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Christmas Bike Trip
Do you love to bicycle? Want to get away for the holidays? Plan to be a part of this exciting six day bicycle tour through the mountains, deserts, and seacoast around San Diego! It is a 6 day 400 mile ride!
Registration will open around August 2013!
Discounted hostel stays also available for out-of-town guests. Please make sure to review the ride details.
Your trip fee covers overnight facilities in church multipurpose rooms, recreation centers, and gymnasiums, breakfast and dinner each day (please note that you are responsible for your own lunch each day and bringing sleeping materials), sag wagon support, leadership, and the Christmas Trip T-shirt.
No official mechanical or rest support is provided on the trip. All riders are expected to bring the spare parts and tools they may need, especially if you have non-standard tubes or other parts. Though it is a very collegiate ride and certainly there will be knowledgable people on the trip, happy to lend assistance unofficially and in their individual capacities.
You are able to book alternate accomodations at hotels along the route.
And please take a look at this video for a sneak peak of why people say it's so much fun and keep coming back year after year!
Ride Schedule
- December 26: San Diego to Pine Valley, 50 miles. Pine Valley is a small mountain village.
- December 27: Pine Valley to Warner Springs, 65 miles. A great day of riding. Stop for apple pie in Julian!
- December 28: Warner Springs to Palm Desert, 100 miles. Great desert views and riding. Grab a date milkshake!
- December 29: Palm Desert to Hemet, 64 miles. Head winds build character.
- December 30: Hemet to Fallbrook, 50 miles. A fantastic ride along oak tree shaded country roads.
- December 31: Fallbrook to San Diego, 55 miles. Soak up the sea air as you ride along the stunning San Diego Coastline.
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My last serious boyfriend was a brilliant writer, actor and radio voiceover man who made very little money. And what he did make was funneled away to child and spousal support. But he was a lovely human being, both spiritually and physically, so I tried to be okay with the fact that anytime we wanted to go out to dinner for something other than take-out tacos, it was my treat.
But I wasn't okay with it -- and frankly, neither was he. I became resentful after a while that the relationship became a money drain, and he was mortified at not being able to treat me to a nice dinner once in a while. The relationship finally tanked, a victim of our paycheck imbalance and the rigors of modern life. If I'd hung on a few more years, I might have been helped by the wealth of information now available about this bona fide trend; it turns out our situation has become all too common.
Where men still out-earn women, females are catching up with a vengeance. In 1981, only 16 percent of women out-earned their male counterparts. In 2000, it was 22 percent, and these days it's almost 40 percent. Research predicts that by 2030 the average woman will out-earn the average man. Good news, eh? Not always. For some couples, this can be a major problem.
According to one study by the American Sociological Association, when men are economically dependent on their women, they are more likely to cheat. "It may be that men who make less money than their partners are more unhappy and cheat because they are unhappy," says Christin Munsch, a sociology Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University.
So how are couples adapting? Apparently, not too well.
"A lot has changed in marriage and gender in the last couple of decades, but there's still a sense -- on the part of both men and women -- that men should be the providers," W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project (NMP), tells The Daily Beast. "We haven't come to terms with the fact that we're facing a whole new social moment in which women are doing better than men are."
According to the NMP, husbands with kids in the home are 61 percent less likely to report that they're "very happy" in their marriages when they work fewer hours than their wives.
Among singles, women sometimes compensate for their superior earnings by hiding the truth, fearing it will be off-putting to potential mates. "They think their success will seem too threatening and be held against them," writes Liza Mundy, author of The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family, in a recent Time magazine article. "As a result, some women in the dating pool devise camouflage mechanisms. A young ob-gyn working in Pittsburgh tells men she meets that she 'works at the hospital, taking care of patients,' subtly encouraging the idea that she's a nurse, not a doctor."
But, Mundy notes, things are changing, and couples are adapting. "Research suggests that men will be just as adaptive and realize what an advantage a high-earning partner can be," she writes. "Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity to do so. So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do."
Here are six tips for coping with paycheck imbalance.
1. Talk and listen to each other.
Paychecks and housework aside, a new study from the University of Virginia shows the factor that contributes most to a happy relationship is whether you and your partner are engaged emotionally.
2. If he's feeling insecure, be his biggest cheerleader.
Nothing works better than strokes when someone is feeling down about their lack of earnings. Tell your man you admire what he's doing. And if he's home with the kids, tell him how you believe it's helping the family as a unit. Support him and his contributions as deeply as you can.
3. Open yours, mine and ours accounts.
This is a good policy for any couple, but especially if there is an earning disparity. Doing this allows you to pay for dinner (or clothes or vacations or anything not considered critical) out of the "ours" account without worrying about whose money it is.
4. Focus on the endgame.
Experts say that no matter who is earning the money, you should still set short-, medium- and long-term goals for your financial future. Dreaming together helps you forget the small stuff like paycheck imbalance.
5. Forget about earnings when taking on duties.
It doesn't matter if one partner is making $22,000 a year and the other is making $220,000. If both of you are working and putting in long hours, you still need to negotiate how to take care of chores in the spare time you have.
6. Seek professional help.
There's no reason money issues should damage a good relationship. If you find yourselves getting into repeated and heated arguments about money, consider an objective counselor to help you sort out the feelings, attitudes and behaviors that you each bring to the situation. A good therapist can help you get back on the same team.
Keep reading: The Rewards of Midlife Marriage
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Dean Gitter sells interest in Emerson Resort
MOUNT TREMPER, N.Y. — Emily H. Fisher, the primary investor in the Emerson Resort and Spa on Route 28, has bought out the shares of co-owner Dean Gitter to become the property's sole owner, the Emerson announced on Tuesday.
A press release from the resort said the sale of his Emerson shares will let Gitter devote more time to his proposed Belleayre Resort at Castkill Park, a project he hopes to build near the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center in Highmount.
"Emily and I have worked together for almost two decades to bring to Shandaken an asset which has brought national attention to the town," Gitter said of the Emerson in a prepared statement. "At my age, I cannot continue to ride two horses. So Emily will continue her stewardship of the Emerson, while I concentrate all my energies on the Belleayre Resort initiative."
Gitter and Fisher have been partners since 1994. In 1996, they launched Catskill Corners on Route 28 in Mount Tremper, an operation that consisted of the Kaatskill Kaleidoscope (dubbed the "World's Largest Kaleidoscope") and the Kaleidostore.
Now called the Emerson, the property has grown to include the Inn, the Lodge, two dining venues and the award-winning spa.
Fisher's son and daughter-in-law, Britton and Melina Fisher, recently joined the Emerson team and are actively involved in planning for the Emerson's future initiatives and continued growth, the press release stated.
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Donna Smith, American SiCKO, is executive director of the Health Care for All Colorado Foundation
Gutting Medicare and Social Security would make looking forward to retirement much more frightening for millions of working class Americans. That seems a simple statement that anyone could understand. Yet, I don't hear or see a public outcry against the sorts of changes that everyone with any power in American political circles, Republicans and Democrats, takes for granted. I wrote last week that I was offended that politicians imply since I am older than 55, I shouldn't worry about proposed changes as they wouldn't take effect for me. But I'm pretty sure that we're not being told the full story about what kinds of cuts are likely to benefits that will make it harder for all of us.
I feel as though the train is coming straight at me and I have no power to get off the tracks. Though I keep waiting for someone to say there will be no diminishment of Social Security benefits nor will there be any weakening of the Medicare program, no one utters those words. The reason no one says those words is because no one is holding the line for these two critical programs.
Wouldn't it be great if someone actually said we've reached the point where we understand how difficult it is for people of retirement age to live decently on Social Security benefits alone and that the Medicare program needs to be strengthened in order to make sure our elderly and disabled have access to needed healthcare without financial barrier? The reality is that it is very difficult to survive on just Social Security benefits and that even the current Medicare program has gaps that leave seniors struggling for needed care and medicines.
It doesn't really matter to me who won which debate during the current presidential election cycle. I listen as much for what the candidates don't say as for what they do say. And I've yet to hear one of them say that the Social Security and Medicare promised to me and promised to my children who are now reaching their 30s and early 40s will be strong enough to meet our needs in retirement years. Never before have these promises been so important as private pension funds and other savings for retirement quickly fall away for many working class Americans.
So many people like me have nothing left in savings to fall back on. So many of us have little or no retirement security outside of what we believed could never be taken away from Social Security and Medicare. No matter which calamity we faced --stagflation in the 70s, loss of jobs and recession in the 80s, rising and staggering healthcare costs in the 90s that continue even now as the current deep recession with so much job loss forces families like mine to use every last dime to stay afloat. No matter what else, we always knew Social Security and Medicare would be there.
Our current elected leaders in both parties seem ignorant about the financial realities for working class America. When I turned 15 years old, my father told me it was time for me to get a real job. I had always done babysitting and other side jobs in my neighborhood to earn my own spending money after I was 12, but at 15 with work permit in hand as evidence that my school believed I was a good enough student to also handle working, I found my first job working behind the counter at a local dry cleaners. I was so excited when I saw my first paycheck. My Republican dad sat down with me and went over the stub, including the numbers that showed my payments for Social Security and Medicare taxes. It didn't make me angry that I paid those taxes. I knew as he explained to me it was a way for me and for everyone who worked and got a paycheck to know we'd be cared for as we got older. It was a social contract. It wasn't just that I wanted to make sure that my father was able to retire without worry or that I thought I wouldn't have to save. It was a welcome relief to know we all shared responsibility to one another.
If as a part of a seriously misguided effort to pin the blame for poor fiscal management on these critical social safety net programs our elected officials continue to plan on cutting Social Security and Medicare, every one of us who has worked, who is working, who knows or loves someone who is working, or cares about the honesty and integrity implicit in our social contracts needs to rise up and demand a different kind of change. We need to reevaluate the strength of these programs and how well they are protecting today's seniors and today's disabled people against the ravages of an economy and society so steeped in greed and profit taking. The fiscal commissions we need are those that would make life better for millions of people not make life harder for generations to come. Not coincidentally, making Social Security stronger would also make our economy stronger and help lower deficits as more revenue streamed in from folks using benefits for everyday living expenses and taxes paid on those purchases were collected.
In this excellent piece by Rose Ann DeMoro, Social Security's future is in our hands, not in the hands of a handful of selfish politicians who wave some flag of deficit-cutting morality as yet another scare tactic.
Medicare for all for life would save billions of dollars and allow every American access to a single standard of high quality healthcare. Social Security made stronger, with benefits that allowed a livable standard of living for benefit recipients, should be our goal. Anything short of strengthening these two programs is simply wrong. Wouldn't it be wonderful to hear our elected officials debate whose program made the most positive impact for our seniors, our disabled, and our communities? How different would that conversation be?
Every American ought to be listening to the dialogue right now not just with terror about the serious damage that is clearly coming down the pike for Social Security and Medicare no matter which party is in power but also with one steady demand. Keep your promise. Keep the contract that was made with so many young people when they saw their first paychecks. This was no entitlement but an earned benefit that we paid for with our labor. Make sure Social Security and Medicare continue as the contractual bond from generation to generation as our commitment to human decency and the common good.
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The Lou Reed and Lester Bangs feud is more complicated than most journo-musician dust-ups. Bangs was a manic fan that could overly praise the Velvet Underground frontman's albums while completely slagging others. While commending Reed's talent in several reviews, Bangs still had a hard time with Reed as a person, calling him "a liar, a wasted talent, an artist continually in flux, and a huckster selling pounds of his own flesh." Reed would never let Bangs have the last word, and the pair seemed to fight all the time. Maybe they just liked to argue with each other?
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Authorities on Tuesday released nearly 600 photos that investigators took in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others.
One of three people arrested after a brawl with an Arizona State University fraternity last month has pleaded not guilty in the case.
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's debate over abortion.
A Tempe attorney accused of shooting and wounding his girlfriend's former boyfriend has entered a plea of not guilty.
U.S. Marshalls caught another fugitive who has been on the run for more than a decade after being convicted of sexual assault charges in Arizona.
A Gilbert woman has been sentenced to prison after admitting that she pretended to have cancer in order to collect donations.
Any chance of cities or counties conducting future gun-buyback programs is about to evaporate.
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"Blood-drenched" barely begins to describe Fede Alvarez's remake of "Evil Dead," a gore-for-broke affair that strips the flesh off Sam Raimi's cult-beloved comic-horror franchise and exposes the demons at its core. The presence of Raimi, original collaborator Rob Tapert, and star Bruce Campbell as producers should give the faithful permission to attend what would otherwise smell like a shameless exploitation of the 1981 film, but the high production values and nonstop action offered here should also please younger genre fans who've never bothered to rent it.
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A retired Mesa police sergeant has pleaded not guilty to charges of child molestation and sexual exploitation of a minor.
A retired Mesa police sergeant has pleaded not guilty to charges of child molestation and sexual exploitation of a minor.
In countless films about emergencies, crimes and police work, the 911 dispatcher is but a bit player, an anonymous, robotic voice briefly heard on the other end of a breathless call made by our movie's main players.
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Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal recently made an impassioned plea to the House Education Committee to give him $35 million for the creation of a new computer system for the Department of Education. As a K-12 educator for over 40 years, I only wish that his plea was for something that would actually help students.
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The acronym was coined by Jim O'Neill a Goldman Sachs employee in a 2001 paper entitled "Building Better Global Economic BRICs". The acronym has come into widespread use as a symbol of the shift in global economic power away from the developed G7 economies to the developing nations.
Political dialogue between the BRIC countries began in New York in September 2006, with a meeting of the BRIC foreign ministers. Four high-level meetings followed, including a full-scale meeting in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on May 16, 2008.
The BRIC countries met for their first official summit on 16 June 2009, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dmitry Medvedev, Manmohan Singh, and Hu Jintao, the respective leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China, all attending. The core focus of the summit was related to improving the current global economic situation and discussing how the four countries can better work together in the future, as well as a more general push to reform financial institutions. There was also discussion surrounding how emerging markets, such as those members of BRIC, could be better involved in global affairs in the future.
In the aftermath of the summit the BRIC nations suggested that there was a need for a new global reserve currency that is 'diversified, stable and predictable'. The statement that was released stopped short of making a direct attack on the perceived 'dominance' of the US dollar, something which the Russians have been critical of; however, it still led to a fall in the value of the dollar against other major currencies.
South Africa sought membership during 2010 and the process for formal admission began as early as August 2010. South Africa was admitted as a member nation on December 24, 2010 after being formally invited by China and the other BRIC countries to join the group. The group was renamed BRICS to reflect the now-five-nation membership, with an "S" for South Africa appended to the acronym. President Jacob Zuma attended the 2011 BRICS summit in Sanya, Hainan province, China in April 2011 as a full member.


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So Microsoft buddied up with CVS last year and has been buying key healthcare software manufacturers like Sentillion, which they purchased in December. This week, Microsoft are announcing their new Healthcare Community Vault software that lets patients (and their doctors) see medical records and make appointments online plus a host of shared functionality. With all the health care legislation goings-on, Microsoft seem to have made a smart move into what could catapult them into a very lucrative vertical market. I must check in with my old colleagues at Sage Healthcare and see what is stirring for them.
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Keep an eye on the results of the FTC meetings in California last month. Some serious global debate on "super cookies" and what it means to the tracking of your online habits. See my article on super cookies http://ezinearticles.com/?Internet-Privacy-2010—Super-Cookies-and-the-Global-Debate&id=3690996


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Located of the Kings Dock on the river Mersey, Liverpool's state of the art 11,000 seater arena is the perfect venue for all aspects of family entertainment.
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G'day you theslydog,
> I think you will find this is a conflict between the 2 Australian post modules.
I think you should read the thread a little more closely. The original thread/problem did relate to the Austpost module, however this was quickly resolved.
The 'extended' discussion (not yet resolved) relates to a different problem in a different module. It has nothing to do with the Aust Post modules.
There is, was, and never has been any conflict between the two different austpost modules. They will quite happly co-exist alongside of each other.
> If you installed the earlier module 'Australia Post Module' and loaded some
> products and then switched to the 'AustPost improved' you will get these
> errors.
No you will not.
> You will need to turn back on the 'Australia Post Module' to view
> these products.
Both modules happily coexist with each other.
> Don't really know another fix at this stage.
There is nothing to fix.
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IBM builds biggest-ever disk for secret customer
120 PB monster 'for simulation'. Nuke labs?
SaaS data loss: The problem you didn't know you had
Analysis Flash may be one cutting edge of storage action, but big data is causing developments at the other side of the storage pond, with IBM developing a 120 petabyte 200,000-disk array.
The mighty drive is being developed for a secret supercomputer-using customer "for detailed simulations of real-world phenomena" according to MIT's Technology Review, and takes current large-array technology trends a step or two further.
IBM Almaden storage systems research director Bruce Hillsberg says that 200,000 SAS disk drives are involved, rather than SATA ones, because performance is a concern. A back-of-an-envelope calculation suggests 600GB drives are being used and Seagate 2.5-inch Savvios come to mind.
Won't lose any data for a million years? Really, give it a rest, this is marketing BS...
We're told that wider racks than normal are being used to accommodate the drives in a smaller amount of floorspace than standard racks would require. Also these racks are water-cooled rather than fan-cooled, which would seem logical if wide drawers crammed full of small form factor (SFF) drives were being used.
Some 2TB of capacity may be needed to hold the file data for the billions of files in the array. The GPFS parallel file system is being used with a hint that flash memory storage is used to speed its operations. This would indicate that the 120PB array would include, say, some Violin Memory arrays to hold the meta-data, and would scan 10 billion files in about 43 minutes.
RAID 6, which can protect against two drive failures, is not enough – not with 200,000 drives to look after – and so a multi-speed RAID set-up is being developed. Multiple copies of data would be written and striped so that a single drive failure could be tolerated easily. A failed drive would be rebuilt slowly in the background. The rebuild would not slow the accessing supercomputer down much if at all. A dual-drive failure would have a faster re-build. A three-drive failure would get a faster rebuild again, with, we assume, the compute side of the supercomputer slowing down somewhat due to a lower array I/O rate.
Hillsberg doesn't say how many drives could simultaneously fail. The MIT article text says the array will be "a system that should not lose any data for a million years without making any compromises on performance". Really, give it a rest, this is marketing BS. Having it work and not lose data for 15 years will be good enough.
We're interested that homogeneous disk drives are being used – presumably all the data on the array will be classed as primary data, apart from the file meta data which will need a flash speed-up. That means no tiering software is needed.
There will be lessons here for other big data drive array suppliers, such as EMC's Isilon unit, DataDirect and Panasas. It will be interesting to see if they abandon standard racks in favour of wider units, SFF drives, water-cooling and improved RAID algorithms too. ®
Storage-heavy supercomputer simulations are used in such tasks as weather forecasting, seismic surveying and complex molecular science - but there would seem no reason to keep any such customer's identity a secret. Another area in which supercomputer simulations are important is nuclear weapons: without live tests it becomes a difficult predictive task to tell whether a warhead will still work after a given period of time. As a result, the US nuclear weaponry labs are leaders in the supercomputing field.
They received my order for the porn storage farm!
I was getting worried by the silence for a while there.
MTBF and operational lifetimes
MTBF absolutely is critical when designing large storage arrays. It's the key number (along with mean time to recover - MTTR) that tells you the likelyhood of a double failure within in any one raid set. It is the size of the raid set, the number of failures it can withstand and the total number of raidsets that matter on a 200,000 array storage device (using RAID in its most general sense of storage redundancy). Note that MTTR on RAID sets including modern, very large disks can be measured in 10s of hours. One of the reasons multi-level protection is becoming more important - the other being unrecoverable read errors short of complete device failure that prevent RAID rebuilds).
There is a big question over just how trustworthy MTBF figures are. Google did a study a few years back demonstrating that failure rates are not random. They tend to be associated with particular batches, models and manufacturers (annoyingly they wouldn't identify the bad ones). Also, they found that failure predictors, including S.M.A.R.T. stats correlated very poorly with actual failures. I've had experience of that myself where very high and statistically extremely improbable failure rates were observed on a subset of disks over a month. That speaks of non-random failure modes. Those devices exhibited no warnings of any failures.
Note that some arrays make the definition of what constitutes a RAID set an extremely slippery concept. Also, the concept of RAID sets and the consequences of common-mode failures compromising redundancy can make this a very tricky analysis.
Also, I wish people would stop thinking MTBF has anything directly to do with the lifespan of a device. The MTBF is simply the average number of total operational hours that might be expected between failures for a large(ish) population of similar devices. The MTBF figure only applies to devices within given (and not well publicised) working lifespans. We have hard drives now with MTBFs approaching 100 years. However, nobody in their right minds believes these devices will actually run for 100 years before they fail - a decade would be good.
In general, very large storage arrays have to be self-healing with dynamic spares and (within the operational lifespan) will rely on a mixture of re-active and pre-emptive device swapping, but I don't know of storage suppliers who swap drives out at fixed lifespan intervals (although I have known manufacturers swap out batches of suspect drives where excessive early failures have been detected in order to pre-empt catastrophic failures).
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Taylor Swift And Kanye West Hang Out With David Hasselhoff At The MTV European Music Awards In Germany
At The MTV European Music Awards David Hasselhoff was like a kids in a candy shop with the amount of celebs that where at the award show!
The former baywatch star was running round having loads of photos with all the other celebs that where at the event.
He had photos with Taylor Swift, Kanye West, PSY and Ludacris.
He tweeted the photos with the captions of:
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"Saw kanye at Coachella last year. Great to see him again He's a gentleman and an amazing artist! @KimKardashian #mtvema"
"Showing off the guns with @ludacris We are pumped and ready for the #MTVEMA"
"Getting lessons from the master backstage @psy_oppa #MTVEMA #gangnamstyle"
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Listen To Justin Bieber New Single All Around The World HERE!
Justin Bieber has dropped his new single with Ludacris and its a good one.
Theres has been much anticipation for the Biebs' upcoming Believe album has been building, and with that, Justin has dropped yet ANOTHER new songfrom it last night!
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Justin Bieber Teases Us With Tracklisting For Believe!
Justin Bieber hs showed off his new art work for his new album called Believe.
He posted the photo on his twitter account just before he took the stage with all his Boyfriend. He had some good dance moves going on too.
The highly anticipated album is set to hit stores on June 19 — less than a month away — and will be featuring a new, improved and most of all, grown-up Biebs!!!
Have a look at the track list below:
01. All Around The World ft. Ludacris
02. Boyfriend
03. As Long As You Love Me ft. Big Sean
04. Take You
05. Right Here ft. Drake
06. Catching Feelings
07. Fall
08. Die In Your Arms
09. Thought Of You
10. Beauty And A Beat ft. Nicki Minaj
11. One Love
12. Be Alright
13. Believe
14. Out Of Town Girl
15. She Don't Like The Lights
16. Maria
WOW Drake and Nicki Minaj thats so exciting.
We are so looking forward to this so much.
[Image via Justin Bieber's Twitter.]
Lineup For Bonnaroo 2012 Is Announced
The line up for Bonnaroo 2012 has been announced and so surprise massive talents going below is the list have a look.
The Beach Boys
Foster The People
Aziz Ansari
Mac Miller
Childish Gambino
Two Door Cinema Club
And there is even more to many more to posh haha.
Tickets go on sale February 18th for the June 7-10 festival.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Music An interval composed of three whole tones.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In music, an interval composed of three whole steps or "tones"—that is, an augmented fourth, as between the fourth and seventh tones of a scale. The older harmonists regarded this interval, even when only suggested, as peculiarly objectionable, whence the proverb "mi contra fa diabolus est." See
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- n. music An interval of three whole tones.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mus.), rare A superfluous or augmented fourth.
- tri- + tone (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin tritonus, from Greek tritonos, having three tones : tri-, three; see trei- in Indo-European roots + tonos, tone; see tone. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
"The tritone is a singularly active interval -- maybe what we mean when we say it's the most dissonant -- which is why the medieval church probably banned it."
"David Evans' photographic essay laid out at the press and printed in tritone by Western Printers with captions digitally set."
"The medieval Catholic Church banned the musical interval of an augmented fourth, the distance between C and F-sharp and also known as a tritone (the interval in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story when Tony sings the name "Maria")."
"This then leads to the eerie E flat and A chords also known as a tritone or the "Devil's chord" played by a solo violin, representing death on his fiddle..."
"The tritone is a great musical motif and can work brilliantly, but when I was taking my music O level 30 years ago we were banned from using it because it was 'wrong'."
"The song's unusual melody included a "tritone" interval (an augmented fourth), which many listeners found hard to accept in a pop song."
Chris McGowan: Two Musical Giants Left Us On December 8: Lennon & Jobim
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"This is the tritone, an interval so unstable and harsh that it has been known for centuries as "the devil in music."
The Washington Post: Discord and democracy: What we can learn about Cairo from Puccini's 'Tosca'
"What would happen if the initial interval picked was not a whole-step, but something else not appearing in a pentatonic scale: a half-step, or a tritone?"
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale on Vimeo
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Keith Zeier has raised over $100,000 for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation and continued to raise money with this climb.
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The Vietnamese life insurance segment has recorded significant growth since 2000, growth that was supported by the country's strong macroeconomic and microeconomic fundamentals, as well as an increase in consumer awareness regarding the benefits of insurance products. As a result of these factors, the country's life insurance segment registered a strong compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.3% during the review period (2007-2011). Over the same timeframe, the majority of life insurance policies sold in Vietnam were endowment policies, with such polices accounting for a 70.9% share of the segment's total written premiums in 2011. Meanwhile, individual life insurance products accounted for a 22% share, and supplementary insurance products accounted for a 5.1% share. The life insurance segment is expected
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Up first, we'll be looking at a few details of Lance Armstrong's rig.
True to its name, this race by the ocean had an expo right on the beach. We're here covering the race, so be sure to check back for more as the weekend rolls on.
Taking its lineup of elite saddles to new heights, Dash has just launched a custom post/saddle combo that is impressive, to say the least.
In our final segment of this year's Ironman World Championships, we're going to take a closer look at the wide array of custom helmets made just for the pros.
As promised, here is our supersized gallery of race-day images from Kona. This year, we focused on the bike so you could get more shots of all that gorgeous gear!
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Take some pride in some great teachers
October 2, 2008 · Updated 11:34 PM
The Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation recently honored three district staff members who go above and beyond the call of duty.
Joe Dockery is one of the best examples of a teacher who motivates his students to make the extra effort and take pride in their work. I've known many students whom Joe has mentored over the years, but it is his dedication to the learning process that is the most inspirational.
Dana Stairs was also recognized for her work in fifth grade at Fall City Elementary. I know my kids had a tough time thinking about that transition to sixth grade and middle school, and for a teacher, in the fifth grade, to have that impact says quite a lot about about her ability to hold students' interest. Her father, Jack Webber, a teacher at Two Rivers School, obviously instilled tremendous teaching values into his daughter, and in fact, she's a chip off the old block.
Finally, Jerry Johnson, a bus driver, was recognized for his contribution to the learning process. When was the last time you heard a student say something nice about a bus driver? Most students seem apathetic towards bus drivers, if they even notice them at all. For students to recognize Jerry's efforts to make their days better is a feat in itself.
Congratulations to all three for their honors. Our district is blessed with many great teachers, staff members and administrators. Do us all a favor and give them a "Thanks" when you get the time.
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Lanyards are typically worn around the neck, although they can sometimes be worn around the wrists as well. They function as a safe way to keep personal items close and safe from loss, damage or theft. Imprinted Lanyards are often used in the workplace to keep employee name tags or ID cards at hand. It's also a way to wear and display name tags so that employees can be quickly and easily identified by members of the public or customers.
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Summer Meltdown 2012: Pickwick
Posted by Lindsey BluherIn my preview of Pickwick's performance at Summer Meltdown, I voiced my theory that Pickwick might just be the next big thing to come out of Seattle. After witnessing the band's performance Sunday, I think I could be right – so long as the world is ready to do a dance move entitled the Ostrich.
Sunday was a scorcher at Whitehorse Mountain Amphitheater, with most of the crowd relaxing in the shady spots in the Meltdown stage arena. If you were brave enough to get up close, personal, and sweaty with Pickwick in the August heat, you probably became just as unhinged as singer Galen Disston. Somehow I'd managed to miss seeing Pickwick until Sunday's performance, and I think I got a great introduction as to what this band does on stage, and how it's received by an audience.
Starting solidly, this was probably overall one of the best performances from this years Meltdown. Pickwick combines soul and funk, with just enough jam band added to the elixir to make a home for themselves in an outdoor venue. The weekend was bursting at the seems with talented musicians, but I don't think I saw anyone give the crowd the sort of energy that came from each member of Pickwick.
When you hear them on record, you may be inclined to bob up and down, perhaps even snapping your fingers to-and-fro. They undoubtedly have that sort of mo-town, do-whop feel to them. Live, however, don't you dare sit there and snap your fingers in time with the beat. Each member came alive under the sweltering heat, and I don't think any of them stayed in the same spot for longer than a few moments if they could help it. Galen Disston is a lunatic on stage, and I love him for it. His ability to throw himself around the stage — without harming himself or his band mates — while slaughtering the vocals in "Hacienda Motel" is astounding. He seemed out of his mind during parts of the band's performance, but as this was day three of one of the most hippie-friendly festivals I've ever heard of, no one seemed to think anyone of it. They come off as men in love with what they're performing, and that attitude was contagious throughout the crowd.


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THE best weather in Ballarat since last summer happened to coincide with the Ballarat Football League Grand Final on Saturday.
But while most eyes were glued to the 36 players on the ground, The Courier kept an eye on the estimated 6400 footy fans packed in at Eastern Oval and soaked up the atmosphere as the crowd soaked up the sun.
As is traditional, the most die-hard fans from both Sunbury and Redan kept well away from each other at almost opposite ends of the ground, with casual observers wedged in between.
Indeed, most Redan supporters kept well clear of the Peel Street end of the ground, where the most vocal Sunbury group were quick to ask any opposition supporter - ever so politely - to check the scoreboard.
Despite the blow-out on the field, one group of boys made sure their day was water-tight.
Sebastopol's Mitch Jolly declared he'd spent "months" designing his masterpiece for the day - his makeshift pool in the back of a ute gave the Scotts Parade wing a relaxed 1980's feel.
Hamburgers were shovelled into the crowd like coals into a steam boiler, while younger footy fans did their best copying the "big boys" on the field, snapping goals from impossible angles between bins, trees - anything they could find.
So while many are now dealing with the sunburn that inevitably follows Ballarat's first decent spring day, no-one can complain they didn't have a rosy time at the footy in 2012.


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Even before Oprah preached about custom-fit bras, Rachel Clements' upscale boutique was known as Houston's premiere destination for tres chic lingerie. Modern and sophisticated in creamy white, the expanded showroom houses designs by more than 40 of the industry's top names including La Perla, Eres, Chantelle, Le Mystere, Hanky Panky and Huit. The expert staff can help with gift purchases, special occasion showstoppers and custom fit any bra in the store to your individual specifications.
Successful birthday shopping. Went in to buy a birthday present for my wife. Was helped by (I think names were) Tiffany and Jodie. They were great in figuring out what from the stock might be suitable. They were very knowledgeable with good ideas. I bought a cashmere robe, a nightdress and two bra and pantie sets. My wife was very pleased with her gift. Shopping here was a big success.
Love it, just love it.... I'd heard about La Mode Lingerie from friends and mags, and finally I went myself. I just had to buy me some Hanky Panky lingerie that everyone raves about. They are the best and very comfortable. The service there is very nice and it's relaxed. The owner, Rachel, was pleasant and friendly. The prices are great. There's just not enough I can say...for sure I will be recommending this store to everyone who'll hear me :-)
Beautiful Lingerie. The Service was great, they fitted me for a Bra. I had been wearing the wrong size for years, after my fitting I wore it home and it was great. I called them back and bought 3 more over the phone. The Shop was beautiful, Knowledge was beyond belief and never once did I feel Pressured. I am Full figured and they had my size in everything. I bought a present for a friend and they gift wrapped it.
beautiful store. I finally found this store behind the river oaks theater... a friend told me about them. Beautiful store, I was afraid prices might be too high, but they had reasonable prices and even stuff on sale. The girls there seem to know what their doing. Even offered me coffee and water.
Wow!. There's bras/panties, and then there's LINGERIE. This boutique is so classy, and from what I can tell, carries french and italian designers. They custom-fit your bra, and will even do alterations to make sure it's just right. Rachel (the owner, I think) is a wiz when it comes fitting you in the perfect bra! I went in for a bustier for my wedding gown, and she was SO knowledgable and nice! I will definitely be going back for my trousseau!!
Best Lingerie store.... I used to shop at another store...utill I found La Mode. Store owner, Rachel Clements is the queen of the barely there biz. If you want the best selection and fit...I would suggest la mode. PS. This is the only store that allows returns!
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CLEVELAND -- All the losses and injuries had been piling up for weeks on the Timberwolves. They were shaken, unsure, almost helpless to stop them.
They were desperate for a break. And finally, they got one.
Luke Ridnour scored 21 points, Ricky Rubio added 13 and 10 assists and Minnesota snapped an eight-game road losing streak, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 100-92 on Monday night.
"We needed that bad, man," Ridnour said.
He made a critical 3-pointer with 1:43 left and scored 13 points in the fourth quarter for the banged-up Timberwolves, who hadn't won on the road since Jan. 3 -- star centre Kevin Love's last game before he was lost indefinitely with a broken hand.
Nikola Pekovic added 16 points and 10 rebounds as Minnesota ended a four-game losing streak and improved to just 4-16 since losing Love.
"It's been a long month for us," Ridnour said. "It's always tough. We're competitors. You want to win games. Losing, as much as you don't want to say it, takes a toll on you. This is a good one for us."
Kyrie Irving scored 20 points and Tristan Thompson had 16 for the Cavs, who were within 82-81 in the fourth before Ridnour sparked a 10-2 run by the Timberwolves. Minnesota shot 75 per cent (12 of 16) in the fourth quarter, leaving Cleveland swingman C.J. Miles to call out his teammates.
"We basically did it to ourselves," he said. "They made some tough shots -- don't take anything away from them -- but for the most part, we gave the game to them. We just don't get it. It was just a poor effort from the start. It just didn't look like we were interested."
Cavs coach Byron Scott was at a loss to explain perhaps his team's worst loss this season.
"I'm baffled," Scott said. "We had a little adversity and we scattered. We didn't come together."
Before the game, Minnesota coach Rick Adelman said the losing and mounting injuries had taken a toll on his players.
"When you go through the things we've had to go through the last two or three weeks, it wears on you mentally," said Adelman, who recently took an extended absence to be with his wife, Mary Kay, as she recovers from seizures. "They're human. You get out there and bust your tails and lose a close game in the last minute it starts to wear on you big time."
At one point in the second half, a frustrated Rubio slapped the padded basket support after picking up a foul on a charge.
Afterward, Adelman praised his players for persevering.
"In this league you've got to be mentally tough enough to get through it," he said. "You've got to find a way to win. I hope it's a big boost for us."
Irving, whose late-game heroics have led Cleveland to some recent wins, tried to rally the Cavs but couldn't. He had two bad misses and a turnover in a three-minute stretch.
Still, the Cavs were within striking distance when Thompson made two free throws to pulled Cleveland within 92-89 with 1:56 remaining. But Ridnour, who always seems to play well against Cleveland, buried his key 3-pointer from the right side and hit another short jumper with 9 seconds left to cap just Minnesota's second win in 12 games.
Derrick Williams had 13 points and Mickael Gelabale and Alexey Shved added 11 apiece for the Timberwolves.
Irving rolled his left ankle late in the first half when he landed on Shved's foot after making a 3-pointer. Irving hopped around in obvious pain but stayed in the game for a few more seconds. He was then replaced and limped to the locker room for treatment.
Irving played his usual minutes in the second half. He was not available following the game, and was seen getting treatment in the trainer's room.
Notes: Irving said he hasn't given much thought to he and LeBron James some day playing together. James can opt out of his contract after the 2014 season and there has been speculation he might return to Cleveland. "The potential is endless if it ever did happen," Irving said. "Obviously, I would be 22 and still a young guy." Irving said he and James "talk often." ... Wolves G J.J. Barea played 15 minutes after missing Sunday's game with a sprained left foot. Minnesota was also without Andrei Kirilenko (strained quad), F Chase Budinger (knee surgery), G Brandon Roy (knee) and G Malcolm Lee (knee, hip surgery).
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According to TMZ, the pair - who married in 2005 - filed court documents on Wednesday detailing the terms of the split.
Bratman is said to have received an undisclosed sum of money despite a prenup agreement in place prior to their marriage and has left the house which he shared with the singer. In addition, the former couple will share custody of their 3-year-old son Max.
The divorce is expected to be finalized on April 15.
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Once again, Virginia received a podium ranking from Forbes.com in its annual Best States for Business ranking. Coming in at No. 2, Virginia is the top state on the East Coast and has held first or second overall since the ranking began in 2006.
The ranking is based on six categories: costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, current economic climate, growth prospects and quality of life.
The Commonwealth was ranked No. 1 in the category of regulatory environment. According to Forbes.com, "The state ranks on top of the regulatory category because of its strong incentive offerings and business friendly government policies." With right-to-work laws, an unemployment tax burden 32 percent lower than the national average, and a six percent corporate tax rate unchanged since 1972, companies have improved their bottom lines just by locating in Virginia.
In the important category of labor supply, Virginia came in at No. 2 and was the top state on the East Coast. With 4.1 million motivated and highly skilled workers and more than 500,000 students enrolled in Virginia's top-ranked colleges and universities, the Commonwealth has a strong pipeline ready to fill present and future industry needs.
Virginia was ranked No. 4 in the quality of life category, a metric that is gaining increasing importance for companies making relocation decisions. Virginia has one of the nation's highest concentrations of historic resources and is blessed with beautiful mountains, rivers and beaches, as well as 35 state parks, 22 national parks and more than 500 trails, providing an abundance of recreational opportunities for residents.
This top ranking from Forbes.com adds to the distinguished list of honors Virginia has received this year, including winning the 2011 Competitiveness Award from Site Selection magazine, a No. 2 ranking on Pollina Corporate Real Estate's Top Pro-Business States for 2012, and No. 3 rankings on Business Facilities' 2012 State Rankings Report and CNBC's America's Top States for Business list, to name a few.
To learn why Virginia continues to receive top recognition from the industry as the premier state for business, click here.
Site Selection magazine named Virginia the winner of its annual Competitiveness Award, which recognizes excellence on the part of a state-level economic development group. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) accepted the award at the Industrial Asset Management Council's Spring Professional Forum held in Austin, Texas.
The Competitiveness Award was based on a 10-factor index using Conway Data Inc.'s New Plant database. The number of new and expanded facilities, capital invested in new and expanded facilities, total jobs created, the individual state tax climate and state unemployment rate were a few of the factors used in selecting the Commonwealth as the winner.
Virginia's low-tax business climate, right to work status and competitive operating costs were just some of the benefits touted by Site Selection. Add to that a world-class transportation infrastructure, robust telecommunications network, and a tech-savvy workforce, and it's easy to see why Virginia is the clear winner.
This award continues the positive recognition the Commonwealth has seen in 2012. Virginia has already been recognized with a Top 3 Economic Outlook Ranking from the American Legislative Exchange Council's Rich States, Poor States study, a Top 5 ranking in Site Selection's Governor's Cup, a Top 3 ranking on Gallup's Job Creation Index, and a Top 10 ranking on Chief Executive's Best States for Business.
To learn why Virginia continues to garner attention as a top state for business, click here.
Mark Arend, Site Selection Editor in Chief, presents VEDP representative Brent Sheffler with the Competitiveness Award.
In its fifth edition of Rich States, Poor States the American Legislative Exchange Council rated Virginia in the top three for its 2012 Economic Outlook Ranking. This forward-looking ranking comprises 15 equally weighted state policy variables, including personal and corporate tax rates, as well as worker's compensation costs, right-to-work status and even the quality of the state legislature.
As the highest ranked state in the region, Virginia definitively outshined its competition. With a corporate tax rate of six percent that remains unchanged since 1972, a right-to-work regulatory environment, and an unemployment tax burden that is 32 percent lower than the national average, it is easy to see why this is the second consecutive year the Commonwealth has made the top three in this study.
Virginia's pro-growth economic policies offer companies long-term incentives to invest in the Commonwealth. For example, Virginia was able to successfully compete against nearby Maryland on a number of recent headquarters relocation announcements, including Northrop Grumman, ITT Exelis, Bechtel Corp. (divisional headquarters), Acentia and Alpha Natural Resources.
To learn why Virginia is consistently ranked America's Top State for Business click here.
Site Selection Magazine awarded Virginia a Top 5 ranking with its annual Governor's Cup for new and expanded facilities. Virginia's 273 new projects and expansions showed an increase of 44 percent over 2010, allowing the Commonwealth to climb from 10th place last year to 5th place this year.
To be included in the rankings, new facilities and expansions had to meet at least one of the following criteria: a minimum investment of $1 million, creation of at least 50 jobs and the addition of at least 20,000 square feet of new floor space.
Northern Virginia's Arlington/Alexandria area received a No. 8 ranking for Top Metros with populations over one million. For metro areas with a population less than 200,000 three Virginia regions made the top 10 list. The Blacksburg/Christiansburg/Radford region was rated No. 4 and Charlottesville and Danville were both rated No. 8.
Staunton/Waynesboro, Va., received a 13th place ranking in the Top Micropolitan category. Micropolitans are defined as rural areas with a population of less than 50,000.
Staunton has been in the press recently when Forbes.com picked up the publication "How to Radically Revitalize America: A Micropolitan Manifesto." Written and photographed by Staunton business owners, the publication describes how entrepreneurs are choosing to locate their businesses in Staunton, Va., for the rich quality of life the area offers.
Virginia's pro-business operating environment, highly skilled workforce, leading R&D centers, premier logistics network and strong quality of life are just some of the reasons Virginia continues to lead with top accolades from CNBC, Forbes.com, Pollina Corporate Real Estate and Site Selection Magazine.
To learn why Virginia is the best state for business and offers the right mix of resources to support your business, click here.
Once again Virginia has received a podium ranking from Forbes.com as the #2 Best State for Business in 2011. Virginia claimed the number two spot for the second year running after placing number one from 2006 – 2009. Forbes.com uses six categories to determine the results and Virginia scored in the top five in three of the categories, including labor supply, regulatory environment and quality of life.According to Forbes.com, "Virginia ranks No. 2 for the second straight year after a four year run ranked first. Virginia has a strong, educated labor force and a pro-business regulatory climate. The only thing keeping it from the top spot is its outlook." While the article listed possible changes in federal and military spending as the reason Virginia didn't receive the top accolade, Virginia's strong growth story is illustrated by its recent number one ranking for Economic Potential in Business Facilities magazine 2011 Rankings Report. 2011 has been an impressive year for Virginia, with number one rankings from CNBC and Pollina Corporate Real Estate, as well as a top five ranking from Site Selection magazine. Virginia's number one CNBC ranking was significant not only because it has held one of the top two places since 2007, but in 2011 Virginia received the highest point total in the history of the ranking. The factors that are used to calculate these results include energy costs, corporate tax rates, right-to-work legislation, workers compensation laws, educational opportunities, the quality and skill of the workforce, job creation, project development, the potential and viability of the state's growth strategy and quality of life. The results are in and Virginia has shown it is open for business by consistently scoring top state rankings. To learn more about Virginia's unique combination of resources that have encouraged entrepreneurs to prosper here for more than 400 years click here.
Well, it looks like Virginia has done it again. Despite a troubled national economy, the Commonwealth is the top pro-business state for 2009, according to Pollina Corporate Real Estate, a top U.S. corporate site location expert. While Pollina doesn't have the brand recognition that Forbes does, the organization's seal of approval carries substantial weight in economic development and site selection circles.
This leading label marks Virginia's third No. 1 ranking by Pollina. The Commonwealth held the top spot in 2003 and 2007. We ranked second in the Pollina study from 2004 to 2006 and dropped to third place last year. The current recession brings even more importance to Virginia's climb from third last year to first place.
It means we must be doing something right. The annual study evaluated all 50 states based on 33 factors, including taxes, human resources, right-to-work legislation, energy costs, infrastructure spending, workers compensation laws, economic incentives programs, and state economic development efforts.
Virginia did well in the Labor, Taxes, and Other Factors categories, where we placed fourth overall. Our lead can also be attributed to strengths in college completion, low unemployment, right-to-work status, workers compensation rates, low corporate taxes, low sales and gross receipts taxes, our corporate litigation environment, and low crime rates.
"Virginia maintained its rank for Incentives and Economic Development Agency Factors by having one of the finest economic development departments in the nation, and providing flexible incentives for business creation. A close examination of Virginia's programs reveals a very well-balanced understanding of economic development," said Brent Pollina, Vice President of Pollina Corporate and author of the study. "The programs include: low-interest loans, infrastructure improvement grants, corporate tax credits, enterprise zone tax credits, customized industrial training and property tax abatements. The Governor's Opportunity Fund is one example of a program that clearly sets Virginia apart from other states. Virginia's strength is its ability to front-load some of its key business incentives. This provides companies with capital when they most need it – the first 36 months of a project."
There you have it. We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
The Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP), a state authority created by the Virginia General Assembly to better serve those seeking a prime business location and increased trade opportunities, provides confidential site selection and international trade services. VEDP's mission: To enhance the quality of life and raise the standard of living for all Virginians, in collaboration with Virginia communities, through aggressive business recruitment, expansion assistance, and trade development, thereby expanding the tax base and creating higher-income employment opportunities.
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Sarah-Jane Quinn has many secret dreams, not the least of which is capturing the elusive Coleridge "Collie" Tate, on whom she has an enormous crush. Then the handsome HR director confuses things by showing an interest in her. But when Sarah is brutally attacked by a stalker, she must re-evaluate her priorities and decide which man reaches deepest into her heart – and let the other go forever


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FDAnews Device Daily Bulletin
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Lawmakers and watchdog groups are putting a brighter spotlight on the FDA, demanding the agency, HHS and the White House take action to ensure whistleblower protections and investigate allegations of inappropriate email monitoring by the drug regulator.
The FDA needs to insist on more quality data in 510(k) premarket notification and premarket approval (PMA) applications and provide real-time postmarket surveillance data that is transparent, Rita Redberg, chief editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, told the 2012 PharmedOut Conference in Washington, D.C.
Covidien won Brazilian regulatory approval for its Solitaire FR revascularization system as a device to clear blood clots from the brain in patients suffering from acute ischemic stroke.
The higher prevalence of cardiovascular diseases has become a cause of concern for the U.S. healthcare authorities as mortalities tend to rise and economic burdens keep increasing.
Should all U.S. children get tested for high cholesterol? Doctors are still debating that question months after a government-appointed panel recommended widespread screening that would lead to prescribing medicine for some kids.
Restoration Robotics announced the first use of its ARTAS System in North Carolina.
A new way of processing embryos during IVF treatment can improve the chances of pregnancy by more than a quarter, The Daily Telegraph today reported.
The inquiry committee headed by Dr Gills George to probe into the deaths of three persons at the Cooperative Medical College Hospital, Kalamassery, submitted its report on Monday.
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A wait training programme..!
All because I wasn't patient enough! A man was to meet his wife downtown and spend some time shopping with her. He waited patiently for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After that, he became angry. Seeing one of those photograph booths nearby (the kind that accepts coins into a slot and takes four shots while you pose on a small bench), he had an idea. He would show his wife how angry he felt about the long wait. So he assumed the most ferocious expression he could manage, which wasn't difficult under the circumstances, and in a few moments he was holding four small prints that shocked even him!
He wrote his wife's name on the back of the photographs and handed them to a clerk behind the desk. "If you see a small, dark lady with brown eyes and an apologetic expression, apparently looking for someone, would you please give her this?" he said. He then returned to his office content that, if a picture is worth a thousand words, then four photos must be a full-blown lecture! His wife saved those pictures. Some months later she filed for divorce and one of the exhibits that were used in the divorce proceedings was how her husband looked when he was angry.
Even the judge remarked it looked like she was married to a beast! She carries those pictures in her purse even now and shows them to anyone who asks why she got divorced! Now you might say it wasn't very fair of her, but losing our patience often shows up the worst in us. How are you with patience? Don't you think it's worth learning to be patient? Somebody called it "wait-training." It seems that there is always something we are waiting for. We wait on traffic and we wait in lines.We wait to grow up or for maturity in a child. We wait for a decision to be made. We wait for someone to change his or her mind.
Patience is an essential quality of a happy life. After all, some things are worth waiting for. Every day presents plenty of opportunities for wait training. We can resent waiting, accept it or even get good at it! But one thing is certain - we cannot avoid it. What about starting a wait training program today?


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This year, we're trying something new for our Thanksgiving turkey. I'm making a marinade of coconut milk, buttermilk and pomegranate juice. I think this will ensure a really moist holiday bird.
Start this the day before by brining the turkey in a saltwater mixture. Then on the day of, transfer the turkey to a flavorful marinade that will seal moisture in. With 2 1/2 hours of roasting,...
Pumpkin and Herb Stuffing Recipe
Thanksgiving is approaching, and we're always in search of a new or unique stuffing recipe. This is one of my favorite stuffing recipes that I like to serve along some nice collard greens. I added a seasonal favorite into the mix — the pumpkin — and the cinnamon, raisins, and pears add a hint of sweetness to the dish. All of the complex flavors are bound to make this one of your holiday...
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Today, after reporting on Kelis's and Kelly Rowland's appearances in Rankin's new fashion tome The Hunger, we're bringing you Heidi Klum, whom we almost missed because the annual fashion tome is massive, clocking in at about two pounds.
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Rankin shot Klum in L.A. and the story, titled "Fragment," appears to have been inspired by Futurism, the Italian art movement that places emphasis on the figure, movement, time and space.
The concept was Klum's and the producer, model and mother of three is photographed wearing Michael Kors.
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The Seattle Times has reprints of its five-part series documenting how the deregulation of tribal housing offices led to some tribal leaders building huge mansions for themselves while the majority of Native Americans live in substandard housing.
A Navajo tepee blockade at Mobil Oil Corp. offices near Aneth, Utah, leads to concessions from the company, which activists say has long exploited the reservation without giving anything back to the tribe.
The tribes of the Tulalip Indian Reservation, Wash., alarmed by sprawling development, have made an agreement with the county to preserve reservation land, but some say it isn't strong enough.
Some Navajos fear the tribe's planned Antelope Point Marina in Arizona will harm archaeological and ceremonial sites.
Geoffrey O'Gara's book, "What You See in Clear Water," explores past and present on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation, and describes the continual conflict over control of the Wind River watershed.
The newly established Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management and Policy will give tribal leaders practical, specialized instruction in the real-world challenges faced by tribes today.
In New Mexico, some Indian reservations are jumping on a surprising new economic bandwagon, making use of their land and water rights to build golf courses and resorts to attract golf-playing tourists.
The Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes on the Fort Belknap reservation in Montana are split on the Montana Air National Guard's proposal to drop dummy bombs on tribal trust land.
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes fight a plan to four-lane Highway 93 through Montana's Flathead Reservation, winning a new highway plan with tough protections for wildlife, safety and cultural resources.
Hopi officials angered Navajos when they destroyed a Navajo Sun Dance site on Big Mountain, a part of the Hopi Reservation some Navajos lay claim to.
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An incredibly enlightening video I've watched many times already.
My art college experience allowed me to come to some realizations about what having gone through the public school system offered me as a young person. Sir Ken Robinson, the speaker in this video, validates some of those realizations with clear, objective reasoning supported by our history as a developing world.