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Liberty Tree Tavern is, I must admit, one of my favorite restaurants in Disney World. Themed after a late 18th century home, the restaurant is divided into different rooms decorated to reflect famous names from the United States' Revolutionary period, including Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Ross, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.
While this restaurant used to feature Disney characters dressed in period garb, as of 2009 the characters have been removed. The food is still wonderful, however, with lunch focused on a la carte entrees and dinner presented as a family-style meal featuring roasted turkey, pork loin, carved beef, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, and stuffing.
Service: Table Service
Type of Food: American
Location: Liberty Square, Magic Kingdom
Disney Dining Plan: Yes, 1 table service credit (what is this?)
Tables in Wonderland: Yes (what is this?)
Official Disney Lunch Menu
Official Disney Dinner Menu
Liberty Tree Tavern Lunch Menu
Liberty Tree Tavern Dinner Menu
Liberty Tree Tavern Kids Menu
Disney Food Blog Review: Liberty Tree Tavern Lunch
Guest Review: Liberty Tree Tavern Dinner
Disney Food Blog Review: Liberty Tree Tavern Dinner Review
Guest Review: Liberty Tree Tavern Dinner
Guest Review: Liberty Tree Tavern Lunch in Disney's Magic Kingdom
Guest Review: Dinner at Liberty Tree Tavern in Disney's Magic Kingdom
Disney Food Blog Review: Liberty Tree Tavern at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom
Important Info:
- Check out the fun decor in each room; you can tell who the room is themed after by looking at the photos on the walls.
- Dinner is served family-style here, meaning food is brought out on platters and in serving dishes so everyone can serve themselves.
- Lunch is ordered a la carte from a themed menu
Famous Dishes: Patriot's Platter at dinner with "Thanksgiving Dinner" items, ooey gooey toffee cake dessert at lunch, and Patriot's Punch
Disney Food Blog Posts Mentioning Liberty Tree Tavern
You Might also Like: 50's Prime Time Cafe, Tony's Town Square


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Starling Marte's eighth-inning home run helped cap Pittsburgh's comeback as the Pirates completed their first home three-game sweep of the Cincinnati Reds since 2010 with a 10-7 victory at PNC Park.
"They (Reds) were one of the premium teams in major league baseball last year," said Pirates manager Clint Hurdle. "To finish the series off, very gratifying, good feeling."
Michael McKenry hit his first two home runs of the season for Pittsburgh, which scored six times in the bottom of the eighth to rally from an early 5-0 deficit and improve to .500 for the first time this year.
Neil Walker went 3-for-5, while Andrew McCutchen and Travis Snider each added two hits and an RBI.
Jared Hughes (1-0) picked up the win for the Pirates despite allowing a run and three hits in the top of the decisive eighth inning. Phil Irwin started for Pittsburgh and allowed five runs - four earned - while striking out four in 4 2/3 innings of work in his major league debut.
Jonathan Broxton (0-1) lasted just two-thirds of an inning in relief for the Reds and allowed six earned runs on the way to his first loss of the season.
"Never seen big Broxton that wild," said Reds manager Dusty Baker. "And then every homer was proceeded with a walk."
Brandon Phillips had three RBI for Cincinnati, while Joey Votto hit his first home run since June of 2012 in the loss.
Irwin allowed the first three men he faced to reach base to load the bags for Phillips, who came through with a two-RBI single. The young Pirate starter dug in and avoided a potentially devastating inning, however, by getting Jay Bruce to ground into a double play and Todd Frazier to ground out softly to third.
Cincinnati tacked on two more runs in the second on an RBI double to deep center field from Shin-Soo Choo. Chris Heisey scored easily and after Marte had trouble getting the ball in, Ryan Hanigan crossed home plate as well.
After six scoreless innings against Reds starter Mat Latos, McKendry put Pittsburgh on the board in the seventh with a shot over the wall in left- center field. Then with two outs, Marte singled and Snider knocked him in with a double to right, prompting Baker to remove Latos from the game.
"I just ran into a little bit of trouble," said Latos.
Logan Ondrusek entered and immediately allowed Snider to advance to third on a wild pitch. Snider then came around to score on McCutchen's RBI single, bringing Pittsburgh's deficit to 5-3.
Pinch-hitter Gaby Sanchez followed by roping an RBI single between third base and shortstop to bring in McCutchen, who had stolen second earlier in the at- bat.
The Reds tacked on another run in the top of the eighth before Broxton entered and allowed McKendry to tie the score with his second homer of the afternoon, a two-run blast just over the outstretched glove of Heisey in left field that knotted the score at 6-6 and set up Marte's heroics later in the inning.
Votto led off the ninth with a bomb to deep center field to complete the scoring.
Game Notes
The 10 runs and 15 hits were both season-highs for the Pirates ... Pittsburgh went 3-for-4 with runners in scoring position ... Both teams left eight men on base.

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Facebook IPO: Investors still dealing with aftermathJune 1, 2012: 3:45 PM ET
It's been two weeks since technical glitches at the Nasdaq caused mass confusion during Facebook's big debut, and investors are still outraged as they deal with the aftermath.
Despite their best efforts, there's been little word of progress -- in fact, little word of any sort -- from the bigger players involved.
Nasdaq (NDAQ), the root of all the woes, has been the most tight-lipped of all. Numerous spokespersons at the exchange have declined to comment about any developments since the problems that botched the market opening of the third-largest IPO in U.S. history. Instead, they have repeatedly pointed to a trader alert issued May 21, the Monday after Facebook's debut, which highlights the issues that caused the delays and steps it took to resolve them.
One of those steps was reminding traders who were impacted by its errors to submit claims for reimbursement, but Nasdaq has yet to indicate whether it will make up customer losses, not to mention by how much or when.
Related: Facebook IPO: What the %$#! happened?
Online brokerages, including Fidelity and Scottrade, say they're continuing to work through the mess.
"We're working with regulators, market makers and the Nasdaq to represent all customer trading issues, and will continue to do so in order to mitigate the impact to our customers," said Stephen Austin, Fidelity spokesman. "We take our customers very seriously and are advocating on their behalf for a fair outcome."
But Fidelity clients aren't satisfied.
Like many angry customers, Nader Massoumi has (ironically) been voicing his frustrations on Fidelity's Facebook page. According to Massoumi's posts, he ended up with 200 shares of Facebook in his account on May 21 despite a cancel order request that was pending all day on May 18.
He said that a Fidelity representative told him to sell his shares, but he questions how Fidelity could advise trading shares that were "executed improperly" and do not belong to him. And with Facebook's (FB) stock down about 27% from its IPO price of $38, selling the unwanted shares would result in a significant loss for Massoumi.
Related: Facebook IPO: Individual investors get burned
In response to Massoumi's complaints, Fidelity said "if the market centers determine a correction is warranted, the accounts will be adjusted accordingly. At this time, we don't have an estimated timeframe as to how long this process will take. But in the meantime, you should assume any shares of Facebook stock credited to your account are owned by you and available for trading. And, any trades you place on the security will not effect a potential correction."
Still disgruntled, Massmoumi said he is more interested in knowing the "details on what Fidelity has accomplished for the past two weeks to resolve" erroneous trades.
Other investors are in the same boat.
Thomas To 's Scottrade account showed that his order for 200 shares of Facebook had been successfully cancelled at the end of the day May 18. But four days later, he got a call from a Scottrade representative telling him otherwise.
"My complaint is that I didn't know I owned something until four days later," said To, a 37-year-old life insurance analyst in Irvine, Calif. "One Scottrade employee said that this wouldn't be an issue if the stock price was up. That is besides the point."
Recognizing that Nasdaq's delayed execution reports created a number of concerns for clients, including cancellation issues, Scottrade said "each situation is unique and Scottrade is continuing to work with clients individually to address their concerns."


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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — On the eve of the 2012 elections, The Associated Press interviewed dozens of Americans to try to gauge the economic mood of the nation. People were asked about jobs, housing, gas prices, retirement and other issues. Among them were Amanda Folk and her husband, Chris, both 33, of Billings, Mont. The Folks have endured financial blows since the housing bubble burst five years ago. She's back in school. He's earning less money. They worry that their ability to regain financial security is blocked by corporations and their allies in Washington.
A home in foreclosure. Damaged credit. Vanished savings.
This isn't exactly how the Folks envisioned life would be like in 2012.
Until about five years ago, the Folks were living comfortably with their two children, now 6 and 9, outside Boise, Idaho. They owned a home. Chris made a good living as a self-employed flooring installer. Weekend trips out of town were a pleasurable routine.
Once Boise-area home prices collapsed, though, the Folks' lifestyle did, too. Work dried up for Chris. Amanda quit college. And they moved to Montana to be closer to her family.
An oil boom was boosting the eastern Montana economy, and Chris slowly rebuilt his flooring business. Amanda took a job as a nurse's assistant.
But during the transition, the family's income sank. They could no longer keep up with mortgage payments on their Idaho home. So for the past three years, the house has languished in foreclosure.
The family's credit is shot. They blew through nearly $30,000 in savings, mainly on mortgage payments. Attorneys tell them their only way out is bankruptcy protection.
"Everything I worked so hard for is just slipping away," Chris Folk says. "It just feels so far away to get back to where we were."
The Folks can't afford to save for retirement. They struggle to cover $1,280 in monthly rent. Gasoline expenses sometimes hit $600 a month to fuel Chris' van, so he can reach out-of-town flooring jobs.
They say the economy seems tilted: Big banks wield power. Legislators bow to corporate interests. The rich get richer while the working class fall further behind.
They're voting for President Barack Obama with no enthusiasm. Yet they say their discontent with his handling of the economy is outweighed by Mitt Romney's corporate ties.
Amanda Folk is pursuing a communications degree at Montana State University, Billings. She's "scared to death" she won't find a job in public relations or a related field after graduation to repay $25,000 in student loans.
She hasn't returned to their Idaho house in two years; she can't bear it. Vandals have broken in. A former neighbor has taken to mowing the lawn. The couple is reluctant to rent the house for fear that their lender would end up with whatever money they collected.
They've cancelled their home phone and Internet service. Amanda Folk no longer shops at an organic food co-op.
They're seeking a smaller place to rent. But they don't want to move far. Their daughter has cycled through four elementary schools in the past few years.
"The hardest part is the psychological part of it," Amanda Folk says. "Our kids don't have any sense of security. My daughter still asks, 'Are we going to be here next year?'"
For more on this topic, go to: http://bigstory.ap.org/topic/mood-of-the-nation


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August 16, 2012, 9:32 am
Pac-12 Notebook: New D-coordinator Justin Wilcox hoping to improve worst unit in Washington history
A look around the Pac-12 Conference Thursday:
Washington — New defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox is making his mark with Huskies.
Wilcox came from Tennessee after Nick Holt's unit gave up a school-record 467 points last year, including a 67-56 Alamo Bowl loss to Baylor. Holt and two defensive assistants were fired and Wilcox was brought in to emphasize more man-to-man coverage in the secondary.


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The missional motivation for BTS is summarized by our phrase "following Jesus into the world." We believe that God is at work building His church around the world from rural country towns, to bustling urban cities, to poverty-stricken nations, and everywhere in between. When you study at Biblical Seminary you are more than just a student, your story becomes our story – and together we join God's great story of redeeming the world to Himself through Christ.
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Any institution can educate you on the teachings of the Bible. BTS will accomplish the goal of Godly learning while mixing it with practical training and personal relationships. Ministries come in all shapes and sizes, but one thing remains constant ... the desire to reach people. As the challenges of ministry change, the core goals for our students remain the same:
Our main purpose is to train missional leaders who facilitate entrepreneurial innovation. Our classrooms serve as the training ground to send remarkable men and women into the world for the cause of Christ.
"Every course is designed to be beneficial for your ministry while honing skills, attitudes, and thinking that will impact your life, your walk with God, and your ability to lead and to carry out your ministry in ever more effective ways." - Dr. R. Todd Mangum, ThM Program Director
Rather than have long lectures and large classes, Biblical strives to base classroom time on engaging the student through personal engagement and high classroom interaction.
Our faculty are known for their dedication to teaching and their desire to fully serve the Lord. Their teaching styles are highly interactive and reflect a high degree of scholarship and practical experience in ministry.
Biblical Theological Seminary is an evangelical seminary committed to the gospel of Jesus Christ and a generously orthodox Christian faith for the purpose of preparing missional leaders to serve the church.
We are also deeply committed to providing sound biblical theology that can engage the current culture.
Any person who desires to lead a ministry within their community will be assisted by our core curriculum of practical training. We strive to provide the best training that will directly impact your ministry in a positive manner.
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There are certain words and phrases that evoke a memory – so when I got my hands on this Sleek Eyeliner (got it ages ago, only just got round to reviewing it) and saw it was called Dip It, I imagined
a. A giant prawn being dipped into batter and deep fried and
b. That Christina Milian Song, Dip It Low
Do you remember that? It was supposed to be sexy and sensual but was totally wrong because Christina Milian looked and still looks like she's pushing 14.
But I digress.
Here it is!
I know, its like Where's Wally.
I forget what shade this is and I can't be bothered looking so I'll push the boat out and say the colour is called Orange.
They say:
Long lasting and highly pigmented liquid. Fine brush applicator helps draw a steady line with the right quantity of liquid eyeliner dispensed every time to give a dramatic look that will last all day. Apply on its own or with contrasting eye shadow.
The brush head is quite firm – firmer than I'd like for an even application (a brush with a bit of give is usually easier to work with I find).
The liner itself is quite wet but fairly opaque. It takes a moment to dry but once it does, gives quite nice, even coverage:
Pretty! I have to say greens and blues are my favourite beauty shades but the older I get the more I have come to terms with the fact that some shades just make you LOOK TOTALLY NUTS! LIKE LOOK AT THAT NUTTY WOMAN! WHICH ONE! THE ONE WITH THE BLUE EYESHADOW! OH HER! I THOUGHT SO TOO!
Check it out on my eye:Now that's not bad is it? I got it on my lashes as you can see but its nothing a bit of mascara won't cover.
There's still that issue with the applicator – you can see its not a PERFECTLY smooth line and its one of those where if you press the tip too hard when you are drawing a line you end up with a gap in it.
The shade is quite cool, quite good fun but I don't know if I'd pick it up at first glace – it looks a bit tippex-y. It does come in black and other shades.
For its a decent little eyeliner although not the easiest to apply. Once you get it on though, it last quite well and the shades are vivid enough.
I used a MAC eyeshadow in the crease here – Wondergrass I think its called – just to finish off the mental patient 'I've been applying make up in the dark' look.
Dip it LOWWW Christina!


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It has been a pretty exhausting tech week already for the Opera. Above is a shot from our 10 out of 12 this past weekend of the space with most of the set and my initial lighting look for Act. Tonight was the first run-through of the show as a whole, which was a lot of help to see. There is a really tight schedule for our tech though as the show opens this Friday and Thursday is a preview. I have discovered that teching a show in less than a week is very stressful. As I head to bed shortly, and an example of what my past fews days have been like, I hope to wake up tomorrow around 8 or 9am, review the video tape of the run-through, take down my missing cue notes, write up work notes, get to the theatre by noon to meet with my master electrician and assistant, do notes from 12-4pm, meet the director from 4-5 to discuss changes, get dinner, and then start our second run through, followed by tech talk afterwards...and then reverse and repeat. Two of my major frustrations at this point are: 1. The particular architectural fixtures/practicals I ordered were back ordered and only shipped today. They will be here by Friday, but I am in turmoil about whether to cut them or not if I am even able to have them installed before the house opens for opening at 7:30pm. 2. The follow-spot positions I am using for the show are mounted Source 4 10 degree units. It has become increasingly frustrating programing the spots in the cues on the board (Grand MA, for those who are wondering). Every time I want to change a level or In/Out I need to take focus away from the actual design. It's driving me and my team crazy. I'm in the process of working out a way for the Spot-Ops to control their own intensity.
In other news, CalArts is reaching the end of the semester, but things do not slow down at all in May. There is a new works festival, portfolio review, mid-res review for many students, final project (which I am a bit behind in due to the Opera), and numerous shows to work on. I wish I could relax after the show opens, but I have to finish designing Les Liaisons Dangereuses for Grad Lighting 1, organize my portfolio, including finalized and updated plot, paperwork and production shots of Platee. I also found out my design assignment for next year. I will be working one of the fall shows called Blue. I am interested in seeing who else I will be working with on my production team.


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Agronomy center in the works
More land for testing plantedat Monsanto learning center.
A planter kicked up dust in a cornfield as it was pulled by a John Deere tractor under a warm, spring sky.
Planting was at full tilt last week at the Monsanto Water Utilization and Learning Center.
This year there are even more acres to plant in test plots as Monsanto begins development of an agronomy center.
Last Thursday, learning center manager Chandler Mazour confirmed that Monsanto bought land in December 2009 from the 96 Ranch that adjoins existing tests plots.
"We're moving to a higher level of complexity with our new yield and stress biotech traits that will require more testing in the high plains," he explained.
The new land is now tilled and ready. Irrigation and road infrastructure is underway.
Four additional, seasonal employees have been hired to help with test plots.
Finances for potential buildings for the agronomy center and other infrastructure are being discussed, Mazour said.
Expansion, he said, ties into the company's system-based approach to development of more profitable and productive agriculture for farmers which includes emphasis on:
traditional plant breeding and native gene selection.
bio-tech additives such as a drought gene developed by Monsanto and expected to be on the market in 2012.
agronomics which includes things such as irrigation management and the practice of tillage and other water conservation practices specific to various production areas.
Use of these systems helps the company tailor development of traits to match a particular area, Mazour said.
For example, he said Monsanto's drought-tolerant seed will not be marketed in the eastern corn belt where rain is more plentiful.
Likewise, agronomic practices differ from area to area.
Mazour noted that in some places, farmers spend money draining water from fields.
"Yield and stress biotechnology traits are still new so testing needs to be increased to bring better products—tailor made—from the fields," he explained.
Monsanto is also racing to keep up globally.
With world population expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050, Mazour said farmers need to step up production.
That translates into a level of output over the next 40 years, he said, that will need to surpass what was produced in the last 10,000 years.
"That's why we're here," Mazour said. "That's why more intensive testing is needed to develop a cropping system to meet those needs."
An agronomy center is a natural development, he said, as the learning center's focus on water utilization and crops becomes increasingly intense.
"What we can learn here can be applied around the world," Mazour said. "It's exciting and a good thing for high-plains farmers."
The water utilization and learning center opened south of Gothenburg last June.
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Character actress and leading lady
Virginia Carroll, 95, a movie character actress and B-western leading lady who appeared opposite cowboy stars such as Don "Red" Barry and Tex Ritter, died of natural causes July 23 in a Santa Barbara retirement community, said her daughter, Carroll Byrd Evangeline.
A Los Angeles department store model when she launched her film career with a bit part as a fashion model in the 1935 movie "Roberta," Carroll appeared in her first western in 1936 opposite Jack La Rue in "A Tenderfoot Goes West."
Mixing leads with supporting and character roles, Carroll appeared in westerns with Gene Autry, Johnny Mack Brown, Bill Elliott, Roy Rogers, Whip Wilson and other stars. She later appeared on TV shows such as "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok," "The Roy Rogers Show," "Dragnet" and "Perry Mason."
Carroll was born in Los Angeles on Dec. 2, 1913. She was married to actor Ralph Byrd, who starred as Dick Tracy in movie serials and on early television, from 1936 until his death in 1952. She was married to her second husband, Lloyd McLean, a projectionist at 20th Century Fox, from 1957 until his death in 1969.
Alexander Heard
Ex-chancellor of Vanderbilt
Alexander Heard, 92, the longtime chancellor of Vanderbilt University and an advisor to three U.S. presidents, died Friday in Nashville after a long illness.
Heard, who led the private university in Tennessee from 1963 to 1982, helped guide it peacefully through the turbulent political conflicts that struck many other schools during the Vietnam War era.
"The university's obligation is not to protect students from ideas, but rather to expose them to ideas and to help make them capable of handling and, hopefully, having ideas," Heard said in 1966.
He promoted dialogue with campus radicals and supported a controversial, student-organized forum that brought Martin Luther King Jr. and black power advocate Stokely Carmichael to speak on campus in 1967.
A political scientist and expert on presidential elections, Heard served on President Kennedy's Commission on Presidential Campaign Costs and President Johnson's Task Force on Education. He also advised President Nixon on campus affairs and served on the Commission on White House Fellows from 1969 to 1971.
Heard was born in Savannah, Ga., on March 14, 1917. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1938 at the University of North Carolina and a master's and doctorate at Columbia University in 1948 and 1951, respectively.
In 1950, he joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina and was dean of its graduate school when he was named Vanderbilt's chancellor in 1963. During his two decades at Vanderbilt, he oversaw the addition of new schools in management, education and music.
He stepped down in 1982 to complete a three-year study of the U.S. presidential election process for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and continued writing on politics.
Joan Rapoport
Potter taught at Van Nuys school
Joan Rapoport, 66, an artist and potter who taught classes at Everywoman's Village in the San Fernando Valley, died of pancreatic cancer July 21 at her home in Van Nuys, said her husband, Ron.
Rapoport specialized in raku, a centuries-old ceramic technique used to fire cups and bowls for traditional Japanese tea services as well as other vessels. For years, she taught pottery courses at Everywoman's Village in Van Nuys, a now-defunct, nonprofit adult school that offered instruction in a broad spectrum of subjects.
Born in Cleveland on Sept. 23, 1942, Rapoport attended Tufts University in Boston. While there she studied ceramics at Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Besides teaching at various studios in the Los Angeles area, she also led classes at art centers in the Chicago area while living there with her husband, a veteran sportswriter and columnist.
Gayatri Devi
Former queen of Indian kingdom
Gayatri Devi, 90, the former queen of the western Indian desert kingdom of Jaipur who often was described as one of the most beautiful women in the world, died Wednesday in Jaipur, where she had been hospitalized for stomach and respiratory problems.
Devi's classical good looks ensured that photographs of her in elegant chiffon saris and diamonds and pearls were splashed across fashion and lifestyle magazines. She also was known for her love of horses and polo.
She was born into the royal family of Cooch Behar in what is now eastern India on May 23, 1919, decades before the demise of Indian royalty. She became the third wife of Sawai Man Singh, the "maharaja" or ruler of Jaipur, in 1939. Devi was the "maharani."
In 1960, Devi launched a political party and won a place in India's Parliament. A supporter of education for women, she withdrew from politics in the 1970s.
Martha B. Watson Stern, the owner of a Texas kennel where President Obama's dog, Bo, was bred, died of kidney failure July 21 at a hospital in Charlottesville, Va., where she and her husband, Art, had a summer home. Stern, who drew attention in April as breeder of the Portuguese water dog that became the Obama family's pet, was 72.
Olga Mendez, the first Puerto Rican woman elected to a state legislature in the mainland United States, died of cancer Wednesday in New York City. The former New York state senator, who served from 1978 to 2004, was 84.
Zhuo Lin, the widow of late Chinese paramount leader and economic reformer Deng Xiaoping, died from an unspecified illness Wednesday in Beijing. She was 93.
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Bluetooth is everywhere – you can't go down the street or on the highway without seeing dozens of folks walking around with their Bluetooth headsets – chatting away.
Bluetooth Stereo Headphone/Headset combos are also becoming more and more popular. Not much new and "revolutionary" has been brought to the table – until now. The Jabra BT 8030 is a very unique and perhaps "groundbreaking" device. It functions as a Bluetooth Headset, a Bluetooth Headphone and as Bluetooth Stereo Speakers – that is a bunch of versatility in one device.
Here is the "Official line" from Jabra:
First ever Bluetooth speaker and headphone combo!
Connect the BT8030 to your Bluetooth cell phone, PC and media player for a new way to wirelessly enjoy music. Easily transforming from headset for personal enjoyment to speakers for shared listening, its full, rich sound make it ideal for any music lover.
Complete with a mic for speakerphone capabilities, the BT8030 offers flexibility for wherever you go. And its convenient carrying case holds and protects it while not in use.
Bluetooth compliance
Bluetooth 2.0
Supported Bluetooth profiles
Headset, Handsfree, A2DP, AVRCP
Jabra BT8030 is compatible with all devices that can transmit audio via the Bluetooth interface (A2DP). The BT8030 can be connected via the USB interface for music playback from a PC.
Operating range
Up to 33 feet
Paired devices
Music time
8 hours in headset mode and in speaker mode
Talk time
8 hours in both handsfree- and speakerphone mode
Standby time
240 hours
Charging time
3 hours
L1.54 x W.71 X D.47 inches
2 pcs ECM type. 1 for handsfree and 1 for speaker phone.
Frequency response
200 Hz to 3400 Hz


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About Anderson & Low
Best known for their striking images of athletes, Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low have been collaborating on photography since 1990. The duo have explored modern notions of heroism—capturing images of athletes who are also cadets in the U.S. military academies—as well as issues of identity and youth culture. For their "Circus" series, Anderson & Low photographed circus performers in an amusement park, probing the way that costume and performance shape identity. "They have this inner core of mystery that makes the ordinary, extraordinary," the pair have said of their subjects. "That's what we tried to convey." Citing painters like Klee, Malevich, and Albers as inspirations, Anderson & Low have combined photography with digital painting and calligraphy to create a hybrid art form, as well as, in recent years, making forays into video art.
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39 killed in worst attack since 1998
Saturday September 21 2013
A machine gun and grenade assault on one of Nairobi's biggest shopping malls left at least 39 people dead and more than 200 others injured in the worst terrorist attack in the country since the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy.
The hooded gunmen and a woman, who claimed to be Al Shabaab, stormed the mall at around noon and opened fire on shoppers and workers at close range. Only those who identified themselves as Muslims and were able to recite Muslim prayers were spared, according to witnesses.
Children were among those shot in cold blood by the militants. Security forces surrounded the 350,000sq-feet mall, as others pursued the gunmen inside.
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack last evening to retaliate Kenya's role in the war against militants in Somalia.
A new Twitter account claiming to be that of the terror group, and which is similar to the one that had been suspended, also supported the mall attack. The operator of the account even posted a picture of a Kenya Defence Forces officer, taken from behind, standing outside the mall— a clear indication that whoever tweeted could have been in Nairobi.
President Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the country at 11:10pm and vowed to crush the militants.
"My Government stands ready to defend the nation from internal as well as external aggression. I urge all Kenyans to stand together and see this dark moment through. Donate blood. Provide information to the authorities. Comfort and reassure the affected families. Let us ashame the Devil and his works by demonstrating our timeless values of love, compassion and solidarity," he said.
He said security forces were conducting a multi-agency response to secure Kenyans from terrorists.
"But let me make it clear. We shall hunt down the perpetrators wherever they run to. We shall get them. We shall punish them for this heinous crime." The President asked Kenyans to condole with the bereaved and support the injured, saying he had lost close family members in the attack .
President Kenyatta's son, Jomo, was among shoppers at the mall before the attack began and was rushed to safety. His sister, Christine Wambui Pratt, was rescued from the mall much later.
The militants were said to be holding several shoppers hostage; others hid in various locations at the several-storey mall as the situation unfolded several hours after the terror began at midday.
Last night, the Presidential Strategic Communications Unit announced that a gunman who had been arrested and taken to hospital had died.
Sporadic gunshots could still be heard from the mall hours after the initial attack that shocked the nation.
A guard with Securex Company who was at the main entrance when the gunmen stormed the building, Ms Ukhevi Rasoa, said she heard gunshots from the delivery gate.
"Then I saw shards of glass dropping from the windows of a restaurant in the building. When I rushed there, I saw three hooded people dressed in black, including a woman, at the main gate shooting everywhere. They were youthful. One of them wore a black vest with goggles and earphones. The lady wore a pink vest, had goggles and was also hooded. It was around 12.30," Ms Rasoa told the Sunday Nation.
A driver who operates at the mall, Mr Jackson Kyalo, said one of the terrorists stepped on his head as he asked people lying on the floor if they were Muslims.
"He said they had come to seek revenge as our government had allegedly said al-Shabaab and Muslims should be killed. I survived through God's mercy," Mr Kyalo said.
Another security guard, Mr Joseph Saruni, said his colleague he identified only as Maurice was shot dead as he watched.
By the time we went to press, security personnel were hunting down the militants shop by shop. It also emerged that top security officers led by Kenya Defence Forces boss Julius Karangi, Inspector-General of Police David Kimaiyo and spy chief Michael Gichangi were holed up in a meeting at Ukay Centre late into the night to discuss how to safely evacuate tens of people held hostage in the mall.
Helicopters hovered over the mall located in a heavily built-up neighbourhood. Foreign security services were also seen involved in the security operation.
It was not clear how many terrorists were involved in the attack; witnesses put the number at between five and 10.
Mr Kimaiyo, Interior Secretary Joseph ole Lenku and Garissa Senator Yusuf Haji, a former defence minister, were among the first to arrive on the scene.
Witnesses said the attackers were armed with AK-47 rifles and wore ammunition belts. They were also armed with grenades and carried a substance thought to be acid.
"They were young and slender. They chanted Allahu Akbar (God is Great) as they entered the building," another witness said.
The scale and execution of the attack were unlike anything seen in the country since Nairobi witnessed the first major al-Qaeda attack on civilians on August 7, 1998, when they blew up the embassy.
This is al Shabaab's biggest attack outside Somalia's borders since a twin attack in Kampala, Uganda, on people watching World Cup final in June 2010 on television.
The assault attracted international condemnation. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called President Kenyatta to express his shock over the events.
Victims and eyewitnesses spoke of a chaotic response by the police before Kenya Defence Forces personnel arrived and took over the operation.
Police lobbed tear gas canisters into the building earlier on in a bid to flush out the attackers — choking people trapped inside and leaving some of them unconscious.
Some shoppers hid at the mall's second-floor cinema complex where the terror was compounded by the darkness. Others found refuge in crannies of the mall that opened in 2007 and is one of the largest in the country.
People interviewed by Sunday Nation said the attack was preceded by persistent power blackouts in the morning.
Mr John Wangendo, a taxi driver, spoke of a narrow escape. "I was on the ground floor when I heard gunshots. I rushed to the toilet where I remained for four hours. The shooting continued as I hid in the toilet. Teargas canisters were lobbed into the building, forcing us to come out. I didn't see where I was going due to teargas. I am happy I am safe."
By last night, three elite units of the security forces were leading the effort to track down the militants.
Commandos from the Kenya Defence Forces were flown in from Gilgil to lead the effort together with the General Service Unit's Recce squad and members of the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit.
Eyewitnesses repeatedly spoke of hooded youths who communicated in halting English and Somali and spoke of carrying out revenge for Kenya's operation against Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
The group has been on the backfoot in Somalia for the last three years and lost control of key cities like Mogadishu and Kismayu following a two-pronged assault led by African Union troops from Kenya, Uganda and Burundi. But the militants have retained the capacity to strike within and outside Somalia's borders.
A few hours after the assault began, injured victims were wheeled out of the mall on stretchers and shopping trolleys. Many of the victims had multiple gunshot wounds. Some walked out with bloodied clothing serving as improvised bandages.
Internal Security Principal Secretary Mutea Iringo said security had been beefed up at malls across the country. The management of Village Market, which is popular with diplomats from the UN complex nearby, announced they had closed down as a precaution.
At Westgate, the bodies of those killed were strewn all over the mall. A camp was set up at a nearby Hindu temple to attend to those who required first aid and others rescued from the building.
Those interviewed accused security personnel of taking very long to show up , while those who did were poorly armed.
"Some came with pistols while the attackers were heavily armed. They feared entering the building until some reinforcement was brought," a survivor said.
One of the policemen mistakenly shot at the ground at the main gate where survivors boarded ambulances to hospital, forcing onlookers to scamper for safety.
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The 23-year-old Woods closed with a 4-under 69 at Royal Pines to finish at 16-under 276. Lee also shot 69 in the event sanctioned by the European and Australian tours.
Woods birdied the par-5 15th to open a two-stroke lead, hitting a wedge from about 120 yards to 4 feet, and matched Lee with a birdie on the par-5 18th.
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A bill opening the door to 75 mph speed limits on some highways in North Carolina has been sent back to a House committee for more work.
The House debated the measure Thursday but decided to return it to the Transportation Committee instead of taking a vote. The Senate already passed the bill, which would allow the Department of Transportation to raise the speed limit from 70 to 75 on highways and interstates if studies proved the change was safe.
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Would you like to collect income regardless of the see-saws in the market? Here's how to use two complementary strategies for collecting short-term income.
The first thing that's needed is a low-dollar stock with options that have high implied volatility. The higher implied volatility means there's more premium to collect. For this example, take a look at the Yahoo (YHOO) price chart below. At the bottom of this chart you can see that the implied volatility is trading in the middle of its one-year historical range. My rule on this is that if the volatility clearly isn't low, then it's high. That's the case here.
The first strategy is selling a short-term ATM (at-the-money) put spread. With the stock trading at $27.25, and 10 days remaining until expiration, selling the 27 strike put for $0.33 provides the credit. But we'll also buy to open the 24 strike put for three cents as protection in case the stock drops. The net credit for the spread is now $0.30 and has a maximum risk of $2.70. In this instance the net credit represents a potential 11% ROI in 10 days.
If the stock remains steady, or moves higher, the put spread will drop in value. By expiration, if the stock is higher than $27, then both puts should expire worthless and you would keep the full credit as the income.
I said 'should expire worthless' because even though the 27 strike put option is out-of-the-money, the option holder still has the right to exercise it and might do so in certain circumstances. So 'best practices' would dictate buying to close the option when it drops to one to two cents. Some brokers offer no, or lower, commission costs to close short options below five cents.
After buying the short option to close, it's time to sell the ATM put spread again for the next expiration. Depending on the stock or ETF you've chosen, the next expiration could be anywhere from one week to one month away. Sell the ATM put option to open, and buy a lower strike put, as a short vertical put spread. Which strike should you buy? Look for something cheap, five cents or less, just to hedge the downside risk.
Repeat this trade every expiration until the day comes when you get assigned the stock. It's going to happen, so you need to be prepared to buy the stock. What do you do now? This is where the second strategy comes in: A collar.
In a previous issue the use of a cashless collar was discussed, but the implementation of this collar differs. Instead of selling an OTM (out-of-the-money) call as a way of paying for the protective put, this strategy sells a call with the same strike as the put on which you were just assigned. Let's assume the 27 strike again for this example.
For those who understand synthetics, you'll see that owning the stock from the assignment and selling the 27 strike call acts just like a short 27 strike put. By buying the OTM put for protection, this position resembles the same short put spread.
At expiration, if the stock remains below $27, you keep the credit income from the call, and your long put protects the stock if the price continues to drop. If the stock moves above $27 at expiration, then you sell the stock back at the same price you bought it, and you still keep the credit.
As long as the implied volatility remains high, keep this trade going. When the implied volatility reverts back to the low end of the range, then it's time to find another suitable candidate and start the process again. Over time, taking in these short-term credits will start to add up regardless of which way the market moves.
Greg Loehr is a former CBOE market maker trained by Susquehanna Intl. Group, and founder of education firm OptionsBuzz.com. He has written and presented extensively on options globally.


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Forecasts estimate significant growth in the Australian caravan market over the next few years, and with caravan parks enjoying such spectacular waterfront locations it's little wonder that area such as Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle, are gearing up for a bonanza.
Situated between Lake Macquarie and Wangi Point Flora and Fauna Reserve, Wangi Point Lakeside Holiday Park, for instance, enjoys a beautiful bush setting on the foreshore with easy access to a nearby public boat ramp providing the perfect launch point for fishing, canoeing, swimming, windsurfing, kite-boarding, etc.
Accommodation options range from unpowered camp sites to air-conditioned two-bedroom villas with all the mod-cons, including Foxtel.
For general information on the area, phone 1800 802 044 or go to www.visitlakemac.com.au
Couples have until this February 28 to save $1000 on a new 18-night Cruise Express circle-Japan cruise-tour timed to coincide with the springtime 2019 spectacle of Japan's famous cherry blossoms.
The itinerary is designed to immerse Australians in the country's rich traditions and customs, with guests joining tea ceremonies, donning kimonos, learning to make sushi and watching a sumo-wrestling display.
Three bullet train rides, the neon-lit shopping frenzy of Ginza and iconic Mt Fuji are also featured in the exclusive cruise tour.
In Yokohama, guests board Princess Cruises' Japanese-built Diamond Princess for an eight-night, round-trip cruise.
Boasting a large sushi bar and the largest Japanese bathhouse at sea, the 2670-passenger ship will call at four Japanese ports, including the cherry blossom gardens of Ishinomaki, the bustling seafood markets of Hakodate in the north, the hot springs of Niigata and the active volcanoes of Kagoshima in the south.
The cruise will also take passengers to the South Korean city of Busan.
Including return flights from Australia, the package is priced from $8490 per person twin-share ex Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane, and from $8790 per person twin-share, ex Adelaide and Perth.
Phone 1300 766 537 or visit www.cruiseexpress.com.au
The international St Giles hotel group, which includes the Tank Stream Hotel in Sydney, has launched a dedicated program to help solo travellers — particularly women — experience the best of the destination when travelling on business or leisure.
The program includes a solo-travel microsite, which features content written by local experts to highlight solo-friendly restaurants, bars, entertainment and touring activities. Visit www.stgileshotels.com/solo-travel.
Deals for solo travellers at Sydney's Tank Stream Hotel include complimentary daily breakfast (minimum four-night stay), $20 dining credit at Le Petit Flot restaurant, 10 per cent saving on laundry, and free internet, mini-bar and in-room movies.
Other services include a pre-arrival solo concierge service, a solo-travel welcome pack and post-stay gift.
Visit www.stgileshotels.com/solo-travel/
Whether you're visiting Melbourne or one of the ones who consider themselves lucky enough to live in Australia's 'cultural capital', Zoo Twilights should be on the agenda.
Held in the picturesque Melbourne Zoo, audiences can pull up a picnic and enjoy a gourmet hamper with wine under the stars, or try local food-truck vendors and bars while watching local and international artists catering to most music tastes and age groups.
All proceeds from the concerts go back into Zoos Victoria's ongoing 'Fighting Extinction' conservation program.
Until March 10. Visit www.zootwilights.org.au
For those visiting Melbourne, the Pan Pacific Melbourne, located in the city by the Yarra River, has special 'Staycation' packages available until June 30. Save up to 25 per cent on normal rack rate, and receive complimentary breakfast, self-parking and wi-fi. Visit www.panpacific.com
Manitoba's most famous inhabitants are wild animals … polar bears, bison, beluga whales, Canadian lynx, caribou, arctic foxes and hares, and bald eagles.
Some are around for most of the year, others are more seasonal.
Polar bears, for example, are best viewed from July to November. Just don't get too close.
In Churchill, they can be safely viewed from tundra vehicles or from a fenced wilderness lodge. You can even walk among them with a guide or see them from on high during a helicopter tour.
Perhaps Manitoba's most iconic resident celebrity, the bison can be seen year-round and reflects the province's First Nations' heritage, still as relevant today as it ever was.
Riding Mountain National Park is an ideal location for an encounter with these famous giants.
Arctic foxes and hares can be seen year-round. There is something infinitely fascinating about snow-white foxes and bunnies frolicking in the chill, blending in with their surroundings, like cotton balls dancing on ice.
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Muslims always try to make sure Muhammad is never portrayed at all, in any media from portraits to anime to cartoons. The justification I always hear for not portraying Muhammad is that it is wrong to make idols. This is true in Christianity and Judaism as well, so my question becomes "how is it wrong to portray Muhammad as long as you don't worship it as an idol?"(an anime or cartoon representation will, obviously, never be worshipped) Afterall it never says not to portray Muhammad at all anywhere in the Qur'an. (If this seems irrelevant please tell me so, I thought it was on topic but I could be wrong._
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There are extremists in every culture and religion. Even extremists at both polar ends of the same religions or cultures. It is when the extreme takes over from the norm that things start to get out of hand. Sometimes the extreme leads to a new norm, but other times it leads to chaos and death. Sometimes the extremist minority becomes the normal majority after a few hundred years (Christians in Rome). Sometimes they become the power only to become the norm and fall to another extreme (Communism in Russia). Only history will decide what is what long after the events have past.
As for Muslims in anime? Considering how most anime is basically set in Japan, the numbers of muslims represented will be few and far between. At least in terms of were they are obviously religious muslims. There have been several accounts of characters from Middle Eastern nations, North Africa, and other well known muslim majority countries and regions. The lead in Full Metal Panic grew up in Afghanistan during that fictions version of the Russian-Afghan War. I do not think his belief system every came up during the show's three seasons, so we don't know if he was even a muslim. Religion unless it is based around a holiday or Japanese tradition, generally doesn't seem to come up in the average anime unless it is a plot point. I would note however that the Christian religion has made an effect of a lot of anime plot points, accurately protrayed or not (usually not).
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Portrayal of Christianity is usually just a bit hilariously odd or its simply that some icons from it are used for effect. On a rare occasion, (e.g. Kannagi) its obliquely referenced as a competition point to Shinto.
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Generally, people knows more about Christianity than Islam, so a Jesus joke may success (just hypothesis), but a Muhammad joke will definitely has a negative consequence.
We see sexual scenes are not good for kids, we censor them. They think...Naruto is BLASPHEMY, then ban it. Why not? If they see it as something bad and evil.
Anyone thinks fictional works do not shape the view of public probably has several screws loose.
If there were a doujinshi like the one I described, at least more than one kid in the world would probably think: wow Muslim women are so hot they blaspheme their god. I am not surprise if now I showed Gundam 00 to some of the most illiterate regions of Africa, kids there would think there existed giant robots flying around and fighting in our world for real. Of course, they are just two of the extreme examples, but they happen.
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2) The Qur'an is the main text of Islam... the rest is simply interpretation and doctrine, i.e. the mulling of mullahs, some of which presume more authority on interpretation of faith than they merit. A Christian analog might be some screwloose "christian church" preacher asserting special understanding of Christianity that involves torturing selected passages for their own purposes.
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Well one thing I can think of concering Judeo–Christian religions are that in essence they have very little tolerance against any other theocracy other then their own.
Telling another culture/person what is good or bad based on own belief is self-centered and self-righteous.
As long as you have a strong belief within yourself then nobody is able to violate that altar and anything and everything else should just sound as noise to your ear.
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Any writer who writes sensitive things should be ready for, again, some negative responds. If we think something is bad, harmful, or offend us, we have the right to complain and protest (the way we think is correct or not, is a total different matter). And depends on how bad and harmful WE THINK IT IS, we will have the appropriate method to "complain." If IN THE EYES OF MAJORITY, we always take things over-seriously, are self-centered, and easily refer to extreme method to "protest," we simply become extremists. If the majority is like us, then we are justice.
Anyone here remember the case of Japanese's history textbook a few years ago?
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And sure to some extent people opinions can be swayed by fiction, but that's really only when it mirrors something that already exists. Like nobody is holding protests against the empire for the violations of Ewok rights on Endor.
That last part is a little too out there in left field for me to comment on
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Again, if we have the majority backing us, then "bring it on." But if 90% of the world population were Korean, who don't watch anime and dispute that anime is a niche market product...
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Sorry, I misinterpreted your intent in the post and where you were leading. You're right - there will be some folks offended. You almost can't move in life without offending someone. It is a very poor endgame when we let a few zealots interfere with everyone else's lives.
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The only anime I know of where Islam seems to be "seriously" portrayed is in "Yugo the Negotiator," where the protagonist has a job in Pakistan and has to conform with the culture there. I don't know that much about Islam in detail, but it seemed like that anime tried to make a semi-plausible attempt.
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There is also the manga: Adolf
In the last chapters the story shifts on the israeli-palestinian conflict, and one of the three Adolfs marries a palestinian woman. However, while it's obvious that the woman was muslim, the manga doesn't delve too much into religion.
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I dislike it when people tries to force their religion on others.
I can burn any holy text i want be it quran or the bible because i do not subscribe nor care about neither belief. The reason I don't is because i don't see any useful purpose in doing so. If that is reason to be hostile, then "your" religion is truly violent and oppressive.
Just as we see japan as a country full of perverts and sushi, their view of us also differ from our own. Why bother getting so worked up about it? These people aren't going to rule the world and oppress your people with their "view" on your culture.
Should people get so worked up by stereotypes and generalization? While it might not be true for some, it is to an extend, true for most. As a diverse species, could we not just accept those difference instead and be contend that humanity is so much more than any other species on earth?
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This debate is kind of ironic when one of Japan's fundamental teaching is Buddhism.
Gotama Siddhattha would have not cared one bit on how people considered him or depicted him since his teaching is just that;
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Just so you know, Setsuna was formerly a Muslim but became an Atheist after Ali trick him to kill his parents and made him and his friends believe they'll be martyrs fighting against the enemy. I surprise that its showing on Malaysian TV since the Azasdistan arc and Setsuna atheism might anger the the muslim conservatives over there.
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Congratulations and many blessings on alumnus Robert Rush (D.Min., 1988) on his new call as pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Tomball, Texas. You can read more about his new call in this news article. Robert, who enjoys dual membership with the P.C.(U.S.A.), is also the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He retired as Stated Clerk of the CPC in 2010 and lives 14 miles from Tomball P.C., where he had preached many times. Robert wrote to share that he finds it "exciting to be involved in pastoral work after being in administration for several years."


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National Collegiate Equestrian Association, January 5, 2011 –
In effort to further advance equestrian to a NCAA championship sport, the entity formally known as Varsity Equestrian has established an association to become the voice for the sport of equestrian within college athletics. The National Collegiate Equestrian Association (NCEA) was founded to be the catalyst for growth of varsity level equestrian competition.
"The transition of Varsity Equestrian to the National Collegiate Equestrian Association is a very positive step that will give us a boost toward our goal of achieving championship status within NCAA," said Casie Lisabeth, NCEA president and Kansas State University equestrian head coach.
"The support of AQHA and USEF has been key in making NCEA possible. This change will help further educate the public about collegiate equestrian and help increase opportunities for young women by adding more universities and growing the sport to NCAA championship status."
In 1998, Equestrian was recognized as a NCAA emerging sport and since then the sport has been governed by the Varsity Equestrian Steering Committee. The committee was composed of the coaches and administrators from universities sponsoring Equestrian at the varsity level.
As equine industry leaders, the American Quarter Horse Association and the United States Equestrian Federation are working in cooperation to support the development of opportunities for equestrian student-athletes.
"The development of collegiate equestrian within athletics is a positive step, not only for the horse industry, but also for college athletics," said Don Treadway Jr., AQHA executive vice president. "The American Quarter Horse Association is proud to support the enhancement of collegiate opportunities through the National Collegiate Equestrian Association. We look forward to working with our industry partners to advance equestrian as a championship sport for NCAA."
"It is truly exciting to see increased opportunities for our young riders through the ongoing development of equestrian sport within college athletics," said John Long, chief executive officer of the United States Equestrian Federation. "There has been tremendous effort put forth by the members of the varsity equestrian steering committee and I congratulate them on the creation of the National Collegiate Equestrian Association. This will be a catalyst to help advance equestrian into championship sport status with NCAA."
The 2012 NCEA National Championship will be held on April 12-14 at the Extraco Events Center in Waco, Texas. A tentative schedule of events is available at www.collegiateequestrian.com.
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- Better Manage Multiple Services – the HootSuite dashboard offers multiple tabs and streams that make managing social media and multiple services simpler and more efficient.
- In-Depth Analytics – HootSuite offers a number of ways to analyze your networks and communities. Basic users have access to Ow.ly Social Stats. In addition to Ow.ly Social Stats, Pro and Enterprise users enjoy Google Analytics and Facebook Insights integration and Custom URL Parameters.
- Collaborate with Teams – HootSuite gives you the ability to securely invite teams to share streams, assign and respond to tasks, collaborate on messaging, track follow-ups and more.
That's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to some of the cool stuff you can do with HootSuite – there are many more tools and resources waiting for you. And now, with this integration of Ning into the HootSuite dash, you can post messages to your Ning site, monitor your networks and communities, view profiles and images in-dash and more, in much the same way you would for other popular social networking services.
I encourage you to check out all the things HootSuite can do for your networks and communities. Network Creators can activate the extension, then head over to HootSuite.com for more information and to learn more about the integration with Ning. Happy Hooting!
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Djokovic and Williams notch straight-set victories as Saturday's session at Wimbledon finishes on time
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Williams played as if she was in a hurry to make it to dinner. She beat the 42-year-old Kimiko Date-Krum—the oldest woman to reach the third round at Wimbledon in the Open Era—6-2, 6-0 in 61 minutes. It was the 600th victory of Williams's career.
"I'm getting there," she said after she walked off court, suggesting—much to everyone's dismay—that she expected to be playing better sometime soon. "I always like to peak toward the end."
Williams, the defending champion, arrived here as the heavy favorite and this week has only cemented that status. Maria Sharapova is gone. So is Victoria Azarenka. Her strongest remaining rivals are last year's finalist, Agnieszka Radwanska, and the 2011 winner, Petra Kvitova. Her next opponent, though, is not to be overlooked: Sabine Lisicki, a semifinalist in 2011 with a gargantuan serve who says she likes playing "with nothing to lose."
"You have to play your best to beat her, that's for sure," Lisicki said. "But, you know, everybody's [a] human being."
Those who watched Novak Djokovic play Saturday had reason to doubt Lisicki's analysis. The No. 1 seed cruised into the fourth round with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Jeremy Chardy and looked like a man who had no idea this first week had been littered with upsets.
In the section that was supposed to produce a quarterfinal between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, there is a fourth-round match between the 111th and 130th-ranked players in the world, Adrian Mannarino and Lukasz Kubot, respectively. The winner of that match will face either Jurgen Melzer or Jerzy Janowicz, who at No. 24 is the only seeded player left in that quarter.
"It's a bit strange feeling not to have Federer or Nadal at the second week of a major," Djokovic said. "In the last 10 years, it was always one of them."
A funny thing about Djokovic's draw: Before the tournament began, everyone agreed he had the easiest path to the final of the four favorites, since Federer, Nadal and Murray were all in the other half. Now Djokovic has a much tougher draw than Murray. He'll play Tommy Haas next, and if he wins, the winner of Tomas Berdych (former Wimbledon finalist) and Bernard Tomic. In the semifinal, his likely opponent would be either David Ferrer or Juan Martin del Potro, who both won Saturday.
There are, of course, no American men left in the singles tournament, but another American woman remains in contention—even if she needed a last-minute wake-up call to get this far.
Sloane Stephens came to Wimbledon Saturday after losing the second set of her match against Petra Cetkovska 6-0 in fading light Friday evening. She promptly lost the first two games Saturday before prevailing 7-6(3), 0-6, 6-4. She'll next play Monica Puig of Puerto Rico, who reached the fourth-round of a major for the first time in her career. They both trained at the same tennis academy when they were younger.
"We were like 14," Stephens said. "I mean, we're not like besties."
For the home fans, the day's most important match came early on. On Court 2, Laura Robson fought back from a set down to beat Marina Erakovic of New Zealand.
After more than a decade of ineptitude from her compatriots in the Wimbledon singles tournament, Robson's victory guaranteed that a British woman will be in the fourth round here for the first time since 1998. Even without a result in her next match, she will also become the first British woman to crack the Top 30 since 1987.
"It's now my second time in the second week of a slam, so that's pretty cool," said Robson, 19. "Except at U.S. Open I played on the Sunday, so it didn't quite feel like a second week. And my brother said it didn't count." On Monday, the only day in Grand Slam tennis when everyone in the draw plays, it certainly will.
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Andro is available in health food and vitamin stores in 10, 25, and 50 and 100 mg. You will also find several of its cousins being sold over the counter including androstenediol, norandrostenedione, and others. Research in humans using these forms is extremely limited.
Andro is banned by the International Olympics Committee, professional tennis, the National Football League and the National Collegiate Athletics Association. It remains legal in professional baseball, where McGwire's admission to using it during the 1999 season when he hit a record 70 home runs boosted its popularity.
Does Andro have any benefits?
Some body builders anecdotally report that they notice increased strength when they use Andro. Most take andro only on the days they work out. Others use Andro occasionally to boost sex drive or wellbeing. Those who are young and already have naturally high levels of testosterone or Andro in their body are not likely to notice much of a sex boosting effect. Middle aged and older individuals may notice the benefits more easily.
A new, highly publicized study indicates that androstenedione may not live up to its hype. The study, published in a June 2, 1999 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association compared 300 mg of androstenedione with a dummy pill in 20 men ages 19 to 29 during an eight-week weightlifting program. Researchers found no difference in strength between the two groups of men.
Even though this study did not find obvious benefits with Andro, more studies are needed with different dosages, with individuals in different age groups, and also with women for us to get a clearer idea of the benefits and risks of Andro.
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Andro can have androgenic side effects when used regularly. These include acne, scalp hair loss, hair growth in women on the face, aggressiveness, and irritability. It can also raise levels of estrogen, something that could lead to enlarged breasts and an increased risk of heart disease and certain types of cancer. Prostate enlargement could be a concern in older men. Long term effects of regular use are currently unknown.
Future potential
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is one of the five largest electric utility companies in the United States, providing 28,000 megawhats of electricity to 3.9 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky[1][2] - enough electricity to power over 20 million homes. Duke is unusual among electric utilities in that it produces only 1/3 of its electricity from coal. This effectively insulates it against increases in coal prices and means its power generation portfolio is more diverse than that of its peers.
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In 2009, Duke generated a net income of $1.08 billion on revenues of $12.73 billion. This represents a 20.1% decrease in net income and a 3.6% decrease in total revenues from 2008, when the company earned $1.36 billion on $13.21 billion in revenue.
U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas (now U.S. Franchised Electric post Spectra spin-off), operates in North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.
Owns and operates unregulated power plants primarily within the Midwest. Develops, owns and operates electric generation sources that serve large energy consumers, municipalities, utilities and industrial facilities.
Operations are located in Central and South America with approximately 4,000 MW of generation, primarily hydroelectric, in six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala and Peru.
Prices for fossil fuels, the key energy input for many of Duke's electrical generation plants, have risen steadily over the past few years with the price of oil approximately quadrupling since the year 2000.[5] The booming overseas growth from industrializing counties such as China and India have pushed fossil fuel demand and prices new to new heights. To hedge against a sustained high energy price environment, Duke Energy, other utility companies and the government, have been forced to look at alternate means of energy production which are cost effective and clean. Duke which only produces 56% of its energy from coal, is already well below the industry average in its use of fossil fuels.
The key difference between nuclear and fossil plants is the cost structure. Nuclear plants require very large capital investments (to construct the plant) but little expenditure for fuel because it takes relatively little uranium to power a plant. On the other hand, fossil fuel plants require relatively little capital investment but have high fuel costs because they require large amounts of coal, oil or gas. In the past, low fossil fuel prices gave given fossil fuel plants a cost advantage over nuclear plants. The cost advantage, compounded by the stigmas of nuclear energy (the not in my backyard phenomenon) has prevented new nuclear construction for almost 30 years.[6] Record fossil fuel prices have begun to reverse this trend. The possibility and implications of peak oil may reinforce this reversal. Already, nuclear utilities such as Duke Energy, Exelon and Entergy have begun filing for permits for construction of new nuclear plants.
Of course, it is critical to remember that a substantial portion of Duke Energy's business remains vulnerable to rising energy prices and could see a negative impact on earnings if fossil fuel prices continue to rise.
In all, the legislative environment is favorable for Duke Energy. Increasing concern over global warming makes US carbon emission legislation likely in the short to midterm. Because a significant portion of Duke's portfolio is in nuclear energy any legislation based on carbon trading markets will allow Duke to offset emissions at its carbon based plants with carbon credits from its renewable and nuclear plants.
Over the past few years, global warming has moved from the fringes to become one of the single greatest single challenges facing the world today. A growing body of scientific evidence ties carbon dioxide emissions to rising temperatures. As a result of growing popular awareness of the risks of global warming, many large corporations have stepped up their efforts to project greener images. Additionally, many expect the U.S. government to enact more stringent legislation limiting carbon emissions. Environmental awareness is another key trend driving the renaissance of nuclear energy. Compared to their fossil fuel peers, nuclear energy plants have negligible emissions. Duke operates a number of hydroelectric, alternative and renewable energy plants. The company recently began to push for higher efficiency standards and other environmentally friendly state policies in the areas it operates, probably hoping that a paradigm shift will facilitate a shift towards renewable energy, ultimately benefiting the company.
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My brother and his wife made very touching gift for me. They took the wallpaper that I created in Photoshop some time ago - Stitching - and actually stitched it! Using real threads and jeans. Take a look at the photos below! Jury, Tanya - thank you very much!
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Leafs avoid elimination with win over Bruins
Toronto 2, Boston 1
Leafs avoid elimination with win over Bruins
Toronto 2, Boston 1
Tyler Bozak and Clarke MacArthur scored and James Reimer stopped 43 shots Friday night to help the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 and stay alive in their first-round playoff series.
Game 6 is Sunday in Toronto, with the decisive seventh game back in Boston on Monday, if necessary.
Zdeno Chara scored for Boston to cut the deficit to it 2-1 with 8:48 left. The Leafs killed off a delay-of-game penalty in the last four minutes and then protected the lead when the Bruins pulled Tuukka Rask for an extra attacker with 1:11 left.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Sat 29th Mar 2008 23:02 UTC
Version 2.4 of the OpenOffice productivity suite was released on Thursday, boasting enhancements to all its core components. Possibly the most significant alteration in the new version of the free suite is in the description of file types. The 'OpenDocument' description has been replaced by 'ODF', which stands for 'OpenDocument Format' and is becoming a well-known acronym thanks to rivalry with Microsoft's controversial OOXML format.


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OpenERP has been a frequently requested application and was a winner of the BitNami bi-weekly packaging contest. You can now download free, ready to run native installers for Linux, virtual machines and Azure & Amazon EC2 images.
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January 14. 2013 11:36AM
Hudson police make donation to family of child suffering from brain tumor
Pictured in front row are Officer Rachelle Megowen, left, Casey Lowe (McKenzie's sister), and McKenzie Lowe. In the middle are Officer James Stys, left, Ronald Lowe (McKenzie's father), Joann LaFountain (her grandmother), Diane Lowe (her mother), Robert Faherty, and Officer Daniel Dolan. In back row is McKenzie's grandfather, Frank LaFountain
HUDSON - Cops for Kids with Cancer Foundation presented the family of an 11-year-old Hudson girl with a check for $5,000 to help with expenses.
McKenzie Lowe, who attends Hills Garrison Elementary School, has an inoperable brain tumor. Members of the Hudson Police Department, along with Robert Faherty, chairman of Cops for Kids with Cancer Foundation, on Friday met with McKenzie and her family at the Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston and presented them with the check.
Another donation, from Hudson police officers and the Hudson Police Employees Association, was presented to the family in December.
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