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Over the last month or so I've been re-watching The Wire, which in my opinion is one of the best TV shows ever made. Watching the series got me thinking about the serious lack of police investigation in video games.
One of my favorite concepts in a video game franchise this generation was the tools players can use in Condemned. While it all holds your hand a little too much, I loved the ability to act like a real, "natural police." (Did I miss a game that simulates this concept? Let me know!)Other than adventure games where the core gameplay hinges on a piece of this idea or tactical titles like S.W.A.T., so few games allow the player to solve the mystery. Ordinarily we're rewarded for getting from Point A to Point B with a cutscene showcasing the mystery being solved for us.
The Wire might be a bad example in video game terms because it's a little too realistic. Throughout the entire series, the police only fire their weapons three times. Three times in five years and it's all the same person, and in each instance that person does it out of fear or stupidity. Basically, I wish more games allowed me to be a detective rather than an action-hero with a badge. What video game concepts do you wish made it into more titles? Visit Chatty to Join The Conversation | <urn:uuid:3a3d4107-cab9-4754-9c7d-ed345e51fd25> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.shacknews.com/article/64857/morning-discussion | 2016-05-05T09:53:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860126377.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161526-00108-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953257 | 277 | [
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Your 401(k) is called a retirement account because the government doesn't want you tapping it until you're at least 59 1/2. Any time you make a withdrawal, you pay tax on what you take out of the account, but if you take money out early, your tax payment gets even higher.
First, figure out what the regular income tax on your withdrawal will be. Calculate how much you have or will take out this year, add that to your regular income and estimate your total tax. If the money you take out keeps you in the same tax bracket, you can use your current tax rate. If you withdraw a substantial amount, some of it may fall into a higher tax bracket. If you live in a state that charges its own income tax, follow the same steps for your state tax bill.
The IRS lets you tap your 401(k) early for "hardship withdrawals" -- money you need to pay for medical bills, a home or college expenses -- although not all plans allow this. If you make an early withdrawal, add a 10 percent tax penalty to the regular income tax you're paying. If you take out $10,000, for instance, $1,000 goes to the IRS no matter what tax bracket you're in. There are exceptions: There's no penalty for early withdrawals due to permanent disability, or because you have to give some of the account to a divorcing spouse.
Assume you're a single taxpayer and your 2012 taxable income is $30,000. You withdraw $10,000 from your 401(k) to pay tuition for college, bringing your total income to $40,000. For single filers, the jump from the 15 percent to the 25 percent tax bracket takes place at $35,350 so you pay 15 percent on the first $5,350 of your withdrawal -- $802.50. The remaining $4,650 of the withdrawal gets taxed at 25 percent -- $1,162.50. Your income tax on the withdrawal is $1,965, and you must add a $1,000 penalty.
Even if you're not making a hardship withdrawal, there are times you can duck the 10 percent penalty. Should you leave your job after age 55, you can start withdrawing money from your 401(k) immediately without a penalty. If you don't want to wait that long, the IRS will let you empty your account over five years, penalty-free if you make "substantial equal periodic payments." Figuring how much you should take out to keep payments equal is tricky -- and if you screw up, you must pay the 10 percent penalty.
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Peter Whittingham doubled the lead after Chris Burke's shot was parried, but Rovers - who were significantly improved after the break - got the nerves jangling thanks to Steve Elliott's strike.
But teenager Josh Magennis secured the Welsh side's path into the third round with his first senior goal late on.
The Bluebirds were on the front foot from almost the first whistle and Chopra had his first effort in the fifth minute but his 25-yarder was off target.
But the chances kept coming for the home side and Gabor Gyepes headed wide before Chopra was again off target from just inside the box.
Gyepes came even closer in the 14th minute when he thumped a header against the post from Whittingham's free-kick.
Full debutant Kelvin Etuhu then came to the fore and fired wide before being denied by Rhys Evans, with Chris Burke sending the rebound over the top.
Etuhu then tried his luck from a tight angle when he might have passed to Chopra, but Evans again denied him.
There was nothing, though, the Rovers stopper could do about Chopra's opener with 33 minutes gone.
Dominic Blizzard was robbed in the centre of the pitch and Whittingham teed up Chopra, who burst into the box, opened his body and curled a right-footed shot home.
Chopra had another effort on the stroke of half-time and Burke shot wide early in the second half but Rovers were much improved after the break and Chris Lines headed their first real chance wide.
But the Bluebirds doubled their advantage in the 66th minute when Etuhu broke and found Burke, whose shot was parried by Evans and Whittingham followed up to score.
Gavin Rae was denied by Evans as the Bluebirds continued to press before the lively Etuhu shot wide again from a Whittingham corner.
However, Rovers grabbed a lifeline 15 minutes from time when Stuart Campbell's corner found Elliott and his effort went in despite the best efforts of Peter Enckelman.
And they soon had a chance to draw level when David Pipe found himself with time to shoot in the area, but he fired over the top - and it was game over five minutes from time.
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Natasha Dowie fired a hat-trick as Liverpool Ladies ended their mini goal drought with a thumping 6-0 win over Sunderland in the Continental Cup group stage on Saturday night at the Select Security Stadium in Widnes.
Going into the game on the back of three matches without a goal, Matt Beard's reigning Super League champions returned to their best form in fine style with a first-class display.
The Reds made a bright start to the game and went close in the opening minute when Amanda Da Costa fired just past the post from 22-yards out.
The outstanding Gemma Davison then fired the Reds in front after three minutes. The summer signing from Arsenal let fly with a blistering drive from 25-yards out that flew into the back of the net, and it was a special moment for the England star who netted her first goal in a red shirt.
Dowie came close to making it 2-0 after 10 minutes but her attempted chip just cleared the bar.
Two minutes later Icelandic international Katrin Omarsdottir was unlucky to see her volley dip just over the top after a nice lay-off from Dowie.
Beard's side were playing some tremendous attacking football and Dowie was so unlucky not to find the net a minute later. A superb run from Claudia Walker set up Dowie and her left footed drive was brilliantly pushed around the post by Helen Alderson.
The Sunderland stopper then produced another brilliant save to keep out Da Costa after a mesmerising run down the right from Davison, and then from the resulting corner Gemma Bonner's effort was scrambled off the line.
German international Corina Schroder then made it 2-0 on 19 minutes after a fantastic team move. Dowie's unselfish running found Davison. The No.10 dribbled past two defenders before firing a low cross to the back post for Schroder to net.
A minute later it was almost 3-0 when Dowie's superb effort was brilliantly saved by Alderson, but the No.9 wasn't to be denied and from the resulting corner she glanced the ball home.
Dowie was at it again on 25 minutes when she turned and fired a stunning drive into the net to make it 4-0.
Dowie came close to her hat-trick on 35 minutes with a rasping drive that just cleared the bar.
In first half stoppage time the Reds nearly scored again when a Fara Williams corner was deflected onto the post by a Sunderland defender.
Goal machine Dowie got her hat-trick on 62 minutes when she found the net after a superb solo run.
Liverpool came close several times to adding more goals but a sixth did arrive on 86 minutes when Omarsdottir netted her second of the game after superb work from PFA Women's player of the year Lucy Bronze.
After a hectic schedule of matches Beard's side now face a break before they are back in action on May 14 when they travel to Manchester City in their third Continental Cup group match.
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For Immediate Release
February 9, 2012
(Philadelphia, PA) Moore College of Art & Design is pleased to announce the 2012 Distinguished Alumnae Award recipients - Mary Lou Ford-Dallam ’66, Margie Palatini ’72, and Lonni Rossi ’70.
The three awardees will be honored at a luncheon during the annual Alumnae Reunion on February 18, 2012.
"Although this year’s honorees have had different careers,” noted Doris Chorney, director of alumnae affairs, “they have all enhanced peoples’ lives in some way.”
Margie Palatini ’72
Margie Palatini is the author of over three dozen popular and award-winning picture books for children, including Sweet Tooth, Bedhead and the Bad Boy Series. Since her picture book debut with the bestselling Piggie Pie! in 1997, she has garnered more than 100 awards and honors for her books and distinctive voice.
One of her most recent popular titles is Lousy Rotten Stinkin’ Grapes, a third collaboration with award-winning illustrator Barry Moser. The book has received five state award nominations and was named a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, among other honors. Hogg, Hogg & Hog, released this past May, which she also illustrated, has also been warmly received.
In 2008, Palatini was a panelist for What I Know Now Seminar in conjunction with Girls Inc of Philadelphia.
Palatini earned her BFA in graphic design from Moore in 1972.
Lonni Rossi ’70
Lonni Rossi is an award-winning fiber artist and fabric designer with a sophisticated style and passion for textiles. Rossi’s one-of-a-kind textiles are hand-painted and multi-processed works of art that often incorporate fragments of text or typographic characters. She also designs commercial quilting fabrics and licenses these designs to Andover Fabrics Inc. of New York.
She showcases her fabrics at Lonni Rossi Fabrics in Ardmore, PA, a retail store that serves quilters and designers interested in unique fabrics. She also produces quilt patterns and kits that have appeared in national publications. She teaches workshops and lectures about surface design.
A graphic designer for more than 30 years, Rossi has also taught at Moore and at Drexel University. She was co-founder of Art Quilt Elements and has had numerous one-woman art quilt shows. Her art quilts, made from her own fabrics, have been juried into numerous national and international quilt shows and have been exhibited at Moore and the Kimmel Center.
She earned her BFA in graphic design from Moore in 1970.
Mary Lou Ford-Dallam ’66
Mary Lou Ford Dallam is a well-known art educator who received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Art Education Association (NAEA) 2011 National Conference. In 2007, she received the Pennsylvania Art Education Association Special Needs Art Educator of the Year Award.
Dallam graduated from Moore with a BS in Art Education in 1966 and began teaching in the Philadelphia School District and then in the Central Bucks School District. In 1983, she joined the Pennsylvania Department of Education where she developed and directed the Very Special Arts in Pennsylvania and Arts in Special Education. While a consultant for the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network, Dallam developed art-based programs for the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Program and created the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s special needs web section online.
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Welcome to the Wiki for the Facebook game "My Vineyard"
Note June 19, 2013:
The My Vineyard facebook game was shutdown over a year ago… I was sorry to see it go. It looks like there is a company/developer that would like to create a new Vineyard style game. Take a look.
(Stuff for the old game… )
My Vineyard is a popular Facebook game in which players inherit a vineyard. Once in control of their new vineyard, the player must learn to grow grapes, harvest and age them into fine and valuable wines. This is done through learning about the varieties of grapes available to grow, barrels available for aging and variables which can affect the ultimate value and rating of the wine produced. Vineyards can grow and expand as the player levels up and can be upgraded with homes and other decorations. In the course of clearing land for expansion, a secret hidden diary may be found which reveals secrets of the vineyard!
Helpful Hints about Special Features of this Site
- On a couple of pages within the site, information is revealed that you may want to discover for yourself. If you see "WARNING" or "Spoiler Alert", take note and read the warning. That alerts you to the fact that information which can be found there is supposed to be discovered as you play the game. If you do not want to ruin potential surprises, then take care not to read further in those sections. If you do not mind about ruining surprises, then the information is there for you. Just click the labeled tabs.
- If you see words in BLUE text, these are links which can either take you to another page in the site, another page outside the site (such as the My Vineyard Discussion Forums) or they may open a picture of an item. ( Click all links freely; none are harmful to you or your computer. :~)
Wiki Admins :
Pasayten (Ray Peterson) Lead Admin
A big Thanks and a lot of gratitude go to our previous Admins: Billene Nicol and Adam Wilson. Adam was the brain child to this endeavor and Billene worked tirelessly to get this website up and running!!! She is responsible for much of the content in this site.
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(The Frisky) -- There are dealbreakers and then there are dealbreakers -- and a past history of domestic violence is a dealbreaker on a lot of people's list.
Salon.com's advice columnist, Cary Tennis, fielded a question from a former abuser who's nervous about telling his new girlfriend he physically abused his ex-wife half a dozen times during their marriage.
After divorcing, "Ex-Abuser," as he signed his letter, entered therapy and said it helped him "understand my reasons for the abuse, and the effect it had on both my wife and our relationship." Also after the divorce, he and his ex-wife went to therapy together and "the abuse was addressed and some amount of nascent healing took place."
Now Ex-Abuser is in a new relationship with a woman he seems to want to spend his life with. Trouble is, he hasn't told her about his past. Not only is he afraid his new girlfriend will ditch him if she knows, but his ex-wife is threatening to spill the beans herself. And that, obviously, would be bad.
Of course, Ex-Abuser should tell his girlfriend himself, but I don't think it'll go as badly as he thinks. Maybe I'll get my Feminist Card revoked for saying this, but I don't think a man's abusive past should necessarily be an automatic dealbreaker.
I believe people can change their mentally ill ways and behave healthily again. I've met enough sober alcoholics and clean drug addicts to know that is true. A lot of factors contribute to domestic violence in a relationship, but I have faith a man can be taught how and why he controlled and abused his partner and learn not to do it again.
That said, not every woman could handle dating a former abuser. Some abusers probably don't change too much, even if they say they have. A woman should be very, very careful about choosing to be with one -- a woman who is passive and non-confrontational probably is not the best candidate to date someone with a history of controlling behavior.
She'd also have to be willing to drop everything if he behaves abusively again and for a variety of reasons (kids, money, etc.), not every woman does that or can do that. Obviously, I believe men shouldn't be abusive. But I also believe forewarned is forewarned.
As for fears that his girlfriend will dump him, I think people are willing to forgive a lot of what has happened in the past.
I once dated a man who told me, six months into the relationship, that he had been arrested twice before (for silly, minor offenses). I was able to laugh off the criminal record because I was more annoyed that he hadn't told me sooner. All that time, I felt like I hadn't really known him!
Tennis' advice, in case you're wondering, was to propose that Ex-Abuser explain in detail his past behavior, how his behavior has changed from therapy, and what actions he takes every single day to ensure his new behavior sticks.
"People can believe you or not believe you. That's their choice," Tennis wrote. "Now, you can't blame people if they're just not interested."
But I think if Ex-Abuser's girlfriend is anything like me, she'll be freaked out for a couple of days. Maybe longer than a couple of days. But I hope she won't dump him and that they will have a healthy relationship together. If not, what the hell's the point in trying to reform abusers?
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Sean Kanan, who plays slick Deacon Sharpe on BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL, confesses that he is stuck in the past -- but that's just the way he likes it, thank you. "Believe it or not, I really love antiques," says the actor. "I don't know where that comes from. People are usually surprised to know that because the character I play tends to have a taste for the sleek, contemporary look, such as what he likes in furniture and cars. But for me, I prefer antiques and vintage stuff. I enjoy going through antique boutiques, especially flea markets, and I love to look at old furniture and collectibles."But Kanan admits that this passion isn't shared in kind by his girlfriend, Sonia. "She's French, and there's a bit of a pervasive attitude with Europeans, who are raised with so many old things around them, like architecture," Kanan surmises. "For them, there's less of an interest in that kind of thing, but our country is so new that we Americans have a fascination with things that are older."So, when it came to overhauling the house he bought recently, Kanan's middle-ground approach ensured Sonia would be happy, too. "It's a nice house, but the place was built in the '80s and looked like it was out of MIAMI VICE," he laughs. "Like, this was what some rich drug lord thought was cool. So, we spent months redoing everything. It's very Mediterranean now, but it's not crammed full of antiques."Even though Sonia stays behind during Kanan's antiquing excursions, that doesn't mean he has to go stag. "I have a buddy who will sneak away from his wife, then I'll sneak away from my girlfriend and we can go antiquing like a couple of old queens," he chuckles. "We laugh about it, but we love doing it." | <urn:uuid:df47be49-2ca5-411d-b86d-b5c3efb795d7> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/old-news-0 | 2016-05-02T01:54:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860121418.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161521-00102-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987453 | 413 | [
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I recently got back from ten months in Germany. Compared to their popular culture, no, the US is full of nothing but prudes. I say this because on page one of the widely circulated newspaper are fully nude girls seemingly just for kicks (they're not ugly either.....
). Going from there, where casual/intentional nudity is nothing, to the States where simply seeing a low cut top sends mothers and politicians aflutter.....no, our culture really could use a good helping of nudity.
Plus, in the age of Google, any kid the age of 8 has already seen porn, and probably gay/lesbian porn as well. So, it stands to reason, why bother, honestly, with the whole "protect the children" line of idiocy? Kids come into the world breastfeeding, but suddenly after the age of small the sight of a woman's breast will corrupt them for all time and turn them into incorrigible rapists, philanderers, and adulterers? Or whatever reason d'jour. It does not make sense. People. Are. Stupid. Politicians are worse.
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Halloween Poster and a card combo. Vintage Style, this poster is very easy to modify. Right Click on the layer marked in red, called “Image Holder_Replace Contents” and browse to your image. When loaded, make it fit inside the small window nicely, save it and it will update the main poster. There you can resize, move, scale.
Change the text, and enable/disable adjustment layers (they are in 2 purple marked adjustment layer groups). You can activate red, blue or yellow splash, different colors and effects for different look (see examples).
Fonts used are: - Angel Tears (free: http://www.dafont.com/angel-tears.font) - Trajan Pro (free: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/adobe/trajan/trajan/) - CM Old Western (free: http://www.dafont.com/cm-old-western.font) - Serial Publication (free: http://www.dafont.com/serial-publication.font)
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Personnel: Hiromi (piano, keyboards); Anthony Jackson (guitar); Simon Phillips (drums).
Audio Mixer: Michael Dibiase.
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Hi Kirsten and Barb. Now you KNOW that you don't like them TOO easy!!
It was indeed a toughie .... managed to put the frame together okay, then some of the middle part but the rest was hit or miss. :-))
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Thank you so much I have located the census that lists their parents and although it's not the one you refer to it's got all the uncles and aunts correct - the variance on Adeline’s name must be either an error or an intentional change. I could not have figured out the Great Great's without you yea! I feel like I have accomplished something
So next step is to define the dates; which I should easily be able to do with the census date.
PS Annie or Anna Horner is listed on the Cherokee rolls, I think she listed all alone. The Parris were Cherokees and lived around Peggs and Glenpool area. Many are buried in the Blue Springs cemetery and others at the Twin Mounds Pioneer Cemetery. I have had some luck tracking this line through others on ancestory. com but I really like seeing documentation or being able to rattle off the names to the elders and having them confirm. But they can only go back to great great relatives if that. Once again many thanks
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News media registration for the annual infectious diseases meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is now open. The 53rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) will be held September 10-13, 2013 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.
Known as the preeminent world meeting for presenting new information on clinical and basic research in infectious diseases and anti-infective therapy, ICAAC has also traditionally served as a forum for the introduction of new antimicrobial agents. It is the largest infectious disease meeting held in the United States.
The opening keynote session will focus on the future of antibiotic therapy, urging infectious disease professionals to rethink the "one disease--one pathogen--one drug," paradigm currently used to treat disease in favor of more multifaceted and integrated therapeutic interventions aimed at restoring the health of all sick compartments involved in infection.
This year's meeting will also feature a special address by Trevor Mundel of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation who will speak on the importance of innovation to address infectious diseases in the developing world. Dr. Mundel will address current vaccine discovery programs, strategies for the future, neglected diseases and plans for accelerating research and development efforts for low resource settings through new partnerships and programs.
The ASM Office of Communications will host a full-service press room with Internet access, telephones, computers, photocopy and fax machines, and refreshments. Streaming audio and video of daily press conferences will be available over the Internet for reporters covering from a distance. Programs and abstracts, as well as an embargoed online press kit featuring tipsheets, lay-summaries of selected presentations and the press conference schedule will be available in advance of the meeting. For media registration and housing please go to http://bit.
The American Society for Microbiology, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the largest single life science association, with over 39,000 members worldwide. Its members work in educational, research, industrial, and government settings on issues such as the environment, the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, laboratory and diagnostic medicine, and food and water safety. The ASM's mission is to gain a better understanding of basic life processes and to promote the application of this knowledge for improved health and economic and environmental well-being. | <urn:uuid:d06853c9-9cb7-4df1-90f5-931734814cc4> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/asfm-5im071013.php | 2016-05-03T16:23:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860121618.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161521-00214-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919282 | 474 | [
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REGGIE IT Services Account manager, CallCentre, CFI WebTools and other Web services such as ELMS and Guest Network Account creation will be unavailable from Saturday, April 29, at 10:00 pm to Sunday, April 30, at 10:00 am, due to an upgrade. Affected functions include changing passwords, as well as viewing and/or changing account information, payment information, email address information and UEA redirection.
VPN, DAS and wireless access may experience intermittent authentication errors during this period. Should this occur, try reconnecting after a short wait. All other functions including email access should remain intact.
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Counter Trafficking Women Forum( CTWF)
Posted on 24 May 2010 by:RIGHTS JESSORE [NGO]
Location: In 182 Unions under Khulna Division of Bangladesh
Topic: Human Rights
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Counter Trafficking Women┐s Forum (CTWF) comprised of 15 female members including 3 female UP members, 3 female teachers, 3 female college students, 3 Ansar and VDP members, and 3 housewife/social workers will be formed.
A total of 30 persons : 15 male 15 female are trained for 3 days. At the end of the training the women forum is formed consisting of 15 women who work as the watch dog in the community to reduce human rights violation including human trafficking
Techniques and strategies used
The forum functions having support from the civil society and government entity under the guidance of Rights Jessore
Conduct courtyard meetings with the members of the community to raise awareness on human trafficking including its purpose, mode of operation, and demand and supply issue of trafficking
Act as a watchdog in the community-monitoring trafficking cases, keeping records of missing, kidnapped and trafficked women and children in the community and assisting Rights Jessore, network NGOs, local administration and the community to take action when needed.
Conduct School Campaigns with teachers and students at union level to raise their awareness about trafficking
Provide information on trafficking incidents to Rights Jessore and network NGOs through the Hotline and also assist RJ and network NGOs during fact finding of the cases of trafficked, missing and kidnapped women and children in the community
Maintain records ad information on trafficking, missing and kidnapped women and children as suggested by Rights Jessore
What is innovative about this approach/tool/project?
This is innovative because it ensure-
Help positive change in the community
Evidence of results and impact
For this innovation the Executive Director of Rights Jessore was awrded by AUGFUND in 2007
Costs associated with project development and/or implementation
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LITERACY GRANT UPDATE: WADDESDON COMMUNITY LIBRARY PROJECT
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Providing a fundamental introduction to the use of micro-electromechanical techniques for the design and fabrication of biomedical devices, this work discusses miniaturization through optical, fluidic, biological, and/or self-assembly methods. It begins with basic microfabrication techniques and the micropatterning of biomolecules, polymers, and cells. It then discusses microfluidic, lab-on-a-chip, and cell-based approaches. The author also covers cell biology, tissue engineering, implants and sensors, and emerging applications, such as microfluidics foundries, plug-and-play devices, and self-assembled devices. The book includes text boxes for definitions, design challenges, and suggested exercises.
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The summer heat reminds me of how and when my entrepreneurial spirit began: summer camp. Not going to summer camp, but holding a week-long summer day camp at my house for the neighborhood kids. I was 12 years old and lived in Daytona Beach, Florida. My house was perfect, with a large patio deck and huge swimming pool and slide. I corralled campers by handing out announcement flyers to parents.
For $19 per child, moms and dads could get their kids out of their hair for a week. Those seven days as camp founder/director/counselor to 16 campers taught me far more about the basics of running a business successfully than I could possibly appreciate at the time. These basics are helpful for all entrepreneurs/business owners to occasionally revisit:
Make your “camp” irresistible to consumers. There were many other day-camp options in Daytona Beach but parents were attracted to mine because it was conveniently in the neighborhood, which meant no additional carpooling for them. My hand delivery of the promotional flyers to parents (rather than mailing them or just leaving them at their front doors) called to mind “trust,” as most of them either already knew me or my parents. These two factors – location and trust – were my differentiators. In today’s business world, consumers have innumerable options to fill almost any need. What distinguishes your product or service and makes it more desirable than your competitors’? The answers to this question are the factors and characteristics that feed your competitive advantage and attract consumers.
Be impeccably organized to give “campers” an outstanding experience. I created a detailed activities schedule for every day of camp, including a Plan B in case thunderstorms rolled in and we had to go inside. I arranged materials and supplies at the crack of dawn each day so that everything was in place and ready to go when the campers arrived. Operating a business requires immense attention to details, preparedness, and thinking ahead. If you’re not well organized across all aspects of your business, you’ll always be in a reactive mode, driven by problems and putting out fires. Lack of organization trickles down to tarnishing the customer’s experience.
Wear your shiny silver whistle and stand firm as the leader. Before my camp began, moms and dads gave me insights on how to handle their kids, and they reminisced about things they liked most about their own camp years. I enlisted a friend to be a second counselor during camp week and she also gave me some ideas. During camp, the kids would beg to do this or that activity again and again or tell me how they wanted to change it. I absorbed all of the information, but ultimately I had to blow the shiny silver whistle I wore around my neck and confidently make decisions. As a business owner or entrepreneur, it’s helpful to get advice and tips from others, but there’s a stopping point. Intake input graciously. Then step forward and blow your whistle. You, the leader, determine the who, what, where, when, why, and how to make your business successful.
Get the girl with the red boots out of the pool and handle crisis briskly, calmly, and properly. One day camper Debbie wore her red patent leather knee-high boots to camp – and accidentally fell into the swimming pool. A few of us jumped in to help her get out safely, however, the red boots obviously were drenched. I called Debbie’s mom right away to report the incident. I assured her that her daughter was fine – but not the boots. That evening, I called again and offered to pay for a new pair. Debbie’s two siblings were also at my camp, and their mom replied, “The kids are having a great time and are not here annoying me. Don’t worry about it.” (The next day Debbie was back – wearing her soggy red boots!) As a business owner, always handle crisis head on. Don’t dodge or make excuses. Talk directly with whoever has been affected. Quickly identify and implement a resolution. And, although it wasn’t necessary in this instance, check back with the customer afterward to ensure you have remedied problems to their satisfaction.
Build strong relationships by exhausting “campers” with great satisfaction. The campers went home at the end of each day drained from overdosing on fun. When the week came to an end, there was a reverberating echo from the parents, “Will you do it again next week?”
Although decades have passed, I occasionally bump into some of my former campers (most now parents) and their parents (most now grandparents), and our bonds remain strong. With big smiles, they still share their memories of Camp Sheryl with me. I put my heart and soul into the camp, and that’s exactly what it takes to be an entrepreneur and run a thriving business.
To be successful in today’s business environment, it’s not good enough to “meet the requirements.” You have to enthusiastically build customer relationships and go the extra mile to keep them coming back, and earn their referrals.
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DETROIT -- Here are three stars from the Detroit Tigers following their 6-2 loss to the Minnesota Twins:
It started off ugly, but Anibal Sanchez somehow managed to piece together another quality start Wednesday afternoon. Despite throwing 41 pitches in the first inning, Sanchez was able to eat six innings, retiring the last 11 batters he faced. He allowed three runs on five hits and two walks. Coming off his 17-strikeout start, Sanchez punched out nine, including the first two batters he faced, giving him 19 strikeouts in a nine-inning stretch.
The Tigers didn't muster much offense against the Twins, but Miguel Cabrera continued his torrid start with another multi-hit game. He finished 2-for-3 with an RBI double and is now batting .414 during their homestand and .434 (23-for-53) at home. He's recorded a major league-leading 39 hits and 29 RBIs, and is batting a team-high .337.
Making his season debut, Jose Ortega worked a scoreless ninth inning, inducing a groundout off the bat of Jamey Carroll before striking out Josh Willingham and Justin Morneau. Ortega was told about his promotion from Triple-A Toledo around 3 a.m. and was in the Tigers' clubhouse less than seven hours later. It's his second stint in the majors. Coupled with Sanchez's nine strikeouts, the Tigers combined for 11, give them 10-plus strikeouts for the sixth straight game. It's the longest streak by an American League team since at least 1916.
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Keep out of the Olympics' way, earn a haircut from TfL app
Coupons to make Londoners ditch the train for trainers
In the race to get London's road and tube network ready for the Olympics, Transport for London has endorsed a new app called re:route: a map app with reward vouchers.
The idea is that Re:Route (on iTunes here) plans your journeys in the capital and then rewards you for taking low-carbon, calorie-burning and overburdened-public-transport-avoiding route options by dishing out vouchers.
The rewards include coupons for haircuts and spa days. Made by Groupon-for-do-gooders startup Recyclebank, the app uses TfL data and has been officially endorsed by TfL.
But £5 off M&S vouchers aside, the app has a few limitations and some teething problems that make it less useful than it could be.
Routes, but no route-planning
It's a great idea for a transport app to draw in all forms of transport, but critically for a map app, it doesn't give specific routes. It will show you the start and end points of, say, a cycle journey – but not the bits in between. A spokesperson from Recyclebank explained that it's just not a route-planning app.
The app intentionally doesn't ask for your location either, a decision which is of course better for privacy, but worse for finding your way around – though there's always Google Maps.
Re:Route sucks in travel recommendations from the Transport for London API, using the same data that TFL's web-based journey planner does. However, it doesn't yet include buses – although that data will be included before the Olympics. Until it does, some of the routes don't seem to make much sense.
While the app does get a bit creative, some of the routes are kind of weird: for example, one "Burn Calories" route from Soho to south London suggested getting on the tube for one single stop and then getting on a bike... instead of just getting on a bike.
An additional teething problem was that the app seemed to have some trouble logging short journeys. Despite jabbing the screen for all 10 minutes of a short low-carbon journey (a walk to the shops), the app failed to register where I was, where I was going, or when I arrived. Hitting Start Route had no discernible impact. We've been assured that this is a problem with short journeys and is something that the devs are looking into.
A few updates and the addition of bus info could probably fix most of these things. But currently it's a bit of a white elephant of a piece of software, though worth playing around with if you have a thing for vouchers and don't mind meandering about London, logging your trips, to clock up goodie points.
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Why has my veterinarian prescribed Sulfasalazine Tablets?
Sulfasalazine is prescribed to treat inflammatory bowel disease in dogs and cats. This medicine works inside the bowel by helping to reduce inflammation and other symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease.
How do I give Sulfasalazine Tablets?
First, READ THE LABEL CAREFULLY.
Give Sulfasalazine to your pet as directed by your veterinarian.
Give this medication to your pet for as long as prescribed by your veterinarian, even if your pet seems to be feeling better. This will help to ensure the infection is completely cleared up.
DO NOT give your pet more medicine than directed.
DO NOT give your pet medicine more often than prescribed.
Try not to miss giving any doses.
If I miss a dose, what do I do?
If you miss a dose, give it to your pet as soon as possible. If it is almost time for the next dose, skip the missed dose, then continue with the regular dosing schedule. Do not give your pet two doses at once.
How do I store Sulfasalazine Tablets?
Keep this medicine out of reach of children.
Store capsules and tablets at room temperature in a dry, cool place. Keep this medicine away from heat and direct sunlight.
Do not store this medicine in damp places, in the bathroom, or near the kitchen sink. This medication can break down when exposed to moisture or heat.
The liquid form of Sulfasalazine should preferably be stored in the refrigerator. Keep the liquid medicine from freezing and throw away any unused liquid after 14 days.
What are the potential side effects of Sulfasalazine Tablets?
Sulfasalazine may cause your pet to experience vomiting, loss of appetite, inflammation of the eye, fever, decreased sperm counts, and allergic skin inflammation.
Contact your veterinarian immediately if your pet develops a dry cornea, or appears to have itchy eyes, because these are symptoms of a condition called dry eye or keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS).
Other side effects may occur. If you notice anything unusual, contact your veterinarian.
What about possible drug interactions?
Be sure to tell your veterinarian about any other medications or supplements you are giving your pet.
It’s not uncommon for your veterinarian to prescribe two different medications, which may cause a drug interaction to occur. If this happens, your veterinarian may change the dose and/or monitor your pet more closely.
Sulfasalazine may interact with the following medicines: methotrexate, warfarin phenylbutazone, thiazide diuretics, salicylates, probenecid, phenytoin, antacids, folic acid, digoxin, ferrous sulfate, or other iron salts.
Contact your veterinarian if your pet experiences any unusual reactions when different medications are given together.
You can find a Client Information Sheet which provides a summary of information about Sulfasalazine Tablets for Pets by following the link below:
If you have questions or concerns about Sulfasalazine Tablets, or conditions related to its use, contact your pet's veterinarian or pharmacist.
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This INVASION film spent years under the title INFECTION before its US DVD release. I am not sure why the name was changed. I feel that INFECTION and INVASION are both capable of referring to extra terrestrial maladies, yet neither is any more original or any less generic than the other. The only logical conclusion is that Lionsgate forced the name change in the hope that people would pay for their movie in an accidental attempt to watch Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig run from pod people.
After all, who in their sane mind is going to shell out dollars and cents for a film that is comprised of 63 uninterrupted minutes of in-dash HD footage shot from a cop’s cruiser perusing the back roads of an expansive park the night it is pounded by crashing meteors? Meteors in all their SLITHER-ey, NIGHT OF THE CREEPS-ey alien worm carrying splendor, that is? And did I mention INVASION is an Albert Pyun film? Master craftsman of films’ whose titles are often less absurd than the films themselves. Films you’ve seen like CYBORG, CAPTAIN AMERICA, and THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER, and ones you hope not to: BRAIN SMASHER… A LOVE STORY, ADRENALIN: FEAR THE RUSH*, NEMESIS III: PREY HARDER, OMEGA DOOM, KICKBOXER 4: THE AGGRESSOR, and MAX HAVOC: CURSE OF THE DRAGON.
Who indeed would plunk down a rental fee for a camera that never, ever leaves its dashboard? Not me. I’m the guy who pays $20 for it at Best Buy. That was before I had any clue what it was about. [Confession: I like to go to Best Buy from time to time and just grab something I know nothing about. The results are usually not very good.] If I had known it was 63 minutes of a camera that never, ever leaves the dashboard of a car, I assure you I’d of talked myself out of it. But, ya know what, I’m going to go out on a limb and confess I kind of liked it. It’s either that or I admit wasting $20.
Sure Pyun’s INVASION has problems out the vajayjay, but it also has a bourgeois charm to it. The acting is, well, functional in the sense that people acted out characters and thoughts that were not their own. 95% of the movie is voice acting and even that needs work. The special effects are remedial. They aren’t even of an era gone by. They are just plain simple. No one in their right mind would ever believe that this was, “Based on Real Events”, and yet Pyun turns the other cheek and pretends he has an illusion of reality here. INVASION is too over produced to be considered amateur footage and yet too amateur of a production to ever be taken straight.
What it does have, however, is an astounding 5.1 surround sound mix. The slick soundtrack is what sustains the eeriness to INVASION. In point of order, it is the only thing that sustains eeriness. Growls, screams and elusive animal gurgles dance around the room with stark polarity. I’ll even go so far as to say it has the most diverse surround mix of any STD flick I’ve caught in a while. Granted, if you don’t have a 5.1 system, this really isn’t going to mean much to you. In fact, I fear without the atmospheric nature all those sounds may stack together in an annoying squeal.
Aside from the sound, the only other saving grace is the film’s admitted gimmick; 63 minutes of uninterrupted dashboard filming. Which is to say, have you ever seen a film comprised of uncut dash-cam? I suspect that you have not. At least it is different, right? Is it the apex of terror? No, far from, but it is a unique angle all the same.
INVASION feels like a film that you and a handful of your friends could have made. It is low-budget, low-rent, low-talent guerrilla filmmaking, which I admit to admire a great deal — even when the end result is nothing to knock your socks off. INVASION doesn’t even go so far as to attempt to untie your shoe laces, however it has a blue-collar spirit that keeps things in perspective. Would you rather have some 4th rate filmmaker making another terrible knock off of excuse of a film about a town invaded by orifice entering aliens that brings nothing new to that already crowded potluck or would you rather give a shot to someone who wants to change things up a bit? (And spend a grand total of what looks like $40 in the process)
I for one appreciate the motive. The product isn’t a total wash either, which is a bonus. Plus, I just couldn’t resist a DVD cover that looked ripped from a book I would have read in the fourth grade.
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Emily nn Emmy!
I know Emily is very popular, but I find it to be timeless and elegant. Liliana / Lillian / Lily are a bit too trendy for me. Emily Smith is quite a common name, if that is not a concern to you then go for it! I'd suggest a more unique middle name to balance it out.
Also, Emily is perfect with Charlotte and Sophie.
Liliana is a name that I love, it's high up on my own list but lately I've been having second thoughts to whether I actually do like it better than Lillian. I've decided that although Liliana is more uncommon and quite "frilly" as some people say, I do like it more. Liliana Rae is my standard combo but I am also looking to change, I also like: Liliana Eve, Liliana Skye, Liliana Brooke, Liliana Emma, Liliana Wren, Liliana Kay :)
Lillian! I think it's beautiful and goes well with your other names.
I like Emily best with Charlie and Sophie.
Sure, Emily has been over-done in the past, but right now, there are little Lily's everywhere! She'd be more likely to be one of several Lily's in her class that one of several Emily's.
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Franklin Regional girls lacrosse showing progress in 'building year'
The Franklin Regional girls lacrosse team is still building toward becoming a playoff-caliber team, but the Panthers are beginning to show signs that they can compete with some of the higher-quality opponents in the WPIAL.
After combining for a 1-29 record in 2012 and 2013, Franklin Regional's record stood at 2-7 after a 16-9 loss Monday night against Fox Chapel.
While the Panthers face an uphill climb to make the WPIAL postseason, coach Eric Barnabei said he is seeing signs of progress in what amounts to a “building year.”
“We have a lot of talent on the team, and they improve daily,” Barnabei said. “Pretty much every game they play, they get better. That's exciting.”
Although Franklin Regional lost seven of its first nine games, the Panthers showed competitiveness, losing a 9-8 decision to North Allegheny at the buzzer and falling by three goals against Fox Chapel in the teams' first meeting. All but one of the team's losses last season came by six goals or more.
Last season, Franklin Regional won its season opener against Hampton before dropping its final 15 games. The losing streak extended to 17 games before the Panthers earned a 16-8 victory over Hampton in their third contest of the 2014 season. Three games later, Franklin Regional picked up its second win, 16-9 over Sewickley Academy.
“It was kind of a breakout game for us,” Barnabei said. “It was exciting.”
Franklin Regional is a young team, with three freshman starters and several sophomores playing key roles. Despite that, some of the team's younger players are playing like upperclassmen, Barnabei said. Freshman Danielle Hodowanec scored five times in Franklin Regional's victory over Sewickley Academy, and Anna Stephens is playing well as an injury replacement, Barnabei said.
“What I find is the girls break out their junior year, or their third year in,” Barnabei said. “It's probably a combination of growing and confidence. But to see it happening at the freshman level is exciting. I have a lot of excitement for the future of this team. Having freshmen who can score four or five goals in a game is unheard of. It's not a common thing, and we have a couple of them who can do that.”
Another freshman, Maria Cephola, is the team's starting goalkeeper.
Barnabei said the team is improving in its transition play as well as on offense and defense. Senior attack wing Brisa Colaizzi is the team's top goal-scorer, but Barnabei said the Panthers are getting also getting strong play from attack wings Jessica Watt, defense wings Ellen Gray and Annie Painter, center Sarah Stephens and defenders Mia Meixner and Alexa Milstein.
“Everybody out on the field's been pulling their weight,” Barnabei said.
Franklin Regional traveled to play Shaler on Tuesday, past the deadline for this week's edition. The Panthers will play at North Allegheny on Thursday.
“Just getting all the pieces together and improving, I think this team could contend,” Barnabei said. “The section's tough that we're in. I think we probably have to win out to make playoffs, (but) I definitely think they're going to pick up a couple more wins. I feel very positive because they know how to do it. They know they can do it now. The confidence is back.” | <urn:uuid:70bbda7c-49d7-4fbe-b05b-911846a41c98> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://triblive.com/sports/hssports/otherhighschoolsports/5982671-74/team-barnabei-franklin | 2016-04-30T13:52:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111865.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00096-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970527 | 761 | [
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[Edit] Well, April first is over, and for those who didn’t pick up on it, yes, this was an April Fools Day prank. Folks from the Ldraw steering committee got in touch asking for help spreading their prank, and I was happy to be involved. I thought that this joke had an important purpose, to draw community attention to the recent bricklink TOS change, which attempts to claim ownership to a great deal of community work. For those who aren’t aware, every time you see a rendering of a brick on bricklink, that came from LDraw, and the 3D model was created by a Lego fan for use by all. The photos are contributed by members (usually store keepers), part names are part of our hobby culture, and of course the numbers are molded onto the bricks. Those aspects created by community members were meant to help everyone equally, and I think Bricklink management should think long and hard about what sort of message this move sends to the community.
As for my personal character, I was putting on a greedy persona to help drive the message home. Also, as a warning, it’s a road I’d hate to see the Lego community go down. Yes, I’m a lawyer, my day job involves helping the government recover money lost from banks that failed in the financial crisis. I’ve been a perennial volunteer/organizer at Lego fan events since BrickFest 2005, and if you ask around, you’ll find many Lego fans to whom I’ve offered free legal advice. The Lego fan community is a fantastic and tight knit group of people, and I don’t want to see it torn apart.
With the politics out of the way, please enjoy our regularly scheduled posts about fantastic creations!
Big news today, as LDraw has announced they’re suing Bricklink for copyright infringement. As The Brothers Brick’s resident attorney, I just have to say how excited I am. For years, the Lego fan community has flourished under a system of community spirit, with large projects being built together under Creative Commons (whether stated or not). It’s great to see that we’re finally moving towards a litigious atmosphere, where everyone jumps to claim rights to anything under the sun. We don’t all live in the Danish socialist utopia, some of us have bills to pay.
Read the full press release below, then click on over to LDraw to donate to the cause. I’ll be offering them my legal services, provided enough is donated to cover my fees.
LDraw sues Bricklink for copyright infringement
LDraw.org, a system of free software tools for modeling Lego creations
in 3D on a computer, is preparing to file a lawsuit against Bricklink
Limited, for copyright violation. BrickLink.com is a
venue for individuals and businesses from all around the world to buy
and sell new, used and vintage LEGO. LDraw.org is furthermore sueing
for trademark infringement, unfair trade practices and more, seeking
damages for willful infringement.
LDraw.org, known for its parts
library of over 5000 virtual representations of LEGO bricks, which is
under continuous maintenance and extension by the LDraw community since
1997, might have decided not to file a legal objection to the use of
images rendered from its library in the year 2000 when Bricklink
started business, but the organization isn’t ready to simply roll over
on the intellectual property front, either.
The LDraw Steering
Committee (SteerCo) decided to take legal action after Bricklink
Limited rolled out new Terms of Service in September 2013. Bricklink
appears to also be claiming the exclusive rights to the common naming
system for LEGO pieces, through threatening legal action to competitors
claiming: “you are using our unique numbering and naming systems for
the LEGO pieces”.
“It is evident that the online community of LEGO
fans supplied much of the data and images and continue to do so to this
day and that in the early days of Bricklink many names, numbering
systems and even images came from co-existing sites such as LUGNET,
Peeron or in our case LDraw” said Willy Tschager, member of the LDraw
The committee set up policies on third parties
capitalising on the considerable volunteer time, effort, and ingenuity
represented by the part library and the LDraw System, which give the
users almost total freedom in the usage of rendered images. “One thing
is making cash with the efforts of others, but claiming it is yours is
a total different story and we are going to demand to delete their
image and text contributions to the database which have been drawn from
LDraw”, Tschager said.
In addition the LDraw Steering Committee is
looking out for angel investors to back the lawsuit financially.
Donation can be made to Peeron.com as hosts of LDraw.org (a Paypal
Donation Button can be found in the top left-hand corner of LDraw’s
homepage). However paying tribute to the fact that LDraw.org is a
completely volunteer organization the SteerCo prefers workmanship
contribution, such as part authoring, parts reviewing, writing programs
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[torquedev] cpuset support b0rked in trunk ?
csamuel at vpac.org
Fri May 23 06:47:57 MDT 2008
----- "Chris Samuel" <csamuel at vpac.org> wrote:
> In fact the pbs_mom seems to lock up at that point,
> my guess in an infinite loop due problems parsing the
> cpus returned, so the only way out is "killall -9 pbs_mom".
This is why it locks up using all the CPU, in
src/resmom/linux/cpusets.c, when initialising
the /dev/cpuset/torque cpuset:
while (ptr != NULL)
/* NOTE: load 'boot' set */
Dunno what was meant to be in there!
Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager
The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia
VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency
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|Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||baker99||10/16/05 11:42 AM|
Blue Marble: Next Generation offers greater spatial detail of the surface and spans a longer data collection period than the original. The original Blue Marble was a composite of four months of MODIS observations with a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 1 square kilometer per pixel. Blue Marble: Next Generation offers a year's worth of monthly composites at a spatial resolution of 500 meters. These monthly images reveal seasonal changes to the land surface: the green-up and dying-back of vegetation in temperate regions such as North America and Europe; dry and wet seasons in the tropics, and advancing and retreating Northern Hemisphere snow cover.
Blue Marble: Next Generation improves the techniques for turning satellite data into digital images. Among the key improvements is greater detail in areas that usually appear very dark to the satellite (because a large amount of sunlight is being absorbed), for example in dense tropical forests. The ability to create a digital image that provides great detail in darker regions without 'washing out' brighter regions, like glaciers, snow-covered areas, and deserts is one of the great challenges of visualizing satellite data. The new version also improves image clarity, and gives highly reflective bodies of water, such as salt lakes, a more realistic appearance.
Download this GE kmz file to view this cool new data -
For more information please visit -
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||AnimAlu||10/16/05 3:05 PM|
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||jtea84||10/16/05 7:00 PM|
Thats very cool. But why does my PageFile almost reached 950 MB? Luckly I have 512 MB of RAM to run the Blue Marble. You might make it for the Seven Continents instead of the Entire Globe.
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||Frank4||10/17/05 9:27 AM|
I've written about the Blue Marble NG for GE at the Google Earth Blog.
You can read the story here.
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||baker99||10/17/05 9:46 AM|
Excellen thanks for the blog entry, hopefully the server can handle the load, it is a community funded server so of course it isn't extremely powerful, but so far our sysadmin has kept it running smoothly.
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||baker99||10/18/05 1:25 PM|
We are currently experiencing some hardware problems, but Google Earth access should be back soon, World Wind users should not be affected as the data is on a different server, thanks for your patience.
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||baker99||10/18/05 4:09 PM|
Ok you will need to update (re-download) the kmz file as it now points to a different server, enjoy.
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||Frank4||11/15/06 6:19 AM|
The Blue Marble images described in this thread have not been working for some time. I'm hoping to see something new done soon.
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||OnEarthWMS||1/17/07 9:30 PM|
A KML 2.1 implementation that uses a WMS to KML translator to fetch the full resolution data:
BMNG from OnEarth WMS
Any views or opinions presented here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Caltech, JPL or NASA.
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||Forkboy2||1/18/07 12:36 AM|
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||Frank4||1/18/07 5:17 PM|
Yes indeed! I like the new WMS server for the Blue Marble NG. I especially like the fact the images have been time stamped and that you can do a time animation of the different months of Blue Marbles. It even works well when zoomed in close (after you've given time for each month to load). Very cool!
I do see some weird anomalies when zoomed out to full globe views - where some of the images fail to load (get black areas).
I do wish the images were a bit brighter with stronger color saturation. But, otherwise this is a great move in the right direction.
The only other thing would be to use the <region> tags to cause the image to fade out when you zoom in close so you can see Google's normal images.
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||OnEarthWMS||1/18/07 9:30 PM|
More dynamic data via WMS:
The daily MODIS composites, full 250m resolution, available directly from the source server:
TERRA MODIS daily, data collected yesterday around 10AM local, updates every day around 11AM Zulu
AQUA MODIS daily, data collected yesterday around 2PM local, updates every day at about 1PM Zulu
These layers use the raw, full resolution composites. They are generated every day from all the MODIS subsets available at MODIS Rapid Response System.
The composites are created as JPEGs, producing transparent PNGs would be larger and slower, and would also take longer to create.
Yesterday's TERRA MODIS on the current month BMNG This is a pre-blended layer that updates much later than the TERRA composite (if at all).
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||Valery35||1/19/07 1:17 AM|
|Re: Blue Marble next generation layer for GE||Frank4||1/20/07 5:36 AM|
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Film Review: Charles Dickens’s extraordinary story-telling pleasingly takes centre stage in this new version of Great Expectations.
Dickens’s classic class conflict coming-of-age tale has been adapted almost as many times as his Christmas Carol, so one had expectations of some radical reinvention here. Not so. And actually, given that the last 1990s ‘modern’ big-screen version starring Gwyneth Paltrow was a turkey, perhaps screenwriter David Nicholls (One Day) made a wise call.
Instead, Dickens’s extraordinary story-telling pleasingly takes centre stage. As a young, working-class orphan, Pip (who becomes Jeremy Irvine) has two life-changing encounters: one with an escaped convict he helps find food for (Ralph Fiennes laying on the Cockney accent fick as a concrete pie and mash); one with a rich, reclusive old loony, Miss Haversham (a kooky Helena Bonham Carter needing a touch more of Bellatrix Lestrange) and her proud, pretty ward Estella (who grows up to be Holliday Grainger), who he falls in love with.
Brought to you by the director of The Goblet Of Fire and co-starring Robbie Coltrane, this is the closest you’ll get to a Harry Potter film this Christmas. Costumes are scrummy and the shiversome Victorian atmosphere recalls The Woman In Black. A festive treat – rich, traditional and as satisfying as a superior mince pie.
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Paul's first challenge is to fill a large bare spot where soil doesn't drain well. To fill the void, he chooses a Siberian iris, a perennial that thrives in moist conditions. Hardy to USDA Zone 3, its foliage is more slender and its flowers smaller than the more common Dutch iris.
The variety he selects is 'Caesar's Brother'; deep purplish-blue flowers bloom in late spring to early summer. After the flowers fade, the foliage looks good until the first hard frost. If planted about 18 inches apart, they'll knit together in about three years. The Siberian iris is resistant to the iris borer.
'Peter's Honey' Fig
A fan of figs, Paul next plants a small fig tree, 'Peter's Honey.' Because the tree is only marginally hardy in his climate, he pots it in a container. "If temperatures drop below 10 degrees or so," he says, "I can move it into the garage for safe keeping."
Since 'Peter's Honey' is a self-pollinating fig tree, Paul plants only one. Figs need full sun and a fair amount of room to grow because they'll slowly reach a height of 15 to 25 feet tall with a nearly equal spread. Fig trees aren't bothered much by disease or pests, but birds will strip a fig tree of ripe fruit; Paul suggests putting bird netting over the tree once the fruit starts to ripen.
'Twisty Baby' Black Locust
The curvaceous 'Twisty Baby,' a variety of dwarf black locust, grows up to 15 feet wide and tall. Since this large shrub or tree suckers (produces secondary shoots from the base or roots that can form new plants), James plants it in a container. "I'll also prune it once a year to keep its growth in check and to encourage more contorted branches."
Paul brightens the shady areas of his garden next, first planting Brunnera 'Jack Frost.' Brunnera is a perennial that grows well in shade and produces sky-blue flowers. This particular variety is hardy to -25 degrees and its silvery foliage can grow to 10 inches in height and width. It flourishes in moist, rich, well-drained soil with a good deal of shade, or even a few hours of sun if in the northern U.S.
'Bressingham Spire' Monkshood
Another great plant for shade, monkshood produces gorgeous blue flowers. 'Bressingham Spire,' a bit stockier version of the species, can grow up to 24 inches if planted in cool, fertile soil with plenty of moisture.
A variegated form of pachysandra, Japanese spurge is an unusual ground cover that grows well where few others will — beneath the shade of mature trees. Its silvery-white leaf margins also brighten up otherwise dark, shady areas.
Carnation of India
For a tropical feel Paul adds the carnation of India, a real beauty with green glossy leaves and white ruffled flowers.
'Black Scallop' Bugleweed
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Date of publication: May 19, 2013
In a study of more than 600 women with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer treated at a single institution, treatment with breast-conserving therapy was as effective as total mastectomy. These results were published in Annals of Surgery Oncology.
Breast-conserving therapy involves lumpectomy (removal of the cancer and some surrounding tissue) followed by radiation therapy. Studies have found that breast-conserving therapy produces survival rates that are similar to those achieved with mastectomy (removal of the entire breast) among women with early-stage breast cancer.
To evaluate outcomes by type of surgery among women with triple-negative breast cancer, researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center collected information about 646 women who were treated between 1999 and 2008. All of the women had T1 or T2 tumors (tumors that were 5 cm or less in size) and no evidence of cancer in the lymph nodes.
A total of 448 women underwent breast-conserving therapy and 198 underwent mastectomy without post-mastectomy radiation. Women who had mastectomies tended to be younger and to have larger tumors.
Most women also received adjuvant (post-surgery) chemotherapy.
- Five-year risk of a cancer recurrence in or near the breast (a locoregional recurrence) was 4.2% among women treated with breast-conserving therapy and 5.4% among women treated with mastectomy.
- The two groups were also similar with respect to risk of distant metastases and overall survival.
- Factors that were linked with worse survival were lack of chemotherapy and higher tumor stage.
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You and Your Middle School Child
The middle school years are a time of transition: emotional, physical, social and academic. Your support and involvement are essential at this stage of your child's growth. Research shows that preteens do better in school when their parents are involved in their lives.
—Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
You can help your child transition from elementary to middle school. You can discuss the concerns he or she may have before starting middle school: learning from many teachers, getting to class on time, finding his or her locker, getting on the right bus, knowing where the cafeteria is, navigating crowded hallways and doing more homework. You may also want to talk about the physical and social changes that will take place and the social pressures that often occur in the middle school years.
Transitioning: moving to a new stage of life as from elementary school to middle school or from middle school to high school.
Many parents feel that because their child is growing up, they can lessen their involvement with the school. At this time, more than ever, parents need to be involved. Continue to communicate often with your child, the teachers, and the principal, vice principal or both.
Visit the school. Be aware of the place where your child learns. You may want to ask the following questions:
- Is there a transition program for students leaving elementary school and entering junior high or middle school?
- Are counselors available who can help your child transition to middle school?
- Are teachers and principals accessible to parents?
- When are the parents' nights, sports and art events, and other times when parents are invited to visit the school?
- When can parents volunteer at the school?
Help your child organize a schedule. You can show your child how to organize time, activities and schoolwork and how to stick to a plan. Help your child set goals with a time limit for completing particular tasks.
Listen to your middle school child. Communication is key in the preteen years. Be sensitive to any fears your child might have. Sometimes it is helpful to reserve comments and actions until you have facts about a situation and know how your child thinks and feels about it.
Discuss peer pressure. While riding in a car or doing chores together, you might want to describe "what if" situations. Ask, "How would you handle a particular situation?" Offer your thoughts. Encourage by always letting your child know he or she can count on you.
Welcome and get to know your child's friends. At home, you can watch how your child interacts with them. Look for the influence others have on your child. Also, try to get to know, and be in contact with, the parents of your 17 child's friends.
Become aware of physical and emotional changes in your child. Boys and girls are noticing physical changes in themselves and in each other. Discuss these changes and be factual. Also, express your own values and morals. If you are uncomfortable discussing these things, have your child talk with a doctor or trusted relative. Ask about the sex education programs offered at the school.
Reading in the Middle School Years
Reading is an important part of the middle school years. Many of the subjects your child studies in middle school involve much more reading than in elementary school. Check with your child's school counselor to see what your child's reading level is. If your child reads below grade level, check with the school to see if additional reading programs, supplemental educational services (SES) or reading specialists are available. Under No Child Left Behind, for example, the Striving Readers program aims to improve the reading skills of middle school and high school students who are reading below grade level. The Striving Readers program is available to Title I middle and high schools that have a significant percentage or number of students reading below grade level.
Looking to the Future
Help your child focus on academic needs for high school and college. Encourage your child to take challenging classes. You may want to ask these questions:
- Will the classes your child takes help him or her get into college, as well as be competitive in college and the workplace?
- Is your child having trouble with any classes he or she is taking?
- What tutoring programs are available?
- Does your child have good study habits: does he or she read what is necessary to complete the assignment and hand in assignments on time?
- Does your child have the supplies needed to complete the assignment?
Be sure that your child starts thinking about college early, both from an academic and financial point of view. What courses are needed for the career your child is interested in? What amount of money will you be able to contribute to your child's college expenses? What resources are available for financial aid? The U.S. Department of Education has a new resource that can help you figure out the financial commitments you will need to make. The FAFSA4caster at http://www.fafsa4caster.ed.gov can help you calculate college costs before your child applies to college.
Your child is entering a phase of life that produces great change. Your active support and participation will help ensure a successful transition into middle school and then to high school.
Academic Performance at the Eighth Grade
What are the academic expectations for your child at the end of eighth grade? What should your child know at this point to be able to advance and perform high school work? Although specific curriculum is set by each state, and varies from state to state, the following achievement levels can give you an idea of what to expect your child to know and be able to do in reading,4 mathematics5 and science6 when your child is in the eighth grade. These achievement levels build on those for the fourth grade, but the knowledge is more in-depth and complicated. They are taken from the NAEP frameworks in reading4, math5 and science6 at the "proficient" level.
4 http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading/achieveall.asp (2005)
5 http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/mathematics/achieveall.asp (2006)
6 http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/science/achieveall.asp (2002)
When reading, an eighth-grade student should be able to:
- Show an overall understanding of the content read, including inferred meaning as well as factual information;
- Interpret what he/she reads to understand broader themes or lessons and draw conclusions;
- Make connections between the material read and his/her own experiences, including other reading experiences; and
- Identify some of the strategies authors use to write the material.
Eighth-grade students should be able to:
- Show an understanding of the concepts and procedures in complex problems in five content areas: number properties and operations, measurement, geometry, data analysis and probability, and algebra;
- Apply the concepts and procedures in complex problems in the five content areas above;
- Reason, defend ideas and give supporting examples;
- Understand the connections between fractions, percents, decimals and other mathematical areas, such as algebra and functions;
- Apply arithmetic operations to solve problems in practical situations, understand quantity and spatial relationships, and convey reasoning skills beyond arithmetic;
- Determine what data are necessary in problem solving;
- Compare and contrast mathematical ideas and generate examples;
- Draw conclusions from data and graphs, apply properties of informal geometry and accurately use technology tools; and
- Understand the process of gathering and organizing data and be able to calculate, evaluate and communicate results within the area of statistics and probability.
Eighth-grade students should be able to:
- Understand earth, physical and life sciences. For example, students should be able to interpret graphic information, design simple investigations and explain such scientific concepts as energy transfer;
- Be aware of environmental issues, especially those addressing energy and pollution;
- Create, interpret and make predictions from charts, diagrams and graphs based on information provided or from investigations;
- Design an experiment and have an understanding of scientific phenomena and design plans to solve problems;
- Begin to identify forms of energy and describe the role of energy transformation in living and nonliving systems;
- Have knowledge of organization, gravity and motion within the solar system and identify some factors that shape the surface of the earth;
- Understand properties of materials and understand the particular nature of matter, especially the effect of temperature on states of matter, and understand that light and sound travel at different speeds;
- Be able to apply knowledge of force, speed and motion;
- Show a developmental understanding of the flow of energy from the sun through living systems, especially plants;
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The Trimper family was involved in the area since before 1900. Both Dan Trimper and then Dan Trimper Jr. ran the park and both served as mayors of the city. Their holdings were called the Windsor Resort and included a couple of hotels. Up until the 1960s they are thought to have had only indoor rides of a carousel and kiddie rides. In the mid 1960s they expanded to outdoor rides and this corresponds to the Wild Mouse associated with "Melvin's Amusement Rides". | <urn:uuid:a8a8ada1-4e24-4e2f-a774-c5884a63c69b> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://rcdb.com/4603.htm | 2016-05-06T16:55:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861848830.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164408-00112-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985109 | 191 | [
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December 4, 2012
Mr. Randy Smith
Re: Letter to the Editor
The motto of the Michigan State University Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU) is” Building Dreams Together” and their actions clearly show that they are true to the words they speak.
MSUFCU recently announced their grant of $25,000.00 to two small businessmen to help get their new business off the ground. The grant was awarded through the credit union’s new $250,000.00 micro loans fund offering small business loans for board entrepreneurs in three counties surrounding East Lansing, Michigan.
This unique program called MSUFCU StartUP Challenge gave credit union members the opportunity to have a jump start on a new entrepreneurial idea. MSUFCU designed the program to allow, in their words, “talented, innovative and creative entrepreneurs that are ready to take their business to the next level.”
Grant applicants had to submit a written package that included a value proportion, description of target market, business model and financial statements supported by a situation analysis. In addition, a video pitch accompanied the written submission.
MSUFCU is to be commended for their new and innovative program for individuals with ideas for a small business. They clearly recognize our financial recovery hinges on the small business community that will help grow local economies.
The credit union even takes their program to another level by offering participants feedback on their business plans outlining strengths and weaknesses while suggesting areas of improvement. In addition, those not chosen as the winner are encouraged to apply for the MSUFCU StartUp Loan Fund enabling them to borrow the funds needed to start their new business.
Innovative, creative, outside the box, however you what to describe the efforts of the Michigan State University Federal Credit Union, it is clearly what we need credit unions to be doing today.
MSUFCU has found yet another way credit unions can fill the void created by other financial institutions. They have found a way to fulfill their mission of “providing superior service while assisting members and employees to achieve financial security, their goals, and ultimately their dreams.”
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A Chinese citizen who conspired with family members to steal U.S. military technology for the People's Republic of China was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Monday, the maximum he could have received.
The probation report recommended a prison term of 6 1/2 years for Tai Mak, but U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney said a longer sentence was appropriate because the technical information he attempted to export, although unclassified, was sensitive nonetheless.
Mak, 58, who was an Alhambra resident, pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to violate export-control laws. Prosecutors said he was carrying a disk encrypted with information about U.S. naval technology when he and his wife attempted to board a flight to China at Los Angeles International Airport in 2005.
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No one could ever complain that they don’t know how I feel. Take this picture for example. I was probably around five years old, Down the shore in Wildwood. Grandmom had ticked me off for some reason. I feel good looking at this picture. Makes me feel like I was born this way.
Marketing directors use this look a lot. We often need to express our displeasure and having a look that will get one action is important. We are constantly evaluating, sizing things up. At the same time, we have people relentlessly coming at us–selling, complaining, wanting more, better, faster. No wonder we’re all in a bad mood.
The challenge of being in my line of work at a place like Lourdes is that they expect associates (i.e., employees) to provide a level of courtesy that exceeds your average job. Some days it is really hard. This is actually the hardest part of my job. I used to have my own business and we would fire customers we didn’t like. Can’t do that here. And when you have vendors or salespeople who are eating up your time, its nearly impossible. People who work near me can attest to that.
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"Legwork" is a science fiction short story written by Eric Frank Russell for Astounding Science Fiction magazine (now called Analog Science Fiction and Fact) in 1956. In it, an Andromedan named Harasha Vanash infiltrates the Earth and uses his hypnotic abilities to impersonate people and support himself. The story focuses on how the FBI comes to the truth about him and the military tracks him down.
Andromedans are bipedal and about human-sized, but have less rigid limbs.
Hypnotic Powers Edit
Andromedans have the power to influence minds for a range up to almost one point six kilometers. They can convince their target of things that outrage common sense, take the appearance of anyone and seem to be speaking the language, or get them to do things they would normally would not.
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MILWAUKEE – Families in the United States are asking about adopting children from areas devastated by the tsunami, but adoption officials say it's too early to consider bringing orphaned children into the country.
Aimee Klundt, executive director of Sunshine International Adoption Inc. (search), said Tuesday her agency had received about a dozen phone inquiries about adopting children affected by the disaster. She estimated it would probably be a year before any orphaned children become available for adoption.
"We are really telling parents to focus on disaster relief at this point," Klundt said. "This is where the basic human needs need to be met right now."
Many records needed for adoption — including birth certificates and proof that a child is an orphan — were lost in the disaster, Klundt said, and many countries will look for extended family members to take care of the children before they consider international adoption.
"This is the part of the world where kinship and family are most important," she said.
"The international standard in a crisis is to keep children close to surviving parents or family members," the U.S. State Department said on its Web site.
Countries also are taking steps to protect children from child trafficking. Indonesia is temporarily barring anyone from taking children in Aceh province out of the country.
Interest in adoption often increases after a disaster because people want to help, said Tammara LeMay, an adoption services planner with the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services (search).
But uprooting the children and sending them to another country could be devastating, LeMay said.
"Adoptions may not be the best way to help," she said.
However, Seth Pollak, associate professor of psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the most important thing is to get the children to permanent family care as soon as possible, whether that comes from their own country or a foreign one.
Pollak, who heads a project on international adoption, said the less time orphaned children spend in institutions, such as orphanages, the better off they are.
Also, there is so much going on in the disaster-stricken countries that it could be hard for them to provide the children with a sense of security, he said.
"It's really a question of whether there's going to be sources of support not only for the children, but for the families that take the children," he said.
In Washington, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (search) issued a statement Wednesday saying that those offering to adopt orphans from the disaster may be well- intentioned, but it is not the recommended solution, at least for right now.
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Thanks for the edits Emmanuel. Much appreciated.
Hey Emmanuel, thanks for the recent edit and feedback, much appreciated!
Sorry I'm a little late to the party here, but had to drop by two cents.
Gotta disagree on leaving Kobe off the list. It's a subjective list, I get that, but any top 10 list that doesn't include Kobe Bryant is only because (1) someone wants to piss off the legions of misguided Kobe worshipers, or (2) someone let their personal feelings get in the way. I get both of those, but it's still wrong.
Kobe's the best two way player of his generation. He is the second best Shooting Guard ever. At his high point, no one ever got hotter. Ever.
Look at his resume:
5 Championships (as 1st or 2nd best player -- look at the 2001 playoffs and try to tell me Kobe was the "lesser player". 29-7-6 with 47% fg)
2 Finals MVPs
1 NBA MVP (should be two - 2006)
4th All Time Points Scored
15 Time All Star
11 Time First Team All NBA
9 Time First Team All Defense
2 Time Scoring Champ
As for the argument with Duncan. Kobe and Duncan have met 6 times in the playoffs. Kobe's teams are 4-2. In each of those four series wins (including all three with Shaq), Kobe was the best player on the floor and that's not even debatable. So if you want to say Duncan was the best player on the floor in his 4 titles, that's fine. But in 4 of 6 series with Kobe, he was not. Kobe also went to 7 NBA Finals in an 11 year span. Duncan went to 5 Finals in 14 years.
In terms of Shaq, Kobe got 2 chips after Shaq left town. Shaq got one (a dubious one at that).
Also, the argument that Shaq was clearly the best player on all three title teams is shortsighted. Esepcially in the playoffs. The best teams the Lakers faced during those title runs were NOT the Pacers, Sixers and Nets. They were the Blazers, Spurs and Kings. And in two of those three matchups, Kobe was clearly the best player on the floor. So let's not overrate the Finals MVP those years.
My (subjective) Top 10:
1 - Jordan
2 - Kareem
3 - Russell
4 - Magic
5 - Bird
6 - Wilt
7 - Kobe
8 - LeBron
9 - Duncan
10 - Shaq
Our lists are pretty close, actually. I'd even have the Dream at 11. And LeBron will leap frog Kobe if he continues on his current path. You can even make a strong case for LeBron being 7 and Kobe being 8 right now. But I'd give Kobe the edge just on the sheer mass of his career numbers.
Leaving Kobe off your top 10 all together? Come on, man. You don't really believe that, do you?
Tell me you were just trying to piss people off. I'll accept that.
Thanks for the edit!
Your top 10 players in the history of the NBA was by far the worst list i have ever seen.
Thanks for the edits today Emmanuel.
Appreciate the edits, Emmanuel, but doesn't the B/R style guide not capitalize Del Rio's finisher?
Thanks for the edits today Emmanuel. Much appreciated.
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The aim of the competition for the Freedom Square And Zdunski Market Place was to select the best urban and architectural design in Kutno, Poland. Such features as spatial development, functionality and practicability were taken into consideration. In the second prize winning proposal by Mado Architekci, they combine the current appearance with the original to create a hybrid square. The hybrid would combine the features of a pro-community, commonly accessible square without any motor traffic, with a square that would satisfy the needs of a modern city. More images and architects’ description after the break.
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Twelve New Jersey nurses have charged a hospital with religious discrimination after it announced it would introduce a policy that would require them to help patients before and after abortions. In a lawsuit filed at the end of October, the nurses charge that the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey breached state and federal law with its new abortion policy. This removed an exemption on moral or religious grounds.
“I’m a nurse so I can help people, not help kill, and it just doesn’t seem right to me,” said Beryl Otieno-Negoje, one of the nurses. “No health professional should be forced to choose between assisting abortion or being penalized at work.”
The University Hospital has responded that “no nurse is compelled to have direct involvement in, and/or attendance in the room at the time of, a procedure to which she or he objects based on his/her cultural values, ethics and/or religious beliefs. The university is in full compliance with all applicable state and federal laws and is confident its position will be vindicated when the court gives this matter a full hearing,” the statement said.
“These are health-care professionals who work at a publicly funded hospital saying that they do not want to do the job they were hired to do, including caring for a woman before or after surgery,” Jennifer Dalven of the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project told the Washington Post. “People have a right to their beliefs, but that shouldn’t give them the right to discriminate against patients who need medical care.”
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AKA Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
Birthplace: Sorochintsky, Poltava, Ukraine
Location of death: Moscow, Russia
Cause of death: Starvation
Remains: Buried, Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia
Religion: Russian Orthodox
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay
Executive summary: Dead Souls, The Overcoat
The Russian novelist Nikola Gogol was born in the province of Poltava, in South Russia, on the 31st of March 1809. Educated at the Niezhin gymnasium, he there started a manuscript periodical, "The Star", and wrote several pieces including a tragedy, The Brigands. Having completed his course at Niezhin, he went in 1829 to St. Petersburg, where he tried the stage but failed. Next year he obtained a clerkship in the department of appanages, but he soon gave it up. In literature, however, he found his true vocation. In 1829 he published anonymously a poem called Italy, and, under the pseudonym of V. Alof, an idyll, Hans Kuchel Garten, which he had written while still at Niezhin. The idyll was so ridiculed by a reviewer that its author bought up all the copies he could secure, and burnt them in a room which he hired for the purpose at an inn. Gogol then fell back upon South Russian popular literature, and especially the tales of Cossackdom on which his boyish fancy had been nursed, his father having occupied the post of "regimental secretary", one of the honorary officials in the Zaporogian Cossack forces.
In 1830 he published in a periodical the first of the stories which appeared next year under the title of Evenings in a Farm near Dikanka: by Rudy Panko. This work, containing a series of attractive pictures of that Little-Russian life which lends itself to romance more readily than does the monotony of "Great-Russian" existence, immediately obtained a great success -- its light and color, its freshness and originality being hailed with enthusiasm by the principal writers of the day in Russia. Whereupon Gogol planned, not only a history of Little-Russia, but also one of the middle ages, to be completed in eight or nine volumes. This plan he did not carry out, though it led to his being appointed to a professorship in the university of St. Petersburg, a post in which he met with small success and which he resigned in 1835. Meanwhile he had published his Arabesques, a collection of essays and stories; his Taras Bulba, the chief of the Cossack Tales translated into English by George Tolstoy; and a number of novelettes, which mark his transition from the romantic to the realistic school of fiction, such as the admirable sketch of the tranquil life led in a quiet country house by two kindly specimens of Old-world Gentlefolks, or the description of the petty miseries endured by an ill-paid clerk in a government office, the great object of whose life is to secure the "cloak" from which his story takes its name. To the same period belongs his celebrated comedy, the Revizor, or government inspector. His aim in writing it was to drag into light "all that was bad in Russia", and to hold it up to contempt. And he succeeded in rendering contemptible and ludicrous the official life of Russia, the corruption universally prevailing throughout the civil service, the alternate arrogance and servility of men in office. The plot of the comedy is very simple. A traveller who arrives with an empty purse at a provincial town is taken for an inspector whose arrival is awaited with fear, and he receives all the attentions and bribes which are meant to propitiate the dreaded investigator of abuses. The play appeared on the stage in the spring of 1836, and achieved a full success, in spite of the opposition attempted by the official classes whose malpractices it exposed. The aim which Gogol had in view when writing the Revisor he afterwards fully attained in his great novel, Mertvuiya Dushi, or Dead Souls, the first part of which appeared in 1842. The hero of the story is an adventurer who goes about Russia making fictitious purchases of "dead souls", i.e. of serfs who have died since the last census, with the view of pledging his imaginary property to the government. But his adventures are merely an excuse for drawing a series of pictures, of an unfavorable kind, of Russian provincial life, and of introducing on the scene a number of types of Russian society. Of the force and truth with which these delineations are executed the universal consent of Russian critics in their favor may be taken as a measure. From the French version of the story a general idea of its merits may be formed, and some knowledge of its plot and its principal characters may be gathered from the English adaptation published in 1854, as an original work, under the title of Home Life in Russia. But no one can fully appreciate Gogol's merits as a humorist who is not intimate with the language in which he wrote as well as with the society which he depicted.
In 1836 Gogol for the first time went abroad. Subsequently he spent a considerable amount of time out of Russia, chiefly in Italy, where much of his Dead Souls was written. His residence there, especiailv at Rome, made a deep impression on his mind, which, during his later years, turned towards mysticism. The last works which he published, his Confession and Correspondence with Friends, offer a painful contrast to the light, bright, vigorous, realistic, humorous writings which had gained and have retained for him his immense popularity in his native land. Asceticism and mystical exaltation had told upon his nervous system, and its feeble condition showed itself in his literary compositions. In 1848 he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and on his return settled down at Moscow, where he died on the 3rd of March 1852.
Father: (country squire)
Mother: Maria Kosiarowska
Brother: Ivan (younger, d. 1819)
Boyfriend: Iosif Vielhorsky (in Rome, d. tuberculosis)
Religious Mission pilgrimage to Jerusalem (1848)
Is the subject of books:
Nikolai Gogol, 1944, BY: pseudo-biography by Nabokov
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The Lancers freshman scored the golden goal in overtime to give Sunny Hills a 3-2 road victory against Valencia of Valencia in the CIF-SS Division 2 quarterfinals. The victory put the Lancers in the semifinals for the second consecutive season.
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President Barack Obama has been in office for just 10 months, but already he's being measured against his predecessors in the Oval Office. In a House floor speech on Oct. 27, 2009, Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., said Obama and Herbert Hoover were ineffective at dealing with recessions.
"Three presidents within the last 100 years have responded to recessions by reducing taxes and regulations," McClintock said. "Warren Harding, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan all produced rapid and dramatic economic recoveries. We’ve had two presidents in those 100 years who reacted to recessions by doing the opposite — Herbert Hoover in the early 1930s, who radically increased taxes and spending and who imposed unprecedented burdens on trade, and the other is Barack Obama."
We contacted a host of presidential historians and economists to see whether they agreed with McClintock.
First, let's discuss where the experts generally agree that McClintock is right.
Harding, Kennedy and Reagan each acted to lower taxes, and in fact each of them staked some political capital on it. (Technically, Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, brought the tax cut to fruition after Kennedy's assassination.) Each of these presidents either inherited a recession upon entering office or saw one emerge early in their first term. Meanwhile, Hoover did indeed hike taxes and spending during his tenure, and he signed the Smoot-Hawley Tarriff Act of 1930, which raised tarriffs on thousands of goods to record levels.
Two of those we spoke to -- David Boaz of the Cato Institute and Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute -- were generally favorable toward McClintock's comments. But other scholars we spoke to saw a number of failings in McClintock's thesis.
1. McClintock's list of recessions is selective, in a way that favors Republicans . A look at the official list of recessions compiled by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that McClintock ignores a number of downturns that occurred under Republican presidents — including Dwight Eisenhower (1953, 1957-58), Richard Nixon (1969-70, 1973-75), George H.W. Bush (1990-91) and George W. Bush (2001) — while ignoring recoveries under Democratic President Harry Truman (1945, 1949).
2. Recessions stem from a number of causes . Sometimes they are caused by factors internal to the economy (such a downturn in the business cycle) and sometimes they are prompted by an external development (such as oil shocks in the 1970s or the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks). Because these recessions have different origins, economists say, no single policy prescription works for all of them. This suggests that McClintock is oversimplifying matters.
3. McClintock distorts Hoover's tax record . Hoover is widely blamed for worsening the economy by signing the Smoot-Hawley law. But that was a tariff; Hoover's record on taxes is more complicated. He did sign the Revenue Act of 1932, which more than doubled the top income tax rate and probably worsened the nation's already dire economic situation. But that law came three years after the Depression began, so for the first three years of his tenure, the economic outlook worsened without any assistance from a tax hike. Indeed, the tax laws then in force were initiated by steep tax cuts urged by long-serving Republican Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and enacted under Hoover's predecessors, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge — not necessarily a winning argument in favor of low taxation. Finally, Hoover did in one instance reduce taxes rather than raise them: He signed a joint congressional resolution that cut taxes by 1 percentage point on Dec. 16, 1929, shortly after the stock market crash of 1929.
4. The Reagan recovery may have been dramatic, but it was anything but "rapid." The second dip of the "double-dip" recession of the early 1980s — which occurred entirely on Reagan's watch — lasted 16 months from peak to trough. That made it the longest recession between the Great Depression and today's "Great Recession."
5. Focusing on the presidential role in combating recessions ignores other important factors . Something McClintock's formulation ignores is the enormous role of the Federal Reserve in leveraging monetary policy to fight recessions. For instance, many give Fed Chairman Paul Volcker significant credit for the 1980s recovery, due to his leadership (supported by Reagan) in lowering double-digit inflation. Meanwhile, some argue that, before the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, federal revenues and spending were so small as a percentage of the nation's economy that presidents had only weak levers to work with as they tried to fight economic downturns. Finally, actions of the 50 state governments can have major effects on the economy, yet cuts at the federal level often prompt spending increases at the state and local level, complicating the influence that government has on the economy.
6. The Obama record isn't settled yet . So far at least, Obama hasn't raised taxes; he's actually cut certain taxes, totaling $288 billion for individuals and companies, as part of his economic stimulus package. It's true that passage of health care reform would involve raising taxes, and passage of a "cap-and-trade" climate-change plan would represent an increase in regulation. But both initiatives are staunchly opposed by Republicans and there's no guarantee they'll be enacted, or, if they are, what their provisions will be.
7. Finally, correlation does not mean causation . Even if tax cuts happened to coincide with recoveries and tax hikes tended to coincide with recessions, it doesn't necessarily mean that one causes the other. For instance, tax cuts and deregulation likely aided the Reagan recovery (as did Volcker's inflation-fighting efforts) but historians say that higher defense spending, another Reagan priority, also helped bring the United States out of recession, as did historically lower oil prices. Meanwhile, Kennedy, in addition to cutting taxes, supported major increases in public works spending, not least the space program. The implementation of so many policies at the same time makes it hard to credit just one or two with launching a recovery.
When we showed the criticisms we heard to McClintock's office, he responded with a detailed critique, which we encourage readers to visit here . He made a valid point about the recession and recovery under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, which this story now reflects. But overall, he did not persuade us that the 12-plus experts we consulted were wrong.
We will readily acknowledge that it's impossible to encapsulate a century of American political and economic history into three sentences, so some oversimplification is inevitable. And McClintock did get several key facts in his statement correct. Still, most of the dozen-plus scholars we contacted agreed that the congressman greatly oversimplified matters, and we feel that describing history this way will leave an incorrect impression. So we rate McClintock's claim False. | <urn:uuid:738a4914-2281-4052-ad1c-203db1c37344> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/nov/02/tom-mcclintock/california-republican-lumps-obama-hoover-his-appro/ | 2016-05-04T08:01:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860122533.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161522-00216-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963564 | 1,421 | [
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Catalogue Number: BAL-32
Label: Balanced Records
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In yesterday's New York Times, columnist Tom Friedman states we may attract new and high quality teachers by offering them a tax break. Apparently Mr. Friedman feels that not only real estate moguls, sports team owners, banks and car companies ought to be well-paid by the government. And as someone with a kid to put through school (a kid who's repeatedly expressed a desire to be a teacher) I can think of little to say but Elvis' old standby, "Thank you, thank you very much."
One of the smartest stimulus moves we could make would be to eliminate federal income taxes on all public schoolteachers so more talented people would choose these careers. I’d also double the salaries of all highly qualified math and science teachers, staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. university in math or science — instead of subsidizing their educations and then sending them home — and offer full scholarships to needy students who want to go to a public university or community college for the next four years.
I'd only point out that ESL teachers are in short supply as well. The grinches over at The Quick and the Ed (who don't appear to have actually read Friedman's article) say it's too expensive on the one hand, and on the other might not give beginning single teachers with no deductions a large enough break (Apparently the prospect of an extra 3500 bucks a year would mean nothing to new teachers). They clamor for unproven "reforms" like merit pay, and then complain it wouldn't reward teachers in shortage areas. In fact, as you can plainly see, Mr. Friedman dramatically proposes to double the salaries in shortage areas.
It's unfortunate that many "reformers" choke when faced with things that would really help kids (like reasonable class sizes), and haven't yet heard about the rampant and unconscionable overcrowding that infects their pet projects (like New York City). On the brighter side, I was really moved by one of the comments from a blogger known as Downes:
Indeed, I would suggest that one of the major deterrents to high quality people considering a teaching career is the barrage of postings, just like this one, that attack existing teachers, teacher unions, existing contracts, and the rest. Nobody wants to work under such conditions.
Amen, Mr. Downes. The endless vilification of teachers by those who want to kill unions and institute the same sort of "reforms" that brought us today's financial woes are precisely what's wrong with education today. Let's make our schools better by giving our kids good teachers, reasonable class sizes, and decent facilities.
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California, MD -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/25/2014 -- 1927 was a landmark year for Italy’s loved, feared and respected Caruso clan. Packing up their life in Europe and heading for the United States of America, a fresh start was on the horizon for a group of people who had led a tumultuous past.
One of the first children born in the United States to Francesco ‘Cheech’ and Maria Caruso was Dominic, a now seventy-seven year-old man with one amazing story to tell. Caruso’s entertaining and uplifting story through life is exposed in ‘Where We land: Part One’.
If we survive birth, we all land somewhere. My landing was at 1579 Madison Ave, New York NY 10029 to the talented, gifted and aggressive Caruso clan.
It chronicles my life until I reached a point when fate gave me a choice to make. Continue the same old same old or change my ways....
As the author explains, while his life has been hugely-successful, his family history could have taken him down an entirely different path.
“Coming from the Caruso family, it was expected that I would adopt the rigid lifestyle and belief system of those who lived before me. However, I made a choice in my formative years to not become a part of the ‘clan’ life and carve out my own future. This book tells that story from the day of my birth until that vital point when faith stepped in and gave me a choice,” says Caruso – whose father made international headlines after a killing a Doctor, shortly after the death of his own son.
Continuing, “While I chose a different route in life, I didn’t get there alone. Looking back on the decades of my life, I now acknowledge that there had to be some sort of guidance that I unknowingly followed. To my family, I hope this book is a source of personal guidance. For regular members of the public I hope my story is a thought-provoking journey through choice and consequence. It will make interesting reading for people from all walks of life.”
Early reviews for the book have been positive. For example, DiCippola comments, “Starting life with a nameless birth certificate is only the beginning to this man’s life. Dyslexia marred his life and retarted his growth as a human being and yet he was clever enough to devise a method by which he could write four books. Two of which I have read, so far. You will enjoy the read.”
‘Where We Land: Part One’, published by CreateSpace, is available now: http://amzn.to/1mDk60W.
About the Author: Dominic Caruso
“My name is Dominic Caruso and at seventy-seven years old. I am the youngest and sole surviving son of Francesco ‘Cheech” and Maria Caruso. I am a songwriter, inventor and artist and have completed two years of commercial art and animation training at the Professional Institute of Commercial Art at Reistertown, Maryland.
In July of 2003, I completed the manuscript on “Only Yesterdays”, first released as “No More Tomorrows”. In late 2013 I completed my work on book number two, “This Bitter Earth”, which covers my father growing up at Sicily and eventually coming to America. There is a third book on my father’s early years at New York after entering Ellis Island. Both books are published by www.bookflurry.com.
I am also working on a TV series “Prohibition” that takes place in the roaring twenties 1920-29 at Red Hook Brooklyn, New York and follows my father’s footsteps and associations Until 1927 When the future changed for all members of the Caruso clan.” | <urn:uuid:5c934806-fa87-4600-af40-31919d9eafc9> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/where-we-land-fate-history-collide-in-autobiography-by-family-member-of-aggressive-caruso-clan-467415.htm | 2016-05-06T22:47:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461864121714.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428172201-00002-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961917 | 829 | [
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Knowing the comedy of Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow, you get the feeling there aren’t many clips from the upcoming Trainwreck that are safe for work. They did manage to find one, though. It features Bill Hader‘s character calling Schumer’s character the day after they sleep together. Notoriously promiscuous, Schumer’s character and her friend (Vanessa Bayer) are very confused at the seemingly normal, kind gesture. Hader’s friend, on the other hand, is loving it. Oh, and his friend is NBA MVP Lebron James.
Trainwreck opens July 17. Watch the first Trainwreck clip below. Read More »
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Posted on Wednesday, February 11th, 2015 by Angie Han
If you’ve seen even a little bit of her Comedy Central series, you already know that Amy Schumer one of the funniest actresses on the small screen. Now she’s poised to take over the big screen as well, as the writer and star of Judd Apatow‘s Trainwreck.
Schumer plays a woman who’s utterly allergic to commitment. Actually, “commitment” seems like too strong a word — based on the Trainwreck trailer, she doesn’t even like getting to the second date if she can help it. Enter a handsome doctor played by Bill Hader, who threatens to upend her life.
The supporting cast is equally stellar, with Vanessa Bayer and Lebron James(!) as Schumer and Hader’s supportive pals, Tilda Swinton as Schumer’s boss, and much much more. Watch the first Trainwreck trailer after the jump.
Update: A Trainwreck red-band trailer has also hit, with more raunchy jokes. Plus, a new poster and new stills — see it all below. Read More »
Judd Apatow‘s next film, Trainwreck, has just filled out its cast. Apatow will direct a script written by and starring Amy Schumer. Now almost a dozen new actors have joined a cast which already included Bill Hader, Brie Larson and Colin Quinn. They are recent Oscar nominee Barkhad Abdi, comedian and director Mike Birbiglia, Girls neighbor Jon Glaser, SNL MVP Vanessa Bayer, WWE superstar John Cena, Perks of Being A Wallflower star Ezra Miller and last, but definitely not least, Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton. The film is scheduled for release July 24, 2015. Read More » | <urn:uuid:b1b44f11-270c-4655-a36b-353f0730af58> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.slashfilm.com/tag/vanessa-bayer/ | 2016-05-06T22:42:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461864121714.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428172201-00002-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944489 | 531 | [
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In Nikon's technical guide for the D800e, Nikon lists recommended lenses (reproduced in Michael's article, "Nikon D800 or D800e. Which to Choose?"). There is no 50mm lens listed. The recommended 85mm and 35mm lenses are several times more expensive than Nikon's 50mm which implies their 50mm lenses are not of a similar quality to the 35mm and 85mm ones.
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View Full Version : New Mapping Style Test
01-23-2010, 08:59 PM
I've been playing today with a pure vector mapping style. In my usual lazy way I want to make maps as quickly as possible so I used line-styles to make city icons. Basically, you draw each building, put it in the linestyle, and then if you want a city you just have to draw a line. The software picks buildings at random within parameters you can set. The longer the line, the longer the city. Only thing is trying to find a style that fits with this sort of city drawing...I'd really appreciate any advice on what you think fits with the cities, what doesn't, suggestions etc. I've done a few variations but I'm not really happy with any of them, I think the last map (with the least eye-candy) is the one I like best so far.
:: Attached some example linestyle cities so you can see them closeup. It's quite good, if you don't like the city you can just keep hitting the linestyle button and it will generate a new random one for you. ::
01-23-2010, 09:09 PM
So it puts in towers and roofs and walls like a random image pipe/tube thingy? That might be the coolest thing ever and my idea of a holy grail. You could adapt the brush for ISO work as well. I like any of them but the trees look a lil off somehow in the first and oversimplified in the other two. I like the idea of the white circle thing around the cities in the first two but it does look better without as in number three cuz they're cutting through the buildings. Nice stuff, bro.
01-24-2010, 06:09 AM
I'm also a lazy bastard. Line-styles and layer-styles ftw :)
01-24-2010, 06:27 AM
Hmmm... I really like the loopy forest, better than the individual trees. the loops look evenly spaced, is that a type of linestyle also, or are those all hand drawn?
01-24-2010, 06:45 AM
Cheers Ascension: Yeah, it's like a tube but everything stays in vector so you keep the crisp lines. Iso would be more of a challenge though...might give it a try. I'm using Serif Drawplus, but I'm sure inkscape has a similar capability. I've given the forest more texture, made the roads and cities a little smaller- any better?
Carnifex & golem: Yeah line styles rock, particularly for lazy bastards like me and Carnifex, the forest edge and the trunks are line-styles. It's great because it means the radius of the semicircular loops are adjustable (just make the line width bigger or smaller). It has limitations though - if you make the line width too big, the circles don't join. Also when you fill the shape it only fills the underlying blob (and not the loopy edges). You can sort of get away with it as an artiistic choice, and it's not so noticeable when the loops are small.
Does the perspective view look too gimmicky? Serif converts the vector into raster to make perspective so some definition is lost.
01-24-2010, 08:35 AM
The forests look good in the 'perspective' version, but the buildings look "flat".
Neat stuff here Ravs!
01-24-2010, 09:22 AM
It's a neat effect, but I'm not sure if it really suits the style as it is. Like SG says, the buildings are a little flattened out looking for this, mayne if they were iso the perespective would fit them better, not sure. I really like the original version, and the perspective is neat, but I I don't think this style needs a gimmick to make it look good :P
01-24-2010, 04:44 PM
I played around with it....but not happy yet - I'll keep footling. I forgot to post the map which inspired this whole effort (attached). I love this map, it's simple, tells a story and entirely internally consistent....unlike mine, well at least for the moment.
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Bunch of idiots running the front office. They have not drafted a QB that won a game in 20 years. Every year its the same joke. Signing free agent QB's for big money. Problem is usually the QB is crap, too old, overrated, or only had 1 good season. Idiots. And they did it again. Signing Smith would be the right decision. Problem is they signed the wrong Smith. Geno Smith is going to be a very good QB. His potential is Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy higher than Alex. With Alex you get a solid guy but you won't win the big one. Alex has the best defense, offensive line, running game, and coach. Yet he still could not win the big one. | <urn:uuid:75b92820-f805-4995-97fb-d32dbdd9b3fe> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/kc-dumbest-franchise-in-the-nfl.452920915/ | 2016-05-01T06:33:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860114285.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161514-00098-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986373 | 158 | [
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VLC player gearing up for Android launch
5. shadowcell (Posts: 300; Member since: 28 Mar 2012)
I don't care if I have to pay $10 for this. If it runs all my .mkv and .avi files smoothly I'll be satisfied.
(Using Rockplayer Lite)
7. tedkord (Posts: 9692; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Been waiting for this one. This is my go to PC media player, it plays ANYTHING. I hope theAndroid version is as versatile and functional.
8. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
PLEASE VLC. You're my top video player and it's been great for 2years on my PC. I'm tired of converting my videos to MP4 for my phone and Mp3 player
9. zeidof (Posts: 13; Member since: 08 Jan 2011)
Yeah, i hope it supports subtitles as good as mx player
10. bayusuputra (Posts: 961; Member since: 12 Feb 2012)
11. bolaG (Posts: 468; Member since: 15 Aug 2011)
Cant wait! MKV, DIVX, MP4, MP3, XViD, MPEG, AVI, etc. PLEASE GET TO ME
12. gwuhua1984 (Posts: 1237; Member since: 06 Mar 2012)
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On April 3-6, a delegation of 18 students participated in the annual Arrowhead Model United Nations Conference, held this year at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. Representing Nigeria, Kenya, Greece, and the Philippines, MSUM students excelled in committee discussions on a wide array of topics ranging from the crises in Ukraine and Syria, to economic and humanitarian aid, to environmental issues such as drought and desertification. With our very own Dr. Andrew Conteh serving as General Assembly President, MSUM students passed resolutions on many such issues, educated themselves on the dilemmas of countries across the globe, and became familiar with the world of international politics. Last but not least, congratulations to MSUM junior Richa Neupane who was nominated as Best Delegate from the Political & Security Committee! If you’re interested in participating next year, don’t hesitate to contact Model United Nations President Sam Downs ([email protected]), or our advisor Dr. Andrew Conteh. Students of all majors/interests welcome.
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Campaigning in Sierra Leone has been feverish, colourful and a good excuse for a street party ahead of polls on Saturday to elect a new president and 112 MPs.
Out of seven presidential contenders, there are three front-runners, including Charles Margai whose supporters turned out in force in the capital, Freetown, on Wednesday.
Outgoing President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's deputy, Solomon Berewa, is the candidate for the ruling party. Their victory in 2002 followed a brutal 10-year civil war.
Ernest Bai Koroma came second in that presidential race for the party which ruled for more than two decades before the conflict. He hopes to capitalise on its popularity in Freetown.
Security has been tight, as there have been fears of violence with hundreds of unemployed ex-combatants around. UN peacekeepers withdrew in December 2005.
A group of popular musicians, Artists for Peace, have been travelling the country calling for peaceful polls. They ride into town and sing their message to big crowds.
Some 50,000 people died in the civil conflict and thousands of people had limbs hacked off by rebels. Here, some amputees attend a street rally.
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Want to bring a little more fun into 2013? Tanga has Disney’s Family Fun magazine for just $3.99 today, January 2nd, only! To get in on this deal just use the coupon code BLESSINGS.
If you are unfamiliar with Disney Family Fun, here is a little bit about what you’ll find in the magazine:
Disney’s Family Fun’s goal is for parents to enhance the time spent with their children. A typical issue explores learning activities, vacation planning, travel tips, and reviews of children’s books, videos, and music.
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
By "Federated Malay States. "
Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums.
By: Federated Malay States. - Perak State Museum. - Selangor State Museum.
Publication info: Kuala Lumpur :the Museums,1905-1941.
Contributed by: Smithsonian Libraries
Report on the results of mechanical tests carried out on some Malayan timbers, by H.T.M. Kent ... acting timber superintendent, Federated Malay States Railways.
By: Federated Malay States. - Kent, Henry Tuffley Money.
Publication info: Kuala Lumpur,Printed at the Federated Malay States Government Press,1920.
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Were you the type of kid who broke toys pretty soon after they came out of the box? Or maybe you just go through eyeglasses, camera, phones, and music players with abandon. Even if you're not like this at all, you probably know someone who fits this sad profileperhaps a student returning to campus or a business person who is constantly on the go. Although most gadgets are built to withstand normal wear and tear, only a few can survive harsh exposure to the elements. Well, stay tuned, because we've dug up and appropriately abused the following rugged devices.
Our mobile phone expert put Sprint's Nextel i580 phone through the wringer and grudgingly concluded that it is "nearly indestructible." Sascha dropped it, spiked it, froze it, threw it from a second-story window and as a last resort, ran it over with a carseveral times. The hearty i580 and all its functions survived, despite a few bruises. Also impressive is its big feature set. The phone comes with a bright screen, impressive sound, Bluetooth, a camera, GPS, and even MP3 capabilities.
For those who prefer listen to their tunes on a dedicated MP3 player, there aren't many rugged options out there besides sporty models with low storage capacity (less than 1 GB). But as a rule, flash-based players, like the Apple iPod nano are less susceptible to shock than their hard-drive based cousins. But if you need more music and video on the go, you can protect your video iPod with an Otterbox case. Made of clear hard plastic, the enclosure is lined with hard rubber and is airtight to boot. Your precious music player should be safe whether it falls on concrete, into a sandbox or into a puddle of water.
And speaking of large quantities of water, the Olympus Stylus 720 SW is a great camera for underwater photography. Waterproof to a depth of 10 feet, the camera is shock-resistant as well. It'll survive a drop from about 5 feet. During real-world testing, the Stylus 720 captured splashes, dives and underwater swimmers quite well too (check out some cool watery shots in our slideshow).
Last but not least, don't forget to protect your laptop. It's most likely the most expensive mobile device you own, and laptops also house lots of important data, including music, pictures, and personal info. And laptops can be rugged. The Itronix Hummer Laptop IX600 is equipped with an SUV-like chassis complete with the Hummer logo. The system is ideal if you're out in the field all day (think construction workers, architects, park rangers, field scientists.) Environmentalists may object to it, but this laptop can take a beating.
For less controversial protection, get a good laptop bag. Tumi is known for making sturdy products, and its Elements Computer Brief is no exception. This black nylon case is military-grade durable, has plenty of padding, and metal feet to keep the bag from flopping over when you set it on the ground.
So before you break yet another pricey gadget, invest in one that will last.
In This Roundup:
The i580 has the most features, the most durability, and the best performance of the Nextel family.
Olympus Stylus 720 SW
This camera takes very good underwater shots and is even shock-resistant. It's perfect for a day at the beach.
OtterBox for iPod
For those who need something rugged to protect their iPod, the OtterBox is one tough case.
Tumi Elements Computer Brief
This ultra-comfortable bag is pricey, but it will last for years.
Itronix Hummer Laptop IX600
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The Muddy Buddy race series will always hold a special place in my heart. In 2008, the Muddy Buddy Chicago was my FIRST EVER RACE! I was so nervous beforehand, but after crawling through the mud pit and crossing the finish line with my friend M, I experienced my first post-race high. Amazing.
This year, I wasn't exactly nervous before the Muddy Buddy...I was TIRED. See, the night before College Roomie and I were up until about midnight getting ready for the race (preparations obv included making a fabulous race morning playlist for the drive to the site...). I was crashing on an air mattress on Roomie's floor. It was comfy cozy at first and I passed out the SECOND I closed my eyes, but unfortunately that didn't last long! I woke up at 2am with the air matress almost completely DEFLATED around me...NOT COMFY. I tossed and turned the rest of the night...never falling asleep again. Needless to say, I wasn't exactly well rested and energized as we lined up in our color-coded waves...2 hours of sleep isn't part of my pre-race ritual! Oh well. :) That's life, right? Pre-race pics...(note how un-muddy we are!)
|You KNOW you are jealous of my butterfly temporary tattoo...|
College Roomie and I were together in our group until we were ready to start. Then, Roomie went up to the front with the other bikers. If you aren't familiar with the Muddy Buddy race series, here's how it works: 1 member from each pair starts on the bike and the other starts running; you are not racing with your buddy until the very end. The race is a little over 5 miles long, divided into 5 legs. At the end of each leg, there is an obstacle that needs to be completed before moving on. Then, you change sports as you start on the next leg. So, Roomie biked the first leg. When she got to the first obstacle, she dropped off the bike in the transition area, did the obstacle, then started running. When I got there later after running the first leg and completing the obstacle, I found our bike, hopped on, and rode leg 2. You switch off like that until the end of leg 5 when you find your buddy, complete the last obstacle, and crawl through the mud pit to the finish. Amazing, right? Obstacles this year were things like a climbing wall, a giant inflatable slide, and a little maze you had to crawl through.
My thoughts on the course: Muddy Buddy Atlanta was a million times harder than Muddy Buddy Chicago! Obviously Illinois is a super flat state, so I expected this race would be tougher, and I was right! There were a bunch of hills, some of which were really rocky. Roomie and I are inexperienced at trail running and mountain biking, so it was definitely a challenge. We even had to go through a couple tiny streams! I definitely got off my bike and walked both up AND down the crazier hills--my entire goal for the biking legs was "Don't FALL/DIE!"!! It was so. much. fun. though.
Leg 1--Run: This was one of the longer legs (they're not all exactly a mile), and it took me awhile to find my groove after my lethargic start...I think I kept a steady pace, but without my watch or garmin, it was tough to tell! Once I found my groove, this leg went great, minus getting used to keeping an eye on the ground for any rocks/roots/holes! I decided to just run the miles instead of doing my usual 3/1 run/walk intervals, and it went pretty well!
Leg 2--Bike: This was THE hardest leg. The course map labeled it as the most "technical" part of the race, and it definitely was. Thank goodness we rented that mountain bike, because Roomie's hybrid would NOT have been up to the challenge! I pretty much feared for my life the entire leg...
Leg 3--Run: BEST leg. I was totally into it by this point and just LOVING running through the beautiful forests. Although I seriously had to pee...again, I totally failed at pre-race preparation and forgot to go right before lining up! Oops!
Leg 4--Bike: This leg definitely wasn't as scary as Leg 2, but there were still plenty of bumps and hills! I remember at one point biking down a hill and gripping the handlebars so tightly that my arms were hurting!
Leg 5--Run: Last leg! I was happy to be running again, but by the end was TIRED! My legs are just not used to hills! A little bit of walking definitely happened this leg! There wasThere was no stopping, though, because I knew Roomie had already made it to the finish on her bike!
That brings us to…THE MUD PIT CRAWL!!!
Picture a gigantic stretch of soupy mud with ropes running across it, forcing you to crawl under them…Roomie and I plunged in, the cool mud a welcome relief from the hot sun! We booked it to the finish line, and crossed holding hands. The aftermath...
|You better believe I threw these shoes away...|
|Obligatory post-race beer...and chex mix??|
Definitely consider doing the Muddy Buddy sometime if there is a race in your state!
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Thanks for helping teach J.A. Maxwell pupils
On Friday, Oct. 2, students at J.A. Maxwell Elementary spent the day learning about various machines and modes of transportation. The faculty, staff, and students of Maxwell Elementary would like to thank our community members for being a part of our Annual Machines and Transportation Day! We would like to send a big thank you to: Georgia State Patrol, McDuffie County Fire Department, McDuffie County Ambulance Services, City of Thomson Fire Department, Bartram Trail Book Mobile, Springfield Baptist Church, Georgia Army National Guard-Thomson, Two State Construction Company, Mr. Jim LeBrun, Mr. Jimmy Plunkett, Lenny Hobbs, Jerry Lewis, Jefferson EMC Bucket Truck, GBI Crime Scene Unit, City of Thomson Police Department, Tiana and Skyla Evangelista, Georgia Forestry Unit-Thomson and the City of Thomson Roads Department.
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The Play Illlustration Source Book from Serbin was supposed to promote people who design interactive games, design for games, stuff like that. I do that kind of stuff for money these days, so I thought I'd buy a page.
Today, Play Illustration launched it's website
, which is unfortunately just another online mishmash of jumbled confusion that allegedly does good things for folks like me. What I got
is basically an unfindable page among hundreds of others that I can't control, can't make the way I want, can't actually run the games I'm designing on, and basically just sucks large. Reality check: I know I can't draw that good but in the big scheme of things I can
at least entertain folks for a spell
The first on the scene with online illustrator promoting, as far as I recall was theispot.com
, from the amazing Gerald Rapp. I like Gerald - I'm down with the guy because he's cool and I dig him, but when he showed me theispot.com I said "This is lame" - "it's a jumbled ball of confusion" and I thought to myself those many years ago, that there has to be a better way for illustrators to get a message out online in a way that doesn't suck. Lots of time has passed and theispot still seems to be the standard - Click a whole bunch of check boxes, like humor, animals, children, and you get a few hundred talents to browse through. Not only do these various online talent systems seem screwed up, they ain't cheap either. They're making serious dollars and what do they deliver? I'm not sure...
I tried out portfolios.com
(sexy animated chick on the homepage probably got me...) - but it delivers zero traffic to my site - the search at portfolios.com is the same as Gerald Rapp created at theispot in the late 90's - click a bunch of boxes and get several hundred results to browse through.
I have a feeling it doesn't have to be this way, but I'll also admit that I'm not sure what the best answer is yet. One online high note is the amazing blog at drawn.ca
- comes up at number five in a Google for Illustration search
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Bua River Lodge is easy to find. It lies just 10 km off the main M5 Salima to Nkhata Bay “Lakeshore” road. The track leading to the lodge is in fair condition. Saloon cars can reach the lodge without difficulty during the dry season, although 4x4s are recommended during the rains.
The entrance to Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve and access to the lodge is via an unmetalled track, leaving the M5 to the left about 13 km north of Nkhotakota town and 800 metres north of Lozi Trading Centre, the first significant village you reach after leaving Nkhotakota.
Follow the track straight for about 8 km to the gate at the edge of the reserve. Continue straight for 2 km, ignoring the tracks to the left and right, and you will arrive at Bua River Lodge.
For those who are new to Malawi, directions and maps showing how to reach Nkhotakota can be found on the specific pages in the Getting here menu.
If you are without your own transport, go the Department of National Parks and Wildlife office, on the main M5 road on the northern side of Nkhotakota (about 1 km from the crossroads in the centre of town). They may be able to provide transport. Even better, if you notify the lodge of your approximate arrival time in Nkhotakota, we will pick you up. We charge MK 8,500 per one way trip from Nkhotakota or MK 4,500 from Lozi. Or, if you like adventure, drop at Lozi Trading Centre, 12 Km north of Nkhotakota and ask for a bicycle taxi. The charge should be about MK 1,500, per bicycle. | <urn:uuid:e66dd4cb-21fc-4e8f-a65e-9cedc3596bd7> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://buariverlodge.com/index.php?id=34 | 2016-05-04T23:06:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860125524.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161525-00218-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92643 | 369 | [
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When it comes to the tablet form of ketorolac, dosing guidelines for adults under the age of 65 without any other medical problems generally call for an initial dose of 20 mg, followed by 10 mg every four to six hours as needed. For those who are over the age of 65, those who have kidney problems, and those who weigh less than 110 pounds, ketorolac dosing generally is 10 mg every four to six hours. For both groups of people taking tablets, the daily dose of ketorolac should not exceed 40 mg daily.
Ketorolac Dosing: An IntroductionThe dose of ketorolac tromethamine (Toradol®) your healthcare provider recommends will vary depending on a number of factors, including:
- Your age
- Your weight
- Other medical conditions you may have
- Other medications you may be currently taking.
As always, do not adjust your ketorolac dose unless your healthcare provider specifically instructs you to do so.
Ketorolac Dosing for Acute Pain
Ketorolac may be given in a variety of ways for pain relief. For adults, it may be administered through an IV or an injection on an as-needed basis or every six hours.
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The tablet dose for adults under the age of 65 without any other medical problems is ketorolac 20 mg for the first dose followed by 10 mg every four to six hours as needed. For those who are over the age of 65, those who have kidney problems, and those who weigh less than 110 pounds, the usual recommended dose of ketorolac tablets is 10 mg every four to six hours. In either group, the maximum daily dose should not exceed 40 mg of ketorolac.
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From this months (January 1999) 'Q Review'
AR Kane were a duo from the East End of London whose sonic feedback, sampling and psychedelic pop dominated the indie charts in the late-'80s. After one-off singles with One Little Indian and 4AD (including a very lucrative collaboration with Colourbox for the M|A|R|R|S Number 1 hit "Pump Up The Volume") they joined Rough Trade in 1988 for two groundbreaking albums, '69' and 'i'. They released two more, 'Americana' in 1992 and 'New Clear Child' on 3rd Stone in '94, before fizzling out. Where are they now, asks Jack Hennessy of Manchester?
Rudi Tambala (programming, keyboards): "When you're young pride is a deadly thing. We had such serious attitude. Our music was like Hendrix and the Pistols. Jesus, we were nasty, we didn't give a shit, we were totally self-indulgent."
Tambala loved the raw spontaneity and manic sampling of the duo's early albums, but by 'New Clear Child' felt that the band had peaked. "We went off at various tangents, but never found our footing again. In '95 Alex and I got together for a couple of months when David Byrne set us up in a small studio in California. We put together a couple of tracks neither of us were happy with, and didn't pursue it."
After shunting back and forth between the US and UK, Tambala settled in a country cottage in Hertfordshire, complete with a studio to "tinker" in. He makes a living as a media/Internet consultant ("a natural progression for my kind of musician"), and has released ambient records, "like AR Kane without the feedback", under the name of Sufi. Last year his cover of Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" was eclipsed by Public Enemy's version. "It was an incredible flop. I don't make my living from music anymore, but when I do it now, it's essential, it's pure."
Alex Ayuli (programming, keyboards): "Straight after the last AR Kane album my wife and I built a little house three hours away from San Francisco in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It's so beautiful here, right in the middle of nature. I moved to America in 1990. I wanted to get away from the London scene, that world was eating me up, it's all-consuming. In a sense I wasn't living my life, someone was living it for me."
Since 1994 Ayuli has been traveling, working on a film script, learning about Chinese furniture and "having fun. I've learned to be very patient in the last few years. I'm more accepting of things. My family don't recognize me!" He is very proud of what AR Kane achieved. "We were a force of ideas. We helped to get rid of stereotypes. In the '80s black men were doing soul, reggae or rap, not psychedelic dream rock. We opened doors for bands to be more experimental."
Ayuli currently works on Web site projects and has just completed a mini-album, 'Soul Surging', due out on 3rd Stone early next year (1999). "I've been in a cocoon, and like the caterpillar turning into a butterfly, I want to be out there again."
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Sunday morning dawned clear and unseasonably warm in The County. We had decided to double back to Grammy’s, a reader-recommended restaurant, then head west to Baxter State Park, to take on the two hour drive (we are nothing if not ambitious). Grammy’s is kind of elusive, and took us a few passes on The Bangor Road between Houlton and Linneus to finally find ourselves at the spot. We’d had this great notion that we’d live tech-free during our road trip. I hold my atlas close to my heart, and when we are driving, even if guided by GPS navigation, iPad and Android technology, I am studying the routes and towns along the way. I like to know if we are going North or South, and measure the distance with my fingers, converting the inches to miles. When the TOMTOM told us we had reached our destination, outside an extended trailer where a main was working on his truck, eying us warily, we abandoned the disembodied voice and used our senses to follow the windy road to Grammy’s Country Inn.
Grammy’s Country Inn
I heard the record skip, but only for a moment, before the after-church crowd went back to their bulging breakfasts. The tractor boys at the counter pointed us to more tables in back, but we had a seat on stools, between the door and cash register, a great vantage point for viewing the action.
Malcolm: We were quite taken with how patient and friendly everyone seemed to be with us. Grammy’s can look, from the outside, like the kind of place where non-regulars might not be welcome, but nothing could have been further from the truth. While I’m sure it was a different story in the kitchen, where they must have been cursing our lunch orders at such an early hour, out front it was all smiles and warm nods.
Grammy’s ceiling is low, and the walls are paneled in light wood – you can imagine it’s quite cozy in the chasm of a bleak winter. Our courtside seats allowed us contemplate the baked goods overflowing everywhere: whoopie pies as big as my face, hunks of yellow cake streaked with strawberry jam, chocolate frosted peanut butter cookies (these rule), Brobdingnagian muffins and brownies, and I think also pies. We’d read to be prepared for generous portions and already knew this was a place well chosen.
It was 10:30 in the morning and Malcolm was single -minded in his quest for something smothered in gravy.
Malcolm: This doesn’t begin to adequately explain my attitude that morning. I had spent the previous 24 hours quite literally kicking myself (this created quite the scene) over the previous day’s misstep at Dysart’s, and had been mentioning my ordering mistake about every hour or so. After briefly considering a double-breakfast in order to get an extra review in, I settled for one only on the condition that I get the biggest, graviest thing I could find.
I perused, I pondered, I weighed all my options, taking into account context and potential energy expenditure and caloric needs for the day ahead. (We would be in the Jeep from 11:00 AM until 6:00 PM). My calculations led me to conclude what should have been obvious: a fried egg breakfast sandwich ($4.79). Yes. Of course. What this meant for me: more of the whitest, squishiest bread on earth, bread I would be embarrassed to buy in my real life, but the truth is, I love it so much. Two pristine fried eggs and nestled in there almost invisibly, white American cheese. This is living, I thought. Freedom from foodie oppression. I almost wished I had a hangover. I could detect the essence of butter, golden fried butter, and heard a dim chorus sung by a lower order of angels. The hand cut french fries were a low point, sadly, not quite done crisp enough for my taste. But, plentiful. More than sufficient. A ponderous pile of potato. Most appropriate.
Malcolm: Jillian’s fries were weak, but plentiful. I blame this on ourselves; the kitchen was not set up for full lunch service, in spite of our waitress’ protests to the contrary. These seemed like fries that had been plunged desperately into oil that wasn’t quite up to temp. My hot roast beef sandwich ($10.95), on the other hand, delivered on the restaurant’s slogan: I really did “get more than [I] expect.” A huge tower of thick, white bread, piles of roast beef, with two huge scoops of mashed potatoes and a big bowl of coleslaw. Everything was covered in thick brown gravy. It was an outrageous amount of food, and I loved every bite of it…when I finished it the next day.
Onward we drove, past La Casa gentleman’s club, adjacent to the shuttered Adobe Motel in Millinocket, sailed through the abandoned aisles of Mars Hill and, and south on I-95, until finally we had reached the northern entrance to the park. Baxter State Park is the legacy of Percival P. Baxter, the governor who carved out the confines of wild nature for the people of the state of Maine. Entrance to the park is free for all Maine residents. We marveled at America, her sublime landscape, which includes majestic Mt. Katahdin, and all those fore-thinking naturalists and pioneer heroes of the last century, thanking them for this gift. The road was in good condition, far less axle-breaking than described in the guidebooks; we made the journey through in two hours, with a couple of lookout stops and to dip our toes in the icy Allagash.
It was a spectacularly gorgeous afternoon, pine-scented and serene in the 200,000 acre woods. I’m glad I have seen more of Maine, and knowing there is so much left to discover. It is awesome to behold. We feel compelled to be back out there, to see more wildlife up close, walk into the woods, sleep under the stars, possibly touch a puffin, unless it’s illegal to touch a puffin, and then I shall not. We want to continue driving, eating, meeting and making the most of this grand adventure. It isn’t any more or less real than Portland, Mid-Coast, or the postcards. I have been to those places, too, and I can assure you they all have both weight and water. It is as idyllic as it seems in books and I understand why there are so many storytellers weaving warming yarns about this magic state. We came home a little wiser, a little fatter, inspired and tired and happy to be home. It was the best kind of journey, after all. | <urn:uuid:1a92f697-28a3-4329-ad41-91da44b5a0a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.fromaway.com/features/one-night-in-aroostook-and-the-tough-guys-tumble | 2016-05-04T23:04:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860125524.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161525-00218-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972729 | 1,469 | [
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For over 60 years, Camp Skylemar has provided boys, ages 7-15, with:
- Outstanding athletic instruction
- Individualized attention
- A superior staff of role models…coaches, collegiate athletes and teachers
- A warm, nurturing, spirited program with each day packed full of fun
- Over 100 pristine acres of playing fields, courts, indoor and outdoor facilities
- Trickey Pond – clear, clean and perfect for swimming, boating, skiing and fishing
- A secure environment, focused on friendship and understanding.
Each summer, boys from across the US and abroad become life-long friends at Skylemar. Campers represent a variety of backgrounds, interests and athletic abilities. A top-notch staff provides instruction in numerous team and individualized sports, arts and outdoor education. We teach how to compete, while not losing sight of caring for others. We teach boys to win graciously, and lose with honor. They learn to be the best they can be; how to improve golf swings, get up water skiing, make foul shots and perform on stage. We celebrate effort, which builds confident, strong, positive boys.
Undoubtedly, boys learn best, and are the happiest and most motivated when in small groups. This is why enrollment is limited to a number large enough for competitive play, yet small enough for one-on-one private instruction. Most importantly, our size assures that everyone knows everyone at Skylemar.
Campers learn to get along with and care for others, to make good decisions, to be accountable and to eagerly undertake responsibility. At Skylemar, they become well-rounded young men, with safe opportunities to try new things. They learn to say, "I can".
At SKYLEMAR, we understand boys.
We celebrate their energy and desire to have fun! We recognize that boys need to be challenged and encouraged to try new things, but always with the support of a guiding hand.
Each summer day is packed with excitement and adventure. The schedule is built around a combination of structure and choice. Boys are inspired to try new activities, while also having the opportunity to specialize in what they like best.
School cultivates intellect, but summer is the time for a boy to develop skills necessary for a lifetime of success. Skylemar instills self-confidence, independence, and leadership ability. Campers return home with a collection of genuine friends, more independent and more self-assured than ever before.
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Full Crimson Peak in Best LookNow you can see Crimson Peak in best video format with duration 119 Min and has been launched in 2015-10-13 with MPAA rating is 191.
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- Release date of movie : 2015-10-13
- Companies of movie : Legendary Pictures,
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- Cast of movie :Mia Wasikowska (Edith Cushing), Jessica Chastain (Lady Lucille Sharpe), Tom Hiddleston (Sir Thomas Sharpe), Charlie Hunnam (Dr. Alan McMichael), Jim Beaver (Carter Cushing), Burn Gorman (Holly), Javier Botet (Enola / Margaret / Pamela), Sofia Wells (Young Edith), Emily Coutts (Eunice McMichael), Laura Waddell (Pamela Upton), Doug Jones (Edith's Mother / Lady Sharpe), Javier Botet (), Ron Bottitta (Voice Actor)
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Today we have made a big change in Grabilla functionality.
Now after taking a screenshot you will see simple web page instead of image.
This allow us to add social sharing buttons, links to embed picture and comments.
If you want to see your image in original size – just click on it.
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Happy is the understatement of how we feel about providing you with our products and services. While preparing a new track, program, game, sound library, or any other product/service, we put our time, patience, and energy into it. However, we feel great doing that, because we know we'll have a product/service that will potentially help you, entertain you, or generally bring something positive to your life.
More often than not, our time, patience, efforts, and energy just are not enough, though. We have to invest money, as well.
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In Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright, we learn about Scientology’s complicated cosmology and special language. We see the ways in which the church pursues celebrities, such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta, and how such stars are used to advance the church’s goals. And we meet the young idealists who have joined the Sea Org, the church’s clergy, signing up with a billion-year contract.
Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and the author of one novel, God’s Favorite, and six previous books of nonfiction, including The Looming Tower, which was the recipient of The Pulitzer Prize.
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DEEP JEWELS 16 is set to take place on May 20th. One of the most intriguing bouts on the card is the only amateur fight which pits 24-year-old Momoko Yamasaki against a competitor half her age, the 12-year-old who is simply referred to as MoMo. The fight is scheduled to be contested in the 95-pound minimumweight division.
One thing about this matchup which has got the Japanese world talking is the fact that a 12-year-old will make her MMA debut against an adult veteran of four fights. In the amateur rules for DEEP JEWELS, striking to the head on the ground is not allowed. Both fighters will be wearing head gear.
Yamasaki (2-3 Am) is coming off two losses and is hoping to get back in the win column by taking out her 12-year-old opponent who is currently a seventh grader. The 24-year-old is a former street-fighter who was bullied in junior high school. According to the press release from DEEP JEWELS, the experience is said to have triggered her to became a delinquent which lead to series of “tale of triumphs on the street.”
MoMo (0-0 Am) will be hoping for a successful showing in her MMA debut. It should be noted that the 12-year-old weighs roughly 86-pounds, so Momo will be giving up around 9 lbs to fight an adult. She trains out of Hakuhinkai Karate, the team that has produced notable Japanese talents including Mizuki, Naoki Inoue, and Yukari Yamaguchi.
DEEP JEWELS 16 takes place on May 20th. The event will be streamed live on the DEEP JEWELS website. Also expected to be on the card is top-three ranked lightweight contender, King Reina, as well as top atomweight contenders, Satomi Takano and Tomo Maesawa.
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SAY IT ISN’T SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you planned to beat the competition and set up camp outside your local sneaker store this fall, you might have to wait longer than expected, due to NIke’s new restrictions on Midnight releases. Nike told retailers they couldn’t schedule midnight releases for highly anticipated sneaks and instead would have to wait until 8 a.m. This is probably due to chaotic and dangerous mobs that formed at recent releases; such as the Orlando, Florida Lebron Galaxy 9 and Foamposite Galaxy sneaker release that ended in cancellations due to a violent stampede. | <urn:uuid:04a04012-847e-4281-a3c5-68c2ca5a5747> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://rebelseason.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/say-it-isnt-so-if-you-planned-to/ | 2017-05-22T17:28:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463605485.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522171016-20170522191016-00119.warc.gz | en | 0.95336 | 127 | [
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Part of the rationale for Apple's planned streaming music service, dubbed "iRadio," is to keep users in the Apple ecosystem and make the iPhone a more attractive device to drive further adoption.
Unfortunately for Apple, Google plans to bring its own streaming music service to the iPhone, Android head Sundar Pichai said last week at D11, a conference sponsored by AllThingsD. That would put iRadio in competition with not just Pandora, Spotify, Clear Channel's iHeartRadio and a host of other streaming music apps, but also with Google.
Complicating matters further, Apple has a history of running services that are often inferior to some of Google's services. Google Maps, for example, is a top-15 app on the App Store, while Apple had to publicly apologize for its mapping app. YouTube is a top-20 app on the App Store, after Apple punted it from the stock loadout of iPhone apps. Gmail clocks in at number 63 on the App Store.
Apple is betting on a streaming music service to help keep iTunes viable as consumers move from buying individual tracks for download to monthly subscription services that offer unlimited listening options. But with Apple's track record making services, it begs the question: why doesn't it let developers do the work to create the service?
In reality, an "iRadio" music service offered by Apple probably isn't going to be just another music service — it'll be app-centric and help support the iPhone as a platform. For example, if Apple were to let developers build apps on top of its music streaming service and song catalog, then the revenue Apple earns off such a business becomes more a question about monetizing apps rather than the economics of an online music business. Most reports suggest the iRadio will be free and supported by ads. Apple can pay out enough money to keep labels or artists happy, but even more tantalizing is the prospect of letting developers toy with a layer of music streaming and find other ways to monetize it other than through the raw playing of music. Then, Apple takes a 30% cut of the revenue from that app.
At the D11 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook said something that was very uncharacteristic of the company: that it would, in the future, likely be more open about letting developers play with its operating system. Apple's iPhone operating system has always featured iTunes as a flagship service — Steve Jobs said at the unveiling that the iPhone was essentially a phone, an Internet device, and an iPod.
At one point, the iPod and the iTunes Music Store comprised half of Apple's revenues, a fact that inspired the company to build the iPhone, which subsequently went on to become Apple's flagship product. Now, it's App Store revenue payouts to developers that is growing rapidly — and with it, cuts to Apple.
Apple doesn't disclose App Store revenue, but it does periodically disclose how much it has paid out to app developers. Cook said Apple had paid out more than $9 billion to developers on that Q2 earnings call, and that number was at $7 billion in January. In March of last year,Apple said it paid out around $4 billion to developers. Apple takes a 30% cut of all App Store sales.
iTunes revenue for 2012 was something around $8 billion, per the numbers given by CFO Peter Oppenheimer in earnings calls each quarter. Backing out the January to March quarter for 2013, Apple's App Store revenue for that period was at least $1 billion on Apple's $8 billion in iTunes revenue. There's a missing quarter of Apple App revenue in the beginning of 2012, but proportionally it probably didn't generate a significant amount of revenue given that Apple said it had paid out $2.5 billion in July 2011.
Granted, there are a couple "more thans" sprinkled throughout the announcements, but even as recently as 2012 it directionally appears Apple's iTunes revenue comes primarily from music and movies. Now looking at 2013, the January to March quarter (Q2 2013) resulted in $2.4 billion in iTunes revenue, per Oppenheimer's comment on the most recent earnings call. Backing up from the developer payout announcements, the App Store revenue to Apple was something near $1 billion between January earlier this year, and Cook's announcement in April.
Again, there is probably an element of fuzziness to the calculations given that Apple isn't giving us exact numbers nor exact dates, but it demonstrates something profound: with the creation of the iPhone, apps have begun overtaking music as Apple's primary digital business.
Creating a music streaming service would likely only contribute a small sliver to Apple's top line — Apple might be better served devoting those resources to a new device (like an iWatch or getting a cheaper iPhone into the hands of more consumers). More precisely, it could focus on creating devices and the core experiences around it (like the operating system), and then let its platform do the work of building its services — music streaming included.
Reports suggest that Apple will unveil the "iRadio" at WWDC, its annual developer conference, next week. Apple traditionally unveils big updates to its iPhone and Mac operating systems at that conference. Per iRadio, it's probably just a convenience of timing, but it does seem like particularly good timing. | <urn:uuid:5e2da01b-4a59-466e-8142-6718d4ecb7d2> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://www.buzzfeed.com/mattlynley/apples-iradio-is-about-apps-not-streaming-music | 2017-05-22T19:07:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463605485.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522171016-20170522191016-00119.warc.gz | en | 0.966577 | 1,085 | [
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"Some folks say Reynard the Fox is a rascal. They will tell you he is sly, and up to all sorts of tricks. He prowls around at night, smelling the air with his long nose, and listening with his long ears; and when he has done prowling, you may be pretty sure he is not as hungry as when he set out."
So begins "How Reynard the Fox Fooled the Raven," the first of these eighteen enchanting stories. The adventures of Reynard, the great folkloric trickster, along with those of other animals are charmingly adapted by William Trowbridge Larned from Jean de La Fontaine's classic fables. Striking color illustrations by artist John Rae enhance "The Tortoise and the Hare," "Jocko the Monkey and Mouser the Cat," "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse," "The Grasshopper Goes to the Ant," and other timeless tales.
Reprint of The P. F. Volland Company, Joliet, Illinois, 1925 edition.
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Over the week my heart has been cradling this question – What is the measure of my life?
There are moments in life when everything around me seem to come to a standstill, when the world becomes a black & white picture. And the only things that are real and alive at that moment are the words being whispered in my heart.
These moments are life-changing. They are the catalysts for paradigm shifts, repositioning, and re-prioritizing.
This is such a moment for me.
As these words – What is the measure of my life? – swirl around my heart, they create a tidal pool that enlarges my vision and stirs up a desire for something more.
There are so many ways in which we can measure our lives. We live in a generation that makes it so easy.
I have measured my life in many ways and with many things, but this week I cannot help but wonder – What would my life look like if Love became its measuring rod?
What if, at the end of all things, the only accomplishments in my life that had any value were the things I did out of love? What if the only moments in my life that really counted for something were the moments where love was present?
If I took my life and held it up to the measuring rod of Love, would it count for anything?
And as I sit here in this ever-widening tidal pool, refusing to let its intensity and vastness scare me back into the comfort of self-sufficiency, I see that everything I have built apart from Love look just like castles built on sand – child’s play, perishable, lacking substance.
So I have resolved to make love the measure of my life. And when my life is measured, I want it to meet the mark. But I look at myself and I know that I do not have it within me to be all that I want to be. My heart cannot be love poured out all the time, my motives cannot be constantly pure, my temper unceasingly sweet.
But what I do have when I reach the end of myself, is the source of unlimited and purest love. The very essence of love. Love incarnate. Jesus.
As I stand there seeing my own emptiness, He stands there with arms outstretched, waiting to pour all the measure of His love into me. To be able to live a life of love, all it takes is to start with a very simple daily prayer from Ephesians 3 – “Lord, I pray that I would be rooted and established in love, so that I may grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses understanding – that I may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
His love poured out into my heart, to be poured out to a thirsty world. There is no other way that I can stand up to the measuring rod of love, because such love is ferocious and savage and unrelenting; no weak and paltry human attempts will survive in the face of such intensity.
Today is Thanksgiving Day, the time of year that I like to reflect on all the many blessings I am thankful for.
This year, I am adding a new element to this occasion (on top of the turkey and ham, of course!). This year, and I think for every year after this, I am going to reflect on how much of my year was spent in love, for love, through love. I am going to measure my life with Love’s measuring rod, and make notes on motives and attitudes that need adjustment in my life.
I want Love to be the measure of my life, because Love is the only thing that never fails – even fairy tales know that “Love is the most powerful magic of all.”
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American Century, a mutual fund company, expanded its strategic partnership with Digitas
, Boston, to include interactive marketing. Digitas will work with American Century to develop and implement an online acquisition gateway for American Century Investments and a Web campaign to support customer retention. Digitas also will assist in the development of a Web site for J.P. Morgan/American Century Retirement Plan Services. No financial details were released.
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- "I nod to Phil over there, he's going to put a bullet in your head."
- ―Holland Manners
Phil was a Security Guard at Wolfram & Hart. He executed Lee Mercer under Holland Manners' orders.
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I hope you had a chance to nominate your favorite Engaged Couple for the 2015 Engagement Session Giveaway! If not, make sure to keep up with me for next year's giveaway!
This year, there are actually TWO couples that won! I received so many entries I decided to let two couples take home the grand price. Congrats you four! Make sure to e-mail me at [email protected] to get started planning your session!
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“We got 10 dozen balloons that we are going to put on the top of the cake. I think it's going to be great - a lot of enthusiasm.”
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon”
Winnie the Pooh
“We can make balloon arrangements with dozens of balloons.”
“I saw it [balloon ]. I don't think she saw it.”
“I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.”
“I think the balloons should hang from the ceiling and drop down.”
“You could just see the air going out of the balloon. I don't think we see the hot meal coming back in coach.”
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The Stock Market Game is a curriculum-based teaching tool that allows students to invest a hypothetical $100,000 online stock portfolio to learn about long-term saving and investing.Although the East Coast got a short glimpse of spring earlier in the week, the markets remain in a deep freeze. On Friday, President Obama's massive economic stimulus plan was front and center as the House passed it, delayed by lingering controversy. While proponents of the plan feel it will begin to thaw the economic mess by creating/saving 3.5 million jobs, critics contend the bill is filled with unnecessary spending and provisions that will do little to boost the economy. (The package passed the Senate late Friday.) Earlier in the week, the markets tumbled after U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner revealed plans to assess financial institutions' health and remove their toxic assets with the help of private investors, but he provided few details on how the process would actually work. Stocks rebounded Friday morning as investors awaited the stimulus bill's passage through the House and Senate, but closed the day in negative territory. (Don't miss " Stocks Drop Again Ahead of Presidents Day") As The Stock Market Game wraps up its prize patrols for the InvestWrite national essay contest winners (and state winners in some states) for the fall semester, we've fielded many questions from students frustrated by the losses they are experiencing in their portfolios. They want quick "fixes" and tips on stocks that will turn their ailing portfolios around. Many may remain frustrated by our advice (since it is not guaranteed to catapult them in the rankings) as we continue to stress the importance of research and the long-term benefits of saving and investing. | <urn:uuid:2b50a8e2-8ced-4cff-9cf0-02bc86748d6f> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://www.thestreet.com/story/10464091/1/stock-market-game-week-in-review.html | 2017-05-26T21:11:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608684.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170526203511-20170526223511-00034.warc.gz | en | 0.954294 | 340 | [
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the need to connect
In a modern society which is “connected” in so many ways, the irony is that there are many individuals who have been left isolated. With the advance of medical care, people are living longer. Those without adequate financial or family support often end up living their senior years on their own. Many are often excluded from the usual social networks, most of which are digital in part. Unless our efforts are intentional, many seniors will just be bypassed. This also includes minority groups who may be shut out due to language or lack of other forms of social connections.
In the Cathedral, these needs can be more acute due to the higher percentage of seniors and foreigners in our midst. I often ponder with the staff and PCC on what this may mean for the way we structure or prioritise our ministries. We are still examining how we can strengthen our pastoral ministry to our seniors and be better in coordinating our efforts. Our ministry to seniors needs as much energy and vision. It need not be just about senior care and engagement. Many can be challenged to serve, minister and give. I can think of our intercession ministry, Missions, Seniors Alpha etc.
This is also one of the reasons why we see the need to take our database of people information seriously. We intend to work towards a system of pastoral care which is more effective. I am aware that many, both staff and lay, are already serving from their hearts. An effective information ministry can help to improve our coordination and prioritise our efforts.
We have been putting in effort to support our Myanmar Service, which in turn is already engaging with some of the needs of foreigners visiting our grounds every Sunday. The security personnel are also planning an effective role to ensure that there is order and propriety. The church should always welcome all and sundry. That said, the church grounds and activities on it should befit the message and image of His Church.
The Cafe is now fully licensed. Seniors (above 60 years old) can benefit from a discount on what is already fair pricing of our beverages and food items. Do make full use of the cafe to invite friends. Use it as a place of meeting. Hang around and get to know members from other Services or congregations. Where people gather, there will be ministry. We are also actively looking into improving the acoustics. As always feedback is welcome and there is a box where you can drop your feedback in. You can also write in to [email protected]
I have met many young adults and youths in our various Services who seem unaware of their peers in the Cathedral family. Occasionally, it is good that we can all meet and be acquainted. There will be some good “home-cooked” food at the young people event this Friday. The speaker is very engaging and humorous. It will be fun and meaningful. Do sign up if you are in this age category. | <urn:uuid:793378fa-28f6-491c-9b70-fd5136752906> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://cathedral.org.sg/vicar-writes/the-need-to-connect | 2017-05-28T00:59:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463609404.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528004908-20170528024908-00354.warc.gz | en | 0.975012 | 597 | [
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First Media and Press Only Event to
Showcase Environmentally Responsible Luxury Brands
NEW YORK – AUGUST 31, 2009 - There has never been a press event like this before.
Go Green Expo has created eco-luxe, a one night only opportunity for media to speak with representatives from national and international luxury brands about their eco-friendly, sustainable products. The showcase is set in an atmosphere of sophistication and style at one of New York City’s finest green restaurants, Rouge Tomate, 10 East 60th Street, on Tuesday, September 22, 2009, from 6pm to 9pm.
Throughout the showcase, journalists will be able to talk to key company executives to learn about their environmentally conscious products. Produced by www.gogreenexpo.com, which has established the premier eco-friendly exhibitions across the nation, you will be assured the highest level of products in the categories of automotive, jewelry, fine art, home accessories, fashion, interior design, technology and travel.
Mariel Hemingway, actress, eco-activist and a leading voice for holistic and natural living, will discuss Tatchme an iconic high-performance prestige skin care line containing anti-aging ingredients. Sandhi Schimmel Gold’s extraordinary eco-friendly fine art – created by upcycling junk mail into amazing, colorful mosaic portraits - will be on display.
“This is the time for luxury brands to have their environmental initiatives
recognized,” stated Bradford Rand, president and CEO of Go Green Expo, he further stated, “luxury manufacturers are giving greater importance to their environmental impact while remaining true to the elegance and sophistication demanded by their affluent clientele.”
Emmanuel Verstraeten, founder and CEO of Rouge Tomate said, “We are happy to host this press event as it brings greater visibility to products and services that further strengthen the lifestyle choices we embrace.”
Tuesday, Sept 22, 2009
6:00 PM – 9PM
10 East 60th Street
Between Madison and Fifth Avenues
To RSVP or for more info:
Rubenstein Public Relations
Exhibitor list includes:
SCHIMMEL ART • MERCEDES-BENZ • IWC SCHAFFHAUSEN
ALBERTO PARADA JEWELRY • OLIVIER NEW YORK • MOEN • AUDI
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Declarations by ex-Scientologists
(who worked with Harry Palmer and Avra Honey Smith)
Usenet posting Carmen Gebhardt
From : Carmen Gebhardt
Date : 2002-07-04 11:53:07 PST
Newsgroup : alt.clearing.avatar
OK, so what is Harry Palmer up to now? Same old. Same old?
Harry created his own problems when he used, cheated, and lied to those that trusted and believed him.
I have just realized that maybe Harry is a multiple personality. This would explain why he can be in such denial of what he has created in his quest to have money and power. When he can't remember or denies his inappropriate actions he really believes he didn't do anything wrong. That could be the alter personality, the good guy that doesn't know what he actually has done. That's how he protects himself and is able to keep going. The information that I have seen written in the Wiz of Orlando speaks the truth. Well actually not the complete truth -- that is even worse.
As far as drinking and drugs -- I am one of his old time drug buddies. I am not just talking about alcohol and marijuana, I am including stuff like LSD. I even have a home movie of some of his antics. Maybe we can all see them during the trial.
In reference to his drinking, he had demanded his staff and students buy him Dom Perignon at $50 a bottle, and he drank it all in a short time, day after day after day.
And please Harry no more threatening phone calls. The last time, I posted Harry called me and told me he was going to ruin my life.
Please as many of you try to make it to the movies. The time is yet to be determined, but the location will be the Federal Court House in Orlando Florida.
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The heir to the huge Samsung business empire appeared in court Friday at the start of his trial for embezzlement and perjury, part of a corruption scandal that brought down South Korea's president.
Lee Jae-Yong, the vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics, was brought into the Seoul Central District Court bound and handcuffed.
Lee, who was arrested in February, has been charged with offering nearly $40 million to the now-impeached president and her close friend Choi Soon-Sil, allegedly as bribes to secure policy favours.
Four other Samsung executives have also been charged.
Special Prosecutor Park Young-Soo said in his opening statement that Lee's case is "one of the most deep-rooted and typical cases involving unhealthy relations between politicians and businessmen".
"In the course of providing bribes, Lee Jae-Yong embezzled company money, illegally diverted domestic assets abroad, hid illegally-earned incomes and committed perjury at parliament," the prosecutor said.
"The Choi case has left a deep scar in history but it has also provided momentum to re-establish the rule of laws by dint of people's power," the prosecutor said.
Ousted president Park Geun-Hye was thrown into jail last week after a court ordered her arrest in connection with the sweeping corruption scandal that brought millions of people onto the streets and saw her impeached.
Her close confidante Choi is also on trial for leading Park to force top South Korean firms, including the tech giant, to "donate" nearly $70 million to non-profit foundations, which Choi allegedly used for personal gain.
- 'Prejudice and prejudgement' -
Lee's defence lawyers however said the payments to the Choi were charitable contributions for sports and culture development that Samsung was obliged to make under pressure from officials, and not bribes.
The legal team said the prosecutor's charges against Lee were based on "prejudice and prejudgement" and not backed up by evidence.
Prosecutors said Lee had asked for policy favours in return for the bribes when he spoke to Park alone during three meetings from 2015 to 2016 -- an allegation later dismissed by the defence team.
The verdict is expected to be delivered in late May.
One of the favours Lee allegedly sought from president Park was state approval for a controversial merger of two Samsung units in 2015, seen as a key step to ensure a smooth transfer of power to him.
The deal was opposed by many shareholders who said it had wilfully undervalued one of the two firms. But it eventually went through after the national pension fund -- a major Samsung shareholder -- approved it.
"No requests were made for policy favours in return for bribes. Therefore bribery and all other charges fail to stand", lawyer Song Woo-Chul said.
Lee's arrest is the first for a Samsung chief, even though his father was twice convicted of corruption.
It sent shockwaves through the company and triggered the announcement of a major reform of its top-down management style.
Lee has effectively been at the helm of Samsung since his father suffered a heart attack in 2014.
As the trial kicked off, Samsung Electronics announced it expects profits to jump by half in the first quarter, despite a smartphone recall fiasco and Lee's arrest.
The scandal has cast a renewed light on the cosy ties traditionally enjoyed by the government and the family-controlled conglomerates known as "chaebols" that dominate the country's economy.
The groups have increasingly become objects of public scorn as criticisms mount over their management practices, including rapid promotions for family members -- some of whose antics have battered the firms' reputations.
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Hotel with Restaurant and a small Spa
The Arenal Volcano Inn is located 6.5 kilometres north of La Fortuna and offers an excellent view to the Arenal Volcano. It also features an excellent Italian and International restaurant that is visited by many tourists of the region. A very complete buffet breakfast is included on the rate.
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It is finally official: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski won Peru's presidential elections by the thinnest of leads, and Keiko Fujimori once again just barely missed becoming president - although her party holds a solid majority in Congress, which means it will have a strong influence during the next administration.
Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets of Lima and other cities to protest the likely triumph in the Sunday Jun. 5 runoff election of Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for corruption and crimes against humanity.
Nicolás Maduro was recognised as president-elect of Venezuela by a Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) emergency summit held in Lima to discuss the situation in the highly polarised country, where a narrow electoral result triggered social and political tension.
The Peruvian legislature is investigating a contract with an Israeli company, entered into by the previous government for advising and training the military, after audit bodies found irregularities in how it was signed.
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori's defence lawyers said the Supreme Court decision to reduce the prison sentences of army intelligence agents found guilty of human rights abuses is "relevant" to his case.
The armed forces of Peru have launched a campaign to rescue at least 50 children who are in the hands of the last surviving remnant of the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas.
The capture in Peru of the last major leader of the Maoist rebel group Sendero Luminoso is a mortal blow to the movement that managed to survive thanks to its connection with the production of coca and cocaine in the north of the country.
The Peruvian government will propose that the Organisation of American States review the powers of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), and is seeking the support of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. The move is a reaction against a lawsuit brought against it by the IACHR.
Peruvian President Ollanta Humala is taking an increasingly hard-line stance against protests, and is losing important allies less than five months into his term.
Local residents and authorities in the northern Peruvian region of Cajamarca say they will continue to protest the Conga gold mine, despite the state of emergency declared by President Ollanta Humala.
The armed forces in Peru, which already have an active role in fighting drug trafficking, are being given greater responsibility for maintaining public order under the government of President Ollanta Humala. They will now also be expected to crack down on illegal mining, and to intervene in social protests.
"I caught tuberculosis, but I'm lucky because it's been cured," says Hernán Arévalo from his bed in the new hospital at the Peruvian prison of Lurigancho, one of the most crowded and dangerous in Latin America. "Before, whoever came in here was unlikely to get out alive."
For the first time, a representative of the indigenous communities in Peru's Amazonas region is sitting in Congress: Eduardo Nayap, an Awajún leader who played a central role in the lengthy protests against laws that opened up native territories in the rainforest to oil, mining and logging companies.
The new president of Peru, retired lieutenant colonel Ollanta Humala, promised to make the fight against poverty and marginalisation the top priority of his administration. But his inaugural address was short on specifics, according to activists and analysts.
Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala will push the legal system to investigate and prosecute those responsible for a massive forced sterilisation campaign targeting poor indigenous women carried out by the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), said the spokeswoman for Humala's party, Aída García Naranjo. | <urn:uuid:9a9ad3a4-10f8-482d-9217-bcc5062a5c08> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.ipsnews.net/author/angel-paez/ | 2017-05-29T07:52:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612036.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529072631-20170529092631-00162.warc.gz | en | 0.96318 | 775 | [
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By REBECCA ISENHART
NISKAYUNA — Students in the Schenectady Jewish Community Center’s after-school program recently saw pictures and heard stories that showed them it’s possible to touch a far-away place without ever leaving home.
After spending hours learning about Israel, the children, who are in kindergarten through eighth grade, made a banner to send to a school in the Eshkol region of that country. They also wrote notes to be placed in the historic Western Wall, or Wailing Wall, the ancient structure toward which Jews traditionally face during prayer.
Judy Ben-Ami, the Jewish cultural and adult programming director at the JCC, traveled to Israel in February and brought the students’ creations along with her.
“They were very excited to be able to write their own wishes and have someone deliver them to Israel,” Ben-Ami said.
Sara Dewitt, director of the after-school program, said Ben-Ami’s trip was the culmination of a lesson plan that walks a careful line with the diverse group of students, many of whom do not practice the Jewish faith.
“Most of the children aren’t Jewish. I’m personally not Jewish,” Dewitt said. “We want to embrace the Jewish culture but also be respectful of the children coming from different backgrounds.”
Dewitt customizes the children’s learning by making secular comparisons all can feel comfortable with.
“Prayers can be somewhat similar to a wish,” she said. “Whatever they would like to call it.”
The kids also learn about mitzvah, which is a Hebrew word that literally means “commandment” but often signifies an act of kindness. The kids talk about doing nice things for others, like treating their parents kindly or holding doors open for one another.
“We try to encourage Jewish value at the JCC, which are really general values for every person in the world,” Ben-Ami said. “To be kind to each other, to share, to be thankful, to be respectful — things that are really wide in their acceptance for every kid and every person.”
About 80 children gathered March 27 to hear Ben-Ami talk about her trip, and to look at the photos of people in Israel accepting their colorful banner.
It was more than just a show-and-tell experience. Dewitt and Ben-Ami hoped the students would connect with people in other parts of the world while learning about topics such as diversity, history and geography. “It’s a really neat program,” Ben-Ami said. “It’s really wide in what they learn and what they experience.” | <urn:uuid:2a5f52e5-caf9-462b-9cd2-7182ef9d1d84> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://yourniskayuna.com/blog/2015/04/02/jcc-students-israel/ | 2017-05-29T07:46:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612036.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529072631-20170529092631-00162.warc.gz | en | 0.970193 | 593 | [
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The Chinese Room
Theatre Review by Macey Levin
In Shakespeare’s The Tempest Miranda, the wizard Prospero’s teen-age daughter, upon seeing men other than her father for the first time, says, “Brave new world that has such people in ‘t.” Prospero responds, “’Tis new to thee.” The world premiere of Michael West’s play The Chinese Room currently at the Williamstown Theatre Festival explores a probable new world for the 21st century.
It is believed that in time computers will be virtually human; not only will they be able to think but also feel. The Chinese Room was part of an experiment by John Searles rin opposition to this theory of artificial intelligence. An English-speaking subject would be placed in a room with several batches of Chinese writings and symbols with instructions in English. The subject would “translate” the material into English. A party outside the room, reading the translation, would think the subject actually knew Chinese. The intent was to show that one can be trained to do and say things but would not have intrinsic knowledge of what he or she was actually doing and, in all probability, did not have the emotional structure possessed by humans.
In the play Frank McClintock (Brian F. O’Byrne) is fighting with the use of electronic devices, including holograms and the Cloud, to maintain power over the firm he founded while facing an attempt to wrest control from him by his old friend Hal. He is determined to keep all the firm’s information so that he can use it to return his wife Lily (Laila Robins), who is suffering from dementia, to the woman she was before her mind started to deteriorate. After rebooting Susannah (Sue Jean Kim), a droid he created, urging his son Zack (Elliot Trainor) to go to bed and then placating the confused Lily, Frank is visited by Daniel (Carson Elrod), another droid he designed, who has been sent by the firm to retrieve all the records and devices in Frank’s possession. Daniel is focused on his assignment and has no regard for Frank’s pleas or emotional state. Thus begins the drama of the exploration of the Chinese Room theory.
Frank and Daniel, with occasional input from Susannah, argue the differences between human beings and humanoids, neither convincing the other. It becomes an us versus them conflict. This sci-fi plot can be found in other works dating back to R.U.R., the 1920 play by Czech playwright Karel Capek, and contemporary works such as Star Trek and Star Wars.
The story is provocative, the arguments riveting, but what makes this production gripping is the acting. Kim and Elrod as the droids are mesmerizing. If you didn’t know they were human you would believe they were droids with their automatic-sounding speech, jerky gestures as they lose power and the blank look in their eyes. Elrod also channels Hal and he is completely different. His physical bearing changes; the speech patterns and tone of his voice are altered. It is a virtual tour de force. O’Byrne, Robins and Trainor are also strong, but they do not have the acting challenges that Elrod and Kim must conquer.
Director James MacDonald moves the play, both pace and staging, apace, demanding that the audience pay attention and absorb the ideas and arguments that abound. Dane Laffrey’s set, Frank’s study, is convincingly cluttered and messy with cartons of papers, file folders, worn furniture, suggesting Frank and Lily’s mental states. The lighting by Eric Southern is fittingly shadowed since the content of the play itself is quite dark with its characters having hidden agendas.
Playwright West’s dialogue is sharp and plausible, given the characters’ place in the world and relationships. A flaw of the play is that it has several endings. The one that actually ends the work is somewhat unconvincing. Regardless, there are a lot of ideas and controversy in this profound work.
Williamstown Theatre Festival presents the world premiere of The Chinese Room by Michael West; Directed by James Macdonald; Scenic design, Dane Laffrey; Costumes, Jessica Pabst; Lighting, Eric Southern; Sound, Daniel Kluger; Fight director, Thomas Schall.
Cast: Brian O’Byrne (Frank), Elliot Trainor (Zack), Sue Jean Kim (Susannah), Laila Robins (Lily), Carson Elrod (Daniel) Running Time: two hours, fifteen minutes with one intermission on the Nikos Stage of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA. July 13 to July 23, 2016. www.wtfestival.org Box Office: 413.597.3400 | <urn:uuid:ac17fa02-d51b-402d-ad29-c5b62ab3b6ce> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://berkshireonstage.com/2016/07/21/the-chinese-room-is-provocative-riveting-play-at-williamstown-theatre-festival/ | 2017-05-29T07:41:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612036.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529072631-20170529092631-00162.warc.gz | en | 0.961349 | 1,015 | [
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I don’t know about you, but when I go to a new city, I love to eat and shop local to really experience the city’s culture. Therefore, I was just about as giddy as a schoolgirl when I went to Kansas City to get a taste of the city’s local charm.
Let’s start with my favorite thing to talk about: food. If you have ever been to Kansas City, you know that the food culture is outstanding. From burnt ends to burgers and farmers markets to five star dining, Kansas City gets a ‘10’ from me on the food scale.
If you didn’t know, Kansas City has amazing barbecue. Famous for creating burnt ends; flavorful pieces of meat cut from the point half of a smoked meat. This ingenious cut of mouthwatering meat puts KC on my imaginary barbecue map.
Fiorella’s Jack Stack Barbecue is just one of the locally owned barbecue stops in the city. It is the highest rated barbecue in the country, according to the Zagat survey and me. It is the only Kansas City barbecue restaurant that ships its delicious meats anywhere in the country. Jack Stack starts off by smoking its meat in “the pit” for hours; from there it moves into a rotisserie-style machine called “the pride,” that finishes it off to melt-in-your-mouth perfection. I recommend the pork and beef combination burnt end lunch, with hickory pit beans and cheesy corn bake – you might like it so much you’ll have to come back for dinner.
A great place for a light lunch, or if you like sweets as much as I do, a mid-afternoon sugar rush, is Little Freshie Soda Fountain and Espresso Bar. This is the place to get locally made goodies such as snow cones and macaroons served in an eclectic atmosphere. Among other goodies, they offer delectable coffees, a soda fountain and satisfying sandwiches. Flavors are all-natural, made in-house and change frequently, so go in and try a unique snow cone and soda options like raspberry rose or green tea pear.
Well, I’d actually have to say that food and shopping are neck and neck in my book. So I feel compelled to highly recommend you do some shopping while in Kansas City. With places such as County Club Plaza, Westport, Crown Center and the Crossroads Arts District, you have your pick of a huge variety of places to spend your hard-earned money on things you may or may not actually need, but definitely want.
In the Crossroads Art District, you’ll find Hammerpress Letterpress and Design Studio. This local find is my little piece of stationery heaven. The studio is filled with cards, posters, prints, calendars and many other printed items, all made a few feet away in their back room studio. They have unique greeting cards for every occasion and locally made gift items perfect for the special people in your life.
Finally, you know I have to mention where to grab a brew. Boulevard Brewing Company has been blessing the Midwest with wonderful craft beer since 1989. Founder John McDonald turned a vintage brick building on Southwest Boulevard into his very own brewhouse – I am sure glad he did. To see the magic up close and personal, and learn about Boulevard’s history (oh, and of course, taste the beer) I suggest you take a free (yes, I said free) tour of the brewery. It’s first come, first serve: tickets go fast so make sure you get there when the gift shop opens at 10 a.m. Some of my favorites are the Boulevard Wheat, which is a best-seller, and the Ginger-Lemon Radler, which is a great summer wheat beer with a hint of freshly juiced ginger and lemon extract.
Well, if you are sufficiently hungry, thirsty and ready shop, then you should probably read this blog again. But really, Kansas City has so much to offer not only to the locals, but travelers as well. So plan your trip and experience Kansas City from a local perspective.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Memorial for Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen died January 1, 2007, shortly before her 95th birthday. An article about her, her life and work, reprinted from another source, is at the blog Blue Collar Holler, here. Additional articles about her, interviews with her, and a couple of short excerpts from her writing, are at the Modern American Poetry website, here.
A public memorial for Tillie Olsen will take place on Saturday, February 17, 2007, at 1:00 P.M., at First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison Street, Oakland, California. Further information can be found at: http://www.tillieolsen.net/ The first paragraph above is quoted from this website. The website also contains much more information about Olsen's life and writings, including photos and a beautiful biographical article written by Olsen's daughters, and links to other online articles about her.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Fundraiser for Tía Chucha's
One of the founders of Tía Chucha's, Luis Rodríguez, is a powerful passionate poet and writer, and for many years was publisher and editor of Tía Chucha Press, which published much fine poetry, most of it showing a strong working-class politically progressive leaning.
Tía Chucha's cafe/bookstore/performance space/cultural center will be moving to a temporary site, with the goal of ultimately finding a permanent location in the northeast San Fernando Valley. They're holding a fundraiser in the near future, and are accepting donations. If you live in the L.A. area, you can go to Tía Chucha's to sign their petition. They're also looking for volunteers to help with the fundraiser, the move, and other activities.
More information on all of the above is at the Tía Chucha website. I encourage you to spend time there checking out the wide range of artistic, cultural and community work they're involved with.
More on Luis Rodríguez, his life and writing, can be found at his website and his weblog.
Monday, January 01, 2007
All the shimmering names
During the 1930's she wrote journalism for various left-leaning and generally progressive publications; she worked organizing support for the anti-Fascist resistance in the Spanish Civil War. She raised her son as a single mother. During the 1940's she taught at the California Labor School; in the 1950's she taught at Sarah Lawrence College, inviting janitors to join her classes and study alongside the students. She faced harassment by the U.S. government for her politics (her F.B.I. file runs to more than a hundred pages). In 1972 she traveled with Denise Levertov and Jane Hart to Hanoi, North Viet Nam, to protest U.S. bombing. (Denise Levertov's poems coming out of that trip are in her book The Freeing of the Dust, published sometime in the early 1970's by New Directions.) Rukeyser also took part in many other antiwar and civil rights protests in the United States during those years. This brief list gives only a bare sketch of the scope of her activities during her life.
Consider, in the context of the current war in Iraq and the economic policies of the Bush administration, these lines from Rukeyser's poem "Palos Verdes Cliffs," included in a book of her poems originally published in 1939:
And if the seascape could produce the illusion.(The above lines, and all passages from poems here, are quoted from Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, the 2005 University of Pittsburgh Press edition noted above.)
Cannot without whole scene: city and oilfield
in metal forests to the hills' mirage,
Hollywood and the high bare brilliant mountains.
Illusion of calm over a minute plain
in steepness opened, an overheated landscape,
familiar in movies and recurrent dreams.
O prism of summer and produced illusion:
absolute calm. Past newsreel, print, and view,
vicarious true images, do you see, over the
high-flying plain below you, over the harbor,
over the city, over this precipice,
do you see hot grass, mile-off countries, fire-surfaced sea,
obsessions of sight cliff-hung, as movie, as peace?
One of the books included in the Collected Poems is U.S. 1, which deals in part with the deaths from silicosis of more than two thousand mostly African-American migrant workers, resulting from unsafe working conditions when they worked building a tunnel in West Virginia. Rukeyser visited the location of the tunnel and also wrote journalism reporting about it. The book U.S. 1 became a documentary poem depicting living and working conditions in the same region, the industrial ravaging of human lives and the land, and the cynical indifference of corporate directors and Congressional investigators. From the poem "Dam":
Diverted water, the fern and fuming whiteSome of the poems include passages drawn (or slightly reworked) from testimony at Congressional hearings into industrial health and safety; stock market ticker reports; some poems speak in the voices of working people describing their lives and injuries and aspirations.
ascend in mist of continuous diffusion.
Rivers are turning inside their mountains,
steams line the stone, rest at the overflow
lake and in lanes of pliant color lie.
Blessing of this innumerable silver,
printed in silver, images of stone walk
on a screen of falling water
in film-silver in continual change
recurring colored, plunging with the wave.
Constellations of light, abundance of many rivers.
The sheeted inland-cities, the white surf filling west,
the hope, faster water spilled where still pools fed.
Great power flying deep: between the rock and the sunset,
the caretaker's house and the steep abutment,
hypnotic water fallen and the tunnels under
the moist and fragile galleries of stone,
mile-long, under the wave. Whether snow fall,
the quick light fall, years of white cities fall,
flood that this valley built falls slipping down
the green turn in the river's green.
Steep gorge, the wedge of crystal in the sky.
In their elevated language and lyricism, I hear something in Rukeyser's poems that reminds me of the poems of Hart Crane. However, where Crane often seems pulled in conflicting directions, partly repelled by the destructive power of modern industry, and partly entranced by the glittering beauty of it, Rukeyser's poems exhibit no ambiguity or hesitation. Hers are poems made with a fully formed voice and a precise intellect, shunning compromise, insisting on what she means to say.
Half-memories absorb us, and our ritual world(From the poem "The Book of the Dead.")
carries its history in familiar eyes,
planted in flesh it signifies its music
in minds which turn to sleep and memory,
in music knowing all the shimmering names,
the spear, the castle, and the rose.
But planted in our flesh these valleys stand,
everywhere we begin to know the illness,
are forced up, and our times confirm us all.
In the museum life, centuries of ambition
yielded at last a fertilizing image:
the Carthaginian stone meaning a tall woman
carries in her two hands the book and cradled dove,
on her two thighs, wings folded from the waist
cross to her feet, a pointed human crown.
When I was a college student in the 1970's, all of the poets I knew personally were reading, or had read, Muriel Rukeyser's prose book The Life of Poetry, originally published in the late 1940's and available at that time in a recent new edition. It was published in a third edition in the 1990's. No conversation could come up that in any way addressed the questions of the role and responsibility of artists in society, without mentioning or referring in some way to Rukeyser's book.
In The Life of Poetry, Rukseyser says at one point --and I'm slightly paraphrasing here -- that the essential difference between art and entertainment is that art tries to get us to concentrate on what it's bringing to us, and entertainment (she uses the phrase "arts of amusement") tries to distract us from what it's not bringing to us. Again and again over the years, immersed in reading poems, listening to "news" on CNN, watching Bush grin at the cameras while streets explode in fire and blood in cities around the world, Rukeyser's words have come to me again. The question of the relevance of poetry is a question that answers itself.
In the space here it is impossible to do justice to the work of a poet of the magnitude of Muriel Rukeyser. For many years her work was mostly out of print. At present, fortunately, in addition to her Collected Poems, other smaller selections of her work are available from various publishers; go searching and you'll find what's out there.
In the following lines (which I've picked almost at random), Rukeyser's voice carries echoes of the great Prophecy poems of William Blake, carrying a vision terrible and beautiful toward the turning of the new world; Muriel Rukeyser should have the last word here.
Hot out of the dried blood of the separate churches,(From the poem "Body of Waking," included in a book of the same title originally published in 1958.)
The nations, separate wards in the same hospital.
Revenge which spikes the cross and splits the star
Withers the crescent. The world circles among
The solitude of Spain, the solitude of Stalingrad,
Solitude in the hills of loess and the caves of Africa,
And now your solitude, New York, who raised yourself above.
Now the buried questions flicker on all faces.
Does the flat belly know its heart is broken?
Do you drag yourself through the wilderness saying
Never mind how we got here: that will come later?
Much later, after you speak of the weapon birds
And the spies in your milk and the little split children
Bleeding models of cars; you sold their fortunes
According to a harvest of slot-machines;
According to the obscene patterns of bombers.
Much later, after you glare for eight days, silent,
After you howl for a century and a half,
You look at the clock and see it has not moved.
What do you do then? Weep for the generations?
You change your life. No. You begin again
Going on from the moment in which you stand today.
Will there be suffering? Perhaps not as much as now.
But there will be suffering in the healing? Yes.
Only with a difference. You will know it then.
Walking down Basin Street, you will be aware.
And that, my darling, my dear dear, is what Mother prays for,
Beside the cradle, lighting the candles of the days,
In retreat, in the kitchen, watching by living bodies,
And waiting endlessly by the unmoving face
While the door is still not, not really, not yet, opened.
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After nine years and a journey of nearly 5 billion kilometers, an American probe has awoke from hibernation to begin a mission to study the icy dwarf planet Pluto.
A preset alarm clock roused NASA's New Horizons from its electronic slumber on December 6.
The observation of Pluto, which has a diameter of just 2,000 kilometers, its moons, and other bodies in the solar system's frozen backyard is to begin in January.
Pluto lies in the Kuiper Belt, a region of mini-planets orbiting the sun beyond Neptune that are believed to be leftover remains from the formation of the solar system some 4.6 billion years ago.
In 2006, Pluto was stripped of its title as the ninth planet in the solar system, becoming a dwarf planet.
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There are just two years left for Prop. 39 funding. What do you know so far?
Did you know Prop. 39 funds are already earmarked for your school? Allocation is calculated annually by the CDE and is based on your ADA. You can call us, and we’ll be able to tell you exactly how much you’ve been allocated. Learn more about Prop. 39 here.
Did we mention what makes us unique is our ability to not only plan projects but to manage them? Our Discover-Solve-Manage process streamlines the process so administrators can keep their focus on what matters most – the students.
Phase 1: DISCOVER
ASHRAE Level 2+ Campus Assessment
In addition to the standard walk-through, each campus also receives a comprehensive health and safety inspection. This includes carbon monoxide and gas leak testing, asbestos, lead paint, electrical, moisture and mold detection.
Benchmarking and Energy Savings Calculations
Our energy engineers analyze your schools starting energy efficiency level and calculate estimated energy savings for recommended upgrades.
Funding Sources For Recommended Projects
Prop 39 covers most projects, but there are other grants, incentives and rebates to help stretch your projects further. We explore all of them for you.
Master Energy Plan
Your final report outlines all of the above and also provides a constructible project estimate, which meets all of Prop. 39 requirements.
Phase 2: SOLVE
Did you know, 92% of all Prop. 39 funds are used to upgrade lighting (50%) and HVAC units (42%)?
The lowest-cost solutions allow for the greatest savings for the investment and ensures funding is fully maximized while creating an optimal learning environment for your students.
Low-cost solutions may include:
- Upgrading lighting
- Replacing HVAC units
- Installing Solar PV
- Replacing old windows
- Upgrading water heaters
- Increasing insulation
Just think, the money you save annually can be reinvested into programs that may have been previously cut due to budget constraints.
Phase 3: MANAGE
Managing a lengthy, multi-year infrastructure project isn’t something many school administrators have time for. Our experienced project managers take charge of the entire project while making sure your school hits every important benchmark along the way so you can focus on what matters most — your students.
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Should my clients Float? Should they lock?
Rates as of Wednesday, April 22, 2009:
30 Yr Fixed – 5% (0 points)/ 4.75% (1 point)
15 Yr Fixed – 4.5% (0 points)/ 4.25% (1 point)
FHA – 5% (0 points)
Investment – 5.875% ( 0 points)/ 5.375% (1 point)- 25% down payment required
Each individual situation is unique, so I can best advice each client. However, here is a little background on what is happening in the mortgage world today. With no scheduled economic reports due out until Thursday, bonds are taking their lead from stocks again. With stocks looking to be opening down due to negative earnings from the likes of AT&T, Morgan Stanley and the apparent suicide of Freddie Mac’s CFO bonds are heading in the expected up direction.
Technically speaking – the FNMA 4.0% 30 year bond is caught in another tight trading range. The bond is apparently bouncing off of oversold levels – a good sign for a possible rally.
I am recommending to LOCK.
*35 day lock Rates are based on 80% loan to value unless noted and 720+ credit score (with the exception of FHA)
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Sodium is an essential mineral found inside all of your cells and in the fluids bathing your cells and tissues. While a little sodium is necessary for good health, excessive dietary intake of sodium, mainly as salt, is associated with high blood pressure and other health problems. Your body possesses mechanisms for maintaining optimal sodium levels in your bloodstream. Aldosterone, a hormone released by your adrenal glands in response to blood sodium concentrations, can be affected by sodium consumption.
Sodium’s primary function in your body is to regulate fluid balance. In his book, “Staying Healthy with Nutrition -- The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine,” Dr. Elson Haas concisely summarizes sodium’s role in fluid management when he says, “Where sodium goes, water goes.” In general, the more sodium you have in your tissues, the more water you must retain to maintain proper sodium concentrations. In addition to its importance in fluid balance, sodium helps modulate the acid-base balance in your tissues, and the shifting of sodium ions across cell membranes helps generate the impulses that allow your nerves and muscles to function.
Sodium concentrations in your tissues are regulated by a variety of mechanisms. By releasing hormones in response to variations in blood pressure, your kidneys tightly control sodium levels in your bloodstream. In addition, specialized stretch receptors in the walls of your blood vessels send signals to your brain regarding your serum sodium concentration, blood volume and blood pressure. Your brain interprets these signals and sends messages to your adrenal glands, which then alter their release of hormones – epinephrine, norepinephrine and aldosterone – that control your heart rate, blood vessel diameter and kidney function. If you consume more sodium, these mechanisms work to return your body to a normal balance.
Aldosterone, a hormone secreted by the outer layer of your adrenal glands, stimulates your kidneys to absorb more sodium and water while simultaneously releasing more potassium. Aldosterone secretion is increased by several mechanisms, including decreased blood flow to your kidneys, high serum potassium concentrations, increased acidity of your blood and falling blood pressure. In contrast, aldosterone secretion decreases as kidney blood flow increases, serum potassium levels fall, and blood volume increases. Serum sodium concentrations also affect aldosterone production. A study published in the April 1985 issue of “Endocrinology” demonstrated that increased serum sodium concentrations – a direct result of increased sodium consumption – decrease aldosterone secretion.
Aldosterone secretion is influenced by a complex interplay of several factors. Falling blood pressure, increasing potassium levels, higher blood acidity and decreased serum sodium concentrations trigger the release of aldosterone from your adrenals. Conversely, increased blood pressure, low potassium levels and high sodium levels inhibit aldosterone secretion. If you consume excess salt, your adrenals reduce their production of aldosterone, thereby allowing your kidneys to excrete more sodium. There are no recommended dietary allowances for sodium as it is widely available in foods. In fact, dietary sodium excess is more problematic than too little sodium. The American Heart Association recommends that you consume less than 1,500 mg of sodium daily, just a little over a half teaspoon of table salt. | <urn:uuid:e0c6c293-0b93-4c59-95d3-8933bbccb940> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/523374-does-sodium-consumption-affect-aldosterone/ | 2017-05-27T00:28:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608726.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527001952-20170527021952-00010.warc.gz | en | 0.893607 | 653 | [
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PGP Introduces PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5
SAN MATEO (Dec. 4, 1997) - Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. (PGP), the leading provider of strong encryption products for business and personal privacy, today announced PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5. This announcement continues the company's commitment to supporting both a personal privacy line of products for individual use, and business security products for organizations. PGP for Personal Privacy is interoperable with the recently released PGP Business Security Suite, which includes desktop (client) and server tools. The suite provides a comprehensive strong security solution to meet the needs of small businesses and major corporations alike.
PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5 allows individual users to easily and securely protect the privacy of their personal email messages, attachments and files with a single mouse click. The need for secure personal exchanges is growing as more and more people conduct confidential transactions online, whether conducting legal or personal communications, or sending email between a consultant and client. These types of digital records are subject to multiple points of vulnerability: at the Internet Service Provider (ISP's) mail servers, on the network and at points of delivery. For years, PGP has provided tools for securing individual communications across these insecure points, protecting data from origin to destination, or even saved on a storage device.
"PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5 not only features the point and click ease of encrypting and signing that we built into the previous personal product, but we actually made it simpler and more intuitive to perform operations like key searches," said Phil Dunkelberger, president and CEO of PGP. "We continue to set the standard for encryption protection for both businesses and individuals."
"I'm pleased that we are continuing to improve on the technology that launched PGP's heritage of strong encryption (128-bit minimum) for individuals to protect their communications and information," said Phil Zimmermann, chief technology officer of PGP.
PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5 is available on Windows 95/NT and Macintosh platforms with plug-ins to Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Eudora (Windows 95/NT and Macintosh versions) and Claris Emailer for the Macintosh.
PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5 features include:
Public Key Cryptography
PGP is based on a widely accepted and trusted encryption technology known as public key cryptography, in which two complementary keys are used to maintain secure communications. One of the keys is designated as a private key that only the user has access to and the other is a public key that the user freely exchanges with other PGP users. For example, if Alice wants to send a secure message to Bob, she encrypts the message with Bob's public key (if not already on her local key ring, Alice can easily obtain Bob's key from a public key server). Bob receives the encrypted message from Alice and decrypts it using his special private key. As Bob is the only person who has access to his private key, only he can decipher those messages which were encrypted using his public key.
PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5 is available in Diffie-Hellman and Diffie-Hellman/RSA compatible versions. Each version is available for purchase (for US and Canadian customers) from the World Wide Web at http://www.pgp.com.
Costs are as follows:
Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. based in San Mateo, California, is the pioneer and leading provider of applied cryptographic solutions for securing corporate digital assets and protecting individual privacy. PGP is committed to providing the most advanced security products for the digital age, safeguarding the communication and storage of information. With over four million users in 50 countries, and translations into 25 languages, PGP is the worldwide de facto standard for Internet e-mail and file encryption. For more information, visit our web site at http://www.pgp.com.
PGP and Pretty Good Privacy are registered trademarks of Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. This software uses public key algorithms described in U.S. patent numbers 4,200,770, 4,218,582, 4,405,829, and 4,424,414, licensed exclusively by Public Key Partners; the IDEA cryptographic cipher described in U.S. patent number 5,214,703, licensed from Ascom Tech AG; and the Northern Telecom Ltd. CAST Encryption Algorithm, licensed from Northern Telecom, Ltd. IDEA is a trademark of Ascom Tech AG. Other product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Network Associates, Inc., (Nasdaq: NETA), formerly McAfee Associates, is a leading supplier of enterprise network security and management solutions. Network Associates' product offering includes four individual software suites: Total Virus Defense, Total Network Security, Total Network Visibility and Total ServiceDesk, which can be centrally managed from within the Network Associates' NetTools unified management environment. For more information, Network Associates can be reached at (408) 988-3832 or on the Web at http://www.networkassociates.com. | <urn:uuid:df18c51c-d7de-43e1-bfd8-c93687a21a8f> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://tech-insider.org/data-security/research/1997/1204.html | 2017-05-28T04:43:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463609598.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528043426-20170528063426-00330.warc.gz | en | 0.923431 | 1,044 | [
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B'nai Amoona welcomes people of all backgrounds to pray, learn, and celebrate with our community. We are a diverse community and we thrive on being open to all people, regardless of their current level of connection and familiarity with Jewish ritual. The idea is simple. If you are interested in what we have to offer, then we are interested in your involvement. This of course, includes, but is not limited to the growing number of interfaith couples and families in our community.
At B'nai Amoona, we aspire to provide a level of comfort in—and accessibility to— Jewish life, Jewish study, Jewish worship, and for those who are born Jewish, for those who have chosen Judaism, and for those who are part of a Jewish couple or a Jewish family. In our congregation, you will be encouraged to participate, ask questions, and be supported in your personal journeys.
Our services our open to everyone. Our Siddur (prayer book) is in Hebrew, but all prayers are translated in English and many prayers are also transliterated (English spelling of Hebrew). Many prayers also have commentaries that provide further explanation, deeper background, or insights.
Further, our clergy, educators, and lay leaders are happy to meet with anyone who feels that they would benefit from a more individual approach. To set up a time to meet with a member of our team, please contact Amy at 314-576-9990.
Your opportunities for engagement at B’nai Amoona are very broad. You may participate in and explore our outstanding educational, social, community service and religious programs. Our community is dedicated to help all people who want to be a part of our community grow spiritually and morally by experiencing the richness of our Jewish heritage and tradition.
Lean on us
We all experience moments of need when stressed by life events. At such times, our Clergy our available to the provide counsel guided by Jewish wisdom and customs and if appropriate, to activate others in our community to help. Many Jewish traditions are universal in their ability to create meaning at a time of loss, sickness, or even to help provide guidance during challenging family situations.
Celebrate with us
As someone affiliated with B'nai Amoona, you and your extended family, are welcome to participate in our Torah service an:
|Be called to the Bimah
for a baby naming
|Be called to the Bimah
for a child’s Bar/Bat Mitzvah
|Offer a prayer to your
child at a Bar/Bat Mitzvah
|Be part of a family or group blessing before travel to Israel||Be called to the Bimah
a birthday or anniversary
|Come to the Bimah on the occasion of a child’s consecration, confirmation or graduation|
Weddings - Our Rabbis and Cantor are eager to assist all couples to grow spiritually and build stronger Jewish families. They regularly counsel couples before as well as after being married. However, as part of the Conservative Movement, our Clergy are only permitted to officiate at the marriage of two members of the Jewish faith.
We partner with the JCRC to participate in the Jewish and Muslim day of service. This year year we are hosting a 2nd night Passover Seder which is open to the community. Through our Social Action committee, we also participate in community events such as the Interfaith Partnership Thanksgiving Service.
We are always open to suggestions for new and inspiring ways to reinforce a core Jewish value of seeing all people as made in God's image. If you have a program suggestion that you'd like to share, please contact us at 314-576-9990.
Meet and Mingle
We have many Interfaith families in our B'nai Amoona community. We have found that couples who are interested in our synagogue, have questions about what life is like as an Interfaith family at B'nai Amoona. Our congregational ambassadors are happy to share a Shabbat evening with you or set up a time to meet with you to discuss your questions.
If you'd like a congregational ambassador to contact you or are interested in becoming a congregational ambassador to host a Shabbat dinner or sharing your experiences with other interfaith families, please contact Mimi Pultman.
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• 147 sq. m., 4 bath, 3 bdrm bungalow – €365,000 EUR. Close to Town & Schools
Tala, Paphos – This beautifully presented 3 bedroom detached bungalow is situated in the popular village of Tala, 10 minutes drive from Paphos Town and the International School.
The property features an open plan living room with comfortable lounge and dining area. Patio doors provide easy access from the lounge onto a wide covered terrace with beautiful arches overlooking the swimming pool.
An archway in the living area leads to a fully fitted kitchen which is well equipped with integrated fridge and dishwasher, built-in oven, electric hob and extractor fan. The washing machine is housed in an external utility room.
On the far side of the living area are two smaller arches leading to the bedrooms which are all double size with modern en-suite facilities and fitted wardrobes. The master bedroom has a separate closet and patio doors opening on to the outside terrace.
The pool area is delightful with a built-in bbq at one end and plenty of space for outdoor entertaining and relaxing. To the rear and out of sight is the boiler room for the underfloor central heating, the pump room for the pool and a useful workshop/storage room.
There is plenty of parking space with a double length car port to the side of the property.
This wonderful stylish home is ideal as a permanent residence or as a holiday home. It has lovely modern finishes and is in excellent condition. | <urn:uuid:94bc8bc2-1c7d-437a-88b1-a5356f9964e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://blog.cyprus101.com/bungalow-for-sale-in-tala-paphos-3/ | 2017-05-29T11:31:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612283.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529111205-20170529131205-00138.warc.gz | en | 0.935049 | 316 | [
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