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Now of course you have to decorate. Brown and white felt - football garland.
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Even the youngest fan, came make this with some help.
Brown Kraft paper or a paper bag
white paper
sturdy thread or yarn
cotton or tissue
Cut into the shape of a football. 2 pieces
glue on white football threads (both sides or one side if you are making a wall decoration)
Stuff with cotton.
Use yarn or threat to sew.
Can turn into a garland, or attach a dowel and use it as plant sticks or make them smaller and attach toothpicks for food. Or for just stick-ups placed on the wall or on tables to dress the place up. So simple.
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Toad in the Hole recipe
Posted: October 13, 2014 • Posted in: Recipes
A comfy meal for those long winter evenings together.
There are lots of recipes available but here at the Taste of Suffolk believe this to be the simplest and best proven recipe
Ingredients list
- Taste of Suffolk premium pork sausages 400g
- 3 eggs
- 200g plain flour
- 300ml milk
- A pinch of salt
- Lard, or vegetable oil or good old dripping
- Gently fry the sausages to add colour and set aside
- Beat 3 eggs together and gently add a little at a time to the flour mixing well.
- Add the milk and salt and mix to a smooth mixture
- Put the batter in to the fridge for a minimum of 30 minutes or overnight.
- Heat the lard/oil in a large ovenproof dish until smoking hot.
- Add the sausages and batter and cook for approx. 30-45 minutes at 200-220c until golden brown
- Serve and enjoy

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The Houston Award Program has once again chosen Awesome Music Entertainment for the2013 Houston Awards in the Disc Jockeys classification for the second consecutive year.
For most companies, this recognition is a result of your dedication and efforts as well as the work of others in your organization that have helped build your business. Your team is now a part of an exclusive group of small businesses that have achieved this selection.
Each year, across the greater Houston area, the Houston Award Program chooses only the best local businesses. We focus on companies that have demonstrated their ability to use various marketing methods to grow their business in spite of difficult economic times. The companies chosen exemplify the best of small business; often leading through customer service and community involvement.


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Despite what you may think, stroke is preventable. In fact, it's estimated that up to 80% of all strokes could be prevented by making healthy lifestyle changes and working with your physician to control health conditions that raise your risk for a stroke. In this article, we'll teach you 3 simple ways you can improve your health--and therefore, minimize your risk for stroke risk.
Choosing to eat healthy foods can help you prevent stroke. Eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables and foods low in saturated fats, trans fat, and cholesterol. Eating foods high in fiber can help prevent high cholesterol. Limiting salt (sodium) intake can help lower your blood pressure. High levels of cholesterol and high blood pressure increase your chances of having a stroke.
Being overweight or obese increases your risk for stroke. To determine whether your weight is in a healthy range, doctors often calculate your body mass index (BMI). If you know your weight and height, you can calculate your BMI at CDC's Assessing Your Weight website. Doctors sometimes may also use waist and hip measurements to estimate excess body fat.
Physical activity will help you maintain a healthy weight, lower your cholesterol, and lower blood pressure levels. For adults, the Surgeon General recommends 2 and a half hours of moderate-intensity physical activity each week. Are you concerned about the aging loved one in your life? Our registered nurses offer health and wellness assessments to determine if any (and which) in-home senior care services would be beneficial. Contact us today to learn more!


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"Yesterday gets to be a long time ago."
The Kid has just finished 7th grade. In the fall, she will be a full-fledged "honor" student at her middle school — full-fledged because this past year, she was in all the honors classes except the not-so-honorable 7th grade math class. Shortly before summer break began, she lobbied her teacher to be included in the 8th grade honors algebra. Why? Because apparently peer pressure (her peer group being the "smart" set) can work in mysterious ways. It should be an entertaining year for all concerned.
It may be entertaining in other ways too, especially if they ever crack open a history book. Tonight she watched the first Indiana Jones movie with DH, and though I should have known better, I just had to ask: "When was WWII?" And she began to answer, "18 –"
Of course, she also thinks she's living in the 20th century — and though she was able to tell me a century is one hundred years, she also thinks the 21st century goes from 2001 to 3000.
In a very small but real way, I envy her grasp of time, and how very flexible and meaningless it all is to her: the Union versus the Communists, the Nazis versus the Confederates, the colonists versus the Russians. What is it like to view time with such fluidity? When the Kid was in 5th grade and learning how to knit, she decided the best way to wind a skein into a ball was to completely unwind the skein first into a big pile of yarn, then wind the big pile of yarn into a ball. I imagine that time, for her, is like that big pile of yarn, too difficult to untangle . . . . Back then, she surreptitiously dumped the yarn into the trash, hoping I wouldn't notice. I did then, I do now. She wants the appearance of intelligence without having to work hard at it. I wonder when she will realize that side-stepping of reality — then I think, surely she already knows. What would I like for her — self-knowledge, or self-acknowledgment?


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Hydrated, Smooth and Evenly Toned Skin is ALWAYS In
For the longest time I have LOVED Dr.Jart+ Waterfuse BB. I have used many others (IT, Dior, LauraMercier, and many more. I have even tried all of the other Dr. Jart+ BB's and CC's. The Waterfuse is my favorite, I use it every day for light coverage a clean feel and the added benefit of SPF.
Though I am fair skinned, acne prone, with some sun damage and the onset of wrinkles and fine lines…this BB has been my go to. My only complaint (Until Now!) has been that it doesn't provide as much coverage as I sometimes want. I would say it is light to medium coverage and that a little goes a looooong way.
For whatever reason the various primers I have tried (from oil, to cream, gel and oil free formulations) have made me break out. I have finally found something to put on before the BB that takes it to the next level of flawless.
The "Special" ingredient is an Asian grass known for healing properties. According to lore Tigers discovered this property and can be found rolling around in it in order to heal cuts, scratches and gouges after epic tiger fights. OK, I made up the epic tiger fights, but still…I figured if it works on Tiger in the wild, then it might just work for my occasional blemish, ruddy complexion or any other unsightly skin irritation.
This color correction treatment is making my skin look and feel fantastic. It reduces redness and works perfectly under my Waterfuse BB to provide more coverage and leave my skin feeling and looking smooth, hydrated and even. I love it, and can't tell enough people about it.
The Cicapair has not caused any breakouts or sensitivity and I use it around my eyes where sensitivity, stinging and eye irritation often becomes an issue. You HAVE to try it
They have small ones here on amazon (Sephora is sold out of the small online) or you can get a full size here, or here .


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Music Director
Carol Colvin is our music director. She has a remarkable story and history with Wooster. Her late husband Marcus was our Minister of Music. After his passing, Carol stayed involved in our church and our music ministry. She officially became our music director in May 2012, serving in what was once her husband's position in our church.. She is the music teacher at Austin Elementary in Baytown. She also teaches piano and is involved in various ways in our community. She leads our worship choir and our praise band and leads us in worship each Sunday.


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Kill Your Darlings is a sly swipe at literary jealousy and celebrity. After a brilliant first novel, the author-narrator is mired in writer's block, hack work and jealousy of a certain successful author named Martin. Then a talented but suicidal student presents him with a ready-made masterpiece... Here Terence Blacker takes a tour of some of literature's other scoundrels.
Buy Kill Your Darlings at Amazon.co.uk
1. New Grub Street by George Gissing
The exploited novelist, the embittered critic, the ruthless hack, the grasping publisher - they are all here in this magnificently hard-eyed view of literary life, proving that remarkably little has changed in the world of books over the past century.
2. Middlemarch by George Eliot
Few characters have so effectively embodied the desiccating effect of an obsession with writing and scholarship as Mr Casaubon, author of the unending and never-to-be-completed masterwork The Key to all the Mysteries. If one put a drop of Casaubon's blood under a microscope, says one character in Middlemarch, it would be all semi-colons and parentheses. It's a warning to writing obsessives everywhere.
3. U & I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker
All right, it's not exactly a novel, but Baker's cringing love-hate relationship with his hero John Updike, towards whom he shows the authentic rage of the true fan (see also Misery), is really so weird and true that it should count as fiction.
4. Bech at Bay by John Updike
The Bech books, featuring an author who is older yet less prolific than his creator (Bech has written a mere seven books), are not vintage Updike, but include some great moments. Here, even though he wins the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bech is still eaten up with dissatisfaction and corroded with envy of his critics and rivals. So he starts to kill them.
5. Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux
The dyspeptic, bilious author figure is something of a Theroux speciality, perhaps best expressed by his savagely playful spoof on autobiography, My Other Life; but no other book reveals the joys and jealousies of professional authorship as well as this wounded, angry portrait of his former friend and mentor, VS Naipaul.
6. Is This Allowed? by William Donaldson
Writers are users - we all know that - but the narrator of this astonishingly funny and massively underrated novel uses more than most. A tale of sexual manipulation, narcotic indulgence and lethal game-playing, all for the sake of a story, it is enough to put you off writers for life.
7. The Information by Martin Amis
Either Mart is less cool and more competitive than he appears, or this novel was a significant feat of the imagination. Richard Tull is the author of novels so impenetrable that readers keel over with migraines after the first few pages; his best friend Gwyn Barry is rich, celebrated and lauded by the critics. It's going to get nasty.
8. Misery by Stephen King
King specialises in taking writerly angst to new and extreme lengths, most notably in The Shining, but in Misery he lets the literary fan off the leash, revealing the dark side of those innocent-seeming types who turn up for book-signing sessions.
9. In the Cut by Susanna Moore
This dark, erotic and extremely odd thriller is narrated by a creative-writing teacher who one night goes to a bar with one of her students to discuss irony - and witnesses a murder. Full of sly, not unaffectionate digs at teaching and language.
10. A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
In his introduction, the author concedes that, while it is billed as fiction, many of the events in the book "bear similarity to those of that long malaise, my life". Virtually every addiction and bad habit available to modern man is here, but through it all he keeps working; the writer as bad citizen personified.


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#scuoladigital by Microsoft Italy
Create and engage a community, aggregate people who share the same lifestyle, help companies interact with a highly profiled audience. Social networks are the ideal channel to create and monitor a community. Microsoft Italy's #scuoladigital project aimed at collecting the best practices on the use of technology in Italian schools. To achieve this, we asked students and teachers in high schools to share their stories using the hashtag: #scuoladigital. They were collected and counted more than 130 contributions, of which 16 were selected and presented as a best practice on www.scuola.digital


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Meanwhile, I am starting to look ahead to next summer. Here's a recent email exchange with a buddy of mine:
On 2/16/2014 2:05 PM, xxxxxx x. xxxxx wrote:
sun ain't been so quiet, these days.Seems to have gone away, much to everyone's surprise. Sure feels like around here. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2541599/Is-mini-ice-age-way-Scientists-warn-Sun-gone-sleep-say-cause-temperatures-plunge.html Bob
could be a hot summer.
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Love is Love: A Pole Dance Revue
Emerald City Trapeze Arts
Saturday, June 17 at 7:30pm
Tickets: 21+, FREE admission, and open to the public
Featuring: Local pole dance artists and ECTA students
Join at Emerald City Trapeze Arts for Love is Love: A Pole Dance Revue!
Join us for a special performance this June! Local pole artists will connect with the raw emotion of dance, exploring the theme "Love is Love." Featuring Emerald City Pole students and local performers, this show promises to surprise and inspire!
Interested in performing? Please contact Laura Strong.


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Bespoke Luxury Furniture commissioned & made for you
Bespoke luxury furniture
Want to commission a piece of bespoke luxury furniture? Perhaps you've been looking for a particular item for your home, but what you're looking for doesn't exist, or you can't find. Commissioning a new piece may be the answer.
At Chris Bose we design and make bespoke luxury furniture. Our standard collection includes home and garden furniture, all made and finished in our Sussex workshop.
We are committed to offering a bespoke service. And our clients appreciate the flexibility when choosing different finishes sizes and wood options to suite their individual needs. Bespoke furniture tailoring is not just an extra for us; it's usually a starting point.
Adapt and customise
We can adapt customise and offer alternative finishes on any of our collection furniture. So this means we can create unique tailored furniture that follows our customers specifications. We wouldn't alter the key design structure of any of our standard pieces. But changing the finish colour tone and wood type helps to create a very different looks.
We love to make a statement. So using dynamic contrasting tones and specialist finishes is one way of doing this. Another way is by making furniture that draws the eye with bold lines and stimulating design.
Our specialist furniture finishes
So luxury furniture requires a luxury finish. And we are proud to offer our own range of custom metal and paint finishes. Metal finish veneers are produced using molten metals in bronze, brass, copper, and antique silver/pewter. This offers fantastic individuality to each Chris Bose piece. In addition our custom paint finishes are fun and lively and bring a modern edge to furniture surface. Combine ultra-modern stainless steel with a bright custom finishes. Or team rich metallic with an unusual wood choice. Anything is a possible.
Chris Bose furniture has a unique style that is beautifully enhanced by specialist bespoke finishing. Craftsmanship and an excellent bespoke service with attention to detail at every point of production is our philosophy. And delivering complete customer satisfaction is our number one goal.
Take a look at our home and garden furniture.
Call us on 01825 765612 to enquire about commissioning bespoke furniture.


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TW Cable Plants Wi-Fi in Austin
Time Warner Cable has sparked a plan to launch a city-wide Wi-Fi network in Austin, Texas, a move that coincidentally comes soon after Austin became one of Google Fiber's next build out targets.
The MSO has already deployed a "limited number" of hotspots in Austin at popular, high traffic areas such as Zilker Park and Barton Springs. TWC has plans to deploy at least 1,000 access points in Austin in 2013, a spokesman says. Ruckus Wireless is the MSO's access point supplier in the market.
The resulting network will provide free access to TW Cable's residential cable modem customers (Standard Internet tier or above) and to its business service customers. Time Warner Cable is also offering free trials and prepaid access options starting at $2.95 per hour.
Comcast, Cox Communications, Cablevision Systems and Bright House broadband subs will also have free access thanks to a cross-MSO "CableWiFi" roaming partnership announced in May 2012.
TW Cable ended 2012 with more than 11,000 Wi-Fi hotspots deployed, with about 10,000 of them coming way of its Los Angeles system. It has also launched a Wi-Fi app in tandem with Israeli startup WeFi that helps customers identify the best available Wi-Fi signal available in a given area.
According to the latest figures from the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, U.S. cable MSOs have combined to deploy more than 120,000 Wi-Fi hot-spots. Cablevision's Wi-Fi network in its tri-state region in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut is home to about 75,000 hotspots. Written testimony this week from Comcast revealed that the MSO has deployed more than 55,000 hotspots, more than double the 25,000 it had installed by the end of 2012.


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We know how much you love music. Just like so many other people who want—or already own—a SoundTouch® system. And that's why we obsess over enhancing the SoundTouch® experience.
We know how much you love music. Just like so many other people who want—or already own—a SoundTouch® system. And that's why we obsess over enhancing the SoundTouch® experience.
The easiest way to enjoy music throughout your home
Experience your favourite music from your SoundTouch speaker with the SoundTouch app on your smartphone or tablet. SoundTouch lets you take total control of your listening experience. Browse popular music services, as well as Internet radio stations through TuneIn, or your stored music library. Start streaming music instantly or use the app to easily personalise presets for one-touch access to the music you love. With all these options all in one place, it's never been easier to access your music and seamlessly jump between stations, playlists and services.
Now that you have a better sense of what the app offers, there's just one thing left to do, right?
Before SoundTouch, you probably had your music library on iTunes and some go-to apps for even more to discover. Now, you have complete and seamless integration of all your music in one app. Personalise your home with "living" presets such as Spotify's "Discover Weekly". Just assign them to your SoundTouch presets and you'll always have a fresh list of favourites just a touch away.
Simply select a music service from the slide-out menu, then search featured playlists, genres, moods and more.
Search for a song/album/artist. Choose what you'd like from the results, then drag it to an open preset or replace an existing preset by holding the selection over that preset.
Select "PLAY ALL" from the menu, pick your rooms for music, then enjoy independent control of each system. All from the SoundTouch® app on your smartphone or tablet.
Enjoy SoundTouch® around your home
Our single-speaker options are very popular. But SoundTouch® is a complete ecosystem found in many of our products, including home cinema and outdoor speakers. Ready to experience the benefits of SoundTouch® in other areas of your home? Here are a few popular choices:
• Provides step-by-step instructions to set up your SoundTouch system in minutes
• Control your SoundTouch system from a smartphone or tablet
• Easily browse Internet radio stations through TuneIn, your stored music library and popular music services like Spotify®, Pandora®, iHeartRadio™, SiriusXM, Deezer and QPlay
• Play, skip and pause
• Control volume, including bass control
• Quickly set your favourite music as a preset—so you can access it effortlessly on any SoundTouch system or remote
• With multiple SoundTouch systems, stream different music in different rooms or play the same music in every room
Use the app on any smart device or computer to browse to the content you want to set as a preset. You can drag and drop or press and hold within the app to set a preset. Or, once the content is playing, you can press and hold on the product remote or buttons.
SoundTouch systems currently offer Internet radio stations through TuneIn and music services such as Spotify®, Pandora®, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio™, SiriusXM, Deezer and QPlay (where available). They can also stream music from a music library stored on a computer or NAS drive.
Every SoundTouch system will receive automatic software updates to add music services and other features as they become available.
For music services not integrated into SoundTouch, connect via Bluetooth® for more listening options such as YouTube.
Yes, to access all of the amazing features of Amazon Music within SoundTouch, you will need an active membership or trial with: Amazon Prime or Amazon Music Unlimited (where available). Similarly, with Spotify, you need to be a Premium subscriber.
Yes. You can quickly find any song in your personal music library with the app's advanced search feature.
Yes. These must be in iTunes or Windows Media Player.
Yes, this can be done, but how it works may depend on the sources you have available to you.
Play Everywhere is a one-touch feature in the SoundTouch app that takes what you're listening to in one room and broadcasts it to all additional SoundTouch products in your home that are connected to your network and associated with your SoundTouch account.
Place your SoundTouch product in discoverable mode (this process varies by product), and connect to it within the Bluetooth menu of your mobile device.
Music services are added within the SoundTouch app, using the "Add Service" function in the main menu.
Yes, with two SoundTouch 10 speakers, you can separate left- and right-channel audio to form a stereo pair, thus creating a wider, more natural sound field.
A Network Attached Storage (NAS) drive can be used to allow playback of stored music without a computer. We recommend Western Digital MyCloud and Synology drives. Most others will work as well, but have not been as extensively tested.
Visit SoundTouch.com for detailed articles, videos, posts from the SoundTouch® community and more.


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Ibrahim Shema, Katsina State Governor
Irate youths on Monday went on rampage and attacked two churches, St Theresa Catholic Church and Celestial Church of Christ, in Funtua town of Katsina State.
It was gathered that the youths burnt the Reverend Father's apartment at St Theresa Catholic Church along Katsina road in Funtua Municipal.
The rampaging youths also brought out some property of Celestial Church of Christ at Tudun Malamai and set them ablaze. Confirming the incidence to our correspondent, the spokesman of Katsina State command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Aliyu Jamilu said the youth went on rampage over alleged defamation of Prophet Muhammad.
He said "A corp member serving with a secondary school, in setting exams questions, made some reference to Muhammad and Amina. These youths felt he was trying to defame Prophet Muhammad and so went on
The Civil Defence Spokesman also confirmed that part of a secondary school, Ideal Secondary School, where the Corps Member teaches, was also set on fire.
Our correspondent reports that tension was high in Funtua town following which security personnel including military personnel were deployed to restore order.


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|Entrepreneur Donnie Muhammad
(FinalCall.com) - During a time when junk food seemingly reigns supreme and foods full of artificial flavors and coloring, additives and preservatives have found a home in kitchens and in the stomachs of many families, it is understandable why Americans are suffering from obesity and declining health.
Entrepreneur Donnie Muhammad and his company Dream Bean based in Raleigh, North Carolina, is doing its part to offer a line of tasty yet healthy foods and in the process, is building on the principle of economic development as taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Move over Doritos, Fritos and Tostitos and make way for the navy bean chip. Tell Betty Crocker and Sara Lee to keep their pies and cakes, because there are now navy bean based products to bake homemade desserts.
Conceived and developed by Brother Donnie, Dream Bean products are not only chock full of tasty seasonings and spices but also are as healthy as they are delicious and convenient.
Growing up in the Nation of Islam and reared by Muslim parents, Bro. Donnie said the influence and culture of the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is the base of his work today. He developed the concept of the bean chip while actually working on a method of making bean pies when living in Canada.
"I was renting a little bakery from one of our Jamaican brothers there in the Toronto area and the bean pie is a tremendous labor of love, it takes quite a while to make a bean pie so I was trying to figure a way to make the pie faster," says Bro. Donnie. As a student and lover of science, in particular botany, Bro. Donnie says he learned that by crushing the outside of the cell walls of the navy bean, increasing the surface area of the plant, the water entered it much faster.
"With that in mind, I started to crush the bean and I noticed it created a flour and it made me start to think about, 'Man what could you do with that flour as a base for a lot of other products?'" he explains. In 1996, Bro. Donnie and his wife met with Minister Farrakhan and shared their ideas for the navy bean products.
The Minister, shares Bro. Donnie, encouraged them to keep working on developing and perfecting the various products. Although the bean chips, navy bean soup mix and bean pie mix were available at Saviours' Day 1996, Bro. Donnie admits they were still a work in progress.
(For more information and to order products, visit www.beanchips.com or www.trybeanpie.com. If you live in the Houston area contact local distributor Sister Shareefah Muhammad to get your bag! Email her at email@example.com)


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World leaders agree to 'historic' deal on climate change
PARIS — A global climate pact lauded as a "historic turning point" was adopted Saturday by world leaders after two weeks of intensive talks.
"This is a tremendous victory for all of our citizens," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said at the summit after the landmark agreement passed. "We have taken a critical step forward."
The first-ever international accord, agreed to by nearly 200 nations, requires all countries to take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Leaders burst into cheers after it was passed, many hugging each other with tears in their eyes.
RELATED: Our old familiar globe is gone
The "Paris agreement" also aims to keep the rise in global temperatures "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial times to the end of this century and "endeavor to limit" them even further, to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
To achieve that goal, the world has to stop emitting greenhouse gases altogether in the next half-century, according to scientists. And they must commit to limiting the amount of greenhouse gas pollution from human activity to the same levels that trees, soil and oceans are naturally able to absorb before then.
While the pact calls for all countries to reduce and eventually eliminate greenhouse gas pollution, it imposes no sanctions on countries who don't.
"Years from now, our grandchildren will reflect on humanity's moral courage to solve the climate crisis. And they will look to Dec. 12, 2015, as the day when the community of nations finally made the decision to act," said former Vice President Al Gore, a champion of environmental activism. Gore was in Paris along with leaders from 195 countries for the pact.
The deal, which will take effect in 2020, is the first time all countries are being urged to join the fight against climate change. Previously, U.N. talks had only called on wealthy nations to reduce their emissions.
President Barack Obama's Organizing for Action nonprofit praised the agreement on Twitter, calling it "huge." The White House said the president would make a statement later Saturday.
But the world leaders' efforts were not enough for some. Environmental and human rights groups broke into protests around Paris to call attention to populations threatened by man-made global warming and urge an end to use of oil, gas and coal.
Among those slamming the deal was Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who said in a statement that the accord "goes nowhere near far enough" to commit nations to lower planet-warming carbon emissions.
"The planet is in crisis. We need bold action in the very near future and this does not provide that," he said.
But fellow Democratic contender Hillary Clinton called the agreement an "historic step."
"The Paris agreement is testament to America's ability to lead the world in building a clean energy future where no one is left out or left behind," she said in a statement.
Before the deal was done, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made an impassioned entreaty to world diplomats negotiating the accord.
"The whole world is watching. Billions of people are relying on your wisdom," he said. "The time has come to acknowledge that national interests are best served by acting in the international interest."
"We have to do as science dictates. We must protect the planet that sustains us. We need all our hands on deck," Ban added.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called the agreement a "historic turning point" and said the "final draft" is legally binding.
Even up until the final minutes, it wasn't clear whether an agreement would be reached. As world leaders were examining the text, Kerry told reporters, "We think it's good, but we'll see. Little things can happen, but we think it's teed up. "
—NBC News' Elizabeth Chuck reported from New York. The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this article.
This article first appeared on NBCNews.com.


text: NPR News Teenage Girls Will Still Need A Prescription For 'Plan B' In a surprising twist, the Obama administration has overruled the Food and Drug Administration and will not allow teenage girls to buy the emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step without a prescription. The decision punctuates one of the longest-running public health sagas in recent memory. The FDA had decided that a version of the morning-after emergency contraceptive pill could be sold without a prescription regardless of the age of the buyer. 'The Atlantic' Remembers Its Civil War Stories Today it is widely understood that slavery is a stain on American history — indelible and regrettable. But on the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, a new issue of The Atlantic magazine reaches back to a time when this matter wasn't yet settled, and monumental questions were still up in the air: Would slavery continue? Would America remain united? The Swell Season On World Cafe By editor • Apr 2, 2010 After working together on the soundtrack for the 2005 film Beauty In Trouble, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova began collaborating and recording music under the name The Swell Season. Fanfarlo On World Cafe By editor • Mar 31, 2010 Thanks to a soaring sound and down-to-earth songwriting sensibilities, the London-based band Fanfarlo was one of 2009's fastest-growing buzz bands. Led by Swedish songwriter Simon Balthazar, Fanfarlo was formed in 2006, and soon began touring and releasing new music. Its first full-length album, the critically acclaimed Reservoir, came out last year. Making The Perfect Exit By editor • Mar 20, 2009 Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. MADELEINE BRAND, host: We called up two more people to talk a little bit about endings. First, Curtis Sittenfeld. She wrote the novel "American Wife." And get this. Our show, Day to Day, pops up on page 490. (Soundbite of interview) German Left Courts the Working Class By editor • Apr 23, 2008 Left Party leader Oskar Lafontaine protests with miners against the closure of mines in Saarbrucken, Germany, on March 5. Torste Dance Craze Tecktonik Spreads Through Europe By editor • Mar 14, 2008 With the Macarena long past, a new European dance craze is set to invade U.S. shores. The Tecktonik began just outside Paris — and is spreading to nightclubs and onto the streets across Europe. At the Metropolis, one of the biggest nightclubs in the Paris region, the music goes by a lot of different names. Electro. Jump style. Hard style. Hard core. But the only dance is the Tecktonik. The customers at the club are mostly in their teens and early 20s, middle class, and from every ethnic background. They look as if they were raised by Madonna and Marilyn Manson. Pages« first ‹ previous … 8405 8406 8407 8408


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Tamaguchi24 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 152 diseños de 49 diseñadores freelance.
Skudefestivalen is the greatest coastal festival on the West coast of Norway. The festival is held in the old town of Skudeneshavn, and is characterized by hundreds of leisure boats entering the harbor of the town, 30 000 visitors and outdoor concerts in beautiful sunshine (we probably have the best weather statistics of any festival in Norway).
We want to keep a recognizable font used on the text "Skudefestivalen", but after 17 years, it needs a touch of improvement/modernization. In addition we also need a logo that can be the symbol of a cultural festival of our kind, which can be used on internet, ads, posters, merchandize etc...
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text: New York, May 27, 2003---The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released an investigative report today about the April 8 shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by U.S. forces, which killed two journalists and wounded three others. CPJ's investigation, titled "Permission to Fire," provides new details suggesting that the attack on the journalists, while not deliberate, was avoidable. CPJ has learned that Pentagon officials, as well as commanders on the ground in Baghdad, knew that the Palestine Hotel was full of international journalists and that they were intent on not hitting it. However, these senior officers apparently failed to convey their concern to the tank commander who fired on the hotel. (Click here to read the report) Written by Joel Campagna, CPJ's senior program coordinator responsible for the Middle East, and research consultant Rhonda Roumani, "Permission to Fire" is based on interviews with a dozen reporters who were at the scene of the attack, including two embedded journalists who monitored radio traffic before and after the shelling occurred, and journalists who witnessed the strike from inside the Palestine Hotel. During the intense fighting that occurred on the morning of April 8, a U.S. battalion encountered stiff resistance from Iraqi forces. It was determined that an Iraqi forward observer, or spotter, was guiding the attacks against the Americans, and a frantic search for the spotter began. During this search a U.S. tank officer believed he had sighted a person with binoculars in the Palestine Hotel, and received permission to fire on the building a short while later. Journalists covering the U.S. military command headquarters in Baghdad that morning told CPJ that commanders there were aware that the Palestine Hotel was in the vicinity of the fighting, and that journalists were staying in the hotel. That information, and the location of the hotel, apparently wasn't relayed to the tank battalion until it was too late. Conflicting responsesIn the aftermath of the attack, U.S. military officials have given a variety of explanations for the shelling of the Palestine Hotel, mainly alleging that U.S. forces came under "significant enemy fire" from the hotel, that there was an Iraqi bunker next to the hotel, and that Iraqi fire was coming from the hotel's lobby. However, according to the report, "There is simply no evidence to support the official U.S. position that U.S. forces were returning hostile fire from the Palestine Hotel. It conflicts with eyewitness testimonies of numerous journalists in the hotel." "Based on the information contained in this report, CPJ calls afresh on the Pentagon to conduct a thorough and public investigation into the shelling of the Palestine Hotel. Such a public accounting is necessary not only to determine the cause of this incident, but also to ensure that similar episodes do not occur in the future."


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Liability caps have been in place for many years in U.S. legislation for select industries including manufacturing, oil drilling, and medical malpractice. The basic purpose of liability caps is to prevent the non-economic damage portion of a lawsuit settlement from becoming inappropriately costly.
Many of the liability caps in place currently are reflective of past case settlements with abnormally high non-economic damage awards. These sorts of case settlements were considered inappropriate or frivolous and liability caps were put in place to stop future occurrences.
How Liability Caps affect a Business
Liability caps were set in place to help protect businesses from the danger of being "taken for all they're worth" in the event of a serious issue such as product liability, medical malpractice, or a severe accident. As more consumers became aware of their rights to a lawsuit should they be harmed by a business's negligence, the more lawsuits began to arise asking for abnormally high non-economic damages.
Liability caps put a threshold on how high these "pain and suffering" parts of claim settlements could go. This protected the business from the threat of a limitless value the jury could potentially award the plaintiff for their case settlement.
At face value, it seems like things were fine now - businesses didn't have to worry about going bankrupt from a single lawsuit and consumers could still file for some non-economic damages in their case settlements.
One of the main concerns with liability caps and how they affect businesses is that if a company knows it can only be sued for a certain amount, they can use that amount to weigh the cost effectiveness of safety measures. Take for example an oil drilling company:
- The oil company should be replacing a set of safety valves on its drilling rigs every 6 months.
- The cost of this replacement is $500,000 per valve and there are 20 valves making a total cost of $20 million per year per rig.
- The oil company operates 5 rigs, so the annual cost of replacing the safety valves on all their rigs is $100 million.
- The liability cap for an accident is $75 million.
In this scenario it would actually cost less to forgo the additional safety measures and risk a lawsuit rather than perform the recommended maintenance every 6 months. In a world where the bottom line is all that matters, many companies have been found to be cutting corners on safety measures in order to save money.
Many believe that this lack of safety concern can be attributed to the limited risk of financial damage from a case settlement. If there's little financial risk to being lax on safety measures, why bother? We as consumers are worried that this may be a motive in the back of many industry minds, especially when it comes to doctors and medical malpractice.
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I didn't ban Scripture Unions: Dokora
By Daniel Chigundu
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora has denied banning Scripture Unions in school but said he is only trying to bring order.
Government introduced the school national pledge at the beginning of the 2016 second term and stopped holding of Scripture Unions, banned the Lord's Prayer and even went further to stop distribution of bibles in schools by The Gideons Foundation.
The decision did not go down well with Christians who went on to accuse Minister Dokora of being Muslim and fronting Muslim interests in the country.
Prayer Network Zimbabwe (PNZ) even went a step further and staged a demo against Dokora were they also submitted their petition demanding scraping of the decisions.
Appearing before a Parliamentary Committee of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture, Minister Dokora said he had to make the decision because organisations were just coming to schools to do whatever they liked.
"Contrary to what some people are saying that we banned Scripture Unions, the real issue is that people and organizations were just coming to schools to do whatever they wanted.
"Some claimed that they had memorandum of understanding (MOUs) with the school heads or with the schools, but we are saying those MOUs should be at national level, they should come to us first if they want to do something at schools.
"We want to understand what they are doing so that we are able to monitor their activities as well," said Dokora.
Minister Dokora said consultations were done before the decisions were made, adding they used schools and community halls where members of the public were welcome to make their suggestions.
He said the changes that are taking place are part of the new school curriculum which is expected to start taking precedents in 2017.
Dokora also revealed that the new curriculum will change among other things grade seven examinations and teacher to pupil ratio adding that his ministry is working with treasury to mobilize resources for the smooth implementation.
Meanwhile, Minister Dokora has said the national pledge is only confined to primary and secondary schools only because that is where his mandate is limited to.
Others had suggested that the pledge be extended to Members of Parliament and even to cabinet Ministers.


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Yoga and Safari
Yoga is the ancient Indian tradition, a complete path to your own truth and to the universal truth.
The word "Yoga" essentially means – Union- or "that which brings you to reality" or " the union between your self and the divine". Union means it brings you to the ultimate reality, where individual manifestations of life are surface bubble in the process of creation.
To frame it in a few lines would not do justice to its depth and vastness. Some know it for its physical approach on the yoga mat. Some experience it as meditation, others dive inits deep philosophical aspects of life.
To practice Yoga at Flame of the Forest means to let nature guide you through your practice. Your meditation might have a background sound of the monkeys high up in the trees, a heard of goats passing by or local children playing in the river. Since we are located in a tribal belt right in the very heart of India, the life style of the local people is directly reflecting the yoga philosophy. Some of the concepts which you have studied or heard of might just get a more practical approach if you see it in a daily set up, in the every day life of the local people living the philosophy.
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Crime + Investigation is part of a global, award winning network with access to a vast library of the world's best crime and investigation programming. CI shines a light into the darker recesses of human nature, while always siding with law enforcement. It's never focused solely on the act of crime but investigates the broader, universal themes of courage, morality, fear, truth and justice. It is challenging, never fictional, always truthful and never glorifies or condones criminal behaviour.
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"What do clients want?" It's the question that advice businesses ask themselves. For a long time the financial services industry has been widespread with providers engaging with a client individually
Discretionary investment trusts as an option for SMSF members with balances $1.6m or more
With the policies outlined in the Super reform now in full swing, it's fair to say that the advice needs for clients have increased, but the type of strategies they
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A core competency of most advisers and accountants in the financial services sector has traditionally revolved around their technical competency. Whilst this is still clearly a required skillset, I believe
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency investment in an SMSF
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Benefits of Managed Accounts
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Australians are uneasy with their personal financial information being sent offshore by accountants and advisers, according to a survey we conducted. Data indicates overall adverse attitudes towards sensitive personal


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We drew our first Adult Summer Reading Club prize….a nice basket full of treats, a book, and something special.
If you have been taking part in our Adult Summer Reading program, make sure to check your tickets from July to see if you are a winner. We'll have another great prize in August, so keep reading, and start collecting!


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Kenny in the News
This week's article on The Rack is from online publication Well + Good and features Kenny himself!
This is actually where we discovered Kenny and reached out to have him on our show. He is by far one of the most dynamic, motivating and inspiring trainers we have me and worked out with.
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Danny Williams retires from Boxing & reveals reason he carried on fighting
South London fighter Danny Williams has finally called time on his Boxing career and whilst many had encouraged the above to happen sooner, the 45-year-old Mike Tyson conquerer now reveals the real reason he carried on the fight.
Williams, suffered his final career defeat to Lee McAllister after his team threw in the towel in round ten. He then told the Evening Express the true reasons for carrying on for so long:
"I have wanted to retire for a long time, but this is the end. There have been times when going into a fight, and I am in the changing room and have actually been scared."
"Not because I thought I was going to lose, but because I thought I was going to die. But I pushed through it and done my job. My reason for continuing to box was because I wanted to see my girls in private school away from the mad people I grew up with in South London."
"I had people bringing guns to my house, but my daughters are grown up now. They were the reason I was boxing. I got my oldest daughter through private school and my youngest daughter is 14 now and has one more year."
"This fight will pay for that so there is no reason to fight anymore. So it is goodbye."
Williams said: "It is a massive relief that I have retired. Honestly, for the last three years I have hated boxing. I hate it. I love watching it, but participating – I can't take it."
"I was terrible (against McAllister) and couldn't get my shots out. A peak Danny Willlams would have ended it in the second round. "But," he paused, "this is old Danny Williams."
"If you were to come and fight me it would have been different. But he backed up and threw combinations and boxed very smart. McAllister did very well."


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Road racing is set to make a welcome return to the Phoenix Park in Dublin with the inaugural running of the Noel O'Neill Trophy. The races will be hosted by Scott Orwell Wheelers on May 13th and will consist of a 35-kilometre A4 race and a 70-kilometre A1, A2 and A3 race and will have limited fields with pre-entries only. It will be run on the Khyber Pass Circuit in the park
Stephen O'Shea is the main organiser of the event, and last year the Dubliner made a great effort to try and host the National Championships in the popular Dublin venue which has been a traditional location for hosting races.
However, that plan was scuppered when it was announced that there would be restricted access to the Phoenix Park on the weekend of the championships due to the visit of US Vice President Joe Biden. The visit also resulted in a lack of Garda resources being available that weekend. Over the years, the Phoenix Park has been used for numerous races including the Rás and the Tour de France.
The organisers have said that they would like to express their appreciation to the Gardaí, OPW and Cycling Ireland for enabling the races to take place. They also said that it will be the "same weekend as the Shay Elliott so it will be a fantastic warm up for the big Bray event."
More information will be available through this link:
Entry portal to open this weekend.
Noel O'Neill Trophy
Orwell created the Noel O'Neill Trophy race to recognise and commemorate the achievements of Noel O'Neill. Noel joined Orwell in 1955, spending some time with Bray Wheelers. He coached such greats as Stephen Roche.
Noel was the Irish National Road Race Champion in 1965. He tells it himself: "I won it on the last lap, the break had a good lead, there were a lot of good riders still in the bunch but I decided it was time to go and made up a minute to the break and went on to win the sprint." He represented Ireland at that year's World Championships which were held in San Sebastian.
Noel's palmares also includes the Dublin to Birr 3 Day, the Shay Elliot, Sean Dillon Memorial, Tour of the Gaps, Tour of the Slade and the BAR in 1964 and 1965 (Best All-Rounder: for Combined times and placings in TTs and RRs).
In recent times, Noel has been riding Leisure Events, such as the Three Peaks Challenge in 2017. For a 2012 interview with Noel, please see "Five Decades with Noel O'Neill".


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Carrot and apple muffins with Dan Lepard
Dan Lepard, award-winning baker and food writer, was our guest for the first bake-day-cum-webchat.
Dan trawled the vast archive of Mumsnet recipes and chose Ponymum's carrot and apple muffins for a citrus food makeover.
Watch step-by-step videos of how to make the muffins and ice them
Here are some pictures taken during the webchat (aka having our cake and eating it).
Big thanks to all the Mumsnetters who took part and loaded pictures on their profiles.
Dan's ideas for giving the muffins a marmalade makeover:
- Grated orange, lemon or lime zest, or pieces of candied peel mixed through the batter
- A little marmalade in place of some of the sugar
- A marmalade and icing sugar glaze once they come out of the oven
- Turn it into a steamed pudding with marmalade at the base
- Bake in the oven with poached oranges and spices underneath the mixture
- Pour the mixture into two sponge tins, bake and fill with marmalade and cream, and orange water icing on top
- Make a traybake instead of individual muffins and cover the top with lemon cream cheese frosting.
Dan asked if we could tell Mumsnetters about the World Marmalade Festival, held each February to promote interest in marmalade making and support the charity Hospice at Home. And obviously we're happy to do so.
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Boost for Riverina Indigenous business
25 November 2019
Indigenous businesses will be boosted across the Riverina thanks to a free visiting entrepreneurship program by the NSW Government and Charles Sturt University (CSU).
The Walan Mayinygu Indigenous Entrepreneurship Pop-up Hub is visiting Albury's Library Museum from Tuesday 10 to Thursday 12 October.
Member for Albury Greg Aplin said the hub offered a range of free Indigenous business development workshops and activities.
"Walan Mayinygu is pioneering NSW's first regional Indigenous entrepreneurship program developed by Charles Sturt University's Associate Professor Michelle Evans to nurture and grow Indigenous business, technology, and innovation.
"The pop-up hub is funded by the NSW Government's Boosting Business Innovation Program which is providing $1.5 million to each of NSW's 11 universities - including Charles Sturt – and the CSIRO to help businesses drive innovation.
"I encourage all Indigenous business-people, entrepreneurs, those interested in starting businesses and Indigenous youth to get along to the pop-up hub," Mr Aplin said.
Through the Boost program, Charles Sturt University is also driving innovation through the CenWest Innovate business accelerator in Bathurst and an AgriTech Incubator in Wagga Wagga to support startups and SMEs.
Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional NSW, Skills and Small Business, John Barilaro, said the pop-up hub will ignite indigenous business potential.
"There is strong opportunity for Indigenous business growth and the pop-up hub will provide professional advice to help harness and direct the exciting creative passion we see in our Indigenous communities," Mr Barilaro said.
Professor Evans, who is with the University's Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences and is based in Albury-Wodonga, said Walan Mayinygu's visit will allow Riverina Indigenous residents to be mentored by established Indigenous entrepreneurs and businesspeople.
"The pop-up hub will offer a program of Indigenous business education sessions including business masterclasses, practical workshops, panel discussions, a business plan and pitch development studio, guest speakers and networking.
"Professional development opportunities will cover topics including procurement skills, managing staff, legal Issues and business compliance.
"Business Strategy workshops will build business skills, Social Enterprise workshops will assist organisations that tackle social problems, and a Deadly Ideas Pre Start Up Workshop will focus on starting a business."


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ER doctor Dusty Lowry grew up in a conservative rural Texas family that has never quite forgiven him for staying in New Mexico after his stint in the Army. Paramedic Nate Miller, Dusty's best friend since their early Army days, has a hippie momma, a tiny apartment, and is in lust with his buddy. When their other Army friend, Kyle, gets married, they start thinking about settling down. In fact, they both know what they want: each other. Too bad they've never shared that goofy little fact.
A trip to visit Dusty's family in Texas changes everything, and Dusty and Nate aren't sure where to go from there. Good thing they're smart guys, and between a series of bombings that target first responders, their friend Kyle's wife getting pregnant, and more than one bowl of guacamole, they begin to figure out how to have a relationship.
But as the bombings get closer to home, Nate and Dusty must navigate love and commitment before they lose their chance.
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As of Saturday afternoon, March 15, T & I are officially an Aunt and Uncle! Sooo exciting!
Jacob David Nielsen | 8 lb. 2 oz. | 19.5 inches long
Baby N finally decided to arrive via c-section after almost 48 hours of trying to induce labor to no avail. If you know my brother T and sister-in-law H, you can about imagine how much patience they had for the waiting game of an induction. Now that the little guy has arrived, T & H have been keeping busy bonding and getting to know their little one.
Wide awake to meet Grandma & Grandpa N, and some of his Aunt and Uncles.
So far, Baby Jacob/Jake/J.D. (so many options!) has been entertained with a small stream of immediate family members stopping by for brief visits while H recovers from her c-section, and starts to get feeling better. He likely has no idea what's in store for him in the visitor department once he gets home!
So precious!
T & I are so excited to have a nephew to spoil, and can't wait for cousin play dates this summer at the lake after Baby W arrives!


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US Should Stick to Taiwan Relations Act, Albright Says
Poster: ╱ Post date:2019-03-01
Region:(U.S.-Taiwan Relations)
Issue:(U.S.-Taiwan Relations),(China's Rise),(U.S. Policy)
(Taipei Times/CNA) During a meeting at the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright remarked that the US should continue to adhere to the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA). Albright stated that the US has to make clear that the US-Taiwan relation is important. Albright also expressed that she does not wish to see China filling in the vacuum as the US withdraws from the international scene. <Accessed 2019-03-01>
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NSW Thunder off to Asia
NSW Thunder took out the Open double (Men's and Women's) at the 2008 National Futsal Championship held in Canberra recently. NSW Thunder won 11 titles, with NSW Lightning 2, Queensland 1 and Victoria 1, while won was drawn.
NSW Thunder took out the Open double (Men's and Women's) at the 2008 National Futsal Championship held in Canberra in early January. NSW Thunder won 11 titles, with NSW Lightning 2, Queensland 1 and Victoria 1.
The Men's Final was a classic encounter, with Thunder only sealing victory with a free-shot 10 seconds from the end of extra time, scored by Qantas Futsalroo Adrian Vizzari.
The goal gave Thunder a 2-1 victory and them a place in the AFC Futsal Champions League.
Earlier, the double sending off of key Thunder players Lachlan Wright and Simon Keith seemed to have handed the initiative to an ACT side looking to claim back-to-back National Futsal Championships. Both Thunder players were dismissed for second bookings, but the Cobras were unable to exploit their numerical advantage despite Tony Aleksovski striking the base of the post and Elia Salloum seeing his one-on-one well blocked by the excellent Peter Spathis in the Thunder goal.
It was NSW Thunder who had the best of the opening half creating numerous opportunities to fire in shots at the Cobras- goal, only to see them repelled by the safe hands of Konstantinou, but it came as no surprise when they took the lead after eight minutes. Lachlan Wright broke down the left flank and fired a shot that took a slight deflection on its way into the top corner.
The final was a tense affair against two evenly matched teams and Salloum and Keith had a coming together on the edge of the Cobras- penalty area which resulted in a yellow card for both players.
The momentum swung in ACT Cobras favour in a crazy ten minute spell in the second stanza which saw the two dismissals and a Cobras equaliser.
It was Pat Ross-Magee who levelled the scores after 23 minutes when the fleet-footed youngster collected a wonderful chipped pass from Trent Flanigan and slipped the ball casually past Spathis and into the net.
Shortly afterwards Wright was sent off for collecting a brace of bookings within minutes of each other, the first for a foul and the second for stupidly kicking the ball away to prevent a quick Cobras- kick-in, and team mate Keith was quick to follow after a challenge on Elliot Zwangobani brought up his second yellow card of the game.
With the man advantage the Cobras strung together a superb passage of football and really tested the Thunder-s mettle, only to be denied by some expert goalkeeping and top defending. Tony Aleksovski, in particular, went close on a number of occasions for the Cobras with the increasingly influential Flanigan the main orchestrator.
With no further goals scored the match entered extra-time, which was a tight and predictably cagey affair with neither side willing to risk conceding the crucial goal.
The Cobras had the chance to win it when Matt Menser stepped up for a free-shot in front of goal, but his well-struck effort was parried to safety. And so it was left to Vizzari to seal on the affair, after being given a free-shot in front of goal, due to a sixth-foul violation. He kept his nerve to fire low into the corner and send the Thunder to Asia.
SQUADS ACT Cobras: 12. Angelo KONSTANTINOU, 3. Ryan KYRIANOU, 5. Elliot ZWANGOBANI, 6. Ben KLUG, 8. Adrian DOWLING, 9. Elia SALLOUM, 10. Matt WHYTE, 13. Matt MENSER, 16. Trent FLANIGAN, 17. Marcel MUNOZ, 20. Tony ALEKSOVSKI, 21. Pat ROSS-MAGEE
Yellow Cards: Elia SALLOUM, Trent FLANIGAN
NSW Thunder: 2. Peter SPATHIS, 3. Tobias SEETO, 4. Danny MARTINEZ, 5, Simon KEITH, 6. Adrian PAINE, 7. Rhys GIOVENALLI, 8. Andres GOMEZ, 9. Chris ZEBALLOS, 10. Lachlan WRIGHT, 11. Marino MASUMELI, 21. Roberto MAIORANA, 28. Adrian VIZZARI
Yellow Cards: Simon KEITH (x2), Lachlan WRIGHT (x2) Sent Off: Simon KEITH, Lachlan WRIGHT
GOALS: 0-1 - Lachlan WRIGHT (NSW Thunder) 8 minutes, 1-1 - Pat ROSS-MAGEE (ACT Cobras) 23 minutes, 1-2 Adrian VIZZARI (NSW Thunder) 49 minutes
The Women's Final was an all-NSW affair, with Thunder coming out on top against Lightning. A solitary goal from Natalie Spirovski settled the cagey contest.
Spirovski struck the crucial blow fourteen minutes into the clash, cutting in from the left to fire a low drive beyond the reach of Lightning goalkeeper Melissa Khoury, who was magnificent in repelling the Thunder-s repeated efforts. In truth the magnitude of the occasion seemed to stifle the play of both teams as neither line-up put together a fluid, cohesive pattern of play. In fact, the two teams were very evenly matched and despite the Thunder-s favouritism, the Lightning had chances of their own to send the match into extra-time.
Spirovski, who was voted MVP of the Final, had an opportunity to settle the match late on, but her driven right foot shot was well blocked by the Lightening defence. It mattered little to the Thunder players though who were ecstatic at the final whistle as they claimed the 2009 Open Women-s National Championship.
SQUADS NSW Thunder: 1. Antonella OLIVIA, 2. Elyce GOSS, 3. Claire WALSH, 4. Natalie SPIROVSKI, 5. Fabianna PERFILIO, 6. Hayley BUCKINGHAM, 7. Nicole LAWS, 8. Renee TOMKINS, 9. Brooke COWIE, 10. Caitlin JARVIE, 11. D. BOWERING, 21. Trudy BARTLETT
NSW Lightening: 1. Melissa KHOURY, 2. Chanel TURNER, 3. Kahlee DOYLE, 4. Maryanne MIKHAIL, 5. Amy SARANDSPOULOS, 6. Lauren MOORE, 7. Justine VELLA, 8. Jo-Anne SALIBA, 9. Alexandria SMITH, 10. Rhiannon FLEMING, 11. Effie RODOPOULOS, 21. Tani ROSEKELLY
Goals: 1-0 - Natalie SPIROVSKI (NSW Thunder) 14 minutes


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Sweet Baby J'ai is the Artistic Director of the Palm Springs Women's Jazz Festival. She is an award-winning, critically acclaimed vocalist/composer/arranger/writer and educator. She tours the world with her genre-defying work, which both embraces and expands jazz tradition. Whether singing a ballad or the blues she always weaves her special magic into the songs she sings.
– On this video she sings, "Perpetrating Freak" at a concert at the John Hanson Ford Theater in Los Angeles.
– Here latest CD is called J'ai Michel.


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Bargain Baseball Book
I like old photographs, and I like looking for them outside of the narrow pantheon of museum-approved art photography names. If you share either of these predilictions, you might want to pick up a current bargain book, Neal McCabe's Baseball's Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon, for a mere $8.50, marked down from $20. That is, if you like baseball.
Conlon's most famous photograph is also one of baseball's most famous, "Ty Cobb Stealing Third," seen above in a cropped state. To see some of the Conlon pictures without buying the book, Sporting News has a Conlon Gallery page online—but the scans are pretty poor.
Conlon, called "the greatest baseball photographer of his era," wasn't a professional photographer. He was a proofreader, for the New York World-Telegraph. That was his day job. Photography was his hobby (!). A quote of Charley Conlon's I just love is his description of how he got into his line of work: "[John B. Foster, Sports Editor of the World-Telegraph] said to me one day, 'Charley, they need pictures of ball players for the Guide and there is no reason why you can't take picures of players, as well as pictures of landscapes. It will be a good pickup for you, and it will be something for a day off.' "
Thus were legends born, in olden days.
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The Knicks believe age is just a number and are determined to beat that into doubters' minds as they embark on the new season.
The team officially opened camp yesterday, and while they still didn't want anything to do with the Jeremy Lin topic, they also seemed taken aback by jokes about the collective age of their team.
"I've experienced it in Atlanta," said head coach Mike Woodson. "And even though it was a wonderful run taking 18-, 19-, 20-year-old men and trying to develop them into big-time players, that was fun, but with a veteran team like this, it's going to make life that much more easier [because] they've been around and know how to play.
"When Dallas won it [in 2010-11] they were right at 29, 30 years of age. We're at 31 or 32, somewhere in that area, but it's not that big a difference," Woodson said. "I'll take a veteran anytime. It's no knock on young guys, but with young guys it takes a while."
Tyson Chandler played with new Knicks guard Jason Kidd, 39, during Dallas's championship run and said there isn't much difference in him two years later.
"Jason Kidd can still play at a high level," said Chandler. "All these guys bring a different element to this team that we didn't have last year. We had a lot of young guys last year and we were kind of all over the place. Yeah, it was exciting but it wasn't consistent."
Woodson noted he won't run the team into the ground with an inordinate amount of practice time, particularly the old camp tradition of double-sessions.
"We're done with two-a-days," Woodson said. "I just don't believe in it."
Follow Knicks beat writer Tony Williams on Twitter @TBone8.


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Working with just solids in a quilt composition requires skill. The Amish do it well, and so does fabric designer Brigitte Heitland of Zen Chic. But she also expertly mixes solids and prints, as she did with the quilt you see here, "Jelly Belly". She shares with Carrie at Moda's blog her approach to getting it right.
Click Bella Zen Solid Chic to learn more.
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The Holy Spear of the Divine Liturgy
& Saint Theodosius of Argos, Greece (+922)
August 7
Fr. Stephen Anagnostopoulos, Greece:
With the Holy Spear we make exactly the same symbolic movement with that of the soldier who pierced the side of Christ's Holy Body on the Cross,we say; one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side,and forthwith came there out "blood and water", as we pour wine and water inside the Holy Cup.
At this point it is worth mentioning Saint Theodosius of Argos, Greece (+922), true story…
This Saint in particular celebrated the Divine Liturgy only once. On the first day he became a deacon,on the second day a priest,and on the third day he performed the Liturgy for the first time. When it was time to "pierce" the Holy Bread with the Holy Spear,he saw,right before his eyes, himself as a soldier with a sharp spear piercing the Holy Body of the Lord as Blood and Water were coming out of His side.
No one will ever find out how terrified he must have been(this will remain unknown)when he poured wine and water inside the Holy Cup!
He was indeed captivated by Divine fear so much so that when he had completed the Divine Liturgy he never celebrated it again.
Taken from the book: Fr. Stephan Anagnostopoulos, Experiences during the Divine Liturgy


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John Joseph Brill is hitting 2016 running, with a European tour supporting Daughter, and this, the new single release on Killing Moon records. Getintothis' Paul Fitzgerald climbs aboard for this sonic blast of a night out.
Building on the successes of 2015, which saw John Joseph Brill playing the BBC Introducing stages at Reading and Leeds, high profile support slots with people such as Richard Hawley and the release of his brilliant Pieces EP, this month sees him as tour support for Daughter on their European dates.
March sees the release of False Names, his first single through Killing Moon records and the announcement of a gig for Harvest Sun at the ideally suited Scandinavian Church on April 8, a perfect space for Brill to deliver a set of dark and brooding heavy splendour.
The groovy promise of John Joseph Brill at Leaf Liverpool July 2015
False Names is huge. Stepping away from the gentle beauty of songs such as Pieces and The Grape And The Grain, it's Brill, but massively upscaled. Building up from a gentle piano and synth line intro with a rimshot percussion into a stomping behemoth of mashed-up filthy sound. Multi-layered guitars thrash on and around each other, and the droned wall of noise provides the perfect heavy backdrop for the narrative. A tale of lives lived, running wild through the neon-bleached streets of the city, a night out of heavy proportions.
Brill's trademark broken baritone wraps itself round the lyric, telling a tale of one of those nights which we've all had. It's as determined and assured in its brash sonic assault, as those nights tend to be. Building into a huge, screaming anthemic riot of sound, the song lifts this most intriguing performer to yet another level, revealing yet more layers. This is going to be some album, when it hits. With bated breath we wait…
John Joseph Brill releases False Names through Killing Moon Records on March 18.


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Beauty elicits a deep, instinctive need to share — from an early age. In fact, we defy you to find a more generous creature than a 7-year-old with a sparkly, new lip gloss in her backpack. Cooties be damned, she will prettify every second grader in sight. And we get it: we've built careers on swapping beauty secrets (and, okay, maybe a gloss or two).
We see this same communal spirit, shall we say, within the industry. Across brands and categories, this "borrowing" of ideas and technologies sparks trends and spawns knock-offs. In 2017, cosmetic ingredients flow freely, breaking all boundaries: Those once reserved for creams find their way into compacts. The same earthy clay and charcoal that purify pores can also whiten teeth and degrease roots.
And we're all for spreading the love — when the science is legit. But the latest take-over — hair-care companies co-opting buzzy skin-care actives, like peptides, stem cells, and antioxidants — has us questioning just how translatable such technology truly is. Are we going too far in attempting to "anti-age" and "revitalize" something that's technically…dead?
Because, facts, after all: While skin and hair are composed of similar proteins and fats, living (innervated, blood-perfused) skin cells are in "a constant state of renewal, rising up, plump and fresh, from the basal layer before eventually flattening out and sloughing off," says cosmetic chemist Randy Schueller. When injured or damaged, "skin has the capacity to heal itself through normal biological processes," adds cosmetic chemist Jim Hammer. Hair, on the other hand, is dead — at least the grown-out lengths of which we see and style and twirl. Hair's only vital part is nestled deep within the scalp: "The cells of the hair follicles reproduce rapidly, pushing out hair fibers in the process," explains Melissa Piliang, a dermatologist at the Cleveland Clinic. But once sprouted from the scalp, those strands possess no living cells or repair mechanisms.
These distinctions have long dictated product goals: "Skin care aims to affect biological processes, such as boosting cell turnover, increasing collagen synthesis, and inhibiting pigment production," says cosmetic chemist Ni'Kita Wilson. Knowing this, we obsess over penetration — can those actives actually get into the skin to do their good work? — and chemists devise deep-diving delivery systems and penetration enhancers to guarantee performance. "For hair, there really isn't much that can be done on a biological front short of improving the condition of the scalp to promote healthier strands," adds Wilson. It makes sense, then, that the majority of hair potions are designed to work on the surface, moisturizing and sealing hair to make it glassy, smooth, and full, while minimizing friction and breakage. While certain perfectly sized and shaped hydrators and proteins can seep past the hair's outer cuticle layer, into the deeper cortex, says Wilson, their effect is short-lived. Only chemicals — like hair dyes and relaxers — can alter hair in a lasting way.
So what of these new skin-inspired #hairgoals we're hearing about, like anti-aging, anti-pollution, and high-tech hydration? "Most of this is marketing driven — with maybe a kernel of truth underneath," says Schueller. That kernel could be a single lab test showing a specific active, when dripped on cells in a glass dish, has some sort of effect — which, by the way, doesn't mean it will work "when delivered in final products on real people," he notes. Or perhaps a company finds a common water contaminant causes some degree of hair damage — and then concocts an antioxidant to combat it. Even if the trauma to hair is miniscule compared to ordinary wear and tear, "they've now got enough data to make an antipollution claim — and a new line of products to go with it," Schueller says. Across beauty lines, science sells: "How do you make hair care more innovative? By using skin-care ingredients that elevate the level of sophistication," says cosmetic chemist Ginger King.


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A Fiction Series; Begin Here The Master of Chaos
Ted Sackett, the Vice President of the Unites States was already in the air aboard a secure plane circling Texas when news of the Presidents death reached him. Sackett was stunned and overwhelmed at the thought of what awaited him. Ted had agreed to be Conroy's running mate because he admired the strong man and his conservative values, but Ted had never thought he would ever have to occupy the office of Commander in Chief. Sackett immediately called Mary Conroy to offer condolences on the death of her husband. When the first lady was patched through, she was sobbing as she took the phone. Ted, I am so glad it's you, because I needed to tell you something, there is something horribly wrong here, Lerner was never suicidal. I knew that man since I was a freshman in high school, and if there is one thing that he wasn't, it was suicidal. You must believe me, something is going on, don't you think it is just a bit odd that on the same day there was a horrific nuclear strike in the Middle East that my husband would also be found dead? Ted just listened, he agreed with her that Conroy was someone he never considered weak or suicidal, but he didn't know what to tell her, so he just said "Mary, I am so very, very sorry for you and Mackenzie, I know this does not sound right, and I want to assure you that I will insure a full and thorough investigation is carried out. We will find out what happened Mary, and if there is anything that you and Mackenzie need, please let me know. I have to go now, I am so sorry but I am being paged as we speak to the videoconferencing room".
They said their sad goodbyes and Sackett entered the videoconferencing room in the rear of the huge jetliner, immediately seeing the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court waiting for him on the large video monitor. The elderly justice asked Sackett to raise his right hand and repeat what he said; he would be swearing Ted Sackett in as the next President of the United States. Sackett repeated everything that the Justice said, yet he wasn't listening to the words he was repeating, his mind was racing a hundred miles an hour, anxious at the responsibility that he was taking on now. So much for just riding out this term, he was about to work harder than he ever had before. He wasn't smiling when he finished taking the oath.
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Tim and Carrie were amazed at the outright power and loyalty of their God. They sat in church listening as one by one, four of the elders went before the congregation and opened their hearts about the visions they had all been given. The people in the assembly were quiet as the elders spoke of the one they were told about who would come, and how it happened exactly as they were told. Tim thought to himself that if someone had relayed that story to him a year ago he would have run from the building and would have never returned. Yet now, no one did, everyone was rapt with attention. They told of Tim's vision where the great angel Gabriel told of a time of tribulation that will come, and that we must leave now without delay, because a place has been prepared for us. At the end, Sam asked if the congregation would give a show of hands who would be going, and everyone was shocked when all of the family heads raised their hands. Some raised them tentatively, seemingly shy as they looked around them to see who else would be going, but in the end, everyone was on board. It was truly nothing short of a miracle, because attendance that Sunday morning was just over a thousand.
The elders ordered pizzas delivered for the entire congregation and they suggested everyone eat and relax for a couple of hours, and then the planning and inventory would begin. Tim approached Sam Preston with a gym bag that he had over his shoulder and waited as Sam finished talking to one of the other elders. "Hey Tim, I think all is going well, don't you? We have so much to do in such a short time, but it seems as though God is really paving a trail for us". Tim agreed, and then removed the gym bag from his shoulder and handed it to Sam. Sam, here is twenty-five million dollars in cash; Sam's face went slack as he took the bag. Start the purchasing of vehicles and supplies first thing tomorrow, have the people who do the buying to go all over the city and buy our supplies from many different locations so as not to raise a flag to spying eyes. Purchase whatever you need, and do not worry; you don't have to give me an accounting for anything. Let Carrie and I know how we can help, we are at your service, and should you need more money, just let me know.
While they were still speaking, Carrie came up and interrupted them with the news of President Conroy's death. A chill ran up Sam's spine as he thought, "everything is accelerating so fast now". Tim said "Well, if that doesn't underscore the urgency of the situation, then I don't know what would.
Tim and the elders worked late into the night, putting everything together that they could think of until they were literally about to collapse. Although it seemed almost impossible logistically, they were shooting for a departure of early Thursday morning. Tim thought to himself, it will take an act of God to make that deadline, but he had no doubt that they would, everything else up to this point had been facilitated by God, Tim had no reason to think God would abandon them now.
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Ben-Asher stood at the Wailing Wall alone with his thoughts, it was past ten in the evening, and the crowds had dwindled from the daytime until there was just a handful of people watching him. As the rabbi faced the wall and awaited his next prophetic moment, he heard the click of heels on pavement getting louder as someone approached him from behind. Suddenly he knew who it was approaching him although he had never seen the man before, and he knew his next prophecy was at hand. He turned to face the tall man, who was impeccably dressed in an incredible Italian cut suit, and was wearing dark glasses despite the fact that it was nighttime. The man stopped a few feet from Ben-Asher and was about to speak when the rabbi said, "Take me to the one who has requested my presence". The man said "this way", and turned on his heels, leading off toward the avenue. Ben-Asher and his escort rounded the corner and came up the street to a black limo that was waiting for them. The man opened the rear door and held his hand out for the man to get in, so the rabbi complied, climbing into the dark cabin of the car. After the rabbi was seated, a familiar voice greeted him. It was that of Vladimir Petrovski, the supreme leader of the World League of Nations, and the president of Russia. Vlad held out his hand as the rabbi shook it gently.
I know you must be wondering why I have asked to meet with you Ben-Asher. I know you are a prophet, and that you have prophesied the return of Elijah, and I am here to tell you that I am he. I am the one that you have prophesied has returned. Ben-Asher nodded and said, "I know, your highness". Vlad then explained to the rabbi that he would like him to join his staff as the supreme leaders personal prophet. Ben-Asher wasted no time in accepting the proposal saying, I would be honored your highness.
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Brooke sat at the edge of the sparring circle with the other angels she had come to know so well in recent times. Kennady's name was called to take a turn on the grass, and then Brooke was selected to spar against her. Kennady stretched out quickly on the grass as Brooke stood and prepared for the match. Although they had become the best of friends, it was pure primal battle in the ring; no favors were asked, no mercies given. The two pretty warrior angels squared off and began to side step in a circle, eyes locked on one another. Kennady struck first as Brooke merely leaned back and Kennady's sword caught only air. The lithe angel then whirled in a roundhouse assault and was surprised to find Brooke gone as she came back around in her 360 degree attack. She looked around quickly to locate the tall beautiful angel when her legs were knocked out from under her. She had been ambushed from behind she thought as she landed on the grass in a heap. Before she could bound back up in her customary fashion, she felt Brooke's foot on her throat and she turned her face to look up, only to be greeted by Brooke's gleaming sword. Brooke was smiling wickedly at the other end of the sword and she chuckled and said, "Gocha". God Bless-JFT
To be Continued– The Master of Chaos – XXVII
Note: This series is a work of fiction entirely, for entertainment purposes only, all rights reserved.