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Dec 5, 2012 5:00am PST
of a swift response from the u.s. if chemical weapons are used. >>> as the fiscal cliff looms president obama is digging in his heels. ktvu alison burns reports the president says the wealthiest americans must pay higher taxes. alison. >> reporter: the president is refusing to agree to anything else unless taxes are raised on the wealthiest 2% of americans. in fact, there are some reports this morning that the president isn't even going to hold any other face to face or one on one meetings with republicans until they cave on that demand. john boehner was at the lighting of the if christmas tree last night. republicans are instead offering to close tax loopholes and limit tax deductions that favor the wealthy while extending current tax rates for the middle class. frustration is clearly growing on both sides. >> speaker's proposal right now is is still out of balance. >> we wasted an enormous amount of time here sparring back and forth in public. it strikes me as a good time to get serious about the proposals. >> reporter: a very big potential problem for speaker boehner even if he's willing t
Dec 4, 2012 5:00am PST
on twitter about the fiscal cliff. he is promoting a reference to the estimated tax increase and middle income families would see if rates are not extended, the latest would extend tax cuts for everyone including americans and who the president wants to exclude. the white house says the proposal is too short on specifics. >> we can't guess what they are, they need to tell us and they look forward to the time when they are specific with the ways we have dealt with it. >> they don't like what republicans want to do to social security and more on that during my next update. reporting live, allison burns, ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> 5:14 in florida, they have released a photo of george zimmerman, showing george zimmerman with a swollen nose and blood did i face. they responded and said it adds nothing new to the case. the volunteer watch man is charged with second-degree murder and his trial is due to begin next june. >>> contra costa police officer was taken to the hospital after an attack. it happened at the college yesterday morning. he was hit in the face with a small metal object.


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One of Monsieur Didot’s greatest assets is its location. The house has the privilege of being located at the border of two extremely different yet genuinely characteristic districts of modern Athens.
Kolonaki, an aristocratic district on the one side, and Exarchia, a vibrant, hip and alternative area of the city on the other. Monsieur Didot’s DNA encompasses cultural and philosophical elements from both of these districts, beautifully combined to create a unifying and harmonious entity.
Functioning once as a gathering space for artists and intellectuals, and often the area where the dream of an urban life was brought to fruition, Kolonaki established itself as an enviable area and one of the most sought-after locations in Athens. Its mesmerising neoclassical buildings, together with its social and artistic flair, made Kolonaki one of the city’s most beautiful quarters. Its aristocratic character is partly due to its proximity to the former Royal Palace, which attracted the social grandeur during the Greek Monarchy.
Today, Kolonaki retains its historic and unique character but has also grown into a commercial centre. It is here where one can enjoy the most refined shops in Athens and all the renowned fashion houses along with multiple cafés, bars and restaurants, offering a pleasant escape from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Exarchia, and in particular the quarter of Neapolis, can be defined as the birthplace of letters and culture in the area. All the greats of Greek art and letters lived and excelled here and it established a reputation as the home of the bohemian intellectual, who would flood the multitude of art cafés, printing and publishing houses. It is to this present day still home to the offices of large, contemporary publishing houses whilst many small printing offices, resisting the passing of time, can also be found hidden in its streets.
The area of Exarchia is still renowned for its youthful vibrancy and a hint of alternative and hipster culture which is illustrated through an array of restaurants, cafés and bars that fill the streets, whilst there is and also an abundance of alternative events and exhibitions.

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Jesse McCartney: Backstage Diaries
Get a sneak preview to our new series Backstage Diaries with Jesse McCartney! YH is backstage at the House of Blues in L.A. to catch up with the incredibly talented Jesse McCartney before his live performance. He talks about his 4th studio album, 'In Technicolor', and how this song "Back Together" influenced the sound of the album as a whole. The "Super Bad" singer also discusses life on the road, the evolution of his music, and working with producers like The Elev3n!


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For Christine "Chrissy" Hamilton, cheering the Saints on Sunday in Sun Life Stadium still seems like a dream.
"I kept saying, 'Please pinch me. This doesn't feel real,'" she says.
The first half of the game went by in a flash.
"I couldn't believe it was already halftime," she says. "I didn't want the game to be half over."
Hamilton, 23, knew the Super Bowl performance would be her last one as a Saintsation.
Director Lesslee Fitzmorris lets cheerleaders stay on the team a maximum of four years and then launches them "into the real world."
"I want them to be our leaders of tomorrow," she says.
She asked Hamilton to stay for a fifth year because her first year as a Saintsation was interrupted by Hurricane Katrina.
"She's a great role model, a great example of someone who has triumphed over adversity," Fitzmorris says. "Chrissy lost everything in the storm."
Hamilton grew up in Chalmette. She was a student at Xavier University College of Pharmacy in New Orleans in August 2005. Her family had moved into their brand new house earlier in the year.
"The storm left 15 feet of water in it," she says.
Hamilton Enterprises, the 30-year-old family furniture and hardware business her dad and his three brothers ran, flooded, too.
"The store was our life. My mom and dad had never done anything else," she says "It was such a heart-wrenching time for us."
When her family evacuated, Hamilton took three days worth of clothes and her Saintsations uniforms with her.
"That was something Lesslee taught us," she says. "Don't evacuate without your uniforms."
Her family stayed in Panama City, Fla., for three months, and Hamilton wasn't able to get to the Saints games that were played in San Antonio. But she did make it to the game against the New York Giants that was played in Giants stadium on Sept. 19, 2005.
"That was great because a bunch of girls from other NFL teams sent us care packages," she says. "They gave us underwear, pajamas, tennis shoes, toiletries -- all the things we had lost. That really gave us some spirit and uplifted us in such hard times."
The only other regular game Hamilton made it to that season was the game against the Carolina Panthers that was played at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge.
"It was just such a hard year I didn't want to go back for my second year," she says. "But my mom said, 'Just give it a try.'"
By then, her parents, David and Lisa Hamilton, had come back home to rebuild their home and the family business in Chalmette, and she was back in pharmacy school at Xavier.
She decided to listen to her mom, and she's thrilled she did.
"I've had a blast ever since," she says. "The Saintsations helped make me the person I am today, and I think Lesslee for that all the time."
Hamilton says she used to be so shy she was reluctant to put in her own order at McDonalds. Now, she can walk into a room and carry on a conversation with someone she's never met before. And the once timid young woman is on the cover of the 2010 Saintsations Swimsuit Calendar.
In addition to gaining confidence, she has learned time management, something you need when you're a full-time college student, work at Walgreen's in Chalmette, have dance practice three times a week, and make frequent public appearances.
"It's been a busy year," she says.
It has also been the best year of her life.
"When I think back to four years ago, when I didn't what the future would hold, it just seems amazing," she says.
One highlight of the season was having her sister Brittany, 20, join the Saintsations. Another was the Sept. 3 Saints game against Miami in the Super Dome. It was her birthday, and her boyfriend, Brandon Licciardi, proposed to her in front of 68,000 people.
"It was a complete surprise," she says. "We're getting married on April 2, 2011."
Hamilton will cherish her years as a Saintsation, but she's looking forward to getting launched into the real world.
She'll graduate from pharmacy school, a six-year program, in May, and then she'll have time to plan her wedding. She and Licciardi will live in St. Bernard Parish.
"My fiance is a police officer in St. Bernard Parish, and he's committed to the parish," she says. "And we're both really devoted to our families. We could never leave home."
A year ago, Hamilton was chosen by her teammates to represent them as part of the cheerleading squad at the 2009 NFL Pro Bowl in Honolulu, and she thought that experience would be hard to top.
"But being at the Super Bowl with the Saints was a hundred times better," she says. "I can't even put into words how great it was, but I will remember it for the rest of my life."

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A judge on Wednesday blocked prosecutors from releasing footage of Robert Kraft allegedly receiving sexual services in a Florida spa — for now.
“I don’t want this released until I’ve ruled,” Florida Circuit Court Judge Joseph Marx said in an emergency hearing Wednesday, according to ABC News.
The New England Patriots owner has been fighting in court to stop the secret footage recorded at the Orchids of Asia Spa getting out — but prosecutors unexpectedly filed papers earlier Wednesday saying they were legally obligated to release the footage in response to public records requests in the case of alleged spa manager Lei Wang.
Kraft’s attorneys responded with an emergency motion to stop the release, and the judge obliged — pushing the decision down the road to a hearing on April 29.
Kraft, 77, was busted earlier this year alongside two dozen other men for allegedly soliciting prostitution at Orchids of Asia after cops installed secret cameras inside the business. He has pleaded not guilty.
His attorneys argued at a hearing last week that the footage is “basically pornography” — and its release would breach his right to privacy.


Microsoft will require computers with the "Designed for Windows 8" logo to use UEFI with secure boot (which will only allow signed software to run on the device) enabled by default.
Windows 8 provides additional support for security features to help to prevent unauthorized firmware, operating systems, or UEFI drivers from running at boot time. These features include Secure Boot and support for factory-encrypted drives. UEFI firmware is required to support large disks (over 2 TB). This firmware can also provide faster boot and resume speeds, by reading and using data more efficiently.
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, windows can only be installed to GPT disks."
I'd say the last one indicates GPT is required for an UEFI system. "using all UEFI capabilities" is somewhat vague though, are there specific capabilities you would like to see used?
Also, note that Windows 7 x64 will do GPT on UEFI systems too. And also Vista SP1, and Server 2008.


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Four talks about nature.
2nd October || 16th October
13rd November | 27th November 2019
The cultural review promoted by MUBA is back
The initiative, promoted by MUBA is an opportunity to present to the public four in-depth talks on the theme of nature and to reflect on its importance in the context of different arts and disciplines with the members of the Scientific Committee who co-curated the design of the playful exhibition and with various experts in the field.
The cultural review is curated by Francesco Dondina, Art Director of MUBA.
The theme of nature is very current and fascinates scholars and specialists but also simple onlookers and ordinary people, which is why on the occasion of the exhibit Natura, MUBA wanted to offer once again meetings to deepen this theme.
2nd October 2019 - 6.30 pm
La natura del colore
Francesca Valan and Franca Zuccoli
16th October 2019 - 6.30 pm
Storie di oggetti naturali
Monica Guerra and Stefano Sturloni
13th November 2019 - 6.30 pm
Forme riCORRENTI. Dialoghi fra Natura Arte ed Educazione
Barbara Zoccatelli and Roberto Conte
27th November 2019 - 6.30 pm
Progettare secondo (la) Natura: ispirazione e design
Elisa Testori and Giulio Iacchetti

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Posted: April 18, 2008/Under: Current News/By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch
I just got a beautiful copy of the German edition of my Retrieval Artist novel, Buried Deep. The Bob Eggleton cover is stunning. The publisher is Lubbe. I’ll add links when I have more time, but I thought I would share.
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“Alternative Rock”, despite its relatively simple roots via Punk-Rock and the ’90s, has become quite the large umbrella. Introducing Kaleido Bay is best done by stating simply that they are safe and dry underneath it. Based in Swindon, the band to date have but four-tracks split across three releases. As a disclaimer, I’ll say that it would be wrong to assume a singular stylistic focus based on the quantity of tracks alone. Shall we?
These pieces are designed to bring you but a taster and that is what I’ll do. The band debuted with ‘Break Me Into Better’ in 2019. Kaleido Bay’s debut exposed a want of Progressive Rock stylistics, subtly infused with playful Post-Punk-rooted Indie-Rock that ticked all the infectious boxes instantaneously. ‘Break Me Into Better’ is delicately layered and despite obvious complexity, presents itself with ease. Kaleido Bay do-indeed elude to an increased proggy-influence but the debut track additionally, again subtly, boasts a covert heaviness through its rumbling bass-tone. This is something worth remembering
‘Ascension’ pushes for Muse-esque, dramatic and impressive vocals ala Matt Bellamy as warped Space-Rock glosses over down-tempo Alternative Rock. Kaleido Bay battle between an up and down-beat aesthetic in ‘Ascension’. The band finally give-way to the riff-heavy echelon of their influences via Royal Blood, Muse and Rage Against The Machine post-2:42 however. ‘Ascension’ is a track that would have to be positioned far from ‘Break Me Into Better’ on any prospective numerically significant track order. Or would it? As this will entirely depend on how much further the band want to “progress” their “rock”. Find ‘Ascension’ in the ‘Not All About Speed’ playlist – Here.
One of the main appeals of Kaleido Bay are their quirks. Taking influence from who they do, it was to be marginally expected but the band swiftly employ their own stamp. ‘Dissenter’ is both witty, well-articulated and yet still true to the slow-ebb-to-heavy formula the band adhere to on this two-track release. ‘Dissenter’, I can imagine, is a live show “you’d be a fool to miss” number.
Insert other-cliché descriptions here.
2020 saw liberation! Sorry, a track called ‘Liberation’. Kaleido Bay are far more comfortable here. Within a second, cumbersome riffs-related to but seemingly outside of Alt.Rock subside in favour of an Indie-Rock bassline before further tom-riffery. The band’s chord-progressions are far more refined, skilful and gyration inducing. The band’s drummer after and between each outburst of foreboding and groove-laden riffs, spends his time perpetually building towards another, leaving the track always on edge.
Contrasting this, and keeping their proggy-Space-Rock in continuity, the band’s melodic chorus is another reminder that Kaleido Bay will break their own ranks when they wish. After all who can’t resist a good hook? Between 2:47 and 3:50, Kaleido Bay deviate again but by now, its both expected and venerated. Despite the more traditional three-piece formula, the band are still able to show-off and do well into a stable bridge of melodic Alternative Rock before the chorus returns to play you out. The track has also found its way onto the playlist linked above!
Well, that was “Introducing: Kaleido Bay”. It sounds like a wonderful place and I wonder what it will export next?!

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Arsenal are lining up a swoop for Feyenoord teenager Orkun Kokcu in January transfer window, according to The Daily Mail.
The Gunners are keeping tabs on the 18-year-old starlet who has scored one goal in 10 games across all competitions so far this season.
The north Londoners have been watching Kokcu’s progress at the Dutch outfit so far this campaign.
Turkey Under-21 international has established himself as one of the greatest prospects in European football.
The report goes on to suggest that Arsenal would have to make an offer of £20m in order to tempt Feyenoord into selling the teenager.
The Eredivisie side would find it difficult to keep the Turkish midfielder should a big offer from an elite club arrive.
Kokcu previously represented Feyenoord at the youth level before he moved to the Turkish Under-21 team this year.


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“Colour and Composition” Margaret Best Workshop in Bermuda, May 2011
By Jesselyn Cyr
When I saw the announcement for Margaret Best’s “Color and Composition” workshop in Bermuda at the end of May I thought, “This is what I really need.” I checked my calendar and made the arrangements right away. I learned happily that Leslie Walker was scheduled to attend as well. This four day workshop took place in the Bermuda Society of the Arts (BSOA) gallery in the City Hall in Bermuda—an excellent central location with good light. The class was just the right size so we could work comfortably. The group’s skills were wide but most of us had good experience. It was a great chance to meet new painting friends.
Introduction and Goals from Margaret Best
Beautiful specimens available for students to paint.
While we reviewed the goals, the class was inspired by the plant specimens presented from an array of Bermuda plants that had been collected for the workshop. Bermuda is very beautiful and the local plant specimens ranged from plumeria, dates, ginger, passion flowers, agapanthus and more. After we each selected our specimens and while we started drawing, Margaret taught her ambitious subjects “Colour and Composition.” We started by discussing the palette of botanical watercolors that had been selected for the class—primarily transparent colors and most (but not all) of them from M. Graham.
Chroma and Value
The subject of how to test our watercolors for chroma was discussed and we reviewed the difference in chroma with various pigments such as yellows vs. blues. We started the process of color matching and value. Many of us had brought our color tests from previous classes so that we would have a starting place for color matching of our specimens. Then we tested our paper. Most of us used Arches 140# HP. Bermuda’s high humidity meant that our colors dried slower when we applied our watercolors to paper. Leslie and I were used to a faster drying process so we enjoyed time to move our paint.
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We can all feel it in our bones. By now there should be a brisk wind blowing across your arms and legs, forcing you to cover them both in an actual coat. As you do your household budget you’ll have noticed a big downtick in the amount of spare cash you have to save. You aren’t going on any trips, and you have plenty of vacation time on the books.
Gaming season has arrived.
Since rolling out large changes to the site earlier this year, I’ve been in a bit of a gaming slump. A few weeks ago I tried Legend of Korra. That’s about all I’ve played this spring and fall.
It was a promising start to the year in gaming for me. Microsoft started throwing video games at Xbox Live Gold subscribers with earnest and I rejoiced. For a guy who hates platformers, I achieved a gold medal. (Not really, I just finished Max: The Curse of Brotherhood.) Before that I reveled in the multiplayer Mecca that was Titanfall. Titanfall was another shocker for me, I’m terrible at online multiplayer too.
So then, why am I excited? Why am I now settling in front of my office Xbox One like an underweight kid looking for a note to get out of gym class before dodgeball?
Why am I now settling in front of my office Xbox One like an underweight kid looking for a note to get out of gym class before dodgeball?
Halo: The Master Chief Collection launched early this week. I don’t yet have my copy in-hand, but I hope to by the end of the day. I purchased an Xbox 360 and found gaming thanks to Star Trek Legacy. I kept my Xbox 360 instead of trading it in because of Halo 3. Halo 3: ODST is my favorite first-person shooter of all time, closely followed by Titanfall.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is a massive assortment of Halo related hotness. The campaigns from Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4 are all included in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Halo 2 has new cut scenes and better audio. It and Halo allow players to switch between their old original Xbox graphics engines and an updated engine with better textures at 60 frames per second. Joining all that campaign is every multiplayer level from the three games included that offer it. My favorite – Halo 3: ODST isn’t included but I’m crazy excited. I’ll be able to relive the series on my Xbox One. 4000 gamerscore isn’t a bad way to convince me to purchase a game too. I’m also very interested in seeing Halo: Nightfall. That’s the television show that bridges the gap between Halo 4 and Halo 5: The Guardians.
Besides The Master Chief Collection, I’ve got Assassin’s Creed Unity on the way. I’m crazy excited about Unity too. It’s the first game I’ll purchase this year that’s exclusively available on the Xbox One. I’m expecting next-generation graphics. I’m expecting its new mission style to make tailing enemies less of a pain in my ass. I’m hoping that the bigger dynamic crowds will make Paris feel interesting in a way that the Caribbean and American frontier didn’t. I’m overjoyed at the idea of cooperative multiplayer in a campaign. Sure, I don’t get the multiplayer elements form last year’s Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, but I hated those anyway.
Finally, gaming season has arrived and all the things I need are in place. My Xbox One has external storage so that I can get all of these games digitally even though my console is about to run out of space. My Xbox One’s software has been updated so that long play sessions aren’t ruined by cloud save syncing bugs that still left me without a core achievement in Watch Dogs. (Oh yeah, I played Watch Dogs too.)
Let’s game folks. Let’s game like there’s no tomorrow and money just flows from the heavens.

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How to Make It
Place chiles, cut sides down, on a foil-lined baking sheet; broil 6 minutes or until blackened. Place in a zip-top plastic bag; seal. Let stand 15 minutes. Peel and discard skins, stems, and seeds. Cut chiles into thin strips.
Combine lime juice and next 5 ingredients (through cumin) in a large bowl, stirring with a whisk. Add chile strips and salad greens; toss gently to coat.

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March 28 – May 10, 2015 | Jerome J. Crowley Community Gallery
Reception: Friday, May 1, 2015 | 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Maclovio Cantu, The Performance, Linoleum print; Kelly Stombaugh, The Dead Tree, Aquatint print encased in resin
In the summer of 2014, the SBMA hosted, for its eleventh year, a program that provided studio space and critical interpretation to area university art students. This year, the program focused on two residents working with curatorial and education staff as well as a residency mentor. As part of this program, the students and mentor each contributed five volunteer hours per week (over a twelve week period) and gained valuable experience through their work with the museum’s summer programming. This exhibition features the work of Maclovio Cantú IV and Kelly L. Stombaugh (both of Indiana University, South Bend), as well as residency mentor M.T. Searle (Artist, Educator and Administrator). The work in this exhibition is representative of both the residency and work created upon their return to their respective institutions.
Cantú will graduate in May 2015 from Indiana University, South Bend with a B.F.A. in Printmaking. Stombaugh graduated from Indiana University, South Bend with a B.F.A. in Printmaking in 2014.
M.T. Searle works between South Bend, IN and Chicago, IL.
The Summer Arts Fellowship Program offers a unique opportunity of self-direction for fine arts majors enrolled in area Indiana university or college art programs. The program offers studio space, as well as a series of critiques, workshops, and volunteer opportunities to local college students. College residents work with members of our curatorial and educational staff. Additionally, a residency mentor provides focused conversation in a challenging environment. Residencies last during the summer months of June, July, and August. At the completion of the residency, participating students and residency mentor are awarded an exhibition in our Community Gallery the following February.


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8 edition of The weight of winter found in the catalog.
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Report on treatment of cancer with the Koch agent.
University of Toronto (The Provincial University of Ontario)
The opinion of the Roman jvdges touching imprisonment and the liberty of the subject, or, A sermon preached at the Abby at Westminster, at a late publique fast, Jan. 25, 1642
Mimis Crest of Sincerity (Digimon Digital Monsters)
Visions of the kingdom
Horseshoe Bat Flying Postcards 25
Reflections from the inner room
European communitys horticultural trade
Islam, the people and the state
systems analysis of short haul air transportation.
The Weight of Winter by Cathie Pellitier Many stories on various subjects about life in Maine. During the winter, like being on an island you must find and make your own excitement/5(15). Set in the fictitious logging town of Mattagash, in Maine's northern Aroostook County, where the river creates a natural boundary between the United States and Canada, The weight of winter book Weight of Winter continues the stories of the families that we were introduced to in The Funeral Makers, published in/5(17).
The Weight of Winter Cathie Pelletier, Author Viking Books $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Once Upon. Winter indeed becomes a weighty matter in this long-winded tale of two months in the life of back-country Maine--an area already thoroughly plumbed in the previous The Funeral Makers () and Once The weight of winter book a Time on the Banks ().
The first snow of the season has arrived in Mattagash, rehearsals for the Thanksgiving play are in Author: Cathie Pelletier. The weight of winter. Third in a trilogy set in the marvelous fictional town of Mattagash, Maine, by the acclaimed author of The Funeral Makers and Once Upon a Time on the Banks.
The New York Times Book Review calls Pelletier's work "powerful stuff her sentences are sharp and unique as snowflakes.". Fiction Book Review: The Weight of Winter by Cathie Pelletier, Author Washington Square Press $14 (p) ISBN Readers familiar with Pelletier's novels will rejoice to find.
At once funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, The Weight of Winter is a perfect for fans of Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout), The Language of Flowers (Vanessa Diffenbaugh), and The Good House (Ann Leary) who will fall in love with Mattagash and its people.
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When a 60 year old human rights scholar, Richard, hits the car of a young, undocumented Guatemalan woman named Evelyn, both parties are equally stunned but unhurt/5. She has been the recipient of the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Paterson Prize.
Pelletier has acted as the literary agent for several published books. Books by this author. Widows Walk (Poetry), ; The Funeral Makers, ; Once Upon a Time on the Banks, ; The Weight of Winter, ; The Bubble Reputation, Genre: Literary Fiction.
The weight of winter. [Cathie Pelletier] -- year-old Mathilda Fennelson reflects on her life as the oldest resident of the town of Mattagash, Maine. On the day of the first snowfall, the residents brace themselves for the long winter.
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“The Winds of Winter is not so much a novel as a dozen novels, each with a different protagonist, each having a Author: Sian Cain. A Winter Book. by Tove Jansson, translated by Silvester Mazzarella, David McDuff and Kingsley Hart. pp, Sort Of Books, £ A woman lives alone on an island.
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If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel. Smith has conjured a kind of dream England in “Winter,” the second novel in a projected seasonal cycle that began with “Autumn” (), a book I it’s England as bad dream.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is one of my favorite books. With a Gothic, timeless feel and a mystery that will keep you guessing until the end, The Thirteenth Tale is perfect reading for cool fall and winter nights. In fact, the protagonist mentions drinking hot cocoa while reading several times throughout the book — it warms her during her mid-winter nights on the English moors Author: Erin Collazo Miller.
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Winter is a young adult science fiction novel written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. It is the fourth and final book in The Lunar Chronicles series and the sequel to story is loosely based on the fairy tale of "Snow White", similar to its predecessors Cinder, Scarlet and Cress which were loosely Author: Marissa Meyer.
The book is the size, shape, and length (pages) of a typical picture book. However, while it does include a few single and double-page spreads, almost all of the illustrations are done in comic-book format, with multiple panels of sequential art on each page (about in all).
ISBN: Visitors from the Other Side. The Secret Diary of Sara Harrison Shea. Janu The first time I saw a sleeper, I was nine years old. It was the spring before Papa sent Auntie away--before we lost my brother, Jacob.
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Welcome the season with these beautiful books about spring. Each of my seasonal theme packs comes with a list of recommended books to read aloud.
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Winter’s Bone is so aggressively focused on nastiness that it would actually hurt the piece, artistically, if its political content wasn’t slightly nasty too.
Imagine an ending where Ree does convince Teardrop to give up his noirish cycle-of-violence ways, where he just sits down on the porch and plays the banjo for them, and maybe sticks.
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Japanese life extension diet – Napidoktor
Adults who followed the diet recommended by the Far Eastern country’s government were 15 percent less likely to die within 15 years than those who did not follow the advice. The study revealed that in the case of Japanese people who strictly monitor their diet The risk of stroke is reduced by 22 percent.
In any case, the country of the rising sun is famous for one of the highest life expectancy of its population, in which the diet plays an important role, especially products with a lot of fish, based on soy , and low fat intake.
– wrote the team led by Kayo Kurotani, senior researcher at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Tokyo.
The Japanese diet has five main elements: a grains, vegetables, fish and meat, milk and fruit. During the 10-year research involving more than 36,000 men and 42,000 women, the subjects’ food intake was continuously monitored.
It was clear from the results how well the participants followed the instructions, and based on this they came to the conclusion that those who strictly followed the advice, They reduced the risk of early death by 15 percent.
It worked, for example eliminates cardiovascular diseases , especially a stroke. Unsurprisingly, those who ate plenty of vegetables and fruit, as well as adequate amounts of fish and meat, had the best results.
It is important to note that people in Japan they consume much more fish and much less beef and pork, like the West. Therefore, in addition to the many vegetables and fruits, it is also necessary to consume the correct amount of meat, but not excess, in order to remain healthy.
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San Diego, United States: John Deere Golf held its annual distributor awards ceremony at a customer event aboard the USS Midway aircraft carrier at the 2016 Golf Industry Show (GIS).
During the presentation, Greenville Turf & Tractor was named Dealer of the Year for 2015.
“John Deere Golf has built a tradition of trust and excellence on golf courses across the world, and we couldn’t do that without our distributors, sales managers and salespeople,” said David Plaster, North American Sales Manager, John Deere Golf.
“Behind our best-in-class equipment are the people who are committed to the long-term success of their golf customers. We’re honoured to recognise these sales leaders who best represent John Deere’s dedication to the golf industry.”
Sales Person of the Year designations were awarded to Wes Bryant of Pacific Turf, Jon Manning of Austin Turf & Tractor, Jim Roberts of Greenville Turf & Tractor, Dave Senchal of Canada-Lague and Paul Schultheis of Finch Services.
John Deere is an Executive Member of the Asian Golf Industry Federation.

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The Devil's Den Trail has it all, gravity flow springs, peculiar erosional remnants of sandstone strata, wet weather waterfalls, and lush Ozark plant and animal life. This rocky trail is a perfect example of the rugged Boston Mountain terrain.
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Today is World Smile Day, so to celebrate, here are five things you might not know about smiling . . .
1. Smiling is contagious. According to scientific research, neurons in your brain have a synchronizing feature that keeps you in sync with people you’re talking to. Meaning if YOU smile, THEY’RE more likely to smile.
2. It can make you feel better. Science has shown that big, genuine smiles where you squint your eyes can boost your immune system and decrease cortisol in your body.
3. It can reduce blood pressure. Smiling releases endorphins, which can lift your mood AND lower your blood pressure.
4. It might get you promoted at work. Studies have found that employers tend to promote people who smile more often. And one reason might be that smiling shows your boss you’re engaged and easy to work with.
5. Say “cheeks” instead of “cheese” when someone takes your picture. Saying “cheeks” shapes your mouth better than saying “cheese” . . . and it lifts your cheeks upward, which gives you a more flattering and natural smile.

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Community | Anniversary Contests Finalists
Hello, people of the Fog!
First of all - thank you SO much for participating in Year 3 Anniversary contests!
You have no idea how tough it was for us to choose finalists for each contest - every entry was unique and beautiful. You all showed incredible dedication and devotion to the game and we are incredibly thankful for that!
Here are all final entries for Artwork, Cosplay and Video contests.
Design In-game Cosmetic contest finalists will be announced soon.
Winners will be announced shortly as well.
Congratulations to finalists and thank you all again!


The US experts tasked with scrutinizing the revelations in the Cyprus Confidential write-up regarding violations of sanctions against Russia have been in Cyprus since Sunday, December 3.
According to Deputy Government Spokesman Yiannis Antoniou, speaking to "SPOR FM 95.0" on the show "DIASPORA NEWS," the experts will finalize their contracts and commence their work. He emphasized that they will integrate into the Police investigative team and operate under its authority. Antoniou stressed that their involvement will not be parallel or independent, as they will not function autonomously within their institutional framework.
Simultaneously, he clarified that the US experts have specific terms of reference and access to classified information.


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It was the day of Halloween and six friends were excited to go to the Old Haunted House. But, little did everyone know, it was cursed to turn fiction into reality…
On the day of Halloween, the six friends convince their parents and get permission to go to the old haunted house.
They agree to meet up at 3464 Maud Street before they go to the actual Haunted House.
During the evening, everyone meets as per the plan and greets each other. Everyone assures their parents that they will be alright by themselves.
Everyone shows off their costumes. Carl is a vampire, Frank is the president, Brian is a haunted monster, Ethan is a robot, Alex is a Viking, and David is a scarecrow.
Everyone compliments each other. The only person who doesn’t is Carl.
Carl says, “Well, vampires are the best.”
Brian remarks, “Well CARL, you are always saying you are the best. It is just an opinion.”
Carl has nothing to say back to him. After a small walk, they reach the Haunted House. It looks like Alex prepared some tricks because he is already throwing stink bombs at David (he knows that David is the easiest to trick).
“Save your tricks for the haunted house,” everyone says to Alex.
“Fine,” Alex sighs. Ethan is about to step into the Haunted house, but he changes his mind and goes second.
Carl declares that he can go first because he is the most brave and courageous of the group.
“Actually I will go first,” Ethan quickly says.
“Make up your mind!!” Brian says, annoyed. After a few minutes of arguing…
“Why does Carl ALWAYS go first for everything?” demands Brian.
“Well, I am the best, that’s why,” Carl answers. Right when Carl walks into the Haunted house, he feels itchy.
Alex shouts, “Gotcha!” It looks like Alex threw an itch bomb.
When Alex observes Carl’s face he protests, “I listened to you!! When you stepped into the haunted house I threw the itch bomb.”
Why do you always trick everybody?” David asks.
“It is fun,” Alex explains.
After all the tricks are over, they walk into the Haunted House. Right when everyone is inside, the door automatically closes behind them.
“Are you sure it is normal for doors to close like that? It doesn’t look like an automatic door,” Frank comments curiously.
“It is a ‘Haunted’ house, what do you expect? Anyways, if you are scared I can protect you,” Carl boasts.
🙄 “We get it, you are the best in everything,” Brian says.
“Correctomundo,” Carl agrees. Right then, a ghost appears out of thin air.
”Eeeeeeeek!!!” Everyone screams. Frank screams the loudest.
Frank asks, “Can you protect me, Carl?”
“Ummmmm… well I guess I can,” Carl replies. He mumbles, “Being the best is tough.”
Meanwhile David questions, “Alex, is that another one of your tricks?”
Two of my Creative Writing students, Manvik and Sayan, were inspired to collaborate on this story after learning the vocabulary in this article. Enjoy!
“Congratulations, Sam, you finally learned how to binky!” my mother says. William, my rude younger brother, snickers, “I learned how to binky many years ago.” My other brother Henry laughs out loud. By the way, I am a rabbit. My brothers despise me because I get a bit more attention from my parents. I have a very kind mother and father. I am three years old, and I am a very special rabbit.
For example, I only recently learned how to binky, but other rabbits can do these large jumps right after they are born. Instead, I was making a strange movement of twirling before I was encouraged to binky by an older rabbit. He told me that wolves would catch me if I didn’t learn how to move quickly. My mother says to William that he must keep quiet and respect the fact that I had finally learned how to binky.
My great and protective father says, “To celebrate this achievement, we will go for a nice stroll with our whole family.” We have almost 20 relatives.
I say, “I will practice binkying in the meantime.” So our big family of rabbits head out on a stroll. The wise old rabbit who encouraged me to binky tells me, ”Just remember to keep binkying, Sam, for binkying can save any rabbit from the wolves. It is a good thing that you finally dropped your twirling act.”
William comments, “I think Sam will get injured during the stroll and get eaten up by the wolves.”
”Who are the wolves?” I ask.
A rabbit answers, “The wolves are fierce predators that have big gritting teeth and big bodies. They have no wisdom, and they are big bullies of the forest. They are greedy and selfish creatures, and they care only about themselves. We, on the other hand, care for all the creatures in our forest and produce medicines for all.”
“Making medicine is our hobby,” say the other rabbits in unison. We all eat berries and enjoy a great stroll.
All the creatures in the forest call us fearless and selfish. Suddenly our leader bays, telling us that he sees a buffalo herd. Our wolf pack is hungry so we start the hunt. He commands, “Follow me.” While we start chasing the buffalo, our leader falls and gets hurt. He tries to bend down and cries in agony, “Keep going. I’ll be okay.”
Because I am the second oldest wolf, I am now the leader. Our pack keeps moving. We almost catch up to the buffalo herd, but then a wolf howls and the rest of the pack joins in. I tell them to keep moving, but even I can’t resist the urge to howl with them. After all the howling is over, the buffalo herd is long gone. I warn them to never lose focus during a hunt ever again.
“Our leader is hurt. We have to get him food quickly. Follow me. I smell rabbit,” I announce. Right when the rabbits see us, they start hopping away quickly. It looks like one of them is twirling. I tell them to hunt the special one.
The other wolves ask me why. I reply impatiently, “We always hunt the weak ones.” We start chasing the rabbit.
We were having a great time until–“WE’RE UNDER ATTACK!!!” shouts one of the rabbits. He had spotted a wolf pack. I am so nervous and do not have much practice binkying, so I twirl as fast as I can. All the rabbits are going faster and I am lagging behind. The wolves are gaining on me, and the rest of the rabbits keep moving.
The wolves are about to make a meal of me, and then my mother rescues me. She says, “Remember to binky! It can save your life!” We winky away from the wolves to safety.
Then we see a dying wolf in the forest. He says in agony, “Can somebody give me some food and medicine for my injury? Otherwise, I will die!” None of us bother to give him food or our precious medicine.
An elder rabbit exclaims, “Why should we give you anything when you always try to kill us and other creatures?”
The dying wolf says, “We were trying to hunt buffalo but we failed, and we desperately needed food, so we tried to hunt you instead.”
Many rabbits feel bad for the wolf and decide to help him, but right then, the wolves pounce on us. We hop away just in time, binkying into our den. My mother checks that everyone has made it safely to the den. We are safe for now.
We aren’t able to save our leader in time. Maybe we should have talked the rabbits into giving us one of their medicines, instead of brutally attacking them many times for food. I remember that our leader once told us they have many secrets. We feel very disappointed and foolish.
Desperately, I tell the pack to sleep. I finally realize how being cruel and mean to other creatures can have an impact to our wolf pack. It is going to be very hard to change the way we behave.
After some time, we feel that we made the right decision to turn into good animals. Those rabbits changed our lives, and we shall never eat a rabbit again.
How foolish the wolves are. Their leader was sick but instead of asking us to give them medicine, they attacked us. We have a surplus amount of medicines for any sickness.
“Well, Sam, you learned a lesson,” my mother says. “Today, you saw first-hand why it is important to winky instead of twirl.”
“Now why don’t you practice binkying some ore?” says my father. ”You and I should start practicing how to hop at great speeds during times of need, such as this wolf attack.”
One week later, after we swore never to eat rabbits again, we visit the rabbit den and say, “We are terribly sorry for attacking you last week. We shall never harm your species again.”
The wisest rabbit knows that we are telling the truth and says, “Let’s be friends forever.”
My late grandfather, Sid Fleischman, wrote over fifty books in his lifetime. Here are a few of his writing tips.
1. It’s the job of the hero or heroine to solve the story problem: Don’t leave it to a minor character like Uncle Harry. You’d know something was wrong if Watson solved the crime instead of Sherlock Holmes. This clunky plotting sank many of my stories when I started out.
2. The main character should be changed by the events of the story. Remember your fairy tales? Change is built into the refrain at the end: “And they lived happily ever after.”
3. If there’s a hole in your story, point it out and the hole will disappear. If you’ve written something that readers might not accept as plausible, don’t simply hope they won’t notice. Point at the problem and come up with an explanation that will satisfy them.
4. Dramatize important scenes; narrate the trivialities. Use dialogue and what-happened-next detail to bring your major scenes to full life. The rest can get by with mere summaries.
5. Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day’s so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.
6. The stronger the villain – or opposing force – the stronger the hero or heroine. A wimpy problem delivers a wimpy story. Stack the odds against your hero, then figure out a way for her or him to triumph.
7. When possible, give important characters an “entrance”. That’s why grand staircases were invented.
8. Write in Scenes. It’s generally hard to find any pulse in straight narration. Color it grey. Show; don’t tell. Color it splashy.
9. Imagery is powerful shorthand. It says in four or five memorable words what might otherwise take you sentences to describe. “He could bathe in a shotgun barrel” beats “He was by far the thinnest person I’d ever seen in my entire life.” Don’t settle for comparisons that don’t quite fit the bill. It takes time to think up fresh similes and metaphors, but it’s time well spent.
To learn more about Sid Fleischman, his life and his writing, visit his website at www.sidfleischman.com.
How can we teach our students to succeed in the 21st century?
This is the driving question in education today. Now that information is readily available at the click of a button, coupled with the ever-changing technology-driven world we live in, school has shifted its focus.
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a national organization founded in 2001, has identified four core skills–Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity–nicknamed the Four C’s. California is one of 19 states working with P21, and California educators are honing in on the Four C’s.
My personal favorite is creativity. How do we help students tap into their imagination?
Creative writing is an obvious arena for imagination, and many students enjoy the freedom to write whatever they want. Open-ended prompts such as ‘What would you do if a talking dog arrived at your front door?’ are often used as daily warm-ups in classrooms.
Story-telling, a classic genre within creative writing, takes more time. And time, as all teachers know, is a limited resource in school. Narrative writing is only one text type that teachers must cover, so, unfortunately, for most of the year students are not learning creative writing.
Writing a story requires a great deal of creativity.
This begins with brainstorming ideas. It can be difficult to think of a plot, so we usually start with the setting:
Where will your story take place?
Is it a real place or imaginary?
What is the weather like?
What time of day is it?
What can you see, hear, smell, taste, and feel in this place?
Then, we explore the characters:
Who is the main character in your story?
Is it a person, animal, object, or a made-up creature?
What does he/she/it look like?
What character traits does he/she/it possess?
Who else will be in the story?
What do they look like?
What are their character traits?
Will they help or hurt the main character?
At this point, students can imagine their characters in a particular place, and this provides a context for their plot:
What problems could your characters face?
Can you think of a tricky problem that would require a clever solution?
How would your characters begin to solve this problem?
What would happen next?
How would the problem be resolved?
Their answers to these questions provide what I like to call a story sketch. This serves as a guide for their first draft. They must fill in their sketch with descriptive writing, figurative language, and dialogue.
The next stage in the process is to workshop their writing. Students read each other’s work and learn from each other. This is a chance for students to practice giving and receiving feedback:
Does the story make sense?
Are there any plot holes?
Is the writing descriptive enough so that the reader can imagine being in the story?
What did the writer do really well?
What suggestions can you offer the writer?
Next, mechanical errors regarding grammar, punctuation, and capitalization are resolved.
And voila, the student has written a story!
I began by describing creative writing as a medium for nurturing creativity, but as you can see, it also requires communication, collaboration, and critical thinking. Creative writing is, in fact, a fun way for students to cultivate all of the Four C’s.


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I'll use that sound for my youtube project, Final Battle for the Bobo Residence on The KB Network.
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Great plantains and ropa vieja. Website menu said it was Cali steak but I like ropa vieja more. Y'all might wanna update the online menu to note that, and that the burritos don't come with plantains inside
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Rotor Design of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine for Pumped-storage Plant
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This master thesis is partly a deeper study of which was presented in the specialization project, fall of 2014. The main objective have been to develop and design a permanent magnet synchronous machine for hydro power plant application. In this study, an analytical design tool for this purpose was developed through a Matlab script. The analytical calculations have been veried by use of nite element method analysis in machine no-load operation, and the design tool is found suciently accurate for this study.As background, a literature survey was performed, which resulted in the base for developing the analytical design tool. The relevant equations are presented in the theoretical part of this thesis.A synchronous machine at 18 MVA with eld windings have been redesigned by use of permanent magnet magnetization. The stator bore diameter was kept constant at 3.51 m in all machines simulated. At a decreased air gap of 11.0 mm, the synchronous reactance of the permanent magnet synchronous machine was computed to be 0.6 pu, and the usage of permanent magnet material to 1247 kg at minimum, in case of the desired input parameters. In this machine, the height of the surface mounted magnets were 35.3 mm, distributed in 12 poles.It has been observed possibilities for reduction in both mass and size by redesign to a permanent magnet synchronous machine, the former in greatest extent. The machine eciency was also raised in case of the permanent magnet synchronous machine, from 97.6 to 98.0 %.


text: Dr. James Oshinsky is a psychologist, an educator, and a lifelong musician. He teaches improvisation at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY and serves on the staff of Music for People, a nonprofit promoting broad participation in music making. Jim is the author of Return to Child, a book detailing the humanistic approach to improvisation espoused by the late cellist David Darling, and of the Music Doctor Improv Cards, a tool for teaching small ensemble improvisation. A longtime advocate of community drumming, Jim has also written forewords for books by Arthur Hull and Simon Faulkner, identifying the ways their work applies to group leading and counseling in settings beyond the drum circle. Jim is interested in ways to integrate rhythmic, melodic and compositional aspects of improvisation. He maintains a library of resources for educators which he shares by request.


Nawaz, Maryam meeting schedule cancelled today
ISLAMABAD - Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz, who are serving jail term after being found guilty in Avenfields apartment case are not allowed to continue their meetings scheduled today.
It was a meetings day for Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and Capt (R) Safdar in Adiala Jail today. PML-N leaders were scheduled to meet with Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz in Adiala Jail today. However, according to jail authorities, due to Eid holidays in jail their meeting is not possible.
According to jail authorities, their meeting is not being permitted due to Eid holidays in jail. On Friday (tomorrow), the family and others will be allowed to meet. PML_Ns senior leaders have been informed about this change, and are instructed to come to jail tomorrow, between 8 am-1 pm.
Yesterday, Shehbaz Sharif and other family members met former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz in Adiala jail.
Shehbaz Sharif, was accompanied by his mother, sons and other family members to meet father-daughter duo on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha. Earlier, IHC put off its judgement over the appeals to suspend the conviction of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and captain (retd) Safdar.


Poor Mexico just can't catch a break. After its currency crashed to record lows this week after Ford cancelled plans to build a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico, prompting the central bank to intervene and sell $1 billion USD to stabilize the currency, moments ago Trump lobbed another shot at Mexico, this time threatening Toyota with paying a big border tax if it building its new pant in Baja instead of the US.
Just around 1:15pm Eastern, Trump tweeted: "Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for U.S. NO WAY! Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax"
In a move ignored by the liberal media last week, Obama unilaterally seized more than 1.3 million acres from Utah to establish the Bears Ears Monument, preserving it at the behest of conservationist groups and Native American tribes who claimed the land was sacred. Utah’s state legislature, however, opposed the unilateral land grab across party lines, with many speculating that Obama’s move is the latest in an attempt to limit efforts from incoming President Donald Trump to expand domestic energy production.
Obama also claimed 300,000 acres in Clark County, Nevada, as the Gold Butte National Monument, effectively closing the area off to future development for uranium mining, oil drilling or natural gas production.
Any mention whatsoever of Black Lives Matter, or any of the other nationwide protests against police that are primarily driven by race. Of course, these protests almost always occur when the “victim” is black, regardless of whether or not the perpetrator in question was wrongfully shot or not.


Buddy's Fuel Vaporizer #4 Gives you up to 25 – 40% Better Mileage. Only takes 1/2 to an hour to install. Sometimes better gains that adding HHO. Install both systems, FV and HHO. Designed for carbureted gas engines, or fuel injected engines with OBD-I systems (1987 to 1995). Works well with OBD-II systems (1996-2020) will need a Volo FS2 or EFIE modifying circuit installed. Volo FS2 takes 1/2 hour to install. Volo15 you program in 10 minutes and just plug into your OBDII port. No wiring or soldering. Go even further with the new Volo VP16, a EFIE and ECM on dashbaord Monitor, all in one.
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This is a gasoline fuel vaporizer crossed with water vapor injection designed to add fuel and water vapor into the PCV (Positive Crankcase Ventilation) circuit of your intake manifold. PCV already draws waste fuel vapors out of your crankcase to add them to the intake air to be burned in the engine. This system just adds a lot more vapor to that to be burned much more efficiently. One customer with a 460-V8 with dually tires work truck, that pulls a heavy trailer, went from 6 mpg to 14 mpg! No one believes him, is the problem!
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95 Dodge Caravan, V6 +43%(18 mpg to 25.8 mpg)
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95 Ford Duelly, V8 460 +133% (6 mpg to 14 mpg )
98 Ford Explorer, V6 ( orig 17mpg with Volo and vaporizer 23.5mpg or +38% better).
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Investors are rediscovering the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), a publicly traded shell firm that attracts investors to go out and buy private firms. Biotechs that seek to go public are discovering them as an alternative to an initial public offering for the obvious reasons that the process can move much faster. SPAC’s in biotech may become a more common third approach to public liquidity events, including IPO and M&A. Thus far this year, over 80 SPACS have completed IPOs, raising over $33 billion. SPACs represent a way for investors to invest in biotech’s earlier on.
SPACs were established decades ago as a cleaner form of a reverse merger shell for a private company looking for a way to make a quick move to become a public company. Essentially, an investment firm establishes a corporation and files for an IPO solely on the reputation of its principals for picking winners in biotech. The team then has a couple of years to prove what they’re made of once they raise the capital: again they must only use the funds raised for acquiring an existing company.
SPACs in Biotech
Back in July, Endpoints News’ editor Amber Tong wrote that according to Jay Heller, Nasdaq head of capital markets, “SPACS were approximately 3% of the IPO market back in 2014, now they are almost 35% of all new listings.”
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Endpoints News’ Ms. Tong reported on Chardan, which raised $70 million to form its own SPAC called Chardan Healthcare Acquisition in 2018. Its first purchase: BiomX, an Israeli microbiome-focused biotech as a target ushering in the first and only biotech only biotech SPAC combination by 2019.
Ms. Tong informed RTW’s Health Sciences combined with Immunovant, Perceptive’s Arya Sciences merged with Immatics while EcoR1’s Panacea priced an IPO for $125 million and LifeSci Acquisition Corp raised $60 million. Chardan raised $85 million for a second SPAC.
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman was working to raise up to $4 billion for Tontine Holdings as a SPAC.
Recently, Luis Sanchez of Motley Fool reported on more SPAC activity in biotech, such as FS Development (NASDAQ:FSDC) backed by Dr. Jim Tananbaum, an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record. Mr. Tananbaum brings considerable background to the table founding Foresite Capital back in 2011. Tananbaum first got started with founding GelTex Pharmaceuticals (acquired in 1999) and Theravance (split into Innoviva and Theravance Biopharma)—both combined a market capitalization of $2.5 billion.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. bank regulator and lawmakers in Congress from both parties called for a national crackdown on predatory lending, a main cause of the crisis in the subprime mortgage market.
“The time has come for national anti-predatory lending standards applicable to all mortgage lenders,” Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair told a House of Representatives subcommittee in a hearing on Tuesday.
Bair said Congress could require that mortgage lenders must take into account a borrower’s ability to repay a loan at its true cost, not based only on initial, low payments, while also moving against confusing and misleading mortgage marketing.
She also suggested possible restrictions on loan flipping, prepayment penalties, escrow of taxes and insurance and the fiduciary obligations of mortgage brokers.
Alabama’s Spencer Bachus, senior Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, of which the subcommittee is a part, said: “We still need ... some legislation addressing mortgage brokers ... some type of national standard.”
“We are facing, by all accounts, a tsunami of defaults and foreclosures,” New York Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who chaired the hearing, said, citing estimates that 2.2 million subprime borrowers could lose their homes.
Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, said earlier this month he wants to pass a bill by the end of the year to curtail predatory lending. Connecticut Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd is also planning to introduce anti-predatory lending legislation.
Others appearing before the subcommittee were less definite on where they stand. A Federal Reserve staffer warned against over-reaction to problems that “need to be addressed in a way that preserves incentives for responsible subprime lenders.”
Fed Consumer and Community Affairs Division Director Sandra Braunstein said: “At this time we don’t see a need to ask Congress for additional authority or additional legislation.”
John Reich, director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, said “The market is in the process of correcting itself.”
Congress and America’s patchwork of banking regulators are groping toward a policy response to rising mortgage defaults and foreclosures in the subprime mortgage market.
Michael Calhoun, president of the Center for Responsible Lending, said in prepared remarks to be delivered to the panel: “Federal law governing abusive lending practices is severely outdated, leaving consumers with scant protections.”
Calhoun told the House financial institutions and consumer credit subcommittee that subprime losses could be “the worst disaster in the mortgage market since the Great Depression.”
Subprime lending emerged in recent years to lend money at high interest rates for home purchases to people with poor credit. The business boomed in a super-heated real estate market, when home values seemed to go nowhere but up.
One result of the spread of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and other new loans was that more people could buy their own homes. The Fed encouraged this, while it also steadily hiked interest rates. Now the real estate bubble has burst.
“As home prices have stagnated or even declined in many areas of the country, more borrowers find themselves trapped in mortgages they cannot afford to pay,” Bair said.
Default rates in the subprime sector have jumped in recent months, while at least 20 subprime lenders have closed their doors, triggering concern about damage to the broader economy.
In fixing blame for the problem, the subcommittee focused on predatory lenders who extended mortgages to people unable to repay and unaware of the obligations they were assuming.
Banks and thrifts are leading subprime lenders, but so are “thousands of independent mortgage lenders not regulated by the financial institution regulatory agencies,” Bair said.
Instead of, or in addition to, congressional action, Bair said the Fed could do more to address abusive practices.
Dodd and other senators criticized the Fed at a hearing last week on subprime lending, where a Fed official acknowledged the central bank could have done more sooner.
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CHICAGO, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has unveiled its new "UR Choice UR Voice" drug-prevention campaign, a multimedia platform featuring former Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington, nationally renowned motivational speaker Milton Creagh, and Grammy Award winning producer Isaiah "Izzy" Avalia.
The core of the campaign is the "UR Choice UR Voice" music video, which uses mainstream music to expose youth to a different, more realistic view of the dangers that illicit drugs present. By using a form of media familiar to youth, this new campaign is at the forefront of drug prevention methods.
In addition to the music video, the multimedia platform includes an accompanying background documentary, a pre- and post-test for students, and a discussion guide for teachers.
The tests feature multiple-choice questions regarding drug usage, and criminal activity resulting from substance abuse including assaults against women, gang activity and murder. One question asks, "How do most teen drug users make their first contact with illegal drugs?" The answer: "Through their friends."
For many students, the information is new. A student from Jamestown, Missouri, said, "I had no idea how much alcohol [and drugs] has affected the lives of the people around me."
The accompanying documentary introduces another facet to the campaign by providing interviews with current and recovering drug users, as well as with individuals indirectly impacted by drug use. A young girl, whose life was negatively affected by her father's drug abuse, is featured in the documentary. Viewers also are shown the background behind the production of the music video.
Already, this multimedia platform has been test-run at high schools across the United States, and success has been immediate. "Well over a thousand students and more than 50 faculty members departed the auditorium awestruck," said Raymond F. Ross, the former president of Colorado State Elks Association. "Students as young as 13 years old stood up and freely admitted before their peers and teachers that they were involved with illicit drugs and alcohol."
Since the early 1980s, the Elks National Drug Awareness Program has been recognized as the nation's largest volunteer-based drug prevention program. Aside from the "UR Choice UR Voice" campaign, the Elks Drug Awareness Program is renowned for its Marvel Comic Book, Hard Choices and its involvement in the national Red Ribbon Week in October where students pledge to be drug free.
With the "UR Choice UR Voice" campaign, the Elks Drug Awareness Program aims to present its materials at schools and youth community groups in partnership with local Elks Lodges across the nation.
Follow the UR Choice UR Voice Campaign at www.elks.org/dap or become a fan on Facebook by searching for "UR Choice UR Voice."
In 2009-10, the Elks National Foundation is the charitable arm of the B.P.O.E and fully funds the Drug Awareness Program. This year, the ENF allocated $748,200 to promote the Elks National Drug Awareness Program. For more information on the Drug Awareness Program, visit www.elks.org/dap.
For a copy of this press release online, visit www.elks.org/editors/default.cfm.
Helping Elks Build Stronger Communities
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Like many middleagers, Rusty and Judy Glide long ago let their marriage settle into a hazy, too-comfortable state of coexistence. He spends his evenings alone in the garage; she silently drinks schnapps in the kitchen. But neohippie daughter Gretchen shocks them back to life when she declares that her forthcoming child will be raised in a ”gender-neutral” environment replete with foam blobs and black onesies. (The movement’s leader, Hael Vanhorn, is a ”cape wearer” who ”inverted her name to add sexual complexity.”) Darlington treats the fusty Glides with sharp, batty glee while carefully avoiding self-parody. Yet for all of Maybe Baby’s rich characterization and zippy plotting, she hurries through the final chapters, leaving the story to languish when it should pack its strongest, silliest punch. What’s the rush, girl?
Maybe Baby Like many middleagers, Rusty and Judy Glide long ago let their marriage settle into a hazy, too-comfortable state of coexistence. He spends his ...Maybe BabyFictionTenaya Darlington Like many middleagers, Rusty and Judy Glide long ago let their marriage settle into a hazy, too-comfortable state of coexistence. He spends his ...2004-09-10Back Bay
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Welcome to my feature, Pastime Pleasures, posted every other Friday. Today is the turn of Graceling by Kristin Cashore.
Here I will look at books that have given me great pleasure in the past. These are books I can read over and over again. The only rule is that the book must have been published five or more years ago.
Graceling is a lovely fantasy where those with magical ability – a grace – are shunned or even feared by the rest of society. Their graces can vary from the useful to the obscene and it is their different coloured eyes that give them away.
Katsa has the Graceling of killing and is exploited by her uncle to torture and control the people he rules. Yet Katsa rebels and refusing to change herself in order to conform to society and what is expected of her. She remains herself.
This is a book that will leave you rooting for Katsa and Po’s relationship to flourish while you explore a semi-medieval world from the eyes of those with special abilities. Can Katsa find the villain of the story? Can she accept Po’s love? And will she ever come to terms with her Graceling?
I think this quote from Graceling sums up Katsa’s inner turmoil throughout the book: “When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”