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France peaking perfectly, heads into World Cup final
Should France go on to win the World Cup on Sunday, it would have peaked perfectly after starting the tournament in Russia slowly but gaining momentum when it mattered most.
Tournament experience has been key for both the players and coach Didier Deschamps, who has learnt lessons from the last World Cup in Brazil, where France lost to Germany in the quarterfinal, and the disappointment of missing out on home soil in the European Championship two years ago, Reuters reported.
No more so than on Tuesday as the Frenchmen edged Belgium in the semifinal to put themselves within one game of a second World Cup win, 20 years after their first.
While there were questions asked after a far-from-inspiring start, which included a controversial win over Australia and narrowly beating Peru, France still expectedly secured a knockout round spot early from a first round group where Les Bleus were heavy favorites. They have looked better in each game.
There were, however, no easy rides in the knockout stages where the French had to show its full capability in beating Argentina, Uruguay and then Belgium 1-0 in Tuesday's semifinal at Saint Petersburg.
"We have prepared well, I can brag a little about that," laughed Deschamps after securing a place in Sunday's final in Moscow.
"The older players all played their role as leaders and the youngsters brought their energy. I have a squad with a good blend. They have cohabited happily together.
"No one complains and they all realize the importance of the competition. When there was an opportunity to be seized, they took it."
There have been many positive aspects to their game. A lack of panic when they were 2-1 down against Argentina in the last-16 before coming back to win a thriller 4-3, and patience in breaking down stubborn Uruguay in the quarterfinals.
Against Belgium on Tuesday, France was watchful and disciplined.
"We have to give a lot of credit to the way France defended, even having certain attacking players defending very deep and giving us a lot of respect in that way," said opposing coach Roberto Martinez.
Deschamps, who captained France's only World Cup winning side in 1998, said the march to Sunday's final has been underpinned by a steely determination.
"There is a spirit in the squad that can move mountains," he said.
"They are young and they will be even stronger in two and four years' time."
'At gates of paradise'
France's march into the World Cup final dominated the nation's headlines on Wednesday, with many already predicting a second title for "Les Bleus" in Moscow, AFP reported.
"The Blue Dream Continues" wrote Le Figaro after a night of celebrations by fans who poured into the streets after the win over Belgium, watched by 19 million according to French broadcaster TF1.
"Didier Deschamps is still on track to join Brazilian legend Mario Zagalle and Germany's Franz Beckenbauer, the only two heros who have reigned over planet football as both player and coach," the broadsheet wrote.
"Les Bleus grabbed the Devils by the tail in a spectacular match," wrote Le Parisien, confident the team is already "at the gates of paradise".
"There's no Zinedine Zidane but a bunch of great players surrounded by good players. It's more of a team, a collective instead of a group gathered around a genius."
Sports daily L'Equipe, hailing the team's "spectacular mastery of the ball and strategy, also said a second "star" was in reach.
"A second star which would propel them into another galaxy, that of repeat world champions, alongside Italy, Uruguay, Brazil, Germany and Argentina," it said.
Papers also lavished praise on Samuel Umtiti, a player more used to blocking goals than scoring the one that knocked Belgium out of the running on Tuesday.
"It's a player who's injured, getting treatment every day since he landed in Russia, who has opened the doors to the finals," wrote Liberation.
President Emmanuel Macron, who attended Tuesday's match, plans to return to Russia for the final with his wife Brigitte on Sunday, his office told AFP on Wednesday.
"We're in the final. Rendez-vous Sunday to bring it home," the president, a football lover, tweeted.
Serena Williams battles back for Wimbledon semi spot
Serena Williams survived a scare to reach the Wimbledon semifinals with a comeback victory over hard-hitting Italian Camila Giorgi.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion dropped her first set of the championships but came through 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, BBC Sport reported.
Giorgi, the world number 52, produced the type of power normally associated with her opponent – but the American then found an extra gear.
Williams faces German 13th seed Julia Gorges in today's semifinals.
Before the match, Giorgi had raised eyebrows when, asked about her impression of Williams over the years, she said, "I don't follow women's tennis."
And she certainly played as if undaunted by the reputation and titles of her opponent.
Giorgi's serve was straight out of the Williams book of power. She delivered three aces to the American's one in the first set and won 84 percent of points on her first serve.
It is not often you see Williams scrambling to return a serve or nearly knocked off her feet by the force of a near 120mph delivery – it is more often her dishing that up – but she was given a taste of her own medicine by the fearless Giorgi.
The Italian's average serve speed in each set was higher than Williams', although the American recorded the fastest of the match at 122mph.
With the top 10 seeds making early exits, she has yet to face a player ranked in the top 50. Against Giorgi, she answered any lingering doubts about what might happen if she faced a stiff test – showing she still has the stamina, spirit and shots to carry on collecting Grand Slam titles.
"I feel good, I feel like I did better today, I had to," she told BBC Sport.
"This is only my fourth tournament back so I don't feel pressure, I don't feel I have to win this. I still have a long way to go to be where I was."
The American could become the fourth mum to win a major, after Belgium's Kim Clijsters and Australians Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Margaret Court.
Victory would draw her level with Court's record of 24 Grand Slam crowns.
She will go into the record books as the lowest ranked player – at 181st – to reach a women's semifinal at Wimbledon; yet having dominated the game for so long, she is carrying on where she left off before her maternity break.
Also through to the last four are German 11th seed Angelique Kerber, who beat Russian Daria Kasatkina 6-3, 7-5 and Latvian 12th seed Jelena Ostapenko, who overcame Slovak Dominika Cibulkova 7-5, 6-4.
Ronaldo steals headlines, seals Juve move
Real Madrid confirmed Cristiano Ronaldo will leave the club to join Juventus.
The Serie A champion swooped to sign the Portugal captain after he indicated that he was considering leaving Madrid after the Champions League final win in May, goal.com reported.
On Tuesday, Juventus president Andrea Agnelli flew from Pisa to Greece to meet Ronaldo, who is on holiday in Kalamata, and his agent Jorge Mendes arrived from England later on to join them.
Ronaldo is said to have agreed a four-year contract that will see him pocket €30 million (£26.5m/$35m) per season and Madrid has since confirmed that it have allowed him to make the move to Turin in a transfer that will cost €100 million (£88m/$117m) plus €12million (£10.5/$14m) in additional charges.
"Real Madrid CF communicates that, in response to the will and request expressed by the player Cristiano Ronaldo, he has agreed to transfer to Juventus FC."
The announcement was followed by an open letter from Ronaldo, in which he thanked fans for their "love and affection" during his time there.
Ronaldo, 33, reached global superstar status after becoming the world's most expensive player when he joined Madrid from Manchester United in 2009.
During his nine-year spell at the Santiago Bernabeu, Ronaldo won 15 trophies, including two La Liga titles and two Copa del Rey crowns.
He helped Madrid to La Decima in the Champions League final with Atletico Madrid in 2014 and played a crucial role in Los Blancos winning the competition in each of the last three seasons.
And the Santiago Bernabeu club thanked the star for all he had done during his time there, adding to its statement, "Real Madrid wants to express its gratitude to a player who has proved to be the best in the world and who has marked one of the brightest times in the history of our club and world football.
"Beyond the conquered titles, the trophies achieved and the triumphs achieved in the playing fields during these 9 years, Cristiano Ronaldo has been an example of dedication, work, responsibility, talent and improvement... For Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo will always be one of the great symbols and a unique reference for the next generations.
"Real Madrid will always be your home."
Ronaldo, a five-time Ballon d'Or winner, will now have the chance to win a European league title with a third club after completing a shock move to Turin.
Madrid, meanwhile, has already denied making bids for Paris Saint-Germain duo Neymar and Kylian Mbappe as the Spaniards prepare for the 2018-19 season under new coach Julen Lopetegui.
The former Spain coach takes over from Zinedine Zidane after the Frenchman surprisingly decided to resign after Madrid beat Liverpool in Kiev.
'Ciao Cristiano'
Spain's Marca produced one of the most striking pages, documenting each one of Ronaldo's goals for Madrid with the club badges of who scored against, and labeling him "the legend of 451 goals", the FourFourTwo magazine reported.
AS were similarly effusive in their praise of Ronaldo and went with, "Ciao, Cristiano. It was great while it lasted."
Perhaps the mood was best summed up by Sport, who had the headline "Shock Cristiano".
Mundo Deportivo mocked up an image of Ronaldo in a Juventus shirt, merely writing "CR Seven" with a description of the move.
In Italy, La Gazzetta dello Sport succinctly wrapped up the excitement in the Italian media over Ronaldo's arrival with their "Arrivo!" headline.
And Tuttosport also went for a simple, yet elegantly excitable, header merely writing, "Here!"
Hitting silver
Iranian archer Esmaeil Ebadi won the men's compound silver medal at the 2018 Asia Cup-World Ranking Tournament, Stage III in Chinese Taipei.
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A preliminary archive of language and cultural material from the Tuhan people of northern Mongolia
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Language Tuhan
Depositor Elisabetta Ragagnin
Affiliation Free University Berlin
Location Mongolia
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Landing Page Handle http://hdl.handle.net/2196/8e99c209-fc34-4463-8844-ecaeb6f4e490
Tuhan, a Sayan Turkic language, is spoken in the Tsagaan Uur county of East Khovsgol aimag in northern Mongolia. The collection includes an audiovisual corpus of mixed genres with data from the last speakers of Tuhan, collected by Elisabetta Ragagnin and provided with metadata.
The pictures showcased in this deposit page show three Tuhan speakers, Dayanjalba, Baasanjav and Gombosurun, in 2014, and Dayanjalba and Elisabetta (the principal investigator) in Tsagaan Uur in 2017.
The collection created within this project focusses on the speakers of Tuhan, a Sayan Turkic variety of East Khövsgöl region in northern Mongolia. In Mongolian sources Tuhan people and their language are known as Uygar-Uriankhay. Their endonym, however, is Tuha, a variant of tuba/tubo, an ancient ethnic name that is common across Sayan Turkic speakers and various groups in the neighbouring areas. The specific form tuha is shared by the reindeer herding Dukhan of West Khövsgöl and by Tuvans of the Tere-Khöl and Toju areas in Tuva. In Mongolia, Tuhans are also named Üüriyn Uriankhay 'Uriankhay of the Uur River', Jinkhene Uriankhay 'real/true Uriankhay' and Tuha Uriankhay. Further denominations found in the literature are Soyot or simply Uriankhay. The name Uriankhay —an ancient ethnic denomination used in reference to various ethnic groups and also documented in the Secret History of the Mongols— is also used to refer to three Mongolian-speaking groups of the Tsagaan Uur county. Officially, the total number of Uriankhay in Tsagaan Uur County amounts to 600. Out of the 2400 inhabitants, 650 are registered as Buryat whereas the rest is Khalkha. Nowadays speakers of Tuhan are less than 10, aged between 60 and 83. They are all bilingual in Tuhan and Mongolian. Tuhan is both a nondominant and a non-written variety and is only used as the in-group language. Tuhan is not transmitted to the younger generations and has never been taught at school. The status of Tuhan is thus very low. It happened to Elisabetta Ragagnin to meet some young Khalkha Mongolian inhabitants of the village who did not even know about the existence of the Tuhan people. In her fieldwork sojourn in September 2017, Elisabetta looked for further Tuhan speakers in Chandaman Undur, Bulnay and Khankh, where other Tuhan-speaking groups used to live. However, she could not find any still alive. As for lifestyle, Tuhans herd Mongolian-style cattle, especially cows, since their pastures are very lush. Tuhans often proudly refer to their homeland as Burhan jurtï 'God's homeland'. With regard to the spiritual world, Tuhan beliefs are a combination of Buddhist and animist beliefs. Worth noting in this respect is the special meaning the county of Tsagaan Uur holds both for Buddhism and animism.
Tuhan is a nearly extinct Sayan Turkic language spoken in East Khovsgol region in Northern Mongolia in the county of Tsagaan Uur, at a distance of 185 km from the aimag city Murun. Linguistically, Tuhan is one of the most intriguing Turkic languages of South Siberia. Besides displaying typical Sayan Turkic characteristics, and sharing some specific isoglosses with Tofan, Altai and Khakas, Tuhan preserves archaic features otherwise not documented in the rest of Sayan Turkic. Tuhan also holds a special position within Sayan Turkic regarding Mongolic lexical copies. Some Mongolian loanwords clearly display more archaic features than the rest of Sayan Turkic, pointing to earlier contacts with Mongolic varieties, possibly of Khamnigan Mongolic type. Thus, despite the very small number of its speakers, Tuhan appears to be a highly important language for comparative Turcology and for a better understanding of the language history of South Siberia. See Ragagnin: 2018a, On Old Uyghur traces. In: Gulácsi, Zs. (ed.), Language, Government, and Religion in the World of the Turks: Festschrift for Larry Clark at Seventy-Five (Silk Road Studies 19). Turhout: Brepols. 117-135; 2018b, A Turcological gem: The Tuhan language of Northern Mongolia. Turkic Languages 22/2(2018), 217-229 and 2009, A rediscovered low-land Tofan variety. Turkic Languages 13, 225-245.
This collection includes four hours of audio-video material and eight hours of audio materials of mixed genres including conversations, narratives on history, ethnography and both material and spiritual culture, and elicitation. All data is provided with metadata.
The data for this collection was collected by Elisabetta Ragagnin between 2013 and 2017.
Ragagnin, Elisabetta. 2019. A preliminary archive of language and cultural material from the Tuhan people of northern Mongolia. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0013-E445-C. Accessed on [insert date here].

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BARACK Obama pummelled Mitt Romney with a stream of barbed remarks and personal taunts across a TV debating table as the pair fought over their competing visions of America's place in the world.
In their last face-to-face confrontation before the November 8 election, a sarcastic Mr Obama went on the attack in a determined bid to halt his Republican rival's growing popularity that has left them deadlocked in the polls.
Although the debate was less aggressive than their last encounter when they stalked each other across the floor, continually interrupting, the personal antipathy between the pair was only too obvious.
The President's attempts to belittle Mr Romney over foreign policy frequently descended into condescension - none more so than the moment when the challenger, who wants to increase military spending, complained that the US Navy was now smaller than it had been in 1916.
Pouncing on this apparent naivety, Mr Obama quipped: 'We also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military has changed.' His voice dripping in sarcasm, he proceeded to explain in a slowed-down tone that 'we have these things called aircraft carriers; where planes land on them' and 'these ships that go underwater; nuclear submarines'.
He added: 'And so the question is not a game of Battleship, where we are counting ships.' Continuing the comedy theme, he responded to Mr Romney's claim that Russia was America's greatest 'geopolitical' foe by saying: 'The 1980s, they're now calling to ask for their policy back - because the Cold War has been over for 20 years.' Mr Romney has been portrayed by opponents as a trigger-happy warmonger but instead he played the dove in Monday night's debate in Boca Raton, Florida.
While he congratulated the president in taking out Osama bin Laden, he argued that the US had to fight violent Muslim extremism by strengthening civil society in Islamic countries. 'We can't kill ourselves out of this mess,' he said. 'We don't want another Iraq. We don't want another Afghanistan.' Europe was barely mentioned at all.
Mr Romney claimed the President's weak, apologetic international leadership had failed to deal with a 'rising tide of chaos' and made the world a more dangerous place.
'You look at the record of the last four years and say, Is Iran closer to a bomb? Yes,' he said.
'Is the Middle East in tumult? Yes. Is al Qaeda on the run, on its heels? No. Are Israel and the Palestinians closer to reach a peace agreement? No.' America's influence in the world was receding rather than growing, said Mr Romney.
He appeared to hit a nerve when he once again accused the President of going on an 'apology tour' of the world, berating him for saying that America had in the past 'dictated' to other countries.
Publication information: Article title: OBAMA ON THE ATTACK; Romney Taken to Task over Foreign Policy in TV Exchange. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: Daily Mail (London). Publication date: October 24, 2012. Page number: 8. © McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. COPYRIGHT 2012 Gale Group.


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The Power of the 'Pretty Good' Guys
Wedded Blitz! Beware the Ides of March
Is your love based on a lie? Fear not! As the 'New York Times' "Vows" section tell us, sometimes that works out.
by Katie Baker on April 30, 2014
Some people send themselves flowers, others compose cryptic Instagram posts or engineer meet-ups though conspiring friends. There are many tried-and-true ways to use lies and subterfuge to get the attention of someone you have a crush on, but few require the cojones shown by one Cornell junior seven years back.
Samantha Spindel, who played flute in the school's marching band, fancied trumpet player Justin Musaffi. So she emailed him on April Fool's Day to say she'd received the letter he'd sent her asking her out, and her answer was yes.
He emailed back: "What letter? I didn't write you a letter." Still, he took the opportunity to say that he was interested in meeting her anyway.
"We met for coffee, and we were just sitting there trying to figure out which one of our mutual friends wrote that letter," Dr. Musaffi recalled. "She told me she thought it might be one of her friends, but we just didn't know."
Well, one of them didn't know. It wasn't until more than a year later, after they'd graduated from Cornell a couple, that she finally confessed to her white lie: She'd made the whole thing up. (Far from being freaked out, he was flattered.) It's a cute story, but in the wrong hands it could go disastrously wrong. Love forgives many things. Such as, to give another example, this guy.
It's definitely every father-in-law's dream to read the sentence "Their first date, at a fast-food restaurant in South Bend … didn't end very well: He had forgotten his wallet" in his daughter's wedding announcement. And the lack of chivalry didn't end there: When the couple went on a second date, he forgot his wallet again! Before the bride could start suspecting this was all an elaborate act — the male version of leaving your earrings on the nightstand, or something — he finally got the check, and the girl.
Other things may seem slightly more inexcusable, but who are we to judge? This featured "Vows" announcement sure was a doozy, beginning with a former medical assistant/investment banker/filmmaker who volunteered with the Red Cross after 9/11 and became swept up in the fulfillment of aiding others. What seems like it's going to be a story about two like-minded individuals meeting while helping with Haitian hurricane relief takes an unexpected turn when the groom stops seeming quite so generous of spirit:
Their synergy made Ms. Thompson eager to show Mr. Gomez a gesture of love. So, on the last page of her book, "The Third Wave," she asked him to marry her.
He did not respond. "I wanted to be the one to open the door, yet I wasn't ready," Mr. Gomez recalled, but there was more, which she was unaware of, behind the silence.
"I had lost my way years back," he said. "I defaulted to carnal from spiritual, choosing variety over value. Every day with Alison helped me find balance, but I had not discussed my past with her."
She let his proposal snub go, continued their life together and hoped he would someday surprise her with a proposal.
But actions speak louder than words, I suppose, and after Ms. Thompson "sliced open her leg on the sharp edge of a step as the couple boarded a boat to socialize with some of Mr. Gomez's friends" and needed stitches, he took care of her: "At home in the bathroom, he would place me on a chair and shower and dry me like a baby," she said. "In these moments, I knew this is a man who would run into the fire with me. I wrote his name on my soul."
That wasn't the only passage from the announcement that made the bride, with her long white-blonde hair, seem like Daenerys among the Dothraki. There was also this:
After working in third-world countries for so many years, she had trouble enjoying the luxuries of life, like running water from taps, bubble baths and restaurant dinners. "I will occasionally eat with my hands like I did for years in Sri Lanka, which has created tension between us," Ms. Thompson said. "But we don't sweat the small stuff for long."
Nor should you!
That last paragraph stood out in perfect contrast to one that appeared more recently in the Times, in a piece that wasn't a wedding announcement per se but might as well have been. I'm talking about the masterpiece that was this article on socialites Matthew Mellon and Nicole Hanley Mellon, which included this gem:
"I've never been to Africa, but I feel like I have this deep affinity for it," Ms. Hanley Mellon said. "I've read every Hemingway, we collect Peter Beard, I've watched 'Out of Africa.' It touches your soul to visit and smell the smells, and you can't recreate the experience without immersing yourself."
They'll be eating with their fingers in no time. By the way, if this article were being scored in NUPTIALS fashion it would earn points for, among other things: Palm Beach; Greenwich; Maine; the names "Force Hanley Mellon" and "Olympia Drexel Mellon;" the Winklevoss twins name drop; and the venue: Diane von Furstenberg's house on Harbour Island in the Bahamas.
According to one article I read, they gave guests 48 hours' notice to book flights and make it to the wedding, and her parents were "devastated" to miss it. The inverse of that kind of stunt, though, might be holding your wedding at a venue "to which guests were encouraged to hike."
Normally, I would call that all fine and good, a fitting tribute to a vibrant couple who clearly love the outdoors almost as much as they love letting everyone know about it. "This is so them!" I can imagine guests saying too brightly, through labored breaths, while navigating dirt switchbacks up the side of a mountain. But then you read this …
But Ms. Baltay and Mr. Sundstrom preferred a more challenging style of skiing than most of their friends.
"I'd go off to the black diamonds with him, and we'd leave our friends on the bunny slopes," said Ms. Baltay, who had worked as a ski instructor in Vail, Colo., before starting graduate school. "I liked to ski fast and hard. Eric liked to keep up with me. We both grew up skiing with our families."
… and suddenly that happy mountain ramble feels more like a time trial, like when your friends convince you to join them on their annual Thanksgiving Turkey Trot 5k ("It'll be great! It's really relaxed. It's just a social event and we're always hungover!") and then casually leave you in the dust. Somewhere in the distance, Sage Mehta nods approvingly, and cries out, "Buck up!"
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The annual human mass-preening warm-weather ritual known among modern anthropologists as "wedding season" may technically still be right around the corner, but that doesn't mean there was no early activity in the month of March. Here is this month's Society Scorecard, compiled using our proprietary NUPTIALS algorithm for determining wedding worthiness and presented with big thanks, as always, to Friend of Grantland Alex Morrison.
Look, it may not be specifically codified in the bylaws of Wedded Blitz, but there's an unwritten rule around these parts: If you're the grandson of A. Alfred Taubman, "the shopping mall developer who was chairman of Sotheby's from 1983 to 2000" (and who, the announcement does not go on to say, was then implicated in a price-fixing scandal with Christies!), and you're getting married, then I'm, shall we say, SOLD. And that's before even factoring in the whole met-at-Brown and twin PhD's thing. Congratulations, you two!
In close second place were the senior editor at Harper's and the pediatrician son of "Dr. Harriet E. McGurk and the artist Frank Stella of New York." (Whenever you get a "the ____" before your name, you know you've made it in a really badass way. No one ever says, "Oh, here, let me introduce you to my friend the consultant Bill Walsh.") The bride's mother, by the way, clearly has life down to an artful science: She is "a theater arts professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who is doing research in Malaysia, and is the editor of the Asian Theatre Journal published by the University of Hawaii Press." And what is it that you do?
Coming in third: You know it's a good one when the Rhode Island Supreme Court justice who's officiating your ceremony at the Yale Club has a III in his name, especially when "The bride is a descendant of Jeremy Clarke, a colonial president of Rhode Island, and of John Wanton, a colonial governor." And speaking of names, the businesses owned by the folks in the fourth-place marriage this month sure do like to bear them:
"Mrs. Pisa, 42, owns an interior design firm bearing her name in New York and Palm Beach."
"The bride's father owns a commercial real estate development firm [in Palm Beach] that bears his name."
"The groom's father retired as the owner of a construction company in Woodland Park that bore his name."
If only the deadbeat "a partner in the New York law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy" groom could have instead owned, like, a lumberyard bearing his name, this family would basically have an entire vertical supply chain covered. Just some free empire-building advice.
Some other wedding odds and ends from the month of March …
• From 2009 to 2013, the bride's father was the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe in Casteau, Belgium. Her mother is the author of "Naval Spouse's Guide." Did Wes Anderson already make this film, or is he too busy filing restraining orders against these people?
• Do me a favor and scroll through some of these Onion wedding announcements for a while and then click on this one and read the first caption and tell me if there's any difference.
• As per usual, the New York Times online "Vows" video department absolutely nails it with the little film that accompanies this announcement. It's probably because I grew up in New Jersey, but everything about the video is perfect, from the opening shot to the accents to the "Do you ever hang out in Hoboken? Well, maybe my son can show you around" to the quick cuts between characters. I'm genuinely heartbroken I couldn't have attended this wedding, and I hope to see these folks around for the reopening of beloved New Jersey institution Action Park.
• Here's hoping the fine folks at Joffrey Ballet School have a talented SEO team.
• "Urologist." "No, YOU'REologist!" — to be repeated nightly at the dinner table until this couple's children file for emancipation.
• If you don't have enough bleak reality in your life, might I introduce you to the Times' newish "Unhitched" column about people getting divorced? The headline is "A Love Not Strong Enough to Climb Barriers," and now I need to go have a drink.
• If you went to Elizabeth Murray and Webster Marquez's wedding and you still haven't gotten them a gift, you're in luck, because getting "I was sure he was gay," she said. "It was my experience that the one single guy at the party ends up being my new gay bestie." calligraphied and framed is one thing that hasn't already been purchased off the registry.
• Bill Gates apparently has "a research and policy center that focuses on his personal interests and private business." I'm stealing that from now on when referring to the fact that I work from home.
• Similarly, "We were never throwing Barbra Streisand albums at each other" is my new favorite euphemism for going through an "amicable" split.
• Blythe Lawton Winchester and Jordan William Winters Brock seem like truly lovely people, but there's sort of a latent Lifetime Original Movie vibe going on in this announcement, no? I mean, the headline is "A Captive Audience," for crying out loud, and it features a rosy-cheeked Goldman Sachs investment banker and a date to the Met and a ski accident and the last two sentences are "She was confined to her apartment. She couldn't get away from me even if she wanted to." Ah, young love.
• "When Ms. Rosenbaum first visited Mr. Klassen's Sonoma County home she was flabbergasted: She had been in love before, but had never dated someone with more whisks than she had." I have nothing to add to this.
And finally, we obviously can't let the season of Passover go by without kvelling over this month's Chosen Couple. I initially thought that this pair, with their dual rabbi officiants and the bride's pending master's degree in medieval Jewish history at Yeshiva University, would take top honors.
But I was too charmed/mystified by the daughter of a former preschool teacher at Temple Emanuel and the son of a Hackensack surgeon. The pair met when the groom, "then an orientation leader at N.Y.U. for the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life," oversaw a stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge with a group that included his future wife.
For Dr. Berman's part, whenever the thought of asking her out crossed his mind, he quickly dismissed the notion. "I was a chicken because I didn't think that this nice, smart, pretty Jewish girl would be interested in this awkward doofus doctor," he said.
Wait, what?! That only runs counter to everything I've ever known to be true. Why is this wife different from all other wives? Some Bronfman Center representative he is.
Anyway, the two danced around dating for quite some time, much to the chagrin of their wannabe-yenta friends, until finally performing an economic risk/return analysis on the situation and deciding to become a couple. ("They made the announcement to their friends at the synagogue the next day and had their first official date one week later.")
And now, forevermore, she will live the great shame of being married to a doctor. Can't win 'em all.
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Downtown Staple Saratoga Shoe Depot will Close its Doors for Good Dec. 31
By suzanna on December 17, 2011
Saratoga Shoe Depot, a downtown staple since 1976, will close its doors for good Dec. 31
Originally Published in the Saratogian Newspaper, Print Edition, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. Click Here to Read Online.
By SUZANNA LOURIE
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Saratoga Shoe Depot at 385 Broadway, a downtown staple since 1976, will close its doors for good Dec. 31. It was sold at auction earlier this month. (ERICA MILLER file photo/emiller@saratogian.com)
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Shoe Depot, a downtown business staple since 1976, will close its doors for good Dec. 31.
The announcement comes just weeks after the store at 385 Broadway was sold at auction to Tom Newkirk, owner of Saratoga National Golf Course, for $2 million.
Saratoga Shoe Depot and another Broadway property — a mixed-use building on the corner of Spring Street and Broadway — were originally slated for foreclosure in May, but former owner Frank Panza filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to hold off auctioneers.
Unable to sell the properties, Panza lost the buildings Dec. 2, when they sold at auction for a combined $3 million.
"It's bittersweet," Panza said Saturday, "but I'm a firm believer that life is going to take you in a direction and you have the option to be happy or to be sad, and I'm not walking away sad."
Looking ahead, Panza said he has no specific plans to reopen the Shoe Depot elsewhere and for now is focusing on taking it slow with his wife, Jennifer L. Flynn, while recuperating from the financial and emotional losses.
"We're not going to relocate, at least right now, but we're leaving it open because we don't know the possibilities yet," he said. "We will definitely do something, I'm just not sure where it will be."
While Panza plans his next step, the property's new owner, Newkirk, has apparently reached an agreement with another retail tenant — Frivolous Gal — that will move into the space next year.
Although the owner of Frivolous Gal, a boutique currently located at 18 Division St., was unavailable Saturday evening, an employee confirmed the business would be moving to Broadway, opening some time next spring.
Roughly 10 employees will be out of a job when Saratoga Shoe Depot, which has been in business for more than 35 years, closes its doors at the end of the month.
Longtime employees and customers were the first to be notified of the closing in an email from Panza sent earlier this week.
"My family and I want to say thank you for the way you have treated us," the message said. "Some folks say retail is a tough racket, and I would tend to agree. It also seems appropriate to mention that 35 years ago I could not imagine how wealthy our hearts would become from something as simple as serving you. From its now deeper bottom we can say Bless You."
The email also announced a liquidation sale that will feature price cuts on everything in the store.
All jewelry, clothing, footwear, accessories, gifts, toys, furniture (antiques included) will be 20 percent off through Monday; 30 percent off Dec. 19 through 21; 40 percent off Dec. 22 through 24; 50 percent off Dec. 26 through 27; and 60 percent off Dec. 28 through 30.
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'I Saw Blood Coming Out of My Eyes': Greg Laurie Recounts Alice Cooper's Incredible Transformation From Drugs to Jesus
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Pastor Greg Laurie is captivated by legendary musician Alice Cooper's testimony, noting how Cooper's transformation journey was "hands down" the most compelling he encountered while writing his latest book on the intersection of faith and rock 'n' roll.
"Alice, at one point, was the No. 1 rock star in all of the world," Laurie, author of "Lennon, Dylan, Alice, and Jesus: The Spiritual Biography of Rock and Roll," told CBN's Faithwire. "He started living the rock star life to excess. He was pretty much drunk every day he was using drugs heavily, his life began to unravel; his wife Sheryl left him."
Laurie recalled how Cooper one day found himself using cocaine alone in his room at the height of his dysfunction.
"He was snorting it, and he looked in the mirror, and he said, 'I saw blood coming out of my eyes. I don't know if it was a hallucination or if it was really happening, but all I knew was I was going to die.'"
At that moment, Laurie said, Cooper "called out to God," and his entire life changed.
"He got off drugs, he reunited with his wife, and he's been clean and sober for over 30 years," Laurie said. "He gets up every morning, and he reads his Bible. … He gave a Bible to [singer] Marilyn Manson."
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These are the types of stories Laurie tells in "Lennon, Dylan, Alice, and Jesus," exploring the ups, downs, and spiritual intersections found at the roots of rock 'n' roll.
As a big pop culture fan, Laurie said he found the topic absolutely captivating — and worthy of exploration.
"I've always had an interest in pop culture. Combine this with the fact that I am an evangelist," he said of his motivation for writing the book. "And an evangelist builds bridges to culture."
Far from a "glorification of rock music or rock stars," Laurie said his exploration pulls back the veil to show how these musicians are ordinary people "searching for meaning in life."
"They chase after these things, and so part of the book is filled with a cautionary tale of why this is an empty pursuit in life," he said. "And other parts of the book are redemptive."
Laurie continued, "The roots of rock are Gospel, they're Gospel, they're blues, they're even somewhat country."
The pastor said many people who have reached such enormous success find themselves struggling to get the exciting highs they experience at the start of their journeys.
As excitement wanes, some turn to drugs on their quest to find elation, which has led to some tragic endings for many performers.
"Many of the people who are successful in entertainment in general … they're often broken people … who maybe thought if they made it in Hollywood, they would be happy people," Laurie said. "If they make it, then they realize this is not the answer, and so their lives begin to unravel … these are just people like we are."
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For her first solo exhibition in Rome, YOKO ONO presents an installation designed specifically for the space of the gallery, composed of a large bronze sculpture (270 x 270 cm) and 68 small canvases.
In recent years, Yoko Ono, a member of the Fluxus group since its initial conception, has enjoyed great international success as evidenced by her exhibition activity in galleries and museums such as the Whitney Museum in New York, and others in the United States, in Japan and in Europe.
Her first performance exhibition, Painting to be stepped on, was organised by George Maciunas at the AG Gallery in New York. The artist presented works that implored the viewer to violate and overturn any preconceived role. In fact, the public was invited to walk on the very surface of the work itself.
In 1966, during the symposium Destruction in art, organised in London by Gustav Metzgr, Yoko Ono executed the performance Cut Pieces: kneeling for one hour, she invited the audience members to cut off pieces of her clothes; whilst subject to the inevitable violence of the performance Yoko Ono talked about the historic suppression endured by women and by other social groups, thus subverting the role of the spectator.
In the following years, Yoko Ono continued as a film-maker, both alone and in collaboration with John Lennon. In the field of music, their collaboration developed into the work entitled Plastic Ono Band in which the artist experimented with the use of one's voice as a musical instrument.
Yoko Ono's conceptual statements are composed of brief texts whose ideas re-appear in her work in different forms, creating a dialogue between the spectator and the work itself.
The artist will be present on the opening night of the exhibition.
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You know, I'd underplay it and just say I'm just your average 21 year old undergrad who wastes her time on the internet... but I'm really not.
I'm not aware of having any similarities to comic book characters, tbh.
I really would post something here, but it gives too much about me as a person unfortunately, sorry guys.
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Ever since it was first announced that the Joker would be appearing in the new Batman film, The Dark Knight, I have been highly anticipating the movie's release. To me, you can't have a great hero without a great villain. That's why Spider-Man and Batman are my two favorite superheroes of all time. Because when it comes to rogue galleries, no one else compares. And of these rogues, the Joker is one of my favorites.
Needless to say, I had some pretty high expectations for The Dark Knight—expectations that only grew after seeing the previews, reading the reviews and hearing about Heath Ledger's (RIP) Oscar-worthy performance. In fact, I had such high expectations for the movie that a part of me was afraid to watch The Dark Knight, for fear of being let down. Of course, that wasn't enough to prevent me from going to the theatre…and being completely blown away. Basically everything you've heard about The Dark Knight being the best comic book adaptation ever or the best movie of 2008—well it's true. The Dark Knight is just that good and then some…
For starters, The Dark Knight is the most realistic take that I've ever seen for a comic book movie. Heck, I wouldn't even describe The Dark Knight as a comic book movie. Take away the batsuit and the Joker's face paint, and it's like watching an epic crime drama, complete with mobsters, corrupt policemen, power plays and so on. And like an epic crime drama, the plot is sophisticated, the action is intense—and surprisingly violent—and the emotion is incredibly visceral.
As far as the Joker, Heath's performance is every bit as good as people say it is and one of the best Joker interpretations that I've ever seen. My only complaint—there just wasn't enough of the Joker in the film. As far as the rest of the cast, Bale, Caine, Freeman, and Oldman don't disappoint in their returning roles, so the pressure was on Maggie Gyllenhaal who did a much better job with Rachel Dawes than Katie Holmes did, while Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent aka Two-Face, was excellent and one of the movie's major surprises. Another surprise was the thought-provoking questions The Dark Knight asks about good, evil and what it means to be a hero, as well as the shocking turn of events at the end of the film which explains the movie's title while also hinting at the direction the filmmakers may pursue in the next Batman film.
In closing, The Dark Knight not only lived up to my lofty expectations, but it shattered them, far surpassing any of the previous Batman films, and setting a new standard in filmmaking that is going to be hard to top...
NOTE: Supposedly the trailer for the movie adaptation of one of the greatest graphic novels ever in Watchmen was supposed to run in front of The Dark Knight. Unfortunately our theatre must not have gotten that memo, so there was no trailer. Thankfully that's what the internet is for :) So to view the excellent trailer, click HERE or watch the video below:
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Jebus said...
I'm glad so many people out there are liking this film, but I was pretty disappointed. Ledger is great as the Joker but Two Face was ridiculously under utilised and Batman in this one was just atrocious. Ledger made a crap film watchable but he doesn't deserve an Oscar for it.
I feel Nolan pulled too many punches with the script, editing and muted violence. I'll go se it at IMAX and maybe I'll like it better but I came out of the cinema very sad and disappointed.
Wow! You're one of the few that I've heard that didn't enjoy the movie, but everyone is entitled to their opinion :) Personally, I thought Two-Face was the most developed character in the movie and if anyone was underutilized, it was the Joker himself. The one thing about Batman that annoyed me was his 'voice', but it makes sense that he would do that to protect his identity...
As far as pulling punches, yes there are moments that the director could have taken it further, but considering that the movie is PG-13 and that Batman is regarded as family-fare, the filmmakers definitely pushed the envelope and The Dark Knight is far and away edgier & grittier than any previous Batman film. And perhaps they'll take it even further with the next release :)
I've never seen a movie at an IMAX theatre, so if you do check it out, let us know how it looks!
Wow, I'm surprised Jebus didn't love this movie-- but then I guess there's no such thing as something that will appeal to everyone.
Personally I thought it was awesome. I put a review up on my main blog and couldn't recommend it enough.
RobB said...
I was blown away and stunned by THE DARK KNIGHT. I'll be doing a long review on my blog this week.
Nice review Theresa :) Rob, I'll be looking out for yours later this week.
To be honest, I wasn't even planning on saying anything about the movie, but after I watched it, I had to write something. It's not a real review though, because there's just too much to analyze and if I went down that path, I would probably still be writing down my thoughts ;)
I found it quite interesting that they really played up the point that Batman was honourable and refuses to kill criminals yet he's more than happy to allow Ra's Al Ghul and his henchmen to die in the previous film. Not saving someone is still murder. Although that script was by the Evil Mr Goyer so we can forgive them that. :-P
I think I will enjoy it a second time around now that I know not to think it will be totally awesome, but I'm still disappointed overall. Many reviewers seem to be glossing over some pretty big errors in judgement (in my opinion) by the Nolan brothers and are simply lauding it for all the good parts.
The PG-13 rating thing annoys me somewhat as the idea of cinema is to tell a tale and tell it well, not pander to a classification board. But I guess in the end it is still a business. In Oz we have the MA15+ or even just M15 rating which would have served it much better. The cartoon movie/collection, The Gotham Knight, had more blood and violence than this film and it is the lead-up to The Dark Knight!
I have to say the music was awesome in this one, much better than Batman Begins. I especially loved the Joker's theme and how it would start up a good while before he came on screen so you just knew he was up to no good and would be popping up shortly.
Does anyone really think what Ledger did was so remarkable? I enjoyed his performance but I still think many an actor could have done it just as well.
Jebus, even though The Dark Knight is a sequel to Batman Begins, and I enjoyed the various references to the previous film, I like to think of The Dark Knight as a completely separate movie. So what happened then is not as important as what's happening now. At least in my book, because I didn't really like Batman Begins that much ;)
Yeah, I was surprised by how bloody and violent Gotham Knight was, but you can get away with a little more in animation than you can in a real-life movie...
I loved the music too! It was subtle, yet perfectly suited to what was happening onscreen.
As far as Heath's performance, I really think it was that good. To compare, I loved Jack Nicholson's turn as the Joker, but he's kind of played those roles before in The Shining, The Witches of Eastwick, etc. In Heath's case, the role of Joker is so completely different from anything else that he's done before, and the fact that it's almost impossible to recognize him as Heath Ledger...that's what makes his performance special. I'm not saying no one else could ever play the Joker like that, but it would take a really special actor...
i still wish Katie Holmes had stayed on board as Rachel Dawes for the Dark Knight; it was like the time spent getting familiar with her character in Batman Begins was wasted...
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Drug abuse has become a common occurrence in today' world. A large percentage of youths today abuse drugs. Though the thought of entering a drug rehab is not a pleasing one, there is need to realize that it is necessary. Being scared before entering rehab is normal but it is important not only for your sake, but for the sake of your loved ones as well.
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Drug addicts get to have a safe and stable environment to detoxify their systems when they go for drug rehab. By seeking drug rehab services, you are taken away from people as well as environments that enable your drug problem. It is important to note that quite a number of drug addicts seek an escape from their daily stress from drugs and by going for rehab, they are taken away from environments that give them stress therefore enabling them to focus more on overcoming their drug addiction. Drug rehab facilities are especially crucial for newly recovering drug addicts.
Alcohol Detox Center also gives their patients emotional and psychological assistance so they can overcome their addiction. It is important to note that he first step towards getting better is acknowledging that one has a problem and through drug rehab, you get to do this so you can look for ways to address your problem. In drug rehab facilities, professional try to get to the root cause of one's addiction since it is important to deal with the cause of the problem so as to have a chance of recovery. Drug addicts need to deal with any past issues they may have so they can recover and drug rehab enables them to do so.
Joining drug rehab centres ensures that addicts are cared for around the clock. It is important to note that all recovering drug addicts ought to be supervised at all times since symptoms from drug withdrawal are at times very serious. It is important to note that very many drug rehab facilities offer aftercare. It is important to note that aftercare is essential since it enables one to transition back to their normal life after treatment and reduces the chances of a relapse. If you know anybody who is suffering from drug addiction, you should let them know of the importance of joining a drug rehab facility to help them overcome their addiction.


iVOOMi, a Chinese major OEM/ODM has launched a Children's Day campaign in association with Plan India, a member of Plan International Federation, and a nationally registered independent child development organisation, to provide education to the Girl child.
Extending the government's digital India vision, iVOOMi has associated with Plan India's Digital Learning Centres which utilises technology solutions to provide quality education to young women in the age group of 15-25 years within their own communities, thereby overcoming the challenge of limited mobility. Technology has made imparting education stress-free for both students and educators.
Through the campaign, iVOOMi shared stories of a few girls and the callout for the audience was to leave an encouraging word for the girls and share the posts with their friends. For every post that they share, iVOOMi would donate Rs 5 towards the DLC project of Plan India.
Working since 1979, Plan India and its partners have improved the lives of millions of children by giving them access to protection, basic education, proper healthcare, a healthy environment, livelihood opportunities and participation in decisions which affect their lives.
This is iVOOMi India's modest effort to make a small yet deeply felt contribution to a cause that is important to our society.


Wayne Boyle, Managing Director of Australian Disabled Access Consultants has been appointed to the Health NSW Sydney South West Area Health Service's Community Participation Network Committee in March 2011 and the Community Participation Network Equality of Access Sub-committee in August 2011.
Health NSW operates the Sydney South West Area Health Service Community Participation Network Committee regional departmental administration service from Macquarie Hospital in Sydney's northern suburbs.
Australian Disabled Access Consultants is a national disability access consultancy business based in the City of Canada Bay in Sydney, NSW.
A Disability Access Consultant, Wayne Boyle is a member of the Canada Bay Council Disability Access Advisory Committee and a recipient of the 2010 Sustainability Award for 25 years of service in the field of disabled access consultancy services to the local community.
Wayne Boyle, Managing Director of Australian Disabled Access Consultants believes that people with disabilities and special needs have the same rights to life and privileges enjoyed by able-bodied people within the community.
Accepting the Equality of Access Sub-committee appointment, Wayne Boyle says that he will continue to work for people with disabilities and special needs to defend their rights and improve their quality of living.


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The answer from WebFaction is that I had to add FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME variable to my settings and the value of this one in my case has to be app2

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Tonight, I recorded a nice, casual episode of The Rocketry Show podcast, and it's nice to be back on. We were hoping to talk to someone about the TARC finals results (the top spot was taken by Creekview High School of Canton, GA), but they've been pretty busy all day, and by the end probably needed to go to sleep!
Gheem managed to find me a new machine - a podcast-dedicated computer in the form of a used, refurbished MacBook Air, seen above. It cost the show a mere $50 and seems to have solved the problems with my sound and connection to the studio, so I shouldn't have such bad sound quality issues in future episodes.
It was good to have a nice chat with people about rocketry.


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Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) Dips More Than Broader Markets: What You Should Know
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WBA - Free Report) closed the most recent trading day at $51.29, moving -0.95% from the previous trading session. This change lagged the S&P 500's 0.03% loss on the day.
Coming into today, shares of the largest U.S. drugstore chain had gained 10.34% in the past month. In that same time, the Retail-Wholesale sector gained 1.29%, while the S&P 500 gained 3.59%.
Wall Street will be looking for positivity from WBA as it approaches its next earnings report date. On that day, WBA is projected to report earnings of $1.01 per share, which would represent a year-over-year decline of 0.98%. Meanwhile, our latest consensus estimate is calling for revenue of $33.18 billion, down 4.49% from the prior-year quarter.
Investors might also notice recent changes to analyst estimates for WBA. Recent revisions tend to reflect the latest near-term business trends. With this in mind, we can consider positive estimate revisions a sign of optimism about the company's business outlook.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.86% lower. WBA is currently a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Looking at its valuation, WBA is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 10.16. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 10.58, which means WBA is trading at a discount to the group.
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The Retail - Pharmacies and Drug Stores industry is part of the Retail-Wholesale sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 117, putting it in the top 47% of all 250+ industries.
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See how Bernie Williams—New York Yankees legend and musician who lost his father to IPF—is working to spread the word about the disease through events like the Breathless® Blowout.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF, is a serious disease that causes the lungs to become permanently scarred. This scarring makes it difficult to breathe and—eventually—the lungs can't inhale enough oxygen for the body to function.
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See how Hiram, Bernie Williams' brother, helped to provide the care and support his father needed while living with IPF.
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Throughout the 2018 baseball season, Bernie teamed up with Minor League Baseball fans to help spread the word about IPF through events called "Breathless Blowout" game days. During the Breathless Blowout game days, Bernie rallied fans to blow bubblegum bubbles to help raise awareness of IPF and one of its telltale symptoms—breathlessness—which can make everyday activities, like blowing gum bubbles, hard for someone living with the disease.
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The Royal College of Ophthalmologists is able to offer some assistance to refugee ophthalmologists already in the UK. The opportunity for interaction with other ophthalmologists and access to the College's educational resources may assist refugee doctors and their potential ophthalmic careers in the UK.
Please note that during the period of assistance such doctors are not entitled to use the College post nominal's eg MRCOphth. These are only available to people who have passed the relevant College examinations.
Criteria for inclusion – Doctors on the BMA refugee doctors' database who have passed a postgraduate examination in ophthalmology are eligible to apply for "College registered refugee ophthalmologist" status. This status lasts for one year.
Free entry to the College Annual Congress meeting for one year only – once the College is satisfied with your proof of status you will be notified by the College with regard to the registration process for Congress.
Free access to the College Scientific Journal EYE and CPD system for one year; this includes access to the Membership section of the College website.
Access to attend one Microsurgical Skills Course. Access to the courses is dependent on suitability to level of expertise and availability of places.
Mechanism for requesting assistance – applications for assistance from the College should be directed to Jo Longden, who will provide further information. The College reserves the right to interview applicants to assess their suitability for assistance and attendance at the microsurgical skills course (if this course is requested). Any further questions regarding training can be answered by the Education and Training Department at the College.
Please note that after the agreed year has finished the College is unable to offer further access to College assistance through this scheme. Those who fulfil the appropriate criteria may apply to become a College member, details are available from the Membership Department.
The College, unfortunately, does not have the resources to assist doctors with GMC registration.
If you have any questions about "College registered refugee ophthalmologist" status please contact Jo Longden at the College.
The NHS-led online information portal ROSE to support refugees and overseas qualified health professionals who are settled in the UK return to work in the health sector is currently unavailable. Further information may be be found here.
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RE: The tariff classification of a desk accessory set, of wood and other materials, from Taiwan.
In your letter dated July 6, 2001, you requested a tariff classification ruling.
We find that these components together satisfy the consumer's need for a matched grouping of stationery accessories with which to appoint his/her desk. For tariff purposes, the merchandise will thus be considered "goods put up in sets for retail sale" whose essential character is imparted by the first four wooden items shown in the above list. The first four wooden articles are classifiable under heading 4420, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS).
Accordingly, the applicable subheading for the complete D481-CH "stationery/desk set" will be 4420.90.8000, HTS, which provides for wooden articles of furniture not falling within chapter 94. The rate of duty will be 3.2%.
The holding set forth above applies only to the specific factual situation and merchandise description as identified in the ruling request. This position is clearly set forth in 19 CFR 177.9(b)(1). This section states that a ruling letter is issued on the assumption that all of the information furnished in connection with the ruling request and incorporated therein, either directly, by reference, or by implication, is accurate and complete in every material respect.


The application process begins in February for the upcoming academic year.
The following is provided for your information only.
Do my children have to be Catholic to attend?
No, although a higher rate of tuition is charged for anyone who is not Catholic. The teachings and traditions of the Catholic Faith are an integral part of the environment in which all students participate.
The process starts in February for the upcoming academic year.
Contact the school office at 714-633-5411 to schedule your school tour and start the registration process.
For Returning Families: Siblings of currently registered La Purisima Catholic School families have priority.
For Families New to La Purisima School: Members of La Purisima Parish are given priority over other new enrollees.
How old must my child be to attend La Purisima Catholic School?
To enroll in Preschool, your child must be 3 years old on or before September 1st of the academic year and toilet trained.
To enroll in Transitional Kindergarten (TK), your child must be 4 years old on or before September 1st of the academic year.
To enroll in Kindergarten (K), your child must be 5 years old on or before September 1st of the academic year.
No. In order to ensure a smooth transition for all students, the school may conduct a grade level placement/assessment for students entering Kindergarten through 7th Grade. For students entering Kindergarten, a readiness screening may be conducted to determine if a student is ready for our program. The results of all assessments will be factored in admitting and placing new students.
The maximum class size for TK-8 is 32 students per class, and 24 students with 2 teachers in the Preschool classroom. TK and Kindergarten are assisted by a part-time instructional aide. Parent helpers are encouraged and welcomed.
Supervision of students begins at 7:45 a.m. The school bell rings at 8:00 a.m. and the tardy bell rings at 8:05 a.m. School ends at 3:05 p.m. TK and Kindergarten are both full-day programs (8:00 a.m.- 3:05 p.m.). Preschool is either half-day (8:00 a.m. - noon) or full-day (8:00 a.m. – 3:05 p.m.).
Do you have before and after school care programs?
La Purisima Cavalier Care Program is available after school from 3:15-6:00 PM. The program is viewed as a natural extension of the school's daily program. As such, the program is closed when the school is closed, including holidays, Christmas and Easter break, and summer vacation.
We offer classes for students in grades Preschool through 8th Grade.
Any family who is in need of tuition assistance is required to complete a FACTS Grant and Aid Assessment Application and Tuition Assistance Application Form.
Where do grade 8 students attend high school once they graduate?
The majority of our graduates attend one of our Diocesan Catholic High Schools while others attend local public schools. Our recent graduates tell us they are prepared for the rigors of high school.


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The wingspan is 18–21 mm. The forewings are ochreous carmine pink, strewn with whitish-ochreous scales. The costa is narrowly deeper pink and the tips of the scales are whitish ochreous. There is a dark fuscous dot in the disc before the middle, a second, rather larger and sometimes distinctly double in the disc beyond the middle and a third obliquely beyond the first on the fold. There is a very irregular cloudy grey transverse line close to the base, which is darker on the costa and there is a distinct cloudy strongly and irregularly dentate transverse grey line from the costa to the inner margin, and another more strongly dentate from the costa to the middle of the inner margin, both forming small dark grey spots on the costa. There is also a slenderer and more distinct dark grey sinuate or dentate line from the costa obliquely outwards, thence curved strongly round to the inner margin before the anal angle, thickened and darker near the costa, as well as a cloudy grey shade from the costa to the inner margin before the anal angle, considerably broader towards the costa. A small cloudy grey spot is found towards the middle of the hindmargin and a row of distinct dark grey dots is placed along the hindmargin and apical fourth of the costa. The hindwings are ochreous grey, the costa and base more whitish ochreous.

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Some of these gorgeous historic houses can give you a good idea of what your dream home might look like. Deering Estate at Cutler, Miami, FL.
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Miami City Ballet: The NutcrackerZiff Opera House At The Adrienne Arsht. Reserve a table for the best dining in Miami, Florida on TripAdvisor: See 175, 422 reviews of 4, 549 Miami restaurants and search by cuisine, price, location, and more. Dec 2, 2017. The holiday season is especially joyful in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Historic Stranahan House Museum, 335 SE 6th Ave.Ft.
Lauderdale, FL. This year may mark the final time Chuck Hutchings decks out his Miami Springs home at 1120 Quail Ave.with thousands of lights, including a big "Merry Christmas" banner across the top of his home. Dec 16, 2014. See also: Why Miami Christmas Is the Best Christmas.
Wonderland, Youth Arts Exhibit and the Outdoor Bird-House Build& Design Exhibit. Dec 17, 2017. Deering Estate at Cutler, Pinecrest Gardens and Zoo Miami make our list of some of the top holiday lights displays in the 305. Christmas lights on Miami House Clot family Xmas Holiday Lights For more than 30 years, the Clot family has brought a little piece of the North Pole to tropical southern Florida.
It takes place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday the two weekends before Christmas and on December 26th and 27th. SW 180th Avenue Rd, Dunnellon, Best christmas houses in miami. 10. Christmas lights on Miami House Clot family Xmas Holiday Lights For more than 30 years, the Clot family has brought a little piece of the North Pole to tropical southern Florida.
Santa's Enchanted Forest, Miami Flickr/Bob B. Brown Santa's Enchanted Forest: The World's Largest Holiday Theme Park, featuring over 100 rides, shows, games and attractions. Miami's most recognizable Christmas tree comes to life at 7pm the day after Thanksgiving.
The 50-foot stunner overlooking Biscayne Bay, which is an artificial tree designed to look like a Rocky Mountain pine, is decked in thousands of bulbs. Twinkling lights, animated characters, and music make these places in the Miami-Ft.
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10 Best Christmas Plants and Flowers The Best christmas houses in miami home is one of several spots in Miami-Dade to see some holiday cheer. From elaborate arrangements of lights and ornaments in shopping centers to homespun displays in neighborhoods, the. Busch Gardens Christmas Town, Tampa (Nearby Hotels) Transforming the entire park into a magical winter wonderland, Busch Gardens Christmas Town in Tampa is an impressive display of celebration with an array of live entertainment options, holiday shopping, and plenty of festive treats.
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The kiddies get to meet and greet with a LEGO Santa and Toy Soldiers, can decorate live Christmas trees with LEGO ornaments, and even help build a LEGO Christmas tree in time for Christmas. The Miami Seaquarium opens its doors after dark for the 41st edition of Kiwanis Club of Little Havana's annual Christmas gala.
Your ticket buys you unlimited cocktails from a Bacardi open bar, food from local restaurants and access to performances by salsa legend Rey Ruiz, Grammy-winning musician Marlow Rosado alongside la Riqueña, SonLokos and many others. Décor Management is the perfect solution. Miami Christmas Lights' design team will create and produce the perfect project that is perfect for the property. After fabrication, Miami Christmas Lights ships the décor, all supplies and instructional videos and diagrams to the property for our clients' teams to install and maintain.
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'Tis the Season for South Florida Christmas Light Displays. Miami Zoo: The Miami Zoo. The exhibit is an annual tradition in which the historic homes on the estate come alive with holiday. Instead of going north and south in this neighborhood situated between the Brickell and Coconut Grove neighborhoods, The Roads goes diagonal, and has some of the most expensive houses in Miami-Dade County. At Christmas time, these houses come alive with varying light formations and decorations which make for wonderful sightseeing.
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Miami is Florida's liveliest city with a plethora of exciting events held throughout the year, and Christmas is no exception. While it's known as a party destination, there are plenty of appeal for families and kids, as Santa's Enchanted Forest is the largest Christmas-themed amusement park in the world.
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Dec 17, 2015. 18 through Christmas Eve, Santa will be there from 7: 30 to 10: 30 p. m. nights to keep watch for good girls and boys, " Michelle Upshaw said. Christmas Events in Miami. Christmas in Miami offers fun for everyone. Santa and his elves pay an annual visit to the Deering Estate's Stone House Ballroom. Shop online for artificial Christmas trees, Christmas lights, unique ornaments, Christmas tree skirts, tree toppers, wreaths, garlands, and Christmas home décor.
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Learn how to fight climate change
The program will be at 10 a.m. Sept. 17 at the Portage County Public Library.
Learn how to fight climate change The program will be at 10 a.m. Sept. 17 at the Portage County Public Library. Check out this story on stevenspointjournal.com: http://spjour.nl/2cajeOg
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EDITOR: NASA recently announced that 2015 was the warmest year globally since records began being kept in 1884. What is more alarming is that the 10 warmest years have all occurred since 1998! Catastrophic events like the recent floods in Louisiana, droughts in the West and wildfires in California are becoming increasingly common. The overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree that climate change is happening and that it is caused by human activity.
If you are concerned about the future and wonder what can be done to reduce global warming, attend a program titled "What You Can Do About Climate Change." The program is being presented by The Stevens Point Chapter of the Citizens' Climate Lobby and will take place at 10 a.m. Sept. 17, in the Pinery Room in the Portage County Public Library, 1001 Main St., in Stevens Point.
Dan Dieterich, Wisconsin state coordinator for CCL and leader of the Stevens Point CCL chapter, will review some of the impacts of climate change and describe what people can do individually and collectively to reduce those impacts. Admission is free.
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