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A joint combat demonstration took place today, Tuesday, February 1st , 2011, at the IDF ground forces training base in Shizafon. The IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, visited the demonstration as part of his series of departing visits from the IDF.
The joint combat demonstration is a display of the Ground Forces' capabilities, in which Officer School Cadets from the infantry, engineering, armoured and artillery corps perform exercises that combine various and diverse combat techniques. These include: urban warfare, a complex obstacle course, artillery support and invasion techniques, along with aerial support from the IAF which include medical evacuations and aerial dropped supplies.
As part of the event, following the demonstration, an honorary guard was held for Lt. Gen. Ashkenazi. Upon conclusion of the visit, soldiers and commanders of the Ground Forces Command bid farewell to the chief of the General Staff by exhibiting a special exercise, combining all aspects of the ground forces.
During the demonstration, Lt. Gen. Ashkenazi stated: "It is exciting to bid farewell to the ground forces, of which I was once a cadet, and forever will feel at home. The security situation around us can change at any time, it is enough only to look at Egypt… I leave with a strong sense of belief in you and certainty that you understand the responsibilities placed upon your shoulders. "
Chief of the Ground Forces Command, Maj. Gen. Shlomo Turgeman, commented to Lt. Gen. Ashkenazi that: "Today, nobody questions the quality of the IDF and its readiness to meet its different challenges. Words cannot express our appreciation for you as an officer, a citizen and a human being. We thank you for teaching us on building up our forces, the art of commanding, caring for our troops, for humbleness, honesty, and in always striving to doing more ."
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Trading Rebates Skew Markets, NYSE and Allies Tell SECDave Michaels
The New York Stock Exchange and a group of money managers are lobbying U.S. securities regulators to abolish the practice of paying rebates to large brokers to attract trades to stock exchanges and other trading platforms, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Jeff Sprecher, chief executive officer of NYSE owner IntercontinentalExchange Group Inc. and vocal critic of the rebate system known as "maker-taker," was among a group of about 15 industry executives who met with members of the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month, said the people, who asked not to be named because the meetings were private. The group asked commissioners to conduct a pilot program to test whether stocks would trade differently without the incentives.
Other firms that attended the series of meetings with SEC commissioners on Feb. 6 included T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Royal Bank of Canada and IEX Group Inc., which operates a trading venue owned by institutional investors, the people said.
Any change to the maker-taker system could affect the profits and business models of stock exchanges, their competitors known as dark pools, and automated trading firms that reap the benefits of rebates, such as Citadel LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Virtu Financial LLC.
It could also reduce the number of exchanges and other venues in the $22 trillion American equity market. The three biggest market operators -- ICE, Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. and Bats Global Markets Inc. -- collectively run 10 stock exchanges that handle about 60 percent of stock trading volume.
Shrinking Venues
In remarks at a conference in Florida last week, Sprecher said that without maker-taker, NYSE might only need one stock exchange instead of three and predicted his rivals would also consolidate their venues.
"Mr. Sprecher is interested, just as we are, in challenging the maker-taker program," said Andy Brooks, head of U.S. equities trading at T. Rowe Price, who declined to discuss the meetings. "There is a groundswell of people here saying maybe we have gone too far, maybe our aggressive pursuit of innovation and complexity has pushed us a little too far."
The lobbying effort comes as SEC Chairman Mary Jo White is under growing pressure from lawmakers and business groups to revisit the rules that govern trading on modern stock markets. A House Financial Services subcommittee could discuss the issue during a hearing on equity-market rules next week.
White has said the agency is in the process of rethinking its assumptions about the way markets work, including the disparate rules that apply to exchanges and dark pools, which largely perform the same function.
The maker-taker system was pioneered in the late 1990s by electronic networks hoping to lure traders away from established exchanges by offering rebates. U.S. exchanges eventually adopted it in order to compete with the upstarts, who were drawing off trading volume.
Makers v. Takers
The maker-taker pricing standard is now the predominant way exchanges attract orders from brokers who have other options. Traders who stand ready to buy or sell shares as needed -- known as "market makers" -- are paid rebates by the exchange, while those on the other side of the transaction -- the "takers" -- pay a fee. Exchanges profit off the difference between those fees.
Proponents of the maker-taker system say it has lowered costs for investors and eased buying and selling of shares. Any move to prohibit it could attract opposition from brokers that operate competing venues including dark pools as well as institutional investors who worry trading costs will rise, said Larry Tabb, CEO of market-research firm Tabb Group LLC.
Critics of maker-taker say it creates a conflict of interest for brokers because it encourages them to send orders to maximize rebates instead of serving clients, Richard Steiner, RBC Capital Markets' equities liaison for regulatory affairs, wrote in a comment letter to the SEC in November.
Dark Pools
Tabb said that eliminating maker-taker could benefit NYSE, the Nasdaq Stock Exchange and others because they are currently losing trading volume to alternative venues such as dark pools, which charge lower transaction fees.
"Basically all the dark pools that don't have a tremendous amount of liquidity probably will go away," Tabb said in a telephone interview.
Brad Katsuyama, CEO of IEX, declined to comment on the meetings, as did ICE spokeswoman Kelly Loeffler, RBC spokeswoman Kait Conetta, and SEC spokesman John Nester.
Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News, also owns Bloomberg Tradebook, which operates an alternative trading system registered with the SEC. Mark Murphy, a spokesman for Bloomberg LP, declined to comment on the maker-taker system.
Pricing Incentives
One of the SEC commissioners who met with the Sprecher group, Kara M. Stein, recently called for considering proposals to alter the current system of pricing incentives. In a speech in New York earlier this month, Stein asked whether the rebates "incentivize or penalize" investors.
"I have been increasingly hearing from investors, traders, exchanges, and off-exchange trading venues that we, as a commission, need to be boldly rethinking how our markets operate and how we oversee them," Stein said in an e-mail. "I have heard a number of proposals intended to help our markets remain the most robust and fair in the world, and I will do what I can to make sure that the commission fulfills its duty to consider and, if appropriate, implement them."
In addition to Stein, SEC commissioners Luis A. Aguilar, Daniel M. Gallagher and Michael Piwowar met with the group, according to the people.
Exchange Critic
Sprecher, 58, has emerged since ICE's purchase of NYSE Euronext as a critic of the current system for trading stocks, a landscape dominated by automated traders who supplanted human market-makers after a decade of technology advances and changes in laws. In a speech before the purchase closed in November, Sprecher said U.S. equity markets are flawed because sophisticated traders are taking advantage of small investors.
ICE's call to abandon maker-taker could face opposition from other exchanges, including Bats, the broker-owned operator of four exchanges that is challenging NYSE for the most market share. In an interview, Bats President William O'Brien said maker-taker is "regulated pretty well today" and doesn't "create any truly irrational outcomes in the marketplace." Bats spokesman Randy Williams declined to comment on ICE's meetings.
"Everybody's got a whole different set of vested interests here are really hard to untangle," Tabb said. "I'm not sure that anything happens quickly on the SEC side."
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Former Eunice Louisiana Lawyer Was Among Men Charged By Feds In Synthetic Weed Case 9 Charged By Fed
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9 charged by feds in Synthetic weed case including a past attorney
Former Eunice, Louisiana lawyer Daniel Stanford and eight additional men have been indicted on federal charges in an alleged synthetic weed producing and distribution network that brought in a huge number of dollars.
Tuesday the indictment was unsealed
Charged are Daniel Paul Francis, 42, Dawsonville, Ga; Joshua Espinoza, 49, Marietta, Ga; Boyd Anthony Barrow, 43, Canton, Ga; Thomas William Malone Jr., 45, Roswell, Ga.; Drew T. Green, 38, Roswell, Ga.; Alexander Derrick Reece, 40, Gainesville, Fla.;Richard Joseph Buswell, 44, Lafayette; Barry L. Domingue, 52, Carencro (and also a lawyer in Lafayette); and lastly Daniel James Stanford, 54, of Lafayette and formerly of Eunice.
Buswell's company, Curious Goods, is as well charged in the 27 pages of the indictment.
The firm had five locations and offered approximately $5 million worth of "Mr. Miyagi from March 1 to Dec 31,2011 alleging that the product sold as "potpourri was in truth laced with synthetic cannabinoids.
Cannabinoids give a marijuana-like high and are a prohibited substance.
The suppliers of the synthetic cannabinoids were Reece, Green, Malone, Barrow and Espinoza, according to the indictment
The document indicates Francis is the president and Stanford is the director of Retail Compliance association, a Louisiana company that Stanford and Francis used to instruct, advise and educate the employees and owners of Curious Goods on how to put up for sale display and market the "Mr. Miyagi" products as well as the physiological effects of the "Mr. Miyagi" products.
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Stanford and Francis are accused of holding a meeting on Dec. 7, 2011 at Buswell's residence where Domingue, Barrow, Espinoza, Buswell and other people implicated with Curious Goods were at hand for a training session.
The indictment says that a day following the meeting, Stanford was compensated by an unindicted co-conspirator a figure of $80,000.
The indictment further alleges Stanford received checks totaling $156,921 from Pinnacle Products, which is controlled by Espinoza and Barrow, and Curious Goods.
Meanwhile, the indictment indicates, Domingue received checks totaling $91,319 from the 2 businesses.
"Mr. Miyagi was offered exclusively through Curious Goods and manufactured by Pinnacle Products, says the indictment.
Stanford explained to The Advocate Tuesday that he is representing himself in the indictment, stating he's done nothing wrong.
The indictment as well says the federal government will pursue forfeitures of $20 million in proceeds resulting from the drug trafficking violations, $462,239 seized from 3 checking accounts, a 2006 Mercedes Benz X65 Sedan, a 2005 Baja Outlaw Speed Boat, a 2002 Pontiac Firebird and land in Lafayette Parish.
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Here is why Radhika Apte needed no prepping for 'Choker Bali'
Young actress Radhika Apte who received immense critical acclaim and accolades for her performance in two of her recent releases in the first half of the year; Badlapur and Hunterrr will now be seen in Anurag Basu's teleseries, Stories by Rabindranath Tagore.
Radhika will be seen playing the role of Binodini, which was played by Aishwarya Rai in Rituparno Ghosh's film. The 2003 movie was based on the eponymous novel by Rabindranath Tagore. The story revolves around the life of a widow and the stigma attached to it.
The actress is part of one of the stories of the series - Chokher Bali. Her role which is one of the most important characters in the story was a very challenging one. Despite that there was absolutely no preparation involved to portray the character.
"She attempts to destroy the life of the person she thinks is responsible (for her state). Despite her negative intentions, she comes across as very intelligent, wise and noble person and cannot be hated for her vulnerability."
Radhika is excited to work with Basu, who has helmed popular films like Barfi!" and Life in a... Metro.
Anurag Basu wanted Radhika to be spontaneous and not come prepared. He feels that she is a powerful performer and it would be just appropriate to capture her raw. That's why the actress did not even read the entire story before shoot. Anurag Basu gave her scenes on the day of the shoot and they shot it quickly. He is very happy with the way it has turned out and Radhika has got very positive response from all those who have seen it.
Radhika shares, "Yes, this was one of those characters where I chose not to do much preparation. In fact I even asked Anurag if I should read the story before we shoot but he was keen that I come on set without any baggage and just take every scene as it comes. I guess it has worked brilliantly for us. I am very happy with the feedback."
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Merrill's Money Men
• Merrill Lynch's top 10 earners in 2008—a list that Andrew Cuomo will be interested to take a look at—is out. Each made more than $10 million in cash and stock in 2008 as the bank racked up losses of $27.6 billion. [WSJ]
• The private sector lost nearly 700,000 jobs in February. [CNN]
• A UBS exec will address the Swiss bank scandal on Capitol Hill today. [NYT]
• Ben Bernanke yesterday: "If there is a single episode in this entire 18 months that has made me more angry, I can't think of one other than AIG." [BN]
• Bill Ackman's hedge fund dropped in February, Ken Griffin gained. [BN, NYP]
• More than 8.3 million mortgages are underwater, according to a report. [BN]
• Bernie Madoff has agreed to give up rights to his investment firm and company art collection. A hearing scheduled for today to look into conflicts of interest on the part of his lawyer, Ira Sorkin, has been postponed. [AP]


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Umpiring: The Raw End of the DealMarch 16, 2009
In a cricket field, a job that requires more patience, concentration, and hard work is that of the umpires and still, they don't get full house compliments. Why? Because in any case, either of the two parties will always be unhappy.
There is so much at stake: Be impartial, keep your temper in check, and most of all, see to it that the errors are almost minimal. But does it always happen? Are umpires always successful in doing what they do or do we as fans give them the benefit of the doubt if they fail?
"I hate the guts of the umpire who ruled Sachin out yesterday. Sachin was playing so beautifully. That umpire is biased towards the other team. He should be sacked. Who gave him the right to become an umpire?"
This is a normal scene among Indian fans when Sachin, who invariably ends up being the prize target of wrong umpiring.
But it's not only about Sachin Tendulkar. It's about every team and every player who might have gone through this. Each and every fan from that country would have wanted to go and massacre the poor man.
As fans we won't get revenge until we spill an outburst like this. But hey, wait a minute, what about the guy who made us feel so spiteful in the first place. What about his emotions?
Would he be gloating after the match like a sadist thinking, "I made this team lose, I am the best" or will his mind be filled with guilt that "Oh how could I do this. It was so unjustified. After days and years of practice as an umpire how could I fail to spot this. Am I worth being an umpire?"
We will never know. We care only about our favourites and their potential records "If such a thing wouldn't have happened" but we never care about the men who are responsible for some order and discipline out there.
Turning judgemental, we start deciding for ourselves. For example; Steve Bucknor is an umpire every patriotic Indian fan will love to pounce on thanks to the Sydney test. At the same time every Indian cricket fan will embrace Billy Bowden as a Godly soul.
Such is the reputation of these two.
Every country, every fan has preferences. David Shepherd was a respected figure all across while the name of Darrell Hair enough to raise the hair on every Pakistani cricket fan's body.
Third umpires, referrals and any technology that can be developed is being used to ease their problem, though somehow it ends up increasing and doubling it; after so much of R and D, there is a threat to their position altogether to say the least.
And given the rate at which cricket is evolving, it won't be unusual if the future generations watch the game minus the two formal, hat wearing humans standing on the field.
So its better if we just cut them a bit of slack, understand and get used to the fact that at the end of the day, they are just normal human beings like us who can make mistakes here and there.
They are not doing it out of any personal vindictiveness and on any given day: All's fair in love, game and war, isn't it?


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Jumps the gun. Numbers aren't in yet.
The insurance risk corridors aren't going broke like Republicans predicted.
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I think adding a default namespace only adds confusion. "So why do I leave this components namespace blank and set another?" I would drop the idea for default namespaces On Mar 16, 2012 6:37 PM, "Left Right" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > No-no-no :) > Framework code is an extension, an add-on. There is absolutely no reason it > should get into "default" namespace. There is enough frustration as it is > about all sorts of non-built-in AS3 code that Adobe tossed into Flash CS, > and made the use mandatory. Please don't add even more to it. All these > http.../mx, http.../halo etc namespaces are no default. A lot of people > using Flex (compiler) don't need them and don't want them. > > Too little profit for too many changes. If you want to make really good > template language - forget about XML at all, it's not meant to be a good > template language, it has never been designed to be it. The benefits of > having XML as a template language are that other tools support it already > and that it is familiar to the users. If you lose the first benefit and you > confuse your users, you are left with nothing. > > After all, I seriously think that what namespace there should be is > irrelevant, the actual task is to make it so it is most flexible. Flexible, > in my understanding is "possible to substitute or remove". I.e. if I wanted > to put List class into default namespace, while not using Flex framework, I > wouldn't have to deal with any naming collisions. This is, by the way, > quite realistic requirement, because, for reasons beyond my comprehension, > in Flex framework, List names a graphical component, while any programmer > with some experience would expect List to be a data structure. > Well, it's like Java classes are in java.lang.* package, Lisp default > functions are in common-lisp-user package, .NET core classes are in > Windows.* namespace etc. Default namespace is for the programmers, not the > language (and they shouldn't really use it too, unless maybe for > experiments). > > After all, you really look at it from a perspective of someone who only > used MXML for one particular thing and that's why the solution you are > trying to offer might look logical to you, but it absolutely doesn't fit in > other use cases. As I mentioned above: UIComponent isn't a requirement for > MXML, so, if, as you suggested before, these namespaces were defined in > UIComponent, other legitimate uses would suffer from it because they would > have to bring in UIComponent class, and you really don't want to feed > that monstrously obese piece of code to the compiler, once your entire > project may be 10000 (ten thousands!) times smaller than that thing. > Now, is there a particular class, which is a requirement for MXML? - no, > there isn't any. So, you don't have a place to store these namespaces, even > if it was somehow technically possible. > > Using some other template language to generate AS3? - yup, that's > interesting :) I was once thinking about some very simple language for > describing resource files. My first idea was CSS, but then I realized it is > overly complex (has redundant parts), then I looked at Protobuf - cool, but > it would be difficult to add Flash-specific things and it already requires > things impossible in Flash (64-bit integers). I was thinking about > something like JSON, but it's overly verbose and doesn't allow references. > I finally stopped at symbolic expressions, but got some other things to do > :) Though I think that it could actually work. > > Best. > > Oleg >
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Hilary Duff celebrated the upcoming arrival of her first child with a star-studded baby shower on Super Bowl Sunday.
The 24 year old's actress sister Haylie Duff and her mum Susan hosted the low-key party for the Lizzie McGuire star and her ice hockey ace husband Mike Comrie at the couple's Los Angeles home.
Hilary was feted by a number of family members and friends, including 7th Heaven actress Beverley Mitchell, The Artist star Beau Nelson and model Lauren Anderson.
Among the gifts the mum-to-be received was a personalised bib from her sister, which read, "My aunt is hot and single!"
Taking to her Twitter.com account to thank her guests for their love and support following the festivities, she wrote, "What an amazing day! This baby is spoiled already! And this mama is wiped out! So grateful for all my friends and family that love and support me through all these huge milestones in my life! Such special memories today!"
Duff is due to give birth to a baby boy in the coming weeks.


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Three arrested in County Tyrone illegal fuel raid
Three men have been arrested and a number of vehicles seized by HM Customs as part of an investigation into fuel fraud.
Customs and police officers raided a business premises in County Tyrone on Wednesday night.
A spokeswoman said six commercial and one private vehicle were seized, along with nearly 3,000 litres of suspected illegal fuel.
They said the raid happened in the north east of the county.
The three men, who are all from County Tyrone, have been released on bail.


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NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – Bethel College's Administration Building is not only the symbol of the college for generations of alumni. It is also a tangible piece of history and the centerpiece of this year's Fall Festival at the college.
Bethel, chartered in 1887, will mark its 125th year in 2012, but the celebration begins already this year when the Ad Building turns 120. Students will compete with each other and the clock on Friday afternoon, Oct. 3, to build replicas of the Ad Building out of recycled materials. A display of Ad Building memorabilia, a story-telling project and a birthday party are on the Fall Festival schedule for Saturday, Oct. 4, on campus.
So, too, is a multi-media presentation put together by emeritus professors Bob Regier (art) and Keith Sprunger (history), to be given twice during Fall Festival weekend (Oct. 4 and 5) as well as for convocation Friday, Sept. 26, all in Krehbiel Auditorium and all free and open to the public.
Sprunger remembers his first glimpse of the Ad Building in 1963, when he drove to Kansas with his family to begin his nearly 40-year teaching career at Bethel College. "Even from a great distance, [the Ad Building loomed] over the Kansas landscape," he says, "a castle on the prairies." Seeing the building was "a dramatic experience," he recalls.
When the Bethel College board of directors laid the cornerstone for the Administration Building on Oct. 12, 1888, they stepped squarely into history. Church-related liberal arts colleges were rising by the hundreds across the Great Plains as part of the movement to "civilize and educate the American prairies." Southwestern College at Winfield, Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina and Bethany College at Lindsborg were all chartered in 1886, Sterling College in 1887 and McPherson College in 1888. In those days, it was common to build one large, main college building, frequently referred to (even today) as "Old Main."
More than that, however, Bethel was the first Mennonite college in the Western Hemisphere. Its founders, well aware of the precedent they were setting, were determined that the college's main building would be an outstanding structure. Varney Brothers Architects of Newton drew up the first set of plans, which would have produced a four-story building with a 60-foot bell tower. The board later changed to a firm of unknown but promising architects from Wichita, Willis T. Proudfoot and George Washington Bird.
Proudfoot and Bird revised and scaled back the original plans, shortening the building to three stories and cutting the second entrance and the bell tower. The resulting design fit better with Mennonite modesty and frugality – and, said at least one writer, made the building less of a target for tornados.
Despite these adjustments, the building is considered a fine example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, named for American architect H.H. Richardson and known for castle-like designs including heavy stone walls and huge rounded arches. A number of Kansas courthouses, including Marion County's, were built in this style. Examples of Proudfoot and Bird buildings can be found all over Wichita, including Davis Hall at Friends University, the old City Hall (now a historical museum) and McCormick Elementary School.
Although the Ad Building cornerstone was laid in 1888, lack of funds stopped construction when the building was only about half done. The board was determined not to go into debt to build, and in the early 1890s, town and state were in a financial depression. Bethel College's detractors called the half-finished structure "a monument to Mennonite stupidity."
But it was finished at last in 1893. By that time, Proudfoot and Bird had moved west to Utah and Elbert Dumont, another Wichita architect, oversaw completion of the Ad Building. The final cost: $37,000.
The "pure white" limestone building could "be seen for miles," according to Newton newspaper accounts. "In arrangement, it is perfect." A new professor, arriving in Newton for the first time in 1893, was pleasantly surprised to see the fine building. "This proves to me that the Mennonites are not sleeping, but have a grand history before them," he wrote.
Two wooden buildings were hauled in from a Mennonite seminary, closed by then, in Halstead, for a women's dormitory and a dining hall. The Ad Building served all the other functions – it contained classrooms, library, chapel, music room, men's dormitory, and apartments for the president, music teacher and janitor and their families. It was the site of weddings, funerals and even a few births.
Changes over the years have included a flagpole, originally erected in 1893 and moved to its present location just to the west of the front entrance in 1934; fire escapes, 1910; and attic rooms completed, with a dormer added, originally to house the departments of art and dramatics (now the Alumni Relations office and a teacher education classroom), 1935. In the early 1960s, the city street that ran right up to the steps of the Ad Building was closed just north of Bethel College Mennonite Church, and the college Green began to take shape in front of the Ad Building. A new roof of flat concrete shingles went on in 1992, at a cost of $78,926.
Almost since the beginning, the Ad Building has attracted the eye of artists and photographers. Its image shows up on everything from T-shirts to china cups. It has appeared as a wheat parquetry portrait, a molded metal coin bank and a wooden birdhouse.
Across the Midwest and the Great Plains, half the colleges so optimistically chartered in the late 1800s have closed their doors. Of those that remain, only a handful of "Old Main" buildings still stand.
"Our Bethel College founding fathers and mothers stretched and sacrificed to erect a [worthy] building," Sprunger says. "It embodied all the hopes and ideals of Mennonite higher education. Our 'castle of learning' [is] where, for 120 years, Bethel students and professors have collected, created, preserved and interpreted knowledge on a Christian foundation."
"A Castle on the Prairie: Bethel College's 'Old Main' in Word and Image" will be presented at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 26, at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, and at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5. For more information and a complete Fall Festival schedule, see www.bethelks.edu/fallfest, or call 316-284-5251.
Bethel College is a four-year liberal arts college affiliated with Mennonite Church USA. Founded in 1887, it is the oldest Mennonite college in North America. Bethel is known for its academic excellence and was the only Kansas private college to be ranked in Forbes.com's listing of "America's Best Colleges" for 2008. For more information, see the Bethel Web site at www.bethelks.edu.


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Sagittarius is the ninth astrological sign on Zodiac and is known as Dhanus in Hindu Astrology. Its ruling planet is Jupiter and is considered as a masculine", positive (extrovert) sign. Its sign is fire and is considered as the ninth astrological house. The sun enters Sagittarius, according to tropical zodiac, on November 22 and exits on December 21 and according to Hindu astrology, it is from December 17 to January 20. Sagittarius is better compatible with Aries and Leo.
Talking about Sagittarius, thing that comes to mind is positive outlook, full of energy, adventurousness and a love of traveling and exploration. These people are optimistic and stand for honesty, integrity, independence and justice. Whether it is gambling or general life, these people are known for Luck. They generally need a lot of space and freedom. They are better lover. At work, they like to explorer new projects.
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A few days ago, I posted about how Jody Heath earned over $15K in a month with MOBE and got a free car from the MOBE Motors programs. I blog about other MOBE affiliates to show that this business can be done by anyone. However, I also get requests to show my own results.
Those who follow me on Facebook know that Matt Loyd, the founder of MOBE, will posts on my wall whenever I get some big ticket sales.
Have you ever wondered how much all those sales add up to over a month? Well, wonder no more! Instead of posting a screenshot of my MOBE earnings, and having people say it was photoshopped, I decided to do a screencast video showing me logging into my MOBE back office in real time. This is how much I made with MOBE in April.
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- Hillary Clinton would be the first former secretary of state to become president since 1857
- The position seems to have fallen out of favor as part of a would-be president's resume
Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton set a major historical milestone this election cycle.
She is, of course, the first female nominee of a major political party, and could become the nation's first female president.
But that's not where her trailblazing ends.
If Hillary Clinton wins in November, she will also be the first former secretary of state to take over the Oval Office since 1857. She would end a drought that would have been unimaginable in the early days of the American republic, when the position was considered a natural steppingstone to the presidency.
Of the first eight US presidents, five -- Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren -- went from the State Department to the White House. Another, James Buchanan, followed in 1857.
But since then, the position has fallen out of favor as a part of the resume for would-be presidents. Governors, vice presidents, legislators and even former military officers began to crowd America's election field.
The reasons for this are varied, but many will sound familiar to those following the current election.
The office comes with baggage
For one thing, secretaries of state are closely tied to the foreign policy record of the administrations they serve, for better or worse.
"Any Cabinet officer or vice president simply has to defend the outgoing administration," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
"You can't have it both ways," he added. "You can't say, 'Well, boy, isn't it terrific that I served in this high office under the president?' and then turn around and say, 'Of course, all those mistakes he made, I had nothing to do with them.' "
Clinton, who is banking on the support of President Barack Obama's base, has embraced their connection and welcomed his endorsement with open arms.
But many of the same global crises that have nagged the Obama White House over the past eight years are being used as ammunition by Clinton's opponents.
Her push for greater intervention in Libya in 2011, the US "reset" in relations with Russia and the administration's inability to secure a transition of power in Syria have all been thrown at her in debates and attack ads.
And then there's her personal record heading the State Department. Two of the major attack lines employed by Republicans stem from that position: her use of a private email server for official Foggy Bottom business and her role in the deadly attacks on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya, under her watch.
Undeniable benefits
But the top diplomatic post also has its benefits, such as imparting undeniable foreign policy expertise, a high profile on the world stage and the experience of managing a behemoth bureaucracy.
"It is true people put the economy first when picking a president," said CNN Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley of Rice University. "But they also ask who would be a good foreign policy president, and if you have credentials like secretary of state, it has the ability to be a big perk."
"The four-year service as secretary of state is a big plus for Clinton," Sabato agreed. "It burnished the resume of a senator and first lady, because people want to know that you can handle international affairs."
Then-Sen. Barack Obama himself had to campaign without such a credential, Sabato noted.
"That's part of the job, and Obama had trouble overcoming that," he said, referring to the President's 2008 White House run, during which he visited several foreign countries in an effort to demonstrate his foreign policy knowledge to US voters.
A resume is not destiny
The last secretary of state to become president was Buchanan. His resume was rounded out by having been a lawyer, a congressman and an influential senator, but his single term in office is widely seen as one of the worst in US history.
Asked why there hasn't been a secretary of state elected president in 160 years, Sabato quipped, "Buchanan may be one of the reasons why."
Despite Buchanan's vast experience, Sabato said, "He didn't have the vision to help us avoid the Civil War, or the strength of character to do it."
The last former secretary of state to even be nominated by his political party was James Blaine, who served under James Garfield until shortly after the latter was assassinated. After losing his bid in 1884, Blaine served as secretary of state a second time under Benjamin Harrison, then made a final unsuccessful bid for the White House in 1892.
Several former secretaries have run since -- most recently Alexander Haig in 1988 -- but none has made it as far as Blaine in the nominating process. Haig withdrew from the Republican primary field after performing poorly early in the primary process.
Other credentials can count for more
In the last 100 years, Americans have elected seven former governors, six former vice presidents, eight former members of Congress, one Army general and one Cabinet secretary -- Herbert Hoover, who had previously served as commerce secretary.
In the last 30 years, voters have particularly favored former governors, including Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Obama was a senator before moving down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House.
"In the beginning of the American republic, when most of the secretaries of state served, the future existence of the country depended on diplomacy," explained Sabato, "and so we put, at that time, special emphasis on being secretary of state, on having that diplomatic streak."
"Now, while foreign affairs is very important, there are loads of ways to project strength and diplomacy," he continued. "You can get it now in the Senate because most senators travel widely. Governors travel widely. Vice presidents travel widely. It's a different world. It's not just the secretary of state anymore."
But Brinkley suggested the recent trend also has to do with the kinds of people who are selected to fill Cabinet posts in the modern era.
"Sometimes people become secretary of state that are policy wonks but don't know how to communicate large foreign policy initiatives to the public," he said. "A George Shultz or a Dean Acheson or a George Marshall never wanted to get dirty and politic."
If American voters gravitated toward foreign policy wonks, said Brinkley, "Everyone running for president would have Ph.D.s from Harvard in international affairs."
"That's not the kind of person Hillary Clinton is," he added. "She came out of the political structure."
A new ballgame in 2016
Polling in recent elections suggests voters don't pick candidates based on their foreign policy positions. They are far more likely to list the economy as their driving issue when they head into the voting booth.
For example, a February Gallup Poll asked Americans which was the most important problem facing the United States. A combined 39% listed an economic issue as most important, compared to 7% for terrorism, 7% for national security and just 2% for foreign policy/foreign aid/focus overseas.
But according to Daniel Drezner, professor at Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, conventional wisdom may not apply to the current election cycle, in part because Clinton's opponent holds foreign policy views that diverge from the norm within either party.
"You could argue that for most of modern presidential history, the gap between the major party candidates on foreign policy was never so great that it would necessarily be a pivotal factor in choosing a presidential candidate," Drezner said. "Trump is so far out there on a variety of dimensions that it's possible that voters will vote based on that."


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Editorial: Heed court's order on nuke waste delay tactics
Thu., Aug. 15, 2013
A U.S Appeals Court poked a giant hole in the Obama administration's strategy to placate Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rather than follow the law that set policy regarding the storage of dangerous nuclear waste. Now, the feds need to drop their leaky strategy of delay and work on a long-term solution.
Federal law gave the Nuclear Regulatory Commission three years to consider a license to store radioactive waste beneath Yucca Mountain. On Tuesday, the U.S. District Court of Appeals ruled that time's up on an application submitted by the Bush administration in 2008. The court determined the commission had no intention of following the law. Since the deadline passed two years ago, that conclusion looks obvious.
This ruling is a big victory for the state of Washington, which was a lead plaintiff. Other states that are temporarily storing waste, such as Idaho and South Carolina, also have a lot riding on this ruling.
The feds were supposed to open a permanent repository by 1998. Yucca Mountain in Nevada was the choice. But the state's political delegation, led by Reid, has fought an effective delaying action. Not only is Reid in a powerful position as the leader of the Senate, but Nevada was a swing state in the 2008 election. The Obama administration caved in to Reid by suspending work on Yucca's license. Ever defiant, Reid shrugged off Tuesday's ruling, saying it didn't matter because he would block the funds needed to finish licensing work.
Meanwhile, new leaks have been discovered in the massive holding tanks beneath the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and toxic plumes are inching closer to the nearby Columbia River. This political turf battle is going to look awfully small if the Northwest's largest river is ever contaminated. And Hanford is hardly alone. It's just one of about 80 U.S. sites storing more than 80 tons of high-level nuclear waste.
Under the Tri-Party Agreement of 1989, the feds committed to finding a permanent solution to the waste at Hanford, but progress has been slow and deadlines continually missed. The process of vitrification, turning the waste into glass logs, is only a partial solution, because the logs need to be safely stored for thousands of years.
The feds have already spent $15 billion to prepare the Yucca site, and about $200 million has been raised from Northwest utility customers for the project. The courts are reluctant to tell federal agencies what to do, but the blatant disregard for the law left judges no choice. In unusually harsh language, Judge Arthur Randolph noted that ruling for the NRC would have "significantly altered" the separation of powers in the U.S. Constitution.
The administration has been smacked hard for flouting the law. Further delays will be toxic to its legacy and dangerous for the country.


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Williams leads Nets' win
Red-hot Brooklyn tops Celtics as PG scores 29 and grabs 12 rebounds
Published 11:19 pm, Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Deron Williams had 29 points and 12 assists to lead the Brooklyn Nets to a 101-93 win over the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night.
Brook Lopez scored 21 points and Joe Johnson added 20 for Brooklyn, which won for the 12th time in 18 games overall and beat the Celtics for the third time in four meetings this season.
The Nets moved closer to wrapping up fourth place in the Eastern Conference and clinching home-court advantage in the first round. Brooklyn owns a 31/2-game edge over idle Chicago with four games left to play in the regular season.
Paul Pierce led Boston with 23 points, Jeff Green added 11 and Kevin Garnett had 11 points and eight rebounds.
Heat 103, Wizards 98: Ray Allen scored 23 points, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade chilled at the end of the bench, and Miami's B-squad gave the resting A-team the gift of home-court advantage throughout the playoffs, clinching the best record in the NBA. James rested his right hamstring, Wade nursed a sprained ankle and bruised knee, Chris Bosh was at home with flu-like symptoms, and Udonis Haslem got the night off because of a sore right ankle.
Magic 113, Bucks 103: Nik Vucevic had 30 points and 20 rebounds, Tobias Harris added 30 points and 19 rebounds, and Orlando rallied for an overtime victory. The Magic overcame a five-point deficit in the final minute of regulation.
Pistons 111, Cavaliers 104: Andre Drummond scored a career-high 29 points for Detroit.
Hawks 124, 76ers 101: Josh Smith had 28 points and 12 rebounds and John Jenkins added 21 points to lead Atlanta. Thaddeus Young paced Philadelphia with 28 points.


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Get an overview of this hotelUpscale resort on the beach, with 3 outdoor swimming pools
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With a stay at Omni Cancun Hotel and Villas All Inclusive in Avenida Kukulkan (Hotel Zone), you'll be convenient to Aquaworld and El Rey Ruins.
This 4-star resort is within close proximity of Maya Cancun Museum and Delfines Beach.
Make yourself at home in one of the 346 air-conditioned rooms featuring MP3 docking stations and free minibar items. Rooms have private balconies. Flat-screen televisions with cable programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers.
Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages, body treatments, and facials. You're sure to appreciate the recreational amenities, which include 3 outdoor swimming pools, outdoor tennis courts, and a steam room. Additional features at this resort include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and babysitting/childcare (surcharge). Guests can catch a ride to nearby destinations on the area shuttle (surcharge).
This resort is all inclusive. Rates include meals and beverages at onsite dining establishments. Charges may be applied for dining at some restaurants, special dinners and dishes, some beverages, and other amenities.
Grab a bite at one of the resort's 7 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of 24-hour room service. Relax with a refreshing drink at a beach bar, a poolside bar, or one of 7 bars/lounges. A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served daily from 7 AM to 11 AM.
Featured amenities include a business center, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Event facilities at this resort consist of a conference center and meeting rooms. Free valet parking is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! Opens in a new window.
Omni Cancun Hotel and Villas All Inclusive
Resort Amenities
All-Inclusive Details
This resort is all-inclusive. Onsite food and beverages are included in the room price (some restrictions may apply).
Gratuities and taxes
Gratuities and taxes are included. Additional gratuities at guests' discretion are accepted.
Food and beverages
- All buffet and à la carte meals, snacks, and beverages included
- 24-hour room service
- In-room minibar (all beverages included)
- Dining and beverage availability limited at one or more venues
Activities and facilities/equipment
All non-motorized water sports, land activities, and use of recreational facilities and equipment are included.
Land activities
- Fitness facilities
- Tennis
- Volleyball
- Aerobics
- Cooking
- Dancing
- Pilates
- Water fitness
- Yoga
Kids' club
- Supervised activities for children between 5 and 12 years old
- Onsite entertainment and activities
- Onsite live performances
- Theme parties
Not included
- Motorized water sports
- Scuba-diving certification
- Scuba-diving excursions
- Scuba-diving lessons
- Tennis lessons
- Tennis racquets
- Premium food items
- Premium and/or non-domestic beverages
- Bottled wine
- Bottled liquor
- Minibar
- Airport transfers
- Childcare
- Laundry/dry cleaning services
- Spa/beauty facilities and services
- Activities and services offered by independent operators
- Offsite tours
Resort Amenities
Omni Cancun Hotel and Villas All Inclusive is an all-inclusive resort. Room rates include meals and beverages at onsite restaurants and bars. Other items and amenities, including taxes and gratuities, and access to recreational activities and entertainment may also be included. Additional charges may apply for meals at some restaurants, special dinners and dishes, certain beverages, and other amenities.
Lie back and work on your tan with relaxing beach amenities like cabanas (surcharge) and umbrellas. At Omni Cancun Hotel and Villas All Inclusive you can cool off in one of the 3 outdoor swimming pools and indulge in a pampering afternoon at the full-service spa.
A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Dining is available at one of the resort's 7 restaurants. The property also offers a snack bar/deli and a grocery/convenience store. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include 7 bars/lounges, a beach bar, and a swim-up bar. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. This all-inclusive resort also offers a complimentary children's club, a children's pool, and outdoor tennis courts. Complimentary self parking and valet parking are available on site.
Omni Cancun Hotel and Villas All Inclusive is a smoke-free property.
- Free use of nearby fitness center
- Number of outdoor pools - 3
- Babysitting or childcare
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Children's club
- 24-hour front desk
- Poolside bar
- Business center
- Porter/bellhop
- Free self parking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free valet parking
- Terrace
- Luggage storage
- Hair salon
- ATM/banking
- Concierge services
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Conference center
- Snack bar/deli
- Shopping on site
- Pool umbrellas
- Outdoor tennis courts - 2
- Total number of rooms - 346
- Number of floors - 10
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Tennis on site
- Parking onsite
- Beach bar
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Number of bars/lounges - 7
- Full-service spa
- Beach umbrellas
- Swim-up bar
- Free breakfast
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Beach cabanas (surcharge)
- Grocery/convenience store
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Meeting rooms 9
- Year Built 1988
- Steam room
- Free WiFi
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Children's club (free)
- Smoke-free property
- Breakfast service
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Children's pool
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Spa services on site
- Free parking nearby
- Number of restaurants - 7
- Laundry facilities
- Spa tub
- Wedding services
- Garden
- Multilingual staff
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Free valet parking, Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Room service (24 hours)
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Minibar (stocked, free items)
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Cable TV service
- Balcony
- Free WiFi
- Dial-up Internet access (surcharge)
- In-room massage available
- Daily housekeeping
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Flat-panel TV
- MP3 docking station
- Pillow menu
Where to Eat
A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 11 AM. An additional breakfast (subject to charges) is served daily.
La Vista - Overlooking the garden, this fine-dining restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Reservations are required.
Pina Colada - This beachfront restaurant specializes in seafood and serves breakfast and lunch. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
Da Vinci - This poolside fine-dining restaurant specializes in Mediterranean cuisine and serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Reservations are required. Open select days.
Viva Mexico - This poolside theme restaurant specializes in Mexican cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Open select days.
Sushi Bar - This poolside restaurant specializes in sushi and serves lunch only. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Open select days.
24-hour room service is available.
The Omni Cancun Hotel & Villas All Inclusive offers daily activities, including water aerobics classes, windsurfing, paddle boating, and sailing. Pilates and yoga classes are also available on site.
Guests can also enjoy tennis, basketball, or volleyball on the hotel's two multi-sports courts, both lit for night play, or play trivia and Name that Tune.
Nearby Things to Do
3 outdoor swimming pools are on site along with a children's pool. Other recreational amenities include outdoor tennis courts, a spa tub, a steam room, and a fitness center.
Guests under 16 years old are not allowed in the fitness facility.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Water skiing nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Volleyball on site
- Beach volleyball on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Playground on site
- Beach yoga on site
- Ecotours nearby
- Boat tours nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Basketball on site
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
Spa Services
Omni SPA has 4 treatment rooms including rooms for couples and outdoor treatment areas. Massages are available on the beach and in the spa; other services include hot stone massages, sports massages, and facials. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy. The spa is equipped with a mud bath and a spa tub.
Guests under 16 years old are not allowed in the spa.
- Number of treatment rooms 4
- Outdoor treatment areas
- Couples treatment rooms
- Massages on beach
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body treatments
- Body scrubs
- Facial treatments
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hot stone massage
- Mud bath in spa
- Spa tub in spa
- Minimum age to access spa is 16
- Sports massage
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Resort Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 3 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 45.00 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Christmas Eve gala dinner fee
- Resort fee
Optional extras
- Late check-out fee: USD 910
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 45.00 per night
Resort Name
- Cancun Hotel Omni
- Omni & Villas All Inclusive
- Omni All Inclusive
- Omni Cancun Hotel
- Omni Cancun Hotel & Villas All Inclusive
- Omni Cancun Hotel All Inclusive
- Omni Cancun Hotel And Villas
- Omni Hotel Cancun
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. A fee for a mandatory Christmas Eve gala dinner is included in the total price displayed for stays on 24 December. Up to 2 children 3 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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Married 34 years. Our "boys" are aged 27 and 30. I have had a petition issued. The house is valued at £150K and I owe £81K. The mortgage is in my name but she attached herself to the land registry just days before the completion date and stopped the sale. There is a £3K joint account overdraft that she ran up in a bid to ruin me. My salary is £29,750 and she is in receipt of a council disabled pension which she will not disclose. I am also in receipt of a RAF pension which pays me £214 a month. I wanted to go for a 50/50 split with pension share but she insisted on a 60/40 split in her favour with her having half my pension and not sharing hers. When she received the divorce petition (unreasonable behavior) she kicked off and assaulted me resulting in her being convicted with ABH. She now insists she will not sign the house sale contract and just want me bankrupt.
Hi Clare,
I live at my house, 25 Manor Drive, PE28 5UU, with my son (aged 30) and my wife lives with her parents at 1 Grove Court, St Ives, PE27 5QU under a 12 month restraining order not to contact me.
The petition was issued on Nov 16th and I have no idea what happens next. I can't imagine she would have responded to it as that's the day she assaulted me and things went really downhill. My divorce solicitor has closed the case as I have no more funds. I don't know how the divorce thing works at all.
She was medically retired from her job on a disability pension. She also had other disability related benefits which has stopped claimed in order to make her income seem smaller than it was.
As far as the divorce I have asked my solicitor ( [email protected] ) for clarification but I have no idea if she will be forthcoming.
Unfortunately she is on a restraining order and is not allowed to contact me. She has threatened to kill me if she sees me and my new partner. I seem to have no protection from her madness.
I was hoping I could apply to the court to allow me to sell the property with her percentage (after costs) being protected as there is no way I can afford to keep the house. I can't afford to buy her out (not that I want to) and she can't afford to buy me out. There must be allowances for this type of thing..?


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A bit about us: Formed in July of '09, we're a tight-knit crew of miscreant adults (average age is 30+) who work and play hard.
We're currently 6/6 MV and 2/6 HoF. We previously cleared all content from Wrath, including most HMs and achievements for drakes. We've also cleared all Cata content, with the exception of Ragnaros... it's a long story.
The gist:
We're a 10-man, adult Horde guild on Shadow Council in need of a tank to fill a spot on our Avengers team(prefer a plate tank as we currently have a druid tank filling the other spot), I would also chat with any other classes who really enjoyed what they read about the guild:
Team schedule is as follows:
Team Avengers:
Wednesday: 7-10 server (which is 6pm pacific and 9pm eastern start time)
Thursday: 7-10 server
Team Justice League:
Tuesday: 7-10 server (which is 6pm pacific and 9pm eastern start time)
Thursday: 7-10 server
While we are not a server first guild, we still take our raid time seriously. We expect people to show up on time and prepared. This means flasks, food, and an understanding of the content we have planned for the evening.
Our loot system is relaxed and I'm happy to elaborate to interested parties.
The Fine Print:
What we're looking for is a laid-back person, with a good sense of humour, patience, and a willingness to work towards being the best <insert class here> they can to help the guild/raid succeed.
Our ideal candidate will:
Be over the age of 21 (exceptions may be made for those in the 18 - 20 bracket, but we are not a kid-friendly guild... no minors - seriously), and will act like it. No drama mamas!
Will not be a douchecanoe!
Will be tolerant of other people's opinions and lifestyles (see: no douchecanoes).
Will not be easily offended by foul language, dirty limericks, and/or abysmal puns.
Unless you're a pure dps class we would prefer you have, and maintain, a viable offspec*.
If you have any questions, I can be found online most nights around 8pm eastern, and please feel free to add me to real id, edgewood#1551
Feel free to also /who Redeemed and anyone in guild can get my attention.
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Charming rare pair of antique console tables with great colour and patination. Pairs of consoles are very hard to come by and we are very pleased to have these ones in stock. This pair have the advantage of a drawer in each frieze and the platform below. The carving is crisp and fine, they have crossbanding to the top and the lower surface and they are narrow front to back so as to not encroach on the room.
Italian circa 1815
86cm / 34" high
97cm / 38" wide
51cm / 20" deep
Italian circa 1815
86cm / 34" high
97cm / 38" wide
51cm / 20" deep
|External Height
|34.00 inch
|(86.36 cm)
|External Width
|38.00 inch
|(96.52 cm)
|External Depth
|20.00 inch
|(50.80 cm)
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Published 7:00 pm, Monday, March 29, 2010
March 30, 1940: Tonight's service will mark the close of a week's revival at First Baptist Church. There were 24 additions to the church during the week.
•Two hundred and sixty-five trees have been set out along the highway and around the school grounds at Happy Union by members of the Women's Christian Association and their husbands.
•Miss Dorothy McDonough, a student at Lippert's Business College, has accepted a job with Farm Security in Amarillo. (Dorothy Burkert lives in Aurora, Colo.)
•Mrs. Clayton Terrell of the Bellview Club was awarded first place for her reporter's book at a meeting of the Home Demonstration Council.
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•New Plainview Boy Scout troop masters are Allen Rigler and Bob Johnson.
•Billy Gillespie led the pack in the cross country races engaged in by a group of high school athletes coached by John Daugherty over the past several weeks.
•Jack Harris showed a pen of five black Angus steers, which placed first in their weight class at the Plainview Fat Stock Show.
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•O.D. Dinwiddie, a Hart resident for 31 years, was named Man of the Year for 1959 at a Lions Club dinner.
•Ronnie Dean Boyd, a Texas University student from Plainview, is a new member of Silver Spurs, a men's honorary service organization in the Austin school.
•Mr. and Mrs. Billie Young of Kress returned home Friday night and found their home on fire. It is believed that the hot water heater blew up.
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•Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bishop of Floydada renewed their wedding vows in honor of their 75th wedding anniversary.
•Plainview High School's Kevin Woods broke the 1971 shot put record with a toss of 58 feet, 2 inches at the Bulldog Relays.
•Kim Laird inked a South Plains College basketball scholarship agreement. She is the daughter of Punkin and Jennie Laird of Plainview.
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Photographs by Bill Weaks, Van Redin and Reagan Bradshaw are part of the new décor at City National Bank.Outstanding young scientists who will attend the Science Fair at Texas Tech College in Lubbock are Russell Findley, Lynn Wood, Sally Newman, Melinda Wadzeck, Susan Van Horn, Ronnie Roach, Lewis Dement and Kent Jones. San Francisco dancer Carol Vaughn doesn't think much of tossing coins to entertainers. She said someone chipped one of her teeth with a thrown 50-cent piece while she was doing a back bend. She sued the Associated Home Builders, at whose banquet she was dancing, for $1,500 damages.


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no front in sds-electrophoresis - no front is formed on my gel - why? (Oct/05/2009 )
I've recently prepared the new solutions for my WB, and now, as I've loaded my probes on the gel they did not form the front with the bromophenol blue. Never seen anything alike before. The prestained markers are running the way they should, though it seems to be a lilttle bit too quick. I've checked the pH of all the buffers - it's ok.. but the BB in the probes goes much higher than the electrophoresis front (which is stainless and almost invisible) as separate bands... so, I'm wondering - shoul I do the transfer or abandom the whole thing? And what could be wrong in there?
Thanks for your hints in advance!!
as long as the standards look okay, it would be worth trying the transfer (although, if you have enough sample, you may want to stain the gel instead).
as for the cause(s). i would check the buffers again. the pH may be okay (although checking the pH with sds present may be a problem) but the concentration of the components may be off or something extra may have been added or something may have been omitted.


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I'll try to go through the series chronologically, but there's no guarantee. My muse isn't much one for chronology.
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"I always try to pay close attention to the needs of the show as far as what type of show it is. My style is not to overwhelm the performer or whoever is in front of us."
About This Interview
In his one-hour Archive interview, Dick Stiles (1933-2008) speaks about his early years and his interest in art, as well as his first foray into television at the University of Texas at Houston's station, KUHT. He recalls moving to Los Angeles and working as a CBS page until he was promoted to draftsman on The Red Skelton Show. He speaks about working at CBS' Television City and the introduction of color technology, as well as about the craft of drafting and art direction. He details his work on various other productions, culminating in a 27-year career as the art director of Wheel of Fortune. He also speaks about his contributions in the selection of artists and creation of sculptures in the plaza of the Television Academy's headquarters. Karen Herman conducted the interview at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences headquarters in North Hollywood, CA on June 21, 2003.
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LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) – First responders alerted three people inside an apartment building of a fire overnight that left one occupant with minor burns and a firefighter with cuts to his hands.
Firefighters responded to 6557 Lincoln Place in the Town of Lockport around 1:40 a.m. Tuesday, on a call of heavy smoke coming from the building.
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When financial matters are opaque, there must be a large discount to prices representing clarity to interest people to buy. Unfortunately, with 401(k)s and other defined contribution plans, it is sometimes akin to being limited to the "company store." I've written about these issues before, both here and at RealMoney. Here's a good example of one of them:
|David Merkel
|Pension Consultants: Watch Your 401(k) Expense Levels
I want to point you to an article of John Wasik's of Bloomberg. Having worked in the pension business while an actuary at a mutual life insurer, I had the experience of reviewing the pension services proposals of a number of competitors, and of complementary service providers. Most players were honest, but there were a number of players, while technically not breaking the law, would stretch ethics by finding ways to disguise fees by wending them into the change in unit value of the funds inside a deferred compensation plan. Why embed them in the unit value change? Slice up a fee over hundreds or thousands of participants, and over 365 days a year, and it is remarkable how little people notice it, because most people don't bother to go and look at plan expenses as disclosed in the Form 5500. Even if everything were disclosed in detail there (some charges don't get unbundled), an individual doesn't see that the pro-rata expenses are coming out of his hide. Unless the plan sponsor goes the extra mile to try to minimize costs to participants, there is little that an individual can do.
We had a rule at our firm. We only take fees from one source, and we disclose them. We had a second rule: we only pay commissions once, and they can be disclosed to the ultimate client, or nondisclosed, but not both, but if nondisclosed, the ultimate client must know that.
Oe reason why we did not hire certain investment consultants was the potential for conflict of interest. We eventually hired a consultant to aid us in manager selection that took no fees from the managers, so we could get unbiased advice. There were other consultants that were less than scrupulous in that matter. Without naming names, we terminated our first investment manager consultant because we learned they would not recommend managers to us, unless they were receiving a fee from the manager. That fee would get built into the expenses would into the unit value, or, come out of my firms profit margins, which were for the good of the participating policyholders.
Now that was just my experience, so take that for what it's worth, perhaps I'm just an investment actuary with a axe to grind. If you want a more general view of the problem, you can review this 2005 study of conflicts of interest done by the SEC. Now, as John Wasik notes, "The commission didn't take any enforcement action after the report was issued, nor did it name any of the firms surveyed." The problem is still there, and I'm afraid your only advocate is for you to appeal to your plan sponsor to watch out for the best interests of all participants, which is the duty of trustees under ERISA.
Position: none, but at the mutual life insurer, we had a saying, "We're out to save the world for 25 basis points on assets, plus shipping and handling." Beats a lot of other deals out there…
Now, here is another piece from Bloomberg: Fees on 401(k)s Rock Boomers Facing Flawed Disclosure.
The difficulty here is that fees on small plans are sometimes high, and defined contribution plans don't allow for easy examination of the total fee structures. How much are the investment managers taking? The recordkeeper? The custodian/trustee? The marketer? It is not always clear. What can be worse is the manager selection, which are usually random on average (before fees) in terms of any outperformance versus indexes.
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- Does the venue FOG (not spray) for mosquitoes and bugs? No matter what else you do to make your reception a great experience for your guests, they will not enjoy it if they are being eaten alive by mosquitos. And spraying for them is not enough. Only extensive fogging will wipe out the mosquito population.
- Does the venue provide all BATHROOM SUPPLIES? Some venues make you bring your own toilet paper and paper towels. Some do not even have restrooms. They require portable restrooms.
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LITTLETON — Before it gets too late in the season, Chatfield boys basketball coach Steve Schimpeler is looking for finishers, and not the kind who would work on your coffee tables.
His Chargers were able to escape rival Columbine 60-58 on Wednesday night to take command of the Class 5A Jefferson County League at a crowded gymnasium. It was uplifting afterward, but they will watch film Thursday and discuss such relevant topics as protecting a lead and shot selection late in games.
"It was good and bad," Schimpeler said. "Down the stretch, when we needed to make plays, we made them. I just wish we would have made them a lot sooner."
The Chargers, who are 14-1 overall, 8-0 in Jeffco and ranked No. 8 in The Denver Post's 5A coaches poll, could have stayed in command early. But assorted issues with turnovers and missed free throws kept them from being able to put away the No. 7 Rebels (12-3, 6-1). And the game was a nail-biter during the final seconds.
Chatfield led 47-37 early in the fourth quarter only to have Columbine, which lost post player Jon Snow to a scratched cornea six minutes into the game, come roaring back behind senior Brad Crowther (14 of his team-high 20 points in the fourth quarter). However, with the Chargers shooting only 4-of-8 at the free-throw line, it took two key baskets down low by Alec Wray in the closing moments to provide the difference.
"I do what I can," Wray said.
Schimpeler is hopeful that "when we step on people's throats, we can put the pressure on them."
Michael Hampton led Chatfield with 18 points, 15 coming in the first half. Wray added 12.
Even with Snow — the senior scored his 1,000th point as a Rebel — sidelined, and coach Clay Thielking wasn't sure whether it would keep him idle for any length of time, the Rebels' superior size and girth inside kept it close.
"We just needed to make one more play," Thielking said after Columbine inbounded twice in the last 11.1 seconds and couldn't get a shot off.
The Rebels also had free-throw troubles, making only 11-of-23 attempts.