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Fiery Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is thinking about running for president in 2016, according to a report in the National Review. The freshman lawmaker may have been in office only four months, but he has risen quickly to national prominence, and some conservative leaders are privately pushing him to run, reports NR's Robert Costa.
"There's not a lot of hesitation there," says one Cruz donor quoted by Mr. Costa. "He's fearless".
Wow – a Cruz run would shake up the race, wouldn't it? If nothing else a Cruz candidacy would provide the media with lots of spicy stories. This is a guy who's irritated longtime Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California with what she took to be condescending remarks, charged that Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel may have taken money from foreign governments, and recently called some of his Republican colleagues "squishes" in remarks to a Texas tea party gathering.
The latter led conservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin to label Senator Cruz as immature and unsophisticated about the governance of the nation.
"There is being principled, and then there is being a jerk," Ms. Rubin wrote this week.
Of course, Cruz supporters might label Rubin, a committed supporter of Mitt Romney's presidential bid, as an accommodator who's hurting the party from within. Clearly a Cruz candidacy would be somebody's worst political nightmare. The question is whose. We'll look at three scenarios:
His supporters say Cruz would be the scourge of the Democrats, a Barry Goldwater truth-teller who'd actually draw votes. In their view, the GOP has been captured by establishment big-government types who aren't interested in shrinking federal spending or reducing Washington's influence.
Cruz and fellow tea party favorites Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky are a Republican solution, not a problem, writes conservative pundit Erick Erickson at RedState today. If it was not for them, in Mr. Erickson's view, the recently defeated Senate gun control bill would have become law.
"Those on the right who attack and assail them for daring to fight for their beliefs while in the Gomorrah that is our nation's capital are the problem," writes Erickson.
Other Republicans'
See above. The rest of the GOP might groan if Cruz entered the race. He'd certainly be a foil for Chris Christie – can't you already see them shouting at each other over whether the New Jersey governor should have praised President Obama's efforts in the wake of superstorm Sandy? And Cruz would compete with Rand Paul, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, and probably others for the role of chief conservative contender. Immigration, an issue on which Cruz is to the right of Rubio, would become even more important.
"How excited do you think establishment Republicans will be after all the post-2012 wooing of Latino voters to see the primaries turn into a referendum on whether the party betrayed conservatism by supporting a path to citizenship?" writes Allapundit today on the conservative site Hot Air!.
His own
It's also possible that Cruz could be the Rick Perry of 2016 – a candidate who crashes and burns due to his own words. And we don't just mean calling lawmakers "squishes." Cruz's unsubstantiated charges against then-Senator Hagel drew an angry response from GOP Sen. John McCain, even though Senator McCain opposed Hagel's Pentagon nomination as well.
And Cruz in the past has embraced lots of "conspiracy theories" that now may come back to haunt him, writes Ian Millhiser at the liberal site Think Progress. According to Millhiser, these include charges that communists have infiltrated Harvard Law School (which Cruz attended), that Islamic law threatens the US, and that George Soros has led an international conspiracy to abolish golf.
"If Cruz runs, he would give voice to the conspiracy-minded John Birch Society wing of the Republican Party that the National Review's founder [William F. Buckley Jr.] fought so hard to purge several decades ago," writes Millhiser.


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Foreign Policy: Clinton's Wake Up Call On Mexico
David Rothkopf is President and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm. His most recent book is Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making.
In her well-received remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton let slip a statement that immediately sent the inter-American affairs semantic fashion police scurrying. She referred to the on-going threat posed by Mexican drug cartels and their allies to Mexican society as an "insurgency."
This comment was immediately disputed by Mexican President Felipe Calderon's administration, which argued that they were not becoming another Colombia and that they were doing what was necessary to keep its political system from being co-opted, corrupted and battered into ineffectiveness or worse. It also made some in the State Department and in the -- very conventionally-minded and cautious -- U.S. Latin American policy community squirm.
All those reactions are reasons why Clinton's remarks are exactly on target. It is hard for Mexico to make the case that it has its arms around the problem, when news of its third mayor to be killed in the past several weeks is breaking. It is hard when, as quoted in an excellent Los Angeles Times story on the subject, one senior U.S. immigration and customs official cites the fact that the Mexicans have "lost an 'astronomical' number of police officers and soldiers." In short, it is hard for them to argue that everything is under control when it is clearly not.
Sometimes diplomacy is the art of varnishing unpleasant truths. But sometimes it is the art of stripping away the varnish. In this case it is the latter, because while the Calderon administration has struggled valiantly with this issue, they are losing ground -- and the worse things get, the more they go from being primarily a Mexican problem to being a North American problem. President Calderon may not like it, but this is already a political issue in the U.S. Simply shifting troops to our southern border will not be enough if pockets of Mexico become even more lawless, and in turn even more dangerous staging grounds for threats to the U.S.
Whether the crises in Mexican provinces -- locked in struggles with brutal gangs of drug dealers -- technically fulfills the definition of an insurgency is immaterial. In fact, Clinton's language was actually quite nuanced: "We face an increasing threat from a well-organized network, a drug-trafficking threat that is, in some cases, morphing into or making common cause with what we would consider an insurgency."
Sometimes just a word can be a wake-up call. In this case, if it is not one for the Mexicans -- whether for reasons of pride or denial -- it must be for the Obama team, who have from the beginning recognized that instability in Mexico -- for whatever reason -- is among the most serious, complex, and difficult to tackle threats the U.S. faces today.

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Generic types, added in JDK 5.0, are a significant enhancement to type safety in the Java language. However, some aspects of generics may seem confusing, or even downright bizarre, to first-time users. In this month's Java theory and practice, Brian Goetz examines the common pitfalls that ensnare first-time users of generics.
Generic types (or generics) bear a superficial resemblance to templates in C++, both in their syntax and in their expected use cases (such as container classes). But the similarity is only skin-deep -- generics in the Java language are implemented almost entirely in the compiler, which performs type checking and type inference, and then generates ordinary, non-generic bytecodes. This implementation technique, called erasure (where the compiler uses the generic type information to ensure type safety, but then erases it before generating the bytecode), has some surprising, and sometimes confusing, consequences. While generics are a big step forward for type safety in Java classes, learning to use generics will almost certainly provide some opportunity for head-scratching (and sometimes cursing) along the way.


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- "Their eyes were shut, their ears just a flap of skin not yet fully formed and their skin was red and translucent."
- —His father's description of him and his brother right after their birth[src]
Jack Monk (b. 20 May, 1995[1]) was a Muggle boy, the son of Dave and Tilly Monk, and the twin brother of Tom.
Birth and rescue
Jack Monk and his brother were born prematurely, delivered simultaneously as what their father described as a "bundle," and received immediate medical care from "an amazing neonatal team." After twelve weeks in the NICU, during which time they were kept in incubators, receiving vital fluids through intravenous lines and breathing with the help of mechanical ventilators, the twins were able to go home with their parents. By this time, Jack weighed four pounds, having weighed only one pound, seven ounces at birth.
The twins' father wrote an article about their miraculous birth, which was featured on the front page of the 12 August, 1995 issue of Metro, under the title "Miracle babies make it".[2]
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Appears in photographs)
- Harry Potter Limited Edition (Appears in photographs)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The prop issue of Metro in which the article about Jack and Tom's birth is featured appears in the Underground scene in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, just before Harry Potter's disciplinary hearing on 12 August, 1995. The body of the article says that "It would be twelve weeks in total before a fully recovered Tilly and I could bring our boys home for the first time." Twelve weeks is eighty-four days, and eighty-four days before 12 August is 20 May. The prop issue itself is dated 1 December, 2006, but this is inconsistent with the canonical timeline of the Harry Potter series.
- ↑ Harry Potter Limited Edition - A Guide to the Graphic Arts Department: Posters, Prints, and Publications from the Harry Potter Films (see this image)


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Available in the US for some time now, the first UK 4G networks are set to go live in a matter of weeks, here's everything you need to know about how to make the most of the UK 4G rollout, and what the new high-speed cellular networks will offer.
EE UK 4G Network Launch Date
Having previously confirmed that it would launch the first UK 4G network before the end of the year, EE, formerly Everything Everywhere and parent company of both Orange and T-Mobile in the UK, has now set a confirmed UK 4G launch date.
Hitting four UK cities first, London, Bristol, Cardiff and Birmingham, the EE UK 4G launch date has been set for October 30th with the fledgling network to go live with a selection of handsets from Apple, Samsung, HTC and Huawei on offer.
"We are delighted to announce that the official launch of our new customer brand, EE, offering the UK's first superfast mobile 4G and fibre broadband service, will take place on the 30th October 2012," Olaf Swantee, CEO of EE said in a recent statement.
"This is a significant milestone for the United Kingdom, and for the people and businesses of our country who will now be able to enjoy the huge advantages of superfast 4G technology for the first time." He added: "We are very proud to be pioneering, innovating and leading our industry in launching 4G for our nation through our new EE brand."
UK 4G Coverage
Although this month's UK 4G launch will see just four of the nation's leading cities feature the high-speed network services, EE has confirmed that it will roll out the 4G spectrum across more of the UK imminently, with a total of 16 cities to support the 3G trumping network by Christmas of this year.
Taking the superfast 4G mobile network to all corners of the UK, EE has outlined plans to add Edinburgh and Belfast to the list of covered cities this year, with Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool also given the pre-Christmas 2012 4G nod.
Elsewhere, residents of Sheffield, Glasgow, Newcastle, Southampton, Hull, Nottingham and Derby will also be on the receiving end of 4G speeds before the year is out.
Whilst major cities understandably take precedence for what will be a long and gradual national 4G rollout process, EE has confirmed that it is looking to offer comprehensive coverage of the entire nation, with 98 per cent of the UK to have access to 4G speeds by the end of 2013 with just the Highlands and Islands of Scotland being forced to wait into 2014.
UK 4G Networks
Despite rival networks including O2 and Vodafone threatening legal action to prevent EE getting an unfair jump on its 4G UK rollout, the Orange and T-Mobile parenting network has been given the green light by regulating body Ofcom.
In a bid to appease rival networks, however, Ofcom has agreed to move the full 4G network spectrum auction forward from May 2013 to January 2013, ensuring O2, Vodafone and Three can offer their own 4G services for the UK within the year.
Although UK 4G network options from O2 and Vodafone are unlikely much before July 2013, relative bit-part player Virgin Media could make the move to 4G later this year if a rumoured piggybacking off the EE spectrum comes to fruition.
Speaking last month on the 4G claims, a Virgin Media spokesperson said: "People are increasingly using smartphones, tablets and other connected devices to get online and 4G will play an important part in meeting the growing demand for wireless capacity."
They added: "Launching 4G services this year promises to bring significant benefits to UK consumers as people begin to make the most of forthcoming superfast mobile connections."
UK 4G Launch Handsets
With the recently released iPhone 5 already confirmed as one of the key launch handset's for EE's imminent UK 4G rollout, those who snap up Apple's 4-inch iOS 6 packing handset on Orange or T-Mobile prior to EE's launch will be able to move across to the 4G service post October 30th.
For those not taken with the iPhone 4S follow-on, the iPhone 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S3 battle looks set to be ignited on a new front with the Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE confirmed as a launch title for the EE 4G service. Although previously available Samsung Galaxy S3 handsets will not be compatible with the 4G spectrum, those looking to get the jump on the superfast mobile speeds can now snap up the LTE compatible Samsung Galaxy S3 from Orange and T-Mobile retail outlets.
"We're delighted to now be offering our customers a range of 4G ready smartphones to choose from," said Pippa Dunn, Chief Marketing Officer at EE. "Not only can they use their phones straight away on the UK's biggest 3G network, but they can also have the opportunity to be amongst the first to benefit from superfast 4G mobile speeds when we launch our EE brand on October 30th".
For those not keen on the Apple or Samsung branded devices, the HTC One XL and Huawei Ascend P1 LTE are both available to buy now ahead of the 4G rollout whilst a 4G compatible Samsung Galaxy Note 2 will be made available from October 15th.
Are you keen to adopt the UK's emerging 4G networks or are you happy with the speeds, and price plans currently offered by the country's 3G services? Let us know via the Trusted Reviews Twitter and Facebook feeds or through the comments boxes below.


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Before looking at the book, written by Mark Hayward, in detail, it's worth pointing out what the book is, and is not. It is, as the title implies, concerned with blogging in order to promote your business. It is not about blogging as a business in itself. It's an important distinction, not least because once we take money out of the equation then "business" can be used as shorthand for any type of enterprise, including a charity, a cause – and a school.
The book is written in a style which is friendly without being patronising, and without appearing to try too hard to be the jovial host of the party, as it were. The structure of the book is well-considered too. Each chapter explains what you have to do or think about, and then leads on to a tutorial in which you have to to put your new-found knowledge into practice. It's a good approach, although now and again it seems a little laboured and repetitive of the chapter itself.
I've read or browsed through quite a few books on this subject, and this one stands out in a few important respects. For example, it considers the issue of whether your blog should be separate from your website, or one and the same. Now, that may sound like a piece of trivia but it's actually an important business decision. A website is a place to go for information that doesn't change or need to change too often, such as what the business is about, or an online catalogue. A blog, on the other hand, really should be updated regularly, and preferably frequently, to keep people coming back. In other words, it is not immediately obvious how one should go about squaring this particular circle. I was both pleased and relieved to learn that, in keeping the ICT in Education website and blog as one entity, I made the right decision for my business!
How might this be applied in a school context? Well, if you are wondering whether you should have a school blog, a school website, or some combination of the two, this book should help you make the right decision for you.
Hayward also looks at how to use Google's Keyword tool, and makes it sound easy and straightforward. Which it is, but some writers seem to delight in making it appear like rocket science (possibly because that's how they earn their living? Oh such cynicism in one so young!).
There is a lot of good, practical advice scattered throughout the text. For example, you're advised to look out for discounts on domain names. Now, that may sound obvious, but to the uninitiated even just the mention of the term "domain name" can cause the onset of a cold sweat. It's very easy to pay over the odds for a domain name because you're too frightened to look for bargains. Fortunately, there are a few suggestions for reputable web hosting companies, and inexpensive domain name sellers, so the reader is not left entirely on her own. Oh, and that's another thing: there are several useful links sprinkled throughout the book. This section may not be relevant to every school, but if you are looking to use a special domain name for your school then this book does a good job of demystifying the process.
If you are convinced of the need to blog but are not sure what to blog about, you don't have to look too far to glean some ideas. Hayward has provided 52 topic suggestions, including "Draft a helpful post or tutorial specifically to help others in your industry", "What are ten ways money donated to your non-profit is spent?" and "Describe any improvements or upgrades you have made to your business". You can see immediately how these ideas could be adapted for a school blog, although not all of the suggestions will be useful. However, 52 suggestions outnumber the 7 things to blog about back in school I suggested a while ago. There is also a simple mind map to help you generate more ideas of your own.
I do have a couple of niggles, though. The biggest one is the devotion of two chapters to Wordpress. Now, for all I know, Wordpress may be the most popular blogging platform. It may even be the best, according to some criteria yet to be revealed to me. However, there are other platforms out there, and in my opinion it would have been far better for the author to have provided a list of links to books or online tutorials concerning blogging with all the widely-used platforms available.
Apart from anything else, that would have left him room him to do something about my other criticism, which is the absence of exemplars for some types of blog post. For example, I for one would find it hard, despite years of practice, to write a blog post on the topic of "What makes your business different?" without making it sound like an advertisement. OK, I tell a lie: I could write an engaging article along those lines, but it's not easy. Given that this book is aimed at people who are new to blogging for business, I should have thought some guidance on this would not come amiss. I have to say, though, that I think this sort of idea might work better in an educational context. A post entitled "What makes our school different?" sounds slightly less potentially obnoxious to me (but only slightly!).
Similarly with "Why do you love doing what you do?". How do you overcome the sense of "why on earth would anyone be interested?", and then how would you write about that in a way which didn't sound hopelessly self-centred?
In fairness, Hayward does come up with some reasons that such posts may be worth penning, such as :
"People love to read about other people."
Even if you accept that sort of statement (I don't necessarily), it doesn't help you actually write the darn thing: knowing that others find it hard to write about themselves does little to help me write about myself.
Here again, though, this sort of thing would work well in an educational context. A series of blog posts by teachers along the lines of "Why I love teaching history" and so on could be incredibly inspiring, not just to potential pupils but also currently enrolled pupils and potential staff.
On the whole, there is far more in the book to like than to dislike, and I have found myself coming back to it several times to look up the odd thing or to gain some inspiration and ideas. It wasn't written specifically for the education market, so not all of the suggestions will be able to be used out of the box, as it were, and you would need to try and adapt them. The price is $49.99 USD. However, if you buy it and decide it isn't for you, there is a 30 day money back guarantee, so you have nothing to lose by purchasing it. Definitely one for the virtual bookshelf.
Problogger's Guide To Blogging For Your Business
This review first appeared in Computers in Classrooms, the free e-newsletter for those with a professional interest in educational ICT. Please also see the review on the Writers' Know-how website for a slightly different perspective.


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How to Use the Images
1. No photographs of Khrushchev's visit to the farm were ever taken. Use Photos 3a and 3b and John Eisenhower's description in Reading 2, to visualize Khrushchev's visit. Would the setting create a comfortable environment, and could that be helpful in lessening tensions? Why or why not?
2. What evidence of Eisenhower's hobbies do you see?
3. In what ways do you think talking with Khrushchev in this room would have been advantageous to Eisenhower?
* The images on the screen have a resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi), and therefore will print poorly. You can obtain high resolution versions of the Photo 3a and Photo 3b, but be aware that the entire files will take as much as a minute to load with a 28.8K modem.


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Alghero, Italy
Beautiful Alghero
Poking out into the Med from the north-western tip of Sardinia, and, like many port towns in this part of the world, it has nautical history aplenty. It's been in many hands – Spanish, Genoese and Piedmontese among them – giving the city a rich cosmopolitan feel. Add fabulous beaches and the Italian passion for food and you'll realise that a holiday here is a feast for more than a few senses.
Destination overview
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|GMT + 1 hour (Summer GMT + 2 hours)
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|2 hours 45
|Holiday type:
|Beach, Summer sun
|Average maximum temperature: 16.0░C (24 hour average)
Rainfall: 590.5mm a year
Located on the North West coast, with fabulous beach resort with the escapism of the city walls which still retains its distinctive Catalan character.
Must See:
Neptune's Grotto might sound like the name of a local tourist trap, but it's well worth a visit. This huge underground marine cave complex is best reached by boat. You'll need the guided tour to see it at its best.
Must eat at:
Andreini, in the heart of Alghero's Old Town, is a great place to come for a meat-fest. Expect local favourites including wild boar, all lubricated by lashings of local wine.
Must be there for:
24th June is the day when the entire town marks the feast day of San Giovanni Battista. You can expect everything from horse racing to late-night skinny dipping!
Well-travelled tips:
Ę Venture further afield and take in the ghost town of Argentiera, an abandoned mining community with an eerily desolate quality.
Ę Take a hike in the evening and you won't regret it. Head for the battlements high above the harbour and treat yourself to a coffee (or something stronger). The beautiful view, by the way, is free of charge.
British citizens do not need a visa to visit Italy.


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We launched Gmail Labs over a year and a half ago as a playground where engineers can come up with new features and let your input help decide which are good ideas and which don't quite work out. Any engineer at Google can come up with a feature, code it, and launch it quickly to tens of millions of users.
Labs started out with 13 features and quickly grew to 60, with even more on the way. We've received countless comments and kept an eye on our stats: some of these experimental features were adopted by millions and others trickled along with little usage. A couple have already graduated from Labs and we've already retired one: Tasks was the first to become a regular part of Gmail, Right-side Labels was retired when we updated the way labels work, and Offline Gmail graduated a couple months back. Today, true to the original intent of Gmail Labs, we're graduating six more features and retiring five.
- Search Autocomplete
- Go To Label
- Forgotten Attachment Detector
- YouTube Previews
- Custom Label Colors
- Vacation Dates
- Muzzle
- Fixed Width Font
- Email Addict
- Location in Signature
- Random Signature
These decisions were made based based mainly on usage, taking feature polish and your feedback into account. We've also tweaked some of the graduating features to improve them before making them default Gmail features. For example, we've combined Go To Label with Search Autocomplete, making it easier than ever for you to find what you're looking for.
Search Autocomplete and Go To Label
Start typing in the Gmail search box (English only for now), and Gmail suggests terms that might help you find what you're looking for — from contact names to labels and advanced search operators.
We've integrated Go To Label into this search box as well. If you have keyboard shortcuts turned on, type "g" then "l" and instead of getting the old "Go to label" pop-up, you'll be in the search box with the "label:" operator filled in for you. Start typing the label you want to go to, and autocomplete will take it from there. All you have to do is hit enter. If you want to send your cursor to the blank search field, the keyboard shortcut "/" will do it.
Forgotten Attachment Detector
From time to time, we all forget to attach a file and sheepishly send another email with the forgotten attachment. To help save you from that embarrassment, Gmail looks for phrases in your email that suggest you meant to attach a file and alerts you if it looks like you forgot an attachment.
YouTube Previews
If you're like me, your friends probably often email you links to YouTube videos. Instead of having to click on the link and wait for a new window to load before you can watch the video, Gmail now shows YouTube previews right below the message. All you have to do is click the play button and enjoy.
Custom Label Colors
Why settle for a restrictive palette when you can choose from over 4000 possible color combinations to help distinguish and organize your labels? Just click on "Add custom color" from the regular labels interface.
Vacation Dates
If you specify which dates you'll be away in advance, you won't have to remember to turn on the vacation responder when when you're actually on vacation. Set your dates in advance, and let Gmail do the rest.
Retiring features is always a tough decision — we invest in building and maintaining them and we realize some of you are probably fans of some of Gmail's lesser-used features. But Labs are experimental features, and from time to time they may break (that's why there's a quick way to disable them), or even disappear. Over the next few days, you'll see Muzzle, Fixed Width Font, Email Addict, Location in Signature, and Random Signature stop working and disappear from the Labs tab.
We'll keep working on new Labs to help make your Gmail experience even better, and we'll continue to graduate successful features and retire the ones that don't work out to make room for new ones. Thank you to all the engineers who have worked on Labs features — especially Bruce, Darick, Jon (the intern), Ibrahim, Chris, Keith, Chad, Michael, and Marco! Please continue to send us feedback and remember that you vote for your favorite Labs features by using them and leaving comments.


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Largely ignored for the first week of the 2013 hiring cycle, former Raiders and Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden seems to be doing his damnedest to create a market where none apparently exists.
Via John Clark of NBC10 in Philly, former in-booth partner Ron Jaworski of ESPN said on 97.5 The Fanatic that: (1) Jaworski has spoken to Gruden; (2) the Eagles haven't reached out yet to Gruden; and (3) Gruden would be interested.
So much for Gruden being committed to ESPN.
Earlier today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the Browns "might be" interested in Gruden. We promptly learned that the more accurate term is "aren't."
The end result seems to be an effort to inject Gruden into the discussion for one or more of the vacant jobs. And that's an effort no one (especially Gruden) ever thought would be necessary when it comes to his return to the NFL. Everyone (especially Gruden) believed teams would be falling all over themselves to hire him.
Now, it looks like Gruden is falling all over himself to attract some/any interest.


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These cocobolo wood and gold tools make it easy to tie bullet heads. Used mostly on dry flies, the bullet head is constructed by spinning stacked deer or elk hair tips forward over and beyond the eye of the hook and then pulling these tips back over the base of the wing. When the hair is distributed evenly around the hook shank, this method produces a head that is a blunt nosed, smooth cylinder. The hair is then secured with a band of tying thread. Flat waxed thread works best. Bullet head stone fly and hopper patterns are very popular as they cast easily and have great silhouettes.
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Bishop Barres speaks to elementary school students about the journey of faith
Bishop Barres speaks to high school students about the journey of faith
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For philosophers, life is full of coincidences. But for us Christians, life is providential. While the philosopher talks of coincidence because of chance, we Christians talk about providence because we believe there is a God in charge of our lives and human history.
What is more evident than God's in-breaking into human history in Jesus Christ? Christmas offered the opportunity to welcome God among us and into our history: human history is being divinized because Immanuel became historical, the highest act of God's providential love.
God's providence comes to us in different and differing ways. Often, we consider the mismatch between the Christian liturgical year and our civil calendar new year as a source of confusion. This year, the Christian liturgical year began Nov. 27, while the civic new year began Jan. 1.
The providence of God always precedes human projections because God is the precondition and grounding of all human endeavours. Seen in this light, our liturgical year unravels the divine drama that ushers in our civic year.
The new English Missal, with its "updated" translation, offers ample opportunities to reflect on the link between the liturgical and civic years. This is particularly the case because it takes some consciousness on the part of a Catholic to respond "and with your Spirit" to the priest's greeting, "the Lord be with you!"
In a situation of hopelessness and moral bankruptcy, the reassurance brought by the greeting "the Lord be with you" (Judges 6.12) is consoling and disconcerting all at once. That was the situation of Gideon when the angel of the Lord appeared to him to reassure him of God's presence and assistance among his people. Gideon contested the angel's greetings with examples of humiliation and signs of abandonment (Judges 6.13).
What Gideon forgot was that "the Lord be with you" is always a prelude to God's interventions: a miracle child was to be born – Samson – to restore the dignity of God's people. Gideon's encounter with the angel opened a new chapter in God's presence among his people.
The celebration of New Year on the heels of Christmas manifests, from a liturgical perspective, the world's need and continuous thirst for God. The Christian liturgical response, "and with your spirit," is not certainly without antecedents. Mary's encounter with the Archangel Gabriel, the bringer of good tidings, and his greetings "the Lord is with you" (Luke 1.28) orients us to the angelic salutation to Gideon, but with a wider audience and unique context: All people on earth are the objects of God's beneficence, and the coming of the unique Son of God is the context of Gabriel's greetings.
Two facts are indisputable for a believing Christian: first, as the aftermath of Archangel Gabriel's greetings to Mary, she conceived and bore a Son by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit becomes and is the medium for the realization of God's promise to intervene, in a spectacular way, in human history.
Second, our liturgical response, "and with your spirit," opens up two perspectives on God's intervention in our lives and world: the presence of Christ in the Eucharistic assembly transforming the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ through the Holy Spirit (epiclesis), but also the actions and activities of Christ in the world through the same Holy Spirit.
The antecedence of Christmas – the birth of Jesus Christ – projects the blessings of the Messiah – "and on earth peace among those whom God favours!" – to our world as it begins another year of grace. It is a year of grace because it is a free gift from God to us, at least for those who believe in him and see his activities in nature and in the world.
"And with your spirit" recalls the presence and interventions of God in our lives and world today. It concretizes the meaning of Immanuel – God with us – in an invisible, yet concrete way.
We can say "happy new year" because we have a guarantee of God's presence among us. We can have a "happy new year" because God's favour rests among all people of good will. We can enjoy the "new year" because the Lord is "with your spirit."
Spiritan Father Ayodele Ayeni is a sessional lecturer at Newman Theological College and pastor of Mary Help of Christians (Chinese) Parish in Edmonton.


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Top three seeds Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal all made winning starts at the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday.
World No. 1 Djokovic said he was pleased to have passed a huge test on his injured right ankle following a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 defeat of Russian Mikhail Youzhny. Djokovic admitted that at one point in the second set he felt some pain but played through it successfully, thanks in part to his heavy strappings.
Second seed Murray posted an uneventful 6-1, 6-4 win over Frenchman Eduardo Roger-Vasselin while Nadal began his favorite part of the year and a quest for a ninth straight title here with a 6-1, 6-2 defeat of Marinko Matosevic.
Djokovic had waited until the last minute to make his decision on whether he could compete, having rolled his ankle on Davis Cup duty 10 days ago. He earned a late break for 5-4 in the final set as Youzhny missed a drop shot, before serving out the match.
"I'm very happy to win, I'm just happy to compete, to be honest. I didn't know if I'm going to be playing the tournament up to yesterday [Tuesday] basically," he said.
Murray was pleased with his own effort on his weakest surface as he beat Roger-Vasselin.
"Its always difficult to move when you get to this surface. I started the match well and he made a lot of errors in the first set. I was able to take advantage of them," he said.
Nadal was totally in his comfort zone on another sunny, warm day on the Mediterranean, demolishing the Australian in 62 minutes.
"I played well with the right feelings and doing the right things, so I'm very happy," he said. "I had the right intensity, with no mistakes."
Nadal's quick win marked a successful return to action after resting for three weeks in the wake of his Indian Wells title last month. The 26-year-old is planning his schedule more carefully after missing seven months of play in 2012-2013 due to his chronic knee problems.
However, he will have little rest in the run-up to Roland Garros, with entries set for Barcelona plus the Madrid and Rome Masters over the next four weeks.
Nadal, playing Monte Carlo for the 10th time, improved his phenomenal record here to 45-1, with his only loss coming to Guillermo Coria in 2003 as a teenager.
He said, though, that despite his enviable Monte Carlo run, he feels no extra pressure to win.
"I feel that I am coming here trying to play well. As in every tournament, [I] try my best in every moment. If that happens, if I'm able to play my best tennis, probably I will have my chance to be in a good position to play in the last rounds, to fight for important things," he said.
Nadal next plays German Philipp Kohlschreiber.
Elsewhere in the second round, Czech fourth seed Tomas Berdych began his clay season with a defeat of Spain's Marcel Granollers 7-5, 6-4.
Croatian ninth seed Marin Cilic put out South African Kevin Anderson 6-2, 6-3, while Austrian Jurgen Melzer upset Spanish 10th seed Nicolas Almagro 6-4, 6-2 and veteran Finn Jarkko Nieminen upset Canadian 12th seed Milos Raonic 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (7/3).


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I have mentioned before that I am pretty smitten with polenta. The creamy, rich goodness appeals to every happy cell of my body. When I saw a simple Sausage and Mushroom Ragu recipe served over polenta, I raced to try it. It was a scrumptious finish.
If your position prefers pasta to polenta, do please still try the sauce. The Italian sausage flavors the tomatoes as they simmer together into an easily gratifying sauce. It feels homemade without a ton of homemade work. That kind of meal always takes the checkered flag for me.
(adapted from Cooking Light)
1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
8 ounces Italian sausage (I like the kick of the spicy versions.)
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 pound cremini mushrooms, sliced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained (I prefer the petite diced version.)
2 1/2 cups chicken stock
1 1/2 cups water
1 cup uncooked polenta
4 ounces cream cheese
1 tablespoon butter
Heat 1 1/2 teaspoons oil in a skillet over medium heat.
Remove sausage from casings and add to pan; saute until browned, stirring to crumble.
Remove sausage from the pan.
Add 1 tablespoon oil to pan and swirl to coat.
Add onion, sauteing until golden.
Add mushrooms, cooking until softened.
Add garlic, saute briefly, until fragrant.
Return sausage to the pan with tomatoes.
Season with 1/8 teaspoon salt.
Reduce heat and simmer gently for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring broth and water to a boil in a medium saucepan.
Add polenta slowly, whisking well to avoid lumps.
Reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes or until thick, stirring occasionally.
Stir in remaining 1/8 teaspoon salt, cheese, and butter.
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Cruise Line Private Islandsby Luisa Frey Gaynor, CruiseMates Family Editor | October 6, 2008
Princess Cays is located on the southern tip of the island of Eleuthera in the outer Bahamas. It is located on about 40 acres and includes more than a mile-and-a-half of pristine beach.
Water sports are in abundance for families and include rental of watercraft such as sailboats, catamarans, paddle wheelers, kayaks, snorkel equipment and thrilling banana boat rides.
For those looking for a gentler pace, there are floating mattresses for rent as well as plenty of hammocks situated under groves of palm trees.
Princess Cays also features a supervised play area called Pelican's Perch. Here youth counselors offer a complimentary array of drop-off activities. The centerpiece of Pelican's Perch is a replica pirate ship for climbing and sliding; there is also a sandy playground and separate restroom facilities. Some of the play area is shaded by a giant tarp and some of it is in the sun.
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AS A RS SENIOR IN 2012-13: Used the remainder of his eligibility while beginning his MBA at Santa Clara University … SINGLES: All-WCC honorable mention … 15-8 record overall and 13-5 mark in dual matches, primarily in the No. 3 spot … picked up a 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 win that boosted SCU to the 4-3 win over USF … defeated No. 6 Pepperdine's Alex Sarkissian – ranked No. 60 -- 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in an impressive performance … recorded a 6-3, 6-3 final over UC Santa Barbara ... in a huge 4-3 win over No. 38 Boise State, picked up a clutch 7-6, 1-6, 6-3 victory ... stepped up with a key 6-3, 6-3 victory in the Broncos' first win over No. 38 Boise State … went 2-3 during the fall season with wins over Oregon's Jeff Mullen and Washington's Max Manthou at the ITA Regional ... DOUBLES: All-WCC honorable mention with Tom Pham … played No. 1 and No. 2 doubles during the season, most often with Pham at No. 2 … made his last NCAA doubles match a good one, defeating USF 8-5 at No. 2 in the WCC Tournament quarterfinals to help SCU win doubles … the Pham-Kecki duo finished the season with a strong run, including a six-match winning streak and victories in eight of nine matches … with Ilya Osintsev at No. 1, racked up wins over Weber State (8-3), No. 50 BYU (8-7) and Sonoma State (8-3) ... paired with Pham and topped No. 38 Boise State 8-2 at No. 2.
At USC (2008-12): Member of two NCAA men's tennis national championship teams while completing his degree in business at the University of Southern California.
2010-11(AT USC): Entered his second season at USC ranked No. 47 in the nation's singles rankings...competed in doubles at the ITA All-American and Southern California Intercollegiate during the fall.
2008-09 (AT USC): SINGLES: Accrued a 27-12 overall singles record during his rookie campaign....appeared in the No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 spots for the Trojans during dual matches...reached the Round of 16 at the then-Pac-10 Singles Championship... went 27-12 overall in singles as a freshman, including a 16-5 record in dual match play... Went 2-0 at No. 3, 8-3 at No. 4 and 6-2 at No. 5 in dual matches... Reached the Round of 16 in the Pac-10 Singles Championship...DOUBLES: posted a 18-9 overall record, including 14-4 during dual matches...tallied three-straight victories in the No. 3 positions in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, semifinals and finals....ranked No. 55 in the ITA preseason rankings...went 3-2 at the UVA Invitational.
HIGH SCHOOL: Back-to-back semifinalist in doubles at the Junior Australian Open and a doubles quarterfinalist at Junior Wimbledon...won the Easter Bowl 14s...also represented the United State in the Junior Davis Cup in 14s and 16s.
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MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota coach Jerry Kill has been taken away on a stretcher at halftime of his team's game against Western Illinois.
Kill has epilepsy, and he has a long history of game-day seizures. He was lying on the ground, writhing back and forth with medical staff surrounding him, right after the Gophers left for the locker room.
The university had no immediate update on Kill's condition.
Kill has worked with doctors to bring his seizures under better control with medication, rest, nutrition and exercise, but the stress of a game day is hard to avoid. Kill suffered a seizure in the locker room at halftime last November against Michigan State, his third documented episode during a game at Minnesota since taking over in 2011.


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The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was taken to the Washington Hospital Center Wednesday evening after an apparent adverse reaction to a sleeping aid combined with cold medication she took immediately after boarding an overnight flight bound for London.
Before the plane took off, the court says, she "experienced extreme drowsiness causing her to fall from her seat. Paramedics were called and she was taken to the Washington Hospital Center as a precaution."
Justice Ginsburg was evaluated at the hospital and she was found to be in stable health.
Doctors attributed her symptoms to a reaction caused by the combination of a prescription sleeping aid and an over-the-counter cold medication.
She was admitted overnight for observation and was released this morning.
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After the bestselling success of Just Married Please Excuse, Yashodhara (Lal) has now taken it on herself to sort out a much-harried-not-so-married toilet cleaner salesman – Sid. And she has asked: why would I like to read the book? Because I liked JMPE, I ventured tentatively? Apparently, that was not the right answer. Why does Sid sound interesting to you, she asked.
And that's what this post all about... I take a look at some of the famous Sids of Bollywood and see what makes them interesting.
Statutory Warning: There are very few prominent Sids in Bollywood. So, we will have to make do with a lot of Siddharths.
The first Sid - naturally - has to be the wastrel who couldn't pass exams or hold down even simple jobs (at his father's company!). Wake Up Sid was the final nail in the larger-than-life Bollywood hero's coffin. Fighting off goons, he didn't do – but Sid was courageous enough to strike out on his own and become a photographer in a classy Bombay – sorry, Mumbai – magazine. You know the type whose retweets are higher than the copies sold. But Sid's talent was evident in the manner in which he saw the city he loved and hey, anything is better than selling toilet fittings. (Yes, that's what Sid's family business was all about.)
Nearly forty years before Ranbir Kapoor became Sid, his grand-uncle also played Sid – who also renounced the path of riches.
Additional Trivia: Hemanta Mukherjee composed the music and Shashi's son – Kunal – played his son in the movie.
Another Sid was artist Siddharth Sinha of Dil Chahta Hai.
Akshaye Khanna was the sensitive yet strong artist whose brushstrokes were as bold as his choices, his choice of career was as unconventional as his worldview. A single mother's son, he fell in love with a much older woman and did not mind taking on his best friend when he spoke of her disrespectfully. Farhan Akhtar redefined cool with his debut film and we suddenly found ourselves on big screen. And like in most friend circles, there was always one guy who was sketching the others on paper napkins. That guy was Sid.
Dr Siddharth Sinha was a doctor who wanted to build a state-of-the-art hospital for children and passed on his Armaan to his son, Akash.
Amitabh Bachchan played the only Siddharth of his career as the silver-haired, golden-hearted doctor who died trying to save a child and then his son had to marry a shrew to fulfil his last wish. Amitabh Bachchan's customary thoroughness was on display throughout the film as the lovable doctor in a good-natured film, which was a bit too slow.
After being a Siddharth's son in Armaan, Anil Kapoor almost became a Siddharth's father in Parinda.
After Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit completed their famous lovemaking scene (shrouded in white satin sheets, lit in blue) in the film, his post-coital pronouncement was his son's name and his ambition for the unborn child: "Siddharth... woh iss duniya mein shanti layega..."
For having such unrealistic ambitions for his child and putting undue pressure on what was theoretically not even a foetus, he was shot repeatedly by Nana Patekar. The bad news was that even Siddharth perished in the crossfire.
Q: Which three-word proposal did Siddharth Marathe make to Alisha Mafatlal in 1998?
Mr Marathe a.k.a. Sidhu was a neighbourhood-tough-wannabe-boxer who was Maharashtra Tourism's most famous brand ambassador when he asked "Aati kya Khandala?"
The only Sid(hu) in Aamir Khan's career was in Vikram Bhatt's Ghulam, a Bollywoodised version of On The Waterfront for which Aamir Khan did not bathe for the week when he was shooting the climax. Sidhu got into fisticuffs even outside the ring, thought nothing of climbing a skyscraper to meet his girlfriend, ran straight into incoming local trains and decided to become a hero when his father ceased to be one.
Which brings me to my favourite Siddharth – Siddharth Parashar of Chashme Buddoor.
Farooque Shaikh played the wonderful Economics student who put pictures of Gandhi on his wall and smoked only so that he could give it up when a pretty girl requested him. And a girl did request him soon enough and they had a delightfully real love story before his roommates messed it up. As the quintessential Delhi University student living on money orders, books borrowed from professors and cigarettes bought on his 'khaata', he remained endearing throughout the film. Even after he got a job in a company run by the aforesaid pretty girl's father. Good guys don't finish last, you see.
Relevant Trivia Alert: The SRK has never played a Siddharth yet though the other SRK (the one married to Vidya Balan) is a Siddharth.
So, the picture of Sid I have in my mind is someone who is quite sweet though a little tongue-tied and awkward with people (especially with girls). He is the type who would be a studious sort of chap in college but not averse to hanging out with some of the wastrels. In the corporate world, he would be the one trying to question conventional wisdom and could be taking a stand. He would also get frustrated with silly things happening around him and would want to quit the corporate rat race. And become a photographer, or something like that.
Sounds like an interesting sort of chap!
So, what are you waiting for? Buy Sorting Out Sid and see if my predictions of Sid have come true.


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text: Not to be confused for a Michael Jackson video, Jeremy Clarkson's Thriller is the latest in his line of tire-smoking, explosion-filled DVDs. This time he's been behind the wheel of an Aston Martin DBS, Pagani Zonda F Roadster, McLaren SLR 722 GTR, and Porsche 911 Turbo to name a few. We know it might feel a bit like the Jeremy Clarkson Gawker Stalker around here as of late, with Jezza ranting on the CTS-V and ZR1, being spotted in Vietnam and on a scooter, and crashing head-on into things. You may be right. Mostly because love him or hate him, he's entertaining. [via FinalGear]


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ST. PAUL - Health-care reform due to come out of Washington this year looks a lot like what is happening in Minnesota, the state House health leader says.
But Rep. Tom Huntley, DFL-Duluth, Thursday said he will watch Congress carefully as it tries to craft a health-care measure that has eluded federal policymakers for decades.
In particular, Huntley wants to make sure federal legislation is flexible enough that Minnesota may continue with its own reforms. The chairman of the House Health and Human Services Finance Committee said he worries about "a rigid national plan."
He also will keep track of how the Medicare system is handled. He told of one flaw in the current system, which pays a doctor four times as much to fit a patient with a stent to keep blood vessels open he would be paid to prevent a patient from needing such surgery.
A day after he attended a White House health-care conference with other state legislators, Huntley said he is confident President Barack Obama will be successful in passing reform this year.
"President Obama is dedicated to making this happen and getting it done this year," Huntley said.
It appears major health-care changes will include requirements that every American is insured and create a government health plan as an option to private insurance. Among issues that could be included by Congress is a provision prohibiting penalizing people who have a medical condition. Huntley said that a diabetic, for example, would pay the same for insurance as anyone else.
Huntley said that regardless of what else happens, he expects Americans to be able to continue their existing insurance. But a some kind of a federal plan also may be available.
House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, said that she and Huntley already have asked the Obama administration to make any changes flexible.
Kelliher said that would allow states to worth with others in their region for better health care. She praised Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty for working with other Midwestern states on environmental issues, using that as an example of how Upper Midwestern states could work together on health issues.
The Upper Midwest should be in good shape during the health-care reform debate, Huntley said.
Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., "is going to be one of the big movers," Huntley said. And Dorgan's fellow North Dakotan, Sen. Kent Conrad, is Senate Finance Committee chairman, who also will have considerable say.
"We have a chance to enact legislation that does not punish the Upper Midwest," Huntley said.
Huntley said that St. Mary's Duluth Clinic Health System officials, for instance, are concerned that lack of flexibility could threaten their rural clinics.
St. Mary's and most other Minnesota clinics bring together several doctors in efficient operations, Huntley said. In much of the country, doctors often work in less efficient solo practices, he added.
The health chairman said Minnesota health care is some of the best in the country, but providers often are penalized for dong good work. He said that workers serving people nearing death in Miami are paid three times more than those in Minneapolis.


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No, I have not heard any stories of an ancestor who was born with a tail. However, that doesn't mean that my family's gene pool is not a bit shallow. There weren't many Spanish families who immigrated to New Mexico in its first two hundred years. Therefore, many surnames appear numerous times in my lineage. This has caused confusion when I've discussed my genealogy with others. Three surnames in particular show up more than once in the most recent generations of my family tree: Baca, Torres and Padilla.
Both of my parents were Bacas. My dad Robert C. Baca was the son of Robert B. Baca and Teresa Torres. My mom was the daughter of Santiago Baca and Paublita Zimmerly. I can trace my dad's family back to the orignal Baca family that arrived in New Mexico in 1600. My mother's family doesn't go back quite as far. I can only definatively prove her family lineage going back to my 3rd great grandfather Jose Rafael Baca. Beyond that is pure speculation. Regardless, it does not appear that my parents were closely related through the Baca lines.
I have three major Torres lines in the first five generations of my family tree. My paternal grandmother was Teresa Torres. My maternal grandmother's mother was Delfina Torres. Lastly, my maternal grandmothers paternal grandmother was Paubla Torres. The two lines in my maternal grandmother's ancestry were related. Her parents Estevan Zimmerly and Delfina Torres were 2nd cousins, once removed. However, my paternal Torres line does not appear to be closely related to my maternal Torres line.
The Padilla family only shows up in my maternal grandfather's line. Santiago Baca's parents Rafael Baca and Josefa Padilla were 1st cousins, once removed. In this case, that means that Rafael's maternal grandparents, Jose Miguel Padilla and Altagracia Silva, were also Josefa's great grandparents. It makes you wonder what the family thought when those two got married. Of course at that time (the turn of the 20st century) people didn't care much about family marrying family. There weren't that many choices in Socorro at that time; who would you marry during that period other than someone closely related to you.
The Baca, Torres and Padilla surnames show up more than once in the recent history of my family. This is something important to know if you are going to try to understand my ancestry. If one day you see a certain Torres family in my tree and realize that it does not relate to your family, you will still have two more chances to find a link. Thank goodness for the Bourguignon and Zimmerly families. Neither of those families show up more than once in my family tree.
So you think that it's unusual for cousins to marry cousins? Well, not really. Read this article about Marrying Cousins.
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An estimated 430 000 children were newly infected with HIV in 2008, over 90% of them through mother-to-child transmission (MTCT). Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV has been at the forefront of global HIV prevention efforts since 1998, following the success of the short-course zidovudine and single-dose nevirapine clinical trials in reducing transmission.
These trials offered the promise of a relatively simple, low-cost intervention that could substantially reduce the risk of HIV transmission from mother to baby. Research and programme experience over the past ten years has demonstrated newer and more effective ways to prevent new paediatric HIV infections, particularly in high-burden, low-resource settings.
Breastfeeding is the best way to feed an infant. Breastfeeding, and especially early and exclusive breastfeeding, is one of the most valuable interventions for improving child survival. Breastfeeding also confers many benefits in addition to reducing the risk of child mortality. A woman infected with HIV, however, can transmit the virus to her child during pregnancy, labour or delivery, or through breastfeeding.
The dilemma has been to balance the risk of infants acquiring HIV infection through breastfeeding with the increased risk of death from causes other than HIV, in particular malnutrition and serious illnesses such as diarrhoea and pneumonia, due to not breastfeeding.
A large body of evidence on HIV and infant feeding has accumulated in recent years which shows that giving antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to either the HIV-infected mother or HIV-exposed infant can significantly reduce the risk of transmitting HIV through breastfeeding. In view of this evidence, WHO released new 'Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding' in 2010.
The guidelines contain revised principles and recommendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence that resulted in formulating the new guidelines. At the same time, new recommendations were released on antiretroviral therapy for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.


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A winter gathering space with a firepalce and terrace
Dining with a fireplace in modern interior
The second floor of a fancy three-story building that suddenly appears in the residential area of Ebisu, with a fireplace in the center of the space, with an antique table and chair nearby. An open terrace and sofa seats are available too. The interior is a modern space done in monotone. Terrace seating overlooking the street has a feeling of openness. Enjoy meals while enjoying the night breeze.
Enjoy casual rich Italian
Diners can enjoy fresh seafood, grilled meat, appetizers, smoked dishes, salads and course meals, fritters, pasta, risotto and pizza have several options. Champagne can be ordered by the glass, and cocktails and wines are also available. Saturdays and Sundays lunch features steaks and pasta with many other choices. Party plan is also available so perfect for parties with a large group.
Substantial choices and portions that won't leave you hungry
Sangen pork, Kaku Wagyu and so many premier ingredients are on the menu. Highly recommended for corporate receptions and wedding second receptions. A superior variety of menu options means you'll always find something new. Every day values like free salad buffet with weekday lunch or daily plate specials. Lunch time is until 15:30, and on Saturday and Sunday it is until 17:30,
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Tax-Savvy Ways to Sell Your Canadian Business
If you're the owner of a small business in Canada, your company is likely your most valuable asset. You may have dreams of selling the business one day and using the proceeds to travel or invest in another business. Or you may be considering selling part of your business to a partner to reduce the amount of time you have to spend at the office. If this is you, then here's some straightforward advice on how to minimize taxes on the sale of your business!
Evaluate your options
Two models typically exist for selling a business: the asset sale, and the share sale. Which model you use depends on the type of business and the needs of the seller and buyer. Each model has different tax consequences. Here's a closer look at the two models:
An asset sale, common for unincorporated businesses and businesses in capital-intensive industries such as transportation, is often preferred by the buyer. In an asset sale, the buyer purchases only the assets of a business. In so doing, the buyer can avoid taking on any potential corporate liabilities that come with purchasing shares and may benefit from increased tax deductions that would not be available in a share deal.
A share sale is often favoured by the seller. In a share sale, the seller sells the shares (well, duh) and reports whatever capital gains are realized. The great appeal of this strategy is that the seller may be able to take advantage of a capital gains tax exemption that is not available in an asset deal.
Take advantage of qualified small business corporation share status
If you own shares of a small business corporation you won't want to miss this one — arguably the best tax break in Canada. In 2007 the government increased the capital gains exemption from the disposition of qualified small business corporation (QSBC) shares from $500,000 to $750,000. This $250,000 increase was also extended to the sale of qualified farm and fishing property. If you made use of the previous $500,000 capital gains exemption, you now have another $250,000 to use should you own qualified small business corporation shares or qualified farm or fishing property.
Just to be clear — when you sell shares of a QSBC, the first $750,000 of proceeds you receive on the sale of your business may be exempt from tax. Check with your tax professional.
Understand the term "qualified small business corporation"
A share of a corporation will be considered to be a QSBC share if the following criteria are met:
At the time of sale, it was a share of the capital stock of a Canadian controlled private corporation (CCPC), and it was owned by you, your spouse, or a partnership of which you were a member.
At the time of sale, at least 90 percent of the corporation's assets at market value were used by the corporation in an active (for example, non-rental, non-investment) business.
Throughout the 24 months immediately before you disposed of the share, it was a share of a CCPC and more than 50 percent of the market value of the assets of the corporation were used mainly in an active business carried on primarily in Canada.
Throughout the 24 months immediately before you disposed of the share, no one other than you, a partnership of which you were a member, or a person related to you owned the share.
Know how to report a tax-exempt gain
You report the capital gain or loss realized on the sale of QSBC shares in section 1 of schedule 3, "Qualified small business corporation shares." A $750,000 capital gain would become a $375,000 taxable capital gain and be reported on line 127 of your return.
If the full $750,000 capital gain qualifies for the $750,000 capital gains exemption, you would be able to claim a $375,000 capital gains deduction. Claim it on line 254 of your return and include form T657, "Calculation of Capital Gains Deduction." The line 254 deduction in computing taxable income would offset the line 127 inclusion in taxable income.
Be sure to visit a tax professional if you think your shares may qualify for the capital gains exemption. Even if they don't currently qualify, it's possible to "purify" the corporation of assets not considered to be active business assets, such as cash or investments, so that you will be eligible for this exemption when the time arises to sell the shares. This is one not to miss — get the help you need to make sure you take advantage of this strategy!
If you own QSBC shares, consider crystallizing — or locking in — your qualified small business corporation capital gains exemption now. You never know when the government might repeal the exemption, or when the rules listed above may no longer apply to your corporation.
If you operate your business as a sole proprietorship or partnership, you can't access the capital gains exemption when you sell. You may be able to transfer your unincorporated business into an incorporated entity prior to a sale in order to make possible a sale of shares and in doing so be able to use the QSBC share exemption. Again — you'll need professional help for this one.
Determine whether you may owe alternative minimum tax
When using the capital gains exemption, be wary of the implications of alternative minimum tax (AMT). The capital gain may be tax-free for "regular" tax but could result in AMT. What is AMT, you ask? It's a special tax that's charged when someone has a high amount of gross income but many favourable tax deductions, or "tax preferences" resulting in a significantly reduced tax liability for the year.
The types of deductions that may lead you to pay minimum tax include limited-partnership losses, resource expenses, and stock option deductions. If you have these types of deductions on your tax return, fill out form T691, "Alternative Minimum Tax," to see whether the minimum tax will apply to you. If it does, don't fret. You can use that minimum tax to offset regular taxes payable in any of the next seven years. Assuming you pay regular tax during those years, you will get your money back — consider it a prepayment of your future tax bill. Minimum tax is often more of a cash-flow issue than a true income tax.
Defer capital gains on eligible small business investments
Have you sold shares of a small business corporation during the year? If so, then read on. Even if you've used up the $750,000 capital gains exemption, it's still possible to defer tax if you sell certain share investments and then replace those investments with new eligible small business investments.
To be eligible for this deferral, the shares you dispose of or repurchase must be of a Canadian-controlled private corporation (CCPC) that used at least 90 percent of the market value of its assets in an active business in Canada.
Time limits apply to this tax deferral. First, you must have held the original shares for more than 185 days. In addition, you must acquire the replacement shares at any time in the year of disposition or within 120 days after the year-end.
If you manage to defer your capital gain because of this rule, you must remember to decrease the adjusted cost base (ACB) of the "new" investment. You must do a number of calculations to come up with the exact ACB reduction. Take a look at the CRA's (Canada Revenue Agency) guide to Capital Gains (T4037).
The rules for calculating the actual amount of gain you can defer are quite complex. If you need to use this deferral, it's strongly recommended that you get a professional accountant involved.


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MILLEDGEVILLE – With five-runs in Game 1 for GSW and a five-run seventh inning in Game 2 for Queens University Georgia Southwestern split the season opener for both schools Saturday evening at Georgia College's Bobcat Blast.
The Lady 'Canes out hit Queens 8-6 in Game 1 and Queens nudged one more hit in Game 2 10-9. The teams combined six errors over the two games.
GAME 1: GSW 5 Queens 3
Southwestern jumped out to the early lead in Game 1 with a two-run first inning highlighted by a home run from senior Nellie Moore, also bringing in Jordan Miller. The inning ended two runs, two hits, and zero errors and left on base.
GSW's next at bat was successful with Ashley Clifton's single, where she then advanced to second on a wild pitch. Lauren Thrasher sent a ball into right field to which Clifton was able to advance to third. Rachel McElroy then doubled to left field, bringing Clifton in to score. The inning ended after two more outs, the inning ended with one run, two hits, one error, and two girls left on base.
GSW was successful once again in the top of the 4th. Things were looking up for GSW when Allison Pastor singled to right field. After which Mason Moreland tripled to left field bringing Pastor in to score. The inning finished with one run, two hits, zero errors, and 1 left on base.
The Lady 'Canes were successful in the top of the 5th inning as well to achieve their last run of the Game 1. Miller singled down the right field line. Keri Tompkins doubled, bringing Miller in to score. Tompkins became stuck in a pickle and was out at second between the second basemen and short stop.
Queens University made a run for it in the bottom of the 7th inning. O'Brien was the first to score for Queens, after being batted in from a fly out by Cummings. Britt had a home run next also bringing in Bodine too.
GAME 2: Queens 7, GSW 3
GSW continued the scoring trend in the bottom of the first in the second game. Beginning with a walk by Moreland, who advanced to second from a wild pitch, then Hayley Knight brought Moreland in to score with a single down the left field line. The inning finished with one run, one hit, no errors, and one left on base.
The top of the fourth brought in one runner for Queens after two hits, no errors, and finished with one left on base.
The Lady 'Canes matched Queens with a run from McElroy. McElroy walked, then advanced to second from a sacrifice bunt by Thrasher. Then Moreland brought McElroy in after hitting a triple to the right field. GSW finished the inning with one girl left on base.
The Lady 'Canes were successful one more time in the bottom of the 5th. Moore reached base after being hit by the pitch. Tompkins then singled, letting Moore advance to second. Suzanna Stokes grounded out to the pitcher advancing both runners. McElroy singled to left field bringing Moore in to score. The inning ended with one run, two hits, no errors, and two left on base.
Queen University had a successful sixth and seventh inning. In the sixth, Lindssay reached second base on an error letting Britt score, unearned. The inning finished with one run, hit, error, and left on base. In the seventh, Rosenbalm doubled bringing in Martinez in for the third run of the game. Britt then doubled to center field bringing in Rosenbalm and advancing Hayes to third. Whitaker then doubled bringing in Britt and Hayes, allowing Lindsay to advance to third. Later Poulton was hit by a pitch, pushing Lindsay in to score. The inning ended with five runs, four hits, no errors, and three left on base.
Senior Pastor took the win for GSW in the first game pitching in all the innings allowing three runs. Queens McCurry took the loss after pitching the whole game allowing allowing five runs and finished with five errors. Pastor struck out seven and walked one after facing 29 batters. McCurry struck out four and walked none after facing 30 batters.
In Game 2, Queen's Rollins took the win only allowing three runs. She struck out four, walked three and faced 35 batters. Ashley Cavender took the loss after facing 35 batters, she allowed seven runs, struck out five, and walked three players.
The Blue & Gold resumes play tomorrow morning in Milledgeville with a doubleheader against West Alabama at 10 a.m.


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Cindy Crawford is ready to say goodbye to modeling.
As the supermodel approaches her 50th birthday on February 20, Rande Gerber's leading lady is looking back at her career and suggesting to readers that retirement may be quickly approaching.
"I feel like I'm allowing that to have been great, and I'm celebrating it. And I'm sure I'll have my picture taken for 10 more years, but not as a model anymore. And that's OK," she told United Airlines' Rhapsody magazine. "I've done it. I've worked with all these incredible photographers. What else do I need to do?"
She continued, "I can't keep reinventing myself. I shouldn't have to keep proving myself. I don't want to."
For the past several months, Crawford has been hard at work supporting her book "Becoming Cindy Crawford." In her latest interview, she admits the work was a way to bid farewell to her days as a model.
"Maybe not say goodbye," she explained, "but move on."
Today, Crawford is loving every moment with her children Kaia Gerber, 14, and Presley Gerber, 16. In fact, her daughter has already scored some impressive modeling gigs.
"They are all taking pictures of themselves, or having their friends take pictures for their social media," Crawford explained. "Kaia would be modeling even if she weren't modeling. All the girls are modeling. They are not dependent only on how a photographer sees them. They have a direct relationship with their fans."
And looking back, Crawford doesn't regret her career. In fact, she claims that she was just following her passions.
"I was like, I love my job, but am I really that superficial that I just love getting my hair and makeup done and looking beautiful? And what I realized was that what I really love and am passionate about is communication," she shared with the publication. "And the way that I have been communicating for the past 30 years has been through pictures."
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User Guide
By Peter Eberhardt, Geographic Editor
This new map by national award winning cartographer David Imus portrays the geographic essence of the USA. On it you'll see the geographic arrangement of our iconic natural and cultural features. Allow me to make six points that I believe will help you get the most out of this remarkable work:
1. To heighten contrast and make reading easier, view it in abundant light.
2. Familiarize yourself with content by reading the legend across the bottom of the map and glancing over the eight-part index.
3. The color scheme allows you to focus on one geographic element at a time. For example, as you focus on red freeways and highways other features seem to drop away. Use the same visual process for blue water features, black city names, and yellow urban areas.
4. You'll find one thousand iconic American landmarks - places like Temple Square in Salt Lake City, UT, the Gateway Arch of St. Louis, MO, the Rosa Parks Library in Montgomery, AL, and the International Powwow in Bismarck, ND. Use the map to expand your awareness of the many ways of life in America.
5. To fully appreciate this map, view it from various distances. From across the room you see the entire country with its expansive forests, the Great Lakes, and adjacent oceans. From six feet away our states, major urban areas, and landforms appear. At close-up reading distance you find carefully interwoven details like the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers joining in Pittsburgh, PA to form the Ohio River. It is from close up that this map is meant to be studied.
6. Find a place to start your study of the USA. One place you might start is in the Rocky Mountains of Montana at Triple Divide Peak. There, the Northern Divide meets the Continental Divide marking the spot where three oceanic watersheds converge - the Pacific watershed to the west, the Arctic to the northeast, and the Atlantic to the southeast.
Wherever you start, don't let your study end. Let The Essential Geography of the United States of America continue to enrich your life with an ongoing appreciation of how the human story overlays land and water to create our extraordinary part of the world.


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Yahoo to Get 110 Percent of Search Revenue in First Two Years of Deal With Microsoft
[CORRECTION: My sources, unusually reliable, were off on the 110 percent figure; as announced by Yahoo and Microsoft, "Microsoft will pay traffic acquisition costs (TAC) to Yahoo! at an initial rate of 88 percent of search revenue generated on Yahoo!'s O&O sites during the first five years of the agreement."]
Oh, the details keep rolling in about the terms of the Yahoo-Microsoft online advertising and search deal, which is expected to be announced sometime tomorrow.
According to several sources close to the situation, as part of the pending deal–in which Yahoo (YHOO) would sell search advertising for its sites and some of Microsoft's, while Microsoft's Bing search technology would power it–Yahoo would get to keep pretty much all the revenue and even more for the next three years.
This might be the "boatloads of money" that Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said–in an interview with me at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference in May–the company needed to strike the partnership with Microsoft (MSFT).
Sources said that in the first two years of the deal, Yahoo would keep 110 percent of all revenue. And, in the third, Yahoo would get 90 percent.
That could represent many billions of dollars, since Yahoo will be selling for both.
For Microsoft, the payment will–within four years–allow the software giant to become the de facto No. 2 search technology player after Google (GOOG).
It is not clear if there have been any guarantees on revenue made by Microsoft, but there is no upfront payment being paid to the Silicon Valley-based Yahoo.
As previously reported, the pair have reached an agreement that would link the Internet giants into close partnership.
More to come as it develops, of course–as I wing my way to the Pacific Northwest for Microsoft's annual meeting for analysts on Thursday in order to annoy as many top execs as possible.
And, in case you are interested, here is a highlights video of the interview that I did with Bartz at D7, in which she talks about Microsoft and more:


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Sunday 21 April 2019 (other days)
Easter Sunday
The Lord has truly risen, alleluia.
Year: C(I). Psalm week: 1. Liturgical Colour: White.
|In other years: St Anselm (1033 - 1109)
|Other saints: Saint Maelrubha (642-722)
|Today's Gospel: Why Peter went first
|John 20:1-9
|40 Days and 40 Ways: Easter Sunday
|Dom Henry Wansbrough
This passage is an extract from the booklet "40 Days and 40 Ways" by Dom Henry Wansbrough OSB, published by the Catholic Truth Society and used by permission. "40 Days and 40 Ways" has meditations for each day in Lent. To find out more about the booklet, or to buy it, please visit the CTS web site.
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|Liturgical colour: white
|Mid-morning reading (Terce)
|(1 Corinthians 15:3-5) ©
Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the scriptures; he was buried; and he was raised to life on the third day, in accordance with the scriptures. He appeared first to Cephas and secondly to the Twelve.
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|Ephesians 2:4-6 ©
God loved us with so much love that he was generous with his mercy: when we were dead through our sins, he brought us to life with Christ – it is through grace that you have been saved – and raised us up with him and gave us a place with him in heaven, in Christ Jesus.
|Afternoon reading (None)
|Romans 6:4 ©
When we were baptised we went into the tomb with him and joined him in death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too might live a new life.
Scripture readings taken from The Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright © 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd and Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. For on-line information about other Random House, Inc. books and authors, see the Internet web site at http://www.randomhouse.com.
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We also have Gym Kits for rent, the charge is $10.00 for use during the time you would also rent rooms at the Pioneer Center. The Gym Kits do not leave the Pioneer Center and can only be used indoors.
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Transform the way you observe and sketch the world around you. We'll show you how being mindful of people, objects, or places in your surroundings will help you add interesting details to your drawings. iPad Pro and Apple Pencil devices will be provided. Recommended for all skill levels.
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Walks let you experiment with creative techniques on a guided walk around the neighborhood. Walks are for all levels, from beginner to seasoned pro.