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EDMONDS, WA – It was a battle of two depleted lineups as Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 (7W-4L-3D) wrapped up their United Soccer Leagues (USL) Premier Development League (PDL) season with a dominant 4-1 win against North Sound SeaWolves FC (2W-10L-2D) at Edmonds Woodway High School.
With a win, the 'Caps finish the PDL regular season in good form and end up in 3rd place in the Northwest Division. They will now face Portland Timbers U-23 in the first round of the PDL playoffs.
On 14 minutes, the first chance of the match came as Bobby Jhutty lined up a shot from just outside the box, but North Sound goalkeeper Keegan Rogers was there to scoop up the ball.
The SeaWolves countered immediately off the 'Caps attack when Daniel Van Vleet saw Bradley Jacobson, whose shot was stopped by Simon Thomas.
On 23 minutes, Jacobson gave his team the lead when a lovely touch by Van Vleet ended in a rebound, with Jacobson firing a shot that went off the post and in the net despite Thomas being able to get a hand on the ball.
Minutes later, Vancouver equalized when Niall Cousens put a nice touch on the ball, which was initially stopped by Rogers, but with his right foot he put the rebound in the back of the net to equalize, 1-1.
Towards the end of the half, Cam Hundal slipped a through ball to Cousens, but Rogers again stopped his rocket.
On one of the final offensive plays of the first half, in added time, Jhutty fired a shot from the top of the box, but once again Rogers grabbed the ball and held onto it.
Going into the second half, the 'Caps looked to remain dangerous and capitalize on their second half chances, and it did not take long for the Blue and White to take the lead.
Early in the second half, Hundal made lots of space for himself and fired home his chance to give the 'Caps the 2-1 lead. The go-ahead goal seemed to spark the 'Caps, as they continued their offensive onslaught for the remainder of the half.
Shortly after Hundal's goal, the SeaWolves got their chance to equalize as Brady Ballew collected the ball with his right foot, but his shot failed to amount to a goal.
The 'Caps dominant attack struck again when a defensive collapse by the SeaWolves left Sasa Plavsic wide open in front of the net, allowing him to fire the ball in the net for the 3-1 lead.
Nearing the end of the half, Hundal netted his second goal of the match as he made a nice run and finished his opportunity to give the 'Caps four unanswered goals and continue the 'Caps dominating road performance.
Despite the SeaWolves attempt to come back with a few chances, the 'Caps held strong to end the regular season with a 4-1 win.
Head of high performance Stuart Neely was pleased to end the regular season strong.
"It was great to end the season on a positive note," commented Neely. "At times they pressed us and it took us a good 45 minutes to get our legs and find our way around the pitch again. We made a few adjustments at halftime and I thought the boys played a much better attacking game in the second half. I'm happy the boys responded in the second half the way they did."
Next up, the Blue and White take on Portland Timbers U-23 in a knockout round in the PDL playoffs on Tuesday, July 23 at Doc Harris Stadium in Camas, Washington. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. PT.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC Lineup:
1.Simon Thomas; 6.Jon Poli, 16.Michael Winter, 26.Kevin Cobby, 2.Colton O'Neill; 7.Harry Lakhan, 10.Bobby Jhutty (12.Sasa Plavsic), 20.Aminu Abdallah;, 23.Cam Hundal, 17.Niall Cousens (12.Sasa Plavsic 60'), 3.Ethen Sampson (24.Peter Bow 45')


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Mulberry Trees
So Many people covet their own Mulberry Tree. Each year Johns Market Garden sells and grows more and more Mulberry trees! They increase so much in popularity. A Mulberry Tree whether a Black Mulberry Tree, a Weeping Mulberry Tree, or a White Mulberry Tree seems to hold a romanticism and appeal that grows ever stronger. If you want a Mulberry Tree especially for its fruits then it is the Black Mulberry Morus nigra, that should hold your attention. Black Mulberry trees have fruits with an intense, powerful flavour. Black Mulberries can be simmered with sugar and served with ice cream, or make your Black Mulberries into jams, preserves and pies! The White Mulberry Tree [Morus alba] has milder, sweeter pinkish white fruits and is ideal for eating fresh. The White Mulberry has shinier leaves than the Black Mulberry Tree. The Weeping Mulberry [Morus alba pendula and Chaparral Weeping] is grown more as an ornamental although the Weeping Mulberry also produces good sweet fruits. With the Weeping Mulberry the branches fall right down to the ground, like a waterfall.[more...]
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Radiologists and radiographers
Radiologists and radiographers are medical professionals. They work with X‑rays and other imaging technologies that diagnose and treat illnesses.
Radiologists are doctors trained to specialise in interpreting X‑ray images. They identify medical problems from the images, and recommend subsequent treatment. Radiologists even perform small procedures which help prevent patients undergoing surgery.
Radiographers are medical specialists rather than doctors. They are expert in using imaging technologies such as X‑ray, MRI and ultrasound to produce images of injuries and diseases in patients. Some radiographers also use machines to deliver treatments such as radiation therapy.
Both professions started after X‑rays were discovered in 1895. Doctors, physicists, photographers and engineers all initially operated X‑ray machines in hospitals. Many of them developed cancer after years of unprotected exposure to X‑rays, so protective measures were gradually developed. Radiologists separated themselves from radiographers, who were not medically trained. Each formed their own societies and medical colleges.
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For many years Mokhtar Belmokhtar was little more than a footnote in the intelligence reports analysing the increasingly muscular presence of Islamist groups in Saharan Africa.
The man whose al-Qaeda-inspired Signed in Blood Battalion led the attack on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria, in which at least 38 people were killed, was considered a relatively unimportant figure in the political ecosystem of the vast region.
But Belmokhtar, who fought for the mujahideen in Afghanistan and the Islamist GIA in the Algerian civil war before becoming a commander in the Mali-based al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), was ambitious.
In 2003 he masterminded the kidnapping of 32 European tourists whom he successfully ransomed.
The money gave him the seed capital he needed to develop a sophisticated trading business throughout Saharan Africa, along the ancient 3220km salt route used by the Tuareg tribesmen to transport goods from the continent's west coast through to Timbuktu in Mali, then on to Niger before arriving in Algeria, gateway to the Mediterranean.
But whereas the Tuareg made their money in trading salt, gold and silk, Belmokhtar, who secured close links with the tribesmen through marriages to the daughters of several of their most prominent families, made a fortune through a different commodity: smuggled cigarettes.
Such was the volume of his trade that he earned himself the sobriquet "Mr Marlboro".
"He was not an important figure in AQIM, he was quite different from al-Qaeda and [Osama] Bin Laden," said Morten Boas, a senior research fellow at Oslo University and author of African Guerrillas, Rage Against the Machine. "He is generally known as one of the more pragmatic figures, more interested in filling his own pockets than fighting jihad."
The key role cigarettes play in facilitating terrorism has been inexplicably ignored. But it has become of urgent interest to Western intelligence agencies as they seek to check al-Qaeda's diverse factions operating across the Saharan region.
Indeed, after interviewing numerous agents and experts in the field, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has concluded that "cigarette smuggling has provided the bulk of financing for AQIM", whose affiliates include Ansar al-Sharia, an offshoot blamed for the killing of the American Ambassador, Chris Stevens, in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and which was thought to be behind threats last week that prompted the UK Foreign Office to urge Britons to leave the city.
The total value of the illicit tobacco trade in north Africa is thought to exceed US$1 billion. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that Africans smoke 400 billion cigarettes a year, of which 60 billion are sold on the black market.
However, five countries - Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia - smoke 44 per cent of Africa's cigarettes, and their black markets are significantly larger. Controlling the flow of contraband into these counties has triggered a turf war as Belmokhtar and other AQIM factions compete with each other, as well as Tuareg tribes and corrupt army and government officials, in an attempt to "own" the trade.
The cigarettes often enter West Africa through Ghana, Benin and Togo. A second route is via Guinea, where the supply, according to UNODC, vastly exceeds the country's demand. The cigarettes are then moved to Mali by road or by boat on the Niger river, where there is little risk of detection. A third distribution hub - for Senegal, Morocco and Algeria - is provided by Mauritania.
Mr Marlboro and AQIM clean up, either by charging a "tax" for the safe passage of the cigarettes along the salt route, or facilitating their transport, using 4WDs, trucks, motorcycles and even bicycles.
"His [Belmokhtar's] days as a smuggler are over," Boas predicted.
"No bandits or traders will want to be within a kilometre of him now. They don't want to be targeted by American drones."
But, given the money at stake, there will be no shortage of others ready to take his place.


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I had visions of becoming another Stacy London of What Not To Wear — without the signature silvery streak, of course, but with snappy repartee and a fast paced shopping excursion highlighting all of the essentials.
I'd help my clients build a wardrobe of neutral staples combined with pops of color, figure flattering visual interest, texture, sparkle, animal print, completer pieces, awesome shoes, and scarves to draw attention away from the hips and up to the the face.
I had an epiphany.
Sometimes things that theoretically seem like a great idea and plausible do NOT always turn out that way in the real world.
I so wish y'all could have been with me; you'd be the ghost-like apparitions following us around the shops.
Here I am at my age (just never you mind about what it is) still grabbing at parachutes, searching for a career path, a niche, a calling, a vocation.
It's been suggested by some that I should combine my love of shopping and fashion and become a stylist to help others who don't have my innate good taste and eye for color, texture, and style. All kidding aside, my Hello Kitty obsesh is only a teensy weensy anomaly, not representative of what's contained in my closet(s).
You know, shopping but for others with OPM (other people's money) and stuff like that.
I kinda have a dilettantish background for it; I worked at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre in the costume department, I've sewn my own clothes for years, read all the fash mags, and spend hours and hours and hours shopping and drooling over finely crafted designer wear. Sigh.
In fact, I had serious thoughts of starting my own clothing company. I registered the name and acquired the patterns and though it kinda never went anywhere beyond the concept stage, it's still viable. ***If anyone wants to partner, email me.
Anyhow, here's the backstory: I was getting my glasses adjusted last week at the same place we've gone to for about fifteen years. There was some convo with the owner who was asked to accompany her guitar teacher at a gig in Rancho Santa Fe (very ritzy part of San Diego) and she declined because she had nothing appropriate to wear.
One of her employees said, "Hey, you should ask Rosebud to shop with you, she's a fashionista."
One thing led to another and I learned that she hadn't shopped for clothes in at least two years. TWO YEARS. Yeah, I know. Can you believe it? The poor thing. She needed me.
With a public declaration that I would be her personal stylist, our mission was to acquire a variety of clothing to wear for musical gigs in several different venues from upscale to casual.
We arranged to shop for a solid five-hour block.
Focused. Determined. Goal-oriented.
She picked me up here at Casa de Enchanted Seashells and we were off to The Forum in La Costa. I wanted her to feel the textures and colors and variety at Anthropologie, not necessarily to buy a lot of clothing there, but to arouse her senses and try on a lot of things outside her comfort zone.
Her current comfort zone seems to be heavily dependent upon beige t-shirts and beige cargo pants.
OY, the horror. I'm shvitzing just thinking about it.
If only I really were Stacy London, I would have happily tossed them in the trash can!
All my research tells me that It's important to get to know your client and her personal taste, in order to help her to look her best. Trying on clothes is critical! Just because something looks good/bad on the hanger, you'll never know if it works unless you try it on.
I had to force her to see beyond the initial like/dislike of something that's just hanging on a rack.
We found a couple of JBrand skinny jeans at Anthro, along with several casual ethnic-inspired tops, and then we were off to Nordstrom Outlet in San Marcos. In addition to clothing, they have an amazing selection of footwear.
I selected two different styles of boots, two pairs of flats: one casual, one dressy, and two pairs of not-very-high heels.
She's pretty open to trying new things and expanding her fashion choices (beyond beige, thank goodness) but she's not a girl who wears dresses or skirts with ease.
Because she needed to portray class and elegance especially for her upscale gigs, I chose a Calvin Klein black blazer and matching tuxedo trousers as wardrobe staples.
I paired several blouses with the blazer/trousers, including a beautiful turquoise, green, blue swirly graphic design with a self-tie for visual interest, and an appropriate silk animal print.
Unfortunately, we were in such a time crunching whirlwind, I wasn't able to take pics of the outfits.
What I learned about myself is that I'm REALLY good at this personal stylist stuff; I'm always helping everyone in dressing rooms who need advice — I'm not shy about offering my opinions, THAT'S for sure…
I'll let you in on a little secret…
Hate it. HATE IT.
This little Princess wants it all to be about her. Yes, I'm speaking in third person — it's what I DO when I'm trying to really get my point across.
My arms are crossed and I'm stamping my little foot and yes, my lower lip is jutting out just like you thought it would be.
As I (back to first person) was perusing the racks for appropriate clothing to dress my client, my gaze wandered longingly to shoes and dresses and sparkly things that I wanted to caress and lovingly scoop up in my arms and run off to the dressing rooms…but this was not like going shopping with a friend where you each try on outfits and then come together for independent reviews of yea or nay.
I was being paid to SERVE someone else's needs.
Obviously NOT my dream job.
I was a very sad Princess Rosebud. I guess it's not in the stars for me to be a personal stylist.
Yes, it was a success for HER but I came away empty-handed and depressed.
Guess what I did?
I bet it's not too difficult to figure me out.
I went back to Nord a couple of days later and tried on clothes and shoes to my heart's content.
I came away with an awesome black Calvin Klein blazer and matching pencil skirt (to replace an outfit I had previously returned to White House Black Market.)
And you know what?
NOW I'm happy. 🙂
And PRINCESS is happy, too 🙂
P.S. Anyone want to go shopping with me?
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- The Staple Pieces (mainarditamara.wordpress.com)


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The sad death of Whitney Houston got me thinking. I would never have classed myself as one of her biggest fans but I have plenty of special memories tied in with her astonishingly popular songs.
On the face of it most of Whitney's songs are of the romantic type but I have always thought that truly great songs can be interpreted in any one of number of ways. To prove it I decided to see what lessons I might have subconsciously picked up from her over the years to help my SEO copywriting career. Hey, it's late in the evening and I've nothing better to do so bear with me folks.
I Will Always Love You
I always found this song a tad too melodramatic for my liking. However, I have just listened to it again and while maybe it is her recent death which has given it an added poignancy I really enjoyed it. What does it tell me about SEO? On the face of it not much as it is about letting someone go without feeling any bitterness, isn't it? Well, really great writing is designed to work people's emotions, just like this classic tear jerker. I don't think any of my articles have ever reduced anyone to tears, although I did write a bit of a sob story about wooden chandeliers a few months back. However, pulling people's emotional strings and making it believable is an art Whitney mastered brilliantly and which we can all learn from. I remember reading a famous songwriter saying once that by the time of the studio recording the initial raw emotion of the lyrics is gone and the singer is already having to act, which is something Whitney did on this song to memorable effect.
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
I reckon this was probably the first Whitney song I ever heard. If you are roughly the same age as me — old enough to know that Chelsea Whopper bars once existed but not quite old enough to remember the taste — then you probably remember the video of her dancing around exuberantly with big hair and a tight dress. I was always intrigued by the vagueness of the desire expressed in the song and I think that I can apply it to SEO copywriting with a bit of lateral thinking. When I write an article 'I wanna write for somebody' (who likes my writing). This is important because you need to remember that you are writing for other people instead of for yourself. I love to write about subjects which I am interested in but I can't lose track of the original purpose of it. Oh, and I might have, ahem, had a small crush on her around this time as well.
I'm Every Woman
The relevant point I see in this Whitney song is that to be a successful copywriter you need to be able to think like every woman (and man). Several times I have written something which I quite liked but then realised or been told that it does not have a universal appeal. Ah, universal appeal that is what Whitney Houston had and it is what I strive for as well, on a different level from the singing legend obviously but we all need to try our best in whatever we do.
By Chris Hoole. For copywriting services which will make your site soar up the rankings like an 80s disco classic up the charts give Apple Copywriting a try and see what difference they can make to your business.


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Krita Sketch - Mobile Artistry
Imagine drawing anywhere with your tablet. It's now possible! KDE and KO GmbH have released Krita Sketch, the first tablet and ultrabook version of Krita, the award-winning digital painting application. Optimized for touch screens and developed with a QML interface, Krita Sketch provides everything needed to create artwork from beginning to end.
Krita Sketch - image by animtim
Krita Sketch was developed in partnership with Intel for a major marketing campaign. Version 1.0 for Windows 7 and Windows 8 is available for free from Intel AppUp. Krita Sketch is free software and is also available as source code from the Calligra git repository.
Krita Sketch has many of the same advanced features as the famous Krita application for desktop computers:
Discover your creativity with the intuitive, fluid and powerful interface of Krita Sketch.
Timothee Giet (aka animtim), a French artist using Free Software working with Krita said, "The brush presets are revolutionary, and the smooth modern interface never interrupts your workflow while painting". Timothee contributed to the interface of Krita Sketch. Professional artists use Krita for its powerful features and smooth workflow. Krita Sketch allows all this power to be available at the tip of your finger on a tablet.
Krita Sketch is a QML application that re-uses the existing Krita engine and plugins, so it will be an easy port to Plasma Active, KDE's Plasma Workspace for mobile devices. Qt makes it easy to create the necessary packages for touch screens on Linux.
Stichting Krita Foundation, the Krita Foundation, has also been announced to support Krita development and promotion. Please support the Krita Foundation with a subscription or a one time donation.
Sketching, painting, drawing and creating comic characters has never been so easy or satisfying. For accomplished artists and anyone else who wants to express themselves creatively!
Best sketching and painting application!
Krita Sketch is even much better than Sketchbook Pro. It supports quite a high resolution of 10000 * 10000 pixels (maximum). Krita Sketch is a revolutionary painting application for artists. If this resolution is enough for you, then there's no reason to buy other applications like ArtRage or PD Howler. Krita Desktop even supports a very high resolution. More than Photoshop does, which is also very good.
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Thanks, Aman, for your kind words!
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The purpose of the Wesleyan Athletics Hall of Fame is to recognize members of the Wesleyan community for outstanding achievement as an athlete, coach, or for service to sports.
To nominate someone, please click here to fill out the form. Nominations are currently closed for the 2018 class, but will be considered for future classes.
When making nominations, please note the following:
A person may be nominated in more than one category. Categories include:
Athlete – candidates nominated in this category must have displayed extraordinary ability while participating in athletics.
Coach – candidates nominated in this category must have made outstanding contributions to the field of athletics through coaching at Wesleyan and/or with professional coaching organizations.
Leader – outstanding contributor to athletics/sport through clinics, writing, organizations, support of Wesleyan athletics, as an administrator, volunteer work, professional athletics or international sport organizations.
Team – outstanding record or accomplishments such as NCAA championship or finalist, ECAC champion, or undefeated season.
Any member of the Wesleyan community can nominate a candidate. Self-nominations will not be accepted.
The form is the only information the Athletics Hall of Fame Selection Committee will review during the selection process. Additional statements of support received via phone, letter, email, or in person will not be considered.
If you need assistance in gathering information on a nominee please contact Mike O'Brien, Assistant Athletic Director for Communications, at email@example.com or 860-685-2887. He may be able to offer some assistance.
Fill out one form for each nominee.


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414 Old Landing Rd, Millsboro, Delaware 19966 $229,900
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- Crown Moldings
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- Entry Level Bedroom
- Floor Plan - Traditional
- Kitchen - Eat-in
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- Outbuilding(s)
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- Dryer - Electric
- Oven/range - Electric
- Refrigerator
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Information contained herein is believed to be reliable but is not guaranteed, including but not limited to Google Map locations. Please contact us for any questions you may have about this listing.


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The photos, music, apps, and other content that you use and enjoy on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch take up space on your device's storage capacity. And your device can fill up quickly depending on the size of its storage capacity and how much content you have. If you see a message that your storage is full, you can free up space by managing your photo and video storage.
Check to see how much storage you have
See how much storage you have left on your device and in iCloud, and which apps use the most space.
Device storage
- Go to Settings.
- Tap General.
- Tap iPhone Storage.
You might see recommendations for optimizing your storage, a list of your apps, and the amount of space each one uses.
iCloud storage
- Go to Settings.
- Tap [your name].
- Tap iCloud.
You'll see how much space you have left in iCloud, the apps using your storage, and if you need to upgrade your storage plan.
If you're using iOS 10 or earlier, you'll see your device and iCloud storage in the same place. Go to Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage.
Store your photos and videos in iCloud
Your photos and videos are stored on your device in their original, high-resolution version. This means that they use a lot of space on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. With iCloud Photo Library, you can make more space available on your device and have your entire collection, everywhere you go.
Get started with iCloud Photo Library:
- Tap Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos. If you're using iOS 10.2 or earlier, tap Settings > iCloud > Photos.
- Turn on iCloud Photo Library.
- Select Optimize iPhone Storage to make more space on your device.
With Optimize Storage, smaller, space-saving photos and videos are kept on your device while all of your original, full-resolution versions are stored in iCloud. And as long as you have enough space in iCloud, you can store as many photos and videos as you want.
If you need more storage
When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. If you need more iCloud storage, you can buy more starting at $0.99 (USD) a month. If you choose a 200GB or 2TB plan, you can share your storage with family. Learn more about iCloud storage prices in your country or region.
If you need more storage on your device, you can transfer the photos and videos that you don't want to store in iCloud to your computer.
If you need more help with your storage plan—for example, if you bought more storage but you don't see it in your account—contact Apple Support.
Learn more
- You can quickly upgrade your iCloud storage plan from your device Settings or System Preferences.
- Learn how to make space on your device by deleting photos.
- Organize your entire photo and video collection on all of your devices.


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The investigating officer determining whether three U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen should be court-martialed on sexual assault charges is allowing the accuser's medical records to be considered.
Attorneys for the three former football players said Wednesday that the records should be part of the Article 32 hearing.
Cmdr. Robert Monahan moved forward with the hearing, allowing the records. But he then closed the hearing again to consider the relevance of the female midshipman's sexual behavior.
The woman's attorney, Susan Burke, had argued that information in the records date to before the alleged assault last year at an off-campus house in Annapolis, Md., and should not be admissible.
The hearing resumed Wednesday afternoon.
Midshipman Josh Tate, Eric Graham and Tra'ves Bush are charged with sexually assaulting the woman in 2012.


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The De'Longhi Elements Bundle includes a kettle and a 4 slice toaster; both designed with an exclusive tactile finish and chromed details. The complimentary kitchen appliances will bring an elegant touch to any kitchen décor.
De'Longhi Elements Kettle
The stylish De'Longhi Elements Kettle has a generous 1.7 L capacity and a 360° detachable swivel base for convenience. A water level indicator ensures only the required quantity of water is boiled each time. Three levels of safety protection include an auto shut-off when water begins to boil, a thermal cut-off and an auto shut off when the body is lifted from the base. A removable and washable anti-scale filter within the spout ensures high level water quality.
Weight: 1.3 Kg
Capacity: 1.7 L
Dimensions: H: 27cm x W: 23cm x D: 23cm
De'Longhi Elements Four Slice Toaster
Featuring electronic controls lit by a neon indicator, the stainless steel Elements toaster has four wide slots and reheat, defrost, one- side bagel and cancel functions. A progressive, electronic browning control, extra lift position for smaller bakery items and twin removable crumb trays ensure the perfect slice of toast every time.
Weight: 3.1kg
Dimensions: H: 20.5cm x W: 30cm x D: 34cm
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This Day in Financial Crisis: Sept. 12, 2008
Five years ago on this day, a weekend that would go down in history was about to start as Lehman Brother's scramble to find a buyer stalled. Paul Vigna recaps the events of Sept. 12, 2008. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... almost one year might be we are recounting the events of September two thousand and eight ... take a look back five years ago on this day a week and that would go down in history was about to start ... Lehman Brothers mad scramble to find a buyer was coming to close on this Friday ... with potential suitors locked into a standoff ... with federal officials over the issue of a government backstop ... government was standing firm and wouldn't offer the same time the deal offered JPMorgan when it bought its defense in the spring ... the Sooners were standing firm than they would buy Lehman without it ... the crisis was hitting other stocks as well AIG shares ... are down thirty percent on Friday alone ... almost an adviser about Lehman ... AIG was about to have its own Claps meanwhile ... Merrill Lynch was also scrambling to find a savior ... AIG would buy and sell these in the government ... Maryland to find salvation and Bank of America ... the Lehman Brothers and be left out of the dance ... is what would go down as one of Wall Street's most powering month harrowing ... months ... is reaching its climax follow the crisis of two thousand and all month on the MoneyBeat blogged when our this day increases history series ... join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag Crisis Plus five ...


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Tobacco Retailer Inspection Program (TRIP)
The Indiana Tobacco Retailer Inspection Program (TRIP) is a state government program designed to systematically monitor the effectiveness of tobacco retail compliance. Indiana's tobacco retailer compliance laws restrict the sales and distribution of tobacco products to minors. These laws are found in the Indiana Code at IC 35-46-1-10, IC 35-46-1-11 and IC 35-46-1-11.7.
View the TRIP inspection results on the map and check your neighborhood stores.
TRIP conducts random unannounced inspections of retailers by a team consisting of a police officer, youth, and adult monitor. The youth attempts to purchase tobacco from the retail clerks under unobtrusive observation by a police officer. In the event of an illegal sale, both the retail establishment and the individual clerk who sells tobacco to minors are fined as a result of this enforcement effort.
Effective July 1, 2001, responsibility for administering TRIP was transferred to the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission (ATC), and its enforcement division, the Indiana State Excise Police.
TRIP inspections are conducted by Indiana police officers (TRIP officers) under contract with the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission. Approximately 600 inspections are conducted each month.
To Report an Indiana retailer who sells tobacco or alcohol to minors, please contact your local Excise District.


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YMCA summer camps at the Westside Y (day camp) and Camp Takatoka (overnight camp) give kids the opportunity to get dirty, get wet, explore the great outdoors, and be kids the way nature intended. Learn about summer camps and more at www.ymcatulsa.org
This video was presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the YMCA of Greater Tulsa's board of directors. The video illustrates how the Y shapes and changes lives through programs that promote social responsibility, youth development and healthy living.
Learning to read does more than strengthen the mind. It can also strengthen families.
YMCA's Summer Learning Institute uses a summer-long afternoon circus program as a getaway to develop and educate Tulsa-area kids about healthy living.
For many kids, summertime can mean a long stretch of inactivity that puts their mental and physical growth on hold, or even reverses it. The YMCA of Greater Tulsa's Summer Learning Institute picks up where school leaves off with an exciting program of dance, literacy, nutrition and other activities that keep children moving forward physically, mentally, creatively and socially.


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Jason Aldean, 'When She Says Baby' [Listen]
Almost everything Jason Aldean touches turns to gold, and his new single 'When She Says Baby' will likely be no different. Very few of the singer's releases since 'Hicktown' in 2005 have failed to sell at least 500,000 singles. He has his finger on the pulse of what mainstream country audiences are craving.
'When She Says Baby' continues his swing back from the outer limits of what fans will accept as country. This uptempo rocker isn't all aggression. It has heart, and Aldean is sincere talking about the peace of mind the right person waiting for you at home can bring.
"When she says baby / Oh no matter what comes, ain't going nowhere / She runs her fingers through my hair and saves me / Yeah that look in her eyes got me coming alive / Driving me good kinda crazy / When she says baby," he sings during the chorus.
Ben Hayslip and Rhett Akins co-wrote the track. It's very accessible, lyrically. Producer Michael Knox does nothing to obfuscate the message.
"Some nights i come home fighting mad / Feel like running my fist through the wall / Is it even worth what I'm fighting for anymore / Feeling torn, oh to hell with it all," Aldean adds during a second verse. Listen for the cry of a steel and a few well-placed organ licks midway through.
None of the five singles Aldean has released from 'Night Train' are exactly the same. In fact, they all manage to travel different roads without ever leaving the county. Rarely does an artist get to single No. 5 unless he or she releases a gratuitous deluxe edition that includes new music. That Aldean hasn't done that speaks to the power of 'Night Train.'
Why Fans Will Love It: It speaks to the masses with lyrics that are easy to relate to.
Key Lyrics: "Yeah that look in her eyes got me coming alive / Driving me good kinda crazy / When she says baby"
Did You Know?: This is the little song that could. The track was among the last to be recorded for 'Night Train' and was an add-on to the setlist for the 'Night Train to Georgia' DVD. Now it's the fifth single from his fifth studio album.
Listen to Jason Aldean, 'When She Says Baby'


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A blueprint for high-volume, high-quality lung cancer screening that is detecting cancer earlier—and helping to save lives
For years, we've heard about the coming tidal wave of specialty drugs. In 2012, 25 of them crashed ashore as big pharma and small biotechs continued the pursuit of personalized medicine.
Biologics and other specialty therapeutics made up almost two thirds of new molecular entities approved last year, and their record number furthered the upward trend in approvals since the fast-track process was made law in 2007.
Notably, 12 of the 25 were orphan drugs, and at least seven carry six-figure prices for a year's worth of treatment — increasingly common for drugs that address rare conditions, sometimes in populations of fewer than 1,000.
Sources: FDA, Express Scripts
Eleven drugs approved in 2012 were for oncology. Most are targeted agents sure to strain pharmacy budgets, but because of coverage mandates or the paucity of treatments available for their indications, they are unlikely to meet stiff payer resistance. For instance, Erivedge ($7,500 a month) is the first drug approved to treat advanced basal-cell carcinoma, giving it all but a free pass to the formulary.
|New approval
|Medullary thyroid cancer
|Cost per monthc
|Competing productsd
|Zytiga ($5,495/mo)
Jevtana ($6,400 per 3-week cycle)
Provenge ($93,000/single course)
|Caprelsa ($10,000–$12,000/mo)
|Zaltrap ($11,063/mo)
Erbitux ($4,032 loading dose, $2,880 weekly dose)
Avastin (~$5,000/mo)
| amCRC=metastatic colorectal cancer
bmCRPC=metastatic, castrate-resistant prostate cancer
cPublished average wholesale price, before rebates
dCompeting does not imply substitutable.
Pricing sources: American Society of Clinical Oncology, Cancer Letter, DailyRx, Fallon Community Health Plan, New York Times, The Pharma Letter, Reuters, Seeking Alpha
— Michael D. Dalzell
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Ignoring the overwhelming, and steadily growing, body of scientific evidence that the global-warming "crisis" is nonexistent, President Clinton issued an environmental "clarion call" (his term) to the nation in his Earth Day '93 address. "I reaffirm, my personal, and announce our nation's commitment," he said, "to reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases to their 1990 levels by the year 2000."
The following month, on May 18 and May 26, former Senator Timothy Wirth, now counselor to the State Department and Clinton's designee for the new post of undersecretary for global affairs, presented the administration's position on the Framework Convention on Climate Change (more commonly known as the UN Global Warming Treaty) in congressional hearings. Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power on May 26, Wirth warned that U.S. "domestic actions alone, even as large as we are, will not be enough to reverse the upward trend in global atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. We must establish a partnership with other countries.... Therefore we must forge common cause around the world."
Incredibly, as we sat watching the proceedings on C-SPAN, nary a member of the subcommittee did we see, either Democrat or Republican, rise to challenge, object to, or even seriously question the alleged science undergirding Wirth's dire projections and sweeping proposals for global "partnership." Nor did anyone bother to ask him about an earlier statement of his, to wit: "We've got to ride the global warming issue.... Even if the theory is wrong, we'll be doing the right thing."
At What Cost?
Just where is that ride taking us and how much is the ticket price? And what is "the right thing" in this context? Considering the stakes involved and all of the recent heated debate over the deficit, jobs, taxes, and the economy, does it not seem that Congress is suffering an amazing lack of curiosity? The administration's "Action Plan" to implement the UN treaty was due out in August, but is still not ready as we write (in early September).
We have the President's promise that it will be "cost effective." Considering the meanings given to words in the Slick Willie Lexicon thus far — remember "managed competition" for socialized medicine, "investments" for new federal spending, and "deficit reduction" for massive new taxation — we had better get ready for an economic deathblow if he puts this one across.
The economic costs to American taxpayers and consumers to meet 1990 emissions targets will almost certainly run into the hundreds of billions of dollars. Politically, we can kiss the Constitution, local governance, and national sovereignty good-bye. Already the U.S. and UN eco-bureaucracies are spreading like "The Blob," with new agencies, committees, and task forces multiplying faster than devilish gremlins on a Spielberg movie set. And with much the same effect, we may soon learn. In the blockbuster, celluloid sci-fi fable, you may recall, what started out as irresistibly benign and cuddly little fur balls quickly transmogrified into hordes of hideous, destructive, and deadly beasties. Is it life imitating art or art imitating life? Either way, the burgeoning green leviathan spells disaster.
At the federal level, Clinton has erected a whole new greenhouse labyrinth called the Interagency Climate Change Mitigation Group (ICCMG), composed of working groups from the federal departments of Energy, Transportation, Agriculture, Treasury, Commerce, State, the EPA, the National Security Council, OMB, the Domestic Security Council, and various other agencies and councils.
One of the new green global additions, the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, convened for the first time in February 1993 and again in June to stake out its territory: monitoring national compliance with the global-warming treaty, Agenda 21, the Earth Charter, the Rio Declaration of Principles, and other international agreements. As yet, the commission has no enforcement powers, but that may soon change. It is amassing a huge lobbying army to boost its suasive authority and to speed its assumption of genuine global enforcement muscle. To that end it is considering bringing as many as 1,400 NGOs (non-governmental organizations) into the commission as "participants." Which means that Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Sierra Club, Worldwatch, and every other assortment of green power-lusters will be strategically positioned to help draft and promote the UN's eco-fascist edicts, and to keep upping the ante.
This NGO function of ratcheting the process ever leftward was demonstrated in May soon after the administration announced its climate initiative. A coalition of 16 environmental groups called on Clinton to go even further and offered 21 measures (additional regulations and taxes, of course) to speed our response to the global "crisis."
Also up and running is the UN Global Environment Facility (GEF), the entity charged with dispersing billions of dollars (from the poor and the middle class in the developed countries to the rich in the developing countries) for environmental protection and development. Then there is the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on climate change, which has been receiving "scientific" input from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The list goes on.
Totalitarian Master Plan
We mentioned the UN treaty Agenda 21; it is surely deserving of a moment or two of our attention. An intimidating 700-plus pages of complex legalese, understandably, very few Americans and few members of Congress have read this monstrous document. We have. Prepare yourselves. The UN Earth saviors have launched into their task with a zeal and hubris that would do credit to our own Hillary and her healthcare crusade. In Agenda 21 they have set forth a truly frightening master plan for global population growth, healthcare, land-use planning, hazardous waste, pesticides, ozone depletion, food production and distribution, energy production, transportation, homeless shelters, drought relief, species protection, biotechnology, and regulations to "protect" forests, mountains, deserts, wetlands, oceans, rivers, streams, lakes, coastal waters, etc., ad nauseam.
The treaty is not easy to obtain. The most accessible version of the document is an abbreviated 300-page edition entitled, AGENDA 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet, (Earthpress, 1993), edited by environmental-activist attorney Daniel Sitarz and enthusiastically endorsed by Earth Summit chief Maurice Strong. If ever there were a case of unintentionally damning with fulsome praise, this is it. "AGENDA 21 is not a static document," enthuses Sitarz. "It is a plan of action. It is meant to be a hands-on instrument to guide the development of the Earth in a sustainable manner." (Emphasis added.) Some may take comfort in the thought that there are mere mortals with the omniscience, confidence, and virtue to "guide" all planetary development; others may be pardoned for measured skepticism. And skepticism will surely increase and graduate to outrage as the true totalitarian nature of this plan unfolds to public view. Consider this chilling excerpt from UN cheerleader Sitarz:
AGENDA 21 proposes an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by every person on Earth.... It calls for specific changes in the activities of all people....
Effective execution of AGENDA 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced — a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.
Look again: "all human society," "every person on Earth," "every human action," "every level," "demand," "require." The totalitarian power grab is so transparent that it should automatically be scorned and rejected by all civilized nations. But, as Sitarz points out, it was adopted at the Earth Summit "by nations representing over 98% of the Earth's population."
The goal is as plain as day. In her new book, Environmental Overkill, former Washington Governor Dixy Lee Ray notes: "The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED [the Earth Summit], is to bring about change in the present system of nations. The future is to be world government, with central planning by the UN.... If force is needed, it will be provided by a UN green-helmeted police force."
Is Dr. Ray — noted author, scientist, and "unofficial" participant at the Earth Summit — exaggerating the coercive intent of the UNCED folks? Hardly. The documents and official proceedings speak for themselves. So too, more and more, do environmentalist leaders. Take, for instance, Jacques Cousteau, eco-socialist demigod of the ocean seas. Just prior to the Earth Summit, the revered gray one wrote in his bimonthly journal, Calypso Log: "Here I am referring to the necessity of creating an international environmental police, 'green helmets,' who would be under the direction of the United Nations. Our planet needs guardians, independent organizations, free of the constraints of profit or national sovereignty, and responsible for making up an almost daily bill of health of our common habitat, our Earth."
Another coercive utopian, William Ophuls, has this to say in his recent opus, Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited:
The need for a world government with enough coercive power over fractious nation states to achieve what reasonable people would regard as the planetary common interest has become overwhelming.
A Planetary Religion
Apparently so, and the corollary to this eco-dogma is that it must reach down and permeate every aspect of our lives. As Donald Snow of the Conservation Fund wrote in an important 1992 study conducted for the leadership of the environmental movement, "The new mandate for leadership demands that virtually every institutional sector of American life — education, government, business, public communications, and the not-for-profit sector — become deeply engaged in solving environmental problems." Yes, in the new order we must eat, drink, sleep, work, and play environment, environment, environment! In short, say the eco-babblers, environmentalism must become the new planetary religion.
We kid you not. Consider the Declaration of the Sacred Earth, which was part of the Earth Summit opening ceremonies. In his keynote address to the Summit's plenary session, Maurice Strong directed the world's attention to the Declaration and proclaimed, "The changes in behavior and direction called for here must be rooted in our deepest spiritual, moral, and ethical values." According to the declaration, "The [ecological] crisis transcends all national, religious, cultural, social, political, and economic boundaries." Moreover, "The responsibility of each human being today is to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light" — with the light being a politically correct green light, naturally. And, it continues, "We must therefore transform our attitudes and values, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature."
Normal, rational people at this point must find themselves asking: Where is all this leading us? Has the entire world gone mad? Why this headlong, gadarene rush into dictatorship? Why the continued media trumpetings of imminent ecological doom when science and common sense say otherwise? Why the sudden fervent embrace of, and proselytizing zeal for, environmental paganism by those elites who have relentlessly opposed Christianity and traditional moral values? How do we explain the enormous push for statist "solutions" to nonexistent ecological "crises," when the evidence from the communist and socialist countries demonstrates overwhelmingly that collectivism and central planning have wrought unparalleled environmental destruction? How do we account for the intimate and long-standing symbiosis in the environmental movement between super-wealthy corporate elitists and their supposed arch-enemies, interventionists, socialists, and communists of all stripes? And, finally, cui bono — who benefits — from all of this "madness"?
Hidden Agenda
For anyone who has delved even slightly into the science, politics, finance, and ideology of environmentalism, these questions scream to be answered. For those who delve deeper the answers are as compelling as they are disturbing. What becomes clear is that the modern-day environmental "movement" and all of its phony "crises" have been created, promoted, and sustained by the same elitist organizations that have generated many other movements throughout this century for the purpose of destroying our constitutional firewalls and public disposition against a centralized, all-powerful federal government, and for creating a sympathy and a constituency for the ultimate objective: an omnipotent world government.
Which isn't to say that all, or even most, of the myriad environmental groups are conspiratorial cats-paws. But some of the most influential of these organizations most definitely are. It is certain that there would be no well-oiled, professionally staffed and directed, billion-dollar mass movement without some extraordinary string-pulling and palm-creasing behind the scenes by powerful establishment groups and individuals promoting a hidden agenda.
It is just as certain that there would not be a hope of stirring mass hysteria over global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, deforestation, endangered species, and a host of similar eco-scams, without massive deception and intervention by the same sub-rosa forces. Without question, environmentalism is being used to advance a covert cause that has nothing to do with protecting dolphins, the ozone layer, or the spotted owl. To borrow from Lord Tennyson (with apologies to the poet for liberties taken): "Yet I doubt not through the outrages one increasing purpose runs." And that purpose is decidedly evil.
The conspiratorial movement for a totalitarian, collectivist world government, often euphemistically referred to as a "new world order," has been carefully dissected and documented in many articles in The New American and in many books. * The prominent institutional players in this one-world cabal have been the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, the Committee for Economic Development, the Business Advisory Council, Chase Manhattan and other New York banks of the Morgan-Rockefeller axis, the United World Federalists, the Trilateral Commission, and others. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is widely recognized as the general staff of this insider coterie.
Early Attempts
The first try at "world order" came in the form of the League of Nations at the end of World War I. If only the nations of the world would come together in unity and begin the process of surrendering national sovereignty to a world body, went the siren song, the scourge of war would be vanquished. This "peace" propaganda almost produced its desired effect — but not quite. The United States was protected from armed invasion by ocean moats which made armed invasion unlikely. Moreover, the spirit of nationalism and independence still ran strong in American blood. In spite of an intense insider-led campaign for the League, the U.S. Senate decided to reject American membership in the organization. Our nation's refusal to go along doomed the League of Nations from the start.
The second try at world order followed World War II, and culminated in the creation of the United Nations. The arrival of the atomic bomb and long-range delivery systems (bombers, missiles, etc.), together with CFR dominance of the White House and growing CFR influence in the media and the Senate, provided the insiders with the combination they needed to get the UN Charter ratified. But a UN with no real authority was still just half, or even less than half, a loaf. Significant vestiges of national sovereignty still presented real barriers to full-blown world government.
For 40 years, the insiders relied on fear of "the bomb" to keep America tied to the United Nations. If we dared quit the world body, went their argument, there would surely be nuclear war with the communists and global annihilation. Coexistence was our best available option, at least until such time as the UN became powerful enough to guarantee its version of peace. But even while "the bomb" was serving its purpose well, long-range planning was underway to employ the threat of environmental cataclysm in future campaigns to build the world organization into a world government.
Birth of a Movement
The environmental "movement" phenomenon is a casebook par excellence of the insiders' conspiratorial machinations. There is an abundance of documents showing:
- The one-worlders conducting feasibility studies on creating apocalyptic environmentalism as a credible impetus for world government years before the environmental movement materialized.
- The insider bankrolling of the predominant environmentalist forces for decades.
- Key insiders running and directing many of the leading eco-forces.
- The insider-controlled major media working in concert with radical environmentalists to contrive fraudulent, frightful scenarios of ecological doom.
- The same forces conspiring to prevent the responsible voices of science from gaining media access to refute the Chicken Littles.
- Admissions by insiders that the green movement is one of their major avenues to the new world order.
A World Effectively Controlled by the United Nations is an incredible study prepared in 1961 by Professor Lincoln P. Bloomfield (CFR) of MIT under a contract (No. SCC 28270) with the State Department, which was then under Secretary of State Dean Rusk (CFR). The global regime contemplated by the study, said Bloomfield, would "be referred to unblushingly as a 'world government.'" The problem, he reported, was that it could take a couple hundred years or more for this global governance to evolve naturally and consensually. However, he had a plan to "bypass the main path of history, short-circuiting the organic stages of consensus." The Bloomfield scheme involved "a crisis, a war, or a brink-of-war situation so grave or commonly menacing that deeply rooted attitudes and practices are sufficiently shaken to open the possibility of a revolution in world political arrangements." "According to this version," he said, "the order we examine may be brought into existence as a result of a series of sudden, nasty, and traumatic shocks."
Iron Mountain Meeting
But what crisis "so grave or commonly menacing" could be devised for the purpose? To solve that dilemma, insiders in the Kennedy administration convened a Special Study Group of 15 men at a secret facility at Iron Mountain, New York, during the summer of 1963. Their mission: Come up with alternatives to war that would provide the same social and political "stabilizing" function.
Two and a half years later the group produced its findings. The secret report was not intended for public consumption. One member of the group, however, felt it should be made available for the American people. So in 1967 it was published anonymously under the title, Report From Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace. Harvard economics professor John Kenneth Galbraith (former CFR) later admitted he was "a member of the conspiracy" (the words are his) that produced the book.
The Iron Mountain group reported that a war substitute "would require 'alternate enemies,' some of which might seem ... farfetched in the context of the current war system." The participants considered a number of general social welfare programs as possible substitutes: health, transportation, education, housing, poverty, etc., but were not satisfied with any of them. "It is more probable, in our judgement," they opined, "that such a threat will have to be invented."
"Like its political function," said the diabolical brain trust, "the motivational function of war requires the existence of a genuinely menacing social enemy." The "alternate enemy," they contended in the report, "must imply a more immediate, tangible, and directly felt threat of destruction. It must justify the need for taking and paying a 'blood price' in wide areas of human concern." With this in mind, the group felt, the possible substitute enemies they were considering were woefully inadequate.
According to the report, however, "One exception might be the environmental-pollution model, if the danger to society it posed was genuinely imminent. The fictive models would have to carry the weight of extraordinary conviction, underscored with a not inconsiderable actual sacrifice of life." If these conditions could be met, the study concluded hopefully, "It may be ... that gross pollution of the environment can eventually replace the possibility of mass destruction by nuclear weapons as the principal apparent threat to the survival of the species."
In 1970, the environmental era was kicked off with Earth Day, a green confabulation made significant by the incredibly lavish and sympathetic coverage provided by the insider media. It was accompanied by an orgy of funding for the eco-activists by the establishment tax-exempt foundations. One of the insiders' noteworthy early calls for launching global governance under the green label appeared in an advertisement sponsored by the World Association of World Federalists (WAWF) in the January-February 1972 issue of The Humanist, published by the American Humanist Association. It read:
World Federalists believe that the environmental crisis facing planet earth is a global problem and therefore calls for a "global" solution — a worldwide United Nations Environmental Agency with the power to make its decisions stick. WAWF has submitted a proposal for just such an agency to be considered at the 1972 U.N. Environmental Conference to be held in Stockholm.
A New Leader
That first UN Environmental Conference, held in Stockholm, Sweden June 5-16, 1972, proved to be the launching pad for the worldwide campaign to establish a UN planetary environmental authority. One result of the conference was the establishment of a United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) intended as the overseer of a future monitoring system of the world's environment. The man selected to be the first executive director of the new agency was Maurice Strong, a Canadian, who had served as secretary-general of the Stockholm event and was at the time a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation.
This same Maurice Strong was named 20 years later to serve as secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), the official name of the 1992 Earth Summit. A millionaire businessman with a passion for socialist, one-world causes, Strong is a radical environmentalist and New Age devotee. He is also a major player in such insider circles as the Club of Rome, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, the World Economic Forum, the World Federation of United Nations Associations, Planetary Citizens, and the Business Council for Sustainable Development.
In the months leading up to the major event in Rio, Strong grabbed headlines on several occasions with outlandish rantings against the United States and the middle class of the industrialized countries. For example, he declared that "the United States is clearly the greatest risk" to the world's ecological health. This was so, he said, because, "In effect, the United States is committing environmental aggression against the rest of the world."
In a UNCED report issued in August 1991, Strong wrote: "It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class ... involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and 'convenience' foods, ownership of motor-vehicles, numerous electric household appliances, home and workplace airconditioning ... expansive suburban housing ... are not sustainable."
He also wrote the introduction to the revealing 1991 Trilateral Commission book, Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology, by Jim MacNeill, Pieter Winsemius, and Taizo Yakushiji. His good friend David Rockefeller wrote the foreword.
According to UNCED Secretary Strong, Trilateralist author Jim MacNeill "is now advising me on the road to Rio." Beyond Interdependence served as the CFR-Trilateral game plan for Rio, and it had Strong's full endorsement. To stress its importance, Strong said the study would help guide "decisions that will literally determine the fate of the earth." That was significant, since MacNeill and his co-authors advocated "a new global partnership expressed in a revitalized international system in which an Earth Council, perhaps the Security Council with a broader mandate, maintains the interlocked environmental and economic security of the planet."
Recurring Connections
The same globalist-socialist vision was presented in Global Economics and the Environment: Toward Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World, another Earth Summit guide published just prior to the UNCED palaver by the Council on Foreign Relations. The common apocalyptic theme has been repeated innumerable times in environmental jeremiads coming from a bevy of one-worlders ranging from David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and Helmut Kohl to socialists Francois Mitterrand, Willy Brandt, and "former" communist Mikhail Gorbachev, and even to Ted Turner, Jane Fonda, and Tom Hayden. It is not possible to study the environmental movement in any depth without repeatedly tripping over the recurring connection between the socialist/communist Left and the corporate/banking elite personified by David Rockefeller and the organizations he has led.
Consider, for example, Lester R. Brown (CFR), the supposed anti-establishment ecofanatic who heads the very influential Worldwatch Institute, one of the driving forces behind UNCED. His best-selling 1972 book, World Without Borders, proposed a "world environmental agency" because, "Arresting the deterioration of the environment does not seem possible within the existing framework of independent nation-states."
His books and statist solutions are hyped by the CFR-dominated media and CFR academics, while the big CFR-controlled foundations shower his think tank with millions of dollars.
"Building an environmentally sustainable future," Brown later said of the Earth Summit's mission, "requires nothing short of a revolution." This would involve "restructuring the global economy, dramatically changing human reproductive behavior and altering values and lifestyles."
In State of the World 1991, the annual doomsday report issued by the Worldwatch Institute, Brown predicted that "the battle to save the planet will replace the battle over ideology as the organizing theme of the new world order." This same globalist theme was delivered by Ronald I. Spiers (CFR) in the March 13, 1992 New York Times. "The [United Nations] Trusteeship Council," he declared, "should be changed from a body dealing with the vestiges of colonialism to one dealing with the environment, becoming in effect the trustee of the health of the planet."
And since CFR hacks like Lester Brown and Richard N. Gardner were very much involved in directing the Earth Summit process, it is not surprising that similar dire warnings of eco-destruction were everywhere apparent. The UNCED booklet, In Our Hands: Earth Summit '92, for example, asserted in its closing paragraph: "The world community now faces together greater risks to our common security through our impacts on the environment than from traditional military conflicts with one another." And, it proclaimed, "We must now forge a new 'Earth Ethic' which will inspire all peoples and nations to join in a new global partnership of North, South, East and West."
An earlier purveyor of this line, CFR "wise man" George F. Kennan, the author of the Cold War phony policy of "containment" against communism, explained in a 1989 Washington Post column that we now live "in an age where the great enemy is not the Soviet Union but the rapid deterioration of our planet as a supporting structure for civilized life."
In an opinion column in the New York Times of March 27, 1990, Michael Oppenheimer (CFR) warned darkly: "Global warming, ozone depletion, deforestation and overpopulation are the four horsemen of a looming 21st century apocalypse." He assured readers: "As the cold war recedes, the environment is becoming the No. 1 international security concern."
The New York Times senior columnist Flora Lewis (CFR), has praised Mikhail Gorbachev — Mr. Green Cross International — for going "beyond accepted notions of the limits of national sovereignty and rules of behavior" with his green proposals. She was thrilled by his "plan for a global code of environmental conduct," which "would have an aspect of world government, because it would provide for the World Court to judge states." (Emphasis added.) This, she gushed with obvious delight, "is a breathtaking idea, beyond the current dreams of ecology militants.... And it is fitting that the environment be the topic for what amounts to global policing.... Even starting the effort would be a giant step for international law." (Emphasis added.)
A Hard Road, Indeed
Of course, the CFR's own journal, Foreign Affairs (according to Time magazine the "most influential journal in print"), has been host to many influential green pieces. One such was Richard N. Gardner's notable article, "The Hard Road to World Order," in the April 1974 issue. One of the boldest calls for world government ever to appear in Foreign Affairs, it called for building the "house of world order" through "an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece." Moreover, it set out the CFR insider plans for exploiting fears about environmental calamity as a vehicle for expanding the UN's power. In this 1974 article, Gardner wrote:
The next few years should see a continued strengthening of the new global and regional agencies charged with protecting the world's environment. In addition to comprehensive monitoring of the earth's air, water and soil and of the effects of pollutants on human health, we can look forward to new procedures to implement the principle of state responsibility for national actions that have transnational environmental consequences, probably including some kind of "international environmental impact statement."
To any farmer, rancher, logger, miner, developer, businessman, or property owner who has had to wrestle with the ordeal of attempting to comply with local, state, or federal environmental impact statements, the idea of a planetary EPA demanding similar compliance must be a nightmare too horrible to contemplate. But to the one-world corporate statists who plan on ruling, it makes wonderful sense.
Much more also begins to make sense. Like the long-standing symbiotic relationship between the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Ford Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, Exxon, IBM, Procter & Gamble, et al. on one hand, and Friends of the Earth, Nature Conservancy, Planned Parenthood, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Environmental Defense Fund, et al. on the other. Pressure from above and pressure from below: The American people are caught in a pincer attack.
Thus we see the ubiquitous establishmentarian Lester Brown (CFR), making common cause with the Socialist International in calling for more socialist wealth redistribution programs. In an interview in the June 3 issue of Terraviva, a special daily newspaper distributed to participants during the Earth Summit, Brown predicted that "ecological sustainability will become the new organizing principle, the foundation of the 'new world order,' if you will." And what that really means, said Brown, is that "we can no longer separate the future habitability of the planet from the distribution' of wealth." Which means more foreign aid prescribed and directed, naturally, by Brown and his elitist, eco-socialist confreres.
Surrender Process
"But," suggested the Terraviva interviewer, "the current climate here in the U.S. seems very hostile to foreign aid." Acknowledging the dilemma, Brown responded: "It might take a few more scares to get this country energized." Or, as his fellow one-world aspirant, Bloomfield, would say, "a series of sudden, nasty and traumatic shocks." No doubt these establishment eco-terrorists have plenty of scares and nasty shocks up their sleeves to "energize" the masses into surrendering their freedoms and national sovereignty to the UN's rapidly evolving global green regime.
This surrender process is well underway and escalating, says Worldwatch associate Hilary F. French, through the passage of international treaties, such as those concerning global warming, ozone depletion, biodiversity, etc. In the Institute's study, After the Earth Summit: The Future of Environmental Governance, French says: "National sovereignty — the power of a country to control events within its territory — has lost much of its meaning in today's world, where borders are routinely breached by pollution, international trade, financial flows and refugees.... Nations are [through treaties] in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community, and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance as a means of solving otherwise-unmanageable problems." These "unmanageable problems" are, of course, colossal frauds, mere "fictive models" (in Iron Mountain nomenclature) given credibility by enormous and sustained propaganda campaigns in the CFR insider-dominated media.
Every call to action, every solution offered by the green globalists, always leads to a loss of freedom and more power in government. It is becoming ever more obvious that the plans of the self-proclaimed planet guardians have virtually nothing to do with ecological stewardship or whatever other noble-sounding cause they are using as cover for their real goal. Instead, their plans have everything to do with forging the chains for a UN-dominated world dictatorship.
If you have detected a stepped-up campaign in recent months to reignite the over-population scare of the 1970s, you're not just imagining things. You can expect the onslaught to intensify as we approach the United Nations Conference on Population and Development, scheduled for 1994.
The insider-orchestrated campaign is surfacing everywhere. "Counselor" Timothy Wirth (CFR), in an address at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies on May 12, 1993, warned of the dreadful threat to humanity and Mother Earth from the "forces of global environmental decline": soil loss, rainforest destruction, global warming, etc. "Last, and central to all others," though, said Wirth, "is the spiral of population growth." Moreover, "Population must be at the top of our agenda for global cooperation — it dwarfs all others in terms of its importance and its difficulty."
Attack of the People Haters
In a winter 1992/93 Foreign Affairs article with the foreboding title, "The Population Threat," Michael S. Teitelbaum (CFR) warned, "The Clinton administration can ill-afford to ignore international population trends." He urged renewed U.S. funding for the UN's Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
At UNCED, Maurice Strong deplored the world's "explosive increase in population," and warned, "We have been the most successful species ever; we are now a species out of control." "Population," he declared, "must be stabilized, and rapidly."
Jacques Cousteau, one of the most venerated attractions at the summit, issued a fearful warning that "the fuse connected to a demographic explosion is already burning." At most, he said, humanity has ten years to put it out. Parroting the new Paul Ehrlich population bomb scare stories, the famed oceanographer urged "drastic, unconventional decisions" if the world is to avoid reaching the "unacceptable" and "absurd figure of 16 billion human beings" by the year 2070.
But the true depth of Captain Jacques' misanthropic zeal was revealed a few months earlier in an amazing interview that appeared in the November 1991 UNESCO Courier. Cousteau told his French interviewers:
Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer.... Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species.
This is a terrible thing to say. In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it. [Emphasis added.]
Billions for Murder
Agenda 21 calls for some $7 billion per year for population control measures. What this means, in plain English, is that the UN wants a lot more money to dramatically expand its sterilization and abortion programs, as well as universal access to contraceptives and sex education. It will surely expand the coercive "one child" policies of Red China and may even help institute the kinds of "elimination" efforts Cousteau hinted at in his UNESCO interview.
The alarming thing is that Cousteau is not alone. Far from it. Consider the Club of Rome, another insider enclave in which Maurice Strong is a prime mover. In the Club's 1991 book, The First Global Revolution, the one-worlders show their true colors. They declare: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.... All these dangers are caused by human intervention.... The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
If you are a member of humanity, a human being, you are the enemy of the globalist insiders, and they are your enemies. They are involved in a conspiracy against humanity — a conspiracy against God and man. Unless we recognize that fact and fight them with all of the honorable means at our disposal, we are doomed to be their victims in their tyrannical new world order.


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Hamilton College's Tyler Reinhold '15 racked up six hits, including three doubles, and the Continentals split a non-conference doubleheader with Carroll University at Chain of Lakes Park in Winter Haven, Fla., on March 24.
The Continentals (5-5 overall) dropped a wild first game, 14-12, and rallied for a 3-2 win in Game 2. The teams square off one more time on Tuesday, March 26. Hamilton plays a non-conference doubleheader against NESCAC East Division foe Colby College on Monday, March 25.
Hamilton trailed 2-0 after two innings in the nightcap, but the Continentals scored a run in the third and two in the fourth, and held on for the win. JJay Lane '15 pitched his second complete game this season. Lane allowed one earned run and struck out five batters. He has a 0.66 earned run average and 10 strikeouts in 13.2 innings.
Reinhold was a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate with two singles and a double. Zack Becker '16 went 2-for-2 with a double and a run batted in. Ben Goffin '15 had a two-run single and Tim Burke '16 collected two hits.
Carl Formento tossed a complete game for Carroll (3-3) in the loss. Matt Francois had two hits and Tyler Schovanec had an RBI single.
Cody Smith led off the top of the first inning with a single up the middle for the Pioneers. An error moved Smith to second base as Jordan Stephans reached first safely. Schovanec followed with a single up the middle to score Smith for a 1-0 lead.
Carroll added another run in the top of the second. Francois led off the inning with a single, and a walk to Mitch Marty put runners on first and second. Alex Hallenbeck's sacrifice bunt moved the runners up a base and Phil Giuffre drove in Francois with a single through the left side.
Hamilton got one run back in the bottom of the third. Reinhold led off with a double to right field. Brian Ferrell '16 laid down a sacrifice bunt that moved Reinhold to third and wound up safe at first on an error by Ben Turner. Becker smashed a one-out double down the right field line that plated Reinhold, but a perfect relay throw beat Ferrell to the plate, and the Continentals were unable to tie the score.
The Continentals jumped on top with two runs in the bottom of the fourth. A single to right field by Burke and a bunt single by Joe Jensen '15 put two runners on base. Taylor moved them over to second and third with a sacrifice bunt, and Ben Goffin '15 drove in both with a single to center. Reinhold followed with a single and the Continentals had two runners on with only one out, but Formento retired the next two batters to end the inning.
Lane settled down after the first two innings and retired 10 straight batters. Lane finally gave up another hit with one out in the sixth, a single to Turner, but got out of the inning with a pickoff and a ground ball to Becker.
Hamilton threatened to add an insurance run in the sixth after two-out singles by Reinhold and Ferrell. But Formento got Gabe Klein '13 to ground out to second and kept it a one-run game.
Lane came back out for the seventh inning and gave up singles to Francois and Marty. Hallenbeck moved the runners over with a sacrifice bunt and the tying run was 90 feet away with only one out. After Smith struck out and Giuffre walked, Lane got Stephans to pop out to first and end the game.
In the opener, Carroll scored five times in the fifth inning and held on to win 14-12 in a wild game. Zach Wiseman allowed just one run over the final three innings in relief to pick up the win. Schovanec and Giuffre had two hits apiece, including one double. Schovanec scored two runs and drove in one, and Giuffre finished with two RBI. Joe Klobukowski and Hallenbeck had two hits and scored two runs apiece, and Klobukowski added an RBI.
Ferrell and Reinhold led the Hamilton offense in Game 1. Ferrell recorded a single, double, four RBI and two runs scored. Reinhold had three hits, including two doubles, scored three runs and drove in one. Sam Fuentes '13, Klein, Becker and Jensen all collected two hits. Jensen and Burke chipped in two RBI apiece. Relief pitcher Tommy Moriarty '14 made his seventh appearance this year and tossed scoreless fifth and sixth innings.
Hamilton took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first after Becker hit his fourth double this season and came around to score. Carroll responded with six runs in the bottom half of the inning for a 6-1 advantage.
The Pioneers' first eight batters reached base safely on seven singles and an error. Klobukowski led off with a single to right field and advanced to third while Turner wound up on second after an error. Stephans singled in both runners for a 2-1 lead.
After Stephans stole second, Schovanec singled through the right side. With runners at the corners, Schovanec stole second on a pickoff attempt, and Stephans beat the throw to the plate for the third run. Dylan Grove got on base with an infield single, and a single by Giuffre drove in Schovanec for a 4-1 lead.
Following a wild pitch that moved the runners to second and third, Eric Keenan plated Grove with a single to right, and Fuentes threw out Giuffre at home. Keenan later scored the sixth run on an error.
Carroll added two more runs in the bottom of the third. Marty was hit by a pitch with two outs, and back-to-back singles by Hallenbeck and Klobukowski scored Marty and pushed Hallenbeck to third. Klobukowski stole second base and a throwing error allowed Hallenbeck to score for an 8-1 lead.
The Hamilton bats woke up to the tune of six runs in the top of the fourth inning. Tyler Roberts quickly retired the first two batters, but the next nine Continentals all reached base. Nick Taylor '15 was hit by a pitch and Steve LaRochelle '14 walked to put runners on first and second. Reinhold's double down the left field line drove in Taylor, and Ferrell's single made it 8-4. Consecutive singles by Klein and Becker plated Ferrell and knocked Roberts out of the game.
Fuentes drew a walk that loaded the bases, and Burke walked and forced in Klein. Jensen's infield single allowed Becker to score and pulled Hamilton within 8-7. The Continentals left the bases loaded.
Carroll tacked on another run in the bottom of the fourth. Stephans reached on a fielder's choice and a walk to Grove moved him to second. Giuffre smacked a shot down the left field line that brought in Stephans for a 9-7 lead.
Hamilton grabbed an 11-9 advantage after the Continentals scored four runs in the top half of the fifth inning. LaRochelle started the inning by getting hit by a pitch and scored on Reinhold's single up the middle after Hallenbeck couldn't handle the play, which also allowed Reinhold to get to second. Ferrell hammered an RBI double to left center and singles by Klein and Fuentes loaded the bases once again. Burke's sacrifice fly plated Ferrell and Klein scored on Jensen's single through the left side.
The Pioneers took the lead right back with five runs in the bottom of the fifth. Carroll loaded the bases with no outs as Marty reached on an error, Hallenbeck singled and Klobukowski walked. Turner drew a walk, which allowed Marty to score, and an infield error cleared the bases. Stephen advanced to second on the error and later scored on Schovanec's double for an 14-11 advantage.
The Continentals pulled within 14-12 on a run in the sixth. Reinhold doubled with one out, went to third on a wild pitch and Ferrell knocked him in with a sacrifice fly. Carroll threatened in the sixth, loading the bases with two outs on a walk and two hit batsmen. Moriarty got out of the jam by striking out Schovanec.
In the top of the seventh, Hamilton had the tying run at first after Jensen drew a two-out walk. But Wiseman got a ground ball to first base for the final out.
Hamilton baseball splits doubleheader with Carroll
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Hamilton College's Tyler Reinhold '15 racked up six hits, including three doubles, and the Continentals split a non-conference doubleheader with Carroll University at Chain of Lakes Park in Winter Haven, Fla., on March 24.


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Dress donations help Beaumont girls get ready for prom
Munro's Dry Cleaning has partnered with Junior League of Beaumont, OCI and KFDM Channel 6 to make sure area girls get to go to prom by sponsoring Simply Cinderella. Simply Cinderella will kick off Feb. 19, from 5-6 p.m. with a dress collection. Anyone can stop by and drop off collected dresses at the Junior League of Beaumont House, 2338 McFaddin, Beaumont. Everyone is invited to donate new or gently used prom and formal dresses. These dresses will be given to girls who want to go to prom but can't afford a dress. Simply Cinderella will ensure the girls have plenty of color, style and size variety to choose from. Dresses can also be dropped off at any Munro's location now through March 21.
With a special invitation only, senior girls are invited to shop for a prom dress. This event offers an opportunity for economical challenged girls to receive a free dress. Organizers are hoping to give away 200 dresses this year.
For more information, contact Stephanie Vanskike at (409) 656-7982 or Munro Dry Cleaning at (409) 832-1417.


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November 28, 2012, 5:47 pm
Why do pain letters work better than cover letters?
Dear Liz,
I wrote my first Pain letter after reading your article about Pain letters last week. Hurrah! I got a call from the hiring manager the next day. I have an interview set up for next week.
Now I am avid to write a bunch more Pain letters, but I am curious. When the hiring manager called me to set up the interview for next week, I had already sent in a standard cover letter with my resume, weeks ago. I never heard anything back. Why did the hiring manager respond to my Pain letter so quickly, after ignoring my earlier application?
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Living Microbes
Our Challenge: Name at least three places microbes live. Can you think of any places that microbes might not live?
Microbiologists have found microbes living just about everywhere: in the soil, water and air; in animals, plants, rocks and even us!
Your body is home to trillions of microbes. Run your tongue over your teeth—you're licking thousands of microbes that normally live on your teeth, like those pictured here. Millions of them live on your tongue, too. A large part of "you" (that is, the mass of your body) is actually something else: bacteria, viruses and fungi. Isn't that a weird thought?
Pick up a fistful of garden soil and you're holding hundreds if not thousands of different kinds of microbe in your hand. A single teaspoon of that soil contains over 1, 000, 000, 000 bacteria, about 120, 000 fungi and 25, 000 algae.
Microbes have been around for billions of years because they are able to adapt to the ever-changing environment. They can find a home anywhere and some of them live in places where we once thought NOTHING could survive.
For example, scientists have discovered microbes living in the boiling waters of hot springs in Yellowstone National Park. These microbes "eat" hydrogen gas and sulfur and "breathe" hydrogen sulfide (a gas that smells like rotten eggs).
Other heat-loving microbes live in volcanic cracks miles under the ocean surface where there is no light and the water is a brew of poisonous arsenic, sulfur and other nasty chemicals. The little blobs shown in this photo are bacteria that live on mussel shells around a volcanic vent called the Galapagos Vent.
Other microbes live in the permanently frozen ice of Antarctica.
Microbes have been found living inside the stones that make up the walls of old cathedrals in Europe.
Some scientists even believe there is the possibility bacteria may have once lived on Mars. This photograph taken through a microscope shows what some scientists believe may be the fossils of tiny bacteria in a rock that formed on Mars about 4.5 billion years ago. The rock crash-landed on Earth as a meteorite thousands of years ago.


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Police have identified two possible juvenile suspects in a burglary on the 1800 block of Ninth Avenue that was reported on Friday.
Police arrested a 25-year-old Firestone man Friday afternoon after responding to a report of a physical domestic disturbance between a man and a woman at a home on the 2100 block of Spencer Street.
Police arrested a 29-year-old Longmont woman suspected of shoplifting items from a store on the 1200 block of South Hover Street on Friday evening. The woman was issued a citation for allegedly shoplifting items worth a total of about $419 but was taken to Boulder County Jail after a computer check found she was wanted for failure to appear in court for traffic offenses.


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Dame Helen Mirren and Russell Brand came out to present the award for Best Foreign Film, with the prize going to "In a Better World," the film from Dane Susan Bier.
"I am so truly honored and grateful and happy," said a clearly emotional Bier. Apparently her win at the Golden Globes didn't prepare her for tonight.
We were equally surprised by her win, as we find the film a bit manipulative and spotty, but what do we know? We'd've voted for "Dogtooth." The win also shocked a lot of people who considered the Javier Bardem film "Biutfiul" to be a favorite.
Christian Bale finally picked up an Oscar, this for his awesome work in "The Fighter," for which he'd won the Golden Globe.
"Bloody hell what a room full of talented and inspirational people. What am I doing here?" began Bale. "I'm not gonna drop the f-bomb like [Melissa Leo] did. I've done that enough before."
As he wrapped things up, he became emotional as he looked into the crowd to thank his wife. For a guy with a rep for being a soulless jerk, it was an oddly touching display. High five, man.


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Ferrari mystique takes the spotlight at Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach, 20 august – Ferrari allure and heritage converged once again during the events of the world renowned Monterey Auto Week in California, culminating with a 50th Anniversary celebration of the Ferrari GTO in the Pebble Beach Concours d' Elegance on Sunday, August 21.
In the weeks leading up to the peninsula's grand events, a buzz had already been building about the Ferrari 250 GTO 50th Anniversary celebration, as well as the possibility of a particular 1957 250 Testa Rossa setting a world auction record. Ferraris new and classic garnered much attention helping to infuse the brand's mystique into the week's events as they unfolded.
Saturday's Gooding & Co. auction results reverberated around the world when the first 250 Testa Rossa built (chassis No. 0666) began bidding at $10 million and quickly rose to sell for $14.9 million ($16.4 million with buyer's premium). That set the record for the highest-ever amount paid for a car sold at auction, previously set in 2009 for another Ferrari 250 TR at $12.4 million.
Restored to its 1958 N.A.R.T. livery and certified by Ferrari's Classiche department, 250 TR no. 0666 competed at Sebring, Le Mans, Targa Florio and the Nürburgring, with Phil Hill, Dan Gurney and Count Wolfgang Von Trips among those who drove it.
On Sunday, the Ferrari 250 GTO, perhaps the most revered racing car ever made, took the spotlight in the Concours. Twenty-two of the 39 GTOs built attended and lined up for a photographic feast. Several also participated in the historic races at nearby Laguna Seca.
The 1962 250 GTO owned by Scuderia DiBari of Honesdale, Pennsylvania won the Strother MacMinn Most Elegant Sports Car Trophy as well as 1st Place in Class M-2 for the Ferrari 250 GTO 50th Anniversary.
Ferrari also proudly displayed tomorrow's classics, the California, 458 Italia and its first four-wheel drive model, the all-new FF.


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