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Jack Nicklaus says there's no reason to be alarmed: Rory McIlroy is probably frustrated with his game and his adjustment to new equipment.
Long before Ravensworth Shopping Center, Ravensworth Estates, Ravensworth Elementary School and other places were built in southern Fairfax County, William Fitzhugh's 21,996-acre tobacco plantation, Ravensworth, encompassed three mansions and their support buildings, including two now-joined log homes that stand as a quaint reminder of the colony's largest cash crop.The
price of fuel jumps dramatically, from a national average of $3.12
one month ago to $3.54
as of Friday, according to AAA. In the Washington area, the average price of regular gas hit $3.52
in Maryland and $3.46 in Virginia last week.
A new book, “Photojournalists at War,” is an oral history of the Iraq war from the perspective of three dozen photojournalists who documented it from the

front lines. In “Under the Dome,” a 13-part CBS mini-series based on a Stephen King novel, a small town is sealed off from the rest of the world by a mysterious clear dome.     Sen.
Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)

is writing a book about her 2012 campaign against Rep. Todd Akin (R).
"I'm going to write a book about it, the race,"

she told conservative news radio host Jamie Allman on Wednesday morning.
"I'm going to tell the whole story."
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch first reported on the exchange. Read full article >> Garda union stages demonstration outside Dáil for first time in protest at perceived unfairness of public sector pay cutsRank-and-file police officers in Ireland have taken the unprecedented step of picketing their own parliament, accusing the coalition government in Dublin of excluding them from a public sector pay deal.Members
of the Garda Representative Association's (GRA)

central executive committee are staging trade miner review outside the Dáil at lunchtime on Wednesday against what the police union calls "the unfairness of proposed public sector pay cuts".It
is the first time the body representing most gardaí have demonstrated outside Ireland's parliament since the state was founded. The GRA represents more than 13,000 Irish rank-and-file officers.In
a sign of deepening tension between the GRA and the government, off-duty gardaí held up placards stating "Taoiseach says it's fair.
Senators lose €600.
Garda loses €2,000.
Fair?", referring to a cost-saving deal between the coalition and the trade union movement from which the GRA was excluded.The
GRA's general secretary, PJ Stone, said his members were not offered a seat at recent national wage negotiations between public sector unions and the Fine Gael-Labour government.He said gardaí had been "sidelined" in an updated deal, first hammered out in Croke park stadium several years ago, that would save billions in public sector pay and pensions in return for no redundancies.Stone
said: "It is a disappointment to the GRA to learn that the government were now intent on extending the Croke park deal to facilitate savings to the magnitude of €60m over three years from the pension and pay of members of An Garda Síochána."If
we are to look at the deal now being voted upon by the trade union movement, we see that it is blatantly unfair.

How our taoiseach can see this as fair is simply baffling. Any public servant

working nine to five and earning €65,000 per year will not have their pay reduced; while a garda earning €38,000 per year will

suffer a pay cut."In February, the GRA passed a vote of no confidence in Ireland's justice minister, Alan Shatter, after he and the cabinet pressed forward with clickbank pirate cut

Garda pay.The row over pay cuts in Ireland's police force has reached the point where some branches of the GRA across the republic have already voted for a national "blue flu" day – a de facto police strike when officers would fail to turn up for duty claiming they were ill.The
last "blue flu" strike in Ireland took place in May 1998 when large numbers of gardaí took sick leave in protest over pay and conditions.The
then Garda commissioner, Pat Byrne, described it as a "black day" for the force, but within weeks a pay increase had been negotiated with the unions.IrelandEuropeHenry McDonaldguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
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a row, a team of MIT students — including two this year from the MIT School of Architecture + Planning — have won double awards in the Better Buildings Case Competition conducted at the White House by the U.S. Department of Energy. In support of President Obama's goal of cutting

energy waste from homes and businesses

by half over the next two decades, the annual competition invites university energy clubs to propose

innovative solutions for increasing the efficiency of buildings across the country.
Drawing together skills and experience in urban planning, real estate, engineering and finance, the contest challenges students to come up with creative solutions to real-world problems faced by specific organizations in the public and private sectors — solutions that can be used as models for other organizations across the marketplace. The competition also helps launch students' careers in energy by introducing them to potential employers.
After competing aquaponics 4 you year’s contest, for instance, SA+P’s Elena Alschuler CP ‘12 was hired by the Energy Department’s Building Technologies Office to help develop tools for collecting and analyzing data on building energy performance.
She was also responsible for writing the competition’s case studies this year.
Find out more The engineers of the SRT division have created a tuner edition of the 300, adding a raging bull of a Hemi engine that Rockford and Mannix would

have loved. Joe Flacco will have a huge contract to go along with his Super Bowl ring.
The snow globes we remember best are the ones that say something about our lost childhoods.
The visit to three African countries — Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania — has been overshadowed in part by the declining health of Nelson Mandela.     The bonds of the European Union are tested as wealthier nations come to the aid of smaller, struggling states.
The Phys Ed columnist Gretchen Reynolds answers a reader’s question about shoulder pain and rotator cuff injuries. It would have been hard to resist. A man comes in to the emergency room in Auckland, New Zealand, last year with an eel stuck inside his buttocks.
He is treated successfully and released, according to a Huffington Post report.
Read full article >>     Guard Marshall Henderson has led Ole Miss into the N.C.A.A.
tournament with his scoring and antics on

and off the court. Dozens of Republicans have added their names to a legal brief urging the Supreme Court to declare that gay couples have a constitutional right to marry. There are thought to be about 500,000 elephants in Africa today. That's just an estimate, but whatever the number is, it's definitely declining.
It's dropping in part because fat loss factor are losing their habitat, but also due increasingly to ivory poachers. A 2011 study that monitored 60

of the locations most-frequented by elephants found that an astounding 7.4 percent of those elephants were killed illegally just that year. On those sites, which account for about 40 percent of the entire African population, they estimated that 17,000 elephants were killed. It would certainly stand to reason that the total number of elephants killed by poachers in Africa

was much higher that year. Read full article >> Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin became the first Crimson player to reach the N.B.A.’s postseason in 65 years, since Saul Mariaschin in 1948.     MANAMA, Bahrain - A Saudi-led military force crossed into Bahrain on Monday to prop up the monarchy against widening demonstrations, launching the first cross-border military operation to quell unrest since the Arab world's rebellions began in December.
Beneath its commitment to soft-spoken diplomacy and beyond the combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration has significantly expanded a largely secret U.S. war against al-Qaeda and other radical groups, according to senior military and administration officials.
Members of the UK public try out

augmented eyewear Google Glass prior to its sale in early 2014     Two astronauts

spent five and a half hours outside the International Space Station.
They were unable to locate the source of the leak, but did install a new pump, which appeared to solve the problem.     One of the countries discussed as a potential haven for Edward Snowden is Cuba, the tropical communist hold-over ruled by Fidel Castro's younger brother Raul.
Snowden was even expected to fly to Cuba on Monday, on the way to Ecuador, though he never boarded the flight. Read full article