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Back when I used to drive a car, I could never keep up with what I needed to do to it for maintenance. I knew I had to change oil, tune up, check the air and water, and all that, but I was so bad at it that the car constantly broke down. I decided to just give up the car and use mostly my own legs to get from point a to point b. That is what our body is for anyway, it is a vehicle to get from point a to point b, and I don't just mean from our house to the yoga studio. According to yoga philosophy, this body is a vehicle that will take us from here to enlightenment.
Many of us are already inclined to take care of this vehicle we call a body. After all, we take this physical body, called the annamayakosha in Sanskrit, to yoga class. While yoga asana or the physical exercises of yoga are great, there is another factor in taking care of this body that we often forget about. It is the food that we eat. We are what we eat. What we eat affects our health, our energy levels, our emotions, our mental alertness, and even our sense of contentment.
If we choose to eat a plant-based vegan diet, we ingest fruits and vegetables that were nourished with sun and water, and hopefully no pesticides. If we eat animals and animal products such as meat, fish, dairy, eggs and honey, we endanger our health. Many degenerative diseases like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and many types of cancer are associated with consumption of animal products. You can read more about it from the book The China Study. Furthermore, if we put living beings who had to experience fear and suffering into our bodies, we ingest that fear and suffering energetically too. If we want to use this body in an efficient way, to take care of it to minimize diseases, then we consider both the exercises of yoga and the diet of yoga- not just one or the other, but both at the same time.
There is a flip side to this maintenance though. We may have a tendency to take care of the physical body but forget that it is only a vehicle. It is like giving a car a good paint job, accessories, all the bells and whistles, but then choosing to park it in the garage, only for show, and not taking us anywhere. We need to be mindful that our yoga asana practice does not become a spectator sport where we only show things off. If we want enlightenment, then we always keep it in our consciousness that we are using this body as a vehicle to serve the missions of kindness and compassion in the world.
As we practice yoga consistently, may we always feel gratitude for the physical body we have been given. And may we open our hearts and minds to the possibility of becoming a vegan to be kinder to our own body, to be kinder to other beings, and to be kinder to all of nature.
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu.


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Northern Eurasia 1945: Battle of Berlin
2 May 1945
The Great Patriotic War: Germany at Bay
Battle of Berlin
In April, the Soviets surrounded and attacked Berlin. On the 30th, Adolf Hitler committed suicide and by May 2, resistance had been crushed. At the same time, the Western and Eastern Fronts met up on the Elbe. A few days later, the remaining German forces surrendered.
At the cost of perhaps 40 million dead, over half of them Soviet, the Second World War in Europe was over.
Main Events
5 Apr 1945 Soviet Union denounces Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact of 1941▲
Soviet Union denounces Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact of 1941in wikipedia
16 Apr–2 May 1945 Battle of Berlin▲
Three Soviet fronts, comprising some 2.5 million men, converged on Berlin from the east, south, and north, facing a little over 766 thousand German defenders. On 20 April - Hitler's birthday - they began bombarding the city, with the fronts completing its encirclement on the 25th. German attempts to break the siege failed and on 2 May the advancing Soviets captured the Reichstag at Berlin's heart. Over 80,000 Soviet troops died in the offensive for German losses of up to 100,000 (including Adolf Hitler, who committed suicide on 30 April).in wikipedia
25 Apr 1945 Elbe Day▲
American and Soviet forces link up at Torgau on the Elbein wikipedia
30 Apr 1945 Death of Hitler▲
By 26 April 1945, the Soviet Army had surrounded Berlin, and large sectors of the German military were surrendering to the Allies. Having retreated to his underground bunker in January, and reportedly suffering a mental breakdown, Hitler committed suicide on 30 April, along with his wife Eva Braun. Hitler was succeeded as President by Naval commander Karl Dönitz and as Chancellor by Joseph Goebbels (who himself committed suicide the following day).in wikipedia


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By Peter Keiser
Scott Estes loved to play hockey – outside pond hockey in his native New Jersey, club hockey when his high school didn't have a team. At Colgate, he moved from last man kept on the team to one of the first, showing dramatic improvement and ultimately excelling as a senior defenseman.
But that doesn't tell you the half of it. The rest of the story is that after he graduated in 1968, he played semi-pro hockey. Yes, that kind of hockey, the kind made famous in the movie "Slapshot".
"We had to be escorted into and out of a few places," recalls Estes with a twinkle in his eyes. "I could drop the gloves."
"We got paid $50.00 a game or if we had a good gate we would get part of the gross," he recalls. "I played seven years for the Paterson (NJ) Flyers of the Garden State Hockey League and then I stopped. It was too much."
It was too much because he was married, had his family to support and his job at Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G) Company of New Jersey which wound up providing him with a 43-year career "I coached my son some and then I stopped skating completely. I have grandsons who wanted to play so I took my old skates out. They were falling apart, all tattered. I tried on some new ones and my feet couldn't move at all. It was like wearing a concrete block on each foot."
Hanging up his skates left what could have been a daunting void. But Estes himself will tell you how much he appreciates the switch from icy smooth surface to paddle court grit.
"I have enjoyed platform tennis for over 30-years," he says. "I have a second career teaching it. It's a winter sport. I enjoy being outside. And hockey is part of my paddle life. Hand eye coordination is important in hockey just as it is in paddle tennis. Keeping your head steady. You watch goalies. All the other parts of their bodies can be moving but their heads don't move. Their eyes are always focused on the puck."
Estes brought that kind of focus and his athletic ability to the sport of platform tennis. Though he came to the game late, he possessed considerable racquet skills. "When I was growing up, I remember having one tennis lesson and after that I was self taught."
His methods seemed to have worked as he has played amateur tennis at a very high level ever since. In 1990, he started to play U.S. Tennis Association Father-Son tournaments with his son, Scott, Jr. Over the following nine years, they were ranked consistently in the top ten and in 1992 pulled down the number one spot.
It was an extraordinary achievement given the scope of USTA competition. That year, team Estes' beat out the tandem of Dick Leach, tennis coach at USC and his son Rick, who would form with Jim Pugh the world's number one doubles team. The two Scotts won three out of the four Father –Son Grand Slams as well. "The Leaches never lost," says Estes. "Winning the Father-Son Nationals I think is the best athletic accomplishment I could claim."
He caught on quickly at paddle tennis, too. "I was in my late thirties when I really started playing at a national level," he says. "I was lucky to have three good guys to help me start– Steve Nycum, Bruce Kelsey and Phil Crane. We played at The Noe (pronounced NO-EE) Pond Club in Chatham Township, NJ. There were two courts and no lights."
"It took about two years playing with these guys for me to know the game. The first time I went out with them I hit the ball and it wouldn't go where I wanted it to at all. Most of my shots felt like they were going off the side of my racquet. Finally, one of them looked at it. It was a paddle ball racquet. My first paddle was the wrong one."
Estes got the right kind of racquet, and The Noe Pond Club got lights and a third court. The Club then entered the New Jersey Men's Platform Tennis League that sported Divisions A through K. The team skipped multiple divisions reaching Division A within a span of 5 years. Estes' game rose quickly as well. The first time he entered The Noe Pond Club platform tennis tournament, he and his partner, son Scott at age 15, won it.
That victory early on has launched him on a thirty- year and counting platform tennis sojourn of success. As we speak, he with partner Doug Barrow defended their 2013 Senior National 65+ title in Chicago; and in two weeks (March 15), he and Lloyd Ucko will defend their 2013 Senior National 60+ tournament in Chatham, NJ.
Though he did not win any of the Men's Nationals before the Senior 45+, he was respected as a dangerous opponent. "Ninth was as high as I got nationally," says Estes. But once he reached the Senior Men's 45+, he started to appear in finals with startling regularity. He appeared in four 45+ Finals chalking up a win with Dan Galves in 1993.
In the 50+, he made five finals, taking home two titles, in both cases with Galves. Moving on to 55+, he reached the Finals five times and won twice, once with Galves and once with Steve Baird.
Then came the 60+ where he has been in the Finals eight successive times. He started inauspiciously with a loss in 2006, but since that time, has won six of seven championships, four in a row with Galves (2007 -2010) and two straight with Ucko. In 2009 his teams won both 55+ and 60+ titles. He embarked on the 65+circuit in 2011, reaching the Finals, then winning them the following two years with Barrow. Clearly, the scourge of Estes dominates the Mens Seniors, particularly when it comes to age 60 and above.
"Scourge" and "Estes", however, are hardly words that go together. The fact is when it comes to punishment Scott Estes really is overwhelmingly about reward. "I taught my kids different sports as they grew up, and I wanted them to have fun," he says. "I wanted them to get the same enjoyment that I did." His emphasis appears to have worked as he still plays USTA Father-Son tennis tournaments with Scott, Jr. The two also remain close as the younger Estes, currently ranked #8 with Mike Cochrane in Platform Tennis Men's Doubles, consults with his father on all manner of strategic, tactical and personal issues related to the game.
That bond is not limited to just his son. Family comes first with Estes and in a most constructive way, he is proud of the first Senior (50+) Husband and Wife National Platform Tennis title he shares with his wife Janice. He also with daughter Jill reached the finals of two USTA National Senior Father –Daughter tournaments.
That he has fun is not to say Estes isn't competitive. He is…very. "My daughter once said: 'My dad would never let us win at Chutes and Ladders.'"
"He almost always plays his best paddle when he's behind," says Jerry Whitlock, long time friend, oft times partner and with son Jed, Father – Son tennis adversary. "There was one match when he and his partner were playing against Hank Irvine and Doug Russell in, I think, the Senior Men's 60+ Nationals. They (Estes and Dan Galves) lost the first set 0-6 and were down 0-3 with Russell serving at 40-love or 40-5 in the second."
Galves finishes the tale. "We were at Fox Meadow and it was the 2007 Men's 60+ Senior Nationals. We were down 0-3 in the second set after losing the first, 0-6. I wasn't aware of anything. I was just kind of wandering around, wondering how we had gotten so far behind. Then Scott takes me aside and tells me that the awards are already being brought out to courtside along with the tables to set them up on." It was a clear sign that some people thought the match was over.
"I just remember Scott saying: 'They're bringing the trophies out," says Galves. "That's all it took. We rallied to win both the second and third sets in tie-breakers and won the tournament."
And finally, one of Estes' special pieces of memorabilia is the completed draw sheet of the New Jersey Men's States Open Division Platform Tennis Tournament of 1998.It shows Scott Estes, Sr. and his partner, Dave Ohlmuller defeating Scott Estes, Jr. and his partner, Scott Mackesy in the Finals by a pair of tie-breakers, 7-6(8-6), 7-6(7-5). But a profound, all – encompassing enjoyment of the game expressed through an overriding sense of fair play makes competitive drive an integral part, not a distracting highlight of Scott Estes Sr., the sportsman.
He may have learned an early lesson about the place of competitive spirit when he played tennis against his father. "When I was twelve years old, I beat my dad. He put his racquet down and never played again." By now, if not much earlier, Estes could well be thinking: "Look at all the fun he missed."
Today, as the Head Platform Tennis Professional at the Orange Lawn Tennis Club in South Orange, NJ and the Head Men's Paddle Pro at the Noe Pond Club, Estes communicates the same delight and joy in playing the game that he passed on to his children – oh, and of course, his expertise.
"I enjoy teaching. It's a great second career for me. I think my students at all ages and levels can see the enjoyment I feel. I think that helps them to learn."
"I have a theory or philosophy when I teach," Estes continues. "I tell people that the most important part of the game is shot selection. If you do make them, you come out better so shot selection and execution come first."
"Then you need to know that 80% of paddle points come from errors so that when that shot (you've selected) does come up, you have to hit it. You have to hit the balls that need to be hit!"
Finally, Estes talks about a "Winning mindset." You can't be afraid. You need to play to win; you can't be afraid to lose." He emphasizes the point using an anecdote from the Men's Senior Nationals. Steve Baird was his partner and they were playing in the semi-finals against Jean Kempner and Mike Sullivan. "We were in a tie breaker and I was playing the Ad Court. Steve is a great strategist and partner, always positive. Mike Sullivan was serving and I knew exactly what I wanted to do because I liked to return his serve. I got the ball I wanted, I hit it hard and where I wanted it to go. But the ball hit the top of the net and bounced back. We lost the point, the second match point for us and went on to lose the match."
"Afterward, we were sitting together and Steve said: 'You went for your shot.'
From the way he said it, I knew I had done the right thing and I didn't feel so bad."
The incident has stayed with Estes whose storied paddle history is well into its fourth decade.
"There have been a lot of technical changes," he says. "Wood courts are gone and now the wires are much tighter. The ball used to be harder and heavier and with the tighter wires it's easier to keep the ball in play. Serving is now a 50/50 proposition. Equipment has changed, especially the racquets. With the old racquets, it was like using a tire iron. The new racquets have allowed all these players with great tennis backgrounds to use their shots. The game is much faster and more exciting."
One thing that has changed very little, Estes would agree is the foot fault. "When I teach youngsters, I say: 'Kids, you can't step over the line.' It is the most abused rule in paddle and the most difficult to enforce. Everybody would like to serve three feet into the court!"
While there has been a powerful surge in paddle tennis popularity, Estes' own experience makes him mindful of the sport's "dark" period in the 80's and early 90's. Will platform tennis have the legs to keep moving forward this time around?
"Right now, I'm not sure the game will be able to take hold. Young athletes are specializing and I think that's part of it. I'm also disappointed that the National Senior draws have become ridiculously low. People here want me to go out and drum up business."
The wariness in his prediction is, of course, in direct contrast to his unabashed love of the sport. That hasn't changed. "Nobody loves more aspects of the game than he does," Scott, Jr. says. "He always tried to have fun. He has such a special outlook and perspective on competing, It has allowed him to look at anything he achieved on the court as gravy; that just being out there was as much a part of the fun." "He's "Pa" to his friends and most of the paddle guys," says Scott. "And his favorite number is 17. It was his hockey number in college, and it's the same number I wore on my jerseys. . We have a family superstition about the number. If you can't, for example, wake up at 17 after the hour, you have to use a seven as the last digit."
"These things, these tournaments are an event to him," Jed Whitlock emphasizes. "He and Scott, Jr. always hang out, spending time afterwards just being there, to be with other friends and developing new friendships. It is as important as playing the matches."
But even Estes' zest for competition might have undergone a slight transformation, entered a new dimension. "I'm teaching my little grandson how to play platform tennis," he says, "and I haven't won a game yet."


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APStudynotes is a great site you should be using all the time. But here is a great section you need to read on the 1850s: http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/decade-of-crisis/ This goes all the way from slave resistance to the Ostend Manifesto. Read it.
This gives an overview of the beginning of personal liberty laws being used even before the new Fugitive Slave Law of 1850: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1842.html


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After braving the global property crisis in Dubai, Shaikhani Group is re-emerging with a plan to invest almost $1bn into new and existing real estate projects
Shaikhani Group has the feel of a company about to enter a new era.
Several years after surviving the last vestiges of fallout from the property market crash, the multi-billion dollar conglomerate is embarking on a new range of property projects that it says will keep it busy until 2025, and beyond.
Headquartered in Dubai, Shaikhani Group has diversified interests in real estate development, trading, manufacturing and IT.
Three-quarters of the business' $70m annual revenue last year, however, is based on real estate, which goes right back to its roots.
Shaikhani Group's 38-year history in the property industry started in Pakistan with Memon Real Estate, a sales agency that moved into development in 1984 with a 600-apartment project in Karachi. In its heyday, the company developed a 3,000 apartment project called Rabia City.
"It was the biggest project in Asia at that time; that was in 1987," says Mahmoud Shaikhani, managing director of Shaikhani Group.
The company, established by Shaikhani's late father, set up a rubber insulation factory in Ajman, called Rubber World, which was initially run by Shaikhani's cousin.
"It was a rare product. In '93 there were only three factories in the world for rubber insulation," he explains.
In 2003, the company sold its 145,000 sq ft factory site and moved to a smaller 80,000 sq ft factory. From the profit made in the transaction, Shaikhani Group embarked on its first foray into the property market in Dubai, investing in International City's 'Spain' cluster. Two years later, Shaikhani sold its interest there, bought plots in Dubai Sports City and launched the first of six projects on the site, Champion Tower One, in 2006.
With further projects launched in Jumeirah Village Circle, Shaikhani says the company was hit by the 2008-09 crisis and admits they considered withdrawing from the real estate sector, but decided to stay and "ride it out".
"My father injected AED30m [$8.1m] from Pakistan. Instead of investing in new lands or projects, we invested in the projects which were on hold at that time," he says.
"In 2010, the market started moving again and there was sustainability and we started selling again and giving inventory to investors."
He says the group sold 200,000 sq ft of residential units to three big investors "at a reduced price" in 2012 for about AED560 ($152) per sq ft when the market price was about AED750 ($204) per sq ft.
With the existing projects in varying stages of completion, the extra capital allowed Shaikhani Group to re-invest in new developments.
The experience with the first tranche of developments, particularly during the crash, and new legal changes designed to help strengthen the sector, changed the company's policy when it came to selling off-plan. Under new rules, a project must be at least 30 percent built before selling starts, which establishes confidence that the development will be completed.
"Now it's a totally different market and we decided that with the launch of Gardenia, a AED220m [$59.9m] project [in Jumeirah Village Circle]. We started construction in December and it's about 38 percent complete. We started selling it in May," Shaikhani says.
Riding it out proved a wise choice. He says the company, back in 2010, had five fully paid-for plots in Jumeirah Village Circle, valued pre-crash at AED20m ($5.4m), but worth AED2m ($544,000) at that time.
"We went through many times of crisis and what we learned from our father was 'just bear it'. We stayed calm and now these lands are worth AED300m [$81.6m]," he says.
Earlier this year, the Shaikhani Group unveiled what it described as its 'Vision 2025' plan, which will see it complete projects worth a total of $952m, between already launched and soon-to-be launched projects, in Dubai Sports City and Dubai Silicon Oasis.
Included in the development plan, the company will invest $544m in additional projects in the Jumeirah Village Circle and Arjan communities, in addition to the $408m it is investing in current projects.
The latest phase of the development is Gardenia Residency, Shaikhani Group's first luxury project. He says while the product is good, the response has been lukewarm from investors because of its AED1,000 per sq ft price but the interest is definitely there from owner-occupiers.
"At Gardenia the payment plan is 50 percent during construction and 50 percent post construction. The response from investors is not that much because of the price, but the end-user is there," he says.
"We did an expo in Pakistan a few days ago and we sold about 10,000 sq foot there, because Pakistan's property market is in crisis. We're getting enquires from the UK, and from China and India, because they prefer this 50-50 [model]."
The luxury market does not appeal to Shaikhani, however, simply because, he says, the majority of buyers are interested in the mid-to-low sector.
"In Dubai you have 25 percent of people who can afford the luxury living and 75 percent who prefer a medium or low cost category," he says.
"If you're working with a cash flow or portfolio then you have to include something for the medium and low category. Dubai has all the categories [of buyers], so you have to develop yourself in that way. As a developer, in my opinion, you cannot concentrate solely on the high-end products."
Shaikhani says there's a very strong trend of affordable housing — so strong that he's building an entire block of studio apartments. "In the Arjan project, we have completely planned it on studio design — all the apartments are studio," he reveals.
"There's a parking space with each of the 260 to 300 units. The studio sizes are different, starting from 400 sq ft to 700 sq ft. The majority will be 400-500 sq ft, but the range is about AED400,000 [$109,000] per apartment. Most people can't afford the AED700,000 [$190,000] to AED800,000 [$218,000] price for an apartment."
In his luxury project Gardenia, where there are 75 studio apartments, most of the enquiries have been about the studio apartments.
He puts the strong number of enquiries down to two factors — the Brexit effect and Pakistan's "dead" property market.
"[The Pakistani property market] suddenly went off three or four months ago because of taxes the government is imposing, so everybody is moving their money back to Dubai," he says.
Shaikhani remains positive about Dubai's real estate sector, and says current trends are part of its natural cyclical nature.
"Real estate is always a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs. This is what 20 years of experience tells me: it's two years bad, three years good," he says.
"Since we started in real estate in Dubai in 2003, I have seen three highs and the rest is low. But three highs were enough to cover the low time. You've had a low time from mid-2014 to 2015 and things are getting better now."
He says Shaikhani had one of its busiest Ramadan months this year, managing to rent out its Frankfurt Sports Tower in May, underlining his belief that the property market is "moving".
"We took apartments from the owners to rent. There's 224 apartments and we had 1,000 enquires and we gave 150 to 160 apartments to rent inside two months," he says.
"The rent was AED45,000 [$12,000] to AED50,000 [$13,000 per annum] for a studio, AED70,000 [$19,000] for one bed and AED95,000 [$26,000] for a two-bed. One school took all the two-bedroom apartments in the building.
"If we have a market where people are renting, and there are people buying for their future, then it's a good sign. It's moving."
He believes that Brexit should be seen as an opportunity for Dubai to attract investment from investors who have lost out in the recent currency and property fluctuation in the UK.
"For me it's good to invest in the UK [now]. For people in the UK it's good to invest in Dubai," he says.
"Suddenly they've reduced taxes and the rents going down. For example, an apartment in Central London went from £1m [$1.3m] to £600,000 [$784,000]. The rent was £3,500 [$4,500] and it went down to £2,400 [$3,600].
"Anybody who is investing in London at that time, to cover those investments in exchange values, if they bring the money here after some time they will get the rent appreciation, the value of the dirham against the pound will improve. In two years' time they can take that money back to England to cover the losses that they have incurred at this time."
In a diversification for the group, Shaikhani acquired two restaurant franchises in the UK for $2.6m, one of which is called Griller, which specialises in peri-peri chicken.
"We opened three [Griller] stores in London itself. Next month, we will start with a flagship store in Dubai, in Al Barsha. We bought the master franchise for the Middle East, Pakistan and South Africa," he says.
Further outlets are expected to open across the UAE, in Bur Dubai, Deira and Ajman.
"The plan is for ten stores in the UAE over a period of 18 months," he says, with Oman next for further expansion after that.
"We are looking at about 50 outlets across the Middle East," he says.
But property will be the main focus in the coming weeks, particularly with Cityscape in mind. He says he scrapped plans to exhibit at two events in India in favour of Dubai, where he's expecting a very good week.
"I had two stalls in India, at IREX [International Real Estate Expo] and one in Dubai Property Show in Bombay, but I cancelled both," Shaikhani says.
"I wasn't going to go to Citycape; it [Dubai] would be about AED150,000 to AED200,000 [$40,000-$55,000) expenditure. We were going to India [instead], but we cancelled and said we'd stay in Dubai and go to Cityscape and let people come here. If you're participating this time, you'll see people coming from India, China, Russia and even Pakistan and Iran."
If the decision proves fruitful, Shaikhani Group could be on its way to becoming a key player in one of the world's most exciting emerging property markets, helping to bring to life that new era on the horizon.


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The Capitals have won three straight; Rangers have at least a point in eight of last 11...
Is Rick Nash OK? The durable wing played 82, 75, 76 and 78 games over the past four seasons with the Blue Jackets and all 13 Rangers games so far. But he skipped practice yesterday for "maintenance" and Chris Kreider was summoned from Hartford after one game there. Torts expects him to play, Kredier likely here as precaution, unless someone else is dinged.
How does a rested Henrik Lundqvist, who outlasted the Caps in the seven-game playoff series last season, respond to his game off against the Isles? He and the Rangers lost 3-1 to the Devils in Newark on Feb. 5 after Martin Biron was in the net for Tampa on Feb. 2.
Carl Hagelin has scored in three straight games.....
Can Brad Richards bounce back from the rare third-period benching on Thursday? Have a feeling he will...
This from the team's stat pack:
- Last Season: New York was 2-2-0 overall (1-1-0 at home; 1-1-0 on the road). The Rangers out-shot the Capitals, 129-87, including a 47-24 advantage in the third period. Ryan Callahan led the team with four assists and five points in the season series, while Brian Boyle and Ruslan Fedotenko tied for the team-high with two goals. Henrik Lundqvist was 2-1-0 with a 3.00 GAA, and Martin Biron was 0-1-0 with a 4.01 GAA.
- The Rangers have won five of their last seven regular season games against the Capitals, out-scoring Washington, 26-14, over the span
- New York is tied for fourth in the NHL with a 5-2-1 (11 pts) record at home; Washington is tied for 22nd in the NHL with a 2-4-1 (5 pts) mark on the road.
INDIVIDUAL CAREER LEADERS vs. CAPITALS:
- Henrik Lundqvist — 22 GP, 13-7-2, 2.77 GAA, 3 SO
- Brad Richards — 50 GP, 8-27-35
- Ryan Callahan — 18 GP, 8-7-15
- Rick Nash — 9 GP, 7-5-12
- Marc Staal — 17 GP, 1-6-7
The Blueshirts' penalty kill has held opponents scoreless in each of the last four contests (12 times shorthanded). New York has posted a record of 3-1-1 when holding opponents scoreless on the power play.
- Power Play: The Rangers tallied one goal in four power play attempts (6:58) on Thursday vs. the Islanders. New York ranks 29th overall (5-48, 10.4%) and are tied for 25th at home (4-28, 14.3%). The Rangers are 1-6 (7:05) in five-on-three situations (last – 2/14 vs. NYI), and 0-0 (0:00) when four-on-three. Shorthanded goals allowed (0).
- Penalty Killing: The Blueshirts held the Islanders scoreless in one attempt (2:00) on Thursday at Madison Square Garden. New York is tied for 10th overall (44-53, 83.0%) and ranks 14th at home (28-34, 82.4%). The Rangers are 2-2 (3:12) in three-on-five situations (last –1/29 vs. PHI), and 2-2 (1:57) when three-on-four (last – 1/31 vs. PIT). Shorthanded goals for (1): 1/20 vs. PIT (Nash).
The Rangers have registered at least a point in every game when scoring the first goal this season, posting a record of 5-0-1 in those contests, compared to 2-5-0 when allowing the game's first goal. The Blueshirts have posted a 5-0-1 mark when leading after the first period, and are 5-0-0 when leading after the second period.
The Blueshirts have posted a record of 4-1-1 when out-shooting their opponents, which is tied for eighth in the NHL. The Rangers are 3-4-0 when being out-shot by their opponent.
The Rangers rank second in the NHL in hits (388) this season, led by Callahan who is tied for eighth in the league with 43 hits. Boyle ranks second on the team and is tied for 14th in the NHL with 41 hits, while Marc Staal leads all Rangers defensemen and is tied for 24th in the league overall with 36 hits
- The Blueshirts enter the contest with a four-game point streak (3-0-1), and have out-scored their opponents, 16-9, over the span
- The Rangers' penalty kill has held opponents scoreless in each of the last four games (12 times shorthanded)
- Henrik Lundqvist — is 6-3-0 with a 2.10 GAA and a .922 Sv% in his last nine games; has held opponents to two goals or less in five of his last eight games (5-3-0, 1.99 GAA, .926 Sv% over the span)
- Carl Hagelin — enters the contest with a three-game point streak (four goals, two assists over the span), including a career-high, three-game goal streak, and has tallied eight points (five goals, three assists) in the last six games
- Dan Girardi — enters the contest with a career-high-tying, three-game point streak (one goal, three assists over the span)
- Rick Nash — enters the contest with a three-game point streak (one goal, three assists over the span), including a three-game assist streak
- Marc Staal — four assists in the last four games
- Ryan McDonagh — three points (one goal, two assists) in the last four games
- Marian Gaborik — 10 points (seven goals, three assists) in eight home games


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Schwartz Switches Roles at Warner
Sander Schwartz, who has served as president of Warner Bros. Animation since 2001, has entered into a production deal with the studio and will segue into developing and producing animated projects for both traditional and emerging platforms. He will initially focus on broadband and new media properties, the most successful of which will be groomed for television, home video or the big screen.
'I've always enjoyed the creative side of every job I've ever held at least as much as the business side,' says Schwartz. 'This just feels like the right time to try my hand at a full-time creative post. The animation business is evolving in so many exciting ways, from formats to production technologies to new media outlets, and I can't wait to focus my energies on producing content for all of the emerging media and platforms and will be announcing my first project in the very near future.'
Schwartz joined Warner Bros. from Sony Pictures Family Entertainment, where he served as the division's first president from 1999 to 2001. He established Columbia TriStar Television Children's Programming in 1995, and, prior to that, served as senior VP of TMS Ent., where he was responsible for the sales, distribution and production of all television programming and feature films. He also served as exec in charge of production for the company's animated product and on the theatrical feature film Little Nemo.
Under Schwartz's guidance, Warner Bros. Animation has produced such successful series as Teen Titans, Justice League Unlimited, Duck Dodgers, Krypto the Superdog, Baby Looney Tunes, Static Shock, Johnny Test and Xiaolin Showdown. The division's most recent series include Legion of Super Heroes, Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue, The Batman and Tom & Jerry Tales.


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|Christmas Eve 2004
From time to time, we've had a bit of backstage drama, mostly in the form of a mis-matched Holy Couple. I have photographic evidence that Jill Stevens and Devin Griffin would NOT have fared well playing The Newlywed Game. Those forced smiles through gritted teeth! That undercurrent of "I'm not rocking the baby, YOU rock the baby!" In real life, young Jesus would have ended up on a therapist's couch.
The tradition is to have a "live" Baby Jesus. Many young moms have been prescient enough to deliver in October, the optimum age for our tiny Star of the Show: not yet crawling, yet sturdy enough not to cause cardiac arrest (mine) when carried to the cradle by a 6th grade Head Angel. One year Jesus was Eliza Russell, at 4 months old a bit long in the tooth (she could only be quieted by being given a bulletin, which she proceeded to wave back and forth for the duration of the pageant). One year we were gifted with twins, Rileigh and Austin Smith. That was awesome, knowing we had an understudy in the wings in the event of infant meltdown.
This year, little Daniel Adebayo will be carried by Head Angel Jillian Jacoby, and I have every confidence in her ability to ferry Baby J. safely from Point A to Point B (don't wear heels, Jillian!) The supporting cast should do fine, especially since their teachers will sit in the back of the church with them to cue their entrances.
As I watch my 12th pageant unfold, I know I will be struck by the passage of time. 6th grade Mary, Jill Stevens, is getting married in June. Baby Jesus, Eliza Russell, is in 5th grade now. Where did the years go? I mean, I still FEEL 46. But I am almost 58 now. And all of my much-loved little ones are growing up, way too fast.
It makes me wonder: what does God think of this? Is He amused and touched by the children's worship? Does He, like me, marvel as they age over the years? I know that He is eternal, beyond the boundaries of time and space, but I still believe He has a soft spot for His kids on Earth, and marks their growth with pride and even a little pang. After all, He is their Abba (Daddy), and Daddies love their children in such a special way.
|Christmas Eve 2008
So, Christmas Eve: bobby-pins flying (darn those halos!), earnest young pianists cranking out the prelude music (and yes, we'll take Jingle Bell Rock.) Once more, Christ is born. Let all the world rejoice.


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RPM creates shareholder value by attracting successful entrepreneurial companies and applying a disciplined approach to investing in their continued growth.
RPM's most recent acquisition was announced on June 12, 2019, when its Tremco business acquired Schul International Co., LLC, a manufacturer of joint sealants for commercial construction, and Willseal LLC, a business that markets and sells Schul products. Both companies are headquartered in Hudson, N.H., and have combined annual net sales of approximately $15 million. Sold under the Sealtite and Willseal brands, Schul's product line primarily consists of pre-compressed, self-expanding foam tapes, which are used to seal joints in applications that include window seals, precast concrete, modular construction and concrete façade restoration. Schul and Willseal will be integrated into RPM's Tremco Commercial Sealants & Waterproofing business. This acquisition strengthens Tremco's position as a global market leader and puts RPM in a leading position for impregnated foam tape technology. Schul's well-recognized brands complement the company's existing product offering with new solutions, and RPM will drive revenue growth for Schul's products by leveraging Tremco's existing sales structure.
RPM's acquisition philosophy, initiated by Thomas C. Sullivan, who ran RPM from 1971 until 2002 and retired from the board in 2016, is to "Seek good companies. Create an atmosphere where the founders and managers stay with their companies. Then, get out of their way."
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The addiction continues – my usage of The Square cookbook is reaching the kind of levels I should really seek medical help for, but the food is just so damn tasty! With Christmas now upon us the supermarket shelves are filled with luxury items, in particular speciality cheeses.
Vacherin Mont d'or has been on my hit list for a while and features heavily across my French-based books. As luck would have it this Jura squidgy pot of cheese was on the shelf at Aldi priced at £6.99. Don't mind if I do.
The recipe that I had in mind was Phil Howard's Stuffed and Glazed Chicken Wings with Vacherin Mont d'or and a Fondue of Leeks and Chanterelles. Sounds fancy doesn't it? Well the bad news is this dish takes a fair amount of work – and a fair amount of your day. Major components of this dish include pasta work, braising and sauce making plus a dreaded chicken mousse.
I began by starting off the wings. You actually only need the flat part of the wing, not the mini-drumstick piece. To achieve this just move the joint back and forth to give an idea of where to slice. Once I had smashed through 2-3 it wasn't too tricky to do the rest in a quick amount of time. I reserved the drums for another dish or perhaps a stock – i'm yet to decide.
The wings are then fried in a little oil and butter until golden on the skin side. Draining the wings on kitchen paper prevents them becoming greasy while preparing the braising liquid. I added a knob of butter to the pan used to fry the wings and sweated down leeks, thyme, shallots and button mushrooms until soft. Adding in homemade chicken stock from the freezer provided ideal braising liquid.
That aroma of thyme, vegetables, butter and chicken stock has to be one of my favourite. It makes its way throughout the house and lets anyone entering know that something good is going on the kitchen. The wings braise in the liquid for around 35 minutes or until you can just pull the bone out without damaging the wing – this proved tricky.
I toyed with the idea of letting the wings cool but after having success at removing the bone in one go encouraged me to do otherwise. The majority of the wings were fine with the bone sliding out almost effortlessly, some however were more stubborn and ended up a little more tatty. With all the wings virtually intact, I added them back to the liquid and allowed it to cool to room temperature.
Meanwhile I made a start on the macaroni – a real pain in the ass. Making the pasta dough was straightforward but after two hours of chilling, trying to roll a perfect tube just wasn't happening. I ended up making a haphazard effort at tubetti as opposed to macaroni, it wasn't perfect – far from it. It's what I went with though as the pasta rested on a tray lined with cornmeal to firm up.
The dreaded chicken mousse came next. I say dreaded because it's a real pain to make a chicken mousse. Raw chicken breast and an egg get blitzed in a blender and then passed through a sieve – which is a real ball ache. Working the puree through the sieve is time consuming and labour intensive but once through it's a great deal easier to complete the mousse. I added double cream a little at a time beating with a spatula before adding chopped tarragon – this forms the stuffing for the wings.
The mousse then is piped into the cavities of the wings where the bone was. It's easy to forget that there's a hole all the way through the wing as the mousse spurted out on my first go, oops. Eventually the wings filled up and I placed them back into the fridge just to reset the mousse.
I then set up a steamer for the next step – steaming the wings. Grab your cling film because if you are doing the recommended 32 wings then you need a lot! Phil recommends a 20cm piece of wrap per wing which is tricky on the first one but like clockwork after doing a few. Make sure you sit the cling film landscape as you need to tie a knot either side. The wings end up looking like packages a drug smuggler might carry…
Steaming for 4 minutes allows the mousse to cook through and the wings are then plunged into iced water to halt the cooking
process. Everything now was virtually prepared well in advance of serving – highly recommended to make your life a lot easier.
I couldn't get hold of fresh chanterelles so made a late switch by bringing in trompettes de la mort – black trumpets of death if you would like the translation. These are fried with leeks and a little butter loosened slightly with some of the chicken braising liquor. It's about now that you can really sense the dish coming together as the chicken liquor reduced down to a rich glaze with a knob of butter adding shine to the stuffed wings.
All that's left to do is to boil the pasta and toss it through the leek and chanterelle (or trompet) fondue. Everything smelled superb and really made me want to dive in, only one step remained – to knight the dish with stinky French cheese and stick it under the grill, yum!
You won't be surprised to hear that this was another winner from Phil's bible of beauty. The wings were superb in flavour yet the stuffing seemed a bit anonymous, the glaze though is massive on flavour possibly drowning it out. The macaroni/tubetti were alright but it is a tricky pasta shape to make. I would recommend just buying rigatoni or other tube shaped pasta. The cheese was very good, very similar to Reblochon that you would find in tartiflette, a brilliant substitute if you can't find Mont d'or.
You can find The Square 'Savoury' available to buy at Waterstones


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A Note On The ICJ Judgement In NICARAGUA v COLOMBIA and its relevance to International Crime and Criminal Law
January 4, 2013
By Dr Olga Martin-Ortega, Reader in Public International Law, Greenwich University
Seen on another blog, an interesting comment by Professor Steven Haines on the potential impacts of a recent Judgement of the International Court of Justice, The Hague.
In November 2012, the ICJ released its decision on the Territorial and Maritime Dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia. Right after the decision was made public, Haines notes, comments suggested that the ICJ might have negative consequences on crime combating in the Caribbean. His article thus offers an extensive summary of the facts and proceeds, but it also goes on to an interesting debate on how a ruling on territorial and maritime soverignty may in practice relate to international criminal law.
Here is an abstract, the full article is available here
"It must be said that on first reflecting on this case, it appears to have no substantial relevance to international criminal law at all. As already explained, it was to do with rival maritime claims that, while producing tension, had not previously resulted in the parties to the dispute resorting to force […] We can also reasonably rule out the possibility of this case having any relevance to ICC-based international criminal law. If, however, we adopt a broader definition of what constitutes 'international crime' there is at least a suggestion that the Judgement has consequences. A broader definition arguably includes all serious crimes having a significant international dimension. Given the international nature of the oceans, crimes committed at sea will almost invariably have potentially significant international dimensions. One group of crimes with profound international consequences is to do with the manufacture, sale and trafficking of illicit narcotics".
Dr Olga Martin-Ortega is a Reader in Public International Law at the
University of Greenwich (United Kingdom) and conducts research in the areas of business and human rights, post-conflict reconstruction and transitional justice.


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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham
Virginia is going to have a vice-presidential nominee soon.
Just has to be in the cards.
I mean, Tim Kaine is all over the airwaves, for one.
Last week, the wife turns on "Fox News Sunday," and there our governor is, Sunday morning, 9 a.m., sitting in studio.
I'm sorry, but you're not driving up 95 on a Sunday morning in February unless something is in the hopper. Or you hope that the same is in the case.
And then there's our esteemed former governor and future senator, MarkNotJohn Warner.
I have it on decent authority that his people have been talked to by Barack Obama's people about his interest in running as his VP, you know, assuming.
So there's two.
And I can't help but think that our boy Jimmy Webb is a possibility in that slot as well.
He might be the best one, actually. A Reagan Republican-turned-back-Democrat elected in a Southern state who's not afraid of guns.
Yeah, he's a keeper.
I have no idea about the other side of the equation – you know, who the GOP is going to run alongside John McCain.
My instinct tells me that they're going to need to run a conservative Southerner to balance out McCain.
And the sad thing is, I can't think of anybody conservative enough or Southern enough to fit the bill.
Which makes me think …
Wouldn't George Allen have looked good here?
Course, he'd have looked good at the top of the ticket, too.
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Knowing a lot about the Canadian embassy in Tanzania is a pretty good one. Canada is proud of its string and enduring relationship with Tanzania. Canada is an increasingly popular destination for travellers from Easter Africa, including students, tourists and permanent residents. Tanzania is one of the largest reciepents of Canadian development assistance worldwide. In Tanzania, Canadian companies are among the largest foreign investors which are particularly in the Mining and Gas sectors.
Canadian Embassy In Tanzania {Visa Application And Appointment Info}
Canada continues to make significant contribution to their respective development effort while also working to deepen economic ties and to advance shared priorities in different areas.
As a country that accepts people from different countries, many travel there for a reason, most times for jobs, schools and other things. Living in Tanzania and you want to travel to Canada, there are actually some things which you need, that will enable you qualify for the visa.
So on Canadian Embassy In Tanzania
we taking a loot at:
- Canadian Embassy In Tanzania Contacts Address
- Canada Visa Application In Tanzania / Requirements
- Canadian Visa Appointment Booking
Canada has been engaged in a good friendship development with Tanzania. Both countries accept visitors and treat them well. Canada is one of the most popular places people travel to especially tourists. The environment over there is a good one, students who even want to study over there, their standard of education is high, and this is an added advantage to the country. There are some certain requirements which are needed for travelling to Canada. Like we say, people travel for various reasons, so its all depends on what you are going for.
We all know some of the basic requirements which are needed for getting a Canadian visa which are like the
- Recent passport sized photograph
- Required visa fee
- Application form filled online
- You might be asked for some other documents like your financial proof
- If going with your spouse, you will be asked for your original marriage certificate.
- If you as an applicant is taking a child with you, you will be asked for the child birth certificate and other questions relating to the child.
- Medical examination will be asked for if required.
Apart from all of these requirements, there are also some things which are required or what you must meet;
- You must show the officer that you met the requirements of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA)
- Satisfy and officer that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay
- Do not intend to work or study in Canada unless authorized to do so
- You should not be a risk to the security of Canada
- Show that you have enough money to maintain yourself and family during your stay in Canada and return home.
- Be law abiding and have no record of criminal activity.
After going through all of these process, it is required by you to provide any additional documents requested by the officer to establish your admissibility.
We should note that, the requirements which are listed here are general requirements which are needed by you. Those who are going for business purposes are to bring in extra documents about their company profile and about themselves as employees, letter of invitation from your business partner is also asked for.
When applying for a visa, you should keep in your mind that you must attend in person at the consulate to submit your documentation at the set appointment time. Booking an appointment allows for more efficient services, it is reconmmended that you arrange your appointment at least fifteen (15) days prior to your departure.
You can also book an earlier appointment, which is considered better in most cases. There are various ways to apply for an appointment which you should know. it is advisable that if you do not need an appointment, you should cancel it and it should be noted that all families cannot have an appointment that same day.
Applying for a visa is no problem, but one major problem we face sometimes, is how to contact the embassy. Many times, before we make an application for something, we might want to know what its all about, how the procedures are done and so many other things.
Getting the contact of the embassy is not difficult, as the modern day technology have been made available to us, that with just a click of your phone we have gotten all the information which you want. Now for those who needs the contact information of the Canadian embassy, we have gathered lots of information for you, which we feel will also be helpful to you when trying to contact them.
- Address: 39, Mirambo street Garden avenue, P.OBOX 1022 Dar-es-Salaam
- Telephone: (+255) (22) 216 3300
- Fax : (+225) (22) 211 6897x
- Email : email@example.com
- Website : www.canadainternational.gc.ca/tanzanie/tanzanie/
We have given you full details about their contact details, and we believe they are very helpful to you. Now the big question here is this, can we call the Canadian embassy in Tanzania as much as we like anyhow, this is amusing rite, its not possible, as thIs is an official place also. We should know that every company has its own opening hours for their clients to call them , this is same as the embassy ,as this can be done by knowing their opening hours and even time. Knowing the time an embassy operates Is very essential as this can be helpful to you. Their hours of operation are listed below;
Canadian Embassy In Tanzania Opening Hours
- Monday to Thursdays 7;30am to 4.00pm
- Fridays 7:30am to 1:30pm
- Consular hours Monday to Fridays 8:30am to 12:30pm.
Comprehensive details have been given about the Canadian embassy in Tanzania. Lets spicen this for you a little bit. The information we are about to share are the embassy public holidays.
- January 2nd: Public holiday
- August 8th: Farmers day
- September 4th: Labours day
- October 9th: Thanksgiving day
- December 25th: Christmas day
- December 26th: Boxing day.
All the dates which are listed above are the dates which the embassy will not be open or receive any calls. I hope we have satisfied you about the Canadian embassy in Tanzania, if you need more information or having a hard time processing your visa, you can visit the official website, directions are there.
- GERMAN EMBASSY TANZANIA : Visa Application, Appointment Info


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AU Remembers Longtime History Professor, Author Dr. Lynwood Oyos
The Augustana community is mourning the loss of longtime history professor and author Dr. Lynwood Oyos.
Oyos died Thursday, July 20, in Sioux Falls. He was 90.
Oyos joined Augustana in 1957 and taught for 37 years. He earned a number of awards and distinctions for outstanding contributions in the classroom, including Outstanding Educator of America, the Augustana Faculty-Administrator of the Year Award, the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award, a Danforth Associate and the Orin M. Lofthus Distinguished Professorship. In 2002, he was honored with the South Dakota Governor's Award for History.
In addition to his teaching duties, Oyos served as chair of the history department from 1964-91. He was actively involved in campus life and served on several faculty and administrative committees. An avid sports fan throughout his life, he regularly attended Augustana football and basketball games from the start of his career at Augustana through the 2016-17 sports season.
Augustana President Rob Oliver remembered Oyos as a friend and colleage.
"Lyn served students at Augustana for decades, and was known by many as a wonderful scholar and teacher. We wish his family God's peace as they mourn his passing," Oliver said.
His love of history and passion for research and writing extended beyond the classroom. He authored and co-authored several local and regional histories and published seven books between 1981 and 2014, most recently "Reveille for Sioux Falls," an exploration of how a World War II Air Force Technical School changed Sioux Falls. He was an active participant in the Center for Western Studies' Dakota Conference and wrote numerous scholarly articles and monographs that were accepted for publication in various journals.
Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, July 27, at Heritage Funeral Home in Sioux Falls. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 28, at First Lutheran Church. Private family interment will occur prior to the memorial service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Oyos History Scholarship Fund at Augustana University or the Center for Western Studies at Augustana University.


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Quantitative Implications of the Home Bias: Foreign Underinvestment, Domestic Oversaving, and Corrective Taxation
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There is strong evidence about a home-court advantage in international portfolio" investment. One explanation for the bias is an information asymmetry between domestic and" foreign investors about the economic performance of domestic firms. This asymmetry causes" two types of distortions: an aggregate production inefficiency and a production-consumption" inefficiency, leading to foreign underinvestment and domestic oversaving respectively. Such" market failures are found to be quite severe, slightly more so with equity flows than with debt" flows. These inefficiencies can nonetheless be corrected by a mix of tax-subsidy instruments consisting of taxes on corporate income and on the capital incomes of both residents and" nonresidents. When only a partial set of instruments is available, however each tax instrument can change radically and may even be reversed although the welfare gains" can be fairly substantial and sometimes close to the first best optimum. This partial set of" instruments appears to be more effective in handling the market failure in the case of equity" flows than in the case of debt flows.
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Thrifty Tip: Pay Off Your Mortgage
My husband and I periodically dream about what it would be like to have our mortgage paid off. Can you imagine? For us, it would be like doubling our income by having our mortgage paid off. We got a great deal by refinancing a few years ago. Now, I'd love to get that mortgage paid off early. In case you've had similar conversations (and dreams), here are a few tips on how to pay off that mortgage early.
1. Mortgage payments. When you first buy your house, try to keep those payments at about 15 percent of your income. As I shared above, that's not the case for us. (Maybe that's why we are still working on it!) In any case, this is good to know when you first buy a house. The national average is 30 percent; aiming for about 15 percent of your income will give you a much better shot at paying it off early.
2. Check out bankrate.com. This site provides a tool to help you figure out various combinations of payments to pay off that mortgage early. You'll just have to plug in the amount left on your mortgage, the amount of time you'll like to pay it off or the extra amount you'd like to pay each month. You'll end up finding out exactly how much extra you need to pay to pay it off in a given period of time. Check it out.
3. Divide up your payments. Rather than making one monthly payment each month, make two payments every two weeks. Because of the way the calendar is set up, you'll end up making an extra payment without even thinking about it. That's a great way to make a nice extra payment to move that ball down the field.
What are you doing to pay down your mortgage?
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We are excited to spend time with your dog at our boarding facility!
Please fill out the registration form and the waiver completely and bring them when you drop off your dog. (Completed forms can also be emailed to us ahead of time)
To help you get prepared for your first time at the kennel, we provide you the document below.
What to bring with your dog:
- meals for your dog
- a well-fitted collar
- record of vaccinations (can be emailed to us ahead of time)
- Registration forms
- dog bed – optional
- toys and treats – optional
Please make sure all vaccines are up-to-date at least 14 days before drop-off.
All our guests are required to be up to date on all their shots for the entire stay with us.
Required vaccinations include:
Annual (DA2PP or an absolute minimum of Canine Distemper and Parvovirus)
Bordetella (Kennel Cough)
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The Four Pillars Drug Strategy is the City of Vancouver's policy and plan for reducing drug-related harm in Vancouver. The website offers many resources such as the podcasts selected for this FGTA page. It also reports harm reduction efforts Canada-wide.


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MSN Billpay Troubles
This past weekend we tried to get into MSN Billpay to pay a couple of bills. The signin UI has changed several times in the past year or so, but usually we're able to figure it out eventually. This time, however, we were stumped. Even though we were signed in to our .net Passport, it was prompting us for Username and Password. Huh. As far as we knew, it was just the .net Passport -- there was no other Username or Password. We went through all the help resources provided and couldn't figure it out, so we called the support number provided for signin troubles. Unfortunately, after numerous attempts, we were unable to get to anyone who knew anything about MSN Billpay. <grumble> The bills weren't late yet, but I'm pretty frustrated at this point.
So, I do a web search (MSN Search, of course!) and find a newsgroup post that alludes to an email that was sent out explaining the changes and new process. Okay, so we search through every email account even possibly associated with the MSN Billpay account, every folder, every spam repository -- and no email. Maybe it got caught in a spam filter along the way, but we're still left without the information. This is where I'm thankful I work at Microsoft and can leverage my contacts for information.
A day and several emails later, I had my answer (and an opportunity to provide my .02 on how bad the process was for our customers!) And of course I'm going to share it with you :)
If you find yourself in the same situation, first of all, look for the email from MSN Billpay in whatever account is (or may be) associated with the MSN Billpay account -- the email may be in your spam folder. (In our case, the email address associated with the account was not our .net passport account.) If you find the email, the email address for that account is your new username and the email will tell you what to use for your password. If you can't find the email, the support IVR has been changed to walk you through figuring it out or getting the information from a support rep.
You can reach MSN Billpay support at 1-877-800-4873. Don't be tricked into choosing option 1 -- you really want option 4. The wait recording that plays after you select option 4 gives you information about the problem. If you still can't figure it out, stay on the line and customer service will help you.


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I cut my teeth working on overland safaris across Africa so I'm resourceful and good in a crisis! Moving into luxury travel I still I love seeing the world at a grass roots level, feeling the earth beneath my feet. Africa is my passion with South America a close second.
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Members of the NBER's Corporate Finance Program met April 12 in Chicago. Research Associates Andrea L. Eisfeldt of University of California, Los Angeles and Victoria Ivashina of Harvard University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:
Antonio Falato and Filip Zikes, Federal Reserve Board, and Diana Iercosan, Federal Reserve System [FRS]
Zhengyang Jiang, Northwestern University, and Arvind Krishnamurthy and Hanno Lustig, Stanford University and NBER
C. Fritz Foley, Harvard University and NBER; Agustin M. Hurtado, University of Chicago; Andres Liberman, New York University; and Alberto Sepulveda, SBIF
Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University; Danielle Li, MIT and NBER; and Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER
Shai Bernstein and Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER, and Timothy McQuade and Beatriz Pousada, Stanford University
Jason R. Donaldson, Washington University in St Louis; Denis Gromb, INSEAD; and Giorgia Piacentino, Columbia University
Christopher A. Parsons, University of Washington; Casey Dougal, Drexel University; and Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER, and Ralph S. J. Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER
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I forgot to mention our exit from Mexico! We were carrying on in the car, like a bunch of teenagers, with me driving. I was NOT paying attention and drove right up behind the car currently at the guard shack. Apparently this is NOT CONDONED and for a bit I thought surely I was going to Mexican jail forever. The female guard chastised me soundly and I apologized, pleading first timers excitement. A cone was placed between us and the car ahead and I was quite sure we were going NOWHERE, until SHE was good and ready for us to. This was a correct assumption. Eventually we did get a turn and were let out of Mexico, much to my relief. My parting words were, "See you tomorrow, if you are working. I'll get it right THEN. You'll see!"
The next day:
Today was the day we would head north. Cindy would take the motor home to Lake Havasu, followed by Penny and Mom in the rented, red Dodge charger. Dad and I would return to Mexico for the last of his dental work and then high tail it North for a doctor appointment in Lake Havasu City. We would stay with Jane. Sounds simple right? Wellllllll. Not so much.
It all started out fine. And the girls made it to Havasu in record time with no problems other than the stench of sewer in the Motor home. Dad and I didn't fare as well. We got into Mexico easily enough and parked only to find out his appointment was not at 8 but 9, which was okay as Mom and I wanted pine needle baskets. Dad and I found the booth, purchased the baskets and returned only to find that I had to move the car onto the street into a spot barely large enough for the car. After a 96 point turn, I FINALLY managed to get the car into the space, wondering if I could shave a few points off of that to get back out?
We settled into the waiting room at the dentist office. Eventually the dentist arrived and work began. It wasn't long and we were back on the road again, to find a woman, frantically trying to "cut" into the long line of traffic waiting to exit Mexico. She ran up to several cars in front of us, beating on windows trying to convince someone to let her in line. Soon, she did the same to us and Dad said, "DON'T LET HER IN!" The old lady behind us laid on her horn, shaking her fist, insistent that we NOT let her in. And so it was. We ignored her and she finally left, only to return later with a driver in HER car. She then hopped into the pickup in front of us. The young man who was being ousted from the pickup, retrieved his belongings, got into her car with the other driver and so it was. She was now leaving Mexico in another vehicle. Ahead of us.
We inched toward the border station and I watched the woman in the pickup ahead of us conversing animatedly to the uniformed soldiers with guns, who then waved us aside and ordered us out of the car. I got my purse, got out and went around to Dad's side. A thorough search was performed of the car and Mom's bottle of diabetes medication was found in the glove box. We were questioned about it and thankfully it had come from Mexico. Next, I had to open my purse and describe the contents to the guard. Eventually we were allowed back into line. I'm still not sure what happened but I have my suspicions. Perhaps the woman in the truck ahead was feeling out of sorts because we didn't let her in line and reported us as drug running gringo's? Perhaps the handicap parking card was a red flag, since I was driving? I'll never know, but it was a wake up call.
And guess WHO was at the guard shack when I approached appropriately? You got it. I greeted her as if we were old friends and she said, "I thought I'd never see you again!" My reply was, "Do you mean you HOPED you'd never see us again?" She laughed and told us she was not to be working that day, and not outside in the booth in particular. Crazy , huh? Eventually she told us she was moving North to be with her fiance' who was at a border crossing in North Dakota. Small world!
Soon, Dad and I were on our way North, making it to Havasu with a whole 45 minutes to spare. I love it when a plan comes together!
We arrive at Jane's to find her "guard dog", on duty.
Sweet sister Lillian came to visit.
The next day, Jane and Lillian again entertained the family during a wonderful breakfast before we "broke camp" and headed north.
Three amigos. (It was touching to watch the love between old friends.)
Lillian and Jane cut up for the camera.
Miss Lillian. (Yes, the "pistol" personality runs in the family.)
On the road: Dad and I in the motor home, Penny and Mom in the red rented charger and Cindy in the folk's Prius. At Hoover Dam, Dad and I cut off through the park, along the lake, to avoid Las Vegas while the girls headed into Las Vegas to return the rental car. We were to meet up in Ely, Nevada for the night. Needing a rest break, Penny, took a "short cut" to the rest stop...by avoiding the exit completely. She just did an "exit, stage right!" Mom, not normally a calm traveler, just reached up and grabbed the panic handle as Penny drove off the interstate and into the ditch in a cloud of dust. Cindy, in the Prius, wondered WHAT they were doing just bailing off the road Dukes of Hazzard style, but kept going to the "REAL" exit. Penny, realizing the error of her ways as Cindy drove on by, did a u-turn in the weeds and found her way back onto the interstate. Much to Penny's delight, Mom's comment to all of this commotion was, "If we'd have just kept going the way we were.....we'd be "sitting" by now."
Park ranger panache.
Road less traveled.
Red rocks ahead.
Color pop.
Goodnight, everybody.
Up next: God's country.
"Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do." - Rumi


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What causes an application that once ruled the software world to completely fall from grace? That's the question we'll be posing in a new regular feature on OnSoftware. To kick-start the series I'm examining perhaps the most dramatic demise in software history – that of WordPerfect.
The rise to fame
If you were using a computer in the late 80s or early 90s you'll remember that WordPerfect was really the only word processing program worth using. The program started life in 1982 when Bruce Bastian and Dr Alan Ashton ported their Data General app to the IBM PC and called it WordPerfect 2.20. By 1986 WordPerfect 4.2 had overtaken WordStar as the word processor market leader on the DOS platform. But it wasn't until 1989 that the app really hit the heights, with its most successful version ever, WordPerfect 5.1. Now with support for tables, simple spreadsheets and Macintosh-style pull-down menus, the software was viewed as the choice for office professionals. At this time the WordPerfect 5.1 file format was supported by all word processors, and most publishing companies and businesses insisted documents were provided in this format. WordPerfect 5.1 would, for years, be the most respected document editing format on the planet.
Why people liked it
One of the main usability features that attracted people to WordPerfect was its use of function keys, allowing users to perform editing commands quickly through a combination of Shift, Ctrl and Alt and the 'F' keys. This really set the program apart from apps such as WordStar, which relied on just Ctrl and the normal letter keys. Macros were another major feature of WordPerfect that helped to make it so popular. Macros that represented long and complicated editing processes could be mapped to one key, drastically improving productivity.
Other cool features of WordPerfet 5.1 included styles and style libraries for advanced document editing; reveal codes, which contained tags and objects used to help track changes and styles that were applied to documents; and an impressive range of bundled printer drivers.
What went wrong
So why isn't everyone still using WordPerfect today then? Some will argue that it was Windows that killed WordPerfect. The word processor had achieved its success as a DOS application that made it easy to edit documents through its intelligent support for keyboard commands. Some suggest that WordPerfect struggled to cope when it came to evolving the product for a graphical, point-and-click environment. As one reader of InfoWorld's Gripe Line points out, it took the developer too long to come up with a decent version for Windows:
WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows (released quarter 4 of 1991) was a dismal failure – totally unstable, not feature-laden, and it even used a DOS-based installation program! WordPerfect 5.2 (Q1-1992) was a massive bug-fix, albeit small & fast. WordPerfect 6.0 (Q4-1993) was another buggy piece of crap, but it showed potential.
Only when WordPerfect 6.0a (April, 1994) came out was there something worthwhile on the Windows front. By mid-1994, 2 1/2 years after the first version of WordPerfect for Windows came out, was there something reasonably stable. But by then, the damage was done and MS-Office 4.2/4.3 was available.
As is seemingly the norm with companies who struggle to compete against Microsoft products, WordPerfect's developers Novell (which had by now bought the company) tried to blame the Redmond firms monopolistic tactics. In fact, in 2004, Novell launched a suit against Microsoft, claiming it used anti-competitive tactics during the periods between 1994 and 1996 by forcing hardware developers to bundle its Word and Office apps with all Windows machines. Novell lost the case.
But it wasn't just the transition to Windows that affected WordPerfect. There were other factors, such as the decision to scrap its fabled free customer support, and the impact in the change of ownership (to Novell in 1994 and then Corel in 1996) who each had different ideas about where to place the product in the market.
Believe it or not, the program is still being made, as part of of Corel WordPerfect Office X4, though it's almost certain the application will never hit the heights of its glory days.


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The Bachelor
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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Sweet! Now I don't feel so bad, because my husband tells me that show is a waste of time. How ridiculous was Alli's season? I watched like the first three episodes and was done. It should be up to the viewers who gets to be the next Bachlor/BachloretteReplyDelete
I like Wipeout! It is funny! I deleted The Bachelor off my dvr. Just can't do it again. Everytime I watch it I think why did I do that. So Scott, move over because Wipeout is on!ReplyDelete
I watched it on hulu yesterday too, and it was INCRE-dibly awful in the best way possible. This may or may not be (who am I kidding- it totally is) really bad, but I feel so much better about myself when I watch reality television. I feel like my life has so much meaning.ReplyDelete
Ok. I'm going to go repent now.
But how priceless were the following things in Alli's season:ReplyDelete
1. "Rated R" getting called out, and then hopping around the landscaping outside the hotel, trying to elude the camera. HAHAHA!
2. Kasey... songs and all. You can't write crap like that!
3. Sketchy, sketchy Frank dumping Alli for not-as-cute ex-girlfriend and the major fake-cry scene that ensued.
Now that's what I call must-see-TV!
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It's one of those shows you don't want to watch but you can't turn your head cause you know there is gonna be some huge drama that you just can't miss.ReplyDelete
There are 3 girls I can't believe he kept. Yes the girl who slapped him, the vampire girl (what is up w/those teeth she thinks is sexy) and yes the singer I think she has a few marbles rolling around upstairs.
Will be interesting and my hubby won't watch it so I either DVR it or go into the b/r to watch it.


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There are many laws protecting consumers from unfair practices in the United Kingdom. Some of these are preventative in nature. In other words, they try to protect consumers by not allowing unsafe products from being sold.
Other laws seek to give consumers a chance for retribution if they feel they have been treated unfairly.
These consumer laws cover situations such as:
- You've bought faulty merchandise
- You've been treated unfairly or did not receive what you paid for
- The goods you purchased were counterfeit
- Fraudulent or unfair charges have been placed on your credit cards
- A contract was not fulfilled
- Problems with builders
Consumers can consult with the Citizens Advice Bureau if they have problems or concerns. There are 316 offices across the U.K. and they are available to help citizens with financial and legal advice. Their main goal is try and prevent problems from arising by helping citizens make informed choices.
The government also works to support free trade and a competitive market place. Laws are passed to prevent monopolies or cartels from taking over the free market and fixing unfair prices.
These consumer laws are enforced by Acts of Parliament, government actions and statutory laws, and contract laws. Private groups and agencies are place to work in behalf of consumers who are treated unfairly.
The Enterprise Act of 2002 gave consumer agencies, that are approved by the Secretary for State and Trade, the right to act on behalf of consumers as "super complainers". Their purpose is to give consumers a stronger voice in the marketplace. Eight of these groups had been formed by 2007.
Specific Laws that protect Consumers:
Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act protects buyers who have purchased items using a credit card.
Sale of Goods Act states that:"Goods are of satisfactory quality if they reach the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory, taking into account the price and any description."
Supply of Good and Services Act: This works the same as the Sale of Goods Act but refers to services purchased. For instance if you hire someone to fix your washing machine or paint your house and they never provide the agreed upon service.
Denied Boarding Regulations: This covers situation where you have purchased an airline ticket and the flight is cancelled and you are not offered a refund or another flight.
Distance Selling Regulations: This works to protect consumers who purchase from the internet. It gives consumers seven days after delivery of a good purchased to return the item if not satisfied.
If you feel you have been treated unfairly your first stop should be seeking counsel from your local Citizen Bureau. If that does not prove helpful you can try a consumer advocate group.
Small claims court is also an option. You can file a claim and take it to court without the need for a solicitor.
A final option is to hire a private solicitor who specializes in consumer law. This can prove to be an expensive option but may be worth the cost if your problem has resulted in a large monetary loss.


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Its extremely robust basic frame can withstand even the toughest of use. Similarly, the frame concept is ergonomically designed so that the machine is easy to transport, even on rough terrain. Puncture-proof wheels increase the overall toughness further. A large water filter and a thermostat valve protect the pump, whilst an optional cage frame with eyelets to facilitate crane loading provide additional safety for the machine. Operationis extremely simple and convenient, and storage options for all accessories are located directly on the HD 8/20 G. For even shorter set-up & finishing-off times, an attachment kit for a hose reel is also available.
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