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MONDAY, 12/7 – KGW Deals/Y-Chrome – We’ll spend the morning at downtown Portland’s new Y-Chrome, where they focus on “the art of barbering” with basic services for men, including haircuts, shaves and shoe shines. They’re also the latest local business to participate in the ½ Price Gift Certificates promotion through the KGW Deals section of our website.
Locator: Y-Chrome: The Art of Barbering
609 SW Washington St – Portland
KGW Deals at www.KGW.com
Offering ½ Price Gift Certificates
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This Week’s Deal: Y-Chrome
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As someone who knew he was gay from age eleven and was also born by c-section, I was both confident and content with the fact that I had never come into contact with a vagina. But what would I discover if I actually gave this whole "woman" thing a try? After all, I think women are awesome in general, so maybe having sex would turn my "like" into "love." Would I enjoy it? Could I increase the size of my dating pool? With grim determination and thoughts of liberated sexuality, I set out to see.
1 (very willing) woman
1 gay man
3 gay porn magazines
1 bottle of Jack Daniels
Most people agree that it's possible to know you don't like something without experiencing it, like rock climbing or The Hills. So while the idea of female genitalia wasn't gross, it was about as sexually enticing to me as a paperweight. And so — while I had made out with girls in a we're-drunk-it's-funny kind of way — I comfortably stayed away from any downtown action.
The only problem with this lack of experience was that, as an emotional masochist, one of my favorite pastimes was developing doomed crushes on straight men. These would often be guys I was good friends with, who appreciated the way I helped them with their girl troubles (and missed my occasional grimaces of soul-crushing pain). While I would never say this to them — the straight male is a fragile and easily frightened animal — I'd think to myself, "Well, how do you know you wouldn't like making out with me if you've never done it?" I knew it was wildly hypocritical, but that didn't stop me.
So, in an effort to put my money where my mouth was (or wasn't), I decided I would have sex with a girl. It wasn't going to be easy. While in eighth grade girls often went crazy for the safety and dependability of a soon-to-be-gay guy, currently the ladies are not banging down my door. I figured two things: one, this would have to be a girl who was well aware that I was gay. No point in getting someone besides myself hurt in the process. Two, I'd want the actual experience to be as spontaneous as possible. I'd need to keep my wits about me, as I had long ago turned off the part of my brain that noticed any sort of interest on the part of womankind.
All the requirements were fulfilled one particular Friday night. Jenny was not only a good friend, she also had many of the things I look for in a guy. She is taller than I am (not hard, since I am quite short), easy-going, and a hard drinker. That drunken night at my apartment, our conversation turned to our own personal sexual frustrations, which, in your early twenties, is like saying "our own personal oxygen." And that's when I saw my chance to literally do it for science.
"I've been a bit curious, about um... havingsexwithagirl."
"Well," I said, "I've been a bit curious, about um." I clammed up. "Uh, um, uh..." I felt like a fifteen-year-old boy. I said in a quiet mumble, "...havingsexwithagirl."
She looked nonplussed. I drunkenly explained about my straight-guy philosophy, and the nature of my experiment. She considered for a moment. "Well... sure. Why not?"
And so it was on.
We started slow. If this was going to happen, I was going to do it right, goddamn it. We made out on my bed, and it felt like freshman year of high school for both of us. This was the territory I was familiar with. Normally making out with a girl was sort of fun, but knowing that it was the first step in a larger process made me hyper-aware of everything that was different. There was no stubble, for one thing, which I actually missed. And I wasn't sure if I was supposed to touch her boobs — how would I even do that? My arms moved gracelessly, looking for some nook between our bodies to exploit.
Still, the lead-up was not the point, so soon our clothes came off, and it was time. I reached into my drawer for a condom, and had the luck to pull one out that I'd gotten at a sexual-health event a couple of weeks before. The wrapper was adorned with a rainbow background and a stunning picture of a man's ass. It was both perfect and completely inappropriate. On it went.
And then I did it, full-on genital penetration. I know that there was probably a lot more preparation I should have done — going straight from making out to sex seemed like a leap you're generally not supposed to take — but it was truly a now-or-never moment. If nothing else, I was generous with the lubrication — having had nothing but gay sex, it was de rigueur. And if there was anything like an improvement over sex with a guy, it was that the concordance of male and female genitalia — both being towards the front — made missionary-position sex slightly less awkward. To my mind, though, the actual feelings in my junk, through the double screen of alcohol and latex, were pretty much the same. The whole act had a mechanical quality. Make sure you do this, make sure you touch that, and you're in business. Once again I found that boobs only served to confuse me. I knew that they were supposed to be star players in this whole sex-with-a-woman thing, but I was on top of her. How could I touch them without doing the sexual equivalent of a one-handed push up? | <urn:uuid:406b4fe9-11ac-4a43-9ba1-2255f523d8cf> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/i-did-it-for-science/i-did-it-for-science-heterosexuality | 2014-04-20T23:59:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609539337.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005219-00129-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990004 | 1,217 | [
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Ali Landry is going to be a mom again!
The former Miss USA and her husband, filmmaker, Alejandro Monteverde are expecting their third child together.
The happy new was confirmed to Us Weekly by Landry’s rep.
Landry is already mom to two kids, Estela Ines, 5, and son Marcelo Alejandro, 17 months.
The 90′s Doritos model married Monteverde in 2006.
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“Worry about yourself” lol
… when she sees herself for the first time after it’s done
This is simply incredible
This quirky mom shares amusing parenting moments on her personal “Reasons My Son Is Crying” tumblr.
Dad of the year?
Cute short movie of the day…
Song is ‘Hot For Teacher’
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My friend Fran throws phenomenal parties. She dreams big and leaves no detail overlooked. A couple of weeks ago, we attended a Wreck-It Ralph birthday party for her oldest daughter. In previous years, she’s thrown themed parties like Alice in Wonderland, Yo Gabba Gabba, and Phineas and Ferb but this Wreck-It Ralph themed birthday party might have been the best I’ve seen.
A long table draped with a Wreck-It Ralph table cloth awaited little guests. Dish after dish lined the table filled with gumdrops, wafer cookies, marshmallows, gummy bears, M&Ms, cookies, Peeps, and graham crackers. The kids were asked to build their own Wreck-It Ralph race car made from all these edible goodies “glued” together with royal icing.
Sweet and sugary fun inspired Fran’s outdoor confectionery theme. She decorated her backyard garden in oversized wrapped candy pieces, life-size Pixie Stix, and sticky taffy. Yes, she hand made each individual piece. The candies were crafted from plastic “take out” containers wrapped in colorful pieces of cellophane. The life-size Pixie Stix started out as plain cardboard tubes, wrapped in painters tape, and painted in bright colors. The hanging purple taffy was wired ribbon. Adorable, right?
The treats never ever fail at Fran’s party. Months of planning and weeks of preparation went into the Wreck-It Ralph fare. Here the littles were invited to a glass of ice cold milk but with a super sweet twist. See those cups? Yep, they were dipped in royal icing and sanded with colored sugar. Parents were even getting in on the milk action!
Homemade Wreck-It Ralph “You’re My Hero” sugar cookies.
These are probably my new favorite marshmallow treat! Forget Rice Krispies — go for the Trix cereal! Yes, there were lots of sweet snacks but there were plenty of other fun and yummy savory options too. You can see meatballs on a stick in the background. She also offered pizza wheels on a stick, deviled eggs, and cucumber sandwiches.
Lollypop cookies? Yes, please. I’ll take one in every color! These were perfect for milk dipping too!
Are you ready for the Wreck-It Ralph cake? Fran’s mom always makes the most creative cakes. It’s almost a shame to have to cut into them! Check out the detail!
Crafts always play a big role at Fran’s parties. After building their own Wreck-It Ralph cars, the kids colored the Tetris-like block wall with chalk and were encouraged to draw the birthday girl a special picture that would later be included in a scrapbook (love that idea!).
Got a question on how to throw your own Wreck-It Ralph birthday party? Need more details on something Fran did at her Wreck-It Ralph party? Leave your questions in the comments below and I’ll have Fran answer them personally!
Are you following me on Facebook? Give me a “Like” and you won’t miss out on future party posts! Coming up soon: Alice in Wonderland, Barbie in Paris themed party, and the details behind pulling off our annual Halloween party! | <urn:uuid:fa5e6021-365e-4f44-90ad-1d3babed50b7> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://wendy-nielsen.com/2013/03/26/how-to-throw-a-wreck-it-ralph-themed-party/ | 2014-04-17T03:54:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609526252.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005206-00369-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957554 | 709 | [
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Menai Suspension Bridge
Pont Grog y Borth
The Menai Suspension Bridge from a viewpoint on the A5 near the Britannia Bridge.
|Carries||A5 road (London to Holyhead)|
|Locale||Anglesey, North Wales|
|Total length||417 metres (1,368 ft)|
|Width||12 metres (39 ft)|
|Height||30 metres (98 ft)|
|Longest span||176 metres (577 ft)|
|Number of spans||Main: One
|Piers in water||Five|
|Design life||1893: wooden deck replaced in steel
1938/40: iron chains replaced in steel.
|Opened||30 January 1826|
|Heritage status||Grade 1
Candidate: World Heritage Site
The Menai Suspension Bridge (Welsh: Pont Grog y Borth) is a suspension bridge between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. The bridge was designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826.
Before the bridge was completed in 1826, the island had no fixed connection to the mainland and all movements to and from Anglesey were by ferry across the fast flowing waters and dangerous waters of the Menai Strait. The main source of income on Anglesey was from the sale of cattle, and to move them to the markets of the mainland, including London, they had to be driven into the water and encouraged to swim across the Strait, a dangerous practice which often resulted in the loss of valuable animals. With Holyhead as the closest point to, and thus one of the principal ports for ferries to Dublin, Engineer, Thomas Telford was engaged to complete a survey of the route from London to Holyhead, and and he proposed that a bridge should be built over the Menai Strait from a point near Bangor on the mainland to the village of Porthaethwy (which is now also known as Menai Bridge) on Anglesey.
Because of the high banks and fast flowing waters of the Strait, it would have been difficult to build piers on the shifting sands of the sea bed and, even if it could be done, they would have obstructed the navigation. Also, the bridge would have to be high enough to allow the passage of the tall ships of the day. In view of this, Telford proposed that a suspension bridge should be built and his recommendation was accepted by Parliament.
Construction of the bridge, to Telford's design, began in 1819 with the towers on either side of the strait. These were constructed from Penmon limestone and were hollow with internal cross-walls. Then came the sixteen huge chain cables, each made of 935 iron bars, that support the 176-metre (577 ft) span. To avoid rusting between manufacture and use, the iron was soaked in linseed oil and later painted. The chains each measured 522.3 metres (1,714 ft) and weighed 121 tons. Their suspending power was calculated at 2,016 tons. The bridge was opened to much fanfare on 30 January 1826.
The roadway was only 24ft wide and, without stiffening trusses, soon proved highly unstable in the wind. The deck of the Menai Bridge was strengthened in 1840 by W. A. Provis and, in 1893, the entire wooden surface was replaced with a steel deck designed by Sir Benjamin Baker. Over the years, the 4.5 ton weight limit proved problematic for the increasing freight industry and in 1938 the original wrought iron chains were replaced with steel ones without the need to close the bridge. In 1999 the bridge was closed for around a month to resurface the road and strengthen the structure, requiring all traffic to cross via the nearby Britannia Bridge.
On 28 February 2005 the bridge was promoted to UNESCO as a candidate World Heritage Site. On the same day one carriageway of the bridge was closed for six months restricting traffic to a single carriageway so that traffic travelled to the mainland in the morning and to Anglesey in the afternoon. The bridge was re-opened to traffic in both directions on 11 December 2005 after its first major re-painting in 65 years.
The nearest settlement is the town of Menai Bridge. A representation of the Menai Bridge inside a border of railings and stanchions is featured on the reverse of British one pound coins minted in 2005. The coin was designed by Edwins Ellis.
- White Knight to Alice:
- "I heard him then, for I had just
- completed my design,
- To keep the Menai bridge from rust
- By boiling it in wine."
Famous Welsh englyn
- Uchelgaer uwch y weilgi - gyr y byd
- Ei gerbydau drosti,
- Chwithau, holl longau y lli,
- Ewch o dan ei chadwyni.
- —Dewi Wyn o Eifion (David Owen) (1784–1841)
- High fortress above the sea – the world drives
- Its carriages across it;
- And you, all you ships of the sea,
- Pass beneath its chains.
- Bartlett, W. H.; Harding, J.D.; Creswick, T. (Reprinted 2009). The Ports Harbours Watering Places. BiblioLife. ISBN 1-115-95868-2.
- Drewry, Charles Stewart (1832). A Memoir of Suspension Bridges: Comprising The History Of Their Origin And Progress. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. pp. 46–66, and Plates. Retrieved 2009-06-13.
- Kovach, Warren (2010). "Menai Strait Bridges". Anglesey history. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
- The Saturday Magazine (Published by J. W. Parker): 212. 1835.
- Llwybr y Llewod 8-13. BBC Lleol
- Menai Bridge Website Menai Bridge Town Partnership Website with details on the news, council, events and businesses of Menai Bridge
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Motorola Atrix in India | Motorola Atrix Features | Motorola Atrix Cell Phone
Motorola Atrix is a great new launch by Motorola in US and soon to be launched in India. If you are planning to buy a cellphone which should satisfy your need as per the year 2011 technology then you can go for Motorola Atrix. It has best features and on the other hand it’s effective in terms of buying.
It has very low cost and it comes up to $150.
Basic Features of Atrix are as follows:
* DIGITAL ZOOM
* WEB CAM
Front and rear-facing web camera
Android 2.2 (FroYo)
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“Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes.”
Hippocrates (Greek Scientist)
Hippocrates of Cos II or Hippokrates of Kos - Greek: Ἱπποκράτης; Hippokrátēs was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, and was considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the "father of medicine" in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic school of medicine. This intellectual school revolutionized medicine in ancient Greece, establishing it as a discipline distinct from other fields that it had traditionally been associated with , thus making medicine a profession. | <urn:uuid:9944e3e3-ca02-4d23-93aa-1e819404b1ad> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Hippocrates | 2014-04-18T14:56:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609533689.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005213-00401-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967305 | 157 | [
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Dodgers' Matt Kemp day to day
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"I just know that my knee ... it's sore right now," Kemp said, according to the Los Angeles Times. "Hopefully, just a day. We'll see how everything goes."
Kemp was not in the starting lineup for Wednesday's game against the Colorado Rockies, and he was listed as day to day with a bone bruise around the left knee and intense body soreness overall.
"It could have been way worse, so I'm definitely lucky," Kemp told the Times. "I feel pretty blessed."
Kemp ran into the wall while chasing a fly ball.
"He feels like a truck hit him," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said.
In a separate move, the Dodgers placed left-handed reliever Scott Elbert on the 15-day disabled list with left elbow inflammation. Right-handed reliever Shawn Tolleson, who was optioned Monday, was recalled from Class A Rancho Cucamonga.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
LOS ANGELES TOP STORIES
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Harpers Fitness Leisure Centres are inviting members of the local community to claim a free day pass for each medal Team GB wins during the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Leading leisure centre operator, Leisure Connection, has announced that it is rebranding its consumer brand to ‘1Life’. The brand will be rolled out across its estate of more than 40 leisure facilities before April 2014, after the brand officially launches in January.
This January will see the launch of two new and exciting classes that will help keep young mums and young adults active well into the New Year. The classes will be held at Worcester Swimming Pool in Worcester on behalf of Sportivate.
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We began Sunday morning with singing and thanking God for His blessings, on this beautiful Memorial Day. We prayed for the many requests of our congregation, friends, neighbors and families, and asked special blessings on our military and those who gave their lives for our freedoms. The old saying “freedom isn’t free”, still stands true today. A great price was paid and continues to be paid that we can live in the greatest country there is.
Brother Ric Englehardt preached a message of remembrance, appropriate for the day, and our service was dismissed for the evening.
Brother Raymond Haden will be our speaker this coming Sunday, both services.
Next Sunday, June 10, will be our feet washing and communion service, in the morning worship hour.
Camp Piland began this Tuesday with Junior Camp, with Kiddie Camp to follow. Senior Camp is still in the planning stage, but will be announced soon. We appreciate everyone who helps make the camps successful.
Ronnie and Pat Lansdown joined many more of the Lansdown family at the home of Kenneth and Carla Aborn, for their usual get together, Sunday. Doug and Kristie Lansdown and family attended and later came by Ronnie and Pat’s to visit, before returning to their West Plains home.
Paul Cox came on Monday and drove his mother, Myrl, around to several cemeteries, including Mt. Tabor. They paid a visit to Freeda Richards while in the area and later stopped by to visit at Ronnie and Pat’s, also.
Bessie Hall’s visitors over the holiday weekend were J.C.and Vicky, Jewell and Tom Elliott, (who brought pizza for lunch, Sunday), Tim Hall, Kathy Barnes, Hellen Blakey, Kim Clements and Kay Hutchison. Bessie and Kim drove through Mt. Tabor Cemetery, Tuesday afternoon.
J.C. and Vicky, Tom and Jewell were in the east end of the county, visiting cemeteries, and stopped by to visit Wes and Kim Smith.
Tom and Jewell Elliott attended a family gathering south of Seymour, Monday, in the home of Nadine and Jimmy Crisp. Brothers attending were Tom and Jewell, Albert and Doris, sisters, Corrine and Dale, Kaye and Fred, and many, many, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They enjoyed visiting, barbeque and a fun time was had by all.
Jeff and Kristy Tackett stopped by for lunch with Harold and Kay Hutchison, Sunday afternoon. They were returning from a trip to Mtn. Home, Saturday. While at the Hutchisons, Mike and Deana Tackett, Nebraska, along with her mother, Geneva Stewart, and Norman and Diana Sherman, stopped by to visit with the Tacketts.
Larry Stewart visited Harold and Kay Hutchison, Saturday. Our sympathy to their family in the passing of Brother Paul Welch, he will be greatly missed.
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John W. Sperling, M.D., is a professor of orthopedics with a special interest in treating shoulder disorders.
His clinical practice is focused on the prevention, management and treatment of a wide range of shoulder problems, from rotator cuff tears to shoulder replacement. In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Sperling is extensively involved in clinical and basic science research.
Dr. Sperling also has an MBA in medical group management and a strong interest in medical economics. He's authored 140 peer-reviewed publications and three textbooks.
- Shoulder replacement, including reverse arthroplasty
- Rotator cuff repair
- Medical economics
Significance to patient care
Dr. Sperling has a strong interest in translating basic science research to clinical practice. These efforts have resulted in an improved ability for Dr. Sperling and his colleagues to treat patients with a broad spectrum of shoulder problems, from rotator cuff tears to shoulder replacement.
- Recipient of two international traveling fellowship awards
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Vietnam War vet Costner must deal with a war of a different sort between his son and their friends, and a rival group of children. He also must deal with his own personal and employment ... See full summary »
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event. Written by
Colin Tinto <[email protected]>
Brian De Palma said that he had been trying to make this film since 1969 when he first read the Casualties Of War article in The New Yorker.But with the Vietnam War still going on,there was no way that was going to happen,even for many years after it ended.However in the 1980's,following the success of Vietnam War films, Platoon,and Full Metal Jacket,and his own Gangster hit,The Untouchables,studio bosses at Paramount started to give him the green light to start developing the project. See more »
When Ericsson goes to the toilet he is followed by Clark who tries to blow him up with a grenade. The guy who plays Clark is white but you can see that the person who lifts the slide to plant the grenade has a black arm. See more »
Pardon me sir, what's your point, sir?
There ain't no point, Eriksson. I'm simply trying to illuminate the terrain in which we currently find ourselves deployed. You don't mind that, do you? And if you do, FUCK YOU! You on my frequency?
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Although Platoon may have gotten more acclaim, by far the best film on the Vietnam War is this one. Casualties Of War is going to leave Platoon way in the dust when history has its verdict.
Though Sean Penn's got several great films to his credit, by far this is the best work of Michael J. Fox on the big screen. His soldier with a conscious who can't live with himself after witnessing an act of barbarity that the other men of his squad commit should have brought him an Oscar nomination. In fact there could have and should have been a few of them for this film.
Fox plays a young soldier only a few weeks in Vietnam. On patrol Sergeant Sean Penn saves his life, but then on a second patrol because Penn and friends could not get leave to bleed the lizard as they say, they kidnap a young Vietnamese woman and take her on patrol. All the men on the patrol, Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly, and John Leguizamo all gang rape the girl, but Fox refuses. Later on he's got a crisis of conscience.
Kids who grew up on World War II movies and westerns with clearly defined good and bad guys were ill prepared for a war in Vietnam. So was our government which had been involved in more or less degree since the end of World War II and the breakup of French Indochina. The subtleties of the regional politics eluded our policy makers in Washington. It was mighty hard to tell who was a friend and who was an enemy. You treated anyone with a yellowish pigmentation and slanted eyes as an enemy, the only friends you knew were the ones wearing the same green jungle fatigues as you were.
The war twisted Penn and Harvey. Leguizamo and Reilly were essentially followers, only Fox who hadn't been there long enough to have his sense of morality impaired could see this was all wrong. That's the frightening part of Casualties Of War. None of the four could see anything wrong, even Leguizamo who sees his first duty as to stick with the guys who have your back in the field.
As good as Fox and Penn and the rest of the Occidental cast is, the best performance in the film is Thuy Thu Lee. As the bewildered and frightened young girl she will positively break your heart with her one and only film performance.
Casualties Of War was shot in Thailand so we're seeing actual Southeast Asia locations. Brian DePalma's direction of his stellar cast is right on target. Don't ever miss Casualties Of War about the ultimate Vietnam experience.
20 of 21 people found this review helpful.
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Celtics shoot by Heat
The Celtics were hot all game long, and their 61 percent shooting from the field led them to a 115-107 win over the Heat in Miami Sunday afternoon, 9 days after beating them at home.
Boston shot a whopping 64 percent from the three-point line and 80 percent from the foul line to complement that excellent field goal percentage, and outrebounded and outassisted the Heat in route to their victory.
Out of the 23 assists the Celtics had, point guard Rajon Rondo ended up with 15, along with 18 points and 4 rebounds.
Stars Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce had 24 and 27 points respectively, both shooting at least 50 percent from the field for the game.
Star forward LeBron James had 36 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists for the Heat, who fell behind by as much as 18 in the first half, never regaining the early lead they had in the first quarter.
Shooting guard Dwyane Wade finished with 20 points and 5 assists, and did not seem too worried about the loss.
“When they shoot like that, it’s going to be tough to beat them,” Wade said after the game. “Obviously, we can always do things better. But give them credit.”
The Heat were dominated tonight, and while the Celtics have flourished since the All-Star break, the Heat have hit a dry spell. Since the break, the Heat are 1-5 against the Los Angeles Lakers, the Celtics, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Chicago Bulls-three of the best teams in the league.
The Heat look to improve that record versus the league’s best on Thursday when they play the Bulls on the road. The Celtics look to continue their hot shooting against the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday. | <urn:uuid:0e05d75b-f471-47ea-ae71-7e15201c533b> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.sportsrageous.com/celtics-shoot-by-heat-04-11-2012 | 2014-04-24T00:27:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223203841.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032003-00497-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973277 | 371 | [
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Around the county in 30 days
A daily spring preview of every football program in the county.
Coach: Mike Fenton (third season, 14-10)
Last season: 5-7 (lost to Plant in second round of 4A playoffs)
District: Class 4A-10 (Blake, Leto, Plant)
Key losses: OL Sebastian Cadavid, RB Jamil Crews, QB Zack Grossi, DL Max Holloway, LB Gorby Loreus, WR Darrell Young
Who's back: WR Devion Falconer, OL/DL Jarrod Gant, DB Kyle Holloman, DB/KR Lent Lewis, WR Rodney Mills, LB/FB Fred Overstreet, WR Jose Rodriguez, DB Kenneth Spain, OL Jake Tackenburg, QB Quentin Williams, RB Mark Winters, DE/OL Garret Wolfe
What's new: Most of the starting lineup. Jefferson, which will have one of the youngest teams around, returns only seven (three on offense; four on defense) with starting experience. But Fenton, who has been at Jefferson for a decade, says this group reminds him of the 2003 graduating class, which led the Dragons to the 2002 championship game. Williams (6-1, 180 pounds), who will be a sophomore, is a gifted signal caller with the tools to be a star. Fenton said at this stage he compares favorably to two players he once coached: Stephen Garcia and Kenny Kelly. Jefferson is likely to play five receivers, each of whom has considerable skill. Special teams is another place where Jefferson appears to be strong. In Marcus Johnson and Lewis, the Dragons believe they have two game-changing returners.
Audible: "We're going to be very competitive. I know we're going to win games. I know that. How deep we go in the playoffs remains to be seen. But I'm pretty confident the year after and the year after that, we may be a state contender." — Fenton
Did you know? Mills, a junior, is the cousin of former Jefferson linebacker C.J. Mills, who was murdered last year. Fenton said Mills likely will be a Division I-A player some day.
Spring result: Beat Robinson 27-7
Sept. 5 vs.
Sept. 12 at
Sept. 26 vs. Gaither
Oct. 3 at
Oct. 10 vs. Leto
Oct. 16 at
Oct. 24 at Blake
Oct. 31 vs. Alonso
Nov. 7 vs. Plant
Nov. 14 at
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Re: V240 Status?
>>> Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:21:44PM +0100, J. Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> > So its not V240 specific. As high priority calls are rare (only subr_pcu.c,
> > and NPF through subr_pserialize.c used it so far) it is quite possible they
> > were never tested.
> I'm pretty sure I tested back then, but I am not 100% sure right now.
> I'll have a look.
I think sparc64_ipi_ccall in mp_subr.S is suspicious.
If it is called directly from interrupt_vector in locore.s, it
requires something like TRAP_SETUP() or INTR_SETUP() to prepare
stack and others.
-- Takeshi Nakayama
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Department of Near Eastern Antiquities: Levant
© 2004 RMN / Franck Raux
Near Eastern Antiquities
A few tombs in Ugarit that have survived intact have given up a rich hoard of jewelry. This gold pendant, representing the nude figure of the great goddess of fertility, was part of a necklace consisting of several pieces of gold leaf and carnelian beads.
A powerful image of female nudity
The pendant is made of an ovoid piece of gold leaf. The artist obtained the figure in relief by stamping the thin sheet of gold leaf or applying it over a carved relief made of a more solid material. The figure represents a nude goddess seen face-on, with her arms bent on either side of her chest. The hands are at shoulder height and probably originally held an emblem of some kind, possibly snakes, which would explain the bulge round the edge of the piece. The figure is short and stocky. The face is oversized in relation to the rest of the body, which is compact in comparison. The waist is immediately beneath the breasts. Beneath the navel and a fold in the belly, the pudendum is framed by very large, round thighs.
Jewelry rich in symbolism
This pendant is among the most complex designs of all the gold jewelry found in Ugarit. All are decorated with symbolic motifs linked to the worship of a great goddess of fertility. This goddess sometimes appeared in human form, as here, where she is depicted with the heavy headdress of the Egyptian goddess Hathor, with curls winding round the neck. She is shown standing on a crescent in reference to her astral nature. Other pieces of jewelry show just her face, breasts, and a triangle representing her pudendum, with the rest of the body not shown at all. Sometimes, just the head - which is given particular prominence in this piece - is shown, not unlike the other feminine accoutrements decorated with the face of the goddess in human form. Numerous medallions in the shape of a disk decorated with small circles or stars also refer to the astral character of the goddess. This astral aspect was also later a characteristic of the Roman goddess Venus, who was both the goddess of love and the morning star.
Imagery and mythology
The excavations at Ugarit have revealed many cuneiform texts describing rituals and recounting myths. The tale of Baal, the god of storms and of vegetation, who died and came back to life, is told on a series of tablets which frequently refer to the goddess Anat, Baal's sister and lover. Like the Egyptian goddess Isis seeking out the scattered limbs of Osiris to bring him back to life, Anat brings Baal back to life after he is killed by the scorching heat of the summer. Other goddesses also feature in the tales. The jewelry of Ugarit gives us a precious glimpse into this complex mythology that we still know very little about.
BibliographySchaeffer Claude, "La troisième campagne de fouilles à Ras-Schamra", Syria, vol. XIII, 1932, p. 8.
Thirteenth century BC
Minet el Beida, port of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), Syria
Gold, embossed gold leaf
H. 9.2 cm; W. 3.7 cm
Allocated to the Louvre after the Claude Schaeffer excavation, 1931
Nude goddess standing on a crescent
Levant: coastal Syria, Ugarit, and Byblos
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Daily News Briefs
NRHA Research Shows BrightSign-Powered Digital Signage Increases Hardware Retail Sales up to 178.1 Percent
Visit http://www.brightsign.biz for further information
Interactive Displays Produced Measurable ROI and Sales Uplift for the Same Products Compared to Stores without Digital Signage
Submitted on 05/01/12, 09:52 AM
LOS GATOS, CA -April 30, 2012- BrightSign, LLC®, a trusted name in the digital signage industry, announced today that the North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA) has published the results of research comparing sales of specific products in stores that used digital signage for promotion vs. stores that did not. For the research, the NRHA teamed with BrightSign customer, Aubuchon Hardware, a large hardware retail chain with 130 stores in the Northeast.
The results of the NRHA test confirm that product sales increase when interactive digital signage is used. Aubuchon Hardware stores saw unit sales increase by 23 percent for interior paint, 45 percent for smoke detectors and a remarkable 178 percent for air filters in stores with BrightSign-powered digital signage promoting those product specials, compared to Aubuchon stores without digital signage.
Jeff Hastings, BrightSign CEO, will be discussing the findings of the NRHA/Aubuchon research in his seminar, "Increasing Sales with In-Store Digital Signage," during the upcoming National Hardware Show® at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Tuesday, May 1, at 11-11:50 A.M. and Wednesday, May 2, at 2-2:50 P.M.
"The information we've received shows every hardware retail location using our BrightSign players reported significant sales lift," said Jeff Hastings, BrightSign CEO. "The hardware store trials clearly support the fact that highly visible product information with moving graphics and streaming content creates a measurable ROI for store management. When you see such a substantial increase in sales of paint and air filters, certainly not what you would consider impulse buys, the impact of digital signage over printed signs becomes obvious," he emphasized.
For the test, Aubuchon placed endcap digital signage displays powered by BrightSign players in six stores and ran interactive presentations produced by the NRHA for one month. The sales results were then compared to six other stores in the chain that historically had similar sales for the products tested.
Unlike the many static and looping endcap signs that focus solely on price and savings, the test displays alsoinformed shoppers about the benefits of using the product in their homes. Shoppers who wanted more information on the product could press a button located on the display to play a short project-oriented, how-to video.
The BrightSign HD digital signage players that were used to drive the Aubuchon interactive displays were Full HD, solid-state players that make it easy to add interactivity. Using the BrightAuthor software included with all BrightSign players, visual-based interactive playlists can easily be created to trigger content playback from buttons and touch screens.
Priced significantly lower than PC-based solutions, solid-state players cost less to operate since they only require 5-7 watts of power, compared to 70-90 watts for an average PC. They also completely eliminate PC issues such as high maintenance costs, system crashes, and mandatory software/virus updates. And with no moving parts to fail, solid-state players built solely for digital signage deliver increased reliability.
With the complete, ready-to-use BrightSign digital signage solution, including hardware, software and networking capabilities, installation costs are significantly lower as well. This all-in-one approach also eliminates hardware/software compatibility issues and software licensing fees.
BrightSign is now shipping two new interactive, solid-state digital signage controllers as part of its new line of solutions that is more affordable, compact and media friendly than ever before. Offering Full HD playback, the new players include the HD120, a basic interactive model with simple button interactivity and the HD1020, a networked interactive player with advanced interactivity supporting USB, serial, touch screens and mobile devices. BrightSign also offers the HD220, a networked looping player, and the HD1010w, a Wi-Fi enabled interactive player.
The new BrightSign HD product line of interactive and network-enabled players are available from the BrightSign Store with pricesranging from US$250.00 for the HD120 Basic Interactive Model to US$500.00 for the HD1020 Networked Interactive Model. The HD1010w Wi-Fi enabled Interactive Model is priced at US$700.00. Distributor pricing is available upon request. Backed by a one-year warranty, the players include BrightAuthor, a PC software application that simplifies creating, publishing, managing and monitoring digital signage displays, and the networked players include a variety of networking options.
BrightSign, LLC, based in Los Gatos, California, develops products, software and networking solutions for digital signage. BrightSign solid-state digital sign controllers set new standards for both stand-alone and networked digital signage applications with their superior video quality, reliability, affordability, ease of use and interactivity. Online information about BrightSign units is available at www.brightsign.biz. For US sales inquiries, please contact [email protected] or call +1-408-852-9263. For European sales inquiries, please email Pierre Gillet: [email protected] or call +44-1223-911842. Follow BrightSign at http://twitter.com/brightsign and http://www.facebook.com/BrightSignLLC. | <urn:uuid:e62d863a-f5bc-4ec5-a530-fd0aa44c61ac> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.hometoys.com/news/2012/05/01/nrha-research-shows-brightsign-powered-digital-signage-increases-hardware-retail-sales-up-to-1781-percent/1541 | 2014-04-18T18:14:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535095.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00073-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922255 | 1,171 | [
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Kolache is a Czech or Slovack pastry filled with either fruit (such as apricots, prunes or raspberries) or meats and/or cheeses.
Beat smooth, then add butter mixture and enough flour to make a medium soft dough. (as stiff as can be mixed with a spoon). Knead with a wooden spoon. Let dough rise in a warm place until doubled.
Turn dough out on board and knead down. Let rise again for a few minutes. It will be easier to handle. Then make into rolls.
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I booked two rooms the day before my stepdaughter and children were scheduled to fly out of Tampa so we wouldn't have to awake at the crack of dawn to drive them there. Check in was fast and efficient with the front desk staff giving me helpful tips about the hotel and surrounding area. There is a complimentary shuttle to the airport and nearby attractions. The rooms were spacious and clean with a sitting area adjacent to the bedroom and two televisions. The kids loved the outside pool and hot tub, and the hotel restaurant, Coast, was above average for a hotel, with varied choices. The bar area was packed with people eating and watching the college basketball tournament, but I understand the food is good there as well. There is a breakfast buffet for a fee but you can also order eggs, waffles, and pancakes to order. The chef was friendly and went out of his way to make exactly what we wanted and the wait staff both at dinner and breakfast were friendly and accommodating. There was some confusion with the complimentary parking with no parking spots available upon our arrival but that was resolved with a little bit of creativity. All in all the Hilton Garden Inn was quite impressive and very convenient to our needs.
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The Skinny: Islanders 5, Jets 2
Isles 5, Winnipeg 2
Anders Lee scored on his first shot on goal in his first NHL game, and Frans Nielsen broke a 2-2 tie with a power play goal late in the second period, as the Islanders got goals from all four lines and defeated the Winnipeg Jets before a crowd of 11,819 at Nassau Coliseum. With the win, the Isles jump into a tie with the Devils for seventh place, two points ahead of the ninth-place Rangers.
16:13 NYI A. Lee (1) Wrist - ASST: M. Martin (5) AND C. Cizikas (9) 1 - 0 NYI
18:06 WPG P. Postma (2) Wrist - ASST: E. Tangradi (2) AND K. Wellwood (8) 1 - 1 TIE
06:02 WPG P. Postma (3) Tip-In - ASST: C. Thorburn (1) AND E. Tangradi (3) 2 - 1 WPG
09:56 NYI C. McDonald (7) Snap - ASST: M. Grabner (5) AND M. Streit (14) 2 - 2 TIE
19:32 NYI PPG - F. Nielsen (4) Slap - ASST: J. Bailey (5) AND M. Streit (15) 3 - 2 NYI
18:00 NYI M. Moulson (12) Wrist - ASST: J. Tavares (16) AND B. Boyes (20) 4 - 2 NYI
19:24 NYI EN - J. Tavares (23) Wrist - ASST: B. Boyes (21) AND M. Moulson (25) 5 - 2 NYI
Anders Lee is the first Islander since John Tavares (10/3/09) to score on his first shot in his first game … Frans Nielsen has one goal and five assists in the last seven games and eight points (one goal, seven assists) in the last 10; it was his first goal in 12 games … John Tavares is now second in the NHL in both goals (23) and power play goals (9); he trails Steven Stamkos by two goals … Andrew MacDonald was plus-3, making him plus-5 in the last two games … It’s the first time this season and fifth time in his career he has been plus-3 … Matt Moulson scored for the first time in 13 games; his eight shots on goal matched a career high … Kevin Poulin recorded his first win of the season, ending a streak in which all 17 wins had been credited to Evgeni Nabokov … It’s the first time an Isles goalie has been credited with 17 consecutive team wins in at least 25 years … This is the sixth set of back-to-backs for the Isles this season; the Isles are now 1-5-0 on the back-end so far this season … Paul Postma had only one career goal entering the game … Postma tied the franchise record for goals by a defenseman in a game – no Thrasher/Jet defender has ever had a hat trick … The Isles are 11-2-1 when they lead after two periods while Winnipeg is 1-12-0 when they trail after two.
First Goal, First Shot, First Game
Anders Lee joins John Tavares and Jesse Joensuu on the list of Isles players who have scored their first goal on their first shot in their first game. Chris Campoli and current Sharks coach Todd McLellan also did it for the Isles.
Lee is the 19th player in Islanders history to score a goal in his first NHL game. Some went on to score many NHL goals (such as Mike Bossy, Todd Bertuzzi, Billy Harris, Patrick Flatley and John Tavares); others did not (Rod Dallman, Scott Howson, Neal Coulter and Todd McLellan; McLellan’s first NHL goal was also his last).
• 7 New Jersey 36 games 15-12-9 39 points (13 ROW) Next game: Thursday at Boston
• 8 NY Islanders 37 games 18-16-3 39 points (15 ROW) Next game: Thursday at Washington
• 9 NY Rangers 35 games 17-15-3 37 points (14 ROW) Next game: Wednesday vs. Pittsburgh
(The Devils are still ahead of the Isles because they have one more game to play.)
Home and Road
The Islanders are 18-16-3 overall, 7-11-2 at home and 11-5-1 on the road. Their 39 points in 37 games is their highest total since they had 40 points in 37 games in 2007-08. By going two games over .500, the Isles equaled their high-level mark on the season.
The Isles have won two straight at home. It’s the first time that they have won consecutive home games in regulation this season.
The Jets are 18-18-2 overall, 8-9-0 at home and 10-9-2 on the road. Winnipeg has lost four straight (0-4-0) for the first time this season as they fall back to .500 for the first time since March 7 (11-11-1).
In the Nets
Kevin Poulin made 23 saves and improves to 1-2-0 this season. Poulin is now 2-0-0 in his career against the Jets, allowing just three goals.
Ondrej Pavelec made 34 saves but falls to 15-17-2.
The Islanders went 1-for-1 while the Jets were 0-for-1.
The Isles have 16 PP goals in their last 22 games (with all 16 goals coming in nine games).
The Isles are 13-3-1 when they score at least one power play goal and 5-13-2 when they do not.
In (Almost) Every Game
The Isles have been tied or ahead at some point in the third period in 31-of-37 games this season (18-10-3).
Movin’ on Up
Jack Capuano recorded his 78th win as Islander coach, passing Peter Laviolette for third place on the all-time franchise win list.
Most wins by Islander coaches:
1. Al Arbour 740
2. Terry Simpson 81
3. Jack Capuano 78
4. Peter Laviolette 77
5. Ted Nolan 74
Most games coached (Islanders)
1. Al Arbour 1,500
2. Mike Milbury 191
3. Terry Simpson 187
4. Jack Capuano 184
5. Scott Gordon 181
They All Made It
With Anders Lee making his NHL debut, all seven players that the Isles drafted in 2009 have made it to the NHL with the Isles.
The others are:
They Said It
"I was just trying to get the puck to the net, especially in the first period. I was so surprised. I just threw it on net, it happened to go in, and the boys came to congratulate me. It was pretty awesome. My head was spinning at that point. If it wasn't enough to be playing in my first game, that was really exciting."
They Tweeted It
@bookert2116 Huge game for the #isles tonight. Felt good to play a full 60 minutes at home and get the W. Congrats to @leeberr09 on his 1st game and goal!
"Our goalie made some big saves when we needed him to."
Here's a number that Howie Rose likes to refer to from time-to-time. Anders Lee is the seventh player to score his first goal as an Islander this season, joining Brad Boyes, Keith Aucoin, Casey Cizikas, Colin MacDonald and Thomas Hickey and Lubomir Visnovsky. 328 players in Islander history have scored a goal.
As Tavares Goes…
The Isles are 1-0-0 when Tavares has four points, 1-0-1 when he has three points, 6-2-0 when he has two points, 9-4-0 when he has one point, and 1-10-2 when Tavares is pointless.
What a Pair!
John Tavares and Matt Moulson have combined for 35 goals this season. Moulson has assisted on 17 Tavares goals this season after assisting on 12 of his 31 goals last season. Tavares has earned an assist on eight Moulson goals this season. Since November 2011, Tavares has been on ice for 40 of Moulson’s last 41 goals, earning 26 assists. Since November 2010, he has earned 48 assists on Moulson’s last 72 goals, while being on ice for 70 of them.
Head of the Class
John Tavares has 241 career points. He is 55 points ahead of Matt Duchene for most among 2009 draft picks. No other player in that draft is anywhere close. Tavares also has more goals and more assists than any other player in that draft.
115 NHL Goals
Moulson has 115 career goals (109 as an Islander). While 262 players were selected before the Penguins chose Moulson in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, only 17 have more goals. Moulson is tied with Nikolai Zherdev for 16th place.
Leading Ice Men
Andrew MacDonald played 24:37 to lead the Isles. Zach Bogosian led the Jets with 27:02.
In the Circle
The Islanders won 26-of-48 draws. John Tavares won 11-of-17 for the Isles.
Giving up the Body
The Isles were credited with 19 blocked shots. Travis Hamonic had five to lead the team.
The Islanders move four games over .500 all-time (1365-1361-435 in 3161 games). The Isles were one game below .500 twice last season and four times this season. Prior to that, they had not been below .500 since they were 177-178-83 before their victory on January 16, 1978.
Good Start to April
The Isles were 4-2-1 in January and 4-9-1 in February, and 8-5-1 in March. They are 2-0-0 in April.
Matt Moulson, the Isles’ reigning ironman, has played in all 283 games since joining the team. Moulson’s streak is the longest for an Islander in the Post-Cup era. Billy Harris played in the first 576 games in Islander history; that figure still stands as the club record.
Three other Islanders, Frans Nielsen, John Tavares and Mark Streit, also played in every game last season. Tavares extended his streak to 196 consecutive games, while Nielsen and Streit have each played in 119.
Longest Consecutive Game Streaks, Islander History
1. Billy Harris 576
2. Bob Nystrom 301
3. Matt Moulson 283
4. Denis Potvin 262
Mark Streit now has the sixth longest consecutive game streak of any defenseman in Islander history:
1. Denis Potvin 11/29/1975-1/17/1979 262
2. Bryan McCabe 10/7/1995-2/4/1998 220
3. Gerry Hart 3/1/1975-11/22/1977 198
4. Janne Niinimaa 3/13/2004-1/7/2006 136
5. Ken Morrow 3/1/1980-12/29/1981 134
6. Mark Streit 10/8/2011-CURRENT 119
7. Travis Hamonic 11/24/2010 – 2/4/2012 113
8. Jean Potvin 10/23/1975-1/2/1977 110
9. Kenny Jonsson 12/26/1996-2/4/1998 104
Hamonic, McCabe and Morrow's streaks came at the start of their NHL careers. Both Niinimaa's streak and McCabe's streak encompassed their entire Islander careers.
Anders Lee replaced Marty Reasoner in the lineup and made his NHL debut. Matt Carkner replaced Radek Martinek in the lineup. Eric Boulton was scratched. Joe Finley, David Ullstrom and Brian Strait are on Injured Reserve. Jesse Joensuu is skating with the team but has not yet been added to the active roster.
The Isles have scored 72 goals in their 18 wins (4.00 per game) and 33 goals in their other 19 games (0-16-3; 1.74 per game). In their 16 regulation losses, the Isles have scored 24 goals (1.50 per game).
Career Wins, Active Goalies
1. Martin Brodeur 666
2. Roberto Luongo 346
3. Nikolai Khabibulin 331
4. Evgeni Nabokov 329
5. Miikka Kiprusoff 317
19. Nikolai Khabibulin 331
20. Harry Lumley 330
21. Evgeni Nabokov 329
22. Sean Burke 324
23. Miikka Kiprusoff 317
Career Shutouts, Active Goalies
1. Martin Brodeur 120
2. Roberto Luongo 62
3. Evgeni Nabokov 55
4. Tomas Vokoun 51
5. Nikolai Khabibulin 46
6. Miikka Kiprusoff 44
18 Clint Benedict 57
19 Evgeni Nabokov 55
20 Bernie Parent 54
20 Ed Giacomin 54
Career Goals as an Islander
21 Ray Ferraro 116
22 Matt Moulson 109
23 John Tavares 107
24 Benoit Hogue 105
24 Ed Westfall 105
Career Assists as an Islander
27 Greg Gilbert 138
28 John Tavares 134
29 Mark Streit 133
30 Jason Blake 131
31 Trent Hunter 130
31 Frans Nielsen 130
33 Benoit Hogue 124
33 Mikko Makela 124
Career Games as an Islander (skaters)
25 Gerry Hart 476
26 Mariusz Czerkawski 470
27 Radek Martinek 463
28 Trent Hunter 459
39 Randy Wood 381
40 Frans Nielsen 356
41 Dave Scatchard 347
52 Brad Dalgarno 321
53 Josh Bailey 318
54 Ray Ferraro 316
54 Steve Webb 316
54 Richard Park 316
57 Gerald Diduck 314
58 Kyle Okposo 308
59 Mikko Makela 307
60 Gordon Lane 304
61 Arron Asham 300
61 Roman Hamrlik 300
63 Gordon Dineen 287
64 Matt Moulson 283
65 Jeffrey Norton 282
66 John Tavares 280
67 Steve Thomas 275
67 Mark Streit 275
69 Blake Comeau 261
69 Andre St. Laurent 261
Career Points as an Islander
23 David Volek 249
24 John Tavares 241
25 Ray Ferraro 238
35 Anders Kallur 211
36 Matt Moulson 207
37 Marty McInnis 198
38 Wayne Merrick 197
39 Robert Goring 195
40 Jeffrey Norton 188
40 Frans Nielsen 188
42 Lorne Henning 184
43 Kyle Okposo 176
44 Mark Streit 172
44 Randy Wood 172
46 Claude Lapointe 171
46 Jean-Paul Parise 171
Season Series Stats
The Isles even the season series at one game each (the Isles have three points to the Jets’ two). This was the only meeting of the teams on Long Island. They will play their final game as conference rivals on April 20 in Winnipeg.
20 years ago tonight (4-2-93): Pierre Turgeon scored his 50th goal of the season as the Islanders defeated the Rangers 3-2 at Madison Square Garden. Turgeon’s tally came at 3:41 of overtime and stretched the Isles’ lead over the Rangers to three points. The Rangers would never recover and would miss the playoffs while the Isles would advance to the Conference Finals.
All-time, the Isles are 11-9-1 on this date.
On The Farm
Ryan Strome scored a goal and added an assist on the game-winning goal to make his professional debut a success, as Bridgeport beat Worcester 4-2. Bridgeport is 28-28-6-5 on the season and will play seven of their final nine games at home. The Sound Tigers are six points out of a playoff spot with nine games to play. Bridgeport will host Worcester at 11 a.m. on Thursday.
THURSDAY, APRIL 4 ISLANDERS AT WASHINGTON (7:00PM)
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The Isles head for the road for a single game as they face the Capitals in Washington.
Washington is playing its best hockey of the season, and is 4-1-1 in their last six after a 5-3 win over Carolina on Tuesday drew them within two points of division-leading Winnipeg.
The Isles are 4-0-2 against Washington over the last two seasons and will be looking for a complete sweep of the season series vs. the Caps for the first time since 1980-81.
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It's a little bit of a trek, but I highly recommend going out to Culebra island and checking out Flamenco Beach.
One of the most amazing beaches you will ever see.
You can take a cheap ferry boat from Fajardo or if you have the dough to spare, you can catch a small charter plane from San Juan.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- A fatal vehicle vs. pedestrian accident in St. Augustine had all lanes of Interstate 95 blocked just North of World Golf Village early Thursday morning.
The incident occurred just before 6 a.m. as a woman's father-in-law, 82-year-old Charles Burnice Sherrill, attempted to cross the northbound lanes of I-95 to reach her disabled vehicle, according to Sgt. Dylan Bryan with Florida Highway Patrol.
The woman was traveling northbound on I-95 between International Golf Parkway and County Road 210 when her car gave trouble and she pulled to the side of the roadway and called her family for assistance, Dylan detailed.
Sherrill was initially struck in the right lane by a 2000 Hyundai Elantra, whose driver immediately stopped and called for help. Sherrill was subsequently struck by other vehicles while lying in the roadway.
Jeremy Robshaw with St. Johns County Fire Rescue said Sherrill was deceased upon the arrival of first responders. An FHP report stated that Sherrill was wearing dark clothing.
The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office also responded and diverted traffic from I-95 until the roadway reopened at 9:30 a.m.
Neighbors of Sherrill said he went by the nickname "Pete," was a good neighbor and and was in good health for a man of 82.
Anyone with any information on the accident is asked to call FHP at (904) 301-3700.
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- Turn on your hazard lights to alert other drivers.
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ICE Agents Suing the Department of Homeland Security
Judge Allows Case to Go Forward for ICE Agents Suing the Department of Homeland Security
In August, 2012, Fox News reported that 10 federal ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents and officials sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton regarding their directives, They claimed that the directives forced them to break the law by not deporting undocumented immigrants. Their lawsuit challenged use of prosecutorial discretion as a means of stopping the deportation of non-felons and individuals who came to the United States as children who are currently allowed to obtain work permits. The lawsuit alleges that the directive encroaches upon the legislative powers of Congress because it basically allows provisions that failed to pass Congress. In rebuttal to the lawsuit, the DHS spokesman stressed that ICE removed record numbers of criminal aliens in 2011. He also argued that the Supreme Court has recognized the ability of the U.S. government to use prosecutorial discretion for immigration law enforcement.
In January 2013, Federal District Court Judge Reed O'Connor issued a decision where he ruled that the 10 ICE agents and officers have standing to move forward with their lawsuit. The ICE officials had also requested a preliminary injunction to stop the DHS directives, but the judge did not rule yet on that request.
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Director of Operations Beth Pahmeier said she could not be more proud of the success and atmosphere that has been created at Harvest Home Assisted Living.
“We have worked very hard to create a welcoming place for our residents,” Pahmeier said, “a place where we can support those who come to stay in a variety of ways.”
Harvest Home Assisted Living offers two campuses—Howards Grove and West Bend—each with a variety of care options for older adults. The Howards Grove campus, located at 2003 and 2005 Appletree Rd. in Howards Grove, features two eight-bed assisted living homes.
The West Bend location is an eight-bed home designed especially for those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia-related illnesses.
Both campuses allow Pahmeier and her staff to create a home-like atmosphere where residents are surrounded by their peers, cared for by professionals and treated with respect while allowing them to remain as independent as possible.
Creating a Christian-based culture
Creating a good culture and community within the communities has always been at the heart of Harvest Home.
Pahmeier said, “It’s important for us to support the individual while sustaining a family-like atmosphere in our homes. One of the things our residents enjoy is sitting around the table together for dinner. This encouragement helps our residents bring out the best in each other and that encouragement is important in maintaining a healthy, quality lifestyle.”
Harvest Home has also continued to be committed to providing seniors individualized and dignified care in a Christian-based setting where they can be strengthened and encouraged to live purpose-filled lives.
Pahmeier said, “We want to continue to support our residents’ faith and lifestyle. Through evening devotions or Bible studies, we try to help residents stay connected to their church. We welcome and encourage local clergy to provide religious services at Harvest Home. We also strive to help our residents maintain their church membership and attend services as they are able.”
She added, “We key in on identifying with individual needs while supporting a community atmosphere that has been welcoming for new guests as well.”
With eight residents in each building, Harvest Home takes care of medical and hospice needs and rehabilitation. The facilities also have a registered nurse on site and helps residents stay connected to doctors and medication schedules.
“It’s important for our staff that they continue their training and credits so we can provide the highest quality of care to our residents,” Pahmeier said. “We do have excellent staff that has been with us for years. They are dependable and truly care for the residents. We do not have a lot of turnover, which means consistent care for the residents and a closer work-
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Feb 4/08 Cream City tripp Skip to the rants (4) dont count the hard flip... Share this on: Share on Facebook Tweet it (4) responses to: Cream City tripp You guys steez'd it up very well. Good job. Lolly Gag Posted: 6 years ago Permalink NICE MAN Anomalist Doom Posted: 6 years ago Permalink sweet dude. GnarSurfer Posted: 5 years ago Permalink Last trick has pleased.... Vlad Posted: 5 years ago Permalink Leave your rant Hey, you can't leave a rant here cause you're not logged in. Go log in! | <urn:uuid:eeca9996-0d35-481e-ab75-654da2cce66e> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://emerica.com/team/tylanta/videos/cream-city-tripp/ | 2014-04-18T23:07:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535095.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00409-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.838338 | 129 | [
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SIGNS of weakness in advanced economies seem to have taken some by surprise. In America, GDP growth slipped in the second quarter of 2012 to a revised figure of 1.7% after growing at a rate of 2% in the first. In Britain, the economy is contracting at 0.5% a year based on latest data, adding to an increasing sense of frustration felt towards the government for failing to ensure a faster recovery.
But perhaps we are suffering from memory lapse. To understand the effects of an economic crisis, you have to go back to its roots. A new study by Alan Taylor draws attention back to the causes of the 2008 financial crisis. Through a series of tests run on a sample of 14 advanced economies between 1870 and 2008, Mr Taylor establishes a link between the growth of private sector credit and the likelihood of financial crisis. The link between crisis and credit is stronger than between crises and growth in the broad money supply, the current account deficit, or an increase in public debt.
Over the 138-year timeframe Mr Taylor finds crisis preceded by the development of excess credit, as in Ireland and Spain today, are more common than crisis underpinned by excessive government borrowing, like in Greece. Fiscal strains in themselves do not tend to result in financial crisis.
When the boom period of credit expansion is coupled with growth in public-sector borrowing, however, the subsequent negative impact on the economy will be worse. Why? When a crash occurs, governments will not have the fiscal capacity to buffer the crisis due to their already stretched borrowing levels. Instead, they become forced to retrench and adopt austerity measures—which tend to drag on growth further, prolonging recession.
Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff’s book "This Time Is Different" shows the fiscal balance is worsened during the crisis period by declining revenues and higher expenditures, due to bank bailout costs, higher transfer payments, and debt servicing. A recent Swedish case is illuminating. Before its 1991 banking crisis, Sweden operated a fiscal surplus of 3.8% of GDP. Afterwards, its deficit-to-GDP ratio grew to more than 15%. During the three years from peak-to-trough, loss of GDP per capita was more than five per cent.
Financial crisis recession will tend to result in a longer-term recessionary drag than a “normal” business cycle recession. When a regular recession is preceded by excess credit growth, Mr Taylor finds there tends to be a mild drag on GDP of 50 to 75 bps. By including public debt-to-GDP levels, there is no great variance in the effects. That challenges the assumption a high debt-to-GDP level alone will cause financial instability.
But a financial crisis recession tends to bring about a larger drag on the economy, of 100 to 150 bps. Add in a high level of public debt-to-GDP, near to 100%, and growth tends to drop by 400 bps.
According to Ms Reinhart and Mr Rogoff’s sweeping historical analysis of previous crises, recessions surrounding financial crisis are unusually long compared to normal recessions—which typically last less than a year. The 1929 banking crisis in America resulted in an almost 30% GDP decrease from peak-to-trough, that is over four years. Argentina’s 2001 financial crisis led to more than 20% of GDP loss over four years. Over the same timeframe, Finland’s banking crisis in 1991 shaved off close to 15% of GDP.
It seems likely the long-term recessionary scenario as described by Mr Taylor, Ms Reinhart, and Mr Rogoff is what economies in the West are now experiencing. Within developed markets, the financial sector occupies a larger proportion of the general economy than ever before. In the 1990s and 2000s, the level of private debt on bank balance sheets far outweighed that held by sovereigns, despite a simultaneous increase in sovereign debt levels. Given the greater severity of recession Taylor concludes is likely following a period of both private and public debt accumulation, the damaging effects could go on for some time. | <urn:uuid:80b7bd03-4115-4b3e-bbc0-f58cfab33449> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/09/financial-crisis?fsrc=gn_ep | 2014-04-18T22:48:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535095.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00409-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95053 | 839 | [
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The High Museum of Art , located in Atlanta, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States and one of the most-visited art museums in the World. Located on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district, the High is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center.
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CLEVELAND - Before the Browns can start thinking about the importance of winning division games, it would help to at least win a game.
AFC North games; in-conference games; NFC games. Whatever. Just win one!
The 0-5 Browns will attempt to end an 11-game losing streak today against the 3-2 Cincinnati Bengals in an AFC North Division game at Cleveland Browns Stadium. Among the Browns' five defeats were division losses to the Bengals and Baltimore Ravens.
If Browns coach Pat Shurmur is feeling pressure, he can expect the heat to turn up a few notches with another loss. James Haslam III will be officially approved as the new owner at an owners' meeting Tuesday in Chicago, which means he can begin making changes.
In an interview last week on the "Fox Business Network," Haslam said that he wouldn't begin making moves until later in the year. Whether late means October, November or December wasn't mentioned.
Shurmur has shown signs of being under pressure. A win today would do volumes to make his life easier.
"You want to win every game, and you would like it to most of the time happen at home so you create that home-field advantage, which is tough for the opponent," Shurmur said. "We get that, and this is a division game, so it's kind of a double-whammy there. Winning a division game at home would be great for our young team."
Shurmur should feel better knowing that rookie quarterback Brandon Weeden and rookie running back Trent Richardson both played well in a 34-27 loss to the Bengals in week two. Weeden was 26 of 37 for 322 yards and two touchdowns. Richardson rushed for 109 yards and one touchdown and caught four passes for 36 yards and a touchdown.
It was a turnaround game for Weeden, who had a disastrous showing a week earlier in the opener against the Philadelphia Eagles. He threw four interceptions and had no touchdown passes, completing 12-of-35 passes for 118 yards.
"I think offensively we made a lot of positive adjustments going forward from that Eagles' game," Weeden said. "I think we took care of the football. We didn't hurt ourselves, and we did some things to move the ball down the field without going backwards.
"That was a game where we kind of found our identity a little bit. I think that's one thing that we kind of gained some confidence from going forward from that game. Hopefully we can repeat it."
Richardson's output in the first game against the Bengals is the only 100-plus yard game of his young NFL career. He expects the Bengals to center their defensive plans on him.
"I'm pretty sure they're going to try to game plan around me, and they're going to try to do everything they can to stop me," Richardson said. "That's when Brandon comes into play. That's when (Greg) G-Little comes into play. That's when a lot of our guys with different talents come into play.
"So when people come in and try to just take me out, we have a lot more talent out there. When everybody's doing his job, I think we can all just increase our play much better."
That's where the Browns have to be careful. Weeden has the second most pass attempts of any quarterback in the league (202), more than doubling the 94 rushing attempts.
"He's second (actually first) in yardage for a rookie too, right?" offensive coordinator Brad Childress said. "Would I like to be able to run it more? Yeah, I would like to be able to run it more, but we put ourselves in some situations where the way that you have to come back is you have to throw the football. He's holding up under it decently." | <urn:uuid:ee2e004a-de7f-47ec-ba82-6021b78d080d> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.tribune-chronicle.com/page/content.detail/id/577832/Browns-try-to-get-first-win-against-Bengals.html?nav=5024 | 2014-04-20T03:53:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609537864.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005217-00441-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985219 | 790 | [
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It might be 2013, but that doesn’t mean we can’t look back on the best dunkers from the 2011-12 season. As they say, “better late than never.” Well, unless you are the help defense coming to contest a Blake Griffin dunk. Then “never” is better. But late defense can also be responsible for the dunkgasms we’re about to celebrate.
So, yeah, let’s quit this reading business and move onward to the most badass physical action that humans partake in–dunking. Below are AGR’s All-Slamma-Jamma teams–three teams made up of the season’s best dunkers with video-evidence of their aerial assaults. (You can find the 2010-11 teams here.)
All-Slamma-Jamma 1st Team:
PG, Russell Westbrook: Derrick Rose had a great season, but dunking-wise he didn’t produce the same highlights as in years past. Westbrook only knows how to play one way–batshit-insane-to-the-point-where-he’d-dunk-on-your-grandma (it’s in the dictionary, you can look it up). No wonder he had more dunks than any other point guard (48).
SG, Gerald Green: There are a lot dunkers to choose from at the wing positions, but only one player converted a windmill alley-oop with his entire head above the rim. I dare you not to excrete at least two types of bodily fluids while watching the below video.
SF, Rudy Gay: As much as anyone in the league, Gay was born to dunk. He moves with power and grace; he has a long, lean frame; he could probably jump across the Atlantic ocean; and he has a nose for the hoop. Gay led all perimeter players with 110 dunks, good for seventh in the league overall.
PF, Blake Griffin: Kendrick Perkins. Pau Gasol. 192 dunks in 66 games Enough said.
C, DeAndre Jordan: After spending some time on the second-team due to my pro-JaVale McGee bias, Jordan stole the first-team spot. He finished third in dunks (141) behind McGee (150). It’s not an overstatement to say that, in terms of raw power, he’s among the best power-dunkers ever. You heard it here first (probably not, but maybe!).
All-Slamma-Jamma 2nd Team
PG, John Wall: After suffering injuries his rookie season, Wall showed off the athleticism he’s been touted for ever since high-school. In his top ten below you’ll find alley-oops, double-clutches, classic posterizations, the ability to dunk with either hand, and even a behind-the-back slam from the rookie-sophomore game. His 47 dunks were the second-most among all point guards.
SG, Andre Iguodala: Iggy-Hop displayed his dominant dunking self once again, posting 70 dunks–good for fourth-most among perimeter players. AI2 is similar to Rudy Gay in his combination of power and grace as a wing-dunker. He’s a terror in transition, where he’s a nightly threat to break the rim with his ferocious throw-downs. Iguodala also knows how to make something out of nothing–whether it’s a broken play, end of a shot-clock situation, or getting caught in the air during a jump-pass, he finds a way to finish plays with jaw-dropping jams.
SF, LeBron James: MVPs, Championships, and Gold Medals are all fine and dandy, but they aren’t as impressive as jumping over a dude in order to complete a one-handed alley-oop. I’m not sure what’s more ridiculous–the dunk or the fact that it isn’t even one of the top two of the NBA season. Either way, check out LeBron’s top ten playoff dunks here; below, you’ll find the best of his 8th-place 1o4 dunks in the regular season (second among perimeter players).
PF, Josh Smith: Smith tends to irk die-hard NBA-types with his shot selection and occasionally frustrating attitude. But people are quick to forgive your flaws when you can convert nearly any alley-oop pass thrown in a three-mile radius of the hoop. Smith does more than finish his teammates’ passes, though. He’s excellent at creating fast breaks through his D and finishing them himself in the open court. And marching through traffic to dunk on people’s heads. And really, everything “dunk,” which is why we shouldn’t be surprised that he finished with 83 dunks, good for 11th in the league.
C, JaVale McGee: McGee went through some tough times during 2011-12 season. He was a consistent presence on Shaqtin’ a Fool. He was traded to the Nuggets. And save for a good playoff series against the Lakers–which the Nuggets lost anyway–McGee’s season was underappreciated from a basketball standpoint, and especially from a dunking standpoint. Below are some of his highlights from the season; his dunks with the Wizards (starting at the 3:20 mark) are especially incredible.
All-Slamma-Jamma 3rd Team
PG, Jeff Teague: Teague is just a tad above average as a point guard, but as a dunking point guard few are better. Teague’s 33 dunks were the third-most among point men. His speed is his greatest asset, which combined with his impressive bunnies, allows him to take opponents by surprise. Don’t sleep on the man, or else you’ll look like the folks in the video below.
SG, JR Smith: Earl’s spot on the team is primarily a testament to one thing: his ability to reverse dunk. Smith, a notorious gunner, fittingly has an idea of where the hoop is at all times–even when he is running full speed trying to catch an errant alley-oop pass. It’s this skill that plays out in the dunks below, the best of which would have put him on the first team if not for a certain other dunker in the NY/NJ area.
SF, Kevin Durant: The wing position is loaded with dunkers, and Durant is as good as any. There’s no reason why the dunks below couldn’t land him on the first team. His 102 dunks were third among perimeter players (ninth league-wide) and was a mere two dunks behind LeBron. KD can jump off either foot and dunk with either hand (or both)–last season he showed a special ability to drive from the left wing to the hoop, finishing with a right-handed dunk. It’s a dunk that lends itself to being blocked if not done correctly, but when done right, it makes for the greatest of posters.
PF, Kenneth Faried: A bundle of energy, Faried got most of his dunks on hustle plays and alleyoops. Despite having approximately 57 pounds of hair, he still manages to jump out of the gym. All that energy not only lends itself to lots of slams, but also slams of the particularly badass nature. There’s a reason he’s called the Manimal.
C, Brandan Wright: Wright didn’t get tons of playing time (16 min/g) or play tons of games (49), but that didn’t stop him from dunking 57 times (27th in the league). Not unlike Faried, Wright makes his living dunking off alley-oops and offensive rebounds. And despite a normally gangly look and ungainly appearance, he has surprising style and grace as a dunker.
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I am so insanely excited for these two amazing people to tie the knot today! I am incredibly blessed to call them my friends, and bonus, I get to be their wedding photographer! I will be smiling from ear to ear today for them, and I know they will be beaming with love and happiness as well! Can’t wait to hug them as they come out of the temple as best friends, husband and wife, and eternal companions! Just a few more hours!! | <urn:uuid:b470897d-2dae-453f-964c-96ebc555611e> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://brookebakken.com/2013/03/today-is-the-big-day-utah-wedding-photographer/ | 2014-04-24T05:48:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223205375.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032005-00505-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979329 | 97 | [
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About this magazine.
Adapting to Climate Change
"I used to think adaptation subtracted from our efforts on prevention. But I’ve changed my mind. Poor countries are vulnerable and need our help." (Al Gore, in Adapt or Die / The Economist: September 11, 2008)
Mitigation of GHG Emissions.
"Unless we change the direction we are heading, we might end up where we are going." - Chinese Proverb.
Emissions Trading Systems: a Webliography.
This edition of WWWTools for Education continues to explore responses to evidence of climate change. The theme was introduced in Limits of Computer Modeling: Implications for Government Decisionmaking. In this edition we present a webliography supporting a greater understanding of Emissions Trading Systems.
Limits of Computer Modeling: Implications for Government Decisionmaking.
"Those who conflate the science and policy roles of prediction and modeling trade short-term political or public gain with a substantial risk of a more lasting loss of legitimacy and political effectiveness" (Roger A. Pielke Jr )
Ebooks and Education
"For reliable transmission of knowledge across time and cultures, which technology, that of the medieval book or that of computer media, is more advanced?" (BookNews : July 19, 2007)
Cell / Mobile Phones in Education.
"This technology radically changes the idea of a classroom by extending a student's connection to the learning environment... the whole idea of online education is portability and accessibility, and what could possibly be more portable and more accessible than a cell phone?" Dr. Alan Drimmer
Resources for E-Waste Education.
"Money is not the reason for recycling. We recycle for our future, our children's future, and our grandchildren's future."
Trends from 2007, Projections for 2008... and Beyond.
"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." - Niels Bohr
The Meaning of Christmas Education Links
From early pagan roots through to modern times, the significance of Christmas has been the subject of enduring speculation, discussion and debate. In this edition of WWWTools for Education, we present a selection of resources which should help students understand Christmas.
Voice Verification in Education
Voice has long been an integral part of education and societal growth. With today's speech technology capabilities and the increased awareness of speech in education we may be on the verge of another "great leap forward
YouTube for Education
YouTube draws users into the experience of viewing videos and engaging with the content as commentators and creators, activities that heighten students’ visual literacy — an important skill in today’s electronic culture
Elearning Resources K-12
ICT is not only the tools we use today, but the tools we cannot yet imagine – which we will be using tomorrow
Elearning Trends in K-12 Education
"For elearning to work at the K - 12 level, the focus has to be on 'how does technology enhance the learning process'.
Elearning Trends in Higher Education.
Learning is more than just content or delivery software. It needs to be integrated into a broader learning process involving instructional support and collaboration, and designed with emphasis on the learning objectives...
Trends in VET and Vocational Elearning.
learners are demanding continuous learning approaches, which reflect the demands of their work and lifestyle, as classroom learning becomes less appropriate and less relevant to their needs
Webby Awards 2007: Learning Resources.
'I only get five words?...' - David Bowie, upon receiving his Webby Lifetime Achievement Award: one of many 5-word acceptance speeches at the 11th Annual Webby Awards, New York City, June 2007.
Machine Consciousness - Trends and Issues.
Are machines aware of themselves. If they become sentient beings will there be an ethical issue when we "put them to sleep"
Resources for Artificial Intelligence Education.
'If an expert system--brilliantly designed, engineered and implemented--cannot learn not to repeat its mistakes, it is not as intelligent as a worm or a sea anemone or a kitten.' - Oliver G. Selfridge
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THE DIRTY ARMY: When she was just 15 years old, Rayanne Tupman would ride the SkyTrain for free. In 2004, Tupman racked up $2,000 in fines from TransLink, and now, at 25 years old, the Maple Ridge mother of two (also a nursing student at Douglas College) is upset she has to pay said fines before she is able to upgrade her driver’s licence. “They are taking food out of the mouths of my children for something that occurred a decade ago,” she whined in an interview with The Province. Adding, “How is this justified that the government can bring old skeletons out of our closets from when we were kids?” Thanks to a new ICBC regulation, they can refuse to issue a drivers licence to anyone with fines that date prior to 2012. To me, Rayanne Tupman still sounds like she’s stuck in that 15 year old mentality of entitlement. Here’s an idea: Don’t be a dumb-ass, don’t think things are a free ride, and you won’t have fines! Problem solved. | <urn:uuid:4cca0891-fe99-46ac-b115-e0d5ed953d47> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://thedirty.com/category/vancouver/page/5/ | 2014-04-24T06:16:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223205375.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032005-00505-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967945 | 239 | [
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The resurrection of Matilda the massive kangaroo
Australia has hosted the Commonwealth Games four times and if you can remember the 1982 Brisbane Games then you'll recall one of the stars was Matilda the kangaroo. The 13 metre mascot was a highlight of the opening ceremony, winking at fans as it rolled around the track and appearing alongside Rolf Harris while he sang Waltzing Matilda. For the past 27 years Matilda been at a Gold Coast water theme park but the decades haven't been kind. Now Matilda has been given a facelift and is about to join the ranks of Australia's Big Things.
- Charles Wright
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Circular halos from poorly oriented pyramidal
crystals swamp the everyday 22° halo
in this 90 million ray simulation. Outwards from the sun are 9,18,20,23,24
and 35° radius halos. Sometimes called "Odd radius halos".
Sometimes circular halos appear that cannot be explained by invoking
'ordinary' hexagonal prism crystals.
These are the 'Odd radius halos' produced by
pyramidal ice crystals. Pyramidal crystals have one or
both end faces of ordinary ice crystals replaced by six sided pyramids.
The pyramids are sometimes truncated and the central prism section
is sometimes missing, creating 18 different variations with up to
20 sides. Very likely, all hexagonal ice crystals are actually pyramidal
but with insignificantly small inclined facets.
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The odd radius halos are all minimum deviation phenomena like the
more familiar 22 and 46° halos. Their relative intensities - or whether
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particular sets of faces.
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For Fairfax County Police marine patrol officer Steve Selby spending all week on the water doesn't scare him away from his own boat, which he takes out when he can. Patrolling up and down the Potomac and Occoquan Rivers is his stomping ground on both the 26-foot police boat as well as his fishing boat he keeps in Woodbridge.
When he takes out his boat, "it's not work, it's play," he said.
Selby is one of two, full-time marine patrol officers in Fairfax County that spend seven days a week, checking registrations, safety gear and the "no wake" zone in the Potomac River bays and Occoquan River.
"You have to have a passion for boating to want to be out here," Selby said.
"Here" is only the Occoquan River up to the dam, Belmont Bay, Pohick Bay, Dogue Creek, Little Hunting Creek and Belle Haven Marina. These areas fall under the Franconia and West Springfield District Station jurisdictions. Fairfax is the only Virginia police agency that has a boat patrol. Above the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, river patrol falls under the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia and Maryland. The areas in the Potomac River outside the end of the bays are also considered Maryland.
Although it seems like the Woodrow Wilson bridge is just around the corner from the Occoquan River, the distance is 32 miles. The police boat patrol area runs from the bridge area, into the inlets all the way down to the Occoquan.
"Jones Point lighthouse is actually the Maryland, D.C. and Virginia point line," he said.
Before 9/11, the boat patrol ended in November and started again in early April. As part of the homeland defense initiative, the patrol has been extended.
"Since 9/11, we patrol year around," Selby said.
During the winter, it's cold and lonely out on the water. Even so, police keep an eye on the occasional fisherman and duck hunters.
"Every creek in Fairfax County has duck blinds in it," said Selby.
On call 24 hours a day, Selby has been called out on emergencies from his home in Loudoun County.
"For a call, I can get here in 20 minutes. We've gotten called out for accidents in the middle of the night," he said.
If faced with a renegade tanker, heading up the Potomac to wreak havoc on the Woodrow Wilson bridge or Washington, D.C., Selby has a radio and a pistol but that's about it.
"I don't know what I'd do to stop it, but I'd have to check it out," he said.
In the meantime, it's the no-wake zones, intoxicated boaters and equipment checks that fill Selby's days.
DESPITE THE SLOW summer, Selby and partner Scott Powell, who is on the summer assignment from the McLean District Station, cruised the waters in their regular routine. Selby has been on the marine patrol for eight years. The other marine patrol officer, Steve Keeney has Jeff Jackson, an officer from Franconia, for the summer as well. After Labor Day, their hours are shorter. Rain has slowed things down as well as the threat of thunderstorms every evening. The next weekend, Labor Day, is the busiest of the year, so the officers welcomed the slow times.
On Friday, Aug. 22, Selby and Powell swung up to a boat and stopped Arlington residents Tammy and Richard Itteilag's Sea Ray for a wake violation.
"What was I doing?" said Tammy Itteilag.
Selby explained the wake situation before issuing a warning.
"You don't want anything coming off your boat that's going to affect any other boat," he said, before checking the registration, fire extinguishers and life preservers.
"Flares expire every three years," said Selby, warning the boaters. "We'd like every stop to be educational."
As part of their job, the marine patrol officers provide instructional lectures at boat clubs, Scout troops and marinas in the area.
As their boat went under the archway into Little Hunting Creek, Selby commented on the tidal effects.
"We usually get a couple of drownings under that bridge, people swimming across, the tide goes so fast. It's deceiving," he said.
The next stop up the river was at a boat with passengers sitting on the bow and not in seats. Selby told them they had to ride in a seat.
"Is that a state or county law?" the boater asked.
The riders got off the bow nonetheless.
Such stops are an opportunity for Selby and Powell to promote boating safety and perhaps prevent injury or worse.
On Saturday, an Alexandria-area man drowned in nearby Belmont Bay. Prior to falling in the water, he was riding on the bow of a boat. The boat's driver dove into the water to rescue the man but was unable to save him. The body of James Smith, 45, was recovered on Sunday near the shore of Rock Island.
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Dr. Jacqueline B. Sallade offers ideas for maintaining your mental health.
A woman reviews her life. She thinks of all the things she would have done differently. Then, she thinks of some things she did right. If she had done one thing differently, everything else would have changed, then some of the wrong and right things wouldn't have happened. Could it have been different? Her friend says things always turn out the way they're "supposed to." Obviously, the friend is a fatalist. She thinks it's all preordained. In that case, each decision is obvious. Then, why analyze anything? Why think things through? Why learn from experience and figure out how to improve upon past decisions?
I don't subscribe to the school of fatalism. I don't think everything is preordained or that anything that happens is "the best that could have happened." To me, those are trite ways of avoiding responsibility. Well, maybe some events occur by chance or due to other people's actions, but we each control our own behavior and make our own decisions based on the parameters we understand. Even if the decision is a passive one, not to do something because it's too hard or to make a decision by default, letting the "chips fall where they may," it's still a choice.
That's why learning from hindsight, analyzing what went wrong and how things could have been different isn't time wasted. It's not necessary to obsess over and over, but just to get some basic insight, wisdom and perspective for the future. Then, the idea to to try not to repeat the same mistakes, not to go through life blindly letting one event lead to another, but to choose carefully who to be and how to act. Let the ensuing sense of basic values and integrity be the guide. | <urn:uuid:afcbd2da-ef96-4526-ad47-8034a0976008> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.witf.org/mental-health/2013/08/hindsight-learning-from-the-past.php | 2015-07-02T08:08:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095423.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00001-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981434 | 373 | [
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Dec. 22, 2003
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The University of New Mexico football team received a boisterous sendoff as a large, vocal group of Lobo fans converged on Fremont Street, outside of the Golden Nugget Hotel in downtown Las Vegas, to root on New Mexico in the pre-game pep rally. Earlier in the day, UNM wrapped up its final open practice of the year on another warm, sunny day at Sam Boyd Stadium.
The Lobo defense shined on the third and final open practice for New Mexico in Las Vegas. UNM quarterbacks had a tough time finding much room to throw the ball in 7-on-7 drills against some solid coverage in the secondary.
New Mexico will do a final walk-through on Tuesday afternoon following the Las Vegas Bowl Kickoff Luncheon at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Former SMU stand-out Craig James, who is also calling the bowl game for ESPN, will be the featured speaker.
Earlier in the week, the Lobos took on the Beavers at the ESPN Zone in the New York, New York Casino in a rap battle and pie eating contest. With running back DonTrell Moore and safety Sidney Wiley providing the beat box rhythm, fullback Landrick Brody, offensive tackle Justin Colburn and safety Kevin Walton laid down the lyrics. Oregon State countered with a raw freestyle rhyme, but was unable to keep pace with New Mexico's furious five.
While the rap battle was declared a disputed draw, offensive guard Robert Turner made sure there would be no doubt in the pie eating contest. Turner successfully defended his 2002 Las Vegas Bowl individual pie eating title and led a Lobo foursome to another team championship in the second-biggest competition of the week.
The UNM players and coaches also took in a performance from the famed Blue Man Group and this morning a group of players took a trip to the Sunrise Children's Hospital to brighten the day for some very special patients.
Linebacker Daniel Gawronski and Colburn will appear with head coach Rocky Long tomorrow morning at the Kickoff Media Conference before the luncheon. The Lobos will be in bed early on Tuesday as they prepare for Wednesday's big game versus Oregon State. The weather on game day is expected to clear and sunny with highs in the mid-60s. | <urn:uuid:e29fc319-3aaa-478f-99a6-0f59b67753d9> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.golobos.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=26000&ATCLID=209055195 | 2015-07-04T12:20:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096706.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00251-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954933 | 478 | [
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Hello, I so hope someone can help. I just updated my galaxy tab 2 7 p113 to Android 4.0.4 UEBLH2. That was done automatically from samsung updates. I wanted to then install the newest update to 4.1.1 jellybean. So I download it from this I found. update-galaxy-tab-2-gt-p3113-uecli4-4-1-1-jelly-bean-ota-test-firmware. I put the official Android 4.1.1 UEBLH2 Firmware on my sdcard then held down my power and up volume and installed it. HOWEVER, it never finished. Now I HAVE NO USB CONNECTION and NO BOOT UP. Just black Since I dont have usb connection I cant us oden. CAN ANYBODY PLEASE HELP? I still can put files on my micro disk card and then put sd disk in my tab and use the power button up arrow to install something but I tried installed clockwork mod but that did not work. Iam out of ideas. P.S. My tab IS NOT ROOTED so its blank screen and no usb. I tried updating back to original rom but that did work. Thank you. | <urn:uuid:bde1bf52-b7b7-4e26-b4f8-17c17d8cccd8> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://androidforums.com/threads/please-help-if-possible-seriously-bricked-my-new-galaxy-tab-2-7-inch-iam-shocked.619345/ | 2015-07-06T11:56:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098196.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00191-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.868926 | 260 | [
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Following the success of Cuckoo, Julia Crouch has written another psychological thriller that is sure to be equally well-received. Crouch is one of those writers who have the kind of writing style which make her books recognisable without them being ‘samey’, much in the same way as Sophie Hannah, a writer whose work I love (and must review at some point!).
When the Wayland family decamp to upstate New York for the summer to allow Marcus to perform in a community production of Macbeth, Lara and her kids – Olly, Bella and Jack – don’t know what to expect. What they get is a dirty and dusty house in a tiny town, with only a library and a pool for excitement, excepting the theatre, which is much smaller than they were led to believe. They are met by theatre company’s director, James and his wife Betty, who have arranged a surprise for the family, one which Lara in particular isn’t expecting. Stephen Molloy, one of Marcus’ old friends, now a Hollywood star, is in the area, recovering from a breakdown caused by a stalker in LA. He and Lara were also once in love, having an affair not long after Lara’s marriage to Marcus. The meeting at James and Betty’s reawakens feelings which Lara thought that she had hidden away forever, and throws her attempts at rekindling her marriage into total disarray. Soon Stephen and Lara are getting increasingly close again, but Lara is playing with fire and doesn’t seem to realise that she could get burnt…
In addition to Lara and Stephen’s story, there is a subplot involving Lara and Marcus’ eldest children, Bella and Olly. They are 16 year old twins who, at first, seem to have normal teenaged-sibling relationship, bickering and teasing. However, it is soon implied that there is more to it than that. Bella is obviously scared of Olly, and he frequently threatens her with something. When you find out what that something is, the book takes a more sinister turn.
There is a real sense of impending danger swirling around the novel. From the strange woman who seems to be following Lara, trying to run her over and making gestures, and the louts that Olly finds to hang out with, to the discoveries that Lara makes within the house, no chapter goes by without Crouch ratcheting up the tension, which goes some way to explain the slow pace of the first half of the novel.
Crouch has a skill for writing about place. In Cuckoo this was shown in the vivid descriptions of the West Country countryside, and in this novel it is the evocation of the hot New York summer. The filthy rental house, dusty deserted streets and the close, overheated atmosphere of the small town are well-matched to the slowly building tension and the boredom of seemingly endless days, and Stephen’s mansion in the woods offers a refuge from both the grimy heat and her failing relationship for Lara. | <urn:uuid:198ffab3-28c7-4f62-b3b0-b0ca4a93cf54> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://bibliomouse.com/2012/03/30/every-vow-you-break-julia-crouch/ | 2015-07-06T11:20:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098196.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00191-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975366 | 633 | [
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Hope you are feeling better now. But as much as you do to keep this forum up and running, and to provide strength and comfort to all of us, please do not feel that you ever have to apologize to us for feeling under the weather. Better than anyone, we understand exactly what it's like to get sick with no warning and not be able to do things no matter how much you want to. Unfortunately there's just no way to keep that kind of stuff completely off any message board, and we know you take care of it as soon as you are aware of it. But take care of yourself too! | <urn:uuid:1e5e67a4-ecda-42c9-9148-3c496650ddf4> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://forum.wehavelupus.com/showthread.php?2293-Apologies | 2015-07-06T11:27:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098196.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00191-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987069 | 124 | [
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I’ll first begin with the sweet. Yesterday, I picked up TWO packages from the post office. One was from Australia, so I immediately knew that was from Kell. The other… the other was – the long lost package that Amos and Louie sent over three months ago! I had even called the freaking Ned post office to inquire and they told me they had never seen it. When I got it yesterday, the postal worker (my favorite one, she’s quite nice) looked at the date and said, “March?! I’ve seen this thing in the back forever!” I think it might have remained in the back forever if Amos hadn’t called and raised a little hell.
Kell and Jerad sent me the sweetest card congratulating me on my defense, and a book that all of the foodies have been reading. Plus, a long handwritten letter from Kell, something that people just don’t seem to do as much of anymore. I cherished every last scribble. Amos and Louie had more official looking stuff in their package – US Marshall sportswear! So cool. Louie is what is right with federal law enforcement. They also included Louie’s favorite movie of all time: Anchorman. Jeremy wanted to watch it right away, but we had stuff to do. I loved Elf, so hopefully Anchorman will be just as funny.
loot from care packages: thanks kell, jerad, amos, and louie!
In an effort to use up egg yolks and to test a new recipe:
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October 29th, 2013 Benjamin Horst
My team and I recently launched a new web project by the name of Recourser. It’s a web directory of online courses and MOOCs, to help people find courses and even careers that fit their interests.
We’re building something that we think will be fun and useful for many people and we’re quite excited about it.
The site is new (and very beta) and will have some bugs and missing pieces but we’d love to share it and hear folks’ input. Please take a look around and let us know what you think and where we can improve. All of your ideas and feedback are welcome!
February 27th, 2011 Benjamin Horst
The iPad and forthcoming tablets from Android (and perhaps WebOS) are likely to displace PCs, at least in the developing world where the installed base of either is currently very low. The first country to watch is China, while India and much of Southeast Asia won’t be far behind. Since Android is open source, it will probably become the largest platform, but iOS devices are likely to take the prestige/luxury niche.
James Allworth discusses much the same idea on his blog post “The Fall of Wintel and the Rise of Armdroid.” Reporting on the Consumer Electronics Show, he writes,
The iPad and its many clones were not really the main story of the show. The main story — which almost nobody covered — was that this year’s CES marks the beginning of the end for Microsoft and Intel.
This transition has been a long time coming in the PC industry. Ironically enough, both of these two big players have seen the writing on the wall for almost a decade. But as is so often the case, incumbents find it immensely hard to disrupt themselves.
Allworth predicts tablets will undermine the sale of PCs to the point of extinction, and points out major milestones that have already occurred on that path:
At CES, for the first time, almost all of Microsoft’s OEM partners abandoned Microsoft exclusivity; and Microsoft’s next-generation operating system has abandoned Intel exclusively for the first time. There’s no reason to believe that either of the two companies are going to be able to turn this around. On one hand, ARM processors are perfect for powering these handheld devices. Manufacturers can customize to their heart’s content. And Android is on track to dominate the operating system space (though maybe not profitably). Both ARM and Android — Armdroid — are providing everything that tablet manufacturers need, and doing it more effectively and at a lower cost than Microsoft and Intel are able to.
We will be able to look back and say that this was the CES that saw Wintel fall and Armdroid rise up.
This outcome seems likely, though I don’t imagine PCs and laptops will disappear from offices and homes in developed countries for quite some time. However, in the developing world, this will become another case of technological leapfrogging–just as China jumped over landline phones directly to mobile phones, I think they’ll jump over PCs to arrive at tablets. The same for India and other countries in their rapid-growth phases.
As a participant in the LibreOffice project, then, I cannot sufficiently emphasize the importance of developing ODF editors for these upcoming platforms!
February 21st, 2011 Benjamin Horst
Evan Prodromou asks, “Can Montreal Become an Open Source Startup Hub?”
“Montreal has the opportunity to be the best ecosystem in the world for Open Source software startups. We’ve got a good cadre of entrepreneurs here who’ve had experience with building Open Source companies. We have investors who’ve been through the process of investing in and nurturing Open Source companies. And we have the all-important talent pool of people who’ve been part of the process.
More importantly, there’s not another leading Open Source city on the globe. San Francisco and Boston have a few companies, but they’re definitely not hubs. The commercial Open Source landscape is spread much further across the globe – from London to Utah to Germany to Austin.”
Whether Montreal, Boston, Portland Oregon, or another city, this title could confer significant economic benefit to the winner.
January 30th, 2011 Benjamin Horst
Recent encouraging news comes from OSOR by way of Freiburg, Germany and Helsinki, Finland.
Freiburg has found that migrating to OpenOffice.org for its standard office software package reduced its cost by 75% compared to the cost of a proprietary office suite.
In “DE: Freiburg: open source office three to four times cheaper,” OSOR reports:
Rüdiger Czieschla, head of IT at Freiburg, presented on the city’s use of OpenOffice on 1 December, at a conference in Badajoz organised by Osepa, a project to increase awareness on the advantages of free and open source software. According to him, using OpenOffice cost the city 200,000 Euro. The proprietary alternative would have cost between 600,000 for just a text editor and 800,000 Euro for the proprietary office suite.
ODF compatibility and powerful features like PDF-export also weighed heavily in the city’s decision to adopt OpenOffice.org in 2007, where it is now installed on 2,300 desktops.
Next, the city council of Helsinki in Finland has determined to undertake a pilot project to implement open source software within the city administration. OSOR’s article titled “FI: City of Helsinki to start open source desktop pilot” explains how the city council voted to initiate the project:
[Johanna Sumuvuori]’s resolution, that tells the city to start a pilot, got the support of sixty council members. “We want the city to get some experience with open source and to find out if we can use it, for instance, to save money. The city is wasting more money every year on proprietary software licenses.”
In the resolution, the council members refer to other public administrations in Finland that are using open source. According to the council members, the ministry of Defence has been using Linux and other open source software for years to develop some of its critical applications. They also point to the Finnish judicial system that has switched to using open source office applications. “Many schools have already switched and in the city of Lappeenranta they estimate this will help to save some 70 percent on the schools’ IT budget.”
With 20,000 desktop computers in Helsinki’s system, adopting open source software could have a significant financial benefit for the city.
January 8th, 2011 Benjamin Horst
I’ve made a major update to the LibreOffice Paper Plane design, which you can download here: LibreOffice Paper Plane 2 (ODG) or PDF.
The folding instructions are now included within the ODG file on a second page, and I’ve included photos of each step in the folding process. This should help clarify some of the more tricky steps, and show what the final result is intended to look like!
This file is sized for US Letter, but stretching it to print on A4 should work equally well. Further, the lines run right to the edge of the paper, which many printers cannot accommodate; however, on all test printers only a small amount of non-essential information has been lost, which does not harm the plane creation.
Feedback and custom variations are welcome! (This file is licensed CC-BY-SA. Please link to this blog post if you share derivations online.)
December 21st, 2010 Benjamin Horst
Based on recent LibreOffice discussions regarding a new logo and associated marketing/promotional opportunities, I’ve created the following paper airplane template. This is a draft, so please download it and let me know how well it works for you.
- Fold the page toward yourself along its long axis, shown as line 1. Flatten the paper again, to leave a crease.
- Fold the top corners to the center line crease you just created. (Lines 2a and 2b.)
- Fold the now-triangular top section of the page toward yourself along line 3.
- Fold its triangular nose back toward the far side of the paper along line 4. (Line 4 is on the paper behind the piece you will fold–use its edges to determine where you’ll fold the triangular nose.)
- Again fold the far side into triangles along lines 5a and 5b. Undo these two folds to leave a crease for each.
- Fold toward yourself along lines 6a and 6b.
- Fold again along lines 5a and 5b. Tuck the flaps created by lines 6a and 6b under the triangular nose formed by line 4.
- Fold away from yourself along lines 7a and 7b.
- Fold toward yourself along lines 8a and 8b to form triangular stabilizers.
- To launch your new plane, hold it from the back and push gently forward while pointed very slightly down.
Download this ODG file: LibreOffice_PaperPlane
- Add a second page with final instructions and pictures to clarify the folding process.
- Update the logo and text to satisfy marketing requirements based on community feedback.
- Upload to the LibreOffice wiki to share widely.
November 12th, 2010 Benjamin Horst
Earlier this week, The Document Foundation released an email titled “The Document Foundation Offers a Preview of Future Product and Technology Developments.”
Here are its full contents:
The Document Foundation offers a preview of future product and technology developments
The document at the centre of a developers’ friendly environment
The Internet, November 9, 2010 – “The Document Foundation is about documents and the associated software is pivotal to create, exchange, modify, share and print documents”, says Thorsten Behrens, a software developer and a member of TDF Steering Committee. “LibreOffice 3.3 is the first flavour of this long term strategy, but the journey has just begun, and the enormous advantages of our developer-embracing environment are not yet fully reflected in the upcoming software release”.
LibreOffice 3.3 is based on OOo 3.3, with code optimisations and many new features, which are going to offer a first preview of the new development directions for 2011 and beyond. TDF founders foresee a completely different future for the office suite paradigm, which – in the actual format – is over 20 years old, to be based on the document (where the software is a layer for the creation or the presentation of the contents).
TDF developers are working full steam at improving the overall quality of OOo code, which is a good starting point, and making easy testability of the code and quality assurance a priority. This is an area where new developers and code hackers, whose number has grown to over 90 in just a month, are instrumental for the bulk of the activity.
In addition, each single module of LibreOffice will be undergoing an extensive rewrite, with Calc being the first one to be redeveloped around a brand new engine – code named Ixion – that will increase performance, allow true versatility and add long awaited database and VBA macro handling features. Writer is going to be improved in the area of layout fidelity and Impress in the area of slideshow fidelity. Most of the new features are either meant to maintain compatibility with the market leading office suite or will introduce radical innovations. They will also improve conversion fidelity between formats, liberate content, and reduce Java dependency.
“The Document Foundation is going to be at the heart of the Free Software universe, where users want to build a different future for office suites, working together with developers”, says Italo Vignoli, a digital immigrant, and the oldest member of TDF Steering Committee. “Users read, write, modify and share documents, and are focused on contents rather than software features. After 20 years of feature oriented software, it is now the right time to bring back content at the centre of user focus”.
The house of The Document Foundation is at http://documentfoundation.org.
The Document Foundation has the mission to facilitate the evolution of the OOo Community into a new open, independent, and meritocratic organization within the next few months. An independent Foundation is a better match to the values of contributors, users and supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient, transparent, and inclusive Community. TDF will protect past investments by building on the achievements of the first decade, encourage wide participation in the Community, and co-ordinate activity across the Community.
Florian Effenberger (Germany)
Mobile: +49 151 14424108 – E-mail: [email protected]
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Mobile: +55 21 88228812 – E-mail: [email protected]
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November 3rd, 2010 Benjamin Horst
The French Gendarmerie (national police force) has been gradually moving its software infrastructure to open source over the past several years, starting with the adoption of OpenOffice.org on Windows, and now moving to Ubuntu for more and more of its desktop computers.
While some governmental migrations have surprisingly cost more than proprietary software (due largely to training expenses and ancillary software, I suppose), the Gendarmerie has realized huge cost savings from the beginning of their migration.
Canonical discusses this example in their case study, French National Police Force Saves €2 Million a Year With Ubuntu.
After switching from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org and Internet Explorer to Firefox, the police force decided to upgrade 85,000 PCs to Ubuntu Desktop Edition, removing its reliance on the Microsoft operating system almost completely. As well as simplifying maintenance and improving ease of use, Ubuntu Desktop Edition is saving the police force €2 million a year in licence fees alone. By repurposing 4,500 machines to act as local servers, it has also dramatically reduced its hardware expenditure.
October 11th, 2010 Benjamin Horst
LibreOffice was announced a few short weeks ago, and time has flown by since then, as community members work feverishly to build out the project infrastructure for the future.
Late last week, Florian Effenberger sent the following email summarizing some of the successes of the first week:
Strong support for the first week of The Document Foundation
The Internet, October 6, 2010 – One full week has gone by since the
announcement of The Document Foundation, and we would like to share some
numbers with the people who have decided to follow us since the first
The beta of LibreOffice has been downloaded over 80,000 times. The
infrastructure has expanded dramatically from 25 to 45 working mirrors
in 25 countries (in every continent), including islands in the Pacific
Ocean. This number is close to half the mirrors achieved by
OpenOffice.org during ten years of history of the project.
People have started to contribute to the code, suggesting features,
committing patches and filing bugs. In just one week, around 80 code
contributions (patches, and direct commits) have been accepted in
LibreOffice from a total of 27 volunteers, several of them newly-won,
with around 100 developers hanging out on the #libreoffice irc channel
which is buzzing with activity (around 14,000 messages sent).
Turning to the wider community, 2.000 people have subscribed to the list
announce@ to keep up with the latest TDF news, and 300 people to the
discussion list discuss@, where there has been an average of 100
messages per day.
To round up the numbers, there are nearly 600 people following TDF
tweets, over 150 following the identi.ca TDF account, and over 1,000
fans on Facebook. The traffic on the server has been in the region of
In its only official response to the creation of the Foundation, Oracle
has stated: “Oracle is investing substantial resources in
OpenOffice.org. With more than one hundred million users, we believe
OpenOffice.org is the most advanced, most feature rich open source
implementation and will strongly encourage the Open Office community to
continue to contribute through www.openoffice.org.”
The Foundation understands from this that Oracle has no immediate plans
to support the Foundation, or to transfer community assets such as the
OpenOffice.org trademark. However, the Foundation hopes this position
will change as the company sees the volunteer community – an essential
component of OpenOffice’s past success – swing its support behind the
new Foundation. In the meantime, the Foundation will continue software
development under the LibreOffice brand.
May 16th, 2010 Benjamin Horst
Christoph Noack writes about user experience prototyping strategies, based on a presentation he attended at the CHI conference a few weeks ago. He covers the importance, in wireframing, of capturing essential elements while avoiding distracting detail that is not relevant to the design stage.
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I used to do a bunch of hand painted clothing when my daughter was younger. It was an easy way to make a special outfit for the holidays..and not spend a whole bunch. I recently made a jean set for a friends daughter and I thought I would document it in case you wanted to give it a go.
Video taping and painting at the same time is kind of hard…I apologize for the camera shake. I hope you get the point though. If you are just starting out…maybe start with a old shirt that you aren’t worried about…then as you feel more confident you can do a new shirt. It is basic geometric shapes, along with a few shades of paint and layering. I hope you go for it…it is just paint after all!
I use Tulip brand paints. I think they dry the softest and wear the best after washing.
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CONFIRMED: PHANTOM's Peter Joback and Samantha Hill to Perform at Tonys
The PHANTOM will soon sweep into Radio City Musical Hall.
BroadwayWorld has just confirmed that PHANTOM OF THE OPERA stars Peter Jöback and Samantha Hill will take the stage at this Sunday's 67th Annual Tony Awards.
The duo will give a special performance, celebrating the production's latest monumental achievement: becoming the first show to ever to reach 25 years on Broadway.
Neil Patrick Harris will once again host THE 67TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS, live from Radio City Music Hall on the CBS. The show will also include appearances by the 2013 Tony-nominated musicals "A Christmas Story, The Musical," "Annie," "Bring It On: The Musical," "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella," "Kinky Boots," "Matilda The Musical," "Motown The Musical" and "Pippin."
The evening will also feature special appearances by the casts of "Chicago," "Jersey Boys," "Newsies," "Once," "Mamma Mia," "Rock of Ages," "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark," "The Lion King" and "The Phantom of the Opera."
On Broadway, since its debut on January 26, 1988, The Phantom of the Opera has grossed over $888 million. Even now - as it celebrates its 25th Anniversary on Broadway - it is consistently among Broadway's highest-grossing shows and remains a box office champ. Earlier this year, the production shattered the house record at The Majestic by having its best weekly gross in its entire 25-year history. Total attendance is now over 15 million and it continues to play with no end in sight.
There are currently six productions around the world: There are currently six productions around the world: the flagship London production (26 Years and counting), New York, Budapest (Hungary), Kyoto (Japan), Seoul (Korea) and Cameron Mackintosh's all-new production of the musical which is currently enjoying a highly-acclaimed, record-breaking UK National Tour, which is planned to come to the U.S. in the not-too-distant future.
The show has won more than 70 major theater awards, including seven 1988 Tony Awards (including Best Musical) and three Olivier Awards in the West End. The original cast recording, with over 40 million copies sold worldwide, is the best-selling cast recording of all time. In September 2010, student productions of PHANTOM started being licensed through R&H Theatricals, and so far have been performed at hundreds of high schools and colleges across the U.S. and in Canada.
Based on the classic novel Le Fantôme de L'Opéra by Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of a masked figure who lurks beneath the catacombs of the Paris Opera House, exercising a reign of terror over all who inhabit it. He falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine, and devotes himself to creating a new star by nurturing her extraordinary talents and by employing all of the devious methods at his command.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is produced by Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc., has music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and is directed by Harold Prince. Lyrics are by Charles Hart (with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe) and the book is by Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The Phantom of the Opera has production design by the late Maria Björnson, lighting by Andrew Bridge and sound design by Mick Potter with original sound by Martin Levan. Musical staging and choreography is by Gillian Lynne. Orchestrations are by David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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February 1, 2011 > History: Temperance
Temperance societies were organized across the United States in the early 1800s to combat the problems created by abuse of alcoholic beverages. The first sign of the temperance movement in our area was in 1855 when Reverend W. W. Brier organized the Sons of Temperance, called the Alameda Division, in his Centerville study. The Sons were part of a national movement battling social evils and promoting total abstinence from liquor.
A Sunday law that required the closing of saloons on the Sabbath was adopted in 1873. At first the law was observed, but in a few months, it was disregarded and business went on as usual.
The California legislature passed a local Option Law in 1874 that permitted the people of a township to determine by vote whether the sale of liquor should be licensed in the township or not. The law required that when a petition with the names of one-fourth of the legal voters of a township was presented to the Board of Supervisors, they had to call an election.
The first petition in Alameda County came from Washington Township, signed by 270 people. An election was ordered for May 22, allowing one month for preparation. There were three or four temperance organizations and about 25 saloons in the township. The temperance people counted on an easy victory since they had the names of the majority of voters on their petition, but it was not to be. They lost the election by 17 votes. The majority had voted to license the saloons.
In the meantime, petitions for elections were circulated in the other townships. Temperance organizations and churches held mass meetings, many led by women crusaders. Liquor dealers and saloon-keepers became alarmed, holding their own meetings and recruiting votes. After three months of campaigns, rallies and ballot box battles, the unpopularity of the law was confirmed. Alameda County totals showed the saloon supporters had won the battle for license by a majority of 51 votes. The law was soon repealed but the women and allies kept up the battle, which eventually led to the passage of Prohibition that made it illegal to manufacture, transport or sell alcoholic liquor except for medicinal or sacramental purposes.
Sam Brown joined the Good Templars and converted his Irvington hotel into a Temperance Boarding House. Lecturers from the IOGT (International Order of Good Templars) held meetings in his hotel which became known as Templars Hall. Members of the order were sometimes called Good Templars. They even had a baseball team in 1875.
The WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union) had been quite active in Washington Township, but by 1890 had fallen into a state of "inocuous desuetude" according to the local paper. The Irvington ladies revived the local organization and became quite active.
The Good Templars of Irvington were accustomed to holding their annual festival at Dry Creek in the late 1800s. The 1878 gathering was opened by musical numbers played by the Washington Corners (Irvington) band. After the music, Rev. Mr. Lynch of Centerville delivered an oration on the curse of intemperance that was heard with "marked attention." He observed that the deadly curse of intemperance had "an octopus-like grasp on the rarest specimens of Humanity within its reach."
Faculty and pupils of Washington College in Irvington held their annual picnic in the same place at the same time. The college chose to meet with the Good Templars because they agreed with them about the dangers of alcoholic abuse to young people. College students were complimented on their ladylike and gentlemanly bearing. It was noted that "there was no rowdyism to mar the day and be out of harmony with the fair sky and beautiful scenery."
Local Option Law gave supervisorial districts the power to close saloons after receiving a petition from residents and holding an election. Local residents filed the necessary petition and the Board of Supervisors called for an election. Leaders of the anti-saloon movement held meetings in the villages of Washington Township in 1912. The meeting at Mission San Jose was described as a good one with musical entertainment followed by several local speakers. A meeting at Allard's Hall in Warm Springs was "well attended and was a marked success." A Berkeley real estate man delivered an address at the Niles meeting in Connor's Theater. In spite of all the meetings, the southern part of the county voted to keep licensing the saloons. The anti-saloon movement divided citizens, merchants and newspaper editors into "wet and dry camps."
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors passed a law prohibiting the issuing of new liquor licenses in the county until the number of saloons had been reduced from 60 to 40. The Niles Easterday Estate applied for a license in January 1916 and was denied in spite of the cries that it was unfair toward widows of saloon men.
The 1916 national election served as evidence that temperance societies had not given up their efforts to "banish the evils created by the abuse of alcohol." Ex-Governor of Indiana, J. Frank Hanley, ran as the prohibition candidate for President of the United States and Ira Landreth of Tennessee as candidate for Vice President. They campaigned on a special train called the "Prohibition Special" and stopped at Niles in September 1916 for about half an hour. Their train was making a comprehensive tour of California before the November election. Some 50 people gathered at Niles to meet the special train and listen to the Campaign speeches.
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Margaret R. Langevin, nee Remus, beloved wife and best friend for 55 years to John C.; loving mother of Diane (the late Lee) Gurnea, John (Sharon), William (Marion) and Edward (Patricia) Langevin; proud grandmother of Maura, Billy, Margaret, Renee and Chela; dear sister of Olive (the late Neal) Crowley, Richard (Jean), the late Billy, John and Michael Remus; fond aunt of many nieces and nephews. Funeral Monday 9 a.m. from Zimmerman & Sandeman Orland Funeral Home, 9900 W. 143rd St., to St. Michael Church. Mass 9:30 a.m. Interment Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. Visitation Sunday 2 to 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers memorials made to Palos Hospice, 15295-127th St., Lemont, IL 60439 would be appreciated. Info 708-460-7500. | <urn:uuid:42fa34dd-c855-4e50-84ef-0892be1bf6d7> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-06-20/news/0406200075_1_chela-beloved-wife-late | 2015-07-04T19:19:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096870.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00011-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.825756 | 206 | [
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Sanei Sangyō K.K. (三栄産業㈱) was a Japanese camera maker. It made cameras under the Samoca brand from 1952. It was renamed to Samoca Camera K.K. (サモかカメラ㈱, Samoca Camera Co., Ltd.) in 1955. Samoca cameras and accessories were distributed by Hattori Tokei-ten at least until 1956. The company was perhaps renamed Sanei Sangyō again in 1958, and Samoca cameras are known at least until 1962.
The logo of the company consisted of AAA inside a triangle; the three "A" are certainly inspired by the company name "Sanei", which can be phonetically understood as "three A" in Japanese.
|Samoca 35 II viewfinder model.||Samoca 35 rangefinder model.|
|Pictures by Steve Chatfield (Image rights)|
- Samoca 35
- Samoca 35 II
- Samoca 35 III
- Samoca 35 IV
- Samoca 35 V
- Samoca 35 EM
- Samoca 35 J
- Samoca Flash 35EE
- Samoca Winderflash EE
- Samoca Winderflash EES
- Samoca 28 and 35 RF
- Samoca 28 X and 35 X
- Samoca 35 LE
- Samoca 35 LD
- Samoca 35 LE-II
- Samoca 35 M-28
- Samoca 35 M-35
- Samoca MR
- Samoca EE 28
- Samoca light meters
- Samoca flash guns
- Samoca tripod
- Romanslide slide projectors:
|Photo Art no.80, June 1955.||Shashin Kōgyō April 1956.|
|Advertisements showing Samoca accessories. (Image rights)|
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.139, show "Sanei Sangyō" in February 1955 and "Samoca Camera" in May 1955.
- ↑ Advertisements reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp.139 and 252.
- ↑ Attribution of the Samoca cameras in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p.388.
- ↑ The Romanslide Z is announced as a new model in the advertisement on p.124 of Photo Art no.80, June 1955.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Advertisement on p.124 of Photo Art no.80, June 1955, and advertisement in Shashin Kōgyō April 1956, p.237.
- ↑ Example observed in an online auction.
- Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ) editorial staff. Shōwa 10–40nen kōkoku ni miru kokusan kamera no rekishi (昭和10–40年広告にみる国産カメラの歴史, Japanese camera history as seen in advertisements, 1935–1965). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994. ISBN 4-02-330312-7.
- Photo Art rinji zōkan: Kamera akusesarī zensho (フォトアート臨時増刊・カメラアクセサリー全書, Photo Art special issue: All the camera accessories). June 1955, no.80 of the magazine. Advertisement by Hattori Tokei-ten on p.124.
- Shashin Kōgyō April 1956. Advertisement by Hattori Tokei-ten on p.237.
- Samoca 35 LE, article in the February 2007 issue of Shutterbug
- Listing of Samoca cameras at orphancameras.com
- Samoca 35 at Shimamura Hideki's website
- Samoca slide projector at Info Bazar
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Cornerback Tony Davis scored on a
6-yard fumble return, Anthony Scirrotto had two interceptions and
returned an onside kick for a touchdown and Penn State overcame
Illinois' ground game to defeat the Illini 26-12 Saturday.
Rashard Mendenhall ran for 161 yards on 14 carries for Illinois
(2-6, 1-3 Big Ten). The Nittany Lions struggled on offense, but the
defense came up with big stops in Illinois territory and Penn State
(5-3, 3-2) scored nine points in the last 1:20 to pull away.
In trouble at his own 7, Illinois quarterback Isiah Williams
scrambled but was sacked and fumbled after linebacker Paul
Posluszny grabbed him from behind. The ball took two bounces before
Davis took hold and ran untouched into the end zone for a 19-7 lead
midway through the third quarter.
Dan Connor sacked Williams in the end zone for a safety with
1:20 left in the game. Scirrotto recovered the ensuing onside kick
and returned it 29 yards for a score to send the homecoming crowd
away on a bright note. "We are ... Penn State!" rang through the
packed Beaver Stadium.
Still, it was hardly a banner day for the Lions. The offense
didn't have any rhythm, and the defense was confounded early by
Illinois' rushing game, which gained 202 yards. The Big Ten's
second-best rush offense bested the conference's second-best rush
Mendenhall had a 79-yard dash down the right sideline that set
up one of Jason Reda's four field goals on the afternoon.
Williams, a freshman making his fifth career start, was able to
escape trouble with his legs often, especially before halftime,
when Illinois led 9-3.
A stunned crowd often could muster no more than groans and a
smattering of boos.
That changed in the second half.
Morelli was limited in practice this week after sustaining a
concussion last week against Michigan. He finished 18-of-34 for 144
yards and an interception.
Williams finished 13-of-33 for 156 yards and two interceptions.
The Lions were able to contain him more in the second half, and he
had 5 yards rushing on 19 carries.
Williams also was plagued by dropped balls by his wide-open
receivers that could have kept some drives alive.
Dropped balls hurt Penn State, too, including one that bounced
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Yeah cuz THAT works. SMH
Weird. How is that even punishment? Does the dog care? Seems like its her bf with the weird fetish.
I never heard of such a thing. Weird.....
WTF?! I'd report that to animal control or the SPCA in a hot minute.
The hell?! NO! I do not know anyone who does that and I certainly have never done that to my dogs. That is just gross! In the dogs mind, this is a sign of disrespect, but it will not stop him from peeing in the house. Obviously what the bf is doing is not working out for him too well...
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Patent application title: Apple Tree Named 'WA 2'
Bruce H. Barritt (Okanagan Centre, CA, US)
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
IPC8 Class: AA01H500FI
Publication date: 2010-09-30
Patent application number: 20100251440
A new and distinctive variety of an Malus domestica `apple` tree, named
`WA 2`, that is distinguished by its attractive blush, outstanding
texture being firm, crisp and juicy, and the presence of the homozygous
genes for ethylene production ACSI-2/2 and ACO1-2/2 which contribute to
maintaining the fruit quality over long periods of storage.
1. A new and distinct apple tree variety named `WA 2`, as herein shown and
LATIN NAME OF THE GENUS AND SPECIES OF THE CLAIMED PLANT
Botanical/commercial classification: Malus domestica/apple tree
Varietals denomination: `WA 2` seedling designation T19-17-3-9427
The invention refers to a new plant variety of apple tree (Malus domestica) named `WA 2`. This new variety is distinguished by the distinctive blush of its fruit, with the texture being firm, crisp and juicy even after 60 days of regular cold storage due to the presence of the homozygous genes for ethylene production, ACS1-2/2 and ACO1-2/2.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
`WA 2` (seedling designation T19-17-3-9427) originated from a seed collected in 1994 from fruit of the `Splendour` cultivar. The male parent is unknown although the `Tenroy` cultivar of `Gala` apple trees surrounded the `Splendour` tree and may have been the pollen source. The germinated seedling was grown in a greenhouse at the Washington State University Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center (WSU TFREC) in Wenatchee, Wash. during the Summer of 1995. In September 1995, a bud from the seedling was budded to M9 rootstock and the resulting `mother` tree was planted in the evaluation orchard at WSU TFREC in the Spring of 1997. Fruit from the `mother` tree were evaluated in 2000 and 2001. Second generation trees were produced by chip-budding to M9 rootstock Fall of 2002 and the resulting trees planted at three locations in Washington State in 2004 near Chelan, Wash., Chelan County; near Wenatchee, Wash., Douglas County; and near Basin City, Wash., Franklin County. Fruit from the second generation trees at all three orchard locations were compared to that of the `mother` tree in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, and found to be essentially similar to that of the `mother` tree.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
`WA 2` is an attractive apple that is distinct in appearance from that of other commercially grown apples and has outstanding texture, being very firm, crisp and juicy, both fresh and after 60 days of regular cold storage. Firmness is comparable to the commercial varieties of `Cripps Pink` and `Braeburn` and is firmer than the commercial varieties `Gala` and `Fuji` (Table 1, second column). Fruit of `WA 2` is sweet with percent soluble solids greater than for `Gala` and `Braeburn` and is comparable to `Fuji` and `Cripps Pink` (Table 1, third column). Fruit acidity level of `WA 2` is intermediate between low acidity cultivars `Gala` and `Fuji` and high acidity cultivars `Braeburn` and `Cripps Pink` (Table 1, fourth column). Overall flavor is well balanced between sugar and acid. `WA 2`, like its maternal parent, is homozygous for the ethylene production gene Md-ACS1. In addition it is homozygous for a second ethylene production gene Md-ACO1. The ACS and ACO genotypes were determined by fragment analysis of the results of polymerase chain reactions using the primers published by Harada et al. (2000) and Costa et al. (2005).
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1. The eight year old mother tree of `WA 2` on M9 rootstock near full bloom.
FIG. 2. `WA 2` mother tree fruit at harvest maturity.
FIG. 3. View of `WA 2` fruit showing exposed and backsides, and stem and calyx ends.
FIG. 4. View of typical `Tenroy Gala`, `WA 2` and `Splendour` apples at harvest maturity.
DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
The following detailed description is from the `mother` tree grown at WSU TFREC. All color references are from the R.H.S. colour chart by The Royal Horticultural Society. Tree: Type: Considered spur type with development mostly on 2 yr. old wood, some on current seasons growth; spur length ranges from 1 to 8 cm Vigor.--considered moderate. Overall shape.--upright and spreading. Height.--14 feet. Width.--7 feet. Hardiness.--considered hardy for the regions grown in. Productivity.--considered very productive, exhibits alternate bearing tendencies if over-cropped the previous season. Trunk: Size.--diameter at a height of 45 cm is 11.4 cm. Bark texture.--smooth. Bark color.--from the greyed-orange group (177A). Lenticels.--numerous and horizontal to the plane, size averages 9.9 mm×1.8 mm. Lenticels color.--from the brown group (200C). Branches: First year branches.--considered moderate in number with light spur development; spreading habit with moderate crotch angles of 0° to 35° Color: from the greyed-purple group (187A) Lenticels: round to slightly elongated and oriented parallel to growth with color from the white group (N155D); size average is 0.5 mm×1 mm; density is at 11 per running cm Branch pubescence: present, moderate, with color from the white group (155D) Internodes: spacing averages 4.2 cm. Scaffold branches.--moderate in number; spreading habit with crotch angles of 30°-80° Color: from the grey-brown group (N199D) Lenticels: numerous and horizontal to plane, rough; averages 10.2 mm×2.1 mm in size. Lenticels color.--from the white group (N155C). Leaves: Shape.--considered oval. Texture.--considered leathery. Sheen.--upper surface is glossy. Pubescence.--lower surface is covered with fine pubescence. Length.--ranges from 7.2 to 10.5 cm; average length is 9.2 cm. Width.--ranges from 4.6 to 7.3 cm; average length is 6.0 cm. Margin.--considered double serrate. Tip.--considered cuspidate. Base.--considered obtuse. Stipules.--present on most leaves; average number per leaf is 0.8 with a range of 0 to 2 per leaf; average length is 6.3 mm; width ranges from 0.8 to 1.0 mm. Leaf color.--upper surface from the yellow-green group (147A); lower surface from the yellow-green group (147B). Petiole.--lengths range from 2.2 to 3.9 cm, average is 3.3 cm; average diameter is 1.7 mm; color is from the green group (142D) with high lights from the greyed-purple group (186A). Flowers: Full bloom date May 5, 2008 at Wenatchee, Wash.; number of blossoms per bud ranges from 4 to 6 -- mostly 5 -- with an average of 4.6 blossoms per bud Size.--individual flowers considered medium in size averaging 50.2 mm across. Petal.--width averages 17.9 mm; length averages 21.1 mm. Color.--from the white group (N155B) with highlights from the greyed-purple group (186D); petal vein color from the greyed-purple group (186B). Stamen.--range of 20-22 mm length with an average length of 20.7 mm Filament: color is from the green-yellow group (1D) Anthers: color at maturity from the yellow group 4C; average length is 2.1 mm. Pistil.--average length is 7.9 mm Styles: 4 to 6 in number generally 5, fused at base and pubescent at union; average length is 3.2 mm; color is from the yellow-green group (154C) Stigma: club shaped; color is from the yellow-green group (154B). Sepals.--five per bloom and occasionally curled back towards the peduncle; average length is 7.2 mm and average width is 4.2 mm; colorless pubescence is present on both upper and lower surfaces; sepal color is from the green group (138B) with tips highlighted from the greyed-red group (178B). Fruit: Observations and testing from mother tree fruit Size.--considered medium averaging 7.7 cm in equatorial diameter and 7.0 cm in axis diameter. Form.--considered round-conical. Stem.--medium reaching above stem bowl and averaging 2.3 cm in length; medium stout averaging 3.3 mm in diameter at midpoint; exhibits pronounced clubbed end. Stem cavity.--average width is 2.9 cm; average depth is 1.7 cm. Cavity shape.--acuminate. Lipped.--no. Basin cavity.--average width is 31.2 mm; average depth is 17.6 mm; some light ribbing. Calyx.--eye is generally erect. Skin.--smooth with bloom present. Appearance.--blush over 75-95% of surface. Lenticels.--numerous, distinct, ranging from 6-15 per square cm. Lenticels size.--round and ranging from 0.3-0.7 mm in diameter; color from the white group (157D). Skin color.--blush color is from the red group (47A); undercolor is from the yellow group (4C). Core.--core line attachment is medium. Core position.--is distant. Cell.--Tufted: no Cell Shape: obovate. Tube.--funnel shaped. Sepals.--downy. Stamen position.--medium. Axis.--axile and closed. Seed.--Number: 1-4 per cell with an average of 3 Shape: acute; size averages 4.5 mm in diameter×8.1 mm in length Color: from the brown group (200D). Flesh.--firm, crisp, melting texture, considered mildly acidic with excellent sugar balance; color from the yellow-white group (158D). Aroma.--mild, apple like. Date of harvest maturity.--Aug. 6, 2008; five year average is August 2. Maturity indices.--Starch: Cornel chart is 3.6 Pressure: in Newtons is 82.8 Soluble Solids: in °Brix is 12.3 Titratable Acid: as mg/l malic acid is 0.44. Genotype.--`WA 2` is homozygous for the ethylene production genes Md-ACS1 and Md-ACO1. Keeping quality.--excellent, exceeding 90 days in common storage with little to no loss in firmness and acidity. Pollination: Any diploid apple of the same bloom season Use: Primarily for fresh eating Disease and insect resistance: Considered susceptible to all apple insects and has known susceptibility to apple powdery mildew; susceptibility to other apple diseases is unknown
Table 1 represents fruit indices of the `WA 2`, `WA 2` second generation, `Gala`, `Braeburn`, `Cripps Pink` and `Fuji` varieties at harvest maturity and following 60 days in common storage. The differences between fruit from the `WA 2` mother tree and from the `WA 2` second generation trees are as expected from an apple cultivar grown in different environments.
TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Fruit indices at harvest maturity and following 60 days in common storage Sugars Acidity Firmness % Soluble mg/l Newtons solids malic acid Cultivar Fresh Storage Fresh Storage Fresh Storage Year `WA 2` 77 70 13.9 14.3 0.43 0.35 2008 `WA 2` 81 76 13.9 14.0 0.51 0.40 2008 2nd gen. `Gala` 72 73 13.3 14.1 0.58 0.34 2008 `Braeburn` 86 82 14.5 15.4 0.87 0.51 2008 `Cripps Pink` 84 82 15.6 16.0 0.94 0.66 2008 `Fuji` 72 64 14.5 15.7 0.56 0.46 2008
The attached figures show the `WA 2` tree and various aspects of its fruit. FIG. 1 is a photo of the eight year old mother tree of `WA 2`. FIG. 2 is a close up of the apples at harvest maturity on the mother tree. FIG. 3 shows representative views of the exposed and backsides of the `WA 2` fruit, in addition to the stem and calyx ends of the fruit. FIG. 4 shows the `WA 2` fruit as compared to the fruit of its two parental varieties at harvest maturity. A typical `Tenroy Gala` apple, suspected of being the male parent cultivar, and a typical `Splendour` apple, are show next to a `WA 2` apple.
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|Trade (expressed in billions of US$): Macau|
|SOURCE: International Monetary Fund. International Financial Statistics Yearbook 1999.|
|Exchange rates: Macau|
|patacas (MOP) per US$1|
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|SOURCE: CIA World Factbook 2001 [ONLINE].|
2 decades, although the Asian financial crisis of 1997 did hurt its economy. There was an economic slow-down in 1997 and 1998, affecting all sectors and bringing a small rise in inflation. However, in 1999 and 2000 the economy overcame these difficulties and began to grow again. One of the unique features of Macau's economy was that in 1998 it experienced deflation of 4 percent.
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Miley Cyrus Gets Inked For the 12th Time
Miley Cyrus got tatted up for the twelfth time at Studio City Tattoo on Sunday (Feb. 19).
The 19-year-old pop star arrived at the tattoo parlor with some friends including current boyfriend Liam Hemsworth for the ink session.
Cyrus had the phrase "Love Never Dies" tattooed on the inside of her left bicep.
The love tat joins a small collection. Here's the list:
- "Just Breathe" on her chest
- "Love" in her ear
- A dream catcher on the side of her torso
- An anchor on her right wrist
- The Om symbol on her left wrist
- A skull on her ankle
- 5 small tattoos on her right hand: an equal sign, a peace symbol, a cross, a heart, and the word "karma"
Could this latest addition be a sign of love for Hemsworth?
If this is the case, at least Cyrus was sensible enough not to get her beau's name inked on her body!
Source: The Daily Mail
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Casey Affleck Might Be Launching His Own Production Company
Ben’s little bro is looking to do some writing and producing.
Casey Affleck, younger brother of our Boston Movie Prince, Ben Affleck, is rumored to be launching his own production company. The actor is supposedly pairing up with producer John Powers Middleton (co-producer on The Lego Movie, among his many film credits) to focus on creating films and TV series.
According to Variety, “the company is being designed to afford Affleck the opportunity to focus more on producing, writing, and directing.” This is clearly a collaborative effort between Affleck and Middleton, but details—including a name—haven’t been officially announced.
Not to intentionally put Casey in his brother’s shadow, but it sounds like he’s really making some similar strides as brother Ben. In 2007, Ben Affleck ventured down this road when he wrote and directed the film adaption of Dennis Lehane’s novel Gone Baby Gone. Ben and Matt Damon later founded two production companies: LivePlanet in 2000 and Pearl Street Films in 2012. The rest of Ben’s directing/writing/acting gigs in The Town and Argo are obviously history.
Also like Ben, Casey is known for his Boston-based movie credits. Aside from his supporting role in Good Will Hunting, which more or less launched his acting career, he starred as lead detective Patrick Kenzie in Gone Baby Gone. More recently, the actor wrote a screenplay with fellow Boston-native screenwriter Chuck Maclean based on the Boston Strangler. Casey will likely star as one of the detectives on the Strangler Squad, and will be an executive producer on the movie.
The production company launch, combined with his interest in Boston movies, seems like a sound plan for Casey Affleck. Although Warner Bros. acquired the rights to produce the Boston Strangler film in a major deal, it’ll only prove that this guy has the potential to be the whole package as director, actor, writer, and producer.
Perhaps there will be a battle of the bros in the near future? Just imagine the headline: “How Do You Like These Apples? Affleck Brothers Fight to Death for Best Picture/Best Director at 2016 Academy Awards,” or “Look Who’s Robin Now? Ben Affleck Is Now Sidekick to Superior Brother’s Film Talents,” and so on.
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Re: will mark demori fight a real opponent in 2013??
I have the feeling he'll fight at least one more shot to **** American. Probably someone along the lines of a Bert Cooper. Before maybe, just maybe, finally fighting someone in 2013 who actually has the capacity to fight back.
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United States: Ford's Escape, GM's Vue hybrid SUVs to target different markets
DETROIT - The hybrid-powertrain versions of the Ford Escape and Saturn Vue are about the same size and likely will be priced about the same.
Both are expected to deliver 40 mpg in city driving and to cut tailpipe emissions dramatically.
But that's where the similarities end. Ford Motor Co. and General Motors are targeting different customers with their first gasoline-electric hybrid SUVs.
Ford's plan is for the Escape HEV to have capabilities comparable to its conventional powertrain stablemates. It will be all-wheel drive and will be rated for some towing.
GM's aim is to stress on-road performance. The Vue hybrid will be engineered for the way Americans typically drive SUVs. It won't be able to pull heavy loads and will be available only in front-wheel drive.
The hybrid Vue will be similar to the Toyota Prius: The electric motors will propel the vehicle at low speeds until the gasoline engine takes over. In contrast, the electric motor in the Honda Civic and Insight hybrids provides a boost for the 1.0-liter, three-cylinder gasoline engine.
GM plans to sell 10,000 Vue hybrids annually once the vehicle is launched in 2005.
Ford wants to sell 20,000 Escape HEVs annually. It goes on sale late this year.
David Hughes, GM's advanced hybrid system program manager, says the Honda and Toyota hybrids are not engineered to deliver large fuel economy gains when cruising at highway speeds, which is common in the United States.
"The main thing is that we are going to change the game," says Hughes. "A lot of people are disappointed with the Civic and Prius when they take them on the road. In the Vue, the air conditioner stays on when you are going up a long hill, and you can get up a hill with great fuel economy."
The hybrid powertrain in the Vue will be rated at 188 total hp -
138 hp from the Ecotech 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engine and 50 hp from a pair of 20-kilowatt electric motors.
The electric motors are powered by a 300-volt battery pack stowed under the rear storage compartment in the space normally occupied by the spare tire.
Hughes says the Vue hybrid should deliver a 50 percent improvement in fuel economy over a 2003 Vue powered by a four-cylinder engine and automatic transmission, which is rated at 23 mpg city and 28 mpg highway.
The toughest part of engineering the Vue hybrid, Hughes says, has been writing the software that enables the gasoline engine and electric motors to work smoothly.
In the Vue hybrid, the electric motors will:
Start the engine
Drive the vehicle at low speeds
Keep the battery pack charged
Smooth the automatic transmission's shifts
Run the air conditioner when the gasoline engine is off
Hughes says GM is benefiting from its experience with the EV1 electric car program. Many of the engineers who helped develop the EV1 and its software are working on the Vue project, Hughes said.
The Vue and Escape are part of a boom in hybrid powertrains. The market for gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles in the United States is expected to reach 500,000 sales annually in five years, according to a study by J.D. Power and Associates released in January.
Toyota plans to expand its hybrid offerings to include gasoline-electric versions of the Lexus RX 330 and Highlander sport wagons.
GM also is launching a hybrid version of the Malibu sedan, using the same powertrain technology as the Vue hybrid, to compete with a planned Ford Futura hybrid.
My first car was a 67 Mustang Coupe, 2nd one was a 67 Cougar XR-7, 3rd one was a 66 Mustang Coupe. Why did I get rid of these cars for ? I know why, because I'm stupid, stupid, stupid.
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Checa to join World Superbike championship
9 October 2007 – Honda LCR rider Carlos Checa has announced he will join the World Superbike Championship next season. The Spaniard will join the Ten Kate team as a replacement for James Toseland who will join the Tech 3 Yamaha team.
Speaking about his move to the World Superbike Championship Checa said: "It's finally official! I'm really looking forward to this new challenge. It's an interesting step in my career and I'm very motivated. I am pretty sure I can get good results and be competitive."
Checa furthermore said: "Riding in World Superbike with Honda and Ten Kate is a good guarantee, and more than anything, I'm very proud of the fact that the factory and the team placed their faith in me and I hope to repay them by performing well in a very competitive series, which has quite a strong following all over the world.
"Racing at the Suzuka 8 hours made me realize the potential of a Superbike machine, as I felt very comfortable on the Honda and the way you have to ride it. Without any doubt, it's a great opportunity, as I know my results won't be hampered by technical difficulties, as it has been the case for the past two years. But before tackling this new challenge in Superbike, I want to wrap up my MotoGP career in the best possible fashion, aiming as high as possible for the last few Grand Prix of the season." | <urn:uuid:9b75b554-48cf-40a9-8c6f-a8b44b77df79> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.gpupdate.net/en/motogp-news/170339/checa-to-join-world-superbike-championship/ | 2015-07-02T21:24:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095671.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00141-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977835 | 302 | [
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SMC vs. Albion
Belles Swept by Brits
NOTRE DAME, Ind. - The Saint Mary's volleyball team fell in straight sets (25-22, 25-18, 25-18) to visiting Albion on Wednesday evening.
In the first set, the visiting Britons used a five-point run turn a 8-7 deficit into a 12-8 lead as they would not trail again in the set. The score was tied 10 times in the second set before Albion went up for good at the 16-15 mark and took advantage of some miscues to claim the set. In the third set, the Belles were able to battle back from a three-point deficit early on, but Albion used a four-point run to turn a one-point lead into a five-point lead as they went on to take the set and the match.
Stephanie Bodien led the Belles' offense with 10 kills while hitting .368 while Lorna Slupczynski added nine kills of her own. Ellen Huelsmann, meanwhile, had an impressive .455 attack percentage with five kills and no errors in just 11 attempts. Danie Brink helped pace the offense with 32 assists while Meghann Rose keyed the defense with 14 digs.
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|By Greeneyes (22.214.171.124) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:00 am:|
Any girl group fans out there remember an 80's group called Expose? I really liked "Let me be the one" and "I'll never get over you getting over me". I assume they broke up, but, they did pretty good material. Any info on them?
|By Mark Speck (126.96.36.199) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 03:17 pm:|
I thought they were great as well...and CUTE!!
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Nnamdi Oduamadi scored a hat-trick for the African champions, while Elderson Echiejile added two more.
Belo Horizonte: Nigeria rolled to a 6-1 victory at Confederations Cup on Monday over Tahiti, who were making their debut at a major FIFA tournament.
Nnamdi Oduamadi scored a hat-trick for the African champions, while Elderson Echiejile added two more. Tahiti avoided humiliation Monday in their debut at a global football tournament by scoring a goal in their loss to Nigeria.
Jonathan Tehau headed in a goal early in the second half to reduce the team's deficit to 3-1. The Tahitians then gave their rowing boat celebration to their biggest audience yet.
The goal generated the biggest cheers of the match at the Mineirao Stadium, where the local Brazilians adopted Tahiti as their team while jeering the Nigerians.
Tahiti, a team that comes from a small island in the South Pacific and are 138th in the FIFA rankings, are used to playing in front of a few hundred players. But thousands were watching in Belo Horizonte and millions more on television.
"We've shown the world there's some real quality in Tahiti," said Marama Vahirua, the only professional in Tahiti's team. "Just our presence here is a victory and it was fantastic to be adopted by the Brazilian public."
Tehau's elation was short-lived, however. Shortly after scoring, he netted an own-goal. Although there was never any threat of anything but a Nigeria victory, Tahiti showed adventure throughout, managing five shots.
"The last 15 minutes were really difficult for us physically because we've never experienced such a tough game before," Tahiti coach Eddy Etaeta said. "I'd like to pay tribute to my players, they were fantastic." | <urn:uuid:a20ce7e1-ff7b-4564-a447-bb7332d48203> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.ibnlive.com/footballnext/news/nigeria-thrash-tahiti-61-at-confederations-cup-399606-5-21.html | 2015-07-05T00:42:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375097038.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031817-00081-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976392 | 396 | [
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2 reviews forHellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Reviews for Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2)
Hellboy 2 - r horned hero once again steps in to save the planet from the evil elf prince in this easy to watch action movie 6/10
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). More demonic action. 3/5. Red & his team have to save humanity from evil & a golden army. | <urn:uuid:72c26177-883f-4384-bbc4-1b57591ea72a> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://filmreviewfriday.com/film/hellboy-ii-the-golden-army | 2015-07-07T02:26:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098987.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00021-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.798185 | 93 | [
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We all find creative ways to procrastinate, but it's difficult to top the feat that YouTube user FamilyJulesX recently pulled off. Instead of studying for his final exams, the heavy metal guitar player and college student decided to splice together a video of himself performing classic video game tracks on guitar, drums, and bass.
Spanning from Pong to Dark Souls II, the medley contains 38 different songs, all performed by FamilyJulesX. According to the video's description, the entire project took a week and a half, including four straight days of mixing, mastering, guitar playing, and drum programming. It's an impressive one-man job, to say the least. If you ever feel like putting off your work, watch this video. Perhaps his efforts will inspire you to do something more useful with your time than going on Facebook. | <urn:uuid:0d5fcf19-8405-4ada-b25c-bf5067d3e610> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/06/watch-this-heavy-metal-guitar-player-shred-through-your-favorite-video-game-songs | 2015-07-07T03:20:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098987.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00021-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974729 | 175 | [
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- Why Skype is not on all Computers
- How do I open Vectorworks?
- Who do I contact for assistance with my eFolio?
- How to decide what Excel Chart to Use
- Does SMU have online meeting software?
- Compressing Pictures in Powerpoint 2010
- Install a program from the network
- Microsoft Office 2010 Interactive Command Guide
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Who Should be Tested?
The Alpha-1 Foundation encourages testing for Alpha-1 among those at high risk for this genetic disorder. Early diagnosis can help someone with Alpha-1 to consider different lifestyles, professions or other personal decisions that could maintain or improve their health.
The World Health Organization (WHO), the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the European Respiratory Society (ERS), and the Alpha-1 Foundation’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee (MASAC) recommend that anyone diagnosed with the following diseases should be tested for Alpha-1:
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Chronic bronchitis
- Asthma that is incompletely reversible after aggressive treatment
- Chronic liver disease
- Unexplained liver disease in infants and children
- The skin disease panniculitis
How to Test
It is critical to remember that Alpha-1 cannot be diagnosed by symptoms or by a medical examination alone; only a blood test will confirm Alpha-1. Testing can be conducted on a blood sample (blood draw or finger stick test). You can order a blood test to rule out Alpha-1 when doing routine blood work on your patients. The diagnosis code for Alpha-1 is 273.4. Testing for Alpha-1 is simple, quick and highly accurate.
Testing in Floridaplus
The Florida Department of Health and Human Services, the Alpha-1 Foundation and the University of Florida College of Medicine sponsor an awareness, screening and detection program for Alpha-1. The program is free to Florida residents. It is administered through doctors’ offices using a finger stick test available from the Alpha-1 Foundation. Test results are mailed directly back to the doctor.
The Alpha-1 Foundation Alpha-1 Detection Lab is located at the University of Florida. Mark Brantly, MD, has directed the lab since 1998 and the lab has done all testing for the State of Florida Alpha-1 Detection Program since 1999.
For test kits, contact Laura Pearson at the Foundation, toll free at (877) 228-7321 ext. 250 or by email at [email protected]. For test results, contact the lab at (866) 284-2708 or [email protected].
Test Kits from Industryplus
To order free test kits:
- CSL Behring - (888) 508-6978
Many people at risk for Alpha-1 delay being tested due to concerns about privacy of test results. The Alpha-1 Foundation supports a confidential opportunity to be tested for Alpha-1 through the Alpha-1 Coded Testing (ACT) Study. This research study is conducted at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and examines people’s thoughts and feelings about the risks and benefits associated with learning genetic information. Testing through the ACT Study is free and confidential.
You’ll be directed to an application for a free, confidential test kit for Alpha-1 provided by the Alpha-1 Coded Testing (ACT) Study – an Alpha-1 Foundation-supported program run by the Medical University of South Carolina.
For more information, contact the Alpha-1 Research Registry Program at MUSC toll-free at (877) 886-2383 or [email protected].
For information on the Alpha-1 Foundation Genetic Counseling Program at the Medical University of South Carolina, call (800) 785-3177 or click here.
Testing guidelines for different settings
The Alpha-1 Foundation has developed guidelines for the best testing practices in a variety of clinical settings. The guidelines are intended to help the medical community, individuals, and industry to understand how testing should be conducted, to ensure the most appropriate and efficient testing methods are used, and to protect patients rights and confidentiality.
Historically, early testing was performed using serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP). While widely available and easy to perform, this test is quite inaccurate compared with more specific tests currently available. However, if an SPEP is performed for other reasons and the results demonstrate an absent or decreased alpha-1 band, further testing for the deficiency of alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) is definitely indicated.
The most widely available and least expensive specific test for Alpha-1 is the AAT serum level. This test, when performed correctly, can easily detect the most common forms of severe deficiency of AAT. There are problems with level testing however. First, level testing will not provide a definitive result in individuals who carry only a single abnormal AAT gene. In addition, there are some abnormal AAT genes that produce relatively normal levels of a defective protein and AAT level testing will miss these as well.
Finally, there is the issue of units of measurement. While some laboratories report their results in milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl) others report their results in micromoles (µM). In Europe, levels are often expressed as grams per liter (G/L). A number that represents a normal level in one unit of measurement could be significantly abnormal in a different unit. It is important to note both the units of measurement and the laboratory’s normal range when interpreting an AAT serum level (see table 1).
TABLE 1 – AAT Serum Levels
*actual normal ranges vary from laboratory to laboratory
Units of Measurement
Example Normal Range*
Example Abnormal Result
Example Normal Result
Further testing, beyond a simple serum level, is indicated if:
- Identification of carriers of a single abnormal gene is desired (as in family screening)
The patient’s presentation is unusual (as in early onset pulmonary emphysema with a normal AAT level)
Confirmation of an abnormal level result is desired (an abnormal level should almost always be confirmed by a subsequent testing method)
Such further testing generally involves either phenotyping or genotyping. Phenotyping is identification of the type of circulating AAT protein by isoelectric focusing of the various isotypes of AAT in blood, plasma, or serum. Genotyping, as it is currently applied, is identification of abnormal AAT DNA by using specific probes designed to flag the most common deficient genes.
While genotyping is efficient and automated, it can only identify genes for which probes have been made. Thus, rare abnormal genotypes of AAT can be missed. The potential problem with phenotyping is that proper interpretation of phenotyping gels requires much experience. Phenotyping, when performed by an experienced scientist, is the most direct method of identifying carriers and deficient individuals, especially those with rare or unusual mutations of the AAT gene. Even so, individuals with Null genes (one of a series of AAT gene mutations that leads to the production of no detectable AAT protein) will be missed using genotyping and can often be missed without specific Null probes during genotyping.
TABLE 2 – Samples required
Type of specimen
Tube of blood
Dried blood spot
1 Requires fresh specimen
2 Level is used for internal confirmation of result
3 Possible but not commonly done
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The United States is about to start a war with Syria, yet President Obama still had time Thursday to meet with NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson to discuss - wait for it! - jobs.
Pres. Obama is working hard to create more jobs for the unemployed. I pledeged to him that I would do everything I c… http://t.co/N1jd9Wn1Fi— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) August 29, 2013
Working side by side with the President on getting America back working is bigger and better than the 5 NBA Championships I won!— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) August 29, 2013
To Pres. @BarackObama: Put me in the game, I'm ready to work!— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) August 29, 2013
Don't forget that Obamacare officially starts on October 1st.— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) August 29, 2013
On my way to the airport thinking about growing up in Lansing, MI and now going to meetings in the Oval Office! Wow!— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) August 29, 2013
I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be in a working meeting with the smartest and most powerful leader… http://t.co/psey9ATrbF— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) August 30, 2013
There was great information and strategy that was laid out in the meeting today at the White House with Pres. Obama!— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) August 30, 2013
Obama's senior advisor Valerie Jarrett later thanked Johnson for the "great meeting."
Isn't that special?
Our nation is talking about going to war, and the President of the United States has time to discuss jobs with a former basketball player.
What makes this even more disturbing is that National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper briefed members of Congress about the situation in Syria Thursday.
It appears Obama was not involved in the conference call.
So our President doesn't have time to talk to Congress about a looming war, but he does have time to chat with a former basketball player.
That of course shouldn't be at all surprising, for back in June Obama delayed a meeting about Syria to talk to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
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Michelle Anthony,the Family Pastor at ROCKHARBOR Church (Costa Mesa, California), is passionate about parents. She often asks potential staff members a simple question during interviews: “From a ministry perspective, where is your heart drawn? To parents or children?” If the answer is “children,” she knows this person could make a fine volunteer in children’s ministry. If the answer is “parents,” she knows this person could make a great staff member. Michelle’s hiring scenario is reflective of her core ministry philosophy: parents are entrusted with the spiritual nurturing of children and the church should inspire, equip, and support parents as spiritual leaders.
Michelle’s philosophy of family ministry may sound unusual (even shocking) to some church leaders, but her credentials and experience demand a hearing. Michelle earned a B.A. in Christian Education (minor in Bible) at Biola University and an M.A. in Christian Education (emphasis in Theology) at Talbot School of Theology. She earned a Doctorate in Educational Leadership at Southern Seminary and has served as a professor at Biola University and Talbot School of Theology. With more than 20 years of practical church ministry and leadership experience to her credit (including her role as Pastor of Family Ministries at ROCKHARBOR Church since 2005), Michelle is in demand as a speaker at ministry conferences around the country including Children’s Pastors Conferences, The Orange Conference and The Northwest Ministry Conference.
Michelle Anthony has written more than a dozen Christian education resources, ranging from youth curriculum and children’s books to parenting and ministry theology (A Theology for Family Ministry, B&H Publishing Group). In 2008 Michelle became the Family Ministry Architect for David C. Cook Publishing and began to design a new philosophy and product line to empower churches to invest in today’s parents. In partnership with ROCKHARBOR Church and David C. Cook, Michelle helped write Tru (www.tru.davidccook.com), a spiritually-forming, family-empowered digital curriculum which highlights God’s redemptive story throughout Scripture (available now). She has written Spiritual Parenting: An Awakening for Today’s Families (David C. Cook, 2010) to help parents embrace their roles as spiritual leaders and empowers them to create practical home environments for the purpose of spiritual growth. Releasing August 2010 from David C. Cook is an illustrated children’s book entitled The Big God Story, which is complementary to both Tru and Spiritual Parenting.
Michelle is a native Californian and has lived in Southern Orange County for the past 20 years with her husband Michael and their children (Chantel, 19, and Brendon, 17). The Anthony family has embarked on many foreign mission trips, including ministering in Kenya, Dominican Republic, Spain, Belize, Russia, Haiti, Romania, Panama, and Mexico. Michelle loves being with her family while boating, bowling, or playing the game of LIFE … as well as enjoying a cup of coffee with a good book. | <urn:uuid:fdf3ff0a-6b64-4df5-870b-c67f733e323b> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://mmpublicrelations.com/page.php?page=project&intID=124&Archived=1&intParentID= | 2015-07-01T04:47:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375094662.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031814-00031-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959242 | 635 | [
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4 years ago
The past few years have been a growing experience for me, and I feel I have changed. The greatest factor in my life-changes is that I was married to a gay man. Sharing that will help me, and I hope others won't feel so alone.
When I met Jonathan, we were instant friends. We connected on so many levels and our friendship lasted for many year. After I had known him about a year, he confided in me that he was gay. He was only 16 years old at the time. I was in my 20's. I was a little shocked at first, but I already loved and cared about him, and his revelation was not going to change that. It was something that I watched him struggle with for years. He was afraid his parents would find out and shun him. He played piano for several local churches and worried that he was going to be punished by God for playing for a church and being gay.
He went to college on a scholarship because he didn't want to take his parents money, for fear of their reaction if they ever found out. He ended up working 3 jobs while in college, to cover what the scholarship didn't. He was leading a double life, being himself at school and and being the dutiful son when he came home. It was tearing him apart. Finally in his senior year of college, he closed his bank accounts, maxed out all his credit cards and came home with a gun, planning to kill himself. But for some reason, at the last minute, he reached out to his mom for help. He finally told her everything that he had been hiding.
His mother loved him. I don't doubt that. But she couldn't accept that he was gay and she got him into cousleing with someone who kept telling him it was just a phase, and that he could change. That was 5 years ago, and she never stopped trying to change him. He dropped out of college and moved back home. He was just going through the motions really. Two years ago, a job came open in South Carolina, within the company he worked at, so he moved. I thought things were better, since he could be himself there. Of course he still had to pretend when he came home.
We used to joke around and say we should get married, just as a cover. He was so tired of pretending to be someone he was not. But he knew his parents would never ever accept him for who really was. And he was so worried about what God and other Christians thought. I guess I thought he was doing better, but I missed something along the way. He killed himself on May 10, 2010. He just couldn't take the pressures of life anymore.
I am feeling so guilty because I missed the signs. I am so anger that this world makes it so hard for gay people. I really just want to shout at people when they say such hurtful things, like gay people choose their lifestyles. If it were just a choice, Jonathan would not have killed himself. He would have chosen the easier path. I have to say that Jonathan is the reason that my heart was changed. He made me a better person. And now he is gone. I feel so alone, so hurt, so anger...so many emotions. I am flooded with memories and regrets.
Reading your blog has been good for me. I just needed to write to you and tell you what Ray's coming out meant to Jonathan. I think it gave him a brief bit of hope. I think the pain he was in was just too much. I read a quote on a suicide survivors forum that I joined. It said " the time came when the pain it took to stay was greater than the pain it took to go"
Please tell Ray thank you and I thank you for sharing your story and for letting me share Jonathan's. The more I can write this down and get it out of my head the better. Please keep me and his family in your prayers and I will keep you in mine.
Do you suppose in your efforts to help others, you end up hurting still others? Do you think that your stole would be offensive to friends of Jesse Dirkhising? Is what you feel more important than the feelings of others? Do the rules and demands that you impose on others apply to you? You say that you are not patient with those who disagree with your feelings...yet you demand that others be patient with your disagreement. Is that right?
There are people who truly, really, LOVE children and have "always" lusted for them. These people try to live a normal life; they do not want to be physically attracted to children; and they grieve because they are. But, they can not change. Would you say that "God made them this way"? How about those who really, truly are attracted to dead bodies; to animals; desire bondage and rape; or only find pleasure in pornography? Is that the way God made them? Why would homosexual deviancy be different in the eyes of God than the others I mentioned? Why would God limit his love and understanding to only the deviancy of homosexuality? Many people feel that they were not "made" to be monogamous. They can not be faithful. They NEED many sexual partners. They were "made that way". Yet God clearly says Adultery is a sin. Why? Is God really glorified in homosexual and other "preferences"? Really? Prov.14:14 and 16:25. The truth is; "For all that is of the world---the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life--is NOT of the Father, but is of the world." 1Jn2:16 God made man perfect and good, and provided him with a wife/a woman as the perfect companion. Lust is a part of our fallen nature--not good. I ran a daycare. You are a mother; you and I know that naturally we are sinners. I never had to teach a child to BE selfish--TO hit; TO grab toys or TO throw a fit when they want thing their way! Their natural nature was NOT good. As a loving parent, we must guide them away from these natural ways. Just as God does not want us to steal, kill or lie to get our own way; he doesn't want us to commit sexual sin either. You may get all the world to agree and participate in your sin; but in the end, God says you will pay in your soul..Romans 1:27. It isn't cruel punishment, but truth that if you stick your hand in a flame, you will hurt and be burned. A loving father warns and puts a barrier around the flame to protect his children. Our society has been the barrier. You are trying to remove that barrier, to your hurt, and to burn all our children. | <urn:uuid:e1b0b33a-e942-4d7b-b3cf-34e0c0de097d> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://myheartgoesout-carol.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html | 2015-07-01T04:46:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375094662.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031814-00031-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992973 | 1,421 | [
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Groundbreaking for Yankees Draws Politicians and Protest
By SEWELL CHAN
Published: August 17, 2006
Declaring the start of a new era for the Yankees and for the Bronx, officials broke ground yesterday on a $1.2 billion project to build a 51,000-seat replacement stadium. The ceremony took place as throngs of police officers cordoned off protesters who oppose the project because it will eliminate most of two parks and require $400 million in public subsidies.
Gov. George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg dismissed those complaints. The governor said the project would create more parkland than it would destroy and noted that the team would be responsible for any cost overruns. The mayor said the stadium would help revitalize the long-neglected South Bronx and create 6,500 construction jobs over the next four years, as well as 1,000 permanent jobs.
The ceremony, which drew the likes of the former Yankees catcher and manager Yogi Berra and the actor Billy Crystal, occurred on the 58th anniversary of the death of Babe Ruth.
The groundbreaking seemed to put to rest decades of speculation that the Yankees might return to Manhattan, where they played until 1923, or abandon New York altogether for New Jersey.
''You could have moved to Jersey, or you could have moved to Manhattan, but let's face it: the Jersey or the West Side Bombers just doesn't sound right,'' said United States Representative Jos?. Serrano, one of 14 speakers. ''The Bronx Bombers -- that's the sweetest sound you'll ever here.''
Bud Selig, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, recalled discovering Yankee Stadium as a teenager with his mother. ''To many fans, the ballpark is a cathedral, because it's a place that inspires great reverence, and it is a place for comfort. If ballparks are indeed cathedrals, then Yankee Stadium is one of the most revered.''
The five-level, open-air stadium will replicate the entry facade, roof frieze, auxiliary scoreboards and right-field bullpen of the current stadium, which opened in 1923 and was substantially modified in a 1974-75 renovation. The stadium is to be completed in 2009, and the Yankees will pay the $800 million construction costs using tax-exempt bonds.
The groundbreaking occurred on a running track at Macombs Dam Park, which will be largely eliminated, along with John Mullaly Park. Across River Avenue, where the No. 4 subway line runs overhead, demonstrators from Save Our Parks, a community group, chanted and shouted. Metal police barricades kept the demonstration separate from the ceremony.
On Tuesday, a state judge rejected a request by stadium opponents for an injunction to block construction. ''We have not given up, not at all,'' said Joyce Hogi, a member of Save Our Parks, one of the groups. Geoffrey M. Croft, the president of New York City Park Advocates, said it would file a new suit asserting violations of federal environmental laws.
Daniel L. Doctoroff, the deputy mayor for economic development, alluded to the controversy when he quoted Ruth as saying, ''Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.'' Mr. Doctoroff said: ''The Yankees definitely took that to heart, because they struck out a lot trying to get this new stadium under way, and so did we. But the truth is, we never gave up.''
The stadium will have 60 suites and eight larger suites for social functions. Randy L. Levine, the president of the Yankees and a former deputy mayor, said ''it will cater to the needs of our fans and it will be affordable for all.'' The stadium will have a standing-room area to accommodate 1,000 people.
Mr. Pataki and Mr. Bloomberg both insisted that the $400 million in public support for the project -- including $160 million in city money for playgrounds, athletic fields and ball courts and $75 million in state money for four garages, nearly doubling the parking spaces to 10,000 -- was small compared with what other jurisdictions have spent on stadiums. The public subsidies include tax breaks and a new Metro-North Railroad station, estimated to cost $45 million.
The four Bronx politicians who spoke -- Mr. Serrano, Borough President Adolfo Carri?r., Assemblywoman Carmen E. Arroyo and Councilman Joel Rivera, all Democrats -- took pains to explain why they supported the project in the face of substantial community opposition.
Ms. Arroyo recalled the Bronx's nadir in the 1970's, when arson and neglect devastated it. ''We saw the destruction, we saw the buildings going down, we saw our schools burning and we saw a lot, a lot, of problems,'' she said. Mr. Rivera said, ''There are people in the Bronx that need the help of the corporate entities that reside within our borough.''
Mr. Carri?who is considering a run for mayor, cited the fear of the team's leaving. ''The Bronx Bombers are staying home and the Bronx is becoming a greater and more beautiful place,'' he said.
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Cape Mental Health
The Cape Mental Health Society (CMHS) is a nonprofit organisation that provides and facilitates comprehensive, pro-active and enabling mental health services in the Western Cape.
The CMHS Finance Department seeks to appoint an Accounts Assistant, based in Observatory, Cape Town.
This is twenty-hour per week contract position.
- Bank reconciliations;
- Debtors input into Pastel Evolution;
- Monthly annuity billing on Pastel Evolution for workshops and special education and care centres;
- Balance sheet reconciliations;
- Various ad hoc tasks.
- Book-keeping and accounting skills;
- Experience on Pastel Evolution will be advantageous;
- Experience in Microsoft Office (Excel, an important requirement and will be tested).
To apply, submit a CV (two pages), motivation letter with contactable references to the Financial Manager, Wayne Bruton at [email protected] or fax to: 021-448 8475. Alternatively, deliver marked confidential to the CMHS, Financial Manager, Mr Wayne Bruton, 18 Ivy Street, Observatory, 7935.
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For more about the Cape Mental Health Society, refer to www.capementalhealth.co.za.
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[PC-BSD Testing] install works, system fails to boot
kris at pcbsd.org
Wed Nov 7 08:48:51 PST 2012
On 11/07/2012 11:46, Randy Schultz wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Kris Moore spaketh thusly:
> -}Can you test installing FreeBSD on this system? Also, did you change any
> -}file-system details? UFS or ZFS? GPT or MBR?
> I just installed 8.2 (closest newest one I had). Worked like a champ.
> Did not change any filesystem details. The only non-default thing I did was to also install fvwm. Everything
> else was whatever the installer wanted to do.
> Randy (schulra at earlham.edu) 765.983.1283 <*>
> nosce te ipsum
> Testing mailing list
> Testing at lists.pcbsd.org
Those defaults may change though based upon the hardware of the box. If
you can do the install again, go ahead and take a note of the disk setup
screen, if its UFS or ZFS. Maybe click configure and change it to the
other and see if that makes a difference. It could be an issue with ZFS
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The Killer NIC, visually, looks like a pimped-out PCI networking card. It has a big blade-like “K” heat sink to cool the 400MHz Freescale processor. This processor, along with 64MB of DDR RAM, runs a special version of embedded Linux and performs some of the network processing functions. The card also includes a Xilinx Spartan FPGA chip, a programmable gate array chip that runs some of Bigfoot’s proprietary networking algorithms. Primarily, Bigfoot wraps up all their game-network-accelerating features under the banner of “LLR” or Lag and Latency Reduction. Note that’s “reduction,” not “elimination.” Nothing can totally eliminate lag.
So what is LLR and how does it work? First, we need to define Lag. Lag is the perceptual drop in networked game performance—it can be a spike downward in frame rate, jumping or warping in an online game, slow response to player inputs, etc. Latency is, for lack of a simpler way to put it, your ping time. It’s the time it takes for info to get from your PC to the gamer server and vice versa. How can a network card reduce lag or latency when it doesn’t render the game scene and has no control over what happens to your game packets once they leave your PC to head into the great wild Internet?
There are several methods that Bigfoot combines to improve game networking performance, and even frame rate in some networked games. The first is packet prioritization. Many network cards offload some TCP/IP functions from the CPU, but most games don’t use TCP/IP, they use UDP. The Killer NIC offloads both networking functions, saving some CPU cycles. Honestly though, the CPU load for networking traffic in games is really small to begin with, and you don’t improve performance much this way. Bigfoot also prioritizes game packets, both inbound and outbound, though the benefits of this are again pretty small if you’re not running a bunch of other network applications—this feature is more useful on your home router, to make sure your game data doesn’t have to wait behind the file transfer your wife or roommate is doing on their computer.
The big feature of the Killer NIC, the one that makes the most difference to game performance, is something Bigfoot has dubbed MaxFPS technology. Bigfoot’s own white paper explains it very well:
“Most games today are mainly single-threaded designs, or are multi-threaded but are controlled by a main game loop. When a main game loop is single-threaded (or networking is performed inside the main game loop), it will usually poll … on a socket every time through the main game loop, regardless if there is actual network activity or not. This means that many levels of the network stack are traversed to determine if data is present or not, even if there is no network activity.”
In other words: Most games, during each game loop that is looped through to draw each frame (polling for input data, incrementing counters for health or damage or distance traveled, applying physics calculations, interpolating animations, etc.), the game checks to see if there is any new network data it needs to deal with. Sometimes there is, sometimes there is not, but the act of checking requires traversing the Windows networking stack. Even though the CPU utilization impact of this is very low, it can still take a significant amount of time. The Killer NIC uses its own networking stack and can immediately, with two instructions, poll for and receive new network data (or confirm that there is no new network data). This speeds up the main game loop in most games, and makes the game run faster and smoother, in theory. The following diagram can help you visualize it.
Of course, it’s never that simple. Some games are multi-threaded, some implement separate networking loops to minimize stalls when waiting for network data that will never arrive. Still, even in these cases, the Killer NIC’s ability to set and clear its “data ready flag” in user space helps reduce traversals between user and kernel space in the OS, and reduce the number of cycles necessary to wait for the OS to respond with networking data. If all of that sounds like a lot of operating system mumbo jumbo tech talk to you, here’s the layman’s version: The card uses its own networking code instead of the networking code in Windows XP to get the data “closer” to the game, so it takes less time to fetch. Continued… | <urn:uuid:ad77a8e2-1dff-47c4-bebb-cfdfb61737cc> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.extremetech.com/computing/77276-killer-nicthe-gaming-network-accelerator-card/2 | 2015-07-07T15:33:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375099755.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031819-00161-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935818 | 981 | [
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I have a question that I hope some of the more seasoned stoners here can answer for me...
I've made firecrackers before and understand that THC must be heated (decarboxylized or something like that?) in order for it to become psychoactive. I've also read about ways to enfuse the THC into liquor but there's no heating involved. Does that actually work?
Below are instructions on how to make cannabis liquor.
One way to make a drinkable form of cannabis is to infuse it in a a strong spirit. A reasonably sweet drink with a high percentage of alcohol is recommended, for example fruit schnapps. It is also better to use grass rather than resin as it tends to be purer and easier to filter out the solid that remains after the extraction.
Either way grind up your chosen form of cannabis as finely as possible, before you add the alcohol soak it in warm water over night. This will remove any water soluble impurities but not any of that precious THC. After soaking drain of the excess water and place in an airtight jar and pour in the alcohol. Seal the container and place in a cupboard.
Most of the THC will have been absorbed within a week, but connoisseurs may leave it for a year or more! Whenever you feel like it drain of the liquor. If you use weed strain it through a sieve and then a coffee filter, for hash the coffee filter alone should be enough.
Pour liquor back in bottle and consume as desired. Using a fruit drink, rather than a clear spirit like vodka, will help hide the colour change and the sweetness will mask the bitter taste the cannabis extract can cause. A little practice will let you find your personal favourite flavours and strengths. | <urn:uuid:1fbebc20-10a6-4e83-9c76-b69e98743d42> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://forum.grasscity.com/unknown/115127-cannabis-liquor.html | 2015-07-01T12:01:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375094924.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031814-00101-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950242 | 361 | [
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According to the California Board of Pharmacy, all pharmacy technicians employed in the State of California needs to be licensed. Prior to being licensed they need to graduate from a pharmacy technician course or completed formal training from an accredited school.
Certification meanwhile is optional with the California Pharmacy Board as well as continuing education, which is only required to maintain certification. Technician licenses are valid for one year and needs to be renewed around six weeks before the expiration date.
Education requirements for applying for a pharmacy technician license
All candidates are must be high school graduates or have the equivalent education (G.E.D.)
They also have to complete a formal pharmacy technician training by:
- Earning an Associate Degree in Pharmacy Technology or…
- Completing 240 hours of course work as mentioned in title 16 of the California Code of Regulation or…
- Completing a pharm tech training course accredited by the American Society of Health-Sysytem Pharmacists (ASHP) or…
- Graduating from a pharmacy school accredited by the Accreditation Council of Pharmacy Education (ACPE)
Just in case you have PTCB certification, include that certified true copy of that certification along with your application. If you have had training with a branch of the federal armed forces, include the DD214 with your application.
In order to fast track your pharmacy technician license application, the following steps have to be done:
Download, print and complete the application form from the California Board of Pharmacy website. Attach a 2” x 2” passport style photo that was taken within 60 days prior to the filing of application.
Gather all the documents listed below to be included with the application form.
- For high school graduates include (1) A certified copy of your high school academic records from the high school you graduated from or (2) A certified copy of an official “Certificate of Proficiency” which proves that you have passed the California High School Proficiency Examination (CHSPE) or (3) A copy of your high school diploma or certificate or a certified copy of your high school diploma or certificate translated to English.
- For individuals who completed the General Education Development (GED) program submit a certified copy of the G.E.D. test results. This is available through the California Development of Education website here or you can call (866) 370 4740.
- Submit documentary proof that you have completed a formal pharmacy technician training course such as an affidavit of completed coursework or graduation for pharmacy technician, an original or certified copy of your PTCB certification (if applicable), or an original or certified copy of the DD214 (if applicable).
- A copy of the Practitioner Self Query report which is available from www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov.
- Fingerprint scan.
Note on fingerprint scan:
California residents find a scan site near their area by visiting http://ag.ca.gov/fingerprints/publications/contact.php
If you live outside California you have to submit rolled fingerprints along with your application to the Pharmacy Board plus a processing fee of $49.00 ($32.00 DOJ Fee + $17.00 FBI Fee). To get fingerprint cards you can call the board at (916)574-7900 or email them at [email protected].
Detailed information can be found on the application form.
Send all the documents and fees along with the application form to the California State Board of Pharmacy at 1625 N. Market Blvd. N219, Sacramento, California 95834. Processing of applications usually takes 60 days, click here to verify if your license has been issued.
- Application fee: $80.00
- Renewal fee: $100.00
- Late renewal fee: $150 ($100 renewal fee + $50 delinquency fee)
Fees can be through check, money order, or cashier’s check payable to the Board of Pharmacy.
The California Board of Pharmacy advises pharmacy technicians to renew their licenses no more than sixty days and not less than four to six weeks before it expires to avoid penalties and to allow time for processing. Click here to download the license renewal form. To facilitate the license renewal process, fill up and mail the application form along with the payment to the California State Board of Pharmacy at 1625 N. Market Blvd. N219, Sacramento, California 95834.
Currently the California Pharmacy Board does not have an online license application and renewal. All forms will have to be sent by mail to their office in Sacramento.
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Pregnant Kate Middleton swapped her usual pastel and solid color maternity dresses for this eye-catching Dalmatian-print dress for the Princess Cruises ship naming ceremony at Ocean Terminal, Southampton.
The Duchess of Cambridge, who is due to give birth next month, is the “godmother” of the ship and christened the cruise ship by breaking a ceremonial bottle of champagne on the hull. Middleton, pictured here, stands alongside a portrait of herself during the naming ceremony.
“I name this ship Royal Princess. May God bless her and all who sail in her,“ she said.
Middleton, who is eight months pregnant, is wearing the Dalmatian Mac coatdress by Hobbs, which retails for around $265. As you may have already guessed, this animal print dress has already sold out! (Don’t worry, no Dalmatians were injured in the making of this fashion-forward frock!)
This may be the last glimpse of Kate until she gives birth to the royal baby, as a source tells The Mirror she will take maternity leave, with June 13 being her “last official solo engagement.” Her due date is rumored to be July 13, however that has not been officially confirmed by the palace.
“Kate has really enjoyed her job and wanted to work as close to the birth date as possible,“ a source reveals.
Kim Kardashian, whose due date was supposed to be around the same time as Kate’s, recently gave birth to her baby girl early.
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Description•••Join 2+ million Bamba customers - kids learn through play with Bamba!•••
Kids create their favorite burger, flip the patty, make French fries and dispense the drinks – just like in a real fast food restaurant! They can choose from lots of funny ingredients to make their happy meal.
"Do you want fries with your Octopus Burger, Mom?" - Vicky, 4-year old Bamba Burger Employee.
Kids assemble the meal, ring up the order on a cash register, and finally eat their custom-made burger! There’s lots of creative fun when role-playing either the customer or the cook.
- Dozens of buns, ingredients and drinks to choose from: Hamburger patties to Unicorn Juice!
- Cook the patty and flip it on the hot pan
- Make the type of fries you want – and fry it in the deep fryer
- Dispense the drinks – 12 flavors to choose from!
- Mystery toy that comes with every meal
- Fantastic, beautiful artwork
- Kid-focused interface
- No external advertising
- Great for kids 2+
Bamba Burger is an interactive toy designed for kids. There are no scores, complicated interfaces or stressful time limits. This game is great to play alone or with an adult.
*** OTHER GAMES BY BAMBA! ***
- Bamba BBQ: Kids become crazy BBQ Chefs! Start the fire, chop the wood, cook the food and feed them to our wacky friends! See how they react!
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- Bamba Toys: Kids build a toy from a blueprint, picking parts and accessories before assembling the toy and finally getting to play with it!
- Bamba Pizza: Run a Pizza restaurant and make delicious pizza. Great fun with 26 different ingredients and four kooky characters to play with!
- Bamba Post Office: Everyone loves presents! Choose, wrap and decorate presents for three funny characters. Deliver them to the jungle or to the moon!
- Bamba Ice-Cream: Create and eat fantastic ice-cream concoctions. Can you guess what the mystery topping is this time?
Bamba is a kid game studio that makes interactive toys for kids. We believe that interactive toys offer a new and exciting way to educate your child. We design interactive toys that are designed to stimulate imagination and creativity.
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What's New in Version 1.4.2"This is a fun, creative toy for role-playing," The iMums.
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It’s like the Zen question–“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
How many berries can you cram into a batch of muffins before they turn into either a gloppy mess or they fall apart entirely?
I ask these questions, not only because I they are interesting exercises in kitchen science, but because I really like very fruity muffins. This is not a new preference with me–I am the famed creator of “Purple Muffins” which everyone, even avowed muffin-haters (how can you hate a muffin–I mean really?) have liked. The creation of Purple Muffins was an accident–I had an overabundance of wild blackberries one day and put them into a batch of muffins along with some other berries I had bought at the Farmer’s Market and discovered as I stirred the fruit into the batter that wild blackberries are extremely fragile. They break apart at the slightest provocation and spread their inky-purple colored selves all through whatever they are being stirred into.
Which, in this case was muffin batter. And thus, the batter was tinted a vivid hue of reddish violet, a color which surprisingly stayed brilliant all through the baking process. It was a little weird biting into bright purple baked goods, but they really tasted divine, so I guessed it was all fine.
Of course, all of my friends living in Athens thought purple muffins were the coolest thing ever, because not only were they psychedelically colored, they tasted great. So, for every pot luck and summer party, I was begged to make purple muffins. I even baked them for the psychic fairs we held at our book store (yes, Zak and I used to host psychic fairs–we both read Tarot cards, too) and they were always a hit with the metaphysically inclined folk who patronized our shop. (Purple, being the color of aura that indicated a spiritual nature, according to folks who are into such things, is a very popular color among the crystalline company we used to keep, so naturally, anything purple, even muffins, is bound to be if not advanced spiritually, then at least cool and interesting.)
So, I bought a bunch of blackberries, strawberries and raspberries again this weekend at the market and Zak saw them and said, pleadingly, “Make Purple Muffins, please?”
I cannot refuse him when he tips his head like that and gives me the puppy-dog eyes.
So. that is what I set out to do.
But I didn’t want to make either the original Purple Muffin recipe, as I didn’t really want to go digging around for the recipe.
You see, the original recipe is only recorded in one of my journals of those long-ago Athens years when we read Tarot cards and were asked odd questions at the grocery store when we shopped there after midnight such as, “Can you get me any of the works of Paracelsus?” This query from the checkout clerk was answered by. Zak who unblinkingly replied, “Would you be wanting the two volume Waite translation of his hermetic and alchemical writings or the Turner translation of The Archidoxes of Magic?” I mentioned that I wasn’t certain that either of them were still in print, but that we would do what we could to find them. These sorts of conversations only seem to happen in Athens, very often late at night at Krogers. I am sure there is some sort of metaphysical meaning to this. Perhaps the Athens Krogers is located on a ley line or some such.
(I wonder if Paracelsus, alchemist that he was, ever experimented to see how much fruit could be put into muffins without turning them into inedible goo? I somehow doubt it, but it is fun to think about it.)
But, I digress.
Nor did I want to do the ersatz Purple Muffin recipe, which I posted here about four years ago under the title Summer Berry Muffins. There is nothing wrong with that recipe–it is just that they don’t tend to turn out very purple.
So, I decided to experiment.
I wanted to see how many fresh berries I could stir into muffin batter before the mixture refused to bake into anything resembling a muffin. I wanted muffins that were more fruit than muffin, with the batter basically just there to hold the berries together. Why?
Because I felt like it, and because it is a fun exercise. And, because there was a high chance for failure, it being a baking recipe that I was going to muck around with in a rather extreme way. Fruit is juicy, and that can radically change the balance of liquid to solid in a baked good and can thus turn something good into something that will not bake up properly at all.
And, I decided to get Kat in on the action, because if I was going to make a mess of myself and my kitchen, I might as well get the kid all sloppy, too. And in truth, we all ended up in the kitchen, with Zak even taking a turn stirring the berries into the batter roughly in order to get as much purple juice as possible to stain the dough.
It turns out that you can get quite a lot of fruit into a muffin while still having it stick together and bake up into muffins. You have to be careful not to cover them tightly after they are cool, because sugar is hygroscopic, meaning that it will cause baked goods to readily take in moisture from the atmosphere and retain it. (This is part of what sugar does in baked goods besides make them sweet–it also acts as a means to keep them from drying out.) When you have sugar from the batter, as well as the added sugar and native juice from the fruit, if you tightly wrap or cover your baked item, it will get soggy.
I have found that you can keep these Purple Muffins, Version 2.1 unwrapped and on your counter for at least two days with impunity. You might be able to keep them longer, but I wouldn’t know about that, because they didn’t last two days at my house before being consumed with great glee and gusto by Kat, Zak, Brittney, Dan and myself.
One more thing–in the interest of making these muffins a little bit healthier, I did a couple of things. First, instead of sour cream, I used 2% Greek yogurt. It worked fine. I also substituted most of the all-purpose flour with King Arthur’s white whole wheat flour. This also worked fine–there is no discernible difference between muffins made completely with all-purpose flour and those blended with white whole wheat.
I guess that once you have all of that fruit in there, it doesn’t matter if you use healthier flour–it still all tastes good. Well, that and white whole wheat flour has a very mild flavor.
Of course, I ruined the healthier profile of some of the muffins by adding a layer of streusel topping–that delectable mixture of butter, sugar and flour that makes crispy, crumbly, buttery crumbs on the top of baked goods. I did this at the behest of Kat who loves “crumbs” as she calls it. Next time, I will substitute some rolled oats for some of the flour so I won’t feel so bad about adding more sugar and butter to the muffins than is absolutely necessary.
Purple Muffins. Version 2.1
1 1/4 cups white whole wheat flour
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup raw or white sugar (raw tastes better)
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon cardamom
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons finely shredded lemon zest
1 large egg
4 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
1 cup (use a fluid measuring cup) Greek yogurt
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups fresh mixed berries, picked over, rinsed and dried (I used blueberries, quartered strawberries, raspberries and blackberries)
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon rolled oats (or you can use 2 tablespoons of the flour and leave out the oats)
2 tablespoons cold butter
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, spices, and lemon zest in a large bowl.
In a smaller mixing bowl, whisk egg until thick and uniformly yellow. Whisk in butter, and continue beating until completely combined.
Add yogurt, milk, and vanilla to the smaller bowl and whisk into the egg and butter mixture until everything is happily combined.
Dump wet ingredients into the dry ingredient bowl and mix well. Add your berries and mix very well, hopefully crushing some of the berries enough that they stain your batter purple. If they don’t, you can’t rightly call the resulting muffins Purple Muffins, now can you? So beat those suckers in there and make that dough Technicolor. You know you want to.
With your hands, combine the remaining four ingredients by kneading it all together until it becomes a clumpy, crumbly mixture.
Either spray your muffin tins with baking spray or line with paper muffin cups. Or use silicone muffin cups on a baking sheet like I do. Using a large ice cream scoop (the kind with the ratchety thing that scrapes the scoop out of of the scooper), or a spoon, portion out the dough, which will be thick and heavy, into the muffin cups. If you don’t have an ice cream scoop, run out and get one for this recipe–this is the best and easiest way to portion out muffin dough without making a godawful mess.
Sprinkle the tops with a bit of the streusel stuff, then pop your muffins in the oven.
Bake for 10-15 minutes, then turn the pans back to front in order to get them to brown evenly. Bake for another 10-15 minutes, for total of 20-30 minutes. (If you have a convection oven as I do, the baking time will be closer to 20 minutes. For a regular oven, it will be more like 25-30 minutes.)
Remove from oven and cool for a couple of minutes in the pan, then remove from the pan and allow to cool on a rack. These are good warm, but even better after they cool completely–then, they are irresistible, as the flavors have really melded together and the berries are no longer molten nuggets of hot death for your tongue.
Makes 12-14 muffins, depending on how large your muffins are. (If you have little loaf pans like I do and only 12 muffin cups, you can put the leftover dough into a loaf pan and make a wee Purple Berry Bread, but remember–that bread will take longer to bake than the muffins. The mini loaf I baked took about thirty-five to forty minutes total to bake.
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I start Cheese on my 12.04 installation. I have used it before in my previous installations but since I upgraded to 12.04, no joy! I have a GeForce GT-520 video card with the "recommended" additional proprietary drivers installed and activated.
I tried to run Cheese from the terminal and got the following errors:
dozens of these errors:
(cheese:5467): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gnome-applications-light.css:42:23: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.
about a dozen of these errors:
(cheese:5467): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkToggleButton, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkToggleButton can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkLabel
only one of these errors:
(cheese:5467): CRITICAL **: cheese_camera_device_get_uuid: assertion CHEESE_IS_CAMERA_DEVICE (device)' failed Segmentation fault (core dumped) | <urn:uuid:177b0a4c-b26d-4fcf-b63d-852fead2232c> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://askubuntu.com/questions/174917/cheese-will-not-start-in-12-04 | 2015-07-05T17:35:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375097546.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031817-00291-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.84302 | 248 | [
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Writing inspiration – photo journaling
Writing a book – Writing inspiration – photo journaling
Need some writing inspiration? Try photo journaling
Photos are an incredibly powerful way to kickstart your memory. Photos are treasures, moments of your life captured, milestones, birthdays, happy, sad, people long gone, parties you enjoyed, trips, holidays, houses, beaches, there is so much to be captured from your photos and it is not just the picture, it is everything around the photo and as such a brilliant way to help you to piece together your life.
Pick a photo, any photo and ask yourself these questions:-
- What were you wearing?
- Who were you with?
- Where were you?
- How old were you?
- What happened that day
- What happened the day before / day after
- What sounds, smells, emotions does this bring up?
- What else does this memory conjure up?
- Describe the place where the photograph was taken.
- Describe the other people in the photograph and their relation to you.
- What happened right before this photograph was taken? After?
- What surprises you about this picture, now that you really look at it?
- Who is missing from this picture? Why?
- What can’t we see in the picture?
- If that person in the picture could talk, what would he or she be saying?
Your action plan – creating a photo journal as writing inspiration
- Collect photos or take some for this project
- Answer the questions above
- Write a few stories
- Download Blurb from www.blurb.com
- Make a book
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Metaphysica, quae circa divina versatur, answers pretty well to what is now called natural theology. In the order of sciences, then, natural theology comes last in philosophy, and presupposes a knowledge of all the rest. Ethics therefore do not presuppose natural theology, but are presupposed by it. It follows that ethical conclusions should be first reached by ethical reasonings, not by theological. This point is further explained in my Ethics and Natural Law, pp. 123-125.
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My apologies for the absence lately. I’ve got a list of posts in the queue, but the time to tap them out just hasn’t been there.
Its been a few weeks now since the boys and I went on our “little” trip to SC to visit their sister (who they call Noonah) at her college. (FYI, Lois is a student from South Korea who became part of our family while living with us during her last two years of high school.)
We stayed with a high-school friend of mine while we were down there. Playing with new kids & toys was just about as fun as getting to see Noonah again for my boys.
On the first visit to BJU, the boys fell in love with the water fountains. It was required that we visit the fountains every time after that.
I let Monkey man the camera so I could enjoy catching up with Lois while we walked around campus. His photography always gives me a new inspiration. The angle at which he views the world is so much different than mine.
Sometimes it’s a not-so-attractive nostril shot of his mother on a windy day:
And the next minute, the same 3-foot shooter snaps an attractive picture like this one of Lois’s friend:
(Both of his pictures are uncropped, unedited).
Right after the fountains, the next favorite activity was playing subway or bus stop on Noonah’s bunk.
The driver picked up the passengers, who climbed into the empty bed below for the ride…and then fell out.
On the day Noonah had to go to class, we hung out with my friend and her boys at the Greenville Zoo and playground.
The lion says:
Back at the college, Noonah took her handsome dates up to play some games.
It was a real struggle to keep Bruiser’s voice at a non-obnoxious level. That kid is just so loud!
Sure he looks tranquil here…that’s when I can get a picture of him. All the other times I’m chasing him around trying to get him to walk nicely and stay by me. Oi, that Bruiser!
After picking up some souvenirs from the bookstore and munching on a snack while waiting for Noonah’s last class to finish, Bruiser spotted some miniscule ants on the bricks that held his attention for just long enough.
We tried to get a nice group picture, but that just wasn’t happening. At least I got one of Noonah with each of her brothers.
The loving & sweet one:
And the energetic & crazy one:
We love you Noonah!
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During the recent debates about MPs' pay, the point was made a couple of times that their European equivalents earn more. Now, when Guido has seized on the Chichester story a couple of days after he was condemned here, the defence is being made that this sort of behaviour is fine because the rest of the Europeans all do it. What piffling rubbish.
When Louis XIV was splurging the wealth of the French nation on Versailles, Charles II and James II huddled by the bleak firesides at St James' palace, a suburban semi in comparison. When Mad Ludwig of Bavaria was building his gilded fantasy castles around southern Germany, Victoria ruled smugly from a modest middle class house on the Isle of Wight. When Mussolini stole from the state treasury to build pompous and ridiculous fascist temples across Italy, Stanley Baldwin sprayed his roses for greenfly and donned his slippers to listen to the news on the wireless. When Ceaucescu bludgeoned his starving people to stick another thousand tonnes of pink marble on his vulgar palace, Margaret and Dennis did the washing up in the small flat above the 'shop'.
European politicians are regarding Chichester's embarrassment with amazement; as far as the French, Germans, Italians and Spaniards are concerned, the whole point of politics is the opportunity for corruption; they ask incredulously why else would anyone want to do it?
The point is, we're British. We're different. Our greatest folk hero is someone who serially humiliated those who stole from taxpayers. Chichester's porcine features do nothing but remind us of Guy of Gisborne. If the Queen uses a tupperware cornflakes box on her breakfast table and won't replace a rug until the hole has worn through to the boards beneath, we're not going to stand for some oikish MEP dining off gold plate at the public expense. We expect the Foreign Secretary to turn up at Downing Street in a black cab, and Camden MPs to jump on the No 24 for their daily journey to work. We just do.
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Matthew 6:5-15 "And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward...
This week we'll be reading a variety of Scripture passages that deal with the topic of forgiveness to go along with the teaching on the Back to the Bible program. We're starting with Matthew 6:5-15, which is where we find the Lord's Prayer. If you're like me, you've probably read, sang or recited this prayer a hundred or more times. But have you ever focused on Jesus' specific words about forgiveness in this prayer? Regardless of your answer, let's do that today.
So what do Jesus' words in verse 12 show you about forgiveness? Is there anything about this verse that strikes you in a new way today? Tami
Powered by 4 is all about engaging God's Word and living it out--in community. So if it's encouragement you want or motivation you need, join the discussion on the P4 Blog--a place to weigh in on the daily scripture as well as share thoughts & questions. And, for a more in-depth look at Scripture, tune in to the daily Back to the Bible radio program with Woodrow Kroll. | <urn:uuid:85c7c9f4-2842-4dca-a803-a5ca2bb7d13e> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/powered-by-4/powered-by-4-june-24-2013.html | 2015-07-07T22:07:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375102712.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031822-00231-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962599 | 283 | [
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Find the Latest Resources in Education Today
App of the Week: Digital CitizenshipRead more by Laura Devaney
March 31st, 2014
This app helps students navigate the often-tricky world of digital citizenship
Name: Learning.com Digital Citizenship App
What is it? This app provides students with information and instruction on online safety, ethical use of digital resources, and cyberbullying.
Best for: Middle and high school students and teachers.
Price: Learning.com is enlisting districts to pilot the app for free in mid-April; full availability, including pricing, will be announced in the fall of 2014.
Requirements: iOS or Android
- Provides an easy-to-implement curriculum about online safety, cyberbullying, and the ethical use of digital resources.
- Available on tablet and mobile devices for both iOS and Android.
- Interface, content, lessons, and activities are specifically geared towards middle and high school students.
- The app self-guided, yet ensures that students have a strong grasp of instructional objectives by requiring students to complete a quiz.
- Instructional objectives are aligned to Digital Citizenship Standards, part of the ISTE Standards for Students.
- Helps districts address the online safety and cyberbullying instruction requirement of eRate, and provides reports to show compliance.
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Munroe Falls Historical Society Newsletter
Volume/Issue: 11 / 6
Title: Paper Plant Smoke Again: Without Oil, Sonoco Goes Back to Coal Boiler
Author: Larrick, Bruce
Subject: Sonoco Products Company, Munroe Falls Paper Mill
Annotation: Return to Munroe Falls Historical Society Newsletter list
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Fear Tragic Kansas City Kitty Apartments!!!
Kansas City animal cruelty and yet another local instance of local pet lover insanity . . .
Fox4KC: Animal control officers removes over 100 cats and kittens from area residence
KMBC: KC Pet Project seeks money, supplies to help seized cats
KSHB: Several of the cats are pregnant and others will require medical treatment.
KCTV5: Nearly 150 cats, kittens seized from 3 Northland apartments
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