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Gary Solomon 04/07/1979
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Case Date: 04/07/1979
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Race: Caucasian
County: Greene
Location of Crime: Rural stripper pit near Jasonville, Indiana
Circumstances: Gary Solomon went missing on December 19, 1978. On April 4, 1979, his body was recovered from a stripper pit in rural Greene County. Through the investigation it was determined that the victim most likely suffered from gunshot wound(s).
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The mission of UMass Athletics & Recreation is to encourage all UMass students to discover and nurture the "total person" who enriches the world and brings honor to the university, now and throughout life. We encourage every student-athlete to be a champion in an environment where academic integrity, social responsibility, respect, and competitive excellence are highly valued.
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You guys realize this course was installed in Feb, right?What a bunch of spoiled brats......
All pads are complete and backfilled to include a nice smooth transition from dirt to tee!!
Tech people please help with photo link....not sure what's up.From my best guess they are 4' x 10'...didn't have a tape measure with me.Holes 5 & 7 are poured...holes 1 & 10 are formed....didn't have time to make it around to all the locations.


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Good customer service was uppermost in Charlie Stohlman's mind when he bought the Union Station at the corner of Virginia and Sycamore Streets in 1949.
Good customer service was uppermost in Charlie Stohlman's mind when he bought the Union Station at the corner of Virginia and Sycamore Streets in 1949. Full service was a way of life for Charlie and his friends who worked for him. The station was open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., thanks to the help of Dick Ray who worked there over 20 years, John Bates, Ken Mathews, Gene Newton and son Dave who worked there after school.
Daughter Bette Palmer remembers her Dad always working. He was gone to work when she got up to go to school and he was still at work when she went to bed. Her son Jeff has owned the station since June 1, 1982, but he got an early start at his grandfather's business by polishing hubcaps at the age of three.
"My Dad would give him money for polishing the hubcaps and he would buy candy next door at Panecaldo's," Bette remembered. His working days officially started at the station at age 16 and his grandfather retired a few years later. Back in the days when S&H Green Stamps were popular, customers were rewarded with these, along with suckers and punchboards, all things of the past.
Once he outgrew polishing hubcaps, Jeff was given a cardboard box and a screwdriver to take carburetors apart, just to keep him busy.
Charlie was born in Pennington, just like his father, near the Sutter Buttes December 19, 1918 and was a life-long resident of the area, working at many of the other service stations before he bought his own. In 1957, a new Union Station was built, the year Dave graduated from high school.
Two Palm trees were located where the tanks currently sit. Charlie and his wife Thelma (Hottle) had three children, Dave, Bette and Joyce.
"I remember the four guys at the station throwing a football around. They were always having a good time," Dave remembered.
Known for pulling a prank or two, Charlie and his employees took great delight in picking on Gridley Herald Publisher Charlie Burleson when his green Ford Coupe was parked on the corner, near the newspaper office, jacking it up on the back end and not getting caught. Many years later it was Burleson's son Bill who accidentally pulled a different sort of escapade which resulted in his name appearing in newspapers besides his own.
The most exciting story coming from this corner was in 1972 when Burleson famously yanked a gas tank out when the nozzle was in with fire spewing as he dragged it down Colusa Highway to get it out of town before it blew up. For the rest of this story, please pick up a 9/28/12 edition of The Gridley Herald.


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You remember all of Ron Paul's horrendous no votes where he refused to condemn China over Tibet, and he refused to offer sympathy to the victims of the Cyclone Nargis. Ron Paul's defenders on Digg were quick to defend Ron Paul by claiming that the resolution was meaningless and a waste of tax dollars, and that there was nothing in the constitution to support it. It's a pretty lame excuse, since Ron Paul is wasting just as much time/tax dollars by voting no than he would have wasted voting "yes."
So does "Doctor No" only vote "yes" when absolutely necessary? Apparently not. For all their talk of doing your own research and looking into Ron Paul's voting record, Paultards rarely practice as they preach. Nick Curran from Radar Online did some digging, and discovered that Ron Paul recently voted "yes" on all of the following bills:
• The University of Kansas football team for "winning the 2008 FedEx Orange Bowl and having the most successful year in program history"It looks like the Paultards may need to find another excuse to fall back on. Where in the constitution does it mention football?
• The New York Giants for "winning Super Bowl XLII and completing one of the most remarkable post-season runs in professional sports history"
• The Louisiana State University football team for winning the 2007 Bowl Championship Series national championship game
In other news, one of the posters on Ron Paul's official website writes the following:
Ron Paul wants to be the President of the United States and forsake the glamor and the power of the position to restore and protect the liberty of the individual. Who better for an endorsement than an NFL lineman??? How's this for a free market alternative to Secret Service Protection: Todd Wade, Val Venis (Sean Morley) and Kane (Glenn Jacobs) in badges and armor. When the "small guy" is billed as 6′3″ 260, thats enough meat to turn a riot into a book club.Stay classy, guys.


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Bieber -- with his shirt off and a chain around his neck -- is trying to deliver a message to his fans about his excitement over the new ability to post video on Instagram ... but can't get through 3 words without cracking up.
Now, we're no weed experts ... (ok, some of us are) ... but it seems like Bieber's next move was probably a munchie run.
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This is the web site for building, learning and playing with the history of Boats and Ships from about BC to 1089AD.
The build is well under way now and you can see stop motion films of the build at You Tube
I have been forced by circumstances to modify my own plans and will follow this new train of thought for a Bronze Age Boat for now while shelving my Roos Carr project.
We would like in our Bronze Age Living History reconstructions a quickly built boat to sell local produce to visiting trading ships or drop off a pilot or to carry messages but we want to travel faster in it than is possible in a coracle.
I will be making a simple sewn plank pirogue.
Sewn boats do not require large trunks. You can take, if necessary, just one plank from the centre of the trunk, You don't have to be able to sit in the trunk as in a dugout as you can combine more than one plank. Dugouts were common in the BA as we know but if you ain't got the trees which were likely to be scarce in Cornwall then you are stuck unless you build your boat from a kit of planks. So we have the means to knock up a utility boat of some sort both then and now. Different fastenings but much the same way a plywood pirogue was built by me in about three days.
Fortunately the type of authentic stitching and materials can still used so that building the new boat remains the learning experience it always has been.
I wouldn't be surprised if BA boat yards didn't knock out a few of this sort between large craft as they still make small dinghies sometimes in modern boatyards between orders for larger vessels.
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I'm trying to debug by Candy Crush is slow to load in the latest Firefox. It seems to go faster in Safe-Mode, so that's good. The next step, of course is disabling all add-ons. If I didn't know better, then I'd be asking why "Restart with add-ons disabled" isn't the same. For those of you that don't know, it is because that invokes Safe mode which also eases up on some other restrictions.
But that is something for another post. As I was re-instating my add-ons, I realized that while I care about my privacy, I don't know the best way to achieve that. I have at least 5 add-ons related to that. I know I'll keep NoScript, but which of the others do I also need? The Add-Ons website lists more than 1100 extensions to choose from. How is someone supposed to choose?


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Speak Out Against Copyright Holders Destroying True Property Rights
from the can-you-resell-your-stuff? dept
This is nonsensical for any number of reasons. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court is about to hear the latest such case, after ending up with a split court the last time around. The reason it was split was because Justice Kagan recused herself, due to being involved in the case prior to becoming a Justice. Her involvement? Penning the filing of the US government against first sale rights. So it's very possible that she'll continue to retain that viewpoint on the court and basically kill off your ability to resell any good manufactured outside the US without permission. This is scary stuff.
While the issue is before the court, it's still important to get people to speak out about this. A few public interest groups have put together a petition site called You've Been Owned: Don't Let Copyright Trolls Steal Our Property Rights! and Citizens for Ownership Rights. The goal is to get the Obama administration to actually recommend preserving first sale rights (contrary to its earlier position). And, failing that, get Congress to change the laws to fix this problem which will drive many American manufacturers to move overseas. This is, of course, part of the real problem: the language of the statute is awkward in a way that lets the court come to a completely nonsensical and contradictory result.
What's important to recognize is that, for all the talk by copyright maximalists to falsely claim that copyright is no different than real property, and to insist we must "defend property rights" for copyright, here's a true case of property rights being under attack -- and it's because of an overly aggressive use of copyright. The idea that you don't actually own what you bought is an anathema to true property rights. That companies may be able to use copyright law to block you from selling used goods is a massive encroachment on individuals' property rights. If all those copyright maximalists truly believed in property rights (rather than the truth: that they support a government granted monopoly privilege that benefits themselves) they, too, would support this effort against the demolition of first sale rights.


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He doesn't need a 12" door. I've done multiple turkey in multiple ovens with 8" doors . People don't tend to be very good with visualizing measurements.
I realise a low roofed brick oven (Pompeii/igloo style) is the best for Neapolitan pizzas, but I have a "contract" to build an oven that is only about 33.5 inches in diameter. The "client" wants a "small pizza oven like yours, but with a bigger door so I can fit a turkey in". The "contract" is a sort of social obligation - no wages involved. So I've sneaked in an extra 4 inches diameter (mine is 29.5 inches inside), while he wasn't looking, but the only way give him a 12 inch high entry arch and still keep close to the 0.63 ratio of dome to entry is to make the dome height around 19 inches. That's a high dome general purpose oven, not a low dome dedicated to pizza oven. The age old problem - people want a "pizza" oven, but then they promptly want it do everything. So, the question is, will an oven 19 inches high still make a decent pizza? The other alternative is to ignore the 0.63 dome to entry ratio, give him his 12 inch high door and bring the dome height down somewhat. Advice?Regards,Mick
They must have been very small birds.
Why not shoot for a 9"- 10" door and a 14" - 16" ceiling? An elliptical shape rather than spherical would get you closer to what the client wants too.
You would be surprised. Medium sized birds for sure. I don't keep records or anything, but pretty sure I've done close to a 20 pounder in there.


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WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A lack of clear-cut and secure land rights means people from post-conflict African countries are prevented from getting the most out of the land they rely upon for their survival.
Experts at the World Bank conference on Land and Poverty said on Wednesday that overlapping formal and informal laws and differing views about the value of land hamper their efforts at improving the situation.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for instance, less than 5 percent of the land is registered because the land registration system is so intricate.
"We have to change the way people perceive the land if we are going to develop our economies in Africa," said Francesca Marzatico, a European Union land governance expert in South Sudan. "It is difficult to have land reform if you understand the perception of land as a social, rather than economic good."
The Minister of Land of the DRC, Robert Mbwinga Bila, said that post-conflict countries such his own have had to deal on the one hand with people from villages whose relationship with the land is guided by long-established communal laws and on the other hand with government and development officials who want to install more modern land tenure systems.
The government of the DRC recently introduced a land reform process to secure investment and improve land across the country, but Mbwinga Bila said this has run into resistance from people who could not understand why they need to secure title for communal land. He also said his government was determined to implement the new land registration policy.
"We can't do things differently because there is resistance from local communities," he said. "The reforms that we are rightly undertaking will ensure that the interests of everyone are protected in the same way. There are no separate laws for the towns and for the villages. The law is for everyone," he said in an interview.
Speakers at the session on land tenure in post-conflict situations agreed on the need for such societies to have a recognisable system of land tenure laws. But there is not always agreement on land policies between donor countries and governments. If the donors push too hard, it can be difficult to persuade governments to take ownership, they said.
Ferrari Florence, an official at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, said donors and governments should collaborate to design programmes that benefit everyone, especially women.
"Development agencies provide legal and technical support in the drafting of laws to ensure they respect the rule of law and other human rights norms and are in accordance with international standards," she said.
However, imposing a one-size-fits-all system, especially in societies that are yet to stabilise, can also have its dangers.
In newly created South Sudan, for instance, a fresh outbreak of violence last year between followers of President Salva Kiir and those of his then-deputy Riek Machar has created additional problems for people working on a land registry for the country.
"Land is a factor for peace and development," said Marzatico. "Land is also a trigger for conflicts. So if we don't build structures now despite the crisis, we will move back to square one when this ongoing violence is resolved."
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HMV, the 92-year-old U.K. music chain, today went into administration, the latest high street retailer to fall victim to the consumer shift towards online shopping.
The demise of HMV comes a week after British camera retailer Jessops and Virgin France–France's second-largest entertainment chain–both filed for bankruptcy, highlighting the extreme challenges facing traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers as they compete with online-only brands like Amazon.
The U.K. high street has had an especially difficult year, during which household brands including JJB Sports, Comet and Game Group have all entered administration.
HMV, which opened its first store in 1921, tried to delay the inevitable by selling off its its book store Waterstones for £53 million and its Hammersmith Apollo music venue for £32 million. But it said Monday that it was unable to continue trading without breaching banking agreements.


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It had been hell, six weeks of eating bad curry. We had tried good restaurants, cheap restaurants, roadside stalls and street markets and had finally come to the grim conclusion that one simply cannot get a good bite to eat in India. This is not true of course; you must be able to eat something decent somewhere in that enormous country, but after 35 days of eating over-spiced gunk we were fed up.
In New Delhi, we were so desperate for food we even ate at a McDonalds. Keep in mind this is a country where cows are considered holy and nobody eats beef. I suspect the burgers were made of crushed bits scraped off a very emaciated and long-dead chicken, mixed with damp cardboard and held together with spit. We were at our wit's end for a decent meal when my wife had an inspiration; why not lunch at the Imperial Hotel?
"A night at the Imperial Hotel," I responded after checking their room rates and hanging up the phone in the little room we had rented in a modest B&B, "works out to cost approximately what it would take the average wage earner in India over two years to save, provided that person never ate so much as a fig during that time period."
"Yes," she replied, "it's very expensive, which is why I suspect the food is rather good. Besides, I'm paying." The economics of her argument won me over. We called a cab.
We stopped at the locked gates of the great hotel and honked. There had been a spate of explosions in and around Mumbai that week--nothing close to the capital city but enough to have a squadron of mustachioed Sikh guards at the Imperial go through our taxi with a microscope and shove a mirror attached to a long stick underneath the car looking for bombs. The driver pulled up right to the entrance and another battalion of Sikh guards opened the front doors and ushered us into the vast chandeliered lobby.
The dining room menu cost more than our plane tickets home. The lounge served up a fine lunch, but a meal for three was more than our expenses for the month.
We settled on the café, which cost only slightly more than our room for the week. Cool marble floors vied with aquamarine-tiled pillars and sparkling brass fittings between booths. We were shown to a corner table draped in fine linen and surrounded by wicker chairs covered with plump white cushions. Servers were attired in blood red military regalia like Mounties on parade. The air conditioning was set on stun.
We selected the buffet rather than go a la carte. For a mere $30 per person (U.S. dollars) we were invited to sample everything we could see on the buffet table.
I started with the beef bourguignon medallions sautéed in a rich wine sauce as an appetizer, leaving room for the lobster tail in butter as my entrée, along with a tossed green salad saturated with Gorgonzola cheese and slices of fresh (not canned) pears. This left room for a nice crème brulee as my initial dessert, and a cup of fresh ground Costa Rican coffee, freshly made from hand picked shade-side beans, no doubt.
My son and I strolled down to the men's room, where a white-gloved attendant opened the door. Slightly warm towelettes adorned wicker baskets next to the white marble sinks. Polished brass handles decorated the doors of each stall, and soft music wafted through the air along with a modest hint of perfume. There was three-ply tissue in each stall.
"Dad, I really like this place," said my son, as I tipped the attendant a few rupees on our way out. "Say, can we come back here for dinner?"


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European Secure Cloud Label (ESCloud Label)
BSI has developed a label for Cloud Security - the ESCloud Label - together with ANSSI (L'Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'information). In the long-term, fruitful cooperation between the two authorities, a great mutual trust grew and the perception of the conformity in the field of cybersecurity. This lead to the creation ot the ESCloud Label.
Both BSI and ANSSI work on standards for information security in cloud computing and their verification. The catalogue C5 (Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalogue) of BSI can already be used and ANSSI is currently establishing its own certification according to its standard "SecNumCloud". Even though both approaches and procedures are very different, there is great consistency in the targeted security level.
Cloud service providers offer their services internationally in several markets. Therefore, national approaches for certification and assurance are of limited use to them. National cyber security authorities can usualy only set national standards, even if other countries use them too. The ESCloud Label provides a solution to this divergence. With this, the national safety certificates are combined under one roof and made comparable, so that national certificates are also of benefit in international markets.
The ESCloud Label stands for the security level targeted by BSI and ANSSI and documents its fulfillment. The requirements for information security are defined in the Core Principles.
In order to obtain the ESCloud Label, a security certificate the label is based on must be hold by the applicant whereby boundary conditions may still have to be adhered to. In this case a cloud service provider can apply for the label free of charge and thus also appear on the markets in the respective other country and across Europe.
BSI and ANSSI have set up the "ESCloud Working Group" for the organization, development and governance of the label by signing a Memorandum of Understanding. The working group has been designed to include other national cyber security agencies as members to promote the label's base in Europe.
- European Secure Cloud (ESCloud) - Memorandum of Understanding (PDF, 1MB, File is accessible)
- European Secure Cloud (ESCloud) - Annex B (PDF, 590KB, File is accessible)


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- John Trippe
April 2005
Where do you live? study art?
I live in Sapporo a city of about 1.5 million on the northern island of Hokkaido in Japan. I studied art at BISEN Art School in Sapporo.
Artist you are most excited about right now?
Hmm, hard to say. I tend to be more focused on movies and music. Currently I'm really exited about old Japanese YAKUZA films. They have really inspired me a lot in my work.
Your favorite city in the US and why?
Seattle because I can really relax there. I grew up in small town, so I always feel nervous when I visit a big city like Tokyo. Seattle has a good balance between city and nature. I almost feel like I'm home in Sapporo. Also Seattle is a big rock music city with good sushi and kind people.
What do the animals in your work mean to you? Why do you include
them in most of the work?
I truly love animals and all creatures. They are beautiful and amazing; genius design of shapes. I like the idea of hanging out with them in my painting. It's my dream. I've always enjoyed drawing animals since I was a little girl. One drawing I made when I was 4, had a lion eating a zebra with a vulture nearby. I guess I understood the ways of nature even then and just have the desire to draw animals in my blood. Also, I think our life is part of natural world even though we live in metropolitan areas. Nature is truly all around us. Because of this I like to draw modern girls with wild animals. We may not actually live together in quite the same way, but we can't live without nature even when we are dancing at the club.
Describe your normal day is like - (what is your FUTU schedule)?
I wake up at 8 am, have simple breakfast. Then I start painting until lunch at noon. Afterward I watch a silly soap opera and start painting again from about 1 to 7 pm. I eat dinner, take bath and relax, and then paint some more from about 11 pm to 2 am. In all I spend about 12 hours a day painting.
What are some of your favorite things to do? Hobbies?
I love to listen to music, watch movies, make crafty things like T-shirts, pins and accessories. I also like to watch baseball.
Describe your painting studio (where do you paint)
My bedroom is my studio.
what bands do you LOVE right now?
In the US - New Fangs In Japan - Crazy Ken Band
Are you a relaxed person?
Sometimes, yes.
What do you think of the world we live in?
There are so many natural disasters. We have earthquakes every day here in Japan. We'll sink soon!
Tell us something about yourself that people usually think is
Many people ask me where I get my ideas for paintings from, but I don't have a good answer for it.
How much time do you spend on the internet each day?
Just a few minutes. I'm not a big computer fan.
how long does it take you to make average size painting?
About 35 - 40 hours, maybe.
do you have pets? what are their names?
No, I don't have any pets.
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Peoria got another stellar outing from LHP Kyler Burke last night as he went 6 innings giving up 2 hits and allowing no earned runs. He recorded his first win of the season dropping his ERA to 2.31. The 25-year-old has enjoyed success thus far as a pitcher dating back to last year at Boise where he pitched out of the bullpen. He ended the season with a 2.86 ERA in 44 innings pitched including one save while striking out just over one batter per inning.
So what makes Kyler Burke so interesting? Well we need to get in the time machine and go back a few years to 2007 when Michael Barrett was on the wrong side of Carlos Zambrano's fists. Shortly after that memorable June day the Cubs traded Barrett to the Padres for two players. Most of us remember or are trying to forget that we received catcher Rob Bowen, but many don't recall the centerpiece in the deal was a 19-year-old OF who was drafted 35th overall in just the previous years draft. That player was Kyler Burke and the Cubs were very happy to acquire the talented outfielder. Burke's next few seasons were plagued by drastic inconsistency with the highlight coming in 2009 when he was named the Cubs Minor League Player of the Year. He hit .303 with 15 HR, and 89 RBI's in Peoria. The next year however was when things took a turn for the worse, while in Daytona Burke hit only .212 with 131 strikeouts in 135 games. The following March the Cubs and Burke, who had pitched in high school, decided it was time for a change and with that Kyler Burke began his new career as a pitcher.
The Cubs have to be happy with his progress thus far, as he is doing quite well in only his second year as a pitcher. Burke recently has moved from the pen to the starting rotation for Peoria with pretty good results. Where will Kyler Burke go from here we don't know, but with a premium on quality left-handed arms out of the bullpen it is hard to think he won't make it to the show as a big league pitcher sometime down the road. As long as it seems Kyler Burke's story has been, it really has just begun. The best of luck to him on his continued development and we hope to see him at Wrigley somtime in the future.
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Cook family donates funds for new tennis center
Liberty Athletics has announced that longtime supporters Sherwin and Lora Cook have provided the lead gift for the Cook Tennis Center, soon to be the new operations center for its men's and women's tennis programs.
The facility will be constructed adjacent to the program's 12 new championship tennis courts located on Liberty's Campus North. The 2,500-square foot building will house two locker rooms, training and laundry rooms, a stringing room, four offices for coaches, a kitchen area, team room and a balcony that will overlook the tennis courts.
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johnson city, Tenn. (April 17, 2009) - Just like it has the past 34 straight Atlantic Sun Conference matches the No. 57-ranked ETSU men's tennis team rolled past league rival Campbell 4-1, Friday during semifinal play of the 2009 A-Sun Men's Tennis Championships at the Buddy Hartsell Tennis Center in Johnson City, Tenn.
With the win the top-seeded Bucs will now face the winner of second-seeded Stetson or Belmont Saturday at approximately 1:00 p.m. The winner of that championship battle automatically earns the league's bid into the 2009 NCAA tournament championship field.
The two-time defending champion Buccaneers had a number of strong performances on the day. As play opened ETSU rolled out to a quick 1-0 lead after sophomores Charles Bottoni (Bois Guillaime, France) and Grega Teraz (Mojstrana, Slovenia) made quick work of Jeroen Kuppens and Larbi Lamzouri, 8-5, while teammates Daniel Isaza (Medellin, Columbia) and Robin Akser (Ornskoldsvik, Sweden) crushed Beto Mondini and Loukas Wallaart 8-2, firing a number of set winners on its way to one of the quickest ETSU doubles wins of the season.
With the early one-point advantage heading into singles play, most eyes were turned on Court One as senior Enrique Olivares (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela) battled fellow four-time All A-Sun member Davy Sum. The two-time A-Sun Player of the Year and Buc captain rolled past Sum early taking the first-set 6-2. After Sum tied to the match at 3-3 early in the second frame the No. 13-ranked Olilvares took over, blasting a number of aces and baseline winners, taking the match and set at 6-3.
ETSU followed that performance up as senior Alex Ahlgren (Tyerso, Sweden) dominated his play against Jeroen Kuppens in No. 6 singles 6-1, 6-1, extending the Buc lead to 3-0.
Needing only one more match win for a chance to play for its third straight A-Sun title, the league's four-time regular season champs looked to No. 4 singles player and Daniel Isaza. After multiple long rallies to open up the match the second-team All A-Sun member grabbed hold on the matches momentum breezing past Beto Mondini in straight sets 6-3, 6-1.
Attached above are the final scores between ETSU and Campbell, in addition to quotes by head ETSU coach Yaser Zaatini. For more tournament information and coverage please visit the Atlantic Sun Conference website at www.atlanticsun.org.
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Upper West Side, New York City Travel Guide
Upper West Side Summary
- Runs along the west side of iconic, 843-acre Central Park
- Beautiful sunsets, biking, and jogging at Riverside Park
- Popular family museums -- the American Museum of Natural History and the Children's Museum of Manhattan
- Ample subway transportation
- High-quality yet casual dining
- Limited nightlife and relatively far from downtown nightlife scene
- Relatively far from New York's world-class shopping
- Stroller traffic jams
What It's Like
Safe, residential, professional, and full of families, the Upper West Side is sandwiched between Manhattan's Central Park and Riverside Park, running from West 59th Street up to West 110th Street. Beautiful low-rise brownstones blend with tall, swanky apartment buildings on the numbered streets that branch off Columbus Avenue, Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway, the area's major thoroughfares. Kid-friendly museums like the Children's Museum of Manhattan, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Hayden Planetarium make this a prime location for families looking to get outside the tourist crowds in Times Square.
Though certainly affluent, the Upper West Side is a bit humbler than the downtown neighborhoods -- think Seinfeld, not Sex and the City. Like anywhere in New York, great restaurants are easy to find. But velvet-roped nightclubs, fashion boutiques, and art galleries are replaced by sports bars, doggie apparel shops, and the Folk Art Museum.
Where to Stay
Hotels in the Upper West Side target a balance of families, couples, and business travelers -- basically anyone looking for a quiet alternative to the tourist traps in Times Square. But being a less popular destination also means that there are few hotels to choose from. Classy options includes the Lucerne, which offers tasteful decor and top-notch service. For families, the Beacon provides large, kitchenette-outfitted rooms for a reasonable price. For a small-scale boutique-hotel experience, check out On the Ave.
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Hidden Gem Hotels on the Upper West Side
It might seem impossible for a great hotel to stay under the radar in New York City, where everything new and noteworthy gets hyped to death within, well, a New York minute. But the residential Upper West Side is often overlooked by tourists. It's a great destination for visitors who want to experience New York as the locals do, and it's home to a a few hotel gems that deserve more recognition than they get.


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I'm not quite finished yet.
The thesis: it will be finished when it is finished, I think. It doesn't help matters that there is another version of the Gordon/Caird Musical in the works. A good friend of mine has a copy of a script-in progress but since it would not be fair to analyse something that hasn't even been written out yet, I am refraining from pestering her for a peek.
The thesis hit a set back this summer when I needed to rearrange several chapters which involved extensive revisions. These are ongoing, so I will probably still be only an intermittent blogger for now. The other challenge is that I am returning to the libraries to do more research.
I would like to thank everyone for their very lovely emails sent during my absence. I cannot possibly get caught up on everything, but I will try to find my way through them and all of the bizarre junk mail that has grown like a primordial jungle in my inbox. Half of the emails are in languages I do not understand and many are not even in the Latin alphabet. One addresses me as "dear sir" and others reference anatomy which is not owned by me, and several claim to be from extremely rich but imperiled Arabs- which is a scam I find to be in very bad taste.
SO, a very quick round-up for Bronte news!
Cranford is great, I guess? And I suppose Jane Eyre adaptations are generally dreary, but otherwise, I pish at dismissing the story as being about tight breeches and corsets (although, I still have to shake my head at our last BBC series. The DVD case in particular... 'heaving bodices?' *sigh*). I haven't seen Cranford because I still don't have a television! (Yes, I haven't watched television- outside of youtube and DVD sets) in... 6 years now). I also still despise Mrs. Gaskell for being so very cruel to Charlotte's family after her death. (I am joking. She was cruel, though). Some friends and I tried to read 'North and South' but gave up from boredom or frustration. But adaptations are a different thing from novels, as we know! So, the show's probably alright. And knowing how everyone loves to cry that THIS, THIS is finally what a REAL adaptation of a REAL novel is... It's probably... just like the rest?
The writer of the article gets a tip of the hat from me for the use of the word "huzzah."
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The companies will compete for task orders to provide services for testing, scientific, engineering, logistics, administrative, purchasing and ancillary support.
The seven companies are:
CGI's win came through Oberon Associates, which was acquired by Stanley Associates, which in turn was acquired by CGI.
The services under the contract will include operation and maintenance of test tools, labs, networks, infrastructure and administration.
Each company is guaranteed $100,000. The contract has a one-year base and four one-year options. There is a phase-in period from July 30 to Oct. 28. The first year of the contract then begins on Oct. 29.
Work will take place at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and Indian Head and Forte Meade, Md.
DISA received seven proposals for the contract.
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MIDDLEBURY — On Friday it became official: 2012 is the best season for the Middlebury Union High School boys' soccer program since the 1970s.
And after the top-seeded Tigers' 3-0 win over No. 9 St. Johnsbury in a Division I quarterfinal, the program is two victories — granted in games that no one in Chittenden County will expect the 14-1 Tigers to win — away from the school's first soccer title.


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Helio Castroneves, IndyCar driver and man with some magic feet has told the Los Angeles Times that he is considering making the big move to NASCAR. Castroneves is a two-time Indy 500 winner and regarded as one of the more popular, and well known, IndyCar drivers. If Castroneves does make the move, he will join the likes of Sam Hornish, Dario Franchitti and Juan Pablo Montoya, all who've moved from open-wheel racing to stock car racing and tried to get people to believe they were hitting that. Wait, just the first part.
It wouldn't be too big of a jump as Castroneves' Team Penske also has three cars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup, but then again, Castroneves' contract with Penske is up at the end of this season. Whether its for glory or personal curiosity, Castroneves leaving IndyCar could harm open-wheel motorsport. Aside from Danica Patrick, Castroneves is one of the more popular drivers. Nothing has been set in stone, but Castroneves is definitely considering the move. [ESPN] (Image via Getty)


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Holiday Candy Recipe Contest
1 Comment | Written on December 9, 2012 at 5:00 am , by Kristina Vanni
Weekly Recipe Contest Theme – "Holiday Candy!"
Submit your favorite holiday drink recipe from December 9th through December 15th 2012. Click HERE to enter your best recipes today!
Keep reading to find out how you can win up to $2000!
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1) Editor's Choice – $250 weekly prize, $2000 Grand Prize
All entries will be judged by a qualified panel and one winner will be announced each week. At the end of the contest, a Grand Prize winner will be awarded from among the weekly winners.
In addition to the $250 prize, the winners will also be featured right here on "The Daily Dish" and we will show off the photo as the banner on the Better Recipes Facebook page. (Hey bloggers, winning this contest is a great way to show off your skills and promote your site!)
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-In this new round of weekly contests, individuals can win more than once! In previous contests, once you were named an Editor's Choice winner or Reader's Choice winner you had to wait until the end of the contest to enter and win again. Not anymore! Now you can win up to five prizes throughout the Contest Period. How cool is that? Even if you win, keep those recipes coming in!
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Bamboo slip is a writing material that was initially used in ancient times in China, from the Zhou Dynasty and Warring States Period to the Wei and the Jin Dynasties. It was used most widely in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. By about the 4th century, paper was already used extensively and replaced Bamboo slip as the primary writing material. To form a bamboo slip, an article is written with a brush on several long, narrow, pared slices of bamboo. Only one line of words is written on each slice. The slices are then tied together to form what is called the "bamboo slip." This book form was typically used for writing essays. Some creative artists paint on the bamboo slips to form a new art form- bamboo screen, which is well-known for its high artistic and decorative value. These four bamboo screen are painted with noble and elegant plum blossom, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum. In Chinese culture, these four plants are the symbols of noble qualities, so the Chinese love choosing them as the themes of literature and art. If you are a big fan of Chinese culture, and then surely you will have great interests in the bamboo screens. Bamboo screen may be an exquisite decoration to present your house or office in a unique and classy look. And it can be a precious present to give your friend, and he /she will get a big surprise.
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London: Beatles legend Paul McCartney has finally achieved his dream of appearing in his favourite comic book nearly 50 years after he had declared it as his lifetime ambition.
The 70-year-old has been a lifelong fan of children`s comic The Dandy, and in a 1963 interview with magazine NME, McCartney stated his personal ambition was to "have my picture in The Dandy".
Bosses of the publication recently announced the upcoming December edition would be the last ever print installment of The Dandy before it moves online and after hearing the news, McCartney wrote to them to ask a favour.
"The Dandy was a favourite comic of mine when growing up in Liverpool and each week I would look forward to the exploits of Desperate Dan and his other comic book colleagues. I feel a little sadness that I see its final issue is appearing in December.
"In 1963, in the NME, when asked what my personal ambition was, I replied - to have my picture in The Dandy! I hope it`s not too late!" McCartney said.
The Dandy`s editors granted his wish and McCartney appears in a comic strip along with his favourite character Desperate Dan.
"When the decision was taken to stop printing The Dandy and take it online earlier this year, it really was a case of now or never. Sir Paul wrote a lovely letter to us, wishing The Dandy well and hoping it wasn`t too late to make an appearance. How could we refuse," said the comic`s print editor Craig Graham.


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Uterine prolapse occurs when the womb (uterus) drops down and presses into the vaginal area.
Alternative Names
Pelvic relaxation - uterine prolapse; Pelvic floor hernia; Prolapsed uterus
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Muscles, ligaments, and other structures hold the uterus in the pelvis. If these tissues are weak or stretched, the uterus drops into the vaginal canal. This is called prolapse.
This condition is more common in women who have had one or more vaginal births.
Other things that can cause or lead to uterine prolapse include:
- Normal aging
- Lack of estrogen after menopause
- Conditions that put pressure on the pelvic muscles, such as chronic cough and obesity
- Pelvic tumor (rare)
Repeated straining to have a bowel movement due to long-term constipation can make the problem worse.
- Pressure or heaviness in the pelvis or vagina
- Problems with sexual intercourse
- Leaking urine or sudden urge to empty the bladder
- Low backache
- Uterus and cervix that bulge into the vaginal opening
- Repeated bladder infections
- Vaginal bleeding
- Increased vaginal discharge
Symptoms may be worse when you stand or sit for a long time. Exercise or lifting may also make symptoms worse.
Signs and tests
Your health care provider will do a pelvic exam. You will be asked to bear down as if you are trying to push out a baby. This shows how far your uterus has dropped.
- Uterine prolapse is mild when the
cervixdrops into the lower part of the vagina.
- Uterine prolapse is moderate when thecervix drops out of the vaginal opening.
Other things the pelvic exam may show are:
- The bladder and front wall of the vagina are bulging into the vagina (
- The rectum and back wall of the vagina (rectocele) are bulging into the vagina.
- The urethra and bladder are lower in the pelvis than usual.
You do not need treatment unless you are bothered by the symptoms.
Many women will get treatment by the time the uterus drops to the opening of the vagina.
The following can help you control your symptoms:
- Lose weight if you are obese.
- Avoid heavy lifting or straining.
- Get treated for a chronic cough. If you cough is due to smoking, try to quit.
Your doctor may recommend placing a rubber or plastic donut-shaped device, into the vagina.This is called a pessary. This device holds the uterus in place.
The pessary may be used for short-term or long-term. The device is fitted for your vagina. Some pessaries are similar to a diaphragm used for birth control.
Pessaries must be cleaned regularly. Sometimes they need to be cleaned by the doctor or nurse. Many women can be taught how to insert, clean, and remove a pessary.
Side effects of pessaries include:
- Foul smelling discharge from the vagina
- Irritation of the lining of the vagina
- Ulcers in the vagina
- Problems with normal sexual intercourse
Surgery should not be done until the prolapse symptoms are worse than the risks of having surgery. The type of surgery will depend on:
- The severity of the prolapse
- The woman's plans for future pregnancies
- The woman's age, health, and other medical problems
- The woman's desire to retain vaginal function
There are some surgical procedures that can be done without removing the uterus, such as a sacrospinous fixation. This procedure involves using nearby ligaments to support the uterus. Other procedures are also available.
Often, a
Expectations (prognosis)
Most women with mild uterine prolapse do not have symptoms that require treatment. .
Vaginal pessaries can be effective for many women with uterine prolapse.
Surgery often provides very good results. However, some women may need to have the treatment again in the future.
Ulceration and infection of the cervix and vaginal walls may occur in severe cases of uterine prolapse.
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of uterine prolapse.
Tightening the pelvic floor muscles using
Estrogen therapy after menopause may help with vaginal muscle tone.
Lentz GM. Anatomic defects of the abdominal wall and pelvic floor: abdominal and inguinal hernias, cystocele, urethrocele, enterocele, rectocele, uterine and vaginal prolapse, and rectal incontinence: diagnosis and management. In: Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, Katz VL, eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap 20.
Winters JC, Togamai JM, Chermansky CJ. Vaginal and Abdominal Reconstructive Surgery for Pelvic Organ Prolapse. In: Wein AJ, ed. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 10th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 72.
Atnip SD. Pessary use and management for pelvic organ prolapse. Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am. 2009 Sep;36(3):541-63.
Young SB. Vaginal surgery for pelvic organ prolapse. Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am. 2009 Sep;36(3):565-84.
McDermott CD, Hale DS. Abdominal, laparoscopic, and robotic surgery for pelvic organ prolapse. Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am. 2009 Sep;36(3):585-614.
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Susan Storck, MD, FACOG, Chief, Eastside Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Bellevue, Washington; Clinical Teaching Faculty, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Bethanne Black, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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Officials with Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz's administration say they won't immediately seek to recoup a $300,000 taxpayer-funded loan granted to a Pikesville family business that was raided this week in a federal cigarette-smuggling case.
Health-Way Pharmacy was allegedly used to aid a black-market cigarette trade and the illegal sale of foreign drugs, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday. Its owners received the loan in 2010 from a county fund meant to revitalize downtown Pikesville. But the county is now "in a holding pattern" because no members of the family have been proven guilty, said Don Mohler, Kamenetz's chief of staff.
"We have to let the legal process play out," Mohler said Thursday. "An indictment is not a conviction. Depending on the outcome of the trial, we'll evaluate all of our options."
But State Sen. Jim Brochin, who has been critical of government loans to business, said the case shows the county's loan program needs more oversight.
"Besides being illegal and immoral, to add insult to injury, now it's on the back of the taxpayer," Brochin said of the alleged trafficking operation. "This can't go on."
Eleven people in the Baltimore area and in New York were indicted in the case. Federal investigators also allege that pharmacy owner Salim Yusufov illegally sold prescription drugs from Germany and Eastern Europe that are not approved by the FDA for distribution in the United States.
Prosecutors say the group trafficked more than $6.6 million in contraband cigarettes over the past few years, buying them in Maryland and then re-selling them in New York, where tobacco taxes are higher. Some of the defendants allegedly laundered money through banks in Cyprus, Latvia and Estonia, and the banks returned the money disguised as payments for medical supplies or equipment.
The cigarettes were stored at another family business, the Europe Restaurant in Baltimore, investigators allege.
In 2010, the county granted Health-Way a "conditional loan," a financing tool that has been criticized by some elected officials. With such loans, businesses don't need to pay the money back if they meet certain goals, such as job creation. So far, the company has not been legally obligated to pay back any of the money.
The loan was meant to help demolish vacant properties at the corner of Reisterstown Road and Sudbrook Lane to make way for a 10,000-square-foot retail and office center anchored by the pharmacy. Health-Way was once located at a nearby strip mall but had to move after Walgreens bought that property.
Under the terms of the loan, the owner had to invest $1 million in the property, county officials said. Also, the building must be 75 percent leased by March 2014.
"The owner has made the required $1 million investment," county spokeswoman Fronda Cohen said Thursday in an email. "We do not know the current percent of the building that is leased. That information is not due to the county until March 2014."
According to a Baltimore Sun review of county records earlier this year, the county has granted nearly $15 million in loans to businesses and organizations over the past five years — and has forgiven or has offered to forgive about $4 million.
Brochin, a Towson Democrat, said the County Council should be required to vote on loans granted to businesses from county funds.
Jessica Normington, executive director of the Pikesville Chamber of Commerce, said the loan program is an invaluable asset to local business owners.
"I hope it doesn't deter the county from continuing to offer them," she said of the Health-Way allegations. "It's a huge benefit to the small-business owners who might not be able to afford the renovations they want to do, but with the help of the county, they can."
County Councilwoman Vicki Almond, a Reisterstown Democrat whose district includes Pikesville, said the county should try to recoup its money from the loan, but should wait until the criminal legal process unfolds.
"I think we have to wait and see where this case is going to go," she said.
The pharmacy is located in an area county officials have targeted for redevelopment, and the public financing was meant to bolster Pikesville's main street. Almond said the case — which she called "really quite sad" — won't dampen interest in the area.
"There's a lot of energy, there's a lot of interest" in downtown Pikesville, she said. "So I am thinking that interest is going to continue."
The allegations have sparked worry among Pikesville business and community members about the future of the property on Reisterstown Road.
"If this pharmacy's not there, we'll work very hard to attract another pharmacy or another viable business," Mohler said. "This is disappointing, but I have every expectation that we'll continue to redevelop that area."
The pharmacy appeared to be open Thursday, with lights on and cars going in and out of the parking lot, Normington said. Marcia Murphy, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office, said it will be up to state regulators to decide whether the pharmacy keeps its license to operate.
"That's not a determination that would be made by federal authorities," Murphy said.


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8 comments:
- iano1 said...
Is there any way you could re-up An Emotional Fish-Live Bait. Please!!! Been looking for this for some time.
- March 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM
- DeadBilly said...
Sorry for the delay. I meant to put it up for you last week, but it must have slipped through the cracks. It's up now. http://pileofvinyl.blogspot.com/2012/03/post-317.html
- March 23, 2012 at 2:15 PM
- iano1 said...
You little daisy you! Do you have celebration? Another live ep of there's? Do you mind if I post it too? A few people looking for it. Naturally I would say with thanks from deadbilly
- March 24, 2012 at 3:03 AM
- DeadBilly said...
I don't have Celebration. The only other AEF I have (aside from the first 2 albums, and Live Bait) is the Celebrate single, which is the same as the one you posted, except that mine also has an extended version of "Celebrate" as a fifth track.
Oh, and if you want to post Live Bait, that's cool. Sharing is what we're here for.
- March 24, 2012 at 10:36 AM
- iano1 said...
You're a gentleman!!
- March 24, 2012 at 3:11 PM
- iano1 said...
I have sloper if you want it?
- March 24, 2012 at 4:09 PM
- DeadBilly said...
I'd love to give Sloper a listen.
Any chance you have the first Hothouse Flowers 12" single ("Love Don't Work This Way") that came out on Mother Records? I've got a copy of the 7", but have never found the longer version.
- March 27, 2012 at 1:18 PM
- iano1 said...
I'll post is soon. I'll let you know.
Regarding THE HOTHOUSE FLOWERS. I have Don't Go, I Can See Clearly Now, Isn't It Amazing and You Can Love Me Now. In answer to to your question, the answer is NO!!! However, if you want any of the others, let me know.
- March 28, 2012 at 8:45 AM


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Just because a lot of illogical things have happened in the first four weeks does not mean that trend will continue forever.
There is certainly a perfect storm brewing for a big game at Carolina. The Seahawks ultra conservative gameplan has backfired in games 3 and 4. Too many of Wilson's throws are on 3rd down. That is not protecting your QB. By going with a run-run-pass strategy, they are not allowing Wilson to easily establish a rhythm. Pete is not stupid, and I think by now he has probably recognized this problem and is making changes to the gameplan.
Meanwhile, this is a rare east coast game that doesn't start at 10am. Carolina has a terrible defense that runs the kind of porous zone defense that will give you flashbacks to the Seahawks zone coverages in 2009. Their pass rush is ordinary. The Seahawks have played four good defenses in the first four games. This defense is probably the worst they will face all season.
I see a good game for Wilson, with a very high completion rate, and probably over 200 yards passing. I think Newton and Smith will score some points, and force the Seahawks into a faster paced game, which is generally where Wilson shines the brightest.