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Based on the popular Thomas Rockwell book: An 11-year-old boy dreads his first day at a new school, and as he suspects, the local bullies pick on him all day. To prove himself and earn respect from his new classmates, he makes a bet that he can eat 10 worms without throwing up. But he has a sensitive stomach, and so he is sure that he will lose the bet especially when he sees how the bullies are "preparing" them. With Luke Benward, Adam Hicks, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Austin Rogers, Ty Panitz and Kimberly Williams. Directed by Bob Dolman. [1:38]
SEX/NUDITY 1 - A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals cleavage, and an animated boy is shown wearing only jockey shorts.
► A boy makes a remark about a "pig licking himself."
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - Boys break into the shack of a woman whom they say is suspected of being a witch, she returns and catches them, she yells, chases them and swings a bag around hitting a couple of the boys (the boys also say that the bag holds a severed head).
► A boy describes the effects of being punched by a boy wearing a "death ring" and says that you will bleed to death and die by the 8th grade (we see an animated illustration of the process where a boy develops a sore, it grows, it fills his body with blood and falls off leaving a skeleton).
► A boy shoves another boy to the ground. A boy thrusts a blowfish on the end of a stick toward another boy's face (he falls back and onto the ground). A boy's older brother bullies him by calling him a joke in several scenes and he smears jelly from bread on his cheeks in one scene. A boy is spun very fast on a park ride by several other boys who are trying to make him nauseous. Several boys on bikes chase another boy on a bike and call him names. Several boys stare at another boy trying to intimidate him.
► A boy kicks a backpack filled with canned food and hurts his foot. A boy crashes his bike into a bush, and falls off the bike. A man is struck several times by tennis balls, and a woman accidentally strikes a man with a tennis racket.
► A boy puts an earthworm in his mouth, chews, and then vomits (we hear gagging). A boy drops a live worm into a pan with hot lard, the worm sizzles and oozes, another boy pierces it with a fork, it squirts liquid on another boy's glasses and one of the boys eats the worm. A boy smashes a worm using a rolling pin, then scrapes off the goo and spreads it on a sandwich with peanut butter (another boy eats the sandwich). A boy eats two worms cooked together in liver juice, and some juice dribbles on his face. A boy grinds up a green worm in a blender, another boy eats the slop, and it pours out and onto the boy's face (we hear squishing). A boy eats a worm prepared with very spicy sauce and another boy sprays him with a garden hose trying to give him a drink (the boy being sprayed is knocked down). A boy eats a worm covered with a marshmallow sauce. A boy prepares an omelet with a worm in it and he and other boys watch a man eat it. A worm explodes in a microwave and a boy scrapes the goo off and eats it.
► A boy opens his thermos and pours out a clump of wriggling worms (we hear a squishing sound). A boy squeezes a toothpaste tube and worms wriggle out onto his toothbrush (he imagines this). A boy scoops a pile of wriggling worms into his lap to avoid getting into trouble (we hear squishing sounds).
► A boy throws a worm across a cafeteria and it lands on another boy's face. Several boys crowd around another boy, throw gummy worms at him and call him names. We see many wriggling worms being put into a boy's pants, and the boy walks through a school hallway twitching and reacting to the sensation while other children watch.
► A boy vomits behind a tree (we see him lurching and hear gagging). An animated boy vomits several times (his face turns green and we hear a loud horn blare each time). Several boys make a huge mess in another boy's kitchen. A boy drools, trying to hit ants on the ground. A boy picks his nose.
► Three boys break an arcade game by spilling a soda on it, then one falls back into a store display knocking the items to the floor, and they are all chased out of the store.
► Boys look at a diagram of the internal organs of an earthworm and discuss its sphincter with interest.
► A bird pulls a worm out of the ground, stretches it, snaps it up and eats it. An animated sequence shows a turtle in a road, a car approaches it and it is implied that the car runs over the turtle, leaving it spinning on the road. A boy spills bird feed on his head.
► A boy says there are dead fish corpses hanging from the ceiling of a shack. A boy wishes that his older brother was dead.
PROFANITY 2 - 11 clinical anatomical terms (sphincter, penis), 2 children's terms for male genitals (dilly dink), name-calling (worm-boy, cheater, big fat giant, big giant, rat, bully, witch, dumb, joke), 4 bodily function references (barf), 1 religious exclamation. [profanity glossary]
SUBSTANCE USE - A man drinks wine. There is ample earthworm consumption.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Earthworms, uncommon eating habits, bullies, relocating, friendship, being the new kid, sibling rivalry, imitative behavior, passing on negative behaviors.
MESSAGE - Don't judge people too quickly.
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The second multilateral assessment (MA) of Croatia took place under the SBI 45 in Marrakech, on
12 November 2016. The aim of this session was to assess Croatia's progress in implementation
towards the achievement of emission reductions and removals related to its quantified economy-wide
emission reduction targets.
The working group session was preceded by a three-month period of questions and answers in the
lead-up to the SBI session.
A compilation of questions to Croatia was published on 1 September 2016 and was replaced with a
full compilation of question and answers on 29 October 2016.
The following documents are available:
Output of MA including
Party record
• Second Biennial Report ( BR2 (1971 kB) ) and
technical review report (TRR2)
• National GHG inventory submission 2016 and report (ARR)
Questions formulated and answers provided within the three months prior to the MA session,
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• Complete set of questions and answers Croatia (722 kB)
• Any observation by Croatia
• SBI summary
report Croatia
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> > Of course we could spend another 6 months > > trying to work that out... It seems a much more efficient use of the time > > and energy of the combined RDFCore+WebOnt team to fix this problem and move > > on. Dark triples is the only proposal on the table for which there appears > > any sort of consensus that it would actually work. > > Please point me to this dark triples proposal -- the one that > explains how they work. I'm pretty sure there isn't one, > and I've done quite a bit of looking (and phoning people, > and so on.) > I have been making efforts to put up proposals that have enough detail so that they can be knocked down. I, like Dan, do not find the dark triples proposal having that level of detail. Showing that I am still playing the game according to my preferred rules of discussing concrete cases in sufficient, but hopefully not exhaustive detail, let us consider Peter's child case. (In this case I fear it is exhausting but not exhaustive!) > R: > > John rdf:type Person . > Bill rdf:type Person . > John child Bill . > entailing > John rdf:type _:1 . > _:1 rdf:type daml:Restriction . > _:1 rdf:onProperty child . > _:1 rdf:hasClass :_1 . I personally think this, as stated, is false. But like Jonathan I think it points to an important use case, for which I will give my treatment. I think R is false because: If R is true then the premises also entail that Bill rdf:type _:1 . and hence Bill child _:x . _:x rdf:type _:1 . and I do not think that the premises should license the first triple of such a conclusion. So, here is my attempt to capture the semantics of child in DAML+OIL (as I read it). Frankly, I have no idea whether this is intended to be permissable under the current D+O spec. If it is then it seems a ludicrously cryptic way of saying it. But perhaps the constraint is complicated. Note I use classes as instances here. Note I think the following is sufficiently disgusting that I would be quite happy to have it as illegal; but I don't think Jonathan will be able to describe the notion of inherited disease without something like it. (He can of course describe individual inherited diseases quite well enough). ==== # Let's not use child but parent. # parent has the advantage that in general # it's mincardinality is 1 not 0. parent daml:inverseOf child . InheritableClass rdfs:subClassOf daml:Class . # Informally, an InheritableClass is one such that # your parent is in that class iff you are. # Moreover, we will only use the parent property # on things that have an inheritable class. parent rdfs:domain _:ParentDomain . _:ParentDomain rdfs:subClassOf _:WithInheritableClass . _:WithInheritableClass rdf:type daml:Restriction . _:WithInheritableClass daml:onProperty rdf:type . _:WithInheritableClass daml:hasClass InheritableClass . # Now, an InheritableClass is one which restricts the # semantics of parent in a special way. # Thus InheritableClass is a daml:Restriction. InheritableClass rdfs:subClassOf daml:Restriction . # It is a restriction on the parent property. # The following is the daml idiom of saying that. InheritableClass rdfs:subClassOf _:par . _:par rdf:type daml:Restriction . _:par daml:onProperty daml:onProperty . _:par daml:hasValue parent . # Saying the same in English is # Within the class InheritableClass the # property daml:onProperty has a local constraint # restricting it to be present and with the value # parent. # Similarly we want to say that the minCardinality # is 1. InheritableClass rdfs:subClassOf _:min . _:min rdf:type daml:Restriction . _:min daml:onProperty daml:minCardinality . _:min daml:hasValue "1" . # Now we want to restrict the class of the # parent property, so we introduce # toClass. InheritableClass rdfs:subClassOf _:to . _:to rdf:type daml:Restriction . _:to daml:onProperty daml:toClass . _:to daml:cardinality "1" . # The above forces every InheritableClass # to have a daml:toClass property. # Now we need to force that daml:toClass # property to locally be a subPropertyOf # identity. # Well, this too is possible (at least in # the cardinality = 1 case) # Let's introduce a superProperty as a technical # device. daml:toClass rdfs:subPropertyOf _:superProp . daml:sameClassAs rdfs:subPropertyOf _:superProp . # We now restrict the cardinality of both # the superProp and daml:sameClassAs to 1 # on InheritableClass. InheritableClass rdfs:subClassOf _:sup . _:sup rdf:type daml:Restriction . _:sup daml:onProperty _:superProp . _:sup daml:cardinality "1" . InheritableClass rdfs:subClassOf _:same . _:same rdf:type daml:Restriction . _:same daml:onProperty daml:sameClassAs . _:same daml:cardinality "1" . # And that is it. # The circular primitive is generated by requiring # All three of the properties # _:superProp # daml:sameClassAs # daml:toClass # on each member of InheritableClass. # The subPropertyOf relationship and the cardinality # constraints then generate the circularity. =================== I know, someone will ask me to show how this works against my proposed axioms. A) I am not sure it does B) If it does, it is sufficiently complicated that I need to install a KIF reasoner. The test is that, all of the above and: > John child Bill . > entails > John rdf:type _:1 . > _:1 rdf:type daml:Restriction . > _:1 rdf:onProperty child . > _:1 rdf:hasClass :_1 . JeremyReceived on Tuesday, 23 April 2002 05:50:27 UTC
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November 26, 2010
Obama's Administration Denying Tax Status Based on Pro-Israeli SupportTopics: Political News and commentaries
Yet another troubling indication that not only is the Obama administration strongly anti-Israel, but that it's willing to violate the First Amendment rights of citizens and groups that do support Israel:
[...] According to the lawsuit, "The case is brought because, through its corporate counsel, Z STREET was informed explicitly by an IRS Agent on July 19, 2010, that approval of Z STREET's application for tax-exempt status has been at least delayed, and may be denied because of a special IRS policy in place regarding organizations in any way connected with Israel, and further that the applications of many such Israel-related organizations have been assigned to 'special unit in the D.C. office to determine whether the organization's activities contradict the Administration's public policies.'" In other words, Z Street could be denied status as a 501(c)(3) organization because they differ with Obama on Israel. If this is true, if the Obama administration is targeting organizations that support Israel and then wielding its power over the IRS to harm such groups, that is a clear violation of these groups First Amendment rights.Read more ... Particularly damning of the Obama administration is the fact that IRS agent Tracy Dornette specifically asked, "Does your organization support the existence of the land of Israel?" If this doesn't spell out Obama's anti-Israel agenda, what does? On the other hand, Obama's government has no problem with the confirmed terrorist-supporting Muslim group CAIR supporting Islamic terrorists like Hamas - or the liberal-progressive, George Soros-funded, anti-Israel, J Street ... both of which have 501(c)(3) status. Other coverage: IRS Harassing Jewish Organization? (Ben) Related: Remember when we treated Israel as America's friend and the U.S. was at war with "radical Islam"? (Video)
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Kenneth W. Lowe, chairman, president and chief executive officer; and Burton Jablin, chief operating officer, Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. (NYSE: SNI), will discuss the company's business strategies at the Deutsche Bank 2016 Media, Internet & Telecom Conference on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla. The presentation will be webcast live at 3:25 p.m. ET.
The webcast can be accessed at the investor relations page on the company's website. A replay of the webcast will be available on the company's investor relations webpage one hour after the conclusion of the live event and will remain available for 120 days.
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Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) is one of the leading developers of engaging lifestyle content in the home, food and travel categories for television, the Internet and emerging platforms. The company's lifestyle media portfolio comprises popular television and Internet brands HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Cooking Channel, Travel Channel and Great American Country, which collectively engage more than 190 million U.S. consumers each month. International operations include TVN, Poland's premier multi-platform media company; UKTV, an independent commercial joint venture with BBC Worldwide; Asian Food Channel, the first pan-regional TV food network in Asia; and lifestyle channel Fine Living Network. The company's global networks and websites reach millions of consumers across North and South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Scripps Networks Interactive is headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn. For more information, please visit http://www.scrippsnetworksinteractive.com.


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The board of directors of Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement Center located near Georgetown, Ky., announced July 30 the election of Dr. Steven Allday to the organization's board.
Founded by former film critic Michael Blowen in 2002, the Old Friends retirement facility now cares for more than 120 retired equine athletes, with farms in Georgetown, Ky., and Greenfield Center, N.Y.
"Dr. Allday has already been a valuable contributor to the health and welfare of our horses, and I know he will be a tremendous asset to the board," said Blowen.
Allday has specialized in equine sports medicine with a focus on Thoroughbreds for more than 25 years. He has treated such luminaries of the turf as 1992 Horse of the Year A.P. Indy, two-time Horse of the Year Cigar (1995-96), 1997 Horse of the Year Favorite Trick, as well as winners of 13 Triple Crown races and 29 Breeders' Cup races. His expertise has been in demand across the country, from Betfair Hollywood Park to Belmont Park, and across the pond in Newmarket and at the Curragh.
In addition to his veterinary practice Allday is also an entrepreneur in the industry of natural equine health care. He is the founder and CEO of Halstrum, makers of the equine joint-care supplements LubriSyn and LubriSyn CA, and of Re-Borne, makers of Re-Borne, a unique formulation of bovine colostrums that is a natural alternative to antibiotics, steroids, and hormones in both equines and bovines.
Allday has even transferred his equine skills into the saddle, becoming a prominent figure in one of the nation's fastest-growing equine sports: team roping.
"I am so excited to be a member of the Old Friends team," said Allday in a release. "The continuous care of Thoroughbreds beyond their racing and breeding careers is imperative to the industry and I am looking forward to upholding its mission."
For additional information about Old Friends or any of its retirees call (502) 863-1775 or visit the website at www.oldfriendsequine.org.


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Australia reclaim top Test spot post series sweep against Kiwis
Melbourne, Feb.24 (ANI): Australia have reclaimed world number one Test spot after recording a comfortable seven-wicket win over New Zealand in the second match to clinch the Trans-Tasman series 2-0 at Hagley Oval in Christchurch on Wednesday.
Australia resumed the final day on 70-1, requiring 131 more runs to win and with Joe Burns (27) and Usman Khawaja (19) at the crease.
Burns struck a solid 65, while Khawaja fell just five runs short of half-century and ended up scoring 45 runs in his side's second innings.
Skipper Steve Smith (unbeaten 53) and Adam Voges (unbeaten 10) then strengthen his side to wrap up the innings for 201-3, news.com.au reported.
For the hosts, Trent Boult, Neil Wagner and Tim Southee chipped in with a wicket each.
Burns was adjudged as `player of the match` for his match-winning contribution for Australia.
Meanwhile, New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum received a standing ovation by the spectators as he took the field for the very last time.
Earlier, McCullum broke the record of fastest Test century by reaching the three-figure landmark of just 54 balls. He surpassed former West Indies skipper Sir Vivian Richards and Pakistan's Misbah-ul-Haq's record from 56 balls.
The two sides will now play together in the opening match of the World T20 in India on March 18.(ANI)


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Norma Jean's Column
for Southern Prince George's County
It seems like we are having a much longer period of heat than usual. I hope that all of you are handling it all right. Aren't we glad that Mr. Carrier invented air conditioning?
Well, folks, I have to say that we do not have to go to New York to see a great play. My daughter, Judy, and I went to the Bowie Playhouse to see the 2nd Star Production of "Guys and Dolls" and it was wonderful. All of those who sang had fabulous voices, and since it is one of my favorite stories, I enjoyed it immensely.
Thanks a lot to those of my readers who came to see me at the Duvall Tool Museum. It was fun to meet you and I hope that many more of you will find your way there some Sunday from 1 to 4. However, I won't be there this Sunday since my big 80th birthday party is happening on Saturday, and I plan to enjoy the Park picnic on Sunday.
Happy Birthday in July to Florence Himes, July 1, Margaret Talemeco and Mamie Payne,July 2, Wilda Johnson and Hilda Rudderforth, July 3, Blanche Smith, July 6, Gilbert Moore and Berry Moore, July 7, your columnist, July 9, Gladys Darney, July 10, Emily Eckert, July 11, Shirley Voigt and Cal McMillion, July 12, Joan Richbardson, July 13, Keets Ogden and Ellie Thomas, July 14, Peggy Moore and Helen Jurney, July 15, Dorothy Waddell and Lee Moreland, July 16, Orrell J.Blakeman, Pauline Frederick, Becky Flowers, and Viola Shives, July 18, Lillian Brooks, July 21, Clara Houghton, July 23, Mary Jane Toepper and Alan Congdon, July 25, Dick Bowden, Deedie Peaper and Madeline Feick, July 26, my grandson, Brandon Bailey, my son-in-law, George Lucas, and William Hite, July 27, Bryan Toepper, Rose Felty and Kurtis Wilkins, July 28, Patty Sterner, Clarence Duty and Ethel Secrist, July 29, Lisa Solberg and Helen Rawlett, July 30, Ernest Moore and Mary Higgins, July 31.
Did you know that one-third of all auto accidents occur at intersections? In fact, in 1998, more than four million crashes occurred nationwide at intersections according to a study by State Farm Insurance. Here are some tips for when you are nearing an intersection. Keep a sharp eye for cross traffic in case someone decides to run a red light. Don't assume that the other driver will yield to you. Don't speed up through a yellow light since you have no idea how fast the other traffic will start up. Be careful turning at intersections as pedestrians may be crossing or other vehicles may be stopped. Rear end crashes are common at intersections so it is a good idea to stay a good distance behind the vehicle in front of you. Never change lanes while passing through an intersection. Sometimes storms will cause power outages so be careful if the intersection lights are out. By practicing safe driving, you can reduce your chance of being in an accident. Good luck and have fun with your summer driving.
Prince George's County SPCA/Humane Society is always looking for temporary foster homes for dogs and cats. Medical care is provided. Call 301-262-5625 if you can help.
The Jwanza youth Partnership Program is seeking adults with experience in camping, boating, picnics, field trips, basketball, and golf to work with ages 7 to 17. Call 301-805-1984.
The House of Ruth will train office interns to work at least 12 hours per week to provide information to victims of domestic violence and help attorneys at its Upper Marlboro and Hyattsville courthouse offices. Call 301-699-7790.
Give your daughters the experience of Girl Scouts. They must be age 5 to 18 and adult volunteers are also needed. Call 301-893-1819 or 800-834-1702 for information. I remember my time with the Girl Scouts and especially camp each summer. It was lots of fun.
College of Southern Maryland is offering a touch-typing class for ages 11 to 14 from July 22 to 26 from 9 am to noon. Call 301-475-6707,ext. 6568 or 301-934-7557.
Bulletproofvests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
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Summers displays new understanding of women's careers
By Marcella Bombardieri Globe Staff / April 8, 2005
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CAMBRIDGE -- Addressing a symposium last night on women in science, Harvard University's president, Lawrence H. Summers, could hardly have sounded more transformed from the man who discussed the same issue in January. (Full article: 742 words)
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A lonely penguin is hoping to find a mate through the social networking website MySpace.
On her MySpace profile page, Roxy the rockhopper says she is looking for "dating and serious relationships" with "a male rockhopper with good feathers" who "must be part of the European breeding programme".
Her interests are listed as "hopping, diving, eating fish, pecking, sunbathing, swimming" and her favourite films include Happy Feet and Chicken Run.
Roxy, who has been living in London zoo for a year after moving from Whipsnade where she fell out with her fellow penguins, is one of a declining number of rockhoppers.
The species, which is naturally found around the sub-Antarctic islands, is threatened by pollution and degradation of its habitat and is listed as vulnerable on the endangered creaturesred list of the International Union for Nature and Natural Resources.
The penguins get their name from the hopping movement they use to move between rocks.
Although Roxy shares an enclosure at London zoo with 31 South African black-footed penguins, she has yet to find a mate and the zoo is hoping to fix her up through the European breeding programme.
A spokeswoman for the zoo said the Myspace profile was "a bit of fun, but it's also about raising awareness of breeding and conservation programmes around the world".
Roxy's listing has so far attracted 10 friends, including a penguin from Antarctica, but the hunt for a new mate continues.


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ANCHORAGE - A lake dammed by Skilak Glacier broke free this month and has raised water levels in the lower Kenai River, threatening low-lying homes.
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The river started rising gradually Jan. 16, said National Weather Service hydrologist Ben Balk said. It was expected to crest over the weekend.
The lake behind Skilak Glacier is fed by rain and snow. Water from the lake tunnels under the ice and raises downstream water levels every two or three years, usually with subtle results, Balk said.
This year, it's happening when the river is iced over. The rising water has built ice jams that back up water. On Friday afternoon, a jam was developing upstream of the Sterling Highway bridge in Soldotna.
"When this jam does finally release, the backwater will come rushing down," Balk said.
On Friday, a downstream bend known as Big Eddy flooded, pouring a few inches of water down roads in a Soldotna neighborhood.
"If it jams again by the bridge or Big Eddy, there could be significant flooding," he said.
The river has risen about 3.5 feet this month. Balk said he expected a rise of about 6 inches before the water dropped. Behind jams, the water had gained up to 8 feet in elevation.
Damage by Friday had been limited to homeowners' boat docks and other riverside property as well as trees ripped out by the ice. Officials were unaware of flooded homes.
Kenai Peninsula Borough crews plowed down snow banks that had channeled water through streets in the Big Eddy area. Two segments of road remained closed and some camper trailers were swamped.
The river's water level likely will to drop rapidly after it peaks this weekend, Balk said.
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NEWS: Biffy Clyro announce UK tour for November/December 2016!
August 26th, 2016
As if a main stage slot at Reading & Leeds Festival wasn't quite enough, Scottish alternative rock juggernauts Biffy Clyro will be touring across the UK this November and December, and they'll be taking Brand New with them as main support throughout.
You can find all dates of the UK tour listed below:
NOVEMBER 29 – GLASGOW, SSE Hydro
NOVEMBER 30 – ABERDEEN, GE Oil & Gas Arena
DECEMBER 02 – NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Metro Radio Arena
DECEMBER 03 – MANCHESTER, Arena
DECEMBER 04 – LEEDS, First Direct Arena
DECEMBER 06 – CARDIFF, Motorpoint Arena
DECEMBER 07 – BIRMINGHAM, Barclaycard Arena
DECEMBER 08 – LONDON, O2 Arena
Tickets for all dates of the tour are on sale from 9:00AM on Friday (September 2nd 2016), and can be purchased online from ticketmaster.co.uk, livenation.co.uk, and www.gigsandtours.com.


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Fresh Food Portal: Thai group plans US$71M produce market transformation
The owner of the Talaad Thai wholesale market in Rangit has announced a THB2.35 billion (US$71 million) plan to make the premises a hub for the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) produce trade, the Bangkok Postreported. [Talaad Thai - wum-aprg org]
The story reported the two-year move byThai Agro Exchange Co chairman Pradit Phataraprasit was the biggest investment in the bustling produce market – just 43km (27mi) outside of Bangkok – since it was founded almost two decades ago.
Around THB1 billion (US$30 million) will be spent on a refrigerated consolidation center, which will raise capacity threefold to be able to store 3,000 metric tons (MT) of fruits and vegetables, the story reported.
Market upgrades are on the cards, along with a feasibility study to use organic waste from facilities to make electricity.
The company has also planned THB600 million (US$18 million) for buying land to handle 60,000 containers annually, up 357% from existing volumes.
Website Nationalmultimedia.com reported the company would be spending THB2.6 billion (US$78 million) on the project, which also includes Talaad Thai's sister market SiMoomMuang. The executive labeled the plan as an "historic opportunity", with potential to follow in the footsteps of the country's car manufacturing industry.
"Thailand has a huge, natural competitive advantage in this region in the fresh fruit and vegetable wholesaling business because it is a country with a very strong agricultural base," Phataraprasit was quoted as saying.
"It therefore has a real opportunity also to become the fresh fruit and vegetable wholesaling hub for the AEC in the same way that the Netherlands is the fresh fruit and vegetable wholesaling hub for all of Europe.
"If Talaad Thai succeeds, it can help the entire agricultural sector in Thailand by opening up new markets in the region and giving millions of Thai farmers access to new buyers for their produce throughout AEC. Easy access to new markets will quickly translate to better prices for their produce."
Thai Agro Exchange Co chief executive officer Graham Sanders told the publication that Tesco Lotus would be one of the "anchor" customers using the new refrigerated product consolidation center.
"If we invest quickly, we can install the essential infrastructure needed to support the growth of this trade and make Thailand a hub for the entire region."
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New Zealand's tech sector faces an uncertain future if a hard-fought for exclusion for software patents is missing from the final text of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
That's the view of Labour's ICT spokesperson Clare Curran, who believes clarity is required sooner rather than later from the Government on the issue.
"Labour and the tech sector fought long and hard to convince the government to accept that software should not be subject to patents as it stifles innovation and creativity in a fast-moving sector which spans many industries," Curran adds.
"But on the face of it, software has not been named as an exception to patentable inventions. The Government must urgently clarify whether it has stood up for the local industry or sold it down the river."
Curran claims it was the "unanimous view of the tech sector" that it is in New Zealand's best interests for software to continue to be covered through the provisions of Copyright, in the same way movies and books are, rather than through the patent system.
"This is because it's almost impossible for software to be developed without breaching some of the hundreds of thousands of software patents awarded around the world, often for 'obvious' work," Curran adds.
"The law change we achieved in 2013 allows our innovators to get on with the job without the fear of prohibitive and stifling law suits being imposed by bigger multinational companies.
"It is a major concern if this is put at risk and has been traded away under the TPP. The government must publicly clarify our position in order to reassure this critical part of our economy."
- Christchurch UFB rollout races on as Enable passes halfway mark
- Govt links Wellington talent to hi-tech industry with new ICT Graduate School
- 100,000 fibre connections and counting as NZ demand doubles
- Uptake increases as 500,000 end-users now within reach of Chorus UFB build
- Data innovation key as Govt unveils Data Futures Group members
- Kiwi young guns on board as software development demand rises
- Strong investment sees NZ software startup enter European smart cities market


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This quality Alto Saxophone set includes everything you need to get started learning and is perfect for any budding John Coltranes out there.
Made from high quality materials, this robust instrument features gold lacquer on its body and keys and is a really smart looking saxophone. It also features the high F# key which enables a greater range and is often specified by teachers. Complete with a stylish carry case with useful pocket and backpack style straps, it is easily portable - perfect for home, lessons and gigs!
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simple and cheap kitchen updates
Loved the kitchen from the first time I saw it. Love the layout, love the ample counter space, love the central location. Once we moved in, I found a few simple, cheap and fairly easy things I could update to make the kitchen better reflect our style.
1. installed a new faucet, with a pullout handle for better reach in the sink. If we could just increase the water pressure, the spray feature would work better!
2. sassy 2.5yo grew into a 3yo that doesn't like her picture taken anymore ;)
3. spray painted the cabinet pulls and fan. Seriously cheap at $7/can, mostly a time issue in removing, painting and letting dry, and then reattaching. My mom and I did this together, so it was a fun project. Fan worked great for a recolor, pulls work moderately as the paint gets rubbed off with use. We will end up replacing the pulls at some point, but for now, spray painting them made a nice additon to the overall look w/o much investment
4. repaired the walls which had gaping holes from replumbing we needed to do when we moved in - thanks, Dad, for repairing them! - and typical wear and tear from use/hangings. Repainted to a warm and welcoming yellow. My favorite big impact change!
5. painted the accent line on the backsplash. It was pink and turquoise and I used acrylic paints in three tones of brown to give the accent a more updated color scheme. Very, very easy and made a big difference to me in the overall look
I've enjoyed working on these small changes and smile when I go into the kitchen these days. I spend a lot of time in there, so it's nice for it to be a place I enjoy. We still have some kitchen projects including repainting the ceiling. Now, to make some decisions about pictures and wall hangings and this room will really start to feel like home!


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Tip on jittery or twitchy screen displays
I remember a recent post (during the final days of AFF 1.0 IIRC) in which someone did a VGA mod and said it was basically okay but the display was a bit twitchy.
I recently did my first VGA mod ( ), and the display was fine. But then I had to disassemble the unit for something, and when I reassembled it, lo and behold the screen image was jittery.
Did some looking, and I realized that the orange connector on a wire that goes from the video board to the metal cage on the analog board was loose, almost disconnected. I'm referring to the connector that's about 1/3 from the top and 1/3 from the right in the following photo:
It's the connector just above the leftmost adjutment pot hole on the analog board.
Anyway, I reattached the connector, and the screen jitteriness went away.
I wanted to confirm that this connector was the cause when I had the unit on, but I was too chicken to wriggle it around with the unit powered up.
Is this connector for some kind of grounding? Anyone know its function?
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That connector is to the de-gauss cables around the CRT. Stuart
My suspicion is that although he is *holding* the de-gauss connector, what he is actually referring to is the ground wire connector from the PCB.
Sorry for the confusion, guys -- I was in a rush so I just grabbed a pic from the High-Res modification procedure in the CC FAQ. The guy in the pic -- that's not me! -- is in fact holding the degauss cable, but dead_elvis is correct: I am referring to the ground wire connector from the PCB.


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Here is a look at some of the stocks the Yahoo Finance team will be watching for you today.
Time Warner (TWX) shares surged in the pre-market. The media conglomerate rejected an $80 billion dollar takeover offer from Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox. The New York Times reported Fox first approached Time Warner in early June. It also offered to sell CNN as part of its proposal, to clear any regulatory hurdles.
International Game Technology (IGT) soared in early trading. Italian lottery company Gtech is buying the Las Vegas-based maker of slot machines for $4.7 billion in cash and stock. The deal will make Gtech a bigger player in the global gambling business at a time when the industry is experiencing slower growth. The new holding company will be based in the U.K.
Earnings also remain in focus this morning. Bank of America (BAC) reported a 43% percent drop in second-quarter profit as mortgage revenue fell and litigation expenses soared. However, when you exclude legal costs, earnings beat expectations, coming in at $0.41 a share. Revenue was also was slightly better than estimates. The company also said it has reached a settlement with AIG to resolve claims about mortgage-backed securities it sold before the financial crisis.
Intel (INTC) shares rose in the pre-market. The world's largest chip maker gave an upbeat outlook for its current quarter thanks to a pick-up in demand for PCs and growth in its data-center businesses. The company also said it will buy back $20 billion worth of stock. This comes after it reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue in the second quarter. Profits jumped 40% from a year ago, while revenue increased 8%.
Yahoo (YHOO) shares fell in early trading after the company's earnings and revenue missed Wall Street estimates as it continued to struggle with display advertising sales. Yahoo also said it will sell back fewer of its Alibaba shares when the Chinese e-commerce giant goes public in the next couple of months.
We're also keeping an eye on Apple (AAPL) and IBM (IBM) after the former rivals announced a partnership. IBM will create business apps for iPhones and iPads and then sell Apple products to its corporate customers. The partnership will also provide AppleCare support to enterprise clients. Apple and IBM engineers are developing over 100 new apps for specific industries, the first of which they hope to debut this fall. The apps will be for functions such as device management, data security and analytics.


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Thanks to the robust housing and sensor made of stainless steel, this device has a wide application field. The new digital capacitive humidity cell complies the state of the art in technology and offers outstanding measuring features. Due to the miniaturization and optimal choice of materials the measuring element offers a high resistance against aggressive substances in the air environment. The HygroMaxx transmitter disposes of practical functions and configuration capabilities such as a calibration at 3 humidity points and an offset shift function of the temperature. Two scalable analogue outputs transmit up to 10 times a second the actual measurement values to the connected controlling system. At the same time the value is displayed on the big and clear LCDisplay. The integrated micro processor supervises at any time all parameters and functions. Eventual failures are displayed immediately. The HygroMaxx is a device, which is used mainly in the climatic control sector (HVAC).
Measurement and monitoring for the control of climatic installations in following applications:
Humidity-Temperature measuring instrument for detection of climatic parameters in rooms (fresh air) with integrated digital sensor.
Humidity-Temperature measuring instrument for detection of climatic parameters in air supply and exhaust air ducts (fresh air) with integrated digital sensor.
Humidity-Temperature measuring instrument for detection of climatic parameters. Remote sensor with 3m cable incl. room and duct flange kit, with integrated digital sensor.
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WORLD BRIEFING | ASIA; China: Blair's $500,000 Speech Is Panned
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Published: November 9, 2007
Tony Blair was paid $500,000 for a 20-minute speech during a three-hour trip to a luxury housing development in southern Dongguan on Tuesday, Chinese newspapers reported as they questioned whether he was worth it. The fee was paid by a local property developer, and some newspapers criticized the whirlwind visit by the former British prime minister as a show of extravagance and said he produced little more than clich? The Guangzhou Daily said Mr. Blair's Dongguan stop was just one of his ''money-raking'' trips in Chinese cities, including Hong Kong (Monday) and Beijing (Wednesday). The China Youth Daily said that ''there was nothing new'' in the speech and that China was fast becoming a ''gold-digging'' market for international celebrities.


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It started with this end table I did a few months back... It moved into my guest room and then I ended up having to change everything! I painted the walls, created a chalk art sign, a pallet sign, and then redid this dresser to match! I used the same yellow as the end table ... continue reading
Rad Mustard Yellow Dresser
Time to Hang Up Your Junk
Another fun before and after! I found this little wooden sign at Goodwill for $2.99. The style wasn't exactly my cup of tea, so I ripped off the "welcome" and pine tree scene and then it sat in my garage for 9 months. Sometimes inspiration is slow to come! I painted the whole thing black ... continue reading
A Lil Table Redo
I snagged this little wooden end table from Goodwill for $2.95. It was a bit dinged up, but solid and sturdy, so I figured I could fancy it up for my son's bedroom. Since he isn't being rocked much anymore (well he IS almost 4!) we decided to ditch the rocker for a table for ... continue reading
Call Me Andy Warhol
Has everyone seen these amazingly cute and fun soup cans? Campbell's is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Andy Warhol's Soup Can Series with these freaking fabulous limited edition labels! I found mine at Target and seriously couldn't resist purchasing one of each design. Lucky for me, my son could live on Campbell's Tomato Soup. He ... continue reading
Faux Zinc Letters $2 Each
I love the look of these Anthropologie weathered zinc letters. They are chunky, industrial, and worn. $18 each is waaaay out of my price range, especially when I want to spell a long word! I have seen some knock offs and decided I needed to make some for myself. I also wanted to do it ... continue reading
Industrial Chic Desk
Ahhh, this desk. This darn desk took me many, many tries and 2 weeks to get just how I wanted it. This was a GREAT deal from goodwill. Marked as $39.99 but it was half price day on white tags so it was $20 bucks. It is solid and take a look... Quality too! I ... continue reading
Burlap and Chalkboard Candles
I have had this chalkboard fabric laying around FOREVAH! I can't believe I haven't used it yet...wait, I can't sew so that may be part of the problem! I even did a post with tons of ideas and ways to use chalkboard fabric...A YEAR AGO! So, for Pete's sake, I finally did something with it-a ... continue reading
Personalized Journals
Last Saturday morning, my daughter and I realized that she had a birthday party that afternoon and she INSISTED on making something, SUPER-SUPER-SUPER-SUPER-SUPER-DUPER Crafty as part of the gift. I just don't know where she gets it from?!?! So as I ransacked my craft supplies I uncovered a few blank journals I had purchased from ... continue reading
My Gallery Wall
Last week I shared some amazing Gallery Wall inspirations. I found so many fabulous ideas, I had a tough time narrowing mine down to a reasonable size. I have a feeling it may grow in the future! Here is what I came up with for my monster wall along my staircase. Whatcha think of that ... continue reading
Cute Little Step Stool
I have discussed our addiction to step stools before. Here are a few I have done up and some that have turned into step stools out of necessity. Since I am redoing our powder room, I decided this sad little number could be retired to the kids bathroom, after all they don't really care what ... continue reading


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Law Courts, by Street.
The architect G. E. Street was born in Essex, and was a leading apprentice of G. G. Scott from 1844, setting up his own practice in 1848. He established himself in London from 1855, and became an important figure, winning many architectural honours. He was a champion of the Gothic, and designed many churches in this style. His chief work was the Royal Courts of Justice (1868-81) in the Strand, London, (see the walk there), a large and important public building rather underappreciated today. Among his churches, in London are the excellent Victorian Gothic St James the Less in Vauxhall Bridge Road near Tate Britain, dating from 1860-61, and St Mary Magdelene (1868-71) in Delamere Terrace, Paddington. Apart from being a practicing architect, Street was an important teacher, becoming Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy in 1879, and a writer, with books on architecture in Spain and Italy (he travelled extensively in Europe), and most influentially, Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages.
In addition to his influential books, many important later architects worked for Street at one time or another, including T. E. Collcutt, the Arts and Crafts architect Philip Webb, William Morris, and harbinger of a new reactionary style, Richard Norman Shaw.
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Private Charter Tours
We are also available for Private Charters to:
- The Blue Mountains
- Hunter Valley
- City Tour
or anything else you would like.
We can cater for up to 50 people in 3 Luxury Mercedes Benz & VW Caravelle Van.
While on a trip to Australia we took a tour with Blue Diamond Tours run by Alena & Rob Michail.
This was one of the best tours ever. Alena was our guide and was great keeping each event organized and on time. I made this video for them and wish them the best in the success of their business.
They seem to be doing everything right.
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Signs Of The Times:
"Don't worry, market dip only temporary."
"The world is still in a low-inflation boom, driven by supply-side expansions. This environment is inherently bullish for growth-oriented assets, and the recent financial turmoil hasn't changed the backdrop."
- Bloomberg, August 11
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The problem with this approach is that even when "managed" by supply-side armchair quarterbacks, at cyclical peaks the economy lags stocks and financial markets.
Over the past week, the latter have taken another dramatic step towards a cyclical credit contraction. Despite conventional wisdom, credit contagion has disturbed two other bastions of complacency.
Money-market desks got hit as dealer commercial paper, which had been between 5.27% and 5.30% since October, jumped on Friday from 5.27% to 5.50%. With this Libor which had been around 5.36% for the same time, jumped to 5.50% on Thursday and made it to 5.56% on Monday.
The salient feature was that with that change the treasury bill rate declined from 4.94% on Wednesday to 4.53% on Friday and to 3.60% (no typo) this morning. Bills had been under 5.00% since April from the high of 5.18% in February.
Touts about policy remedies came to fruition as senior central banks lost their complacency and coordinated an injection of more credit. This is panicdotal evidence of grave concern.
The next step in policy land will be a cut in administered rates which, if they have any market savvy, should be timed with very oversold conditions. As with many long-term investors, instantaneous gratification goes over well with the central banking crowd.
As history shows, short-dated market rates of interest increase with a boom and decline with the consequent contraction. It should be emphasized that if it is necessary to consider causal relations, the boom causes the contraction. Typically these follow the reversal from an inverted to a steepening curve. In this example this occurred in May, which signaled the time when the wheels would begin to fall off the most blatant speculations.
It is also worth noting that at the conclusion of the greatest booms since the 1860s that typically the senior central bank has been a number of months behind the decline in market rates of interest.
The 3-month bill set its high at 5.18% in late February and the initial decline made it to 4.53% in mid June. The test of the high reached only 5.00% on July 24. This was associated with the attempt to rally New York through 14,000, and for example, to rally copper and crude to higher highs.
Some will, no doubt, claim that the recent decline is anticipating a "managed" decline in Fed funds that will ignite another buying panic, but history is graphic about this - the biggest bear markets have been followed by the greatest declines in short-dated interest rates - with market rates leading the way.
As for policymakers leading the way, or merely reinforcing natural trends and their reversals in the market place - the poet, W.B. Yeats might not have had central bankers in mind when he wrote, "How do you tell the dancer from the dance?"


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That sound you haven't been hearing lately is the trumpet of hype for the network fall debuts. Delayed and overshadowed by the national news, the season has now started in earnest, with two dozen new series premiering from Sept. 23 to Oct. 5. Below is our guide to some of the most interesting shows you haven't heard as much about as usual:
THE SPY WHOM YOU'LL LOVE Alias ABC Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.
This lipstick-slick spy thriller is the dramatic equivalent of a bumblebee--a preposterous bit of engineering that by every law of nature should never get off the ground, yet it flies magnificently. Creator J.J. Abrams (Felicity) had a brainstorm: What if Felicity's college-girl heroine, or someone like her, were recruited by the CIA to live a globe-hopping, karate-chopping double life? The result is an improbable, heart-pounding and-tugging mix of fantastical '60s spy chic and emotionally realistic drama that is less reminiscent of today's troubles than you might think. Grad student Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) gets engaged and breaks the rule of rules by telling her fiance she's a spy. This bad move gets him killed and leads Sydney to discover that some of her superiors are shadier than she'd suspected.
The twisty intrigue that follows works for two reasons. Garner, previously known for playing sensitive waifs, proves she can do it all; she's tough, vulnerable, coy and sultry. And in an era of invulnerable action fembots, she plays her fight scenes with real, human fear (that is, she actually acts). Meanwhile Abrams not only pulls off the intense action but writes dialogue and characters as endearing as Felicity's. In a deft early moment, Sydney's doomed boyfriend proposes to her by dropping to his knees on the college quad and belting out Build Me Up Buttercup horribly at the top of his lungs. Alias is like that. Ridiculous, over the top but unashamed, it manages to thrill and win our hearts.
A DOSE OF MEDICAL COMEDY Scrubs NBC Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.
We're never told exactly why young intern J.D. Dorian (Zach Braff, center) decided to become a doctor. Maybe he watched a lot of TV, whose M.D.s have traditionally had power, money and sex appeal. But in the real world, the physician-as-God is as dated as house calls and generous insurance plans, as J.D. discovers during his first day on rounds. His bosses care more about cash flow than care; he spends less time saving trauma victims than artificially prolonging the lives of patients who are all but dead; and the hospital is like a high school, where the cocky surgical interns are the jocks and medical interns like J.D. "are the chess club." This is the first sitcom of the HMO era.


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New Diet - MOD - is being born...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
After some years of researching and trying various diets: low carb lifestyles, primal, paleo, whole food, raw food, low cal, low fat, and faddy ones like only fruit or cabbage soup (for a seriously limited time), I can finally see a picture of My Own Diet growing like a painting. A tapestry. It is growing steadily. Slowly but surely. It is my project and no-one else's. It is MOD in the making.
I am 62 and I guess for some it takes years to get to know your body, your mind, your likes and dislikes, motivations, inspirations and more. I know what I like - just as in art :) - and I know what now makes sense to me.
Just me, mind you. Just me. Different things appeal to different people.
Someone else has a different life, different culture maybe, different foods growing up, different ways in the kitchen. For some it is easier to adapt to a chosen diet or foods than for others. For instance, I could no more eat light (or any other) margarine than fly. Why? Because I grew up where we were always endeavouring to eat healthy food, and eating a product that is allegedly one molecule away from plastic does not appeal, apart from the fact that I just didn't like the taste after a childhood of eating natural butter.
Of course I was maligned by many who thought I was nuts eating butter, but I was exonerated later when margarine was shown to be carcinogenic and butter was again recognised as natural and became the new good.
After all, my grandmother ate all the forbidden animal fats, butter, cream etc and lived to be 92, as did my grandfather, also 92. Genes do help, I am sure.
Suffice to say that wholesome and (mostly) natural was the norm for them, and family generations of cooks and foodies before and after have enjoyed creating great dishes for sumptuous Sunday lunches, dinners, parties and exquisite afternoon teas. And they thoroughly enjoyed eating them too. Nevertheless, they were all relatively healthy, although the weight problem definitely reared its nasty head in mostly the females of the family.
They also loved sugar, and that is where the wholesome and good seemed to fail. Cakes, tarts, cookies, homemade white breads, buttermilk rusks and such. Excellent bakers they were, my mum included. Her Angel Cake was legendary.
In one respect I have been fortunate in that baking is not my thing. However, savoury and creamy foods! Now that's another story. Cheeses, creams, wines, fats (healthy ones...natural, cold pressed and such) have been part of my cooking style for at least 20 years. I was a vegetarian for 7 years in London during the 70s and then I returned home where I could not resist the biltong (jerky) and the national sausage, boerewors. Not to mention the excellent Karroo lamb whose taste is sublime and is about as free range as you can get. So when the weight started piling on it was to low carb I went looking for answers. To put it briefly, I lost...and put on, as with so many other diets before.
This got me thinking...and thinking. I thought primarily about what foods I actually liked, not just tolerated. Then I started making decisions relevant to my personal tastes and lifestyle, based on sifted and sorted information gathered over time.
Cheese is a favourite of mine, but I will give it a wide berth for the moment and the only dairy I am using for now is my own home made natural live yogurt. I love it and use it instead of cream in some dishes. Even then, not every day. Coconut milk and coconut cream are staples in my pantry and I am grateful that something so nice is healthy.
Fats (yes, even the healthy ones) need to take a bit of a back seat in this too corpulent vehicle. 1 tablespoon a day, three teaspoons. That is my preferred and decided limit. Not always easy, although I will not be fanatical about the fats but definitely diminish them for sure.
On MOD I have presented myself with a challenge (and a choice) to minimise my meat eating and increase my raw food. Particularly raw food in a blender, as in blended salads. The reasons for this are multitudinous. The most important reason right now is that my system feels like it really needs a bit of a break as it has been overloaded for too long and needs a good clean out. Raw veg and a little fruit seems to fit the bill for me. I will happily drink smoothies and raw blended salads.
Let it be said that I am not a die-hard raw foodist. Not at all. There are many foods that I love and do not want to give up. But they are getting a smaller space and can only come out to play when invited.
The bottom line of MOD is to eat natural foods and to eat enough to satisfy. No calorie or carb counting and no measuring, except for my 80/20 goal. Eighty percent vegetables, often raw, and a little fruit. Twenty percent fats and protein - including limited amounts of nuts, quinoa, millet, oats, oat bran and legumes. And as I said, natural, not processed. That in itself is a huge change in many peoples lives, but I am not a fast food junkie (very rarely) and I love all things organic and healthy. It doesn't mean that I don't like a traditional creme brulee or some delicious Belgian chocolate. Those lurk in the 20% on the odd occasion. Frozen bananas turned into ice-cream is a favourite, as are the raw food chocolate brownies I am planning to make this weekend.
The epiphany about MOD came when I realised there was not one diet that appealed to me totally. Oh, I have tried many. I found that I resisted certain elements in almost all diets. Everyone knows how many diets there are in this world, and one author prescribing his personal way to another can be very helpful, but I am sure there are many who feel as I do. Tried 'em all and not one fulfilled everyone of my tastes, preferences, quantities, likes and dislikes. I know I am not unique in this experience.
There is no longer one diet out there for me. No group or team that I can honestly say I follow. All things are in flux, change is constant, as are discoveries. Things will not stay the same and my ideas and decisions may be tested and they may even change over time. I give myself the freedom, for it is my own way.
This is the beginning of MOD. Everyone should have one...it just makes sense.
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I would not mind at all if you use the phrase M O D...as long as you don't mind sharing where you got it:) Like - Marloe's M O D - and refer my blog. My writing is destined for a book and of course M O D will be the main feature.
I am so glad you 'got' the plan. I hope it reaches many more people.
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Awesome plan!
Would you mind terribly if I stole your phrase MOD and made it mine?
I need to follow My Own Diet too... I need to make it my own to fit my lifestyle, my tastes, my body.
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Parking charges should be increased to encourage more people to walk, health officials have advised.
Employers along with local authorities and the NHS should consider restricting the amount of parking they offer or hiking prices in order to restrain the public's car usage.
The advice was part of a new guidance published today by The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), an independent organisation which sets national health standards, to get more people active.
In the guidance it said: "One way of encouraging people to walk or cycle, as a form of transport, might be to apply greater levels of restraint on car usage in urban areas.
"This could be achieved, for instance, by introducing restricted parking and higher parking charges."
It added that consideration would need to be taken on how it would impact on car owners.
But chief executive of the Tax Payer's Alliance Matthew Sinclair said the "meddling health bureaucrats" were out of touch with struggling families.
He told the Daily Mail: "Things are tough enough for taxpayers already without meddling health bureaucrats trying to make parking more expensive.
"For more people using the car is a necessity, not a luxury.
"Parking charges damage the high street, place an unnecessary burden on struggling businesses and make life harder for households just trying to make ends meet.
"Nice's boneheaded attempts to interfere demonstrates how out of touch they are with the pressures faced by hardpressed families."
Health officials said the nation's lack of physical activity is a "silent epidemic".
Lack of exercise causes the same level of ill health that smoking does but despite this only a minority of people in England get enough exercise.
Strategic and scientific adviser to the National Obesity Observatory Dr Harry Rutter, who worked on the new guidance, said: "Only a minority of people in England get enough physical activity to improve their health.
"This creates a huge and often invisible burden of illness and reduced quality of life, but most people seem unaware of that burden.
"Across the population, lack of physical activity causes roughly the same level of ill health that smoking does.
"We all face barriers in changing our lifestyles and many of us feel we don't have the time or the inclination to add regular physical activity into our lives - it can be very difficult to break old habits and change behaviour.
"But walking and cycling to work, to school, to the shops or elsewhere can make a huge difference.
"This guidance aims to help people in local authorities, public health professionals, schools, workplaces, the NHS and many others to make the changes that are needed to support this safe, healthy and mostly enjoyable physical activity."
He added: "We have a silent epidemic of lack of physical activity and here we have a wonderful opportunity to try and do something about it."
The guidance states that walking and cycling should become the norm for short journeys and should be encouraged in local communities.
Adults should be doing at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity every week, in bouts of 10 minutes or more.
Local communities should implement schemes to encourage more people to cycle and walk, the guidance states. They could include "car free days" or cycle-hire schemes - such as the "Boris bike" initiative in London.
Local authorities could create special signage showing distances and walking times, according to the Nice recommendations.
Transport planners should also examine traffic volumes and speed limits which discourage people from walking and cycling.
Schools should galvanise pupils to be more active by initiating walking groups and "walking buses", the guidance suggests.
Professor Mike Kelly, director of the Centre for Public Health Excellence at Nice, added: "Two-thirds of the population isn't active enough.
"Walking and cycling is an easy way to get active - it is a form of both getting places that you need to and also a form of recreation.
"This guidance is aimed at making it easier for people to do this, as well as explaining the benefits and helping to address some of the safety fears that some people may have."


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Israel and Gaza Strip militants observed a second day of a truce as reports of a peace proposal that would include the opening of border crossings emerged during talks in Cairo to find a lasting settlement.
The five-day cease-fire that started yesterday postpones the threat of a return to hostilities that killed more than 1,900 Palestinians, including hundreds of civilians, and 67 people on the Israeli side. Egyptian newspaper al-Shorouk reported on an 11-point Egyptian proposal that including the open...
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some guy like 2 or so hours ago called and said dh has to appear in court and I don't know why. EDITED IN PINK
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Yea dh is at work like normal and some guy called me and me gave me a number for him to call back and a case number and said the company that told him to call dh. They said he has 2 hours to call him back or they are putting him as a failed court date but he wouldn't tell me why he has to go. Has anyone herd of this company?? Howard Associates? If so can someone please help. I'm going anon because i feel this is a Private family thing, I just need to vent/ get advice. Do you guys think he has jury dutie? or is that completely different?
Okay so dh came home last night and I asked him what happened and why does he have to go to court, he says because YEARS ago he was dating this one girl named Ashley and when he left for basic training she had access to his bank account and bought herself an engagement ring (she was crazy) and told him they were in engaged when they broke up he asked for it back and she said she didn't have it, that she sold it to get an abortion (dh didn't even know she was pregnant and that's crazy because how could she gotten pregnant while he was gone??) well he made a deal with k jewelers last night I guess and he said we only need to give them $900 then they will drop it. The crazy thing about this whole thing we have been paying them off and we told them our problem with our bank and dh told me that they will lay low for awhile until we got it all ok again then they come out of no where and told him he had to go to court? I told him he needs to make her pay for it but he doesn't even know where she's living now. I said well you know where her dad is living why don't we take a ride down there and ask her parent's where she's at now. He said because he thinks they will lie about it. idk this whole thing is stupid and I'd love to sue the sh*t outta her. Can we sue her if we find her??
Contact the county court system, they should have info on whether he is legally obligated to appear in court.
No one calls you to show up to court except maybe your own lawyer.
There are a lot of Howard and Associates, but none of them are law offices or anything to do with court.
A court summons (here anyway) is delivered by a police officer.


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What's more American than apple pie, hot dogs, and baseball?
Fireworks, of course – those loud, bright, colorful displays of mid-air flames that Independence Day just isn't the same without.
Valley residents can get their fill of bombs bursting in air this coming week, with no fewer than 10 firework celebrations planned – alongside countless parades, festivals, carnivals, and car shows. The hardcore freedom-lovers can even structure their week to attend five separate firework displays.
The non-stop stream of festivities starts tonight in Hilmar, where the annual Hilmar Dairy Festival will be capped with fireworks. Sunday, Woodward Reservoir in Oakdale will hold their annual firework celebration.
Monday offers a brief respite from merriment, but on Tuesday three options await celebrants as they begin their Fourth of July vacation – a tractor pull in Gustine, fireworks at Don Pedro Lake, or fireworks following the Modesto Nuts game
The main event – as expected – comes Wednesday, when five local cities will celebrate Independence Day with a bang. Atwater, Gustine, Ripon, Turlock, and Modesto will all host parades and carnivals of some sort, with all but Modesto ending the day with fireworks.
Turlock's celebration is among the most notable, and the largest the city will see since the 2008, when California State University, Stanislaus hosted its final fireworks celebration before budgetary difficulties ended the tradition. As many as 20,000 guests are expected.
"The Fourth of July is going to be a heritage event in Turlock," said organizer Al Seaton. "There's no reason to go anywhere else."
Turlock's celebration will begin with the traditional 10 a.m. parade down Main Street. A new Fenders and Fireworks car show will immediately follow at the nearby Stanislaus County Fairgrounds, beginning at 12:30 p.m. That car show, with live bands, vendors, and a community barbecue where families can cook their own food, will transition into a fireworks celebration as night falls, with the Red, White and Boom show kicking off around 9:30 p.m.
Thursday presents another day of recovery, but the festivals start again on Friday with Livingston's annual carnival celebration. On July 7, the final round of Fourth of July fireworks will bring the holiday to its end, with Livingston hosting a car show and the "biggest firework show in the Valley," and Murphys presenting a day-long celebration of music, games, and fireworks at Ironstone Vineyards.
And if any merrymakers still want to party after a long week of fireworks, the Livingston Sweet Potato Festival will take place on Sunday.
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Victoria Police was established on 3 January, 1853.
William Henry Fancourt Mitchell was the first Chief Commissioner.
In 1853, Victoria Police consisted of 875 policemen, protecting a population of 168,000.
Victoria Police today employs around 14,900 staff, including police, public servants, forensic officers, reservists and protective security officers.
Victoria Police services are available to the community 24 hours a day, seven-days-a-week.
There are more than 328 permanent police stations across Victoria.
The values of Victoria Police are: integrity, leadership, flexibility, respect, support and professionalism.
There are over 2300 vehicles in the Victoria Police fleet - these are made up of divisional vans, marked cars, unmarked cars, booze buses, brawler vans and buses.
Victoria Police has 46 motorbikes, 32 marked road bikes and 14 off-road bikes.
Simon Overland was the 20th Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police.
Hon Kim Wells is the Minister for Police and Emergency Services.
Victoria Police is one of the largest public service employers in Victoria.
Police conduct more than three million random booze bus tests each year.
Victoria has four police regions, each headed by a divisional commander.
Victoria Police serves about 5.4 million people in the state, and polices 160,000 kms of roads, 3 million drivers and 3.5 million registered motor vehicles.
Victoria Police Dog Squad is currently staffed by 38 specially trained teams - which consist of a handler and their dog.
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Expected to be officially announced on January 6, the rumored HTC Knight / Speedy may be launched by Sprint as a successor to the Evo 4G.
According to Engadget, the upcoming smartphone could be called HTC Evo Shift 4G (HTC has already filed for this trademark).
The Evo Shift 4G should feature a 3.7 inch WVGA display, sliding QWERTY keyboard and, probably, Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Another rumor has it that Sprint may have wished to launch a Samsung smartphone that features a curved display – like the Nexus S (you may have noticed in these photos that the new Nexus is slightly curved). The problem is that Samsung was "unable to deliver the product in the volume" Sprint was asking for. This likely means the Nexus S will be the first smartphone to come with a curved display.


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It's yesterday once more
Yesterday I decided to do a photo-walk around Yokosuka. Partially to enjoy the out-of-doors after being kept in from the previous days typhoon, and also to put some of my older rangefinder lenses through their paces with the M9. I was also inspired by some vintage images of Yokosuka that I was recently browsing on Flickr. So I thought it would be an interesting exercise to see if I could reproduce something with a similar look.
My two lenses for the day were the Canon ltm 28mm f2.8, and Canon ltm 50mm f1.2. And as you can see, they are not the most technically perfect of lenses out there. They are soft in the corners, and color fringing is readily apparent. But I imaged that they would fit the bill for the type of images I was trying to create.
I've yet to devote the resources to buy a stable full of Leica lenses, but of the more modern glass that I do have (Konica, and Voigtlander) all perform to a much higher technical standard than the older Canon Leica thread mount lenses that I used for this exercise.
But sometimes the best tool for the job is not the best tool that you have, but rather the best tool for THAT SPECIFIC job. So what lenses would be better to reproduce the look from 40 years ago than some lenses that were 40+ years old? And truth be told, they did perform admirably, with regards to both sharpness and resolution when stopped down.
The shots themselves are nothing special. In most cases I tried to keep to subjects that were independent of time. And in honor of the old glass I was using (1950's to 1960's vintage) I decided to process them using a "yesteryear" type of filter in Lightroom. This gave them a yellow'ish washed-out look, common to old film images. Right out of the camera the images have a much more natural look, as would be expected from the M9. But I thought this treatment would better convey my idea.
Was it a success? I have no idea.
I like the effect, but I have no idea what others may think about it.
If you do have some thoughts about it, please take a minute and jot down your thoughts in a comment.


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