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There are challenges that tell us how much heart we have, and for centuries, mankind has sought to reach the top of the world and plant his flag at the pinnacle. Today that urge is no less strong, and every day ordinary people attempt mountain ascents, whether it's at Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, or Mt. Hood, Denali, or even Mt. Katahdin in Maine. We praise these climbers, but advise that before you begin your vertical ascent, you not only gear up, but brush up. Here are a few tips for preparing to undertake your own mountain climbing adventure this spring.
Before equipment comes training; nothing will get you in trouble on a mountain quicker than ignorance, no matter how fancy your gear. There are many places that offer mountaineering lessons, and a full-fledged course like the 4-day Introduction to Mountaineering with Mountain Madness can run you about $795 and cover: snow climbing skills; using your ice axe properly; moving while roped up as a group; self-arrest strategy if you find yourself sliding on the snow; crampon use; crevasse rescue ... you get the idea. There's a lot of knowledge that will keep you safe in ways that no equipment can.
What does it take, in terms of equipment, to climb a mountain? Not including those mountains that require technical climbing — the kind with pitons, cams, and belaying ropes — there is some basic gear that you'll need, especially for crossing snow fields or glaciers, and on multi-day ascents.
For a multi-day climb in cold weather, you'll need to carry quite a bit of kit. This endeavor will require a hefty backpack in the 75- to 90-liter range. Modern mountain climbing backpacks have internal frames, keeping the outside smooth and less likely to snag on branches. You'll want a pack that has multiple adjustments to customize its fit and keep most of the weight of your load on your hips. A few external pockets are handy for things like binoculars, sunglasses, and trail mix for use along the way, too. The Alps Mountaineering Denali 5500 ($99.54 via coupon code "SPR2012" with $19.75 s&h, a low by $1) is a great budget mountaineering backpack. It offers internal suspension, a 5,500 cubic-inch capacity, and weighs only 5.25 lbs. with the included rain cover.
You can rent or borrow most mountaineering equipment, but you'll definitely want your own pair of boots, as they are the foundation of your trek. A true mountaineering boot is different from the common hiking boot in one key respect: flex. Mountaineering boots are built on a rigid platform so that crampons can attach securely, while hiking boots flex to accommodate the action of the foot. If you plan to ascend mountains with trails free of snow, your hiking boot will suffice. But if you need to traverse snow fields or glaciers and will be wearing crampons, you should consider a mountaineering boot. A pair like the Lowa Mountain Women's Expert GTX Mountaineering Boots ($359.99 with free shipping, a low by $15; search for "223739" to find them) offer a removable Gore-Tex liner (allowing them to dry out overnight), Vibram outsoles, split leather uppers, and a nylon shank. Plus they weigh less than 4 lbs.
An essential piece of specialized gear for use on snow pack and glaciers is the ice axe. It functions as a cane to help steady yourself along the walk, and can help you pull yourself along on steeper slopes, and also works as an anchor for rope.
Ice axes come in different sizes that range from 50 cm to 75 cm, and a proper one should barely touch the ground when you stand at attention with the axe dangling from your hand. An ice ax has several ends: the pick, adze, and spike, each useful in different situations. On a good axe, the spike (which wears when the axe is used as a cane) is often made of carbon steel and can easily be replaced.
Weight is, of course, a factor in all your mountaineering gear. A standard axe has an aluminum shaft, while more expensive models are built from carbon fiber. It's advisable to favor models with a leash as it can be the difference between having and losing your axe when dropped along a steep slope. The Grivel G1 Ice Axe ($74.90 with free shipping, a low by $1) has a forged carbon steel head, a carbon steel spike, and an aluminum shaft, yet weighs only 468 grams.
Crampons are covers for your boots that contain many hard steel spikes that can dig into compact snow and ice to give you firmer footing. When conditions warrant it, there is no good substitute. In shopping for crampons, note the difference in the ways they attach to the boot; there are three different attachment systems: fixed horizontal, semi-rigid, and strap-on. The most universal style is is the strap-on, which will fit most any shoe or boot and allows for a certain degree of flex.
Most crampons are designed with 10 to 12 steel points spaced around the periphery of the shoe. On more expensive models the front points can be replaced or reconfigured to match different conditions. A solid pair of crampons are the C.A.M.P. USA Stalker Universal Crampons ($99.95 with free shipping, a low by $3), which fit most mountaineering and hiking boots, have tooless adjustments, weigh only 960 grams, and come with a carrying case.
Anyone who has hiked with a walking stick knows how handy it is as a metronome that helps you to pace yourself, keep your balance, and brush away limbs and weeds impeding your progress. It can relieve some of the pressure on your legs on a descent, too. They're so good that many mountaineers double this pleasure by using a pair of trekking poles!
Any good pair of poles are telescopic, allowing you to shorten them on ascent, lengthen them for descent — and make them very short when you need to pack them up. Even better models come with anatomical grips. The tip, which does get a great deal of wear, is usually replaceable. Like ski-poles, some come with baskets, or small collars that fit around the bottom of the poles to keep them from sinking too quickly in mud or snow, but every good pair should also boast a set of straps.
What's more, pricey models even come with shock absorbers. But, as fancy as they can be, poles cannot replace the ice axe as a support on glaciers. But, as long as you're not on solid ice, this Pair of Black Diamond Trail Ergo Cork Poles ($56.95 with free shipping, a low by $13) are great. They're functional, 3-section aluminum poles with an easy-locking mechanism that expands them from 25 to 55 inches. They boast cork handles, long, flex tips, and trekking baskets.
Equipment is an important part of mountaineering, as is education on how to climb the big peaks. What you cannot buy, however, is the adventuring spirit. If yours is high, let it fly and get out on the trail.
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From The Associated Press
Station gets $6.7M award
ALBUQUERQUE — The Department of Transportation has awarded $6.7 million for construction of a new commuter rail station on Montaño Road.
Located in the heart of Albuquerque, the Montaño Intermodal Center will link ABQ Ride buses and the New Mexico Rail Runner Express.
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WSU’s Harmeling frustrated by struggles
PULLMAN – Daven Harmeling has been to the heights and seen the sights. He’s visited the valleys. College basketball holds no surprises for him anymore. And yet, he wants more.
As Washington State’s only fifth-year senior, Harmeling expected this season to be a culmination and continuation, the culmination of a successful collegiate career and the continuation of the Cougars’ recent success.
Neither has happened.
Yet, when asked for one word to describe his final season of college basketball, Harmeling, a 6-foot-7 forward from Grand Junction, Colo., answers: “Challenging.”
“How has it not been challenging?” Harmeling asked. “Everything’s been challenging, from the team standpoint first and foremost, losing a lot of close games.
“Individually it’s been challenging going through the struggles of being fairly successful in the non-conference and then not playing as well as I feel I can play.”
When the Cougars face Arizona tonight at Beasley Coliseum, they’ll take a 14-13 overall and 6-9 Pac-10 record into their final homestand of the season. This comes on the heels of back-to-back, 26-win, NCAA tournament seasons.
Harmeling played a big role in both.
Entering WSU in fall 2004 with Dick Bennett’s turn-it-around class that included Kyle Weaver, currently playing with Oklahoma City in the NBA, and Derrick Low, playing in France, Harmeling contributed as a freshman, sat out with a shoulder injury the next season, then emerged as the Cougars’ most feared outside threat as a redshirt sophomore.
He shot 43 percent from beyond the arc that year and averaged 8.9 points and 2.9 rebounds as WSU returned to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 13 years. The high point was leading the Cougars to an upset of No. 7 Arizona with a career-high 28 points, the low missing a 3-pointer that would have given WSU an NCAA second-round win over Vanderbilt.
Last year his numbers were down, but he still converted 37.6 percent of his 3-pointers and had some huge games, including 18 in the opener against Boise State and 19 in a win at USC.
But Weaver, Low and Robbie Cowgill exhausted their eligibility, leaving Harmeling alone to wave the class’ banner this season.
In the non-conference he seemed poised for a strong offensive season, scoring in double figures in half of the first 10 games. But since a 13-point effort against Montana State, Harmeling has scored a total of 50 points.
“I certainly feel that way,” he said after being asked if a typical Harmeling performance may have made a difference in a game or two. “We’ve had a lot of close games, all these games I’ve shot 0 for 4, 1 for 5. I just feel bad because I’m a fifth-year senior and most of the games in the Pac-10 I feel like I haven’t done anything for the team.
“It’s kind of hard to stomach.”
Harmeling, by his admission, hasn’t shot the ball well since December. As he’s struggled, playing time has diminished. Without time, it’s hard to get out of a slump.
“It’s not like he’s been able to shoot 10, 12 shots a game or get to the line a lot, to get a shooter out of a slump,” WSU coach Tony Bennett said. “The minutes he’s playing and the role he’s playing, it’s usually one to four shots a game. If you’re shooting double-digits shots, you sometimes can find your stroke.”
Cowgill, who still lives in Pullman and attends practice, sees another reason.
“For a guy like Daven, he’s a shot-maker and so he’s best when there are guys around him making plays and he’s able to spot up and make shots,” Cowgill said. “Losing Kyle and Derrick, there’s probably a little less of that.”
Whatever the reason, Harmeling is living with it.
“People probably think I’m walking around, hanging my head, not believing I could make a shot for the rest of my life,” he said. “I’m confident, I’m happy and things outside of basketball are great. I’m fine in terms of who I am. I’m excited about the next thing. There’s always more.”
The next thing is Arizona, against which Harmeling had his best Pac-10 game this season with nine points and six rebounds.
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It's My Birthday Car Magnet
It's her birthday, so let her drive around town in her own little one-car parade. This fun magnet is for the birthday girl who waits all year for the one day that's all about her. It's a unique way to celebrate. | <urn:uuid:25edfca4-e843-40da-9a88-db65a6273c67> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://online.findgift.com/gift-ideas/its-my-birthday-car-magnet-pid-355622/ | 2014-12-19T15:25:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768636.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00011-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939051 | 65 | [
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WATCH: Seth MacFarlane Leads L.A. Gay Men's Chorus in Oscars Opening
If you weren't that crazy about Seth MacFarlane's performance as host of Sunday night's Oscars, you weren't alone; as played by William Shatner, Star Trek‘s James T. Kirk even beamed in from the future to warn Seth of the horrible reviews to come.
Among Seth's worst offenses, as shown by Captain Kirk on a recording during the opening monologue, the gay-friendly Family Guy creator accompanies the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles on a song called "We Saw Your Boobs," a tasteless tribute to exposed celebrity breasts on film. This bit led to one of the funniest and gayest exchanges of the evening:
"Just so you know, I'm not actually a member of that chorus," says MacFarlane. "I was just joining in at the end there."
"Oh, trust me," Shatner replies, "in July 2015 you join the chorus."
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I have had my breasts fondled.
Not by a lover,
but strangers on a bus.
I have been gyrated against
as I navigate the city:
packed like sardines
they are more depraved than animals.
I have had penises flashed at me
whose owners I know not;
they only come with a pair of lust-laced eyes
and a soulless smile.
I can hold my own on issues
about the environment.
I can wax eloquent about literature and music.
I am told, I am the future;
and for a moment I am bent into believing
in the bubble I have bought into.
But every morning,
My ego slouches
as it is castrated at the hands of
I have lost count:
there are too many to fight.
I may be liberated. And educated,
but my fire has been doused.
Neither rhetoric nor review can
bring me solace.
And so, I turn the other cheek.
I have become deaf to the whistles and
blind to the lewdness.
I adjust my dupatta
and look straight ahead
as they line the streets and pucker their mouths.
I am just a woman in India.
Written in response to the gang rape of a 23 year old in the city I call home. I have travelled in white-line private buses with 'Yadav' flaunted on their flank. I have been harassed and fondled, eve-teased and ridiculed. I am part of every woman that gets raped. I want to risk asking why. | <urn:uuid:828c9ced-8051-47f6-a1b4-48ab19fa68e9> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://bumblingbanter.blogspot.com/2012/12/i-am-woman-in-india.html | 2014-12-21T01:09:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770554.119/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00091-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94828 | 338 | [
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As Nook sales slip, Barnes and Noble are expected to report more losses
Posted By Lauren Granger On February 25, 2013 @ 6:20 am In News | Comments Disabled
Things aren’t going too well with Barnes & Noble’s digital aspirations. The book retail giant is expected to announce that revenue from its Nook media division — which includes its Nook ereaders and HD tablets — is even lower than it was this time a year ago.
According to a report by the New York Times , when Barnes & Noble reveals its fiscal third quarter results on Thursday, it will announce that the division will have made less than the projected US$3-billion for the entire year so far. While missing one target may not signal the end of the Nook, it does suggest that the retailer’s digital strategy is not working out — leading some to suggest it will focus more on licensing and less on building gadgets in the future.
A person familiar with the company told the Times that Barnes & Noble may even consider partnerships with Samsung and Microsoft to build its tablets and ereaders in the months to come, and instead shift its strategy to rely more on content deals. It’s a difficult market — the word ‘tablet’ is still all but synonymous with the iPad, as Apple continues to dominate global sales. Samsung is catching up — together, more than half of all tablets sold worldwide are carrying a shiny apple logo or the South Korean manufacturer’s name.
The Nook just doesn’t seem to be grabbing the type of marketshare that its competitors are, even with almost identical specs and a reasonable price tag. Estimates from the International Data Corporation suggest that Barnes & Noble holiday sales fell flat — it shipped just a million devices to secure 1.9% of global tablet marketshare in the last three months of 2012, placing it in fifth place after manufacturers like Apple, Samsung, Amazon and Asus. When you compare it to the same period in 2011, the situation is even more dire: the company held 4.6% of the market then, meaning it lost 27.7% of its marketshare in a year.
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Thor is exactly the high-meets-low middle ground Paramount chose by hiring the eminent, literate Kenneth Branagh to direct a tentpole about a comic book character. Branagh—poised for a career comeback with this hybrid of Shakespearean style and summer spectacle—offers a handsomely-mounted big-screen interpretation of the God of Thunder by way of Marvel Comics, while simultaneously launching born superstar Chris Hemsworth. Fast Five's $86.2 million opening weekend started summer a week earlier than expected, but given the second week dropoff of the franchise's past installments, Thor will command considerable numbers at the box office before settling into a comfortable spot on home video among the middling entries in Marvel's expanding cinematic universe.
Hemsworth plays Thor, heir apparent to the throne of Asgard now held by his magisterial father Odin (Anthony Hopkins), who is preparing to step down after eons of rule. But before he can assume the mantle of leadership, the brash Thor starts a fight with the neighboring Frost Giants. Angered, Odin strips his son of his hammer and banishes him to Earth—forever!—or at least until he learns a little humility. Discovered at the site of a tremendous meteorological anomaly by scientist named Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and her colleagues Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) and Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings), Thor is quickly indoctrinated to the world of mortals. But when Thor's brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) ascends the throne in his stead, Thor is forced to decide between an Earth-bound existence or a fight to take his rightful place as king of Asgard. (No, really, it's a tougher decision than it sounds.)
Of Thor's many virtues, the greatest is its gorgeousness. Working with costume designer Alexandra Byrne, production designer Bo Welch and cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos, Branagh creates an opulent universe of gods and men that will make audience members want to pause the film and focus on all of the little fore—and background details. Meanwhile, the filmmaker takes a page out of the playbook of Ang Lee's Hulk—and the ‘60s Batman television series—with his deliberately cartoonish use of canted angles and comic-book framing in order to unify the "real" and otherworldly worlds via a cohesive, but suitably heightened atmosphere.
The actors find surprisingly sure footing as they straddle the demands of a formal world of gods and the decidedly more colloquial one of mortals. Hemsworth has the heaviest lifting as both the film's authoritative hero and its fish-out-of-water joke, and he nails both the fundamental arrogance of Thor's birthright and his charming naivete to when his arrogance offends. Portman offers Thor a spunky, smart companion with her bombshell scientist. She's not fully three-dimensional, but she's at least two—a bonus in any blockbuster. But as Thor's respective villain and comic relief, Tom Hiddleston and Kat Dennings are the film's secret weapons. Buffoonish as Thor's behavior is on earth, Dennings's character cuts to the heart of the audience's incredulity, while Hiddleston gives Loki a depth and empathy that makes his sinister master plan seem, well, almost understandable.
Unfortunately, the committee-designed script never finds a consistent balance between building characters, delivering action and pushing the story forward. For example, the first action sequence—a showdown between Thor and the Frost Giants—has all of the architectural elements of a breathtaking, auditorium-rousing set piece, but its execution feels perfunctory. Designed solely to showcase Thor's arrogance, its bloodshed is emotionally bloodless. And there's as much talking about what characters have done or will do as there is footage of them actually doing it. The expository monologues are relatively unobtrusive, but the film still leans on retroactive explanations to justify its more dubious choices, like, say, surviving a seemingly deadly wound thanks to a "healing room" mentioned only in passing. Meanwhile, there are conspicuous gaps between scenes later in the film, as if the studio chose unwisely in the Sophie's Choice between a shorter running time and a more satisfying story.
Neither disaster nor triumph, Thor is an aggressively average crowd-pleaser. If there's any significant success here, it's in introducing an otherworldly element into Marvel's movie universe, which to this point has stuck practically to earth and science (or at least "science"). Thor and Loki will return to the screen in 2012 for the all-star The Avengers, where they'll hopefully have something more substantive to do. But as single-serving sustenance made to feed the continuing interest in superhero properties, Thor unfortunately isn't mighty enough to do more than sustain the status quo.
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston,Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, Jaimie Alexander, Stellan Skarsgard, Colm Feore, Joshua Dallas, Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Rene Russo, Clark Gregg
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Screenwriters: Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz and Don Payne
Producer: Kevin Feige
Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence
Running Time: 115 min.
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When 18-year-old Winston Atnip graduates from Westminster Academy in East Memphis on Thursday night, he'll pursue a career in the booming private space industry.
It's an exciting week to walk across the stage for a high school grad who plans to major in aerospace engineering. On Tuesday, SpaceX became the first private company to launch a rocket to the International Space Station.
"It seems like it's the next big thing," said Atnip, who wrote a senior paper about commercial space transportation. "I think it's really going to make a difference and I want to be a part of it."
Atnip of Germantown was one of 21 Memphis-area students announced this week as winners of National Merit college-sponsored scholarships. He'll attend Auburn University.
"It's a great honor," Atnip said of the award.
Of the 21 winners, four attend White Station High School and three are students at Houston High School.
Overall, more than 2,500 recipients of National Merit awards were announced this week. Additional winners of college-sponsored awards will be announced in July, bringing the 2012 total to 4,800.
The students are awarded between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the college that is financing the scholarship.
About 1.5 million students in 22,000 high schools competed for 2012 National Merit Scholarships.
Atnip said he feels his love of reading helped him on the National Merit test. He's currently reading "Anna Karenina" and read "War and Peace" last summer.
"I used to read a lot of young adult fiction and realized I was just wasting my time," Atnip said. "I decided to try to challenge myself."
He plans to participate in Air Force ROTC at Auburn. At Westminster, Atnip ran cross country, played soccer and participated in mock trial, Knowledge Bowl, Youth in Government and choir.
Atnip was named after Winston Churchill. His father Jeff Atnip, a graphic artist, was reading about the legendary British prime minister when his first son was born. Winston's younger brother is named Lincoln.
Winston's mother, Melissa Atnip, a pediatric nurse, said her son's been an avid reader since he was "a little bitty boy."
"The most fun we've had as a family has been reading books out loud and continuing discussions at the supper table," Melissa Atnip said.
She was pleased that Winston won a National Merit award.
"We were really, really grateful for that."
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National Merit Awards
The following Memphis-area students were announced this week as winners of National Merit college-sponsored scholarships. (National Merit will announce additional winners in July.)
Nagasai Adusumilli, White Station High School (University of Alabama)
Nathaniel Barr, Houston High School (University of Alabama)
April Erwin, Collierville High School (University of Southern California)
Matthew Miller, Westminster Academy (University of Alabama)
Tucker Stock, Collierville High (University of Alabama)
Allyson Godinez, White Station High (University of Alabama)
Nivedita Thamizharasan, Cordova High School (Vanderbilt University)
Charles Allenlundy, Houston High (University of Alabama)
Winston Atnip, Westminster Academy (Auburn University)
Sarah Naids, Houston High (Vanderbilt University)
James Alrutz, Christian Brothers High School (Northwestern University)
Daniel Galvin, Memphis University School (University of Southern California)
Kathryn Knapp, White Station High (Scripps College)
William Henry Long, Christian Brothers High (Vanderbilt University)
George Ormseth, Memphis University School (University of Southern California)
Anneliese Sloves, White Station High (Northwestern University)
Jacob Dunlap, Olive Branch High School (University of Alabama)
Jane Case, Lewisburg High School (University of Mississippi)
Daniel Earwood, DeSoto Central High School (Mississippi State University)
Sebastian Galante, Southern Baptist Educational Center (Mississippi State University)
Amy Southern, Southaven High School (Baylor University)
Source: National Merit Scholarship Corp.
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Chris Hayes shares the three most awesomest things on the internet: 1) The Wall Street Journal falls for a Joan Didion parody account. 2) Jay-Z dabbles in performance art for one of his latest tracks, "Picasso Baby" 3) Brian Kilmeade is not making many friends on the basketball court.
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Sacrifice and Self-Martyrdom in Shi‘ite Lebanon
Martin Kramer, “Sacrifice and ‘Self-Martyrdom’ in Shi’ite Lebanon,” Terrorism and Political Violence, vol. 3, no. 3 (Autumn 1991), pp. 30-47. This version, as revised for Martin Kramer, Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1996), pp. 231-43.
On 11 November 1982, an explosion demolished an eight-story building used by the Israeli occupation forces in Tyre in south Lebanon. In the conflagration, seventy-four Israeli soldiers and fourteen others died. The Israeli authorities announced that the blast was the result of an explosion of gas balloons, although there was considerable speculation that the attack had been a deliberate bombing. Indeed, Islamic Jihad claimed credit for the explosion, announcing that it had been produced by time bombs it had infiltrated into the building. Little more was said until 19 May 1985, when Hizbullah’s Islamic Resistance gave a different account, claiming that the building had been demolished by an explosive-laden car driven by a “self-martyr.” The announcement attributed the act to Ahmad Qasir, a fifteen-year-old from Dayr Qanun al-Nahr, a Shi’ite town about ten miles inland from Tyre in south Lebanon.1
It is impossible even now to pronounce definitively on the origin or authorship of the explosion. Yet if the claim of the Islamic Resistance is true, then the Tyre attack of 1982 may be said to have initiated the tactic that made Hizbullah both famous and dreaded. The “self-martyring” operations took the following form: an individual would take the wheel of a truck or car loaded with high explosives, position that vehicle alongside a target, and detonate the explosives while still in the vehicle. In the resulting explosion, the driver was certain to die. The explosion also inflicted damage upon the target, although its effect could not be predicted. The most destructive attack by Islamic Jihad, less than a year later, claimed 241 American lives in Beirut. Other attacks claimed fewer casualties, and sometimes only the life of the driver.
Although Hizbullah devised such attacks, other Lebanese organizations soon sponsored similar operations, including Hizbullah’s Lebanese Shi’ite rival, the Amal movement. The first such operation by Amal took place on 16 June 1984, when a Lebanese car approached an Israeli military patrol in south Lebanon. As the patrol and the car met, the driver of the car detonated high explosives packed in the vehicle, killing himself and wounding a number of Israeli soldiers. Credit for the operation was immediately claimed by the Amal movement, which identified the “self-martyr” as Bilal Fahs, a seventeen-year-old from the town of Jibshit, near Nabatiyya in south Lebanon.
Those who claimed credit for these operations represented them as straightforward acts of war. Hizbullah’s attacks were directed against American, French, and Israeli targets in Lebanon; Amal’s operations targeted Israeli forces in Lebanon. Yet from the outset, this classification posed problems. For while the operations were no doubt conceived as acts of war, and therefore as politically purposeful, their very structure suggested sacrificial rite. The perpetrators went deliberately to their deaths; the planners deliberately sent the perpetrators to their deaths.
There was another paradox. By these acts, Shi’ites seemed united in a struggle against foreign invaders and aggressors. Yet beneath this apparent unity, it seemed as though Hizbullah and Amal had entered into a competition. In their boastful presentations of these attacks, both Hizbullah and Amal sought to amass greater credibility as promoters of sacred struggle — in the number of attacks launched against foreign intruders, in the number of claimed enemy casualties, and in the number of martyrs offered to the cause. Far from displaying unity, the escalating attacks seemed to point to an intensified rivalry within Shi’ite ranks. The two movements, Hizbullah and Amal, were waging a competitive guerrilla war against the Western presence in Beirut and the Israeli presence in south Lebanon.
This struggle culminated in the withdrawal from Lebanon of the United States and France and the retreat of Israel in a narrow zone in south Lebanon. To most observers, this represented an instance of successful and unified resistance against an onerous foreign occupation. Few noticed the evidence of imitative rivalry that drove the sacred war forward, and that channeled the growing antagonism between Hizbullah and Amal into competitive displays of violence against intruders.
The rivalry reached its apex in the “self-martyring” operations that were initiated by Hizbullah and subsequently imitated by Amal. No aspect of the struggle had the same effect upon the Shi’ite community as these operations, which thrilled, fascinated, and repelled at once. This was particularly true of the two operations cited above — one by Hizbullah and one by Amal — which first introduced the technique in the struggle against Israel in south Lebanon. The attacks against the United States and French contingents of the Multinational Force in Beirut were far more deadly, but the anonymity of the bombers, preserved to this day, established a distance between the community and the acts. But the poster visages of the two “self-martyrs” who allegedly brought the method to the south are readily recognized throughout Shi’ite Lebanon. So too is the lore behind the visages. And within that lore are grains of evidence that open new possibilities of interpretation. This is true even if the actual identities of the “self-martyrs” cannot ever be independently established. The following biographical fragments, stripped of embellishment, convey the essential information.
The Short Lives of Two Martyrs
Ahmad Qasir, named by the Islamic Resistance as the youth responsible for the Tyre attack in 1982, was born in 1967. He had an unexceptional childhood. Ahmad left school after fifth grade and went to work for his father, who ran a fruit and vegetable stall in Dayr Qanun al-Nahr. He then went to Saudi Arabia where he worked for three months as a hospital orderly to save money. Upon his return, he began to drive a pick-up truck bought by his father, from which he sold produce. Ahmad would also go regularly to the mosque for prayer, and help to decorate and clean it. Like most local boys, he also enjoyed hunting and the outdoors.
Ahmad did not become a fighter himself, but he fell under the influence of young men who were fighters. He began to run small errands for them, such as smuggling arms and tracking the movements of Israeli patrols while he delivered produce. Then he began to drive the pick-up to Beirut, leaving before sunrise and returning after sunset, without offering explanations. His father, who saw that he was not carrying produce on these trips, assumed he was running weapons. Then one day he borrowed his father’s passport and transferred the registration of his truck to his father’s name. He disappeared a few days before the operation, plunging his family into worry; his father went to Beirut to find him. Perhaps he had been kidnapped, perhaps he was being held by Christian militiamen. His parents learned of Ahmad’s mission only when Hizbullah revealed his “self-martyrdom” two and a half years after the operation.2
Bilal Fahs, who carried out Amal’s first “self-martyring” operation in 1984, was born in 1967 to an impoverished family. His father sold vegetables from a cart, and lived in a one-room cinder-block house on the edge of Jibshit. Bilal’s mother separated from his father a few months after Bilal’s birth; the father remarried and had more children, crowding the house beyond endurance. Bilal spent most of his days in the room of his paternal grandmother. Bilal’s father had not registered his marriage to Bilal’s mother with the religious courts, which have jurisdiction in Lebanon over civil status. Bilal therefore did not receive an identity card, and could not be admitted to school, although he did learn to read and write. He drifted between Jibshit and the southern suburbs of Beirut, where he had aunts and uncles, and he did some occasional fighting on behalf of Amal. Eventually he became a bodyguard to Amal leader Nabih Birri. A year and two months before the operation, he became engaged, but encountered bureaucratic difficulties in legally marrying because his existence was not registered and he had no card to establish his identity. The dynamic young prayer leader in Jibshit tried to help him straighten out the matter with the religious courts, but the outcome of this intervention is unknown.
Bilal’s fiancée later said that during the three months before the operation, she saw a change in Bilal. He spoke at length about the prayer leader of Jibshit, killed allegedly at the hands of the Israelis, and listened to every item of news about the resistance in the south. He carried photographs of martyred fighters, read some Islamic books, and watched war movies and films about Islam. In his last letter, addressed to Amal leader Birri, he wrote: “I will that my brothers in the movement all join hands in the jihad enjoined upon us the Imam-Leader [Khomeini], and that we will persevere however many obstacles there might be, under the leadership of the giant fighter of the jihad, brother Nabih Birri.”3
This evidence, like all evidence, raises at least as many questions as it answers. Like all evidence, it is incomplete. And perhaps it changes nothing. It is still possible to represent these “self-martyring” operations as a straightforward extension of war, and the product of the tactical acumen of their planners. Given the fundamental asymmetry of power between the two Shi’ite movements and their adversaries, the techniques of guerrilla warfare and “self-martyring” operations constituted a tactical response ideally suited to their limited resources. It is also possible to continue to represent them as acts of individual self-sacrifice, inspired by hatred of foreign intruders, religious vision, vengeance, or psychological disorder. Such interpretations have been suggested not only for these operations, but for comparable instances at other times and places in Islamic history.4
But knowing the identities of the “self-martyrs” (or at least their alleged identities) while not banishing other interpretations, does suggest new possibilities. The one that emerges with the least coaxing is the existence of a social dimension of sacrifice in the operations. This dimension is still partly obscured from view, for the biographical accounts completely conceal the identities and methods of those who sponsored the “self-martyrs.” But the moment we become acquainted with Ahmad Qasir and Bilal Fahs, we realize that while “self-martyrs” sacrificed themselves, they were also sacrificed by others. They were selected, prepared, and guided toward their “self-martyrdom,” a fact admitted in a general manner in the announcements published by sponsoring organizations after the operations. The “self-martyring” operations combined self-sacrifice and sacrifice, and blurred the distinction between the two. It is not at all certain that the two elements can now be separated for purposes of analysis. But the sacrificial dimension was most transparent in a simple truth about the operations: the “self-martyrs” were not self-selected, but had to meet criteria that were socially and culturally defined.
The precise criteria for selection were never made explicit, but the selected “self-martyrs” shared a number of characteristics that were valued above others. First, they had to be male. That this constituted a form of selection became evident in 1985, when a Syrian-backed nationalist party launched a wave of similar operations that included several women, among them Shi’ites. The laws of sacred war in Islam do not permit women to serve as combatants, and for Hizbullah or Amal to employ women in these operations would have undermined their character as sacred acts of war. This position was explained by one of Hizbullah’s clerics:
One of the nationalist women asked me, does Islam permit a woman to join in military operations of the resistance to the occupation, and would she go to paradise if she were martyred? The jihad in Islam is forbidden to women except in self-defense and in the absence of men. In the presence of men, the jihad is not permissible for women. My answer to this woman was that her jihad was impermissible regardless of motive or reason. She could not be considered a martyr were she killed, because the view of the law is clear. There can be no martyrdom except in the path of God. That means that every martyr will rise to paradise. I do not deny the value of the nationalist struggle (nidal) against Israel, but the jihad of women is impermissible in the presence of men. I do not deny women of the right to confront the enemy, but we must ask whether all of the nationalist men are gone so that only the women are left, or whether their men have become women and their women have become men.5
This position was confirmed after the “self-martyrdom” of Bilal Fahs, when his fiancée sought to “join him in paradise” by undertaking an operation similar to his. Despite well-publicized efforts, she found no cleric prepared to declare her sacrifice permissible.
Second, the “self-martyrs” had to be old enough to be deemed individually responsible for their acts, yet too young to have incurred the obligations of marriage. Their sacrifice could not be left open to the criticism that it had infringed upon the rights of parents or the claims of wives and children, from whom the planning of the act would have to be concealed. On the one hand, this meant that persons below a certain age could not be recruited. One of Hizbullah’s clerics, asked whether young persons could fight without permission of parents, answered: “When the plan establishes the necessity of their going out to fight, then going out is obligatory, and the agreement of the two parents is not necessary. If their going out is not necessary in the framework of the plan, then they must consult with the two parents.”6Since “self-martyrdom” did not demonstrably require a minor for operational purposes, and no parent would knowingly consent to participation of a son in such an operation, the employment of minors was virtually forbidden. But given the fact that death was assured in such operations, the same ban was extended to husbands and fathers. The sacred war of which the “self-martyring” operations were a part did include married men with families, some of whom were killed. But the fact of selection, by which the “self-martyring” operations passed into sacrificial acts, required more stringent limits. Given the early age of marriage in Lebanese Shi’ite society, this placed a low ceiling on the age of possible candidates. The remaining window of opportunity was correspondingly small. Ahmad Qasir at 15 still lived at home, and was almost too dependent to qualify; Bilal Fahs at 17 was already engaged to be married, and almost too attached to qualify.
Third, the “self-martyr” could have no ties to anyone who might consider himself socially responsible for avenging the death against its sponsors, which would be conceivable were the operation to fail tactically. Ahmad Qasir had no older brother, while Bilal Fahs was the sole product of a dissolved marriage without legal standing, and lived as an outcast. The lack of fundamental social ties — to responsible parents, dependent wives and children, avenging brothers — rendered both of these “self-martyrs” acceptable candidates for operations.
Finally, those selected for “self-martyrdom” had to have a minimal measure of pious intent, and no traits understood in surrounding society as signs of emotional disorder. This was usually demonstrated in a published will and the testimony of parents and friends. While the “self-martyr” obviously would have to be someone susceptible to suggestion, he could not be suicidal. If he were, his death would smack of exploitation, not devotion.
Selection of the “self-martyr,” which is done secretly but on behalf of all, is thus a social and cultural selection. When the “self-martyring” operations are understood as collective rather than individual acts — as sacrificial acts — the dynamic of sacrificial competition becomes clear. That competition took place on the level of sponsorship, as Hizbullah and Amal sought to demonstrate their capacity for mobilizing the many resources necessary for the operations. The operations, far from demonstrating Shi’ite unity, proved to be a powerful indicator that a once-united community was rapidly heading toward civil war.
What were the origins of this escalating competition? Before Hizbullah’s appearance, virtually all of Lebanon’s Shi’ites identified with Amal, subsuming their profound differences under the mantle of a charismatic leader, Sayyid Musa al-Sadr. To carve a niche for itself, Hizbullah had worked upon those differences, splitting families, neighborhoods, villages and towns along existing lines, and infusing ideas into existing rivalries and feuds. Hizbullah raced through Lebanon like a hundred rivers along the dry beds of division that break the Shi’ite landscape of Lebanon. The potential for reciprocal violence was enhanced by the influx of arms, provided to Amal by Syria and to Hizbullah by Iran. On more and more occasions, in local settings, small-scale violence erupted, which took the form of gunfire and kidnapping between Amal and Hizbullah.
For the first five years of Hizbullah’s growth, that violence was contained and conflagration avoided. The clashes remained expressions of endemic local feuding, which sought shelter in the distinction between Amal and Hizbullah. The much more consistent element in the relationship between the fraternal movements was imitative rivalry. They competed in professing their fealty to Khomeini, in distributing aid, in organizing marches, and in covering walls with posters. But as the rivalry intensified, the pursuit of a balance became ever more fundamental to the preservation of peace — and ever more difficult to achieve. When Hizbullah took the dramatic and unprecedented step of launching “self-martyring” operations, Amal had no choice but to do the same. The sacrifice of Ahmad Qasir (and the still unnamed “self-martyr” of Islamic Jihad who did a comparable operation a year later) sealed the fate of Bilal Fahs. Amal, too, would have to recruit and dispatch “self-martyrs.”
It was at this point that the (obligatory) sacred war began to fade at its edges into (forbidden) sacrificial rite. Perhaps the first casualty of the competition was operational planning, which became less thorough as Hizbullah and Amal (soon joined by leftist and Syrian-sponsored parties) worked to outbid one another in the frequency of their operations. The sacrifice was no longer expected to obtain immediate results; “self-martyrdom” was presented increasingly as its own reward. Thus, for the Amal movement which sent Bilal Fahs to his death, the fact that he killed no one did not detract from the value of his sacrifice as a counter-point to the sacrifice of Ahmad Qasir. The monument which Amal erected to Bilal served the double function of commemorating the “self-martyr” and reminding the community that his sponsors commanded the resolve and resources to sacrifice him for the good of all.7
At the same time, Hizbullah and Amal sought to elevate the standard of the sacrificial “self-martyrs,” by selecting slightly older youths who had more thorough religious and ideological commitment, and who had demonstrated the depth of their commitment by past participation in conventional operations. One such instance was the bombing organized by Hizbullah on August 19, 1988, which sacrificed a most promising cadre, Haytham Subhi Dabbuq, from Tyre. Dabbuq was twenty at the time of his operation. He had joined Hizbullah’s Islamic Resistance at the age of fourteen, later participated in conventional operations, and once had been wounded. After graduating high school in 1986, he visited Iran, where he underwent religious and advanced military training.8 From the point of view of selection, Dabbuq was the ideal “self-martyr.” From a military standpoint, it was unfortunate that his operation failed to kill any Israelis. But his death had its own redemptive quality and demonstrated Hizbullah’s willingness to sacrifice its most promising young recruits. As purer “self-martyrs” were offered for fewer immediate results, the measure of sacred war in the operations diminished, and that of sacrifice increased.
Yet the lives of the “self-martyrs” were a small price to pay for the Shi’ite peace. For these operations served to forestall the outbreak of fratricidal violence from within. The competitive cycle of sacrifice, done in the name of Islam, averted a competitive cycle of violence among adherents of Islam, between Hizbullah and Amal. The jihad, while liberating the believers from foreign intruders, also postponed the incipient fitna — the destructive strife that threatened Lebanon’s Shi’ite community from within.
Rulings For and Against
Lebanon’s Shi’ite clerics provided the legitimation of this balancing mechanism. They assured the “self-martyr” and his sponsors that his sacrifice enjoyed the highest sanction. According to one of Hizbullah’s leading clerics,
those who blew up the [U.S.] Marines headquarters and the Israeli military governate in Tyre [Ahmad Qasir] did not martyr themselves in accord with a decision by a political party or movement. They martyred themselves because the Imam Khomeini permitted them to do so. They saw nothing before them but God, and they defeated Israel and America for God. It was the Imam of the Nation [Khomeini] who showed them this path and instilled this spirit in them.9
In addition to the role of the clerics in reassuring the “self-martyrs” themselves, the support of the community depended largely upon the verdict of clerics on the admissibility of the operations. And since Hizbullah and Amal entered the sacrificial competition also to win a larger share of Shi’ite allegiances, both valued the sanction of the clerics. It was widely understood that the “self-martyring” operations were religious acts, but only in an emotional sense. Religious feeling had helped to generate them, but in a raw and dangerous form with strong sacrificial overtones. They could be made Islamic only by sanctification, which takes the form of reconciliation between the act and abstract principle, done by those qualified to interpret sacred law.
The Shi’ite clerics had no difficulty in urging armed resistance to perceived enemies, and indeed did everything in their power to encourage it. They achieved this, at least in part, by the transference of Shi’ite anguish from self to other. That anguish found its most vivid ritual expression on Ashura, the annual Shi’ite day of mourning for the seventh-century martyrdom of the Imam Husayn at Karbala. There were some whose zeal for ritual self-flagellation on Ashura landed them in hospital, especially in Nabatiyya in the South, where the practice had the longest tradition in Lebanon. Hizbullah’s spiritual mentor, Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, sought to transform such self-immolation into the immolation of others, when he called upon self-flagellants to desist from the practice and join the resistance against Israel:
Do you want to suffer with Husayn? Then the setting is ready: the Karbala of the South. You can be wounded and inflict wounds, kill and be killed, and feel the spiritual joy that Husayn lived when he accepted the blood of his son, and the spiritual joy of Husayn when he accepted his own blood and wounds. The believing resisters in the border zone are the true self-flagellants, not the self-flagellants of Nabatiyya. Those who flog themselves with swords, they are our fighting youth. Those who are detained in [the Israeli detention camp in] al-Khiyam, arrested by Israel in the region of Bint Jubayl, they are the ones who feel the suffering of Husayn and Zaynab. Those who suffer beatings on their chests and heads in a way that liberates, these are the ones who mark Ashura, in their prison cells.10
This kind of argument abolished a vital distinction, transforming struggle against the self — the ritual purpose of self-flagellation — into struggle against the other. And following the initial successes of the “self-martyrdom” operations, Shi’ite clerics were inclined to do the same, this time abolishing the distinction between death at the hands of others and death at one’s own hands. Fadlallah argued that if the aim of one who destroyed himself in such an operation “is to have a political impact on an enemy whom it is impossible to fight by conventional means, then his sacrifice can be part of a jihad. Such an undertaking differs little from that of a soldier who fights and knows that in the end he will be killed. The two situations lead to death; except that one fits in with the conventional procedures of war, and the other does not11 In another formulation, he determined that “the Muslims believe that you struggle by transforming yourself into a living bomb like you struggle with a gun in your hand. There is no difference between dying with a gun in your hand or exploding yourself.”12 “What is the difference between setting out for battle knowing you will die after killing ten [of the enemy], and setting out to the field to kill ten and knowing you will die while killing them?”13 There could be no more thorough endorsement of a technique that seemed to border two forbidden acts: sacrifice and suicide.
Yet the ratio of ten to one could not be guaranteed, and when it dropped precipitously, the sacrificial dimension of the operations came into clearer focus. At that point, although operations continued to contribute to the inner equilibrium of the community, they lost their value as acts of war. On that score, some Shi’ite clerics began to reason that the “self-martyring” operations had lost their Islamic justification. A failed military tactic now threatened to degenerate into a purely sacrificial rite. And when it appeared more sinful than saintly, it had to be stopped.
The Shi’ite clerics therefore issued a conditional ban. According to Fadlallah, “we believe that self-martyring operations should only be carried out if they can bring about a political or military change in proportion to the passions that incite a person to make of his body an explosive bomb.” He deemed past operations against Israeli forces “successful in that they significantly harmed the Israelis. But the present circumstances do not favor such operations anymore, and attacks that only inflict limited casualties (on the enemy) and destroy one building should not be encouraged, if the price is the death of the person who carries them out.14 “The self-martyring operation is not permitted unless it can convulse the enemy. The believer cannot blow himself up unless the results will equal or exceed the [loss of the] soul of the believer. Self-martyring operations are not fatal accidents but legal obligations governed by rules, and the believers cannot transgress the rules of God.”15
This ruling undermined the sacrificial cycle that had bound up Hizbullah and Amal in a competitive race to produce “self-martyrs.” A few more operations were launched, at very wide intervals of time. But the field was largely left to smaller factions, whose sponsorship of additional operations did not threaten either Hizbullah or Amal.
Yet the de-escalation of the sacrificial cycle between Hizbullah and Amal did not end their fraternal rivalry. Indeed, when the cycle was broken, the violence turned inward upon Lebanon’s Shi’ites, in the form of a fratricidal war.
On one morning in January 1989, several Shi’ite villages in the area known as the “Apple Region” of south Lebanon became a killing ground. In the early hours before dawn, a group of several hundred Hizbullah fighters, with photographs of Khomeini affixed to their chests, entered the villages by surprise. But this time their targets were not Israelis. Instead they sought out sleeping adherents of the rival Amal movement. In the darkness of the night, a massacre ensued. Some of the victims were shot; others had their throats cut. In a few instances, the killing engulfed the families of the victims. This was later confirmed when photographers and cameramen entered the villages. One villager, choking back tears and standing over a pool of blood in his garden, told of how two masked men of Hizbullah had seized a member of Amal and slaughtered him “like a sheep.” Clerics in Beirut had to issue rulings prohibiting the deliberate mutilation of bodies.
“The day will never come when Shi’ites fight one another,” Fadlallah had declared only a year earlier. Those who saw the rivalry and predicted fighting did not understand the Shi’ite community, he said. It had multiple mechanisms of mediation, and a strong taboo against shedding Shi’ite blood.16 Was he sure Hizbullah and Amal would not fight? “I’m one hundred percent sure,” he had replied.17 Not only was Fadlallah wrong. His own endorsement of the “self-martyring” operations had helped to make a fatal suggestion: that one Muslim might legitimately consign another to death in the name of Islam.
For two years, Lebanon’s Shi’ite community descended into fitna — internal strife, the antithesis of sacred war, pitting brother against brother. As Israel withdrew to a narrow belt in south Lebanon, Hizbullah and Amal contested the ground they had liberated, and the conflict that had always existed between them threatened to rise up and gut the Shi’ite community itself. The fratricide began in early 1988. Then came assassinations: one of Hizbullah’s clerics was shot dead in an ambush done by Amal, two of Amal’s foremost leaders in the South were gunned down in their car by Hizbullah. The weekly newspapers of both movements repeatedly published photographs of the bullet-torn bodies of the slain leaders. For sheer ferocity, these recurrent clashes matched any conflict between militias from different confessional communities. Clerics in the community appealed for an end to the conflict and banned the killing of Muslims by Muslims, but to no avail.
The revolution in Lebanese Shi’ism now threatened not the world, but the Shi’ites themselves. The violence was perhaps that same violence which attended the birth of Shi’ism. It had been suppressed and subsumed, until all that remained was the sacrifice of tears, shed once a year for the martyrdom of the Imam Husayn. But by the 1980s, that violence had broken free of the bonds of pious restraint. Self-repentance yielded to self-flagellation, then to sacred war and individual “self-martyrdom.” With the passage to fratricide, some in Lebanon’s Shi’ite community shed the last restraint.
The successive rounds of bitter fighting ended only after a thousand Shi’ites had died. Syria and Iran negotiated a truce in late 1990, and it has held. But the scars remain. In 1993, Fadlallah claimed that “extensive cooperation and coordination” had been established between the Hizbullah and Amal. But he also admitted that “some time is needed before all the residual negative sentiments that surfaced due to the conflict can be erased.”18 Vengeance was the deepest of these “residual negative sentiments,” and it became the ever-present shadow of the Shi’ites. It remained to be seen whether the Shi’ites of Lebanon would ever again be completely free of the temptations of self-immolation, and the threat of self-destruction.
1Ahmad Qasir’s identity was first revealed in Hizballah’s weekly newspaper, Al-Ahd (Beirut) 24 May 1985.
2The biographical information is drawn on the obituaries reproduced in Al-Amaliyyat al-istishhadiyya: watha’iq wa-suwar: al-muqawama al-wataniyya al-lubnaniyya, 1982-1985 ([Damascus]: Al-Markaz al-arabi lil-ma’lumat, ), 22-35.
3Details on Fahs and photographs, Al-Amaliyyat al-istishhadiyya, 68-81.
4See Stephen Frederic Dale, “Religious Suicide in Islamic Asia: Anticolonial Terrorism in India, Indonesia, and the Philippines,” Journal of Conflict Resolution (Beverly Hills) 32, no. 1 (March 1988): 37-59.
5Interview with Shaykh Abd al-Karim Ubayd, Al-Safir (Beirut), 28 July 1986.
6Al-Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, Al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya: Afaq wa-tatallu’at (Beirut: Lajnat Masjid al-Imam al-Rida, ), 118.
7A photograph of this monument appears in the Lebanese weekly Nouveau Magazine, 17 June 1989, p. 60.
8Dabbuq’s obituary in Al-Ahd, 9 September 1988.
9Speech by Sayyid Ibrahim al-Amin, Al-Ahd, 23 January 1987.
10Speech by Fadlallah, Al-Nahar (Beirut), 27 September 1985.
11Interview with Fadlallah, Politique internationale, no. 29 (autumn 1985), 268.
12Interview with Fadlallah, Middle East Insight (Washington) 4, no. 2 (June-July 1985), 10-11.
13Al-Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, Al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya fil-janub wal-Biqa al-Gharbi wa-Rashayya: tatallu’at wa-afaq; Nass al-muhadara allati alqaha samahat al-allama al-mujahid al-Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah fi kulliyat idarat al-a’mal wal-iqtisad al-far’ al-awwal, bi-ta’rikh 19 Shawwal 1404 al-muwafiq 18 Tammuz 1984 (n.p., n.d.), p. 18.
14Interview with Fadlallah, Monday Morning (Beirut), 16 December 1985. Fadlallah specifically mentioned the operation undertaken by Ahmad Qasir in Tyre, as well as a later operation near Metulla, as “successful.”
15Speech by Fadlallah, Al-Nahar, 14 May 1985.
16Fadlallah interview, Al-Nahar al-arabi wal-duwali, 21 February 1988.
17Fadlallah interview, Nouveau Magazine, 27 February 1988.
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If you've been following what I have posted, then obviously this is part 2 of the whole thing. If you're the kind who just want to read up on my personal experience on it, then you're at the right page. The previous post was kind of a long preface to the whole thing. Anyway...
Originally I did not know what I was getting into. This was going to be my first 3rd-party unlicensed product purchased. Meaning, I never knew if there was any particular problem, quirks, issues, and what-have-you. Basically, I was flying blind. I do not know if they are reputable. I do not know if there are quality issues. I do not know if it is worth the price. So it was a gamble.
When I noticed that my order has shipped out, I kept a close eye on it as it rode on a FedEx truck from TFSource over to the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. As soon as I saw the FedEx truck pull up, I ran out the door to greet the man. Finally, and at long last.
I carefully cut the tape like any neat freak would have to open it up. I had to remove brown crumpled paper padding, foam lining, and a cardboard layer just to remove the product from the box. Yes, TFSource packaged it like that. I dare any other companies to try to do the same.
The gift set came with the toys mostly arranged so that you can piece them together to form Giant right on the spot. This is a nice setup to have. But it is also not a good start. The instructions booklet that came with it showed steps for changing from vehicle to robot and from vehicle to component (for Giant assembly). So it was a bit tricky trying to reverse the steps to get it back to vehicle mode.
Each vehicle mode is designed very nicely. The design on having the vehicles look like actual construction machines is surprisingly good for a 3rd-party design. The build constructions feels solid and the paint application looks very good. As with any toy design, where there is parts the toys excel in, there needs to be a compromise in another. Some parts do not turn, rotate, or move. Yet, I cannot find myself to fault Maketoys for doing that. There is probably one or two places within the whole set that may not entirely fit snugly or correctly. But given the amount of money invested into this, I dare not try to force it in. Still, it is a minor issue and exists only on the dump truck toy in vehicle mode.
Changing them from vehicle to robot mode proved to be an interesting challenge. But, again, having invested so much in getting this toy set, I resorted to using the instructions booklet to ensure that what I am doing does not mean I'll end up breaking a piece off. Of the six that I have handled, the most complex and intricate is perhaps the front-end loader, aka "Scrapper." His transformation steps was probably the most tricky of them all. The most stiff is definitely the mobile crane, aka "Hook." Trying to get the arms to properly set and become arms proved to be the most stiff. On that, I can see that they could use a bit of improvement on it and make it less stiff. Overall, each piece are molded in a frighteningly precise specification that makes Hasbro's toy release feel like Lego bricks. Granted, these are high quality toys designed by a 3rd party. And they probably have that intention of being as high of a quality as possible. Still, the way it is all designed gives you the feeling that there is little room for error. It's a minor thing. Such a flaw is probably a 0.1 or 0.2 point deduction out of 10 or 5.
Piecing each figure together to form Giant is an experience on its own. Where to start is often a question one will ask. I think for most, they start at the legs/feet. Getting them set is simple, at least for Mixer. Front Loader though is a different story. One has to arrange the back heel so that it is aligned correctly. It is then held together by the engine that is popped off. Setting up Dump Truck was fairly easy, as I have already seen how it looks when I first took it out of the box. Changing him into the lower-torso and hip means changing him partially into robot mode. Once that is done, connecting him to Front Loader and Mixer was simple. The locking mechanism is probably the best way of knowing that the connection is secure. I welcome that any day as this makes assembling a gestalt a more fulfilling experience. The next step I took is to get Mobile Crane set to become the upper torso/chest and head. The head is pre-connected. Revealing it is a matter of sliding the head out and flipping the "cap" up. It is there I experience what others have noted on their review of Mobile Crane: the head does not look up well. I am not entirely sure if this is a fault or if this is by design. Thus I do not know if a point deduction is warranted. But I'll leave it as it is for the time being. Connecting Mobile Crane to Dump Truck to complete the body is a simple matter of aligning the slots up and letting the locking mechanism hold it in place. For Excavator and Bulldozer, setting them up is a simple matter of pulling out part of the arm piece, snapping into place, and rotating the pegs appropriately. One has to be careful on connecting the forearms to the vehicle itself, it can be a bit tricky trying to pull them apart and reorienting it. While preview photos of Giants never showed this, the hands are designed with individual fingers. However, the fingers themselves are static and curled. Still, this is a nice thing to have for a big piece like this. Connecting each arms means plugging the peg into Mobile Crane which has a locking mechanism there too. Once both arms are connected, the Giant figure is complete, more or less.
In the short time that I have tinkered with Giant and each individual toy itself, I find the overall experience to be great, much to my surprise. I did not know what to expect even though I have looked at the same photos so many times. Yet it never ceases to amaze me just how awesome it looks. Yes, it is factually noted that he is smaller than TFC Toys' Hercules. But the size difference is rather minor to be honest. And the savings you get for choosing Maketoys' version over TFC Toys' is immense. Those with smaller and tighter wallets may opt for Maketoys' version for their Devastator fix.
The common question to be asked is... "Is it worth it?" That's something I cannot honestly answer. This is my first 3rd-party toy purchase. And it may not be my last either. The build quality is definitely up there. I can say with confidence that it is superior to both Hasbro and Takara-Tomy. Often if I were to buy official Transformers toys, I tend to get the ones released and offered by Takara-Tomy. It is due to the fact that the mold quality and paint application quality is superior to the ones released by Hasbro. Still, it is a very heavy investment. The most I can every say with regards to this is to contemplate over it heavily. Never be hasty in ordering right off the bat, unless you're easily raking in dough.
The next common question is perhaps "Am I happy with this purchase?" I'll say yes to that. Yes it hit the wallet hard. And I did gave some serious thoughts when I was browsing through several photos. Yet I heard no news from neither Hasbro nor Takara-Tomy about having a reimagined Constructicons. Something has got to give. So I went with this. Yet at the same time, I cannot help but wonder... Even if Takara-Tomy or Hasbro were to design and produce a reimagined Constructicons, can it ever live up to the quality of design that both TFC Toys and Maketoys produced? Or more importantly, can it ever match the build quality that both of these 3rd-party companies put out? I've long supported Takara-Tomy, especially in their Masterpiece line and their defunct Binal-Tech line of toys. But the current generation of toys being produced now is mostly derived from the Fall of Cybertron game and the Transformers Prime TV series. For the time being, there is virtually nothing for me to look at. I guess you could say that they created the void in which TFC Toys and Maketoys have filled.
Friday, October 12, 2012
You could say that there are two or three types of Transformers fans, all of which grew up in a certain period or era. The first is, of course, the Generation 1 era. Fans of this era remember the old days of watching the series on TV, seeing the movie on the big screen or on home video, and the feeling we got when we saw Optimus Prime died. Back then, both Prime and Megatron were a truck and a Walther P38 pistol respectively. It was also the time when we saw a team of smaller robots combine to form a bigger and more powerful robot. And thus, the gestalt was born.
The next in the era and fans were the Beast Wars, Machines, and imported anime series. These include the entire Beast Wars CG series as well as the horrible follow-up Beast Machines. The Japan-only Beast Wars II and Neo anime series are within this realm. What followed were Robots in Disguise, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron, series that were originally done in Japan and brought over to the US for airing. Their Japanese name counterparts were Car Robot, Micron Densetsu, Super Link, and Galaxy Force in the same order.
Then there's the Michael Bay Transformers -- 3 movies that spawned a new line of toys, designs, as well as terrible writing, acting, and creative input. There are those who like it. But there are those, like me, who despise it.
But that's the basic gist of it, for the different types of Transformers fans out there. So why the explanation of all that? Because there are those who do not know it. There are people out there who know next to nothing about the whole Transformers series and culture, and know next to nothing about who is who and what they change into. But that is okay. It helps them to realize that the Transformers name is much bigger than just the three shoddy movies that Michael Bay put out.
While the toy itself was over 20 years old, it would take Takara-Tomy, the Japanese company that handles the release of Transformers toys (and often times, the design as well), just as long to reissue the very toy that boosted the success of the Transformers line. However, times have changed since its initial release. The toys themselves were simple, often bulky, and very limited in articulations. But that is to be expected for a toy that was designed, produced, and released 20+ years ago.
Now, there has been some interesting toy releases since then prior to reissued Devastator. They were named as Generations in America and Henkei in Japan. They featured toys reimagined using today's more modern vehicle or toy designs. One of the first two to come out were, obviously, Optimus Prime and Megatron. Interestingly enough, the release of Megatron marks the first time he turns into a pistol/gun in years. This gave fans some ideas as to what they would like to see next. One of the obvious request is the Constructicons. But ever since the first set of Generations toys came out, there has been no words or news about ever a Constructicons set being planned or designed for that matter. And thus, the idea falls upon two 3rd-party companies, who seeks to unleash their creativity ideas onto the world in two ways.
TFC Toys settled on their design based on the concept and idea of Generations reimagining. However, part of the design process was partially eliminated due to the on-going comic book that featured the Constructicons. Their Devastator would then be named Hercules and it would be their tribute and homage to the Constructicons team. On the other end of the spectrum, Maketoys sought a different design process. Their design idea is based on the Generation 1 toys. Thus the vehicles and combined form will appear the most familiar. And they would named their combined form as simply... Giant.
The result would be a set of unlicensed 3rd-party toys that both Takara-Tomy and Hasbro never ventured into. They had ample amount of time to design, produce, and release it. But we never saw nor heard of anything with regards to it. In the end, it's a shame that neither companies would take that step to do something as big as this.
Both TFC Toys and Maketoys differ in many ways for their Constructicons homage. The most obvious is in size and in price. At the time of composing this, individual piece for TFC Toys' Hercules set costs just over US$100. The total expense would result in a set weighing in over US$600. For many, this is a hard price to swallow. On the other end, Maketoys' Giant originally came in three packages that featured two pieces of the set. Each package were released with a price of around US$120 each. The whole set would total about US$360, significantly less than TFC Toys' offering.
Originally, Maketoys' Giant series were released in yellow color. This is perhaps homage to the Generation 2 colors that were released during the decline of Transformers' popularity. Words of a green color variant came about and would be released as a complete gift set, featuring all 6 pieces, plus toy design updates. I jumped on it. Granted, this is a hell of an expensive toy offering. But it is a lot lighter on the wallet than TFC Toys' asking price. The wait was long. But the extended wait that I had to endure helped alleviate the harsh hit on the wallet.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Having played Battlefield 3 since its release, I've come to the point where I cannot focus on it any more. On July, I hit a snag. The fan on my video card has stopped working. The blades won't spin any more and thus I had to send it to XFX to have it serviced. However, it took XFX longer than I anticipated and I was out of the loop for nearly a month. By the time I have the card back, I was so rusty and so out of touch that my skills (along with my knife) has dulled. Like any gamers, we tend to move on to a different game or fire up an oldie and relive those days. For me, I am in the process of moving on to a different game: Guild Wars 2. Having pre-ordered the game and getting the perks, I will be starting my play on August 25th, while others who did not have those perks will start on August 28th.
This is pretty much as anyone would have guessed and assumed. So to get to the point, and for those who have known me and have played with me in the past, thank you all for the awesome nights. Thank to the handful of you who I have played against and with, along with the shiny dogtags that you have given me. I am retiring the knife and its brother, the ACB-90.
In my stabbing journey, I have managed to claw my way up the world rankings. Keeping up with the rest was a tad rough. But ever since hitting that snag, I have slowed down and pretty much stopped. I have achieved what I have already sought after, to be within the top 500 in the world. And with that, I can walk away proud for that achievement, even for a fleeting moment. I can no longer be bothered to step back in, actively, to climb my way back up the rankings and doing it all over again. It is not worth the time nor should I spend that much time doing so. I have already invested over 600 hours, meticulously restricting my sessions to 2-3 hours per night. I have done most of what I wanted to do. I have unlocked most of what I wanted. I have earned most of what I wanted. However, the one thing that the game has failed to do is keep me in. With the way our current PC gaming system works, there is absolutely nothing worthwhile that can prolong the life of this game. There is no mod tool to create modifications to the original game. There is no map creation tool to generate new maps. There is no system in place that can help people play on new maps created by the PC gaming community. And then there's Origin.
There are still numerous things that can be done to save the game, to fix the game, to prolong the game. The community has given ideas, suggestions, and their thoughts on how to improve Battlefield 3. Yet all we got in return is silence and more methods for which DICE and EA can generate more revenues. We are being ripped off time and time again. And I can say without a shadow of a doubt that I will not bother to purchase Battlefield 4.
Anyway, this is pretty much it... There will be rare times where I play BF3. But in general, my knife is officially retired.
Thursday, July 05, 2012
In my rush to get the pictures done, I didn't take enough time to really set up a decent backdrop. So the whole quality seems more half-baked than I'd like. Still, because of the LED lighting that Seven Swords can have, lighting is a bit of a tricky issue. In order to better bring out the LED lightings that illuminate the eyes as well as the GN drives on the shoulders, I turned off the camera's flash entirely. The result is that the picture would end up looking grainier than normal because of higher ISO speed used. Well, nothing much can be done other than retake the pictures another time. However, I do not know when I'll ever come around to doing that. If I ever get a proper setup for snapping pictures of my Gundam model, amongst other items that I'd love to snap photos of, I may revisit it. Until then, this is perhaps as good as it gets.
I haven't touched Gundam AGE-1 Normal yet since receiving it. And for the time being, it seems I'll be suspending my Gundam model collection. I have viewed the designs for the Gundams in AGE and none of them piqued my interest. Granted, the design was more intended for the children as a way to get them into the whole Gundam franchise as well as model, the whole series itself seems uninteresting. Since Bandai's main Gundam focus is now on the AGE line, it means that there will be next to nothing new for designs. Since I started the Gundam model hobby based on designs, this will come as a bit of a relief to the wallet. With today's economic struggles, the dollar/yen exchange rate is an absolute mess. I suppose this is, in a way, a double-win for me.
Anyway, I finally got this piece out of the way. Now if I can just get around to piecing together AGE-1 Normal...
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Recently, I just ordered myself my first smartphone -- a Samsung Galaxy S III (or S3 for short). I've long held off on getting one because the smartphone market has been pretty fragmented and uninteresting. That was until the S3 came along. Here and there, I've looked into reviews and spec sheets over each smartphone. I've looked through a lot of them. And a lot of them had some sort of deficiency that detracted me from getting one. Added to that is the fact that getting a phone w/o any ties would cost an arm and a leg. So I held off on getting one.
I've watched the Android market explode and become as big as it is today. Tons of Android phones with varying degree of features, and OS versions, as well as power, capabilities, and battery life. You get all that for less than what most people would pay for an iPhone. But that's the thing. Granted, iPhone is perhaps one of the biggest selling smartphone identity since the Blackberry. In fact, it essentially steamrolled over the Blackberry like Judge Doom. But ever since the Android came into the market, things has been tricky yet the OS slowly got better and better, along with the hardware too. The hardware got better and it pulled even a GPU company into diving into the mobile device market with their own SoC (System on Chip). Today, Android is competing head to head with iOS on even grounds. The market is basically split in two. Things were not as shakey as they were back then for Android. And both are viable platforms for which to make apps on.
When Battlefield 3 came out, you had two major smartphone platform -- iOS and Android. While it was initially disappointing to see that there's an app for the iOS platform, I figured it was a matter of time before an Android version would be released.
It's been 8 months since then. And what do we have? Nothing. Google had its I/O conference and they unveiled Android 4.1, along with the Nexus 7 tablet. Android is a market that will continue to grow and compete head-on with Apple and their iOS platform. It only makes sense to have an app for both platform so you don't alienate your audience when it comes to a mobile app. To not have an Android app after so many months is simply unacceptable. In fact, it's downright deplorable.
So how long would it take to really have an official Android app for Battlelog? It certainly should not be 8 months, if not 6. To leave so many people out in the cold without an app, it does not make Battlelog a more social experience. It's akin to making Battlelog an Apple experience. It's not magical to me. It's almost discriminatory.
I'm nearing the edge of my playing time for Battlefield 3. There's a certain game slated for a late August release. I have a feeling I won't have much time to continue supporting my "top 400" world ranking for knife kills. Put simply, I might have to hang up my knife and let it retire. | <urn:uuid:9232d552-5e4c-4f03-968f-7448d6c8c177> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://sixshot.blogspot.com/ | 2016-04-29T01:51:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860110356.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161510-00089-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98023 | 4,672 | [
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If you were planning to show off your pre-ordered Pebble smartwatch to friends and family by September, you’d better have a back-up plan. The shipment for Kickstarter’s golden project has been pushed back from its initial September date.
The delay is likely due to overwhelming orders for the E-Ink watch. As explained on Pebble’s Kickstarter page, the team initially only expect to manufacture 1,000 Pebbles before they launched the project on Kickstarter. To go from that number to producing over 85,000 units of the smartwatch is no easy feat to accomplish.
While the team also said that they are “sticking pretty closely to an aggressive timetable,” the new [...]
In a world where start-up companies seem to be the stuff of dreams, it’s refreshing to see one company absolutely take off like a rocketship, and rally support from both investors, potential consumers, and app developers alike. With many never seeing their idea make it to the drawing board, let alone the production stage, Pebble’s Smartwatch is a product that appears to be, for all intents and purposes, something that could generate some serious demand. The company behind Pebble smartwatch has successfully raised more than $8 million so far, getting them closer to the goal of shipping out the first batch of the digital wristwatch on September of this year. Now, the [...] | <urn:uuid:1fd3b1b2-269d-44fa-bb8e-078d63fcdfdc> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/pebble-smartwatch/page/3/ | 2016-04-29T01:58:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860110356.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161510-00089-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963881 | 288 | [
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Another one of those opportunities happened to come their way on Thursday but as the Vikings have done most of the last month, they let it slip away.
"It's disappointing when the door is open for you," Vikings head coach Gary Waters said. "We blew it."
The Vikings, who were alone in first-place heading into their matchup against
The loss drops the Vikings to 12-5 in the conference and into a three-way tie for first with
The Panthers hit 38 percent and were 8-of-21 from three-point range. The Panthers had three players score in double figures led by Tony Meier, who had 28 points.
"It was a team effort," Panthers head coach Rob Jeter said. "Individually,
Rebounding was a problem again for
"They outplayed us in every phase of the game," Waters said.
Norris Cole has been the only consistent link for the Vikings offensively over the last five games but he struggled mightily. He led the Vikings with 27 points but was 10-of-25 from the floor.
"They just flat outplayed us," Cole said. "They were hitting shots and we didn't get to their shooters quick enough. They were ready to play."
Trevon Harmon had 22 points and Jeremy Montgomery scored 12 points but nobody else came to help offensively. Aaron Pogue may have played one of his worst games of the season and there have been many of those.
Pogue came away with just two points, six rebounds and fouled out. He played very lackluster offensively and defensively, something that has never changed since he has arrived at
"We didn't take care of business tonight and all I can say is that this team is not ready to win a championship," Waters said. "If we have (Pogue) at all we have a chance to win the game."
The first half could not have been any worse for the Vikings as they appeared a bit sluggish as they were missing easy shots and allowing the officiating affect their play. They went into halftime trailing 41-32.
The Panthers on the other hand could not miss. They shot 57 percent from the field and had three players seven or more points led by Meier's 15.
The Vikings will finish the regular season at home on Saturday as they welcome
"We are going to keep fighting," Cole said. "Our goals are still the same. We have a bunch of fighters on our team.
"There are no quitters on this team. We worked too hard in the off season."
Viking Notes: With the loss to Old Dominion on Sunday, Cleveland State has basically given themselves no shot of getting an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, thus meaning that the Vikings will have to win the Horizon League tournament to get the automatic bid...Cleveland State is now 0-4 on the season versus top-50 RPI teams...The bench has become a real trouble spot for the Vikings. In the team's six losses before the Milwaukee loss, the bench averaged just 3.7 points and twice they have been shutout...Cole won the Horizon League player of the week honors for the second straight week and it marks the fifth time this season he has claimed that honor. | <urn:uuid:deb67d7f-f9e7-446a-b418-27235138695b> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.cleveland.com/dsn/index.ssf/2011/02/vikings_let_another_opportunity_slip_awayagain.html | 2016-04-29T02:03:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860110356.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161510-00089-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989937 | 662 | [
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Cafe, Local Chain
Excellent selection of GF snacks, bakery items, and lots of milk alternatives!!
Love their new gluten free pastries! They also have BoBo Bars which are a quick grab and go item. I had the mini apple pie with my hemp milk latte!
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People who happen to be in downtown Houston will be surprised to discover free Wi-Fi service in certain areas, thanks to the city, which is using the excess capacity from the parking meter Wi-Fi network, to provide access to residents and visitors. To find out where there’s access, go to the Houston Wi-Fi map.
Unlike Houston’s earlier plans to set up a citywide Wi-Fi network using EarthLink, the downtown hotzone is modest. EarthLink canceled its Houston plans and had to pay a $5 million termination fee, which the city plans to use later for hotzones. The downtown network does not seem to be one of these projects, but it’s a clever way to provide a useful service to visitors, by simply piggybacking on an existing network.
I find downtown hotzones such as Houston’s to be very useful when I am in a city looking up an address on a Google map or searching for a restaurant or cafe. Because the time I spend online is very short, I can’t be bothered to pay for access and I don’t need a lot of bandwidth. So providing free Wi-Fi access makes a lot of sense and is very visitor-friendly.
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Minnesota is 3-0 for the first time since 2008, so I guess that's cause for a little bit of celebration - or bad dancing.
Lucky for us, Minnesota has splashed the Internet with the latter this week from some of the players dancing for the student organization We Are (not sure if they knew they were being filmed) to trying to get fans revved up for a new third-quarter tradition called "Do the Gopher."
Is it just me or does the Gopher dance video look awkward and forced? The female athletes look like they're having fun while the football players are cursing their lot in life.
Regardless, live it up Minnesota. This is as many wins as the Gophers all last season. Unfortunately, the schedule gets a little tougher from here on out starting with this weekend's game against Syracuse.
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Patrick Ewing may still be looking for a head-coaching job, but the former New York Knicks center is being inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend. No.33 has served as an NBA assistant coach for the past 10 years, but was let go along with the rest of Stan Van Gundy’s staff from the Orlando Magic last season. Ewing, who played at Georgetown from 1981-1985, became a man under head coach John Thompson and feels honored to be inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.
Patrick Ewing joined WHB in Kansas City with The Border Patrol to discuss being inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame, learning how to become a man under John Thompson at Georgetown, his favorite college memory and Dwight Howard being traded to the Los Angeles Lakers.
What did you think when you heard you were being inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame?
“I am very honored. It’s always a treat to be honored. No matter what the level is: high school, college or the pro’s. I accomplished a lot in my four years at Georgetown.”
Tell me how much you grew under John Thompson at Georgetown?
“I not only grew as a basketball player, I grew as a man. My whole college experience was a great experience for me. If I had to do it again, it would be the same decision. Coach Thompson allowed me the opportunity to not only grow, like you said, on the court, but also off the court. I went to college a boy and left a man.”
What’s your favorite college memory?
“I had a great college career that we touched on before — playing against North Carolina in the Final Four, winning it in 1984. We had some great Big East battles against St. John’s, against Syracuse, Villanova. We had some great runs, Connecticut. Well, Connecticut wasn’t as big of a powerhouse as they are now back then. We had some great runs that, looking back at it, it was filled with a lot of great memories.”
What do you think about Dwight Howard going to the Lakers?
“I think he definitely makes them a better team. They are going to be a force to be reckoned with in the West and it’s just going to be a question of can they gel together? Can they play together? Can he take being the second or third or fourth option on that team? Because Kobe Bryant is the No. 1 option and Pau Gasol can score and so can Steve Nash. Dwight has the ability to dominate a game without scoring, by blocking shots, rebounding and defending and if he does that, if he can embellish that role, then he has what it takes to be a champion.” | <urn:uuid:bc429920-8c80-48e0-9a9f-5ecb3a625ff6> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://sportsradiointerviews.com/2012/11/01/patrick-ewing-college-basketball-hall-of-fame-dwight-howard-lakers/ | 2016-05-01T23:10:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860117244.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161517-00097-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984117 | 586 | [
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Baylor Junior Named Truman Scholar
Skye L. Perryman, a junior economics and philosophy major at Baylor University, is among 64 students from U.S. colleges and universities named a 2002 Truman Scholar by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
Recipients were chosen from among 590 candidates nominated by 287 colleges and universities. Truman Scholars were selected on the basis of leadership potential, intellectual ability and likelihood of "making a difference."
Each Truman Scholarship provides $30,000 -- $3,000 for the senior year and $27,000 for graduate study. Scholars also receive priority admission and supplemental financial aid at some premier graduate institutions, leadership training, career and graduate school counseling and special internship opportunities within the federal government. Recipients must be U.S. citizens, have outstanding leadership potential and communication skills, be in the top quarter of their class and be committed to careers in government or the not-for-profit sector.
Perryman, who is from Waco, is both a member of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, the university's flagship program for team-taught interdisciplinary courses, and the Honors Program. In addition, she is a member of the Mortar Board honor society and Sigma Iota Rho, an international studies honor society. Following graduation from Baylor, she plans to pursue a law degree and master's in public policy.
"I am committed to the principle that those who are given much are expected to give back more," Perryman said. "I have been blessed with a loving family, material comfort and the opportunity to pursue my dreams. So many people, even in America, live without the ability to achieve their dreams. I am motivated by a conviction to bestow upon others what I have been given. I believe that this is at the core of my responsibility as a citizen of a free society and a member of the human community."
Deeply committed to public service, Perryman coordinates Project Democracy at Carver Academy, a debate program funded through the $6 million GEAR UP Waco grant from the Department of Education that serves at-risk youth in six Waco schools. For her commitment to the project, which has been 20 hours every week since the fall 1999 semester, Perryman received the "Hero for Kids" award and local, state and national commendations. She also co-founded the "Light Up the Night Walk," a major leukemia foundation fundraiser, and has helped organize the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life.
"Skye is a dynamic leader. Every project I've known her to be involved in has been made better by her presence and her commitment to fostering civil society, " said Elizabeth Vardaman, Baylor's Truman Scholarship representative. "Skye has flourished academically at Baylor, and she believes all students, if given opportunity, can achieve great things. She has volunteered countless hours to help young people in Waco become educated, productive citizens. Skye is a change agent who makes good things happen wherever she goes."
Last year, Perryman worked for the Congressional Democratic Leadership and the Democratic National Committee. Since her freshman year, she has been involved in Baylor's much-honored Model UN team and has won recognition as "Best Delegate" at Harvard's Model UN Conference.
Dr. Karla K. Leeper, The Glenn R. Capp Professor of Forensics and assistant professor of communication studies, knows Perryman well through their work on Project Democracy. In her 15 years of teaching, Leeper said she has never "encountered a young person who exemplifies such excellence" in all aspects of her personal and academic life.
"Whether she is organizing a local walk for breast cancer research because there was not one, or designing a fund raising strategy for the Baylor Model UN team because there was not one, Skye makes things happen," Leeper said. "She is a natural leader: charismatic, organized, enthusiastic and very committed to the issues she believes in. She has a vision for how the world should be, she can communicate that vision to others well and she makes them want to be a part of her efforts."
Dr. Robert M. Baird, chair of the philosophy department, first met Perryman when she was a high school student visiting Baylor.
"She was involved in high school debate and knew that philosophy would serve her well. I remember marveling at her intellectual maturity, even as a junior in high school," Baird said. "When she did come to Baylor, she had a determination to really see and understand the relationship between philosophical ideas and the world of political activity. That Skye is strongly motivated to be of service to others while maintaining such a high level of performance in the classroom indicates a very disciplined person. That, too, shows noteworthy character."
"I owe my Truman scholarship to the many people in my life who have served as a support system to my dreams and goals. Specifically, my wonderful family and the professors in the College of Arts and Sciences at Baylor," Perryman said. "Mrs. Vardaman guided me through this process, and I also would not have received the Truman scholarship if I had not been given the opportunity by GEAR UP, Waco ISD, Carver Academy and [teacher] Mary Duty to work with children in public schools. Working with 'my kids' at Carver Academy has provided me with inspiration and hope."
Each Truman Scholarship selection panel interviewed finalists from a three- or four-state region and generally elected one Truman Scholar from each state and one or two at-large scholars from the region. Each panel typically included a university president, a federal judge, a distinguished public servant and a past Truman Scholarship winner.
Jerome R. Loughridge, chief of staff to Baylor President Robert B. Sloan Jr., served on the Truman Scholar selection committee for the south central United States. Loughridge received the prestigious Truman Scholarship in 1994 while a University Scholar at Baylor.
The Truman Scholarship Foundation was established by Congress in 1975 as the federal memorial to the nation's 33rd President. The foundation awards scholarships for college students to attend graduate school in preparation for careers in government or elsewhere in public service. The activities of the foundation are supported by a special trust fund in the U.S. Treasury. There have been 2,163 Truman Scholars elected since the first awards were made in 1977.
The 2002 Truman Scholars will assemble May 19 for a week-long leadership development program at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., and receive their awards in a special ceremony at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., on May 26.
Perryman said being named a Truman Scholar is a major step toward achieving her dream of becoming a public servant.
"I am extremely excited about getting to meet people my age who dream the same dreams that I do," she said. "Also, I look forward to working with people who have enjoyed long careers in public service; it is through such opportunities that I will find mentors."
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Senate Passes Rural Housing Amendment
As part of the Farm Bill (S.3240), the Senate passed an amendment by Senators Nelson (D-NE) and Johanns (R-NE) that will grandfather communities currently eligible for rural housing programs, and increase the population threshold for those communities to 35,000.
Due to the 2010 census, many communities are losing eligibility for rural housing programs because their populations have grown. Congress set the definition of "rural" in 1974, and it has not been updated. The amendment will grandfather existing communities through the next census.
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There are a lot of curating apps for browsers that let you save web clips and store them for future reference, but these are usually cross-platform apps that require you to create an account so you can access your saved web content from anywhere. If you don’t want note-taking apps for simply saving web pages, try this neat Firefox add-on called Temporary Bookmarks. This add-on allows you to bookmark webpages and clear them when you close the browser, or after a specified amount of time.
Since Temporary Bookmarks is a Firefox add-on, it doesn’t require a login or account for you to use it. You only have to download it from the Add-on store. After this, you can then start saving web pages into a bookmark folder called Temporary Bookmarks.
To do this, just right-click on any link in a website and select “Add to Temporary Bookmarks.” One thing I noticed is that this option is only visible when you right click a link from a web page, and not from the URL address bar.
To locate your saved bookmarks, find the Bookmark icon on the top of the browser (a square with a star inside). Click on this and go to Bookmarks bar. If you already have the Bookmarks bar visible on the top of the browser, then you should be able to find the folder from there. Look for the folder labeled as Temporary Bookmarks. You should see all the links saved here.
By default, the add-on is set to get rid of the bookmarks after one day, but you can change this setting by going to the add-on’s Preferences page. To do this, click on the Firefox menu button on the top left corner, click on “Add-ons”, and select Options right beside the name of the add-on.
Here, you can change when or what action is required for Firefox to delete the bookmarks. You have an option to delete the bookmarks when the browser closes, or choose from a number of days from one to seven. I tried setting it to remove bookmarks when I close the browser, and sure enough, the bookmarks were gone when I restarted it.
One notable feature is that you can also remove bookmarks saved in other bookmark folders. Click on the drop down beside “Remove bookmarks in” to view the complete list. If you have other bookmark folders that need cleaning up, then this add-on can help you do just that.
Temporary Bookmarks is a no-brainer solution for users who don’t want to sign up for a note-taking app, or who don’t want to store web content for too long on their browsers. It’s easy to use, and a good way to also prevent the browser from getting too congested with data. It also encourages a user to be organized when browsing the web, without having to clean up after. If you tend to pile up your bookmarks and don’t have time to organize or delete them, then this add-on is definitely a great tool for that.
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While time spent online can be hugely productive, compulsive Internet use can interfere with daily life, work, and relationships. When you feel more comfortable with your online friends than your real ones, or you can’t stop yourself from playing games, gambling, or compulsively surfing—even when it has negative consequences in your life—then you may be using the Internet too much. Learn about the signs and symptoms of Internet addiction and how to balance your life online and off.
What is Internet addiction or computer addiction?
Internet Addiction, otherwise known as computer addiction, online addiction, or internet addiction disorder (IAD), covers a variety of impulse-control problems, including:
- Cybersex Addiction – compulsive use of Internet pornography, adult chat rooms, or adult fantasy role-play sites impacting negatively on real-life intimate relationships.
- Cyber-Relationship Addiction – addiction to social networking, chat rooms, and messaging to the point where virtual, online friends become more important than real-life relationships with family and friends.
- Net Compulsions – such as compulsive online gaming, gambling, stock trading, or compulsive use of online auction sites such as eBay, often resulting in financial and job-related problems.
- Information Overload – compulsive web surfing or database searching, leading to lower work productivity and less social interaction with family and friends.
- Computer Addiction – obsessive playing of off-line computer games, such as Solitaire or Minesweeper, or obsessive computer programming.
The most common of these Internet addictions are cybersex, online gambling, and cyber-relationship addiction.
Healthy vs. unhealthy Internet use
The Internet provides a constant, ever-changing source of information and entertainment, and can be accessed from most smart phones as well as tablets, laptops, and computers. Email, blogs, social networks, and message boards allow for both public and anonymous communication about any topic. But how much is too much Internet usage?
Each person’s Internet use is different. You might need to use the Internet extensively for your work, for example, or you might rely heavily on social networking sites to keep in touch with faraway family and friends. Spending a lot of time online only becomes a problem when it absorbs too much of your time, causing you to neglect your relationships, your work, school, or other important things in your life. If you keep repeating compulsive Internet behavior despite the negative consequences in your offline life, then it’s time to strike a new balance.
To relieve unpleasant and overwhelming feelings
Many people turn to the Internet in order to manage unpleasant feelings such as stress, loneliness, depression, and anxiety. When you have a bad day and are looking for a way to escape your problems or to quickly relieve stress or self-soothe, the Internet can be an easily accessible outlet. Losing yourself online can temporarily make feelings such as loneliness, stress, anxiety, depression, and boredom evaporate into thin air. As much comfort as the Internet can provide, though, it’s important to remember that there are healthier (and more effective) ways to keep difficult feelings in check. These may include exercising, meditating, using sensory relaxation strategies, and practicing simple breathing exercises.
For many people, an important aspect of overcoming Internet and computer addiction is to find alternate ways to handle these difficult feelings. Even when your Internet use is back to healthy levels, the painful and unpleasant feelings that may have prompted you to engage in unhealthy Internet use in the past will remain. So, it’s worth spending some time thinking about the different ways you intend to deal with stressful situations and the daily irritations that would normally have you logging on.
Risk factors for Internet addiction and computer addiction
You are at greater risk of Internet addiction if:
- You suffer from anxiety. You may use the Internet to distract yourself from your worries and fears. An anxiety disorder like obsessive-compulsive disorder may also contribute to excessive email checking and compulsive Internet use.
- You are depressed. The Internet can be an escape from feelings of depression, but too much time online can make things worse. Internet addiction further contributes to stress, isolation and loneliness.
- You have any other addictions. Many Internet addicts suffer from other addictions, such as drugs, alcohol, gambling, and sex.
- You lack social support. Internet addicts often use social networking sites, instant messaging, or online gaming as a safe way of establishing new relationships and more confidently relating to others.
- You’re an unhappy teenager. You might be wondering where you fit in and the Internet could feel more comfortable than real-life friends.
- You are less mobile or socially active than you once were. For example, you may be coping with a new disability that limits your ability to drive. Or you may be parenting very young children, which can make it hard to leave the house or connect with old friends.
- You are stressed. While some people use the Internet to relieve stress, it can have a counterproductive effect. The longer you spend online, the higher your stress levels will be.
Signs and symptoms of Internet addiction vary from person to person. For example, there are no set hours per day or number of messages sent that indicate Internet addiction. But here are some general warning signs that your Internet use may have become a problem:
- Losing track of time online. Do you frequently find yourself on the Internet longer than you intended? Does a few minutes turn in to a few hours? Do you get irritated or cranky if your online time is interrupted?
- Having trouble completing tasks at work or home. Do you find laundry piling up and little food in the house for dinner because you’ve been busy online? Perhaps you find yourself working late more often because you can’t complete your work on time — then staying even longer when everyone else has gone home so you can use the Internet freely.
- Isolation from family and friends. Is your social life suffering because of all the time you spend online? Are you neglecting your family and friends? Do you feel like no one in your “real” life — even your spouse — understands you like your online friends?
- Feeling guilty or defensive about your Internet use. Are you sick of your spouse nagging you to get off the computer and spend time together? Do you hide your Internet use or lie to your boss and family about the amount of time you spend on the computer and what you do while you're online?
- Feeling a sense of euphoria while involved in Internet activities. Do you use the Internet as an outlet when stressed, sad, or for sexual gratification or excitement? Have you tried to limit your Internet time but failed?
Physical symptoms of Internet addiction
Internet or computer addiction can also cause physical discomfort such as:
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (pain and numbness in hands and wrists)
- Dry eyes or strained vision
- Back aches and neck aches; severe headaches
- Sleep disturbances
- Pronounced weight gain or weight loss
While online pornography and cybersex addictions are types of sexual addiction, special challenges on the Internet include its relative anonymity and ease of access. It’s easy to spend hours on the Internet in the privacy of your own home, and engage in fantasies impossible in real life.
Compulsively spending hours on the Internet viewing pornography or engaging in other cybersex activities can adversely affect real-life relationships, career, and emotional health.
While gambling has been a well-documented problem for years, the availability of Internet gambling has made gambling far more accessible. It has also made it harder for recovering addicts to avoid relapse. Online or virtual casinos are open all day, every day for anyone with Internet access. People who don’t live within close proximity of a traditional casino or betting track, for example, or even those who are too young to gain access, now find it much easier to gamble online.
Other net compulsions
Net compulsions such as compulsive stock trading or online auction shopping can be just as financially and socially damaging as online gambling. eBay addicts, for example, may wake up at strange hours in order to be online for the last remaining minutes of an auction. They may purchase things they don’t need and can’t afford in order to experience the excitement of placing the winning bid.
Compulsive online gamers can isolate themselves for many hours at a time participating in virtual reality or online fantasy games, neglecting other aspects of their lives such as work and family.
When used responsibly, the Internet can be a great place to interact socially, meet new people, and even start romantic relationships. However, online relationships can often be more intense than those in real life. Our fantasies are given free reign and the idea of being with our online love can exceed all realistic expectations. Since few real-life relationships can compete with these wild, fantasy relationships, the Internet addict will prefer to spend more and more time with their online friends.
Another problem is that about 50% of people online lie about their age, weight, job, marital status, or gender. When online friends meet and the real-life person fails to match the online persona, it can create profound emotional disappointment.
There are a number of steps you can take to get your Internet use under control. While you can initiate many of these yourself, it’s important you get some outside support as well. It can be all too easy to slip back into old patterns of usage, especially if you use the Internet heavily for work or other important activities.
- Recognize any underlying problems that may support your Internet addiction. If you are struggling with depression, stress, or anxiety, for example, Internet addiction might be a way to self-soothe rocky moods. Have you had problems with alcohol or drugs in the past? Does anything about your Internet use remind you of how you used to drink or use drugs to numb yourself? Recognize if you need to address treatment in these areas or return to group support meetings.
- Build your coping skills. Perhaps blowing off steam on the Internet is your way of coping with stress or angry feelings. Or maybe you have trouble relating to others, or are excessively shy with people in real life. Building skills in these areas will help you weather the stresses and strains of daily life without resorting to compulsive Internet use.
- Strengthen your support network. The more relationships you have in real life, the less you will need the Internet for social interaction. Set aside dedicated time each week for friends and family. If you are shy, try finding common interest groups such as a sports team, education class, or book reading club. This allows you to interact with others and let relationships develop naturally.
Modify your Internet use step by step:
- To help you see problem areas, keep a log of how much you use the Internet for non-work or non-essential activities. Are there times of day that you use the Internet more? Are there triggers in your day that make you stay online for hours at a time when you only planned to stay for a few minutes?
- Set goals for when you can use the Internet. For example, you might try setting a timer, scheduling use for certain times of day, or making a commitment to turn off the computer, tablet, or smart phone at the same time each night. Or you could reward yourself with a certain amount of online time once you’ve completed a homework assignment or finished the laundry, for instance.
- Replace your Internet usage with healthy activities. If you are bored and lonely, resisting the urge to get back online can be very difficult. Have a plan for other ways to fill the time, such as going to lunch with a coworker, taking a class, or inviting a friend over.
Therapy and counseling for Internet addiction
Therapy can give you a tremendous boost in controlling Internet use. Cognitive-behavioral therapy provides step-by-step ways to stop compulsive Internet behaviors and change your perceptions regarding Internet and computer use. Therapy can also help you learn healthier ways of coping with uncomfortable emotions, such as stress, anxiety, or depression.
If your Internet use is affecting your partner directly, as with excessive cybersex or online affairs, marriage counseling can help you work through these challenging issues. Marriage counseling can also help you reconnect with your partner if you have been using the Internet for most of your social needs.
For help finding a therapist for Internet addiction, see Resources and References section below.
Group support for Internet addiction
Since Internet addiction is relatively new, it can be hard to find a real-life support group dedicated to the issue like Alcoholics Anonymous or Gamblers Anonymous. If that is a simultaneous problem for you, however, attending groups can help you work through your alcohol or gambling problems as well. Sex Addicts Anonymous may be another place to try if you are having trouble with cybersex. There may also be groups where you can work on social and coping skills, such as for anxiety or depression.
There are some Internet addiction support groups on the Internet. However, these should be used with caution. Although they may be helpful in orienting you and pointing you in the right direction, you need real-life people to best benefit from group support.
Helping a child or teen with an Internet addiction
It’s a fine line as a parent. If you severely limit a child or teen’s Internet use, they might rebel and go to excess. But you should monitor computer use, supervise computer activity, and get your child help if he or she needs it. If your child or teen is showing signs of Internet addiction, there are things that you can do to help:
- Encourage other interests and social activities. Get your child out from behind the computer screen. Expose kids to other hobbies and activities, such as team sports, Scouts, and afterschool clubs.
- Monitor computer use and set clear limits. Restrict the use of computers, iPads, or smart phones to a common area of the house where you can keep an eye on your child's online activity, and limit time online. This will be most effective if you as parents follow suit. If you can’t stay offline, chances are your children won’t either.
- Talk to your child about underlying issues. Compulsive computer use can be the sign of deeper problems. Is your child having problems fitting in? Has there been a recent major change, like a move or divorce, which is causing stress?
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Nearly two decades ago, Alex Broadhurst and his older brother, Terry, were just beginning to discover a shared love for the game of hockey.
"We had an unfinished basement, so it was all cement," Alex said. "We'd just put on our roller blades and go 1-on-1 for hours."
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Published By: M&V Tailz
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Word Count: 7500
Available in: Adobe Acrobat, Palm DOC/iSolo, HTML, Mobipocket (.mobi), Epub
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About the bookCourage. Patriotism. Words rendered meaningless to Erik when his brother Howard returns home from Afghanistan in a flag-draped casket. Months later, Erik finds the gentle words of Howard's Marine buddy, Greg, soften his pain. After losing a limb in combat, Greg understands the raw sorrow of loss. Erik and Greg spend a soul-searching night together and find the unexpected in each other's company.
* * * * *
Second Edition. November 2012.
An excerpt from the bookThe man took an awkward step closer, offering his right hand, his left gripping the brass head of the falcon that formed the handle of the cane. "Greg Simmons. I just moved into the little blue house that backs up to the south side of the cemetery."
"John Tudor's old place?" Erik accepted Greg's hand and shook cordially. "I'm Erik Chavel. I live about a mile down the road. Born in a small town, die in a small town, isn't that what the song says? But not Howard." Erik nodded toward the grave. "My brother. He had to go traipsing halfway around the world to die."
"I know," Greg said, to Erik's great surprise. "I was there. I'm very sorry for your loss."
Erik didn't mean to look so shocked or stare so hard. His heart rate sped up, his hands involuntarily clenching into tightly balled fists. "Thanks," he managed to say. He nodded toward Greg's cane. "That from over there, too?"
"Afraid so." Greg lifted the cane and took a gentle swat at his own left calf. Although muffled by blue jeans covering his leg and windswept leaves scraping the pavement, clearly the cane struck metal instead of flesh. "Not exactly the Six Million Dollar Man, but at least I can get around. I'm really sorry about your brother. I, um . . . I guess I'd better be moving along. My apologies again for the interruption."
"Wait." Erik sucked in a breath. "Is that why you came down here, because of Howard?"
On the leaf-strewn walkway, Greg shifted his weight to his right leg. "Howard was transferred into my unit just outside of Kabul almost a year ago. He became a good friend, one of the few men I could talk with openly about being queer. You would think that after eighteen years of service certain things would get easier to deal with. They don't." He sighed and shook his head. "Look, I have to get back to the house; I'm not entirely used to this peg leg yet, and my back is fucking killing me. I've got cold beer in the fridge if you want to stop by for a drink."
Erik paused. Howard hadn't been gay, at least not that anyone knew. There would've been no reason to hide it, since Erik had come out way back in high school and the family hadn't flipped out. There was no way Howard would've married Grace and had a kid in order to build himself a closet for such an open-minded and accepting family. It didn't make sense. Erik needed to know the truth. | <urn:uuid:fb6f6306-01b0-41d0-af0f-c50f27c8e9ad> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | https://www.allromanceebooks.com/storeProductPrint.html?pid=439235 | 2016-05-05T08:40:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860126377.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161526-00105-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978016 | 733 | [
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Aug 4, 2005 (CIDRAP News) What looked like the possible third case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States has now been confirmed as a false alarm, leaving the number of domestic cattle infected with the disease at two, with one of those being Canadian-born.
John Clifford, deputy adminstrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced yesterday that definitive testing of samples from the animal, performed at the Ames, Iowa, National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) and the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge, England, showed it did not have BSE.
Initial tests Jul 27 on the 12-year-old cow, which had died during calving in April at an undisclosed location, had shown some abnormal staining that classified the results as nondefinitive and spurred the further testing. Samples from the cow had been preserved by a veterarian at the time of death but mistakenly were not sent to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for testing until recently.
A statement from Clifford says, "The initial non-definitive result was caused by artifactual (artificial or untrue) staining and, while this staining did not resemble BSE, we felt the prudent course was to conduct the additional tests.
"Needless to say, we are very pleased with these results. I do want to emphasize that the most important protections for human and animal health are our interlocking food-safety protocols. Our enhanced surveillance program is designed to provide information about the level of prevalence of BSE in the United States, which by any measure is extremely low."
The animal was born before the 1997 imposition of a ban on inclusion of animal protein in feed for ruminants. BSE is transmitted when cattle eat feed containing protein from a BSE-infected animal. The disease's human counterpart, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) can occur when a person eats meat from a BSE-infected animal. The carcass of the cow just cleared of BSE did not enter the food or animal feed system.
Aug 3 APHIS press release
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The promising star from United Sikkim FC has been replaced by Rowilson Rodrigues after sustaining an injury in the training camp in Pune...The Indian National team were dealt an early setback with United Sikkim FC's defender Sandesh Jhingan suffering a groin injury in the National team's ongoing training camp in Pune.
Jhingan has impressed one and all with his performances this season as he was one of the few players who shined with the relegation threatened Snow Lions.
Dempo SC's Rowilson Rodrigues has joined the camp today and is a like for like replacement for the injured Jhingan.
India's first assignment in the AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers will be Chinese Taipei on 2nd March followed by Guam on the 4th. The Blue Tigers biggest challenge in the group stage will be on March 6th when they take on the hosts Myanmar.
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HARTSDALE, N.Y. -- Howard Jacobs, former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Greenburgh Public Library, died Wednesday, April 2.
Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner said Jacobs was the community leader most responsible for the expansion/construction of the new Greenburgh Public Library.
"He worked very hard on the initiative," Feiner sad. "Before the expansion took place Howard led a successful effort, persuading New York State to fund a cyber book mobile and enhancing library services for the community."
After Howard retired as chair of the Board of Trustees, the Greenburgh Library Board voted to name a photography gallery in honor of Howard and Ruth Jacobs.
The Jacobs have had a vision and commitment celebrating amateur photography and photographers in Westchester County. They have sponsored an amateur photo contest at the library.
Jacobs was a former member of the Greenburgh Board of Education. He was a respected educator and was involved in many community activities, including the Dad’s Club, for many years.
The Greenburgh Town Board will begin the Wednesday, April 9, meeting with a moment of silence in honor and in memory of Howard Jacobs.
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Greenbranch Farm, Salisbury, MD
Learn how Ted and Julia Wycall have built Greenbranch Farm into a diversified organic operation serving a CSA of over 300 members, farmers’ markets, an on-farm retail store, and restaurants, completely transforming the former commodity farm where corn, soybeans and confinement chickens had been raised for two previous generations. Their motto is to be able to feed their community as they feed themselves.
In the morning, Ted will talk about his farming practices and nurturing of the soil, animal husbandry techniques and the use of appropriately scaled equipment and tools. Ted will also discuss the small staff that helps the certified organic farm run successfully.
At mid-day, a roundtable discussion, moderated by LESSON project manager Matt Heim, will feature Eastern Shore farmers who direct-market their products to consumers. They will address the local food movement, its opportunities, and what is needed to strengthen its reach. Lunch will showcase food grown at Greenbranch Farm.
In the afternoon, a walking tour of the farm will focus in more detail on each of the farm’s enterprises, including vegetables and berries, and heritage breed animals for pastured beef, pork and poultry.
Registration begins at 9:30; program starts at 10 am. All registrants: $10 per person; $15 per family.
Pay by credit card using Paypal, or by mail with a check. Click below to register!
Field Day held in partnership with University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) and Lower Eastern Shore Sustainable Organic Network (LESSON). University of Maryland Extension programs are open to all citizens without regard to race, color, gender, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, or national origin. | <urn:uuid:474fbb40-e6b5-429d-a95d-f7b5a13b378d> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e3n503f95772449b&llr=8ygezafab | 2016-04-29T19:46:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111396.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00091-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943584 | 363 | [
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As hurricane Gustav churns towards the "boot"; my thoughts, first and foremost, are with my friends, loved ones, and in laws. Those poor folks will be doing everything that they can to ride out this potentially devastating storm. Still, I can't help but think of the irony of the entire situation. (Maybe there is a god) Almost three years to the date after the frat boy and his incompetent administration fucked over the *residents of an entire city, his party has been forced to cut back on their coronation of Mr. Morton and the beauty queen.
Personally, I love it. Not the storm, but the fact that those assholes had to change their plans because of it. They just couldn't have the rest of the A-merry-can people thinking that they are heartless and uncaring, and that they are throwing a major party while the Big Easy takes yet another hit.
And now I hear that the frat boy, and his side kick (Dead Eye Dick) will be skipping the convention to "monitor" the situation. My question to the frat boy would be: why? A-merry-ca already considers you a an incompetent buffoon, and no matter how hard you try, you will never get us to get those images and your handling of Katrina out of our minds. I know you think this is your second chance to get it right, but it's not. You get no second chance, not after the way you fucked up your first one. "Brownie you are doing a heck of a job". Remember those infamous words frat boy? They will go down along with "Mission Accomplished" as words which will define your administration, and your presidency.
Folks, let's be clear, Katrina is what doomed this administration in the eyes of many A-merry-cans. A lot of people could live with the Iraq war, after all, countries do go to war. People like moi might not like it, but there are some folks who think it's necessary, and quite a few people in A-merry-ca were fine with Iraq. But not the handling of Katrina. The republicans were supposed to be the grown up party, the folks who could always be counted on to be competent. The democrats, on the other hand, are the ones with the great ideas, but they can never carry them out. Katrina changed all of that. It showed the rest of the country that republicans were just as incompetent and clueless when it comes to getting things done as the democrats were. It showed us that in spite of all of his rhetoric, the frat boy only cared about hooking up his incompetent ass friends. As a result, many of you started looking at the Iraq war from a totally different perspective. If this man couldn't take care of a crisis in our own back yard, how can we trust him to prosecute a trillion dollar war to influence foreign policy? The frat boy never recovered from Katrina, and even the clowns on FOX were forced to acknowledge that he blew it.
Now, almost three years later, as we count down the days for this human version of Katrina to leave office, we are faced with yet another storm. It's as if god is saying; I am going to give you one more hit frat boy, because you fucked up the first one so bad. And for good measure, I am going to bring it right in the middle of your parties' convention. Let's see all those praying folks pray their way out of this one. I know they were praying for the rain to hit Obama on his big night, but I had some different plans.
Anyway, let's keep the folks on the Gulf Coast in our thoughts. And let's hope that they ride this one out without any loss of life or serious injuries.
As for the folks up in St. Paul; I wish them all a safe trip home.......
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Well, just don't. At least that's the advice of Paul Gowder over at Law and Letters. Gowder makes his case by arguing that basically the jobs lawyers do in the real world "suck," lawyers are generally unhappy, the profession is populated by assholes, and you'll incur enormous debt for all your trouble.
As some others have pointed out, I think Gowder oversells his case. I suppose that, like Gideon, I am just special (my mom always told me so, anyway) because I really enjoy the practice of law. But, then again, I'm a freak, because I actually liked law school in the first instance. Perhaps I'm just lucky that I get to work in a position that provides a constant barrage of interesting issues that arise when representing real human beings. The fact that I get to work in an office filled with folks (lawyers and non-lawyers alike) who are dedicated to the task and do so with great skill and humor surely helps. Are there assholes to put up with? Sure - that's life. Find me a profession where you can entirely sidestep the jacknuts and I'll be impressed.
Gowder's problem, it appears, comes from the fact that he focuses almost entirely on the plight of "elite" law school grads who either (a) have to take super high-pressure jobs to make the money they need to pay back student loans or (b) consign themselves to a life of poverty to do "good" work in some kind of public interest field. As such, his thoughts should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks of going to law school as a default option because there's nothing better to do after graduating from college. As much as I enjoyed law school, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone just looking for a few years to kill.
As for public interest law, Gideon makes some good points, particularly:
If you’re going into public interest law, you don’t need to go to a top ten law school. There, I said it. I went to a bottom of the top tier law school, walked out with 2/3rds less debt and have a job that pays me enough in a field that I love and will do for the rest of my career. I know plenty others who are of the same mind as me.The WVU College of Law isn't going to be on anybody's list of top law schools in the country (nonetheless, WVU will crush Gideon's alma mater Saturday to claim the Big East crown!). But I got a solid foundation (and a manageable debt load) that I've built upon in the last eight years of practice fairly successfully.
Find a school that has a good clinical program (they’re not often the top tiered law schools - those clinical programs may be more famous, but they’re not better) or two and has ties to the community.
A law degree is not necessarily a ticket to great wealth. It's not a free pass into the upper class. It's something that lets you do a job. If it's a job you want to do, it's a good thing. If your heart really lies someone else, it's a burden and it sucks. Make your own choice. | <urn:uuid:b119e4f8-d8e8-4e88-b15b-322e36248810> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://infinityranch.blogspot.com/2007/11/so-you-want-to-go-to-law-school.html | 2016-04-29T19:44:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111396.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00091-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979812 | 679 | [
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U.S. drone strike in Pakistan kills al-Qaida leader
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A U.S. drone strike has killed a senior al-Qaida leader in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials said, in the latest blow to the Islamic militant network.
Sheik Khalid bin Abdel Rehman al-Hussainan, who was also known as Abu Zaid al-Kuwaiti, was killed when missiles slammed into a house Thursday near Mir Ali, one of the main towns in the North Waziristan tribal area, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Al-Kuwaiti appeared in many videos released by al-Qaida's media wing, Al-Sahab, and was presented as a religious scholar for the group.
Earlier this year, he replaced Abu Yahya al-Libi, al-Qaida's second in command, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan in June, the intelligence officials said.
Al-Kuwaiti appeared to be a less prominent figure and was not on the State Department's list of most wanted terrorist suspects, as al-Libi had been.
Covert CIA drone strikes have killed a series of senior al-Qaida and Taliban leaders in Pakistan's tribal region during the past few years.
On Sunday, four drone-launched missiles blew apart a house near Miran Shah, another main town in North Waziristan, killing three suspected militants, intelligence officials said. .
Al-Kuwaiti's wife and daughter were wounded in Thursday's drone attack, according to the intelligence officials. His wife died a day later at a hospital in Miran Shah.
Al-Qaida's central leadership in Pakistan has been dealt a series of sharp blows in the past few years, including the U.S. commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad last year.
Many analysts believe the biggest threat now comes from al-Qaida franchises in Yemen and Somalia.
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The Mets will be directed by a new management team for the 2011 season, both on the bench and in the front office, according to a report on SI.com.
The report claims that manager Jerry Manuel will be removed sometime between the conclusion of the season and start of the postseason Wednesday. The Mets will not exercise the option in Manuel's contract to retain him beyond this season, according to the report.
Omar Minaya will be removed from his position as general manager during that window as well, and given the option to remain with the club in a different capacity. The report left open the possibility that he would choose either route.
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Are the recently reported measles outbreaks in the U.S. being caused by the failure to vaccinate, or the failure of the vaccine? Shockingly, clinically confirmed reports of measles vaccine failure in fully vaccinated populations stretch back a quarter of a century from around the world.
In a recent CNN Health opinion piece too easily confused with reporting titled, US measles cases in 2013 may be the worst in 17 years, Elizabeth Cohen, CNN's Senior Medical Correspondent, blames the 159 cases of measles the CDC reported occurring from Jan. 1 through Aug. 24th on "visitors from countries where measles is common" and "vaccine objectors within the United States."
What makes her conspicuously non-referenced statistics so disturbing is that she is ignoring a substantial body of literature, including peer-reviewed and published epidemiological and clinical studies, indicating that the recent measles outbreaks are just as likely caused by the failure of the vaccine as by presumably irrational and/or irresponsible parents exercising their legal right and responsibility to choose whether or not to vaccine their children.
Let's fill in the data that so obviously got flushed down the memory hole by this irresponsible piece of CNN 'reporting.'
First, we should acknowledge one underreported fact of immunology: vaccine-induced antibody elevations do not guarantee real world protection against the pathogen the vaccine is intended to immunize us against, which is the only true measure of their value.
This is not a new observation. It goes back decades, with a 1990 study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases finding that even though 95% of a population of urban African children had measles antibodies after vaccination, vaccine efficacy was not more than 68%.
Or, take a look at 2008 study that found that even when the measles vaccine successfully generates an elevation of measles specific antibodies 20.7% (6 out of 29) have non-protective titers. Or, one from 1988 that found that within a highly vaccinated community experiencing an outbreak of measles, antibody responses to measles could be found in 100% of the unvaccinated versus only 89.2% of the vaccinated. They conclude: "[A] history of prior measles vaccination is not always associated with immunity nor with the presence of specific antibodies.
Again, the point remains the same: vaccine-induced synthetic immunity does not guarantee real world protection, and certainly not with anything near 100% effectiveness, despite what the CDC, vaccine manufacturers or mainstream news reports imply by blaming the non-vaccinated for vaccine-failure associated outbreaks.
Read our report on the groundbreaking 2011 study published in the journal Immunity that challenges the primary antibody-based justification for vaccination if you need a more in-depth explanation of this critical point.
Second, there is plenty of research available today demonstrating that the adverse health effects associated with the measles vaccine, and particularly the trivalent mumps, measles, rubella combination vaccine, may far outweigh their purported therapeutic effects, that even if a vaccine is successful at preventing and/or delaying infection from measles this does not mean that this will improve the overall health of those vaccinated. To the contrary, it has been known for several decades that the administration of measles vaccine in underdeveloped countries may actually be resulting in higher infant mortality rates. This has, in fact, been a persistent criticism levied against UNICEF's vaccine-heavy strategy in certain regions of Africa, which appear to have increased mortality rates. UNICEF is not solely to blame, as there are quite a few 'charitable health organizations' patting each other on the back for 'saving lives' by reducing 'vaccine-preventable diseases,' at the very moment that mortality from vaccine-associated adverse effects are increasing. This is exactly what's so deranged about the Global Polio Eradication campaign, whose claim to have virtually eradicated wild-type polio in India obscures the fact that the live vaccine-specific strain of polio, believed to be twice as lethal as the natural form, may now be causing close to 48,000 cases of polio vaccine associated injury a year.
Measles Vaccine Failures Documented for A Quarter of A Century, Around the World
Now to the heart of the problem with CNN's article. Throughout the real (not imaginary) history of the measles vaccine, failure after failure has been recorded, starting with:
- 1985, Texas, USA: According to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1987, "An outbreak of measles occurred among adolescents in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the spring of 1985, even though vaccination requirements for school attendance had been thoroughly enforced." They concluded: "We conclude that outbreaks of measles can occur in secondary schools, even when more than 99 percent of the students have been vaccinated and more than 95 percent are immune."
- 1985, Montana, USA: According to an article published in the American Journal of Epidemiology titled, "A persistent outbreak of measles despite appropriate prevention and control measures," an outbreak of 137 cases of measles occurred in Montana. School records indicated that 98.7% of students were appropriately vaccinated, leading the researchers to conclude: "This outbreak suggests that measles transmission may persist in some settings despite appropriate implementation of the current measles elimination strategy."
- 1988, Colorado, USA: According to an article published in the American Journal of Public Health in 1991, "early 1988 an outbreak of 84 measles cases occurred at a college in Colorado in which over 98 percent of students had documentation of adequate measles immunity ... due to an immunization requirement in effect since 1986. They concluded: "...measles outbreaks can occur among highly vaccinated college populations."
- 1989, Quebec, Canada: According to an article published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health in 1991, a 1989 measles outbreak was "largely attributed to an incomplete vaccination coverage," but following an extensive review the researchers concluded "Incomplete vaccination coverage is not a valid explanation for the Quebec City measles outbreak.
- 1991-1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: According to an article published in the journal Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, in a measles outbreak from March 1991 to April 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, 76.4% of those suspected to be infected had received measles vaccine before their first birthday.
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Pine Straw is the fresh fallen pine needles consisting primarily of longleaf and slash pines removed from the forest floor and bailed. Pine straw is a great choice for renewable, native organic mulch. Just a 2-3 inch layer of mulch is all that is required to create an effective weed barrier while allowing water to penetrate easily. The pine needles interlock together and stick into the ground below. So even on landscapes with a considerable slope the pine straw will not wash away under the frequent tropical rainstorms.
Pine straw is slightly acidic so when it breaks down it keeps the soils ph low and acidic. Pine Straw makes an excellent choice as a mulch for many of the well-known Southern acid loving plants, trees & shrubs. The average square bale of pine straw is 12 x 13 x 27 inches long and weighs from 15-20 pounds. Bales spread approximately 50-60 square feet at 3-4 inches in depth.
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|EcommerceBytes-NewsFlash, Number 3008 - February 25, 2013 - ISSN 1539-5065 5 of 5|
Amazon announced some changes to its user agreement for affiliates, and it could have a significant effect on earnings for those marketers who promote free Kindle ebooks thanks to a brand new clause. The new Amazon Associates Operating Agreement, which governs affiliates' participation in the Amazon Associates Program for amazon.com, go into effect on March 1, 2013.
Amazon added a new clause called, "Associates Program Advertising Fee Schedule - Limitations on Advertising Fee Rates for Certain Products." The new clause states that if Associates send too many customers to purchase free Kindle eBooks in a given month, the Associate will not earn any affiliate referral fees.
In discussing the changes, affiliates expressed concern over how they would determine how many free ebooks were ordered through their free links. "I can understand and appreciate the rationale for this change, however, since Amazon doesn't report to us how many free Kindle books are "ordered", we are in many ways in a similar situation as with the "friends and family" penalty, i.e. completely in the dark."
One affiliate replied, "Amazon will show in your account, since March, the Free Books Downloaded with your associate link."
When another affiliate asked, "Why dont (sic) you just stop promoting free books? Or am I missing something here," another replied that freebies were "always nice gift and help in marketing."
Another wrote, "What will this do for all of the authors who list their ebooks for free to get their name out there? They would no longer have a platform for that. I also spent the money to buy my domain name and hosting. I have worked for over a year and a half to build up my readership in my niche category. I feel like I am being punished for being good at something."
There was uncertainty whether affiliates could continue to promote free eBooks without using their affiliate link. One affiliate wrote, "If so, there's no reason to use an affiliate link to a free book, is there?"
One seller explained how important the free book marketing was to her model: "Argh! Better start looking for a new idea - this could be the end of me! The point of promoting free books is to get them to click over to Amazon to get the cookie. Even if they "buy" the free book, the cookie is still there for 24 hours. It has been my business base - using free books. I have made quite a bit of money this way."
Authors of Kindle eBooks are also impacted by the changes and discussed the issue on this forum on KindleBoards.com
The new clause reads:
"In addition, notwithstanding the advertising fee rates described on this page or anything to the contrary contained in this Operating Agreement, if we determine you are primarily promoting free Kindle eBooks (i.e., eBooks for which the customer purchase price is $0.00), YOU WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE TO EARN ANY ADVERTISING FEES DURING ANY MONTH IN WHICH YOU MEET THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS:
Amazon made other changes to the operating agreement, including decreasing the $50 bounty for cell phones with a wireless service plan to $25. Amazon created a page for affiliates to see the changes to the new operating agreement.
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I've recently decided to back my first Kickstarter project. When I saw an article on GIO a few weeks back about Jon Shafer's newest project called At the Gates, I immediately threw my support behind the effort. You see, he was the lead designer of Civilization 5, the newest entry in my favorite long-running strategy series. At the Gates isn't your typical empire-builder. It takes place during the waning years of the Roman empire and, rather than play as the Romans, you take control of one of the eight barbarian tribes attempting to supplant them and become the new political power in Europe.
Presumably cover art for the recently announced boxed version of the game...
At the Gates is already fully funded. Jon's small, three-man (or rather two-man, one woman) team had a modest goal of forty thousand dollars and they've already surpassed sixty which means several of their 'stretch' goals (including adding full-on map editor for example) have already been met. Several innovations are being brought to the typical 4X game-plan and I'd like to go into several of them for the purposes of this blog.
As of the time of this writing the 2-D sprites lack animation but it's still in pre-alpha so expect a less static appearance when it releases next summer (2014).
The first change-up to the formula is that you won't be playing as Rome even though it's set during it's decline. You'll be choosing one of the upstart barbarian kingdoms to the north and the goal of the game will be the destruction of your decadent southern neighbor. Through war, trade, and diplomacy it will be the players task to bring down the Romans while at the same time fending off the attempts of other tribes who are striving for the same thing. Generally games in this time-frame focus on one of the major players of the time and it's refreshing to think of taking command of an upstart instead.
More concept art...
Another major change as compared to other strategy titles is the concept of 'dwindling resources'. Iron mines will run out. Fields that once supplied enormous food stores to your fledgling empire will fail. Trade, supply-lines, and the mobility of a nation will be your biggest assets when taking the battle to your enemies. A well-fed and well-supplied army can succeed against terrifying odds when the enemy troops are starving and/or poorly-equipped. There will be times when it'll benefit the player to uproot entire settlements and move to different areas of the map to exploit newly found resources. The purpose behind all of this is to remove the feeling of 'been there, done that' often found in these types of games. In other titles the mid to late-game feels like a constant build to greatness which, while fun at times, can get a bit static with the early choices and constant expansion of the start of the game determining the course of the entire play-through. Dwindling resources will attempt to add some much needed flair to the end-game by making late choices actually impact how you play.
Notice the differences between this screen and the one above...
The biggest change to the formula, and one that ties directly to the resource management mentioned earlier, is the effects of seasonal change to the landscape. In At the Gates, time is always flowing like most strategy sims. The team is attempting to bring another new idea to the table however, with terrain changes based on what season you're currently campaigning in. As summer turns to fall your food stores better be full because that plantation you've parked a settlement next to will no longer be providing as much (if any) food to your population. When fall turns to winter things get even hairier. Imagine a wide river, too deep for crossing, divides your territory with that of a rival. With a harsh enough winter it could freeze over, allowing you or your enemies to cross with ease and threaten a once-unassailable foreign city. As winter turns to spring major flooding could occur, turning grasslands into marshes and swelling the banks of rivers and lakes surrounding your troops. And, like all cycles, summer can come and blast areas of the map with so much heat that troops could find themselves stuck in arid, dry conditions which are certainly not the best for an extended campaign. The team at Conifer studios is attempting something fresh and new with this concept and I'd like to thing that it'll allow for smart dictators to do some truly wicked things to their foes.
The same map shown from the perspective of both summer and winter... Major planning will be needed to manage both resources and troop movements.
Long story short I've always been a sucker for strategy simulation-style games. The original Civilization released when I was a freshman in high-school and I've been following it ever since. While the fifth installment changed things up quite a bit I've learned to love it like all of the others and am eagerly awaiting the newest title from it's lead designer. Sid Meier is one of my gaming heroes and Jon trained and worked under him for several years, making At the Gates one of the forthcoming games I'm most eager to play.
Keep an eye on this group as I expect great things in the future from them all!
Anyone interested in joining the fun can click here to jump straight to their Kickstarter page.
It's hard to not feel a bit of ownership of a title you've backed and I hope this little blog helps spread awareness of the new ideas they're working on just a little more!
Thanks for reading Game Informer community!
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The First Livestream & Call for Donations
So yesterday I did my first development and Q&A livestream on Twitch ever.
It ended up taking 5 hours. It was one of the most fun things I ever did.
Thanks to everyone who joined, you were amazing!
If you missed it, you can theoretically watch the uncut recording of the whole thing, or just skip through it.
What we did
- Implemented a first rough version of a pollution system
- Factories create pollution when they are built
- There is an animated pollution map that shows you the severity of pollution everywhere
- Residential buildings won't be built in areas where pollution is too high
- Answered lots of questions
- Unfortunately, I won't have the time to summarize all the Q&A, but I won't mind answering the same questions again in the future. If something really gets asked again and again, I will add it to the FAQ.
I want to do this more often
My goal would be to do 2 livestreams a week, in addition to the regular weekly update video. In the update video I can then also adress the progress made in the streams in a compact way.
My final exam is getting closer and closer, so I don't know when I will be able to have a regular streaming schedule, until then everything will be pretty spontaneous - but I will keep you informed of course.
I need a better PC
Every component of my system is now a couple generations old. It was was barely able to do 720p30FPS livestream encoding and run the game at the same time, it was laggy as hell (at least on my end) - the CPU had a constant near-death experience and my humble 4GBs of RAM were more than used up at all times. Also (and this is kind of embarrassing), I didn't even have enough space on my hard disks left to do a local recording of the full stream.
In addition, my system is unpredictably unstable, I consider myself very lucky that it didn't freeze or BSOD during the stream, like it often does, especially when the weather is hot like it is now.
Case in point: My PC had a BSOD during my writing of this blog post, I had to start all over again.
I think you get the idea: In order to make high-quality streaming feasible, to speed up video editing and to improve my overall developer happiness, I need a better PC.
I can't really afford one right now, and people already suggested that I should ask for donations, but out of a false sense of humility, I didn't. But I really should:
If you have some spare money and you enjoy the content that I've been putting out, the best way to support me right would be a donation (even a small one!) that I can use to buy a new PC:
Update: I have received over $2000, this is enough, please stop donating :D Thank you very much!
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Together with its simplicity, we also combined the fun elements of an RPG game and the shrewdness of card games to create a unique sense of fun.
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◆ Game Features
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July 23, 2010
THE MODERATOR: We are ready to continue with the head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels, Houston Nutt. Welcome back to Media Days.
COACH NUTT: Thank you. Good to be back. 13th straight year. Good to be here.
Before I get going, I want to wish Bobby Johnson a happy retirement. I thought he was one of the finest coaches in the country. Great integrity. Seemed to me, he always had his guys ready to go, always had a good game plan. Just really appreciate him. Got close to him the last eight, nine years, whatever it was, when he joined. Just think a lot of him, really do.
Ole Miss. We're excited about our program. Last two years, to win Cotton Bowl, to be Cotton Bowl champions, finish in the old stadium and go into Jerry Jones' new stadium, that AT&T Cotton Bowl was something very special for our players. Before we got there, they had four previous losing seasons, hadn't won a conference game, they were so excited about going to that first Bowl. To go into that new Bowl with that stadium and that atmosphere, that arena, was really truly phenomenal. Excited about that.
That's really helped recruiting the last two signing classes, they've been outstanding. But as you look forward to this year, we lost a lot, we lost a lot. Dexter McCluster is the only person in SEC history to rush for a thousand yards, catch the ball for 500.
We had our first Ole Miss receiver to go over a thousand yards in receiving yards, Shay Hodge. He graduated.
Jevan Snead went out early. We didn't anticipate that. About 2500 yards, basically 18 wins in two seasons. Really miss that experience.
John Jerry is playing for the Miami Dolphins. He was very, very good.
Kendrick Lewis playing for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Two cover corners, Marshay Green and Cassius Vaughn are in camps right now.
We've lost a lot. But what I'm excited about starting with the guys I brought today for Media Days. Jerrell Powe, Kentrell Lockett, Bradley Sowell have really been our leaders along with Jonathan Cornell.
I want to start on defense, because our defense gives us a chance in every game because we're strong up the middle. Jerrell Powe, Lawon Scott, Teddy Laurent, Kentrell Lockett, all these guys played in the SEC, played a lot of snaps. I'm proud of their leadership, their work ethic. They've been outstanding.
Then at linebacker behind them, you have guys like Allen Walker, Jonathan Cornell. Jonathan has done a really good job of leading our team, especially our younger linebackers, D.T. Shackelford, Joel Kight, really setting a good example for those guys. So you're proud of that.
Johnny Brown, safety Fon, these guys have played. That gives you hope. I felt better about our secondary after the spring.
Marcus Temple, Jeremy McGee both have played nickel-and-dime packages. And then we had a guy, Charles Sawyer, really step up, a redshirt freshman, step up.
Offensively, a little bit different, because we lost so much. Offensive line I won't go through, you won't recognize their names. Basically we're playing with the guys, we signed except Bradley Sowell. Brought him here today. Much quicker, much more confidence, very excited about him.
But it all comes back to what you want to know about, is the quarterback. I'm really proud that we have Nathan Stanley. Had a really good spring, got better. I thought his decision-making process got better. Improved each time he went out on the field.
Hopefully Raymond Cotton will be back, make a good decision and be back with us. Randall Mackey, we signed. Just got on campus last month. He's a junior college All-American. Hopefully we'll get him going.
But as you can see, there are some holes. Tailback, Brandon Bolden and Enrique Davis. Probably don't have that Dexter McCluster, so we're going to have to do that more by committee. I'm proud of our backs. I thought Enrique Davis and Brandon Bolden, thought those guys worked hard, performed well, much quicker. We need a receiver to step up. Markeith Summers, needs to step up. Lionel Breaux from New Orleans, these guys are older, seniors, showing good leadership, but we got to go to work.
Let's open it up to questions.
Q. Coach, you look at Arkansas, Auburn, two programs on the rise in the west. In your mind, where does Ole Miss fit into the Western Division?
COACH NUTT: Well, you know, again, been here 13 times. Most of the time I've been picked towards the bottom. I don't really worry about that. I never have. A lot of people say, You coach better when you're not under such high expectations.
I've always been under low expectations, so most of the time I don't really worry about that. I tell our young men, Doesn't matter. All the polls and Bowls, that's decided on the field, so it doesn't really matter. Doesn't matter where you put us.
I understand somebody told us y'all picked us last. Thank you. That's all right. It's good. It really doesn't matter.
Q. Are you disappointed there's not been more talk about stadium expansion at Vaught-Hemingway? Facilities play a role in recruiting. Can you talk about having one of the smaller stadiums in the conference? Also could you elaborate on Raymond Cotton's situation and his decision there?
COACH NUTT: The stadium, we have good facilities. Our indoor practice facility is very, very good. Just put brand-new turf in there. Locker room, training room, meeting room is all under one roof. I love that. There's a players' lounge. I love gym rats. As a coach's son, I love guys around the building. Our former players, Eli Manning, Terrence Metcalf, Jamarca Sanford, I see those guys in there. I want our guys to see these guys.
To answer your question, we have good facilities. I think that's coming. I really do. It wasn't too long ago where they weren't even half full. When we got there, we had our first sellout last year. I think we're on target to sellout again this year. It will be the first time ever in history for 'Ole Miss to sellout back-to-back seasons.
So I think you have to sellout what you have first on a consistent basis. I think that's coming. We'll keep that noise in there, make it a hostile environment.
As far as Raymond Cotton, as a former quarterback myself, you know, as a freshman, sometimes they get what I call 'freshmanitis,' where they feel like the walls are caving in on them, I should be doing this, doing that.
Then they get to listening to some of their buddies, somebody maybe texting, a blog, all this information about what you should be doing, where you should be playing.
The bottom line is, he's just been there a very, very short time. You're a freshman now. You have a chance to compete for a job. So there's no need to make one of these rash, bad decisions.
So hopefully, his mom and dad are totally behind me. They're pushing him hard to stay. Hopefully we'll get it all corrected and he'll get back onboard and we'll go from there.
Q. You said coming out of spring that your offensive line being young, going to have to have a really good off-season. What have you seen this summer out of them?
COACH NUTT: You know, I don't get to watch them that much. I don't watch them during the summer.
But during the spring, when I do get those 15 practices, the one thing that I saw was the attitude of, 'they want to.' They had good listening skills. They want to compete. They want to get better. Bradley Sowell really improved. I thought Bobby Massie came on. Those are two tackles on the edges that give us a chance because they played.
What concerns you, keeps you up at night, never had a center snap in the SEC, the inside folks. Makes me think of that story after the first week of spring, Evan Swindall was a gray shirt kind of that first of practice. After the end of the first week, we're walking off together, I said, How did it go today?
He said, Well, Coach, are all the nose guards in the SEC, are they all as big as Jerrell Powe?
I told him, Pretty much. But I said, You're going against one of the best. Keep your head up, keep going.
That's the kind of thing we've had. We got better. Towards the end, we got some plus-yards plays going where Powe wasn't in the backfield every play.
To answer your question, I feel like they've gotten better. We need these 29 opportunities to continue on. We've got to get much, much better.
Q. Momentum-wise, how important is it, you have four of your first five games in Oxford, to gain some momentum before you play Alabama, Arkansas, and Auburn?
COACH NUTT: You hit a real key point. Schedule is really in our favor early on. We got to take advantage of it. Jacksonville State, though, you could say, Oh, Jacksonville State, but Jacksonville State had Florida State beat. They have real athletes. Jack Crowe does a tremendous job for them.
It's not as easy as if -- I want to make sure our players understand, Just don't look at the schedule and look at it like maybe one of your relatives are looking at it, like, okay, one, two, three, four, five, six. You should win the first six.
Hold on now. Let's get these practices going, let's get better, let's get the snap from the center. We got a lot of work to do.
But you're exactly right. Got to take advantage of the schedule, especially early.
Q. On a 1 to 10 scale, how important is football to the identity of your school, Ole Miss?
COACH NUTT: It's hard to put a number on it. I know this, it's very important. You listen to our fans, who I just love their passion. I love their attitude towards football.
If you were to walk in The Grove before our game, you would say 10, because it's one of the best atmospheres in America before a football game. I've been trying to coach 'em for two years to make sure you leave The Grove and come to our stadium now and get in there, get in there early. They've done a much better job last year.
But I would say it's really passion, real enthusiasm. I'm just really proud of our fans, our people that support us.
Q. Is Randall Mackey a player that you guys would like to contribute somewhere else on the field if he can't make it on the field as a quarterback?
COACH NUTT: Probably so. We're going to give him a lot of attention at quarterback, especially if Raymond decides to leave. That will really boost the package. We'll really have to get him going quickly.
But to answer your question, you know, we had plans -- we want to put the best athletes on the field. He's one that can make things happen. He probably could play some wide receiver. He's been an outstanding quarterback. He was an All-American junior college quarterback. He has escape-ability. He can make things happen. Fun to watch.
We're excited about Randall, looking forward to working with him. He'll start out, though, mainly at quarterback.
Q. The 2011 Chick-Fil-A Classic kickoff game, it hasn't been booked yet. Would you make a case for moving the home game with Boise State to Atlanta, if you could, for the attention?
COACH NUTT: I'd like to play in that game. I'd like to come down there. Right now, I think our fans are all pumped up about that game. I had to remind them that we have a season now - not next year, now. I probably would like to leave everything like it is. But please give us a rain check. We want to come play. We want to come play down there.
Q. What does Dave Rader's experience bring to your staff? How are the coordinator positions going to work for you?
COACH NUTT: Dave Rader brings so much experience to the table. I've been so impressed with him. I've always watched him afar from the sideline. When I was at Oklahoma State, he was at Tulsa. We got to be very good friends from recruiting, to seeing each other different places, clinics. Just a quality, quality person. Couldn't be better timing to have a guy like that with two young quarterbacks. You have to get ready in this league. Just been awesome. So intelligent. Very, very good with teaching.
If you go back and did a study on his quarterbacks, Gus Frerotte, Brodie Croyle, T.J. Rubley, his quarterbacks always play good. He knows where to go with the ball. They take care of it. Good manager of the game. All those things.
As far as coordinating all that thing, Mike Marcus has been with me for 18 years. One of the finest offensive line coaches in America. Basically, Dave Rader, Mike Marcus, and myself, with the rest of the crew, we put together a game plan. I've been calling plays for the last -- since I got to Ole Miss. That doesn't necessarily mean it's just me. We really do a thorough study on first-and-10 starters, third-and-seven. Really, anybody could call the game.
To me, it's fun being in there, being part of it, getting in there with those young men. To me, it's the funnest time there is. SEC Saturday competing, there's nothing like it.
But from James Shibest to Ron Dickerson, Derrick Nix, we're all involved in it.
Q. A lot has been made about the search for Ole Miss' next mascot.
COACH NUTT: The next mascot? You know what, I haven't been worried about that too much. We're Ole Miss Rebels. That's what I go by. There's, again, a lot of passion. Our students are going to handle that. I'm going to let them handle that.
What I do know, we're the Ole Miss Rebels and they're going to pick a good one.
Q. Tell us about how Jerrell Powe has progressed since the first time you saw him.
COACH NUTT: Jerrell Powe is a wonderful story. To me, that's what college football is all about. What you love about him is his perseverance. Anybody could have gave up. Anybody could have stopped after the first time or second time or third time when he couldn't get in school. But this guy keeps going, keeps going.
When I first met him, he was 383 pounds. He's 316. He has a real drive. He has drive for excellence, whether it be in the classroom, on the football field, the weight room. This guy is a real leader. That's why he's here today. I just love that guy. I think he's going to be a real impact player this year. Hopefully he just continues to get better and better.
I can't explain to you the difference from the first time I met him fundamentally to where he is now. Big-time player.
Q. This time last year, lots of expectations for your club all over the place. Can you talk about the pitfalls that those kind of expectations have?
COACH NUTT: That's a good question. That's a really good question.
What you really want to guard against is you want to embrace it, but at the same time, you got to be ready to help your team if the bubble pops. The bubble bursted on us in South Carolina Thursday night. It was a very difficult schedule to go from Saturday to Thursday night, especially no matter where you play in the SEC, each stadium is the best in the country, the atmosphere. South Carolina is awesome on Thursday night.
When that bubble popped, that's where you better have some 'Dr. Feel' in ya. You better be ready to go, to help your team, because expectations are so high. Fans have this vision that you're going straight to Atlanta. You got to be ready to adjust. We all want to go there.
Ole Miss, we've never had one team go to the Atlanta championship game. That's where we want to go. That's where we want to get to. One day we're gonna be there. But it's very, very difficult.
But to answer your question, I would just say, Hey, embrace it. It's awesome. But you got to get ready, though, in case there's a little detour along the way.
Q. Can you talk about your decision to bring Jerrell Powe here, a guy that some people didn't think should even get in college. Today he's here speaking to all these media. That's a pretty big jump.
COACH NUTT: Well, because I've been with him now for two years. He's a class, class guy. He's got a heart bigger than Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. He loves Ole Miss. He loves his school. He's going to be a tremendous ambassador no matter what happens in the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years. He loves Ole Miss. He loves his teammates. There is no question in my mind he could stand right here in front of you and answer whatever you want to ask him. He deserves to be here.
That was really a no-brainer for me.
Q. What do you tell your players about what they post online or Facebook, these various social networking sites?
COACH NUTT: That's one of the very first things when we have our first meeting, when freshmen get on campus, that you got to realize your name. It's your name that's so important. Everybody can see you through Facebook, what you put out there. It's about your name, it's about our name, it's about your family name, our family name, Ole Miss. We want you representing us the right way.
We tell them to be extremely cautious of what they put out there, the words they use. I had to, in fact, talk to a couple of our players last year. I didn't like some of the things that were on there. They said, Coach, it's the name of a song.
I said, I don't like the name of the song then. It's just that deal.
We're in a different world. Everybody can get to know you pretty quick. You need to be very, very cautious.
Q. You said starting off with defense, with your remarks, you feel that defense gives your team a chance to win every game this season. Realistic to think that unit can be better as a unit than it was last year?
COACH NUTT: I think it can. I know we lost a lot. I know what you're thinking, because the secondary, two cover corners, safety like Kendrick Lewis with the Kansas City Chiefs right now. I know what you're thinking.
After spring, I have a lot of confidence in Tyrone Nix. One of the best defensive coordinators in the country. They love playing for him. We're going to play hard. If we can stay healthy, I think we can, I think we can be.
Q. What do you think about playing Jack Crowe, a guy that hired you at Arkansas? Dan Mullen, he doesn't say Ole Miss, he says 'that school to the north.' What is your take on that?
COACH NUTT: Jack Crowe, I have a tremendous respect for. Actually, gotten very, very close with Jack. We've stayed in touch after our years at Arkansas. Probably two, three years there, we didn't have much of a relationship. But after that, we talked periodically.
I really don't know how that game came about. I really don't. I don't do the schedule. John Hartwell and Pete Boone make the schedule. That's how that came about. I was surprised.
But I have an awesome respect for Coach Crowe. He's done a tremendous job down there. He's really turned that program around. Just a good man and does a good job.
What was your other question?
Q. Dave Mullen says 'that school to the north.'
COACH NUTT: I don't know. Somebody keeps telling me about that. I don't know too much about that (smiling).
Q. Could you talk a little bit about Kentrell, what he brings to your defense, the importance he plays? Could you also talk about the offensive line, what you're expecting from them?
COACH NUTT: Kentrell, if he walked in right now, you'd say that's what a defensive end looks like. 6'6", close to 255, 260. He might even have more weight than that, maybe 265. He's a guy that brings real energy to our defense. He can really put pressure on a quarterback. He can rush the passer. He's been a play-maker. He helped block the field goal extra point against Florida in the Swamp. He's a play-maker. This guy is a real play-maker.
I love his attitude. I love what he brings to us in the locker room. His attitude is contagious. He's a winner. He knows how to do it the right way. I'm glad he's here with us today.
As far as the offensive line, again, that's our biggest concern, what keeps you up at night. It's the middle. It's the center. It's the guards. They haven't played. Feel good about our tackles because they have played.
But after the spring, I know in my heart, I know we can be a good football team. They gotta pick up right where they left off. Coach Markuson, I have a lot of confidence in what he can do with these guys. I feel like they'll get there. It's just that they're very young and inexperienced.
Q. Boise State was brought up. It was used in the same sentence as moving that game to Atlanta possibly. It's a true testament to yourself that Boise State is the team that it is, that we've seen this past decade. Talk about your experience at Boise State and do you think you pretty much laid the foundation to get that thing going?
COACH NUTT: No, I appreciate Gene Bleimeyer, the athletic director that gave me a chance. I was at Murray State. They just moved up to Division I. When I went out there for the interview, I knew they had real passion. The people, the fans, they love football in Boise, Idaho. Beautiful place, mountains, everything. Yes, they do have blue turf. It was an awesome experience.
But as far as us having that much to do with it, Boise State, if you check the record, they've won a lot of games, even when they won AA, before now that they've taken off. I don't know if we had that much to do with it. I think we did maybe help with a few things. Just had one year there. Pokey Allen did a very good job. He had passed away when I got there. They had a bad season the year before. Then they make that move to Division I. Gene Bleimeyer added seats to the stadium. So the atmosphere was just awesome.
So you could see it. You could really see this thing is going to be very special. You could see it coming. Coach Peterson has just done an awesome job.
Q. Last year with the expectations and everything, you still had a great season. Were there any things that you saw scheme-wise maybe offensively or defensively during play that you didn't execute on that you feel like you can improve on this year and still have a good season despite the loss of your talent from last year's team?
COACH NUTT: Absolutely. I think it always starts with protecting the most important thing that you have, and that's the ball. Win the turnover margin. We had 20 interceptions last year. That and the fumbles, you're putting your defense in a very difficult situation.
We can always do better with that. You play good defense, you cover kicks, you take care of the ball, you got a chance to be in every ballgame and win it, especially in the fourth quarter. That's the main thing.
THE MODERATOR: Coach, thank you.
COACH NUTT: Thank you.
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Pontiac Problems? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
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I would say that unless it is having shifting issues right now, then yes it is a good idea to have the fluid and filter changed. If it was giving any trouble, then i would say to not change it because sometimes it makes things actually worse. It usually turns brown from heat build up inside the transmission and changing it on a schedule is always a good idea.
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That could be caused from a restricted filter inside the trans. Just make sure they change it as well as the fluid. (they normally do) and it may very well take care of it. If not, then pressure testing internally in the trans will need to be performed, but the fluid and filter must be changed first. | <urn:uuid:9c05d018-4320-46cd-a0dd-3e0b6fae5b5b> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.justanswer.com/pontiac/4s1ki-2004-pontiac-grand-prix-flushed-an-oil-change-transmission-fluid.html | 2016-05-06T08:12:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861735203.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164215-00219-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960446 | 233 | [
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Over the course of her 28 years in real estate, Dunfee excelled as a result of her vast understanding of marketing, ability to build relationships and focus on providing ethical representation. In addition to being consistently recognized for her sales achievements as a commercial broker, she earned the San Diego Daily Transcript's "Who's Who in San Diego Business" award for 2009, as well as the 2008 Women of Influence award given by Real Estate Southern California magazine.
In 2004, Dunfee was recognized by the San Diego Business Journal as a nominee for the "Women Who Mean Business" award. She credits her success to her passion for real estate, open communication style and commitment to help her clients realize their goals. During her career she has accomplished the successful marketing and management of properties valued at over $6,000,000,000 in consideration.
"Real estate has been my entire life," commented Dunfee, a homeowner in La Jolla for the past 30 years. "I truly enjoy working with my fellow agents and colleagues to find the best possible properties for my clients."
With experience that encompasses the purchase and sale of commercial properties, residential properties, land and investments, as well as brokerage management, Dunfee has a comprehensive knowledge of multiple aspects of real estate. By drawing from this knowledge, she provides her clients with valuable insights and useful guidance about the implications of their decisions in real estate.
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Disney has announced a March 18 release date for the animated smash hit Frozen starring the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana, Alan Tudyk, Ciaran Hinds and Chris Williams on Blu-ray and DVD following multiple retailer leaks that revealed the date over two weeks ago, with Frozen already available for pre-order.
Though Frozen was released theatrically in 3D, the studio is opting not to support Blu-ray 3D in the home video release plans. The only way to watch Frozen 3D at home will be via Digital 3D, which will debut early on February 25 along with the Digital HD version.
Frozen on Blu-ray will be packaged with the DVD and Digital HD versions of the film in a two-disc set. The film will be presented in its original 2.39:1 aspect ratio in 1080p video, with audio being serviced via 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio.
Bonus features found on the Frozen Blu-ray are fairly robust, with many of them being available via Digital HD – though not all. Here is the complete list of extras:
- The Making Of Frozen (Blu-ray, Digital)
- D’frosted: Disney’s Journey From Hans Christian Anderson to Frozen (Blu-ray, Digital)
- Breaking The Ice – The Real Making Of Frozen (Blu-ray, Digital)
- 4 Deleted Scenes with introduction by Directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
- Original Theatrical Short – “Get A Horse” (Blu-ray, Digital & DVD)
- “Let It Go” Music Videos by Demi Lovato, Martina Stoessel & Marsha Milan Londoh (Blu-ray, Digital & DVD)
- Frozen Teaser Trailer (Blu-ray, Digital & DVD)
Frozen has been heating up the Blu-ray bestsellers chart at Amazon.com for several weeks now. Since it’s Blu-ray announcement from Disney earlier today, the film’s Blu-ray and DVD combo pre-order has staked claim to the number one sales slot and doesn’t appear willing to easily cough it up. Ironically Disney and Marvel’s Thor is in the second position.
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Vanity Fair’s annual “Hollywood Issue” can usually double as their annual “I See White People Issue,” but they decided to switch shit up this year. There’s 12 actors on the cover and half aren’t white. Racism is over!
On the cover from left to right is Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts, Idris Elba, George Clooney, Michael B. Jordan, Jared Leto, Lupita Nyong’o, Naomie Harris, Brie Larson, Chadwick Boseman, Margot Robbie and Léa Seydoux. The left side looks like Julia and her chorus boys relaxing backstage between the matinee and evening performance of their cruise shop show where she sings the hits of Kander & Ebb. The right side looks like a bunch of models in a wedding fashion show who are suffering from the wet shits after they made the mistake of eating the Mexican lunch given to them. (Chadwick is obviously good because he brought his own food.) And in the middle is Lupita looking like OSCAH gold!
VF should get a slow clap for giving us diversity, but it’s still not diverse enough for my taste and by that I mean the dudes should’ve posed with no clothes on.
And the long-awaited, so-called GOOP takedown is in this shit and I’m afraid to read it. Graydon Carter apparently goes soft on Goopy and reading it is probably going to be a lot like sucking on a big, 9″ peen that just won’t get hard. Just wave of disappointment after wave of disappointment. | <urn:uuid:22b23ad8-9808-4e44-9bcc-11f91dcbd450> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://dlisted.com/2014/02/03/vanity-fairs-hollywood-issue-is-here/ | 2016-04-30T13:09:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111865.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00093-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946632 | 353 | [
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What command can I use to see how many times the particular link is down and up in Cisco 3845 series router in cap side?
For example: s1/0:12 and how to know in branch side in 1800 series router exp-s0/1/0
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Uncommon dishes of beef lung offer up culinary challenges and heaps of healthy benefits, like high protein contents that aid in muscle growth and promote overall well-being. Testing the tolerance of Asian taste buds, spicy marinades with turmeric bases coat thinly sliced meat in this beef lungs and chilli recipe, before it’s fried up into crispy goodness. You can’t go wrong with this for dinner tonight!
Why not try this for dessert?
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- 1kg beef lungs
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tomato ~ cut into small cubed
- 1 tbsp turmeric powder
- 2 tbsp chili powder
- 2-3 tbsp garlic & ginger paste
- 1 tsp salt
- 10 fresh red chilies
- 5 red bird’s eye (depends how spicy u want it)
- 3 cloves garlic
- 4 shallots
- 2″ galangal
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp sugar (I use light brown sugar)
- Boil the beef lungs in salted water & bay leaves until tender & cut them into thin strips. Set aside & let it cool.
- Marinate the cooked beef lungs for about 30 mins or more. Then deep fry the beef lung & set aside.
- Heat 2 tbsp oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Saute the pounded mixture till fragrant & add cut tomatoes. Stir the mixture to combine.
- Then add the deep fried beef lungs into the mixture to coat. Reduce the heat to medium-low; simmer until fragrant for about 5 mins.
- Remove from heat & serve the beef lungs with steamed white rice or eat by itself.
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Grain traffic testing Wheatbelt roads after railway services close
A shire in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia says its roads are barely coping with additional truck traffic after the closure of Tier 3 railway lines.
At the end of last month a number of Tier 3 lines in Western Australia were placed into care and maintenance by rail operator Brookfield Rail.
However in October last year the Quairading to York and Merredin to Trayning lines closed.
Tier 3 lines transport grain from up-country receival sites to port. Grain that was transported by rail will be placed on the road.
Quairading shire president Darryl Richards says much of the grain delivered to Quairading over the harvest period was stored on site and is now being trucked to Cunderdin and then put on rail.
He says approximately 1,500 to 1,700 tonnes of grain is being moved on the Quairading to Cunderdin Road six days a week over a period of about 23 weeks.
This is the first carting period without grain being transported from Quairading via Tier 3 rail.
The shires of Quairading and Cunderdin have been working on the road linking the two towns, however Mr Richards says these works are approximately 18 months off completion.
"There are sections of the strip widening, which is the new works we have done, there's one just north of Quairading townsite, it's broken up a section six to 10 metres long and virtually the width of the dual tyres of the trucks and trailers, that has broken up and I expect as time goes on it will break up further," he says.
He says the road contains several dangerous sweeping bends which the shire is managing.
"We actually had a truck roll over about five weeks ago, a trailer rolled over on one of the bad S bends. Luckily no one was hurt, but since then we've had to take measures to reduce the speed limits on some of these corners for road safety for all users, not just the trucking contractors." | <urn:uuid:5c23b8d1-be47-44e8-a494-69baa40f3daf> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-15/railway-closure-pressures-roads/5598646 | 2016-04-30T14:31:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111865.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00093-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97288 | 420 | [
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[Aviation Today June 13, 2014] Boeing has reached an agreement with several of Japan's major aircraft component manufacturing companies to supply approximately 21 percent of the major components for its next generation 777X. The agreement was signed between Boeing and Japan Aircraft Industries (JAI) and Japan Aircraft Development Corp. (JADC) to secure five key Japanese companies.
Computer-generated rendering of Boeing 777X. Photo, courtesy of Boeing.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI), ShinMaywa Industries (SMIC) and NIPPI Corporation (NIPPI) are all part of JAI and were deleted in order to help Boeing meet its "affordability goals for the 777X," according to a statement from Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner.
"They model the kind of partnership we need from our global suppliers to best serve our customers and meet the changing demands in the marketplace," Conner added.
Under the agreement, the Japanese manufacturers will provide the fuselage sections, center wing sections, pressure bulkheads, main landing gear wells, wing components and wing-body fairings, and passenger, cargo and main landing gear doors, according to Boeing.
The announcement from Boeing comes as the major competitor to its next generation passenger jet, the Airbus
A350 XWB, saw a $16 billion order cancelled by the Dubai-based Emirates Airlines. Emirates is also the biggest customer for the Boeing 777X, placing a $76 billion order for 150 aircraft with 50 options during the Dubai Air Show in the fall of 2013.
Boeing has previously partnered with Japanese suppliers to manufacture previous passenger jets, including the Next-Generation 737, 737 MAX, 747, 767, 777, and 787 Dreamliner.
George Maffeo, president of Boeing Japan, calls the agreement the formation of a "strategic relationship for decades to come."
"As the 777X is larger than the current 777, the value of the structural components procured from Japan will be proportionately higher, generating more value for our partners as well for Boeing. Together, we are changing and shaping the future of commercial aviation," said Maffeo.
While Boeing has not yet announced a finalized avionics architecture for the 777X, in May 2013, vice president of marketing and business development Mike Blair told a gathering of investors and analysts in New York that the company was seeking to transfer the major elements of the 787's cockpit avionics to the 777X. The 787 cockpit system features an Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) structure with major systems components provided by Honeywell, Rockwell Collins and General Electric (GE). Boeing will begin production on the 777X in 2017, and is targeting 2020 for its first delivery. | <urn:uuid:c1e1c675-be82-4633-a0cb-e0be931dd89d> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.aviationtoday.com/the-checklist/Boeing-Taps-Japanese-Suppliers-for-777X-Program_82394.html | 2016-04-30T13:13:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111865.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00093-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93951 | 575 | [
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I had the chance to chat briefly with 2011 wing prospect Dominique Pointer last week and he passed along several updates on his recruitment.
Pointer is an athletic, 6-5 slasher playing with The Family this AAU season. Pointer originally went to high school in Roseville, MI before transferring to Quality Education Academy in North Carolina.
Pointer said that though he is known for his ability to play above the rim, he is also a “lockdown defender.” He said he felt like he “definitely” played well this summer. Pointer added that he has picked up offers from West Virginia, Miami (FL), Tennessee and DePaul.
Pointer is currently playing at the Nike Global Challenge in Portland where he has impressed with his athleticism:
Pointer has a terrific wing-type frame, has off-the-charts athleticism and gets his points by attacking the rim. He takes contact well and usually elevates over the competition. He can finish with either hand and his conversions are usually of the spectacular variety. However, at his size, his jump shot needs to get better. The lift on his shot is ideal, but he tends to shoot on the way down causing his shot to be flat.
Regarding Michigan, Pointer said that, were the Wolverines to offer, they would be “up there near the top” of his list. He also mentioned that say he would like to commit around “the middle of the college season.”
After stopping by for a quick unofficial visit last weekend, Pointer has met the Michigan coaching staff and said “they’re real nice people.” Pointer said he likes Michigan because “it’s close to home, it’s a good school, and some really good players come out of there.” | <urn:uuid:a0d3424d-a52e-45e1-93cd-c0cdc0338cbd> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.umhoops.com/2010/08/08/a-quick-update-with-dominque-pointer/ | 2016-04-30T13:13:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111865.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00093-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991934 | 379 | [
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Guam Sucks !
Guam is the worst place to visit. The pictures of
Guam look pretty, but Guam is really a third world ghetto! The beaches
are polluted with sewage !
The local sewage treatment plant is badly
neglected. The raw sewage flows right
into the water and down to the tourist beaches. Sometimes you can even
smell it and see the toilet paper in the water.The locals hate the
tourists and will do anything they can get away with.
There are plenty
of beatings, robberies and rapes on the tourists. The whole economy is
geared towards fleecing the tourists. The obvious hate that the locals
have poisons every human interaction with them. If you come to Guam, you
will feel it too. The locals consider the abuse on the tourists as a
joke, and something to brag about. You will sit in a restaurant and wait
and wait and wonder if the rude waitress is doing something really bad
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Raise your hand if you want a Dyson! I don’t even have rugs but I’d love one. Today this Dyson DC24 Ultra Lightweight Bagless Upright All-Floor Ball Vacuum is on sale for just $279.99 (normally $399).
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Farah, the Olympic and world 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres champion, will headline the men’s elite field at the NYC Half. He won the race in 2011 in what was his first half-marathon.
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[fso-testing] Where has ld.so.conf gone?
robert.m.norton+moko at gmail.com
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2008/10/26 Joel Newkirk <freerunner at newkirk.us>:
> Without that file ldconfig errors out -
> if it exists (even empty) ldconfig takes 10-20 seconds and rebuilds cache
> and links to known installed libraries.
Sounds like that might explain some of the errors I was seeing then
(random segfaults post-upgrade). Is anyone else testing those images?
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Samsung’s Galaxy Camera is a clumsy but promising step toward the future of consumer cameras.
I’ve spent two days using the Galaxy to shoot photos, then upload them to Instagram, Google+ and Dropbox. I also checked my email, managed my calendar, surfed the web, played Angry Birds and streamed video from YouTube and Vimeo. I’ve never been able to do any of these things on a camera before. But then, there’s never been a camera like this before.
The Galaxy Camera isn’t so much a camera with an Android phone, but an Android phone with a big fat lens on it. Well, an Android phone that can’t make calls. It feels like an Android device first and a camera second. As such, it feels like a not yet fully realized idea. But Samsung is on the right track. This isn’t the smart camera we’ve been waiting for, but it just might be the closest we’ve come.
The 16-megapixel sensor and 21x optical-zoom lens take sharp, detailed photos, though the camera struggles in low-light environments. You’d think 8GB of built-in storage would be enough for most casual photographers, but you quickly run out once you start loading the Galaxy Camera up with apps, music and video. There’s a microSD card slot for those looking to add extra storage, but at $500 from AT&T or $550 from Verizon, eight gigs is a letdown. (Those prices don’t include the data plans, BTW.)
Cost aside, the ability to run almost any Android app on a point-and-shoot camera is novel and fun. I wowed a few friends playing games on the back of what looks like a regular pocket camera. The 4.8-inch, 720p touchscreen looks good and responds well. TouchWiz shows up in full effect, water droplet and whistle-notification sounds effects and all. However, the size of the Galaxy Camera makes it a chore to carry in your pocket, though it’s right at home in a backpack or purse. The notifications streaming in can also get annoying. LinkedIn requests, Foursquare check-ins, email spam, tweets — all the downsides of web-connected devices are here. The information overload and constant distraction of the smartphone can now be found in a camera.
But despite some quirks and rough edges, sharing photos you just snapped to the web is easy and a trend we’ll see continue across cameras. The touchscreen user interface on the Galaxy Camera isn’t perfect or the easiest to use, but it still feels simpler than the dials and buttons normally found on the back of many cameras.
The fact is Samsung, and Canon, and Nikon, and Sony and maybe even Lytro eventually will find the right mix of touchscreen tech and apps to improve the cameras they build. And they’ll do so in a lightweight, capable and affordable package someday. With most folks nowadays leaving their point-and-shoot at home and opting just to use their smartphone camera, this change will need to take place if this segment of consumer electronics is to survive.
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MANAGER Gary Whild has warned his Kidderminster Harriers players not to take Dartford for granted at Aggborough today (3pm).
The Kent outfit finished in the relegation zone last season but were thrown a lifeline during the summer when they were reinstated to the Vanarama Conference following Salisbury City’s explusion for failing to pay creditors.
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Dartford have so far lost 2-1 at home to Wrexham but were denied victory at Woking in midweek by an injury-time equaliser and had to settle for a 1-1 draw.
“Dartford will be tough and it will be similar to Alfreton, we will have to be patient and keep concentrating,” the Harriers manager said.
“Their mentality will be that they’ve had the let-off with what happened in the summer and they very much want to be part of this league, as they showed in their first season.
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Meanwhile, defender Jared Hodgkiss has savoured the start to his Kidderminster career following his summer move from Forest Green.
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Trade Talk, Spring 2010
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In this issue..
A message from our CEO
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An upgraded outlook for the Canadian economy this year has made the resumption of interest rate hikes this summer appear to be an odds-on bet. So, now the issue for investors isn't when, but how far and how fast the Bank of Canada will go.
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Highlights from the 2010 Workbench user forum
In mid-April, CIBC Mellon hosted its spring 2010 Workbench user forum breakfast session at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto. The forum focused on a presentation of the Workbench roadmap and a summary of the results from our 2009 Workbench user survey. The forum also provided users with valuable tips and information on how they can enhance their Workbench experience.
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The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and Other Philosophical Writings: In Three Volumes: Volume 1: Drafts a and B
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Harness racing trainer/driver Pat Hudon has made one of the hardest decisions he's ever had to make, choosing to focus solely on training his standardbred stable. Hudon, 40, admits he's been thinking about retiring from driving for a while.
It wasn’t until after an on-track incident on November 10 at Woodbine, when he was unseated along with his father Joe and his brother Phil, that he came to the conclusion he would hand over the reins for good.
“It kind of scared me,” said the horseman, who was taken to hospital with a dislocated shoulder and an injury to his calf.
“It took a couple months for me to decide it was time to stop driving, but it’s the time to do it,” he added. “I think it’s the right thing to do.”
Before his most recent misfortune at Woodbine, Hudon recalled a handful of other incidents, including an accident in a qualifying race in April 2002, which rendered him unconscious.
“You get a head injury as bad as I did and when you come out of it, you get another chance,” he explained. “You only get so many chances.”
And Hudon won’t chance it for his family’s sake.
“You are doing something you love and to decide to stop, it was tough, but it would be selfish of me to keep driving,” said Hudon, who has two children, Dylan, 8, and Julia, 5, with his wife, Rochelle. “I have a young family. I don’t want to take the chance that I might get into an accident again. I want to remember my kids and I want my kids to grow up with me. Family is first.”
With 21 years of driving under his belt, Hudon says he has fond memories of being in the race bike.
“I don’t regret driving one bit,” said Hudon, who rates his win with Armbro Nautilus in 1:50.3 in the Free-For-All at Mohawk in 1998 as one of his greatest racing moments. “I love it and I will definitely miss it.”
Throughout his driving career, Hudon persevered through hard work and determination to record 1,561 wins and over $12.5 million in purse earnings.
Hudon finished second to veteran reinsman Paul MacKenzie in 2000 and 2001 at Flamboro Downs in both wins and earnings, notching a career-best 315 wins and over $2.4 millions in earnings in 2001.
The Rockwood resident’s last trip to the winner’s circle, on September 26, 2011 at Mohawk, was a memorable moment. Not only did he score with one of his pupils, Hidden Identity, he also celebrated his 40th birthday.
Driver Jody Jamieson, one of the Canada’s top drivers, regularly competed against Hudon in the early 2000’s at both the Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) circuit and Flamboro.
“He used to torture us all,” he recalled with a laugh. “Pat’s strategy was to be first-up, parked first-up every race. We all thought it was crazy, so we would try to get on his back and follow him. He just got those horses to live.
“He would just float off the gate and we would all be leaving or taking back or trying to get position and Pat would just get his usual spot, parked first-over and he’d turn them loose down the backside,” Jamieson added. “He won a ton of races.”
Jamieson also appreciates Hudon’s decision to focus on training his stable of seven, while enlisting the services of his brother, Phil, or catch-drivers to steer his trainees.
“Pat has been in a few wrecks,” he said. “I think for him and his family it is probably the best decision. Pat is a hell of a horseman. He is going to be heard from in this business for a long time.”
One thing Hudon has learned throughout his driving career, both on and off the racetrack, is that it’s important to know when to make the right decision.
Even when they happen to be tough ones.
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Palm Springs Film Fest: Meryl Streep Accepts Icon Award With Heartwarming Speech (Video)
The "August: Osage County" actress tells the star-studded awards gala that "an icon is like a thing that stands alone," but she stands "with my fellow actors. I rely on them. I depend on them. I have them to thank for every wonderful thing that has happened in my life, so far."
Meryl Streep stepped out in Palm Springs on Saturday for the 25th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's awards gala.
The August: Osage County actress was presented with the Icon Award by co-star Margo Martindale. The honor has been given out just one other time -- to Michael Douglas in 2011.
Stepping out on stage, the Oscar-winning actress said: "I'm really honored, honored to be here. I feel so lucky to have gotten so many chances over and over and over and over again.
"I feel like I'm an example, now. In my dotage of you know, the fact, you can't just put those old gals to pasture," she joked, while throwing a few punches at the audience across the stage.
She continued: "We've got a lot of stuff, still, to say. My whole speech was already said by everybody. You know, what a rich year, blah, blah blah -- so many good performances. And it's absolutely true. I've been so inspired by the work of so many people this year, especially. It's quite humbling.
"The only problem is, there really aren't enough hours in a day to see and digest these amazing pieces of work and the way you're used to live with a movie for a week. Now you got to watch each one every five minutes. There's another one to get to the theater -- or worse, you have to put in the screener," Streep said to the audience. "I'm so grateful to those people who pay for the movies, Harvey, and everyone else because thank you, thank you for giving us this richness and beautiful opportunity.
"Everything that Sandra [Bullock] Googled, they say about me, too," said the actress, referring to the Gravity star who said she had Googled herself while preparing for her Palm Springs Film Fest awards speech. "But they say, 'over 60.' So? So what, who cares.
"It makes me proud to be an actor, to be standing with so many people I admire, whose work shocks and surprises me each time out," Streep said to the star-studded crowd, which included Bullock, Bruce Dern, Tom Hanks, Matthew McConaughey, Steve McQueen, Julia Roberts, Thomas Newman and newcomer Lupita Nyong'o.
"It brings me to this idea of an icon. I don't feel like an icon on most days. I feel like I conned," she said, drawing laughter from the attendees. "I'm an actor, that's all I am. I'm not a producer, I'm not a director. I don't produce projects. I just come to work every day with an actor's anxiety. I lay into the work with an actor's appetite. I relate to Bruce Dern. You got to get out there and really fight to defend your characters, even the ones that are disagreeable, horrible and unredeemable in everybody's eyes, expect for my sister Margo's character in August: Osage. There's always somebody that loves somebody, who is unlovable."
Added Streep: "An icon is like a thing that stands alone. I stand with my fellow actors. I rely on them. I depend on them. I have them to thank for every wonderful thing that has happened in my life, so far."
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BioM: Hansen, Mathilda (Marriage - 1927)
Surnames: HANSEN HAAS CRUISE
----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 06/16/1927
Hansen, Mathilda (Marriage - 15 JUN 1927)
One of the prettiest June weddings to occur took place Wednesday afternoon at the Danish Lutheran Church at Withee, Clark County, Wis., when Miss Mathilda Hansen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hansen of this city, and Mr. Lyle Haas of Withee, was solemnized before a large crowd of relatives and friends. The Rev. Petersen, pastor of the Danish Lutheran Church read the ceremony which made them man and wife.
The young people were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hansen, a brother and sister-in-law of the bride, Mr. James Hansen, a brother of the bride. Immediately following the ceremony the bridal party went to the home of the bride's parents, south of Withee, where a reception was given and a wedding supper served.
The bride is a young lady of sterling qualities, and has been teaching school for the past two years, two miles south of Withee. She is well liked by those who have come in contact with her and her work, and will make a good helpmate.
The groom for some time past has been employed in the Cooperative Creamery at Withee and is an industrious young man with a future before him. Their many friends wish for the success and happiness in their married life.
Those from out of town who came to attend the wedding were: Mr. and Mrs. Vern Cruise, Chicago; Arthur Jensen, Eau Claire; and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Jensen, Eau Claire.
Thursday morning the young people left on a wedding trip which will take them to the Black Hills of South Dakota, and other points of interest in the West. They will be at home to their many friends after July 1 at Withee.
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|Creator:||Baldowski, Clifford H., 1917-|
|Title:||--I'll wear mine where I please-- eh, watch it brother! / Baldy, [ca. 1974].|
The Clifford "Baldy" Baldowski cartoon depicts a group of men with fake halos and hands folded in prayer. One of them, a "South Georgia Methodist," uses his halo as a hula-hoop and addresses an African-American man who also wears a fake halo.
|Types:||Editorial cartoons | Visual works|
|Subjects:||Methodist Church (U.S.) South Georgia Conference | African American Methodists--Georgia | Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity | Georgia--Race relations | Georgia|
|Collection:||Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library.|
|Institution:||Digital Library of Georgia|
|Contributors:||Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoon Collection (Digital Library of Georgia) | Digital Library of Georgia | Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies|
|Online Publisher:||[Athens, Ga. : Digital Library of Georgia] | 2001|
1 item ; 36 x 44 cm. paper pen and ink. [Atlanta, Ga. : Atlanta Constitution, ca. 1974]
|Rights and Usage:|
The Baldowski cartoons created for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution are licensed to the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Cite as: [Title of the cartoon], [Date of cartoon], editorial cartoon by Clifford H. Baldowski, Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoon Collection, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
Forms part of the Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoon Collection.
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Windows Server 2003 Implementing A Network Infrastructure MasterExam - 70-291Experts
The Windows Server 2003 Implementing Network Infrastructure MasterExam supplements the training and hands-on experience needed to pass Microsoft exam 70-291, Implementing, Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure. To successfully complete the exam, candidates will need a solid understanding of implementing, managing and maintaining IP addressing, name resolution, network security, routing, remote access and network infrastructure. This product directly correlates with its related LearnKey training.
- Preparation for Microsoft exam 70-291.
- Three testing modes that allow you to vary the level of complexity.
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Have you ever had Burmese food before? I certainly had not. So when I saw this recipe in Saveur (which happens to be my new favorite food magazine), I knew I wanted to try it as something totally new. Burma is a country we are familiar with in our house because Craig worked for clients there when he was working for the Public International Law and Policy Group. But being familiar with the political situation in Burma gave us no clue about the country’s cuisine. After trying this recipe, though, I would certainly like to try more.
In order to make this recipe, I had to convince myself that I was totally over my fear of too much fish sauce, which I pretty much did. I still reduced the amount a little from what was in the original recipe, but I pretty much went for it. The end result was excellent. Because it cooks entirely over high heat (this was the key technique emphasized in the stir-frying issue of Saveur in which it appeared), this stir-fry produces lots of those wonderful dark browned bits that give a dish like this so much flavor. This dish is also a nice change from the Chinese-style stir-fries I usually make, since it contains none of my usual sauce ingredients (soy sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar, etc.). It has a great saltiness from the fish sauce, it’s spicy, and the flavors work together really well. And as a bonus, if you try it, you can say you’ve had Burmese food.
Burmese chicken stir-fry
Lightly adapted from: Saveur
- 1 lb. skinless, boneless chicken thighs, cut into 1″ thick strips
- 2 Tbsp. canola oil
- 1 tsp. cornstarch
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 1 small onion, cut into 3⁄4″ pieces
- 2 tsp. sweet paprika (I only had smoked, so I used that, but reduced the amount to about 1 tsp. since it’s a stronger flavor)
- 1 tsp. ground cumin
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 1″ piece ginger, peeled and grated
- 1 red bell pepper, cored and cut into 1″ pieces
- 1 small zucchini, cut into 1” sticks (this ingredient is in the print version of the magazine, but does not appear in the online recipe for some reason. I highly recommend using it.)
- 1 large Anaheim or poblano pepper, seeded and diced (I used Anaheim)
- 2 Tbsp. fish sauce (due to my fear of too much fish sauce, I used about 1.5 Tbsp. Either way works.)
- 1 tsp. chili powder
- My additions (optional): small squirt of Sriracha sauce and dry-roasted peanuts
1. Combine chicken, 1Tbsp. oil, 1 tsp. cornstarch, salt and pepper in a bowl; let marinate for 15 minutes.
2. Combine paprika, cumin, garlic, and ginger in a small bowl and set aside.
3. Heat a cast iron skillet (or a wok) over high heat. Add ½ Tbsp. oil. Add onions; cook until softened but not too dark, 1–2 minutes. Move onions to side; add remaining oil to center of pan. Add chicken in a single layer. Let cook without stirring for 1 minute. Continue cooking, tossing vigorously, until chicken is opaque, about 1 minute more.
4. Add spice mixture; cook, tossing constantly, for 30 seconds. Add bell pepper and Anaheim pepper, along with Sriracha if using; cook, stirring constantly, until peppers begin to soften, 2–3 minutes. Stir in fish sauce and cook until almost all the liquid has evaporated, about 1 minute. Add zucchini and continue to cook until just tender and chicken is cooked through, 1–2 minutes. Stir in chili powder; season with salt and pepper. Serve with rice and sprinkle with peanuts if desired. | <urn:uuid:efecd48a-49a4-4a82-8522-8c9bc3087f59> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | https://savorysafari.wordpress.com/ | 2016-05-02T12:30:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461863599979.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428171319-00221-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951945 | 849 | [
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About Project 10
Project 10: Transition Education Network is Florida’s statewide discretionary project supporting the secondary transition of youth with disabilities. It is funded by the Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services (BEESS), within the Florida Department of Education. Project 10’s primary charge is to assist school districts in providing appropriate planning and timely transition services and programs to assist youth with disabilities in their transition to adulthood. Project 10 also serves as a collaborative resource for other state agencies, discretionary projects, non-profit organizations, and families in the provision of transition services for students served in exceptional student education.
Project 10 uses regional personnel, 21st Century technology, extensive collaboration, and data-driven accountability to deliver services, supports, and information to all stakeholders focused on improving post-school outcomes for students served in exceptional student education within Florida.
Transition representatives from Project 10 work closely with school district personnel within their region to identify the programmatic and training needs of each district, and assist them with meeting their goals in the area of secondary transition. 21st Century technology is used for on-going electronic communications via a transition listserv, "Transition Wheel" topics, the Project 10 website, and timely products and updates on transition issues. Project 10 collaborates in related state activities and provides support to the State Transition Steering Committee and District Interagency Councils. It also produces a number of products, supports pilot transition activities across the state, provides training and technical assistance services, and develops research-supported activities.
Project 10 is currently focusing on four major initiatives:
- Capacity building to implement secondary transition services
- Interagency collaboration
- Transition legislation and policy, and
- Student development and outcomes
These initiatives will help provide the training, technical assistance, and resources for personnel throughout the state who are working to improve the future success of students with disabilities.
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Q. Our company has certain employees who we believe abuse our absentee policy. We use a “no fault” system, but we do excuseabsences. Typically, when employees get close to discipline or termination, they begin the paperwork for an FMLA absence. Do you have any suggestions on how we could better police the FMLA process to limit abuse?
A. Many employers experience the same frustration, and there is no surefire solution to your problem. There are a few practical steps that you might consider.
First, review the, and make sure you are demanding full compliance from employees. For example, make sure the employee’s personal physician provides all the required information in the certification.
Second, the FMLA contains what are commonly referred to as “anti-abuse” provisions. If you have reason to doubt an employee’s medical certification supporting an, you may demand the employee get a second opinion. The second opinion must not be from a health care provider who is regularly employed by the company. If there is a difference of opinion between the treating physician and the second opinion, there is a procedure for a third and binding opinion.
Third, as an employer, you are within your rights to request “recertifications” on a “reasonable basis.”
Some employers go a step further and require an employee on sick leave to either stay at home or report to the company when he leaves and returns to his home. This rule would apply only during the employee’s normal working hours. The employer follows up with phone calls and visits during working hours. If the employee violates the reporting requirements, he is disciplined accordingly. You will want to consult with your legal counsel about adopting such a policy, and if you have a union, you probably have to negotiate the terms.
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Has this happened to you? You get a refill of a medication you've used without issue for years but then suddenly you have a reaction like redness, itching, hives or worse?
What happened? Did the formula change? Did the manufacturer change? Did you change?
It happened to me last week.
I bought a new tube of Retin-A for adult acne. I've been using Retin-A on and off since it first appeared on the market over 20 years ago. I've never had an allergic reaction to any of the formulations.
Then last week, after not using the product for 16 months, I went to my dermatologist, got a new prescription, filled it, (at $100 a pop - a $50 co-pay and a $50 deductible), and applied the Retin-A ointment that evening. I used the product on my face, neck and chest for two nights. By Day 3, I noticed some intense itching around my neck, jaw line and chest. I stopped using the product immediately. That evening, the intense itching kept me awake all night. Day 4 was continued intense itching; my skin was red and raw and it finally occurred to me that I must be allergic to something.
But to what was I suddenly allergic?
Nothing in my diet had changed. Very little in my routine had altered. Still puzzled, I slathered on some over-the-counter cortisone cream, which soothed the itch, but only mildly. I scratched all day and night into Day 5. By now, I deduced that it must have been my old friend, the Retin-A.
It wasn't my first thought merely because it wasn't a new prescription, but a trusted ally in the fight against adult acne. Hmm, no longer. Something had changed. Not only was I allergic to the product but I had paid $100 for the privilege.
What to do?
First, I called my pharmacist Sam. He said he knew of no formula changes. And of course, there are no returns from your pharmacy.
So, I called OrthoNeutrogena, the company that created the product, to ask them about a possible formulation change. I spoke to a nice woman in customer service who said they hadn't changed the formulation since it was created. When I told her about my allergies, and the cost of their product, she asked me some health questions and offered to refund me my co-pay and deductible once I sent my receipt and the product. I received a pre-paid mailer this week, which I sent back. As soon as they receive that, they should be sending me a check.
I then called my derm, who said stop using it and use cortisone cream for a week to help with the itching.
It took 7 days from the time I stopped using the product to feel better.
I'm still puzzled about why this happened all of a sudden. Why a product that was fine one minute changed the next, and such a dramatic change.
Has this ever happened to any of you?
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Hathaway Control Spin Table Tennis 2-Player Racket & Ball Set
ITEM IS SOLD OUT!
Ideal for recreational or family play, the Control Spin Table Tennis Racket Set has everything you’ll need for a fun game of table tennis. The two hardbat-style table tennis rackets sport a rubber blade surface with ball control pips and hollow core performance handles. This set contains three 40-millimeter ping pong balls, two white and one gold. A vinyl zippered carrying case completes this handy table tennis accessory pack.
- 2 Player set
- High quality construction for peak performance
- Sponge rubber blade surface with ball control pips
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Holding back her tears, Queen Sofia and King Juan Carlos of Spain embraced row after row of weeping mourners at a Christian cathedral mass Wednesday for the 190 victims of suspected Islamist bombers who struck Madrid this month.
About 1,500 mourners attended the emotional state funeral, and hundreds more watched the service on giant screens outside. More than a dozen state and governments officials attended, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac.
BRAIN FOOD: The brainpower of entire nations has diminished because of a shortage of the right vitamins, a UN survey says. One solution: artificially fortified foods, including soy sauce laced with zinc, "super salt" spiked with iron and cooking oil fortified with vitamin A.
BOMB FOUND: A railroad worker found a bomb buried in the bed of a commuter line between France and Switzerland on Wednesday, touching off a massive inspection of the French railroad network. It was the second bomb found in just over a month on a railroad track in France.
SCHOOL-BOUND: Islamic leaders from Afghanistan's conservative heartland pledged Wednesday to send more girls to school in the male-dominated, war-ravaged country.
Millions of Afghan girls do not attend school because of conservative attitudes; the Taliban regime had banned all female education.
SKINHEAD SONG SWAP: German police raided the homes of 342 people Wednesday whom they suspect of posting neo-Nazi music files on the Internet for others to download, the Federal Crime Office said.
GAMING DISPUTE: Antigua proclaimed victory in a dispute over Internet gambling Wednesday after the World Trade Organization upheld the Caribbean country's complaint that a U.S. ban on cross-border Internet gaming was a violation of international trade rules.
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11 Hilltop Village Ctr. Dr.
Eureka, MO 63025 (Map)
The Finest in Affordable Housing
for Seniors in Eureka, Missouri
Operated by Lutheran Senior Services, Hilltop Manor provides comfortable, affordable senior housing for older adults, age 62 and better.
Located in the heart of Eureka, MO 63025, this HUD 202 community offers easy access to everywhere, so you can keep living your life your way. Come get to know our friendly, knowledgeable staff and sample the rich social life that Hilltop Manor has to offer!
Call 636.938.3387 or e-mail us today to schedule a visit.
Each of our 62 one-bedroom senior apartments includes a kitchen, carpeted living room and bedroom, and a tiled bathroom. Emergency pull cords, individually controlled heating and cooling, and cable television accessibility are included for each of our residents. We also have handicap-accessible apartments available.
All Hilltop Manor residents are welcome to take advantage of our…
- Diverse monthly activity calendar
- Smoke-Free Environment
- Regular health screenings
- Chaplaincy Care
- Fire and safety alarms
- Library and media center
- Security surveillance
- Full-time maintenance
- Well-lit parking
- Coin-operated laundry
- Community Rooms
- Access to public transportation and LSS In-Home Services
About Lutheran Senior Services Affordable Housing
Welcome to Hilltop Manor! We are an independent living community for seniors 62 and over with low income. We have planned activities in our community room, chaplaincy care, library, computers with internet access, coin operated laundry room, and a beautiful covered patio. You will feel safe and secure here at Hilltop, with our on-site management. We have a full-time Maintenance Supervisor and Service Coordinator to lend you support when needed. Hilltop Manor is located in Eureka, Missouri, close to restaurants, shopping, hospitals, medical offices and pharmacies. Come by for a visit or call for more information. We would love to meet you and help you “Live Life to the Fullest” at Hilltop Manor!
Members of Our Team
The Community Manager at Hilltop Manor, Debbie Fakes has 20 years’ experience in management, contract management, and contract negotiations, in addition to 18 years’ experience with the aging population and a degree in Gerontology from Lindenwood University. Debbie joined the Lutheran Senior Service’s team in 2007 as a Service Coordinator and received the American Professional Service Coordinator Certificate from Ohio University. In 2008 Debbie won the HAHMA award for Best Service Coordinator under 100 units. She lives in Eureka, Missouri, with her husband, Gary. They have three children and two grandchildren.
The Service Coordinator of Hilltop Manor, Michelle Herrick graduated from Missouri State University with a bachelor’s degree in finance and has completed master’s level classes in both Marketing and Education. She has completed a certificate program in Gerontology through Jefferson College and took her Professional Service Coordinator exam through Ohio State University. She is a certified Service Coordinator along with being a trained OASIS volunteer in the area of Diabetes Self-Management. Michelle joined the LSS team in March 2006. She lives in Eureka with her husband Bryan. They have two children who are college athletes in both baseball and soccer.
Our Mission: to assist those we care for, in the name of Jesus, to live life to the fullest for these days – and forever.
This commitment runs deep throughout the Chaplaincy Team at Lutheran Senior Services. Here at HIlltop Manor, our commitment to residents and staff are designed to achieve a balanced approach to the support and services provided by our Chaplains. Our goal is to provide the entire Hilltop Manor community with the fullness of God’s grace essential for balanced living through spiritual care, nurture, instruction, and faithful administration of the Sacraments.
As your chaplains, we are committed to helping our entire staff at Hilltop Manor achieve success in assisting ‘Older Adults living life to the fullest’ with the full balance of God’s grace and mercy.
Rev. Robert Briggs
Chaplain, LSS Affordable Housing
Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, Rev. Bob served 20 years in the US Air Force, completing overseas tours in Europe and Asia. He is a 1999 graduate of the University of Massachusetts and received his Master of Divinity degree from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in 2004. Rev. Bob has served churches in Florissant, Spanish Lake, and St. Charles before receiving the call to serve LSS residents. He and his wife Lisa Marie have two grown children.
Lutheran Senior Services is a not-for-profit organization that is built on financial stability and sound stewardship.
We invite you to share our mission of serving seniors at Hilltop Manor by making a gift that will advance our Christian mission of honoring and cherishing those we serve. Your gift will be used to directly help people.
Make your legacy part of the Lutheran Senior Services legacy. Select a specific area for your gift or make a gift to the area of greatest need. You may give now, or contact our gift consultant for free and confidential advice about how your gift can help others.
Click here to make a donation to LSS Affordable Housing using our secure online system powered by E-Service.
For More Information, Call…
Administrator of Stewardship
EmailKirk Mattes, Administrator of Stewardship for Lutheran Senior Services, joined Lutheran Senior Services in 2000. Prior to joining Lutheran Senior Services, he was vice president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Foundation’s Gift Planning Services. As the Administrator of Stewardship, Kirk oversees a professional staff deployed to the various Lutheran Senior Services communities. He has a wealth of experience, helping people deal with financial challenges and opportunities. When not working, he enjoys trying to keep up with his grandchildren, playing racquetball and rooting for the Cardinals.
To call Hilltop Manor home, you must be 62 years of age or better. Eligibility for housing is based on income limits as set by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Call today to inquire about the current income guidelines.
Our on-site manager would look forward to discussing how Hilltop Manor can help you enjoy your retirement years affordably. Call 636.938.3387 or click the button below to learn more!
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Turn a piece of metal into peace of mind.
Precision metal fabrication means changing metal plates into valves that precisely control millions of gallons of high-pressure petrochemicals, forming and fabricating metal into suspension components able to handle 400 ton payloads and creating components belonging to earth moving equipment able to excavate minerals up to 845,000 pounds.
At Merrill Fabricators “Anything is Possible.”
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How do you measure success of a fabricated metal component? The answer is precision. In the metal fabrication and assembly industry, a successful component relies on the exact preciseness of cutting, forming, welding, stress relieving, finishing and testing. Merrill Fabricators delivers these capabilities to customers with diverse needs, in a variety of industries. We provide expertise at every stage of the fabrication process, precisely to specifications, tracability needs and standards.
Our multiple cutting capabilities allow us to cut your material to specified requirements.
With certified welding expertise, we meet and exceed industry standards.
We offer complete industrial painting services to meet your precise standards.
Meeting your precise coating needs for specialized parts.
Not only is the success of the fabrication and assembly of a metal component measured with precision but also performance. As an industry leader that provides quality products, at a trusted price, in a timely manner, Merrill Fabricators achieves the highest standards of performance. To accomplish these standards, we measure our performance and base it on years of experience.
To ensure quality and consistency, all welds are inspected by certified inspectors to traceable standards.
When required, we provide full documentation for each of our products, offering complete traceability.
We invite you to experience our performance. Visit our facility to view the size and scale of projects.
Will the successful fabricated metal component belong to a base frame that supplies support to engines and generators that provide over 17 kilowatts of power? Whether it is small, weighing only pounds or large, weighing tons, we have made them possible in nearly every industry.
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Hawken publisher raises $18 million in funding
Meteor Publishing closes a second round of funding ahead of Hawken's launch
Meteor Publishing has raised $18 million in its second round funding, bringing the company to a total of $28.5 million across both rounds. This round included funding from existing backers like FirstMark Capital and Benchmark Capital, and new backers like Rustic Canyon Ventures and Chinese firm KongZhong.
Rustic Canyon Ventures and Kongzhong are new to Meteor, but not new to the game industry. Rustic previously invested in Trion Worlds, while KongZhong launched Wargaming.net World of Tanks in China and recently acquired a license to do the same for Hawken.
"We are doubling down with the launch of Hawken and we have put another title into product," Meteor CEO Mark Long told GamesBeat in an interview. "We are also gathering a war chest to acquire another title that could be on the same quality level as Hawken."
"A year ago, we didn't even know if this was going to work," Long explained. "Trying to run dedicated servers on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon's data center outsourcing service) was something nobody had tried before. Early on, we tested it to see if it would work. As we move into it, it works better than we could have hoped for."
Hawken, developed by the California-based Adhesive Games, is scheduled for release on December 12, 2012.
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Small Business Information
American GNC Corporation
888 Easy Street, Simi Valley, CA, 93065-1812
AbstractThe objective of this Phase I project is to demonstrate an automated on-line structural health monitoring system for aircraft structures using a combination of wireless data acquisition and fault detection filter via a sensing network for vehicle-embedded large arrays of MEMS sensors and actuators. A fault detection filter, whose functions are to identify and localize the damage, is considered as a new concept in the field of structural health monitoring. Sensor validation is implemented in the distributed sensor network to ensure only validated data are sent to the central station for further system utilization. Wireless communication provides a safe, affordable, and more efficient method for the online health monitoring of vehicle subsystems and information monitoring. It also involves signal processing to support decision-making related to safety, maintenance, or operating procedures.
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The Milk Man
The other day I saw what looked like an old milk truck and it brought back some fond memories of the old days. I’m not talking about the stainless tankers that go to farms and pick up milk for processing. I’m talking about the tall rounded delivery route trucks that were driven by men in white uniforms who would deliver milk to your home.
I remember the milkman we had when I was about four years old. His name was Clarkey and he was a quiet friendly man who always waved and smiled at me through the window when he made his delivery. He would place our family order in an insulated milk box on the porch. I was fascinated by his cream white Divco Milk Truck with rounded brown fenders. I was fascinated how he drove the truck with the doors open.
It was near the end of the age of the milk man when my mother canceled all future milk deliveries. She told me that Clarkey was very upset that he lost yet another customer to the dreaded milk machines that were popping up every where. These big refrigerated vending boxes were found on just about every thoroughfare and vended milk 24 hours a day.
Milk machines just made sense since you got milk when you needed it and the milk came in cardboard cartons so breaking a glass bottle was a thing of the past. Also the milk machines charged less for milk. It was about a quarter for a quart.
I don’t know what the progression of events were like in other parts of the country, but where I lived these machines were around for only about ten years or so before they were replaced by milk stores that sold milk in glass containers again. The one gallon glass jugs had durable plastic handles and I’ve known many people who broke a gallon jug while driving them home in their car. A gallon of milk on the loose in a car certainly changed the character and value of one’s car quickly. Now our milk is packaged mostly in plastic containers
This all came to mind because I have two one gallon glass milk jugs out in my shop. The previous home owner left them behind when he moved out. They are a touch stone of a time gone by which takes me back ever further to recall Clarkey ascending the steps to the porch of the house where I lived. | <urn:uuid:06b2c455-d2de-4a21-830a-341346a5a003> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://astoria-rust.blogspot.com/2007/11/milk-man.html | 2016-05-01T13:45:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860116173.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161516-00207-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989307 | 473 | [
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Not all iOS users have the new option in their Twitter settings, which explains why it’s not mentioned in the changelog on Apple’s App Store. Two staff members at TNW do, however, have the new option:
So. Much. Tech.
Some of the biggest names in tech are coming to TNW Conference in Amsterdam this May.
The feature is on by default for these two individuals, but as you can see above, it can also be turned off. If you keep it on, however, you will start to get notifications like this:
As our own Josh Ong points out, this is quite similar to AchievementBird, a Twitter experiment that sends you analytics via direct message. In fact, before the iOS app sent the above notification, AchievementBird sent its own DM:
Yet the above notification does not require following the AchivementBird account on Twitter: it just works out of the box. We confirmed this as our second staff member does not follow AchievementBird and nonetheless had this feature show up in their iOS app as well as received an achievement notification.
This suggests Twitter is still very interested in the gamification of its service. That being said, like any social network, the company regularly tests new features that never see the light of day. We haven’t seen the feature show up in Twitter’s Android app yet; if you see it, please do let us know.
We have contacted Twitter about “Significant engagement” in the iOS app. We will update this post if and when we hear back.
Update: “This is a new feature that is currently available to verified users,” a Twitter spokesperson confirmed with TNW. The company wouldn’t share any further details about its availability.
Update 2: Frederic Lardinois tells me the setting is in Twitter’s Android beta app as well.
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Questioning the Tree of Life: International Workshop Series
|November 23, 2008||Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design|
One cause (of many) delaying the completion of On Common Descent, my monograph examining the theory of the universal common ancestry of life on Earth — Darwin’s monophyletic Tree of Life, rooted in LUCA (the last universal common ancestor) — has been the explosion of publication on the topic. In 1998, when I submitted my dissertation, only a handful of researchers openly doubted monophyly, and only generally-known-to-be-crazy philosophers of science, like me, cared much about it.
Now an international workshop series on the question has been organized, to culminate in a major meeting in London in July 2010. The first workshop in the series was held on November 7th, 2008, at the Philosophy of Science Association biennial conference, in Pittsburgh. Massimo Pigliucci provides a helpful summary of much of the discussion.
For those who like to think about all this, here’s a thought experiment to try. Imagine two, or more, places on the early Earth where life is coming to be, contemporaneously [i.e., at the same slice in time]. Suppose, in addition, that those places are distant from each other: in the northern and southern hemispheres, let’s say. The physical distance between the locations ensures no direct causal interactions between them.
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Play any type of Game at Y8.com. The biggest Game Collection to play free online. Flash, Unity 3D, Html5, Android, Java and Shockwave.
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So everyone gets all excited about shrimp and grits but my allegiance is really with salmon and grits. I think this is particularly a South Carolina phenomenon. Apparently, canned salmon over grits is an ole timey Southern dish. This is an updated version with seared salmon filets. Serve with sautéed garlicky greens. If you’re feeling extra fancy, top your grits with some sautéed tomato and scallions. Be sure to mix your salmon into your grits, that’s kind of the point of this. No food purism here!
Serves 2, with perhaps some leftover grits…
- 1 cup stoneground grits (i.e. coarse cornmeal)
- 3 cups reduced sodium chicken broth
- 1 cup milk (or half-and-half or cream if you’re feeling particularly decadent)
- Optional: 1 cup cheddar / monterrey jack / pepper jack cheese if you want cheese grits
Bring chicken broth and water to a boil and then add grits. Stir thoroughly with a whisk, then reduce heat to low. Cook 20-30 minutes, stirring frequently. When grits are done, remove from heat. If desired, stir in cheese until thoroughly melted.
- 2 fresh salmon filets
- Several Tbsp olive oil
- freshly ground salt and pepper
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Really, Doctor Sados, couldn't you have tried a little harder? I mean, this is a crap robot at best, but to dress it in my colors and try to frame me? Bitch, please. I'm used to this sort of thing from Professor Misery or the Hateful Hun, but I really expected better of you. Is this the same criminal mastermind who invented the Terror Tricycle and the carnivorous Croco-rillas? You’ve lost your touch old man. Even Cappy, the Brooklyn Kid wasn’t fooled by your pathetic, half-assed frame job, and he’s easily the stupidest of my many, many sidekicks! Frankly, I'm disappointed, and I expect better next time.
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When a new drinking water well is drilled, it is important to conduct tests in order to ensure the water will be safe and potable. There are usually local or state regulatory requirements that call for bacteria testing, and there may be a few additional contaminants that could pose health concerns. Many well drillers and water treatment professionals will do a quick onsite analysis to get a feel for the quality of the water, testing for pH, conductivity/TDS, chlorine/ORP or other specific ions. There are thousands of testing methods available, all of which can differ based on the contaminant being tested, the detection level or results you would like to achieve and the sample matrix.
When testing to meet regulatory requirements, you must test according to an approved method, which can become complicated. There are methods that have been written and approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that are acceptable to state requirements. There are also testing methods referred to as Standard Methods, which have been written by the American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation. These methods are usually acceptable to the state’s requirements, but not all methods are acceptable to all of the different state requirements; therefore, you need to be sure the method you are running is acceptable to the regulatory agency requiring the testing.
Bacteria testing is the most common parameter tested in new wells. There are too many bacteria to feasibly test for, so when we refer to bacteria in drinking water we are commonly looking for coliform, fecal or E. coli bacteria. These are indicator bacteria, meaning their presence indicates a possible presence of other infectious disease-causing bacteria.
There are a couple of testing methods that can be used, including membrane filtration, multiple tube fermentation and MMO-MUG methods. These methods are commonly run in a laboratory, but there are variations available for field-testing as well.
It is important to properly collect samples for bacteria analysis because improper collection can lead to false positives or negatives.
For drinking water, you must collect a minimum of 100 mL of sample in a sterilized collection bottle. If the water is chlorinated, the sample must be preserved with a dechlorinating agent, most commonly sodium thiosulfate. This will prevent further bactericidal action from occurring while the sample is in transit, giving a true result of microbial content of the water sample. The sample bottle is usually sealed to indicate it is sterilized, and it is important to keep the bottle closed until you are ready to collect your sample.
When collecting a sample, it is important not to touch the inside of the bottle, which can lead to a false positive. When collecting a sample from a tap, remove any aerator or filter equipment and sterilize the tap using a disinfectant such as alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, sodium hypochlorite or a flame.
The membrane filtration method is a Standard Method 9222, and is designed to give a quantitative result of bacteria present in water. To simplify, the water sample is filtered using a membrane filter, which will retain all coliform bacteria on the filter. This filter is placed in a sterilized dish containing a growth medium and is incubated for 22 to 24 hours at 35°C, ±5°C.
The sample will be viewed using a microscope to visually examine and count the bacteria colonies. A typical coliform colony will be pink to dark red in color with a metallic sheen on the surface. One of the biggest drawbacks to this method is the presence of noncoliform bacteria, which can appear as red, pink, white or colorless. These bacteria lack the metallic sheen found in coliform bacteria, and a large number of noncoliform bacteria in a sample can overtake the plate and mask the fact that coliform may be present, thus invalidating the results. While this method can give you an idea of the amount of bacteria present, you may also get an invalid result.
Multiple Tube & MMO-MUG
The multiple tube formation and the MMO-MUG methods are similar in that they both utilize a chromogenic substrate that will trigger a color change if coliform is present and will fluoresce if E. coli is present. The multiple tube fermentation is also called most probable number and will utilize five to 10 tubes in which the sample is split.
The samples will then be incubated at 35°C, ±5°C for 24 hours. If there is a question as to the color change, the sample can be incubated for an additional four hours to see if there is a more distinct color change.
Using Standard Methods 9221C, you can estimate the most probable number of bacteria based on the number of tubes, the sample size in each tube and how many of these changed color, indicating a presence of coliform.
The MMO-MUG method also uses chromogenic substrate, but it is a single analysis in which the substrate is added directly to the sample collection bottle and incubated at 35°C, ±5°C for 24 hours. This will tell you if coliform is present or absent in that particular sample.
Public Water Supplies
The bacteria methods described above are methods approved for running public water supply samples. This means these methods have been thoroughly tested and demonstrate a high level of accuracy and repeatability. This does not mean that these tests are 100% accurate; there are instances that can produce inaccurate results whether it is another microorganism interfering or human error. These tests are usually regulated and must be performed by a certified laboratory, but some field kits are available for preliminary testing.
While sending samples into a lab may provide highly accurate results, oftentimes testing can and should be done in the field. There are a few parameters that can easily be run in the field to get an immediate idea of water quality. A simple conductivity reading using a meter, for example, will give you an idea of the amount of solids dissolved in the water.
There are also parameters that should be run in the field because they can easily change over time. A pH test, for example, should be done onsite to yield the most accurate analysis. Onsite testing can yield accurate results if conducted properly, but many onsite testing methods can have interferences that will skew results.
Testing pH Levels
The most common item to test onsite is pH because it affects so many aspects of water quality and its treatment. To simplify, pH is a measurement of the activity of hydrogen ions. A pH level below 7 will indicate the water is acidic, while a pH level above 7 indicates the water is alkaline.
A pH test should be done as soon as possible after collection because it has a tendency to change when exposed to the atmosphere, as it can absorb carbon dioxide and form carbonic acid, which will lower the pH level. The pH can be determined using colorimetric or electrochemical methods.
Colorimetric tests produce a color change based on the pH level of the sample. Colorimetric tests can be test strips or titration-based where the pH indicator is a liquid added to the sample. Indicators are usually weak acids, which produce a color change at definitive pH values. There are many indicators and each has a narrow pH range, so in order to get a full pH range, a variety of indicators are used.
Indicators can be contained on test strips—litmus paper being the most well known. These can also be in liquid form, in which case you add a specified amount of indicator to the sample and visually compare the color change to a chart or color wheel. These tests are commonly used because they are inexpensive and easy to use, however, results may not be the most accurate. Because it is a comparison of color, the results are subjective to the person reading the result, and most charts give you a range of the pH value rather than a definitive result. There are colorimetric tests in which the result can be read by a spectrophotometer, which allows more consistent results because the color change is read electronically.
The pH can also be read using a meter, which can yield a much more accurate result if the meter is properly maintained and calibrated. A pH meter consists of a measuring electrode, reference electrode, meter and sometimes an automatic temperature compensator. The measuring and is made of a special glass that senses the hydrogen ions and generates a millivoltage, which is picked up by the filling solution and passed onto the silver wire that then passes the signal on to the measuring meter.
A reference electrode provides a constant known voltage. The voltage being measured and the reference are delivered to the meter, which transmits the results in pH units. Many meters have a temperature sensor to automatically correct the difference in temperature.
A pH meter does require some care and maintenance. When not in use, the probe should be stored wet using an electrode storage solution as suggested by the manufacturer. If storage solution is not available, you can temporarily store in water that has been saturated with salt (not containing any iodine) or the pH 4 buffer. Never store the probe in distilled or DI water; this can drastically reduce the life of the probe.
In order to ensure the pH probe is reading accurately, it is important to calibrate on a regular basis. To calibrate use pH buffers, which are solutions of known pH levels—the most common being 4, 7 and 10.
Meters should be calibrated using a minimum of two buffers, but three is optimum. Begin by immersing the probe into the 7 buffer (zero point); the meter should read at or around 7. If the meter does not read at 7, you can adjust up or down until it does. Repeat the process using the other two buffers.
It is important to rinse the probe with DI water before using another buffer in order to ensure accuracy. The life of a pH probe is dependent on how well it is cared for and the environment in which it is being used. A pH probe should typically be replaced once every six months to a year, depending on use.
Conductivity is another analysis that can easily be done onsite and is a good indicator of water quality. Conductivity is the measurement of ions that conduct electricity and is often used to estimate dissolved solids in the water. Conductivity is typically measured using a conductivity meter.
Meters that utilize an amperiometric method have two electrodes to which an AC voltage is applied, and the electrodes measure the current. This method is based on Ohm’s law, meaning the higher the current being measured, the higher the conductivity will be.
Meters that utilize a potentiometric method have four rings, and the two outer rings apply an AC voltage to induce a current loop in the solutions being measured. The two inner rings measure the drop in voltage induced by the current loop. The advantage to the potentiometric method is that it will cover a wide range of conductivities.
Chlorine is another test commonly done onsite. Chlorine should be tested immediately after a sample has been collected because it is a reactive chemical that will readily combine with other elements already in the water to form other compounds referred to as disinfection byproducts.
Many water treatment professionals or well drillers test the chlorine levels onsite to make sure they have added the appropriate amount of chlorine to fully disinfect the water. The most widely used method is Standard Method 4500Cl-G, which utilizes a color reagent commonly referred to as DPD. The DPD stands for N,N-Diethyl-P-Phenylenediamine and produces a pink-to-red color based on how much chlorine is in the sample. Testing kits will then either compare the sample to a color chart or wheel. Some colorimetric tests will use a meter to measure the color change, which improves the accuracy. Chlorine can also be measured using an amperiometric method that utilizes a probe; however, this type of test is typically used for inline testing.
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This production was sooooo much fun! Every participant on the stage from the oldest to the youngest was a professional, and the choreography was so enjoyable. And one of the best parts of the whole experience was the positive reaction and the...continued
This holiday season prepare to be transported on a magical journey with Clara and the Nutcracker Prince. From the heroic battle against the Mouse King, travel through the Land of the Snowflakes and on to the Kingdom of the Sweets. There you will meet the Sugar Plum Fairy and be entertained by the wonders of the land of enchantment.
Choreographed by Artistic Director Abra Rudisill with gorgeous costumes and beautiful sets – all to the classic Tchaikovsky score — this is a production sure to bring out the child in everyone. Whether this is your first time seeing a Nutcracker production or it is a time-honored holiday tradition, make ACB’s 6th Annual Nutcracker part of your holiday festivities.
This year, Alameda Civic Ballet is delighted to announce special guest stars Patricia Perez (SF Ballet) and Ethan White (Smuin Ballet) dancing the roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier. Tina Kay Bohnstedt (Diablo Ballet) & Robert Dekkers (Company C) will dance the roles of Snow Queen and King. Joining them will be other Bay Area guest artists as well as a cast of more than one hundred dancers ranging in age from 3 to 60.
About the Ticket Supplier: Alameda Civic BalletAlameda Civic Ballet was founded in February 2003 and achieved non-profit 501(3)c status as a charitable organization in November of 2004. The goal of the company is to create and present high quality community accessible ballet performances, while providing young dancers with valuable experience performing alongside professional dancers.
The Alameda Civic Ballet made its debut performance in June 200 at Kofman Auditorium in Alameda with Degas Dancers, a work inspired by the paintings of the famous French painter Edgar Degas. Alameda Civic Ballet was also invited to perform Degas Dancers in November 2003 at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, in conjunction with The Degas Sculpture Exhibit. In December 2003, the company presented it's premier performance of Act 2 Nutcracker Excerpts. In February 2004, the company was honored to be part of the Alameda Education Foundation Mardi Gras Gala and won rave reviews for it's Festive Les Bons Temps (The Good Times) set to the infectious music Of the Bay Area's Zydeco/Cajun King, Tom Rigney. The company has presented Spring performances in 2004 and 2005, featuring an eclectic mix of Ballet, Modern, Salsa, Can Can, and contemporary pieces. In December 2004, the company performed Nutcracker Highlights at five sold-out shows.
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