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Mobile Phone and Tablet Mounting Bracket
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LED lights last more than 50 times longer than sealed-beam halogens and consume up to 75% less energy.
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iMatch Quick-Hitch
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Expand the functionality of your tractor and bring more versatility to your operation with a rear hydraulic kit. The rear hydraulic outlet kit routes hydraulic power from dual mid Selective Control Valves (SCVs) to two sets of couplers at the rear of the tractor.
Rear Work Lights
Illuminate your rear implements and increase visibility while working in hard-to-see places or long after sunset. These bright lights deliver just the right amount of light so you can work more efficiently wherever additional light is needed.
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4th and 5th SCVs
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Provide live hydraulic power to your implements that have an open-center control valve. This kit is required for installing a backhoe on your tractor.
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Redirect exhaust away from the operator's station.
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Prevent your warning lights from being broken or scratched with this kit. Ideal when working near low-hanging trees or woody vegetation.
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Add more visibility to front loader or implement work. Includes two lights and all the components you'll need for fast, easy installation.
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Cavaliers advance to district tourney
Mercer County ACME Sectional Tournament
By Gary R. Rasberry
Coldwater's Adam Klosterman, left, tags out Parkway's Cody Depweg at second base
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ST. HENRY - Fast starts proved to be a successful strategy on Wednesday during the Mercer County ACME sectional tournament as one team punched their ticket to the district tournament while another avoided elimination.
Coldwater scored seven times in the top of the first inning and went on to win the winner's bracket final and secure an automatic spot in the district - which the Cavaliers are hosting - with a 9-3 win over Parkway at the Wally Post Athletic Complex.
The Cavaliers will now wait for the winner of tonight's Celina-Parkway elimination game which will start at 6 p.m.
Celina, which lost to Parkway on Monday, won its first elimination game 3-2 over Marion Local on Tuesday before sending the host St. Henry Redskins home for the summer with an 8-5 win on Wednesday. St. Henry had advanced to Wednesday with an 8-7 win in eight innings over Fort Recovery on Tuesday.
Coldwater 9, Parkway 3
The Cavaliers loaded the bases in the first inning against Parkway's Cain Pontsler thanks to a hit by pitch, a walk and a fielder's choice when Coldwater's Drew Otten beat the throw to second.
Pontsler managed to get the next batter out, but Matt Selhorst's fly ball to center was deep enough to score Mitch Heyne to put the Cavs on top 1-0.
Blake Spangler's base hit reloaded the bases for Adam Klosterman, who walked to give the Cavs a 2-0 advantage. Grant Muhlenkamp brought home two more runs with a single and Matt Kramer followed with an RBI ground out. Pontsler was chased from the mound after walking Mitch Schoenherr and giving up a double to Heyne.
"That was key because the rest of the game was pretty even," said Coldwater's coach Tom Brunswick about the Cavs' quick start. "Parkway is going to battle to the end."
After the seven-run first inning, Parkway's relief pitcher Cody Depweg held Coldwater to just two more runs over the next 5 1/3 innings before Kameron Roehm threw a scoreless seventh.
While Parkway managed to score runs in the first, third and sixth innings, the early deficit proved too much to overcome.
"We really struggled in the first inning. I give credit to Coldwater. They came out and hit the ball," said Parkway's coach Kirk Stephenson."We just had some mistakes defensive-wise that could have minimized the damage. After the first inning, we played with them hit-for-hit and defense-for-defense. Whole different game after that."
Derek Thobe went the distance for Coldwater and allowed three runs, all unearned because of four Cavaliers' errors, on eight hits.
Celina 8, St. Henry 5
The Bulldogs got to St. Henry's pitcher Ryan Mikesell in the top of the first, putting the first four batters on base by either walk or hit. Aric Fickert and Kaleb Kuhn each had RBI singles with Skylar McCarter adding an RBI sacrifice fly as the Bulldogs jumped on top 3-0.
"We needed to come out and get the bats going," said Celina's coach Todd Steinbrunner. "Last couple of games we had a little trouble getting some hits together (five runs the last two games). Getting ahead in the first inning helps your confidence."
Celina got much-needed runs in the third and fourth to provide a cushion as the Redskins were able to battle back and pose as a threat.
"I probably left Ryan in too long," said St. Henry's coach Andy Mikesell. "He's only pitching on three days' rest (pitched in relief on Tuesday). Jason (Jacobs, who came to pitch the final three innings) pitched well. I didn't think he would having pitched two days ago. Probably should have went sooner to (Jacobs)."
Fickert, who threw several innings in relief on Monday, threw six innings while Riley Luebke, who also pitched Monday, went the final inning for a save.
"Aric was throwing on one day's rest," said Steinbrunner. "... I talked to him yesterday. Being a senior leader, he wanted the ball.
"Riley, another senior, came in and shut the door on one day's rest. That's big for us."
Tuesday's Games
St. Henry 8, Fort Recovery 7 (8 innings)
Briar Holloman's one-out single in the bottom of the eighth inning scored Brian Kremer to cap off a comeback win for the Redskins while ending Fort Recovery's ACME season.
The Indians led 4-0 after three innings before the Redskins scored three in the fourth to get within one. Fort Recovery added three runs in the fifth but St. Henry scored two in the sixth and two more in the seventh to tie the game before getting the game winner. Kremer singled with one out in the eighth, followed by walks to Mikesell and Devin Froning to set up the winning hit by Holloman.
Celina 3, Marion Local 2
Vogel had a record night on the mound for the Bulldogs as the left-hander struck out 18 Flyers to keep the top-seeded Bulldogs alive after losing on Monday.
Vogel threw 5 1/3 innings of no-hit baseball before Blake Benton and Kyle Mescher had back-to-back singles for the Flyers in the sixth.
Marion Local's pitcher Peyton Kramer allowed just five hits in taking the tough-luck loss.
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BOSTON — Tim Thomas was ready for anything as he prepared Saturday to make his first start since March 15.
He knew there'd be shots coming his way, followed by some Calgary bodies.
"That's what they do," said Thomas, after he drew two goaltender interference penalties and stopped 31 shots in a 5-0 win over the Flames at TD Garden. "We actually saw that in the video before the game. That's what they do, so you're prepared for it. I'm just not going to change the way that I play. That's the worst thing you can do because they'll get goals off of it if you change the way you play. You have to put yourself in vulnerable positions sometimes and that's what kind of happened on that one play."
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Salvete, amici!
Just recently, I've decided to keep a "journal" documenting the little things about Latin (and Greek) that always trip me up. These things might include tricky bits of grammar or words that I tend to mix up. One of my entries, for example, explains the differences between ab, de, and ex.
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Democratising development drop by drop
Can a new set of brains bring a new set of solutions to water problems? Water is at the heart of some of the world's most pressing development challenges. For example:
- human development: diarrhea kills more children than AIDS, malaria and TB combined.
- energy security: hydropower is the only renewable energy source currently deployed at scale
- food security: agriculture will face increasingly powerful demands to allocate water to urban, industrial and environmental services.
- urban development: droughts and floods will grow more intense and frequent in cities.


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Jesef Williams
KERSHAW – The town of Kershaw wants to tap into a federal funding source that has assisted other governmental entities in Lancaster County before.
On Monday, Kershaw Town Council discussed how the town can quality for a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant. The money would pay for sewer line replacements along the old mill area, just north of the town limits.
Affected areas include First, Second, Third and Fourth streets.
Reece Murphy
After years of preparation, the Lancaster County School District is ready for a rigorous new accreditation process set to begin next week.
Accreditation is the certification process that ensures an educational body maintains standards that qualify its graduates for admissions to institutions of higher learning.
In past accreditations, the once-every-five-years process was reserved for each of the district's 19 schools individually, a process that was both time consuming and expensive.
Gregory A. Summers
A few leaves are falling from the big water oak tree in front of the picnic shelter at St. Luke United Methodist Church.
The tree has started to shed its foliage, a sure sign that cold winter days are ahead.
In no time at all, all of its slivered-shaped hardwood leaves will be gone, just like the Elgin Grammar School building that it used to provide shade for.
But the love of that small community schoolhouse and the friendships made there never fade with the seasons.
Jesef Williams
Past crimes and convictions can hamper you when it comes to finding a job. Several residents are aware of that and took time out Oct. 8 to learn what they can do about it.
Doug Barfield, solicitor for the state's 6th Circuit, gave a presentation that morning about expungements. He spoke during a special event held at Faith, Hope & Victory Christian Church on South Gregory Street in Lancaster.
Personnel from S.C. Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon were there as well.
Jesef Williams
A sport that hasn't received much exposure locally is now the main focus for an upcoming fundraiser that benefits an area group home.
The Lancaster Children's Home has organized a clay shoot, which will be Monday morning at Meadow Wood Farm, just across the county line.
The event, called the Fall Flurry, was first discussed in the spring among The Children's Home board of directors.
Christopher Sardelli
The county's Emergency Management department has finally found its new command center.
Only minutes after returning from closed session following its Oct. 10 meeting, Lancaster County Council unanimously approved acquiring a building for Emergency Management to move into. Located along North White Street, the building was first built and used by Duke Power, before it was most recently used by Founders Federal Credit Union.
Reece Murphy
An attempt to avoid an accident with a deer led to a trip to the emergency room for a Lancaster woman involved in a single-car accident Wednesday morning.
The accident occurred about 5:30 a.m. as Tammy Starnes, 42, of Old Woodlawn Road, drove southbound on McIlwain Road, S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Billy Elder said.
Elder said Starnes swerved to avoid a deer that stepped out in front of her 2005 Chrysler PT Cruiser, ran off the left side of the road and hit a tree.
Jesef Williams
Folks in the Heath Springs area still have a chance to voice concerns about proposed changes that will affect recreation teams there.
Sherry Wilson, director of Lancaster County Parks and Recreation, said talks began over the summer about consolidating the Heath Springs programs into the Andrew Jackson system in Kershaw.
That area has seen minimal participation compared to other parts of the county. For instance, there were only enough registrants to field teams in T-ball and fall soccer.
Gladys Bell Duncan, 87
Gladys Bell Duncan, 87, died Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011.
She was the daughter of late James and Annie Bell Reeves Duncan.
Survivors include a sister, Mildred Duncan McGriff of Orangeburg; and a special care giver, Dorothy Ann Isreal of Lancaster.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, at Crawford Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. Gary Steven and Bishop Walker Tucker.
A Heath Springs teen died Monday afternoon in a single-car accident on U.S. 521.
Lancaster County Deputy Coroner Christy Massey identified the victim as 18-year-old Joshua Smith.
Smith is the son of Marybeth and Curtis Smith of the 3900 block of Old Camden Highway.
The accident happened at 4:10 p.m., about three miles north of Lancaster near Shiloh Unity Road, said S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Bill Rhyne.
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AUTHOR: Lee Child
SYNOPSIS: Jack Reacher is on the road trying to hitch a ride out of Nebraska, hopefully to end up in Virginia. Finally, a car stops to pick him up — two men in front and a woman in the back. This ride goes terribly wrong and Reacher ends up involved with covert agencies and dangerous terrorists. Lee Child at his best.
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SEATTLE (AP) Felix Hernandez put an exclamation on the best first half of his career by outpitching Jeff Samardzija and shutting down the team with the top record in baseball.
The next start for Seattle's ace could come Tuesday night for the American League in the All-Star game.
''An honor. I would love to do it,'' Hernandez said. ''We'll see.''
Hernandez continued his roll with eight strong innings, Robinson Cano hit a go-ahead double and the Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 3-2 Friday night.
Hernandez (11-2) reached 11 victories before the All-Star break for the first time in his career, getting nicked for two early runs and then shutting down the AL West-leading A's the rest of the night.
Hernandez made his 11th straight start going at least seven innings and giving up two earned runs or less. It's the longest streak for an AL pitcher since Gaylord Perry had 11 straight for Cleveland in 1974. The only longer streaks were by Tom Seaver (13 games in 1971) and Mike Scott (12 games in 1986).
Fernando Rodney got his 27th save, although the ninth wasn't without fireworks. Rodney walked Derek Norris, who reached third with two outs. Rodney then went to 3-2 on Nick Punto and got him on a called strike three to end the game.
Punto slammed his batting helmet to the ground with both hands and argued with plate umpire James Hoye, and A's manager Bob Melvin joined in, saying the full-count pitch missed the strike zone.
''All the pitches are strikes,'' Rodney quipped afterward.
Melvin and the A's found no humor in the call.
''I thought it was a little up, maybe a little in. It was just one of those the heat of the moment gets to you a bit,'' Punto said.
Cano came through with the clutch base hit Seattle has lacked. James Jones doubled with two outs in the sixth and Cano followed with a flare that landed inches fair down the left-field line to break a 2-all tie.
Seattle had been 2 for 35 with runners in scoring position prior to Cano's double.
Hernandez struck out nine and gave up six hits. He rebounded following a shaky first inning to stop the team with the best record in baseball.
Oakland scored a pair of rare first-inning runs off Seattle's ace.
Stephen Vogt's solo homer was just the sixth allowed by Hernandez this season, extending his hitting streak to 11 games. Josh Donaldson followed with a double and scored on Jed Lowrie's single that sneaked through the infield.
Hernandez had given up three first-inning runs all season.
But after Lowrie's single, Hernandez permitted just four baserunners. He struck out the side in the fourth and sixth inning and needed just five pitches to cruise through the seventh.
''I was locked in. I was throwing a lot of strikes,'' Hernandez said. ''After that everything was working.''
Hernandez found himself in a jam in the fifth with runners on the corners and two outs, but Donaldson flied out.
After Vogt led off the eighth with a single, Donaldson grounded into a double play, drawing a fist pump and scream from Hernandez. He then got Brandon Moss to ground out on his 101st pitch to end the eighth and his night.
Seattle catcher Mike Zunino said the adjustment after the first was using more offspeed pitches early in the count and Hernandez being able to throw those for strikes.
''Just to have them take a pitch and he was able to do that and work ahead,'' Zunino said.
Seattle chipped away at Samardzija, starting with Logan Morrison's homer leading off the second. Seattle pulled even in the third when Brad Miller doubled, advanced to third on Zunino's groundout and scored on Endy Chavez's sacrifice fly.
Samardzija is 1-1 with Oakland after going 2-7 for the Chicago Cubs. He threw eight innings, allowing only five hits and striking out five.
NOTES: Hernandez won 10 games before the All-Star break in 2009 and 2013. ... Oakland 1B Alberto Callaspo left the game in the second inning after straining his right hamstring running out a ground ball. ... Oakland OF Coco Crisp was out of Friday's lineup with a sore neck and Melvin unsure of his availability for the series.


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LaVerkin City lies on the north banks of the Virgin River opposite Hurricane City to the South, and Toquerville to the North. LaVerkin is centrally located in the heart of what is known as the Grand Circle, which includes Zion National Park (20 miles) Bryce Canyon National Park (106 miles) and Grand Canyon National Park (125 Miles). The LaVerkin Pah Tempe Hot Mineral Springs is located in the Timpoweap Canyon immediately south of the community. Early settlers and local Native Americans regarded the hot springs as a place for healing and relaxing, available to friend or foe.
LaVerkin is a remarkable little city with a history rich in heritage and unmatched community spirit. LaVerkin is known as the Beautiful Valley, because of its rich farmlands that filled the LaVerkin bench between the LaVerkin Creek on the west and the Hurricane Fault to the east.
LaVerkin's motto is "The Beautiful Valley: A Proud Past...A Promising Future". From the time the first settlers came to LaVerkin up to the present day, LaVerkin has been a great place to live. "LaVerkin is a friendly, economically vibrant and diverse community that provides opportunities for successful employment, quality education, relaxing retirement and active recreation. LaVerkin is a visually attractive and comfortable city that values its healthy, happy and safe atmosphere for residents and visitors"--all located in the magnificent scenic setting of Southern Utah.
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A 'True Blood' Season 7 Primer [VIDEO]
Last night was the premiere of the seventh and final season of True Blood and while I consider myself a True Blood junkie, I was a little lost during the first part of the show.
I've read all of the books (multiple times, I love Charlaine Harris) and have watched the entire HBO series True Blood religiously (excuse the word choice!) If you need a quick primer to get up to date and understand what's going on for the new season, check out this video and all will become clear! This video covers everything from werewolves, maenads, werepanthers, The Fellowship of the Sun and more!


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John Bonham's sister Deborah Bonham performed at a candlelit memorial concert for Led Zeppelin's late drummer at Redditch's St. Stephen's Church in on August 2nd, 2014 to benefit the John Bonham Memorial Fund. This video was shown on the big screen at the church in Redditch, England where John Bonham was born and raised. John played his first gig on the church yard when he was just a lad. The John Bonham Memorial Fund is fundraising to purchase a statue to erect in his honor in that very same church yard.
"The world lost a great soul and a great drummer when John passed and many of us lost a great friend. It is only right that a memorial statue to commemorate his life stand for all time just like his memory and music will. Thanks to the fans at the DTE Ampitheater in Clarkston, MI for helping to record this video message" – Paul Rodgers
The aim of the John Bonham Memorial Fund is to raise an initial £50,000 for the design and installation of a fitting permanent memorial in Redditch town centre, the birthplace of the legendary drummer from Led Zeppelin.
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'Elementary Turning' Briefly Delayed
If you ordered the book "Elementary Turning"
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TiVo to Roamio Users: Roam if You Want To
Oct 24, 2013 4:54 PM PT
TiVo was one of the first to enable consumers to time-shift their TV viewing via DVRs, and now the company is targeting place-shifting capabilities as well with out-of-home streaming via the TiVo Roamio Pro and TiVo Roamio Plus DVRs.
The two Roamio devices were launched earlier this year, but on Thursday the company announced that the functionality to record content to the living room and stream to a mobile device -- including smartphone and tablet -- is now available thanks to a new version of the TiVo iOS app.
"Until now, your shows have been locked up in your set-top box at home," said Jim Denney, TiVo's vice president of product marketing. "Now, with a TiVo Roamio DVR, whether it's a hotel in Denmark, the waiting room at the dentist office, when you're stuck at the airport, or at the gym, out-of-home streaming gives you the level of choice, control and freedom that consumers have come to expect."
Out-of-home streaming requires an Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch device running iOS 5.1 or higher; streaming is supported to only one device at a time. Support for streaming over 4G/LTE and to Android devices is scheduled for 2014.
TiVo declined to provide further details.
Three Models
The TiVo Roamio combines the functionality of a DVR with that of a Slingbox as well as Apple TV or a Roku set top box, allowing users to watch live or recorded content remotely anywhere a user has WiFi. Users can also download the content to an iOS device anywhere so that low bandwidth or lack of WiFi is not an issue.
The Roamio devices also include TiVo's second screen dashboard that provides instantaneous personalized recommendations, remote scheduling and even mobile search and discovery.
The TiVo Roamio DVR Series is available in three models including the TiVo Roamio for US$199.99; TiVo Roamio Plus for $399.99; and the TiVo Roamio Pro for $599.99. These Roamio models feature four or six tuners and range from 75 hours to 450 hours of recording space for HD content.
'Playing Catch-Up'
While TiVo was among the first DVR devices on the market back in 1999, today most cable and satellite providers also include DVR and on-demand options. Moreover, the new Roamio functionality is merely catching up to what Sling has already offered.
"That's how I take it," said Greg Ireland, research manager for multiscreen video at IDC. "It is basically playing catch-up with Sling."
TiVo was "pushed to the side when cable boxes added DVRs," Ireland told TechNewsWorld. "TiVo added Web content into the boxes to differentiate what it did, but this is the next step. This is necessary catch up to be able to position the TiVo box as an enabler for your content when you want and where you want."
Place Shifting
While there has been the ability to time-shift content since the early days of the VCR, it is the DVR that really revolutionized viewing with the notion that coming in a few minutes late didn't mean you couldn't start watching the program from the beginning.
The next logical step was the ability to place-shift the content and take it with you. Such capabilities are already offered by Slingbox devices, which Dish Networks offers, as well as by cable networks and channels offering such as Comcast's Xfinity service and HBO Go.
"What we're seeing is a kind of ad-hoc technological solution to what really is a business model break-down: Consumers want their 'TV everywhere' -- on any device, over any kind of network no matter where they are," Greg Scoblete, analyst for set-top box devices at Digital Tech Consulting, told TechNewsWorld. "Unfortunately, the way content license deals work, not every piece of content can be viewed out of the home on devices that aren't TVs."
What that leads to is "the more cumbersome approach of trying to have third-party hardware, like the TiVo, distribute this content out of the home," Scoblete noted.
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The view from Martha Galvis's room at Spaulding Rehab sweeps from the Tobin Bridge to the Prudential Building. Below the rooftops, the panorama includes the finish line of the Boston Marathon, where Martha and her husband, Alvaro, were wounded, and the Theatre District ballroom where they met, in 1974.
It was a Latin party at the old Bradford Hotel, on Tremont Street, two young Colombians united in the city where they had come to study. The outgoing Alvaro was drawn by Martha's raven-haired beauty, her down-to-earth warmth. "We started talking," he recalled, "and then Cupid did the work."
Now Alvaro Galvis, 62, is trying to visualize the joyous moments that so often occurred within that vista, in the years when he and Martha were raising their young family in Boston, and on their many return visits after moving to New Hampshire in 1986. Not what happened that Monday.
"The view is breathtaking, and I do find solace," said Galvis, who has hours each day to stare out those wraparound windows at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, in the downtime when his wife drifts in and out on heavy painkillers, between rigorous physical and occupational therapy sessions. "It's not easy. Time heals, but it's a slow-moving wheel."
Galvis, a sales account manager for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, suffered deep wounds, a metal shard the size of a matchbook ripping into the back of his right leg, smaller bits of shrapnel piercing his left leg and buttocks.
Martha Galvis, 60, a preschool assistant teacher, was even more badly hurt. Shrapnel severed nerves in her left leg, seared the skin off her left hand, and shattered three fingers; a fourth, her ring finger, needed to be amputated, though doctors saved the bones to strengthen the other fingers, the family said. Her fifth hand surgery is scheduled for next Wednesday.
"She's wonderful, a very strong character, very resolute," Alvaro Galvis said. "Her wish to overcome this is incredible."
Galvis attended his first Boston Marathon in 1971, soon after arriving in the city, and witnessed Alvaro Mejia — a countryman who shared his first name — win one of the closest marathons ever. Through mutual acquaintances, Galvis ended up in the victor's hotel room afterward, marveling at the blisters on his feet.
Later, he and Martha brought their children — Erika, now 33; Leonardo, 31; and Marthica, 29. They were drawn to Kenmore, where little Marthica would entertain everyone by crossing an imaginary finish and where the kids would rib Alvaro Galvis for saying the same thing over and over: "One more mile to go, one more mile to go!" But the lesson took.
"My parents taught us how important it was to promote other people and cheer them on," said Erika, a physician recruiter in Miami who has been flying back and forth the past month.
This year, the Galvises went to the finish around the 4-hour mark, wanting to cheer on baby boomers in particular. After the ground shook, after the dust cleared, Alvaro tried to remove his belt to make a tourniquet for Martha, but he was too weak, bleeding himself, unable to stand. He watched as emergency medical technicians rushed her away — ambulance P40, he memorized, in case they were separated — and others cut away his clothing to apply pressure to his wounds.
That evening, they were reunited at Brigham and Women's Hospital, beds wheeled side by side. "It was like the first time I met her," said Alvaro, who reached out to clasp Martha's good hand. "I love her so much."
Doctors cleared him to leave the Brigham within days but allowed him to remain in the hospital bed, by his wife's side, for the two weeks until she transferred to Spaulding. In the gift shop, Erika bought her father a book, "60 Things to Do When You turn 60," with advice from writers like Gloria Steinem and Garrison Keillor. He opened to a random page and found an essay titled "Let it go," a psychiatrist offering tips for overcoming trauma. He has read it, over and over.
A sudden bang, the sight of a young man with a backpack — these reminders rocket Alvaro Galvis back to the finish line, stealing his breath. And that view from Spaulding, the source of so much joy, can tug his thoughts back to the horror of that day. "It's like having your head in a vise, a huge grip behind your neck," he said.
Martha may never return to teaching preschool; Alvaro may never go back to work, wanting to comfort and care for his wife, unable to endure the pain of sitting two hours a day in a car.
That is when he returns to the tips in the book, to rate his bad feeling, pat his thighs, tap his feet, and repeat an affirmation, trying to manage the memory and the tears.
Martha, who will spend the next year relearning to walk, may never return to the preschool; Alvaro may never go back to work, wanting to comfort and care for his wife, unable to endure the pain of sitting two hours a day in a car. Their expenses are considerable — "elective" surgery to address heavy scarring, retrofitting for their raised ranch in Nashua — and a cousin has organized a GiveForward.com fund-raiser. Friends and family have planned events in Boston and New Hampshire.
Eventually, they will leave the Spaulding and the view.
The Galvis home sits empty. Alvaro and Martha, who is known for her fragrant garden, last month left behind newly purchased herbs and annuals, waiting to be planted. But neighbors have tended them in their absence, so the garden will be in bloom when they come home.Eric Moskowitz can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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INDIO — A U.S. Bank branch in Indio was robbed today for the second time in less than a month, a police spokesman said.
The robbery at Highway 111 and Monroe Street was reported at 1:10 p.m. A man demanded money from a teller, who complied, and left with an undisclosed amount of cash. No one was hurt and no weapon was seen, Indio police spokesman Ben Guitron said.
"We suspect it might be the same suspect as before, but we're not sure yet," he said, referring to an April 18 heist at the same branch, which was also robbed on Feb. 18.
The robber was last seen heading west on foot. He was described as Hispanic, possibly in his 30s, 5 feet 3 to 5 feet 6 inches tall, wearing a black baseball cap, long-sleeved shirt and camouflage pants.
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Name: Pete
Gender: Male
Age: 60
Location: New England
What is sounding the penis and why is it called that?
Sounding is a kind of urethra play. It's called that because the it involves sounds, a kind of dilator. Why not mozie on over to Dr Dick's Stockroom and check out the Sounds & Dilators section, you'll get an eyeful!
Urethra play freaks out lots of folks, myself included. Most of us would equate having something inserted into our urethra…for any reason…with a root canal by a sadistic dentist. Not something purposely done for the sheer enjoyment of it.
I'm always curious about how folks come to odd fetishes like urethra play. One of my correspondents way back in July 2007, Georgia, wrote that her urethra play began when she was a child. When she asked her mother where babies came from. Her mother said it's where peepee comes out. Georgia looked down there and saw this teeny-tiny hole. She knew having a baby was difficult and painful and thought, no wonder! So she decided she'd better try and make the opening bigger. And so it began.
Once a guy told me that he was playing doctor with his older cousin, when his cousin inserted a twig into his urethra, mimicking how he thought a doctor would take a patient's temperature. This guy said that the moment was so sexually charged, even as boy of no more than 5, that his piss hole became an object of fascination and pleasure from that day onward. When I knew him, he was able to insert the bristle end of a toothbrush into his urethra. That bit of unsolicited information just about made me swoon into a faint back then. Even now, retelling that story gives me the willies.
So ok, this isn't for me, but I am told by those in the know that because the urethra is such a sensitive organ, stretching it can provide exquisite sexual pleasure.
Practitioners of this unique kink often start out young, like Georgia and the other guy. Maybe it's just a function of some people's natural curiosity about their body, when one day they discover their urethra. They toy with it, stretch it, and find pleasure. Once that happens, of course, it becomes like most pursuits of pleasure; it becomes a fascination, then a full-blown kink.
If a little accidental stretching is pleasurable, what about intentional stretching with one kind of gadget or another — Q- tips, thermometers or a ballpoint pen? Once these kids are old enough to do some research, they discover there are an array of medical implements available to them like latex or plastic tubing, catheters and urethral sounds and dilators. Well, you can see how this could just grow and grow…pretty much like any fetish. Pleasure is curious that way, spurring us on to higher and higher heights.
But like all pleasure related things, practitioners ought to have his/her wits about them when they play with their pee hole. I think it's ill advised to be stretching your urethra with just any old thing lying around. One's bladder and urethra are sterile areas and one ought only use sterile equipment and procedures while inserting anything in there. And one ought to take one's time with this sort of play. Incremental stretching is advised. Please, don't forget the surgical lube. The use of mind altering, or body desensitizing drugs is not recommended, for obvious reasons. Like I always say, safe and sane play is happy play.
And here's something you should know — the male urethra is approx. 10 to 13 inches long and has a "J-shaped" curve to it. The female urethra is much shorter, only approx. 2 1/2 to 3 inches long, and there is no curve. Therefore, a woman can stretch her urethra much easier and to a greater extent than can a man. You will find that gender differences also makes for gender specific toys.
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Exposing the Ku Klux Klan
Mayor Jim Peterson of Soperton, Georgia may have lost some old friends, but he gained some new ones when he ripped off the hoods of three members of the Ku Klux Klan and exposed them to the world. His actions, which would later turn out to be futile at best, signaled a new movement around the South and the nation to rid the country of the white robed villains.
It was a relatively calm Saturday night in Soperton, Georgia on the evening of May 21, 1949. A frantic phone call came in reporting that there were women who were being frightened by hooded and masked men roaming the streets of the turpentine town. Klan activity in the Treutlen County seat had been relatively quiet, according to the mayor, who said, "A few crosses have been burned in Soperton, the latest one a month ago, but we haven't had any serious trouble from the Klan."
When the mayor arrived on the scene near his own home, he noticed two hooded men skulking around in the uniformed regalia of the Ku Klux Klan. Peterson, a popular mayor in his ninth term and brother of Congressman Hugh Peterson, approached and challenged the duo to identify themselves. When they refused, Peterson snatched off the hoods of Malcom Braddy and Joe Greene, a woolen mill worker. Peterson reported that during the scuffle, Braddy, an automobile mechanic for Henry Motor Co., struck him and knocked off his glasses.
Mayor Peterson enlisted the aid of Chief of Police M.D. Ware to investigate the commotion. The mayor and chief took Braddy and Greene back to the city jail and then drove around the neighborhood looking for more hooded suspects. They saw three more Klansmen and proceeded to arrest them as well. Peterson approached John Edge, a night watchman for the Georgia Highway department, and ripped off his hood. The other two partners fled as Chief Ware sent a fusillade of bullets into their flight into the darkness.
Braddy, Greene and Edge were placed in jail but quickly freed on a hundred-dollar bond each on the charges of disorderly conduct. The men were summoned to appear in City Court on Monday morning to answer the charges against them. According to law, it was the duty of the Mayor of Soperton to act as the judge in the absence of the recently deceased recorder. The hearing was rescheduled for June 13.
In the meanwhile, Peterson and his family traveled to Annapolis, Maryland to attend the graduation of his son, Ensign William C. Peterson, from the United States Naval Academy. While he was there, the mayor received a call from a government official in the area, who once challenged the Klan himself. Peterson couldn't turn down the man's offer to discuss the situation. That man was none other than Harry S. Truman, President of the United States. The men met in the White House for about an hour, but neither of them disclosed the points they discussed. Truman congratulated Peterson on his stand, and encouraged others to fight the Klan wherever and whenever possible.
Another recent and prominent Soperton graduate came to the defense of Mayor Peterson. He was Bill Bates, editor of the University of Georgia newspaper, The Red and Black, and the valedictorian of the Class of 1949. Bates, who would serve a short term as editor of the Soperton News before entering a successful journalistic career, called the mayor's actions "a smashing blow for decency," as he proclaimed his pride for his hometown mayor.
Dr. Samuel Green, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, took offense to the mayor's actions against three of his flock. Rumors circulated throughout newspapers around the country that the Klan was going to sue the mayor for what they believed were illegal actions. Green told a writer of the Augusta Chronicle that he would prefer assault and battery charges against Peterson if they warranted. The Grand Dragon personally went to Soperton to investigate the matter. "If I find that these men were Klansmen and were conducting their business peacefully, I shall prefer charges against the mayor for jerking off their masks," promised Green, who told the reporter that under Soperton's ordinances, "The mayor had no more right to jerk of the masks than any stranger would have jerking off your hat while in your office." Peterson hoped that the Klan would not go to court, but was ready to vigorously take them on. The mayor held no grudge against the men who were charged, by citing, "The fellows involved in this incident and their associates for the most part are my friends and neighbors who have been led astray." He called them "well-meaning citizens, whose indiscretions, have been brought about by the strong and selfish leadership of the KKK."
Peterson decided that it was in his best interest and in fairness to the defendants to recuse himself and appoint James Waller, the city's mayor pro tem, in his place. With Mayor Pro-Tem Waller, a turpentine and cotton warehouse operator, presiding, a trial was held in a hot and packed court room in the back of the Bank of Soperton on the morning of June 13. Waller heard evidence from the police chief and Mrs. I. H. Hall, who testified that she was frightened by the three defendants as they lingered in the dark outside her home. Prosecutor N. G. Reeves introduced evidence to show that the defendants were carrying weapons concealed under their robes, but it was stricken from the record since the court had no jurisdiction to hear such charges. Ironically, Mayor Peterson was not called to testify.
Joe Greene was tried first and called to testify in his own defense. Greene alleged that he and the others were directing traffic to their meeting place when Peterson ran up and screamed, "What in the H are you doing here?"
Defense attorney Ross T. Sharpe shouted, "Everybody knows the only reason in the world we are trying this case is because these men were wearing hoods and robes. Are you going to say that of the 391 Klansmen in this county that everyone else, including Henry Wallace and the Communists, are welcome here, but the Klan is not?"
Sharpe continued his rant by asking the court to equate the Klansmen to Shriners and even Christians, who wore white clothing as a symbol of the purity of Christ. He loudly proclaimed that there was no law on the books which prevented the wearing of a hood or being a Klansman as he added, "You can put on your white night gown and walk down the street if you want to."
After the evidence was closed, Waller dismissed the charge for disturbing the peace against Greene by stating, "These men on both sides are all friends of mine. Joe Greene farmed for me for two or three years." His ruling applied to all of the defendants, but he reserved a ruling on the charges of loitering as he explained to the parties that he needed time to deliberate the fate of the defendants, this being his first trial he had ever handled.
On July 8th, James Waller dismissed the remaining charge of loitering and the case was legally over. In the end, Mayor Peterson's unmasking of three Soperton Klansmen was another small step in the eventual end of Klan activity in East Central Georgia just like back in the great state of Missouri, when ol' "Give 'Em Hell Harry" brought about the end to the local Klan.


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The motherboard of the Droid RAZR houses a number of critical components, including the SD and SIM card readers, vibrator motor, lower microphone, and microSD and micro HDMI ports.
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Insert a plastic opening tool between the back cover and rear case at the lower left edge of the back cover.
Pry the back cover up with the plastic opening tool to free the plastic clips.
Continue prying along the left edge of the back cover towards the top of the phone.
Work the plastic opening tool across the top of the back case to free the plastic clips.
Continue prying down the right side of the back cover to free the remaining clips.
Pull the back cover away from the phone to remove it.
Use the tip of a spudger to lift up the red silicone cover over the battery terminal screws and remove it.
I did this repair on a Droid Razr model xt912. My version has a plastic shield over the battery connectors; the shield is part of the rear case, so I had to do steps 6-9 before I could do steps 4 and 5.
Thank you so much for this comment - saved me a lot of confusion.
Also noted that not all screws were the same as noted. I was just careful and made sure they bit fit before torking.
What are steps 6-9? This article store at step 5. The terminals on my phone are covered too and it's not obvious how it is removed.
Excellent guide, but it forgot to include that you need to get double sided adhesive to replace the old adhesive. Maybe its implied? Anyways I got mine from here: http://www.repairsuniverse.com/3m-double...
Step 1 should be to remove the case screws. No way your removal tool will get the back off with the screws still on.
Mine was on too tight to pry off. Even with small screwdrivers I was unable to get the case opened up all they way around without bending the edge metal out of shape (which is the reason for a plastic tool).
If you have the wireless charging coil installed, you can forget the adhesive back.
Remove the two 3.3 mm T5 Torx battery terminal screws.
Grab the blue battery removal tab and lift the battery out to remove it.
Very helpful, but I needed to remove the frame around the battery before I could actually get the battery out. No big deal, just a few more screws. Thanks.
That's actually pretty vital to the whole removal process.
Use a heat gun or hair dryer to soften the adhesive underneath the camera cover.
Gently pry up the bottom edge of the camera cover with a plastic opening tool.
Carefully slide the plastic opening tool across the bottom edge to free it from the adhesive.
Continue to use the heat gun as needed to soften the adhesive as you remove the camera cover.
Is it really necessary to remove the camera cover to replace the display assembly??? Reviewing the rest of the steps to the display, I could see no reson to remove the camera cover. Of course I've not begun my own disassembly yet, but when I do I'll see if the camera cover can be left in place and let you know how it goes.
Yes. Check the step 8. The camera cover hide one T3 torx screw.
Insert the plastic opening tool underneath the top edge of the camera cover.
Gently pry the camera cover up as you slide the plastic opening tool across the top edge to free it from the adhesive.
Remove the camera cover.
Remove the six screws securing the rear case to the rest of the phone:
three 6.7 mm silver T3 Torx screws at the top,
four 4.0 mm gold T3 Torx screws in the middle,
and three 4.5 mm black T5 Torx screws at the bottom.
This is a mistake or the production process has been altered.
Infact, all but 3 (of all screws described as T3) are infact T4 !
You can imagine my face when I took the phone apart today and the T3 driver head didn't fit -.-
I am also having trouble with the top middle screw. After working to turn the screw it became stripped. Very gently and very slowly I drilled away the head of the screw, and completed the disassembly. But the rest of the body of the screw is still in the post, and it seems too risky to try to drill anymore. Any advice on how to remove the rest of the screw or resecure this section when I put everything back together?
Insert a plastic opening tool between the rear case and the motherboard assembly.
Work your way down the side of the phone and gently pry the rear case up.
Separate the rear case from the motherboard assembly.
Remove the three 2.5 mm T3 Torx screws securing the metal chassis to the motherboard.
Remove the metal chassis from the motherboard assembly.
Use the flat end of a spudger to remove the two red silicone microphone covers at the top and bottom of the motherboard.
Use the tip of a spudger to gently bend the clips out of shape and remove the shield.
Use the flat end of a spudger to pry the three display cable connectors off their sockets on the motherboard.
Release the securing clips with a plastic opening tool.
Use a heat gun or hair dryer to soften the adhesive strip around the perimeter of the motherboard.
Pry the edges of the motherboard up from the display assembly with a plastic opening tool.
Remove the motherboard assembly.
Lift up the anti-static tape covering the camera and earpiece ZIF connectors with the tip of a spudger.
Peel back the tape and remove it.
Use a plastic opening tool or your fingernail to lift up the tab on the rear-facing camera ribbon cable ZIF connector.
Push the rear-facing camera through its hole in the grey antenna and remove it.
Use a plastic opening tool or your fingernail to lift up the tab on the front-facing camera ribbon cable ZIF connector.
Lift the front-facing camera out of the antenna with the plastic opening tool and remove it.
Flip up the tab on the earpiece speaker ZIF connector with your finger or a plastic opening tool.
Remove the earpiece speaker from the motherboard.
The motherboard remains.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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In describing the history of wheat, no one can guess the date when someone first bit off a bit of grain and ground it up with her molars. Archeologists can estimate that humans began to cultivate wheat more than 9000 years ago, planting & growing it to feed themselves and the kids. Those first Neolithic farmers started a relationship that has continued for ten centuries, during which wheat has changed a good deal. It has evolved into a domesticated crop.
|Wild Wheat in Turkey
|Domestic Wheat at Maggie's Farm
WIKI says domestication is the process whereby a population of plants is changed at the genetic level through a process of selection, in order to accentuate traits that benefit humans. Wheat is a good example. Wild wheat matures over a period of time and falls to the ground to reseed itself when ripe, but domesticated wheat stays on the stem for easier harvesting. There is evidence that this critical change came about as a result of a random mutation near the beginning of wheat's cultivation. Wheat with this mutation was harvested and became the seed for the next crop. Therefore, without realizing, early farmers selected for this mutation, which would otherwise have died out. The result is domesticated wheat, which relies on farmers for its own reproduction and dissemination.
|Seeding Oberkulmer Spelt 12/11/12
An unsought repercussion of domestication is that modern wheat is unable to survive wild in competition with better adapted species.
Early farmers picked the biggest seed heads, re-planted kernels that made the best bread, chose the plants that did well in the weather of that place. Not caring whether their wheat could arm wrestle weeds into submission, our ancestors made it survival of the tastiest and easiest to gather. Not survival of the fiercest.
In the much more recent 1880s, John Bennet Lawes, an English landowner and early plant researcher, did an experiment to prove it. He left part of his wheat crop unharvested, monitoring the growth over subsequent seasons. Within three years, the abundant fields of wheat had dwindled to a few shrunken sheaves. It couldn't stand alone against the briars and pests.
When Lawes died in 1900, he left his 16th century estate and its impressive research center to a perpetual trust.
|Rothamsted Manor
Since then Rothamsted has contributed much to world food production, including the development of 2,4-D during WWII, for better or worse, one of the widest used herbicides in the world. And last year Rothamsted was again working with wheat, managing to do something that this small grain has resisted for decades – create a wheat GMO that reduces depredation by aphids. The wheat is modified to produce an aphid alarm pheromone produced by aphids when under attack. This helps deter the pests. An angry crowd of anti-GMO protesters laid siege to the Hempstead facility, but a "large police presence" prevented serious damage. The protesters, like those pesky aphids, were repelled.
For a very long time now we've been asking the plant and animal kingdoms to be generous and more user friendly. Concern about how we're affecting Mother Nature is something we'll always need to face, whether using caution in genetic modification or saving heirloom seeds. The hope is to make it a better world for all, not just for us humans. Our green thumbs are apt to leave their fingerprints on things as we try to improve them.
|Sonora Wheat Berries (top) and Spelt firmly in their husks
|Glenn 13 days after planting
|Glenn with Red Fife & Sonora in background
When it was released in Canada, that country's Food Inspection Agency reported: "Overall, 'Glenn' was selected, particularly for its high yield, very good milling and baking traits as well as disease resistance." However, many farmers report that Glenn is difficult to thresh, the kernels tending to remain on the spike despite their best efforts. Two steps forward. One back.
Hey, shouldn't someone be developing a strain of wheat that can stand on its own against dandelions and crabgrass? Never mind the amount of gluten.


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Well, it looks like the crime spree is over.
Well, it looks like the crime spree is over.
We like to stay at a particular hotel chain which uses plastic keys/card to get into its rooms. That's not the reason we like to stay there. It just happens to be what the chain uses.
Rather, we adopted this hotel chain for several reasons — it was the trend-setter in having more than a stale doughnut and lukewarm coffee for breakfast; its rooms are relatively comfortable with a 100-percent guarantee (which we've evoked on several occasions when a room did not meet our satisfaction — i.e., like the time some undergarments were left in the room from a previous guest or we woke up with backaches from an unacceptably soft bed). Plus, it gives points for not only the hotel, earning us free nights, but also air points with our favorite airline. I should have put that in the past tense . . . the hotel chain did.
The chain and airline are no longer seeing each other, having broken up last year, so we don't get the points anymore and . . . the plastic keys have changed.
For years, the hotel chain's keys just listed the state in which the hotel was located — bluish card, hotel logos, a small scene from nature and the words: "Welcome to whatever state."
Typically, when Vonnie is with me on a trip, they'd give us two keys and, here's the crime, I'd take one to leave at another of its hotels in another state. I could just see the desk help looking at this key from another state and saying, "How did that get here?"
Of course, I'd be long gone by then. Sort of like tying a bottle to a door knob, letting it knock and then taking off. "Who keeps knocking at our door?" the homeowner asks.
Sophomoric pranks — that's all it is. No one gets hurt. They're not sending me to the Grey-Bar-Hotel (which has no plastic keys) if I get caught. Ultimately, the hotel chain gets the key back, although I do believe I have at least one still in my wallet.
Interesting how we can justify things. Small items that are taken, like extra sugar packs from the diner or creamers from the coffee shop, are no big deal. Pencils and pens, a few file folders and paper from work — it just happens. Have someone come into your house and pick up a few things and maybe our attitude changes.
On any level, stealing is wrong and I need to take back those keys.
But, you do remember the innocent pranks we did as youngsters and all the laughter and fun that went with it? It was tomfoolery for sure. Wisdom has now replaced foolishness. That's good, right? Well, maybe not.
Laughter is good for the soul; proven to be healthy according to medical science. The wisdom writer wrote: "A merry heart does good like medicine." Nobody wants to be around a grouch. We should laugh more. We should help others laugh more.
Not sure that anyone was laughing when I changed the keys, but there was always a wry smile on my face when I did. I was laughing on the inside and that's a good thing, right?


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CFIA/Allergy Alert: Undeclared Mustard in Certain Hot Stuff Food Xpress Brand Pizza and Calzone Products
By: Marketwired .
Dec. 13, 2012 01:09 AM
OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 12/13/12 -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Canadian Trade House are warning people with allergies to mustard not to consume the Hot Stuff Food Xpress brand pizza and calzone products described below. The affected products contain mustard which is not declared on the label.
All codes of the following Hot Stuff Food Xpress brand products are affected by this alert:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Product UPC Size ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pepperoni Pizza 7 95835 86572 5 955 g ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sausage / Pepperoni Pizza 7 95835 86573 2 1.01 kg ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Supreme Pizza 7 95835 86574 9 1.07 kg ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pepperoni Stuffed Calzone 7 99847 86516 2 213 g ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sausage and Pepperoni Stuffed Calzone 7 99847 86517 9 213 g ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
These products have been distributed nationally.
There have been no reported reactions associated with the consumption of these products.
Consumption of these products may cause a serious or life-threatening reaction in persons with allergies to mustard.
The importer, Canadian Trade House, Calgary, AB, is voluntarily recalling the affected products from the marketplace. The CFIA is monitoring the effectiveness of the recall.
For more information, consumers and industry can call one of the following numbers:
Canadian Trade House at 403-237-8829 or 1-800-829-4098; or
CFIA at 1 800 442-2342 / TTY 1 800 465-7735 (8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday to Friday).
For information on all food recalls, visit the CFIA's Food Recall Report at: http://active.inspection.gc.ca/eng/corp/recarapp_dbe.asp.
To find out more about receiving recalls by e-mail, and other food safety facts, visit: www.foodsafety.gc.ca. Food and consumer product recalls are also available at http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca.
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In response to months of escalating rocket attacks on Israeli civilians from terrorists in Hamas-run Gaza, Israel has begun a self-defense operation. It started with taking out the head of the self-proclaimed "military" or terrorist branch of Hamas who was unaffectionately known as Hamas Bin Laden. The Israel Project has posted useful background information here. We wish the IDF Godspeed in its critical mission.
The IDF has a Twitter feed providing real-time information and updates. Below is the YouTube video of the pinpoint strike on Jabari, posted by the IDF on its Twitter feed.
JOHN adds: As usual, press coverage begins when Israel tries to defend itself. Today's fighting is the result of months of rocket bombardment of southern Israel by Hamas:
More than 80 rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel over the weekend as Hamas unleashed a barrage that wounded several Israelis and damaged buildings in Sderot and the Sha'ar Hanegev area. The motive for the escalation from the normal volume of fire over the border (more than 600 missiles have been fired at Israel from Gaza in 2012 up until Saturday) from the Hamas-run enclave is a matter of speculation.
Israel's Iron Dome system has been quite effective in defending certain cities and installations, but cannot protect all of southern Israel:
The Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted two Grad rockets aimed at the strategic port city of Ashkelon Monday, but rural areas closer to Gaza sustained a dozen attacks. A missile attack on Ashkelon could be devastating if it were to strike oil and gas storage tanks and pipelines or a huge power station, which supplies electricity to most of southern Israel.
The expensive Iron Dome system is located to protect major urban areas, and there are not enough missile batteries to cover all of the Western Negev.
One rocket exploded on a home in Netivot, and 26 people were treated for the shock they endured during the barrage.
Gaza terrorist groups were competing with each for "credit" for the latest missile barrage, significantly smaller than the bombardment on Saturday and Sunday but still unacceptable for southern Israel residents who have felt abandoned by the government and the IDF during 12 years of missile strikes.
So Israel had no recourse but to try to degrade Hamas's rocket capability in Gaza. News coverage generally leads with the Israeli attack, only back-handedly acknowledging that it follows months of rocket attacks by Hamas. The New York Times, for example:
Israel on Wednesday launched one of the most ferocious assaults on Gaza since its invasion four years ago, hitting at least 20 targets in aerial attacks that killed the top military commander of Hamas, drew strong condemnation from Egypt and escalated the risks of a new war in the Middle East.
The Times never suggested that Hamas's rocket attacks "escalated the risks of a new war." Eventually the paper works in a passing reference to Hamas's attacks:
The ferocity of the airstrikes, which Israel called Operation "Pillar of Defense" in response to repeated rocket attacks by Gaza-based Palestinian militants, provoked rage in Gaza, where Hamas said the airstrikes amounted to war and promised a harsh response. Civil-defense authorities in Israel raised alert levels and told residents to take precautions for rocket retaliation from Gaza.
The Times seems to consider Hamas an ambiguous organization:
The abrupt escalation in hostilities between Israel and Hamas, the militant organization regarded by Israel as a terrorist group sworn to Israel's destruction, came amid rising tensions between Israel and all of its Arab neighbors.
Of course Hamas is a terrorist group sworn to Israel's destruction; it proclaims that commitment at every opportunity, and if its rocket attacks on Israeli civilians are not terrorist acts, what are they?
CNN likewise portrays Israel as the aggressor:
Israel launched a series of blistering air strikes Wednesday on what it says are terrorist targets in Gaza, killing the chief of Hamas' military wing and at least eight others, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
Palestinian leaders immediately condemned the attacks as an escalation, with President Mahmoud Abbas calling for an emergency session of the Council of the League of Arab States to discuss what he called Israeli "aggression," the Egyptian state news agency MENA reported.
CNN eventually gets around to mentioning the months of rocket attacks launched from Gaza, but that part of the story comes off as a sort of draw:
The Israeli operation — which the military calls "Operation Pillar of Defense" — came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned this week of pending retaliation by Israel for increased rocket attacks from Gaza.
"I would ask you, I'd ask any person around the planet: What would you do if your population was targeted day after day?" Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev told CNN, later adding that "you have to see our operation as fundamentally defensive."
A spokesman for Hamas, Osama Hamdan, also claimed that Hamas has been defending itself from Israeli attacks.
"I think the ones who declared war was Israel, and I think the Palestinians are in the position of defending themselves and nothing more than this," he said.
It's all just too hard to figure out!
Meanwhile, in addition to the IDF twitter feed that Scott linked to above, you can get breaking news from the Jerusalem Post's feed.
UPDATE: YouTube has removed the 10-second IDF video of the strike on Jabari for alleged violation of its terms of service.


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It sounds obvious, but advance planning of more than your airfare and hotel is especially true of a vacation to the Orlando area. Put together itineraries one for the entire trip and one day-by-day including must-see events or attractions as well as a "B list." Check the times of any events you want to catch, like a SeaWorld show or Disney's nightly fireworks. Keep the energy level and attention spans of your kids in mind and consider building in some down time each afternoon to let them (and you) recharge.
If you're visiting Walt Disney World or Universal Orlando, consider which park or parks you want to visit each day. Disney has four parks: Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom. Universal has two: Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. Keep in mind that multi-park tickets are more expensive, and that you'll have to build in time for crisscrossing between areas. Buying theme park tickets in advance is cheaper and saves you time waiting in line.
Walt Disney World experiences like Cinderella's Royal Table and the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique (which offers "princess makeovers" for kids) take reservations 180 days ahead of time, and they fill up quickly. It's also recommended to reserve early for the Dolphin Swim Experience at SeaWorld's Discovery Cove, Cirque de Soleil and Blue Man Group tickets.
Visit Orlando offers the Magicard, a free pass good for a constantly-changing roster of discounts on everything from museum admission to restaurant dining. You can pick them up at the visitors' center, but save time by printing one online or ordering one that will come in the mail.
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MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) Review
Well the new Intel 2011 chips have finally been released and we are now starting to see some more motherboards coming out that are packed full of next generation feature sets, such as USB 3.0, Sata 6Gb/s, uEFI BIOS, and PCI-E 3.0. So have you been thinking about finally upgrading that aging system you are still trying to use to play games? Maybe you are big into video editing/rendering and use software on a daily basis that can make full usage of multiple CPU cores; well then the next generation of Intel processors may just be what you are looking for. If you have the coin to drop on one of the new chips, you need to start to look at the different boards that are out there that can unleash all of the power the 22nm cores can pack. Well one motherboard brand name that always jumps to mind when looking for a great feature set is MSI, I am very curious to see exactly what kind of features MSI has packed on their X79A-GD65 (8D) motherboard this go around.
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When you take a look at the front of the packaging for the MSI X79A-GD65 (8D), the first thing that grabs my attention is the large Military Class III logo that is printed on the right hand side of the package, this is going to let you know that MSI has put the top notch components on the motherboard to help give you the best quality board and improved stability over some of the other motherboards out on the market. With the Military Class III branding, you know that you are going to find MIL-STD-810G Certified Components installed. When you take a look at the top left hand corner of the package, you are going to find MSI's logo printed with the MSI 3 Year Warranty logo printed right by it, which lets you know that you are going to get some of the best support for your motherboard if something were to ever go wrong with it. In the top right hand corner, you are going to find all of the badges for some of the features the MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) supports, such as NVIDIA SLI, ATI Crossfire-X, Windows 7, and Intel Core i7 CPUs. Along the bottom edge of the package you are going to find the X79A-GD65 (8D) logo printed in a nice holographic text with the Military Class Motherboard tag line printed above it. You are also going to find the PCI Express Gen3 and Click BIOS II logos printed on the package. When you flip it over to the back you are going to see a much more detailed listing of the features that MSI wants to let you know about such as DrMOS II, Hi-c CAP, Solid CAP, Super Charger, PCI Express Gen3, InstantOC, OC Genie II, and THX TruStudio PRO. I will get into a more detailed explanation of these features a little while later in the article.
Once you get the package opened up you are going to find a nice brown package that houses not only the MSI X79A-GD65 (8D), but the accessories as well. When you first open it up, you are going to see the motherboard in its anti-static bag to keep it protected for any thing that could possibly harm the board while you are opening it up. Once you move the motherboard out of the way, you are going to find the Quick Guide which covers all of the other accessories and has all of the other paperwork tucked away inside it. You are not only going to get a Drivers CD and the Quick Guide, but you are also going to get a few user manuals. Probably one of the coolest pieces of paper work you will find inside of the package is the very nice looking Certificate of Quality & Stability which has a very similar look to a diploma or degree.
After sorting though all of the paperwork, you finally get into the accessories that will help you get your system set up, like the USB 3.0 back plate, a SLI Bridge, some SATA Cables, 4-pin molex to SATA power adapters, eSATA power adapter backing plate, the rear I/O panel cover, and a few headers to help you organize your front panel connectors.
Now that we know exactly how the MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) is packaged and what it comes with, it's time to take a closer look at the motherboard itself to see what sets it apart from the others on the market.


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Thessaloniki Travel Guide
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Greece's second largest city was once the realm of Alexander the Great and was named after his sister, Thessaloniki, when it was founded in 316 BC. The capital of Macedonia in the north, the city sits in a bowl framed by low hills, facing a bay on the Gulf Thermaikos. Despite being one of the oldest cities in Europe, today Thessaloniki is lively and modern, and with its wide avenues, parks and squares, is thought to be much more attractive than Athens.
The main squares are Platia Elefterias and Platia Aristotelous, both on the waterfront and alive with cafes and restaurants, children playing or people strolling. Thessaloniki, having been under Ottoman rule for long periods in its history, has been left a legacy of numerous Byzantine churches, and museums housing Byzantine art and artefacts. The city also has a heritage of early Christian communities, particularly the renowned monasteries of nearby Mount Athos; and a rich Jewish tradition, evident in the synagogues and Jewish Museum.
In 1917, most of the city was destroyed in a massive fire, and rebuilt later. This is not a high-rise city, though, because the area is prone to earthquakes and regulations have been imposed preventing the building of skyscrapers. This means that residents and visitors alike can enjoy the seaside situation of Thessaloniki, with views aplenty from the city streets.
There is a lot to see and do in Thessaloniki besides exploring the ruins, including visits to the Turkish Baths, central market, and cafes and restaurants of Aristotelous Square. Thessaloniki also has a vibrant nightlife, with a number of lively bars and clubs.
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