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Gorgeous and well-made Kramer bracelet! Stamped Kramer, measures 7” long, ¾” wide, and is in excellent condition (the safety chain needs to be cleaned). Bracelet has been a part of my vintage jewelry collection for the past 15-20 years.
This is not your everyday find – it’s a ladies fancy cigarette lighter for an evening bag! The lighter is gold-tone metal, is covered with faux pearls and amethysts, and measures 2 3/8” tall. The lighter is marked “Hy-Glo, Made in USA” and has never been used!
This listing has a pair of vintage “Handiform” brand glove dryers/shapers! Rather difficult to find items.
I purchased this neat little bottle of vintage fragrance at an Indiana estate sale. I’m not certain if this is perfume or cologne but the label shows it was produced by Lynas Perfumers. There is also no content amount listed but I would guesstimate it to be ½ ounce. From my research, this was introduced in the 1920’s by J.B. Lynas & Sons and it is to be believed to have been produced in Indiana. A neat collectible!
This listing has a lovely vintage lavaliere! Chain measures 20”, one glass bead with chain is an additional 1 ½”, the other is 2 ½”. The two glass beads are a light purple color, measure ¾” diameter, and are faceted for extra sparkle. Very pretty!
This is such a neat towel – I originally purchased it to embroider for my linen collection. Please see photo for details – the towel doesn’t require a lot of embroidery because the “private eye” is apparently invisible. Towel has original price tag of 39 cents from S.S. Kresge Co.
This is a neat vintage handbag – it’s a “magazine” purse! These vintage handbags are difficult to find – this one is Ele’gance, Paris. It has been much used and has scuff, scratches, etc. interior is clean (it has a circular white mark on packet that is not detrimental). Handbag is priced to reflect the “use” evidence. This is a nice purse to actually use or would be a very nice display item.
These faux pearls are absolutely gorgeous! They are quality – made by Marvella with the original Marvella metal hang tag! Single strand in the more difficult to find longer length – 28” – and the color is excellent with the sheen found on real pearls. These are so pretty and so difficult to tell from real pearls – I am tempted to keep them!
This material is so pretty and it is in excellent condition. There are 4 yards, 31 ½” -- almost 5 yards -- of fabric and it is 45” in width. Fabric is heavy weight cotton and printed into the bottom selvage is: “Copyright House ‘n Home Fabrics & Draperies, Inc. 1980”. Material is perfect for draperies, pillow covers, etc.
Another excellent condition vintage hat! I’m not an expert on fur but I believe this is mink. The hat has a rather cone shape (at top) and sets on your head almost like a beret. It has two small combs to secure to your hair. Interior label reads “Garth’s, Evansville, Indiana”. Gorgeous!
There is one pair of Mojud “seamless supreme” stockings in this listing! They are in the original box, are size 10 ½ M, and the color is “Paradise”.
This is an adorable vintage Christmas item – it’s a musical angel! You pull the string and it plays Silent Night. Angel is gold color and measures 4 1/8” tall. An unusual item!
This listing has 2 vintage Christmas stockings! These are net stockings, one is 9 ¼” long, the other is 16 ¼” long. The shorter one has a Santa (gift tag type) on the front – I don’t know if it came with stocking or if someone added it later but it’s definitely not new! Very nice items!
EXCELLENT NYLONS BY DOLLY MADISON! THERE ARE 3 PAIRS -- INDIVIDUALLY PACKAGED AND IN THE ORIGINAL BOX! THESE HAVE "RUN STOP TOP AND TOE, SEAMLESS, 400 NEEDLE, 100% NYLON, RN14733". THE COLOR IS TAUPE, SIZE IS 8 1/2. VERY NICE!
Lin's Antiques and Collectibles
This listing has your choice box of ornament hangers! Each box has hangers – I don’t know if the specified number is in each box or not although some boxes have a substantial number of hangers. The red and green boxes were made by National Tinsel Company – the red box has standard size hangers and is priced at $10.00...
This listing has 12 beautiful reflector type glass ornaments made in Poland! There are 9 tear drop shape and 3 rounds in original box (has lost its lid). Ornaments have bright colors and are in wonderful condition with very minor “use” evidence. Very pretty.
This listing has 12 absolutely beautiful glass ornaments from Poland! There are 8 drops with pointed ends and 4 round shape ornaments. They are colorful with hand painted and/or glitter design accents and are in their original box showing they are Fantasia Brand. Ornaments are in wonderful condition with minor color loss. Super addition to a vintage Christmas collection!
Pretty assortment of Shiny Brite ornaments in a Shiny Brite box! There are 4 bell shape (3 stripe, 1 white with “snow” with stars), 7 round shape (6 with stripes, 1 with snow and glittery dots), and 1 lantern type shape (stripes). Ornaments have normal “use” evidence – some color wear and a few dark dots in the silver color (caused by artificial snow). Still a very nice assortment that is nicely priced! | <urn:uuid:e5a1220e-02fc-4ffd-bdec-56a6c12524bb> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/lin/catalog/query.php?sortfield=title&sortdir=SORT_ASC&start=4848&view=list | 2014-04-19T17:15:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609537308.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005217-00096-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927588 | 1,328 | [
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Email Warning - Speed Camera Offence Information Available Online
Email claims that anybody can view information about a driver's speed camera offences by visiting a publicly accessible website (Full commentary below
False - the website is intended as a joke.
(Submitted, April 2006)
Check this out - its amazing!
Did you know that recent Government legislation changing the Freedom of
Information Acts gives you access to speed camera offences registered
within the last twelve months and placed on a freely accessible website?
Did you know that every time your car goes even over a mile or so over the speed limit, it is registered and placed on the database?
They only send a ticket if you are way over, OR (and here is
the rub.. if you receive over 20 near misses") You can now check how many you have against your car's registered number.
Check this page: http://www.e-database.co.uk/
It will ask you for a password - but just click on the 'need
a password/' link and you'll be given one in a pop-up window. In the top
right hand corner there is a "click-on" window and it even shows the
picture taken by the camera!!!
At face value, the information in this emailed warning sounds very worrying! It would certainly be a considerable invasion of your privacy if members of the public could access a personal record of any speed camera offences that you might have against your name.
However, in spite of appearances, no speed camera data is actually accessible on this site. The site is a harmless prank. When a concerned visitor logs on to the site and submits a registration number for checking, a page with some seemingly legitimate data about a recent speeding offence will be displayed. The display includes a "View Picture" button that supposedly allows the visitor to see the actual speed camera photograph of the offence. However, the resulting picture represents the punch line of the joke. After viewing the picture, the visitor is left in no doubt that he or she has been caught out by a clever cyber-prank.
The first indication that the site is not serious is that it actually provides login details for any visitor who requires them. Clicking the "Need a login?" link opens a pop-up window that provides a working username and password. Naturally, since anybody can access login details, password protecting the information is totally redundant. Also, there is no need to provide a real registration number in order to obtain results from the "database". Any string of numbers or letters will be accepted as a "vehicle registration".
So, despite any concerns raised by this email forward, the site is not really a threat to personal privacy. The final "punch line" page of the site does
contain some advertising, which presumably helps to raise revenue for the site owners. However, there is nothing intrusive or untoward about this advertising. Taken in context, the site provides a simple and harmless prank to play on your friends.
Unfortunately, submissions indicate that many people believe the information in the email is true and are forwarding it to all of their friends without actually checking the site first. Thus, the joke is completely lost on many recipients who may continue to erroneously believe that the site represents a genuine threat to their privacy. This email, although intended as a joke, may be in fact helping to spread unrealistic concerns about personal privacy issues.
Another very similar prank website that is also the subject of an emailed "warning", claims that driver's licence information
is publicly available online.
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Marlo Thomas Talks About Her Dad Danny
He was an old-fashioned dad. For all the fame and money my father had earned, at his core he was a working-class guy, the middle son of a large family from Toledo, Ohio.
I've listened to many sad "dad tales" from some of my women friends – about their distracted, non-demonstrative or simply unloving fathers. These stories have always sounded so foreign. My father truly enjoyed the company of his children. He hugged and kissed us daily, he told us that he loved us, he was emotional. We used to kid him that he cried at basketball games.
Through the years, whenever I called home, it was always a boost. When he'd hear my voice, I could hear the pleasure in his. "How's my beauty?" he'd say. I once said something to him that I was sorry about later, and when I called to apologize, he said, "Mugs, you know you can do no wrong with me."
In 1965, Dad's pal, Joe Robbie, asked him to partner with him to buy the Miami Dolphins, the first expansion team of what was then the American Football League. Dad was a big sports fan, so this was an irresistible opportunity for him.
In their first game, the Dolphins received the opening kickoff from the Oakland Raiders, and running back Joe Auer sprinted an amazing 95 yards for a touchdown. My dad was so excited that he jumped off the bench and ran along the sidelines the entire way with Auer, his cigar clenched in his teeth, his change falling out of his pockets, yelling "Go, baby, go!" When Auer finally crossed into the end zone, my father grabbed him and kissed him. He was a different kind of owner.
Dad brought that childlike enthusiasm to everything he did. When I was at USC, I got a 3.8 average one semester. He was so proud, he took my report card onto The Tonight Show with him, and boasted to Johnny Carson, "This is my kid – 3.8! I have to talk to her through an interpreter." Dad was a frequent guest of Johnny's, and spoke to him like he was sitting next door with a friend. It was there that he made the announcement to Johnny (and America) that I had gotten my first bra, the audience howling at his vivid description of it. I didn't leave the house for a week.
But most of all he was a storyteller, and he found an audience to tell his stories to wherever he happened to be. I was on a plane once, going from Los Angeles to New York, and the flight attendant told me that she'd recently had my father on a flight, and what a delight he was. She said she saw him get up to stretch, then walk around and talk to a few people in their seats. Before long, he was enrapturing all of First Class with his tales, and they were howling. He had turned an American Airlines flight into his own personal dinner show. Most celebrities board a plane and try to hide themselves for a little privacy. Not my dad. Where else can you find a captive audience . . . for five hours?! He was in heaven.
And sometimes he couldn't let go of my boyfriends, even after I had. In college, I was pinned to a boy named Jimmy Pugh, a basketball player on a scholarship who was going into dental school. My father adored Jimmy and respected him for trying to make a better life for himself. I know in his heart, Dad had hoped I would marry Jimmy, but I was restless to get to New York and start studying acting. So that was the end of Jimmy and me. What I didn't know was that it wasn't the end of Jimmy and Dad.
After I had already moved east, Jimmy would still come to our house and have beers with Dad, and they'd talk for hours. After one of these visits, Dad walked Jimmy to his car – but it wasn't out front. Somewhat sheepishly, Jimmy explained that his car was such a "heap" that he'd parked it near the alley, rather than having it sit in front of our house. When Dad took one look at that awful jalopy, he exploded.
"You're going to be a dentist!" he said. "You can't let anything happen to your hands. You'll break every bone in your body in this wreck!" Dad had just been sent a brand-new pickup truck from a company that he'd done a favor for, so he opened the garage and said to Jimmy, "Here, take this. I'll never drive it." I wouldn't learn about this until years later, after my father died, when Jimmy wrote me a condolence letter telling me the whole story.
"I was overwhelmed and reluctant to accept it," he wrote, "but your father got furious with me and made me drive it away on the spot."
I read the letter in awe, amazed that Dad had never mentioned this to me. But how typical of him – Jimmy may have lost the girl but he gained a V-8 engine with an automatic transmission.
When I was at Marymount High School, my best friend, Moya, and I were always up to some kind of mischief. We had to do something with all those unexpressed hormones. Not only was the school girls-only, but all of the teachers were nuns. There was hardly a male presence, except for the gardener – and the prettiest nun ran off with him. And there was the daily visit from FATHER from the nearby parish to say the Mass for us. The nuns were very respectful, adoring – and terrified – of FATHER.
"Oh yes, FATHER. Oh no, FATHER. Oh, thank you, FATHER."
In a regular church Mass, the priest is assisted by altar boys, who bring him the chalice of wine and place the bells. Back then, females were not permitted behind the altar rail. No female – not even a nun. So when Father came to say Mass at Marymount, he had to do it all on his own. God forbid any female should be let past that rail.
This really irked Moya and me. So one day, just before Mass, we decided to remove the altar bells. These bells are used at a very important part of the Mass. They are rung three times, one after each "Lord, I am not worthy."
The service began, and while all of the other girls were focused on the Mass as they should have been, Moya and I waited excitedly for the moment when Father would reach for the bells – which were always placed directly to his right. When the time finally came, we watched his hand reaching in vain, fumbling for the missing bells.
And then he did something that made us choke to keep from laughing. He called out in a loud voice, "Ding-a-ling-a-ling." We couldn't believe it. And then again, "Ding-a-ling-a-ling." And then a third time, "Ding-a-ling-a-ling."
The two thirteen-year-old girls doubled over in the back row were promptly suspended.
My father was summoned to a conference – "about your daughter" – with Reverend Mother Emmanuel. Unfortunately, I was invited, too. I was terrified of Reverend Mother. She was tough, no-nonsense. Her face squeezed by her binding, starched white habit, she looked out at you with severe green eyes.
On this particular day, that look was aimed at Mr. Thomas, as she told him in very strong words what a very bad girl I had been. She then rose proudly, determinedly, to her feet and pronounced her final sentence – the death sentence for Mr. Thomas's daughter.
"I'm afraid, Mr. Thomas, that Margaret does not have the poise for a Marymount girl."
Then my father rose. "I know, Reverend Mother," he said humbly. "That's why I've given her to you."
Check. I could see a glint in those severe green eyes. Reverend Mother knew she had met her match.
When we got in the car to drive home, I told my father how brilliant he was, and laughed at how he had checkmated Reverend Mother. But Dad didn't smile back. He looked at me sternly.
"I don't ever want to have to face off with that woman again," he said. "And I don't ever want to hear that you have done something unfitting at a Mass. Mass is not the place for jokes."
I felt awful. He was disappointed in me. We drove in silence for a few minutes, and then he said, "I was good though, wasn't I?" Then we laughed. It was good to have a dad on your side. | <urn:uuid:6fb1da37-a9ba-402a-a4cd-9e83dcbfcf0a> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.parentdish.com/2011/01/06/marlo-thomas-talks-about-her-dad-danny/ | 2014-04-21T00:27:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609539337.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005219-00128-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993543 | 1,860 | [
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As for dimensions, they're really standard.
Any helpful suggestions-I woudl like them to spin more smoothly
You are right: no grease port. But not complicated to do either.
Keep in mind when unscrewing pedals from chainset:
- Right pedal screw is normal - unscrew counterclockwise
- Lesf pedal screw is odd - unscrew clockwise
Quick fix: remove pedals, place them with the screwed axle pointing upward and pour liquid lube along the rotating axle. Wait 1 min and make them spin for 1 min.
Deep fix: remove pedal and get the axle out - reach the bearing. Grease with white solid grease (Lithium-based) and re-assemble.
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Date posted: September 10, 2010
The big question about the economy is whether another recession is coming. Of course, some argue the first recession, which began in 2007, never ended. Can the level of interest rates help us answer the recession question? N.C. State University economist Mike Walden responds.
“Economists are always looking for indicators that tell us how the economy is going to turn, whether for the good or for the bad. And actually comparing the level of interest rates — specifically, the level of short- and long-term interest rates — has been one of our best indicators. This is something called the yield curve. And normally — normally — the yield curve is positive. And what that means … is that the interest rate for long-term loans is higher than the interest rate for short-term loans.
“However a very good indicator in the past of an oncoming recession is when that yield curve turns negative — meaning short-term interest rates are higher than long-term interest rates. Now, it has not been a perfect indicator, but it has been one of our best indicators.
“So economists do watch this yield curve, and we use that as some piece of evidence about whether the economy is going to turn positive or negative in the future. Right now — right now — the yield curve is still positive: That is, long-term rates are higher than short-term rates. So based on this indicator, this indicator alone, we would not predict another recession in the near term.”
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I know they are both energy healing, but which is better? I’ve had reiki before and was pleased with the results. thanks.
Reiki is where you channel the UNIVERSAL Energy (positive Energy) and
Qi Gong is where you channel your OWN Energy.
In both techniques, the energy is used to balance your chakras and to give you a better physical, emotional, mental & spiritual health.
I don’t know which is better as both techniques – when used properly and on a daily basis – give excellent results.
I use both :
Reiki for meditation, relaxation and a healthier me;
Qi Gong before doing my daily exercices in order to be healthier too.
Both techniques relax and make you feel balanced and happy.
Hope this helps
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February Bird ForecastFebruary 11th, 2013 at 4:03 pm by Jim Spencer under Weather
What to watch for in February: Waxwings and romance
Here’s the Central Texas bird forecast for the month, courtesy of Travis Audubon. Learn more about Central Texas birds and bird-related events for all ages at travisaudubon.org or by calling 512-300-BIRD. Travis Audubon is on Twitter and Facebook. Follow us on Twitter @TravisAudubon and give us a like at www.facebook.com/travisaudubon.
Cedar Waxwings are crowding into town right now before returning to Canada for summer breeding. They come through in large flocks and are distinctive-looking birds: They are brown and gray overall but have yellow bellies, black masks on their faces, red on their wings and tails that look as if they were dipped in yellow paint. They have a thin whistling call, which you can’t miss when you are near a tree with dozens of them!
Waxwings are on the lookout for Possumhaw and Yaupon holly berries, which are being avidly guarded by Northern Mockingbirds. Single mockingbirds have been observed successfully fending off entire flocks of waxwings. You can root for the state bird of Texas or the visiting masked bandits, though there are hopefully enough berries to share.
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Spring is in the air, and our resident birds are beginning to have propagation of the species on their minds, so watch for mating Red-shouldered and Red-tailed Hawks (aka the hawks along MoPac Boulevard), and for songbirds starting to build their nests.
Also returning to town are Purple Martins. These snazzy purplish-black birds have many supporters who put up Purple Martin houses for them, as the birds do not nest in any natural structures in this part of the country. You can check the latest purple martin numbers in Texas at http://purplemartin.org/scoutreport/scout.php?Y=2013&S=TX, a website of the Purple Martin Conservation Association.
Celebrate Urban Birds, a fun and free event
On Feb. 16 and 23, local nature experts from Travis Audubon and other groups will host activities to Celebrate Urban Birds! Events at the Austin Nature and Science Center, the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center and Zilker Botanical Garden include live bird demonstrations, bird sculpting, expert lectures, paddling on the lake for bird photography, kids bird drawing with art gallery shows, hands-on crafts and activities, a bird scavenger hunt and more.
Backyard bird count:
Anyone who can look or listen for birds can take part in a global effort to count birds this month for the Great Backyard Bird Count. As organizers of the Feb. 15-18 event explain: “The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are. Beginning in 2013, GBBC checklists will be accepted from anywhere in the world! Everyone is welcome, from beginning birdwatchers to experts. It takes as little as 15 minutes on one day, or you can count for as long as you like each day of the event. It’s free, fun, and easy—and it helps the birds.”
Learn more at http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc
Monthly Travis Audubon meeting: “On the Trail of a Vanishing Ornithologist”
February 21; social time 6:30 p.m.; program begins at 7. Rissman Hall, First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Drive. Our February speaker will be Kathleen Kaska, author of “The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane: The Robert Porter Allen Story.” This book, a true story set in the 1940’s and ’50’s, is about Audubon ornithologist Robert Porter Allen, whose mission was to journey into the Canadian wilderness to save the last flock of whooping cranes before encroaching development wiped out their nesting site, sending them into extinction.
Field Trips — Check the Travis Audubon website for details
Super Tuesday! at South Travis County Ponds, led by Ken Zaslow: Tuesday, February 12 – 7:30 am to 10:30am
Hornsby Bend Monthly Bird Walk: Saturday, February 16 – 7:30 to 11:00am
Super Tuesday! At Inks Lake State Park, led by Terry Banks: Tuesday, February 19 – 6:00am to early afternoon
Two-hour Tuesday! At East Metropolitan Park, led by Dan Callaway: Tuesday, February 26 – 7:30am to 9:30am
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“They’re Dead. They’re All Messed Up” – How George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead Recreates the Unrest of 1968
THE AMC original TV series Mad Men (2007 – ) set its latest season against a disquieting historical backdrop: the turbulent events of the year 1968.
Specifically, Matthew Weiner’s award-winning period drama book-ended the season with allusions to two classic genre films from that year: Franklin Schaffner’s Planet of the Apes and Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby.
Both are excellent selections that showcase, respectively, global and spiritual apocalypse.
Yet there is another film — one released on October 1st, 1968 — that also represents perfectly the turmoil of America during that season: George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.
Today — due in large part to another AMC series, The Walking Dead (2010 – ), which is now airing the final portion of its fourth season — the zombie is arguably more popular a monster than ever before in genre history. Since Night of the Living Dead is its acknowledged spiritual and historical antecedent, the original film is thus eminently worthy of a re-watch in 2014.
Later sequel-ized in Dawn of the Dead (1979), Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the Dead (2005), Diary of the Dead (2007) and Survival of the Dead (2009) Romero’s low-budget, independently-produced Night has frequently been judged a metaphor for American involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Although such interpretations remain intriguing and valuable, Night of the Living Dead seems like much more than a commentary on an unpopular war. In fact, today the film plays as a nearly perfect time capsule for the agony and unrest – both foreign and domestic – of ’68.
In brief, this was a twelve month period in which it seemed that the average American was being overwhelmed and besieged by crisis and catastrophe. Not only did the Viet Cong storm the American Embassy during the Tet Offensive, but there were riots in more than a hundred American cities following the murder of Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4.
Just two short months later, Robert Kennedy was assassinated.
Beyond those tragedies, the violence and divisions stressing out America continued and deepened throughout the year.
For instance, in Chicago from August 22nd to August 30th anti-war protesters at the Democratic National Convention clashed with the Chicago Police Department and members of the Illinois National Guard. Ten thousand demonstrators were met with mace spray and truncheons by a combined force of approximately twenty-three thousand policemen and guardsmen.
Simultaneously, images of two these “armies” clashing in city streets were broadcast on every TV set in the nation.
One side in this battle wore traditional uniforms, and other side was dressed…very much like the home viewing audience itself.
So who were the good guys?
The violence outside the convention bled into the arena too, and CBS newsman Dan Rather was assaulted by “security” men while attempting to interview a delegate.
Anchor Walter Cronkite’s now-famous response to that act of violence?
“I think we’ve got a bunch of thugs here.”
Yep, they were “…all messed up,” to speak in the lingo of Night of the Living Dead.
A product either of lucky timing or a canny sub-conscious recognition of the prevailing national Zeitgeist, Night of the Living Dead captures in shocking and upsetting visual and thematic detail the notion of being overwhelmed; of the standing order collapsing before a marauding mass of people who look just like you do, but are heedlessly violent, irrational, and unstoppable.
I should probably note right here that Night of the Living Dead never adopts a political stance yay or nay on issues of Civil Rights or the Vietnam War, but rather that it trenchantly translates the imagery of the Chicago violence and other 1968 events to its horror scenario.
Specifically, the film expresses both the spiraling confusion of a battle between seemingly normal-appearing Americans with established authority, and the crucial act of watching the horror overwhelm society on television.
The chaos visualized in Night of the Living Dead seems only to multiply because so-called authorities can’t - or won’t - distinguish between people who might be “ghouls” and people who are but average citizens. So much like the violence marring America at the time, the Romero film is really about a Neo Civil War, a battle between the new social order which appears incomprehensible, frightening — and again, overwhelming — and the old social order, which appears corrupt in its response to that threat.
Night of the Living Dead’s depiction of rival social orders, and the ultimate re-assertion of the old order (so that everything stays the same…) is also projected in the film’s decorum-shattering, graphic imagery.
“This is no Sunday school picnic…”
Night of the Living Dead is based on Romero’s unpublished story called “Anubis.” In the narrative’s inaugural scene, a zombie is pursued and exterminated by armed human soldiers while fleeing over a hilltop.
Then, during tale’s the last shocking scene, another solitary figure flees across that same hill.
But the social order has now flipped.
The pursuer is now the pursued.
“We see it’s an army of zombies, chasing a human with an injured, bleeding leg,” Romero described in The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh, (Paul R. Gagne, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1987, page 24).
“Anubis” was an allegory, Romero suggested, about shifting social orders. It concerned how there was this massive change, this massive revolution. Yet in some very important ways, things remained absolutely the same after the revolution.
That is precisely the ethos that dominates Night of the Living Dead, and also a good way of describing how history went after 1968.
Ultimately, after the counter-culture revolution, it was back to business as usual.
As every horror aficionado remembers, Night of the Living Dead concerns several disparate individuals who, during the early stages of a zombie apocalypse, seek refuge in an isolated farmhouse.
These survivors include the heroic, African-American man, Ben (Duane Jones), the shell-shocked, near catatonic Barbra (Judith O’Dea), the argumentative white man, Harry Cooper (Karl Hardman) and two teenagers — Tom (Keith Wayne) and Judy (Judith Ridley) — trying to make the best of a rotten situation. In the basement, Cooper’s wife, Helen (Marilyn Eastman) tends to her infected daughter, Karen (Kyra Schon).
These survivors argue about the best way to survive during the burgeoning national crisis, and huddle about a small TV set for “news” updates. Instead of proving comforting or helpful, the news reports only sow panic and more confusion.
At one point, the new-station cuts to footage of roving law-enforcement officials, who describe how to most efficiently kill the ghouls. A shot to the head is the key to destroying the enemy. The brain must be destroyed.
With the zombies laying siege to the farmhouse, only a few of the characters survive the night, and the film’s protagonist, Ben, dies from a shot to the head. His murderer is a member of an official (and lily white…) posse that travels the countryside killing the ghouls and “rescuing” the endangered citizenry.
Ben’s body is then burned on a pyre alongside ghoul corpses, with no acknowledgment that a living man, an American citizen, was murdered…
“We may not enjoy living together, but dying together isn’t going to solve anything.”
It is not difficult today to contextualize the ghouls in Night of the Living Dead as a force analogous to the convention protesters or other rioters of 1968, one bringing disorder and lawlessness to the streets of America. The ghouls- — like the protesters — look like us, but, at least at first, appear to behave in an inexplicable fashion. It’s difficult to know if they are friends and family members, or foes.
What do they want? What’s wrong with them?
As one of the characters notes in Night of the Living Dead, and quite apropos to the Chicago riot: “It’s difficult to believe something like this is happening.”
But Night of the Living Dead is never one-sided, or obvious. Instead, Romero recreates the entire milieu of the Chicago and other street riots because his film also depicts authority figures as confused and heavy-handed in their response to the breakdown of law and order.
They shoot first and ask questions later, and evidence no regrets about the finality of their approach. This is the very definition of Walter Cronkite’s so-called thuggery: roving bands of men armed with guns, killing those that they decree — on sight — to be enemies.
What Romero’s film seems to pointedly convey then is the very paradigm that was roiling in the pop culture at the time: that a significant change in the social order was indeed occurring, and occurring in a fast, unruly, even violent fashion.
Consider Bob Dylan’’s 1964 song, “The Times They Are A-Changing,” whose lyrics warned Senators and Congressmen that a “battle” was coming, one that would “shake the windows” and “rattle walls.” This idea of “the times”“a-changing” is deeply rooted in the situations and even dialogue of Night of the Living Dead. There are moments in the film where, indeed, the ghouls rattle the walls and shake the windows of that white farmhouse.
The idea of a change coming so fast that it overwhelms people is characterized in the very nature of the film’s central threat. The beleaguered heroes never have time to adjust to the new rules of survival, because of the overwhelming nature of the new enemy, the ghouls.
For example, early in the film, a ghoul slowly trudges into the farmhouse to menace Barbra, who, because of her PTSD, is unaware of its presence. Meanwhile, Ben fights two more ghouls right outside the door. He spots the ghoul threatening Barbra, and returns to kill it. But when he turns around after dispatching that threat, there’s another ghoul standing at the door.
And there are two more standing behind that one.
It is not that the zombies are fast or strong, it is that they keep coming, one after the other, and there is no end in sight. Life becomes a game of catch-up, trying to put out each little fire before another starts raging.
Those who saw TV reports of the Tet Offensive, the King and Kennedy assassinations, and the so-called “police riot” at the Chicago Convention might have felt in 1968 the same way as the film’s besieged heroes.
The danger and tragedy just kept coming, and all the old precepts about a ”law and order” society were jeopardized.
This context of fast-moving change is reflected in another way too. Night of the Living Dead opens with a brother and sister, Johnny and Barbra visiting the grave of their deceased father. Their plan is to lay a wreath on the site, but this plan is disrupted by the presence of a ghoul in the cemetery.
At least metaphorically this scene concerns the idea of the young generation showing respect for the older generation. The cemetery, not coincidentally, is prominently decorated with American flags, suggesting that war veterans are interred there.
But even that simple idea of respect for the older generation’s national service can’t be taken for granted in the counter-culture age. Johnny complains about visiting the grave, and Barbara chides him for his cynicism, and, specifically, for missing church. “I haven’t seen you in church lately,” she notes.
Johnny replies that he doesn’t go to church anymore because there isn’t any point to his attendance. The implication is that he lives a life outside one that the Establishment of 1968 would consider virtuous or right. The old answers aren’t working anymore.
Even the setting of Night of the Living Dead suggests a violent changing of the guard, or the changing of the times. Johnny and Barbara arrive at the cemetery on a Sunday night, at the end of Daylight Savings Time, or “the first [Sunday] after the change to autumn,” writes R.H.W. Dillard in Night of the Living Dead: It’s Not Like Just a Wind That’s Passing Through” (Gregory Waller, Ed., American Horrors, University of Illinois, 1987, page 17).
Dillard observes that “The season, with its overtones of dying away and approaching winter cold, is symbolically significant, as is the Sunday, which emphasizes the failure of religion in the secular age.”
Other moments in the film also suggest the 1968 generation gap or hippie/establishment divide. Karen — a ghoul — kills her mother because her mother won’t defend herself. Helen doesn’t understand the new order, that it is a kill or be killed world now, and that humans are but food for the ascending dead. Sibling also turns against sibling, vis-à-vis Johnny and Barbra
Once more, the notion is of the old social order falling away, and a new one attempting to replace it.
A viewer can also see how this idea plays out in the film’s racial struggle. Ben is resourceful, quick-thinking and protective of his peers. He becomes — though constantly challenged by Cooper — the (effective) leader of his group. But then the old order represented by the white, heavily armed posse dismisses him out-of-hand as part of the unruly new order (the zombie threat) based on his physical appearance, and kills him without a second thought. The upshot is that a heroic, intelligent black leader dies. So nothing changes. The old order (of racism) persists.
The times, they were a-changing…or were they?
The zombies or ghouls in Night of the Living Dead represent the appearance of change, but it is the old order that wins the day (at least until Dawn of the Dead…), re-asserting its authority in the film’s final moments. This notion is suggested by the film’s spiky visuals as well. Night of the Living Dead features cannibalism, long a taboo in mainstream films, and showcases the graphic demise of its heroes. It’s very content is thus a “threat” or challenge to long-standing Hollywood convention. But importantly, the rebellion — the night of the living dead itself — is put down.
Today, it is easy to gaze at separate elements of Night of the Living Dead and assess them as commentary on individual issues reflecting the Vietnam War, or the Civil Rights movement. In the final analysis, however, the film offers instead what one might term the unified theory of the chaotic year 1968.
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Muir Legacy at Pacific
John Muir (1838-1914) is arguably California's most important historical personality and the most widely recognized environmentalist in American history. Born in Dunbar, Scotland, Muir immigrated to the United States with his father and two siblings in 1849. After years of laboring on a Wisconsin farm, Muir turned his energies toward mechanical inventions but remained fascinated with "all things wild." That curiosity led to a lifetime of investigation of the natural world and the role humans play in using, conserving, and preserving natural resources.
Muir has often been described as the father of the modern conservation movement. He was that and more. John Muir was the first naturalist to cross the boundary between conservation and advocacy of preservation of species and places merely because they exist. He argued for preservation of flora, fauna and their habitats as essential to the health of the planet and to the souls of men, women, and children.
He also believed that rocks, trees, water, and air possess sentient properties deserving respect, scientific investigation, and most importantly, legal protection. A product of the nineteenth century, Muir's legacy flowered in the twentieth century as his philosophies, publications, and private papers came to be appreciated, studied, and widely disseminated.
Following his death in 1914, Muir's papers remained scattered among family members and his publishers. In time, some of these collections made their way into various institutions including the Bancroft Library, Huntington Library, and the University of Wisconsin.
Several of Muir's descendants attended University of the Pacific during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1970, the heirs of Muir's two daughters, Wanda Muir-Hanna and Helen Muir-Funk, entrusted University of the Pacific with the majority of John Muir's manuscripts and personal papers. That indefinite loan led to additional acquisitions, including most of Muir's personal library and a portion of his office furniture from his home in Martinez.
In 1986, with publication of a microfilm edition of Muir's Papers and a guide to the collection, the scholarly world at last possessed a tool to access the private, as well as the public John Muir. But no academic center existed to acknowledge Muir or to promote his legacy.
That changed in 1989, when the John Muir Center for Regional Studies was created within the College of the Pacific to foster a closer academic relationship between University of the Pacific and the larger community of scholars, students and citizens interested in John Muir and regional studies. The Center's broadest purpose was described by its first director, Ronald Limbaugh: "to promote the study of California and its impact upon the global community."
Limbaugh's vision of the Center built upon the rich legacy of the Muir family's bequest. Muir Center, in cooperation with Holt Atherton Special Collections within the University Library, continues to honor the close family connection to Pacific in promoting the good name and legacy of California and the world's champion of wild places—John Muir.
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Known for their vision and speed, Greyhounds are one of the most ancient breeds of dog known to man, according to the AKC. They’re tall, lean and can come in any color including black, fawn, red and brindle. While they have been historically used as hunters, Greyhounds are primarily used as companion dogs across the U.S. They enjoy the company of their families, as well as other dogs, according to the AKC, and require daily exercise. While Greyhounds also exhibit cat-like tendencies, it’s important to understand that each individual dog will have his or her own unique traits.
“Although these breeds might have a reputation for being cat-like, a lot comes down to the individual dog,” Peterson said. “It’s great to meet various examples of the breed to get a good idea of what the dogs are like and, of course, the best way to ensure a happy relationship with a dog is to work with a responsible breeder or reputable rescue group.”
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Person 2: What? You mean like Marc?
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June 12-14, 2012
Covasna gathers its Regional opening, training sessions, thematic workshops, study visits and Presidium meeting
Over 70 experts gathered in the Romanian region of Covasna during 12-14 June with the aim to share experiences on water management as well as water scarcity and drought situations. The event was considered by the European Commission as a satellite event of the Green Week due to the quality of its content and its direct link to Green Week’s this year theme “Every drop counts”. Moreover, the Covasna event was held in the framework of the WATER CoRe project within INTERREG IV C.
The event was structured in two different parts. The first, consisted in the presentation of good practices addressed to stakeholders in the region. The second, consisted in a meeting of WATER CoRe project parters, which focused on the development of the e-learning module.
The meeting with the stakeholders aimed to disseminate the WATER CoRe project results within Covasna region, and therefore, to increase both media and non-media awareness on sustainable water use. The target profile mostly consisted in local experts from different fields related to water management, although experts in other fields such as agriculture or education also took part in the event. The speakers presented water management practices, while different political leaders mentioned certain case studies and local projects.
Moreover, participants had the opportunity to take part in several study visits. In this sense, it was possible to see the most relevant cultural attractions of the city. As well, participants could join an agriculture related visit to a farm nearby the capital city of the County where different irrigation issues and practices were presented. At the County Hall, participants learnt several practices on water management, which were presented by a number of local experts in the field. Furthermore, partners could enjoy the untamed wild life of Covasna County by getting close to fine examples of the brown bear Ursus Arctos. The day ended at a unique place: Lake Saint Anna and the surrounding bog Mohos.
The meeting among project partners focused in the discussion and test of the e-learning module, which is currently under construction. Finally, project partners scheduled the next actions to be fulfilled before the completion of the project in April 2013.
This project is cofinanced by the ERDF and made possible by the INTERREG IVC programme
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Khloé Kardashian teams up with U by Kotex to join the ‘Declaration of Real Talk Campaign’ in NYC on Wednesday. Complete with a helmet and hammer in hand, Khloé worked hard to break down barriers and empower women to help them feel more comfortable talking about their periods!
Khloe also stopped by the Today show and chimed in on her sister Kim Kardashian. Khloe said ‘I pray she stays single. Kim goes from one relationship to the next. I think it’s just time to move on. It’s a good thing they never wed. It’s like ending on a good note.’ Khloe also stated that she can’t seem to let go of Lamar Odom. ‘We’re so in love. I’m a little — it’s a little obsessive.’
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A New Jersey vs. Phoenix Final.
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Yea the league has a fixed revenue stream from NBC regardless of viewers.
Btw, maybe I am a homer but the Devils seem like one of the most interesting teams atm. We are the most aggressive team left in the playoffs so defensive is no excuse and between the Kovalchuk fiasco, the failure last season, financial issues, and Parise as an upcoming UFA; I can't think of another team with so many story lines.
Forgot Brodeur; last chance to go out on top possibly.
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SPRINGFIELD – School officials who fail to report hazing could face criminal charges under legislation sponsored by State Senator Dan Kotowski that cleared the Illinois Senate on Tuesday.
“Those who witness these events and keep quiet are just as guilty as those who commit them,” said Kotowski, a Park Ridge Democrat.
As proposed, Kotowski’s legislation would make failure of school officials to report incidents of hazing to authorities a Class B misdemeanor, meaning up to six months in jail or a $1,500 fine.
Kotowski sponsored the proposed law in response to a hazing incident at a local school. Last fall, students on the Maine West High School soccer team in Des Plaines were found guilty and charged after sexually assaulting three freshman soccer players. Five coaches were fired or reassigned after the incident because they were present while this was taking place.
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Excellent full-day tour which covered the main sights in Beijing. Knowledgeable guide who genuinely enjoyed role and culture of the attractions. Although Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City could be reached easily alone, Summer Palace and Temple of Heaven more difficult to locate so this tour was invaluable. As with Great Wall tour, visit to 'tourist trap' shopping sites annoying but likely to subsidise the price.
Our tour picked us up at the hotel on time. It was just the two of us and one other woman on the tour. Our guide was full of information and talked almost non-stop. This was an extremely fast-paced tour. I would recommend this tour to people who only have a short time in Beijing because it crams a lot into on day. We first went to the Summer Palace and although we spent about 1.5 hours there, we only saw a fraction of it. You could easily spend an entire day there. The next stop was the Pearl Market where the showed us how pearls are made and opened an oyster. We were brought up to the next level where they wanted us to buy pearls. Afterwards, we were taken to the Temple of Heaven and spent about 45 minutes there. From there we went to lunch at a buffet. The food was not great. All of the dishes were vaguely labelled 'pork', 'chicken' and 'vegetable'. After lunch we were taken to the Silk Market. Another shopping experience where they showed you how silk is made. They let my boyfriend open up one of the cocoons, stretch the silk and help make a layer of a quilt. It was a fun experience and we did end up splurging on two silk quilts. After was Tiananmen Square. We only really saw it from across the street, but we were there long enough for photos. We went directly into the Forbidden City and again, we were there for over an hour, but only saw a small section of it. The guide walked very fast and we were exhausted by the end of the day. He was full of information and offered to take photos for us (which was the best part of being on such a small tour). There were a lot of people and panhandlers around the tourist attractions and having a mandarin speaking guide helped shoo them away faster. At the end of the tour, the guide offered to bring us to a cheap place for a foot massage. We were taken to a holistic medical school where we were given foot massages by students and the cost was whatever you tipped. Great tour even with the forced shopping stops.
Throughout my two week trip in China, I was most looking forward to the historical side of Beijing, primarily Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. I had learned a lot about China's history and it had always fascinated me. I truly wanted a private experience (where I could pester the guide with tons of questions) and this tour delivered! My guide was an expert on all things China and answered all my questions and gave me more insight than I had expected to receive. All at such a great price too!
Great tour at an unbeatable price! I'm so glad we chose this option. It was our first time in China and this was a great introduction for us. It covered all the basics - Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, Summer Palace and Forbidden City. It was the perfect mix between the must-see "tourist" attractions and cultural immersion we would not have been able to do on our own. Great sights, friendly people and amazing country!
My tour with Mr. Jimmy Li was an excellent 1 day tour. I appreciate that I was able to visit all three venues the same day-Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and the Great Wall. There were five other persons on this tour and it was a good group. Mr Li did a great lecture on each venue as well as answering questions. Our Chinese lunch was delicious and the jade and silk demonstrations were good. I would highly recommend this tour if you have only 1 day to spend in Beijing. The time at the Great Wall was adaquate as was the other venues. The transportation and driver was good as well. Thanks for the good communications on the meeting place and pick up time. Arrived back at my hotel on time.
very busy day started at the wall was very busy, then visited Tiananmen square and Forbidden City was brilliant so much history
This trip was fantastic. The adventure to both Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall was breathtaking. The experience was made so much better for the excellent local guide. An absolute definite if you're ever in these parts.
Jackie, our guide was excellent and the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall were amazing. Jackie's indepth knowledge of the Forbidden City was very much appreciated and I don't think we could have done this attraction by ourselves. Could have spent more time at the Great Wall and less time shopping. We were expecting one stop at the Jade factory but the Tea Shop and Silk Factory weren't mentioned in the itinerary when we booked. Overall, though a fantastic day if you want to truly explore these amazing icons.
Our tour of Beijing Essential Full-Day Tour including Great Wall at Badaling, Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square was wonderful! We had a great day where we were shown the major sights of the city plus a few extras like the silk and jade factories. I loved that all the entrance fees were included in the tour price. Also, the convenience of being picked up and dropped off at our hotel was greatly appreciated. I was slightly disappointed in the lunch, but that wasn't the main attraction, so I didn't dwell on it. Over all I would highly recommend this tour to a friend!
Tour was great, our guide was informative and funny. The Great Wall was amazing (must go again in spring time). Forbidden city and Tiananmen Square was an experience. No waiting in lines for passes, transport or security. Went to a silk house and tea house, interesting, but they try to sell things.
The Great Wall was the highlight and the tour overall was good. We would have liked more time understanding the significance of Tiananmen Square though. Overall a good way to see everything, well top 3 main sights if you only have one day.
The tour started at 7.00am. We went on one of the first days of the Chinese National holidays so everywhere was packed to capacity. At 7.30am we were standing in Tiananmen Square, overwhelmed by the number of locals that can gathered. The visit to the Forbidden City was good but limited in the sense that we did not really go into any of the internal "temples" as we walked through the F/City on the outer footpaths, which were still within the F/City so as to avoid the crowds. We arrived at the Summer Palace at 2.30pm by which time over 110,000 people had entered so that will give you a feel on numbers! Likewise, in order for the small party to keep together, we were constantly on the move, so little time to really look at anything. We visited a Chinese Medicine Hospital (waste of time), as well as a silk factory (quite interesting) and a pearl factory (great if you wanted to buy some very reasonable priced pearls). Obviously the latter three stops were purely there to part with some cash! Our guide, Mr Jacky Lee, was excellent as he took time to take photos of the couples in the group and he knew the best places to capture the photos so well done to him. Lunch provided was good. Apart from the crowds, a really good day was had by all.
Very busy day. We did not actually go into Tiananmen but viewed it from across the busy street. Our guide Mr Jackie Lee was very knowledgeable, and very enthusiastically pro-China. The Forbidden City and Temple of Heaven were jammed but we made the most of it
On the whole it was very good but I felt short-changed at Tiananmen Square. We basically walked across it without an commentary or getting to stop to look around. That could have partly been because of the weather which was very, very cold and windy. Thoroughly enjoyed the Forbidden City and Temple of Heaven. A little more time to explore on our own would have been nice and less time at the Silk Factory. The buffet was horrible. Thomas, our guide, was very informative and helpful.
There were supposed to be 5 people on this tour but 3 canceled so it ended up being just my husband and me! Our guide Tony spoke English fluently and was very knowledgeable! We didn't end up going to Badaling because it was a Sunday and a lot of people would be there so we went to a quieter part of the Great Wall instead although it was steeper to climb. We were given a choice and chose this one, the right choice I think but there was still quite a lot of people there! Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square were also great places to visit but be warned as there is about 4km worth of walking on this part. If you tire easily, especially after climbing the Great Wall, you might want to think about saving this visit for another day. We visited a jade, silk and cloisonne gallery which was interesting. No pressure to buy at all but we did grab some nice souvenirs!
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REEF TWA Advanced Assessment Team member, Rob McCall, has over 625 surveys under his belt and 281 fish species on his lifelist. But earlier this summer, during a dive in the Florida Keys, he found something that surprised him - the extremely rare Pugjaw Wormfish (Cerdale floridana). Here is his story -- Last June, while diving at Rock Key off Key West, I noticed a very slender (about the diameter of thin drinking straw) white fish about 6 cm long. I could see the fish had a rounded head but could not see dorsal or tail fins. The fish swam with a sinuous movement, much like an eel or worm, and dove into a burrow when it saw me. It did not immediately reappear and I soon swam off in search of other fish. That night I attempted to identify the mystery fish in my reference books, but was unable to get even a rough idea of what it might be.
Subsequent to the first sighting, I saw a similar fish on two other occasions at Rock Key. All sightings were within an area about 8 x 4 meters, with sand bottom bordered by high profile reef. On the second sighting, the fish dove into a burrow and did not reappear. On the third sighting, the fish immediately dove into a Yellowhead Jawfish burrow (the normal occupant was a male Yellowhead Jawfish who happened to be mouth-brooding eggs at the time; the jawfish was hovering above the burrow and did not seem particularly upset that the mystery fish “borrowed” his home.) The mystery fish did not reappear during the ten minutes or so I spent photographing the jawfish.
I stopped by REEF Headquarters in early August and asked Lad Akins, REEF Director of Special Projects, if he had any ideas to help me identify the fish. Based on my hazy description, Lad thought it might be a type of worm-eel. But when I researched online, it did not seem to be a good fit.
On August 22, while diving at Nine Foot Stake off Key West (and armed with my camera set up for macro) I came across one of the mystery fish – truly a case of me being in the right place at the right time. The fish was out in the open but dove into a nearby burrow – I don’t know if it was his or a “borrowed” one – when he saw me. I decided to wait a couple of minutes to see if it would reappear, and within a minute or two, it stuck its head back out. Over the next ten minutes it made several darting forays from the burrow, getting a little more used to me, or perhaps a little more desperate to get home. This fish seemed longer than the one(s) at Rock Key – perhaps 8 cm or so.
The four sightings shared some common features. All were at 20-24 ft. depth with sand bottom. Three of the four burrows were within 5-10 cm of small coral heads or rubble clumps. Dorsal and tail fins are visible in the photos; the fish is not actually as slender as it appears to the naked eye.
I was pretty well stumped over identifying what the fish was, even with photos, until one night I was re-reading Ned DeLoach and Paul Humman’s Reef Fish Behavior and under the article on Yellowhead Jawfish, I noticed a reference to Pugjaw Wormfish sharing a burrow with the jawfish. The next morning I researched it online and found a photo which appeared to be a very good match for my mystery fish.
We don’t know how rare the Pugjaw Wormfish might be, but according to the REEF database, they have been reported only five other times: one in Florida, one in Cuba and three in Bonaire. Convinced there are more Pugjaw’s waiting to make an appearance here in Key West, I’ve got the other instructors on our dive boat keeping their eyes open in the hopes that one of us will once again be in the right place at the right time.
Rob McCall is a scuba instructor in Key West and has been a REEF member and surveyor since 2000.
This is YOUR chance to turn a donation of $10 into much more for REEF. America's Giving Challenge is a 30-day competition (ends November 6th) that allows causes such as REEF to compete for cash awards by inspiring the most people to donate to their cause. We are asking all of our members to donate $10 (or more) online here sometime before the Challenge ends -- ideally on one of two target dates, Friday October 16th or Saturday October 24. If REEF is a challenge winner (meaning we receive the highest number, not amount, of donations) on any given day, we will be awarded $1,000.
The Challenge is administered through Causes on Facebook. However, anyone can donate -- you do not have to be on Facebook to donate. Click here to visit REEF's Cause. If you are on Facebook, we encourage you to invite your friends to support and donate to the cause as well. The objective of the Challenge is to enable passionate individuals and nonprofit organizations to easily leverage their social networks to increase awareness about their causes and attract people to get and stay involved with causes they care about. By encouraging people to give what they can-no matter how big or small, the Challenge seeks to demonstrate the potential of social networks to bring real people together to make a significant impact.
Participants in the Challenge will compete for daily and overall cash awards of up to $50,000 for the nonprofit organizations they care most about. Awards will be distributed based on the number of qualifying donations generated for a cause, not the total dollars raised. A unique daily donation is defined as one single donation per individual per day in the amount of $10 USD or more. Individuals can donate to the same cause once a day everyday during the Challenge and this would count 30 times towards helping the cause receive an Overall Award. This would also count towards the Daily Award for that cause every day. To find out more about America's Giving Challenge and Causes, visit the Causes website.
If even 10% of REEF's members donated to our Cause before the end of the Challenge, we would most certainly make it in the award category. So please go online and show your support for REEF's marine conservation work. We hope we can count on you!
Please go to REEF's Cause page -- donate $10 (or more) -- ideally on one of two target dates, Friday October 16th or Saturday October 24. Thank You!
West Coast Dive Shows - Visit REEF next month at SCUBA 2010 show in Long Beach (CA) on May 15-16 and the Dive & Travel Expo in Tacoma (WA) on May 22-23. REEF staff and volunteers will be there to tell you about our latest activities, have REEF gear and supplies for sale, and sign up new members.
New Field Stations - Welcome to our newest Field Stations who have joined us in the last month. Field Stations are shops, charters, instructors and organizations that support REEF in many ways - offering classes, REEF survey opportunities, stocking survey supplies, etc. For more information and to check out the other 170+ REEF Field Stations, go to the Field Station page on the REEF website.
Check out the REEF Online Store - This is the place to get all of your REEF gear, survey supplies, lionfish collection kits, and field guidebooks. The REEF Store is online here.
Approximately 100 divers collected 534 Indo-Pacific red lionfish during the first tournament dedicated to reducing the population of the invasive species in the Florida Keys waters. The September 11 tournament in Key Largo, organized by REEF and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, is the first of three Keys-based lionfish roundups. The event attracted 27 teams that competed for cash and prizes to collect the most, largest and smallest lionfish. The winning team captured 111 lionfish during the single day event. The largest lionfish caught measured in at just under 11 inches, and the smallest at less than two inches. Lionfish can grow to lengths of over 18 inches in western Atlantic waters where they are not native.
“The sanctuary is thrilled by the response from the dive community,” said Sanctuary Superintendent Sean Morton. “The volume of fish caught during this single day event demonstrates that dedicated diver removal efforts can be effective at helping keep this invasive at bay.”
Team “Raaw Talent,” from the Upper Keys and led by Captain Al Wilson, captured 111 lionfish and the grand prize of $1,000 for most lionfish. The “Lion Killers” of Islamorada and Marathon netted the largest lionfish, along with $500. And with the capture of the smallest lionfish, team “Full Circle from Key Dives” also caught themselves $500. Both teams “Raaw Talent” and “Full Circle” had been through REEF’s educational workshops on lionfish safety and handling and have been very active in reporting sightings to REEF and capturing lionfish for research purposes. These lionfish derbies are great events to reward those already involved in REEF’s lionfish control programs and to recruit more people to become active in lionfish control.
“The community participation in this event surpassed even our most generous expectations”, said REEF Director of Operations, Lad Akins. “Everyone came together for a great event, including sponsors, volunteers, organizers, and of course, the lionfish hunters. Even those who brought in a single fish contributed to the protection of our native marine life and deserve our thanks.”
Divers and snorkelers interested in participating for the remaining 2010 Keys lionfish tournaments may register online at www.reef.org/lionfish/derbies. The second lionfish derby will be held October 16 at Keys Fisheries Market and Marina in Marathon, FL. The third derby will be held November 13 at Hurricane Hole Marina, in Key West, FL. A $100 registration fee provides each team with a pair of puncture resistant gloves — important protection from lionfish spines — and two tickets to the tournament banquet. For more information on REEF's programs to study the lionfish invasion, go to www.REEF.org/lionfish
REEF is proud to partner with over 130 dive shops, dive clubs, individuals, and other organizations as REEF Field Stations.
This month we feature Eco-Dives in Key West, Florida, which has been a Field Station since 2010. Eco-Dives owner, Rob McCall, is fascinated by learning and finding new species and enjoys sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm with others. Rob has been a REEF surveyor since 2001 so it was a natural to incorporate REEF into his business. Eco-Dives primarily teaches advanced open-water scuba certifications because it enables them to focus on fun courses such as underwater photography and the REEF Fish ID specialty. Eco-dives was also one of the first dive operators to offer a Lionfish Diver specialty that teaches divers the basics of the lionfish invasion, why it is so detrimental to our reefs, and how to report sightings.
“Out of 775 REEF survey dives and countless other dives with students, the most unusual fish we have found on our dives has been a pugjaw wormfish.” says Rob. Fortunately Rob was able to snap a couple pictures of it to confirm the identification of such a unique fish. Rob's sighting was only the sixth time that species had ever been reported on a REEF survey.
Although Key West is not known for its pristine reefs, Rob says the dive sites are convenient, the reefs are well-populated with small-to-medium size fish, and they have mature wrecks with plenty of big fish. The newest addition to the armada of artificial reefs in the Keys, the Vandenberg, is a great dive and a fish magnet. REEF has been monitoring the Vandenberg since it was sunk and Rob has been a great help on a number of the Advanced Assessment Team (AAT) surveys documenting reef fish recruitment over time.
Rob says that he "really enjoys working with REEF surveyors; they are always so enthusiastic. Doing surveys has made me look much harder at fish, looking for distinguishing features so I can identify them. This results in you seeing so much more during a dive."
Thanks to everyone who donated during our Summer Campaign, you helped us reach our goal. REEF members contributed over $34,770, with a generous match of $30,000 from the Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation, for a grand total of $64,770. REEF will use these donations to maintain our current programs and expand our special projects, the Grouper Moon Project and the Lionfish Research Program. Donations from our members make it possible for REEF to carry out our mission of conserving marine ecosystems. Thank you!
Don't forget to check out the 2012 REEF Field Survey Trips! The schedule and more details are posted online at www.REEF.org/trips. We have an exciting lineup of destinations planned and we hope you will join us. Many are starting to fill up so don't delay.
Have you checked out our new innovative online Fish Identification "Fishinars"(aka webinars)? These fun and short (45 minute) sessions are a great way to learn marine life ID from the comfort of your home. And they are free. The schedule is available at www.reef.org/resources/webinars. We are always adding more sessions, so check back often.
REEF is proud to partner with over 130 dive shops, dive clubs, individuals, and other organizations as REEF Field Stations. Our fintastically outstanding field station this month is the Maui FIN (Fish Identification Network) group in Hawaii. This enthusiastic group of divers and snorkelers has been going strong for years. They meet on the 2nd Saturday of each month to conduct surveys at different spots around Maui. After introducing REEF to the Hawaiian Islands 10 years ago, Donna Brown and Liz Foote (who taught our online Hawaiian Fishinar last week), started building a team of enthusiastic fish surveyors. It was out of that enthusiasm that surveyor Mike Fausnaugh started the FIN group. Flo Bahr and Rick Long have been longtime active leaders of the group. When snorkeling, they all put orange duct tape at the tops of their snorkels. This helps the group find each other while in the water, as well as make them easy to spot from the beach. Tourists also ask about what they're doing and this helps show how many are out there doing REEF surveys. In addition to the monthly FIN survey dives, they maintain a Facebook page for the group that serves as a great communication tool. Through the Facebook page, they organize their next survey spots, share zone codes, spread announcements, and post photos and mystery fish questions. Keep up the enthusiastic surveying, FINsters!
This summer REEF, in partnership with Divers Direct and SeaGrant Florida, hosted its third annual Lionfish Derby Series. The series included four derbies in Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Key Largo) and one in Green Turtle Key, Bahamas. The event series was a huge success—in total, 219 participants in 60 teams brought in a total of 2,694 lionfish! Lionfish are invasive predators capable of consuming prey in excess of half their body size and have become a hazard to Caribbean reefs by consuming commercially, recreationally and ecologically important fish and crustaceans. Using published estimates of lionfish consumption, the removal of the 1,923 lionfish collected in the Florida derbies corresponds to preventing between approximately 3.5 million to 14.8 million prey fish from being eaten by these lionfish over the next year.
Lionfish derbies serve as a way to engage the public and media, enhance awareness, encourage removals and provide samples for researchers. During each the derby over $3,500 in cash prizes sponsored by Divers Direct were awarded to first, second, and third place winners in three categories: Most, Largest, and Smallest.
Since their introduction in the 1980’s, invasive lionfish have become the first marine predator to successfully establish in the Tropical Western Atlantic. Unfortunately, complete eradication of lionfish is unlikely, but where removal efforts are sustained, population numbers and impacts can be reduced. REEF and Simon Fraser University partnered throughout the 2012 Derby Series to conduct research on the effectiveness of derbies in controlling local populations. Preliminary data analysis from the 2012 Green Turtle Key, Bahamas, Derby shows that lionfish derbies are effective at removing 65% of lionfish off of local reefs. The Derby Series is one of the many ways REEF is promoting lionfish control. A big thank you goes out to the derby sponsors, hosts, teams and everyone who came out to support the events. To find out more about the REEF Invasive Lionfish Program, including the derby series, visit www.REEF.org/lionfish. You can also follow all of our lionfish news through our Lionfish Facebook page.
More than sixty people gathered earlier this month at the Fish House Encore in Key Largo, Florida, for Lionfish Food and Wine Night. Before dining, event attendees learned about the lionfish invasion and the importance of removing lionfish from marine environments. Peter Tselikis, chef at Fish House Encore, showed the audience how to cook two popular lionfish dishes. Lad Akins, a renowned lionfish expert and REEF Director of Special Projects, taught the audience how to fillet lionfish, avoiding the venomous spines.
The invasive species, known for their voracious appetites and rapid reproduction, was prepared four different ways with a creative medley of ingredients and wine selections. Entrées included bacon-wrapped barbeque lionfish, sea salt-cured lionfish ceviche, and poached lionfish. Many guests said their favorite dish was Lionfish Bermuda, a lionfish fillet encrusted with fried red onions and Japanese breadcrumbs, baked and served with a sweet and sour sauce atop baby arugula salad.
“It’s exciting to see such strong public and commercial interest in consuming lionfish,” says Akins. “Developing a market for lionfish is a great way to provide incentive for increased removals. Even non-divers can make a real impact, by ordering the fish at their local restaurants, helping to decrease lionfish populations and minimize their impacts.”
Lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific and Red Sea, have now invaded the Western Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico. In the invaded range, they have been documented to be gluttonous predators of native fish and invertebrates. One published study co-authored by Akins (Green et al. 2012) shows lionfish reduced the native fish prey community at some sites in the Bahamas by an average of 65% in just two years. Some sites had a 95% decline. Despite the dismal outlook, there is good news. Published studies show local control by divers and fishers can be effective, Akins notes. “Removing lionfish from local reefs is like weeding a garden. Remove weeds and the garden is healthier. Remove lionfish and the reefs are healthier. The key is regular removals, year round.”
For more information on REEF's Invasive Lionfish Program, visit www.REEF.org/lionfish. Creative lionfish recipes, as well as information on catching, cleaning, and cooking lionfish, can be found in the Lionfish Cookbook available on the REEF Store.
REEF Field Surveys are a great way to take a dive vacation that counts! We offer trips throughout our project regions. The 2014 trip schedule includes many sites in the Caribbean and Pacific Northwest, as well as several Lionfish Research Expeditions.
One of our featured destinations in 2014 -- Honduras aboard the MV Caribbean Pearl II Liveaboard, June 21-28, 2014. REEF's Director of Science, Dr. Christy Pattengill-Semmens, and her husband and reef fish scientist, Dr. Brice Semmens, will lead a great week of diving, learning, and fun! We'll spend the week cruising around the Bay Islands of Honduras aboard the luxurious MV Caribbean Pearl II. We will begin our diving journey in Utila, then explore hidden sea mounts and search for whale sharks enroute to Roatan. After diving in Roatan we will head back to the home port on Utila. The week ends with a walk around the charming town of Utila. The trip costs $2,610 per diver double occupancy, and includes lodging for 7 nights in a Deluxe Cabin with private bathroom, unlimited diving, and all meals and drinks while on board. An additional REEF Program Fee of $300 is added to cover the program costs, seminars, and survey materials. Click here to find out more about this trip. Or visit the REEF Trips page at www.REEF.org/trips to see the complete schedule.
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“The commission’s chief administrative law judge, Paul Luckern, had ruled in January that the iPhone and the BlackBerry do not violate Kodak’s patent. On appeal, the commission asked Luckern in late June to take another look,” Dobbin reports. “Yet Kodak’s failure to score an outright victory heightened worries on Wall Street about whether the maker of cameras, film and printers will be able to cross back quickly enough into a reliably profitable company.”
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“Mining its rich array of inventions has become indispensable in Kodak’s push to reverse four years of losses and return to profitability in 2012,” Dobbin reports. “After failed negotiations, Kodak filed a complaint with the commission in January 2010 against Apple, of Cupertino, Calif., and RIM, of Waterloo, Canada. It also filed two lawsuits against Apple in U.S. District Court in Rochester, but it has not specified the damages it is seeking. Both lawsuits are still pending. In a counterclaim three months later, Apple argued that some Kodak still and video camera products violate two of Apple’s patents.”
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The actor is the subject of this week's New York Magazine cover story, in which he delivers a string of stinging insults to Anderson Cooper, all of MSNBC, Shia LaBeouf, and many more
Alec Baldwin is leaving public life, but not before using a magazine cover story to rip apart everyone he feels has wronged him.
(Also, he's not really leaving public life, because he'll still act and do commercials and appearances, but that's neither here nor there at the moment.)
In a blistering rant that covers this week's “New York” magazine, Baldwin takes aim at those that he believes are responsible for a 2013 filled with blowups, which culminated in his making an alleged homophobic slur against a paparazzo. It led to the cancellation of his fledgling MSNBC talk show.
Here are Baldwin's chief 11 targets (the entire article is at New York Magazine):
Anderson Cooper and Andrew Sullivan: Baldwin says the CNN anchor and leading blogger are leaders of the “Gay Department of Justice.” He later names Cooper “the self-appointed Jack Valenti of gay media culture.” Baldwin had already faulted Sullivan (and GLAAD) in November for his show's cancellation.
Shia LaBeouf and Dan Sullivan: His collaborators on the ill-fated Broadway run of “Orphans,” at least until his disagreement with LaBeouf (who has “a jailhouse mentality wherever he goes,” Baldwin says) got the “Transformers” actor and plagiarist/performance artist fired. Baldwin also claims that Sullivan, who directed the play, two-timed him, and ultimately lost interest in “directing the show at all.”
MSNBC: Baldwin reserves much of his venom for the left-leaning cable news network, which he says was not a good fit for his talk show ambitions. Joe Scarborough, he says, is “neither eloquent nor funny,” while Mika Brezezinski, the “Morning Joe” co-host, is the “Margaret Dumont of cable news.” Rachel Maddow, the network's star, is “a phony who doesn’t have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air.” He also says MSNBC chief Phil Griffin “couldn’t give a flying fuck about content.”
Harvey Levin: According to Baldwin, the TMZ chief is the man who convinced the world that Baldwin used a homophobic slur against a photographer (a charge Baldwin vehemently denies). Levin, he says, is a “cretinous barnacle on the press.”
The Huffington Post: Of the website for whom he used to blog, Baldwin says, ”They’ve gotta have clicks for their advertisers, so they’re going to need as much Kim Kardashian and wardrobe malfunctions as possible. The other day, they had a thing on the home page about pimples. Tripe.”
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In conjunction with National Voter Registration Day, the office of Cook County Clerk David Orr has organized a countywide voter registration effort at courthouses in suburban Chicago.
To kick off the nonpartisan voter registration drive, Orr, along with County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Commssioner Elizabeth Doody Gorman and volunteer deputy registrars, will be on hand at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Markham Courthouse, 16501 S. Kedzie Ave., Room 238, in Markham.
Eligible voters can register between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at any suburban Cook County courthouse (See list below). To register, prospective voters should bring two pieces of identification, including one that displays a current address.
Across the country more than 700 groups in all 50 states are participating in National Voter Registration Day. The effort’s website, NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org, promotes the project’s goal – to encourage voter registration and civic engagement.
Here is a list of suburban Cook County courthouses and their phone numbers:
- Second Municipal District Courthouse, 5600 Old Orchard Road, Room 136, Skokie; 847-470-7250
- Third Municipal District Courthouse, 2121 Euclid Ave., Room 121, Rolling Meadows; 847-818-3000
- Fourth Municipal District Courthouse, 1500 Maybrook Ave., Room 236, Maywood; 708-865-6040
- Fifth Municipal District Courthouse, 10220 South 76th Ave., Room 121, Bridgeview; 708-974-6500
- Sixth Municipal District Courthouse, 16501 South Kedzie Pkwy., Markham; 708-210-4488
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- I still don't get why people call her fat when she's relatively the same size as the other actresses...where is the fat?
- her thighs are huge!! has she not heard of bulimia?
- Does she have a thyroid condition?
- Cunts, the lot of you.
- She's a COW
- Who the fuck is Jennifer Lawrence?
- here r6....
- Niels Bohr! Thanks.
- What a cow!
- Saw her last night in Silver Linings Playbook and she was terrific. So was the whole movie.
- yes r9 agreed she does look like a cow. At least the long gowns cover her thunder thighs.
- I think she's hot. Love her curves instead of the anorexic LeAnn's out there.
- OP is on a meth binge. On the PA Attorny General thread he said all Pennsylvanians should walled up and gassed.
- NY Mag Oscar Futures have declared her the front runner.
- I hate that fat bitch.
- I'm not doubting she's a good actress.
But let's get real.
She is the frontrunner because she is young, white, pretty, a box office darling, and American.
She's running against Emmanuelle Riva and Marion Cotillard who are infinitely more deserving.
- You haven't even seen the movie so, as usual, you don't know what you're talking about, r16. Your opinions are worthless. They always are.
- Yes, my opinion is worthless considering I predicted Meryl's win months in advance, against the hysterical crowd who was DEAD CERTAIN precious Viola Davis totally had it in the bag.
If anyone is well-placed to make predictions, it is me.
Btw, I'm not even saying JL won't win. I do believe she will win. I can live with that. She's a good actress, just not as good as her competition this year.
And I have seen Amour.
Haven't seen the Cotillard film yet, but her performance was raved about in Cannes. Enough evidence for me.
No, I don't believe you need to have seen every film to make predictions. You just need to be good at it - and I am.
- She looks like Ivanka Trump in r9's pic.
- she's not fat just curvy,at least she's not a anorexic,lollipop like all the other it girls out there.!!
- Am I the only one who thought she was OK in Winter's Bone, but nothing spectacular? In fact, I thought she carried a single serious facial expression through most of the film. She was, also, chunky in the film. She's lost a lot of weight since, so it's total bullshit that she's not into being slim.
- She's probably a size 4.
Only someone with body dysmorphic disorder would think that is fat.
- "It is me..."?
- I think she gained for Winter's Bone.
- She was good in Winter's Bone
Has anyone seen the Silver Linings movie?
- I'm watching X-Men: First Class and she's wearing a mini skirt. Her body is just fine, including her thighs.
- Of course her body is fine, it amazes me when people take the silly cuntiness seriously. Just posters trying to be funny and give this place its character.
- I'm going to ignore the fat word and just go ahead and say there is no 'may' win an Oscar for this chick. She'll have a couple in the bag in no time.
- Straight guy here. Jennifer Lawrence is incredibly fuckable.
- [quote]Yes, my opinion is worthless considering I predicted Meryl's win months in advance, against the hysterical crowd who was DEAD CERTAIN precious Viola Davis totally had it in the bag.
Meryl loon "predicted" it without ever seeing the movie first. Hate to tell you this dear, but most people thought it would be either Davis or Streep so predicting her wasn't anything special you poor deluded panty stain.
[quote]And I have seen Amour. Haven't seen the Cotillard film yet, but her performance was raved about in Cannes. Enough evidence for me.
No you haven't but thanks for playing.
[quote]No, I don't believe you need to have seen every film to make predictions. You just need to be good at it - and I am.
No you aren't but again thanks for playing.
- [quote]Only someone with body dysmorphic disorder would think that is fat.
Or someone who wishes he had that body.
- You gaggle of fags wish you looked that good.
- Great, call her fat. Buy into the disease and denigrate this gorgeous, talented young actress.
The shallow and misguided bullshit emerging from DL lately!
- "Lately"? Oh honey!
- I am told Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, and Robert De Niro are all potential Oscar nominees for Silver Linings Playbook. I won't see it at the theatre. I'll see it as a rental.
It's about time Robert did something decent. His film choices have been atrocious the past, oh, twenty years or so. Garbage, really. I don't like Bradley Cooper. He does nothing for me. He looks like a smug smartass no matter what he is doing.
Jennifer Lawrence borders on being overweight. I noticed that about her last time she got nominated for an Oscar. She was voluptuous. But I liked her in Winter's Bone, and saw her in the Hunger Games which I was surprised at. I enjoyed it. Didn't expect to.
- So overweight she's now the new face of Dior.
- She is stunning!
- "Jennifer Lawrence borders on being overweight"
According to whom - skeletor?
- "Jennifer Lawrence borders on being overweight."
Anna Wintour! Welcome to the Datalounge!
Seriously, that girl is very slender, probably underweight by medical standards. She has lovely hourglass porportions, so she photographs as voluptuous, but anyone who thinks she's fat has no idea what a healthy female body looks like.
- R35 sounds like a 65-year-old woman.
- On the set of the next HG movie. She's dropped a few lbs.
- r39 sounds fat too
- [quote]According to whom - skeletor?
Skeletor was actually quite beefy outside of the face. Lawrence is the opposite - pretty slim in the body, round and chubby in the face.
- Jennifer's face isn't all that round.
- I'll admit I may have put on a pound or two, here and there, but you people talk like I should be ordering fabric at Georgia Tent and Awning.
- Jennifer is very sexy. Her figure is very attractive. Nothing fat about her.
- She's really hot in this clip in Silver Linings with Bradley Cooper
- Jennifer Lawrence is a beautiful girl, and is certainly NOT fat! Jennifer also supports her gays, so stop with the fat comments!
- Jennifer Lawrence: By Hollywood standards, I’m considered ‘obese’
Fri, 9 Nov, 2012
Jennifer Lawrence may star in "The Hunger Games," but she vows that she will never engage in extreme dieting just to fit into Hollywood's rail-thin world.
In a new interview with Elle, the statuesque 22-year-old gets candid about the unattainable body standards in showbiz, revealing that, among her peers in the industry, she is inexplicably thought of as someone who is overweight. "In Hollywood, I'm obese," notes the Kentucky native. "I'm considered a fat actress." To make her point she adds, "I'm Val Kilmer in that one picture on the beach," referring to the 2007 photo of the actor in his bathing suit, which generated a slew of nasty headlines. She then goes on to talk about her food habits, saying, "I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress who doesn't have anorexia rumors."
- When do you think I'll get my oscar? By 2020?
- Right now she's considered the one to beat, R50. Two Oscar noms by 22 ain't bad.
- 2015 or sooner.
- She's getting it this year for the Silver Linings thing.
- she looks to me like a size four
- I love Jennifer so much, and she also loves her gays...please, give her the Oscar!!!
- [quote]Jennifer Lawrence may star in "The Hunger Games," but she vows that she will never engage in extreme dieting just to fit into Hollywood's rail-thin world.
bad idea....no one wants to watch a fat girl.
- Jennifer at the Hollywood Film Awards. Jodie Foster introduces her.
She's a tall, not slight, woman. Probably a 6/8, but perfect for her.
- A little zaftig.
- On the Letterman show from 2011 with dark hair. She reminds me a little of Emily Deschanel.
- Thank god she didn't get the role of Bella in Twilight. It might have ruined her career.
- I agree, R60
- [quote]Yes, my opinion is worthless considering I predicted Meryl's win months in advance
Oh big deal. You predict her every single year for every single film. Last year you even predicted her again for HOPE SPRINGS this year.
- Most straight men are not into rail thin women. Gay men must be running Hollywood.
- I think she has a brand new case of trout lip. Tsk, tsk...
- Her old lips:
- Bangs suit her.
- No chance. Quvenzhané Wallis has a lock on the Best Actress trophy. Case closed.
- Jennifer Lawrence is not fat. She is hot. She is also a very good actress still learning her craft so she will also improve.
- My doctor put me on Quvenzhané for my depression.
- Kristen Stewart is seething with jealousy!
- She's a bit young isn't she for a lead Oscar? Has a long career in front of her with a lot of opportunities. I dont think she's going anywhere in the near future. Would they really give it to her this early on?
- R25, R10, Just saw Silver Linings Playbook at a critics' screening. Jennifer almost stole the movie. Funny&dark rom/com.
- This is probably the fattest thread on all of DL, poster-wise. Hopefully you food addicts will swarm here and not fat up the rest of the threads.
- And Oscar does not guarantee longevity. She can get one early but that doesn't mean she will have a 40 year career. The way its going, every actor is replaceable now.
- And = An
- She's got another Oscar bait role next year with Serena, also starring Bradley Cooper. Plus the Glass Castle has potential too. She's going to be around for a long time.
- On Leno talking about how she got into an accident.
- On Ellen she talked about her mom voting her Oscar ballot and being a member of the Academy.
- Jennifer once said that her mom was like Dina Lohan but iwith good taste.
- She seems to be in a sweet spot now when she can play anywhere from 18 to 30.
- Jennifer can look forward to a long career of playing opposite actors much older than she is.
- She is gorgeous.
I've only seen her in The Hunger Games. She had the perfect figure in that, and her acting was fine.
- Jennifer Lawrence was born to play Katness Evergreen in The Hunger Games...she's FABULOUS!
- [quote]Thank god she didn't get the role of Bella in Twilight. It might have ruined her career.
However, she might have improved the movie, because she is a better actress than Stewart.
- I've seen her in movies and I still can't remember what she looks like outside of what her character looked in the movie. She's good at changing up her look?
- [quote]On Ellen she talked about her mom voting her Oscar ballot and being a member of the Academy.
That pissed me off! Makes me hate her mother. I did not find it endearing.
- She was too curvy for the Hunger Games role but she has a fantastic body in general. Not for the character of Katniss who we read over and over again was thin thin thin due to only eating the small game she hunted.
love JL, just not as Katniss
- In a bikini yesterday. She has a small waist and a full behind.
- A few more - and some with her brother! Good genes run in that family.
- Is she dropped 20# she would be smoking hot.
- R90 - She doesn't need to lose a pound. She basically has Claire Dane's body but with a full chest.
- She truly has the perfect hourglass figure.
I used to give the "Jennifer is fat" trolls the benefit of the doubt and would charitably assuume they were sending up Hollywood culture, but now I think their view of women's bodies really is that warped.
- If Quvenzhané Wallis wins, it will be the best story of the Oscars. It's the one cool WTF moment when you first learn about it.
The rest of that Goldderby list is bizarre...
Affleck as Best Director?
Les Mis as Best Picture?
- If Quvenzhane Wallis and Denzel don't win, there gon' be riots in Compton, Harlem and Detroit, I'm tellin' you that.
- Jennifer Lawrence is a fat bitch and her pussy stinks.
- Jennifer's body is phenomenal, but her brother proves that she's genetically predisposed to being a little chubby if she's not careful.
- This thread is warped. This woman has the perfect figure.
It's the likes of Kiera Knightley who have unappealing figures and who probably inadvertently encourage eating disorders in teenage girls.
- [r90] must be mentally ill. Some gay men think anorexic is hot, apparently. Lawrence has a killer body, most straight men and mentally healthy women would agree.
- Jennifer Lawrence made a scene at the ceremony last time she was nominated because the Governors ball didn't serve pork rinds.
- More pics of Jennifer and her brother.
- Scene of JL in the Bill Engvall show
- She's not going to win the Oscar, though she will be nominated.
- The ONTD crowd are mad at Jennifer because she said on the Ellen show that she named her cat Chaz Bono because the cat is a female with 'masculine energy'.
So now they've labeled her transphobic.
- That's kind of hilarious, R103. What did Ellen say?
- What was the audience response?
- Named Most Desirable Woman by Ask Men.
- Anything new?
- She looks great on the cover of Vanity Fair.
Who ever is running her career is really doing a great job.
- She's not fat but she doesn't have a very pretty face. Eyes too close together and chipmunk cheeks. I hate that every starlet now is called a beauty whether they are or not. Let's just say she's attractive and leave it at that.
- She was terrific in Silver Lining... And if she is a cow then cows are beautiful.
- She's not the frontrunner. Her heat died weeks ago. It's all about Emanuelle Riva and Amour now.
- Riva will be lucky to get nominated. Right now the frontrunners are Jennifer Lawrence and Jessica Chastain.
- The Emanuelle Riva who failed to get Golden Globe/SAG nominations?
I loved "Amour" and think that Riva gave the best female performance that I've seen this year (haven't seen Silver Linings or Zero Dark Thirty) but her buzz is fading. It's still a Chastain vs Lawrence race with Naomi Watts as a possible spoiler, at least for now.
And I'm 90% sure that "Amour" will lose to "The Intouchables".
- Just saw SLP and Jennifer is NOT fat. OP is one crazy bitch.
A few scenes don't work but overall loved LOVED movie. It will be a shame if Bradley is not nominated. He's just as good as she is...
- Saw Silver Linings Playbook this afternoon. She was awfully good.
- She's the anti-Kstew. Thank god.
- I can't stop thinking about Silver Linings Playbook which is a sign of a great movie. I hope that floozy from Zero Dark Thirty doesn't win (haven't seen it yet and I loved JC in The Help).
Can someone please tell how the ending in the book and movie are different?
LIK (currently in IN)
- She's hosting SNL on January 19th.
- Some of you people are awful! While she has no clue or even cares who you are here you are taking time out of your day to bash her. Keep hating and being jealous as she wins an Oscar! Sorry some of you are probably untalented wannabes. Go Jennifer you are beautiful and talented!!!
- Why do people keep calling Jennifer Lawrence FAT? She supports her gay fans, so be respectful!
- I just saw Silver Linings Playbook, and Jennifer was horribly brilliant.
A well deserved nomination.
- OP = Lara Flynn Boyle
- She quoted the First Wives Club in her Golden Globes acception speech. How can you hate on that?
- She ain't winning it. It's Chastain's to win at this point, with a possible upset by Riva or Wallis.
R123 How do you know she quoted the film? "I beat Meryl" isn't exactly unique. Her whole speech in fact was rather blah.
- "What does it say, 'I beat Meryl,'" is what Jennifer said when she stepped on stage.
It turns out, the talented young actress was actually quoting 1996's "The First Wives Club."
In the film, Bette Midler's character says to Goldie Hawn's character, "Once you were a terrific actress. You even got an Oscar to prove it." Bette's character sees and touches the golden statue in the scene, saying, "'I beat Meryl.' That's what it says."
- Chastain and Lawrence weren't competiting against each other last night. Lawrence is still the front-runner to win the Oscar, and her speech came off very likeable and genuine.
You could say Riva deserves it more, but Lawrence definitely deserves it more than Chastain's performance in Zero Dark Thirty which didn't require any exceptional acting.
- "but Lawrence definitely deserves it more than Chastain's performance in Zero Dark Thirty which didn't require any exceptional acting."
Playing an obnoxious cow doesn't require any acting either, dear. And it obviously isn't a stretch for her after seeing her last night.
That shout out to Weinstein was interesting, to say the least. She wouldn't have even had the role had Hathaway not turned it down.
- She looks really cute here!
- AnnE would have been insufferable in SLP.
- I am not sad to be dying soon. Another generation of - how do you say it - twots? twets? It is something like that.
- She's not fat OP - she's fine and a great actress.
- Jennifer will not suffer the Oscar curse, we all know she has at least 2 movies coming out that will be hits...
- Jennifer Lawrence is beautiful and extremely talented!, she is not fat at all, and even if she was you have no right to say that about anyone! shame on you! imagine how that could affect someone.
- She knows. Howard Stern on fat Jennifer...."she could work out more"
- She has pneumonia.
- Is she gay?
- Only if she's a man R136.Llooking at her it is a possibility.
- Girl has no filter
- Women aren't meant to look like teenage boys, you asshat. She's so not fat.
- Hmmm I didn't know Anne Hathaway turned down SLP. She would've been interesting and more age appropriate, but J Law did kill it in that movie. She's definitely got something.
I guess this is ageist, but I'd love to see Chastain or Watts take the Oscar. Jennifer Lawrence is so very young. It may be way too much, too soon. But what I will say is that she's the closest we've come to a new Julia Roberts in a really, really long time.
Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty was good, but it was more of a tightly controlled character study and it was a character that was very hard to connect to.
- Chastain was good I guess, but Maya was sort of a meh character. There wasn't much for Chastain to do, and it doesn't really strike me as an Oscar-winning role.
- " But what I will say is that she's the closest we've come to a new Julia Roberts in a really, really long time."
R140 - I don't think JL is the new JR. I'd say she's more like Kate Winslet at the same age.
- No, r142 I think my JR comparison is valid.
J Law, while I love her, is simply not at Kate Winslet's talent level at this age or any age. And as much as I love Kate Winslet, I could not see her as the credible lead of a cute, bubbly romantic comedy, something that Jennifer Lawrence could probably do in her sleep.
Julia Roberts was so big in her heyday because she did both dramatic stuff and really good comedies. No great actress for sure, but she had star quality that doesn't come around very often. I feel the same way about Jennifer Lawrence. I don't think she's this amazing actress, but she's got major star quality, great instincts, and a spark on camera.
I know romantic comedies have killed many a young actresses career in the past decade, but I wish someone would find a really good one for JL to do. It would be an enormous hit.
- On Conan, about her lusting after John Stamos
- You are all fucking idiots. Jennifer Lawrence is gorgeous. I'm much rather have her riding my cock then some stick twig whose pussy will break because of the impacts of bulimia, drugs, and smoking.
- She is not fat!!
J.L. is a healthy, beutiful, talented, young woman!!!
Leave her alone!!
- I love the hat!
- Well, she did!
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A few minutes after 3 a.m., Vacaville police officers were dispatched to the 1000 block of Leisure Town Road, where a distraught female had entered a local business. She claimed that her boyfriend was going to kill her, Sgt. Scott Whitehouse said in a press release issued Saturday.
When officers arrived in the area, they saw the suspect, Derrick Gi, 45, of Sacramento, leaving the business' parking lot at high speeds. Officers tried to stop Gi, who had entered eastbound Interstate 80. He sped away in an attempt to escape from officers. He eventually drove off the freeway and onto Weber Road, continuing to travel at high speeds.
Gi eventually lost control of his vehicle at the intersection of Pitt School and Weber roads, where the vehicle was found upside down in a water canal.
According to the police report, officers safely removed Gi from the vehicle, and he was eventually taken to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Vacaville with minor injuries.
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Chef Michael Mina’s 14th restaurant anchors the eastern edge of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, and offers a party-style array of small plates (pop
Just around the corner from Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, one finds a very Western boîte from the French-cuisine powerhouse Daniel Boulud.
Named for the Super Tuscan wine that the Frescobaldi family of Florence, Italy, produces in partnership with the Mondavi family of Napa Valle
Chef Douglas Keane's menu uses local ingredients—plums from Santa Rosa, farmhouse cheeses from Sonoma—to world-class effect.
Alain Ducasse promised that Adour, which he named after a river in the region of France where he was raised, would emphasize wine and would n
Carnevino, located inside the Palazzo hotel in Las Vegas, is Mario Batali’s 13th restaurant and first steak house.
French chef Alain Ducasse would never permit mediocrity in any of his establishments; Le Jules Verne, located 410 feet above Paris on the sec
Mathias Dahlgren, which opened in May 2007 in Stockholm’s Grand Hotel, is in fact two restaurants.
Executive chef Gabriel Kreuther’s interpretation of modern French cuisine includes sophisticated and satisfying dishes such as ravioli of esc
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Mud was very well-received by a packed house at the Paramount Theatre for its Regional Premiere at Austin's SXSW Film Festival. The crowd particularly loved local favorites director Jeff Nichols and the always shape-shifting Matthew McConaughey. (How is it possible that McConaughey hasn't even been nominated for an Oscar yet?) Mud is a charming, entrancing film that has almost lyrical quality as it unfolds along the rural backwoods of Arkansas's Mississippi River. The story revolves around the adventures of two young teenage boys who meet a mysterious drifter appropriately named Mud.
Mud is hiding out an island in the Mississippi River awaiting the arrival of his beloved Juniper. The story has elements of drama, thriller, and romance. While the film is slightly too long and the story has a few unnecessary and distracting subplots, its overall eloquence and is absorbing. So like the Mississippi, the story meanders a little too much.
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"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."
— Amy Poehler (via lazy-balloons)
"Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: ‘When will I be blown up?’ I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."
"I cry with regularity, and I don’t mind a bit. I cried last night during rehearsal for this beautiful play Annapurna, by Sharr White, that Megan and I are doing in LA. I consistently cried at the curt but heartfelt life advice dispensed by Coach Eric Taylor. I cried when Ashton Kutcher came back to television. For all of us. For shame."
— Nick Offerman on crying.
"Okay, Houston. Standing here in Hadley, in the midst of miracles unknown, I am aware that there is a fundamental truth of our nature. Man must explore, and it is - research in the greatest sense."
— Commander David Scott, Apollo 15 (via ifuckinglovespace)
(Source: hq.nasa.gov, via ifuckinglovespace)
"“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.”"
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut (via ifuckinglovespace)
"I’ve got my eyes on the Heisman."
— Former Vice President Al Gore.
"We don’t have the First Amendment so we can talk about the weather. We have the First Amendment so we can say very controversial things. If you have the inconsistency, then you’re really not defending liberty."
Ron Paul (via coolidgeconservative)
He said this in response to a question about legalizing gay marriage, marijuana and prostitution.
Does Heritage now support gay marriage, marijuana and prostitution?
"I’m the most reasonable, responsible person here in Washington."
— Speaker of the House John Boehner to ABC’s Diane Sawyer today.
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"Only if he goes."
— Jim Graves, Democratic candidate for Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District against Michele Bachmann, offers his condition for his support for Newt Gingrich’s proposed lunar base in a reddit AMA.
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is you never know if they are genuine."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself."
Albert Einstein (via politicalprof)
Source that Einstein ever said this? Cause he didn’t.
It’s a derivative of a Vonnegut quote from Cat’s Cradle:
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Milly Dowler's parents testify at Leveson inquiry
This round-up of Monday's main media stories looks ahead to evidence from the first witnesses in the Leveson inquiry.
The parents of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler are expected to give testimony on the impact of press intrusion as the first witnesses to Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into media standards today, reports the Guardian. Bob and Sally Dowler will give evidence in the High Court, followed by the actor Hugh Grant.
The Financial Times says the press will have to listen as some of its worst excesses are laid bare before the Leveson inquiry that has power to recommend sweeping changes to the way it operates. Ben Fenton writes: "the press, or at least their legal representatives, will be uncharacteristically mute. Lord Justice Leveson has ruled, to save time, that there will be no cross-examination."
The satellite broadcaster BSkyB has appointed outside lawyers to conduct a trawl of the emails of star journalists working on Sky News to ensure there is no evidence of stories being obtained by illicit news-gathering methods, reports the Independent. It says the development, days ahead of the BSkyB annual general meeting, would enable the company to assure its shareholders that the channel is free from the illegal practices uncovered at News International, its largest shareholder.
Peter Preston in the Observer questions the idea "some journalistic practices - such as paying for the information on MPs' expenses, as the Daily Telegraph did, or long-term heavily editorialised campaigns that are common in newspapers - would not be appropriate for the BBC". The statement was put forward by Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, in a letter to the Guardian.
The Daily Mirror says "dumped Daybreak presenters Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley look grim as they face up to being sacked from the ITV breakfast show". It says Chiles mysteriously blamed "dark forces" for leaking the news in Saturday's edition of the paper. He was quoted in The People as saying: "I'm angry, upset and acutely ¬embarrassed. Myself and Christine were told we would be going in the New Year but we were assured we could go with our dignity intact."
The BBC's annual Children in Need show has raised a record on-the-night total of £26,332,334 - £8m more than 2010. Signing off at the end of the telethon, Sir Terry Wogan said: "That is the greatest single total we have ever made in one night, so thank you. Thank you to the British people in these tough times to come up with that kind of money on behalf of Britain's children."
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Chesterfield College principal Trevor Clay, who is battling to mitigate the impact of up to job losses on staff and students, has revealed why he believes redundancies are necessary and unavoidable.
Mr Clay told the Derbyshire Times how the college has experienced a reduction in the number of 16-18 year-old full-time students and has seen an increase in demand for training from businesses for their staff and apprentices leading to a need for different types of college staff.
In addition, he claims Government cutbacks, contributing to a £4m college shortfall, have reduced public funding which has been further reduced for the college because of its lower levels of 16 to 18 year-olds.
Mr Clay said: “Redundancies have come about as a result of falling numbers of full-time 16 to 18 year-old students which has reduced the need for full-time staff.
“But we’re growing with employers wanting employees up-skilling and training and we’re delivering education for a different type of person so our staff has to be reshaped.”
The college originally planned to introduce 70 job losses but has since claimed to have reshaped its plans with a reduced figure of 43 job cuts by successfully introducing voluntary redundancies and re-deployment.
But he claims £13m Sheffield City Region contracts to deliver training for employers could mean 100 new staff openings of a different type in the future with redeployment options.
Mr Clay also offered assurances that a reduction in the numbers of full time students means will allow the college to keep delivering the same range of quality courses.
However, changing Government policy is expected to mean that students aged over 24 will be expected to pay full fees.
Some have criticised the decision to bring in job cuts after the college recently underwent a revamp with a £3m reception area which was part-funded but Mr Clay feels this will attract students and help retain staff.
He said: “There is a need for the college to be attractive and functional to keep attracting students. We think it’s necessary to provide and maintain a first class facility for years.”
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|Danielle Beccan Memorial Trust Fundraising Bike Ride - Paris to Nottingham|
Nottingham City Council Leader, Councillor Jon Collins and colleagues are seeking the support of Nottingham folk once more, for a major fundraising event.
Few people in Nottingham will forget the tragic events of a few years ago when 14 year old Danielle Beccan was tragically killed, as the innocent bystander of a drive-by shooting which marked the worst times of Nottingham’s recent history. Since then The Danielle Beccan Memorial Trust, a charity set up after her death to fund community activities, has raised over £130,000 to fund a Dance Studio and dance activity (Danielle’s favourite past time) and now wants to complete its fundraising in spectacular style. So the cycling “team” has agreed to attempt to cycle from Paris to Nottingham in just five days.
The team is made up of Jon Collins, ex Councillor and previous Leader of the Council, John Taylor, Jill Wilkinson from Education Charity Keys to Success, and a support team from Nottingham City Homes. They will leave Paris on Tuesday 14th April hoping to arrive at the Forest home game against Coventry on Saturday the 18th April 2009.
In July 2007, Jon and John were part of a group which managed to raise over £25,000 through completing the “3 Peaks” challenge in under 24 hours. They hope to raise £10,000 this time. The event has already gathered the support of a number of high profile individuals and organisations in the City.
Attached are details of how sponsorship and gifts can be made in the hope that you will feel able to help us finish the Trust’s magnificent efforts and in so doing establish a lasting memorial to Danielle which will be an inspiration to Nottingham’s young people.
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Adaptxt is one of the best option for replacement of default android keyboard application and is available for download at Play Store now for download as a free application. This app is developed by Key Point Technologies which is leading input text solution provider and have many leading OEM companies as their clients. But, why we are writing a review of this application, it’s because this is the only application i came across which support many multilingual languages like Hinglish, Banglish, Marathinglish, Odinglish and many more. And the list continues with supporting normal local language as well like English, Hindi, Kannada, Malay, Marathi and many many more. Apart from this, the uniquest thing this app got is providing Industrial SMS dictionaries like Business, Financial, Legal, Medical, Sports and much many more.
Adaptxt Keyboard Review
Let’s start the review by showing it’s major features with images to make things more clear and understandable. There are many features in this app which are really great to have in any keyboard, however there are some scope of improvements too which we’ll discuss along with the review.
As you can see layout of this keyboard, it is indeed pretty nice. We tested this app on Huawei Ascend G300 which has 4″ display size and came to us for review recently. This keyboard has three themes inbuilt supporting White, Black and blue color. We found white and black theme pretty nice in looks, however blue looked a bit odd.
Scope of Improvement: When we installed the app for fist time, indeed it showed us options that how we can enable it for using that, but after enabling, it should show some small demo in form of a slide of images (tour) or anything which may instruct an user where he/she could find option for updating social networks, changing keyboard layout and finding many other options.
Pressing the bottom-left key with adaptxt icon continuously open up a pop-up menu with options of Privacy Mode, Choosing layout, Auto-Correction, Removing Accents, ATR (Automatic Text Replacement) Settings and Keyboard Settings.
Scope of Improvement: Currently when you select any language like English (US), Hinglish or say any language, an user can use one language at a time. However this thing can become more awesome and can provide very high rich user experience if the app gives an option to use two or more dictionaries at same time. Means like i am a north Indian, so i would like to get automatic suggestion from both English and Hinglish while typing. I would never like to change the dictionary for getting a suggestion from another dictionary. Same thing applies for say Marathi and Marathinglish as well or any other language.
Usually this application learns new words automatically which you commonly use while typing anywhere and add those words in the custom dictionary for future use. There is no point of worry, as these words will be saved in your phone memory only and nothing will get uploaded on Internet anywhere to maintain user privacy. However when you want that keyboard may not learn words for some of your sensitive conversations, you can turn ON the privacy mode and the app will not learn anything then until you turn OFF the option back.
Scope of Improvement: Currently you can save a backup copy of custom dictionary to SD card and restore as well, but there is a limit of 1500 words of storing words in it. Also there should be an option of taking backup of whole settings of keyboard to SD card, so that in case, you format your phone or change it, you may could restore all the settings including custom dictionary as well.
Checking out settings, you have My dictionary (custom dictionary), Add-On Manager (where you can download and add dictionaries to the keyboard), Personalize Suggestions (where you give permissions to the keyboard from where he should learn the words like SMS, Contacts, Facebook and Twitter. It also gives option to import custom words from Android Dictionary.
Automatic Text Replacement
This is one of the key feature why we loved in this app. Using this, you can set an Acronym for a longtail statement which you use oftenly while conversations. It is something which can save you a lots of time while on the go. E.g if you set hru as acronym for Hi, How are you? Then when you type hru, in auto-suggestions, +hru will appear which upon tapping will change the statement as set by you.
Lookup meaning in Wikipedia
This app also supports finding meaning of words on Wikipedia. All you need to type the word, tap the suggestion continuously and a pop menu will open up showing option to search the word on Wikipedia. Also wherever a password option appears, this app doesn’t learn automatically whatever you type.
Scope of Improvement: Currently the search query to wikipedia is sent to the desktop site and since you’re opening the site on a phone, the site will redirected to mobile version. Hence, the app developer can send the search query directly to mobile site to enhance user experience and for saving time from redirects.
Update Facebook and Twitter right from Keyboard
Use can update your social networks like Facebook, Twitter and other supported networks using share text option in the keyboard. Just type the text anywhere and choose share option, by pressing the key given on right of space bar and it’ll give you option to update your Facebook and Twitter or you can choose option ‘More’ and share the same text to many other supported places.
Scope of Improvement: App developer can make an option or create a widget which may tapping upon open up a blank space to write whenever the user wants to update their social networks. It makes no sense currently to open any random app for updating another app. Otherwise, an user can directly open the social network app and update it accordingly and hence this feature becomes useless. So, changes in this features becomes a mandatory part.
Indeed currently ignoring scope of improvements i suggested, still this app is awesome to use. Since it has much more features compared to any other app available in Play Store. And moreover it’s Ad Free and available free of Cost. I am sure developers of this app will take my suggestions into account and will work upon it. As per my recommendation, this is definitely a must have app. You can download this app from Play Store for Phone and for Tablet here. If you have any other query about this app, you can ask me straight in comments. | <urn:uuid:9e923240-f0bd-4717-83f7-c8264640ab49> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.reviewcenter.in/1590/adaptext-keyboard-review-a-true-professional | 2014-04-24T07:36:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223205375.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032005-00504-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93577 | 1,334 | [
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Hungarian Short Ribs Recipe
- 2 to 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 4 pounds bone-in beef short ribs
- 2 medium onions, sliced
- 1 can (15 ounces) tomato sauce
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup vinegar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground mustard
- 1-1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- Cooked wide noodles
- In a Dutch oven, heat oil over medium-high. Brown ribs on all sides. Add onion; cook until tender. Combine all remaining ingredients except noodles; pour over ribs. Reduce heat; cover and simmer until the meat is tender, about 3 hours. Thicken gravy if desired. Serve over noodles. Yield: 6-8 servings.
Enjoy this recipe with a full-bodied red wine such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot or Syrah.
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My family really liked this short ribs recipe! I served it with noodles, peas, and made homemade bread with it. Thanks!
Made this for my family and they really liked it. My daughter who usually takes forever to eat, gobbled the ribs up right away. Would definitely make this again - it was really easy too!
this recipe was so easy i was surprised on the flavor. the meat was extremely tender didnt put it on the noodles because it does have high fat on the surface, light rice on the side with steamed vegetable was perfect.
RE: Hungarian Short Ribs
I used this recipe with beef back ribs, skimmed most of the fat off that I could. The ribs were moist, tender and absolutely delicious. I am making this recipe again tonight with pork country ribs. My husband and I enjoyed these will enjoy this recipe for a long time
I loved this. It was easy to make. I did skim off a lot of fat before serving. It might be one of those recipes you would make the day before and refrigerate and take off the fat and reheat. But is was excellent. I will make this again!
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Several PC titles from Ubisoft will be optimized for Nvidia's GeForce GPUs.
Ubisoft said that it has formed an "alliance" with Nvidia that will see a number of popular PC games optimized for GeForce GPUs. Supported tech will include TXAA antialiasing that provides Hollywood-levels of smooth animation, soft shadows, HBAO+ (horizon-based ambient occlusion), and advanced DX11 tessellation.
"The PC remains one of the world’s most popular gaming platforms, and we’re committed to offering PC players the best possible experience with our games," said Tony Key, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Ubisoft. “Combining Nvidia’s visual computing expertise and the creativity of our development teams will give customers a stunning experience when choosing an Ubisoft game for the PC."
PC games that fall under this "alliance" include Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist, which is slated to arrive on August 20. The Digital Deluxe version is already made available in the new "Splinter Cell Blacklist" bundles featuring cards based on GeForce GTX 660, 660 Ti, 670, 680, 760, 770 or 780 GPUs. The Digital Deluxe Edition throws in two extra single-player and co-op maps, five pieces of "sneaktastic" gear, five bonus stealth suits, and five weapons. A code for Splinter Cell: Conviction is also included at no extra charge.
Additional Ubisoft PC games optimized for GeForce GPUs include Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag and Watch Dogs, which arrive on October 30 and November 15 respectively. Ubisoft said that Nvidia's Developer Technology Team worked closely with the developers of each game to create GeForce-optimized "worlds that deliver new heights of realism and immersion."
"PC gaming is stronger than ever and Ubisoft understands that PC gamers demand a truly elite experience – the best resolutions, the smoothest frame rates and the latest gaming breakthroughs," said Tony Tamasi, senior vice president of content and technology at Nvidia. "We’ve worked closely with Ubisoft’s incredibly talented creative teams throughout the development process to incorporate our technologies and deliver the most immersive and visually spectacular game worlds imaginable."
The news arrives after AMD revealed its Never Settle Forever bundle that allows customers to pick games from a limited library of popular titles, depending on the Radeon card they buy. The program provides three tiers -- Bronze, Silver and Gold – that grants one, two or three free games respectively.
AMD is also supplying APUs for the upcoming PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, which should be incredibly lucrative cash cows for a company that's struggling to gain its footing in a declining desktop market. AMD has also entered the cloud gaming market with its Radeon Sky line of server-side single-and dual-slot cards. | <urn:uuid:a48e7db6-33d5-4844-8541-32c7b52eefe4> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ubisoft-nvidia-splinter-cell-assassin-s-creed-black-flag,23964.html | 2014-04-24T07:37:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223205375.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032005-00504-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929421 | 571 | [
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Coulterville, CA — There is an accident on highway 49 and 132 in Coulterville. The CHP reports a car has spun out of control on the wet roadway and crashed. They say an ambulance is headed to the scene. There is no word on any injuries. The CHP says the northbound lane of Highway 49 is blocked so motorist may want to avoid the area.
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This is my first and is meant to be erotic, rather than straight f-ing etc. Will continue if tpeople like it. It's quite long....
He wasn’t sure when he’d first noticed her as anything other than a co-worker. Perhaps it was after they had been working together for 18 months or so. She was in her late 50s, but he didn’t know her age. All the other secretaries were in their 20s making Jenny different and less popular with the younger guys on the team. She had had a hard life to this point with a disastrous first marriage and a long spell as carer for her mother who had died a couple of years ago now. All of this had taken its toll and could be seen in her tired lines. She had recently married again to a very flamboyant man who made her feel good although they certainly had their differences. First impressions were that she was aloof, serious and almost righteous in some ways. The team were a little cruel behind her back as they were not flattering of her looks and she could often talk too long on subjects that were interesting only to her. However, she was good at her job and did it very professionally, much better than the other team secretaries who at times resented her. She had the largest team of people to look after (about 25) which kept her extremely busy.
Will ran the team and he knew how busy she was. He was careful not to overburden her and did as much as he could himself. He never used her to write letters or anything, just expenses and supporting the team. He never asked her to do personal things and stopped the team from doing so too. He was only too well aware of the younger team attitude to Jenny, although he disapproved of it, so he made sure that she sat next to him so no one could complain and it also meant he heard a lot about potential team issues before they became problems. Will found Jenny charming and he learned to focus on work when she talked too long about an issue without being rude. Over the next year or so they got to know a lot about each other. Will was also on his second marriage which was ok, but not great. As he learnt more about Jenny’s past, Will became increasingly fond of her and more supportive. In her turn Jenny became fiercely loyal to him and warned him about all the office politics which were substantial. The team worked very long hours and made a lot of money for the firm, but people were always running around playing politics as the stakes were high.
Then Jenny’s husband became ill with cancer. Jenny was devastated because he was her rock and had picked her up after her mother’s death and turned her life around. Now she was faced with maybe losing him. Will was very supportive giving her as much time she needed to go to the hospital with her husband and support him through the treatments etc. Jenny in turn worked as much as she could from home and at weekends to make up for it. After a period of a few months the news became better and they eventually received the all clear to great joy. Jenny and her husband took Will out to dinner to thank him for his support and were clearly very grateful. Jenny would often give Will little presents and always get him coffee and worked hard at doing a professional job.
It was shortly after this dinner that Will’s feelings started to change. One night he had a vivid dream about Jenny at work. It was as confused and strange as dreams normally are, but he could always remember one bit of it. He was in the large stationary and filing room – a room with no windows and visited only infrequently by the secretaries in the team. Suddenly the door burst open and Jenny came in. The door shut behind her and she just stood there for a moment looking at him. He could only stare back as he was overcome with a feeling of warmth to her that turned as they stared at each other into a growing sexual urge. His breathing became heavy and he suddenly felt that he needed to have her, to kiss her and feel her body. Jenny said nothing but slowly began walking towards him, her eyes locked on his. When she finally reached him, they kissed long and slow. Slowly she lowered herself onto her knees and started to rub his growing member through his suit. He was so excited by this that he grew as hard as he had ever been. Without taking her eyes off his, Jenny slowly undid his belt and trousers and freed his engorged cock, stroking it and taking it into her mouth, sucking gently. All Will could do was moan with the ecstasy this was giving him. He started to run his hands through her hair. Jenny still staring at him, stopped sucking and sat back onto the floor lifting her skirt as she did, showing her stockings and pants, obviously wet from her own desire. Without a word Will dropped to his knees between her open legs and removed her pants, exposing her beautiful wet pussy. “Now” she whispered and he laid on top of her, their eyes locked, as he slid into her, groaning with the pleasure of feeling her hot wet pussy clearly wanting him so much. He started to stroke in and out gently at first but rapidly getting faster as the urge to cum grew intense. Jenny started to moan quietly, whispering “At last”. “I’ve wanted you for two years. I need you to fill me and make me yours”. Will could hold no longer and with these words he exploded inside her, trying to fill her as deeply as he could go.
That was all he could remember now but he kept reliving it every time he saw her and started to imagine what it would really be like to make love with her. He knew everyone else in the office would make a laughing stock of him if they knew. He was older than most of them but still probably 12 or 15 years her junior, if not more. The others thought she was ugly and over the hill but Will found himself wanting her more and more. He knew they were both married and neither would want to hurt their home and family life, he knew that it was impossible given they worked together, but he started to hope that Jenny might like him in the same way as he did her.
Another few months went by with the work becoming very difficult as the “Credit Crunch” really started to bite. Unsurprisingly, most of the team including Will were made redundant and Will went home missing the team and Jenny in particular. Redundancy was difficult for everyone, but the team wanted to have a party to make sure they all stayed in touch as the world developed over the next few years. The party was set for a Friday afternoon and Will found himself looking forward to it so that he would see Jenny and wondering if she was thinking about him.
Will arrived early and tucked into the beer and snacks happy to see everyone again. He had one eye on the door all the time as the others started arriving. When Jenny arrived, he thought she looked better than she ever had. She came in the door looking fabulous in a casual outfit, displaying a larger cleavage than he had seen before. She kept glancing at him as she greeted the others and when he hugged her, she hugged back holding him tight and he thought he heard her sigh or moan under her breath. Worried others might notice him going weak at the knees, Will pulled back and greeted her husband and caught up with everyone’s news. Occasionally they would accidently touch during the party while chatting to others and the touch would always linger, leaving Will excited and electrified by it. He was beginning to believe she had similar feelings and he increased the frequency of their touches, hoping no one would notice, and becoming increasingly aroused by the secret feeling of desire laced with fear and uncertainty.
Jenny and her husband had arrived in their classic car and it seemed that everyone was going outside to have a look at it. Will had seen it before so he went upstairs to use the bathroom. While he was there he heard the voices drifting outside and the house went quiet. As he came out of the bathroom he sensed rather than heard her. In the next room standing in the dark was Jenny, just looking at him. His heart leaped as he felt as if his dream had come true. Jenny started to lift her hands and he took that as an invitation to go to her. Neither said a word. Will was shaking as he approached her gazing into her eyes, willing her to feel his affection. When he reached her he took her hands and bent and kissed her, terrified he might have got it all wrong, but she kissed him back passionately and they held each other close as they kissed. After kissing for what seemed like ages, they started to move their bodies against one another in a gentle writhing motion grinding themselves together. Will started to run his hands up and down her back, letting his hands fall to her buttocks each time. The grinding was getting slowly more intense as Will felt his stiffness caught between them, and now obvious to her. Jenny reacted to feeling his excitement growing against her by grinding harder and kissing more deeply. She started to moan quietly and whispered his name. Will could not believe this was actually happening. He moved his hand up and touched one of her breasts tentatively stroking it. When she didn’t resist, he continued allowing his fingers to graze her nipple. His heart leaped as he felt her nipple was erect and stiff, jutting into her bra. He moved his hand slowly down over her stomach and she moved her hips back to allow him to reach between her legs and stroke her pussy through her trousers. Will now knew she wanted this as much as he did and he had never been so excited before – he was aching for her even though she was so much older than he. Suddenly they heard people coming back into the house and they broke off their embrace both looking startled and then giggling quietly. “You go down first”, Jenny whispered. “I’m so glad we’ve finally done that.” She added. “Me too” said Will and then turned and walked down the stairs, trying to hide his excitement and wondering where on earth this was going to lead them.
As he rejoined the rest of the party, Will was ecstatic. He wanted to know what was going to happen next but he knew that he had to play it cool and they would find a way to talk. He didn’t speak to her again until the end of the party as she was leaving. When they said goodbye, she hugged him and whispered in his ear “I’ll call you when I can”, and then she was gone.
As he shared a taxi back to his central London flat with a few old mates, Will was distant, unable to get Jenny and the feel of her out of his mind. Was he mad? They were both married, she was older than him, and what about her husband? This was terrible. Never mind that his colleagues would have been amazed and disgusted if they knew he was now lusting after “the old bat”. What next? When is she going to call? | <urn:uuid:edf0db2a-e7ff-48bb-8324-5d50ab10b7c4> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.sexstories.com/story/21890/Jenny | 2015-07-02T08:37:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095423.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00000-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.997323 | 2,314 | [
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HelloJoe wrote:Can I just reply to the responce from the support centre via email?
HelloJoe wrote:Hello, I have been using the IncrediMail Support Site as well, so here is the information:
Tracking Number: <<#484887-654308516#>>
"Subject Heading" Number: 888AA8C2-7A3C-4BAC-85CE-E4A69952BBBB
Post Title: Sending and Receiving
This is the information I filled in:
I have a Windows Live Hotmail account, and I have configured so it's POP3 and STMP and all of that, and I can recieve emails fine, but I'm trying to send one, but it dosen't seem to work.
What was the result?
It tries to connect, then comes up with an error message about STMP. (I am using port 587 for STMP)
If you got any error messages, please quote them here:
The outgoing mail server 'stmp.live.com' does not respond, please try again leter. If this problem persists, contact your Internet Service Provider. (DETAILS:) Socket Error: 10060, Oirt 587, Protocol: STMP.A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host failed to respond.
Incoming mail (POP3): 995
Outgoing mail (STMP): 587
(both "This server requires a secure connection (SSL) are ticked)
Incoming mail server: pop3.live.com
Outgoing mail server: stmp.live.com
(Ticked "log on using Secure Password Authentication")
(Ticked "My server requires authentication")
I am not sure if the Support Centre got my email reply, so I thought post a question here. If you could help me as soon as possible, that'd be great.
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Asburn, VA (PRWEB) May 07, 2013
HighRoad Solution, the preferred provider of integrated eMail marketing solutions by top association and non-profit organizations, proudly announces that TMA Resources, the leader in member-centric software, as a Gold Sponsor of its inaugural user group conference. The first-time event will be held on June 6, 2013 in Washington, DC at the American Society of Association Executives’ (ASAE) headquarters location.
HighRoad Solution was the first eMail and digital marketing technology solution company to join TMA Resources’ Partner Program. The two companies have worked together since 2007 to provide top associations and non-profit organizations with electronic communication solutions including eMail marketing, webinars and voice messaging. HighRoad’s Campaign eMail is its most popular product due to the deep integration available with TMA Resources’ Personify platform.
“Over the past six years working as a partner with TMA Resources, we have developed a deep appreciation for the Personify platform,” explained David Caruso, cofounder and CEO of HighRoad Solution. “We have been able to work together to provide associations and non-profits with eMessaging solutions that are a win-win. Integrating eMail with Personify eliminates redundant tasks for the marketing department and use of Personify’s rich member data allows for targeted messages to specific member groups which drives higher conversion to membership, event registration and participation.”
“HighRoad Solution was not only the first organization to join our Partner Advantage Program, but they were also the first email marketing solution partner to receive our Gold Star Integration designation for their integration with Personify”, said TMA Resources Partnership Manager, Rob Kaighn. “This not only shows the quality of their integration, but also shows HighRoad Solution’s commitment to the success of their Personify clients.”
About HighRoad Solution
Founded in 2005 by technology industry veterans, HighRoad Solution provides integrated messaging solutions to associations, non-profits and educational institutions. Offering expertise and pre-packaged integrations to the leading association, engagement and content management systems used by premier organizations, HighRoad provides solutions for eMail/eNewsletters, Virtual Events, eSurveys, Fax, Text, Voice & Mobile Broadcasting.
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Headquartered in Vienna, Va., TMA Resources and its team of highly skilled professionals produce Personify software. Personify combines a powerful technology platform with advanced e-business and BI functionality to provide the Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) and Association Management Software (AMS) solution of choice for some of the world’s most advanced professional societies and trade associations. | <urn:uuid:3d553442-46df-45b8-937e-018080dffaec> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2013/5/prweb10704849.htm | 2015-07-04T11:59:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096706.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00250-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926013 | 563 | [
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Pandora Tomorrow's CIA Black Ops special field agent.
About this creation
Sam Fisher, The CIA's top man in black ops missions...immortalized in yellow-headed minifig goodness!
I had recently finished playing Splinter Cell - Pandora Tomorrow and the minifig was simply the next logical step for a lego fan... ;)
Not being one to normally toy around with minifigs, I found an old divers respirator collar and thought that when turned around and trimmed down a bit made a great pair of N.V. goggles!
Fluxasaurus! This is cool. I loved the game too. Did Micheal Ironside do Sam's voice? Anyway, nice job with the details! Does he have those sticky cameras? LOVE those things man.Especially the ones that spray knock out gas! | <urn:uuid:ecb4ffaa-3b04-44d3-b19a-a2b965dc6c7c> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://mocpages.com/moc.php/30894 | 2015-07-06T11:55:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098196.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00190-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918785 | 170 | [
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Woody Harrelson plays a corrupt cop in the new film Rampart, depicting the police-force meltdown in late-1990s Los Angeles. But the actor has nothing against the fuzz—even despite his history of arrests and liberal stance on marijuana. During his research for the role, Mr. Harrelson rode along with police officers, and “most of the ones I met seemed pretty cool. Lot of ride-alongs, lot of hanging.”
What did Mr. Harrelson, when we met him shortly before his disastrous Reddit moment, make of the nationwide battle between the soi-disant 99 percent and the police force armed with pepper spray and riot sticks? “These cops…. They don’t dictate policy. Certainly they have some leeway as to how they do it, but when you’re told to clear that whole area—that’s a frickin’ tough task without resorting to violence. Look where the orders are coming from. That’s where things are fucked up.
“I’m not trying to excuse—some cops are assholes. But by and large—cops are pretty cool.”
Mr. Harrelson’s director, Oren Moverman, had been inspired in part by research in the streets of Los Angeles. Residents there, he said, discussed the police force “as an occupation: the American occupation of Los Angeles.”
“The whole issue of police reaction, and violence—if you kind of zoom out of that, you see the people pitted against each other. Never mind that there’s so much they have in common. You gotta think—who is this serving?”
We took a break to complete a word game Mr. Harrelson had begun when we walked in, as he offered us a copy of Steve Guttenberg’s memoir, The Guttenberg Bible, and invited us to send him vibes so that he might get the word. The word was “Steven,” and he only nailed it after we asked him when he was going to guess the name so we could get on with the interview.
As he basked in his triumph, allowing his blazer to slouch off his shoulders, we mentioned that his director shared his opinion about cops as pawns of a massive machine. Had they discussed this between takes? He laughed; they hadn’t. “But he’s a very progressive mind and I like to think I’m a progressive person as well.” | <urn:uuid:363f39d0-8ccf-4d71-9fdd-2911da7d41b2> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://observer.com/2012/02/the-observer-asks-woody-harrelson-practically-anything/ | 2015-07-06T11:54:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098196.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00190-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977095 | 536 | [
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By Linda McK. Stewart
Maybe you too were stopped short by the illustrated cover of a New York Times Sunday Magazine. It was captioned, ***italThe Mammoth Cometh.***END
And there he (she?) was, peering out at us through yellowy eyes, nestled in golden retriever-ish shag. A handsome pair of tusks curved gracefully up to frame the furry elephant face. The elephant-like trunk hung abjectly down and there was about the whole portrait an almost winsome expression, a what-am-I-doing-here expression. Well, he (she) might ask, as might we.
For the article, which the cover so eloquently illustrated, dealt with the ongoing efforts of a handful of enthusiasts devoted to what they call “de-extinction.” The term refers to a process by which it is theoretically possible, by tweaking the DNA of prehistoric species, to reincarnate them. The list of possible long-extinct candidates for such tweaking is pretty impressive: the saber tooth tiger, the 8-foot high tortoise, the dire wolf and a 1-ton nocturnal rat, last seen some 2 million years ago and of course the wooly mammoth. And then the recently extinct: the passenger pigeon that once thrived in eastern U.S. not in the millions but in the billions, a beautiful, red-breasted bird that, most unfortunately, was delicious when roasted. And the amphibians that up until almost yesterday croaked out their nocturnal love songs in wetlands all around the globe, including right here in our own backyards.
And should such tweaking efforts yield their hoped-for results, how would we feel, given the possibility of seeing hairy mammoths grazing on the village green? An eloquent answer to that question can be found in Los Angeles at the George C. Page Museum and around the ancient tar pits adjacent to the museum. The grounds of the museum, are beautifully landscaped with flowering shrubs and trees and stroller-friendly walkways that meander across expanses of well-tended lawn. But step off a walkway onto the turf and at once your shoes squish down into black tar that is strenuously resistant to any home-mounted efforts towards removal. Scattered across the grounds of the park are life-size models of prehistoric animals. Welcome to the La Brea Tar Pits.
About 40,000 years ago the Los Angeles Basin was generously dotted with tar pits created by seepage from underground oil deposits. Then, as now, it was sticky stuff and promised a sure if not swift demise for any creature that ventured into it. There are numerous such tar pits around the globe – Venezuela, Texas, Peru, Russia, Poland – but none of these have yielded even a fraction of the fossilized treasures that have been extracted from the La Brea Pits. The scorecard is impressive by any measure: 2,500 saber-toothed tigers along with hundreds of dire wolves (a heavier, larger version of the present-day gray wolf) short-faced bears, giant sloths and mammoths. Prey animals, fleeing predators, would become trapped in the tar whereupon predators would attack them and in turn, also become entrapped. In time the animals would die, sink into the tar and become fossilized. Excavators working the pits have recovered literally thousands of skeletons, some in fragments but many complete down to the tiniest tooth. Amazingly only one human skeleton has been recovered, that of a youthful female.
Unique in its proximity to such a treasure trove of fossils is the George C. Page Museum, opened in 1977. Visitors to the museum are treated to a fascinating collection of fossilized skeletons and graphic displays of the prehistoric creatures from the Pleistocene era that once populated our neighborhoods. The wooly mammoth that is now under consideration for reincarnation, once roamed North America from Alaska to Florida. Its numbers died off not because of natural predators like wolves or saber-toothed cats but because of the arrival of human beings, crossing the ice bridge from Asia some 40,000 years ago. It’s estimated that it took less than 1,000 years for humankind to wipe out dozens of species.
The museum displays are grouped around a glass-enclosed workspace, called the Fishbowl, where seven days a week, paleontologists go about the painstaking business of cleaning and identifying bones freshly removed from the tar pits. More than 65 volunteers, ranging in age between 18 and 90, assist. They receive preliminary training learning about the Pleistocene flora and fauna and the techniques necessary to prepare the fossils. After completing 96 hours in the Fishbowl lab, approved volunteers are invited to roll up their sleeves and dig in the nearby tar pits. For the groups of school children who troop through the Page Museum, nose to the glass, as well of course as for all the other visitors, the Fishbowl provides a priceless close up of the exacting science of paleontology.
A visit to the La Brea tar pits and to the handsome Page Museum inevitably gives rise to the question: Do we really want to bring back to life creatures that went extinct 10,000 years ago?
Given the profusion of pressing social issues of which we are reminded by headlines every day, it does seem like a question well worth asking.
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Trouble looms for Duggie Moon, Rapidan County's most affable aging flower child, when the love of his life, Jenny Carson, takes a job with a suave handsome artist whose assets include a villa in France.
In hopes of impressing Jenny, Duggie throws himself into a musical career, but soon discovers that playing guitar isn't as easy as it looks, and decides to try his hand at managing a rock band instead. How hard could it be?
After persuading a talented local group to take him on, Duggie learns to his dismay that the six members of Identity Crisis are one frayed nerve away from implosion, and he'll need luck just to hold the band together long enough to play at the big Halloween concert he's promoting, with borrowed funds. Lots of borrowed funds. As the concert nears, pressure mounts, storm clouds gather, and egos clash like cymbals under the October moon, even a stoned-out optimist like Duggie knows someone could get hurt. He can only hope it will be the drummer. That guy's been asking for it. | <urn:uuid:20664cb0-2023-4bf7-9b23-6f7b9a7282a7> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/moon-s-blues/c-h-sprague/9781462013128 | 2015-07-06T11:39:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098196.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00190-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973772 | 232 | [
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i'm not sure if this can be done, but i figured if it could, it would be by using CSS.
i want to have text wrap into columns. for example, i would ideally have one long paragraph that would automatically wrap into say 3 columns.
is this possible? and if so, how?
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Recently, it was announced that a rare aspiration (a fossil immortalising an animal in the act of choking on its prey) could sell for up to $250,000 at Heritage Auctions.
The fossil in question features a juvenile Sclerocephalus haeuseri, a mildly unpleasant looking amphibian. It is exceptional, however, as it is the only aspiration featuring an amphibian ever discovered.
When it comes to fossils, the key factors in gauging value are condition and rarity. Getting fossils out of the ground in one piece is no easy business, and the incredible scarcity of museum grade examples means that their value can easily match the enormous sums paid for jewellery or works of art.
They have their own (largely male) celebrity following as well – Nicholas Cage, Harrison Ford and Leonardo Di Caprio are reported to be avid collectors.
So what’s the most expensive fossil ever sold? That would be an almost perfectly preserved T-Rex skeleton (nicknamed Sue) that was unearthed in South Dakota in 1990. It was bought by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago for $8.3m in 1997.
Fossils that achieve seven figure sums are rare, and tend to be widely reported. In 2011, an Allosaurus and a Stegosaurus locked in a battle to the death sold for $2.7m at Heritage Auction in Dallas to an unnamed museum outside the US.
This November, another pair of fighting dinosaurs, known as the “Montana Duelling Dragons” will highlight a sale at Bonhams New York with an estimate of $7m-9m. The auction house stated in its assessment of the lot: “The fully articulated skeletons show the well-matched foes were locked in mortal combat, each inflicting fatal wounds on the other”.
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Black Abolitionist Archive
Title: William Craft
Speaker or author: Craft, William
Newspaper or publication: Halifax Courier
Speech regarding the current political opinion on the question of continuing slavery in the U.S. by legalizing it in new states. The speaker also related his own experience with slavery and his subsequent escape.
Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 962 word document (text and images)
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The people that I am getting my first horse from sent me some pictures of her! So here she is! Her name is Birdie. She's on a diet now as the owner's granddaughter fed her too much! That's why she's pretty chubby! I'll probably go and see her in a few weeks and ride her. I'm so excited about getting her in the spring! | <urn:uuid:0d154cea-1080-4400-9196-a4c96e31bcd6> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.horseforum.com/horse-talk/pics-my-horse-38327/ | 2015-06-30T08:31:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375091925.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031811-00130-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986881 | 79 | [
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A 22-year-old man was arrested Thursday for sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman he knows, police said today.
Takeshi Veno is charged with first-degree rape, jail records show.
The alleged rape occurred in mid-July at an apartment complex on Old Shell Road near University Boulevard, said Officer Eric Gallichant, a Mobile Police Department spokesman. It was not reported until Aug. 21, he said.
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A couple, who has little else besides their beloved cat, is hoping the community will help raise funds to save their pet after he was shot, leaving him with shattered back legs, open wounds and infections.
His owners say the cat, named Jiggles, was let out of his Marietta home "to go potty" about two weeks ago, and never came back. They searched frantically for him, but were unable to find him anywhere.
Thursday morning, they found Jiggles lying outside their home where he had dragged himself, despite open wounds to his back legs. They assumed he had been hit by a car or attacked by a coyote.
The couple, that is of very limited means, started trying to find help for their pet. One of the nonprofit organizations they called recommended they "put a bullet in Jiggles' head." They continued to look for help and found The Community Pet Project, and a request soliciting donations was posted on Facebook.
Jiggle was taken in to Poinsett Animal Hospital for evaluation, and that's when veterinarians determined that he had been shot. One of his back legs is healing, though infected. The other is shattered and will need reconstructive surgery.
Jiggles was given pain medication and antibiotics, and The Community Pet Project paid for it with donated funds. Jiggles was transferred to Foothills Veterinary Hospital, where the surgery will be performed once adequate funds have been collected.
Those interested in helping with Jiggles' medical costs can make a tax-deductible donation by clicking here. (Please note, some of the images on the donation page are graphic and may be disturbing to some viewers.) | <urn:uuid:a76bbcc0-8677-4625-8ddf-c5ce8836c20e> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://m.wyff4.com/news/after-being-shot-cat-drags-himself-home/23470338 | 2015-07-04T19:26:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096870.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00010-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989373 | 344 | [
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New research suggests the habitable zone around some stars the so-called Goldilocks zone could be up to 30 per cent bigger than previously thought.
This makes it much more likely that life-supporting planets exist elsewhere in our galaxy.
The study looked at the relationship between the radiation from red dwarf stars and the reflective quality or albedo of snow and ice cover on orbiting planets.
Red dwarfs are cooler than G-type stars like our Sun and give off energy at longer wavelengths. More of this energy is absorbed by snow and ice than reflected back into space. This warms the planet's surface, melting some of the ice to produce liquid water a fundamental requirement for life.
"We knew that red dwarfs emit energy at a different wavelength, and we wanted to find out exactly what that might mean for the albedo of planets orbiting these stars," explained Dr. Manoj Joshi from the National Center for Atmospheric Science, who carried out the research in collaboration with Robert Haberle from the NASA Ames Research Center.
Red dwarfs, or M-stars, make up 80 per cent of the stars in our galaxy, and are thought to be very long-lived, so identifying their habitable zones is an important goal.
The albedo effect of snow and ice is important for climate because it is part of what's known as a positive feedback loop. An increase in ice cover reflects more radiation, further cooling the planet and leading to the formation of more ice. Conversely, a loss of ice cover means less radiation is reflected and more is absorbed, which means the planet gets warmer and more ice is lost.
So anything that lowers average albedo will have implications for the climates of ice-covered planets much more than it would for planets like Earth, which has relatively little ice cover.
Though our ability to see further into space is improving all the time, so far we can only speculate about what planets outside our solar system might be like how much ocean or land, ice or snow they might have, for example. But scientists have identified actual planets around red dwarfs.
The researchers used the radiation from two red dwarfs, Gliese 436 and GJ 1214, to calculate the effect of longer wavelengths on the albedo of ice and snow for a planet with a surface temperature of 200o Kelvin. This is the temperature at which 1 bar of CO2 condenses, often used as an indicator, or proxy, for the outer edge of the habitable zone anything below this temperature and a planet would simply be too cold to sustain life.
They found that planets with significant snow and ice cover will have higher surface temperatures under longer wavelength radiation when the effect on the albedo of snow and ice is taken into account. In fact it makes such a difference that the researchers calculate the outer edge of the habitable zone around M-stars may be 10 to 30 per cent further away from the parent star than previously thought.
"Previous studies haven't included such detailed calculations of the different albedo effects of ice and snow,' explains Joshi. 'But we were a little surprised how big the effect was."
This story is republished courtesy of Planet Earth online, a free, companion website to the award-winning magazine Planet Earth published and funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
Explore further: Hubble view: Wolf-Rayet stars, intense and short-lived
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Over five percent of all web traffic came from Apple iOS devices in the UK in January, newly-released statistics have shown.
Net Applications has released figures that show that the UK is one of the best markets for iOS, with 5.14 percent of web traffic coming from the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch in January.
The global level of iOS traffic was two percent, though Singapore (9.98 percent), Guernsey (6.33 percent), Hong Kong (6.01 percent), Australia (5.61 percent) and Ireland (4.90 percent) were all well ahead of the global average.
In comparison, the US level of iOS web traffic was 3.4 percent, NetApplications said.
Mac OS X 1.6 had a 3.33 percent share of the global market in January 2011, with Mac OS X 10.5 taking a 1.44 percent share. Windows XP is still the most commonly-used operating system with a 55.26 percent share of the global market.
The figures underline the growing popularity of iOS devices, with 16.24 million iPhones and 7.33 million iPads sold in the three months up to 25 December 2010.
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Senses Askew Company was co-founded by four inspired deaf professional artists who collaborated on a unique vision - to establish a New York City based performing arts company that would embrace a wide range of diverse community members and transcend our similarities and differences as artists in our collective creativity. A performing arts company that would inform and educate our fellow artists and viewers utilizing theatre, dance, music and multi-media.
In order to successfully make this happen, we need your financial support to help foster our works that intend to dissolve cultural barriers using the performing arts. Although you or a loved one may have never experienced life-altering barriers, we trust that you share our goals: to humanize the inspiration of works embodying the five senses with what we have or lack: hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. Together, we can promote a sense of unity and understanding among artists and viewers as we empower, reconnect, celebrate and reflect upon our common denominator: humanity. Thank you for your support! | <urn:uuid:2f721b8f-ad7e-48f4-84e8-ec818fde3978> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.goodsearch.com/nonprofit/senses-askew-company.aspx | 2015-07-04T19:00:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096870.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00010-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96457 | 202 | [
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Buzzfeed obtained footage through the Herald Sun of police in Australia, pulling, dragging and arresting 'Occupy' protesters in Melbourne's City Square.
The paper reports that, on Friday, nearly 100 Occupy-protesters were arrested while 20 suffered minor injuries. A police officer and a protester were taken to the emergency room. Eight police cars were damaged during the protest, police told the newspaper.
Occupy Melbourne protesters have been camping out in the City Square for over a week, PerthNow reports. Chaos broke out on Friday as about a hundred activists defied an order and refused to leave the square by 9am.
According to The Australian, police had taken down the campsite and destroyed tents before the arrests. Despite Friday's events, 400 protesters rallied in Federation Square in Melbourne on Saturday.
Yet the arrests on Friday continue to fuel reactions on Twitter.
@Suicidegirls tweeted, "This is INSANE!!!! Mass arrests @OccupyMelbourne..."
@peacegalaxy tweets, "Shame on Melbourne Police. POWER TO THE PEACEFUL! Riot Police Brutalize Occupy Melbourne Protesters."
And @TheDebateRoom writes, "Please contact the Occupy Melbourne legal team with all reports of police brutality. Especially if you were hurt."was also criticized when a YouTube video (shown below) surfaced of a cop shooting pepper spray into a crowd of women. | <urn:uuid:a8ce7bfa-15a7-4285-ae97-ece1370aa6e9> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/occupy-melbourne-protesters-arrested_n_1026552.html | 2015-07-04T20:08:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096870.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00010-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95047 | 278 | [
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Former NFL scout Daniel Jeremiah published a piece on NFL.com this week in which he looks as a handful of Draft prospects and draws comparisons between them, and the player he sees as their NFL equivalent. When it comes to Johnny Manziel, Jeremiah sees flashes of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.
“The Cowboys' signal-caller is bigger, but he and Manziel have similar skill sets and styles of play,” Jeremiah writes. “As passers, neither Manziel nor Romo have elite arm strength, but both can generate enough velocity to make every throw on the passing tree. Also, they can deliver the ball accurately from a variety of platforms and arm angles.
“They both have outstanding pocket awareness and the ability to escape the free rusher. They excel at extending plays and delivering accurate throws while on the move, to both the right and left sides of the field.”
Jeremiah admits it isn’t easy to compare Manziel to anyone (he also mentions Michael Vick and Doug Flutie), but his going with Romo isn’t terribly surprising. Former Cowboys player and coach/former Texas A&M player and coach Dat Nguyen drew just such a comparison last year.
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There's no such thing as DNS forwarding, as far as I know....
There are three main ways you can display a different website for a domain name:
1. Put it in frames. Someone will host http://otherdomain.com/
which is just a full page frame of http://mydomain.com/
. Frames are generally erhm, "sub-optimal" (don't do it!!). Hosters have all kinds of creative names for this, but it always sucks.
2. Using a DNS CNAME. In this case, the DNS for otherdomain.com resolves with the IP address of mydomain.com. If your server can serve content this way (you might need a change of settings), your content will be available on http://otherdomain.com/
as well as http://mydomain.com/
. The bad part about this is that search engines can't determine which one is the "real source" and may crawl and index both of them, potentially "diluting" your impact in the search results. While better than #1, I still wouldn't recommend doing this unless you have to. Even then, you might consider keeping all but one domain locked away with a robots.txt disallow (which you would have to be careful when setting up).
3. Just 301. It's easy & search engine friendly. It brings the user and the search engine to the URL of your choice. If you have generic domain names this might make a lot of sense. I bet lots of users try candy.com when they want to buy candy; if your site is SweetsByJoshua.com then users who try candy.com will get redirected and be able tot get their candy from your real website. This is what I would prefer. | <urn:uuid:15d3f3eb-ae02-4e4d-a89d-75bacb888874> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums/topic/68799-dns-forwarding-and-301/ | 2015-07-06T18:09:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098685.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00260-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953748 | 367 | [
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Ottawa's rich array of services
and natural treasures allow the citizens of this community to enjoy
unparalleled health, comfort and economic security. In return, the
people of Ottawa share a profound pride in, and affection for, their
Capital -- its history and accomplishments, and its magnificent
potential. A bilingual place to live and grow, Ottawa is ranked
among the world’s most desirable cities to call home.
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Author Notes: Each man to his own I say - Salted caramel a la Francais, Salty Liquorice van de Dutch. The combination of salt in sweets can go either way but there's one flavour that has me dreaming again and again: Salted caramel. How do I describe the perfect balance of sweet, the simplicity of flavours and the absolute wow-factor of this recipe? Crisp shortbread, layered with caramel and topped with melted chocolate. Cooled till the chocolate hardens and cracks when cut, to reveal a flowing smooth layer of caramel (Confiture de lait / dulce de Leche) and then garnished with a sprinkling of flaky sea salt. Beauty at its peak! The caramel can be bought or made....I bought mine.... —Kitchen Butterfly
Serves as many as 8...or 1
- 250g softened butter
- 85g caster sugar
- 300g plain flour
- 2 Tablespoons ground almonds
- 100g dulce de leche
- 100g milk chocolate
- (Maldon) Salt flakes, to garnish
- Preheat the oven to 160 deg Centigrade (325 deg Fahrenheit)
- Mix the butter and sugar in a bowl with a wooden spoon till soft, about 1-2 minutes. Slowly add the flour, 100g at a time. If the dough becomes too stiff to stir, gently knead in the rest of the flour with your hands
- Grease and ‘flour’ (with the ground almonds) a shallow, round pan (about 2cm deep and 23cm diameter).
- Don’t be too fussed if dough breaks while trying to get it into the pan. Once in pan, press down with your fingers to ensure it is evenly spread out
- Slice through into wedges with a knife by cutting first into halves, then quarters then eights and then prick top the top with a fork
- Bake for 30 – 40 minutes in the centre of the oven or until firm to touch…and light brown in colour. Remove from oven and let cool. When cool, remove from tin and place on serving plate/stand.
- Spread dulce de leche onto shortbread and spread with a spatula. Then melt chocolate in a bain marie (a bowl set over simmering water in a pan). When melted, pour over dulce de leche and spread out with a spatula
- This is the stage when the chocolate shortbread is covered with a piece of foil and refigerated for the chocolate to harden.
- When hardened and before serving, sprinkle some seasalt flakes over the top. Warm a knife by dipping into some very hot water and slice. Enjoy!
- PS: should you have any bits left over, stir into softened vanilla icecream and serve
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Holiday Confection
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Chocolate Cookie
Hummus Is Your Lunchtime Hero
From salads to sandwiches—expand your hummus horizons
Hummus is a lunchtime hero.
Just for the halibut.
A quesadilla, case closed.
Savor the season.
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The above picture (courtesy of Meteorologica) shows the British Isles complete with mapped isobars. These are the many blue lines shown on the map and denote lines of equal air pressure. The term isobar is derived from iso, from the Greek meaning equal and bar, one of the unit names given for air pressure measurement.
We have High pressure (aka an anticyclone) over the UK at the moment: Tuesday's map* showed it was to the south-east with the pressure well over 1000 millibars (1027 in fact). High pressure means a period of calmer weather, which we've actually been enjoying over the past couple of weeks or so. You can tell the weather is calmer from the map if the space between the isobars is relatively wide.
However, whilst the weather has been quiet and sunny, the winds on the whole have been bitterly cold because they've been from the north or east. As air circulates in a clockwise direction around an anticyclone in the northern hemisphere, you can tell which way the wind is blowing simply by finding the centre of the High and following it round to its position over the British Isles. Luckily there's also been sunshine, so it's been fairly pleasant outside for gardening once the early morning frost has gone, though that cold wind has meant I've had to resort to my fingerless gloves from time to time.
Today, our weather is set to change to dull and wet as a Low (aka cyclone) is due to come in from the south-west tomorrow. It means the air pressure will probably fall to below 1000 millibars, the mapped isobars will grow closer together and their alignment over the British Isles will change as the wind picks up and veers round to the south-west.
Maps like the one shown are one of the basic tools used by weather forecasters. The data for the maps are collected from dozens of weather stations throughout the UK and the air pressure measurements are corrected to sea level values (as air pressure varies with height) before the computer produces a map like the one above. When they're shown on the TV forecast, I get much more out of that simple visual cue on how our weather will be over the next day or so, than any amount of description from the presenter. There's nothing like the tightly packed isobars of a remnant hurricane heading our way to get me rushing out into the garden to batten down the hatches!
* = I have no idea what the map will be showing when you read this as it appears the HTML code I'm using to show you the map updates the map every few hours or so rather than being a snapshot in time!
How's the weather with you today?
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A Journalist Looks at Modern-Day Experiences of God's Power
By Tim Stafford
"Probing, clarifying, and speaking to skeptics and believers alike, Stafford is thoroughly convincing as he digs deep to comment on biblical and contemporary examples of miracles."—Luci Shaw, author, Breath for the Bones, What the Light Was Like
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Should you expect miracles? Ignore them? Pray for them? How active is God in the world today? Read more about the new book on modern-day miracles by award-winning journalist Tim Stafford.
Read Chapters 1 and 2 of Tim Stafford's "Miracles: A Journalist Looks at Modern Day Experiences of God's Power"
Chat with Tim Stafford about his new book and share your own experiences of modern miracles on Wednesday, July 25, from 2-3 pm EST, right here at the Book Club.
The award-winning journalist talks about his new book, and the case for believing in modern miracles.
While I view several matters differently than Stafford does, I can still recommend his book as offering a much-needed corrective to sloppy and unhelpful thinking about miracles that tends to predominate in Evangelical circles.
Stafford’s penultimate chapter, What We Know and How We Should Use It, should be required reading for Christians across the board, whatever their stance toward miracles.
I started reading Miracles at daybreak and finished by late morning, sipping coffee and nodding my head at Stafford’s solid scholarship and theological insight.
The same natural laws governed the universe before, during, and after the biblical period. Neither the Bible nor any other sacred text correlates to some magical time when the laws of physics were periodically suspended — either yesterday or today.
Reading Miracles, I kept feeling like AD Walter Skinner on The X-Files, listening to another astonishing report from Agent Fox Mulder. I kept wanting to ask the question Skinner always asked, “What does Agent Scully think about this?”
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Professor Emeritus of Microbiology Hideo Yonenaka passed away in his sleep on Aug. 26 at the age of 84. A much-loved colleague, friend, teacher, advisor and mentor, Yonenaka taught in the department of biology from 1963 to 1992. After spending four years in a World War II Japanese-American internment camp, Yonenaka went on to serve in the U.S. Army before studying at University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California, Scripps and UC Santa Barbara. He is survived by his wife, Professor Emerita of Biology Shanna Yonenaka, children Christopher and Kimberly, and his grandchildren. A memorial service was scheduled for Sept. 3 at the Konko Church in San Francisco. | <urn:uuid:ab48f2f3-052c-4194-87da-f5614fcac432> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/cmemo/fall10/sept7memoriam.htm | 2015-06-30T14:31:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375093974.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031813-00200-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951182 | 152 | [
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Never Trust an Animal with a Mask - Aug 5, 2009
The day started beautifully, hardly any traffic and relatively cool. Throughout this trip I will do my best to stay off the major roadways, keeping my travels to secondary highways. So with that...
Sure it's hot-but its a dry heat. - Aug 26, 2009
Yosemite National Park to Death Valley to Lake Mead I’m up, packed and on the road by 6 am. Not because I couldn’t sleep wondering where the bear would strike next but mainly due to ...
Some final thoughts... - Aug 29, 2009
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As part of De Player’s innovative BIGMAG. series of publications, a selection of works from the show’s archive will be released on twin 12″ vinyl records, in combination with artwork commissioned from participating artists.
In keeping with the show’s premise – audio works in a dark cinema – and the notion of cinema being created in the mind’s eye, a ‘never filmed’ screenplay by film maker Gabor Altorjay will be included as part of the package.
With mathematical titles such as SYMMETRY (BM#1), HEXAGON (BM#2), POLYTOPIA (BM#3), De Player continues the series with ˈtɛsərə (BM#4).
tɛsərə (BM#4) will be released on 27th January 2011 at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, at a special event with performances by participating artists, a script reading, musical acts and a presentation of The Audible Picture Show.
John Parry & Matt Hulse will premiere a new performance with the title Old Age Should Burn And Rave At Close Of Day involving live arm wrestling over a Dylan Thomas EP.
The artists included on ˈtɛsərə (BM#4) are Zoë Irvine, John Parry, Philip Newcombe, Mr Clay, Helena Gough, Matt Hulse, Danielle Simpson, Christine Olejniczak, Peter Fengler and Joost van Veen.
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Video: A Dark-n-Stormy Day in Brooklyn
On the day Sandy hit, reporter Sally Herships went out into the streets of Brooklyn for a last-minute look at consumers' last minute preparations.
Wondering what stores stay open in the face of a hurricane? In Park Slope there are three kinds: delis, restaurants or bars, and liquor stores. Every other storefront I passed -- nail salons, shoe stores, pet groomers - - had their windows taped up or metal shutters down, which was probably a good idea. But for the establishments that were braving the elements, business was booming. "Christmas-time busy” is how the owner of a wine shop on 7th Avenue categorized it. And for a Monday afternoon -- a rainy-windy-tropical-storm-potentially-hurricane-category-bad-weather day -- the shop did seem pretty busy. People came in empty handed and left with clinking bottles. The most popular request seemed to be rum, the most popular drink, a Dark-n-Stormy. | <urn:uuid:f032e293-77bd-4333-91f6-e73013b6feb3> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/video-dark-n-stormy-day-brooklyn | 2015-07-02T22:52:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095671.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00140-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942717 | 222 | [
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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Mar 25, 2014) - Atlantic Records has announced the release of "WHO IS QUE." the debut solo EP from Que. The eagerly anticipated EP arrives today, March 25th, on the iTunes Store and other leading digital retailers (http://smarturl.it/whoisque).
"WHO IS QUE." includes the biggest street hit of 2014, "OG Bobby Johnson," which is rapidly shaping up as a major breakthrough for Que. The track has drawn widespread online attention, with XXL declaring that "(Que's) got the streets on lock with his viral hit, 'OG Bobby Johnson,'" while The Source noted that the Atlanta-based rapper is "setting the radio on fire." In addition, the official video for "OG Bobby Johnson" is proving a certifiable YouTube phenomenon, earning close to 4.5 million individual views and counting at www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH79_OxpqK0&list=PLMqnb-mT7xoDeki_CZOiA9IKD1PQAiwXW.
As if all that weren't enough, "OG Bobby Johnson" has also won over some of hip-hop's biggest superstars, including Jay Z, who just rocked a VIP afterparty by rapping along to the increasingly popular track (http://instagram.com/p/izkEcKQisg). Other celebrity fans include LeBron James -- who declared "OG Bobby Johnson" to be his "new theme song on gameday" in a recent Instagram post (http://instagram.com/p/hWn5t-iTEK) - and labelmate Waka Flocka Flame, who called the track his "favorite club banger of the moment" in a recent Vibe.com feature.
"WHO IS QUE." further features the exclusive "OG Bobby Johnson (Official Remix) (Feat. Snoop Dogg, Pusha T & A$AP Ferg)," spinning now at Que's official YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvFSngbB2tw. Among its many other highlights, the EP also includes his new "glitzy trap-inspired banger," (XXL) "Too Much (Feat. Lizzle & Trey Songz)" as well as the Sonny Digital-produced track, "Time," the companion video for which is streaming now at www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHmqjtTNeyo.
Que began making waves with his 2013 underground smash, "Young N*gga (Feat. Migos)," featured on "FORBES ATLANTA," his now-classic mixtape collaboration with GRAMMY®-nominated producer Sonny Digital (YC, Wiz Khalifa, 2 Chainz, Beyoncé). Acclaimed for his unique, introspective flow, the Atlanta-by-way-of-Kansas City-based rapper has quickly added to his resume by making an array of electrifying guest appearances alongside such like-minded artists as French Montana, Juicy J, and Ludacris, with recent highlights including DJ Mustard's hit "Vato (Feat. YG, Jeezy & Que)" and DJ Scream's "Always (Feat. Que, Gunplay, Waka & Tracy T)."
For more news and information, please see http://whoisque.com, http://twitter.com/whoisque (@whoisque), www.facebook.com/whoisque, www.youtube.com/whoisque, and www.atlanticrecords.com.
"WHO IS QUE."
Release Date: March 25th
1. From The Jump
2. OG Bobby Johnson
5. Too Much (Feat. Lizzle & Trey Songz)
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7. Hoe Fax *
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Weaknesses: Only that I need to lose 40 pounds to do this bike justice
I'd been waiting to lose more weight before upgrading from my 2009 Trek 2.3 (Shimano 105), believing that I just couldn't justify riding a CF bike until I was lighter myself. Upon retirement, I finally took the plunge on the blue 2014 XL Defy Advanced 1 that had been sitting in my LBS for the last nine months waiting for me. I still need to lose the weight, but . . . oh my goodness, what an incredible bike!
First, and most importantly, in my dotage I've decided that all other things being equal, SERVICE is the difference in buying anything important and/or expensive. One of the reasons I bought the Giant is because that's what my favorite Richmond, VA bike store -- Pedal Power Bikes -- sells. It's not the biggest LBS in Richmond, but Randy, Sean, Travis, and Latane know me by name and give me the frequent flyer discount. They never try to sell me more than I really need. If I have a problem, I know they're going to resolve it quickly and well.
That being said, after spending a year researching classic/plush/endurance road bikes, it was clear to me that Giants are consistently specced better than similarly priced bikes. I suspect that's because Trek, Scott, and the other bikes actually made by Giant have to pay Giant for the frame, so they cut corners on the components to match Giant's prices. That shows up especially in cranksets, wheels, saddles, and handlebars. The Defy Advanced is 100% Ultegra gruppo, a CF seatpost supporting a Fizik Aliante pro-level saddle. I did move my FSA Wing Pro handlebar upgrade from my Trek to the Defy, but that's the only upgrade I felt I had to make. If you're comparing the Defy Advanced to similarly priced bikes, look carefully at the components. Trust me, a FSA crank does NOT shift as well as an Ultegra. Trek's stock saddles are horrible. Compare apples to apples.
Riding this bike is just astonishing. Once I got the fit dialed in by putting a shorter stem on it, the bike "disappeared beneath me." That's a cliche from bike magazine reviews, but once in a while cliches are true. The day after I bought the bike I rode the same 30 mile loop I rode the day before I bought the bike. I was 1.1 mph faster on the Defy Advanced. Not only did I climb hills faster, I descended hills faster. I can explain the first, but not the second. More importantly, at the end of the ride I wasn't worn out by the road buzz from my old aluminum frame. From my hands to my butt, I felt so much better I couldn't believe it.
The Ultegra group is wonderful. Shifts are crisper and quicker than 105, with shorter lever throws and less effort. The brakes are everything I could ask for and more.
I was amazed at the out-of-the-box comfort of the Fizik Aliante saddle. On the Trek, I went through three saddles before finding one I could live with (Bontrager Affinity RL). I have no need to swap out this saddle, and it gets better with every ride.
I see that Giant is tweaking the frame for 2015, and going all-out on disk brakes. Obviously, they know something about the UCI. My recommendation is that unless you really need disk brakes, and your ego requires the latest-and-greatest of everything, don't hesitate to snatch the current Defy Advanced while you can. As the British would say, this bike is brilliant.
Bike Setup: Full Ultegra gruppo, FSA Wing Pro Compact handlebar, Shimano PD-A520 (SPD) pedals, Continental Gatorskin tires
a Recreational Rider
Date Reviewed: November 29, 2012
Strengths: This bike is very smooth on the road and incredibly comfortable. Very responsive and has fast acceleration. The frame engineering of this bike is quite impressive. Ultegra components.
Weaknesses: None yet.
I am a older rider and wanted a comfortable endurance road bike. Tried two models of the Specialized Roubaix which were quite nice but the 2013 Giant Advanced 1 was smooth and comfortable from the first time I rode it. This bike fits me beautifully and is a great value.
Finding one of these bikes to ride is a problem. I tried multiple Giant dealers who said they would order what ever I wanted but had nothing in stock...until I called Newbery Park Bike Shop in Newbery Park, CA. They had one in their warehouse and built it just so I could test it. They seemed confident that once I rode it I would buy it and I did. I am extremely happy with this bike!
Strengths: Comfortable for long rides, accelerates quickly, precise handling, good climber
Purchased the 2013 model, and can't believe how responsive this bike is. It easily allows me to stay in the saddle for hours longer than before and be able to increase my average speed by 2-3mph as well. The shifting and steering are precise. Very happy with this bike!!
Strengths: Descending, cornering, all around balance
Weaknesses: Not the most responsive climbing bike, but still awesome.
I have a Taiwan version of the Defy Advanced 1. I have the same experience of this bike COASTING faster than other bikes. So many races and challenge rides where I discover the same thing.
This bike is great. Corners and descends amazingly. I have a triple crank and just love the huge range of gears for the tough Taiwan mountains. Did a 400km ride across the Taiwan Central Mountain range, and couldn't have been happier on this bike.
Bike Setup: Triple front crank.
Shimano Ultegra 6700
Michelin Pro 3
a Recreational Rider
Date Reviewed: August 21, 2011
Strengths: Ultrega group is light and efficient. Frame is AMAZING: somehow stiff and efficient AND comfortable and smooth. (How did they do that?!) Wheels are just right - light enough, stiff enough - perfect.
Weaknesses: Well, it did cost 3 grand.
OMG. I'm too old to use that abbreviation, but my Giant Defy Advanced 1 is making me feel like a kid again.
I turned 50 this year, and I thought that my road riding days were really over. I'd been riding a 1996 Bianchi EL/OS with a Campy Chorus group, but lately I'd been experiencing more pain due to the bike beating me up. 10 years ago I was putting thousands of miles on a bike every year, but this had dwindled down to a hundred miles each year. The 2001 Giant Defy Advanced 1 has changed all that. If I had no other responsibilities, I would ride this bike 50 miles every day. | <urn:uuid:0c93e354-989e-439d-946e-e237c2395142> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.roadbikereview.com/cat/latest-bikes/road-bike/giant/defy-advanced-1/prd_426266_5668crx.aspx | 2015-07-02T22:59:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095671.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00140-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967812 | 1,474 | [
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Sembcorp Utilities UK Ltd
P O Box 1985
Tel: (44) 1642 212000
Fax: (44) 1642 212690
Please note that Bournemouth Water is no longer part of Sembcorp, use this link to read more.
If you have any enquiries relating to your water account then please use the following contact details;
For household and business accounts, call us on 01202 590059.
Bournemouth Water are open Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, and on Saturdays from 9am to 2pm. Please be aware your call may be recorded to help them improve their service.
You can also email them or write to them at the following address:
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By Richard Allen Greene
BBC News, Washington
Lawyers defending confessed al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui will have their work cut out for them when phase two of his trial begins on Thursday.
Moussaoui has said he planned to attack the White House
They will be trying to persuade the jury not to have him executed - only three days after it ruled he was eligible for the death penalty.
The defence plans to call a psychiatric expert to say Moussaoui is schizophrenic, and a sociologist to say he suffered racism as an impoverished child in France.
Those mitigating circumstances, they hope, will build jury sympathy for the only person tried in the United States for the 11 September attacks.
But the prosecution has its own plans to counter such appeals to emotion.
Government lawyers are expected to read out the names of 2,972 people who died in the deadliest attack on US soil, and to show photographs of each.
They will also call as witnesses about 45 relatives of people who died on 9/11.
Moussaoui's exact role in 9/11 remains unclear, despite years of investigation - and his own testimony in court.
After his arrest three weeks before the attacks, he said he was to be part of a later wave of strikes, not the 9/11 plot itself.
Then, when he took the stand at his trial in March 2006, he stunned the court by saying he had been training to fly a plane into the White House on the same day the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked.
It is not clear how credible that claim is, not least because it directly contradicts testimony from what might seem to be an unimpeachable source - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, generally believed to be the mastermind behind the attacks.
Sheikh Mohammed has been in US custody at an undisclosed location for three years, but Moussaoui's defence team introduced nearly 60 pages of evidence gleaned from his interrogation.
The opening statement accompanying the submission notes that Sheikh Mohammed "is not available to testify either in person or by video for national security reasons", but adds that his comments "were made under circumstances designed to elicit truthful statements from the witness".
Sheikh Mohammed makes absolutely clear in the testimony that Moussaoui was to be part of a second, ill-defined attack on the US after 9/11.
The senior al-Qaeda planner did not expect the 9/11 attacks to be as spectacularly effective as they were - or the overwhelming US response - and so hoped to carry off a similar strike later with hijackers who carried non-Arab passports.
Moussaoui, a French citizen, could have played a role in the later attacks, Sheikh Mohammed told his interrogators.
His evidence was among the most detailed look into how al-Qaeda planned the event - and the first time he has been heard from unambiguously since he disappeared into US custody in March 2003.
Sheikh Mohammed has been in US custody since March 2003
(The 9/11 Commission report cites evidence he gave interrogators, but does not quote him directly. Evidence thought to be from him was used in the trial of suspected al-Qaeda plotter Mounir al-Motassadek, but Sheikh Mohammed was not named as the source of the information.)
In a written statement, he said Westerners would find it hard to understand how compartmentalised al-Qaeda was.
"I know the materialistic Western mind cannot grasp the idea, and it is difficult for them to believe that high officials in al-Qaeda do not know about operations carried out by its operatives, but this is how it works," he said.
He added that al-Qaeda ran on absolute obedience to Osama Bin Laden - though he himself appeared to have a slightly uneasy relationship with the leader, the BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera says.
He held off pledging loyalty to Bin Laden as long as he could, he told interrogators, and even had to tell the al-Qaeda chief to keep quiet about the upcoming attacks after Bin Laden hinted at them in August 2001.
Counting the cost
But neither Osama Bin Laden nor Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be before the jury in Alexandria, Virginia - Zacarias Moussaoui will.
Prosecutors will introduce a mountain of information to persuade the jury that he deserves a lethal injection.
In addition to the names of the dead, they will cite examples of the damage the 9/11 attacks did to New York and its economy:
- The deaths of 343 firefighters, 23 police officers, an FBI agent and a secret service officer
- The destruction of 12m sq ft (1m sq metres) of office space and more than 467 government vehicles
- The disruption of rail and subway trains
- Several billion dollars worth of property damage
The defence, for its part, seems to be planning an appeal to the jury's hoped-for bloody-mindedness.
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Notice of Joint Lead Commissioner Workshop on Inputs and Methods for Transportation Energy Demand Forecasts
The California Energy Commission Lead Commissioner on the Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and Lead Commissioner on Transportation will conduct a workshop to describe methods, assumptions and input data to be used to prepare transportation energy demand forecasts. The workshop enables the Energy Commission to receive input from stakeholders, with particular transportation emphasis on electricity, natural gas, hydrogen, petroleum and renewable fuel price forecasts, vehicle attribute forecasts, vehicle miles traveled, and fuel supply/demand balances.
Commissioner Andrew McAllister is the Lead Commissioner for the IEPR and Commissioner Janea A. Scott is the Lead Commissioner for transportation activities. Other commissioners may attend and participate in the workshop. The workshop will be held:
June 26, 2013
CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION
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Why Shoals Hospital?
Shoals Hospital was founded in 1968 by a group of physicians dedicated to serving residents of Colbert County. Today, the 178-bed, general acute care facility boasts spacious, private rooms for all patients as well as a 24-hour emergency department; medical and oncology services; medical/surgical inpatient units; and an intensive care and short-stay surgery units. Shoals also operates the region’s only in-patient acute rehabilitation facility, the J. W. Sommer Rehabilitation Unit and the Shoals Senior Care Center, the Shoals’ only psychiatric unit dedicated to our senior adults.
Shoals Hospital is always looking for highly qualified medical professionals and support personnel to assist in our mission. We are a community of compassionate and skilled caregivers devoted to meeting the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of those we and privileged to serve.
About the Shoals Area
The Shoals area is composed of four cities, Florence, Sheffield, Tuscumbia and Muscle Shoals. On the banks of the Tennessee River, the Shoals area is a beautiful place and its residents enjoy four distinct but gentle seasons, historic and new neighborhoods, a University, cultural and arts facilities and events, and a broad range of outdoor activities.
The Shoals is a regional shopping area, drawing from a 150-mile radius. It’s also home to two of the golf courses on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, and tourists enjoy golf, fishing, and other local attractions. Helen Keller was born here; so was W.C. Handy, Father of the Blues. The Alabama Music Hall of Fame is located here, as is the only Frank Lloyd Wright designed residence in the state of Alabama, now a museum.
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Purdue University Calumet celebrates homecoming on campus Saturday (2/9) with two basketball games, two presentations of award and recognition, an alumni reception and a student dance.
Purdue Calumet’s women’s basketball team hosts Judson College at 4:30 p.m., followed at 7 p.m. by the Peregrines-Judson men’s teams game. Both contests will take place in the Fitness & Recreation Center at the south end of campus.
During halftime of the men’s game, Purdue Calumet 1990 alumna and former women’s basketball player Brenda (Clark) Drook will receive the Purdue Alumni Association-Calumet’s annual Bob Hayes Athletic Alumni Award. Drook is a school teacher and head varsity boys basketball coach at Hebron High School.
Purdue Calumet Asst. Vice Chancellor of Health, Recreation and Sports Robert Bunnell will introduce the charter inductee of the new Purdue University Calumet Athletic Hall of Fame.
An alumni reception, hosted by the Purdue Alumni Association-Calumet, will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 6:50 p.m. in the southeast corner of the gymnasium. All alumni and their families are invited to attend.
Additionally, the PUC Dance team will perform and Homecoming Court candidates will be introduced at halftime of the men’s game. The candidates are:
King: Raul Curiel of Hammond, Accounting major;
Queen: Katy Rojas, Hammond, Finance; Natalie King, Merrillville, Elementary Education; Melissa Powell, Hammond, Accounting/Human Resources;
Prince: Conrad Kerosky, Highland; Silas Simpson, Gary, Criminal Justice; Brandon Sims, Merrillville, Entrepreneurship;
Princess: Shari Warren, Hammond, Pre-Optometry; Jacqueline Perez, St. John, Hospitality and Tourism Management; Farrin Clay, Hammond, Criminal Justice; Sydney Ruman, St. John, Chemistry (Pre-Med); and Vanessa Roman, Munster, Radio Broadcasting.
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A school bus driver was sentenced Monday to a year in jail for crashing a minibus with five children aboard into a Syosset home while he was drunk last fall.
Frederick Flowers had pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and other charges at Nassau County court.
Prosecutors said the 66-year-old Massapequa Park man was under the influence of alcohol when he crashed the bus into a house on Teibrook Avenue in October.
Flowers told the court he was “beyond sorry” and his lawyer said he repeatedly asked how the children are doing, according to NBC New York.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
SEC Charges Investment Adviser With Fraudulent Management of CDOs Tied to Mortgage-Backed Securities
The SEC today charged a New York-based investment adviser, Thomas Priore, and three of his affiliated firms with fraudulently managing investment products tied to the mortgage markets as they came under pressure in 2007. The SEC alleges that Priore and ICP Asset Management LLC defrauded four multi-billion-dollar collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) by engaging in fraudulent practices and misrepresentations that caused the CDOs to lose tens of millions of dollars. Priore and his companies also improperly obtained tens of millions of dollars in advisory fees and undisclosed profits at the expense of their clients and investors.
According to the SEC's complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, ICP began serving in 2006 as the collateral manager for what were known as the Triaxx CDOs, which invested primarily in mortgage-backed securities. The SEC alleges that ICP and Priore directed more than a billion dollars of trades for the Triaxx CDOs at what they knew were inflated prices. ICP and Priore repeatedly caused the Triaxx CDOs to overpay for securities in order to make money for ICP and protect other ICP clients from realizing losses. The prices for such trades often exceeded market prices by substantial margins. In some trades, ICP caused the CDOs to pay a price that was substantially higher than the price another ICP client paid for the security earlier the same day.
According to the SEC's complaint, ICP and Priore caused the CDOs to make numerous prohibited investments without obtaining necessary approvals, and they later misrepresented those investments to the trustee of the CDOs and to investors. The prices of many of these investments were intentionally inflated to allow ICP to collect millions of dollars in advisory fees from the CDOs. The SEC further alleges that ICP and Priore executed undisclosed cash transfers from a hedge fund they managed in order to allow another ICP client to meet the margin calls of one of its creditors. Priore subsequently misrepresented the transfers to the hedge fund's investors.ICP's affiliated broker-dealer ICP Securities LLC and its parent company Institutional Credit Partners LLC also are charged in the SEC's complaint.
The SEC's complaint charges the defendants with violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, Sections 10(b) and 15(c)(1)(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rules 10b-3 and 10b-5 thereunder, and Sections 204, 206(1), 206(2), 206(3), and 206(4) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and Rules 204-2, 206(4)-7, and 206(4)-8 thereunder. The SEC's complaint seeks permanent injunctions barring future violations of the federal securities laws, disgorgement of the defendants' ill-gotten gains with pre-judgment interest, and monetary penalties. | <urn:uuid:99c8a568-a61c-4d9a-a6e1-06a9390b24c8> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/securities/2010/06/sec-charges-investment-adviser-with-fraudulent-management-of-cdos-tied-to-mortgagebacked-securities.html | 2015-06-30T21:43:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375094501.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031814-00270-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959327 | 620 | [
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Vijay Paul Sharma, Ph.D.
Christopher L. Delgado, Ph.D.
Steven Staal, Ph.D.
Raj Vir Singh, Ph.D.
July 25, 2003
This paper was produced as part of Phase II of an IFPRI-FAO project entitled Livestock Industrialization, Trade and Social-Health-Environment Impacts in Developing Countries, funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), U.K., through the Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) initiative at FAO. Correspondence may be addressed to the scientific coordinator for the project, Dr. Christopher Delgado, IFPRI, 2033 K St, N.W., Washington D.C. 20006, USA. Email: [email protected].
Chairman, Post Graduate
Programme (Agribusiness Management), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad,
Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2033 K St. NW, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
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International pressure is mounting on the Syrian government to stop its crackdown on dissent, with the European Union expected to expand its sanctions against the country's oil sector.
Diplomats said a decision to add the state-owned General Petroleum Corporation, along with several other Syrian firms, to the list of sanctioned companies was expected on Thursday.
Measures could also be taken to ban selling of software that could be used to monitor internet and telephone communications.
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Arab League chief Nabil al-Araby joined EU foreign ministers for talks in the Belgian capital, Brussels.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she was "very pleased" with the unprecedented sanctions that the Arab League slapped on Syria last weekend.
EU ministers and al-Araby would try to determine "the best and most appropriate ways that we can collaborate," she said.
The world's largest Islamic body on Wednesday urged Syria to "immediately stop using excessive force" against citizens, to avert the threat of foreign intervention.
The Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC) also urged Syria to co-operate with the Arab League, which has imposed unprecedented sanctions on Damascus.
In a statement released after the group's meeting in Saudi Arabia, the OIC urged "all parties in Syria to renounce violence and resort to peaceful means".
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Separately, an Arab League committee overseeing the sanctions has listed 17 people banned from travel to Arab states, including President Bashar al-Assad's brother, Maher, Egypt's state news agency said on Thursday.
The list also included the defence and interior ministers, intelligence officials and senior military officers.
The committee recommended stopping flights to and from Syria starting mid-December and also recommended exempting wheat, medicine, gas and electricity from the ban on trade with Syria's government, the agency reported.
Further tightening regional pressure, Turkey has said it will suspend all financial dealings with Syria and freeze the assets of Assad's government.
Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, said on Wednesday that Assad's government had come "to the end of the road".
He said Turkey will block the delivery of all weapons and military equipment to Syria.
"Every bullet fired, every bombed mosque has eliminated the legitimacy of the Syrian leadership and has widened the gap between us," Davutoglu said. "Syria has squandered the last chance that it was given."
Syria's government has said the Arab League declared an "economic war" when it decided to impose sanctions.
Adnan Mahmoud, the country's information minister, said the cabinet looked at several measure to cope with the impact of sanctions.
He said Syrians should not fear shortages in basic commodities.
Said Hirsh, a Middle East economist, comments
on the effect sanctions could have on Syria
"The government reiterates its commitment to secure the provision of the needs of Syrian citizens with the existence of self-sufficiency and a strategic stockpile of basic commodities and food, which should assure the people and push away their fears of lacking any commodity from the markets," he said.
Mahmoud said Syria would also look to "friendly" markets that are not affected by the "American and Western" policies.
On the ground in Syria, the international criticism seemed to have little effect as violence continued on Wednesday.
Seven Syrian soldiers were killed by army renegades and six civilians were shot dead, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The group said clashes erupted in the southern town of Dael when security forces moved in during the early morning, and continued well into afternoon.
"Two security force vehicles were blown up. Seven [troops] were killed," Rami Abdel-Rahman, head of the observatory, said.
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Well, the market is there folks.
All 12 apartments in the newly renovated Federal Building have been rented. This has occurred many weeks - even a month or two - before the official opening.
It shows what happens when a company with reputable leadership do their homework, set proper price points, and pay attention to historical details.
(for example: the sign was saved, fixed, and glows red neon at night)
Never been inside The Federal Building?
let's take a look ...
Designed by the world-famous architect and city planner Daniel Burnham (think Union Station in DC and the layout of Chicago) in 1899, the four-story structure is a significant one in Youngstown's history.
Stepping inside the lobby, we can see an art-deco inspired lobby added at a later date.
The renovated hallways have kept the original wooden doors, and the terrazzo floors shine throughout.
The attention to detail on the lighting and paint colors is a great touch.
The wooden designed railings have been kept, and repainted.
Now, let's step inside one of the units.
First thing you see is the amazing view - just look at the beautiful art deco Metropolitan Tower from the window...
The reddish building on the left is another Burnham building in Youngstown, this one 13 stories tall, but sadly the wonderfully ornate cornice was removed at some point.
However, we can still see the amazing details in the building - a building now over 100 years old itself (and rumored to be a boutique hotel downtown). What a view of the details from these apartments!
Now looking out some additional windows...
And inside the kitchen and living room...
Now going down to the ground floor, to the restaurant level...
Here's the view from the side private room along Phelps Street. Great window views!
The restaurant too has kept some unique details...check out the design.
Mixing the old and the new, here is the tile pattern that will be located in the kitchen and to the bathrooms:
While the Federal Building as a long-term business success still has to be determined, the project has a great start out of the gate.
The attention to detail and respect to the original architecture makes the entire building a gem to walk through.
Add the fact that all of the apartments are rented before the grand opening, the rollout of the renovation is a pretty impressive feat.
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The Impact of Militarization
Weaponization of Space on Peace and Development.
‘Peace may sound simple – one beautiful word – but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.’ – Yehudi Menuhin (1961-1999)
‘Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence and justice.’ -- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677).
The history provides us with concrete facts and details that it was filled with battles and wars which have shaken mankind by overshadowing terror’s darkest mantle by means of causing collateral damages, genocides, blood baths, guerrilla warfares, turmoils, immolations…. the list is endless. The war tactics and war ammunitions have always gained momentum as time elapsed, decades rolled and centuries passed. The 20th and the 21st century have witnessed the escalation of war and the Red Cross estimates the death rate over millions since the dawn of the century. The World War II which was supposed to be the end of all the wars has witnessed 150 major wars in the later years. The nations are becoming ‘warholics’ by up surging in weponizing and militarizing itself with WMD’s (Weapons of Mass Destruction) but in contrast shedding little or no light on the importance of peace, development and progress of the nations in constructive ways. In the near past too the consequences of the nuclear age as seen in the nuke-hit areas, especially Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been devastating and can be unimaginable more than ever, as we are heading towards the next phase i.e. The Space Age -- the age where peace and understanding are the only ultimate condition for survival.
The need for global peace and harmony vis-à-vis the uprising of nuclear arms race and use of weaponry in space is the bone of contention that is alarming the national securities and their interests world-wide. This consciousness among the nations arose after the White House released the new U.S National Space Doctrine from the Bush Administration. First and foremost it stated that it could deploy offensive weaponry systems in space, thus making the other countries satellites more vulnerable against the anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) of the U.S. Secondly, the U.S will oppose any new legal regimes that may be against their interests in regard to the use of Space. Thirdly, the U.S in order to protect its corporate interests will employ ‘unilateral decisions’ around the world. Therefore it finds space technology as a major criterion that is must in order to establish ‘total global control.’ In addition to this the U.S military-industrial complex views Space as a new market to increase corporate profits. Nevertheless, this will only pave way to a new maddening arm’s race that can proliferate the nuclearization in space and convert it to graveyard for the generations that are yet to come. Over all, the Bush’s new space policy is opposed to the United Nation’s Outer Space Treaty of 1967 that banned all the weapons of mass destructions in the Space; as Space was reserved for peaceful purposes. If neglected, this can increase risk in the space environment and affect global peace and concord.
However, the Weaponization of space should be retained as space is meant for common good and welfare. It can have serious ramifications if actions are not taken into consideration. For example; in case the U.S places their weapons in space it will surely be followed by the Russians and the Chinese for whom it is not difficult to meet the standards and demands of the United States. This will also enable other nations to respond likewise by attacking the satellites and putting them to risk. Lately the U.S has developed some kill vehicles like the Anti-Satellite weapons that are designed to destroy satellites in the orbit. The Space based Laser i.e. a laser firing satellite, Constellations of micro-satellites that act as space mines, Hydro velocity Rod Bundles nicknamed as ‘Rods from Gods’ can destroy targets on earth from the Space. Although space was militarized long back as militaries heavily depended on the satellites for command, control, early warnings, telecommunication, navigation, weather prediction, global positioning and espionage but lately these can also be weoponized if mixed motives exits among states. Surely this will convert space into a new age war zone.
This will be a grave peril to the development of nations as the arms will surely be utilized one or the other day in order to achieve supremacy and dominion over other nations and if precautions are not taken then the history will surely repeat the same cataclysm that took place in the World War II. It is better to prevent the development of such arms through treaties like the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Nuclear Disarmament Treaty, Limited Test Ban Treaty, and Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS). This is far better than building arms and then healing the wounds of the repercussion. On the other hand when the issue for the first time appeared on the U.N general Assembly agenda in 1981, the United Nation tried its best to put a ban on all weapons of mass destructions and setting up of military bases in Space. This was broken when the U.S space command in 1997 published ‘The Vision for 2020’ document that clearly stated U.S’s intention for space weponization.
The use of space should be discreet as it can threaten the progress in future space launches by creating ecological disasters in space. There are presently over 12,000 pieces of space debris like dead satellites, exploded rockets, nuts, bolts including 32 defunct nuclear reactors and all this trash is rotating amidst more than 850 active satellites in the low earth orbit. According to some researches it is said that firstly: - the Weaponization of Space would worsen the creation of space debris or space litter and in case even the tiniest of space debris if collided with a satellite can be disastrous. This will also limit the possibilities of space explorations by carpeting the earth’s atmosphere with debris that will prevent the sun’s rays by reflecting it back into the space. Secondly- the exploded rocket fuel can affect the health of the people as ammonium per chlorate; a toxic ingredient can affect the brain development in fetuses. This is already been discovered in the soil and water throughout the United States. Similarly the rocket fuel if gets exploded can increase the risk of cancer. There are many such instances wherein such cases are been reported especially in Kazakhstan and the village of Ploskoye in Siberia. Reports from these nations’ show 15 percent of higher cancer rate than recorded earlier. Thus the prevention of Anti-satellite weapons on ground or in space is of paramount importance to safeguard human health and development around the globe.
Furthermore the building up of highly sophisticated nuclear war gadgets can risk the human existence from the face of the world if they fall into the wicked hands of the terrorists. This will create havoc by helping terrorism to grow exceedingly stronger in magnitude by challenging even the international authorities. The response of every nation around the world should be that of Russia, China, Canada and India i.e. ‘to have a total ban on space weapons.’ The nations should utilize their energies not by strengthening their military power but through human development and economic growth. This will be the yeoman’s service for the whole humankind in order to establish overall peace and development on earth.
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki disaster has seen the unacceptable face of vengeance and has experienced its long-lasting effects. This was a tragedy that was waiting to happen and can repeat itself if evasive actions are not taken at the earliest in this present global scenario where the policy is ‘eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth’. The humankind is racing against death as war wave has increased since the past couple of decades as nations are becoming power hungry and subject to avarice. The nations are dreaming of building superior weapons of mass destruction rather than investing their time and riches in building a peaceful, warless and disarmed world. The mankind is loosing its spiritual morale by becoming dealers of death and destruction instead of becoming protagonists of love, compassion and non-violence. The nations should reignite and rekindle this fire – to heal rather than to hate, to pardon than to be the cause of injury and to love rather than to fight and cause bloodshed. In the words of Prophet Isaiah (2:4) –“and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and spears into pruning hooks, nations shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war anymore (The Bible).” This will perk up the solidarity, brotherhood and tolerance between nations and there shall be no more war, strife, hatred and misery. And for the second time in the history of whole mankind, man will be able to rediscover fire on earth.
- Bryan Francis Rego.
- Nick Wadhams (2005, May 20). Scientists Warn against Weaponizing Space, Available: http://www.space.com/news/ap_050520_space_weapons.html
- James George, Dr. Carol Rosin and Alfred Webre (2000, April 30). Canada Could Prevent Weaponization of Space; No other country is in a better position to initiate international action, Available: http://www.peaceinspace.com/pb_articles_canada.shtml
Bruce Gagnon, (2006, October 24). New Bush Policy: Weapons in Space, Available: http;//www.timesrecord.com/websit/main.nsf/news.nsf/…
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http://ps2.ign.com/articles/638/638880p1.htmlIt's official: Zipper Interactive has now entered the blogosphere. For the past couple of weeks, the developer of the popular SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs games on the PS2 has been contributing content about the franchise to a new blog that's being run by SCEA. While the information on the site has a little bit of information so far about the upcoming SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs, it has largely focused on the history of the franchise. This is sure to change as the release date gets ever closer.
One of the historical posts at the blog contains a brief history of the game's evolution over the course of the three games. Another post has been touting the e-SEALs community site. Still other posts have talked about the changes in SOCOM 3 that have already been reported elsewhere. So far it does not contain much that's new, but it does containt it all within one handy location and it encourages readers to post comments onto the blog so that Zipper can get some feedback.
While the site is just taking the first steps in helping to enhance the feeling of community. In the future, SCEA is panning on expanding the material much further to include developer diaries, updates on development, new assets, and info about the new community features. That's when things should get really interesting. Of course, the best way to ensure that this happens is to check it out and post some comments so that SCEA knows it's getting a good reaction. If it all works well, there could be another blog for the PSP version as well.
As blogs are getting more popular and the blogosphere widens its scope we're beginning to see more interaction between the developers and the fans. One great example is David Jaffe's blog. As the game director for both God of War and Twisted Metal: Black, Jaffe has been providing an insight into what it feels like to be on the other side of the games. With luck, the Zipper team will be just as forthcoming in their future posts.
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New Socom 3 UpdateI am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.
wow that looks really nice. I can't wait to play this game.
I feel like there is more stuff that fill the screen now, it look more like in real life. I think this one will be very challenging.I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.
you sure those pics for ps2[SIGPIC]http://sv1.letmehost.com/sv1/21/gearsogwarhomer.jpg[/SIGPIC]
PS2 could pul that off easy, has to be PS2
Defintely looks more realistic thats for sure.
That vehicle is sweet!
Looking forward to playing this, seems alot more 'open' as Smily0012 more-or-less said lolI have no signature.
No, really, i don't. You're just imagining this.
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Yeah this game sounds really good, I heard that there will be checkpoints because the missions are going to be long and challenging, I hope the online will still be good if not better.
does anybody know if you need to pay to play online??? (lag free)
I think I heard someone say like $5 a month but not sure...
No they said it was still going to be free like the other two but we will have to further wait down the line to find out if its true. I think they wont charge people to go online because they are probably checking out what kind of online should they creat for the ps3. If this game launches successfully bet to see lots of similar feature on the ps3 online. They will include features like "developer diaries, updates on development, new assets, and info about the new community features." And it also say they want to expand it.
I just hope they give us this time the ability to dive under water to provent enemies spoting you. Maybe add some other cool feature in game like having to use team work to jump over a wall for example, one player helps the other one jump to the top of the wall and the other one has to pull him up. This will defenitly make the game harder.I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.
I love me some socom. I can't wait for the end of the year to come around. all the hot games are going to be a killer.
This will defenitly make the game harder.
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I can see it now, a SEAL with an M4SD wearing camoflauge clothing that matches the water popping his head out in some near brush taking the terrorist team out, hope they balance it well and give terrorist better guns, 552SD is nothing compared to the M4SD
those pics it looks like they are using the M4Colt
I hope they make sure that online is working at it's best.
Am I crazy or has anyone else found that the socom games aren't that fun? I had never played socom before and I borrowed #2 from a friend, and I started playing. AHHH THE GRAPHICS, they hurt my eyes! The controls aren't too bad to get used to except maybe the squad commands. I didn't even finish the first level, I became bored of it real fast. Then I went online, laggy as ever (I have a good internet speed though) and it was difficult to see where the enemies were, dying so often. I can understand me dying so much considering these guys are pros.
Unless the graphics get sharper, the game becomes more fun and the online part is less laggy (all of these seem to be coming true from what I've seen so far )
I doubt I will even rent it.
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Just thought id post this, seeing as how Socom 3 is coming and im sure alot of us will have our lives stolen from us because of this game.
The PlayStation 2's signature modern combat shooter, SOCOM 3, is just weeks away from release. Some of the most exciting changes to the game are showcased primarily in the multiplayer environment. Instead of just 16 players, the game will now support up to 32 players on a server, along with vehicles. We had an opportunity to participate in SOCOM 3's ongoing, online multiplayer beta test to see how the online aspects of the game are faring.
When the game ships, there will be 12 multiplayer missions included in the game, all of which will have day and night versions, and each will support from three to seven different game types. For the beta test, only one map was available, called Harvester. But if the Harvester map is any indication of the quality of the rest of the maps, then PlayStation 2 owners should finally get a taste of what true vehicle/shooter action is really like.
In order to account for the increased number of players, Harvester is almost twice the size of an average SOCOM 2 multiplayer map. We're told that the other maps in SOCOM 3 will be around the same size, but many of them will also be designed to be subdivided for smaller matches. Harvester is set in the grassy hills of a rolling countryside, with lots of winding roads for vehicles to drive along. There isn't much in the way of trees, but there are plenty of tall grasses in which snipers can use to lie prone behind and stay hidden. Farmhouses, which can be entered and used for cover are also scattered about the map, along with some ruined stone buildings and even a windmill. There's also a small river that winds around the center of the map--heavily armed boats can ply the waters or you can choose to go swimming if you like. The new swimming feature in SOCOM 3 has its advantages and disadvantages. You obviously move a lot slower, and you're not allowed to fire from the water. However, you are allowed to submerge for a period of time, which renders you all but invisible, as the water is fairly opaque. You can't stay submerged forever, though; when you run out of breath you'll be forced to surface.
More than 30 weapons and 20 different attachments means hundreds of possible loadouts.
Vehicles won't necessarily dominate the map, as a number of narrow footpaths crisscross the various roadways. These serve as shortcuts, so if you know what you're doing you can still get from point A to point B quickly, and more importantly, without being seen by heavily armed vehicles. The footpaths can also lead to elevated areas that simply aren't reachable by any vehicle, so those who enjoy the more personal feel of on-foot combat don't need to worry about the vehicles dominating all the gameplay.
That said, the vehicles in the game are a definite highlight. We noticed that the SEALs have two kinds of vehicles on the Harvester map. One is a Humvee with a mounted machine gun on top, with room for four men inside. Another smaller vehicle includes door-mounted guns, which let the passengers shoot while riding (you normally can't fire your weapon as a passenger). But this makes them more vulnerable to fire without having the slight protection of the door. The terrorists on Harvester only get technicals, which are basically pickup trucks with a machine gun mounted in the bed. These vehicles can be destroyed by concentrated fire from other machine gun turrets or even machine guns like the M-60. Grenades and antitank rockets can also take out the vehicles in one shot.
I've been waiting for this game for quite sometime, I was unable to play SoCom 2 due to other game related restrictions From the sound of it, Zipper has managed to keep improving the quality of fun and play of the series, these guys need to create Sony's online structure, they rock
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I can't speak for Socom 2, but I heard it was better then the first, and in the third installment, Zipper found a way to do away with alot of the lag. But we will have to see when the game comes out how much lag in single map there actually is.
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Those pictures a re amazing. I can't wait to buy this game. Has there been any news of a release date and such?"When you mess with the best you fall like the rest"
Hey read this>>> http://ps3forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=399
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Re: USB troubles with SB600/SB700 chipsets
Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
>>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost> writes:
> >> everyone with an AMD SB600 or SB700 chipset, please test
> >> attached patch!
> >> Attached patch is intended to avoid USB subsystem hang symptoms
> >> on all AMD SB600 revisions and AMD SB700 south bridge revision
> >> A12 and A13.
> >> [...]
> >> This should also address PR 40056 (I put the submitter of PR
> >> 40056 on CC).
> I (PR 40056 submitter) tested your patch with my
> ATI Technologies SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller (rev. 0x00)
> with my amd64 kernel. Patch itself applied flawlessly, but after the
> new kernel amdehci didn't match in my case. Sprinkling some printf's
> showed that (in amdehci_sb700_match)
> PCI_REVISION(pa->pa_id) == 0x02
Can you show me the dmesg lines of your SMBus Controller, please ?
> for my mainboard (under amd64).
> Extending the switch-case's of that function with this value (0x02)
> made the kernel panicing during further usb processing (though amdehci
> matches now I guess ;-)).
> So, there's is something different in my case...
> Any information I can provide / you need for further analysis?
> Regards, Markus.
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May 8, 2013
RSU Junior Selected for Washington Center Internship Program
Holly Bates, a Rogers State University junior, has been selected for a summer internship through the Washington Center, a nationally-recognized internship program that places students with private, public and nonprofit organizations in Washington, D.C.
A graduate from Vinita High School, Bates has been placed for an internship with the Office of Emergency Management in the U.S. Department of the Interior in order to gain additional experience in emergency management policy making.
The Washington Center is an independent, nonprofit organization that provides internship programs and academic seminars to college students. The organization arranges 2,000 to 3,000 internship placements annually. Bates, who is majoring in liberal arts, will earn college credit for successfully completing the internship program.
At RSU, Bates is president-elect of both the Honors Program and the President's Leadership Class and a member of the Alpha Chi Honor Society. She also serves as a student worker in the RSU Writing Lab.
Outside the classroom, she has been a member of the Verdigris Valley Search and Rescue and is certified as a SARTECH II and canine handler.
Bates first took an interest in search and rescue following the May 2011 tornadoes that struck Joplin, Mo. Following that natural disaster, she saw need for the responders and was prompted to become more involved in disaster relief and recovery.
She has been training dogs since she was six and decided to combine her two interests by training her family border collie, Lizzie, in search and rescue. Now both Bates and Lizzie are certified by the National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR).
"This is an exciting opportunity for me, and I am honored to be representing RSU while gaining first-hand insight into the federal emergency management issues," she said.
Washington Center internships are comprised of internship placement, an academic course and the Leadership Forum. All students are enrolled in a particular program according to their area of interest. Each program focuses learning on concepts closely related to students' intended professional fields. Activities and special programming, such as panels or tours of embassies or businesses, are tailored to the program's core learning objectives and areas of study.
"The Washington Center Program provides students with an invaluable opportunity to gain practical experience and begin developing a broad professional network," said Dr. Carolyn Taylor, RSU professor and RSU Strategic Initiatives Coordinator. "Holly is among the most mature and special young women that I have taught. She is selfless and has a very strong interest in helping others." | <urn:uuid:a65f7061-e2de-4eb6-aa8c-f1deb7c471c6> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.rsu.edu/news/2013/050813_WashingCenterIntern.asp | 2015-07-01T11:58:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375094924.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031814-00100-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967951 | 531 | [
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Lynden Dorval, 61, has been a physics teacher at Ross Sheppard High School in Edmonton, Canada, and has worked in the local public school system for 35 years.
At the end of the school year in June, he faced a dilemma: a school policy that forbids teacher from giving a zero grade to students (the new requirement: "assigning behaviour codes for formative assessments") was in the way of his doing just that to students who had failed to turn in their work.
"It's promoting students without having them do the work," he says, so he ignored the policy in favor of grading the kids on actual work. But, he said, "students were always allowed to make up their zero." He was suspended for 21 days.
When he appealed the suspension, he was terminated. He now faces a new dilemma: he can retire, and protect his pension, or file a lawsuit, and risk losing everything.
Other Canadian provinces have given up on their "no zero" policies because "it proved to be a complete disaster" for students, a teacher in Manitoba said.
"What Do You Get with a Menage a Trois, Drugs, a Revolver and a SWAT Team? Trouble in Pasco County" -- Tampa Tribune headline
Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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The Dayton office of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has added eight new lawyers.
The law firm is bringing on all four lawyers from Crew & Buchanan in Dayton, effectively moving Crew & Buchanan to practice out of Taft’s local offices.
New lawyers from Crew & Buchanan include partners Joseph Buchanan, Jennifer Hann Harrison, Jeffrey Swillinger and associate Andrew Tahler, all who have experience in labor and employment law.
The firm also is adding partners Barbara Duncombe, Suzanne Sumner and Tom Menza, who come to Taft from Dayton-based Sebaly, Shillito and Dyer, to create a new focus on government contract law for Taft. An additional lawyer will start at the firm next week.
Jeffrey Mullins, partner in charge of the Dayton Taft office, said the firm was taking advantage of opportunities in the industry to expand its number of attorneys. Mullins said although Taft had done some work with government contract law in the past, he sees an opportunity for growth of the field in the future.
“Sometimes in economic downturn, there are opportunities,” Mullins said. “The folks that we are bringing in have experience in government contract law, and we see that as a big opportunity for what our clients will need in the future.”
The Dayton office will now have more than 30 lawyers, moving it from the ninth largest law firm in the Dayton area to the sixth, according to Dayton Business Journal research.
The firm currently occupies the entire ninth and half of the 17th floor in the Fifth Third Centre downtown and will be at capacity with the new hires. The lease in the building is up in September, and Mullins said the firm would then be looking at its options if it chooses to expand.
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We Are All Astrologers
That is, those of us who write and edit nonfiction for young readers live by the stars. Not only do we yearn to get those glittering nods of approval but we interpret them — if a book is racking up the stars, we hope it means award committees will take notice. So a star is both a specific pat on the back and a sign, a cabalistic omen of the future. But, as you all know, there are just a very few publications that regularly review our books and hand out stars. And while we all gaze expectantly at SLJ and Booklist, and Kirkus, and the Horn Book, and BCCB, and VOYA, (PW has essentially stopped reviewing nonfiction for kids) the overwhelming majority of potential book buyers — whether parents, or teachers, or certainly kids — have never even heard of these magazines. I wonder then how they learn about our books?
The adult book world has been taking it on the chin, in part because newspapers are shutting down their stand-alone book review sections. Washington Post’s Book World was the most recent loss, after the L.A. Times. Outside of the New York Times, how many newspapers still have a distinct book review section? More than a decade ago I suggested to the then editor of the Times Book Review that he expand his coverage of YA books by running online reviews. He didn’t think that was a good idea, as it suggested a two-tier system, with some books/reviews "deserving" to be in print, and some online. But today some of those papers that have dropped their stand alone sections promise more coverage online. That could be great — if it happens. Nonfiction, it seems to me, would be an ideal candidate for online reviewing, especially since teachers and parents could then add comments on how they have used books with kids.
The blogsphere, whether in aggregators like Good Reads, or the many individual blogs devoted to books, kids books, nonfiction, adds another layer, another means of getting the word out. But, at least to me, it seems diffuse — there are so many separate voices and none have distinct authority. There are many flickering comets, but no stars.
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My five days of music started on Wednesday Feb 27th at The Blue Note here in
NYC with a double bill featuring Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band and
Ray Barretto. This was week one of the Blue Note's Latin Jazz Festival 2002.
Jerry Gonzalez and band started things off and despite some sound problems
onstage, played a great set. Jerry alternated between trumpet and congas
throughout the set with amazing versatility. Next up was conga player and band
leader Ray Barretto who was nominated for a Grammy award on this Grammy
night. Sad to say, he didn't win but none the less he was in great spirits.
The list of legendary musicians that he has played with over the years is
too long to mention here but suffice to say, this man is truly a musical
treasure. He played the congas with exceptional feeling all the while making
sure he gave everyone in the band plenty of room for their own expression.
The week was
off to a great start.
Thursday night was a much anticipated Papa Grows Funk show at B.B. King Blues Club. Ya
know, it's never too early to start getting ready for Jazz Fest. June is
fine, but it's this time of year that the buzz really starts going. Schedule
is out, plans are being made and so on. A twin bill of John Mooney and Papa
Grows Funk was just what I needed. Although we were treated to two NYC PGF
shows last year, only one featured June Yamagishi on guitar and neither
featured Jason Mingledorff on sax. The band is rounded out by John Gros on
Hammond B3 and vocals, Marc Pero on bass and Russell Batiste on drums. This
was the first time I got to see this line up out side of New Orleans.
Blues man and New Orleans fixture John Mooney opened the show with two sets.
Having seen him several times before I was really looking forward to seeing
him. As usual he did not disappoint. If you haven't seen him in New Orleans
with his whole band do yourself a favor and check them out during Jazz Fest.
Tonight's sets were solo and although they sounded great it was not really
conducive to the party atmosphere that was building in B.B.'s. Beads and
feathered masks seemed to be everywhere thanks to a beer promotion and many
people planned ahead and took Friday off. After the first Mooney set I ran
over to the Hammerstein Ballroom to catch a little bit of Gorillaz. Let's
just say I found it interesting. Not exactly my cup of tea but with so much
buzz about the sold out show, I had to check it out.
Back to B.B.'s for Papa Grows. Great show. Two nice fat sets filled with New
Orleans favorites and PGF originals from their debut cd Doin It. Many
special guests also joined in starting with John Mooney. Here John got to
really stretch out and play off of June's guitar work. Later in the second
set Fuzz and Cyrus Madan from Deep Banana Blackout as well as a few horn
players I didn't know also joined in. A great Jazz Fest warm up. See you in
Friday night featured another Grammy nominee, Delbert McClinton at B.B.
King's. Totally different crowd from the night before but, it was Friday
night in NYC and even the older crowd came to party. Delbert has a great
voice and in addition to his originals covers some classics in his
Saturday night started off with a benefit show for the UN's Youth to Youth
program. Velour Presented New Legends of Jazz Guitar at B.B. King's featuring;
Rodney Jones (Blue Note Recording Artist), Will Bernard (Motherbug), David
Fiuczynski (Screaming Headless Torsos), Brad Barr (The Slip), and Eric
Krasno (Soulive) on guitar.
The house band featured Neal Evans (Soulive) on
keys, Sam Kinninger (Soulive) on sax, Charles Haynes (The Squad) on drums
and Matt Garrison (Torsos) on bass. What we got was four hours of some very
inspired music. Although billed as Jazz Legends most of the nights
selections owed more to the groove/funk genre but no one was about to
Some of the highlights for me were; Will Bernard's take on the Meters classic
"Look-Ka Py Py", Brad Barr's version of Stevie Wonder's "Big Brother" and
Eric Krasno's working of Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Lenny." Then there was the
encore where Eric Krasno was joined by Brad Barr and David Fiuczynski for
another Stevie Wonder classic "Jesus Children of America" that brought the
The house band for the night was great throughout and anytime
you give Neal Evans that much time and that many great musicians to work
with you're sure to get something special.
So, what do you do on a Saturday night in NYC after a show like that? You go
late night of course and luckily right down the block Will Bernard and Otherbug were tearing it up at Tobacco Road. The band featured Will on
guitar, Josh Roseman on Trombone, Deantoni Parks on drums, Matt Rubano on
bass and Adam Klipple on keys. It was great to get a double dose of Will
Bernard as I had never seen him perform before. Although the band was put
together for this show, they were very tight. The second set featured a sit
in from Sam Kinninger and the music continued until about 4am. The nights
musical marathon had to end at some point and Otherbug put a great cap on
While still recovering from the night before, I managed to drag my self back
to B.B.'s on Sunday night for the 3rd Annual High Times Stony Awards.
Hosted by Jim Breuer and featuring appearances from Snoop Dogg and George Clinton
the night promised to be interesting at the very least. The Stony's are High
Times version of the Oscars with awards ranging from Best Movie and Best
Actor to Stoner of the Year. Peter Shapiro, film maker and former owner of
The Wetlands here in NYC, presented Snoop Dogg with one of several awards he won.
Later in the night, George Clinton presented Snoop with the Stoner of
the Year award which I guess was the most prestigious award of the night.
Way to go Snoop, I had my money on you. Once the awards were done the after
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P-Funk set as George came out for a half hour medley of hits backed by the
CCB. Uhhhh, suffice to say some of the details are a little hazy but as I
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couldn't help but think to myself...what a week!
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Storied Law Firm Dewey Files for Chapter 115/29/2012 9:01AM
The embattled New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has filed for bankruptcy protection, a move that marks one of the largest law-firm failures in U.S. history. Ashby Jones has details on The News Hub. Photo: Bloomberg.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... it was like Law Firm brought to bankruptcy Ashby Jones is here to tells about the ... auto can only be described as spectacular slide of Dewey LeBoeuf of the last couple months after the boxes I say spectacular to make light of that that is because of that once high-profile ... firm that this once was and and to find it where it is today is is chilly in something that to watch and read and follow it closely what happens ... here I give us a sense of this law firm when it was an Inn where we are today what was it was one of the larger law firms in New York a lot of extreme really well regarded waders ... on the in built up the law firm over a number of years basically um through ... a strategy that didn't work in the strategy was when will pay ... really really um well regarded lawyers from other law firms a lot of money ... to come in to do in the buff ... and hoping that they would bring their clients and the money would follow and then they would be able to build a practice areas based on these high priced ... imports essentially ... what happened was really was very simple I mean they didn't make enough money to keep paying these people ... at a high priced packages and they started to sch Don skimping on to the lower level Partners ... an awesome they started leaving other started leaving and it sort of a run on the bank at the situation with a law firm ... aam because that's the only thing that all that together is that people are a few there's nothing that they produce there's you know it it was that people start leaving ... Penang consented and that's really what happened here and we have a timeline of events that that that happens periodically leaped in April of this year sixty seven partners ... laughed at since January in and it's a scene from their more and more of that higher for properties were were for ... failing to pay in leading this effort is that is and it's it's remarkable because you look at that and that it doesn't tell the full story but ... as of January the firm you know ... by all ... accounts was looking looking pretty good it was having problems certainly but everybody was still there nobody to talk about filing for bankruptcy ... and God in five months later here we are the firm um as you said it filed for Chapter eleven protection from yesterday and it's essentially ... it's essentially over um it's just a matter of winding things down houses are really really sad ... sad story for the legal profession or the AIT inning when you think about it they probably have a lot of ongoing case were going on right now lot of clientele of high-profile plants what happens ... to you to those cases to those clients ... will will of the most part I think I'd do we find that clients will follow ... the lead lawyers that they've been working with the doing most of those lawyers and have since gone on and found ... unemployment and other you know well regarded law firms ALM so ... so things will love this will continue and stay relatively stable however that that happens in pickups and in some ... cases that had been delayed because of ... the ongoing situations into in the buff ... for the most part things to be stable on ... the next big thing to look for it ... its courses is | <urn:uuid:a047ea09-395b-409e-8518-7a9a3b49ed5a> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.wsj.com/video/storied-law-firm-dewey-files-for-chapter-11/1129DD9B-DBE8-42C3-BA89-49AE3B32A562.html | 2015-07-05T18:07:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375097546.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031817-00290-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9901 | 751 | [
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HAVE BLOG ~ WILL RANT
Have you ever had the unpleasant experience of biting into a delicious-looking peach, such as these, and ending up with a mouth full of tasteless mush? Well, I have, and it has happened one too many times for me.
Here is my question of the day. American fruit growers, why do you continue to hoodwink American consumers into purchasing your picture perfect fruit, such as these peaches, when they are unfit for human consumption? And by the way, how do you grow peaches that are beautiful to look at and disgusting to eat? Since your peaches are grown to be seen, not eaten, I have used my digital camera to capture their picturesque beauty before their trip down the garbage disposal.
Mushy Peaches , 2 September 2006 – 7 Photos
These peach beauties are home-grown, in the U.S. of A. as their label states. They have spent months in orchard sunshine, precious Arab fuel was expended to take them to market, a customer spent hard-earned dollars to purchase them from a supermarket, and now they are traveling down the drain, as they were too mushy and tasteless for human consumption.
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The Knicks can play it safe and hope UCLA point guard Russell Westbrook or Indiana sharpshooter Eric Gordon falls into their laps at No. 6 during tonight’s NBA Draft.
Or the Knicks can be bold, try to move up and snatch O.J. Mayo or Westbrook, with David Lee the potential fall guy.
Donnie Walsh and Mike D’Antoni, in their first Draft-Night as a Knick tandem, are looking to be bold. But whether anything will come of trade talks involving a swap with Minnesota at No. 3 or a Memphis deal at No. 5 is suspect. Last night a league source said that Charlotte was closing in on a deal with Memphis that would give the Bobcats the fifth pick, with their eye on Westbrook or Kevin Love.
Westbrook, Gordon and 6-10 Italian Stallion, Danilo Gallinari, whom agent Arn Tellem is pushing hard on Walsh, make up the Knicks’ short list if Mayo isn’t there. The Heat’s supposed interest in dealing the No. 2 pick in a swap with Minnesota likely undermines the Knicks’ attempts at Mayo. One of those two teams likely would take the USC freshman the Knicks had targeted and convinced to work out in New York.
This could still turn into an exciting night at The Theatre adjacent to the Garden, if Lee is dispatched and Walsh/D’Antoni pull off a trade.
The Knicks have talked to Portland about trading down, swapping No. 6 with 13, possibly gaining point guard Jarrett Jack. But a league source said Walsh has very little interest in trading down, only up.
The Knicks have one big trade pawn – Lee. And if he goes tonight, there will be lots of groans at the Garden’s Theatre from the fans who enjoyed his grit.
“Everyone’s calling the Knicks about David, if you want to do a deal with the Knicks, they want David Lee,” his agent Mark Bartlestein said. “With a new regime, it’s always a possibility at this time of year.”
Walsh is willing to trade Lee because he may have to offer him a contract extension by October or risk losing him to free agency after 2008-2009. A long-term contract extension would cut into the Knicks’ ability to free cap space after 2010, especially if D’Antoni doesn’t believe Lee is offensively gifted enough to fit in.
ESPN.com reported Memphis and the Knicks discussed a deal of Lee and Malik Rose for the fifth pick and Brian Cardinal, who has two years left on his pact. The Knicks would then have the fifth and sixth picks. Mayo or Westbrook would have to be available.
If the Knicks don’t make a trade and Mayo doesn’t fall, they hope UCLA’s sturdy point guard Westbrook, a great defender and explosive penetrator, can be had. The 6-3 tough-as-nails guard has a long wingspan, making the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year capable of guarding three positions. Problem is, Westbrook isn’t a very good jump shooter and has to improve his playmaking.
There’s hardly a guarantee Westbrook will be there. No. 4 Seattle is heavily considering Westbrook over combo guard Jerryd Bayless. As reported in Sunday’s Post, Bayless has fallen off the Knicks’ radar, possibly because he’s too identical to Jamal Crawford and Nate Robinson in style.
If Westbrook is gone, that could leave the Knicks with Indiana’s Gordon, a sensational shooter (20.9 ppg) but who may not have the necessary point-guard skills.
“There are other ways to do what Mike wants than to have that (star PG),” Walsh said.
Gallinari is still under consideration. Tellem, who has lots of influence, is working the Knicks hard. “He’s 19 and his pro team still went to him at the end of games,” Walsh said of Gallinari. “From watching tapes of games, he usually took it to the goal. I didn’t know if he wanted to shoot it. But he came here and really shot the ball well. He showed he can really shoot.”
Walsh admitted the Westbrook workout was an eye-opener. “On film, it’s difficult to gauge his athleticism and size,”‘ Walsh said. “When he gets here and does something, you go, ‘Wow.’ He’s going to be difficult to guard because of speed or explosiveness.”
The Knicks are hamstrung in making deals because they won’t take back contracts that go beyond 2010. One Miami report stated the Knicks considered selling their sixth pick outright to trade Stephon Marbury-for-Shawn Marion. That makes no sense for the future, leaving them without a PG, without a lottery pick, and with an aging Marion for one season. | <urn:uuid:a499a77f-ccdc-4f8c-b75d-0c699d1a5d57> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://nypost.com/2008/06/26/deal-donnie-in/ | 2015-07-07T23:52:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375102712.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031822-00230-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961113 | 1,047 | [
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From Uniontown,Ohio, USA:
My 10 year old son, who has type 1 diabetes, had a sudden growth spurt this spring (he grew almost two inches), and we almost fell over when his A1c went from 7 to 14% even though his meter readings were quite normal. When the doctor saw how much my son had grown, he told me that you sometimes see these A1c' s in such a growth spurt. I later thought of the obvious question, "why"?
The doctor sent us home, told us to continue to be vigilant about diet, exercise, and that he would check the A1c again soon.
The clue to this puzzle lies in the contradiction between a hemoglobin A1c of 14% and meter readings that were 'quite normal'. One of these has to be wrong. The easiest thing to check is the A1c, because laboratories do occasionally make mistakes, and this should be done as soon as possible because, if the A1c really is 14%, it is a danger signal for DKA [diabetic ketoacidosis] if nothing more.
If it is the blood glucose readings that appear inconsistent (I assume that you have checked meter function), then what may be happening is that your son is missing some insulin shots and in some way fudging the readings. I do not know of course whether this is possible, but it is not uncommon for a child to feel that too much responsibility for their health problem has been thrust on them too soon. or to be depressed on account of the demands of the diabetes. These possibilities need to be looked at with great understanding. The best person to disentangle them is often the medical social worker on the diabetes team. If this is just not possible, the next step would be to take over responsibility for as long as necessary for all insulin injections i.e. seeing that the correct dose is actually given and also for all blood sugars that are done at home. It may still be the case that some form of professional counselling will be needed.
Original posting 24 May 2001
Posted to Daily Care
Last Updated: Tuesday April 06, 2010 15:09:22
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