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FLORIDA -- Beware!!! You think you're getting all the perks. I recently booked a cruise on MSC Seaside. All over the booking page said, "Drinks on us included as a bonus". Even the MSC website says all Caribbean cruises include "Drinks on us" package. When I registered and received my E-ticket no Drink package was evident. I called and was told I booked a lower rate package that did not include drinks. Funny because there was no other options on the website other than the one I chose.
After calling Cruise.com the agent did try and get my package upgraded but of course MSC would not allow upgrades to my package. The entire marketing on the Cruise.com website is total scam. The agent told me if I need a specific bonus to my purchase I should have called first. Unacceptable. I only chose MSC because of this great deal that I am now not getting. Both companies are leaving a sour start to a cruise I haven't even gone on yet. Lesson learned for first timer. Don't trust cruise booking websites. Especially Cruise.com.
I have been on four cruises and each time I always go through the cruise line but I thought I would try them for once because my mom was using them, and I can honestly say I will NEVER EVER use them again. Spent a lot of money and they told me when I booked the cruise that we will get onboard credit per person for getting the balcony room and 19 days prior to cruising I called just to see how much onboard credit we had and they tell me we don't have any and that we had to fill out a form in order to get our onboard credit 20 days prior to cruise (one day late).
I have talked to multiple agents making payments and having other questions but not ONE of them ever told me we had to fill something out in order to get our onboard credit. Needless to say, when I called to check, the lady was very rude and talked to me like a was a child. I guess everyone has different experiences, some good, some bad. Just be careful when using Cruises.com. They tell you one thing when booking and something different when it's about time to cruise. I just don't think it's right to tell someone that they get onboard credit so they count on that extra money and then take it away from them.
PORT EVERGLADES, FLORIDA -- My experience booking with cruise.com has been completely unsatisfactory and unacceptable. After seeing a promotion on the website for $100 Shipboard credit and a complimentary bottle of wine, I booked a cruise in December 2010. My agent confirmed at least twice during our phone call that my booking did include the $100 shipboard credit and a complimentary bottle of wine. Other online cruise travel agents were also offering the $100 SBC, but I chose to book with cruise.com because cruise.com was the only site I found offering $100 SBC AND the complimentary bottle of wine (the price of the cruise was the same as on other sites).
When I reviewed my cruise confirmation documentation emailed to me, I noticed that there was no mention in writing of the SBC or wine, and I immediately emailed on December 22nd asking for confirmation in writing that I could take on the ship with me. I again emailed on Jan 5. When I still received no response, I started calling and leaving voicemails between January 5th and Jan 11th. I also logged a query through the on-line "Contact Us" form. No responses. Today when I tried to call, I spoke to the first agent who happened to take my call; she indicated that she didn't see anything about shipboard credit or wine on my reservation.
So now I am very worried that cruise.com is not going to provide the package that was clearly sold to me. I could have booked with another travel agent and received the $100 shipboard credit, and I truly wish I had. I expect cruise.com to deliver the package that I purchased and that their sales representative confirmed to me, not something less. However I have little hope of ever hearing from them again as they have failed to contact me or provide any customer service after they received my money. This has been a horrible customer service experience.
I recently booked a 7 day Caribbean cruise through an agent with cruise.com. I asked the agent to give me the total price quotation, including all port charges, taxes and fuel surcharge. I was quoted a great price, at least that's what I thought. The Agent advised me that he would be able to hold the rooms for us for that price for 24 hours and he would email me the detailed information right away. I didn't receive the promised email. Based on the information I was quoted and compared cruise.com price to other cruise agencies, I decided to go with cruise.com.
I called the agent back the following morning to confirm the booking (within 24 hours) and asked that he emailed the confirmation to me once the booking was complete. I didn't receive any emails that day. I called the next day to ask for the confirmation. The agent gave reasons that the cruise lines was supposed to send me the confirmation and he's surprised I had not received the confirmation. He proceeded to say he would personally ask the cruise line to send the confirmation to him so that he in turn could forward it to us.
However, I waited for 2 days and did not receive nothing. I started to get worried. I left 3 phone messages for the agent but he didn't return my calls. I decided to speak to another agent. I was shocked to find out that my rooms were put on hold but not paid for. I told that agent that I gave my credit card to the first agent and he should have secured the rooms for us immediately. After speaking with his supervisor, the 2nd agent told me that he would get all paper work done and we were guaranteed the price quoted by the first agent. I received the booking confirmation via email within 10 minutes.
To my surprise, I was charged $250 more than the promised price. The real nightmare began, I went through 2 sales agents, 3 client support agents and 1 supervisor and I still get a runaround. I heard many excuses such as the price quoted did not include taxes as they have no control of the gov't taxes, but they could not explain to me after factoring in all these extra charges, they still could not explain why the first agent quoted me the original price.
The most recent reason they gave me today is that the holding period for my room expired 4 minutes before the Agent went on the cruise line to pay for my room. When I asked the time the Agent went online to confirm my bookings, it was half an hour after I gave my credit card to him.
I was very upset about the whole incident. I received quotes from other cruise agencies for this trip and some of them told me to be careful about the low price cruise.com quoted me as they were suspicious about the price cruise.com offered me. Throughout this incident, I have never received an apology from any staff or managers of cruise.com. All they have told me are excuses to cover their unethical and unprofessional behavior. I believe that:
1) I have acted in good faith by booking my cruise trip within 24 hours after I requested the Agent to put the two rooms on hold. If he, the agent, couldn't secure the room with the guarantee price quote, either he had made a mistake in pricing or he is just incompetent, he should have advised me so that I could made a sound decision of choosing an alternate travel agent for booking. But I was not given that choice. Basically, the agent at cruise.com forced me into booking my cruise trip with him and charged me a higher price without my consent.
2) Cruise.com agent did not initiate nor return phone calls regarding price change. I was the one who had to contact them. It is not sound business practice and very poor customer service. 3) When I received my invoice, I was charged $250 over the quoted price. Once again, no one from cruise.com had a decency of notifying me of the price change and asked if I still wanted to book. I immediately emailed back to the second Agent and asked him to explain the charges. Guess what, he did not return my call as well.
4) Cruise.com has given excuse after excuse of why I was charged more on my bookings but cruise.com has not acted in good faith from their end to honor the original quote even if their agent has made a mistake. I would have accepted if they would have apologized and offered some kind of solution to resolve this matter. In fact, it has dragged into the 7 days from the first day of contact and I am still waiting for someone over cruise.com to call me back. Every time they told me someone would be calling me back but none happened. I am the one who has to contact them.
If you don't want a frustrated and cheated experience before you go on your dream cruise trip, don't book through cruise.com. I will certainly tell my friends who tell their friends to never book or trust the agents at this agency. They are a disgrace in the cruise industry. I have booked my previous cruise trips from other cruise and travel agencies and I received great service from them, until this time.
I was indeed seriously looking at the Jan 28th sailing of the Celebrity Equinox, and I was attracted by your "prepaid gratuities" bonus. I started the booking. But when came time to choose seating, first sitting was not available, that's no big deal. I don't mind open seating. But when I selected open seating, oooops! the gratuities were added on to my charges. I thought there must be a discount code I missed or forgot to enter, so I called cruise.com. I was then told (with a lengthy explanation that didn't make much sense to me) that gratuities were in fact not included. The cruise.com service representative had the nerve to ask me if I wanted to book anyway.
FYI that way of doing business is called "bait and switch", and I don't go there. There are many other online reservation companies and yes, I have made arrangements. I don't really mind having to pay cruise plus gratuities, but at least I don't feel as if I've been molested by a low-down old-fashioned twisted tactic. We're seasonal Florida residents, and we usually do 2-3 cruises per winter season. If you want me to continue considering you a a potential agent, please straighten up your act.
I called Cruise.com to book a cruise. They offered to prepay gratuities for 2 with every cabin booked. I had a coupon for 2 free cruises and as there were 3 of us traveling in 1 room I asked before I booked if the offer of 2 free prepaid gratuities would be honored. I was assured that even with my coupon, they would pay the gratuities. I booked the cruise and 2 days later I received a call stating they would not pay the gratuities. The old "bait and switch" trick, Cruise.com style. And guess what they are ignoring my emails. Never again with these idiots. Do not use Cruise.com.
MIAMI, FLORIDA -- False Advertising - On March 5th 2004 I book a Cruise. Alaska 9/9 - 7 days. The website shows there was a promo available of 6 cat upgrades for certain categories, including the one I book. When I book they did not honor the promo. On Monday afternoon I call ** who explain me she has not receive any answer yet. I have called four times about this problem with no solid answer about why is not available to me.
Tue 3/9 at 6:30 ** called me and explain me that the promo was not available because the category I book was not in the promo, I ask him why then it still shown in the website and he told me IT dept works only every two days. Told me he will get back to me on this matter. Today (3/10) I call around 2 PM to follow up on this case and the CSR told me he is on the meeting and he will call me back soon. It's 5:00 PM and still waiting for his call...


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Sunday, December 15, 2013
Playa Del Rey Stakes Quotes
Jockey Quotes
VICTOR ESPINOZA, TEDDY'S PROMISE, Winner: "Today she was ready to go and did everything right. When she feels like running, she runs. She's really honest and an old pro. It's amazing how (Ellis) takes his time with her and gets her ready for a race."
Trainer Quotes
RON ELLIS, TEDDY'S PROMISE, Winner: "For me, she didn't fire her best race in the Breeders' Cup (eighth in the Filly and Mare Sprint Nov. 2), but she came out of the race awesome. She's come out of all her races this year a lot better than last year. We had this race on the docket. I would imagine the (Grade II, $200,000) Santa Monica (Stakes Jan. 25 at Santa Anita) will be her swan song and then she's going to be bred to Smart Strike. We're sorry to lose her. She's been a great mare for us.''
SIMON CALLAGHAN, JUDY IN DISGUISE, Second--"No complaints. The winner is very good and our filly ran a great race. She galloped out well. I think 6 ½ or 7 furlongs is kind of her distance.''
RICHARD MANDELLA, RUMOR, Third: "She stumbled or did something leaving the gate. I couldn't really tell what it was. She still got up and ran pretty well.
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Who, over the age of 25 from Western New York, does not remember what they were doing Jan. 27, 1991?
My son was just three months old, and we were at an in-laws house watching Whitney Houston sing the most perfect rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner" ever.
When she died a few days ago and the world was reminded of her talent didn't you actually feel some ownership of that song and that moment? I know I did. That's our Super Bowl and that was our anthem.
In a strange way, I have always said I had Whitney to thank for the many opportunities I have had singing the anthem. When she sang that day with her pitch perfect voice and controlled vibrato countless Whitney wannabes were born. When we would all gather at a stadium to audition they would stand there with the mic screaming and warbling absolutely sure their star was about to be launched.
But no one else is Whitney! Where she was control they were chaos. Lucky for me I never wanted to be Whitney or anyone else for that matter. I just wanted a chance to sing that song on the field of a team I loved in front if 75,000 people.
Denny Lynch, former Director of Public Relations for the Buffalo Bills once told me that the players are anxious to play and anything over 1 minute and 15 seconds makes than nervous. Turns out, based on that advice (and practicing it at least 1,000 times) I sing it in 1:17 when I sing it fast and 1:17 when I sing it slow.
It took me seven years of auditions, singing at smaller venues and building my resume to get my first shot at singing at the Ralph. I won't deny I was nervous but never paralyzed with fear. I have sung for major league baseball, the NFL, NHL and the NBA and try to think of the words each time I sing them. I don't have the best voice in the world but I know I sing the words with conviction and understanding.
Those that likely never got a chance, the Whitney clones would drag it out with their drama not realizing they were sealing their rejection letter fate faster than than the jets during a fly past. People would say they want the song to be sung the way it is written but that is not actually possible.
The truth is, the words to the Star Spangled Banner were written by Francis Scott Key during the Battle of Baltimore but the tune is an old English drinking song so it's hard to know how it was written. What I do know is that people want to hear and understand the words.
When she sang she had the serene face of an angel and was as convincing as a preacher. The way Whitney Houston sang that song allowed many people to actually hear the words and feel their meaning for the first time. How is it possible not to be overwhelmed and humbled when you picture Francis Scott Key witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry on the Chesapeake Bay and still seeing the flag of the fledgling United States of America flying.
…gave proof through the night, our flag was still there!
When she died on Saturday the chatter on my social media included "our Superbowl anthem" as if we were standing beside her waving our flags and singing. In a very real way, we were.
Listen next time and sing like Whitney, with respect, with reverence and with pride.
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave.
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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President Obama Meets with Undefeated '72 Dolphins
WASHINGTON (AP) — During the 1972 NFL season, the Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins played 17 games without a loss. Then they went 40 years without White House acknowledgment of that unmatched feat. Until today.
President Barack Obama will host former team members and their then-coach, Hall of Famer Don Shula, at a White House recognition ceremony for the only NFL team to achieve a perfect season.
The team's star fullback, Hall of Famer Larry Csonka, is making the trip from Alaska where he hosts an outdoor television show.
The team won Super Bowl VII on Jan. 14, 1973, beating the Washington Redskins 14-7.
But in 1973 President Richard Nixon was preoccupied with the Watergate scandal, and White House salutes to sports teams were less of a tradition than now.


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Women's Organisation brings education to girls in Balochistan
"I want to become a teacher after completing my education," says 9-year old Kulsoom, a student of fifth grade in the Government Girls Primary School, in Killi Sardar Nabi Bux, a village in Balochistan province. Her friend Nazima, 10, wants to become a doctor and serve her community.
- More than 1,693,000 people benefitted from improved livelihoods in crisis affected areas.
- 60,000 people have come together in nearly 2,410 community organizations, including 879 women's organizations.
- 479 small scale infrastructure projects implemented by the communities including hand pumps for drinking water, solar lights and water pumps, latrines, street pavements and irrigation channels.
Only one year ago, their school – the only one in the village located just 20 kilometres from provincial capital Quetta – was in a dilapidated condition with no furniture or toilets, and only one classroom with one teacher and a handful of students.
The majority of the parents in Killi Sardar Nabi Bux always wanted their daughters to seek education, but could not fulfil this dream because of the appalling condition of the only school located in their vicinity. They identified rehabilitation of the girls' primary school as their most pressing need to community organisation formed by UNDP's Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas project in Balochistan. This project has been funded by the European Union and the Government of Japan.
Since then, Sardar Nabi Bux, a local women community organisation, has constructed four classrooms and two toilets with UNDP's support, and the school is now thriving with about 100 students aged between 5 and 12 years.
The school has three teachers to cater to the increasing number of students. "We are thankful to RAHA for helping us in constructing extra classrooms, since earlier the students had to sit and study in the open," says Raziya Mustafa Kamal, a teacher in the school.
More than 80 percent of the girls of school-going age in the village have been enrolled after the rehabilitation of the school.
The project's interventions have helped improve girls' access to education from about 33 percent to 80 percent in just one year. This project also contributed to the Millennium Development Goal number 2 related to universal primary education.
All the work carried out by UNDP is community-led and helps to raise the living standards of communities in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA by focusing on providing health, education and livelihood facilities, restoring infrastructure, fostering economic stability and reviving local businesses. In all UNDP's projects, five to ten percent of the cost was shared by the communities themselves.


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Camilleri and Cuschieri Consulting Engineers was founded in 1979 by the late A.G. Camilleri C. Eng F.I.E.E and Ing. Carmel J. Cuschieri BSc Eng Hons C Eng FIET. C&C Consultants is today a leading Consultancy Firm in the field of Building Engineering Services and Industrial Controls and have completed a number of prestigious projects both in Malta and overseas.
The practice is successful and continues to grow by remaining at the forefront of technology through Continued Professional Development of its highly skilled engineers and draughts persons and is today entrusted with prestigious projects by local and international Clients. We continue to be guided by the principles of
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Camilleri and Cuschieri have been chosen as the MEP Consultants for the New Island Hotels Tourist Complex at Hal Ferh, Ghajn Tuffieha - C&C Consulting Engineers have completed in the name of their Clients, Bank of Valletta Limited, the first part of a larger project of installing Photovoltaic Panels -
C&C Engineers win a Green Award for their MEP design Of Golden Sands Resort and Spa - Camilleri and Cuschieri win Tender for Design of PV Systems and Intelligent lighting systems for the Private Schools Association -
Professor Joseph Mifsud, Ing. Carmel Cuschieri of Camilleri and Cuschieri Consulting Engineers and Hoter Ltd were the proud winners of the 11th edition of the Malta Engineering Excellence Awards (MEEA) 2012 -
Camilleri and Cuschieri Consulting Engineers were responsible for the design and supervision of all of the MEP works associated with the project including the Electrical, Mechanical and Plant for the Lifts as well as for the refurbishment of the Lascaris Ditch. -
This was not just another project done by C&C as designing services for radio and television studios is a rare and unique opportunity especially when this is done for the number one radio and TV station on the Island. -
The first 2013 activity for Camilleri and Cuschieri staff was held on the 2nd February. We went to the Badger raceway to challenge each other in a Badger Karting race. -
The University inaugurated an €8 million state-of-the-art IT Services building, Rector Juanito Camilleri – an IT expert and a prime campaigner for added funds for the University – said this investment would not have materialised if EU funds had not been made available by the Government. -
The new state-of-the-art building of the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology was made possible through European Regional Development Fund and Government of Malta funding, amounting to around €17 million. The aim behind the building is to provide the University of Malta with a Faculty of ICT geared for excellent grade education and for interacting with national and international ICT players, on both academic and industrial levels, and from both research and collaborative perspectives. -
And here we go… it is time for another activity… - The University of Malta have just completed the refurbishment of the lighting and HVAC systems of the library. With the new extended opening hours these systems play a very important part in the overall building efficiency and hence its running costs. C & C were tasked with this refurbishment and the objective was to optimise the design to reduce running costs. -
Summer is here and also the first heat wave so we decided to have an indoor activity this time to stay in an air-conditioned environment.
- Earlier during the year, the air conditioning strategy of the property was reviewed and decision had been reached to replace the aging R22 chillers. A number of options using VRF units, Chillers, DX units or a combination of systems were being considered. -
The new building for the University's Faculty of ICT was recently inaugurated - December is here and everyone starts feeling the festive fever coming. -
The University of Malta have just completed the refurbishment of the air conditioning installation for the Faulty of Engineering. - Visit to MP3-Italia stand at the Mostra Convegno EXPOCOMFORT 2014 in Milan -
The University of Malta has just opened its new Home Economics Lab at the Junior College campus. C & C were entrusted with the holistic design of the lab including both the MEP installations as well as furniture and appliances. The overall layout was jointly established with the Home Economics Department at the Junior College as well as the UOM Estates and Works Department. -
Over the summer period, Radisson BLU St Julian's embarked on a project to change their aging R22 water cooled chillers to R410 air cooled heat pumps. -
CSL is a Systems Integrator in Malta specializing in the following: - During the Annual Squash Presentation which was held on Saturday 30th August -
Camileri and Cuschieri have just participated in the Young Engineers Employer of the Year Award organised by CIBSE in association with ASHRAE -


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Program Office: Office of School Support and Technology Programs
Ed-Flex is a program that allows the Secretary of Education to delegate to states with strong accountability safeguards the authority to waive certain federal education requirements (Programs Covered by the Ed-Flex Authority) that may, in particular instances, impede local efforts to reform and improve education. It is designed to help districts and schools carry out educational reforms and raise the achievement levels of all children by providing increased flexibility in the implementation of federal education programs in exchange for enhanced accountability for the performance of students.
Ed-Flex is not a funding program. Rather, it is a program that delegates to states the authority to grant waivers of certain federal requirements.


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AC/DC Tops Pollstar's YTD Rankings
AC/DC Tops Pollstar's YTD Rankings
AC/DC ranks No. 1 on Pollstar's year-to-date ranking of top 100 tours with more than 1.8 million tickets sold. Placing second is Bon Jovi with 1.4 million tickets sold. The BBC-produced arena spectacular "Walking With Dinosaurs" places third with 1.1 million tickets, Dave Matthews Band is fourth with 1 million tickets and the Black Eyed Peas rank fifth with 942,277 tickets sold. Rounding out the top 10 were Tim McGraw, Michael Bublé, Brad Paisley, World Wrestling Entertainment, and Lady Gaga. (10/12)
EMusic Adds UMG Catalog, Updates Pricing
Universal Music Group has licensed 250,000 non-frontline tracks to eMusic that will be available beginning in November for U.S. subscribers. Concurrent with the acquisition of the UMG catalog is a new flexible pricing structure that will discontinue eMusic's track credit program and instead offer a majority of albums individually priced from $5.19 to $8.99, with single track prices ranging from 49 cents to 89 cents. EMusic has existing license deals with Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group. (10/12)


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Who Controls Our Children?
This video of Peg Luksik is important because she proves there is a uniform scheme nationally to "dumb down" and collect personal data on school children.
She also gives a fascinating example of how collectivists create a paradigm of scarcity, which is a revealing look inside of their mindset. She speaks about a popular psychological experiment, a hypothetical situation where there are 10 people in a lifeboat, but only 9 are sustainable. The challenge is to determine which person has the least value and must be thrown overboard. This paradigm creates a box. And someone must die. Creative answers, like taking turns swimming so everyone can survive, are not considered viable solutions.
Hijacking the Educational System:
G. Edward Griffin interviewed the late Senator Norman Dodd in the 1980's, regarding the congressional investigation of tax exempt foundations and learned that the usual suspects, the Carnegie Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation, wished to take control over education in America, so they altered American history. This was accomplished by enlisting history students and training them to promote the collectivist version of American history. Read the entire fascinating transcript here.
Agenda 21 in Schools:
Agenda 21 Sustainable Development policies are taught in schools from Kindergarten through college, it is part of the curriculum. Children and young adults can be very impressionable at a young age. Agenda 21 policy implementation plans include teaching children about the necessity of the programs they are pushing.
American colleges are accredited through the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), which is affiliated with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). In fact, they have teamed up together to go after "diploma mills" which in their definition "lacks legal authority to operate as higher education institutions or award degrees". Can anyone spell m-o-n-o-p-o-l-y?


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Not much is known to the world about the bizarre countries within Central Asia all ending with 'stan. Meet the Stans documents the journey of a group of various skateboarders traveling along the ancient Silk Road traversing China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Featuring Dave Bachinsky, Jimmy McDonald, Laurence Keefe, Dan Zvereff, Stas Provotorov, Gosha Konyshev, Walker Ryan, Kenny Reed and Michael Mackrodt.
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Twins Lose in Series Finale Against the Blue Jays
TORONTO -- Called on to make a spot start for the struggling Toronto Blue Jays, Todd Redmond pitched well enough to earn another outing, and then some.
Redmond threw one-hit ball over five innings for his first major league win and the Blue Jays hit three home runs Sunday to beat the slumping Minnesota Twins 11-5.
"He couldn't have done a better job," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.
Rajai Davis hit a three-run homer and Jose Reyes and Colby Rasmus also connected for the Blue Jays, who won for the 10th time in 13 meetings with Minnesota.
"We broke loose today," Gibbons said.
Redmond (1-1) allowed two runs, with three walks and four strikeouts, an effort Davis called "phenomenal."
"He did a great job to help us win," Davis said.
Redmond called it "a dream come true."
"I couldn't be happier," he said. "I have to give all the credit to all of the hitters today."
It was Redmond's first start of the season for Toronto and just the second of his career. The right-hander was called up from Triple-A Buffalo last week after the Blue Jays designated Chien-Ming Wang for assignment.
"He knows the situation," Gibbons said. "He's here filling in and has an opportunity to start."
It was just the second time in six games that a Blue Jays starter has allowed two runs or fewer.
Twins catcher Joe Mauer said Redmond kept the Twins off-balance with deceptive velocity.
"He has a ball that kind of got on you a little bit," Mauer said. "The ball was jumping out of his hand. It was a tough day for us offensively."
The Blue Jays took two out of three and have not lost a series against Minnesota since May 2007. Toronto has won nine straight home series over the Twins dating to May 2005.
Aaron Hicks and Trevor Plouffe homered for the Twins, who have lost seven of eight and 12 of 16 to fall a season-worst 11 games below .500.
Davis got two hits and scored three times. Rasmus also singled and doubled, drove in three runs and scored twice.
"They were whacking it pretty good," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "They beat the ball around pretty good on us today."
Hicks had the only hit off Redmond, a two-run homer in the fifth.
After surrendering a leadoff walk in the first, Redmond retired the next 11 batters in order.
Aaron Loup and Dustin McGowan each worked one inning, Brett Cecil got two outs in the eighth and Neil Wagner got the third before Casey Janssen finished.
All three Blue Jays homers came off Scott Diamond, who lost for the fourth time in six starts. Diamond (5-8) allowed six runs and eight hits in 4 2/3 innings and matched a career-high with four walks.
Diamond has allowed eight homers in his past four outings.
"It's frustrating the way it all worked out again," Diamond said. "I'm really struggling keeping guys in the park."
Toronto opened the scoring in the fourth when Davis hit a two-out double and Rasmus followed with his 16th homer.
The Twins tied it in the fifth when Hicks followed a one-out walk to Clete Thomas with his seventh homer.
The Blue Jays took the lead for good with a four-run fifth, an inning that started with Reyes hitting a leadoff homer, his fourth.
"(Diamond) kind of unraveled from there," Gardenhire said. "He just couldn't make a pitch after the home run."
Four batters later, after Edwin Encarnacion walked and Mark DeRosa singled, Davis hit a second-deck shot to left.
Minnesota cut it to 6-3 on Chris Parmelee's grounder in the sixth. Adam Lind hit an RBI double in the bottom half off Anthony Swarzak.
The Blue Jays scored four more in the seventh off Josh Roenicke and Brian Duensing. Rasmus hit an RBI double and scored on Maicer Izturis' single, and two runs scored on Encarnacion's triple.
Plouffe made it 11-5 with a two-run homer off Cecil in the eighth, his ninth.
Game notes
Diamond was born about 50 miles west of Toronto in Guelph, Ontario. He faced the Blue Jays for the third time. ... Redmond's only other big league start came Aug. 18, 2012, with Cincinnati, a 9-7 loss to the Chicago Cubs. ... Minnesota OF Oswaldo Arcia, who left Saturday's game after he was hit on the right hand by a pitch, was held out of the starting lineup. ... The Twins have lost 10 of 11 against AL East opponents.


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Calcium (Ca), chemical element, one of the alkaline-earth metals of Group 2 (IIa) of the periodic table. It is the most abundant metallic element in the human body and the fifth most abundant element in Earth's crust.
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Occurrence, properties, and uses
Calcium does not occur naturally in the free state, but compounds of the element are widely distributed. One calcium compound, lime (calcium oxide, CaO) was extensively used by the ancients. The silvery, rather soft, lightweight metal itself was first isolated (1808) by Sir Humphry Davy after distilling mercury from an amalgam formed by electrolyzing a mixture of lime and mercuric oxide. The name for the element was taken from the Latin word for lime, calx.
Calcium constitutes 3.64 percent of Earth's crust and 8 percent of the Moon's crust, and its cosmic abundance is estimated at 4.9 × 104 atoms (on a scale where the abundance of silicon is 106 atoms). As calcite (calcium carbonate), it occurs on Earth in limestone, chalk, marble, dolomite, eggshells, pearls, coral, stalactites, stalagmites, and the shells of many marine animals. Calcium carbonate deposits dissolve in water that contains carbon dioxide to form calcium bicarbonate, Ca(HCO3)2. This process frequently results in the formation of caves and may reverse to deposit limestone as stalactites and stalagmites. As calcium hydroxyl phosphate, it is the principal inorganic constituent of teeth and bones and occurs as the mineral apatite. As calcium fluoride, it occurs as fluorite, or fluorspar. And as calcium sulfate, it occurs as anhydrite. Calcium is found in many other minerals, such as aragonite (a type of calcium carbonate) and gypsum (another form of calcium sulfate), and in many feldspars and zeolites. It is also found in a large number of silicates and aluminosilicates, in salt deposits, and in natural waters, including the sea.
Formerly produced by electrolysis of anhydrous calcium chloride, pure calcium metal is now made commercially by heating lime with aluminum. The metal reacts slowly with oxygen, water vapour, and nitrogen of the air to form a yellow coating of the oxide, hydroxide, and nitride. It burns in air or pure oxygen to form the oxide and reacts rapidly with warm water (and more slowly with cold water) to produce hydrogen gas and calcium hydroxide. On heating, calcium reacts with hydrogen, halogens, boron, sulfur, carbon, and phosphorus. Although it compares favourably with sodium as a reducing agent, calcium is more expensive and less reactive than the latter. In many deoxidizing, reducing, and degasifying applications, however, calcium is preferred because of its lower volatility and is used to prepare chromium, thorium, uranium, zirconium, and other metals from their oxides.
The metal itself is used as an alloying agent for aluminum, copper, lead, magnesium, and other base metals; as a deoxidizer for certain high-temperature alloys; and as a getter in electron tubes. Small percentages of calcium are used in many alloys for special purposes. Alloyed with lead (0.04 percent calcium), for example, it is employed as sheaths for telephone cables and as grids for storage batteries of the stationary type. When added to magnesium-based alloys in amounts from 0.4 to 1 percent, it improves the resistance of degradable orthopedic implants to biological fluids, permitting tissues to heal fully before the implants lose their structural integrity.
Naturally occurring calcium consists of a mixture of six isotopes: calcium-40 (96.94 percent), calcium-44 (2.09 percent), calcium-42 (0.65 percent), and, in smaller proportions, calcium-48, calcium-43, and calcium-46. Calcium-48 undergoes double beta decay with a half-life of roughly 4 × 1019 years, so it is stable for all practical purposes. It is particularly neutron-rich and is used in the synthesis of new heavy nuclei in particle accelerators. The radioactive isotope calcium-41 occurs in trace quantities on Earth through the natural bombardment of calcium-40 by neutrons in cosmic rays.
Calcium is essential to both plant and animal life and is broadly employed as a signal transducer, enzyme cofactor, and structural element (e.g., cell membranes, bones, and teeth). A large number of living organisms concentrate calcium in their shells or skeletons, and in higher animals calcium is the most abundant inorganic element. Many important carbonate and phosphate deposits owe their origin to living organisms.
The human body is 2 percent calcium. Major sources of calcium in the human diet are milk, milk products, fish, and green leafy vegetables. The bone disease rickets occurs when a lack of vitamin D impairs the absorption of calcium from the gastrointestinal tract into the extracellular fluids. The disease especially affects infants and children.
The most important calcium compound is calcium carbonate, CaCO3, the major constituent of limestone, marble, chalk, oyster shells, and corals. Calcium carbonate obtained from its natural sources is used as a filler in a variety of products, such as ceramics, glass, plastics, and paint, and as a starting material for the production of calcium oxide. Synthetic calcium carbonate, called "precipitated" calcium carbonate, is employed when high purity is required, as in medicine (antacids and dietary calcium supplements), in food (baking powder), and for laboratory purposes.
Calcium oxide, CaO, also known as lime or more specifically quicklime, is a white or grayish white solid produced in large quantities by roasting calcium carbonate so as to drive off carbon dioxide. At room temperature, CaO will spontaneously absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, reversing the reaction. It will also absorb water, converting itself into calcium hydroxide and releasing heat in the process. The bubbling that accompanies the reaction is the source of its name as "quick," or living, lime. The reaction of quicklime with water is sometimes used in portable heat sources. One of the oldest known products of a chemical reaction, quicklime is used extensively as a building material. It is sometimes used directly as a fertilizer, although calcium carbonate is usually preferred for that purpose. Large quantities of quicklime are used in various industrial neutralization reactions. Limelights, used in the 19th century in stage lighting, emit a very brilliant white light upon heating a block of calcium oxide to incandescence in an oxyhydrogen flame, hence the expression "to be in the limelight."
A large amount of calcium oxide also is used as starting material in the production of calcium carbide, CaC2, also known simply as carbide, or calcium acetylide. Colourless when pure (though technical grades are typically grayish brown), this solid decomposes in water, forming flammable acetylene gas and calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2. The decomposition reaction is used for the production of acetylene, which serves as an important fuel for welding torches. The drip of water on calcium carbide produces a steady stream of acetylene that is ignited in carbide lamps. Such lamps were commonly used in lighthouse beacons and by miners in the early 20th century and still find some use in spelunking. Calcium carbide also is used to make calcium cyanamide, CaCN2, a fertilizer component and starting material for certain plastic resins.
Calcium hydroxide, also called slaked lime, Ca(OH)2, is obtained by the action of water on calcium oxide. When mixed with water, a small proportion of it dissolves, forming a solution known as limewater, the rest remaining as a suspension called milk of lime. Calcium hydroxide is used as an industrial alkali and as a constituent of mortars, plasters, and cement. It is used in the kraft paper process and as a flocculant in sewage treatment.
Another important compound is calcium chloride, CaCl2, a colourless or white solid produced in large quantities either as a by-product of the manufacture of sodium carbonate by the Solvay process or by the action of hydrochloric acid on calcium carbonate. The anhydrous solid is used as a drying agent and for dust and ice control on roads. Calcium hypochlorite, Ca(ClO2), widely used as bleaching powder, is produced by the action of chlorine on calcium hydroxide. The hydride CaH2, formed by the direct action of the elements, liberates hydrogen when treated with water. Traces of water can be removed from many organic solvents by refluxing them in the presence of CaH2.
Calcium sulfate, CaSO4, is a naturally occurring calcium salt. It is commonly known in its dihydrate form, CaSO4∙2H2O, a white or colourless powder called gypsum. As uncalcined gypsum, the sulfate is employed as a soil conditioner. Calcined gypsum is used in making tile, wallboard, lath, and various plasters. When gypsum is heated to about 120 °C (250 °F), it loses three-quarters of its water, becoming the hemihydrate CaSO4∙1/2H2O, plaster of paris. If mixed with water, plaster of paris can be molded into shapes before it hardens by recrystallizing to dihydrate form. Calcium sulfate may occur in groundwater, causing hardness that cannot be removed by boiling.
Calcium phosphates occur abundantly in nature in several forms and are the principal minerals for the production of phosphate fertilizers and for a range of phosphorus compounds. For example, the tribasic variety (precipitated calcium phosphate), Ca3(PO4)2, is the principal inorganic constituent of bone ash. The acid salt Ca(H2PO4)2, produced by treating mineral phosphates with sulfuric acid, is employed as a plant food and stabilizer for plastics.
The hydrogen sulfite, Ca(HSO3)2, is made by the action of sulfur dioxide on a slurry of Ca(OH)2. Its aqueous solution under pressure dissolves the lignin in wood to leave cellulose fibres and thus finds considerable application in the paper industry.
The fluoride, CaF2, is important to the production of hydrofluoric acid, which is made from CaF2 by the action of sulfuric acid. CaF2 is used in laboratory instruments as a window material for both infrared and ultraviolet radiation.
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"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
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Every day, essential business and physical functions are executed by software, without human oversight. Many of these functions—automobile braking systems, automatic systems on commercial aircraft and commuter trains, medical equipment—function at speeds and levels of precision that cannot be matched by human beings. Thankfully, the persistent fear that someone may eventually create software that is intelligent enough to defy us has not come to pass. If anything, the opposite remains the more immediate concern: as fallible humans, we continue to generate software riddled with problems, setting the stage for accidents waiting to happen.
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Interesting article. Perhaps we should slow down just a bit and prolong testing before new software is launched in order to minimize the risk of serious glitches.


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The Irene E. Witkowski-Agrawal Foundation, according to its founder, Prabhakar Agrawal, is about "encouraging and teaching young people to depend on themselves, and to succeed in their lives by being honest."
"If they can achieve that, they are likely to find much happiness in their lives and contribute to society much more than the present trend of fraud, deceit and deceptions that are so prevalent worldwide," Agrawal said. "That is how my deceased wife would have done it. So my foundation is to remember her for her honesty and values."
"We are incredibly grateful to the Irene E. Witkowski-Agrawal Foundation for their commitment to LYNC, especially in lieu of the budget crises being faced by many school districts," said Frank P. Mergl, chairman of the board of directors of Leadership Niagara. "This partnership with the Irene E. Witkowski-Agrawal Foundation lays the groundwork for our LYNC program that will allow more young people than ever before to develop their leadership skills."
LYNC, an eight-month program for high school students, provides leadership development, values and principles, as well as training in communication, problem-solving, teamwork and diversity. It is designed to prepare students to contribute to society and the world.
Leadership Niagara, in its 29th year, is the longest running community leadership program in New York. It provides practical and in-depth graduate-level leadership development, coaching and mentoring and discussions on regional issues and industries. The organization's mission is to strengthen regional leadership.
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SOCORRO, N.M., October 26, 1999 -- Hyun Sik Jeon recently was appointed to the full-time, tenure-track position of assistant professor of chemical engineering at New Mexico Tech.
Jeon becomes one of the newest faculty member in Tech's petroleum and chemical engineering department after having served the past two-and-a-half years as a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md.
Jeon earned both his bachelor of science and master of science in chemical engineering degrees at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, and obtained his doctorate in chemical engineering at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, N. Y.
This fall semester at New Mexico Tech, he is teaching a graduate-level course, Advanced Topics in Polymer Science.
"The graduate students in my class and my graduate research assistant have all been doing better than my expectations," Jeon says. "And, the research community is very active here, especially in comparison to other schools of this size."
Jeon's current research interests focus primarily on the structural properties of polymer materials, a research area in which he is setting up collaborative efforts with scientists in his department, Tech's materials and metallurgical engineering department, and the university's Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC).
Jeon adds that he also recently received a research grant from Sandia National Laboratories to study the structure and thermal properties of polymer-polymer interfaces and polymer thin films.
"I will submit research proposals to Los Alamos and Argonne national laboratories too," Jeon says. "They use neutron beams in their polymeric materials research, and I was accustomed to using them with my previous research at NIST, which operated one of the best neutron reactor research facilities in the world."
Jeon admits he initially thought it would be difficult to adjust to small town life when he arrived in Socorro, especially since his previous residences had been near Washington, D.C. and New York City.
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Jeon adds that his family also has adapted well to the small town lifestyle Socorro has to offer, even though their first impression was that the town was too small.
His wife, Insook, for instance, has joined the New Mexico Tech Chorus, which currently is practicing for The Messiah (to be presented on Dec. 11 and 12, 1999), and their daughter, Yena, is now involved with the student newspaper at Sarracino Middle School and also was elected to the school's student council.
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Indonesia is an undiscovered center of world sailing zone, the biggest archipelagic country on Earth wtih thousands of cultures, dialects and of course enchanting tropical forests. 70% of our country is water, the sea among the islands and the ocean bordering around just a perfect natural resources ever. With over 17.000 islands in the country, Indonesia challenges to be explored. Sailing is the perfect way just to do it - the distance between the islands is perfect for daylight sailing, beautiful and safe small lagoons are perfect for overnight stops and the people of colourful cultures are just some of who you will encounter along your travels in Indonesia.
Its just like the rainbow glowing through your eyes when in every 100 Nm you will find a significant differences of people, dialeg and way of life. Indonesia mostly are consist of small islands, some big islands such as Java, Sumater, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Irian has also a distinguish differences of the people live in the island. For example - Java Island is consist of 3 provinces West, Central and East Java and it also has different dialegs, different cultures and different custom not to mention way of life.
Indonesia has a long - long history in Maritime activities both domestic and international affairs, the Dutch and Portuegeese have been visited Indonesia many many centuries ago. The eastern part of Indonesia was famous for Cloves, Nut Meg and well known as Spice Islands.
The Bugis tribe in Indonesia today has spreading almost to every coastal area along the country - they really are Natural Borned Sailors.
The Central Government of Indonesia along with the Regional Governments in these last year have dedicatedly developing Indonesian Water to become one of the Economic Support for the country, the region itself and the people as well.
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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's swimming team continued to perform well on the second day of action at the three-day New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association Championships at the Upper Valley Aquatic Center here Friday. The women are currently 10th with 281 points, while the men are fifth with 247 points.
For the women, sophomore Maggie Conlon (Methuen, MA/Methuen HS) was 11th in the B final in the 400 yard individual medley in 4:59.45, sophomore Morgan Cooper (Sunderland, MA/Frontier Regional HS) was 12th in the 50 yard butterfly was 12th in 29.05 seconds and 11th in the B final in the 200 butterfly in 2:03.36, sophomore Lindsay Days (Mattapoisett, MA/Bishop Stang HS) was 21st in the C final in the 100 breaststroke in 1:17.12, the 200 medley relay team of Conlon, Cooper, senior Lindsay Little (Danvers, MA/Danvers HS) and Brittany Dupuis (Milford, MA/Milford HS) was 12th in the B final in 2:00.90, while the 600 freestyle relay team of sophomore Meredith Maki (Holden, MA/Wachusett Regional HS), Little, junior Kim Moore (Billerica, MA/Billerica HS) and Conlon was 10th in 8:32.11.
For the men, senior Craig Johnson (Acushnet, MA/New Bedford HS) was second in the 50 A final in the 50 yard butterfly in 23.43 seconds while senior David Adams (Tyngsboro, MA/Tyngsboro HS) was fourth in 24.25 seconds, sophomore Matt Dean (Londonderry, NH/Londonderry HS) was 11th in the B final in the 100 yard breaststroke in 1:03.47, sophomore Kevin Janofsky (Brookfield, CT/Brookfield HS) was 11th in the B final in the 400 individual medley in 4:41.10, junior Tom Silva (Seekonk, MA/Seekonk HS) was 13th in the B final in the 200 freestyle in 1:55.02, and freshman Eric Frohman (Woodbridge, CT/Amity HS) was 10th in the B final in the 100 backstroke in 57.56 seconds. The 200 yard medley relay team of Frohman, Dean, Johnson and Adams was fourth in the A finals in 1:39.51, while the 800 freestyle relay team of senior Andrew Haughey (West Springfield, MA/West Springfield HS), Adams, Dean and Johnson was fourth in 7:24.91.
"We are having a phenomenal meet with some unbelievable swims," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Cathy Motta. "We have four individuals and two relay teams going to ECACs in Pittsburgh next weekend. I can't even tell you how fast people are swimming." The championships will conclude Sunday.


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To compare the technical specifications and features of Yamaha Fazer FZ-1 and Suzuki DL650 V-strom is a good way to find out which one of these motorcycles will better match your style and requirements. When trying to make your mind on the next motorcycle, your personal levels of comfort should be the leading criteria. After comparing one motorcycle versus another and so on, the circle of favourite models will be then eventually narrowed to several ones. Then the most appropriate judgement can be made when each of them is taken for a real ride.
The bigger engine size of Yamaha Fazer FZ-1 in comparison to Suzuki DL650 V-strom doesn't mean that it is more powerful or better performing bike. Both bikes has the same compression ratio of 11.5:1. It represents the relation between the biggest and the smallest volume in the combustion chamber while the piston is performing its stroke movement.
The bike with a better fuel economy is the Suzuki DL650 V-strom which can travel 51.1 miles with one gallon of fuel. Yamaha Fazer FZ-1 on the contrary can travel 37.6 miles with a gallon. There are two ways of showing the fuel economy of a motorcycle - describing how many miles it can travel with a single gallon of fuel (mpg) or how many litters of fuel it is burning on a 100 kilometer trip (l\100km).
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Yamaha Fazer FZ-1 appears to be faster than Suzuki DL650 V-strom with top speed of 246km/h against 180km/h for the other bike. However sources may vary as to whether these top speed parameters are precise or only approximate.
Both motorcycles are liquid cooled. Motorcycles with liquid cooling operate at narrower temperature ranges. Keeping the operating temperature at a very narrow range allows many engine components to be optimised for these temperatures. The circulation of the coolant from the radiator to the engine is helped by the water pump. If the motorcycle slows down to a point where the air flowing through the radiator is not enough to lower the temperature of the coolant to the needed level, a thermostat will typically switch an electric fan on to increase the air flow through the radiator. Liquid-cooled engines are usually more forgiving because the hot engine has some surrounding coolant to heat up before causing any damage from overheating.
Both motorcycles Yamaha Fazer FZ-1 and Suzuki DL650 V-strom have the same final drive - chain. One of the most economical way to drive horsepower from the engine to the rear wheel of the motorcycle is achieved with the chain drive and therefore it is still the most used among the three options by bike manufacturers. However all chains require keeping an eye on them and proper lubrication when they get dry and cleaning when they get dirty.
Compression ratio 11.5:1 means that the volume of gas in the cylinder when the piston is at the bottom of its stroke refers to the volume of gas when the piston is at the top of its stroke as 11.5:1. The value of the compression ratio of Suzuki DL650 V-strom is 11.5:1 based on the information in its technical data and for Yamaha Fazer FZ-1 the ratio is 11.5:1. To avoid engine knocking when compression ratio is high those motorcycles might be recommended to use premium fuel only. Higher compression ratio means bigger pressure of the fuel/air mix in the combustion chamber and better efficiency achieved of its ignition.
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JESUIT were an unrelenting, noisy hardcore band from Virginia Beach, VA. They existed from the mid-90′s up until the changing of the century. In their wake, they left a rather nice-sized dent in the intensely-PC witch-hunt/"safe space" era of DIY hardcore. Whereas events attributed to Charles Manson are often credited with bringing a savage and brutal end to the peace, love, and drug culture of the 60′s, events surrounding bands like JESUIT and GEHENNA not only elicited controversy at every tour stop, but pushed a movement toward hardcore finding its more violent, unpredictable, and entirely irreverent roots as the "Portlandia" cult of 90′s hardcore crashed to a halt.
Comprised of childhood friends Nate Newton (who went on to CONVERGE, OLD MAN GLOOM, and DOOMRIDERS), Brian Benoit (who went on to THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN), Brett Matthews, Kelly Posadas, and J. How, JESUIT managed to crank out twelve scathing blasts of fury and anguish in their time. Discography features all twelve in reverse chronological order from the final 7″ on Hydra Head all the way back to the demo tape. All twelve tracks have been meticulously restored and remixed by Kurt Ballou at God City before being remastered by Bob Lipton at Peerless. The result is a behemoth of an album that sounds and feels more relevant than anything being marketed as "hardcore for the hardcore" today.
Discography also features completely revamped artwork from Florian Bertmer and Brent Eyestone. Both the LP+7″ and the CD versions are housed in lush gatefolds featuring a brand new illustration from Florian. Inside, listeners will be bombarded with inserts and extras galore. For the vinyl version, Eyestone has reworked and re-interpretated the original demo tape art into a stand-alone 7″ piece and built a massive collage comprised of hundreds of photos from the band's archive and contributors like Dave Mandel and Jason Hellman. Both versions feature complete lyrics and a booklet containing essays and even more photos from friends and peers who experienced JESUIT first-hand. Great accounts from Brian Cook (BOTCH, RUSSIAN CIRCLES), Mike "Phyte" Mowery, Jason Hamacher (FRODUS), and more leave the reader in stitches as story after story paints a larger image of the pure chaos and absurdity that defined JESUIT to a T.
To celebrate this milestone in DIY hardcore documentation, JESUIT reunites for a one night stand in New York City on April 9, 2011. All tickets are sold out.