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Interserve Group Limited has won a significant contract extension with the Ministry of Defence as part of Interserve's Landmarc Support Services (L...
Interserve has been selected by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust to undertake the £13.9m phase one refurbishment of Roseberry Park H...
Interserve's Business & Industry (B&I) business unit won a prestigious IWFM Award for its work with E.ON.
Interserve has been awarded a place on two Frameworks with Yorkshire Water, which have a combined value £1bn.
Interserve has been named as the preferred bidder for a £36m redevelopment programme by Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust.
Oldham Council has selected Interserve to deliver a £13m major centre for culture, arts, history and entertainment in the town.
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There is the potential to deliver a lot of benefits through the correct use of smart technology. However we have to ask ourselves whether technology will drive efficie...
Some of the brightest minds in the construction industry came together recently as part of a challenge to develop a technology-based solution to improve efficiency in ...
Smart Building in a Bag is a mobile solution that uses sensors to collect data and measure almost anything including operational efficiency, energy consumption and the...
In the past 10 years we have seen digitisation completely revolutionise the way in which passengers use stations.
The world is going through a technological revolution where automation has become a vital and integral part of the majority of operations.
The £90m Manchester Proton Beam Therapy Unit at Christie Hospital in Manchester, they knew that such a ground-breaking facility warranted the use of innovative technol...
Cyber-attacks sent via email (or malicious emails) are a serious threat and a common method by criminals to gain access to IT systems or commit fraud.
Jeff Flanagan, MD of B&I, discusses how the perceptions of FM suppliers have changed over his 20+ year career to now being recognised as strategic partners.
Each year we support an average 700 apprentices to complete over 45 different apprenticeship standards across more than 60 sites.
Scaffolding, insulation and term maintenance services at one of Europe's largest CCGT plants
Design and construction of a highly bespoke, three-storey insitu concrete framed building with unusual geometry, shape and angles.
Olivia Burgess has excelled following joining Interserve as a Human Resources Apprenticeship and is now looking forward to progressing her career with the company.
We've been praised by a national report published by the Food Foundation for increasing the quantity of vegetables served on key company contracts.
Ingenuity House is our regional head office in the Midlands. It showcases our best-in-class self-delivery capability for facilities management solutions. The building ...
In his current role Daniel is kept busy each day. He says: "As a project surveyor, I am responsible for protecting the company's commercial interests on a construction...
PFM magazine has published an article about Interserve's total facilities management (TFM) contract delivering best-in-class services to the BBC.
Our Workplace and Customer Experience team is delivering pioneering work ensuring clients make the most out of their estate.
We celebrated National Apprenticeship Week 2016 by taking a closer look at five of our apprentices from across the business, who share their top tips for success.
I have worked as an apprentice civil engineer for Interserve's equipment services business, RMD Kwikform, for a year and a half.
I knew for a while that I didn't want to go to university when I finished college, but I still had a lot to learn, so an apprenticeship seemed like it would be the bes...
I love being an apprentice because I can work, earn and learn, and I have a very clear career pathway early on.
James Rayner started his career with Interserve at a call centre a decade ago and after completing two qualifications is now a Project Manager working on a variety on ...
My ultimate goal is to become a garden designer which will allow me to be creative and exercise all the skills I've learnt so far.
Sukhvir Sarai completed an apprenticeship part funded by Interserve Group Limited which has helped her progress in the company's Support Services division.
"I chose to work within the construction industry due to it not being your average job. Every day is different," says Alisha.
Our Graduate Site Engineer, Jonathan Watson always strived to have a career in construction having always been fascinated by buildings, old and new.
Verse Abudar has always been surrounded by engineering his whole life as his mother studied geotechnical engineering whilst his father also worked for a civil engineer...
Asha Wegorek joined Interserve as a receptionist and thanks to completing an apprenticeship has become a Junior Facilities Manager.
Interserve Property Maintenance Operative Scott Booth joined the company on an apprenticeship which has helped him launch his career following leaving school.
Luke Garrison joined Interserve on an electrician apprenticeship and is now studying at university following further backing from the company to support his career gro...
Organised by Women Into Construction, supported by Interserve Engineering Services - Molly's employer – the event brought together women from across the industry to ce...
New build three-storey houseblock to house remand and convicted juveniles, together with an education facility at the Rochester cluster of prisons.
The Truro Tidal Defence Scheme involved replacement of a 296m length of the tidal quay with a sheet pile wall supported by ground anchors, and a cathodic protection sy...
Cold weather can play havoc with cars.
People often use the words "energy" and "electricity" as one and the same. But "energy" covers all sources that run a building. This includes electricity, oil and gas,...
In 2013, Boston experienced the worst floods in its history. Interserve were contracted to install a new 240m long sheet piled wall in front of the existing.
This video is a short trailer, showcasing the development of this innovative multi-storey precast frame building with bricks cast in off site.
Interserve was awarded a contract to refurbish two blocks of flats in Swansea.
When it comes to workplace experiences, how far can technology go in satisfying the needs of employees and building users?
Megan Youngs is a finalist in this year's Green Gown Awards for her work pioneering environmentally friendly processes at the University of Sussex.
Ingenuity House was named among the best workplaces in the country at the British Council for Offices (BCO) annual National Awards, taking home the highly coveted Inno...
By Iain Shorthose, Customer Experience Director
Interserve has provided Facilities Management (FM) services for Eaton since 2015 and because of successful delivery the contract was extended by three years in 2019.
Shenay Akif is a Customer Experience manager with Interserve and she is passionate about the role the company plays in delivering excellent customer services.
Interserve delivers 26 FM services to 150+ facilities for the BBC including workplace support and transformation projects.
By Karen J. Hewitt, Group HSE Manager (Behavioural Change) at Interserve
Colleagues cleared 27 bags of rubbish from Brighton beach as part of our commitment to improving the environment.
Interserve has participated in a year-long trial organised by Ford to test plug-in hybrid electric commercial vehicles.
Join the topping out celebrations to mark the completion of the highest part of this multi-storey residential tower on 4th May 2018. Meet the West Midlands Mayor Andy ...
The growth of the knowledge economy means we need to think differently about how we approach the workplace.
Our focus and continued investment on delivering the best possible customer experience (CX) sets Interserve apart from our competitors in the facilities management ind...
Our Project team explains the complexities of constructing this pre-cast concrete frame building in a tight city centre location.
The Allam Medical Building is the stunning centrepiece of the University of Hull's health campus, home to the Hull York Medical School.
Key findings and practical steps to create and manage high performing work spaces.
A new-build teaching facility for the University of York on the Heslington East Campus.
Despite the importance of the 'customer experience' having been recognised for many years, the role of the Chief Customer Officer is still a relatively rare creature.
As facilities management (FM) providers, we can influence and change the way we manage different environments – identifying the workplace consumer is therefore key to ...
Over the past 20 years the workplace industry in the UK has been fixated on improving asset efficiency. But somewhere along the line, we forgot about the impact this h...
Jane Sadler, who recently retired after 20 years with Interserve, has written a fascinating blog for the National Autistic Society. In it she reflects on working with ...
As our Opportunities for All campaign turns its attention to some of the work we do to support ex-service personnel, we shine a light on a project we have been working...
We've embarked on a new venture with Rise Bakery, a social enterprise initiative formed by the homeless charity Providence Row.
In years gone by Britain was covered in trees but we are now the second least forested country in Europe with only 12 per cent cover*.
Continuing to create places that benefit people, Interserve is currently building a new £200 million Defence establishment at the Defence and National Rehabilitation C...
Plastic is one of the most persistent synthetic materials in existence and we use and dispose of tonnes of it every day.
We have launched our annual SustainAbilities Progress Update, reporting on a year of great progress delivering our ambitious goals across the Interserve group.
Finding the right type of work can go a long way to helping those who have worked for the military to re-adjust and settle back in to civilian life.
The new Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills recently said that he wanted apprenticeships to be seen 'as prestigious as going to Oxbridge'.
Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world. Here are three main benefits of building to Passivhaus standard.
I've been working as an Apprentice Quantity Surveyor at Interserve since September 2014.
A 2017 survey of 1,000 UK employees found that 90% of respondents go into their workplace while feeling poorly. This is unchanged from similar research a year ago.
Interserve is nothing without its people, so keeping our workforce healthy and happy is hugely important to us.
Understanding and responding to the needs of employees in the workplace is vital to helping businesses attract and retain the best talent, as well as supporting people...
This report sets out a step-by-step process for defining and creating workplace experiences that align with an organisation's strategic business drivers, encapsulate i...
Bankside residential project is a luxury development for Native Land LLP
Provision of 1,850 office workplaces, SLA for 180 service personnel and support facilities.
Delivery of 14, three-bedroom affordable homes to Passivhaus standard under Exeter City Council's COB II initiative. Includes two fully wheelchair-accessible properties.
Major extension and transformation of inpatient facilities.
The new Sid Watkins building at The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust provides 5* therapeutic environments while reducing energy costs.
Design and build prestigious student accommodation for University of the West of England in Bristol (UWE).
Following the successful completion of the Technology Hub for the STFC Interserve was awarded the Accelerator Science and Technology Centre refurbishment project at Sc...
The Thames Estuary 2100 Strategy outlines the need to maintain a tidal defence across the entrance to Tilbury Docks until the year 2050.
The smell, noise and temperature of the working environment are among the main factors that influence employees' experiences of the workplace and can impact productivi...
The primary purpose of security officers is to protect people and property. But the officers' requirements are quickly evolving from purely physical protection to incl...
With the rise of online shopping, traditional retail and leisure centres have to work harder to create dynamic, exciting experiences that make customers want to return.
A business' most important asset is its people. From top strategic decision makers to support teams, successful organisations rely on attracting and retaining the best...
We turn to the consumer world to learn practices from excellent customer experiences: as consumers we expect choice and services that are closely tailored to our needs.
After several years of soul searching in the light of rapidly rising online sales, our retail centres are making a comeback.
Facilities management (FM) can influence the way we manage different environments – therefore enhancing the customer experience should be a key driver for any business.
The role facilities management teams play in influencing the experience and productivity of those that use these buildings
Cognitive performance can be influenced by hundreds of factors and scientific research has only really begun to scratch the surface in understanding how these factors ...
Customer experience is an opportunity to differentiate; to be seen not just for the things you do, but how you go about doing them.
When it comes to the criminal justice system, the needs of women are different to men and need to be addressed in a different way.
Engineering has an image problem among young people today and we need to fix it.
Keep your eyes wide open - security threats in the retail industry
The science of the customer experience – nine ways it impacts consumer behaviour
Creating environments that harness knowledge and creativity and which also respond to people on a human level is vital to commercial success.
Changing expectations: what people want from the buildings of the future?
The transport sector faces challenging times in the next five to ten years, with lots of factors increasing pressure on the network.
Probation case manager Lynsey Barker has turned her life around having once been a former alcohol and drug addict and repeat offender.
Building on our commitment to Ban the Box, we have also worked with BITC and other partners to look at ways we can provide skills and opportunities to young offenders ...
"Being in a work environment means I can make decisions, I can take choices which help me progress as an individual in my career."
"My apprenticeship improved my confidence, taught me how to communicate with people and it also taught me about the real world and how things work."
"I really do think that completing my apprenticeship was my wisest choice since leaving school."
"An apprenticeship was the right choice for me because it enabled me to earn while I learned, without building up the debts that many university students do."
"It makes me feel extremely proud as an apprentice that they had the trust to give me responsibility – makes me feel valued by the company."
The Transforming Rehabilitation agenda has enabled the private sector to invest in new ways to address the high levels of re-offending.
The Government's Transforming Rehabilitation programme introduced new arrangements for the provision of resettlement services for all prisoners leaving custody.
Remote working, flexible hours, collaborative work spaces and technologies such as online conferencing are all supposed to make our working lives more productive. But ...
Knightsbridge Guarding (Knightsbridge), Interserve's specialist security brand, hosted a breakfast seminar in London this summer to discuss how businesses can prepare ...
When you look out the window at home or work, what do you see and how does it make you feel? Studies have proven the power of green spaces and plants to improve human ...
With the NHS under pressure, and the need to move complex care patients back to their homes, how can we ensure that the needs of patients are met safely?
The physical work space around us is often seen as a purely functional space. But what if we could turn this space into a tool that supports productivity, engagement l...
In 2016 the Chilean team at Interserve's equipment services business, RMD Kwikform (RMDK), rolled-out a simple and low-cost idea to help save water at its offices.
Supplying 80kN Rapidshor shoring for the widening of the Tolo Highway, Hong Kong.
Constructing 26 metre high Megashor shoring towers.
Interserve continues success under NHS ProCure21+ procurement framework - £19.4m contract to build RILD Centre
MRF near Walsall assists the region's councils, commercial, construction & demolition sectors in meeting landfill reduction targets.
Providing building services and fabric maintenance at BAMC since 1993.
Designed and built Aircraft Servicing Platforms (ASP)
Rig moving and heavy cargo haulage for PDO in Oman.
Interserve has a £10m, five year contract to assemble and dissemble the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Grandstand.
The use of measurement and data in delivering effective workplaces.
Why should you or your child consider an apprenticeship as the next step in your career? Well, there are many benefits to doing an apprenticeship...
The Stoddart Review is a UK-wide study that has recently been launched and looks at the role working environments play in organisational and UK productivity.
Across all industries, businesses have recognised that there is a direct link between an employees' experience of the workplace and their performance and productivity.
We have an opportunity to create social value through initiatives that benefit the wider community in and around the buildings we build and manage.
At Interserve we are passionate about making a positive contribution to the communities in which we operate and supporting people to realise their potential.
Working with clients can offer all sorts of different opportunities to spark positive action in communities and make an impact where it matters.
Everyday life is stressful enough with family pressures, relationships and just the busy pace of modern living. Additionally people in construction face other issues ...
Working together with Leeds City Council Interserve has successfully rejuvenated and preserved the iconic Grade I listed Kirkgate Market.
At Interserve we provide a range of services to people on behalf of the UK government including probation. One area where we provide all of these services is Leeds.
The construction of a large new cohesive embankment with a central flow control structure, sheet piling, working within marshland and significant access constraints
Maintenance of the Environment Agency's assets to manage flood risk and comply with legislation
To refurbish the Harwich Town Floodgates using our technical skills and experience to overcome any physical challenges and provide the best results we can.
5.5km of earthworks strengthen an existing reservoir embankment
To improve traffic flow on the A38 at the Markeaton roundabout and Little Eaton roundabouts.
Interserve and the University of Sussex, started providing estates and FM services to 4,000 students and 2,100 staff across the campus in January 2014.
This initiative was founded in 2007 by parents of disabled children, who discovered there was no suitable play area for disabled children in the Wokingham Borough.
Supporting Oxford University Estates Services since 2012, Interserve is delivering mechanical and engineering services across the university's 74,400 square metre estate.
Interserve provides an integrated facilities management solution to more than 1 million square feet at Festival Place in Basingstoke.
Since April 2014 Interserve has been delivering facilities management services to the BBC's UK estate.
Interserve was appointed to design and deliver the Manchester proton beam therapy centre through a rigorous P21+ procurement process.
Innovative construction techniques help deliver state-of-the-art 60-bed medium secure unit.
Interserve was appointed to design and deliver the The Campus Technology Hub (CTH) a purpose-built engineering facility.
Interserve was the ProCure21+ Principal Supply Chain Partner for The Christie NHS Foundation Trust to deliver a new haematology and transplant unit.
Upgrading a London landmark for the 21st century - refurbishing and strengthening the iconic Albert Bridge across the Thames.
Interserve was responsible for the design and installation of the mechanical, electrical and public health services at the Christies Patient Care Centre.
Working under the MoJ Strategic Alliance Framework, the HMP/YOI Isis development comprises a 480-place Category C training prison.
Providing a world-class support service
Extensive renovation and refurbishment of a Grade II* listed building located in the heart of the University's busy Edgbaston Campus.
Expansion of teaching facilities for primary school pupils in Torquay.
Interserve has worked with South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to transform cancer services at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.
Asbestos remediation and removal services.
Successful completion of £20m operating theatres and critical care facilities creating a world class centre of excellence.
The new Midfield Terminal Complex (MTC) at Abu Dhabi International Airport will be able to handle more than 20 million passengers a year from July 2017.
Our Social Value Mapping Tool can combine data from business systems with publicly available data to create a contextual picture or map, of the impacts we have.
Interserve's Oman-based construction business, Douglas OHI, partnered with leading steel provider the Hadley Group to offer clients Light Gauge Steel.
Interserve's associate civil engineering business in Dubai is paving the way with the establishment of its own in-house trades training school.
The demolition of an existing 1960s office block and the construction of a 150 bedroom Premier Inn "Hub" concept hotel.
By joining forces with PAE to form Landmarc, we've been enabling safe and sustainable operational military training across the Ministry of Defence's national training ...
Creating a new commercial district in Edinburgh
Construction of the new Interserve East Midlands regional office to Passivhaus standards
Delivering asbestos management surveys to Bolsover District Council.
Supporting Evaporator D at Sellafield, the largest ongoing nuclear project in the UK.
Combining 50 single-service providers into a single integrated delivery model.
Wideawake Airfield at Ascension Island is an invaluable link and airhead for the South Atlantic, especially the Falkland Islands and St Helena.
In March Interserve started construction work to bring the iconic Grade II listed former Co-Operative department store in Newcastle city centre back to life.
Interserve used cutting edge Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology to design and build Jaguar Land Rover's (JLR) new Engine Manufacturing Centre near Wolverh...
The 162,000 metres squared mall of Egypt is currently under construction in Cairo
Interserve has been supporting Ministry of Defence operations in The Falkland Islands since 1998. Much of the aging fuels and water infrastructure requires ongoing mai...
The construction of 6.5km of new dual carriageway, across green fields and three over-bridges, one box culvert and four minor culverts.
Design and construct in order to reduce congestion and improve safety.
Constructed two of the world's most prestigious shopping malls in Dubai, UAE.
A four star 400 bedroom hotel located near Doha Airport.
State of the art plant using modern processes such as Ultra-Filtration.
Supplying a safe & efficient engineering solution & on-site supervision of structural works.
Providing training services and delivering on-going plant maintenance and construction services.
Design and construction of the £12 million grade-separated junction.
Replacing the last single carriageway stretch of the A5 between the M42 and A38.
Design development of the A38 Dobwalls Bypass scheme, followed by detailed design and construction of the 4km dual carriageway.
Delivering asbestos management surveys across 44,000 tenanted properties.
Design and construction of a new bridge to form grade separation over the existing A30 in Devon.
Safe removal and disposal of 400 tonnes of asbestos.
UK's first anaerobic crop digestion plant
Three storey extension to the hospital comprising a new Intensive Care Unit, paediatric in and out patients and a Critical Care Unit.
Ripon flood defence scheme
Interserve was construction subcontractor to build waste segregation and bulking facility with associated infrastructure works.
Work comprises the construction, completion and maintenance of three new schools.
Providing a bespoke travelling, formwork and shoring solution.
Interserve provides a sustainable workplace solution at Defra and its agencies.
A major, phased extension and refurbishment project.
Interserve secured a position on both of the Highways Agencys' ASF North and South.
RMD Kwikform Middle East has created the most innovative and challenging grid-shell shroud support system the world has ever seen.
For over 20 years Interserve has worked as a shopfitter to John Lewis.
Boosting production by high pressure/high sour gas injection.
Refurbishment of the former government office block for Derwent.
The new Central Campus, a striking landmark at the heart of West Bromwich in the West Midlands, provides an attractive, adaptable and sustainable learning environment ...
Interserve secured the Highways Agency Category Management Framework contract.
Supplying a range of formwork, shoring & edge protection equipment.
Impressive college building is set to raise education standards for students.


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Welcome to Brazosport ISD's Live Streaming site!
Our desire is to bring you LIVE audio from our HOME games and if Internet access is available, some of our AWAY games. Due to UIL regulations we are unable to offer Live video, but hope you enjoy listening in if you cannot attend the game.
We are happy to offer you live audio of our games, but please be aware that we are bringing you this feature using USTREAM at no cost to the district. Any advertisements are part of USTREAM, and not affiliated with Brazosport Independent School District.

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Forget footballs – this is Friday Night Lights, zombie-style.
Students at Redmond's DigiPen are loading up their nerf guns and strapping on bandanas for tonight's Friday Night Finale, where the Human Resistance will make its final stand against the Zombie Horde during the fifth and final day of Outbreak: Season 4.
You're probably wondering what the heck we're writing about, and unless you've hung around a college campus recently, you probably aren't alone. Outbreak is a clever, more sophisticated iteration of the well-known Humans vs. Zombies game, which was born in 2005 at Goucher College.
Here's a brief description from the official website:
Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ) is a game of moderated tag played at schools, camps, neighborhoods, military bases, and conventions across the world. Human players must remain vigilant and defend themselves with socks and dart blasters to avoid being tagged by a growing zombie horde.
And this is how Outbreak is different, with a link to the rules:
Outbreak is a glorified game of Zombie Tag, in which a several players (Zombies) begin as "it." As players are tagged by these Zombie, they also become Zombies and take part in the tagging. Survivors, players who have not yet been tagged, are permitted to use certain approved weapons, such as Nerf-type foam dart blasters, to 'stun' Zombies for a duration. The game lasts until all Survivors are tagged or until the Survivors escape during the Friday Night Finale.
A neat aspect of Outbreak, which debuted this year, is that it was not part of an official DigiPen course. Ten students in DigiPen's Game Design bachelor's degree programs wanted to make some improvements to the original game and applied their talent to create Outbreak. They organized themselves using a traditional game studio model, setting up a development team with positions like executive producer, lead designer and graphic artist.
The team met for multiple hours per week to plan and strategize for this week's battle. It's impressive considering the rigorous workload at DigiPen, one of the top game design colleges in the country.
The team is technically a school club and has collectively spent about $725 out-of-pocket to support the operations. They've made nearly 90 percent of that back thanks to student transactions on items like dog tags and other goods that players purchase.
"It's kind of ludicrous that we pulled this off," said junior Kevin Sheehan, executive producer of design. . "It's gotten to the point where the school is thinking about making a special topics class about alternative reality design. This is another way of designing games that isn't purely digital."
This is so much different than your typical class project. A bad performance in class may result in a poor grade, but there isn't much backlash.
Not succeeding with Outbreak, however, has different consequences.
"We don't have anybody checking on us, but there are 200 people expecting this to happen that will be upset if we fail," Sheehan said. "It's a very different tone than class. It's much more accurate to what you'll see in the industry. It changes the way people are motivated to work on projects."
DigiPen students started playing Humans vs. Zombies in November of 2010 and about 60 players participated in the season 1 Friday Night Finale. Membership increased to 140 members by season 3 and 200 signed up for season 4 this fall.
Outbreak lasts for five days and is a 24-hour extravaganza. That means both zombies and humans must be on high alert throughout the week.
"You'll be walking to school and suddenly have to shoot all these zombies, or if you're zombie, you might see a human and try to ambush him," Sheehan said.
The team plans on creating a player handbook and dungeon map by the end of the academic year that other schools can download and learn how Outbreak works.
Tonight marks the culimination of the week-long event, which happens twice a year. It ends either when all of the Humans are killed, or when the Humans complete all of their mission objectives.
Not a bad way to spend a Friday night.


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I decided to Tie One On this weekend… holiday recipe included!
I adore the food, football and camaraderie around the annual Thanksgiving feast, but hate the work and expense it can take to pull it all together.
So this year, in addition to agreeing to be hosted instead hosting on Thanksgiving, I also decided to "Tie One On," and no, I don't mean that I went overboard testing the many delicious holiday cocktail recipes on Pinterest.


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Greek version of Patriarch Kirill's book 'Freedom and Responsibility' presented in Thessaloniki
On December 13, 2011, the Greek version of Patriarch Kirill's book 'Freedom and Responsibility' was presented at the Megaro Mousikis palace in Thessaloniki. The book was published with the support of the Archdiocese of Athens, En Plo Publishers and the St. Gregory the Theologian Charity.
Present at the event were Metropolitan Anthimos of Thessaloniki, the diocesan clergy, Russian General Consul A. Popov, the Russian Orthodox Church's delegation as well as journalists and public figures.
In his address to the audience, Metropolitan Anthimos stressed that the presentation was an important event 'pointing to a special attitude of brothers from Russia to the Greek people'. He warmly welcomed Metropolitan Hilarion who came to Thessaloniki specifically for the occasion. He said that cooperation between the Orthodox Churches in Russia and Greece was a faithful witness to God's will 'because God expects this unity'. He welcomed the publication of Patriarch Kirill's book in Greek, noting that its very title spoke of its topicality.
Metropolitan Hilarion spoke of the life and work of Patriarch Kirill:
'Patriarch Kirill, his secular name Vladimir Gundyaev, was born in 1946 in postwar and post-blockade Leningrad. His father and grandfather were priests and both were repressed in the Soviet years. Patriarch Kirill's grandfather went through 46 prisons. Patriarch Kirill himself was born in the years when religion was persecuted in the Soviet Union. The postwar years from the 1940s to the 1950s was a period when the persecution continued though weakened compared to the scale in which it was carried out in the 1920s and 1930s.
The time of the Patriarch's youth and formation as active member of the Church coincided with a new wave of persecution, now under Khrushchev, when he set the task to destroy the Church not physically but ideologically. While in the 30s the clergy were repressed and executed, in the 60s the Soviet power found other, more sophisticated ways of influencing people to ward them off from the Church.
A policy was adopted aiming at the gradual extinction of the Church. Soviet leaders, who sincerely believed that the communist society could be built within twenty years, believed equally sincerely that the Church could die in herself within that period as a vestige of the past. It was not accidental that the leader of the Soviet Union Khrushchev declared at that time that in a matter of twenty years he will show 'the last parson' on television.
However, since the Church refused to die the Soviet power invented ever new ways of helping her disappear. For instance, the taxes imposed on the clergy exceeded their incomes many times over. This tax had to be paid by the father of the future Patriarch Kirill. To pay it, he had to borrow much money from his relatives and friends and the future Patriarch had to pay his father's debts up to the time when he became a bishop.
There were also other ways of struggle against the Church. For instance, people were selected for entering seminaries. Some of them even became priests. And later they were to reject their faith in God in a spectacular way in public. Archpriest Alexander Osipov, a professor at the Leningrad Theological Academy, rejected his faith in public and became a militant atheist… Such was the situation in which the future Patriarch grew as a young man.
His meeting with Metropolitan Nikodim of Leningrad and Novgorod was fateful for him. In the most difficult situation when the state staked on the gradual destruction of the Church, Metropolitan Nikodim exerted every effort to prevent the death of the Church, to help her rebirth. He kept persuading the Soviet leaders of the need for the Church to be represented at the international arena. And for the Church to be represented adequately on the international arena, she needed to be represented by young, gifted and capable people.
Metropolitan Nikodim himself selected these people from among seminarians and students of theological academies. He sent them to other countries for service and later they came back to the Soviet Union to become bishops and occupy episcopal chairs which became vacant after the death of old bishops. The Soviet state did not plan to install new bishops on these chairs because it adopted a policy of gradual elimination of the Church.
The future Patriarch Kirill was one of Metropolitan Nikodim's chosen ones. When he was still very young and still had to decide on his walk of life, he came to Metropolitan Nikodim and asked him which of the two he had better enter – the university's department of physics or a seminary. Metropolitan Nikodim told him to enter the seminary. Four years later, Fr. Kirill graduated from the 8-year course of seminary and theological academy and was sent to Geneva for service where he was to spend four more years. Then he came back to Russia and at the age of 28 was appointed rector of the Leningrad Theological Academy to occupy this post for 10 years. At that time, the theological schools in Leningrad lived an intensive life as young people came to them and biblical studies were held there. Moreover, it became possible for the first time in history of seminaries to enroll young girls and women for training.
The authorities did not like the active work of the young rector and in 1984 Archbishop Kirill was ousted as rector of the theological academy and appointed to one of the poorest bishop's chairs in Smolensk.
The new stage in his life coincided with a new stage in the life of the Church which began coming out of the underground after seven decades of persecution. At that time, the state weakened its grip on the Church and later collapsed itself to give rise to 15 independent states in its territory. Precisely at that time Metropolitan Kirill was fated to become head of the Department for External Church Relations, which represented at that time the main think-tank of the Russian Orthodox Church. The task of the Department was not only to carry out manifold international, inter-Christian and interreligious work, but its most difficult and important task was to build relations between Church and State. As a matter of fact, for the first time for centuries the Church found herself in freedom. For the first time she was free from decisions imposed on her from above, and she could make all the decisions on her own. She could no longer try to fit in the Procrustean bed of church-state relations which were dictated by the state. Now she could develop a model of her relations with the state which would ensure her internal freedom.
In order to develop such a model and to define the Church's place in a rapidly changing society, the Church needed to make colossal intellectual and spiritual efforts. This work was done by Metropolitan Kirill and the team he guided in the DECR.
Among the fruits of this work is a document entitled 'The Russian Orthodox Church's Basic Social Concept', a document unprecedented in scale as it defines the Church's relations with the external world and gives the Church's official answer to many social and moral questions of today, including the questions of bio-ethics.
Another fruit of this intellectual work was the book we present today to the Greek reader. The book carries the name of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia though it was written in the years when the present Primate of the Russian Church was a metropolitan. It embraces the period from 1999 to 2008, that is, the most difficult period preceding the election of Metropolitan Kirill as Patriarch of Moscow. This book, like a drop of water, reflects the history of our Church and our homelands in the period from the late 20th to the early 21st centuries'.
The book is about the challenges the Church has encountered after the 70-year period of atheistic power. From Patriarch Kirill's point of view, the primary challenge is the liberal secular ideology imposed as compulsory for all spheres of life.
The author is convinced that religion should be reflected in the everyday life of a person. 'Faith cannot be just an intellectual belief; it cannot be perceived as a private affair of a particular individual', Metropolitan Hilarion said during the presentation, adding, 'One cannot be a believer at his parish and home but a non-believer as this work. Christianity is a way of life, not only a way of thinking'. Therefore, if a Christian is a public figure, his statements and actions should be motivated by Christian faith. If a Christian is engaged in politics, then his faith should be manifested in his political work. 'Without imposing anything on anybody, the Church still believes it necessary to be present in the public domain. The author of the book, now His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, insists that the liberal secular ideology is essentially godless; it cannot be accepted as general and compulsory for all', Metropolitan Hilarion said.
What is dangerous is not the co-existence of different worldview paradigms but the fact that the secular paradigm is imposed on all the society and claims to be normative. 'For a religious person, freedom does not mean all-permissiveness. There is an absolute scale of moral values the source of which is God Himself and His commandments. Christians should have the right to live up their beliefs. Therefore, the liberal secular standard cannot be imposed or laid in the basis of legislation or become the only basis for political discourse or to influence theology and church practice', the DECR chairman said.
Metropolitan Hilarion said in conclusion that in his book 'Freedom and Responsibility' Patriarch Kirill calls to a freedom which is not the freedom from moral commandments and laws, nor to the freedom that implies all-permissiveness, egoism or hedonism. He calls to freedom from sin, which promotes the spiritual growth of a person. Metropolitan Hilarion expressed the conviction that so long as the debate between religious and secular worldviews continues, the book by the Primate of the Russian Church will remain topical. 'We hope that this debate, which most probably will continue to the end of time, will end in the triumph of truth over falsehood and Christ over antichrist'.
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About a dozen killer whales trapped under sea ice appeared to be free after the ice shifted, village officials in Canada's remote north said Thursday, while residents who feared they would get stuck elsewhere hired a plane to track them down.
The whales' predicament in the frigid waters of Hudson Bay made international headlines, and locals had been planning a rescue operation with chainsaws and drills before the mammals slipped away.
Tommy Palliser said two hunters from remote Inukjuak village reported that the waters had opened up around the area where the cornered whales had been bobbing frantically for air around a single, truck-sized hole in the ice. Officials said shifting winds might have pushed the ice away.
"It's certainly good news — that's good news for the whales," said Palliser, a business adviser with the regional government.
But fears remained that the whales might have been trapped elsewhere by the ever-moving ice.
Inukjuak, about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) north of Montreal, hired an airplane to scan the region for signs of the whales, town manager Johnny Williams said.
"We're quite concerned, that's why we're chartering the plane to find out if we can find them," Williams said, adding that the village of 1,800 likely will pay for the aerial search.
"Even though they're a nuisance, even though they're a killer (of) our (beluga) whales and seals," he said. "They're like humans, they're mammals — alive. They don't need to suffer."
Locals said the whales had been trapped for at least two days. A recent, sudden drop in temperature may have caught the whales off guard, leaving them trapped The cornered animals were first seen Tuesday and appeared to have less energy by late Wednesday, Palliser said.
Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans said government icebreakers were too far from the area to smash the ice to free the whales, Inukjuak Mayor Peter Inukpuk said Wednesday.
After that, Palliser said, locals had agreed to try to enlarge the breathing hole in the ice and cut a second opening using chainsaws and drills.
"We certainly had our prayers with them last night during our meeting," he said.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans issued a statement Thursday saying two scientists were en route to gather information and will monitor the situation. Ice-trapped marine mammals are not unusual in the region.
Locals say shifting sea ice frees trapped whales
About a dozen killer whales trapped under sea ice appeared to be free after the ice shifted, village officials in Canada's remote north said Thursday, while residents who feared they would get stuck elsewhere hired a plane to track them down.


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ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Angel Medical Center, Inc., a full-service critical access hospital located in Franklin, N.C., unlawfully refused to accommodate a nurse's need for cancer treatments and subsequently fired her because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Susan Williams worked for Angel Medical Center starting on Dec. 7, 2009 as a full-time registered nurse. In December 2011, Williams returned to work following extensive treatment for cancer. At the time she returned to work, she still had five chemotherapy treatments to undergo. According to the suit, Williams sought an accommodation that would allow her to complete the needed chemotherapy treatments while remaining a full-time employee. The EEOC alleges that the hospital refused to accommodate Williams and instead terminated her employment.
This alleged conduct violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which protects employees from discrimination based on their disabilities and requires employers to provide disabled employees with reasonable accommodations unless doing so would be an undue hardship for the employer. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Bryson City Division (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Angel Medical Center, Inc.; Civil Action No. 2:13-CV-00034) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC seeks back pay, compensatory and punitive damages and injunctive relief.
"One would hope that hospitals and other health care facilities would understand and respect an employee's need for an accommodation resulting from cancer treatments," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District. "This case should remind all employers that they must work with employees in resolving such needs."
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. More information about the EEOC is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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How about a Genealogy Scavenger Hunt? Randy Seaver at GeneaMusing posed a challenge to find a missing census entry a great-great-grandparent [or other relative] for SNGF or weekend genealogical fun. So here we go:
First, I did try one more time to find my second great-grandfather Sherman A. Bradley in the 1850 Census. I tried again a variety of strategies in the Ancestry.com search such as using just part of the surname like this: Bradl* plus born in Connecticut in 1835. And other variations. No luck.
I don't think he was recorded. Neither were his parents, Leaming Hawkins Bradley and Mary C. Simons Bradley, as far as I can tell. The family was from Bradleyville, Litchfield Township, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
Sherman's grandfather Horace Bradley and uncles John and Clark Bradley were in Trenton, Dodge County, Wisconsin, in the 1850 Census. Sherman arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, about 1857-1858, based on a Milwaukee City Directories.
What about Sherman's other uncles and aunts in the 1850 Census?
> Frederick Abernathy Bradley was in New York City.
> Dan Augustus Bradley was in Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut where Leaming H. Bradley was found in 1840.
> Julia Ann Bradley, not found in 1850 Census.
> Henry Bradley, only listed in a family genealogy book
> Edward S. Bradley, Guilford, Chenango, New York, a location where other of his siblings settled over the years.
> Aaron Bradley, Guilford, Chenango, New York
> Amelia Bradley, New York City, lived with brother Frederick
Since I wanted to find a new census record for the scavenger hunt, I returned to Wisconsin and my great-grandfather William Henry Luehr , an educator, newspaper publisher and state government official. I noticed that I had not found him in the 1895 Wisconsin Census. Attempts with his surname spelled correctly turned up nothing in 1895, but I was sure he should be there. He was a school principal and newspaper publisher at that time in the Grand Rapids / Centralia area, Wood County, Wisconsin, now Wisconsin Rapids.
After several more attempts, now using Luhr and Lehr, I searched in the 1895 Wisconsin Census, Wood County, with just William — and there he was, his surname mistranscribed as Luchr. The original clearly shows Luehr. So I have a new entry in his timeline:
William Luehr, household 1 male, 2 females [wife Clara, daughter Lucille], Grand Rapids, Wood, Wisconsin. Source: Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Census, 1895 Microfilm, 10 reels. Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin. Via Ancestry.com.
I now have all eight possible census records for him, including the 1895 and 1905 Wisconsin Census records. Very satisfying.
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Sexy, enigmatic man of mystery Wolf Blitzer has captivated tens, nay, dozens of viewers on his hot late-afternoon show on CNN, The Situation Room. And herein lies the paradox of Blitzer: he shows us so much about the world, while at the same time revealing nothing of himself.
Who introduced us to the wonders of the full-sized human hologram, beamed in from Saturn to tell us about Barack Obama? Wolf Blitzer, with these immortal words:
"Alright, uh, there she is, Jessica Yellin, I know you're in Chicago but we've uhhh done something, a hologram. We beamed you in. We beamed you in, here, uhh into the CNN Election Center. I want to talk to you as I would normally be talking to you if you were really face-to-face with me. I know you're uhh at least a thousand miles away, but it looks like you're right here. …You're a hologram now, Jessica."
In that one exchange we learned that "Jessica" was a hologram ... and yet, what curious combination of photons produced Wolf Blitzer? He wouldn't say.
Or how about the time he described the embattled citizens of New Orleans in such poignant terms? In that moment, viewers across the nation felt a little closer to their New Orleanean brothers and sisters, who were "so poor and so black" ... and yet they still felt so far from Blitzer, who had none of the attributes of the people he was talking about.
Throughout his distinguished news anchoring career, one question lingered. And finally, one brave 11-year-old had the courage to ask the Great Blitzer himself:
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"Why do they call you Wolf?" 11-year-old Damon Weaver asked Blitzer during an interview that will air Friday on The Situation Room.
When Blitzer replied that Wolf is his real name, Weaver quickly responded, "Is that because you have a lot of hair on your face?"
Was Wolf Blitzer born with the distinctive white beard that has cloaked his True Face for decades, if not millennia? He's not telling.
And we wouldn't want it any other way.
Hypertrichosis expert Sara K. Smith writes for NBC and Wonkette.


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Today, a new NFL collective bargaining agreement was finalized and quickly ratified by player vote, officially ending the NFL lockout. It's a banner day for fans, but a sad day for NFLLabor.com, the official state mouthpiece of the league.
For the past year and a half, NFLLabor.com was the place to go for all your one-sided lockout news and poorly sourced invective towards players. Who could forget classics like "Roger Goodell wants to find a solution" and "NFLPA offer isn't what it seems?" And of course, "NFL donates $1 million to American Cancer Society."
But with labor peace, NFLLabor.com no longer has a role. So today, a goodbye post announced the site will be shut down indefinitely. Of course, they couldn't go without a threat: in 2021, when the new CBA is set to expire, they'll be back.
NFL labor site bids adieu...for at least 10 years [NFLLabor.com]
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Pollen can set off weeping, blurred vision, itching and rubbing. How do you find relief?
When Ken Hegan traveled to Vancouver a couple of years ago, the city was experiencing one of its warmest Februaries on record, and the trees began showering unwitting visitors with an early blast of pollen. "It felt like my eyes were being assaulted by pollen," says Hegan.
The filmmaker and humor writer recalls his eyes were red and teary, and this year he's bracing for the same back home in Toronto.
"Sometimes I wake up and my eyes are caked shut. And when I walk my dog in the morning, I look like I'm crying. My neighbors just think I'm some sad sack guy who cries all the time," Hegan says with a laugh.
Like millions of fellow allergy sufferers, Hegan's eyes itch, burn, swell and redden every pollen season, and his vision blurs because of the non-stop tearing. (Others can get such eye symptoms from allergy triggers such as pet dander, mold and dust mites.)
As an avid cyclist, Hegan even fears red lights because when he stops moving, his baby blues well up – and the itch kicks in. "I'm always knuckling away at my eyes. I know I'm not supposed to, but my mom's not there to tell me to stop," he jokes.
Despite their mothers' admonitions to quit that knuckling, people with allergic conjunctivitis – the inflammation of the membrane that covers the white of the eye and the inner eyelid – find that easier said than done.
Pollens' Chemical Cascade in the Eye
The fact is, they are faced with an annoying and uncomfortable reaction that occurs when pollens or other allergens enter the eye and trigger the same allergic chemical cascade that can occur in the lungs, the nose or on the skin.
Canadian allergist Dr. Harold Kim has a strong interest in eye allergy symptoms. He explains that allergic patients' eyes contain cells – mostly mast cells – that are primed for allergen exposure. When confronted with the allergen, antibodies called IgE will cause the mast cells to rupture and release chemicals including histamine, one of the main culprits behind the inflammatory response in the eye and surrounding tissues.
For most patients, the resulting symptoms are an annoyance. But the results can be much more serious, especially for those who experience swelling of the conjunctiva itself.
"It looks almost like jelly," says Kim, who himself suffers from mild eye symptoms during allergy season. "It's not vision-impairing, but it's very irritating."
However, in the most severe cases, the cornea itself can be affected if people don't resist the temptation to rub and scratch.
"The mechanism is not completely known, but it may be partly from inflammation and partly from scratching, and that can be vision-impairing," Kim warns. "So those patients should see an opthalmologist and be treated relatively aggressively."
Contact Lenses
People who wear contact lenses tend to be even more affected by allergic conjunctivitis, since the contacts themselves are an additional irritant, and they tend to dry the eyes and trap the pollen.
For those patients, it means that when tree or grass pollen season rolls in, the contacts need to come out; and if they suffer from allergic conjunctivitis year-round, eyeglasses may be the way to go.
"It's sometimes not popular to wear glasses," says Kim. "But like any inflammatory problem, you really don't want a foreign body in there, so you have to keep the contacts out."
The Eyes' Allergic 'Reflex'
But while allergy sufferers may feel the symptoms in their eyes, recent studies suggest that in many cases, they'll need to look beyond their peepers to find significant relief.
According to Dr. Paul Keith, an allergist in the department of medicine at McMaster University, the answer could be literally at the end of their noses.
Keith explains that, when pollen and other allergens enter the nasal passages, the histamine released in the allergic response stimulates nerve receptors, and those receptors can trigger reflex symptoms elsewhere in the body. So while the initial reaction may take place in the nose, patients may actually feel the results in their lungs, on their skin – and in their eyes.
"The mediators stimulate nerve endings within the nose, and send a signal back to the brain. But the brain can't figure out where it's coming from," says Keith.
"So you get signals coming back from the brain that tell the eyes to water and get rid of the problem, even though the problem may not have initiated in the eyes."
He explains that: "It's sort of like when you pull a hair from your nose and your eyes water. It's a reflex mechanism."
As a result, researchers – some of whom use goggles loaded with pollen to trigger reactions – have found that, in addition to oral antihistamines and allergy eye drops, steroid nasal sprays such as Avamys can be an effective way to get the eyes to chill out. The key to the effectiveness of the medications, says Keith, is to start taking them early.
For instance, if ragweed is a trigger, don't hold off on the prescription until the tail end of summer.
"It's really important for people who have problems to take their nasal spray for two weeks prior to the season, so they reduce the number of cells that can react in the nose," he says. "You don't get as great an effect if you wait until you're in the middle of allergy season and get out of control."
Next: Protecting and treating eyes during allergy season


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 84 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Everyone can check out my website: http://www.bremsphotographic.com to see the type of work i do.
I am opening my own business now and will center my work around Professional Sports including NBA, MLB, NFL, and NHL.
I also photograph concerts for record labels.
My work is mainly seen in magazines and newspapers across the US and abroad and soon to be seen on CD Covers.
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Look over my work and come up with something.
Desired Color Scheme:
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Facebook is finally starting to make Timeline, a redesigned member profile page, available to a wider portion of its user base.
The roll out starts in New Zealand and comes more than two months after the Palo Alto company announced the redesign at its developers conference in San Francisco.
A Facebook company blog update on Tuesday said more than one million people have already switched to the new format using a developer beta. But that still leaves more than 799 million members around the world.
"The feedback we've received so far has been invaluable," the post said. "Starting today, we are making Timeline more widely available as we measure speed and other types of performance. We'll begin by making it available to people in New Zealand and then roll it out more broadly in the near future."
The wider distribution of Timeline comes a week after Facebook settled a Federal Trade Commission complaint that the social network "deceived consumers" by failing to keep promises to protect the privacy rights of members.
It'll be interesting to see how many complaints Facebook receives over Timeline, which is a major redesign of the member's profile page. The graphically rich page is designed to highlight top moments of a person's social life, but could make some personal details more accessible than the member wants.


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Big Smoke's Crack Palace is the home of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas character Big Smoke after he leaves Idlewood, Los Santos. The building is located in East Los Santos, southeast of the Pig Pen strip club.
The Crack Palace is made up of four floors, the "Security Area", the "Drug Lab", the "Ballas Lounge" and Big Smoke's suite. The building is used as a crack palace by allies in the form of security from the Ballas, Los Santos Vagos, San Fierro Rifa, corrupt LSPD officers and the Russian Mafia. It is a front to sell drugs around the city, mostly crack cocaine, hence the name. Even though the building is blown up during End of the Line, it is still accessible after the mission, undamaged. A statue that shows Big Smoke's original beta character design can be found inside the palace. In Big Smoke's suite, there is a Sprunk vending machine and 3 "Go Go Space Monkey" arcade machines.
Events of GTA San Andreas
While their enemies, the Grove Street Families, are disbanded, Ganton is owned by the Ballas, Carl is taken away by Frank Tenpenny and Eddie Pulaski, Sweet is imprisoned, and the Palace rises to power. The power of Big Smoke increases with the drug trade from the Crack Palace to all over Los Santos. Big Smoke moves into the building sometime after Carl Johnson is forced to leave Los Santos. The other front of Big Smoke's drug empire, second to the Crack Palace, was the crack factory in Doherty, San Fierro, destroyed by Carl Johnson in the mission Yay Ka-Boom-Boom. In the mission End of the Line, Carl breaks into the building with a SWAT Tank and kills Big Smoke, before Frank Tenpenny destroys the building. Carl escapes, and, after a chase across Los Santos, witnesses the death of Tenpenny.
- On the PlayStation 2, the entrance to Big Smoke's Crack Palace can be blown off with any sort of high level explosive (Rocket Launcher's and Satchel Charges for example, regular Grenades and car explosions do not work) before End of the Line, which reveals Blue Hell. However, this was fixed when the game came out on the PC and Xbox 360.
- After the mission King In Exile, Cesar calls CJ and informs him that Big Smoke expands his business to San Fierro by sending a courier from the Crack Palace to deliver drugs there. If CJ responds positively, a mission starts and CJ has to kill the courier on his way to San Fierro. That depicts that Big Smoke had decided to move to the Crack Palace before The Green Sabre, because King In Exile is made in a very short time after The Green Sabre. That can be explained, because in The Introduction, in a conversation between Mike Toreno and T-Bone Mendez, Toreno says that he found "a buyer" from Los Santos, meaning that Big Smoke had ties to the Loco Syndicate before the game even started.
- At one point during the mission End of the Line, a SWAT Tank breaks in through the wall from a back alleyway, allowing SWAT to enter the building. However, there is no back alleyway around the building.
- The statue of the beta Big Smoke depicts him holding an Uzi in his left hand. The weapon doesn't exist in the game, only the Micro variant of the Uzi exists. However, this may point out that the Uzi was going to appear in the game.
- After End of the Line, there is a large hole in the wall on the first floor of the crack palace that allows you to view outside; however you cannot access the outside from it and if a weapon is fired at the hole it will not go through.
- After End of the Line, if the player enters one of the small rooms on floor 3 that have stripper poles, music will suddenly start playing. That's because that was intended to happen in the mission


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Eggplant Parmesan in the oven cooking
Dishwasher emptied (this is a big one)
Lunches made for work tomorrow
Outfit picked out for work tomorrow
(First home game tomorrow night!)
Rascal Flatts playing in the background as you blog
(The CD is great, by the way)
and best of all,
The Premiere of The Office in 2 hours and 37 minutes
(not that I'm counting)
Not even blog friends. I admit it; I am an Office elitist.


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I absolutely can not get enough of the images from John Galliano's Christian Dior Haute Couture show from Monday. Stunning is an understatement–these clothes are pure art and are totally inspired. Galliano's reference was the fashion illustrations of René Gruau, Dior's iconic advertising creative director during the 1940s and '50s. His work was punctuated by light and shade, as well as pencil marks and color washes.
Galliano recreated the effect with layer upon layer of graduated tulle, fantastic makeup, and cartoon-like lines created from beading and embroidery. See some side-by-side comparisons below, and be sure to check out the full slideshow at Style.com–it's worth a few minutes!


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6.36 Monticello
Monticello is the Smalltalk most common source code versioning system. It was developed several years ago and implemented in several Smalltalk dialects. Monticello lets you commit a new version, update to a new one, merge, diff, revert, etc. Monticello there is no way to easily specify dependencies, identify stable versions, or group packages into meaningful units. Monticello just manages package versions. Metacello is another project, which manages package dependencies and the notion of projects.
There is no need to install Monticello since it is included in all Pharo distributions. For more information about Monticello, you can read the Pharo By Example Monticello chapter.


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My father is not a Vet unfortunately.
His current health insurance is a Medicare replacement plan with no max on rehab length. So he doesn't have straight Medicare since it's a replacement plan (not supplement). It's not a common plan he has, but luckily rehab length isn't maxed like Medicare is. It is a replacement plan from United Healthcare.


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What will a president Romney do differently to a president Obama? It's worth noting that nailing down Romney's specific policy decisions is a challenge.
While there are consistencies – mostly in terms of staying right of centre fiscally – there are few specifics. Since his first major political run for Massachusetts senator in 1994, Romney has changed his tune on several major issues (for the US electorate anyway) such as abortion and gun control.
Romney has also been forced, through the nature of Republican primaries, to run farther right than he wanted to, and he will most likely attempt to backtrack to the centre once he thinks the right-wing section is satisfied.
The other factor in play will be whether Congress actually passes anything. Since the 2010 midterm when the Republicans won back the House of Representatives (and the Democrats clung on to their Senate majority), Congress has stalled like a learner driver. Political one-upmanship hasn't just come to the fore – it has dominated legislative proceedings.
Assuming that Romney continues on his current path and members of Congress begin to justify their salaries, let's have a look at the issues Americans will be keeping an eye on.
Economy, taxes and spending
We all know America's economy is in a doldrum and the two men have diametrically opposite points of view on how to solve it.
While Obama admitted that the gaping deficit and debt pile were a problem, his budget proposal for the next financial year did not deal with it as aggressively as his opponents.
Romney, on the other hand, endorsed a plan drawn up by House Budget Committee chairperson Paul Ryan, which slashes spending as if the government had lost its job.
Obama intends to deal with the deficit through cuts, a tax hike on the super-rich (formally known as the Buffet Rule), and the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for households pulling in more than $250 000 per year. Ryan (and therefore Romney) would review and slash programmes like welfare, food stamps and Medicare (government healthcare provisions for the elderly) without increasing tax revenue on America's wealthiest.
Ryan's proposals would cut $6.2-trillion over the next decade and reduce federal spending to a maximum of 20% of gross domestic product. Obama has run four consecutive years off a $1-trillion-plus deficit.
The Congressional Budget office says that the current administration's 2013 budget would create a $1.25-trillion deficit, and its long-term plan would stabilise this at around 3% by 2016.
Basically, Obama would increase revenue with mild cuts while Romney would slash at federal spending with a whippy chainsaw.
As president, Romney would repeal Obama's signature law: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (known colloquially as Obamacare).
This detailed national healthcare plan, currently being debated by the nine Supreme Court justices, would provide every American with medical aid through a complicated logistical process.
Ironically, the Obama administration based the Act on legislation passed in Massachusetts under the then reign of – you guessed it – Mitt Romney.
While Romney doesn't have a comprehensive plan to replace Obamacare nationally, he claims the responsibility for this sort of thing should be sent to state governments – an oft-suggested conservative philosophy applied across the board.
Romney maintains his plan was specific to the concerns of Massachusetts and should not be applied nationally. Obamacare will most likely only survive if the Supreme Court upholds it – and Obama wins a second term.
In a nutshell, Obama – if re-elected – would maintain the implementation of the Act, while Romney would repeal it.
Usually it's Romney's point of view that we struggle to decode. On immigration, though, it's Obama's views that become murky.
Since he began campaigning in 2007, Obama has called for immigration policy reform but has yet to take any formal stance. It's because of this lack of progress that some states (like Arizona) have come up with their own laws, which have turned out to be rather discriminatory.
The Obama administration is contesting these laws by saying they conflict with federal law.
While the administration has been lax on policy, it has been active in deportations and under Obama's watch the US has deported over one million illegal immigrants, dwarfing previous administrations.
While Obama is hard to pin down on immigration, Romney is most certainly not. He has been a vocal proponent for the "self-deportation" of illegal immigrants – basically making people so miserable that they are forced to leave.
He also backed laws requiring immigrants to carry identification documents (in the land of the free) in case they were suspected or questioned (without probable cause) of being there illegally.
One hardly needs to draw a picture to see how this can lead to racial profiling. Romney has also said he would veto the proposed Dream Act, which would allow the children of illegal immigrants to obtain US citizenship if they fulfilled certain criteria.
This stance has seen Republicans take a knock from Latino voters by around 40 points – a demographic usually conceded to Democrats, but not by so much.
Obama would "tackle immigration", while a president Romney would hammer illegal immigrants and people who looked/acted/seemed like them.
The stance on homosexuality has always been a contentious political topic but public perception of the dangers posed by homosexuals has chilled remarkably over the last decade.
In fact, one of the states legalising gay marriage, New Hampshire, saw a Republican-majority state vote defy a motion to put the state's pro-gay marriage laws up for referendum.
While California's Prop 8 fortunes have snatched headlines, both Maryland and Washington legalised gay marriage this year.
Obama has yet to endorse gay marriage, claiming his point of view was "evolving". He did repeal the Clinton administration's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy, which banned being openly gay in the US military. Obama also recently criticised attempts to entrench the prohibition of gay marriage in state constitutions in North Carolina and Minnesota.
Although Romney backed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' as a progressive step when he ran for Massachusetts senator in 1994 and advocated civil rights for gay couples as governor of the same state, he is not as friendly since he began running for president for the first time in 2007.
Massachusetts legalised gay marriage under Romney's watch but this was done through the courts and not the state legislature.
The Republican candidate has long backed civil unions for "non-traditional" couples without having mentioned this during his campaign but has not been pro-gay marriage.
During a presidential debate with the other Republican candidates, Romney, along with everyone on stage, did nothing when the crowd booed a gay soldier who asked a question.
Under president Romney, any kind of federal gay marriage legislation will not pass. Romney signed a pledge, put together by the lobby group the National Institution of Marriage, which " [defined] marriage as the union of one man and one woman" while also calling for Supreme Court judges to be appointed who are opposed to gay marriage.
President Obama would do very little new for gays while hinting that he might, while a president Romney would do very little else for gays.
Republicans are taking a walloping from women in the polls, which show a yawning gap between women who favour the Democrats and the minority who intend to vote Republican. Some polls have it as high as 18 points, while others have it as low as 13 points. Either way, Romney has a problem which is not entirely of his own making.
Fears of what policies Romney would enact if he becomes president are most likely dictated by his party. Since Republicans took control of a host of state legislatures in the 2010-midterm elections, the number of Bills limiting women's rights to abortions has exploded.
It's not all the party though: Romney publicly backed a state "personhood" amendment, which defines a fertilised egg as a person.
His view means that anything affecting the pregnancy could conceivably be defined as murder, including, most obviously abortion, but also the morning after pill and some other forms of contraception.
Romney has pledged to end government funding for Planned Parenthood which, although providing abortion services (a clear Republican no-no), also assists poor women with preventative healthcare.
It is expected that Romney will oblige a Republican presidential candidate calling for the overturning of the Supreme Court's Roe versus Wade decision which bars government from banning abortion.
Obama, on the other hand, is aiming directly at women regarding policy – one of the most-discussed points of his healthcare Bill was forcing healthcare providers (including those of religiously-affiliated institutions) to include contraception in their plans.
This was unsuccessfully countered by the Senate-drawn and Romney-backed Blunt Amendment, which would have permitted employers to dictate healthcare plans under the guise of religious freedom (this was Romney's most recent high-profile flip-flop as he disagreed with the Bill and then agreed with it an hour later).
Obama also hosted a women's conference at the White House in April and his entire campaign bent over backwards to distance itself from a Democrat-aligned CNN pundit who scoffed at Romney's wife claiming to "work" as a stay-at-home mother.
President Obama (assuming the Supreme Court plays ball) will insist on contraception being included in his healthcare plans, will federally fund Planned Parenthood and will not mess with abortion. A president Romney would not force anyone to cover contraception, defund Planned Parenthood but probably also won't change abortion rights.


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How are you? I am down for some tennis, I have played since i was 12. I can travel or play at my place, let me know if interested, thanks
Hello Travis;
I was pretty descent back in my hayday and now that I'm older and on the go all the time with work it has pretty much fizzled out. Would love to get out on the courts on a daily basis again. I am like you and would like to start out by hitting for about an hour a day to get my stamina back then go from there. If your up for it and can travel I am currently hitting in Megan Park in Doral. Let me know.
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