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Spitfire Returns for Second Weekend, Entry to CUTF
PLAINVIEW -- Wayland Baptist University will present another weekend of performances for the musical production Spitfire Grill, with 8 p.m. shows on Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3 and a reprise on March 5 as the school's entry into the Christian University Theatre Festival held here.
Held in the Harral Studio Theatre on the Plainview campus, the show is a story of redemption set in the small town of Gilead, Wis., where grill owner Hannah has grown old and bitter. Gilead newcomer and ex-convict Percy fights for acceptance as she battles her own past, while the town has its own issues.
A musical based on the movie of the same name, Spitfire Grill is a collaboration with Wayland's relatively new opera and musical theatre program and director Jeff Kensmoe. The play stars Plainview freshman Rachel Morgan as Percy and Rebecca Ballinger of Lubbock as Hannah, with supporting roles by Alicia Alford, Chris Smith, Jeremy Walker, Tim Fisher, Hannah Stewart, Sarah Bolyard, Stephanie Ciszek, Conner Davis, Khrystyne Eckerd, Jessie Else, Thomas Hoffman and Rachel Morrison.
The play will mark the first performance of the Christian University Theatre Festival, which WBU has hosted for the past several years. It will be performed at 8 p.m. Monday, March 5, in the Harral Studio Theatre.
Other CUTF performances will include Book of Liz by Amy and David Sedaris, performed by Howard Payne University, on stage at 2 p.m. on March 6. The play is a comedy about Liz, a girl from the Amish-like community of Cluster Haven who works at a cheese ball factory and ultimately leaves the town to explore the world. She takes a job at a restaurant and moves in with a Ukrainian couple, searching for who she is in this very different place.
Hardin-Simmons University will perform All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare at 8 p.m. on March 6. Tickets to any of the CUTF productions are $2 each. The play involves Helena, a lowborn beauty, who is granted the hand of Count Bertram after curing his father the King of a fistula. Bertram soon leaves for war, thinking he'd rather face death in battle than a marriage to someone below his rank. He writes her a challenge to gain his loyalty and, through cunning plans, she meets his challenge.
Jim McDermott of Lubbock will serve as respondent for the festival, providing commentary and discussion with the cast and audience after each production. A doctoral student at Texas Tech University, McDermott has directed several productions at Tech, including Caprock Celtic Christmas, The Real Inspector Hound, La Voix Humane, and The Woman in Black. He also directed Richard Cory while at the University of Kentucky and Twelfth Night for the Central Coast Shakespeare Festival in San Luis Obispo, Calif. He has acted in numerous productions throughout his higher education career, including roles in several Shakespeare plays and the musicals Little Shop of Horrors, Damn Yankees and West Side Story among others.
Tickets for the weekend Spitfire Grill production are $8 for the public and $4 for students. Tickets are available by calling the box office at 291-1089.


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- Williams news
I'd have benefited Williams - Barrichello
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Rubens Barrichello believes Williams would have benefitted from having him as one of its race drivers this season.
Having been replaced by Bruno Senna, Barrichello now races in IndyCar but is not ruling out a return to Formula One in the future. He said that his experience would have been beneficial in a team with an inexperienced driver line-up of Senna, Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas, and that Williams would have seen better results if he'd been retained.
"I think there is still a way back, I'm not using IndyCar as a last resort," Barrichello told Auto Motor und Sport. "I drive because I love racing. My heart bleeds that I cannot be there. Don't get me wrong, I am happy that I can drive [in IndyCar]; I do not see myself as a victim. I think it's just a shame for Williams; it would have been a big year. Not just for me, but also for them.
"Williams would benefit from me. I would have been a good team-mate and coach for Senna, Bottas or Maldonado. Next to me, they would go much better than they do now. Look at Maldonado. He had fewer accidents last year than this season. Pastor is super fast, but he is a lot more controlled with me."
Barrichello also said that problems with the car were identified in 2011 and have led to a more competitive Williams this season.
"We already recognised the problems last year. The move to Renault (engines) has been making a big difference. The big plus of this engine is its excellent driveability."


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Sausage maker purchases building in Bridgeport
Stamford mainstay buys building in Bridgeport
A family who for three generations has been producing sausages in Stamford has found a new home in Bridgeport to grind out its products.
The DeYulio Sausage Co. has purchased a 13,715-square-foot industrial building at 1501 State St. for $1.35 million. The transaction included a 98-year land lease with the city of Bridgeport for an adjacent parcel.
DeYulio, which was forced to vacate its Stamford property to make room for Stamford's Urban Transitway project, has been producing sausage at five locations in three states while final arrangements were made for the Bridgeport property. Stamford took the factory building through the power of eminent domain in November 2011, but DeYulio appealed the $1.165 million payment in Housing Court, citing damage to its business.
The court denied the appeal last December.
DeYulio's produces thousands of sausages for supermarkets in seven states, as well as restaurants and Fenway Park in Boston.
The move will provide the company with a growth opportunity, said Mick DeYulio, owner and president, adding he expects to begin production in 60 days after renovations are completed.
"We're putting it all behind us. We employ 35 people, and we're looking to employ more. I'm really looking forward to expanding my business," DeYulio said, adding he looked at properties between New Haven and Stamford. "This building had the refrigeration and the square footage."
The State Street site is more than double the size of its previous facility, offering the company the opportunity to expand its customer base, add jobs and install additional production equipment in the factory to increase output up to 10,000 pounds of sausage daily, according to Jon Angel, president of Angel Commercial, a Southport commercial real estate brokerage firm that represented DeYulio in its search.
"Not only will this move benefit DeYulio, it will add to the efforts to revitalize the area," Angel said.
The State Street property was formerly owned and operated by Dari Farms Ice Cream. While it elected to sell the asset due to underuse of the space, it remains in the marketplace, having executed a lease for 3,500 square feet in the Quarry Road Business Park in Milford.
Angel negotiated the lease for Dari Farm's new home.
Businesses had been leaving Bridgeport, but that trend has been reversed, said Paul Timpanelli, president and CEO of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council.
"That is because the environment for business has changed dramatically for the better," he said. "That is particularly true, for example, along the State Street corridor which has experienced dramatic change. That started with a grant that was received from DEP (Connecticut's Department of Environmental Protection) some years ago to clean up and buy up property with the West End Development Corp., and we are now witnessing the fruits of our labors. DeYulio's decision to come to Bridgeport says a great deal about the city's current state of hospitality to new business."


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1st Illinois West Nile death
2nd Bird in Ford County with West Nile Virus
A man has died and it could be from West Nile Virus. Thursday, the health department was told a 70-year old man from Decatur died.
A private lab determined he had West Nile. Tests are being done by the Illinois Department of Health to confirm it.
The state confirmed a Logan County man died from the virus and another human case of infection is being reported in Jefferson.
Meanwhile -- The Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department reports another bird has tested positive for the West Nile Virus. The bird was collected from the Sibley area in Ford County.
The health department's Environmental Health Director, Terry Eimen (eye-men) continues to suggest you use insect repellant and get rid of standing water in-and-around your homes.


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of American Music
The Shedd's annual August classic Songbook festival, Oregon Festival of American Music features classic musical theatre, cabaret, and standards-based jazz.
The Emerald City Jazz Kings
The Shedd Institute's resident historic jazz & classic American Songbook ensemble is now in its 22nd season, offering 4 all-new programs each year in Eugene, Florence and Corvallis.
Shedd Classical
The Shedd Institute's classical music series, featuring both self-produced local and national artists. Shedd Classical touches on the full extent of the European art music tradition, with a special interest in the Americas and 20th c.
Shedd Theatricals
Shedd Theatricals offers full, live-orchestra productions of the best of classic Broadway from the 1940s-60s and the fun-loving, witty, and totally sparkling musical comedies of the 1920s and '30s.
Mr. Tom's Magical Moombah!
Mr. Tom's Magical Moombah is a musical vaudeville for kids! Filled with skits, songs and contests, the Moombah introduces youngsters to the great songs that everyone should know!
Now Hear This
The Now Hear This presents 35 to 40 concerts each year in a broad variety of genres from jazz and classical to bluegrass, world music and country, and more.
Shedd Presents
Shedd Presents offers a fascinating mix of special projects by top local artists. It regularly premieres projects that subsequently become permanent ongoing features in the Shedd mix.
Shedd Welcomes
Each year The Shedd Institute welcomes a wide range of concerts and special events presented by other community cultural, educational and social institutions.
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The Shedd Community Music School's home page is the place to start for newcomers to get oriented on what we have to offer currently and throughout the year.
Private Lessons at The Shedd
Interested in private lessons? Over 40 Shedd faculty members offer private lessons in a variety of musical instruments, voice and dance and in different styles. All ages are welcome and lessons can begin any time.
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Music and dance classes are offered on a term-by-term basis and most can be joined in-progress. Also don't miss our summer camps. Follow this link for a list of current and future terms.
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How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Minisch (1967)
Sat, Aug 11, 10:00 am - 12:20 pm
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Robert Morse recreated his Tony-winning stage role in this 1967 film version of Frank Loesser's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical. A humble window washer at the New York offices of World Wide Wickets, J. Pierpont Finch applies the lessons he's learned from Shepard Mead's popular 1952 book
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
to wangle his way to the top of the executive heap. Though advised by the mailroom supervisor (Sammy Smith) to keep a low profile and play things "The Company Way," Finch follows his own skewed set of rules, endearing himself to bombastic company president J. B. Biggely (Rudy Vallee) by posing as a graduate of Grand Old Ivy, Biggely's alma mater. As he climbs to the top, Finch manages to dispose of an over-amorous rival by arranging a tryst between that rival and curvaceous secretary Hedy LaRue (Maureen Arthur)--who happens to be Biggely's live-in girlfriend. Finch also gets rid of the troublesome Mr. Ovington (Murray Matheson) by exposing the latter as an alumnus of Old Ivy's hated rival university. Graduating to vice-president, Finch feels secure enough to sing the show's one genuine love song "I Believe In You"--to himself! Actually, he's really in love with true-blue secretary Rosemary (Michele Lee), but won't admit to this until he suffers a career setback. --
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With the completion of the new Science Building slated for January 2015, other ventures such as departmental moves, campus renovations and transportation projects have spread across the university over the past few months.
The $147 million science building project began in May 2012. When completed, MTSU will boast a 257,000-square-foot building that will house 37 biology and chemistry class labs, two open labs, 13 research labs, six classrooms, faculty offices and numerous spaces for informal student learning and presentation areas with all interior walls being finished with wall protection for schools to ensure they are comfortable, easy to learn and concentrate in, as well as being highly resistant and easy to clean, this should mean that less money will have to be spent for paint and wall maintenance within the new building. The new classrooms and labs will provide approximately 1,500 new student stations, according to a report by Jimmy Hart, the university's director of news and media relations.
Move-in and set-up for labs will happen in July and August for the university to meet its January deadline. While classes will be held in the building during the fall semester, some preparation will continue.
"For a building of that size and magnitude, it's a complex process, so we've included preparation time for equipment move-in," said Patti Miller, assistant vice president for campus planning, in the report.
Davis Science and Wiser-Patten Science buildings
Renovations are slated to begin on the older science buildings in January, and upon completion of the restoration project, the physics and geosciences departments will move into them, according to Watson Harris, director of academic planning and projects.
"We're happy to have funds to redesign Davis-Wiser," Watson Harris said. "We have had a space need for a while. We're finally going to get a little bit of release."
The building is due to have a design ready in the spring. When the design is finished, the forensics department will move into the basement.
The Photography and McFarland buildings
The current location of the Photography Building is in front of the new Science Building where a "quad area" will eventually be placed, according to John Cothern, senior vice president. As a result, the building is slated for demolition during the spring 2015.
A demolition project of this scale will involve the use of a hired excavator. To learn more about how excavators can be used for both large and small construction projects, click here.
The McFarland Building is empty now because all previous office holders occupy the new Student Services and Admissions Center. A $2 million renovation project will be completed on the building to prepare it for the move in during winter break, and photography classes will begin in the new building in the spring, according to Hart's report. A lot of modern constructions are now made of steel thanks to their sturdiness and affordability; many ask the question, "how long can you finance a metal building?" in order to find out as much as they can about this style of building.
Cope Administration Building
The SSAC also left some space in the Cope Administration Building for new offices to expand and move in. As a result, a $3 million renovation project began inside Cope after fall break.
One of the changes is the relocation of the president's office from the first floor to the second floor on the northeast side. The provost's office will be taking the president's old office, giving the members of that office much needed space, according to Cothern.
The business office will occupy both sides of the first floor following the renovations, which includes the restrooms, hallways, lighting and signage.
The Information Technology Division will move out of the basement and occupy the old financial aid office, Cothern said.
According to Hart, the project is set to be finished within the year.
Murphy Center
The Murphy Center is currently undergoing a $12.64 million renovation project expected to be completed this September.
The project includes renovations to its restrooms, lighting and acoustics. The center will also receive a new roof and HVAC equipment. Having new HVAC equipment is important, especially for the university to ensure that all students remain safe. As there will be students inside this building regularly, it's important that the air quality is safe for them. To keep the air safe, it's advised that the university considers contacting a Willard air duct cleaning company to ensure that the center remains a safe space for students to be spending time.
According to Hart, although the university's spring and summer commencement ceremonies will not be affected by the renovations, Rutherford County high schools were previously notified to seek alternative locations for their ceremonies. Other campus activities and outside group and organizations will also be asked to find other locations for their events.
Road and parking projects
Although inclement weather affected the $8.36 million street improvement project which began in spring 2013, completion is expected for this fall, according to Hart.
The project will include the new roundabout at the intersection of Lightning and Champion Ways, and the widening of both roads, the new turning lane at Greenland Drive and improved pedestrian walkways, crosswalks and lighting. The roundabout is already open as construction continues.
Campus planning hopes that the projects will improve shuttle bus efficiency and traffic flow, as well as provide new bike lanes on campus.
Included in the project is the construction of a new parking lot east of the new garage and SSAC. The lot is expected to add a total of 679 parking spaces including 16 ADA spaces.
Other miscellaneous campus projects
Last spring the university purchased the Bell Street Building, previously owned by Middle Tennessee Medical Center. Since then, a $6 million construction project has been approved for renovations to offices to be completed by next summer.
The building will hold graduate business studies, the University College, the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Planning and Research, the Tennessee STEM Education Center, the Aquatic Therapy Center, the Center for Counseling and Psychology Services and general classroom and training space.
A design was recently approved to install a $700,000 flight simulator building at the Murfreesboro Airport at a tentative date.
Earlier this semester construction began in Learning Resource Center 101 to complete a new Professional Development Center for the College of Education. This center is designed to train up to 150 K-12 student and professional teachers from the community in various workshops and seminars.
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Alouettes' all-star quarterback Calvillo to return for 20th CFL season
MONTREAL — Anthony Calvillo says he feels great and he's playing well, so why retire even if he is 40 years old?
The Montreal Alouettes quarterback who was named a CFL all-star for a fifth time this season announced Thursday that he will return for a 20th season. He signed a contract for a year plus an option year, and will make another decision on whether to continue after the 2013 campaign.
"I have to evaluate every season if I still enjoy what I do, and I do," Calvillo said. "I strongly believe that this organization is going to continue to have success and I want to be part of that.
"Going on 20 years, at one point, you're supposed to retire and that day will come. But today's not it. I have too much passion and love for this organization."
The league's all-time passing leader had his left, non-throwing, arm in sling from surgery last Friday to repair a torn labrum that he played through since the third game of the season.
Despite the injury, which forced him to change his throwing motion, Calvillo completed 333 passes for 5,082 yards and 31 touchdowns in 17 starts. It was his seventh season of more than 5,000 passing yards.
And he excelled despite a run of injuries that claimed star running back Brandon Whitaker and, at different times of the season, most of his starting receivers.
"I truly believe Anthony had his best season in 2012," coach Marc Trestman said in a statement. "He overcame adversity in many ways."
Calvillo said the surgery went well and he will need four months of rehab work to be back to normal.
The sling will come off in three weeks, followed by two months of work to restore full range of motion in the arm. Then comes another month on building back strength in the limb.
"I don't usually throw until May anyway," he said. "But pain wise, there hasn't been any.
"I've just been very bored at home not being able to do a lot."
Calvillo calls his trainer Scott Suter his "career extender" and said a new set of workouts have already been planned.
The Los Angeles native, entering his 16th season with the Alouettes, holds league records of 5,777 completions, 449 touchdown passes and 78,494 passing yards. He should pass the 80,000-yard mark early in the 2013 campaign if his health holds up.
Two seasons ago, he blew past the old career passing yards record that had been set over 23 seasons by Damon Allen, who played until he was 44.
"There's pride in myself to be the best quarterback I can be," said Calvillo. "There's a level I'm trying to stay at.
"If I felt I wasn't competing at a certain level and didn't have that drive to win the championship, then I wouldn't be saying I want to play. I'm in a territory few quarterbacks have been at, and my goal is to play as long as I can and enjoy it."
With Calvillo, the Alouettes are likely to remain the Grey Cup contenders they have been since he took over as their starter in 2000.
Now the question is whether Adrian McPherson, his back-up the last four years, will opt to stay in that role or sign with another team.
McPherson mostly goes in on short-yardage situations. He scored nine touchdowns that way this season. And he got to start the final, meaningless, game of the regular season.
Calvillo told him at the end of the season he was likely to be back.
"I've always been honest with Adrian on where I am in my career," he said. "The challenge for him is what he wants to do as a quarterback.
"Does he want to continue to sit behind me or try something new? I can't answer that question, but I know he's a quality player who can help our team win, so I'm hoping he sticks around."
Calvillo said he was close to deciding to hang up the cleats after the 2011 season, when the team lost the final three games of the regular season and then was beaten by Hamilton in the playoffs.
He had come back from having his thyroid gland removed due to a cancerous lesion to set the all-time passing mark, but felt he wasn't playing well.
But then he came back and had a strong campaign. Now his goal is to get Montreal back in the Grey Cup game after missing out two consecutive years for the first time since 1998 and 1999.
"I've kind of thrown out the whole age thing and I just try to enjoy the moment and help this team win," he said.
Calvillo began his CFL career with the defunct Las Vegas Posse in 1994 and played three seasons for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats before signing with the Alouettes as back-up to quarterback Tracy Ham in 1998.
Calvillo won Grey Cups in 2002, 2009 and 2010, was named the CFL outstanding player three times.


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Dr. Essam El Arian said on Dream TV2 channel last Thursday that Egyptian and Arab Jews in Israel who had been expelled by president Nasser should return back to Egypt and Arabic countries in general so they would leave their land to the Palestinians !! "Yes this is his logic"
Indeed the policies of late Nasser as well the wars with Israel forced the Egyptian Jews to leave Egypt but sadly enough Essam El Arian and Hamdy Hassan forgot how the Muslim brotherhood members used to target and attacks the shops and ghettos in Cairo after the 1948 war. "Historically the modern exodus from Egypt started with the advance of German Nazi troops in 1941 in our Western desert"
Back to Dr. El Arian , well it seems that he truly believes Egyptian Jews should return to Egypt. I found for him an old interview from 6 months ago with Ahmed Adam on Al Hayat TV channel.
Amazingly El Arian believes that Buddha can be a prophet from God !! ElBaradei is also mocked by MB for speaking about Buddhists as an example in his talk about religious freedom in constitution !!
It is black comedy when you think about it !!
Anyhow now the trouble that these statements will cause inside the brotherhood that used to attack the Jews by name in its slogans as well in Egypt in this particular time , Mahmoud Ghozlan , the spokesperson of the MB said that everyone in the brotherhood is speaking on behalf of himself and not th brotherhood !!
You know I would be convinced with these claims if it were not these facts :
1- Yesterday leading MB member and FJP official Hamdy Hassan repeated what El Arian said on Thursday defending and even raised the bar and said there was no problem in compensating them now on Dream TV2 Channel !!
You are speaking about hundreds of billions of pounds when you refer back to nationalization compensations whether for Jews or foreigners or Christians or Muslims in time your foreign reserve hit rock bottom !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2- Essam El Arian is not your usual MB or FJP official. Not only a leading member , he was the head of the foreign affairs in the last People's assembly and he is currently the leader of the majority and Freedom and Justice Party bloc in the Senates council or Shura council !! In nutshell El Arian is not the village idiot in the brotherhoodville !!Of course it was worth to mention that above all El Arian is President Morsi's adviser !!
Ironically some MB members and supporters who are trying to justify everything by their leaders are claiming that this is a wicked game by the MB to attract rich Egyptian Jews in order to invest in Egypt !!!
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Return to the Sheikhs who consider as Muslims who do not share the political beliefs are infidels !?? For God sake some of the Muslim brotherhood supporters are claiming now online that the Egyptian Christians are the ones behind the terrible economic crisis Egypt because they withdrew their bank accounts !!
Shall I remind you how Khairat El Shater , the strong man of the Muslim brotherhood and the commander of both El Arian and Hassan attacked Christians in Egypt from couple of weeks ago following the Presidential Palace clashes !!?
Many Egyptian Christian families are now packing their bags in order to leave the country for fear of future and repression under Islamist rule. In fact Muslim Egyptians now do not hesitate to leave the country searching for better life unfortunately !!
Again back to the statements that were received by a storm of anger and astonishment in Egypt. Nationalists especially Nasserites are extremely furious for the attack on Nasser once again by the Muslim brotherhood. From their side the Nationalists are reminding the brotherhood's leaders with their past attacks against Egyptian Jews' ghettos before Nasser would come to rule.
Liberals who believe that Egyptian Jews should not have left Egypt are amazing on the double standards of the brotherhood that attacks Christians from couple of weeks to speak about Egyptian Jews. Let alone how the local talk of the brotherhood among the its members is anti-Semitic by Western standards. Early this month Gehad El Haddad , the MB and FJP media advisor and spokesperson to Western media was quoting Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt for God sake !!
|Thanks for Aalam Wassef for capturing this tweet
دعوةعريان الاخوان لعودة يهوداسرائيل لمصرهى ثمن الصفقة الشيطانية مع العسكروامريكا واسرائيل وهل نسيتم تهريب الأمريكيين السبعة وشكرماكين للشاطر
— Gamal Zahran (@GamalZahran) December 31, 2012
The call of MB's El Arian to Israeli Jews to return back to Egypt is the price of that diabolic deal with the military , the US and Israel.Have you forgotten how the Seven "NGO workers" Americans were smuggled and how McCain thanked El Shater!??Some believe that it is a pathetic attempt by El Arian and the brotherhood to look nice and tolerant in front of Western Media. Dr. Rabab El Mahdi believes so on her Facebook account today.
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I do not know why there is a lot of controversy about Dr. El Arian's statements about Jews. The talk was not addressed to us in Egypt or even to the Jews , the talk was directed to foreign media. The doctor is trying to appear cute. Just leave him alone.Even Salafists are amazed like Nadar Bakkar who criticized El Arian on his twitter account. I really respect Bakkar's consistency with his Salafist views to be honest.
It is better to speak about our youth who die drowned in the sea searching for a better living.It is unfair to equalize between those who were forced to leave their land after it was occupied and those who moved to occupied land. I am speaking about Dr. El Arian's statements. I agree with those who say that if these statements came from ElBaradei or Moses , the world will be upside down but I criticize these statements in the same way I criticized the Holocaust statement "of ElBaradei". I totally understand the opinion worried about the Jews disputed loyalty to Egypt if they demand to return back. We can not forget the Lavon affair and other issues " A Nader Bakkar's true moment !!". Our religion prohibits injustice against any creature but what is the occasion to speak about the Jews who were in Egypt !? There is a difference between your statements as partisan official and being an advisor for presidency. The politician should be careful for what he said and its impact , the return of Jews statements lack this !!The debate about the Egyptian Jews' return has not and will not stopped yet in Egypt.Nevertheless while I am writing this , I imagine what would happen if Egyptian Jews from Israel, France and Brazil decided to return back to Egypt after all those years and I feel it will be extremely interesting.
Post Title : Inspired by famous 1940s play of Naguib El Rihany "Hassan , Marcus and Cohen". On the occasion of the new year and these statements here is the play as presented in early 60s starring legendary Adel Khairy as poor worker who got sick from his employers the greedy Hassan , Marcus and Cohen !!


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OK, so we all want to promote interoperability, right? But I am seeing a lot of disagreement in this thread about what rules for a HTTP header name registry would promote interoperability most. As far as I am concerned it is crazy to try to use an IETF registry to force some minimal level of documentation requirements on all HTTP headers. Implementing a new header is as simple as adding a line in a CGI script, and many people who have the need and ability to implement new headers will simply not care about getting formal IETF approval of their documentation, if they intend to publish documentation at all. It would be useful if somebody ran a service which helps everybody in picking new header names that nobody else is using yet. So in my opinion, the only way to maximally promote interoperability here is to have very low requirements for registration. In principle the *only* requirement for registering a header should be the honest intention to start using this header in internet HTTP-type traffic. Similar weak requirements already apply to the vendor mime type registry and the media feature tag registry. Koen.Received on Sunday, 16 December 2001 13:31:08 UTC
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'Dancing with the Stars' all-stars Sabrina Bryan talks about rumba
A troubled ex-lover, drug addiction and country music don't really scream rumba time but that didn't stop Sabrina Bryan from combining the disparate worlds during Monday's installment of Dancing with the Stars. The Cheetah Girl earned a perfect 30 with partner Louis van Amstel while dancing to Hunter Hayes' "Wanted" while remembering an old boyfriend.
"It was incredible," Bryan told reporters afterwards. "This dance was something that I was so nervous to do and I didn't know what really they were going to add into the package. I told them about my own personal experience and it's hard to let things like that happen and let things out there for people to judge or whatever. I was nervous but more than anything I was excited to do this dance with Louis because he's such an incredible teacher and I was so excited learning this dance."
And what of the old beau? Bryan did text him about her plans to dance for his life. (She didn't reveal his identity.) "He will always be somebody I really care about," Bryan said. "He's married and is five years sober, he has a baby and he has really pulled himself together, which is awesome. I'm really proud of him and I know he supports me and everything and I've moved on to an incredible relationship. That's kind of what the storyline was—it wasn't necessarily what I went through in that relationship but what happened to me after and the relationship I'm in now, the giving and the taking and wanting to love again but being too scared and finally giving in and my boyfriend right now is incredible.
"Last season I never, ever exposed anything like that," she continued. "This was something I was really fighting with the last season I was on. It [tonight] was more of a celebration of working through an obstacle for me and going through such a tragic situation with my ex-boyfriend. For me, it was a representation of how amazing and how grateful I feel to be at the place I am now, five years later. And I'm back on the show, it feels like a new experience, and it just feels incredible to be here. It's such a happy place that I'm really blessed."
As for that nifty manuever where Bryan was hoisted between her partner's legs after performing the splits, Bryan credits Van Amstel's fine reputation on the dance circuit. "Louis had an incredible partner he competed with. That split thing is something they're known for and no one's ever done it on this show and I was so nervous to mess that up so to get those amazing scores and such great feedback from not just the judges but the cast—when I went up to the skybox, it was, I feel so incredibly lucky to be here." — With reporting from Carole Glines
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1. Do the following:
a. Explain to your counselor the hazards you are most likely to encounter while welding, and what you should do to anticipate, help prevent, mitigate, or lessen these hazards.
b. Show that you know first aid for, and the prevention of, injuries or illnesses that could occur while welding, including electrical shock, eye injuries, burns, fume inhalation, dizziness, skin irritation, and exposure to hazardous chemicals, including filler metals and welding gases.
2. Do the following:
a. With your counselor, discuss general safety precautions and Material Safety Data Sheets related to welding. Explain the importance of the MSDS.
b. Describe the appropriate safety gear and clothing that must be worn when welding. Then, present yourself properly dressed for welding - in protective equipment, clothing, and footwear.
c. Explain and demonstrate the proper care and storage of welding equipment, tools, and protective clothing and footwear.
3. Explain the terms welding, electrode, slag, and oxidation. Describe the welding process, how heat is generated, what kind of filler metal is added (if any), and what protects the molten metal from the atmosphere.
4. Name the different mechanical and thermal cutting methods. Choose one method and describe how to use the process. Discuss one advantage and one limitation of this process.
5. Do the following:
a. Select two welding processes, and make a list of the different components of the equipment required for each process. Discuss one advantage and one limitation for each process.
b. Choose one welding process. Set up the process you have chosen, including gas regulators, work clamps, cables, filler materials, and equipment settings. Have your counselor inspect and approve the area for the welding process you have chosen.
6. After successfully completing requirements 1 through 5, use the equipment you prepared for the welding process in 5b to do the following:
a. Using a metal scribe or soapstone, sketch your initial onto a metal plate, and weld a bead on the plate following the pattern of your initial.
b. Cover a small plate (approximately 3" x 3" x 1/4") with weld beads side by side.
c. Tack two plates together in a square groove butt joint.
d. Weld the two plates together from 6c on both sides.
e. Tack two plates together in a T joint, have your counselor inspect it, then weld a T joint with fillet weld on both sides.
f. Tack two plates together in a lap joint, have your counselor inspect it, then weld a lap joint with fillet weld on both sides.
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Wednesday, January 09, 2019, 10:00am - 05:00pm
Graffiti isn't a new concept in the artistic world. Its various manifestations in the past include inscribed obscenities in ancient stone, "Kilroy was here" doodles in World War II and the many colorful, spray-painted images that decorated public places in the 1980s. Then, graffiti was considered an unwelcome form of vandalism. Now with the evolution of graffiti as mural art (à la Banksy), these lines have become blurred, and the people behind the work have transformed from "misguided youths" to professional artists. This exhibition showcases the talents of 16 local artists (emerging to professional) and focuses on the many styles and maturation of graffiti and mural art.
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The CCAC Campus Walk is still happening virtually, so you can continue to raise awareness & funds while asking others to join you as a Virtual Walker.
The safety and well-being of our participants is our top priority. We know that these are uncertain times, and if you are feeling extra anxious please see the blog post from AFSP's Doreen Marshall, Ph.D., on how to take care of your mental health in the face of uncertainty as well as 8 ways to manage our anxiety surrounding coronavirus.
There are still so many ways to continue to raise awareness and funds for the cause, and to "virtually" walk with us.
- Be on the Stream Team! Stream to raise funds and show everyone what you are doing instead of walking on that day. You can also go on Facebook Live or IGTV to share with everyone on social.
- The CW Bracket begins March 16th, and your school can be on the Bracket and win whether the walk happens or not! The winning walk participants who raise $25+ during the challenge will win a prize!
You will still receive a free shirt for raising $100!
You can still receive super cool Walk swag!
Please continue to take care of yourself, and thank you for your dedication and support of AFSP and preventing suicide at CCAC.
Having trouble registering? Click here to view a step-by-step guide. Refer to page 1 if you're registering yourself, page 5 if you're registering someone else through your own account, or page 8 if you're signing up in person on the day of the event. Be sure to also check out some of the Frequently Asked Questions on page 10.
If you've already registered and would like to either create a new team or join an existing one, log into your AFSP account and click on the "change team membership" option on the right hand side of your dashboard tab (on mobile you'll need to click "dashboard" first).
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Raise $100 by 05/16/2020 and receive an official Out of the Darkness Campus Walk T-shirt!
Remember, in addition to fundraising online, you will be able to turn in additional cash or check donations at the registration table the day of the Walk.
Friendly, leashed dogs are welcome at the Walk.
There will be live entertainment and refreshments provided.
Participate in a live tree planting event on Campus.
Top Fundraiser will release a dove in a beautiful send-off.
Top Fundraising Team will carry the Out of the Darkness Walk banner and lead the walk!
Any team who raises $300 or more will get a personalized banner.
Message of Hope! Adorn our sidewalks with messages of hope and healing.
Losing someone to suicide or struggling with a mental health condition can sometimes feel as if no one understands what you are going through. Wearing honor beads the day of the walk is a way to show each other that we are all connected to the cause, and that no one is alone.
There is an honor bead for everyone, whether you have lost a loved one, struggle personally, support a friend and/or family member, or all of the above.
The Out of the Darkness Campus Walk is a journey of remembrance, hope, support, and a walk that unites a campus and community – a time to acknowledge the ways in which suicide and mental illness have affected our lives and our loved ones.
Online registration closes at noon the Friday before the walk. However, anyone who would like to participate can register in person at the walk from the time check-in begins until the walk starts. Walk donations are accepted until June 30th.
When you walk in the Out of the Darkness Walks, you join the effort with hundreds of thousands of people to raise awareness and funds that allow AFSP to invest in new research, create educational programs, advocate for public policy, and support survivors of suicide loss.
As the leader in the fight against suicide, and thanks to walkers like you from cities across the country, AFSP has been able to set a goal to reduce the annual suicide rate 20% by 2025.
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The new "common app" form does allow for PDF attachments. Some institutions (University of Michigan for example) have actually entered the 21st century & allow high school teachers to add PDF docs to the overall student recommendation & evaluation. (I just filled one out for a student last week).
Excellent. So at least the University of Michigan admissions office has fully entered into the 1990s.
I expect more of this great land's premier institutions of higher education.
I want college admissions offices to accept (and actually look at) Digital Portfolios and Multimedia Recommendations. Our students deserve no less than that the folks making decisions about their futures should be able to speak the technological language of the real world in which the students are living.
And in the case of students without access to tech? Well, to be honest, there's really no excuse for students not having access to tech. There's absolutely no reason why every high school in the USA shouldn't have at least one digital workstation open to students in their college counseling room. No reason; no excuse.
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The excessive deficit-cutting plans now being framed will almost surely place downward pressure on wages.
The Income Gap Will Grow
James K. Galbraith, an economist at the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, is head of the University of Texas Inequality Project and the general editor of "Galbraith: The Affluent Society and Other Writings, 1952-1967."
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In general, macroeconomic policies cut two ways on inequality — one via effects on economic activity, which if favorable, can reduce inequality by creating more jobs and raising wages, and the other through effects on the stock market, which can make inequality worse if stock prices rise.
Thus in the 1990s the technology boom reduced inequality by increasing employment and low-end wages, while the NASDAQ bubble drove up incomes for a few. The second effect dominated the statistics, but the first dominated the experience most working people had: it was a good time.
The premature and excessive deficit-cutting plans now being framed will almost surely hurt working and retired Americans: they will increase unemployment, decrease hours and overtime, place downward pressure on wages, and in all these ways make low-income workers worse off.
Their effect on the stock market is less clear. The plutocrats behind these plans apparently think that stocks will go up, increasing inequality (in their favor). They may be right but I'm not sure; Japan has discovered it can be hard to have a stock boom in a depression.
When you examine the specifics, ambiguity disappears. While there are progressive variations with better results, the main Bowles-Simpson proposal is an assault on the middle class, the working class and the poor.
Cuts in Social Security will gradually increase poverty and early death among the old. Cuts in the mortgage interest deduction will further drive down home values while hardly affecting those rich enough to pay cash. Killing the Earned Income Tax Credit will reverse a highly effective anti-poverty program for working people. Meanwhile Bowles and Simpson hold the line on the top rate in the income tax, and they say nothing about a financial transactions tax. This is most revealing.
Budget-balancing is crackpot economics, yet these proposals illustrate clearly the true underlying goal. Increasing inequality, it would appear, is the point.


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Many gunfighters in the old west were killers, but none seemed to enjoy it more than Wild Bill. He seemed to kill at the smallest slight, even those imagined in his own twisted mind. Here is part of his story.
The sadistic and murderous western gunman William Preston Longley is born on October 16 in 1815 in Austin County, Texas.
Little is reliably known of the youth of William Longley, or "Wild Bill" as he was later aptly called. But it is certain that before he was even 20 years old, Longley had already killed several men, and the evidence suggests he was probably what modern-day psychologists would term a psychopath. Notoriously short-tempered, Longley frequently killed for the most trivial of reasons. More than a few men died simply because he believed they had somehow slighted or insulted him, like an unarmed man named Thomas, who Longley murdered in cold blood for daring to argue with him over a card game. He had a particularly strong dislike of blacks, and African-Americans in Texas avoided him whenever possible.
Wherever Longley traveled he left behind a trail of pointless murders, but most of the details of his life are shrouded in myth and supposition. Legend has it that Longley was once hanged along with a horse thief; but shots fired back by the departing posse cut his rope, and he was saved. Reports that he was imprisoned for at least a time and once lived with the Ute Indians are more believable, though not confirmed.
After fleeing to Louisiana to escape punishment for killing a minister named Roland Lay, Longley was captured and returned to Lee County, Texas, where he was tried and found guilty of murder. Sentenced to hang, during his final days Longley became a Catholic, wrote long letters about his life, and claimed that he had actually only killed eight men. On the day of his execution, October 28, 1878, he climbed the steps to the gallows with a cigar in his mouth and told the gathered crowd that his punishment was just and God had forgiven him. After kissing the sheriff and priest and bidding farewell to the crowd, the noose was fitted around his neck, and he was hanged. Unfortunately, the rope slipped so that Longley's knees hit the ground, denying him a quick and painless death. After the hangman pulled the rope taut once more, the famous killer slowly choked to death. It took 11 minutes before he was finally pronounced dead.
Not a pleasant way to go out, I reckon. Still, when you want to dance, you have to pay the piper. At least, that's always what I've heard.
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Chicago Teaches Union rejects briefing by Byrd-Bennett's school closing 'Commission'... Union president against hits dishonesty in CPS claims of an 'underutilization crisis'
After receiving a briefing by the Commission on school utilization appointed by the most recent "Chief Executive Officer" of Chicago's public schools, Barbara Byrd Bennett, Chicago Teachers Union and its president Karen Lewis issued the following press release:
It was the betrayal of the four-year fight to establish the Chicago School Facilities Task Force by State Senator Iris Martinez (above right) that opened the way for Barbara Byrd Bennett and CPS officials to break the law and betray the public by establishing the "Commission" on so-called underutilization. Above, Martinez and Commission chairman Frank Clark (left) appeared at the first hearing of the Commission, on December 5, 2012 at Rev. Meeks's South Side church, the House of Hope. Substance photo by David Vance.New School Closing Report Continues the Myth of 100,000 Students Missing from Public Schools
CHICAGO – In response to the "Interim Report," released today by the Chicago Public School (CPS) Commission on School Utilization, Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union offered the following statement:
"This afternoon, the Chicago Teachers Union received a briefing from the Commission on School Utilization regarding a list of recommendations they intend to share with the CPS as it moves forward with unnecessary school closings. Unfortunately their recommendations come too little and too late for far too many of us. Parents, teachers, students and community leaders have called for a full moratorium on all CPS actions this school year.
"We dispute CPS's assertion that the district has lost more than 140,000 students in the last decade and therefore the city is faced with an underutilization crisis. I have been a teacher for 25 years and I can tell you first-hand there were never 500,000 students enrolled in public schools during that time. Their use of numbers is disingenuous across the board and this crisis is a manufactured one.
"What is clear to us after reading the Commission's recommendations is that the public deserves a full facilities plan with a complete vision of where CPS is headed. Taxpayers deserve accountability, transparency and real voice in how the city discards public assets and to whom they are entrusted. School closings signal that this administration has no real commitment to developing the communities where those schools served our most vulnerable children.
"It is clear certain neighborhoods are the primary targets of CPS school actions. School closings exacerbate the problems of foreclosures, joblessness and violence. We are troubled that this report still lacks a clear safety plan and given the spike in violent crime in Chicago this is extremely problematic.
"The Commission recommends that no Level 1 schools should be closed even if they are underutilized. They also suggest that Level 2 schools that are 'on the rise' should be spared closure, unlike Piccolo Elementary that was closed just last year. Why are some underutilized schools given a pass? Is this an issue of underutilization or performance? CPS has already stated it did not intend to close high schools and they should have taken that under consideration when they closed schools such as Dyett and Crane.
"We need a moratorium now. The public deserves a comprehensive study that shows us what the impact of school closings has been in past. The District should take the time it needs to do this correctly, deliberately and thoughtfully rather than in its historical haphazard way of shutting down buildings and disrupting the lives of our students.
"The Chicago Teachers Union will continue to work with the District to not only highlight these problem areas but develop solutions for them. Our number one concern is for the academic progress and well-being of our students."


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Recently came across some interesting examples on Concorde fallacy – aka sunk cost fallacy. The fallacy which makes you look silly for all your bad investments. Not sure they teach it in management classes though, do they? They should.
Concorde fallacy means a person/organisation continue to spend/consume resources/ funds/effort on a project/product with a sole rationale that already a great deal of resources/capital/effort has been poured in, even when tangible evidences show that there is no economical viable end results. In other words sunk costs should not influence your further decisions on investments; if they do then it is sunk cost fallacy.
Now the reason it is notorious as Concorde fallacy is due to an unjustified pursuit of a failed project by French and British government. Concorde was a defense aircraft, half way through the development of which there were evidences suggesting Concorde will never be economically feasible. Despite of that, governments continued spending on it with only reason "a lot has been spent on it already".
Let's talk about shoes – Let's suppose you have perfectly working formal shoes. Since people around you notice that you haven't contributed for golden arrow for a long time, and you visit a showroom to buy new ones. Now, a smart ass salesman sells you a pair double the cost of your current shoes. But on 16th day she starts to hurt your feet, but you can't take it back since there is no visible damage on the product. What will you do?
- You would still throw the old, working, comfortable shoes to attic and choose to wear brand new one, because you need to utilize all money spent on it. If it continues to hurt you, Karma to blame.
- You would decommission newer one and continue to use older one. Again, you can blame it on karma for money wasted.
- Go shopping again. Golden arrow will be extremely happy and karma never gets tired of taking blame.
If you are answer is 1) sunk cost fallacy 2) poor fellow like me 3) crazy shopaholic.
Let's come to that interesting example I promised. Concorde fallacy is not just business philosophy; it is of interest to scientists as well. Apparently it's not just humans who display such behavior; there are examples from biology books too.
Sphex (aka Digger wasps) insects are known to defend their nests with disproportionate amount of energy and rigor that they had spent to build them. In other words, for these wasps under attack, it would be wiser to forfeit and build a new nest, leaving pride aside. May be bad education on economics, eh?
(On related notes to wasps, but not on sunk cost itself)
Lets give it to them, digger wasps aren't exactly the brightest folks in insect kingdom. They are known to show OCD as well. They are so much concerned about security of their nest, they become obsessive and compulsive. This is straight from Wikipedia:
Some Sphex wasps drop a paralyzed insect near the opening of the nest. Before taking provisions into the nest, the Sphex first inspects the nest, leaving the prey outside. During the inspection, an experimenter can move the prey a few inches away from the opening. When the Sphex emerges from the nest ready to drag in the prey, it finds the prey missing. The Sphex quickly locates the moved prey, but now its behavioral "program" has been reset. After dragging the prey back to the opening of the nest, once again the Sphex is compelled to inspect the nest, so the prey is again dropped and left outside during another stereotypical inspection of the nest. This iteration can be repeated again and again, with the Sphex never seeming to notice what is going on, never able to escape from its programmed sequence of behaviors.


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New global network validates SMOS soil moisture data
As ESA's SMOS mission nears the end of its commissioning, a new network will provide harmonised global datasets of soil moisture measurements collected from the ground, ensuring the data received from space are as accurate as possible.
Making sure data delivered from space are accurate is a crucial aspect of any Earth observation mission. One way of achieving this is to take in situ measurements on the ground and compare them with the data being acquired by the satellite orbiting above.
However, measurements from field campaigns all over the world for the purpose of validation need to be carefully harmonised, which is exactly what the new International Soil Moisture Network offers.
The network was set up by the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) in cooperation with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and ESA. It provides an integrative platform to host quality controlled soil moisture measurements emerging from various ground validation campaigns and operational networks to share freely with the scientific community.
Launched in November 2009, ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is now coming to the end of its six-month commissioning period and will soon be delivering vital data to improve our understanding of the water cycle.
The satellite carries an innovative interferometric L-band radiometer to capture images of 'brightness temperature', which correspond to microwave radiation from Earth's surface. These images will be used to derive global soil moisture maps at least every three days and maps of ocean salinity every 30 days.
The data gathered by SMOS will not only lead to an improved understanding of the water cycle, but will also help to improve weather and climate models, and be used for agriculture and water resource management.
As an important part of the mission a number of field campaigns are being carried out to validate the data. Both the observed brightness temperature data and the derived data products for soil moisture from SMOS need to be validated.
A light aircraft in Australia carrying an L-band radiometer and a thermal imager were used to make observations similar to those acquired by SMOS, while data on soil moisture were collected by a team on the ground.
Data such as these can now be fed into the International Soil Moisture Network where they are brought into a common volumetric soil moisture unit to allow for accurate comparison with data received from SMOS. This is not as trivial as it may seem because there is neither a standard measurement technique nor a standard protocol for measuring soil moisture.
Until now, there has not been a standardised method of bringing soil moisture data together, so the network will advance the process of validation of remotely sensed soil moisture datasets from SMOS and NASA's future SMAP mission, as well as modelled soil moisture data.
Funded by ESA, the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) is responsible for the network and data distribution.
Wouter Dorigo, from the institute commented that, "The International Soil Moisture Network clearly bridges a gap between organisations measuring soil moisture on the ground and people interested in using these data.
"Both sides have expressed strong interest in the network: many data providers hope to serve a larger community with their data, whereas the data users now, for the first time, have access to globally available datasets in a harmonised format for validating soil moisture estimates from satellites or models."
Currently, the network hosts data from five operational networks in Europe and Australia, while several other networks have announced they will participate in the near future.
Recently, Alan Robock from Rutgers University, USA, announced they will transfer all in situ soil moisture datasets from the historical International Global Soil Moisture Data Bank into the network. Until the start of the International Soil Moisture Network the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank was the only noticeable initiative providing a centralised dissemination portal for in situ soil moisture measurements.
In addition, it is envisaged that India – through the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) – will contribute to the network in the future.
For improved worldwide validation of satellite and model estimates of soil moisture, all campaign and operational soil moisture networks are welcome to share their data with the scientific community through the International Soil Moisture Network.


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Team Sky may have one of the biggest budgets in professional cycling but one of their riders will be on borrowed equipment at this weekend's Tour du Haut Var after thieves made off with 16 bikes on the eve of the race.
Sky's participation in the two-day event was initially thrown into doubt after team mechanics discovered the loss of all but two of the bikes the team had on hand in the south of France. They had been stolen from the support vehicle.
However, with the race start in Le Cannet des Maures not too far from their training base in Nice they have been able to get five more bikes to the start before borrowing another from the Bretagne-Seche Environnement Team.
"The thieves took all the bikes, bar two, and we presume they only left those because they'd run out of space in whatever transport they were using," Sky's race coach Shaun Stephens told the team's website. "They also took some of the spare training wheels, and various bits of other equipment.
"We're still able to take part in the race though and seven of our eight riders will be riding team-issue Pinarellos. The two that were left in the van are going to be used and we managed to source five others from our training house in Nice, which is about an hour away from where we're staying.
"The remaining bike we've been able to borrow from the Bretagne-Seche Environnement team, who we've been sharing our hotel with. That was a really nice gesture from them and we appreciate it a lot. Things like that really show the spirit of cycling and we can't thank them enough."
Climber Sebastian Henao will take the borrowed bike on Saturday's sprint stage, while Chris Sutton is expected to be on board on Sunday.
"Racing so close to Nice, it's almost the best of a bad situation, because if it had been anywhere else in the world we'd have been in real trouble and probably not been able to take part," Stephens added. "Fortunately we had a lot of spare equipment there so we should be okay to continue without the need for any further replacements."
With Tour de France winner Chris Froome at the Tour of Oman, and Sir Bradley Wiggins and Richie Porte at the Ruta del Sol in Spain, Sky's squad in France features the likes of Ian Boswell, Nathan Earle, and Josh Edmondson.
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Jack Purvis (1937-1997) was a little person actor who served as an additional performer in The Dark Crystal and appeared in Labyrinth as a member of the goblin corps, along with his daughter Katie Purvis.
Born in London, England, the four foot Purvis acted with Kenny Baker in theaters and clubs before going on to work in the Star Wars films. While Baker was cast as R2-D2, Purvis played a variety of roles in the first three films: the Jawa leader, attacking the robot, in A New Hope, Chief Ugnaught in The Empire Strikes Back, and Teebo the Ewok in Return of the Jedi, appearing in the latter with daughter Katie Purvis.
Purvis later worked with Terry Gilliam in Time Bandits (with John Cleese), Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (both with Jonathan Pryce). His final acting appearance was in a 1990 TV version of The Silver Chair from The Chronicles of Narnia.


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EUR 206.8 million to CSOs' development cooperation
Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Kai Mykkänen adopted a decision of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to grant EUR 206.8 million to Finnish civil society organisations (CSOs) for development cooperation programmes to be carried out in 2018–2021.The funding is directed to 22 programmes. The five biggest recipients are Finn Church Aid, the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Fida International, Plan Finland, and the Finnish Red Cross.
All the 22 organisations have received funding from the Foreign Ministry also before. Half of them were granted more funding than previously, six of them were granted the same amount of funding than in 2017, and funding for five organisations is now smaller than it was in 2017.
"The amount of development cooperation appropriations will remain at the same level as in 2017. The aim is to channel the funding to work that is as comprehensive and effective as possible. Organisations that reached the best results in the overall assessment of performance will now receive more funding than earlier," Minister Kai Mykkänen says.
The programmes of the CSOs focus on East Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. In Africa, the organisations' biggest partner countries are Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania and South Sudan, where they often work among the poorest people and communities in order to increase people's opportunities for employment and livelihoods and for education and health care services. This aims to reduce inequality in societies.
In many programmes, the beneficiaries are refugees and their host communities. On the other hand, the work addresses the root causes of migration, such as poverty, lack of prospects, and challenges related to disaster resilience. The recipients include organisations that have expertise in conflict resolution and promotion of democracy. The programmes also enhance sustainable management of natural resources. Climate change is taken into account in all activities.
Programmes are implemented in cooperation with local partners in order to strengthen civil society actors' capacity to promote human rights. Additionally, public sector actors are supported in their task as duty bearers in the implementation of human rights and the provision of public services. The organisations work mainly in challenging environments. In many countries, the space for civil society has been shrinking, making it difficult for CSOs to operate.
Programme-based support is the main form of funding granted by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for the development cooperation activities of CSOs. This is the first time that all the 22 organisations applied for discretionary government transfer simultaneously and for four years at a time. The Ministry aims to organise an open call for proposals for programme-based support in 2021. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs also grants discretionary government transfers for individual projects carried out by small and medium-sized organisations.
Inquiries: Titta Andersson-Bohren, Special Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, tel. +358 50 513 1539 and Jyrki Nissilä, Director, Unit for Civil Society, Department for Development Policy, tel. +358 295 351205
The Foreign Ministry's email addresses are in the format [email protected]
Recipients of programme based support and government grants 2018-21 (pdf, 11 kb, 1 page)


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Simple heart shaped paper cups make this a perfect dessert for my favorite Valentine.
It's a simple recipe for brownies, the last thing you do is put on the topping after these are baked.
As soon as they come out of the over add the topping, pop them back into the hot oven for just a few more minutes, to soften, not cook.
Love the combo of semi sweet chocolate chunks, peanuts and marshmallows.
Fill the batter into your favorite paper cups, brownies have never been so easy, no cutting!
Of course the butter and unsweetened chocolate make this scratch brownie the most tender and delicious over boxed brands any day of the week!
Take out of oven, add to each cupcakes spoonfuls of the following mixed ingredients:
You will need colored sugar of your choice for your holiday theme and that's the last thing you add on top but do not mix in the bowl.
After spooning on top of each cupcake, put back into hot oven for 5 minutes till topping softens and this will set ingredients together. Remove from oven. Let cool. You can sprinkle with coordinating colored sugars according to the holiday. Green for St. Patrick's Day, Red for Valentines Day, etc.


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The violence, despair and destruction that exploded in Los Angeles on April 29, 1992 left indelible memories on Angelenos and on Americans right across the country.
The city became unhinged after the jury acquittal of four LAPD officers criminally charged for the beating of black motorist, Rodney King. Tension spilled onto the streets. Fires burned from Long Beach to Pasadena. Looting was rampant. Gun violence spiked.
There are differing accounts of how many were killed over the course of those few days; as many as 63 Angelenos died in riot-related incidents according to new Los Angeles Times data. The worst trauma was race-related. Depending on whether you were black, white, Asian or Latino, the riots had different implications for you.
What did you experience of the turmoil that week, directly or indirectly? Did it have a lasting impact on your life? How do you interpret the events now? Where do you put the riots in the larger context of L.A., its history and its culture?
Leslie Berestein-Rojas, KPCC immigration reporter; writes the Multi-American blog on KPCC.org.
Kathy Choi, Contributor to KPCC's Public Insight Network; Choi was 13 years old at the time of the riots, but it had a profound influence on her; Choi is making a film about the L.A. riots.
Brian Bentley, Contributor to KPCC's Public Insight Network; Bentley was an LAPD officer at the time of the riots
André Birotte Jr., US State Attorney for the Central Region of California, Department of Justice.; Birotte was a public defender in Los Angeles at the time of the riots; former Inspector General of the L.A.P.D.
Rhonda Mitchell, Contributor to KPCC's Public Insight Network; Mitchell was a 911 dispatcher at the time of the riots
Olsen Ebright, NBC4 social media lead on the digital team. Ebright launched real time tweeting of the events last Friday. The goal is to portray the events as if there was Twitter at the time and to inform people of the time line and the scope of the events as they develop in real time.
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I watched American Bandstand hosted by Dick Clark when I was (cough, cough) a teen many years ago. He was a pioneer bringing rock and roll music into our homes. When I do my math Dick Clark was only 12 years older than me which would mean he was in his late 20's or early 30's when he introduced AB. He made New Year's Eve a party for not only those in N.Y. but to everyone. He will truly be missed!!!…flagranny2
Clark suffered a massive heart attack after entering St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica Tuesday night for an outpatient procedure, according to his family.
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Six Flags' Iconic Ride 'Texas Chute Out' Imploded [VIDEO]
One of Six Flags' most recognizable rides, the "Texas Chute Out," which has been a part of the Arlington Skyline since 1976, is no more.
According to my pal, and former Six Flags employee, Lucky Larry at Mix 93-1, the park plans to build a new ride called the Texas SkyScreamer, which promises to be the tallest free-standing swing ride in the country. Read more about this cool new ride right here.
Watch the implosion below.