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- Women sit in the back portion of the bus because ultra-Orthodox avoid mingling of sexes
- Tanya Rosenblit was first passenger that morning on bus and took a seat behind the driver
- Rosenblit: 'I live in an Israeli democracy, people cannot tell me where to sit on a bus'
- Supreme Court: Involuntary separation between sexes on public buses against the law
When Tanya Rosenblit boarded an inter-city bus bound for Jerusalem from her native Ashdod Friday morning, she did not anticipate the storm it would spark within Israel.
The public bus she boarded normally carries ultra-Orthodox passengers and travels to an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem.
As a matter of custom women sit in the back portion of the bus, because the ultra-Orthodox avoid mingling of the sexes according to their beliefs. She was the first passenger that morning on the bus and took a seat behind the driver. As the bus took on more passengers along its route, an ultra-orthodox man demanded she should sit in the back of the bus as is the custom on that route.
"I heard him call me 'Shikse,'" Rosenblit wrote on her Facebook page, referencing a Yiddish term for a non-Jewish woman. "He demanded I sit in the back of the bus, because Jewish men couldn't sit behind women (!!!). I refused."
"This is my home town of Ashdod, I live in an Israeli democracy, people cannot tell me where to sit on a bus."
An argument ensued and ultimately the bus driver called the police to intervene, but not before a crowd of black-clad ultra-orthodox men had gathered outside the bus.
"I was starting to get scared, to tell you the truth," Rosenblit recalled. "There were like 20 of them, all wearing black. Most of them were just curious, but they were definitely on his side."
Rosenblit snapped throughout this disruption, and said she was comfortable knowing that Israeli law was on her side.
In a case brought by an Israeli woman earlier this year, the country's Supreme Court ruled that involuntary separation between the sexes on public buses was against the law.
The responding police officer tried to talk to everyone and calm things down. Rosenblit said he asked if she was willing to show respect for the objectors and move to the back of the bus. She refused and, after a 30-minute delay, the bus moved on to Jerusalem with her sitting up front.
A day after posting the account on Facebook, Rosenblit's story was picked up by the Israeli media, which has been devoting a lot of coverage to the public outcry over the growing political power of the ultra-Orthodox in Israel, and fears they are forcing the generally secular Israeli public to adopt their religious standards.
Israel's largest circulation newspaper put her story on its front page with the headline, "They Won't Tell Me Where to Sit," and compared Rosenblit to the American civil rights movement's legendary Rosa Parks.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought up her story in his weekly cabinet meeting.
"Up until this day we have agreed to live in peace with mutual respect by all sectors of the Israeli society," he told his government ministers.
"In recent days we witness attempts to break this coexistence apart. Today, for example, I have heard of an attempt to move a woman from her seat on a bus. I oppose this unequivocally. I believe we must not allow margins groups to break our common denominator and we must keep our public spaces open and safe for all of our citizens. We must find the uniting and mediating ground rather than the things that divide and separate us." Netanyahu said.
Rosenblit also received a call from Israel's opposition leader, Tzipi Livni, who offered her support and called her a symbol of determination against "anti-democratic radicalization that pushes women away from the public space."
A spokesman for Egged, the transportation company that runs the bus line, told CNN in a statement that it "does not deal with seating arrangements" on its buses and that "even if there are population groups that prefer to sit separately due to their beliefs, it is a voluntary choice and does not bind the other passengers."
Rosenblit describes herself as secular and said she did not ride the bus looking for a confrontation. She said what motivated her to write about her experience was not "not to declare the Orthodox Jews as pure evil and the oppressors of human rights and liberties," but to point out what she sees as societal problem in Israel.
"There are a lot of lovely things about religion, but forcing people to choose religion is wrong," she said.
"It is wrong to use religion as an excuse to eliminate people's basic rights: the right for freedom and the right for dignity."


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Well, hello there! If it isn't my buddy "Chief Editor Korir" at African Press International, the Norway-based African news agency that has been exciting Obama conspiracybloggers for weeks now by promising to release an incriminating set of tapes in which Michelle Obama yells at a reporter, accuses all her husband's critics of being racists, and offers good seats at Obama's inauguration in return for much-coveted favourable coverage from API. Over the last few days, the agency's unprepossessing free Wordpress.com website has been posting details of complex legal negotiations, purportedly between it and Fox News, involving a "Canadian lawyer" and representatives of Fox shuttling between Oslo, New York and London. Yesterday, it claimed Fox had ignored an ultimatum to broadcast the tapes. The agency now says it will "announce the final move Monday morning", though I think we can be fairly confident that this won't involve anything so straightforward as just publishing the tapes on its own website. A shame -- and yet I have to say that, all along, as I rode the rollercoaster of this most eyebrow-raising of election tales, I had a tiny suspicion that this was how it would end.
The Michelle Obama tapes: the final chapter?
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|DISPLAY DEVICE - A touch electrode and a detection element are positioned in at least two of pixels. The touch electrode is formed in a first substrate, and is positioned so as to face a counter electrode. The touch electrode contacts the counter electrode and is electrically connected thereto when a second substrate is pressed and bent toward the first substrate. The detection element is connected to the touch electrode, and detects the electrical connection between the touch electrode and the counter electrode.
|SUBSTRATE FOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a substrate for a display device and a liquid crystal display device, which are capable of preventing a reflective layer from being damaged in a resist separation step for patterning the reflective layer. The present invention is a substrate for a display device provided with a reflective layer in a display region, comprising: a pattern film that is disposed outside the display region except a terminal region and on the same side as a side of the reflective layer, the pattern film including either one of a material that has the same ionizability as a material of the reflective layer and a material that has higher ionizability than the material of the reflective layer.
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Preheat oven to 250 degrees F
Line baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
Arrange pretzels on the parchment paper. Open the bag of M&Ms. Unwrap chocolate Kisses and place one on each pretzel. Place baking sheet in the oven for 2 to 3 minutes until the Kisses begin to soften. Remove baking sheet from the oven.
Immediately press an M & M onto each Kiss. Press down slightly so chocolate fills the ring.
Refrigerate for 5 to 10 minutes or until chocolate is firm. Store at room temperature.
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PLAYING away matches in Africa is usually tricky business but Warriors skipper Willard Katsande believes they have a game plan for Swaziland when they take on the hosts in a 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at Somhlolo Stadium this afternoon.
The Kaizer Chiefs hardman is looking to lead from the front as the Zimbabweans hunt for maximum points to gain control of Group L and boost their chances of qualifying for the finals of the tournament to be held in Gabon next year.
The Warriors, who arrived in Swaziland yesterday afternoon for the crucial assignment, have only qualified for the AFCON finals twice in 2004 and 2006.
But they are well placed to return to the prestigious stage following a promising start.
Zimbabwe and Swaziland are currently tied on four points at the top of the table with the other members of the group, Guinea and Malawi who meet in Conakry at 5pm, on one point each ahead of the Easter weekend double headers.
Katsande said the Warriors will be angling for maximum points today and again when the teams clash in the return leg scheduled for the National Sports Stadium on Easter Monday.
"I think this is a very important game for us. We are aware that Swaziland are currently on top of the log and we would need to do well to qualify for the 2017 AFCON.
"We have to fight hard and try to collect maximum points from them. It won't be easy though because they are at home and their fan base is very strong. So all we need to do is to take the game to them and try to frustrate them so that we upset their supporters.
"Winning this game will put us three points clear on top and it will boost our morale ahead of the return leg at home next Monday. We need to tackle it in a more positive way," said Katsande.
The Warriors left yesterday morning via Johannesburg on an early morning flight and then completed the 300km distance to Mbabane by bus.
Zimbabwe left yesterday with a squad of 18 comprising mainly the foreign based contingent. There were no places for locals Hardlife Zvirekwi, Tafadzwa Kutinyu, Marshal Mudehwe, Ronald Chitiyo, Lawrence Mhlanga and young goalkeeper Donovan Bernard.
Pasuwa kept faith in the bulk of the foreign based players with Dynamos duo of goalkeeper Tatenda Mukuruva and Elisha Muroiwa, Chicken Inn skipper Danny Phiri and Highlanders left-back Bruce Kangwa made the travelling list.
The Warriors are aiming to collect six points over their opponents in the two matches to bolster their campaign in the 2017 AFCON qualifiers.
Pasuwa will be looking forward to big performances from his star players like Khama Billiat, Katsande, Knowledge Musona, Kuda Mahachi and Marvelous Nakamba.
Swaziland may not have big names in their squad but they are not an easy opponent at home if their recent performances are anything to go by.
Katsande told The Herald that they respect the hosts for showing a brave fight so far in the campaign after beating one of the big guns in the group, Guinea, and then drawing with Malawi.
The control of the group is at the stake as the winner between Zimbabwe and Swaziland will go three points clear at the top of the table.
Guinea and Malawi will also be out to save their campaigns but they may end up cancelling out each other with the first leg in Conakry this afternoon and the return match on Monday in Malawi.Katsande said the Warriors will take each game as it comes.
"Our focus is on the first game. We talk about the next game later. We are professionals and we are used to playing big games one after another.
"I am begging all Zimbabweans to rally behind us even when things look like they are not going our way. It's football, these guys need to feel loved and it can only spur them to do well," said Katsande. National Football Association of Swaziland Chief Executive Officer Frederick Mngometulu believes their coach Harries "Madze" Bulunga has assembled a squad strong enough to upset the Warriors.
Mngometulu urged Sihlangu supporters to come and rally behind their team which has been in camp for the last 10 days.
"We urge all Swazis to come and support the boys as they battle with Zimbabwe in their quest to qualify for the finals to be staged in Gabon. We are confident that the team will make us proud in both matches as they have been in full-time camp since March 14.
"We hope the players will not pick any injuries as we want all of them to be available for selection on Friday. This will give the technical team enough depth in choosing the starting XI," said Mngometulu.
Angolans Helder Martins De Carvalho, Jerson Emiliano Dos Santos and Ivanildo Meirelles De O Sanche Lopes will handle the game with South African Mayixole Elvis Channel Shishana as the match commissioner.
Warriors squad
Goalkeepers: T. Mukuruva (Dynamos), W. Arubi (Pretoria University, SA).
Defenders: P. Jaure (Pretoria University, SA), E. Chipeta (Chippa United, SA), E. Muroiwa (Dynamos), C. Nhamoinesu (Sparta Prague, Czech Republic), B. Kangwa (Highlanders), O. Bhasera (Wits University, SA).
Midfielders: W. Katsande (Kaizer Chiefs, SA), M. Nakamba (Vitesse, Netherlands), D. Phiri (Chicken Inn), K. Mahachi (Golden Arrows, SA).
Forwards: K. Musona (KV Oostende, Belgium), N. Mushekwi (Dalian Yifang, China), C. Malajila (Sundowns, SA) M. Rusike (Helsingborgs IF, Sweden), E. Rusike (Maritzburg, SA), K. Billiat (Sundowns, SA).


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In the early 1960s, before the Beatles and the Stones, there were the boys from the Beach and the boys from Jersey. There was no mistaking one sound for the other. Each group reflected the environment from which it came. The Jersey Boys…aka…The Four Seasons mirrored its urban roots with something else…an almost indefinable something. "Jersey Boys" tells how that group and sound came to be. Directed by Clint Eastwood with screenplay and musical book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, based on the Broadway musical, "Jersey Boys" is full of the Four Seasons' music, masterfully led by Tony-Award winning actor, John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli.
Although the movie flushes out the play, the structure is much the same, with various members of the ensemble narrating the action and speaking directly to the audience throughout the movie. The film opens with Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza) talking about the New Jersey neighborhood in which they grew up and introduces us to Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda) and Frankie. Nick and Tommy are several years older than the somewhat innocent 16-year-old Frankie, and both, but especially Tommy, look out for him. Even when they get into trouble, the two make sure that Frankie stays clean. Frankie earns money working in a barbershop where Gyp DeCarlo (Christopher Walken), a "made man," is a regular and has taken a shine to Frankie and his voice. Tommy and Nick have a singing group with ever-changing names, with Frankie occasionally singing lead. Nick and Tommy have a few minor jail setbacks, but once that is in the past…or is it… they try to put their singing career back on track and make Frankie, with his amazing falsetto, a full-fledge member of the group. However, the group is going nowhere fast until Joey (Joseph Russo) from the neighborhood (who becomes the Joe Pesci of movie fame) puts them in touch with Bob Gaudio (Erich Bergen). Gaudio is a singer/songwriter who had recently written the hit Short Shorts. Although from New Jersey, he is most definitely not one of the guys. He's educated, well-read and doesn't have their New Jersey attitude. What he does have is enormous talent and some connections. Tommy is immediately jealous of Gaudio and his smarts, but once Gaudio puts them in touch with record producer Bob Crewe (Mike Doyle) and writes their first hit record, "Sherry," animosities are put on the back burner. With the group's appearance on American Bandstand (be on the lookout for the Dick Clark stand-in), their success is assured for some time. Unfortunately, life is not all lollipops and roses, and there are breakups, sadness, and then the re-emergence of Valli as a solo artist. And what a re-emergence that is with the mega-hit, Can't Take My Eyes Off of You."
To say these actors can sing and make you believe they are the Four Seasons is putting it mildly. Their voices, coupled with amazing choreography, put you back in the 60s for real. John Lloyd Young is absolutely phenomenal as Frankie Valli. It is like watching and listening to Valli himself. And it wasn't until I heard Michael Lomenda's Nick that I realized how important his bass voice was to the group. Mike Doyle and Erich Bergen as Crewe and Gaudio give "Jersey Boys" real depth. Their performances seem very genuine. Christopher Walken is also very convincing as the connected mobster with a soft spot for Frankie. Finally there is Vincent Piazza's Tommy. If not for Young's singing, this actor would have stolen the movie (which is fitting, given his character). The film bursts with energy every time he's on screen. Even with the nastiness of his character, he makes you feel for him.
Despite all of this exceptional talent, something about the film feels a little off. For some reason Eastwood's direction doesn't give the movie enough oomph. Maybe it's "Jersey Boys" lack of color…the shots often seem muted…but something is off that doesn't infuse the viewer with the same spirit as did the play. Maybe as a movie that's just not possible.
How much of the back-story is true? The film and play had the blessing of Valli, Gaudio and Crewe. That said, Valli's New Jersey-Italian parents seem just a tad too stereotypical. And the early scenes with the police are almost Officer Krupke in nature.
Dings aside, "Jersey Boys" is still highly entertaining. The singing, dancing and acting will make you wish the film went on a little longer. And if you don't exit the theatre humming Big Girls Don't Cry…well, I don't know what to say.
3 nuggets out of 4
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José Carreras:"El Juez"
Carreras celebrated "a triumphant comeback to the opera stage" in "El Juez" (The Judge) with performances in Bilbao, Festival Erl, St. Petersburg (Mariinsky) and recently in Vienna. Kupfer Kultur is the co-producer of the opera.
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José Carreras on his final World Tour "A Life in Music", organized by Kupfer Kultur. The Tour started with a sold out concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Followed by standing ovations in Europe, China, Australia, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Dubai etc. The tour will bring the beloved…
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Legendary tenor José Carreras always says that "singing is his life". Therefore it was very logic to name his final global tour " A Life oin Music". And the tour goes on….
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It is always our pleasure to present concerts featuring "the stars of tomorrow", such as the young soprano Jaquelina Livieri (pictured here with José Carreras in Buenos Aires), or the sopranos Celine Byrne, Venera Gimadieva, Rebeca Olvera…They have all already sung at the big opera houses like Vienna and London, as well as the Salzburg Festival…
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José Carreras considers the CD "Meraviglioso 25" to be a musical ode to life. Carreras duets with world stars like Lang Lang, David Garrett, José Feliciano, Richard Galliano, Alison Balsom making the album into a special event.
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A man has been arrested in Belgium after a pre-dawn security alert closed a major shopping centre in Brussels.
The security operation was launched after the alarm was raised about a suspicious package, according to staff at the capital's City 2 shopping centre.
Belgium's Standaard newspaper, quoting Brussels police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere, said a man had called police threatening to blow himself up outside the mall.
Brussels prosecutors confirmed that a man had been taken into custody, but that no explosives were found.
"He is being questioned at the moment," said Ine Van Wymersch, spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutors' office. "There were no explosives."
Amid the alert, Prime Minister Charles Michel changed his morning programme and called a meeting of the Belgian crisis centre.
"The situation is now under control. The security services remain extremely vigilant," Michel said later in a statement.
Crisis centre spokesman Peter Mertens said the nation's security alert was not changed.
"That level, and the measures accompanying it, is already high," he said. "The situation of this morning has no impact on the existing measures."
At the scene, police in hoods and military officers wearing helmets were seen patrolling around at least one major entrance to the City 2 shopping centre.
Police cars were on the scene and the de-mining squad was also called in.
Some entrances to the subway station were also blocked, and underground traffic disrupted.
City 2 spokeswoman Veronique Pirson said police said "a package had been found right next to City 2´´.
Belgium has been living under a high threat level which says an attack is possible and likely since the November attacks in Paris.
Some of the perpetrators of those attacks were either Belgian nationals or had lived in Brussels. Some have also been linked to the March 22 attacks on the Brussels subway and airport which killed 32.
The country has been particularly on edge over the last week following a series of arrests and police raids linked to suspected terror attacks.
Over the weekend, authorities charged three men with terror-related crimes after two days of raids and the detention of 40 people in a major investigation which they said required "immediate intervention" because they feared a new attack was close.
Unconfirmed media reports suggested that a shopping complex, an American fast food chain and police were among the possible targets.


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Check out my buddy Brad showing off some of his magic tricks he uses to attract women. Now, yes - most of these tricks are simple to pull off (heck even I was able to learn them all). Part of his secret is he shows HOW to actually inject the magic into your game (just walking up to women and showing them a trick is a sure fire way to look like an idiot). There is a science to when and how to use magic to spike a girls curiosity. Brad breaks it down for us (and I've been out with him and it is amazing how much of an edge he has over other guys when he follows his system).
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Delicatus, one of my favorite sandwich shops for lunch and dinner is now partnering with Fonte Coffee to offer coffee and espresso as well as their own baked goods.
They will be open every morning M-F at 8am and starting last Sunday, they will be opening at 10am for Brunch (Sunday Only with Saturday in the future). This is great news and I love when local businesses take the effort to invest more into the neighborhood. They have already been a great contributor by staying open in the evening (which supports residents).
They have been cranking up the production side of The Kitchen by Delicatus to start producing their own Sausages & Pastrami with an eye for Corned Beef as well as Roast Beef in the near future.
With The Kitchen rolling, they are also able to bake their own items for AM service and for now, they are starting with Savory Scones, Coffee Cake, Granola, Blueberry Bran Muffin, Seasonal Fruit Breakfast Bar, etc… As they progress at The Kitchen, they will begin to also offer some Savory Breakfast Stuffed Pastries for the M-F 8am crowd.
A little sneak peek at our Brunch Menu for Sunday
Bread Pudding French Toast
Blueberry and Brioche Bread Pudding Grilled on Cast Iron and Topped with Honey Butter and Maple Syrup, Served with 1 Piece Zoe's Bacon
Mini Breakfast Sandwich
Scrambled Egg, Bacon, Chive Aioli, Cheddar, Spinach on Brioche
Corned Beef Hash
House made w/ a bit of House Kraut, topped with Two Fried Eggs, Fresh Rosemary and 2 Slices of Rye Toast
Breakfast Salad
Field Greens, Balsamic Vinaigrette, Grape Tomatoes, Guanciale, Grilled Bread & Poached Egg
Delicatus Bloody Mary
A Specialty of the House with Delicatus Bloody Mary Mix, House Spiced 100 proof Vodka, Roasted Lamb Stock & Delicatus Spiced Salt Rim
The Brioche Bread as well as the Corned Beef Hash are also being made in house. If you want to see their full menu, click here.
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AU Shippin' Out February 21-25: de Blob 2
Bulletstorm, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Killzone 3, de Blob 2: This week's going to pound your wallet.
Bulletstorm, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Killzone 3, de Blob 2: This week's going to pound your wallet.
First-person shooting galore, witch double-teaming, and a little painting goes a long way for the next few days.
New release slate led by Guerrilla Games' third Helghan title, People Can Fly's shooter; Knights Contract, de Blob 2 also out.
Namco Bandai confirms 17th-century action adventure has gone gold in time for February 22 launch date.
We team up with a witch to find out who's really responsible for the Black Death.
Namco Bandai's gruesome fantasy action adventure pegged for midwinter release on Xbox 360, PS3.
Publisher's new third-person action game teams up resurrected witch with her executioner, set for release next year.
Namco Bandai unleashes another gore-filled third-person adventure, this time set in the Middle Ages.
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(KMOV.com) – Fairview Heights police arrested a man in connection with the robbery of a Walgreens Thursday morning.
According to officers, the suspect entered Walgreens and selected items for purchase. During the transaction, he notified the cashier that he was robbing the store. No weapon was displayed during the incident and the suspect fled on foot with an undetermined amount of money and property..
Through the investigation at the scene, officers were able to identify a suspect. At approximately 10:15 a.m., the suspect was taken into custody without incident. If anyone has information pertaining to the robbery they can call the FHPD at 618-489-2100.
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The Township of Evesham operates under the Council-Manager form of local government as established by NJSA 40:69A-81. The Council-Manager concept places the responsibility for policy development in the hands of an elected governing body, while the Manager is responsible for day-to-day operations and policy implementation.
The Township Council consists of five members, elected in at-large elections, including a directly elected Mayor. The Council's function is similar to that of a corporate board of directors. The Council hires the Manager on the basis of executive training and experience. As envisoned by the municipal reform movement that established this form of government nationally, the Manger is a non-partisan professional ready to serve and carry out the policies established through the democratic-representative process.
The Manager's duties include: Serving as the chief executive and administrative official of the municipal organization; Implementing the ordinances of the municipality; Appointment and removal of department heads and other officials authorized by the Council; Negotiation of contracts subject to Council approval and management of same; Development of reports, plans and recommendations concerning the nature and location of municipal improvements for Council's consideration and such other measures deemed neccessary for the efficient delivery of municipal services.
In addition, the Manager prepares the Municipal Budget, which is approved by Council; works closely with state, county and other municipal officials; attends all meetings of the Council; and acts as the Director of Health. Finally, most public complaints, questions and concerns are directed to and handled by the Manager's Office.
Tom Czerniecki was appointed township manager in July 2014 by the Evesham Township Council.
Tom grew up in Garfield, NJ and graduated from Montclair State University with a bachelor of arts degree in political science, and a masters in public administration from Kean University. He is also a licensed city planner in the State of New Jersey.
Tom's career includes serving as an assistant municipal manager in Randolph and Montville townships, and as township manager in Eastampton and Howell townships. He served as Evesham's manager previously from 2007 to 2012. In 2010 he received the Outstanding Municipal Manager from the New Jersey Municipal Management Association.


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The winners of the Berkhamsted Writing Competition have been chosen.
Hundreds of schools and grown-ups entered the 500-word short story contest, which had the theme of 'beginnings'.
The primary school age category was won by Isabella Garlick from St Thomas More School in Berkhamsted.
The top three in the secondary category were from John F Kennedy School in Hemel Hempstead – and the winner was Eve Attwood from Year 7. She had written a story about a boy coming to terms with his father's impending death.
The adult winner was Vanessa Horn.
Berkhamsted estate agent Aitchison's will match the £757 raised by £1 entry fees to the competition, and it will all go to Northchurch-based The Hospice of St Francis.
The judges were authors Catherine Alliot and Jonathan Stroud, and Berkhamsted-based children's publishers Make Believe Ideas.


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The site of an much-loved social club axed by developers is set to be transformed into a community hub.
A new Sainsbury's Local is set to be created - the first Sainsbury's supermarket in the borough - as well as a doctor's surgery, pharmacy and veterinary practice.
The development, on the site of the old Triplex club, is being undertaken by the Emerson Group and Orbit Developments at the Eccleston Grange residential development opposite Mill Dam.
Council leader Barrie Grunewald, who just over 12 months ago had been among the dissenting voices after residents tried in vain to save Eccleston Social Club on the same site, praised the new plans.
Up to 50 club members marched the 100 yards from their club to demonstrate outside developers Jones Homes' plush new showhome in a show of defiance.
Members claimed they were told at a meeting with the company's land manager that the club DID have a long term future - a claim denied by the company.
Jones Homes has now created a string of four and five bedroom detached properties at the site - as well as a selection of two and three bedroom mews properties.


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How to Create a Game Onlineby Contributor
Online games are very popular and fun to use. With some basic computer programming skills, you can create your own simple online games. There are a wide range of styles and game types available, with varying degrees of complexity and programming skill required to complete satisfactorily.
Evaluate the level of programming expertise and skill you have and select a game type and structure that matches. All successful game programmers start with a small, fairly simply game structure and then develop more complex and structured games as they gain more experience and skill creating games.
Decide what type of game you want to create. The more complex the game theory or structure, the more difficult to program. For a beginning online game, start with a two player, children's game based on a well known activity. Tic Tac Toe is a very good place to start.
Open an HTML editor and create a table structure in the shape of the Tic Tack Toe grid. Add boarders and a colourful background to make it visually appealing to your customer or user.
Upload or create an image of the X and O characters used in the game. Get creative and make it interesting to look at. Using Java or Java script, create the logic rules for the game. You need to define the space where each piece can be placed, what actions are not allowed and what actions results in a win or loss and for which player.
Include a running table of the score for each side, from the beginning of the session until the user leaves the website. Improve the quality of the game experience by adding movement to the shapes if they are left unattended for a specific period of time. This can include sounds, movements or changes in color.
- check Attend classes on how to develop online games at your local college or technical school. For more complex games, advanced programming skills are mandatory.
- check Most games are based on a very simple, familiar premise. Focus on making your game fun to play by ensuring the action is smooth, the page visually interesting and the game responses consistent with user expectations.


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Mules and hikers keep duking it out in the Grand Canyon
"Hold real still," drawled the lead wrangler, his mule plodding past a hiker trying to flatten herself to a rock wall on the Grand Canyon's narrow South Kaibab Trail. He didn't have to repeat himself. The woman, wearing sneakers, seemed scared to death.
This meeting of animals and hikers from all over the world has been going on for over a century. In theory, mules have the right of way. In practice, you have every nationality and culture visiting the Grand Canyon, and no wrangler can count on hikers having a clue about what to do. The Park Service advises hikers to wait on the inside of the trail for a mule train to pass, yet some in a hurry will bull their way past, and there are even practical jokers who like to try to spook mules, not realizing they can push animals and riders right over the edge.
On that hot day this July, I sure wondered about the German hiking in front of me. He was making the most of the trek by running from one photo opportunity to the next. He seemed like an accident waiting to happen as he rounded a blind switchback in the trail at full steam. Luckily, a mule train hadn't quite reached him as he skidded to a halt. At first, I thought the wrangler he'd spotted must be a reincarnation of Princess Diana, especially when I rounded the curve and saw that the tourist paparazzi had grown to half a dozen. To her credit, the wrangler looked regal and knew how to put on a good show: She was dressed in the mule-wrangler uniform of plaid, long-sleeve shirt buttoned to the neck, jeans, cowboy boots and cowboy hat. Turning in profile for the cameras she leisurely reached into one of the saddlebags and pulled out a can of tomato juice. Her male counterpart at the end of the train sat patiently, perhaps considering how he might have played the role if it had been his turn.
It was a different story in 1936, when my father, then 17, rode in a mule train down the Bright Angel Trail. The picture taken of the group by the Kolb Brothers at the top of the trail says it all: First, there's the wrangler, looking like Tom Mix and wearing a 10-gallon Stetson. Then there's the lineup on mules of men in their trousers and white shirts and women in their dresses and small-brimmed hats, all in profile, staring out at the Grand Canyon. These tourists were prosperous or sometimes, like my dad, good with a horse; in the middle of the Great Depression, there weren't many who could afford the trek or a stay at the El Tovar Hotel.
But visiting the inner canyon was anything but easy. Eighteen miles round-trip could be tough on an experienced rider, and hell for an inexperienced one. The cook must have been a sadist, my father told me, stuffing all the packs with salty ham sandwiches and stinting on the water. When the group rode back up, there wasn't a drop of water to be had, he said, and riders looked as if they'd been sucking on stones.
The Kolbs took their pictures at the beginning of the pack trip to give them time to develop the film before the riders returned to the South Rim. Until 1928, the Kolbs used a darkroom studio they'd built below the South Rim at Indian Gardens. They'd take their pictures as the mule train got underway, run to their studio to make a proof, then catch up with the mules below to take orders from riders for the prints. They'd finish the prints with creek water at the Indian Gardens studio while the mules went down to the Colorado River. Then they'd run back up the trail to deliver photographs to tourists on the South Rim at the end of the day.
Photography has come a long way since then. You can burn a photograph to a CD in a matter of minutes and sell it to tourists before they head down the trail. But the mule trains haven't changed much. It still takes the same amount of time to go up and down and the same technology, no upgrade or "version 2.4 mules." The mule my dad rode on is no different than its modern counterpart today; there are just a lot more photographers to pose for, and a heck of a lot more hikers to dodge.
Ann Adams is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News in Paonia, Colorado (hcn.org). She is a goat wrangler on a farm in Tajique, New Mexico.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].


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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 7, 2005) -- The Catholic University field hockey team will face McDaniel College in the first round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament at DuFour Field this week.
The Cardinals (10-6, 3-2) received the invitation after falling
3-1 to Salisbury University, the 2004 defending national champion,
in the Capital Athletic Conference championship match on Saturday.
This marks the second time the Cardinals have entered into
post-season play; in 2001, the team hosted the ECAC Mid-Atlantic
semifinal and final rounds as the #1 seed and emerged as
runners up.
This year, the Cardinals received the #4 seed in the eight-team field and face #5 McDaniel after canceling their regular season game under poor weather conditions. McDaniel (11-7, 7-3) most recently fell to Gettysburg College 3-2 in overtime in the Centennial Conference semifinals. McDaniel last appeared in the ECAC tournament in 2003.
The other teams in the tournament are #1 Gettysburg College, who lost to CUA 2-0 on the road on Sept. 14, #2 King's College, #3 Kean University, #6 Franklin & Marshall College, #7 Hartwick Colllege and #8 SUNY Oneonta.
The CUA-McDaniel game will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at CUA. The victor will face the winner of the Gettysburg-Oneonta matchup at the highest seed on Saturday, Nov. 12. The final will be played on Nov. 13 at the same site.


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|Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:03:36 +0000
:Matthew Dillon wrote: :> It's too late tonight, but monday morning I will likely be committing :> a major revamping of the buildworld code... : :Something that would have helped me a bit would be to have the 'upgrade' :target delete /usr/include/* and do a 'make includes'. (I had some :stale FBSD headers left after the conversion.)
I can't think of a single time that I've ever added or modified files
in /usr/include other then synchronizing them with the cvs tree...
I've always put custom header files in /usr/local/include.
I think we could safely do this. What do other people think?
Sounds good. It will also help us in finding out ports which put header files in /usr/includes in a broken manner. :-P
-Hiten Hiten Pandya hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx || hmp@xxxxxxxxxxx


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Thor is a fictional character, a superhero who appears in publications published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Journey into Mystery #83 (Aug. 1962) and was created by editor-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and penciller Jack Kirby.
Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books, the character is based on the god Thor of Norse mythology. He has starred in several ongoing series and limited series, and has been a perennial member of the superhero team the Avengers, appearing in each of the four volumes. The character has also appeared in associated Marvel merchandise including animated television series, clothing, toys, trading cards, video games, and movies.
The film Thor, based on the character and comic, was released in 2011, with Kenneth Branagh as director and Chris Hemsworth starring as Thor. Hemsworth reappears as Thor in The Avengers, and Thor 2 is set for release in 2013.
Publication history
The Marvel Comics superhero Thor debuted in the science fiction/fantasy anthology title Journey into Mystery #83 (cover-date Aug. 1962), created by editor-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and penciller Jack Kirby. Lee in 2002 described Thor's genesis early in the Marvel pantheon, following the creation of the Hulk:
"[H]ow do you make someone stronger than the strongest person? It finally came to me: Don't make him human — make him a god. I decided readers were already pretty familiar with the Greek and Roman gods. It might be fun to delve into the old Norse legends... Besides, I pictured Norse gods looking like Vikings of old, with the flowing beards, horned helmets, and battle clubs. ...Journey into Mystery needed a shot in the arm, so I picked Thor ... to headline the book. After writing an outline depicting the story and the characters I had in mind, I asked my brother, Larry, to write the script because I didn't have time. ...and it was only natural for me to assign the penciling to Jack Kirby..."
Subsequent stories of the 13-page feature "The Mighty Thor" continued to be plotted by Lee, and were variously scripted by Lieber or by Robert Bernstein, working under the pseudonym "R. Berns". Various artists penciled the feature, including Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, Don Heck, and Al Hartley. With Journey into Mystery #101 (Feb. 1964), the series began a long and definitive run by writer and co-plotter Lee and penciler and co-plotter Kirby that lasted until the by-then-retitled Thor (also called The Mighty Thor) #179 (Aug. 1970).
The five-page featurette "Tales of Asgard" was added in Journey into Mystery #97 (Oct. 1963), followed by "The Mighty Thor" becoming the dominant cover logo with issue #104 (May 1964). The feature itself expanded to 18 pages in #105, which eliminated the remaining anthological story from each issue; it was reduced to 16 pages five issues later.
Journey into Mystery was retitled Thor (per the indicia, or The Mighty Thor per most covers) with issue #126 (March 1966). "Tales of Asgard" was replaced by a five-page featurette starring the Inhumans from #146–152 (Nov. 1967 – May 1968), after which featurettes were dropped and the Thor stories expanded to Marvel's then-standard 20-page length.
After Kirby left the title, Neal Adams penciled issues #180-181 (Sept.-Oct. 1970). John Buscema then became the regular artist the following issue. Buscema continued to draw the book almost without interruption until #278 (Dec. 1978). Lee stopped scripting soon after Kirby left, and during Buscema's long stint on the book, the stories were mostly written by Gerry Conway, Len Wein, or Roy Thomas. Thomas continued to write the book after Buscema's departure, working much of the time with the artist Keith Pollard; during this period Thomas integrated many elements of traditional Norse mythology into the title, with specific stories translated into comics form. Following Thomas's tenure, Thor had a changing creative team.
Walt Simonson took over both writing and art as of #337 (Nov. 1983). Simonson's run as writer-artist lasted until #367 (May 1986), although he continued to write – and occasionally draw – the book until issue #382 (Aug. 1987). Simonson's run, which introduced the character Beta Ray Bill, was regarded as a popular and critical success.
After Simonson's departure, Marvel's editor-in-chief at the time, Tom DeFalco, became the writer. Working primarily with artist Ron Frenz, DeFalco stayed on the book until #459 (Feb. 1993).
As a consequence of the "Heroes Reborn" crossover story arc of the 1990s, Thor was removed from mainstream Marvel continuity and with other Marvel characters re-imagined in an alternate universe for one year. The Thor title reverted to Journey into Mystery with issue #503 (Nov. 1996), and ran four different, sequential features ("The Lost Gods"; "Master of Kung Fu"; "Black Widow" and "Hannibal King") before ceasing publication with #521 (June 1998).
When the character was returned to the mainstream Marvel Universe, Thor was relaunched with Thor vol. 2, #1 (July 1998). As of issue #36, the title used dual numbering in a tribute to the original Thor series, and the caption box for said issue became #36 / #538 (June 2001). The title ran until issue #85 / #587, dated December 2004. Dan Jurgens wrote the first 79 issues, with Daniel Berman and Michael Avon Oeming completing the series.
The third volume debuted as Thor #1 (Sept. 2007), initially written by J. Michael Straczynski and penciled by Olivier Coipel. Beginning with what would have been vol. 3, #13 (January 2009), the third volume reverted to issue #600, reflecting the total number of published issues from all three volumes. Kieron Gillen took over from Straczynski in Thor #604 with artists Billy Tan, Richard Elson and Dougie Braithwaite, with his final storyline finishing in issue #614. Afterward, Matt Fraction took over Thor in issue #615, after having been announced as starting in Thor #610 and #611.
To coincide with the Thor film, Marvel launched a number of new series starring the character in mid-2010. These included Thor: The Mighty Avenger by Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee, Thor: First Thunder by Bryan J. L. Glass and Tan Eng Huat, Thor: For Asgard by Robert Rodi and Simone Bianchi, and Iron Man/Thor by writing duo Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning.
In April 2011, Thor once again reverted to its original title of Journey into Mystery with issue #622, reuniting writer Gillen and artist Braithwaite in a series of stories starring Thor's adopted brother, Loki. A new ongoing series, officially titled The Mighty Thor, kicked off the same month with writer Fraction and artist Coipel.
Fictional character biography
Thor's father Odin decided his son needed to be taught humility and consequently placed Thor (without memories of godhood) into the body and memories of an existing, partially disabled human medical student, Donald Blake. After becoming a doctor and on vacation in Norway, Blake witnessed the arrival of an alien scouting party. Blake fled into a cave after they heard him and began to pursue him. After discovering Thor's disguised hammer Mjolnir, and striking it against a rock, he transformed into the thunder god.
Defeating the aliens, Thor shared a double life with his alter ego: treating the ill in a private practice with nurse - and eventual love - Jane Foster and defending humanity from evil. Thor's presence on Earth almost immediately attracted the attention of his adoptive brother and arch-foe Loki; who returned repeatedly to Earth in a bid to destroy Thor. Loki was also responsible for the emergence of three of Thor's principal foes: the Absorbing Man; the Wrecker, and the Destroyer. On one occasion, Loki's tactics were accidentally beneficial - although successful in using an illusion of the Hulk to draw Thor into battle, it resulted in the formation of the superhero team the Avengers, of which Thor was a founding and longstanding member.
Thor's other early foes included the Red Army; Zarrko, the Tomorrow Man; the Radioactive Man; the Lava Man; the Cobra; Mister Hyde; the Enchantress and the Executioner and the Grey Gargoyle.
Falling in love with Jane Foster, Thor disobeyed his father and refused to return to Asgard, an act for which he was punished on several occasions. Thor's natural affinity for Earth was eventually revealed to be due to the fact that he was the son of the Elder Goddess Gaea. Although Thor initially regarded himself as a "superhero" like his teammates in the Avengers, Loki's machinations drew Thor into increasingly epic adventures, such as teaming with father Odin and Asgardian ally Balder against fire demon Surtur and Skagg the Storm Giant, and defeating an increasingly powerful Absorbing Man and proving his innocence in the "Trial of the Gods". This necessitates an extended leave of absence from the Avengers.
Thor also encountered Greek God Hercules, who became a loyal friend. Thor also saved Hercules from fellow Olympian Pluto; stopped the advance of Ego the Living Planet; rescued Jane Foster from the High Evolutionary and defeated his flawed creation, the Man-Beast. Odin finally relented and allowed Thor to love Jane Foster, on the proviso she pass a trial. Foster, however, panicked and Thor intervened. Although Foster failed the test, Odin returned her to Earth where she was given another chance at love, while a heartbroken Thor was introduced to Asgardian warrior Sif. Thor battled the Asgardian troll Ulik for the first time when he attempted to steal Mjolnir; defeated Avengers foe Kang the Conqueror and the alien Super-Skrull and with Odin and his Asgardian allies engaged in a battle to the death with the Enchanters Three.
Despite repeated attempts by Loki to destroy Thor with a series of past and new foes, Thor was victorious, and even avoids being claimed by Asgardian death goddess Hela. The thunder god returned to Asgard to prevent Mangog from drawing the Odinsword and ending the universe; learned the origin of the cosmic entity Galactus (and encountered Ego once again); and stopped the child-like Him (who would eventually become Adam Warlock) from kidnapping Sif.
Thor battled Surtur once again when the fire demon attempted to storm Asgard (with Loki temporarily seizing power courtesy of the Odin Ring); encountered the entity the Stranger and his pawn the Abomination and overpowered an outmatched Doctor Doom. Thor only returned to Earth sporadically, forced to deal with a constant wave of Asgardian (e.g., Mangog; Ulik); godly (e.g. Pluto


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I hear other breed owners refer to their pets as "alpha"- but I wonder how it is they know this- or are they just guessing? Are there particular traits alphas all exhibit.
|I was thinking this link might help out determining if you have an alpha. I hope it helps you. The test is meant for puppies, but maybe it will give you an idea about Chelsea.
http://www.oes.org/html/how_do_i_pick_t ... uppy_.html
Good luck
Stormi and co.
I don't think all OES have these traits - sounds like you have an Alpha on your hands!
|I did that puppy test for both girls, and Dancer came up mostly 3's and Sky mostly 4's. It seems fairly accurate, except that I think Dancer is slightly more submissive than Sky, but not with Sky... They are both little love-bugs..... but sky is more confident and pushy about getting what she wants... Dancer is quieter and sneaks her way onto your lap, if that's possible, but she tries. LOL Sky just takes a flying leap across the coffee table and right onto my lap. LOL
The puppy appitude test is very well done.
Here's some other ways you can tell if your dog is Alpha in regards to other dogs.
They take the toys and food from other dogs with little or no resistance from the other dogs. (Unless they too are trying to establish they are the Alpha)
They always greet other dogs with the tail up, submissive ones always have their tail down. Watch the tails of the dogs to give you advance warning if a challenge may occur. If both dogs have their tails up they are both saying "I'm the leader".."No, I am".
If one dog lowers his tail he is then saying.."um okay you can be the boss".
Some dogs have no interest and just do the tail wagging or play stance when greeting another dog. The play stance is both feet spread out..rump up in the air..tail wagging. They are asking...come on lets play!!! Do you want to chase or be chased?
The dog that does the jowl licking to other dogs is showing puppy like behavior and submissiveness. (It's why our dogs lick our faces..they resort back to puppyhood submissiveness.)
Showing the belly is also a sign of submissiveness when greeting us or if challenged by another dog. Showing us their most vulnerable spot is a sign of trust but they also allow another dog to see this dog has no interest in fighting at all.
Anyway those are some of the things I watch out for at the dog park..especially the position of the dogs tail. Have a look next time and you will be amazed how much info you can get by viewing their body language.
Tail up..wants to be boss
Body is erect to appear to make themselves bigger.
Tail down, body is slumped to make themselves appear smaller.
Ears flat against the head..dog in protective mode..usually out of fear aggression.
Oh forgot about the humping..this is a sign of dominance and should never be allowed under any circumstances. The owner should immediately make his dog stop as it's not usually sexual, but telling another dog he is dominant over him. Some dogs are okay with it but many dogs rise to the challenge and start to fight. People usually chuckle when viewing this scene as they find it funny but it usually precedes a fight so best to pull your dog off.
Those are the things I can think of from the top of my head. Hope that helps. I should mention that although Merlin is Alpha in the household he isn't necessarily an Alpha dog at the dog park as other dogs he has come into contact with have established their dominance over him previously.
Dogs have a choice if they come across the winner or dominant dog they've met before. The can either choose not to back down and fight again (This can be really difficult if both dogs are very dominant and neither is willing to let the other be Alpha as they will always fight.)
Or in like both Merlin and Panda's case the dominant dog growled and snarled attacking them. They both got down in the belly up position and let him know they honored his dominance and from that moment on - it's never a problem. They always continue to play with this dog.
The dog whom really concerns me is one that breaks their social rules. The one that attacks another dog and continues to go for them even when they have shown the belly up. This kind of dog (can be like a person kicking another person when they are down) is an aggressive dog and not just dominant. There is a difference!!! Showing whom is Alpha amongst themselves is completely normal while aggression is not.
Lastly, even in a wolf pack if a leader is deemed too aggressive the other members of the pack will get together and oust him. Dogs like wolves respect a strong leader but not one that continuously harms them.
Oh sheesh!! Just remembered many of our boys/girls have no tails at all - like Merlin. (Panda has a little stub so I can see the wiggle) In that case look at their body language and position of their ears.
I didn't know about the puppy evaluation test- how helpful is that?! I wish I had known about it when we chose her.
The good news is that Chelsea scored 5 threes and 5 fives on the evaluation, so she is in the running for a good companion animal, and not an "alpha". I am thinking of her behavior toward others in class and at the park based on what you had to offer Marianne, I definitely know she's not an "alpha"- The first time the puppies were allowed to have play-time in her puppy class, a couple of the little ones started running after Chelsea and barking, she took off like a jackrabbit and went running around the circle as fast as she could to get away from those little yippers! She had a look of sheer terror on her face, her ears were pinned back and flopping as she ran toward us (my husband and I)- just like the timid little thing she is, she ran behind daddy's legs and cowered. NOT an aggressive dog.
Thanks for putting my mind at ease- I think I've figured out the problem, she's 14 months old and she is spoiled absolutely rotten. Her behavior issue are my fault and now we will just have to train them out of her!
Thanks for the input and advice!
|I don't know if I really believe the puppy test. When we picked Frank up all the pups were sleeping (it was noon) and as soon as the breeder woke them up and brought them out, Frank seemed uninterested in us and immediately turned around and went back into his kennel. I would say upon meeting him he was mostly 6's which means by the chart that he's uninterested in people, unaffectionate and independent. I would say he exhibits none of these qualities although he has slightly more independence than my last OES. All of the pups had just eaten, and there had been a few people before me picking up their pups, so how your pup reacts may be circumstantial.
|I didn't do the puppy test when picking up my girls, I just did it a while ago out of curiosity. I don't know how accurate that really is since it is intended for when you are picking a pup out and it doesn't yet know you... but it was interesting anyway...lol
|Our JuJu joined our home with a 4 year old female Border Collie mix(rescued from the pound). We thought Jenny our Border Collie would be dominant because she was older and well you know...this was "her home". It only took a while until Jules established dominance. Jenny will keep trying every now and then to be "alpha", but she loses. Sometimes we call Jules "Bossy Flossy". I think being bossy and stubborn is in their nature. They are somewhat "control freaks" and like to have their people and animals where they want them.
|Its interesting that Chelsea is Alpha, since Pirate is so NOT alpha! But I guess when you live with mean ol' Molly, you never really get a chance to be top dog!
Deborah, Chelsea's Auntie
|Hmmm...since we picked Merlin out of his litter when he was about 3-4 weeks old and looked like a guinea pig...there was no testing any of them. But...Merlin was the only puppy that relaxed when I picked him up.
And how on earth do you do the tail test when most of these guys have their tails docked! LOL!
|Chelsea was, oddly enough, the quiet one in the litter, my son and I have oft debated this, he was leaning toward a more active female, I chose Chelsea because she had a square head and looked intelligent (plus she had a curly rear end that was IRRESISTABLE) Looking back, as crazy as she is, I think she had worn herself out greeting the other "lookers" that day, by the time we got there she was soo pooped she could barely raise her head, the other puppies had 'paced' themselves and were more able to show off.
She is certianly always trying to assert her dominance, but not over the traditional "alpha" stuff like food, toys, etc. She is really protective of all of us and of course feels the need to break up any hugging or arguing going on amongst the human memebers of the family- always in the middle, but my first OES did this too and I think it's more OEs trait than any signs of "alpha" behavior.
I'm still curious though as to how people determine they have brought an "alpha" into their midst. I guess I figure I'm the bossy momma alpha in our family, and any dog-child is going to have to fall in line with the rest of the pack - certainly will have to fall in line behind me. Chelsea challenges this from time to time, but she is young, and exuberant, in the dog pack she would get "smacked" down by the real alpha, so I do that from time to time, not physically, but verbally and in dog language ( I growl at her and I stand in her way physically to let her know who is boss- sounds crazy- but it works, she immediately backs down and starts licking in the air until she reaches me and can lick me).
Anybody else have to do this? Just curious.
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Alexandre's father Nicholas Benois and brother Leon Benois were prominent Russian architects. Alexandre didn't plan to devote his life to art and graduated from the Faculty of Law, St. Petersburg University in 1894. Three years later, while in Versailles, he painted a series of watercolors depicting Last Promenades of Louis XIV. When exhibited by Pavel Tretyakov in 1897, they brought him to attention of Sergei Diaghilev and Leon Bakst. Together they founded the art magazine Mir iskusstva which aimed at promoting Art Nouveau in Russia.
During the first decade of the new century, Benois continued to edit Mir iskusstva but also pursued his scholarly interests. He prepared and printed several monographs on the 19th-century Russian art and Tsarskoye Selo. From 1918 to 1926, he ran the gallery of Old Masters in the Hermitage Museum, to which he secured his brother's heirloom - Leonardo's Madonna Benois. In 1903, he printed his illustrations to Pushkin's Bronze Horseman which have since been recognized as one of the landmarks in the genre.
In 1901, Benois was appointed scenic director of the Mariinsky Theatre. Since then, he devoted most of his time to stage design and decor. Les Sylphides (1909), Giselle (1910), and Petrushka (1911) are counted among his greatest triumphs. Although he worked primarily with Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, he simultaneously collaborated with the Moscow Art Theatre and other notable theatres of Europe. His Memoirs were published in two volumes in 1955. The Russian artists Eugene Lanceray and Zinaida Serebryakova were his nephew and niece, and the British actor Sir Peter Ustinov was his grand nephew.
Birthday: May 4, 1870
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Birthday: May 4, 2017
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Mixology Monday: Tequila
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
I've kicked myself many times for never participating in the brilliant Mixology Mondays that Paul over at the Cocktail Chronicles put together last year, but my lack of participation has more to do with the fact that Sunday is my one day off – the one day I never seem to have a computer in my lap. But with my sweetie working Mother's Day brunch today, I've got a little time to put together something very special for my first (and hopefully not last) foray into Mixology Monday. Here we go!
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Products.MegamanicEditContentTypes 2.2.4
Various content types that are usable in the MegamanicEdit framework
Latest Version: 2.2.6b
Various content types that are usable in the MegamanicEdit framework, a contact type with endless options for emails, addresses and so on, a contact landing page that can generate contacts based on an object template, an Email message type for generating and sending out emails.
A lot of what used to be in GrailTact has now been moved to this package.
Note on email messages: Home folders need to be enabled, and the email message type has been specified to not use any workflow and set itself to viewable only by the creator of the message and any user with the Manager role.
2.2.4 (2012-10-08)
- Adding country prefix to phone number type
2.2.3 (2012-07-19)
- Fixing up some object actions (edit tab)
2.2.2b (2012-06-14)
- Making Megamanic class first class on content objects, fixing some labeling failures
2.2.1 (2012-05-18)
- Adding missing templates
2.2 (2012-05-14)
- Making email messages "protected" by default.
- Adding search form and mailing form for contacts.
- Improving generation of Email message sender info
- Fixing up some permission settings
2.1 (2012-05-09)
2.1b (2012-05-07)
- Adding new attendee event content type
- Fixing bug where Address couldn't be added in contact landing page or contact
1.0 (2012-04-26)
- Initial release
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Life and Techniques
James Joyce was born in Dublin and this influenced his works; and he belongs to the age of the modernism. He was one of the most important figure in this movement .He defined a new role of the writer, with the use interior monologue technique ; the writer almost diseappears and the readers finds themselves directly inside a character's mind.
An epiphany is a sudden revelation actually in Joyce's stories and novels there are a lot of peaks of intensity called by the writer epiphany. The epiphany happens through trivial experiences and common things that produce a new sudden awareness.
The Dubliners
This handiwork is divided in 4 categories and 15 stories: the four caterogories are childhood, adolescence,maturity and public life . The main theme of this work is the feeling of paralysis proved by the characters and caused by the limited cultural and social traditions and the moral codes of his time. Actually Joyce uses an everyday language to show the unhappyness of the reality. The writer also wanted to show
The Dead
This is the last story of the Dubliners. In this story we have a lot of detailed of descriptions of people and settings. This work includes the perfect example of what Joyce meant for epiphany.Actually the central event of the story was Gretta's epiphany that caused her husbnd's epiphany too. So during a party Gretta heard a song that made her reminded her first and only true love who she thought died for her, Michael Furey. So coming back home she cried thinking about him and when she told her husband about Michael he realizes that he never really knew his wife and that he is more dead than the real dead. Actually The Dead is a sort of natural conclusion in which the living and the dead are united . In this story we have the element of the snow that covered everything reflecting the insignificance of our most intense moments of extistence and the death of the human feelins , of our life and the death of everything. Joyce wanted to show that the living live a sort of ''death-in live'' during which the dead are still alive in their memories.


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I've made a little tool in Construct to get details about your video hardware, which saves you looking up the specs of your computer. This thread will be linked to in tech support when we need to know your video hardware for a bug report or issue: if we've directed you here, run the program, and paste the output to your thread. Get it here:
It would be interesting if everyone ran it and pasted the output to this thread as well - it would give us a rough idea of the hardware everyone's on. My results:
Device name: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Pixel shader: 3
Estimated VRAM: 733 MB
Motion blur: Yes
Update - here's the .cap file for this tool.


text: On 2012-04-25 17:33, Fred Hebert wrote: > I would also agree to see this as a bug. > > Regarding the fix, wouldn't rewriting it to use a try ... of ... catch > negate the problem entirely by being able to make the distinction > between a throw and a returned value? > > try Mod:some_callback(...) of > ... > Other -> exit({bad_return_value, Other} > catch > _:Reason -> exit(Reason) > end > > or something similar, as long as we keep similar error/exit semantics? It's the "similar" that's the issue here. What can we change without breaking too much existing code? That's why I would like a clear statement from the OTP team before I try to create a patch. > I figure the throw could be seen as the standard bubbling thing where > throw becomes an error, which becomes an error before the process dies. Yes, I think that an uncaught throw should turn into error({nocatch, Term}), but there's also the question of whether 'error' exceptions should be turned into exits as it is done now in gen_server. It would probably be nicest if the gen_server framework didn't affect the exit signal sent by a process when it dies: if spawn(M,F,[...]) sends out signal X in a particular situation, then if you wrap M:F(...) using the gen_server library, the process should still send out X in the same situation. That's not the case today however, and the question is, can we make it so without upsetting too much old code? /Richard


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Grampa and Julie: Shark Hunters is a graphic novel collecting the first 3 or so years of the comic strip of the same name that ran in Nickelodeon Magazine.
It was published with the help of a Xeric Foundation grant.
"In this full-color graphic novel, Julie and her Grampa spend summer vacation looking for the largest shark in the world, Stephen. Meeting Stephen leads to even more exciting adventures, including a quest to find Stephen's mom. The Shark Hunters meet monkeys at the bottom of the ocean, pirates, and even aliens....
Czekaj demonstrates a wonderful sense of the absurd, and though the tension in the exploits escalates, the adventures are never truly scary. Julie and Grampa get by on their intelligence and their humor, and the results are hilarious. Parents reading this aloud will have as much fun as their children." -Booklist
"This is such a great example of a story that parents and kids can read together, because it will work for both the child and the adult." -Crowding the Book Truck
"Taken from the pages of Nickelodeon magazine, this charming children's comic overflows with humor, adventure and whimsy." -Publishers Weekly
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Show of hands: Who else giggled when Sookie — dressed in a flowing peignoir that I'm kind of hoping came from her much-lamented Grandmother — ran across the field into Bill's arms? (You probably can't see it through the system of tubes that is the Internets, but my hand is waaaay up.) Bill's trek in the opposite direction when he thought Sookie was in danger — was that his dream, or hers? — was more satisfying. Him standing guard outside the house, looking up at her window, was sweet — it reminded me of John Cusack in "Say Anything" — but also creepy. A boombox and a little Peter Gabriel goes a long way to offsetting a stalkerish vibe.
The final scene did a nifty job of juxtaposing the romantic image of the woman in white swooping into the arms of the vamp she loves with the presumed reality of some seriously gross slurpage when Bill sank his fangs into Sookie's throat.
Sookie definitely earned an evening by the fire with her sort-of beloved. After all, in the hours immediately preceding that blissful moment, she found her Grandmother's body; cleaned the blood-drenched kitchen where her Grandmother died; had to make arrangements for the burial all by herself, since her loser brother was off on a V bender; got another oh-so-delightful look at the internal monologues of the people of Bon Temps ("Holy hell, we got ourselves a serial killer!"), many of whom apparently believe she or Jason offed the old lady; was slapped across the face by her brother, who blames her for their grandmother's murder; and ate half a pecan pie that, not to speak ill of the fictional dead, looked awfully watery.
We finally got to see Bill and Sam square off, something I'd like to see more of. It was kind of exciting to see them circle each other, each laying claim to Sookie. (Why couldn't they work out some sort of compromise where Sam could be her daytime boyfriend and Bill could be her evening boyfriend?)
— Deborah Martin


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Bulldog basketball team opens season Tuesday at Monterey
Published 9:16 am, Monday, November 17, 2014
Photo: Skip Leon/Plainview Herald
Plainview basketball player Zach Riddley looks to pass the ball during a scrimmage against Randall last week. Riddley, a 6-foot senior forward, is one of six returnees for the Bulldogs, who open their regular season Tuesday when they travel to Lubbock Monterey for a 7:30 p.m. game. The Dogs will play their first home game Friday when they host Levelland at 7 p.m.. The Dogs will be looking to return to the playoffs this season after barely missing out on a buzzer-beating three-point shot last year.


text: On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Roger Heflin wrote:> > -----Original Message-----> > From: email@example.com > > [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Martin Drab> > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:51 AM> > To: Phillip Susi> > Cc: Bill Davidsen; Cynbe ru Taren; Linux Kernel Mailing List; > > Salyzyn, Mark> > Subject: Re: FYI: RAID5 unusably unstable through 2.6.14> > > > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Martin Drab wrote:> > > > > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Phillip Susi wrote:> > > > > > > Usually drives will fail reads to bad sectors but when > > you write to > > > > that sector, it will write and read that sector to see if > > it is fine > > > > after being written again, or if the media is bad in > > which case it > > > > will remap the sector to a spare.> > > > > > No, I don't think this was the case of a physically bad sectors. I > > > think it was just an inconsistency of the RAID controllers metadata > > > (or something simillar) related to that particular array.> > > > Or is such a situation not possible at all? Are bad sectors > > the only reason that might have caused this? That sounds a > > little strange to me, that would have been a very unlikely > > concentration of conincidences, IMO. > > That's why I still think there are no bad sectors at all (at > > least not because of this). Is there any way to actually find out?> > > Some of the drive manufacturers have tools that will read out> "log" files from the disks, and these log files include stuff> such as how many bad block errors where returned to the host> over the life of the disk.S.M.A.R.T. should be able to do this. But last time I've checked it wasn't working with Linux and SCSI/SATA. Is this working now?> You would need a decent contatct with the disk manufacturer, and> you might be able to get them to tell you, maybe.Well it's a WD 1600SD.Martin-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to email@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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For many of a initial dual billion years, Earth was a really opposite place: oxygen was scarce, microbial life ruled, and a object was significantly dimmer than it is today. Yet a stone record shows that immeasurable seas lonesome many of a early Earth underneath a gloomy immature sun.
Scientists have prolonged debated what kept those seas from freezing. A renouned speculation is that manly gases such as methane – with many times some-more warming energy than CO dioxide – combined a thicker hothouse atmosphere than compulsory to keep H2O glass today.
In a deficiency of oxygen, iron built adult in ancient oceans. Under a right chemical and biological processes, this iron rusted out of seawater and cycled many times by a formidable loop, or "ferrous wheel." Some microbes could "breathe" this decay in sequence to outcompete others, such as those that done methane. When decay was plentiful, an "iron curtain" might have suppressed methane emissions.
"The ancestors of complicated methane-making and rust-breathing microbes might have prolonged battled for prevalence in habitats mostly governed by iron chemistry," pronounced Marcus Bray, a biology Ph.D. claimant in a laboratory of Jennifer Glass, partner highbrow in a Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and principal questioner of a investigate saved by NASA's Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology Program. The investigate was reported in a biography Geobiology on Apr 17, 2017.
Using sand pulled from a bottom of a pleasant lake, researchers during Georgia Tech gained a new grasp of how ancient microbes done methane notwithstanding this "iron curtain."
Collaborator Sean Crowe, an partner highbrow during a University of British Columbia, collected sand from a inlet of Indonesia's Lake Matano, an anoxic iron-rich ecosystem that singly mimics early oceans. Bray placed a sand into little incubators simulating early Earth conditions, and tracked microbial farrago and methane emissions over a duration of 500 days. Minimal methane was shaped when decay was added; but rust, microbes kept creation methane by mixed dilutions.
Extrapolating these commentary to a past, a group resolved that methane prolongation could have persisted in rust-free rags of ancient seas. Unlike a conditions in today's well-aerated oceans, where many healthy gas constructed on a seafloor is consumed before it can strech a surface, many of this ancient methane would have transient to a atmosphere to trap feverishness from a early sun.
In further to those already mentioned, a investigate group enclosed Georgia Tech professors Frank Stewart and Tom DiChristina, Georgia Tech postdoctoral scholars Jieying Wu and Cecilia Kretz, Georgia Tech Ph.D. claimant Keaton Belli, Georgia Tech M.S. tyro Ben Reed, University of British Columbia postdoctoral academician Rachel Simister, Indonesian Institute of Sciences researcher Cynthia Henny, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography highbrow Jay Brandes, and University of Kansas highbrow David Fowle.
Source: Georgia Tech
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In celebration of the upcoming Cesar Chavez holiday, California State University, Stanislaus students had the opportunity to witness and learn from one of Chavez's right hand men and a significant leader in Chicano culture: Luis Valdez.
The regular school year in Manteca Unified runs from August to May. That's the norm for the majority of the 23,000-plus elementary and high school students in the district. That holds true for other public schools in San Joaquin County as well.
Agriculture is the dominant industry in the Central Valley, where the legacy of Cesar Chavez still hangs in the air for families of migrant workers across the state.
Students at Cesar Chavez High in Stockton are learning more about their school namesake.
DELANO (AP) - In California's fertile Central Valley, immigrant workers pick produce sold worldwide. They're mostly Spanish speakers who work long hours in the dirt and sun - not your typical crowd for a Hollywood movie premiere.
NEW YORK (AP) - Playing renowned civil rights activist Dolores Huerta in the new biopic "Cesar Chavez" doesn't seem to be enough for Rosario Dawson. The actress, who knows and has worked with Huerta, would now like to bring her friend's life to the screen.
An Arizona man once set out to visit all of what's left of the A&W restaurants with carhops.
Where in the Central Valley can you find five Elvis impersonators, vintage cars, and a root beer float made from root beer brewed daily? The A&W Drive in in Modesto.
Burgers, fries and shakes – can you get more American than that? Not at the Sno-White Drive-In in Modesto.
Foster's Freeze in Manteca has a 54-year history, but the presence of a drive-through restaurant at the corner of Yosemite and Walnut avenues dates back to the 1930s.
In a remote place called Volcano in the Sierra foothills, Mother Nature every year magically lays out a thick carpet of golden yellow made even more vivid by spring's solid sunshine.
Spring has sprung – well, not exactly but it sure feels like it. As locals head outside to enjoy the pleasant weather and put their concerns about the ongoing drought in California to the back of their minds, the outdoor parks are an excellent place to ring in the new season.
It's a hit-or-miss proposition.
While many children enjoy playing in the backyard as the weather warms up, the City of Modesto offers locals a slightly more unique outdoor experience: 500 acres along the Tuolumne River.
RIPON – Ripon Christian Schools has consistently sent 98 percent of its graduates on to college – a record that has continued into the 21st century.
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VOLCANO - One small town in Amador County equals one big attraction.
SAN JOSE - A few years back some friends from the Midwest and their 17 year-old son were hiking with me at Big Basin Redwoods Park ...
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The Assembly Lands Committee will recommend the city make no changes to a firearms ordinance that homeowners near the Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge say leaves them at risk.
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A Juneau firearms ordinance states it is illegal for anyone but a law officer to discharge a gun within a quarter-mile of a public road, except on the Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge. Homeowners had asked for the ordinance to be changed. Instead, the city will put their trust in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, which is charged with managing the refuge.
The unanimous vote Monday night was a show of support for Fish and Game, criticized by some homeowners as being ineffective managers of the refuge. The issue was discussed in a packed chambers, with some wearing camouflage jackets.
"By repealing the ordinance much of the waterfowl hunting would be abolished," Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Ryan Scott said. "It would really just concentrate hunters in a small place, creating other potential problems."
Al Cook, a hunter who lives at 9506 Antler Way on the lower Mendenhall River, said he wants the city to step in before "it is too late." Duck hunters have been using the pond across the lower Mendenhall River for hunting. The pond sits near his home, he said.
"We do not want hunting to stop at the refuge," Cook said. "We just want to ensure that it is done in a safe manner before anyone gets hurt."
He said his house was peppered with shotgun pellets by duck hunters who were legally hunting across the river from his house on Thanksgiving in 2004.
"If someone does get hurt then there could be a knee-jerk reaction resulting in hunting being prohibited entirely," Cook said.
The Department of Fish and Game is working to fix the problem, said Lands and Resources Manager Steve Gilbertson.
"They (Fish and Game officials) are moving in the right direction by working with homeowners and hunters to refine and test (management strategies)," said Gilbertson. " The city is really not in the game-management business."
Scott reiterated Fish and Game's commitment to address homeowners concerns. State plans for improved safety during the 2006 waterfowl season include a waterfowl clinic that will stress safety on the refuge, required registration at the Douglas office for permittees wishing to hunt in the Mendenhall Peninsula area and better incident tracking and agency coordination.
"We will have more of a presence on the refuge, but we expect a high level of agency cooperation," Scott said. "We are not state troopers."
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Fire destroys house near Evansville
Fire destroyed a house in Evansville early this morning.
At about 1:30 a.m., the Douglas County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call about a house fire at 21413 Horseshoe Road NW, the home of Mike and Mary Stramer, north of Evansville.
When Evansville firefighters arrived on scene, they found the house engulfed in flames.
Two males inside the residence managed to escape by jumping from a second story window, according to the sheriff's office. They were both transferred to the hospital by Ashby Ambulance.
Fire departments in Ashby and Brandon also responded to the blaze.
The house was a total loss.