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Throughout the world families are the cornerstones of societies. In Canada, Citizens and Permanent Residents enjoy a constitutional right to choose who his or her spouse is.
Nowadays, many Canadians and Permanent Residents meet loved ones abroad and desire for those special individuals to immigrate and be united in Canada.
Between 2006 and 2015 Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) Citizenship reported an average of 256,633 new Permanent Residents that immigrated to Canada via its different Immigration Programmes' Categories; Economic, Family Class Sponsorship, Resettled Refugees and Protected Persons in Canada mainly[1].
These individuals are married to Canadians Citizens or Permanent Residents or can be in a Common-Law relationship. For individuals who are married they must provide supporting evidence that their marriage is genuine and not out of convenience to immigrate to Canada.
Many couples are caught in this confusing area of law. For example if one fails to report a common-law relationship and fails to have the partner medically examined then later reconciles with the partner gets married and Immigration Refugee Citizenship Canada (IRCC) rejects the sponsorship application for failure to disclose the common-law relationship and for failure to have the individual medically examined.
For couples that are in a Common Law relationship and apply to be re-united in Canada probing their Common-Law relationship can become a challenge. This can also become a point of dispute for decision makers who assess application for those individuals who wish to be reunited or immigrate to Canada with their loved ones.
Within the process of probing a Common-Law relationship, Canadian Courts have had to look into other areas of law to assist them on decisions, as to what a Common-Law relationship is.
The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) Regulations offers a definition within its regulations, which reads "common-law partner means, in relation to a person, an individual who is cohabiting with the person in a conjugal relationship, having so cohabited for a period of at least one year (conjoint de fait)"[2].
Within the Jurisprudence, the leading Canadian case is the Supreme Court Decision on Family Law known as M v H[3] . This decision provided a legal test to assess "Conjugal Relationships". This approach is a seven-prong test to determine whether two persons are actually living or have lived in a Conjugal Relationship.
This criteria assesses Shared Shelter, e.g. sleeping arrangements; Sexual and Personal Behaviour, e.g. fidelity, commitment, feelings towards each other; Services, e.g. conduct and habit with respect to the sharing of household chores; Social Activities, e.g. their attitude and conduct as a couple in the community and with their families; Economic Support, e.g. financial arrangements, ownership of property; Children, attitude and conduct concerning children; and Societal Perception of the Couple [4].
In M v H the Supreme Court noted "it is clear that a conjugal relationship is one of some permanence, where individuals are interdependent -- financially, socially, emotionally, and physically -- where they share household and related responsibilities, and where they have made a serious commitment to one another"
Looking at a more specific immigration related decision Cai v Canada, the Federal Court with the understanding laid out at M v H noted that the characteristics that should be to some degree in all conjugal relationships, married and unmarried should have a mutual commitment to a shared life; be exclusive -- cannot be in more than one conjugal relationship at a time; be intimate -- commitment to sexual exclusivity; be interdependent -- physically, emotionally, financially, socially; be permanent -- long-term, genuine and continuing relationship; and that the individuals involved shall present themselves as a couple[5].
IRCC's Help Centre provides examples on how individuals can demonstrate they are in a Common-Law relationship. The text found in the website indicates that some items that can be used as proof of a common-law relationship include:
- A statutory declaration of a common-law union,
- Statements for shared bank accounts,
- Shared credit cards,
- Proof of shared ownership of residential property,
- Shared residential leases,
- Shared rental receipts,
- Bills for shared utilities accounts, such as Electricity, gas or Telephone,
- Proof of shared management of household expenses,
- Evidence of shared purchases (especially of household items),
- Mail addressed to either or both of you at the same address,
- Important documents for both of you showing the same address, such as identification documents, driver's licences and insurance policies and;
- Any other documents that show you have been living together.
The Canadian Government's intent on placing reasonable determination methods on Family Class Sponsorships and the eventual immigration of individuals is to discourage potential fraudulent relationships, while respecting the Rule of Law. Exercising your legal rights when choosing a partner and being reunited with them in Canada can at be at times a daunting task.
If you intend to bring in your Common-Law spouse to Canada, as with all types of immigration applications, it can be useful to have guidance and assistance throughout the process from a legally trained professional.
Edward C. Corrigan is Certified as a Specialist by the Law Society of Upper Canada in Citizenship, Immigration and Immigration and Refugee Law.
Selvin Mejia is a Paralegal (unlicensed) and Law Student associated with Edward C. Corrigan Law since 2005.
- Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) - Facts & Figures 2015: Immigration Overview - Permanent Residents – Annual IRCC Updates <Accessed May 14, 2017>
- Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations SOR/2002-227 - PART 1- Interpretation and Application - DIVISION 1 - Definitions
- M. v. H., 1999 CanLII 686 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 3
- ibid – paragraph 15
- IRCC Help Centre - http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=347&top=14 ) - Accessed May 13, 2017
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The government has quashed Greek hopes that the opening next Saturday of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens might signal a breakthrough in the 200-year battle over ownership of the Parthenon marbles. A spokesman for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said the museum would make no difference to the UK's commitment to keeping the sculptures.
The €130m (£110m) museum at the foot of the Acropolis will house the half of the surviving sculptures from the Parthenon that are held by Greece, and the Greek government hopes it will add to pressure on the UK to hand back the rest of the 2,500-year-old masterpieces, which Lord Elgin shipped from Athens early in the 19th century and which have been held by the British Museum since 1816.
"This is a new beginning," said the Greek minister of culture, Antonis Samaras. "This is something that not just the Greeks want; I believe it will be the whole world … including England, where public opinion favours the return of the marbles."
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Project Lab: Solid wood fabric-storage shelves, in the style of Ana White
My wife loves to sew, but her fabric collection was becoming hard to handle. She needed a place to organize it.
Could I build her some shelves based on Ana White's cubby design? Abby wondered. She had even found some nice wire baskets to sort fabric by color.
"Sure thing!" I said. It looked simple enough. I could build it for her birthday, which was a couple of weeks away.
That was in June 2016. I finally finished the shelves, more than two birthdays later.
This delay isn't quite as bad as it sounds. I actually completed building the frame and shelves shortly after the first birthday goal, so Abby has been using them for a while. I just needed to finish the top for cosmetic purposes. But I feared messing it up, whether by picking the wrong wood or making a mistake during construction.
Finally, I got the gumption to dive back in. I settled on a butcher-block-style slab made from pre-surfaced oak boards. And I promptly screwed it up.
You won't see this in the above video, but I didn't use enough glue, so there were noticeable gaps between the boards. I had to cut them all apart and start over.
Yet even though my worst fears came true, it was still no big deal. And the second glue-up went swimmingly. I shouldn't have waited so long.
Oh well. I still got it done.
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In the southern city of Dara'a, chants of "Peaceful, peaceful!" rose through clouds of tear gas as security forces on a central bridge tried to keep two groups of thousands of protesters from joining together, a resident said, speaking in return for anonymity to avoid reprisals.
Security forces then opened fire on the protesters, killing "more than 10," according to the resident, who spoke by telephone. "There are martyrs in the street," he said frantically before his line went dead. Syrian state television confirmed several deaths but said "rogue elements" within the protest had fired on security forces, Bloomberg News reported.
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Asheville Wine Bar Taps Into Something Big.
Asheville's wine scene has something you won't find anywhere else in North Carolina. It's a new wine tap system, and it promises to be a game changer in the world of wine.
When Carla Baden, owner of Santé Wine Bar & Tap Room, discovered keg wine, she knew she was on to something big. After a brief remodel to install the new tap system, the keg wine is flowing, and the wine's flavor and quality is just as good, if not better, than wine from a bottle.
The benefits of tap wine are numerous. Wine lovers can now enjoy the highest quality wine available, as the tap wine has not touched air until poured into a glass. By using kegs, the cost of wine production is reduced and less waste is produced from glass, labels and corks. Also, kegs are reusable, making tap wines more eco-friendly than their bottled counterparts.
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Based on a book by paranormal investigator John Keel, this spooky, X-Files-type supernatural thriller is purportedly based loosely on true events that occurred in the small town of Point Pleasant, WV, in 1966-1967. Richard Gere stars as journalist John Klein, an up-and-coming reporter devastated by the death of his beloved wife Mary (Debra Messing) following a car accident. Mary saw a mysterious vision immediately before the crash, a haunting image of a moth-like creature. Two years later, Klein is driving to an interview with the governor of Virginia when he suddenly finds himself hundreds of miles out of his way in a small town on the West Virginia-Ohio border. He discovers that strange events are occurring there, including sightings of the "mothman," as well as UFOs and bizarre alien-like telephone calls. Klein stays to investigate, despite the protests of skeptical cop Connie Parker (Laura Linney) and the initial hostility of spooked local Gordon (Will Patton). He soon discovers that sightings of the mothman are historical portents of doom and disaster, omens that may foretell a terrible cataclysm about to strike Point Pleasant. The Mothman Prophecies reunites Gere and Linney, who previously starred together in Primal Fear (1996). ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
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April 23, 2012 – The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has consistently shown itself eager to decide controversial cases along markedly ideological lines, Steven R. Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union told a gathering Friday at
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"I have been surprised at how aggressive the Supreme Court under Justice Roberts has been in challenging well-established laws," Shapiro said in his talk sponsored by the ACLU of Texas and the ACLU-University of Houston Law Center.
Shapiro noted that hearings on the constitutionality of Arizona's immigration law, SB 1070, and President Obama's health care overhaul, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, have been the highlights of this year's Supreme Court docket.
The court's decision on the health care case could range from letting the whole law stand to throwing it all out. The court also could declare part of the law unconstitutional, leaving parts of it still standing. In any event, he said, the decision will be a factor in the presidential race this fall.
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By Anna Louie Sussman, WeNews correspondent
Amnesty International parted ways with Gita Sahgal, its leading gender researcher, on April 9. In February, Saghal began pushing Amnesty to explain its embrace of a former Guantanamo detainee she calls a Taliban supporter. (WOMENSENEWS)--Gita Sahgal calls her entry into the world of journalism "sort of accidental," but her most recent news appearances have been entirely on purpose.On Feb. 7, the Sunday Times of London published her sharp critique of Amnesty International's support for former Guantanamo prisoner Moazzam Begg. She went public, the article says, because her internal warnings had been ignored.Amnesty, the nearly 50-year-old rights group founded to speak on behalf of prisoners of conscience, has hailed Begg as a human rights defender, hosted him on speaking tours and included him in a meeting with politicians at Downing Street.Sahgal has called him "Britain's most famous supporter of the Taliban." She points to passages in his 2006 autobiography, "Enemy Combatant," where he describes moving to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to "live in an Islamic state--one that was free from the corruption and despotism of the rest of the Muslim world." He also ran a bookstore in Birmingham, England, that sold works by known al-Qaida mentor Abdullah Azzam.Hours later she was suspended, with pay but without explanation, from her job.On April 9, she and the organization parted ways. In a statement released that day, the organization cited "irreconcilable differences."Sahgal served as Amnesty International's top gender specialist since 2002. Two days before her suspension, the organization had promoted her to the newly-created position of interim head of the Gender, Sexuality and Identity division."It tells you a lot about where women's rights stand at Amnesty International," Sahgal said in a phone interview in March. "When they had to make the choice between Begg and their most senior discrimination expert who also has researched fundamentalism, they chose Begg."Amnesty promptly refuted the initial accusations in a statement on its Web site, also posted on April 9, in which it affirmed its commitment to campaigning "for all internationally recognized human rights for all people," regardless of "their views, their political opinions, their actions."Concerns Repeatedly VoicedSahgal said she had held several meetings over the years with higher-ups, during which she voiced her concerns about Begg and Cageprisoners, the detainees' rights group Begg founded after his release. It campaigns on behalf of Muslim leaders such as the preachers Anwar al-Awlaki and Abu Qatada.Sahgal said she wrote a long memo for a board member at an Amnesty section who had raised concerns about Begg being invited to speak without mention of his beliefs, such as the fact that he advocates that Britain negotiate with more moderate factions of the Taliban, something that runs counter to Amnesty's stated policy.Sam Zarifi, Amnesty's Asia-Pacific director, also had similar concerns. An internal email, dated February 10 and leaked to the Sunday Times, quoted him as saying: "We did not always clarify that while we champion the rights of all--including terrorism suspects, and more important, victims of terrorism--we do not champion their views."However, he later wrote a letter to the paper in which he said his position had been misrepresented and that he "fully agree[s] with the measures Amnesty has taken in response" to Sahgal's going public with her disagreement."Amnesty has been going wrong for years on this issue and I wanted to know, how did it happen?" Sahgal asked. "They ignored my previous work. There was so much opposition [to partnering with Begg]. I'm battling for accountability. They have to explain how they came to that relationship."Unable to convince any of her superiors to distance the organization from Begg, and with no explanation of the partnership, Sahgal said that she was forced to go public.Suspension a Procedural MatterThe organization maintains that the suspension was not intended to silence her, but was a procedural matter related to her public comments. Interim Secretary General Claudio Cordone issued a statement Feb. 11."Our work with Moazzam Begg has focused exclusively on highlighting the human rights violations committed in Guantanamo Bay and the need for the U.S. government to shut it down and either release or put on trial those who have been held there," he said in the statement. "Moazzam Begg was one of the first detainees released by the U.S. without charge, and has never been charged with any terrorist-related offense or put on trial."Sahgal says Amnesty's relationship with Begg appears to illustrate an institutional blind spot about how different human rights issues link and overlap."We can't just take prisoner's rights and women's rights as two parallel tracks and say 'Oh we fight on this side, and that side,'" she said. "There's nothing neutral about taking up the issues separately."In the weeks since Sahgal began to push Amnesty International for a public accounting of its decision to partner with Begg, her conflict with the rights group, and the wider issue of the universality of human rights, have been debated and discussed in newspapers, on radio shows and TV programs around the world.Writers and public intellectuals, such as University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum; Yakin Erturk, the former U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women; Amitav Ghosh; Salman Rushdie; and Christopher Hitchens signed a petition urging Amnesty to reinstate her, to no avail.Sahgal, in the statement announcing her departure, described the organization's continued support for Begg in damning terms."Their stance has laid waste every achievement on women's equality and made a mockery of the universality of rights," it reads.From India to EnglandSahgal grew up in Mumbai and New Delhi and moved to England in 1972 to attend London's School of Oriental and African Studies, where she joined the vibrant anti-racism and anti-fascism movements that were spreading across England at that time.In 1983 she joined the Southall Black Sisters, a women's rights group based in London that had been campaigning on domestic violence and issues affecting minority women in England.In 1989, she co-founded Women Against Fundamentalism, a pro-secularism feminist group that came about, she says, partially in response to the Salman Rushdie affair, and that continues to raise awareness on the dangers of fundamentalism in all major religions.Since her suspension, the group has issued a public statement in her support: "When governments and individuals advocate 'engagement' with the Taliban--perhaps necessary to achieve peace--why are they not challenged on the authoritarian social and political agenda of the Taliban? We know from experience around the world, including post-war Iraq, that women's rights are the first to be traded in these political settlements."After working in various advocacy arenas, such women's rights and affordable housing in England, Sahgal took up journalism. She began as a presenter for the Bandung Files, a BBC Channel 4 program where she went on to work as a researcher and producer."I sort of strayed into it," she said of her journalistic career.For now, she plans to continue campaigning on the issue of terrorism as a serious human rights violation. After eight years at Amnesty, she's going back, she says, to her "old freelance life."Anna Louie Sussman is a writer based in Beirut and New York. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune and other print and online outlets.For more information:Human Rights for All
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Young people have repudiated the campaign of Hillary Clinton in overwhelming and historic fashion…… with Bernie Sanders winning under-30 voters by consistently absurd margins, as high as 80 to 85 percent in many states. He has done less well with young African-American voters, but even there he's seen some gains as time has gone on. And the energy coming from the pre-middle-aged has little to do with an inability to appreciate political reality.
Instead, the millions of young voters that are rejecting Hillary's campaign this year are making a carefully reasoned, even reluctant calculation about the limits of the insider politics both she and her husband have represented.
For young voters, the foundational issues of our age have been the Iraq invasion, the financial crisis, free trade, mass incarceration, domestic surveillance, police brutality, debt and income inequality, among others.
And to one degree or another, the modern Democratic Party, often including Hillary Clinton personally, has been on the wrong side of virtually all of these issues.
Hillary not only voted for the Iraq War, but offered a succession of ridiculous excuses for her vote. Remember, this was one of the easiest calls ever. A child could see that the Bush administration's fairy tales about WMDs and Iraqi drones spraying poison over the capital (where were they going to launch from, Martha's Vineyard?) were just that, fairy tales.
Yet Hillary voted for the invasion for the same reason many other mainstream Democrats did: They didn't want to be tagged as McGovernite peaceniks. The new Democratic Party refused to be seen as being too antiwar, even at the cost of supporting a wrong one.
It was a classic "we can't be too pure" moment. Hillary gambled that Democrats would understand that she'd outraged conscience and common sense for the sake of the Democrats' electoral viability going forward. As a mock-Hillary in a 2007 Saturday Night Live episode put it, "Democrats know me…. They know my support for the Iraq War has always been insincere."
This pattern, of modern Democrats bending so far back to preserve what they believe is their claim on the middle that they end up plainly in the wrong, has continually repeated itself.
Take the mass incarceration phenomenon. This was pioneered in Mario Cuomo's New York and furthered under Bill Clinton's presidency, which authorized more than $16 billion for new prisons and more police in a crime bill.
As The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander noted, America when Bill Clinton left office had the world's highest incarceration rate, with a prison admission rate for black drug inmates that was 23 times 1983 levels. Hillary stumped for that crime bill, adding the Reaganesque observation that inner-city criminals were "super-predators" who needed to be "brought to heel."
You can go on down the line of all these issues. Trade? From NAFTA to the TPP, Hillary and her party cohorts have consistently supported these anti-union free trade agreements, until it became politically inexpedient. Debt? Hillary infamously voted for regressive bankruptcy reform just a few years after privately meeting with Elizabeth Warren and agreeing that such industry-driven efforts to choke off debt relief needed to be stopped.
Then of course there is the matter of the great gobs of money Hillary has taken to give speeches to Goldman Sachs and God knows whom else. Her answer about that — "That's what they offered" — gets right to the heart of what young people find so repugnant about this brand of politics.
One can talk about having the strength to get things done, given the political reality of the times. But one also can become too easily convinced of certain political realities, particularly when they're paying you hundreds of thousands of dollars an hour.
Is Hillary really doing the most good that she can do, fighting for the best deal that's there to get for ordinary people?
Or is she just doing something that satisfies her own definition of that, while taking tens of millions of dollars from some of the world's biggest jerks?
I doubt even Hillary Clinton could answer that question. She has been playing the inside game for so long, she seems to have become lost in it. She behaves like a person who often doesn't know what the truth is, but instead merely reaches for what is the best answer in that moment, not realizing the difference.
This is why her shifting explanations and flippant attitude about the email scandal are almost more unnerving than the ostensible offense. She seems confident that just because her detractors are politically motivated, as they always have been, that they must be wrong, as they often were.
But that's faulty thinking. My worry is that Democrats like Hillary have been saying, "The Republicans are worse!" for so long that they've begun to believe it excuses everything. It makes me nervous to see Hillary supporters like law professor Stephen Vladeck arguing in the New York Times that the real problem wasn't anything Hillary did, but that the Espionage Act isn't "practical."
If you're willing to extend the "purity" argument to the Espionage Act, it's only a matter of time before you get in real trouble. And even if it doesn't happen this summer, Democrats may soon wish they'd picked the frumpy senator from Vermont who probably checks his restaurant bills to make sure he hasn't been undercharged.
But in the age of Trump, winning is the only thing that matters, right? In that case, there's plenty of evidence suggesting Sanders would perform better against a reality TV free-coverage machine like Trump than would Hillary Clinton. This would largely be due to the passion and energy of young voters.
Young people don't see the Sanders-Clinton race as a choice between idealism and incremental progress. The choice they see is between an honest politician, and one who is so profoundly a part of the problem that she can't even see it anymore.
They've seen in the last decades that politicians who promise they can deliver change while also taking the money, mostly just end up taking the money.
And they're voting for Sanders because his idea of an entirely voter-funded electoral "revolution" that bars corporate money is, no matter what its objective chances of success, the only practical road left to break what they perceive to be an inexorable pattern of corruption.
Young people aren't dreaming. They're thinking. And we should listen to them.


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The prize was awarded to the business initiative by Dr Kilian Delbrück from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety on behalf of the UN Decade Office at a ceremony held in Heidelberg, Germany.
The panel of judges was extremely impressed with what the network has achieved.
"The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety established the 'Biodiversity in Good Company' initiative in 2008, creating the first business platform of this kind in the world," explains Dr Kilian Delbrück. "Today, five years on, I'm delighted that this group of pioneering companies has long-term prospects as an official association. The people involved really deserve the recognition afforded by the UN Decade project. We need the commitment of the business world in order to achieve our goals in Germany and beyond."
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... more on than off, for the past three years. I am worried about its long term side effects. My memory is slipping and I have a lot of tiredness. If I don't take it, I start feeling nauseous by around one or two in the PM. Does this mean I am dependent? I also suffer from night sweats and have read this is a side effect. I see my neurosurgeon next month. Should I ask for help stopping nucynta and ask for something to help?
I underwent my third cervical spinal fusion in three years. I have taken Nucynta 50 mg. off and on,?
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In my case, I took Nucynta for 2 years. 50mg 3 times a day. I was a walking Zombie. I slept 75% of the day away along with sleeping all night long. I basically have 2 years of my life that I can't even remember most of it. When I decided that I didn't want to take the medicine anymore, I asked my Doctor for help. He said just stop taking it. Well I went into full withdrawal symptoms. I went back to him for help and basically was told there was nothing he could do. (Pain Management Dr) My Psychiatrist saw what was happening to me and was able to get me into a rehabilitation center for help. I ended up being there for 10 days. This was 3 years ago. I still have pain every day. But I have my mind, meaning I am not drugged out. I am here mentally for my grandson and can remember everything about him. I may not be able to physically do all I want to with him but at least I will have all my memories. The problems I have are a bulging disc between L4-L5 that pushes on my sciatic nerve. I have arthritis in my back and my knees. I have carpal tunnel in my wrists from years of computer work. And finally I have Fibromyalgia and I suffer from chronic migraines. Pain for me is a daily battle but now I only take Tramadol and Gabapentin and Topamax and Flexeril and Relpax for migraines. Nothing habit forming. All I can say is do what is best for you. Take care and God Bless!
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Bic Rumble on the Ridge
Buffalo Island Central traveled to Forrest City over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend to participate in the prestigious Rumble on the Ridge Tournament at Mustang Gym.
The Mustangs opened tournament play Thanksgiving afternoon with a 72-62 victory over Richwood, La. Brandon Ballard led the Mustangs with 25 points, while grabbing nine rebounds and shooting a perfect 14-14 at the free throw line. Brooks Taylor poured in 22 more points while Josh Nettles nailed six three pointers to finish with 18 points.
The Mustangs trailed 31-24 at the half before outscoring Richwood 27-12 in the third quarter to pull ahead 51-43 entering the final quarter.
"We played our game in the second half," BIC Coach Bill Taylor said. "We really played well," added Taylor, whose team improved to a perfect 12-0 on the season.
Richwood was led by Texas Tech commitment Terry Martin who scored 23 points, while Oklahoma State commitment Kenneth Cooper scored 20.
The Mustangs then faced Bolivar Central of Tennessee in the semi-finals, but dropped their first game of the year, 72-52, despite Taylor and Ballard's combined 44 points. Ballard suffered a high ankle sprain in the first half, but finished the game despite the injury. BIC led 15-13 after the first quarter before Bolivar Central rallied for a 32-26 lead at the half. Bolivar stretched their lead to 53-40 after three quarters on their way to the win.
Bolivar Central had four players in double figures led by Wayne Chism and Brandy Robinson who scored 17 points apiece.
Taylor led BIC with 26 points while Ballard finished with 18.
BIC closed out the tournament without Ballard, who was held out because of the ankle injury suffered in the Bolivar Central game. Ballard's absence proved too much for the Mustangs, as host Forrest City rolled to an 81-53 victory to claim third place in the tournament. Taylor poured in 31 points to lead the Mustangs in scoring.
BIC led 15-8 after the first quarter, and trailed by only two, 28-26, at the half, before Forrest City blew the game open, outscoring BIC 52-27 in the second half to secure the victory.
Sherman Allen led Forrest City with 21 points, while Chris Williams and Marcus Britt finished with 18 and 10 points respectively.
Poplar Bluff, Mo., claimed the championship with a 65-60 win over Bolivar Central.
Scott Ballard, Brandon Ballard's father, said on Sunday his son would visit his doctor Thursday to check on the progress of his injury. The Ballards are hoping for good news as BIC will open play in the KFC/Taco Bell/Hurricane Classic on Thursday at Jonesboro High School.


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Pilot and a man watch a parasol plane before its first trial flight in Glenview, Illinois. Plane with a single umbrella like wing, takes off. Plane in flight. Plane lands.
The silver anniversary of Chicago's Archbishop George Mundelein is celebrated with an impressive jubilee in his honor in Illinois. Rally of churchmen on parade, viewed by a large crowd on either side of road. Accompanied by Catholic clergy and laity, Cardinal Mundelein arrives at the Holy Name Cathedral.1934.
Scenes from Army Day on April 6, 1934. Secretary of War George Henry Dern, in broadcast to the nation about importance of the Army, in peacetime. Brief glimpses of the Yellowstone River lower falls and Old Faithful and Beehive geysers erupting in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. View amongst log buildings in Reproduction of Army Fort Dearborn, at the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. A pioneer wagon; Native American Indians in ceremonial regalia; antique locomotives and trains at the Exposition. Army General Leonard Wood being sworn in as the Governor General of the Philippines. Closeup of General of the Armies, John J. Pershing, America's highest ranking Military officer. Headquarters of Walter Reed Army hospital, in Washington, DC, named for U.S. Army Major Walter Reed, who confirmed that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquito. Acting on this, the U.S. was able to complete the Panama Canal. View of French dredging equipment sitting idle in the water after Yellow Fever prevented them from completing the canal. Closeup of U.S. Army General William C. Gorgas, who, in 1904, headed the Sanitary Department that controlled mosquitoes and eradicated Yellow Fever, so the canal could be finished. View of a cayman in swamp near the canal. Photograph of George Washington Goethals, Chief Engineer credited with making the canal happen. Explosives employed in canal construction. Earth and rocks being loaded into open rail cars. A steamship transiting the Panama Canal. The Washington Monument; U.S. Library of Congress; and the Lincoln Memorial, cited as examples of accomplishments by U.S. Army engineers. The Wilson Dam, under construction by Army engineers, in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and system of levees being built to control the Mississippi River. The raging Mississippi River during 1927 flood. Flood victims being assisted by U.S. Army soldiers, at a tent camp, receiving food and clothing. An Army airplane flying over a forest fire. Army personnel supervising men in the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC. Mail being loaded aboard an Army airplane, as airmail service is being opened between Washington DC and New York City. President Woodrow Wilson talking with Army pilot Major Reuben H. Fleet. Mail being loaded into the nose of an airplane. U.S. Army Douglas World Cruiser airplanes in flight, returning from their trip around the world in 1924. A pilot sitting in front seat of a Douglas O-38 airplane, pulls a fabric hood over his cockpit to practice "blind flying". View of the aircraft in flight, with instructor pilot in the open rear cockpit. Army aviators taking a camera and a rifle aboard their airplane as they prepare to leave on an aerial mapping flight. Aerial view of skyscrapers of Manhattan Island, New York City. Army Signal Corps personnel working on communications devices. A cable laying ship operating at sea, in support of the U.S. Army's Alaskan cable and telegraph system. Men loading chemicals into hoppers on Army crop dusting airplane. Several views of Army airplanes crop dusting. Glimpse of boll weevil, the target of their efforts. Closeup of Karl Connell, who as a major in the AEF, in World War I, invented a superior gas mask known as the "Connell" or "Victory" mask. A group of miners wearing gas masks enter a smoky mine entrance. The Army invented tear gas, which is shown being used to thwart a bank robbery, in a staged demonstration. Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt, as head of the Great Depression era National Recovery Administration, or NRA, is seen about to give a speech. Narrator cites him as an example of U.S. Army officers who also serve the country in civilian life. Scene shifts to cadets on parade at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
Glimpse of U.S. Army gun crew operating a 3-inch M3 Anti Aircraft gun. Glimpse of 1st Lt Joseph H. Eastman and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker standing beside Rickenbacker's SPAD S.XIII #1 parked in front of a hangar at Foucaucourt Aerodrome, France, 1918. Sequence shifts to 1936, and office of Rickenbacker, now President of Eastern Airlines. A poster on the wall contains memorabilia from the 94th Aero Squadron, with which Rickenbacker flew in World War I. Camera pans over photographes bordering the poster. Next, Rickenbacker is seen conversing with his guest, Cyrus R. Smith, President of American Airlines, as they look at a picture of Rickenbacker and his Spad airplane, signed by numerous pilots who also served with the 94th Aero Squadron. A mounted model of a Douglas DC-3 airplane sits atop a table in the foreground. Rickenbacker and C.R. Smith, both hold onto the DC-3 airplane model as they shake hands. Closeup of the DC-3 model as Rickenbacker rotates it before the camera. (Note: Both Smith and Rickenbacker, presidents of their respective airlines, had mutual admiration for the Douglas DC-3 airliner. In 1934,Smith arranged to purchase 20 new DC-3 airplanes from the Douglas Aircraft Company. American's first DC-3 "Flagship Illinois," had its maiden flight on June 25, 1936. Eastern Airlines took delivery of its first DC-3 in December 1936.)
"Century of Progress" Chicago World's Fair of 1933-1934. Bavarian-type building with sign reading: "The Black Forest." Visitors strolling through the area. A Hawaiian show performed by midgets, who play guitars while one dances the Hula. Midgets play a "craps" dice game on the street, with wagers of silver coins on the ground. Fair visitors watch. The game is broken up by midgets dressed as policemen.
Martin Insull faces trial in Chicago, Illinois. Brother of Samuel Insull arrives at Cook County Courthouse with security. He faces charges against the collapse of Mid-West Utilities. Men and women stand outside the courthouse. Handcuffed Martin Insull walks on street with security officials. Newspaper headlines read 'Get Killers, Dead or Alive'. Interiors of the Cook County jail shows a cell block in Illinois. Criminals hide their faces as they are being taken to the jail.


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Feeding Regimen For Cats
The primary ancestor of the cat is actually the small, African wild cat, Felis libyca. This cat's primary prey are small rodents about the size of field mice. Therefore, the immediate ancestor of the cat is not an intermittent feeder like the larger wild cats; rather, it is an animal that feeds frequently through the day by catching and consuming a large number of small rodents. Like the majority of wild felids, the African wild cat is a systematic animal, living and hunting alone for much of its life and interacting with others of its species only during mating season. This solitary nature has been rejected in an animal that eats slowly and is uninhibited by the presence of other animals.
Most domestic cats consume their food slowly and do not exhibit social facilitation. If fed free-choice, cats nibble at the food through the day, as opposed to consuming a large amount of food at one time. Several studies of eating behavior in domestic have shown that if food is available free-choice, cats eat frequently and randomly through a 24-hour period. It is not unusual for a cat to eat between 9 and 16 meals per day, with each meal having a caloric content of only about 23 kilocalories (kcal).
Interestingly, the caloric value of a small field mouse is approximately 30 kcal. It has been suggested that the eating behaviors observed in domestic cats are similar to those of feral domestic cats eating rodents or other small animals. Like the dog, the cat is capable of adapting to several types of feeding schedules. Meal feeding may even be preferred by many owners and cats because it represents a time of pleasurable interaction, characterized by daily and familiar feeding routines of communication, petting and handling.


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America seems to have lost some ground as an international status symbol. Over the past year, in many countries around the world, the number of people who have lost respect for all things American has increased, according to a recent study by New York City-based market research firm RoperASW. The survey of 30,000 people — 1,000 in each of 30 different countries — found, for example, that only 15 percent of Indonesians today feel very or somewhat favorable toward the United States, compared with 61 percent who felt that way just a year ago. Not surprisingly, residents of other heavily Islamic countries — including Jordan, Nigeria and Turkey — are also among those who have lost love for the American way. But even our Western allies have started to have misgivings. The percentage of Russians who see the U.S. in a favorable light fell 25 percentage points in the past year. The share of French, Germans and Italians with positive things to say about America has also diminished significantly, by 20, 16 and 10 percentage points, respectively. Even the Canadians and Brits are less supportive today than they were just a year ago. Perhaps it is time for a little damage control.
A decrease in positive feelings toward the United States seems to correspond with an increased affinity for local culture. Fifty-two percent of Japanese residents polled say that they feel "very close� to their local culture today, an increase of 20 percentage points since 1999.


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Django Django returns to their roots for album #3. The London-based quartet squeezed into their equipment-jammed studio with Metronomy drummer Anna Prior for experimental jamming sessions that would inspire new songs. This approach freed them up so that all of their members contributed not only to the music but to the melody and lyrics as well. "In Your Beat" is a more dance-oriented side of Django Django.
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Rock In A Hard Place
It always takes a lot
Sometimes more than you've got
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay
We all want the same things
What's it like?
At the top
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God, the whip, that slung you down below
Try and fail try and fail try and fail
KOKOMO, Ind.--Michael and I arrived at a house in Kokomo to find a living room that only could have been put together by 20-somethings. Christmas lights dangled from the ceiling and posters of Superman, Black Sabbath and Frank Sinatra covered the walls. An orange sarong doubled as a window curtain.
In the next room, a makeshift music studio was no more lavish. An $8 mattress was pushed upright to block a doorway, and the walls were lined with misshapen carpet pieces that had been gathered from a dumpster and hung up in an attempt to muffle the sounds that were annoying the neighbors. The floor was a series of stains that ran together.
It was perfect. Nothing else would have seemed appropriate.
The music of the band Michael and I had come to meet is not tidy, it's not clean. It is as gritty as the factory town where these three 21-year-olds grew up and which has been especially hard hit by the recession. The music, and the town, are like a workingman's hands – callused and rough.
One reviewer described their music as "the beautiful byproduct of the worst desolation in America."
"This Kokomo origin story may sound unappealing to some, but trust me, STDs would not be the great band they are if Kokomo didn't suck as much as it does," the reviewer wrote in Punk News. "This is Recession Rock and it is glorious."
The band, The Sorely Trying Days, never set out to sing about current economic times. The word "recession" doesn't appear in any of their songs. They just write about the world they see around them, the musicians said. And in Kokomo, that just happens to be a world of abandoned factories, buildings with broken windows and a generation that fantasized about escaping a place where their fathers found good wages in manufacturing but where jobs are now sparse.
For some youth, the lyrics are as much a chronicle of the recession as the news is to their parents.
The music is "generally a downer, and the recession is generally a downer," said drummer Alex Jones. He said the band got its name from a children's book, "a story about a man who has a lot of bad things happen. And we thought that was kind of us. It's not like we dwell on the negative. I guess it's just easier to write super downer songs than happy songs."
When Michael and I arrived at the house, Alex greeted us at the door. We next met his twin, Adam, the guitarist, and bass player John Rinehart. All three guys lived in the house together until recently. Alex had to move out to help his father, who is blind. Adam and John remain, living with three other people in a four-bedroom house.
Mattresses without frames are plopped on the floor of each room; one bed lies in a closet in the master bedroom. The guy who sleeps there will soon have to move out because he can't find a job and thus cannot to pay rent. A note from him posted on the refrigerator says he's selling his books and clothes for $1 a piece.
Economic hardship is evident throughout the house. Ramen noodle packages, cheap and easy to make, are everywhere. The brothers said they mix the noodles with tomato sauce to make an Italian dish and with soy sauce to make Thai or Chinese.
The band members and their friends all come from working-class families and now either hold jobs in the service industry or are looking for that kind of work. Adam works at a health food store for $8 an hour. Alex plans to start a job in the cafeteria at an assisted living center, a position he found after looking for a job since January, when he and the other employees at a sandwich place were told the place was closing. John remains unemployed. He said he's applied to local grocery stores, fast food joints and a Halloween supplies store.
"Everywhere I go, either they are not hiring or they will call in a couple of weeks," said John, who has crystal blue eyes and pink hair that is a faded version of the "intense red" he dyed it. "Everywhere is always accepting applications, it seems, but they are not hiring."
We were standing in a backyard not far from a broken stereo, skateboard ramp and road block sign.
Look at all the broken stuff and it seems as if "We've got so much rage because of the recession," Alex said. "It's not like that."
"The recession, it affects us in a more roundabout way," Adam said.
The brothers and almost everyone they know have sold plasma to make extra money. And no one they know in their age group has health insurance, they said.
On his cell phone, Adam has programmed the phone numbers of three collection agencies so he knows when they are calling to press him to pay for the knee surgery he had. Their numbers show up as: "Collection 1" and "Collection 2" and "Collection 3."
"We're not starving, Adam said. "We're just getting by,"
"We're surviving," Alex said. "Survival Mode is the name of our album."
The brothers agreed to give Michael and me a tour of the city, so we climbed into a van littered with McDonald's condiment packages, cigarette wrappers and dirty Tupperware dishes. A Red Bull can dangled on the rear view mirror next to a vanilla-scented air freshener.
"That's Delphi," Alex said, driving by a factory that looked abandoned. "It might have even shut down. The parking lot used to be packed."
"As far as the mall goes, there's been a lot of stuff closed down," Adam said. "The Kokomo mall is empty."
"It sucks living in Kokomo," Adam said. "Everyone talks about getting out of Kokomo. It'd be nice to leave here. Maybe one day we'll get out of Kokomo, hopefully."
"That's the rescue mission where all the homeless people go," Alex said, pointing out the window. He added that the only business that has upgraded its quarters is the Goodwill.
Both twins said their dream would be to make money playing music, but they know that's unrealistic. Often, they don't even get paid for the gigs they do now, even when they have to drive to another state. The most they've ever earned was $110. Still, they said, they wouldn't want to be doing anything else.
"What else are you going to do on a Friday night?" Alex said.
"I guess a lot of people associate having fun with making a lot of money, but that's not really us," Adam said.
That night, Michael and I followed the band to a house in Indianapolis, where they were one of three groups to perform. Their stage was in a small basement against a backdrop of exposed brick walls. Insulation and wiring dipped from the ceiling over their heads.
With complete abandon, in front of about two dozen fans clad in t-shirts and jeans, Alex pounded on the drums while Adam and John screamed their hearts out.
It was perfect. Nothing else would have seemed appropriate.
I wanna live fast, so I can die slow
I wanna feel my knees, scrape the floor
Everyday I'm waiting, for the walls to crack
Another knife to plunge, through my back
To think they call this livin
I don't need
Locked in survival mode
And I'm dyin slow
Thoughts laced with, everything I fear
Detached and wasted, getting worse each year
I'm on a wave of hate, to a mass grave
Never gonna hope, never gonna pray
Theresa Vargas
September 10, 2009; 3:27 PM ET
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Evolutionists have no option but to believe in evolution, otherwise, they would be unemployable. This means that every scrap of evidence they find must fit into the evolutionary paradigm. Any fact that does not fit is either explained away or ignored.
Here's the latest example:
"The path of human evolution may need to be rewritten after archaeologists discovered that monkeys also produce 'tool-like flakes' that were thought to be uniquely man-made.
"In a discovery that calls into question decades of research, a band of wild bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil were seen hammering rocks to extract minerals, causing large flakes to fly off.
"Previously archaeologists believed the flakes were only made by humans through a process called 'stone-knapping' where a larger rock is hammered with another stone to produce sharp blade-like slivers which can be used for arrows, spears or knives.
"The flakes were thought to represent a turning point in human evolution because they demonstrated a level of planning, cognition and hand manipulation that could not be achieved by other animals.
"But the new research suggests that flakes can be made without any such foresight. In fact, they can simply be made by accident."
This isn't the first time that the theory of evolution has been thrown for a loop. The Pacific Justice Institute reported that lab technician Mark Armitage1 lost his job at a California State University when he discovered soft tissue on a triceratops fossil and then published what he found in a peer-reviewed secular journal.2
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While at a dig at Hell Creek formation in Montana, Armitage "came upon the largest triceratops horn ever unearthed at the site. When examining the horn under a high-powered microscope back at CSUN, Armitage was fascinated to see the soft tissue. The discovery stunned members of the scientific community because it indicates that dinosaurs roamed the earth only thousands of years in the past rather than going extinct 60 million years ago."
Publishing an article on what was discovered and the possible implications of that discovery is what science is all about. The point in publishing is to make the information known to a wider scientific audience. Firing someone because the evidence may call into question long-held views by evolutionists is neither ethical nor scientific.
Armitage's peer review article is not the first soft tissue discovery that casts doubt on the timetable of evolutionary history. In 2004, Dr. Mary Schweitzer, from North Carolina State University, caused a stir when she found "soft tissue" in a "fossilized dinosaur skeleton." "It's a matter of faith among scientists that soft tissue can survive at most for a few tens of thousands of years, not the 65 million since T.rex walked what's now Hell Creek Mountain in Montana."3
"I had one reviewer tell me," Schweitzer reported, "that he didn't care what the data said, he knew that what I was finding wasn't possible. I wrote back and said, 'Well, what data would convince you?' And he said, 'None.'"4
When evolutionary archaeologists first discovered "stone-knapping," they immediately plugged the discovery into an already developed evolutionary paradigm. The discovery had to be an evolutionary discovery, a technological missing link between humanity's ape-like ancestors and modern homo sapiens. The capuchin monkeys proved the long-standard evolutionary theory wrong. This new discovery won't put a dent in the evolutionary paradigm because, according to one evolutionist, "There are no alternatives to evolution that are science," and all the "alternatives are religious."5
It's necessary for many atheistic evolutionists that "materialism is absolute," as Richard Lewontin asserts, "for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."6
There's a well-documented history of seeing everything through the lens of the unchallengeable paradigm of evolution. Rousas J. Rushdoony recounts a long-standing example of how paradigm thinking works:
"Louis Leakey, director of Kenya's Centre for Prehistory and Palaeontology in Nairobi, described his discovery, together with his wife Mary, of a bit of skull and two teeth, in these words: 'We knelt together to examine the treasure . . . and almost cried with sheer joy. For years people had been telling us that we'd better stop looking, but I felt deep down that it had to be there. You must be patient about these things.' The time was July 17, 1959. This scene is a curious one on two accounts. First, the scientist Leakey knew what he had found before he examined it: he worked by faith, and viewed his findings by faith. He was finding 'proof' for a theory already accepted, and he accepted his finding as 'proof' on sight. Second, the intense emotionalism and joy sound more like a revival experience than a scientific analysis."7
Armitage is described as "a gifted scientist who has become an expert in microscopy. In addition to running his own microscope company, he also worked as the Manager for the Electron and Confocal Microscopy Suite in the Biology Department at California State University Northridge." ↩
Mark Hollis Armitage and Kevin Lee Anderson, "Soft sheets of fibrillar bone from a fossil of the supraorbital horn of the dinosaur Triceratops horridus," Acta Histochemica, 115 (6), 603-608, 2013. ↩
Barry Yeoman, "Schweitzer's Dangerous Discovery," Discover (April 2006), 37. Also see "Scientists recover T. rex soft tissue: 70 million-year-old fossil yields preserved blood vessels" (March 24, 2005). ↩
Mary Higby Schweitzer as quoted in Yeoman, "Schweitzer's Dangerous Discovery," 37. ↩
Mary MacDonald, "A textbook case in Cobb County," Atlanta-Journal Constitution (April 14, 2002), F1. ↩
Richard Lewontin, "Billions and billions of demons," The New York Review (January 9, 1997), 31. ↩
Rousas J. Rushdoony, The Mythology of Science (Nutley, NJ: The Craig Press, 1967), 85. ↩


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Ahoy from New Bedford/Fairhaven, MA!
Today has been a long day which started with us leaving Provincetown shortly after 7 AM. The forecast was for 10-15 kts gusting to 20 kts out of the SW, which was pretty much the direction that we were headed. We watched the weather on the TV before departing and they said that rain was headed our way. The winds were lighter than forecast and we had a better wind angle than expected, so we got to motor-sail for a while. Then the rain came and the wind shifted to being on the nose, so the sails came down. Do you remember the 10-15 kt forecast? Well, as usual the forecast was wrong and we had 20-25 kts gusting to 30 kts. I can assure you that the later is massively different from the former!
Unfortunately the winds remained pretty consistent at 20-25 and this generated very steep waves with a very short period. A 4 second period is typically considered very short and steep, but we had a 2-3 second period with 2-4 foot waves. Yuck is all that I can say! The waves finally died down as we approached the Cape Cod Canal, but that sure took a long time.
Transiting the Cape Cod Canal requires careful timing. The current through the canal can reach 4 to 6 kts, so you definitely don't want to have it against you. Another problem is that you don't want to have current ebbing into Buzzard's Bay if you have southerly wind blowing against it. I've made that mistake before and you end up with extremely steep waves at the exit which exist for several miles. I had planned on getting to the entrance of the canal about 1.5 hours before slack tide and exiting the 10 mile long canal just at slack tide. What I didn't plan on was the extremely slow passage across the Cape Cod bay which put us about an hour behind.
Even though we arrive an hour later than planned, the current should still have been with us as we went through the canal. However I think that the strong winds were blowing water into Buzzard's Bay and out of the Cape Cod Bay, basically moving the tidal cycle forward in time. So, instead of having current with us, we had up to 2 kts of current against us. It took quite a while to make it through the canal, and somehow or another we ended up with current WITH us as we entered Buzzard's Bay, which set up steep standing waves. Can you say "not fun?"
We had planned on pulling into Marion but decided to keep slogging forward to shorten our tomorrow's trip. So we headed to New Bedford/Fairhaven, which was about another 14 miles. The entire trip was very, very wet which crusted BlueJacket and myself with salt. At around 4 PM we pulled into New Bedford, which is a very interesting harbor. They have a hugh breakwall with a storm gate that they close during major storms to protect the harbor and the cities. It was a long day so we didn't explore the city.
Tomorrow we're headed to Newport, RI where we've been offered a free slip from one of the readers of this log.
-- Geoff
For the cruiser: We anchored just past the flood doors and to the east of R2 in a 17' deep section of harbor.


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This is a message to everyone attending FUDCon. While I hope everything is cordial and discussions run smoothly, I expect some project process discussion to bring out passionate responses from otherwise reasonable people because they care deeply about the issue. Passion and reason can be contentious bedfellows at time.
So if there are discussions which need to be had, but emotions are running high...feel free to lay the blame for all existing project process frustrations at my feet as a strategy to create common ground. Then enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that. I'll gladly make enemies of everyone else in Fedora, if that means everyone else end up working better together by bonding through their immense hatred of me. So if you need to throw someone under the bus to jump start discussions on any complicated or frustrating area to find a new direction..throw me. Only the first bus hurts. Just let me know when you do it so I can keep a tally.


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Imagine feeling empty, sad, hopeless, worthless, directionless and lost.
Anxious and panicky, sensitive to lights, sounds and casual words.
Couple that with monthly intense mood swings, tears that flow easily, body aches and exhaustion, need for sleep throughout the day, aching back and swollen breasts.
Now your emptiness and loneliness is heightened with the consistent flow of blood and unfertilised eggs.
My brain becomes a ticking alarm clock reminding me it's time for my pill again.
Its choice of alarm tune?
The urge to pop handfuls of pills, to get knock out drunk, to do something, anything to mute the mind and feelings. She doesn't scream at the back of my mind anymore, but her toxic breath fogs the brain in the meantime.
Up till I take that little pill and go to bed. Things are better when I wake up. But in between, there's no guarantee what the subconscious will unleash on my sleeping mind.


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It is that time of the year when nighttime descends earlier and earlier each day. The University Crisis Committee reminds students, faculty and staff to be aware of surroundings and be cautious when walking to and from campus for sporting events, studying or working late.
Here are some simple tips to follow:
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If you're a Muse or My Chemical Romance fan, I feel sorta bad for you, but today's your lucky day: The bands are headlining this summer's Reading & Leeds Festivals. The (not so) resurgent Strokes and Pulp are playing co-headline slots. The bills also include the National, Odd Future, UK sensations the Vaccines, Crystal Castles, Pete Doherty, Jane's Addiction, Death From Above 1979 (a band worth rioting over?), Interpol, etc. Check out the lineup to date below (or via the above poster).
Reading: August 26 (Fri), Leeds: August 27 (Sat)
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My Chemical Romance
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The Blackout
NME/Radio 1 Stage
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White Lies
Noah & The Whale
The Vaccines
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The Naked And Famous
Festival Republic Stage
The Horrors
Reading: August 29 (Sat), Leeds: August 30 (Sun)
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The Strokes (to close Reading)
Pulp (to close Leeds)
The National
Jimmy Eat World
Two Door Cinema Club
Seasick Steve
The Pigeon Detectives
The Joy Formidable
NME/Radio 1 Stage
Jane's Addiction
Crystal Castles
Bombay Bicycle Club
Everything Everything
The Kills
Festival Republic Stage
The Midnight Beast
Reading: August 28 (Sun), Leeds: August 26 (Fri)
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Friendly Fires
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The View
Frank Turner
Taking Back Sunday
We Are The Ocean
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2manydjs (co-headline – playing last on both sites)
The Streets (co-headline)
Death From Above 1979
Panic! At The Disco
Chapel Club
Cage The Elephant
Festival Republic Stage
Peter Doherty
Tickets went on sale yesterday. More info at readingfestival.co.uk and, with editorializing, at NME.


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As soon as THIS SATURDAY, the beaches of Santa Monica will fill up with art and music lovers to experience GLOW, the re-imagined beach as a playground for thoughtful and participatory temporary artworks. We are particularly excited for our involvement in this project. KCRW DJs pulled together to create a DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO GUIDE to the evening. The audio guide was curated by Music Director and host of Morning Becomes Eclectic, Jason Bentley. Jason and a handful of your favorite DJs, guide the GLOW experience, featuring artists talking about their creation, as well as some navigation tips for finding each installation!
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Swapnil Gugale says he wasn't aware of the all-time record
Day two of the second of matches in the Ranji Trophy saw quite a few records broken. However, the one that stood tall among all was the record-run partnership between Swapnil Gugale and Ankit Bawne.
The duo from Maharashtra added 594 runs for the third-wicket stand before the stand-in captain of Maharashtra, Gugale decided to declare the innings at 635 for 2 against Delhi in the Wankhede stadium.
The batsmen from Maharashtra were just 30 runs short of breaking Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene's record of highest partnership in all first-class cricket.
Also read: Sangakkara and Jayawardene- The twin towers of Sri Lanka
However, Gugale said that he was unaware of the record and realised it only after getting back to the dressing room. Speaking at a press conference, he said:
"I had nearly 100 missed calls and 200 messages. It was only as I went through them one by one did I realise we were 30-odd short of the world-record partnership in first-class cricket.
So there's a tinge of regret. Maybe I could have declared after the record, but the decision was mine alone so I can't complain."
Jayawardene and Sangakkara had registered the record for highest partnership for any wicket in Tests against the South Africans in 2006. The Sri Lankan duo made a mammoth 624 run partnership.
The Gugale-Ankit partnership is the highest in the Ranji Trophy history, They surpassed the 577 runs stand between Vijay Hazare and Gul Mohammad against Baroda in 1946-47 final.
Also read: Maharashtra's Gugale, Bawne script highest partnership in Ranji history
Gugale scored 351 runs off 521 balls with 37 fours and 5 sixes while Ankit made 258 facing 500 balls with 18 fours and 2 sixes.
Speaking about the Delhi team, Gugale said that their bowlers couldn't do much because the pitch wasn't assisting them. He said:
"The Delhi team asked us, 'aren't you bored? We are bored of bowling to you guys.' I said, 'who gets bored of batting?'"
Gugale was pretty happy with the surface and said that it was a batting paradise. He was quoted by ESPNCricinfo as saying:
"If you can see off the new ball, batting is a lot easier. If we could bat 170 odd overs, I'm sure we have to be prepared to bowl at least 120 overs. That said, scorecard pressure is a different thing.
As a batsman, noticing 600 runs on the scoreboard, it is always in the back of your mind. Even if you are playing, you obviously have to score at a proper rate and that's not easy on this track. It is a third-day track, you never know when the ball might spin or bounce."
Gugale became only the fourth batsman from Maharashtra to score a triple hundred in first class cricket. The other three are Vijay Hazare, BB Nimbhalkar and Kedar Jadhav.


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The Morgan Plus 8 Speedster is the latest iteration of the Morgan Plus 8, a classically designed two-seater speed car that has been very popular in the American market over the last half century. The Morgan Plus 8 Speedster is a limited edition, stripped-version of the classic Plus 8.
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Is there a way to get the operating system with FMOD?
- C++FMOD asked 10 years ago
Not really, it seems like a bit of a strange question because your own code will be compiled for a specific OS. You could try System::getOutput that's about it.
Use GetVersion or GetVersionEx api
[quote]… your own code will be compiled for a specific OS[/quote]
Good programs will run on any win32 operating system (or at least any NT based if unicode is required and you are not using Visual Basic 6 or other compilers that support unicode strings even when running on Win9x)
- Controller answered 10 years ago
nowhere did he say 'windows'
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