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The specter of an ocean floor littered with dead shellfish, rock fish, sea stars and other marine life off the Oregon coast spurred Mark Snyder, a climate change expert, to investigate whether California's coast faced a similar calamity.
It could, the UC Santa Cruz earth scientist said, citing climate change, which some scientists believe is responsible for stronger and more persistent winds along the coast. There's no debate that windier conditions drive more upwelling of nutrient-rich deep ocean waters.
At normal levels, this upwelling sustains the abundance of marine life, but too much of these rich waters leads to a boom-and-bust cycle that ultimately creates ocean "dead zones" with little or no oxygen. Marine life that can't swim or scuttle away from these lethal zones suffocate.
To assess future wind and upwelling scenarios along the California coast, Snyder and his colleagues at UC Santa Cruz ran climate simulations for two time periods. One spanned from 1968 to 2000, verifying the accuracy of the modeling. The second simulated the region's estimated climate from 2038 to 2070, using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "high-growth" emissions projections. Snyder said he chose the high emissions scenario because today's are exceeding earlier IPCC estimates.
The results showed increases in wind speeds of as much as 2 meters per second, a 40 percent increase from current wind speeds, which now average 5 meters per second, Snyder said.
The change in wind speeds is already happening, Snyder said. California winds have been growing in strength in the past 30 years.
Snyder said he knows his hypothesis needs more research, so he'll know whether to continue pursuing it or to discard it. The latter is unlikely, he said, given the new cycle of dead zones on the Oregon and Washington coasts that started in 2002.
"It was just chance they found the dead zones in Oregon," Snyder said, describing how fishers reported to marine scientists an alarming number of dead or dying crabs they were pulling up in traps.
"It's quite possible these areas could be off the California coast," he said.
After the Oregon fishers reported their sickly catches, and divers described seeing bottom-dwelling fish in high waters or schools of fishes massing near an invisible wall - behind which was low-oxygen water - scientists from Oregon State University, along with state and federal marine experts, began investigating.
That year, and in years since, researchers have sent down a robot equipped with a video camera to record the carnage. They've also deployed a fleet of robotic "gliders" to maintain constant vigil on oxygen levels and other conditions along the Oregon coast, as well as a sophisticated monitoring buoy.
The worst year recorded was 2006, with the dead zone near the coast spreading from southern Oregon into Washington, where dead fish and crabs washed up on beaches along the Olympic Peninsula. Less severe dead zones returned in 2007.
"We've seen areas that are carpeted with dead marine life," said Oregon State marine ecologist Francis Chan. One video image stuck in his mind: A large dead sea star that must have been decades old, rotting in the water. Marine life such as that, which adhere to rocks most of their lives, can't scurry away from suffocating waters, he said. "It was pretty striking."
In normal years, winds blowing from north to south drive upwelling in the spring and summer months off the Pacific Coast. These strengthened winds drive surface waters offshore, making room for deeper, nutrient-rich waters to surface, where sunlight triggers a heavy growth of phytoplankton, the bottom rung of the marine food chain.
But when the winds don't slacken and upwelling persists, excess phytoplankton blooms. When the uneaten plankton dies and sinks to the ocean floor, bacteria consuming it deplete the oxygen in the water.
Like so many other climate change projections, the scientists know they can't definitely point to greenhouse gases as the sole culprit behind windier conditions along the coast. But no other explanation fits, given the historical patterns of winds and upwelling, according to a primer from Oregon State on hypoxia, the technical term for oxygen depletion in waters.
A phenomenon called El Niño, which cycles in and out, doesn't explain it, or what's known as decadal oscillations, Chan said. "They're not at play here," Chan said. "So something else is likely at play."
Other scientists aren't convinced that wind-driven upwelling is occurring off the California coast. It is known that oxygen levels have been declining in deeper waters since 1984, when researchers started monitoring it in California coastal waters.
"That's something we're seeing along the California coast," said Frank Schwing, an oceanographer with the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Pacific Grove.
Although large bodies of oxygen-poor water far offshore are normal, the rapid expansion of these waters is not. And scientists link it, in part, to climate change, Schwing said.
These offshore low-oxygen waters in California differ from dead zones in Oregon. The latter are close to shore, where they've never been seen before, and they're killing sea life. Such die-offs haven't been seen in California.
"If you drive up Highway 101, you're not going to look far off to see dead zones," said Chan, with Oregon State. "They're less than a mile from the surf zone." But the expansion of these large volumes of hypoxic water far off the California coast does increase the odds they could reach the coastline, Schwing said. It also narrows the band of oxygen-rich surface waters far offshore that can sustain life.
"The implication is it's easier to create these hypoxic events," Schwing said.
For Chan, the phenomenon drives home the sensitivity and dynamism of the ocean, which responds swiftly to atmospheric changes.
"We shouldn't be seeing these big changes, not in something as simple as oxygen levels on our coast," he said. "And we're seeing these big flips."


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The cold weather that moved into the Chicago area Thursday will linger for at least a week, meteorologists say.
Friday will bring the coldest daytime temperatures since February, with an expected high of just 22 degrees and wind chills in the teens, according to WGN-TV's chief meteorologist Tom Skilling.
Friday night will be even colder, with a predicted low at O'Hare International Airport of just 9 degrees.
The cold settled in Thursday after an unseasonably warm Wednesday, and forecasters expect it will last at least a week. Sunday's predicted Chicago high of 30 degrees is the highest temperature expected through at least next Thursday, according to Skilling's 7-day forecast.
Tuesday appears likely to be the coldest day in that span, with a predicted high of 13 degrees and a predict low of 0 degrees.
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Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died Monday, was a longtime senator who never became a Senate insider, the last of the World War II veterans in the US Senate, and one of the very few lawmakers to ever return to the Senate after a retirement.
Despite never chairing a full committee, Senator Lautenberg built up a formidable legislative legacy, including legislation to ban smoking on most domestic flights and to raise the legal drinking age to 21.
After 9/11, he relentlessly pushed for higher spending on homeland security and, especially, on the transportation and environmental issues concerning his home state of New Jersey.
He also took on powerful gun, tobacco, and alcohol lobbies over his nearly five terms in the Senate, including a dramatic return to the Senate floor in April to back President Obama's gun control measures, while struggling with illness. (The measures failed.)
Yet his commitments were more to liberal values and causes than to party or party leaders. Despite serving nearly 28 years in the Senate, he never broke into Senate leadership circles, where what counted most was raising campaign funds and loyalty to a party line.
"He was a throwback to an earlier era," says Julian Zelizer, a congressional historian at Princeton University in New Jersey. "Leaving the leadership to others and avoiding the spotlight, he seemed content, from what we know, to build a legacy based on his legislative achievements."
"Today, senators all seem to scramble for leadership positions and to get some airtime on television," he adds. "He was like the old conservative Southern Democrats using their committee positions, quietly, to push for their causes in the 1950s and '60s."
Like many senators who come to the US Senate from a highly successful business career, Lautenberg found the clubby, slow-moving culture of the Senate to be somewhat of a shock.
The son of Polish and Russian immigrants, Lautenberg as a teenager worked nights to help support his family after his father's death. After World War II, he studied economics at Columbia University and later helped launch Automatic Data Processing, now one of the world's largest data-processing companies.
In 1982, with the help of the team that would later launch Bill Clinton's first presidential run, Lautenberg spent $4 million of his own money and upset Rep. Millicent Fenwick (R) of New Jersey, a popular icon then viewed as a shoo-in for the US Senate seat held by Democratic Sen. Harrison Williams, who was convicted in a federal corruption probe. A scorching ad campaign suggested that Ms. Fenwick, at 72, was too old for the race and unfit to serve.
"Many saw it as ungallant for Lautenberg to have challenged this woman who was immortalized in Doonesbury," says Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "But he realized that, because she had become a kind of folk heroine, he would need to take off the gloves. It was a very hard-hitting campaign, and the age issue did influence a lot of voters."
But that first campaign left a cloud that followed Lautenberg right up until his last race, when his primary opponent, US Rep. Robert Andrews (D), ran ads suggesting that Lautenberg, at 84, was also too old for the job. The voters did not agree, and Lautenberg won that primary race, 59 to 35 percent.
Still, Lautenberg never became a senator's senator, never learned when to stay silent or how to give colleagues the political cover seen as essential to maintaining a majority control of the Senate. He didn't go out of his way to charm the press corps or rush the television cameras.
When he first came to the Senate in 1983, Lautenberg stumbled badly, says Professor Baker, who followed Lautenberg's Senate career on and off Capitol Hill.
"He believed that as a CEO he had special powers and was more experienced in the real world than his colleagues and tried to throw his weight around in a way that antagonized a lot of people," he says."To his credit, he realized that things were not going his way and convened a group of senior Democratic staff members who, over several weekends, came to his house and to give him senator lessons."
"But he never entirely lost that CEO sheen," he adds. "He stood apart in many ways. He was somebody who felt that he should be judged by the excellence of his proposals, which is not unreasonable, but not always the best strategy in the Senate."
A defining moment for Lautenberg came in 1987, when he, along with then-Rep. Richard Durbin (D) of Illinois, challenged the power of the smoking lobby and tobacco-state lawmakers to pass a two-year ban on smoking on domestic flights scheduled to last two hours or less. It was the first big win in what would become a crusade protect the public from secondary smoke.
Urged by tobacco-state colleagues to defer the vote for more study, Lautenberg, who chaired the Senate appropriations subcommittee vetting the bill, rehearsed the evidence on the health risks of passive smoking in an Oct. 1 markup.
"With all due respect, I think the time is now to deal with this," he said. When the full committee chair called for a vote, Lautenberg, in a surprise move, produced nine proxies that sent the bill, with the ban, to the Senate floor. The ban passed on the Senate on Oct. 29 by voice vote.
But Lautenberg also bucked Democratic leadership, breaking with President Clinton on his 1993 budget deal and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He also strongly opposed the 1991 Resolution to use force in Iraq.
Lautenberg retired from the Senate in 2000, but was wooed back to the Senate after allegations of corruption forced Sen. Robert Torricelli (D) of New Jersey to give up his reelection bid. With only five weeks to Election Day, Lautenberg agreed to come out of retirement. He went on to defeat self-financing GOP businessman Doug Forrester and save the seat for Democrats.
But in a disappointing move, Senate Democrats refused to give Lautenberg full credit for previous years of seniority, which would have put him in the front ranks for committee chairmanships in the new Congress.
As a result, Lautenberg was even less beholden to party leaders in his legislative strategy and bolder in defense of what he saw as core liberal values. Democrats say they will miss him in the upcoming fight over immigration.
"He improved the lives of countless Americans with his commitment to our nation's health and safety, from improving our public transportation to protecting citizens from gun violence to ensuring that members of our military and their families get the care they deserve," said President Obama in a statement on Monday.
While he had bitter feuds with several top New Jersey politicians, without regard to party identification, his life also attracted respect.
"He had an inspirational story," says Alvin Felzenberg, a former New Jersey assistant secretary of state and GOP staffer, who worked on the Fenwick campaign. "He was the American dream: a poor kid, immigrant parents in the gritty streets of Paterson, N.J., who started a company from nothing, made his money when he was young and gave a lot of money to charity, including cancer research in the US and Israel. It's a great American story."


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Lebanese singer Marcel Khalifa will sing in Amman next Friday, Jordanian daily Al Arab Al Yawm reported Friday.
To perform at the Arena Auditorium at Amman Private University, it will be the first concert for the popular singer in Amman after a controversial trial in Lebanon last year when he was tried for abusing Islamic values. Islamists filed the charges against him after he composed a song written by celebrated Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, entitled "Father, I am Joseph," referring to Quranic verses on Joseph, the prophet.
The Lebanese prosecution charged that the illusion to Quranic verses was totally unacceptable and insulted Islam, sparking off a pan-Arab debate regarding freedom of speach and expression.
Khalifah, well known for his patriotic songs, was acquitted of the charges in March -- Albawaba.com
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Lee Roberson Scholarship Fund to aid Liberty students
The Lee Roberson Foundation has established a scholarship fund at Liberty University to aid Christian men and women in college, graduate school or seminary.
The foundation honors Dr. Lee Roberson, founder of Tennessee Temple University and longtime pastor of Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tenn. Roberson died April 29, 2007, at the age of 97.
The late Rev. Jerry Falwell, who received his honorary Doctor of Divinity from Tennessee Temple Theological Seminary, was a close friend with Roberson. The two shared a similar vision for their schools to train preachers, missionaries and others for Christian service.
John Roberson, Roberson's son and a member of the Board of Trustees at TTU, said the tie between his father and Falwell "was very strong, and that's one reason we started the scholarship fund at Liberty."
He said the two were often able to advise each other on future plans.
"Dr. Falwell talked to him [Roberson] before he started Liberty and a lot of the beginning days at Liberty were maybe modeled after what happened at Temple," he said.
Dr. Lee Roberson led Highland Park Baptist Church in the organization of Tennessee Temple Schools in 1946. It was to be a two-year college and Bible school, but soon expanded to incorporate a four-year college, Bible school and seminary. It became a university in 1979 and received full accreditation by the American Association of Bible Colleges in 1984.
The Lee Roberson Foundation, formed less than a year before his death, has also established funds at TTU and Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio. Each was started with a $5,000 gift.
Money from the LU fund will be made available to qualifying Liberty students once the fund reaches $50,000.
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This is the sixth installment of Sunday Dinners, a biweekly column from our own Tom Hirschfeld featuring his gorgeous photography, stunning Indiana farm, and mouthwatering family meals.
Today: Tom takes a long, hard look at his stack of cookbooks.
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I used to read a lot of cookbooks. Not in the literary sense; no, I simply read them for the recipes and then tossed them back onto the stack. I feel guilty about this past -- whenever I read a novel I usually skip all the preliminary stuff too. No preface, no foreword, no nothing. I go right to chapter one, or in the case of a cookbook, the first recipe. When one of the first novels I remember reading gave away the story in the first few pages of the foreword, I distinctly remember thinking, "I won't do that again." So it has become habit to just skip to chapter one.
In the early days of my cooking, I would buy into any cookbook because of its glitz and glamour. What eventually happened was that the more books I looked to, the less they seemed different. It had been all about the cover, but now the cover wasn't enough. Fortunately, as my cooking matured I began to know what I was looking for. All of the sudden I wanted depth and substance -- I was no longer in a hurry to start scouring the pages for something new. Instead, I wanted to develop a relationship. I wanted to have a cup of coffee or a glass of wine and casually flip through the pages of a cookbook looking for a new way to use an ingredient, a recipe I'd never heard of, or a new technique. But there was more.
As it turns out, I want a book with voice. Someone I want to hear from page after page. A writer who I feel is in the kitchen with me, building a kinship of similarities not just with their taste in food, but with their story. To put it simply: I look for a long term relationship with my cookbooks. As with any relationship, it isn't going to be perfect. There will be rough spots in the road, times when we don't pay enough attention to each other. But in a very real way, I have faith and trust that we will reconnect. Maybe the short break allows me time to see new beauty in a recipe I've overlooked for all these years, or more often to remember all the things I love about the old ones. It is much nicer to grow old together. It is comforting. I don't want to go out and replace the same book with a new one. I want all the blemishes, stains, and notes in the margins that represent our history together. It tells me we have gone places and that we still like the same things, and reminds me of all the memories we have built together.
If someone asks me with whom I would want to be stranded on a desert island, my first answer is always my wife, Amy. I don't say it because I am supposed to, but because I can't imagine a better person with whom to spend that time. When I'm asked about cookbooks I wouldn't want to be without, I feel lucky, extremely lucky, that I can say without reservation that I have more than a handful: The Cooking of Southwest France by Paula Wolfert, French Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Herrmann Loomis, The Splendid Table by Lynne Rossetto Kasper, and Bistro Cooking by Patricia Wells, among others. In the same way that I look at old friends, I'm an extremely fortunate man to have known these books throughout my entire cooking life.
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8 cups homemade vegetable stock 1/4 teaspoon fennel seed 1/4 teaspoon Szechuan peppercorns 1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns 8 cloves of garlic 8 carrots, washed, peeled, and cut into 2-inch long pieces 8 fingerling or small potatoes, peeled 2 celery roots, peeled and cut into 2-inch batons 1 or 2 onions depending on size, trimmed, root end left on and cut into wedges 2 to 2 1/4 pounds center-cut beef tenderloin, trimmed and cleaned of sinew, trussed 2 tablespoons Pommery whole grain mustard 3 tablespoons mayonnaise 1 tablespoon flat leaf parsley, very finely minced 1/2 to 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper
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Democratic super PACs have early advantage over GOP
WASHINGTON — Democratic-aligned super PACs entered the election year with a more than 2-to-1 fundraising advantage over increasingly fractured Republican groups, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
Liberal super PACs focused on single issues, such as gun-control, captured the most campaign money, while once-flush organizations such as American Crossroads struggled to attract early support from Republican donors.
The Crossroads super PAC, affiliated with GOP strategist Karl Rove, raised $3.6 million last year — a fraction of the $99 million the powerhouse group raised in 2012 when it tried to dislodge President Obama and elect a Republican majority to the Senate.
The upstart Tea Party Patriots super PAC, meanwhile, doubled its fundraising during the second half of the year and posted the biggest receipts of any conservative group, new reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show.
The USA TODAY analysis examined the 77 super PACs that posted at least $100,000 in contributions last year. Liberal groups collected $94.5 million; conservative groups raised $37.7 million.
At the top of the list with $12.5 million in receipts: Americans for Responsible Solutions, a group launched last year by former Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords to combat gun violence after a series of horrific mass shootings.
The early fundraising stumbles of several leading GOP groups does not mean Republicans won't have the money to blister Democrats on the airwaves ahead of November's high-stakes midterm elections for Congress.
But the heaviest spending may come from organizations not aligned with Republican leaders in Washington. Americans for Prosperity, aligned with the billionaire industrialist brothers David and Charles Koch, already has spent $24 million in advertising on the Affordable Care Act, much of it hit to House and Senate Democrats for their support of the law.
"We're committed to a long-term effort to repeal Obamacare, and we are going to continue these accountability ads and efforts across the country," American for Prosperity President Tim Phillips said Saturday.
The nonprofit group does not disclose its donors.
"It's clear looking at GOP groups' fundraising receipts just how much the Republican civil war continues to rage," said Andy Stone, a spokesman for the Democrats' House Majority PAC. The House Majority PAC coordinates closely with several other Democratic-aligned super PACs and shares some big donors.
The House Majority PAC raised more than $7.5 million last year — swamping the combined $1.4 million collected by the Congressional Leadership Fund and YG Action Fund, two leading GOP super PACs focused on House races.
Meanwhile, Defending Main Street super PAC — a group seeking to defend centrist Republican incumbents from Tea Party challengers — turned to labor unions for more than three-quarters of its funding in 2013, records show.
Most analysts expect Republicans to retain their majority in the House, where Democrats would need to pick up 17 seats to shift the balance of power. The margins are slimmer in the Senate, where Republicans need a net gain of six seats in November to seize control of the chamber.
"There is a perception among Republican donors that our House majority is not at stake," said Charlie Spies, who helped run a super PAC that took in more than $123 million to help Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012. "The reality is that if Democrats continue to raise significantly more money, that overwhelming advantage could create issues for Republicans in November," he said.
No doubt hampering Republican efforts: Two of Crossroads' biggest donors, Texans Harold Simmons and Bob Perry, died last year.
Jonathan Collegio, a Crossroads spokesman, said Friday that the group's pledges were on track with previous election cycles and it would have the resources to compete this fall.
It already has announced plans to spend $500,000 as part of a $1.2 million campaign with other GOP groups to help the Republican candidate in a March special election in Florida to fill the vacant seat of the late GOP Rep. C.W. Bill Young.
Jenny Beth Martin, president of Tea Party Patriots, said her super PAC's strength is in its numbers. Nearly 90,000 donations poured in during the last six months of the year.
That large donor base "is evidence of the fact people are fed up with the overused and repeatedly failed strategy used by the establishment," she said. Tea Party activists, she said, already are engaged in South Carolina, where Republican two-term Sen. Lindsey Graham faces several primary challengers from the right.


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Norwegian Cruise Line's New York-Inspired Ship
Comparing Norwegian Cruise Line's latest ship, the New York–inspired Breakaway, with its muse.
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Population: 4,000 passengers.
Lady Liberty: A three-foot frozen version in the Ice Bar.
Cost of a Bagel and Cream Cheese: Free.
A Yellow Cab Is... a cocktail! With vodka, peach schnapps, and orange juice.
Nationalities: Sixty-eight, and that's just the crew.
Cost of a Studio: From $214 a day for a 100-square-foot solo cabin, with meals, activities, and lounge access thrown in.
Dish by Geoffrey Zakarian: Roasted scallops with guanciale and grapefruit, at Ocean Blue.
Kicks: Courtesy of you, at Rockette-led fitness classes.
Hottest Theater Ticket: Broadway's Rock of Ages, free, with six shows a week.
Last Call: Never.
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Population: 8.2 million residents.
Lady Liberty: 151-foot original in New York harbor.
Cost of a Bagel and Cream Cheese: $2.72 at Murray's Bagels.
A Yellow Cab Is... an impossible dream, come rush hour.
Nationalities: An estimated 161.
Cost of a Studio: About $85 a day for 550 square feet, in Manhattan, not including utilities.
Dish by Geoffrey Zakarian: Braised lamb shank with pickled-turnip tzatziki, at the National.
Kicks: Courtesy of the Rockettes, at Radio City Music Hall.
Hottest Theater Ticket: Kinky Boots, $77 to $142 a seat, if you can snag tickets.
Last Call: 4 a.m.
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Begin in Barcelona, one of Europe's most dynamic centers of modern design and cutting-edge cuisine. Discover Gaudi's fantastical structures such as Sagrada Familia, Casa Mila, Casa Batllo or the hillside Parc Guell. Visit some of the city's excellent museums, such as the Picasso Museum or Miro Museum. Stroll along Las Ramblas—Barcelona's most famous boulevard—and explore the narrow streets of the Gothic Quarter and La Ribera. If desired, explore the city's shopping districts, stopping at upscale boutiques along the broad Passeig de Gracia and design shops in the stylish Born and Raval neighborhoods. Also visit the city's leading food markets, including the Santa Caterina Market and La Boqueria Market. Upon request, Artisans of Leisure can also arrange a wide range of other activities in Barcelona, such as cooking lessons, excursions to Montserrat or the Costa Brava, private yacht charters, Jewish touring, tickets to soccer matches, hiking or biking in the nearby mountains, visiting favorite family attractions such as the Magic Fountain or Poble Espanyol, and wine tasting in the Penedes wine region.
Next, fly to Seville, the capital of Andalusia and a city flavored as much by the sounds of flamenco and the smell of orange blossoms as by its 500-year domination by the Moors. Take an insider's tour of this beautiful city. Explore the charming Santa Cruz neighborhood, tour the gardens and mosaic tile-covered rooms of the Reales Alcazares—a spectacular Moorish palace, see the world's largest Gothic cathedral (which contains the tomb of Christopher Columbus), browse specialty boutiques and markets, and other cultural highlights. One evening, enjoy a private tasting tour of some of Seville's most beloved tapas bars. If desired, additional activities can be arranged, including tickets to flamenco performances or bull fights, visits to ceramics workshops in the Triana neighborhood, carriage rides through Plaza de Espana and Maria Luisa Park, seeing contemporary architecture such as Metropol Parasol, private flamenco dance or guitar lessons, architecture tours of World Expo buildings, visits to royal horse farms, and excursions to Roman ruins or pueblos blancos (whitewashed villages).
Continue to Granada, one of the richest and most populated cities in Europe during Moorish rule and still one of Spain's most breathtaking cities. With your expert private guide, tour the extraordinary Alhambra—one of the highlights of Spain—a stunning Moorish castle, palace and garden complex on a hillside overlooking the town. Visit the Generalife, the summer palace and gardens of Moorish royalty. Also tour the labyrinthine streets of the Albaicin—the old Arab Quarter—and discover a world full of winding, hilly streets, Moorish fountains, and teterías (Arabic tearooms).
Depart Granada and visit Cordoba, a capital under the Romans and the Moors. During private touring, explore the highlights of the UNESCO-listed city center, such as the incredible Cathedral-Mosque, the ancient Roman bridge, and the narrow backstreets lined with whitewashed buildings and historic buildings in the old Jewish Quarter.
Continue to Madrid, the Spanish capital known for its elegant squares, stately Habsburg architecture, leafy boulevards and superb museums. With your expert private guide, explore the highlights of the city. See world-renowned museums such as the Prado Museum, Reina Sofia, CaixaForum, and/or the Thyssen-Bornemisza. Tour the majestic Royal Palace. Stroll through the exclusive shopping and residential districts. Also visit historic squares and lively markets, including the gourmet San Miguel Market. Upon request, additional experiences can be arranged such as tickets to soccer games and bullfights, preferred seats at Zarzuela performances, cooking lessons, touring with an art expert, visits to house-museums like Museo Cerralbo or Museo Sorolla, garden tours, shopping excursions, and touring of contemporary art and architecture sites.
From Madrid, fly to Morocco and transfer to the High Atlas Mountains to Kasbah Tamadot, one of Morocco's most acclaimed luxury retreats, best known for its traditional Moroccan design and stunning infinity pool overlooking the spectacular mountain views. While there, enjoy private touring to local villages and a Berber market.
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Lets say you don't want anyone to be able to log into your windows profile.
I like to save passwords in my web browser.
However, I'm not the only one who has a domain admin account. Someone else can just reset the password in AD and then he/she would be able to log into my machine.
How can I prevent this?
Is there some application which can force an additional login or some other free solutions?
EDIT: Thanks for your suggestions, I meant additional security in general without focusing too much on web browser passwords. Looks like encrypted home directory will solve my problem.


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Talk:Merit Badge worksheets
From MeritBadgeDotOrg
Used your example and did the N-Z. EagleForumFan 18:07, December 16, 2007 (EST)
Finished the links. I took out the # sign because it's REALLY hard on over-40 eyes ;-). EagleForumFan 03:51, December 17, 2007 (EST)'
I put them in a simple table. Design isn't my forte. Please feel free to 'edit mercilessly'.EagleForumFan 03:28, December 19, 2007 (EST)
- Wow. Thanks. I was on vacation for a while these past few days and I come back to see all my work done for me. Great job! --Stranger 10:07, December 22, 2007 (EST)
- per discussion, adding in USScouts links. EagleForumFan 01:39, December 30, 2007 (EST)
- You were using the ones by Craig Lincoln, right? Also, something gone haywire with the Cit. in the Community PDF, can you figure it out? It looks the same as the others on the edit screen. --Stranger 14:22, December 30, 2007 (EST)
- Shows up the same on my screen...EagleForumFan 05:20, January 6, 2008 (EST)
What do you think about adding in "Mr. R's Passports"? They're pretty nice; sort of a condensed worksheet intended to be smaller (4" x 5"). Let me know if you think they'd be a good addition, and I'll put them up (or not). [Mr. R's Passports] EagleForumFan 05:20, January 6, 2008 (EST)
- Decided to put them on the individual pages since they only cover about 20 of the badges. EagleForumFan 01:24, January 25, 2008 (EST)
Merit Badge DVDs Coming Soon
Coming soon you will be able to purchase DVDs with real scouts and real scout masters showing you how to earn your Merit Badge. These DVDs are fun and educational. The series of DVDs is called Build Your Skills Adapted from BSA's Merit Badge Requirements.
All-New Worksheets
The worksheets are completely updated for 2008. Over the past few years, the Boy Scouts of America had updated almost all of the merit badges. Most of the previous worksheets contained wording that did not follow the current BSA requirements. As of March, 2008, all worksheets should now only use the BSA wording. Please email any corrections or suggestions to: Craig
You may have noted that some of the external links were broken or went to requirements that were out of date. Those should all be removed now. If you find any other bad links on any of the merit badge pages, please remove them. If there are external links that are missing from meritbadge.org, we should add them here.
The new worksheets also include many extra materials Scouts need:
- Blank Maps
- Graph paper
- Checklists
- Links to online references
- Over half add free online video lessons
The new worksheets also address formatting issues such as a need for increased line spacing to allow enough room for younger Scouts to write. These changes were made with direction of the site moderators. Milominderbinder2 18:14, March 7, 2008 (EST)
Per the BSA You are expected to meet the requirements as they are stated—no more and no less. You are expected to do exactly what is stated in the requirements.
You really can't stop progress. This all started out as a lowly user's *grins widely* idea saying "Hey, I really wish all those great workbooks from the old site were on this one." All this time later, "this article reflects an official policy of MeritBadgeDotOrg and is protected by an administrative lock." I feel so happy. *grins again, very jokingly*
--Stranger 20:11, April 2, 2008 (EDT)
- The old worksheets will not be moved here. Most contained wording that did not follow the BSA requirements. Users must be able to trust that requirements stated here have not been altered, whether the intentions were good or not. — Milominderbinder2 (Sysop) 23:40, April 2, 2008 (EDT)
- I agree, The Reading worksheet from the old site is not very good. For Requirement 4 (spend four hours in service at one of the provided locations) it asks you to describe your experience. As far as I can tell, all you should need is confirmation from the person in charge of you during those four hours, asking you to describe it is adding to the requirements, which no one can do.--Stranger 17:37, April 13, 2008 (EDT)
- You are exactly correct. The old worksheets altered the wording of many requirements. No one but the BSA can alter the requirements.— Milominderbinder2 (Sysop) 16:01, April 19, 2008 (EDT)
If we are able to upload pdf's here again, here is the old workbooks listing.
The Railroading merit badge worksheet (both the .doc and .pdf) in 8a(3) (which is model railroading, identify gauge & scale...) has extra text that is NOT in the requirements: "Show the correct way to clean and oil model train equipment." That should be deleted. The rest of the text seems to line up nicely with the current requirements.
I haven't yet figured out how to get access to change it, or to contact Sysops, so I'm trying this talk page... :-) Wesley


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New York City (June 6) - IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion Bernard Hopkins held an intimate media roundtable in Midtown Manhattan today to discuss his July 13 title defense against number one rated IBF Light Heavyweight contender Karo Murat, who joined the roundtable via Skype from his training camp in Germany. Below please find quotes from Hopkins, Murat, COO of Golden Boy Promotions David Itskowitch, CEO of Barclays Center Brett Yormark and Executive Vice President and General Manager of SHOWTIME Sports Stephen Espinoza who were also on hand to discuss the highly anticipated fight taking place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. and which will be televised live on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING®.
BERNARD HOPKINS, IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion
"I just found out a month ago, the doctor will be here before the [fight week] press conference hopefully to explain this, but I must confess that I am not human. I am an alien. No, seriously. I realize that Pluto is no longer a planet now, so I'm from Mars. I've definitely retired the 'Executioner.' You will not hear me mention the Executioner.
"Now, I'm in this world but I'm not of this world. There is no aging process for me.
"The breaking news is that I am an alien.
"I reflect a little bit in my mind about not only defending my title, but also defending my historic career.
"I'm a Philly guy. I get a lot of love in Philly, but, to be able to be a part of Brooklyn and to be fighting in a new facility that in 15 or 20 years from now, people will be talking about the great events that happened there and I will be mentioned for what I did on March 9.
"When Murat's name came up and it was agreed upon, I was like 'let's do this.' I see bigger things in my future believe it or not and he's in the way of that.
"I feel like I'm in my mid to early 30's instead of my 40's.
"If you don't know Karo Murat, then you'll know him after July 13.
"I think you should pay attention, because I know when I was a number one contender, I was hungry for a title.
"There's a reason why a fight between Cloud and Murat didn't happen. I got the opportunity to fight with Cloud, and here we are.
"I look at it as 'look what's on my plate.' The burden is on me, not Karo Murat. The burden is on me to be who I am and to show the world that when it comes to age, you know don't count Bernard Hopkins out.
"This guy [Murat] and anybody I fight is a danger at this stage of my career.
"I have to look past him to the future. That means I'm motivated to make a profound statement and outdo the last fight. That's one of my whole objectives is to outdo what people thought was a historic moment March 9. To me, other than the push-ups, I outdid myself in both Jean Pascal fights. This is my motivation. I want a super fight before I retire. If I want that super fight, I have to get past this. This is more of a political, do or die fight for me. I'm good under pressure.
"Karo Murat, to me, is that super fight for now as far as on paper, because there's no reason to talk about anything else if July 13 becomes a disaster for my plans. It's counterproductive to talk about anyone else past July 13.
"Karo Murat has been thirsty, he's been waiting and he has a mentality of, 'I'm in a win win situation because there are a lot of other people who have lost to me. So that's not an embarrassment to him. It's almost like a badge of honor. Can you imagine getting a black eye from someone you loved and watched growing up? This guy was 10 years old when I had a title. That's a shiner that you don't want to heal.
"I'm in a unique situation being 48 and being a guy that you don't want to take a risk with your fighters because I have a history of ruining a lot of young fighters' careers.
"This isn't an off day for me. I'm not taking him lightly because I know what's on the table for my future. This year there is a possible chance that you will see a 48-year-old athlete fighting at a top level three times. Who does that?"
KARO MURAT, Number One Rated IBF Light Heavyweight Contender
"I respect what Bernard's achieved so far in his career, but at the end of the day, I'm traveling to America for the fight of my life. I'm prepared for a battle and I'm going to show you a real battle once we get into the ring.
"Of course I'm taking Bernard seriously. Who wouldn't? Like I said, I've been following his career since I was 10, so I pretty much know all of his moves; everything he does, I know already.
"The deciding factor will be who is mentally stronger and I believe that's me because I don't have the same pressure that Bernard does, so that gives me an advantage.
"I believe there's a big Armenian community in New York, so ever since I found out that I was coming to New York, I've been hoping all of the Armenians will come out and support me.
"I'm happy that he accepted the fight. It's by far the biggest fight of my career.
"It's a joy listening to Bernard. He's a smart guy and it's been quite fun listening to him. In my opinion, the roles have reversed from his fight against Cloud. A lot of people were writing him off because he's old. He was the dark horse in that fight, and I think the roles are switched now. I think right now I'm the underdog. I'm the dark horse. I'm caught in the crosshairs and I'll turn up in the best shape possible. I'll turn up with the right mind set and Bernard Hopkins is going to feel that on July 13."
DAVID ITSKOWITCH, COO of Golden Boy Promotions
"This is the opportunity of a lifetime for Karo Murat. It's his first time fighting in the United States. He's fighting a living legend and a win over Bernard certainly puts him on the boxing map.
"Bernard is a guy that doesn't need much of an introduction, but I feel his accolades are worth mentioning.
"He's the oldest fighter ever to win a world title and one of the greatest moments in sports history was when Jean Pascal was slow getting off of his stool between rounds, Bernard decided to do pushups in the middle of the ring.
"He continued to make history with his record-setting unanimous decision win over previously unbeaten Tavoris Cloud in March at Barclays Center and that showed he's far from finished. I think we're going to be doing these press conferences for a few years to come."
BRETT YORMARK, CEO of Barclays Center
"We're thrilled to be hosting Bernard Hopkins and Karo Murat on July 13. On March 9, it was so dramatic at Barclays Center when we witnessed an incredible moment when Bernard won the title.
"He said to me after the fight that he wanted to make Barclays Center his home away from home, and here we go...he returns in July.
"We had a vision three years ago. Our goal was to bring dramatic moments to Barclays Center. To have a big time return of boxing back to a borough like Brooklyn where there is so much history and I think it's unfolded just the way we've wanted it to.
"We're building a brand and a business in Brooklyn. We're very excited about it.
"We're thrilled that Showtime continues to deliver us to a national audience.
"Thank you Bernard for defending your title at Barclays Center."
STEPHEN ESPINOZA, Executive Vice President & General Manager of SHOWTIME Sports
"We're very happy to be working with Barclays Center again. Brett and his team have been extremely creative in marketing and producing these events. Each event has had a larger crowd than the one prior, and that's a sign of building a very solid business and building a solid venue in Brooklyn.
"We're also very proud to be back in business again with Bernard Hopkins. The words 'living legend' get thrown around quite a bit but he literally is a living legend, a medical marvel and every time he fights it is truly an event.
"That's not to ignore Karo Murat by any means. He's, for those in the U.S. that might not know him as well, a fighter that has been highly avoided by many, many different fighters at different skill levels. I'm not surprised Bernard would take the challenge. It's going to be a very competitive fight."
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Hopkins vs. Murat, a 12-round bout for Hopkins' IBF Light Heavyweight World Championship taking place Saturday, July 13 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, is presented by Golden Boy Promotions, sponsored by Corona and AT&T and will be televised live on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast). The event can also be heard in Spanish on secondary audio programming (SAP). Preliminary fights will air on SHOWTIME EXTREME® at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast).
Tickets priced at $200, $100, $50 and $25, plus applicable taxes, fees and services charges, are on sale now and may be purchased at www.barclayscenter.com, www.ticketmaster.com, the American Express Box Office at Barclays Center, all Ticketmaster locations or by calling 800-745-3000. For group tickets, please call 800-GROUP-BK.


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Confirm your choice by following the instructions.
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| Locked In Steel
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Tollyboy chastity belt
| TollyBoy
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Dickcage DUO
| Dickcage
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Birdlocked Classic
| Birdlocked
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Birdlocked NEO
| Birdlocked
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The shape and flexibility of this cage allow easy introduction and provide a great convenience.
Lancelot Classic
| mh-design
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HolyTrainer V2
| HolyTrainer
If you are looking for an effective and very discrete chastity device, the HolyTrainer offers you incredible comfort and total safety during use, even over a long period. The HolyTrainer is made of a biosourced resin. As for ergonomics, you just need to look at the ring to understand that its shape is perfectly suited to the male anatomy.
Steelwerks Chastity
| Steelwerks
That particular device, along with all of our devices is 100% custom made and is offered in both Stainless or Titanium depending on the budget of the user. Weight is always determined on the end size of the device and there for changes vastly with each and every client. The more material and less ventilation, the more the piece weighs, vice-versa the more ventilation the less the final product will weigh. Stainless in heavier than Titanium, titanium being about 40% lighter and 50% more expensive. On average this cage will weigh in at around 250 grams in Stainless, vs. 175 grams or so in Titanium.
Loris's chastity device
| Mistress Lori's
The device secures chastity by a steel screw, through a piercing such as Prince Albert. It is possible to custom manufacture.
The ring consists of three parts lock, as the model CB3000. The two guide pins hold the pieces together.
| Latowski
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The Bow
| Gerecke Keuschheitsgürtel
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The Dungeon
| Mature Metal
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spiral cock cage
| Silver & Steel
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The Curve
The curve has the property of having a long tube. The rings consist of three parts which fit together like a lock puzzle. The two guide pins maintain the top pieces together.
Watchful Mistress
| Mature Metal
The Mistress Vigilante is very durable and has an open design on the sides to allow for cleaning without compromising security. It is lightweight and compact. It is easy to hide under clothing for daily use.
Exo Belt
| Exo Belt
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Birdlocked Pico
| Birdlocked
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The Desire
| Gerecke Keuschheitsgürtel
The desire is entirely made of stainless steel. The cock ring is round. The length of the curve cage is available in several lengths.
The closure system is a welded pin, which passes through the eyelet located on the cage.
the ring has three parts which fit one inside the other. The two guide pins, allows to maintain the parts together.
CS-100 Chastity belt
| Chastity Steel
The steel chastity belt for men CB "CS 100" is comfortable with its combination of belt. Its security lock opens only if you have the key. It supports well water and urine.
My-Steel chastity device
The edges are coated with silicone. you can choose different colors. The system connects to the waist with belt, and bands at the crotch. The closure at the waist and in the crotch is regulated individually. The parts offer the ability to adjust in weight fluctuations.
Queens Keep
| Mature Metal
The Queens Keep is a solid construction, very comfortable and secure. Its design is easily concealed under clothing.
| BONbdsm
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The Looker 02
| Steelworxx
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The Cage
| Gerecke Keuschheitsgürtel
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The Tube
| Mature Metal
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The looker
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota state lawmaker who called gay sex a moral and a health issue says he regrets the wording of his recent Facebook post but not the sentiment of his controversial comments.
Republican Steve Hickey of Sioux Falls has received both praise and backlash for his remarks. He believes people are tired of hearing the religious argument against homosexuality and wants medical professionals to come forward to explain the health risks of homosexual activity.
The South Dakota Democratic Party has called the remarks "reprehensible."
Hickey tells the Argus Leader (http://argusne.ws/1kI25cn) he "could have spent more time to be more precise." But he also emphasized his core assertion that homosexuality is a "deviation" from "biology and nature."
Hickey says if people object to his views they can "vote me out."


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Please contact us for information on the Duffy 38. This webpage for The Duffy 38 boat is currently being constructed and will be available on our website soon.
Click on a photo to enlarge and view the slide show
In addition to the information on our website, we have individual brochures available for each of the 12 sizes we build as well as standard layout drawings. Atlantic Boat Company gives boatyard tours all year. Please contact us for an appointment and see first hand the quality we build into our boats. All of our boats are built to order and we work closely with each customer to design their boat according to their desires, needs, and budget.


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Events for July 29, 2019
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Pour House Trivia
Pub trivia every Monday Night! Always free to play, always fun. Play in teams of up to 7pm. Food and drink specials from 8pm-10pm. Qualify for the World Series of Trivia and you can win $1,000s in cash and prizes.Find out more »


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Jensen dynamically and intelligently reflows your galleries based on the size of the browser window. By default, the first image in a gallery will be used as its thumbnail, but you can override that by uploading an image to Thumbnail Image in that gallery's Page Settings. When you click on a thumbnail, the images in a project are displayed vertically, and the thumbnails of all your projects are at the bottom of the page.
You can set the size of the gallery thumbnails in the Index with the Project Width setting under Size & Values in the Style Editor (note that this is a maximum width). Set the width of the overlay that slides in to show the project details with Project Detail Width under Sizes & Values.
Page Width, under Sizes & Values, sets the width of the blog and regular pages.
Other controls for the thumbnails include:
The Index Page consists of a series of galleries. All galleries filed under Index will be displayed in the masonry-style layout described above, rather than as individual gallery pages.
If you connect your social accounts (do this in the backend under Settings > Social Accounts > + Add Account), the links will appear as icons under the main site navigation. The size, color, and style of these are editable in the Style Editor under Social Icon Size, Social Icon Color, and Social Icon Style.
Jensen works best with a fairly large number of galleries in the Index. To create this, add a new gallery page under the index section rather than the main navigation. Galleries that are added as pages will appear differently to galleries under the index.
One-off gallery pages, blog pages, links, folders, and empty pages can all be added to the main navigation. These pages will appear in the main navigation in the left of the Header.
To add a title and description for any gallery (either a standalone gallery or a gallery in the Index), click into Page Settings at the top right corner of the Gallery View. The Navigation Title will appear as a link in the index navigation. The Page Title will appear at the top of the Project Detail view. The description will appear under the images in the Project Detail view.


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Family Trivia: Sources for Public Records
As a scrapbooker (and the family storyteller), you know that the cool and interesting "betcha didn't know this!" trivia is exactly what you want to capture on your layouts. Read on for links to help you research your family history.
Scrapbook about your family heirlooms and why they're important to you. After receiving a painting of her grandfather that was done by a French artist during World War II, Cindy Tobey wanted to know about his war story. She did some research online and found out which battalion he was in and some of the things his battalion did during the war. She discovered that she can request his military records from the National Archives and plans to do so very soon.
Grandpa's Close Call by Cindy Tobey, as seen in the July/August 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
Need help researching your family history? Check out the links to get you started on page 2.
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The Florida RV Trade Association (FRVTA) will host the 29th Annual 2014 Florida RV SuperShow Jan. 15-19. According to a press release, the RV SuperShow will again be held at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa.
FRVTA reported that the 2014 SuperShow will have representation from every major RV manufacturer as well as hundreds of accessory booths exhibitors. "We will have more supplier booths and every type, size and style of RV on the market," said Marketing Director David Kelly. "With the addition of new entertainment and more seminars, we're anticipating record crowds this year. We're also renewing the two-day pass so the public will have two full days to see everything at the SuperShow at no additional cost."
The theme of the 2014 Florida RV SuperShow is "It's Your Turn."
"A lot of people have held off either buying their first RV or upgrading what they have," Kelly said. "The 'It's Your Turn' theme conveys that now's the best time to buy, and you deserve it. With hundreds of RVs on display and educational seminars, the SuperShow is the place to trade in your old RV or get all the information you need to get acquainted with the RV lifestyle."
In addition, some of Florida's finest campgrounds and resorts will have booth exhibits to show attendees the best camping opportunities found anywhere. A huge display of camping accessories and supplies will be found in the Camping World Store. Entertainment will include clowns and unicycle riders along with barbershop quartets and bagpipe bands.
The Super Rally celebrates its 27th year at the SuperShow. The rally is open to any RV clubs and the general public, and offers a number of amenities, including free admission to the SuperShow all five public days, meeting facilities for RV clubs, free coffee and donuts every morning, and seminars. Three nights of entertainment and refreshments are also included.
Admission to the SuperShow is $10 for adults and that includes a second day admission for the cost of one day and children under 16 are free. The SuperShow hours are Wednesday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. s).
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On the occasion of the International Women's Day, a Safir daily provides the following information on the status of the Lebanese women.
* 50.48 percent of the country's population are women
* 27 percent of the women are economically active out of a labor force of 3.1 million workers
* 49 percent of the working women cover more than 40 percent of their families' expenditures
* The average salary of men is higher by 27 percent compared to women. In some professions, this gap widens to 85 percent
* The average wage in Lebanon hits LL689,000 per month (LL732,000 for man, but just LL568,000 for woman)
* Illiteracy rate among females (10 years and plus) equals 16 percent (among males just 2.7 percent). (LL1507=$1)
© 2000 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)


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Among the many books getting the feature film treatment in the coming year is Joseph Delaney's The Spook's Apprentice, or in the U.S., The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch, which is going by the title The Seventh Son for the film adaptation, directed by Sergey Brodrov. A couple of photos have made their way online, which give us a look at some of the leads, including Jeff Bridges as Master Gregory and Ben Barnes as the titled Seventh Son, Tom Ward.
The first in a series of fantasy novels, The Spook's Apprentice introduces us to Tom Ward, a kid (in the book, he's twelve) who is the seventh son of a seventh son, which makes him eligible for apprenticeship under the local "Spook," Master Gregory, whose job it is to rid the villages of evil. USA Today shared a couple of photos for the film, the first of which shows Barnes as Tom Ward and Bridges as the cloaked and staff-carrying Master Gregory.
That staff may prove especially useful against witches! And speaking of which (or witch), USA today also shared a small photo of Julianne Moore as the malevolent, blood-sucking witch Mother Malkin.
It's a small look at the actor in make-up for the role, which reunites Moore with The Big Labowski's Jeff Bridges. The dude abides.
The Seventh Son arrives in theaters October 18, 2013. More information can be found in our Blend Film Database. And for those interested in the book, Amazon currently has The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch available for Kindle for the very low price of $1.99. The price might not stay that low for long, so if you have access to a Kindle (or Kindle app), now would be the time to grab that deal.


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HOUSTON - The Houston Texans botched a chance to lock up home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs with their worst offensive showing of the season in Sunday's 23-6 loss to the Minnesota Vikings.
"Very disappointing because we had a chance to line up here and get something done today," coach Gary Kubiak said. "That doesn't mean we still can't get it done. That's the most important thing."
Houston (12-3) could still clinch home-field advantage next Sunday with a win at Indianapolis.
The Texans' latest stumble was fueled by an anemic running game that combined for 34 yards and an inability to convert on third downs.
"We didn't play well," Kubiak said. "I think we battled defensively, but offensively we probably played as bad as we've played. I take full responsibility for that. It's a huge, huge disappointment. We've got to get over it really quick."
Quarterback Matt Schaub went 18 of 32 for 178 yards, and Andre Johnson caught seven passes for 97 yards, but the Texans were a woeful 1 for 11 on third downs.
While Houston had a season-low 187 yards in failing to score a touchdown for the first time since the 2006 season, the Vikings (9-6) were 9 for 18 on third-down conversions.
"That was frustrating," said Texans defensive end J.J. Watt, who had a sack to give him 201/2, making him the ninth player in NFL history with 20 sacks in a season. "I know we gave up some third-and-shorts. We can't put ourselves in that situation."
Arian Foster, Houston's leading rusher, left the game with an irregular heartbeat in the third quarter and did not return. He finished with 15 yards rushing on 10 carries. He also had two catches for 14 yards.
"He's doing fine," Kubiak said. "That is something that happened once before in practice . (It was a) precaution."
Ben Tate took over midway through the third quarter and didn't fare much better, totaling 17 yards on four carries.
The Texans held Vikings running back Adrian Peterson to below-average numbers, but Minnesota found other ways to inflict damage.
One of them was rookie kicker Blair Walsh, who made three field goals, including a record-setting 56-yarder in the first half. The kick gave Walsh, a rookie, the NFL record with nine field goals of 50 yards or longer this season.
Peterson finished with 86 yards on 25 carries, leaving him with 1,898 yards for the season and 208 short of the Eric Dickerson's NFL record for yards rushing in a single season.
Peterson had his lowest rushing total since getting 79 yards on Oct. 14 in a loss at Washington, breaking a streak of eight 100-yard games.
He is trying to become just the seventh player in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a season and the first since Chris Johnson in 2009.
Christian Ponder threw a touchdown pass, and Toby Gerhart added a score to cap the win for the Vikings, who remain in contention for a playoff spot with a game to go.
"We have to play better in all facets of the game," Watt said.
The Vikings took a 10-3 lead on the 56-yard field goal by Walsh.
Houston got within 10 points before Gerhart's 3-yard run extended the lead to 23-6 with about five minutes left in the fourth quarter. That drive was helped by a 29-yard carry by Ponder.
Ponder was 16 of 30 for 174 yards to help the Vikings pile up 345 yards. He finished with seven rushes for 48 yards - 14 more yards rushing than the Texans had.
Houston got to the Minnesota 1 with a 12-yard reception by Kevin Walter late in the third quarter. Then came an incomplete pass followed by a run for no gain by Tate. Schaub was sacked by Fred Evans for a loss of 14 yards to make the Texans settle for a 33-yard field to cut the lead to 16-6.
"It was ugly," Kubiak said. "We made things really hard on ourselves."
Houston had to punt on its first possession of the third quarter, but got the ball right back when Watt sacked Ponder and forced a fumble. Bradie James recovered, but the Texans couldn't take advantage of the miscue and had to punt again.
"We hurt ourselves," Schaub said. "We had a chance. We've got to execute and have a killer instinct to score down there."
The Vikings extended their lead to 16-3 when Walsh made a 39-yard field goal on the first drive of the second half.
Houston was on the Minnesota 28 early in the second quarter when Jasper Brinkley forced Foster's fumble, which was recovered by A.J. Jefferson.
Houston had to punt later in the second quarter when Schaub was sacked for a 9-yard loss. A 41-yard field goal by Walsh left Minnesota up 13-3 at halftime.
Peterson ran for 20 yards to get Minnesota's offense going. The Vikings took a 7-3 lead when Kyle Rudolph grabbed a 3-yard touchdown reception. Rudolph also had a 27-yard catch that drive.
Notes: The Texans wore decals with the initials S.H.E.S. as a tribute to the school shooting victims at Sandy Hook. ... Playing in his 137th game, Johnson got his 800th career reception on his first catch, making him the second-fastest player to reach the milestone. Marvin Harrison did it in his 131st game. ... Johnson has 100 catches this season, making him the fifth player in NFL history to have at least 100 catches in four or more seasons.


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CBS wants to help you sneak peeks of the NCAA Tournament with the help of the "Boss Button." Leslie Kwoh reports.
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Requiem was MacMillan's tribute to his friend John Cranko, who had died unexpectedly three years earlier. They had known each other since 1946, when both were students at the Sadler's Wells Ballet School and soon to become members of the touring company. South African-born Cranko knew from early on that he was to become a choreographer; MacMillan took longer to discover his vocation.
Cranko had gone on to become artistic director of the Stuttgart Ballet from 1961 until his death in 1973. He gave MacMillan ready access to the Stuttgart company until their friendship soured in 1970. When MacMillan was ready to create a requiem ballet, the music he chose was vetoed by the Royal Opera House board of governors. Certain board members declared that setting a ballet to Fauré's sacred music would offend religious sensibilities. MacMillan turned instead to Marcia Haydée, by then artistic director of the Stuttgart Ballet, asking if she would welcome the Fauré Requiem as a memorial to Cranko. She accepted without hesitation, confident that the Stuttgart opera company would provide the singers the choral work required.
The ballet was a portrait of the Stuttgart ballet company as a community coming to terms with the loss of a much-loved leader. Haydée, still dancing as well as directing, was the central figure embodying their grief before consoling them. Although the choreography was created on specific dancers, who were Cranko's favourites as well as MacMillan's, the roles are generic: the performers are sometimes human mourners, sometimes angels or spirits. MacMillan based many of the choreographic images on William Blake's symbolic drawings and paintings, though he did not show the dancers the illustrations he had in mind.
A huddled mass of mourners enter to the Introitus, hammering their fists in anger, their mouths open in silent howls of grief. They raise the Haydée figure aloft as if she were an offering; she rolls on a sea of hands, a soul on a journey to becoming a blessed spirit. She dances a pas de deux in the Offertorium and the Sanctuswith two different men, who have their own anguished solos. Her solo to the Pie Jesu, a prayer for eternal peace, is a marvel of simplicity. She touches the ground – the Earth – as though exploring the light falling upon it. She returns at the end of the Agnus Deito comfort a grieving young woman, suspended above her by a group of men like an angel of mercy bestowing a blessing.
In the final section, In Paradisum, the company gathers around a pool of light as if witnessing the departure of a soul to heaven. Women are flown in from the wings, lifted by men with upstretched arms. At the end, all depart in a procession, backs to the audience, leaving the stage bathed in white light.
Yolanda Sonnabend's set consists of tall fibreglass panels lit to appear translucent, with a white backcloth and floor. Costumes are lycra body-tights, the torsos painted with striations resembling veins and muscles. Sonnabend based them on Vesalius's anatomical studies and Blake's illustrations of bodies in extremis. One of the male soloists wears only a loin-cloth, making him resemble a biblical figure. The central woman is distinguished from the others by a semi-transparent chiffon shift. MacMillan told Sonnabend that he was aiming for a similar spareness to the designs for The Song of the Earth, the work Requiem most closely resembles.
Requiem was well-received in Stuttgart and in Washington, D.C, when the Stuttgart Ballet took it on tour to the United States six months later. Clive Barnes in The New York Timesand John Percival in The Times, both known to be harsh critics of MacMillan's work on occasion, praised the ballet and reproached the Royal Ballet for missing an important work by its own choreographer. MacMillan had given the Stuttgart Ballet exclusive rights to Requiem for six years. The Royal Ballet took it into the repertoire in 1983, where it joined Voluntaries, Glen Tetley's 1973 tribute to John Cranko.
First performance: Württembergische Staatstheater, Stuttgart, 28 November 1976
Company: Stuttgart Ballet
Cast: Marcia Haydée, Birgit Keil, Richard Cragun Egon Madsen, Reid Anderson
Music: Gabriel Fauré, Requiem
Design: Yolanda Sonnabend
Benesh notation score: Jane Bourne, Georgette Tsinguirides (1976). Working score


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Help the Ransom Center plan an exhibition about design by answering the questions in this survey. The survey should take about 15 minutes to complete. Those who complete the survey will be entered into a drawing to receive a first edition of The Brooklyn Museum of Art's exhibition catalogue The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941.
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The Ransom Center notes with great sorrow the death of Anthony Bertram Rota on December 13, 2009. As managing director and chairman of Bertram Rota Ltd, the London-based antiquarian bookseller was greatly influential in shaping the Center's renowned holdings of the papers of numerous nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first–century British writers. Over a succession of five Ransom Center directors, the firm sold more than 500 collections to the Center, including the personal papers of several writing dynasties, notably those of Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell, and Theodore Francis, Llewellyn, and John Cowper Powys.
In his memoir, Books in the Blood (Oak Knoll Press, 2002), Anthony Rota recalled his annual travels to the United States: "In a two or three-week trip I would visit between seven and ten university libraries, sometimes speaking to gatherings of professional staff and sometimes talking to students who were English majors. . . I went to New York and to Austin each year. I always arranged for my time in Texas to fall so that it covered a weekend, for I soon had many friends in town and I liked the outdoor lifestyle that they followed." His annual visits were as eagerly anticipated by Ransom Center staff; occasions for barbeque and margaritas as much as for books and manuscripts.
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South Africa v British & Irish Lions, Johannesburg, July 4
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South Africa coach Peter de Villiers has admitted to regrets over the media storm that he courted when he appeared to condone gouging following Schalk Burger's eight-week ban for the offence. Burger was banned following an incident involving British & Irish Lions wing Luke Fitzgerald in the second Test at Loftus Versfeld last weekend.
De Villiers said that he felt "stupid" for allowing himself to be sucked in by the British media.
"A lot was said this week, I think too much," he said. "The off-the-field stuff sometimes gives you more sleepless nights than the on-field stuff. We had negative media from Britain in 1974 and 1980 and now I've allowed it again in 2009. What a stupid bugger I am! I've learnt that if they can't win on the field then they will try to win anywhere else they can."
De Villiers has rung the changes for his side to face the Lions in the third and final Test in Johannesburg on Saturday, with an all-new back three in Zane Kirchner, Odwa Ndungane and Jongi Nokwe, a revamped centre partnership in Jaque Fourie and Wynand Olivier and a chance at fly-half for the hero of the second Test Morne Steyn.
He is without Burger and lock Bakkies Botha, who was unsuccessful in appealing a two-week ban for an illegal charge on Lions prop Adam Jones, their places taken by Heinrich Brussow and Sharks skipper Johann Muller.
De Villiers thought long and hard about his team selection, which he felt will give the Springboks more energy in a game which is effectively a dead rubber.
"I've changed my mind on tough selection calls four or five times this week, but I've stopped changing my mind now," he said. "It's such a huge occasion for the 28 that, come Saturday, when we get the trophy, we want the guys to feel as one on the pitch.
"The hard yards have been done already by then so I feel it's appropriate to give the guys the same opportunity to show why they are in the squad in the first place. We believe the guys selected are as good as the others and that they can go out and do an outstanding job for the Springboks. They will also bring fresh energy to the team after two tough Tests."
Lions coach Ian McGeechan has also been forced in to changes, due to injuries to centres Brian O'Driscoll and Jamie Roberts and props Adam Jones and Gethin Jenkins, but is hopeful that his new-look side can still avoid a series whitewash.
"We've tried to freshen it up - there have been some tight calls over the first two Tests," he said. "We gave the players a break earlier in the week, but we are back to it now and very keen to finish with a win. They (the first two Tests) have been two fantastic games of rugby, with a lot of plusses, and I hope it will be the same again on Saturday.
"We certainly don't want to go back on the way we've been playing or on our approach and attitude. If we get enough right, we hope we will be in there with a shot of winning the game. We've got a new challenge. Those players are very keen they show their own capabilities, and I am very encouraged by just what they've done in training this week.
"The players out there will want to respond very positively. If we play well enough to win, it will be a very sweet victory."
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The comprehensive tax reform proposal Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., introduced in February would make significant changes to charitable contributions.
Camp's tax overhaul seeks to simplify the U.S. tax code and grow the economy. "The best way to promote charitable giving to the organizations doing so much good in communities across the country is to improve the overall economy, which is precisely what comprehensive tax reform is designed to achieve."
With regard to charitable giving, it would extend the time individual taxpayers could deduct donations to nonprofits past the close of the tax year to the April 15 filing deadline. It would also eliminate the ability of donors to avoid capital gains on gifts of property.
Whether the proposal has any chance of a House Ways & Means Committee markup this year is an open question.
For one thing, it appears unlikely that any tax reform will take place before November's midterm elections. For another, reports suggest that Camp's proposal has run into significant headwinds among Republican colleagues in the House.
Still, Camp's proposals for charitable deductions offer an insight into the thinking of a key player on Capitol Hill.
AGI Limitations
One area of charitable giving that would see dramatic simplification is limits on contributions based on adjusted gross income. The AGI limitation currently varies depending on the type of property contributed and the type of exempt group receiving the property.
The Camp proposal would consolidate the 50% limitation for cash donations and the 30% limitation on contributions of capital gain, or appreciated, property to public charities at a single limit of 40%.
In addition, it would harmonize the 30% donation limit for cash contributions and the 20% limit for contributions of capital gain property that apply to organizations that are not covered by the current 50% limitation rule (for example, contributions to private foundations) as a single limit of 25%.
This means that contributions to entities such as private foundations would be permissible to the extent they did not exceed the lesser of either the 25% of AGI or the excess of 40% of AGI for the tax year over the amount of charitable contributions subject to the 25% limitation.
2% Floor
The Camp proposal provides that an individual's charitable contributions can be deducted only to the extent they exceed 2% of his or her AGI. The reduction would apply to charitable contributions in this order:
- Contributions subject to the 25% of AGI limitations
- Qualified conservation contributions
- Contributions subject to the 40% limitation
An analysis by the Congressional Research Services said that this floor would improve the tax code's efficiency.
Value of Deductions
Proposed rules for determining the value of a deduction for contributions of property—fair market value or adjusted basis—would be simplified. The amount of any charitable deduction for the most part would be equal to the adjusted basis of the donated property—generally the cost at acquisition.
As a result, the CRS noted, donors would no longer be able to avoid capital gains and receive a tax benefit.
However, for some types of property, the deduction would be based on fair market value less any ordinary gain that would have been realized if the property had been sold by the taxpayer at its fair market value:
- Tangible property related to the donor-exempt group's purpose
- Any qualified conservation contribution
- Any qualified inventory contribution
- Any qualified research property
- Publicly traded stock
Moreover, the proposal would preserve the current law rule that provides a higher valuation for the charitable deduction for inventory donated solely for the care of the ill, the needy or infants.
Qualified Conservation Contributions
Camp's proposal would make permanent special, temporary rules for conservation easements, including those that apply to farmers or ranchers.
The general rule would limit deductions for conservation easements to 40% of AGI. Farmers and ranchers would still be able to take a charitable deduction up to 100% of AGI for property used in agricultural or livestock production.
The provision would also clarify that land reasonably expected to be used as a golf course would not qualify as a charitable deduction.
Other Provisions
The Camp proposal would repeal a special rule that provides a charitable deduction of 80% of the amount paid for the right to purchase tickets for athletic events.
As well, the proposal would no longer allow income from intellectual property contributed to a charity as an additional contribution by the donor. However, the deduction for the contribution of the intellectual property would be retained.
Increased Giving?
If Camp's tax reform proposal became law, it would reduce the rate of taxpayers who itemize to 5%, down from about one-third at present, as the remaining 95% would avail themselves of a larger standard deduction.
The congressman insists that proposed changes to charitable contribution rules would still provide tax incentives for taxpayers who would continue to itemize.
Beyond that, extending the contribution deadline to the due date of the return will boost giving because many taxpayers will decide to be more generous when they are preparing and finalizing their returns.
The Camp proposal says research shows total charitable giving is tied more closely to the overall economy's health than to specific tax policies that may be in place. It says the proposal, by creating a stronger economy, would increase charitable giving by as much as $2.2 billion a year, based on calculations using data from the Joint Committee on Taxation.
The CRS cast doubt on this claim, noting that the proposal would cut the number of tax filers itemizing, and reduce incentives to giving for middle- and upper-middle-income taxpayers. In addition, the macroeconomic effect of tax reform is uncertain because of possible effects of increasing effective marginal tax rates on economic growth.
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