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Be careful what you wish for Oregon fans. As the Ducks were wrapping up their 59-14 demolition of SEC foe Tennessee on Saturday, they started to chant, "We want Alabama.''
Could happen.
We were certainly tempted to move Oregon up to the top spot this week. But how can you penalize the Crimson Tide when they went into College Station, took Johnny Manziel's best shot and came out on top, 49-42, against Texas A&M.
It's the middle of September and, who knows, maybe Alabama and Oregon won't even be around come the first of December in these two top spots. But Alabama's schedule sure is conducive for them to advance to a third straight national title game.
The Tide's biggest obstacle comes on Nov. 9 when they host LSU in their annual knock-down drag-out. Maybe Ole Miss could upset Bama? Possibly, but that game is in two weeks in Tuscaloosa.
Oregon has the tougher assignment as the Ducks go on the road Nov. 7 at Stanford, who, by the way, has underachieved so far this season.
Anyway, fun to think about but there are a lot of trap doors between now and Dec. 8, the day we find out who will be in the final BCS championship.
Speaking of trap doors, Bo Pelini better watch himself. With Saturday's unimpressive 41-21 loss to UCLA, the Nebraska coach now finds himself on the hot seat. Lane Kiffin and Mack Brown should move over some and make room.
Here's what we have for you this week:
1. Alabama (2-0)
So it's not the Tide offense Bama fans should worry about, it's the defense. Manziel and the Aggies put 42 points and 628 yards on them. Colorado State comes to Tuscaloosa this week so plenty of time for Nick Saban to fix the transmission.
2. Oregon (3-0)
Goodness, how far has Tennessee fallen to lose 59-14 to the Ducks? It was 59-7 at the end of the third quarter. Take heart, Rocky Top, you're not the only program that's going to get waxed by these guys.
3. Ohio State (3-0)
Buckeyes QB Braxton Miller is still hurt. And backup Kenny Guiton is still playing great in his absence. He had 368 yards and four touchdowns rushing and passing in Ohio State's 52-34 victory against Cal. Sure you're not feeling better Braxton?
The Tigers leapfrog Louisville this week as that newfound offense keeps humming along. They get Auburn this week and, even when Auburn is good, bad or ugly, it's always a close game. It better not be next Saturday in Death Valley.
5. Louisville (3-0)
Perhaps we're nitpicking here, but the Cardinals victory against archrival Kentucky failed to impress. We thought they'd take more joy in pole-axing their Lexington neighbors.
6. Clemson (2-0)
Clemson jumped to three in Associated Press poll, but we're still not convinced. They play at North Carolina State on Thursday after what amounts to two weeks off (last week idle, previous week a victory against South Carolina State).
7. Stanford (2-0)
The Cardinal went into the season with ultra-high hopes. They haven't stumbled yet and maybe they're just meandering along until the schedule gets tougher. But a 34-20 victory against Army sends up some warning signals.
8. Texas A&M (2-1)
Boy, that Johnny Manziel is fun to watch unless you're an SEC defensive coordinator. Too bad that defense - especially a soft front seven - couldn't even slow down Alabama's simple offensive game plan Saturday.
9. Georgia (1-1)
Bulldogs getting some help from the SEC schedule maker. They were off last week and meet North Texas on Saturday before Sept. 28's key matchup with LSU. See, Mark Richt, somebody in Birmingham likes you.
10. Florida State (2-0)
Nevada actually led 7-3 in the second quarter before Seminoles freshman QB Jameis Winston righted the ship and led Florida State to a clobbering of the Wolves, 62-7. Plenty of time and cupcake opponents left for the new guy to get ready for the showdown Oct. 19 with Clemson.
11. Oklahoma (3-0)
The Sooners pounded another decent opponent, Tulsa, 51-20, on Saturday. They're quietly 3-0 and seem to be the team to beat in the Big 12. The curtain gets raised on them in two weeks, though, when they play at Notre Dame.
12. South Carolina (2-1)
The Gamecocks jumped to a four-touchdown lead against Vandy on Saturday then had some scary moments before prevailing 35-25. Chickens seem to have the offense figured out. Now they get a week off to shore up the defense.
13. Oklahoma State (3-0)
We're wondering if the Sports Illustrated expose' will have any effect on the Cowboys this season. So far no, but the competition hasn't exactly been stellar. It won't be this week either as they get the week off.
Bruins have scored 99 points in their two victories this season, including 41 against Nebraska. UCLA is now officially the darkhorse in the PAC-12 race. And they help make the conference the second best behind the SEC.
15. Miami (2-0)
Canes next five games are very winnable. Then they get rival Florida State in Tallahassee on Nov. 2. More than enough time to continue to reestablish that U swagger.
16. Michigan (3-0)
After barely surviving against Akron, we may be a little generous ranking the Wolverines this high. The Zips, who have lost 28 straight road games in five seasons, had the ball at the Michigan 3 in the final minute and couldn't score, falling 28-24. Not a good showing for a Michigan team trying to move back up to college football's upper echelon.
17. Northwestern (3-0)
Ditto for the Wildcats. They struggled for a good bit of the game against Western Michigan - which lost to FCS opponent Nicholls State the previous week - before pulling away and winning 38-17.
18. Florida (1-1)
Gators had the week off and now face Tennessee this week. Remember when that game had you all abuzz. Good week for the Florida offense to come off the deck against the wretched Vols.
19. Baylor (2-0)
Bears get the University of Louisiana-Monroe this week and this could be a shootout. The Warhawks have a very good offensive team. Baylor, which has scored 139 points in its two victories, does, too. First one to 100 wins.
20. Ole Miss (3-0)
Rebs added another nail to the coffin of Mack Brown with Saturday's victory against the Longhorns. And we say they'll pop either Alabama, LSU or A&M and gum up their season.
21. Washington (2-0)
Huskies continue their upward move with a nice, but not great, 34-24 victory against Illinois. It gets tough in two weeks when they play Arizona, Stanford and Oregon in three straight weeks. Enjoy Idaho State on Saturday.
22. Notre Dame (2-1)
Irish continue their lackluster run with a 31-24 victory against a poor Purdue team. They seem to play down to their competition a lot. Well, except when that competition is Alabama.
23. Arizona State (2-0)
The Sun Devils knocked off previously ranked Wisconsin, 32-30, late Saturday night. And if felt like it should have been worse than that. Another PAC-12 team making a move up. It's Stanford this week, though.
24. Texas Tech (3-0)
The honeymoon continues for first-year coach Kliff Kingsbury. He guides the Red Raiders to a victory against TCU on Thursday. They could easily be 7-0 when they travel to play Oklahoma on Oct. 26.
25. Michigan State (3-0)
The Spartans are undefeated but haven't really done anything special in getting that way. They can earn this provisional ranking with a victory against Notre Dame next Saturday.**************
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Gov. Rick Scott's due date is today to sign a bill that includes a minor change to Florida's red-light camera law.
The new rule, included in a transportation bill called HB 7125, would allow drivers ticketed to ask for an administrative hearing. The change could make it easier to fight red-light camera tickets, but some traffic court lawyers say it could also make it harder to win, according to the Sun Sentinel.
More than 100 jurisdictions have traffic light cameras in Florida and more than 400 intersections are being monitored statewide. Some 36 city or county governments in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties have red-light cameras, according to the Sun Sentinel.
Assistant City Manager Mike Woika talked about the Boca Raton's red-light camera program if the governor signs this bill.
How will the change affect people ticketed in Boca Raton?
We will be utilizing the Special Magistrate process, the same process the city uses for code enforcement cases and parking appeals.
What's the timing?
The red-light camera ordinance changes will be introduced at the June 11 council meeting and the public hearing will be June 25 so the process will be in place by July 1, provided the governor signs the legislation.
How does the program work?
Red-light camera violations are sent to the vehicle owner. During the hearing process, the actual driver of the vehicle, if not the vehicle owner, can be identified and become responsible for the violation fees.
Who will pay for the hearing?
The new hearing process required by state legislation will require additional city costs. The legislation allows municipalities to collect a fee of up to $250 for the hearing process to offset the cost of the process.
Where are the city's red-light cameras?
The first red-light cameras were installed in Boca Raton in April 2012. The city has cameras at six intersections: Glades Road at Northwest 15th Avenue; Glades Road at Northwest Second Avenue; Glades Road at St. Andrews Boulevard; Federal Highway at Northeast 20th Street; Military Trail at Spanish River Boulevard and Congress Avenue at Clint Moore Road.

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Big scores laid down at Oz Grom Cup
THE Billabong Oz Grom Cup saw another day of playful beachbreak conditions as surfers fought through a series of last chance heats in an attempt to make it to day three of the event.
Grayson Hinrichs (Bondi) stamped his authority on the third round of the 14-and-under boys division, nailing the first and only perfect ten-point ride of the event being held at Park Beach.
Hinrichs proceeded to back it up with a massive 9.17 to notch up the highest two wave total of the event so far and make it known he'd be one of the top contenders going into the fourth round.
His scores were all a byproduct of solid rail turns and innovative snaps that were performed with a mix of speed, power and style.
Lennox Chell (Avoca) and Jack O'Brien (Lennox Head) also proved they'd be two surfers to watch, posting heat totals in excess of 16 points to steamroll through their 14-and-under boys round three heats.
10-and-under girls competitor Jordy Halford (Currumbin Waters) dominated her requalification heat (round two) posting a massive 15.5 heat total and as a result cemented her position in the semi-finals where she will face off with Sonia Seuren (Inveloch) and Shyla Short (Austinmer) to form a multi-state battle.
Gabe Ley (Tweed Heads), Ethan Stocks (Coffs Harbour) and Ross Cadden (Boomerang Beach) all put on dominant displays of surfing in the 16-and-under boys, posting heat totals in excess of 16.00.
These scores meant the trio clawed their way out of the requalification rounds and made it back into the main draw. The 16 Boys will make their next appearance today.


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Heavy monsoon rains in South Asia and hurricanes Harvey and Irma were just a few of the natural disasters that crippled cities around the world last year. Consequently, it was no surprise that World Economic Forum put extreme weather and failure of climate-change mitigation and adaptation right on the top of its global risks list in the Global Risks Report 2018 . This leaves us with the question of how cities can become better prepared for a future with more ravaging weather caused by climate change.
Investments in climate adaptation is a necessary expense for cities that want to safeguard against the negative impacts of a warming climate. But these investments also can provide cities with substantial environmental, social and economic benefits. For example, creating and restoring city parks and coastal wetlands offers the potential to protect freshwater resources, provide more attractive cityscapes, increase biodiversity and reduce public health expenses, all the while leaving cities better equipped to cope with extreme downpours or floods.
Creating and restoring city parks and coastal wetlands offers the potential to protect freshwater resources, provide more attractive cityscapes, increase biodiversity and reduce public health expenses.
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Gladsaxe struggled with the challenges with increased rainfall resulting in overflow from a combined sewer system. In 2011, one extreme weather event led to damages of more than $900 million. Avoiding similar losses in the future, the city is implementing areas that serve as both climate adaptive and recreational spaces.
With an area equivalent to 200 soccer fields, the Gladsaxe Heights Nature Park is one of the largest climate adaptation projects in Denmark. "Paddle tennis" courts, skateboarding areas and climbing frames all act as rainwater reservoirs during intense rain but most of the time provide fun recreational spaces for children. The project also includes a non-profit social housing association that has developed a rainwater distribution system independent of traditional wastewater infrastructure, reducing total volumes for the system to process during cloudburst events.
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With six nurses for every physician, nursing is the heart of American health care. Nurses spend the most time with patients and are typically very dedicated. They entered their profession primarily to care for people. But nurses face significant change and challenge in today's medical environment. In this special series, you'll hear the voices and perspectives of nurses in different regions and a variety of clinical settings.
Part 1 takes a no-holds-barred look at the stressful conditions in which many nurses work: the long hours, the emotional toll, the rapid pace, and the way that technology and institutional practices can make it hard to form a caring bond with patients.Part 1
Part 2 presents inspiring stories of how active nurses use self-care techniques that help them manage, and transcend, the stresses of their essential work life, both on the job and after hours.Part 2
Part 3 asks how nurses, who are exposed to continual suffering by patients, manage to keep their hearts open and maintain compassion. Nurses describe the centrality of communication with patients and the skills of "active listening." Nurses are regenerated by the bond of caring they build with patients in need.Part 3
Part 4 explores the very human level at which some nurses interact with patients at their most vulnerable moments. What spiritual questions about life and death arise in such encounters? We do nurses turn for their own support? And we look at the concept of "compassion fatigue" and ways nurses can maintain open-hearted care.Part 4
A real-world glimpse into the pressures on contemporary nurses
While the majority of nurses report satisfaction with their careers, at times it is a very heavy lift. Work shifts often run twelve to thirteen hours. This prompted the American Nurses Association to issue a position statement in 2014 about the consequences of nurse fatigue. It cited risk for medical errors and reduced job performance as well as drowsy driving on the way home.
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Other causes of stress for nurses include increasing patient loads, requirements to fill out numerous health care documents, a seemingly endless list of medications to keep track of and interpersonal tensions among staff. Nurses also must cope with emotions that arise when patients die and with the pervasiveness of medical technology—which can make it harder to establish a personal rapport with patients.
Henry Saiz is an electronic music artist who transcends trend and formula to create a musical language that can be difficult to describe, but simple to enjoy.
The Madrid-native Dj producer soon attracted the attention of UK giants such as Renaissance, Global Underground and Bedrock, his own label NaturaSonoris won 'Best Label' of 2011 by Deejay Magazine and his standout remix of Guy J's 'Lamur' brought him his first "Essential New Tune" from Radio 1's Pete Tong.
He was also chosen to follow in the path of dance music elite when invited to mix his own CD compilation for the prestigious Balance series (also in 2011) , a process in which he utilised vinyl, cassette, reel-to-reel tapes and over 100 field recordings that he'd recorded as a pre-teen – many still regard the mix to be the finest the label has released so far. Following on from the likes of James Holden, JorisVoorn, Will Saul or Agoria, Henrys addition to this world-renowned mix series has more than lived up to expectations and has set a new benchmark in depth and quality.
In the last years, Henry´s impressive curriculum has led him to perform around the world, accumulating many big successes, including praise from critics and the public from festivals such as Sónar, Creamfields, Ultra Miami, Global Gathering and Benicassim among many others.
Simultaneously, Henry has created and hosted his very own on-line radio show "The Labyrinth" with a growing legion of listeners worldwide.
After a long list of succesful releases and non-stop touring worlwide, Henry releases in 2013 his debut LP, the suggestively titled 'Reality Is For Those Who Are Not Strong Enough To Confront Their Dreams'. The embodiment of 2-years of production and recording, the album features 17-tracks over an extended listen to immerse the listener in a journey through Henry's own interpretation of electronica – a listen that is likely to surprise both his existing fans and the new ones discovering him for the first time
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To be sure, Washington's intent was to establish a strong, self-determined, and independent foreign policy, but this idea also encompasses a sense of moral purpose and well being—sovereignty in the fullest and most complete sense. For America, this means a free people governing themselves, establishing their own laws, and setting up a government they think will best ensure their safety and happiness—or, as the Declaration of Independence says, "to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them" and obtain the full power to do the "Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do."
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The last journeys of Washington's life were to the army camp at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), and to Philadelphia to consult on military matters. That same year, President Adams appointed Washington head of a provisional army during a period of tensions with France. But Washington was happily retired at his beloved home, Mount Vernon. A sore throat, the result of inspecting his farm during a snowstorm, quickly worsened, and he died on December 14, 1799.
The news of Washington's death spread quickly throughout the young nation. Every major city and most towns conducted official observances. Churches held services to commemorate his life and role in the American Revolution. Innumerable pronouncements, speeches, and sermons were delivered to lament the event. From the date of his death until his birthday in 1800, some 300 eulogies were published throughout the United States, from as far north as Maine and as far south as Georgia to as far west as Natchez on the Mississippi River.
Congressman Richard Henry Lee delivered the official eulogy, which was written by John Marshall. Although we remember only a few phrases today, it included these memorable words:
First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, he was second to none in humble and enduring scenes of private life. Pious, just, humane, temperate, and sincere; uniform, dignified, and commanding, his example was as edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example lasting…. Correct throughout, vice shuddered in his presence and virtue always felt his fostering hand. The purity of his private character gave effulgence to his public virtues.
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Over most of the 20th century, the archetypal Edinburgh lady would never be seen without hat and gloves. For centuries in polite society ladies covered their heads in as decorative a fashion as possible.
As a child in the late 1960s I remember being taken to a ladies' dress shop on George Street where my mother tried on hats before moving onto Jenners to try on even more. Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing – lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves.
When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital. The ins and outs of dress and toilet marks a lady from her peers and is an easy way to climb the social ladder or mark an outsider. For Victorian ladies having the right shoes or hats was absolutely vital. There are some great stories of how ladies achieved their outfits in straightened or difficult positions!
A white slave bought by explorer, Sir Samuel White Baker in an Hungarian market, Florence married her master in 1865 (his second wife). They travelled together extensively in the Middle East and Lady Baker's letters from along the Nile to her stepchildren in Cairo include vital requests to send stays and white gloves! A lady simply wasn't a lady without the items she required – still, poor Florence was never to be received with her husband by Queen Victoria no matter how smartly turned out as she had lived with Sir Samuel before marriage, though he (of course) was welcome.
Hatters and milliners
The City Art Centre has hung some of the gems of its collection as a backdrop to the fashion show. I love studying the female models captured in oils so long ago. Women are so often sidelined in history – Florence's letters survive more by fluke than by design. This is the way with most documents – the male diaries and letters are considerably better preserved than women's and larger in number because for a long time men were more likely to be literate than women.
Paintings of women provide a peek into their world – a way in. Some of the ladies in the pictures at the City Art Centre remind me of Florence Baker. They are of artists' models (making them in their day, immediately risqué) John Duncan Fergusson's The Blue Hat, (Closerie des Lilas) painted in 1909 is of Yvonne de Kerstrat. It's a blousy picture in the Fauve style of the model drinking in a popular Parisian café in Montparnasse, (the Closerie hosted every big name of the period from Gertrude Stein to Picasso, Henry James, Hemingway and Braque).
Edinburgh-born Fergusson loved Paris and made it his home from 1907 till the first world war broke out. Yvonne worked in a hat shop and later married the American sculptor Jo Davidson. He paints her draped over the table, not one but two glasses in front of her with a beautiful flower (I think it's a rose but it's difficult to tell) pinned to her midnight blue dress.
Most of the milliners providing hats for the show love this picture. There's something fabulously atmospheric about it. The term milliners was not originally used for hat makers. The makers of men's hats are Hatters. Milliners were the ladies who trimmed frocks and hats. Since the best ribbons came from Milan, the term Milaners slowly drifted into the language and became the word for the makers of women's hats, which, as demonstrated by The Blue Hat, were highly decorated.
There are lots of interesting traditions surrounding hats. Men's hats are trimmed on the left side and women's on the right. Originally this was because men wore their swords on the left so any exuberant trim on the right hand side was in danger of getting lopped off. Hat making itself is a very old trade – so old, in fact, it's referred to in the old plague nursery rhyme Ring a Ring of Roses. The line 'pop goes the weasel' refers to a piece of old millinery equipment - when all went pear shaped you popped your weasel i.e. pawned the tools of your trade.
A glimpse into the early 20th century
Another picture that will be our backdrop for the event is The Black Hat by FCB Cadell. This is one of the collection's gems – a picture of Cadell's muse of 15 years Miss Bertia Don Wauchope - and was probably created in Cadell's studio on Ainslie Place in the heart of the New Town.
Miss Don Wauchope was an heiress of independent means who loved to be painted. She is wearing a black cloche hat with a white feather, standing in front of a pale mantelpiece. Although painted only five years after the Blue Hat, this painting is of a different world – the difference between Victorian and Edwardian glamour. Cadell loved this painting so much he returned to this composition twice for later works (in 1921 and 1926). To me, it gives an intriguing glimpse into the world of the early 20th century – when my grandmother was a child in Edinburgh. I'm sure she would have been fascinated by Miss Don Wauchope's pearls and trims as much as I was by my mother's hat shopping spree many years later.
I'm really looking forward to compering my first fashion show, particularly because there is such a variety on display and many of the models are dancers as well. There will be a whole set of medieval hats (accompanied by medieval music and poetry) and then some gorgeous, high-end confections – art pieces really. Some of my contemporary novelists look down, I know, on taking part in the ephemera of fashion, but I'm glad neither Yvonne de Kerstrat nor Bertia Don Wauchope felt that way. And particularly as we'll be exhibiting some amazing hats on Saturday I think it's a great way of reaching out across the ages and celebrating something that meant a lot to the women before us and I'm sure will mean a lot to the women still to come.
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WayForward have decided to spill a bit of blood by releasing the debut gameplay trailer for Bloodrayne: Betrayal. With this footage we see exactly what one would expect from a Bloodrayne game; lots and lots of blood with an artistic art style and 2D side-scrolling. It has been over 5 years since the last game and even though Uwe Boll utterly demolished the film adaptations, we hope this game does the series justice.
Betrayal puts Rayne against an evil vampire massacre and for this mission she has teamed up with the vampire hunting Brimstone Society and a mysterious friend. The game will feature 15 challenging levels, fatalities, and a full variety of weapons including Rayne's signature arm blades.
Bloodrayne: Betrayal is set for release this June for the PlayStation Network and is being worked by the same team behind the Wii's A Boy and His Blob.


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Sure – you can call 1-800-Flowers and run to the grocery store and grab a card that somebody else wrote for Valentine's Day. But why not doing something different and special? If you're not the creative type, don't worry. We've got you covered.
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Shizuo/Izaya - sick!Shizuo, worried!Izaya
Shizuo gets sick from all those cigarettes he smokes (because we all know he goes through at least a pack a day from stress) and Izaya (though he won't admit it to himself) is worried about him (because they're totally in love).
Bonus for Shinra and Celty finally getting him to admit everything.
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"Dammit dammit dammit dammit…"
The same chant kept spewing from the blonde debt collectors mouth, as he clenched and unclenched his fists. Head low, eyes glued to the ground, Shizuo focused on anything other than that trembling excuse of a man he just had to deal with.
He could still hear Tom attempting to reason with the bastard who was trying to weasel his way out of payment. God, Shizuo hated those types of people. The type who lied and cheated and scammed to raise themselves up, only to try and slip out of the problems they have caused. They just radiated an ignorance Shizuo couldn't stand. He grit his teeth and dug his heel into the ground, pushing his blue tinted sunglasses up the bridge of his nose. The thought just disgusted him.
"Fucking bastard…" he grumbled as he pulled out a cigarette from his chest pocket, slipping the stick into his mouth. He snarled and kicked a rock across the pavement as he flicked his lighter. The flame shot out angrily, lighting the end of the cigarette in a flash. In a way, it resembled the blonde's temper.
Sudden. Hot. Angry.
Shizuo leaned against a wall, letting his head fall against the cold bricks as he took a deep drag. The soothing nicotine instantly flowed through him, calming him a bit as he let the world dissolve away. Closing his honey colored eyes, he released the smoke from his mouth slowly, imagining that he was also blowing away his rage.
"Hey Shizuo."
He glanced over, seeing his boss and long time friend, Tom, coming back from the run down apartment he had just broken the door down to.
Tom shrugged, gesturing over toward the broken door, "He paid up. It's all good now." Shizuo nodded in understanding, taking another drag. "Hey, you alright?" Tom asked as he stepped beside Shizuo, tapping the slight bulge in his pocket where the cigarettes were. "You've been smoking those a lot more lately."
"Huh? Oh yeah, just stress. I'm fine." Shizuo assured, smiling a bit as he blew out another puff of smoke before holding the cigarette loosely between his pointer and middle finger. "Do we have another job?"
"No, not today. Mr. Ohayashi was the last for the day."
"Ah, cool."
Shizuo sniffed, coughing a bit at the tickle in his throat. Tom raised his brow, but Shizuo just shook his head, covering his mouth with his fist as he started to walk towards Sunshine 60. He knew Tom worried about his habit. But there was really nothing to worry about. He never got sick. His immune system was superb, according to Shinra who had done more tests than Shizuo felt comfortable with. He had to admit, the cigarettes calmed him down after a stressing day of work. He absentmindedly lifted his hand to his mouth, puffing at the cigarette lightly as he stared ahead, keeping his gaze above the crowd. He licked his lips lightly when he smelled something lingering in the air. Something other than his cologne and tobacco.
Something he really disliked.
"Hey Tom."
"You smell that?"
Tom stopped, sniffing the air slightly, and shook his head. "Nah, you sure you smell something?"
Shizuo stood up taller, his head easily going over the crowd as he looked around. A tight knot formed in his gut as the smell grew stronger. It wasn't exactly an odor per say. It was more like the essence of something. Something that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.
Now he remembered where he smelled it.
It was that sense of arrogance. The type that emanated from shitty people who always dug themselves into something they shouldn't. Like that bastard he and Tom had to deal with. He grit his teeth and growled, biting into the filter of the cigarette that still stuck between his teeth. He took in a rushed breathe, needing another puff of tobacco to calm him down. He really didn't need to get into another fight with someone picked off the street, just because they seemed arrogant.
That's when he saw it; a flash of tan fur, the tips of raven colored hair, and the glint of devious carmine eyes.
He spat out his cigarette, stepping on it roughly with his foot, grinding it into the dirt. Tom stiffened next to him, grabbing his shoulder to stop him. But the beast within Shizuo was already set off. His stormed through the crowd, heading toward the person he hated most with clenched fists.


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American stealth bomber carrying a nuclear bomb sets off a race to avert WWIII when it crashes in the Northern Japanese Alps in Izuru Narushima's American-style big-budget action thriller.
Traumatized by years of covering the misery of innocent civilians sacrificed to the maw of war, internationally renowned war photographer Yuji Nishizaki (Takao Osawa) returned to Japan and retreated into nature photography, disappearing on solitary mountain trips while his idealistic wife, who believed her husband's photographs could open the world's eyes to war's horrors, concealed her terminal illness in hopes that he would eventually return to his vocation. After her death, the alienated Nishizaki allowed his sister-in-law, journalist Keiko Arisawa (Yuko Takeuchi) who can't forgive him for neglecting her beloved sibling to assume custody of his small son, Yu (Hiroki Sahara).
Nishizaki is forced out of his funk when, while camping in the Northern Alps, he photographs a plane, hotly pursued by a brace of fighter jets, crashing into a nearby peak. When the official story emerges the crash was nothing more than a routine training mission gone tragically wrong Nishizara recognizes a massive cover-up in progress. Goaded by disgraced journalist Shinichiro Ochiai (Hiroshi Tamaki), who had been demoted to a regional bureau after he wrote a controversial story about nuclear-armed planes flying out of the American Air Force base at Yokota, Nishizaki is reluctantly drawn into investigating what might be the story of the century. But the two journalists are not the only ones hiking up the mountain in the midst of a fierce blizzard: Prime Minister Watarase (Tatsuya Fuji) has dispatched two separate military units to find and secure the downed plane before North Korean agents can get to it. Meanwhile, Keiko and her colleague Aiko track down one of the two saboteurs who infiltrated the Yokota base two days earlier, and wind up sheltering the seriously wounded man and his pregnant girlfriend.
Culturally specific details and attitudes notwithstanding imagine the president of the United States telling DIE HARD's John McClain "I sincerely regret that a civilian such as yourself has been caught up in this… on behalf of the government, I sincerely apologize" this is pure big-budget formula filmmaking, from the morally compromised hero who regains his self-respect to the spunky reporters, grim military strategists, winsome child, glib political posturing and tense countdown to apparently inevitable disaster.
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Those looking for income-tax relief in the forthcoming Budget to fight rising food prices are likely to be disappointed. According to a senior finance ministry official, "the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) has to be implemented next year and considering DTC is a composite plan, it will not be a good idea to implement it in bits and pieces".
Any change in the personal income-tax rates in the coming Budget, therefore, was highly unlikely, said the official. The complete structure is set to come into force in full and not step-by-step. This clearly indicates that though the next Budget Session is set to be stormy; on the income-tax front, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is unlikely to disturb the tax rate structure in a major way in the Budget for 2011-2012 and maintain peace in this critical area.
The Direct Taxes Code Bill, 2010, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on August 30 last year and it was proposed to implement the Code from April 2012. The Income Tax Department had chalked out a plan for the preparation and its implementation from next year, said the official. A few changes due to political compulsions, however, should not be ruled out completely, said the official.
The department is focusing on developing an integrated technology platform to ensure a smooth transition to DTC from the existing Income Tax Act. The Code offers an opportunity for the Income Tax Department to integrate its people, process and technology through an integrated technology platform.
According to the Central Board of Direct Taxes, the idea is to prepare for the transition with a detailed outreach programme both for the taxpayers and departmental personnel. The department has also envisaged to make use of the opportunity to move towards a fully automated technology-driven system and integrate the compliance process chain through a common technology platform.
The department was also in the process of drafting the final rules associated with various sections of DTC, said the official.


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Fancy some cheap survival horror thrills and spills this Christmas? Well you may be in luck as HMV have recently got a bunch of copies of Silent Hill: Homecoming back in stock and are only charging a paltry £11.99 for each one. This instalment, from early 2009, sees returning soldier Alex Shepherd arrive home to his little village only to find his house in disarray and his younger brother missing, the search for whom will lead our protagonist eventually to Silent Hill.
Considering that the nearest competitor a quick sweep found was ShopTo, offering the game for £24.96, you'll be saving yourself nearly £13 by taking advantage of this deal. The rapid drop in price - coupled with the fact that Games Tracker is yet to take notice of it - suggests that this is a limited stock offer, so get your skates on. Hit the link below for more info.
The plot basically goes as follows: you kick things off in the middle of Alex's nightmare regarding soon-to-be-found-absent brother Josh. Alex wakes up next to a lorry driver - Travis Grady of Silent Hill: Origins fame - on his way back to Shepherd's Glen, his hometown. He finds that the town is shrouded in fog, that everything is falling to pieces, half the town's gone walkies thanks to the Silent Hill cult, although his childhood chum Elle is still alive and kicking and helpfully wallpapering the town with 'Missing' flyers.
There are plot twists aplenty, five different endings to squirm through depending upon some of the choices you make along the way, backstabbings and turncoats abound, and there's a particularly gruesome encounter with a power drill. The graphics are beautiful, and the transformative visual horrors are enough to send shivers down your spine, although (and I lose man points for this) I must admit that I scare pretty easily.
Distressingly, however, much of the puzzling that made the previous games and next-gen successors such as Condemned so enjoyable to play is absent from this game. Embracing Alex's past as a soldier seems to have meant replacing a large amount of the cranial exercise with excruciatingly frustrating combat. It's clunky and slow and not very much fun at all. That said, it's worth persevering with for the story, which had be hooked from the onset.
As long as you don't expect anything hugely original, or any series surprises to think of, this game is probably worth your money, and at £11.99 offers a cracking narrative experience. Unfortunately, it's not quite backed up as well in terms of gameplay, but it's still definitely worth a punt if you're a fan of the series.
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I see the residue and remnants of culture everywhere. It presses against, bumps into and piles up onto itself, over and over again. The history of humankind can never be experienced or expressed in isolation. I find the continual remixing of cultural material to be full of compelling contradictions, overlapping accidents and layered poetic meaning. It is a supple network from which I respond with a sense of play and improvisation in my studio activities. My background is in printmaking and book arts; a lens of tradition by which I can explore and discover how I can be an active participant in the contemporary dialogue of a medium that has been propelled by technological discovery and application. I believe printed forms to be our link to the stories of the past and understanding their mutability as they enter unintended collisions with other forms and context. It is in this spirit that I deploy content using print, paper and objects both found and fabricated.


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WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department on Friday handed over more than 1,100 pages of records to the committee investigating the deaths of U.S. citizens in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, the chairman of the House of Representatives panel said.
The records included files from senior employees during the time Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, according to a statement by Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy.
"It is deplorable that it took over a year for these records to be produced to our committee, and that our Democrat colleagues never lifted a finger to help us get them," Gowdy, a Republican, said in the statement.
Democrats have complained since the investigation began that the panel is a partisan project bent on hurting Clinton's candidacy.
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On Mar 21, 2010, at 4:00 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > > On 20 Mar 2010, at 20:06, Paul Davis wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Noah Slater <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>> I think faulty test case should block the release, if I am to have any >>> future sanity preparing releases. I don't want to delay and longer, so if >>> you guys are absolutely sure this is a test error and not code error, then I >>> propose that the test be commented out. Our tests form a contract between >>> us, internally, and our users. If that contract has a bug, it should be >>> removed or fixed - or it simply dilutes the importance of contract. If some >>> one comments out the test, and we agree it is not indicative of an important >>> bug, I can call the vote within hours. >>> >> >> I'd have to agree on this. From the point of view of a release, if a >> test reports a failure then it should be made to not report a failure. >> If that's accomplished by disabling it, then there will be a commit >> with a message that explains why it was disabled and etc and such on >> and so forth. > > I'd do that if the test was failing for me :) it's not failing for you when you run changes.js with the CLI ? Fails for me every time. Anyway I poked at this a bit yesterday and am not 100% sure the issue is in the test. I tried putting a sleep in with no luck. If my understanding of the JS is correct, CouchDB is supposed to be synchronous so it's not timing. If someone could comment on the test itself it would be helpful. The section of the code that fails: // changes get all_docs style with deleted docs var doc = {a:1}; db.save(doc); db.deleteDoc(doc); var req = CouchDB.request("GET", "/test_suite_db/_changes?filter=changes_filter/bop&style=all_docs"); var resp = JSON.parse(req.responseText); TEquals(3, resp.results.length, "should return matching rows"); seems odd to me. all_docs as I read the code will return docs with deletes and conflicts but in this call the filter bop will not apply to the doc {a:1} so I'm not sure what this delete prior to the call is about. Anyway I can make it fail in the debugger so perhaps I can find the root cause. > > Cheers > Jan > -- >
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Below are some charts that caught my eye, as well as some that were requested by Minyans. If you would like a chart reviewed, let me know here.
I have added text and illustrations to the charts where necessary.
All charts courtesy Dorsey, Wright & Associates.
Dow Jones (DJIA)
Long-term 100x3 chart; support 10,100, resistance 10,700
S & P 500 Index (SPX)
Short-term 5x3 chart; support 1185, resistance 1210
NASDAQ Non Financial Index (NDX)
NDX 10x3 chart shows a violation of the most recent three-month range; support 1500, resistance 1560, then 1610
U.S. 30-YR Yield Index (TYX)
Positive breakout from triangle formation, resistance at 46.50, longer-term price objective 49
U.S. 10 Year T-Note Index (TNX)
A potential break on the long-term chart of the TNX looms with a move to 45
Three ways to look at IBM:
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)
The long-term chart (2x3) shows the cyclical trendline violation for IBM in April of this year. The long-term context is negative.
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The intermediate chart (1x3) shows IBM on a buy signal, though still below the conventional point & figure trendline at 91.
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The short-term chart (.5x3) shows IBM is close to a new buy signal, its first since July, and with that would come trading potential to the 83 area.
With the overall market context negative, and the overall long-term trend for IBM negative, my style is not to play the potential short-term long trade for IBM (though I understand why some traders may employ a style that does exactly that trade), but rather to remain patient for a potential short setup down the road once the near-term positive signals exhaust themselves.
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Wyman Commons
All-you-care-to-eat dining
Recently renovated and expanded, the Wyman Dining Commons serves homemade all-you-care-to-eat meals.
Food stations make choosing meals easy and fun: from breakfast-all-day to the Mongolian grill, from soups to salads, from sandwiches to comfort foods. We provide nutritious and delicious meals for all types of dietary needs.
Our most popular food choices are:
- The local hamburgers from grass-fed Maine cows.
- Daily soups, such as fish chowder and black beans.
- The Mongolian stir-fry, with you-choose-it ingredients cooked to order, or the ethnic cusine of the day, such as Sushi, Pho, or Currys.
- Locally sourced beets. Yes, hard to believe, but true! They are delicious!
- Ice cream from Maine dairies.
Food stations, not long lines
We provide food at stations, which makes it faster and easier to choose exactly what you want, without waiting in long lines.
The Mongolian Grill
Unique among schools in New England, Unity's Mongolian grill is a large stir-fry steel plate that can cook up to 7 meals at a time. Choose your own meats, seafood, veggies, noodles, and flavorings to create unique food combinations. You choose the ethnic dish of the day, from Sushi and Moroccan, or even our station cook JaJa's favorite home cooked Filipino recipes.
The Breakfast Station
Served from the Mongolian grill, have our cooks prepare an omlet or eggs the way you like them, and enjoy the smoothie of the day with your breakfast.
The Allergen-Free Station
Serving daily specials made for those who have dietary concerns, this station is free from gluten, eggs, dairy, nuts, and shellfish.
Pasta Station
Choose your sauce from marinara, alfredo, or house made pesto and other add-ins while our cooks prepare your pasta and toss it all together for you.
Unity Grill
Daily specials from burgers to salads topped with grilled chicken made fresh and ready for you.
The Comfort Food Station
Hot food to satisfy: your favoirtes from home including mashed potatoes, lasagna, casseroles, roast turkey, mac and cheese. In-season veggies as well as vegan and vegetarian options are always avalible.
The Soup Station
We offer several choices every day. Most are homemade and include, vegan and vegetarian options.
The Fresh Station
A fully-stocked salad and sandwich bar. The spring mix lettuces are grown in our own McKay Farm & Research Station. Create your own sandwich and toast it if you choose on the panini grills. Or choose toppings for you personal pizza that our cooks are ready to put in the pizza oven for you.
The Belgian Waffle Station
Make your own decadent dessert waffles.
The Ice Cream Station
Offering over 10 varieties of ice cream every day. Nut and nut-free options available. With toppings including hot fudge!
The Dessert Station
Made fresh daily, choose from homemade cookies, cakes, pies, and creamy seasonal deserts.
The Fruit Station
Grab a banana, orange, or apple before you head out the door for your next class.
The Beverage Station
Choose from fruit juices, coffees, teas, milks, and sodas. We now offer vitamin water as an alternative to carbonated sugar drinks. Fruit smoothies are also available during breakfast.
Special Dinners
Several times a semester, we provide a special, theme-based meal for dinner, such as Holiday Feast, Game Dinner, Valentine's Dinner, or a specialty one such as an Appalachian Trail Dinner.
Meal plans: affordable and easy
Meal plans make eating even easier and affordable for students living on- and off-campus. Just swipe your meal card at the entrance and go. You must have your meal card.
About our Chef
Chef Jenny MacArthur is our Assistant Director of Dining Services. She has extensive education and experience in the culinary world. From the Culinary Institute of America – Hyde Park, NY, and holds both an AOS, Culinary Arts and BPS, Culinary and Hospitality Management. She also has a Wine Certification from The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, Napa Valley, California, and has held internships with Marcus Samuelson at Aquavit and The Carriage House, Rye Beach, NH.
Jenny acquired extensive training and knowledge from her travels throughout Napa, Sonoma, France, and Italy studying wine and cuisine. Jenny brings a vast work experience to Unity College Dining, including a previous position as Dining Services Manager at the University of Maine Orono, Catering Director at Eurest Ventana Medical systems, Director of Dining Services at the Freedom Inn at Ventana Canyon, Brookdale Senior Living, General Manager for Applebee's International in Waterville, Maine, and Assistant Food and Beverage Director for Sheraton/Wyndham hotels both in Maine and Massachusetts.
Jenny has also been a Culinary Arts Instructor for both The Art Institute of Tucson and Le Cordon Bleu (Atlantic Culinary Academy) in Dover, NH. She oversees the day to day operations in Wyman commons as well catering coordination.
Dining Hours for 2017-18:
All Day Dining has arrived
At Wyman Commons you can swipe for a meal anytime between the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday! Weekend brunch and dinner from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.!
Breakfast: 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. (Continental: with eggs any style at the international grill from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.; Lite breakfast: cereal, breakfast bar, waffles from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.)
Lunch: 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. (Lite lunch: soup, salad bar, cereals, breads, deli bar available from 1:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.)
Dinner: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday
Brunch: 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Lite brunch: soup, salad bar, cereals, and breads from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.)
Dinner: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Student Center Hours
Monday – Friday: 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Saturday: 3:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
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Clark, Edie
(Villard, 1995)
Set against the rhythms of rural New England life -- gardening, remodeling old buildings, hiking -- Clark's tale chronicles her love for a local carpenter, their courtship, their shared experience in battling cancer (both his and hers), his death, and then her grief. Clark bravely rips the covers off uncomfortable subjects like forbidden love, disease, and death -- but she does it with such sincerity and grace that the reader is enriched rather than saddened or appalled.
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Fans of Mario Kart will dig this limited-edition holiday bundle deal which goes on sale December 2nd. Nintendo is offering a Blue/Black Nintendo 3DS XL with Mario Kart 7 pre-installed on the system for $199.99, which is about a $40 savings if you purchased them separately. Nintendo also recently announced its Flame Red Nintendo 3DS Bundle holiday deal as well.
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With the threat of a transit strike at the height of the holiday season looming over New York City, commuters seem to be taking it all in stride.
Charles Waters says he'll just take the rest of the holidays off. It takes him an hour and a half to walk from his Brooklyn apartment to his midtown law office and "that's too far."
Annabelle Freeman, a public-relations executive, says she'll work from home. Rosalyn Ray plans to have her husband drive her to the Brooklyn Bridge and then walk 50 blocks to her office.
"I can understand them wanting to strike, but please work it out," she says, hurrying down 42nd Street. "It affects too many people."
With city and state coffers brimming across the country, municipal workers have felt left out of the economic boom. In the past few years, transit workers in San Francisco and Philadelphia walked off the job to demand higher wages. But the grievances run particularly deep in New York, where workers sacrificed wage gains in 1996 to help ease the city's budget woes.
Now they say it's time for payback. On Wednesday at 12:01 a.m., New York city's 33,000 transit workers are threatening to walk off the job unless the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) agrees to pay hikes far above the average wage increase of 3.5 to 4 percent a year.
"American workers' wages have stood still in the economic boom, and that doesn't feel good," says Kate Bronfenbrenner, an economist at Cornell University's School of Labor Relations in Ithaca, N.Y. "This is really an attempt to catch up."
Any substantial wage increase in New York is expected to go straight to the fare box, hiking the already stiff $1.50 New Yorkers pay to ride the subways and buses. And that could have a ripple effect across the country.
"What happens in New York will clearly have implications or every bus and rapid-transit system in the country, since they measure themselves against New York," says Ken Goldstein, a labor economist at the Conference Board here.
Giuliani's concern
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R) is worried about the impact a substantial wage hike for the transit workers could have on other municipal contracts that have to be negotiated next year. They'll expire at a time when he's expected to be running for the US Senate seat now held by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D).
"Suppose the subway conductors get a 27 percent raise over three years: It will hard to hold the cops down to 15 percent," says Mr. Goldstein.
After spending a weekend holed up at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown Manhattan, the MTA and union negotiators both made some concessions, but they remain far apart.
Mayor Giuliani, meanwhile, is preparing for a fight. If the transit workers walk, he says he'll go to court to seek an injunction to force them back on the job. If they refuse, he's asking for stiff penalties for individual workers as well as their union.
"I think the union, by talking about a strike, is talking about violating the law," says Giuliani. "I think they're acting in a very irresponsible way."
Under state law, it's illegal for public employees to go out on strike. But this hasn't stopped them before. Transit workers walked off the job twice in the past 30 years. In 1966, the surprise winter strike almost shutdown the city under Mayor John Lindsay.
In 1980, New Yorkers coped better under Mayor Ed Koch, who had enough lead time to develop contingency plans. People rode bicycles, skateboards, and jogged to work.
Back then, the transit workers were led by fiery Mike Quinn, who showed little respect for court dictates. When judges ordered the union back to work, Mr. Quinn refused. He and other union leaders were jailed and slapped with fines and penalties. After the strike was settled, most of the fines were forgiven.
Dj vu all over again
In some ways, the union's circumstances today are similar. President Willie James is under pressure from militants within the union to produce substantial wage gains.
At a boisterous rally last week, some 12,000 transit workers chanted: "Willie, You say go, and New York City will stop."
But if the union does go on strike, Giuliani has made it clear he intends to collect the financial penalties. He's asking for as much as $25 million each day the union is on strike. And workers could be fined as much as two days pay for each day they're on the picket line.
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It was early morning when the sun was just up. She couldn't sleep the entire night. She twisted and turned but nothing could set it right.
She woke up only to see his back towards her. Sorry she was and felt the sudden gush of blood in her heart. She was pounding. It was important to tell him. Time has come now, she thought.
And when she saw him half awake, she calmly whispered – I'm sorry.
It was late afternoon when she opened her eyes to find herself lying beside him. Tears rolled down her cheeks .She went up to grasp him in her arms and hug him tight.
She pulled him close to her breast and pressed a kiss on his forehead. She could feel his cold blood.
She wrapped him in a closed box.
"You were my only love. My only ray of hope in life. I could dwell on you for my lifetime. Till me last breath.
But I had to tell you this. I had to tell you that I am a mother of a terrorist, a man who took lives, killed people and destroyed families who had done no wrong.
I had to tell you this. I had to kill you. You might be my son but you are more of a danger to the world.
Let me give me you peace. Peace for life! "


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TaylorMade Men's AeroBurner Golf Driver Review
TaylorMade Men's AeroBurner Golf Driver Review
The AeroBurner golf driver from TaylorMade is a unique club that has all it takes to give golfers consistent swings. It has a 460cc club head with an aerodynamic shape, a Speed Pocket that is very effective in reducing spin and increasing the sweet spot. The club is also very appealing aesthetically thanks to the white matte finish, and original graphics and the forgiveness is very impressive which is despite it not being adjustable. Also, it has a graphite shaft and a TM Speed Grip both of which have an important role to play in improving its performance and making it comfortable to swing for long periods.
Features and Design
- Shape and Design: AeroBurner comes with an advanced 460cc aerodynamic club head that also includes a raised center crown, a new hosel fin, and a rounder toe.
- Speed Pocket: It comes with a new Speed Pocket design that helps in the reduction of spin and also increases the size of the sweet spot.
- Aesthetic Look: The white matte finish with a black PVD face and a linear crown graphic that will make alignment easy for a golfer.
- TP Model Design: The TP Model design on this golf driver features flatter lie, longer hosel and a more open face angle.
- Forgiveness: Although it does not offer any adjustability options it still manages to give golfers impressive forgiveness on different strike points on the club face.
- Shaft and Grip: The Taylor AeroBurner comes with a Lightweight Matrix shaft and a very comfortable TM Speed Grip. Also, the shaft on this driver is of a graphite material, and it comes in Stiff, Senior and Regular flexes.
- It is a super long club that always gives you an explosive feel.
- The AeroBunner Driver is one of the most forgiving golf clubs.
- If aesthetics are your top concern, this driver will impress you as it looks fabulous with some beautiful graphics.
- It has an excellent weight balance that makes it very easy to swing.
- Stock grip is excellent, and it makes it very comfortable in your hand.
- The serious hang time that it provides makes it perfect for golfers having a hard time to get the ball airborne.
- Most shots stay straight when using this driver and this means that you always get an excellent distance.
- It is one of the lightest clubs in its class as it only weighs 300 grams.
- Some golfers will find it too light and hard to control.
- Lack of adjustability is also a significant drawback for some golfers.
- Shots will spin more than what some pro golfers prefer.
- This drive trades some distance for height.
- The launch angle might also feel too steep for some golfers.
The AeroBunner driver from TaylorMade is excellent for the light swingers that might be looking for something to helps them with altitude adjustment. It is a high-launching driver that is also very consistent, and this means that every swing that you make will always count. AeroBunner is forgiving, and the explosive feel and sound that it makes on impact are just fantastic. Also, it is longer than most other drivers, but the best thing is that it still manages to give you long and consistent distances. But, a few golfers find it too light and the lack of adjustability is also a significant shortcoming. However, it is still an excellent golf driver that any golfer will enjoy using.


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|Nick Diaz taking an upper hand over B.J. Penn
Penn looked good in the first round, but his cardio started fading in the second. Diaz took control in the second round, battering the tired Hawaiian with crisp combinations. Diaz took the second and third rounds easily, earning the unanimous decision in his first fight back with the UFC. After the fight BJ Penn announced his retirement. "I want to perform at the top level," Penn said. "I've got a daughter and another on the way. I don't want to go home looking like this."
On the same night when the career of legendary heavyweight Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic came to an end at the hands of Roy Nelson, Cheick Kongo defeats Matt Mitrione, Roy Nelson defeats Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic, Scott Jorgensen defeats Jeff Curran and Hatsu Hioki defeats George Roop.
Diaz leapfrogged Carlos Condit for the next 170-pound title shot and will tentatively face St. Pierre at UFC 143 next year on Feb. 5 in Las Vegas. St. Pierre requested the fight after Diaz accused the champion of faking an injury in his post-fight octagon interview.


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The True Stories behind the Movie "Family Sins"
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NBC 10 Interview: Randy Burt
The road to writing success can be a difficult and arduous journey for any author, even moreso when the author has to live the story first, which is exactly what first time author Randy Burt had to do.
Burt is one of the sons of controversial criminal coupling, Walter and Frances Burt, the Cumberland, Rhode Island pair who pleaded guilty in 1993 to racketeering, arson, kidnapping, as well as a host of other charges. The story gained considerable press and a cult following as more accusations and stories of horror, like child sex abuse, surfaced from foster children of the pair and when police, during a raid, discovered a mildly retarded woman who had been locked in the couple's basement for more than a decade. The story itself reached an all-time fever pitch in 2004 when the CBS network debuted a made-for-TV movie called Family Sins starring Kirstie Alley.
"I realized a long time ago that I had to commit this to paper, as much for myself as for my family and my children. I understand that I am a Burt, but that does not dictate my character. I was as much of a victim of my parents and their crimes as some of the other people involved. Just because my last name is 'Burt' does not make me anything like them," stated Burt.
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Bill Bolstad first began with Father Joe's Villages in the fall of 2000 and since that time, has served in a variety of roles at the agency. In his current capacity as the Vice President of Capital Development, Bill is a member of the organization's executive leadership and oversees the Grants and Permanent Housing Departments. He is also responsible for the agency's non-programmatic real estate holdings and engagement with elected officials and other community stakeholders.
During his career, Bill has worked for both for profit companies and non-profit agencies. His background includes experience in project management, entitlements, feasibility and financial analysis, real estate sales, community relations, and capital grant writing. Bill represents the agency with various local community groups and boards. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of San Diego and a Master's degree in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In his off hours, Bill is an active member of St. Patrick Catholic Parish and enjoys spending time with his wife and four children.


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Pop Star (K64:CS)
Pop Star is Kirby's home planet, containing several different kinds of landscapes, and even holding one of the main countries in Kirby games, Dream Land. On this planet, Kirby and Ribbon will begin their adventure, and meet friends that will help them along the way. This page will describe how to find the shards in each of the levels of Pop Star.
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This is by far the easiest shard to find. At the very beginning of the level (before the first stream) there will be a shard. It's right out in the open, so you can't miss it! Jump up to it, and Ribbon will put it away.
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This shard is a little more complicated to find. First of all, make sure you have the bomb ability. Then, find the stream that has a huge black rock in the middle of the water. Place a bomb on or near that rock, and wait until it explodes. When it does, the second shard will be revealed.
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The final shard is hidden with the character Waddle Dee. But right before you reach him, it seems that he's been possessed by Dark Matter! Suddenly he's transformed into Waddle Doo, and you must wake him up from the trance. Once you've done that, Waddle Dee will give you the shard, then join your team.
[edit] Level Two
[edit] Shard One
During the level, you will come across Waddle Dee, who is operating a lift that will help Kirby. Take a ride on it, and relax as you go down. But, when you see a short row of stars to the side of the lift, follow them downwards. At the end of the trail will be a shard.
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[edit] Shard Three
At the end of the level, you'll come across the young painter, Adeleine, who is holding on to the shard. But, like Waddle Dee, she's been possessed by Dark Matter, and won't give the shard up! You'll have to wake her from her trance to get it back. When you do, Adeleine will join your team.
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Before you find this shard, you should probably find the boomerang ability from the enemy Sir Kibble. Then, at the top of the castle, there should be another Sir Kibble. Then combine both of the boomerang abilities to get Double Boomerang. Now, as you move along in the castle you'll find a shard that's blocked by a big green barrier. Use your double boomerang to get rid of that, and you have the shard!
[edit] Shard Two
In the castle, you'll find a part where Kirby goes up around a fountain on stairs. Well, go back to the beginning of the room, and fly upwards. At the top of that passage, you'll see the shard.
[edit] Shard Three
Once again, the third shard is possessed by somebody else! This time, it's King Dedede, possessed by Dark Matter. Hurry and free the king so he can give you the shard. After he's back to his normal self, he'll join your team.
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Russian Combined B.A. - M.A. Degree Program
Admissions to the program have been suspended effective May 2010.
Qualified undergraduates may apply for admission to the M.A. program and, if accepted, simultaneously work toward completion of requirements for both undergraduate and graduate degrees. See Combined Baccalaureate- Master's Degree Programs for details.


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Yesterday was the second Library Camp Kansas. We had a slightly smaller turnout than we did last year, but everyone was just as enthusiastic and engaged, and we tweaked the format a little–for the better. And while we had attendees from out of state, just as we did last year, we also had an international attendee: my Australian friend Kathryn Greenhill, who is ferociously smart and adorably energetic.
Last year, we had three breakout session, one of them being lunch. This year, we left lunch as just lunch, and had one breakout session before lunch and two sessions after. Before the first breakout session, we had a session of "lightning talks," where attendees could come up and talk, in 5 minutes or less, about a particular computer app or website that they really liked. The lightning talks proved to be a great icebreaker, a great way to get people talking and sharing. People liked them so much, they said they want two sessions of lightning talks next year.
The breakout sessions I attended were really good. The conversations could have gone on and on. A lot of different perspectives were shared, and I learned a lot. There was one session I was supposed to moderate, but nobody showed up for it. My feelings weren't hurt at all, though. I spent the time chatting with my pal Bobbi Newman.
Once again, I came away feeling that I get more out of unconferences than I do from formal conferences. (Although I didn't get an ugly totebag. Is that better or worse? You make the call.) I'm really looking forward to next year's Library Camp Kansas.


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Students should not have to wear uniform to school cause of freedom of speech and freedom of style and plus they could at less do dress codes for example in the text ''Do uniforms make schools better'' dress codes are much less restrictive than uniform policies. Sometimes however , dress codes are nearly as strict!!!
First of all, I think when all the students wear the same thing, it makes the school look very organized and professional. Uniforms can also help prevent bullying based on what children are wearing. It can help parents with the cost of school clothes every year because there will be other parents to buy used uniforms from, since everyone wears the same thing and will eventually outgrow them.
If the students wear uniforms than they will stop getting distracted on what others wear. Kids tend to look at other kids outfits. That's the problem with clothes they are a distraction to the students education.
Also kids will stop getting bullied!! Also they don't cost that much in target
The parents could save more money on clothes then on others and the school would not have any problems with bulling.I understand that kids don't like wearing school uniforms but nobody likes wasting money on clothes for girls with their pretty dresses or boys with their fancy clothes they are just uniforms it cant be that bad.
I went to a private school until 8th grade, but now that I am in high school, I attend a public school with no uniforms, unlike my old school. I miss nothing more than my old uniform. Not only was there reduced bullying and a more professional look for the school, but also a more secure and united feeling among students, which was my favorite thing about having uniforms.
Requiring students to wear uniforms may establish a sense of oneness amongst the students. It is possible that there would be fewer instances of bullying, acting out, and sexual harassment which would allow for teachers and other administrators to spend more energy on actually teaching the next generation of productive citizens.
When students don't have to worry about the cloths they wear in school, they can focus more on the school work. Poor and rich kids look the same so there is less bullying at least about that. It also prevents kids from dressing provocatively which is another distraction from learning.
Uniforms are not uniform and that leaves teachers with the added burden to decide which students are in uniform and which are not. Most schools require only certain colors of pants and shirts so that on any given day students can be wearing differnt color shirts and pants and different brands of shoes and jackets and sweaters with different logos so where is the uniformity? The teacher must then decide if a uniform is in compliance and if it's not the student needs to be removed to correct their uniform and all of this takes a way from instructional time. I have yet to see any data that demonstrates improved educational performance which is attributable to uniforms but I do have a plethora of anecdotal data to show how instructional time is negatively impacted by the enforcement of uniform rules.
They make the kids feel more safe and make schools more safer with uniforms beacause some students waer gang related clothes which cause many issues and really the uniforms decrease the crime aand violence the goverment says and laws. They are allso great for many other jobs and could b great for all jobs
1. It makes the school look as if its organized and proper
2. Stops bullying by people always judging peoples clothes
3. Some people try the wear popular clothes to look good and may cost a lot so if uniforms are there, then no worries. OK people? Its going to be fine :).
I have gone back and forth from schools all my life and I am currently in my sophomore year. And from personal experience I can say that uniforms do more harm than good. I am bullied myself on a constant bases and so are my friends even though we have school uniforms. We are bullied for our race, our act, our sexuality, and everything, including the uniform. We got comments saying we look gay and stupid. And the bullies either are doing one of two things 1) disregarding the rules and pushing the limits of the uniform or 2) making sure that we know that our bodies don't look good in it, like calling us fat and ugly. The uniform makes it worse. When I had no uniform I could at least express myself and choose the clothes that make me look slim or that make me look neat in order to look good. But now I have no choice but to waddle in an oversized polo, baggy khakis that don't fight right, and as a boy I'm not allowed to have my hair past my eyebrows. It's ridiculous. I can see what uniforms are trying to do but it doesn't work, not for the older generation of kids anyways. For a elementary school or middle school the point of uniforms can actually work and be applied because the young students don't know how to dress themselves yet. However most high school students know how to dress to make themselves look respectable. Not to mention that the schools overprice the uniforms because they know we need it. So it's expensive and hard to afford.
What I'm saying is this:
Uniforms try to do what cannot be done in modern society; eliminate all bullying. But it doesn't do that. It makes it worse by trying to make everyone the same. When we are not the same.
It's the same principles that communism follows; if everyone is completely equal than there is nothing to go wrong and the world is peaceful. But we have all read and heard about what communism and repression does to humanity now haven't we?
How can a simple uniform make a school better for it is just clothes representing a child's school? For the people that agree that uniforms might help stop bulling because of the choice of clothes, I disagree. Why? Because the choice of clothes is not the only thing that matters when it comes to bullying. For example, kids can also be bullied because of how they are and where they live.
No school uniforms do not make school better. If kids are bullying others because of what they wear, parents and teachers need to deal with that and fix the issue. Teaching kids that the way to get along is to strip them of one of the ways that can express themselves is wrong.
It allows them to wear what they want and expresses themselves.School uniforms don't help kids do anything .All kids are different and uniforms don't allow them to express their thoughts about a topic.There are bullies in all schools and uniforms don't stop bullies from bulling.Some Kids are not allowed to wear what they want on a field trip day.
I am a student at a school were we have to wear uniforms.I personally think that we should not wear uniforms because it can put peoples self esteem down because of the uniforms. I see that a lot of days. It can make parents days much easier because don't have to worry about choosing them an outfit.
Because I am I student who attends a public school and I don't have to wear a uniform. And to be honest I feel if I had to wear a uniform I would just want to rebel more, and see how far I could push it. (Strict parents create sneaky kids) And the fact that children wouldn't get bullied, that isn't true! Kids from other school would bully them so much more. Uniforms don't do anything to the school it's the teachers and the way the school deals with stuff
Today in many schools students have to wear uniform by force. Some students say that they like uniforms. Some say that they do not like it. But if kids do not have to wear uniforms it will make the parent's mornings easier. Students get bullied for how they wear their uniform. If students do not have to wear uniforms then no one student will have to be bullied.
I feel that uniforms stifle creativity and teach children that conformity is something that you should strive for. Uniforms are just an unnecessary standard and tradition that doesn't really serve much of a purpose today. Children are capable of deciding what kind of clothes are right for them and appropriate.
Uniforms are not uniform and that leaves teachers with the added burden to decide which students are in uniform and which are not. Most schools require only certain colors of pants and shirts so that on any given day students can be wearing differnt color shirts and pants and different brands of shoes and jackets and sweaters with different logos so where is the uniformity? The teacher must then decide if a uniform is in compliance and if it's not the student needs to be removed to correct their uniform and all of this takes a way from instructional time. I have yet to see any data that demonstrates improved educational performance which is attributable to uniforms but I do have a plethora of anecdotal data to show how instructional time is negatively impacted by the enforcement of uniform rules.
I think pupils should have more self expression but at most school that have uniforms the pupils can't wear hoodies indoors but they can wear jumpers. I mean what's with that? Can we have some self expression? Even though wearing a school uniform would put pupils under less pressure with regards to deciding what to wear each morning, and wearing a uniform would stop some cases of bullying, overall I say no to school uniforms. I think schools should have uniforms but there should be an option to wear it or not.


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Deepika Padukone and Vin Diesel make a promise regarding their upcoming movie
All eyes are on Deepika Padukone, as the Bollywood actress braces for her Hollywood debut, and that too besides none other than Vin Diesel. Earlier, pictures of the two started surfacing on various social media platforms of the two bonding on the sets of XXX: The Return of Xander Cage. Padukone will essay the role of huntress Serena in the movie and will reportedly star beside Hollywood big names such as Nina Dobrev, Samuel L. Jackson, Conor McGregor, Jet Li, Tony Jaa and Ruby Ros.
For their millions of fans, Deepika and Diesel made a video clip, which was shared from the Furious 7 actor's Instagram account. Here is the video:-
So the promise has been made; 'you will be entertained' by Deepika and Vin Diesel's upcoming Hollywood flick. The two have started filming the movie and pictures from behind the scenes were also shared by Vin Diesel from his Instagram account.
First day of filming… Xander and Serena… P.s. 17 million beautiful souls. Thanks for the love. A photo posted by Vin Diesel (@vindiesel) on
Here's another video of the Hollywood star training hard for his upcoming role as Xander Cage.


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Interesting Facts About Gold
By Eko Prihartono16 NOV 2016
Interesting Facts About Gold
- Gold is most ductile of all elements. A single gram of gold can be stretched 165 metres long with diameter of human hair.
- Gold is one of the most dense elements. A billiard ball made of gold will weight the same as a baseball made of lead.
- The world's largest gold bar weighs 250 kg.
- The largest gold coin in the world is the 1 tonne Australian Kangaroo and is issuedas Australian legal tender with denomination of 1 million Australian dollars.
- The world's largest solid-gold-object is the 5-tonne Golden Buddha in Wat Traimit Temple in Bangkok, Thailand. The statue is 3.9m tall and 3.1m across made of 9 pieces of ranging 40% – 99% fine fold, with a weight of 5.5 tonnes.
- Elvis Presley owned three cars manufactured by Stutz Motor Company, in which every part that is normally chrome was converted to gold
- Gold can be used in skyscrapper windows to reduce both heat and UV from sunlight. Each of the 14.000 panes of glass in The Royal Bank Plaza in Toronto Canda contains 5 grams of 24 karat gold or worth over $2.7million in total. As used in astronaut's helmet visor.
- The term karat derived from Arabic qirat or carob bean, where once used by gold sellers to balance their scales.
- A more than 800-year-old copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, sold for a world record price of $2,321,770 at an auction in London. Written in 1203, the religious artifact is the earliest-known complete, dated Quran, transcribed in gold
- Switzerland was the last country whose currency was tied to gold. 40% of a Swiss Franc was backed by gold until Switzerland joined the IMF in 1999
- More gold is recoverable from a ton of personal computers than from 17 tons of gold ore
- Olympic gold medals were pure gold until 1912. Nowadays, it only contains 1.34% of gold.
- Aurophobia is the fear of gold
- Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood
- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York holds the world's largest accumulation of monetary gold. The vault is 25 meters (80 feet) beneath the street and holds $147 billion worth of gold bullion. The bedrock of Manhattan is strong enough to support the weight of the vault, its d
- The world's first gold vending machine was unveiled in May 2010. Located in an ultra-luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi, the vending machine itself is covered in 24-carat gold
- Some sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis receive injections of gold to relieve pain
- If goose did lay a golden egg, it would weight almost 2.9 kg or worth near $115.000
- Gold is edible even it tasteless. Pure gold is chemically inert and passes through the human digestive system without being absorbed into the body.
- Gold is used in photography to produce toners that have rich color and stability.
- According to a new study, earthquakes turn water into gold due to "flash vaporization".
- The Aztec believed that gold was made by the gods, indicated by their word for it, which translates as 'god poop.'
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Oxford Instruments plc, an internationally renowned precision instruments design and manufacturing conglomerate, announced today (August 9) that it intends to increase personnel at its R&D base located at ITRI in Taiwan. It also plans to leverage ITRI's R&D capacities to strengthen the cooperative relationship in the development of innovative technologies. Y. Tim Tsai, Advisor at the Department of Industrial Technology under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and Catherine Nettleton, Representative of the British Office Taipei, jointly witnessed the formal signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation between Oxford Instruments and ITRI by ITRI Vice President Jia-Ruey Duann and Finance Director of Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology Adam Jaufurally. In the future, cooperation will be expanded to MEMS, micro-LED, silicon photonics, and the development of other semiconductor optoelectronic components and equipment technology.
Dr. Duann remarked that ITRI possesses abundant talent and capabilities in semiconductor and optoelectronics R&D. Its plentiful research achievements are spread across the upstream, midstream, and downstream industrial chains, underpinning vibrant development of related industries in Taiwan, he said. ITRI and Oxford Instruments first signed an MOU on cooperation in 2006, following which ITRI's Smart Microsystem Technology Center and Oxford Instruments engaged in close cooperation and successfully developed HB-LED-related technology. The expanding research capacities under the latest agreement will not only aid in the future development of traditional LED-related technology, but also will focus on cooperation in emerging technologies and applications in the fields of micro-LED and silicon photonics. It is hoped the collaborative efforts will promote semiconductor technology applications here and expedite economic growth in Asian emerging markets, Dr. Duann said.
Mr. Jaufurally commented that Oxford Instruments, a multinational company that designs and makes state-of-the-art instruments, provides its advanced products and services throughout the world. Oxford Instruments, he said, is attracted to Taiwan due to the key leading technology and comprehensive industrial chain exhibited within its semiconductor industry. ITRI plays an important role in technology R&D, and therefore Oxford Instruments is interested in expanding its collaboration with ITRI and Taiwan industry. The company will jointly hold precision testing/analysis training courses with ITRI, making ITRI an important base for Oxford Instruments in the Asia-Pacific in training engineering R&D personnel, he said.
The British Office Taipei expressed strong support for technology cooperation between Taiwan and the UK. Ms. Nettleton said the British government looks quite favorably on Oxford Instruments' expanded cooperation with ITRI, along with bilateral interaction in technology and innovation. The UK, she said, will actively assist British enterprises and startups in engaging in R&D cooperation in Taiwan. The UK this year has set out five priority areas for technological cooperation with Taiwan, namely life sciences, advanced manufacturing, digital economy, space science, and clean energy, which correspond to the "5+2" Industrial Innovation Plan currently being promoted by the Taiwan government. Ms. Nettleton expects these efforts will further strengthen innovative cooperation in these fields.
After the MOU signing, Oxford Instruments also held a seminar on state-of-the-art nanoanalysis and plasma technology applications, during which it will share new solutions for the semiconductor market.
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