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Personal income unexpectedly surged 2.6 percent in December, against expectations of a 0.8 percent rise.
Household income rose at its fastest pace in a decade, according to Millan Mulraine at TD Securities.
But this was largely driven by a wave of corporate cash dividends that were intended to beat a potential year-end tax-hike.
This was one of the major components of the " fiscal cliff" debate.
"Personal income in November and December was boosted by accelerated and special dividend payments to persons and by accelerated bonus payments and other irregular pay in private wages and salaries in anticipation of changes in individual income tax rates," according to the BEA press release. "Personal income in December was also boosted by lump-sum social security benefit payments."
Dividend income increased by 34.3 percent month-over-month (MoM) and wage and salaries rose by a stronger than usual 0.6 percent MoM, according to Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics
It is precisely because of this one-off dividend payment that Dales believes this rise in personal income won't be sustained.
"Without these effects, income would have risen by something like 0.5% m/m. A corresponding fall in dividends and bonuses in January, together with the hike in payroll taxes, will reduce income this month. In fact, the net effect will be negative so annualized consumption growth in the first quarter will be much weaker than the fourth quarter's 2.2%"
He also writes that the 0.2 percent rise in spending is not encouraging and that the payroll tax hike has impacted confidence in January.
Dales expects that improving employment trends means "households won't roll over entirely" and he sees a 1 percent annualized rise in real consumption.
Mulraine is a bit more optimistic. He writes that the improvement in wage growth and no real inflation concerns give the Fed room to continue to pursue their loose monetary policy. Plus all the additional income that went to savings will boost personal spending in coming months.


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Our server is simply Pixelmon. We do not require 20+ different mods to log in. Anything not handled by Forge or Pixelmon itself is executed with Bukkit plugins via MCPC. The map consists of the Kanto adventure region as well as survival islands on the outskirts for the purpose of building and mining!
Our Gyms are all level 60 cap to prevent "Where is the first Gym" mentality where over 9000 players are all in line waiting for Pewter City Gym leader to battle them while all the other gym leaders stand idly by.
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Every so often an idea comes along that seems to get a lot right, and you're left with little to do but sit by the sidelines and watch, hoping that it thrives and makes its way to your neck of the woods. San Francisco's new SFpark.org project is one such idea. Here's the overview video from their website:


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Yanks' O'Brien, Severino value Futures experience
MINNEAPOLIS -- Yankees power-hitting prospect Peter O'Brien packed for the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game like he does for any game these days -- with multiple gloves in tow.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Yankees power-hitting prospect Peter O'Brien packed for the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game like he does for any game these days -- with multiple gloves in tow.
"I'm very proud of this," Severino said of the experience.
"It's a great opportunity and a huge blessing," added O'Brien.
The U.S. squad used O'Brien as a first baseman, the position du jour for the 23-year old ranked by MLB.com as the 20th-best prospect in the Yankees organization. Many believe O'Brien, now in Double-A, will ride his power to New York in the near future. It's the position that he'll play once he gets there that remains the unknown.
O'Brien, who has 29 homers, 17 doubles and 63 RBIs through 88 Minor League games this season, made the transition to first baseman only recently. He was drafted as a catcher in the second round of the 2012 First-Year Player Draft before beginning the move around the field last season.
He's spent time in right field and third base, the latter a position he enjoyed, but one where the learning curve was sharp. O'Brien committed 18 errors in 38 games at third last season. The bulk of O'Brien's playing time early this season came behind the plate, though his May promotion to Double-A Trenton left him behind top Yankees catching prospect Gary Sanchez.
About a month after that move to Trenton, the Yankees approached O'Brien about trying yet another new position. He had to borrow a teammate's glove for several days before getting his own ordered.
"I think for the time I've played it, I feel very, very comfortable there," O'Brien said about first base. "It feels very natural. I actually like everything that comes along with the position -- picking balls out of the dirt, having to hold guys on. I was kind of scared at first, because you think you're not going to get that much action. But I like it."
"At the end of the day, as long as I'm in the lineup, no matter where I am on the field, I'm going to be happy and play as hard as I can at that position," O'Brien said. "I think the biggest asset is I can catch. There are other guys who play first, right and third, but not many who also catch. I think me being able to catch also puts me up a notch."
O'Brien did not get to face fellow farmhand Severino on Sunday, as Severino was in and out before O'Brien took the field. Severino, a 20-year-old Dominican native, allowed one hit and struck out one in a 12-pitch fourth.
The right-hander flashed all three of the pitches that have the Yankees so excited about his future -- a fastball that sits 96-97 mph and can top out at 99, an improved changeup and a developing slider.
Since signing for $225,000 in 2012, Severino has made a quick climb through New York's system. He began the season with Class A Charleston before earning a June promotion to Class Advanced Tampa. Since the promotion, Severino has allowed three earned runs on 11 hits and six walks while striking out 28 in 20 2/3 innings, facing players mostly his senior.
"I have felt very strong," said Severino, listed as the Yankees' No. 9 prospect. "This year has been going well, and I'm looking forward to an even better second half of the season. My objective is to try and throw as many innings as possible, and to try improve my angle that I throw my changeup."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB.


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Over the years, I have done a fair number of long-distance canoe and kayak trips. Most of them have been on northern lakes and rivers in Ontario and Quebec, where I had to carry all my food and provisions for a week or so at a time. Still, I have long had a hankering to do something closer to home - a trip that combines some history along with pleasant countryside.
The Rideau Canal seemed to fit the bill. The 202-kilometre-long route from Kingston to Ottawa is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. And with good reason: It was built in the early 19th century by a group of British engineers and Irish and French-Canadian labourers under the command of Colonel By, for whom Ottawa was once named (Bytown).
Officially opened in 1832, it is the oldest continuously operating canal in North America. Most of the 49 locks are still operated the way they were almost two centuries ago: by hand, with an ingenious system of levers and gears.
I decided to tackle the route from south to north, figuring the wind would more likely be behind me going in that direction. Fortunately, I think I was right most of the time. Last summer, I kayaked from Kingston to Smiths Falls, roughly the halfway point. This spring, I completed the northern section up to Ottawa. Each trip took four days.
The term Rideau Canal is a bit of a misnomer. Only about 20 kilometres were actually manmade. The rest of the route uses existing waterways. The lower half of the Rideau is undeniably the most scenic, with stretches of meandering rivers where you can almost forget that you are travelling near towns and roads. There is also a series of fair-sized lakes, including 30-kilometrelong Big Rideau. These offer plenty of welcome opportunities to swim when the weather gets too hot.
One of the advantages of being close to civilization is you don't need to carry much food.
I typically had about a day's supply stored, like all my camping gear, in one of the two watertight bulkheads built into the kayak.
During the day, I munched on pieces of Mt. Logan bread, which was developed many years ago for climbers ascending Canada's highest peak. It is claimed that one two inch-square piece can sustain a man for one day. That's probably an exaggeration, but a list of the ingredients, like blackstrap molasses, wheat germ, honey and whole wheat flour, would make any health-food aficionado salivate.
There was also the occasional treat of passing through a town. One morning, I started paddling shortly after sun-up and rolled into Rideau Landing around 8 a.m. with a good appetite. I tied up my kayak and walked about 100 metres to a small restaurant, where I gorged on a bacon and-eggs breakfast. Hard to do that when you are kayaking or canoeing in a remote northern park.
The Rideau is used by a fair number of cabin cruisers - the locks can accommodate boats up to 90 feet long - but I didn't envy the passengers their soft beds, deck chairs and electricity. Sitting almost at water level, gliding along at five or six kilometres an hour, you observe things that would escape the notice of people cruising by at a faster pace - like a pair of loons that I came across with several chicks on Newboro Lake. One of the loons dove down and came up right next to me and started flapping its wings in a rather intimidating display while the other loon scurried off with its offspring.
Paddling along, stroke by stroke, you also have the pleasurable experience of wondering what lies around the next bend and then watching it slowly emerge into view.
You can travel through the locks, but it takes time for the gates to open and close and the basin to fill up. There is also a charge: 90 cents per foot of your craft for each lock. (You can also buy passes for a day, six days or all season.) I usually just hauled my kayak out and dragged it around fully loaded.
Like any engineering marvel from the 19th century, the Rideau makes you wonder at the ingenuity and sheer toughness of the men who built it. Just north of Newboro locks, you pass through the Newboro Cut, a two-kilometre-long channel from Newboro Lake to Upper Rideau Lake hacked out of bedrock with primitive explosives and an immense amount of sweat. Small wonder that the building of the canal cost the lives of roughly 1,000 men - most of them killed by malaria.
If, like me, you decide to camp during your trip, the lock stations offer ideal places to spend the night. There are extensive lawns where you can pitch your tent right next to the canal and there is always a washroom nearby. Many stations offer picnic tables and barbecue grills. The charge - $4.90 per night - is a bargain.
One night, near the southern end of Big Rideau Lake, I found myself between lock stations and my energy flagging so I decided to call it a day. Skirting the shoreline, I spotted a perfect spot to pitch my tent: flat, grassy and shielded from lake view by low shrubs. The night was bell clear and I pitched the tent without the tarp and gazed up through my mosquito-netting roof at a starstudded sky and the pale smear of the Milky Way. A procession of fireflies winked in and out of view.
I got up near sunrise. Looking out on the lake stretched out in front of me, utterly peaceful, I half thought I had been transported to a remote lake hundreds of kilometres north.
The rideau-info.com website is a guide to places that rent kayaks all along the waterway, including Ottawa.
The website Friends of the Rideau offers a wealth of information, along with detailed descriptions of each section of the canal: rideaufriends.com/paddling/watson-guide01.html.
Being a bit of a map freak, I decided to buy the two highly detailed Canadian Hydrographic charts that cover the entire Rideau Canal, even though I probably could have got by without them. The maps are 1512 ($23) and 1513 ($33), available at World of Maps, 1235 Wellington St. West, 613-724-6776.
You don't need to reserve a campsite. Just pay the lockmaster after you arrive.


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First Drive: Mercedes Benz S400 Hybrid
The Mercedes Benz S400 Hybrid is the world's first mass produced car with a lithium ion battery. It's the first Mercedes with a hybrid drive. And, with a price tag likely to approach or exceed $100,000, it's going to be an ultra-niche vehicle. The S400 Hybrid will arrive in US showrooms beginning in August 2009.
Its competition in the nascent luxury green vehicle market will be the $109,000 two-seat all-electric Tesla Roadster; the $87,000 four-door Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid (not yet out); and the $104,000 Lexus LS 600h L—a V8 hybrid averaging 21 miles to the gallon. Lexus annually sells about 1,000 units of the LS 600h L.
Benz estimates fuel economy for the S400 will be 23 in the city and 33 on the highway. EPA numbers are not yet official, but HybridCars.com did our own mileage test of this big luxury sedan on the roads of Southern Germany. Our drive loop took us from Stuttgart—the home of Mercedes Benz—to the town of Buel and back, a round trip of approximately 150 miles. The route was evenly comprised of high-speed driving on the Autobahn—where we ran at, ahem, greater than 100 mph—as well as moderately paced rural roads, and narrow streets through smaller hamlets. We achieved an impressive 29.3 miles per gallon—not bad for a car that weighs almost 5,000 pounds. (By the way, the V6 of the S400 is plenty strong for the Autobahn.)
With much stricter speed limits in the US, it's reasonable that fuel economy results will be even better. But saving fuel and money is not the first concern for buyers of this car. The buyer of the S400 hybrid is probably just as interested in pairing the Mercedes three-pointed star emblem with a hybrid badge, to demonstrate a combined interest in luxury, refinement, and green status. Mercedes claims that the S400 is the "CO2 champion in the luxury class," emitting a relatively low 186 grams of carbon per kilometer.
As the hybrid version of the Benz flagship S-Class sedan, the S400 is powered by a mild hybrid system with a 3.5-liter V6 gas engine. The hybrid system allows Mercedes to maintain its high-power profile, while using a V6 instead of a V8 or V12. The electric-gas combo provides a total output of 295 horsepower, channeled through a seven-speed automatic transmission. Benz is particularly proud of what it refers to as "compact" batter technology. Engineers made this hybrid system as well-packaged and light as possible. (Mercedes-Benz was able to fit the entire pack into the same space, at the right-hand base of the windshield, that previously housed the car's standard lead-acid 12-Volt starter battery.) The S400 weighs only about 120 pounds more than the standard S-Class.
Driving Manners
The S400 drives much smaller than it is. Cutting through the tight twisties of Germany's Black Forest, this hybrid cornered flatly and with confidence. It is as nimble and agile as its gas-powered counterpart. Stability comes from Active Body Control, an active suspension that continually adapts the suspension tuning to the current driving situation. The S400 features Torque Vectoring Brake, as well as Crosswind Stabilization, both enhancing the sure-footedness of the car. Other high-tech advancements include a pre-collision system, adaptive high beam assist, lane keep assist, and radar-based cruise control.
The cabin of the car is as plush as the standard S-Class. It shares all the same luxury features including a new split-view driver interface, which allows the front passenger to watch a movie without distracting the driver. There's also a "Night View Assist" feature that detects pedestrians on the road ahead. The only interior difference is the S400's hybrid gauge showing the flow of power between engine, battery, and regenerative braking.
The S400 shares the look of the S-Class. Signs of its recent facelift include a more aero grille, revised LED lighting at the front and back, and new mirrors, tailpipes, and wheels. The Mercedes Benz S400 hybrid is a luxurious, fuel-efficient saloon with lots of driving appeal. With its steep purchase price, it's obviously not for everyone—but it is one more option for uncompromising affluent buyers seeking a slightly greener ride.
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Andrew Walter "Andy" Reid (born March 19, 1958) is the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL, a post he has held since 1999. Since 2001, he has also been the team's executive vice president of football operations. He led the Eagles to five NFC championship games, including four consecutive appearances from 2001-2004, and to Super Bowl XXXIX in 2004.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Reid attended John Marshall High School and worked as a vendor at Dodger Stadium as a teenager. He also played youth sports in Los Angeles, and among his coaches were Pete Arbogast, who is the radio announcer for the USC football team, and formerly the radio play-by-play man for the Cincinnati Bengals. In 1971, at age 13, Reid appeared live on Monday Night Football during the Punt, Pass, and Kick competition. Reid played offensive guard and tackle at Brigham Young University for head coach LaVell Edwards.
After graduating from BYU in 1981, he spent one year employed as a graduate assistant on the school's football coaching staff. He spent the next nine years as an offensive line coach with four different colleges, including in 1986 with Northern Arizona University when he coached Frank Pollack, who went on to play for six seasons with the San Francisco 49ers. He was hired as an assistant coach by the Green Bay Packers in 1992, the same year quarterback Brett Favre became a member of that team. Reid was named the Packers' quarterbacks coach in 1997, the season after the Packers won Super Bowl XXXI.


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My first job as a mechanical engineer was with the office products division of a huge corporation. I was assigned to fix the design of a spring clutch that failed prematurely on a copier. The spring clutch design worked for hundreds of millions of cycles in an application in another office product the company made. On this particular copier, the clutch consistently failed at around 20K cycles. Conventional wisdom suggested that the torque was the same between the copier and the other product, and thus the application was almost the same.
This spring clutch transmitted torque from an input arbor to an output arbor, through a helical clutch spring, all mounted concentric on a shaft. When the input end of the clutch spring is held off of the input arbor, the input arbor spins freely, as there is no contact with the inside diameter of the spring. When the input end of the spring is released, the helical spring wraps down around the arbor. Friction between the input arbor and the spring starts the spring spinning with the arbor, like the "rope around the tree" concept for transmitting torque.
The clutch spring is clamped to the output arbor, so when the spinning input arbor gets that spring wrapped around it, all three components are rotating at the same angular velocity in short order. In this application, the load the output arbor drove had a significant inertia. The conventional-wisdom data was collected by multiple sets of previous engineers who worked on this clutch.
The process they all used was similar. They estimated the torque by multiplying the calculated rotary moment of inertia of the load being accelerated by the angular acceleration. Even back in the stone ages, we had DC tachometers that gave a dynamic angular velocity output with a reasonable frequency response that we fed into our storage scopes and took Polaroid pictures of. Theta dot vs. time -- lay a ruler down, and you can figure out acceleration. But something wasn't right in this picture. Why would the same load yield only 1/10,000 the life in a new application? Sherlock Ohms, help?


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Senior Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf's Twenty20 and ODI career appears to be over after chief selector Iqbal Qasim made it clear that he would not be considered for the tour of India.
"Yousuf is not under consideration for the tour to India," Qasim told reporters when asked about the selection process for the coming tour that includes two T20 matches and three one-day internationals.
"As far as Yousuf is concerned we are not sure about his form and fitness right now and he will not be considered for the Indian tour," the former Test spinner said.
Yousuf has not played any first-class cricket since mid last year and was recently named to lead the Lahore Lions side in the ongoing national T20 championship.
But before the first match, Yousuf pulled out of captaincy in favour of Pakistan's T20 captain Mohammad Hafeez and after the first game for Lahore, has not played in the next two matches.
Sources close to the former captain said he himself sees the writing on the wall and would now try to play in some first class matches before the tour to South Africa that begins from January 22.
"He will now take a final shot at a recall to the national team for the Tests in South Africa," one source said.
"That is why he is not playing in the national T20 event and wants to give the younger players a chance in the event," he added.
Qasim said the best T20 and ODI squads would be announced for the Indian tour which was very important for the national team.
"We have two tough tours coming up and we need to do well in India as we have the gruelling tour of South Africa ahead of us. Definitely we are looking at the fast bowling resources available to us for both tours," the chief selector stated.


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It's back to work for Prince William
The freshly-wed Duke and Duchess of Cambridge leave Buckingham Palace Saturday.
Well, that was a short honeymoon.
After spending their first night of married life at Buckingham Palace, royal officials have announced that Prince William and Catherine (now Duchess of Cambridge) are putting off their real honeymoon.
"The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have chosen not to depart for a honeymoon immediately," the palace said. "Instead, after spending the weekend privately in the United Kingdom, The Duke will return to work as a Search and Rescue pilot next week."
So, it's back to Wales on Monday and his RAF Valley squadron in Anglesey.
The couple is spending the weekend in the UK, perhaps at one of the Queen's residences. The palace noted that when they do eventually have their honeymoon, it will be overseas.
The couple emerged from into the Palace garden Saturday morning and boarded a helipcopter for their weekend retreat.
"The Couple have asked that their privacy be respected during the coming weekend and during their honeymoon," said the palace.
They have had precious little of that over the past several months, culminating with their Friday wedding and the subsequest celebrations.
The reception hosted by Prince Charles for about 350 went off without a hitch, it is reported, with the final guests leaving around 3 a.m. That was preceded by the Queen's reception for about guests, during which Prince Charles toasted the couple and remarked that "we are lucky to have her."
For the more intimate affair, tuxes and formal wear was the order of the day, as the pictures at left show, with Kate wearing a strapless white satin evening dress and William in dinner jacket and bow tie.
Saturday morning, the Middleton family emerged from The Goring hotel, where they had book all 71 rooms, said they had a wonderful time, then quickly climbed into three separate vehicles and returned to their home in Bucklebury.


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So last week I delivered a lecture on "The EPA and Property Rights" to Hillsdale College's Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship up on Capitol Hill, and the good folks at Hillsdale have posted the video of the lecture below. It's an hour long, so pour yourself a good glass of wine if you decide to indulge. Here's the key paragraph from my "four propositions" about the topic:
My fourth proposition is that this entire problem cannot or should not be viewed in isolation from the broader problem of congressional delegation of authority to the bureaucracy and the perversion of administrative law today—what scholars at Hillsdale, the Heritage Foundation, and elsewhere call "the administrative state." Hence, remedies or reforms in the service of protecting property rights need to be conceived within a broader framework of restoring the proper constitutional balance across the board.


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Visual Basic 6 Portable
Visual Basic 6.0 was one of the most popular programming environments and we know that there are a lot of you who are developing in it today. Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 is a language rapid application development environment that gives you fast, easy, and intuitive tools to quickly develop Windows applications. Using Visual Basic, you can develop simple utilities or sophisticated applications. Data access features allow you to create databases, front-end applications, and scalable server-side components for most popular database formats.
ActiveX technologies allow you to use the functionality provided by other applications, and even automate applications and objects created using the Professional or Enterprise editions of Visual Basic. Internet capabilities make it easy to provide access to documents and applications across the internet or intranet from within your application, or to create internet server applications.


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Howard Stern had his "America's Got Talent" co-judge Heidi Klum squirming during a recent TV interview when he asked her about the size of her estranged husband's penis.
The two reality TV colleagues were messing around for news show "Extra's" cameras when Stern started to quiz the German model about why she won't appear on his racy satellite radio show.
He suggested it might be because she doesn't want to talk about her marriage to Seal, stating, "I don't know what Heidi's afraid to talk about… The divorce with Seal? Who cares? Nobody cares about Seal. Alright, how big was Seal's penis?"
Klum responded, "You see this is the thing. I don't wanna talk about these things."
The German then asked Stern if he was having fun with her and their co-judges Melanie Brown and Howie Mandel, to which the radio and TV personality got serious and said, "You could be more fun."


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Phi Master luncheon; Scholarship recipient; Lenoir County Farmer's Market;
Phi Master sisters hold annual luncheon
The Phi Master chapter of Beta Sigma Phi International held its annual Mother�s Day luncheon at The Folded Napkin in May.
Sue Hardy Smith was honored as the only living mother of a sorority member. Smith, 92, is the mother of Linda Smith Dawson. Smith was presented a gift from the sorority sisters and was given a tribute by her granddaughters. Legacy members and honorary members also were recognized, including Kristen Bogey, Sophia Heath, Sarah Kennedy, Brianna Murphy, Ava Bowen, Bella Bowen and Jackie Edmundson. Legacy members are enrolled during childhood and are eligible to pledge a chapter at the age of 18.
DG Alan Ginn, son of sorority member Iris Ginn, entertained with a medley of favorite Frank Sinatra songs.
Kinstonian receives scholarship funds
The Carolinas Credit Union Foundation has awarded Brittney Armsby of Kinston a scholarship from the Local Government Federal Credit Union Scholarship Fund. Armsby is a member of LGFCU and plans to attend Mount Olive College.
The Scholar Vision Funds are a collection of funds and resources to help credit union members in North and South Carolina achieve a higher level of education. The Foundation believes that an individual�s self-esteem and economic well-being may be grounded in academic development.
Through the Scholar Vision Funds, educational and financial need scholarships are available to credit union members through the Foundation's General Fund or through a collection of advised and named funds.
Since inception, the Foundation has invested more than $2.3 million to help credit union members better themselves through higher education.
2nd Saturday at the farmer�s market
This is �2nd Saturday� weekend and there are activities all over town to celebrate.
A good way to start the day is with a complimentary breakfast at the Lenoir County Farmer�s Market, beginning at 8 a.m. While there, take advantage of the vendors� assortments of fresh vegetables, all locally grown. On hand today will be Porter Farm, TC Smith Produce, Bruce Coley, Bill Tilghman, Putnam Family Farm and Upham Homestead with fresh eggs; crowder and Dixie Lee peas; heirloom and regular tomatoes; okra; cucumbers; sweet corn; green and speckled butterbeans; regular and rattlesnake string beans; blueberries; Napa beets; purple, green and golden zucchini; pattypan and yellow squash; collards, mustard, turnips, lettuce and a variety of other leafy greens; Georgia or South Carolina peaches; sprite and canary melons, cantaloupes and local watermelon.
Specialty vendors present today will be Big Oak Farm; Farmhouse Kitchen & Bakery; Inner Banks Seafood; Adele�s Organic Soaps; Snow Angels shaved ice; and Rodney Jarman�s kettle cooked pork skins, boiled and fried peanuts.


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Cassidy Bernstein
Class of 2012
Major/Minor: International Studies, Economics
Hometown? Forked River, NJ
Favorite Movie? Pulp Fiction
Favorite Color? Green
Most Memorable Experience at WC: Birthday Ball
Favorite Quotation? "After climbing a great hill, one only finds there are many more hills to climb." -Nelson Mandela
Favorite Destinations? London, Glasgow, Dublin, and Sao Paulo.
Future plans? I want to attend graduate school to receive a master's degree in International Studies as well as my J.D. After that I would like to take the foreign service exam.
Campus Involvement
- Majors: International Studies and Economics
- Concentrations: Global Business and Middle East
- Languages: Portuguese and Arabic
- Study Abroad: Fall 2010, American University in Cairo
- Program Assistant/Multicultural Awareness Week: Office of Multicultural Affairs


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One night at a club Little Red Riding hood and the Big Bad Wolf were getting their groove on.
After hours of dancing and leading each other on, they went back to his place.
He asked her "Come on please just let me stick it in."
Little Red Riding Hood replied 'Stick to the story motherfucker, EAT ME!'


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Reminiscent of our fondest childhood toys, Pavestone Company's innovative Stack Stone™ provides a set of rustic building blocks for your outdoor hardscape projects. Simple to complex, large or small, the possibilities for creative expression are as far and wide as that inner child's imagination.
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text: 11 Apr 2013 09:00 Etihad Cargo, the fast growing cargo division of UAE flag carrier Etihad Airways, has added Washington D.C. to its global cargo network, in addition to boosting frequency to Hong Kong courtesy of strategic partner Air Seychelles. The US capital is Etihad Cargo's fifth destination in North America, while Hong Kong is already part of the carrier's five-destination Greater China cargo network. The news follows the launch of passenger services from Abu Dhabi to both cities in recent weeks. Etihad Airways started direct services to Washington D.C. on March 31, and Air Seychelles, in which Etihad Airways owns a 40 per cent stake, initiated services to Hong Kong via Abu Dhabi on March 24. Kevin Knight, Chief Strategy and Planning Officer at Etihad Airways, said: "Our cargo network continues to expand and with the addition of bellyhold capacity to Washington D.C. and an overall increase in cargo capacity to Hong Kong, we believe these new operations will strengthen cargo services both east and west for our customers." Etihad Airways has deployed an Airbus A340-500 aircraft to operate the daily Abu Dhabi-Washington D.C. route, while Air Seychelles has scheduled its Airbus A330-200 aircraft to fly the three times a week service between the Indian ocean archipelago and Hong Kong. Etihad Cargo already offers daily bellyhold cargo capacity from Chicago and New York to Abu Dhabi, and three times a week from Toronto to Abu Dhabi. In addition, Etihad Cargo offers a twice-weekly freighter service from Houston to the UAE capital. The additional bellyhold capacity offered by Air Seychelles' new service between Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong will strengthen the already established four-times-a-week Etihad Cargo freighter service between the two cities. At present Etihad Cargo offers both bellyhold and full freighter capacity to Beijing and Shanghai, bellyhold capacity to Chengdu, and a freighter operation to Guangzhou. Etihad Cargo serves 86 destinations internationally and operates a fleet of two Boeing B777F, one Boeing 747-400ERF, one Boeing 747-400F, two Airbus A330-200F and one Airbus A300-600F. To ensure capacity stays ahead of demand, Etihad Cargo will take delivery of three additional freighters in 2013 and 2014, comprising one Boeing B777F, and two Airbus A330-200F. Contact met Etihad Als wereldwijd opererende luchtvaartmaatschappij hebben wij natuurlijk overal ter wereld vestigingen. Lees hoe u contact kunt opnemen met uw dichtstbijzijnde Etihad-kantoor. Bekijk onze contactgegevens Feedback Als u een opmerking, compliment of klacht wilt doorgeven, of een vraag wilt stellen, klik dan hier Vind ons leuk Bezoek onze Facebookpagina! Bekijk ons Bekijk ons YouTube-kanaal! Volg ons Etihad Airways | Etihad Aanbiedingen | Etihad Help | Etihad Rewards


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Healthy After School Snacks For Kids 2010-09-23 06:00:56
Annabel Karmel: After School Snacks That Won't Spoil Dinner
Annabel Karmel: After School Snacks That Won't Spoil Dinner
Editor's note: The following is a guest post written by Annabel Karmel, the British children's chef and kiddie cookbook author. This week Annabel shares tips for feeding tots after school without spoiling their dinners.
When children come home from school they are usually starving. Most children tend to head straight for the chips or biscuits, as they are the only things to snack on, but these have high levels of salt, sugar and saturated fat in them, so if you have time try making some snacks yourself that we be more delicious and nutritious for them.
It is important to spend a little time making some healthy snacks they can eat when they get home, but that won't spoil their appetites.
Keep the fruit bowl full; so that the children can help themselves, or you can always spend a few minutes cutting up a selection of fruit and put it on bamboo skewers or thin plastic straws. Raw vegetables or pita bread with a tasty dip or wraps also make good nutritious snacks and are easy for your children to help themselves to from the fridge.
. . . Annabel
Have a picky eater that refuses to eat his greens or a lil girl who is begging to be your sous chef, but you don't know how she can help? Submit your cooking and feeding questions to The Children's Table group over in the LilSugar Community and we'll have Annabel answer the questions each month!


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Inside the BMW 4 Series Coupé everything centres on just one person - you. All the controls are grouped ergonomically around the driver, giving you swift, intuitive access to all functions. Here, BMW Head of Design Karim Habib gives you an insight into the fascinating interior design of the BMW 4 Series Coupé.
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The interior of the BMW 4 Series Coupé impresses with its high-quality craftsmanship and pleasant tangible quality. The result is a unique ambiance of sporting character and exclusivity that is inspiring, comfortable and capable of being styled to match your exact preferences.


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Nearly four months ago, Oklahoma Senators Tom Coburn and James Inhofe both voted against H.R.152, the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act that eventually sent $50.5 billion in relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy. And in the flurry of last night's devastation in Moore, Oklahoma. it was impossible not to forget that fact, knowing the federal government would soon rally to the cause.
Part of that reason was because of the social media aspect to the storm—like the Boston Bombings and like Hurricane Sandy —information on Monday's storm was quickly dispensed through mediums like Twitter and Facebook. But with that came tweets like this, from Current TV's David Shuster (retweeted 118 times):
Praying for OK victims, hoping federal aid/help won't be delayed like #Sandy when 32 Senators, including OK's Coburn + Inhofe, opposed it.— David Shuster (@DavidShuster) May 21, 2013
This one was retweeted 252 more times:
That awkward moment when Sen. Inhofe votes against government help for Sandy victims and then Oklahoma gets hit by a tornado.— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 21, 2013
And a quick search for "Inhofe" on Twitter turns a stream into a river of people talking about Inhofe's Sandy vote:
What Shuster and others are stating is fact. Coburn and Inhofe were two of the 36 Senators who voted against giving victims of Hurricane Sandy what turned out to be $60 billion. Inhofe and Coburn, as HuffPo's Christina Wilkie pointed out, backed a measure to slash disaster relief to Sandy victims by some $27 billion. In December, Coburn's office released a statement defending the vote by saying that the bill contained "wasteful spending." But that bill wasn't their only shot fired at disaster spending. Wilkie adds:
In 2011, both senators opposed legislation that would have granted necessary funding for FEMA when the agency was set to run out of money. Sending the funds to FEMA would have been "unconscionable," Coburn said at the time.
The point here is that these Senators, by their votes, did not show compassion to victims of disaster and have a long history of voting that way. So now, with disaster on their own state's doorstep, are these Senators going to ask for help and money the same way New Jersey's and New York's legislators did?
Coburn, for his part, is at least being consistent. His office has already "confirmed that the senator will seek to ensure that any additional funding for tornado disaster relief in Oklahoma be offset by cuts to federal spending elsewhere in the budget," setting up a potential scenario where he would be forced to vote against money being sent to his own state. Inhofe has insisted that this is a "totally different" situation, because the Oklahoma funding bill (which hasn't been written yet) won't contain pork projects that send money elsewhere.
But another pertinent question to ask, is if it's appropriate to bring their voting records up so quickly. As Politico's Glenn Thrush (who also brought up the issue) quickly found out, some thought it was too soon to delve into Inhofe's and Coburn's voting records:
I'm a douche low-life scumbag jackhole ghoul for noting Coburn already wants offsets to fed aid and Inhofe is climate change denier.— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) May 21, 2013
He also had this Twitter fight (which ended in prayer) with a follower:
The whole debate is not unlike the conversation that erupted about gun control in the hours following the Newtown shooting. Some stressed that addressing the debate while the murders of the Sandy Hook children was still raw was necessary. Others said it was "too soon." If you remember, it didn't take long for actual politicians to parlay the Boston bombings into a debate about immigration. It's not impossible to feel for the victims and also be critical of Oklahoma's (and other states') lawmakers. How much help or money victims will receive will probably be decided by bills tapping into federal aid, like those created in the wake of Sandy.
What we know is that the residents of Moore, Oklahoma, are in desperate need of help. Lives have been wrecked. Lives have been lost. Oklahomans are going to need the sympathy and compassion from other humans in what's going to be a long and painful healing process. That's undeniable. How much or how little you may want to focus on the past actions of Inhofe and Coburn is completely your own decision, but it's impossible to ignore.
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The MySQL server maintains a host cache in memory that
contains information about clients: IP address, host name, and
error information. The server uses this cache for nonlocal TCP
connections. It does not use the cache for TCP connections
established using the loopback interface address
127.0.0.1), or for connections established
using a Unix socket file, named pipe, or shared memory.
For each new client connection, the server uses the client IP address to check whether the client host name is in the host cache. If not, the server attempts to resolve the host name. First, it resolves the IP address to a host name and resolves that host name back to an IP address. Then it compares the result to the original IP address to ensure that they are the same. The server stores information about the result of this operation in the host cache. If the cache is full, the least recently used entry is discarded.
The server performs host name resolution using the thread-safe
gethostbyaddr_r() and
gethostbyname_r() calls if the operating
system supports them. Otherwise, the thread performing the
lookup locks a mutex and calls
gethostbyaddr() and
gethostbyname() instead. In this case, no
other thread can resolve host names that are not in the host
cache until the thread holding the mutex lock releases it.
The server uses the host cache for several purposes:
By caching the results of IP-to-host name lookups, the server avoids doing a DNS lookup for each client connection. Instead, for a given host, it needs to perform a lookup only for the first connection from that host.
The cache contains information about errors that occur
during the connection process. Some errors are considered
"blocking." If too many of these occur
successively from a given host without a successful
connection, the server blocks further connections from
that host. The
max_connect_errors system
variable determines the number of permitted errors before
blocking occurs. See Section B.5.2.6, "Host 'host_name' is blocked".
To unblock blocked hosts, flush the host cache by issuing a
statement or executing a mysqladmin
flush-hosts command.
It is possible for a blocked host to become unblocked even
HOSTS if activity from other hosts has occurred
since the last connection attempt from the blocked host. This
can occur because the server discards the least recently used
cache entry to make room for a new entry if the cache is full
when a connection arrives from a client IP not in the cache.
If the discarded entry is for a blocked host, that host
becomes unblocked.
The host cache is enabled by default. To disable it, start the
server with the
--skip-host-cache option.
To disable DNS host name lookups, start the server with the
--skip-name-resolve option. In
this case, the server uses only IP addresses and not host
names to match connecting hosts to rows in the MySQL grant
tables. Only accounts specified in those tables using IP
addresses can be used. (Be sure that an account exists that
specifies an IP address or you may not be able to connect.)
If you have a very slow DNS and many hosts, you might be able
to improve performance either by disabling DNS lookups with
--skip-name-resolve or by
increasing the
HOST_CACHE_SIZE define
(default value: 128) and recompiling the server
To disallow TCP/IP connections entirely, start the server with
--skip-networking option.
Some connection errors are not associated with TCP connections, occur very early in the connection process (even before an IP address is known), or are not specific to any particular IP address (such as out-of-memory conditions).


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The Mumbai police on Friday moved closer to nailing the five accused arrested in the photojournalist's gang rape case with forensic tests confirming that DNA samples found on the victim matched with those of the suspects.
"We have received forensic report from the directorate of forensic sciences laboratory at Kalina on Friday. The DNA samples found on the victim match with the DNA samples of all five accused. This is one of the strongest evidences to confirm that the accused were involved in the crime," Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy said.
Roy said one of the five accused was found to be a minor with his brother producing a birth certificate issued by the city's civic authority and a school leaving certificate both of which showed he was born in February 1997.
"We have also verified with the authorities concerned (with regard to the date of the birth of the minor accused). The certificates state that the accused was born in the month of February in 1997. Now ossification test is not required to be done to determine his age," he said.
After the arrest of this accused, the police had claimed he was 18 years of age but his family had disputed it, saying he was a minor. Following this police had planned to conduct an ossification test.
Earlier in the day, three of the accused -- Shiraz Rehman Khan, Vijay Jadhav and Kasim Bengali -- faced the wrath of the women, who hurled eggs at them when they were being escorted to a jeep after being produced before the court.
The women, claiming to be members of a political party, raised slogans and demanded that alleged rapists be hanged.
The trio's police custody was extended till September 5.
The minor accused was produced before a juvenile court, from where he was sent to a juvenile remand home in Dongri. The juvenile accused, if convicted, would have to spend a maximum of three years at a correctional facility instead of undergoing stricter punishment of no less than seven years which could extend up to life imprisonment for others.
Bengali, a history-sheeter, moved an application before Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Uday Padwad, claiming he was a minor and cannot be produced before the regular court.
The Judge, however, rejected his claim and observed that last year, when he was tried before a court in Girgaon in another case, he was treated as an adult. Also, his physical appearance does not suggest he is a minor.
The fifth accused, Salim Ansari, who was nabbed from Delhi, is already in police custody until September 5.
The investigators have also slapped three more Indian Penal Code sections-- 377 (Unnatural offence) , 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) against the accused.
The five accused had been earlier booked under various sections of IPC including 376(D) (rape), 342 (wrongful confinement), 506(2) (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention to commit an offence).
The 23-year-old photojournalist was sexually assaulted at defunct and deserted Shakti Mills compound in Parel area on the evening of August 22 when she had gone there on assignment with a male colleague.


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The next adventure
I am extremely excited to announce that next week I will be joining Project Florida as their Head of Data. Project Florida is a NYC-based hardware/software startup working to harness an expansive breadth of data to improve health outcomes for individuals, and help people better understand their health. I will be leading and growing a team of world-class data scientists and engineers to build parts of the core product. The team at Project Florida is already comprised of an incredible mass of talent from across the tech, product, and health care industries. It is a real privilege to have the opportunity work with and learn from them.
Along with the obvious ego-massaging benefit of writing a blog post about my new job, I also wanted to take this opportunity to discuss how I arrived here. Over the last few years I have had the pleasure of sitting down with several men and women from many different industries -- at different points in their careers -- to discuss the data industry and how they might fit in. It has taken me the better part of a year to make my own decision; and in so far as I was able to give those folks good advice, and to the extent my own personal experience can be informative to others, I want to highlight why I am so excited about Project Florida.
Health data
A few weeks ago I was on the Data for Good panel at the Strata Conference in Santa Clara, CA. In my closing remarks I said a thing was captured by Max Richman on Twitter:
This happens to be one of those rare instances where the benefit of hindsight does not make me regret something said flippantly on a panel. I deeply believe that in order to truly change the world we cannot simply "throw analytics at the problem." To that end, the medical and health industries are perhaps the most primed to be disrupted by data and analytics. To be successful, however, a deep respect for both the methodological and clinical contexts of the data are required.
It is incredibly exciting to be at an organization that is both working within the current framework of health care and data to create new insight for people, but also pushing the envelope with respect to individuals' relationships with their own health. The challenges are technical, sociological, and political; but the potential for innovation that exists in this space comes along very rarely.
I feel lucky to have an opportunity to move into the health data space now.
Sensor data
The past decade of development in "big data" has -- in large part -- been built on top of the need to understand web logs files. Somewhere between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 people began to realize that there was a tremendous amount of underutilized value in these logs files. This spawned an entire big data ecosystem, and a whole new set of hardware and software tools to support it. Arguably, data science as a discipline and profession was also an offspring of this movement.
We have built technology and algorithms to understand the Web, and we have done a great job. Innovation in this space, however, is now focused on further abstracting away the technical detail in order to deliver analysis further up the business ladder. That is to say, we have by and large solved the web logs files big data problem, and are now trying to make it easier for everyone to participate. But, we have only just begun to even conceive of the scope for the sensor network big data problem.
I believe the next decade of exciting work for data scientists and engineers will be in creating an ecosystem around sensor data. By liberating the in-bound bytes from the Web, we have at once an entire new class of questions that can be asked, and a new class of hardware and software problems that must be solved.
This is particularly relevant to those considering starting a career, or making a pivot, into the data industry.
Strength of team
In my time at IA Ventures I have learned an enormous amount about the dynamics of technology startups, and what can contribute to their success. While this will not surprise those with startup experience, it bears repeating that the strength of startup's team is at least as important as the strength of its technology.
At Project Florida, the team that has been pulled together -- and continues to be assembled -- is one of the strongest I have ever seen. For those considering other opportunities, I would strongly recommend considering the people you will be working with just as much as problem you will be working on.
Of course, I would be remiss to conclude without giving a plug to make the Project Florida team even stronger. I will be looking to add folks to the data team immediately, and we are looking to grow the whole organization. If interested, please feel free to reach out to me directly about opportunities on the data team, or ping firstname.lastname@example.com for information about opportunities throughout the organization.
Here's to the next adventure!


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When it comes to ornaments, I like ...
... sparkly ones.
Last year's Advent Calendar post:
Advent Calendar Day 15: December Birthdays
Thursday, December 15, 2011
An ornament a Day - Day 15
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I have been enjoying your ornaments! Hope you had a wonderful birthday!ReplyDelete
Your ornaments are extraordinary. thank you for sharing them!ReplyDelete
Your ornaments are extraordinary. thank you for sharing them!ReplyDelete
Love the color on these. Mom has some similar but in burgundy and green. Beautiful ornaments, Greta.ReplyDelete
Harriet - Thank you!ReplyDelete
palib - I'm having a great time sharing them, and finding other "ornament heads" in the process!
Gini - Yes, the blues and purples are great; and I also like greens. There are also some nice burgundy ones, but I didn't take pictures of them. Maybe next year....
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International Women's Day, celebrated on March 8th, is right around the corner! With its roots dating back to the early 1900s, this holiday is as popular internationally as Valentine's Day. Rather than being a romantic celebration, IWD is an occasion to celebrate all of the special women in your life - be it a mother, a wife, a daughter, a friend or a coworker!
Flowers accompany us in every occasion and milestone, with different flowers having a language of their own. As far back as the 18th century, flower enthusiasts have been dissecting the meaning of flower varieties and colors, emphasizing the idea of "saying it with flowers". The perfect variety for this occasion is one that celebrates love, honor, respect and achievement. Tulips and sunflowers both represent opportunity and achievement, so it would be appropriate to mix a few of these beauties into the bouquet. You may also want to consider your relationship with the recipient when choosing the appropriate flowers. Daisies are ideal for a friendly sentiment, while stunning red roses scream romance.
Above all, this day is about celebrating female accomplishments and progression! Mark your calendars and plan ahead to make this March 8th a moment to show appreciation to all the special women in your life!


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Folks, Chengyu Song has been busy the last few weeks and made some upgrades to the honeypot monitoring tool Qebek. He has ported it from QEMU 0.9.1 to QEMU 0.13.0. As a result, Qebek's performance (boot time) is better and it no longer requires gcc 3.4. You can check it out
svn co https://projects.honeynet.org/svn/sebek/virtualization/qebek/trunk/
If you don't know what Qebek is or how to use it, take a look at our whitepaper at http://honeynet.org/papers/KYT_qebek.
I am very pleased to announce another publication of our Know Your Tools series: Qebek - Conceal the Monitoring authored by Chengyu Song and Jianwei Zhuge from the Chinese Chapter and Brian Hay from the Alaskan Chapter.
The paper is available from http://honeynet.org/papers/KYT_qebek.
Paper abstract
For the last few years, while low-interaction (LI) honeypot systems like Nepenthes and PHoneyC are getting more and more powerful, the progress of high-interaction (HI) honeypot technology has been somewhat slower. This is especially true for Sebek, the de-facto HI honeypot monitoring tool. In this KYT paper, we introduce Qebek, a QEMU based HI honeypot monitoring tool which aims at improving the invisibility of monitoring the attackers' activities in HI honeypots. Read more »
Here is a brief introduction on Qebek, answering some questions.
Sebek Windows client has two keystroke sources, one is read or write std stream, the other is csrss port. In the callback function of NtReadFile and NtWriteFile, Sebek will check if the given file handle match one of the three standard stream handles. if matches, it then logs the given data of keystrokes: Read more »


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Serge Ramelli realised his dream to photograph Paris just like in the movies. His respective passions for photography and cinema have led him to capture the iconic sites of Paris as well as the poetry emanating from the city's architecture. Through lighting and framing effects, he succeeds in obtaining powerful, contrasting and dramatic images that allow him to showcase the aesthetic and graphic qualities of his subjects.Read more Read less
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Passionate about images since a young age, Serge Ramelli decided to devote his career to it in 2005. He thus soon became a professional photographer and cinema producer. His creative and inquiring mind leads him to constantly explore new techniques, both photographically and digitally, in order to better recreate the grandeur of urban landscapes. He multiplies experiments in the field of photography and also successfully teaches various methods of mastering photography such as composition, materials, or retouching, via educational tutorials. These digital guides are designed for amateurs and professionals of the 8th art who wish to learn how to use creative digital tools such as Lightroom or HDR (High Dynamic Range), which allow powerful, contrasted, and dramatic images to be obtained.


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Dad's going to love this 5th Gen iPad 5 and you'll love that it's $100 off...
We have two great picks for Dad from TechBargains' Weekly deals, where this week they feature the Best Father's Day Deals: with TVs, Kitchen Gadgets and of course Electronics for Dad. Prices and stock are accurate at time of posting - so act fast as these deals may not last.
Our picks? $100 off the 128GB Apple iPad 5th Gen Tablet for $329 at Walmart (list price $429).
Dad's going to love this 5th Gen iPad 5 and you'll love that it's $100 off because you'll save over $100 compared to buying the newest 6th generation (and only miss out on Apple Pencil support and an updated processor). Dad can do so much on his new iPad including our top five faves for Dad :Stream all these great Father's Day movies on sale (like Spiderman: Homecoming, Logan, and War for the Planet of the Apes). Crank up the new album by Dave Matthews Band, Come Tomorrow. Get it for free with the Music Unlimited plan or he can have it on MP3. Learn to speak Italian. Or Swedish or Japanese or Spanish with Rosetta Stone for iPad. Read a book. The Best Books of June list is out and there are some great ones, including Calypso by David Sedaris. Play some games. Dad needs some down time and getting lost in the latest installment of The Room: Old Sins might do the trick.
If you need something smaller, the Apple iPad Mini 4 128GB is available for $299.99 ($130) as well.
And if you're planning a party for Dad, get him the Ultimate Ears MEGABOOM Wireless Bluetooth Speaker for $119.99 at Dell Home (list $249.99)
These MegaBoom speakers are great for picnics and BBQs. They produce big sound without distorting, which is really what separates these UE Boom speakers apart from generic $20 speakers.. If you have a big party coming on you can chain 50 of these together for wireless sound everywhere.
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Azerbaijan Newspaper 525, August 27-2008
Adnan Oktar: This is a chain reaction. If Azerbaijan and Turkey gets united, it will rock the whole world. It will rock the Turkish Islamic world, either. It is something very significant. It will motivate all of the others… For sure, Kazakhstan will also prefer to involve in the Turkish Islamic Union. There is also a crowded population of Russian people in Kazakhstan. This is so good, this is so nice. They are our brothers and sisters as well. So, Russian nation is not unapproachable indeed. These are not people out of our reach. They are very nice people. Actually, Russians living over there is a blessing for us because there are engineers, professors, artists among them. A very well educated people in every aspect, a group of people of high quality. Once Russia sees the richness of them, its feelings of love and trust towards such a community will arise. Why Russia feel fear if love and respect is shown to its own race?
Adana CRT TV, September 30-2008
Adnan Oktar: Turkey is walking on a path which is beneficial and well favored enough. Gradually, it cleans up, calms down, and becomes hale and healthy… Insha'Allah, Turkey will be the leader of the Middle East and Balkans. Turkey will be the leader of the Islamic and Turkish World. Turkish and Islamic World will get united to form a great Turkish – Islamic Union. Turkey will take the lead and be their elder brother. Thus, it will make up the third superpower as well as will become a factor of equilibrium apart from America and Russia. It will start the age of peace and safety throughout the whole world Insha'Allah…


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Merger of UBS (Luxembourg) S.A. and Banque Ferrier Lullin (Luxembourg) S.A.
The governing bodies of UBS (Luxembourg) S.A. and Banque Ferrier Lullin (Luxembourg) S.A. have announced their intention to merge the two companies. The planned integration of Banque Ferrier Lullin (Luxembourg) S.A.'s operations into UBS (Luxembourg) S.A. will strengthen the latter's position as a major player in the Luxembourg financial centre..
The planned integration of Banque Ferrier Lullin (Luxembourg) S.A.'s operations into UBS (Luxembourg) S.A. represents an ideal strategic solution for both institutions. It will enable UBS (Luxembourg) S.A. to boost its market share in private banking business, which serves a significant local and international clientele. The move reflects the UBS (Luxembourg) S.A.'s commitment to move ahead in line with the UBS Group's European strategy in this sector. For the Swiss private bank Ferrier Lullin & Cie SA, a UBS subsidiary and shareholder in Banque Ferrier Lullin (Luxembourg) S.A., the merger is consistent with its policy of focussing and streamlining its network of offices to deliver a range of products and services which no longer necessitates an actual presence on the Luxembourg financial scene.
The merger project will generate significant synergies in a number of areas. It will enable the pooling of recognized expertise in the field of wealth management services based on shared standards of service quality and professionalism.
The merger will involve the transfer of as many as possible of the 42 Banque Ferrier Lullin (Luxembourg) S.A. staff to UBS (Luxembourg) S.A. The latter currently employs 300 staff. A social plan will be negotiated with staff representatives and trade unions for employees who can not be accommodated within the new structure.
Subject to final approval by the shareholders of both banks, the merger of Banque Ferrier Lullin (Luxembourg) S.A. and UBS (Luxembourg) S.A. will be finalized by the end of the year at the latest.
Roger Hartmann, Managing Director, UBS (Luxembourg) S.A. +352 45 12 12 000
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These days, it seems that whenever you ask someone how things are going, the standard answer is "busy." Information gathered by the Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being at Guelph University in 2001 stated that 58 per cent of Canadians felt "overloaded" with work, their personal lives, and issues relating to health. Also, The Conference Board of Canada found that workers experiencing high levels of stress miss over a week of work a year—twice the amount of their chilled out colleagues.
A.J. Robertson, an instructor with Mount Royal University's Centre for Complementary Health Education and the school's new Spa Therapy program, (due to start this fall), says that it's vital to take some "you" time—time dedicated to forgetting about work deadlines, responsibilities at home and other daily stress producers in your life. "In a day and age where stress is not only one of the leading factors contributing to disease but also reported by a growing number of the population, stress management is incredibly important in overall health and well-being," she says.
Robertson, who's studied energy-based and therapeutic treatments like Reiki, reflexology, meditation and Tai Chi since the mid-1990s, says that while making smart nutritional choices and exercise can help with stress management, a trip to the spa can also do wonders. "Therapeutic treatments are an excellent method of achieving [a relaxed] state and [can] assist our bodies in the process of relaxation, detoxification, and wellness."
We've combed the city for some of the best spa treatments around to help you unwind, revive and feel nourished.
By Laura Pellerine, Allison Onyett, and Dan Leahul
Health benefits: "Relaxation is an integral part in assisting the body's defense against disease," Robertson says. "Therapeutic treatments target stress reduction, thereby positively effecting metabolic, circulatory, lymphatic, and immunologic processes."
Key words to look for: Therapeutic, gentle, relaxing, non-invasive, tranquil, peaceful.
How to keep it going: Robertson recommends creating a mini spa session at home using the same products from your treatment (many spas sell the products they use), or by taking a class that promotes relaxation like Feng Shui or yoga.
Treatments around town
Tranquility Body Wrap: RnR Wellness
Start by taking a dip in their whirlpool, the soothing, warm waters will help to relax your muscles and mind. Once you've toweled off, the treatment begins with a Himalayan Salt Glow scrub, a full-body massage and a hydrating application of their Tranquility body lotion, made from pure essential oils like jojoba, vanilla and amaranth. While you're snuggled into your wrap, you can choose between a scalp or foot massage. 90 min, $169
The Anti-Stress Treatment: Getaway Spa for Men
Serving an exclusively male clientele, the spa is quiet, comfortable and thoroughly masculine. This signature treatment starts with a full-body scrub with sea salt and essential oils, followed by a mini-facial and deep scalp massage, using intensely fragranced peppermint, spearmint, and tea tree oils. A full-body massage with the spa's hot towel treatment is next—steamed towels are laid gently over the body and scalp, proffering deep relaxation as stress just melts away. Afterwards, guests are treated to a shampoo and condition, as well as a facial grooming session. 120 min, $300
Thai Ritual Massage: Swizzlesticks
You're forced to relax at the beginning of this treatment by slipping into a chromo-colour, hydrotherapy session (each colour offers different benefits). Next, your muscles get further warmed up through a series of assisted stretches. Then warm, aromatic, hand-tied bundles of raw cotton (called Luk Pra Kob) filled with natural herbs and essential oils such as ginger, lemongrass, sweet flag and acacia, get deeply massaged throughout your entire body. Consider booking towards the end of the day—you'll be so relaxed you may not want to return to your normal routine. 90 min, $169
Health benefits: Treatments with a focus on increasing circulation could help enhance blood flow, move waste away from muscles and internal organs, and lower blood pressure.
Key words to look for: Energizing, invigorating, rejuvenating, refreshing, renew, restore, detoxifying.
How to keep it going: Lisa Gossen, owner of Inner Balance suggests using a diffuser with essential oils like peppermint, lemon or rosemary, known to invigorate and energize. Drinking peppermint tea is also refreshening.
Treatments around town
Lemongrass Sea Salt Scrub: Santé Spa
A good remedy to fight Calgary's dry air—while it's a great add-on to a massage, it's also wonderful on its own. First, you'll be vigorously exfoliated from a blend of sea salts, organic lemongrass oil and butters until your skin is smooth and supple. This is then washed off in a Vichy shower before an energizing lemongrass body lotion gets lavished on to further refresh and hydrate. 30 min, $85
Chocolate Bliss Mud Wrap: Riverside Spa
This full-body treatment uses a natural, Chocolate Bliss product line made locally in Bragg Creek. It starts with a sea salt exfoliation before an oxidizing chocolate mud mask is applied. Then while wrapped, you're treated to a chocolate mud mask facial and scalp massage. Afterwards, seven controlled showerheads remove the mask, and the treatment ends with a back massage and moisturizer application—the chocolate's caffeine stimulates the circulatory system to firm and tone the skin, while also leaving you with a little energy buzz. 60 min, $140
Facial Renewal Massage: Inner Balance
While this non-invasive treatment for your face is relaxing (you may even fall asleep!), the gentle fingertip massaging motions increase circulation in your face and relieve built-up muscle tension and connective tissue restrictions. Afterwards you'll notice a softening of fine lines, less under-eye puffiness, and an even skin tone. This rejuvenated, healthy glow should linger for a few days. 60 min, $80
Health benefits: "The skin is the largest organ of the body and plays an important role in absorption and detoxification," says Robertson. "Maintaining its state of balance and health is a fundamental part of overall well-being."
Key words to look for: Natural, organic, moisturizing, hydrating, cleansing, conditioning, soothing.
How to keep it going: Gossen suggests a salt scrub at home followed by a self-massage with shea butter or pure oils like jojoba, coconut, grapeseed or almond oil. High in nutrients, they don't contain petroleum products or artificial chemicals or scents.
Treatments around town
Nourish Nooner: Stillwater Spa
This express pedicure is quick but is more than enough time to give your skin a little TLC. Best of all, included in the treatment is a healthy lunch that can be boxed up with offerings like mixed organic greens, grilled steelhead trout with lemon confit, and fruit. The treatment begins with a soothing aromatic footbath as the nails are clipped and filed, followed by an exfoliating sea salt scrub and leg massage. Lastly, the feet are lotioned and nails polished to a brilliant sheen. You can also choose to do the express manicure instead. 30 min, $63
Matcha Tea Facial: The Spa Ritual
At this Asian-inspired spa (voted one of the Top 50 in Canada), this treatment starts off with a back and foot massage. Next, the face is cleaned with a foam cleanser, bamboo exfoliant, and renewal tonic mist. The face and scalp are then massaged with essential oils, and a mask of medic aloe vera and Japanese matcha tea rejuvenates and increases cell turnover. A rose hydrosol spray is followed by a cool under-eye nourishing gel, while your feet and hands are treated to a soothing massage. Lastly, a final application of a vitamin C moisturizer leaves skin smooth and glowing. 90 min, $195
Juno Pedicure: Spa Europa
This "facial for the feet" begins with a soothing, hydro-therapeutic foot treatment and an exfoliation up to the knee. Next, a facial mask is applied to your feet and lower legs, and your hands get a paraffin treatment. Afterwards, your feet are massaged with hot stones, given a warm paraffin bath, and are then wrapped in algae. It ends with your choice of polish. 90 min, $89