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Congratulations to Kavil S. Subramanian, chief architect at Alpharetta, Georgia–based Alogent and Daniele Pasian, engineer and technical manager at Info Studi Vicenza in Vicenza, Italy. Kavil won first prize of $100 for the best solution to the March Reader Challenge, "Leveling the Load." Daniele won second prize of $50. Honorable mention goes to Ronel Fernandez, who was the first-place winner in our February Reader Challenge. Here's a recap of the problem and the solution to the March Reader Challenge.
Frank is the data warehouse architect for a company that hosts its databases on SQL Server 2000 and 7.0. Every week, the company imports between 1 million and 5 million orders into the data warehouse's Orders table. The weekly import contains orders placed only during that week, but the Orders table contains an aggregate of data from many weekly imports. The following statement creates the Orders table and its relevant columns:
CREATE TABLE Orders ( OrderID int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED, CustomerID int NOT NULL REFERENCES Customers, OrderDate datetime NOT NULL ) CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX Orders_CustomerID ON Orders ( CustomerID )
Frank is particularly interested in reducing the time required to load the orders data, increasing the efficiency of the queries that access the table, and streamlining data archival. The queries that he wants to optimize typically access several weeks of data. Assuming that Frank has an efficient loading mechanism that uses the SQL Server BULK INSERT API, how can he redesign the table to meet his objectives?
Frank can achieve his goals by using the partitioned views feature in SQL Server 2000 and 7.0 to partition the table into weekly segments. To perform the partitioning, he first needs to create a table every week that looks exactly like the primary Orders table. Then, in each of the duplicate Orders tables (partitions), he adds a CHECK constraint on the OrderDate column that restricts the data to a specific week. The following statements create duplicate Orders tables for the January 6, 2001, and January 13, 2001, data imports:
-- Week of "2001-01-06" CREATE TABLE Orders_W_20010106 ( OrderID int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED, CustomerID int NOT NULL REFERENCES Customers, OrderDate datetime NOT NULL CHECK( OrderDate >= '2001-1-6' And OrderDate < DATEADD( day, 7, '2001-1-6' ) ) ) CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX Orders_W_20010106_CustomerID ON Orders_W_20010106 ( CustomerID ) -- Week of "2001-01-13" CREATE TABLE Orders_W_20010113 ( OrderID int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED, CustomerID int NOT NULL REFERENCES Customers, OrderDate datetime NOT NULL CHECK( OrderDate >= 2001-1-13' And OrderDate < DATEADD( day, 7, '2001-1-13' ) ) ) CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX Orders_W_20010113_CustomerID ON Orders_W_20010113 ( CustomerID )
Next, Frank can create the following local partitioned view on these duplicate tables:
CREATE VIEW Orders AS SELECT o1.OrderID, o1.CustomerID, o1.OrderDate FROM Orders_W_20010106 UNION ALL SELECT o2.OrderID, o2.CustomerID, o2.OrderDate FROM Orders_W_20010113
After Frank uses BULK INSERT to load the data into this view, the query optimizer automatically loads the data into the correct partition according to the defined CHECK constraints. Using partitioned views lets Frank pour data directly into an empty table every week, thereby reducing load time and achieving optimal performance. Partitioning also speeds up the queries in two ways. First, because the query optimizer can use the CHECK constraint on the OrderDate column, the optimizer can eliminate irrelevant tables while executing the plan. Second, the queries can read smaller tables instead of one large table. Thus, the partitioned views feature lets Frank effectively distribute data into smaller tables, speed up his queries, and create a convenient framework for archiving data.
Now, test your SQL Server savvy in the April Reader Challenge, "Returning the Rows" (below). Submit your solution in an email message to [email protected] by March 20. SQL Server MVP Umachandar Jayachandran, a SQL Server Magazine technical editor, will evaluate the responses. We'll announce the winners in an upcoming SQL Server Magazine UPDATE. The first-place winner will receive $100, and the second-place winner will receive $50.
Here's the challenge: Alex is the programmer for a company that uses SQL Server 2000, 7.0, and 6.5. To find the customers who bought all the products of a specific group, he needs to write a query that asks whether rows of a particular type are the only rows in a table. The code has to work on all three SQL Server releases that the company is running. The following statement, which includes sample data, creates the table he's querying:
CREATE TABLE #Test ( i int, c varchar(10), PRIMARY KEY ( i, c ) ) INSERT INTO #Test VALUES( 1, 'Value #1' ) INSERT INTO #Test VALUES( 1, 'Value #2' ) INSERT INTO #Test VALUES( 1, 'Value #3' ) INSERT INTO #Test VALUES( 2, 'Value #1' ) INSERT INTO #Test VALUES( 2, 'Value #2' ) INSERT INTO #Test VALUES( 3, 'Value #1' )
Given a set of values for column c, Alex needs to determine the rows that contain only and all those values for a particular value of i. For example, if Value #1 and Value #2 are the specified values for c, the query should return only rows where i equals 2. Similarly, if Value #1 is the specified value, the query should return only the row where i equals 3. Also, if Value #1, Value #2, and Value #3 are the specified values, the query should return only rows where i equals 1. Help Alex write an efficient query that returns the rows he seeks.


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By Ed Chan, Volleyballmag.com (Original link)
Three generations of Boehle volleyball players, including three brothers who played together this season at UC Santa Barbara. And it all began with a meeting at a fraternity party in 1963.
That's when Wayne Boehle, who played basketball at Loyola (now Loyola Marymount) University, which was then an all-men's Jesuit school, met Tina Lennon at TKE open house.
"I know it sounds crazy," Wayne admitted, "but it was love at first sight. I wanted to take her out, and we went out three weeks to a month later, and we've been together ever since."
They got married in 1965 and began their second generation of volleyball players. Michael was born in 1966 and later they had Danny, Chrissy, and Jenny. Volleyball was in their future.
Tina shagging balls for her uncle Pat in the 1950s and played for the Santa Monica City College co-ed team, as well as partnering with some of the best on the beach, including Ernie Suwara and Butch May.
Wayne, now 73, played, too, and "It made me a little crazy that she was a better athlete at that sport than I was."
He was a 6-foot-4, 180-pound guard in basketball at Loyola but loved volleyball. In 1964, his Loyola team finished third in the Collegiate Nationals and he was named an All-American.
"I played and played and played, both indoors and on the beach, and we started the first college volleyball team at Loyola University, and after that, I played on some open teams after I graduated."
And he had motivation.
"Primarily because I wanted to make sure I was at least as good as she was, so I didn't have to worry about following her around."
Their oldest, Michael, started playing volleyball as a toddler and has made volleyball his career, first as a player and then as a coach.
"I remember playing at the age of about 2 or 3," Michael Boehle said. "My dad got on the beach circuit in the early '70's, and I would travel with him up and down the coast.
"I got the bug and at 18 or 19 I got my AAA, the highest amateur rating, and then qualified for my first AVP tour event in 1989 in Fort Myers, Florida, and placed seventh. That seventh gave me enough points to stay in the main draw, so I just kept going.
"I was very fortunate to be able to play on the tour for seven years, made some decent money, had a great time, and then met my wonderful wife, Lisa, and started to get serious about my life and my job, and have been coaching volleyball ever since."
Michael has been the Loyola High School for 19 years with a record of 450-61. His team was named national champion in 2009 by ESPN Rise, and has won the Division 1 CIF Southern Section championships six times (2003-05, 2009-10, 2016). Loyola has also won the Mission League 18 consecutive times from 1999-2016.
Accordingly, he was named L.A. Times Coach of the Year in 2003-05, as well as being named one of the Top Ten Coaches of All Time by Loyola High School in 2005.
His involvement in volleyball doesn't stop there. In 2011 he and John Beckwith became owners of the Manhattan Beach Surf Club, where he is owner/coach.
Second son Danny loved beach, his first love was baseball, although he did earn a AA rating on the beach. He never played indoors.
Chrissy, a top setter, earned All-Big West Honors at UC Santa Barbara after winning the CIF championship at Notre Dame Academy her senior year. She is now married to former AVP player Kevin Martin.
Wayne and Tina's youngest, Jenny, was also on the CIF Southern Section championship Notre Dame Academy team with Chrissy, and also played at UC Santa Barbara for Kathy Gregory.
Michael and Lisa started Boehle generation No. 3, with Parker, Hayden, Davis, and Ella.
This past season, as UCSB finished 10-16 overall and 5-13 in the MPSF, Parker, a 6-foot senior, was a libero who led the Gauchos in digs, averaging 2.20 digs per set.
"In the gym, were all teammates no matter what, but outside of the team, it's more that we're brothers, and we have our own inside jokes we have together, and we've grown up together all of our lives," Parker said. "It's great, I'm stoked, for my last year I got to play with Hayden and Davis, and end it like that. I'm lucky to share it with them."
Hayden was a 6-1 junior outside hitter, who was third on the team with 164 kills, 2.05 per set. He also had 128 digs, third most on the team, and 32 total blocks.
And Davis was a 6-1 freshman libero/setter, who redshirted.
"Going into practice this year, I just knew that no matter what the situation, there were two guys I could rely on, whether it was a good or bad practice," Davis said. "I could talk to them about anything, they will always have my back no matter what happened."
"Parker is the oldest brother, so he makes sure that everything is OK with us. He's always checking in with us, seeing how we're doing. He's a very calm personality off the court, but on the court, he's completely different. He's the most competitive guy I'll ever meet.
"Hayden is very calm, very funny. Hayden is the trend-setter, the fashion guy, he's the guy that will try new stuff, whereas Parker and I are willing to just sit back on the couch, Hayden has to always be doing something non-stop."
None of that was lost on UCSB coach Rick McLaughlin.
"They're all different guys, individually, but they all know volleyball at a high level, that's a characteristic of the entire Boehle family," McLaughlin said. "You see that in practice every day, the court knowledge, the sense of where to be at different times, it is at a really high level with those guys.
"It's a true volleyball family. They're all business when they get into the gym. They know what it takes to train at a high level, and they set the tone for the rest of the team. The rest of the team enjoys being around them, it's a really close team."
"I'm pretty lucky to have my three boys playing together at one school, let alone in men's volleyball," Michael said during the season. "There's not a lot of opportunities and schools for these boys, especially at the next level after high school … It says a lot about my kids, who they are, and how hard they work. I'm so proud of them. I really am. I never forced them into it, but they ended up liking it, and maybe follow a little in dad's footsteps. I'm so honored and blessed that they're able to do this."
"I think it's the only time in Division I volleyball that three brothers will play on the same team," Wayne said. "Not only do you have the ability to play at that level, but you have to be that close in years, it's kind of amazing."
The key might have been how young all three started in the sport.
"I was always watching my brother play for as long as I can remember," Davis said."I first started peppering with my dad at age 4 and actually started playing games in the backyard at our house in Westchester at age 5 or 6. It would be me and my dad versus Parker and Hayden. Ever since then I started loving playing volleyball."
Parker remembers getting started.
"We started playing with a balloon when I was 5 years old," Parker said. "We played with a balloon for the longest time until we could play with a real volleyball."
Michael fondly remembers their backyard games at their home in Westchester, Calif.
"We have a grass court in the backyard that they all grew up playing in. We progressed from a tennis height net all the way up to an 8-foot net. Teaching them all ball control, that's all it was. Learning how to pass. You can do anything you want if you learn how to pass."
Perhaps unlike many high profile sports families, Hayden remembers that they were never forced to play volleyball.
"My dad never really pushed us, never forced us to play volleyball. He just said, 'Guys, if this is what you love, pursue it and work as hard as you can every time in practice no matter how hard it is.'
"He's always been there as a backbone to help us find the right path, and go with it. If you love volleyball, you should try as hard as you can. If you don't, just stop and see where your path takes you. He always supports us and he's my role model to look up to."
The home-court battles were sometimes pretty fierce.
"We've had some gnarly games in the backyard," Hayden said. Parker, as the eldest son, naturally had his share of victories.
"I'm probably the most competitive, to a fault," Parker said. "I would do my best to beat up on them, but then he (points to Hayden) got a little bigger than me and even the other one (Davis) is bigger than me now. I'll still say that I'm the best in the backyard when it's one-on-one or one-on-two. We played together every day one-on-one. I'd like to say that I beat up on them a little while, and then they got a little bigger and stronger and it changed a little bit."
Parker and Hayden played their first beach volleyball tournament at the ages of 10 and 8, respectively, winning the U12 division. Parker remembers volleyball as "just kind of an everyday thing".
They all played at Manhattan Beach Surf Club, which influenced Parker's decision to go to Santa Barbara. His coach at the time was former UCSB standout and assistant coach Aaron Mansfield, now the head coach at Loyola Marymount.
"I wanted to go play for him because he was a great coach for me in club, so that was a big motivator for me," Parker said, but before he got to Santa Barbara Mansfield left for Santa Clara.
"That was kind of a bummer, but that didn't matter, because at the time I committed, I kind of fell in love with the guys and the team, it's like a brotherhood that I wanted to be a part of," Parker said.
When Davis was being recruited, he said he was fascinated by the team's culture.
"I visited the campus my junior year, when Parker was a junior and Hayden was a freshman, and they invited me to stay the night and see what it was like. I went to the game and saw how close they were as a team and how they competed as a team. I went home with them and saw how cool it would be to be here a year with my brothers and what a strong bond the team had, it was like they were all brothers."
Don't forget the sister.
Michael's youngest daughter Ella? She was an All-CIF Southern Section outside hitter at Notre Dame Academy as a junior.
They all play together in the summer, like at fun tournaments such as The Gillis, a family-oriented invitational tournament.
"Our whole family combines to make one pretty strong and fun team," Parker said. "That's one of the times I get to play with my dad, my brothers, and my grandparents, and my uncles, on the same team. It's fun, competitive, and we all have the same goal — to win, so nothing changes there. It's the same as playing indoor volleyball with my (UCSB) teammates. It's pretty funny."
Wayne coaches his grandson Emmett in the 12s and plays beach 4's on the weekends. The third generation, Parker and Hayden, are both dating players on UCSB's women's team. As McLaughlin said, it's a true volleyball family.
"Wayne was the guy that got us all going and we all had the same interest, and got going down that path," Parker said.
"It's natural that we all have the same passion and goal for sports, and no one was forced into anything, it just happened that we're all the same. It's pretty cool."

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The unicist approach to scenario building integrated the fundamentals that regulate the evolution of countries and cultures with the hard data of their actions.
Integrating this knowledge with the evolution laws makes the forecast of countries possible and allows anticipating problems in order to avoid them.
What Was Not Possible in Business Before the Unicist Approach?
1) The development of diagnoses beginning with the nature of a business and ending with its operation.
2) The development of ontology based, reasonable, understandable and reliable global, country, market and business future scenarios.
3) The design of synergic maximal and minimum strategies for business growth
4) The building of business objects to work as drivers, catalysts and entropy inhibitors of business processes.
5) The management of businesses as unified fields taking advantage of the possibilities while saving energy.
6) The segmentation of markets including the hard, functional, psychological, conceptual and life-style aspects to influence buying processes.
7) The integration of fundamental analysis and technical analysis to develop reliable knowledge.
Diego Belohlavek
NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became a global decentralized world-class research organization in the field of human adaptive systems. https://www.unicist.net/economics/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/turi.pdf


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SOURCE: Lithium Exploration Group, Inc.
April 22, 2014 08:51 ET
SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwired - Apr 22, 2014) - Lithium Exploration Group (OTCQB: LEXG) announced today that an order has been placed with Sonic Cavitation for a Crude Oil Prototype. The unit will be manufactured by the same partners and with the same design specifications as the Ultrasonic Generator currently being tested for water purification in Texas. It will be delivered to Wardlow, Alberta, and used for testing purposes at Tero Oilfield Services (a subsidiary of Alta Disposal Ltd). The goal is to test the upgrading capabilities of the unit on crude oil and to identify commercial opportunities for future units. The expected delivery date at Tero of the unit is in August, 2014.
"Our partners at Sonic Cavitation have made huge progress with their manufacturing partners in Texas and are moving forward on testing the existing unit for field capabilities in the water purification space. The goal of this prototype will be to initiate parallel testing for crude oil so that both markets can be commercialized as soon as possible," commented CEO Alex Walsh. "We were able to observe the technology in action in February and are eager to see the unit running oil through it at our Tero facility this summer."
About Lithium Exploration Group
Lithium Exploration Group is a US-based exploration and development company focused on the acquisition and development potential of lithium brines and other precious metals that demonstrate high probability for near-term production. Currently the company is focused on its Western Canada lithium assets, testing its Ultrasonic Generator Technology and the acquisition of oil and gas related assets in Western Canada. Lithium Exploration Group is a fully reporting company traded on the OTCQB under the symbol LEXG. Website: www.lithiumexplorationgroup.com.
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by Dante Zappala
I started running when I was 13 and only now have I mastered pre-race preparation. This was no feat of genius but one of fortunate timing.
The 4th of July fell on a weekend, just a few days before Germantown Academy's All-Comers meet where I planned to race the 3,000 meters. I started the 4th on a miserable note. I made the poor choice to workout instead of going to the Water Tower. I ran so poorly that I pulled the plug not even half way through, probably at the exact moment that my kid was getting DQ'ed from the crab race.
It marked the culmination of a pretty bad training cycle. I've felt like a bystander as my interval times have ballooned over the past month. In an effort to get fast, I've gotten remarkably slower.
Three days out from this race, I was already looking to the fall and another marathon.
Brewer's Outlet made the giving up much easier. They had Jack's Abby Smoke and Dagger for $40 a case. I acquired a taste for smoked beer on several visits to Bamberg, Germany. Upper Franconia has been the regional home of this variety for over 700 years. Schlenkerla is the gold standard, first brewed in the 15th century. A case of it here is hard to find and will run you $100. But recently, the flavor has caught on at domestic breweries. Iron Hill and Earth, Bread and Brewery each made respectable versions of it this winter. And there it was at Brewer's, begging to come to my barbeque that evening.
Sunday wasn't much better. I ran an easy 8 in the morning before landing at another cookout with Southern food no less. All one can do in this situation is eat a bit of everything: chicken, burger, ribs, baked beans, potato salad, peach cobbler AND cherry pie.
Monday I decided I'd had enough and I was taking the day off from running. It was my little brother's birthday and he came over for dinner and cake. We gorged on saag paneer and chana masala from Jyoti. Just before we cut the Oreo ice cream cake, it dawned on me that I also had Oreo ice cream in the freezer; the perfect pairing for a 37th birthday. We toasted our older brother with a shot of Malibu and called it a night.
I spent Tuesday on my feet at work. Outside of a little leftover saag, I barely ate or hydrated, despite the fact that the race would not go off until after 8 at night and it would still be 150 percent humidity. I was basically on a mission to do everything wrong at this point.
My kids ran a few of the earlier races that night, which allowed me to spend two hours baking in the sun on the infield before I inexplicably did a four-mile warm up.
Finally, the gun went off.
A kid from Shippensburg took the pace out, clicking off 75-second laps like a metronome. I zeroed in on the back of his vest and stopped thinking. Seven and a half laps later, I had run exactly what I thought I was capable of running two months ago when I started down this road.
Before the holiday weekend, I had done everything "right." The workouts were well thought out. I was sleeping more and generally eating better. I actually lost a few pounds in what I thought was a healthy way. Yet it all seemed to take me in the wrong direction.
Somewhere in the gluttony of the days before the race, I had found the magnet that brought the hard work and sacrifice together the way I intended. It took out of control spending to experience the payoff of being thrifty.
Doing everything right never guarantees that everything will go right. Failure is like water. It finds a level. Maybe it is our fault, something we did wrong, or a personal fault that is out of our control. Or maybe it's the world's fault. Either way, outcomes are never certain.
How we react to this reality is more important. I was beginning to panic. A fast time in one race relieved my fears and validated my efforts. That approach is an absolute recipe for disaster. At no time did I search for empirical solutions or display patience and confidence. I got lucky and I feel good about myself again.
As I age and inevitably my body slows me down, these are good truths to face. At the very least, I've found some good beer to drink while I think it over.


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These loans are only short-term options and are usually for a maximum of 60 days. In case you have a relatively new vehicle which is clear of finance you may be able to find a logbook loan. You don't have to hand the car over; you keep the use of the automobile but release some of the equity in it to secure the loan. Since the loan is secured on the vehicles paperwork, you don't have to be credit checked to get this sort of loan. Usually, to find a logbook loan, you need to be the registered and legal keeper of the car. Some lenders require that the vehicle needs to have a current MOT and tax to lend.
Logbook loans are for a longer period than payday loans usually around two decades. Doorstep lenders can provide cash loans of up to approximately #500 which is accessible to even those people who are unemployed. Doorstep lenders are specialist loan companies who specialise in high-risk instances. Loans are handled by local agents who call at your address to collect the payments each week. Such loans are done entirely in cash, the payments are fixed, and the broker provides a convenient collection service for payments. These loans may be repaid over up to a year. Lastly, if you need to borrow more than #500, then a guarantor loan is a good option for you. These loans which can be up to #5000 or so, require you to have a guarantor that will guarantee you're great for the loan. If you can't repay the loan, the guarantor will take over. Locating a guarantor is not always easy, but a relative or close friend may be willing to help. Generally, they need to be over 23, a homeowner and to have great credit.


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Scientific papers
Assessing the validity of the Global Activity Limitation Indicator in fourteen European countries
Comparison of socio-economic indicators explaining inequalities in Healthy Life Years at age 50 in Europe: 2005 and 2010
The global activity limitation indicator and self-rated health: two complementary predictors of mortality
The effect of smoking on the duration of life with and without disability.
Ranking health between countries.
Les espérances de vie en bonne santé des Européens.
Healthy life expectancy in Europe.
Gender differences in mental health expectancies in early- and midlife in six European countries
Mind the gapreaching the European target of a 2-year increase in healthy life years in the next decade
The joint action on healthy life years (JA: EHLEIS)
Gender differences in healthy life years within the EU : an exploration of the health-survival paradox
Inequalities in health expectancies at older ages in the European Union: findings from the Survey of Health and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
Gender gaps in life expectancy and expected years with activity limitations at age 50 in the European Union: associations with macro-level structural indicators
Gender differences in health of EU10 and EU15 populations: the double burden of EU10 men
The Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI) measured function and disability similarly across European countries
The reliability of the Minimum European Health Module
Inequalities in healthy life years in the 25 countries of the European Union in 2005: a cross-national meta-regression analysis
Book Chapters
The Joint Action EHLEIS(2011-2014) European Health and Life Expectancy Information System
Poster presented at the 23rd REVES meeting. Paris, May 25-27th, 2011.
A cross-European comparison of Healthy Life Years at early, mid and late adulthood
Poster presented at the 7th IAGG Congress. Bologna, April 14-17th, 2011.
European Health and Life Expectancy Information System (EHLEIS)
Poster presented at the 11th European Health Forum Gastein: "Values in health - from visions to reality". Salzburg, Austria, 2008.
Monitoring population disability: evaluation of a new Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI)
Van Oyen H., Van der Heyden J., Cox B., Perenboom R., Jagger C.
Poster presented at the conference LEurope de la santé au service des patients. Paris, Institut Pasteur, 13-14 Octobre 2008.


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Hey, here's a link to my PLL recap that starts on the correct page! http://t.co/mjPqS1DUxD #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Heather Hogan (@hhoagie) July 3, 2013
"Hey, how's Jake?" Aria's face: FINALLY SOMEONE ASKED ME ABOUT MY BOY PROBLEMS Aria's mouth: "Jake's fine." #booradleyvancullen #PLL
— Lisa Franklin (@lrfranks) July 4, 2013
Aria, A doesn't need a passport. She fricking has a plane! #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Rainbow Zebra (@me_unicorn) July 4, 2013
1) Must have Melissa's blazer. 2) I'm gonna need Spencer to narrate this entire show from now on. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— NicS (@njnic23) July 3, 2013
Is it just me or did spencer look a little proud at the idea Melissa could have killed Wilden? #BooRadleyVanCullen
— rachal (@RachieBug85) July 3, 2013
There has never been a Melissa scene that wasn't at least a little bit terrifying or a little bit sexy or lot bit both. #booradleyvancullen
— dufrau (@dufrau) July 3, 2013
Everything she's been through? Cakes and paperbag heads and feelings journals? What exactly has Aria been though? #booradleyvancullen
— Stokley (@StokleyC) July 3, 2013
It's like the lesbian nurse from Nip/Tuck can smell the PinkDrink! on Hanna. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Liz (@gatecrewgirl) July 3, 2013
"Why do I feel so lucky?" Because you're dating Paige McCullers, Emily. There, wasn't that easy? #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Rainbow Zebra (@me_unicorn) July 3, 2013
Hide your girlfriends and get your pink drinks while you can, Melissa Hastings is running a gang of lesbians #BooRadleyVanCullen
— what (@palemoonlight94) July 3, 2013
"Can I call you?" "Yes, you can get my number from Tippy." #BooRadleyVanCullen
— worldoftilt (@worldoftilt) July 3, 2013
"Melissa, how do you know Jenna and Shana?!" ... "Well, we all met in this bar one night.." #booradleyvancullen #pinkdrink
— elle linton (@ellelinton24) July 3, 2013
Mama Marin & Mama Fields may go to jail & Mama Montgomery has been banished, & you choose now to return, Mama Hastings? #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Caroline Dreams (@liltree) July 3, 2013
I love that Spencer is narrating her spy tape of Melissa like a special on the Discovery Channel. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Erica Barz (@chapstick_buff) July 3, 2013
That do-rag has been in more story lines than Aria has had the entire season! #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Julie (@Sparkle_and_Ray) July 3, 2013
I hardly think those three lessons can count aria. You spent more time making out than learning. #BooRadleyVanCullen #justlikeinEnglish
— Aleisha Naughton (@aleicat) July 3, 2013
Emily's awesome gay-slouch is back. #familytalks #emilyisrebeling #yellEmilyyell #runEmilyrun #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Aleisha Naughton (@aleicat) July 3, 2013
"Do you think angrily yelling at Emily to come back will come back to bite us with family services? Nahhh. EMILY!!!" #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Leslie Durante (@fuoracle) July 3, 2013
Praying to the Lesbian TV Gods that Paige and Emily won't join Cosima and Naomi by getting a life-threatening illness. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Erica Barz (@chapstick_buff) July 3, 2013
Suggestions by Orelia Has Orchestra wasn't playing in the background of the last Emily scene. 10 points from Gryffindor. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Leslie Durante (@fuoracle) July 3, 2013
Paige saying out loud what all of us were thinking "let A hit Mona and Aria" #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Lady Liberty (@CindyLMarshall) July 3, 2013
Sorry Hector, Aria's face is already trademarked by the Precious Moments figurine people. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Lady Liberty (@CindyLMarshall) July 3, 2013
Don't play scary creeper music when Paige is swimming alone in the gym! The Emily's girlfriend curse is still over her. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Debbie (@WishIwasBo) July 3, 2013
Emily should hold Paige underwater, then they can laugh & reminisce about when Paige did it to Em. #booradleyvancullen #PLL #EmayaForever!!
— Caryn K. Hayes (@CarynGotThis) July 3, 2013
2 parents parenting...what show is this? #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Lady Liberty (@CindyLMarshall) July 3, 2013
NOT COOL PLL you do not play the Paily theme song over the Aria and notGarret scene. They haven't earned it. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Lady Liberty (@CindyLMarshall) July 3, 2013
If Dr. NotWren was at all competent, why isn't Emily's arm in a sling to avoid further damage? #crackerjackboxMD #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Lady Liberty (@CindyLMarshall) July 3, 2013
There's nothing wrong with the air around Ali, that's just the soft focus of the flashbacks. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Chelsea Steiner (@ChelseaProcrast) July 3, 2013
"Find out what it is that attracts corpses to those girls." They love Emily and are trapped in her curse. Duh #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Debbie (@WishIwasBo) July 3, 2013
I'm not the only one who sees the irony of sending Jenna to watch Spencer. #BooRadleyVanCullen #pll
— Dana Piccoli (@DanaPiccoli) July 3, 2013
Spencer, baby, you gotta teach your sister how to destroy evidence. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Heather Hogan (@hhoagie) July 3, 2013
Paily snuggles, murder confessions, and mask smashing! Last night's #PrettyLittleLiars #BooRadleyVanCullen best! http://t.co/eeMMKbw9OO
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UC Berkeley Press Release
Martin Meyerson, former CED dean and acting chancellor, dies at age of 84
BERKELEY – Martin Meyerson, who is credited with defusing some of the Free Speech Movement tensions at the University of California, Berkeley, while serving as acting chancellor in 1965, died Saturday (June 2). He was 84.
The native of New York City also was an authority on urban development and was dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design (CED) from 1963 to 1965, after CED founder William Wurster stepped down.
Meyerson left the deanship from January to July of 1965 after being tapped by UC President Clark Kerr to serve as acting chancellor, replacing outgoing UC Berkeley Chancellor Edward Strong.
"I was surprised as well as honored to be chosen by Clark Kerr as an acting chancellor of UC Berkeley..." Meyerson said after Kerr's death in 2003. "The tasks we shared in the unchartered academic turbulence of the time changed my life and his life but not our values and interests in universities."
In a baccalaureate address to UC Berkeley's Class of 1966, Meyerson said that "probably no undergraduate class ever has been more admonished or harangued" by professors, parents, the press, politicians and others. The students' campus experience in the 1960s, a period of growing student unrest, included the historic Free Speech Movement and Vietnam War protests.
"Protest without steps toward workable solutions is raw and empty and temporary. It cannot satisfy many except those who are satisfied with a howl of rage," Meyerson told the students. "But protest can provide a new vision. For protest is doubt charged with passion, and both doubt and passion are necessary ingredients of innovations innovations which will provide the real achievements beyond the protests."
A 1966 proclamation issued by the UC Regents commended Myerson as acting chancellor for combining "sensitivity and imagination with leadership in dealing with problems unprecedented at the university," as well as for displaying "patience and diplomacy ... to restore order to the Berkeley campus and to instill in the academic community a new sense of unity and purpose."
Earl "Bud" Cheit, dean emeritus of the Haas School of Business and Edgar F. Kaiser Professor of Business and Public Policy Emeritus, was a member of an emergency executive committee established by the Academic Senate during Meyerson's tenure at California Hall. He recalled Meyerson's close working relationship with the faculty. "The faculty really admired him, they related to him..." Cheit said. "He was an intellectual, and he was interested in ideas and the arts."
Ray Colvig, manager of UC Berkeley's Public Information Office in 1965, recalled that at an emergency meeting of the Berkeley Academic Senate that year, the Senate adopted a resolution to recommend to the Regents that Meyerson be made permanent chancellor. "It was understood as a very strong vote of confidence," said Colvig. "(The Academic Senate) didn't debate this in the meeting -- it was an automatically accepted idea that they should tell the Regents that this was the opinion of the faculty. (That hire) didn't happen, of course, because the Regents took another view on it, and Meyerson left after a time to go on to another position" as president of the State University of New York at Buffalo, now the University of Buffalo.
Colvig said the UC Berkeley faculty was impressed by Meyerson's "qualities as a leader and the things that he did in that short period of time. He became acting chancellor on the spur of the moment almost, when Strong stepped down. He took on a difficult assignment right in the middle of all that was happening (on campus)" in the mid-1960s.
Meyerson earned his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1942 and a Master of City Planning degree from Harvard University in 1949. He began his academic career in 1948, teaching at the University of Chicago and then at the University of Pennsylvania.
During his career, he held a variety of administrative posts in higher education, including serving as the head of the Joint Center for Urban Studies run by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meyerson also was acting dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and in 1966 became president of what the University at Buffalo.
Meyerson left Buffalo in 1970 to become the fifth president of the University of Pennsylvania, a post he held until his retirement in 1981.
Meyerson wrote several books on urban development and housing. He also served as an advisor to the United Nations on issues in Indonesia, Japan, Yugoslavia, France and West Africa.
He is survived by his widow, Margy Ellin Meyerson; sons, Adam and Matthew; and seven grandchildren. A daughter, Laura, died in 1988.


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Gaza Heart and Mind
By: Kamal Sobeh Posted by Marivel Guzman
How can a Gazan person present himself if his image had been distorted due to the negative thinking that made him sterile and destroyed his abilities for imagination and creativity?
How can he even see, if he is wearing black glasses as thick as windshield glass with layers of rust that had been accumulated in his mind and heart?
And how could he walk if his prosthesis is also truncated.
By hundreds in Gaza they ask themselves? is not the same for the others? as they do not dare to question the others, whom have the infallibility of their command and the key to life.
In Gaza nothing is going according to the requirements of a decent life, and happiness.
We are talking about people that have the ability to adapt rapidly, who, if given 500 dollars today have the ability to survive tomorrow.
The people have become aware that there is another basic requirement to live that goes beyond food and clothing, the incentive to live, which they are losing every moment.
He could not imagine himself on a trip with his sons because he simply does not have a permit to leave Gaza's barbed wires.
He could not imagine his son, as a journalist struggling with his pen to write against the corruption that prevents such things as justice, purity and freedom, because the advocates of justice and freedom in and around Gaza have their own law, which prevents others from speaking the truth.
This is the bleak picture cameras can pick up if approached from Gaza borders, and the question arises, what is needed from the Palestinian Gazans to do in order to live their life with dignity, freedom, justice and security?.
For more than 60 years since 1948, the Palestinians didn't exclude anything; they tried Expulsion, Loss, Displacement, War and finally Peace.
At the end, the Palestinians succeeded in making peace with the world, but a small question remained: Is it not better to make peace amongst them selves?
The Palestinians in Gaza didn't understand that their case rests on three pillars namely: National domestic alignment, Arab alignment, and International alignment, and the relationship between these alignment, is sequential in the sense that the second axis does not arise only if the first axis is based, and so on.
Another small question: Where do the Palestinian pillars rest on his case?
He destroyed the first axis by internal conflict, exhausted all the ingredients,
therefore the Arab axis became unable to take up the cause torn.
He awaits the opportunity to escape from his duties because it is tied up at the same time for his own interests and thus become the international situation is less supportive of the Palestinian cause.
So Palestinians in Gaza are important for teeth of internal conflict and the loss of they case which was lost with the hope of freedom, justice and peace.
Therefore the Palestinians must bring peace to themselves before attempting to achieve a comprehensive peace with others. Furthermore, the world must bequeath dignity, respect, freedom and security to the Palestinians, and contribute to halt the conflict and put an end to the violation of the daily humane rights abuses.
The world will find that the Palestinian is just a person that dreams of raising his children and dreams to show them the future sky free of the dust of war, to show them the green land without the contamination of blood stains and dreams of flowers before they trampled under the tanks.
However, most importantly, the Palestinians in Gaza have to be free from all negative and wrong ideas.-
Shadi Nassar:The Dreams of the youth of Gaza
By Marivel Guzman
Article Featured on Opinion Maker
Before his profile was deleted from Facebook, he was another resident of the besieged Gaza Strip, with dreams to travel the world, and like any other young person with university degree with plans for his future.
He worked arduously for 2 years fighting the injustice of an oppressive regimen that sees the 1.5 millions residents of Gaza as enemies of war, but in reality they are regular, ordinary citizens like you and me.
Gaza is been under an inhumane siege for more than 3 years, Israel have destroyed their schools, public buildings, and thousands of homes.
The Occupations Forces had murdered thousands of unarmed civilians, dozens of non-violent protesters. Just in her last incursion what Israel equivocally called war, she killed more than 1400 civilians, including more than 400 children.
The world have been trying to help Gaza to brake the siege, and have organized land convoys and Sea Voyages, the whole world was in outrage during the piracy act of Israel that in International waters, assaulted and killed 9 peace activists, that only "crime" was to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, and with this, brake the siege, that the UN with it silence has stamped with official indifference.
Live in Gaza is less than pleasurable, the youth has no other entertainment but few left enjoyments not robbed yet by Israel. The beach is meters safe only, before it become a target practice for the Israel Occupier Forces that shoot live ammunition to the beach goers and fishermen as well.
Facebook have offered the escape window to the world for residents of the besieged Gaza, I meet my dear friend Shadi Nassar almost a year ago, his story was appealing for me, he told me his dreams. The dreams of a young person, that wanted to go study abroad. Really for most of the developed world, this is just a step in their education, but not for the youth of Gaza.
They suffer the problematic of countless troubles, simple documents that in a regular free country will take few minutes, for Gaza students that want to travel out of Gaza, is an huge waste of time and energy, documents signing takes months to get. Even the Palestinians Authority as in complicity with Israel make the procedures eternal and sometimes impossible to achieve.
Shadi, lost already an opportunity last year during the Gaza Massacre, where life become unbearable for the residents. He was ready to leave, when the assault started and all his dreams were killed with "Operation lead".
But you can't kill the dreams as easy as you kill a Palestinian, his resolved proved stronger than Operation lead, and he continued with his efforts to work again for another opportunity until finally "HE MADE IT OUT OF GAZA".
We can say, that he broke the Siege in its own merit. His case is one to tell, because not all the youth, have the opportunity to fulfill his dreams, I can tell you that if we offer our support to help them in the outside world more students can achieve their dreams.
Scholarships are hard to get for Palestinians in the occupied territories, advocate in Universities to offer support for Palestinians. There are thousands of foundations that offer grants and facilities for students, but not for Palestinians, if you are part of this foundations, work hand and hand with the administrators to offer more grants for this students, that need more than anybody in the world. There are few foundations that I have found in the internet:
USA: For Palestinians
Resident – 2011 – 2012 Fulbright Science and Technology Scholarship PhD Student Program, "They help you to apply for the Travel Visa
Plane ticket
Money to spend for 36 months,Telephone to call: Gaza Residents: Tel: 08-2864-623"
Scholarships PALESTINE Master International Business Palestinian students
Regional Scholarships
Palestinian Refugee Scheme
Support one student, you do not need to be rich, even hosting a student in your own home, or supporting their studies can make a wealth of different.
There are thousands of graduates from the University in Gaza, that need an opportunity to go study abroad, we are billions of compassionate being that can make a different for one Gaza student.
Lend your hand to them, show your humanity. Sponsor a student from Gaza.
My dear friend Made it out of Gaza, I wish I can write the story of hundreds of Shadis, this time he made the journey to freedom, he is free to decide if he needs the light on or off in his nights.
POWER OFF is no more an obstacle in his nights, Israel can't manage his movements any longer, he is owner of his life for first time in his life, he decide if he wants a peaceful night, free from the memories of the aircraft bombing "invisible targets" in Gaza.
For first time he knows that his life is not IN VAIN, he has a purpose and a live to live.
Congratulations to Shadi Nassar, you broke the siege Dear.. But even in strange lands he took his home land in his heart, and he will keep fighting to free Palestine. Because the sons of the Land never forget their roots. The Beloved Land we know as Palestine is his most dear dream. To See her free of Occupation. Free once and for All.
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EA and DICE have released the companion app for Star Wars Battlefront a week before the game's release. Base Command is a free tower defense style game that pits players against waves of Imperial forces.
The turn-based game deals you three unit cards and three star cards from your deck of 24. Each of your soldiers and vehicles can attack specific areas or the map, whether an entire concentric ring (or more) or a quadrant of the circular battlefield.
At the end of each turn, your cards are replenished, your base cannon charges up a bit, and enemy troops advance toward your stronghold. Your goal is to eliminate enemies before they destroy your base, which involves carefully picking targets and using situation-changing star cards strategically.
The app also lets you tweak your appearance and loadouts, read recent Battlefront news, and connect with friends. Base Command is available now on iOS and Android. Star Wars Battlefront will be out on November 17 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.
Our Take
For a free game that earns credits for the core Star Wars Battlefront experience, it's quite enjoyable. It has a neat tabletop miniatures feel and I expect I'll come back to it even if I don't put much time into Battlefront itself.
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Vincent turns FIVE years old today - hooray! Alex tells us that Vincent enjoys drawing, Captain Underpants, Star Wars, LEGOs (Which 5-year-old doesn't?), Belle & Sebastian, reading about the solar system and reciting various infommercials.
Birthday Shout-out requests are easy: send the name, birthdate, message and photo of your child to nursery(at)apartmenttherapy(dot)com with "Happy Birthday" in the subject line. Voila!


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According to research done by Matt Matthews at Gamasutra, the Guitar Hero World Tour full band kit sells surprisingly well, making up 41 percent of the game's units sold from October 2008 to January 2009, based on figures from Michael Pachter at Wedbush Morgan Securities. 35 percent of the units sold are the guitar bundle while 24 percent of the units are the standalone game. Matthews comments on how impressive it is that, despite the harsh economic times and other plastic instruments saturating the market, the band kit still sells the most units during its launch and the following months.
By estimating the game's revenue by type, it's also clear that the band kit pulls in the most money with 61 percent of total revenue in the aforementioned time frame, according to Matthews. But only time (and educated guesses) will tell how future rhythm games will sell in these troubled times.


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Miley Cyrus Says She Didn't Call Off Her Wedding
Rumors are flying that Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemworth are headed for a break up, but Miley insists that isn't true. According to the latest issue of US Weekly, the engaged couple has hit a bit of a rough patch, and a source insists they're "done."
However, Miley took to Twitter (as she usually does) to shoot down the rumor, saying, "I am so sick of La. And sick of the lies that come with it. I didn't call off my wedding. Taking a break from social media. #draining." While Miley says she hasn't called off the wedding, there are certainly a lot of other things going on that could suggest these two are indeed going through some kind of difficult times.
Now, before you guys get too upset with us for suggesting it could be true, there's some serious circumstantial evidence that supports that idea the 20-year-old singer and the 23-year-old actor's possibly trouble in paradise. First, there are rumors that Liam spent a lot of time flirting with Harry Potter star Emma Watson at a pre-Oscars party. Now, again, we're not saying it's true, we're just saying that's the word that's gotten out.
More substantial evidence that these two might be ready to call off their almost year-long engagement? In 2012, the duo happily attended Vanity Fair's Oscars party, but this year, Miley went to another party totally solo. And as far as we know, Liam wasn't out of town or working. Maybe he just didn't feel like going? Who knows.
Another fishy occurrence? We did a little research, and though they've been seen together in public running errands and whatnot, they haven't made a red carpet appearance together since June 2012 — a month after they announced their engagement. Now, some celeb couples just don't like to appear together on red carpets, but Miley and Liam have clearly done so in the past, so why would that change?
Also, on Tuesday, she said "Over tweeting." but then continued to do so with some retweets. Another telling tweet was when she RT'ed, "Communication is key. Anything else is bullsh-t."
And last but not least, some questions are being raised as Miley has just signed on with power manager Larry Rudolph who helped revive Britney Spears' career after she went through some troubled times. Miley has been working on new music for a while so this isn't a complete shock or anything, but it might signal that she's ready to solely focus on work — maybe to take her mind off an impending break up?
While there is certainly mounting evidence that these two could be splitting, we'll believe they're done when we hear it straight from Miley. However, what do YOU guys think? We personally think where there's smoke, there's fire, but who knows. Do you think these two calling off their wedding is inevitable? Or do you think they're doing fine? Sound off in the comments section!


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2. Conclusion of Contract[a] No claims on product specifications or descriptions may be inferred from information contained in catalogues, brochures or from external retailers.
[b] Certain attributes, especially frame colors and markings, cannot be guaranteed. This applies, in particular, to all product illustrations, technical drawings, measures, weights, product descriptions as well as price indications published in connection with zuri products. Mistakes and errors are not excluded.
[c] Placing an order is possible in writing or (if available) online. E-Mailing is sufficient to fulfill the requirements of placing an order in writing. By placing an order in one of the mentioned channels, one makes a binding offer to purchase the relevant product. The customer is bound to this offer for a period ending on the end of the 14th calendar day following the day of the offer. Zuri GmbH has the right to accept the offer within the defined period.
[d] Immediately after receiving the offer, zuri GmbH will send an e-mail confirming the receipt to the customer. This e-mail shall not constitute an acceptance of the order. Only after explicitly stating the acceptance of the offer (via e-mail) or sending out the contract goods, the offer may be considered accepted. The contract shall not be valid until zuri GmbH accepted the customer's offer.
[e] Any Customer who is a consumer obtains the right to revoke the offer and return the goods received based on the cancellation and return policy made available to the customer with the e-mail confirming the receipt of the order (article 6).
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[b] Partial delivery is permitted, but is only to be effected if reasonable for the customer. Postage fees, that incur from customer wishes that imply partial deliveries or that articles have to be shipped separately, have to be carried by the customer.
[c] The forecast delivery times by zuri GmbH are without obligation in any case and are under the condition of a proper and timely delivery on the part of the company's suppliers. Foreign transport companies may delay deliveries abroad.
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The goods shall remain property of zuri GmbH, Ganghoferstraße 23, 80339 München, up to the complete payment.
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[b] Zuri GmbH has the right to refuse the kind of supplementary performance demanded by the customer, if its realization shall only be feasible by disproportional costs.
[c] The legal warranty period for zuri products shall amount to two years from the date of delivery, if the customer is consumer, otherwise twelve months after delivery.
[d] Above legal warranty liability, zuri GmbH offers a guarantee for the frame of three years from the date of purchase to its customers.
[e] zuri GmbH offers this voluntary guarantee to customers who fulfill the conditions of appropriate and specified use of the product, i.e. :
• Examining the goods immediately after receipt and report possible damages instantly
• sufficient maintenance and nurture of the product
• No modifications of frame (e.g. engravings, varnishing) or fork by the customer
• No mounting or altering additional components that were not explicitly approved by zuri GmbH or replacing the original components by components that do not have similar quality
• Responsible usage, i.e. no overstressing the bike by crashes, jumps, risky driving maneuvers or overloads of any other kind
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[b] Return is never possible if the product delivered has been manufactured according to the buyer's individual orders and wishes and is therefore different from the standard (e.g. special geometry, color, engravings, inscriptions)
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[c] The customer's damage claims on obvious defects of the product are excluded, unless the buyer reports those defects within a period of two weeks after receipt to zuri GmbH.
[d] The limitations stated in this article 7 shall not apply to our liability for guaranteed product specifications (in accordance with article 444 of the German Civil Code (BGB)), personal injury of life, body or health or according to the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz).
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NOPA Crush 4-17-2017
April 17th, 2017
NOPA crush disappoints. 153.060 million bushels of soybeans were crushed in March, under the trade's 156.728 estimate. This was 2.3% under last year.
Sep – Mar crush now runs 1.8% over last year. The past two months have been poor at 2.3% under. USDA's whole-year goal of 1.940 billion is 2.9% over last year. To hit their goal we would need to run 4.6% higher than last year from April through August.
If we run 2% over last year from here on out, we would still miss USDA by 19 million bushels. USDA needs to lower crush.Nelson's Notes, NOPA Crush | Comments Off on NOPA Crush 4-17-2017


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Departmental policy requires our administrators to have two accounts—one with Administrator authority and one without. Systems administrators are supposed to use their Administrator account to perform only tasks that require Administrator authority. We showed administrators how to Shift+Ctrl+ right-click a shortcut (such as Computer Management) to open the Run As dialog box, which lets users choose to run a program under another user account. However, some administrators balk at the extra step. Can we make switching accounts even easier?
You can modify a shortcut so that it automatically prompts your administrators for alternative credentials. Open the shortcut's properties, select the Shortcut tab, and click Advanced to display the Advanced Properties dialog box, which Figure 2 shows. Select the Run with different credentials check box, click OK, then open the shortcut. Windows will automatically display the Run As dialog box, which Figure 3 shows.


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Jennifer Falls (2014)
Jennifer Doyle who must move back in with her own mom after being let go from her high-powered, six-figure salary job. With her teenage daughter in tow, Jennifer has to face her new life and figure out what the next steps are to rebuild.
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New opportunities and challenges are thrown at you every day at HubSpot, especially in recruiting. In the last two and a half years, I've hired for almost 20 distinct roles across our services, customer support, and finance teams. I've hired across levels of seniority, office location, and technical experience. I've learned that I have to be ready for anything, and this summer, I learned a tough lesson. I learned that I was not ready for the challenge of hiring another recruiter onto my own team.
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The Himalayas is the Earth's great summit. The grand northern peaks of India thread into wild Nepal and wind east through the vast, prehistoric knit of Bhutan and Tibet.
Mystery, beauty and tradition are ingrained into the great lands of the Himalaya. While the ancient monasteries of Tibet emit a calming peace, Kathmandu hums with the life of its people. Meanwhile, the behemoth of Mount Everest stands guard over an immense natural landscape of forests, gorges and peaks. Real adventure flows through the region's life-blood, while real stories of spirituality and survival are told through the land and its people.
Peregrine's team of specialists will take care of all the logistics on your adventure into the Himalayas, such as organising comfortable, private transport, booking premium accommodation and providing a range of delicious meals.
Why we love Himalayas
- Our Himalayan trips are led by local expert guides who have been involved in hundreds of expeditions and have grown up in the mountains. With their wealth of knowledge and experience, you couldn't be in better hands
- From Pokhara's mirror-like lake to the affable metropolis of Kathmandu and the Bengal tigers, rhinos and monkeys roaming the tropical valleys of Chitwan - the beauty, wildlife and contrasting landscapes of Nepal are astounding
- The home of the Dalai Lama, tranquil Dharamsala is the ideal place for an enlightening experience of Tibetan spirituality, culture and history
- On a flight from Kathmandu to Lukla, fly parallel to the mountains for a spectacular view of snow-capped Mount Everest. This is just one way to appreciate the majesty of this famous pinnacle range
- Tibet is wonderfully rich in natural beauty and tradition. Halfway to heaven and far from everywhere, this is one country that rightly deserves the description of 'otherworldly'
- Peregrine takes responsible travel seriously. The proceeds from our accommodation along the Annapurna and Everest trails go directly back into the community, helping to sustain traditional ways of life
Highlights of the Himalayas
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Bhutan: Dragon Kingdom, September 2018
Glenn Havelock
a well paced trip enabling us to get ready for the high altitude hikes
Review submitted 05 Oct 2018
Bhutan - Dragon Kingdom, April 2017
Shona Beatty
See Bhutan now before it changes too much . It is close to shangra- la for it's natural beauty . Good food and lovely warm people
Review submitted 22 May 2017
Dragon Kingdom, April 2016
Lynnr Arnott
This was an amazing trip with a good balance of culture, temples, shopping, hiking and travelling time. Our bus driver was excellent and made us feel very safe. We learnt a lot about the history and culture of the country from our knowledgable guide. There were plenty of great photographic opportunities.
Review submitted 28 Apr 2016
Dragon Kingdom, September 2015
Helen Robinson
Visit this peaceful little country high in the Himalayas and experience first hand their culture before exposure to the world changes it!!
Review submitted 13 Nov 2015


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Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda
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The Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda was adopted by referendum on 26 May 2003 and entered into force on 4 June of the same year. It provides for a clear separation of powers, with a legislative branch composed of an independent bicameral parliament; an executive branch comprising the Prime Minister, Ministers, Ministers of State and other members who may be determined, if necessary, by the President of the Republic; and a judicial branch composed of: the Supreme Court, high courts of the Republic, provincial courts, districts courts, and mediation committees.
This Constitution does not contain any provisions concerning the protection of Intellectual Property rights, however, Article 29 of Chapter I: "Fundamental Rights of Citizens", in Title II: "Fundamental Rights and Duties of the Citizens' guarantees the respect of private property (refer to page 9 of the document).
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Left: Two Potatoes - The Base of Metaphysics (detail), 2002. Bronze. Photo: Rik Pinkcombe.
Archive content from the 24 Hour Museum - this exhibition is now closed.
The first survey exhibition of work by acclaimed British artist Anya Gallaccio is on at the innovative Ikon Gallery in Birmingham until May 18, 2003.
Bringing together some of Gallaccio's most admired work with a number of new sculptural projects, the show offers a unique snapshot of a celebrated career to date.
After studying at Goldsmiths College in London, Gallaccio first came to public attention when her work was shown alongside that of a group of young British artists at the notorious Freeze exhibition, curated by Damien Hirst.
Right: Stroke, January 1994. Dark chocolate on card panels and benches. Courtesy Karsten Schubert, London.
Like many of her contemporaries she has gone on to achieve success in her own right, enjoying solo exhibitions in both in Britain and abroad, most notably in Glasgow, London, New York and Bern.
Concerned with the notion of permanence and the balance struck between growth and decay, Gallaccio's work has been described as 'wonderfully unreliable experiments'.
Using a wide-range of commonplace, natural and 'found' materials such as vegetables, flowers, lead and candles she attempts to reveal the everyday as remarkable.
A new version of 1993's Stroke surrounds the audience with painted walls of chocolate, while Aspire fills the gallery space with the aroma of wax from lit candles suspended from the ceiling.
Left: Aspire, 1999. Candles, polycarbonate, glass and rope. Photo: Tadahisa Sakurai, installation Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.
However, it is perhaps Preserve Beauty that best typifies the artist's project. With 1300 fresh gerbera stems cut at the beginning of the show and pressed to a wall behind panes of glass, the viewer is able to see the flowers progressively lose their flesh and vital red colour.
The work appears as a 3D still-life, yet it ultimately undermines the traditional art form by allowing the life and 'beauty' to visibly fade. Although the artistic concept of faded beauty is not a new one, Gallaccio deals with it in a new and innovative way, thus her apple tree cast in bronze is adorned with real apples.
In contrast to this transience, a bronze cast of a sprouting potato offers a view of growth and new life as strong, tough and lasting.
The exhibition is supported by the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation and The Henry Moore Foundation.


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Police have confirmed that reports of a body in a stretch of river in Northampton were accurate.
Part of the River Nene was cordoned off yesterday morning after a member of public reported they believed they had spotted the body of a person in the water.
As a result, police and fire crews were called out to the Nunn Mills Road area near the Avon headquarters.
This morning, Northamptonshire Police confirmed officers and firefighters retrieved a person. The force is not yet ready to release any further information.


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Increasing usage of Internet and social network sites affecting the privacy thus identity like SSI, personal information and also other important data could be tracked from cookies and social support systems conducive to identity thefts, misuse of login details etc.
A cookie is text file which a web-server can store in your hard drive that is made to on in which you go on the internet. Can cookies be used against you, well to make sure they cannot have a deleted browser history when surfing the internet. It can simplify your internet-browsing experience by storing your location for local searches, however, you also need to remember that what's more, it has the ability to collect your details much like your home address, number and e-mail address. Additionally, if you have visited any website a cookie encourage the site owners to look at the precise keywords which you have used. It is important to be aware that the cookies itself aren't to blame for creating any security risks, but it has the capacity to track you movement derived from one of website to another and will compromise your privacy protection.
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The most important you'll be able to decide to use protect your privacy is to delete tracking cookies inside your browser regularly. To ensure privacy from ad tracking cookies, your passwords and login information may also be deleted which you have saved for the frequently visited sites.
There are many internet management tools designed online especially for you to definitely remove tracking cookies and help one to remain safe from identity theft. These privacy and identity monitoring protection and alert tools can help one to delete ad tracking.
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The influence of various design parameters on the cogging torque developed by permanent magnet machines is investigated. It is shown that the slot and pole number combination has a significant effect on the cogging torque, and influences the optimal value of both skew angle and magnet arc, as well as determining the optimal number of auxiliary teeth/slots. A simple factor, which is proportional to the slot number and the pole number and inversely proportional to their smallest common multiple, has been introduced to indicate the "goodness"β of the slot and pole number combination. In general, the higher the "goodness" factor the larger the cogging torqu
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Windsor-Detroit Tunnel access route changes today
Goyeau Street closed to make room for new $30-million tunnel plaza
Drivers are no longer able to cruise freely up and down Goyeau Street in Windsor.
The Detroit-Windsor tunnel plaza has taken over the block between Wyandotte and Park streets.
Drivers now have to access the tunnel from the south.
City engineer Mario Sonego said commuters can check out the plans for the new set-up on the Ontario Ministry of Transportation's website.
"You'll see a queuing lane for the plaza, improved booths when it's all done [and] a new NEXUS lane. So it's going to be much more efficient for travelers going into the tunnel and out of the tunnel," Sonego said.
Windsor Fire and Rescue Chief Bruce Montone said the closure won't affect first responders.
"Alternative response routes have already been planned. We're not concerned about any minor delays," he said. "Staff, along with response partners, have coordinated our efforts to ensure our alternative routes are preselected."
Montone said his department is in constant contact with the city and Ministry of Transportation when it comes to construction projects, including the Herb Gray Parkway.
"The public's interests are always protected. We haven't had any problems to date," Montone said.
The Transit Windsor tunnel bus route will experience a detour beginning Monday. The bus stop at St. Alphonsus Church will be relocated to the southeast corner of University Avenue East and Goyeau Street.
"This is a significant change in traffic flow in downtown Windsor," said Mario Sonego, City Engineer in a news release. "The expanded tunnel plaza entrance moves right up to Wyandotte, with Goyeau Street between Wyandotte Street and Park Street no longer being a through street. Drivers will need to adjust to accommodate the changes."
Construction on the tunnel plaza will continue all this year, and into 2014. The project will cost close to $30 million.
The 1.5-kilometre tunnel, which connects downtown Windsor with Detroit, can handle as many as 2,000 cars an hour. It is used more by passenger traffic, tourists and businesspeople than for trade. The nearby Ambassador Bridge is North America's busiest border crossing.


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With sustained efforts by the government, the number of taxpayers in the country has risen to 5.7 crore for assessment year (AY) 2016-17 from the 5.43 crore seen last year, revenue secretary Hasmukh Adhia told FE. There were 4.88 crore taxpayers in the country in AY2013-14.
"We are using a lot of technology and giving earlier refunds. This year, we tried to finish all assessments early and give refunds expeditiously so that the backlog is reduced," said the secretary.
Separately, the finance ministry's annual report said that "tax base" rose from 6.5 crore at the end of FY14 to 6.86 crore by FY15-end, an addition of 76 lakh people.
The tax base is defined as the number of persons who have either filed income tax returns or in whose case tax has reportedly been paid or deducted.
With more than 95% returns being filed online, it becomes easier for the I-T department to process it within a short span of time. The department has issued 2.10 crore refunds totalling over Rs 1.22 lakh crore in 2015-16, which saw 94% of the returns being filed online. In 2014-15, Rs 1,12,188 crore was paid as refunds and Rs 89,664 crore in 2013-14.
"We do not want to be forcibly collect tax from anybody. But we do not want our officers to be lazy also. They need to be alert and see if there are any taxes due, they will have to finish assessments on time. And they will have to raise demand and refunds on time," said Adhia.
Both the Central Board of Director Taxes (CBDT) and Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) are making optimum use of technology for expeditious disposal of assessment and refunds as well as for addressing the issues relating to custom clearance and facilitating trade among others. As regards indirect tax collections, the indirect tax to GDP ratio was about 5.17% compared with 4.36% for 2014-15.
SWIFT, or Single Window Interface for Facilitating Trade, acts as a single-point interface for over 50 offices of six government agencies for clearance of Exim goods and reduces documentation and costs, thereby benefiting over 97% of India's imports.


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Green Lantern #7
- Story by
- Geoff Johns
- Art by
- Christian Alamy, Doug Mahnke, Keith Champagne, and Mark Irwin
- Colors by
- Alex Sinclair
- Letters by
- Sal Cipriano
- Cover by
- Alex Sollazzo and Ian Churchill
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- DC Comics
Hal Jordan is confronted by Sinestro once again in "Green Lantern" #7 with Hal wishing only to be left alone with a naked Carol Ferris rather than be dragged headfirst back into interstellar Corps business. Honestly, as a reader, I feel the same way Hal does; Green Lantern has become a comic about warring alien factions more so than our titular hero. Jordan is at risk of becoming lost in the shuffle. In issue #7, characterization takes a back seat to plot set-up for Geoff Johns' new Indigo Tribe storyline, but the book gives the reader enough information to compel us to stick around for issue #8.
No one familiar with Johns' work could doubt his ability to craft a compelling plot and the first installment of "The Secret of the Indigo Tribe" portends more of that mastery we've come to expect. Opening with a ritualistic meeting between members of the Indigo Tribe, Johns gives the reader more information than Hal or Sinestro, allowing us to build suspense surrounding this frightening gathering and guess at what their motivations may be. Despite allowing us this glimpse into an inner sanctum, the members of the Indigo Tribe speak and chant in an alien tongue — this ensures there isn't too much of the secret given away and gives the book an ominous tone it manages to reclaim in the final pages.
During the pages in between, however, the tone drifts back to a repeated refrain. Sinestro demands Jordan's help and is in no mood to bicker. Jordan attempts to stand up to him in a scene providing little more than lip-service, as there can be no doubt in the reader's mind Hal will be pulled into the business of the Guardians once again. As Sinestro threatens Carol's life and he starts duke it out with Hal, I began to wonder if maybe Johns is far more interested in the interstellar war than in his primary characters.
The battle is broken up by Carol Ferris deciding reluctantly to don her Star Sapphire ring once more, regaining the power of Absolute Cleavage! (It is a pretty petite ring, I guess that's why the Sapphires are only able to pack a costume the size of a napkin.) All kidding aside, Doug Mahnke's pencils are very strong and very much up to the task in "Green Lantern" #7, conveying different locales and over a dozen characters with adept and clarifying detail. The team of inkers credited alongside Mahnke deserves praise as well, giving the Indigo tribal meeting and the closing pages depicting the tribal prison a foreboding and chilly tone. Most importantly for a comic like "Green Lantern" #7, the team of artists render several different alien races and never slips into the territory of goofy or cartoonish; the hard pencil line employed by Mahnke coupled with Alex Sinclair's colors keeps every character richly invested in their surroundings rather than ever appearing odd or out of place.
As the issue opens by giving us more information than Jordan, we end just as lost and confused as he is when Black Hand appears and refuses to explain the situation, despite his palpable sadness upon encountering Hal. Johns hangs us upon a cliff when Black Hand merely declares "we are all saved." Saved from what? From whom? We'll have to wait for the next installment to find out. The obvious talents of the creative team in "Green Lantern" #7 gives new readers enough reason to stick around, even as the issue comes up middling.


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I'm taking a hiatus from Training right now.
That's Training with a capital T, because I'm still running, and lifting, and swimming, and skiing, and dancing to "Uptown Funk" like a spaz every chance I get. (I hope that song isn't too obnoxious and overplayed by the time our wedding rolls around in late May.)
I'm active. I just don't have a Goal Race. I'm not planning any Big Workouts. I don't want to Compete.
I'm having some inner turmoil about this. I'm an editor at a running magazine. I'm writing a feature about hiring a coach and working with her for a year. (Which, for the record, was a positive experience!) I've been Training for the better part of the last five or six years. And I just don't want to do it anymore. Here's my attempt at figuring out why:
Burnout. The most obvious and likely culprit. I hoped—nay, expected—to totally ace Wineglass and then take a month or two to relax and regroup. Instead, when it didn't go my way, I chose to try again. Soon. I didn't want to waste my fitness and I knew I could do better, but my heart was never really in it. I still ran a great race in Phoenix—I absolutely couldn't have gone any faster on that course—but I didn't have much fun, prepping for it or racing it.
Painful realizations. As much as I enjoy the sense of accomplishment that comes from finishing 20 miles with 14 at marathon pace, my last training cycle (plus the time off I've had since it ended) made me realize something that hadn't previously occurred to me: Intense marathon training leaves me too wiped to do or to enjoy other things in life I'd like to do/enjoy.
For example: It's amazing how much I've gotten done around the house during this hiatus. I spent a Saturday ShopVac-ing and organizing a particularly filthy part of the basement. That doesn't sound fun, I realize, but it kind of was. It needed to be done, and I did it, and now that room looks awesome. (Well. As awesome as a grody, unfinished, freezing cold basement room can ever look.)
And that's just one example of a Life Thing that not running so much has freed me up to do! I can think of at least two others! Behold! There's more to life than running!
Soul searching. On that note: Why do I run, anyway? To stay healthy and fit, for one. But beyond that, why?
When I met my coach after the race in Phoenix, she said, "You have to choose a goal that inspires you." And that made my head explode. It sounds so obvious, but it got me asking myself, "Is training to run a fast marathon so I can qualify for and run Boston still inspiring me?" No! Not really! It's making me feel frustrated and self-critical and all kinds of other negative emotions. And, because I'm not a fan of enormous, crowded races—hey, NYC Marathon!—I don't think I'd even enjoy running Boston very much if I did get in.
So, what was the appeal of Boston to begin with? I wanted one of those blue-and-yellow finishers' jackets. I blogged about that ages ago. And why did I want one of those jackets? So I could wordlessly communicate, "I am a faster and better runner than you are." I run races partially to compete with myself but also to say to the world, "Look how fast I am! I could maybe beat you! And you, I could definitely beat you."
Which makes me sound like a jerk! And I am kind of a jerk! And I don't want to be a jerk anymore! What's with this need to compare myself to other people? That is a part of my personality I don't like, and training and racing seems to fuel it.
Doing other things. You know what's kind of fun? Swimming. And skiing. I'm not very good at either, but that's part of the appeal. I can get a good workout just because my body is doing something it's not used to doing. And I couldn't really do either of those things while I was marathon training.
Also, I miss feeling strong all over. I used to take these strength classes at the gym that are totally butt-kicking but will make you look and feel SO RIPPED. And I stopped doing them because they made me too sore to do hard running workouts. That is silly, and that is why people who run all the time at the expense of other activities get hurt.
The place where we'll be honeymooning is in a remote part of Bermuda, and I've heard the roads around there aren't so great for pedestrians. Why should I spend a single minute on the treadmill in the gym when I'm in BERMUDA? (As I would feel compelled to do if I were really training.) Especially when we can use the resort's stand-up paddleboards for free? And I could do that with Paul, instead of by myself?
This has turned into a ramble. I am trying to justify to myself why it's okay for me to not run very much right now, or ever again, if that's what I want.
I think I fear falling back into college mode, where I'd run maybe three miles a couple times a week and do nothing else except eat pizza and drink beer, and I wondered why I was a disaster, health-wise.
But health and fitness are more important to me now than they were then. And I do enjoy exercising. I just think the pendulum may have swung too far in the opposite, extreme direction for me for a while. It's time to find some balance.


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Debunking credit rating myths
One undeniable fact is that we can't run away from the state of our credit scores. In fact, credit scores affect every aspect of our lives. It is the difference between getting an attractive interest rate and dealing with an exorbitant interest rate. It determines if we get easily approved for a loan or if we have to contend with one rejection after the other. Whatever the case, one should always consider working on improving the state of their credit rating. In as much as a good credit rating is valuable, it is imperative to note that there exists a number of myths associated with credit rating. This particular post endeavours to debunk some of the most common credit rating myths.
Myth 1: living with someone with debt problems affects your credit score
This is a lie. Living with someone with debt problems or who has bad credit does not in any way affect your credit score. In fact, the kind of people you live with does not in any away impact on your credit score. The same applies if you live in an address that was initially occupied with a bad credit person. The only time another person's credit rating could affect yours is if you are financially connected to them or own a joint bank account together.
Myth 2: Old debts have no impact
This is not true. The assumption that your old debts don't matter or have no impact on your credit score is untrue. The reality of the matter is that old debts stay on your credit report for at least 6 years and therefore before the lapse of that period, it would be unwise to think that old debts have no impact on your credit report.
Myth 3: Rebuilding a credit score is an impossibility
This is incorrect. Having a poor credit score is not a permanent thing. It is not like you've been condemned to have a poor credit rating for the rest of your life. While you might be having a poor credit history, you can take measures to improve your situation and state of your credit rating in the future. All you need to do is ensure that you pay your bills on time without default and with time your credit score will gradually improve.
Myth 4: Your level of education affects your credit score
Your credit score is not affected by your level of education, your marital status, race or even origin. Any person who tells you that your education level has any bearing on your credit score is without a doubt lying through the teeth!
Myth 5: The level of your credit score does not in any way affect your job prospects
Unfortunately, your credit rating does affect your ability to get a job or even get a lease for an apartment. Nowadays, employers check your credit worthiness as a way of determining how credit worthy you are. Those with a good credit score have a high chance of securing a job compared to those with a poor credit rating.
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