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Aegean Explorer - 7 Days
Kicking off in the powerhouse of the Ottoman empire - Istanbul, pay your respects at Gallipoli, get lost in the impressive Roman ruins of Ephesus and Pergamum, witness the beautiful Aegean Coast and dip your toes in Pamukkale's beautiful cascading mineral pools.
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Istanbul. This morning we enjoy a guided tour of Istanbul's old city. Our tour includes visits to the stunning Blue Mosque famed for it's blue Iznik tiles and unique 6 minarets, the ruinous Hippodrome – now a small park of sorts and once scene of chariot races and political activities in Byzantine times, Hagia Sofia Museum - constructed as a Basilica in the 6th century by Emperor Justinian, Topkapi Palace and the Underground Cistern – an ancient underground water tank - replete with carved and fluted Corinthian columns and a puzzling head of Medusa. Visitors walk on walkways suspended above the shallow water. It's very cool and peaceful.
Overnight: Istanbul | Breakfast
Istanbul – Gallipoli.
Early this morning, we travel to the WW1 battlefields of Gallipoli. Here, we'll embark upon a guided tour of the region, once the site of fierce fighting and today almost hauntingly beautiful, with its wooded landscape dotted with understated memorials to the war dead. Our guided tour of the region will take in sights such as ANZAC Cove, Lone Pine Australian War Memorial and cemetery, Chunuk Blair New Zealand War Memorial and cemetery, the Nek, Johnston's Jolly and the many fortified trenches still clearly visible amongst the scrub after all these years.
Crossing the Dardenelles by ferry (offering panoramic views of the entire Gallipoli Peninsular) we proceed to our hotel for a little rest and relaxation.
Overnight: Gallipoli region | Breakfast
Troy & Kusadasi
Gallipoli – Kusadasi. Heading south, we enjoy a guided tour of Homer's Troy, famed for the Trojan wooden horse and fabled Helen. Continuing to ancient Pergamum - the cultural and political capital of its time, before continuing onto coastal Kusadasi. Make the most of the hotel facilities this evening.
Overnight: Kusadasi | Breakfast
Ancient Ephesus
Today, we enjoy a guided tour at the legendary Roman ruins of Ephesus. Positively the best-preserved classical city in the eastern Mediterranean, and among the best places in the world to get a feel for what Roman life must have been like. Ephesus, under the Romans was a vast city with a population nearing 250,000. It became the Roman capital of Asia Minor. We'll have plenty of time to tour the marble ruins of Ephesus. Be sure to see the famous Library of Celcus, the gymnasium of Vedius and Stadium, the great theatre and stroll the streets in the ruins of this large Roman ruined city. It's completely fascinating. We'll see public toilets, a brothel, fountains and various temples. Carpet weaving has long traditions in Turkey and afterward we stop to watch a demonstration of how they are made.
Overnight: Kusadasi | Breakfast
Kusadasi - Pamukkale - Istanbul. Today, after breakfast, we drive to Pamukkale visiting the region's famed calcium rich terraced pools. Known locally as the Cotton Castles, they are a natural phenomena and gift of Mother Nature.
Pamukkale was formed when warm, calcium rich mineral water cascaded over the cliff edge, cooling and depositing in the process. The calcium built natural shelves and pools on the cliffs, known as travertines. Today, some of the pools are closed. However, areas of the travertines can be walked upon, albeit in bare feet. We can however opt to enjoy a unique and very pleasant dip in the warm waters at the Pamukkale Thermal, with its submerged fragments of fluted marble columns in the centre of the ruined spa town of Hierapolis, which was a was a cure centre founded around 190 BC by the Romans.
At approx 10:30pm this evening we bid farewell to our guide and travel by overnight bus to Istanbul.
Overnight: Public bus/coach | Breakfast
Friday. Arrive Istanbul early this morning (approx 8 - 8:30am) where our representative will be waiting to meet you. We transfer to a nearby hotel where our luggage can be stored till our airport transfer to Ataturk International Airport depart later in the day (11am and 1:30pm). Consider heading out to one of the local cafes for a hearty breakfast followed by a visit to the Egyptian Spice market or the legendary, if cavernous Grand Bazaar - boasting some 4000 shops under one immense roof. The Grand Bazaar is just the ticket for souvenir, clothing, scarves, brassware, silver and handbag purchases.
Note: Please ensure you book an international flight departing Istanbul after 1pm, allowing for bus delays and time travelling between the bus station and the airport. Alternatively, you could choose to extend your stay by purchasing an additional nights hotel accommodation.
Return to Istanbul by flight
Opt to upgrade from the unescorted, overnight public bus journey from Pamukkale to Istanbul on day 6 to a short evening flight and enjoy the comfort of spending your final night in an Istanbul hotel.
Includes: Economy flight Pamukkale to Istanbul, airport transfers, 1 night 4* hotel in Istanbul with breakfast. Note: must be booked at least 45 days before travel.
The relevant price for our 'Aegean Explorer Flight Upgrade' can be found under the 'Supplementary Prices' heading on our Prices/Dates page.
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Departure dates noted with a 'G' are guaranteed to operate. All other departure dates are guaranteed with a minimum of 2 persons.Read More
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The hotels listed below are ones which we frequently use on this tour. We reserve the right to substitute these hotels to ones of a similar standard when necessary.
Ramada Old City, Istanbul
A member of the reputable Ramada chain, the Istanbul Old Town property is modern and comfortable with excellent amenities. Guestrooms are bright and spacious with contemporary amenities. Two restaurants are on offer and our personal favourite is the wonderful roof top restaurant, serving delicious local cuisine coupled with a magnificent view of the City and Sea. The perfect way to end the day. Located very close to the Historical part of the city with major Monuments are all walking distance.
Parion Hotel, Canakkale
The Parion is an elegant property situated in the heart of Canakkale on the southern coast of the Dardanelles in Turkey. The hotel features 162 guest rooms and suites with en suit facilities, air conditioning, flat-screen satellite TV and a fully stocked minibar. Those looking for a bite to eat can check out the hotel restaurant, which serves a breakfast buffet and a la carte menus at lunch and dinner. There is also a hotel bar and room service is available.
Enjoyed the trip - it was intense with regards to the schedule.The guide was knowledgeable with her history and extremely flexible in dealing with changes and she gets high marks for effort for that. "
It was my 1st experience with On the Go tours and it was fabulous tour and tour guider "Esra" got good knowledge about wherever we visited sites in turkey.I will recommend on the go tours to everyone."
This tour was well organised and well run. Borhan (I think that is the correct spelling) was extremely knowledgeable and very informative. Mustafah, the driver, was an excellent driver and joined in with the group when he could. His 'disco' drive-bys were hilarious.
I would recommend this tour to everyone!"
We thoroughly enjoyed our tour of Turkey. Our guide Reggie was most personable, approachable and knowledgeable. Small tour group of about 12 made for a good group who travelled well together through some spectacular historic sights. Hotels were of an excellent standard and we were most appreciative of a temporary room in Pammukkale, to have a quick shower and ready ourselves for a pick up to the Denizli International Airport . Hotels were generally within easy walking distance to the town and restaurants. We were given enough time to walk around the sights but would have liked have more time at Ephesus. We found the travel times between sights a little long, but understand this was beyond OTG's control. This would be a factor in choosing land tours in the future. All in all a great tour and we would certainly consider booking with OTG in the future. Thank you Reggie for a memorable tour of Turkey "
Both the tour and especially our guide, Burhan, were fabulous. Burhan could not have been more organized, more supportive, more generous with his time nor more knowledgeable about every aspect of our tour. This was our first with On The Go and it won't be our last ."
I must say I was not looking forward to this trip because I was travelling alone but our Tour Guide and the group I met made it a pleasant one.
I really enjoyed my stay in Turkey and the tour itself from beginning to end.
I will definitely be doing another tour with on the go in the near future.
By the way Burchan is THE best tour guide.. "
Recep is so helpful, passionate and educational. The best tour leader I have ever had!"
Tour was excellent absolutely fantastic we will definitely visit Turkey again. We particularly want to vote for our amazing tour guide Recep Aydin. His knowledge was brilliant, his attention to detail and care for his group was appreciated and respected. He is a really nice person and he deserves to win tour guide of the year for Turkey. We wish him the best of luck for the future. "
Recap was very knowledgeable about the places we visited. Everything was well organized and worked like clockwork. He was friendly and always willing to assist all the travellers. I greatly enjoyed the tour. He is the best tour guide I have ever encountered."
This was an amazing trip and everything was great. This was my first group tour trip as a single traveler and I am already starting to think about my next trip later this year because it was so fun and learned so much about turkey largely thanks to my tour guide. This trip was very important to me and it 100 percent exceeded my expectation. Thank you so much!!!"
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New campaign underway to defend businesses from leftist onslaught
PALM BEACH, Fla. – Radio giant Rush Limbaugh says advertisers who fled his show after he called a Georgetown graduate student a "slut" are getting "creamed" financially.
"The people who have been hurt on this program are the advertisers who left! They've been creamed," Limbaugh said this afternoon.
"The advertisers who've really been hurt are the ones who've abandoned here. I just assume everybody understood that. Let me tell you: We have 22 million people here [in our listening audience] who have stopped patronizing these people … . It's major in many instances, the harm that has been inflicted."
Among the first major advertisers to drop Limbaugh's show were ProFlowers, Quicken Loans, mattress retailers Sleep Train and Sleep Number, software maker Citrix Systems, data-backup provider Carbonite and online legal-document company LegalZoom. Dozens of others, mostly in local markets and not nationally, followed suit. (Pinterest.com has a list of many sponsors who dropped the show here.)
Limbaugh didn't provide any specific details to quantify how much the fleeing advertisers had been injured, explaining he was "uncomfortable" with the notion of advertising being harmed.
"The whole point of it is to work!" he exclaimed. "The whole point of it is to be helping – and it was helping. It always has been here. It's the reason there is such a long list of people that want to be on the program. But the ones that left? This is a very sophisticated audience. They go out there and make it that they're leaving because of some trumped up, phony issue and they hear about it in the form of cancellations. Which doesn't really make me comfortable, but it's a free market. So those people have been hurt. They hurt themselves. The advertisers that hung around have not been harmed. Their businesses are still thriving."
Many of Limbaugh's listeners have thought the broadcaster had taken a financial hit due to a boycott campaign promoted by leftists at Media Matters and elsewhere. They have been targeting his advertisers in the wake of national controversy for his calling Sandra Fluke a "slut" and "prostitute" as she pushed for insurance-covered birth control. He has since apologized for those remarks.
The head of Clear Channel, the national distributor of Limbaugh's program, says the outrage over Limbaugh's remarks was "part of the normal day-to-day of talk radio."
"Rush is Rush and radio is radio," CEO Bob Pittman told the Associated Press, referring to the host as "the king."
"Rush is certainly the leader, and we're delighted to have him."
Pittman confirmed advertisers leaving the show did not have a large impact on the company, and there has not been a major move among stations to drop Rush. Limbaugh himself has noted other advertisers are lining up to replace deserters, and some of those who had left have sought to return, with one "practically begging to come back."
The Sacramento Bee identified the company seeking to return as Sleep Train, but Limbaugh spokesman Brian Glicklich released an email suggesting a permanent split between the parties:
"Rush received your requests personally," said the email. "Unfortunately, your public comments were not well received by our audience, and did not accurately portray either Rush Limbaugh's character or the intent of his remarks. Thus, we regret to inform you that Rush will be unable to endorse Sleep Train in the future."
Limbaugh maintains that those on the political left orchestrating the onslaught against him are feigning any previous financial support for the companies they're trying to intimidate.
"These so-called angry consumers are not patronizing any of these sponsors. They're just calling and then threatening them," he said today. "These so-called angry consumers (who are not angry consumers, they're just Democrat Party operatives or people sympathetic to the Democrat Party) [who] are just calling and harassing and threatening them. They're not buying anything from these sponsors."
Limbaugh directed listeners to DefendSmallBusiness.com, a website run by the Small Business Authority, which is fighting back against the anti-Limbaugh campaign promoted by the leftist group Media Matters.
The website has numerous contacts for elected officials, national news outlets and even provides direct emails and a phone number for people to call Media Matters.
"Ask them why they are at war with small businesses," the site says. "Be civil, don't sink to their level. Call again if you think they didn't listen to you carefully."
Limbaugh says targeting his radio show and advertisers are nothing new, but it's never been this focused because opponents "smell blood in the water."
"And this is the first time that small business has not cowered," Limbaugh said, referring to DefendSmallBusiness.com.
"Honest to God, folks. In 23-plus years this is the first time small business has not cowered and caved and gone away. And thought if they just shut up, it will go away. Because you know what they've realized? It won't go away. The next show will just be the next target, the next host or what have you. In the meantime they're not gonna be able to advertise their business. And they know that it works, and they want to be able to do that."

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Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) is the world's leading manufacturer of agricultural and forestry equipment by revenue. [1][2] The company also produces equipment used for construction, residential lawn care, commercial landscaping, and other consumer and commercial heavy equipment products. Perhaps best known by consumers for their lawn tractors, Deere's products also include harvesters, excavators, loaders, industrial sprayers, and utility vehicles.
Approximately 50% of Deere's revenue comes from sales of agricultural equipment.[3] Consequently, much of Deere's success hinges upon the success of the agriculture industry and crop prices. Increased research in renewable energy sources that use ethanol, a chemical material typically derived from corn will benefit Deere. Ethanol-based energy research and development over the next several years could cause a large growth in corn prices, leading to higher agricultural activity which would increase Deere's sales of farm equipment.
Deere & Company is one of the world's largest manufacturer of heavy machinery and is the leading producer of agricultural and forestry equipment. In addition to designing and manufacturing equipment, the company has a network of dealers and distributors that sell its equipment and utilize Deere's parts network. Also, Deere has an in-house credit department that allows customers to finance their purchases directly through Deere. The company is divided into four business segments:
Agricultural Equipment: This segment develops and manufactures farming equipment such as tractors, harvesters, balers, sprayers, utility vehicles and other machines. Deere is the world's leading producer of agricultural equipment.
Construction & Forestry Equipment: This segment is responsible for construction equipment such as excavators, bulldozers, and dump trucks as well as forestry equipment that includes feller bunchers, skidders, and knuckleboom loaders. Deere is the world's largest producer of forestry equipment.
Commercial & Consumer Equipment: This segment produces commercial and consumer landscaping equipment such as mowers, tractors, trimmers and other lawn care machinery. Deere also makes landscaping equipment designed for use on golf courses.
Financial Services: Deere's financial services department provides clients with the opportunity to finance their purchases. Deere's financial services segment operates at a very high margin, contributing to only 8% of total revenue, but over 20% of total operating income.
Deere & Company doubled for the first quarter of 2011 when compared to fiscal earnings in the first quarter of 2010.[4] Driving this increase in income was a 27% increase in net sales and revenues globally.[4] These were similarly driven by an overall increase in the demand for farm machinery and a generally favorable climate for construction.[4] Net income totaled $513.7 million for the quarter as compared to $243.2 million in Q1FY2010.[4]
Deere & Company posted net income of $457.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase from a loss of $322.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2009.[5] Fourth quarter net income translated to earnings of $99.0 million for the quarter.[5] Net sales and revenues increased by 35% and culminated at $7.202 billion and were a Deere & Company quarterly earnings record.[5] Driving this growth was a quarterly increase in the net sales of equipment operations, increasing from $4.726 in Q4 FY2009 to $6.564 in Q4 FY2010.[5] Deere saw increases for its yearly earnings as well, increasing from $873.5 million in FY2009 to $1.865 billion in FY2010.[5]
Deere's agricultural equipment sector will prosper if the nation has to harvest massive amounts of corn or soybeans to fuel its vehicles. It takes about 21 pounds of corn to make 1 gallon of ethanol, which would mean much more demand for Deere's tractors if corn based ethanol took off.
People only consume biofuels, it seems, when gas prices are extremely high. Ethanol is about 15-20% less efficient than gasoline, and studies have shown it needs to be about 40 cents cheaper per gallon to compete. [6] This implies that gas prices need to be relatively high for Deere to benefit from the biofuel trend.
The US housing market is highly influential upon Deere's revenue, particularly in its Commercial & Consumer Equipment segment. Most sales from this segment come from sales of lawn tractors, mowers, and other landscaping and yardwork equipment. When the housing market thrives, consumers purchase and commission the construction of new homes, and many decide to purchase lawn mowers to care for their own yards or hire landscaping services.
When the housing market heats up, Deere sells more equipment and generates more revenue and profit. When the housing market falters, consumers cut back on unnecessary expenditures such as landscaping services and are less likely to make relatively large purchases such as mowers and other lawn care machinery, the prices for which can reach into the thousands of dollars.
Internationally, Deere has been attempting to gain a stronger presence in markets throughout Western Europe where it faces stiff competition from CNH Global N.V. (CNH) and AGCO (AG) . Deere is also working to establish itself more firmly in emerging markets such as Brazil, India, China, and Russia.
Last year, Deere took steps towards enhancing its presence in these nations through building factories in Brazil and China, a technical and engineering center in India, and by solidifying its distribution and support network throughout Russia.
Deere is very well poised to benefit from the increased demand for its products from these emerging economies. Everything from its construction equipment used to build roads and cities to lawn tractors used in the backyards of newly built homes, would likely see increased sales. Thus, if Deere can successfully insert itself into these markets and use its size and brand reputation to compete with other manufacturers, Deere will experience significantly increased revenues in years to come.
Deere operates in several industries, and competes with major players within those industries. It primarily competes in the Tractors and Agricultural Machinery market along with Caterpillar (CAT), AGCO (AG), FIAT S.p.A. (F-MI), and Kubota (KUB). Caterpillar and Deere are the major players in the US markets. [7] Deere has more definitive dominance in Wholesale Farm, Lawn and Garden equipment within the United States, though it is a very fragmented market. Its major publicly traded competitors include CNH Global N.V. (CNH), Kubota (KUB), AGCO (AG).[7]
Finally, Deere competes in the construction machinery area, where it loses quite definitively to Caterpillar. It also competes with CNH Global N.V. (CNH), Komatsu, Terex (TEX), and a large number of private companies.[7]


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I will be talking with an architect that was recommended from our log home project manager (GC). I can't go into detail about the reason we're going this route instead of using a log home company's designer, but my question is this: what should I expect an architect to provide and fees we'll need to pay. It's all part of our budget, but I want to prepare for sticker shock, and also know what should be provided. We're in California but the architect is based out of the mid-west if that makes a difference. Anyone have some insight they can provide? Always appreciative of the comments this forum provides!
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Thank you, but the builder is something already set for this project.
California often requires more detail and data with the permitting process than any manufacturer is willing to typically provide. Turning radius of driveway to allow fire truck access without backing up (for example) is needed in LA County. Detailed HVAC, electrical, site drainage for capturing and reusing water, earthquake tie downs, retaining walls, deck supports, etc.----all considered "by others" and managed by the licensed GC----usually. But many CA counties want to see these details drawn and a "stamp" before permit is given. You can pay 8%-10% for total architectural management, or maybe $10/sf for this level of drawing detail.
The other issue is the engineering stamp. You can get the architect to provide the creative preliminaries, then hire a separate licensed engineer for each discipline to do their own plans. Maybe $5.00-$8.00 per square foot for good CAD plans, as long as CAD files can be shared with the engineers and other subs to save them time and accuracy. But you won't get detail and a stamp for this type of money in CA.
California brings a 20% premium to manage these issues. Water, fire and earthquakes deserve the attention to detail. Those not familiar are subject to eye opener. If you need help designing in seismic zone 3 or 4, call us for the experience. We'll even help your midwest architect if his ego allows.
Thank you Chris - you are always so informative in your responses to my questions. Your comments about the turn radius (also needed in our county), earthquake, water issues, and almost forgot about the sprinklers are good reminders. It turns out the architect won't be the big expense, we will be required to have the stamped engineered plans for submit for our building permit. The good news is that it's looking like we're actually going to build this home - so many road blocks have finally cleared!
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One of the major changes from the previous SLR Team Edition is the switch to durable titanium 316 tube rails from the carbon rails used on last year's model, which means you don't necessarily have to use a torque wrench when making fit adjustments — though we'd still recommend it. Paired with the additional padding Selle Italia included this year, the claimed weight of the saddle increases overall from 140g to 175g. Selle Italia must have felt that weight gain was justified; last year's SLR Team Edition was considered plush by SLR standards, but this year's model offers even more cushioning.
Despite the switch to titanium rails, Selle Italia kept the saddle's nylon composite base with a 30% blend of carbon fiber. This composite mash-up provides a balance of support with engineered flex that absorbs road vibrations. The Team Edition includes the same Fibra-Tek cover as last year, which is an easy-to-clean fabric that wears well over long training miles, rain or shine.


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Last week we reported that unconfirmed rumors on Reddit had hinted that Microsoft might be expanding it's Bing Audio music matching service. Today, the company announced that it would in fact be expanding the service into 14 new countries around the world. The music matching service is a great alternative to applications like Shazam, as it comes pre-bundled into the Windows Phone operating system.
New countries to receive the surface include Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland. The update will take some time to roll out, but once you find it available – hit the search key, then the music note to start identifying music playing around you.
Bing Audio will list any music you have matched into your history and if you have an Xbox Music subscription you can stream the new song with one click.
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Tomorrow SSC is scheduled to publish an article I wrote on IT Transparency which gives a first person account of one strategy I used to try to make it a little easier for the business to see where IT time/money was going. Debated over whether to publish it, not necessarily the best fit on a SQL Server centric site and it's an unusual strategy with a bit of a story to it. We shall see.
Since I wrote it some months ago I've had the chance to reflect further and as a business owner, I think there are two things that IT needs to show me that would really help me understand their efforts. One would be about the current backlog. All IT teams have backlogs, sometimes consisting of thousands of hours of items requested by customers, operations, even IT itself. Seeing that number published each week along with how many hours were applied to it in the past week would help any business see that progress was being made, or not. It's very common for priorities to get misshaped and misunderstood, so if I saw the backlog stay static that would indicate either that we needed more staff (not the favorite answer!) or that we need to focus harder on where IT spends it's time. Note that doesn't mean IT is doing something wrong, rather that they are being pushed and pulled towards immediate needs rather than tackling tasks that really would drive the business forward. The other thing a business needs to see is the tempo. Are IT people working 40 hrs a week or 60? The worst case would a backlog that is growing while we see IT averaging 50+ hours a week. That would indicate a slow steady slippage that could eventually spell doom; more hours, less effectiveness, the death spiral.
Remember, IT is a service, and an expensive one.
Let me offer a rough analogy. For those of you who use a lawn service or get their car washed, it's easy to monitor. It's a fixed cost and you can tell at a glance if the work they were supposed to do got done or not. To a large degree you can even see if they are doing it efficiently even though it's a cost based rather than time based transaction. Contrast that with bringing in a plumber to fix a problem, or hiring an attorney. Now you're looking at a time based transaction that has no real upper limit for cost and what's worse, you can't really understand a lot of what they are doing or why it takes so long! Which does IT resemble more? Can you blame an business for obsessing a little over IT costs and wanting to have some insight into how and why their money is spent?
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On May 9, my mother, JoAnn Mattox, and I went to my daughter, Joni's, senior program at Union Christian Academy in Fort Smith, Ark.Afterward, I took my mom to Lin's Garden Chinese Restaurant for her Mother's Day lunch. As we're walking in, two ladies run out of the door, saying, "We're leaving. Don't go in there, too many kids!"I turn and look in the parking lot, and there's a Panama Public Schools bus.Now, I'm thinking to myself that this could be fun. I decided I was going to five these "seniors" all they can handle. I walk in, and all I see are about 50 midgets — all third-graders — making laps around the huge buffet. I love it! I was thinking that this could be even better.The first little boy that came by me just had two wings on his plate. I asked him, "Is that all?" He shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know what all this stuff is?"I was really impressed in which these Panama third-graders attacked the buffet with military precision and accuracy. They didn't run or fight, and everybody said, "Yes, ma'am" and "Thank you." They had more manners than some grown-ups!Save the world, recycle.God bless our troops and veterans.Have a great weekend.• • •Any questions or pictures, make contact with Jody Ray Adams on Facebook, on the "Jody Ray Fishing Hotline" at (918) 649-7387 or email to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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As your child prepares to leave for college, saying good-bye is difficult for both those leaving and those being left behind, even siblings. Sibling relationships can be enduring, and a sense of loss can be felt when an older sibling heads off to college. Multiple changes are happening for the college sibling, and similarly, the children left behind are experiencing change in a newly constructed family unit. Changing family dynamics are inevitable when a child leaves for college. Consider sibling adjustments, too, as your family gets used to a new way of being.
Anticipate the new "family order"
- The middle child or younger child will now take on the role of the oldest in the family.
- Resources such as transportation, bedroom space, computer, etc. may need to be reallocated appropriately among those still at home.
- This is the time to give special attention and support to the child/children still at home.
- Family Transition Tip: Once a sibling leaves for college, give siblings still at home a journal where they can write feelings, fears, and questions about missing their sibling. Use the journal as an opportunity to discuss this family transition with the sibling left behind.
Be careful not to send a "guilt trip"
- It is easy to try to "make" an older sibling spend time with a younger sibling, but allowing the reconnection to happen naturally will lead to a long-term renewed relationship.
- Be careful not to make a returning college student feel guilty for wanting to spend time with friends, bringing new college friends home, or needing alone time, rather than spending time with family or siblings.
Staying Connected with the College Sibling
Plan family gatherings
- Plan a dinner out for just family when the college student comes home to visit.
- Explore a new city by meeting halfway between home and college for a day.
- Have the younger sibling(s) and college sibling(s) collaboratively plan a family weekend getaway.
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- Plan weekly phone calls for younger siblings to talk with their older sibling.
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- Younger siblings experience mixed emotions and may need support from parents if they feel that a returning college student is monopolizing family time and resources.
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- The middle or youngest sibling has become comfortable with his role as the "oldest," and will need to adjust to the adapted family hierarchy once again.
- Family Transition Tip: Spend family time talking about living space and how space might be reallocated BEFORE your student leaves, so he is not surprised when he arrives home and finds his bedroom is now occupied by a sibling or has been made into a den.


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Join us for a celebration of the work of the life of Siv Cedering (1939-2007), the Swedish-born American poet and novelist. Her sculpture, entitled "Blueprint for an Ascension," will be dedicated by her husband, Hans Van de Bovenkamp, and installed at Poets House. Cedering was the author of four books of translation and 18 books of poetry and prose, including her collection, Cup of Cold Water, in which she paired her poems with her photographs, and The Blue Horse and Other Night Poems.
6:00PM: Dedication of Cedering's "Blueprint for an Ascension" by Hans van de Bovenkamp
7:00PM: Reading featuring Philip Appleman, Janice Bishop, Fran Castan, Lucas Hunt, Samantha Mathis, Daniel Thomas Moran and Harris Yulin.
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New system for solar-powered water cleaning inaugurated on 5 November in Lampoldshausen
At the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) facility in Lampoldshausen, a new solar water-cleaning system (Solare Wasserreinigungsanlage Lampoldshausen; SOWARLA) is using sunlight to remove organic and inorganic contamination, which is rather difficult to break down, from waste water. The heart of the system is a new type of solar receiver that obtains the energy required for the removal of a variety of pollutants from solar radiation. This new system, based on DLR expertise, has been launched under the name 'RayWOx'.
The technique of photocatalytic water cleaning thus offers an outstanding method of cleaning for a wide field of critical waste waters, using a large number of environmentally-friendly processes The solar researchers at the DLR Institute of Technical Thermodynamics contributed their skills in the field of photochemistry and solar technology and, in collaboration with Hirschmann Laborgeräte GmbH from Eberstadt and KACO new energy GmbH from Neckarsulm, developed an industrially useful and reliable design for the waste water cleaning system. The systems will be sold by KACO new energy under the 'RayWOx' product name.
The demonstration system operating in Lampoldshausen is able to completely clean the cooling water from the engine test facilities at the DLR Institute of Space Propulsion, which are contaminated with rocket fuels and their combustion products. The heart of the technology is a solar receiver made of transparent glass pipes. The waste water, mixed with iron ions as acting as a photocatalyst and small quantities of hydrogen peroxide, is pumped through these glass pipes until the absorbed solar radiation has achieved the desired degree of cleaning.
In contrast to more familiar solar reactor concepts, the modular 'RayWOx' technology is very easy to install and well-suited for building systems of any desired size in varying conditions. Given suitable weather conditions, the device in Lampoldshausen, with a solar reactor of 49 metres in length and 470 centimetres in width, can clean about 4,500 litres of industrial waste water of all oxidisable contamination in one to two hours.
The DLR scientists and the industrial partners involved in this development received the Energy Globe Award 2007 for their cooperative project. The work was part-funded in a project of the German Environment Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt; DBU) and supported by DLR Technology Marketing and the Lampoldshausen Technology Transfer Centre.


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The state of Vermont is poised to become the seventh state to outlaw smoking in cars that are carrying young children.
Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Chen is going to highlight the new law Friday in Burlington.
The law will also ban smoking on all state property, in hotel rooms, and on the property of hospitals or secure residential recovery facilities owned or operated by the state.
It also bans tobacco products at schools and child care centers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shrinking budgets mean fewer firefighters will be available this summer even as unusually dry weather has increased the risk of fire in much of the U.S. West, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warned on Monday.
"As a result of sequester and across-the-board cuts we will have about 500 fewer firefighters at the Forest Service than we would otherwise have," said Vilsack.
Cuts known as sequestration are forcing government agencies to reduce spending. They went into effect on March 1 after a gridlocked Congress failed to resolve fiscal fights and find an alternative to the sequestration.
The Forest Service relied on 10,500 firefighters during last year's fire season.
With 48 percent of the continental United States under moderate to exceptional drought conditions and an insect blight having weakened western forests, the risk of fire is high as summer approaches, said Vilsack, who oversees the Forest Service.
"That is a prescription for very serious conditions," he said.
Vilsack spoke with Interior Department Secretary Sally Jewell in a conference call organized from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho.
Uncommonly dry forests in Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Washington state are full of woody fuel, officials said on the call.
California, too, is expected to be hard-hit. Nearly 850 wildfires had flared up in the state through the end of last month, far more than usual during the first four months of the year, officials say.
Vilsack and Jewell said the persistently hot, dry weather in some parts of the country was a reminder of the challenge that climate change poses.
"The twelve hottest years on record have been in the last fifteen years and that has been particularly true in the west," Jewell said.
Heavy rains have spared eastern states from serious fires so far, said Jeremy Sullens of the NIFC, "but it is a different story out west where you have had severe drought conditions for quite some time now."
About 70,000 communities are situated on the fringes of wilderness across the country and so are particularly vulnerable, officials said.
More terrain was scorched by fires last year than at any time since 1960, Vilsack said, and this summer is likely to be comparable.
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The Scarlets have signed giant Tongan lock Sione Timani on a two-year contract.
The 6ft 5in and 19st second row, who impressed during Tonga's recent Churchill Cup campaign and scored a try in the 41-14 defeat to the England Saxons, makes the switch to Parc Y Scarlets from the Carmarthen Quins having previously played in New Zealand and Japan.
The 26-year-old, brother of Waratahs lock Sitaleki Timani, is relishing the challenge of Pro12 rugby. "This is a great opportunity for me to play for such a respected and well-known club and I hope to fit in well with the group and the players," Timani said. "The Scarlets are a fresh side full of ambition and quite obviously have a philosophy to give the younger developing players a chance, which appeals a lot to me. They play some great rugby and I'm looking forward to being part of the team."
Scarlets' head coach Nigel Davies is looking forward to welcoming the three-cap Tongan to Llanelli and said Timani will bring a different dimension to their pack. "He's a great acquisition for us in terms of the balance of our pack, he's got a lot to bring, adding a different dimension to our forwards, with plenty of scope to develop more from being within our set-up," Davies said. "We're confident that he will strengthen further as a player once within our system.
"He's also shown he's very committed and loyal player and puts in the graft on the pitch and that he's looking to score tries as well. We are delighted he has joined us and look forward to his contribution to the group next season."
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Enhanced Box Score: Sox 10, Cubs 5
You're wondering where the actual EBS is, aren't you? Well, apologies,
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An Elegant Grey Galley Kitchen Remodel
I am on an improvement spree right now in my rental kitchen. It's old and worn, and sorely in need of freshening up. So I have been looking for inspiration, and this elegant yet cost-conscious remodel at PointClickHome caught my eye. Read on to see how they updated the cabinets, created a gorgeous stove nook, and added touches of glamour here and there.
Of course, "cost-conscious" here means something entirely different than the few hundred dollars I will spend on my little kitchen! The main cost-saving element of this galley kitchen remodel was leaving in the old cabinets. The designer cut out the centers of the upper cabinet doors and replaced them with chicken wire. We like this look; it would be tricky to execute well, but here it's beautiful.
The designer also gave the cabinets an Old World look by painting them red, then grey, and distressing them so notes of the red came through.
That completely gorgeous stove nook probably wasn't the most cost-conscious element, but it's so beautiful! All that tile, which is repeated along the breakfast bar. Speaking of the breakfast bar, I really like the small touch of glamour the pendant lights add.
Overall, this is a really inspiring kitchen for me. It reminds me of the power of a coat of paint. I also love the way that the red touches pop against the serene grey paint.
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Browns receiver Davone Bess posts marijuana photo to Twitter
Davone Bess is probably regretting a recent post to social media.
The Cleveland Browns wide receiver tweeted a photo early Thursday that shows what appears to be marijuana. The photo (above) includes the phrase "We da real dons!"
Posted on his 31,000-follower Twitter account (@davonebess), the tweet has since been deleted.
The Browns are investigating the matter.
"The team is aware of the photos and looking further into the situation and will deal with the matter internally," the club said in a statement.
This is not the first time Bess, 28, has posted a pot-related photo to one of his social media accounts.
In December, Bess posted an Instagram photo showing him on an outdoor deck lighting what seems to be a joint.
The NFL confirmed Thursday it was aware of the latest image.
Bess, who has 13 touchdowns in six NFL seasons, was permitted to return home to Oakland, Calif., for the final two weeks of the regular season with what the Browns described as a "serious family matter."
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The fiercest of winds is upon them, swirling in every direction, dust and debris everywhere, their once-strong aura shaking at its cracked foundation.
The Lakers didn't need a head coach, they needed some old-fashioned storm shutters.
For this, Byron Scott will do nicely.
Their old friend and new boss won't give them more curb appeal or move them into a better neighborhood, but for the next couple of years he should keep them from turning into a pile of rubble, and at this tenuous point, can the Lakers really ask for anything more?
He's not glamorous, but, in case you haven't noticed, the Lakers have recently been body-slammed by all things glamorous.
He's only won 44% of his 937 games as an NBA head coach, but, in case you haven't been watching, the Lakers are staring down a couple of seasons where even "We . . . want . . . Phil!" couldn't make them winners.
Scott wasn't hired to win a championship; he was hired to protect a threatened asset, calm an angry fan base, and keep the electricity running until the winds change. This is not a very sexy mandate, but somebody has to do it, and it might as well be an old-school Laker who remembers when Showtime was more than "Homeland," it was actually home.
Scott was hired for his three Lakers championship rings' worth of playing credibility, two NBA Finals appearances' worth of coaching credibility, and the sort of folded-arms, piercing-eye glare that says, I've got this.
Scott has Kobe covered. He was Bryant's teammate and locker-room mentor when the high school kid entered the league in 1996, and thus will be a perfect bookend boss to oversee Bryant's departure. Did you hear what Bryant said about him earlier this summer at a basketball camp? Scott might be the first Lakers coach who was actually hired after Bryant publicly endorsed him. Even though Bryant will begin this season at his most vulnerable, he is still the most powerful voice in the room, and finding someone who has the strength and knowledge to understand and respond to that voice was a necessity.
"We've had a tremendously close relationship throughout the years," Bryant had said in a quote that might need to be pulled out occasionally and waved in front of his face during tough upcoming seasons. "He knows me extremely well. I've always been a fan of his."
Scott also has the rebuilding covered. This is a man who has taken some bad teams and made them at least temporarily decent. In the span of one season, he led the New Jersey Nets from 26 wins to 52 and a spot in the NBA Finals. He later led New Orleans from 39 wins to 56. OK, so he also led the Cleveland Cavaliers from 61 wins to 19, but give him a break; that was the year LeBron James took his talents to South Beach.
On a Lakers team that currently appears beyond hope, Scott will always be able to project hope. Even in a situation that will not get better until the team is able to shed itself of the foolish two-year, $48-million contract given to Bryant last winter, Scott knows how to divert the narrative. Whether he can do anything with the faded likes of Jeremy Lin and Carlos Boozer could be another story entirely, but maybe everyone won't be so frazzled watching him try.
Finally, Scott also has the Lakers' fans covered. His presence will end all those Phil Jackson cheers or Mike D'Antoni boos. No other serious candidate for this job would have received the sort of embrace that will be felt by beloved B-Scott. Most Lakers fans either like him or respect him or at least fondly remember him. He is cherished as part of that starry Showtime lineup of Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and A.C. Green. He is trusted after his presence as an analyst on the Lakers' TV network last season.
If Mike Brown was vinegar and D'Antoni was poison, Scott will be received as a nicely aged merlot. Many believe that since the death of Jerry Buss, his son Jim has forgotten or ignored the championship values of the Lakers' past. This hiring is a reminder that at least he remembers some of its players.
That the Lakers took so long to make this hire has been a point of some discussion, but, face it, they could have waited until Christmas and still not found a hot young coach or established championship coach willing to step into this storm. Byron Scott might not be Mr. Right, but with those winds howling and all Hades on the verge of breaking loose, he is a more than strong enough Mr. Right Now.
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If your practice includes appellate work in the Seventh Circuit, DO NOT FILE a Motion to Strike portions of the opposing party's brief. In a short, published opinion, Judge Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals took issue with a motion to strike portions of the appellee's brief filed by the appellant in a trademark suit. The appellant, in essence, was requesting the Court to redact portions of the appellee's brief that it deemed contained unsupported assertions or errors. Judge Easterbrook appropriately pointed out that the proper procedure for such claim of errors is by way of a reply brief, "not to ask a judge to serve as editor."
Apparently, although motions to strike portions of briefs are not authorized by the appellate rules (and are not granted by the judges), they are filed all the time. Thus, Judge Easterbrook held as follows:
The court has ample power to change the length of a brief from the presumptive maximum. . . I have decided to use that power. My practice has not led to a discernible reduction in the number of these motions, however, perhaps because I have not explained it in a published opinion. Now notice has been given--and I have decided to raise the stakes and deduct from the brief double the number of words in a motion to edit an opponent's brief or any other equivalently absurd, time-wasting motion.
Since the appellant's motion to strike contained approximately 1,200 words, the maximum length of the reply brief was shortened from 7,000 words to 4,600 words.
Custom Vehicles, Inc. v. Forest River, Inc., 2006 WL 2714690 (7th Cir., Sept. 25, 2006).


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Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon has struggled with memory loss since giving birth to her third child last year.
Last September, the Legally Blonde star and her husband Jim Toth became parents to Tennessee James, a sibling for Witherspoon's two children with Ryan Phillippe, 13-year-old Ava and Deacon, nine.
However, Witherspoon reveals her memory has deteriorated since she gave birth – and she finds it difficult to remember simple tasks.
She tells Britain's Red magazine, "Ever since I had the baby, I can't remember anything. Serious, this child stole my brain. I'm losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can't keep up with everything. I've got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby.
"It's like CNN ticker tape running through my mind at all times: 'Where is Ava? She's OK. Good. Where is Deacon? He's OK. Good. Where is Tennessee? Is he OK? Yes. Great. Back to Ava…' It doesn't stop."
Witherspoon's comments have emerged a little over a week since she was arrested for disorderly conduct – the blonde beauty was held on 19 April after arguing with a traffic cop who had pulled over the car Toth was driving in Atlanta, Georgia. The talent agent was also booked for driving while intoxicated.
Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon has struggled with memory loss since giving birth to her third child last year.


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Maybe it's just me, but it seems the summer tent-pole season is becoming more and more crowded each year. Normally this isn't something I'd complain about. As a lover of big-budget science fiction and superhero films, summer tends to be my favorite time of the year at the box office, and my favorite movie of the year often comes from this season.
However, there is some sentiment that Hollywood has recently been trying to push too many big-budget special effects extravaganzas through the box office during the summer months. For example, this weekend we've got two comedic action/adventure films — "Red 2" and "R.I.P.D." — competing for a similar segment of the audience. In addition to battling each other, they'll also be fighting "Pacific Rim" from last week (which I personally hope will receive a boost from positive word-of-mouth), and then they will have to face down the superhero sequel "The Wolverine" next weekend.
This overcrowding can create problems as expensive-to-film blockbusters struggle to make back their budgets. Movies are forced to bring in huge opening weekend revenues, because by the next week, another big movie is coming out that will demand the public's attention. And if a movie doesn't have a really strong level of buzz, audiences — with their already full schedules — may vote to bypass the film altogether. I think this is part of why "Battleship" and "Dark Shadows" flopped last summer. They both had the misfortune of opening right after "The Avengers." By the time "Avengers" buzz finally began to die down, it was too late for both of these movies to gain ground at the box office.
Increasing movie ticket prices also may cause film fans to become more choosey in the long run, and audience burnout could become a possibility if Hollywood tries to market too many blockbusters.
I'm not necessarily advocating Hollywood move away from the summer tent-pole model. Summertime, when school is out and people are on vacation, seems like a more "fun," relaxing time of the year, and big-budget action and superhero films naturally play well during this time. However, films like "The Hunger Games" (released last March) and "Skyfall" (released last November) have proven action-filled crowd pleasers can turn in big box office numbers outside the summer movie season.
If studios space out their movies, each project may draw more attention from viewers, and I don't think box office tallies will suffer. Marvel's Thor and Captain America sequels will do just fine with their scheduled release dates in November 2013 and April 2014, respectively. Studios may find success by taking advantage of less busy times at the movie theater. I'd be willing to bet money "Oz the Great and Powerful" wouldn't have posted an $80 million opening weekend if it was released in June, but March seemed to be a good fit with audiences. By saving the biggest and best action/adventure films for the summertime and sprinkling the others more evenly throughout the year, Hollywood could perhaps avoid becoming its own worst competition.
Or, perhaps it's time for Hollywood to look at creating fewer blockbusters, and instead put more time into carefully crafting (and marketing) a smaller group of films. I'd rather have a smaller number of really great big-budget films, like "The Avengers" and J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" reboots, than a larger number of movies that includes expensive misfires like "After Earth" and last summer's "Total Recall" remake. A less crowded release schedule also might give people more of a chance to go back and see movies they really liked a second time.
So, what do you think? Is the summer release schedule becoming too crowded? Would you mind seeing summer tent-pole style movies at other times of the year, such as winter or spring? Or, would you rather see Hollywood trim down its release schedule?


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He said that they also gave out 131 commodity boxes, their total allotment, for the month.
"Almost a third of the total people we helped were childen under the age of 17," Small said. Twenty-one percent were age 60 or older.
"We gave out 5,000 pounds of fresh produce, which included melons, apples and potatoes, to go along with canned goods, meat and bread in their boxes," Small said.


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We have invited 15 art students to take part in a design competition for the Rome Marathon 2013 participant medal. Sketches have been evaluated by the coordinators of the initiative, and the best three are going to be turned into 3D models by their authors. In September, finally, a panel of judges (presided by Master Alfiero Nena, who has styled the last 15 Rome Marathon medals) will select the winning entry – that will be the Rome Marathon medal.
An exhibition of all sketches will take place this week in Rome, while the winner of the contest will be announced mid-September.
At the Rome Marathon Expo (March 14-16, 2013) runners and visitors will have a chance to see all works and take part in interactive art sessions.


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STOCKTON - Many families are struggling to put food on the table and toys under the tree this holiday season, but a local nonprofit group offered HOPE to needy people Saturday afternoon.
STOCKTON - Many families are struggling to put food on the table and toys under the tree this holiday season, but a local nonprofit group offered HOPE to needy people Saturday afternoon.
Helping Other People to Expand, a community outreach and gang prevention program, held a Christmas party at its North Hunter Street headquarters. HOPE co-founder Glenn Jose said more than 700 people joined in the celebration, many of them from a surrounding neighborhood that represents one of the most crime-ridden sections of the city. Volunteers served turkey, ham and mashed potatoes while distributing hundreds of toys to children and food baskets to their parents.
"I wasn't able to have a Christmas for my kids this year, but because of what they're doing here today, my kids actually get to have a Christmas," said HOPE volunteer Rene Castillo, a mother of three. "A lot of the people here, they don't have anything, so it feels good to see all the kids here with smiles on their faces."
Mayor-elect Anthony Silva donned a red and white Santa Claus cap for the event. He said he was pleased to see so many lives touched by HOPE, which received donations from J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Toys for Tots, the California Highway Patrol and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association.
"It's great anytime folks come together to provide programs and services for the less fortunate, and, especially around Christmastime, we all know how hard it can be to make sure we have some gifts for the kids," Silva said. "That's what HOPE is all about. They've done a really good job of reaching out to the community."
HOPE was founded in 2008 to help feed Stockton's homeless population. The organization has expanded its scope to include gang prevention and intervention, counseling, mentorship and programs designed to help people improve parenting, studying, job-seeking and conflict-resolution skills.
"My whole life was nothing but gangbanging," said Ector Sandoval, 42. "I spent 13 years in the prison system. HOPE was referred to me by my probation officer. They've taught me how to fill out a r�sum�, how to fill out an application, how to talk better, how to think better, how to act better and how to give back to the community instead of just taking it."
One of the volunteers included a 15-year-old who said he is trying to leave behind the gang lifestyle he has led for five years. If he knows Sandoval, he knows there's still hope.
"I love to see the parents here, and I love to see the children enjoying the togetherness of community," Sandoval said. "I love it. There could be nothing better than that. HOPE is the guiding light for this neighborhood, and, believe me, they're changing lives. They really are."
Contact reporter Jason Anderson at (209) 546-8279 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/crimeblog.


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EAST LYME, Conn. (AP) _ A Connecticut woman who has been in prison for 27 years on a murder conviction is getting a chance for early release with a rare state clemency hearing Wednesday.
The hearing for Bonnie Jean Foreshaw in front of the Board of Pardons and Paroles is set to begin Wednesday morning at Gates Correctional Institution in East Lyme.
The board could make a decision Wednesday, and it's possible Foreshaw could be freed later in the day if she is granted clemency, state officials said. The board also could deny clemency or approve her release at a later date, officials said.
The 66-year-old Foreshaw, a former Bloomfield resident born in Jamaica, is serving a 45-year prison sentence for premeditated murder for the 1986 killing of a pregnant woman, Joyce Amos, in Hartford. She is scheduled to be freed in August 2017 including time off for good behavior, but her lawyer is seeking her immediate release.
Foreshaw's supporters say she didn't get a fair trial, should have been charged with the lesser crime of manslaughter and freed years ago because she shot Amos by accident. They say a man, Hector Freeman, was threatening Foreshaw and pulled Amos in front of himself when Foreshaw pulled a gun and fired.
Court rulings in Foreshaw's appeals, however, say she had a chance to walk away from the argument with Freeman and did leave the scene, but went to her car and returned with the gun.
Wednesday's hearing is the second clemency hearing granted by the Board of Pardons and Paroles in the last decade.
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John Alexander, the founder of Search Engine Academy said "Google Analytics is one of the most popular topics we teach in our hands-on Workshops.".
Toronto, Ontario (PRWEB) January 27, 2013
Google Analytics is a free service provided by Google search engine that allows web owners to analyze and measure web page performance with a variety of metrics that include time on site, bounce rate, number of visits, number of pages visited and social media interaction.
John Alexander, the founder of Search Engine Academy said "This is one of the most popular topics we teach. Google Analytics is very powerful, has some in-depth measuring and reporting capabilities, and our attendees depend upon us to help them master the basics and understand most of the advanced techniques they can use."
Google Analytics allows webmasters to create custom reports, follow visitors through their entire navigation path and view real-time visits to their site in a beta mode.
Search Engine Academy teaches students in live hands-on classroom settings how to understand and properly apply search engine optimization (SEO) processes, techniques and strategies to boost their web sites search results visibility and attract entirely new buying audiences.
Search Engine Academy has locations in the U.S., Canada, Australia, in Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East in United Arab Emirates. Classes are scheduled monthly or on demand for private SEO training sessions. Attendees may choose to attend 2 Day, 3 Day or 5 days of SEO training from any one of these authorized trainers located globally.


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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's borrowing costs are continuing to fall following the latest successful auction of short-term debt that raised €1.62 billion ($2.16 billion).
The country's debt management agency says the yield on new 13-week treasury bills sold Tuesday reached 4.07 percent, down from 4.11 percent in last month's similar issue.
The issue was 1.75 percent oversubscribed.
Greece is being kept afloat by international rescue loans, provided since May 2010 when the country lost market credibility and the ability to borrow money through bond sales.
But Athens also holds regular short-term debt issues to maintain a market presence.
To secure the bailout cash, the country has implemented harsh spending cuts and tax hikes that lowered living standards and fuelled a recession that is in its sixth year.


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Maker's Mark Ice Cream topped with Poached Peaches and Hazlenut Crunch
Maker's Mark Ice Cream topped with Poached Peaches and Hazlenut Crunch
By Chef Johnny Iuzzinie
I scream, you scream, we'll all scream for Maker's Mark® ice cream!
- 1/4 cup and 3 tablespoons Maker's Mark® Bourbon
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1 vanilla bean split lengthwise and scraped
- 4 large yolks
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 pinches salt
- 8 leaves fresh verbena
- 20 ounces simple syrup (2 cups sugar and 2 cups) water
- 2 peaches (not too ripe)
- 2 cups hazelnuts, cracked slightly
- 4 teaspoons honey
- 1 egg white, beaten
- Combine the milk, salt, scraped vanilla bean and seeds in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Remove from the heat, cover with plastic wrap and infuse 10 minutes.
- While the milk is being infused, whisk together the yolks and sugar in a medium bowl until the mixture turns pale.
- Set up an ice bath with a slightly smaller stainless steel bowl set into a larger bowl filled with ice water and keep close at hand.
- Strain the milk into a medium saucepan and bring back to a simmer.
- Gradually pour half of the hot liquid over the yolks, whisking to combine.
- Return the entire mixture to the pan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with a rubber spatula.
- When the mixture thickens slightly, lightly coat the back of the spatula, and when the slight foam on top is the same color as the liquid underneath strain into the prepared small bowl.
- Cool completely and then stir in the bourbon.
- Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. (The ice cream may be prepared up to this point a day in advance and stored in the refrigerator overnight.)
- Freeze in an ice cream machine according to the manufacturer's instructions and reserve, covered in plastic wrap, in the freezer for 1–2 hours before serving.
- For Poached Peaches, bring simple syrup, Maker's Mark® Bourbon and verbena to a simmer.
- Meanwhile cut the peaches in half and remove the pits.
- Poach slowly until the fruit is tender.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool.
- For Hazelnut Crunch, combine hazelnuts, honey, heavy pinch of salt and egg white. Rub together, bake until golden brown at 350°F.
- Crack into pieces.
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Reading my fellow bloggers' farewells these past two weeks, I feel a little like a character at the end of an Ocean's Eleven movie. We're all moving on with our families and careers and Parenting.com is evolving and changing. After five and a half years and around two hundred and fifty posts, I'm taking down my shingle at The Parenting Post, a blog I was a founding writer of. I'm taking down my shingle, that is, until they decide to call the gang back together for our next impossible heist.
I've been pondering what to write about for my last post but I thought I'd just fill you in on what else I've got cooking in my life.
For one – I'm working at raising my small people to be slightly bigger small people and eventually grownups. I've been doing quite a bit of freelance work this year, blogging here, writing a novel, and writing and managing the Mom Congress blog for Parenting. There have been several times when I was too busy writing about being a good education advocate to volunteer in my kids' classrooms and too busy to spend one on one time with them reading or just enjoying each other.
But, at the end of January, I'm taking an indefinite break from most of my freelance duties so I can spend more time doing good and less time blogging about it. I made this decision just days before Wanda raged into full force two-year-old-dom. She is a precious, adorable, mood-swingy nightmare in little girl's clothing, whom I need to spend more time helping adjust to a world where the answer is frequently – NO. Oh, how I adore her.
The world's sweetest boy, Magoo, is reading his way to enlightenment at a crazy fast pace and I think he's continually disappointed to find out how little I actually know and how often I cheat by looking things up in books. The more he knows, the dumber I become. The other night I was reading him and Wanda a book about Snakes, cleverly titled… Snakes. Every couple of milliseconds, Wanda would point to one of the animals and say, "WHO'S THAT?!"
"That's an African Mill Toad Tree Lynch Crup Snake," I would quickly reply.
"Oooooh," she'd say.
After a little while, Magoo smiled at me, impressed. "You're really good at knowing the names of all the snakes mom."
I then pointed to the little name labels stamped in the corner of each picture.
"Oh," he said, his face falling. "You just read it."
Laylee became resigned to my average intellectual ability years ago and I think she's at peace with it. At almost nine years old, she is one of my greatest friends, someone I would choose to hang out with if I could spend time with any person in the world. She's writing a novel herself and can't wait until she's old enough to read mine. It contains kissing and roundhouse kicks and such so I'd like her to wait a few years.
In August, I completed a teen crime-fighter novel manuscript that I'm really excited about. It needs a little polishing and pimping around to agents but I like that I can do that at my own pace with no mandatory deadlines or external pressure.
Also, in December I blogged my intention to help my family eat healthier this year and to go along with that resolution I'm launching a food blog with my amazingly-talented-in-the-kitchen sister Heather over at BiteUponBite.com. The concept is that we determine how our bodies will feel and look with every single thing we put in our mouths. We're choosing our health bite upon bite upon bite.
Heather and I plan to share our very best recipes and realistic ways to incorporate more fruits and veggies into your family meals, along with some of our favorite special occasion treats. You know we can't stay away from those special occasion treats. Hey, it's Wednesday. Let's call it a special occasion!
At this point, we're populating the blog with some of the recipes we've blogged in the past, but you can look forward to increased consistency and content quality as we get closer to officially launching later this year.
I really do love being a mother more than anything in the world and I have immensely enjoyed the past several years sharing the journey with all of you. You are doing the most important work of your lives right now and I hope you glorify it for what it truly is. Make great little people! Daring Young Mom out.
Visit Kathryn's personal blog Daring Young Mom or her recipe blog Bite Upon Bite
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SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - New details are being released about what could happen with all those Paula Deen products sitting on the shelves of companies that dropped her.
Mega-retailers like Walmart, Target, JCPenny, Home Depot and others cut ties with Deen last week, and pulled her branded products – everything from cookware and food items to furniture and greeting cards.
The NPD Group says some of the unwanted inventory could end up at deep discount stores, while some of it might get rebranded and even end up in overseas markets. It may all be a blessing in disguise for the suppliers, because demand for Paula Deen brand products appears to have been declining.
Most of Deen's licensed merchandise is made in Asia. Supplies have imported 330 tractor-trailer loads of Paula Deen products in the past six years, according to Panjiva, a firm that tracks global shipments coming into the U.S. But almost one-third of those shipments came in 2008. 104 truckloads came through U.S. ports that year. This year, just 21 have come in.
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Campus Celebrates as Campaign Surpasses $125 Million
Nov. 1, 2012
What do a vine-covered trellis, a half-scale Corsair airplane and a woman's club have in common? At the recent Celebration of Support, the presence of each signaled significant new gifts unveiled recently for the University's Realize the Vision: The Campaign for Tier One & Beyond.
In three-years, more than $125 million has been raised toward the $200 million-campaign to support the University's goal of becoming a Tier One research institution.
The UT Dallas Development Board hosted the Oct. 18 event on Trellis Plaza, which will anchor a new phase of campus beautification resulting from $5 million in recent gifts from an anonymous donor. President David E. Daniel said that he expects to receive additional gifts that will raise the support for this phase of the project to $14 million.
Acclaimed landscape architect Peter Walker and his firm PWP Landscape Architecture of Berkeley, Calif., are designing the walkways, gathering areas and outdoor spaces that will be focal points, as well as an extension of the $30 million Campus Enhancement Project, which was launched in 2008 and included the addition of more than 5,000 trees, four reflecting pools, the trellis-covered plaza and a new entrance on Campbell Road. Final design of the next phase is slated for 2013.
"With these visionary and generous gifts, UT Dallas embarks on the next phase to creation of a uniquely beautiful and distinctive campus," said President Daniel. "In the special outdoor areas that these gifts will make possible, students will walk and talk, congregate and share, develop ideas with colleagues and faculty members, and make social connections. These are critical elements of expression for an intellectually vibrant campus. I am deeply grateful to those who have made this next phase of UT Dallas's story come to life."
A half-scale replica of a Corsair aircraft was displayed to commemorate a $100,000 gift from the Vought Aircraft Heritage Foundation to the History of Aviation Collection at the McDermott Library.
Also announced was a $100,000 gift from the Vought Aircraft Heritage Foundation to the History of Aviation Collection (HAC) at the Eugene McDermott Library. Vought Aircraft is working to preserve and chronicle its history, which dates back to the 1930s when the company started producing commercial and military aircraft, including the E-7 Bluebird and the F4U Corsair. The gift will provide an archivist to integrate Vought Aircraft's historical documents, pictures and films with the HAC collection. Both collections will be available to the public and researchers.
The third gift is an example of a beneficiary from the past giving to others in the future. The Northwood Woman's Club (NWC) was recognized at the celebration for creating a scholarship for women more than 30 years ago, but the group had no idea that one of those students was about to pay the favor forward. Jefflyn Williamson BS'83, one of the first recipients of the NWC scholarship, has created an endowed scholarship and included the Naveen Jindal School of Management in her estate plans. A portion of Williamson's estate will go toward her scholarship, and the rest will be used to benefit the Jindal School through an Opportunity Fund, a permanent unrestricted endowment.
"I am thrilled to know my legacy will live on through my gift," Williamson said. "Long after I'm gone, students will still benefit from an education at UT Dallas."
The Celebration of Support is among a series of activities that the Office of Development and Alumni Relations initiated to thank University supporters, including faculty, staff, alumni, public officials and members of donor societies.
Jefflyn Williamson BS'83 (center) posed with members of the Northwood Woman's Club, which awarded Williamson with a college scholarship. She recently decided to pay that gift forward with an endowed scholarship and by including UT Dallas in her estate plans.
Suzanne Anderson BA'98 attended as both a member of the Comet Whoosh Society and a council member of UT Dallas' former alumni association.
"Each time I return to campus I am amazed at the growth and development that continues to take place," Anderson said. "It is different: cutting-edge courses, new buildings, dorms and proud, bright students from all over the world. I am proud to support UT Dallas and know it's on a path to become one of the finest educational institutions in the nation."
Media Contact: Sara Mancuso, UT Dallas, (972) 883-6507, [email protected],
or the Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected]


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Dr. Eggman has harnessed the power of six menacing creatures known as the Deadly Six, but when the Deadly Six rise up against their master, Sonic has to unite with his arch nemesis in order to take on the new enemies head-to-head. Using his dynamic new parkour moves and improved Color Powers, Sonic must run, jump and race through a variety of ever changing terrains in order to defeat the Deadly Six.
Alongside a single player adventure, the Wii U and 3DS versions of Sonic Lost World will feature a range of competitive multiplayer modes.
In addition each platform will also contain unique features that take advantage of the consoles capabilities. Exclusive Wii U Colour Powers can be controlled with the Wii U GamePad by tilting, touching, aiming and more. The full game can also be played using only the Wii U GamePad screen and will feature a two player support mode.
Sonic Lost World for the Nintendo 3DS is the first handheld Sonic game ever to feature fully realized 3D levels which include exclusive Special Stages and Color Powers unique to the 3DS system.
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