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Ireland’s Climate and Farming Tradition

Ireland’s Climate and Farming Tradition

Ireland’s long standing farming tradition, together with our location on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, provides us with the ideal climate and conditions for sustainable farming and food production. Our rich soils produce lush, green grass where our cattle and sheep have the freedom to graze outdoors for up to 300 days a year.

Our grass-based production system gives Ireland a strong foundation as we continue on our sustainability journey. Presently, Ireland has the most carbon efficient dairy production in the European Union and the 5th most carbon efficient beef production whilst our water footprint and water stress index compare favourably to that of other countries.

Two thirds of Ireland’s land is used for agriculture and in fact, 80% of Ireland’s agricultural land is devoted to grasslands, with a yearly grass growth rate that exceeds the European average by more than a third.

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Edgy's recruiting notes | De La Salle duo drawing attention

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De La Salle Class of 2014 offensive tackle Jamarco Jones will announce his college choice at 1 p.m. June 27 during a press conference at the school.

Jones has narrowed his list of favorites to Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame and Ohio State.

De La Salle also has another Class of 2014 D-I level offensive tackle recruit in Aaron Roberts (6-foot-6, 295 pounds). Roberts added his first BCS offer from Illinois on Saturday night at the Illini's satellite camp at Gately Stadium.

"My mom graduated from Illinois, so I've always had a great feeling for then Illini and what they have to offer," Roberts said. "I'm very familiar with Illinois and I've made three or four separate visits already for different recruiting events.

"Illinois has been really straight with me and said they wanted to see me in camp but that they were close on an offer. The Illinois coaches after the camp said they really liked what they saw from me and wanted to offer me right away. Illinois has been with me from early on, so I definitely feel a sense of loyalty to them right now."

Nagel impressive: Marist Class of 2015 receiver Flynn Nagel also impressed the Illini enough over the weekend to earn a scholarship offer after attending a camp at Lincoln-Way East.

"I get along great with the coaches at Illinois, and head coach Tim Beckman is awesome and so is my receivers coach, Mike Bellamy. Illinois offers a great opportunity. For them to offer me this early really means something to me."

Morrissey gets Michigan State's attention: Stevenson 2014 safety Matt Morrissey added an offer last week for Michigan State, alma matter of his father, former Bears linebacker Jim Morrissey.

"It's my Dad's school, plus I've always liked Michigan State," Morrissey said. "They have a great program and a great school and I also really like and respect Coach (Mark) Dantonio.

"It's an offer that has shaken things up for me in my recruiting, no question. I was getting closer to a decision, but now I'm going to take some time and look harder at all of my options."

Morrissey also has offers from Boston College, Central Michigan, Illinois, Toledo and Western Michigan.

Speaking of Central Michigan: It dipped into Chicagoland again and landed an oral commitment last week from Rich Central 2014 linebacker Malik Fountain.

"Central Michigan has a great campus and facilities," Fountain said. "They also just made me feel wanted and recruited me pretty hard. They made it known that they have a plan for me right away."

Hunt being hunted: Thornton has plenty of recruits to watch, and 2014 defensive back Tifonte Hunt added offers last week from Illinois State and Bowling Green. Hunt, also a standout return man, is also drawing recruiting looks from Cincinnati, Vanderbilt, Illinois and several in-state schools.

Offers keep coming: The recruiting process is getting more complicated for Glenbard West 2014 offensive lineman Eric Shute (6-5, 275), and that's a good thing. Shute, who was hoping to have made a decision by now, has added offers this spring, including the latest from Cincinnati and Nebraska.

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Indiana Jones' 1957: The world beyond crystal skulls By Susan King, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer What was going on in 1957  the year Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is set? It was the height of the Cold War, with those evil Commies in the Soviet Union.The Ant Farm and the Frisbee were introduced. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz rung down the curtain on their beloved sitcom, I Love Lucy, in the spring, even though it was still No. 1. Rocker Little Richard also abruptly ended his musical career  until 1964  and enrolled in Bible college. In Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indiana (Harrison Ford) finds himself pitted against Soviet agents. He also gets a new sidekick, Mutt (Shia LeBeouf), a greaser with a cause, and reunites with the love of his life, Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen). So when Indiana wasnt saving the world or teaching in college, perhaps these were the movies and TV shows he would have watched and songs he listened to during his free moments in 1957.
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Opera Software The Opera team has released version 10.10 of their feature-rich browser. This is the first Opera release to come with Opera Unite, which combines the web browser with a web server, so that users can share data directly between one another, without the need for a third party.
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RE[4]: wow...
by google_ninja on Tue 24th Nov 2009 22:04 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: wow..."
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You are extremely narrow-minded. File sharing is just a tiny and limited use case for Unite. It's just something people easily understand.

Ok, fine. Lets look at the other use cases and see how unique they are:

Streaming Media
File Sync
Online Photo Albums

Yeah, they are really pushing the bar.

The proxy is just a fallback if a direct connection isn't possible.

You also are agreeing to allow them to reuse, edit, or block access to your content arbitrarily, without warning, and without telling anyone.

Opera never called anyone oppressed. In fact, Opera itself runs several types of servers. The point of the video was that you now have a choice.

And my point is that servers have no impact on anything that be construed as "freedom", and that you have ALWAYS had a choice to run your own server, since servers are just software.
Apache: Promoting freedom from big servers since 1994

No, it's just you who doesn't get it. So I wonder who the moron is...

Again, they are using politically charged words to promote something that is not new, innovative, or interesting to anyone but a small amount of people who want to do this stuff, dont want to use the dozens of free services out there that are better, and are incapable of setting up services for themselves which are better.

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Apple We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
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I'm just not sure how it will work on desks. I'm guessing it's between 30-35cm; which is roughly the height of many monitors.
Do you parade it's existence, or hide it in a shadowy corner? I think the days of putting it on the floor are over, especially since it's pulling up all the dust.
I almost wish there was a horizontal mounting option- it would fit behind my monitor nicely.

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In the News One year after sealing their surprise alliance, Novell and Microsoft have announced an expansion of their technical collaboration to 'link together the existing Windows and Linux frameworks'. The firms will extend their existing collaboration to focus on virtualisation, standards-based management, directory and identity federation and document format compatibility. As part of this process, Microsoft said that both companies are 'now working closely' at the Microsoft and Novell Interoperability Lab in Massachusetts.
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RE[6]: Good for Novell!
by Adurbe on Thu 8th Nov 2007 20:08 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: Good for Novell!"
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First, I am labelling people who advocate the use of proprietary software (in Linux), or people who not only don't believe in free-software (in Linux), but actively chastise it, as rif-raff.

so by this comment I assume you don't use MP3s for music nor flash on a website?
else your comment is self labeling...

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RE[7]: Good for Novell!
by JMcCarthy on Thu 8th Nov 2007 22:47 in reply to "RE[6]: Good for Novell!"
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Whether or not I'm a hypocrite is irrelevant to the points I was raising ;)

But you do realize that there are plenty of free mp3 encoders/decoders/players. etc.? The problem with MP3 is licensing and patent issues. I don't use it though ;-) Not that it is of any relevance.

The only site that I can think of that has a legitimate non-annoying use for Flash is Youtube. I think gnash is good enough for that.

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Games At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
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RE[2]: What's the fee?
by bentoo on Tue 21st May 2013 22:52 UTC in reply to "RE: What's the fee?"
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No one really knows what a 'fee' is or how much since Microsoft isn't good a communicating what is really going on. Remember the Mojave Experiment

Read the article and don't know how this has anything to do with the topic.

Sharing digital downloads is available on the Xbox360

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RE[3]: What's the fee?
by kjamc1982 on Tue 21st May 2013 23:06 in reply to "RE[2]: What's the fee?"
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Word of Mouth is hurting in the Online Gaming Community. Similar to how Word of Mouth hurt sales and perception of Windows Vista. Microsoft needs to really control the message of what is going on with use games. Go check out the Xbox Support Twitter doing damage control

I currently have Fez on my Xbox360 and my nephews on their own Xbox Live account can play it also. Is that not sharing of digital downloads. My nephews are not on my Xbox Live account either.

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The goal here is to provide a reasoned context and rebuttal regarding distorted views of the 'ClimateGate' emails. This is simply done by providing relevant context to statements of interest. The crime: A hacker illegally broke into a computer server at the University of East Anglia involving the Climate Research Unit (CRU). As always, context is key. Once the real context is understood, the emails make sense and the idea of conspiracy, scientific malfeasance, or fraud, is revealed to be unfounded.

Science does not change by opinion.

As with all things, in order to understand what something means, you have to know the context. A fact by itself can easily be spun. When you have the correct context, the spin falls away and what is left is reality, or at least a more reasoned understanding.

On RealClimate: Gavin Schmidt (NASA/GISS) Kevin Wood, (Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington) Eric Steig, (Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington) have provided extensive review in multiple posts. I will attempt to summarize the review here as simply as possible.

When the emails are read in context they reveal that there are no egregious improprieties with regards to the accusations of falsifying or misrepresenting science. The quotes being bandied about carelessly in the media, in support of the denial of human caused global warming, are using the quotes outside of their actual context. This unfortunately gives a false impression that is then used to support the notion that the science is somehow a grand conspiracy.

Back in a little place called reality, the email communications express the normal back and forth of scientists trying to work out complex problems and in some cases their frustrations with those that choose to misrepresent the science (such as Steve McIntyre). The language is casual as one might expect in private communications and expresses real and justifiable concerns involved with those in the denialist campaign.

On April 12, 2010 an expert panel consisting of:

  • Chair: Prof Ron Oxburgh FRS (Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool)
  • Prof Huw Davies, ETH Zürich
  • Prof Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Prof Lisa Graumlich, University of Arizona.
  • Prof David Hand FBA, Imperial College, London.
  • Prof Herbert Huppert FRS, University of Cambridge
  • Prof Michael Kelly FRS, University of Cambridge

concluded after thorough review of the emails and contexts:

"We saw no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work of the Climatic Research Unit and had it been there we believe that it is likely that we would have detected it."

Source: The Oxburgh Report

Other Recommended Reading

Nature (International Weekly Journal of Science)

"A fair reading of the e-mails reveals nothing to support the denialists' conspiracy theories. In one of the more controversial exchanges, UEA scientists sharply criticized the quality of two papers that question the uniqueness of recent global warming (S. McIntyre and R. McKitrick Energy Environ. 14, 751–771; 2003 and W. Soon and S. Baliunas Clim. Res. 23, 89–110; 2003) and vowed to keep at least the first paper out of the upcoming Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Whatever the e-mail authors may have said to one another in (supposed) privacy, however, what matters is how they acted. And the fact is that, in the end, neither they nor the IPCC suppressed anything: when the assessment report was published in 2007 it referenced and discussed both papers."

Are the CRU data “suspect”? An Objective Assessment:

Comparison of CRUTEM3v Data with Raw Station Data

Source: RealClimate

Comparison of CRUTEM3v data with raw station data taken from World Monthly Surface Station Climatology. On the left are the mean temperature anomalies from each pair of randomly chosen times series. On the right are the distribution of trends in those time series and their means and standard errors. (The standard error provides an estimate of how well the sampling of ~30 stations represents the full global data set assuming a Gaussian distribution.) Note that not all the trends are for identical time periods, since not all data sets are the same length.

There is no indication whatsoever of any problem with the CRU data. An independent study (by a molecular biologist it Italy, as it happens) came to the same conclusion using a somewhat different analysis. None of this should come as any surprise of course, since any serious errors would have been found and published already.

It’s worth noting that the global average trend obtained by CRU for 1850-2005, as reported by the IPCC (, 0.47 0.54 degrees/century,* is actually a bit lower (though not by a statistically significant amount) than we obtained on average with our random sampling of stations.

*See table 3.2 in IPCC WG1 report.

ClimateGate Emails

"lack of warming"

Kevin Trenberth, climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He wrote, “The fact is we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it’s a travesty that we can’t.”

Kevin is discussing short term variation that involved natural variation on a year to year basis. It is important to understand that climate is long term (30+ years) while weather and internal variability (weather/natural variability) is considered on shorter time scales.

Trenberth: You need to read his recent paper on quantifying the current changes in the Earth’s energy budget to realize why he is concerned about our inability currently to track small year-to-year variations in the radiative fluxes. - Gavin Schmidt

"Mike's nature trick" & "hide the decline"

Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

“I have just completed Mike’s nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years to hide the decline.”

The term trick in this usage/context means applying a method. Applying various methods is how scientists test different ideas and then compare the results to actual observations. This is normal in the scientific process. Nothing deceptive here.

The paper in question is the Mann, Bradley and Hughes (1998) Nature paper on the original multiproxy temperature reconstruction, and the ‘trick’ is just to plot the instrumental records along with reconstruction so that the context of the recent warming is clear. Scientists often use the term “trick” to refer to a “a good way to deal with a problem”, rather than something that is “secret”, and so there is nothing problematic in this at all. As for the ‘decline’, it is well known that Keith Briffa’s maximum latewood tree ring density proxy diverges from the temperature records after 1960 (this is more commonly known as the “divergence problem”–see e.g. the recent discussion in this paper) and has been discussed in the literature since Briffa et al in Nature in 1998 (Nature, 391, 678-682).

Comment: Steve McIntyre, who you have mentioned on these threads, takes serious issue with your explanation of the “hide the decline” statement. The usefulness of tree-ring data and/or reality of AGW are not the issues here. McIntyre is leveling charges of impropriety and fraud, and quite frankly, his explanation makes a lot more sense than the one posted on this website.

[Response: This is simply false. The 'decline' was discussed first in Briffa et al 1998 and the full dataset is available here including data up to 1994. Claims that this was hidden or unavailable are simply untrue. McIntyre is doing a bait and switch with another later update by the same author. - gavin]

Additional Points from

  • Wigley: The concern with sea surface temperatures in the 1940s stems from the paper by Thompson et al (2007) which identified a spurious discontinuity in ocean temperatures. The impact of this has not yet been fully corrected for in the HadSST data set, but people still want to assess what impact it might have on any work that used the original data.
  • Climate Research and peer-review: You should read about the issues from the editors (Claire Goodess, Hans von Storch) who resigned because of a breakdown of the peer review process at that journal, that came to light with the particularly egregious (and well-publicised) paper by Soon and Baliunas (2003). The publisher’s assessment is here.

Update: Pulling out some of the common points being raised in the comments.

  • HARRY_read_me.txt. This is a 4 year-long work log of Ian (Harry) Harris who was working to upgrade the documentation, metadata and databases associated with the legacy CRU TS 2.1 product, which is not the same as the HadCRUT data (see Mitchell and Jones, 2003 for details). The CSU TS 3.0 is available now (via ClimateExplorer for instance), and so presumably the database problems got fixed. Anyone who has ever worked on constructing a database from dozens of individual, sometimes contradictory and inconsistently formatted datasets will share his evident frustration with how tedious that can be.
  • “Redefine the peer-reviewed literature!” . Nobody actually gets to do that, and both papers discussed in that comment – McKitrick and Michaels (2004) and Kalnay and Cai (2003) were both cited and discussed in Chapter 2 of 3 the IPCC AR4 report. As an aside, neither has stood the test of time.
  • “Declines” in the MXD record. This decline was hidden written up in Nature in 1998 where the authors suggested not using the post 1960 data. Their actual programs (in IDL script), unsurprisingly warn against using post 1960 data. Added: Note that the ‘hide the decline’ comment was made in 1999 – 10 years ago, and has no connection whatsoever to more recent instrumental records.
  • CRU data accessibility. From the date of the first FOI request to CRU (in 2007), it has been made abundantly clear that the main impediment to releasing the whole CRU archive is the small % of it that was given to CRU on the understanding it wouldn’t be passed on to third parties. Those restrictions are in place because of the originating organisations (the various National Met. Services) around the world and are not CRU’s to break. As of Nov 13, the response to the umpteenth FOI request for the same data met with exactly the same response. This is an unfortunate situation, and pressure should be brought to bear on the National Met Services to release CRU from that obligation. It is not however the fault of CRU. The vast majority of the data in the HadCRU records is publicly available from GHCN (v2.mean.Z).
  • Suggestions that FOI-related material be deleted … are ill-advised even if not carried out. What is and is not responsive and deliverable to an FOI request is however a subject that it is very appropriate to discuss.

In the meantime, read about why peer-review is a necessary but not sufficient condition for science to be worth looking at. Also, before you conclude that the emails have any impact on the science, read about the six easy steps that mean that CO2 (and the other greenhouse gases) are indeed likely to be a problem, and think specifically how anything in the emails affect them. - Gavin Schmidt

Update: The piece by Peter Kelemen at Columbia in Popular Mechanics is quite sensible, even if I don’t agree in all particulars.

Further update: Nature’s editorial.

Further, further update: Ben Santer’s mail (click on quoted text), the Mike Hulme op-ed, and Kevin Trenberth.

Myths vs. Facts: Denial of Petitions for Reconsideration of the Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act

Myth: The University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) emails prove that temperature data and trends were manipulated.

Fact: Not true. Petitioners say that emails disclosed from CRU provide evidence of a conspiracy to manipulate data. The media coverage after the emails were released was based on email statements quoted out of context and on unsubstantiated theories of conspiracy. The CRU emails do not show either that the science is flawed or that the scientific process has been compromised. EPA carefully reviewed the CRU emails and found no indication of improper data manipulation or misrepresentation of results.

Myth: The jury is still out on climate change and CRU emails undermine the credibility of climate change science overall.

Fact: Climate change is real and it is happening now. The U.S. Global Change Research Program, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have each independently concluded that warming of the climate system in recent decades is "unequivocal." This conclusion is not drawn from any one source of data but is based on multiple lines of evidence, including three worldwide temperature datasets showing nearly identical warming trends as well as numerous other independent indicators of global warming (e.g., rising sea levels, shrinking Arctic sea ice). Some people have "cherry-picked" a limited selection of CRU email statements to draw broad, unsubstantiated conclusions about the validity of all climate science.

Myth: The CRU emails and several errors found in the most recent IPCC report undermine the credibility of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

Fact: The IPCC's primary conclusions are based on an assessment of thousands of individual studies and collective insights from the comprehensive climate science literature. Although many errors were alleged, EPA confirmed only two errors. The small number of documented errors are not central to IPCC's main conclusions or to EPA’s Endangerment Finding. In a report of such magnitude, a few errors do not undermine the credibility of the entire work of the IPCC. The process used by the IPCC stands as one of the most comprehensive, rigorous, and transparent ever conducted on a complex set of scientific issues.

Myth: EPA misstepped when it did not do its own scientific analysis of climate change to inform the Endangerment Finding and instead relied on existing scientific assessments.

Fact: EPA relied on major scientific assessments, including reports from the U.S. Global Change Research Program, National Academy of Sciences, and IPCC, because they represent the best available information to determine the state of climate change science. These assessments are designed to address the breadth and scope of all published literature and undergo multiple levels of rigorous review. This approach ensures that EPA benefits from the depth and strength of thousands of climate scientists.

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§ 5 Swimming and sun bathing
Swimming is only allowed at designated beach areas. If the warning ball is hoisted, the following regulations are in force: – One warning ball hoisted: swimming for children and non-swimmers is forbidden – Two warning balls hoisted: swimming is forbidden for everybody Swimming and sunbathing without clothes is allowed only in designated beach areas.

§ 6 Sand castles on the beach
It is not allowed to dig away sand for sand castles closer than 3m to the dunes or the high cliff.

§ 8 Watercraft and water sports
Craft, sports on the beach, surfing and the use of motor or sailing boats are not allowed in the swimming area marked by buoys. Team sport activities (e.g. volley ball) are allowed only in that areas designated by the Sellin tourism administration. You also need an authorization, if you wish to set up any sports equipment on the beach.

§ 10 Dogs in the beach area
From June 1st to September 30th it is allowed to keep dogs on a lead on the promenade and on the designated dogs’ beach.

§ 11 Entering dunes and high cliff
It is forbidden to walk on the dunes and the high cliff.

§ 12 Driving on the promenade
It is not allowed to drive on the promenade with any vehicles whatsoever.

§ 14 Open fires in the beach area
In all areas, as designated in § 2, it is only allowed to light and keep an open fire with the official authorization by the Stralsund Department of Shipping and Water and the head of the department of Mönchgut-Granitz.

§ 15 Guard
You are obliged to follow the instructions of the guarding personnel of DLRG life-guards and the Sellin tourism administration executing these regulations.

Please find the complete swimming and bathing regulations at Sellin tourism administration, at the lifeguards DLRG station and in showcases on the beach.


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Kim Dotcom’s Canadian connection: Servers in Ontario could be key in case against alleged Internet pirate

Joseph Brean

As dawn broke over New Zealand’s North Island in January 2012, a police helicopter landed for a few seconds in the front courtyard of a lavish mansion, just long enough to drop off an elite squad of anti-terrorist officers.

They sprinted for the front door and busted through, trying to prevent Kim Dotcom, allegedly the world’s top Internet pirate, from destroying evidence in the massive American racketeering case against him. The fear was that the Finnish/German hacker-turned-file-sharing-mogul had a “doomsday button,” which would erase his servers around the world and leave prosecutors empty-handed.

As it happened, he did not. Dotcom, who changed his name from Kim Schmitz, fled from his bedroom into a secret staircase concealed in a closet, leading up to a safe room. It took 13 minutes for police to find him, as dozens of officers took control of the estate.

A few hours earlier, in close co-ordination, a smaller raid had taken place with less drama, in downtown Toronto. RCMP officers had raided 151 Front Street, a leading telecommunications hub where a data storage company was renting servers to the jewel in Dotcom’s empire, the file-sharing website megaupload.com. The raid went off without a hitch, and the RCMP still hold the servers today in a facility in London, Ont. They have not yet been forensically examined or shared with the United States.

Now, in a ruling that puts new limits on just how co-operative Canada can be with foreign investigators, Ontario’s top court has refused to let the FBI inspect those servers, for fear of violating the privacy of the people whose personal information might be stored on them.

Ostensibly a simple file-sharing service, Megaupload allegedly was a global copyright scam, offering pirated movies, music, shows and videogames to an estimated 50 million daily users. The FBI pegged the losses to companies that owned the material at $500 million over a given two-week period. At one point, Megaupload was so popular, it was thought to take up four per cent of the Internet’s total traffic.

Massively rich, Dotcom flaunted his success and gave himself the air of a Bond villain, by mooring yachts off Monte Carlo to host parties for royalty during Formula 1 races, and enlisting the star power of Hollywood celebrities to produce and promote his own music. But he never set foot in the United States, the country that decided to stop him, and asked its closest allies to help. The governments of those countries largely co-operated, but their courts have not, and the FBI has since run into deep legal trouble trying to get Dotcom himself out of New Zealand, and the evidence on those servers out of Canada.

In their raid, the RCMP were authorized by an Ontario judge’s search warrant to seize 32 computer servers leased to Megaupload. They were labelled “mega-yyz” 1001 through 1032, in reference to Toronto’s airport code, YYZ, and according to an email from an alleged conspirator, they are thought to have been used “as a database / number-crunching machines.”

With the evidence in hand, Canada applied for the court’s permission to share the server contents with the FBI. Both Megaupload and the company that owned them agreed that the warrant was justified and carried out properly, but they objected to the proposal to simply hand over a mirror image of their contents, much of which belonged to other people, and was clearly irrelevant to the Dotcom prosecution. So a judge ordered them to come up with some way to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Canada’s preference was to let the FBI send a “clean team” of investigators with no involvement in the case, who would sort it out and report back to the court, without taking the servers out of the country. This is a common FBI practice in foreign jurisdictions, and an Ontario judge approved the plan. But in an appeal, Megaupload and Equinix argued it was unfair to hire FBI agents, “clean” or not, for such a delicate exercise, and the job should be done by an independent expert.

In its ruling Friday, the Ontario Court of Appeal agreed with Megaupload that this “clean team” proposal was “offensive to the appearance of fairness.” So the case is back where it was four years ago, with a judicial order to share the relevant data on the servers, but nothing more. An independent expert seems a likely alternative, but far more expensive.

Toronto has a large sector of web-hosting companies, who regularly co-operate with court-ordered searches, but also have an interest in ensuring they are not overly broad. For example, in another case last fall, a judge agreed Canada could share a massive stash of encrypted BlackBerry Ltd. messages with Dutch police investigating an underworld conspiracy, but only under strict conditions to ensure the data will remain under Canadian control, and not be shared further without a court’s approval.

Dotcom faces charges in the United States of racketeering, money laundering and criminal copyright infringement, and the U.S. has already moved to seize his assets.

In February, a New Zealand judge approved his extradition, but he is appealing, and the case is not likely to conclude for many more months.

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Peanut Chicken Stir-Fry with Coconut Milk

chicken stir-fryLet me tell you about my relationship with peanut butter. I feel like peanut butter has my back. It’s always there for me, waiting in the pantry when I need it. It never lets me down, it never disappoints. Whether on a spoon, a piece of toast, of dipped with fruit, it is a delightful part of most days. I eat it, I bake with it, I cook with it. Simply put, I love it. If I see a recipe that uses it, that recipe is added to my ever-growing collection. Usually, these recipes get added to the menu more quickly than some of the other recipes, not containing this loved ingredient. So peanut stir-fry. In addition to being a quick meal to whip up on one of the days that I am playing chauffeur to one of my kiddos, it had peanut butter. It was delightful. In general, I prefer fresh veggies in my stir-fry, but there are certainly days the ease of a frozen package, is just so so worth it.

Thanks to Taste and Tell for the recipe! – very slightly adapted

  • 1 (14-oz) can unsweetened light coconut milk
  • ⅓ cup smooth peanut butter
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon pepper
  • ½ teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1½ lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 1 (12-oz) bag mixed unseasoned stir-fry vegetables
  • ½ cup frozen mixed vegetables
  • chopped peanuts, for serving
  • hot cooked rice, for serving
  1. Place first 5 ingredients in blender. Whiz around until mixed.
  2. Heat oil in large skillet or wok. Cook chicken until browned and cooked through. Remove from skillet. Keep in bowl, covered to keep warm.
  3. Add vegetables to skillet and cook over med-high for 5 minutes. Add peanut butter mixture, and chicken. Stir and cook until sauce is warmed through.
  4. Add rice to bowl. Top with stir-fry, then peanuts.
  5. Eat and enjoy!

Sweet and Sour Ground Pork Stir-Fry

pork stir-fryStir-Fries, a lovely dinner. They have lots of veggies, and come together quickly. Hubby liked the meat ratio in this one. The sauce was also nice served over rice. Not much to say today, apparently, so on to the recipe.

Recipe found at Allrecipes

  • 1 lb. ground pork
  • 1 onion
  • 2 carrots
  • 1 bell pepper
  • 2 cups broccoli
  • 1/2 cup rice vinegar
  • 1/3 cup ketchup
  • 1/4 cup white sugar
  • 2 tsp. soy sauce
  • hot cooked rice
  1. Fry meat until brown. Drain fat. Add carrots and onions (both peeled and chopped) and cook until onion is tender.
  2. Combine last 4 ingredients. Pour over pork. Add bell pepper and broccoli (again, chopped).
  3. Cover and cook for 7 minutes, stirring often, or until broccoli has reached desired tenderness.
  4. Serve over hot cooked rice.
  5. Eat and enjoy!

Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Chicken WrapBeef has been really expensive again lately, so we have been eating a bit more poultry. Usually it’s opposite, so we have been enjoying our chicken. I found this recipe in a magazine, Taste of Home December/January 2011. We slightly adapted it. Changed out Turkey for Chicken. It was cheaper. And it has a bit more flavour in my humble opinion. Plus we added rice. It fills our bellies a bit more. So a slightly adapted recipe, that we all quite enjoyed. Serve with a side of napkin, because this one is messy!

  • 2 lbs. ground chicken
  • 1 pkg. (16oz.) frozen stir-fry veggies
  • 1/3 cup teriyaki sauce
  • 1/4 cup hoisin sauce
  • 3 Tbsp. peanut butter
  • 2 Tbsp. minced ginger
  • 1 Tbsp. rice vinegar
  • 1 Tbsp.sesame oil
  • 3 garlic cloves, minced
  • 4 green onions, chopped
  • lettuce leaves (we used green leafy)
  • hot cooked rice
  1. Stir fry chicken until cooked through. Add veggies with next 6 ingredients. Cook over medium high heat for 5 minutes. Add garlic. Cook 1 more minute.
  2. Layer a lettuce leaf with rice, then chicken mixture. Top with green onion.
  3. Eat and enjoy!

Simple Sweet & Sour Meatball Simmer

MeatballsAs we have entered into by far the busiest season of our lives, I have come to appreciate quick meals more and more. The quicker the better. This meal was one of the meals that came together the absolute fastest. I started the rice cooking in the rice cooker, and then started the mommy chauffeur service. When I got home this was a quick flash in the pan to get dinner on the table. Although hubs, prefers homemade meatballs to store-bought, everyone else really liked it. I am sure hubs will be having it again sometime, it is just to easy to pass up putting it on the menu plan.

Recipe from What’s Cooking Spring 2008

  • 1/2 (680 g) pkg. frozen meatballs
  • 3 cups frozen mixed peppers – The bag I bought had about 4 cups so I just used the whole thing
  • 1/4 cup apricot jam
  • 1/4 cup Catalina dressing
  • 2 Tbsp. soy sauce
  • Rice for serving – optional
  1. Combine ingredients in large skillet.
  2. Cook over medium-high heat for 10 minutes, sauce will be bubbly and meatballs and peppers cooked through.
  3. Eat and enjoy!


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Champions off to Great Start with Opening Day Win

Ottawa Champions

May 19, 2017 - Canadian American League (Can-Am) - Ottawa Champions

News Release

May 18, 2017, Ottawa, ON - The Ottawa Champions defeated the Trois-Rivieres Aigles 7-1 on a wild opening day at RCGT Park, which included a long rain delay.

Prior to the game Miles Wolff, Champions majority owner, presented the 2016 Can-Am League Championship banner to the returning players from last year's team. The banner was raised out in centre field during a ceremony commemorating Ottawa's championship run. The returning Champions will receive their championship rings before game two on Friday night.

Mayor Jim Watson was also on-hand to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game.

Ottawa had an impressive record of 11-6 against Trois-Rivieres last season and were also 2-0 all-time in opening day games coming into Thursday night.

Austin Chrismon (W, 1-0), the reigning Can-Am League Pitcher of the Year, took the mound for the Champions and was strong all game long. He threw seven innings allowing no earned runs on eight hits in his first start of the campaign.

"He had a superb, gutsy outing after that long rain delay," said Champions manager Hal Lanier.

Aigles starter Matthew Rusch (L, 0-1) was solid despite the loss. He gave up three earned runs on seven hits, while striking out eight Champions in his five innings of work.

During the bottom of third, home plate umpire Mike Boulianne suspended play. Heavy rain and scattered lightning forced a 49-minute delay in the game.

When play resumed the Champions struck for their first run of the season just two batters after the delay. Adron Chambers ripped his first homerun of the season over the right field wall giving Ottawa a 1-0 lead.

"It was just a good swing to a good pitch," said Chambers on his homerun. "[Rusch] was leaving a lot of pitches up today and we took advantage."

Three doubles in the bottom of the fourth would put Ottawa up 3-0. Gustavo Pierre and Danny Grauer each drove in their first RBI of the season.

Ottawa would tally another run in the fifth inning thanks to Sebastien Boucher. After a stolen base and an error, Boucher came into score when Aigles' starter Matthew Rusch uncorked a wild pitch.

For Hal Lanier, base running will be a key to his team's success this season.

"We're going to be a very aggressive ball club. We've got some guys that can run and they're going to make it an exciting game and the fans will enjoy it."

The Aigles responded with a run on a sacrifice fly to shrink the deficit 4-1.

Things got interesting in the sixth for Ottawa. With two men in scoring position and two outs, Daniel Bick hit a single up the middle to drive in both runs. However, as Bick was attempting to take second base, Aigles' catcher Kyle Lafrenz overthrew his second baseman and Bick came all the way around to score on the error.

When the chaos settled the Champions had a 7-1 lead and never looked back.

Gustavo Pierre stood out offensively for the Champions with a couple of doubles, an RBI as well as two runs scored.

The Champions and Aigles will square off again on Friday with first pitch scheduled for 7:05pm. Steve Borkowski is set to make his first start of the regular season for Ottawa.

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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Celebrating Mattie's 3rd Birthday at the NC Arboretum

On June 30th, we celebrated one of the most special days of our year now...our precious angel's birthday.  She turned 3 years old, and we can't believe it has been 3 whole years since we held her in our arms.  I can only imagine what a spunky little girl she would be today.  Daddy finished up his last teacher education business in Asheville in the morning and then the celebration began.  We went out to eat lunch and then picked up some balloons and cupcakes for the birthday girl.  I had given much thought to what we should do in the Asheville area on this day, and I could not find a better option than visiting the NC Arboretum which was just down the road from our hotel.  It is both an arboretum and a botanical garden so I thought we would see some pretty flowers and interesting trees too.  It was a hot day, but there was a lot of shade throughout the garden so we had a nice nature walk around the gardens.  I think any little girl would have loved running around in these gardens and admiring all of the pretty flowers.  We ended up with a little birthday theme this year with matching balloons and cupcakes.  I think Mattie would have liked it all.

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A Minnie Mouse balloon and cupcake for the birthday girl.

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Big brothers admiring some beautiful flowers.

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This little setting with the little cabin was so tranquil and pretty.  It was completely natural and all about recycling and reusing.

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I enjoyed the day with Mattie's precious brothers.

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And this little guy loved walking around in the soft green grass.

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I think the beautiful butterfly quilt garden would have been Mattie's favorite, but I bet she would like hydrangeas like her Mommy too.

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The boys were sad that this miniature train set was running.  They only run it on the weekends when more kids visit.

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This little bonsai garden was so sweet.  The picture on the left was the only part set up in Japanese style.  The exhibit showed mostly how we use the bonsai art on many native tree species.

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Brody and Evan made their own bonsai creations.  I watched Evan knowing his would turn out something like this.  He definitely likes symmetrical designs...a little something he gets from mom.

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A big statue of the American garden architect, Mr. Olmsted himself.

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Some special family pictures to remember the day with Mattie's balloons.

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We didn't release the balloons at the Arboretum because we didn't want anyone to say anything if it wasn't allowed.  We stopped in the beautiful mountains outside Marion, NC to visit with Papa in his new home on our way home.  He pastors that little church behind us and loves it.  We did our balloon release there.

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The 3 balloons sailed off into the beautiful blue sky so I hope Mattie received them.

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  1. This is so sweet. I still love to read posts about Mattie. :)

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Thursday, 25 August 2016

3.20 Goodwood Revival Stakes, August 27th

The Goodwood Revival Stakes (3.20) on Saturday has produced four winning favourites, including one joint favourite, in the last 10 years, and no winner at odds longer than 7/1 in the same period. As such, it wouldn’t typically be a race for us, but any 20-runner handicap is always likely to throw up an unconsidered winner and, as usual, it’s our job to find it. Withernsea remains 7lb higher in the weights than when winning at Doncaster last November, but has been running creditably in defeat this season and doesn’t look impossibly handicapped. The Dark Angel gelding was never beyond mid-division in the Stewards’ Cup, over an inadequate 6 furlongs, at Goodwood four weeks ago, but his previous form over 7 furlongs was solid enough. His three wins have come on good to soft, soft and heavy going, but he’s equally effective on the prevailing good going. In fact, he was beaten just a length in a similar race at Haydock at April, on good going, off 1lb lower mark, so must have a decent chance if putting his best foot forward. Musley Bank trainer Richard Fahey also saddles Farlow, who is 1lb lower in the weights than when winning at Doncaster last August and consequently 12lb better off for 1¼ lengths he finished behind Withernsea in the aforementioned race on Town Moor last November. The Exceed And Excel has yet to trouble the judge in six starts this season, but was only beaten 1¾ lengths in a similar race at Newmarket in July, off a mark of 100, so looks well handicapped off a mark of 96. He needs everything to go right for him, but is clearly not without a chance if it does. That Is The Spirit was quite highly tried after making all to beat subsequent winner Dusky Queen by 1¾ lengths in a Listed race at Haydock last May and, while his handicap form this season is nothing to write home about, he has tumbled down the weights as a result. In fact, a 10lb drop since the start of the season means that David O’Meara’s 5-year-old is just 3lb higher in the weights than when winning a competitive handicap at York as a 3-year-old, so he has a definite squeak if retaining his old ability. He requires a leap of faith, but that should be factored into his price and he could go well at silly odds. Selections: 3.20 Goodwood Withernsea, Farlow, That Is The Spirit

Tuesday, 16 August 2016

1.55 York, Wednesday, August 17

The Symphony Group Stakes (1.55) at York on Wednesday is a hugely competitive contest in which the bookmakers 10/1 the field and, with exactly half the runners trading at 20/1, or longer, odds in the ante post betting, it looks just the race for us.

Meadway (40/1) has an absence of 54 days to overcome, but won the consolation race for the Scottish Sprint Cup, over 5 furlongs, at Musselburgh on his penultimate start and can be forgiven a lesser effort on the Tapeta at Newcastle last month. The Captain Gerrard gelding remains 6lb higher in the weights than at Musselburgh and has been beaten on all five attempts at this level over the years, but the Musselburgh race has thrown up several winners and he’s not badly drawn in stall 9, so he must have a squeak over a course and distance where he won as a three-year-old.

Soapy Aitken (33/1) made a promising start to his career last season, winning his first two starts and finishing fourth of 27, beaten 2½ lengths, behind Washington DC in the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot. However, the Pastoral Pursuits colt has failed to trouble the judge in six subsequent starts, including when dropping back into handicap company at Ascot eleven days ago. He went off like the proverbial scalded cat on that occasion – his first attempt at 6 furlongs – so the dropping back to the minimum trip on a less testing course is definitely in his favour and he, too, has a single-figure draw.

Baraweez (25/1) has never raced at a distance short of 7 furlongs and has been fighting a losing battle with the handicapper since winning over that distance, off a 4lb lower mark, at Galway last August. The Cape Cross gelding has run creditably in defeat on the same course on his last two starts but, for a horse that was tried over a mile and a half as a three-year-old, when with Freddie Head, the decision to run him over the minimum trip is either a stroke of genius or a last resort.

Selections: York 1.55 Meadway (40/1), Soapy Aitken (33/1), Baraweez (25/1)

Big Outsider Wins

Here at we regularly highlight what we deem to be any given week's 'outsiders to watch'. As you'd expect with outsider bets, sometimes we're on the money and at other times our selections fall slightly (or completely!) short. It's inevitable with big priced horses really (or big odds events in any sport) that you're more often than not up against it from the off. That's part of the fun of betting on seemingly unlikely events though, the act of spotting something that others manage to miss and the feeling of beating the odds. A big win for a tiny outlay doesn't hurt either!

Where horse racing is concerned, there have of course been a good few 'meltdown moment' on betfair, where layers are convinced that they're picking up a few pounds here and there by laying a 'no hoper', only for it to storm home, defeating expectations and the layers betting bank in the process. With the big racing events, such as the festivals, a couple of memorable wins include Mon Mome in the 2009 Grand National, ridden by Liam Treadwell and coming it at an impressive 100-1 with bookmakers, the biggest priced winner National winner in many a decade. There was also a 100-1 winner, Norton's Coin , in the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1990.

Of course those going even further out on a limb, will instead often go for a multiple bet. In a way these types of bets, even though they often contain short priced selections too, are the ultimate outsider bet. They're often a combination of gut feeling, knowledge of a sport and pure pot luck and result in sometimes mind boggling odds. As I always say though, accumulators make more sense than doing the lottery - it's at least odds to chance. A well known horse racing accumulator win of recent years is the bet Darren Yeats placed on Frankie Dettori's 'magnificent seven'. Essentially all seven of Dettori's rides won that day resulting in Yeats winning a staggering £550,000 from a £59 bet.

Football is no strangers to huge outsider wins too. It was only last season that Leicester City did the (apparently not so) impossible and won the Premier League at a staggering 5000-1. Few punters bet on that, but what a windfall for those who did! As for other outsider / unlikely type wins, there are numerous stories from outside of sports betting at casinos and the like. One that comes to mind is the huge win by US cocktail waitress Cynthia Jay, who was celebrating her Mother-in-law's birthday at the Monte Carlo casino in Las Vegas in 2000. On her 9th spin she won the staggering $34,959,458.56 megsbucks jackpot. I've been playing a few of the pokies machines at M88Asia of late. No mega bucks style win for me so far I'm afraid :-D, but it's good fun none the less. My time will come I'm sure!

What's your biggest win?

Thursday, 11 August 2016

Great St Wilfrid Stakes 3:55, Ripon, August 13th

The Great St. Wilfrid Stakes, run over 6 furlongs at Ripon, is the highlight of the season at the North Yorkshire track. Four favourites, including the last three, have won the race in the last 10 years, but were accompanied by winners at 20/1, 18/1, 11/1 and 10/1 (twice), so we at least have a fighting chance of unearthing some value for money.

The ante post favourite, Orion’s Bow (5/1) is one of the most progressive horses in training, having risen 37lb in the weights since May, but his presence does, at least, introduce the potential for rich pickings at the other end of the market.

Go Far (33/1) finished second, beaten a head, in a 0-105 handicap over 6 furlongs at Goodwood on his seasonal reappearance in May, only to be awarded the race in the stewards’ room, and races off an identical handicap mark. He finished last of ten from a wide draw at Chester next time but, although never beyond mid-division, wasn’t entirely disgraced in the Stewards’ Cup at Goodwood two weeks ago. He won the Ayr Bronze Cup last September off a 7lb lower mark so, while he needs to improve on recent efforts, he won’t be a totally forlorn hope if he does.

Mythmaker (25/1) is only 2lb higher in the weights than when beaten a neck by See The Sun in a highly competitive 0-105 handicap over 6 furlongs at York on his penultimate start and would have an obvious chance if able to reproduce that form. His subsequent effort on the Tapeta at Newcastle was tame by comparison, but he wouldn’t be the first horse to be unsuited by that surface. He’s been campaigned almost exclusively on artificial surfaces since last October, but the York run represented arguably a career-best effort and he deserves a chance to confirm that promise.

Selections: Ripon 3.55 Go Far (33/1), Mythmaker (25/1)

Tuesday, 2 August 2016

8.05 Newcastle, Thursday, August 4

The ROA/Racing Post Owners’ Jackpot Handicap (8.05) at Newcastle on Thursday is a lowly 0-65 handicap that has attracted 14 runners, but only a few in any recognisable form and only a few with any form on the Tapeta surface. In such circumstances, a ‘shock’ result is always a possibility, so we’ve selected a few that we think could go well at rewarding odds.

For Shia And Lula is on a losing run of seventeen and his recent form, including on Tapeta at Wolverhampton, is nothing special, but it’s worth noting that his last three wins came in better races than this over 7 furlongs at Wolverhampton off handicap marks of 75, 71 and 69 respectively. He races here off a mark of 61 so, with apprentice Toby Eley taking off a further 7lb, he is undeniably well handicapped if anywhere near his best.

Alans Pride is on an even longer losing run, of nineteen, stretching back to his juvenile days, but his two runs on Tapeta at Wolverhampton earlier this season weren’t without promise, so he must have a squeak, especially as the second of his wins as a two-year-old came over 7 furlongs off a handicap mark of 70. Off a handicap mark of 54, he warrants close attention back on Tapeta, for all that his last two starts on turf were less than awe-inspiring.

Last, but hopefully not least in this week’s game of ifs, buts and maybes, Just Paul is another professional loser who hasn’t won for twenty-three starts and has never raced on an artificial surface of any kind. On the upside, that does mean that, at least, he’s unexposed on Tapeta and is 21lb lower in the weights than when winning a much better race over 7 furlongs at Musselburgh as a year-old. If a first-time hood rekindles his old enthusiasm, and he takes to the surface, he may exceed expectations.

Selections: 8.05 Newcastle, For Shia And Lula, Alans Pride, Just Paul


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Definition of live adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

    see also live1 [usually before noun]
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    not dead
  1. 1living; not dead live animals the number of live births (= babies born alive) We saw a real live rattlesnake!
  2. not recorded
  3. 2(of a broadcast) sent out while the event is actually happening, not recorded first and broadcast later live coverage of the World Cup
  4. 3(of a performance) given or made when people are watching, not recorded The club has live music most nights. a live recording made at Carnegie Hall the band's new live album It was the first interview I'd done in front of a live audience (= with people watching).
  5. electricity
  6. 4(of a wire or device) connected to a source of electrical power That terminal is live.
  7. bullets/matches
  8. 5still able to explode or light; ready for use live ammunition
  9. coals
  10. 6live coals are burning or are still hot and red
  11. question/subject
  12. 7of interest or importance at the present time Pollution is still very much a live issue.
  13. Internet
  14. 8(of an electronic link) functioning correctly, so that it is connected to another document or page on the Internet Here are some live links to other aviation-related web pages.
  15. in sports
  16. 9used to describe the ball at a time when play is continuing, not stopped because the ball is out of bounds opposite dead
  17. Idioms
    a live wire
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    a person who is lively and full of energy
See the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary entry: live


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Paalam, as the name signifies, is an art forum that has been launched with a view to create a bridge between fine arts, artists and art lovers. Founded by Mudhra Bhaskar and Dr.Radha Bhaskar, who have over two decades of experience as musicians and cultural organizers, Paalam aims at spreading art and cultural awareness through organizing educative programmes pertaining to all fine art forms.

Apart from various objectives like conducting seminars, workshops and lecture-demonstrations for creating awareness about the nuances of various art forms, conducting Music Appreciation workshops, organizing music workshops in schools and colleges, organising innovative, novel and thematic concerts, conducting info-quiz on fine arts in schools and colleges, recognizing outstanding talent in the field of fine arts and giving them awards, providing merit scholarship for deserving students in fine arts and also financial assistance for needy students to pursue their education in fine arts, to promote research activities in fine arts, to create an exhaustive music and dance library, to raise the standard of youngsters by organising concerts with combination of senior and junior artists, conducting congregational singing in corporation schools and creating an exclusive website on educative aspects of fine arts, Paalam will also utilize the web technology by organizing virtual school and web- casting lectures and other educative programmes through the net.

To cater to the needs of senior citizens, students and rasikas all over the world, Paalam has devised a unique "52 week webcast project" wherein on all Sundays in the week, a music, dance or drama will be webcast for the benefit of all art lovers. This will enable rasikas to be connected to the arts and also appreciate it better. This can be viewed at - www.paalam.in/tv

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By KATHLEEN PARKER Washington Post Writers Group

WASHINGTON -- One thing we've learned the past several weeks is to ignore the White House and wait for Donald Trump to spill the beans.

Invariably, the president contradicts statements from his communications team and other officials, and blurts the truth. As counterintuitive as it seems, Trump is a truth-teller among spinmeisters.

White House: Baloney! The president did not share any classified information with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in the Oval.

Trump: Yeah, sure, I told them some stuff because: (a) As president, I can do anything I want, including discussing whatever; and (b) I want Russia to step up its fight against the Islamic State.

White House: Absurd! The president did not fire FBI Director James Comey because of the bureau's investigation into possible collusion with Russia. He was simply following the recommendation of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, of whom no one had ever heard until this minute, but he's key to everything going forward.

Trump: Yeah, sure I was thinking about the Russia investigation. I've been thinking of firing Comey since the beginning. He's a disaster.

Trump can't help himself. Lies seem to bore him, even when told in his defense. They're too much trouble. And, besides, he's always gotten his way by speaking his and everyone else's mind. His impulse to share his unfiltered thoughts is precisely what makes him both entertaining and a terrible president.

From his own lips: Trump fired Comey at least partly because of the Russia investigation, which he was certainly entitled to do. He fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates because she refused to enforce his order limiting immigration, which most likely, he was legally justified in doing. Lower-court rulings that the order was essentially a religious ban may not hold up in the Supreme Court, according to legal scholars I've consulted. Among other reasons, some non-Muslims live in countries included in the order, and millions of Muslims live in other countries that weren't included.

And, yes, he shared information with the Russians, which is well within his constitutional authority, if not obviously prudent. According to The Washington Post, which first reported the story and in which I have faith, Trump revealed the Islamic State's plan to weaponize laptops to bring down airplanes. He also reportedly divulged the city whence the intelligence came, which could expose the source -- something even the Post would not reveal. The information was passed on by a partner country with which the U.S. had an intelligence-sharing agreement. For the foreseeable future, the media will be consumed with this breach of judgment, but not law. Don't get me wrong. I'm no Trump cheerleader. But a dispassionate evaluation of events would seem timely and provide relief from the exploding-heads parade on TV.

The unanswerable question is: Why would Trump do this? Perhaps he is naive, stupid or sly like a fox. But his odd boast to the Russians that he gets "great intel" -- "I have people brief me on great intel every day" -- seemed more like showing off than a serious discussion of mutual security concerns.

For a time, all we knew is what the leaker wanted us to know. Then, lo and behold, Trump leapt to the Twitter feed to fill in the blanks. Was this wise? Might his disclosures affect others' faith in the president? (What faith?) Might it bring harm to sources embedded in enemy territory? (Is there anyone older than 10 who didn't assume that the Islamic State was weaponizing laptops?)

A contrarian might wonder what else was on the table in that room? And who is leaking and for what purpose?

Reporters and columnists love leakers and need them as sources for invaluable information. But it should never be assumed that leakers are all noble whistleblowers or that they act solely out of altruism or loyalty to country. In this town, unfortunately, the same goes for friends and colleagues. Whatever the topic or circumstance, the experienced person always keeps one operative question in sight: What does he/she want out of this?

Oftentimes the answer is an unspoken agreement to be of mutual use to one another. This is the subtext in all negotiations and, perhaps, was foremost in Trump's mind when he pretended to trust the Russians. Maybe it was a test of trust. Maybe it was just careless bumbling. Who knows?

It's maddening not to know, but of this we can be certain: Wait awhile. Trump, the impulsive truth-sayer, will tell us sooner or later.

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Set in 1975, against the backdrop of the violence of Northern Ireland, the first act recreates the actual murder of 19-year-old sectarian dockworker, Jim Griffin, by 17-year-old Alistair Little (Mark Davison), a pro-England Protestant who'd asked for the assignment as a means to gaining his badge of honor. Little shot Griffin in the head three times, while Griffin's 11-year-old brother -- out playing with his soccer ball -- was an unfortunate witness to the act. Little spared the little brother, but was ultimately sentenced to 12 years in prison for the crime.

The rest of the movie is fictional -- it imagines a scenario where Little (Liam Neeson) is asked to meet Griffin's little brother, Joe (James Nesbitt) in the present. Since the murder, Little has become something of an expert on conflict resolution among violent groups. Joe, meanwhile -- who has a wife and two daughters -- has been plagued by his brother's death all his life. His father died of a heart attack soon after the murder, and Joe's mother had blamed Joe for not doing anything to save his brother. Little and Joe agree to meet for a television documentary: Little to find closure, Joe to avenge his brother's death, and the documentarians to possibly capture the high drama of reconciliation.

Most of Five Minutes of Heaven alternates back and forth between Little and Joe, as they discuss -- first with their drivers on the way to the shoot, and later with the documentary makers -- their feelings about the arranged meeting and each other. Little is remorseful, but is understanding enough not to expect Joe to forgive him. Meanwhile, Joe is a nervous wreck, alternating between mumbles and outbursts, and doesn't want to hear anything sympathetic about Little, which might prevent him from avenging his brother's senseless murder.

Ultimately, the televised meeting doesn't happen, but Little and Joe do eventually confront one another in the third act.

Five Minutes of Heaven is a fairly staid movie. It doesn't try to vilify the murderer, nor does it attempt to lionize the victim. But neither does it delve particularly deep into either character. It's not a bad film by any means -- films that cover the conflict in Ireland rarely are. Nobody does it for the money, clearly, and the people involved tend to feel passionate about the subject (how many of these movies has Neeson participated in?).

Moreover, Five Minutes is well intentioned, deftly constructed, and features the sort of performance you'd expect from Neeson (and Nesbitt). Unfortunately, it doesn't offer much insight into either the conflict or the two main characters. Neither does it posses much in the way of tension or drama. It wants to explore the the emotional effects of decades' old wounds, but it never gets beneath the scabs. It just picks at the edges before drifting aimlessly toward an anti-climax completely out of character from the rest of the movie.

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Editor’s note: The Common Application (Common App) is a nonprofit organization that provides college applications students may submit to any of the group’s 500 members. Members are colleges and universities that, according to the group’s website, promote “access by evaluating students using a holistic selection process,” which is a consideration of the whole application, not just data such as a GPA or SAT score.

My school’s college counselor had us write essays according to Patricia Torvaldsthe Common App’s prompts. I read them over every once in a while, like maybe they’ll change the prompts just for me or if they get enough clicks from one user they’ll reveal the secret “Topic of Your Choice” that they just wanted to hide from less-dedicated kids.

So far no luck. And it kind of feels like I’m just out of luck in general with these essay topics.

“Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story,” reads the first prompt.

This one is probably my least favorite. I bet there’s a whole bunch of kids who could write the absolute best essays ever with this topic and talk about all their rich heritage and get accepted on the spot, no questions asked. I never really know what to write for this one. It scares me with the intensity of its wording. I mean, I have Finnish heritage. I like that about myself. But it doesn’t define me. It’s not that central to my identity. I have to move on.

“Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?”

I actually like this one a little bit. If I had ever majorly failed, I bet I could crank out a neat little essay about it. But somehow I don’t really think schools would be too impressed to hear about the thousands of times I’ve killed any plant that has ever been entrusted in my care. Or about when I tried to make a cake and my little sister almost cried when she had a bite. The thing is, usually I’m pretty good at damage control. And I have some pretty awesome resources if a project is heading downhill. So my essay now would just make me look like a wuss who never tried anything new. I guess I still have some time to mess something up. Ah, junior year.

“Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again?”

I wrote about this one. I mean, all I do is challenge beliefs or ideas. That’s the whole point of my feminism. However, my college counselor told me, in the nicest way possible, that my aggressively feminist essay was probably best for women’s colleges. She’s right. A lot of the admissions reps for Oregon that I’ve met have been surprisingly conservative. If I’m trying to put my best foot forward I should do my best not to freak anyone out. But still. I had a topic, man!

“Describe a place where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?”

I wrote about this topic last year. It’s nice and all, and I wrote about my dance studio. I just don’t dance as much as you would think based on that essay. There’s a girl in my class, and she’s an incredible ballerina and spends probably 20-plus hours a week at her studio. I spend five, usually. I’m not going to major in dance. I like ballet, but it’s not what makes me me. There’s a whole host of things that do, more so than dance, but I can’t figure out how to squish them into these bizarre topics.

“Discuss an accomplishment or event,” reads the final prompt, “formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community or family.”

This one is a joke. I mean, I’m sure it isn’t for many people. But I’m definitely still some dumb kid who complains about college essay topics and goes shopping for jeans instead of contacting professors before college visits on the East Coast. (The jeans are really cute, by the way.) I was under the impression that college turned you into an adult and that I could put off thinking about that until I had to pay taxes or something horrible like that.

I guess the issue isn’t so much that the topics are bad. And all kidding aside, I don’t think it’s all my fault either. I’m just hesitant to point fingers at one single thing that could possibly define me. I’m Patricia. I’m a mix of weird experiences and ideas, not just one activity or failure or belief. And apparently I’m not getting into college.

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Post-surgery update: tail end of flu; may need another MRI

The flu bug that has slayed me for three weeks is now on the way out of my system. It has left me with a few annoyances -- night fevers, incredible fatigue, vision problems (dry, blurry) -- that I hope will pass soon. The coughing has nearly ceased, but its effect has cost me in terms of my recovery from L5-S1 bilateral discectomy surgery on January 18.

I coughed so much the first week and a half that I had shooting pains down my leg again, suggesting I may have re-herniated somewhat and that's a big concern. I had to wait out this flu until I could make an appointment to see the surgeon. I go next Tuesday, he may suggest an MRI so we know what we're dealing with. Here's how it went:

Week of 1/28: flu hits full force; heavy, sometimes violent coughing from 1/30-2/9. Expected weakness, fever and sinus discharge (nasal/eyes). Pain and inflammation/swelling at incision.

* Coughing in some instances caused some shooting leg pain down left and right legs, worse on left.
* One spell caused increased numbness down left leg; bad tingling/burning
* Weakness in both legs consistent.
* Unable to do PT walking at all because of flu symptoms.
* Used Tylenol to reduce fever: two 500 mg, 3x/day.

There is soreness near the surgical incision (right), but overall the wound itself has healed really well over the last few weeks. All of the "krazy glue" used to seal me on the outside (he used dissolving stitches on the inside) has fallen off now, leaving a vertical scar about 2" long along my lower back.

Because he had to chisel out part of the herniation that had calcified, there was quite a bit or trauma to the surrounding tissue, and that caused a lot of bruising. That has gone away, but the area around it is pretty discolored and, well, unattractive, but this is my war wound. We'll see what clears up long term.

Of course if there is a re-herniation, he's going to have to slice me again, and the prospect of that is frightening, but it happens 10%-15% of the time, and my odds were probably a bit worse because of the calcification and more traumatic surgery.

Surgery recovery

I do have to say once the horrible fog of the flu has lifted, it's easier to tell what is going on with my recovery from surgery since it's almost a month out. Being crapped out by that bug takes everything out of you. So, given this is about the first day I don't feel completely wiped by noon, I can report what is going on re: the spine surgery.

* Minimal exertion causes extreme fatigue, and increased fever at night is worse with exertion (~100)..

* Back pain and stiffness is constant; but I am not taking any additional prescription pain meds, toughing it out. Stopped those about a week and a half ago.
* Sitting for longer than 30 minutes in a chair is really uncomfortable.
* Standing is OK, walking at length is uncomfortable (but no more left-leg limping!)
* Returned to doing PT stretches.
* Re-started some walking on 2/13. Tiring; calf/foot numbness was noticeable, no shooting pain.
* Numbness and infrequent twitching down left leg.
* Numbness and tingling on undersides of both feet, and on top of left foot, down outside of left calf.

So that's what I'll discuss with the surgeon. I am far behind on my walking, and this has delayed my recovery, but I need a few round of walks to see what is/isn't working.

Driving (test)!

The big news is I drove for the first time last Friday. The surgeon said I was OK to try it as long as I could comfortably get behind the wheel. I wore a supportive wrap around my back (left over from my hysterectomy) for support. Kate came with me and I drove about a total of 2.5 miles.

How did it go? Well, let's just say I will not drive much for a while. That short jaunt was useful in letting me know just which muscles you use to drive, and how mine are very weak post-surgery. This is not unusual, but the end result is I experienced tailbone pain (not good), and some bad soreness that lasted a couple of days. I had to pop the Tylenol and immediately nodded off for a 4 hour nap.

I guess that's progress, eh? I'll report that to the surgeon as well.

And it's a Happy Valentine's Day -- much love to my wife Kate, who has been right there for me during all of this, reminding me not to bend, twist, and lift, and helping to sanitize our way through this flu. She's managed not to get it from my by some miracle! My major output of energy is to cook her a nice dinner tonight; the first I've really had enough energy to do, though I know it will mean early bedtime for me, lol. Well worth it.

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