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The indispensable American Soccer News had a good story on Don Garber's plans for MLS 2.0, which will be discussed later this year with the league's board. While Commissioner Garber deserves lots of credit for steering MLS away from the troubled waters that threatened its existence a few years back, the arrogance and hubris of the league which we've recently editorialized on this site threatens its long term credibility in the football world.
Some points from this story:
Garber says " In regards to the CONCACAF Champions League, our credibility is being attacked but we want our clubs to focus on MLS…In reality, we are a business developing and to reconfigure our business model is not in our best interest."
I'm not sure how he can spin this in MLS' favor. The reality is it was Commissioner Garber whose comments were out of line when MLS teams failed in the forerunner tournament of this, including DC United against Pachuca this past Spring. It was the commissioner and league seemingly anxious to buy international credibility that emphasized these results. Now the Champions League performances are all the more embarrasing not because Mexican or Costa Rican teams are showing up MLS sides: those are clearly better and deeper leagues than MLS, but because the United States' own second divsion, with which MLS broke off a relationship thus scuttling the American Club football pyramid has been so successful in this event. Sides from the United Soccer Leagues have actually defeated Mexican and Costa Rican sides in this tournament while MLS is winless in the event. I have for many years maintained that the soccer press in this country was ignorant of USL and discounted the quality in that league partly because of the obsession with representing MLS as something it is not. For years I have maintained that while MLS is on the whole stronger than USL the typical gap between a first and second division doesn't exist in this country, thanks to the limited budgets and poor scouting of MLS teams. The league may not like it but it's credibility is in the gutter based on its embarrasing performances in the Champions League. The bottom line is this: we live in a Global world where Football from all over is on TV: the best leagues in whatever region rise to the top in their regional club tournament, be it the Argentine teams in Copa Libertadoras or the English teams in the UEFA Champions League. The fact that USL teams are showing more than MLS teams in the champions league for CONCACAF speaks volumes about the overall quality of MLS.
There will be no promotion or relegation unveiled at that time and the league would prefer another Midwest team such as St. Louis to provide more balance geographically. Interest in a Miami franchise has resurfaced and Garber reiterated the demand in the Pacific Northwest is strong as well.
MLS expansion continues to dilute talent and the quality of the product on the pitch. No doubt exists in the my mind that MLS sides would have been more competitive in the CONCACAF Champions League had for example Chivas USA not lost Preston Burpo and Jason Hernandez in the expansion draft, and been forced to replace injured players with guys who are essentially being paid a semi-pro wage.
I can say this from the Miami perspective. MLS can work in South Florida but only if the quality of the product improves rapidly. The same for a second team in New York. If MLS is going to continue to to put out a product where defending is shambolic in almost every match and the pace is like watching paint dry, bigger more sophisticated football markets are going to tune out the product. I'd put Miami, New York and even Boston at the very top of this list.
Garber also expressed that the Superliga is a priority for the league based off of attendance and television ratings.
This line speaks for itself and to the priorities of the league. SUM makes money that sustains the league and thus MLS puts a priority on all SUM related events even if it means promoting a Mexican National Team game will for example cut MLS attendance for the games in the same market around the El Tri matchup on the calendar.
Currently, there are no short term solutions however, in 2009, there may be a possibility that teams will be more carefully selected to avoid fixture congestion so there may be more balance and variety in the Superliga, CONCACAF, and US Open Cup competitions
So no Apertura/Clausura at least for 2009. Even more disturbing I see no mention amending the squad limits or the salary cap in this piece.
What are our readers thoughts about MLS 2.0?
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Coyotes may be start of larger urban carnivore trend
Bears, wolves and mountain lions may be next to migrate to cities
First it was foxes, skunks and raccoons. Now coyotes are setting up shop in increasing numbers within urban settings in North America. Are larger carnivores next?
A professor of wildlife ecology at Ohio State University says urban coyotes, the largest of the mid-size carnivores, may be setting the stage for their larger brethren to start migrating to cities.
"They're the ones that are kind of pushing the envelope right now," Stan Gehrt said, suggesting animals like bears, wolves and mountain lions may be next.
"It used to be rural areas where we would have this challenge of co-existence versus conflict with carnivores," said Gehrt, who gave a talk on the topic Friday at a conference in Columbus, Ohio.
"In the future, and I would say currently, it's cities where we're going to have this intersection between people and carnivores."
In an interview earlier this week, Gehrt suggested cities probably evolved because it was safer for people to live in mass settlements. When people lived in a dispersed fashion "we were prey," he said.
But that freedom from predation also works to the advantage of wild animals, which are pushing into cities in huge numbers. Gehrt described Toronto's raccoon population, for instance, as "humongous" — a description no Torontonian would argue with.
Coyotes on the rise in North American cities
While pet owners and home owners in cities have been tussling with skunks and raccoons for years, coyotes have recently made appearances in urban centres far from the open range with which people associate them. "They don't have any predators in the cities," he explained.
Greater Chicago, with a population of nine million people, is home to at least 2,000 coyotes, said Gehrt, who has been studying the animals in Chicago for the past 12 years. "That's minimum. That's a really conservative estimate," he said.
He and colleagues even found a pack of coyotes living about eight kilometres from O'Hare International Airport, one of the world's busiest airports. The animals live in the smallest coyote territory ever observed, less than half a kilometre.
As the animals have lived at the site for years, the environment must be meeting all their needs, Gehrt said, adding that what scientists are learning about urban coyotes defies much of what was thought about the animals in the past.
Canadian cities and towns are seeing coyotes with increasing frequency as well. Calgary has a large population of the animals; some people estimate as many as 600 to 700 live in the city.
They are also seen in Saskatoon, said Dr. Emily Jenkins, a professor in the University of Saskatchewan's department of veterinary microbiology and school of public health.
While those cities might not seem so far off the beaten track for the animals, Toronto certainly is — and yet coyotes are seen in the city from time to time. And recently in New Waterford, N.S., wildlife officials killed four of the animals after a teen girl was attacked by a coyote.
Reasons for migration
Why are carnivores encroaching on urban centres? Gehrt said the reasons are complex, and may differ from species to species.
The ranks of coyotes have swelled in recent years, with fewer people hunting and trapping the animals. But the animals are territorial and can only tolerate so many members in a pack. When numbers get too large, young males are expelled and have to find new territory for themselves, Gehrt said. In some cases, cities have filled that need.
Jenkins said the easy access to garbage is also a draw for some carnivores, such as bears. "They're just big raccoons," Gehrt agreed.
The plentiful supply of raccoons and the occasional house pet may be a draw for mountain lions, which don't eat garbage, he said.
With new animals may come new health challenges for people. Jenkins has been involved in research tracking the presence of a dangerous tapeworm in urban coyotes, Echinococcus multilocularis.
But Gehrt noted that if larger carnivores prey on urban raccoons, the risk from raccoon roundworm might actually decline.
Co-existing with carnivores
Jenkins didn't necessarily agree that coyotes would serve as ice-breakers for larger carnivores.
But she suggested the design of cities may be drawing the animals into closer contact with people, with ravines and green belts and river valleys acting as virtual highways for animals trying to traverse territories fragmented by urban sprawl.
"It's not uncommon to hear about cougars and moose coming through town because they've just sort of naturally funnelled into the river valley and then pop out at a really bad place — like 8th Street in the middle of Saskatoon, which we've had happen," she said.
"It goes both ways. Are we in their territory? Are they in our territory? It's kind of a moot point when we all just have to figure out if we're going to co-exist or if we're going to try and fight these battles as we traditionally have with bullets and trapping and poison."
Municipal planners need to keep these kinds of issues in mind and should consult with wildlife ecologists, Jenkins said. Gehrt said it is difficult to predict how this convergence of cities and wildlife will turn out.
"Basically it's an uncontrolled experiment that's going," he said. "It's hard to say for sure exactly what's going to happen."

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Around the globe, countless women are unable to protect themselves from HIV -- largely because they lack access to condoms or can't count on their male sex partners to use condoms consistently. Potentially life-saving HIV prevention interventions are being developed with these women in mind, including microbicides and other protective products that can be used with or without a partner's knowledge, as well as strategies for boosting women's control over how and with whom they have sex.
At the forefront of research on HIV prevention for women is Dr. Nancy Padian, an internationally recognized expert on heterosexual transmission of HIV and the director of the Women's Global Health Imperative at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Padian, who led the recent Methods for Improving Reproductive Health in Africa (MIRA) study, spoke with BETA about her research and the challenges inherent in trials of HIVprevention technologies.
The MIRA Trial
Headed by Dr. Padian and an international research team, the MIRA trial assessed the efficacy of latex diaphragms as part of a comprehensive package for HIV prevention. The analysis involved nearly 5,000 sexually active, HIV negative women in Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa, and Harare, Zimbabwe. Along with intensive HIV prevention counseling and male condoms, women in the intervention arm received a clinician-fitted latex diaphragm and a supply of Replens lubricant gel. Participants returned for quarterly follow-up visits from September 2003 to December 2006.
During the three-year study period, 6.4% of women in the diaphragm arm acquired HIV, compared with 6.1% in the condoms-only arm. These HIV incidence rates, as well as self-reported data regarding participants' condom and diaphragm use, were reported in the July 21, 2007, issue of The Lancet. "Among women receiving a state-of-the-art HIV prevention package ... we observed no added protective benefit of providing the diaphragm and lubricant gel in addition to provision of male condoms," the authors concluded.
BETA: You head the Women's Global Health Imperative at UCSF. What are the program's goals?
Dr. Nancy Padian: The goals of the program, in a very general sense, are to reduce women's vulnerability to adverse outcomes associated with reproductive health. Mainly that's HIV, but it also includes other sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy, for example. Essentially we have two major themes (although it's a bit reductionistic to winnow it down that way). One is looking at women-controlled methods of prevention. The study that I just completed was looking at whether diaphragms protect women against HIV. We're also involved in many microbicides trials, for example, and we've done some stuff with the female condom. It's a major theme: having tools that women can use to protect themselves against HIV that don't rely on negotiating male condoms with their male partners.
|An outcome is the result or consequence of a situation, disease, intervention, etc. Outcomes for participants in trials of HIV prevention methods include remaining HIV negative or acquiring the virus.
The other major theme of our work is -- although I hesitate to use this word, because it's ill defined -- "empowerment" strategies, trying to devise interventions that give women a voice so they're more in control over who they have sex with, under what circumstances. Those tend to have more of an economic or structural component, and they include things like microfinancing and vocational training, involving various aspects of society, like the health care system. For example, in India, how are [health care practitioners] interacting with women to uncover domestic violence? Domestic violence is another important one of our outcomes. We're studying that theme in India and Zimbabwe, and we're starting some new studies in Tanzania and possibly Kenya. Another major component is the training side, working with women to be scientific leaders in these fields. With that regard, we have various training programs and we like to think of our program itself as being a fertile training ground. For example, more than ten people on our staff went back to graduate school this year.
BETA: You are also the principal investigator on the MIRA trial, which looked at diaphragms as part of an HIV prevention package. Why diaphragms?
NP: There's good data from a variety of different sources to indicate that almost certainly the cervix is the most vulnerable site for HIV infection. That's not to say that all infection occurs at the cervix, but probably most. So our hypothesis was that if you cover the cervix, which is what the diaphragm does, you would protect women against HIV. That's it in its most simple iteration. Also there have been a variety of observational studies that have shown that the diaphragm could protect against other sexually transmitted infections, and many of those facilitate HIV. We thought it might work with that mechanism as well.
BETA: But you saw no added protective benefit from diaphragm use?
NP: Right.
BETA: Your recent article in The Lancet describes the disappointing results of the trial, but it also notes that women who used diaphragms reported lower condom use but did not have increased infection rates.
NP: We can't rule out that they were as effective as condoms, but there's not enough statistical power to really be able to asses that in a rigorous way. Another equally viable hypothesis is that women in the condom-only arm significantly over-reported [using] condoms, because they knew that was the intervention they were supposed to be practicing -- which highlights another issue: not only is adherence challenging, but how you measure adherence is also extraordinarily challenging.
|Statistical power is the probability that a study can detect a real effect (such as lowered HIV risk in women using diaphgrams) in an experiment or clinical trial. A trial's statistical power is strongly influenced by its sample size, the number of participants enrolled in the trial.
BETA: What are some of the other challenges that researchers face when studying a product that may -- or may not -- prevent HIV infection?
NP: There are a lot of challenges. One is a point that you just made: we don't know whether these things are effective, and a number of things can result from that. One is that, even though you're telling them that they're participating in the study to actually determine whether the method is effective, people may nevertheless think that it might work (or just want so badly to think that it works because they have no other options), in which case they may reduce their condom use and end up using a method of unknown efficacy, or one that turns out to not have an effect. So that's one problem. And that's in part what I think we saw in our study: [in the diaphragm group] women reported less condom use.
The complete other side of the coin is that, because we don't know whether these new methods are effective, it's our ethical imperative to counsel them very, very heavily about condom use. And what you can do, as we did in our study, is really significantly increase the rates of condom use (although not as much in the diaphragm arm), which then makes it very difficult to detect an effect of the new intervention. So you might conclude that we need to do more in promoting male condoms, which I think is true. This study is really geared for those women whose partners don't use condoms, and the most vulnerable women are probably the women who didn't participate in the study.
Even though condom use may have increased in this study, it cannot be sustained. What's in place in the community to sustain those high levels? That highlight sour need to keep up these intensive condom programs, but also that [it's possible to] raise condom use to a standard that perhaps is not sustainable in a community. And you also make it very difficult to detect an effect of a new intervention.
BETA: Given the recent closures of trials evaluating two vaginal microbicide candidates, Savvy and cellulose sulfate (UsherCell), and the results from the MIRA diaphragm study, where are we in terms of a woman initiated HIV prevention approach?
NP: I think everyone is really looking forward to those methods that have an antiretroviral component. People are looking at both vaginal methods and vaginal microbicides, and also at PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis. (Even though that is not gender specific, it's something that women can use; clearly, you're in control of taking a pill.) So that's one direction.
And also, I think we do need to step back and look at the methodological challenges of these studies. Are there other ways to analyze the data? Are there other ways to design them so that we have a better chance of detecting an effect? I think it's really important to point out that in our study, the methodological challenges were such that our hypothesis that covering the cervix is protective is still viable; it's just that we felt we could not really say that in our study.
BETA: What do you think would facilitate more definitive results in trials such as these, where the inherent challenges are so numerous?
NP: It could be that there are methodological advances -- for example, one which is not nearly as sexy as testing a new intervention is coming up with better ways to measure adherence. Hopefully, in addition to seeing testing of new methods, we'll also see advances in how we do these study designs themselves. That will make it easier to sort out what the results really mean.
BETA: Looking back, is there anything you would have done differently in the MIRA trial?
NP: Off the top of my head -- and this is really off the top of my head -- I think maybe we would have had more frequent visits, because that might have been a better way to enforce adherence (of course, [it] would have made the study more expensive, and more arduous for the women who participated). We also might have thought about some sort of strategy to really target those vulnerable women who could not use condoms. Some thought needs to be given to that.
Selected Sources
Padian, N. Synthesizing our options: biomedical prevention technologies in the context of behavioural interventions. 4th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention. Sydney. July 22-25, 2007. Abstract WEPL103.
Padian, N. and others. Diaphragm and lubricant gel for prevention of HIV acquisition in southern African women: a randomized controlled trial. The Lancet 370:251-61. July 21, 2007.
Van der Straten, A. and others. Diaphragm and gel adherence in a safety trial in Harare, Zimbabwe. 4th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention. Abstract TUAC102.


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A Billericay nursery has been named the best in the East of England.
Staff and children at Burstead Bears Day Nursery are celebrating after beating 940 nurseries across the region to the top spot.
The accolade from industry website www.daynurseries.co.uk was handed to the centre, which has 60 children on its books, after it was put forward by impressed parents.
Burstead Bears has been praised for its state-of-the-art facilities, high quality of care and good relationship with parents. A video entry system has been installed to ensure youngsters are safe, and parents have secure online access to live cameras so they can watch their children at nursery.
[quote width="auto" align="none" border="#0066cc" color="#0066cc" title="Andrew Stern, owner of Burstead Bears"]We maintain the very highest standards in every aspect of the nursery and strive to excel in absolutely everything we do, from the quality of childcare to our facilities. We are always improving. This year, for example, we have installed air conditioning and new flooring. This is a very happy place and the children and staff all enjoy being here.[/quote]
Mr Stern is now planning to throw a party for the children to celebrate. The privately-run nursery, which opened in 2006, is rated outstanding by Ofsted. It also holds a Gold Award for Good Food&Healthy Eating and has a five-star Food Hygiene Rating.
[quote width="auto" align="none" border="#0066cc" color="#0066cc" title="Quoted by Davina Ludlow, director of www.daynurseries.co.uk"]We felt the best people to rate a day nursery were the people who really know its ins and outs – the parents, relatives, and guardians of the children who attend. Burstead Bears Day Nursery has proved it is an excellent childcare setting. We'd like to congratulate them on being a top recommended nursery in the East of England. It's a great achievement to be recognised for your hard work, but particularly from the people who you work hard for.[/quote]
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Reporting accidents
Do you know what to do if there is an accident at work. In this resource you will listen to Rene reporting an accident to the supervisor.
Do you know what to do if there is an accident at work. In this resource you will listen to Rene reporting an accident to the supervisor.
A cleaner needs to know what things to use for his/her job. Phil tells Susana about the things to use for her job and what to do.
Did you know that the most common accident for cleaners was slipping over? Watch Anna explain to Rene some simple steps to help stop this happening. In this resource you will learn some new vocabulary and practice your listening skills.
Watch the video of Anne talking about what she likes watching on TV, then answer the questions.
Do you know how to make questions in English? It not easy! Watch this presentation to learn more about making questions in English.
Watch a video called 'My friends in the UK' about an English man named Dave and his friends who live around the UK. Improve your listening skills and learn about the four countries of the UK and how to spell six nationalities.
In this module you will read a short message about family, learn new words and practise your spelling and pronunciation.
In this module you will learn new words about jobs, find information and understand important words in job adverts.
In this module you will read and understand two text messages and learn new words and phrases with the word 'go'.


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Jan 26, 2016
Future Talkers
2016, wishes, year of the monkey
'The year of the Monkey is ideal for a quantum leap in your life! Now is the time to shake things up, create change, and innovate a new path. Join Monkey's enthusiast energy when risks are rewarded and anything can happen. Even the most ambitious plans can succeed.'
...or at least this is what the astrologists and feng-shui masters advice us about 2016 being under the mark of the Monkey.
Whether you follow the stars or your inner gut, it doesn't matter as long as we make the best of 2016.
Let's be crazily in love with life, create new paths to success and enjoy the ride! :)


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There are thousands of different opinions on how one should train. What should my training load be? How fast should I run 10km to be able to run a marathon in three hours? Suunto Movescount's community powered Training Insights are here to provide real facts on how people who are achieving these goals really train. No opinions, no theories, no debate – just data that the world of training has been waiting for. Dig in deeper to find out what kind of training volume and speed you need to run a sub-3h marathon.
Each Move of each Movescount member has been analyzed for their personal bests on several variables. Once this is done, we have grouped the ones whose performance is on the same level. As an example, we can look at athletes who have run a marathon in 3 hours. In the Movescount database there are thousands of runners who have done marathon, but right now we are only interested in the ones who have done it in 2:55-3:00.
After the athletes have been identified, their training during last 15 weeks prior the 3-hour marathon is analyzed. The reason to take the last 15 weeks is that we can ensure that training data is relevant for a given goal. There is also requirement that each athlete needs to have enough training. For example, a person who started to use a Suunto last week and runs his first marathon today is not taken into account. There simply isn't enough training history to be used as statistics.
The number of athletes in each search is always hundreds, which ensures that the statistical analysis can be done and that there is no danger for people to lose their anonymity. Because of that data set requirement, there is no sub-2h10min marathon data to show: there aren't enough athletes in this group. The training data statistics are based around anywhere from 5,000 to 100,000 training sessions for each goal.
Let's go back to the subject of our discussion, the three-hour marathoners, a widely recognized goal time in the distance. How do they actually train?
The athletes with a 3-hour marathon train an average 6.5h a week, running 40km, with an average of 3.1 running session a week.
When looking at the 16-week period, where the last week represents the week when the marathon has been run, one can see a few key things. The biggest volume in training took place during the period starting 10 weeks prior to and lasting until three weeks prior to the race week. The easiest week has been the week prior the race week.
The split by sport shows (unsurprisingly) running as the biggest volume, with a little bit of cycling and trail running sprinkled in. The intensity distribution during these 16 weeks show that the most of the volume has been in the middle of the heart rate range.
When looking at the running performance in shorter distance for these marathoners, one can see that, generally, those who can run a sub-3h marathon, generally should be able to run a half marathon in 1h24m09s, a 10k in 38min16s, a 5k in 17min53s and a 3k in 10min 19s.
Does it seem simple? Well to be honest, to some degree, it is. But it's also accurate and informative, which, to the dedicated race runner, makes it a very useful tool that's easy to understand and apply to your own training.


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NEWTOWN – A 27-year-old former softball coach for Delaware County Christian School has been charged with felony sexual assault for allegedly having a two-year sexual relationship with one of her players.
Lana Trotter, of the Summit House Condominiums in West Chester, is free on 10 percent of $50,000 bail after being arraigned this morning in Newtown District Court.
Trotter, who is no longer the softball coach for Delco Christian, said little during the brief proceeding before Magisterial District Judge Leon Hunter. Her attorney, Scott Godshall, said he had not seen the criminal complaint and declined to comment on the charges.
A letter posted on the school's website Thursday afternoon, said the school had been made aware of the charges against the former part-time employee and was cooperating with authorities. Head of School Timothy P. Wiens also noted that an internal investigation had been launched.
An arrest warrant was issued for Trotter on Wednesday after the alleged victim told authorities she and Trotter had been involved in a sexual relationship that began in 2011, when she was 16-years-old, court documents indicate.
The parents of the alleged victim contacted police in July after discovering a cell phone, hidden in their daughter's bedroom, that contained inappropriate text messages between Trotter and the girl, according to the affidavit of probable cause written by Newtown Detective John Newell.
When the parents confronted their daughter, she allegedly told them she and Trotter had been sexually active for a 'few years' during the time she was a student at DCCS, the affidavit states.
According to the charging document, the alleged victim met Trotter in the spring of 2011, when the accused was employed as a softball coach for DCCS. That summer, she and Trotter became friends. The two spent time together after school and softball games, and talked and texted on the phone, according to the criminal complaint.
When the teenage girl lost her cellphone privileges, Trotter, unbeknownst to the parents, allegedly purchased an IPhone for the 16-year-old so they could continue to talk and text after school hours.
The relationship between the coach and the softball player became more serious that fall, authorities allege. The two saw each other often, and at one point, Trotter professed her love for the softball player, the affidavit states.
The relationship between the coach and the high school student became sexual in January 2012, authorities allege.
Late one Friday night, Trotter was with the alleged victim at her home in Newtown Square. As they sat on the couch, Trotter allegedly told the teenager that she loved her and the two began to 'make out,' the affidavit states. The girl allegedly told police she was confused by Trotter's actions and asked her to leave.
After the incident, both Trotter and the girl agreed it 'wasn't really right,' but the two continued their friendship, hanging out both during and after school, authorities allege.
During an interview with detectives, the teenage girl allegedly said that she and Trotter continued to 'kiss and feel each other up,' both at the girl's home and in Trotter's vehicle. She told authorities that one numerous occasions she told her coach that the she didn't feel right about the sexual aspect of their relationships, but feared losing Trotter's friendship if she continued to 'say no.'
During the spring and summer of 2012, the sexual relationship between the coach and the player went further. The two would allegedly have sex on the ride home from school or practice or at Trotter's Westtown Township home. The teenager estimated that they were intimate between 20 and 25 times, the affidavit states.
At one point, the alleged victim attempted to end the sexual relationship with Trotter, telling her coach it made her very uncomfortable. Both she and Trotter agreed to end the sexual relationship, according to the charging document.
Several months later however, in early 2013, Trotter had a bad breakup with her boyfriend and became depressed, according to the affidavit. The alleged victim told investigators she felt bad for Trotter and their sexual relationship started up again, the charging document indicates. The alleged victim, now 18, told authorities that the relationship ended at the conclusion of softball season.
Officials confirmed that Trotter is no longer employed at the private school on Malin Road.
In his letter, Wiens stressed that the school does not tolerate behavior that violate the law or school policy. He asked the school community to 'pray that God will protect everyone involved,' and noted that the school will continue to adhere to privacy laws 'which prohibit discussing the situation in detail.'
Trotter is charged with two counts each of institutional sexual assault and corruptions of minors.
Her preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 19 in Newtown District Court.


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The prospect of Speidi spawn even has Spencer Pratt running from the bedroom.
Reality TV villain and classic oversharer Spencer Pratt said he's denying sex to new wife Heidi Montag because he doesn't want the blonde bombshell to get pregnant or even have aspirations of being a young mother, according to the New York Post's Popwrap.
"I'm not even kidding. My wife -- Ok, I'm going to get crass here -- but we're barely having sex because I'm scared that she's going to have a baby," Spencer confessed to the site.
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"That's the level our marriage is on right now. I'm not even kidding -- my wife has be debating cutting off my nuts."
The reviled "Hills" star said he fears his 23-year-old wife will take after her own mother, who was 19 when she had the reality TV starlet. Pratt said he wouldn't even put it past Heidi to skip her birth control and not tell him.
"I'm very concerned," he said. "Our sex life has dramatically changed recently."
Pratt also said he considered himself to be among the world's most famous couples -- just like Barack and Michelle Obama.
"I could go on a double-date with Barack and Michelle tonight, I wouldn't flake!" he said.
The "Hills" new season debuted on MTV last night.


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Lance Armstrong angrily denied a former cycling teammate's charge that he cheated his way to seven Tour de France titles, then went out and crashed his bike in a California race.
"It's our word against his word," Armstrong said of Floyd Landis as he prepared for the fifth stage of the Tour of California. "I like our word. We like our credibility."
Hours later, Armstrong pulled out of the race after crashing near an orchard just before 11 a.m. local time. He was taken to a hospital to be treated for cuts and get X-rays, according to ESPN. Details werre sketchy, but the crash also involved Radio Shack teammmate Levi Leipheimer.
Landis, the only Tour de France winner to ever be stripped of his title, admitted in an interview to using performance-enhancing drugs and blood doping techniques over the course of his cycling career.
In an interview with ESPN.com and in emails obtained by the The Wall Street Journal, Landis also claimed that several other cyclists, including Armstrong, took substances such as human growth hormone and steroids to improve their performance.
Armstrong has been accused of doping on several occasions throughout his years in the sport, but has always denied the charges and has never been sanctioned.
With his longtime coach Johan Bruyneel standing next to him, Armstrong told The Associated Press Landis seems to be pointing fingers at everyone still involved in the sport.
"We have nothing to hide," Armstrong said. "We have nothing to run from."
But Landis claimed that Armstrong not only cheated, but taught him how the various drugs and techniques worked.
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One of New Jersey's great institutions, The Newark News, founded in 1873 by Wallace Scudder, and operated by the Scudder family for most of its life, died on August 31, 1972.
It had been for most of the 20th century until its demise, the newspaper of record in New Jersey and a highly respected news medium that wielded considerable political power and ranked with the country's best newspapers.
To many, myself included, the Newark News was "The New York Times of New Jersey" and a publishing institution that dominated the State's publishing scene.
Before I go into what the Newark News was about, I'd like to go into its death, because this era looms freshest in my memory.
The beginning of the end came as the 98-year old paper was already falling into a sharp decline, circulation wise, for the first time in its history being surpassed in both daily and Sunday circulation by the Newark Star-Ledger.
The 'clincher' was in February 1971 when the newsroom, which had never been (union) organized, voted to go out on strike. They walked out in May 1971.
It took until April 1972 for the strike to be settled, and for the News to resume publication.
But by then it was too late.
The paper's owners, Media General, which had bought the paper two years earlier from the founding Scudder family, had already sold the Sunday News, along with its presses, to the Star-Ledger.
The sale to Media General in 1970 had been made by Edward M. Scudder and Richard Scudder as co-owners. Edward was president. Richard was publisher.
During the lengthy strike, many of the Newark News top staffers had found jobs or were lured to jobs elsewhere. Longtime News readers had gotten used to the Star-Ledger for their daily news needs, and many large advertisers had opted for keeping their ads with what seemed like a more reliable Star-Ledger, which by now had a huge daily circulation of over 400,000.
|Howard Garis, reporter, who created the Uncle Wiggily character as
a News reporter. His Uncle Wiggily books later sold in the millions,
and the Wiggily character appeared daily in the News for nearly four
decades. He also wrote the first 32 volumes in the Tom Swift series,
which he wrote under the pen name of Victor Appleton.
|Lillian McNamara (Garis). The first woman reporter on the
News, she met and married a fellow News reporter, Howard Garis. She
helped launch the Bobbsey Twins series and wrote some of the early volumes.
|Richard Reeves, writer for the News from 1963 to 1965. Then
one year at the Herald Tribune and on to the New York Times as Chief
Political Correspondent. His best-selling books included
"President Kennedy: Profile of Power" (1993), and President Nixon:
Alone in the White House" (2001).
|Arthur Sylvester, who headed the Newark News bureau in Washington,
D. C., who in 1960 joined the Kennedy administration as Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Public Affairs.
|George Oslin, leading reporter, who later became Public Relations
head of Western Union, and in 1933 invented the Singing Telegram.
|Lute Pease, News editorial cartoonist and winner of the 1949
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| John T. Cunningham 7,
reporter and feature writer for the Newark News, currently president of the
New Jersey Historical Society and widely recognized as the State
historian. He has written the definitive book on Newark's history
("Newark" 1966, N. J. Historical Society) and a score of books and
hundreds of articles on New Jersey.
|Willie Ratner, nationally-acclaimed boxing writer for the News for
nearly 50 years. 8
| Joseph Katz, ten years a reporter at the News, who left to become
press secretary to New Jersey Governor Richard Hughes from 1936 to
1971. He'd cut his newspaper-reporting teeth at the Dorf Feature
Service (of which I was a founding member in 1938) as a stringer for Kearny
High School.
Charley Bowers, editorial cartoonist in the 1930s. Before joining the Newark News, Bowers had done editorial cartoons for The Jersey Journal, The Chicago Star, and The
Chicago Tribune. In earlier careers, he had been a circus performer (at age 6), a jockey, had acted in silent films, toured vaudeville, and directed plays. He had also written, produced, and directed about 300 Mutt and Jeff animated cartoons between 1916 and 1926, released nationally.
The stately gray building at 215 Market Street, in which the news happenings of the city, county, state, and world were daily assembled and printed, is today again bustling with life as The Renaissance Towers, a Downtown Newark apartment and condominium complex, which was recently renovated.
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Felix in fine form as Mariners blank A's in opener
Ace racks up eight K's in 7 2/3 innings; Gutierrez delivers big hit
OAKLAND -- Felix Hernandez looked every bit like a $175 million pitcher Monday as the Mariners ace blanked the A's on three hits over 7 2/3 innings in a 2-0 Opening Day victory at O.co Coliseum.
With new leadoff hitter Franklin Gutierrez delivering a two-run single in the fifth inning, the Mariners held on for their club-record seventh straight season-opening victory.
Hernandez, who signed a seven-year extension in February, has been on the mound for six of those Opening Day wins, and Monday's might have been his best yet. He struck out eight with one walk, allowing just four baserunners while throwing 109 pitches.
"Opening Day, it's good to start the right way," Hernandez said. "It's pretty special. It was loud today with a lot of people, but I was just in my game, just trying to make my pitches. I felt pretty good today."
The A's finally knocked Hernandez out after a double and a walk with two out in the eighth. Charlie Furbush then walked Coco Crisp to load the bases, but Stephen Pryor came in to get a rally-killing groundout from pinch-hitter Derek Norris.
Tom Wilhelmsen gave up a two-out walk in the ninth before retiring Brandon Moss on a flyout to preserve the shutout.
Hernandez is now 4-0 with a 1.33 ERA in six Opening Day starts. He's tied with Randy Johnson for most Opening Day starts in franchise history and joins Bert Blyleven and Dwight Gooden as the only pitchers since 1920 to pitch six season openers prior to the age of 27.
Hernandez, who last August became the 23rd pitcher in history to throw a perfect game, handcuffed the A's until former teammate John Jaso doubled with one out in the fourth.
Jaso received a Rolex watch from Hernandez prior to the game as a gift for catching that perfecto, but he wasn't as gracious when he drove a fastball into the left-center gap and then moved to third on a slow groundout by Josh Reddick.
"He broke up the no-hitter," Hernandez said with a shake of his head. "I was going to say, 'Dude, what time is it?' But no, no, it's a baseball game."
"He grinned at me when I got that hit," Jaso said. "I was going to get a hit. I wasn't going to let him get a perfect game."
But Hernandez got out of that jam when shortstop Brendan Ryan fielded a hard shot up the middle by Yoenis Cespedes, spun and fired to first to easily beat the A's cleanup hitter.
Ryan, hitting in the ninth spot after last year's .194 season, was more than just a glove man in this one. He reached base all three of his plate appearances on a single and two walks and scored on Gutierrez's single in the fifth.
"He's worked hard all spring," said manager Eric Wedge. "He takes a lot pride in knowing he has to get better offensively. You saw that all spring and it was nice to see him put up some good at-bats tonight."
The winning rally was set up when Dustin Ackley walked with one out, then hustled to third to narrowly beat the throw by right fielder Reddick on Ryan's single. Ryan took second on the throw and both runners scored on Gutierrez's single up the middle for a 2-0 lead.
"That's what Ack and I are going to be doing all year," Ryan said. "Hopefully the bottom of the lineup is just getting on base and getting things started."
That was all the runs Hernandez needed as he became the first Mariner to win four Opening Day starts. He's now one win shy of his 100th career victory.
Oakland left-hander Brett Anderson wasn't quite as efficient as Hernandez, but he struck out the side in the first and then largely worked around four hits and four walks in his seven-inning stint, with only Gutierrez's blow causing damage.
"He's a tremendous pitcher, obviously, $175 million worth," Anderson said. "You go out there and try to throw up zeros because the track record says he's going to do it, too. I was able to do that except one inning, and it turned out to cost us."
The A's have now lost an American League-record nine straight openers, this one coming in front of a sellout crowd of 36,067 as they celebrated the return from last year's AL West championship.
Seattle's seven straight Opening Day wins are tied with the D-backs for the longest active streak in the Majors. Those two are the first clubs to win seven in a row since the White Sox from 1987-93.
Much of that success is due, of course, to the guy on the mound.
"Opening Day, midseason, you really can't tell the difference," Ryan said. "He's such a competitor and I just love the way he gets excited out there when guys are making plays behind him. Most of the time we don't because he's making guys miss. You always feel good about your chances when he's out there."
Hernandez said he was motivated both by the boisterous sellout crowd in Oakland as well as the 15,376 fans who showed up at Safeco Field on Monday night to watch the game on the new giant video screen.
"They booed me here," Hernandez said. "I said, 'OK, I have to do my job.' And I knew those people in Seattle were watching the game, so I've got to do a good job."
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Reding's 'right to be forgotten' bill polarises Euro biz world
Rewriting data protection law in internet age
EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding will imminently table a draft bill that will – if passed in Parliament – require internet firms to be upfront about the user data they hold.
The proposal has already been slammed by many businesses in the UK, where opposition to the draft regulation has been particularly fierce.
Reding's "right to be forgotten" on the internet plan forms part of a huge legislative overhaul of Europe's 1995 data protection law, which the commissioner has labelled as outdated.
EU observers, businesses and politicos agree with her that the current legislation is in desperate need of a rewrite, but Reding's draft proposal has drawn fire from many.
"The old adage of 'Be careful what you wish for' is apt in relation to the proposed rewrite of data protection laws. Companies have been struggling with unharmonised regulation across Europe for years, but the Commission's focus on the rights of the individual has resulted in some ideas that are widely seen as unworkable or which will lead to significant costs," said Jane Finlayson-Brown, a partner in Allen & Overy's data protection team.
She said the draft bill contains "several draconian new requirements" that could prove "impossible to enforce".
"The new 'right to be forgotten' is particularly contentious," Finlayson-Brown added.
"While attractive to users of social networks, it will apply generally and will require many organisations to re-engineer business processes and technologies.
"The question that many people will ask, given the economic climate and the associated costs of compliance, is whether this additional requirement is really worthwhile given that individuals' personal data are so widely and voluntarily made available on the net."
Law firm Osborne Clarke echoed that criticism. Its head of data privacy, James Mullock, said: "It's rather odd that Commissioner Reding is claiming that the new rules will cut EU companies' running costs.
"Leaked versions of what is expected to be announced... clearly show the EC's train of thought is to increase the overall regulatory burden on business and require more time, personnel and cash to be thrown at compliance."
He highlighted the amount of policing work that would be required by the likes of the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK, if the draft bill - as it currently stands - trickles its way into national law books within the 27-member states' bloc.
"Data privacy is an important individual freedom, and clearly it is important that the current law is updated. But it is fatuous to claim that complying with the rules will actually save companies money," Mullock added. "On the contrary, these measures are likely to cost EU businesses billions to implement and even more to maintain on an on-going basis."
The Business Software Alliance also waded in with its own unsurprising attack on Reding's proposal.
"The Commission's proposal today errs too far in the direction of imposing prescriptive mandates for how enterprises must collect, store, and manage information," said the BSA's European government affairs director, Thomas Boué.
"The rules should focus more on the substantive outcomes that matter most to citizens. The risk in the proposal's current design is that it will bog down companies with onerous compliance obligations, which could inhibit digital innovation at the expense of job creation and growth," he added.
"Done well, a harmonised data-protection framework will create a more cohesive Single Market by eliminating unnecessary confusion among service providers and users.
"But there is a critical balance to be struck. The rules should protect people's privacy rights while also ensuring they have access to the full complement of services the internet has to offer."
But not everyone has reacted negatively to the proposed regulation.
Document management outfit Iron Mountain said the draft bill might help force internet businesses to take a long, hard look at their current security policies.
"Many businesses of all sizes are falling short of what is required to manage information responsibly," said the company's head of information security Christian Toon.
"In today's increasingly scrutinised business environment, the lack of a solid and legally compliant information management policy is inexcusable.
"Regardless of turnover, sector or country of operation, making sure that employee and customer information is protected should be common practice, not a reaction to new legislation," he added.
Facebook said: "We welcome Vice President Reding's view that good regulation should encourage job creation and economic growth rather than hindering it, and look forward to seeing how the EU Data Protection Directive develops in order to deliver these two goals while safeguarding the rights of internet users."
The Register will bring you full coverage of Reding's data protection announcement later today. Stay tuned... ®


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Registered 12 goals, 17 assists and 25 steals in her freshman campaign ... Dished out an assist at Villanova and had a goal and two assists versus Iona (Feb. 1) … Handed out a helper and had two steals against VMI (Feb. 8) … Scored a goal and tallied an assist and steal against Siena (Feb. 22) … Recorded a goal, an assist and a steal against Villanova and added an assist versus Iona (Feb. 23) … Recorded two steals against Michigan (March 8) … Had a steal against Marist and an assist and steal against Santa Clara (March 9) … Had a goal and a season-high five steals versus Cal Lutheran (March 15) … Tallied a goal and an assist against UC San Diego (March 16) … Had a steal at Pomono (March 19) … Registered a goal, an assist and three steals versus Cal Lutheran (March 20) … Netted a goal and handed out a helper at UCLA (March 21) … Had a goal and two assists at George Washington (March 29) … Recorded a steal against Bucknell (April 5) … Contributed a goal and a steal versus Mercyhurst (April 6) ... Scored a season-high two goals against George Washington at the CWPA Southern Division Championships (April 12) ... Handed out an assist versus Bucknell in the third place game at Southerns (April 13).
Before Harvard
Competed for the Calgary Renegades for four seasons and captained the team in 2013 … Led the U18 and U16 Renegades to national championships in 2012 and 2010, respectively … In 2010, helped lead the U16 team to an undefeated season … Placed fourth with the U18 Renegades at the national championships in 2013 … Led the U16 Renegades to a silver medal at the 2011 national championships … Two-time AB Open U18 All-Star team selection … In 2013, BC Open U18 All-Star Team selection … Named AB Open U16 All-Star team MVP in 2011 … U16 National Championships All-Star team selection in 2011 … Named Renegades U16 Best Defense and MVP … Earned first class honors in grades 9-12 … Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award recipient.


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Congress: The Least Dangerous Branch
That's the topic of my Washington Examiner column this week. In it, I discuss last week's budget battle and the failure of "policy riders" designed to rein in the Obama EPA's attempts to regulate greenhouse gases without a congressional vote specifically authorizing it. The Obama team believes it has the authority to implement comprehensive climate change regulation, Congress be damned. Worse still, under current constitutional law--which has little to do with the actual Constitution--they're probably right. Thanks to overbroad congressional delegation, "the Imperial Presidency Comes in Green, Too." At home and abroad, the legislative branch sits on the sidelines as the executive state makes the law and wages war, despite the fact that "all legislative powers" the Constitution grants are vested in Congress, among them the power "to declare War."
Yet, as I point out in the column, Congress retains every power the Constitution gave it--powers broad enough that talk of "co-equal branches" is a misnomer. Excerpt:
The constitutional scholar Charles Black once commented, "My classes think I am trying to be funny when I say that, by simple majorities," Congress could shrink the White House staff to one secretary, and that, with a two-thirds vote, "Congress could put the White House up at auction." (I sometimes find myself wishing they would.)
But Professor Black wasn't trying to be funny: it's in Congress's power to do that. And if Congress can sell the White House, surely it can defund an illegal war and rein in a runaway bureaucracy.
If they don't, it's because they like the current system. And why wouldn't they? It lets them take credit for passing high-minded, vaguely worded statutes, and take it again by railing against the bureaucracy when it imposes costs in the course of deciding what those statutes mean.
Last year, in the journal White House Studies [.pdf], I explored some of the reasons we've drifted so far from the original design:
Federalist 51 envisions a constitutional balance of power reinforced by the connection
between "the interests of the man and the constitutional rights of the place." Yet, as NYU's Daryl Levinson notes, ―beyond the vague suggestion of a psychological identification between official and institution, Madison failed to offer any mechanism by which this connection would take hold.... for most members, the psychological identification with party appears greatly to outweigh loyalty to the institution. Levinson notes that when one party holds both branches, presidential vetoes greatly decrease, and delegation skyrockets. Under unified government, "the shared policy goals of, or common sources of political reward for, officials in the legislative and executive branches create cross-cutting, cooperative political dynamics rather than conflictual ones."
Individual presidents have every reason to protect and expand their power; but individual senators and representatives lack similar incentive to defend Congress's constitutional prerogatives. "Congress" is an abstraction. Congressmen are not, and their most basic interest is getting reelected. Ceding power can be a means toward that end: it allows members to have their cake and eat it too. They can let the president launch a war, reserving the right to criticize him if things go badly. And they can take credit for passing high-minded, vaguely worded statutes, and take it again by railing against the executive-branch bureaucracy when it imposes costs in the course of deciding what those statutes mean.
In David Schoenbrod's metaphor, modern American governance is a "shell game," with We the People as the rubes. That game will go on unless and until the voters start holding Congress accountable for dodging responsibility.


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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S Blaze Q Passes Through the FCC
Earlier this week we reported that the T-Mobile Galaxy S Blaze Q will land in T-Mobile stores on August 15th. It just so happens that it recently passed through the FCC sporting T-Mobile's mobile network, packing AWS, GPRS 850 and 1900 radio bands. This is rumored to be a slide-out QWERTY-style phone and is expected to sport a 1.5 GHz dual-core S4 Snapdragon processor, 1GB of RAM, a 720p (1280 x 720) display, and Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Ridiculous name aside, the specs on this alone does make it by far the most powerful physical slide-out QWERTY phone that's ever been made. Are there any of you that are still fans of physical slide-out QWERTY phones? If so, will you be able to put aside the funky name and pick this up?
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We have been working hard to improve our writing!
A good idea is to take this slowly, and focus on a different stage in the writing process for a week or so before moving onto the next. By that I mean, look at one stage in depth and detail and cover it with more attention than the others (you may have to cover each step in a week).
Take a closer look at 'planning' this week!
I have found that getting students to DRAW rather than write their plans and ideas is a great way to produce more detailed and exciting stories in your classroom.
If students are reluctant to draw, ask them to jot down words instead of full sentences - this might help them to get started on a more rich and powerful text as they are starting from a point of ideas rather than panicking about correct sentences!
Download from google drive, a planning sheet I have made to help your students with their writing. Ask them to identify their purpose and audience first. Challenge them to think of three ideas for each stage in their writing (beginning, middle and end).
Thank you so much for stopping by today - have a wonderful weekend!


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Feeling Down? Try This
We all have those moments when we feel stressed out or down in the dumps. Here are a few tips that can turn the blues into a rainbow of hope:
1. Talk to a friend. Spending an hour each week with a close friend can do wonders for your stress levels. Simply talking about your life or stressors is a great release.
2. Play with your pet. A study out of the University of Missouri showed an increase in serotonin levels in individuals who spent just a few minutes with an animal.
3. Stretch it out. Tense and stiff muscles can disrupt our day with pain. Stretch upon waking each morning for a few minutes.
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Enhancing your health doesn't have to mean spending hours each day at the gym or eating like a rabbit. Here are four daily tips to remember:
Drink plenty of pure water. Put the kibosh on soda consumption and opt to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.
Tweak what you eat. Give each meal an upgrade by swapping out a food for one that's more nutrient-dense. For example, exchange iceberg lettuce for spinach, kale or arugula.
Get sufficient sleep. Adults should aim to get 7-8 hours of quality sleep a night. Sleep plays a critical role in maintaining excellent health.
Move more. As sitting has been called "the new smoking," it's important to incorporate plenty of movement into your day. Simply walking more can pay health dividends.
These daily tips work even better when your nervous system is free from vertebral subluxation!


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|Holy Monastery of the Archangel Michael
|Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
|Male Monastery
|Igumen Kosmas
|Approx. size
|3 monks
|Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia
|Liturgical language(s)
|Greek, English, Slavonic
|Music used
|Feastdays celebrated
|8/21 Nov
|Official website
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The Holy Monastery of the Archangel Michael is a monastic community for men under the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. The monastery is located in Marrickville, New South Wales, and currently has two hieromonks and one monk in residence.
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LCBO/The Beer Store and Fake ID's : ontario - Reddit
My friend recently bought a fake ID and I can't convince him not to use it at the LCBO/Beer Store. Don't act like an idiot inside, know what you want, and don't buy pocket bottles that they know you are probably going to chug
reddit fake id pouch
Hey so i was wondering if any of you guys have registered for the 21 wrist band at the festival with a fake id? just wondering bc id for sure do The pouch goes on the inside of your shorts, shirts, dress, pants at the check in.
Cop thought my real ID was fake. : NoStupidQuestions - Reddit
However if you have a fake ID and won't identify yourself their job becomes way harder. Once he He takes one look and pulls out a stack of IDs from his back pocket and adds mine to it and tells me to take a walk. I'm like
You want me to call the cops? Not a problem. : MaliciousCompliance
TLDR: The juicy bits are above, but in a nutshell, "Fake ID" taken and broken then trashed, I'm told leave or . In certain states you can actually just have a crappy paper one that you keep in your wallet to where it's still visible
Cashiers/bouncers of Reddit, what was the most hilariously bad
I worked in a college bar in Ohio my senior year and on two occasions I had students hand me pieces of paper that said "I am 21" and on one occasion I was handed a Spongebob Squarepants boaters license.
Lesson Themes Farm Characters com Animal Video Study Orwell's amp; Summary And - Accused of using a fake ID : TalesFromTheCustomer - Reddit
Lesson Themes Farm Characters com Animal Video Study Orwell's amp; Summary And - Cashier: Looks at my ID then looks at me This is fake, I'm not selling you cigarettes. Me: Do you have the light or . Later in the evening, one of them leaves her purse on the bar (big place) and they all wander off. Its crowded
Lesson Themes Farm Characters com Animal Video Study Orwell's amp; Summary And - ILPT Request: where can I buy a fake ID? : IllegalLifeProTips - Reddit
(3 children). Find someone outside of a bar who resembles you, hit them over the head with a bat, and take their wallet. .. I don't think you can buy a really good fake ID now a days, most bars/clubs don't take any risks now.
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How common are Fake ID's? : AskAnAmerican - Reddit
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The Royal Ballet 2013/14 season opens on 30 September with a gala performance of Carlos Acosta's Don Quixote.
The production, which will be screened live in cinemas on 16 October, is the first choreographic work that Carlos has created for The Royal Ballet.
'Don Quixote, as you know, is based on a classic book by Miguel de Cervantes,' says Carlos. 'What I like most is that there is nothing serious about it. It is fun and colourful, it's a story that anyone can relate, whatever their age.'
The ballet follows the adventures of bumbling knight Don Quixote and his simple squire Sancho Panza. 'It is full of great characters and Spanish flavours. People coming to see it are in for a tremendous spectacle,' continues Carlos.
Carlos is working with leading designers Tim Hatley and Hugh Vanstone (who both worked on Shrek the Musical), and began rehearsals at the end of last season. Watch backstage footage of the rehearsals.
Carlos has been performing as a Principal Guest Artist at Covent Garden since 2003. Previous choreographic works include Tocororo – A Cuban Tale, which broke box office records at Sadler's Wells Theatre.
Away from the stage, he has established himself as a talented writer: his most recent novel, Pig's Foot, made it onto the Waterstones annual list of most promising novels.
Don Quixote runs from 30 September to 6 November and will be screened live in cinemas on 16 October. Tickets are still available for performances on the Main Stage. The production receives generous philanthropic support from Mrs Susan A Olde OBE, Lindsay and Sarah Tomlinson and the Royal Opera House Endowment Fund.


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Menstrual disorders, such as heavy bleeding or lack of menstruation, may be treated with hormonal and nonhormonal agents and therapies. These may include the following:
Prescription Medications for Heavy Bleeding (Menorrhagia)
Common name: tranexamic acid
This type of medication may be prescribed to lessen menstrual flow and cramps.
Possible side effects include:
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- Sinus and nasal symptoms
- Abdominal pain
- Muscle and joint pain
- Muscle cramps
- Anemia
- Fatigue
Common names include:
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- Norethindrone acetate
- Norgestrel/estradiol
Oral synthetic progestins are taken during the premenstrual phase of the menstrual cycle and help prevent heavy bleeding. They are most effective when taken for 21 days of each cycle.
Possible side effects include:
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- Mood changes
- Breast tenderness
- Headaches
- Acne
- Unpredictable spotting
Common name: progesterone
Natural progestins may be helpful in reducing heavy bleeding with fewer side effects. They may be taken orally or as a vaginal gel.
Common name: levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system
An IUD may be used for up to 5 years. This treatment helps to reduce heavy bleeding. It releases progestin mainly into the uterus and cervix.
Possible side effects include:
- Irregular bleeding during the first six months
- Nausea
- Bloating
Over the Counter Medications for Heavy Bleeding (Menorrhagia)
Common names include:
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- Naproxen sodium
Certain NSAIDs can reduce heavy bleeding by blocking prostaglandins (substances that increase uterine contractions) and reducing inflammation.
Possible side effects include:
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Prescription Medications for Secondary Amenorrhea
If medications are prescribed to treat amenorrhea, they will be used to treat the underlying causes. If the cause of amenorrhea relates to lack of both estrogen and progesterone, it may be treated with hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Amenorrhea related to polycystic ovary syndrome is usually treated with birth control pills. If the underlying cause is a pituitary tumor , it may be treated with a drug that reduces the secretion of the hormone prolactin.
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- Gestodene/estradiol
- Levonorgestrel/estradiol
- Norethindrone acetate/estradiol
- Norethindrone/estradiol
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Birth control pills are often used to treat polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). PCOS may be an underlying cause of amenorrhea or oligomenorrhea (too few periods). The pills are intended to slow down ovarian function because the ovaries are over-producing male hormones.
Possible side effects include:
- Abdominal pain
- Nausea
- Swelling
- Weight gain
- Mood changes
- Breast tenderness
- Spotting between periods
Progestogen is available in many forms, including oral pills, injections, IUD, and vaginal gel. Examples of common names include:
- Oral pills—medroxyprogesterone acetate, norethindrone, levonorgestrel, megestrol acetate
- Injection—medroxyprogesterone acetate
- IUD—levonorgestrel
- Vaginal gel—progesterone
If your ovaries are producing estrogen, your doctor may prescribe progestogen. In addition, if you choose estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) and have an intact uterus, progesterone must also be taken to reduce the increased risk of uterine cancer from taking ERT alone. Progesterone or progestin (synthetic progesterone) is available as replacement therapy.
Possible side effects include:
- Fluid retention
- Weight gain
- Headache
- Mood changes
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- Oral pills—conjugated equine estrogens and medroxyprogesterone acetate, conjugated equine estrogens and medroxyprogesterone acetate, ethinyl estradiol and norethindrone acetate, 17-beta estradiol and norethindrone acetate
- Skin patch—17-beta-estradiol and norethindrone acetate
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Possible side effects include:
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- Fluid retention
- Sore breasts
- Headache
- Mood changes
Common names include:
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Anti-hyperprolactinemics are used to treat amenorrhea that relates to excessive secretions of the hormone prolactin, a hormone related to pituitary tumors. You should use some form of birth control while taking this medication.
Possible side effects include:
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- Nausea
Special Considerations
If you are taking medications, follow these general guidelines:
- Take the medication as directed. Do not change the amount or the schedule.
- Ask what side effects could occur. Report them to your doctor.
- Talk to your doctor before you stop taking any prescription medication.
- Plan ahead for refills if you need them.
- Do not share your prescription medication with anyone.
- Medications can be dangerous when mixed. Talk to your doctor if you are taking more than one medication, including over-the-counter products and supplements.
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Zimbabwe's Vice-President Joice Mujuru (left) with President Robert Mugabe. (AFP)
"Why should we be monitored by other countries outside the Southern African Development Community when we are a sovereign state?" Mujuru was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mail.
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The 15-member regional bloc brokered a coalition government between President Robert Mugabe and his arch rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in 2008.
Mujuru said countries that have imposed sanctions against Zimbabwe wanted to "impose themselves on our national election processes to influence the outcome in their favour".
The European Union this week slightly eased sanctions against Zimbabwe but the United States said it will only end restrictions after more reforms.
Zimbabwe's official policy on foreign election observers is unclear. It rejected a report by EU observers, who slammed the 2002 polls for violence.
They also said the elections were not free and fair.
Zimbabweans will vote March 16 in a referendum over a new constitution.
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SkyWest's MRJ commitment signals market structure change in the regional jet segment
Mitsubishi leaders were ready to face a tough Farnborough air show this month. After all, the company had to delay its Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) program by more than a year. But they emerged much reaffirmed, thanks to a huge new order from a key player in the biggest regional jet marketŌĆöthe U.S.
U.S. regional carrier SkyWest signed a preliminary agreement for 100 MRJs to be delivered from 2017. The decision is not only a major blow for both Embraer and Bombardier because of the size of the order and the lost business. It also greatly solidifies Mitsubishi's standing as an RJ manufacturer and signals that the long-anticipated change in the established market structure is becoming a reality.
In the narrowbody field, Airbus and Boeing are growing accustomed to the idea that they will have more competitors in the medium term: China's Comac and Russia's United Aircraft Corp. are both developing narrowbodiesŌĆöthe C919 and MS-21, respectively. The incumbents are already competing with Bombardier and its CSeries. Some of these contests have been lost, as in the case of Air Baltic ordering CS300s instead of Airbus A319s.
But it is not only there that the duopoly is a concept of the past. Bombardier and Embraer are now also in the uncomfortable position of having to compete in a much less stable environment when it comes to selling their large RJs. For example, Mitsubishi's market entry is injecting enormous price pressure into the important U.S. RJ replacement tenders and, as the SkyWest order shows, there is a real danger that some of them will be lost.
And if the Canadian and Brazilian airframers ever hoped the MRJ was going to be a niche product for niche players such as Trans States Holdings, then they are now proven wrong. The previous market structure has disappeared. And it is almost unnecessary to say that Trans States confirmed that it will stick to its order in spite of the delay.
The MRJ is the second new entrant in the large RJ segment following the Sukhoi Superjet 100, which entered revenue service last year with Armavia and is now also flying with Aeroflot. But the Superjet has yet to gain full credibility with Western operators in spite of a small follow-on order by Mexico's Interjet, announced at Farnborough.
Clearly, Mitsubishi's clout is growingŌĆöand that is in spite of the fact that the first MRJ delivery to All Nippon Airways had to be slipped a year to 2015. Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. President Hideo Egawa cites two reasons for the delay: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries ŌĆ£went against internal proceduresŌĆØ when it produced initial components. ŌĆ£We cannot use the parts that were manufactured against the rules.ŌĆØ Also, the general development work took longer than expected.
Final assembly is now due to start early next year, with first flight in the third quarter and the first delivery in the second half of 2015. The flight-test campaign will involve five aircraft plus two for the static and fatigue tests.
Egawa says Mitsubishi is still studying the stretched 100-seat MRJ100X for which potential customers such as Air Lease Corp. CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy have been asking. But a decision on launching the third variant of the MRJ family will not be made until after the MRJ90 has started flight tests.
SkyWest's 100-aircraft tentative order is for the MRJ90, the larger of the two versions; but the deal also gives the U.S. regional carrier the flexibility to convert all or part of the order to the smaller MRJ70, SkyWest CFO Michael Kraupp tells Aviation Week.
The eventual type, or mix of types, will depend on what happens with scope clauses at the major U.S. carriers that contract SkyWest to feed their networks. Kraupp says he believes SkyWest, the parent of SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines, can make that decision as late as one year before the first MRJ is delivered.
Currently, Delta Air Lines and United AirlinesŌĆöthe carriers for which SkyWest operates most of its aircraftŌĆöhave scope-clause limits that restrict regional feed to 76- and 70-seat aircraft, respectively. Delta recently reached a new agreement with its pilots union that sustains its cap, but United Airlines is pushing for a higher limit in negotiations on a joint contract with pilots for United and the former Continental Airlines.
American Airlines, a potential future SkyWest customer, also is pushing for a higher cap, using the leverage created by its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, and US Airways already is able to outsource some flying to aircraft with as many as 86 seats.
The MRJ90 and MRJ70 are designed to seat up to 92 and 78 passengers, respectively, in a single class with 29-in. pitch, but can provide fewer seats with larger pitch or in a two-class configuration. The MRJ70 is expected to be delivered around one year after the MRJ90.
ŌĆ£We'll see where scope clauses shake out,ŌĆØ says Kraupp. The tentative MRJ deal, with the first delivery targeted for 2017, constitutes only a part of the fleet replacement planned by SkyWest. Its subsidiaries currently operate 725 aircraft.
The fleet includes roughly 430 Bombardier CRJ200s, 700s and 900s, and about 290 Embraer 120s, ERJ-135s and ERJ-145s . Kraupp says SkyWest is having ŌĆ£ongoing discussionsŌĆØ with aircraft manufacturers about fleet replacement.
Another agreement, or agreements, might not happen for 12-18 months, but could be reached earlier ŌĆ£if other parties can come to the table in a similar fashion [as Mitsubishi] and offer attractive deals,ŌĆØ says Kraupp.
The tentative Mitsubishi deal, as well as an agreement for 200 Pratt & Whitney PW1200G engines to power them, underscores the discounts that SkyWest can negotiate that other regional carriers cannot because their fleets are not large enough to accommodate large orders, Kraupp asserts. ŌĆ£We don't think there are others in the market that can drive volume pricing,ŌĆØ he adds.
Kraupp also indicated some flexibility in the maintenance terms for the MRJ aircraft and engines, which are still being worked out as part of a package deal. Financing also is still being discussed, but some adaptability is available there as well, depending on the length of the contracts that SkyWest's major airline partners want to sign regarding the operation of the aircraft.


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