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Darwin's Markets Tour
- Varighed: 3 Timer (Ca.)
- Sted: Northern Territory
- Produkt kode: FC1
Darwin has a popular market culture with at least seven markets operating across the greater Darwin region between May and October each year.
Walk Darwin's urban adventure visits the sites of some of these well-known markets as you are driven into suburbia. Along the way you'll receive exclusive insights from your driver-guide that only a local would know, to ensure that when you visit one you'll enjoy a hassle-free time.
Our destination is the red umbrellas of the outdoor farmer's market at Malak Marketplace where a smorgasbord of food stalls, organic produce and arts and crafts awaits, hidden in the heart of suburbia.
Join your guide for a walk to meet the stall holders, learn about their products and hear about the dishes on tonight's menu. As the sun sets, your guide will purchase an array of food dishes for the group to dine potluck-style around the table in this market atmosphere. Drinks at own expense.
This urban adventure departs Saturdays only, with transport to and from the city provided. Dinner is also included in your fare in 2019.
Important notices:
- Due to the dining style, dietary requests cannot be fulfilled.
- Please be aware of Malak Maketplace's filming and photography consent and waiver - https://www.malakmarketplace.org.au/market-darwin/notice-of-filming-and-photography-at-malak-marketplace/


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A Polish immigrant accused of torturing and abusing a Quincy dog will be held on $500,000 cash bail after arraignment proceedings at Quincy District Court on Tuesday.
Radoslaw Artur Czerkawski, 32, from Poland, was charged with 11 counts of animal cruelty and one count of misleading a police investigation. The investigation appears to show that the suspect bought the dog from a Worcester couple.
He will be due back in court on Nov. 21 for a pretrial conference.
"People get frustrated at how slow things work, but this individual, the defendant, does deserve and will get a fair and impartial trial," Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey said after Tuesday's proceedings.
Legal counsel for the suspect asked that bail be discussed again on Nov. 21. Currently, there is a $5 million surety attached to bail.
Although the suspect's lawyer asked that the photos attached as evidence be impounded to dissuade further community reaction, Quincy District Judge Mark Coven denied the request.
The arraignment was a lengthy process Tuesday morning, with approximately two-dozen animal lovers appearing at Quincy District Court. Some wore buttons emblazoned with photos of the abused dog, others wore T-shirts showing messages of support.
At noon, a hush fell over the courtroom as Czerkawski entered the room. Throughout the proceedings, the stocky, disheveled man leaned in closely to a Polish interpreter brought in that morning.
Before bail proceedings, Tracey Cusick, Norfolk County assistant district attorney, outlined the extensive investigative work it took to track down a suspect after an unknown female pit bull was found near death on Carrolls Lane in Quincy.
According to Cusick, animal control officers responded to the scene on Aug. 31 and brought the dog to the Quincy Animal Shelter. The dog was later euthanized at a veterinary hospital in Weymouth and its remains sent to the Animal Rescue League of Boston for further inquiry.
Further veterinary examination showed extensive injuries, including starvation, a right eye stab wound, and two deep nose injuries. The dog's tongue had been split, she had multiple skull fractures in various stages of healing, had crush fractures to her spine, injuries to her front and back legs, shoulder injuries, and fractured ribs.
As the injuries were read, several people sobbed openly in the courtroom.
According to Cusick, all the injuries would be extremely painful and had occurred two to four weeks before the dog was found.
After police released information to the public on Sept. 19, a woman came forward saying she believed she had once owned the dog. Photos examined by veterinary experts at Animal Rescue League of Boston positively identified the dog in the photos as the one found, and police began tracing the owners.
A couple in Worcester had purchased the dog from the woman who initially contacted police. From the couple, police ascertained a phone number of a man the couple subsequently sold the dog to.
Phone records showed the suspect living at 89 Whitwell St. in Quincy, close to where the dog was first discovered. The couple positively identified the suspect in a photo array as the man who had purchased the dog.
According to Morrissey, Czerkawski was living in Quincy as the caretaker for a 95-year-old woman. Morrissey said the family had hired the suspect to look out for the woman, who was Polish.
The woman passed away on Aug. 31, the same day as the dog was found, Morrisey said.
Police said they had investigated the woman's death the day it occurred and do not believe there was foul play. When police went around the neighborhood asking about the injured dog, the suspect had allegedly lied to police and said he saw two people with a dog.
Police reinvestigated the woman's death after investigations looped back to Czerakawski on Oct. 20. Evidence found in the home pointed to animal abuse, Cusick said.
In the second floor of the apartment where Czerkawski had lived, police found blood spatter stains in a bathroom and a paw print in blood on the back of a closet door. Police also found scratch marks in the lower corner of the doorframe in a room on the second floor.
Fur consistent with the abused dog was found on the carpet and on the walls.
Tissue samples taken during a necropsy of the abused dog also matched up with DNA evidence found at the scene.
"[It was] old-fashioned police work," Morrissey said after the hearing. "…A lot of it started with calls and shoe leather, but obviously more modern forensic techniques, the use of DNA, phones, all that was used and outlined in the case. From the beginning, we've been concerned that if an individual could do this to a dog or another animal, [what could they do to a person?] This made this an extremely important case to us."
The suspect faces up to five years in prison for each count of animal abuse. The suspect was required to surrender his passport.
Prosecutors also said they an investigation is continuing and they will add charges if they find evidence of other animals being abused. Czerkawski is also facing several outstanding warrants in New Bedford for larceny by check over $250, prosecutors said.
Courtroom observers said the proceedings validated their efforts.
"It was so difficult to hold back the emotions," said Lorelei Stathopoulos, of Salem. "…This is a court of law, but this has been a tragedy. It was a third world act. We have to stand up and change the laws, and the only way to do it is to come here and make a stand."

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Help for a place where unwanted pets are shot
At the tiny animal shelter in Towaoc, Colo., which serves the Ute Mountain Ute reservation in the Four Corners area, the common way of euthanizing unwanted animals is to shoot them.
The bodies are tossed into a pit. When the pit is full it's covered with dirt.
It's not that the 1,500 or so residents of Towaoc oppose more advanced methods of putting animals down. It's apparently that available resources on the reservation are few and the the homeless animal problem is large.
"Conditions for animals there are behind other parts of the state," says Shelby Davis, president of the Colorado Animal Welfare League. "Properties are not fenced in. There's a lot of animals wandering around. And the cat population is exploding."
The Towaoc shelter is housed in a double-wide trailer. It serves a community that in 2008 had a median household income of $27,304 compared to a Colorado average of $56,993, according to city-data.com , so the shooting of animals, which is legal in Colorado, can be seen as economic necessity.
That brings us back to the Colorado Animal Welfare League, which grew out of the ashes of the now-defunct Colorado Humane Society. Colorado Humane closed last year after allegations were made against its managers of mismanaging shelter funds and euthanizing animals to make room for more adoptable ones.
Shelby Davis was among a handful of volunteers at Colorado Humane who joined forces to start the new organization, which got its nonprofit status in April of this year.
In the metro area, the League has been putting on a series of weekend adoption events at PetSmart and Petco stores.
But Davis' personal goal is spaying and neutering more animals.
"It's great to rescue unwanted animals out of shelters, but to really reduce the number of homeless animals you have to spay or neuter them," she said.
Davis, who has worked for the American Humane Association, also volunteers
internationally with spay/neuter clinics in Third World counties where there's poverty and many animals live only a few years.
The Ute Mountain Ute reservation seemed to be a perfect opportunity to launch such an effort in Colorado. "Towaoc is a confined area and we thought we could make a difference there," Davis said.
Out of her own pocket, Davis brought an Airstream trailer and had a handy friend remodel the interior as a mobile spay/neuter clinic. The result was a mobile facility for about a quarter of the cost of a new one.
Davis' group has made three trips to the Four Corners to do spays, neuters and vaccinations. Part of the area they serve is the town of Cortez about 10 miles northeast of Towaoc. The Cortez shelter's euthanasia rate is among the state's highest.
A fourth mission is being organized, Davis said. Volunteer veterinarians come from all over Colorado and as far away as Chicago.
Ute tribal elders have been helpful, she said.
"The people in the area are receptive to and want spay/neuter," Davis added. "It's just not available for the masses there."
Back in the metro area, her group has also been working to expand its network of pet foster homes.
Things seem to be going well for the organization except for one thing: What the all-volunteer Colorado Animal Welfare League needs most now is donations to keep it going, said Davis.
For more information or to contribute, go to www.coloradoanimalwelfare.org.
ANIMAL TRACKS – This is the time of year for getting lots of tips about taking care of Fido and Fluffy during the holidays. Here's my condensed list for Thanksgiving: Turkey? Just a taste, well-cooked; Herbs and spices? Can harm animals. Human food? Bad for pets. Give just a little, if any. Bones? Can injure pets; Guests? Put pets in another room to avoid stress; Grapes and raisins? No way; Plants? Keep pets away; Onion, garlic? Can be toxic; More baddies: Candy, walnuts, macademia nuts, alcohol, dough and batter…
The Humane Society of Boulder Valley, which set out to save 1,000 more cats and dogs in August, September and October when compared to the same period in 2009, wound up saving 1,007. Boulder Humane's effort was part of a larger national effort sponsored by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) called the $100K Save More Lives Challenge. The ASPCA will be awarding $100,000 and $25,000 grants around Dec. 8 to winning shelters. . . .
The Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region has launched a new donor-subsidized spay-neuter program for cats and dogs, offering high quality spay-neuter surgeries for pet owners throughout the Pikes Peak region. Due to cat and dog overpopulation, the program, which is available to qualifying families, seeks to reduce the number of unwanted animals by offering an affordable, cost-effective alternative for those in financial need.· For more information on the program or to schedule a surgery time, call (719) 473-1741 extension 195. . . .
Larimer Humane Society's 12th annual Top Cat & Tails Galant, "Bone-Anza," on Nov. 19 raised just over $91,000 for the nearly 12,000 lost, stray, orphaned and injured domestic and wild animals that Larimer Humane Society cares for annually, 37 percent more than last year's total. . . .
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The Rising Hotness of Taylor Kitsch
His hotness — career hotness — is definitely, um, hottening up. Also today: Harrison Ford will never tire of killing aliens, a new Laura Dern series excites, a new William H. Macy series exhausts (for some reason), and Twilight!
Some good news! HBO has picked up a new series from lovely weirdo Mike White, starring the transcendent Laura Dern. Enlightened is about a woman, Dern, who has some kind of revelation and decides to pursue an enlightened existence. This starts to make things weird at home. Luke Wilson and Dern's mom Diane Ladd are also in the cast. Exciting. [THR]
Grizzled old hero of Corellia Harrison Ford may join the cast of the upcoming Western/sci-fi actioner Cowboys & Aliens. Jon Favreau, the director, announced it on Twitter! Sadly these days it's unclear whether Ford would play a cowboy, or an alien. (Kidding. He'd play a cowboy.) And yes, the movie is about exactly what it sounds like it's about. [Variety]
The upcoming swoony Italian weeper Letters to Juliet, starring potential superstar Amanda Seyfried and the blonde boy from Kings, is facing a spot of legal trouble. A small production company is suing the movie's studio, Summit Entertainment, claiming that they own the exclusive rights to the real-life group that answers Juliet's letters that the movie is sort of based on. (Yeah, that's what it's about. It takes place in Verona, at least partly. And costars Vanessa Redgrave. The universe ever expands.) Summit says it's baseless and they will probably win because they are big(ger) and rich and that's that. [TheWrap]
Taylor Kitsch, the not-at-all attractive in any way star of Friday Night Lights, is continuing his burgeoning action/adventure movie career. He's currently filming John Carter of Mars (starring Harrison Ford as Mars) and has now signed on to play the lead in Battleship, FNL creator Peter Berg's adaptation of the children's game. (He added aliens to the story, so we expect Harrison Ford to announce his role sometime shortly.) Interestingly, Jeremy Renner had been up for the same part, but decided to do Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie instead. He chose... wisely. [THR]
Remember when the final two Twilight movies (the fourth book, Breaking Dawn, is being broken up into two movies, because there's just so much story) were looking for a director and they were like "Hey Gus Van Sant, wanna do it?" Well, no, Gus Van Sant does not wanna do it. Now they've turned their attention to bigtime gaylord DreamGirls director Bill Condon (well, OK, so he directed Kinsey and Gods & Monsters and the Candyman sequel too). Interesting! Hopefully there will be a sparklevamp musical number in which pretty, pretty fan-of-sucking Edward von Cullen does a shimmerdance and Bella stands upstage right giving him shooo-bop backup. That happens in the book, right? [EW]
Rising comedian Aziz Ansari (Parks & Recreation) is negotiating his way onto the movie 30 Minutes or Less, one of those coveted Black List scripts that's going to be directed by Zombieland hotshot Ruben Fleischer. It's an action comedy about two dudes who get forced to rob a bank or something and probably say "Oh shit!" a lot. Sounds like Ansari's alley, no? [THR]
Showtime has ordered a new Brit-to-American import, Shameless, to series. Starring William H. Macy as a drunk and Emmy Rossum as his annoying, precocious (one assumes with her) daughter, the series was adapted to American English by John Wells. It's billed as a sprawling ensemble show, though Macy is something of the anchor. So they're kind of combining their shows about wicked men (Tudors, Brotherhood, Dexter) with their shows about women with problems (Tara, Jackie, The Big C). Smoosh! [Variety]


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Strawberry on the Bottom Greek Yogurt
Produced by Agro Farma
"All Chobani varieties, except for Chobani Flip products, are naturally gluten-free. This means they contain no wheat, rye, barley or other gluten-containing ingredients.
"Chobani 6oz, 16oz, 32oz, Bite and Chobani Champions are all certified by the Gluten-Free Certification Organization (GFCO). Look for the GFCO seal on these Chobani product lines.
"The Chobani Flip line is not gluten-free."
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Here we see a state trooper in Eastern North Carolina pulling over a doughnut truck, thus bringing a tired stereotype to life.
The local ABC news site wcti12.com posted this picture from a reader's now-deleted tweet. We do not know if the truck was performing some kind of moving violation, if the trooper was the most hilariously crooked cop we've ever seen, or if this was some sort of absurdist performance art meant to raise awareness of corruption in the government.
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BEDFORD – Centrix Bank (OTC Bulletin Board: CXBT) announced third quarter and year-to-date 2012 financial results, highlighted by substantial income growth.
Centrix is a full service commercial bank providing highly personalized and responsive service to small and medium-sized businesses and professionals, municipalities and not-for-profit organizations.
For the quarter ended September 30, 2012, the Bank reported net income available to common shareholders of $1.7 million or $0.55 per common share (diluted), up 40% from $1.2 million or $0.39 per common share (diluted) for the same period last year. The Bank recorded similarly strong earnings for year-to-date 2012, with net income available to common shareholders of $5.7 million or $1.80 per common share (diluted), compared with $3.9 million or $1.23 per common share (diluted) in the first nine months of 2011, an increase of 48%. Year-to-date 2012 net income available to common shareholders included gains on the discretionary sale of securities. Excluding these gains in 2012, net income available to common shareholders for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 would have totaled $4.9 million, resulting in a 26% increase in 2012 net income over the 2011 comparable period.
Joseph B. Reilly, President/CEO stated, "We believe a key driver of our success is that our experienced lenders and business development staff provide superior consulting and financial solutions to our customers and not simply generic products or services. This has resulted in strong loyalty and high levels of customer retention and has provided the compelling value required to encourage business prospects to move their business to Centrix. Although the economic environment is challenging, our team has been successful in creating opportunities by providing the tools our customers need to navigate through uncertain times."
Total assets at September 30, 2012 increased 8% to $820.1 million, compared to $758.9 million at September 30, 2011. Net loans grew to $556.6 million at September 30, 2012 from $492.9 million at September 30, 2011, an increase of 13%. Deposits at September 30, 2012 totaled $661.5 million, compared to $603.2 million at September 30, 2011, representing 10% growth. Reflecting this growth and progress, the Bank's book value per common share at September 30, 2012 increased 15% to $17.73, compared to $15.44 a year ago.
The Bank maintained solid asset quality. Net charge-offs for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 totaled $469,000, compared with net charge-offs of $881,000 for the comparable period in 2011. The Bank's allowance for loan losses as a percent of total loans, excluding loans held for sale, was 1.19% at September 30, 2012 and 2011. Non-performing assets as a percent of total assets at September 30, 2012 were 0.94%, compared to 0.42% at September 30, 2011. This increase in non-performing assets is due to the addition of real-estate owned (REO) and a loan relationship exhibiting weakness.
Reilly concluded: "By seeking out new loan and deposit opportunities, maintaining exceptional relationships with customers, and carefully managing expenses, we were able to continue our strong earnings growth, thereby building shareholder value, even in this weakened economic environment that has presented significant competition for quality customers and credits."
A copy of the Third Quarter Report 2012 is available on the Bank's website at centrixbank.com. To access the online Report, under the section titled "Investor Relations," click on "Financial Documents."
Centrix Bank sees income growth in 3Q
BEDFORD – Centrix Bank (OTC Bulletin Board: CXBT) announced third quarter and year-to-date 2012 financial results, highlighted by substantial income growth.


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Personal Management
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|Personal Management merit badge is required for the Eagle Scout rank.
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|Personal management is about mapping a plan for your life that will involve setting short-range and long-range goals and investigating different ways to reach those goals. Education, training, and experience all help make your goals become a reality. To achieve your goals, you will choose the best path and make a commitment to it, while remaining flexible enough to deal with changes and new opportunities.
Personal Management merit badge requirements
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- Personal Management merit badge is on the Eagle Scout required list (requirement 3.i.).
- The BSA Business Troop Program Feature offers meeting and activity plans to include Personal Management as one of your monthly themes.
Requirement resources
- 2a. See the Sample Budget Plan included in the Personal Management Workbook
- How to Set Up a Personal Budget
- See the Income Tracking Log included in the Personal Management Workbook
- 3c. Buyers Remorse
- 4a. Savings vs. Investment
- 4b. Return on Investment Risk
- 4c. Simple & Compound Interest
- 5. Stocks: Most Actives Yahoo Finance MSN MoneyCentral
- 6&7 Stocks, Funds, Insurance, CD's, bonds, budgeting, and much more
- 7c. When are Charge Cards Better than Credit Cards? A very good and concise discussion of the two.
- 8 Time Management SMART Goals
Related awards
|Personal development-related awards
|Profession-related awards
See also
|General Merit Badge information
External links
- Investing Opportunities for Scouts - example investment programs for youth
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Consumer Protection FTC
- Nat. Assn of Investors
- Guide to Financial Aid
- students.gov
- studentaid.ed.gov
- youngbiz.com
First Aid • Citizenship in the Community • Citizenship in the Nation • Citizenship in the World
Camping • Communication • Cooking • Family Life • Personal Fitness • Personal Management
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
In the session, you will watch Dr. Paratore's lecture on differentiating instruction for early literacy.
Print Dr. Paratore's Differentiating Instruction Lecture Posters (PDF). Use the posters to take notes on the lecture.
In this video segment, Dr. Paratore reviews the research on grouping formats. These formats include ability grouping, whole-class instruction, and flexible grouping. Next, she presents classroom practices and routines that reflect the research and support flexible grouping for reading instruction. Use the video image below to locate where to begin viewing.
An accompanying lecture transcript (PDF) is also available.
After watching the lecture, review your notes and consider these questions:
Following the lecture, the workshop participants discuss their questions and concerns in providing differentiated instruction to address the needs of all children.
Now return to your Differentiating Instruction Chart. Add any new questions or challenges that have come from watching the video segment. Identify which teaching practices you have successfully implemented for grouping children in grades K-2.
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Interacting with others in the online horror game DayZ is essential to survival, but it doesn't always need to be serious. We've already seen quite a few examples where random accidents created hilarious moments. You only have to go through the user reviews of the game on Steam to see that a normal day in DayZ is not as serious as intended, and it's actually quite messed up for everyone.
Here are some of the best ones, portraying the true horror of survival in Chernaus, caused not by zombies, but by other players:
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Ron Eastman's '29 Ford
The only difference between a show-quality detail job and what's acceptable to the average automobile owner is how much labor one wants to invest and whether or not they're willing to pay for it. On one hand are the people who are happy with a blast of water-soluble silicone marketed as a wax job by their local car wash, and then on the other hand there are detail fanatics like Ron Eastman, of Anaheim, California, and his '29 Model A roadster.
The saga of Ron's '29 started 15 years before Ron and his crew of family members bought the car in 2005 from Norm Crum, of Newport Beach, California. Crum is the guy who originally constructed the '29 roadster from what he describes as much less than a basket case. "It was a process of going repeatedly to the Long Beach Veteran's swap meet and gathering parts until there was enough to start building a car." Crum says the body shell started as an incomplete Model A platform and then thanks to a compilation of various panels from several cars he was able to weld together a complete body. After Crum completed the metalwork he moved onto paint. In keeping with the old-school approach of the '29, the paint is black acrylic lacquer from R-M—the paint company that was the first to introduce metallic colors way back in the '30s. To get the super shiny results out of the black R-M Norm thinned it with R-M PNT-90, which is a slow-drying thinner that allows the acrylic lacquer to dry to the highest gloss possible, and then followed up by color-sanding and rubbing the paint out. Some 15 years later the paint and bodywork still looks great with hardly a flaw in sight, so all Ron had to do was lay on a coat of wax. From there, Ron and his two sons went a little overboard with their detailing efforts and disassembled the entire car to gain better access to things. The '29 A-frame Crum elected to keep instead of opting for Deuce rails Ron had blasted down to the bare metal, and left intact complete with a Ford F-1 crossmember used to convert from mechanical to hydraulic brakes. Ron says the most challenging part of the project involved devising cleaner clutch and brake pedal linkage.
Chad Blundell at Blundell's Speed & Machine in Orange, California, started with a Cling Model A pedal assembly equipped with a Wilwood master cylinder and reworked it to function with a '39 Ford three-speed transmission. Staying with the year 1939, the brakes found on all corners of the '29 are first-year Ford hydraulics complete with a factory-style emergency brake. The rear suspension is comprised of a buggy spring re-arched by Deaver Suspension of Santa Ana, California, dampened with Pete & Jakes shocks, from Peculiar, Missouri. The 3.73:1 Ford banjo rearend combined with 7.50×16 Firestone Deluxe Champion tires help keep the revs down on the open road. A steering wheel plucked from a vintage race car sits on top of a '51 F-1 steering column held with a '37 Ford truck drop support. The steering box is from a '48 F-1 and connects to a stock Ford front axle with a 3-inch drop. Stock perches mount stock buggy springs from Deaver Suspension with '36 Ford dog-bone-style shocks. Talk about saving something for a rainy day, Ron bought the '36 front shocks in 1960 at a parts house in Comstock, Michigan, for a '30 Model A he had at the time. Equally as old if not older is the Marine issue wool blanket that found itself functioning, as the Model A's seat cover.
Without a doubt it's the McCulloch giant pancake 37F supercharger on a 229-inch Flathead V-8 that draws attention to the car. The blower sits on a '34 Ford truck intake manifold machined to accept it with a belt-tensioner devised to work. Shortly after Ron and his family bought the '29 from Crum the plan was to do a little detailing and have it ready for the 2006 Memorial Day Run to Paso Robles, California. As it turned out the car got finished up just in time for Ron's son, Corey, to drive it to the 2009 West Coast Kustoms' show in Santa Maria, California, without missing a beat. Special thanks for machine work and advice go out to Art and Mike Chrisman, Chad Blundell, Burt Griffin, and of course to Ron's family.


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Rock with large oval cup east of plantation on Weston Moor 830m WSW of Dob Park House Farm
- Heritage Category:
- Scheduled Monument
- List Entry Number:
- 1014309
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1996
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The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- North Yorkshire
- District:
- Harrogate (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Weston
- National Grid Reference:
Reasons for Designation
Prehistoric rock art is found on natural rock outcrops in many areas of upland
Britain. It is especially common in the north of England in Northumberland,
Durham and North and West Yorkshire. The most common form of decoration is the
`cup and ring' marking where expanses of small cup-like hollows are pecked
into the surface of the rock. These cups may be surrounded by one or more
`rings'. Single pecked lines extending from the cup through the `rings' may
also exist, providing the design with a `tail'. Other shapes and patterns also
occur, but are less frequent. Carvings may occur singly, in small groups, or
may cover extensive areas of rock surface. They date to the Late Neolithic and
Bronze Age periods (2800-c.500 BC) and provide one of our most important
insights into prehistoric `art'. The exact meaning of the designs remains
unknown, but they may be interpreted as sacred or religious symbols.
Frequently they are found close to contemporary burial monuments and the
symbols are also found on portable stones placed directly next to burials or
incorporated in burial mounds. Around 800 examples of prehistoric rock-art
have been recorded in England. This is unlikely to be a realistic reflection
of the number carved in prehistory. Many will have been overgrown or destroyed
in activities such as quarrying. All positively identified prehistoric rock
art sites exhibiting a significant group of designs will normally be
identified as nationally important.
The carving on this rock survives well and forms an important part of the prehistoric landscape of Weston Moor.
The monument includes a carved gritstone rock, 0.5m x 0.4m x 0.15m. It is
situated on Weston Moor, c.41m east of the plantation, from a point 45m
southwards along the wall from its north east corner. Its National Grid
Reference is SE 18585 49509.
The carving consists of one large oval cup, and two other possible cups.
MAP EXTRACT The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract. It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features, considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 28069
- Legacy System:
This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
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U.S. Futures Point to Snap of Dow's 7-Day Win
Matt Jarzemsky reports on lower Dow futures and U.K. Manufacturing data coming in lower than expected. Photo: Getty Images.
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text: Dr. Harriet Braiker was a social and clinical Ph.D. psychologist, best-selling author, and internationally-renowned expert in women's issues. She was the first to publicly identify that women experience more and different types of stress than men. Her pioneering book, The Type E Woman: How to Overcome the Stress of Being Everything to Everybody, made mainstream and medical news around the world when it was first published in the late 1980s. In that book, she observed that the Type-A stress that men experience pales in comparison to what women experience. She coined the term "Type-E stress" – the E being Everything to Everybody – to help women better understand that in trying to be Everything to Everybody, they subjected themselves to a completely different and more debilitating type of stress than men experience.


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Dr. Richard Wolff, currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University here in New York City is no shy flower when it comes to provoking thought; more "Thorny Rose" than "Sweet William."
The New York Times Magazine has named him "America's most prominent Marxist Economist" and he continues to embellish this vitae by pointing out egregious examples of U.S.-style capitalism going horribly wrong and then making the case for returning labor to its former and power.
The professor's latest campaign is to educate us all as to the value of "Worker's Self-Directed Enterprises" (WSDE) and why this business model is not just simply an alternative to traditional top-down authoritarian capitalist enterprises, but its replacement.
Convincing Americans who have been instructed early on that socialism is a nasty word and -- worse -- even un-American, this could be a tall order even for someone who is a Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a recipient of a BA magna cum laude in history from Harvard and an MA in economics at Stanford.
But, I listen intently and skeptically to his take on this trainwreck of an economy and came away with a sober realization that U.S.-style capitalism does not intend to deliver us the house with the picket fence or an upward mobility path. Based on our experience of these last few years, the 1 percent is more likely to set up the game so that you and I of the 99 percent will lose the house and the job.
So, if it doesn't pay to work for "The Man," what hope do we have? As described by Professor Wolff, the subject and promise of WSDE is beyond compelling. With any luck, it may one day soon be taught in business school.
The working premise of the WSDE is that it can, and should, be owned by the workers and can. and should, be run democratically. Everyone -- the workers on the line, sales agents, those who clean the bathrooms or work on the loading dock -- collectively run the operation. They determine what to do, what to build, how to follow, how to lead, each other's responsibility, and what to do with profits generated.
If it is that good, what's the "stopper?" It's too democratic. For a country that prides itself on exporting this grand ideal, it can scarcely be found in the workplace. True to the model of "Makers and Takers" into which we have been born and raised, we are told what to do, when to show up, how we are to paid, and what is done with the profits. (Don't count on trickle-down.)
"Fundamentally, anti-democratic," Wolff points out.
Perhaps undemocratic and essentially one-sided, but it's hard to imagine either GE or Citibank being run by its employees. Is it even possible for a WSDE to compete with cash-rich and savvy MBAs?
Decidedly so, Wolff responds, providing two financially successful examples of the workplace being a social activity governed by the norms of community, one in Spain and one in California.
Wolff offers as his first example, the Mondragon Cooperative in the North of Spain.
This co-op took its name from the Mondragan University founded by a local Catholic priest by the name of "Father Arizmendi" as a mechanism to enable the poor in that community to learn how to cooperatively run their own business.
Beginning with six workers producing agrarian goods, some 55 years later it now employs 120,000 people employed in some 100 worker-owned enterprises and affiliated organizations. It is the 10th largest cooperative in Spain and a bulwark against that country's steep (elsewhere) unemployment rate of 22 percent.
"This is a 'a family of cooperatives' in which the first commitment is to preserve jobs -- not satisfy stockholders." Wolff points out.
That same philosophy infuses the Arizmendi Bakery comprising five "sister cooperatives" in the San Francisco Bay Area. Proudly assuming the name of the famous Basque Priest, this group gets rave reviews for its pastries and thin-crust pizza and handily outperforms its more traditional bakery competitors in both revenue and employee satisfaction.
As their website proudly states, "We are a cooperative -- a worker-owned and operated business. We make decisions democratically, sharing all of the tasks, responsibilities, benefits and risks."
Why haven't we heard more about these enterprises, this model? Hmm, methinks that mainstream media has once again allowed something very, very important to go unreported.
That will not continue to be the case, if Professor Wolff has his say. And, if you learn to shed preconceptions and conditioning.
A good start will be to learn more about Dr. Wolff and worker co-ops by visiting his website www.rdwolff.com and about the new workplace at www.democracyatwork.info. (Oh yes, and listening to this "15 minutes of Fact" interview at WGRNradio.com).


text: Originating from the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, Draw Me a Story presents 41 original works of art and 12 books in a thematic and nostalgic trip through the history of children's book illustrators and illustration techniques. The exhibition starts with artists Ralph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway - two of the most popular illustrators of the late nineteenth century and includes twentieth century artist innovators like W.W. Denslow, William Steig and Chris Van Allsburg.Related Event: Picturing Alice. Mark Burstein, president of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, explores the kaleidoscope of artistic interpretations of Alice in Wonderland from the 1860s to the present, in cultures around the globe. Thursday, Oct. 25, 6:30 p.m., Main Library. A book sale by Readers Books follows the discussion.


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• A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
As international concern grows about Libya descending into civil war, Libya's Muammar Qaddafi has accepted a mediation offer from longtime ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. But key international players, as well as Libya's opposition and even Mr. Qaddafi's son, have rejected it.
"You don't need an international commission to tell Colonel Gaddafi what he needs to do for the good of his country and the good of his people," US State Department P.J. Crowley was quoted as saying by Al Jazeera. Mr. Crowley's sentiments were echoed by France's foreign minister who said any mediation that would allow Qaddafi to "succeed himself" were "obviously not welcome."
Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, the embattled leader's eldest son, also dismissed Mr. Chávez's proposal as unnecessary, reports The Latin American Herald Tribune.
"The Venezuelans have affirmed that they are our friends and respect and like us, but ... Libya is in the Middle East and in North Africa and Venezuela is in Latin America," said Qaddafi's son, who then added a word of gratitude. "Thank you, we are grateful to them. They are our friends. It's a nice gesture but we can resolve our own problems. There is no need for foreign intervention."
Chávez seems undeterred, however, by the apparent widespread rejection of his proposal, reports CNN.
Chávez and Qaddafi have a longstanding friendship. Chávez has visited Libya six times during his 12 years as president, reports Libya's Tripoli Post. During Qaddafi's visit to Venezuela in 2009, the two leaders exchanged gifts, with Qaddafi giving Chávez a Bedouin tent and Chávez gifting his counterpart a replica of Simón Bolívar's sword.
Chávez seems to see the two leaders as mutual victims and accused the international community of condemning both of them in the past for harboring terrorists without proof and the US of only getting involved because it wants Libya's oil.
RELATED: From Libya's Qaddafi to Sudan's Bashir: Key International Criminal Court inquiries
Since Libya's unrest began, the Venezuelan leader has spoken out several times to accuse the US and other nations of exaggerating events to justify an invasion, reports CNN.
"I consulted with [Qaddafi]. I asked him if he was willing to accept a commission of countries," said Chávez, recounting his conversation with Qaddafi. "And he told me, 'Look, Chavez, not only of countries; I hope the whole United Nations come here to see the reality of what's happening before they start condemning the Libyan government or the Libyan people, before they start thinking as they are now, and preparing to invade Libya.'"
Arab leaders have not written off the Venezuelan mediation option. Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said that Qaddafi had not officially accepted the proposal, but that the Arab League was reviewing the option with leaders from Latin America, Europe and the Middle East, reports Venezuela Analysis.
In a blog entry on the Huffington Post, Joel Hirst, an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote that the offer is likely more symbolic than practical. Chávez appears to lack the diplomatic graces and other requirements to successfully mediate this situation. "It is increasingly clear that his offer to mediate in the current crisis in Libya is an attempt to help a friend hold onto power, not a good faith effort to stop the bloodshed," wrote Mr. Hirst.


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Drunk people! They pee everywhere. So what is a town to do, about all this urine? How about they install public urinals, disguised as trash cans? Yes. How about that.
The Wheelie Bin Urinal concept, which I shouldn't have to tell you came from England, came from England, the only country where public micturation is subject to stylistic regulation. It looks like a normal trash can you'd see on any street in the UK, except for a curious, and curiously labeled, little portal. This is for your junk.
As you can see in the video below, given that they were probably planning on peeing in public anyway, people don't seem to reluctant to mount the Wheelie Bin Urinal. But it isn't magic: at da end of da day, you're still stuck with a trash can full of piss. Or, if this is any better, piss and straw. [DesignBoom]


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—Western Economic and Business Historians, formed May, 1975 will hold their meetings at Tempe, Arizona from April 29 to May 1, 1976. Contact Phillip M. Sarver, University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, CO., 81001.
—The annual meeting of the Japan Accounting Society, (April 29-May 1, 1976 at Senshu University) will include a study group report by Professor Kurosawa on the "History of Modern Account-ing Thought in Japan."
(Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 10, 1976)
Additions to "Parker—1965"
—"A Surmise Regarding the Origin of Bookkeeping by Double Entry," (The case for a Roman Origin), P. Kats, The Accounting Review, December 1930, pp. 311-316.
—"The Determination of Profit—An Historical Note," K. C. Keown, Readings in Australian Accountancy, Butterworths, 1955, pp. 69-73.
—The Evolution: A Contribution to the History and Theory of Com-mercial Accounting (Der Kettensatz Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Theorie des kaufmannischen Rechnens), Karl Kafer, Zurich; Verlag von Schulthess & Co., 1941, 415 pp.
—"The Roman Literal Contract and Double-entry Bookkeeping," Hermann Herskowitz, Journal of Accountancy, May 1930.
—"Early Bookkeeping," (Correspondence), Edward Peragallo, Journal of Accountancy, January 1943.
—"Neither Pietra nor Flori," (Correspondence), Henry Rand Hat-field, Journal of Accountancy, February 1943.
—"The Greeks Had a Word for It," Journal of Accountancy, October 1945, p. 284.
—"Grave Negligence by Accountants," (Editorial), Journal of Ac-countancy, July 1930.
—"It's History," G. J. Barry, World, (Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.), Summer 1968.


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In-silico high throughput screening
Dr. David Lloyd & Dr. Darren Fayne, Molecular Design Group, School of Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin
The discovery of new medicines is a complex process – hugely expensive in terms of money and time. Advances in computation, biology and chemistry now allow scientists to model and understand drug targets like never before. In the same way that we are familiar with the use of computer imaging in the design cars or buildings – cancer, Alzheimer's, malaria – these diseases all have specific biomolecular mechanisms – Achilles' heels which we can first model and then exploit to provide therapies and drug candidates for the future. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to rationally design, drugs tailored to specific diseases will facilitate the development of therapies effectively and quickly, giving us medicines whose properties are better understood, have less side effects and which come to market within a reasonable time. Underpinning research and development with robust enabling technologies makes practical sense – productivity is increased, processes are streamlined, resultant products are of better quality. The pharmaceutical industry has long recognised this edict and has introduced cutting-edge technologies where available, to facilitate the drug discovery process, moving from target to hit to lead as quickly as possible so as to reduce the irrefutably enormous costs of developing and delivering a viable therapeutic candidate. The use of computational software in drug discovery is now growing in popularity; validation cases and reviews have recently been published highlighting its utility in the discovery process, and much effort has been invested in the formulation of in silico screening routines to complement traditional wet lab in vitro screening. 'Scaffold-hopping' or chemotype switching is a relatively new technique in computational biology and drug design where the pharmacologically relevant features of an active ligand are used for in silico virtual screening to identify alternate chemotypes with equivalent potency and mechanism of action [1].
The Molecular Design Group (MDG) in Trinity College Dublin is Ireland's largest and most successful rational drug discovery research group. Dr David Lloyd is the group leader, with 2 postdocs (Dr Darren Fayne and Dr Andrew Knox) and 5 PhD students. The MDG focuses on the integration of in silico and traditional wet lab drug discovery techniques, applying chemical biology and rational drug design strategies to a number of key therapeutic targets. Our core computational efforts are in the areas of virtual high-throughput screening and structure- and ligand-based design approaches, where in silico predictions are validated using wet lab chemistries and in vitro assay.
The primary interest of the group lies in the application and development of computational modelling to augment the drug design process. The MDG utilise structure and ligand-based drug design (SBDD and LBDD) technologies together with virtual screening approaches to rationally tailor small molecules for the modulation of therapeutically relevant biological macromolecules - enzymes and receptors [2]. LBDD uses physical and chemical traits of a known ligand to identify similar compounds that might also interact with the biological target. Likewise, SBDD software can perform virtual screening docking calculations on a database of molecules and output those judged most likely to bind to the protein of interest (Figure 1).
Figure 1. X-ray crystal structure of antagonist Raloxifene - ERα (PDB ID: 1ERE) Purple: protein lone pair electrons. Green: hydrophobic regions.
All designs are validated through wet chemical exemplification and biological assay. With a specific disease focus on oncology, the MDG targets the nuclear hormone receptor family to identify modulators of transcriptional control and are engaged on several funded projects on apoptosis - examining (de)stabilisers of tubulin and the cell cycle. The MDG has an established reputation in rational computational SBDD and LBDD of chemotherapeutic drug candidates, particularly in the production of ligands targeting the estrogen receptor (ER), and are also studying peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR), glucocorticoid receptors (GR) and tubulin [3-5]. Our interest in oncology targets is spreading to include other protein superfamilies to be targeted by novel chemotherapeutic compounds.
A wide variety of 2D and 3D descriptors can be calculated for ligands which are active on a particular target. This information can be utilised to determine where in chemical space the ligands reside. A new molecule is more likely to be active if it is also located in the same region of chemical space as known active molecules [6]. This is an important step in the computational search for new therapeutic modulators as chemical space has been predicted to consist of in the region of 1060 molecules which necessitates focusing our research toward preferential regions of space (Figure 2).
Figure 2. 3D illustration of where molecules reside in chemical space. Green spheres – all cancer actives, red cloud – cancer medicinal chemistry space, blue cloud – traditional 'drug-like' space.
Once a specific region of space has been identified a modified version of the Lipinski rule of five is generally applied to the virtual molecules so as to increase the likelihood that they will be orally bioavailable. The accessibility of a tablet application of the drug increases patient compliance and, thus, the effectiveness of the therapy. Before virtually screening the potential active molecules through the 3D structure of their target protein it is important to accurately model the inherent flexibility of the molecules. Sampling of different attainable conformations of each ligand needs to be performed and we have detailed a faster and more efficient procedure for examining a greater amount of conformational space (Figure 3) [7, 8].
Figure 3. Conformational space. Violet: 280 conformers produced from the canonical SMILES string of a ligand. Green: conformers generated from 8 permutation of the same string. Red: the crystal structure of the ligand.
The computational expertise developed in the study of these proteins is readily applicable to other identified targets. Key to the successful translation of our computational design efforts to potential therapeutics is an integrated approach to discovery science, closely linked to clinical and basic research.
This research was funded by HEA, PRTLI, IITAC, Health Research Board Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland.
- Lloyd DG, Buenemann CL, Todorov NP, Manallack DT, Dean PM. Scaffold hopping in de novo design - ligand generation in the absence of receptor information Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2004 Jan 29;47(3):493-96
- Dean PM, Lloyd DG, Todorov NP. De novo drug design: integration of structure-based and ligand-based methods. Current Opinion in Drug Discovery and Development 2004 7(3):347-353
- Knox AJ, Meegan MJ, Lloyd DG. Estrogen receptors: molecular interactions, virtual screening and future prospects. Curr Top Med Chem. 2006;6(3):217-43.
- Lloyd DG, Smith HM, O'Sullivan T, Knox AS, Zisterer DM, Meegan MJ. Antiestrogenically active 2-benzyl-1,1-diarylbut-2-enes: Synthesis, Structure-Activity Relationships and Molecular Modelling Study for Flexible Estrogen Receptor Antagonists. Medicinal Chemistry, 2006, in press
- Lloyd DG, Hughes RB, Zisterer DM, Williams DC, Fattorusso C, Catalanotti B, Campiani G, Meegan MJ. Benzoxepin Derived Estrogen Receptor Modulators: A Novel Molecular Scaffold for the Estrogen Receptor. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2004 47(23):5612-5615
- Lloyd DG, Golfis G, Knox AJ, Fayne D, Meegan MJ, Oprea TI. Oncology exploration: charting cancer medicinal chemistry space. Drug Discov Today. 2006 Feb;11(3-4):149-59
- Knox AJ, Meegan MJ, Carta G, Lloyd DG. Considerations in compound database preparation--"hidden" impact on virtual screening results. J Chem Inf Model. 2005 Nov-Dec;45(6):1908-19
- Carta G, Onnis V, Knox AJ, Fayne D, Lloyd DG. Permuting input for more effective sampling of 3D conformer space. J Comput Aided Mol Des. 2006, Epub.


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I don't see a lot going forward there. But the team is balanced. I would prefer sigurdsson and Rooney as the 10 and 9 over Rooney and DCL. I like the message that you stay if you perform though.
Leicester away isn't an easy game, even with them not playing well they're still on better form than we are.If people are expecting Unsworth to win 2-0/3-0 away at Leicester then he's got no chance of getting the job
Unless..... we win 2 or 3 nil. Think I'm just giddy again that we played a brand of football that might pass as entertainment against Chelsea. It's not expect as in a bare minimum. It's more hope and hopefullly because of unsworths brilliance
I have to say I'm confused by the Lennon love. I want him to do well of course. I just don't rate him much and the stats bear that out too. The main thing for me is that he is unquestionably the best player to support the development of Kenny.
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Melilla: the meeting place of four religions
View of Melilla
One of the greatest attractions of the city of Melilla is that it links two continents: Europe and Africa. This makes it the perfect place to experience the atmosphere of cultural intermingling. Another highlight is certainly the "Route of the Temples".
What exactly does this tour consist of? It is a tour of the most important temples, and a chance to discover in more detail how four religious communities– Christians, Muslims, Jews, and Hindus– live harmoniously together in this small space. The tour will take you to several symbolic places of worship. The tour takes place on Sunday, leaving Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for arranged groups. One of the most important churches in the Christian area is the church of the Purísima Concepción, the oldest in Melilla and home to a carving of Cristo de la Vera Cruz, which the first Spaniards brought to the city. Outstanding Muslim temples include the Zaouia Alaouia mosque. In the Jewish area you'll be able to visit the Or Zoruah (Holy Light) synagogue, one of the most spectacular of the ten synagogues existing in Melilla. And finally in the Hindu temple you'll see a lovely altar where images of holy figures and religious teachers are venerated.
And best of all is the fact that all these buildings are completely "living", and it is the members of the religious communities themselves who explain their traditions. A totally unique multicultural experience.
It is also exciting to be able to walk through the streets and come across typical Berber dress and Arab jellabahs, and to see how the Christian Easter Week, Muslim Ramadan, Jewish Hanukkah and Hindu Diwali are all celebrated in harmony.
Things to remember: you can reserve this tour at the tourist office located in the Plaza de España square by giving your name and presenting an identity document. To take the tour there must be a minimum of 6 people registered.


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Problem now is that communication with users regarding a ticket is a bit one sided. Need way for user to reply to the ticket response and have the response become part of the dialog shown in the ticket. It is too easy to miss a user's response because the response is could be buried with all the other support traffic.


text: MUSIC Janet Jackson Engaged to Wissam Al Mana (Report) 6:37 AM PST 12/27/2012 by Erin Carlson FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Ben Gabbe/Getty Images If reports are accurate, this wedding is happening springtime in Qatar. The third time could be the charm for Janet Jackson. According to reports, the 46-year-old singer is engaged to marry her Qatari billionaire beau, Wissam Al Mana, 37, this spring in his native country. Jackson's rep did not immediately respond to THR's request for comment on her engagement. Us Weekly, meanwhile, is reporting that the nuptials are expected to "cost millions," and that Jackson's loved ones will arrive in Qatar via Al Mana's private planes. Wissam is managing director of Al Mana Retail, which represents designer labels like A/X Armani Exchange. He's a shareholder in Saks Fifth Avenue stores in Middle Eastern cities including Dubai. Al Mana will also be Jackson's Husband No. 3 following her previous marriages to singer James DeBarge and music video director Rene Elizondo. She was previously in a long-term relationship with Jermaine Dupri, from 2002 until 2009. Twitter: @ErinLCarlson Email: firstname.lastname@example.com FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Erin Carlson firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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European Commission
Brussels, 30 September 2013
Statement by EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) ahead of the second round of negotiations
"Today, I met with United States Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman to discuss next week's second round of negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) which will take place in Brussels.
As we have stated before, both sides agree that TTIP is more than a traditional trade agreement. Our main ambition - beyond simply reducing tariffs across the board - is to make the EU and the US regulatory systems more compatible and to help shape global rules in trade since this is where the economic and political benefits of a deal lie.
Throughout this process, I will be pressing for an ambitious outcome on a number of key issues in the interests of the EU and ultimately both sides.
I would like to see a set of horizontal rules to guide regulatory co-operation – and what I mean by that is we should ultimately strive for the mutual recognition of our regulations across a broad range of sectors. In my mind, this is the most efficient way to connect our two systems to allow our businesses to operate more effectively across the Atlantic.
I know we can achieve this because in many ways Europe has 'been there, seen that and done that' in its early preparations during the 1980s for a Single Market. Of course, neither side has the ambition to go that far but our aim should still be to progressively build a more integrated transatlantic marketplace.
I also hope Europe's past experience and success in tackling such issues between our own Member States will also reassure critics who claim TTIP will water down Europe's current set of rules and regulations. The reality is that over the last decades, Europe has seen its standards rise to a level of global excellence and leadership. And it's on this basis that both sides agree to use such a transformative process to raise their game. So, whether we are looking at food safety, financial services such as the regulation of derivatives or standards for electric cars, we need to establish the rules and institutions that ensure this effective regulatory cooperation.
In this respect, ensuring joint transatlantic leadership in the development of global norms and standards goes hand in hand with building progressively a more integrated transatlantic marketplace. Critically these rules and institutions would not be credible if we fail to deliver the concrete and measurable reduction in costs for business through mutual recognition or by other means to avoid the unnecessary duplication of regulatory costs.
I intend to remain actively engaged to guide negotiators towards an ambitious outcome. The October and December negotiation rounds should establish the common foundations for an ambitious and genuinely transformative TTIP.
Together with Ambassador Froman, I will encourage negotiators to be creative with the aim to present a commonly agreed outline of the regulatory and rules component of TTIP for political review in January 2014. On that basis, the political guidance can be given to try to make a maximum of progress throughout next year."
For further information
Website on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
On the "Regulatory Part" of the negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (PDF)
On the economic benefits expected from TTIP
Follow @EU_TTIP_team on Twitter
On the EU-US trade relationship
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How to Recipe for a Bikini Tanned Turkey
by Dear Miss Mermaid
How to Recipe for a Bikini Tanned Turkey
Dear Miss Mermaid
Learn how to make this sexy bikini turkey and give your family or guests a great laugh. Turkey isn't just for holidays, it's a great budget food. Leftovers go a long way making sandwiches and soup. For leftovers, pull off all the extra meat and refrigerate, then gently simmer the carcass on the stove or in a Crockpot with herbs, for several hours. Strain and save leftover broth to cook dried beans or rice. You can also cool the broth and freeze it for later use.
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You'll Need:
a whole turkey
tin foil
1Step One
How big a turkey do you need?
You should allow 350g/12oz per person (with bone) but bear in mind that's just for one meal. Below are some example bird sizes, with extra allowed for hearty diners or leftovers.
Serves 4 2.7kg/ 6 lb
Serves 6 4.5kg/ 10 lb
Serves 8 5.4kg/ 12 lb
Serves 10 6.8kg/ 15 lb
Serves 12 8.1kg/ 18 lb
Serves 14 9.4kg/ 21 lb
2Step Two
Preheat oven to 325F degrees.
Make sure turkey is completely thawed. Reach inside cavities and remove neck and giblets. Save for another recipe. Wash turkey and pat dry. Next, size up your turkey and use scissors to design a bikini bottom out of tin foil. Place on turkey.
For the bikini top, lay out a piece of tin foil. Use a small juice glass to draw 2 circles for the bra top, then draw out the straps, cut and place over turkey breasts.
Optionally, you can undo the wings, lift over the turkey neck and tie together with cooking twine (see resources below).
Spray a roasting pan liberally with non-stick spray, then place turkey in pan.
3Step Three
Make sure the tin foil is smoothed flat on the skin. Next sprinkle the turkey with SAGE, this will give the turkey great flavor. Then sprinkle generously with PAPRIKA. This is going to give it that wonderful golden tan, so don't be skimpy on it. Gently pat the herbs against the skin, so they stick well.
Use a moist paper towel and gently wipe off excess herbs that have stuck to the tin foil bikini. (You don't want any herbs under the foil.)
Bake turkey in oven. When turkey is past half it's cooking time, gently, remove the bikini. Continue cooking until done.
6 to 8 pounds 2-1/2 to 3 hours
8 to 12 pounds 3 to 4 hours
12 to 16 pounds 4 to 5 hours
16 to 20 pounds 5 to 5-1/2 hours
20 to 24 pounds 5-1/2 to 6 hours
If using a meat thermometer, place the meat thermometer in the thickest part of the thigh, taking care that it does not touch any bone. Roast the turkey until the meat thermometer reaches 170-180 degrees F.
4Step Four
When turkey is done pull out of oven and let sit 20-30 minutes while you assemble the rest of the meal, set the table etc. You may wish to cover turkey with a light foil tent to "hide the surprise bikini".
Use the poultry forks to transfer the turkey to a serving platter. Your dinner is sure to be a comical hit!
Bon appetit from Dear Miss Mermaid
Dear Miss Mermaid wrote the book "Hurricanes & Hangovers", which includes some funny recipes.
Tips & Warnings
Try to make this turkey "top secret" and surprise the guests!
Every time you check it, tell them it's a top secret recipe and everyone must leave the kitchen. Forbid anyone to look in the oven.
Don't forget to take a photo and
send it to Dear Miss Mermaid
WARNING: Making this recipe can cause serious comedy!
May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey be plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your holiday dinner
Stay off your thighs!
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Many thanks to Darkest Angel 32 for letting us repost this blog
As the deadline for the Government to haul the Welfare Reform Bill through parliament draws dangerously close and its implementation looms large I want to make sure that YOU know how it might affect your life.
It is a government and media peddled myth that this bill is about the unemployed. It's not. This bill will affect millions of employed people as well as millions of disabled adults and children. This bill is not designed to solve the problems of worklessness and benefit dependency as I will explain. this is about money, money for the treasury that none of YOU will see a penny of.
The Welfare Reform Bill will pave the way for Universal Credit which will replace the following benefits (of which some of YOU will be in receipt of)
Income Based JobSeekers Allowance
Income Support
Income Based Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Housing Benefit
Child Tax Credit
Working Tax Credit
Disability Living Allowance DLA will be replaced with PIP (Personal Independence Payments)
If your household has a higher rate tax payer you will no longer be entitled to Child Benefit.
Council Tax Benefit will be the responsibility of your local authority who will be required to save 10% of the budget annually, therefore reducing the amount of people who claim that particular benefit. Pensioners are protected.
The Social Fund will be abolished. Funds for this kind of financial help will be the responsibility of local authorities. The funding will not be ringfenced so councils are free to use it in any other area. Currently anyone can apply for a crisis loan, even YOU.
So, if you use any of the above the government are after YOU!
It's you they want to move out of the area, it's your children they want to go to another school, its your shopping money, rent money, bill money they want to take away, not just mine.
Don't forget the benefit cap. £26,000 a year, that's £500 a week and £18,200 or £350 a week for a single person without children. (read the equality impact assessment) I can hear you screaming now, regurgitating that rubbish 'hard-working families don't earn that much!'. You are absolutely right because if you were earning £26,000 a year you would also be receiving child tax credits if you have children, working tax credit, perhaps housing and council tax benefit as well and of course child benefit, so in reality your income would be a lot higher than £26,000 and your child benefit can't be taken away if you naughty people dare to receive more than £500 a week. Get the calculator out and work out how much YOU get or should get in benefits!
I'd like you to remember that when thousands of families are forced out of other areas into yours you will have real problems finding cheap accommodation because there will be more people and less available houses. There will be more children in the schools, more strain on local services including the NHS. When you scream that those 'scroungers' should move out of London, remember, they're coming to your town or city sweetheart. It's also worth noting that many people who currently live in rural areas will suffer and have to move as well. You're local authority will also be paying for the cost of temporary housing and the other costs that come with homelessness if anyone in your area is evicted because of these changes. It's far cheaper to just scrap the cap. Housing benefit was capped a little while ago anyway. at a maximum of £400 a week for a 4 bed property, £250 a week for a 2 bed property. Single people under 35 only qualify for the shared room rate, which previously applied to under 25′s. That has already seen people evicted from their homes. The 'family friendly' Tory party have also made it a lot harder for non resident parents to have overnight access to their children by reducing the housing benefit available to single under 35′s. A far better solution would be to cap private rents, that would save the government a fortune in benefits but some of them are landlords so maybe not.
God help you if you or your relative is disabled or ill. The Government don't like you. They don't like your disabled friends or neighbours either. If you are unfortunate enough to get cancer the government have decided that you have 12 months to be cured, otherwise, if your partner earns the enormous sum of £7,500 a year they'll cut your ESA completely. (That applies to anyone claiming it by the way but we hoped cancer patients might at least be exempt from this nasty condition)
They will replace DLA with PIP which most people wont be eligible for even though they have serious illnesses and/or disabilities. Those people will be told they're simply not ill or disabled enough and will be left either appealing, which is a very long distressing process, or left without. Just in case you read the daily mail I can tell you, hospital visits, additional aids to manage with illness and disability and day to day living requires extra financial help for many people in that position. I know from experience with disabled and seriously ill relatives that these things cost money many simply don't have. Also the 'free cars' you have read about aren't free, they're paid for with the mobility component of DLA so people are actually paying for them with the money they get to help them. I'd say that's fair, wouldn't you? It's worth bearing in mind that DLA is not means tested.
The Government also decided it would be a lovely idea to cut the disabled element of tax credits (Universal Credit when it switches) in half for disabled children who receive the lower rate of DLA. Delightful. That means people like one friend I have won't be able to afford the petrol for her car. Her son can't use public transport for various reasons, her car means she can take him out instead of staying in all day. It means she can safely take him to school and the family can lead a normal life. No petrol means an extremely difficult time doing the everyday things YOU take for granted.
On the subject of disabled children, the Government have decided it's a good idea to prevent young people who have never worked due to disability from being able to claim contributory ESA. Currently they can.
There will now be a penalty for 'under-occupation'. If you have a spare room and you receive housing benefit you will now be penalised for it, even if it's for your kids who stay at the weekend, or to store any equipment you need to help you live a full life, such as a wheelchair or a commode. You're going to be charged for that even if you'd like to downsize but can't because there are no available properties in your area.
There are a few other gems in the Welfare Reform Bill that haven't been very widely publicised. Yes, I'm a geek, I read the entire bill, twice actually.
When your youngest child reaches 5 years old you will have to get a job. You will no longer just attend a work focused interview, you will sign on and get a fortnightly interrogation, so if you have a full time job, hang onto to it dear.
Such things as work focused interviews will look like a fairytale compared to the conditionality in store for you under the Welfare Reform Bills proposals.
Being in work is not a safeguard against DWP intrusion. There will be in work conditionality as well.
If you do not work enough hours or earn enough money DWP will be well within their rights to haul you into the jobcentre and tell you to increase your hours, get a second job or beg your boss for a pay rise. Yes really! If you do not comply you can be sanctioned (I'll get to sanctions in a minute). So be afraid, be very afraid.
Now, sanctions. For a first sanctionable offence you can have your benefits stopped completely for a month (4 weeks). You can ask for a hardship payment but you will have to pay that back, it's not free and won't be as much as what you would normally receive. For a worse offence you starve for three months, for a serious offence you lose everything for three years. Yes, that's right, three years! You should also be aware that DWP staff on the frontline are given a quota of how many people they have to refer for a sanction currently, whether those people have committed an offence or not, so you could be completely innocent and still lose out for a month, three months, or three years. Sanctions don't actually work anyway. There has been much discussion in the commons. Chris Grayling says the Government plan to exclude child and housing costs from any sanctions but still, three years is a long time.
Conditionality does not stop there either. You can be required to improve your personal appearance. Quite what that could entail I do not know. It could be anything from have a bath, washing your clothes or remove your piercings, cut your hair etc. There are no specific details in the bill:
6C Work preparation requirement
(1) In this Act a "work preparation requirement" is a requirement that a
claimant take particular action specified by the Secretary of State for the
purpose of making it more likely in the opinion of the Secretary of State
that the claimant will obtain paid work (or more paid work or betterpaid
(2) The Secretary of State may under subsection (1) specify the time to be
devoted to any particular action.
(3) Action which may be specified under subsection (1) includes in
(a) attending a skills assessment;
(b) improving personal presentation;
(c) participating in training;
(d) participating in an employment programme;
(e) undertaking work experience or a work placement;
(f) developing a business plan;
(g) any action prescribed for the purpose in subsection (1).
The section above also states you can be forced to undertake work experience/placement. That, I assume, means the work programme. Working for your benefit, essentially for free. (If there's enough work available for the work programme there's enough work for a proper job).
There is a clause in the bill which states:
6 (1) This paragraph applies in relation to an award of universal credit where the
calculation of the amount of the award includes, by virtue of any provision
of this Part, an amount in respect of particular costs which a claimant may
(2) Regulations may provide for liability to pay all or part of the award to be
discharged by means of provision of a voucher.
(3) But the amount paid by means of a voucher may not in any case exceed the
total of the amounts referred to in sub-paragraph (1) which are included in
the calculation of the amount of the award.
(4) For these purposes a voucher is a means other than cash by which a claimant
may to any extent meet costs referred to in sub-paragraph (1) of a particular
(5) A voucher may for these purposes—
(a) be limited as regards the person or persons who will accept it;
(b) be valid only for a limited time.
So ladies and gentlemen, if you are awarded Universal Credit DWP are well within their rights to pay you in vouchers for 'particular costs which a claimant may incur'. Someone else may know better but as far as I know that could be food, clothing and rent. I had no idea I lived in America. I don't know if this only applies to special circumstances.
We should not forget changes to the way the CSA works. This applies to those of you who may become a single parent in the future or who have a precarious personal arrangement with a non resident parent (NRP), whether you work or not. The Government originally wanted to charge you £100 up front to access the service (£50 if you're on benefits). They 'promised' to change that to £20. They also want to take between 7% and 12% off every single payment destined for your child(ren) from the NRP. So if your child receives £100 a month from your ex, they will, in reality, only get between £93 and £88 a month instead. The Government will be pocketing the rest. No one knows what's round the corner, any of you could find yourself bringing up children alone.
Also, if you make a claim while in a couple, an error is made and repayment is required, any claim you make either alone or jointly with someone else will be liable for the repayment if it has not already been repaid.
Being part of a couple does not exempt either of you from conditionality, in work or not. You will both be required to conform to the same rules or face sanctions when your child(ren) are a certain age and when your youngest is 12 you will both be required to work full time, there will be no option for one of you to have part time hours. Welcome to the end of one of you staying at home to care for the children, or being there when they leave for school or return home, there will be no designated care giver, you both have to go to work now. Of course your long hours and lack of family time will be blamed for the 'feral youth' but only after lone parents have received a good dose of demonisation first.
No one is sure how childcare will work. Currently working families can claim a childcare element of working tax credit which allows for up to 70% of your childcare costs. The details of future arrangements are not clear.
Personally, I'm bricking it. My plan was to try and work part time when my youngest started school (providing there's an actual job to have!) but part time is out of the question now to avoid the in work conditionality. I have a 2 choices, pay for childcare (providing I have sociable shifts, I don't know any childminders who start at 5am!), or I make my oldest child sacrifice her own future to become a substitute parent to her younger brother and sister. That's the girl who wants to go to college and university and really make something of herself. I could ask her to stop all that and please Mr Iain Duncan Smith by being my unpaid childcare. Or`I could find a rich man willing to take on me and the kids, sell my soul for money. That might please the Government. Decisions, decisions.


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Phil Unitt instantly recognized the mangled feet and missing toes as he recently examined a photo of a Mission Valley blackbird.
Unitt, curator of birds and mammals for the San Diego Natural History Museum, has gotten glimpses of the ailment for decades, spotting blackbirds hobbling on deformed feet from San Diego State University to San Francisco. He has even seen museum specimens with the condition, dating to the early 1960s.
And yet Unitt has no idea what causes the disease.
"It is by no means restricted to Mission Valley but is very widespread, in rural areas as well as urban," Unitt wrote in an e-mail to colleagues about the deformity.
The condition does not debilitate the birds to the point where the public is picking them up and taking them to be rehabilitated. But it may have contributed to the substantial decline of the Brewer's blackbird population in San Diego County, if not over a wider area, during the past 40 years.
Unitt, author of "San Diego Bird Atlas," searched unsuccessfully for scientific literature on the ailment while writing that tome. Researchers at the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research also knew about the condition — and were equally baffled by its cause.
Scientists said the illness afflicts the common Brewer's blackbird, as well as some red-winged and tricolored blackbirds.
It shows up as foot lesions, malformations and eventual loss of toes, and has cropped up throughout San Diego County, the Channel Islands, parts of Riverside County and the Bay Area.
The birds soldier on with missing toes, but it's unclear whether the condition affects their ultimate survival. Infected birds apparently can still feed and fly, but could be vulnerable to predators if they're unable to perch.
Unitt and a colleague discussed the disease recently, after uncovering museum specimens of blackbirds with swollen and scaly feet. Then a photo of an afflicted blackbird submitted by a U-T San Diego reader piqued their interest in the mysterious ailment.
In hopes of gaining insight, as well as new samples, Unitt forwarded the photo to Bruce Rideout, director of Wildlife Disease Laboratories at the zoo's conservation institute, and to Project Wildlife, which rehabilitates sick or injured animals.
Rideout, whose job puts him at the forefront of wildlife pathology, was also perplexed.
Any number of contagions or contaminants could cause the lesions, he wrote in an e-mail to colleagues: avian pox or viral infection with secondary bacterial invasion, scaly leg mites, chronic irritation complicated by bacterial or fungal infections, exposure to caustic chemicals and blood parasites that constrict small blood vessels.
However, he cautioned: "None of these scenarios are a perfect fit with your descriptions and the high (affliction rate) you are seeing."
To solve the mystery, he said, he'd need to see live birds with sick feet. Molecular analysis of their tissue samples could help pinpoint a cause, he said.
Unidentified wildlife diseases aren't unheard of, Rideout said. With limited resources, researchers target the most egregious plagues — those that cause mass die-offs or wreak havoc on humans and domestic animals in addition to wildlife. Think West Nile virus and bird flu, which are both potentially lethal to birds and people, or Bluetongue disease, which kills deer and livestock.
"When you look at the landscape of things going on in wildlife, you're going to focus on things that cause mortality rather than nonfatal foot problems," Rideout said.
A chronic condition can become catastrophic, however, if other factors — such as changes in habitat, predation or other pathogens — set the stage for decline.
Brewer's blackbird is a common species that visits suburban lawns, parking lots and shopping malls, Unitt said.
But the bird's everyday visibility may belie its health. The San Diego Audubon Christmas Bird Count, a popular annual bird survey that Unitt helps coordinate, shows a steady decline. Counts in the 1980s consistently logged more than 1,000 Brewer's blackbirds, and in some years recorded several thousand of the gregarious, flocking birds.
Starting in the 1990s, the numbers dropped to about 500. They declined to just 231 birds in 2012.
Although it's unclear whether blackbirds are dwindling across Southern California in general or whether the foot disease plays a role, Unitt said it's a piece of the puzzle.
In the world of birding, where enthusiasts pursue new and exotic species, the quiet decline of a backyard bird may not raise red flags, he said.
"Because it's still a common bird, having some diseased individuals is unremarkable," he said. "No one has been thinking Brewer's blackbirds could go extinct."
Following Unitt's request for samples, the museum's mammalogist, Scott Tremor, spotted two Brewer's blackbirds with diseased feet outside a Costco store in Pacific Beach.
"The only reason I had looked was in conversation I had heard that there's this strange deformity, and it was very obvious in these animals," Tremor said. "They were limping old birds."
Around the same time, Linda King, a bird keeper for the San Diego Zoo and volunteer with Project Wildlife, delivered a new blackbird carcass to Unitt.
Stretching out its iridescent black wings, Unitt examined the specimen, noting the scaly lesions and swollen joints on its feet, one of which was also tangled with purple thread.
"It's remarkable that this condition has been going on for 50 years in Southern California, but it has never been studied," he said.


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PLEASANTON — A sensational duel and a fast time in the boys 1,600 meters highlighted the action in the North Coast Section Tri-Valley Area track and field meet at Amador Valley High on Saturday.
As the crowd cheered, Livermore's Tyler Olson lopped seven seconds off his personal best time and upset Blair Hurlock of De La Salle. Olson finished in 4 minutes, 7.99 seconds, and the Stanford-bound Hurlock had a personal best of 4:08.33.
Both marks were just off state-leader Garrett Corcoran of Villa Park (4:06) and are in the top five all-time in the section. The same duo went one-two in the Tri-Valley meet 1,600 last year, but Hurlock prevailed in 4:15.82.
With the top seven in each event, plus at-large qualifiers, earning spots in the NCS Meet of Champions on May 30-31 at Cal's Edwards Stadium, there wasn't too much pressure on the elite competitors.
Deer Valley easily won the girls team title with 95 points, and Amador Valley won the boys crown with 80. The Wolverines won the girls 400 relay, and got victories from Briana Guillory in the 100 and Artearra Coffey in the 400.
Olson's bold 1,600 run seemed to stun Hurlock, who'd hoped to pace himself and kick late.
"I never really got separation," Hurlock said. "Olson was just on my shoulder the entire time. He passed me, and I was really surprised because last week I beat him by five seconds or so. He's a really good tough competitor. It was an awesome race for him."
Hurlock and Olson were also under the old Tri-Valley meet mark in the 3,200, with Hurlock prevailing handily in 9:13.71 and Olson running a 9:18.96.
In other meet highlights, the Amador Valley boys 1,600 relay team rallied for a thrilling win over San Ramon Valley, as Dons anchor JaMaun Charles, who won the 100 and 200, ran down the Wolves' anchor. The Dons' quartet of Ledre McCullough, Chris Bayley, Charles and Conner McKinnon, the impressive 800 winner, ran best time of 3:17.49. Heritage star Frank Kurtz was just off the meet record in the 400, winning in 47.72. De La Salle's Marquis Morris swept the boys hurdles races.
Monte Vista sophomore Brooke Starn won a close 1,600 over Chloe Hansel of Las Lomas and Brighie Leach of Campolindo, in 4:54.34. Then Starn held off Megan McCandless of Granada in the 3,200 in 10:58.61.
Dublin's Mecca McGlaston was a double-winner in the girls 100 hurdles and 200, with fast times.
McKinnon, whose time in the 800 was a solid 1:54.99, has lofty goals of winning a state championship and breaking Dan Gabor's school record of 1:50.7. He looked confident and strong kicking away on the last lap on his home track.
Carondelet's Christina Chenault was just off the meet mark in the triple with a mark of 38-0.50, and also won the 400.