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Link to the Discord: https://discord.gg/HNT7UPq
Classic WoW Guilds is a Discord server built for and by the community.
If you're a GM/Officer of your guild or you're a Player looking for a guild, Leadership of various guilds (now well over 20 guilds) have gotten together to form a new Discord server for recruitment and guild growth purposes. Still in it's infancy (240+ current members, 30+ members joining every day), we hope it will continue to grow and we welcome anyone to join in that effort.
Come join us and find your members or your home!
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Wipe Res Rebuff, a Legion Cutting Edge guild are seeking new members!
We are a super friendly, semi-hardcore raiding guild.
As a guild we have succeeded in promoting a non-toxic environment, with great banter, where all of our players are respected, we are now seeking to grow our core roster, filling in DPS and Healer slots.
Progression raid nights are Thursdays & Sundays 7:45 until 11pm server time.
On Friday we host a chilled out, optional farm night for heroic and NM, 7:45pm server, until late!
Check out our website to apply!
By Aakasha
Mages, Warlocks, Monks! We are full on Hunters and druids, we may have a spot for a feral. We are looking for mythic raiders, heroic raiders willing to progress to mythic and new-comers & returning old-timers! We also accept social players!
<The Blood Of Heroes> is an Argent Dawn (EU) Raiding guild with a 14 year old history that began in Vanilla.
Our pillars are our players.
Our goal for Battle for Azeroth is to balance Real Life and raid progression. We aim to conquer all of World of Warcraft's Dungeon and Raid challenges in an adequate time-frame.
Our environment allows our players to improve themselves by giving them many opportunities and goals, constructive feedback from seasoned raiders or assistance where is needed. We embrace the diversity that accompanies our multi-national roster and encourage communication and interaction whenever possible.
Thursdays 20:00-23:00
Sundays 20:00-23:00 Game Time!
Tuesdays 20:00-23:00
1. Efficiency
2. Competitive Atmosphere
3. Relaxed Attitude
1. Know your class and spec
2. Attendance must be 2/3 or above!
3. Preparation (consumables, add-ons, TACTICS)
4. Gearing - you are expected to pursue your own gear outside raiding like M+
5. Minimum item level is >355! Minimum HoA Rank: 21
My name is Aakasha! I'm the recruitment officer and the person responsible for giving trials. You can find me online or in discord @Aakasha#1831
I expect logs, progress links and/or achievements. Your application will be considered by all officers available or if necessary discussed during a meeting. We take our job seriously - we expect you to do the same! Toxic behavior and primadonnas don't last in our roster.
We also accept social players!
By Xanah
Guild: Dawn of the Dead | http://www.dotd.org Faction: Horde | Server: Zul'jin (PvE) | Timezone: EST Current Progression: 4/8M Uldir We've been raiding max size raids continuously since WoW has been released and are the only guild to have done so here on Zul'jin. We have strong leadership, no drama, and plans to keep raiding for years to come. Unlike many guilds, we're not recruiting for the short term, and we don't over-recruit. Website: www.dotd.org
Raid Times: Our schedule is 8-11 EST Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Needs: We are a small guild, and we expect high attendance. As such, we recruit people to raid, and desire people who can step in and contribute immediately. We don't recruit people to sit around, so all spots are for raiders who can expect to be in most every raid. We are currently looking to add skilled and reliable: Ranged DPS:
High: Warlock
Medium: Mage, S.Priest, Boomkin
1 Healer:
High: MW Monk
*ALL exceptional applicants will be considered regardless of the class. What we ask of you: Effort: Not all applicants come from highly progressed guilds, and that's okay, but it does mean that you need to be prepared. We recruit the player, not the gear, but we do ask that you have some current experience and be a minimum iLvl of 370. You need to have the best gear available to you, (BoE, Crafted) with gems and top end enchants. You also need to be able to display an understanding of your class mechanics, role in a raid, and ability to learn new fights. Attitude: It's a game. We play for fun. How you fit in with the guild is taken very seriously. We're a bunch of mostly 18-30 guys and girls who have fun playing together. While we have a good time, we also know when it's time to buckle down and work hard. Skill: The best way to determine skill is to see you in a raid. Because we don't wish to have anyone transfer that we're not serious about, be able to express your knowledge of your class and why you're an exceptional player who would be an asset and is worth a shot. Gear will come with time. Skill will not. Impress us with your knowledge of your class and gameplay mechanics. Feel free to share any logs, theorycrafting, or other work you've done. Commitment: We make a commitment to you, and ask you to do the same to us. A raid takes a team of more than 20 individuals working together. We rely on you to show up to raids, research your class and new fights, respect your fellow players, and notify us when you are unavailable. You rely on us for gear, experience, and coordination. It's a large investment of our time to train and gear new players, and we ask the same investment on your part so that we can each benefit. We have a variety of informational resources available to prospective applicants on our web site: http://www.dotd.org-- please refer to our "Applications" forum for detailed information. Also feel free to visit us on WoWProgresss for more information and kill videos! http://www.wowprogress.com/guild/us/...wn+of+the+Dead Should you wish to speak to someone in-game, please don't hesitate to reach out to an officer directly, whisper Xanah (Xana#1662) or Jeare (Jeare#1759). We look forward to hearing from you soon!
By Lamme
current progress 8/8 Heroic Uldir
Battle for Azeroth is here, and Fat Finger Dream Team is back and bigger than ever, eager to experience what the new expansion has in store for us.
Who are we?
FFDT is a Horde guild located on Tarren Mill, consisting of around 20 players with different backgrounds in gaming. We enjoy a wide variety of in-game content, whether it be raids, mythic dungeons or PVP.
We're a healthy mix of semi-competitive and chill people originating from all over Europe, age ranging from 22 to 34+. Many of us have played games together in the past, but we're always looking for more people to strengthen our ranks, and would happily embrace you with our fat fingers.
Goals & Schedule
After successfully creating a strong guild foundation back in Legion, we now strive to keep our community healthy while expanding it in order to be able to enjoy everything that the game has to offer.
Our initial goal in Battle for Azeroth is to clear Uldir on Heroic difficulty while preparing a Mythic raiding team at the same time.
Our raiding schedule is as follows: 2 times per week, on Thursdays from 7 pm to 10 pm and on Sundays from 6 pm to 9 pm Paris time.
What we want from you
Good attitude - Be nice, be cool and cut down on your salt consumption. We prefer good attitude over numbers such as ilvls, achievements and scores. Communication - Be on Discord with us. Trust me, it makes raiding so much more enjoyable when you get to meet new people, of course without forgetting about some healthy shit talking! Attendance - Be able to attend at least once a week, preferably twice. Preparation for the raids - During progress runs it is expected that everyone has read guides and shows up with proper buffs. For hard content it is also advised to have studied class-specific guides. We are currently looking for flexible people with good game knowledge (both PvE and PvP) and mainly the following classes:
Druid (balance) Shaman (all specs) Death Knight (frost, unholy) Warlock (affliction) Monk (windwalker)
Join us
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New Zealand Government Admits That Order To Suppress Illegal Spying On Kim Dotcom Only Such Order Issued In 10 Years
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The spy agency has stated that the certificate signed by Finance Minister Bill English as Acting Prime Minister was the only one found in "a thorough search of our files".Beyond the concern of who knew what and when, there should be continued outrage in New Zealand at its goverment's willingness to bend over backwards to break the law just because the US entertainment industry was putting pressure on the DOJ to "do something" about Megaupload. The fact that they appear to have not only broken the law, but then issued a one-of-a-kind order to try to hide the fact that they broke the law really says something about the lengths the NZ government were willing to go to please Hollywood.
Mr English was asked by the GCSB to sign the "ministerial certificate" while Prime Minister John Key was overseas in August. The certificate said knowledge of the GCSB's involvement in the Dotcom investigation would damage its ability to detect or prevent serious crime.
The fact it was the only ministerial warrant in 10 years was discovered by the Green Party under the Official Information Act. Its rarity has led Green Party co-leader Russel Norman to question how Mr Key stayed ignorant of its existence until a month after it was signed.


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Jan. 04--Gov. Bruce Rauner spent Wednesday night at the state veterans home in Downstate Quincy, as his administration has come under scrutiny for its handling of a 2015 outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that killed a dozen residents.
Dave MacDonna, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs, said Rauner arrived at the home around 10 p.m. Wednesday. A spokeswoman for Rauner said he planned to spend several days there with residents and staff.
"He wants to gain a more thorough understanding of the clinical, water-treatment and residential operations of the home," spokeswoman Rachel Bold said.
Rauner's stay comes as the Illinois House and Senate veterans affairs committees are scheduled to hold an investigatory hearing on Tuesday in Chicago. In preparation, several lawmakers toured the home on Wednesday, including Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, a Democrat from Oswego.
The Marine Corps veteran described the visit as an "introductory tour" in which lawmakers visited one residential facility, met with some survivors who contracted the disease, and learned about the new water treatment facility.
Kifowit said officials must provide more answers about why outbreaks continued after a new water treatment system was installed and provide more details about procedures and protocols for checking on patients. She said the facility's ventilation system should also be looked at, questioning if it's possible that Legionella bacteria was being transmitted through the air on warm, humid days.
"He should have been visiting the home constantly in 2015 and 2016 to make sure the veterans we safe and taken care of," Kifowit said, calling the Rauner stay "symbolic." "He's a day late and a dollar short."
The 2015 outbreak has come under renewed scrutiny following a WBEZ-FM 91.5 report, which found that family members of residents at the facility had not been told about the outbreak of the water-borne illness until its later fatal stages. At least 11 lawsuits on behalf of those who died have been filed in the Illinois Court of Claims seeking damages from the state.
Documents also showed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was not called until nearly a month after the first identifiable case of the illness in late July 2015. By the time the CDC arrived in Quincy on Sept. 1 of that year, the outbreak had escalated rapidly.
Following the 2015 outbreak, which killed 12 people and sickened more than 50 others, the state has spent more than $6 million in remediation efforts to the facility's water treatment system aimed at eradicating Legionella bacteria, which grows in warm water and is often present in water supplies. The home dates to 1886.
But three people at the veterans home contracted the respiratory disease the following year, and three more cases at the facility were identified this year.
Last month, Rauner declined to say if he bears any moral responsibility for the deaths and illnesses at the state's largest and oldest veteran's home, saying "I work every day to support our veterans. They are our heroes. And I will never ever back down or give up on fighting and working to keep our veterans safe."
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NEW #UtahTheatre review by @ATCA_Member @marenali for @CPT_Theatre's A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: https://t.co/aIGhSlaDyX
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Down in Provo @AnOtherTheater continues it's run of 'Edward II' this weekend.
Start 2019 off with some theatre.
I've acted in ten things here in Utah in the past fifteen months.
Of those ten things eight were directed by women.
I think that's pretty great.
AUDITION ANNOUNCEMENT! Next Thurs (1/24) and Fri (1/25), SLAC will be holding auditions for SATURDAY'S VOYEUR 2019! For all the 4-1-1 on Voyeur #41, visit https://t.co/sM09y5zfoV.
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I'm at the first read/sing-through of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at @AnOtherTheater. This show is going to be amazing.
#AOTC #IAmAnOther #UtahTheatre
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#UtahTheatre review for @HCTO's THE ODD COUPLE. #TheatreCriticism
Costume test for Wilbur in Charlotte's Web. #utahtheatre #utahchildrenstheatre #costumedesign #pigcostume @ Utah Children's Theatre https://t.co/kmApbyjOcp
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Me and my girl going to some classic theatre tonight. #utahtheatre #criticlife #theatremom @ CenterPoint Legacy Theatre https://t.co/KJ1aiYqytK
I'm in a production of Nick Payne's 'Constellations' @goodcotheatre in Ogden. Tracy Callahan is directing. We open a week from today(!).
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Update on #UtahTheatre shows that have opened in the last week:
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Major Coastal Flooding Likely Monday
The National Weather Service says Sandy could bring the coast two chances at moderate to major flooding on Monday.
Forecasters say that if Sandy passes across the coast between Atlantic City and Belmar around the time of high tide on Monday evening it could being long duration tidal flooding and road closures. Ocean waves will be at 15-20 feet during high tide and could cause "considerable damage" to beachfront properties.
4-8 inches of rain are expected and rivers are not expected to be able to take it to the ocean quickly enough to avoid flooding. A tidal surge of 3-5 feet will combine to increase the odds of coastal flooding.
If Sandy passes the coast south of Sandy Hook during high tide that area could experience major flooding.
High tides in Monmouth & Ocean counties are around 8:00AM and 8:20PM on Monday, in Atlantic City at 7:40AM and 8PM and in Cape May 8:49AM and 9:09 PM. The period of high tide will be longer than usual.


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Gothenburg, 4, March 2014: SKF today announced the introduction of the Lincoln PowerLuber series 1880 grease gun for multiple lubrication applications. Featuring a redesigned, high-torque powerhead, the two-speed motor delivers grease at up to 10,000 psi (690 bar) in both high- and low-output settings.
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As part of a growing trend among hedge funds and Wall Street firms, Cold War-style satellite surveillance is being used to gather market-moving information.
The surveillance pictures are often provided by private-sector companies like DigitalGlobe in Colorado and GeoEye in Virginia, which build and launch satellites and take pictures for US government intelligence agency clients and private-sector satellite analysis firms.
Looking for an edge, institutional investors such as UBS have begun to use satellite imagery to gauge customer traffic and economic activity, observing everything from parking lots and oil refineries to shipping terminals.
What kind of images used by investors? Click ahead to see some examples and how they are used!
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John Grisham — "International best-selling author of 23 novels!" the stadium announcer boomed out moments earlier — took his seat in Row B, alongside the Cubs dugout at Wrigley. Next to him, Michael Harvey, the best-selling crime author and co-creator of "Cold Case Files." And on the other side of Harvey, Scott Turow, the best-selling author of countless legal thrillers.
Between the three, they have written: "A Time to Kill," "Presumed Innocent," "Personal Injuries," "The Burden of Proof," "The Client," "The Rainmaker," "The Firm," "The Fifth Floor," "The Chamber," "The Brethren," "The King of Torts," "The Associate," "The Third Rail," "The Chicago Way," "The Pelican Brief," "The Runaway Jury," "The Confession," "The Appeal," "The Last Juror," "Pleading Guilty," "Reversible Errors" and "Innocent." There are many others, of course; if Grisham, Harvey and Turow never lived, airport bookstores would sell only People magazine and Snapple.
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Grisham has sold 250 million books. Turow has sold 25 million. And Harvey — who published his first novel just five years ago, two decades after Turow wrote his first, "Presumed Innocent" — less than a million.
The game, the Chicago Cubs vs. the Milwaukee Brewers, early April, nothing special, nothing on the line.
Grisham sat against the dugout. He sat on the edge of his seat. Harvey slouched in his, the collar of his jacket rising up. Turow sat with perfect posture, his hands in his lap, occasionally curling into loose fists. Grisham wore Ray Bans and a Cubs starter jacket and a Cubs hat. Harvey, who lives in the neighborhood and teaches at Northwestern, wore nothing bearing an insignia. Turow, a Chicago guy, an Evanston resident, wore Ray Bans, a starter jacket similar to Grisham's, a Cubs hat with "Tuneful Turow" stitched in the back.
In the first inning, Harvey turned to Grisham and said in his thick Boston accent: "Read the book. Liked it."
Grisham, in his own soft musical Mississippi tones, replied: "It's a sweet story."
They left it at that.
Turow leaned across Harvey. "You know, John, I was with Brian Dennehy last night."
Grisham said: "Dennehy. Great guy."
Turow said: "Terrific guy. He wanted me to say hi to you. He and Nathan Lane are in town, working on 'Iceman Cometh' with Bob Falls down at the Goodman, and he just wanted me to say hi to you. Great guy."
"Terrific guy."
CRACK! Routine grounder to Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro. He bobbles. Error.
"Future of the Cubs," Turow said, biting his hot dog, talking through the food. "That's the future, man."
Harvey and Grisham nodded solemnly.
The reason they were here together was Grisham. He wrote a new novel about baseball, "Calico Joe," a pleasant day at the park of a book about beanballs, retaliation, forgiveness, centered around a fateful game between the Cubs and the Mets. Grisham had come in from New York. He'd just driven by Yankee Stadium hours before: "Man, I hate the Yankees. I see Yankees fans wearing Yankees hats and just want to smack those Yankee hats off their heads. You know, slap their faces. Just hate them." He was also here at Wrigley to throw out the first pitch, something Turow's done before, of course, Turow said, with a big smirk. As we watched Grisham slip into a custom-made Cubs jersey with "Grisham" slapped on the back, Turow said: "I told him my advice for this was dress warm. Also, and this is hilarious, but a lot of people plan this out for weeks, train for weeks, throw pitches in their backyards for weeks before they get here, and then they are so nervous, no kidding, they go through the windup and never release the ball!" The caustic stadium speakers blared music and promotions and said nothing. Turow looked into the rafters, annoyed. "They never RELEASE THE BALL! Can you hear me? Boy, they just don't shut up at all with that stuff do they?"
For the record, Grisham's pitch — a little high.
Before the game, before he threw the first pitch, Grisham, unrecognized by the crowd filing in, sat in his seat and watched batting practice, his cap pulled low, a few strands of sandy colored hair poking out of his hat. He didn't turn and talk to me. He stared straight ahead, paying close attention to swings, throw, bunts.
"This summer I'll go to a Washington Nationals game or two. The stadium's not far from me. I'll probably watch the Rangers play. Nolan and Ruth Ryan are friends. I'll probably make it to Fenway. I'll get out to 10 games this summer hopefully. I'll go to St. Louis at least once. Growing up in the South, it was all Cardinals. My father, my grandfather, Cardinals fans. I didn't growing up hating the Cubs like most Cardinals fans. I had a baseball card of every major leaguer as a kid. I was a serious collector. I had Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Don Kessinger, who is a buddy of mine. I had their cards when I was 10. That's why I set the book here."
We watched a bit.
"I had serious dreams when I was in high school," he said. "Baseball wise. I had big dreams and small talent. I played everywhere but pitcher and catcher. I loved the outfield. I loved to shag fly balls. When I was in high school, I was at first and in the outfield. I was a .350 hitter. I was good enough to dream of playing in college. There were a lot of scouts around. But they never looked at me. One of the pitchers I played with later went to prison. I was his lawyer. Total head case. Anyway, I tried to play in college. Was not good enough to play in college. I tried out. I played one year of juco (aka, junior college baseball) and sat the bench and for some reason thought I was too good for that, so I tried out at a D2 school (aka, an NCAA Division II school), and that's when my career came to an end. I gave up on baseball then, even as a fan. Until my son came along in the '90s, then I jumped in with both feet. I coached Little League for years. I coached him from 6 years old to the age of 15. Over the years I wanted to write a great kids baseball story and also an adult baseball story but so many of the stories have already been done, for kids and adults. So I wrote two football novels, instead. Then I got the idea for this, about a beanball that changes a lot of lives.
"Tony La Russa (former White Sox and St. Louis Cardinals manager, newly retired) is a friend. We spent hours talking about The Code, the Baseball Code. He told me that's the one thing he'll never miss. Unlike a lot of managers, he makes the decision to retaliate for a beanball. Some managers leave it up to players. That creates pressure on a team. Tony made that decision himself. When someone throws inside, from that moment on, he is wrestling with what to do. It's a fascinating game. You can have a perfectly civilized game, one person is hit, everything changes. Never got beaned myself. I was never worth hitting."
A book about a beanball, I said, that could be a legal thriller, it's not much of a stretch.
"Yeah, but you'd need dead bodies. You'd need lawyers."
But all baseball books are sad.
"Just about. You're right. The biographies are not always sad. But the fiction, almost always sad. Almost."
Grisham, Harvey and Turow ended up sitting together — two of the most successful mystery writers of all time, one acclaimed up-and-comer — because Grisham invited them, Grisham explained to me earlier. They know each other, though not especially closely: "In 1987, when 'Presumed Innocent' came out and I was struggling with my writing at first, it was a hugely motivating thing to watch what Scott went through, so successful right away. But my own first book, 'A Time to Kill,' didn't sell 5,000 copies, not right away. We met a couple of times at conferences and book expos and Scott came to Mississippi a few years back and we did a function for the Innocence Project (the New York-based legal clinic dedicated to exonerating prisoners it feels were wrongly accused). Sometimes we talk books. Most of the time, we talk baseball. He and Harvey have the same agent, too. And anyway, last summer when I was doing this book, Michael read the manuscript for me and pointed out several mistakes and I came here last August and we drove around Wrigleyville to get details. We're writers who get along with each other — and most writers don't get along."
Second inning in, Turow leaned over Harvey: "Did you get your hot dog, Mr. Grisham?"
Grisham nodded.
Turow leaned across Harvey again. The guy who sang the National Anthem, he said, "that guy is a great story, one of the great Chicago stories." He meant Wayne Messmer, the longtime Blackhawks singer who had been shot in the throat in 1994 but eventually recovered his voice. He explained the story to Grisham.
"Wow. A great story," Grisham said. "A terrific story. Guy's a Chicago institution?"
"Chicago institution," Turow said.
The third inning stretched to the fourth.
They talked friends ("Nice guy." "Hell of a nice guy."), steroids in sports, the Justice Department allegations against Apple and several publishers (pointedly off the record). With the blare of the stadium speakers, they had to lean forward to say anything and strain to hear. Snippets popped out — "He died in penitentiary" (Grisham), "Candidly, I've known the president a long time and — " (Turow). Harvey stayed mostly quiet. Cubs filtered from the dugout, shot a glance toward them, then, blank-faced, turned to the field for practice swings.
Alfonso Soriano bounded from the dugout. "This guy," Turow said, "in the race to be the highest-paid player."
"Think he'll win that race?" Grisham said, laughing to himself, then stood and said he was getting beer.
"John, they'll bring it 'round," Turow said, calling after Grisham, though Grisham was gone. A few moments (and, indeed, two beer guys later), Grisham returned and snapped open a bag of peanuts, gently cracking each shell between his fingers and dropping the remains at his feet. The subject swung around to golf.
"You play much ball, John?" Turow asked.
"Just started, few years ago. Started playing at 53, though. It's an ugly game, let me tell you."
"I play a couple times a week," Turow said.
"Ugly game."
"Yeah," Turow said, "but you got land, right? A lot of land?"
"Yeah, I do."
"Put in a putting green. I got one, up at our house in Wisconsin."
"You go outside when you're done writing? Walk around?"
"Yeah, I do."
An usher appeared with a couple of Grisham books and passed them down the line. Grisham signed each one carefully then passed the books back down the line. A beer guy appeared and Grisham, Harvey and Turow ordered three beers, and then the beers came down the line, passing the books. "If you guys had better seats, you'd be sitting in the dugout," the beer guy said to Turow, passing one, two, three beers.
"Heh," Turow said.
"But then you guys'd be getting paid," the beer guy said, and picked up his beer and hiked up the steps.
'Calico Joe'
By John
Doubleday, 208 pages, $24.95


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England 21-19 France, March 16, 1991
'A celebration of European rugby'
Richard Seeckts
March 16, 1991
England's Dean Richards challenges for the ball
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England won a spectacular match to achieve their first Grand Slam since 1980. There was French flair aplenty as they ran in three tries but for England, who had blown Championship winning chances in the final matches of 1989 and 1990, this victory provided enormous relief.
The match is best remembered for Philippe Saint-Andre's first half try, which was voted 'Try of the Centenary' when Twickenham celebrated 100 years of international rugby in 2009.
Pundits of the day expected England to win, notwithstanding the perennial capacity of the French to surprise. Under Geoff Cooke 's management, the nucleus of Will Carling's team had been in place for three seasons and had risen from whipping boys to second in the world. Often criticised as boring for playing a tight game, they broke all sorts of try scoring records and only occasionally slipped up, most notably against Scotland a year earlier.
As the best team in Europe, but with no trophies to show for it, they could not risk a repeat of that day at Murrayfield. Carling described "an air of desperation to win" among his men, also acknowledging a great opponent, "Maybe the one thing I am apprehensive about is Blanco". They knew what was at stake and they knew each other's games well enough, this being the only occasion in history that England used the same 15 players for an entire Championship. Not a weak link to be found. Wade Dooley and Paul Ackford would rule the lineout, the back row of Mike Teague, Peter Winterbottom and Dean Richards were to thwart French efforts and make their own surges in the loose. There would be no messing with Messrs Leonard, Moore and Probyn at scrum time.
France, with equally comfortable wins over Scotland, Ireland and Wales, offered a slightly less ruthless pack, but a stellar array of backs, led by Blanco. His pre-match statements expressed a desire for "a celebration of European rugby... to prove something to those southern hemisphere countries who regard themselves as world champions".
£20 tickets were exchanging hands on the black market at £900 a pair the day before the game, but there was excitement and trepidation in equal measure among the lucky 61,000 ticket holders, regardless of what they had paid.
With England 3-0 ahead, Simon Hodgkinson's second penalty attempt drifted away to the right. Pierre Berbizier collected and lobbed the ball to Blanco as everyone began to shape up for a 22 metre drop out, including the BBC television producer. As a result, very few saw Blanco shun the likely option and canter eastwards behind his try line. Gathering pace, he passed to Jean-Baptiste Lafond, who skipped past Rob Andrew and fed on to Philippe Sella.
England had been caught napping. There were gasps as the men in white and the crowd realised what was happening. Sella stepped inside from the right touchline, wrong-footing Probyn and Teague, and passed out to Didier Camberabero, who flashed past Hodgkinson. Camberabero's chip ahead went over Rory Underwood and did for Richards and Winterbottom, before he caught the ball with an outstretched right arm and, seeing off Carling in the process, hoofed the ball infield. Saint-Andre, tearing up the middle of the pitch, calmly waited for the ball to sit up after its second bounce, gathered on the 22 metre line and crashed over for the try under the posts, leaving Jerry Guscott and Richard Hill in his wake.
Rory Underwood crashes over for England © PA Photos
Underwood, who couldn't get more than a finger-tip to Camberabero's chip kick, later explained, "We were just chasing shadows after that.....they had their tails up and were trying to run it from everywhere; we were defending like mad."
England were also calmly accumulating points through Hodgkinson's boot and domination in the loose that saw them awarded 16 scrums to France's six. Underwood was the beneficiary of some efficient work by his back row colleagues, who put him through for his 27th international try.
18-9 up at half time, England started to play for territory as the rain got heavier. France, with nothing to lose, regrouped and when Olivier Roumat won lineout ball that allowed Camberabero to chip ahead and score, the game was wide open again. Xavier Blond's repeated trespassing in England territory was punished by referee Les Peard, who marched England forward a further 10 metres when Blond tugged the official's sleeve. Hodgkinson added the points.
England's discipline and control looked solid as the clock ran down, despite Underwood's retrospective view, but France had one more score in them. With a minute of normal time left Saint-Andre found space, after a quick lineout, to start a move that ended with Frank Mesnel scoring in the corner. A fine try by any reckoning, but one forgotten when considering what went before and, most importantly, the result.
France contributed enormously to the occasion and would have drawn the match if a try had been worth five points, as it became in 1992. To England, the spoils, but not without France examining their every fibre.
The crowd departed glowing in the twin glories of England's much yearned for Grand Slam and Blanco's desired celebration of European rugby - not bad for £20.
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Hollywood Union Members Sign Petition Asking MPAA & Hollywood Unions To Stop Supporting PIPA/SOPA
from the losing-your-own-members dept
I'm a proud Local One and USA829 member, and am appalled to find my union supporting this act. While I agree that piracy is bad, this act is ill-designed by legislators with no clue how the internet works, and guided by greedy corporations who have ulterior motives, and who have a track record of abusing the DMCA the same way they'll abuse this.And, another one from a studio grip:
It will do nothing to stop it, will give unfettered power prone to abuse to corporations who don't deserve it, will short circuit due process, and will have huge unintended negative effects on the internet as a whole.
Proud Local 80 Motion Picture Studio Grip and I'm signing because these bills go too far. I'd like to think that IATSE is just trying to do what's best for its members. But, I think once they dig past the surface they will see the same thing I did. And that is that these bills need to be quashed. We need another way to deal with piracy.Once again, for all the talk of widespread "support" of SOPA and PIPA, it seems to be crumbling in every direction, including from within the groups who have acted as if these bills were absolutely necessary.


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Latest revision as of 23:51, 11 March 2008
NOTE: This tutorial is for the obsolete LinuxBIOSv1 codebase.
This file contains instructions for the SiS 630 based mainboards.
Unfortunately, there is a step in this HOWTO that could be hazardous. The hazards include (but are not limited to) 1) destroying your motherboard 2) hurting yourself 3) killing yourself
Because of these hazards, you must take full responsibility if you decide to install LinuxBIOS following these procedures. Neither Los Alamos National Labs nor any lab personnel can be held responsible for any adverse consequences of your attempt to follow these procedures.
WARNING: we assume you've built kernels, know how to open up your PC, and how to yank the flash part out while power is on and put in a different part. There is NO WARRANTY, express or implied, with this software. In fact, if you don't know what you're doing, and you get careless, you're going to end up with a nice paperweight instead of a motherboard, an emergency room bill, or a funeral service.
Now that we're done with the mandatory US legal jargon (how I hate lawyers ...)
The mainboards that are "known good" are: Matsonic MS7308E Winfast 6300MAX
Mainboards with SiS630 that we KNOW will not work are: Any ASUS (uses the wrong kind of flash part) Matsonic MS7308D (no Ethernet connector)
Vendors we have experience with that work: www.aaronix.com
Clueless vendors, who ship the wrong board: www.dknypc.com (we ordered MS7308E, they shipped MS7308D, but invoiced MS7308E)
Vendors who might work: www.eurocomla.com (we don't know yet -- have not tried them)
Linux distribution: RedHat 6.2 or later. We haven't tried anything else. They may all work fine.
Other software notes: You MUST have 'as' version 2.9.5 or later. You MUST have ssh to connect to sourceforge
Recommended: you really ought to get a 32-DIP Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket for the flash part. This makes taking out flash and putting in Disk On Chip much easier.
You need to have a LinuxBIOS machine (the machine that runs LinuxBIOS) and a build machine (which will let you build LinuxBIOS). These can be one and the same machine. In this HOWTO we assume they're the same. We nevertheless refer to a 'build' machine and 'LinuxBIOS' machine in case you want to use a different machine.
Also, freebios and linuxbios still share the same source tree. We use the name 'linuxbios' where it makes sense, and 'freebios' otherwise. But they are the same source base.
NOTE: these steps are tested up to step 3, and work. The steps for loading linuxbios are simple: 0) get linux installed on your LinuxBIOS machine 1) Get Linuxbios source from the sourceforge 2) get a 2.4.0-test12 kernel, patch it, then build it 3) config and build linuxbios 4) Get the MTD utilities from http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ and build the 'erase' utility 5) Set up the 'flash_on' program in your path 6) put a Disk On Chip into the flash socket 7) Burn the chip 8) hit reset. You're up.
--- Step 0) Get Linux installed on your LinuxBIOS machine. We have used RedHat 6.2, but any recent Linux distribution should work, such as Mandrake 7.0.
Step 1) o You need to get linuxbios source. cd to the directory you want the source tree to be. Then: export CVS_RSH=ssh (or in tcsh setenv CVS_RSH ssh) cvs -d:pserver:firstname.lastname@example.com:/cvsroot/freebios login (at the password prompt, just hit <return>)
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:email@example.com:/cvsroot/freebios co freebios
Step 2) o go to www.kernel.org and get linux-2.4.0-test12
o Once you have pulled this file down and untar'ed it, apply the proper patch from the freebios/src/kernel_patches directory. The patch is:
linux-2.4.0-test12-sis630-sisfb_lite.patch Your patch command will look like this: cd linux_directory patch -p1 < ~/freebios/src/kernel_patches/linux-2.4.0-test12-sis630-sisfb_lite.patch o Now copy config-2.4.0-test12.sis to .config, then make oldconfig make clean make dep make vmlinux make modules make modules_install make bzdisk (You should test boot this floppy disk just to be safe)
You now have a kernel for linuxbios. And then try booting this kernel on the LinuxBIOS to make sure it works. If you want, you can also install this kernel on the LinuxBIOS machine, and install the modules as well, since you will need the Disk On Chip modules to burn the Disk On Chip part.
Step 3:
o You now need to figure out where you want to put your build images. DO NOT PUT THESE IN THE LINUXBIOS SOURCE TREE. You want to put them OUTSIDE THE TREE, so you can always cvs update and not lose any of your build directory. Linuxbios does all the builds in a single directory, much as BSD does. To build linuxbios requires a Makefile, a crt0.S file, and a ld script file. These are generated by a config tool located in freebios/utils/config The config tool is a Python program originally written by Dean Risinger of the ACL. To build the initial Makefile, assembly stub, and ld script, you need to build a config file (simple), run the config tool, cd to the build directory, and type 'make'.
Here is a config file for the winfast 6300
# This will make a target directory of ./winfast # Note that this is RELATIVE TO WHERE YOU ARE WHEN YOU RUN THE # CONFIG TOOL. Make it absolute if you like target winfast
# Leadtek WinFast 6300 MAX mainboard mainboard leadtek/winfast6300
# Enable Serial Console for debugging # It will come up at 115200,8n1 option SERIAL_CONSOLE
# Enable MicroCode update and L2 Cache init for PII and PIII option UPDATE_MICROCODE option CONFIGURE_L2_CACHE
# Use the internal VGA frame buffer device option HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER
# Path to your kernel (vmlinux) # NOTE; you need a path to your test12 kernel here. linux /usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test12
# Kernel command line parameters commandline root=/dev/hda1
# We're using disk on chip. Tell it where to find the docipl code docipl northsouthbridge/sis/630
The target command names the build directory. The mainboard command names the mainboard. We have set options for a serial console which will get you linuxbios debug output via the serial port; updating microcode on the PIII (mandatory for coppermine!); configuring the L2 cache (harmless, leave it in); framebuffer init (leave it in if you want a console). You have to tell it where to find the vmlinux you build (the 'linux' command); and finally you need a commandline for now.
That's the file. To run the config tool, you need two args: the first is the name of a config file, and the second is the (absolute) pathname of the freebios source tree.
The config tool is NLBConfig.py. Make sure you use that and not LBConfig.py, the older version.
Here's what it looks like when you run it.
python ~/src/freebois/util/config/NLBConfig.py winfast.config ~/src/freebios
winfast is not a directory.
I know I should make this, but I'm too paranoid To fix this, type
mkdir -p winfast
then run this program again
Note this first time, we got an error, since I forgot to make the 'target' directory. So, for the second run, I do the mkdir, then run the tool:
mkdir -p winfast
python ~/src/freebios/util/config/NLBConfig.py winfast.config ~/src/freebios
The output of the tool is: Will place Makefile, crt0.S, ldscript.ld in winfast Process config file: /users/rminnich/src/freebios/src/mainboard/leadtek/winfast6300/Config Process config file: /users/rminnich/src/freebios/src/northsouthbridge/sis/630/Config Added ram init file: northsouthbridge/sis/630/raminit.inc Process config file: /users/rminnich/src/freebios/src/cpu/p5/Config Process config file: /users/rminnich/src/freebios/src/cpu/p6/Config Process config file: /users/rminnich/src/freebios/src/lib/Config Trying to create winfast/Makefile Trying to create winfast/ldscript.ld Trying to create winfast/crt0.S Check for crt0.S param file: /users/rminnich/src/freebios/src/include/northsouthbridge/sis/630/param.h
Adding include to crt0.S for this parameter file
OK, all those messages are normal. Now we do a make:
cd winfast make
We now have three files to be loaded into the Disk On Chip. The first is called docipl. It is 512 bytes. The second is called linuxbios.strip, and is the binary image of the linuxbios that gets loaded into Doc. The third file is your kernel, and is stripped and compressed, vmlinux.bin.gz
-rw------- 1 rminnich CIC-ACL 512 Dec 20 08:41 docipl -rwx------ 1 rminnich CIC-ACL 33494 Dec 20 08:41 linuxbios.strip* -rwx------ 1 rminnich CIC-ACL 756069 Dec 20 08:41 vmlinux.bin.gz*
You're now ready to burn the Disk On Chip, but first ....
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Events during July 2013
Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Phrosso Pfister
Thursday 4 Jul | St Paul's, Covent Garden, Bedford Street, London WC2E 9ED
A service of thanksgiving followed by light refreshments at the Concert Artistes' Association.
ISTD Scuole estive in Italia - Bari
Saturday 13 Jul | Bari, Itlay
ISTD Italian Summer School in Bari
DFR Area Medallist Competition, Wakefield 2013
Sunday 14 Jul | The North 2, Wakefield
DFR Area Medallist Competition, Wakefield
ISTD Scuole estive in Italia - Sportilia
Saturday 20 Jul | Sportilia, Forlì, Italy
Italian Summer School in Sportilia.
Dancesport Worthing Congress 2013
Saturday 20 Jul | Assembly Rooms, Stoke Abbot Road, Worthing, West Sussex
A weekend of workshops, demonstrations, evening dance and the Phyllis Haylor Scholarship (21 July).
Cecchetti Summer School for Young Dancers 2013
Saturday 27 Jul | Hertfordshire
Cecchetti Summer Schools
Cecchetti Society Day 2013
Sunday 28 Jul | Royal Ballet School, Covent Garden
Cecchetti Society Day
Ballroom/Latin/Sequence Medallist Competition, Castleford
Sunday 28 Jul | Castleford, Yorkshire
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Monarchs in Mexico with Kids
In the Land of the Butterflies: Visiting the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico
By Molly Beer
So often, travel aims for the superlative: the tallest mountain, the whitest beach, the greatest distance, the wildest ride. But, sometimes, small things can evoke an awe of equal magnitude. Particularly small things in very large numbers.
The monarch butterfly—so everyday fluttering around a roadside milkweed—is one such marvel.
Here's why:
Monarchs migrate. Those that summer west of the Rockies migrate to California, a noteworthy 500-mile trip. But those that summer east of the Rockies migrate to Central Mexico, flying over 2,000 miles to congregate in the precise
mountainside fir groves their ancestors—several generations back—left the previous spring. Then, in one of those surreal feats of nature, the females, even though they haven't eaten since they began this unfathomable journey, fly back again.'
Living in highland Mexico for the year with two small children, I was more than a little eager to visit the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, an UNESCO World Heritage Site, to witness the wintering monarch colonies. Granted it was a little early to talk metamorphosis (my oldest was not yet three), but children spend a lot of time contemplating magic, and, really, what could be more magical than a few million monarchs flitting about like brilliant confetti?
Visiting the Monarchs
The most common way that tourists see the monarchs in Mexico is via either Morelia, the capital of Michoacán (itself a World Heritage Centre), or Mexico City. But these two cities are each a full two hours' drive, assuming that there is no traffic, from the mountains where the butterflies congregate. To make this a day trip, tours leave early in the morning, arrive in the village of Angangueo in time for visitors to ride horses up to the heavily visited El Rosario colony, snap some pictures, and descend again, all before a late lunch and a siesta during the van ride back.
I've never been one of those marathon travelers racing to tick off items on my life list. I prefer to take my time and savor a place. Furthermore, we were traveling with small children, and our visits to the Monarch Biosphere Reserve were to be the crowning moments of our travels in Mexico. In short, we wanted to do full justice to the butterflies.
For our first excursion to the Monarch Biosphere Reserve, since we were six with the visiting grandparents, we rented a mini-van in Morelia and took the scenic but stomach churning old highway (MX 15) to Angangueo, where we checked into a pair of over-priced, shabby, but serviceable, hotel rooms at hotel called Don Bruno's (Spanish helps at this particular establishment, as does a fluency in the idiosyncrasies of Mexican hotels).
Then we explored the village, which had been largely washed out in a flash flood the previous spring. While the town's central plaza was pretty enough, most of our attention was captured by the destruction (and, toddler-style, the heavy equipment pushing it around).
During our stroll, we were approached by a guide who offered to take us to El Rosario the next morning. When we told him we actually planned to visit Sierra Chincua, he insisted that our vehicle wouldn't make it up the road, and that, anyway, that there were hardly any butterflies there. This worried us, but inspired by the recklessness inherent to driving a fully insured rental vehicle, we knew we'd try our luck down the road less traveled.
Santuario Sierra Chincua
Sierra Chincua is an ejido, or a traditional community that manages its land communally. Nearly all of Sierra Chincua's income comes from butterfly tourists—nearly 60,000 visitors each winter according to their website. In light of this, the ejido has built a brand new, solar-powered visitors' center (at the end of a perfectly good road) composed of souvenir shops and small restaurants named for the Doña manning the tortilla comal therein. Had we guessed we could order a picnic lunch to eat in the forest, we would have spared ourselves the trouble of bringing lunch.
Guides are required to visit the sanctuary, and the unlucky man who was first in that morning's rotation (he would be the last to return in the evening) was Pedro. If Pedro minded that we bypassed the corral of saddled horses (I believe that my kids are too small for horseback riding), he said nothing.
If he minded that I, still weak from pregnancy and walking careful of the baby wrapped to my chest, hiked about as speedily as a three-toed sloth, and my maniacal toddler, when loosed from his "daddy saddle," walked the wrong way as often as not, he said nothing. He just pointed out good spots to take in the sweeping vista of the valley below and relayed stories of the Japanese lepidopterist who once lived within the colony.
What Pedro did not relay, and we did not think to ask, was that the Sierra Chincua colony had settled in much lower down on the mountainside than in years past. Based on our guidebook pre-reading, we were anticipating a 2 to 3 kilometer hike in to the colony along a more-or-less level ridgeline.
And indeed, the well-maintained hiking trail, which is different from the route taken by the horseback riders, had benches to rest on, lookouts, and explanatory signs in Spanish and English. Then this path ended and we began to descend on a rutted footpath through the firs that, as evidenced by the bits of orange wing scattered over the ground, had once been the monarchs' domain. (Note: there are horses available at the colony as well for those who hike in but would prefer not to make the steep hike out.)
Then, more suddenly than I could have anticipated even after such a distance, we came into a glen sliced with shafts of sunlight and aflame with butterflies. The firs were dense with resting monarchs, and the patches of blue sky above were sparked with orange. When a breeze blew through, flurries of butterflies rushed upward and then scattered.
Monarchs landed in my hair, on my children, on the purple flowers that grew where sunlight reached the forest floor. And the spectacle was not the whole of it: the quiet of the forest was filled it a steady papery whisper, the sound of millions of butterfly wings beating. It was, as I had hoped, absolutely magical.
That is, until my toddler began jabbing at butterflies with a stick.
One month later, in February, my sister came to Mexico and we set out again to see butterflies, this time taking the interstate toll-road and basing in Zitácuaro where we treated ourselves to a casita at the beautiful (albeit pricey) Rancho San Cayetano. Zitácuaro is a much bigger city than Angangueo, and rumor has it there are interesting things to see, but I confess that we spent most of our time reading magazines in the orange grove or poolside while my toddler spun out across San Cayetano's sweeping lawns.
In the evening, my sister squeezed lemons she'd foraged from the tree by our casita and made margaritas, and then we split up for dinners—leaving the kids to eat room service with whoever was on duty that night while the other two grownups ate in the restaurant (the only awkwardness here being that on my night to eat alone with my husband—a rare treat and Valentine's Day besides—the charismatic owner assigned himself and another traveler to our table for dinner).
Cerro Pelón
A day later than planned, we managed to drag ourselves away from Rancho San Cayetano to see some butterflies. This time, I knew to ask about the distance, the state of the trails, and the altitude gain—all of which promised to be more challenging than we'd seen at the more developed Sierra Chincua site. So I capitulated, somewhat, on the horses.
My son and I rode a diminutive mule that he christened "Speedy," my sister and the gear rode a shaggy, bridle-less pony, "Speedy-Also," and my husband led the way on foot, carrying the baby ahead of the dust churned up by Speedy and Speedy-Also's dragging hooves.
After an hour's ascent, we dismounted in a clearing dotted with mesquite and cow pies. Butterflies fluttered past, but a dozen meters down a livestock track, we came upon Cerro Pelón's colony. Here, in full sun, fir trees drooped under the weight—I'll write that again—under the weight of butterflies, and we had to drag our feet on the ground to avoid stepping on others.
As it turned out, it wasn't just the weather that had heated up since our first butterfly trip one month earlier: the monarchs were getting busy with the purpose of their long trip. Those that weren't mating mid-air were fluttering their stuff.
In sum, the population at Cerro Pelón was conspicuously larger and more concentrated than we'd seen at Sierra Chincua, but the exposed setting wasn't quite as pretty as the sun-dappled glen the latter colony has inhabited, nor was the trail as panoramic as Sierra Chinua's ridgeline hiking trail. Comparisons aside, the butterflies were magnificent both places, and well worth the effort to see for ourselves. Even my sister, who had been a little ambivalent about visiting a horde of bugs on her vacation, waxed poetic about the whole scene while I took pictures of butterflies perched on her, um, head.
Planning a visit
When to come: The butterflies are in residence in Mexico from December to March, which is the driest stretch of a long dry season in Central Mexico. If you are hoping to have the butterflies more or less to yourself—which is possible at either Sierra Chincua or Cerro Pelón—know that there are big bumps in tourist traffic during the holidays and on weekends.
What to bring: Be advised that at this altitude (reaching 3,000 meters at both sites) wintertime is actually quite cool in Mexico, particularly at night, so be sure to bring warm layers. Also, in terms of photographing the butterflies, you will want to be prepared to shoot at high shutter speeds, or to shoot video.
Arranging your trip: If you are coming to see butterflies, and the butterflies are worth coming to see, it is worthwhile to take the schedule a few days for it. Don't feel like you have to do one of the drive-by, one-day package trips from Mexico City or Morelia, although it is certainly possible to get a quick butterfly fix this way. Buses to Zitácuaro leave regularly from either city, where taxis or public mini-buses (combis) can take you where you want to go.
Alternatively, Rancho San Cayetano can arrange (for a price, of course) everything from transportation to Zitácuaro, to English-speaking guides to any of the sanctuaries that appeals to you (Cerro Pelón is the closest, but Sierra Chincua and El Rosario are not far either). Be advised that, inconveniently, this hotel accepts only cash or checks.
Security considerations: While petty crime is low in Mexico, transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) are operating in this region, as is the Mexican military. At time of writing, Michoacán is included in standing travel warnings issued by the U.S. Department of State. Travelers planning to visit Mexico should inform themselves about the situation.
More information:
• UNESCO Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve:
• Santuario Sierra Chincua:
• In Angangueo: Albergue Don Bruno (tel: 715-156-0026 address: Calle Morelos #92): Rates fluctuate (even between reserving and check-in). Expect to pay as much as MX$1000 (cash only) for a double room with a fireplace, breakfast included. Be sure to ask ahead when you want hot water. The garden is nice and so is the American breakfast served in a sunny dining room. You might also consider Plaza Don Gabino Hotel (tel: 715-156-0322 address: Calle Morelos #147), which gets a few good reviews (I personally did not visit this property). If you are visiting mid-week when there are likely to be a lot of vacancies, your best bet is to simply show up and look at a few of the (all underwhelming) hotels in person to decide.
• Rancho San Cayetano
• U.S. State Department information about travel to Mexico.
Molly Beer currently lives in Morelia, Mexico, and blogs about the culture and politics of family in Mexico at www.loveinmexico.wordpress.com. Her travel writing has appeared most recently Salon, Guernica, Glimpse, and Perceptive Travel. Read more of her work at www.mollybeer.blogspot.com.
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The Gathering 2013, a year-long celebration of all things Irish, will get going with a New Year's bang in December!
The Gathering will kick off in spectacular style at the New Year's Eve Festival in Dublin and will be celebrated through gatherings of the people and Ireland's major festivals during 2013.
After that it is over to you. It is in your hands. Be part of it!
The Gathering 2013 is not one single event. It's an exciting year-long celebration of Ireland, its people and all that is great about its connections, both at home and abroad. The Gathering invites anyone who has a link to Ireland or just a love of the country, to come to Ireland for a series of events throughout 2013.
What better way to get the year going than to celebrate in Ireland as the New Year is ushered in!
The main event of the New Year's Eve Dublin festival is the countdown concert at College Green, the only ticketed event of the festival. Revllers from home and abroad will gather with friends and family at College Green for the biggest and best New Year's Party.
But rewind to early evening, when the New Year's Eve celebrations will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a participative torchlit procession.
It's a great way for families to enjoy the exciting atmosphere of the city center in the dark, without being out too late!
Passing through Dublin's streets broad and narrow, the procession will feature a colorful street parade with floats, torch bearers, fire performers, stilt walkers and other stunning performances.
A little later (but not too late for the little revelers), Dublin's iconic St. Stephen's Green will play host to a magnificent fireworks display. This wonderful display in the heart of Georgian Dublin will transform the city skyline ahead of the New Year and will enthrall all the family.
The night is for the over-18s and, as it begins, fabulous 3D building projections will be switched on, illuminating the city's architecture for the New Year's Eve countdown. Aside from the main concert area nearby College Green, the city will play host to five festival zones -- Liffey Street, South King Street, Dame Court/Lane, East Essex Street and South William Street. In these areas, parties will animate the streets with lighting effects and entertainment such as bands, DJs and performance artists.
The festival continues on New Year's Day, and what better way to kick off the first day of 2013 than at the Big Brunch at Meeting House Square. The Big Brunch is a family friendly event featuring a traditional ceili, Artisan food market, a resolution booth, swing dancing and kids games.
So, whether you are young or old, native Dubliner or visitor, performer or spectator, New Year's Eve Dublin 2013 has something exciting for you.


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Evan Peters: Shirtless for 'Flaunt' Feature!
Evan Peters shows off his "MOM" tattoo on his left arm while going shirtless for a photo spread in Flaunt magazine's November 2012 issue.
Here is what the 25-year-old American Horror Story: Asylum actor had to share with the mag:
On filming the second season of the show: "I just pray. I pray that it [the remainder of the season] is not too hard to do. Just make it easy! [Sarah Paulson] and I get tortured a lot, so we're not that excited to come to work. We have to make it fun somehow. I mean, it's not all a nightmare."
On his idol Leonardo DiCaprio: "He's the strongest human being alive. Maybe that's why Leo can do it. It's hard work. It's too hard for me. It takes too much out of me to do. Maybe because he's been doing it for so many years, he can continue to do it because he has a grip on it. I just can't. It's not for me. I just don't like being sad all day. I don't like doing that. It's not fun."
On his "mom" tattoo: "[My mother] said, 'You can get a tattoo as long as it says 'MOM' and I was like, okay!"
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
UGLY: Likely Crop Insurance Guarantees for 2014Tweet
Have you looked at November 2014 soybean prices and December 2014 corn prices? Do they provide any profitability? Will they cover your breakeven costs of production? They are different from day to day because of trading activity, but look at their long term performance. Where have they been and has there been any volatility that might return? Probably, they are not going to move much unless there is a substantial crop threat that looms next year. In that case, how will they perform during the month of February when the spring crop insurance guarantees are established? What you see is what you get, and your crop insurance protection level will not protect a lot of money.
While we are more than three months away from establishing the spring insurance guarantees, Illinois farm management specialist Gary Schnitkey says farmers will have to bear more yield or revenue loss for the 2014 crops than in past years before any of the guarantees begin to make indemnity payments. In 2011 corn had a spring price of $6.01 and a harvest price of $6.32. In 2012, the spring price of $5.68 and the fall price was $7.80. In 2013, the spring price was $5.65 and the fall price was $4.39. At this point, the December futures price is about $4.50, which is substantially less than the guarantees of the past several years.
The same can be said for soybeans. In 2011, the spring price was $13.49 and the fall price was $12.14. In 2012, the spring price was $12.55 and the fall price of $15.39. And in 2013 the spring price and the fall price were equals at $12.87. Those are considerably higher than the $11.50 which is the current 2014 price. Like corn, the likely spring price for beans will be well under the guarantees of the past several years.
The critical point comes where the per acre revenue guarantee meets the cost of production, and in both corn and soybeans Schnitkey shows that farmers will have to suffer financial losses below their cost of production before any crop insurance indemnity payments will occur.
For corn,
consider a farm with a 190 bushel APH, protected with an 80% Revenue Protection policy and a $4.50 guarantee price. While that scenario does not begin to make any indemnity payment until losses drop below $684, that will be well below even modest input costs and cash rental rates. It compares to the 2013 acreage guarantee of $859.
For beans,
consider a farm with a 52 bushel APH, protected with an 80% Revenue Protection policy and the $11.50 current futures price. That is $478 per acre for your 2014 guarantee, and few farmers will see much protection at that level. With higher non-land and land costs, 2014 crop insurance will require farmers to shoulder a large part of the burden before there is a crop insurance payment. And Schnitkey says raising the coverage level to 85% will not do much to resolve the problem.
The farm management specialist said the current example of relative lower levels of protection show the weakness of the crop insurance program to be the sole safety net for agriculture. He said it works well when there are periods of high prices, and high guarantees, but when there is little or no financial assistance offered by crop insurance, such as 2014, it is important for Congress to establish a farm program with safety nets across years, not just individual years. Ironically, Schnitkey says 2014 will closer to the norm, than recent years with high revenues and high indemnity payments.
Lower commodity prices are pointing to lower spring and fall crop insurance guarantees for 2014 crops. Those are currently near $4.50 for corn and $11.50 for soybeans. While the spring guarantees are not set yet until next February, there is no reason for 2014 prices to be much different than they are now. Those prices would provide an acreage guarantee of $684 for corn and $478 for soybeans, based on an 80% Revenue Protection policy.
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- Like the frosting on the cupcake, or the tiara on the bride, a beautiful border is the finishing touch for a lovingly created afghan, whether knitted or crocheted. Borders can be elegant or whimsical, can match or contrast with the afghan, and can lift even the simplest afghan from ''ordinary'' into the ''very special'' category. If you usually depend upon fringe as an accent, you'll have fun experimenting with these 50 crochet borders by Jean Leinhauser. The borders can be worked with any weight of yarn that works well with the body of the afghan. For some designs, the number of colors used in a border also can be varied. General instructions are included for how to use the borders, work with stitch pattern multiples, and estimate yarn amounts.
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Many of the groups I am in give the following message when I try to look at the group page:
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They are groups that have been around for a long time, 2 examples are Godless Gamers and Atheist Musicians, among several more. Others appear to be working fine... any ideas? Using Firefox 8.0.
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I just noticed that myself too - I was wondering what was wrong.
There is some type of glitch. We have been trying to fix it, but may have missed a few. Please let us know.
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Have you tried contacting Ning help?
Also I found this discussion on Ning Creators group - Groups Suddenly Showing Up As "Awaiting Approval"? A lot of people are having this issue.
Just randomly clicking on a few. These are broken. And by random I mean the first 3 I tried.
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http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/evenheathenslovetheirpets is still down
the other two are now working.
Glad this was posted. I say this on several groups too. Glad it's being fixed!
I've sent a note about atheist news and the vegetarian group too.
Also Anarchist Atheists...
and Biological Sciences, and women...
and Childless and Godless, Ages 40 and Over, Green Party, Left Wing, Convert the women, Cinema...
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Not that I know of.
Is it possible to test for an ESL teaching cert but not take the courses? I'm just curious. I'd like to find out what standardized tests are used and if it's possible to try to study for the test in order to pass.
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Not that I know of.
For a certificate in TEFL (Teacher of English as a Foreign Language), a basic course on "How to teach English" for people going overseas, sign-up for an intensive four-day course, with a cost averaging around $1,000+. There are no tests; your fee buys you the certificate. Online courses are also available.Originally Posted by Nahualli
For a degree in TESL (Teacher of English as a Second Language), you have to apply to a university or college. Length ranges from 2 years to 4 years.
For certification in TESL, last time I checked, you need a) a university degree in Education, Linguistics or the Humanities, preferably English; b) a minimum of 800 hours of hands-on experience teaching various ESL (not EFL) courses with a reputable school/company for at least 1 year. You do not have to write a test to be certified, but there's a great deal of paperwork. Moreover, certification is based on the State or Province you teach in, so even if you're certified say, in New York, you'll probably have to apply for certification again if you want to teach in say, Montana or Canada or Europe.
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Where are you interested in getting certification? Some U.S. states, such as Texas, allow certified teachers, to take a state certification test for ESL without requiring any courses.
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