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A container with an apparent ransom payment is dropped to pirates holding the Saudi Arabian oil supertanker MV Sirius
Star Jan. 9 in the Gulf of Aden. The ship, which was transporting 2 million barrels of oil, was overcome by a small gang
of pirates in November while traveling about 520 miles off the coast of Kenya. It was freed soon after the $3 million
ransom was received. The pirates had been asking for $25 million.
CTF-151 is a spin-off of CTF-150, established at the
start of Operation Enduring Freedom to conduct maritime security operations in the Gulf of Aden, the Gulf of
Oman, the Arabian Sea, Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
"It's fair to say that piracy started as a very low-scale
operation. It certainly is not low scale now. It is organized crime at a much higher level," said Canadian Navy
Commodore Bob Davidson, who served as CTF-150
commander for three months in 2008.
Davidson, who was addressing a gathering at the
Canadian Embassy in Washington Dec. 19, said that
during his command, CTF-150 stopped 11 pirate
attacks and thwarted countless others.
The piracy problem has sparked debate in recent
months about whether militaries around the world
should be more active in addressing the problem, he said.
"The military has a key role to play in the short term
to allow industry to adapt, but the long-term solution
is going to have to be industry," Davidson said.
"The issue has gotten the attention from the highest
levels of the U.S. government," said Sean T. Connaughton, maritime administrator at the Department of
Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD).
Indeed, the new U.S. counterpiracy action plan,
"Countering Piracy Off the Horn of Africa: Partnership
and Action Plan," released by the White House Jan. 14,
calls upon the departments of State, Defense and
Justice; the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and MARAD; and
other agencies, to play a part in protecting American
trade interests and reaffirming the nation's anti-piracy
policies, MARAD officials said.
MARAD's multipurpose mission involves ensuring
the safe and secure passage of the nation's domestic
and foreign waterborne commerce. As the agency
accountable to U.S. commercial shippers and Merchant
Mariners, MARAD also is a key counterpiracy resource
in the United States.
The agency's Web site provides updated information
and advisories counseling mariners on procedures for
transiting the 2. 5 million square miles in the Gulf of
Aden and along Somalia's east coast, serving to a certain degree as a counterpart to the International
Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre, an
operation of the International Chamber of Commerce's
Commercial Crime Services.
Connaughton said the new action plan reflects portions of U.N. Resolution 1851, also passed in December.
"The resolution authorized force against the pirates
both at sea as well as potentially ashore," he said. "In
that resolution was the establishment of a 'Contact
Group' on Somali piracy that will consist of 22 nations
and four international organizations."


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50 Years Later, World's Fair Lampposts are a Bright Light for Collectors
By Nicholas Hirshon
Along Route 447 in the Pocono Mountains is a ribbon of retro lampposts topped by squares of ivory, orange, blue, and turquoise, fading away like panels of a Rubik's Cube that was left out in the sun. They are bulky and heavy, rusty and dirty.
No matter to Mitch Silverstein.
"I would make space now if I could get a hold of one," said Mr. Silverstein, 55 years old, of Nyack, N.Y. "It reflects our mortality. You're grabbing something that reminds you of your youth and preserving it."
Half a century ago, these lampposts dotted the grounds of the 1964-1965 World's Fair in Queens, an array of whimsical exhibits and rides spread across 646 acres that would become Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. After the fair, a set of the luminaires, as they are known, was shipped 100 miles to Analomink, Pa., to welcome honeymooners to the Penn Hills Resort.

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Walkinshaw is perhaps best known for making Aussie super cars we can't get here. Their latest Series II SuperUte is the most enticing and most ridiculous of all.
We're not sure if it's the Coriolis Effect, a penal colony past, or perhaps a lifetime of watching Paul Hogan movies that made a supercharged V8-powered van-car-truck appeal to the tinkerers at Walkinshaw but we're grateful for their mania. Without it we wouldn't have this.
They start with a Hold SS Commodore Ute and add 20-inch forged alloy wheels, a van topper with a carbon fiber door, Bilstein springs, and a few other aggressive visual tweaks. All of this is topped off with a WP230 supercharger for the 6.2-liter V8 as well as steel cat headers and a 3" polished stainless exhaust.
What results is maddest way to deliver pizzas this side of the Deliverator.
Walkinshaw: Australian for batshit insane!.


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Cornell Law School Expansion & Renovation
Since the addition of the Jane Foster wing twenty-four years ago, the Law School has continued to grow steadily. Our faculty has expanded and will continue to expand, and we've added on average one new student per class since the Law School's inception. We need classroom space, office space, and meeting and gathering space.
With the Cornell Law School Expansion Groundbreaking Ceremony on June 9, 2012, the Law School will begin a three-year expansion and renovation initiative to meet our needs for planned growth on a twenty-year horizon. The expansion and renovations project will create much-needed, "state-of-the-art," interactive classroom space, break-out lobby and study space, a reinvigorated Purcell Courtyard, and a new entryway on College Avenue.
In concert with University architects, the Law School has partnered with Ann Beha Architects for this project, a firm that understands Cornell Law School and what we're about – both our needs and our character, as well as our sense of community. Ann Beha is well known for melding traditional architecture with new additions and renovations.
It is time to break ground!


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Unnerved by a market crash and years of extraordinary volatility, many clients are hiding from risk. To Tim Noonan, managing director of Capital Market Insights for Russell Investments, these clients' best hope of averting financial calamity is for advisors to help them overcome their fears and get fully behind a good plan.
Noonan (left), whose presentation on designing successful retirement plans was a popular feature of last year's Retirement Income Symposium in Boston, delivered the closing keynote address on Thursday at the fifth annual RIS. In his talk, "Disengagement: Creating the Future You Fear," he observed that lack of engagement in retirement planning is leading people toward the very financial insecurity they dread. What they need to know, and are not finding out, is simply whether they'll have enough money for their needs.
This troubled group includes many planners' clients. For example, Noonan said, 55% of clients polled in one survey insisted that they didn't have a financial plan. The implication is that they hadn't bought into whatever plan their advisor did prepare. If an advisor manages to get clients like these fully engaged, they will change their behavior to help their plan succeed. Noonan suggested that advisors will also be able to develop asset allocation alternatives that provide more "lift" than traditional AA strategies.
Taking the Easiest Route
Noonan reminded the audience that during the financial crisis, most clients "called you and said, 'Get me out of stocks!'" Some beefed up their savings, while a few decided to work longer before retiring. Typically, he pointed out, "people [tend to] take the easiest route."
Another factor in clients' reluctance to commit to a financial plan is cultural. "Investing is deferred consumption, and to be American is to be a consumer," Noonan said. People hate to give up spending on immediate gratification. As a result, they'll actually take the path toward what they most fear—destitution—unless their advisor steps in.
What will it take to get them to modify their behavior? According to Noonan, researcher Matt Greenwald has determined that a new behavior must promise consistency, sustainability and flexibility in order to be adopted. Unfortunately, no retirement income vehicle provides all three.
- Bond ladders, even when structured to be flexible and sustainable, provide inconsistent income because of variations in yield.
- Systematic withdrawals can be both consistent and flexible, but may be unsustainable in the long term.
- Annuities offer consistent, sustainable income but tie up the client's money. People dislike being kept from access to their assets, since they distrust their own ability to predict the future. (Separately, Noonan reprised his 2011 take on annuities' value later in life as an inexpensive way to generate a stream of income replacing portfolio assets depleted earlier.)
Among the lessons for advisors, Noonan said, is that successful plans should include a spending policy and a personal asset liability model, and should take into consideration alternative asset allocation objectives, the option value of deferring annuitization, and the "hyperbolic discount" (the tendency to discount the value of jam tomorrow compared with jam today).
'Let's Discuss Your Lifestyle Design'
An advisor can help clients overcome their fears by using language that disarms and engages them. Research that Noonan funded on this topic turned up some interesting results:
- "Financial planning" tends to be viewed as boring or drudgery.
- "Retirement income" makes people think (unpleasantly) of having to buy an insurance policy.
- "Lifestyle design" suggests control and choice, both positives.
- "Personalization" is tremendously appealing. "Tailoring" may be an even more useful term, since "people don't mind if the tailor reuses the pattern," Noonan explained. They may even enjoy feeling part of an elite group.
- "Tactical investing" is viewed positively. "People know they should be more adaptive, but they aren't sure what of," said Noonan. Financial plans should adapt to the outcomes they're producing, not to hypothetical market forecasts.
How Well Are You Funded?
Noonan believes that advisors who focus on retirement income solutions should designate their "A" clients based on economic surplus, not wealth. He suggests triaging the client/prospect universe as follows:
- Ideal clients are overfunded, with more than 150% of what they will need for retirement.
- Target clients are fully funded, with 100% to 150% of what they need.
- Less desirable clients are underfunded, with less than 100% of what they need.
Retirees who don't know their funded ratio may live in constant fear of going broke, even if there's virtually no chance of it. To assist advisors interested in providing this simple, clear projection to clients, Noonan is glad to discuss how he calculates ratios.
Becoming Your Clients' 'Time Cop'
"At a certain point, wealth is less important to people than time," Noonan said. By projecting funded ratios at various points in the future, an advisor can help clients decide whether or not to invest time in increasing their net worth. He drove home this argument by sharing his own funded ratio projections for the next several years, showing when he expects to become fully funded.
"It's meaningful" when an advisor shows you how many of your promises you can keep in exchange for working for x, y, or z more years, Noonan concluded. "Be your clients' time cop, not just their money cop."
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The Misuse of "Reform"
When Samuel Johnson said that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," he overlooked the value of the word "reform." (I didn't say this first, but I can't discover who did.) Webster's says that "reform" means "to put or change into an improved form or condition [or] to amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults or abuses." So in political terms, a reform is a change for the better. But whether a particular policy change would actually improve things is often controversial. Unfortunately, the mainstream media typically use the word "reform" to mean "change in a liberal direction."
It's bad enough that they constantly use the phrase "campaign finance reform" to refer to laws that restrict individuals' ability to spend their money to advance their political ideas. And of course every day we hear and read the term "health care reform" used to mean new subsidies, mandates, regulations, taxes, and restrictions on how health care is provided. Needless to say, there's heated debate in the country as to whether such laws would constitute reform.
And now the Washington Post gives us this prominent headline (page 3, upper right):
450 Mayors Petition Obama
To Adopt Broad Gun Reform
The story makes clear that what the mayors want is what used to be called "gun control" — more power for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the creation of an "Interstate Firearms Trafficking Unit," more restrictions on gun shows, more data collection on individuals. No doubt anti‐gun strategists have discovered that "gun control" is an unpopular term, so they advise advocates to use terms like "gun reform"; and reporters, headline writers, and editors at the Post go along with it.
Now try to imagine this story in the Washington Post:
450 Mayors Petition Obama
To Adopt Broad Media Reform
A new report from a national coalition of mayors urges President Obama to adopt dozens of reforms to help curb media excesses, including steps to crack down on problems with unauthorized leaks, the creation of a federal interstate media monitoring unit, new rules on media concentration, a federal database of people who use hateful language in letters to the editor and online comments.
Hard to imagine the Post would blithely accept the term "reform" in that case, isn't it? And I don't think the Post and other mainstream media called President Reagan's tax cuts "tax reform." (They did use the term "tax reform" when the proposed policy involved eliminating loopholes and thus taxing more activities, along with a reduction of rates.) Nor, I think, did they call President Bush's proposed Social Security private accounts "Social Security reform." They should be equally careful when liberal activists dub their proposals "reform."
Meanwhile, kudos to Mara Liasson of NPR, who in this story from Friday uses the terms "health care legislation" and "health care overhaul," but never "health care reform." I hope that was a conscious choice, in recognition of the fact that about half of Americans don't think the current subsidy‐regulation‐mandate legislation is in fact reform.


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A lucky encounter with a juvenile Cantareus apertus, also known as the green snail. Native of the Mediterranean and North Africa, these snails spend most of their life underground, but emerge after rain. Subadults like this one have a yellowish-green shell and body, which will darken with time: as adults they are almost black fleshed and have uniformely brown shells.
In spite of their small size (about 2,5-3 cm in diameter), these snails are highly prized for culinary purposes, especially in southern Italian peninsula of Salento, where they are known as municeddhi, municedde or moniceddi. (They are said to be far superior to other edible snails, even Helix pomatia)
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Falken Tyre Collaboration with Liverpool FC
Falken Tyre is pleased to announce a multi-year collaboration with Liverpool Football Club as a Global Partner and Official Tyre Partner.
The partnership will see the two brands work together to create unique experiences for fans and customers alike while opening further growth opportunities in Falken's key global markets.
Commenting on the partnership, Billy Hogan, Chief Commercial Officer and Managing Director at Liverpool Football Club said: "We are proud to partner with FALKEN and are pleased to welcome them to the LFC family as a global partner. FALKEN has a great synergy with the club and it shares our values in terms of attitude and performance. We very much look forward to working together on this partnership."
Markus Bögner, COO of Falken Tyre Europe also commented,: "We're delighted to partner with a football club as prestigious as Liverpool FC. We both believe in an exciting future and we look forward to working together to reward and recognise our customers, as well as connecting with more fans across all channels, including our trade and retail partners. This partnership marks another milestone of our integrated football strategy. At the core it is built around the combination of in-stadium branding, quality time and experiences for dealers and simultaneously covering the football TV broadcast for Falken advertising in our key markets throughout Europe."


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Here's another set of quotes from Robert Holmes, one of 'Doctor Who's most popular script editors and writers. He talks about being called a clot by the Head of Series and Serials, about not wanting to use the Daleks, and about the 'intentional' continuity problems of 'The Two Doctors'.
On 'Spearhead From Space'
It was about the time plastic was coming in, in a really big way – it was everywhere. As there was so much of the stuff around, I thought it would be effective to have an alien force that inhabited and used it. 'Doomwatch' did a plastic scare story at exactly the same time, so it was a kind of current issue. The Nestene itself I thought of as a plasticky, swirling mass, a glob of pure instinct which spawns the Autons. The Autons come from the word autonomous, because although they were formed from the Nestene element, they weren't a part of the host form. I started the show with a swarm of meteorites landing, because in 'Doctor Who' it's very rare to actually see the alien land. As this was to be a season set on Earth, I thought it would be a good grab to open it with.
On 'Terror of the Autons'
I was sitting opposite Ronnie Marsh, the then Head of Serials, across acre of polished maple. He started telling me about the guidelines he felt the programme should follow. 'Two or three seasons ago,' he said, 'we had some clot who wrote the most dreadful script. It had faceless policemen in it and plastic armchairs that went about swallowing people. I might tell you, there were questions in the House. Mrs. Whitehouse said we were turning the nation's children into bed-wetters'. Could it be that he was referring to my 'Terror of the Autons'? 'Tut, tut', I muttered, feeling the job slipping away. 'how awfully irresponsible'.
The elements in the story all came from plastic again. At the time there was a soap powder distributing plastic daffodils outside supermarkets, and I remembered all the warnings about children not being allowed near plastic bags. Then it all came together – I suddenly realised that all you need is a four-inch square of clingfilm to suffocate someone, and the spitting daffodils followed on. As for the doll and the armchair, well, there were some Danish troll dolls on the gimmick market at the time and I thought they were horrible, so I used that idea. Also, those plastic inflatable armchairs were all the rage, which is why I wrote in McDermott – specifically to kill him off in that chair!
On 'Carnival of Monsters'
I was particularly fond of the ending, where the Master finally gets to finish his book! Meanwhile, Vorg and Shirna were a kind of in-joke on the acting profession – they'd been in theatrical digs all over the galaxy, and were deliberately very tacky. I thought it added depth to it. That was the one where I created a little anecdote about a place called Metebelis 3 – which they then went on to use!
On 'The Time Warrior'
They wanted to do a historical, which they hadn't attempted for some time. Now, I hate 'Doctor Who' in the history mode, because I think it's too whimsy and twee. So I compromised and offered them a story mixing science fiction with a kind of pseudo-history. The Sontarans came after I'd been reading some heavy tome on war – it was terribly Teutonic and all about the Fatherland and so on. I saw the cloned Sontarans gaining sustenance from their shops wherein they are monitored to make sure they don't spend too much time on the recharding. If they do, I saw a kind of umbilical regression surging down to kill them.
The bifurcated hand was my mistake – it was very difficult for the actor to pull out his laser or whatever. Other stuff in that script was Professior Ruebish, a favourite character of mine, because I like zany professors and that wonderful sexist line about Sarah, where Linx says she is useless because her thorax shows her to be the female of the species! The name Irongron was inspirted from the Danish names of warriors, while Bloodaxe was just hokey 'Robin Hood' style – you know, terribly butch men living in castles.
On 'Genesis of the Daleks'
I said 'Unless somebody can come up with something different, I'm not doing a Dalek story'. A lot of pressure was put on me to change my mind. Then Barry came up with the idea of calling it 'Genesis' and having this Davros character who had actually invented the Daleks in his own image. This gave the story some scope and we could have some acting going on. I'd looked at the viewing graphs for the Daleks, and saw that every time they were brought back they were popular in week one, as a lot of people had perhaps never seen them before, and then the graph would go straight down, because they were boring.
On 'The Android Invasion'
I said to Terry Nation 'Let's have another story, but not Daleks', and I think he was quite keen, as Daleks are terribly difficult to use, anyway.
On 'Pyramids of Mars'
We had a character try to steal the TARDIS, to which the Doctor said it was isomorphic, only he could operate it. Then, later stories should Leela and lots of other flying the TARDIS willy-nilly. This appeared to be bad continuity – but surely when faced with Sutekh, the Doctor had good reason to lie.
On 'The Brain of Morbius'
I ended up writing most of it, and it was the same with all my 'Doctor Who's – very difficult because you're inbetween Grand Guignol Gothic horror on one sie, and Monty Python on the other. 'The Brain of Morbius' could terribly easily have gone over to the other.
On 'The Masque of Mandragora'
The starting point for the story was an idea Louis Marks had that there might be some basis for the 'science' of astrology. That the stars, in fact, did have an influence on human affairs. We tried to rationalise this idea, and this led us to Demnos. We also decided that, if the story was to work properly, it should be placed in an era when astrology was taken very seriously.
On 'The Talons of Weng Chiang'
Tom didn't like the Leela character at all, and at first was only mollified because he thought she was only gonig to be in the three stories. I remember during 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang' that Philip Hinchcliffe had still not told Tom that she was signed up for another season. I kept going to him and saying 'Have you told Tom yet?'. I think in the end he left it to Graham Williams.
On 'Underworld'
Unfortunately, the CSO was very hard on the director, Norman Stewart. For years, he'd been one of the BBC's senior production managers, and finally he went to the head of department and said 'I think it's time I became a director'. He did the course and went freelance, but it was really being plunged in the deep end to have to direct 'Underworld' as virtually your first assignment'.
On 'The Ribos Oberation'
I like wild, rich, hammy characters and 'Doctor Who' is one of the few series where you can get away with them. I liked the Graff, with all his German connotations and one of the key stills in writing for the Baker Doctor was to make sure that there were strong enough parts so that Tom didn't completely dominate – if an actor wasn't strong enough, or if the part wasn't there, Tom would overtake.
George Spenton-Foster directed and he tended to appreciate the humour in the script, so that Iain Cuthbertson was allowed to get away with a lot. That was my fault because of the writing, but this basic joke of a splended galactic con-man trying to sell a planet amused me.
On 'The Power of Kroll'
It's probably the least favourite of all my stories. It didn't work. Anthony Read said to me 'I don't want any humour. I want the biggest monster 'Doctor Who's ever seen'. I instantly thought 'We're in trouble now'. It gave Norman Stewart terrible problems and I think it was a bit dull. Anyway, I hated the umbrella theme, because it gave everything an additional complication.
On 'The Two Doctors'
When I wrote 'The Two Doctors', it was no mistake that the Troughton Doctor knew he was being controlled by the Time Lords. The theory which myself and other who worked on 'Doctor Who' began to conceive was that the Time Lords were in dual control of the TARDIS all the time. The first trial was a mockery, a public relations exercise, because the Doctor had become involved too close to home and something had to be done about him. That's why he is almost half-hearted about attempting to escape, which normally he never was. He knew that they were in complete control and had been all along. To operate as sneakily as this, you would have to be corrupt, and that's what came later, when I was the script editor. Did they not condemn the Doctor to exile for interfering in the affairs of other planets? And yet who had sent him on these missions? They had!


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Citadel: Cerberus Turian Poison
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A doctor on the Citadel is looking for a Cerberus poison tailored to turians. Find a sample of the toxin and deliver it to the Huerta Memorial Hospital.
Starting Point
The events of Priority: Citadel 2 have left Huerta Memorial Hospital busier than ever. Listen in on a doctor lamenting the fact that he lacks the ability to counteract the turian-specific poison.
War Assets: Turian Seventh Fleet
You'll find the necessary item called the Turian Toxin Data in the lab area (under a microscope) during the mission Arrae: Ex-Cerberus Scientists. If you already missed this item, you can buy it from the Spectre terminal.
Return to the doctor in Huerta Memorial Hospital afterward.


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Forty years ago, soldiers returning from Vietnam were advised to change into civilian clothes on their flights home so that they wouldn't be accosted by angry protesters at the airport. For a Vietnamese businessman who helped the U.S. government, a rising sense of panic set in as the last combat troops left the country on March 29, 1973 and he began to contemplate what he'd do next. A young North Vietnamese soldier who heard about the withdrawal felt emboldened to continue his push on the battlefields of southern Vietnam.
While the fall of Saigon two years later - with its indelible images of frantic helicopter evacuations - is remembered as the final day of the Vietnam War, Friday marks an anniversary that holds greater meaning for many who fought, protested or otherwise lived the war. Since then, they've embarked on careers, raised families and in many cases counseled a younger generation emerging from two other faraway wars.
Many veterans are encouraged by changes they see. The U.S. has a volunteer military these days, not a draft, and the troops coming home aren't derided for their service. People know what PTSD stands for. And they're insisting that the government take care of soldiers suffering from it and other legacy injuries from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Below are the stories of a few of the people who experienced a part of the Vietnam War firsthand.
Former Air Force Sgt. Howard Kern, who lives in central Ohio near Newark, spent a year in Vietnam before returning home in 1968.
He said that for a long time he refused to wear any service ribbons associating him with southeast Asia and he didn't even his tell his wife until a couple of years after they married that he had served in Vietnam. He said she was supportive of his war service and subsequent decision to go back to the Army to serve another 18 years.
Kern said that when he flew back from Vietnam with other service members, they were told to change out of uniform and into civilian clothes while they were still on the airplane to avoid the ire of protesters at the airport.
"What stands out most about everything is that before I went and after I got back, the news media only showed the bad things the military was doing over there and the body counts," said Kern, now 66. "A lot of combat troops would give their c rations to Vietnamese children, but you never saw anything about that - you never saw all the good that GIs did over there."
Kern, an administrative assistant at the Licking County Veterans' Service Commission, said the public's attitude is a lot better toward veterans coming home for Iraq and Afghanistan - something the attributes in part to Vietnam veterans.
"We're the ones that greet these soldiers at the airports. We're the ones who help with parades and stand alongside the road when they come back and applaud them and salute them," he said.
He said that while the public "might condemn war today, they don't condemn the warriors."
"I think the way the public is treating these kids today is a great thing," Kern said. "I wish they had treated us that way."
But still worries about the toll that multiple tours can take on service members.
"When we went over there, you came home when your tour was over and didn't go back unless you volunteered. They are sending GIs back now maybe five or seven times, and that's way too much for a combat veteran," he said.
He remembers feeling glad when the last troops left Vietnam, but was sad to see Saigon fall two years later. "Vietnam was a very beautiful country, and I felt sorry for the people there," he said.
Tony Lam was 36 on the day the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam. He was a young husband and father, but most importantly, he was a businessman and U.S. contractor furnishing dehydrated rice to South Vietnamese troops. He also ran a fish meal plant and a refrigerated shipping business that exported shrimp.
As Lam, now 76, watched American forces dwindle and then disappear, he felt a rising panic. His close association with the Americans was well-known and he needed to get out - and get his family out - or risk being tagged as a spy and thrown into a Communist prison. He watched as South Vietnamese commanders fled, leaving whole battalions without a leader.
"We had no chance of surviving under the Communist invasion there. We were very much worried about the safety of our family, the safety of other people," he said this week from his adopted home in Westminster, Calif.
But Lam wouldn't leave for nearly two more years after the last U.S. combat troops, driven to stay by his love of his country and his belief that Vietnam and its economy would recover.
When Lam did leave, on April 21, 1975, it was aboard a packed C-130 that departed just as Saigon was about to fall. He had already worked for 24 hours at the airport to get others out after seeing his wife and two young children off to safety in the Philippines.
"My associate told me, `You'd better go. It's critical. You don't want to end up as a Communist prisoner.' He pushed me on the flight out. I got tears in my eyes once the flight took off and I looked down from the plane for the last time," Lam recalled. "No one talked to each other about how critical it was, but we all knew it."
Now, Lam lives in Southern California's Little Saigon, the largest concentration of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam.
In 1992, Lam made history by becoming the first Vietnamese-American to elected to public office in the U.S. and he went on to serve on the Westminster City Council for 10 years.
Looking back over four decades, Lam says he doesn't regret being forced out of his country and forging a new, American, life.
"I went from being an industrialist to pumping gas at a service station," said Lam, who now works as a consultant and owns a Lee's Sandwich franchise, a well-known Vietnamese chain.
"But thank God I am safe and sound and settled here with my six children and 15 grandchildren," he said. "I'm a happy man."
A North Vietnamese soldier, Ho Van Minh heard about the American combat troop withdrawal during a weekly meeting with his commanders in the battlefields of southern Vietnam.
The news gave the northern forces fresh hope of victory, but the worst of the war was still to come for Minh: The 77-year-old lost his right leg to a land mine while advancing on Saigon, just a month before that city fell.
"The news of the withdrawal gave us more strength to fight," Minh said Thursday, after touring a museum in the capital, Hanoi, devoted to the Vietnamese victory and home to captured American tanks and destroyed aircraft.
"The US left behind a weak South Vietnam army. Our spirits was so high and we all believed that Saigon would be liberated soon," he said.
Minh, who was on a two-week tour of northern Vietnam with other veterans, said he bears no ill will to the American soldiers even though much of the country was destroyed and an estimated 3 million Vietnamese died.
If he met an American veteran now he says, "I would not feel angry; instead I would extend my sympathy to them because they were sent to fight in Vietnam against their will."
But on his actions, he has no regrets. "If someone comes to destroy your house, you have to stand up to fight."
Flaccus reported from Los Angeles and Cornwell reported from Cincinnati. Associated Press writer Chris Brummitt in Hanoi contributed to this report.


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There's a new kid on the restaurant row that is South Tamiami Trail, opposite Sarasota Memorial Hospital. It is Square 1 Burgers & Bar, in the real estate formerly occupied by Lonjevity Café. Several improvements are clear before tasting a thing, because the new operators are greatly expanding the parking space and have come up with an interior design that is comfortable, stylish and quite unlike anything else in town.
They call it "cowboy chic." "Sexy saloon" would be another option, given features that range from deco echo chairs with pony-upholstered seats to an astounding red chandelier hanging over a corner booth — worth a visit in and of itself.
It is the menu, however, that is most intriguing. Jack and Mrs. Spratt could eat here together on options that range from flat-out comfort foot to happily healthful.
For Mrs. S: "X-rated grilled cheese," a gilded lily with gruyere and cheddar, dill pickle slices, beefsteak tomato and mayonnaise — all grilled together on sourdough bread. (Yes, you can order it with bacon, too.) The mac and cheese is made with cheddar and swiss and topped with breadcrumbs, just like many mothers used to make it. Of course, there are burgers galore, made with Meyer Angus beef from humanely raised, vegetarian fed, hormone-, antibiotic- and steroid-free cattle. And the fried dill-pickle chips served with ranch dressing, well, think tempura and munch away.
There are an equal number of options for the "eat-no-fats" gang. There are burgers of turkey, chicken and buffalo — the leanest of meats. There are burgers of ground ostrich, which is quite lean. Vegetarian choices include a portabello burger and a "Very Vegan Veggie Burger." Most intriguing: an Ahi Burger of tuna steak seared and served rare. At $13.99, it is the most expensive item on the menu. Burgers (including sides of fries, steamed broccoli or coleslaw) start at $6.99; the mac 'n' cheese, $3.50 (small) and $6.50 (large) and the X-rated grilled cheese, $7.99. The priceless pickle chips are $5.99.
Square 1 has a kids menu and small but tempting selection of dessert options, featuring four flavors of cupcakes: red velvet, vanilla, carrot pecan and dark chocolate. All are baked in-house from family recipes of Joanie Corneil, who owns the restaurant with partner Bill Shumate. There are mini cupcakes to tempt the Jack Sprats and cupcake sundaes with an Italian-inspired, espresso-scented Chocolate "Zuppa" for his Mrs.
Square 1 Burgers & Bar
1737 South Tamiami Trail
11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. Friday through Saturday
Phone: 870-8111
Owners: Bill Shumate and Joanie Corneil
Macaroni & Cheese
This makes a large batch so perfect for a big Super Bowl party or weekend barbecue
Yield: 10 to 12 servings
2 ½ pounds Cavatappo Pasta (Curly shape)
2 tablespoons kosher salt
6 ounces yellow onion, minced
1 cup green chilis (canned)
½ pound unsalted butter
1/3 cup flour
1 ½ quarts heavy cream
1 quart whole milk
Approximately 2 teaspoons white pepper
1 ½ pounds shredded cheddar
¾ pound shredded Swiss cheese
4 tablespoons melted butter
2 cups panko crumbs (Japanese breadcrumbs)
Heat panko crumbs with melted butter in a medium pan. Stir until lightly brown.
Boil pasta according to directions. Cook until al dente and drain.
Melt butter in large pot. Sauté minced onions until translucent. Whisk in flour and cook on low heat for 5 minutes. Do not brown flour mixture.
In a separate pot, heat milk and cream and salt. When it is at a slight boil, slowly whisk flour mixture into cream. Let cream sauce start to thicken. Add cheeses and chilis and season. Gently mix in pasta until cheese sauce is distributed throughout the pasta.
Place in a large, buttered casserole dish and bake at 350° covered with foil for 20 minutes. Remove foil, top with browned panko crumbs and bake until top is bubbly.
X-Rated Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Sourdough bread
Gruyère cheese
Cheddar cheese, aged
3 slices beefsteak tomato
6 slices dill pickles
1 to 2 teaspoons mayonnaise
Spread mayonnaise on both pieces of bread. Add three slices of gruyère and two large slices of aged cheddar cheese. Add sliced tomatoes and pickles. Butter outside of bread and grill at medium heat until well browned and cheese begins to melt. This sandwich is also wonderful on challah and whole-grain bread.
See below to see a video from Square 1 Burgers & Bar.


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320 Baker St
Enfield EN1 3LH
Now full of great characters of all ages and from all walks of life, JiveSwing Enfield is the most rocking night out in North London, found at the following venue: The Hop Poles, 320 Baker St, Enfield EN1 3LH
Doors open at 7:45pm.
8:00pm – 8:50pm
Whilst you can drop in at anytime, a fresh Absolute Beginners (Even for those with 2 left feet) cycle runs every 6-7 weeks covering key fundamental moves, including the key 8 counts, 6 Counts and classic Charleston steps. There's no need to book, just turn up in comfortable clothing and flat shoes. We rotate people around every few minutes, so don't worry if you don't have a partner.
At the end of your first class, you'll leave with at least 3-5 simple moves that you can use straight away to impress your friends. By the end of 6 weeks, you may not be a world champion, but you'll be able to dance a whole track.
Intermediate/Beginners Review
9:00pm – 9:50pm
Here you learn build upon the fundamental moves already learnt in the beginners class. We will teach you a number of variations, assuming you already know the basic Swing Outs, Lindy Turn, Circles and Charleston variations.
You will start to learn more challenging footwork and moves to enhance your social dancing, whilst improving your styling and lead/follow techniques.
Those that are visiting for their first time, are invited to join the review class, whilst the intermediate class is on.
Practice time
9:50pm onwards
This is a great opportunity to practice the moves learnt in class with lots of other dancers. We encourage all students to stay on and dance with other students. No new dancer will ever find themselves stuck watching from the sidelines. We find that people who do stay till the end seem to progress quicker and grasp new concepts and moves a lot more easier.
The Venue
The Hop Poles, 320 Baker St, Enfield EN1 3LH – fully licenced bar & onsite parking.
Safe Spaces / Etiquette
Please see our SAFE SPACES policy here… http://www.jiveswing.com/safe-spaces-policy/


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The snow has been falling heavily out in the French Alps and fittingly, our buddies at the Dragon Lodge in Tignes have hit us up with details of an early season mega deal which includes accommodation, equipment hire/testing, and coaching, all for a totally awesome price. And the best part? They're hooking up all of you lucky Onboard readers with an extra 10% off.
Simply quote Onboard when booking for 10% off these all inclusive weeks, or just simple accommodation during the first two weeks if they don't want the rest of this deal.
Read on for more info from the dudes!
It's been a great November in Tignes with excellent snow conditions on the glacier and all the way down into town already.
It's dumping again now, so it's looking like it'll be a great start to the season proper when the full Espace Killy area and all the lifts open on 30th November. To mark the season opening, 4 of Tignes best – Dragon Lodge, Tignes Spirit, Tignes.co.uk & SuperRa
– 1 week 1/2 board stay at Dragon Lodge
– Return airport transfer by Tignes.co.uk
– 6 day full area Espace Killy lift pass
– 1/2 day SuperRad coaching session or lesson
– Gold or Platinum level equipment pack (board or skis & boots) from Tignes Spirit.
– Use of Endeavor and Signal test snowboards
30th November to 7th December
7th to 14th December
For more info, or to book, contact [email protected]
More info on the Tignes crew:
SuperRad coaches James Sweet & Lewis Sonvico pride themselves on their intuition and ability to tune in to and accommodate the learning of the individual. Everyone is different, everyone has their own style, and they love that! Whatever you like to ride, and whatever style of riding, they've got it covered! Getting coached by SuperRad will change the way you see snowboarding, and they promise, it will be a ton of fun!
Type of coaching:
Beginners lessons / improver / advanced technical / park & freestyle / backcountry & off piste guiding & freestyle…
James Sweet:
Snowboard ISIA Instructor
Snowboard ISTD instructor
Carte Professional
Freestyle Development Coach Level 2
BASI trainer
Surf Instructor Level 1
Full first Aid, CRB and Child protection
Radness & Lots of Awesome!
SuperRad coaching usual rates: 50€ per hour for groups form 1 to 6 people.
Tignes Spirit:
Tignes Spirit is an independent ski & snowboard company with a snowboard / ski shop and workshop based in Le Lavachet but also an accommodation division that provides weekly and seasonal apartment rental, arranges transfers and anything else you might need for a great holiday in Tignes. Setup by three long term friends, in 2005 they started up an unique Mobile Snowboard Hire company for their guests and as well as working from the shop they still deliver your snowboards or skis to you at your chalet or apartment on arrival and give you a personal fitting with one of their technicians. They then come and collect the equipment from you at the end of the week – this is a great service which we know our guests really appreciate, leaving you more time to concentrate on settling into the lodge or apartment and getting more time out on the slopes.
Of course they also provide excellent quality equipment including Endeavor & Signal snowboards which we ride and endorse at the lodge – and offer great ski & snowboard servicing, tuning and repairs at their fully equipped workshop. As well as the great deal on equipment they're offering for these two weeks Dragon Lodge guests get 30% off equipment rental at any time during the season which can be booked directly with them via our unique link here dragonlodge.com/
Tignes.co.uk is possibly the ultimate one stop destination for all info and services you might need about Tignes. Successfully running and growing since 2002, their website has a wealth of info about Tignes – they specialise in providing accommodation from self catered apartments to catered chalets and hotels, working with the best independent accommodation providers in the resort…including Dragon Lodge of course. They also have an airport transfer service which we use and recommend, and can also arrange equipment hire, lessons, guiding, childcare services and pretty much anything else you can think of or might need on a winter or summer holiday in Tignes.
Over the years they have gained vast local knowledge enabling them to share this information with their customers so they get the most from their holiday.


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FRISCO, Texas — FC Dallas completed their three-game homestand undefeated, but not exactly in the way they would have planned, playing San Jose to a scoreless draw on Saturday night at FC Dallas Stadium.
With the draw, FC Dallas stretched their winless streak to 13 games, tied for the fourth longest in MLS history. The Texan squad, however, can take heart in giving the Earthquakes their first road shutout of the season thanks to a pair of timely interferences by defender Hernán Pertúz and a couple of late saves from goalkeeper Kevin Hartman.
San Jose came to Frisco without a key member of the attack as forward Steven Lenhart was left home to rest, with head coach Frank Yallop choosing to give super sub Alan Gordon his third start of the season next to MLS Golden Boot leader Chris Wondolowski.
For FC Dallas, 2010 MLS MVP David Ferreira was given his first start in over 14 months while Schellas Hyndman also gave a surprise first MLS start to northern California native Andrew Wiedeman as they looked to end a franchise record 12-game winless streak
With Ferreira back in the midfield, FCD enjoyed the majority of the run of play in what was a cagey first half. The Colombian playmaker sent hopeful balls up to lone striker Brek Shea, but it was San Jose who nearly found the net first.
The Earthquakes looked to play through Gordon as the center forward and his 36th-minute flick-on freed Wondolowski past Pertúz and in on goal. The MLS leading scorer was able to chip past an on-rushing Hartman, but Pertúz recovered to clear the ball off the line in a thrilling sequence.
Desperately needing a win, Hyndman made a double Brazilian substitution at halftime, bringing on Jackson for Andrew Wiedeman and giving Ricardo Villar his first minutes in three months.
Neither side was able to find much of a foothold in the second half, but the game sprung to life in the last 20 minutes. San Jose midfielder Ramiro Corrales was shown two yellow cards in the span of four minutes for challenges on FCD left back Carlos Rodriguez. His ejection reduced the Earthquakes down to 10 men for the first time this season.
However, the motto for San Jose this season has been to never say die, and the red card seemed to spur them into action. Two wild sequences in the last 15 minutes saw the visiting squad nearly take the lead through Wondolowski, but some last-ditch defending by Matt Hedges and Hartman preserved the shutout.
These two sides will become quite familiar with each other over the next two weeks, meeting again in just 11 days time at Buck Shaw Stadium in San Jose.
Before that, however, the Earthquakes will host Real Salt Lake on Saturday, July 14 (10:30 pm ET, MLS Live).
FCD, meanwhile, will also be in action that Saturday when they pay a visit to the Colorado Rapids (9 pm ET, MLS Live)


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YES! But How? Composting Toilets
I've read that composting human waste is much more environmentally friendly than disposing of it in water-based sewage systems. Could I install a composting toilet in my home?
Posted 14 July 2011, by Oliver Lazenby, Yes!, yesmagazine.org
Standard water-based sewage systems account for about 30 percent of household water use: Even low-flow toilets use 1.6 gallons of water with each flush.
Composting toilets don't use water and are odor-free and sanitary if maintained properly. In a matter of months, they break human waste down into unobjectionable compost. Municipal planning authorities across the country are coming around to the idea that composting toilets are not only better for the environment, but safe for public health, too.
One example comes from a private elementary school in Seattle with 233 students. The Bertschi School's new science wing is designed to be completely self-sufficient, which includes composting human waste. A vacuum flushes the toilet into two composting tanks, which can hold a total of six months' worth of waste. Janitors dump bark dust into the tanks to add carbon to the mixture, and slide a handle in and out to aerate.
Composting toilets can cost more than $1,000 at home stores, but the Humanure Handbook says you can do it yourself. Mount a toilet seat atop a 5-gallon bucket. Use sawdust to cover your "business," eliminate odor, and encourage the composting process. Use undyed, unscented toilet paper. Add the results to the rest of your compost, making sure it's safe from flies, rodents, and the like. Some people empty the bucket into a container like a 55-gallon drum.
This only works with a well-tended compost pile that gets hot enough to kill any pathogens. Experts recommend composting for a year to add a margin of safety, since common germs and parasites don't survive that long in soil.
The result will make great compost for trees, flowers, fruits, and fruiting vegetables, although cautious gardeners avoid using it on root crops. Contact your County Health Department to find out the regulations about composting toilets in your area.
Oliver Lazenby wrote this article for Beyond Prisons, the Summer 2011 issue of YES! Magazine. Oliver is an editorial intern at YES!
- The Humanure Handbook, now in its 3rd edition, is a detailed source on the biology of composting human manure.
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Hotels, marinas, wineries and recreational businesses now will have a chance to secure loans for tourism-related projects across the north country.
A $2 million regional tourism revolving loan fund was established Wednesday by the Development Authority of the North Country's board of directors, thanks to state funding secured in 2012 by the North Country Regional Economic Development Council. The regional council, which covers seven counties, designated DANC to serve as the administrator of the loan. Low-interest loans will be funded up to $250,000.
The funding was applied for by the regional council's tourism work group, which is comprised of about 20 tourism directors and municipal officials.
After hosting public meetings in 2011, the tourism group decided that funding was needed to improve lodging in the region, said Gary S. DeYoung, executive director of the 1000 Islands International Tourism Council. The group heard feedback from business owners in Clayton, Potsdam, Ogdensburg, Lake Placid and Port Henry.
"We heard consistently that there is a need for lodging upgrades — the destination, quality lodging that's aimed at serving tourism areas," said Mr. DeYoung, co-chairman of the tourism group. "It became clear that we had a lot to do for investment in lodging and recreational facilities in the region, but there aren't a lot of tools given to economic-development agencies to help tourism businesses."
The loan fund is expected to assist a miscellany of regional projects, Mr. DeYoung said. Hoteliers are looking to expand and modernize properties, for example, and developers could seek loans to fund multimillion-dollar lodging projects. Loans also may be acquired by municipalities on the waterfront that rely on seasonal tourism. The city of Ogdensburg, for instance, plans to seek funding for waterfront development projects.
"We also have historic and recreational properties that need renovations," Mr. DeYoung said. "Or some communities may need help to develop a marina business on the waterfront."
James W. Wright, executive director of DANC and a member of the regional council, said the fund will help entrepreneurs and small businesses in the tourism industry that might have been denied funding by financial institutions. He cited the network of wineries, restaurants and resorts along the Thousand Islands-Seaway Wine Trail as an example of an area that could benefit.
"Seasonal tourism has suffered because of the lack of accommodations here, and lots of small businesses will be able to take advantage of loans," Mr. Wright said.
If the $2 million fund starts to run dry due to high demand, Mr. Wright said, the regional council eventually could award more state money.
"The fund's shelf-life will depend on its success," he said.
-Ted Booker, Watertown Daily Times


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How do I create a script to file selected mail that's already in my inbox into a specified mailbox? For example, I create a mailbox called To Do. I want an easy way to move mail I select from various users and with various subject lines into this folder manually -- with a simple press of a toolbar button.
With the help of Eric, I was able to create a filter that will do this if I press CTRL+F5, but that is not as easy as simply pressing a toolbar button. And I haven't found a way to associate a filter with a button.
So is there a way to either create a script to do what I want OR to create a script that activates the filter I already created and then associate that script with a button?
Another thing I would like to associate with a toolbar button is to backup the mail from a user account into a folder I specify. I know you can set this up to be done automatically at an interval I select via menu options, but I would like to be able to do this manually at various times too.
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Madeira is well known for its walking facilities, and we noticed that more and more visitors to Madeira are walking on their own by using various information they find in books. Unfortunately, books are published in large quantities and are not regular updated with changes due to landslides and maintenance issues. Secondly, these books are translated from 1 standard language. This is causing serious problems on Madeira.
Nature Meetings is contacted by the local authorities as soon as a walker is in difficulties. With our experience we locate the casualty, make an assessment and contact the emergency services to advice them how to handle and which tools are required.
Most of these accidents are walkers who are walking by themselves. With the aftercare we supply we noticed that most of these walkers used some kind of documentation (books, Internet or information by friend and/or family).
We understand the reasons why people like to walk on their own, however not everyone is aware of the walking conditions on Madeira (that could change daily!).
Therefore you should take precautions before you decide to walk on your own.
- Get all the walking conditions before the start of the walk, such as: weather, vertigo, tunnels, landslides, duration, and distance.
- Where do you start and finish (is there transport).
- Inform your accommodation where you going to walk, what time do you leave and what time do you expect to return. Leave your contact details with your accommodation.
- Prepare yourself properly with: shoes, clothing, walking equipment (as long as you prepare for the worst, you should be ok).
- Ensure that you have a mobile with you, and that you have the numbers from the emergency services (be aware not everyone speaks your language).
In the previous article we published more advice.
As I wrote earlier, Madeira experienced last years an increase of the casualty rate (mostly broken bones, cuts and bruises, including a few fatalities). Therefore I would advise you to consider your options.
With the transport costs, loss in holiday time, Health & Safety and all nature related information in mind, you will realise that Guided walks are saver and cheaper.
Whilst I do understand that you might want to walk on your own, you must realise the dangers you might face.
Please, consider your options!


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Yesterday morning was a crazy time here, as we – along with millions of others – waited to hear the Supreme Court's decisions on two important cases involving gay marriage.
Here's what they decided, in what is seen as two major victories for gay rights:
The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped away part of a federal anti-gay marriage law that has kept legally married same-sex couples from receiving tax, health and pension benefits.
Click here to read the complete text of the court's opinion and dissent in the DOMA case.
The other was a technical ruling that said nothing at all about same-sex marriage, but left in place a trial court's declaration that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. That outcome probably will allow state officials to order the resumption of same-sex weddings in the nation's most populous state in about a month.
Readers were swift to react – on both sides of the issue. However much of it was in support of the rulings:
With the non-decision on the legality of gay marriage as a whole, this is issue is guaranteed to come up again. In my estimation, it will be soon. People are hungry to know what the highest court will rule, one way or another.


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Singapore Stories: Bakkwa (Meat Jerky)
Living right next to Chinatown here in Singapore definitely has its benefits. Aside from the beautiful temples and awesome foot massage parlors, there's a slew of Sichuan restaurants, steamboat and hotpot eateries, and fun restaurant supply stores filled with any size bamboo steamer or wok you can imagine.
This area also happens to be jam packed with vendors of bakkwa, a sweet-salty char-grilled meat jerky. Bakkwa is extremely popular in Singapore, and everyone seems to have strong feelings as to the best place to procure it. I've always had a certain lack of control when it comes to any kind of dried, processed, sweet/salty, chewy meat product (or by-product). So when I moved here over a year ago, I made a radical decision to stay away from the stuff. I was sure that just one taste of it would get me crack addict hooked.
Last week I finally gave in to the calling wafts of bbq'd pork. I am in serious trouble.
When it came to choosing bakkwa shops to sample, I was nothing short of a gluttonous kid in a pork candy store. A short search pulled up no less than nine shops within a ten-minute walk of both each other and my apartment.
See more bakkwa photos in the slideshow >>
About the Author: Yvonne Ruperti is a food writer, recipe developer, former bakery owner, and author of The Complete Idiot's Guide To Easy Artisan Bread. You can also watch her culinary stylings on the America's Test Kitchen television show. She presently lives in Singapore as a freelance writer for Time Out Singapore. Check out her blog: shophousecook.com . Follow Yvonne on Twitter.
All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. We may earn a commission on purchases, as described in our affiliate policy.


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Excellence in refining
In today's industrial society, the use of different metals has increased tremendously and industrial residues and end-of-life products are becoming more and more complex. To compete with this increasing demand and complexity, Umicore Precious Metals Refining has expanded its operations in Hoboken, Belgium. Our processes are based on complex lead/copper/nickel metallurgy, using these base metals as collectors for precious metals and other metals.


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Nineteen states have turned down the Obama administration's invitation to run the new health insurance markets that will begin serving millions of uninsured Americans less than a year from now. That puts a huge task on the feds, a defining challenge for President Barack Obama's second term.
Friday is decision day for states to notify Washington if they will set up their own insurance exchanges under the federal health care law. Monitoring by The Associated Press finds a divided nation moving ahead, despite the misgivings of some state officials. Half the states now say they will participate in some way.
Still, drafters of the law did not anticipate that so many states would remain on the sidelines at this late stage. Federal control of the new state markets where individuals, families and small businesses will shop for taxpayer-subsidised private coverage was seen as a failsafe, not the standard for nearly half the country. Critics predict delays.
All of the states refusing are led by Republicans.
On the other side of the ledger, 17 states and Washington, D.C., say they want to set up and run their own markets. The administration has already started granting approvals. Eight other states have indicated they want to pursue a partnership with Washington, and more may do so. Only six remain undecided.
Exchanges are the gateway to the new health care law for individuals and families who buy their own health insurance, as well as for small businesses.
Currently, it's hard to tell what's a good plan or a fair price. You can get turned down if you have a medical problem, charged more if you are older or a woman. The health care law forbids insurers from turning away the sick, limits what they can charge older people and bans gender-based surcharges. It also requires virtually all Americans to get coverage or face fines.
Exchanges are supposed to make picking health insurance like buying an airline ticket from an online travel site like Orbitz or Expedia.
There will be a website, and you'll be able to put in your ZIP code and get a list of available health plans. There will be a section where you can find out if you qualify for subsidies, or for Medicaid. There will be cost calculators to allow you to compare different levels of coverage: platinum, gold, silver and bronze. There will be tools that allow you to see if your doctor or hospital is with a particular plan.
Middle-class consumers will be able to find out if they are eligible for government help with their premiums for private insurance. Initially, nearly nine of every 10 taking part will get assistance.
Low-income people can use the exchanges to find out whether they are eligible for expanded Medicaid coverage under the law. In addition to deciding how to implement exchanges, states must also decide whether to accept the Medicaid expansion. There's no deadline set for that decision, and most are still weighing options.
Open enrolment for exchange plans starts next October 1, and coverage begins January 1, 2014. Initially about 10 million people are expected to sign up, growing rapidly thereafter. California, New York and Kentucky are among the states that have opted to create their own exchanges. Among those passing are Texas, Georgia and Kansas. Partnership states include Illinois and West Virginia.
Republican governors rejecting state exchanges have cited a variety of reasons. Some say the administration has not provided enough information. Others say there's too much federal regulation. Most have concerns about costs. But some Republican leaders have broken ranks, including governors in Idaho, Nevada and New Mexico, and the insurance commissioner in Mississippi.
In announcing his support for a state exchange this week, Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter said, "it would be irresponsible of me to simply abandon the field to federal bureaucrats. In the face of uncertainty we must assert our independence and our commitment to self-determination, while fulfilling our responsibility to the rule of law."
Indeed, exchanges have a Republican pedigree. The idea was pioneered in Massachusetts under then-Governor Mitt Romney's health care overhaul.
"All this is full of irony," said consultant Jon Kingsdale, who founded the Massachusetts exchange for Romney. "If you had asked many of those (Republican) governors four years ago before this got politicized, it would have been a no-brainer: `We want the states to do it.'"
The health care law increased the power of the federal government, but states that run their own exchanges retain important roles overseeing insurance plans, addressing consumer issues and coordinating between the new marketplace and their Medicaid plans. That last item may be the most important, since Medicaid is a major component of state budgets.


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Abstract This essay discusses the meaning of leadership and its comparison with management. It explores different theories of authors and their views about leadership. The different kinds of leaders, their qualities and traits will be discussed in the essay. Further, it will be discussed what it takes to be a leader and if leadership can be learned. According to some authors, leadership is a natural trait and it cannot be learned while there are a few objections to this view by other authors which
Paper | Successful leadership styles | Analytical Research Paper | Successful leadership styles | Introduction Leadership is about how managers and employees interact within an organization. Each leader or manager has an unique way of leading a team and use different skills and competencies to achieve goals. Because of the fact that there are many leaders with different leadership styles some experts developed leadership models in order to clarify these different leadership styles. Leaders
Transactional leadership is that leader engage in a bargaining relationship with their followers. Transformational leadership is developing employees in accepting the organization's mission. Discuss. Transactional leadership focuses on the transactions between leaders and their followers .Transformational leadership, in contrast, is a leadership approach that inspires change in individuals. Transformational Leadership Transformational leadership is distinguished from transactional leadership in that
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1. What is the distinct link between strategic management and leadership in the above scenarios. What necessitated Dan to hire C.M. Perme & Associates as consultants? Explain using examples to explain the links between functions, with particular emphasis on meeting strategic objectives of Dan J (Criteria 1.1) Hint 1.1: Explain the link between strategic management and leadership Strategic management and leadership: functions of strategic management eg. Reviewing strategic aims and objectives
experience, level of seniority and so on. A leader is a person who can influence other people in an organization. Leadership can be defined as an influencing process to achieve the organization's need (Yulk, 1998). In other words, leadership is a process to manipulate, move and persuade other people's belief without violence and threat (Marquis & Huston). The intriguing point of leadership is the function of a leader in an organization with its own structure by creating a relationship between the leader
MY PERSPECTIVE ON MILITARY LEADERSHIP Introduction 1. Military Leadership is defined as the projection of personality and character to influence others directly or indirectly by means of formal authority or personal attributes to act in accordance within one's intent or a shared purpose .It involves tangible and intangible things that inspire, motivate and convince subordinates to act both individually and as members of a defence force in the pursuit of a common goal or objective. A military
Leadership Style Evaluation After reading the chapters from The Leader's Window: Mastering the Four Styles of Leadership to Build High-Performing Teams, I have determined that I alternate between all four styles during the course of business. However, the primary style of leadership that I incorporate most often in my role as leader is that of the problem solver. As a registered nurse and medical case manager, I am faced with a variety of problems to solve. Some of these problems are urgent and
A clinical nursing leader is one who is involved in direct patient care and who continuously improves care by influencing others . Leadership is not merely a series of skills or tasks; rather, it is an attitude that informs behavior. Several important functions of a nurse leader are: acting as a role model, collaboration to provide optimum care, provision of information and support, providing care based on theory and research, and being an advocate for patients and the health care organization
1.0 Brief Background According to Antonakis, et al, leadership is fundamental for effective organizational and social functioning. The very nature of leadership is its influencing process and its resultant outcomes. Such process is determined by the leaders and followers characteristics, dispositions, behavior perceptions, attributions and the context wherein the process of influencing occurs. The moral purpose of leadership is to create an empowered follower that leads to moral outcomes that


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There are three keys to the game between the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions.
1) Contain Kitna — uh, for four quarters this time. Chicago held him to three points for three quarters last time before the Lions put 34 on the board in the fourth.
2) Rock the rook. Give rookie wideout Calvin Johnson a belated welcome to the NFL, as he missed the first meeting. Show him right away it's going to hurt if he gets near the ball.
3) Let Griese throw. And throw. Let him continue to build confidence against the league's 30th-ranked pass defense.
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Adele is looking for a quick "remedy" to her poor health this week after the Grammy-winning singer canceled her second show in Phoenix Wednesday night because she was battling a cold.
In a video posted across her social media platforms, Adele went makeup free as she apologized to fans.
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"I've had a cold for a couple days and I've been pushing through it," she said."I did my show last night and I loved it but I pushed too hard and my cold has gotten the better of me."
Voice cracking, she promised to reschedule. Thursday morning she announced the show has been rescheduled to Monday November 21, 2016. All tickets for the original August 17 show will be honored on the new date, according to a message posted on Adele's social media.


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Fresh fruits and vegetables are among the most nutritious foods you can choose. They're low in calories yet rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants. That's why produce, along with whole grains, forms the basis of a healthful diet. What's more, the way you store, prepare, and cook these foods can magnify (or preserve) their already healthful properties.
Slice it right
Temperature affects the development of lycopene, an antioxidant, in watermelon and tomatoes
Clinical trials have shown that eating about two cloves of garlic per day may help prevent platelets in blood from clumping, which may help keep your arteries unobstructed and reduce your risk of heart attack. Lab studies have linked those benefits to thiosulfinates, compounds that also give garlic and onions their pungent smell.
To test how different preparation and cooking methods affected thiosulfinates, plant geneticist Philipp Simon, Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a group of researchers at Cuyo University in Argentina gathered four pounds of garlic and crushed half with a garlic press. They let all the garlic sit at room temperature for 10 minutes and then cooked batches of each sample in a 400-degree oven, in a microwave, or in boiling water for up to 20 minutes. Next, they tested whether each batch of garlic could alter how well blood platelets clumped. Garlic cooked whole had no anti-clumping ability, but crushed, lightly cooked garlic had a significant effect in reducing platelet clumping.
The reason: Thiosulfinates don't form until the clove is crushed or cut. "At the moment of cutting, thiosulfinates are formed," Simon explains. "The more cells you break, the more of the compound is released, so chop garlic as best you can into little pieces." Let chopped garlic sit for 10 minutes to allow time for thiosulfinates to develop, then cook briefly, or not at all. When preparing a meal, chop the amount you need and set it aside while you complete other tasks, such as preheating the oven.
Get more garlic in your diet with these recipes:
Grilled Grouper with Basil-Lime Pistou
Steamed Green Beans with Tomato-Garlic Vinaigrette
Cook it carefully
Vitamins come in two forms: fat-soluble, which includes vitamins A, D, E, and K; and water-soluble, such as vitamin C and B vitamins (like thiamin, niacin, riboflavin, and folate). As the name suggests, water-soluble vitamins dissolve in water -- either inside your body or on your stovetop. (Fat-soluble vitamins employ different absorption mechanisms.)
"Fruits and vegetables are 80 to 90 percent water," says food biochemist Diane Barrett, Ph.D., of the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis. "You lose the structure of the cells with heat from cooking, and water-soluble nutrients leach into the cooking water." Last year in a review of 56 studies that examined the effects of cooking on nutrient retention, researchers from Barrett's group found that boiled fresh produce, on average, loses up to 55 percent of its vitamin C and 66 percent of its thiamin in cooking water. If you don't consume the cooking water, you don't fully benefit from the vitamins in it. Interactive: Food safety 101 »
Steaming helps fruits and vegetables retain water-soluble vitamins. While boiling surrounds food with water and increases the likelihood for nutrients to leach out, explains Kerry Neville, R.D., a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association in Kirkland, Washington, more nutrients remain inside a steamed vegetable since little water is used and there is minimal contact -between the food and water. A study from Denmark's Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University found that boiled broccoli retained only 45 to 64 percent of vitamin C after five minutes, whereas steamed broccoli maintained levels of 83 to 100 percent.
Besides the nutritional benefit, steamed vegetables have a pleasing texture. "Steam vegetables until they are crisp-tender," Neville says. "Then you'll get brighter colors and fresher flavors."
Check out Cooking Light's guide to steaming, including video demos and recipes
Limiting the amount of time you cook a fruit or vegetable also can help preserve its nutrients. "If you heat foods in boiling water or a hot oven, the heat has to penetrate from the outside in," Barrett says. During that time, cell walls are broken down, releasing nutrients. Microwaving quickly and uniformly applies heat throughout the produce, cooking in less time so fewer nutrients are lost.
Steamed Recipes:
Soba Salad with Soy-Wasabi Vinaigrette
Steamed Carrots with Garlic-Ginger Butter
Fingerling Potato Salad with Gremolata Dressing
Harvest lycopene
In the case of lycopene, temperature affects its development and availability. Lycopene is an antioxidant that gives tomatoes, watermelon, guavas, and red-fleshed grapefruits their rich red color.
In 2006, a team from the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Lane, Oklahoma, where watermelon is one of the largest crops, tested lycopene levels by gathering melons and storing them at 41 degrees (roughly the temperature inside a refrigerator), 55 degrees (the temperature of a cooler), or 70 degrees (room temperature). After two weeks, they found that melons stored at room temperature developed a richer rouge and gained as much as 40 percent more lycopene (14 milligrams per 1½-cup serving), depending on the variety, than melons stored in the refrigerator. That's nearly half of an acceptable daily intake of 30 milligrams of lycopene.
"Fruits and vegetables are alive after they're harvested," says Penelope Perkins-Veazie, Ph.D., the plant physiologist who conducted the watermelon study. "The normal biological processes in watermelon that produce lycopene are strong at room temperature, while cooler temperatures slow them down."
Perkins-Veazie recommends letting a whole melon sit on the counter for up to five days to fully ripen and develop lycopene. Then place it in the fridge to chill before enjoying (unless the melon has been cut, in which case it should be refrigerated immediately). "It will taste sweeter and crisper if it's cold, and if stored for two days or less you will not lose any of the lycopene gained while the melon sat out," Perkins-Veazie says.
Tomatoes' supply of lycopene also is affected by temperature, but in a different way. See Cooking Light's top 25 tomato recipes "With the lycopene from tomatoes, the benefits are actually better when they're processed," says Neville. (Choose no-salt-added or low-sodium processed commercial tomato products when possible.)
"Lycopene is inside cells, and when the cell walls are broken during processing, it's released and can be absorbed," says Steven J. Schwartz, Ph.D., professor of food science at Ohio State University in Columbus. Heat alters lycopene's molecular structure, making it two to three times easier for our bodies to absorb than raw.
All About Tomatoes: Learn the secrets of these summer fruits with recipes and advice
Lycopene Recipes:
Chile-Spiced Fruit Salad with Queso Fresco
More ways to pump up fresh produce
Buy local.
Levels of some nutrients, like lycopene and other carotenoids, increase after produce is harvested, but many others decline with time. Buy locally grown produce to obtain those items that are at their freshest and most nutrient-rich. "If you're at a farmers' market, you can assume the grower picked the produce that day, maybe two days before at most," says Kerry Neville, R.D., an ADA spokesperson. "That's as close as you'll get to fresh unless you grow it yourself." Getting Fresh: 8 great farmer's market recipes
Let it breathe.
Plastic bags trap gases and moisture, aging produce prematurely. Unless you are trying to hasten ripening, unwrap your produce. For loose items, store in a permeable material -- specially designed perforated produce bags or loosely woven fabric such as cheesecloth.
Refrigerate properly.
"Refrigerator crisper drawers are the ideal place to store produce since they're designed to help keep humidity at proper levels," Neville says. "Vegetables generally need higher humidity levels than fruits."
Leave the skin on.
"Many nutrients are found just under the skin of produce," Neville says. When possible, leave the skin on items like eggplant, apples, or potatoes. You'll consume more dietary fiber when you eat the skin.
For more tips on making healthy taste great, try Cooking Light - CLICK HERE
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Utilize The Dictator 2 Cheats to Get Any Number of Diamonds You Would Simply Ask for and This Service Is Totally Free!
Another variant of the acclaimed old amusement the tyrant has at long last arrived, this was thought to be one of the best diversion that covers the greater part of the key strategies, set yourself up to play as an exceptionally youthful tyrant whom is assuming control over a nation at somewhere on the planet and expelling the equitable republic from the framework, and really, individuals begun to get envious now since you are employing an enormous measure of energy and nobody can stop you now as a result of it.
Keep in mind to settle on insightful choices on the grounds that a wrong one from a man that is in your position will absolutely prompt a gigantic fiasco, and once a your nation begins to sparkle up and see the light attempt to lead the enormous human advancement around you to another skyline, so recall that your principle errand in this amusement is to remain the most grounded despot in the domain for whatever length of time that conceivable and never offer up to any dangers, take out your adversaries and continue encourage by failing to look behind, consider utilizing the Dictator 2 Cheats to get Tyrants which will be utilized later on to apply certain buys and overhauls.
Despot 2 was made and distributed by "Tigrido" organization and it is accessible to be downloaded on any gadget that is controlled by Android or IOS working frameworks uninhibitedly.
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At the primary we should tell the perusers that our Dictator 2 guide will just cover the littlest subtle elements of the diversion so you ought to hope to peruse about practically each and every element inside, even the alternatives menu also.
ensure that you are utilizing your own Facebook record to login with through the diversion, and let me drill down the components and advantages which would return to you once you utilize it.
To begin with highlight that will end up noticeably accessible for you is the sparing framework, it will transform from the gadget sparing mode to a cloud sparing as every one of your information and advance will be connected up with this record you have used to login, and this will enable you to keep it safe and effectively get to it from some other gadget on the off chance that you have lost the amusement information or changed the gadget that you have used to play to play on, one of the other awesome elements are the capacity of sending solicitations to your companions effortlessly by just tapping on their name and blast, the welcome will be sent immediately to them so they could join the diversion with you and obviously you will have the edge over them with the Dictator 2 cheats.
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What's more, now as we have secured the login advantages and how imperative it will influence you're playing background, so the time has come to enter the amusement with more subtle elements comfortable backs, pick between the crusade and situations modes, they are both accessible to get from, and appropriate here in this survey we will take them two to tell you which one would suit you playing style the most.
At this area, this will be the initial segment of the battle mode, and you ought to know damage Decatur that your slippery uncle has sorted out an upset, and you should earnestly show this mutinous one a lesson!
This will be your first mission ever, yet first you should know about the different UI things and components so you could know how to utilize it for your own particular great, investigate the top bar as you will see a size of notoriety, each card has its cost shown in the crosshair of the notorieties, utilize the Dictator 2 tricks to build your notoriety focuses to its most noteworthy conceivable number with few ticks.
Battle Mechanism Explained with Details.
For every foe you will enter, you can see a two confronts confronting each other at the center of the screen, and there you will have the capacity to discover your enemy`s condition, to win you can either overcome the greater part of the adversary's units or end the enemy`s tyrant ideal from the screen, so get an accessible card from the base side of the screen appropriate to the field of fight, and this was the most essential move to be executed at the battle scene yet that is not the end we will get directly into the vital moves and assaulting aptitudes, so ensure that you are taking after each Dictator 2 tips which are given by our group to the perusers.
Pick your card that you have recently set and drag it onto the foe card to finish an assault, and once you are finished with your turn tap on the entire turn catch so your adversary will take his risk to either battle back or upgrade his barriers considerably more so he could make due for longer periods until the possibility comes so he could strike you back.
Pursue The Victory to Become the Greatest Dictator Ever Lived.
Triumph is something that everybody with desire will pursue down and looking for, so once you effectively and bravely shield the Tyrania from the overthrow, everybody would love you and turn into a fanatic of your initiative.
what's more, now you have demonstrated to them who is the manager around here, and this will be your first choice ever to pick between two choices keeping in mind the end goal to bring down this despot whom turned into your detainee, there are two choices, the first is grabbing his brilliant limousine from him or bringing down him in rank from commanders to colonels, and that is thoroughly up to you, however after all remember to have the Dictator 2 hack close by so as to make due through the huge difficulties.
You ought to realize that you are a youthful despot, of a just state in the Indian sea, your objective remains in power as far as might be feasible to grow your property, and nobody will help you in such a mission superior to anything the Dictator 2 hack.
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Here you can locate the principle components of the diversion, peruse the guide by sliding it to one side or right or change the amplification as you would love to.
Also, now we will tell you how to deal with the districts in light of the case of your own nation, attempt to have a decent protective framework since this diversion is based around six groups, which are situated before you with whom you should bargain the police the general population the oligarch the armed force the resistance and the mafia, these groups we specified before are something you ought to put in your brain before doing any move on the grounds that the results are really terrifying. furthermore, now settle the issue with proper group, pick one of two variations. be watchful any move you make will reflect upon your notoriety with this and alternate groups, and with the Dictator 2 hack you will feel with a great deal more enhanced power.
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Call For Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations SESSION ON COMPUTATION IN BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Maui, Hawaii - January 6-9, 1997 URL: http://cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/psb.html [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this posting.] This session will explore the use of computational tools in conjunction with metabolic pathways, developmental pathways, signal-transduction pathways, genetic regulatory circuits, and other biological pathways. Issues relevant to this session include descriptions of pathway databases, pathway simulation techniques (qualitative and quantitative), the design and feasibility estimation of pathways for biotechnology, pathway visualization tools, pathway estimation from sequence data, comparative analysis of pathways from different organisms, pathway evolution, application of machine learning to pathways, and ontologies for pathways. One goal of the session is to foster interactions between the developers of a number of pathway databases (see http://www.ai.sri.com/~pkarp/pathways.html), and researchers who are developing techniques for analyzing biological pathways. PSB'97 will publish accepted peer-reviewed full papers in an archival proceedings. All full papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three referees. Each accepted full paper will be allocated 12 pages in the proceedings, and will be presented orally (30 minutes) at the conference. To be eligible for review and publication in the proceedings, each full-paper submission must be accompanied by a cover letter stating that it contains original unpublished results not currently under consideration elsewhere and that all co-authors concur with its contents. Scientists who wish to participate in the session, but who do not wish to submit a full paper, are welcome to submit a two page abstract, which will be distributed at the meeting separately from the archival proceedings. All participants are welcome to display posters and give live computer demonstrations. Five copies of all full papers should be submitted to: PSB-97 c/o Section on Medical Informatics Stanford University Medical School, MSOB X215 Stanford, CA 94305-5479 USA Important dates: Paper submission deadline: July 1, 1996 Notification of paper acceptances: August 22, 1996 Camera ready copy due: September 15, 1996 Conference: January 6-9, 1997 at the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua, Maui Please note that travel support for attending the symposium may be available; please check the PSB web page at the front of this announcment. For additional information check the PSB web page, contact the organizers of this session: Peter Karp Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International, EJ229 333 Ravenswood Ave Menlo Park, CA 94025 e-mail: pkarp at ai.sri.com WWW: http://www.ai.sri.com/~pkarp/ Monica Riley Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, MA 02543 e-mail: mriley at mbl.edu WWW: http://www.mbl.edu/html/Riley/Monica.html


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Another week, another week of readers weighing on the Daily Item's Facebook page with their thoughts on everything from Northumberland County salaries to lawn mower DUIs.
Here's a peek at what was hot on the web this week:
- This touching photo, which shows Cherakee Yonkin releasing balloons in memory of boyfriend Robert Hill while holding their daughter, Naveah Hill, 1. Robert Hill, 20, was killed in an automobile accident near Kratzerville on Sept. 17, 2012. The photo was a favorite of readers this week, garnering more than 100 likes.
- Another hot topic: that lawn mower DUI from Western PA. It got a lot of attention, with people debating the merits of the charges: Brynne Clawser: "Why is he getting charged with driving with a suspended license….last time I checked you don't need your license to drive a lawn mower."
- Also, in honor of National Cheeseburger Day, people shared their favorite placed to grab a burger in the Valley, and it reads like a list of to-eat-at places. If you love a good burger, check out the list and make plans to eat out!


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We are excited to announce the winners of the FL Studio Jayce Lewis 'Solitaire' remix contest. Congratulations to 1st place (tie) winners Aim For Soul and Soniksun. Rounding out the final top places are A Deaf Bat & Ibizzy (ova9000).
Congratulations also to the top 10 finalists. You can here these and all other entries in this thread in Looptalk. Thanks also to everyone who participated, Jayce said his decision was almost impossible.
Click here to check the competition details and download the remix pack from Looptalk.
Thanks again to RØDE Microphones for the supply of two awesome NT2-A mics that we are sure the winners will love. You can learn more about just how versatile the NT2-A is below: