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This week marked the first major shift in the U.S. export control system under the Export Control Reform Initiative, launched by President Obama more than four years ago. Manufacturers have long demanded a new approach to export controls, aimed at today's threats rather than yesterday's Cold War, and the NAM is pleased to see this important first step toward a modernized U.S. export control system. The changes now underway will help strengthen the industrial base, enhance national security and improve economic competitiveness.
The changes to the U.S. Munitions List (USML) and the Commerce Control List (CCL) that went into effect on Tuesday pertain primarily to controls on aircraft and gas turbine engines. According to the White House, these two control categories together account for the largest volume of U.S. export licenses and represent the highest percentage of licensed exports from 43 states, with licensed shipments of almost $21 billion a year. These two categories also account for the largest amount (75 percent) of USML export licenses approved solely for parts and components.
In addition to stringent licensing requirements, manufacturers and exporters of items controlled on the USML are subject to annual registration requirements and fees. For the less sensitive items that have moved to the CCL, such requirements are eliminated. Additionally, many of the items moved to the CCL are now eligible for export without specific licenses if intended for the ultimate end-use by the governments of 36 U.S. allies and partners (these exports, though, carry additional compliance and reporting requirements).
In 2009, President Obama announced an Export Control Reform Initiative that was intended to fundamentally reform the U.S. export control system and rationalize U.S. export laws. As part of this process, the State Department is transferring some less sensitive items from the USML to a new section of the CCL maintained by the Commerce Department, and the agencies are adopting a number of additional regulatory changes. The final State and Commerce rules for a new definition of "Specially Designed," as well as revisions to USML Categories VIII (Aircraft), XIX (Gas Turbine Engines), XVII (Classified Articles and Technical Data), and XXI (Miscellaneous Articles) were published in April. These went into effect on October 15. The Commerce Department has also produced a series of tools to help exporters, as well as new tool that will guide exporters in the use of the license exceptions. The NAM provided extensive input on the proposals and on the framework of the transition period, and we will continue to work with the Administration to ensure a smooth transition over the next few months.
Additional USML and CCL changes will be implemented throughout the next year, as the United States adopts a new export control system designed to address the national security and economic competitiveness challenges of the 21st century. You can learn more about the full scope of the President's Export Control Reform Initiative, and other export-related issues, at www.export.gov/ecr/.


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Simeone's side had not been defeated in Europe in 16 games straight, however, they lost to Academica 2-0 on Thursday night bringing their impressive run of results to an end.
While evidently unhappy with his own team, the former Catania coach did reserve praise for the Portuguese outfit, who picked up their first victory in the Europa League this season.
"Academica played a very good game," he told reporters.
"They took advantage of the chances we gave them and they won fair and square.
"Unfortunately, we did not play the game we wanted to play. There was no stability in our game."
The Liga outfit are now second in Group B after Viktoria Plzen's emphatic 4-0 win over Hapoel Tel Aviv saw them leapfrog them into first place on goal difference.


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- Release Date: 7/21/2008
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October 24, 2008
VeriSign and TrustBearer Form Smart Card Security Alliance
Internet infrastructure and security company VeriSign and authentication and digital identity company TrustBearer Labs have formed a strategic alliance to simplify the use of smart cards and security devices.
VeriSign's Public Key Infrastructure offerings will be combined with TrustBearer's products to enable organizations expand the use of their cards, protect users from online identity theft, streamline approval processes, and safeguard sensitive private data.Adam Geller, vice president of enterprise and government authentication at VeriSign, said: "Smart cards hold enormous potential for providing fast and secure access to services, and PKI offers a vital way to reduce risk exposure and comply with security regulations. Working with TrustBearer not only helps us access new customers, but also helps current customers derive more value from their existing PKI implementations."


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July 24, 2008
Wildlife Group in Washington State Sues to Keep Cows From Grazing on Protected Land
By Janice Francis-Smith
Saving protected lands means putting cows in danger, say opponents to a lawsuit filed by an environmental group in Washington state. A ruling from U.S. District Judge John Coughenour is expected today.The National Wildlife Federation sued to keep federal officials from opening up Conservation Reserve Program acres to Midwestern ranchers suffering from the drought. Cattle in drought areas would otherwise have little to eat.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture decided in May to allow haying and grazing on CRP acres. Ranchers in Oklahoma and Texas in particular have seen available forage dwindle to almost nothing in the last few years due to lack of moisture, and so welcomed the invitation to hay or turn their cattle out on government lands. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has granted a disaster declaration for nine counties in Oklahoma, suffering under what Gov. Brad Henry said "may be the worst drought in our history."
On July 8, Judge Coughenour issued a temporary restraining order at the request of the National Wildlife Federation and seven state affiliates, preventing ranchers from continuing to use the federal land. The decision was widely criticized by members of Oklahoma's congressional delegation and advocates for farmers and ranchers. The judge encouraged the parties to reach a compromise, suggesting a cap on total acreage made available for grazing and haying.
The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture issued a friend of the court brief arguing for continued access to the land.
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Mike Shanahan and Jim Zorn: The NFL Coaching Merry-Go-Round ContinuesJanuary 6, 2010
With Mike Shanahan seemingly closing in on a deal to take over the coaching reins in Washington, D.C., hearts are breaking in upstate New York.
But having lived in D.C. the past three years, I can tell you it's a familiar feeling for Washington.
The excitement when Zorn was hired wasn't what you'd call palpable, but it was real.
Redskins fans I knew said they'd have a guy who could provide some much-needed creativity and stability—and a young quarterback—to a franchise that hadn't seen much of either in recent years.
Now two years later, Jim Zorn is looked upon as a failure in D.C. for two sins that were largely out of his control: failing to pierce one of the toughest divisions in football and not being able to turn Jason Campbell into the elite quarterback he's capable of being.
At least Zorn isn't alone on the unemployment line. Across the league several coaches and coordinators are polishing up their resumes, whether they've been fired yet or not.
Watching the Shanahan news break, a co-worker quipped about Zorn: "Well, he'll not get hired anywhere in the NFL again."
And yet, that's probably exactly what will happen. Jim Zorn will likely have to work his way back up through the ranks, never having been a head coach before his time in Washington. But he'll probably get another shot in a league that loves to recycle its people.
Head coaches in the NFL survive largely on the basis of perception. Wade Phillips won the NFC East and has guided the development of Tony Romo to elite status. And yet, you still have the feeling that anything less than an NFC championship could see him out the door if Bill Cowher's on the line.
Chargers coach Norv Turner looked to be a sure bet to lose his job by midseason before his team decided to rattle off 11 straight wins en route to becoming, once again, the sexy Super Bowl pick.
This is before we even get to the coaches who didn't help their teams win division titles this season.
In truth the NFL is a closed fraternity. Of the coaches fired last season, most don't stray too far from the game. Eric Mangini went to the Browns, Mike Shanahan is now back in the running for the Washington gig (reportedly after receiving a hefty sum to not coach this year), Rod Marinelli is the defensive line coach of the Chicago Bears, Herm Edwards is an ESPN analyst, Tony Dungy walked away voluntarily, Jon Gruden was on Monday Night Football. The list goes on and on.
Of all the head coaches who were fired after the 2008 season, only Romeo Crennel looks to be completely out of football for the moment—although even now it looks as though he may have a chance to become a defensive coach (and possibly coordinator) with the New York Giants.
But is this good for the NFL?
Obviously hiring former head coaches is no guarantee of success.
Several teams have then experimented with their hires in recent seasons, bringing in guys with no head coaching experience, trying to plumb the depths of the college game, or going after candidates who were not even coordinators previously.
Raheem Morris, Tom Cable, Jim Caldwell, Mike Singletary, and Jim Mora were all brought in as head coaches during the 2009 offseason (or in the middle of the 2008 season) with no previous NFL head coaching or coordinating experience.
Other than Jim Caldwell, none really saw a great deal of success this season, although with only a season under their belts, it may be too early to make any real judgements on their abilities.
Still, one has to wonder if one year is enough time to really get a hold on the NFL game; to implement a system and find success, especially when candidates are largely asked to learn on the job.
In many ways, some of these guys may be better off as coordinators. Two perfect examples are Cam Cameron and Mike Nolan. Both were very good in their previous stints as coordinators and, after finding little success as head coaches, have moved back to their previous job.
Cam Cameron has put together a nice offense in Baltimore despite having a rookie quarterback who struggled diagnosing the blitz last season. Mike Nolan put together a defense that was quite able despite being saddled with veterans who, physically, weren't at their peaks in 2009.
It's a refreshing sign to see guys working at a capacity that suits their talents better, but even these are most likely pit stops for Nolan and Cameron until head coaching jobs open up in the next couple of seasons.
Remember this is a league where Mike Shanahan—a coach with two Super Bowls to his name— is championed as the savior of D.C. just two years after being removed for sliding performance in Denver.
This isn't to say Mike Shanahan isn't an effective football coach. He's very good. But the simple fact remains that the league is always evolving in play while continually looking backwards for coaching.
The truth for Nolan and Cameron is that, as coordinators, they have little control over their futures with their current clubs. If John Harbaugh or Josh McDaniels get the axe, there's no guarantee either coordinator would remain on staff.
So take heart, Jim Zorn. At least the likely hiring of your replacement shows there's always a place for former head coaches with an NFL franchise on their resume.


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The ill-advised memoir from Eminem's mom
To hear Debbie Nelson tell it, none of what Eminem said about her was true. They were never on welfare, she didn't pop pills, she wasn't an alcoholic. She has written "My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem" to, as the subtitle says, set the record straight.
To hear Eminem tell it, things were the other way around. From two 1999 interviews:
"I kid you not, my family is ... Jerry Springer, the epitome of white trash."
"My mother's a .... My mother never had a job. My mother never had nothing. We didn't have ...."
I didn't have to go digging for those quotes — they're on the back cover of Nelson's book, in large type. Which seems counter to Nelson's goal. Wouldn't she want to include quotes from her son saying how wrong he was? That he made all that stuff up to fit his street persona?
Such quotes may be hard to find. Nelson once sued her son for $10 million for defamation, and while she now claims the lawsuit wasn't her idea, that hasn't seemed to warm their relationship. "So many years have passed since we really talked," she writes at the end of the book.
People have accused me of writing this book for the money, but that's the last reason for doing it. I wanted to set the record straight to let both of my sons know how much they are loved, despite my many struggles in life.... I want so much to reconcile with Marshall before it's too late.
Whatever happened to letters and phone calls? Is a book really the best way to tell your celebrity child you love him?
As if this weren't a sad enough state of affairs, as if the cover photo of the two of them together didn't have a strange awkwardness, Nelson writes, in the book, of her own experiences of abuse and neglect. "I'd climbed a big old apple tree to escape my drunken stepfather," she writes on the first page. "It didn't matter what went wrong at home; it was always my fault.... I heard Mom scream from inside, 'Find the kid and beat her!' "
In the song "Cleanin' Out My Closet (I'm Sorry Mama)," Eminem turned a seeming apology into an attack against Nelson, accusing her of wishing him dead, of saying, after his uncle died, that it should have been him. "I had said I wished Marshall were dead," she admits. "But I'd apologized immediately.... The words just tumbled out of my mouth. I thought Marshall had accepted that I didn't mean it. But here he was, ten years later, throwing it back in my face, telling the world what I'd done."
It's hard not to see "My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem: Setting the Record Straight on My Life as Eminem's Mother" as Nelson taking her turn to tell the world. She may have a harder time with that reconciliation because of it.
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The encounter, which happened outside Manchester, England, generated this great quote from a witness: "I couldn't believe it when Mr Yummy jumped out of his van and smashed Mr Whippy's window, you just don't expect that around here." The Lancashire Telegraph has a full account.
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Life imitates art — check out Scottish director Bii Forsyhe's "Comfort & Joy," in which a DJ (Bill Paterson) gets caught in a very similar war. Hilarious — and very food-centered movie.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO BOWL PLAZA FOR BEING VOTED THE 2nd BEST RESTROOM IN THE UNITED STATES
"Grassroots Art Capital of Kansas" - "One of the 8 Wonders of Kansas Art"
Founded: 1887 Population: 407 (2010)
School District: USD 299 Elevation: 1500 feet feet
ZIP code: 67648 Latitude: 39° 3' 22" N
Area Code: 785 Longitude: 98° 32' 10"
Lucas, a farming community of 407 people, is known as the "Grassroots Art Capital of Kansas". The World's Largest Souvenir Travel Plate welcomes you to town, and traditional Post Rock limestone architecture enhances neighborhoods and downtown businesses.
Lucas is home to a thriving downtown, the volunteer built and ran, Lucas Area Community Theater, a 3D, state-of-the-art movie theater, and some wonderful art experiences. The theater is used for weekend movies, school events, concerts, plays and other community events.
The World Famous outsider art environment, the Garden of Eden
has been an attraction since 1907, built by Civil War Veteran S.P. Dinsmoor.
Over 150 three story concrete structures show the pioneering spirit of this
town that embraces art by everyday people. The Garden of Eden is listed in
the National Register of Historic Places, also consists of a stone "log cabin"
home and a mausoleum where Mr. Dinsmoor and his first wife are buried.
Bowl Plaza is a public restroom with "Bling"! Covered with mosaic's inside and out. This restroom created by locals is a "One of a Kind"! Bowl Plaza as the 2nd Best Restroom in the United States in a contest by the Cintas Company in 2014.
Miller's Park - From the 1930's until the early 1960's Roy and Clara Miller of Lucas traveled the United States and brought rocks back home and used them to build miniature mountains and buildings.
The mountains represent some of their favorite places like, Pikes Peak in Colorado, and the buildings were replicas of Lucas businesses and churches.
The sculptures were sold after the Miller's deaths in the late 1960's, and have been sitting in a field at Hay's for 40+ years.
The Kohler Foundation obtained the collection in late 2012 and had them moved back to Lucas and restored.
The sculptures now sit just east of the Garden of Eden and are open to the public year round.
The Grassroots Art Center houses the work of untrained artists
of the region. As a child Florence Deeble lived just a half a block from
the Garden of Eden and watched Dinsmoor work on his creation. She
then started creating post card scenes of some of her favorite
vacation spots in her backyard from concrete and rocks
brought home from her travels.
You can visit the Deeble Sculpture Garden as part of the Grassroots
Art Center tour.
The DA DA MUSE'UM on Main Street is full of fun word art pictures.
While in Lucas don't miss The Worlds Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things Museum just south of the Garden of Eden. Be sure to see the World's Smallest Mural and and circus wagons.
Lucas is nestled in the heart of Post Rock Country and the Smoky Hills region of Kansas. It is located in Russell County at the junction of K-18 and K-232 highways just eight miles north of beautiful Wilson Lake, the "Clearest Lake in Kansas". Winding around Wilson Lake from Wilson to Lucas is the Post Rock Scenic Byway.
The byway kiosk at the west end of the Wilson Lake Dam tells the history of the limestone used in the area and the towns of Lucas and Wilson. Watch for Chelsey, Janea, Bill and Leo D., the 4 "Faces in Limestone" as you travel north of the Wilson Lake Dam to Lucas.
Lucas has an active PRIDE Program that has many ongoing community projects. As you look down Main Street you will see these projects in the flower planters, benches, mini park, flag pole, city park playground, Lucas theater, baseball park improvements, cemetery directory and the community bulletin board.
Lucas is a small, but busy, town that is home to over 30 businesses and citizens who work hard to keep the community dynamic and growing.
For more information about Lucas, contact the Lucas Area Chamber of Commerce.
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Glee fans set your DVRs! Jane Lynch is hosting Saturday Night Live this Saturday with musical guest Bruno Mars (Just the Way You Are).
Lynch, who never fails to get huge laughs in movies such as 40 Year Old Virgin, Talladega Nights and Best in Show, promises to deliver an awesome show -- full of Glee skits, I'm sure.
First there was the Facebook fan page to get Betty White to host SNL, now Jane Lynch's fan page and -- voila! -- she's hosting. Although I'm sure they would have picked the Emmy-winning Gleek with or without Facebook.
How does Lynch feel about hosting her first SNL? "I can barely think about it I'm so nervous," Lynch recently said. "I'm kinda having a hard time. I'm scared, because, it's one of those things, there's no take two. I've done live theatre, yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's one of those things, there's no take two, you can't do it the next day. It's over, it's done."
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For Jews of varying degrees of religiosity, the Birthright trip to Israel is exhilarating but overwhelming.
Europeans are often mystified at the religiosity of Americans.
But in South Africa, the transition is even more dramatic because the growth of religiosity has been even more dramatic.
Bennett is genteel, an elite solider, someone who is as comfortable with secularism as he is with his religiosity.
But Cain wrapped himself in every sartorial cliché about authority, pecking order, and religiosity.
They satisfied the taste of the people for religiosity, if not religion.
Your morality—or rather I should say your religiosity—is beyond me, Baltic.'
With religiosity, if it was centred on self, she had no sympathy.
It is open to invasion by strange and uncouth forms of religiosity.
Alexander had been quick to perceive the religiosity of the new world into which he had come.
late 14c., from Old French religiosete and directly from Late Latin religiositas "religiousness," from religiosus (see religious).


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The Condoms? Please, Take One
Friday, December 1, 2006
David Johnson and Melina Afzal walked into the SpinCycle Coin Laundry in Southeast Washington just after 10 p.m. -- armed with condoms, not dirty clothes.
"So what do I do?" night manager Nathaniel Brown asked as the two began piling the packets into a bowl on the counter. Just tell customers the condoms are there for the taking, Johnson replied.
"I'll make sure people know," Brown assured him. "I'll keep the bowl full."
Over the next two months, businesses such as the laundromat are "Life Guard stations" in a project that is as grass-roots as they come. An alliance of six community groups intends to leave them little zip-lock bags of free protection and information, 30,000 condoms in all, to staunch transmission of the virus in targeted District neighborhoods.
"The idea is to get the word out: Here's a packet than can save your life," said Franck DeRose, executive director of an education organization, the Condom Project.
Today is World AIDS Day, and numerous events are being held across the District, a city that 25 years into the AIDS crisis has some of the worst HIV infection rates in the country. The Life Guard effort was born in part from the coalition's frustration over slow condom distribution by D.C. health officials.
Despite ambitious goals, the D.C. Administration for HIV Policy and Programs gave out only 290,000 condoms in 2004 and just a quarter of its 600,000 target in 2005. This year's total will be less than 105,000.
"This helps to fill that gap and address that need," said Barbara Chinn, director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic's Max Robinson Center in Southeast. "Because that need is now."
Condoms are one of the simplest, safest and most effective ways of preventing the spread of the virus. But in many neighborhoods, they are not easily accessible.
This fall, another community coalition took on CVS drugstores in lower-income areas that were selling condoms from locked containers. It recently persuaded CVS to keep open displays of at least some packets. The company also is donating 2,000 condoms for supporters to pass out on the street.
Expanded condom availability should be an "immediate priority," according to a report from the DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit public policy organization that has graded the District harshly for its response to the epidemic.
In September, HIV administration director Marsha Martin announced that the city would buy 1 million condoms to disseminate through nontraditional channels such as restaurants, hotels and boutiques. But that initiative has stalled because the purchase has yet to be approved by the city's contracts and procurements office.


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VALIANT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING is a Freehold factory located at 30 Kallang Pudding Road in District 13 (Central east - Braddell / Macpherson / Potong Pasir) - Rest of Central Region in Singapore.
The nearest MRT/LRT station for VALIANT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING is NE10 Potong Pasir which is about1.05km away.There is also an upcoming MRT DT25 mattar 0.59km away. There are19bus stops near VALIANT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING.
Please note the distance is based on straight line and may not be accurate.


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BBC Gardeners' World Live presented a unique opportunity for garden designers in the form of the Metamorphosis 'A Design Journey' show garden competition. The challenge for the designers was to be as innovative as possible within the boundaries of a set list of materials supplied by us.
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Hopkins applies (again) to join the Northwest Suburban
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- October 14, 2009 - 11:53 PM
By John Millea
If you thought the news about conference realignment and shuffling was going to die down, you better think again.
The latest piece of information is that Hopkins has once again applied for membership in the Northwestern Suburban Conference. The Royals were previously turned down by the Northwest Suburban, as were Edina, Minnetonka and Wayzata; those are the Classic Lake Conference schools that appear poised to join with Eden Prairie in a league alignment for 2010-11.
In case you haven't been keeping up, Eden Prairie will be left hanging in 2010-11 when every other school in the Lake Conferences says adios. Chaska and Chanhassen will be in the Missota in 2010-11 and everyone else (plus Prior Lake of the Missota) in the Lake will form the new South Suburban Conference in 2010-11.
Officials from Hopkins, Edina, Minnetonka, Wayzata and Eden Prairie are obviously not happy to be facing a future in a five-school conference. I don't know that the NW Suburban is open to accepting any of those schools as new members, since they've all been turned down.
This move by Hopkins could be an attempt to set the stage for further moves. And at this point, that's all about we know.
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Working with an international group of undergraduate students, Wheeler has found evidence that the red supergiant star may have been born with a companion star, and later swallowed that star.
Image: Red Star Betelgeuse - Credit Thomas Wildoner.
The research is published on Dec. 19th in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
For such a well-known star, Betelgeuse is mysterious. Astronomers know that it's a red supergiant, a massive star that is nearing the end of its life and so has bloated up to many times its original size.
Someday it will explode as a supernova, but no one knows when. "It might be ten thousand years from now, or it might be tomorrow night," Wheeler, a supernova expert, said.
A new clue to the future of Betelgeuse involves its rotation. When a star inflates to become a supergiant, its rotation should slow down. "It's like the classic spinning ice skater—not bringing her arms in, but opening her arms up," Wheeler said. As the skater opens her arms, she slows down.
So, too, should Betelgeuse's rotation have slowed as the star expanded but that is not what Wheeler's team found.
Infrared images taken of Betelgeuse in 2012 by Leen Decin of the University of Leuven in Belgium with the orbiting Herschel telescope show two shells of interacting matter on one side of Betelgeuse.
No one knows the origin with certainty. But "the fact is," Wheeler said, "there is evidence that Betelgeuse had some kind of commotion on roughly this timescale" - that is, 100,000 years ago when the star expanded into a red supergiant.


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I've realized I really like riding the jumps in my local park and I'm wondering if there are a few modifications I can make to my old hard tail Marin Palisades Trail bike to make it a serviceable DJ bike.
It's geometry is very different from all DJ bikes I've seen. It has a 20" seat tube and 24" top tube, front shock with 100mm of travel along with a really long stem (around 5") and relatively narrow handlebars.
Would something like a short stem and wider handle bars make a big enough difference? Or is the stand over height going to kill me and I should just start looking for used DJ bikes on craigslist? My end goal is to avoid trashing my brand new AM bike.


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Parole violation–On Jan. 27 at 7:27 p.m. at S. Bascom Avenue and Dry Creek Road. Police officers made contact with a 23-year-old man and a 19-year-old man after receiving a call that they had been harassing a woman. The woman was found but said the call was unfounded. The 23-year-old was found to be on parole and was booked into jail. The 19-year-old attempted to discard a bag of marijuana and was cited.
Public intoxication–On Jan. 27 at 5:25 p.m. in the 1200 block of Dell Avenue. A police officer stopped a 46-year-old man who was causing a disturbance. He was found to be drunk in public and was booked into jail.
Petty theft–On Jan. 26 between midnight and 8 a.m. in the 700 block of Emory Avenue. A check a victim had mailed the day before was found scattered in the neighborhood with other stolen mail. The check that was inside the envelope was taken.
False imprisonment–On Jan. 25 in the 2100 block of S. Winchester Boulevard. A 47-year-old man was in an altercation with a woman, whom he punched and choked. The man also brandished a knife to prevent her from leaving.
Burglary–On Jan. 25 between 7:45 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. in the 300 block of David Avenue. An unknown person kicked open the back door of a home and ransacked the house. Laptops, jewelry and gift cards were taken. Around the same time, an unknown person smashed the sliding glass door of a home on McBain Avenue and took electronic equipment.
Drunk in public–On Jan. 25 at 2:20 a.m. at Winchester Boulevard and Rincon Avenue. A 25-year-old man was found walking in one of the car lanes on Winchester Boulevard. He was found to be drunk in public and was booked into jail. Ten minutes later, officers made contact with a 29-year-old man who was pounding on the front door of a home. He was also found to be drunk and was arrested.
Burglary–Between Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m. and Jan. 24 at 9:10 a.m. in the 400 block of W. Hamilton Avenue. An unknown person forced open a door to an office and stole a laptop, keys and tools. The person then broke through a wall to an adjacent unit, which was vacant. The person then pulled down the ceiling tiles and attempted to gain access into the building's crawl space.
Driving with a suspended license–On Jan. 24 at 3:15 a.m. at Budd and Virginia avenues. A police officer stopped a driver due to a vehicle code violation. The driver was found to be under the influence but refused all sobriety tests. The driver was found to be in possession of methamphetamine and had a suspended license. The driver was arrested and booked into jail.
Domestic violence–On Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the 200 block of W. Hamilton Avenue. A woman walked into the Campbell Police Department. She had a laceration on her forehead which she said she received when her boyfriend threw a dinner plate at her. Police were unable to make contact with the boyfriend at the time.
Possession of burglary tools–On Jan. 23 at 3:30 p.m. at W. Hamilton Avenue and San Tomas Expressway. Two juveniles were stopped by police after they had been seen trying to enter cars on Latimer Avenue near Llewellyn Avenue. The 15-year-old was in possession of a screwdriver, gloves and cigarettes. The 17-year-old, a runaway, lied about his name. Both were cited and released to their parents.


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Monday, April 29, 2013
Uwaga: Rambling post about nothing
I'm sorry to write it. Sorry that you have to read it. Even sorrier about the hits KS is going to get with those key words, except the person doing that search is just a dirty bugger. Me? I'm just having a bad day.
Oh to be Lewandowski* for a day.
I talked to my father yesterday evening. Maybe that's why I'm in a funk. I always get homesick after talking to my parents. My father is still unaware that we live on different planets as he complained of his tax bill. In addition to what he already paid in, he had to pay an amount of money above that, which is more than I take in in a whole year. Beh. But I'm glad that he has it and I'm glad that he's spending it. My parents earned every last penny of that money. We may not have spent a lot of time together when I was a kid but I know that what worried them most (besides the safety of me and my sister) was their security in their older years.
I have to give up my pet peeve – littering. Not that my anti-littering campaign has eradicated littering. It's just for my own sanity bo szlag mnie trafi every time I go, well, just about anywhere. I've decided to just look the other way because otherwise I'm gonna lose it. Just like I look the other way when I see my next-door neighbor. Either she has real problems at work or is incredibly susceptible to stress. At least once a month, she has a real freak-out which usually ends with her locking herself in the bathroom and bawling. Loudly. That's the only wall we share so we can hear everything, even if we're not trying. And yes, I admit to trying the first 2 times it happened. I wanted to know if she needed help or something. Mam wszystko w dupie, but I'm not so apathetic to not worry if my neighbor is ok. Through our eavesdropping, we ascertained that her boyfriend was not beating her and in fact has the patience of a saint. I mean how many times can you say, "Kotku, wcale nie musisz tam pracować"?
I'm still not running and the person who designed my new running shoes hates people. Well, hates people who intend to run in those shoes outside in the real world. Those shoes are great for controlled indoor activities such as shopping, but are not made for running on forest trails or sandy, stony paths. The shoes have a kind of waffled bottom which picks up and carries everything from the running surface. You could do CSI on what's in my shoes and tell me exactly where I've been lately. Seriously.
I finally watched the Hunger Games. I haven't read the books. I had the opportunity to watch it on the airplane last year, but chose instead to watch Adele's concert twice and some movie with Robert Pattinson in it. I don't remember the name, but he's not a vampire. That should narrow it down considerably. Misiu watched HG's in the seat in front of me so I caught a few of the scenes. The whole premise seemed so disturbing that I put off watching it until now. And I was disturbed as I watched it and for awhile after too. But as I thought about it, worse things happen in the world every day. In many places in the world, kids have worse odds than the those forced to play in the Hunger Games. Beh.
Finally, there has been a kind of compromise on the Ratuj maluchy front. The age for starting 1st grade will still be 6. That hasn't changed. What has changed is the situation for the kids born in 2007 and 2008 – the last transition kids. Kids born in 2008 are required to go to school at 6, while kids from 2007 could go next year at 6 or wait until the year after that and go to 1st grade at 7 with the kids from 2008. Considering that about 70% of parents have not opted to send their 6-year-olds, that could mean a "double class" of all the left-over 7-year-olds plus the mandatory 6-year-olds. To release some of the pressure, the government has divided the class of 2008 into 2 groups, allowing kids from the second half of the year to start school later. What do the Ratuj maluchy parents have to say to the new proposal? Karolina Elbanowska, leader of the Ratuj maluchy campaign who was quoted in Wyborcza "Nie chcemy sześciolatków w szkołach nigdy: ani za rok, ani za try lata". I guess ona też ma wszystko w dupie.
Ok Chris, pull up your socks. You have a lot to get done before Majówka.
*Robert Lewandowski is a Polish soccer player who plays for the German team Borussia Dortmund. In a recent match he alone scored 4 goals in the 4-1 win against Real Madrid. Amazing!Lewandowki, however, is criticized for not scoring as many goals while playing on the Polish national team. I didn't watch the game as I cannot tolerate large groups of German people shouting in unison. It makes me think strange thoughts.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Genius of Evil
What? I remember going through the same thing except it was the SATs and I was worried about college.
I asked one of my students, a teenaged boy, what high schools were on his dream list. He included "the math high school", "the humanistic high school" and the local Catholic high school. The choices didn't seem to jive with any specific career choice so I asked him what he wanted to be when he grows up.
Stroking his pet terrier sitting in his lap he replied, "A genius of evil, mwah- ha-ha."
I can't make this stuff up.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Polish Cuisine, American-Style…
…or something like that.
American people like their ethnic food. Even in my small hometown we have a pizzeria owned by a family who emigrated from Sicily years ago. There's a Chinese restaurant owned and operated by a family from China as well. Another local restaurant has "sushi night" and you can even find "Thai Chicken" on the truck stop's menu.
Besides all the funny questions my friends asked me about Poland, another common question was, "Can you make pierogies?" When I answered that in fact, I can, I got almost as many accolades as when I told them that I gave birth without anesthetics, twice.
The cuisine of my family was heavily influenced by my maternal grandmother who was not Polish, but worked her whole life in the food service industry. She liked to cook for us, but she didn't like to eat. That's why we had to buy her clothes in the children's department.
My paternal grandmother, on the other hand, had some Polish roots. She was a Mihalik and her family some generations back hailed from the Nowy Targ area. I guess that makes me a goralka. Now, wait a minute. If you think I've been hiding my Polish roots all this time, you're wrong. Cooking "halupki" (gołąbki) and using the word "dupa" does not a Polish Babcia make. This grandma cooked a lot. I don't know if she liked to cook, but she had to being the mother of 8 children. She was a specialist in making the food go far and she enjoyed her meals with us, that's for sure.
Some of my extended family have compiled and printed some family recipes. I have to say that most of them are really bastardized versions of Polish dishes and some are unrecognizable. That doesn't matter, however. It's a nice and humorous look at part of my family's culinary history. Smacznego and enjoy.
And these two recipes below are my favorite. Nothing really Polish about them, but I love that the Never Fail Cake is placed opposite the Better Than Sex Cake.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Ratuj maluchy
I've changed my mind about this "Ratuj maluchy" campaign. This is the campaign of parents against the latest education reform in which children will start 1st grade at 6 instead of 7 (among other things). Oh, it's not what you think. I still think it's a good idea for kids to start 1st grade at 6. That hasn't changed.
What I have changed my mind about is the parents who support a campaign called "Save the children". I would better understand a campaign that was fighting to give parents more leeway in choosing when to start school something like "Give us a say" but "Save the children"? Save the children from what? School as the enemy? What an odd name for the campaign. I will stop trying to persuade those parents that 1st grade is cool, that kids can learn to read and write at 6 and that 6 is a great age to start, that 1st grade is not stealing their childhood, that 1st graders can do math, that the stairs are not too steep and that the 2nd and 3rd graders are not beating the 1st graders up in the halls and that the kids get to play inside and outside every single day.
Here's my proposition to the "Ratuj maluchy" parents:
Save your children. Don't send them to school at 6. Maybe not even at 7 if you don't want to. I'm sending my kids and they will thrive with or without your children.
Lizzie is an awesome 1st grader. She can write cursive already which even surprised me, the education optimist. She can add and subtract double digit numbers. She still has a bit of a problem telling time but who can blame her, the bell just rings and she's knows if she is on time or late. She's started to learn multiplication not in 1st grade, but at świetlica (the day room) where they have a chart on the wall that interested her. It called the tabliczka mnożenia. For fun I call it the tabliczka mrożenia (frozen table). I think I am very clever, the kids not so much.
PS If you want a reason not to send your children to school, here's one. Kids like puzzles, right? History and geography made fun.
A quote from the article:
Układanka przeznaczona jest dla dzieci od szóstego roku życia, ma 58 elementów. Na jednym z nich znajdują się Smoleńsk i Katyń, a pod nimi adnotacja: "Mord polskich oficerów w 1940 r. Śmierć Prezydenta Lecha Kaczyńskiego w prawdopodobnym zamachu 2010 r."
This 58-piece puzzle is for children from age 6. On one of them there is Smoleńsk and Katyń with the captions: "Massacre of Polish officers 1940. Death of President Lech Kaczyński in an alleged assassination in 2010."
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
It's a big deal
My Lizzie turned 7. It's a big deal! She's a big 7 year-old with 7 year-old problems. No more baby stuff for her. It's all race cars and basketball from here on out…well, until it turns into boys and basketball.
Happy 7th birthday sweetheart!
This is the race car cake Lizzie requested. I was planning to make it round with a race track but she said she wanted a "rectangle cake". Her next requirement besides rectangles and race cars was that the cake had to have a "7" and also car tires. So in case you were wondering what those black things at the the bottom of the cake were supposed to be, well, they're supposed to be tires…or something similar to tires.
Oreo tires. At least they taste good :)
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Dare I say it?
The sun is shining.
This comic strip may look graphic but for those in the know, it is just Marzanna. School kids make a Marzanna effigy and throw it in the river on the first day of spring. Sometimes they burn it or toss it in the river. Some people burn it and toss it into the river. It's a kind of farewell to winter and hello to spring. I saw the kids going out to the river on the first day of spring. Their Marzanna's were adorable – a cross between a ragdoll and a scarecrow. And the look on the kids' faces – priceless. They were so excited to go to the river. One teacher was dressed up as a flower. The kids were wearing snowsuits. The older kids have their fun too and as I have been told after drowning Marzanna, older kids consider the 1st day of spring as a great day to cut school. Halloween doesn't seem so bad now does it?
If you've got sun, enjoy it!
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
April 10th marks the anniversary of the 2010 plane crash near the city of Smoleńsk in Russia where all 96 people on board were killed including (then) president of Poland Lech Kaczyński and his wife and many other Polish politicians as well as family members of the Katyn massacre. They were headed to a Katyn massacre memorial event when the accident occurred. I remember hearing the shocking news 3 years ago. Despite many of the rumors, reports and Russian conspiracy theories that have come out since then, I still believe it was just a terrible and tragic accident and nothing more.
The plane crash near Smoleńsk, while an important event, often dominates the headlines here even 3 years later. For those of us who live in Poland, it sometimes feels like Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk, Smoleńsk….
And that's all I want to say about it. I don't want to say more.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Got my new running shoes...
I walk a lot. I mean I walk a significant distance each day at a brisk pace. And it is not for exercise. It's for transportation.
Last year, I told myself that I was going to run. Misiu runs. Sometimes he runs while I walk the same route. I attempted to run last spring. I gave up pretty fast.
I used to run. That's not really important regarding my level of fitness now because the last time I ran was probably 15 years ago. It is important, however, regarding the psychological aspect of running. I know that if I can fight through the tough start, it'll be worth it. I know that running can be pleasurable, even addictive. What I enjoyed about running (besides being able to eat whatever I wanted) was the time to think over my life. I also enjoyed just letting my mind wander, even go blank and just concentrate on the candence of my foot strikes on the ground.
Let's say that I was waiting for spring. I don't want to jinx it, but I think spring is here. I still haven't run yet. I can't complain that it is boring, not with views like this.
Why do I want to return to running, if you can even call it a return after 15 years? Well, I would enjoy eating whatever I want without dire consequences for my waistline. That would be cool, but what I really need is to walk faster in my everyday life. When I drive I try to take the route that gets me to my destination faster. When I am on the bus, I keep my fingers crossed that we'll be on time. It's only natural that when my own legs are my transport that I'd want them to go faster, get me to my destination quicker.
So that's it in a nutshell. Probably the most uninspiring reason to start running ever, but 100% true.
Don't call it a comeback...
Sunday, April 7, 2013
No cóż
I came to the day room and looked at the mass of kids, all busy with different activities. There were a lot of little blond heads, so I tried to remember what color Lizzie was wearing that day. I spotted her and the priest struck up a conversation with me as Lizzie finished her drawing.
Priest (puts his religious book aside): Good afternoon. I have something to show you.
Chris: Good afternoon. Surely you don't.
Priest: Just a minute. Here it is. (holds up a child's drawing, obviously not Lizzie's) What do you see?
It looked like a Japanese anime princess in a pink dress with flowing hair or a Monster High character perhaps. That's too much in Polish so I very eloquently stated...
Chris: Baba w sukience.
Priest: It's supposed to be me.
Chris: No cóż.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
You were supposed to do one thing….
Tusk was supposed to build me some roads. He was supposed to build, build, build and then rest on the 7th day or so the joke went. I got the one road I was waiting for. I don't know about the rest of Poland. "My" road probably had less to do with Tusk and more to do with Dutkiewicz, but I don't care. The roads exist.
You, Janusz! You were supposed to uphold the constitution and fight for the execution of separation of church and state which already exists in the constitution. That's what you promised. And I don't care about the crucifix hanging in the sejm. I care about the crucifix hanging in my childrens' classrooms. I believed you despite that press conference where you were swinging a plastic penis around. For some reason I thought you'd try a little harder to do something about it or at least go down fighting. Beh! Nic.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Sprzątaczka zatrzasnęła się w biurze i spędziła tam całe Święta Wielkanocne
Sprzątaczka zatrzasnęła się w biurze i spędziła tam całe Święta Wielkanocne
An office cleaning lady got herself locked in the company and spent the whole Easter weekend stuck in the office building. Oh that poor lady. On the radio, it was reported that when she came out she only asked about her poor husband and how he managed spending a whole 3 days at home alone.
I can sympathize with her completely. I mean not about the poor husband spending the weekend at home alone. My husband is much younger than hers and very, very zaradny. I mean about getting locked in at work…because it happened to me. Luckily, my imprisonment didn't last nearly as long as hers did and the only thing hurt was my pride. I can doubly sympathize with her because I used to live in an office building…in PZU to be exact.
Those were the days!
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
A secular Easter czyli Wielkanoc bez Jezusa
|a lovely grave candle for Easter
Our Easter started Friday, Good Friday that is. Good or not, Misiu was out of town on his weekly biznes trip.I absolutely had to go to one company and while I did, the girls' favorite Ciocia came to stay with them. Why is she their favorite you ask? I asked the same thing. The answer, "Because you can sit on her, Mommy". And she was being sat on when I returned.
My first lesson is pretty far away but, thank goodness, it can be reached by one bus. The bus is usually pretty crowded with school kids and people going to work, so I hoped that the bus would be less crowded considering school was out and many people took a day off for Easter. The way there was easy peasy. The way back, however, was not. I should mention that the bus passes one of the major cemeteries of the city. The cemetery itself looked beautiful. I'm not a fan of plastic flowers, but from the street the cemetery looked like a happy and cheerful place. And the market around the cemetery was rockin', selling beautiful wreaths and huge ornamental candles. As you can imagine the bus on the way back was packed, completely packed with older people.
I usually stand on the bus, so I didn't really care about there not being seats. And there weren't. Any seats. That's not good on a bus full of older people who haven't eaten (Good Friday fast). The old folks had started a kind of casting of who was worse off and most deserving of a seat. As I was 30 or even 40 years younger than most of the other passengers, I didn't participate in the casting. That didn't stop one lady from placing the blame for the lack of seats on me. I explained to her kindly that I couldn't give up my seat any more than I already had as I had not even sat down and was already standing, but that did not seem to satisfy her. It seemed that I was taking up too much space for her liking. Happy Easter!
The real follies began when passengers tried to get off the bus. When one person stood from a seat, all the other folks jockeyed for the seat without a care to the fact that they were blocking the aisle or even the door for exiting passengers. Then the pojedynek began. Nobody can fight like two old people. "Ladies, you are blocking the door! Nobody can get off!", said one old man. And the ladies to that, "You shouldn't wait to the last minute to get off the bus!" The shame. What would Jesus think?
On the way back home, I stopped at the butcher's which looked like a shop in deep PRL. Nothing. So I bought nothing. At home we spent the rest of the day making pickled eggs and czwikła and packing for the weekend. Misiu came home and we were off.
Saturday morning we finished our shopping in the village. The shops were calm and orderly and the butcher was fully stocked. What a relief. After that we took a stroll around the village. We enjoyed a nice pit stop at the local bakery where all hell was breaking loose as people scrambled to buy the last loaves of bread. I sat back enjoying my latte and keeping a watch out the window for people coming to church with their baskets. After that we came back home to cook, decorate eggs and enjoy our time together.
|Mazurek made easy
Did you know that Pan Jezus użył? That's what Rosie told us one day after preschool last week. It was so sweet that I didn't have the heart to tell her that it should be ożył. Anyhow, I didn't have to. Lizzie wkroczyła do akcji. "Pan Jezus nie ożył tak naprawdę. Jest tylko bajka".
I już po tłumaczenie.
So how do you celebrate Easter without Jesus? The same as we always do. Well, not exactly the same because of the weather, but more or less the same. We treat Easter as a celebration of spring. We usually spend a lot of time outside and weather permitting we plant a few things in the garden. Well except for this year because of the snow. It snowed a foot on Easter Sunday. We cook a lot of eggs and cakes and decorate the house for spring. Sometimes we even clean the windows ;) Most importantly we spend time together.
|our Easter eggs - Sesame Street and Spiderman
|something like this
Oh and I almost forgot that Rosie turned 5. She couldn't quite understand how it was possible that Lizzie was born on Easter but now her birthday is on Easter, but after she got her cake she was happy enough.
|it may not look so great but it tastes delicious
|Happy Birthday my baby Rosie. May all your wishes come true!
|Mr and Mrs Chick wishing you a Happy Easter!
That's another holiday that just flew right by. I guess that's how it is as you get older. In two weeks it'll be Lizzie's birthday and after that Majówka. Not long after that, the school year will be wrapping up. Where does all the time go?
We were planning to throw the girls a joint birthday party in the village during the long May weekend - a birthday party complete with a horse and carriage ride around the ponds. But....it snowed on Halloween, it snowed on Christmas, it snowed on Easter....could it snow on Majówka? It did a few years back. Hmmm, we may have to change our plans.
Keep your fingers crossed for good weather!!!


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I had a hard time justifying an additional cake aside from the one that comes in the package but I'm not a fan of the small heart cake. I wanted a 3 tier but settled with a 2 tier and I'm bringing real touch orchids with me as they tried charging me $20 per real flower.
I already had my lingerie bridal shower here at a friends house and plan to have the Bachelor/Bachelorette parties in Mexico Thursday night before my Saturday wedding.
Over here in the UK, we just have a 'hen' party! (no idea why it's called something different from yours either - isn't the world a funny place!?)
ooo i'm over tired and in a very stupid mood!!!!! having a can of RedBull and cracking on with my replies on here!!


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By Hayden Wright
Snoop Dogg has smoked weed long enough to watch his favorite pastime gain legal momentum across the country: Each election cycle brings more states to the recreational and medical marijuana table. To meet growing demand, Snoop has made his mark on eight strains of the good stuff, and unveiled a new line of smoking devices for fans to enjoy.
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The collection pairs the famous spokesman with Famous Brandz and includes bongs and other accessories for the perfect high. They sport names like Mothership, Battleship, Rocketship, Spaceship and Starship, under the broader POUNDS Smoking Accessories brand.
"POUNDS is my way of offering and sharing a premium smoking experience for any consumers. Whether you're into flower or oil, POUNDS has the product for you," Snoop said.
The bongs are available for $129-$279 and will be available in smoke shops across the country. For now, you can order yours on various smoking websites.


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Cartoon Network has signed a development agreement with action-adventure producer Don Murphy and partner Susan Montford and their company Angry Filmworks to develop a live-action motion picture based on the groundbreaking, environment-saving animated hero, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, it was announced today by Stuart Snyder, president and COO of Turner Broadcasting System Inc.'s Animation, Young Adults and Kids Media division (AYAKM). The agreement gives Murphy and his company the exclusive rights to develop and package the property and advance it towards production.
Murphy and Angry Filmworks are most notably credited for the highly successful action-adventure franchise, Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). Murphy and Montford together produced the upcoming Hugh Jackman blockbuster Real Steel with Executive Producer Steven Spielberg. The company also is responsible for such action-oriented films as Shoot 'Em Up (2007), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), Apt Pupil (1998) and Natural Born Killers (1994). Angry Filmworks formed in 1998.
"The messages of Captain Planet are even more relevant today," said Snyder. "We feel this team can bring the world's first eco-hero to life in a powerful motion picture that is not only pertinent but entertaining."


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The birth of Sky Sports, celebrating its 20th anniversary last week, almost coincides with the start of my own professional career. My debut for Liverpool, against Nottingham Forest, was Sky's first live Premier League game. That day I was nervous enough just making my debut, never mind the lads saying don't have a beast because you'll spend the rest of the week watching reruns of your mistakes on the telly.
Well, I made a triple save right at the start of the game, which I was pleased about, but we ended up losing 1-0 when I pushed off with my right foot instead of my left foot and Teddy Sheringham scored. It was TV history but I didn't think about that at the time. Sky still seemed like the unknown and no one could say if it was really going to take off.
It took me a little while to come round to getting a Sky dish. Pretty much all of the Liverpool players got Sky straight away. I remember them talking about it in the dressing room – groaning about Andy Gray's supposed bias towards Manchester United or grinning about the glamorous ladies presenting on the channel.
Personally I was worried that a satellite channel would signal an Americanisation of sport on TV. I had heard about how Americans supposedly had 150 TV channels, which seemed ludicrous. Of course, now I do have Sky and I probably have about 550 channels, not that I seem to watch anything other than Countdown and Deal or No Deal.
Even when I did eventually become a subscriber I never used to record my own games, although I quite enjoyed watching other people's and seeing which new techie gadgets the channel came up with each season. I remember Liverpool arriving at The Dell to play Southampton, the Sky bloke was fitting the camera into the goal stanchion and we spent half the warm-up giggling as we tried to curl the ball into the net and knock the camera off its stand. It was extremely entertaining, although we subsequently lost the match.
Those were the days of Richard Keys appearing in lairy, coloured suits – mustard or bright red – and former players making a name for themselves as pundits. Doing Sky TV was seen as very in vogue but it quickly became known as a poisoned chalice – as a pundit you were expected to be entertaining and opinionated and yet, if you spoke your mind and criticised a player, it was viewed as going against the football fraternity. Instead the pundits often resorted to football clichés to hide behind, a habit that became synonymous with the post-match interview.
It was many years before footballers had any sort of media training. I remember being interviewed after losing to Leeds and saying it was not the sort of result I had expected when I signed for Liverpool. Well, that quote was replayed over several days and I got in a lot of trouble for it. It certainly put me off doing much TV work.
For that reason I went on Sky only once as a pundit. I was Cup-tied and had just signed for Manchester City, who were playing an FA Cup derby against Manchester United. My mate Steve the plumber dared me to get the word "kerfuffle" into my analysis, which I thought was very funny. I'm not sure the other guest, Gordon McQueen, was very amused, though.
Sky was ground-breaking in many ways, but there seemed a huge gulf between the generation of footballers then playing in the new Premier League and the generation of pundits who had never experienced it. Football had progressed rapidly – from fitness to technical ability – and in the dressing rooms the current players would grumble that the former stars could not possibly know what they were talking about.
Largely I am a Sky fan – I think the channel has played a big part in making the Premier League the best in the world – but I do have a few grumbles, Sky Sports News for one. It is one of my three pet hates on television, up there with cricket and golf. It is just so monotonous, like being at the dentist and hearing the same looped music go round and round (I have a nice dentist but he needs to get a new CD). But for some reason most footballers seem to love it – every club I have played at seems to have it permanently on at the training ground.
So here's to another 20 years of Sky Sports and the further innovations it brings to our game, Sky Sports News aside. I hope that includes the screening of women's football. I would like to be able to watch Bristol Academy play live on Sky TV in a Super Sunday clash against Arsenal Ladies, promoted in a loud, booming voice with all the gizmos and interactive TV screens they have for the men's game. Now that really would be progress.
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BY THE NUMBERS: Lexus car sales were up 29 percent to 12,422, led by the ES midsize sedan, which doubled to 5,890. But Lexus utility sales were down 17 percent. Toyota brand car sales were up 4 percent but truck sales were flat.
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ANCHORAGE (AP) -- Alaska's commercial salmon and herring fisheries might need to be restricted along with the giant pollock fishery to stop the steep decline in endangered Steller sea lions, federal officials said Friday.
The huge sea lions need a balanced diet and might not be getting it because of competition from fishing nets, hooks and traps, according to the government's ''leading hypothesis'' for the 80 percent slide in Stellers in Western Alaska.
The prospect of expanding sea lion protections to salmon and herring harvests chills the fishing industry, which over the last two years has been restricted in catching abundant bottom fish such as Alaska's walleye pollock, used for cheap fish sandwiches and imitation crab.
Vast stretches of water have been closed to bottom-fish trawl nets to leave more food fish for Stellers.
Late Thursday, regulators for the National Marine Fisheries Service filed a new sea lion protection plan in U.S. District Court in Seattle, where a judge had condemned past efforts as legally deficient under the Endangered Species Act.
As a consequence, federal Judge Thomas Zilly this summer had banned trawling for bottom fish in sea lion ''critical habitat'' along the coast from Prince William Sound west through the Aleutians, an area the size of Washington state.
The fisheries service and the fishing industry were hopeful the new Steller protection plan, called a biological opinion, would persuade Zilly to lift the ban.
But the NMFS plan wouldn't open up the fishing much. It still calls for no fishing or severely restricted fishing in most of the critical habitat and it applies to new classes of fishermen besides the high-volume trawlers, including hook-and-line boats and boats that deploy traps called pots.
The industry and Alaska lawmakers protested Friday that the new opinion lacks scientific proof that commercial fishing caused the sea lion decline and that the government's estimate of up to $191 million in losses for the fishing industry and fishing-dependent communities next year under the new plan is far too conservative.
''The agency has staked its reputation on a poor hypothesis,'' said U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. ''The opinion directly attacks the pollock and cod fisheries and indirectly sets up the salmon fisheries for similar treatment in the future.''
The fishing industry contends that boats and nets aren't starving out the sea lions, but shifts in ocean conditions might be.
Harvests of Alaska bottom fish are worth more than $1 billion a year after initial processing, federal officials said. Salmon, the lifeblood for many coastal Alaska communities, is the state's second most valuable fish harvest, bringing more than $260 million raw at the dock this year.
Environmentalists who sued the fisheries service in 1998, forcing the new biological opinion, had few comments on the 588-page document.
In a prepared statement, Greenpeace spokeswoman Niaz Dorry said Saturday the opinion for the first time considers the cumulative and combined impact that overfishing Alaska's waters has had on the ocean environment.
''Previous opinions have dealt with only individual species of commercially valuable fish,'' Dorry said. ''This is the first time on the planet that fisheries managers have been required to take into account the health of a region's entire ecosystem.''
The biological opinion calls for restrictions only for pollock, Atka mackerel and Pacific cod -- species managed by the federal government because they are caught mostly in waters more than three nautical miles from shore. Salmon and herring are caught closer in and those harvests are managed by the state.
The biological opinion says that the state-run salmon and herring fisheries, as well as a relatively small state-run cod fishery, could be competing with sea lions for food and that the state should consider working with the federal government on a ''habitat conservation plan.''
Lawyers for the government, fishermen and processors and the environmentalists asked Zilly for a status conference on the case next week.
Big fishing companies condemned the new Steller protection plan. But commercial fishing interests in Gulf of Alaska communities like Kodiak and Sand Point seemed the most embittered.
They said the small boats typical of their communities would fare worse than larger Seattle-based trawlers, which can brave more distant and dangerous waters to at least try to round up fish outside of areas the fish like most -- the waters around sea lion rookeries and resting rocks.
''Fishing is all we have,'' said Dick Jacobsen, mayor of the Aleutians East Borough and a fisherman. ''We don't have a Safeway here. We can't go down and get a job as a bag boy or something.''
Gov. Tony Knowles reacted angrily: ''After being scolded by the courts for two previously inadequate biological opinions, NMFS is now threatening coastal communities with economic devastation, and I will not let our fishing families and coastal communities pay the price. We will challenge this in every forum, including the courts if necessary.''
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FISHHAWK, Fla. (WTSP) – Sometimes the smallest people can make the biggest difference. Case in point: Addison Kapustiak, a 9-year-old girl who lives with a rare disease called TRAPS syndrome.
Kapustiak goes to Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital every other week to receive infusion treatments and recently noticed the prize closet, where kids go to pick out a toy when their treatment is finished, was down to almost nothing.
"Really just Happy Meal toys and stuff. Like, baby toys and stuff that I don't like," said Addison, describing what she found.
But instead of being disappointed about her choices, Addison was sad for all the other children at the hospital.
Click here to visit Sending Smiles and help Addison's campaign
"It made her really sad for the other kids that they weren't going to have anything to pick from," said Alice Kapustiak, Addison's mother. "So she went, for her birthday, she had a birthday party and invited her friends and asked for toys for the hospital rather than for herself."
And the effort has only continued to grow. Kapustiak now has a name for her project: "Sending Smiles" and a Facebook page to help coordinate donations. She's already made a handful of deliveries to the hospital, and is gearing up for a large-scale toy drop just before Christmas. Not only that, but she hopes the project will roll on past the holiday and become a year-round effort.


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How to fix counter strike server connectivity problem ?
Counter strike is very famous shooting game because it offers multi player environment and we can connect many computers using servers and we can play with online friends. We can also play this game on lan servers as well as on wifi servers.
Sometimes you are not able to connect servers to play counter strike with friends and people on your network. But you can fix this error by following simple steps below :
How to fix the problem "There are no servers running in your local network " ?
To solve server connectivity problem, Just you have to match IP address of your computer with the IP address of your friend's computer who has made counter strike server.
Step 1 : Get you friend's IP address .
- Open network and sharing center in your friend's computer (see the image below)… for this Press windows button, type "Network and sharing center" and click enter .
- Now click on network Connections. (see the image below)
- Click on the Details.
- Now see and note down your friend's IP address.
Step 2 : Change your IP address and match to your friend's IP address which you have noted in first step.
For step 2 see : How to change your IP address in Windows ?
After changing your IP address restart counter strike and now you will be able to connect and play with your friends .