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Book III
After the other persons are disposed in their proper places of rest, the Goddess transports the King to her Temple, and there lays him to slumber with his head on her lap; a position of marvellous virtue, which causes all the visions of wild enthusiasts, projectors, politicians, inamoratos, castle-builders, chymists, and poets. He is immediately carried on the wings of Fancy, and led by a mad poetical Sibyl, to the Elysian shade; where, on the banks of Lethe, the souls of the dull are dipped by Bavius, before their entrance into this world. There he is met by the ghost of Settle, and by him made acquainted with the wonders of the place, and with those which he himself is destined to perform. He takes him to a Mount of Vision, from whence he shows him the past triumphs of the Empire of Dulness; then, the present; and, lastly, the future: how small a part of the world was ever conquered by Science, how soon those conquests were stopped, and these very nations again reduced to her dominion. Then distinguishing the island of Great Britain, shows by what aids, by what persons, and by what degrees, it shall be brought to her empire. Some of the persons he causes to pass in review before his eyes, describing each by his proper figure, character, and qualifications. On a sudden the scene shifts, and a vast number of miracles and prodigies appear, utterly surprising and unknown to the King himself, till they are explained to be the wonders of his own reign now commencing. On this subject Settle breaks into a congratulation, yet not unmixed with concern, that his own times were but the types of these. He prophesies how first the nation shall be overrun with Farces, Operas, and Shows; how the throne of Dulness shall be advanced over the Theatres, and set up even at Court; then how her sons shall preside in the seats of Arts and Sciences; giving a glimpse, or Pisgah-sight, of the future fulness of her glory, the accomplishment whereof is the subject of the fourth and last book.
in her temples last recess inclosed,
On Dulness lap th anointed head reposed.
Him close she curtains round with vapours blue,
And soft besprinkles with Cimmerian dew:
Then raptures high the seat of Sense oerflow,
Which only heads refind from Reason know.
Hence from the straw where Bedlams prophet nods,
He hears loud oracles, and talks with Gods;
Hence the fools paradise, the statesmans scheme,
The air-built castle, and the golden dream,
The maids romantic wish, the chymists flame,
And poets vision of eternal Fame.
And now, on Fancys easy wing conveyd,
The king descending views th Elysian shade.
A slipshod Sibyl led his steps along,
In lofty madness meditating song;
Her tresses staring from poetic dreams,
And never washd but in Castalias streams.
Taylor, their better Charon, lends an oar
(Once swan of Thames, tho now he sings no more);
Benlowes, propitious still to blockheads, bows;
And Shadwell nods, the poppy on his brows.
Here in a dusky vale, where Lethe rolls,
Old Bavius sits to dip poetic souls,
And blunt the sense, and fit it for a skull
Of solid proof, impenetrably dull.
Instant, when dipt, away they wing their flight,
Where Browne and Mears unbar the gates of light,
Demand new bodies, and in calfs array
Rush to the world, impatient for the day.
Millions and millions on these banks he views,
Thick as the stars of night or morning dews,
As thick as bees oer vernal blossoms fly,
As thick as eggs at Ward in pillory.
Wondring he gazed: when, lo! a Sage appears,
By his broad shoulders known, and length of ears,
Known by the band and suit which Settle wore
(His only suit) for twice three years before:
All as the vest, appeard the wearers frame,
Old in new stateanother, yet the same.
Bland and familiar, as in life, begun
Thus the great father to the greater son:
Oh! born to see what none can see awake,
Behold the wonders of th oblivious lake!
Thou, yet unborn, hast touchd this sacred shore;
The hand of Bavius drenchd thee oer and oer.
But blind to former as to future fate,
What mortal knows his preëxistent state?
Who knows how long thy transmigrating soul
Might from Botian to Botian roll?
How many Dutchmen she vouchsafed to thrid?
How many stages thro old monks she rid?
And all who since, in mild benighted days,
Mixd the Owls ivy with the Poets bays?
As mans mæanders to the vital spring
Roll all their tides, then back their circles bring;
Or whirligigs, twirld round by skilful swain,
Suck the thread in, then yield it out again;
All nonsense thus, of old or modern date,
Shall in thee centre, from thee circulate.
For this our Queen unfolds to vision true
Thy mental eye, for thou hast much to view:
Old scenes of glory, times long cast behind,
Shall, first recalld, rush forward to thy mind:
Then stretch thy sight oer all her rising reign,
And let the past and future fire thy brain.
Ascend this hill, whose cloudy point commands
Her boundless empire over seas and lands.
See, round the poles where keener spangles shine,
Where spices smoke beneath the burning Line
(Earths wide extremes), her sable flag displayd,
And all the nations coverd in her shade!
Far eastward cast thine eye, from whence the sun
And orient Science their bright course begun:
One godlike monarch all that pride confounds,
He whose long wall the wandring Tartar bounds:
Heavns! what a pile! whole ages perish there,
And one bright blaze turns learning into air.
Thence to the south extend thy gladdend eyes;
There rival flames with equal glory rise;
From shelves to shelves see greedy Vulcan roll,
And lick up all their physic of the soul.
How little, mark! that portion of the ball,
Where, faint at best, the beams of Science fall:
Soon as they dawn, from hyperborean skies
Embodied dark, what clouds of Vandals rise!
Lo! where Mæotis sleeps, and hardly flows
The freezing Tanais thro a waste of snows,
The North by myriads pours her mighty sons,
Great nurse of Goths, of Alans, and of Huns!
See Alarics stern port! the martial frame
Of Genseric! and Attilas dread name!
See the bold Ostrogoths on Latium fall!
See the fierce Visigoths on Spain and Gaul!
See where the morning gilds the palmy shore
(The soil that arts and infant letters bore),
His conquring tribes th Arabian prophet draws,
And saving Ignorance enthrones by laws!
See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep,
And all the western world believe and sleep!
Lo! Rome herself, proud mistress now no more
Of arts, but thundring against heathen lore;
Her gray-haird synods damning books unread,
And Bacon trembling for his brazen head.
Padua, with sighs, beholds her Livy burn,
And evn th Antipodes Virgilius mourn.
See the Cirque falls, th unpillard Temple nods,
Streets paved with Heroes, Tiber choked with Gods;
Till Peters keys some christend Jove adorn,
And Pan to Moses lends his Pagan horn.
See graceless Venus to a virgin turnd,
Or Phidias broken, and Apelles burnd!
Behold yon isle, by Palmers, Pilgrims trod,
Men bearded, bald, cowld, uncowld, shod, unshod,
Peeld, patchd, and piebald, linsey-woolsey brothers,
Grave Mummers! sleeveless some and shirtless others.
That once was BritainHappy! had she seen
No fiercer sons, had Easter never been.
In peace, great Goddess, ever be adord;
How keen the war, if Dulness draw the sword!
Thus visit not thy own! on this blessd age
O spread thy influence, but restrain thy rage.
And see, my son! the hour is on its way
That lifts our Goddess to imperial sway;
This favrite isle, long severd from her reign,
Dove-like, she gathers to her wings again.
Now look thro Fate! behold the scene she draws!
What aids, what armies, to assert her cause!
See all her progeny, illustrious sight!
Behold, and count them, as they rise to light.
As Berecynthia, while her offspring vie
In homage to the mother of the sky,
Surveys around her, in the blessd abode,
A hundred sons, and every son a God,
Not with less glory mighty Dulness crownd,
Shall take thro Grub-street her triumphant round,
And her Parnassus glancing oer at once,
Behold a hundred sons, and each a Dunce.
Mark first that youth who takes the foremost place,
And thrusts his person full into your face.
With all thy fathers virtues blessd, be born!
And a new Cibber shall the stage adorn.
A second see, by meeker manners known,
And modest as the maid that sips alone;
From the strong fate of drams if thou get free,
Another Durfey, Ward! shall sing in thee.
Thee shall each alehouse, thee each gill-house mourn,
And answering ginshops sourer sighs return.
Jacob, the scourge of grammar, mark with awe;
Nor less revere him, blunderbuss of law.
Lo Popples brow, tremendous to the town,
Hornecks fierce eye, and Roomes funereal frown.
Lo sneering Goode, half malice and half whim,
A fiend in glee, ridiculously grim.
Each cygnet sweet, of Bath and Tunbridge race,
Whose tuneful whistling makes the waters pass:
Each songster, riddler, evry nameless name,
All crowd, who foremost shall be damnd to Fame.
Some strain in rhyme: the Muses, on their racks,
Scream like the winding of ten thousand jacks:
Some free from rhyme or reason, rule or check,
Break Priscians head, and Pegasuss neck;
Down, down they larum, with impetuous whirl,
The Pindars and the Miltons of a Curll.
Silence, ye wolves! while Ralph to Cynthia howls,
And makes night hideousAnswer him, ye owls!
Sense, speech, and measure, living tongues and dead,
Let all give wayand Morris may be read.
Flow, Welsted, flow! like thine inspirer, beer,
Tho stale, not ripe, tho thin, yet never clear;
So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull;
Heady, not strong; oerflowing, tho not full.
Ah, Dennis! Gildon, ah! what ill-starrd rage
Divides a friendship long confirmd by age?
Blockheads with reason wicked wits abhor,
But fool with fool is barbrous civil war.
Embrace, embrace, my sons! be foes no more!
Nor glad vile poets with true critics gore.
Behold yon pair, in strict embraces joind;
How like in manners, and how like in mind!
Equal in wit, and equally polite
Shall this a Pasquin, that a Grumbler write;
Like are their merits, like rewards they share,
That shines a Consul, this Commissioner.
But who is he, in closet close y-pent,
Of sober face, with learned dust besprent?
Right well mine eyes arede the myster wight,
On parchment scraps y-fed and Wormius hight.
To future ages may thy dulness last,
As thou preservst the dulness of the past!
There, dim in clouds, the poring scholiasts mark,
Wits, who, like owls, see only in the dark,
A lumberhouse of books in evry head,
For ever reading, never to be read!
But, where each science lifts its modern type,
Histry her pot, Divinity her pipe,
While proud Philosophy repines to show,
Dishonest sight! his breeches rent below,
Imbrownd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands,
Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands.
How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue!
How sweet the periods, neither said nor sung!
Still break the benches, Henley! with thy strain,
While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain.
O great restorer of the good old stage,
Preacher at once, and Zany of thy age!
O worthy thou of Egypts wise abodes,
A decent priest where monkeys were the gods!
But fate with butchers placed thy priestly stall,
Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul;
And bade thee live, to crown Britannias praise,
In Tolands, Tindals, and in Woolstons days.
Yet, oh, my sons! a fathers words attend
(So may the Fates preserve the ears you lend):
T is yours a Bacon or a Locke to blame,
A Newtons genius, or a Miltons flame:
But, oh! with One, immortal One, dispense,
The source of Newtons light, of Bacons sense.
Content, each emanation of his fires
That beams on earth, each virtue he inspires,
Each art he prompts, each charm he can create,
Whateer he gives, are givn for you to hate.
Persist, by all divine in man unawed,
But learn, ye Dunces! not to scorn your God.
Thus he, for then a ray of Reason stole
Half thro the solid darkness of his soul;
But soon the cloud returndand thus the sire:
See now what Dulness and her sons admire!
See what the charms that smite the simple heart,
Not touchd by Nature, and not reachd by art.
His never-blushing head he turnd aside
(Not half so pleasd when Goodman prophesied),
And lookd, and saw a sable sorcerer rise,
Swift to whose hand a winged volume flies:
All sudden, Gorgons hiss, and Dragons glare,
And ten-hornd Fiends and Giants rush to war;
Hell rises, Heavn descends, and dance on earth;
Gods, imps, and monsters, music, rage, and mirth,
A fire, a jig, a battle, and a ball,
Till one wide conflagration swallows all.
Thence a new world, to Natures laws unknown,
Breaks out refulgent, with a Heavn its own:
Another Cynthia her new journey runs,
And other planets circle other suns.
The forests dance, the rivers upward rise,
Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies:
And last, to give the whole creation grace,
Lo! one vast egg produces human race.
Joy fills his soul, joy innocent of thought:
What Power (he cries), what Power these wonders wrought?
Son, what thou seekst is in thee! look and find
Each monster meets his likeness in thy mind.
Yet wouldst thou more? in yonder cloud behold,
Whose sarsenet skirts are edged with flamy gold,
A matchless youth! his nod these worlds controls,
Wings the red lightning, and the thunder rolls.
Angel of Dulness, sent to scatter round
Her magic charms oer all unclassic ground,
Yon stars, yon suns, he rears at pleasure higher,
Illumes their light, and sets their flames on fire.
Immortal Rich! how calm he sits at ease,
Midst snows of paper, and fierce hail of pease!
And proud his mistress orders to perform,
Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
But lo! to dark encounter in mid air
New wizards rise; I see my Cibber there!
Booth in his cloudy tabernacle shrined;
On grinning dragons thou shalt mount the wind.
Dire is the conflict, dismal is the din,
Here shouts all Drury, there all Lincolns-inn;
Contending theatres our empire raise,
Alike their labours, and alike their praise.
And are these wonders, Son, to thee unknown?
Unknown to thee! these wonders are thy own.
These Fate reservd to grace thy reign divine,
Foreseen by me, but ah! withheld from mine.
In Luds old walls tho long I ruled renownd,
Far as loud Bows stupendous bells resound;
Tho my own aldermen conferrd the bays,
To me committing their eternal praise,
Their full-fed heroes, their pacific mayors,
Their annual trophies, and their monthly wars;
Tho long my party built on me their hopes,
For writing pamphlets, and for roasting Popes;
Yet lo! in me what authors have to brag on!
Reduced at last to hiss in my own dragon.
Avert it, Heavn! that thou, my Cibber, eer
Shouldst wag a serpent-tail in Smithfield fair!
Like the vile straw that s blown about the streets,
The needy poet sticks to all he meets,
Coachd, carted, trod upon, now loose, now fast,
And carried off in some dogs tail at last.
Happier thy fortunes! like a rolling stone,
Thy giddy dulness still shall lumber on;
Safe in its heaviness, shall never stray,
But lick up every blockhead in the way.
Thee shall the patriot, thee the courtier taste,
And evry year be duller than the last;
Till raised from booths, to theatre, to Court,
Her seat imperial Dulness shall transport.
Already Opera prepares the way,
The sure forerunner of her gentle sway:
Let her thy heart (next Drabs and Dice) engage,
The third mad passion of thy doting age.
Teach thou the warbling Polypheme to roar,
And scream thyself as none eer screamd before!
To aid our cause, if Heavn thou canst not bend,
Hell thou shalt move; for Faustus is our friend:
Pluto with Cato thou for this shalt join,
And link the Mourning Bride to Proserpine,
Grub-street! thy fall should men and Gods conspire,
Thy stage shall stand, insure it but from fire.
Another Æschylus appears! prepare
For new abortions, all ye pregnant fair!
In flames like Semeles, be brought to bed,
While opening Hell spouts wildfire at your head.
Now, Bavius, take the poppy from thy brow,
And place it here! here, all ye heroes, bow!
This, this is he foretold by ancient rhymes,
Th Augustus born to bring Saturnian times.
Signs follwing signs lead on the mighty year!
See the dull stars roll round and reappear!
See, see, our own true Phbus wears the bays!
Our Midas sits Lord Chancellor of plays!
On poets tombs see Bensons titles writ!
Lo! Ambrose Philips is preferrd for wit!
See under Ripley rise a new Whitehall,
While Jones and Boyles united labours fall;
While Wren with sorrow to the grave descends,
Gay dies unpensiond with a hundred friends,
Hibernian politics, O Swift! thy fate,
And Popes, ten years to comment and translate!
Proceed, great days! till learning fly the shore,
Till birch shall blush with noble blood no more;
Till Thames see Etons sons for ever play,
Till Westminsters whole year be holiday;
Till Isis elders reel, their pupils sport,
And Alma Mater lie dissolvd in port!
Enough! enough! the raptured monarch cries,
And thro the ivry gate the vision flies.
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By Hitesh Pant
Originating in the "roof of the world," the yak is an important animal, providing a host of nutritional and practical benefits to the people of the Tibetan plateau. It can withstand freezing temperatures and sparse vegetation, and is a major source of meat, milk, fiber, and hide. Although the population of Bos mustus sharply declined due to the arrival of new farmers who poached their meat for commercial gains, the domesticated yak (Bos grunniens) gradually migrated into Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia, becoming an essential driver of economic development in these regions.
Similar in appearance to the North American bison, the yak is characterized by its thick black coat and large dewclaws, both of which are adaptations to the harsh climate of the Himalayas. Perhaps the most striking feature is its round and thick horns, whose open arch gives this bovine an intimidating appearance. The yak reaches sexual maturity by age six, and has an average life span of 23 years.
Seasonal variation of environmental conditions is the biggest limiting factor in yak growth and the main determinant of individual productivity; approximately 25 percent of the body weight gained during the summer is lost over winter and spring, an amount that is difficult to regenerate given the limited availability of year-round grasses. Despite the limitations on growth that they face—low annual rainfall, mean temperatures below 5°C, and seasonal shifts in vegetation—yaks have continued to supplement subsistence farming in the Himalayas and have become an important ecosystem service for the area.
Yak milk is very dense and thick, and its high fat (5.5-7 percent) and protein (4-5.5 percent) content makes it a valuable source of amino acids. Meat, which is primarily derived from castrated or 'surplus' males, is an important source of income to the herding families. The thick fur that coats the yak has been extensively used for insulating tin roofs and the growing demand for their fur has resulted in an increase in crossbreeding to bear individuals with the thickest fiber. Although the quality of their hide is lower in comparison to cattle, yak hide is a major source of rawhide in China and is used to pack raw butter, wrap boxes for storage, and felt boots and soles. Farmers use yak feces to make pens and enclosures for winter stocks, and they also paint it on fences to fill cracks.
Known locally as the 'boat of the plateau,' the yak serves as an important draft animal and is used for plowing and threshing grain. Likewise, its high endurance makes it ideal to carry loads across large distances without having the need to continually replenish it with water.
Unfortunately, the introduction of motor vehicles in rural Tibet coincided with an increase in commercial poaching, and coupled with the interbreeding of domestic and wild animals, looks to have gradually resigned yaks to the same fate as the bison. Wild yaks are now regionally extinct in Nepal and India, and the demand for domestic pastures has sharply reduced their food source, and with it their population.
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Event benefits people with Down syndrome
The Family & Friends Down Syndrome Association Niagara Inc. announces the 16th annual Buddy Walk of Buffalo Niagara, a benefit for people with Down syndrome, will be held Saturday, Sept. 8.
From the association:
Butterflies and Buddy Walk: What they have in common
So just what might butterflies and buddy walkers have in common? Determination, perseverance, and a journey!
Each fall, Monarch butterflies in Maine begin an unbelievable journey to a hilltop in Mexico. How do they do it? They focus on the goal, not the difficulties. Each day, they take their bearings and set off, lead by natural instinct and desire. They accept what comes: some winds blow them off course, others speed them along. They keep flying until one day they arrive!
Please join our children and families who celebrate their personal journey in our Buddy Walk of Buffalo Niagara. The life course of one child just might depend on your advocacy and involvement. This year, more than 285,000 Americans across the country are expected to "Join The Journey" and walk in support of Down syndrome awareness.
On Sept. 8, The Family & Friends Down Syndrome Association of Niagara Inc. joins in this national campaign and sponsors the 16th annual Buddy Walk of Buffalo Niagara (as part of the 55th Niagara County Peach Festival). The Family & Friends Down Syndrome Association will also participate in the Peach Festival parade. Families of children born with Down syndrome and self-advocates will walk to celebrate their lives and support the betterment of others.
When families learn their child is born with Down syndrome, they may ponder what their child's life will be like. No one can determine that outcome with any certainty. Their journey begins by planning the best possible future for their child with hope, determination and perseverance that one day that child will become the healthiest, happiest and successful adult, living a life of independence, meaning and purpose. Only thing is for certain: One will feel "butterflies" along the way!
The journey is often challenging, at best, for many families to learn how to navigate the health and education systems, let alone the dwindling availability of adult support and service delivery options as parents and primary caregivers begin to age themselves. Although the good news is the average age span of an adult living with Down syndrome today now is 60 years, the real challenge lies in the reality that support systems are rapidly narrowing. It is because of this we must continue to raise positive awareness that focuses on the abilities of individuals with Down syndrome, and to advocate for their inclusion in all aspects of health, education and employment opportunities that will promote their independence as adults.
This is a reality for many adults living with Down syndrome and is best documented by referring to professional sources such as The National Down Syndrome Society at www.ndss.org or The National Down Syndrome Congress at www.ndsc.org. Additionally, joining our journey in the Buddy Walk of Buffalo Niagara is certainly one place to start. Families will meet new families, friendships will form, and support systems will grow.
For more information on how to get involved or become a participant, or to register for the Buddy Walk of Buffalo Niagara, visit www.dsaniagara.org or call 716-870-4904.


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Won't Be Long Lyrics
I kinda knew all along that this would happen
But ignorance is bliss
I just wanted to be called 'his'
So I can only blame myself for it hurting
Way back when we were young
I told him on day one
I said…
It won't be long before I cry a tear for you
It won't be long before you break my heart in two
Oh baby, I hope you know what you're doing to me
Oh baby, I hope you know what you're doing
Honey, for a second, think about the beginning
I did the best I could
What about it wasn't good?
Tell me, why can't you remember all the promises you made me?
I feel like such a fool
I guess what I said came true
If I compare the cost of
The pain of feeling lost love
And being careful
No, I wouldn't take the easy way
Even if I could do it all again
So just come here
I already know what's coming


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November 21, 2012 13:04 ET
Obotan Continues to Move Towards Development as Key Milestones Are Achieved
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 21, 2012) -
PMI Gold Corporation ("PMI") (TSX VENTURE:PMV)(FRANKFURT:PN3N)(ASX:PVM) is pleased to announce that the Mining Leases covering its flagship 100%-owned Obotan Gold Project in south-west Ghana have been formally granted by the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources. This marks another key milestone towards development of a substantial new gold mining operation in West Africa.
The formal grant of the three Mining Leases (renewable under the terms of the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006) follows the favorable recommendation by the Minerals Commission of Ghana in September.
The Mining Leases cover a total area of 93.24 sq km, encompassing the four key deposits at Obotan, the main Nkran deposit and the smaller satellite deposits, Abore, Adubiaso and Asuadai.
In conjunction with the formal issue of the Mining Leases, PMI has also received a key water discharge permit for the Obotan operation which will allow PMI to commence its dewatering operations of the Nkran and Adubiaso pits.
In August, PMI announced the completion of a positive NI 43-101 compliant Feasibility Study confirming a financially and technically robust mining operation at Obotan with forecast production of 221,500oz pa over its first five years (see PMI News Release - 28 August 2012). The Study forecast total production of 2.26 million recovered ounces over an 11.5-year mine life.
The Company has also recently announced a C$115 million equity financing, less costs, to fund the development of the Obotan Project. Discussions with debt providers are well advanced and an appropriate debt funding package is expected to be finalized within the coming weeks.
PMI Gold's Managing Director and CEO, Collin Ellison, said:
"The grant of the Mining Leases for Obotan is another important milestone for the Company as we continue to move inexorably towards development and production."
Collin Ellison
On behalf of the Board,
Managing Director & CEO
Competent Person and Technical Disclosure
PMI filed a NI 43-101 compliant technical report on the Obotan Project outlining the Mineral Resources and Reserves Estimate and the result of the Feasibility Study on September 17, 2012. The report is available on SEDAR (www.sedar.com). The NI43-101 technical report was prepared by GR Engineering Services Limited, and co-authored by P. Gleeson, B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc, MAIGS, MGSA, J. Price, FAusIMM(CP), FGS, MIE(Aust.), R Cheyne, BEng. (Mining), FAusIMM, CEng (IEI), and G. Neeling, BAppSc. (Multidisciplinary) FAusIMM, each of whom is independent for the purposes of NI 43-101. Mr Collin Ellison, President & CEO, BSc Mining, MIMMM, C.Eng, a "qualified person" within the definition of that term in NI43-101, has supervised the preparation of the technical information regarding the Company's mineral projects which is not covered by the filed NI43-101 technical reports on the Obotan Project.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Complaint Against DyoCore, Inc.
Docket # 11-CAI-03
Committee overseeing this proceeding is:
Carla Peterman
Commissioner and Presiding Member
(To be assigned)
Associate Member
Raoul Renaud
Hearing Officer
On July 26, 2011, California Energy Commission Executive Director, Robert P. Oglesby, filed a Complaint Against DyoCore, Inc., alleging that DyoCore violated the intent of the Emerging Renewables Program.
- Item # 15, November 2, 2011 Energy Commission Business Meeting
Possible approval of the DyoCore Complaint Committee's recommendations to the Energy Commission.
- Committee Recommendation and Resolution of Outstanding Applications. Posted: October 19, 2011. (9 pages, 103 kb).
- Notice for October 11, 2011, Prehearing Conference and All Documents for the Proceeding
- Complaint Against DyoCore, Inc. Dated July 26, 2011. Posted: July 27, 2011. (PDF file, 43 pages).
- Amendment of Complaint Against DyoCore, Inc. Posted: September 12, 2011. (PDF file, 6 pages).
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CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois state senator charged with trying to board a flight with a gun and ammunition in a carry-on bag posted bond and left court Thursday without a word about the charges or whether it would affect his decision to run for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s vacant congressional seat.
The 62-year-old Trotter — wearing the same clothes he had on when he was arrested the morning before at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport — stopped to address reporters after his release, but apparently changed his mind when he was asked about the case.
"Not now, not today," said Trotter, a couple of hours after he had appeared in court and a judge set his bond at $25,000.
Regardless of whether Trotter is saying so, observers say it's clear that his congressional campaign — if he does continue to run — will look a lot different than it did before Wednesday morning.
"This will handicap him because everywhere he goes he will be asked why he was carrying a loaded gun onto an airline," said Dick Simpson, a former Chicago alderman and a political scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Until Trotter's arrest, he was one of the stronger candidates in a growing field, Simpson said.
Trotter has 24 years of public service, both as a state representative and a state senator, that he could tout during a campaign. That service was something his attorney pointed to in asking the judge to impose a "reasonable" bond. Now, though, said Simpson, voters will be asked to answer a much more basic question.
"Do you really want a congressman who's not bright enough to not take a gun on an airplane?" he said.
Trotter is charged with a Class 4 felony, which carries a sentence to one to three years in prison upon conviction. In Illinois, defendants must post 10 percent of the set bond, so Trotter had to put up $2,500, to be released. He's scheduled to return to court for a hearing Dec. 12.
During Thursday's hearing where a Cook County judge set his bond, Assistant State's Attorney Lorraine Scaduto outlined the events that led to Trotter's arrest.
Trotter, she told the judge, was at the airport Wednesday morning for an 8:07 a.m. flight to Washington, D.C. During a routine X-ray of his carry-on bag, Transportation Security Administration officers spotted the unloaded gun and clip of bullets. Trotter was then taken into custody.
Scaduto said that Trotter explained to officers he uses the .25-caliber Beretta handgun for his job with a security company. She said he told them that he'd worked until midnight the night before and that he'd forgotten the gun and ammunition in his garment bag when he packed at 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
"He said he did not realize it was still in his bag," Scaduto said.


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Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1973
Selected Publications
Competition and Regulation: The Dynamics of Oligopoly in the Meat Packing Industry, 1870-1920. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1981. (1-296)
"Mavericks and Mavens of Business History: Miriam Beard and Henrietta Larson," Enterprise & Society, vol. 2, no. 4(Dec.2001), 687-768.
The Protection Makers: A History of Protection in the International Steel Trade, work in progress.
"Bureaucracy", Encyclopedia of American Economic History, Vol. 3, 895-926.
Mary A. Yeager, ed. Women in Business, 3 vols., The International Library of Critical Writings in Business History, Elgar Reference Collection (Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 1999.
Mary A. Yeager, "Will There Ever Be A Feminist Business History?", in Mary A. Yeager, ed., Women in Business, v. 1, pp. 3-43.
Mary Yeager Kujovich, "The Refrigerator Car and the Growth of the American Dressed Beef Industry," Business History Review,, Vol. XLIV, No. 4 (Winter 1970), 460-482.
"Trade Protection as an International Commodity: The Case of Steel, 1930-1980," Journal of Economic History, XL(1)(March 1980), pp. 33-42.
Works in Progress:
"The Protection Makers: Steel and the State in Latin America and the United States" (book length manuscript, comparing the role of government in the industrial development of Mexico, Brazil and the United States.)
American Economic History


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain.
The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) and outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined the president Saturday at Andrews Air Force Base. LaHood is running the Transportation Department until the Senate confirms Obama's choice of Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx as successor.
Reporters saw Sebelius climb into the president's SUV before the motorcade left the White House. She's overseeing the president's health care law.
Before he got into the vehicle, Obama looked up at the grey sky with an outstretched hand. A steady rain was falling by the time he arrived about a half hour later.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian rights group says it has documented nearly 500 complaints of detainee abuse in Palestinian jails in 2013, up by 200 from the previous year.
The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights said Thursday that the increase is due, in part, to better access for its investigators to lockups in the Gaza Strip.
The Islamic militant group Hamas has ruled Gaza since seizing it from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007, leaving him with only parts of the West Bank.
The rights group says it presented the findings to Abbas who last month signed onto 15 international conventions, including one prohibiting torture.
The head of the group, Randa Siniora, says the Palestinians now need "to take all the necessary measures to prevent torture in its facilities."


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* Q4 adjusted profit $1.11/share beats by 6 cents
* Sales up 2 pct to $6.70 bln
* CEO Farr: U.S. fiscal cliff to hit spending
* Shares add 1.9 percent
Nov 6 (Reuters) - U.S. industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric Co reported a sharply lower quarterly net profit on Tuesday, reflecting a goodwill charge in its network power business, and said it expects earnings to grow by at least a single-digit percentage rate in fiscal 2013.
Slower telecommunications and information technology markets led to the $592 million charge. Emerson said it will pursue a sale of its $1.4 billion embedded computing and power business.
The company is planning for a ``challenging'' business environment that includes stagnant economies in Europe and likely lower U.S. investment as a result of the ``fiscal cliff'' of automatic government spending cuts, Chief Executive David Farr said on a conference call with investors.
``Even if they do resolve the fiscal cliff, and I have no idea how they're going to do that, I personally believe the spending in the U.S. will be negatively impacted, both at the government level and at the consumer level,'' Farr said.
Farr, among the most outspoken U.S. manufacturing executives, said Tuesday's election will result in either ``great excitement'' or a ``great ugh,'' depending on one's political party. He added that solving the fiscal cliff is the top priority of chief executives after the vote.
``We need the leaders of this country to get together and sort out how we're going to fix the long-term fiscal structure of our government. We can't afford what we're doing right now.''
Farr also said Japan was weakening and the outlook for China is uncertain as new leadership takes power there.
While Emerson looks to dispose of a business, its acquisitions are limited to small bolt-on deals, with around $500 million budgeted, he added.
Emerson shares closed up 1.9 percent at $51.46.
Net earnings fell 63 percent to $282 million, or 39 cents per share, in Emerson's fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 30, from $761 million, or $1.01 per share, a year earlier.
Excluding the goodwill charge, adjusted profit of $1.11 a share was 6 cents ahead of the average Wall Street target, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Sales rose 2 percent to $6.70 billion, meeting estimates.
St. Louis-based Emerson, which raised its dividend slightly, posted an 18 percent sales increase in its process management business, reflecting investment by the energy industry. Other divisions showed lower or flat sales.
Sales and profit expectations have come down in recent weeks as Emerson's orders have reflected weak telecommunications demand and softening economies in Asia.
Emerson, the maker of factory automation systems, uninterruptible power supplies for data networks, and wireless technology for the energy sector, said orders have slowed because economies remain uncertain in the United States, Europe and China.
It forecast that fiscal 2013 sales would be flat to up 5 percent and earnings per share should grow by the mid- to high-single digits, with up to 80 percent of the increase coming in the first half of the fiscal year.
``If China's economy can get off its back and recent momentum in the U.S. continues, Emerson should deliver another respectable year,'' Edward Jones analyst Matt Collins said.
In contrast with other diversified U.S. industrial companies, Emerson's full-year forecast calls for a stronger first half of the year. That's partly because the next two quarters' results will benefit from easier comparisons to a year earlier, when Emerson was affected by flooding in Thailand.


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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Wednesday denied a legal challenge by two police unions to a New York City law that eases the way for racial profiling claims.
"Local Law 71 does not prevent police officers from continuing to stop, question, and frisk while utilizing their training and experience," wrote state Supreme Court Justice Anil Singh. "The law only seeks to deter the use of attributes such as race as the sole basis for an investigatory stop which is antithetical to our constitution and values," Singh wrote.
The 2013 law relaxes some legal standards for claims that the stop and frisk tactic or other police techniques were used in a discriminatory way. The measure reflected concerns about the New York Police Department's use of the stop and frisk tactic and its extensive surveillance of Muslims disclosed in stories by The Associated Press.
The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and the Sergeants Benevolent Association wanted the law struck down. They said it intruded on state criminal law and that it had a troublingly vague definition of profiling: using race or certain other characteristics "as the determinative factor" in policing.
The unions also contended the law could entangle them in lawsuits over elusive questions about what they were thinking when stopping someone.
The city argued that the law is valid and valuable.
The council passed the law last summer over then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto. Bloomberg vehemently defended both the surveillance and stop and frisk as legal and vital public safety tools, and he said the anti-profiling law would make it more difficult for police to do their jobs.
He sued the City Council, as did the PBA.
Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped Bloomberg's suit, saying there was "absolutely no contradiction in protecting the public safety of New Yorkers and respecting their civil liberties." He also has abandoned the city's appeal of a federal court order demanding changes to the NYPD's use of stop and frisk.
"We are pleased with the Court's decision," a spokesman for the city's law department said on Wednesday.
PBA president Patrick J. Lynch disagreed with the judge's decision, saying the union plans to appeal.
"This law sends an extremely bad message to our police officers who will see themselves in legal crosshairs with every arrest they make," Lynch said in a statement. "Potentially, this bad law can have a very serious impact on public safety."
Messages seeking comment from the Sergeants Benevolent Association were not immediately returned.
Communities United for Police Reform praised the ruling.
"New Yorkers know that it should be unlawful for police to target them solely based on who they are — whether race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, housing or immigration status — and today the court confirmed it," spokesperson Joo-Hyun Kang said in a statement.


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Chicago aldermen today balked at an ethics reform bill proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, even after the mayor agreed to heavily dilute provisions after City Council members fretted about the potential use of anonymous complaints for political retribution.
Aldermen voted 25-3 to table the measure that Emanuel still hopes to get approved at next Wednesday's City Council meeting. To help assure passage, his aides removed a section that allowed anonymous complaints against aldermen and their employees.
But aldermen said they still are concerned that signed and sworn complaints would not require review by the Board of Ethics before the council inspector general could launch an investigation — even though knowingly lying in such a complaint could lead to a $2,000 fine and six months in jail.
City Council members also said that they were given inadequate time to review the changes, which were altered just minutes before the meeting started — when aldermen were handed copies of the changes.
"I think the biggest resistance today was the fact that we got the substitute ordinance two minutes before the meeting started," said Ald. Ricardo Munoz, 22nd. "It's a 20-page document. We need a little time to review."
Aldermen also complained about current inquiries by council Inspector General Faisal Khan, who has billed the city more than $300,000 for his work since being hired in November 2011.
Committee Chairman Richard Mell, 33rd, recessed the meeting until Monday, when he hopes to revive the measure. As soon as today's meeting ended, mayoral aides descended onto the council floor to speak with aldermen.
One of the leaders of the charge against a vote today was Ald. Carrie Austin, 34th, a key mayoral ally. Many other aldermen who typically support the mayor voted in favor of tabling the measure.
Ald. Patrick O'Connor, 40th, the mayor's floor leader, said the administration would have preferred a vote today. "It's clear that the council has some questions," he said. "It's also clear that this latest version came down a couple of minutes before the meeting started."
"This didn't really lend itself to the airing of concerns that were there, and this is probably a smarter way to handle it," O'Connor said of the delay until Monday.


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When exactly did the Big East stop breathing? Was it when it expanded into Idaho and California in an attempt to remain relevant in football? More likely it was when it went shopping for schools such as Central Florida, SMU, Houston and Tulane. At some point, it was all becoming too much for the seven league schools who make their money from basketball but don't play big-time football.
Apparently that time has finally come. According to multiple reports, those seven – Georgetown, St. John's, Seton Hall, Providence, Villanova, DePaul and Marquette – have informed the league that they're taking their basketballs and going home. Or, more accurately, leaving home.
Those schools let Commissioner Mike Aresco know of their intentions to leave during a conference call Thursday during which Aresco tried to convince them to reconsider.
One has to feel sorry for Aresco, who was hired in August to become commissioner of college athletics' version of the Titanic. With Syracuse and Pittsburgh defecting to the ACC, Aresco was given the task of holding the league together and trying to carve out a new TV deal that would satisfy the league's university presidents' insatiable appetites for money.
Instead, he watched helplessly as Notre Dame (a basketball-only member), Rutgers and Louisville added to the carnage by jumping ship. Trying to replace those three schools with the likes of Tulane, Central Florida and Memphis wasn't going to cut it with the basketball schools. And while Temple has a great basketball history and a very solid program, Villanova wasn't thrilled with the arrival of the crosstown Owls.
All of that led to Thursday's decision to bolt. The only question now is what form their leaving will take. There are a number of options — all of them tied to money. If the seven leave en masse they will not, by rule, have to pay an exit fee. On the flip side they won't share in the roughly $50 million owed by the five schools that have previously departed. They could vote to dissolve the league. It takes a two-thirds vote, and only South Florida, Connecticut and Cincinnati also have votes on dissolution (Temple is a voting member but not on dissolution). So the votes would be there if needed. Of course it would be difficult then to try to demand exit fees from a league that no longer exists.
More important, long-term, is where the seven schools go next. They could join the Atlantic-10 and create the ludicrous specter of a 21-team conference. Imagine the slogan for the A-10 tournament: "The most exciting three weeks of championship week!" Or, more logically, and more likely, they could cherry-pick several schools that are similar in profile: Dayton, Xavier, Butler, St. Joseph's and even Creighton have been mentioned. Those five plus the old-Big-East seven would be a formidable basketball league. Even three of those five would make for a conference that will be very attractive to a TV network. There will be no Tulane-Houston games in that package.
The best thing about this decision – regardless of what form it takes – is that it will allow the seven schools to get back to the roots that formed the Big East in 1979. Georgetown, St. John's, Seton Hall and Providence were founding members, and Villanova joined a year later. Syracuse, Connecticut and Boston College were also founding members and Pittsburgh joined in 1982. Only Pitt and BC from that group of nine has not made a Final Four since the league began.


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Charlie Sheen's ex-wife Brooke Mueller has completed a three-month stint in rehab in Utah and has returned to her home in Los Angeles to enrol in an outpatient program.
The troubled reality TV star, who has two sons with the actor, has long suffered substance abuse problems and she checked into a drug recovery center late last year in a bid to kick her addiction.
Her representative has now confirmed Mueller has successfully completed treatment and returned to L.A., where she has signed up to "an aggressive outpatient program".
Spokesman Steve Honig tells E! News, "After successfully completing an intensive three-month drug and alcohol treatment program, Brooke returned to Los Angeles yesterday and has immediately begun an aggressive outpatient program that includes a sober companion. Brooke is feeling better than ever before, and is committed to continuing treatment for as long as necessary to maintain her total and complete sobriety."


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While marketing certainly includes selling and advertising, it is not just about making a sale. Rather, marketing focuses on attracting new customers by promising superior value and keeping current customers by delivering satisfaction.
The marketing curriculum at Loyola emphasizes the development of critical thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills. Computer applications, case analysis, and hands-on projects are integrated throughout the program. Introductory marketing courses familiarize students with marketing terms, examine the marketing process, and consider the tools at the disposal of the marketer. Upper-level courses develop skills in functional areas, with an emphasis on practical application. The Loyola marketing faculty is highly qualified, with teaching interests in the following areas of marketing: marketing strategy, product management, advertising, sales, buyer behavior, and ethics/public policy.
A variety of programs are offered to involve students in the world of business. Students may enroll in a marketing internship, a course providing on-the-job experience. Students work 150 hours with a sponsoring company. Independent study is available through the Selected Topics in Marketing course, in which students engage in intensive study under the direct guidance of a faculty advisor.
The department has a highly visible student association, the Loyola Marketing Association (LMA). The LMA, a student chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA), is involved in a number of professional and community activities. Students are able to share ideas and meet some of Baltimore's best marketing professionals through the AMA's "Executive Speaker Series." In conjunction with the American Marketing Association's Baltimore Chapter, students also receive assistance with job placement. Marketing students are eligible for membership in Mu Kappa Tau (National Marketing Honor Society) and in Beta Gamma Sigma (National Business Honor Society).
Loyola Marketing graduates have begun careers with organizations such as Aetna Insurance Company, Amelia & Associates Advertising, Baltimore Orioles, Chase Manhattan Bank, Citicorp, Cintas, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Eastman Kodak, Frito Lay, ITT Financial Services, John Hancock Financial Services, Kohl Sales, Kraft General Foods, Marriott Corporation, MBNA, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Myers Marketing Research, Thomas Ferguson Associates, Wallace Computers, and Waverly Press.
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A common trouble with organic food, and you don't have to be an expert to guess what it is, is how to preserve and protect it.
For years, pesticides and chemicals have been seen as the guardians against food-borne illness, and food "going bad."
All this probably goes double for meat products. So how do you protect foods, in this case pork, from spoiling, and making you sick?
Researchers have an idea, using vegetables.
Organic meat cannot contain contaminates. And traditional curing involves nitrates, a chemical preservative, i.e. an organic no-no.
So if chemical preservative aren't allowed, vegetable-based nitrates from organic plants is being looked at as a solution.
Items being considered are lemon powder and natural vinegar, even lactic acid, the stuff in milk might work.
What's spurred the desire to better preserve organic meats is people don't realize organics usually don't last as long as regular meat.
So they save them longer than they should, and often abuse them the same as traditional products. You can't leave organic meat out too long.
But people often don't realize this, meaning they increase contracting some sort of food-borne pathogen.
Via Newswise.
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Military contracts are big game. And one of the most notorious hunters is a former British soldier whose past business ventures include violating a UN arms embargo in Sierra Leone and unwittingly triggering a coup in Papua New Guinea. His name is Tim Spicer, and in March his London-based company, Aegis Defense Services, bagged a $293 million contract from the Pentagon to protect US diplomats in Iraq.
One might think that the government would be wary of awarding such largesse to a man with a dubious background. But not only did the Pentagon have no idea who Spicer was when they gave his company a huge contract, they didn't seem to care when challenged about it.
Five Democratic senators, led by Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, protested the Aegis contract on humanitarian grounds, urging the Pentagon to reconsider the deal in light of Spicer's background. He is, they noted, a man with a remarkable talent for entangling himself in scandal. In August, they asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to review the Spicer deal. In a response last month, the Army admitted that its contracting officer was unaware of trouble spots in Spicer's past, but it refused to reconsider the contract.
"It is significant that the British Ministry of Defense was apprised of our intention…and did not object or advise against the action. Moreover, neither Aegis nor Mr. Spicer are on the…list of parties excluded from Federal contracting," wrote Sandra Sieber, director of the Army Contracting Agency. "We therefore had no legal basis to deny the award to Aegis, which won the competition fairly based on the rules and criteria established by our solicitation."
The $293 million pays Spicer's company to coordinate the dozens of private security forces operating in Iraq and to provide as many as seventy-five of its own teams of bodyguards per day. It's a "costs plus" contract, so Aegis is guaranteed a profit even if its costs increase. Using this type of contract for a firm run by a fellow of dubious ethics seems particularly questionable–especially considering that other contractors, most notably Halliburton, are under investigation for overcharging abuses.
In a country where insurgents are responsible for scores of attacks each day–including a mortar attack at the end of November in Baghdad's Green Zone that killed four workers for another British mercenary company–one might think that few people would be lining up to work as bodyguards. But the business is quite lucrative, and former special forces soldiers are queuing for jobs that can pay more than $100,000 a year. More than fifty private security companies are in Iraq today, with an estimated 20,000 hired guns working for them. Spicer's group is supposed to coordinate them all. And there's one more catch: Spicer appears to have no previous experience handling such a large security operation, nor any ties to Iraq.


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First, I don't think this is in the right category to post this to but I didn't know where else I should ask. Feel free to move this if need be.
I have been breastfeeding my son who is now 6 weeks and have been using a nursing cover when I am out and about. I know this is not the subtle way to nurse in public but I haven't mastered the art of nursing in a wrap yet. I also do not believe in having to hide to do so, I am not going to do it in the restrooms just to please people. This is a natural thing to do, and so many women are uncomfortable doing it that I feel like I have to show the example. It is alright to breastfeed in public.
So far, I haven't gotten any negative reactions but there has been two kinds of people I have noticed: The ones who look at me with a strange look of disapproval and other moms who congratulate me for having the guts of doing it when i'm out and about.
The federal law and state law are on my side and I plan on printing them and carrying them in my diaper bag just in case, but I was wondering... If someone has something negative to say or you are asked to leave the premises and that showing the law paper is not enough to convince them that you are in your right here, what do you do? I really feel like people need to be educated on this... and if someone is mean I certainly won't feel like being nice. Do you call the cops? Do you just leave and admit your "defeat"? I'm not going to sue everyone either, lol. So really, what is there to do to enforce that law and make it easier for other moms aswell?


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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Vernon Davis: It's been a tough season
In the Divisional Round of last year's playoffs, 49ers tight end Vernon Davis had seven catches for 180 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner with 14 seconds left to play.
Things haven't been quite so robust in the passing game for Davis this season. In his last seven games, Davis has six catches for 61 yards and no scores. The sluggish production is right in line with what's been happening on offense in San Francisco since Colin Kaepernick took over at quarterback and Davis admitted Tuesday that it's been difficult to adjust to a lower profile role as a receiver.
"It is a different feeling for me because it's been a tough season as far as just the feeling of being involved," said Davis, via the Associated Press. "To me, it's not a bad thing, because it's something I had to get used to this year. Each and every season in the past, I'm used to helping the team in ways where I'm just catching balls and things like that. This year's been a little bit different. It just feels different going into these playoffs, as far as my role and things like that. It's not a bad thing, I'm not mad at it. That's just how it is sometimes. It takes a little getting used to."
Davis pointed out earlier in the season that he and Kaepernick have to develop chemistry, but he hasn't made a stink about the impact changes to the 49ers offense have had on his own output. If they don't win this weekend with Davis playing the same limited role, however, it's a good bet someone in the Bay Area will make a stink about his lack of touches.
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The Walled City
Ponce de Leon never did find the Fountain of Youth, but he did stumble upon the island of Puerto Rico with its lovely capital, San Juan, which we think had to be a worthy consolation prize. The Spanish obviously liked what they saw—San Juan is the second oldest European settlement in the Americas and the entire city is still enclosed by the original fortress walls dating back to the early 1500s.
Get a feel for the history of San Juan with a stroll through the Old Town where attractively restored buildings with filigree cast iron balconies line its narrow distinctive blue-hued cobbled streets. Pay a visit to Palacio de Santa Catalina, the official residence of the Governor of Puerto Rico and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Afterward, check out the beaches in Condado and Isla Verde. Lined with the hottest night clubs, restaurants serving gourmet cuisine, boutiques, and more these strips of snow-white sand are places to see and be seen. But wherever you go, just move to the rhythm of the ever-present salsa beat and you'll be in the spirit in no time. The secret? It's all in the hips.
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How Mitt Romney Puts His Money Where Obama's Mouth Is
This story is part of a package on Mitt Romney's Bain holdings. For the full report, go here.
When it comes to the economy, Romney's plan is all about gutting regulation and reducing government spending. When it comes to using his gargantuan wealth to make even more money, it's a different story. The investor letters for some of the Bain funds Romney owns stakes in provide clear-eyed analyses of the economy that are in many cases directly at odds with Romney's vision.
For instance: Romney has between $1 million and $5 million parked in Prospect Harbor Credit Partners LP, a $1.2 billion (as of 2010) fund. According to a 2010 investor letter from its advisors, the tenuous economic recovery underway in 2010 was at risk of a Republican victory in the midterm elections:
With an economy that is still highly dependent on fiscal support, the outcome of the midterm elections could lead to gridlock that would have major ramifications for the economy. An expiration of stimulus would be a significant fiscal drag.
Let that one sink in: An expiration of stimulus would be a significant fiscal drag. Here is Romney's position on the stimulus: "The largest one-time careless expenditure of government money in American history." Here's another: "That stimulus didn't work. That stimulus didn't put more private-sector people to work."
The same letter cites a Democratic talking point as a worrisome economic indicator: "Consumer consumption activity differs increasingly between the 'haves' and the 'have nots.'"
In this confidential 2010 Sankaty Advisors PowerPoint presentation on "Market Opportunities" in the "Altered Landscape," financial industry regulation is actually cited as a positive force on the "New Market Reality."
"Regulation will improve liquidity and tranparency," one slide reads. Here is Romney's position on financial regulation: "Obama-era laws and regulations must be rolled back, and pre-existing ones must be carefully scrutinized." He has pledged to repeal Dodd-Frank, the financial regulatory reform that his money managers credit with improving transparency.
Not all of Romney's investment managers are so enamored of Obama's policies, though. Viking Global Equities LP, a $6.8 billion hedge fund Romney is invested in via a Goldman Sachs "fund of funds," warns potential investors in its August 2011 confidential offering memorandum of the dangers of Dodd-Frank:
The Dodd-Frank Act directly affects the Partnership by requiring registration with the SEC and mandating additional new reporting requirements, including, but not limited to, position information, use of leverage and counterparty and credit risk exposure. Until the SEC implements the new reporting it is unknown how burdensome such new reporting requirements will be. The Dodd-Frank Act may also affect the Partnership in a number of other ways. The Dodd-Frank Act creates the Financial Stability Oversight Council (the "Council") that is charged with monitoring and mitigating systemic risk. As part of this responsibility, the Council would have the authority to subject banks and other financial tirms to regulation by the Federal Reserve Board, which could limit the amount of risk-taking engaged in by the Partnership. In the area of derivatives, the Dodd-Frank Act requires that swaps and security-based swaps be traded through an exchange with few exceptions. This may limit the Partnership's ability to hedge certain risks or otherwise pursue certain investment interests. ln addition, because the Dodd-Frank Act requires that dealers and other swap counterparties post initial and variation margin, counterpartics to swaps and security-based swaps may pass along those obligations and require that the Partnership post initial and variation margin. lt is impossible to predict what, if any, changes in regulation applicable to Partnership, the General Partner, the markets in which they trade and invest or the counterpartics with which they do business may be instituted in the future. The effect of any future regulatory change on the Partnership could be substantial and adverse.
If Mitt Romney wins, he has pledged to clear that right up.
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1. love nature but always stuck myself at home
2. Korean freak =D
3. i like to surf the internet, play with my comp.
4. pretty quiet
5. favorite number 2, lucky number 7
6. not obsese with boys (doesnt mean im lesbian, i meant i dont flirt or do those sluty things)
7. Im a girl! :DD
and etc.
cant list anymore right now =)
Kpop is love <3
1. I'm a lefty
2. Have been close to death twice
3. I have been drawing since I was 3 years old. I kick your ass at oil painting.
4. I used to bite walls when I was teething
5. I burned my face when I was a baby....I'm completely recovered thank goodness
6. I swam with piranhas....
7. I am broke
8. I rarely drink....once a year is pretty rare.
9. I'm making a guitar
10. I kick mushroomjay's ass
11. My biological clock is crazy
12. I am very shy the first time I met someone, after that I become less quiet, now if the conversation is really interesting, you will never shut me up.
13. If there's one thing I can brag about, is how I play Football (soccer)
14. I'm a rumor magnet.
15. Not very organized.....why defy entropy? jk
16. Agnostic
17. skipped 8th grade
18. Had a 65% absence rate on my high school senior.....still passed with mostly B's and A's
19. Broke my clavicle while mountain biking
20. Not good at math
21. I am always the last one of the list, since my last name starts with Zu
22. My name means "dark skinned" or Moorish >_> which I don't think I am.
23. I feed on noobs and spammers
24. CR took away my Anime virginity
Too long? oh well back to studying -_-
In Colombia...having a blast
^i see your whole life there. lol, just kidding.
1) I'm a neat freak
2) I was bitten by a dog when I was 3 in China
3) I have OCD and bi-polar syndrome
4) I play the violin
5) My dad won't let me drink soda anymore
6) I've killed 8 state fair gold fishes and flushed them down the toilet (wasn't my fault!)
7) I haven't gone swimming in 4 years
8) I've moved and lived in 7 different towns/cities
off being an adult. i guess.
i have an obsession with green tea ice cream, waffles, and cupcakes
im left handed
im very picky when it comes to food
i get paranoid after i watch scary movies
im a big animal lover
i dont like having a lot of friends....i dunno why it just bugs me
i dont like the feeling of long nails scratching against paper
i like to cry in the rain....O.o
i like looking at the stars
i enjoy photography
So many left handed people here!
In Colombia...having a blast
im scared of midgets and clowns, and have an obession to jump from high places.
been sky diving twice personally, broken a couple of bones as a kid. want to go bungee jumping. just like jumping in general.
1. I hate the beach because seaguls scare me (but i go to the beach all the time..)
2. I still go trick or treating, and i'm planning on haveing kids so i can trick or treat with them..(I still go to easter egg hunts as well)
3. I'm left handed as well XP
4. At 18, i'm gonna jump out of an airplane, against my own will.
5. I dont enjoy thinking about things too much..
6. I'm probably the biggest hipocrite you've ever seen..
7. I believe that revenge is bad, but its very sweet.
8. I'm too shy to actualy have friends, yet i have a heard..
9. Today, I saw 5 fox kits, and god were they cute. I'm planning on stealing one.
10. I got hit by a car..and then had a scaffel fall on me.
11. In my world, my name starts with a Q....
12. I can't fall asleep unless a Tv's on, yet i hate wakeing up with a tv on..
Drinking Diet Water
- i dread long trips in elevators
( imagine my despair when I was cramped in those empire state building elevator )
- that "little superstar" video annoys the $hit out of me.
- I like dogs, hate cats.
i <3'd Warm Bodies
^little superstar is hilarious :)
1.I love going to the beach, i go mostly to the same one every year
2.I am italian and german
3.I love soda
4.My car kicks ass
5.I watch a lot of tv shows, but none on the tv
6.I love movies and video games
7.I think sweedish fish taste better when they are warm
8.I dont really hang out with kids who like anime
9.I play volleyball all year
10.Im going to college next fall :)
not here
1.always waking up late
2.i got my ass kick by my senior in my sparring match and all my friends saw it
3.i like to tease the woman i love (she doesn't know it yet)
4.keep falling in my bed when sleeping
Life has many Obstacles, im one of them.......
1. My sisters thought i had ADD when I was a kid because i was uber hyper (I'm not)
2. I eat twice as much as my friends but still look skinny (high metabolism)
3. I owned 5 hermit crabs and all of them died in a month.
4. I like the smell of sharpies, gasoline, hand sanitizer, and windex.'
5. I lost my library card 5x already.
6. I can drink 10 cups of tea each day. (regular sized cups)
7. I read uber fast.
8. I love the word uber and cantalera (type of poison not even sure if i spell it right
9. I talk really fast
10.Hate the sun (my family and friends call me a vampire.
11. My earing got stuck in my ear once (the stud was actually swallowed inside my ear and I had to get surgery).
12. Scared of piercing (even ears) any part of my body.
13. Hate bugs and anything sharp getting next to me (especially if someone else is holding it.
14. I love dipping popcorn into hot cocoa.
15. i eat my cereal soggy
Do0mAid: Pretty please use the edit button =D! Thanks!
"I don't love you, I'm just passing the time." She Had the World by Panic
1. I have a few crooked fingers (Family thing.)
2. I don't like raw onions or tomatoes.
3. I own a DS and a Wii.
4. I like sour stuff.
5. I don't eat fish at ALL. (Don't ask :P)
Reading n surfin
1.size 11 feet. 5'5 status ahaha
2.pass gas at insane speed with small time intervals
3.my ringtones are full anime op
4.hate my california wannabe sister
5.im from canada and no we dont liv ein igloos
6.had 5 different hair colours
7.watched 290+ series
8.i break
9.i sleep
10. i hate shawn desmons .
1. Have had 4 pet squirrels, 2 pet hedgehogs and hand reared a baby grebe.
2. Have OCD.
3. I have mild synaesthesia (crunchyroll is a green word :blush:)
4. Fell in my pond last night after winning a vodka drinking contest with my friends
5. Once at 3 worms as a dare.
6. Have all platinum medals on Big Brain Academy!
7. Likes sewing all my fingers together
8. Drinks enough Diet Pepsi to rot a fortress wall
9. Still has every birthday card she has ever recieved
10. Lights incense only as an excuse to play with matches.
1. I love Samus Aran (as far as you can love pixels <3 )
2. I love Samus Aran
3. I think that the Metroid Series are the best games ever made =]
4. I have long hair
5. I am a boy
6. I don't fancy History classes, I detest them *pukes*
7. I like Math, though it sometimes is very hard, but that just makes it fun and sometimes frastratinf x3
8.I don't like (watching) sports./ing
9. I like to be happy and laugh a lot =]
10. I really like listening to music =]


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Bush Office Furniture. The beauty of your property and the furniture in it go together; better quality and appearance of the furniture creates an improved room. However, collection of furniture for your home can provide you a tough time; perchance you may have sleepless evenings because you're up to choose the look and structures of the part for your home. Infrequent furniture can be used in the present day home only once needed, and is also not generally in regular use. It varies from accent furniture for the reason that it has a sensible furniture use, and it could be shifted between rooms while retaining its functionality.
Some people was raised in children that was equipped with traditional furniture, a few of which have been passed on for generations, an increasing number of men and women are switching to cardboard furniture. As the grade of cardboard portions as increased drastically lately, modern furniture designers and manufacturers have transformed just how that society talks about furniture that is manufactured out of nontraditional products, such as cardboard, plywood and plastics.