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The windows were blown out of Punta Cana Restaurant and Bar on Chestnut Street.
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The Southdown Plantation House has an exhibit celebrating Cajun craftsmanship and compiled primarily by the late artisans' families.
The Southdown Plantation House has an exhibit celebrating Cajun craftsmanship and compiled primarily by the late artisans' families.
At the center is Ebdon Alleman, a pirogue-maker from Pierre Part who caught the attention of two filmmakers in the 1940s.
Director Robert Flaherty used a pirogue Alleman made in his film "Louisiana Story." The movie was nominated for an Oscar in 1948.
"He was looking for authentic artisans down the bayou who could contribute," said Rachel Cherry, the plantation museum's director.
Another storyteller, Arnold Eagle, was on set taking photographs of Flaherty when Alleman caught his eye. Eagle later made a short film about Alleman called "The Pirogue Maker."
You can view the tools Alleman used and watch "The Pirogue Maker" as part of the "Art of the Edge Tool" exhibit at the plantation house, Cherry said.
The exhibit's grand opening is Jan. 27. A reception, which will run from 2 to 4 p.m., is open to the public. You can also visit www.folkstreams.net/film,188 to view "The Pirogue Maker."
The exhibit celebrates the bygone era of Cajun artisans.
"We're showing different kinds of artisans from that era and how they used hand tools, specifically as opposed to computers, to create the art they create," said Cherry, pointing out that many of the crafts were made "out of necessity, but have become art."
Although there is a pirogue on display at Southdown, the one he built in "Louisiana Story" was exhibited at the World's Fair in New Orleans in 1984 before ending up on display at the Smithsonian.
That pirogue was likely one of the last to be made using the old methods and tools, beginning with sawing a tree down, Cherry said.
Marylin Porche, 63, one of several members of Alleman's family who contributed to the exhibit, said she likes the idea of preserving the tools for a younger generation.
"It's an appreciation for what our grandparents did," said Porche, who lives in Dularge. "Life was a lot harder back then."
Paula Kane, 58, who runs an antique store on La. 311, donated some of the other tools on display.
Her grandfather Murphy Breaux was a laborer in Plaquemine, as well as a butcher and a plant-operator, Kane said.
"I couldn't use the tools, but I didn't want to sell them — they were Paw Paw's," she said.
Some of the tools on display, mostly Alleman's, include a homemade wooden mallet, an adze used for smoothing or carving rough-cut wood and a plane used for shaping the wood.
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CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood, the main group aligned with President Mohamed Morsi, on Sunday predicted a big win for ratification of Egypt's Islamist-backed draft constitution after the first round of voting.
Millions of Egyptians voted peacefully on Saturday, hoping that the results would end three weeks of violence, division, and distrust between Islamists and their opponents on the ground rules of Egypt's promised democracy.
In districts that voted Saturday, including opposition strongholds of Cairo and Alexandria, about 57 percent of voters approved the new constitution, according to preliminary tallies by state news media Sunday.
Half of the country will vote next Saturday in predominantly rural areas that are expected to heavily favor the charter.
The relatively narrow margin of victory for the charter so far, combined with low turnout — 33 percent, according to the unofficial tallies, down from 41 percent in a referendum on a temporary constitution last year — seemed likely to embolden the non-Islamist opposition that has called for Morsi to scrap the charter and convene a new constitutional assembly.
A spokesman for the main coalition opposing the charter said that it had found widespread irregularities in voting. In Cairo, the biggest city, about 56 percent voted no, according to an unofficial tally by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Regardless of the results, the orderly balloting and long lines marked yet another turning point for Egypt's nearly two-year-old revolution.
After three weeks of clashes and threats of a boycott, millions of voters appeared for the moment to pull back from the brink of civil discord and reaffirm their trust in the ballot box, spending hours in long lines to vote in the sixth national election since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak 22 months ago.
It remained to be seen whether the losing side would accept the results, or how long the peace might last. Many who voted yes said they were doing so to end the chaos of the transition rather than to endorse the text of the charter. Despite opposition warnings of chaos, the streets of the capital were free of major protests for the first time in weeks.
And if the constitution is approved by the margins his supporters predict, the vote could fortify Morsi's power.
Military officers guarded polling places, and there were few reports of violence. Egyptian state media reported nine injuries in clashes around the Nile Delta town of Dakahleya, and that unknown assailants threw Molotov cocktails near the headquarters of a liberal party that had been part of the opposition under Mubarak.
As they waited in line to vote, neighbors continued to spar over the contentious process that produced the charter. Some said that it had been unfairly steamrolled by Egypt's new Islamist leaders over the objections of other parties and the Coptic Christian Church, and that as a result the new charter failed to protect fundamental rights.
Others blamed the Islamists' opponents for refusing to negotiate, in an effort to undermine democracy because they could not win at the ballot box. Many expressed discontent with political leaders on both sides.
"Neither group can accept its opposition," said Ahmed Ibrahim, 40, a government clerk waiting to vote in a middle-class neighborhood in the Nasr City area of Cairo. Whatever the outcome, he said, "one group in their hearts will feel wronged, and the other group will gloat over their victory, and so the wounds will remain."
Many voters waiting in line Saturday said they rejected the exploitation of religion by both sides: the Islamists who sought to frame the debate as an argument about Islamic law, and opponents who accused Morsi of seeking a theocracy.
"It is not about these emotional issues," said Talan Hassaballah, a businessman. He faulted its provisions on "social justice," such as guarantees of human rights, workers' rights and social services. "They are vague," he said.


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A decade of waiting for satisfaction can leave an audience pent up with expectations that can never be met. People become so fixated on what they want rather than what they ultimately get that it doesn't matter how good what they've been waiting for actually is, they'll still be disappointed. Diablo fans don't have to wait any longer though. Whether it's as good as Diablo II is beside the point; they know that Diablo III will satisfy them. Just ask the 300,000 people that logged into play the beta version of the game at the same time.
Activision Blizzard hosted an open beta test of the long awaited game of crawling through dungeons, clicking on skeletons, enjoying potion sound effects, and waiting to see some purple text pop up over a sword over the weekend of Apr. 22. The number of people that turned out to play the sequel isn't surprising by any means but it's still impressive. Blizzard community manager Bashiok said on Twitter that Blizzard's servers saw 300,000 simultaneous players in Diablo III over the weekend.
Bashiok didn't say how many total users logged in, only that it was "a lot."
That number may have been higher had Blizzard not run into some hiccups in the process. Many beta players reported trouble logging into the game—Diablo III requires a constant Internet connection to play—which could signal a rough time when the game officially releases on May 15. Then again, a beta test's intent is to reveal these sorts of problems so that they can be fixed promptly.
Fans as closely follow beta tests for Blizzard games as the actual game releases. Anticipation of 2010's Starcraft II, a sequel released twelve years after its predecessor, went through six months of beta testing. The initial closed beta test required a digital key to access and players spent hundreds of dollars at online auction websites to purchase access.
Troubles accessing the Diablo III beta highlight a sore subject between Blizzard and its audience though: Required persistent Internet connections. The company requires players of all its games to be connected to the Web to play, a measure intended to stifle piracy as much as maintain proper balance in competitive games like Starcraft. The Starcraft II Global League finals held earlier this month also demonstrated the problems of persistent connections as the championship match between Won "PartinG" Lee Sak and Lee "MarineKing" Jung Hoon had to be replayed after the Internet connection at the event went down.


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SaddleA Thoroughbred racing saddle is the lightest saddle used, weighing less than two pounds.
Saddle ClothA cotton cloth which goes under the saddle to absorb sweat. It usually has the horse's program number and sometimes, in major races, its name.
Saddle PadA piece of felt, sheepskin, or more usually, foam rubber, used as a base for the saddle.
Scale of WeightsFixed weights to be carried by horses according to their age, sex, race distance and time of year.
SchoolingProcess of familiarizing a horse with the starting gate and teaching it racing practices. A horse may also be schooled in the paddock.
ScratchTo be taken out of a race before it starts. Trainers usually scratch horses due to adverse track conditions or a horse's adverse health. A veterinarian can scratch a horse at any time.
Second CallA secondary mount of a jockey in a race in the event his primary mount is scratched.
Set Down1) A suspension - The jockey was set down five days for careless riding. 2) When a jockey assumes a lower crouch in the saddle while urging the horse to pick up speed, the horse was set down for the drive to the wire.
Shadow RollA (usually sheepskin) roll that is secured over the bridge of a horse's nose to keep it from seeing shadows on the track and shying away from or jumping them.
ShankRope or strap attached to a halter or bridle by which a horse is led.
ShedrowStable area. A row of barns.
SheetsA handicapping tool assigning a numerical value to each race run by a horse to enable different horses running at different racetracks to be objectively compared.
ShortA horse in need of more work or racing to reach winning form.
ShowThird position at the finish.
Show BetWager on a horse to finish in the money; third or better.
Shut OffUnable to improve position due to being surrounded by other horses.
SilksJacket and cap worn by riders to designate owner of the horse, or at some smaller tracks, to designate post positions (e.g., yellow for post position one, blue for two, etc.).
SimulcastA simultaneous live television transmission of a race to other tracks, off-track betting offices or other outlets for the purpose of wagering.
Sire1) The male parent. 2) To beget foals.
Sloppy (track)A racing strip that is saturated with water; with standing water visible.
SnipSmall patch of white hairs on the nose or lips of a horse.
Soft (turf)Condition of a turf course with a large amount of moisture. Horses sink very deeply into it.
SophomoresThree-year-old horses. Called sophomores because age three is the second year of racing eligibility.
Speed FigureA handicapping tool used to assign a numerical value to a horse's performance.
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They kicked off with a live version of "Don't Look Back" and followed it with a psyched up cover of Katy B's "Crying For No Reason:
For their appearance on Trevor Nelson's show on 1Xtra the talented trio shone with their cover version of Rhianna's "Diamonds":
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What really drew me to them was how customizable they are. The pattern instructions are a quite general, so it helps if you have some sewing under your belt and understand basic construction. On the Farbenmix site, they have tons of design examples, and I'm also only including patterns that have instruction sheets in English and Sew-A-Longs in English. I've linked those in the listings on my website. I decided to pick out a few patterns that I have been wanting to try and we'll go from there.
This weekend I was able to sew my very first Feliz….and it won't be my last! Feliz means happy in Spanish, so I wanted the Feliz dress to have a Spanish vibe. I envisioned something that you could wear to a party. (The parties are always grand and always fun!) I needed bright festive colors and patterns. This fabric immediately came to mind.
It is called Beatrice Dream and is by Michael Miller fabrics. I used it for the overdress. The under dress is Fuschia Ta Dot.
And the bustle on the back of the underdress are other Ta Dots from the Jewel Tones line. I used Bubblegum, Celery, Lagoon and Tangerine.
I added a bottom tier to the underdress that I gathered only in the back with the rest of the ruffles. And since my serger is still getting fixed, I decided to use the premade Bias Trim from Michael Miller. I love the result! (But I can't wait to get my serger back to my seams don't have to be zig zagged!)
Christmas is just around the corner, (really!) so I plan to make her Christmas dress from this pattern. I think I'll leave off the ruffles on the back and the extra bottom tier. I'll also possibly applique something on the over dress. It will have a completely different feel! I can hardly wait! And I've picked out the fabrics I want to use for the Redondo and Laguna patterns too. I doubt I'll have time before I leave for Quilt Market.
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Barcelona president Sandro Rosell has hinted that he has a desire to sign an unnamed Real Madrid player.
The two clubs are arch-rivals in Spain and it is not often that players are able to enjoy periods at both Camp Nou and the Bernabeu during their career, however, the likes of Luis Figo, Brazilian striker Ronaldo and Michael Laudrup have crossed the divide..
Although he would not reveal who he would like to take from Jose Mourinho's ranks, Rosell admitted that there is a Blancos footballer he has wanted to bring to the Catalunya club for a long time.
"There is one Real Madrid player I have liked for many years," he told Punto Radio. "But I'm not going to say who it is because I would be creating a circus.
"Madrid have some great players and of course there is one I would like to sign. Is it [Iker] Casillas? I'm not giving away any clues."
Liga fanatics wondering if it might be Cristiano Ronaldo that the Barca boss was referring to may want to reconsider the possibilities.
When asked if he would take Ronaldo from the Bernabeu for free, Rosell cryptically replied: "Sometimes things that are free end up costing you dearly."
Barcelona and Real Madrid's rivalry is considered amongst the greatest in the world, though the Blaugrana chief explained what a nerve-wracking affair the Clasico can be for a club president to watch.
"It makes me tense because it is such a great game to experience," Rosell said. "It's one of those games where, if you win, everyone cheers the players, but if you lose, it's the president's fault."
It was announced this week that one of Pep Guardiola's first games as Bayern Munich coach will be against Barca, the club where he had so much success, and Rosell expressed his desire to see the Spaniard back at Camp Nou someday.
"We miss him," he said. "The bond he had with Barcelona will be talked about forever in the history of football, but life goes on.
"If he put himself up for club president in the future I would vote for him, I would love to see that."
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CHICAGO – The Chicago Police Department said 18-year-olds will be allowed to take this year's entrance exam as part of an effort to increase the number of eligible applicants hoping to join the force.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday that the application age is being dropped from 25 to 18, while the new minimum age to become an officer will be 21.
"By offering the exam at 18 and letting them enter at 21, it allows us to reach people as they are making major decisions about their career path," said Chicago Police Department spokesman Adam Collins. "It allows us to increase the pool of eligible applicants."
The new requirements will take effect during the next entry exam that will be held later this year – although a test date and location and haven't been set. The last test was given in 2010. The exam is typically offered once every few years.
The change brings Chicago in line with other major metropolitan police agencies.
Twenty-one is the minimum hiring age for officers in New York and Los Angeles. In those cities, prospective officers can take the police exam at 17½ and 20½, respectively.
The minimum application age was raised to 25 in 2010 by then-Police Superintendent Jody Weis, who wanted to attract a more mature officer. Before that, the application age was 21.
Michael Shields, head of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, said he supports the change.
"We believe that the department loses many motivated, qualified candidates who graduate from college at age 21 or 22 and do not want to wait three or four years to start their career," Shields said of previous age requirement.
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(Boston, Mass. – July 7, 2008) – Unhealthy air quality is predicted for Tuesday, July 8 in the following areas: Coastal Maine, from Kittery to Acadia National Park, and inland from the Maine coast to Lewiston-Auburn, Augusta and Bangor; southern New Hampshire; all of Massachusetts, except the southeastern sections; and in southern and central Connecticut due to ground-level ozone. The forecast for hot weather tomorrow is also expected to cause the demand for electricity in New England to reach high load levels. Poor air quality and hot temperatures are forecast to continue into Wednesday in much of this same area.
"We are expecting Tuesday to be another unhealthy air quality day in New England," said Robert W. Varney, administrator of EPA's New England office. "On these days, EPA and the medical community suggest that people limit their strenuous outdoor activity."
This summer, New Englanders can expect an increase in the number of air quality alert days, resulting from EPA's recent lowering of the level of the ground-level ozone air quality health standard. The new ozone standard is set at 0.075 parts per million (ppm) on an 8-hour average basis. Air quality alerts will be issued when ozone concentrations are expected to exceed this new standard. EPA previously issued air quality alerts when 8-hour average ozone levels were at, or predicted to be at, 0.085 ppm or above. So far this year, there have already been 16 days in New England when ozone concentrations have exceeded the new 2008 ozone standard. (A preliminary list of this summer's unhealthy readings can be found at https://www.epa.gov/region1/airquality/o3exceed-08.html)
Exposure to elevated ozone levels can cause serious breathing problems, aggravate asthma and other pre-existing lung diseases, and make people more susceptible to respiratory infection. When smog levels are elevated, people should refrain from strenuous outdoor activity, especially sensitive populations such as children and adults with respiratory problems.
Due to tomorrow's forecast of hot weather, the demand for electricity in New England is forecast to reach high load levels. Given the ozone and high load forecasts, EPA is asking homeowners and employers to make a special effort to reduce their electricity consumption. EPA asks employers to consider asking their employees to dress casually and turn their air conditioning to a higher temperature setting and turn off any unnecessary lights and computers when not in use. Homeowners also are urged to turn their air conditioner to a higher temperature setting, turn off unnecessary lights and appliances, such as televisions, computers, or lights during the day, and to defer household activities like laundry until later hours.
Ground-level ozone (smog) forms when volatile organic compounds and oxides of nitrogen interact in the presence of sunlight. Cars, trucks and buses give off the majority of the pollution that makes smog. Fossil fuel burning at electric powerplants, particularly on hot days, emit smog-making pollution. Gasoline stations, print shops, household products like paints and cleaners, as well as lawn and garden equipment also add significantly to the ozone smog. Major sources of particulate pollution are factories, power plants, trash incinerators, motor vehicles, construction activity, and fires.
When ozone is forecast to be unhealthy, EPA asks the public to take ozone action. The public can help reduce ozone-smog by:
- Using public transportation, car pooling and/or combining trips;
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- Avoiding the use of small gasoline powered engines, such as lawn mowers, chain saws, and leaf blowers.
EPA and the New England states provide real-time ozone data and air quality forecasts at www.epa.gov/ne/aqi People can also sign up at this web site to receive free air quality alerts by e-mail when poor air quality is predicted in their area.
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|Kallada river landscape, Trees in river delta
River bed photo snaps, more clearly speaking the river landscape of an almost dry riverbed. The landscape which came visible when the dam upstream the river is closed seemed attractive to me and posting some of the photos here. The photographs are taken from a part of one of Kerala's beautiful western ghat river named Kallada.. The part of this river from where these photos are taken are considered 100 percent dangerous zone when the river is flowing with enough water and 50 percent dangerous even it's not without much water.
Our tour trip towards Thenmala eco tourism spots, parappar dam and the famous Palaruvi waterfalls was in the month of August 2010. Irony is it's the time of Monsoons and the river was seen almost empty. We just got down into the river bed for some snaps and any tourist or traveler happened to pass through here would have done it for the sight of the empty river bed is so interesting with much rocks and deltas of sand. Anyway the river was not fully dead as a small stream is finding its way through the rock filled river landscape calmly in deeper areas, and with a little violence in those places having some rock obstructions.
There was two different nature for the river landscape. One with huge rocks filled dangerous looks and other with small sand deltas and small trees giving the river a lovely scenic face. The huge river rocks are already posted in the river danger zone post and will be posted more soon, and wht you can see here is the soft and a little scenic landscape of the river terrain.
|Trees in river delta filled with sands and rocks
The river course before this place is relatively narrower and deeper. It opens into a wider rock filled river course from here. The presence of rocks here naturally made way to the formation of sand and mud filled deltas. When the water level lowers the river gets compelled to flow in branches through the sides of this delta. The water is transparent and turns greener nearing to deeper river mouth. The stream is so calm and appears swimmable, but can't be sure coz the river bed is randomly filled with rocks.
Last time when i came here upto half of the tree in that river delta was under water and that's the usual water level. So many small fishes were there in the shallow water here. We didn't expect this river here to be empty for it's seen flowing full fledged in summer times too and we visited during the monsoons. We got the reason for the river being empty from a guy we met near the weir dam of Thenmala at Ottakkal lookout.
The river is almost dry now coz the dam shutters are closed in the upper river course. The water flowing now comes from small mountain streams joining the river after the dam. The river usually flows filled with green water which matches the green lush forest in its banks. This river and the hydro projects built in river course are meant for Irrigation purposes and the oldest and one of the largest river irrigation project dam and canal system of Kerla is in this River. The Irrigation project is named Kallada Irrigation Project(KIP).
|pure white clouds in sky over the marshy river landscape. Kallada river - Kerala
Sand and rock debris in the dry river bed. Small trees are seen growing in the river bed. Many of the trees that was growing in the deltas before now remains as broken tree trunks rooted in the soil with rocks around. Mainly this part of the river is filled with rocks, and the sand and mud is comparatively low. The delta of sand seen here actually lies over a big rock bed underneath.
The river bed shows how powerful the river current is underneath eventhough it appears very calm and slow outside when waterlevel is high. The topography of the river course is having such inclination and carries lot of debris and sand to lower lands.
|Dried up tree trunks between the river rocks
The dry branches of some river tree found between the rocks in river bed photographed during a walk through the river course. All these things will be immersed under water when the dam shutters are opened.
Even boating through the surface water may turn dangerous as these things and huge pointed rocks lay silent underneath waiting to kiss your boat hull. Small canoes or country boats were seen tied on the shore and local people who is familiar with the riverbed obstructions seems using them.
After the place from where this snap is taken the path of the river is entirely covered with huge river rocks and polished river stones.
|Kallada river's rocky landscape. Thenmala-Kollam-Kerala
The stream of Kallada divided by rocks in the riverbed. The rocks seemed sedimentary type ones, the usual river rocks which are not much stronger. But there were harder polished huge river rocks with so many potholes.
The rocks are of layered type and much soily in some places.The surface underneath water like in places seen in the photo is much slippery and you may happen to fall in the stream. What you have to do is watch your steps, if you wanna go back home!
The rocks are of layered type and much soily in some places.The surface underneath water like in places seen in the photo is much slippery and you may happen to fall in the stream. What you have to do is watch your steps, if you wanna go back home!
|lonely tree in river delta
You have to cross the river stream finding the shallow part to reach the deltas and huge river rocks. The tree found on that delta was interesting with much height and so many green glittering leaves at the top part. surely that tree head is seen over the waterlevel even when the dam shutters are open and the river's belly is full with water.
Due to the fast flowing nature of this mountain river so much sand and other debris are accumulated in the lower lands of its course. Sand mining was done without regulations in many parts of this river landscape and the river is getting the bad effects now. Strict regulations are taken now only to regulate the sand miners. Huge craters in the riverbed, river deviating its flow from its actual course, destruction of river sides etc keeps happening due to uncontrolled mining of sand from the riverbed.
Their are many close snaps of some interesting river rocks shaped by the weathering process yet to be published. We continued our journey to palaruvy waterfalls after this place and fortunately the dam shutters kept closed till we got out of the riverbed. Travel photos and tour spot infos will be continued in pixelshots, and you can have it when you visit this travel photo blog again.


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Eastman, Lehman critical of town manager
Sharp reaction to budget shortfall projection
Two members of the Mammoth Town Council last week were sharply critical of Town Manager Marianna Marysheva-Martinez following the revelation that the town would face a budget shortfall of $562,527 in the next fiscal year.
"You can count me in the category of being both frustrated and confused, as some other people have expressed," said council member John Eastman at the Town Council meeting on May 1.
"Personally, I'm tired of the continued misjudgment of our budget and the continuing of cut-cut-cut and the instability that is created within our organization by this misjudgment in our budget."
Mayor Matthew Lehman also delivered some pointed remarks at Marysheva-Martinez.
"Before we start making any decisions on specifics, I want to look at the whole budget and see if there aren't other areas we can potentially look at making changes," he said.
"I do agree with John, though," Lehman said. "It seems like we're always cutting, cutting, cutting. We may have to start looking at some other options."
Marysheva-Martinez said the town would be $562,527 short unless the council put balancing options into place before the start of the 2013-14 fiscal year beginning July 1.
"The five-year plan became the foundation for the town's future budgets," she said wrote in an agenda bill, "[but] the plan was developed with financials at a high level, and was based on history through September 2012."
She said after the town's finance department reviewed individual revenue and expenditure line items, "the resulting financials are different from the initial five-year projections."
Among the options before the town staff are to delay hiring a community and economic development director, a budget and management analyst, a second transient occupancy tax specialist, and a new police officer.
The subtotal for delayed hirings would range between $274,235 and $548,471, depending on whether the delay is for six months or a full year.
Council member Michael Raimondo weighed in on the hiring of a second TOT specialist, saying the town's lifeblood is in TOT collections and that he did not want to get in the way of moving forward with collections. Raimondo found support with Lehman on the issue.
"I agree with Michael as far as cutting into the TOT area," Lehman said. "That's a revenue generating area and I don't want to touch that, personally."
In her own defense, Marysheva-Martinez reminded the council of past budget woes.
"Three years ago, when you interviewed me for the interim position, you thought you had $14 million in the bank but you only had one.
"Three years ago, you had a budget before you that did not include $2.7 million in line items.
"So now, it's $500,000. It's not perfect; we could have done better, and with more staff and better technology we probably would have, but please give us credit for what we have done."
Council member Rick Wood reminded the audience that the budget workshop on May 1 was only the first of many on the horizon leading up to the adoption of a 2013-14 budget by July 1.
"It is true," Wood said, "that we continue to be challenged fiscally for a variety of reasons; I don't see it as the end of the world by any means, and I for one really want to hear from members of the public if they have preferences about what we ought to be spending our money on, what our priorities should be, where we should we continue to cut and how to raise additional revenue.
"Oftentimes I think the assumption is that we just know what to do. These are hard choices, but there are hard choices every year, because there is never enough money, whether we're in good times or bad times, to do everything we want to do."


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You are saying that you went to Novus and then just one year at Concord and they let you take the state bar? Never heard that in my life. Can you provide a link to where the state of CA shows they allow this method?
For someone like the OP, who does not intend to practice law, such a program might be fine to learn something about the law. My issue (as always) is that if the program is not accredited by the ABA or a state bar, then it's difficult to ascertain whether or not the education is up to snuff. Is it rigorous? Does it abide by minimally acceptable academic standards? With an accredited school the consumer knows what their getting, with unaccredited programs there is less certainty. There are exceptions of course, such as Taft and Oak Brook, which seem to have better reputations than other unaccredited schools. Personally, I believe that absent ABA or state bar accreditation these schools should not be permitted to grant J.D.s. I think it misleads the public, who associate the granting of a law degree with certain academic standards and admissions requirements. Quote from: cooley3L on September 02, 2012, 02:17:49 PMYou are saying that you went to Novus and then just one year at Concord and they let you take the state bar? Never heard that in my life. Can you provide a link to where the state of CA shows they allow this method?The CA bar allows different paths to bar admission that other states don't. One method is graduation from an unaccredited school that is registered with the CA bar. Novus is not registered with the CA bar, but Concord is, and the Calbar website says something like a "combination" of methods may be used to gain bar admission. It's also possible that a Novus grad can qualify under the attorney-assisted study method.
If a "law school" is not accredited by any recognized accrediting agency, or registered with the California State Bar, under whose authority does it grant degrees? Where on earth is the ABA and the state bar?I'm increasingly convinced that we need to move in the direction of Germany on this issue. Germany has restricted the commercial and professional use of terms such as "university". Only accredited institutions meeting specific criteria can call themselves universities and grant degrees. Other institutions can only grant certificates, etc. Individuals can only legally claim degrees earned from legit schools.We've allowed the definition of university, law school, doctorate, etc to become so watered down that pretty much anybody can start issuing Ph.Ds from their garage and it's fine. Call me old fashioned, but I think earning a Ph.D should mean more than sending $5000 to an offshore account. It's stupid, and undermines the value of an education.


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What we will eventually replace is this wonky work surface that we found in the barn. The height is great (it was previously used as a work bench) and it's perfectly functional, but I'm not a huge fan of how it looks. Some days I feel like we have enough old stuff in our house, if that makes any sense. I'm not sure what I'm looking for...something with a flat work surface and nicer legs, I think.
Notice the spot above the stove in this photo. That strip of yellow is linoleum that had literally been thumb tacked to the studs in the wall (more about that in this post).
The Mrs. Smith's pie tin artfully disguises a little dent in the wall. I have no shame.
It makes PRH crazy, but my dusty plants (the only I've managed to keep alive) love this spot on the counter. Those feathers on the window sill are actually carved wood feathers that I found at a friend's antique store. Score!
Here are the before and after photos side by side. Vaseline-lens aside, I think it's a vast improvement...and I don't feel queasy anymore.


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Corona sold 30.4 million barrels of beer last year, a whopping 9% improvement on 2010. With its new advertising campaign this summer, the brand is now the largest outdoor beer advertiser in the world, according to the Drinks Business. The brew is made by Mexican company Groupo Modelo, whose parent is now Anheuser-Busch InBev.
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It's not just a spin-o-rama, it is a spin-o-rama with a little between-the-legs action for some flavor.
Linus Klasen of Sweden netted this one against the Czech Republic in the Channel One Cup and it's just paralyzing. Seriously watch former Panthers and Blackhawks goalie Alexander Salak. Once Klasen starts the spin, it's all over.
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GH6656, Reviewed June 2009
Working women often find that there are just not enough hours in the day to meet all the demands placed on them.
Tasks at work are followed by tasks at home, leaving little time for meeting their own needs. This becomes very apparent when looking at women's health practices. More than 30 percent of American women are obese, more than half don't exercise and 23 percent of women still smoke.
All of these lifestyle-related risk factors are known to contribute to chronic health problems such as heart disease, some forms of cancer and diabetes.
While women tend to miss few work days because of their own illnesses, this failure to take care of themselves contributes to the development of chronic health problems as they get older. Problems that are likely to show about the time they reach retirement age.
For more information about women's health see the section below entitled "Women's Health Facts."
A growing body of research suggests that exchanging risky behaviors, like those mentioned above, with healthier ones not only delays the early onset of a number of chronic health problems but also improves the overall quality of a woman's health. This guide will provide you with some basic information about living healthier and will guide you through a process for making a behavior change of your choice.
At least in the area of healthier living, it does not have to be an either/or situation. It is not a question of finding time to do something for yourself at the expense of time for your family.
Some of the changes you decide to make to benefit yourself will also improve your family's health. For example, preparing lower-fat meals will benefit everyone. When you exercise, have your children exercise with you. When you buckle your seat belt, make sure your children are buckled in as well.
Besides, parents who are committed to a healthy lifestyle have a wonderful opportunity to be positive role models for their children.
Children who learn to assume greater responsibility for their health early in life, and who learn how to stay healthy, are more likely to be successful in maintaining health their entire lives.
You can do more to maintain your health than anyone else, including your health care provider. However, it requires a conscious decision and involves preparation and planning.
Rarely does a behavior change just because you want it to. People who have been successful at changing their behavior have taken the time to plan and prepare. Most have made a number of concerted efforts to change before they are finally successful. So, don't give up if you don't succeed the first time.
There are no quick fixes or shortcuts. As a busy woman, that is probably the last thing you wanted to hear, but the payoffs in terms of your health and the health of your family are worth the effort. Nevertheless, at least at first, it is going to take some work and planning. Below are some of the reasons why.
As an adult, have you ever tried to learn a new health behavior? Think about what it takes to help your children learn something new. Teaching them the skills, encouraging and reminding them, and then following through to make sure they have completed the task.
Adults have to do the same things with themselves. Even simple tasks like using your seat belt, flossing your teeth or eating breakfast require careful thought and preparation. Let's use the example of flossing your teeth. Preparation includes talking to your dentist so you can learn how to floss properly, buying the needed supplies, and deciding on the best time of day to floss.
On a daily basis, it involves reminding yourself to floss and making yourself go back to do it, even though you have already turned off the bathroom light and are dressed for work.
As adults, we also may have developed a number of poor health habits. Old habits that have been reinforced and encouraged over a number of years can be hard to unlearn.
Habits are acts or practices that are repeated so frequently they are almost automatic. We are comfortable with them and carry them out without much thought. Deciding to change these behaviors, like learning new ones, requires a conscious decision and constant alertness.
Most of your health behaviors and attitudes are supported by family and friends. Many of whom act and think much as you do and who may be threatened by your attempts to change.
Family and friends often unintentionally sabotage your efforts to change. If you are not prepared to deal with the pressure, it is easy to return to old habits. Particularly when they are being encouraged and reinforced.
Frequently, when thinking about making health-related changes, we think about changes in behavior. However, making health-related changes also involves changing attitudes. That means being prepared to think differently about yourself, your abilities and your relationships with those around you. Many times these attitudes and perceptions will have to change before you can successfully change your behavior.
One strategy for changing your attitude is positive self-talk. Through positive self-talk, you can convince yourself that you can lose weight, or you can start a regular exercise program, or that you can do anything else you want to do.
Each woman is unique and has her own interests and needs. As a result, each woman must develop her own approach to staying healthy. Making changes because someone else thinks it is a good idea rarely works. And, rather than comparing yourself to someone else, the important questions are:
If you are interested in making health-related changes, use Exercise 1 below to help you prepare for making a change of your choice. As the first question implies, the starting point is motivation and attitude.
How are you going to maintain the change over time? Many people find that learning new behaviors is not all that difficult. Where they run into trouble is maintaining those behaviors over time. This is where your planning and preparation can really pay off.
Once you have adopted a new health behavior, make sure you have the tools needed to maintain your success. Set some long-term goals for yourself. Use accurate information to find out about the kinds of behavior changes that are beneficial to your health. Identify friends, co-workers and relatives who can provide you with support for maintaining the change.
Keep a positive attitude. Don't give up if you don't succeed the first time. If this is a change you really want to make, convince yourself that you can do it. Changing behavior is rarely a smooth course. Successes are often followed by little setbacks. Getting beyond these slips is easier when you can maintain your faith in yourself and your ability to change.
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Why do you want to adopt a healthier lifestyle? This is the first question to answer for yourself. Don't worry about why someone else wants you to change. Do this for yourself.
If you have an interest in making changes in the areas of nutrition or stress management, consider reading these additional MU publications: GH6651 and GH6655.
What do you want to accomplish? Begin by creating a short-term goal for yourself. Think in terms of a week and then expand it to a month.
Then ask yourself the following two questions.
Who are you going to get to help you? It is difficult to adopt new health behaviors if those in your immediate environment are encouraging you to maintain your old ones. Gather support from your family and friends. Help them understand why this is so important to you, and ask for their help. Plan to involve your children and partner in at least some of the activities so you don't feel like you are in this alone.
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Women are more likely to die from cancer than any other disease.
Heart disease accounts for more than 50 percent of all deaths among women and claims more women's lives than cancer, accidents and diabetes combined.
Women with Type II diabetes don't need to worry because they have a milder form of the disease.
Type II (adult-onset diabetes) can be just a deadly as Type I (insulin-dependent diabetes). Both can result in heart disease, loss of vision and kidney failure.
The chances of a woman getting breast cancer have increased greatly.
According to the American Cancer Society, in 1980 the average women's chances of developing breast cancer was 1 in 11. By 1992, the rate was 1 in 8. However, unlike earlier years, the 1992 figure includes women over the age of 85. Older women are among those most likely to develop the disease. It is important to remember that this rate looks at the average woman's chance of getting the disease over her lifetime. It does not say that one in eight women has breast cancer. The risk is creeping up, but at a much slower rate than the risk figures indicate.
More women die from breast cancer than any other form of cancer.
While breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women, women are more likely to die from lung cancer. This year, 62,000 American women will die from lung cancer, and 46,000 from breast cancer. Much of the increase is due to increased smoking among women.
As a woman, I don't have to worry about osteoporosis until I reach menopause.
About 45 percent of a person's bone mass is formed during the teen years. Prevention needs to begin early. No matter what your age, make weight-bearing exercise such as walking, running or dancing part of your daily activity, get enough calcium, if you smoke—stop, and if you drink, drink only lightly or moderately. If you are going through menopause, talk to your health care provider about hormone replacement therapy.
Hormone replacement is necessary during menopause.
Menopause is not a disease, it is a normal life transition. To maintain your health, keep a positive attitude, eat a low-fat, high-fiber diet, exercise regularly, avoid smoking and talk to your health care provider about hormone replacement therapy. Like any drug therapy, HRT has risks and benefits. The decision about its use is very individualized and must be a joint decision between you and your provider.
Women who work outside the home are more likely to suffer from stress than women who stay at home.
Whether at home or in the workplace, the nature of a woman's job is the most important factor. Women are more likely to be stressed by their jobs, paid or not, when their jobs are demanding, they have limited personal control over the situation and there is little opportunity for making decisions. For many employed women, the fact that a job at work is followed by a job at home is an added stressor.
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For each question, circle the one answer that best applies to you. The plus (+) sign next to some numbers indicates more than that number.
Now add up the number of items circled under each letter, multiply by the amounts shown, and figure your totals.
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Mozilla has made the right move in adding a built-in search facility in its latest version of the increasingly popular Firefox. The version 8 of the browser released today has also got some new cool features.
With this move, Twitter proudly joins other internet household names that are already present as built-in options in Firefox – Google, Yahoo, Bing, Amazon.com, eBay and Wikipedia. The new Twitter search feature in Firefox allows users to conveniently find new topics, #hashtags and @usernames. Although only English, Portuguese, Slovenian and Japanese versions of Firefox are supported at the moment, expect Mozilla to roll-out other languages in the near future.
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Smart, Beautiful Kitchen Banquettes
Get inspired by some of our favorite kitchen banquettes
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A banquette is an easy way to add a casual and multifunctional element to any kitchen. It can act as a space for casual dining, homework, playing games, or reading the morning paper with a hot cup of coffee. Get inspired by some of our favorite kitchen banquettes.
A recent remodel of this home opened up space in the kitchen for an adjoining breakfast nook with a long L-shaped banquette. Lively tangerine-hued pillows and the chairs' leather upholstery pop against the banquette's powder-blue cushions. A glass-topped table and easy-to-clean fabrics make the area kid-friendly and usable.
See the rest of this home here [1].
Design: Julie Massucco Kleiner
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This large table with banquette and chairs serves as a dining area when the homeowners entertain. The shorter side of the banquette has an extra-deep cushion, making the corner a cozy spot to recline and watch TV, read, or work on a laptop.
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This spacious kitchen's casual banquette provides a spot to sit and relax. Red-and-white-checked fabric from Ralph Lauren Home covers the L-shaped banquette's cushions, while festive throw pillows add shots of cool blues into the colorful mix.
See the rest of this Marblehead home here. [9]
Design: Dee Elms and Andrew Terrat
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In this active family home, a custom banquette covered in "pleather" backs the kitchen's island for creative seating in an easy-to-care-for material. The banquette's nailhead trim reflects the graceful lines of the blue chairs from Barry Dixon.
Explore the rest of this Atlanta home. [13]
Design: Beth Barfield
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A niche in this kitchen was "just calling for a banquette," says designer Tobi Fairley, which she covered in a houndstooth fabric from Fabricut. The room's elegant black-and-white palette is enhanced by the graceful balloon curtains and graphic striped rug underfoot.
See the rest of this home here. [17]
Design: Tobi Fairley
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This breakfast area is as functional as it is colorful. The curved banquette wraps around the large round table, and together provide enough seating for the whole family and guests. A vinyl sisal rug underfoot can be mopped, making cleanup a breeze. The bright coral-red palette is punctuated with black and white, like the playful dove pattern on the roman shades.
Explore the rest of this unique Dallas home here. [21]
Design: Mary Anne Smiley
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A cool blue-and-white palette keeps this breakfast area feeling fresh. Faux-ostrich vinyl from Kravet covers the tufted banquette, which is accented with blue-and-white ikat bolster pillows. A custom-laminated linen seat on the rattan chair keeps the area easy to clean.
See the rest of this stylish family home here. [25]
Design: Melissa Warner
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Just off the kitchen, this banquette area plays double-duty as an additional dining area and family room. A desk area to the side provides space for books, papers, and a television for causal dining. The elegant balloon shades, area rug, and beautiful wooden dining chairs keep the space sophisticated for more formal occasions. The custom banquette, which seats up to eight people, was designed by Tres McKinney.
See the rest of this home here [29].
Design: Tres McKinney
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A metallic wall finish and amber-colored hand-blown light fixtures establish a warm ambience for this showhouse banquette area. Graphic fabric from Dedar covers the banquette and klismos side chairs for a contemporary touch.
See the rest of this gorgeous showhouse kitchen here. [33]
Design: Regina Bilotta
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Designed by Charles Faudree, this breakfast area boasts beautiful fabrics and delicate design details, like molding on the banquette and antique tole chandelier with dainty shades. Vintage garden prints on the walls give the space a touch of country charm.
Design: Charles Faudree
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An upholstered banquette for two is tucked in between two floor-to-ceiling pantries for plenty of kitchen storage space. A space-saving half-round table provides surface area for dining or homework, and can be moved to accommodate the dining room, which is just a few steps away.
Take a look at the rest of this colorful home here. [40]
Design: Bill Murphy
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The desire for a kitchen banquette triggered a whole-house renovation for TV celeb Meredith Vieira and her husband Richard Cohen. The resulting diner-style banquette is upholstered in leather from Ralph Lauren; reclaimed white-oak flooring and an Italian-inspired light fixture above give the space a rustic villa feel.
See the rest of Meredith's home here. [44]
Design: Stanley Hura
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This space-saving banquette is covered in a snappy polka-dot fabric from Lee Jofa and tucked underneath a set of cabinets for additional kitchen storage. A pair of wall sconces flanking the banquette and a trio of black-and-white prints above keep the snug space friendly and inviting.
See the rest of this New York home here. [48]
Design: Eric Cohler
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Arched windows frame a country-chic breakfast area, where a long banquette seats a crowd at the oval dining table. Plush pillows and swing-arm lamps on either side of the banquette keep the space casual yet intimate.
See the rest of this French-inspired home here. [52]
Design: Mary Jo Donohoe
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Built-in window seats and cozy benches are attractive solutions for creating compact seating space in kitchens or other high-traffic rooms.
In this space, the windows work with the cheerful blue chairs to open up the kitchen and make the most of this small breakfast nook.
Architect: Dan Rew
Design: Joe Lucas and Parish Chilcoat
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Offering both a splash of color and additional seating, this banquette curves around a round table at one end of the kitchen.
Architect: Cynthia Childs
Design: Brenda Eastman
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Atlanta designer Robert Brown created this sunny breakfast room, which is furnished with a settee from Lee Industries, a Robert Allen leather armchair, and a wood-topped Henredon table that's suited for dining or paperwork.
Interior Design: Robert Brown
Kitchen Design: Lina Pittam
Architect: Lew Oliver
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The cozy corner banquette, with its sophisticated cocoa-and-cream fabric, helps add character to this kitchen.
Interior Design: Jessica Lagrange
Kitchen Design: Kathy Manzella
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The black table and banquette free up this narrow kitchen while adding character and glamour to the space.
Interior Design: Carrie Hayden
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This dainty breakfast nook is the perfect complement to the sunny yellow walls of the kitchen.
Architectural Design: Louise Brooks
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The black and white cushions as well as the streamlined nature of this breakfast banquette add to the crisp, graphic look of the kitchen.
Design: Eva Quateman
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Ideal for entertaining, the dining bench in this kitchen decorated by Denyse Rinfret, is comfortable and sure to encourage leisurely conversation.
Interior Design: Denyse Rinfret
Kitchen Design: George Gavalas
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This kitchen banquette not only offers a cozy place to eat breakfast, but also a wonderful view to the outdoors.
Architect: David Neff
Interior Design: Jennifer Garrigues
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This sunny banquette provides a lovely view outside, and keeps the table from blocking traffic to the beach.
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This large corner banquette is a comfy place to eat, lounge, play games, or enjoy the view.
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A deep cushioned bench banquette covered in natural hues looks casual and is an inviting seat in any home.
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With light blue cushions, this spacious, curved banquette provides a pleasant dining experience.
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The light blue and champagne hues of this plush corner banquette and dining bench give off the aura of a home in the English countryside.
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The white wood of the walls and corner banquette offer a striking contrast to the dark stain of the floor, table and chairs in this kitchen.


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Hello Everyone,
Boy things have changed since the early 1980's. Today you can take a virtual trip to Adana or any other city in Turkiye just by using Google, else facebook or youtube. To see the pigeons of Adana type in Adana Kuslari Guvercin or Adana Kus, else Adana Guvercin under "Images". There they are just like we saw in the 1980's. This sure brings back old memories. I am glad to hear that some here are interested in the pigeons of Adana. I suppose the selection of birds are few and far between. I regret not importing the birds back then as I had very good stock from an old friend Feyzi Surjuk at Incirlik. The cupboard method did not work well for us here in Eastern Kentucky. Had to use wire flooring and the birds must be attended daily. Also once they got used to the area many refused to fly...very stubborn birds. My stock back then was from the Ulrich Reber imports and Aleppo, Syria. Nothing like we saw in Adana. Maybe years from now the birds will gain more popularity in the USA. I hope this finds everyone doing well. Signed, Duane Terry


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By Ben Hayward | Spanish Football Writer
It was only ever going to be about one man. When the Fifa Ballon d'Or winner for 2012 was announced in Zurich on Monday, it was returned to its rightful owner since 2009. For the fourth January in a row, the glittering Golden Ball for the world's finest footballer in a calendar year was awarded to Lionel Andres Messi. Who else?
Michel Platini was 30 when he won his third Ballon d'Or, Johan Cruyff achieved the honour at 27 and Marco van Basten was 28. No player had ever claimed football's most prestigious individual prize on more than three occasions. Now Messi has - at the tender age of 25!
The Argentine is the game's greatest talent right now and 2012 was his greatest year yet. It was when he finally managed to reproduce his Barcelona brilliance at international level, which will represent a huge personal satisfaction for a man who cares deeply about his country. There were 91 goals in total, of course, as Messi smashed Gerd Muller's mark of 85 in a calendar year.
|JAN 4th
|Messi came on after 59 minutes in the Copa del Rey against Osasuna and scored two goals late in the game
|FEB 19th
|Leo hit his 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th in an incredible four-goal display versus Valencia in La Liga
|MAR 17th
|The 25-year-old passed a quarter of a century with a double against Sevilla at the Sanchez Pizjuan
|JUN 9th
|Messi reaches and surpasses 50 goals with a brilliant hat-trick in Argentina's 4-3 win over Brazil
|NOV 11th
|The Argentine scored twice in the 4-2 win at Mallorca to overtake Pele's mark of 75 goals in a single year (1958)
|DEC 9th
|Messi's two strikes against Betis saw him surpass Muller's mark of 85 in a calendar year. He ended with 91
He then went one better in March, netting five in an astonishing 7-1 success in the Champions League at home to Bayer Leverkusen, later going on to surpass his own mark (shared with Ruud van Nistelrooy) of 12 goals in the continental competition and tie Jose Altafini's record of 14 strikes in a single season in the European Cup.
Messi would miss out on a fourth Champions League medal as he missed a penalty in the semi-final exit at the hands of Chelsea, but led Barca to the Copa del Rey (their final trophy under Pep Guardiola) and earlier became the Catalans' all-time top goalscorer in official games as he surpassed Cesar Rodriguez's 232 strikes.
And the new season has brought goals galore, too, with 35 more added in the remainder of 2012 as Messi overtook Muller to claim yet another record (although Zambia great Godfrey Chitalu is claimed to have netted 107 in 1972).
So what was his most memorable moment of 2012?
None of the above, nor the third Ballon d'Or he picked up last January. No, Messi's highlight last year was the birth of his new son, Thiago. "It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to me," he told Olé recently.
Barcelona fans may believe Messi is the greatest thing that has ever happened to them - or at least to their club. Legends come and go at Camp Nou with greater frequency than at most other sides; Cruyff, Diego Maradona, Hristo Stoichkov, Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho have all lit up numerous nights for the Blaugrana over the years. But not one of them made their mark quite like Messi has done.
Leo has made the impossible possible at Camp Nou over the last five years. Even in a quite brilliant football team, he is the man who makes the difference. And while other legends have grown complacent or fallen by the wayside, perhaps the most impressive trait of all in Messi is his determination to master every single last detail of his game. Gone are the days when the Argentine was afraid of shooting with his right foot, while headed goals and free kicks have also been added to an already remarkable repertoire. There is now little left.
There is one obstacle in Messi's path which he would love to overcome, however, and that is success with his national team. The 25-year-old is approaching his peak, a frightening thought in itself, and has his eyes firmly set on World Cup glory at Brazil 2014.
If Leo leads Argentina to the title in South America then he will have matched Maradona. Should that happen, the comparisons will surely end - Diego was a master but modern-day Messi is much more of a team player, scores many more goals and produces with an incredible consistency that was missing at times in his celebrated compatriot.
By the time 2014 comes around, as Cruyff commented some time ago, Messi will probably have claimed five or six Ballons d'Or. So whatever he goes on to achieve in the game from now on, he is unlikely to surprise us now. But expect him to keep on enthralling us for many, many years to come. He may have just become the first man ever to win a fourth Ballon d'Or, but this little genius is just getting going.
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Square Enix has free-to-play Kingdom Hearts title in the works
Square Enix is working on a browser-based Kingdom Hearts game to tie into its upcoming PS3-effort Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix.
Developed by Success Corporation, Kingdom Hearts X[chi] has been revealed as a free-to-play title that will be playable online. According to Siliconera, it will be supported by microtransactions that allow players to power-up their characters faster.
Those who purchase HD 1.5 Remix will score some bonus items for the online game. The first available print copies of the console title will come with a code for a Sora card, 20,000 munny, and a 4,000 card draw point; and those who purchase directly through Square Enix will also receive a Riku card, 10 potions, and 10 ethers.
No release date has been mentioned yet for the browser title, but Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix is set to launch in Japan next month on March 14th.


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A huge line of passengers stretched down the sidewalk on World Way West on Saturday as Southwest, US Airlines and other carriers struggled to adjust to flight disruptions from bad weather on the East Coast and in the Midwest.
And airlines operations managers were casting a wary eye on a blizzard approaching Chicago later in the day, which was expected to deliver another paralyzing jolt to transcontinental air travel.
More than 2,000 flights were canceled nationwide Friday, most of them due to planes being held out of the storm-ravaged Chicago region and New England.
Southwest and USAirways both reported no cancellations on Saturday.
But that did not mean a lack of chaos and lines at terminals, crowded with vacationers trying to get home. "Our system is still trying to get on track from the delays in Chicago,'' said Southwest spokesman Dan Lansen.
At USAirways, "for us, today is a question of how do we manage the east-west flow," said spokesman Bill McGlashen.
Late in the morning Saturday, a long queue of passengers snaked out of Terminal 1. Los Angeles Airport Police tweeted an aerial photo, and urged people departing from that terminal to check ahead and arrive early.
West Coast airports remained clogged with post Rose Bowl and end-of-the-holiday travelers.
Los Angeles World Airports spokesman Marshall Lowe said 10 arrivals and four departures were canceled as of 7 a.m. Saturday at LAX, and another 12 landings or takeoffs were delayed.
"We're watching another winter storm system moving into the Chicago area (Saturday night), and that one has the chance to really have an effect on the system," said Lansen at the Dallas-based Southwest.


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Today, Antec announced the TPQ-1200, the latest addition to Antec's TruePower Quattro line of high-performance power supplies. The $300 TPQ-1200 is Antec's first 1200-watt model and the first to feature Antec's new PowerCache technology; a high-performance capacitor that delivers an extra power reserve where and when users need it most.
The TPQ-1200 features a quiet 80mm Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) fan which runs up to 50% quieter than standard voltage-controlled fans, while the straight-through design helps improve airflow and keep your power supply cooler. Meanwhile, Advanced Hybrid Cable Management reduces cable clutter and helps improve performance by keeping all necessary cables hardwired. Additional features include six +12V output circuits to spread power evenly throughout the system, DC to DC voltage regulator modules and high-quality Japanese brand capacitors for enhanced system reliability. The TPQ-1200 is designed to support quad core, Core i7 and Core i5 CPUs, quad GPUs and is NVIDIA™ Quad SLI™-Ready certified, as well as ATI CrossFire™ certified.
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July 8, 1919 - April 23, 2013
Manchester, NY
Freda J. (Snook) Noteboom, 93, died April 23, 2013 in Manchester, NY.
Freda was born July 8, 1919 in Lafeyette, NJ, the daughter of Jacob and Lena (Clouse) Snook. On March 15, 1941, she married William Noteboom at Vernon Methodist Church. She was an active 4-H Club member in her youth and, along with her husband, was the 4-H area representatives for Tioga County in the 80's. Freda was a 75 year member of the Grange and while a member of the Hamptonburgh Grange served in many offices. She was an Elder of Hamptonburgh Presbyterian Church and later a member of Christ the King Presbyterian Church in Spencer.
She is survived by her children: Linda (Harold) Greaves of Damascus, PA, David (Judy) Noteboom of Spencer, NY, Albert (Clara) Noteboom of Pine Bush, NY, Fred (Joan) Noteboom of Shortsville, NY, and Jennifer (Joseph) Maurizzio of Narrowsburgh, NY; 17 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; brother, Earl Snook; sisters-in-law, Dorothy Snook and Jeanette Paulson; and several nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her husband of 63 years, William; her parents; an infant sister; two infant brothers; grandson, Christopher Noteboom; brother, Edward Snook; and sister-in-law, Mary Snook.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 27 at the Hopewell Presbyterian Church, Corner of Route 302 and County Route 17, Thompson Ridge, NY.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Freda's memory can be made to the National MS Society NYC-South NYC Chapter, PO Box 4594, New York, NY 10163-4594 or http://www.nationalmssociety.org/ or to the Lions Camp Badger, 725 Larue Road, Spencer, NY 14883 or http://www.lionscb.org/.
Arrangements by the Halsted-Patrick Funeral Home, Manchester, NY. 585-289-4014.


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Check out these fabulous modern house design pictures gallery of a beautiful eclectic home tour interior decorating ideas located in London, United Kingdom (UK) photographed by 1st Option agency. The family has personalized every room interior with an unusual luxury vibe and color concept of its own. This house tour open space plan architecture that blends minimalist kitchen design, elegant living room and comfortable dining room keeps the entire these spaces separate but seamlessly situated. The light gray color schemes counter top and cabinets subtly introduce significance to the space while letting your eye lead you through the whole space at a pleasing pace.
Also electric house tours features through hanging a huge antique mirror artistic design on the far wall, they made a focal point in a bare corner for unexpected charm cute and color by reflecting the accent wall that ties the room together nicely. This house tour exciting dining room interior decorating is rich with pops of vibrant color and an extraordinary chandelier resembling ceiling strung light bulbs. Absolutely a conversation starter that is a nice house design element in a dining space!
The white decorative wall designs serve the amazing purpose of allowing the objects displayed to do the story-telling. This blue color slate accent color does wonders for the fireplace wall, which is naturally a focal point and harmoniously coordinates with the other gray and red accents in the room. The build-in niches in the wall add dimension to the architecture and by painting them white, slowly breaks your eye away from the accent wall and leads you back to the default wall color. Again, fresh flowers create some room come alive! Wallpaper is a great way to warm and dress up a small basic guest room.


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Type: Defect
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Completed
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: None
Environment:Clojure 1.3
Leiningen 1.7.1 on Java 1.6.0_26
core.match "0.2.0-alpha9"
The following source example:
The defrule macro calls a function called lhs that use the match library,
this function calls it self recursively and print out the rest of body left to be matched,
When running lein compile two different results appear (in non deterministic fashion):
(when $message :> Message (== level 6) :from (entry-point event-stream))
($message :> Message (== level 6) :from (entry-point event-stream))
(Message (== level 6) :from (entry-point event-stream))
((== level 6) :from (entry-point event-stream))
This is the bug, as (== level 6) should be matched by:
[([([(o :when operator?) f s] :seq) :as c & r] :seq)]
In other cases the output is (the correct one):
(when $message :> Message (== level 6) :from (entry-point event-stream))
($message :> Message (== level 6) :from (entry-point event-stream))
(Message (== level 6) :from (entry-point event-stream))
((== level 6) :from (entry-point event-stream))
(:from (entry-point event-stream))
(entry-point event-stream)
All AOT related issues w/o patches are low priority for the foreseeable future. They are simply too time consuming to track down and I don't have the bandwidth at the moment. I will get to them eventually, but if you want movement on this please submit a patch. I will happily apply it!
Hey David,
After going through the source code and some more in depth look I managed to understand what was going on, first iv stepped through the different stages
(def m (emit-matrix ['body]
'( [(['when & r] :seq)] (lhs r)
[(['accumulate & r] :seq)] (<< "accumulate(~(lhs r))")
[([bind ':> & r] :seq)] (<< "~{bind}:~(lhs r)"); pattern with bind
[([(t :when is-type?) & r] :seq)] (<< "{t}(lhs r)"); pattern
[([([(f :when acc-fn?) & args] :seq) & r] :seq)] (<< ",{f}{args}~(lhs r)" ); accumulate function
[([':from dest & r] :seq)] (<< "from ~(lhs dest) ~(lhs r)")
[([':over win & r] :seq)] (<< "over ~(window win) ~(lhs r)")
[([([(o :when operator?) f s] :seq) :as c & r] :seq)] (<< "(~(reduce str (map pr-str (to-infix c)))) ~(lhs r)")
[(['entry-point point & r] :seq)] (<< "entry-point \"~{point}\"~(lhs r)")
:else ""
(def c (cm/compile m))
(pprint c)
(pprint (executable-form c))
The last pprint failed aot compilation:
$ lein compile
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: clojure.core.match.WildcardPattern cannot be cast to java.lang.String
Which was very weird as I could clearly see that:
(deftype WildcardPattern [sym _meta]
(sym [_] sym)
(meta [_] _meta)
(withMeta [_ new-meta]
(WildcardPattern. sym new-meta))
(toString [_]
(str sym)))
Then iv also tried to enabled trace:
(set-trace! true)
Which resulted with:
$ lein compile
TRACE: DAG: Column 0 : [#<SeqPattern #<LiteralPattern window> #<LiteralPattern :time> #<WildcardPattern t> #<WildcardPattern unit>>]
TRA at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyzeSeq(Compiler.java:6416)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze(Compiler.java:6216)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze(Compiler.java:6177)
at clojure.lang.Compiler$BodyExpr$Parser.parse(Compiler.java:5572)
at clojure.lang.Compiler$FnMethod.parse(Compiler.java:5008)
at clojure.lang.Compiler$FnExpr.parse(Compiler.java:3629)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyzeSeq(Compiler.java:6407)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze(Compiler.java:6216)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyzeSeq(Compiler.java:6397)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze(Compiler.java:6216)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.access$100(Compiler.java:37)
at clojure.lang.Compiler$DefExpr$Parser.parse(Compiler.java:492)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyzeSeq(Compiler.java:6409)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze(Compiler.java:6216)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze(Compiler.java:6177)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.compile1(Compiler.java:6980)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:7046)
at clojure.lang.RT.compile(RTCE: DAG: Add switch-node on occurrence exp
The most weird thing was that on second compile it all went well, this raised a flag and my suspicion was that the core.match classes got compiled on the first run:
$ ls classes/
Then iv decided to AOT compile clojure.core match:
$ git checkout core.match-0.2.0-alpha9
$ git diff project.clj
-(defproject match "0.2.0-alpha10-SNAPSHOT"
+(defproject match "0.2.0-alpha10-aot"
:description "Optimized pattern matching and predicate dispatch for Clojure"
:source-path "src/main/clojure"
- :test-path "src/test/clojure")
+ :test-path "src/test/clojure"
+ :aot [clojure.core.match]
+ )
After using the aot jar it all went smooth including passing my non deterministic case (which is deterministic but very confusing to track down),
In order to reproduce it its important to run:
$ lein clean
$ rm -rf lib
And only then run
$ lein compile
Otherwise the classes dir might contain AOT'ed classes and make it seem that even non-aot jar works fine (its enough to run lein compile once to cause the classes to get compiled),
The fix in my case is simple, just AOT ns.
Im not sure if this Is a bug in the way Clojure AOT its classes but I think that adding the AOT'ed classes to the default core match distro is a reasonable workaround
BTW when using master (and not the tag) iv stumbled upon:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AssertionError: Assert failed: Unknown predicate in [is-type?]
Which is a pred defined in my ns.
- :test-path "src/test/clojure") + :test-path "src/test/clojure" + :aot [clojure.core.match] + )
This sounds very similar to the other AOT bug reported by Kevin Lynagh
MATCH-53 which is fixed in master, unless I hear different this is resolved.


text: An emotionally powerful piece that starts quietly with a delicate high piano melody playing above quiet chords. Strings are slowly added before new themes appears on both piano and strings. Finally, all the themes play together and build up yearningly towards a powerful climax. On the last run, choir and solo violin are added for extra emotion. The music finishes on a powerful sustained chord into….silence. This would suit any production that needs quiet, sad music that builds up to a big emotional ending.


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In U.S., Pakistanis Eye Election Back Home
WASHINGTON—As Pakistan votes Saturday, few are watching with the apprehension felt by hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis in America.
For them, fraught relations between their native and chosen lands are as worrisome as the threats posed by political violence back home.
Next to Britain, the U.S. has the largest number of Pakistani residents...


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SSI: Trailers, Fifth-Wheels Drive October Gains
December 20, 2012 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on SSI: Trailers, Fifth-Wheels Drive October Gains
Year-over-year retail towable sales increased 8.2% in October and 8.5% year-to-date. According to the latest report from Statistical Surveys Inc., results showed:
• Sales for the high-volume travel trailer sector gained 8.8% in October while year-to-date registrations rose 11.6%.
• Fifth-wheel registrations grew 10.2% for the month and 6.2% for the 10 months.
• Folding camping trailer sales declined 8.1% in October and 10.7% year-to-date.
• Park model sales declined 6.5% for October and 16.3% for the 10 months.
Thor Industries Inc. was the towable sales leader year-to-date with a 36.5% market share, followed by Forest River Inc. at 21.5% and Jayco Inc. with a 11.9% share.
By segment for the first 10 months, Thor was No. 1 in travel trailer sales with a 33.1% share, ahead of Forest River (21.5%) and Jayco (13.7%). Thor held a commanding lead in fifth-wheel sales, capturing a 53.6% market share, while Forest River posted a 17.3% share and Jayco had a 6.1% share.
Forest River was the folding camping trailer sales leader for the 10 months with a 44.6% market share while Jayco (18.8%) held the No. 2 position followed by Forest River's Coachmen RV division (10.8%). In the park model segment, Thor was No. 1, posting a 27.4% market share, with Kropf Manufacturing Co. at No. 2, holding a 10.8% share, and Skyline Corp. third at 8.8%.
To subscribe to this or other SSI reports, contact Scott Stropkai, national RV sales manager, at (616) 281-9898 ext. 128, or (616) 446-8179 (cell).


text: You know, I miss dim sum. I miss it so much that I want to have dim sum on Thursday. Come have dim sum with me: Pearl Liang 8 Sheldon Square, W2 6EZ http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Pearl_Liang%2C_W2_6EZ http://www.pearlliang.co.uk/ Thursday 24th November, 1pm It's just an informal gathering. We turn up, grab some food, then disappear into London. I'll be the one with the camel. PS It's quite hard to find unless you know where you are going. Check the links. See you there, Leon