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Alex's POV
Since it was Valentines Eve "supposedly", Deacon and I were making cookies.
Although, we were eating most of the cookie dough we still had enough dough to make the cookies out of.
Anyways when we were almost done with cutting out the heart shape dough, I felt something hit me from the back.
I turn around and see Deacon with flour on his hands.
"So it's gonna be like that huh?"
Then I grab the flour near me and throw it at him. Which was kind of a downer since it didn't hit him.
"Nice throw Alex", he says back.
Then he starts laughing.
Well two can play this game.
I reach for the frosting that was in the bag that we were going to use to decorate the cookies after they were baked.
Finally it hits Deacon on the face.
"That will shut you up." I yell back.
"Well then, battle begins NOW."
Then everything goes quick. It turned into a full out food war. We throw anything we could find at each other.
I got flour in my hair.
Chocolate syrup on my cheek.
Every part of my body was mostly covered in something.
Just like Deacon, I think I looked the worse. In this situation, I could see that we will have a lot of cleaning up to do.
The kitchen was covered in food.
Before Deacon and I could throw anything else at each other Aiden came in.
Oh shit.
Then Deacon leans over to me and whispers.
"Don't make any sudden movements and don't make a sound."
"He's not a rabid animal coming to eat us Deacon"
I whisper back angrily.
"Well maybe not but just don't provoke him."
Well guess we have a lot of explaining to do.
We stood there standing still.
Usually, Aiden would have started yelling at us but I was so wrong.
He started walking slowly towards me and when he is finally close enough that I could feel him breathing he swipes one of his fingers on my cheek were I had chocolate syrup thrown at me thanks to Deacon.
He licks his finger off and says, "Yum."
Then he walks away. In shock I just stare back at him where he just disappeared to. "What the hell was that?" says Deacon.
Still in shock I turn to him and say, "I have no idea."
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This super strong collection offers more than just basic T-shirts, shorts, and sweats (although those are all cop-worthy). This season, Undefeated dishes up nothing but highlights including a Fair Isle varsity jacket and matching shorts, chunky knits, and an incredibly dope hockey jersey. Whether you want athletic gear for a sporty lifestyle or for laying around digesting enormous holiday meals, you'll definitely need to pick up some of the latest Undefeated gear on its site.


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I am going to Thailand arriving New Yrs Eve for 16 nights with 2 other people. So far we have just booked the first 2 nights in Bangkok then flights to Surat Thani from 2nd Jan-14th, from which we plan to visit Kao Pha Ngan for half moon party and Ko Tao, and also try and do a 4 night trip to Khao Sok & Chieow Laan Lake so we can do some elephant riding/see the jungle and stay on a river raft.
Do we need to book accommodation on the islands for this time of year and is there anywhere that is recommended to stay in particular? Also, do you now if we can book a tour to Khao Sok on arrival in Bangkok or if it better to book before and if there are any recommended companies? We were debating about whether it would be cheaper to book out there but alos if it would be hard to find a trip available a couple of days before.
Thanks for your help!
#1 Nerel3000 has been a member since 19/10/2009. Posts: 6
Your schedule looks like busy time of the year, so maybe you should book in advance even just for a day or two and take it from there. Two weeks ago, I was in Thailand but not in those islands. I was told it's easy to get accomodation and I can just walk in. True, I walked in but most of the hostels and guest houses I like were fully booked. It took me at least an hour walking around with my backpack just to get an accommodation I was not happy about. The following day I moved again to look for a new one.
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yeah, I don't really fancy trekking around with all our stuff maybe it would be best to book. does anyone know if it's easy to book things in bangkok or best to do before leaving?
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I think this is what I'm scared of when we get to Koh Chang in mid January - that the only places with space are in the 4000bht bracket! But a lot of the beach bungalows and budget places, you can't pre-book. I guess it's just a chance we are going to have to take.
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Registration is now open to become officially certified in The Five Stages of Masculinity.
The certification course will be delivered remotely, but participants will work individually with me via email, telephone and Skype. This is not an online course where participants passively watch videos and take simple quizzes.
The course comprises five modules (one for each of the five stages). Participants will receive descriptive worksheets for each module and engage in exercises about how the five stages manifest generally in society and more specifically in participants' work and lives.
This is the first time that official certification in The Five Stages of Masculinity has been offered, so it is a valuable opportunity to become an early adopter and practitioner of this emerging model, and to become the expert in how The Five Stages of Masculinity is utilized in participants' professional domains.
Certification will be beneficial for:
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Read more information about becoming officially certified in The Five Stages of Masculinity here.
The biggest gender story this month was the Women's March against Trump in Washington and hundreds of other locations around the world. This resulted in various stories about the absence of men in the marches, such as Men are slow to show support for the Women's March. Is it considered unmasculine? Of course, it's great to see such huge numbers of women gather to give voice to their political concerns, but I remain unconvinced that such Stage 3 framing is the best strategy for building progressive futures. I started to write about this last month in my article, Populist Masculinity: What It Is, and How To Beat It. I have unpacked this issue further in a new article, Men, Women, and the Challenge of Individual and Systemic Privilege.
The point of this article is to reiterate the need for an alliance between men and women that speaks of gender in a way that does justice to both, rather than solely within the context of gender equality (although of course, gender equality is still a major problem). In this article, I explore the dynamics of individual and systemic privilege experienced by men and women via the following simple graphic:
The article shows how privilege does not operate as simply as Stage 3 would suggest, opening up new ways for men and women to understand each other's experience, which in turn allows for a re-orientation of identity away from "men" and "women" (or, ideologically, Stage 2 and Stage 3), towards the "haves" and "have-nots."
I have made an audio recording of this article, along with a number of other recent articles which can be accessed on your platform of choice: YouTube or SoundCloud.
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Jallikattu protests are really about Tamil masculinity, not tradition or preservation of bull species
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Futurist Author Describes Reality of Living Among 'Ems' (Computer-Based Brain Emulations)
Why Men Don't Want the Jobs Done Mostly by Women
Chinese media must dispel Asian stereotypes
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If you think Spielberg can't do women, you're missing his point about men
American masculinity is broken: Men explain their Women's March activism
Men, Women, and the Challenge of Individual and Systemic Privilege
The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men
Men are slow to show support for the Women's March. Is it considered unmasculine
Japanese Boy Band Saves the World: Postcolonial Masculinities in Final Fantasy XV
How 'Fight Club' Became the Ultimate Handbook for Men's Rights Activists
Vegan eating: More men are going animal-free
Instead Of Fighting Feminists, What India's Men's Rights Activists Should Be Doing
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The U.S. and its partners on the International Space Station have pledged to cooperate on future manned missions, but a joint report released Thursday highlights continuing disagreements about where such explorers should go: the moon or an asteroid.
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"Let everyone who is Godly pray to you while you may be found" (Psalm 32:6)
"National Day of Reconciliation": a Beginning!
Neither our kings nor our princes,
our priests nor our fathers, have kept Your law...nor did they
turn from their wicked works (Neh 9:33-35).
More than 130 members of Congress, a quarter of the 535 men and women elected to serve in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, participated in a voluntary, members only "solemn assembly" held in the Capitol Rotunda Tuesday evening.
-According to participants the sense of God's presence was "awesome." One participant, whom CHPA esteems to be a Godly statesman and one not given to emotionalism, said, "I could feel God forgiving us as a nation."
-H.C.R. 184, introduced by House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) and championed in the Senate by Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), established the "Day of Reconciliation." The measure set aside congressional business so Senate and House members could privately and voluntarily "gather to humbly seek the blessings of Providence for forgiveness, reconciliation, unity, and charity for all people of the United States..."
-The majestic Rotunda was prepared with padded kneelers to allow members to bow before the Lord. Members of various Christian prayer ministries sanctified the sanctuary beforehand with much prayer. While the members of Congress gathered in the Rotunda, non-members gathered for prayer in other rooms in the Capitol and hundreds of Christians prayed on the veranda outside. Those who visited the Rotunda after the assembly say that the strong Presence of God lingered in a remarkable way.
-This gathering was of special importance to those of us at The Capitol Hill Prayer Alert. It was an historic beginning that paves the way for future solemn assemblies not only in our nation's Capitol, but also in state houses, courthouses and other seats of government across America.
Many questions remain: How will this affect the unbelieving members of Congress who were and weren't present? How will the members of Congress now think and conduct themselves? Will this change the way they vote? What will happen if we continue murdering babies, championing homosexuality, etc.? Our Congressmen must now bring forth fruits of repentance. Yet, this heartfelt repentance by a significant remnant was a wonderful beginning.
Please Join Us in Hope-filled Prayer:
-Father, THANK YOU for the men & women in Congress who fear You and know You as Lord. MULTIPLY their numbers. Let their lives IMPACT their colleagues & our nation. Let FRUIT OF REPENTANCE now come forth (Ps 22:22; 107:2; Mt 3:8ff).
-May Solemn Assemblies PROLIFERATE in Churches, business, schools, homes, state houses & courthouses across America. May Christians truly REPENT & PRAY. Allow another GREAT AWAKENING to sweep across our nation. In Jesus' Name, Amen (2 Chr 7:14; Neh 9:all; Dan 9:3-19; Joel 1:13-14; 2:12-18; Jonah 3:6-10).
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Definition of Ratio
Date: 08/21/2003 at 13:59:03 From: Suzanne Subject: The correct definition of "ratio" I am a copy editor for a public-relations firm that works with clients in high technology. Recently, I lost a battle with other editors on the staff who insisted that a construction such as "eight out of ten" is a ratio. I said I didn't think it met the mathematical criteria for ratio, but since I don't know precisely how "ratio" is defined by mathematicians, I was unable to argue persuasively - and don't know for a fact that my co-editors aren't right, that "eight out of ten" (or 8 out of 10) IS a ratio. Can you help? Thank you.
Date: 08/21/2003 at 17:07:19 From: Doctor Peterson Subject: Re: The correct definition of "ratio" Hi, Suzanne. This is as much an English language question as a math question, and that makes it very confusing. Words like this are not used as consistently as you might expect, even among math teachers or mathematicians. (That's partly because mathematicians today don't tend to pay much attention to ratios, and therefore don't have to define them carefully.) My first impression is that we TEND to think of ratios as comparisons of, say, the number of boys to the number of girls, rather than of a part to a whole, but that the term "ratio" does not necessarily exclude the latter. So it might not be technically wrong to use it that way, but depending on the context there might be clearer ways to phrase what you want to say, so as to avoid suggesting that the comparison is part to part. Then I did a little searching. For word questions, I like to see what a dictionary says, since lexicographers know how to make distinctions between words (though they often don't understand the mathematical distinctions). Merriam- Webster (m-w.com) says ratio 1 a : the indicated quotient of two mathematical expressions b : the relationship in quantity, amount, or size between two or more things : PROPORTION This agrees with my general sense of the word: any quotient can be called a ratio, but in particular it tends to compare two distinct things. But, of course, we make a distinction between ratio and proportion, and they call them synonymous. How do they define the latter? proportion 3 : the relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree : RATIO 4 : SIZE, DIMENSION 5 : a statement of equality between two ratios in which the first of the four terms divided by the second equals the third divided by the fourth (as in 4/2=10/5) Their definition 5 is the one we use technically, in distinction to ratio. But look at their definition 3: when they consider this synonymous with ratio, they specifically include relations of part to whole as well as part to part. That would say that your example IS a ratio. How about math sites? Mathematicians, as I said, don't deal with this much, but math teachers do. Here is one reference I found: Ratio. Fraction. What's the Difference? https://web.archive.org/web/20080915000000/
Date: 08/21/2003 at 17:26:19 From: Suzanne Subject: Thank you (The correct definition of "ratio") Wow, thank you for the incredibly thorough explanation you so quickly provided. I admit to be being math-phobic, but I found your examples illuminating. Thanks again, and I'll quit arguing with my co-workers. Or find something else to argue about, more likely.
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During the first quarter German automaker Volkswagen Ag sold 2.40 million vehicles, up 5.8% compared to the same period last year.
Sales in March increased 7.6% to 929,000 units. The group's brands sold 958,600 units in Europe in the first quarter, up 8.7% from 881,600 sold in 2013 in the same period. In Germany, its home market, the group delivered 282,800 units, up 7.9% and 159,200 vehicles have been sold in the Central and eastern Europe, up 12.0%. Sales inRussiadropped 2.1% to 65,900 units.
In North America the automaker has seen a drop of 4.1% to 197,300 units, from which 133,500 (down 6.5%) sold in theUS. Sales in South America fell 23.1% to 168,600 units, from which 127,700 (down 20.5%) being sold inBrazil.
Asia-Pacific region has brought positive results with 978,700 units sold here, up 13.7%, from which 880,700 (up 14.5%) being sold in China, the automaker's largest market. Sales in India dropped 30.4% to 18,100 vehicles.
Volkswagen Passenger Cars sold 1.48 million vehicles globally, up 3.9%, with positive results in the Asia-Pacific region, with 740,100 units, up 13.3%. The European market also brought an increase of 6.6% to 422,300 vehicles, from which 133,100 units delivered inGermany, up 5.3%.
Audi sold 412,800 units globally, up 11.7%, with impressive results in the Asia-Pacific region, with 150,700 units, up 21.3%. Sales inNorth Americasaw an increase of 3.9% to 42,700 units.
Porsche delivered 38,700 vehicles globally, up 4.5%, with high demand in the Asia-Pacific region, up 13.5% to 13,200 units. Sales in North America were also up 5.3% to 11,100 units as more customers purchased a new model.
Skoda also increased 12.1% units in the first quarter, with a total of 247,200 units sold. Sales in Central and Western Europe were up 18.6% to 63,900 units, while sales in Western Europe (without Germany) increased by 19.1% to 69,600 vehicles.
SEAT sold 93,400 units globally, up 7.3%, with unexpected results in Germany where sales rose 14.8% to 19,000 units and the UK, up 21.0% to 13,900 vehicles. But the highest increase was seen in Central and Eastern Europe, up 85.6% to 5,700 units, from 3,100 last year.
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles delivered 120,900 units, down 2.3%, from which 76,200 units (up 8.5%) have been delivered in the European market. Asia-Pacific region brought an increase of 20.1% to 5,300 units, from 4,400 last year.


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I hate tower hobos more than mob hobos in Dragonspyre.
I hate you, tower hobos
with your freaky smiles
and your weird grins
I think you are vile
I hate you, tower hobos
And your towers too
Clear out the place
It's dusty and has cobwebs too
I hate you, tower hobos
My friends can't port in
And you keep on
annoying me with your freakish grins
I hate you, tower hobos,
just standing there on a floor,
You have no life
Just kick the bucket out the door
I hate you, tower hobos
But I hate the quest-giver even more
the guy that says Go and fight
a million enemies that dementedly roar
I hate you quest-givers
Why don't you help me?
instead of standing there
loitering like a hobo
Tower hobos, quest-givers
you are all the same
Just kick the bucket
give me the loot
Don't give me a hard time
For it's all the same!
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Alex is the son of Alric and Daunell Barton. Alric told Arthas that there was a healing fountain up ahead in Alterac. His siblings are Austen and Alizabeth.[1]


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The Art of Julian Stanczak: Through the Looking-glass
Kelvin Smith Library's exhibition series continues with Julian Stanczak's Through the Looking-glass. The exhibit will open with a reception on Thursday, December 5 from 4-6 p.m. at the KSL Art Gallery.
Through the Looking-glass features a highly original and technically challenging group of Stanczak's prints on metal from the 1970s. With a rigor worthy of a philosopher, Stanczak explores how the mind interprets what it sees. Inspired in part by Stanczak's teacher at Yale, Josef Albers, the prints present austere linear forms, which initially seem simple, but can be interpreted in multiple ways.
The exhibit will be on display through Friday, January 31, 2014, and is free and open to the public with valid photo ID during the library's regular business hours. Two subsequent exhibitions of Stanczak's work will be featured at KSL throughout the year:
• Substance and Illusion — Feb. 4- March 28
• Pushing the Envelope: New Dimensions of Color — April 3-June 6
More About Julian Stanczak
Born in Poland in 1928, Stanczak was imprisoned in a Siberian labor camp during World War II. While there, he permanently lost the use of his right arm before his escape at age 13. Eventually making his way to a Polish refugee camp in Uganda, Stanczak was able to take his first private art lessons and learn to paint and write with his left hand.
Stanczak moved to the United States in 1950 and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) and Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. His meticulously crafted Perceptual Art—layered patterns of color with effects of transparency and light—represents a conscious decision to leave his wartime experiences behind him. His substantial body of work has all been produced in a modest house and studio in Cleveland, where he and his wife Barbara, also an artist, have lived since 1964.
Stanczak's work has been extensively exhibited internationally and is represented in more than 85 museums and 100 public collections. Also a distinguished educator, Stanczak began his 38-year teaching career in 1957 at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the University of Cincinnati. In 1964, he became a professor of painting at CIA, a position he held until retiring in 1995.
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Announces Launch of "One in a Million" Tree Coupon Program Encouraging New Yorkers To Plant Trees in their Front and Backyards While Supporting Local NYC Nurseries
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today proclaimed April 2009 as MillionTreesNYC Month in New York City. Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe presented a proclamation by the Mayor at Keil Brothers Garden Center and Nursery in Bayside Hills, Queens. MillionTreesNYC Month, presented by BNP Paribas, seeks to engage New Yorkers in MillionTreesNYC, a public-private partnership between the City of New York and New York Restoration Project (NYRP) that aims to plant one million new trees throughout the five boroughs by 2017. At the event, Commissioner Benepe was joined by NYRP Executive Director Drew Becher, Queens residents, and students from M.S. 158 and P.S. 31 to announce that 173,229 trees have been planted since MillionTreesNYC was launched in October 2007, far exceeding the initiative's yearly target planting goal. They also invited New Yorkers to get involved and unveiled the One in a Million Tree Coupon Program.
"Spring is a time for growth and renewal, and MillionTreesNYC Month in April 2009 encourages all New Yorkers to get involved in greening our city," said Mayor Bloomberg. "By planting trees in parks, on streets, and in your own front and backyards, you can help create cleaner air and cooler streets, which will improve the health of all New Yorkers. With over 173,000 trees already in the ground, we have far exceeded our yearly target planting goal, and this spring, New Yorkers will help us continue to plant thousands more trees."
Through a mix of public and private plantings, MillionTreesNYC community partners and citizen volunteers are planting in places such as schoolyards, public housing sites, health care facilities, business districts, commercial and residential developments, front yards and other private lands. During MillionTreesNYC Month, all New Yorkers are encouraged to plant trees in their front and backyards. The One in a Million Tree Coupon, generously supported by BNP Paribas, offers $20 off the purchase of a 1-inch caliper or larger tree at 13 select New York City garden centers and nurseries throughout the five boroughs (see below for participating nurseries). Coupons are available online at www.nyc.gov, the MillionTreesNYC official website, or at participating nurseries. All New Yorkers will share in the many benefits that come from planting trees in their yards - more beautiful neighborhoods; cleaner air and water; higher property values; energy savings; cooler summer streets; and a healthier, more environmentally sustainable City.
"Mayor Bloomberg's proclamation of April 2009 as MillionTreesNYC Month is part of the City's long-term commitment to enlarge our urban forest by 20 percent and bring about health, environmental, and economic benefits for all New Yorkers to enjoy," said Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe. "MillionTreesNYC Month, presented by BNP Paribas, celebrates the arrival of spring and the growing season, and encourages New Yorkers to dig in and help the city plant one million trees."
Throughout the month, Parks, NYRP, and MillionTreesNYC partners will host free citywide events for the public, including Earth Day and Arbor Day celebrations, tree education seminars, tree stewardship workshops, tree pruning instructional courses, and Urban Park Ranger tree identification hikes throughout the city. In addition, the sponsor of MillionTreesNYC Month, BNP Paribas, will display the MillionTreesNYC Greenhouse - designed to encourage involvement in local sustainability initiatives and raise funds to support MillionTreesNYC - at Duffy Square in Times Square on April 16, at the Bronx Zoo Earth Fair from April 17 - 19 and in Central Park for an Earth Day Celebration on April 26. Finally, MillionTreesNYC Month partners will launch a new citizen-based Stewardship Corps that provides intensive workshops in urban tree care to empower New York City residents to take care of their neighborhood trees. Stewardship Corps will offer free tree care and maintenance workshops and community organizing training, distribute tree stewardship toolkits, and introduce an online forum for tree stewards to network and share information.
"MillionTreesNYC Month gives us an incredible opportunity to show New Yorkers across all five boroughs what we've accomplished together, and more importantly, how families and community groups can help us plant and water new trees in an effort to reach our million-tree goal," said Drew Becher, Executive Director of New York Restoration Project. "For those New Yorkers without a place to plant, we invite you to sponsor a tree in an under-resourced neighborhood. During MillionTreesNYC Month, our presenting sponsor BNP Paribas is matching donations made to the initiative through the MillionTreesNYC website - giving your support of the program twice the value."
Large-scale volunteer tree-planting events during MillionTreesNYC Month include the planting of 300 trees on Saturday, April 18 through Jet Blue and NYRP's One Thing That's Green Day and the Arbor Day Youth Tree-mendous Challenge on Friday, April 24th that will bring together more than 250 youth from NYRP's RespecTree education program and hundreds of BNP Paribas employees for a day of tree planting on New York City Housing Authority developments in Williamsburg. RespecTree is a pilot program launched during the 2008-2009 academic year that integrates tree education modules into the New York City Department of Education's 5th grade curriculum. Current RespecTREE students will graduate high school in 2017, the year that MillionTreesNYC is projected to reach its million-tree goal. MillionTreesNYC Month will culminate in a volunteer effort in which New Yorkers will plant 20,000 trees in parks citywide on Saturday, April 25 through New York Cares' Hands on New York Day.
"We are delighted to be the sponsor of MillionTreesNYC Month for the second consecutive year," said Everett Schenk, CEO of BNP Paribas, North America. "New York has been our North American headquarters for over 30 years and this is an opportunity for us to give back to the City. BNP Paribas and its employees are grateful for the opportunity to make New York greener."
BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com) is a European leader in global banking and financial services and is one of the 6 strongest banks in the world according to Standard & Poor's. BNP Paribas regards adoption and promotion of good environmental practices as a core responsibility. Their Sustainable Development department was created in 2003 to develop and coordinate the Bank's activities related to social and environmental responsibilities and BNP Paribas has been included in the DOW Jones Index for socially responsible investment - Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) - for the past 6 years. BNP Paribas has been present in New York City for over 30 years through its Corporate and Investment Banking division and has over 2,500 employees in the area. The Bank is committed to giving back to the City of New York and has been involved in various philanthropic initiatives in New York including MillionTreesNYC, AMS Math Tournament, sponsoring of the opening exhibits at the Museum of Art and Design (MAD) and the New Museum, ongoing support of the MoMA and various other NYC charities including the Food Bank for New York. For more information about BNP Paribas' global philanthropic initiatives, please visit: www.forachangingworld.com.
The historic MillionTreesNYC initiative will transform New York City's landscape, expanding the city's urban forest by 20 percent. There are many ways to get involved in MillionTreesNYC:
To learn more about MillionTreesNYC, visit www.nyc.gov or call 311.
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Billy Squier crooned "In The Dark" on Trevor's boom box. Trevor lay on the top bunk, while across the room, Paul pounded a joystick. "Be careful with that thing!" Trevor warned.
Paul said, "It's gonna die soon anyway."
He was right. When the boys opened the gaming console at Christmas, they gazed unbelieving at the box. The machine inside was used, but very real. Nonetheless, one of the joysticks had been broken within a month, its red button jammed down until it wouldn't spring up anymore, and there wasn't any money for repairs. The second stick was held together with duct tape. Both boys knew it wouldn't be with them much longer. Still, they enjoyed it while they could, and Trevor hated to hear Paul abusing the thing. But Paul had always been the nervous one, and Trevor understood that need to expel energy.
For his own part, he reached above his head and turned up the radio. He wanted to get up and pee, but Miss Anna had been clear. Trevor's job was to concentrate his wishes down to the yellow-haired dead man in the bottom bunk, and to not get up for any reason whatsoever until the trouble started. The body had to remember who had killed it, had to remember its own animosity towards its murderer. And it could get that from Trevor, who had watched his stepfather shoot it when it had still been a man. Trevor and Paul had been trapped in their shared bedroom with the blonde corpse for a whole night now, a night when neither of them slept.
"What's that horrible smell?" asked Mom from the doorway.
Paul jumped to his feet, standing so his body blocked the bed. Paul's job was to keep Mom out of the room when she came home from work. "Where'd you come from?" Paul demanded. "Get outta here! And knock first."
Trevor propped himself on one elbow and made a show of looking at their mother. In fact, even that motion was a little difficult right now. Those tendrils of concentration that he had been sending down were also wisps that held him in place and made moving a heavy burden.
"Can't you ask how a lady's night went at work?" Mom said, and then continued without waiting for an answer, "You aren't hiding some other smells, are you?"
"Mom, we're not smoking pot, now let me finish my game! I have to get to the Mothership before time runs out," said Paul.
Mom stood silhouetted in the doorway, leaning on one raised arm. The backlight hid her features, hid the bruises, so that for a moment, her sons saw her as men must have once seen her, a wasp-waisted goddess crying out desire with her very figure. Paul flinched away from the sight, but he stayed between her and the bed.
"I'm just telling you, if that smell isn't gone by the time your Daddy wakes up…"
"Randy's not our father," Trevor snapped. "Not mine and not Paul's."
"Don't you let him hear you say that," Mom warned. Randy was asleep in his kitchen chair, sprawled backwards in front of an unfinished beer.
"Okay, fine, just let me finish my game," Paul insisted.
"I don't know what I'm going to do with you boys," Mom said. "It's absolutely putrid in that room." But she was retreating down the hall now, and Paul stepped forward to close the door behind her. They knew she was too tired to investigate.
"How are things coming down there?" Trevor asked, his voice sounding as heavy now as his body felt. When the subject wasn't their stepfather, he didn't have much energy for speaking.
Paul approached the bottom bunk and rustled the comforter. "Still dead," he reported to Trevor. "I hope he hurries his yellow head up. Mom's right about the smell, and if Randy wakes up and comes in here …"
"Is she? I guess my nose has kind of adjusted. I hardly notice anymore," Trevor told his brother. "Anyway, it will work. Miss Anna said we had to give it a full twelve hours, and we're at eleven and a half right now. And Randy's going to be sleeping awhile yet. I got the pills in his drinks."
Paul nodded, moving away from the bed. Then he picked up his joystick and resumed the task of navigating an alien home to its distant family. "I hope Mom doesn't decide to want the TV back," he said.
"That's a stupid game if she does" said Trevor. "But she can't come in, and right now, you shouldn't go out.
Paul didn't answer.
"In The Dark" faded out, and the DJ put on some girl band, The Bangles or Bananarama. Trevor groaned and reached behind his head to fiddle with the dial without looking.
Out in the living room, the same song Trevor had just turned down came on louder. Mom keeping herself awake long enough to get some breakfast. Or dinner. It was hard to say which meal was what with a third shift job. Mom sang "She's got it" while Trevor fumbled through stations on a slow-to-tune dial.
"I guess she doesn't want the TV anyway," said Paul.
Mom must have been dodging around Randy's sleeping form, because a couple of times, she stopped singing, then apologized, "Oh! So sorry hon, just getting myself a little dinner, then I'm heading off to bed." And Paul pounded a little harder on the joystick.
Then a bump, and Paul threw down the joystick and spun around. Trevor sat up too fast and smacked his head on the ceiling. AC/DC crackled on the boom box, "Back in Black", and Trevor rubbed his skull. The logy feeling let him go as those hundred thousand directed thoughts finally finished their journey through his mind and into the yellow-haired man's body. "Get the blankets off it, Paul," Trevor hissed, as he vaulted down the bunk ladder. The trouble was started.
Paul snatched the cover back, removed the comforter jerkily, then backed against the television. Trevor studied the former man and stood beside his brother.
The corpse's eyes were as yellow as its hair now, and they were glowing. It sat up a little unsteadily, then swiveled its head to look straight at Trevor. "In the kitchen, right?" the dead man rasped.
Trevor nodded, then swallowed hard and spoke. "Asleep at the table. Not Mom. Not even if she gets in the way."
The corpse nodded, rising until it seemed to fill the small room with its rank smell. "Not Mom," it repeated in that same growling voice. "But when she starts screaming, you be ready to grab her and run. It's going to get ugly when I take that bastard back down with me."
Then, the zombie kicked the door down like it was made of cardboard, while Trevor and Paul huddled together against the TV. "One bright chance," Trevor said. "God almighty, one bright chance."
And then the brothers held on to each other, waiting for their mother to scream.
For the IndieInk Writing Challenge this week, Jay Andrew Allen challenged me with "Bananarama. " and I challenged Grace O'Malley with "Deftly, he wove in and out of the cones, letting the wind rush across his body, holding himself coiled for the moment when he could pick up speed."
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Exactly 3000 posts hot damn.
I hope all the guns in A3 aren't casless lul futur omg.
No ace mod, barely any content. :c
are you guys still fapping over the buggy as fuck no content land of arma 3 or do you still play A2
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47 CFR 95.1511 - Frequencies available.
(a) The following table indicates the channel designations of frequencies available for assignment to eligible applicants within the 5850-5925 MHz band for On-Board Units (OBUs): 1
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2 Channel 172 is designated for public safety applications involving safety of life and property.
3 Channel Nos. 174/176 may be combined to create a twenty megahertz channel, designated Channel No. 175. Channels 180/182 may be combined to create a twenty-megahertz channel, designated Channel No. 181.
4 Channel 184 is designated for public safety applications involving safety of life and property.
(b) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, non-reserve DSRCS channels are available on a shared basis only for use in accordance with the Commission's rules. All licensees shall cooperate in the selection and use of channels in order to reduce interference. This includes monitoring for communications in progress and any other measures as may be necessary to minimize interference. Licensees suffering or causing harmful interference within a communications zone are expected to cooperate and resolve this problem by mutually satisfactory arrangements. If the licensees are unable to do so, the Commission may impose restrictions, including specifying the transmitter power, antenna height and direction, additional filtering, or area or hours of operation of the stations concerned. Further, the use of any channel at a given geographical location may be denied when, in the judgment of the Commission, its use at that location is not in the public interest; the use of any channel may be restricted as to specified geographical areas, maximum power, or such other operating conditions, contained in this part or in the station authorization.
(c)Safety/public safety priority. The following access priority governs all DSRCS operations:
(1) Communications involving the safety of life have access priority over all other DSRCS communications;
(2) Subject to a control channel priority system management strategy (see ASTM E2213-03 DSRC Standard at § 184.108.40.206(4)), DSRCS communications involving public safety have access priority over all other DSRC communications not listed in paragraph (c)(1) of this section. On-Board Units (OBUs) operated by state or local governmental entities are presumptively engaged in public safety priority communications.
(d)Non-priority communications. DSRCS communications not listed in paragraph (c) of this section, are non-priority communications. If a dispute arises concerning non-priority DSRCS-OBU communications with Roadside Units (RSUs), the provisions of § 90.377(e) and (f) of this chapter will apply. Disputes concerning non-priority DSRCS-OBU communications not associated with RSUs are governed by paragraph (b) of this section.


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Hi Everyone,
I just found this forum while I was looking for some information on cigar rollers in Cancun. Anyone have any last minute info?
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Posted 24 February 2007 - 03:30 PM
Sorry I don't have any info on that.. I'm also getting married in cancun! when and where is your wedding'??
Posted 24 February 2007 - 06:04 PM
Welcome! You might get more feedback during the week - so sit tight, and some of the girls who used cigar rollers will respond, I am sure!
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Posted 24 February 2007 - 06:10 PM
Good Luck with your planning!
Posted 24 February 2007 - 08:43 PM
I think we have an entire thread on cigar rolling. A lot of people wanted to do it and some people didn't find it necessary.
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Posted 25 February 2007 - 09:19 PM
Awesome that u found the site with a cigar roller search LOL
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How does an airline passenger respond to a near-rendezvous with death in the sky?
For those of us aboard a DC-9 over San Fernando Valley one bright Sunday there was only an incredible calm.
Strange, because death was so near.
Shortly after takeoff from Burbank, the pilot on PSA flight 273 banked sharply to avoid an unidentified Cherokee single-engine airplane, which was converging with the DC-9 at an altitude of 8,000 feet.
Although the jet and the private plane came within seconds of disaster, no one panicked.
Earlier, there had been an announcement that flight 273 was being delayed due to "Sunday flyers" practicing "touch-and-go" landings at Burbank Airport.
Whenever the weather is clear--particularly on weekends--the skies over San Fernando Valley are frequently crowded with private aircraft. It was one of those planes that nearly collided with the jet carrying 76 passengers and a crew of five.


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You can set up from one to six cluster interconnects in a cluster. While a single cluster interconnect reduces the number of adapter ports that is used for the private interconnect, it provides no redundancy and less availability. If a single interconnect fails, moreover, the cluster spends more time performing automatic recovery. Two or more cluster interconnects provide redundancy and scalability, and therefore higher availability, by avoiding a single point of failure.
The Sun Cluster interconnect uses Fast Ethernet, Gigabit-Ethernet, InfiniBand, or the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI, IEEE 1596-1992), enabling high-performance cluster-private communications.
In clustered environments, high-speed, low-latency interconnects and protocols for internode communications are essential. The SCI interconnect in Sun Cluster systems offers improved performance over typical network interface cards (NICs).
The RSM Reliable Datagram Transport (RSMRDT) driver consists of a driver that is built on top of the RSM API and a library that exports the RSMRDT-API interface. The driver provides enhanced Oracle Real Application Clusters performance. The driver also enhances load-balancing and high-availability (HA) functions by providing them directly inside the driver, making them available to the clients transparently.
The cluster interconnect consists of the following hardware components:
Adapters – The network interface cards that reside in each cluster host. A network adapter with multiple interfaces could become a single point of failure if the entire adapter fails.
Switches – The switches, also called junctions, that reside outside of the cluster hosts. Switches perform pass-through and switching functions to enable you to connect more than two hosts. In a two-host cluster, unless the adapter hardware requires switches, you do not need switches because the hosts can be directly connected to each other through redundant physical cables. Those redundant cables are connected to redundant adapters on each host. Configurations with three or more hosts require switches.
Cables – The physical connections that are placed between either two network adapters or an adapter and a switch.
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Summary: When Caiden and Kaden Luxton, two twins find out their father, Detective Tristan Luxton who has been missing for 8 months is still alive, they hatch upa plan with Detective Wes Timber, their father's partner. No one will be safe in this mission.
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Standard Chartered Weighs Settling Iran Laundering Probe
British bank Standard Chartered is rushing to reach a settlement within days over charges it hid transactions tied to Iran and is set to resume talks with U.S. regulators on Monday, sources familiar with the situation said.
The London-based bank's U.S. legal team have got as far as discussing an amount with regulators, indicating progress has been made before a Wednesday deadline, the sources told Reuters.
Standard Chartered could be forced to pay a fine of up to $1 billion to settle the charges, analysts said last week, although there has been speculation that this figure could be higher to assuage the New York banking regulator pressing the case
New York's Department of Financial Services alleged last week that Standard Chartered hid transactions tied to Iran and the regulator's head, Benjamin Lawsky, ordered the bank to explain why it should not lose its licence at a hearing scheduled for Wednesday.
"It looks like, rather than fight this in the courts, they're looking to resolve this, hopefully ahead of Wednesday," said Investec analyst Vivek Raja.
The bank is awaiting information on whether executives will be required to attend and Chief Executive Peter Sands remains in Britain, a source close to the situation said.
Shares in Standard Chartered were up 1.5 percent to 1,346.5 pence at 1045 GMT, the top riser in Britain's FTSE 100 on hopes of an early resolution which would take away the uncertainty of a damaging legal dispute and a higher fine.
Britain's financial regulator said it remained in close contact with the bank and U.S. regulators.
Politicians have also been in close contact over the affair as the loss of its New York banking licence would be a devastating blow for Standard Chartered, effectively cutting off direct access to the U.S. bank market.


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China and Taiwan will on Tuesday hold their highest-level talks since their acrimonious split 65 years ago - a symbolic yet historic move that marks the first official contact between the former bitter rivals.
The Taiwanese government's Wang Yu-chi, who oversees the island's China policy, will meet his Chinese counterpart Zhang Zhijun for talks set to last until February 14.
The meeting in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing is the fruit of years of efforts to normalise relations and will be the highest-level interaction since their split in 1949 at the end of a civil war.
That year, two million supporters of the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan - officially known as Republic of China - after losing the civil war to Mao Zedong's Communists.
Ever since, the island and the mainland have been governed separately, both claiming to be the true government of China, only re-establishing contact in the 1990s through quasi-official organisations.
While no official agenda has been released for the talks - widely seen as a symbolic, confidence-building exercise - Taiwan's Wang last month said they had "crucial implications for further institutionalisation of ties between the two sides".
Taiwan is likely to focus on reaping practical outcomes from the talks, such as securing economic benefits or security assurances, while China has one eye on long-term integration of the island, analysts say.
Beijing views Taiwan as a rebel region awaiting reunification with the mainland, and has repeatedly refused to renounce the possibility of using force to take back the island if necessary.
The current political thaw of a decades-long stalemate comes after the two sides have made cautious steps towards economic reconcilliation in recent years.
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MASERU-Bantu took the league race to the wire when they beat the defending champions, Lioli, 2-1 in an explosive Premiership tie at Setsoto Stadium on Sunday.
The victory stamped Bantu's authority on top of the log table as it saw them opening a 5-point gap between them and Lioli who are currently lying on second spot on 41 points.
The triumph also became a big victory for the Mafeteng giants who on the same day celebrated their 90th anniversary, in front of a big crowd.
Bantu were the first to score as early as the fifth minute through Lits'epe Marabe's header.
This was after Lioli's defence failed to clear the ball out of the six yards, thus giving Marabe an opportunity to find the back of the net.
Tse Nala's last man, Kopano Tseka went for a header before Marabe, who does not match him in stature but missed the target.
His goalkeeper, Liteboho Mokhesi was at the time off his goal-line.
However, Lioli equalised through a penalty kick netted by Jerry Kamela.
Lioli were awarded the penalty kick in the 25th minute after Obakeng Modirwa was brought down in the box when he went for a header from the corner kick from Tumelo 'Makhopo' Khutlang.
The corner kick came after the same Khutlang mesmerised the Bantu defence in the left.
Just like in the first half, Bantu's winning goal came as early as 7th minute of the second half through a well-taken shot by Hlompho Kalake outside the box.
Bantu played pressure football from the first whistle, taking the game to Lioli time and again whenever on ball possession.
And their effort was rewarded very early in the game with Marabe's goal.
Lioli however managed to absorb the pressure after the goal with that the game became balanced.
Then the match was dominated by individual brilliances one after the other from both sides.
One of them was Marabe, who when on ball possession was a constant menace to Lioli's defence.
He nearly scored brace in the 24th minute of the first half, had Mokhehle did not successfully saved his close range well-taken shot.
Mokhehle hit the shot with knees before his defender, Shetsane Ramoseka, cleared it out with a header.
Bantu's Hlompho Kalake was also a marvel to watch in the midfield, with Lebata in the left and Moloisane Ramasimong in the right.
Likewise, Lioli's dribbling wizard Bushy Moletsane had a good afternoon at Setsoto Stadium.
His dribbling tricks worked for him as he easily penetrated his opponents and destabilised Bantu from enjoying the dominance in the middle of the park.
The other Lioli player who was like a thorn to Bantu was Khutlang.
The midfield maestro got the better of his opponents with good touches and dribbling every time he had the ball on his feet, thus making them lose concentration.
However, Lioli's effort to try and level the score failed.
Their evergreen goal poacher Ts'epo Seturumane fired blanks.
Weekend results in a glance Saturday:
Rovers 1-3 BB Warriors
Linare 3-2 Kick4Life
Matlama 1-1 FC Likhopo
Sunday: LCS 1-1 LMPS
Bantu 2-1 Lioli
Liphakoe 1-0 Sandawana
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Estrogenic Activity and Stability of new Triaryl-1H-pyrroles
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A variety of nonsteroidal compounds with five-membered hetetocyclic core like furans, pyrazoles and imidazoles might act as potent ligands for the estrogen receptor (ER). In this study, we prepared tetrasubstituted pyrroles and assessed their behavior as ER ligands. To investigate the influence of the hydrophilic character and the potency to function as N-H donor we synthesized 2,3,5-triaryl-1H-pyrroles (1) and 1,3,5-triaryl-1H-pyrroles (2). Different from 1, type 2 compounds are unable to form hydrogen bondings to amino acids in the ligand binding domain of the ER due to the arylation of the nitrogen. We found practical and facile syntheses to get these two pyrrole types of different substitution pattern. The synthesis based on cyclisation of arylated 1,4-diones. We converted them easily into the corresponding pyrroles in case of type 1 with NH4CH3COO and in case of type 2 with aniline and anisidine respectively. The ether cleavage was realized with borontribromide. In order to analyze the estrogenic potency 4-hydroxyphenylpyrroles were evaluated in the luciferase assay using the ERα-positive MCF-7 2a cell line. Both types of compounds (1, 2) proved to be potent ER agonists, but type 2 pyrroles showed to be more potent as their analogue type 1 compounds. We investigated the influence of the degree of hydroxylation of the aromatic rings, alkylation of the pyrrole ring and chlorine substitution of the aromatic rings. The hydroxylation and alkylation degree increases but chlorination decreases the estrogenic potency. To investigate the stability of the compounds under test conditions, we incubated them at 37 °C for 48 h and analyzed their HPLC-spectra. They showed a high stability.


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Flirting by Sign:
Venus or Sun in Aquarius
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"Flirt Mode" of Venus in Aquarius
See Venus in Air Signs and Flirting by Sign.
(Your Venus Sign is the Sign where the planet Venus is located in your birth chart. If your Sun Sign or Rising Sign is Aquarius, you may also have the following style to some extent; but whatever your Sun Sign may be, when you have Venus in Aquarius your way of flirting is even more likely to be as described below.)
If you have Venus in Aquarius in your birth chart, when you go into "flirt mode" you tend to "act to attract" in some of the following ways:
Original. You seem delightfully different, surprising, or inventive. Perhaps a little "quirky". If you find yourself acting a little odd, or saying things meant to shake up or shock someone a little, you may be in flirt mode.
Unconventional. You seem open-minded or unorthodox, and you set your own style. When flirting, you may act a little "out of character" or "off the wall" or even "outrageous". Flirting may involve demonstrating how you can "dare to be different" from others and not conform to peer pressure or social conventions; such as acting a little crazy sometimes, or wearing unusual clothing. You might act "rebellious" or get talking about "rebelling" against something with a co-conspirator you are interested in - or about "reforming" things with their help.
Individualistic. You set your own rules in how you relate to people, and respect that someone else has his or her own way of relating too. You might encourage the one you desire to "just be yourself" and show that you appreciate the ways they express their individuality.
Free-spirited. You need your own "space" and you seem willing to let someone have theirs. In fact, the more you want them, the more you may act like they are free to leave. You may find yourself flaunting the "rules" of decorum in an attempt to get attention from one you would flirt with. You may act like a "free spirit" and encourage someone who interests you to "just do your own thing"; or show you appreciate what they are already doing that is out of the ordinary.
Visionary. You seem like a "visionary" who sees future trends, and may invite someone you desire to join you in working at changing the world somehow. Talking about your vision may be a way of flirting with the object of your affections.
Coolly detached. You may appear aloof or unemotional, or perhaps intellectual. It seems an odd way to "flirt", but it can be attractive to those who are curious, or who are not comfortable with overly-emotional people, or who want you to show your feelings more. Someone always wants to melt the "Ice Princess" or get "Cool Hand Luke" to show his feelings; so your "detached" air could be intriguing to someone you are interested in. If your basic nature is NOT to be cool and detached, but passionate (Sun in Aries or Sagittarius) or emotional (Sun in Pisces)... you may paradoxically act less warm and more cool when in the presence of a person whose affections you would entice.
See Sign Compatibility and Opposites Attract. ©2001 by Michael Star
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London Calling: How the BBC stole the Referendum - Read for free
London Calling: How the BBC stole the Referendum is a book written by G.A.Ponsonby. The book chronicles BBC Scotland output with respect to the broadcaster's coverage of Scottish politics and the independence referendum.
The book was published in April 2015, seven months after the referendum on Scottish independence. The cost per copy was £9.99 for a paperback and £1.99 for the Kindle version.
Labour is still in poisonous union with its Tory ally
By G.A.Ponsonby
The Scotland Bill has now gone through Parliament. The Vow hasn't been honoured. Scotland is light-years away from the panicked pledges that peppered the media in the final days of the referendum campaign.
BBC Scotland is as institutionally corrupt as it ever was
By G.A.Ponsonby
On March 11th 2014, just six months before the independence referendum, three men appeared before Holyrood's Culture Committee. The three were head of BBC Scotland - Ken MacQuarrie, his head of news and current affairs - John Boothman and the head of BBC Scotland's Referendum Unit - John Mullin.
Now on BBC Scotland - The great Labour tax swindle
By G.A.Ponsonby
Well the hidden agenda has finally been exposed. It was all a ruse to try to paint the SNP as being 'shoulder to shoulder' with the Tories.
We have had weeks whilst the Scottish media prepared the ground. Threats to end the council tax freeze, Cosla complaining about council funding and Scottish Labour accusing the SNP of being responsible for local authority cuts.
The sooner Labour in Scotland is extinct the better
By G.A.Ponsonby
'We need a healthy opposition.' How many times have you heard political commentators say that? It's true of course. All democracies require the party of power to be challenged.


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Harry sat behind his desk, his Auror's robes stained with ash and his face covered in soot. He looked across his desk at Ron and said, "Why do they always run? Don't they know that once we put a Tracking Charm on them, that they can't get away?"
The soot and ash covered Auror across the desk from Harry answered, "It's human nature, Harry. They know they've been caught and they're trying to get away." Ron's voice was barely recognisable, as he had breathed in so much of the ash. He began to cough as Harry cleaned himself and his robes with his wand. When Harry had finished cleaning himself, he moved to his coughing friend and started to clean him. Harry had just finished cleaning Ron's robes and started to raise his wand to clean Ron's face, when suddenly, a sigil started to glow on Harry's desk and emit a beeping noise.
Harry lowered his wand and asked Ron, "Did you tell anyone that we were back in the office?"
Ron shook his head, coughing all the while.
Harry moved back behind his desk, touched the sigil and spoke, "Auror Inspector Potter."
A pleasant, contralto female voice spoke through the sigil, "Harry, there are some people here to see you. Shall I send them in?"
Harry answered, "How did you know that Ron and I were in the office, Gwen?
Gwen's voice answered back, "Really, Harry, everyone on this floor can hear Ron coughing. He should get that cough checked out."
Harry asked, "Who's here to see me?"
Gwen's voice answered, "Trust me, Harry. You'll want to see these people and I don't want to spoil the surprise."
Ron finally stopped his coughing fit and sat wheezing, trying to get his breath back. His face shone bright red in between the sooty stains. Harry met Ron's eyes. Ron shrugged. Harry spoke back into the sigil, "Okay, send them in."
The sigil disappeared back into the desk, and Harry asked Ron, "Who could possibly have been waiting all this time to see us?" Ron shrugged. Harry continued, "We've been gone for five hours chasing after Naismith. I wonder how long they waited for us."
A knock sounded at the door. Harry shouted at the door, "Enter!
A medium-height, well put together man in a tan British Army uniform with an SAS logo on his beret entered. He pushed a woman in a wheelchair. Harry looked over the woman in the wheelchair first, trying to place her. Obviously a witch, from her purple robes with gold embroidery, she appeared to be about his age. It only took him a moment to realise that the woman seated before him had been declared legally dead just nine years previously.
She looked at Ron, laughter making the lines around her eyes crinkle, and said, "Won-Won, how pleasant to see you. We were only expecting to find Harry here. I like the new tan," indicating his soot-streaked face.
Ron looked stunned and croaked, "Lavender, is it really you?"
Lavender looked up at Ron and said, "Yes, Ron, it's really me."
Ron sputtered, "B-but y-you were declared dead after the Battle of Hogwarts."
Lavender laughed, "I faked my own death and left the country. I wasn't sure if the Death Eaters would re-form after Harry killed You-Know-Who, so my family and I left the country. Besides, I was in no shape to help out." She indicated the stumps where her legs had been, then covered them with a blanket she pulled from a basket that hung from the handles of the wheelchair.
As Lavender answered Ron, Harry studied the soldier more closely. Harry realised when he saw the pig-like eyes who stood across from him, silently awaiting acknowledgment. Harry hadn't seen Dudley for more than ten years.
Harry strode across the room and extended his hand to Dudley. Dudley took the proffered hand and shook it warmly. Harry said, "My God, Dudley. It's been what, almost ten years?" Ron's face swiveled to look at Dudley with shock.
Dudley smiled with pleasure, a sight that Harry had only seen from Dudley when Dudley had just tormented some smaller child. Dudley spoke, his voice richer than Harry remembered, "Yes, Harry, it's been about ten years."
"What brings you here, Dudley? How do you know Lavender? How are your parents?" Harry asked in a rush, indicating that Dudley should sit in the other unoccupied visitor's chair. Harry moved back behind his desk and sat.
Dudley sat down in the indicated chair, after pulling Lavender's wheelchair up next to it. As he sat, he leaned over and brushed Lavender's lips with his. When he sat down, he grabbed Lavender's hand and held it as he answered, "Well, Harry, Mum is doing fine, health-wise, at least, and she sends her regards. Dad isn't doing so well. He's developed adult-onset diabetes and also has a serious heart condition. He pretty much is confined to his bed right now. As you can imagine, Mum's going a bit spare caring for him." Dudley looked around at the office and asked, "So, you're an Auror? Lav tells me that's some type of magical policeman."
Ron answered, "Actually, Harry's an Auror Inspector. It's more like being a D.I. than a P.C."
Lavender spoke up, "Auror Inspector in only nine years, that's pretty fast, isn't it?"
Ron answered again, just as Harry opened his mouth, "Just six years after finishing training, the fastest to make A.I. in the last two hundred years." Harry turned a bit pink at Ron's praise.
Dudley said, "Congratulations, Harry. I hear that you're married now, as well."
Harry nodded and said, "Married, with two children and one more on the way."
Lavender turned her head to look at Ron and asked, "And you, Ron, any little bushy red-haired Weasley's?"
Ron flushed under the soot and said, "Hermione and I have a little girl named Rose and Hermione thinks that she might be pregnant again. We're going to St. Mungo's on Tuesday for testing to be sure. She says you can't trust the Muggle pregnancy tests if you're a witch."
Harry looked at Dudley, obviously happy, holding tightly to Lavender's hand. Harry looked at Lavender, reminiscing with Ron over times at Hogwarts. Harry then turned his gaze back to Dudley, looking him over carefully. Dudley returned Harry's frank, appraising gaze without flinching.
Harry finally spoke, speaking over Lavender. "Dudley, what brings you here today?"
Dudley looked at Lavender. She nodded. Dudley gathered himself and said, "Harry, Lavender and I want you to be the best man at our wedding."
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Project Name: ESP – Event-Specific Prevention
Principal Investigator: Christine Lee, PhD
Grant Title: Event Specific Prevention (ESP)
Sponsor: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Project Period: 7/5/2007 – 6/30/2012
Grant Number: R01AA016099
Project Coordinator: Angela Mittmann
To give you some context, past research has shown that college students tend to drink the most and experience the most extreme consequences (e.g., alcohol poisoning, sexual assault) during specific events that are deemed celebratory occasions where the typical drinking patterns or personal limits regarding alcohol don't seem to apply. ESP is in the second stage of a 5 year federally funded project and is designed to examine the effectiveness of a web-based vs. in-person motivational intervention designed to help college students stay safe while celebrating their 21st birthdays and going on spring break trips (2 specific events that have been associated with extreme drinking). In addition, we are also recruiting friends that students plan to celebrate with during these events to be involved in the study to help make sure that the participant stays safe while celebrating/vacationing.
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This is something kind of hard to explain; are you ready? The CV Joint is an application that allows a drive shaft to transfer power through something called a variable angle at constant rotational speed without an appreciable increase in friction or play. It's mainly used in cars that use front-wheel drive – so cars like the Honda Civic with OE Honda wheels… or Honda Civic wheels.
The rear-wheel drive cars with the independent rear suspension will usually use the same CV Joints, but these are at the ends of the rear axle halfshafts, and increasingly use them on the propshafts. The joints are typically protected by some sort of rubber boot called a CV gaiter. When there's cracks and splits in the boot, this means that the joint will most likely corrode and a new joint has to be fitted if the original joint isn't removed early enough.
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Rondo on the other hand has established himself among the top PG's in the NBA. Really the only complaint towards him is that he isnt known for scoring, although he can rack up 10+ Assists with ease. In this day & age in the NBA I'd consider averaging 10+ Assists per game is a tougher feat than averaging 20+ PPG. Thats why I put him above Gordon heading into this season.
If Gordon has a breakout year that establishes him as an "Elite" Guard, then I'll see where I'd put him in that Top 10.
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CORVALLIS - The Women's Center at Oregon State University will honor four Oregon residents with its 1996 Women of Achievement Awards during a reception this Wednesday (April 17).
The recipients are Jude Hanzo, executive director of the All Women's Health Services in Portland; Vietta Helmle, executive director of the Mid-Valley Women's Crisis Service, Salem; Leilani Roberts, senior instructor in the Department of Philosophy at OSU; and Stephanie Sanford, director of Affirmative Action at OSU.
Criteria for selection includes commitment to equality and furthering the status of women; honor and valor; and excellence in work that is not widely recognized, yet has potential for creating real change.
The 1996 recipients have diverse qualifications and experience, noted Judith Hadley, chair of the awards committee.
"Their contributions illustrate the broad scope of women's involvement in Oregon's public sector and inspire us to excellence in our own work," Hadley said.
A public reception will be held at the Women's Center on April 17 from noon to 2 p.m. The center is located just south of Benton Hall on the OSU campus.
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Design Life Now
Barbara J. Bloemink
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2006 - Architecture - 224 pages
The National Design Triennial, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's groundbreaking exhibition series, celebrates the most creative and forward-thinking designs, cutting-edge trends, and future horizons across the fields of design practice, from architecture, interiors, and landscapes to product design, graphic design, fashion, animation, and new media. Published in conjunction with the latest installment of the Triennial series, Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006 features eighty-seven individuals and companies that are changing the face of design, including Pixar Films, Apple, Google, Nike, Target, Narciso Rodriguez, Tobias Wong, Santiago Calatrava, Herman Miller, and NASA. Four original essays by the exhibition's curators, profiles of the designers, and vibrant illustrations bring to life the ways in which these designers are challenging existing paradigms and expanding our understanding of the design world. Design Life Now is the inaugural title published by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's new publishing imprint, and marks a historic collaboration with Assouline Publishing, which will sell and distribute Cooper-Hewitt books to the trade worldwide.
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Buhari travels to Equatorial Guinea – In continuation of the Federal Government's efforts to achieve greater security of lives, resources and investments in all parts of Nigeria and its sub-region, President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on Monday for talks with President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on further measures to protect the people and resources of the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea.
The conclusion and signing of an agreement by Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea for the establishment of a combined maritime policing and security patrol committee on Tuesday is expected to be the major outcome of President Buhari's talks with his host.
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Both leaders will also confer on the rescheduling of the joint summit of the Economic Community of West African States and the Economic Community of Central African States on additional cooperative measures to curb terrorism and violent extremism in West and Central Africa.
The summit was to have been hosted by Equatorial Guinea last year but was postponed because of Nigeria's general elections.
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Boys and Girls Club members at the Target in Harlem got an unexpected celebrity dance partner.
Beyonce surprised the children during a dance lesson organized by her choreographer, Frank Gatson.
This isn't the first time the pop star has made an unannounced guest appearance in Harlem. In May, Beyonce joined a group of P.S. 161 students doing a dance workout.
Beyonce starts this most recent cameo with a group hug for the elated children, while the crowd shrieks. Then the group gets down to business.
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Kendall Jenner's name has been dragged through the mud quite a bit lately.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star reportedly has a history of being extremely rude to people.
First, it was rumored that she'd been rude to Jada Pinkett's maid. Now, several media outlets have reported the 18-year-old model recently threw money in a server's face.
On August 4, Kendall was reportedly dining with Stephen Baldwin's daughter, Hailey, at Mercer Kitchen in New York City.
According to Page Six, a witness who'd also dined at the restaurant revealed the reality TV starlet caused quite a scene.
In addition to alleged throwing money at the server, the witness also claims she left without paying her full bill. "Kendall and Hailey started laughing," the witness said.
"Kendall took a couple of $20 bills out of her wallet, threw them at the server and walked away, not even counting if it was enough or if it included a tip. Kendall got up and left and didn't pay for all the food," a source told the publication. "About $60 worth, and without a tip."
Then, to make matters worse, the server Blaine Morris allegedly took to Twitter on August 5 with further details about the incident. "That horrible moment you chase a Kardashian down the street because she forgot to pay her bill to be thrown money in your face," Morris tweeted.
Of course, the tweet has been removed. However, Kendall is insisting the claims are completely false. So, on Tuesday, August 13, she took to Twitter to set the record straight.
"These rumors r absolutely ridiculous! I would never throw money in anyone's face or act that disrespectfully. I was raised better than that," Kendall tweeted. "Said it once and I'll say it again, don't believe everything you read!" she concluded.
Although Kendall's representative hasn't addressed the claims, Hailey's representative did release a brief statement about the alleged restaurant debacle. "They thought everything was paid for. Kendall was polite and asked, 'Does this cover it?' They didn't run."
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This exhibition is by world renowned photographer Rankin and is the photographer's look at death and mortality. This collaboration between the Walker Art Gallery and Rankin has been developed by BBC North and BBC Two's The Culture Show.
Rather than focusing on death, 'ALIVE: In The Face of Death' is also about celebrating life and diversity of character. The exhibition will also feature images of people who have pulled through against all the odds. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to read the inspirational accounts of people in the images.
This exhibition forms part of the LOOK/13: Liverpool International Photography Festival, which will see dozens of photographic exhibitions and events taking place across the city.
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Welcome to our ongoing project, LJWorld.com/Green. Here you can find tips on how to make your life environmentally friendly and read stories about what others in the community are doing to live a more green lifestyle. Eat local, conserve resources, be green.
The second Little Green Festival will take place this weekend in South Park to showcase and celebrate the green in people's lives while sharing information on how to be more environmentally friendly.
The two-day event is free.
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, 14 hours of music is lined up from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Food from Ingredient and Local Burger will be available and more than 100 eco-friendly participants will share their sustainable ideas ranging from bamboo skateboards to green cleaning products.
Other features include speakers, a Kids Green Zone with hands-on activities, story telling, scavenger hunts and birding. There also will be a Green Pets area with natural veterinary care and snacks.
Two films will be played in the park after dark. "Human Footprint" will play at 9:30 p.m. and "Planet Earth" will start at 10:15 p.m.
Sunday's highlight is the Little Green BlueGrass Jam from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Visit www.littlegreenfestival.com for more details and the music schedule.
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Today is the last day of Longform Fiction. Back in 2011, during a stint of unemployment, my former professor/current friend-confidante Jeremy P. Bushnell asked me to join him in a new venture. He launched a small website/social media feed called Instafiction, modeled after Longform and Longreads, but devoted to fiction, since there didn't appear to be a site of that nature.
Our following was small, but received attention from Max Linsky and Aaron Lammer, the founders of Longform, and after some talks, Jeremy and I agreed to be the first fiction editors for their site. It's been two years, and we felt it was time to step away. Jeremy had his first novel published earlier this year, and he's in the process of working on a new book. I'm officially starting my thesis hours (!) in the spring semester, which is a fancy, technical way of saying: I'm writing a novel as well. The time devoted to curating daily fiction is too much to handle, since I'll need to devote as much free time as possible to writing and editing, in addition to my class and graduate assistant requirements. Even though Longform Fiction is going away, I didn't want to leave Longform entirely.
Therefore, starting in January, I'm starting a new role as a contributing editor to the site. My focus will be the same, but not as time-consuming. I'll still have to do lots of reading, but I do that anyway; as someone in the literary community, I feel it's my obligation to read, support, and engage with other artists, regardless of whether it's for a website or for my own learning.
I'm grateful that Max and Aaron are excited to keep me on. And at the risk of sounding sappy, I simply cannot thank Jeremy enough. He's been one of the biggest influences in my growth as a writer and reader. He read my embarrassing, awful first attempts at fiction when I was 18, has always been ready with a quick text message of support if I'm ever down about something, and I hope he and I can work together in the future on a similar project. So thanks, Jeremy. For everything.
The countless hours I've spent reading for Instafiction and Longform have put me in touch with some amazing artists and journals, many of whom I'm honored to call friends, even if we only know each other through social media. Every part of these projects has been essential in my growth as a writer and a reader, and I wouldn't be in an MFA program if this engagement with great, contemporary artists hadn't happened.
Here's to a great 2015 for everyone. I can't wait to see new work appear in the world. Onward.