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As guest host of an upcoming episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Mila Kunis wasted little time interrogating guest Erika Jayne about the latest drama on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: “So this PuppyGate thing really happened?”
“Yeah, it really did,” Jayne, 47, replied. “Dorit [Kemsley] adopted a dog from [the] Vanderpump Dogs center. The dog did not work out. Instead of returning it to the shelter, she found it what she thought was a great home. That home or that person then took the dog to another shelter.”
The Bad Moms actress, 35, then asked if it was true that Lisa Vanderpump wanted the PuppyGate story in the press and “manipulated somebody else to jump in and produce the drama.” (RHOBH costar Teddi Mellencamp previously claimed that Vanderpump Dogs staff fed her the story at Vanderpump’s urging.)
“In my opinion, yes,” Jayne responded, and Kunis agreed.
The “Roller Coaster” singer also claimed she didn’t know whether Vanderpump, 58, was quitting the show, but she did reveal — much to Kunis’ shock — that the Pump restaurateur “stopped showing up [to film RHOBH] midseason.”
“And we were stuck with, like, looking at each other, like, ‘So, what’s going on?’” she added.
Jayne told Kunis that she hasn’t talked to Vanderpump since then and that she is firmly on Mellencamp’s side — “the truth side” — of the conflict.
“Yeah, you are. I’m with you,” the Black Swan actress responded. “Do you think she just got caught and she was done playing the game?”
“I think she got cold feet and she got caught,” said Jayne. “She backed out at the very last minute. But that’s not to give her total … I mean, listen, it takes a lot to wanna do something like that.”
The reality star also said she didn’t know whether Vanderpump would return for the season 9 reunion, but she did invite Kunis to be her plus-one for the filming in June, and Kunis is holding her to it. “Erika, you promised,” Kunis said.
The full interview airs on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday, April 11 — check local listings for air times. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs on Bravos Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET.
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CAPE CORAL. Fla.– A woman and her dog on a Sunday morning stroll in Cape Coral are both attacked by a stray Pit Bull, killing the woman’s dog.
According to a report from the Cape Coral Police Department, the woman was walking on the 1800 block of Del Prado Blvd at the Del Prado Linear Park around 6 a.m. Sunday morning when the attack occurred.
The report said the Pit Bull ran toward the woman and her dog, attacking them both when she tried breaking up the dog fight.
The attempts to break up the altercation didn’t work. The report said the dog ran to a vacant lot with the woman’s dog, killed it and ate it.
Cape PD arrived at the scene, finding the Pit Bull sitting next to the dead canine. They called the Lee County Animal Control and was told it would be two hours before they could wrangle the dog.
While the officer waited for animal control to arrive, the Pit Bull darted across the road and attacked another dog on a walk. Animal control arrived in time to break up the fight before it turned deadly.
LCAC used the dogs microchip to find its owner. The report said the owner told them they didn’t know their dog had gotten out.
The Lee County did not say what punishment the dog or the dogs owner is facing as it is an active investigation.

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community / community.hrobot
Hetzner's Robot is a web-based control panel provided by Hetzner Online, a web-hosting company based in Germany. The Robot control panel allows customers to easily manage their dedicated servers, virtual private servers (VPS), and other hosting services through a user-friendly interface. Users can perform various tasks such as server configuration, network management, resource monitoring, and more using the Robot control panel. It offers a centralized platform for managing and monitoring servers hosted with Hetzner Online, enhancing the overall user experience and simplifying server administration tasks.
The community.hrobot Ansible collection provides a set of Ansible modules that enable users to interact with Hetzner's Robot API in their automation workflows. This collection allows for the automation of various tasks related to managing Hetzner services, such as provisioning and configuring servers, managing networking settings, and performing maintenance operations. By leveraging the community.hrobot Ansible collection, users can streamline and simplify the management of their Hetzner infrastructure through automation, enhancing efficiency and ensuring consistency in server management tasks.
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One of the best things about being a dog owner studying to be a dog trainer is that I always have a dog around on which to practice what I learned in class and what I saw during my observations.
Chester took some classes through a local PetSmart a few years ago, but admittedly, I wasn’t great about keeping up his training once the classes ended. Studying at FetchFind and observing a bunch of great trainers in action gave me a second chance to work with my dog. It’s not that his behavior was terrible, but it’s always worth trying to improve a bit, right?
One of the first things I did with Chester was teach him “touch.” It’s a simple enough trick: get the dog to bop your outstretched hand with their nose. But what’s cool about it is that not only do dogs love it, but it can also be a great tool to help with recall, which is something Chester still needs work on.
When teaching recall (in lay terms, “recall” is when you call the dog to come to you, using a command like “come” or “here”), you have to teach your dog that whatever awaits them when they come to you is better than whatever they were doing. And that’s hard, especially when trying to call a dog in from outside. A dog wants to sniff things and chase squirrels and bark at airplanes overhead. So you, as the owner, need to be more enticing than all that to get your dog to come to you.
But a touch command changes things a bit. It turns coming to you into a game. So instead of trying to convince your dog to leave all sorts of fun things behind to come to you, you’re giving your dog a new game to play.
It’s a game Chester took to almost immediately. It took me almost no time to teach him “touch.” And unlike his recall command, I can get him to respond to “touch” pretty much every time, even from across my apartment.
That’s not to say “touch” is a replacement for teaching your dog recall, by the way. But it’s a nice tool to keep in your back pocket.
As easy as it was to teach Chester “touch,” loose-leash walking took a good bit more effort. Chester is a terrier. He wants to smell everything. He wants to chase all the little critters running around. Outside is his playground and as a result, his leash is often fairly taut.
So I had to start at the beginning. The first step? Get Chester to pay attention to me (rather than the surroundings) when we walk. To do that, I faced him and walked backwards. Chester would follow me and every few steps, he’d get a treat and some praise for keeping his eyes on me. Once he had that down, I started walking in the same direction as him, again treating him fairly frequently. That was coupled with coming to a complete stop when he would pull and not moving again until he made the decision to come closer to me and create some slack in his leash.
His touch command also helped with leash walking. To keep him from paying attention to his surroundings and stay at my side, I’d occasionally put my hand out and tell him “touch.” Two or three of those when I saw him eyeing something and he’d refocus enough to stay with me for a bit longer.
Chester will never be perfect on a leash, and I don’t really need him to be. But he’s better.
And ultimately, that’s what training is about. It’s not about creating a “perfect” dog (which doesn’t really exist, by the way). It’s about peaceful coexistence, whatever that entails. In my case, I can live with Chester sniffing plants and occasionally pulling a little when we walk. That’s what works for us and as long as the behavior doesn’t get worse, it’s fine.
But that’s just me. Other owners might want their dog to stick tightly to their side. Other owners might want a dog that never pulls or who keeps their eyes forward rather than sniffing things. It’s up to each owner to decide what they can live with.
Long story short: Chester and I still have work to do. But we’re having fun training together. We’re both learning. We’re both improving. And that’s what’s most important.
After five years as a newspaper reporter in western Illinois and two more as a freelancer in Chicago, Bill Mayeroff‘s life has gone to the dogs in the best way possible. These days, Bill lives in Chicago with his terrier mix, Chester, and works at a small, no-kill animal shelter while he studies to be a professional dog trainer at FetchFind Academy. Bill also blogs about his two favorite things – dogs and beer – at Pints and Pups.


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Hawaii may have been the last state to join the Big 50, but it looks like it’ll be one of the first to legalize gay marriage.
Thirteen states currently allow same-sex couples to marry and enjoy the same rights and privileges long granted exclusively to heterosexual couples. Hawaii is quickly on its way to becoming the fourteenth state to recognize gay marriages, with Gov. Neil Abercrombie urging lawmakers on Wednesday to draft a bill that would do just that.
“We are doing our due diligence to remain open, transparent and accessible on this important issue of equality,” he said in a statement. “Over the coming days, I along with the Lt. Governor, Attorney General and staff will be available to legislative caucuses. Next week, it is my hope to meet with House and Senate leadership to discuss the possibility of a special session.”
New legislation, based on a bill that stalled in the state Senate earlier this year, “was drafted in collaboration with legislators, staff and stakeholders,” Abercrombie said.
Along with a special session to vote the measure through, Abercrombie said that he would allow leaders in the state legislature review the bill before insisting they convene again and debate it.
Democrats command majorities in both the state House and Senate, but have been unable to pass gay marriage reform thus far without the required two-thirds support for a special session. Abercrombie said that he’d be willing to call a special session if he thinks the bill would be passed.
The push against legalization of gay marriage in Hawaii has died down as well. Religious groups criticized the initiative over lack of sufficient exemptions and protections for clergy and churches, problems which were reportedly ameliorated in the new draft.
Another criticism of the special session plan is its cost to taxpayers. However, Civil Beat noted that legal fees incurred by the state of Hawaii would outweigh the cost of one special session, if gay couples start taking the fight for marriage equality to the courts.

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According to the CEO Jean-Bernard Levy Vivendi has the resources to pursue a deal for Vodafone’s minority interest after selling off its stake in NBC Universal earlier this year. the media conglomerate is interested in taking full ownership of French mobile operator SFR from partner Vodafone Group PLC, but only if the price is right.And He wouldn’t confirm whether the two companies are actively engaged in talks on a deal, but said Vodafone appears to be willing to sell.
Levy told in a media conference in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi”We are in a situation where a potential transaction could be prepared,”. “I believe at the right price it would be in the interest of Vivendi to acquire 100 percent of SFR.”
Vivendi owns 56 percent of SFR. It has reportedly been seeking to pay about 6 billion pounds ($9.65 billion) for the rest of SFR that Vodafone holds — a figure Levy would not confirm. Vodafone is believed to want considerably more.
It sold its remaining stake in NBC Universal to General Electric Co. It got a total of $5.8 billion for its 20 percent interest in the U.S. company, which owns U.S. broadcast network NBC, the Universal Pictures movie studio and related theme parks and a number of cable channels.Levy reiterated his expectation of slight earnings growth in 2011.an expected gain he described as “positive but not significant.”Vivendi owns a range of businesses, including Universal Music, the record label behind Eminem, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber and Rihanna. It also controls video game maker Activision Blizzard, Brazilian telecom company GVT and Canal Plus television.

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No matter how long I’ve been a parent, I’m still capable of being astonished by my own adult children. And let nobody tell you that “adult children,” that ultimate oxymoron, aren’t still works in progress.
Recently, I was startled by the hunger of our three daughters, now parents themselves and in lives of their own, to know more about us – their parents.
They want our stories – and not the fairy tales or ghost stories we used to tell them, depending on their moods of the moment. “Scary!” one or the other would command. “Pretty,” Nancy, the youngest, would almost always beg.
But this time, what they seem to want are clues to who we were – and are – so that they can better understand themselves.
Simple? Not at all.
It’s as if these daughters suddenly woke up and realized that before we were their parents, we were a man and woman with histories, biographies, lives.
I’m touched by the shift in focus. Not that many years ago, when they were moody teenagers, our daughters didn’t want to be seen with us in public, and frankly, found us annoying bores with too many rules. But then they grew up, left us, and found us far more intriguing at a distance. Who could have guessed?
Recently, Jill, Amy and Nancy handed each of us a remarkable gift. We received blank journals that we are to fill with our memories.
Initially, the idea felt overwhelming, and even a bit sad. It affirms what we all know: that we won’t be around forever. And even though this is the age of videotaping, these grown children decided that they want our words on paper. It seems richer and somehow more permanent to them, and I’m glad.
So their father and I are sifting through our individual memories, and of course it’s overwhelming. You don’t get to be veterans of life without a bit of everything under your belt.
I hope to tell these daughters – cy – and now, our grandchildren,
too – about the house in which I lived as a child. I’ll describe its rooms, the way their late grandfather filled that house with books, what it was like to have only one bathroom and how we listened to the living room radio on weekends.
I can’t adequately describe the way it felt to lie in my bed at night and hear the noises that were woven into our household, or the special tree I sat under to write foolish, tragic poems when I was 16, and dressing primarily in black.
But I’ll try to “tell” the journal everything that has mattered to me. I’ll describe friends like Joyce and Margot, Merle and Helen. I’ll resurrect handsome Harvey and Billy the heartbreaker, characters who slid from childhood into maturity with me.
But how do you begin to describe learning to trust, laughing until my sides hurt, crying until I earnestly believed there were no more tears in the world?
I’ll try. I’ll try
I’ll surely want them to know that with their arrival, everything in our lives changed in an instant. It surely got more complicated, more challenging, less carefree. And most of all, so amazingly better, too.
I’d want them to know how it felt when they started leaving us for college campuses where they discovered who they were, and then into marriages to good men we came to love, too. How when the circle grows, so do we who are parents.
And oh what a gift when each of them bestowed the title of “grandparent” on us. How it felt to look down into the face of the child of our child. I am awed and humbled by their interest. But I worry that I’ll never find the right words to convey memories and feelings so vast that they can barely be contained.
Like most parents, I want desperately to give my children the gift of myself: of memory and experience and insight and hindsight.
And yes, I want to do it when I am still around to explain it all to them.
But like most parents, I wonder how I’ll ever manage such a feat.

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Milton Police Chief Richard G. Wells Jr. had a clear message for residents concerned about the recent surge in automobile and residential break-ins: lock your car, lock the first floor windows and doors of your house, and be on the lookout for suspicious activity.
At a standing-room only community meeting last night, most of the approximately 150 residents in attendance wanted to know what they could do to protect their homes while they were at work and should they be fearful of the burglars.
James Riley, of Hinckley Road, said that he was afraid of “hardcore heroin” users who might be armed and dangerous.
Wells said that the people who have been arrested for the break-ins have been drug users who are looking for money or valuables to buy drugs, and that most of the time they aren’t armed.
He said the most important thing is to make sure that the doors and windows are locked and if you have an alarm system -- use it.
Wells also said that if children are home alone, make sure they don’t answer the doorbell and keep a radio on so it looks like someone is home. Burglars won’t attempt to break-in if they think someone is home, he said.
Wells admitted that for years he didn’t lock the backdoor of his house, but he said that times have changed and residents should start to think about potential crime.
He said if you lock your car they won’t try to break in, but they will move on to the next vehicle.
He said that although it is a regional problem -- increased property crime related to increased drug use -- Milton is targeted because it is a residential town, where most of the residents work during the day and have expensive items in their home.
Wells said that he advocates for community policing, and asked for the help of the community.
“If you see something that doesn’t feel right in your stomach, pick up the phone and call us,” he said.
Wells said it’s important to know your neighbors and know their habits so you can spot something that is suspicious.
“Paying attention is how you get lucky,” he said. “I don’t see this going away tomorrow, but I see our success and it decreasing.”
Sarah Favot can be reached at email@example.com.


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I first learned how to sew in kindergarden. The teacher’s assistant gave us needles, thread, buttons and socks. I guess we were making sock puppets.Â All I remember is that sewing stuck with me, embedded in my hands.
I didn’t start incorporating embroidery and stitching into artwork until 2002. This was a transitional time in the art world, and in New York City in particular. The Whitney Museum mounted an exhibit of “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend,” large, abstract quilts made by women in Geeâ€™s Bend, a small rural community nestled into a curve in the Alabama River southwest of Selma, Alabama.Â All of a sudden, quilts had the same presence as abstract paintings, and craft was in again.
Ten years later, “fiber arts” are still hot, and I’m excited to be part of a growing community of artists employing traditional handcrafts in new ways, and to have expanded the vocabulary of my work to include stop motion animations that somehow retain the handmade quality of my embroideries.
As for my personal history, I was born and grew up in Brooklyn, where I still live and work. In addition to making art, I design textiles and teach embroidery to adults, and weaving, knitting, drawing, embroidery, soft sculpture, collage, selfie reinterpreting and life skills to children and teens.
When not immersing myself in textiles and teaching, I am an avid runner. I have a BA in French Literature and Psychology from Binghamton University, SUNY, and an AAS in Textile/Surface Design from FIT (the Fashion Institute of Technology).

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Toocoo Lacing Beads,Stringing Bead Set for Toddlers and Babies.A great way to learn colors/shapes and hone on logical skills.
● This educational beading activity toy for kids helps to develop fine motor skills, dexterity and hand-eye coordination.
● It can be used for learning color sorting, arts and crafts. An ideal gift for 3 year old boy or girl.
● The best part of this toddler toy is that your little ones won’t even notice that they are learning as they play!
Packing: color box
For ages: infant and child (3-6 years old)
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82pcs muilt-colored beads
2 lacing string
1 storage bag
Notes:This is a vivid hands-on toys,children’s hand eye coordination training.Children in the process of completing the game to practice the fine line of rope,but aso need to consider the reasonableness of the object and the overall aesthetic of collocation. Wooden Fruits and Vegetables Lacing & Stringing Beads Toys with Hedgehog Board for Toddlers.
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- LEARNING : The baby shape & color recognition toy set of children’s beads is designed for baby’s first lacing. The size is perfect for baby and toddler’s little hand to handle with ease.Develops fine motors skills,dexterity and hand-eye coordination,and helps promote sequencing and counting skills
- FUN :The beading cords and threads supplies provide basic skills development which is essential at this early. These toddler stringing beads are also ideal for developing art & creativity skills. The best part is that your little ones won’t even notice that they are learning as they play and have fun with these beads
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- All lacing beads are packed in a cute storage bag,which makes clean up and travel easy for kids;we offer super educational toys and excellent customer service, if you’re not satisfied with the toy set,30 day no questions asked return policy and free return.

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The coffee cups we take into the sanctuary
she sees as spots to scrub from the carpet later.
On youth night she braces herself
for toilets plugged with paper towel
sinks clogged with toilet paper.
The inconspicuous, numberless door
in the hallway we’ve never really noticed—
she has the key to it
could find Pinesol, rolls of tissue
jugs of antibacterial soap and Windex
without stumbling over the industrial octopus
that splays its floppy hoses
all over the floor.
She knows who ambles in
bleary-eyed and tousle-headed
for prayer on Tuesday morning at 6:00
and on her 1:00 p.m. round remembers
to check between sofa cushions in the café
for crunched napkins and balls of plastic wrap.
On Alpha night she is there with her bucket
to clean up kitchen spills and bathroom floods.
After the funeral tea she appears out of nowhere
to deal with the overflowing garbage.
She comes with her key anytime to unlock any door.
Always kind, smiling, cheerful helpful, willing
she is the servant of all.
She is the greatest of all!
– Violet Nesdoly (© 2013 – All Rights Reserved)
So far my Poem-A-Day challenge has been going well. The poem above was yesterday’s write, inspired by Robert Brewer’s Poetic Asides prompt for Day 6:
“For today’s prompt, write a poem from the perspective of a person who either works at and/or visits a place you like to visit (that’s not yourself). For instance, a fry chef at the Krusty Krab, a bouncer at a nightclub, waitress at a restaurant, etc.”
This post is part of Poetry Friday, hosted today by Diane Mayr at Random Noodling.

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Hockey Rumors and News – October 2, 2009
1. Michael Nylander’s days with the Caps nearly done
2. Sens owner says Heatley left ‘sour taste’
3. Shanny opts out as Devils go with kids
4. Dallas Stars give Robidas four-year dealMichael Nylander’s days with the Caps nearly done
Although Michael Nylander did not appear in a preseason game and was a healthy scratch against the Bruins, the veteran center accompanied the team to Boston and participated in the morning skate. His days with the Capitals, though, appear numbered, Boudreau said.
“It’s well do*****ented that we’re trying to do something,” he said of Nylander, who fell out of favor with the coaching staff and management last season. “Whether it’s Michael or the Washington Capitals or the fans, [nobody] wants to see this drag on. I don’t think it’s good for Michael and I don’t think it’s good for us. Hopefully the resolution comes rather quick.” . . .
Neither Tomas Fleischmann (deep vein thrombosis) nor Eric Fehr (shoulder surgery) has been placed on the long-term injury list, so that means the Capitals expect both back before the season is 10 games or 24 days old. Fehr said he could play next week. . .
Sens owner says Heatley left ‘sour taste’
BRUCE GARRIOCH, Sun Media
Breaking his silence Thursday, Senators owner Eugene Melnyk admitted he felt betrayed by Dany Heatley and is glad the winger is gone.
After demanding a trade in May, Heatley was finally dealt to the San Jose Sharks for Milan Michalek and Jonathan Cheechoo last month.
While Melnyk wants to put the controversy behind the Senators, who open the season tomorrow in New York against the Rangers, he conceded the situation left a “sour taste” in his mouth and would advise anybody against signing players to front-end-loaded, long-term contracts.
After signing Heatley to a six-year, $45-million contract extension in October 2007, and shelling out more than $14 million to him in the last 12 months — including a whopping $4-million bonus on July 1 — Melnyk found it disrespectful.
“I spoke directly across the table, with (Heatley) and his agents,” said Melnyk. “When you make that type of commitment to a player where you front-end load a contract, you expect, just as a human being, when you shake somebody’s hand — never mind a 130-page contract — that they will be reciprocal to it. That’s my biggest disappointment. These people, I mean just as human beings, (shouldn’t) do that to anyone.
“Yes, it has left a sour taste, but you’ve got to forget about that. You learn from it and you’ll never do it again. I guarantee you, anybody else out there should be aware this can happen to (them) if the other side is not genuine.”
Melnyk says Heatley set a bad precedent for all sports.
‘He hurt himself’
Shanny opts out as Devils go with kids
The Devils decided their future needs the kids more than Brendan Shanahan, the NHL’s leading active career goal scorer.
The Devils told Shanahan he wasn’t going to be among their top nine forwards this season, and the 40-year-old right wing yesterday declared he was leaving the team in what he called a “mutual and amicable” decision.
“Brendan played well. What transpired was the play of our younger players. The decision was made not to wait,” said GM Lou Lamoriello, whose club opens its season tomorrow at home against the Flyers.
“What changed since the summer [when Shanahan was re-signed for $1 million] is the emergence of the younger players.”
Yesterday’s stunner further confirms Niclas Bergfors’ place on the team he led in preseason scoring with five assists. It also means Matt Halischuk will be given a long look, as will Ilkka Pikkarainen, when he returns from injured reserve.
“We have to find out. We all feel they can do it. They’ve shown they can,” Lamoriello said of the youngsters.
Lamoriello would not discuss what would happen to Shanahan’s salary and cap liability if he isn’t dealt or waived, since a “mutual and amicable” separation might not qualify for a retirement cap exemption, even if Shanahan declines salary.
“Basically, he would not have been in our top nine. If he were, a couple of our younger players would not be in the lineup,” Lamoriello said. “This was a very difficult decision because of who Brendan is.
Dallas Stars give Robidas four-year deal
The Stars made a commitment to one of their hardest working players Thursday, signing defenseman Stephane Robidas to a four-year contract extension worth $13.2 million.
Robidas, who will make $1.5 million this season in the final year of his old deal, will start the extension next season, and it will run through 2013-14. Robidas will count $3.3 million per season toward the salary cap and should become the Stars’ highest-paid defenseman.
“It’s great security for me and my family, and it’s great to be with this organization,” said Robidas, 32. “This is home for me, and this is a team I feel very good about. It was a very easy decision for me.”
Robidas has had a tough climb through the NHL. While he was drafted by his hometown Montreal Canadiens, he washed out as a pro in 2002 and was waived.
The Stars acquired him and played him for parts of two seasons before trading him to Chicago for a bigger defenseman in Jon Klemm.
Despite performing well in 45 games with the Blackhawks, Robidas did not receive a qualifying offer in 2005, and he became an unrestricted free agent. He returned to the Stars just before training camp.
He served as a sixth or seventh defenseman initially but slowly moved up. He took charge of the Stars’ defense in their run to the Western Conference finals in 2008 and became their top defenseman last season.

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Sac and Fox comment on Thorpe decision
JIM THORPE, Pa. (AP) - The Sac and Fox Nation says it's not surprised by the decision by the Jim Thorpe Borough Council in eastern Pennsylvania to appeal a federal judge's order to relinquish the famed athlete's remains so they can be reinterred on American Indian land in Oklahoma.
The nation's historic preservation officer, Sandra Massey, said Friday that turning over Thorpe's body would be cheaper and easier than borough officials might think.
Massey says it would be eligible for a repatriation grant, and costly archaeological and scientific work isn't necessary.
A federal judge last month ruled in favor of Thorpe's sons, saying the borough amounts to a museum under the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
The borough argues it's not a federally funded museum, although it gets federal grants.
Information from: WFMZ-TV, http://www.wfmz.com


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[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/POLITICS/01/14/michigan.primary/art.romney.2.mich.gi.jpg caption=" Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is a Michigan native."](CNN) - The GOP presidential front-runners, locked in a tight race, are churning out ads and talking about the economy in a last-minute effort to win over Michigan voters before Tuesday's primary.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has a narrow lead over Arizona Sen. John McCain, according to recent polls in Michigan.
Twenty-eight percent of people likely to vote in Tuesday's GOP primary said they supported Romney, compared with 26 percent for McCain.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is in a close third with 17 percent, followed by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson with 5 percent each.
Related Video: CNN's Mary Snow runs down the Michigan primary race


Here I show you tabs how to play 30 Seconds To Mars – Hurricane on a single guitar string. This is the fifth single from the “This Is War” album. Released in 2011. The video was censored due to violence and sexual content.
How it sounds?
play on the «G» string
(in parentheses play on the «B» string)
If u don’t understand, please read: how to understand single string tabs
Do you like my tabs? Please write in comments and communicate with me 🙂 I want to know which songs I have to make tabs for 🙂


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by Lisa Lace
What if the man you need isn’t on Earth?
My name is Sophie McCallistair. I’ve spent years fighting Earth’s overpopulation problems, and I’ve just become the leader of Single for Life.
I thought I was vacationing on Biyaha to help a friend. I didn’t realize the boy I knew as a child had grown up to be mysterious and powerful.
It’s a struggle to keep our hands off each other, and when the government learns some of Khellen’s secrets, they put him in jail. It’s up to me to help him escape.
I won’t be able to rescue him without facing my feelings. How can I fall in love while remaining Single for Life?
Origins is the eleventh book in the TerraMates series, science fiction romance books about a mail-order bride agency for aliens. There are no cliffhangers, and each book contains a happily-ever-after ending!
ORIGINS is the eleventh book in the TerraMates series and a STAND-ALONE, full-length science fiction romance. There are no cliffhangers, and a happy ending is guaranteed!
Origins: A Science Fiction Alien Romance
by Lisa Lace
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
ORIGINS is the 11th book in Lisa Lace’s TerraMates series, but goes back to explain why the agency was started… thus the title. I love that Ms. Lace always has a fresh take on the alien planets and how the cultures are different from that of earth’s yet shows enough commonalities to show they are in the end just two people falling in love. As I’ve come to expect of the books in this series there is danger, suspense, and drama for the young couple before they find they realize they have fallen in love.
Sophie McCallistair, was from Earth at a time when overpopulation was a very serious issue. She was an intelligent woman who wanted to be part of the solution and had a successful career with an agency called Single for Life that advocated a commitment to never marry or bear children. She had just received a promotion, which per the agency’s policy requires she take a few weeks leave of absence to vacation before settling in to her new position. She goes to visit her friend, Khellen, who lives on Biyaha and she had met when they were much younger at a virtual reality camp.
Biyaha’s population is dwindling and to prevent their people from dying out completely they have strict laws about marriage and against preventing the birth of children. They encourage married couples to have large families and have strict penalties if you don’t marry before a certain age. Khellen understands the reasons for his planet’s laws, but has always hoped to marry for love. He is just about to reach the age where he will be forced to marry when Sophie, his longtime friend comes for a surprise visit.
Never having actually met, neither had any idea how fiercely they would be attracted to each other or the problems it would create for the both of them. These two faced many challenges before they realized they wanted to spend their life together. Very good story and I enjoyed learning how TerraMates originated from the inevitable love of Sophie and Khellen. I listened to the audiobook and was impressed with the narrator’s storytelling. 4 stars.
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Grow up! Tit for tat is not Pakistan policy: Hina Rabbani
Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Wednesday stated that reports about her country's army killing 2 Indian soldiers along the Line of Control and mutilating the body of one were inaccurate.
In an interview to television channel CNN-IBN, Khar said: "We have enquired into this and we are saying that an incident like this did not take place. But if our enquiry is not good enough, we can ask the UN to do the enquiry."
Here's the transcript of the interview:
On Pakistan army troops killing and mutilating bodies of 2 Indian soldiers on LOC
"The government has already given its response and we are a bit appalled at some of the statements that are coming in from India because the government has absolutely rejected that any such incident took place.
Let me assure you that it is not up to the government of Pakistan to not observe the ceasefire on the LoC and not to go through the mechanism, which is already existing to normalise relations between the 2 governments.
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'We respect the 2003 ceasefire and have a long history of respecting it'
I am a bit saddened because this is the government I represent of the Pakistan's People Party which has invested 4 years of building normalcy and an environment of moving forward to achieve regional peace and internal stability between the 2 countries.
So let me tell you that on behalf of the Pakistan government that incident did not happen. We are so sure of this and are ready to ask a third party to do an investigation on this."
On Pakistan not calling a full enquiry
"We are calling a full enquiry and we have enquired into this. We are saying that an incident like this did not take place, but if our enquiry is not good enough we can ask the UN to do the enquiry. So we feel this is not the road to take this between the 2 countries. This is the extreme end of the government's policy. We want to respect the ceasefire of 2003 and we have a long history of respecting it."
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'It is not Pakistan's policy to do tit for tat'
On Pakistan's constant denial of Indian soldiers being mutilated
"Making allegations like this is absolutely unacceptable. This is in any way not a policy to pursue vis-a-vis India or any other country. We have investigated into the matter to see if any incident like this took place or not.
If we are sure that an incident like this did not take place then we can do 10 more investigations in which we can take 10 days, if that satisfies anyone. But we are offering even more -- we are saying let UN investigate this matter and if an incident like this did take place then we need to deal with it with the existing mechanism as they exist.
You know an incident of the same nature, which is a bit ironical, that which is being claimed today took place 3 days back where one of our soldiers was murdered. I say that we need to grow up and allow me to say this that it is not Pakistan's policy to do tit for tat. We think we are a responsible country and India is a responsible country."
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'We need to work together for a mutual benefit'
On Indian army believing the 2 soldiers being killed brutally by Pakistan army
"Since it happened in your territory, I think your army needs to do an investigation into this and find out what actually happened.
I think we can do both our own investigations and assist each other in finding out what really happened. But we should not allow these things to completely derail (the talks), but just create more hostility and almost appear to the world that we are a country that is back to taking a go at each other. That's not that we work for. We need to work together for a mutual benefit."


Goodman’s Jewelers spent the morning handing out cash to 4 Madison-area non-profits, including $10,000 to the American Family Children’s Hospital. That large check came from Jewelers for Children via a Facebook contest the group ran in October. Goodman’s Jewelers nominated the children’s hospital after the JFC announced their Local Grant Program would fund ten $10,000 grants for local children’s charities around the country.
“This was such an easy way for us to support the excellent work the American Family Children’s Hospital does for the children in our community,” says John Hays, owner of Goodman’s Jewelers. “All it took was us promoting the contest on our Facebook page and 1 minute of people’s time to vote. This really shows the power of social media!”
Voting on Facebook began on October 15, and concluded on October 30. More than 18,000 people were motivated to like the Jewelers for Children Facebook page and vote for their favorite, local charity.
Goodman’s also gave a check for $1,228.80 to Gio’s Garden, a local non-profit that provides respite care to special needs children, $1,042.68 to The Goodman Community Center, Madison’s community resource facility, and $925.13 for Coaches vs. Cancer, a collaboration of coaches in Wisconsin that raises money for the American Cancer Society. This money was raised during Goodman’s Jewelers 80th Anniversary Celebration at the beginning of October.
“Irwin and Bob Goodman began a tradition of giving back to the community they loved because of all that Madison had given them,” says Hays. “I am continuing that tradition because Madison continues to give so much to us and the families that call this area ‘home’.”


"The target is now lower," Elway told KSMT-FM on Monday, via USA Today. "Harrison yesterday, because of the fact that he's been fined so often, really had no other option. ... I don't think he intended to hurt Eric. But obviously because of the situations he's been in, he had to go low and stay away from the head. And it ended up costing an MCL sprain for Eric."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Researchers in Guinea are turning evidence into impact, improving the experience of women in childbirth
15 May 2020 | In October 2019, new research from a WHO-led study in four countries showed that more than one-third of women experienced mistreatment during childbirth in health facilities. The coordinating institute in Guinea (CERREGUI), with support from WHO/HRP and the HRP Alliance, is working in in partnership to implement recommendations at the national level to reduce mistreatment of women during childbirth.
Massive proportion of world’s population are living with herpes infection
1 May 2020 | About half a billion people worldwide are living with genital herpes, and several billion have an oral herpes infection, new estimates show. Published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, the new study estimates the global infection prevalence and incidence of herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 in 2016.
Maternal infections in health facilities: A clearer picture of the global impact
27 April 2020 | New research from the Global Maternal Sepsis Study (GLOSS), a major WHO/HRP initiative, shows that infection has a much larger impact on global maternal mortality and morbidity than previously thought.
The results from GLOSS, published in The Lancet Global Health, are the first to provide data on frequency of maternal infections and sepsis across the pregnancy and post-pregnancy period, in a large number of health facilities around the world.
What matters to women in the postnatal period?
22 April 2020 | WHO is developing new guidelines for a positive experience of postnatal care, due to be published next year. To inform these guidelines and ensure that postnatal services can better meet the needs of women and their babies, WHO undertook a qualitative systematic review on what matters to women in the postnatal period. What matters to women in the postnatal period: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies,’ published in PLOS ONE, gives long-overdue respect to the authority of women’s own experiences.
Women's health and rights: 25 years of progress?
8 March 2020 | The first article in the series, ‘25 years after the Beijing Declaration we need to reaffirm that women’s rights are human rights,’ highlights recent advances in gender equality and celebrates the rise of a new and determined generation of activists, working together to empower girls and women.
The economic cost of female genital mutilation
6 February 2019 | An interactive data tool launched by WHO reveals for the first time the current and future financial cost of health care for women living with conditions caused by female genital mutilation (FGM). The total costs amount to USD 1.4 billion annually.
Pregnancy and breastfeeding during an Ebola virus outbreak
10 February 2020 | Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding in an Ebola outbreak face similar challenges as other population groups, but they have specific health needs which must be met. WHO has released new clinical guidelines for healthcare providers supporting pregnant or breastfeeding women in the context of Ebola virus disease. These guidelines will enable healthcare providers, emergency response teams and health policy-makers to improve prevention and treatment measures in an Ebola outbreak.
12 December 2019 | On the occasion of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day, WHO launches a training curriculum for health-care providers to help women survivors of violence. When healthcare providers are properly trained, they can make a big difference in addressing not only the physical injuries caused by violence against women, but also the mental, sexual and emotional hurt. WHO’s new training curriculum helps health-care providers gain the knowledge and skills that they need to support women survivors of violence. This contributes to providing essential quality health care to women and achieving UHC.
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
25 November 2019 | Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – a global effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women. Worldwide, women continue to face violence at epidemic proportions; WHO estimates that 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced physical and / or sexual violence, mostly by an intimate partner.
9 October 2019 | New evidence from a WHO-led study in four countries shows that more than one-third of women experienced mistreatment during childbirth in health facilities. The study, carried out in Ghana, Guinea, Myanmar and Nigeria showed that women were at the highest risk of experiencing physical and verbal abuse between 30 minutes before birth until 15 minutes after birth. Younger, less-educated women were most at risk, suggesting inequalities in how women are treated during childbirth. Addressing these inequalities and promoting respectful maternity care for all women is critical to improve health equity and quality.
19 September 2019 | A new report on maternal mortality, released today by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and the United Nations Population Division, estimates a worldwide number of 295 000 maternal deaths in 2017. This figure represents a 38% reduction since the year 2000 an average reduction of just under 3% per year. For women, this means that the global lifetime risk of maternal mortality – the risk that a 15-year old girl will die eventually from a maternal cause –was approximately 1 in 190 for 2017, nearly half of the level of risk in 2000.
29 August 2019 | WHO has changed its recommendations for progestogen-only injectables and intrauterine devices (IUDs) for women at high risk of HIV from a Category 2 to a Category 1. Additional clarifications are provided for the IUD recommendation.
12 August 2019 | The theme of International Youth Day 2019 is "Transforming Education", highlighting the need to make education more relevant, equitable and inclusive for all young people. Education is essential to prepare children and young people for their lives. It is also pivotal to good health, gender equality, peace and security.
24 June 2019 | At least 400 million people worldwide lack access to the most essential health services. By 2035, there will be an estimated shortage of nearly 13 million healthcare workers. Around 1 in 5 of the world’s population will be living in settings that are experiencing humanitarian crises.
At the same time, new diagnostics, devices, drugs and digital innovations are transforming how people interact with the health sector.
In response to this, WHO launched its first guideline on self-care interventions for health, with a focus in this first volume on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Some of the interventions include self-sampling for HPV and sexually transmitted infections, self-injectable contraceptives, home-based ovulation predictor kits, HIV self-testing and self-management of medical abortion.
25 June 2019 | Information is essential for change, but in settings where information is not readily available, epidemiological research becomes one of the most powerful sources of information for change. A supplement by the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BJOG) titled “Application of maternal near-miss approach to audits of severe maternal complications in a low-resource country” reinforces this message.
Nearly 100% of global maternal deaths occur in developing countries with more than half of these deaths occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and almost one third happening in South Asia. More than half of maternal deaths occur in fragile and humanitarian settings.
13 June 2019 – A large clinical research study conducted in four African countries found no significant difference in risk of HIV infection among women using one of three highly effective, reversible contraceptive methods. Published today in the Lancet, the study showed that each method had high levels of safety and effectiveness in preventing pregnancy, with all methods well-accepted by the women using them.
6 June 2019 – Published online by the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, the research shows that among men and women aged 15–49 years, there were 127 million new cases of chlamydia in 2016, 87 million of gonorrhoea, 6.3 million of syphilis and 156 million of trichomoniasis. These STIs have a profound impact on the health of adults and children worldwide. If untreated, they can lead to serious and chronic health effects that include neurological and cardiovascular disease, infertility, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirths, and increased risk of HIV. They are also associated with significant levels of stigma and domestic violence.
29 May 2019 | WHO with UNWomen, together with OHCHR, UNFPA, UNODC, UNDP, UKaid, USAID, SIDA, the government the Netherlands, and the World Bank Group, have developed RESPECT women: Preventing violence against women. The framework contains a set of action-oriented steps that enables policymakers and health implementers to design, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate interventions and programmes using seven strategies to prevent VAW. The strategies are summarized in RESPECT, with each letter representing one strategy.
WHO releases the first integrated progress report on HIV, hepatitis and STIs
23 May 2019 – The new progress report being released today at the 72nd World Health Assembly reviews success and challenges in implementing the global health sector strategies, 2016-2021 on HIV, hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The report also outlines 8 joint actions for accelerating progress towards universal health coverage.
WHO releases first guideline on digital health interventions
17 April 2019 | WHO today released new recommendations on 10 ways that countries can use digital health technology, accessible via mobile phones, tablets and computers, to improve people’s health and essential services. WHO systematically reviewed evidence on digital technologies and consulted with experts from around the world to produce recommendations on 10 different ways that digital technologies may be used for maximum impact on health systems.
28 March 2019 | Maternal deaths following caesarean sections in low- and middle-income countries are 100 times higher than in high-income countries, with up to a third of all babies dying, according to data from 12 million pregnancies. A new review, published in The Lancet, has considered 196 studies from 67 low- and middle-income countries.
19 March 2019 | A new Cochrane qualitative evidence synthesis provides new key insights into the experience of women, families and healthcare providers on having a companion present during labour and childbirth, and factors affecting implementation of labour companionship globally. This new review complements a Cochrane intervention review published in 2017 that explored the effect of continuous support for women during childbirth and which concluded that outcomes for women and babies were improved in the presence of continuous support.
9 January 2019 | WHO has today launched new guidance, Medical management of abortion. These new guidelines provide healthcare workers with evidence-based recommendations to help ensure high-quality healthcare for all pregnant individuals who seek a medical abortion.
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Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins: Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential deals with the evolution and tectonic significance of the Triassic evaporite rocks in the Alpine orogenic system and the Neogene basins in the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, and the western Mediterranean.
As the nature of the Triassic evaporite sequences, the varied diapiric structures they feed, and the occurrence of hydrocarbons suggest that the Triassic evaporites represent an efficient system to trap hydrocarbons, this book explores the topic with a wide swath, also devoting content to a relatively unexplored topic, the mobilization and deformation of the Triassic salt in the western and northern Tethys (from Iberia and North Africa, Pyrenees and Alps, Adriatic and Ionian) during the subsequent Alpine orogenic processes.
The book includes chapters updating varied topics, like the Permian and Triassic chronostratigraphic scales, palaeogeographic reconstructions of the western Tethys since the Late Permian, the petroleum systems associated with Permo-Triassic salt, allochthonous salt tectonics, and a latest revision of salt tectonic processes in the Permian Zechstein Basin, the Atlantic Margins (from Barents Sea, Scotia, Portugal, Morocco, and Mauritania), the Alpine folded belts in Europe, and the various Triassic salt provinces in North Africa.
The book is the go-to guide for salt tectonic researchers and those working in the hydrocarbon exploration industry.
- Presents the first reference book to cover salt tectonics of Permo-Triassic period rocks
- Features case studies of passive margins like the Barents and the North Sea, Greenland, Nova Scotia, offshore Mauritania, Morocco and Iberia, and folded belts like the Betics-Rif, Tell, Pyrenees, Atlas Mountains, Alps, Balkans, Apennines, the Adriatic and Ionian Seas, and the Zechstein Basin in Norway, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland
- Integrates field observations, seismic examples, well-log data and models developed in universities with highly technical and advanced subsurface studies developed by the petroleum industry
Geologists, Exploration Geologists, Geoscientists, Petroleum Industry
Part I: Salt Tectonics in Time and Space
1. Permo-Triassic basins and tectonics in Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins: A synthesis
2. The Permian and Triassic Chronostratigraphic Scales
3. Late Permian - Early Jurassic Paleogeography of Western Tethys and the World
4. An overview of allochthonous salt tectonics
5. The internal structure of the Zechstein salt and related drilling risks in the northern Netherlands
6. Petroleum systems and play types associated with Permotriassic salt
Part II: Zechstein Basin
7. Palaeogeographic Evolution of Latest Permian and Triassic Salt Basins in Northwest Europe
8. Composition, Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Significance of Zechstein Supergroup Salt on the United Kingdom and Norwegian Continental Shelves: A Review
9. Structure and evolution of the Glueckstadt Graben in relation to the other post-Permian sub-basins of the Central European Basin System
10. The tectonic history of the Zechstein Basin in the Netherlands and Germany
11. Permo-Triassic Evaporites of the Polish Basin and their bearing on the Tectonic Evolution and hydrocarbon system, an Overview
Part III: Atlantic Margins
12. Salt tectonics of the Norwegian Barents Sea and Northeast Greenland shelf
13. A review of Mesozoic-Cenozoic salt tectonics along the Scotian margin, eastern Canada
14. Influence of Salt diapirism on the basin architecture and hydrocarbon prospects of the Western Iberian Margin
15. Salt Tectonics along the Atlantic Margin of NW Africa (Morocco and Mauritania)
16. Salt Tectonics within the offshore Asturian Basin: North Iberian Margin
Part IV: Alpine Folded Belts
17. Salt and strike-slip tectonics as main drivers in the structural evolution of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain
18. The Southern Pyrenees: a salt-based fold and thrust belt
19. Allochthonous Triassic and Salt Tectonic processes in the Betic-Rif Orogenic Arc
20. The role of the Triassic evaporites underneath the North Alpine foreland
21. The Eastern Alps: multistage development of extremely deformed evaporites
22. Salt Tectonics in the Carnian evaporite basin of the Eastern Balkan-Forebalkan region of Bulgaria
23. The Triassic evaporites in the evolution of the Adriatic Basin
24. The Ionian fold-and-thrust belt in central and southern Albania: a petroleum province involving Triassic evaporites
Part V: North Africa
25. Styles of salt tectonics in central Tunisia: an overview
26. Salt Tectonics in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco
27. Development of an Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic evaporite basin on the Saharan Platform, North Africa
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Juan I. Soto is a Professor of Geodynamics in the Granada University and in the Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Spain, working in structural geology and tectonics. His expertise includes salt and shale tectonic processes, seismic interpretation, late orogenic extension, and metamorphic and thermal evolution of extended terrains. He has worked in the Betics and the Alboran Sea in the Western Mediterranean, the Caspian Basin, the eastern Caribbean basins and the Mexican Gulf of Mexico. He has analyzed the structural and basin evolution during the mobilization of clay-rich, overpressured sediments comparing the resulting structures with those formed by salt tectonic processes.
Professor of Structural Geology and Tectonics, Department of Geodynamics and Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada University, Spain
Dr. Flinch received his Ph. D. in Geology and Geophysics from Rice University. Before joining Repsol he worked as a consultant for Lagoven (ancient affiliate of PDVSA) in Venezuela and for Total on numerous exploration projects in Latin America and western Africa. He has published many papers on structural geology of the Pyrenees, structural geology and sequence stratigraphy of the Rif in Morocco, the Allochthonous salt of the Betic Cordillera in Spain, the Northern Colombia Accretionary Wedge, the Eastern Venezuelan folded belt, the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Venezuela, the Subandean area in Bolivia, and the Sierra Leone-Liberia margin in West Africa.
Expertise: global hydrocarbon exploration, new ventures exploration, regional and tectonic analysis, seismic Interpretation and structural geology.
Head of Geoscience Disciplines, Repsol Exploration, Madrid, Spain
Gabor Tari holds an MSc degree in Geophysics from Eötvös University of Budapest, Hungary, and a Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics from Rice University, Houston, Texas. After starting with Amoco on Romanian exploration projects in 1994, he transferred to the Angola Team in 1996. Gabor continued to work at BP Amoco until 1999 when he joined Vanco Energy Company. At Vanco, as Chief Geophysicist and then as Vice President of Geosciences, he worked mostly on projects in Africa. Since 2007, Gabor has been with OMV in Vienna, Austria, working as the Group Chief Geologist on various Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and African basins.
Group Chief Geologist, OMV Exploration and Production GmbH, Vienna, Austria
"There has been an explosion of research in the past 50 years in other salt basins, particularly the Gulf of Mexico, taking attention away from the Permo-Triassic salt basins in Europe. This volume redresses the balance, bringing together leading salt researchers around the world to make a significant step towards restoring the Permo-Triassic salt basins to the prominent position they deserve" --Michael R. Hudec, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin
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The Tigers continue to benefit from the multiple values of Victor Martinez. For instance, there's the productivity value: Three more RBIs in Tuesday night's 10-1 victory over the Indians. Just as important, there's the leadership value. In fact, one of the big differences in manager Jim Leyland's opinion between the Tigers of 2009, when they were headed for disappointment, and the Tigers of 2011 is the presence — and leadership — of Martinez. "He's been a huge guy for us," Leyland said. "He's exactly what I talk about a lot of times when it comes to leadership. "There've been a lot of guys over the years who've tried to appoint themselves leaders and they can't do it. That's always been my belief. You can't do it. "You can't appoint a leader. It just happens. And he's one of those guys that it just happens. He's one of those personalities. "He's very respectful of the game and his teammates. Plus he looks pretty good in the batter's box. That helps, too."
Victor Martinez adds bat, leadership to Tigers lineup
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1/2 pound ground turkey, cooked, seasoned with taco seasoning
1/2 cup black beans, cooked and rinses
1 jicama, sliced
2 bell peppers, sliced
1 zucchini, sliced
1/2 cup shredded cheese
Toppings (if desired): diced avocado, jalapeno, cilantro
Layer sliced raw veggies on a microwave-safe platter, in place of chips. Top the veggies with cooked ground turkey, black beans and shredded cheese. Microwave for 5 minutes, then top off (if desired) with diced avocado, jalapeño and cilantro.
1 package reduced fat cream cheese
1 cup reduced fat sour cream
1/2 cup blue cheese, crumbled
1/2 cup buffalo wing sauce
3 cups shredded cooked chicken breast
Celery sticks or crackers
Mix cream cheese, sour cream, blue cheese and sauce, then stir in chicken. Simmer for 30 minutes and serve with celery sticks or crackers.
4 oz. roast beef slices (or deli meat of choice)
4 slices provolone cheese
1 large bell pepper
1 sweet onion, sliced
3 oz mushrooms, sliced
Slice peppers in half and remove seeds and segments. Saute olive oil, onion and mushroom until fully cooked. Fill the pepper halves with meat, cheese, mushrooms, onions until mixture is overflowing. Then cover with a final slice of cheese, and bake until cooked, about 20 minutes.

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Artist Erin BlayneyOct 02, 2016 06:00AM ● By Leo Adam Biga
For visual artist Erin Blayney, who grew up in the great outdoors, it's all about light and space. She has plenty of both at her Old Market apartment that doubles as her studio.
Natural light from six large, south-facing windows cascades over her easel and houseplants. "Not only is that perfect for the type of lighting I need to do my best work, it's healthy for my overall well-being," says Blayney.
Exposed brickwork, high ceilings, and an open floor plan contribute to a sense of spaciousness. Extra-wide windowsills provide great perches for her collection of succulents.
"I love nature and the outdoors," she says. "This apartment allows me to integrate that love into my living quarters, and not feel cramped or experience cabin fever."
Her spot above Urban Abbey in the historic Windsor Hotel building puts her right in the thick of things. "The Old Market for me is very welcoming, unique, and nourishes a diverse group of people of all ages and backgrounds," she says. "It's urban yet has some aspect of a small neighborhood as well."
A Florida transplant and Art Institute of Chicago graduate, Blayney creates figurative drawings and paintings. She previously worked as an art preparator for California museums.
Her mother preceded her to Omaha to be near a sister, and Erin followed. "My mom lives three blocks away from me, so it's wonderful to conveniently meet for coffee or go for a bike ride together,” she says.
This self-described "people person" is drawn to the human form. She variously works from live models or photographs.
“Drawing and painting people, mostly gestural, seems to be pretty consistent for me,” she says. “It's capturing the physicality of a person expressed through facial expression or movement. I love capturing the realness of their character, even if it's subtle."
Recently, Omaha restaurant mogul Willy Theisen commissioned her portrait of his granddaughter for his new Paragon eatery in Dundee.
When approaching a new work, she says, "I never know how it's going to look, so it's a little adventurous. If I stop thinking about what I'm doing and just let it flow, it comes out naturally. That 'diving into it' mindset is what I have to be in for the work to really evolve. It's mysterious."
Blayney's work is not all figurative. "Occasionally, I'll do still life," she says, gesturing to an in-progress oyster shell rendered in a swirl of pastels. She is contemplating an oceanic-themed series motivated by her love of the water, marine life, and nature.
"I was brought up on water. I swam in the Gulf of Mexico. So that's in my bones."
In Omaha, she has twice worked at Jun Kaneko's studio (most recently in 2006 as a painting assistant). Of the celebrated artist, she says, "We had a good connection. He's very quiet, polite, observant, receptive. He was very trusting of me. Like when I did some mixing of colors, pigments—he trusted my instincts. I'm not a ceramicist, but I felt in my natural element."
She feels at home in Omaha, where she says, "The connections I've made are so important." The same for her day job at Alley Poyner Macchietto, where she curates art shows. She admires the local art-culture scene.
"I feel the creative community in Omaha is very supportive rather than super competitive. The friends I've made here are very authentic, genuine, and loyal."
She enjoys what the Bemis and Joslyn offer as well as how "smaller, contemporary, progressive galleries like Project Project and Darger HQ are pushing the envelope. I'm a huge fan of Garden of the Zodiac. 1516 Gallery is just gorgeous.”
In the spring of 2016, Petshop Gallery in Benson exhibited her portraiture work. She regularly shows in the Bemis Benefit Art Auction and had a piece in the October 28 show (she described the colorful abstract portrait as “a little mysterious looking”).
Blayney also contributed to the Old Market Art Project; hers was one of 37 banners selected (from nearly 300 submissions) to be displayed outside the Mercer Building as renovations followed the M’s Pub fire.
"It's an abstract painting that took forever,” she says. “There's a lot going on in it. Finally, it just came together. I collaborated with another artist in the process of painting it, and then I finished it."
She sees many opportunities for local artists in Omaha, but there is room for improvement, too. "There's definitely room to grow—I’d like to see even more galleries because there's so much talent here,” she says.
Going into the fall, several commission projects were "consuming" Blayney’s time. Her projects come from anywhere and everywhere. "Lately, it's been more people coming to me and asking either for a portrait of themselves or of a family member. I can be surprised. I've given my card to someone and then a year later gotten a commission. It's unpredictable."
Visit erinblayney.com for more information.


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March 31, 2009
By Sarah Brown
President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill authorizing an extension of funding for the FAA through the end of the fiscal year. The extension gives Congress another six months to pass an FAA reauthorization bill by extending the current aviation taxes and the FAA’s authority to spend money.
AOPA supports the proposed Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2009, which would authorize nearly $70 billion for the agency for four years.
Testifying before the House aviation subcommittee in February, AOPA President Craig Fuller said that AOPA members strongly support the bill introduced by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar (D-Minn.) and aviation subcommittee chairman Jerry Costello (D-Ill.). The committee should approve legislation according to “the time-tested system of passenger transportation and GA fuel taxes in combination with general fund revenues to support the FAA and the aviation system,” Fuller said in his prepared testimony.
Fuller has met privately with several influential members of Congress, including Oberstar and Costello of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and aviation subcommittee Chairman Byron Dorgan of the Senate Commerce Committee.
In the absence of a four-year reauthorization bill, the FAA has been operating under a series of temporary extension measures. The latest extension was set to expire March 31. An omnibus appropriations bill that included funding for the FAA through the end of the fiscal year became law on March 11; a week later, the House and Senate passed the bill that authorizes the funding, which Obama recently signed.
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Mats are generally divided into three broad categories:
At the heart of soil management is preventing contaminants from entering a building.
Experts recommend a minimum of 10 to 12 feet of quality matting at entrances as part of an efficient cleaning program.
It has been reported that removing one pound of soil can cost as much as $600 — primarily in labor costs.
Entrance mats contain soil and water, dramatically reducing cleaning costs.Interior mats
These mats perform several duties, and are often used as "dust control" or "finishing" mats in conjunction with a scraper, and/or a scraper-wiper entrance mat.
Other uses of interior mats include spot, spill and soil control in high-use areas, such as near vending machines, coffee service areas, copy machines, registration areas, etc.
It is important that mats used in these areas minimize trip and fall hazards and provide slip resistance.Industrial mats
Industrial mats usually fall into two broad use areas: Traction control/floor protection mats and anti-fatigue mats.
Traction control mats are engineered to provide safe footing.
Typical applications include outside entrances, ramps, and floor areas where contaminants such as oil, grease or water are common.
Anti-fatigue mats are designed to provide a safe, productive surface for employees in occupations that require long periods of standing.
The best anti-fatigue mats are designed to comfortably support a person, and withstand long-term use.
Anti-fatigue mats should be resistant to environmental conditions that can contaminate and deteriorate the cushion in the mat.
In addition, some anti-fatigue mats trap soil and debris to help prevent or minimize cross contamination.
Larry Arnold is director of the Technical/Environmental Programs, The Andersen Company, Dalton, GA.


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Are you curious about hiking the Inca Trail? Are you concerned about the altitude, your knees, your feet and "what if?" Then this is written for you.
You are not alone. Eleven months of the year, up to 450 permits (200 for 4 day hike and 250 for the 2 day hike) are available for foreign visitors every day to hike the Inca Trail. Some are experienced hikers. Others, not so much. (Beginning 2016, permits for 1-day Inca Trail were separated from permits for 4-day Inca Trail. Why? Read more) The good news is that it's not common for hikers to turn back before reaching the Machu Picchu ruins. Nearly 100% who begin the hike, finish the hike. This is due in part to the dedicated licensed guides who often have to coax and sweet talk the small percentage of hikers who need additional help, each step of the way.
Here are links with costs for 2 different routes to hike the Inca Trail:
- 4-Day Inca Trail hike is 26 miles/41 KM total length and includes 3 nights of camping. Permits can be viewed on the official government website. These usually sell out many months in advance. The highest point is Dead Woman's Pass (approx 14,000 ft/ 4260 m)
- 2-Day Inca Trail hike is the same trip as the easy 1-day Inca Trail hike. Total distance is about 12 KM/7.5 miles. The highest altitude is 8800 ft/ 2730 m. Permits are required and availability can be viewed on the Machu Picchu government website. Permits rarely sell out and can be purchased last minute. Includes 1 night hotel in Aguas Calientes.
Here's the list of factors most likely to affect your ability to complete the hike:
- Misjudgement of the difficulty. While the terrain has steep switchbacks, uneven stone steps, not to mention paths of rough cobbles, the trail is not a technical hike. Most inexperienced hikers can negotiate the trail. But when combined with altitude, the rough terrain and lack of oxygen can lead to unexpected slow progress.
- Not enough time to acclimatize before beginning the hike. Package hikes don't include additional days to acclimatize before beginning the hike. It's up to you to decide how many days you need and where you want to spend them. People who are inexperienced, over the age of 50, or who know they are susceptible to altitude sickness, should plan to arrive in Cusco at least 2 or more days before beginning any multi-day hike.
- Poorly prepared. We're not saying you need to have the latest high-tech equipment, but the items most likely to contribute to your discomfort are: inappropriate footwear and backpacks that aren't designed to distribute the weight.
- Fitness. That fact that you may have hiked hundreds of miles of the Appalachian Trail 20 years ago is not a qualifier any longer. Test drive your stamina with equipment on local hikes before you go.
If you're concerned about making it on the full 4-day Inca Trail hike, then consider the 2-day Inca Trail hike. The 2-day trip includes 1 day of hiking on the Inca Trail for 12 KM/7.5 miles, an overnight in a hotel in Aguas Calientes and a guided tour of the Machu Picchu ruins on day 2. And no camping! Should kids hike? We have posted a separate page of information to help you decide if your kids should hike. What about older people? Call our US office in Virginia and we can review and discuss your questions.
Are there any easier hikes? YES! More easy hikes can be customized to your needs and include support vehicle. No permits needed. Can be set up last minute.
For kids and seniors or anyone who might hike at a slower pace, here's what you need to know:
- Unless you live at altitude, you should arrive in Cusco at least 2-3 days prior to starting the hike to allow for acclimatization. There are plenty of tours and activities to do.
- You should plan to spend the night before the hike in a hotel in the village of Ollantaytambo. (our first choice hotel is Tunupa, but there are a few others as well. We can book it or you can book it)
- Average person takes about 6 hours to complete the hike, but we have had a few who barely made it to Machu Picchu before the last bus down to the village. If you don't make it to MP by 5:30 pm and you miss the bus, the only option is to hike another 1.5-2 hours to the village. In the dark. There are no cars or taxis.
- You must carry a backpack with lunch (we provide), water, rain gear, warm outer wear and everything you need for the overnight. (Or to reduce your load, you can hire a porter to take 1 small carryon size bag by train and deliver to your hotel)
- We can book the earlier train at 6:10 am to give you more time to hike. This is why it's best to book a hotel in Ollantaytambo close to where the train station is.
Contact our US office with questions or to make a reservation. 757-714-6649 (eastern time)
It's easy to make a reservation:
- choose your dates: every Tuesday for small groups, or any date for private groups that permits are available (min 2)
- contact our US office by phone or email to ask questions or confirm availability - 757-714-6649 (eastern time)
- email copies of passport for each person
- call our US office to process your payment with any major credit card
We provide a list of questions below to help you make an informed decision. Hikers come in all shapes, sizes and ages. So don't let those factors influence your decision. If you have doubts, these tips may help you decide:
- Are you active at home? You don't need to be a "hiker," but you should participate regularly activities that require physical exertion. Could be biking, vigorous walking, swimming, gardening, or employment that involves lots of movement
- If you don't have a mountain nearby, test yourself by climbing the steps in a high-rise building. How many floors are you able to climb before becoming exhausted? If less than 4, then you definitely need to "get in shape!"
- Can you walk or hike at a steady pace of 3-4 miles per hour at sea level?
- If you have a "bum" knee or ankle, does it respond to OTC treatments? The Inca Trail involves ascending and descending, sometimes for hours. Your joints will be tired and even sore. Some hikers use support braces, massage & take oral pain relievers.
- Healthy children under 12 are physically capable of hiking, but may not have the interest. Assess your child carefully before deciding.
- Are you over 50? If you regularly participate in physical activities, there's no reason why you can't hike the Inca Trail. We have organized hikes for people in their 70's.
- If you are out of shape, reserving a hike is a great motivator to get back on track with your fitness plan.
- Altitude affects everyone differently and there is no way to acclimatize in advance when arriving from sea level. All our hiking tour packages start with 2 days in Cusco (11,000 ft/3413 m) to allow acclimatization prior to hiking. If you're making your own arrangements, be sure to schedule time to adjust to the altitude. The good news is that the altitude at the trail head is 9000' /2743 m, which is lower than Cusco 11,000' /3350 m.
- If you're hiking the 2-day trail, there is a time limit for the hike. The day begins by driving about 1.5 hours from your hotel in Cusco to the train station in Ollantaytambo. We normally book trains around 7:45 am. This means you get on the trail about 1.5-2 hours later. And you must be through the exit gate at Machu Picchu by 5:30 pm to get the last shuttle bus down to the village where your hotel is located. There are no cars or taxi service. The walk to the village is 1-2 hours. But it's mostly downhill!
All our group hikes are small. 7 people or less. Our Inca Trail hiking dates will work for solo travelers, as long as permits are available.
This is a list of people who should definitely not hike the Inca Trail:
- Anyone who has difficulty walking, whether it be on flat surfaces or inclines.
- People over the age of 70 unless they are dedicated hikers at home.
- People with chronic health conditions that affect their mobility or activity level
- Asthma is not affected by altitude, but we recommend you discuss your plans with your physician prior to booking.
- Pregnant women should not hike. There are no medical services available near the trail.
Got questions? Call our US office in Virginia 757-714-6649
Send an email to Adios staff in the US office. They've hiked all the trails in Peru.

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Fast food restaurants are normally characterized by golden arches, brightly coloured plastic, pack-’em-in-style seating and easy-to-wipe surfaces. Grill’d, the Melbourne-born burger company known for its healthy take on burgers, has turned this idea of fast food being devoid of taste and design on its head.
The new store in Darlinghurst, Sydney, represents a further evolution of the Grill’d brand. Hassell’s design concept was “insertion,” with the design team seeking to create a sense of one physical object being brought to the site and added to the shell of the building. Several features of the existing space were protected and maintained in the new design, in order to keep a distinctly local identity for the store, a staple across the Grill’d stable. Upon entry, the huge, open industrial doors are a nod to Sydney’s affable weather; these doors would never be open in a Melbourne winter, but this shows the growing breadth of the Grill’d chain interstate. The designers were continuously aware that Grill’d’s mantra is “not your usual burger joint” and have designed the space accordingly with none of the aforementioned fast food clichés.
The seating options are varied, creating both a visual sense of energy for the waiting patron and a range of seating areas for those eating in. Street seating is provided to watch the scene on busy Victoria Road, large communal tables cater for boisterous groups, and quiet corners have been created for customers wanting to sit and eat undisturbed. The choice of materials adds a slick version of “homemade” to the space. Visual cues such as vases of thick greenery, metal water pitchers and ambient hurricane lights filled with candles remind the customer of the goodness and down-home nature of their burger. It’s a welcoming environment, but with an urban edge.
Renowned graphic design firm Fabio Ongarato Design (FOD) was charged with creating a range of paste-up graphics to be updated and refreshed periodically by pasting up fresh posters over the existing ones. This is a reference to the urbanity of music and event posters seen in laneways and streets. The result is a relaxed, unpretentious air.
But the food really is the hero of this space. With the focus on fresh, fast food, it makes sense the kitchen is open and transparent. Customers can see their burgers being cooked to order using fresh ingredients – a key differentiator for the brand. The linear kitchen is clad with beautiful, dark recycled timber, a weighty counter that gives a further nod to the homemade. The recycled timber also neatly incorporates a variety of essential functional elements such as ventilation grilles for refrigeration and lighting recesses, while cutting down on new materials. The blackboard style menu wraps across the space and delineates the room from the front buzzing section to the quieter back nooks. This is definitely not your usual burger joint … thank goodness.
Products and materials
- Academy Tiles black and white wall tiles. Dulux paint.
- Concrete sealed with Parchem Durafloor. Recycled oregon timber from Australian Recycled Timbers.
- Aloe dining chair by Billiani.
- Design practice
- Hassell Melbourne
Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
- Project Team
- Meredith Nettleton, Robert Harper, Robert Backhouse, Scott Walker
- Site details
314 Victoria Street,
Site type Urban
Type Hospitality, Restaurants
- Project Details
Design, documentation 3 months
Construction 2 months


The Kilimanjaro Expedition is proud to welcome Team Fox member Roger Long.
Roger lives by the principle: “Don’t allow other people to define you; you have the ultimate power to define who and what you are.”
Diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 36, Roger watched his health deteriorate over the next eight years as lack of mobility led to additional health problems.
What happened next, Roger describes as his “Alive Day.” On September 22, 2010, he came to a fork in his life’s road – one path leading to death, the other to a new life.
“That day, I began the process of not only reclaiming the life I had before PD and the associated problems, but a better life that included all of the lessons learned from eight long years of struggle. A commitment to regular exercise and proper nutrition, and maintaining a positive attitude were essential to the turnaround.”
Roger’s new course began small, a three quarter mile loop near his home without the assistance of a cane. Walking became part of Roger’s daily regimen, and as he added more distance each time, reaching the next milestone became more and more addictive. Within four months, he achieved his first major milestone, a 10-mile hike that brought him to his first summit, a large rock by a lake near his home.
Roger describes reaching the summit as pure exhilaration, something that one should enjoy and savor. It gave him the opportunity to take a 360-degree view of his surroundings and his life, to look upward and find his next summit.
From there, Roger challenged himself to trek the distance of a marathon. Within six months of his first summit, and less than a year since his “Alive Day,” Roger hiked 26.2 miles while wearing a 25lb backpack.
Roger’s milestones are impressive:
- More than 1,300 miles walked and/or hiked since September 2010
- 151 miles hiked in one month (Dec 2011)
- 26.2 miles hiked in one day (October 14, 2011)
- 27.2 miles hiked in one day (February 25,2012)
And his transformation is equally inspiring:
- 90+ lbs lost
- Diabetes – gone
- Sleep apnea – gone
- Reflux – gone
- High cholesterol – now in normal range
- Parkinson’s disease – went from being very symptomatic and needing multiple medications to being mildly symptomatic without the use of medication
Roger recently joined the Team Fox Kilimanjaro Expedition and has set his sights on the summit of Africa’s tallest mountain. The entire Fox Foundation wishes him the best of luck on this summit, and all that will follow.
Learn more about Roger’s story on his blog and you can also support his fundraising efforts on his Team Fox page. Learn more about the Kilimanjaro Expedition and how you can get involved.


Smith & Wesson M&P15-22 Pistol W/ SBA3 Brace
For almost 200 years Smith & Wesson has been producing high quality firearms for civilian, law enforcement and military use. Most recently the M&P line of pistols and AR15 Rifles have been extremely popular with shooters of all types. We are proud to carry this iconic U.S made firearm brand.
Smith & Wesson M&P15-22 Pistol Features
- Model 13321
- UPC 022188885033
- Semi auto
- 7" barrel
- Threaded Barrel with Flash Suppressor
- SB Tactical SBA3 Adjustable Arm Brace with Closure Strap
- M&P Handguard with M-LOK Slots
- Functioning Charging Handle and Shell Deflector
- One-point QD Sling Swivel Attachment Point in Arm Brace
- 25 round capacity
The Smith & Wesson M&P15-22 is an AR style pistol with a 7" threaded barrel and SB Tactical pistol brace chambered in 22LR. Perfect for training or just plinking. Features a M&P handguard with M-LOK slots for your favorite accessories. The charging handle is fully functional as is the shell deflector. A QD sling swivel attachment point is provided in the arm brace for a one point sling and out front a birdcage flash suppressor can be removed for suppressed operation. If your looking for a great AR15 alternative for training or just for fun then this M&P 15-22 makes a reliable and affordable option. Comes with 1 -25 round magazine.
Optic NOT included
PLEASE NOTE: If you live in a magazine restricted state we remove the hi cap mag and will be glad to substitute with a 10 round mag IF AVAILABLE. If a 10 round mag is not available we will remove the hi cap magazine from the shipment. We cannot ship prohibited magazines to out of state addresses. There will be no substitutions or discounts offered for removal of mags.
It is your responsibility to be familiar with your current local gun laws BEFORE placing your order. Please feel free to email us with questions you may have.
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