruit, the sanctuary's chief says.
The estimated 200 elephants in the Khao-Ang Rue-Ni sanctuary turn desperate _ and wily _ in the dry season, when water and food supplies shrink. It's then that the animals stage their heists, Yuo Senatham said.
Conveniently enough for the elephants, the dry season is also when hundreds of trucks travel through their lands, laden with newly harvested tapioca and sugar cane.
According to Yuo, a herd leader usually emerges from the jungle at dusk to block the road. When a vehicle stops, other elephants move in for the feast.
Signs urging motorists not to feed the elephants don't seem to be doing the trick.
``It's like the drivers are bribing the elephants _ otherwise the elephants won't allow trucks to pass through,″ Yuo said
The elephants, who have never hurt a motorist, sound a general retreat when wildlife officials arrive to scare them away with spotlights.
The sanctuary chief says he can't prevent the elephants from roaming near the road because the area used to belong to them.
``What we can do is prevent them from getting hurt and hurting people,″ Yuo said.
The Thai army cut the road through the 270,000-acre sanctuary in the 1980s to help ferry supplies to insurgents fighting the Cambodian government, Yuo said.
There are some 3,000 wild elephants in Thailand, according to the Forestry Department.


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Use this for final gravity, assuming you want to: http://seanterrill.com/2011/04/07/refractometer-fg-results/
Wow. I think I'll use my hydrometer for FG since I have no idea what any of that means. I'm completely mathphobic (AKA a friggin moron when it comes to math). I did drink at all the run on sentences though and now I'm shotally titfaced
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Therese "Terry" C. Dudak, 72, of Bailey Island, Maine, formerly of Gilbert, passed away Sunday, Feb. 9, 2013, at the home of her daughter in Stroudsburg.
Therese was born in Somerville, Mass., on Aug. 17, 1940, and was a daughter of the late Nelson and Helen (Gilbert) Carbonneau.
She was the wife of the late Frederick John Dudak Jr., who passed away Aug. 27, 2011.
She was a member of St. Luke's Catholic Church in Stroudsburg.
Therese had several places of employment over the years, including Pocono Raceway, Pocono Hospital, IGA, Altemose's, Jamesway and Pocono Shopper.
She was an original member of the Pleasant Valley High School All Sports Club and was one of the initial participants of the first-ever Pleasant Valley Chem-Free Graduation Party.
After "retiring" to Bailey Island, she spent 20 years working at Land's End Gift Shop.
Terry had many interests, including tole painting, reading, beach bumming and spending time with her friend and husband, Fred, family and friends.
She will be deeply missed by her children: Frederick John Dudak III and his wife, Diane, of Stroudsburg; Steven Dudak of Brodheadsville; Michael Dudak and his wife, Maribeth, of Albrightsville; Ronald Dudak of Kunkletown; and Linda Roselli and her fianc�, Greg Ehrhardt, of Stroudsburg. She was the loving and gentle "Nanny" to nine grandchildren: Ann Marie Cole and her husband, Chris; Kristin Ehrhardt; Jennifer Roselli; Courtney Dudak; Matthew Ehrhardt; Frederick John Dudak IV; and Jonathan, Zachary and Timothy Dudak; and two great-grandchildren, Liam Cole and Harper Roselli.
She is also survived by a sister, Karen Spignese and her husband, Frank, of Malden, Mass.; two brothers: Frank Carbonneau and his wife, Donna, of Cape Cod, Mass., and David Carbonneau of Nashville, Tenn.; sisters-in-law: Sandy Hasson of Dunellen, N.J.; Lillian Barnes of South Plainfield, N.J.; and BethAnn Carbonneau of Mobile, Ala.; her brother-in-law, Stanley (Butch) Bolesta and his wife, Doreen, of South Plainfield, N.J.; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by three siblings: Larry, Nelson and Mary Lou.
Family and friends are welcome to offer their condolences from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at Donald N. Gower Funeral Home Inc., Route 209, Gilbert.
Funeral services will begin at 4:30 p.m Friday at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in loving memory of Therese C. Dudak to: VNA Hospice of Monroe County, 502 VNA Road, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301 or ALS Clinic, 5540 Hamilton Blvd., Allentown PA 18106.
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Therese "Terry" C. Dudak, 72, of Bailey Island, Maine, formerly of Gilbert, passed away Sunday, Feb. 9, 2013, at the home of her daughter in Stroudsburg.


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Wallenpaupack Area is hoping Old Man Winter relaxes his icy grip on the local diamond
Although the weather outside was still a little bit frightful, the aura inside was ... delightful.
Old Man Winter kept an icy grip on NEPA this past weekend, but that didn't stop dozens of youngsters from attending the Second Annual Buckhorn Baseball Clinic this weekend.
Under the watchful eye of Wallenpaupack Area Coach Todd Schmalzle, members of the JV and varsity teams spent hours instructing Little Leaguers in the finer points of our American Pastime.
"The kids are doing a great job," Coach Schmalzle said between sessions. "I'm very proud of them for all the hard work they're putting in. We think it's very important to give back to the community and this clinic is a really good way to do that."
Frozen fields and frigid temperatures moved the festivities inside this year, but that didn't diminish the level of enthusiasm in the slightest.
"We're all champing at the bit for the season to get going," Coach Schmalzle said. "There's only so much you can do in the gym and the batting cages. The kids are ready to be outside."
Forward & Back
Paupack suffered through a rough season last spring in the Lackawanna League.
The Buckhorns managed just two wins in a rugged Division One and were eliminated from the District Two tournament in round one by Scranton.
Nevertheless, the Bucks are primed for an exciting 2013 campaign.
"The new divisions will be different," said Coach Schmalzle. "I'm interested to see how that's all going to play out for us."
As in other varsity sports, Paupack will now play its baseball games in Division Two alongside such familiar foes as Honesdale, Western Wayne, Delaware Valley and North Pocono.
The Bucks played their first exhibition contest at Wilson late last week and they came out swinging.
Paupack pushed across nine runs in the first two innings and also saw some solid pitching performances by veteran hurlers.
James Goetz will be at the forefront of the attack offensively and also anchor the starting rotation.
Goetz is a senior who led the team in hitting a year ago. He's a polished righty on the hill who can throw heat or drop in a nasty curveball on demand.
Alec Babyak and Danny Skibber are both juniors and each is hoping to make a mark on the mound.
"We're expecting big things from James this season," Coach Schmalzle said. "He's definitely our number one guy at this point. But, we also need for Alec and Danny to step up and pitch well."
Brandon Newsome (Sr) is a middle infielder who wasn't on the roster last year. But, the senior is right in the thick of the battle for a starting position and lead-off spot.
Cameron Wolfson (Sr) is the top candidate to bat clean-up and provide a bit of pop. He'll see extensive action at first base.
Mike Henry (Jr) and Joe Budnovitch (Jr) are in a dog fight for the starting catcher's job. However, Coach Schmalzle is very comfortable with either of these talented backstops.
Over & Out
North Pocono was the class of the Lackawanna League in 2012 and the Trojans are early favorites to defend their division and district crowns.
Delaware Valley is also loaded and should be a bona fide player when it comes time to seed for the Class AAAA playoffs.
Paupack's staff is focused on bouncing back from a dismal year, cresting the .500 mark and perhaps even challenging for a title.
"I'm looking forward to the season," said Coach Schmalzle. "This is a hard-working, competitive group of kids. They're going to go out there and battle every inning of every game."


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Top 30 Rums Countdown # 15 – Dictador 12 Year Solera
Posted by Arctic Wolf on December 10, 2012
I was first introduced to the Dictador Rums when I convinced the local distributor to drop in on one of the monthly gatherings of my Rum Club. Two bottles of the new Dictador Rum (The 12-year-old and the 20-year-old) were brought to the club for us to taste and provide feedback. Later I also sampled the Dictador rums in Miami, at the Rum Festival. Both times I remember being taken in by the Dictador style and the rich vibrant rum inside the bottles. So far I have tasted and reviewed only three of the Dictador bottlings, the Perpetual XO, the 20 Year Old, and of course the Dictador 12 Year Old. It speaks to the quality of manufacture that all three have landed in my Top 30 Rum Countdown:
# 15 – Dictador 12 Year Solera
"… A yummy marzipan which reminds me of toasted almonds smothered in roasted marshmallows is nestled nicely under the oak and spice. A touch of coffee, a hint of ripe cherry, and more charred flavours (perhaps some toasted coconut) seem to arrive at the end with a sherry-like smokiness which also brings nuances of dry fruit and cocoa to the fore…"
The Dictador 12 Year Old Rum is a solera aged rum with the oldest rum in the bottle being at least 12 years of age. It is bottled at 40 % alcohol by volume in a stylish black 700 ml bottle.
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|2012-01-19, 09:47
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None of 'em higher than 15. My mains are around 30-ish.
|2012-01-19, 09:55
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edit: Keroko, which story do you like the most so far? the least?
|2012-01-19, 10:18
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Now the question would be on skills. How does a sith sorcerer be a rebellion and a jedi sage be an imperial. Do they get to share skills or at some point do you just have to respec as a sage or sorcerer. Ditto on other classes.
I SAY NO. Let a sorcerer keep his lightning, BUT once he reaches a certain point he can no longer learn new dark side powers and only learn light side. Thus he could have say half lightning, half whatever sages do. Like in the skill tree it looks like the sorcerer skill tree up until he switches sides, then all skills he has not learnt yet switch to how they look on the sage's tree. He keeps his old, but can only learn the new sage things. The skills still work together for both. The opposite moves on each side even though different names and animations still get same bonusses from each other thus its not a handicap.
As it is right now i find it dumb. I mean you can be the meanest most evil rebellion jedi in the universe and on one seems to care, they still just give you new missions. They should be lie "woah this guy is evil, he is sith" Ditto on other side, you saving everyone and walking grannies across teh stree will not sit well with the sith, they would disown you and try to kill you.
SWG did th game pretty well imo, back when it started. You got to chose which side you wanted and drop it and choose another at will. while thats not perfect, i would prefer if this light/dark scenerio i stated above worked out, its still something. I also liked how you could chose your fighting style more. Now its soo stuck on using a certain weapon. Why as a BH am i restricted to using a pistol. Why can't i use a blaster rifle if i want, or a sniper, or a vibrostaff, or any other weapon i want to specialize in.
But as for the skill tree, something like this. A sorcerer initially gets like 10 skills as a sith, then it switches over to sage and avaiable skills now are related to that tree.
|2012-01-19, 10:24
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I think we can agree that a choice system without impact or consequences defeats the purpose. Or at least Bioware could take it farther.
I am not sure I would have the ability to change between Jedi and Sith, though it does kind of fit (Fall to the darkside/redemption) in Star Wars in that regard. Although, the Jedi council in Kotor 1/2 did have some rather nasty members. Letting the Mandalorians slaughter trillions because it wasn't their problem yet seemed pretty mean to me. That and, wanting to cut the Exile from the force just to protect their powers seemed far from patience and understanding.
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|2012-01-19, 10:25
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Well haven't played much since the 1.1 update only was on and in my ship or the fleet doing crew skill stuff. BUT since the update when I'm at the fleet sometimes it will randomly go to the loading screen for a few seconds. Quite annoying.
Is this happening to anyone else. Never had this happen before.
|2012-01-19, 10:31
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BUT like you said the choice system is pointless right now. If you could switch like I said it would create a crap load of new gameplay stories for people. Each person would change at different times, they could do the entire story as light side and get to lvl 50 before going dark, or they could get switched over as soon as lvl 10. And anywhere in between. each persons story would be different then, each could have done so much light and so much dark. You try and compare stories and some be like, what i never did that, ect.
THEN COMPANIONS. Dependingo n when you switch as well you could get different companions. You may have the first 3 rebel companions, but last 2 are imperial ones.
Just feels like it would be nice to not have every counsiler do the exact same storyline and have the exact same companions regardless of how they chose their decisions in the game.
|2012-01-19, 10:49
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Glad I never read the book... but I liked Revan in game, was nice talking to him before we crossed blades and you can even argue if he is dead or not.
But sadly it offers me nothing anymore, with Deathwing the last old WarCraft character I liked died.
Now there there are non left I care about (except my own). The WarCraft Universe feels empty now.
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|2012-01-19, 11:25
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Surprisingly, if I still played WoW, I would okay with Pandarens. I still remember Chen Stormstout the Brewmaster from TFT, which was fun to use. Compared to say Gnomes, Draeni, and Worgen, Pandaren seemed like a better choice. Then again, the races matter little compared to the gameplay. If the Mists of Pandaria actually has good gameplay then the amount of furry races they continue to add seems irrelevant.
Edit: As of right now forum posting is disabled on the TOR forum.
Well that makes no sense to me.
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|2012-01-19, 13:24
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Perhaps, but there was the forum feedback on Ilum that being were voicing out on. Furthermore, 1.1 had a lot of bugs and issues being compiled and so this seems like a delay on cataloging future fixes.
The forum may be a cesspool, but it is also an invaluable tool for feedback and finding glitches. Additionally, I still think Bioware may need to mend the fence so to speak with their reply from yesterday.
Edit: I am beating around the bush Kyero Fox, I am internet forum couch potato and so this effects my internet slouching.
|2012-01-19, 14:14
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Hmm, it seemed like it set the Imperial players back a little distance wise from Republic areas, but that seems to only delay the inevitable due to the faction imbalance. Overall, I do not know if they kept the bonus valor for captured/completed objectives. If they did keep captured objectives that award bonus valor, it seems like a flawed decision in the face of faction imbalance. Consider bigger side has more people to zerg locations and thus more easily and consistently dominate the bonus valor. In turn that leads to Imperials receiving better gear at a faster rate, thus putting them ahead in gear as well as a numeric advantage.
Ilum probably would be a great idea if TOR had 50/50 faction divide. I do not know how to solve that. That throws a lot of potentially interesting world PVP objectives to the side.
|2012-01-19, 14:29
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|2012-01-19, 14:31
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Like the tenacity buff in Warcraft? Interesting, that could work. Although, is Ilum comparable to Wintergrasp? I really know nothing of Ilum's layout and whether it is instanced or not.
One thing I have heard is that there are turrets for defense, but you can be stunned in the turret and as a result knocked out of the turret. That seems like it needs looking into to.
|2012-01-19, 14:47
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If Wintergrasp is any indication, you can buff the "Spartan" side up the wazoo till they have Raid-Boss stats, and they will STILL fall to the "Persian" side simply due to sheer raw numbers (also, good luck capturing objectives). CC-reduction is meaningless when the enemy side have enough people to literally rotate their stuns every second.
A gated system might be better where if one side starts to outnumber the other side by say... 10 players, the bigger team is locked in until the smaller team gets more members or players drop out of the bigger team.
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THE weather forecast was ominous with "significant" amounts of snow forecast, but I was not worried because I was testing the all new rugged Isuzu D-Max Utah with four wheel drive writes Bryan Longworth
And when the white stuff arrived the 4x4 pick-up was up for it and kept me on the move especially up treacherous steep and twisting Peak District roads where the low ratio gears slowly but surely kept the Isuzu on the move.
And this latest Isuzu is the only model in this sector to have a five year/120,000 mile transferable warranty.
There is even more good news because Yorkshire based CAP residual value experts have forecast that the new pick-up will retain its residual value better than all its rivals.
My test car was the top model the D-Max Utah. The leather clad double cab which impressed a Land Rover Discovery owner had ample room for five and the standard spec included heated front seats, electronic climate control, 17-inch alloys, parking sensors, leather multi function steering wheel and chrome grille.
There was also running boards on each side which made entering and leaving the vehicle much easier and there were grab handles on each side at the front that also made it easier to get in and out of the cabin.
The steering was a bit heavy until I got used to it and I liked the smooth gear changing and easy to use auto gears.
Like most pick-ups the D-Max which has replaced the Rodeo has leaf springs at the rear which can produce a rather bouncy ride when there is no load being carried, but for much of the test the ride comfort level was very car like.
Grumbles? When the headlights are on at night I found it difficult to see the various heating controls because they automatically go dimmer and I found the old style ignition key rather irritating because I occasionally accidentally pressed the lock and unlock functions.
The top Utah is aimed at the growing number of owners who use a pick-up for personal transport and luxuries in the twin cab provide a really car like ambience. But for those who want the model as a workhorse prices start at £14,499 without VAT.
My Verdict: A stylish and luxurious pick-up.
Model: Isuzu D-Max Utah.
Engine: 2.5-litre four cylinder diesel.
Output: 163bhp @ 3600rpm.
Transmission: Five speed automatic with selective two and four wheel drive.
Top speed: 112mph.
Towing capacity: 3000kg for braked trailer.
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Species: White-bellied heron (Ardean insignis)
Status: Critically Endangered (CR)
Interesting Fact: Also known as the imperial heron, the white-bellied heron is the second largest species of heron in the world, exceeded in size only by the Goliath heron.
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The white-bellied heron is a large, long-necked species, named for its white underbelly and wing linings. It has a blackish head topped with a pale plume of feathers, and a brownish-grey body. The most outstanding feature of the white-bellied heron is its massive pointed bill, which measures about 15 to 18 cm in length.
Although primarily a solitary bird with a large territory, during the winter months the white-bellied heron may fly up to 30 kilometres to join other members of its species.
The white-bellied heron is resident in Southeast Asia, having been seen in Bangladesh and surrounding countries. It is now believed to be extinct in Nepal.
The white-bellied heron favours mature forests, a habitat that has been at risk from deforestation for over a century. It is also under threat from the fragmentation and degradation of its wetland habitats through pollution, over-exploitation of resources and the rapid growth of aquatic vegetation due to leaching of artificial fertilisers. In addition, the white-bellied heron is vulnerable to disturbance and habitat degradation as a result of agricultural expansion, human settlements and poaching, as well as overfishing.
The white-bellied heron population is extremely small, at fewer than 250 mature individuals, and is rapidly declining, putting this species at severe risk of extinction.
In May 2011, the first white-bellied heron chick to be bred in captivity hatched, as a result of a project by The Royal Society for the Protection of Nature (RSPN) in Bhutan. There have been reported sightings of the white-bellied heron in protected areas of north-eastern India, and there are more protected areas proposed both in India and Bhutan which might lead to an increase in population size.
Find out more about the white-bellied heron at BirdLife International and Heron Conservation.
See images of the white-bellied heron on ARKive.
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– After a resounding success with recent exhibitions in Caracas, Shanghai, Seoul, Milan, Chicago, New York and Miami, artist Eduardo Sanabria, better known as EDO, brings his artwork to Miami Dade College's (MDC) InterAmerican Campus in the heart of Little Havana. His new exhibition, LOVE POP, features vibrant and expressive colors representing the great figures of contemporary pop culture and opens at 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 7. The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, EDO's work had been published in Caracas' major newspapers, and in Washington and New York, as well as Diario Las Américas in Miami. He won twice the Pedro León Zapata Award granted by El Nacional newspaper for being the best cartoonist in the Venezuelan press (2005 and 2008). In 2007, he was awarded the Gold Pen Prize as the best cartoonist in the first Graphic Humor Exhibition of the Ibero-American Arts Fair in Caracas. He has published a series of books called HUMOR-ES EDO, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, consisting of a selection of his most outstanding works released in the Venezuelan press.
LOVE POP exhibition runs through Oct. 20.


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Home of the Week: A Timeless Architectural Beauty in Pacific Palisades
In our newest 'Home of the Week' we move from a Spanish Princess's home in Barcelona to a timeless architectural beauty in Pacific Palisades, California.
In our newest 'Home of the Week' we move from a Spanish Princess's home in Barcelona to a timeless architectural beauty in Pacific Palisades, California.
With priceless Santa Monica Canyon and Pacific Ocean views, this home listed at $19.8 million is the embodiment of all that makes California a spectacular place to live. Set on 1.36 acres, the over 14,000 square foot home took five years to build from concept to completion. Such refined attention to detail is evident throughout and is highlighted by how it artfully invites the outdoors in with floor to ceiling windows, classical simple lines and soaring 26 foot ceilings.
Home should be your private oasis and this estate is no exception. The soothing trickle from the water features and fountains can be heard in many rooms and is punctuated by the light let in by floor to ceiling doors that disappear into the walls and blur the lines between the indoors and outdoors.
Other stand-out features of this home are the sleek lap pool, wine cellar that accommodates 10,000 bottles, formal dining room with room for 30, and chefs kitchen with white oak cabinets that perfectly compliments the granite counter tops. My favorite part of the home would be the master suite with private entry foyer with a patio that offers unobstructed views of the ocean on clear days. The circular soaking tub right near the massive window would be the perfect way to start or end any day!
Visit coldwellbanker.com if you'd like to see more of this stunning home with 5 bedrooms and 7.5 baths listed by Joyce Rey with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage.


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The Oscar races for lead actor and actress have, at the moment, clear front-runners and a certain sense of inevitability. From the moment it was announced that Daniel Day-Lewis had agreed to star in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," we all knew what was coming, right? And the fact that Day-Lewis' inside-out performance was more convincing than we'd even expected (and we expected a lot), simply sealed the deal.
The good news: The supporting categories this year promise to be a competitive free-for-all. Academy voters will be forced to decide between the calm charisma of Philip Seymour Hoffman in "The Master," Tommy Lee Jones' sharp-tongued abolitionist in "Lincoln" and Robert De Niro's loving, OCD father in "Silver Linings Playbook." Throw in Alan Arkin and John Goodman from "Argo," Javier Bardem's flamboyant Bond villain in "Skyfall" and the unseen promise of "Les Miz's" Russell Crowe and a devilish Leonardo DiCaprio in "Django Unchained" and you have the makings of one of the greatest Oscar races in years.
Our rankings, as of this moment:
1. Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook"
2. Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"
4. Alan Arkin, "Argo"
5. Javier Bardem, "Skyfall"
Bubbling under: Matthew McConaughey, "Magic Mike"; Dwight Henry, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; John Goodman, "Argo"; Bill Murray, "Moonrise Kingdom"; Jude Law, "Anna Karenina"; William H. Macy, "The Sessions"; Ewan McGregor, "The Impossible"; Hal Holbrook, "Promised Land"