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ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Jeff Cole broke a 13-13 tie with 1:44 left in the fourth period for the deciding score as the No. 13 nationally ranked Princeton University Tigers survived a historic scare from MIT to take the first game of the 2008 Eastern Championship 15-13.
MIT, which was seeking to become the first No. 8 seed to knock off a No. 1 seed in the modern era (199-present) of the Eastern Championship, held a 7-6 lead at halftime and was in front 12-11 with 5:12 left in the fourth period, but could not hold on for the victory as the Tigers rallied for the win.
The game opened with a scoring spree in the first period as MIT's Mike Smith-Bronstein split the Tigers' defense for a score 2:52 into the game. Princeton responded with a score by Brendan Colgan at 5:49, MIT countered on a goal by John Preis at 5:25, the Tigers fired back with a marker by Mark Zalewski at 4:33 and Preis struck again at 2:48 to put the Engineers ahead 3-2.
Princeton closed out the period with back-to-back tallies by David de L'Arbre and Eric Vreeland at the 2:16 and one second marks, respectively, to give the Tigers a 4-3 lead after eight minutes of play. The margin stayed only a goal thanks to the arms of MIT goalie Columbus Leonard who swatted away a penalty shot attempt at the 48 seconds mark to limit the damage.
The lead grew to 5-3 in the opening minutes of the second period as Colgan buried a penalty shot off a call against Palmer Rosemond at the 6:02 mark, but the Engineers designed a new strategy pumping in shots at 2:49 and 2:15 as Matt Chapa beat Princeton goalie Mike Merlone at even strength before Brian Gardiner stopped the clock with an exclusion goal to knot the game at 5-5.
MIT and Princeton then traded goals as Colgan and Gardiner tacked on scores at 1:56 and 51 seconds, respectively, to set the score at 6-6 before Smith-Bronstein put the Engineers in front 7-6 at halftime with a blast from the wing with 29 ticks left on the period clock.
The Engineers built the lead to a pair of scores 30 seconds into the third period with a successful penalty shot by Smith-Bronstein following a penalty on Merlone and a yellow card to Princeton head coach Luis Nicolao.
Needing a rally to regain the momentum, three Tigers stepped up as Douglas Wigley scored on an exclusion at 4:30, Vreeland buried a penalty shot at 4:05 and Zalewski found the back of the cage at even strength with 2:23 showing on the clock to put Princeton back in front 9-8.
The lead lasted for 84 seconds as Palmer Rosemond skipped a shot past Merlone to tie the game. Princeton and MIT traded exclusion goals to the end of the period with Colgan and Smith-Bronstein tacked on scores at the 38 and 11 seconds marks, respectively, for a 10-10 game with eight minutes to play.
Neither team could pull away until the final minutes of the fourth period as Gregor Horstmeyer netted a marker at even strength with 7:35 left to put Princeton ahead 11-10 before Preis punched home an exclusion goal and Rob Kalwarowsky split the Tigers' defense at even strength at 7:14 and 5:12 to give MIT a 12-11 lead.
The Tigers rallied again as Cole knotted the game up at 12-12 with an exclusion goal at 4:45 and Zalewski uncorked an even-strength laser inside the left post to give Princeton a 13-12 lead with 3:20 on the clock.
Needing a comeback, the Engineers went to work as Preis juked his way past two defenders, rose-up and unleashed the tying score at the 3:07 mark to equal the score at 13-13 and set up Cole's game-winner 83 seconds later.
Horstmeyer added an insurance goal at the 1:04 mark to guarantee a Princeton victory and send the Tigers onto the first semifinal game at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 22 versus No. 17 Brown University.
In cage, Merlone finished with 10 saves to earn Player of the Game honors, while Leonard blocked down eight shots.
The Engineers will next be in action at 2:30 p.m. on the 22nd versus Division III No. 1 ranked Johns Hopkins University with a berth to the 5th place game on the line.


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No Surprise: Wikileaks Leak Shows US Entertainment Industry Wrote Spain's New Copyright Law
from the but-of-course... dept
Of course, that's resulted in Spain constantly being put on the "worst of the worst" lists by the entertainment industry and a media campaign by the industry about how awful Spain was when it came to copyright. How dare you have more reasonable copyright laws that don't criminalize everyone! Of course, it didn't take long for Spain to introduce new copyright laws that even local economists said would be bad for everyone.
So, of course it's no surprise at all that the US entertainment industry and US diplomats had a huge role in shaping the new laws. In fact, when the reports came out, we even titled our post on the subject "Looks Like Entertainment Industry Lobbyists Got To The Spanish Government." It's just that, now, thanks to these cables, this information has even more evidence behind it, showing that the MPAA and US diplomats were heavily involved in getting Spain to change its copyright laws.

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Nov 19, 2013
Rüsselsheim. The Opel Ampera is unique. The first electric vehicle suitable for everyday use has been on sale for almost two years and at a current price of 38,300 euros, the customer gets a car today that is equipped with the technology of tomorrow. Owners across Europe have now driven a total of 100 million kilometers on pure electric power, so it's time to review real-life electric mobility.
The number of electric vehicles in the European market in 2013 is still too low. While their market share has increased slightly over last year, from 0.15 to 0.19 percent, this is still far behind the forecasts of numerous experts.
Opel is doing its utmost to support electric mobility. CEO Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann says: "The Opel Ampera was the first electric vehicle on the market from a European manufacturer. Two years later, we remain committed to our strategy of providing sustainable mobility. We will continue investing in electric propulsion and believe in an emission-free automotive future – not only tomorrow, but also today."
A total of 7,700 customers have already chosen the trendsetting Opel Ampera. In 2012, it was the best-selling e-car in Europe and was voted Car of the Year by a jury of trade experts. Currently the Opel Ampera is in third place among European e-car registrations with a market share of almost ten percent. In the Netherlands – Europe's largest and most important market for electric cars – the Ampera is the undisputed leader with an impressive market share of 40 percent. In Germany – the only major market for electric vehicles in Europe without incentive programs – its market share has grown to a remarkable ten percent, and this upward trend is continuing: since its price was reduced in September 2013 to 38,300 euros, orders have almost doubled – a clear indication of how price-sensitive the electric vehicle market remains.
Customers who opt for an electric car quickly become fans. Owners in Europe have reassessed their approach and the Ampera is increasingly being driven in pure battery-powered mode. This is reflected in fuel consumption figures. In a study in the Netherlands, drivers achieved figures substantially lower than the EU standard fuel consumption level (1.2 liters fuel per 100 km, 27 g/km CO2). (See video).
Dutchman Benny van Wijngaarden, for example, covers over 25,000 km annually with his Ampera and uses just 0.9 liters of gasoline per 100 km. However, the Belgian fuel-saving champion is clearly Franky Van Liedekerke, who needs only 0.5 liters per 100 km while covering almost 15,000 km annually. These frugal Ampera owners drive more than three-quarters of their total mileage on pure battery electricity without requiring assistance from the Ampera's range extender.
With their environmentally aware driving, European Ampera drivers have been able to prevent 13,000 tons of local CO2 emissions entering the atmosphere over the past two years, compared to emissions from conventional cars - a blessing for the environment. Ampera owner and mountaineering icon Reinhold Messner shares this view: He is able to roll along emission-free through the small towns of his native South Tyrol which are often overrun with traffic.
While environmental friendliness is one of the Ampera's strengths, fuel economy is another benefit. Herbert Hans Grüntker, Managing Director of the Frankfurter Sparkasse (Frankfurt Savings Bank), highlights: "We use the Opel Ampera as a company car because for us it is the perfect combination of economic and ecological efficiency. We can recharge the Ampera at our own charging station. And our employees and business partners enjoy the comfort and wonderful quietness of this elegant electric car."
The German business world is currently discovering the attractions of the Opel Ampera in a car-sharing project, RUHRAUTOe, led by Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer of the CAR Institute. The Ampera is the most popular choice among the pool of various electric cars. From a total of 80,000 km driven, RUHRAUTOe users covered more than 50,000 km with the Ampera in almost 700 drives.
"The Opel Ampera is extremely well received by the business customers in RUHRAUTOe, says Dudenhöffer. "The ability to drive electrically without range restrictions is very important for companies and can easily be realized with the Opel Ampera."
Something Peter Meyer, president of the German automobile club ADAC, underlines: "Since spring 2012 an Opel Ampera is being intensively used by our employees of the ADAC Technical Forum in Landsberg am Lech both for testing and interim analyses as well as for drives to appointments or film- and photo shoots. Thanks to the easy range extension technology, the Ampera enjoys great popularity and within the first test year already covered over 32,000 kilometers without any problem, some 45 percent of which were powered by pure battery electricity."
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Florida law bans gays from adopting. Valerie J. Martin, a Florida assistant attorney general who defended the statute, said same-sex couples are at far greater risk of many social ills, and "putting children who are already at risk into such a household would increase the stressors that these children already experience as a result of their placement in foster care."
Yeah. Being adopted by a same-sex couple is clearly worse than being in foster care or an orphanage or something. Those naughty, naughty gays.
Of course, at first blush, it looks like the expert witnesses might actually be experts in this area. They have impressive, and almost relevant, credentials in this area, at least:
At trial, the state's defense of the adoption law rested on the shoulders of two scholars -- George A. Rekers, a retired professor from the University of South Carolina, who taught neuropsychiatry and behavioral science, and Walter R. Schumm, an assistant professor of family studies at Kansas State University.
Impressive, no? And they were all saying that a household headed by gays would just be awful:
Rekers and Schumm argued that lawmakers were justified in excluding gay people from adoption because research shows that they are at greater risk of developing a host of impairments that can harm children, such as mental illness, alcohol or drug abuse, and the virus that causes AIDS.
Schumm testified that, based on research involving 2,847 children, the children of gay men and lesbians are far more likely to also become gay -- about 19 percent of children raised by gay parents, compared with 4 percent of children with straight parents.
Schumm said he was also concerned by a study that said that 47 percent of gay teenagers had seriously considered suicide, and that 36 percent had attempted it. "If a child is gay, lesbian or bisexual, this is, in some sense, a life-threatening issue," he said.
(As an aside, I'm not sure how that helps his case any... unless he's arguing in favor of banning gay teenagers, which he may be)
Gay men and lesbians have two to four times the likelihood of suffering from major depression, anxiety or substance abuse, based on several national studies, Rekers testified. Gay men, he said, are four times more likely than straight men to attempt suicide.
Depressed people, Rekers said, "are less consistent in their parenting, less positive [and] have higher rates of neglecting child needs." Gay people, he added, "would have less capability of providing the kind of nurturing and secure emotional environment for children."
The lives of gay people can also be stressful to children, Rekers testified. The children may experience teasing and bullying from other children who don't approve of their parents' orientation. And children with gay parents are likely to suffer from repeated separations because gay people are more likely to have multiple failed relationships.
Well, that's all technically true (except the idea that being raised by gay parents makes you almost five times more likely to be gay--I've never seen anything like that before, although it's true that kids of gay couples are more likely to experiment), but it also applies to people other than gays (recall my old definition of homophobia?). Groups that face institutional and society-wide discrimination are going to have more stresses than those that don't, and it wouldn't surprise me if studies indicated they had a higher incidence of mental illness, either. Are you going to ban blacks or other racial minorities, for instance, from adopting?
He said he would also consider banning Native Americans from adopting because research shows that they are also at much higher risk of mental illness and substance abuse. "They would tend to hang around each other," Rekers testified. "So the children would be around a lot of other Native Americans who are . . . doing the same sorts of things."
Well, that's... um... at least he's consistently horrible. Or consistent horribly.
You may also be wondering, since every reputable study shows that same-sex couples make just as good parents as opposite-sex ones, who these guys are that they came to conclusions that no-one else does. Your cynicism shall not go unrewarded!
Under cross-examination, Rekers, who also has a theology degree, acknowledged that he taught and practiced psychology from a Christian perspective, and had written books condemning social science that doesn't recognize "the moral laws of God."
"To search for truth about homosexuality in psychology and psychiatry, while ignoring God, will result in futile and foolish speculations," Rekers wrote in a 1982 book.
In 2003, Schumm also said in a scholarly article that social science could be used to spread the word of God. "With respect to integration of faith and research, I have been trying to use statistics to highlight the truth of the Scripture," he wrote.
One of Gill's experts, Susan D. Cochran, a professor of epidemiology and statistics at UCLA, accused Schumm of cooking some of the data he used to bolster his argument. "This is taught in first-year statistics," Cochran testified. "I was surprised he would do that."
And one of Gill's attorneys, James Esseks, criticized Rekers for relying on the scholarly work of Paul Cameron, chairman of the Family Research Institute, who was dropped from the American Psychological Association in 1983 after he declined to cooperate with an investigation into whether he had distorted research on gay people.
Uh, yeah. If someone relies on Paul Cameron, that's a good indicator that they're completely insane.
I should think this would be a very, very simple case for the judge.


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Fletcher News - The quarterly newsletter for Alumni and the Fletcher community.
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What is the better choice in start of April? I think the wind statistic is pretty much the same?
We also have some beginners in group, they preffer flat waters, for now
What the water tends to be when the tide is high in Famara?
Where is best to stay in Lanzarote? We are looking for Famara Lanza and Corralejo in Fuerta.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two space station astronauts took care of a little outside maintenance Monday.
Russian flight engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin replaced a main valve on the International Space Station, after emerging from their 250-mile-high home.
"To save the time, I'm embroidering," one of the spacewalkers said in Russian, holding a clump of cord as he worked on the fluid valve. "It's not easy to handle all these ropes." Later, he added, "OK, now we're doing bead work."
Also on the spacewalkers' to-do list: installing clamps and retrieving science experiments. Some of the work will pave the way for the arrival of a new Russian compartment at the end of this year.
The year's third spacewalk was under the direction of Russian Mission Control outside Moscow. The four other space station residents monitored the action from inside.
Yurchikhin arrived at the space station just a few weeks ago. Misurkin has been on board since March.
The crew includes three Russians, two Americans and one Italian. The Italian and one American will conduct a pair of spacewalks for NASA in July.
Begun in 1998, the space station still is one room short.
The Russian Space Agency plans to launch a research lab to replace the Pirs air lock that has been in place since 2001. An unmanned Proton rocket will hoist the lab, which also will serve as an air lock for spacewalk preparations and a docking port for visiting craft. As for Pirs — Russian for pier — it will be cut loose before the launch of its replacement and burn up upon re-entry as junk.
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html


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WeeWM - ultra-light window manager
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Wee Enhanced Environment,
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WeeWM: Version 0.0.3 scheduledPosted by FlashCode, 2004-03-07 22:06
Code has been cleaned up and secured.
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If you're an also-ran Republican candidate for president, what do you between elections? Okay, but then what do you do between releasing books and promotional DVDs?
Former candidate and U.S. senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum has decided to become a columnist for the World Net Daily. For those who have argued that the Republican Party needs to move back into the center with a more welcoming tone, Santorum's move is a step in the opposite direction. The site often traffics in wild, unsubstantiated, religious-themed conspiracy of the kind Santorum has only dabbled in.
For WND, hiring Santorum actually represents a dramatic shift to the center.
The ex-senator may be the nation's pre-eminent homophobe and spokesman for fundamentalist values, but he did operate in Washington D.C. for more than a decade with the occasional demonstration of pragmatism. His first rant takes on a safe target for the right wing — the U.N., which he accuses of wanting to pave the way for euthanizing his disabled child. It's a wild swing at a nearly irrelevant issue. But for World Net Daily, it's tame.
Here are 5 WND stories more extreme than most anything you can expect from Rick Santorum.


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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart: People's Choice Awards 2011!
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart sit side by side at the People's Choice Awards 2011 on Wednesday (January 5) at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles.
The Twilight co-stars were joined by Taylor Lautner in the audience.
Kristen, in Reem Acra, picked up the award for Favorite Movie Actress, beating out Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, and Katherine Heigl for the honor.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse also won the award for Favorite Movie, topping Alice in Wonderland, Inception, Iron Man 2, and Toy Story 3!
FYI: Kristen is also wearing Jimmy Choo's Vita platform sandal, while Taylor suited up in Dolce & Gabbana. Rob was wearing a Dries Van Noten jacket.
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Billy Solom stands on a Fulton Avenue subway grate and takes a deep drag off a cigarette as a train rumbles below his feet. A towering man with a gruff demeanor, he's still angry about getting kicked out of an illegal rooming house last year. Now he wants to get even. "This shouldn't happen to anyone again," he says.
Solom is targeting three-quarter houses, which claim a supportive purpose like a traditional "halfway house" but have long been vilified by homeless advocates as warehouses for the poor. City shelters once acted as their primary feeder, yet now a newer breed of three-quarter house is expanding, funded by payments from the welfare system. An informal survey by homeless advocates has counted at least 250 of them in Brooklyn alone.
Unregulated and unlicensed, these three-quarter houses are held out as rehab programs for parolees and drug abusers, who sleep on bunk beds packed into single rooms in return for the $215 monthly rental allowance the city provides for public-assistance recipients. But turning apartments into rooming houses can violate the Housing Maintenance Code. With a two-bedroom apartment accommodating anywhere from 10 to 20 adults, the three-quarter houses often flout building and fire codes, rent-regulation rules, and laws protecting tenants from illegal evictions.
In a series of visits and interviews with three-quarter-house residents in Brooklyn and the Bronx over the past two months, City Limits found tenants claiming they were forced to attend specific drug rehab programs, even if they didn't use drugs; the tenants suspected their landlords had a financial stake in the arrangements. Many residents said that once they graduated from the rehab programs, they were kicked out of the houses, or pressured to leave, in order to make room for new prospects. Other common complaints included rampant overcrowding, with bunk beds occupying even kitchens and living rooms; a lack of heat and hot water; and threats of violence. Some residents alleged that police officers had acted as operators.
Complicating matters was an acknowledgement that three-quarter houses supply lodgings of last resort for a poor and vulnerable population. Most of the residents didn't want to leave.
The problem, they say, is that no one is looking out for them.
A new side of an old story
Illegal rooming houses for the poor have a long history in New York, but concerns about them resurfaced around 2005, when the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) began to routinely refer people to three-quarter houses. Homeless advocates charged the city was desperate to reduce a record shelter population, and unhesitatingly pushed people into overcrowded, unsafe, and unsanitary conditions.
"It was a deliberate policy to force thousands of adults into these places," recalls Patrick Markee, senior policy analyst at the Coalition for the Homeless. "We saw the growth. Groups went from operating one three-quarter house to operating six three-quarter houses. They were literally franchising, and it was no surprise: They could make a lot of money."
Under pressure from negative news reports about three-quarter houses—and proposed City Council legislation to prohibit all referrals—the city adopted a new policy in 2010: DHS would no longer refer people to places with recorded violations from the Department of Buildings, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, or the Fire Department. A DHS spokesperson says the agency is now focused on helping people who leave shelters to make "safe and appropriate housing choices for themselves."
"It's by no means a perfect policy," says Markee. "We have seen scattered instances of shelters still sending people to three-quarter houses, but it's our sense DHS is no longer the major supplier. Now other city and state agencies need to follow suit."
While the city's homeless services agency has agreed to stop referring people to problem three-quarter houses, the city's welfare agency continues to administer payments of the public assistance housing subsidy to such facilities.
The New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) does not refer clients to three-quarter houses, insists a spokesperson, who stresses that public-assistance recipients find their own places to live. But HRA does send the $215 monthly rental allowance directly to landlords, and it doesn't conduct background checks of three-quarter house operators, no matter the size of the enterprise or amount of rental payments from the city.
"We call it the shadow shelter system," says Sean Barry, executive director of VOCAL-NY (formerly the NYC AIDS Housing Network). He believes the city should take responsibility for three-quarter houses because it funds them. "It's not like they're DHS contracts, but these houses are paid with public assistance and Medicaid funding."
HRA couldn't provide a total for how much funding is sent to three-quarter houses each year, but simple math indicates it could be in the millions. When City Limits asked for specific amounts paid to a list of known three-quarter-house operators, HRA required a Freedom of Information Law request and eventually responded, "[T]he Agency does not maintain the information."
Though inspectors from the Department of Buildings frequently fine three-quarter-house operators for violations of the building code, the city's inability to keep tabs on the rooming houses has been blamed on the underground nature of the business. "You know there is no registry of these so-called three-quarter houses," DHS Deputy Commissioner George Nashak told a 2009 City Council hearing. "There's no list of them. There's no way to look them up anywhere."
At that same hearing, Thomas Jensen, chief of fire prevention at the FDNY, called for the creation of a list. "Overcrowding in any situation is dangerous," he said, "and particularly in these small combustible buildings," where people may be sleeping in the cellar or in an attic and egress is limited. "You might have a block with 20 private dwellings, and all of a sudden one in the middle of the block has been converted to one of these dwellings. We wouldn't know about it."
Oversight questioned
State agencies also make use of three-quarters housing. The New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) works with nonprofit social-service agencies that regularly refer people to three-quarter houses, and parole officers also place their clients there, even though the state's Parole Handbook says offenders should "not be in the company of, or fraternize with," any person having a criminal record (except with the permission of a parole officer).
Three-quarter houses are full of people with criminal records. "And so are homeless shelters," responds Carole Weaver, a spokesperson for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Parolees don't get their rent paid, so many must rely on public assistance. "If they don't have jobs and they have to pay rent, they're the ones who are placed in [three-quarter] houses," Weaver says. "We approve the residences prior to release."
Critics claim the vetting is cursory, because three-quarter houses answer the department's need for cheap housing with curfews and ties to drug-treatment programs. Attendance in a program is often a stipulation of parole. "It's convenient to have all your parolees in one place," says Solom. "I asked a probation officer, 'You know this [house] is not legal?' And she said, 'I know it's not legal, but I know where [the parolees] are.'"
"No one wants to claim this problem," complains Amy Blumsack, a community organizer at Neighbors Together, which began to organize tenants in 2010, when the group's soup kitchen noticed a growing number of men and women coming from three-quarter houses. "When we go to OASAS and say, 'Please change your housing referral policy,' they say, 'It's not us—you should talk to the Department of Buildings.' When we talk to the Department of Buildings, they say, 'It's not us—talk to HRA.' When we talk to HRA, they say, 'Talk to OASAS.'
"There's a lot of shifting of tenants among the houses, and many operators have multiple houses, so it's hard to keep an up-to-date list," she says. "It's like whack-a-mole. They can open and close rapidly. Maybe one gets too much heat from the community, or maybe tenants have complained enough to the Department of Buildings that the owners fear they're going to get shut down. Maybe the house needs repairs, and it's not a financially viable place anymore. They'll just shut down and open up somewhere else."
That said, many buildings have hosted three-quarter houses for years, even as the operators change. The condition of the housing varies greatly, from old tenements to newly constructed homes turned into boarding houses after the real-estate bust. Maintenance is usually not a priority. On a single block of MacDonough Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a few neighboring three-quarter houses contain at least nine units packed with men. One of the houses is just five years old, a two-story tan-brick building with a pitched roof; across the street is a four-story brown-brick tenement from the early 1900s with a padlock on its mailbox. These two houses—leased by different operators and owned by different entities—have 14 outstanding citations listed on the Department of Buildings' website. Another 10 complaints haven't been checked out because access has been denied to inspectors. One of these operators is known to have had multiple three-quarter houses in Brooklyn.
"A lot depends on the house," says Blumsack. "There's nothing official about them, so some places are clean and others are awful—vermin, raw sewage, falling ceilings. With HRA's rental assistance being what it is, to make any money off of a three-quarter house, you have to pack people into each room, and that violates city codes and usually the building's certificate of occupancy. Some members of our group have chosen to go back to shelters rather than stay in a three-quarter house, and that says a lot."
Barry's group once tried to organize tenants to work for improved conditions at a three-quarter house, but the campaign folded after the operator retaliated against the residents by calling their parole officers and reporting curfew violations. "Everybody went to jail," he recalls.
Speaking up and getting tossed
A former drug user and ex-parolee, Solom says he was already sober when he landed in one of those houses on MacDonough Street in the fall of 2010.
"I had no idea what a three-quarter house was until I lived in one," says Solom, who is 63 years old. "Mine wasn't a bad house, but there were 60 people there. On my floor, 13 people shared one lousy bathroom. C'mon, we're not animals. I didn't like the way people were treated. There were no fire sprinklers, and drugs were sold in the house. There were guns, knives. The owners just want their money, and that's it."
Solom's troubles with his landlord started when he refused to go to a rehab program. "I wasn't using no drugs," he explains. Then he attended a tenants' rights group at Neighbors Together. With MFY Legal Services, Neighbors Together hosts the Three-Quarter-House Organizing Project, which has sent residents to lawmakers, community boards, and police precincts in an effort to protect tenant rights and to seek greater regulation of three-quarter houses. But once Solom began to speak to his roommates about their rights, his landlord threatened him, and then in February 2011 bounced him from the house without a court order. Solom called the cops, who sided with the three-quarter house.
City Limits knocked on the door of Solom's former residence, which had a "Beware of Dog" sign out front, but the house manager refused to answer questions or to provide contact information for the operator. He would not discuss Solom's eviction.
Since that time, Solom's become a man with a mission. He even cornered U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand at a recent event in Hostos Community College, walking away with the promise of a future meeting.
"I care mostly about parolees, because I was on parole," he says. "It's not right, the way they're treating people coming out of the joint. I don't want these places to close down; I just want to make them better. Coming out of jail, you got a right to a clean start."
This is the first story in a three-part series about three-quarter houses, the concerns they raise and the essential role they play. Click here to read part two, and here to read part three.


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Contrary to what Sheryl Crow sings, the first cut is not the deepest. The last cut is.
Cleaning out my parents' former home of almost 50 years involved a rough and ruthless week of letting go of a lifetime of home furnishings. What's left is the pyramid of postponement, a pile far bigger than it should be of family photos, letters, military memorabilia and other artifacts of my parents' long lives.
I pushed these items off into the old home's garage, saying: "I'll deal with you later."
I now better understand how seemingly pulled-together people turn into "someday" people, who fill basements and garages, or worse, storage units, with their parents' old things, close the door on it all and tell themselves "someday" they'll deal with it.
Ambivalence is the root of all clutter.
Throughout the first cut of the clearing process, the words of declutter king and host of TLC's "Clean Sweep" Peter Walsh, were my mantra: When everything is important, nothing is important.
Thus, I kept keepsakes to a minimum: I tucked a few pieces of mom's jewelry into my carry-on, and shipped three boxes to my home. In them were an oil painting of French hens, a mainstay in our old kitchen; three handkerchiefs monogrammed with my mom's initial (one for each of my daughters and one for me), and the gold-edged stemware because it's beautiful and I will use it. I already have the china and silver.
Now, I must face the pyramid. What would Peter do? I wonder.
I dial the crisis hotline, but it's busy, so I call Walsh. "What's wrong with me?"
And he told me. "This isn't about the stuff," he said. "This is about dealing with fundamental issues of families and growth and loss and love."
"So it's really a Hallmark movie!" I say. "I knew it!"
"Going through a parent's belongings makes us confront our own mortality, the loss of parents and the fact that life is fleeting."
"Geesh, no wonder I feel like I'm trying to bench press a seven-ton magnet."
"It's a rite of passage that is significant and traumatic," said Walsh, who's going through this with his 90-year-old mother. "I don't think anyone is truly an adult until they lose both their parents."
"I knew I had some growing up to do."
"Before anyone sets foot into the room where they will begin this process, they need to get prepared for a shock. They're going to dive into ice cold water and run out of air."
"I'm drowning."
"Letting go of anything we've seen or used or experienced as a child is hard because the memory embedded in the object has such power. We fear if we let go of the object, we'll lose the memory."
"Or disappoint our parents -- again!"
"Do you think the person who brought you into this world, and loved you and nurtured you into adulthood would want you to despair over their possessions? No! From beyond the grave, parents look back and say, 'Come on! Don't agonizing over a china set!' They would kick you up the backside, and tell you to get on with your life."
Walsh's next piece of advice is to make the process a treasure hunt: "Imagine that your parents have deliberately left you five treasures. Your job is to find the items that have the strongest, happiest memories for you. So look, not in sadness but in joy, for the few, best items to keep. Let the rest go.
I tell Walsh about my three boxes. "I can tell by the words you used -- 'I love it. She loved it. I will use it.' -- that you chose exactly right," he said. "You found the treasures."
I let out a sigh so huge I levitate. "At first, when I saw the chicken painting in my kitchen, it made me sad," I admit. "But now I love seeing it every morning."
"That's the test," said Walsh. "Welcome to adulthood."
But I'm not done. I still have the tough stuff, I tell him. "We can get through this," he said, then tackled each category in my pyramid:
Say yes to the dress. Mom's wedding dress was made by hand, by an Italian seamstress for $35. "A wedding dress like that is such a beautiful, wonderful, emblematic thing," said Walsh, "Hold onto it." Maybe one day it can be worn, or made into a christening garment for a grandchild, or used to wrap bouquets in a daughter's wedding.
Love letters. My dad is a sweetheart. We have letters to prove it. Pages he wrote to Mom over their courtship and marriage. "I'm going to get emotional telling you this," said Walsh, "because I've done this. First, remember, they're not really yours. They are part of a romance between your parents, and were never meant for you." Walsh, who has six siblings, gathered with family members on his parents' anniversary. They shared their letters, told stories about them, and at midnight burned the letters. "We ritualized them, and sent the love back into universe."
Family photos. My dad was a slide man. I have Kodak boxes containing carousels that if stacked would tower over me. "Photos have particular power and importance that make it feel like sacrilege if you throw them away," said Walsh. Pull out the great ones. Send them to an online service like scanmyphotos.com or Snapfish and make albums. Let the rest go.
Military medals. My parents met during World War II on Okinawa. Dad was a fighter pilot and mom was a nurse. Their medals are framed and with them in the assisted living center where they live. "As we speak, I'm standing next to my dad's framed medals," said Walsh. "They remind me of his bravery, and how he built a family. That is the treasure my dad left me. That is all I need."
I take that wisdom with me, as I prepare for my next icy plunge into the pyramid of postponement.
Join me next week as we make over a beloved old home and get it ready for a brand new buyer.
Syndicated columnist and speaker Marni Jameson is the author of "House of Havoc" and "The House Always Wins" (Da Capo Press).
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For only the third time in program history, the MIT men's water polo team advanced to the Eastern Championship by virtue of a 12-11 victory over Iona on Saturday morning. The match was the opening game of the Northern Division Championship hosted by Harvard University.
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More than two years after the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act became law, driving children's bikes off the market, children's book off library shelves, and home-based craftsmen out of business — to name just a few of its many excesses — a Congressional committee is finally going to vote on an CPSIA fix. From the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade:
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WASHINGTON, DC – The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), has scheduled a markup of the Discussion Draft of H.R. ___, "Enhancing CPSC Authority and Discretion Act of 2011 (ECADA)." The markup will convene on Thursday, May 12, at 9:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
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With three-fifths of his starting rotation on the disabled list, his lineup not clicking, and the last two legs of a 10-game trip set to take him to Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium, Joe Maddon should have been moaning and groaning on Monday. But that wouldn't be him.
Maddon has Erik Bedard, Chris Archer and Cesar Ramos lined up to face the defending World Series champion Red Sox, and he can't wait to see what they can do.
"Beautiful," Maddon said. "I love it. I absolutely love it. I love going to those cities. I have always thought that the competition brings out the best in us. We like the competition. It's a good thing to be challenged every day. It's a great thing. I really enjoy it, and I think the players do, too."
Year in and year out since 2008, the Rays have thrived in the American League East, making up in ingenuity, chemistry and deep pitching what they lack in payroll and fans in the stands.
It's no surprise that Maddon refuses to make excuses about having Matt Moore, Alex Cobb and Jeremy Hellickson sidelined. He wouldn't have signed on to replace Lou Piniella if he was afraid of challenges, and he has seen his nurturing style and out-of-the-box thinking rewarded with four trips to the playoffs in the last six seasons.
Had Maddon wanted, he could have landed a job with one of baseball's power franchises a long time ago. But he loves the operation that has been built in Tampa Bay by Rays owner Stuart Sternberg, president Matt Silverman and executive vice president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman, and he sees opportunities where others see hardships.
This year, with an 11-15 start, his rotation already stretched thin, and reinforcements not yet coming over the horizon, Maddon has a chance to really work magic.
The starting pitchers are going to decide the Rays' fate, as they usually do.
"The only thing I'll concede is that I've often said this game could be called pitching as opposed to baseball," Maddon said about his team's vulnerability. "Right now, we're not getting the pitching that we normally get. That's a big part of our success, that's the main part of our success. We need to get the group that's out there right now to pitch to more of their capabilities than they've been at this point. I don't want anybody to step up. I want everybody to go out there and be themselves. I think if we can do that, we'll be able to play to a much higher level."
Under Maddon, Tampa Bay has had a habit of finishing strong, winning at least 17 games in September each of the last three seasons. The Rays made up a four-game deficit to the Red Sox with 12 games to play in 2011, winning their last five.
Maddon says that one of the reasons they've been able to close fast is that they've always had strong starting pitching, which has allowed them to keep their bullpen fresh when others were running on fumes. But through Monday, the rotation is 11th in the AL with a 4.60 ERA, and ninth in innings pitched.
Moore, who needed Tommy John surgery after two starts, won't be back until October. Hellickson, who had loose bodies removed from his elbow in an arthroscopic procedure in February, and Cobb, who suffered a strained oblique after throwing seven shutout innings in Cincinnati on April 12, are throwing and could be back in a month to six weeks.
In the meantime, Maddon will hope there are very few more outings like Sunday, when David Price lost to 29-year-old rookie Scott Carroll, who was making his Major League debut for the White Sox. But there was a part of Maddon happy for Carroll, the same part that is always busy trying to figure out ways how to keep Tampa Bay close in what he believes will be a very even fight in the AL East.
"Listen, I think it's my Minor League background, I think it's how I grew up," Maddon said. "A lot of times, when you work in the Minor Leagues, manage in the Minor Leagues, there are times you don't have the best team out there on a nightly basis, but you still believe you're going to win somehow. You've got to figure out how you're going to win that night, whether it's lineup composition, whether it's making sure you use your bullpen properly, maybe it's just by talking to the players in a way that gets them ready. There's a whole bunch of different ways to win on a nightly basis."
The more reliable ones have starting pitchers working into the seventh and eighth innings, however. Rookie Jake Odorizzi lasted only 4 1/3 innings on Monday night, as the White Sox won, 7-3, taking the series three games to one.
Appropriately, the last of Odorizzi's 87 pitches was a check-swing single by Adam Dunn, which rolled harmlessly into left field with the Rays' infield shifted to the right side. Buzzard's luck, although it was overcome by a great play from left fielder Matt Joyce, who made a diving grab to rob Dayan Viciedo and double off Jose Abreu from second base.
Maddon believes the breaks have been going against his team. You're not going to hear him whine about that, or anything else, for that matter, especially not when his players keep making plays like the Joyce catch.
"I'm a big believer that you have to win the battle of inches, and sometimes the inches work against you," Maddon said. "They'll continue to work against you if you give up or say, 'Woe is me,' that we're victims, all that crappy stuff. If you keep saying, 'We believe in this, we're going to continue working at what we do,' the pendulum comes back to your side. That's what I anticipate happening. I'm very confident."
He means it, too.
Phil Rogers is a columnist for MLB.com.


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Frank Goodwin (grandfather) born Birmingham UK 1891-94 married with two sons immigrated to Australia, maybe 1921 but returned to UK, date of death unknown, ancestry unknown. Interested to know more and also granmother (Maude) maiden name unknown side of the family.


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- The giant sequoia tree of North America is considered to be the tallest living thing on the planet, growing to incredible heights of 95 metres.


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Google has been tweaking their result pages, nothing much but still something that affects search results. One has to do with the text that comes with you search results and in this case Google is trying to show the true connection between the search results and the search phrase that you are using. The snippets are said to show more information in relation to your search term.
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At Alibi for odd music that you don't otherwise get to hear played out.
Vinyl only, called Keepers.
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All the info below. I'm quite excited! Launch night is December 4th. Sure few people on here might be interested:
Keepers is a new night I'm starting as I was starting to get a little frustated always DJin to make people dance and feeling like I'm loosing touch on the weirder, darker & more eclectic side of my record collection.
Vinyl only with myself & special guests DJin each show.
Can't say for the other DJ's but I'm going to be playing stuff like Raime, Lee Scratch Perry, Luke Eargoggle, Heatsick, Lee Gamble, Disrupt, Ekoplekz, Cluster, Hype Williams, Fat Eyes and a ton more.
The launch night is December 4th at Alibi from 8 til 2:00 and it's Free Entry.
Since it's til 2:00 and no doubt we will be fairly drunk expect some dancefloor filling house & disco & dub for the last hour or so from me & James Hoste.
Guests include Gareth Main (GM Sounds / Dandelion) Sebastian Weikart (Robot Elephant), Tim & Ethan (NTS) with maybe another to come.
Expect the unexpected.
Thanks :)
Maybe see you down there.
Me & Gareth recorded a Podcast, our first Independent Music Podcast in 18 MONTHS?! To give an idea of some of the great sounds you will hear at Keepers http://www.mixcloud.com/independentmusicpodcast/independent-music-podcast-38-keepers-281112/


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The Winter Park Police Department announced today that it doubled the reward for information in the case of Stephanie Edwards, who went missing in 2010.
The reward increased to $10,000 in the case that was the subject of this recent column about the scant attention some missing persons receive from the media and law enforcement.
Edwards went missing in May of 2010, but her case didn't make the news for nearly a month. And attention fell off shortly after.
That's a big difference from the attention the young and attractive Michelle Parker, who went missing in November, has received.
Police Det. Jeff Harris said his department conducted searches for Edwards as recently as last week, but they turned up empty. He said the recent column prompted renewed interest in the case.
"With the resurgence of this case in the media we felt this was the best time to increase the reward, keep the case in the public eye and generate interest," he said.
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Over 3 days, US volunteers pack 2 million meals
NOVI, Michigan (AP) — They came from all walks of life — Girl Scouts troops, National Guard units, financial planning offices — to spend three days packing food for thousands of hungry children they'll never meet.
The 2 Million Meals effort, the brainchild of a Detroit-area pastor, concluded Sunday.
The results: 8,810 volunteers put together 2,029,536 meals to be shipped to El Salvador, Haiti and the Philippines. The mixtures of rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and 21 vitamins and minerals will provide one meal a day for a year to 5,560 children.
"The truth is, this has been an amazing experience because of the impact it's going to cause in the lives of every child and every person who's going to eat these meals," Brad Powell, who heads up NorthRidge Church, said shortly after the 2 millionth meal was packed Sunday afternoon. "But I think you can see from the energy in this room and all that's going on it's going to change more than just the lives of those who will eat this food."
Powell led an effort three years ago in which 5,000 volunteers packed 1 million meals over the same time period at an area middle school. Convinced more could and should be done, Powell dreamed of doubling that effort.
That vision became a reality on Sunday, when the magic completed number was displayed on an oversized video display. Volunteers, who worked 11 sets of two-hour shifts from Friday to Sunday, cheered and danced as Gary Glitter's sports-arena anthem "Rock & Roll, Part 2" filled the Suburban Collection Showplace, a convention center in Novi, which donated 65,000 square feet (6,000 sq. meters) of space.
Also on board was Feed My Starving Children, a Minnesota nonprofit that sends volunteer-packed meals across the globe.
NorthRidge members paid for the meals themselves, raising $440,000 mostly through Christmas offerings at the church, which is one of the largest in the U.S. The nondenominational Christian church, which has its main campus in Plymouth Township as well as two satellite locations elsewhere in Michigan, draws an average of 9,600 worshippers each weekend.
Packing stations such as Jenna's cheered when they reached a certain number of meals. The hooting and hollering could be heard, barely, over the nonstop barrage of music — an eclectic mix of Christian rock, Motown, modern pop and more.
Occasionally, organizers gave the volunteers a much-needed break.
On Sunday, the volunteers dropped their tape, scissors, labels and ladles and broke into the "Cupid Shuffle" dance en masse.
Gabe Solak, a 12-year-old from Ypsilanti, said he was drawn by the chance to do something for someone else.
"I heard about all these kids who were starving and are hungry, and I wanted to help them," he said. "I'm very compassionate."
Sgt. Stacy Price, 43, worked alongside a handful of his fellow soldiers from a nearby Army National Guard unit, which saw 2 Million Meals as both a chance to give back as well as a valuable team-building exercise.
Price, though, said it was simply an enjoyable experience.
"I got to meet some amazing people here. Hopefully, I've met some more friends," said the fatigues-clad Price, who posed for more than a few pictures with other volunteers. "The experience was great. The people were very upbeat. Everyone was smiling and having a good time."


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steelhammer wrote:Should have worked out.
I can't argue with that. However, I am going through about two hours of tae kwon do tomorrow morning. So this is carbon loading.
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the wicked child wrote:I f yer not drinking, i will be disappoint.
Eismann wrote:Froggy wrote:eismann.... you should drink. you should drink and watch random horror movies.
That's a great idea. Haven't done that in a while. Any good Netflix streamers you'd recommend?
I can also watch the Bucks try to get no-hit, drinking or not.
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Drinking won. Juan won one yuan.
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Doctor accused of indecent contact with girl
Doctor accused of indecent contact with girl
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa —
A Cedar Rapids doctor already charged with indecent contact with a child now faces action by state regulators.
The Gazette reports that the Iowa Board of Medicine has filed disciplinary charges against Dr. Thomas Warren.
The board says the criminal allegation against Warren shows he has violated Iowa rules governing the practice of medicine.
Warren has pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor. His criminal trial is scheduled to begin March 5.
Police say a 14-year-old girl reported last March that Warren had touched one of her breasts and tried to remove her tank top when she was trying to sleep while a guest at his Iowa City home.
Warren told investigators that he was adjusting her blankets and that it was the first time he'd ever tucked her in.


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Awesome Strategy game
The game uses a down-loadable client. The game is in '3D' you have solar systems and planets. It a classic TBS game turns range from 1min Speed Galaxies to 3 hours.
The game involves economic development, resources,research, diplomacy and conquest. You design all your ships to using what you have researched and build them on planets using your resources. You allso have to manage logistics as you have to transport troops to your planets to man your ships and defend them.
You can have 1000's of ships doing various things ( you see them all on the 3d map) transporting troops going on patrols scouting new systems marking enemy fleets ect.
The greatest thing is the game has a built in scripting language, which you can use quite creatively to manage your planets. These governer AI can actually do alot, this way you do not have to login to do something specific ie early morning. The game also lets your program Fleet Admirals,this is very useful for managing logistics, you can have a transport admiral transporting troops to your production planets or bring troops up to a rally point in order to being conquest of a system.
The game is fairly new around 1.5 years i think. I really hope the improve the scripting part of the game as it increases intensity of the game by reducing micro managing. But some people are complaining about the complexity of governers i hope the Erwin (the developer) doesn't dumb down the game...
The community is really great and its a challenge to try and figure out peoples alliances and apply social engineering, everyone who plays this game is like over 18 as well.


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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria's air force has used incendiary weapons in dozens of attacks over the last year, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday, including a half-tonne bomb which killed 37 people at a school in the northern province of Aleppo.
Calling on the world to condemn Syria's use of the weapons, which contain flammable substances designed to set objects on fire and cause burn injuries, it said international laws restricting their deployment also needed to be tightened.
"Syria has used incendiary weapons to inflict terrible harm on civilians, including many children," said Bonnie Docherty, an arms researcher at the organization, which will present its findings at an international meeting in Geneva this week.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is fighting a 2-1/2 year civil war with rebels seeking his overthrow. The crisis started with peaceful protests but escalated into armed conflict after his forces shot at demonstrators demanding change.
The scale of the violence on both sides has steadily escalated, with the authorities resorting to tanks and artillery, then helicopters, fighter jets and surface-to-surface missiles to strike at their opponents.
As well as incendiary weapons, Assad's forces have used cluster bombs and vacuum bombs and are accused by the West of firing rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin into districts outside Damascus in August, killing hundreds.
"Other countries should condemn Syria's use of incendiary weapons just as they have its use of chemical weapons and cluster bombs," Docherty said.
HRW said that since last November, when it documented one of the first cases of incendiary bomb use in the Damascus suburb of Daraya, Syrian jets and helicopters had dropped incendiary bombs at least 56 times. All of the weapons were made in the Soviet Union, it said.
The organization quoted Saleyha Ahsan, a British emergency doctor who treated patients from the Aleppo school attack on August 26, as saying most of them were covered in burns.
One victim arrived with what she described as 90 percent, third degree burns. "The clothes had been burned off him. It was the most horrific injury I have ever seen in a live patient. Only his eyes moved."
He died before he could be evacuated to Turkey, HRW said.
Incendiary weapons can contain any number of flammable substances, including napalm, thermite, or white phosphorus.
More than 100 countries – but not Syria – have signed up to an international convention banning their use in areas with "concentrations of civilians". But loopholes and inconsistencies limit its effectiveness, HRW said.
"The existing international law restricting the use of incendiary weapons could be strengthened in many ways," Docherty said. "But Syria's egregious incendiary attacks show that a global ban would be the best solution".
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We not only lie in an advanced world run by technology, but we also perhaps lie in the most advanced stage of human civilization. Our kind- the human kind has come a long way, treading from those ancient prehistoric forests into today's modern city life. Technology has not only hanged the outer sphere of our existence, but has helped in even the most common and basic problems that we face or have faced in the past. Say for example, earlier withdrawing money from bank was a tall task. It all began by standing at those long queues, and then coupled by a series of paper work. After these entire ordeals you could get your hands on your money. However a very small innovation changed everything. A rectangular plastic card was introduced which not only took are of this problem, but also opened up a new horizon for the world of business and commerce to flourish- the credit card!
A credit card was introduced basically to help businesses increase. As it increased the travelling fever thus increasing the per capita purchasing value. On the other hand, the credit cards also opened the doorway of ash withdrawal from the ATMs. This simplified the complex process mentioned earlier. There are a number of types in which credit cards can be sub divided into. The most expensive among them is the Signature card. The nomenclature of this this one is on the symbolic lines. We all know Signature is the most expensive ornamental metal that we have at our disposal. Thus a Signature card definitely is as exclusive as the metal Signature. The owner of this card not only enjoys huge benefit and discount in the form of cashbacks and other offers, but it is also a matter of prestige to own one. A credit card works in a pretty simple way. They are actually guaranteed by the bank which issues them. Thus a card holder can use the card to buy any stuff he want, but there is no need to pay right there at the spot. He can payback the credited amount to the bank at a later time at his convenience. The credit card convention took over the globe like a storm, and India was not out of the grid. Very soon this convention became a familiar sight in the country. In the emerging metropolises such as Firozabad, it is quite impossible to enjoy life with having a credit card; especially without having a Signature one.
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The Jet Airways ICICI Bank™ Rubyx Credit Card is for people on the go – zipping past the country. This credit card has a lot to offer, and it starts with a complimentary Jet Airways Economy ticket. You also get loads of points, with the JP Miles flowing in for every purchase. Apart from redeeming them against tickets and hotels, you can also redeem them against 25+ international airlines. All in all, we give a thumbs up to the amazing array of benefits this credit card has to offer.
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The Jet Airways ICICI Bank™ Sapphiro Credit Card shows that you have arrived. If you are sending half your time at the airport, some at the golf course and the rest dining at the finest restaurants, then this credit card is for you. Apart from the complimentary tickets when you join and when you renew your credit card, you also get free access to domestic lounges, free movie tickets and a minimum 15% discount at over 2500+ restaurants. You deserve this credit card – go for it!


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I feel like I just barely switched my design around, and yet here I am doing it again! I loved my old design, but it was just that: old. I was getting bored with it, and it was kind of young and unprofessional—not that I have anything wrong with either of those every so often—and I want to (hopefully) take this blog in a new direction!
I personally am very proud of my lovely little tagline. I even considered just doing away with Debz Bookshelf in favor of And She Blogged Happily Ever After… but then I realized it would be really long.
So, what do you think? Please leave honest feedback. Love it? Hate it? I'm open to any constructive criticism you have to offer!
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"We are hopeful of ending 2012-13 at a satisfactory level of growth and then present a reasonable Budget, and then aim for high growth in the next financial year," he said in a briefing of a group of ministers on the media.
Analysts had said next year could see an election-year Budget. They said the government would bring a food security law and for that it would need additional allocation in the Budget.
Chidambaram also said he was confident the government would be able to achieve the fiscal deficit target of 5.3 per cent of GDP for the current financial year.
"The EGoM (empowered group of ministers) on telecom will meet shortly to deliberate on the remaining auctions, which are the unbid circles from GSM, CDMA and spectrum refarming, and the disinvestment process will start.
"We still have some time left in this financial year and I'am hopeful of getting revenues from somewhere to manage our fiscal deficit," he said.
Economic growth has been only 5.5 per cent in the first quarter and the second quarter is also expected to witness low numbers, Chidambaram, however, exuded
confidence that the second half would deliver higher growth.
He said economic conditions were challenging and the Euro zone had formally entered into recession but India was confident of a growth pick-up in the third and fourth quarter of this financial year.
The telecom spectrum auction had fetched Rs 9,400 crore. The government had in the Budget estimated Rs 40,000 crore from auction of mobile phone licences. On top of that, the Budget target from disinvestment was Rs 30,000 crore but no share sale has happened this year.
According to the revised consolidation schedule, the government is expected to rein in its fiscal deficit at 4.8 per cent of GDP in 2013-14.
This number in the Budget would reveal whether the government presents an election-year Budget or a populist one. Till September of 2012-13, the fiscal deficit stood at 62 per cent of the revised target at 5.3 per cent of GDP.
The growth rate slipped to a nine-year low of 6.5 per cent in 2011-12 and if it falls below that, widely expected to happen, it would be a decade-low economic expansion.
To questions on the enforcement directorate probing alleged violation of foreign direct investment norms by American retail giant Walmart, the minister said, "Unless a formal report is made to me, which is not every day, I would not have the details of probe."


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New to HTS and "hacking" in a sense, but not programming!
Not afraid to use "Google"....lulz.
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Seriously, any reason at all?
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Here two Western-born lamas of the Nyingma tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism explore what it means to be utterly emotionally alive. Written in contemporary, nonacademic language, this book is a radical challenge to the misconception that inner Vajrayana is primarily an esoteric system of ritual and liturgy. The authors teach that emotions can be embraced as a rich and profound opportunity for realization. This fiercely compassionate battle cry rallies all who are audacious enough to appreciate emotions for their supreme potential as vehicles for awakening.
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This one is a magic piece like listens in a cinema for children. The music is based on a state of mind of Christmas and toys. Sound of carrousel. It has a happy melody, a great quantity of sounds of bell, and an orchestral bottom and with acordeon.
The zip contains one track but it has different sections inside the same song: 1 mysterious part. 0:00 2 rhythmic part. 0:14 3 happy and dynamic part. 0:28 4 it divides with harp and violins in pizzicato 5 orchestral part with many small bells. 1:16 6 orchestral part with very full and very dynamic sound. 1:31