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UH Board of Regents sets public meetings with presidential finalists
The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents has scheduled a special public meeting with both presidential candidate finalists on Tuesday, May 27 starting at 9 a.m. at the UH Information Technology Center on the UH Mānoa campus.
The two candidates, David Lassner and Francis Wiercinski will each meet with the board in separate one hour sessions. They will be asked to give an introductory statement and participate in a question and answer session with the regents.
Following the candidates' meetings with the board, the regents will meet in executive session.
On Monday, June 2 at 1 p.m., at the UH Information Technology Center on the UH Mānoa campus, the board will meet in an open session to conduct a formal vote on the next UH president.
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Why is the meeting being held at 9am? Will all campus departments give time off to people who want to observe their appearance before Board of Regents? Will the session be livestreamed?


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text: An anonymous reader points to what's claimed to be "the world's first look at Dell's 12.1" netbook," running at Australian Personal Computer Magazine. There's a bit of gushing at the beginning, but this is followed by some informative pictures, informal battery-life tests, and interesting background about the machine's components. Upshot: it's a well-made, decent-performing small laptop with a better keyboard than smaller netbooks and more wireless options than most. However, it's shorter on battery life (bigger screen, smaller battery) than Dell's smaller Mini 9, and less easily upgraded.


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Russian Federal Space Agency rescue vehicles arrive at the scene near the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft after it landed near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan early yesterday.
The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and two astronauts, the American Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide of Japan, pictured below smiling after landing, touched down following more than four months aboard the International Space Station.
Eight helicopters rushed search-and-recovery crew to assist the crew, whose capsule did not parachute onto the exact planned touchdown site due to a minimal delay in procedures.
Another three astronauts remain onboard the space station and are to be joined next month by Nasa's Tom Marshburn, Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, and Russia's Roman Romanenko.
The Soyuz is the only means for international astronauts to reach the orbiting laboratory since the decommissioning of the US shuttle fleet in 2011.
Ms Williams, Mr Malenchenko and Mr Hoshide undocked from the space station yesterday to begin their return to earth.
Around 28 minutes before touchdown, the three modules of the Soyuz craft separated, leaving the 2.1-metre tall capsule to begin its entry into orbit.
A series of parachutes deployed to bring the capsule to gentle floating speed.
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Bright, duplex bonito diseño
N.º máximo de huéspedes6
Cuartos de baño3
Tamaño180 m²
Planta(con ascensor)
- Cocina
- Apto para familias / niños
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- Aire acondicionado
- Lavadora / secadora
- Aparcamiento disponible
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Resumen del alojamiento
Dirección | Dereh beit lehem, 9350406 jerusalem, Israel |
Tipo de propiedad | Apartamento |
Código de referencia | 2RITGYJM |
Tasa de aceptación | 86% |
Tiempo de respuesta | En pocas horas |
Calendario actualizado | Hace 2 semanas |
It is 220 sq. meter apartment, spread over three levels, spacious and lighted.
It contains:
Three bedrooms with double beds
Two terraces with wonderful views
Fully equipped kitchen
Spacious dining room
Bright living room with lots of natural light.
Satellite Television including movie channels, BBC, CNN etc…
Stereo with surround speakers
GREAT Cd's
Free Wi-Fi
Air Conditioning
water heater
Iron, and a Hair Dryer
NESPERESSO coffee machine
Linens and towels are provided.
Washing machine and dryer
Private parking
The master bedroom has a kingsize bed and a bathroom (toilet & bath!) inside. The second bedroom contains twin beds and has access to an additional bathroom across the hall (shower and toilet). Another shared batheoom with toilets are next to the living room.
The building is shared with a small number of quiet neighbors and is situated in the upscale residential neighborhood of Baka, slightly off center in the heart of Jerusalem
Nightlife and Food: Coffee shops, good restaurants and bars are two minutes' walk from the apartment, which is located between Emek Refaim and the trendy cultural and culinary complex at the Jerusalem's old railway station
(Jerusalem's old railway station one of the city's most popular cultural and recreational areas.The station offers cultural and culinary experience with its good restaurants, bars and a boutique culinary market!)
Check-in and check-out times are flexible, unless there are guests arriving/departing the same day.
Suitable for a family, a couple or friends.
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Precios |
Precio semanal para hasta 4 huéspedes | $ 2316 US |
Tarifa para > 4 huéspedes | $ 21 US por huésped/noche extra |
Detalles |
Entrada a partir de las | Bajo acuerdo |
Entrada antes de las | 16:00 |
Salida antes de las | 11:00 |
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We had a very pleasant stay at Shiras apartment. We were 4 persons (parents with two adult children) staying there for 4 nights. The place is very big and had enough room to host as all. The apartment hat a great location, with walking distance from the vibrant Emek Refaim Street and many good restaurants. Shira is a great and very friedly host, who showed us everything and can be reached easely by phone. We will consider staying in this apartment again.
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We can absolutly recommend this appartment. Shira made our holiday to an relaxed stay. She was so kind and always ready to help und anserwed our specific questions. The appartment was clean and the little garden great to sit after a day full of impressions. Hot tip for a week in Jerusalem. Close to First station where you can discover modern life and only 20min away from the Old City. Ask Shira for places where you can swim apart from tourist zones. She knows!
Beautiful studio in very good condition.
Within walking distance of the old town, welcoming
Definitely recommended
Shira was a wonderful host and very helpful in every situation. It was a pleasure to stay with her. We reccomend this very pleasant and comfortable apartment with everything you'll need (incl. iron and hair dryer). It was our first booking with Wimdu, we are happy to have made such a great experience at Shira's place. Thank you very much and greetings from Frankfurt.
Great small appartment. Good location on walking distance from the Old City. Clean and comfortable.
eine Unterkunft in einer netten Gegend mit einer guten Auswahl von Buechern und einer Espressokanne, eine gastfreundliche und hilfsbereite Wohnungsbesitzerin. Ich komme mal wieder...
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Comfortable rooms for 2 persons in mini hotel near the Vasylkiv-1 (Kalynivka) train station of and stopping minibuses. There are beds with orthopedic mattress, wardrobe, table, 2 chairs, 2 bedside tables, colour TV, Internet Wi-Fi, kettle, bed linen, towels in the room. Hot water is around the day.
25 minutes to Kiev and Teremky subway by bus.
Additionally, you can order a set meal (dinner) for 45 UAH.
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Muslims in Mannaar expose systemic inability of SL State in delivering justice to victims
Muslims in Mannaar expose systemic inability of SL State in delivering justice to victims
US Court of Appeals to hear Rajapakse war-crimes case[TamilNet, Friday, 24 August 2012, 03:59 GMT]United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued the briefing schedule Monday for the appeal against the dismissal of the war-crimes case against Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse. The appeal was filed by three Tamil plaintiffs/ appellants against Rajapakse for complicity in extrajudicial killings of plaintiffs relatives in violation of the Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA). The case, first filed at the lower court, was dismissed in February 2012 by Judge Kotelly after the U.S. State Department intervened to assert that, as a sitting head of state, Rajapakse was immune from litigation. The complaint filed in 2011 at the District Court for this case alleged multiple violations of the TVPA) based on Sri Lanka's President Rajapaksas command responsibility for the extrajudicial killings of Ragihar Manoharan, the son of Plaintiff Dr. Kasippillai Manoharan, of Premas Anandarajah, a humanitarian aid worker for Action Against Hunger, and husband of Plaintiff Kalaiselvi Lavan, and four members of the Thevarajah family, all relatives of Plaintiff Jeyakumar Aiyathurai. The appeal will be heard by a panel of three judges, unless the appellants request and if the court grants an en banc hearing. U.S. State Department has filed a motion to submit an amicus brief (an unsolicited legal opinion provided by a third party to assist the court in deciding the matter) on behalf of the appellee Rajapakse. Plaintiff/Appellants' attorney, Bruce Fein told TamilNet, "Our opening brief is due October 2, 2012. The opposition brief by Sri Lanka's sitting President Rajapaksa is due November 1, 2012. Oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals will probably be held in the early months of 2013. "We argue that the TVPA applies to "an individual" who perpetrates extrajudicial killings under color of foreign law with no exceptions for sitting heads of state; and, that torture or extrajudicial killings are so morally reprehensible and repugnant to civilized life that no government can authorize the malignity. "Every Tamil in the United States should seek to attend the oral argument to be held in Washington, D.C., and to protest before the U.S. State Department because of its running to the defense of Rajapaksa on the ground that sitting heads of state are shielded from TVPA suits in the Secretary of State so decrees," Fein said. Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), a US-based activist organization that seeks judicial redress to victims of war, and which is the sponsor of this case on behalf of the appellants, said in a press release, "Since alleged facts are presumed true at this phase, the appellate challenge to the court's dismissal of charges of crimes against humanity against Rajapakse will test the split in American human rights civil jurisprudence on the issue of whether individuals possess head-of-state immunity or not for jus cogens norm violations as a matter of law. "The intervention of the State Department in support of Rajapakse's immunity at the trial phase, and the status of the United States as a party to the case at the appellate phase, tend to illuminate the Obama administration's self-contradictory posture on the issue of Tamil justice in post-Mullivaikaal Sri Lanka," TAG said. Chronology: |
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text: Here's What 42 Years Of Love Does For A $2,000 CarAndrew P Collins2/08/16 9:50pmFiled to: VintageClassicRetroNissanDatsunDatsun 1600Mini TrucksOld School11552EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Marvin Askew bought this Datsun 1600 in 1971, changed the oil every 2,000 miles ever since, and today it's still nice enough to sit in a museum. Listening to this guy talk about his truck will make you want to go outside and hug your car.Askew lived in Nashville, local to Nissan's U.S. headquarters by happenstance. He bought this 1600 because he "didn't want a big truck" and, obviously, had great taste. Just look at those coat-hangery bumper guards! Advertisement As you can see, Askew held on to the truck for decades fending off offers to buy it "mostly from kids who wanted to strip it down and lower it" and keeping fastidious handwritten service records.A few years ago, car collector Dan Tito approached 80-year-old Askew with an offer he couldn't refuse and a promise to keep the truck true to original form. When Tito finally took ownership, he facilitated the vehicle's transfer to Nissan's Heritage Collection and eventual display at the company's Nashville headquarters. Advertisement Today we salute Mr. Askew for his endless devotion to this humble work rig, which we can now all enjoy as a preserved piece of automotive history. Pretty funny to hear him call the truck "so smooth down the highway," though. Think he's ever ridden in, like, any other car?Images and video via NissanContact the author at email@example.com repliesLeave a reply


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Scaling Properly
Cars that run high amounts of stagger and a locked up rear end can experience changing wedge due to the tires getting ready to "skip" like when you are push through the pits around a tight turn. Weight will momentarily be miss-applied as the tires excerpt force through the rear end gears. The axles literally climb up the ring gear causing an occasional wedge variance. To avoid stagger effect problems simply remove an axle cap and pull the an axle out past the spline on the rear hub. You can even see the stagger affect on cars with differentials however it is less common.
I. A-Arms Sometimes A-arms can be in a bit of a bind to get the caster right. This usually happens when more shims are used on one A-arm bolt than the other. You can see wedge numbers change due to this added resistance. Try to avoid uneven shimming and be sure to keep your A-arms greased at all times.
II. Ball Joints Ball joints have a fair amount of friction and need to be greased often. The friction can cause wedge variations if the car is not settled properly. Damaged ball joints should be replaced.
III. Sway Bar When weighing your car or making spring changes you should always have the sway bar disconnected. Many of the wedge variances I hear about are due to sway bar binds. I connect the sway bar only after the weigh process is completed. On late models I like to load the bar with 1/2% of wedge. On Cup style cars I like the bar to be completely neutral. You can set the bar to your liking but try to do it the same way each time and note your weight readings with the sway bar load if it is not set to neutral.
IV. Camber Changes When you adjust camber you are changing the tilt of the tire. Adding camber changes the wedge in the car to a small degree. Keep this in mind when recording your weights. If camber is changed, wedge will change a bit as well.
V. Shock Rebound Shocks with high amounts of rebound can artificially hold weight in a corner, especially when cold. Settling the car usually works the hydraulic fluid to get consistent readings. However, high amounts of rebound can make the weighing process harder. If possible, disconnect the shocks. On coil over type cars settle the car thoroughly.
VI. Tire Pressure Changes Air pressure changes moves cross weight and will change the numbers on all four corners of the car. Be sure to have the air pressure set before you begin the weigh job. I have seen slow leaking tires or bleeders that are still bleeding cause the weigh job to be a real hassle as the wedge keeps moving every time you check it. Be sure the tires hold air before you begin.
VII. Stagger Changes Make sure the stagger is set. More rear stagger takes bite out of the car. Less rear stagger puts bite in the car. More front stagger puts bite in the car. Less front stagger takes bite out of the car. Make sure you do your shop set up including ride heights with the proper amount of air pressure and tire stagger.
Total weight changes indicate that something is interfering with the free movement of the top casting on the scale pads or there is a problem with your system.
I have seen Winston Cup teams make leveling trays that rub the sides of the top castings on the scale pads. The interference can cause weight variances in the 30 pound range. Make sure that the top casting on the your pads is free to move.
I. Damaged cables A damaged or smashed cable can cause the numbers to bounce. Inspect the cable for damage. If damage is found order a new cable. If you are in a bind you can do a quick repair job. Insure that the system is off and cut the bad section out of the cable. Splice the wires together color to color and tape up. The quick repair will get you by until a new cable arrives.
II. Moisture in the connectors If water gets in the scale connectors the moisture interferes with the scale signal and a bouncing will occur. The fix is to dry out the connectors with a heat gun or put them over a heat register over night. Usually, the system returns to normal when the connectors dry out.
III. Dead battery A dead battery will cause many different problems. If you experience any kind of trouble then plug the scales into 110 volt and see if the problem is cured. Extremely dead batteries might require some charging before the system returns to normal operation.
Old batteries can short out internally and can interfere with proper scale operation even when plugged into 110 volt power. Battery design life is typically 2-4 years.
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The Ministry of Justice is pleading for prison officers who have recently been made redundant to come back to work.
Ministers have been forced into the humiliating reverse after being caught out by an unexpectedly large increase in the prison population.
Up to 100 redundant officers are to be asked to come back on short-term contracts and hundreds more are being transferred from their usual posts to beef up staff numbers in prisons where there are shortages.
The need to increase prison officer numbers, in contrast to the reductions driven by austerity measures over the last two years, has been exacerbated by fears riots and other disturbances will erupt during the summer because of overcrowding.
Prisons have just been told that, having until now been instructed to close down as many areas as possible, they must prepare to take in an extra 440 prisoners. Cutbacks have also meant the closure of 16 prisons.
The announcement was met with a scathing response from Peter McParlin, the National Chairman of the Prison Officers' Association (POA), and Steve Gillan, the General Secretary, who said in a joint statement: "The prison system is truly in crisis.
"The POA take no pleasure in saying that we told you so. It appears that only NOMS [the National Offender Management Service ] and the Coalition Government were unaware or chose to ignore the perfect storm of a rising population, a lack of staff and too few prison cells.
"This is tantamount to an abrogation of responsibility by those tasked with the essential protection of the public. Once again prison staff will have to deal with the consequences of the fiasco in the management of the Criminal Justice System."
The prison population has risen over the last year by 1,749 to 85,410 prisoners and is putting increasing strain on the system. In the last two years the Prison Service's Gold Command, the officials who co-ordinate the emergency response to serious outbreaks of violence, has experienced a 153 per cent increase in the number of call-outs.
Room for the additional 440 inmates is expected to be created by squeezing two prisoners into single cells and three into double cells.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling played down the significance of having to ask redundant prison officers to return.
"I'm just taking sensible steps to make sure we can accommodate everyone the court sends to us," he told The Times.
Sadiq Khan, the Shadow Justice Secretary, said the u-turn was humiliating to the government and expensive to the taxpayer.


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The replayability of games
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Today during my english class, i zoned out as i usually do. Today my mind wandering to a topic that i had been thinking about earlier: how replayable certain ames being released are. Fallout 3 and Oblivion are two obvious examples of such games. Open world games where you create your own character, these are incredibly replayable for the simple fact that many things can happen differently every time. Dragon Age Origins is another favourite of mine which is rapidly reaching 150 hours played on my third playthrough. This is most likely much higher than most peoples time spent in the game, however, this leads me to my next point. We all have those games that we will play constantly over and over again simply because we love it, where other people may think differently. An example for me would be the Skate. Franchise. I currently sit at near 50 hours played in Skate 2, and nearly 60 played in Skate 3. I am more inclined to play these types of games because i am a skateboarder in real life. We all have influences to our game decisions and which games we will spend the most time in.
I sometimes wonder if the amount of replayability in games could have an adverse effect on the games industry though. Because i have spent so much time in these games, i am far less inclined to go out and purchase one of the newer games that peaks my interest. If games continue to increase the amount of replayability in them, good it have a significant affect on the rest of the games industry?
If you have any input or would like to share some games that you've spent a large amount of time in that others may not have, feel free to reply :)


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Day 1: This morning you will transfer to Murchison Falls National Park with a stopover at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary en-route. You will have the opportunity to go for a short bush walk and learn about the fascinating rhinos. Afterwards, proceed to Murchison Falls National Park. Overnight at the Red Chili Campsite. Day 2: Wake up early for a sunrise game drive. You will see giraffes, buffaloes, kobs, elephants, and if you are lucky, lions. Return to the campsite for lunch. In the afternoon, you will go for a boat trip on the Nile. From the boat, you will be able to see animals lounging on the banks of the Nile, such as lazy crocodiles, hippos, buffaloes, and grazing elephants. Return to the campsite for dinner. Overnight at the red Chili Campsite. Day 3: Today you will transfer back to Kampala. Member discount: Notes: The price decreases as the group size increases, so invite your friends!
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My cousin Crazy Eddie Antar taught me that "people live on hope." As white collar criminals, we preyed on your hopes and dreams by feeding you our spin and lies.
Investors demand confident leadership and strong financial performance from company managements. They want to hear management exuding confidence about their company's future business prospects. Eddie and I built an image of strong and confident leadership by promising investors a prosperous future backed up by our phony financial reports.
As criminals, we considered the humanity of investors as a weakness to be exploited in the cold-blooded execution of our crimes. We measured our effectiveness by the comfort level of our victims.
My cousin Eddie and I built walls of false integrity around us to gain the trust of our victims. We claimed that Crazy Eddie's accounting policies were "conservative." In addition, we gave huge sums of money to charity and were involved in many popular social causes in an effort to make investors comfortable with us. While we were in effect, "helping old ladies cross the street," we were heartlessly executing a massive fraud that wiped out the life savings of thousands of investors and ultimately caused a few thousand people to lose their jobs.
Eddie Antar and I never had a single conversation about morality or right and wrong. We simply did not care about the victims of our crimes. Our conversations only focused on the successful execution of our cold-blooded schemes to defraud investors.
At Crazy Eddie, we committed our crimes simply because we thought we could execute them successfully. We took advantage of investor's hopes, dreams, and aspirations for a better future. More importantly, we fully exploited investor's lack of skepticism that resulted from the wall of false integrity we built around ourselves.
Hope is a fine human quality that motivates us to build a better future. Unfortunately, criminals consider your hope as an exploitable weakness to aid them in the successful execution of their crimes.
Do not get mesmerized by neatly packaged story lines and well researched sound bites written by professional high paid media consultants. Criminals know how to "talk the talk and walk the walk" as they inspire you with false promises of a prosperous future.
In the New Year, please do not let criminals exploit your hopes and dreams. In addition, you are cautioned to apply the same advice to our elected officials from all sides of the political spectrum who exploit your hopes with inspiring rhetoric to sell you flawed solutions to major problems facing our nation.
Have a skeptical New Year.
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Sam E. Antar (former Crazy Eddie CFO and a convicted felon)
Other blog posts of interest
Managing Earnings: Playing the Numbers Game
Advice about Trust from a Convicted Felon
A Warning to Wall Street Analysts from a Convicted Felon
Warning from a Convicted Felon: Don't Be Fooled by People Who Flaunt Their Integrity
Limiting Auditor Liability is Plain Dumb
Why White Collar Criminals Do Not Fear Today's FBI
Advice to President-Elect Barack Obama about Combating White Collar Crime From a Convicted Felon


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- About  TPR -
'The Pigeons' Rule' is a comic about pigeons. You may not see them, but they are there.
New strips will be posted three times a week. New strips are currently being posted once a week, on Mondays, although I hope to return to three weekly strips soon enough.
I'll try to create coherent, funny strips that work independently, while at the same time building stories with an arc that gives you, the reader, a reason to come back periodically and get totally hooked and then buy umpteen prints. Hehehe. Don't read that.
Below follows the famed cast:
MateoJust an average guy. A nice person. Slightly fidgety, perhaps. OK, yes. Fidgety. Pretty grey life. Has a day job, which takes up most of his time. Gets home late to a rather impersonal 57-floor skyscraper (he lives in the 9th floor). One fateful day, on his way to a community meeting, he goes astray and gets himself lured to the building's rooftop. There, he is happy ever after. OK, not really. First appearance:
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SammySammy is Mateo's gorgeous neighbor from the 48th floor. We know she has two dogs, Vito and Quillo; we know the Limanda has an interest in her; and we know Mateo does as well —albeit the former is by far the most sucessful. First appearance:
44 – Elevated. Not. |
Mr MacKrullMr MacKrull is a superpowerful entity with omniscient knowledge of everything taking place in the building. He can freeze people with his gaze, and can block your train of thought by making a triangle with his hands. |
Bermutiero (Bermie) MaloneOne of three Malones, chubby fellows whose sole purpose in life seems to be the pursuit of the Great Kudu. Bermie seems bossy and patronizing, which may qualify him as their leader. First appearance:
3 – New Adventures in RGB |
Philipp MaloneOne of the Malones, probably second-in-command. He bosses Kolia around when he feels bossed around by Bermie. He has a quiet personality, although he may have something to hide. If you ask me, he does. First appearance:
3 – New Adventures in RGB |
Nikolai Dementiev (Kolia) MaloneThe last of the Malones. His personality is simple and chaotic. In appearance, he is last in the chain of command. In fact, he is in a completely different league. He has the upper hand of having shown certain psychic powers. His first and middle names seem to indicate a Slavic background, which may or may not be entirely misleading. First appearance:
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The Great KuduAll we know about the Great Kudu is the Malones want it caged. First appearance: None yet. By mention:
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NunoA rodent-like cute furry creature. Nonchalant as he is, Nuno has a dignity to him that commends him among the rooftop inhabitants, which I seriously doubt is something to be taken as a compliment. He likes fishing. His idea of fishing and yours, however, may have nothing to do with each other. First appearance:
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The LimandaHe, err… she? err, the Limanda is, as Nuno says, an odd duck. Not really a duck , but really, really odd. It walks funny, gesticulate funny and speaks… not. We don't know what it's up to but, like Kolia, it seems to have an ace up its sleeve, psychicpower-wise speaking. First appearance:
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https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50115 Isaac Shabtay <firstname.lastname@example.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW --- Comment #2 from Isaac Shabtay <email@example.com> 2010-10-27 23:55:57 EDT --- Sorry for the unclear description before. Here's a more detailed explanation: 1) Create directory D:/temp (or whatever, up to you, I'll use D:/temp in this text) 2) Create a file named D:/temp/test1.txt with some text in it. 3) Create a directory named D:/temp/test2 with nothing in it. 4) Execute both "demo-good" and "demo-bad" in this antfile: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project name="bug"> <target name="demo-good"> <zip destfile="D:/temp/good.zip" whenempty="skip"> <fileset dir="D:/temp" includes="test**"/> </zip> </target> <target name="demo-bad"> <zip destfile="D:/temp/bad.zip" whenempty="skip"> <resources> <fileset dir="D:/temp" includes="test**"/> </resources> </zip> </target> </project> When executing "demo-good", you'll get a "good.zip" file containing the file "test1.txt" and a directory called "test2". When executing "demo-bad", you'll get a warning message from Ant, saying that the archive has been skipped; however, the archive itself *is* created. Its contents are wrong, though; the directory "test2" will not exist there. I had another testcase a while ago that showed a corrupt archive but I can't find it anywhere. Nevertheless, "demo-bad" will demonstrate the problem I believe. -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. | |
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Potent new hepatitis C drug completes first clinical trials successfully
September 4, 2010
(ChattahBox Health News) – Inhibitex has initiated a Phase I double-blind, placebo-controlled, single ascending dose study to evaluate the safety and pharmacokinetic activity of INX-189 in healthy volunteers under an IND that it filed earlier this year with the FDA. The study, which is being conducted in the U.S., will evaluate up to six escalating doses of INX-189, ranging from 3 mg up to200 mg. Each dose cohort will include eight subjects, six of which will receive INX-189 and two that will receive placebo.
Completion of the initial phase (phase 1a) of trials of INX-189, discovered and first prepared by researchers at Cardiff University's Welsh School of Pharmacy in 2008, means the chances of it becoming an approved medicine have significantly improved.
Approximately 170 million people worldwide are affected with Hepatitis C, which can lead to liver cancer, cirrhosis and death. It is the leading cause of liver transplantation in western countries. The current treatment involves two drugs ribavirin and interferon, which has to be given as an injection. Side effects are often severe and lead to patients failing to complete the treatment.
Professor Chris McGuigan of the Welsh School of Pharmacy, academic lead on the project, said: "This is still a very early stage of the trials process but none the less a significant development. Successfully completing phase 1a demonstrates that the drug is safe, with no drug-related side effects at all in a single dose of 100mg.
"The efficiency of drug release in this study has also confirmed that one single dose a day is most likely enough in treating the virus.
"We believe that INX-189 offers the possibility of more potency against Hepatitis, more rapid action in the liver, and fewer side effects than existing treatments."
In 2008, laboratory tests showed INX-189 killed 90 per cent of the virus at very low (nanomolar) concentration, making it the most potent compound of its kind developed to date.
US pharmaceutical company Inhibitex, which owns the licence to INX-189 and has been working with the Cardiff team, has announced it is looking forward to a second trial (phase 1b), which would evaluate the compound's effectiveness in Hepatitis C patients.
Cardiff University and Inhibitex filed a patent on INX-189 earlier this year. It has been cleared for human clinical trials by the Food and Drug Administration in the US.
About Inhibitex
Inhibitex is developing a series of proprietary protides of nucleoside inhibitors that target the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (NS5b) of HCV. The Company believes that its protides possess several pharmacological advantages over nucleosides alone, including greater potency, a more rapid conversion into its active form in the liver and potentially less toxicity due to reduced systemic exposure of the nucleoside. INX-189 is a protide of a 2′-C-methylguanosine analogue, which the Company believes is the most potent HCV nucleotide polymerase inhibitor described in the literature to date. The Company believes that preclinical studies of INX-189 support its potential as a highly potent, once-per-day oral therapy highly amenable to combination with other antivirals for the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis C infection.
Inhibitex, Inc., headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing products to prevent and treat serious infectious diseases. The Company's pipeline includes FV-100, which is in Phase II clinical development for the treatment of shingles, and INX-189, a nucleotide polymerase inhibitor in development for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C infections. Both programmes were in licensed from and pursued collaboratively with Cardiff University. The Company also has additional HCV nucleotide polymerase inhibitors in preclinical development and has licensed the use of its proprietary MSCRAMM® protein platform to Pfizer for the development of staphylococcal vaccines. For additional information about the Company, please visit www.inhibitex.com.
Cardiff University
Cardiff University is recognized in independent government assessments as one of Britain's leading teaching and research universities and is a member of the Russell Group of the UK's most research intensive universities. Among its academic staff are two Nobel Laureates, including the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Medicine, Professor Sir Martin Evans.
Founded by Royal Charter in 1883, today the University combines impressive modern facilities and a dynamic approach to teaching and research. The University's breadth of expertise in research and research-led teaching encompasses: the humanities; the natural, physical, health, life and social sciences; engineering and technology; preparation for a wide range of professions; and a longstanding commitment to lifelong learning.
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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishchieflychief‧ly /ˈtʃiːfli/ ●○○ adverb MAINmostly but not completely syn mainly The work consists chiefly of interviewing the public. I lived abroad for years, chiefly in Italy.
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I remember you recommended this set previously. ;-)
I ALSO ordered a couple I had forgotten: the Skrowaczewski performances of 2 and 3 on Oehms - I already have his 1 and 4, and Skrowaczewski's "Spring" Symphony is one of the best performances I know of. In addition, I ordered the Oramo performances on Sony - if his Schumann is as good as his Sibelius, these should be great recordings too!
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Muslims in Mannaar expose systemic inability of SL State in delivering justice to victims
Election related violence escalating[TamilNet, Friday, 19 March 2010, 11:49 GMT]Election related violence, mostly in the south of the country, is reported to have been escalating. The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Gamini Navaratne who is in charge of election unit said so far he has received one hundred and twenty two elections related complaints till Thursday. About fifty percent of complaints are connected to intra-party rivalry due to canvassing for preferential votes, he added. Forty per cent of the incidents are connected to intra party clashes and about sixty persons have been taken into custody, he said. |
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Right on schedule, Nintendo has dropped another round of downloadable games into the Wii Shop Channel's catalog. Featuring two new WiiWare titles and two retro classics for the Virtual Console, this week's line-up is pretty strong, though in my opinion, not as strong as prior weeks. Still, if you're looking for a few sports games or a classic RPG title, this week has a game for you.
This week's new games are:
Midnight Bowling (Gameloft, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone, 800 Wii Points): Plunge directly into the trendy and electric atmosphere of Midnight Bowling. With awesome playing sensations, prepare for ultra-fun gaming thanks to a new physics engine that lets you control your throws precisely and easily with your Wii Remote controller and make spectacular spins that will impress your opponents. Face up to three friends in the fun party mode, where your playing abilities will be put to the test. Whatever your experience level, launch yourself into the immersive career mode, where you will play in the trendiest bowling spots on the planet against charismatic characters that will give you a run for your money.
MadStone (Riverman Media, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone, 800 Wii Points): Time is short. Earth trembles as the forces of nature stir and grow restless. Can you turn the tide? In this dynamic puzzle game, you must clear the path for your elemental MadStones to reach the bottom of the screen. Blocks can be broken by striking them directly or by the force of falling objects. The novice tries frantically to break enough blocks, while the master sets up cascading collapses with only a handful of direct strikes. As two sides struggle for domination, titanic forces build, only to be unleashed in an earth-shaking final confrontation. Experience the mystical single-player journey, or challenge a friend in competitive two-player mode.
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Mario Golf (Nintendo 64, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone, 1,000 Wii Points): Mario takes a well-deserved break from his role as the Mushroom Kingdom's busiest hero and returns to the links for some world-class golfing action. Since no one likes to hit the fairways alone, he's brought along a group of friends—both familiar characters and brand new ones. Choose from 10 different modes of play and six 18-hole courses in a variety of environments for a golfing experience with endless replay value. Add in fun, colorful graphics with a Mario touch (a Boo indicates wind direction), intuitive controls, incredibly deep game play and multiplayer support (taunt your opponents), and you have a game anyone will enjoy—even if you've never played a round of golf. Fore!
Shining Force II (Sega Genesis, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone—Mild Fantasy Violence, 800 Wii Points): It's a dark and stormy night in the kingdom of Granseal when a thief steals two jewels from the Tower of the Ancients. He sets in motion strange events that lead to the resurrection of Zeon, the Devil King. Granseal's king falls sick, the princess is kidnapped, and a door to Arc Valley, the Devil King's home, is opened. The young swordsman, Bowie, realizing the grave danger Granseal faces, must lead the Shining Force to find the Holy Sword and the stolen jewels, and protect Granseal against the invading armies of Zeon.
Mario Golf was released on the Japanese Virtual Console last week. Shining Force II was released on the Japanese Virtual Console in July and on the European Virtual Console last week. They, along with Midnight Bowling and MadStone, are currently available for download off the Wii Shop Channel.
Check back next week for the latest round of releases for the Wii. Until then, happy gaming!
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Don't Boat Without Number Two
Let's talk about the second most important safety item you should have on when you go boating. That's your life jacket, or Personal Flotation Device (PFD).
This piece was inspired by photo submissions from you. We got some really good ones; some with boaters in NRS gear…but they weren't wearing PFDs! Our decision is that we won't use any photos of adults on the water or kids on the water or playing near the water who aren't wearing life jackets.
The 2004 U.S. Coast Guard accident statistics bear that out. They cataloged 484 drownings; 431 of them (89%) were not wearing life jackets. Numerous studies show that up to 90% of drowning victims could have been saved had they been wearing a life jacket.
The Oregon State Marine Board has gathered statistics for that state that are more clearly broken down by type of craft involved. From 1997 to 2005, they tabulated 71 fatalities of boaters in non-motorized craft (kayaks, rafts, canoes). 76% of them were either not wearing a PFD or didn't have it properly fastened.
Those are the statistics. The cold-hard fact is that most of these people didn't have to die. A life jacket would have saved their lives and saved their family and friends the grief of their loss.
What's the best type of life jacket to have? It's the one you have on. PFDs are available in such a wide array of types, models and sizes that there's a comfortable fit for everyone. Most boaters use Coast Guard Approved Type III, III/V and V models that have a minimum 15.5 pounds of buoyancy. Most adults only need an extra seven to 12 pounds of buoyancy to keep their heads above water. So choose a model that's comfortable and you'll be able to wear it all the time you're on the water.
And don't forget your children. They're depending on you for their safety. A couple of our Associates were recently at a local lake and shuddered to see little toddlers without life jackets walking around on the docks while their parents fished in the icy water. Kid's young growing bodies require extra care in fitting them. To work right, a PFD must fit snugly on a child. After adjusting, check for a good fit by picking the child up by the shoulders of the jacket. If the fit is right, the child's chin and ears won't slip through. See the Kids PFD Reference Guide for some extra help in finding the best jacket for your youngster.
Oh, are you wondering what the MOST important safety item you should have on when you go boating? It's your brain…switched on, thinking about your safety and the safety of those you boat with. If it's working properly, you'll be wearing your PFD…your Life Jacket.
Editor's Note:
While working for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, I helped recover four drowning victims. A dear friend of mine and his son drowned while canoeing. They weren't wearing their life jackets.
Handling those lifeless bodies and mourning the loss of my friends has left a powerful impression on me and made me a passionate believer in wearing PFDs.
I often walk at lunch, looking out over the rolling Palouse hills. After writing this piece, one day on my walk I thought once again of Dr. Hobart Landreth and his young son, Patrick. It's been over 30 years since they died; I was totally surprised by the powerful emotions that hit me. Once again I felt the grief and tears…for my friends, for my loss, for all the times we didn't get to spend together.
Please wear your life jacket. If you can't do it for yourself, do it for those you'd leave behind.
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Former prime minister Tony Blair expressed his "heartfelt gratitude" to President Barack Obama today for the military operation which killed Osama bin Laden.
In a statement, he said the operation showed that "those who commit acts of terror against the innocent will be brought to justice, however long it takes".
Mr Blair was prime minister at the time of both the 2001 and the 2005 attacks, which in many ways shaped his time in power.
He said: "My heartfelt gratitude to President Obama and to all of those who so brilliantly undertook and executed this operation.
"We should never forget 9/11 was also the worst ever terrorist attack against UK civilians, and our thoughts are with all those - American, British and from nations across the world - who lost their lives and with their loved ones who remain and who live with their loss.
"9/11 was an attack not just on the United States, but on all those who shared the best values of civilisation.
"The operation shows those who commit acts of terror against the innocent will be brought to justice, however long it takes.
"So this is a huge achievement in the fight against terrorism but we know the fight against the terrorism and the ideology that Bin Laden represents continues and is as urgent as ever."
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Council Meetings are held on the first and third Monday of each month at 6:30PM in the Oviedo City Council Chambers. City Council meetings are broadcast live on SGTV, channel 199 on the Bright House cable network in Seminole County.
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We're not from round here. Kipes are the proof.
One of the things that marvels me about America, the continent, is that for the most part we are all young nations, some more stable and prosperous than others, but we all have one thing in common: short memory. This is well illustrated in Dominican society as our inability to bear long grudges.
Nations round the world are still fighting wars, with words or with arms, that started so many generations ago that in some cases nobody remembers how it all started. In contrast, the Dominican Republic consists of people who arrived from many continents, all amalgamated into one. We are, after all, a nation of people who all came from somewhere else: Taínos, Africans, Europeans, Asians. They came in waves, each giving us bits and pieces of their culture to make what is today the Dominican Republic.
Personally, while I'm not really interested in tracking my ancestors back to wherever they came from, I'm obsessed with the origin of our dishes. I believe it says at least as much about who we are than knowing what village in Europe or Africa begot my forefathers, or how many drops of my blood came from our Taino ancestors. Your mileage may vary.
Many a time when researching about a recipe we spend as much, or even more time, trying to find out where it came from and how it evolved into what we eat today. And while unfortunately there isn't that much research we can consult, in many cases the arrival or creation of a dish is recent enough that we can tell with near certainty where it came from. Luckily this is the case with kipes.
Kipes, or Quipes, are a Dominicanized version of the Lebanese kibbeh.
They were brought to our shores by a wave of Middle Eastern immigrants that arrived in the Dominican Republic at the end of the 19th century.
Besides becoming a prosperous, respected community, these immigrants added several of their culinary traditions (arroz con fideos, tipili, niño envuelto) to our cuisine, this is probably the most popular of these additions.
Next to the recipe for Dominican Cake this is the recipe that seems to give people the most trouble, and like that other recipe this one started as a simple set of instructions, but still many readers seem to struggle with it, so I guess it's time to expand this recipe to add more details that will help beginners get a good result at the first try. The most important thing to remember is to read the recipe carefully, and follow the instructions to a T. If you already know what you are doing then by all means stray from the instructions as these steps are just what I've found to work for me.
Buen provecho!
Tía Clara
- 1 cup bulgur (whole grain)
- 1 qt [1 lt] of water, divided (may not use all)
- 1 lb [0.4 kg] of ground beef
- 1 bell pepper, very finely diced
- 2 basil leaves, chopped
- 1 small onion, very finely diced
- 3 teaspoon of salt (or more, to taste)
- ½ cup tomato sauce
- ¼ cup raisins
- 2 cups oil for frying
- ¼ teaspoon of pepper
- Put the wheat in a bowl and add enough water to cover and let it sit in for 4 hrs, stir a couple of times while it rests.
- Pulse onion, and basil in the food processor until you obtain a coarse paste.
- In a bowl, mix meat, bell pepper, basil and onion. Add a pinch of pepper and 2 teaspoons of salt.
- Using your hands mix the meat with the vegetables until you get an uniform mixture.
- Separate in thirds and set aside ⅔ of the meat.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a pan over medium heat. Add ⅓ of the meat you've taken out. Brown the meat. Add tomato sauce and mix well. Stir in ½ cup of water and the raisins and simmer over medium heat.
- When all the liquid has evaporated, remove from the heat.
- Let it cool down to room temperature. Set aside.
- Drain the leftover water from the bulgur and squeeze to get rid of as much water as possible.
- Add the remaining raw meat to the bulgur.
- With your hands mix the bulgur and raw meat, kneading it until it is mixed uniformly. This is a key step, the better mixed this is, the better chances of kipes not breaking apart in the hot oil. Knead for your life!
- Put 2 tablespoons of the mixture on the palm of your hands and roll into a ball.
- Make a deep indentation in the ball.
- Place 1 tablespoon of the filling in the indentation.
- Put another tablespoon of the bulgur mixture on the filing and roll the kipe with the palm of your hands making it as compact as possible.
- Refrigerate for at least 6 hours.
- When it is time to fry them give them another quick squeeze to make them even more compact.
- Heat the remaining oil in a frying pot over medium heat. The oil has to be very hot, cool oil will make your kipes break down and possibly ruin the oil too.
- Being very, very careful with splatters (hot oil and cold liquids do not get along well) fry your kipes, preferably one at a time, dropping them in the oil with a slotted spoon to avoid burning yourself.
- After frying, the kipe has to be deep brown outside. Open the first one when you are done, if there is any pink part inside it means there is still raw meat, a bad thing, fry the next one longer. Place them on a paper towel to drain excess oil.


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Wednesday, 6 November 2013
The Three Muses Challenge - GRUNGE/PRINT BACKGROUND
I hope you will enjoy our more challenging challenges! I think this challenge should appeal to all our wonderful artists as it involves the use of stamps, silhouettes, brushes and "print" backgrounds (newsprint, pages of books, dictionaries and music manuscripts). You can choose your own theme. I scan my backgrounds from an old dictionary and add some grunge and texture to make them more interesting. Adding splatters and stains enhances the depth and gives a "used" look. I admit being addicted to neutral tones mixed with black but colour is OK, of course.
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Princess Rhu is turning One Year Old!
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Lona Hailey's Full Moon Party
Pink and Blue, Bird Theme Birthday Party
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Birthday Cake to Self!
Ruffles cake made from fondant.
Happy Birthday, Mommy!
Ruffled Butter Cream Cake for mommy dearest.
I am a bit obsessed with ruffle cakes lately. I think they are simply gorgeous. So, I decided to make my mom a special {ruffle :) } birthday cake last Friday. My ruffled cake was NOT perfect but mom loves it!
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Christening Cake
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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2011 has been great and fun for us!
Thank you to all of our customers for your support.
We appreciate each and every one of you!!
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Happy New Year 2012!!
A new beginning..
Let's strive to be extraordinary this 2012! :)
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2. Baby Tv theme cake for Ashton
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Rania's 1st Birthday Cake
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Evangeline's Full Moon Cake
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
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Project by ETwoodworks | posted 07-16-2011 08:05 PM | 1951 views | 6 times favorited | 3 comments |
I made this for my nephew about 5 years ago. It was my first piece of furniture and used my first mortise and tenon joints in it. The mortise's are all cut by hand as I didnt have a mortiser yet. Thankfully the pictures and stain hide most of my sins the joints are far from perfect. It is made of poplar and (I think) birch ply for the panels. The stain is Verathane gunstock and finished with wipe on poly.
Thanks for looking
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Nice, I have yet to tackle the MORTISE and TENON barrier ;-D -- Kelly, woodworker under construction |
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Eric, -- ANYBODY HAVE A BOARD STRETCHER;( |
#3 posted 07-20-2011 05:16 AM |
If it is still standing after 5 years of service, I think the joints pass. Great job -- Norman - I never never make a mistake, I just change the design. |
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The Wesleyan Wolves girls basketball team won Saturday's neutral tournament game against Miller Grove by a score of 72-35.
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The Miller Grove Wloverines basketball team (Lithonia, GA), was overwhelmed 72-35 in Saturday's non-league battle with the visiting Wesleyan Wolves (Norcross, GA)
The Wolves now possess a 1-0 record. They play next when they travel to Norcross for a non-league battle on Monday, November 24. Wesleyan will battle a Blue Devils team coming off a 60-48 non-league win over Sandy Creek (Tyrone, GA). The Blue Devils record now stands at 1-0.
The Wloverines (0-1) will now prepare for their battle against Stone Mountain (Stone Mountain, GA). The Pirates come into the 6-AAAA battle with a 0-1 record.
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"Supernatural" sure knows how to keep a secret.
The long-running CW drama proved that to be true once again on Tuesday (Feb. 25), when it brought back a familiar face as a devastating surprise. Welcome back, Kevin Tran (Osric Chau). It's been too long.
Side note: When the "Then" montage at the beginning of the episode brings you to tears, you know you're in for an emotionally rough hour. And oh man, was it ever.
Ever since the prophet was killed by Gadreel (while possessing Sam), the Winchester brothers have been beating themselves up, blaming themselves for Kevin's death. But when Kevin finally mustered up enough ghost juice to make contact with Sam and Dean in the Men of Letters bunker, he was able to drop some much needed truth bombs on the bickering boys, as well as clue them in to some vital info, all while finally getting to have a powerful and emotional reunion with his mother.
So why wasn't Kevin up in the Great White North (heaven, not Canada)? Because thanks to Metatron's meddling, heaven is shut down not only for angels, but for spirits as well. Ever since he gated up the doors to heaven, anyone who's died has just stuck around in the veil between life and death, no peace to be found (Seriously, Kevin lost his family, his future and his life, and he can't even get peace in the afterlife?!? Rough deal). And since Kevin was killed in the bunker, that's where he's been for the past few months.
And since he's been around the past few months, he's heard all of Sam and Dean's fighting. So he finally told them what they desperately needed to hear after they saved his mom from her demon captivity. "Dudes, get over it. The drama, the fighting, it's stupid," Kevin told them. "My mom's taking home a ghost. But you two, you're still here."
Ugh, deep. However, even though it looked like Kevin's words struck a chord with Dean, Sam wasn't affected, and just walked away from Dean, leaving things between the brothers as strained as ever. If forgiveness from Kevin isn't enough to patch things up between Sam and Dean, can anything repair their bond?
Certainly not helping matters is the fact that Dean keeps on standing up for Crowley after their mission together. Sam gets increasingly pissed off each time Dean reaches out to Crowley for help or speaks in Crowley's favor. That doesn't bode well for these two. Plus, should Dean really be relying on Crowley that much for help? Can the former king of hell really be trusted?
While all the human drama was going down, the angels were pretty busy themselves. Bartholomew returned to reach out to Castiel, because he wants to work with Cas to take down Malachi. But there's one problem with Bartholomew's plan: Cas doesn't want to kill any more angels. When Bartholomew brings up the thousands of angels that Cas slaughtered, he says that enough angel blood has been spilled. "What I did, who I was, that's not who I am," Cas says.
Cas tries to walk away from the faction in peace, but Bartholomew forces his hand, attacking Cas until Cas kills him. When he tries to walk away again, he's approached by some of Bartholomew's angels, who were inspired by Cas' new attitude. They want to follow him now, meaning Cas is now the leader of his own, non-violent faction. Do they have what it takes to take down Metatron and Malachi and re-open the gates to heaven?
This week's episode was surprisingly emotional, both with the return of Kevin Tran and his reunion with his mom. However, it's awful that something that powerful did nothing in terms of healing the rift between Sam and Dean, because at its heart, their relationship is what "Supernatural" is all about. How much more pain will "Supernatural" fans take before they give up on Sam on Dean?
At least we have another epic return to look forward to next week … because the GHOSTFACERS ARE BACK.
"Supernatural" airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on The CW.


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Niggas quiet as hell man What did jared cook do @Dely Did he get 7 rec/100 yards agaiin or he put up a dud like i said? @brother mouzone how bush lookin for ya bro? He just got hurt
II didnt reply bbecause its pointless Me winning was never the debate, this was my first time even pllaying football on ds Dely said cook would have anothher game like week 1 and he didnt.. nothin more nothin less That etra shit is just a prime example of ppl like u and b1 showing hhow bitchmade they are, but im used to it at this point.. ill never get it because i onlyy talk shit when provoked, but iits awwkward that u grown men feel more comfortable calling me on my faults than u do the next person when none of u s know one another But then again im the bully who gave u niggas wedgie in the locker room so ii suppose singling ppl like me out is ur paybback? Cuz in reality i would robb any1 of u social lepors and i think yall know it....
sitting out this week. i dont like the prices lynch graham calvin should all put up big numbers though
@Dely me being in the moneyu is irrelevant bro considering this was my first time playing ff on ds and i never proclaimed i'd win anything were u in the money? how about b1? how the fuck u gonna question me being in the money when u niggas wasnt even in it, not to mention that isnt the topic of discussion I said jared cook wouldnt duplicate his week 1 game (which he didnt).. why are we ignoring these facts? but since we cant stick to the topic at hand, Why did GQ leave u?
nigga aint no fuckin way YOU left gq u look like a fuckin salamander, bro GQ got tired of gettin dick from outside sources while u were overseas and just said fuck it finally


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13.1 Adjustment and forfeiture of surface water allocation
Supporting Information
The volume recognised in the water accounting statements (23,664 ML) represents the total forfeiture of water allocations for all surface water supply in the Ord region not related to urban water systems or irrigation schemes. Forfeiture here occurs because the dates of the 'water year' of each allocation do not match the dates of the 2010–11 year.
Water supply licences are divided into licence entitlement purposes in the table below.
Licence category |
Forfeited/adjusted volume (ML) |
Agriculture |
16,062 |
Commercial and institutional |
489 |
Environment and conservation |
0 |
Industry and power generation |
0 |
Mining |
6,923 |
Parks, gardens and recreation |
97 |
Stock and domestic |
93 |
Total |
23,664 |
Quantification Approach
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Any unused allocation cannot be carried over to a subsequent licence year. For each licensee, the portion of an entitlement that has not been abstracted by end of its reporting period is forfeited.
That is, the portion of surface water allocation that has not been abstracted at the end of the 2010–11 year is forfeited. The forfeiture is calculated as the total annual allocation for each licence minus total allocation diversion. However, given that the volume of abstraction is estimated to be the full allocation (refer to line item 17.11), this component of the forfeiture is assumed to be zero.
Entitlements that are terminated during the 2010–11 year are also considered to be forfeitures.
Assumptions, Limitations, Caveats and Approximations
Uncertainty Information
The uncertainty estimate was not quantified.
Comparative year
The following table compares the value for the 2009–10 year reported in this account with the corresponding value reported in the 2010 Account.
2011 Account line item |
2010 Account line item |
Value reported in the 2010 Account (ML) |
Value reported in the 2011 Account (ML) |
Additional information |
13.1 Adjustment and forfeiture of surface water allocation |
18.104.22.168 Adjustment and forfeiture of allocation on regulated flows – other lumped holders |
6,812 |
24,227 |
Change in line item name and number. Licence reclassification and data availability |
This has been restated because the Bureau of Meteorology changed the water accounting treatment of Tropical Forest Service licence (SWL162772). Previously, the liability was not recorded as the licence was deemed to be an unregulated due to the status of the Dunham River. However, the Tropical Forest Service licence is now regarded as regulated as the present obligation can be discharged from the available water source at Arthur Creek Dam. Also, availability of actual meter readings improved the accuracy of the volume presented in this line item.


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BM: In the autumn of 1993, I was invited by the New Yorker to sit in on the James Bulger trial. I was editing this newspaper's book pages at the time, which meant, if I did go, taking unpaid leave, putting friends and colleagues under strain, and running away from my family for a month - all for a piece that would only be commissioned if, at the end of the trial, the New Yorker decided there hadn't already been too much coverage in the US. So naturally I said yes. In the event the article did get commissioned and published. But afterwards I found I was still brooding about the trial and that there were things I'd barely scratched the surface of - hence the book.
JD: Why do you think the case caused such a stir?
BM: The rareness of the crime, to start with: a child child-killing. The fact that the security camera at Bootle Strand had got the abduction on film - that terrible poignancy we all felt at seeing events unfold and being helpless to stop them, since security cameras (this was something else we learned) are there not to provide safety for people but to protect property. And then the sheer length of the walk, two and half miles, from the shopping centre to the railway line where James Bulger was killed, not a furtive walk but one that took him along busy streets while traffic was at its peak. And the fact that so many people said they saw the toddler crying or being hit, and a couple of women even talked to the trio and were told the little boy was lost and the big boys were taking him to a police station - and yet no one intervened.
JD: There was a good deal of sensationalism in the media coverage of the case. Do you think you'd be guilty of the same, in publishing a book about the case?
BM: Well, understandably the media found the case sensational, yes. Man kills child; sad to say, that's routine, an item for page 7. But child kills child, or children kill child: that's a story. You can say the newspapers went overboard. But they didn't invent the shock and revulsion people felt. There was a kind of wound in the nation's psyche, a feeling that some kind of critical point had been reached. I seem to remember Tony Blair speaking of the killing as a "hammer-blow to the nation's sleeping conscience, urging us to wake up", or words to that effect.
As for my book, which is highly critical in places of the media coverage, no I don't think it's sensational. I would say that, wouldn't I? But I do feel it's an attempt to make people think about the case again when, naturally enough perhaps, they'd prefer to put it behind them. It's not the grisly details I want to remind them of - though some details are important - but the extreme youth of the killers.
JD: Isn't there a danger of prurience nontheless?
BM: I'd have thought anyone wanting a cheap thrill would be very disappointed. That's partly why I start in the Middle Ages, with the Children's Crusade of 1212, just to make it clear this isn't that kind of book. What haunts me about the case isn't the gory detail but the mythic elements pervading the everyday setting. Take the famous security still of James Bulger being led by Jon Venables: the small hand in a bigger hand - it's a classic image of trust that's come down to us from endless paintings, and nursery- rhyme illustrations, and Startrite shoe ads, and so on. And because they violated that image, Thompson and Venables were charged not only with the death of a child but with the death of childhood itself. Or take the pictorial representation of the trial on television or in the papers: on the one hand, the blond, smiling victim, "Jamie" (who wasn't called that: his parents knew him as James), on the other, nameless, faceless Boy A and Boy B being transported to court each day in an armoured van, like dangerous animals. There was an agenda of Good versus Evil which even the jury found it hard to evade.
JD: The judge thought the boys might have been influenced by violent films. What's your conclusion?
BM: I don't believe this was a copycat killing inspired by Child's Play 3. But I do believe prolonged exposure to violent images can't help but have an effect. There is a drawing Jon Venables did after seeing Hallowe'en which suggests the film did deeply disturb him. To that extent, I think the scorn that met the judge's remarks was misplaced.
JD: Can you explain the title of your book?
BM: "As if" is a phrase which children today use to express cynical disbelief: come off it, get real, in your dreams. But as a trope it's traditionally been a prelude to magic, analogy, a sort of lift-off from the quotidian world. I treat the difference as symptomatic of a loss of hope and belief in our culture. We live in a much more knowing and disenchanted society than we used to. The disenchantment affects every- one and everything, including how children think and how we adults perceive them.
JD: There are so many aspects of the case that point to howling omissions and errors in our educational and social services. Did you hope your book might have an effect on the law, or childcare policy, or anything of that sort?
BM: Well, I didn't want to hit readers over the head with this, and it may be grandiose to hope a book can influence anything - but yes, and that's what the last chapter is about. Quite simply, Thompson and Venables, as 10-year-olds, did not have the same sense of right and wrong, and of life and death, as an adult would have. And yet they were tried in an adult court and held fully responsible for their actions. I think that's wrong, and that the law needs to be changed. (If children of 10 really are mature and fully responsible, the logic would be to let them serve as jurors in adult courts. I don't think many people would be happy about that.) I also wanted to highlight the fatuousness of John Major's remark on juvenile crime, in the wake of the Bulger case: "We must condemn a little more, and understand a little less." I hope it's an epitaph for his government.
JD: But isn't there a danger that the liberal conscience involves a crippling of moral certainties? Don't we have to have some absolute moral standpoints?
BM: The liberal conscience has to be defended, absolutely, but yes, there can come a point where you fudge the truth in order to avoid passing judgement. Here you have to say, quite clearly, that these boys did kill James Bulger and therefore - however penitent, and however much progress they're making - have to be detained in secure units for a considerable time, certainly until they're 18 or 21. But the liberal conscience will also insist that the boys be accorded some common humanity, which the tabloid press and Michael Howard (one of the worst Home Secretaries this country has ever known) seem unwilling to grant them. And it will also question the justice of the trial they had, and Howard's 15-year tariff.
JD: One of your most memorable poems is "The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper". You felt an almost obsessional fascination with the James Bulger case. Why does violent crime interest you?
BM: This is going to sound odd to you, but it doesn't especially. I don't read thrillers, or "true crime", and I skipped most of the newspaper reports of the West trial. What interests me about Peter Sutcliffe is his misogyny. And what interests me about the Bulger case is what it says about the differences between adults and children.
JD: When you are following the "walk" the two boys took, you rather surprisingly write: "I want to bring them back here and take the bricks from the wall, rip the sleepers from the tracks, and teach them to be human." Are you afraid of violence in yourself?
BM: There was a moment, up on that railway line, when I felt a surge of rage, incredulity and vengefulness - and to acknowledge those feelings gives you an insight into how a victim's family might feel. But in reality I know I'm very wimpy.
JD: As well as discussing the Bulger case, your book contains a good deal of personal material. Why is that there?
BM: I hope the personal material isn't self-indulgent. The real story of this book is the tragedy of three families. But I took the view that you can't understand the experiences at the heart of the case without thinking about what it is to be a child or indeed a parent. So there are places where I look back at my own childhood, and places where I think about my own children and my care of them. It's true my childhood was quite unlike Robert and Jon's, rural not urban, middle-class not working- class, Fifties- hopeful not Eighties-cynical. But there are certain experiences common to nearly all childhoods, and moments most of us can recall where we were cruel or violent, say, and had we been less lucky could have ended up doing something terrible. (Of course, I may be the only person in the world with things in the past to feel ashamed of. But I doubt it.) Once you admit that, it becomes harder to see the boys as "evil monsters" or "freaks of nature".
JD: You don't think you're "using" your family?
BM: I hope not. There are important areas of privacy I still preserve. I'd also like to point out that I don't actually name my children in the book - children traditionally have this privilege of anonymity, and I think it wrong that the trial judge allowed Robert Thompson and Jon Venables to be named by the press, which deprived them of a protection that juveniles are supposed to enjoy.
JD: Aren't you in danger of taking the confessional genre too far and of blurring the distinctions between public and private?
BM: I confess I'm baffled by this word "confessional". I've always thought of myself as rather reserved and secretive. It's true that I sometimes discuss matters on the page which I'd never have the courage to speak of in person. But that seems to be part of the point of writing. And it doesn't feel brave: maybe reckless and probably stupid, but not brave, which is a word better kept for Scott of the Antarctic or Redmond O'Hanlon. In fact, I'm always rather shocked when other people are shocked by what I've written. Why would anyone be disturbed by a description of masturbation nearly 30 years after Portnoy's Complaint? And why should there be any essential difference between me describing an erection when a small child sits in my lap and a Martin Amis character describing the same experience in The Information? (It's on page 195 if anyone wants to look it up.) One scene may be invented, and the other not, but presumably the phenomenon itself isn't an invention: both narrators are discomfited by it - erections may produce children, but children aren't supposed to produce erections - and it's the discomfiture which both books explore.
The point about all the more candid and intimate material in the book is to close the gap between Us and Them, and stop the demonising of those two boys. And I didn't feel I could make people think about their childhoods without the example, or incitement, of my own memories and reflections. A degree of personal humiliation - self-disserving though it may be - is a price worth paying if it gets people thinking.
JD: But some people may be provoked in the wrong way. The passage where you describe undressing your daughter, for example ...?
BM: Well, I'd hoped to play a trick on readers there, at the end of which, realising it was a trick, they'd be shocked, yes, but would also be forced to reflect on the issues of child and adult sexuality that follow. Because this, too, goes to the heart of the matter. In one of his interviews with the police, Robert Thompson, asked about some "dirty marks" on his clothes, misunderstands and says "What? Like sex marks?" I found that a very haunting phrase, because sex does mark this case: there was a strong suggestion that James Bulger had been sexually abused before being killed, and if that's so then either a) his attackers must themselves have been sexually abused, or b) they had acquired a precocious sexual understanding through the sort of "natural" exploratory sexual-discovery games children play among themselves.
JD: You could be accused of breaching another taboo here, it seems to me. Some of those interview tapes about the possible abuse of the little victim were not played in court, partly to spare his family's feelings. You write: "There's an understanding on all sides: go easy - the case is bad enough without fondled willies and batteries up the bum." Yet you go into it all, at some length. Do you feel that's justified?
BM: Yes, because if sexual abuse was a motive, that needs to be explored. Yet four years on, it's really only Gitta Sereny, in this newspaper, who has addressed this key aspect. The question of what's pleasure and what's abuse, what's exploitation and what's innocence, what's harmless curiosity and what's guilty complicity: these aren't only part of the Bulger case.
JD: Some parts of your book have a fictional quality and you've said in the past that you do add some fiction to the mix of memory, event and feeling. Isn't that rather a tease, to write a book that is "true", and which purports to be searching for truth, yet to have other bits which are made up?
BM: It's not that I'm making anything up: you're right, if I did, it would destroy the whole contract with the reader, who in a book like this expects to be told the truth. But I do use some of the devices of fiction: in a way I had to, because with both my last book, about my father's death, and with this, everyone knew what the ending was going to be, and there had to be surprises and digressions to ward off a feeling of inevitability. It's also true that some of what I've written is self-dramatising rather than self-revealing. Susan Sontag has said "Some people are their lives, others merely inhabit them", and if you're in the latter camp, as many writers are, there's a distance that enables you to dissect yourself without it hurting. The most non-fictional of passages can feel, as you write them, like fiction.
JD: So can you envisage yourself writing something purely fictional now?
BM: After "The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper", my father's death from cancer and the battering to death of a small child, I think it's got to be a novel, set in springtime, about a golden dormouse called Skippy who falls in love and discovers true happiness.
`As If' is published by Granta this week at pounds 14.99. Blake Morrison will be reading and signing copies of his book at : Waterstones, 83 George St, Edinburgh, 10 Feb, 7.30pm; Waterstones, 91 Deansgate, Manchester, 11 Feb, 7pm; Waterstones, Dublin, 12 Feb, 6.30pm; Books Etc, Charing Cross Rd, 13 Feb, 6.30pm; Waterstones, 6 Bridge St Cambridge, 17 Feb, 7pm; Ways With Words Festival, Southwold, 21 Feb, 6.15pm; Purcell Room, South Bank, 22 Feb, 5pm.
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Chamber plans 'vigorous' 2014 elections role
WASHINGTON – The head of the nation's largest business group on Monday said it intends to play a "vigorous" role in the 2014 midterm elections and that it will "spend what it takes" to be sure more fiscally moderate candidates find their way to the House and Senate, whether Republican or Democrat.
Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, echoed the sentiments of many business leaders who have expressed frustration with what they called the inability of Congress to move legislation forward and have criticized tactics from a small group within the Republican Party that produced the recent government shutdown and risked a national financial calamity.
"I can't stress enough what a default on our foreign debt … would have put us in a position that changed our position around the world," Donohue said, citing fallout that would have included higher interest costs for borrowing and threats to the recovering economy.
Donohue spoke to more than 30 Washington reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
He outlined the chamber's plan to ratchet up its involvement in and spending on House and Senate races, working hand in hand with state and local business groups at a much more aggressive level than in the past.
The chamber already has expanded its regional field staff of 14 by three, and plans to add three more. It expects its nine regional public affairs task forces in coming weeks to study and make candidate recommendations, which will ultimately be evaluated by the chamber's board of directors at a meeting in late February or early March.
Donohue declined to single out tea party Republicans as the chamber's target in 2014 races. He said that many issues that tea party members have raised "are important – what to do about spending, what to do about health care – but we do think that to advance those issues by putting the country's whole financial system at risk is not a good idea."
He likened freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas – who led the failed charge to defund the Affordable Care Act, using the government funding deadline as leverage – to an aggressive tennis player who likes to rush the net. "And if you're going to rush the net all the time, you had better have a lot of motion to the left and the right – and he hasn't proved that yet," Donohue said.
The Orange County Business Council has not been approached by the chamber, but would "welcome their counsel and we would be a great resource for them," said O.C. council President Lucy Dunn.
"The failure (of members of Congress and the president) to sit down and negotiate sooner was very disheartening to the business community here, and we don't think anyone walked away looking good," Dunn said.
"All (Congress has) done is delay the next set of discussions until January – there have been no solutions, only sound and fury signifying nothing," she said.
Similarly, the chairman of Orange County's Republican Party, Scott Baugh, said there are more fights to be had next year as deadlines for government funding and the debt ceiling approach in January and February.
"The question is, did those three groups – moderates, conservatives and conservatives who are also tea party folks – learn a lesson to devise a strategy where they can move forward?" Baugh said.
"The hope is, the Republican caucus can unite and make some progress on reducing this burdening debt. If they can't get to any meaningful reform by next February, that will have a bigger impact on 2014 elections than anything that happened this year," Baugh said.
But that reconciliation will not be easy. There are a number of well-financed conservative advocacy groups that intend to support tea party-style candidates in the belief that too many businesses are too cozy with government. They object to crony capitalism and government playing favorites. Those advocacy groups include Heritage Action for America and FreedomWorks.
As the U.S. Chamber's members see it, key opportunities are being held up, including immigration overhaul, energy policy and tax and entitlement reform.
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