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See Terra Nova's Massive, Jurassic Park–Like Set
It's not all CGI.
Terra Nova doesn't just have a sprawling story line that sends its characters 85 million years into the past to rebuild civilization; it also has a sprawling set and some serious CGI, which is why the show has been delayed twice. But now it's on schedule to debut September 26 and actually looks pretty good: a little family drama, a little dinosaur-avoidance action, a little seltzer down your pants. If for some reason audiences don't take to Terra, though, maybe someone could turn the set into a kind of jungle resort? It's very pretty!


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The Wheatsheaf Restaurant with Rooms in Swinton, just over the Scottish border, sounds promising. Its owners, Chris and Jan Winson, who took over last year, inherited John Keir, the chef, and a couple of AA rosettes. Yes, they have a room for Saturday — they even upgrade us to a superior one.
So here we are on the green of this sleepy little village (as it's described in a Scottish publication), though, to us, it just looks deserted. Where is everyone? Then, when we check in, suddenly things change. A young man appears and says "Welcome to the Wheatsheaf!" He then takes us to our "superior" room — very nice it is too, with a sofa, a large TV and two chairs. Up a couple of steps is a bathroom with a separate power shower as well as a bath.
Downstairs, we make ourselves comfortable in the lounge bar. But it's like the Marie Celeste in here, so my husband goes back to our room to ring Reception, while I listen to it ringing, unanswered. Eventually the young man we'd met earlier appears and we ask for tea, which he brings.
Later on, in our room, we find that it's cold. "The heating should have come on at 3pm," says the young man, when we tell him. Now there's a knock on the door; this time it's a man who introduces himself as Chris, the owner. He's most concerned and goes away to fix it — and soon it's working beautifully. Then he returns to check. "That extractor fan outside your window won't go on making that noise all night," he reassures us.
Come evening, we're back in the bar where Craig, the manager, brings menus, a blackboard of "today's specials" plus a wine list. We now realise there are two dining rooms: one with white-clothed tables and tall, leather-upholstered chairs; the other with polished pine tables and bamboo chairs. Although we have no idea how the class structure works here, we are led into the first one… maybe it's like being upgraded to Club Class.
But how to choose our food, when we like the sound of almost everything on the menu? Eventually I decide on "hot baked avocado, with smoked haddock and prawns in a cream sauce" — this turns out to be more like a thick fish soup, with avocado and it's delicious but filling. My husband's "game terrine of pheasant, with raisins, chestnuts and mulled apple sauce", is, he says: "Perfect, it's not made from left-over bits of pheasant, the breast meat is right in the middle."
For my main course I'm having rack of border lamb, with basil and mustard crust and rosemary-scented juices: it's deliciously tender and pink, as I'd requested. My husband has chosen "the breast of maize-fed duck on roast sweet potato with fresh plum and port sauce". He asked for it to be rare, and it is. Accompanying both of these are slices of Potatoes Anna, fresh from the oven. Desserts — mocha crème brûlée, with chocolate coffee beans and a coffee biscuit, and iced Turkish delight and pistachio parfait, with raspberry coulis and brandy snap, taste as good as they look. One of the enjoyable things about this feast is that neither of us feels bloated afterwards.
Our bed is blissfully comfortable and, apart from the liquid soap, which I'm not a fan of, the bathroom is a pleasure to use.
Breakfast is served in the conservatory — the room with the bamboo chairs. Here we order from a waiter. I've chosen porridge and it comes with a jar of honey and a jug of cream. My husband's muesli is accompanied by fresh strawberries, blueberries and grapes. His scrambled egg, bacon and black pudding arrives on a rectangular-ish plate and the egg is bright yellow. It's a work of art. Shame about the coffee, though.
At settling up time, the same young man hands us our bill. "Why do you work such long hours?" we ask. "I am the son of the owners," he says. "My name is Daniel and I'm only here temporarily. I want to be an engineer."
- The Wheatsheaf Restaurant with Rooms, Swinton, Berwickshire TD11 3JJ (01890 860257 , www.wheatsheaf-swinton.co.uk), has seven rooms. Paddy Burt paid £154 for dinner, b&b and £17.80 for wine. Total: £171.80.

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Facebookers, I see your happy family vacation pics and I raise you two: cleaning puke off a car seat and watching as two guys try and fix the dent in the car (made when I hit a pole earlier in the week) that is slowly shredding the tire.In my defense, I only ignored the dent because it happened when I was on my way home from the auto repair shop; the right door refused to open because of yes, all the dents. (I am nothing if not consistent.)
(Big thanks to a certain neighbor and two passers by for helping out with that sitch.)
I have zero to say about the puking. It happens whenever she's in the car for more than ten minutes. I put her on a bus to camp last week. She puked every day and three times on Wednesday. Needless to say, she is not going back. And that thing you're about to suggest I try? I've tried it.
I romanticize these car trips in the planning. I have visions of singalongs, covered bridges and quirky bookstores. But in reality, one thing happens after another and before you know it you're buying Febreze in Syracuse.
UPDATE: One week later we are driving home and I got to hold this: #StillWinning


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Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jerry Smith does not like hearing that judicial review is "unprecedented."
Judge Smith was clearly irked when President Obama commented on Monday, "I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."
So he gave the Justice Department a homework assignment while hearing oral arguments for Physician Hospitals of America vs. Sebelius, a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
The task? Submit a three-page, single-spaced letter on judicial review by noon Thursday.
Like any diligent student, Attorney General Eric Holder submitted his assignment on time.
Holder, clearly annoyed by the request, wrote, "[The Justice Department] has not in this litigation, nor in any other litigation of which I am aware, ever asked this or any other Court to reconsider or limit long-established precedent concerning judicial review of the constitutionality of federal legislation ... The question posed by the Court regarding judicial review does not concern any argument made in the government's brief or at oral argument in this case, and this letter should not be regarded as a supplemental brief."
The substance of the letter reiterated the administration's position that the Supreme Court should uphold the ACA. Holder made three points in his letter:
- The power of the courts to review the constitutionality of legislation is beyond dispute.
- Acts of Congress are "presumptively constitutional," and the Supreme Court has stressed that the presumption of constitutionality accorded to Acts of Congress is "strong."
- While duly recognizing the courts' authority to engage in judicial review, the Executive Branch has often urged courts to respect the legislative judgments of Congress.
In other words, the Court has authority under Marbury v. Madison to strike down the healthcare law, but the administration won't back down from publicly encouraging the justices to uphold it.
Do you think this response will satisfy the Judge Smith and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals? Will it affect the outcome in Physician Hospitals of America vs. Sebelius? And, just because we like to stir the pot, should the Fifth Circuit hold Eric Holder in contempt for not submitting three full pages on the relevance of judicial review? By our measure, the letter is two-and-a-quarter pages. Does that satisfy the assignment?
Related Resources:
- AG Eric Holder's Letter to the Fifth Circuit on the Court's Authority to Rule on Obamacare (FindLaw's Courtside)
- Marbury v. Madison (FindLaw's CaseLaw)
- Law Blog Doc Dump: DOJ Letter Affirming Judicial Review (The Wall Street Journal)


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Most of us have a favorite image from the inauguration of President Obama. Mine shows soldiers at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base replacing George W. Bush's picture with a portrait of the new president. A day later, Obama ordered that Guantánamo be closed within a year, signaling that his administration would take a stance on terrorism very different from his predecessor's. Since then, however, he has taken several actions suggesting that the differences may be less marked than that first day implied. Certainly there have been significant improvements in US policy, particularly Washington's approach to international law. But disturbingly, the Obama administration has continued the Bush administration's attempts to shield illegal exercises of executive authority from judicial review.
The Obama administration's ambivalent approach was perhaps most evident in its March 13 announcement that it was abandoning the Bush label of "enemy combatant" for those held at Guantánamo. But at the same time, in a legal brief filed in a Guantánamo detention case, the administration advanced a new definition of who may be detained–which was immediately criticized by human rights groups as differing only marginally from that used by President Bush.
In fact, there are some significant shifts in this approach to detention. Obama's administration rests its authority squarely on Congress's Authorization to Use Military Force Against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, abandoning George W. Bush's claim to inherent executive authority. And it insists that the power to detain must be interpreted in light of law-of-war principles, displaying a refreshing desire to conform its actions to international law.
Critics correctly point out that the principal definitional difference is that where Bush claimed the right to detain all supporters of Al Qaeda or the Taliban, Obama asserts the right to detain only those who provided "substantial support" to these groups. "Substantial" is admittedly a dangerously vague term. It would be far better if Congress set forth in explicit terms who may be detained and under what circumstances. But the Obama administration argues that its detention authority should be framed by reference to the laws of war, which authorize detention, during traditional wars, of those who provide substantial support to enemy forces. If the administration and the courts interpret that term narrowly, it may turn out to be a more significant difference than it first appears. Bush's lawyers infamously told a judge that a woman who unwittingly donated to a charity that turned out to be an Al Qaeda front could be detained as an enemy combatant. The Obama administration has not only rejected that view but has agreed that its detention authority must be limited by the laws of war.
More troubling, however, is the administration's stance on several other lawsuits. In all of them the bottom line is that executive wrongdoing in connection with the conflict with Al Qaeda should be shielded from judicial scrutiny. The administration has told courts that lawsuits challenging the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping and extraordinary rendition programs must be dismissed because they involve "state secrets." On this theory, the executive can avoid any judicial review of criminal and unconstitutional wrongdoing simply by declaring its wrongs a secret.


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m is a wall-eye. I think that is the one he watches the house with. Personally I consider that they are very handsome eyes in their own different lines, and my opinion is that he is a Mull-terrier; or possibly a Rum. Anyhow he is a good dog to get hold of, for he is very curly.
The village policeman came round to the house the other day. I think he really came to talk to the cook, but I fell into conversation with him.
"You ought to be getting a licence for that dog of yours," he said.
"What dog?" I asked.
"Why, you've got a dog tied up at the back there, haven't you?" he said.
"Have I?" said I.
And we went out and looked at it together. Trotsky looked at me with one eye and at the policeman with the other, and he wagged his tail. At least I am not sure that he wagged it; "shook" would be a better word.
"Where did you get it?" he inquired.
"Oh, I just got hold of it," I said airily. "It's rather good, don't you think?"
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|Atlantique 48
|Barca a motore da crociera
|15.54 m
|Tipo di carburante
|Materiale scafo
|VENETO, Italia
|Lunghezza totale
|15.54 m
|Lunghezza al galleggiamento
|12.19 m
|4.32 m
|Peso a secco
|15621.72 kg
|Tipo motore
|{Engine} Marca
|{Engine} Modello
|Tipo di carburante
|{Engine} Anno
|575 hp
|Tipo di trasmissione
|Direct Drive
|Propeller Material
|5 Blade
|Ore di motore
|Tipo motore
|{Engine} Marca
|{Engine} Modello
|Tipo di carburante
|{Engine} Anno
|575 hp
|Tipo di trasmissione
|Direct Drive
|Propeller Material
|5 Blade
|Ore di motore
|Equipaggiamenti Elettrici
|Equipaggiamenti interni
|Dotazioni Esterne
|Locale WC /bagni
|Serbatoio carburante
|1521.74 litri
|Serbatoio acqua
|560.24 litri
|Forma scafo
|V profondo
|Mulinello elettrico
|Aletta corretrice di assetto
|Garanzia scafo
IMBARCAZIONE CON FLY IN BUONO STATO DI CONSERVAZIONE 3 CABINE DOPPIE DI CUI 2 MATRIMONIALI E UNA CON LETTI GEMELLI,CABINA MARINAIO A POPPA CON LAVELLO e WC,2 BAGNI CON WC ELETTRICO e BOX DOCCIA SEPARATO,PAVIMENTO IN MOQUETTE ,INTERNI IN CILIEGIO,CIELO IN ALCANTARA COLORE CREMA/BLU,ORE MOTORE 530,GENERATORE 13 KW,ARIA CONDIZIONATA MAGGIORATA 48000 BTU, RISCALDAMENTO.
L'ATTUALE ARMATORE è IL SECONDO PROPRIETARIO.
Impianto antincendio,Faro orientabile,Frigorifero flybridge,Bimini Top (2015),Verricello elettrico con contametri, telecomando e lavaggio catena,Elica di prua,
Coprivetrata invernale (bianca) ed estiva (traforato 70% nero),Coprifly invernale (2015),Cuscinerie esterne rifatte nel 2015,Cuscinerie a prua rifatte nel 2015,Norvegese poppa rifatto nel 2015,Impianto acque nere (200 litri),Tender in VTR 2,90 metri
Fuoribordo 5hp 4 tempi,Antenna Internet Glomex Webboat WiFi/4G (2015),Aria condizionata 48.000btu indipendente in ogni ambiente,Lettore DVD in salone ripetuto nelle camere,Impianto TV satellitare con decoder Sky in ogni ambiente (4 postazioni indipendenti),Stereo in salone con caricatore cd in ogni camera,Tv in ogni camera (armatoriale 17", ospiti singoli 17", ospiti matrimoniale 22" (2015)),Tv da 32" a scomparsa nel salone (2015),Macchina caffè in salone (2015),Telecamere in sala motori (2)Yacht Controller (motori + elica di prua),Forno a microonde,Piano a induzione a 3 fuochi (2014)
Copri moquette bianca in tutti gli ambienti (2015), Possibilità Asse di rispetto, Divani e pouf in pelle pieno fiore, Interni in alcantara e pelle, Piano cucina e bagni in Corian.
3 cabins including 2 doubles and one with twin beds, aft crew cabin with sink and toilet, 2 bathrooms with electric toilet and shower, FLOOR CARPET, CHERRY INTERIOR, ENGINE HOURS: 530, 13 kW generator, air conditioning 48000 BTU , HEATING.
STEERING, ELECTRONICS, REFRIGERATOR, sunbathing on the fly, sun deck, sink in cockpit.
Fire system, Searchlight, Bimini Top (2015), electric winch with meter counter, remote control and washing anchor chain, bow.
Cover glazed winter (white) and summer (perforated 70% black), winter cover fly (2015), outdoor cushions new 2015, bow cushions new 2015, Norwegian stern new 2015 black water (200 liters), Tender VTR 2 , 90 meters.
5hp 4 stroke outboard, Antenna Glomex Webboat Internet WiFi / 4G (2015), Air conditioning 48.000btu independent in every room, DVD player in saloon repeated in the rooms, satellite TV system with Sky box in every room (4 independent workstations), Stereo in living room with CD in each room, TV in each room (cabin 17 ", individual guests 17", 22 double guest "(2015)), TV 32" to disappear in the lounge (2015), Coffee in hall (2015) , cameras in engine room (2), Yacht Controller (motor + bow), microwave, induction cooker with 3 burners (2014)
White carpet coverage (2015), Axis of respect, sofas and ottomans Leather, Alcantara and leather interior, kitchen and bathrooms in Corian.
sono esclusi dal prezzo di vendita i diritti di agenzia. the sale price does not include agency fees.
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The more similar the things are, the more important the differences. When can a flybridge be described as "beautiful"? This is the question to which, for a long time, the designers answered: "when the shape follows the function." Unfortunately, boats have more or less the same functions, and even at an aesthetic level the yhave started to become more similar. Today, mere functionality isn't enough: It's often the charm of a particullar design or detail that captures our attention, creating a deep emotion within us. We work day after day to produce this emotion, measuring ourselves against the successes obtained and the new ambitious goals to be reached. Cranchi Flybridge's are safe, reliable boats built using the most modern technologies and high quality materials. The great company know-how can be seen in the impeccable working of the fibreglass, in the absolute precision of the robots that operate in the Gelcoat spraying phase, in the onboard plant enginering, where the strict industrialised planning doesn't leave room for any ommissions. But its in the refinement of the trimmings skillfully carried out by our "specialists", that the difference between a cranchi and the other boats becomes unbridgeable.
Additional Description
- Self-draining cockpit
- Foldaway service sink
- Rolling rubber hose
- Small rubber hose to wash engine room
- Side accomodation for water proof jackets
- Buckskin, sponge and bucket
- Fire extinguisher
- N. 4 mooring lines
- Divan with locker
- Locking power-assisted hatch for access to engine room
- Teak table with 2 chairs
- Step for access to side deck teak laid
- Cockpit and swimming platform floors teak-laid
- Foldaway swimming ladder with folding retrieval handle
- Storage locker on swimming platform with teak-laid hatch
- Shower with mixer
- 230 V shore power socket with shore power cable
- Pressure reducer
- Lighting
Additional Description
Interior Finish
- Furniture in male-oak and wengé
- Glossy laquer
- Galley and toilet work tops made of Corian®
- Fabrics: cotton, leather, Alcantara®
- Internal compartment dividing walls made specifically for noise absorption, insulation and lightness
Additional Description
- N. 2 batteries of 160 amp. 24 v. for the engine
- N. 2 batteries of 200 amp. 24 v. for services
- Power utilities provided with magnetothermal protectors
- 32 Amp./h socket for shore power
- 7,7 kva generator with own battery charger and own battery switch and muffler
- 35 Amp./h automatic battery charger
- 230 v. power sockets
- Protector with differential fuse and individual surge protectors on all utilities
- Galvanic isolator
- Electrical panel switch for shore power/on-board generator
- Complete cathode electrolysis protection for engines, fuel tanks, sea-intakes, rudders etc.
- 63 amp/h windlass magnetothermal protector
- Automatic battery switches with electrically controlled cut-in /out
Additional Description
- Corian® worktop
- Stove-top with 2 electric hotplates
- S. steel sink with mixer
- Microwave and grill oven
- Lt. 190 refrigerator with power switch for 24/230 V
- Dishwasher
- Waste bin
- Cutlery drawers
- Cupboards and cabinets for stowing crockery
- 230 V power socket
- Water level gauge
- Set of crockery and cuttlery, and glasses (6 pp.)
- Saucepan set
Additional Description
Bilge Pumps
- 1 automatic electric pump 120 lt./min. with manual switch for cabin compartment
- 1 automatic electric pump 120 lt./min. with manual switch for engine compartment
- 1 automatic electric pump 120 lt./min. with manual control for stern storage compartment
- 1 hand pump for engine room
- 1 hand pump for the cabin compartment
- Bilge micro suction system in engine compartment.
- N. 2 automatic fire extinguishers in engine compartment
- N. 1 manual fire extinguisher in the cabin
- N. 1 manual fire extinguisher in the cockpit
Additional Description
- Access to engine compartment and fuel tank via cockpit and saloon hatch with s. steel ladder
- Engine room sound proofed
- Engines installed on anti-vibration and s. steel transverse supports
- Stainless steel side air vents for compartment ventilation
- S. steel mufflers
- Underwater engine exhaust gas system with by-pass for better dispersal of exhaust fumes
- Ventilation
- Engine compartment lighting
- Portable emergency lamp
- direct-shaft with s. steel shafts and AB2 alloy counter-rotating propellers
- Balanced AB2 alloy rudders
- Oil-hydraulics shaft gland with A.V.S. Joint (anti-vibration-system)
- Water and rubber hose connection to wash the engine room
Additional Description
- Removable bow extension
- Bow storage locker for mooring lines
- Anchor winch remote control
- 1200 W electric winch with control (flybridge) with winch for retrieving lines (warping bell)
- Chaincounter on flybridge helm position
- Water connection for chain washing
- 20 kg. Bruce anchor ? 50m/10mm chain
- Shower on bow
- Bow sun pads
- 5 kW bow thruster
- Hydraulic passerelle with remote control
- 2 bow, 4 spring, 4 stern AISI 316 s. steel cleats
- S. steel pulpit with front opening, and s. steel filiere
- Bow fender holder for n. 6 felders
- S. steel deck handles and guardrails
- S. steel rubbing band
- Directional searchlight
- Horn
- Dual s. steel fuel filler caps
- Dual fuel tank air vent with anti-flame /anti-spray net
- S. steel water filler cap
- Dual water tank air vent
- S. steel port and starboard discharge suppers
- Navigation lights
- Bow and stern ?U? hooks
- Hydraulic trim tabs
- Moulded non-slip deck
- Owner?s manual
Main Standard Features
- 1200W electric winch
- Bow thruster 5 Kw
- 7,7 Kva generator
- Ice-maker
- BBQ cooking grate
- Hydraulic passerelle with teak floor and remote control
- 2 refrigerators (cabin/flybridge)
- GPS + chartplotter (colour)
- Autopilot
- VHF DSC (double station)
- Anchor winch remote control
- Tridata echo/speed log/temp. dual station
- Rudder angle indicator
- Trim tabs indicator
- Search light
- Flybridge bimini top
- Chain meters counter (fly bridge)
- Buckskin/sponge/bucket
- Flybridge sun cushion and bow one
- Covers for dashboard, pilot seat and divans
- Cockpit and swimming platform teak-laid floors
- Vacuum flush WC
- N. 4 mooring lines
- 1 CD/radio in saloon with 6 CD radios in cabins
- TV antenna and wiring
- Galley teak and saloon floor teak laid
- Cranchi® set of crockery, cuttlery and glasses (6 pp.)
- Saucepan set
- First aid kit
- Safe in master cabin
- N. 1 manual fire extinguisher in the cabin and n. 1 manual fire extinguisher in the cockpit
- N. 2 automatic fire extinguishers in the engine room
Engine Notes
- Volvo Penta 2 x D9 EVC (2x500 HP)
- Volvo Penta 2 x D9 EVC (2x575 HP)
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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Juliana Jonquil Navettes Black Rhinestone Topaz Tassel Brooch
Gold tone brooch is dimensional having several tiers rising up to a grand height of 7/8".
Jonquil or champagne colored sharp navette rhinestones are found in each layer. Framing these stones are borders of small black chaton rhinestones. At the very top level there are three large black rhinestones which are multi prong set.
At the top of the pin, directly below the center of the scalloped edge of black stones is a topaz chaton rhinestone. Another topaz stone is found between the larger black stones mentioned above.
From the back of the brooch, you can see an attached round disc from which ten foxtail chain dangling tassels are suspended. These tassels have been brought forward through the open loop of the brooch and hang having totally free swinging movement. Each tassel holds either a topaz or black rhinestone. These stones have also been set with multiple prongs.
This brooch a stunner – very classy.
I had a dickens of a time trying to get the true beauty and design of this magnificent piece. The color of the navette stones were oh so hard to photograph and did not come out as well as I would have liked. They are gorgeous.
The stationary section of the brooch is 2-1/4"across x 1-3/4"in length. Tassels are various lengths, with the longest length 2-3/4". The total length of the brooch is roughly 3-7/8".
All stones are present and in excellent condition.
The colors, mix of various stone sizes, cuts and quality construction with puddling, and the clasp assembly are signature D & E.
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LONDON — The first batch of lyrics came easily, but so did the first sigh, which interrupted Missy Franklin right as she reached the part about the twilight's last gleaming. She picked them back up easily by the perilous fight, but suddenly you could see the smile twitching and her eyes blinking, and she needed to exhale.
The podium was purple. The warm-up suit was gray. The medal around her neck was gold. A rainbow of victory. Missy Franklin wanted to keep up with the words, the first time she's ever sang them from the tallest stage in her sport. She tried. But by the time the bombs were bursting in air, it was too late.
"I wanted to sing," she said, "but I started to cry at the same time. And then I forgot the words."
Thirty-two years on, we remember Mike Eruzione as much for the way he sang the "Star-Spangled Banner" with gusto on a medal stand as we do for the goal he scored against the Russians two nights earlier.
This, after all, is the moment for which these athletes spend lifetimes training. They may not have to endure the squalor in which their predecessors lived during the days of shamateurism. But this is still the biggest payoff: a medal around the neck. An anthem blaring out of loudspeakers. A flag rising before them, positioned just a little bit higher than Australia's and Japan's.
With everyone back home watching.
We will watch Missy Franklin from here, you bet. She guaranteed that last night, her night, and these could well become her Olympics, even if she doesn't take down a Phelpsian haul. We will remember how she climbed out of the pool after qualifying — barely — for the 200-meter freestyle then jumped back in for the 100 backstroke finals exactly 13 minutes later.
Later, no less a source than Michael Phelps would say, "I can't believe she did that."
And then, she was magnificent. One lane to her left, Australia's Emily Seebohm was poised on the bar; all Seebohm had done in qualifying was set an Olympic record. Franklin is too young and too accomplished at 17 to know the symptoms and perils of pressure, but this was it. This was her moment.
"I've waited all my life for this," she would say, realizing at once the sweet irony, adding, "all of 17 years."
This already had been an intriguing meet: Phelps' meltdown in the 400 IM Saturday; Ryan Lochte's meltier meltdown anchoring the 4×100 Sunday. And then yesterday, in the wake of China's Ye Shiwen's blistering win Sunday in the women's 400 IM — her final 50 meters clocked even faster than Lochte's in the men's race — raised eyebrows were given a voice from John Leonard, executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, who called Ye's feat "flat out impossible."
Here came Missy Franklin, out of tragedy-stricken Aurora, Colo., and Regis Jesuit High, skimming through the pool, keeping up with the Aussie stroke for stroke, off to a faster start than normal because she had to be. Here came Franklin, putting her 76-inch wingspan and size-13 feet to perfect use, reaching for the wall, finally touching it .35 ahead of Seebohm.
The smile came the moment she glanced at the scoreboard. It never left for even a second the rest of the night. Not even during the National Anthem. Especially not then.
"When you dream about something your whole life and you achieve it, you don't understand what you just did," she said immediately after the race, her words coming in a rush, giggly, girlie and, to borrow her favorite word — "awesome."
"I just won an Olympic gold medal!" she squealed. "It's exceeding expectations by a hundred million times!"
Yes. We will watch Missy Franklin from here. We are a cynical sporting lot, and with reason, and in many ways we need to watch her. She's already turned down boatloads of cash in endorsements and prize money because — no kidding — she wanted to keep swimming at Regis and in college. She is having the time of her life, letting us ride shotgun.
Letting us stand beside her on a purple podium laughing, crying, sighing, rejoicing, forgetting the words when it all becomes too much. Having the time of our lives.


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In Joseph Conrad's classic novel The Heart of Darkness, Marlow, a steamship captain, journeys up the Congo River at the end of the 19th century to bring home the sick and dying Mr. Kurtz. Kurtz is a station chief renowned for his command of language, his intelligence, and his ability to generate large quantities of ivory. Yet when Marlow pulls his boat up to Kurtz' residence, he is shocked to find the yard decorated with severed human heads on poles. Marlow observes:
…there was nothing exactly profitable in these heads being there. They only showed that Mr. Kurtz lacked restraint in the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him – some small matter which, when the pressing need arose could not be found under his magnificent eloquence. Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say.
The lawless jungle had taken a civilized man and turned him into a brutal savage. Conrad sharpens the picture when Marlow goes to visit Kurtz' fiancé after he dies. In the midst of her grief, she says, "…of all his promise and of all his greatness, of his generous mind, of his noble heart, nothing remains – nothing but a memory." And again she says, "Men looked up to him – his goodness shone in every act."
Classic literature digs deep into human nature including its often brutal ugliness – something lacking in many present-day novels. Whether it's Melville's Moby Dick, Golding's Lord of the Flies, or Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, many of those who wrote in the past were well acquainted with the ugliness of human nature when the restraints of law and society were removed.
Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a small piece of a much larger tragedy. When the Congo was taken by King Leopold II of Belgium as a colony in 1885 he grabbed as much profit as he could in the form of ivory and rubber. The Europeans who went there found no restraint – governmental, social, or religious – to their behavior in gathering ever greater profits. Murder, starvation, disease, and a plummeting birth rate combined to cut the native population of the Congo in half in just 23 years. The good, noble, civilized men – like Kurtz – were responsible for the deaths of over 10 million.
The story of Ilanga – one woman who experienced the brutality personally – will illustrate its ugliness. Her village was busy with crops when soldiers came and pulled them from their fields and homes. She reports:
When we were all collected the soldiers brought baskets of food for us to carry, in some of which was smoked human flesh… We then set off marching very quickly. My sister Katinga had her baby in her arms and was not compelled to carry a basket; but my husband Oleka was made to carry a goat. We marched… each day until the fifth day when the soldiers took my sister's baby and threw it in the grass, leaving it to die, and made her carry some cooking pots. On the sixth day we became very weak from lack of food… and my husband, who marched behind us with the goat, could not stand up longer, and so he sat down beside the path and refused to walk more. The soldiers beat him… Then one of them struck him on the head with the end of his gun, and he fell upon the ground. One of the soldiers caught the goat while two or three others stuck the long knives they put on the end of their guns into my husband. I saw the blood spurt out, and then saw him no more… Many of the young men were killed the same way, and many babies thrown into the grass to die.
These events in the Congo vividly display the depravity of human nature. Yet though they are not even a hundred years old they are nearly forgotten. We have moved on to the depravity of the latest pop star and convinced ourselves we aren't so bad. Yet 10 million killed in the Congo, eight-hundred thousand dead in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Holocaust under Nazi Germany, present day killings in the Sudan and Syria, and the empty eyes of millions of children sold into sexual slavery remind us there is something ugly in human nature. Laws restrain it, society pressures it, religion commands it, yet it remains.
We may protest, "Not me! I wouldn't do those things!" Can we be so sure? It's easy to believe in our goodness from the comfort of a suburban American living room. But what if we experienced real horrors in our life? What if the restraints on our various lusts and desires were suddenly removed?
Wrestling with his wicked deeds as he floated down the Congo River, Mr. Kurtz offered a final assessment with his dying words – "The horror, the horror!" If we were to be confronted with the sum total of all of our sin and its horrifying consequences our assessment may not be much different. All of us have inherited a corrupted and sinful human nature. Wayne Grudem writes:
This inherited tendency to sin does not mean that human beings are all as bad as they could be. The constraints of civil law, the expectations of family and society, and the conviction of human conscience all provide restraining influences on the sinful tendencies in our hearts. Therefore, by God's common grace, people have been able to do much good… But in spite of the ability to do good in many senses of that word, our inherited corruption… which we inherited from Adam means, that as far as God is concerned we are not able to do anything that pleases him… every part of our being is affected by sin – our intellects, our emotions and desires, our hearts, our goals and motives, and even our physical bodies.
When surveying the havoc wrought by his own sin, the Apostle Paul exclaimed in Romans 7:24, "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?" He looked into his own heart and was left with despair. Yet he goes on to write: "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!" Jesus Christ was the one who could deliver him from the ugliness of human nature he saw within himself. Only Jesus can repair the corruption of the human heart.
Our hope isn't found in a 6 step plan to be better people. It isn't found in small lifestyle changes. It isn't found in learning from the consequences of our actions. It isn't found in progressively better laws with a big enough police force to enforce them. It isn't found in foolishly patting ourselves on the back for being better than Hitler, the guy on the sex offender registry, or that crazy uncle on his fourth marriage.
The only hope for the ugliness of human nature is a Savior.
Information on the events in the Congo including Ilanga's story comes from: Hochschild, Adam, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Houghton Mifflin, 1999.


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The National Security Council will discuss plans for a £20 billion Trident replacement on Friday – with the debate said to include whether the replacement system should go ahead at all, not just how it is funded.
Senior defence chiefs are understood to be split over whether Britain should retain a submarine-based strategic nuclear deterrent or opt for a cheaper alternative.
The NSC will also discuss options for a whole series of future defence projects and will decide what needs to be axed to make Britain's armed forces more flexible, relevant and less expensive to run.
General Sir David Richards, the incoming chief of the defence staff, is understood to favour retaining Trident but will supports calls for the replacement programme to be delayed by up to five years.
Liam Fox, the defence secretary, also supports retaining a strategic nuclear deterrent but is said to be "open to alternative options", which would lessen the burden on the defence budget.
The options include reducing the numbers of submarines to three or even two boats.
While other senior chiefs are proposing that Britain retains its nuclear capability based around cruise missiles which offer flexibility as well as deterrence.
The government is under increasing pressure to reach a consensus over the Trident replacement programme where research and development costing £1 million a day.
Scrapping Trident in favour of a cheaper alternative system would spark outrage among right-leaning Tory MPs and would be a massive political gamble for David Cameron.
It would also represent a big win for Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats, who opposed renewing Trident in their general election manifesto.
Up until now it had been assumed that a similar version of Trident to the current system, which features four submarines armed with nuclear warheads, would get the go-ahead.
The main debate was whether it would be funded from within the Ministry of Defence's £35 billion-a-year budget – as the Treasury is currently demanding – or whether its costs would be ring-fenced as they are currently.
However, it now appears that there is no certainty that a submarine-based system, which provides the ultimate form of independent deterrence, will be approved at all.
A cheaper alternative, possibly based on shorter range cruise missiles or similar weapons, would see nuclear strikes capable of being launched from submarines, surface ships or aircraft.
Supporters of the current system, however, say this would abandon the key "stealth" ability of Trident to strike without being detected.
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister, raised eyebrows last month by saying that the "huge" cost of replacing Trident was hard to justify at a time of retrenchment across the board.
A source close to the replacement programme told The Sunday Telegraph: "The mood music has definitely shifted from having to show savings from within the Trident replacement plan to having to justify it happening at all."
Patrick Mercer, the Conservative MP said: "Colleagues from all sides of the party need to get real. This is about defending ourselves properly, not posturing with Cold war kit.
"Trident has never been used and it is fabulously expensive. The savings would be better spent on an alternative, cheaper system."
Labour would be likely to oppose any plans not to replace Trident in the House of Commons, leaving Mr Cameron vulnerable to a possible damaging defeat if up to 40 Tory MPs were to vote against the government.
This week sees he coalition's "star chamber" – where the major decisions on spending cuts ahead of October's Comprehensive Spending review will take place – begin regular meetings.
George Osborne, the Chancellor, has ordered most Whitehall departments to prepare blueprints for budget cuts of 25 per cent and 40 per cent.
The figures for education and defence, however, are 10 and 20 per cent while health and international developments have had their budgets ring-fenced.
The Sunday Telegraph also understands that serious consideration is now being given to axing the Royal Navy's £5bn carrier programme, with small cheaper alternatives being proposed.
If the carriers are axed sources have revealed that the £9bn programme to buy the Joint Strike Fighter will either be cut in its entirety or see the numbers of aircraft bought severely reduced.
In an extract from his autobiography his published in The Sunday Telegraph this weekend, General Sir Richard Dannatt, the former chief of the general staff, suggests that the decision to procure two aircraft carriers was, in part, politically motivated.
He adds: "The new Coalition Government has indeed got to address the aircraft carrier issue. There is no doubt that these ships are highly desirable; but the jury is still out on whether they are both essential or affordable."
The RAF will lose the final tranche of Eurofighters as well as the Tornado fleet. Army chiefs have been warned that an armoured brigade will be lost and all troops serving in Germany will return to the UK within five years.
Other changes will include major changes to the Permanent Joint Headquarters, greater funding of Unmanned air vehicles research and development and advances to counter cyber warfare.


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Ms. Ronald McDonald
Marketer: McDonald's
Brand: Tomato McGrand Burger
Title: "Tomato McGrand"
Agency: Beacon (A joint venture of Dentsu and Leo Burnett)
Here is Ronald McDonald as you've never see her before. This-out-of-the-box ad campaign is causing a stir in Japan, where the clothing worn by brand icons has become a fashion craze for Japanese school girls.
Heineken's Pigeon Dung Ad
Marketer: Heineken
Brand: Heineken
Title: "Square"
Agency: Strawberry Frog, New York
Spontaneous play with a soccer ball in a European square triggers a blizzard of pigeon droppings that mark out a soccer field across the ancient stones. The commercial is part of Strawberry Frog's first work for Heineken, which is sponsoring the European Football Association's Champions League soccer games. But do Heineken drinkers really like to think about bird dung when they think about beer?
Granny Horror
Marketer: Universal Orlando
Brand: Halloween Horror Nights
Title: "Nails"
Agency: David and Goliath, Los Angeles
Featuring a psycho killer granny, this is the TV spot for Universal Orlando's Halloween marketing strategy. Every night during October, the amusement park is transformed into a 'scare zone' with monsters roaming the streets and special-effects horrors for all.
Pepsi Is a Player
Marketer: PepsiCo
Brand: Diet Pepsi
Title: "Drafted"
Agency: DDB, New York
Another bit of visual magic from Rhinofx, this commercial imagines what it would be like if the New England Patriots selected a Pepsi machine as the team's first draft choice. Wonderfully absurd.
Hating the Moon Girl
Marketer: Miller Brewing Co.
Brand: Miller High Life
Title: "Girl on the Moon"
Agency: Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, Ore.
This one certainly stirred controversy here in the 'Advertising Age' newsroom. Most of us hate it but maybe that's because it is such a wild, jarring disconnection from the 'Miller High Life Man' campaign that we loved so much. No sirree, you're not going to see any greasy fingernails, cluttered work benches or ramshackle kitchens in this ode to the suburban officer worker and soccer mom set.
Shadow Rokr
Marketer: Cingular
Brand: Rokr
Title: "Shadow 1"
Agency: BBDO, New York
Borrowing something of the spirit of Apple iPod's earlier 'Silhouette' dancer ads, this new campaign for Cingular's Rokr features shadows and reflections living parallel lives.
Telephone Booth Rokr
Marketer: Motorola
Brand: Rokr
Title: "Phone Booth"
Agency: BBDO, New York
To demonstrate how a Rokr iTunes phone can fit 100 songs into a very compact wireless phone, Madonna leads a bevy of music stars who cram themselves into a telephone booth.
Aflac Duck
Marketer: Aflac
Brand: Aflac
Title: "Helping Out"
Agency: Kaplan Thaler
Once again proving his iconic power, the Aflac duck returns to play the piano, be catapulted out of a hammock and splash down in a neighbor's pool. U.S. consumers choose this as the 'most liked' TV ad of the last month in the latest IAG Research survey.


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In a redo, Milford Planning and Zoning Board approves zoning change for developer to build 168-units
MILFORD >> The Planning and Zoning Board voted recently to approve a change in zoning regulations that contradicts the efforts of state legislators to achieve a moratorium on affordable housing construction under the state's controversial 8-30g statute.
2 Milford teachers use coupons to purchase $1,000 in supplies for $40 to help kids get school supplies
MILFORD >> Two teachers at Milford Kinder Care learning center used coupons to purchase about $1,000 in school supplies for less than $40 and donated the goods in backpacks donated by parents to the Department of Children and Families.
Connecticut consumers hitting stores for back-to-school shopping
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Milford police charge felon with criminal possession of firearm
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New Haven man charged with 'bumping' woman with groin
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Milford Speaks Out to celebrate achievements by immigrants, seek nominations
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New restaurant in Milford to carry on name of Milford Diner
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Shelton woman accused of posting intimate images of another on social media
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Ex-teacher from Milford facing more sex charges
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6 short plays featured in 'East/West PlayFest'
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Connecticut's new soundkeeper will be partly based in New Haven
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Shelton man accused of cashing forged check in Milford
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Governor's office: Milford mayor drove DMV closure
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Connecticut residential care facility fined, ordered to hire consultant
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Blumenthal wants used car buyers protected against recalls
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Connecticut Post Mall in Milford gets new general manager
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Milford legislator wants changes at Silver Sands State Park after most recent drowning
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Subway taking a fresh look at change amid ratings drop
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Milford police arrest man for allegedly punching woman in face
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Doctor: Milford killer was mentally ill, couldn't control himself
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Milford man, woman arrested after high-speed chase in stolen car
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Milford woman charged with forging checks totaling $800 in 2016
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Connecticut continues to urge vigilance against mosquito-borne virus Zika
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Milford police: Woman posted 'intimate images' of another on social media
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Milford mayor delivers annual State of the City speech
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Milford mayor may not get a challenger for November election
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Milford doctor indicted on fraud, narcotics and money laundering
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Car crashes into Milford hair salon
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Milford man allegedly punches, kicks cops, grabs another's genitals
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5 arrested in Milford in connection with alleged assault
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DeLauro announces $8 million in funding secured for Long Island Sound
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Milford man accused of strangling woman, threatening man with knife
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Connecticut House overrides Malloy veto of changes to affordable housing law
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Dr. David Katz, Preventive Medicine: The food is the toxin
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Man swept off sandbar in Milford still missing; search remains suspended
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Bridgeport man swept off sandbar in Milford identified, presumed dead
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Crews switch to recovery mode for missing man at Silver Sands in Milford
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Man, woman arrested twice in same day by Milford police
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Former Shelton man gets 15 years for robbing 4 banks, including one in Milford
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Car crashes into Krauszers in Milford
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DMV temporarily closing Milford, Derby service centers
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3 from Milford, Ansonia accused of trafficking a ton of marijuana
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Milford police look for 2 suspects in attempted robbery
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Santa Fe, New Mexico
When Christian Nardi heard that the Borders near her house was closing, she took action. "I can't raise my kids in a town where I can't buy them books," says the mother of two. And she isn't. in winter 2011, she opened Bee Hive, the only bookstore in the city that caters exclusively to kids. Shelves brim with Caldecott winners, glossy picture classics, and the latest teen cult favorites—one of which recently had middle-schoolers in the Bee Hive Book Club learning archery in the store's front yard.
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Monkeybread Recipe
From LevWiki
Here is the Monkey bread recipe, enjoy and be careful!
- a large cookie sheet or large flat pan with sides at least 1/2 inch high (we use a baker's half-sheet)
- 2 rolls of large ("Grands") homestyle buttermilk biscuits (regular, not flaky)
- 2 slightly-packed cups dark brown pure cane sugar (about 1 lb - both dark brown and pure cane are important)
- 1/8 cup cinnamon (heaping)
- 2 sticks (1/2 lb.) of butter
- Cut the pre-sliced biscuits into pieces about 1/2" in diameter. The shape is not crucial--but the size is important. For large "Grands" sized biscuits (preferred), cutting each biscuit into six pieces (three cuts) seems to work best.
- Melt the butter completely (microwave for one minute or so).
- While the butter is melting, distribute the biscuit pieces evenly across the bottom of the pan.
- When the butter is melted, stir the brown sugar and cinnamon into it.
- Pour the butter/brown sugar/cinnamon mixture over the biscuit pieces, trying (but not obsessively) to wet them evenly.
- Spread the resulting mixture evenly in the pan. Do not to "bruise" the biscuit pieces in the process through excessive mixing. They should not dissolve in the butter mixture.
- Bake on the middle rack of the oven at 350°F for about 15 - 20 minutes. Cooking times may vary widely depending on the oven and pan used, etc., so be sure to visually check the progress every few minutes or so after about twelve minutes of cooking have elapsed. The desired color is a beautiful golden brown.
- Gently but thoroughly mix the pieces in the baking pan (best done by turning over several times with a spatula) to coat the bread with "monkey goo."
- When serving the monkeybread, it is essential to pour all of the remaining monkey goo from the bottom of the cookie sheet or pan over the bread, after it has been transferred to the serving dish.
If you use a little extra cinnamon (Step 4) as the spirit moves you, it's OK.
You can cut the biscuits into shapes (bunnies?) for a little extra elegance.
Serves 10-15 hungry Leverites. Two of these recipes go onto each of the oval trays served at Open Houses.


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May 26, 2016
Most of the public attention devoted to mobile payments has focused on POS solutions like Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, but mobile has actually gotten the most traction on purchases made via app and mobile Web, according to Jane Cloninger, a director with consultant Edgar Dunn & Company and moderator of a panel today at the CNP Expo.
Leon Majors, founder and president of Phoenix Marketing International, noted that though millennials are the largest market segment using e-commerce on mobile, the fact is that "there are also lots of baby boomers getting smartphones, they just don't use them. If you want to move more segments, YOU have to do it, you have to make it appealing and worthwhile for that market segment."
He also pointed out that "people use the biggest screen they have access to for financial stuff. For millennials, often that is their phone. Just about everybody else uses a computer, at some point. They will often start their research or applications on mobile, then switch over to a bigger screen. But they still are using mobile as part of their purchase process."
Cloninger raised the question of whether it is worth creating an app when studies show users spend the vast majority of their time only in their top three apps. Nathan Hodgen, mobile product manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, responded that he believes "it's tricky to look at time spent in an app, because, for example, I find the grocery store valuable, but I spend as little time there as possible. And during my time there, I am spending money. What we're looking to do is take advantage of a critical tool for consumers—mobile. It's not about how long they spend in your app, it's about making sure they can get what they need there and make the purchase quickly. It's a missed opportunity if you don't have a place for consumers to meet you on mobile."


text: Ion Media Networks has tapped Steve Sternberg to run the company's sales research division as senior v.p., reporting to Ion sales prexy Stephen Appel.Sternberg has worked in media research at companies including Magna Global, McCann Erickson, TN Media and Bozell. The position is a new one – Sternberg will work out of Ion's New York office and will develop sales research presentations for agencies and clients, along with audience analysis. Sternberg has been working at Ion as a consultant during the past year. Ion emerged from bankruptcy in December 2009 after expunging some $2.7 billion in legacy debt; the station and network owner is now owned by a bondholder group. The group's main network, Ion Television, is in 99 million homes.


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Waiver Wire Pickups and The Dump List for Week 13
Pick Ups
Roy Helu, RB, WAS – The inherent mess of the Shanahan running backs may have let Helu remain on free agency this long. He isn't even owned in half of leagues and he is the one guy on the list at RB that has big-game potential. Torain did not even touch the ball on Sunday and Helu had a pretty nice game in a win over Seattle. Shanahan might just decide to spit in the face of fantasy owners again and start Torain next week but if you are taking a chance on one of these guys, it should be Helu every single time.
Greg Little, WR, CLE – The Browns desperately need a play maker at receiver and with Little starting to emerge, at least a little, I expect them to let Colt McCoy sling the ball around some so that they can properly evaluate him for their future needs. I believe in McCoy and expect Little to continue to perform better than a Browns receiver has since Braylon Edwards did with Derek Anderson at QB in 2007. Little should be owned in all leagues and could make a decent flex play if the match up is right the rest of the way.
Donald Brown, RB, IND – If you are making a serious playoff push right now, Brown would probably not be any better than a bench-warmer for you. I would probably rather seek out a handcuff to your best running back instead unless your fighting tooth and nail to get into the playoffs at all. If that is the case Brown might have another decent game next week against New England but considering how badly they are going to lose, his upside is limited as well. He is worthy of a roster spot in most leagues but as you can tell, he does not excite me.
Johnny Knox, WR, CHI – Despite how poorly Caleb Hanie played in this game, his ability to find Knox was undeniable. I'm not even ready to call Knox a solid flex-play yet but if Hanie keeps finding this speedy deep threat next week, then I will have to concede that Knox is worth starting again. I will already say that I would rather have Knox on my team than Bennett.
Peyton Hillis, RB, CLE – Hillis is available in around 20% of leagues at the moment and this is probably a mistake. He is a borderline top 25 back and now that he is healthy, he must be owned. He hasn't played like he did last season but I never expected him to either. Bottom line is he is going to see between 12 and 15 carries and should be the primary goal line back. This guy is too good to just be sitting on free agency.
Dump List
Bernard Scott, RB, CIN – Anyone who thinks that Scott has more in him than being a mediocre handcuff just hasn't been watching the Bengals play. Benson is the more dynamic threat out of the back field and Scott is only used as a change of pace.
Steve Breaston, WR, KC – I could see holding him until Orton starts and you see how he manages this offense but I wouldn't wait. I don't trust Breaston at the moment and with this offense being so one-dimensional, I don't see that changing.
LaDainian Tomlinson, RB, NYJ – LT is still owned in over 40% of leagues and I don't get it. McKnight has run better than he has and neither has really seen the field very much. Cut your loses with LT now and let him be someone else's problem as you head into the playoffs!
Lance Ball, RB, DEN – With McGahee having gotten banged up a few times, Ball isn't value-less. But he didn't break-out at all when he had the chance and was merely a viable replacement. McGahee has bounce back quickly from his injuries this season and I would probably let Ball go if I had my eye on someone on waivers this week.


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Marvelous Music Series: Ten Strings And A Goat Skin
- Date: 02/16/2018 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
- Location: Cary Arts Center
101 Dry Avenue
Cary, North Carolina 27511
Young acoustic trio Ten Strings And A Goat Skin, from Canada's Prince Edward Isle, transform traditional folk music with vigor, curiosity, and sparks of goofy humor. Expanding on the Scottish and Acadian roots of PEI's music, they weave old-school Franco-Canadian, Breton, Irish, and Scottish tunes with current grooves and clever quirks. Enjoy an evening of traditional and original music inspired by Atlantic Canadian histories and roots.Return to full list >>
For more, visit Marvelous Music or call (919) 462-2055.
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What is your potential? Do you know your power? How do you direct your inner strength to help you achieve the outer results you want? In this post, I will be giving you my 6 tips to unlock and unleash your power within.
#1. Self Awareness
As you probably know, the key to success is to know yourself first. Who are you? What are your strengths and weaknesses? What are you great at? What comes easily for you? What do you love doing and what do you hate doing the most?
Knowing who you are allows you to put yourself in a winning position. It maximizes your chance of success.
#2. Know Your Purpose
What is your purpose? Why do you do what you do? Understanding and knowing your purpose will help you realize what motivates and drives you every day. It gives you the motivation and the fuel you need to push yourself to success, even when the going gets tough. It helps you get rid of your excuses and stay focused on your goal even when things are not going your way.
#3. Set Goal
A goal is like an exam to test your ability. It's a measurement of your personal growth and your work ethic. Achieving your goal indicates your potential. Then you know your current potential so you can set a higher and bigger goal to make you grow even more. Goal-setting is very important because it keeps you working to make you become a bigger and better person.
#4. Stay Focused
It is so easy to be distracted in the world today. Anyone can take your attention away, especially in the social media world. How do you stay focused and keep doing what you are supposed to do? Well, you can discipline yourself to stay focused by prioritizing the tasks that you need to complete each day. Make a conscious decision that until my important tasks are completed, everything else is a distraction. Try this for one week and you will be amazed by the results that you have accomplished.
#5. Personal Development and Self Growth Is A Must
If you want to be great or pursue greatness, every day you must grow. You must be better than who you were yesterday. By making a conscious choice to grow yourself daily, you will expand your knowledge, skills and wisdom and therefore you can unleash your potential. There are many ways to grow yourself. You can read books, learn from successful people, attend workshops and seminars. When I was sitting at one of Tony Robbins' events in Australia called Unleash The Power Within, I realized that if you are not growing, you are dying slowly inside. That was the moment when I made a commitment to myself that no matter how busy I am, I still make time to learn and grow.
#6. Gratitude Is Power
Gratitude makes you happy as you think of the things you are grateful for. When you are grateful, fear disappears and a sense of abundance appears. Make a habit of practicing the attitude of gratitude every day. If you are serious about this, buy a journal and write down the things that you are thankful for every night before you sleep.
Not every body will achieve their big goals, but if you apply these tips, your chance of success will be higher because you will unleash your potential and maximize your effort to achieving your goals.


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The 28-year-old Scream 4 and True Blood won the actor a bit of a scare at the weekend while hubby Stephen Moyer attended the Toyoto Pro / Celebrity Race.
His car nose on the court, but Stephen walked away unscathed, and even spent $ 15,000 for charity his Facing the Atlantic Ocean, banquets HA received a People's Pole Position Award, Radar Online reports.
Pictures of Anna Paquin Insider shopping in Los Angeles .
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The Canadian Studies Center's mission is to research and inform the broader community about all aspects of Canada, particularly its connection and contribution to a global society.
The center advocates for research, teaching, and outreach linkages between MSU and Canada's institutions whose mission and expertise align well with MSU's land grant ethic of teaching, research and outreach. With the University's goals at the forefront, we encourage global engagement, positive change, and advancing development worldwide.
A broad array of faculty lend their knowledge and expertise to Canadian studies at Michigan State University, most of whom are drawn to what MSU and Canadian teaching and research strengths might do together to address community and global concerns. The necessity for Canadian studies is attributed to the nation and its drive for synergy of world resources, economies and cultures.


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Meet Sonal Goyal and Sumit Sukhuja, the talented duo behind the vibrant illustrations of 'चुन्नु-मुन्नु का नहाना', which was the final (8th) story of our 'Weave-a-Story' campaign. Written by Rohini Nilekani, the story is about two children being bathed by their mother, and all the fun they're having together.
Sonal and Sumit have been active members of the Pratham Books community for a while now. Their illustrations in 'The Elephant Bird' and 'Goonight, Tinku!' were thoroughly enjoyed by all our readers. They also contributed towards the #6FrameStoryChallenge which we ran earlier this year. You can see their wonderful artwork here.
We had a little chat with them recently and here's what they had to say about illustrating for children, finding inspiration and much more.
|An illustration from 'Chunnu-Munnu ka nahaana'
You have been active members of the Pratham Books community. Tell us a little about what illustrating for children means to you and what has kept you motivated.
I think all of us love going back to our childhood days... the fondness of childhood memories remain with us forever. And we consider ourselves fortunate to get this chance almost everyday - with each new story and scene, we relive those days. Who wants to grow up? Not us, for sure!
When you read a story, both of you might have different ideas for the illustrations. How do you decide the final approach for a story?
Most times we take bits from each others' ideas, so we get the best of 2 views and then one of us puts the thoughts to paper. Whoever is more comfortable in a particular style gets to work on it, no fighting unless it is a Pratham Books story!
Which is your favourite medium while illustrating and how do you decide the look of a story?
Both of us have a similar approach to drawing. We sketch on paper manually or sometimes digitally on the computer, and then colour the drawings on computer using different softwares. We love to experiment in different styles and most of the time, it is the story setting, theme that itself gives us clues to picking a particular style.
What do you do and where do you go when you desperately need inspiration to draw? Yes, we are asking you to spill your secrets.
We look for ways to relax. Generally, I (Sonal) read a book and Sumit plays games on his computer. We also play TT on our makeshift TT table in the office, it really helps us unwind. Better still, simply looking out the window helps too.
'चुन्नु-मुन्नु का नहाना' is available in Hindi and Marathi currently. We want the story to reach more and more children in multiple languages so that they can read in a language of their choice. Translate this wonderfully rhythmic story into any language that you are fluent in and help Chunnu and Munnu make friends around the world. Here are some tips on translating on StoryWeaver.


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At ESG we design all our pool ventilation systems to meet each customer's individual needs.
We build our air handling units and controls to the highest standards from quality materials. We aim to build install and maintain an energy saving system which will provide the best possible conditions, the most economical running costs, low maintenance costs and long life.
ESG can design the whole system, including air handling unit, supply ductwork, extract ductwork, fresh air and exhaust ductwork. All ductwork includes acoustic silencers to reduce the sound levels in the pool hall and outside. Our air handling units and ductwork are finished to withstand the very aggressive environment a swimming pool presents.


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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Master of Public Administration, May 2010 Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy
Amita Swadhin joined Peer Health Exchange in May 2012. As the Los Angeles Executive Director, Amita is responsible for developing, managing, and evaluating the PHE Los Angeles program, raising funds, and managing the local staff and Board. She provides fiscal and organizational oversight for the city site and leads local strategic planning.
Amita brings over a decade of experience as a nonprofit manager, consultant, youth development specialist and social justice advocate to her work with PHE. Prior to joining PHE, she served as the Coordinator and a cast member of Secret Survivors, a theater project she conceived of in 2009 for NYC-based performance group Ping Chong & Co. featuring survivors of child sexual abuse telling their stories. Before that, she held full-time positions in New York City nonprofits and public institutions, including Kingsborough Community College (CUNY), Make the Road NY, Global Kids and Legal Momentum. Amita has also served as: a consultant to the Liberty Hill Foundation, Social Justice Philanthropy Collaborative, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, and Bard High School Early College; an Education Pioneers Fellow at The Broad Foundation and a Media Fellow at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD); a Faculty Member at Sadie Nash Leadership Project; and the Board Chair of the National Youth Advocacy Coalition.
She is the co-host of Flip the Script, a weekly radio show on KPFK Los Angeles, and enjoys writing and performing poetry in her spare time.
Amita holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an M.P.A. from the NYU Wagner School, where she was a Catherine B. Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.


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What would you do if you lost everything tomorrow?
The life you planned, the hope for the future, the social network you built, your belief system, your one true love, your personal empire, your reality as you know it. Gone. In a weekend.
Justin Cross, singer, songwriter, composer experienced this in a most peculiar way.
Justin's entire existence was based on beliefs tied to a fundamentalist religious upbringing that discouraged a career in entertainment and his favorite passions. A beat that sounded "Rebellious"? Forbidden. R-rated movie? Not allowed. Holidays? Never celebrated. Politics? Military? No participation or voice on the subjects.
As a teenager, Justin released his first EP, a low budget 5 song EP of his own construct, where he performed bass, drums, and guitar. After mailing a copy to Maverick records, he received a phone call from an executive. After careful consideration, he would ultimately decline a potentially life-altering record deal with a major label, for fear that a path in entertainment would be strictly opposed to his upbringing. A career path crisis ensued, that would haunt him for years.
These beliefs caused a division in Justin. He would ultimately have to choose between family and friends or his love of music. In tune with the only culture Justin knew, he chose to end his pursuit of a music career at 19.
Despite this sacrifice, life seemed really good. He appeared on the surface to have it all; the beautiful marriage, friends, family, security, custom built house, and a supportive community.
But something wasn't right. His doubts led him to make the difficult decision to walk away, and as a result away from his wife, family, the promise of his own family, and his friends. Now shunned, Justin was not allowed to contact any of his friends or family.
All that was left was an unfinished house where Justin slept for months without heat or air conditioning. Plywood and a sleeping bag on exposed floor joists would be his nightly bed. He began contemplating how to build a life to reclaim his soul, and how to navigate modern society from square one, socially.
At a particularly low point, Justin spotted his guitar in its case across the room, which hadn't been touched in more than a decade. When he picked the guitar back up, years of art and expression come flowing back.
Guitar in hand, something finally made sense, and he was flooded with relief knowing he was free to pursue his lifelong passion of music in whatever capacity he could dream, no restrictions. He rediscovered the freedom music has always allowed him and how it has influenced who he is. There would be no more shame in writing music freely.
Music now serves to help Justin make sense of what he's lost, and rebuild a brighter future. His music is about overcoming absolutely anything, even the lowest times of life, staying true to yourself, and becoming the best version of you.
Since reconnecting with music, Justin hasn't wasted a minute. He released his first 5-song EP, which received national airplay on 37 stations in 32 states throughout the United States. His song "Let Me In" peaked at No. 4 in heavy rotation on San Antonio's top 100 records played, ahead of Jack White and Beck. He's headlined the SPARKcon music festival in Raleigh N.C., headlined the Hopscotch Music Festival, and regularly performs at packed venues from Boston to Los Angeles.
He's enjoyed scoring a full length indie comedy scheduled for release in 2017, & co-writing a theme song for the same film which will be released by MGM records in 2016.
His music has recently won "Best Original Music" at the 2016 Portland Comedy Film Festival, and is nominated for 6 awards at the upcoming Austin Comedy Film Festival.
Justin's music comes from the soul, a soul that has loved, lost and lived. He found a way to rebuild himself through a world of music, and now he's asking you to let him in. If you'd like to receive some of Justin's music, enter your name and email below…


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Find properties from Dauphin Island Real Estate on the company website, DauphinIslandRealEstate.com. Lists of homes, condos and lots for sale, as well as vacation rentals are on the site.Continue Reading
According to the website's information, clicking the tabs for Homes for Sale, Home and Condo Sales, or Lots for Sale leads to an MLS property search for the island and surrounding areas, including Grand Bay, Mobile and Spanish Fort. When website users click the Vacation Rentals tab, they get links to condominiums and beach house rentals available through the agency. Beach houses have between two and five bedrooms, as of 2015. Condos have two or three bedrooms. The vacation rentals page also includes beach photos and island activities, as well as options to make payments and check a lost and found for items left behind during an island stay.
Located off the coast of Alabama, Dauphin Island is quaint, laid-back and eclectic, according to TownOfDauphinIsland.org. Home to just 1300 people, the barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico is 14 miles long and 1.75 miles wide. The entire island is a designated bird sanctuary. It is also home to the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo, the largest fishing rodeo in the world, according to ADSFR.com.Learn more about Finding a Home


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Why would I do it?
There are several reasons why you might want to run both Windows and Linux on the same machine. The most obvious is that you want to try Linux but keep your options open. Indeed, even if you decide to stick to Linux, there's arguably little point getting rid of Windows completely if you don't have to.
Another reason would be if you want to carry on using Windows most of the time, but would prefer to have Linux available at certain times. A good example is my own situation: most of the time I run Windows and can cope with any freezes or crashes. However, when I am writing articles to a deadline (and multitasking with blogging software, an internet browser, image editing and listening to music), I can't afford to risk having delays from crashes and reboots. Though I don't want to run Linux all the time, I now write time-sensitive articles using it.
A dual boot system (where two operating systems are available, such as Windows and a Linux-based system) is also a good solution to the problem that a large proportion (maybe 80% in my experience) of programs and features run fine in Windows, but the remaining ones are extremely problematic and could take so much work to sort out that it undermined the advantages of Linux.
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How do I set it up?
The easiest solution is to use a program called "Wubi." This is a free download in Windows which installs a Linux-based system on your machine. (The default option is Ubuntu, a system which looks and feels very similar to Windows. For the rest of this guide I will assume you opt for Ubuntu.) Each time you boot your computer you will be asked if you want to run Windows or the Ubuntu.
Bright Hub's Dylan Turpin has written a great guide to using Wubi, but one note I'd like to add is that the installation process automatically downloads Ubuntu, which is around 650MB. You should bear the time of downloading this in mind when deciding when to start the process: it's not a good idea to use Wubi if you are in a rush or will need to turn off your computer soon.
When installing Ubuntu through Wubi, you'll be asked how much disk space you want to allocate to it: the default is 15GB while the minimum is 4GB. I would recommend allocating at least 10GB to allow plenty of room for any Linux software you download and for updates to Ubuntu itself. Though you are unlikely to use this much space, it is better to be overcautious as it is tricky to put things right if you later find you have underestimated things.
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How does it work?
The key thing to remember is that, unlike most installations of a Linux system, Wubi does not create a disk partition. (This is where your hard drive is split into two different sections so that Windows and Linux are completely separate.) Instead the entire Ubuntu system will be treated by Windows as if it were a program. This makes it very easy to quickly uninstall Ubuntu later on: you simply use the Add/Remove Programs tool in the Windows Control Panel. However, it does have some implications for the way you organize your files, as I will explain in part 2 of this series.
Running Windows and Linux on the same PC: Why & How?
Looking at the options available to you the end user when deciding whether to run with Linux and/or Windows as your operating system of choice.


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It is my pleasure to invite you to join us for our Embraer Executive Operators Conference which will take place in Paris-Roissy, France, on April 24-25, 2013.
The 9th edition of this conference covering the latest technical, maintenance and flight operations update for the Legacy 600 and Legacy 650 (April 24), Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 (April 25) will give us the opportunity to exchange through interactive workshops and panel sessions.
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Major News and Events of 03 August 2015
What Happened on 03 August 2015
'Only 11 percent keep work files safe on mobiles'
Cricbuzz title sponsor of India-Lanka series
18th IIT opens at Palakkad
OYO Rooms raises $100 mn led by SoftBank
Not helped Lalit Modi on travel documents: Sushma Swaraj
Heavy rain damages houses, crops in Leh
HCL net profit up 14 percent in fiscal 2015-16
Rajnath discusses floods with Gujarat, Manipur CMs
Pakistan violates ceasefire in Jammu
The parliament logjam took an ugly turn on Monday when Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspended 25 Congress MPs for five days for "willfully obstructing the business of the house". The Congress MPs, including Gaurav Gogoi, Sushmita Dev, Ranjeet Ranjan, K.C. Venugopal and Deepinder Singh Hooda, were "named" under rule 374(A). Source: IANS
Only 11 percent people keep their work files protected in their smartphones, according to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab in conjunction with B2B International. The survey, which was derived from a total of 12,355 users from 26 countries, including 401 Indians, states that around half of the consumers surveyed also used their devices for work.Source: IANS
Cricket news website Cricbuzz will be the title sponsor for the India vs Sri Lanka three-match Test series to be played in the island nation from August 12 to September 1. While the first match will be held in Galle, the last two will take place in Colombo. Source: IANS
The 18th Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) opened on 3 August 2015 with 117 students -- six from Kerala and a majority from Uttar Pradesh. Addressing the students and parents through video conferencing, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani urged the students to develop a social outlook besides pursuing their studies. Presently lodged in a temporary campus, admissions have been made to four streams of BTech. Source: IANS
OYO Rooms has raised $100 million, led by the SoftBank Group, with participation from its existing investors - Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed India, a company statement. Launched in 2013, OYO is a network of branded budget hotels and is present in more than 70 cities with 12,000 plus available rooms. "OYO will use the latest round of funding to implement new customer experience initiatives, build innovative technology products," the statement said. Source: IANS
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday said she never helped former IPL chief Lalit Modi in getting travel documents from the British authorities. The minister told Rajya Sabha that she has been waiting for the past last two weeks to make her stand clear. "This issue about me is being raised since the last two weeks. I had informed through the leader of the house that I am ready for discussion. Since last seven days, I am sitting here every day just so that a discussion may start," she said amid ruckus in the house. Source: IANS
Heavy overnight rain has damaged houses and crops in Jammu and Kashmir's Leh district, an official said. "Incessant rain caused panic last night in Leh. Chuchot, Thicksey, Saboo, Phyang, Shey and Nyuma valley are worst affected areas in the district," an official. He said the gushing water seeped into the Leh airport during the wee hours of Monday. "The runway has been cleared now and flights are operating as per the schedule. Source: IANS
Software major HCL Technologies has reported Rs.7,254 crore net profit for fiscal 2015-16, registering a 14 percent growth year-on-year (YoY), as per the Indian accounting standard. In a regulatory filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the outsourcing firm said the revenue for fiscal under review (FY 2015) increased 12.6 percent YoY to Rs.37,061 crore. Under the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), net income grew 12 percent YoY to $1,164 million ($1.2 billion) and revenue 11 percent YoY to $5,952 million ($6 billion) for FY 2015. Source: IANS
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has assured the Centre's help to Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel and Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh while discussing the floods and landslides in their states.The home ministry said it was regularly monitoring the flood situation in various parts of the country and extending necessary assistance. About 40 lakh people in Gujarat's 14 districts have been affected in recent floods following heavy rainfall in the last few days. More than 10 lakh food packets have been distributed among the flood victims, the ministry said in a statement. Source: IANS
Pakistan troops overnight violated the ceasefire agreement on the line of control (LoC) and international border in four sectors of the Jammu region. "Pakistan army opened unprovoked firing at Indian positions on the LoC in Krishna Ghati and Mandi sectors of Poonch district at 9.30 p.m. on Sunday," a defence spokesman said."They also started firing at our positions in Balakote sector of Rajouri district around the same time. Our troops responded to Pakistan firing. He added. Source: IANS
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Here comes the latest technology air conditioner from the Hitachi. It comes with a 1.5-ton Capacity. The 3 star rated air conditioner. The increasing demand of the air conditioner had brought a great demand even to the Hitachi air conditioners. Available with a brand warranty of 1+5 years in the market.
Hitachi RAU318HWDS was designed specifically for the household purpose and also looks very simple a white in color. It does come with a pink lining at the edges. The air conditioner is available in two variants one is pink colored lining and the other is a silver-colored lining. It is provided with a very good quality compressor which operates on low sound.
The dimensions of the outdoor unit are 750 x 548 x 288 mm with the weight of 40kg and main unit dimensions with 1050 x 290 x 220 mm and weight 12.9kg respectively. The working and cooling capacity was good. The main unit was designed with pure copper. Embedded with R-410A Refrigerant. LED Panel display is also available.
It is provided with the dual layered dust filters which stops the free-flowing dust around the room. But there is no anti-bacterial filter available. The air conditioner does come with a good looking remote control. Which has a small LCD display?
Hitachi RAU318HWDS air conditioner was embedded with a capacity of 1.5 ton and cooling capacity of 5362 watts. The energy efficiency rating of the air conditioner is 3.29. The average power consumption was 1630 watts.
Auto Air swing feature is available for quick cooling. Auto Restart which is user-friendly is available. Works under the power supply of 220 - 240 volts with Single phase up to 50 Hz.
It is 3 starred Air conditioner with High EER Rotary Compressor. LED display which is visible in night times too with LCD remote control for the quick operation was an add-on feature.
When it comes to performance, the cooling capacity of Hitachi RAU318HWDS is 5362 watts which are really high and really wonderful. The air conditioner does look wonderful.
If you want to use an air conditioner you should buy a stabilizer in order to prevent the damage from the power fluctuations. For all-around cooling, the air conditioner is provided with cross flow air vent which is very good.
The Dehumidifier option is also available in the product which creates a dry cooling with less moisture in the room. Further, the LED display with LCD remote control embedded with Glow buttons helps the user to operate easily in the dark also.
The Hitachi RAU318HWDS air conditioner is a really good one. The power consumption levels and cooling levels are good. But it is not provided with any advanced features. The features are user-friendly. Available at a price range of Rs 32,990/- in the nearby electronic stores and E-Shops.
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To replace a damaged window sash, gather the necessary tools and materials, including a putty knife, screwdriver, drill, pliers and expanding foam. Score the paint joint on the old window sash and remove it with a pry bar. Replace the window inserts on the frame. Fasten the jamb liner clips to the inserts and place the jamb liners over them. Place the sash lifts about ten inches above the sill. Install the window sash between the jamb liners.Continue Reading
Use pliers to break off the upper and lower sections of the parting and interior stops. Wedge a stiff putty knife between the frame and the stops. Press the small pry bar into the space created by the putty knife and gently pry the stops off the frame. Remove any remaining screws or nails from the window frame.
Line the blind stop and the backside of the window stool with caulk to insulate the window. With the window in place, fasten the jamb liner clips into the frame with screws, leaving space between the clips and the blind stops for the window jamb to snap into place. Replace the parting and interior stops with nails or screws.
Hold the sash over the newly installed jamb liner slots. Position it squarely and evenly over the jamb liners with the metal sash pivots directly over the sash lifts. Tilt the sash forward toward the window and snap the top of the sash between the jamb liners. The sash should now easily slide into place.Learn more about Doors, Windows, & Locks


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What's the Difference Between Diesel and Biodiesel
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Diesel and biodiesel are two carbon-based organic products, extracted from different sources. The former resulting from the cracking process of petroleum / crude oil, while the latter is known to be extracted from animal fats and plant oils. Diesel, although not so common as high-octane petrol these days, it is more adaptable to high-commodity diesel-engine
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